'Thoughts' ← thoughts / "" ← speech
** ← actions / ~~ ← phone calls/texts
[ ] ← Narrator / ( ) ← Daydreams
Kaguya was standing near an open window of the student council room. "It's so quiet tonight".
Ryo was sitting on the couch looking at his phone. "Chika left early for some reason I wasn't really listening to what she said and *Yawn~* Yu doesn't obey the time schedule".
"At least he comes in everyday". Kaguya said.
"We've been quite busy lately *Yawn~* so I don't blame him for taking a day or two off." Ryo couldn't stop yawning.
"You've been yawning quite a lot lately". Kaguya pointed out.
"Ever since my sister got time off from work she's been making me study a lot more". As Ryo glanced up at Kaguya the bags under his eyes became more visible.
"I didn't know you had a sister?" Kaguya turned to look at Ryo.
"Well technically she's my legal guardian."
"You're not related?" Kaguya asked.
"No we're not."
Kaguya decided not to push it thinking it would be a sensitive subject and looked out the window again.
"Though I do have an older brother who is blood related". Ryo said. 'I'm still not used to having siblings…' Ryo was an only child in his old world.
"How much older?"
"Just over 2 years, he got a job and moved out not too long ago". Ryo got up from the couch and walked over to his desk. "That reminds me the 3rd year will be joining soon, meaning things will get much busier but right now, and right now we're just working out the draft budget for the student assembly". Ryo picked up some papers and looked them over.
["For a guy who said he wasn't cut out to be a student president you really are taking this seriously"]
'I try. Though I'm not sure if I'm doing a good job…'
["There haven't been any complaints yet. So well done"]
'Thank you'. Ryo was happy to take the compliment.
Ryo glanced up at Kaguya staring out the window. "The student assembly…" Kaguya said in a soft low voice before turning around to look at Ryo. "Come to think of it, it's been exactly one year since we first met".
"It has?" Because Ryo joined this life only a few months ago he has no recollection of how or when they first met.
["Oh yeah this is a battle by the way…"]
'What?! You can't just spring that on me!'.
["You'll be fine just repeat what I say…"]
"It was at the…" Ryo was waiting for the narrator to keep speaking. 'What's the rest of the line?'
["Good and bad news"]
'Good news?' Ryo had a bad feeling about this.
["You get to flex your ability to improv"]
'Why?... What's wrong?'
["The rest of the script is missing…"] The narrator spoke under their breath.
'You have to speak up, I can't hear you.'
["The rest of the script is missing!"]
'You're joking!' On the inside Ryo was freaking out, but on the outside "The..." Ryo was stuck on that one word waiting for the narrator.
"President, do… you not remember the first day we met?" Kaguya asked.
"I do. It was…" Ryo crossed his arms to 'think' when really he was talking to the narrator. 'Do you at least know how they met?'.
["I think it had something to do with… a pond?"]
'No that's how Shirogane fell for her, it was in the third season'.
["How about…"]
'How do you not know? You're the narrator!'
["I'm trying to remember so stop shouting at me! Just make some stuff up and I'll try to find the missing pages!"]
"It's okay if you don't, I understand that you're tired". Kaguya was starting to see Ryo was struggling with remembering when they 'met'.
'Great so now I have to improvise…' Ryo took a deep breath "Sorry… I'm trying".
"It's understandable, you have been quite busy lately". Kaguya said with a slight smile.
'What can get me some time? A game…?' Ryo thought to himself about what game to play. "Hey Kaguya we've got a while before school ends so… want to play a game?"
"What kind of game?" Kaguya asked.
Ryo went and sat on one of the couches. "Well… I was thinking 2 truths 1 lie with a bit of 20 questions?" Ryo suggested.
"How will the '20 questions' work?" Kaguya walked away from the window and to the opposite couch.
"We take turns asking the other a question to find the lie and the person to get it in the least amount of questions wins". Ryo explained.
"And what does the winner win?" Kaguya asked.
"We'll do what we did last time. The loser has to do 1 thing that the winner asks of them. Sound fair?" Ryo asked.
"Yes". 'Is the president plotting something…?'
Ryo wrote something on a piece of paper. "Here…" Ryo passed Kaguya a piece of paper and a pen so that she can write down her 2 truths and 1 lie.
They both held their paper up facing the blank sides towards each other and then at the same time showed each other their papers.
Ryo's read: I have a tattoo / I've been in a fashion magazine / I am currently dating someone.
Kaguya's read: My birthday is the 1st of January / We first met when we ran into each other in the hallway / I am left-handed.
Ryo slowly read Kaguya's three lines. 'I know that is her birthday because I've seen it around. Meeting in the hallway seems like the usual anime meeting between love interests so it would make sense and I'm not sure about her being left-handed. I've only ever seen her use her right hand.'
Kaguya did the same to Ryo's. She knew that Ryo would be too young for a tattoo and thought that was the lie. Then her eyes hit the last one and the colour in her eyes had almost faded. 'Dating someone?!…' Kaguya took a deep breath and in 2 seconds put together a reasonable reason as to why Ryo wrote it. 'He's trying to fluster me and make me ask about his love life'. At that moment a thought of Ryo's response appeared in her head.
("You are so keen to know about my love life~ are you worried that someone will steal me away?…" Kaguya's image of Ryo gained a fiendish smile and look in his eyes. "You really are quite Precious.")
["*Whistle~* Hold on, that's not even the right adjective! Great another thing that's been changed."]
'Well too bad president because I've seen right through your attack!' Kaguya thought to herself.
"You can go first, Kaguya." Ryo said.
Kaguya glanced over at Ryo's 3 lines before asking. 'It would make sense to ask a question for each of them first'. "How long have you had the tattoo?"
"About… 3 or 4 years." Ryo glanced over at Kaguya's paper. "How long ago did we first meet?"
"6 years ago but we didn't properly meet till last year".
'6 years ago Shirogane didn't know Kaguya before entering Shuchiin academy.' Ryo thought to himself.
"Now my turn… Which fashion magazine was it?" Kaguya asked, knowing that someone like Ryo wouldn't know the names of the magazine's off by heart so if he did say a name he would look guilty.
"I… don't know. My elder sister made me do it". "If you're left-handed, why do you write with your right hand?".
"I was taught to use my right hand instead." Kaguya realised that she was about to ask about Ryo's 'Girlfriend' and looked away embarrassed. "Who… is your girlfriend?"
Ryo gave Kaguya an innocent smile. "Would you believe me if I said Fujiwara?"
"Eh…" Kaguya's eyes immediately lost their light as a newfound hatred was created against Chika. 'Backstabbing *Beep~*'
["For the safety of our audience's ears we have censored the insult.]
Ryo hid his smile with his paper.
["Why did you choose to say Fujiwara?"]
'I knew it would get to her, the only reason I wrote that is for my own pure enjoyment.'
["You're are a weird man, Ryo"]
'You only just figured that out? What's the news on the missing papers?'
["Still missing… I've searched everywhere!"]
'They've got to be there somewhere'.
["Just keep buying me time. I'll find them… hopefully"]
'Yeah~ I got you'. "Your turn Kaguya". Ryo stopped Kaguya before she could order a hit on Chika's head.
The questions went back and forth, some would help and others would just run them in circles but the longer it went on the more enjoyable it got.
Kaguya thought for a second before asking a question. "Where on your body is the tattoo located?"
"Slightly above my right hip". Ryo reached into his pocket. "Catch~" Ryo lightly threw something at Kaguya.
Kaguya caught it with both hands. "An eraser?" Kaguya held it up with her right hand.
"I think I've figured out the lie". Ryo got up and walked a little bit away and kept his back turned to her.
"Oh?" Kaguya was intrigued.
"I detect that the lie you told is…" Ryo quickly spun around to face Kaguya and pointed to her right hand that was holding the eraser with a confident look. "That you're left-handed! When you're actually a righty".
"Wow~ I'm impressed". Kaguya said giving Ryo some hope that he actually won against Kaguya. "But… I'm a lefty".
"Wait really?..." All confidence in Ryo's stance disappeared.
"Unfortunately so." Kaguya picked up Ryo's paper and a pen and crossed out one of his lines. "To be honest I'm a little disappointed I didn't find it sooner with how easy it was to find your lie…" Kaguya got up and walked over to Ryo and pressed his paper against his chest.
Ryo grabbed the paper and looked at it. It read the same but the 'I am currently dating someone' had a line through it signifying the lie. Ryo sighed at his defeat. "You got me, but how?"
"Well for starters earlier you said that you weren't listening when Chika gave her reasoning to leave earlier. If you really were dating then surely her 'significant other' would listen as to why she would be leaving early."
"That's fair…" Ryo said with a guilty look.
"And secondly…"
'There's more?" Ryo thought to himself.
"When you said you were dating her you called her by her last name when you would usually call her by her first name, that made me believe you said the first name that appeared in your head".
"Wow I'm impressed…"
"Really president, that brain of yours is quite simple to read". Kaguya gave Ryo a cute smile.
["She's really happy that it was the lie..."]
'Quiet!' Kaguya shouted in her head to the narrator.
"Yeah… I get it". Ryo sat down on the couches again. "You've got one wish".
"I have to admit I am intrigued about it?" Kaguya asked.
"Hm? About what?" Ryo looked at her blankly.
"Your 'tattoo' or was that a lie as well?".
"I definitely have it". Ryo stood up and unbuttoned his blazer and lifted up the right side of his shirt. "Here".
Kaguya looked down at the tattoo. "It's… cute".
"It's a fox… wearing a fedora".
Just as they said it was a black and white fox sitting with its bushy tail wrapped around itself with a fedora on its head giving it a mischievous look and it was all styled to look like it was made up from individual strokes of a paint brush.
["I was expecting something else but a fox is actually perfect for you"]
'What do you mean it's perfect for me?'
["Foxes are known to be cunning and deceitful which is what you need to be to get through this. But… what's with the fedora"]
'Because why not?'
Kaguya asked the question. "Is there a reason why you got it?"
["Actual narration time" *Cough cough* "Ryo didn't want to answer because even though he doesn't remember a thing about it he's embarrassed about his 'punk phase' like anyone would be and don't pretend that you're not embarrassed about your past"]
"About that…" Ryo was thinking of a way out of the conversation.
["Just tell her, I need more time to find the papers!"]
'You need more! How hard is it to find the rest of the script!'
["All I've found is the last page!"]
'I can't bide any more time, I'm out of ideas!'
"President?" Kaguya was just looking at Ryo staring into space as he was talking with the narrator..
"I-it's a secret…" Ryo made a shushing motion hoping that would be enough to end the conversation.
"I won't pry." Kaguya walked away.
"Thanks".
["You knew which was the lie didn't you?"]
'Yep. It's quite obvious that we didn't meet 6 years ago.'
["Why do you say that?"]
'For one she said earlier that we had first met a year ago. Plus Bumping in the hallway isn't a Love is War type of situation and this version of me wasn't in this school 6 years ago, so we couldn't have met.'
A few hours later after school.
Ryo was happily lying on his bed looking at his phone.
["Finally found it!"]
"Found what?"
["The rest of the script. Now we can do the battle"]
"Dude school finished 2 hours ago".
["You're kidding…"]
"Nope".
["And after all that searching!"]
"So where was it?" Ryo asked.
["Well technically I never lost them"]
"What do you mean?" Ryo said knowing the narrator was about to say something dumb.
["The pages weren't blank… I was just looking at the back of the pages"]
"Seriously!" Ryo shouted.
A female voice echoed from the other room. "Stop shouting!"
"Sorry!" Ryo shouted back.
[Today's battle results: Ryo lost]