I've made this my completely random One-Shot Stories thread. You'll find Noisy Beetles below and The Lost World Pucchi Games
here.
This is a random One-Shot story that popped into my head at work today. I guess it could kind of be a side story to "memoir", but there's really no plot in here whatsoever and the formatting of "memoir" wouldn't work for the story, so.... here it is.
NOISY BEETLES
Takahashi Ai started down the hall, stretching her sore arm. Rika had been a little aggressive during the sword fight practice today and had accidentally speared Ai in the shoulder.
"I wouldn't if I were you." Ai turned curiously and found Risa leaning against a wall, shaking her head.
"I was just going to the dressing room," Ai explained. The eyebrow beam girl shook her head again.
"They're in there again." Ai's eyes widened.
"AGAIN? That's the third time today!"
"I know! And they are REALLY loud this time." And this coming from Niigaki "USO!" Risa.
"All my stuff's in there," Ai groaned. "What am I supposed to do, hang around in my Prince Sapphire costume waiting for them to finish? That could be hours."
"You could go in there and break it up," Risa suggested. Ai burst out laughing.
"Are you insane?! Miki would either kill me or make me join in!"
"Well, someone's gotta do something. We're all prisoners in the hallway."
"YES! YES! YES!" a voice echoed down the hallway. Ai and Risa shuddered in unison.
"Why don't we make Makoto do it?" Ai suggested. Risa nodded sagely.
"Do what?" The girls jumped apart as Koharu stared at them inquisitively.
"Uh... Makoto needs to tell our fearless leaders to keep it down," Risa replied.
"Oh! I can do that!" Koharu smiled vacantly and skipped off down the hall. Risa and Ai shook their heads sadly.
"She was so young," Ai murmured as Miki's scream filled the air.
"So very young," Risa agreed as Koharu knocked on the dressing room door.
Risa and Ai waited... and waited... and waited some more.
"Sh-should we go in after her?" Ai ventured, staring at the closed door at the end of the hallway.
"Do YOU want to?" Risa asked. Ai shook her head violently. Suddenly, a new scream came from The Room.
"That was Koharu..." Risa said nervously.
"Yoshizawa wouldn't let Miki..." Ai trailed off. The two exchanged panicked looks and took off down the hallway.
"YES!" Yossi's voice bounced off the walls as the pair skidded to a halt outside the dressing room door. They nodded at each other and burst into the room.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO.... Koharu?" Risa felt absolutely ridiculous. Fujimoto was in a bathrobe, Yoshizawa was fully clothed, and no one was even sitting next to each other.
"Aw, dammit, Gaki! You made me lose!" Yossi groaned, snapping shut her Nintendo DS.
"HA!" Miki laughed triumphantly, twirling the tie of her bathrobe in triumph. "I am SO the Queen of Mario Kart!"
"I came in last again..." Koharu said sadly. Yossi reached over and patted Koharu on the head.
"Maybe next time," she said kindly.
"Only if she gives up idol work and practices day and night," Miki scoffed. Yossi glared at her sub-leader.
"What were you two up to bursting in like that?" Yossi asked the detective duo.
"Uh... we, uh... you were loud, so we, uh, thought someone was hurt?" Ai ventured.
"Apparently Miki and Koharu get very excitable playing wireless games," Yossi laughed.
"I wasn't the one yelling 'YES!' every time I cut people off!" Miki protested.
"I wasn't the one screaming like a banshee when I got cut off!" Yossi retorted. The pair glared at each other.
"OK THEN!" Risa said loudly. "We'll just be going, then. Um, don't forget your things, Ai..."
"Sorry about the noise," Yossi replied. "Just with the stress of the play, we needed some way to, uh, let off some steam." Miki coughed.
"Oh, it's fine, it's fine! Sorry to bother you like that," Takahashi replied, still red from embarrassment. She ushered the other two out of the room and shut the door. Miki walked over to the door.
"Well, then," she sighed. "Where were we?" Yossi grinned and pulled on the tie of Miki's robe, letting it slip to the floor, exposing Miki's fully nude body.
"Oh, right about here," Yoshizawa replied with a grin, her hands lazily tracing the curves of Miki's body. "Did you actually LOCK the door this time?"
"Hey, I had the mind to grab a robe and throw you that video game, didn't it?" Miki protested. "At least give me credit for that."
"Oh, I'll give you more than credit..." Yossi grinned lecherously before resuming what Koharu had unknowingly interrupted.
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I'm so weird.