Chapter 32
Monopoly and Names
'"Give her hell from us, Peeves."
And Peeves, who Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset.' - Harry Potter (thanks to Asumi Ayumi for the quote)
'Nana: I wonder how many years it has been since me and you went on a vacation together? It feels like we're going on a date!
Tsuna: Ew, don't joke around like that, it's gross!'
Today's Reviewer Quote Thing :D
Me: Fuuta, please tell the authoress how awesome the beach is. Fuuta: The beach is ranked number one of all places people want to visit/be. Oh and Fran and Yuni are ranked number one for the most promising pairing in the future, and are ranked number one for weirdest couple. *Fuuta bows and goes off to go rank or something* - the amazing Paigecat
To: TopFroggyMagician
From: ProdigiousPokemonMaster
Irina is from England, so don't be racist, you goat. ...though, I admit, Irina is typically a Russian name.
And for the last time, Mukuro is NOT my brother! We don't even look alike -and don't you dare say anything about being secretly adopted, or being given away at birth, you idiot.
I think I'm going to visit today- after all, I haven't seen you in so long! (a day) Tell Squ-chan dearest that I'm coming, alright?
...or don't, the look on his face would be HILARIOUS.
Thanks!
Yours,
Yuni :)
After emailing Fran for the day (which had quickly become the regular thing to do), I greeted Gamma in the kitchen.
...and by greeting, I mean, tackling him into the refrigerator.
"Dammit- I mean, Mamet...?" Gamma trailed off, considering it.
Mama had made a rule (this had been when I was off kidnapping- I mean, finding...? Fran) that no one was allowed to swear around me. Puh-lease. I know Squ-chan and therefore, in relevance, all the curse words in the dictionary (and some that aren't.).
I sweatdropped. "What's a Mamet?"
Gamma shrugged. "Some play writer guy. American. You know how it is."
I facepalmed. As a former American, I'm not sure if I should be insulted or not. "Gamma...stop stereotyping people... oh, and I'm telling Mama you're swearing."
He grinned, believing himself to have won. "She's in Alaska."
"Your point?" I shot back.
He didn't have an answer to that one.
Not to insult Gamma or anything, Yuni-chan, dear, but he shall never stop stereotyping. Ever.
Probably not. But a girl can dream, right?
Right...
Are you giving me sass? I'm the sass in our relationship!
Sure...
You suck.
Refrain from insulting me, Yuni-chan.
No.
Fine. But we're in this together, right?
Umm, yeah.
Good.
I didn't answer her, mainly cuz I was kind of confused/creeped out.
I flung open the door to Varia Headquarters (flinging open this door was quickly becoming a reoccurring factor.) and just positively sang, "Superbi Squalo, I am an assassin here to kill you!"
Fran glanced up, from where he was sitting, in the great hall/living room, watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. "Oh, hi, pineapple fairy lady."
"Am I really not that threatening?" I wondered, crossing the room to sit beside him.
"Not really." he answered, surprisingly honestly.
"So what episode is it?" I asked, gesturing to the TV.
He turned it off. "Episode 0."
"Voi." I tried to make my voice sound like Squ-chan's. I failed. "That's my favorite show-"
"I know." he replied, evenly. "That's why I turned it off."
"You suck."
"Thanks."
"So where is Squ-chan and the others?" I asked, tugging him off the couch.
Fran gestured around the room. "Not here."
"...your lack of a good response makes me worried for your Language Arts grades." I confessed.
He shrugged, adjusting his frog hat. "I didn't go to school. I learn enough bullshit from Shishou."
I stared, pointedly at his new hat. "When did you replace the apple?"
He glanced up at his froggie hat and sighed. "Bel-sempai found out about my email address - by the way, I still hate you for that - and decided to match me up with it, saying something like 'Ushishishi, the prince thinks that the peasant is not froggy enough.' and then he pulled this out of frickin' nowhere and threw it at me."
I laughed, brightly. "Of course!"
"Oh, and something about how it's a sign of my apprenticeship under Mammon." he added.
"Nothing for the pineapple fairy?" I teased, slightly.
Fran shivered. "If they tried to style my hair like a pineapple, I would've killed them all."
I rolled my eyes. "Let's go find Squ-chan."
We found Squ-chan alright. He was covered in a mixture of glass, wine, steak, steak sauce, plate glass, spit and a grape lollipop.
"...do I even want to know?" I questioned.
"...no, not really." he admitted, pulling glass out of his hair.
I helped him pull everything out of his hair (Fran just stood off to the side, saying he didn't want to catch our stupidity) and he took like a thirty minute shower.
During that time, Fran created a Monopoly game out of illusions and we played it.
"I call being the dog." Fran said, immediately.
"No! Ah, you suck." I eyed the tokens. "Should I be the ship or the hat?"
"Hat." he smiled, slightly (I still CANNOT get used to him smiling). "Then we can match."
"Oh, har har." I mocked, picking up the hat.
The game was surprisingly un-violent, even though I was convinced that Fran was purposely manipulating the dice and board with illusions so he'd get the best ones.
"Doubles, again?" I demanded, when he moved his little dog twelve spaces. "And you landed on Boardwalk? You already own Park Place!"
He shrugged. "I guess I'm lucky."
Or a cheater.
It is the way of mankind, Yuni-chan, the way of mankind.
I don't give a fuck, if he fucks with my Monopoly, he dies.
You take this far too seriously.
If you fuck with my Monopoly, you die.
...noted.
Squ-chan came out of the bathroom, to see me half-strangling Fran. "You owe me! You landed on my Mediterranean Avenue! Pay up!"
"You ...do ...realize..." Fran was doing an awfully good job of keeping his voice monotone, even as I had my hands around his throat. "...that ...if someone ...came in and heard you ...they'd think...we were doing...some un-innocent...things."
"PAY UP." I insisted, even though my face was red. We were four. How un-innocent can you be, at that age?
"VOIII!" Apparently, Squ-chan thought you could be very, very un-innocent. "BOY! WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO?!"
He shot Squ-chan a dark look. "I landed on her Avenue, so I have to pay up."
...that does sound pretty dirty, I'm willing to admit.
Squ-chan flared his nostrils (I was dying of laughter on the inside, really.), pointing his sword (when did he get that?!) at Fran. "VOIII! You fucking die today!"
I rolled my eyes. "We're playing Monopoly, Squ-chan, dearest. And this fucker landed on my Mediterranean Avenue property and won't cough up the cash for renting out the place."
"It's two dollars." Fran deadpanned. "What use will that be?"
I held up my pitiful amount of $49 dollars, out of the original $1500. "It's worth a lot to a broken bitch!"
He sighed, and handed me two dollars...out of his $4, 975. "Here. Now shut up."
I huffed, adding the money to my collection.
Squ-chan frowned. "What are you-"
I froze him with a glare. "Don't fuck with my Monopoly, bastard, or you'll be pulling tokens out of your ass for weeks."
He gulped, but didn't say anymore, sitting quietly beside us.
I rolled a three, getting off the Chance property... "Park Place... Liberty Tax... Board- Fuck, no!"
Fran laughed, evilly. "$50, Yuni-chan." he mocked.
I threw the money at him, clutching my pitiful $1 to myself. "I fucking hate you, you bastard."
He added the payment to his money.
"Wait, why are we using American dollars?" I asked, suddenly.
Fran shrugged. "The author doesn't want to go searching for the Euros symbol."
"Fran, what the hell are you talking about?" I deadpanned.
He yawned. "Nothing big. Just the fourth wall."
I rolled my eyes. "It's your turn."
I had been dreaming. Of those distant ancient days
Near the stars that twinkle in the darkness
I count the days we met in that warmth that wrapped around me
On my fingers and fall asleep
There is a flower that blooms for eternity right here
As you hold me, I am right here
My tears are searching for you
Do the stars know? Each and every fate
Today is the current off one wish
Though wounds will heal with time, the mark of sadness
Is a mystery that will never disappear
The reflection in the eyes were just an instant somehow
The birth of this star be the light way ahead all the time
Even if we can never meet again, the one I love
Shines within me
This feeling of loneliness hidden behind my smile
Can't be helped, I'm fine with that
There is a flower that blooms for eternity right here
As you hold me, I am right here
Even if we can never meet again, the one I love
Continues to shine within my heart
-Kokoro no Hoshi by Yuni (Nanjou Yoshino)
Squ-chan was entranced with the game of Monopoly, and ordered us to teach him it.
Fran turned away. "No."
I threw the board at the swordsman. "Learn yourself, fucker!" I was in a bad mood from losing...
Squ-chan snapped the board in half, the cardboard disappearing, the illusion broken.
I sighed. Break a Monopoly board. All in a day's work.
I have never broken a Monopoly board in my life. In fact, I've never played the game.
Why not?
I...had a lot on my plate. The fate of the world...my true love dying with me..."
Well, who were you then?
I...was the same person I am now, just in a different form.
Who was that person?
That person? Someone I can never be again, but am, always.
Why not?
What is with all the questions today? Fran-kun is giving you a strange look, Yuni-chan.
I panicked, tapping back into reality.
Fran was, in fact, giving me a weird look. "What's up with you, space cadet?"
"Mars." I snapped. "The moon. Pluto. I'm pissed that it's not a planet anymore. I mean, it was discovered in 1930, and then, BAM. Two-thousand-fucking-six comes around and it ain't a planet anymore."
Fran blinked.
"It's just like the old stories!" I went on, getting worked up, even though I wasn't originally pissed about this. "Pluto was excluded from the surface, handed the shaft - do not say anything perverted, or I will fucking castrate you - and shoved into the underworld!"
"How is that relevant to anything at all? We were talking about Monopoly." he deadpanned.
"You know what, Fran?" I said, suddenly, standing, and storming to the door. "Fuck you."
I slammed the door, angry, and I wasn't even sure what I was angry out.
I kept walking, and walking, and walking. I didn't even know where I was going.
Yuni-chan?
What?!
Was it what I said? About me never being the same person again?
Yes! I-I'm the same person, personality-wise, but I...my family, I can't even...I can't even remember their names! Their faces are fading, from my memories, every day! I have to...I have to focus, on the storyline, or everything will be fucked up, and Tsunayoshi might die, and then-
Your family's names? You want to remember your family's names?
Not just that, but I want to remember their faces, I want to remember my own fucking name, too.
Your mother's name was Hanae. Your father's name was Ricardo. Your older sister's name was Alice. Your younger brother's name was Sebastian. Your younger sister's name was Elizabeth.
A flood of memories filled me, faces, laughter, terrible jokes.
Mother...oh, how could I have forgotten her? Kind, gentle smiles, but a sharp temper, and the best coffee on this side of the universe. Papa...oh, no, how could I? Long nights of Naruto marathons, ice cream sundaes.
A tear dripped off my nose. I hadn't even realized I was crying.
Alice, oh, Alice. She was everything I hadn't been, athletic, popular, just perfect. She had been the girl that everyone had wanted to be, even me. Sebastian, please... Hockey, lots and lots of hockey. We always mocked his name, saying it in a British accent, laughing amongst ourselves. Elizabeth had been our little dancer, spinning and frolicking to some unheard tune.
I choked back a sob.
How could I? How dare I?
Your name was-
To: ProdigiousPokemonMaster
From: TopFroggyMagician
The long-haired shark captain told me to apologize for being a 'fucking dumbass' I think it was.
I apologize for being a fucking dumbass.
There.
-Fran
But, seriously, where the hell are you?
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Disappeared has the sun, the moon has risen.
Three. Hundred. (and fourteen) Fucking. Reviews. Thank you. Thank you. I cannot thank you enough. Just...thank you.
Reviews (thank you)
TurtleAlchemist - I just love your name. I love it.
Ingmina - It's weird that you mention Don Kanounji (or whatever the fuck his name is), because just the other day, my dad and I were doing that dance move...thing together. I wanted to ask the question. *shrug*
Saskicheez - Throwing...apples?
The Ice Sorceress - I have a poll on my profile right now, to see what kind of story I will be writing after this. Go check it out, if you're curious.
Lanaught - Aria is pretty busy with the Giglio Nero stuff (and, apparently, Alaska 0.0).
anyandeveryanime - I'll be looking up your Instagram RP's.
FreeWeirdGal - Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon? Traditional... *nods, approvingly*
coldgazeproduction - I love DBZ! It rocks...my socks...and Yuni's socks...and Fran's...
Eruruu4 - Naruto is a magnificent anime. It rocks :D
CuteDork - Sarcasm is a gift from above. Thanks :)
Everren - Ship them. SHIP THEM. lol, I'm so pushy.
Asumi Ayumi - Crack pairings are so much fun, everyone can WTF and I can be all :3 It's great. I'm gonna steal your HP quote, cuz it made me smile :) I just love the twins, they're great, they're just magnificent. You always must watch more anime. It is like a law of nature.
shirokuromokona - Squ-chan's just gonna be like, "TAKE HIM BACK" and she'll just laugh, evilly and be like "No."
Furionknight - Thanks :)
a simple fan - Yeah, don't sacrifice me to Jashin-sama, lol.
Paigecat - NO, FUUTA, DON'T BETRAY ME TO...PAIGECAT! *hiss* Reborn'll probably kill Dino. Not her. Well, he might threaten her a bit, but not kill her...probably.
Michiyo - Thanks for the ice cream. Who hasn't seen Naruto?
UnfadingPromise - like there's no pineap- I mean, tomorrow. That was funny, thanks :)
xxZtoYxx - Levi-mice could probably stalk you...or boss...
CrimsonSkyTamer - Everyone loves Kyoya (they should make a show). I've never read Vampire Knight, just seen the show.
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MeLikesROFL - I don't think I'm going to do the manga, just do the anime.
Okay, time for my rant (oh god.) of the day :D Today, I was listening to some KHR! character songs. Then my sister came in and I started yelling at my older sister, Arika, with my headphone in my ear, so Kufufu no Fu was playing while I shouted my lungs out. I had to force myself to not start crack up laughing. And then Lambo-san no bayou came on, I kicked her out and burst out laughing.
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