I'm back with an odd little story! That all spawned from one line!
And that's the beginning sentence.
On with story!
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Half-Boiled"Of
course I have a libido, I'm not defective!"
The indignant voice crashed around the entire dressing room, silencing all who were present at the moment. The tense atmosphere was broken the next second by Risa dropping her hairbrush, followed by some mad scrambling to retrieve it, leading to bumped elbows, knocked knees, hysterical apologies from a flustered Koharu, and some deadly looks coming from the youngest member of the group.
The person with the outburst continued on with her conversation, albeit at a much lower volume, so as not to damage her friend's ear over the phone she was currently holding.
"So yes, I'm not defective; and no, I don't need to know." Pause.
"I don't
want to know." Her voice was a little shrill at this point, but still immaculately controlled, despite the rising flush on her cheeks.
"You didn't have to tell me that!"
As one could possibly imagine, the object of the discussion was getting to be increasingly intriguing, and the audience of three (out of the 8 total present who were not involved in the conversation) were getting to be progressively more curious as time went by.
"I'm not going to talk to you again if you keep this up!" Another pause, and three pairs of eyebrows shot up as they watched their highly esteemed, incredibly tiny, and currently, extremely stressed leader move her jaw around in almost inarticulate fury.
"You...you..."
Put a dragon in one Takahashi Ai's place, and it would be puffing smoke and flames out of every possible orifice right about now. Except that she was human, and currently, a very red one. There were only so many topics that could make this leader flush to such a degree, which made the three Rokkies watching her
very interested indeed.
"Go, just...go now." Ai looked like she was torn in between wanting to laugh and wanting to cry. Her cheeks were returning to their normal tint, and she seemed quite calm by the time she hung up and stuck her phone back into her bag.
"Ai-chan, are you ready to go yet?" Risa asked, completely non-plussed by the odd conversation. Either she completely missed it, or she was simply ignoring it. The curious Rokkies could not decide which, and they missed their chance to ask when their ever-reliable sub leader swept their amiable leader out of the door before they could even blink.
"So, who do you think it was?"
It was Reina who dropped the question in their minds, watching the topic skip across the grey tile of their wide dressing room, skidding to a halt at Sayumi's very large, very pink bag that was lying at said Rokkie's feet. As she expected, her bunny-in-crime picked it up, playing at it thoughtfully. Next to her, a sleepy-looking turtle slouched in her seat, absently playing with her hair while twirling in her swivel-chair. Yes. Twirling.
But never mind that. Back to the topic at hand.
"Hmm..." Sayu seemed to be considering it quite seriously. Reina, impatient, threw a possibility out in a somewhat hushed tone.
"...boyfriend?"
"Girlfriend?" Eri deadpanned in mid-swivel, staring upside down at a surprised Reina, who stumbled over in her chair without even getting up. "What?!"
Eri grinned slyly at Sayu, who smirked back at Reina's obvious shock.
"A-anyway, as I was saying..." Reina glowered lightly at the rabbit and turtle. "Who could it possibly be?"
"Well it sounded sort of intimate...maybe..." Sayu contributed (un)helpfully. Eri chirped in.
"Maybe it's Miki!"
Long pause. Reina seemed to actually think about that, but Sayu dismissed it out of hand.
"For goodness sake, she's already married!"
"And you think that would actually stop her?" Came Eri's reply. More silence, as the Rokkies pondered on the truth of that statement.
"Ai-chan couldn't possibly be..." Reina started a little weakly.
"What couldn't Ai-chan possibly be?" Came a cheerful voice from behind, as Risa popped out from seemingly nowhere. Ai was not with her. Probably off doing leader-ish things while the sub leader came back to rouse the rest of the troops. Delegation of duty, that was how the Gokkie leadership worked.
"Come on, stop chitchatting, we'll run late if you do." The responsible sub leader managed to pry all three out of their chairs with minimal effort, since the Rokkies
were professionals, after all.
As they stepped out of the dressing room in a group, a bright idea came to Sayumi, and she turned on her reliable senpai.
"Gaki-san! Do
you know who Ai-chan was talking to just now?"
Risa blinked, as she suddenly noticed three sets of very intent eyes trained on her. The predatory intent inherent in those gazes was somehow intimidating.
"Why do you want to know?"
"Well, don't you think that conversation was just a little weird...?" Reina tried pushing the idea subtly, or not so subtly, across. "Ai-chan was getting so...flustered..."
"Ah, that..." Risa frowned thoughtfully. "That's normal for them though, I think."
"You know who it is then!" Reina and Sayu burst out at the same time. Eri however, tilted her head to one side and asked.
"You...
think?"
The other two Rokkies gave her a look for not being synchronized with them, but Eri only giggled it off as if it were nothing. Fortunately for her, that always worked to get her off the hook. So she was never above using it. Like right now.
"Why? Is there a problem?" Risa seemed genuinely puzzled, and not as reaction queen as she should have been. An odd realization was beginning to rise in two of the three Rokkies...
"So who is it?" Surprisingly, Eri was the one who moved it forward. She wasn't always as slow as her turtle persona seemed to be.
"Well, it's just..."
"Gaki-san! What's taking you so long?"
Risa was cut off from revealing the truth just as the object of the discussion flounced in from behind the group, making the guilty trio jump. Risa, however, held no such qualms, as she had absolutely nothing to be concerned about.
"Ah, Ai-chan, these three were just asking me about..."
"How we should really get going or we'll be late!" Sayu cut in smoothly to prevent Risa from revealing their line of questioning. Reina shot a grateful glance at the quick-witted bunny.
"Yes, we should be going..." Risa shot them a weird glance as Ai started to drag her away. The three Rokkies paused for a split second, as if in indecision, before trailing a few steps behind the Gokkie pair.
"Well that was close...we could have found out already..." Reina grouched. Sayu, however, had a worried expression on her face. Eri, noticing this, clung to Sayumi's arm, tugging on it slightly as if to ask her what was wrong. Sayu, when she did speak, had a slightly stunned look in her eyes.
"If Gaki-san knows..." Reina raised one brow.
"Doesn't that mean that she also
approves?"
Silence. Even Eri didn't break that moment with something odd.
"Oh god..." Reina muttered. Eri however, shushed both girls on either side of her, gesturing at the pair ahead, who were talking about something between themselves.
"I can't believe she was telling me all that..." Ai was saying, or at least seemed to be saying. She was not exactly talking at a volume to be heard from a few meters away.
"About Fujimo..." A bunch of staff members trundled past with equipment, cutting off the rest of Risa's reply from their hearing.
The Rokkies had heard enough though.
"Oh my god."
"This is big."
"Adultery?"
The trio babbled out in hushed, horrified tones. They couldn't believe their ears. Sure, it was one thing to have boyfriends despite company policy. Sure, it was another thing to have girlfriends, despite how abnormal it could be. But...
adultery? With another girl? More importantly, Ai?
Takahashi Ai? The goody goody model leader of the group?
The world as the Rokkies knew it was ending.
~*~*~
Aika watched her target intently, except in a totally non-intent manner that would have betrayed the intensity of her scrutiny. She was good at that. The languid pose she so carefully cultivated only aided in that impression.
In a way, she was very sad that Koharu was going to be graduated. She would no longer be able to spend time with the older girl. Which was definitely a pity. She rather liked Koharu.
Hence why she was spending all her attention and free time indulging in Koharu-watching for now. She had to capture more memories of her somewhat ditzy senpai before she left.
Aika was a little strange like that.
She almost ignored everything else to exclusion, though she did notice the somewhat strange outburst Leader (no, Ai-chan, she mentally corrected with a smirk) had over the phone. It was a little strange, but she merely filed that under something to note for later in her mind.
Right now, top priority was one Kusumi Koharu. Time was short with her, so she had to grasp it while it was still around.
They had to gather soon, so Aika pestered Koharu into going with her first, so that Ai-chan wouldn't have to make two trips to come collect them later. Her Rokkie senpais seemed to be doing some serious pow-wowing, so she decided to leave them alone for now.
Naturally, Koharu got mildly distracted by something along the way, making Aika tag along with her. Aika didn't mind too much. They still had a little time, and the walking clock known as Niigaki Risa would probably serve as a reminder when she would pass by to gather the wandering Rokkies they had left behind.
Thus it was a little later when, somewhat to her surprise, she saw Ai-chan stop by the side corridor where she was chilling with Koharu to tell them that they had 5 minutes to get to the gathering place, before said leader zipped off down the corridor to collect her sub leader and the errant Rokkies.
With a shrug, Aika managed to get Koharu to move along with her, but they hadn't managed to go very far when they were cut off by staff members moving stage equipment down the somewhat narrow hallways. Thus it was that they were able to witness the following conversation.
As they waited, Aika heard the familiar voices of Leader and Sub Leader chatting on the other side of corridor that was blocked by the moving equipment.
"About Fujimon?" Risa sounded amused, yet relaxed at the same time.
"Yes! I don't need to know about private details, but Yukina-chan keeps teasing me about...this and that..." Ai sounded embarrassed and more than a little sulky at the same time.
"You're too pure, Ai-chan~" Risa teased, the Gokkie pair coming into view as the last of the equipment boxes were moved past them.
"Am not!" Ai retorted, puffing out her cheeks indignantly as the friendly pair continued on their way.
Aika smiled as followed after them, noting in passing the somehow frozen Rokkie trio some distance behind.
"Michishige-san and the rest seem a little odd today." Koharu remarked next to her, and Aika nodded, commenting.
"Maa, adults are weird."
That, at least, was something they could always agree on.
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In case you didn't figure it out, Aichan was talking about Kinoshita Yukina, who happens to be dating a comedian called Fujimoto Toshifumi, aka Fujimon. I just thought that it'd be funny if Yukina was teasing Ai with slightly pervy details about her own relationship, and Aichan, being Aichan, would be all "nooooo" at it. One thing leads to another, then came the defense about her having a libido, and misunderstandings from the Rokkies who only heard half of the conversation...both conversations.
Yay jumping to conclusions?
Hope you guys like this!
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