Beach Party

.Beach Party.

Summary: Its summer and Tsunami invites the Raimon gang to Okinawa for some fun time and a little partying. Oh? What’s this? A beach party? Wait a second, where’s Gouenji? AH! LOOK OUT! HARUNA’S ON A VOLLEYBALL RAMPAGE!

x—x

“YEAHA! WE’RE HERE!” Endou shouted excitedly as he jumped up and down on the sand. The heat from the Sun didn’t bother him at all.

Unfortunately, Natsumi couldn’t agree. The auburn-haired girl had been rubbing sun screen on her skin for the past thirty minutes – and it didn’t look like she was stopping any time soon.

And to make the scene even more Drama Queen-ish, she had her parasol up and her private sun chair too. Gee, why don’t you put on a bikini as well, princess?

The other boys – namely Kogure, Someoka, Kabeyama and the lot – were already splashing about in the water. Endou joined them almost immediately.

The girls – Aki, Haruna, and Fuyuka – joined the boys later on, each in their own respective swimsuits.

Aki wore a tight yellow and red polka dotted one piece.

Haruna bought herself a deep blue bikini.

Fuyuka wore a one piece too, but it showed her back and was green in colour. She even had a pink shawl tied around her waist.

Touko and Rika were gonna arrive in Okinawa the next day because their schools had evilly decided to make some of the students stay in school for one day during the summer holidays. And one of those unlucky students in each school, were of course Touko and Rika.

Everybody in Inazuma Japan and Raimon Eleven had a nosebleed.

And to any guy who looked in Haruna’s way, they’ll have to meet face-to-face with a watermelon each time they just glance at her.

“Onii-chan! Stop doing that!” Haruna shouted. Her voice was filled with rage and embarrassment. Her red face was proof too.

“I’LL GET YOU HIROTO! DON’T DENY IT! I SAW YOU STARING AT MY SISTER!” A raged out Kidou yelled and another watermelon magically appeared in his hands. Haruna looked around and finally saw the real source of her brother’s ammo.

Kogure Yuuya.

“GAH! KIDOU! I’M SERIOUS! I WAS NOT LOOKING AT YOUR SISTER!” Hiroto denied. And it was true; he hadn’t been looking at Haruna. More or less, he had been looking at a certain girl whose first name starts with an ‘F’.

Though bad luck, Kidou didn’t buy it.

“DON’T LIE TO ME!”

“KOGURE! STOP GIVING MY BROTHER WATERMELONS! IT LOOKS LIKE A BATTLEFIELD ON THIS BEACH WITH ALL THE RED WATERMELON JUICE!”

“USSHISSHISSHISSHISSHI!”

“AAAAH! HELP ME MIDORIKAWA-KUN!”

“… You’re on your own, dude.” Midorikawa replied casually, though you can see his eyes sometimes landing on Aki. Mentally slapping himself, he looked back at Fudou, ready to play another round of water volleyball.

That was when he noticed that Fudou’s head had been replaced by yet, another watermelon.

And the green-haired teen didn’t even need to look to know who did it.

“PFT BUAKAKAKA FUDOU’S STUFFED HIS HEAD INTO A WATERMELON! LITERALLY!” Midorikawa laughed out loud, dropped the ball, and dropped himself into the water.

Fudou, hearing Midorikawa’s laughter despite his ears filled with watermelon, scowled in annoyance. He tried to get the darned fruit off his head, but to no use as the fruit itself seemed to enjoy sticking with Fudou.

“BUAHAHAHAHAHA!” More laughter rose, and it wasn’t from Midorikawa, no. It had come from Toramaru.

Turns out, Tobitaka had been hit by Kidou’s endless ammo too. And his hawk-like hairstyle had been ruined because of it.

The former gangster fought the urge to use his infamous Falcon Kick on Kidou. Toramaru noticed the menacing look Tobitaka was sending Kidou – who was too busy throwing more watermelons at the other guys to even notice – and immediately took action by pushing Tobitaka into the water.

“TOBITAKA-SAN! DON’T DO IT!” The younger kid yelled.

And splash.

There goes the tiger for a swim too.

Boy, they weren’t even here for more than two hours, and the group were already creating chaos.

About an hour later, all of them finally heard the familiar shouts of their favourite pink-haired surfer.

“WHOOHOO!” Tsunami shouted in excitement as this gigantic wave of sea water took him to the others. Of course, he was on his surfing board.

Half of the boys – the smart ones – widened their eyes in horror. While the rest – the dense ones – simply cheered at Tsunami’s surfing skills.

“OH HELL! TSUNAMI!” Midorikawa shouted in realization, scrambling back on high ground.

“Of course it’s Tsunami, who else has a starfish for a head?” Fudou said sarcastically. He had successfully removed that darned watermelon out of his head ages ago, but remnants of the fruit were still stuck in his Mohawk.

Though, Fudou didn’t understand why Midorikawa, Kidou, Hiroto, Sakuma and a few other boys were running towards the beach. Some of them even climbed coconut trees.

Fudou turned around.

And finally understood why everybody acted like that.

Tsunami Jousuke is on a tsunami. Literally.

Too late for Fudou to run; he had no choice but to stay put. Running would be no use.

First it was a watermelon, now a tsunami. If I survive this one, I wonder if I’ll get burned alive.

SPLASH!

x—x

“…THAT WAS AWESOME!” Endou shouted as he emerged from under a pile of seaweed.

“ARE YOU CRAZY, ENDOU?” Sakuma shouted. The eye-patched teen was still hugging on the tree trunk, unsure if he should let it go or not. Noticing Kidou and Ichinose already down and helping the other dense boys, he decided to slide down and help too.

Everybody was still breathing – even Fudou, who had a mouthful of sand and had been the last one to run away – when they had helped everybody out.

Oh really, everyone?

“… I just noticed… Where’s Gouenji?” Kidou asked out of the blue.

Everything went silent. Even the birds probably stopped flapping their winds.

“Over here…” Gouenji – clad in an orange buttoned-down shirt and sand coloured shorts with flip-flops – said. He walked over to the group calmly, his sunglasses protecting his eyes from the Sun’s rays.

“…Now where have you been?” Kazemaru asked with his eyebrows arched. The tsunami from earlier had completely washed him and he was soaking wet from head to toe. His hair was no longer in its usual ponytail, no. The tsunami had totally ruined his hairdo and he was trying his best to dry it off.

Despite being the fastest on the team, he had been too busy playing beach volleyball with Max, Handa and Hijikata to even notice the gigantic wave coming.

Of course, the other three were also soaking wet.

Someoka eyed Gouenji from head to toe, noting how calm the Flame Striker was acting.

Gouenji took off his sunglasses to stare back at the group of soccer players. “Is it wrong for a guy to get dragged away by some hot beach girls to a beach party?”

And as if on cue, two hot ladies in bikinis appeared from behind Gouenji. “Shuuya-kun~” One said in a super sweet voice that it almost looked like she was trying to imitate Rika.

The rest of the boys had another nose bleed fiesta.

Though this time, nobody was throwing watermelons around. And nobody was even supplying any ammo!

The first lady pointed her finger on Gouenji’s cheek seductively. But the striker responded by flinching and forcing a smile onto his face. He looked damned uncomfortable.

“Come on~ The party’s not over yet~” The second one laced her arm around Gouenji’s. It looked like she was trying hard to seduce Gouenji too.

The striker flinched again and made a ‘HELP ME’ face to his friends.

Whoah, who was the one bragging earlier?

Again, Gouenji’s face stayed the same. ‘HELP ME PLEASE I BEG OF YOU’ was clearly written on his face.

At least one of the other boys was able to knock himself back into consciousness.

And that was Megane Kakeru.

And Ichinose in the corner somehow felt a strong sense of déjà vu…

“Ekhem!” Megane coughed out loud, receiving glances from the two hot ladies. “Where do you think you’re taking our ace striker?” He asked, crossing his arms in front of his chest.

One of the hotties pursed her lips. “Does it matter to you?” She asked and then giggled. Her other friend giggled too.

‘THIS IS SO NOT HELPING ME, MEGANE’ was the mental message Megane received from Gouenji.

“Of course it does! From the looks of it, you girls are forcing him to go. And that’s a crime against law, for all I know.”

‘THANK YOU MEGANE’

The hot girls pursed their lips in objection. But then one of them smirked.

“If you really want him back, why don’t you fight us then?” She asked with a hint of mockery in her voice.

“Fight you? In what?” The otaku boy lifted his eyebrows.

Both of the girls smiled and answered together.

“Beach volleyball!”

Only then did Ichinose finally understand the déjà vu-ish feeling he was getting.

“EEH?” Everybody shouted.

“B-Beach volleyball?” Gouenji’s eyes twitched. For all he cared, everyone here were soccer players. Oh God, he was doomed. If those girls somehow got him drunk during the party, he’d be screwed. Totally screwed.

Tsunami gulped to himself. He knew these girls. He knew them too well.

Inching closer to Megane, he whispered, “Do you even realize who they are?”

“No?”

“Dog Damn, Megane. They’re professional champions in beach volleyball! I know because they played for Okinawa last season! AND WON FIRST PLACE.”

The brunette’s face fell from shock and anybody could literally see the sweat running down his eyebrows.

“Why? Chickening out?” One of them flipped her hair in pride.

“Chickening out? Never!” The all-enthusiastic Endou shouted in determination. He pumped his fist into the air and grinned. “We’ll win for sure!”

Everybody else either jaw dropped or shook their heads.

I’m a goner. Gouenji thought to himself.

Though, despite all the commotion, none of the boys seemed to notice a certain girl who was glaring at the two beach volleyball players. Heck, even those two girls seemed to notice.

But Fuyuka noticed.

“Haruna-san…” She muttered softly but then smiled a little.

Haruna had her eyes hidden under her bangs and her fists were clenched. Her whole body trembled from rage. She was even gritting her teeth.

Natsumi and Aki noticed this too and they smiled softly at Haruna as well.

“They… Don’t know… Who they’re… messing with…” Haruna uttered in a demonic way.

The other three girls simply looked at each other and nodded their heads, understanding what Haruna meant.

Oh joy, those beach girls were really asking for trouble.

x—x

“Score!” The beach girl named Rio exclaimed as she high-fived her partner, Neru. Neru smirked back.

Those two won another round of beach volleyball against Inazuma Japan + Raimon + Inazuma Caravan.

“THEY’RE NOT HUMAN!” Megane shouted again and again.

Even the others believed what he said.

The girls’ plays were remarkable. Their spikes, services and the lot were all powerful, that the boys couldn’t help but to wonder why none of those two were sweating.

Tsunami gaped in amazement. He was sitting on the sand; his hands were all swollen form playing. And losing terribly.

The two girls had agreed to play every single player in the opposite team – minus Gouenji. Just now, Rio and Neru had just defeated Kazemaru and Midorikawa.

The teal-net had his in the sand from the impact of the ball he had tried to head earlier. Midorikawa was twitching in pain next to him, with his hands as swollen as Tsunami’s.

Right now, the only two boys left were Endou and Kidou so they had no choice but to step out into the battlefield.

Neru smiled. “This is gonna be a piece of cake,”

Rio nodded her head in agreement.

Kidou gulped mentally, because he knew he had to keep his cool. As he took position to serve the ball, his mind raced trying to find a way to defeat the girls. Much to his dismay, his mind had gone blank every time he tried doing so.

Gouenji sat in the sidelines cross-legged, counting the moments before his life was totally ruined by lots of booze and a cheap hotel.

Gee, sometimes he wished he wasn’t so damned hot and cool!

Gouenji fell back onto the sand, letting the Sun tan him. He closed his eyes as he heard Endou shout in pain.

“YOWWIE! MOMMY THAT HURT!”

“WHAT THE HECK ENDOU! YOU TOOK ON LORRY-SIZED TYRES BUT YOU CAN’T STAND A BEACH VOLLEYBALL HITTING YOU?” Ichinose screamed while his jaw collected sand. The others had pretty much the same expression as he did.

“BUT IT REALLY HURTS!”

“OW!” Another scream was heard.

Neru had served the ball and it had hit Kidou right on the head, giving him another nose bleed.

She laughed along with Rio. This was just too easy!

About five minutes later, with still the score one hundred thirty to nothing in total, Kidou fell back onto the sand. “I CAN’T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!”

Endou did the same.

Gouenji face palmed. What great best friends those two turned out to be…

Oh God, I beg of you… Please help me; even send in an angel down here or something!

“Player switch,”

Gouenji’s eyes shot open upon hearing that voice. Kidou merely gaped.

“HARUNA?” They both shouted in the same time as Haruna stepped out of the shades of Natsumi’s parasol. Fuyuka tagged along behind Haruna, leaving only Aki and Natsumi under the parasol. The light-purple haired girl was smiling sweetly while Haruna still had her eyes hidden.

Kidou’s eyes twitch. “NO NO NO NO, I’M NOT LETTING YOU PLAY!” He shouted.

But Haruna sent him a nice, wide, malicious grin. “It’s okay big brother… I can take care of myself…”

Kidou, this time, literally gulped. Was this really his sister? He couldn’t tell.

“Hey Mamoru-kun~” Fuyuka said and waved at Endou. Though the brunette couldn’t respond to her wave as he could literally feel the bones of his arm shattering. The girl sweat dropped.

Rio stared. “A player switch? Heh, what differences will these two make?” She said. Neru bounced the ball they were going to use in her hands with a smirk on her face.

Kidou and Endou were dragged out of the battlefield and Haruna along with Fuyuka took their place.

“You can do it girls!” Natsumi cheered. Aki did the same. They were both smiling; and it was a smile that meant they were hiding a deep dark secret. Well, it’s not really a dark secret to tell the truth. But it would still give the others a gigantic shock.

The whistle blew and Neru served the ball again. She gave the ball all the power she had. Her eyes showed that she was determined to take Haruna and Fuyuka down – literally.

The ball flew high into the sky and came down at an alarming speed – with Haruna clearly its target.

Rio and Neru watched as the ball dropped, without the slightest of mercy in their hearts and faces.

Though what happened next shocked every single one of them.

Haruna saw the ball coming, but she didn’t move.

“HARUNA!” Gouenji shouted in shock again. “MOVE!” He told her – this time he was standing up – but Haruna ignored him.

It all seemed to happen ever-so-slowly.

Haruna jumped towards the incoming ball, much to Rio and Neru’s surprise.

The dark-blue haired girl lifted her right hand up – and did an even much more deadly spike.

The ball had been moving at lightning speed and it had hit Neru right in the face. Everybody saw the whole thing first, before they even heard the sound of each impact.

Fuyuka crossed her arms in front of her chest in satisfaction and smiled softly.

Aki cheered for Haruna.

Natsumi clapped her hands together.

Rio helped Neru up, but the other girl slapped Rio’s hand away. She was gritting her teeth. “YOU! HOW DARE YOU!” She shouted as she pointed an accusing finger towards Haruna.

Haruna smirked in delight. “It’s a pleasure to meet you again, Neru-san.”

Rio felt like climbing up a tree as she recognized Haruna and the other three girls.

Neru simply dropped the ball from her hands in dismay.

Tsunami stared in amazement. “H-Haruna? You know them?” He stammered. But then his eyes widened in realization as well.

“WHAT THE HELL. NO WAY. IT CAN’T BE YOU GUYS. IT CAN’T BE. THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE! AN OUTRAGE!” He shouted as he stood up and did the same thing Neru did earlier – pointing his index finger towards Haruna and the other three girls.

“Glad you finally remembered, Tsunami-kun,” Fuyuka giggled.

“What… is going on?” Kidou asked out loud.

“THEY THEY THEY! HARUNA, AKI, FUYUKA AND NATSUMI! THEY! THEY! THEY!” Tsunami wasn’t in a good condition to give a proper explanation, was he?

“THEY WHAT?” Gouenji barked.

“THEY’RE THE SECOND PLACE WINNERS IN THE ANNUAL JAPAN BEACH VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT LAST SEASON!” The pink-haired teen finally shouted everything he wanted to say – and then suddenly fainting with foam coming out of his mouth.

“GAH! TSUNAMI!”

Kidou gaped as he turned back to face Haruna. “HOW COME YOU NEVER TOLD ME YOU COULD PLAY BEACH VOLLEYBALL?”

“Because I wanted it to be a secret~”

Kidou went off to join Tsunami, foam coming out of his mouth as well.

“AKI! YOU PLAY TOO?” Ichinose shouted as well – with his hands clearly red. Aki giggled and nodded her head at him. Soon enough, Ichinose joined Tsunami and Kidou on the sand with foam in their mouths.

“NATSUMI! FUYUPPE! YOU TWO AS WELL?” Endou shouted and agonized in pain when he tried to lift his hand.

Fuyuka giggled and Natsumi sighed with a smile on her lips.

And Endou joined the earlier three guys as well.

Gouenji stared in awe. He never knew that Haruna and her team would ever be able to play like that.

But an angry voice stopped everybody’s next movement.

“I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU! WHY ARE YOU HERE? REVENGE?” Neru shouted, losing her cool. “Neru, calm down,” Rio tried to reason with her teammate, but it had been an epic fail.

“IN THAT LAST MATCH… WE GAVE OUR ALL, BUT YOU AND YOUR LITTLE TEAM WEREN’T EVEN PANTING! IF WE HADN’T TRIED OUR BEST, WE WOULDN’T HAVE WON AGAINST YOU!”

Haruna smirked at Neru’s statement. “Beach volleyball is just our natural talent,” she said with pride.

Fuyuka stuck her tongue out at Neru and Rio happily like a little girl.

“Yeah, and I bet you girls had went through a lot of training after that because it seems to me that you’ve improved a lot,” Natsumi remarked next.

“True, but I believe you’ll have to train even harder to catch up to us,” Aki said next, in agreement with her teammates.

Neru screamed in anger and fury. She served the ball with another spike.

Haruna and Fuyuka returned the ball and they gained a score from that ball. And those two had made it look like it had literally been as easy as ABC!

As the game continued – with a flaming Neru and Rio and Haruna and Fuyuka playing gracefully like swans – Gouenji just stared at the game, his eyes locked on Haruna.

The girl was doing his best for him.

She was merely even doing her best, actually.

But she still stepped out onto the field for him.

She still served that ball for him.

As his heart raced with every spike, he couldn’t help but to wonder…

Was he falling in love with Haruna?

Or had he already been in love with her?

Flashback

“Hey, where are the managers?” Kurimatsu asked as he looked around. It was strange. None of the managers were seen, despite it being practice.

Gouenji noticed it too. And it felt weird practicing without hearing Haruna’s usual cheers for support.

Kidou wiped a soccer ball. “Haruna and the girls went camping,” he merely said.

Gouenji’s heart felt like breaking right there on the spot.

“Camping? Where?” He managed to blurt out.

Kidou sneered. “Okinawa.”

It was clear that Kidou wasn’t happy to know that Haruna was somewhere on an island called Okinawa.

Gouenji merely nodded.

Only after a week, did the girls come back. Though they still hadn’t attended practice sessions, no. Each of them had slept like a log for forty-eight hours straight.

Suspiciously, Coach Kudou never bothered to explain to the boys why the managers were like that. And even if he was asked a question as such, he would merely say, ‘They must have been very tired during their camping trip,’

End of Flashback

Only now did it make sense.

The girls had slept like a log – because they had been playing in a beach volleyball tournament. No wonder the next two weeks of school, the four of them kept on complaining to the teachers about aching arms and very painful shoulders.

And besides, he didn’t recall any of the four having a tent with them when they came back from Okinawa.

It was just more proof that they had lied about going camping. They had – of course – slept in the provided hotels for contestants.

“Take that!” Fuyuka shouted as she did another deadly spike. The ball crashed into the sand and seemed to disappear in the small mist of particles.

She smiled – another score for them.

Neru screeched, agonized. Rio scowled, frustrated.

The other girls? Please, their faces were so full of smug; you could literally wipe it off with a towel.

X—X

PPPRRTT!

And there goes the final whistle, indicating the end of the match. Neru and Rio dropped to their knees in shame. Of course – they had lost.

“Now shoo, get. We don’t have any other reasons for you guys to be here,” Natsumi said. She and Aki had switched in for Haruna and Fuyuka a little while before break. But Haruna had insisted on chancing back with Natsumi. Her reason? She said she hadn’t been ‘working out’ in a while. Plus, she didn’t want to miss this chance of revenge!

Neru and Rio stood up slowly and did the ‘Walk of Shame’ to leave.

The boys were clapping like a group of retards. Some of them looked like fish out of water. Some looked like they were ready to explode excitement and amazement.

Gouenji started to thank the girls one by one. Natsumi gave him the ‘swag’ face. Fuyuka giggled happily and said her welcome. Aki stuck her tongue out and waved her hand up and down as if she was teasing him. He was about to thank Haruna when…

What the Hell? Where is she?

Gouenji noticed her absence faster than Kidou had. He immediately looked around – slowly panicking. When the heck did that girl leave? The game had just ended, how had she disappeared so fast?

“If you’re looking for Haruna, she went into the forest,” Max and Handa pointed out. Gouenji dashed towards the direction they were pointing at without even looking back. Max and Handa just sweat dropped as they coughed in the trail of dust Gouenji had literally left for them to devour.

x—x

Haruna rested her hand onto a palm tree and sighed. She was so tired; she could just sleep for three nights straight!

But then the thought of Gouenji-senpai getting dragged to some weird beach party by the two people she hated the most in the world was just, urgh. Words could not describe this feeling.

She admitted it – she loved Gouenji Shuuya. She’s in love with the Flame Striker. She’s in love with her brother’s best friend.

And it hurt her mind and her heart whenever she asked herself the question: Does he love me back?

“Urgh!” the girl shouted in frustration and punched the palm tree without even thinking.

“OW! OW! OW!”

Now, she’s paying the price.

Haruna stared at her hurting hand with teary eyes. Dang, hitting a volley ball is way better than hitting this tree!

The girl let out another sighed and left the tree to venture deeper into the forest. It was calm – much to her liking.

She just walked and walked, with her thoughts high up in the sky and her hand no longer in pain. She was so used to this so-called pain that it didn’t really bother her anymore, to tell the truth. Pinch her and she’ll barely wince. Slap her? She’ll give your head a nice and beautiful spike.

Haruna stopped walking when she finally realized she didn’t know where she was. Everywhere she looked, she only saw trees. Just trees, trees, trees and more trees.

Panic finally made its way into her. Her mind’s first thought was to scream, the second was to just run and the third, to calm down and think this through.

She preferred the third option.

She scanned her surroundings again, hoping to see something familiar – when a pair of arms grabbed her from behind.

“HARUNA!”

The said girl chocked back her scream of terror and turned around – only to be met with jet black eyes that were washed with worry.

“G-GOUENJI-SENPAI!” she just needed to see his eyes to know it was him.

Gouenji sighed from relief. “Damn it girl, I was worried about you!”

Gouenji did not know the effects of those words to her.

Haruna blushed redder than her brother’s cape and looked away from embarrassment. Gouenji’s hands were still holding her arms.

“Where are you going, exactly?” Gouenji asked with his eyebrows raised.

“No-nowhere!” Haruna answered, still flustered.

Gouenji’s eyes softened and he smiled a little. He held Haruna’s face and made her look at him. Haruna’s blush went redder.

“G-Gouenji-senp-“

Though she was cut off when Gouenji pressed his lips against hers. Unconsciously, Haruna returned the kiss and moaned – even though she had been caught off guard earlier.

Gouenji pulled away – though he actually didn’t want to. And it looked like Haruna didn’t want to stop too.

The girl looked away when she finally realized what had happened. “W-WHAT WAS THAT FOR!”

Gouenji laughed. “A little thank you present from me to you?”

Haruna slightly gasped but then she rested her head on Gouenji’s warm chest. “Do you even have any idea why I went out there to help you in the first place?”

“Hm… let me guess, you love me?”

“H-HEY! I’M SUPPOSED TO SAY THAT!” Haruna looked up when she heard the older and taller Flame Striker laugh again.

“I said it for both of us,” he said after he calmed down a little.

Haruna’s face went red again. “W-WHAT?” she placed her hand onto her mouth to cover it.

Gouenji chuckled and placed his forehead onto hers. “I love you too, Haruna, and I’m really glad you decided to fight against those girls,”

“G-Gouenji-senpai…” Haruna muttered, still shocked. She then lunged forward and tackled Gouenji into a hug. They both laughed as Gouenji lost his balance with Haruna balancing on him and they fell backwards into the bushes behind them.

Though what they hadn’t noticed was that the Teikoku Trio had been watching. Everything.

“My, my Kidou-kun. Your sister’s all grown up, I believe,” Fudou whispered sarcastically.

“Say, are you gonna slice Gouenji into pieces or something?” Sakuma asked next.

They both looked at Kidou – who was squatting in between them – and gulped when they saw him smiling.

But, it wasn’t a menacing smile.

It was just a normal smile.

A smile filled with joy.

“Heh, who cares anyway? It’s her life, even as her brother I have no right to mess in her love life,”

Fudou gapped and slightly clapped. “I’m proud of you, Kidou,” of course, he meant that sarcastically.

“An improvement, I must say,” Sakuma added.

“Hey, I’m just happy she’s not with one of you retards,” Kidou added slyly before standing up from their hideout and traced back his steps to return to the beach. He was really glad his sister was safe in his best friend’s hands – instead of in the hands of his other two best friends from Teikoku.

“WHAT WAS THAT!” Sakuma and Fudou both shouted in disbelief. They lunged forward and the three of them got caught into another humongous fight.

Now, we just need to hope that none of those three would notice the heap of pineapples, durians and watermelons placed suspiciously near the battle area.

“Usshisshisshisshisshi…!”