Yo! I was reading a RiRen fic called 'Louder than Words' on Ao3 and got a bunch of inspiration for writing the awkward room scene with Shintaro and Konoha. I'm totally gonna feel great writing this at 9:43 in the night with reruns of Royal pains and listening to Nightcore. Anyway, let's dive straight into this ~~
Disclaimer: Shin-Shin's shitty personality. I own that. Konoha's awkward personality. I don't own it but I thought that it would fit. Hibiya's brattiness. Definitely don't own that but I own the word 'brattiness' so ha!
:/: Chapter Three: House Call
This totally wasn't awkward.
If you don't know what 'this' is, then I think you should know that I'm referring to the extremely tense atmosphere surrounding me and my not-quite-but-very-quickly-becoming best friend.
After Konoha invited me up to his room, I thought we'd do some normal things like play Halo or Battlefield or maybe laugh at chicks' Facebook profiles but, nope, this kid was completely focused on school. His room wasn't empty or white like I thought it would be, actually it was large and painted in a very pleasant shade of baby blue. He had a water bed (how freaking sweet is that?!) and a really cool white tiger spread on the floor. There was a bookshelf tucked away in a far corner of the room and he had a sweet silver baby grandnext to his bed. There was some WIP music on there and it actually looked interesting. In addition there were two doors in the very back of his room, one lead to the bathroom and the other lead to his quote unquote 'Man cave'. That's where we currently were.
It was hard to know whether or not the walls were painted, since they looked tiled from where I was sitting. There was a theatre sized flat screen in back with every single game console imaginable on a platinum painted shelf, hell there was even a silver PS4 and a WiiU, and on another shelf, opposite that one was a massive golden cabinet of what I had instantly dubbed Gamer Heaven.
Every. Single. Game.
I kid you not, this kid was loaded. Hell he had Diablo 3 for PS4 and PS3, as well as, a pair of personalized wireless headphones. A little way from that was a small bookshelf where he kept sketchbooks and I'd be lying if I said that he was a bad artist. He'd probably put that arrogant jerk Kishimoto to shame but, that's the bias talking. In the middle of the room was a cute little setup where he did schoolwork. There was also a shelf for his textbooks and notebooks. Next to that shelf was a steel door with the words 'KEEP THE HELL OUT' in blood red paint and I somehow knew that Konoha didn't put that there. He dodged the questions when I asked him about it though ("Narnia's in there isn't it?").
Next to that door was another shelf for wireless gizmos and along with, like, ten laptops there were tablets, iPhones, Samsung Galaxies, Ipads and the like. On the bottom of that shelf was a black and silver stereo with neon green buttons that were connected to amazing amplifiers. So, in conclusion, there were THREE MILLION AND TWENTY THREE possibilities for this room, but I was stuck doing the project with him.
In absolute silence. Just great.
_Xx My Crazy Boyfriend xX_
Half an hour into me cradling a bag of flour and Konoha scribbling in a notebook he had so creatively labelled 'Baby Stats' I suggested that we play a game or something of the like to which he stopped scribbling briefly enough to give the answer of No.
An hour and a half later my arms had fallen asleep and my back was cramping because Konoha had told me to not move and I had gotten pissed. "Okay, that's it!" I shouted, "My back is killing me and my arms are asleep. Honestly, I haven't done anything but sit here and watch you watch me while I watched you write in that damn book and I'm sick of it! So for the love of everything good and holy, what the hell have you been writing and where the hell is my Pepsi!" I was breathing heavily by the time I had finished my uncharacteristic rant and had already knew that I had just screwed myself over ten times so when I opened my eyes to glance at Konoha, I didn't expect him to still have the passive half frown on his face.
"…Well," he began slowly, a bit softer than usual, "First, I think that Shintaro-kun should calm down…" He paused briefly waiting for me to stop breathing so shallowly. I took a deep breath and counted backwards from ten, remembering the lessons I had taken back when I was ten, before lowering my shoulders. "Alright white, I'm calm." I whispered more to myself than anything. "Are you calm?" I nodded, "Yeah." He scooted closer to me and poked my arm, "Are you sure you're calm?" My eyebrow twitched and I shook his bony finger off, "Yes Konoha, I'm calm." He blinked at my tone before turning around and pulling the book from off the table. He slowly flipped to the page that he had been scribbling on and showed me what he had been doing.
It was a picture of me and Midori.
"Dude, you drew this?" He turned his head, "I would've coloured it but… Shintaro-kun was…mad, I guess…" Suddenly I felt like the world's largest jerk and, as I had said earlier, those guys are just plain uncool. I sighed and placed the book down on the table next to Midori before scratching my head nervously, "Sorry about that. I usually don't lose my temper like that though," I looked at Konoha expecting him to tell me to beat it or something but instead the weirdo…smiled.
Smiling was a normal human response to things that made you happy but he smiled and hell if I knew but that felt like a huge accomplishment to me. I returned the smile with a slightly-awkward-half-smile thingie because it had honestly been months since I had last smiled. He took the book from me along with Midori and placed them on his sketchbook shelf, "I don't have a place to put you… so… here." I have to admit it was kinda sorta really precious seeing him place that sack next to his books and talk to it. But, alas, I had bigger problems to attend than my stomach which was feeling all tingly and strange, probably Coke withdrawal. Speaking of, "Hey Konoha?" He turned towards me with another sketchbook in his hands, "Yes?"
"Can we go get my Pepsi now?"
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"Sure."
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_Xx My Crazy Boyfriend xX_
Okay, I have explanations for the super-shortness of this chap so don't murder me! Anyway, this is definitely the shortest chap ever, tallying in at an underwhelming 1,149 or some number thereabout without the A/N but I did say in the last chap that Chapter 3 would be the awkward room visit that somehow didn't end up being as awkward as I thought it would be. Konoha is still, like really weird around people but he's cool-ish around Shin-Shin so it wasn't terrible. Anywhoozies, the reason why I cut the chap off at that point is because it didn't feel right continuing from that point into the next day. So I had to cut everything off and write it in Chap 4. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed it and don't forget to put in suggestions for who Mary should date. Review, fave, follow, whateves and watch out for Azami. That's all for now from your neighbourhood Angel
-Tenshi