Chapter 22
*Rappapa`s Room, one day after last chapter, afternoon
I opened the door and saw Team Hormone inside, grilling… hormones… as usual. They looked at me as I walked inside with a bored looks on my face. Or more like sleepy. I only had three hours sleep last night because certain someone slept over in my apartment. And that certain someone was in the mood last night. Sigh… can’t blame her, really, because I too, was in the mood. Not a surprise here. As Yuko-san would’ve said, after you get the taste of it, you’ll always want for more. And it had been more than a month. A MONTH!!! Sigh… next time I’ve to remember our period’s schedule, and pay attention to her more. I won’t let her ignored me for weeks like last time anymore.
“Shibuya-san?” Unagi called me. She must’ve seen me spacing out. I only stared at her as a response. “Umm… why are you here?” she asked after a while.
“Where’s Yu… Argh!!” I was about to asked her about where Yuko-san was, but someone jumped on my back, literally, stopping me in mid-sentence. I saw skinny arms around me, wrapped in dark green jacket. “Geki!! Don’t jump on me! What if I fall to the grill?!” I released her arms from me and glared at her.
She only giggled and biting her nails, “hehehe~, Black said you’re okay now~,” and she sat on the bench.
I heard some footsteps from outside and looked at the door. Torigoya came in with Shaku who looked all flustered and embarrassed and dead tired. ‘Strange… is this the same girl with the one who was weeping on our graduation day?’
“Ah… Shibuya… Geki… you’re here too.” Torigoya chirped happily.
“Er… Torigoya-san, what’s happen to Shaku?” Wota asked her. It seems I wasn’t the only one who noticed.
Torigoya opened her mouth to speak, but Shaku beats her, “she ordered me to play punching games and arm wrestling games in game center, afterwards she ordered me to dance like those idol on TV in Shibuya`s Intersection!!” She rambled in amazing speed. “Not only that!! She also made some thugs fight me!!”
All of our eyes flew to Torigoya after Shaku’s outburst. I did the game center things too… but the rest? Wow… just wow… That was… creative.
Torigoya only smiled and said, “Yuu-c… Yuko-san`s order, Yuko-san`s order, and the last also Yuko-san`s order.” She tilted her head to the side and pouting questioningly. “I wonder why though.”
And the door to the fighting room opened. Maeda walked out with Yuko-san`s arm half hugging her. Yuko-san smiled at us when she saw us and frowning slightly. I followed her gaze and I understood instantly why she frowned. Torigoya glared at her coldly, and her eyes were screaming bloody murder at the sight of our sachou half hugging other woman. Yuko-san gulped loudly and cracked a nervous smile at her. Torigoya walked towards Yuko-san slowly, threateningly.
“Ehhh…. Hi,” Yuko-san said while Torigoya wrapped her arm on Yuko-san`s neck and dragged her, “why you didn’t tell me before that you’ll co…” I couldn’t heard the rest of Yuko-san`s words because Torigoya already closed the door.
“Wow… what’s going on here?” Sado-san`s voice came from the behind me. She came when our attention was on Torigoya and Yuko-san it seemed.
“Sado-san… why are you here?” I asked her, since she was rarely came here after graduation, unlike us, ex-Shitennou.
“Yuko-san asked me to.” She said simply, she then glanced at Shaku and Team Hormone who’s whispered scandalously about what they had just saw earlier. “If there’s anything about what you just saw earlier spread out of this room, I’ll deal with you myself. Understand?” She asked menacingly in her Sado mode, made them nodded frantically.
She turned back to face me and Geki and asked silently, “what’s going on? I’ve never seen Torigoya like that.”
I sighed and whispered, “she saw Yuko-san half-hugging Maeda,” and I glanced at Maeda who’s by now has read her book again.
Geki giggled softly, “Torigoya is maaaad~~.”
“Heh… Yuko-san is sooooo… whipped now.” Sado-san smirked.
I smirked back, “so much for hiding their relationship, huh?”
The door was opened again. It was the Kabuki Sisters this time. Me and Tomo gave each other a brief smile when our eyes met.
“Well, as they say, they won’t hide anymore.” Sado-san said, “But, I do believe that there are some things that better keep private. Especially now that we’re facing the reformist and Yabakune. It’ll be better if their relationship is only known by us.”
“It’ll be hard to keep them from knowing though.” I said while pointing towards the current Rappapa.
“As long as they can keep it as a secret, I guess it’ll be okay.” Geki said.
“Yeah…” I said slowly, with my mind and eyes were elsewhere, on my sexy girlfriend more precisely. Too bad her uniform hid her body, I wonder why her casual clothes was so different from her uniform. People wouldn’t even know she has a good sense of fashion if based it on her uniform.
Youran came after a few while. She immediately mingled around with the Kabuki Sisters and Shaku. Sado-san and Geki was talking about Geki`s progress in study by now, while my full attention was still on my girlfriend. My face slowly turned into a frown as I saw Youran put her hand on Tomo`s shoulder and still was. ‘Grr… how dare she touches my girl!!’
“Ah, that’s remind me… Shaku!!” I looked at Sado-san after her sudden outburst, the others also looked on her. “When will you return my money? I need to pay for my rent.” She said while narrowing her eyes.
“Ehehe… I was hoping you’ll forget.” Shaku said while grinned innocently.
“Well, you better return it soon, unlike you… I live on my own.” Sado-san said menacingly. “She borrows my money to pay for her dinner. I met her and Torigoya a few days ago and we went for a dinner together. Actually, I intended to treat them. BUT, this GIRL ate too much. And since she didn’t have enough money, I had to cover it first!” She added after she saw Geki and I looked at her questioningly.
“Emailed me your bank account, I’ll ask my mom to transfer the money to you.” Shaku said, still grinning.
“I hate rich kid.” Sado-san growled at her.
“Hey! I’m rich kid too.” I said, felt offended by the remarks.
“At least you’re different from her.” Sado-san said while rolling her eyes. “Since you live on your own you’re not as spoiled as her.”
“Errr… Sado-san, Shibuya-san, why you live on your own?” Unagi asked us, and when we looked at her, she quickly added, “just curious, that’s all.”
“What’s wrong with that?” I asked back.
“Almost all of us don’t live with our family anymore, beside Torigoya.” Sado-san said shortly. And a tense silence filled the room after that.
The sound of a door opened caught our attention. Yuko-san and Torigoya walked out of the fighting room, looking all smile and happy face. I smirked and covered my mouth with my hand instantly when I saw them. ‘So… something good happened inside.’
“What’s with the silence?” Yuko-san asked.
“Unagi asked why Sado-san and Shibuya live on their own.” Tomo said when no one answering Yuko-san`s question.
“Shibuya?” Torigoya asked silently to no one in particular, “no –san?”
“Ah, that…,” Yuko-san said, she looked at us for a while and after we nodded, she continued her speech. “Well, that’s easy Sado and Shibuya had, er…, has a few problems with their family, so… they live on their own. So does Black. While for Geki and me, we’re orphan. Torigoya over here, live with her dad.”
“I live on my own.” Torigoya added. “My dad rarely comes home.”
“Yeah… well… you can live with me if you want to.” Yuko-san boldly said. Made us gaped at her in surprise even Torigoya and Sado-san who’s closer to her than anyone. “Anyway…,” Yuko-san added after a while, “I only told you that because you’re all Rappapa now. But… tell one word to other people outside… I’ll cut your tongue. Is that clear?”
They nodded frantically, the current Queens were more reserved though. ‘Heh… they finally act like one. Good…’
“Sado…,” Yuko-san called while pointing the fighting room with her head and said, “Shibuya, Torigoya you can join in too, since you’re already here.” And she walked to the fighting room with Sado-san following behind. I shared a questioning look with Torigoya and followed them. Closing the door afterwards.
“Why Geki doesn’t join us?” I asked to Yuko-san after I sat on the floor with them, formed a small circle in the middle of the room.
“She already knows our topic.” Yuko-san said in a bored tone. “They’re all knows it.” She pointed the door with her head. “And I think it’s about time I tell you as well.”
“What is happening actually, Yuko-san?” Sado-san asked, frowned plastered in her face. “I’ve seen quite lot of Majijo`s and Yabakune`s students in the hospital.”
I looked at Sado-san in shock. I’ve known there has been more fighting lately, but I didn’t know how worse.
Yuko-san sighed. “We have a situation here with Nezumi and Center and now, there is Yabakune, who have been hunting out Majijo`s students.” She sighed again. “And with Majijo`s condition now, and my own condition we can’t fight them back, yet. The Shitennou are getting better with each day passed, but….”
“It’s still not enough.” Sado-san finished for her. “We lack in number. You can’t fight them with only brute strength.”
“I know. We need a strategist. I don’t like this, but we truly need one.” She held Torigoya’s hand and looked at her. “After my near death experience, I can’t just head down to a fight without knowing what will happen later. Because I know, that now I have someone who’s waiting for me.” Torigoya smiled at her.
“So… about this strategist…” I said after a brief silence.
“You’ll know later.” Yuko-san said. “And by the way, I know I’ve said this for several times already, but, don’t interfere if not necessary, especially you, Shibuya. What’s with the brawl last Monday?” she narrowed her eyes at me.
“They’re bad-mouthing Majijo. Should I just let them get away with it?” I retorted.
“You all has graduate now. Let them deal with it.” Yuko-san pointed the door with her head.
Sado-san and Torigoya nodded, while me… I just sighed. “Okay, but I’ll deal with those who dare lay a finger on her. Not as an ex-Queen. It’s personal.”
“She’s not weak you know.” Yuko-san said, instantly recognizing who the person I mean.
I sighed slowly. “I know… it’s just that… I have a bad feeling about all of this…”
They all frowning after I said that and for a while, we were just sat there in silence, with thoughts running in our head. And then Yuko-san stood up and said, “Perhaps it’ll be better if we go outside.” And we followed her.
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When we walked out, silence filled the Rappapa`s room. We shared a questioning look with each other, and my eyes instantly found its way to Tomo. She looked at me nervously and smiled and she looked away to her fellow Rappapa.
“They must’ve gossiped about us.” I whispered.
“That’s explaining the silence that welcomed us.” Sado-san said.
Yuko-san went to sit on her chair. “Seriously, girls… you’ve gossiped around too much.” She combed her hair with her hand.
“Is there anything else, Yuko-san?” After she shook her head, I walked towards the door. “I’ll go now. Kabukis, let’s go.”
“Shibuya, wait.” I heard Yuko-san said while we was at the door. I turned to look at her. “I forgot to tell you. Secret training, tonight. Same place, same time.”
The current Rappapa looked at Yuko-san at the mention of ‘secret training’, hoping that Yuko-san would’ve said more. I smirked and nodded my head.
“And they,” Yuko-san looked at the Kabuki Sisters, “can come as well. Youran, Shaku, you too.”
“What about us?!” Wota asked.
“Sorry, Shitennou only.” Yuko-san said while smirking at the crestfallen expression on her face. “You can join later on. For now, it’s Shitennou only.”
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*Outside of Majijo, on the road somewhere.
“So… what’s we gonna do now?” Kokabuki asked while we walked “Not to game center again, right?”
I smirked at her. “Game center it is. You’ll have to nail it first. It’s easy after you get the grip of it.”
“That’s embarrassing.” She said while shaking her head.
“Forget that you’re in public.” Tomo said, “It’s easy after that.” I looked at her questioningly, and she added, “I used to play it when I was in junior high.”
“Oh, I see.” I said slowly. “And by the way, you still have to do the bicycle race game too.” I said to her afterwards.
Kokabuki smirked at that while Tomo just sighed. “Do I have too?”
“You see, if it was in a game it was more fun. But, I can always use Black`s method if you want.” I said while looked at her with my poker face intact.
“Fine…” she said while crossing her arms in front of her chest. “I don’t understand why you order us to do that though.”
“Me too.” Kokabuki butted in.
“Easy.” I grinned to them. “Kokabuki, your movements are too stiff. You need to fix that.”
“And playing Dance Dance Revolution can fix that?” She gaped at me.
“Yup, just looked at Dance, she may be weak but her flexibility is astounding.” I said off-handedly, and I saw a dark aura surrounding my girl and a look of dread in Kokabuki`s face. I instantly know that I had said the wrong thing.
“Oh, God, not again.” Kokabuki sighed. “I rather become the third wheel than to tag along with a fighting couple.”
We cracked a smile at her remark. “So, what about me?” Tomo asked after a while, I know she was desperately wanted to change the topic.
“Your standing isn’t strong enough. You need to strengthen your legs muscles for that.” I said. “I’ve noticed that you have tendencies to stumble after your legs got a few hits. No matter how good you are, if your legs can’t support you anymore, it’s all over.”
“I see…” She said slowly, frowning slightly.
I smiled and put my hand on her head, patting her head. “Afterwards, I’ll take you two to my favorite place for fighting training. Well, Rappapa`s favorite place actually.”
“Is it the place for ‘secret training’?” Kokabuki asked.
I grinned at Kokabuki while answering, “No. You’ll see later what it is.” Then I moved my hand from my girl`s head to her shoulder, half hugging her. “And by the way, Tomo, call your mom, tell her you’ll stay over in my place again tonight.” I said to my girl. “It usually finished near midnight.”
I heard Kokabuki sighed and mumbled “lovebirds …” and walked in front of us.
We continued to walk like that, with Kokabuki walked ahead of us and me half-hugging Ookabuki, while she called her mom. After a few minutes, Tomo flipped her phone closed and sighed. Kokabuki has already turned to looked at us.
“It’s amazing how fast your mom let you go when you mention her name.” She pointed her finger to me. “And how weird it is that you have the same name.” She grinned at us.
“Shut up.” I glared at her. “Do you want me to kick your damn ass?” I was about to charge at her when I felt Tomo tugged my hand to stop me. I looked at her for a while and glaring again at Kokabuki who’s now frowned slightly, ‘hey… I know a better way to give her a lesson to not messing around with me.’ With that thought, I looked back to my girl, cupped her face with my free hand and kissed her hotly. She instantly responded to my kiss, kissing me back.
“Arghhh…. Lovebirds! Stop the PDA!!!” I heard Kokabuki shouted, “Geez!! And I thought you’re intended to keep it as a secret.” And I heard her stomping away from us. I pulled away and grinning. ‘Heh… mission accomplished.’
Tomo glanced at her sister who’s now already five meters away from us and narrowing her eyes at me. “You do that on purpose.”
“Of course I do.” I grinned innocently at her.
She sighed and shook her head. “Anyway, now that she’s away, we can talk.”
We started to walk again, only much slower than Kokabuki who’s desperately want to run away from us. “What is it?”
“I know who Nyan-Nyan is now.”
I smirked, “of course. Told you it’s easy.”
“Yeah, they practically didn’t hide it at all.” She smiled in amusement.
“Oh, they used too. But after Yuko-san`s near death experience, they, or more precisely Torigoya has been more bold about it.”
“I can understand that.” She looked to the ground sadly. “She must’ve been so scared.”
“As for Yuko-san… I guess you’ve seen her skin-ship by now…” I sighed.
“Oh, yes I do.” She smiled again. “She always jumped on Torigoya-san whenever she came to Majijo. I’ve never think of it though. I didn’t know that there’s something more.”
“For their case, ignorance is a bliss.” I said in amusement. “People in my class used to seeing Yuko-san skin-shipped Torigoya for…. Almost every day. And they never thought much of it. Come to think of it, I’ve only known recently too.”
“Really?”
“Er…during Yuko-san`s illness actually.”
“Oh.”
We walked in silence for a while. I know that there are still other things she wants to ask, but for some reasons that I don’t know, she didn’t said anything. “What is it?” I asked made her looked at me questioningly. “Somethings bothering you. What is it?”
She sighed, “I know now why your bond with each other is so strong. It’s not just because Yuko-san, isn’t it?” I kept on looking on her, not saying anything. “You do know that we’re talking about you and the other ex-Rappapa when you’re in the fighting room, don’t you?” I nodded. “Gekikara was silent all the while. But, based on what Yuko-san had said, we know your bond with each other was strong not only because all of you will follow Yuko-san to death, but also because you only have each other.”
I released my breath heavily. “Well… we’re not that close. But, we do trust each other to death. Or more like we trust Yuko-san to death, and because of that we shared mutual understanding and trust.”
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*At the game center.
The blaring sound from the DDR game machine was deafening, but I didn’t hear it at all. I could feel my face scrunched up in irritancies. On the bicycle race game, the highest rank Tomo could get was the 3rd, but when Kokabuki joined in for fun, she could win the race. So does Kokabuki. She always failed to finish the DDR game even in the medium level. But when Tomo played with her like now… I glanced at her score, she seemed well enough. Sigh… I need to separate them. Not because I was jealous. But because they won’t be able to fight together all the time. Their bond is as close as a true sister, but they really need to be able to fight alone. And it’s NOT BECAUSE I’M JEALOUS!!
“san… Shibuya-san… Shibuya-san!!”
I snapped out of my thought when I heard someone called me and looked to the direction of the voice. Kokabuki was watching me in confused look. “I’ve been calling you for ten times.”
“So? Finished already? You don’t fail again, right?” I said in a bored tone.
She just frowned, “no, I was able to finish it.”
“Good.” I walked to the exit, knowing they’ll follow me. And true enough, when I reached the road, I felt someone held my hand and tugged it softly. “What is it?” I said while continued to walk down the road. Not even bother to see the person who’s held my hand, since I already know who it was. I felt my hand being pulled harder, so I stopped walking and turned back and saw Tomo looking at me worriedly. I smiled instantly when I saw her face. “What is it?” I asked again, in a much softer tone this time.
“You’re angry.” She said simply. “Why?”
“I’m not. Come on, let’s go we’ve stayed here for too long.” I walked again, “Yuko-san would’ve tease me to no end if we’re late.”
“Why?” She walked by my side, hand still holding mine. “Kokabuki’s with us.”
“It didn’t matter for her.” I said while rolled my eyes.
“You called me?” I heard Kokabuki’s voice from behind me and I shook my head as a response. I saw her glanced down for a second, and she was smirking to us and said, “By the way, there’s some of our kohai in the crossroad ahead. You better stop the holding hands thing if you still want to keep your relationship as a secret.”
“Shit!” I immediately let go of her hand and walked faster, put some distance between us.
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*In the front of some building in downtown area.
“Why are we here?” Kokabuki asked me. “Don’t we have a ‘secret training’ to do? That’s why we skipped our fight training, right?”
I smirked at her. “You’ll see later.”
Kokabuki looked around and frowned. “Seems like the others aren’t here yet.”
I looked at my phone, no email and we’re a few minutes early. “They’ll come in a few minutes. We’re too early.” I glanced at Tomo, she has been half-pouting-half-frowning since I walked away from her earlier. I let out a sigh and move closer to her. “What’s wrong?” I asked and kissed her forehead, made her eyes widen, and she let out a shy smile.
“Nothing… just a little tired.” She lowered her head and held my hand again.
I heard Kokabuki sighed and said, “Dear God…, not again.” She shook her head when I looked at her and she said, “I’ll go over there… to look at…,” she pointed at the store in the next building, “ah, well, I better be going before I die from diabetes from the amount of sugar you two produced.” And she did.
I heard Tomo laughed and I looked at her again. ‘Damn, her smile is blinding.’ I smiled back at her. “What is it? Why are you laughing like that?”
“I feel sorry for Kokabuki.” She chuckled a bit again. “This morning she was pleading to me to not going all lovey-dovey to you, since she knows that we have fixed our problems. She said it’ll be awkward for her to tag along with 'lovebirds'.”
I smirked while looking at Kokabuki who’s pretending to be interested with something on the display. “Sure she does…”
She slapped my arm, “behave…”
I grinned at her and leaned closer. She realized what I want to do and put her hand on my face, stopping me.
“Are you crazy? We’re in public!” she hissed.
I took her hand and bring it to my lips, kissed it, and pined her to the wall behind her. “So?” I whispered hotly in her ear, “this place is pretty far from Majijo and beside we’re in Nichoume here. People wouldn’t even take a second look on us.” And I kissed her, gently at first, and when things starting to get hotter, I heard some voices.
“Shibuya?!”
“Ookabuki!?”
At the same time, followed by a loud “EEEEHHH?!?!”
We jumped away from each other, literally. And all I could say afterwards was, “SHIT!”
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@minami-chan, korisunyan: hehehe... hope you like this chapter too...
@kahem: another Kokabuki third wheel moment
@fael_c00l: it's seemed like i failed with Torigoya and Shaku
, glad you found Youran`s training funny though.
@songbac: not hot scene in this chapter, sorry (at least not yet)
@haruko: here's the answer
Thanks for reading, commenting and the 'thank you's, guys. See you later in next chapter...
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