• Chapter 11 No rest for Kuno Marco

    “Huh? Join a club?” I asked Marco-kun as he stood next to my desk in homeroom.

    “Come on. It will be fun. There is a kendo club, what about the Karate club?” he said handing me a pamphlet of clubs. None of which appealed to me.

    “I’m not one for clubs Marco-kun. You should know that by now,” I said. I cocked my head to the side and just stared at him.

    “Whats with you anyway? You never seemed interested in clubs and stuff like this before,” I asked him. He kinda looked at me and did a nervous laugh. I could tell he was hiding something. I placed my hand over my face so no one else but him could see. I changed my eye color to demon yellow. He shivered with a twinge of fear and then spilled his guts.

    “Ok. There is a new transfer girl from Tokyo here. She is very pretty. Blue eyes, short brown hair, and a creamy tan complexion. She’s just so cute, and I think I have a crush on her,” he said. This is the first time I've ever seen him act like this.

    “But she is a 3rd year student and is also in the Karate club. I thought that if I joined one of those clubs, I can get closer to her,”He said blushing slightly. I sighed and smiled at him.

    “Alright, we'll join the kendo club,” I said closing my eyes and laying my head on the desk. I could tell his face lit up by the way he talked afterwords.

    “Thanks Sano-kun. You wont regret this!” he shouted running to the club room to set us up. I sighed and started drifting to sleep. Class started and I had to wake up. Marco-kun came in just as the final bell rang. After classes ended, we both walked to the dojo on campus. I can't believe I'm doing this. Marco-kun was nervous. He knew that the dojo was shared between both the Karate club and the Kendo club. I opened the door and we saw both clubs on separate ends of the dojo.

    “Welcome new members,” the captain of the Kendo club said approaching us. We bowed to him. He was a third year student. I saw him around the school often. Nishimo Saguichi I think his name was.

    “Konnichiwa Nishimo-sempai,” we both said bowing to him. He sized us up and circled us.

    “You two don't seem to be fighter material. Oi Kyo-kun, take a look at these guys,” he said to the captain of the Karate club. Kyoraku Shinji, another third year. He came over and sized us up as well. I looked over at Marco-kun. His eyes were focused in on someone and his face was blushing. I waved my hand in his face. No movement. Not even a blink. I looked in the direction of this gaze. That's when I saw her. She was just as Marco-kun described her. I smiled at him. Its nice to see that he was interested in someone. The always cool and complex Marco-kun I know, was now a love struck puppy.

    “Naw, these two aren't fighters,” Kyoraku-sempai said. They looked at each other then back at us.

    “Prove to us your good enough to join out clubs. In the next room, you with the green hair, change into a Gi. And you with the long black hair, change into a Kendo uniform,” Nishimo-sempai said. We nodded and did as told. Marco-kun and I finished changing and went out to meet the two clubs. We separated and were met with our own phalanges. Mine was the Captain of the Kendo club himself, While Marco-kun's was the captain of the Karate club. Out of the corner of my eye, a shinai was thrown at me. At the same time the captain charged at me with a bokken. I whipped around in a circle. Grabbing the shinai out of the air by the handle and blocking the captain's attack. He was very surprised to see that I blocked the attack. And that my reflexes were so good. Marco-kun bowed to his opponent. The captain of the karate club laughed a bit and threw a half hearted punch. He payed for it dearly. Marco-kun ducked under his punch, and with speed that you had to see to believe, caught him in the stomach with a powerful elbow attack. And with the same speed he placed his fist under his armpit and grabbed his forearm with his opposite hand. Marco-kun lifted him up and threw the captain over his shoulder like it was nothing. Everyone was shocked to see the two of us, who were told we had no fighting skill, stand against the two captains like this.

    “Amazing,” someone said behind Marco-kun. It was the girl he was eyeing. He blushed and rubbed the back of his head. It was a set up. One of the members of the kendo club was behind Marco. I thew my shinai at Marco-kun. He saw it coming and caught it. With the same momentum, knocked the shinai out of his other attacker. I ducked down and just dodged a shot from one of the Karate club members. I sweped my leg around and knocked him off his feet. Still spinning I got back up right. I posed for a second. My right hand behind my back with my left extended. I motioned for them to bring it. And so they did. Marco-kun ran up behind me. We stood back to back as both clubs attacked.

    “Think this happens to everyone?” Marco-kun asked me.

    “No. Just us,” I said. We both took off at the oncoming mob of fighters. I jumped over them and found a barrel of shinai. I tossed two into the air. Marco-kun back flipped and snatched them out of the air. I slid back into the mob and grabbed the one he left behind. We stood back to back again. I smirked. Marco-kun did so too. I grabbed him by his shoulder and sent him over my head. He was flying upside down through the air. He stretched his arms out and began to spin like at a top. Smacking all the people within his range. He landed on his knees and ready for more. My case was different. About 10 people jumped at me from my back. I smirked and moved faster then all of them. Appearing behind them with a grin on my face as they all fell to the ground with lumps on their heads. I looked over at Marco-kun. He stood up. We surveyed the damage. Everyone was out like a light. This wasn't even enough for us to call a warm up. That's when our eyes meet. I smiled at him. He smiled back. I kicked another shinai up and caught it. We charged at each other and a fight was on.

    “Now this is a fight!” Marco-kun shouted at me. I grinned and nodded wholeheartedly. He attacked me with a flurry of blade strikes. I blocked them all, backing up and spinning. I braced and deflected one of his attacks. That's when I went on the offensive. Whipping my shinai at him with the same speed as him. Finally he pushed me back. We both unleashed a flurry of strikes at each other. Nether one of us were giving the other a inch to work with. He back up and crossed his arms over his chest. I jumped back and did the same. We charged fast. Within a half second we were behind each other. We both dropped to our knees and started laughing.

    “Now that was a match,” Marco-kun said looking back at me. I leaned back on my hands and looked at him.

    “Yeah. That was good,” I said back at him. We smiled and laughed.

    “Why did we come here again?” I asked him. The reason walked up to us. The girl had been watching from the side the entire time. She knelt down next to Marco-kun and smiled.

    “Your very strong, Kuno-chan,” she said cooing to him. His face was priceless. A bright red with sweat dripping from his face.

    “T-t-t-t-hank you Sempai,” he said nervously and with a shaky voice. She looked into his eyes.

    “No need to be so formal kuno-chan. My name is Mino. Kasura Mino,” Kasura-sempai said. Marco-kun was at a lose of words. It was amazing. Kira-san and Kagome-san aren't going to believe this.

    “I-i-i-i wouldn't dare, Sempai, “He said stammering. She smiled.

    “Would you like to go on a date tonight?” she asked him. His face exploded and he fell over. I laughed hard. I got up and threw him over my shoulder.

    “He would be honored, Kasura-sempai,” I said in his stead. She smiled.

    “Tell him to meet me at the Shopping district at 6 o'clock tonight. I'll be waiting,” she said leaving for the changing room. I sighed. I got our school uniforms out of the men's changing room and carried him home. After he finally snapped out of it I explained he had a date for tonight. He lite up again and ran into his room. Kira-san, Kagome-san, and I looked at his door as we heard banging and other noise.

    “Think he'll be ok?” Kagome-san asked. I shrugged.

    “This is Marco-kun we're talking about,” I replayed.

    “But anyway you look at it. He's just a 15 year old boy. This could be his first date,” Kira-san said. Kagome-san and I looked at her, then back at the door. Could this be his first date? His door finally opened. We all stared in amazement. His normally spiked up hair was calmed back and straightened into a ponytail. He wore a black long sleeve button up shirt with a white tee shirt underneath it. He wore black wrangler jeans and a pair of black sneakers. His belt was black with a specially made belt buckle that looked like a lightning bolt. He looked at us a little embarrassed.

    “How do I look?” he asked. Kira-san and Kagome-san squealed and mobbed him. Looking at him from all angles and sniffing him. He was wearing a faint trace of colone. I think it was from a American company called Abercrombi and Fitch.

    “Wow Kuno-kun! You clean up nicely!” Kagome-san said to him. Kira-san was still sizing him up. She went in and unbuttoned his shirt. Letting it rest on his shoulders and hang. Kagome-san blew a small gust at him, making his shirt flow behind him like a cape. The squealed more like a couple of fan-girls before letting him leave the house. Now normally I would go into the whole omnipotent thing and tell you what happened after he left, but why don't I let him tell you.

    <Oi, Marco-kun!>

    <Hai? What is it Sano-kun?>

    <Tell the reading audiance about what happened after you left the house>

    <Your not giving me a choice are you?>

    <Hell no. now get your a** over here and tell em what happened>

    <Fine fine>

    Hi I guess. Name's Kuno Marco. I'll be your narrator for the next two chapters. That includes the end of this chapter. Don't worry Sano-kun will be back, but for now i'm filling in. So anyway, after I had left Mizono-san's house I made my way to the Shopping district. Sure enough she was there waiting for me. She was wearing a white dress with a floral print at the bottom. High heels, just about a inch or two, and she carried a white bag with her. I could feel my face flush as she spotted me and walked over. I immediately started to sweat and it just seemed to get worse and worse as she approached. She smiled at me and swaggered closer and closer. My eyes were wide. My hands sweaty. My face hot and flushed.

    “Well hello there, Kuno-chan,” Sempai said. My face got hotter.

    “K-k-k-konbawa Sempai,” I stammered out. She smiled and looked me over. Then she got really really close. My breathing became short and raspy. She backed off and smiled.

    “ 'Fierce' from A and B right?” she asked. All I could do was nod. She smiled.

    “You have good taste,”She said smiling. I laughed nervously as we began walking through the shopping district. For a while we just talked about random things. We bought some stuff and pretty much hung out for the whole time. That is, till it was time to eat.

    End of chapter 11