Title: The Academy Is...
Author:
paranoiascreamsChapters: 10/?
Genre: AU, crack, funny, high school life, angst
Pairing: Shou x Hiroto, Tora x Saga, Kai x Uruha, Reita x Aoi, Kazuki x Manabu, Jin x Yuuto (unknown names are OC)
Rating: PG - 13
Warning: dialogue-driven, un-beta'd
Disclaimer: The Academy Is... is a band. I dont own them, nor the boys. The story is all mine.
Summary: The boys are all in high school, like everybody else's experience, they belong to different cliques, but once their lives intertwined, their lives changed and made high school unforgettable.
Comments: I am taking baby steps into updating this fic again. I hope I do finish this. The stories of the characters are coming to life so i should not abandon.
[01] [02] [03] [04] [05] [06] [07] [08] [09] [10] [11] [Interlude] [12] [13] "Are you okay?" Saga asks as Shou fidgets in his seat. Saga has a lot of things running in his head at the moment. Wait. Aside from the festival, there's only one bugging him - Tora - and his drama queen bestfriend should NEVER add up or there will be chaos.
"I am perfectly... er, I'm fine." Shou smiles, a little unconfortable-looking, much to Saga's observation.
"Are you sure?" Saga cocks his head to the left, he wonders if he's hearing things. He looks at Shou from head to toe. The gold trimmings of his necktie is gone, so are his number of necklaces. His MP3 case has lost all it's little keychains and in a word, Shou looks plain.
"Did you hit your head in the sink this morning Shou?"
"My head did not make contact with... No. Nope! I'm fine!" Shou sighs and head desks himself to the table in front of him.
"WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO BE NORMAL THEN?!"
"... I want Uruha-san to approve of me. I mean, I want Uruha-san to like me."
"And you say you're fine. What will Pon say? He wont like what you're doing..." Saga tells him, cupping his face with his palm.
Before Shou can answer, their homeroom teacher arrives.
"Alright, it's already Wednesday and we all know that the festival will be two weeks from now. NOW. Our class was assigned as the head of the decorating team. The student body and the faculty decided that we can start preparing them now. SHOU."
"Yes?" Shou weakly looks up to the homeroom teacher.
"You will be assigned as the head decorator, okay?"
"... Okay."
"Come on Shou, show some enthusiasm." Saga nudges his bestfriend, the Drama club president just sighs.
"Are you okay, Shou?" the homeroom teacher asks, Shou nods, "I'll be fine Ms. Icchie. I'm more than fine."
"Then, guys, you have Uruha to thank, you have the rest of the day and until Friday next week to prepare. AND a week long festival. I will be leaving now, but I want the best decorations for this festival." Their teacher gives a smile and the class cheers on. Obviously, the announcement had been given to other classes as well since the cheers from other classrooms and buildings were so loud, you'd think there was a fire.
And then suddenly a shrill shriek from the girls in the back of the class echoes inside the room.
"Saga!"
Saga hangs his head low when the person he dreads to see at 9 in the morning enters their classroom.
"This is 3-B senior class, Tora. Yours is 3-C. WHY ARE YOU HERE?"
Before Tora can answer he's bumped aside by a smaller and blond boy, "SHOU! I didnt see you this morning!"
"I was tired." Shou answers, refusing to look at Hiroto.
Tora raises an eyebrow and looks at Saga with confused eyes, "Did your alien friend go back to his home planet and got replaced by a normal and real boy?"
"YAH! STOP TEASING HIM!" Hiroto hits Tora's arm, Saga chuckles.
"I didn't know there's some sort of meeting here." Kai pops in, flinging his arms around Hiroto and Tora.
"There's no meeting here. I have no idea why they came."
"To pick up their boyfriends, of course." Reita adds in a mocking manner, Saga gasps and Tora glares at his bestfriend.
"Go away and stalk your Ao..." and again, before Tora completes his sentence, Reita's hand is now over his mouth.
"Hey, Hiroto." Kazuki walks in casually inside the seniors' room, with Manabu in tow.
"What is it?" Hiroto asks, ignoring the commotion of his senpais.
"Jin's kind of looking for you, since Yuuto's absent and all."
"And what now?"
"Said something about, breaking up for good." Kazuki puts his arm around Manabu's shoulders who shrugs it off.
"I'm not even his bestfriend, why do i have to deal with his and Yuu-chan's drama?" Hiroto stomps his foot, not wanting to leave his boyfriend.
Saga pries his eyes away from Hiroto and then to the basketball captain in front of him.
"Okay, back to you. WHAT DO YOU WANT?"
"How about brunch?"
"Now?"
"If we wait any longer, brunch will turn into lunch, wont it?" Tora sarcastically asks, Saga rolls his eyes.
"Hey... you're asking Saga out!" Kai mockingly teases his classmate, Tora almost chokeslams him.
Again, the girls who were at the back (who mysteriously came closer to the unusual group of students) let out loud screams and shrieks.
"May I be included into your..." Shou rips his hair off before continuing his question, "May I join? I'm starv... hungry. I'm hungry."
"He's really been replaced... not only is he wanting to join us... he's not fighting with me. Thank you Jupiter. Thank you Mars. The alien is gone." Tora laughs, Hiroto hits him again, being a senpai be damned.
"I actually cooked for today, wanna eat it in Home Economics lab?" Kai suggests, the group nod their heads.
"Well then, follow me." Kai motions for them to follow him. Kazuki fishes out his cellphone and texts Jin to join them in the H.E. Lab. Kai calls Aoi to do the same, much to Reita's glee. Shou lazily takes Hiroto's hand when the younger male offers it to him. Saga follows last before Tora grabs him to the side behind some lockers where he thinks none can see them together.
"W-what?" Saga's voice quivers, he's scared on how close Tora is to him. Not almost-kissing close, but close nonetheless.
"Have you decided?"
"About what?"
"I asked you yesterday. About Sunday."
Saga bites his lower lip, "What's your plan on Sunday?"
"Spend it with you. No basketball. No arguments... just I dunno. Spend it with you."
Saga sighs, "Fine. I'll go with you..."
"It's a date." Tora smiles then grabs Saga's wrist to follow the rest of the group to the H.E. Lab.
When they arrive all are seated in a long table, Kai is motioning for them to wait as he talks to someone on the cellphone. Tora and Saga takes a seat near Shou and Hiroto.
"Just come down here for a moment, student. If you dont come, hungry bastards will hunt you down." Kai laughs as he speak to the person on the other line as he paces the room back and forth.
"Hiroto... please help me!" Jin exclaims the moment he enters the room - nevermind the other people inside.
"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!?" Hiroto moves aside alittle, as if Jin has something contagious.
"Yuu-chan is moving! And he intentionally became a nagger so that I can have reasons to hate him... and we'll break up and he said it'll be easier that way." Jin acts as if he's on the verge of crying, clinging onto Hiroto's arm.
"Tell it to the world, wont you?" Kazuki comments as he shifts on his seat.
"Do you want to break up with Yuuto-san?" Manabu casually asks, he's a little curious.
"Do I look like I wanna break up with him?" Jin glares at Manabu, Kazuki glares at him back. "HEY! Bu-chan's just asking! You're getting it from me if you harm him."
"But, Yuuto's moving. What can you do?" This time it's Reita asking, curiosity envelops him as well.
Before Jin can even answer, the door swings open and Aoi enters, sitting to the empty seat next to Reita, making the bass player shut up.
"I can still visit him, Reita-senpai."
"Hasn't Yuu-chan decided it already? Do you still believe that there's still something that can be done to refrain him from this decision? He loves you, that much is obviously true and I am sure, inside, he's hurting as well. Don't be selfish, Jin. A relationship isn't just about one person." Shou explains, Hiroto gives him a tight hug, "I love you better when you speak that way! Stop torturing yourself trying to be normal!"
"MARS! JUPITER!!! Your replacement is defective!" Tora exclaims, Hiroto glares at him, Saga hits his arm, "Shut up, Tora. That was torturing enough for dear Shou-bun."
"Yeah. Listen to the missus, Tora." Kai tells him as he takes out the foods from the containers he brought.
"AND WHEN DID YOU GET THE RIGHT TO TEASE ME?" Tora yells at Kai.
"Today. Because I'm gonna feed you."
The door swings open again and Uruha goes inside. "Everybody's here?"
"I told you. Now sit down and let's eat brunch." Kai tells him with a smile.
Uruha shrugs his shoulders, "This better be delicious and make my becoming late in a meeting worthwhile." Uruha speaks as he takes the remaining seat next to Kai.
"It's gonna blow your mind, student." Kai laughs and starts placing the food on plates. Manabu and Kazuki stand up to serve plates and chopsticks to the other people in the room.
After Kai had prepared the food on the table, everybody starts digging in, forgetting Jin's dilemma for a moment.
"Did you sleep well last night, Reita?"
The voice vacuumed everyone's eyes towards Aoi.
They're sure it was Aoi who spoke.
Reita almosts chokes on his food with what Aoi asked, how can Aoi just nonchalantly ask something like that in the middle of the room with a lot of people inside, including Tora?
"SPILL THE BEANS REITA." Tora tells his bestfriend sitting across the table.
"Did I miss something last night?" Kai raises an eyebrow looking with intent to his bestfriend.
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Author's Notes: This is fairly short for an update, but I'm just testing if there were still people reading this. There might be some sort of changes on how I'll be attacking this story from now on. Come on, the last update was in July. kekekeke.
Comments are love - i wanna know if you're still there. XD