[FIC] Sagashibito (The Searchers) - 12
Title: SagashibitoAuthor: Sfenc
Pairing(s): Non really. Maybe for now. And brotherly love of KoKame.
Rating: PG-13 for a bit swearing.
Genre: AU, fantastic.
Beta by: none.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything but the plot.
Summary: They are living in shadows, always hiding. Because they have something that everybody wants. It is a Gift. Gift of seeing.
Author Note: I fiigured out how I'll finish this, but there is a long way inbetween. And english isn't my native.
Chapter 12 - a wind of winner wouldn’t hurt anyone.
(Fourth week of December, Year 446)
The next day was a success. Well, if you’d look from the contest side of the matter. On the other hand, it was a complete disaster.
But the first things first.
First thing in the morning was electricity blackout. And by the morning I’m talking about like REAL morning.
“Ko-chan, where’re my boots?! I can’t find them in this darkness!” - Boy frantically called for the n-th time by this hour. Sixth hour in the morning to be precise. And Koki wasn’t so inclined to get out of the bed before seven on dot. “Kooo-chaaaan! Help me here!!!” - Even being half asleep and in the other room Koki knew that his brother was pouting right now. THAT meant a lot.
Koki groaned as softly as he could but still climbed from bed, stretching and yawning, while trying to remember where the flash-light was last time.
“Ko-chan… hurry up” - whined… WHINED voice from the dark.
“You are just afraid of darkness” - teased him Joker. He knew about this little weakness of his brother. “That’s why you are trying to deprive me of my beauty sleep” - added him grudgingly.
“Don’t be stupid” - huffed little voice from the corridor. - “I can’t be late. That’s all”.
“Yeah, yeah. Whatever” - smirked Joker, finally getting his flash-light and nearing the dark zone. “There they are!”
Kame looked at the flashed place and squealed. “Thank you, Ko-chan! You’re the best!” Still, it got him half a minute and two bumps to finish with clothes. “I’m off!”
Koki waved after him, but the battery in the flash-light chose right this moment to get unloaded. So the older boy sank into dark.
Well, he could try to get a little nap as well. This insanely hour was only for turtles with wooden stick, not for the cool rappers. His band’s rehearsal wouldn’t start before 11 o’clock.
***
Girls squealed and the crowd roared, cheering winning kendo club. It was glorious victory. Even doctor Miura was pleased for once, so everybody was awed to see his smiling face, which was really rare sight.
“Ne, ne, Ayumu. Do you thInk he will scold us as soon as we get from everyone’s sight” - whispered her friend excitedly.
“I don’t care, as long as we get our A’s on physical education” - said Ayumu. “Nana-chan, what are you looking for?”
Dark-haired girl was looking around worrying as if she was searching for someone. “Kame-chan is missing. He-, khe-khe, her face was really pale today” - Nana seemed confused and upset. “I don’t understand this at all”
“It’s Turtle-chan who we are talking about! Everything will be alright. Kazu-chan already told us, that she needed to be at home early…”
That’s when they spotted their friend, looking a bit sick, but excited.
“Kazu-chan, we are going to the showers. Let’s go or you’ll be sick again!” - said their leader, Reiko-chan.
Kazuya looked warily and then nodded. At first he decided to go home right away, but then he realized that he smells. Like, really smells. Well, all of them were like that. Victory doesn’t come by itself, you need to earn it. And they all did. Their team was the best and Kazuya was happy to be with girls. Even if that meant he needed to keep his secret so hard.
Coach Haruma walked up to them and gave them some paper they needed to fill out and then decided to accompany them till the changing rooms and showers, because he wanted to explain them some terms for the next competition.
Kendo girls went to their changing rooms, chatting excitedly between themselves, but they were stopped suddenly by three men from the other school judging by their uniform. Those were coach of kendo club Midori Oomu or Green Cockatoo, PE teacher and another one man, whom they didn’t know.
“Not so fast, ladies” - said one of them, smirking. And the doctor, who was walking along with his girls, remembered strange looks from this guy during the match. “Or, should I rather say ladies and gentleman?” Kame paled drastically, he even heard a ringing sound in his ears.
“What are you implying?” - Coach Haruma frowned. There was no chance that they discovered dark secret of his student. “This is all-girls team, and you know it”.
“Kazu-chan, you are so pale? How are you feeling?” - Girls were worried about Kame for a long time already, but now he was breathing hard.
“Oh. Maybe Kazu-chan has something to say for us?” - mocked one of the adults. That’s then their coach had enough.
“You can’t insult my students just because your lazy retards suck at kendo” - snarled him and lifted Kame to get him to the infirmary. Haruma sensed that the boy was shivering badly, but he knew that this self declared group of justice wouldn’t dare to do anything. “Tanaka-san still didn’t recovered fully from her illness. That is the only reason. Don’t make me take some drastic measure because of you stupid attitude”. Well, Miura-san was never patient and well-behaving teacher…
Then they were out of reach the trio turned to remaining girls and asked, what happened to Tanaka Kazuya. Girls exchanged glances, then one of them, Ayumi-chan, said: “It’s her period. She’s getting really sick at her times and, well… Kazu-chan is a really good girl and she always helps us out. It’s just because of some gynecopathy her period is unregulated and she can’t do anything about that.”
Kaoru-chan looked at her friend with big eyes, not believing that she blurted it out just like that. “Still, Kazu-chan is really good with bokken and so determined that we wouldn’t want anybody else in our team” - said Kaoru.
“Oh, really?” - smirked one of the teachers. “And what would you say about Nana-chan?”
All the girls looked at their friend, who was a bit masculine… Scratch that, she was really brutal and always wore really short hair.
Nana frowned. “What’s wrong with me, old geezer? Are you starting something? If you want to say something then spill it. I hate weaklings like you, who only say something from under mommy’s skirt”
Coach of Midori Oomu sighed and told them: “Okada-sensei thinks that you are a guy in our team, Nana-kun”.
Girls gasped in shock, then blushed, then they laughed so hard till they fell to the ground.
***
“They decided that Nana is a guy?” - asked Kame, then girls came to visit him to the infirmary. He took some pills, but still needed to rest for an hour or so.
“Oh yes. You should’ve seen their eyes then she showed them her breasts. It was priceless” - girls laughed, while Kame had a huge blush attack.
“Oi, Kame-chan, don’t be like that! I’m glad that I could teach them a lesson” - Nana was never a shy one, but she felt protective of Kame for some reason. “And it’s okay, as long as they wouldn’t try to get to you”. All the girls smiled.
“Yes, we’d never reveal the secret of your gender to anyone!” - happily announced the team and high-fived among themselves.
If Kame was blushing before, now he was dead pale and seeing black circles before his eyes. His throat was sore and dry, his ears were ringing in high buzz and all the sounds were so slow… Good thing he was still in bed.
“Kame-chan… Kame-chan?”
But he already fainted due to all the stress.
“Mou, Kame-chan, it’s not fair. But you have nothing to worry about” - said Nana, patting his hair.