*The Start of a New Beginning - The challenge*
*Previously on The Start of a New Beginning*
"Good to hear that you're fine, I was really afraid that I might have hit you, but when the nurse said that you were just exhausted and needed sleep I felt so relieved." Lyserg suddenly said and breathed out before leaning on the bed beside looking down.
"What a beautiful young lady you are, I feel so lucky to have you coming here!" the nurse suddenly said before grabbing Lysergs hand and kissing it gently making me chuckle and Manta staring in shock with his mouth opened wide like an O.
"What's your name beautiful lady? My name is Umemiya Ryunosuke, but you can just call me Ryu and if you want I give you my full permission to call me "husband" one day in our beautiful feature I already can see!" he suddenly said as he flashed his teeth and wiggled his eye brows.
"U-Uhm… I'm sorry but I'm a guy…" Lyserg said making Ryu blink confused a few times before it hit him and he almost shouted out in shock.
"What!? But how!? Aren't you a girl!?" he asked confused now almost making Manta chuckle together with me as we watched the scene where Lyserg explained and even had to go as far as to prove that he was a boy and not a girl, because Ryu kept insisting that he was just using that excuse because he didn't like him. After the proof Ryu was silent for a while before sighning and nodding his head.
"I understand… oh how I made a fool of myself!" he said as he walked back to his office desk with us looking at Lysergs reaction which showed guilt.
"I kind of feel guilty now even though I know that I should…" Lyserg suddenly said as he looked at us with big eyes.
"Hey guys! Let's eat outside today what do you say!?" Manta said happily as he ran over to Lyserg and me who was sitting on the grass outside watching the clouds doing nothing beside relaxing.
"Huh? Outside? Sure." was all i said before i stretched and yawned sending them a lazy smile and closing my eyes.
"Yeah that would be nice, did you have a special place in mind?" Lyserg said smiling a closed mouthed smile looking at Manta that took out his laptop opening it.
"Yes, in fact i do. I was on the Internet when i came over this cite, where they said that you could get a free meal if you win this challenge. So i thought we could give it a try and see if we could win, even thought i'm pretty sure i wouldn't because... i'm not really good at winning." Manta said as he scratched the back of his head.
I opened one eye and looked over at him.
"So what restaurant are you talking about again?" I asked him and he grinned before pointing out.
"Ramen!" he said and my eyes widened before i grinned suddenly feeling wide awake.
"Ramen!? Then of course we'll go!" I said standing up so fast that i felt myself go dizzy for a second before getting chuckles from the others.
"Then it's decided, and one more thing. I have a friend that...i would hope you guys didn't mind if i invited, since i'm pretty sure he would be delighted to come with us." Lyserg suddenly said and both Manta and I stared at him before shrugging and smiling.
"Sure why not?" I said wondering who that could be.
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"Mmmm...This is really good! And i'm so happy you guys invited me!" the one and only...yes, Ruy said as he literally shoved the food in his mouth.
We were all sitting and staring at him before everyone started laughing at his face. I picked up my chopsticks and started eating the gigantic size of ramen we got when we said we would like to accept the challenge.
It was literally gigantic, i mean... you could feed three people with it and they wouldn't like to eat anymore because it was...THAT big.
"Itadakimasu!"
I started to eat and when i got the taste of it i felt a pang in my heart. I froze and suddenly i felt tears in my eyes.
"This...this..." i kept on mumbling as the others suddenly stopped eating and steared at me.
"Uhm..Yoh-kun, is everything okay?" Manta asked and i nodded my head.
"Yes...just..that this is so... good!" i said as i almost threw myself over the food. wow...i have never tasted such good ramen before!
My chopsticks suddenly hit something hard and i stared at the empty bown in front of me. Where is my ramen?
I looked up and found myself being stared at with my friends holding their mouths wide open in a big 'O' like.
"What?" i asked and they blinked before shaking their heads.
"You're such a weird and mysterious guys Yoh... it's impossible to read you." Lyserg, Manta and surprisingly Ruy said in unison. I smiled and looked at their bowls that were only half empty, but both Manta and Lyserg shook their heads while leaning on the chair.
"I'm beat... i can't eat anymore!" Manta said and Lyserg nodded his head in agreement.
Ruy was picking his teeth with a toothpick while he was leaning on his chair relaxing. I looked at his bowl and found it empty too.
"Looks like Ruy and i am the only ones who won't be paying today." i said and grinned happily for getting a free meal.
After Manta and Ren paid for the food we walked out of the restaurant slash shop we headed all home because we all still had homework and other things...like training with Anna for the upcoming shaman fight that would be held soon.
Stretching and looking at the sunset as we walked past all kind of different buildings, shops, and places i suddenly saw a familiar face a couple of meters from us.
"Isn't that that Ren guy?" i asked myself as i stopped and studied him to make sure i didn't take wrong, which i didn't.
"What are you looking at Yoh-kun?" Lyserg asked and i looked at him and pointed my chin towards Ren's direction.
"I once bumped into that guys, he's also a shaman!" i said and he "ohh"-ed before we all walked towards him to greet him.
"Oi Ren!" i shouted and waved as i saw him turn around and look towards us confused before he saw me.
"Oh it's you... what do you want airhead?" was the first thing Ren said when we stood in front of him.
"Nothing just spotted you and wanted to say hi. So what are you doing here?" i asked shrugging not affected by his words.
"N-Nothing, it's none of your business anyway!" he said when a voice suddenly shouted out which made his face turn all red.
"Oi Ren! I found some really good looking pair of clothes for you, come and try them on!" A young tall, slim woman with green long hair spiked up and neathly clipped came out of a shop beside them smiling. She was wearing a cheongsam decorated with a golden dragon and a panda with a high slit, and a garter on her leg.
"Oh my...who is this Ren?" she asked sounding surprised. I looked at her and smiled.
"I'm Yoh and this is my friends, Manta, Lyserg and Ruy." i said pointing each out to her.
"Oh... nice to meet you i'm Ren's older sister, Tao Jun." she said as she kept on looking curiously at us before glancing at Ren that was looking away with his arms crossed.
"So you're friends of Ren, huh? I didn't know Ren had friends..." she said as she sent an "you are going to have to explain this to me later young man" look at Ren that seemed to be looking kind of...weird?
"Oh... well, yeah i guess we are friends?" I asked Ren looking at him wondering when he suddenly turned slightly red.
"L-Let's go you wanted to show me something right?" he said as he suddenly grabbed Jun's arm and dragged her off leaving us alone wondering.
"W-Well... it was nice to meet you all, bye!" Jun shouted towards us, making us wave back to her as she and Ren both disappeared somewhere.
I turned around and chuckled.
"What a weird guy..." they said in unison and i just shrugged.
"I'm glad thought." i said and when they sent me a questioning look i smiled.
"At least he didn't deny about us being friends, but i'm a bit surprised thought must i confess." i said putting my hands behind my head as we walked towards our homes.
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"Soon litte brother, we will soon reunite, don't worry...!" a voice said captured in the flames of abyss laughing before it disappeared leaving a figure standing in the dark.