Match 3

[mathisradical]

Action: Outside 1249 Williams Road

[ Niou steps out the front door just to trip over a package lying there. He trips, letting out a couple of swear words, and looks around quickly to see if anyone saw him. ]

Who the fuck-

[ He stops his angry question when he actually looks down to see what he tripped over. It's a package, and the shape of it is very, very familiar. He bends down to pick it up, turning it over in his hands. Could this be...? Tearing off the paper, he discovers that yes, it is! It's his tennis racket.

Seconds later, he's heading down the sidewalk and towards the rec center. If he remembers correctly, they have tennis courts. ]



Action: Rec center tennis courts

[ The dull sounds of tennis balls thumping against a racket and the courts are accompanied by the occasional grunt. Niou is serving balls hard over the net. He's easily fallen into a familiar rhythm, and it might take a bit to catch his attention as he's in the zone. ]

Comments

[myougi.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I have this feeling that you just want to crossdress. But what the hell, why not? I'm in. Even if I might regret it afterwards.

[mathisradical.livejournal.com]

[ He looks surprised, but just for a second, before smirking. He didn't actually expect Marui to go along with it. ]

I have a feeling that you just want to crossdress. [ Probably said in the most immature voice possible. ] But anyway. In that case, we need to get our hands on some chick clothes.

[myougi.livejournal.com]

Well, we have basically two options when it comes to that. First is getting clothes ourselves, which I don't think is gonna fly considering drones don't like it much if you buy things you're - [ he says this next part in an exaggerated tone - ] not supposed to. The second is asking around for help, I guess.

[mathisradical.livejournal.com]

[ A thoughtful look. ] Or if we didn't mind waitin' it out a bit, we could wait to see if I get my wardrobe back. It's totally a thing that can happen, and I have chick clothes in my closet. But that might mean waiting for quite a while, so we might have to ask for help.

[myougi.livejournal.com]

Usually regains come at, like... once a month, it seems.

[ ... ] I guess I could ask my not-sister for help. That might be a kind of awkward conversation, though.

[mathisradical.livejournal.com]

We'd be waitin' an entire month, then.

Or we could just ask for help over the phones. There's a way to screen calls from drones, I'm pretty sure.

[myougi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and that might not even be what you get back.

... Let's do that, then. I've made a few friends with girls around our age, maybe they'd help out.

[mathisradical.livejournal.com]

Right. In that case, I'll leave it to you to round up some girl clothes! I have other captain-ly duties to attend to.

[myougi.livejournal.com]

Ugh, do I have to.

... Fine, whatever, I'll do it. I totally don't believe that bs about 'captain-ly' duties, though.

[mathisradical.livejournal.com]

Yes, you're the one with the connections.

They are captain-ly duties. I have to come up with a plan C, and then a plan D, just in case plan A and B fail.

[myougi.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you have connections, too... but, whatever.

[ ... ] If I'm gonna hafta crossdress, it better not fail. Just sayin'.

[mathisradical.livejournal.com]

Well, we shouldn't fail, if I'm the one dressing us. [ He's done this before, if you can't tell. ] But plans B, C, and D are just-in-case things.

[myougi.livejournal.com]

Do they involve things that are equally or more embarrassing than crossdressing?

[mathisradical.livejournal.com]

Depends on what you consider to be embarrassing. Plan B involves violence and blackmail.

[myougi.livejournal.com]

Just to get people to join a tennis team? Isn't that kinda overkill?

... Man... how did we do this back home? All I remember are people showing up, not how we got them to show up...

[mathisradical.livejournal.com]

Nah. See, this is why I make a better captain. I think outside the box.

[ Looking somewhat serious now. ] ... We were Rikkaidai's invincible tennis team. They showed up because we were strong. Or awing. Or... fuck, I don't know. Maybe they showed up because of Yukimura. Because he's, you know... Yukimura. And he could make anything happen.

[myougi.livejournal.com]

Yeah... he really could. [ ugh, now he's kind of homesick. ] If he were still here now, it would be kinda helpful. Though it's better he's not, I know.

[mathisradical.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I know what you mean, though. [ A small sigh. ] But there's no point in dwellin' on it, really. Gotta make due with what we have.

[myougi.livejournal.com]

... Yeah. [ ... ] So! Operation Recruit-Via-Crossdressing, a.k.a. Operation "this is probably a bad idea." Let's do it as soon as possible and get it over with.

[mathisradical.livejournal.com]

You won't be sayin' that when dressin' like a girl makes you feel so undeniably pretty. [ Is that sarcasm in his voice? Hard to tell. ]

[myougi.livejournal.com]

I don't wanna be pretty, Niou. I don't think you understand that.

[mathisradical.livejournal.com]

Everybody wants to be pretty, Marui. Even if that desire is buried deep, deep in your heart.

[myougi.livejournal.com]

It's not buried deep in my heart. It doesn't exist.

[mathisradical.livejournal.com]

Denial is bad for the soul.

[myougi.livejournal.com]

But this isn't denial. It's the truth. Like, I think you fail to understand that not everybody thinks like you, Niou.