"No, Ken! No!!"
"Mouwahahahaha!" Ken had flung Tetsu onto the mattress. "Three! Two! One!"
"…" Tetsu's face spoke of immense shame as he picked himself up, and lowered his head. "One day, Ken, I swear, one day…"
"Forget it, Tetchan, you'll take a thousand years before you'll even reach my heels!" Ken gloated.
"Shut up!"
"Naa, I heard Hyde-kun likes weak girls." Ken's nonchalent eyes caught Tetsu's furious gaze.
"So?"
"It must be good to hear them scream, isn't it."
"…So, it was girlish of me to scream, huh?"
"Hey, I didn't say that!" Ken looked hurt, but Tetsu's fumes weren't dying down so fast as yet.
"BIG IDIOT!" Tetsu kicked Ken in the shins.
"That didn't do much, you don't have those big-assed shoes on!"
"…***(furious sparks)" A platform shoe flew into Ken's head quite accurately.
"Uuuuwaaaaoooo~" Ken sank like the Titanic…

(note: Ken has wrestled with Tetsu all his life and the result is… Infinity:zero.)

After Ken had scrammed and they had all eaten their dinner, Tetsu sat on his bed reading comics. His hair curled into his face as he sighed, "If only I'm stronger…"
Vacation time was also filled with brooding, especially since someone hasn't won a single wrestling match with his bandmates and had been dumb enough to agree to one recently.
He sighed again and again.
Recently the L'Arc members have had a wrestling competition. The winner was Hyde, who had been working out quite a bit.
He had been laughing when he saw Hyde beat Ken, but after being defeated countless of times he felt energy-less. The second was Ken and the third was Yukihiro.
...Of course, he was the last.
Indeed, Hyde was strong, and he was weak.
"Naa, I heard Hyde-kun likes weak girls."
"So?"
"It must be good to hear them scream, isn't it."
"…So, it was girlish of me to scream, huh?"
"Wait a minute." He blushed furiously. "Is Ken trying to tell me something?"
"…" Ten seconds and counting.
"Naaaah."
Failing to read the implications in Ken's words, Tetsu put his comic book aside and tied up his short hair. Large ears poked out at the side of his head, and his fringe hung down into his eyes. He strolled over to the cabinet, and began hurling things out of there.
Comics, and lots of comics. It occurred to him that he hadn't kept the things there in chronological order.
…Ah, yes. Tetsu found it. The Tetsu-uke doujinshi that Hyde had passed to him a few months earlier. He dusted it, and flipped through it. He blushed when he read that he was screaming in pleasure in Hyde's arms, large, lovely eyes bleeding tears and his lips parted in cries for Hyde to stop.
"Un…" He buried his head in his arms, and sighed, "Am I really so weak in everyone's eyes?"
(That's not the major concern, though.)
"…Even Hyde." He sighed. "Hyde… He ditched me. Ditched the band… It must be because I'm so weak… And he's so strong…"
"But they don't know who I am! They don't know it when I'm strong!" He consoled himself, and he pulled out something from within the recesses of his wardrobe.
"Supercute version one point one! Mouwahaha." He held the little doll-like duplicate of himself. It was indeed, super cute. Raggy hair kicked out in clumps at certain places, and large, innocent eyes stared up at him. Though, he wasn't so innocent.
He pressed the doll's nose, and energy flowed into him… With a "poof" sound, he became… Supercute!
Tetsu posed with a grin.
"Out to conquer the world, too! With cuteness! Behold, my minions of cuteness! Hello Kitty! Buruburu dog! Pokemon! Ho, ho, ho, soon there'll even be Supercute action figures of myself!"

Hyde had a bad feeling about the number of Hello Kitty toys in the market. He knew that there was a world-wide conspiracy about it! The minions of cuteness were out to destroy brains of children and youths!
"Today, Japan, tomorrow, the world!" Boomed a loud voice.
Hyde saw it coming from afar. A giant action figure of Hello Kitty was ravaging the city! And someone was standing on top of the action figure…
"Not again! It's the Outcaste's job! And I thought I was on vacation!" Hyde moaned.
33-year-old Hyde was both a vocalist of famous rock band and also the protector of this world. With his stronger character, he controlled the minions of Outcastes (aka those who didn't buy the Supercute figures), and they obeyed him. "Battle Pokemon! Come out, Kogepan!"
"Poof!"
A giant burnt-bread action figure materialised into the air. He rushed into a nearby public toilet and hurriedly pulled on his suit. He jumped on top of the giant Kogepan.
"Go!!!"
"…!" Hello Kitty glared at Kogepan and shot a Supercute glare at it. (Hello Kitty has no mouth…)
"Roar!" Straight from Kogepan's body was a giant cloud of soot.
Just as Hello Kitty was rubbing her eyes, Kogepan had tackled her in a flying head-bang.
"Oh, no!" Hyde gasped when he saw who was on top of Hello Kitty.
Without hesitance, he flew away from the two collapsing figures of Kogepan and Hello Kitty, and swooped down in a flurry.
Too late.
Supercute was going down with his Hello Kitty.
"Nooo…!" Hyde plunged forward, to shield the Supercute from the two giant collapsing action figures.

…
Black.
"Nnnn…" Light gradually dawned.
While the SOS team of Tokyo was still struggling to clear the streets of the giant action figures, Tetsu lay in the middle where an explosion had clearly taken place. And someone lay on top of him.
"…It's the Outcaste," He realised, as he looked into the face mask of the superhero.
"Super… Cute…" Outcaste raised his head feebly, and reached forward to caress Tetsu's cheek.
Hey, that seems familiar, Tetsu thought. Like… That was like Hyde caressing his own cheek.
"Are you okay?"
"Un…" Tetsu recalled the scene when they were going down, and all of a sudden Outcaste had jumped from his action figure towards where he was… "You… Protected me?"
"Let's go, Tetchan, before the police comes and sues us for infringement of copyright," Said Outcaste, and he crawled up from Tetsu's body.
Strong… Stronger than Tetsu.
Outcaste's hand reached out, and pulled Tetsu up.
"Wait… Why did you save me?" Tetsu asked.
"You're really slow, aren't you?" Outcaste sneered, "Because I like weak girls."
"I'm not a girl!" Tetsu yelled.
"We'll see," said Outcaste, and he pulled Tetsu up, and flew away.

At Tetsu's apartment…
Tetsu sat on the bed, watching the TV screen as they featured the giant action figures rampaging the city.
"Ara…" He sighed, "I'm so weak, that even my opponent saves me in the end!"
He burst into tears.
"Mou…"

At Hyde's apartment, the alien forces were yelling at Hyde.
"Idiot! We didn't employ you just to have you save the enemy!"
"So? You can fire me if you want to, naa?"
"…!" The alien employers were bursting in fury.
"Ta, I have to see if my bandmate is okay from the ordeal," Hyde waved the aliens goodbye.
(Alien one:)"Grrr… He's always so cocky after he comes out from the wound-healer. Just think, before that he was almost yelling blue murder from the pain!"
(Alien two:) "Of course, he's the Chosen One… If only you didn't tell him that no one else can take the job."
(Alien one:) "Blame it on my big mouth…"

"Riiiing! Riiiing!" The phone rang.
"Mosh—"
"Tetchan~~~~"
"Ah, Hacchan?"
"Oi! Are you alright?"
"Huh?"
"What with all the rampages from action figures and all… Naa, can I come over now?"
"Sure."
Tetsu heard the dial-tone.
Two seconds later, just as Tetsu was about to scold Hyde inwardly for being impolite…
"Pin~ Po~n!" The doorbell sounded.
"What?!" Tetsu was incredulous.
"Open up, damnit!" It was Hyde's voice.
Tetsu smiled. So, Hyde has already come!
"Shitsureishimasu~" Hyde grinned, as he stood at the doorway.
Tetsu blushed, when he just remembered that he'd totally failed in trying to be strong… Even in Supercute mode he was still so weak that he had to be saved by his opponent. How was he going to face Hyde now? Hyde, the strong one? "Welcome…"
"Why are you so down?" Hyde almost pounced onto Tetsu when the door was opened.
"Take off your shoes, idiot!" Tetsu pushed Hyde away.
"Naa, so cute." Hyde grinned, and took off his shoes. He followed Tetsu into the bedroom, "Are you in your antisocial moods again?"
"Don't disturb me!"
"…You said I could come over." Hyde said matter-of-factly.
"Now you've seen that I am fine, you can go!" Tetsu yelled, his face now totally red.
"What's wrong?" Hyde asked, advancing closer to Tetsu instead of moving away.
His hand touched Tetsu on the forehead, and Tetsu burst into tears.
"…"
"It's all over."
"…" Tetsu nodded, "I'm still so weak. I can't do anything at all, Hyde! No wonder you wanted separation from me…"
"Separation?" On Hyde's face was confusion.
"You don't want to work together with me anymore, right? You're ditching me, right?" Tetsu cried even harder.
"What makes you say that?"
"The solo work and all… Because I can't protect the band if I wanted to, right? I'm the weakest, but I'm the leader…"
"That's not the issue, really," Hyde said with a smile. "Sorry, I didn’t know it'll hurt you so much…"
"I know I'm weak, just say it, Hyde, you're strong, you can do whatever you want."
"Yeah, you're really weak. But… It doesn't matter. I like weak girls, Tetchan…" Hyde grinned, and he pushed Tetsu down onto the sheets.
"What…! No…! Stop, Hacchan… No… Aa… Aaahh… nnnn…"

-end-
Friday, 21 June 2002 3:31:04 PM
Notes: Tetsu's the one who uses "ore"… Hehe, so cute, it's like an automatic defence system. And the call + 2 seconds later + pin~pon is from a 96 (I think) magazine… ^^ Yes, it did happen! So cute…^.^ (actually, it looks like yukihiro would be the strongest in real life judging from the muscles, but Ken's real tall and Hyde's learnt kungfu… :-/ But for sure, Tetsu is still the weakest! ^.^ [no muscles, no height, no kungfu…hehe…so cute~])