Shinoki, I know what you mean. Even I LoL'd while writing that. Yuihan oshii~? And yeah, sorry since it's turning serious. I'm actually trying to make it serious. Like what I said in the discussion. Dunno if it's working though. ^^''
cisda, NP, man~ Yes, what DID Rena mean by that? >w>
atsukojiyuu, It's gonna be a long while before I can write again... But please wait for me!! (LoL
) Yeah. The both of these OS. (Of AtsuYuu and others that were not mentioned and AKB48 and Alcohol) are sequels or the aftermath of the A side of the fic I'm planning to write, Dunno when though~ And thanks!
Sorry for not updating since my laptop's broken thanks to a few 'individuals' messing it up. ==''
I was actually online from my phone, but hey, there's no way I'm going to use my phone for writing. Nu'uh.
Anywho, this is actually a 'special chapter' of a new fic I'm thinking bout. As per usual, Acchan's the protag, she gets mega OP for some unknown reason, Aki-P makes his debut. But one thing's different is that I'm not gonna use AtsuYuu much in the A side. Probably some moments but that's it~ Sorry for the AtsuYuu shippers out there...
Okay, enough with unimportant things.
[AKB48 and alcohol pt. 2]
Everyone froze at Rena's statement. Even the usually calm Atsuko had fallen into such a state where her heart would burst any moment now. Yuko looked at Atsuko questioningly which the taller girl only shook her head, saying that she doesn't know anything. Rena was in the state of tears. She was sobbing for unknown reasons which surprised even Jurina.
"What did you mean by that...?" Jurina asked the girl in a state of shock. However, Rena didn't answer. She was silent. Her head down, not looking at her junior and fellow group member.
"Ah... Rena's drunk." Atsuko said as she held a chuckle. Everyone who heard her inspected Rena as as she said, her eyes were going weird.
"Aw, so she's just drunk. What was that all about?" Sae who had kept quiet and became stiff finally loosened up as she realized the girl was only talking nonsense. Yuko offered to take her to the room which Jurina protested, saying that she was better suited for the task.
"If one of you goes to somewhere alone with Rena-chan, who knows what you two might do to the drunk girl." Mariko also loosened up and cracked a joke in between.
"I won't do anything. Promise." the squirrel made a toothy smile and as they all know, that toothy smile, is something that they can't trust.
"Then..." Mariko turned to look at the members and saw Atsuko staring at the drunk girl weirdly. "... Acchan, why don't you go?" She asked the ex-Ace, whom only nodded and got up to help her to another room.
Everyone was amazed by her behavior. Atsuko wasn't the sort of person who would just follow somebody else's orders. Usually, she would complain about it, run away or even ignore it but this time, she abode someone's orders too easily. Atsuko lifted Rena up by the shoulder and helped her to walk to another room. Before she got out of the room, she whispered something in Mariko's ears in which she nodded.
After the two left the room, everyone relaxed.
"Wow, what was that atmosphere?!" Mii-chan, who didn't say anything for hours maybe, finally couldn't take it anymore. "That was TOTALLY awkward!!!" she continued and waved her hands around like a little kid.
"Yeah, I was sweating all over thanks to Rena-chan's statement before..." Sae hugged her own body as if the cold had finally settled in to her body. The intense mood that they had gone through was too much for the Genking to take. Seeing the pained expression on her friend's face, Sayaka went to sit behind Sae and soothed her cold as she carefully rubbed the girl's back. Sae actually wanted a hug from the taller one but just pouted, knowing how dense the gorilla is.
"Feeling better?" one question and smile from Sayaka made her heart that was cold suddenly burst out in flames, beating faster and fasted, which surprised even her, for what happened right then never happened with Yuki. "F- Fine!" Sae hugged her knees as she answered, to hide her face that was slowly turning into a tomato. Nah, it's just that she's blushing like Takamina in the changing room. Thankfully, the oblivious gorilla didn't even realize her red face but...
"... Heh." The girls next to her were grinning as they looked at the bewildered Genking. It was none other than Mii-chan and Jurina. Sae couldn't even look at them, knowing that Sayaka was there behind her.
Seeing the interesting situation unfolded in front of her, Mariko held a chuckle as she called for Sayaka, asking her to help her to make some tea, seeing as Atsuko didn't come back from her escorting mission yet. "Sure, but don't expect too much from me." Sayaka abided since she didn't have much to do, not to mention the others are already here to take care of Sae. "Yeah, I don't." Mariko joked which the others laughed for a while. "Sorry for being useless." Sayaka sulked and looked away, which made them laugh more.
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"I wonder what the fuss is about..." Rena asked the older girl, who is sitting next to her while she was lying in bed. "Who knows." the girl answered as she looked at the night sky from Mariko's window.
Atsuko borrowed the room from Mariko so that Rena could sleep a little better. She didn't even know what's happening in MaYuki and SasshiYui's room, but she has a guess, knowing that Mayu and Yuki were going out and Rino's personality to harass Yui never ceases to amaze her. She chuckled as she remembered a certain someone which amazed her even more.
"Why would you go so far...?"
"Because she's my reason of existence... And I'm here thanks to her..." Atsuko didn't even know the meaning behind her words, but remembering it makes something in her heart burn...
"What's wrong, Acchan?" the younger girl asked her worriedly, since she saw that her face suddenly turned from a happy mother-like smile, to a pained expression which she couldn't make out, but she knew what that meant.
"Don't tell me, you're jealous because I was spending too much time with Jurina?" Rena made an innocent pouting face as she looked at Atsuko seductively. Which she failed since all Atsuko could see was her cute playful face. But that alone made Atsuko flush.
"No way, like I'd care." she denies it strongly as she tries to fend off Rena's attacks.
"No~ I love Acchan too~" Rena joked around with the older girl and laughed a bit, seeing her play along.
"Get some sleep for a bit, you need it..." Atsuko finally advices her as the younger girl settled down because harassing Atsuko tires her out more than Jurina's advances. "Yeah..." Rena closed her eyes, and the older girl got up to leave the room but as she reached the door, "And...
... Sorry... for blurting it out to the others..."
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"Hey, Acchan, you're back?" Mariko greeted the girl that has just finished escorting Rena.
"So, how was Rena-chan's body?" Yuko made a perverted grin as she looked at the ex-Ace. Atsuko sighed and hit the girl's head, and adding Haruna's punch of squirrel discipline, it became a two-way combo. The others, impressed by the two's teamwork, clapped their hands, even though the squirrel is writhing in pain. "I was just joking, obviously." she pouted cutely at Atsuko who is already immune to her. "Ain't happening." she finishes the conversation and sat on an empty spot in everyone's circle.
They didn't use the table since it's too big so they made a circle and placed the beverages in the middle. The position changed to, in clockwise, Mariko, who's back is facing the door, Sayaka, Sae, Mii-chan, Takamina, Jurina, Atsuko, Haruna, and Yuko.
"Now shall we continue the game?" Mariko asked and everyone nodded in agreement except Mii-chan "Are you sure you're supposed to sit here and not supervising a certain someone?" she asked Sayaka, hinting Yuko with her eyes.
"Don't worry. I'm sure Acchan won't let her do anything to Haruna." Sayaka said so confidently from her experience.
Whenever Yuko and Haruna were going somewhere private, Atsuko would always use her cuteness and pleads to win Yuko over, making Yuko bring Atsuko along in almost all of her adventures with Haruna. Haruna doesn't mind at all since she is really comfortable with Atsuko. Whenever they're together, they would feel at peace. But something tells her that she feels a little too at peace...
"Okay, let me read the question then." Mariko read a comment on Rino's post. "What is the relationship between Kojima Haruna and Maeda Atsuko?" she asked a question which lingers in their minds. The two whose names were read were actually surprised at first but... They are already prepared for this kind question. They knew that someday, somehow, someone would find out about it. They knew but couldn't do anything. Atsuko has no choice but to hide it.
"We're best friends~" Atsuko says in a playful voice. No menace, no sadness. Just a playful voice which everyone loved. The playful side of Atsuko which they remembered since the beginning. They missed that side of her. That side would only show up sometimes, but when it shows up, they knew that she was very happy. She was having fun. That's what she meant. Being with her friends, fooling around, making out with Rena, there couldn't be any more fun things than that... except another thing...
"Mou, Acchan's too clingy these days~" the taller girl says in a playful, dissatisfied voice as the shorter one clings to her and kept hugging her.
She's already used to Atsuko's constant clinging. She knew the girl loves to hug or pounce on others. It's her nature. You could never stop the random assaults from Maeda Atsuko. Not even the General Manager could. Though one could say that Takahashi Minami is usually the target of the ex-Ace's assaults which led to many embarrassing moments mostly done by the taller one's constant teasings. But more than Yuko's perverted advances towards the cat girl's breasts, she likes Atsuko's more. The girl knows how to be playful and cheer her up, unlike a certain squirrel. You could say she likes to be hugged by Atsuko. It calms her down, knowing that her best friend is always there when you need her. Even though Atsuko left AKB48, there are times when Haruna looks around and blurts out 'Eh? Where's Acchan?' and that's what caused a stir in the members' hearts...
"Eh~ But NyanNyan loves hugs so it's okay, right~?" Atsuko's head found comfort in the abyss known as Haruna's breasts. The taller girl didn't mind though. Atsuko's Atsuko just like that. She's not Yuko so it's alright.
"Yeah, but two midgets might get jealous, you know~" she emphasized the word 'midgets' so the two would hear. Atsuko didn't get it at first but then it finally clicked. She grinned and continued her assault on Haruna's body. "Who cares about them~ NyanNyan's mine~" she playfully clings to her more and they collapsed lightly. Atsuko who didn't want it to end yet, rolled around with her on the floor, laughing together.
The ones watching, except the two 'midgets' which is sulking and glaring at the two playful 'cats', had a smile on their faces. Haruna and her lazy personality and cat-like features already made her a cat long ago, and Atsuko who, unlike Mayu with her certain 'mouse' character, is more evil when it comes to playful things. Her constant teasing were always fun to watch. It wasn't that much fun for the one being teased, but she would always make up with her, clinging to her and making some cute faces for sympathy, she's evil but in a cute way. Like a cat. You just can't hate these two cats.
But they also realized another thing. They don't know if Haruna has some sort of feeling for Atsuko or not, but they know that Atsuko doesn't have any evil feelings for the girl. Because when they're fooling around, she would always take a time to glance at a certain someone and continue her game with Haruna. They knew, her heart already belongs to someone else.
"Okay, okay, you two win this round." Mariko had a smile of an older sister watching her little sisters play. "You know you shouldn't force yourself, right?" a certain Gachapin asked the oldest. Mariko's smile changed from a warm smile to a wry smile. She remembered the reason behind her graduation. The reason why she left. And also the reason why she's even in this group to begin with.
"Yeah..." is all she could say.
"I think you two should stop that now, some of us are glaring at you both with killing intent." Sayaka was the one who called the two playful cats out and pointed at Takamina and Yuko. Atsuko and Haruna looked at the other two and stopped. Atsuko knows how jealous Takamina can get over Haruna and Haruna knows just how Yuko would kill to get the relationship she have with Atsuko right now.
"Well, next question then..." Mariko looked at the display of the phone's screen as the two cats took their seats next to each other.
They didn't realize it. No, they never even suspected it. That below that table, are two intertwined fingers. One of the ex-Ace of AKB48 and the other is the cat girl who is known as the beauty inside AKB48. They would never know... No. They will never know it. That the past the relationship these two shared were closer than they have ever thought.
"..." silence filled the room. At first Atsuko and Haruna thought that they have suspected something, but it wasn't that. It was Mariko's staring at the screen. "Okay, change of question." she said normally, which made most of the members sigh, but, with a grin,
Sayaka swiped the phone out of Mariko's hands!
"O- oi!" Mariko glared at the gorilla, but Sayaka only made her gorilla face and read the question on the display.
"What-" before she could finish, Mariko tried to grab the phone but...
Sayaka passed it to Sae.
"-does-" Sae read it quickly and passed it to Mii-chan.
"-Mariko-" Mii-chan passed it to the one with the same first name
"-think-" Takamina passed it to Jurina
"-about-" Jurina passed it to Atsuko
Atsuko read it and with a chuckle, passed it to Haruna without saying anything. Haruna was confused by Atsuko's actions and when she read the display
"-Kojima Haruna?" she read her own name.
Mariko froze. She didn't know what to say. She didn't know what to answer. She didn't even know why anyone would even ask that sort of question. But then Mii-chan spoke at the wrong timing.
"Oh yeah, I heard that you called in AKBINGO's crew to ask for a lie detector. I wonder how that's going~"
The girl's statement made them grin more and Mariko was in a state of crisis.
'No no! Don't mind it! There's no way they'd just send in something so expensive to us! But... I may have threatened them a little too much...' she thought to herself. Right at that moment, the doorbell rang.
'You've gotta be kidding be!' she cursed herself as Yuko got the door and came back with a lie detector.
'Relax, relax, nobody knows how to use this.' she assured herself but... "Oh! I know how to use this. I played it with Sae once when we were alone." Sayaka confesses and sets up the lie detector on Mariko. Everybody else gave a 'If you know what I mean' face as they looked at Sae.
Atsuko got up and whispered something to Sayaka who nodded in response. She also whispered back to Atsuko but the girl only gave a smirk.
"Now Mariko-sama." This time, Takamina was the one who was going to ask her. "What do you think about Haruna?"
They all had a grin on their faces, seeing the flushed face of Haruna and Mariko was too amusing. Even Takamina felt the 'S' inside her grow. Though Atsuko wouldn't let that happen.
"Wait, you should only use it as a 'True' or 'False' question, right?" Sae asked Takamina, who is lost.
"Then I'll ask!" Yuko volunteered and asked the question. "Does Mari-chan LOVE NyanNyan?!"
'WHOA! A straight fastball!' was what everyone thought.
Mariko and Haruna were red to the ears. The two who were usually the ones who were always on top thanks to Mariko's Sadism and Haruna's double-personality are now being teased by someone like Takamina and Yuko. That's one of the most ironic things that could never be recorded on television. But sadly it will, thanks to Rino.
"M- Maybe...?" Mariko answered in a cute childish way which even surprised Takamina. Atsuko, Sae and Yuko were laughing their asses off whilst Jurina, Sayaka and Mii-chan were looking at Mariko while grinning mischievously.
"The answer is only 'Yes' or 'No', Mariko~" Mii-chan stated which Mariko averted her eyes from them.
"O- Of course I love her as a friend!" she confessed but the lie detector indicates otherwise.
"Eh... so... Mari-chan doesn't like me...?" Haruna was about to cry and Atsuko supported her and hugged her tightly. "There there, NyanNyan. Leave that fail human being and come to me." Yuko was the one who held out her hand but Haruna slapped it away and stuck out her tongue at her. "Tch. And you'd rather cling to Acchan?!" she says, dissatisfied with the treatment she's getting but
"Who wouldn't?" is what everyone said at the same time.
"Okay, you lost already Mariko, so bottoms up." Mii-chan filled Mariko's glass and the older one reluctantly drank it.
But she was unsatisfied... so she made Mii-chan chug a whole bottle.
"O- Oi! Don't you think that's a little too much...?" Sayaka asked her but she ignored. "Stop it, you're gonna bring Jurina bad influence." Atsuko covered Jurina's eyes and the youngest protested. "I'm already 16 this year! Mou..."
Behind all these laughter, all these fun moments, there was still some dissatisfaction. There were people who wanted an answer.
"Did you graduate because of NyanNyan and Mii-chan?" Atsuko asked the oldest girl of them all. Her eyes were bloodshot. It was not the Atsuko they knew. She was more scarier, terrifying even.
The room was giving off a heavy atmosphere. From the cheery tones to the silence of nothingness. The wind wasn't blowing, and the fans weren't on. Everyone was sweating hard. Beads of cold sweat ran down from each of their bodies. What made it worse was the look in Atsuko's eyes. The look which terrified them to the bones. It was as if time itself stopped right at that moment.
What's more mysterious was Atsuko's question.
'Did you graduate because of NyanNyan and Mii-chan?' that question which didn't make sense at all. Why would Mariko graduate because of them? What was the motif or merit of that? Will her graduation help the two in any way?
No. It will not.
But...
"Yes." Mariko answered with a grin. The answer surprised everyone. Not even Mii-chan was amused...
"WHY?!" the one who snapped was Atsuko herself. She was the one who asked the question, but as expected, it was a double-edged blade. "Why would you go so far?! Why did you even think that it'll help them in the elections?!"
Another surprise. Why? What? Why did Atsuko, who didn't care much about the elections suddenly talk about it? What does it have anything to do with the elections? Questions such as these played in everyone's mind. Yet, shall it be answered or shall it not?
"Answer me!" The menace inside Atsuko's voice reminded them of the pressure the girl had as the center. Her voice that made her become a solo artist, was not like that. It wasn't that voice anymore. This was different. Who was the girl right in front of their eyes? Where is Maeda Atsuko?
"Acchan... calm down..."
A voice, no, warm arms were wrapped around Atsuko's chest. The warm scent which she loved. The voice which has been with her for many years. Yet nobody even realized it. Yet, these arms were warm, this voice was soothing, this scent was nostalgic. The feeling to be enveloped by that person was calming...
"Rena..." As she looked back, it was indeed Matsui Rena.
She had been hearing on the conversation and immediately got out after hearing Atsuko scream. Thankfully the other four heavy sleepers were too busy sleeping or making out to hear it.
"R- Rena-chan?" Takamina was the one who broke the soothing but awkward silence.
"Mhm." She answered, not letting go of Atsuko who is closing her eyes to calm down.
"Okay, I'm fine now." as she said that, Rena lets go of her and was patted in the head. "Thanks" Atsuko thanked her and Rena made a warm smile.
"So, how about you answer my question, Mariko?" Atsuko asked the girl again. Mariko smirked and replied. "Should I?" she was obviously trolling with the young girl but Atsuko didn't back down. "Yes." She says it firmly.
"You've grown..." Mariko had a warm smile. A smile that relaxed the atmosphere a bit. Everyone found themselves smiling as well for whatever reason. It may be the atmosphere. It may be their instincts. Nobody knows.
"Well, ask me anything. I'll answer it truthfully." she challenged.
"No, explain yourself. Why did you graduate?"
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[Dialogue : A:Atsuko, M:Mariko
M:"I want to leave everyone and pursue my own path"
A:"Selfish. Not like I have a say in this. That wasn't the only reason, right?"
M:"Yeah."
A:"Then what was the other?"
M:"I don't want Nyaro to get out from the Kami8."
A:"What about Mii-chan?"
M:"She'll grow up once I leave. She broke down thanks to your graduation. Hopefully, this will set her mind straight"
A:"That might backfire, you know."
M:"Your graduation also might backfire. But did you back down? No."
A:"That's because I've thought about that for years."
M:"And you know I thought about that as well."
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Everyone was silent. They were shocked by the conversation. Some were looking at Haruna and some were looking at Mii-chan, though the girl was already down thanks to drinking a whole bottle of alcohol.
"Selfish..." a voice came from the cat girl.
"MARI-CHAN'S WAY TOO SELFISH!"
Haruna was about to slap Mariko but stopped midway. She thought about it. If she slapped her there and then, won't that make her selfish as well? Selfish for her own conclusion? Won't calling her selfish also make herself selfish? What is the meaning behind that word...
The game stopped there.
Rino came back to see Haruna crying and Mariko apologizing with her left cheek red. Takamina was completely lost as to what happened. Mii-chan didn't wake up that night. Yuko didn't get what she wanted but she learned something new. All of Sayaka's questions were answered so she was satisfied with it. Sae was as lost as Takamina not to mention her feelings were blooming for some reason. Yuki's mission was accomplished. Mayu's mission was still far from over. Yui's innocence was still safe. Thank god. Rena was worried of the outcome. Jurina... was afraid of her senior...
And Rino... took a one step forward in her own game.
"Hey, Sasshi. Help me fix up the things here, will you? I guess we're sleeping here tonight since it's already late." Atsuko called out to her former junior.
"Roger, Assan~" she smiled and followed Atsuko to Mariko's room to get some 'futon'.
"... Don't look at me like that..."
"Hm? Like what~?"
"... Nothing, I guess."
All the mysteries just became deeper. What really happened in AKB?
'I felt like I was trolled'
'Eh? Where's Acchan?'
'Lies.'
'Wat's wif dat sorta logic?'
'Yes'
'Who cares about them?'
'Selfish.'
'I'm afraid... if she would ever... become like Acchan someday...'What was the real meaning behind those words?
"Shall we continue... this game of revenge?"
[END?]
How was it? Bad? Disgusting? Blasphemy? Anywho, please reply what you REALLY think. Don't need to sugarcoat words with me. I'm used to it. Anywho, trust me. There PROBABLY won't be any AtsuRena. Sadly QAQ
Coz my AtsuYuu heart is bigger than my other intestines
I'll probably explain the whole Acchan setting and AKB48 in a new fic I'm planning. Good news: It's action. Bad news: I'm writing it. Yeah it's probably gonna turn out AtsuYuu. About 30%. AtsuRena, AtsuMayu, AtsuMari, AtsuJuri are 15%. MariHaru is 9% and AtsuMina is 1%
What? There's still chances of AtsuMina. It's not like I hate the pairing
But AtsuYuu is more dominant.
YAY ATSUYUU!
P/S Sorry for the typos, grammar, misuse of words and such... Oh and don't forget to comment on this thing~