Chapter 25: The Morning
Okay, I just revised Sqweebs' new chapter and saw everything that he did with Tony. (EDIT By the way, that's how long this must have taken me. When I said "new chapter" I was talking about chapter 9... lol.) Let me just say clap clap clap. You portrayed him in mostly the same way I think I would except the political thing. Honestly, I don't care much about politics, so I never really tried to peg Tony as democratic or republican. If that's how you interpret Tony, it's your story! Somebody To Love is a story I look forward to reading. There were a few times during it that I found a couple things slightly off about him, but it's MY character! I'm sure if I tried to take Kyon at this point, I would fail miserably! Besides, I couldn't expect you to get him completely on every single count. Not yet at least... XD I jest, but great job Sqweebs, keep it up! Aria, I have absolutely no problem with you going perfectionist on me when reading! As I said in chapter 2, I gladly accept any error reports you give me! I'll admit, I don't know Japanese to the point that I would like, not all of the grammars and spellings and such, but if you do, that would be a great help! Flygon, I know you've read this already, but I've added things on since you read it! Enjoy everyone!
POV Tony
Tony opened his eyes, his stomach ravenous with hunger. He groaned as he put his right arm over his stomach and reached to the button to call a nurse in. He hit it, eliciting a response from a nurse.
"Hello Kanpeki-san. Did you sleep well?" The nurse asked.
"Yes, thank you. When is breakfast?" Tony asked.
"Let me check a few things. . . ." There was a pause. "Your chart says you can eat when you want and however much you want. Would you like that now?"
"Yes please, thank you. I'm starving." Tony said.
"It'll just be a moment Kanpeki-san." The nurse said. Tony laid back in the bed he was in, thoroughly uncomfortable because of his stomach. He relaxed and started listening to see if he could hear the cart coming with food. After a minute, however, he heard something he didn't expect. Breathing. He looked over the side of his bed to see Tsukasa, asleep with the cutest face on, hair a mess. Tony had a mini-squeal in his own mind.
She is so freaking cute! If I hang around her much more, I'm gonna get diabetes! I just wanna pick her up and cuddle her! Tony shouted in his mind. I can't believe she stayed... And I can't believe they let her! But where did she get that futon... Tony thought. Still, that's easily one of the reasons why I love her. I guess that's just more incentive to make her mine! Tony smiled. "Tsukasa? Tsukasa~?" Tony reached down and shook her. She turned over.
"Five more minutes..." She muttered. Tony felt his heart warm a bit.
"Tsukasa, it's time to wake up." Tony said gently, figuring it worked before. It did once again. Tsukasa stirred awake, yawned as she rubbed the sleep from her eyes, and stretched. She then remembered where she was, causing her head to dart to Tony, who was smiling the entire time. "Good morning." Tony smiled. Tsukasa's face erupted in a blush.
"Go-good morning Kan-kun..." Tsukasa muttered.
"You stayed?" Tony smiled.
"Yeah! I was worried..." Tsukasa said.
"Hehe, there's no need to worry. I'm perfectly fine Tsukasa. But..." Tony trailed off.
"But what?" Tsukasa asked.
"Thanks for worrying about me." Tony smiled and laid back into his bed.
"Any time Kan-kun." Tsukasa said as she stood up and sat down in the chair she had been sitting in the night before. "So you're okay? You're not hurt anywhere?"
"Nowhere other than my arm. That kinda hurts a bit." Tony rolled his right shoulder. He got an idea that made him smirk. "Wanna kiss it and make it better?" Tony smirked.
"Ah-We-rea-" Tsukasa started to babble incoherently. She was saved by the nurse walking in with a large bowl of steamed rice.
"Here you go Kanpeki-san. Ah, Mrs. Otokonoko, you're awake! Can I get you anything?" The nurse asked. Tony's eyes widened as he heard "Mrs.". Tsukasa glanced over quickly to see Tony staring at her, a mix of a surprised and shocked look on his face.
"N-no thank you ma'am. I'm not really hungry..." Tsukasa muttered.
"Okay then, I'll be back with more food in a minute, I hope you enjoy." The nurse bowed as she left. Tony blinked a few times.
"Tsukasa, did you-" Tony started.
"It was the only way they would let me stay..." Tsukasa muttered. She thought for a few seconds before she realized an even better response. It was simply easier then saying you weren't my boyfriend, then people will say 'whatever you say!' then that kind of stuff happens. It was just quicker. Man~, that would have been a much better response! Tsukasa complained in her head. I hate when I think of a better response than what I said a minute later... She sighed.
"Well then I happily accept you as my wife." Tony smirked as Tsukasa's face darkened several hues. When Tsukasa didn't say anything else, Tony remembered he was hungry. He then realized his stomach was practically devouring the rest of his internal organs. He picked up the chopsticks that came with his rice and bit one of them. He used his left hand to pull them apart. Gripping the chopsticks in his left hand, he put it in the rice and brought it to his mouth. Two pieces of rice... A new record... He sighed. He tried to pick up more rice, but with only half the success as his first attempt. He started to put his eating utensil down into the rice, but it was almost as if he dropped them. It was either that or someone pulled them from his hand. He was so hungry, he couldn't tell anymore. He looked around his bed to find his chopsticks, but to no avail. Suddenly, he felt something poke him in the cheek. He looked up to see Tsukasa with a bit of rice on the chopsticks, a small smile on her face.
"Say ah~." She said. Tony took his turn to blush. He felt a little humiliated being forced to be fed, but at this point he was simply too hungry to care. He opened his mouth. When no food was inserted, he closed his mouth and gave a confused look to Tsukasa. "Say ah~." Tsukasa insisted. Tony sighed.
"Ah~." Tony opened his mouth. Tsukasa happily proceeded to feed him. After the bowl was gone, Tony was still starving, his hunger barely sated.
"Better?" Tsukasa asked.
"Not really... I'm still very hungry." Tony mumbled. It wasn't that he didn't like being fed by Tsukasa, but it was still to his chagrin that he couldn't feed himself. As if on cue, the nurse walked back in and gave him more food, mainly a big bowl of miso soup with a large plate of Tamagoyaki on the side. (A/N Tamagoyaki is a rolled omelet) Tsukasa smiled widely as she realized she got to feed Tony even more. She took the food, thanked the nurse, and grabbed the chopsticks.
"Now. Say ah~." She smiled as she continued to feed Tony. He sighed, though not displeased with this turn of events.
POV Konata
Konata's eyes fluttered open. What are we gonna do today? She wondered. She got up from her bed and decided it wise to call Kagami before plans were made. She rummaged around her room for a few minutes before finding her cellphone, said device having been looked over as background scenery since she saw it every day but never used it. Once she finally found it, she opened it and clicked 1 on her speed dial to call Kagami. It rang a few times, but she picked up after the sixth ring.
"Yeah? What is it?" Kagami sound very irritated.
Did I call too early? Konata felt a pang of fear. "Hey Kagami..." Konata said hesitantly.
"Konata? What's wrong? You sound scared!" Kagami asked, sounding worried now.
"I was afraid I'd called too early and you were mad at me..." Konata muttered.
"When has the time stopped you before?" Kagami chuckled.
"Oh... Then I did call too early..." Konata muttered regretfully. Now she's gonna be angry... She thought as a few seconds of silence passed. Suddenly, Kagami came back on.
"No, you didn't call too early, I-I just stubbed my toe on the way to breakfast!" Kagami said in a hurried sort of voice.
"That's good..." Konata sighed in relief. Normally the hurry and stutter were enough to tell Konata that Kagami was lying, but right now she was just happy that her Tsundere didn't seem mad at her. There was another silence.
"So... What's up?" Kagami asked. Konata suddenly remembered the reason she called in the first place.
"Not much, just wanted to see what you thought we should do today." Konata said.
"Calling to find out what I might want to do? Are you sure you're MY Konata?" Kagami giggled.
"Well I-... just wanted to know, ya know..." Konata mumbled.
"Are you alright Konata? You've been acting odd recently. Like at McDonalds the other day. You bought me that shake for no reason, that's not like you..." Kagami said.
"Maybe I was just being generous!" Konata said defensively.
"Out of nowhere?" Kagami asked, clearly still skeptical.
"Kagami... You always do stuff for me, I just wanted to do something nice for you..." Konata muttered. Yet another silence took hold of the conversation. After a moment, Kagami spoke again.
"I'm sorry Konata. I'm being a jerk." Kagami sighed, regret in her voice.
"It's alright Kagami, just try and believe me when I say I wanna do something nice... Please?" Konata asked.
"Alright Konata... But that's not my only concern you know." Kagami said.
"What else?" Konata's tone took a dip.
"That! That right there! You used to not care if I got irritated, you would even provoke me! But now you seem so... hesitant. You shrink when I get mad, but you never use to. Why the change?" Kagami asked. Konata thought a moment.
"Are you saying you miss me making you mad?" Konata asked.
"I... What did you call for anyway?" Kagami called. "We've gotten way off track. Let's leave it at I was concerned for you..." Kagami said.
"Well, I wanted to know what you wanted to do today?" Konata asked again.
"I think we should go to see Tony and Tsukasa first, but what do we do then?" Kagami asked.
"When is Tony supposed to get the money from winning the tournament?" Konata asked.
"I dunno, I guess we should ask him when we get there, huh?" Kagami said. "Maybe it's today. I wonder how that's going to be..." Kagami mumbled.
"Yeah, I wonder if there's gonna be lots of cameras and stuff?" Konata said excitedly.
"Maybe! I guess we'll just have to find out!" Kagami said. "We also have to see about making plans to go see the Lion King. You know Tsukasa's gonna kill us if we miss it..." Kagami snickered.
"We will, but we might have too much to do today!" Konata said, a large smile on her face.
"Yeah!" Kagami said with equal enthusiasm.
"Listen, I just got up so I have to get ready, but do you wanna meet at the hospital?" Konata asked.
"Sure thing, I'll see you there!" Kagami said.
"See you there Kagami!" Konata hung up. She got dressed and exited her room. There was a silence about her house and her father and cousin were both still in bed, understandably as Sojiro had stayed up the night before and Yutaka was... well, Yutaka. Konata walked into the kitchen and looked around. She decided she wasn't very hungry and, thus, only made herself a piece of toast, figuring she had a long enough journey that she should get a move on as soon as possible. So as soon as her toast was finished, she grabbed it and started out the door, jogging at a luxurious pace for her, though still considerably faster then quite a few people could. She met Kagami literally at the door of the hospital.
POV Kagami
Kagami's eyes opened. She got up from the grass she had apparently been sleeping in, since the first thing she saw when she awoke was grass around her. She looked to her left to see Konata also asleep, a lotus flower in her hair. Kagami pulled up a random blanket over the girl, looked around and saw a picnic laid out on a sheet of linen. She stood up and walked over, sitting down at it. Kagami glanced back to see Konata sitting at the picnic as well.
"What do we have Konata?" Kagami asked, oddly not questioning what they were doing, why they were there, nor any of the logic of the situation. Konata reached into the basket.
"Legumes!" Konata shouted.
"That's what you packed?" Kagami shouted.
"I got lemonade too!" Konata said defensively.
"Yeah yeah..." Kagami sighed. Somehow, Kagami found herself noticing Konata's lips. It normally would seem weird that she would notice something so small as the Otaku's lips, but that seemed to be what she was watching. "Do we have anything else?" Kagami asked distractedly, still enchanted by the girl's lips.
"I have some berries!" Konata brought of an assortment of different fruit.
"Not poisonous, I assume?" Kagami smiled.
"'Course not Kagamin!" Konata smiled back. Weird. Konata seemed to be glancing down a tad often... Kagami waited for her to sneak another look and followed her vision to see that the outfit she was wearing exposed her stomach. She blushed and put her arms across her abdomen.
"Ko-Konata... Why are you such a perv?" Kagami asked, looking away and blushing.
"'Cause you like me like that." Konata simply said, a smile adorning her lips. Kagami's blush darkened a hue.
"S-So?" Kagami stuttered. Konata's smile turned to an almost... seductive catgrin as she got onto her hands and knees and started crawling closer to Kagami. Once she was within a a foot of Kagami, she stopped suddenly. "Konata?" Kagami asked.
"First I have to call you!" Konata said, taking out her phone, bewildering Kagami. First of all, what did she mean "First"? What was she going to do? Kagami's subconscious answered:
Whatever you wanted her to do silly, it's your dream! But she paid it no mind. Second, why did Konata need to call her if she was literally a foot away from her? Kagami's phone started ringing. As she picked it up, she realized she was no longer looking at... whoever had been in her dream, but into her pillow. She groaned as she picked herself up and answered the phone.
"Yeah? What is it?" Kagami asked, extraordinarily irritated because, while she couldn't remember a lot of the dream itself, she did remember she was enjoying it immensely. She had been quite happy in that dream. There was a second of silence that Kagami found a tad eerie, causing her to consider hanging up the phone.
"Hey Kagami..." She heard Konata on the other end. As the girl sounded frightened and guilty of something, a sense of dread filled Kagami.
"Konata? What's wrong? You sound scared!" Kagami asked, her overwhelming worry unwittingly carrying over into her voice.
"I was afraid I'd called too early and you were mad at me..." Konata muttered. Kagami felt a small amount of relief at hearing Konata wasn't hurt. Kagami tried to think of some way to lighten the mood. She thought a joke would be sufficient.
"When has the time stopped you before?" Kagami chuckled. The mood almost tangibly dropped as Konata replied.
"Oh... Then I did call too early..." Kagami heard the regret in Konata's voice. Kagami's eyes widened a bit.
Stupid! That was a horrible thing to say, she just sounded sad that she called early...Kagami scolded herself. But why is she so sad? It's weird... "No, you didn't called too early, I-I just stubbed my toe on the way to breakfast!" Kagami lied in a hurry. She quickly realized that she had spoken way too quickly and Konata was sure to catch on to her lie.
"That's good..." Konata sighed. Kagami almost sighed in relief as Konata seemed oblivious to her lie. Konata didn't say anything else for a moment.
I hope she's okay... Kagami thought. "So... What's up?" Kagami asked.
"Not much, just wanted to see what you though we should do today." Konata said, impressing Kagami.
"Calling to find out what I might want to do? Are you sure you're MY Konata?" Kagami couldn't help but giggle, expecting Konata to take a defensive tone as per usual.
"Well I-... just wanted to know, ya know..." Konata mumbled submissively. Kagami's heart seemed to crack a bit at hearing how sad Konata sounded. She got even more worried.
"Are you alright Konata? You've been acting odd recently. Like at McDonalds the other day. You bought me that shake for no reason, that's not like you..." Kagami said, her intent good but her choice of words horrible.
"Maybe I was just being generous!" Konata said defensively. Though Kagami knew that she was in the wrong, she wanted to know something.
"Out of nowhere?" Kagami asked, unintentionally allowing her skepticism to sneak into her voice.
"Kagami... You always do stuff for me, I just wanted to do something nice for you..." Konata mumbled. Kagami realized how terrible she was being to the poor girl as her heart almost broke for the same reason as before.
I'm being so mean, why? Geez, how can I be so rude to her when she was just being nice to me? I'm an idiot... She thought. "I'm sorry Konata. I'm being a jerk." Kagami sighed, her voice dripping in regret. She felt every bit of it too.
"It's alright Kagami, just try and believe me when I say I wanna do something nice... Please?" Konata asked. Kagami felt incredibly relieved for some reason at hearing Konata forgive her.
"Alright Konata... But that's not my only concern you know." Kagami said, already knowing by the way Konata had been talking how she would respond.
"What else?" Konata's tone took a dip, confirming Kagami's suspicion as to what she would do.
"That! That right there! You used to not care if I got irritated, you would even provoke me! But now you seem so... hesitant. You shrink when I get mad, but you never use to. Why the change?" Kagami asked. There was silence for a moment.
"Are you saying you miss me making you mad?" Konata asked, her tone sounding a bit... hopeful.
"I... What did you call for anyway?" Kagami asked, getting caught off guard by the question. She wouldn't say she didn't miss it but... "We've gotten way off track. Let's leave it at I was concerned for you..." Kagami blushed.
"Well, I wanted to know what you wanted to do today?" Konata repeated.
"I think we should go to see Tony and Tsukasa first, but what do we do then?" Kagami asked. She had a couple ideas, but she didn't know if Konata would enjoy any of them.
"When is Tony supposed to get the money from winning the tournament?" Konata asked.
"I dunno, I guess we should ask him when we get there, huh?" Kagami said. "Maybe it's today. I wonder how that's going to be..." Kagami mumbled.
"Yeah, I wonder if there's gonna be lots of cameras and stuff?" Konata said, sounding excited. It made Kagami smile from how happy she sounded.
"Maybe! I guess we'll just ask him when we get there, huh?" Kagami asked. She suddenly remembered something. "We also have to see about making plans to go see the Lion King. You know Tsukasa's gonna kill us if we miss it..." Kagami snickered.
"We will, but we might have too much to do today!" Konata said. By her tone, Kagami guessed the girl had a large smile on her face.
"Yeah!" Kagami said with equal enthusiasm.
"Listen, I just got up so I have to get ready, but do you wanna meet at the hospital?" Konata asked.
"Sure thing, I'll see you there!" Kagami said.
"See you there Kagami!" Konata hung up. Kagami hung up the phone and smiled. I better get going, knowing Konata she's gonna get there really quickly! Better just get something quick to eat like toast... Kagami thought as she did just that. She went through her morning routine and ran to the living room.
"Good morning Kagami." Miki shouted from the kitchen.
"Morning mom!" Kagami shouted. I'm sure Tsukasa won't mind me borrowing her bike! She thought to the audience. Wait, no... Wrong story... She thought to herself.
"Would you like some waffles for breakfast?" Miki asked.
"No thanks, I've gotta get going!" Kagami shouted.
"Going to get Tsukasa?" Miki asked.
"Yeah, I was thinking maybe we could go see the new Lion King in 3d!" Kagami said excitedly.
"Tsukasa should like that!" Miki smiled.
"I know! She'd kill us if we missed it!" Kagami shouted.
"Well then you better get going, huh?" Miki giggled.
"Yeah, I'll be back later!" Kagami shouted, out the door. She hopped on her sister's bike and rode to Umehara Hospital. She saw Konata jogging up and actually met her at the door. "Wait... You ran here?" Kagami asked.
"Yup! Why?" Konata asked.
"I cycled here and I'm out of breath!" Kagami shouted. "How did you run here without getting tired?" Kagami asked. She's got so much energy in such a small, cute body... Wait, cute? Why am I thinking that? Kagami wondered. … Because she's cute... Kagami decided. There's nothing wrong with admitting that your friend's cute, right? Right? Either way, Kagami could accept it. Konata was a very cute girl.
"Maybe I'm just more fit than you are Kagamin~. After all, I have quite a bit of martial arts training under my belt!" Konata chimed as the two entered the hospital.
"That's why I'm on a diet!" Kagami shouted.
"Kagami, you're on a diet because you think you're fat. You're not!" Konata insisted as the reached the desk. Kagami blushed.
There it goes... Why do I get all flustered by something so simple? Kagami asked herself. She found she didn't know the answer, but yet was still unable to say anything as the desk attendant asked them if they were there to see her sister.
"Um, yes ma'am, I'm here to see my brother too." Konata said at seeing Kagami was incapacitated for some reason.
"Well he's in the same room he was the last time you visited!" The attendant said.
"Got it!" Konata grabbed Kagami's hand and pulled her to the room. They opened the door.
"Say ah~." They heard Tsukasa coo.
"Tsukasa, I've been eating for an hour now, I'm okay." Tony said.
"Nonsense, they said you needed to eat plus we have all of this food still, so eat! And say ah~." Tsukasa insisted. Kagami and Konata sneaked into the room and looked to see Tsukasa feeding Tony. As soon as the food was in Tony's reluctant mouth, Konata and Kagami looked at each other and began to giggle. Tsukasa jumped as she and Tony looked to see their sisters giggling at them. They both blushed.
"...I can explain." Tony muttered.
"Kan-kun can't eat with his left hand..." Tsukasa muttered.
"Oh really? The guy who can disappear, fight a god, and run faster than I can cycle with weights on can't eat with his left hand?" Kagami asked extremely skeptical.
"It's true Kagami." Tony said.
"Whatever you say..." Kagami giggled. She looked and saw there was basically a buffet in front of Tony. Kagami's stomach growled.
"Um..." Kagami muttered.
"Kagami, this food was put aside for me so that I could get back all the energy I lost yesterday. I've been eating for an hour. You're welcome to whatever you want." Tony said.
"...Thank you." Kagami said as if being given a gift from a god. Hell, given the recent events that had transpired, Tony wouldn't be all too surprised if she had been. She started to eat just about as fast as you would expect a saiyan to.
"Kagamin~, why are you so hungry?" Konata asked. Kagami didn't even stop eating to respond.
"No *nomnom* dinner, *nomnom* no *nomnom* breakfast *nomnom*!" Kagami ate, causing Konata to giggle. There came a knock at the door as Dr. Zimmerman came in with a clipboard.
"Okay Mr. Otokonoko, you're free to leave. Just don't go punching any steel walls, and you'll make a full recovery. Just let me take off the cast..." Dr. Zimmerman started to remove the cast. "And are you supposed to be eating the food here?" He asked Kagami, raising an eyebrow to her.
"It's alright, I was full and she hasn't eaten since yesterday morning." Tony said. "Please permit it." Dr. Zimmerman looked at him.
*Sigh* "Very well then." He finished with the cast. "I hope I never have to see you again, but I have a feeling I will. However, if I don't, it's been interesting to know you Mr. Otokonoko. I've never met a man who could heal himself from being shattered to almost in perfect health." The doctor said.
"The sentiment is mutual doc. ...Except for the healing part." Tony said, rolling his arm around and flexing his hand with opening and closing movements. "Thanks a lot!" Tony called. "I'll be able to pay you once I get the money from the tournament!"
"The bill has been paid." The doctor said. Tony gave a confused look.
"By who?" He asked.
"A mister... Shin." Doctor Zimmerman read. Tony blinked and laughed. "Do you know him?"
"You could say that!" Tony laughed. "If you see him, tell him thanks!"
"...Alright then. Goodbye Mr. Otokonoko." Dr. Zimmerman said.
"Goodbye." Tony said as the doctor left. They all got up and started out. Tsukasa turned her attention on her sister, who was finishing her last plate of food. Which was, completely by coincidence I'm sure, the last plate of food in the room.
"Onee-chan, was mom still asleep?" Tsukasa asked, reminding Tony of something.
"She offered me food, but I had to refuse 'cause I wanted to get here quick..." Kagami said. While the two talked, Tony motioned Konata over. She crept over, not attracting the attention of the twins.
"What's up?" Konata whispered.
"Let's have another "race" once we're out of here. I wanna talk to ya about something I noticed about their mother." Tony said.
"Gotcha!" Konata gave a small thumbs up.
"Goodbye Mr. Otokonoko!" The desk receptionist waved. "Hope we don't have to see you again!"
"Same here! No offense!" Tony waved as the walked out the door. As soon as they were outside, Konata turned to Tony.
"Ya know, I bet with your time in the hospital, I can beat you in a race now!" Konata shouted.
"You're on!" Tony shouted back as the two took off, leaving an annoyed Kagami and slightly panicking Tsukasa to try and keep up, though both failing. "Something's up with their mother."
"Their mother? What's that?" Konata asked as they ran.
"The woman who gave birth to them, but that's not important. Actually, I guess it is. Did you see her?" Tony asked, clearly excited. They both looked behind themselves and didn't see Kagami or Tsukasa. They slowed to a walk.
"What do you mean?" Konata asked, a confused look on her face. "Yeah, I saw her. But do you mean anything in particular?"
"Four children came out of her! She was still hot! That's what our girls are gonna look like when they get older!" Tony shouted. Konata giggled.
"Yeah, I kn-" Konata started to respond, but everything Tony had said suddenly hit her. "OUR girls? That mean you've changed your mind about Tsukasa?" Konata asked excitedly.
"Yeah, I think so." Tony smiled.
"Awesome! I'm so glad you've decided to be happy." Konata smiled. "I can even help you! I heard this from Kagami herself, Tsukasa likes y-" Konata started to say, but was cut off by Tony.
"Thank you for your help Konata, but this is something I need to do myself. No help." Tony smiled.
"But Tony, she likes-" Konata tried again.
"Konata. Please, I need to get her affections myself, if I don't I'll feel like I didn't earn it." Tony insisted. Konata huffed a small laugh.
Well then... I guess I'll leave him to it... "Either way, I'm happy for you Tony. It wasn't nearly as hard to be happy are you were making it." Konata smiled warmly.
"... No wonder..." Tony muttered, seeing Konata's smile.
"What?" Konata asked.
"Nothing." Tony dismissed. That smile is the kind of thing that's gonna get you Kagami. He smiled.
"WILL YOU TWO STOP DOING THAT?" Kagami shouted as her and Tsukasa caught up. The two came to a stop and started breathing heavily, leaning on their knees. Tony looked to Konata.
"You know something Konata, there's always been one thing I never got about ya." He said. Konata looked back at him.
"What's that?" She asked.
"You're actually REALLY athletic. Why don't you join an athletic club at school or maybe an anime club?" Tony asked.
"Because I refuse to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." Konata said in a serious voice. Tony laughed.
"So, who won?" Kagami asked, though obviously not very interested in the results considering the two people who were involved. Konata was athletic, yes, but hardly a match for Tony.
"Konata did." Tony said. That gave Kagami a shock.
"Wait, really?" She turned to Konata.
"No, Tony did." She said. Kagami blinked a few times.
"Okay, seriously." Kagami sighed.
"I won." Tony said.
"No, I did." Konata argued. Kagami facepalmed.
"Whatever..." She sighed again. "So what are we doing now?"
"Hmm... The winning ceremony isn't for a few hours..." Tony mumbled.
"Well, I have an idea!" Tsukasa chimed. Tony smiled.
"You want to go see Lion King 3D, don't you?" Tony smiled. Tsukasa lit up.
"That's exactly what I wanted!" She chimed.
"Well we should go see it, shouldn't we! We have the time!" Tony said happily.
"We should!" Tsukasa shouted. "Can we? Please oh please oh pleeeaaase~?" Tsukasa pleaded with her sister, jumping up and down.
"Well~..." Kagami said in mock thought. She had already decided they could if the majority vote was in favor. And it seemed that Tsukasa was slightly excited.
"Onee-chan~!" Tsukasa hugged on to her sister and started rocking back and forth, bringing Kagami with her. Tony chuckled.
"Alright, I guess we can go." Kagami smiled.
"YA-..." Tsukasa started to cheer, but stopped herself.
"Tsukasa?" Kagami asked.
"...We need Yuki-chan." She said. "How are we gonna get to her though? It would take a little while for us to get there..." Tsukasa's ribbon drooped. Tony hummed.
"I can go get her." Tony offered.
"Maybe I should, I kinda borrowed your bike Tsukasa..." Kagami scratched the back of her head.
"That's okay Onee-chan! But what happened to your bike?" Tsukasa asked.
"It got ran over!" Kagami shouted.
"What?" Tsukasa shouted back.
"Yeah! For no reason too! Not even an accident!" Kagami shouted in frustration.
"Imma go pick the lock on Tsukasa's bike and get Miyuki, kthxbye." Tony jogged off.
"It wasn't an accident?" Konata asked, Tony's statement having fallen on deaf ears.
"No!" Kagami shouted.
"Who did it?" Konata asked.
"Misao's asshole brother!" Kagami said. "Backed over it in a car, probably just to piss off Misao thinking it was her bike."
"So those two really don't get along?" Konata asked.
"Nope. She can't stand him." Kagami said. "And neither can I."
"I can't either now! Before I just hated him, but not anymore. This has turned into full blown loathing!" Konata said. The trio continued ranting about things of the same nature, not even realizing that Tony was gone.
POV Tony
Tony was running back to the hospital, thinking of where he had seen a bicycle. Once he got there, he found the lock on the bike and quite swiftly hacked the combination. He took the bike and started off towards Miyuki's house. He thought...
I have no clue where she lives! He realized. He stopped on the sidewalk. Hm... I could call Masutā! He should know where Miyuki lives. As much as those two have been talking... Tony thought. He got his cellphone out and called his brother.
"Otōto? What's up?" Masutā asked.
"I just needed to know where Miyuki lives from the Umehara Hospital. I wanted to know if she wanted to watch Lion King in 3D." Tony said. There came a silence. All of the sudden, another voice came on the phone.
"Hello Kanpeki-san." Miyuki said.
"... !" Tony's mouth fell open. "Well hello Miyuki, are you at my house or is Masutā at your house?" Tony asked.
"He's at my house. Our sink stopped working so he offered to fix it today." Miyuki said.
"Oh! Well okay then. Do you want to come to Lion King 3D?" Tony asked.
"I'm not sure, I would feel bad about leaving Masutā here to fix our appliance while I'm at a movie." Miyuki said. Tony heard Masutā in the background.
"Go on Miyuki, there's no point in you spending your time here when you could be out with your friends. We can talk some more once you get back if you like." Masutā said.
"Are you sure Masutā?" Miyuki asked.
"Sure!" Masutā confirmed.
"Okay then... I'll come Kanpeki-san." Miyuki said.
"Alright, but I need to get to your house! I have a bike you can use to get to the mall." Tony said.
"Thank you, are you coming from the hospital?" Miyuki asked.
"Yeah." Tony confirmed.
"Okay, from there you take a right at..." Miyuki explained how to get to her house from the hospital. Since I don't know the way, I'm not gonna type it out.
"Alright, I'm on my way!" Tony said as Miyuki finished.
"I'll see you when you arrive Kanpeki-san." Miyuki said. Tony hung up.
"Well that was a surprise." Tony snickered. He started running with the bike. As he was running, he looked up by coincidence to see a meteor entering the atmosphere. Tony blinked his eyes as he realized it was... coming right for him! As soon as he realized this, he started running away from his current location. He suddenly seemed frozen except for his head. He looked up to see the meteor had redirected itself to intercept him... It suddenly landed, but caused no damage, nor did anyone seem to react at all... A being rose from the smoke. The smoke cleared to reveal Hachiman.
"Yo kid." He said.
"... You like making an entrance, don't you?" Tony asked.
"Oh yes I do." Hachiman chuckled. "Did you like being fed this morning?"
"That was your intention for that, wasn't it? You knew she was gonna do that..." Tony smirked.
"I most certainly did. Am I right to assume that you thoroughly enjoyed yourself?" Hachiman asked. Tony laughed.
"As a matter of fact, yes. I did enjoy that quite a bit. Thank you. So can anyone see you right now?" Tony asked. Everyone had seemed to stop, but no one looked.
"Actually, time is stopped." Hachiman said.
"Geez... Are you showing off?" Tony asked.
"A little bit." Hachiman smiled. "You're taking this surprisingly well. You're not freaking out that I just stopped time and exploded onto the ground." Hachiman said.
"Well, maybe I'm just not easy to startle." Tony shrugged. "Any word on my Godhood?" He chuckled.
"That's what I came for. Here's what I can do. You can either just get a flat increase to your strength, or I can see about special powers." Hachiman said.
"What kind of special powers?" Tony asked.
"Well, technically, you can do anything. Basically, you control the energy in the environment around you. You'd be surprised with that you can do when you take hold of the energy." Hachiman explained.
"... Anything." Tony said.
"Anything. But let me show you what I mean." Hachiman said. Tony suddenly felt REALLY weird. As if something were watching him from the inside. "I'm in your mind. Don't fight, it'll only cost you energy. Now, I'm going to produce fire by adding energy to the area above my hand without letting it expand. However, the energy used will be yours." Hachiman said. He put his hand out with his palm faced up. Fire erupted out of it and went about a foot from the God's hand. Tony felt his energy drop massively. His knees almost buckled as they lost their energy as well. After about ten seconds of the fire being sustained, Hachiman extinguished the flame. Tony's vision blurred just a tad from how much energy he lost.
"...Whoa..." Tony blinked to clear his vision.
"Yeah. So you can do anything, but quite a lot will kill you from the effort of trying it." Hachiman said.
"Question. Can I train myself to have more energy to do more?" Tony asked.
"Of course." Hachiman nodded.
"Awesome. And the other thing, the strength increase. What does that entail?" Tony asked.
"Twice your current strength." Hachiman said. Tony's eyes widened.
"That's a lot of strength but..." He muttered. "What does the other thing make me?" He asked. Hachiman shrugged.
"God, Sage, Sorcerer, whatever you want to call yourself." Hachiman chuckled.
"Cool. However, I've been thinking a bit since our last talk and I don't think I'm going to call myself a god." Tony said.
"And why's that?" Hachiman asked.
"Because it's going to be a long while until I'm anywhere near as strong as a god. I'm still a far cry now though." Tony said.
"Makes sense. What will you call your God of Fighting mode?" Hachiman asked.
"Maybe Sage Mode." Tony pondered.
"So are you going to make your choice now or later?" Hachiman asked.
"I think... I'll take the special power. Make me a sorcerer!" Tony smiled widely.
"Gotcha!" Hachiman said. "Now you realize this comes with no power increase. You'll be just as strong as you were five minutes ago, so something like that fire will tire you out just as easily." The god warned.
"Understood." Tony nodded.
"Alright..." Hachiman muttered as he seemed to be concentrating. Tony suddenly felt something click in his head. His concentration sharpened slightly as if he had gained another sense or if a current neglected sense was suddenly strengthened a thousand times over. "Okay. Reality will follow your will as long as you have the energy to lead it." Hachiman said.
"'Nother question." Tony said.
"Yes?" Hachiman asked.
"Can I enchant things and make potions?" Tony asked. Hachiman put a hand to his chin in thought.
"I... suppose technically you could enchant things... You could infuse it with energy enough to make it follow your will and make it do what you want it to or to have the attributes you desire. That would take a lot of energy though, and for it's effect to activate it would need more energy. So yes you could enchant something to do something, but it would take an extreme amount of energy to pull it off." Hachiman said.
"And potions?" Tony asked.
"Hmm... I guess you could enchant a mixture for one time use when someone uses it... But it would have nothing to do with the ingredients... So yes you can, but it would still take a lot of energy." Hachiman said.
"Sweetness." Tony smiled.
"Just a couple things." Hachiman said.
"Yes?" Tony asked.
"Well, I can't let you go around with these powers completely undisciplined. So for right now, I'll keep you in a contained area and give you access to my energy. You'll be able to experiment with your powers without fear of harming yourself or others permanently." Hachiman said. Tony felt his energy seemingly become limitless. It almost overwhelmed him. It did for a minute.
"Okay... So... How do I do things?" Tony asked.
"Undoubtedly you felt something get stronger in your head." Hachiman said.
"Yeah." Tony confirmed.
"Well... it's hard to explain how you do it verbally... Then again, I suppose you're not COMPLETELY unused to using this ability..." Hachiman put his hand to his mouth in thought.
"Wa-wait... you have a way of losing me in conversation." Tony muttered.
"Well, everyone has the innate ability to do at least some sort of increased power like this. However, it's either locked up in their head, classified as a genetic mutation, or small enough that they merely dismiss it to being athletic or mentally gifted." Hachiman explained.
"Whoa... That seems... made up." Tony said. "What would an example be?" He asked.
"Well, look at you. Remember during our match, when you used your Howling Voice?" The God asked.
"Yeah, nearly knocked me out..." Tony scratched his head.
"Now. Explain to me how you could do that." Hachiman said.
"Well... My vocal cords are just super powerful?" Tony said in a manner that made it sound like a question.
"Point proven. If that's so, how do you get the necessary oxygen to yell that loud for that long, even with your larger lung capacity? On a similar note, your friend Kagami brought up interesting points when she asked you about the physics of your "God of Fighting mode". How don't you crush the ground when you jump and such?" Hachiman asked.
"Um... I... Okay, you got me." Tony said. "I figured it was more of a "Did not do their research" type of thing on the writer's part..."
"No, you're subconsciously using the ability I just strengthened for you. I didn't actually give you any ability, I strengthened it. The sound coming from your lungs was indeed much louder then normal, however, if you voice was really made of sonic booms, everything around us would have been leveled. So the sound hurt, but the energy was directed at me, which is why it didn't damage your eardrums or those of your friends. It was that energy that made my ears bleed and caused my strength to falter. It was the same with you running and jumping and such. You don't crush the ground because you're using an ability to push off with a minute amount of energy. But how to explain to you how to use this at free will now that you can use it for so much more?" Hachiman wondered. Tony took a minute to absorb everything he had just been told. He was a sorcerer and didn't even know it! After a moment, Tony came up with an idea.
"You entered my mind before, couldn't you use the same method to show me what to do?" Tony asked.
"Capital idea!" Hachiman smiled. He started to do just that, but retracted his thoughts at the last second, a thoughtful look on his face.
"What's up?" Tony asked.
"I got an idea." The god smiled. He walked over to Tony, put a hand that looked like it was supposed to be a claw to the side of his face, and stared in his eyes intensely. "My mind to your mind. My thoughts to your thoughts." He said as his presence was once again made know in Tony's mind. "You can now control your powers better. You can use them." He said with a straight face. It only lasted a minute until he started to crack up.
"Man, you're awesome dude." Tony laughed. He then breathed deeply.
"A tip. It helps to say or think what you want to happen so that you don't make a mistake." Hachiman said. "It's much better to say what you intend so that a stray thought doesn't interfere and cause irreparable damage. For example, if you want to catch an enemy on fire, but you happen to glance at. Tsukasa, you may inadvertently light HER on fire instead." Hachiman warned. "You CAN connect your "spell", for lack of a better word, to only an intent, but that's extremely dangerous for anyone, even the very best."
"Got it... Thanks." Tony muttered. He started thinking of what he would like to try. "First..." Tony muttered, putting his hand out, palm up. "Fire!" He shouted. Nothing happened. "...Erm..."
"You have to say it with energy. Like this." Hachiman took dominance over Tony's body. Tony fought it for a few seconds in panic. After all, losing control of one's body is somewhat disconcerting if such an understatement can be made. He felt an odd sensation that he felt he could somehow control as his body shouted "Fire!". He could tell that, while the energy he was infused with lowered, it was only infinitesimally compared to how much there was. He regained control over his limbs again. "Now you." The God gestured. Tony remembered the sensation and put his hand out.
"Fire!" He shouted. Flames sprung from his hand at such a volume that it burned Tony's face. He put his other hand over his face, but not before accidentally running it through the flames still sprouting from his hand. "Ow! Damn it!" He yelled. "Stop!" He shouted at his hand. It followed his command. "Damn..." He muttered in agony. "Can you help with this?" He asked Hachiman.
"Yes, but maybe you should do it. You can do that now." Hachiman chuckled.
"Oh right... Heal." Tony said, causing his face and hand to stop throbbing as a green aura of energy ran through them. He looked at his hand to see it was as good as new. "Sweet." Tony smiled.
"That healing alone would have left you incapacitated. Let alone the fire... You need better control." Hachiman said. "Let's try it again..." The God said. Tony sighed.
What would normally be about an hour later
"Well, you still lack a fair bit of control, I would recommend laying off until you can practice more, but I think you're good to go." Hachiman said.
"Wait, if I need more practice, why are you going now?" Tony asked.
"You ever stop an entire existence from moving before? Even by my standards, it's tiring." Hachiman said.
"True, I guess I didn't think about that... I guess my lighting myself on fire a few dozen times and healing didn't exactly help either, did it?" Tony scratched the back of his head.
"Don't worry, it was more the cosmos halting that got me tired, not really your fire making." Hachiman chuckled. "Okay, so is there anything else you wanted to try or any questions you had?" Hachiman asked.
"Hmmm, can I try summoning something and enchanting something?" Tony asked. Hachiman shrugged.
"Sure, go for it kid." He said. "First, talk yourself through the process."
"Okay then... First I'll have to... think of what I want to summon..." Tony said. He thought of the object. After that, his head started to blank. "Um... What next?" Tony asked. The god laughed.
"Use the energy around what you want to summon to pull it apart at the molecular level, bring it here, and restructure. All you'll really have to do is provide the energy to do it, it's hard to explain, but the best way to put it is that it... "knows", for lack of a better word, how it's supposed to be constructed." Hachiman said. Tony gulped.
"O-Okay..." Tony brought an image of the object to his mind's eye. "Kuchiyose no jutsu!" He said, willing the item to be teleported to his hand. The object materialized in his hand. "Awesome. What kind of energy did that take?" Tony asked.
"Not too bad, you might be just short of exhausted though." Hachiman said. "But then again, that was a long way. Interesting choice." Hachiman said, beholding the box Tony held.
"Yeah, I thought I might give it to her today... Or maybe at the festival coming up." Tony smiled, opening the box and seeing the necklace. "Now, how about enchanting things?" Tony asked. Hachiman looked amused.
"Nice plan, getting the item you want to enchant here and enchant it, all while not using energy of your own and learning how to do it." Hachiman laughed.
"Ah, caught on, eh?" Tony smiled.
"You got an idea of what you want to enchant that with?" Hachiman asked.
"Yeah." Tony whispered in the god's ear. Hachiman laughed.
"You're making use of everything I'm teaching you here, aren't you kid? You just learned how to do that!" Hachiman laughed. "Alright, basically you'll just have to provide energy and tell it what you want it to do. What you're talking about it doing is really dangerous though. Good luck whenever it takes effect." The god shrugged. Tony smiled. He closed his eyes and started mumbling everything he wanted the amulet to do, when he wanted it to do it, how he wanted to do it, specifying everything down to the last detail to make sure that everything he wanted accomplished would happen when it needed to. Tony finally finished. He opened his eyes to see Hachiman had actually started to breath a little heavily. "That was one hell of an enchantment you just put on it, wasn't it?" He asked.
"Yeah, was it too much?" Tony asked.
"Nah, don't worry about it, I just wasn't expecting something of that magnitude considering you've just started with this stuff. And that was an interesting attachment. If neither you nor her has the energy, it's taken from the environment around her? You're already starting to think outside the box with these spells." Hachiman said.
"Well, I won't always have your... formidable resources." Tony said. "However, taking energy from the air is dangerous if I take too much."
"I know what you mean." Hachiman said. "Be careful not to have to use that spell if neither of you have any energy." The god warned.
"Yeah. The more energy I take from the air, the slower the air molecules move, the colder it gets." Tony muttered.
"I know. I just said I did." Hachiman deadpanned. "Now before I go, I trust you will NOT misuse these powers?"
"Of course not. I'm going to use them to protect my friends and family." Tony said.
"I figured that, but I had to ask anyway. I can tell you aren't lying. Anyway, I better get going, this reality stopping is really starting to exhaust me."
"Alright. Thank you so much for all of this..." Tony smiled. "Farewell, only the gods know when we shall meet again." Tony smiled.
"Yes. Yes I do. I'll see you later kid, and welcome to the super-powered people." Hachiman said before he disappeared. Tony felt his maximum energy drop back to a normal level.
Cool... Now I can show Mrs. Hiiragi that I wasn't lying! Haha, even though I was at the time... Even so though, if this is going to be useful at all, I'm gonna have to be smart about it. Right now, I can barely do anything... I can't just blast stuff, that would do more harm to me then it would to them. So, how can I make my energy last longer... Tony thought as time started up again. He started off towards Miyuki's house again.
Luckier Channel
"Luckier~! Channel~!" Akira shouted. "Hiya luckies! I'm Akira Kogami, your navigator!"
"And I'm Minoru Shiraishi, the assistant!"
"Shiraishi-san, did you hear? Kan-chan is gonna have super powers now!" Akira exclaimed excitedly.
"Yeah, I did! But like he said, chances are is that he won't be able to use it for much since it takes so much energy." Minoru said.
"Oh?" Akira said.
"Yeah, and I'm not sure if he even should use them, you know?"
"Oh?" Akira said, getting annoyed.
"I mean, what if something he wants to do goes awry? Like, a misworded spell or something?"
"Look, the guy just wants to protect the people close to him, alright? Why don't you just lay off?" Akira said, almost in a threatening voice. Minoru got a shiver down his spine.
"I'm sorry Akira, it's just weird that an everyday normal person could do something like that! I mean, control reality? I'm going to go ahead and say what's on everyone's mind right now. It's absolutely ludicrous!" Minoru said. "I mean, come on! No one can really do magic and all that stuff, right?"
"... Yeah, it's unlikely to the point where I could go get a burnt coke, but still. Cut some slack, Ac has probably had this all planned for a long time. What I wonder is what he made the amulet do." Akira pondered.
"Me too... Still laughable though..." Minoru mumbled, though quickly silenced by a look from Akira.
*Music Tone*
"Well I guess that's all the time we have for today! I'll see you all next chapter, bye nii!"
"..."
"So you think he shouldn't have these powers?"
"I dunno, I guess we'll just have to see..."
*End*
Aftersection
*sniff sniff* You smell that? That's the smell of frying coke. The kind from a vending machine, not the drug. Oh man, this chapter filled up quick. One moment, I'm at 5K and want a couple more, next think I know I'm at 10K and wishing I could just keep writing. But unfortunately, had I continued, it would have been at least 2K words before I found anything close to another good stopping point. Killa, did you predict that was going to happen with Tony's arm? If so, good job! Sqweebs, buddy, I promise I didn't mean to take your joke XD If I did, sorry about that! Ah, the funny part about this chapter is that I wanted to keep writing, I didn't mean for it to end until a while after it did lol. To all the stories I read and Beta for, but never review, I'm super sorry. I'm REALLY bad about reviewing consistently, even though they review on each and every one of my chapters. Hell, Flygon reads them before hand, gives me a review in his email back, and then posts one of the website! It's no excuse, but I'm pretty hard-pressed for time with a few other obligations I've had for a while that are pretty time consuming. A few nights without sleep usually helps with time XD Wanna hear something weird, a little fun fact about the writer? I write much better when I'm tired then when I'm fully awake and aware. I don't know why, one of my friends is like that too. They write amazing poetry when they can't sleep at night. Like, the kind of stuff you see in all the old books that you have to read in English classes. I'm rambling. Back about the story. Yes, I have an extreme affinity for magic. I don't know why, it just seems amazingly awesome to me. The explanations I have for Tony's new thing were things I thought about literally years ago. I could figure how to do just about anything with the control of energy. Read minds, paralyze, create fire, you name it. I should probably wrap this up about now. I can NOT shut up when I'm tired. See you next chapter!