5 Times Shige Tries To Look Cool With His iPhone But Fails Instead
TITLE: 5 Times Shige Tries To Look Cool With His iPhone But Fails Instead
RATING: G
WORD COUNT: 2,524
NOTES: Obviously, Shige-centric. Why did I write this? Cause Shige's got an iPhone! And it demanded fic-age. enshinge, thank you translating the recomon, cause I was too lazy to listen to the whole thing. But I guess now I'll have to go back and do that.
0
It's mocking him.
Every time it comes on, it mocks him.
With it's sleek shape and touch-screen and voice control and GPS. While the finger on the commercial moves and talks about how amazing it is, that damn thing is mocking him, saying, "I'm so much better, I am so much more awesome. The perfect accessory for an idol. You want me. You want me so much it hurts."
Shige grinds his teeth while the commercial continues and his mother tells him not to do that, it's bad for his teeth. But Shige ignores her and keeps wishing for an iPhone.
.25
"Shut up and just go buy one!" Ryo snaps.
Shige slumps in his chair, Ryo glaring at him from the couch in the dressing room. "But I have another three months on my contract at DoCoMo."
"Then just pay the early cancellation fee!"
Shige sighs. "I want an iPhone..."
Ryo screams.
.5
He doesn't make it another three months until the end of the contract.
He's out shopping with Koyama when they pass by a SoftBank store and in the window is a giant poster for the new iPhone 3GS. It's thinner and lighter, comes with a compass and voice control and has a better GPS in it.
Shige stops right in front of the ad, staring up at it, like getting that phone is the highest goal in his life.
Koyama keeps walking (and talking to himself in the process) for another half block until he realizes Shige's back at the SoftBank, gawking up at the window display.
"Shige," Koyama says, exasperated. "You've still got another 10 weeks to go."
"I don't want to wait," he whines, and some gyaru girls stare as they walk by.
"How much is the fee with DoCoMo?"
"7500 yen, plus I have to pay for the months left in the contract."
Koyama frowns. "And then you have to spend all the money getting the iPhone and the new plan.... Shige, you really should just wait. It's a phone. It's not like you already don't have one."
"But I don't have an iPhone."
Three days later, Shige happily walks into NEWS's dressing room, bouncing while he walks like Tegoshi sometimes does and proudly shows off his new iPhone.
.75
The first step is naming the iPhone. He can't just leave it as 'Katou Shigeaki's iPhone' - that looks stupid.
He spends days looking up names online, something deep, maybe a little poetic. Jotted down on a scrap piece of paper is a list of names and their associated definitions. He thinks Sarasvati sounds nice, but when he tries to explain the deeper meaning of naming his iPhone after the Hindu goddess of music (among other things), Massu's eyes glass-over and Tegoshi wanders off to bother Koyama.
He always has his iPhone on his person, taking it out constantly to play with it and show off to others, but some how, Ryo gets a hold of it without Shige noticing, and looking back, he blames Koyama. Tegoshi too, since any mischief inevitably involves him too.
When he realizes it's missing and goes on a frantic search, it's Koyama who hands it back with a guilty face, saying he really wanted to play Bejeweled. It's not his normal guilty look, and that makes Shige paranoid.
He huddles himself deep into a corner of the dressing room, going through every application to see what was messed with, and checking the Settings is the last thing he does. But nothing's wrong there, and Shige wonders if maybe Koyama did just want to play a game.
And that's when he sees it.
The name of his iPhone.
It's not 'Katou Shigeaki's iPhone' any more.
It's 'BOOBS ARE GREAT' and Shige groans.
"Stop complaing. It's not like you can't change it later," Ryo scoffs when Shige confronts him about it.
Shige frowns. "That's not the point."
1; or, Bump Is A Bitch And It Never Works.
Universities are the best places to show off new phones and mp3 players - of which an iPhone is both - and Shige preens in the elevator up to the 6th floor lounge where the law students tend to hang out. He sees some friends and meanders over to their table, striking up a conversation, and very subtly shows off his new iPhone.
Across the table, Takeda nearly spills orange juice all over himself as he whisper-shouts, "iPhone!!"
All the members of the table regard Takeda, and then stare at the phone in Shige's hand.
"So cool," someone says.
"Ah, it much be nice being a Johnny's. You guys can afford neat shit like that," another one of the guys says.
"Yeah, well," Shige says, basking in the popularity of his iPhone.
A girl comes over to the table and sits down at an empty chair and looks around to the others, "I'm gone for 5 minutes and something happens. What-" she notices the iPhone, "Oh, Katou-kun, you got an iPhone."
"Yeah," he says. "It's pretty awesome."
"What apps have you gotten?"
"Uh..."
"Ah, that's right, Miho-chan, you have one, don't you?" A guy next to Shige says.
She smiles. "Got it for my birthday. Katou-kun, you should get Bump. It's the best way to exchange phone numbers."
"Uh, yeah," Shige says, and he goes straight to the app store, getting the program.
"I'll show you how to use it," Miho says, pulling her phone out of her bag and going to stand near Shige. "So open it up on your phone and I'll do the same on mine.... Now bump your hand against mine."
Shige does, and he can feel he program buzzing inside his iPhone, but after a minute, a message pops up, saying the contact didn't work.
"Huh, that's never happened to me before. Try again."
He tries again and gets the same error
"Maybe the lounge has bad reception," Takeda says, and Miho frowns.
"It has nothing to do with reception."
"Is my phone messed up?" Shige whispers.
"Don't worry, Katou-kun," Miho says, patting him on the shoulder. "Sometimes apps are a little weird and don't work right. Try it again later with some one else and see how it goes."
Shige nods, and doesn't mention that he doesn't know any one else with an iPhone.
2; or, Human Error Can Destory The Usefulness of Apps Like Ekitan
A week later, Tegoshi calls him for directions.
"Ne, I'm at Kawagi station and I can't read the map cause it's all old and dirty. Look up directions for me, Shige!" He chirps and Shige frowns.
"Why can't you look it up on your own phone?"
"Isn't an iPhone more convenient for stuff like this?"
Shige's torn between telling Tegoshi off and saying, 'Why yes, I even have an app that is perfect for these types of situations'.
He goes with the latter, just so he can show off.
"Fine. I'll look it up and then text you."
"Thanks, Shige!"
But when Shige opens up Ekitan, he can't find a station called Kawagi.
It's Kawagi, right? I can't find it. Shige texts to Tegoshi.
Yep, Kawagi, he replies, I'm looking right at the sign.
Which line?
Marunouchi.
Shige searches through the entire Marunouchi line, but can't find the station. Tries on the some other lines too but can't find it.
Hurry up, Shige.
He ignores the message and keeps looking. After 10 minutes he gives up and calls Tegoshi.
"I can't find the station."
"Shige, don't be dumb."
"Seriously!"
"How can you not find it, I'm standing right under the sign, how hard can this be? Ka-wa-gi st-, huh? Oh, really?"
Shige blinks. "What? Are you talking to some one?"
"Ahh, is that so?" Tegoshi says. "How silly of me, thank you!"
"Tegoshi?"
"It's Kawamoto! I couldn't see part of the second kanji! Sorry, Shige! But I know where I am now, so don't worry about me!"
And then Tegoshi hangs up.
Shige just glares at his iPhone.
3; or, The GPS Is Sometimes Not So Great
"I could really go for some Kansai-style okonomiyaki," Maruyama sighs longingly while he's out shopping with Shige.
"What's so bad about Tokyo-style?"
Maruyama scrunches his face up. "It's all wrong. Totally wrong. Kansai-style is the best."
"Ah, well if you really want some," Shige says, pulling out his iPhone, "I can see if there's a place nearby."
"Really?! How cool, Shige-san," Maruyama coos, watching over Shige's shoulder as he opens up AroundMe and searches for a Kansai-style okonomiyaki restaurant. "So handy."
"There's a one a few blocks that way, let's head over."
"Yeah!" Maruyama smiles.
They follow the map for a few blocks, but once they reach the red pin on the map, it's not an okonomiyaki restaurant. It's not a restaurant at all - it's a pachinko parlor.
"Um, I'll try calling them, sometimes the GPS is a little off."
The phone rings, and then an older-sounding man answers. "Yes, hello?"
"Ah, hello, I was wondering if I could get some help with directions?"
"Exit 4 from Shinsen station, head towards the Japan Bank tower. We're about four blocks down, between the post office and Family Mart."
Shige looks down the street and can see the stairs down a subway station a few blocks off and down in the opposite direction, at the very far end of the road, a large bank. To the left of the pachinko parlor - a Family Mart. to the right - a post office.
"Um, thanks," and he hangs up.
Maruyama looks forlornly into the parlor, like maybe if he wishes it hard enough it'll turn into a Kansai-style okonomiyaki restaurant.
Shige sighs and tugs on his arm. "C'mon, I'll treat you to donburi."
4; or, Mill Colour Is Awesome. Sometimes.
While the iPhone's camera isn't great, there are a lot of programs you can download to mess with the pictures, and Shige figures it's close enough to photography for him not to feel like a complete sell-out.
On a whim, he downloads Mill Colour, and spends the rest of the day sitting on his bed playing with the saturation and gamma and gain of the various photos on his iPhone.
They're not anything too special, but on some pictures he's able to pull off some neat effects and looks. Shige feels a certain amount of pride at making simple pictures taken with an iPhone's camera look almost professional and artistic.
The next day, he meets up with Koyama for lunch shows off the pictures.
"Look at this one! I reduced the red and increased the blue - and doesn't it make the picture look kind of deep and sad?"
Koyama just squints at the screen and leans in.
"What other ones did you do?" Koyama asks.
"Uhh." Shige pulls back his iPhone and flips through some more pictures. "Maybe it sounds a little weird, but I messed around with the colors on a picture of you eating ramen."
"Really?" Koyama squeaks, sitting up in his chair. "Let me see!"
So Shige taps on the picture and hands his iPhone to Koyama, who looks at the picture for a moment before frowning.
"... Does it... not look as good as I thought?"
Koyama frowns slightly and hands it back. "You made me look sick."
"What?"
"I look green."
"It's artisitic!"
"I look like I'm about to throw up! It's not right at all! You know how much I like ramen."
"The picture isn't about you and ramen!"
Koyama scoffs. "How is it not?"
"You have no artistic sense at all."
"At least I don't make my friends look ill."
5; or, There Is An Amazing Amount Of Soft-Core Porn Available For The iPhone
He's working in the lounge at school, reading through a series of judge's final positions on cases when two girls in the year below him, tentatively walk up and ask if Katou-senpai wouldn't mind explaining some civil law amendments to them.
In the course of explaining the amendments, he finds out that they're in Ohsugi's lecture class, and he advises him to avoid the man at all costs, because he never explains things well. The girls nod and ask Shige about de facto discrimination.
His iPhone buzzes in his pocket and he pulls it out, checking out the message from Pi, inviting him to drinks later. Shige types back a quickly reply, Yeah, sure, sounds good, and doesn't think anything of it when he puts it down on the table.
"Oh wow!" The girls both chirp. "How stylish."
"It is alright if I...?" The bolder of the two asks, pointing the iPhone and mimicking picking it up.
"Oh, yeah. Of course."
The girls huddle together, iPhone between them, whispering about apps and how they want an iPhone, aren't they so cool.
They stop after a short moment, both obviously starting at one of the squares on the screen.
"Do you think...," the one whispers, and Katou can't hear the second part because it's so quietly said.
Silence lingers between the three of them, and the bolder girl says, "I guess it can't really be helped, him being a Johnny's and all."
Shige just blinks and stares.
"Guys are all like that," the second says.
The girls put the phone down, gather up their things and thank Shige for his time.
When Shige picks his iPhone up, he realizes that on the very last page, hidden between a currency convertor and Google Earth is an application entitled 'Hotties' and when Shige opens it, he's not all that surprised that the girls ran off.
That night, at the izakaya, Ryo shows up, joining Shige and YamaPi, and he's grinning like an idiot.
Shige sighs and takes a large drink of his beer. "I know what you did."
"I did nothing," Ryo immediately denies, signaling to the waiter that he wants a beer too.
"I deleted the application you put on my iPhone."
"What's your proof that I did it?"
"Ryo-chan," Pi says, voice low.
"Fine, okay. So maybe I put a little something there."
"It was called 'Hotties' and I think that sums up the application well enough," Shige mutters.
"I can't believe you deleted it. There were some hot chicks in there!"
"My kouhai at school saw it!"
Ryo waves off Shige's concern, taking his drink from the waiter. "It's your fault for letting people play with your phone. You should have been more careful."
6
"Aw man, this is so cool!" Yokoyama almost screams into the microphone, flipping through the pages of applications on Shige's iPhone.
"I'm still bummed about that okonomiyaki," Maruyama says, turning to Shige and poking him in the shoulder.
"I bought you lunch that day, so I don't want to hear about it."
"Dammit, I should have gotten a Mac."
"It'll still work," Shige says. "You just have to download iTunes from the website."
"What?" Yokoyama blinks.
"You should just give your computer to Shige-san and make him set everything up for you."
Shige frowns. "The last time I did that, Koyama ended up deleting all my hard work. And then he dragged me into the tech store because he didn't know how to explain what was wrong with it."
Yokoyama keeps blinking.
"I bet Yokocho could find an even more amazing way to mess up a computer." Maruyama smiles, and Yokoyama gets a glint in his eyes like it's a challenge.
Shige just holds his hand out, like he wants his iPhone back.
RATING: G
WORD COUNT: 2,524
NOTES: Obviously, Shige-centric. Why did I write this? Cause Shige's got an iPhone! And it demanded fic-age. enshinge, thank you translating the recomon, cause I was too lazy to listen to the whole thing. But I guess now I'll have to go back and do that.
0
It's mocking him.
Every time it comes on, it mocks him.
With it's sleek shape and touch-screen and voice control and GPS. While the finger on the commercial moves and talks about how amazing it is, that damn thing is mocking him, saying, "I'm so much better, I am so much more awesome. The perfect accessory for an idol. You want me. You want me so much it hurts."
Shige grinds his teeth while the commercial continues and his mother tells him not to do that, it's bad for his teeth. But Shige ignores her and keeps wishing for an iPhone.
.25
"Shut up and just go buy one!" Ryo snaps.
Shige slumps in his chair, Ryo glaring at him from the couch in the dressing room. "But I have another three months on my contract at DoCoMo."
"Then just pay the early cancellation fee!"
Shige sighs. "I want an iPhone..."
Ryo screams.
.5
He doesn't make it another three months until the end of the contract.
He's out shopping with Koyama when they pass by a SoftBank store and in the window is a giant poster for the new iPhone 3GS. It's thinner and lighter, comes with a compass and voice control and has a better GPS in it.
Shige stops right in front of the ad, staring up at it, like getting that phone is the highest goal in his life.
Koyama keeps walking (and talking to himself in the process) for another half block until he realizes Shige's back at the SoftBank, gawking up at the window display.
"Shige," Koyama says, exasperated. "You've still got another 10 weeks to go."
"I don't want to wait," he whines, and some gyaru girls stare as they walk by.
"How much is the fee with DoCoMo?"
"7500 yen, plus I have to pay for the months left in the contract."
Koyama frowns. "And then you have to spend all the money getting the iPhone and the new plan.... Shige, you really should just wait. It's a phone. It's not like you already don't have one."
"But I don't have an iPhone."
Three days later, Shige happily walks into NEWS's dressing room, bouncing while he walks like Tegoshi sometimes does and proudly shows off his new iPhone.
.75
The first step is naming the iPhone. He can't just leave it as 'Katou Shigeaki's iPhone' - that looks stupid.
He spends days looking up names online, something deep, maybe a little poetic. Jotted down on a scrap piece of paper is a list of names and their associated definitions. He thinks Sarasvati sounds nice, but when he tries to explain the deeper meaning of naming his iPhone after the Hindu goddess of music (among other things), Massu's eyes glass-over and Tegoshi wanders off to bother Koyama.
He always has his iPhone on his person, taking it out constantly to play with it and show off to others, but some how, Ryo gets a hold of it without Shige noticing, and looking back, he blames Koyama. Tegoshi too, since any mischief inevitably involves him too.
When he realizes it's missing and goes on a frantic search, it's Koyama who hands it back with a guilty face, saying he really wanted to play Bejeweled. It's not his normal guilty look, and that makes Shige paranoid.
He huddles himself deep into a corner of the dressing room, going through every application to see what was messed with, and checking the Settings is the last thing he does. But nothing's wrong there, and Shige wonders if maybe Koyama did just want to play a game.
And that's when he sees it.
The name of his iPhone.
It's not 'Katou Shigeaki's iPhone' any more.
It's 'BOOBS ARE GREAT' and Shige groans.
"Stop complaing. It's not like you can't change it later," Ryo scoffs when Shige confronts him about it.
Shige frowns. "That's not the point."
1; or, Bump Is A Bitch And It Never Works.
Universities are the best places to show off new phones and mp3 players - of which an iPhone is both - and Shige preens in the elevator up to the 6th floor lounge where the law students tend to hang out. He sees some friends and meanders over to their table, striking up a conversation, and very subtly shows off his new iPhone.
Across the table, Takeda nearly spills orange juice all over himself as he whisper-shouts, "iPhone!!"
All the members of the table regard Takeda, and then stare at the phone in Shige's hand.
"So cool," someone says.
"Ah, it much be nice being a Johnny's. You guys can afford neat shit like that," another one of the guys says.
"Yeah, well," Shige says, basking in the popularity of his iPhone.
A girl comes over to the table and sits down at an empty chair and looks around to the others, "I'm gone for 5 minutes and something happens. What-" she notices the iPhone, "Oh, Katou-kun, you got an iPhone."
"Yeah," he says. "It's pretty awesome."
"What apps have you gotten?"
"Uh..."
"Ah, that's right, Miho-chan, you have one, don't you?" A guy next to Shige says.
She smiles. "Got it for my birthday. Katou-kun, you should get Bump. It's the best way to exchange phone numbers."
"Uh, yeah," Shige says, and he goes straight to the app store, getting the program.
"I'll show you how to use it," Miho says, pulling her phone out of her bag and going to stand near Shige. "So open it up on your phone and I'll do the same on mine.... Now bump your hand against mine."
Shige does, and he can feel he program buzzing inside his iPhone, but after a minute, a message pops up, saying the contact didn't work.
"Huh, that's never happened to me before. Try again."
He tries again and gets the same error
"Maybe the lounge has bad reception," Takeda says, and Miho frowns.
"It has nothing to do with reception."
"Is my phone messed up?" Shige whispers.
"Don't worry, Katou-kun," Miho says, patting him on the shoulder. "Sometimes apps are a little weird and don't work right. Try it again later with some one else and see how it goes."
Shige nods, and doesn't mention that he doesn't know any one else with an iPhone.
2; or, Human Error Can Destory The Usefulness of Apps Like Ekitan
A week later, Tegoshi calls him for directions.
"Ne, I'm at Kawagi station and I can't read the map cause it's all old and dirty. Look up directions for me, Shige!" He chirps and Shige frowns.
"Why can't you look it up on your own phone?"
"Isn't an iPhone more convenient for stuff like this?"
Shige's torn between telling Tegoshi off and saying, 'Why yes, I even have an app that is perfect for these types of situations'.
He goes with the latter, just so he can show off.
"Fine. I'll look it up and then text you."
"Thanks, Shige!"
But when Shige opens up Ekitan, he can't find a station called Kawagi.
It's Kawagi, right? I can't find it. Shige texts to Tegoshi.
Yep, Kawagi, he replies, I'm looking right at the sign.
Which line?
Marunouchi.
Shige searches through the entire Marunouchi line, but can't find the station. Tries on the some other lines too but can't find it.
Hurry up, Shige.
He ignores the message and keeps looking. After 10 minutes he gives up and calls Tegoshi.
"I can't find the station."
"Shige, don't be dumb."
"Seriously!"
"How can you not find it, I'm standing right under the sign, how hard can this be? Ka-wa-gi st-, huh? Oh, really?"
Shige blinks. "What? Are you talking to some one?"
"Ahh, is that so?" Tegoshi says. "How silly of me, thank you!"
"Tegoshi?"
"It's Kawamoto! I couldn't see part of the second kanji! Sorry, Shige! But I know where I am now, so don't worry about me!"
And then Tegoshi hangs up.
Shige just glares at his iPhone.
3; or, The GPS Is Sometimes Not So Great
"I could really go for some Kansai-style okonomiyaki," Maruyama sighs longingly while he's out shopping with Shige.
"What's so bad about Tokyo-style?"
Maruyama scrunches his face up. "It's all wrong. Totally wrong. Kansai-style is the best."
"Ah, well if you really want some," Shige says, pulling out his iPhone, "I can see if there's a place nearby."
"Really?! How cool, Shige-san," Maruyama coos, watching over Shige's shoulder as he opens up AroundMe and searches for a Kansai-style okonomiyaki restaurant. "So handy."
"There's a one a few blocks that way, let's head over."
"Yeah!" Maruyama smiles.
They follow the map for a few blocks, but once they reach the red pin on the map, it's not an okonomiyaki restaurant. It's not a restaurant at all - it's a pachinko parlor.
"Um, I'll try calling them, sometimes the GPS is a little off."
The phone rings, and then an older-sounding man answers. "Yes, hello?"
"Ah, hello, I was wondering if I could get some help with directions?"
"Exit 4 from Shinsen station, head towards the Japan Bank tower. We're about four blocks down, between the post office and Family Mart."
Shige looks down the street and can see the stairs down a subway station a few blocks off and down in the opposite direction, at the very far end of the road, a large bank. To the left of the pachinko parlor - a Family Mart. to the right - a post office.
"Um, thanks," and he hangs up.
Maruyama looks forlornly into the parlor, like maybe if he wishes it hard enough it'll turn into a Kansai-style okonomiyaki restaurant.
Shige sighs and tugs on his arm. "C'mon, I'll treat you to donburi."
4; or, Mill Colour Is Awesome. Sometimes.
While the iPhone's camera isn't great, there are a lot of programs you can download to mess with the pictures, and Shige figures it's close enough to photography for him not to feel like a complete sell-out.
On a whim, he downloads Mill Colour, and spends the rest of the day sitting on his bed playing with the saturation and gamma and gain of the various photos on his iPhone.
They're not anything too special, but on some pictures he's able to pull off some neat effects and looks. Shige feels a certain amount of pride at making simple pictures taken with an iPhone's camera look almost professional and artistic.
The next day, he meets up with Koyama for lunch shows off the pictures.
"Look at this one! I reduced the red and increased the blue - and doesn't it make the picture look kind of deep and sad?"
Koyama just squints at the screen and leans in.
"What other ones did you do?" Koyama asks.
"Uhh." Shige pulls back his iPhone and flips through some more pictures. "Maybe it sounds a little weird, but I messed around with the colors on a picture of you eating ramen."
"Really?" Koyama squeaks, sitting up in his chair. "Let me see!"
So Shige taps on the picture and hands his iPhone to Koyama, who looks at the picture for a moment before frowning.
"... Does it... not look as good as I thought?"
Koyama frowns slightly and hands it back. "You made me look sick."
"What?"
"I look green."
"It's artisitic!"
"I look like I'm about to throw up! It's not right at all! You know how much I like ramen."
"The picture isn't about you and ramen!"
Koyama scoffs. "How is it not?"
"You have no artistic sense at all."
"At least I don't make my friends look ill."
5; or, There Is An Amazing Amount Of Soft-Core Porn Available For The iPhone
He's working in the lounge at school, reading through a series of judge's final positions on cases when two girls in the year below him, tentatively walk up and ask if Katou-senpai wouldn't mind explaining some civil law amendments to them.
In the course of explaining the amendments, he finds out that they're in Ohsugi's lecture class, and he advises him to avoid the man at all costs, because he never explains things well. The girls nod and ask Shige about de facto discrimination.
His iPhone buzzes in his pocket and he pulls it out, checking out the message from Pi, inviting him to drinks later. Shige types back a quickly reply, Yeah, sure, sounds good, and doesn't think anything of it when he puts it down on the table.
"Oh wow!" The girls both chirp. "How stylish."
"It is alright if I...?" The bolder of the two asks, pointing the iPhone and mimicking picking it up.
"Oh, yeah. Of course."
The girls huddle together, iPhone between them, whispering about apps and how they want an iPhone, aren't they so cool.
They stop after a short moment, both obviously starting at one of the squares on the screen.
"Do you think...," the one whispers, and Katou can't hear the second part because it's so quietly said.
Silence lingers between the three of them, and the bolder girl says, "I guess it can't really be helped, him being a Johnny's and all."
Shige just blinks and stares.
"Guys are all like that," the second says.
The girls put the phone down, gather up their things and thank Shige for his time.
When Shige picks his iPhone up, he realizes that on the very last page, hidden between a currency convertor and Google Earth is an application entitled 'Hotties' and when Shige opens it, he's not all that surprised that the girls ran off.
That night, at the izakaya, Ryo shows up, joining Shige and YamaPi, and he's grinning like an idiot.
Shige sighs and takes a large drink of his beer. "I know what you did."
"I did nothing," Ryo immediately denies, signaling to the waiter that he wants a beer too.
"I deleted the application you put on my iPhone."
"What's your proof that I did it?"
"Ryo-chan," Pi says, voice low.
"Fine, okay. So maybe I put a little something there."
"It was called 'Hotties' and I think that sums up the application well enough," Shige mutters.
"I can't believe you deleted it. There were some hot chicks in there!"
"My kouhai at school saw it!"
Ryo waves off Shige's concern, taking his drink from the waiter. "It's your fault for letting people play with your phone. You should have been more careful."
6
"Aw man, this is so cool!" Yokoyama almost screams into the microphone, flipping through the pages of applications on Shige's iPhone.
"I'm still bummed about that okonomiyaki," Maruyama says, turning to Shige and poking him in the shoulder.
"I bought you lunch that day, so I don't want to hear about it."
"Dammit, I should have gotten a Mac."
"It'll still work," Shige says. "You just have to download iTunes from the website."
"What?" Yokoyama blinks.
"You should just give your computer to Shige-san and make him set everything up for you."
Shige frowns. "The last time I did that, Koyama ended up deleting all my hard work. And then he dragged me into the tech store because he didn't know how to explain what was wrong with it."
Yokoyama keeps blinking.
"I bet Yokocho could find an even more amazing way to mess up a computer." Maruyama smiles, and Yokoyama gets a glint in his eyes like it's a challenge.
Shige just holds his hand out, like he wants his iPhone back.