Ryunosuke Akiyama and Alexander Kisaragi
Location: The Lovers Club HQ | Interactions: Haruhi (@ScarletNova), Miyuki (@DANAsaur) | Mentions: Naomi, Aki
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"Ugh, I'm already regretting joining Ryu to this club today," Alexander thought as he watched how the classroom was quickly getting crowded with new members. He knew that Haruhi and her club members worked hard this week trying to attract new people to join their club to avoid its closure, but nobody knew that this many people would actually come today to join. In Alexander's eyes, everything went out of hand. However, after seeing Haruhi's excited and happy face, Alexander couldn't do anything other than smile to himself as his heartbeats increased. He was happy for her and her club, which she put a lot of effort into these past years in keeping it active.
Sighing, the blonde Tsundere turned to his left and walked toward an empty chair, and sat down, crossing his right leg while taking out his phone to entertain himself. Whatever is going to happen now with the club, it was none of his business as he wasn't a member. He was just there because Ryunosuke practically dragged him like he always does. And, of course, he accepted just by the simple fact that he can be with his beloved Haruhi.
"Ryunosuke-sama, wake up."
A gentle voice was more than enough to wake up Ryunosuke after getting knocked out by a smack from a book. As he opened his eyes abruptly, he lifted himself like a zombie. Then, he turned around and looked everywhere with a frown.
"Who the hell dared to attack me from behind, eh!?" he shouted angrily and lowered himself to grab the book he was smacked with. "And with a book!? That's just rude! Ugh, I just hope that at least it's a good book, damn it!" As he said those last words, Ryunosuke forcibly opened the book at a random page and began to read a few words from it. Blinking thrice, he flipped another page, calming himself as he kept reading.
"O-Oh, it's a good book, actually," he said with surprise. "Huh. Whoever threw me this, it got a good taste, that's for sure... Wait, no, Ryunosuke, focus. You're supposed to be angry with this person."
Closing the book, Ryunosuke turned his glare to the whole classroom and finally realized the whole place was crowded with new people that joined the club while he was unconscious. With a surprised Pikachu face, the black-hair octopus-head blushed in embarrassment. This wasn't the impression he wanted to give the newcomers. As he moved his sight to his left, he spotted Alexander sitting on a chair while looking down at his phone. Pouting, Ryunosuke stormed his way to him, pushing away two people that were in front of him.
"O-Oi, Alex-kun!" he said as he reached his blonde friend. "Why you didn't tell me we had people here before making such an awkward scene?" Frowning, Ryunosuke raised the book and gently bonked the top of Alexander's head.
"I-ITAI!" With a slight yelp, Alexander covered his head as he got smacked on it. When he moved his head to face his attacker, he quickly stood up from the chair. "Do you want to die today, idiot!?" he shouted at Ryunosuke with a low growl. "Why was that for, huh? If I remember correctly, I didn't do nothing to you!"
"You didn't wake me up or make sure I was okay after being knocked out!" Ryunosuke answered. "What kind of friend does that, huh? Weren't you worried I wouldn't wake up from that, mmh?"
Alexander squinted his eyes and clicked his tongue in annoyance. "Ugh, for crying out loud, you're just being a dramatic idiot. It will take more than a lame-ass book to kill you. I knew you were fine. Even Haruhi told everyone to not be worried about you. Just move on, okay? It's not the first time you get hit by random things anyways."
Gasping, Ryunosuke hugged the book with a sad expression and teary eyes. "S-So, nobody cared at all about me?" he asked Alexander with a sniff, which caught his attention. When he looked up at Ryunosuke and found him so depressed, he alarmed himself. "I-I... Geez, if you say it like that, it does sound mean... But, yeah, that pretty much summarizes things."
That obviously didn't help at all to calm down Ryunosuke as the poor guy just broke into crying. Panicking, Alexander flapped his arms beside him. "W-Wait, don't cry, Ryu-kun, I was just joking!" he told him, trying to console him. "Oh, come on, don't be like that. People will think that I'm bullying you or something."
With no other options, Alexander stepped closer to Ryunosuke, lifted himself a little bit, and began to pet the top of Ryunosuke's head with his right hand. "There, there, stop crying, you're too old for that. And, sorry, I didn't mean to be mean, okay? Geez."
Sniffing, Ryunosuke finally calmed down. Then, he turned his back at Alexander. "I bet you don't mean that. You will be mean to me again after a minute. Hmph." With that, Ryunosuke smacked away Alexander's hand from his head.
Alexander sighed and crossed his arms, turning away from Ryunosuke. After thinking for a minute, he smirked. "Oh, so that's how it's going to be, mhm? Well, I guess that, since I don't have anyone to share, I will have to eat all these cookies by myself." With a scoff, Alexander took out a bag of chocolate chips cookies from one of the pockets of his pants. Then, he shook the bag a little bit.
After hearing the bag of cookies, a string of hair perked up on the top of Ryunosuke's head as his attention got caught. He slowly began to turn around to look over at Alexander, which opened the bag and took out a cookie. As he opened his mouth and lifted his hand to eat the cookie, Ryunosuke made swiftly moved toward Alexander and chomped the cookie from Alexander's hand, surprisingly avoiding biting his fingers.
Chuckling, Alexander turned around to look at Ryunosuke, which was happily munching the cookie. "Geez, you're like a big puppy, Ryu-kun. Miyuki is in for a treat with you."
Blinking in confusion, Ryunosuke swallowed the cookie. "H-Huh? What does Miyuki have to do with this?" he asked his blonde friend. "Wait, what does that even mean, Alex-kun? What is in your..." Ryunosuke got interrupted by Alexander thrusting another cookie in his mouth. "Kek, you'll find out later."
Suddenly, the benevolent Cupid Queen of Bara High told everyone in the classroom to split into groups and have a fictional date. Opening their eyes in surprise, both Ryunosuke and Alexander looked at themselves before looking at everyone in front of them, some of them already picking partners.
"N-Nani? Did Haru-chan was talking about something?" Ryunosuke asked, sweating nervously. Alexander nodded with the same nervous mood. "Yep, and we both completely missed every single word she just said," he replied with a nervous chuckle. "If we want to live another day, we better act as we listened to her." Ryunosuke nodded, but then looked down at Alex. "B-But what if she asks us questions related to what she just said!? I-I'm bad at lying!"
Sighing, Alexander looked up at Ryunosuke, grabbed him by the collar of his shirt, and pulled him down, closer to his face. "Keep your shit together, Ryu-kun," he told him with a firm voice. "If you talk to her being a nervous wreck, you're going to make her suspect about us. So, chill out, and don't mess this up for us, will you?" Ryunosuke quickly nodded at Alexander, mostly because he was super scary when he was that serious.
As Alexander let him go, Ryunosuke pouted while fixing the collar of his shirt. "Geez, you don't need to be so violent, Alex-kun," he told him. "And what are we going to do now? Haru-chan said something about picking partners for a fictional group date. This one is going to be hard. We don't know half of the people that are in here."
Suddenly, some shivers ran through Ryunosuke's spine as he felt a malevolent aura radiating from Alexander. Swallowing hard, Ryunosuke slowly looked down at his short friend, which was laughing like a villain to himself as he scanned with his eyes everyone in the room, and a weird purple aura was surrounding him. "H-Huh... A-Alex-kun, are you okay, buddy?" Ryunosuke asked with a worried expression.
"Ryu-kun... What do you say if we kidnap a few people for our own dating group, mhm?" he asked with a deep voice, joining his hands together and tapping his fingers as he was elaborating an evil plan in his head. Lowering his jaw in shock, Ryunosuke observed how Alexander slowly turned around to face him, laughing maniacally. "You still got those ropes and tape, right? We might need them for this."
"Alexander, no!" With a swift movement of his right hand, Ryunosuke karate chopped Alexander on top of his head, making him yelp with pain. Then, he rubbed his head. "O-Oi, what the hell, Ryu! Why you did that for!?"
"You can't kidnap people and force them to date you! That's just weird and you just told me that it was illegal when I suggest kidnapping people to join this club. What will Haruhi think about you if she finds out that, huh?"
"Oh, for fu..." Sighing with annoyance, Alexander closed his eyes and rubbed the bridge of his nose for a few seconds. Then, he opened his eyes and looked up at Ryunosuke. "I was just freaking joking, you dumb green giant. What I really meant is that I already picked who will join our group."
Ryunosuke stood still for a minute as his brain slowly processed everything before standing straight, laughing loudly. "A-Ah, I see, I see! Well, my bad, Alex-kun!" He kept laughing, rubbing the back of his neck. "Phew! What a relief knowing you were joking. For a minute, I thought you just lost it and turned into a psychopath, but, of course, that's just ridiculous. Ha, ha! Geez, I have such a wild imagination."
Shaking his head, Alexander crossed his arms and turned around to face everyone. Ryunosuke stood on his right to look at everyone as well.
"We starting with Haruhi, obviously."
"I'm not even surprised by that."
"Then we go with Miyuki."
"O-Okay, that one caught me off-guard, but she probably won't want to join us."
"And as an extra, we're going to pick that cute white-haired girl over there with a cat."
"Huh? Do you even know her?"
"Nope, but while you were knocked out, she presented herself as Suzuki Naomi. She's a Japanese-American, just like me, and, you know, I thought it will be a great idea to know her and befriend her. She looks really nice and friendly."
"I see... Wait, does that mean you have some "personal interests" with her too? Don't tell me you're going to replace Haru-chan for her."
"Not even in a million years, you octopus head. I just want to be friends with her, nothing else. My body, soul, and heart belong to Haru-chan."
"Good to know. I panicked for nothing for a second there."
"Oh, I almost forgot, we should bring that blonde dude besides Miyuki. I think it's her cousin or something. He hugged the crap out of her when he entered this classroom."
"H-He what...?"
Pouting, Ryunosuke crossed his arms as he locked his glare on Nakamura Aki, Miyuki's cousin and which introduction he missed like half an hour ago. He furrowed his eyebrows and tapped his right index on his shoulder. He doesn't know why but he was feeling quite annoyed by Aki being way too close to Miyuki. And you can say he was jealous as well.
"Tch, I don't know him, but I already dislike him. How dare him being that close to Miyuki? W-Wait, why I'm angry about this? I, huh... This is so confusing right now."
As a light shade of blush covered Ryunosuke's cheeks, Alexander looked up at him and smirked mischievously. "Kek, kek, kek... My plan is working," he thought, trying to hold his laugh. "This fake group date will probably be more than enough to pair up these two for good or at least wake up those hidden feelings they have for each other. Fufufu~ Sometimes I got scared of my own genius."
Clearing his throat, Alexander began to walk toward Haruhi. "I'm going to talk to Haru-chan about this. Why don't you go to Miyuki and invite her to join us, mhm?"
Ryunosuke frowned and nodded, cracking his knuckles as he kept staring at Aki. "Oh, you can bet that I will go there and get her away from that weirdo."
And with that, Ryunosuke began to make his way toward Miyuki, thinking about how he will convince her to join Alex and him on their fake date group. He guessed she will say no without thinking it twice, but he had to try it, at least to get her away from Aki because he just doesn't like him to be that close to her.
"Yo, Miyu-chan," Ryunosuke said as he got closer to her, casually raising his right hand to greet her. With a small smile, he looked at her before moving his head to look at Aki. There's when his smile got replaced with disgust. Then, he quickly looked back at Miyuki and smiled once again. "I-I, huh... I was wondering if you already teamed up with somebody else. Y-You know, with another date group. B-Because I... ALEXANDER and I wanted to invite you. He will ask Haruhi to join us as well, so don't worry. B-But, i-it's okay if you don't want to join us, though. I-I'm not trying to force you or anything, you know. I..."
Ryunosuke found himself sweating nervously and stuttering while talking nonstop at Miyuki. Apparently, rehearsing everything in his head didn't help him at all. Now, he probably looked like a nervous wreck, and unfortunate enough to be in front of this dumb-looking Aki guy.
Back to Alexander, he reached Haruhi, and once he saw her alone, he nodded and walked toward her. "Hey, Haru-chan," he said with a bright smile, waving his hand at her. "I-I, huh... D-Do you already made your own date group or teamed up with somebody else? B-Because, I was thinking about... I-Inviting you to join mine with Ryu-kun." With a nervous chuckle, Alexander looked to his right and rubbed his cheek with his index finger. "B-But, you're not forced to accept if you don't want to, okay?"
~ Yuuta Satoshi ~ 
