Update! Short chapter… that is all (please don't hurt me)
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Difference in Worlds
Chapter Eleven – Tournament: Date?
Len POV
"Let's go, Len!" Meiko burst into my room early in the morning.
"It's still 10AM." I said as I glanced at the digital clock on my desk.
"We need to go early if we're going to try and get the good seats." Neru informed me as she stepped into view. Rin stood beside her and I could see Kaiko's blue locks poking out of the side of the door.
"What seats?" I gave them a confused look. Why would getting lunch require us to get the 'good seats'?
"For the movie of course!" Meiko stated a matter-of-factly.
"Eh?" I tilted my head.
"We decided to watch a movie before lunch." Rin explained.
"And I wasn't informed?" I asked.
"We tried to call you yesterday but you were already asleep." Rin told me.
"Right…" I recalled my fatigue from yesterday. "I know I was buying lunch, but am I buying the movie tickets as well?" I asked nervously.
"You aren't going to make us poor girls pay, are you?" Meiko asked innocently.
I heaved a large sigh knowing that I couldn't win. "Fine…"
"Well, you better hurry and get ready then. We're leaving in 5." Meiko said but didn't move away from the doorway.
"You know I can't change with the door open." I pointed out.
"Oh right."
"That doesn't mean for you to come in!" I glared at Meiko, who was stepping into my room instead of out.
"Fine~" she laughed, sticking out a teasing tongue at me and left; shortly after I heard Rin scolding her. Regardless, I didn't pay too much mind as I walked over to my desk and pulled open my drawer. I kept my money in a little box in the corner of the drawer, so I pulled that out and opened it. Immediately, I let out an audible groan as I saw how much I had left.
"I guess I'm getting a part-time job during the break."
…
"What movie are we watching?" I asked.
We were now in one of the two cinemas in Karant. The one we were at was located on the 10th floor of a department store.
"It's summer now so we need to watch a chilling horror movie!" Meiko declared. She was wearing black jeans that stuck tightly on her legs and a simple white t-shirt with no design on it. This was her attire she'd usually wear when she was out, especially during the summer.
"This movie looks okay." Rin, who was wearing black shorts and a white sleeveless blouse, pointed at a movie poster with the title 'Honor' on it. It was a movie set in the medieval times where a Royal knight fights for his kingdom. It seemed like a generic thing Rin would enjoy since she has a thing for justice and also has so much pride for her home country.
"We want to see this." Neru and Kaiko were beside a poster with romance movie on it. Neru was wearing a black skirt with a white edge and had on a gray sleeveless collar shirt. Kaiko, on the other hand, wore an azure sundress, which reached down to just above her knees and was also sleeveless.
"We can't watch 3 different movies." I spoke up.
The girls must have realized they wouldn't be coming to the same conclusion anytime soon, so they gave each other a firm look and nodded.
"Rock, Paper, Scissor!"
…
"I'll go get the tickets for the zombie movie, so you guys should probably decide on who's sitting where." I advised them as I made my way to the ticket counter. The girls quickly looked at each other again.
"Rock, Paper, Scissor!"
…
"Here's our aisle." Neru called us over to the center row of the theater. Our seats were possibly the best seats in the theater. Compared to the other aisles, our row and the row in front of it had a large gap in between them so we could freely stretch out our legs without having to show any restraint.
I took my seat in the center, since the girls wouldn't let me sit anywhere else, while Meiko sat on my left and Kaiko on my right. Neru appeared to be disappointed as she took her seat next to Kaiko. It seemed the second spot Rin wanted other than the seat beside mine was the one next to Meiko. She claimed that it was because she wanted to keep an eye on her just in case.
As the movie went on I had a feeling that this might have not been the best choice of movie to watch. Roughly 20 minutes in and I noticed Kaiko was shaking and had shrunk back into her chair. Neru, who was sitting beside her, had a look of boredom and was uninterested in the movie. Meiko, on the other hand, probably wasn't even watching the movie anymore.
"Kya kya~" she was making unconvincing shouts of terror as she latched onto my left arm. I expected Rin to do something about this but when I turned to look at her, her face had gone pale and her hands were gripping tightly at the armrest.
A bunch of jump scares and gore filled moments later the movie was finally over.
"That was a good movie~" Meiko said as she stretched her arms.
"You weren't even watching it." I said.
"It's finally over…" Rin groaned.
"It was okay." Neru shrugged.
I turned to look at the girl who was frightened throughout the movie. "You alright Kaiko?"
"Uhm… I think she fainted." Neru stated, nudging Kaiko's limp body.
…
"Mmm…" Kaiko began to stir.
"Don't move too much or you're going to fall." Meiko said as she repositioned Kaiko on her back.
"Mm… what happened?" Kaiko mumbled, still half dazed.
"You passed out." Rin told her.
"If you're not feeling well we could call it a day." I said in consideration.
"No!" Kaiko perked up. Quickly after, Kaiko's face grew red from embarrassment and buried her head into Meiko's back. "… It's my first time going out with my friends like this." Kaiko murmured into the back of Meiko's shirt.
After hearing Kaiko's confession we glanced at each other and smiled.
"Where we going for lunch then?" I asked, grinning at Kaiko.
"Oh! I know a good café near the school! I was there with a bunch of kouhai's before and it was amazing! Let's go there!" Meiko didn't even wait to hear our reply as she ran off, Kaiko was holding onto her for dear life now.
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"I can't believe I lost every single rock, paper, scissor game…" Rin grumbled as we left the café.
"I can't believe Meiko WON every single time." Neru pointed out.
In the café they did another rock, paper, scissor match for the seating arrangements, and I ended up being sandwiched between Neru and Meiko, while Rin and Kaiko sat on the other side.
The café was beyond my expectation. Despite the fact that the café is in a secluded area near our school, the food there was surprisingly gratifying. However, I probably could have enjoyed it more if I was the one actually feeding myself. Both Meiko and Neru were indulging themselves in feeding me. I'm not saying that it was a bad experience. I mean, who could hate being fed by two fairly attractive girls? But the stares were the things that got to me. It's hard to eat with a whole bunch of people glaring at me. If looks could kill, I would have been brutally murdered by now. Every time one of the two would feed me I could feel malice radiating out of almost every single guy in the café. Regardless, they weren't the reason I was afraid. The person who sat directly opposite of me was emitting one of the most terrifying auras I've ever seen. Her usually clear blue eyes, which could captivate me at times, were a darker hue and her blonde hair was rising slightly as if her intimidating aura was like a breeze blowing upwards. Each time food got into my mouth I would feel too nervous to chew for a long time and simply gulped it down not being able to savor the taste. Thankfully, I was eating omurice so I never choked. I would have expected for either Meiko or Neru to notice, but they paid no attention to Rin, it was as if they were doing it on purpose.
Gratefully, this didn't last long since a waiter approached us during our meal and requested for us to show some restraint. Apparently it seemed we were disturbing the other customers, which I obviously could tell. Meiko and Neru grudgingly stopped feeding me and started to actually eat their own food, which consisted of a salad bowl for Neru and meat soba with extra meat for Meiko. Rin seemed pleased with the outcome and went back to eating her cake with orange slices in the center. Kaiko, during the occasion, was eating blueberry shaved ice with an expression of pure bliss. It was as if she and the shaved ice were the only existing things in her world at that moment. I grabbed my spoon for the first time and was about to finish off the rest of my omurice, but I immediately put my spoon back down. Meiko and Neru were able to feed me my entire plate of food within that short amount of time they had to feed me. After lunch, when we, I mean I had to pay, I was thankful for winning yesterday's bet because without the extra money from that I wouldn't have been able to pay for this as well as the movie.
"Should we go to the stadium now?" Rin asked, bringing me out of my thought.
"It's almost 3." Neru said as she glanced at her phone screen. After we left the café we've been loitering around the area and the school. It would have been a waste of time to return to the dorm since we'd only be there for 10 minutes and then have to leave again.
"We'd probably have to wait a while before the tournament starts, but we can go now." I said with a small shrug.
"Sure, why not?" Meiko agreed.
We all came to an agreement and made our way to the stadium.
"I had a good time." Meiko said with her arms behind her head. "Even if a third party group joined us."
"It was fun." Kaiko said meekly.
"I wouldn't mind going on another date." Neru said with a mischievous smile on her face.
"D-date?!" Rin reacted instead of me. "This was a date?"
"I don't think 5 people going out like this count as a 'date'." I said.
"Hm… I guess so. I would want my first date with Len to be more romantic~" Neru mused.
"What?! You can't!" Rin blurted out.
"Why not?" Meiko asked with a teasing smirk.
"Eh- ah… uhm…" Rin's face turned beat red as she shut her mouth.
After that Rin remained mostly silent throughout the walk to the stadium.
"You guys are here early." Piko said in a little bewilderment.
"What happened at lunch?" Gakupo leaned close to me and asked.
"Nothing much, we watched a movie before it." I answered nonchalantly.
"What?! You were on a date then!" he exclaimed.
"It wasn't a date!" Rin denied.
"Uhm, I don't think you guys have the time to be standing here." Miku said as she pointed at the stage. The announcer in the black tuxedo was walking up onto the stage.
"Oh crap!" Gakupo snapped around and bolted for the stairwell.
"I'll be going too then!" Rin shouted as she followed after him.
"Kick his ass!" Teto shouted after her.
"Uhm… who are we supposed to cheer for?" Kaiko asked in confusion.
"Whoever you want." I shrugged.
"…"
"Go Rin!" Teto, Meiko, and Neru cheered.
"Good luck, Gakupo!" Piko cheered out to him. "You'll need it." he didn't shout the last part.
General POV
"Welcome back to the 7th annual Kiryoku tournament! We're proud to present to you the 2nd round! Half of the entire participants from yesterday are now gone and half of the current contestants that are remaining will be gone by the end of the day! We'll get straight into the first match, so will the participants Miroir Rin and Kamui Gakupo come onto the stage!
CHAPTER END
A/N – Yeah yeah, 2,000 words. I know it's not that great, but I felt like the transition from the 'date' to 'fighting' seemed awkward, so I figured I should make this one short. I probably have a working schedule going on where I'll upload at least one chapter a week. If I'm in the mood I may write 2 chapters, but that's if writer block doesn't get to me. If you don't see an update within a week, then it might mean I'm sick or something, because I had a sore throat since yesterday and now I'm starting to feel a bit cold so… yeah. If I do get sick I'll try my best to get better as fast as possible.
I'm not sure if this chapter counts as a filler chapter, but it should be a decent enough chapter.
There's one thing hard about writing stories. When you write a story like mine where there are a bunch of characters, then it's hard to write dialogue depending on their personality. The two characters in my story that gives me some struggle are Neru and Kaito. There is another thing that may influence the personality of some of the characters and that's a personal problem. It usually depends on my attention span. I usually listen to podcasts or watch youtube videos as I write, so if I my attention gets more focused to the other thing I'm doing then I might write some strange things ;; Sorry if you guys get confused~
Okay the thing I'm desperate for is proofreaders just drop me a PM if you can. Even if you don't proofread, I'd be glad if you guys could find some mistakes in my story and just put it into a review.
And… that's all I got to say. I won't write that much this weekend 'cause I want some sleep since school started 8D
Hm… not a lot of reviews this time :L
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Sheshe-AnimeLuver – Strong, but can't be used much 'cause of the exhaustion he gets~ Glad to know you'll keep reading my story :D
I3Len – Mhm, Teto was one of my favorite personalities to write. I don't think it's just his fighting they don't take seriously And yeah, he did win something, you'll know what if you read the chapter. Continue ranting~ I don't mind. I like reading long reviews c: School gives me tons of spare time to write down story plots for my story 8D
flowerjoy1212 – I should probably write in the summary that this is sort of a 'harem' genre ; I'm sorry to disappoint you since this chapter didn't have those two characters that much D: