A/N: I have been getting a lot of requests for different numbers, and not to worry, I will eventually get to them all. You have no idea how excited I get when I read the reviews on this story and find out how much all of you are enjoying it, or when I get the requests for the next one. Well, here is another installment of 101 Uses as requested by Oreobabez. This story will be set when Chika and Satoshi are both eight and before Hunny joins the Host Club. Watching the anime yet again, I realized there was a time when he was into karate and the cutesy stuff… before he locked everything away. Enjoy!
#36… Hold someone under water – long stick with the right leverage, it can keep someone under water, or make it difficult for them to come back up.
#54… Rescue someone from drowning – a stick for the victim to grab onto as you pull them to safety (it might or might not be the person you were holding under)
#2… Knock manners into cousin. It is very good at making sure Yasuchika is polite and uses his manners.
"You are supposed to be nice to your brother! He is older than you and my brother would never let him get away with anything he wasn't supposed to be doing! So what if he likes cute things some of the time? It isn't like it's a full time thing!" A young eight year old Satoshi was yelling into one of his family's deeper koi ponds set further away from the house. If anyone happened upon the raven haired boy, they may wonder who he was ranting to because there appeared to be no one with him, but if they happen to look down, they would see a body in the water being held down with a shinai.
Every once in a while, the wielder would allow his victim come up for air (more like sputtering for air) before he would push him down yet again. On one of these such times, the person in the water, one Yasuchika Haninozuka, screamed, "You're going to kill me you moron!" He couldn't quite get a good grasp on the shinai and every time he tried to swipe at his cousin, Satoshi would swiftly dodge the attack pushing the shorter kid further under the water. It was no use. His cousin was bigger, stronger, and had a stupid shinai as leverage, but Chika had a very good and long memory.
"I'm not going to kill you. I would never do that. Your well-being is party of my duty as a Morinozuka. Think of this as endurance training and increasing your breath capacity. I am also teaching you an important lesson! You should never talk bad about your brother. You brought this on yourself! Your grandmother made him that pink bunny and if he wants to cherish it and like it and Taka-bro hasn't said anything to him about it, then there is no problem with carrying around Usa-Chan. It isn't like he carries it to school and he does keep up with his martial arts training. He can kick your butt!"
Breathing deeply when he was finally let up for air once again, Chika screamed, "You don't see me carrying around the yellow chick our grandmother made me. Do you?"
"No, you have it hidden in your closet because you don't want anyone to know about it. I know exactly where it is," Satoshi gave his best friend and cousin a very pointed look and laughed before dunking the other child once again.
This went on for another couple of dunks before Chika finally conceded, "Fine. There is nothing wrong with it as long as he keeps it at home!"
Chuckling, Satoshi let up on the shinai and moved it from over Chika to in front of his face, "Come on. Let's get you out of the dirty fish pond and get you cleaned up. If you get sick, I will get in trouble. Besides, you probably have fish poo all over you now. You didn't open your mouth under water did you?"
The shorter child grabbed the shinai and was helped out of the pond soaking wet from head to toe and fuming about the last comment. However, he knew if he tried to take a swing now, he would just end up back in the koi pond and that was the last thing he wanted. He was going to pay Satoshi back one of these days… he just had to time it right.
Seven years later (1st year of high school)…
*SPLASH!*
Satoshi looked up and found his best friend standing above him laughing his fool head off. What had just happened? They had been walking from the dojo on the Haninozuka estate towards the house and he had only paused on the bridge overlooking the koi pond when he went flying over and landed with a large splash. Dazed, he narrowed his eyes on the guffawing teen, "Yasuchika! What the hell?!"
"Paybacks! Proving a point while trying to drown me in a koi pond just makes me want to make sure you know what it feels like! I hope you didn't have your mouth opened when you fell in. You know it is full of fish poo!" Chika yelled back and immediately took off knowing if he stuck around, he may end up back in the water like he had several years ago. He couldn't help the mirth that escaped him though and his laughter rang through the gardens as he quickly made his way to the house. Yes, there was that chance that Satoshi would try to get him back later with a shinai across his head "to teach him manners", and yet, seeing his cousin sputtering in the water made everything worth it.