Chapter 56: -24- Out of Place

~~** Tachibana Mayuri’s Point of View **~~

It made me think of my younger days when I used to practically live at an arcade after school in Sapporo.  Thinking about the naughty things I had done in such a place in my wilder days really brought me back, and at the same time really made me feel out of place as well.

As soon as Shota-kun gave us coins to play with, Chigusa immediately snatched him away and led him over to the area where the racing games were.  She always loved racing games, and as a kid her favorite toys were race cars and motorcycles.  While an actual car was out of the question because of Daigo’s stinginess, I wished at least she could have had an affordable motorbike to get around on.

With Shota-kun’s best friend and Nene-san’s daughter having also gone off together as well, I was left alone.  Not that I minded, I’m quite capable of navigating an arcade on my own. In fact, I was having fun just watching the youths around me having a good time.  Though times had changed, somewhat.  Back in my day you could smoke inside of an arcade.  This one was as clean as a whistle.

I walked around for a bit looking at the new era’s games, and wondered for how long kids would still come to a place like this now that everything's online.  Shota-kun owns a console, but I’m not familiar with how to set it up and I never bothered to ask him or Chigusa to help me set up a profile so I could play.

When I came across an old shooter game which had to be twenty or more years old and in surprisingly good condition, I was surprised to see people still misbehaving while playing it.  It was a two-player game, where one drove something like a modified blue jeep with huge tires and mounted guns on it.  Both the driver and the passenger had a gun and they had to shoot dinosaurs while driving either towards it or away from it, depending on who was doing the chasing.  There were of course small fry and debris which one had to shoot out of the way or take damage.

There were currently three people playing it.  One was a handsome looking boy for his age who looked like he played sports, and two blonde haired gyarus. I stood back and observed as the shorter of the two girls was sitting on the boy’s lap as he drove looking around the side of her head, while she held his gun and shot at the screen haphazardly.  The other girl was taller, had a carnation rose in her hair, and was in a half-standing-half-kneeling position and firing away at everything she could with abandon.

“Damn it, Mahimahi!  Just shoot the fucker in the ass, I’ll handle the cleanup coming at you!”

“I am shooting it, Rinacchi!  The thing has like a million health or something!”

“Keep an eye on your bullets, stop being a noob!”

“Don’t yell at me!”

“It’s okay Mahiro, just do your best, ‘kay.” The young man said.

“B-but it’s weird playing the game this way, Kawazu!”

“Aw, are you saying it’s not fun?  Kouta and Shi-chan said it was super fun when they did it!”

“It’s fun… it’s just really um… distracting having you… inside of me while I’m trying to shoot!”

“Well, I’m just the substitute driver, I only turn the wheel when you shift the stick, babe!  The bet is if I can last until the end, otherwise Rina gets her turn, and you know how that’s gonna go!”

“Mou~  Kawazu, you’re so insensitive!”

“Will you two retards focus on the game please!?”

Oh my, so kids today are still doing things like that too, huh?

Ufufufu~

I politely gave them their much needed space, and continued exploring the arcade.  I eventually came across a pair of young girls by the crane game machines.  One reminded me of the silvery-blue haired girl Shota and I had come across on our honeymoon, but she looked much younger and shorter.  She was there with another girl who was about the same height as she was and happened to have long flowing black hair.

“UFO Catchers are a scam, Ruru-chi, but there’s a secret to them that lets you win every time!  In the underground hacking community, it’s known that there’s an input pattern for certain machines that will force the claw to have extra grip if you do it before inserting your quarter.  Don’t you often see the guy who reloads it with prizes always test it immediately after and how that one test turn always wins?  It’s because they know the pattern for the machine!  Now, smart vendors change it sometimes, but ninety-nine out of a hundred times it’s one of the default patterns, and I have a list of them right here.”

“So, we can get that toy that looks like Kuu-tan?”

“Of course.  Who would have thought they’d have an pair of Inki-chan plush dolls in this hole in the wall arcade?  I had no idea you like Inki-chan!”

“I don’t.  The baby won’t go to sleep without holding on to his Kuu-tan doll though, so I thought I’d get something similar to swap with it so I can get my Kuu-tan back!”

“…that’s why you dragged me out here, so you can get his stupid doll back from your own child?”

“I can’t sleep well without it when he’s not there!”

“You’re so spoiled, I swear!  Fine, then I have a condition.”

“What is it?”

“I want another threesome!  It’s been forever since you had the baby and we haven’t done anything together!  I really miss the fun times we used to have together.  Now that onee-san is back, it’s like he never has any time for us!  It’s always those two!  Even Shiori feels left out, and she’s about to pop!”

A threesome?  Onee-san?  Is there a chance she’s related to that one young woman from that time…?

“That’s because he’s been busy with both of them trying… they went on that trip together recently if you remember.”

“Yeah, but between all the work he has at the game company, seeing everyone else, and then the babies… don’t you feel left out, too?”

“Not really, but I understand where you’re coming from.  I’ll talk to him, okay?  Maybe it won’t be tonight, but definitely soon!”

“You better keep your promise…!”

“Until then, I’ll make sure you aren’t bored in bed, Chichi.”

It seems as if the children these days are a lot more open about their relationships and their own gender roles in them.  Talking about a threesome and having babies out in public while being so young… It really left me thinking about some things.

Shota-kun might not be against the idea of one with Chigusa and I.  That, and the one giving him his first child will be her and not me.  Not that I’m particular about that last part, personally I think it’s too soon for me to have another child as well.  I also want that taste of freedom he mentioned, but at the same time, it’s a woman’s desire to have children with the man she loves too…

Maybe it’s just my own emotions looking for an outlet.

I felt a pair of arms wrap around my waist, and a pair of lips wet the nape of my neck suddenly.

“There you are, my beautiful wife!  I was hoping if you weren’t too busy, you’d play a few rounds with me?”

“I’d love to, but what game?”

“The one we were playing when we first met!”

“Alright, but don’t ask me to go easy on you.”

“Have I ever?”

“Ufufufu~  is that a challenge for later?”

“Now you’re making me reconsider…”

“Too~ late!  Time to take your lumps like a man.”

I teased him all the way to the row of machines near the rear of the building, where we both sat down opposite of each other and began playing one of my favorite fighting games, Streets of Fighting!

Now, Shota-kun swears out of the ten games we played officially, he won five of them.  Considering how much of that I remember, which is next to nothing due to how drunk I actually was, I had trouble believing him.

Five games later, I don’t believe him at all anymore.

He didn’t even win a single round.

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“Mayuri-san… you’re just too good.”

“Did I hurt your pride, Shota-kun?”

“A little, yeah.”

I would have felt bad, but man or woman, I won’t go easy when the new challenger has appeared announcement calls out to me.  It’s just something he will have to learn to deal with.  Because, I’m only strong like this in a video game…

Shota got up and came over to give me a kiss.

“It was fun Mayuri-san!  I’m going to try and find Kumi-chan so I can talk up Raita’s merits to her, since that was part of the reason for this date.”

“The boy has merits?” I asked snarkily.

“If he does, it beats me what they are.”

“Shota-kun… you have a video game thing at home, don’t you?”

“Consoles?  I have a couple of them, actually, why?”

“Do you have fighting games for them too?”

“I don’t, however I can always buy whichever one you like from the online shop.  Do you want to play some more of them at home?”

“Would you mind if I did?  Maybe I can get a little drunk and give you a handicap next time?”

“I’ll gladly buy my wife, the queen of fighters, anything she wishes!  But no handicaps.  Instead, teach me how to be as good as you!”

“Hmm, I can tell you what to do, but playing fighting games is like having sex, you know?  You have to learn it by repetition with your body.  Ufufufu~”

Shota-kun is cute when he’s determined.  Even cuter when he’s blushing knowing that he can’t hope to win against me in the bedroom yet either.  As he parted from me with a hug to go see to his friend who is the reason for our little date here in the first place, I suddenly had no desire to challenge the computer opponent I was left with playing against.

The lights and noises in the arcade were actually getting to me a little bit, but I didn’t want to be a buzzkill to Shota or Chigusa, so I stopped by the vending machine on the way out, grabbed a bottle of water and then stepped outside for some fresh air.

I was fishing around in my purse for my bottle of aspirin, and for the hell of it a cigarette, when one of the gyarus from earlier, the taller one who was doing all the shooting and the yelling at the other two came up to me asking me if she could have one as well.

Even though doing so is probably a crime, I obliged her.

“Thanks.” She said taking a long draw.

“No problem.”

We both sat down, and I took a painkiller as we hung out and made small talk for a little bit.  She was pretty friendly even though she had a resting bitch face.  The direction of the conversation went to relationships, and I asked her about what I suspected was going on between the other two.

“Oh, so you’re going out with him, but due to some events you had him date your friend at the same time?”

“That’s right.  It’s mostly because of how it seemed to work out with our mutual friends who are in a similar relationship.  To be honest I’m kind of enjoying the situation myself.  My boyfriend, who I was on-and-off again with, is a bit of a stud.  As much as I like doing it with him, sometimes I’m not in the mood, and she takes the burden off of my shoulders.”

“But are you really okay… sharing the same guy?”

“At first I wasn’t sure if I would really be okay, but Mahi’s been my friend for a while, and we’re pretty inseparable these days.  I don’t know how long it will last, but I really am enjoying it while it does.”

“Would you mind if I asked something personal?”

“Sure, shoot!”

“Do you three do it at the same time?”

“You mean do we have threesomes?  Sure, quite often, actually.”

“With your friend… are you open to doing things with her too, or just with your boyfriend?”

“That’s quite the question you are asking, auntie.”

“Ah, if I’m being too personal, I apologize.  I just thought I might ask, because I’m in something of a similar situation myself.”

“The guy you’re dating brought in another girl to your relationship, or did you?”

“Actually, the guy is my husband.  But yeah, the girl he dated before we got married is back in the picture and living with us. She sort of came into both of our lives out of the blue right after we got married.  I was the one who decided she could stay with us temporarily, though soon things got a bit troublesome with her.  He promised not to cheat on me with her, and so far he’s kept to his promise, but I’m not so sure how much I care that he does anymore.  Just having her there and seeing her be so happy is almost equally as important to me now.  But, I’m also still jealous at times, even though he actively shows how I’m the most important in his life.”

“Ah, it’s like that sisterly kind of feeling that forms when you’re close with someone.”

“It feels more daughterly, in my case.  Like, I want to protect her too by letting her love him, because I know how great a man he is just like she does.”

“Do you trust him?”

“I do.”

“Then why not put the open offer on the table and let him decide?”

“I have, sort of already… when I was drunk.  But they both refused at that time.”

“Well, that’s a good thing, isn’t it?  It means they both seriously took your feelings into consideration.  But how does he feel about it?  Sometimes a guy has to know it’s really okay for him to do it, but he can’t know it’s okay unless his woman makes him understand she’s okay with it.  That’s what I had to do.”

“I just think maybe it’s an insecurity for both of us if he does that with her when I’m there…”

“Then sit them both down, and tell them the truth.  If I learned anything from my friend about being in a relationship like that, it’s that you absolutely cannot fail to communicate your feelings.  Even if it’s hard, and even if it goes against what rules you’ve established between each other to keep a balance, you have to keep communicating until you find the compromise that’s acceptable, or the string that binds you all, will eventually snap.”

“I see… thanks for your advice.”

“If you’re really that thankful, can I get another cig from you before you go?”

I reached in my purse and handed her my pack and lighter.

“You sure?”

“Yeah, I’ve been wanting to give quitting a try.”

“Good luck with that if the sex turns out better!” She said with a wink, and went back inside the arcade.

I was left behind thinking about how it wasn’t the sex which I hoped was better between us, but something else entirely.

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