Mission Advisor : FAILED"Niigaki-san, your phone is ringing!" Aika shouted to Risa who was standing at the other corner of the rehearsal room, teaching Haruna one of the dance steps the choreographer had just taught them. Haruna was unable to catch up with the progress of the lesson, thus, Risa had chose to stay back and help the younger girl. The teenager was so lost like a little lamb, making Risa to panic like the ants on the hot pot-time is running short. They are juest barely two weeks away from the start of the spring tour and they had only mastered half of the setlist.
"Coming !" Risa responded to Aika as she looked up towards the latter's direction. Aika was holding Risa's iPhone high up in the air, signaling to her the unheard phone call as reminded by Aika. "You should leave now too as well. It's getting late. You have school tomorrow too, don't you?" Risa turned to Haruna and asked hurriedly. "Be sure that you look through the tapes tonight and try practicing them when you are back home. If there's something that you still don't understand, you can call me tonight." Risa debriefed quickly. "Ja, mata ashita!" Risa waved a light goodbye to the younger girl. After watching Haruna leaving the rehearsal studio, Risa rushed towards where Aika was standing immediately.
"Thanks, Mitsui!" Risa thanked as she took over the phone from Aika.
"You're welcome, Niigaki-san. I will make my move too. . . I have an appointment with my occupational therapist." Aika bided with a smile. "Mata ashita ne?" With that, Aika waved a good and began to walk slowly towards the studio door.
"Mata ashita ne, Aika." Risa bided good too. Without looking at the caller ID of her phone, Risa slide the phone and answered the call.
"Risa-chan?" Came the familiar slightly childish accented voice then sent a wave of chilling sensation down her back.
"Eh?"
"What took you so long to answer my phone call, Risa-chan?" The voice continued.
"Ai-chan?" Risa raised a tone in surprise.
"Who else do you have in mind then, Risa-chan?" Ai blabbered with her relaxed voice.
"No one? And Ai-chan, don't call me Risa-chan? How many times have I told you, Risa or Gaki-san. Stop calling me Risa-chan . .. It makes me feel so much like a little kid." Risa pouted across the line as she sat down cross-legged on the polished ground of the rehearsal studio.
"But it has been Risa-chan since we first met, why can't I continue calling you that?" Ai argued on the other end.
"But it too has always been Gaki-san as well. . ." Risa proposed her argument.
"But - " Ai tried to refute, but was interrupted by Risa once again.
"Ne, Ai-chan, you called me just to argue with me how to address me in a proper way?" Risa raised, hoping that would bring Ai back to her main reason for calling. She wiped away a lone sweat away from her temple,
"Nah. . . " Ai shook her head on her side as she answered. "Are you getting a off day tomorrow?" Ai went straight into her point.
"Yeah?" Risa answered casually as she reached for her bag for her towel.
"Let's go shopping together!" Ai's excited voice came echoing loudly into Risa's ears , causing Risa to pull the phone slightly away from her ears.
"Eh?" Risa was surprised again. "Me shopping?" Risa repeated.
"Be my advisor for the day." Ai continued. "I want to control my spendings but I'm afraid that I won't be able to have that self-control to do so...." Ai added on quickly in her proposal.
"But I've promise my mama that I will spend my day off together with her tomorrow..." Risa explained worriedly.
Silence persisted for a moment in the mist of the phone conversation. Ai was whacking her mind up for a good solution about the situation Risa had just informed her. "Ah!" Ai cried out suddenly, catching Risa off guarded, causing her to almost drop her phone onto the ground.
"You scared me, Ai-chan!" Risa pouted to the person at the other end.
"My mama is with me in Tokyo right now. . . You can asked your mama if she wants to join my mama for afternoon tea tomorrow? And you can accompany me to shopping !" Ai suggested.
"I - I will ask my mama about it. . . " Risa nodded her head while saying.
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Back at Risa's house, Risa had been pacing around her room, thinking about how she should phrase the suggestion made by Ai. "Yosh! I will just have to do it." Risa urged herself as she stood behind her room door. She placed her palm on the doorknob. Just when she was about to turn it, a knock sounded from the other side and the door swung inward open, just missing Risa's forehead by a millimetre.
"Risa, I heard from Takahashi-san that Ai-chan had asked you out to shopping as an advisor. You don't have to worry too much about Mama. Mama will be going out with Takahashi-san for afternoon tea as well. Be sure that you ensure that Ai-chan don't overbuy this time round again. . . " Risa-mama starting nagging the moment she saw Risa at the door.
"Takahashi-san has been complaining about Ai-chan's spending habits again. Be sure that you help Takahashi-san to control Ai-chan this time round." Risa-mama continued.
"Ha-i" Risa answered in rather shock and reluctance. She knew deep inside that it was no simple task to ensure that Ai don't overbuy.
"Take an early rest tonight then." Risa-mama finished. "Oyasumi."
"Oyasumi. . ." Risa trailed off into silence as the door went click. Just then, her phone vibrated, signalling to her a new incoming message.
{Gaki-san, My mama told me that she had asked your Mama out. . . Yatta! That means that you will be going out with me to shop tomorrow! - Ai }
{Yupps . . .So. . .where shall we meet tomorrow? - Risa }
{1 at Shibuya. - Ai }
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Where's Ai-chan? Risa thought silently in her mind as she kept her eyes wondering around the department store where the two were shopping at. Risa was engrossed in looking at a set of dress that she had lost Ai the next moment she turned her head. With the dress the only item in her shopping basket, Risa had been searching for Ai for the past 5 minutes around the department store and it was all futile.
Just then, right before her eyes, a familiar figure, with a overflowing shopping basket, past by her and went straight to the next nearest rack. "Ai-chan?" Risa raised a tone slightly loudly as she chased after the figure.
Ai turned around and looked at Risa for a short moment before turning her attention back to the rack. "Oh, Gaki-san, you are here! I've been looking all over around for you. Where have you gone to?" Ai asked without looking at Risa.
"That's the question I want to ask you, Ai-chan.. . " Risa replied before turning to the basket. "And look, it's less than 5 minutes and you had filled your basket to its brim." Risa continued scolding, remembering the role she had in this shopping trip. "Do you really need this much of clothing? Self-control, Ai-chan, self-control." Risa lectured.
"Eh, a lot of them are not for me." Ai argued back as she turned her eyes onto Risa. "I think you will look good in this." Ai continued as she placed the apparel in front of Risa had glanced her from head to feet.
"Really?" Risa held the hanger from Ai and glanced down her body.
"Really." Ai continued while ruffling the contents of her basket. "This looks nice on you too." Ai said again while holding onto a jumper like shirt. "Let's get to the changing room and change into it to get a better view of it, Gaki-san." Without waiting for a reply from Risa, Ai had already dragged the younger girl towards the changing room and threw her behind the curtains, drew it up properly for her and crossed her arms. "I'll be waiting outside for you." Ai finished. Less than a minute after Ai had said that, she had began to wonder away from the changing room and towards the nearest rack.
"Ai-chan?" Risa called out the moment she got the dress on her body and stood out of the changing room.
Ai turned around upon that call. "Wow, you really look pretty in that. You should get it." Ai praised.
"I should?" Risa troubled.
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It was already late at night when the both mothers had returned home from the day out. On the phone, Risa's mama said, "The trip to Korea back then was really fun. We should go back there again together some days."
"Yes we should." It was about the same time that Ai-mama had stepped into Ai's apartment. "At least we have an accompany when the younger ones went running around on the streets all night." Ai-mama continued.
"That's right! I think this coming summer may be feasi-" Before Risa-mama could finish her sentence, two shouting voices from Risa's room as well as through the phone receiver were heard.
"Mama! Help!"
"Kaa-san! Help!"
"I will talk to you later." Both the mother said at the same time. Without hanging up the phone call, they both went into their daughter's respective room and say their respective daughters standing before the wardrobe, with their hands ran through their hair in frustration.
"Mama / Kaa-san! I can't find ways to fit them into the wardrobe!" Risa/Ai cried out to her mother at the same time.
"Aren't you supposed to be advisor to Ai-chan to prevent her from overbuying? What is up with this whole bag of clothes that you need to put into the wardrobe?" Risa-mama questioned Risa.
"Aren't you supposed to be controlled in your buying today since Risa-chan is with you today? What is up with this whole bag of clothes that you need to put into the wardrobe?" Ai-mama questioned Ai.
"I - " Ai/Risa stuttered, unsure about how should they answer the question raised by their mother.
Shaking their head in unbelievingly, they walked out of their daughter's room and resumed the phone call. "Well, I think the trip can only happen when Ai-chan can properly learn to control her shopping habits. . ." Ai-mama spoke through the phone.
"Same over at this side. Until Risa can learn to not fail the task as an advisor to Ai-chan . . " Risa-mama smiled through.
Mission Advisor : FAILED.
Hihi! New oneshot for Valentine!! Though it doesn't have a valentine feeling in it. Just a cute AiGaki one shot
heheh
It's based on an unrecited (unreliable) source on 2ch about Gaki's fashion/ clothes, something Risa had mentioned in the new MM application. I personally have not find the particular timing nor read any other report about it, so . . . I'm not sure if that's real and reliable or not. .. But if it's real, it must be really cute to know that Risa always end up with buying lots when shopping with Ai as Ai will always say "You look good in this."
about the Risa-chan vs Gaki-san vs Risa - this arguement was from ANNM, where gakisan mentioned something about wanting aichan to call her by Risa instead of risa-chan when they were young since aichan was older than her. And when the nickname gaki-san came, aichan had thus been calling Risa by Gaki-san, though Aichan will always randomly call Risa by Risa-chan, sometimes just moments before when they were suppose to appear on stage.
hehehe