Saturday 5:23 p.m.
Things never go as planned do they? It's just a universal law that things are going to end up taking a left turn, nose dive, or end up a creek without a paddle, or any analogy of your pick. Of course it does surprise us in the moment, why wouldn't considering your plan failing in the middle of it, but that's how it goes.
For Akihisa though it's a concept that could take lifetimes to get through to him as he knelt down in this living room, eyes on the floor board and a dreading look from his eyes while his sister Akira analyzed him like he was an insect, though it was hard to know with her always having a dream like haze over her every expression. Right now she had caught her little brother holding a wad of cash in his hand, again he was too stupid to just keep it in his pocket and leave without trying to sneak his way out of the house, and after five minutes of being grilled over it Akihisa broke finally and explained he was going out to buy clothes for the party him and his friends are heading to later tonight, and for the last fifteen seconds there was nothing but silence before she finally broke it.
"So you didn't plan on telling me you were going then?"
This was the reason why. Akihisa thought, and so badly wanted to say to her. "Well I didn't think I'd need to tell you is all." He said through clenched teeth and a forced smile.
"You're going to meet up with girls aren't you?" she said, smiling while a dreadful violet aura surrounded her.
"Of course not!"
"I know when you're lying to me Aki; it's amazing that you think I don't know how you look when you are."
"Why do you assume we're off to meet up with girls anyway?!"
"It's a party Aki, what do you think goes on there?" the aura seemed to have gotten even thicker now.
"Did I mention it's actually guy's night out?"
"And you mention this right now?"
"You never asked!"
"And you didn't tell me it the same way you didn't tell me about the party."
"Dammit Akira what do you want from me?!" suddenly his sister was too up close and personal to his lips than he would've liked. "Why do you always need to do that!?" the little apartment where they lived in was succumbed to an over dramatic tone as an over dramatic spotlight flooded over an over dramatic Akira as she over dramatically posed on the floor while she over dramatically wept.
"Oh Aki, I'm your sister, don't you love me? Why are you this cruel towards me?" Now Aki felt bad.
"Oh c'mon Akira, I didn't mean it like that. You know that the whole brother sister kissing is-."
"Fun and sexy right?"
"You are such a pervert!" Akira huffed crossed her arms and sat back up.
"Oh please Aki, when are you not gonna fall for that? I was only forty percent joking."
This means she could've been mostly serious.
"But honestly Akihisa." Akira continued. "Do you really think I let anything you do just fly over my head?"
"Well what the hell am I supposed to say? You're the one that's always so weird about me being friends with girls!"
"And I suppose that's the reason you tried keeping your plans secrets from me right?" yup, she hit the nail on the head, to which Akihisa responded by clapping his hands together and prostrated himself before big sister Akira.
"Please, its summer vacation, at least for a few weeks before I get stuck in summer school and everyone else can have a better summer than me!" he pleaded so willfully. "I just wanted to hang out with everyone for at least one night before my fun gets squandered under the weight of extra weeks of school!"
"And I suppose I should let you go and hang out with your friends because of it?" Aki looked up to his sister, afraid of what she'll try to tell him next.
"Well uh…"
"I guess I will then."
"Wait, you're serious Akira?!"
"Hello, Fumizuki academy?" she said having marked up Akihisa's school. "Why yes I'd like to be a replacement chaperone for Mr. Fukuhara at your party to night." She replied gleefully, much to Aki's wide eyed despair.
"Akira why would you do that!?"
"Do you really think I'd let you go out to a place that is basically a school funded orgy all on your own?" she said in her regular joyous tone.
"It's one thing for you to think that's what happens at these events, but to actually hear you say it."
"Oh c'mon now Aki, it's not like I'll be hovering over you the entire time, I need to keep an eye out for the entire school don't I?" that made a lot of sense for Akihisa.
Holy crap, so I'm both getting the chance to have fun for one more night, and not get cock blocked by my sister!
"However, if you try any remotely sexual acts; be it hand holding, kissing, or hide the sausage." she then replied in her deadly dark tone that sent a shiver up Aki's spine. "I'll know, and I won't hesitate to cut off your face." She finished off in a joyful tone.
Great, there goes a whole third of my fun. Akihisa thought, and for him that estimation was very much the most accurate he has ever figured out in his entire life.
"I don't see why I need to have these stupid things on." Even now Yuuji was trying to wriggle his way out from the old wooden cuffs that were bounded to his wrists, and held literally on a chain by Shouko as they both walked around a fancy department store that sold tuxedoes and formal gowns.
"We both know that I need to pick nice matching outfits for the both of us, Yuuji." Was her response as she held up two dresses in one hand, and two similarly colored suits "Now which do you think would look best for us?"
"I think we should just scrape together whatever rags we have at home and make due." He expressed through grounded teeth.
"Yuuji." And no sooner did she say his name that she sent about one hundred volts through Sakamoto's body, sending him to a spastic fit before going limp, charred black all over while his body wafted a black smoke trail. "I will not go to a party with my fiancé without having clothes that tells everyone that we look wonderful together." The red head then sprung back to his feet as if nothing had happened just five seconds ago.
"All I'm saying is that we don't need to go this far! Aki is probably just going to some thrift store to get his old rags!"
Meanwhile at a gown and tuxedo rental shop, Akihisa and Akira were picking out their clothes for the evening upon Akira's insistence on going all out.
"But we aren't Akihisa or Minami, are we?" the Raven girl said in her regular monotone.
"That isn't the poi-!" Yuuji stopped as something Shouko said caught his attention. "Wait, who and who?" Shouko looked at Yuuji, who stared back at Shouko, the girl suddenly placing her fingers over her mouth, bashfully looking away from Yuuji in only the ways she does for him and him alone.
"Yuuji, you make blush whenever you do that." Clearly avoiding the subject.
"hey I just asked something!" and his reply came when he was hit in the face with a coat hanger that had a black suit with a white dress shirt and dark red sash and bow tie.
"Put this on." Shouko said as she stood in front of a dressing room with a pile of cloth in her arms in a similar color pattern.
"Hey!" Yuuji pulled the tuxedo from his face, but the girl was already gone to the dressing room. This was by far some of the most tiring things Sakamoto has needed to deal with besides the usual shenanigans with her during school. At least she had the courtesy of getting the wooden cuffs off his wrists… somehow. The read head marched in to the men's fitting room, deciding that fighting Shouko in this would not only end in failure, it's also possibly more trouble than it was worth to him.
But there was the thing Shouko said when she was explaining… well more like berating him about being the better looking couple. "I guess I'll ask once we walk out." Yuuji muttered to himself before he opened the door to the changing room and stepped out; wearing the tux Shouko picked out for him, and as he looked himself in the mirror he couldn't help but think that he looked good. "I got to hand it to her." He said before turning. "Okay Shouko, I'm ready."
"So am I." Shouko said as she stepped out, wearing an off shoulder wedding dress with a flower pattern on it. "Now let's do it."
"What the hell is wrong with you!?" he shouted in tear filled desperation usually reserved for Shouko's favorite kinds of shenanigans.
"I don't see what so bad about tying the knot right now Yuuji, we both know it'll happen." She replied, acting as if nothing was out of place once she out the wooden hand cuffs on Yuuji's wrists again.
"Oh c'mon, you can't be serious!" He shouted while trying to shake the cuffs off
"I never joke when it comes to my future husband." Shouko muttered before taking her Taser and charring Yuuji black again.
"Hey Yuko." The chestnut haired girl looked back as she set the bag that had her dress for the evening covered in an opaque plastic wrap that kept the clothes from being visible. When she set it down she turned back to look at her younger twin brother, who also had the same brand plastic wrap for his clothes for the evening.
"Yeah Hideyoshi?" Yuko said. The two of them had come from shopping for the party they would be having tonight, and the idea that the older sister wanted to go having been the reason her brother had called to her.
"Isn't it weird that you want to go with us to a party?" Hideyoshi said to her as he set down his clothes on the couch as well.
"Doesn't your bag look a little too bulky to be a tux?" she asked him back looking at the plastic wrap that covered his outfit.
"Yuko I asked you a question." The older twin sighed as he brother kept pestering her with his question; seemed as if he wasn't going to give up on this.
"I already told you Hideyoshi; even the student council president needs time to slack off."
"Yeah, but why hang out with us?"
"Hm?" Yuko cracked open one of her eyes in the direction of her brother.
"You always think yourself better than all of us," more depressing considering her brother was among them. "Where did this hanging out with us thing come from all of a sudden?"
Yuko kept her one eye on Hideyoshi before she opened up both of them and she turned to him properly, calmly replying: "Shouko is always with you isn't she?"
"She's there for Yuuji." He said with a deadpan.
"What about Aiko then?"
"She's there to bleed out Kouta and the rest of the guys! Literally!" he briefly shouted in possibly his first major act of retaliation against his big sister, before the same big sister slammed her palm again the coffee, ringing out a loud bang that caused Hideyoshi to quickly jump back in fright.
"Why do you even need to ask me?" she said after keeping the following silence up for several seconds.
"Uh, I…"
"isn't possible that I just want to hang out with you guys?' now Hideyoshi was back to being suspicious, but he didn't show it to her. "already I have a lot to prove at school alone, so I figured being with you guys that already so low on the intellectual totem could help with me not needing to be so prim and proper all the time, and just 'let loose' as some would say." Hideyoshi thought he was having a hallucination: his sister explaining that she wants to not need to be the perfect student all the rest of the school had basically had her built up to be. Well, it wasn't any big secret, at least to him considering he needed to take her place once for some school event that she couldn't really be that perfect. Maybe Yuko was honestly building up on that weird experience she was basically forced to endure.
"So you finally decided to get to our level and have fun?" then the girl shot the boy a death glare.
"Couldn't I be any more obvious about it?"
"Hey, I just said it because you didn't mind when we went on that beach trip without you!" though in retrospect it wouldn't have been any less disastrous.
Yuko kept looking at Hideyoshi, right before she sighed and got up. "C'mon, we need to get ready." Hideyoshi hid a smile as he grabbed his bag from the couch. He honestly felt like him and his sister could finally be able to open up to one another. Maybe when to night was over, he could try getting her to open up a bit more, and the though carried on as they walked in to their separate rooms to get ready.
After about a minute later, a loud yell came from Hideyoshi's room
"Oh you've got to be kidding me!"
Mizuki yelped as she felt the zipper on her dress come to a dead halt just at the middle of her back.
"What the? I just bought this last week!" she said in her desperation and took the dress off.
I-I don't understand! She thought racing to the bathroom, running to the scale and putting herself on it. She waited a few seconds.
She then collapsed to the floor, a depressed aura covering her. "I've gained weight again."