Ame no Ai von Toa-chan (Candy, Trouble and beating Hearts) ================================================================================ Kapitel 5: Lets be friends -------------------------- The sun disappeared behind the houses as Io was standing in the Kitchen with her mother. Water was boiling and the smell of food was lying in the air. With swift movements Io cut some vegetables into smaller pieces while the mother already put the plates on the table. "Okaa-san I didn't know that you were coming home today." The mother chuckled while placing chopsticks beside the plates. "Gomen Io-chan. Today I got free earlier, if I would have known that you would come home with such an handsome young men I would have stayed away." Io almost chopped off one of her fingers. "O-Okaa-san, please stop saying such things!" Io shouted flustered and tried to hide her embarrassment. "I couldn't let him walk all the way home soaked like this. Beside...he and my other friends took care of me as I was Ill yesterday so that's the least I can do for him, right?" The mother nodded. "Yeah...wait, what? You were Ill? Honey why didn't you call me?" Io threw the vegetables into a pot. "It wasn't that bad, I might feel a bit light headed right now but it's not like I going to die any minute." "Aaah, what kind of mother am I? Not even being called when something is with her daughter", She said in a dramatic way. "Well at least you have Murasakibara-san to keep an eye on you." Before Io could say something, steps resounded from the stairs. Ios Mother looked in interest to the stairs where Atsushi was walking down in his sport clothes. "Kyah, you look great! don't tell me you even play basketball Murasakibara-san, haaan, so manl-ouch!" With the newspaper from the morning Io gave her mother a little hit on the head. "The food is ready, Bara-kun", she said smiling before giving her mother a little hit into the ribs. "Okaa-san, please don't act so creepy." "Gomen, Gomen", she chuckled before walking after him into the kitchen. "Where is your brother Io?" Io sat down on the opposite site of Atsushi who was looking at the food with pure excitement. The bowl was filled with all kind of stuff and beside it were plates filled many kind of foods. "He said he is going to eat at a friend's house today. Bara-kun, feel free to take everything you want." Atsushi nodded. "Itadakimasu", he said before filling lots of stuff into his bowl and plate. "Seiya-san, your food is very delicious", he said after throwing stuff into his mouth, his eyes shining. "Oh my we are glad you like it Murasakibara-san. Say, why don't you stay over?" Io almost spit out her tea but Atsushi looked at her in interest. "Going home now at this hour is a hassle.... I Would have to call my parents first though." "Ahaha, don't worry I will do it for you!" Io sat stiff on her chair. "A-Anno, Bara-kun? You don't need to feel forced to stay over here. I can also bring you home if you-" "Can we make sweets?", he interrupted her. The Girl looked at him perplex for a second before she nodded slowly. "Y-Yeah we could make sweets if you want." Before Io could even stop them, her mother and Bara were already standing in the kitchen, helped each other and talked a bit. Io looked between them nervously. It was the first time that a male friend...or no...in general a friend slept over at her place. She was always way too shy to ask friends from her former school to sleep over, not to the mention that she was scared that her mother would make a big act out of it. Lost in her thoughts Io shoved her chair back and stood up, bringing her bowl to the counter. "Io-chan isn't it great? Atsushi-san will sleep over, his parents allowed it an-" the chimney of keys were hearable in front of the doors as it slowly opened up. Io went out of the kitchen to see who it was and seeing suddenly her brother standing in the door made her looking at him questioning. "Ara? What are you doing here? I thought you were eating with your friends Aoi-kun." Her brother looked at her with quiet a depressing look, putting off his shoes and placing them to the side. "I had a fight with her and now she kicked me out...", he muttered smashed. "Eh? you had a fight with furukawa-san? How come?" At that moment The mother jumped past Io and shook Aois shoulders. "What have you done son?! Did you offend her?! did you tell her she has small cup size?!" The brother flushed and tried to shove her off. "N-Nothing like that, beside why should I say something like this you nutcase!? She is just a bad loser when it comes to games okay? And you do-WHOA!" Suddenly Io saw her brother getting pale and realized that a shadow went over her. Atsushi was standing in the door frame behind her and looked at her brother with a bit angry expression: "Why is it so loud?" Now it was Io who tugged his shirt slightly angered. "Wait, Bara-kun, you should introduce yourself first!" The violet haired men scratched the back of his head. "What is that giant doing here?! And why is he wearing a basketball uniform? Is he a cosplayer?" The brother directly pointed at him and Io could feel how Atsushis mood immediately changed. "He is not a cosplayer! He got wet and had to change clothes! he i-" "He got wet, that's what she said", her mother suddenly giggled like a perverted school girl. Io blushed again. "Mo! You are behaving like children!" With those words Io stomped up the stairs dragging Atsushi with her up into her room while her brother and mother looked after them with an evil grin. Reaching her room, Io closed the door behind her and let herself fall on her bed, Atsushi standing in the room with no idea what to do. "Uruuu why do I have such a family? They are such cookie heads..." The pink haired girl looked. "Gomen, Bara-kun. I apologize for the behavior of my family. They are not used to guests." But the men didn't seem really to listen as in horror Io saw that her classmate found the box where she kept her most secret stuff. Immediately she jumped up and behind him, trying to snatch the magazines and games out of his hands "D-D-Don't look! Bara-kun, you can't!!" The men looked at them with a bored expression, keeping them in such a distance that Io won't reach them. "Doki Doki magazine and Otome games.. I didn't know you were interested in such stuff.." Io rolled past him and snatched away the box, her face utterly red, she stuttered something. "T-That is for private use! I-I mean not that kind of private use!! T-The thing is th-" from one second to the other Atsushi had turned around and turned on TV and her gaming console." W-Why?!" Io shoved the box under her bed. "A sport game.." "That belongs to Aoi-kun." Io sat down beside him. "Is there basketball on it?" Io shrugged. "I never played that one so I can't tell. DO you like playing games, Bara-kun." "How many times should I tell you that I'm not Bara-kun", he said slightly pissed. "You can tell me that every day, but for me you are Bara-kun!" The young men zapped in the menu of the game where he really found a basketball option. In a matter of seconds He immersed himself into the game, winning almost all the time and pressing the buttons angrily when he was about to lose. "Bara-kun, you are amazing at this! Even if it is a game, you seem to have a lot of fun with basketball!" With a swift move he threw the other controller at Io who picked it up perplex. "You are now the other team. "EH?! B-But I can't play such games! I-" "X is running, R2 is blocking..." within seconds he simply drew the buttons and actions at Io who randomly clicked around the controller, losing highly against her classmate. "You suck...", he said and looked at her serious. Io stared back at him with teary eyes. "So mean! I never played it, give me at least a chance!" After some seconds of hesitation Bara decided to show her slowly how the game works and soon Io got at least used to the actions that each button activates. With every game she felt like getting better and soon the both of them had real competitions. This went on till late night and Io had to admit that she really felt tired after all. "Shouldn't we go to sleep Bara-kun?", she asked and rubbed her eyes, yawning slightly. "Sleeping is boring...", he simply said but Io already stood up and made her bed ready. Then she stepped to her closet where she put out two fuuton. "I think one is too small", she muttered and rolled out on the ground, throwing a blanket and pillow onto it. Tired she lied down in her bed, facing the back of Atsushi. "You can play as you want, but you shouldn't stay up for too long. Tomorrow we have school after all." The young men just muttered something that she really couldn't understand. "Uhm, Bara-kun, do you think we are friends?" for a moment Atsushi stopped pressing the buttons and looked back at her. "Why that question?" Io hid even more under blanket and blushed slightly. "I-I'm just asking. Some say that there are friends and that there are classmates. That's why..." She sneaked out of her bed and cowered shortly beside him, holding her pinky finger at him. "Are we friends or just classmates?" Atsushi acted as if he was concentrating on the game, letting silence get into the room for a while. Only after a minute he put the controller away and gave in, hooking his pinky finger into hers, looking however to the other direction. "Don't get too full of yourself now..."He said but Io was shining from happiness. "I-I won't!", She said determined, realizing by now how big actually the difference between their hands is. As if he read her mind he glanced at her and took his finger away. "You should let your finger grow...they are too small..." With that Io went to her bed again and lied down. "I will try my best to grow taller Bara-kun! That's a promise." With those words she fell asleep after a while, drifting into comfortable dreams. Hosted by Animexx e.V. (http://www.animexx.de)