Fur
Author: Aki
Focus: Shizuka/Hiroyuki with some bonus pairings for kicks!
Rating: PG
It was culture fair time, and everyone know what that meant. Wacky concepts in the quest for originality, crazy misunderstandings and secret crushes being played upon in the folk dance. So basically, it was the time of cheap plot devices. Hiroyuki's homeroom, which had chosen a cafe (real surprise there) and no longer was in much need of his help, because aparently everyone demanded female waitresses. He went to the other side of the building, looking to see what was up with Shizuka's homeroom.
What he found were two people in large fursuits, one as a black cat and one as a fox. Loudly, the both of them shouted, "Come see the 'Horror Battle Flirtation Cute Animal Pretty Waitress Cafe'! Fight to stay alive as you drink your tea! Take pictures of ghosts and turn them in for prizes! Come look at our cute waitresses!"
All in all, it was the strangest thing that he'd ever heard of. The cat person suddenly noticed him and nearly pounced on him. "YOU! Aren't you going to come and drink tea in our lovely cafe?"
"No. I came to find Shizuka Maboroshi." Hiro said, mildly agitated and extremely creeped out by the desperate vendor.
"Shizuka? She's in there. Go, go, you can find her!" The cat shoved him into the classroom and shut the door behind him, refusing to open it again even though Hiro was pounding loudly on the door.
He gave up, and even though the classroom was pitch black, he figured that this was all just part of the weird concept, something would jump out and scare him, and then he'd get some tea and be served. Or at the very least, he'd find Shizuka. For one part, he was right, something did jump out and scare him. But it wasn't some cheesy ghost, it was the fist of a very enthusiastic (in a scary, enraged sort of way) blonde pretty boy. "ARE YOU HERE FOR THE TEA... OR FOR THE PASTRIES?!"
Hiro jumped backwards, just barely getting his glasses smashed into his face, "I'm here to talk to Shizuka Maboroshi!"
"Is that so?!" Said the boy (then again, it could've been a girl, from the voice) just barely missing kicking him in the jaw as he scrambled away.
"Y-yes!" He said, pounding on the door again. No wonder they weren't getting any business. Who'd want to be assaulted by a madwoman (or madman) instead of drinking tea?
"Hmph." The blonde nodded and flicked the lights of the classroom on. In the darkness, waitresses had aparently just sat in the dark, trying to do various kinds of activities. A blonde girl glared at him as she attempted to make a bouquet of lillies and daffodils, with a flower symbolism book on one side of her and one of flower arranging at her right. A black haired girl scowled at him as she carved an utterly terrifying lilly with a name wrapped inside of it on something shiny and quite possibly pointy. He quickly averted his eyes.
The boy?(girl?) was now busy getting hit on by someone he knew, Osric Archer. Despite the irritated look on the androgynous one's face, he or she was not beating the crap out of him, something they could obviously do. Osric raised an eyebrow at Hiroyuki as he looked about the class, then went back to molesting his blondie.
Finally, he spotted Shizuka, after being scowled at by all of the waitresses in the class. She was, of course, asleep on one of the tables, when he tapped on her shoulder to wake her up.
She woke up with a jolt, scrambling out of her chair, "Welcome to the Horror Battle Flirtation Cute Animal Pretty Waitress Cafe! May I get some tea or cake for you?"
"No, that's fine. I just came to see how you and your classroom were doing." Hiro said. He noticed why there was a "cute animal" part in the cafe's name. Shizuka was wearing a pair of cat ears and a tail, with whiskers drawn onto her face and a bell collar around her neck. It was probably a good thing that there weren't many customers, otherwise they might get accused of catering to some weird fetishes.
"We're both good, I think. No much business, though. I don't get it, because everyone combined their ideas into one super mega idea, but nobody came. It was supposed to have something for everyone." She sighed, sitting back down into her chair.
"Well, maybe everything all mixed up isn't exactly the best, you know? Some people might like cute animals, but not horror, or someone might like battles but not waitresses." He gave her a small smile, and a comforting hug.
"I guess that's true. But we really did work hard on it."
"I know, I know. Here, I'll go buy us some tea, alright?" He gave her a pat on her head, and went off to request some tea.
Callista then jumped through the window and exploded. Hey, I said it was the time of wacky plot devices, right?
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