The Adventures of Reanna and Akio

Part three: Break a Leg! … er… Ankle?

By Reanna King

Here is the long awaited part three of the Adventures of Reanna and Akio, where the saga comes to a dramatic climax! (No, not that kind of climax) It may be the conclusion, but I may decide to make this an ongoing, episodic series. I do have a few more ideas to put into play. Perhaps Akio and I will never get back to Ohtori and we’ll wander around forever.

I borrowed a couple ideas from my online RPG, Ohtori no Gekijou. For one, the Chi Chi and Cha Cha scene was borrowed, except in the RPG it was a tiny Akio, and the discotheque scene was also inspired by an infamous scene from ONG. Besides, the whole concept of a very badly stereotyped Akio constantly being after me started there. Also, in this episode, we will see the appearance of an Utena character besides Akio! And… she is as badly out of character as Akio…

Now, without further ado, here it is!

Morning came at last, and I finally settled down a bit. But not too much. I wasn’t settled at all. I was panicked.

…After all, I was still Akio’s captive.

"Captive?" Akio asked from beside me. "Must you be so melodramatic?"

"Oops." I had forgotten that I had switched off the "internal monologue" function.

"Actually," Akio said, "I rather like the sound of it."

"Please don’t."

Akio snickered.

Switching the internal monologue function back on, I pondered my situation. Where would he take me next? I thought about the possibilities and shivered. I realized that my will to remain a virgin was cracking. I had to escape before it shattered completely!

"Where are we going now?"

Akio smirked. "You’ll see." From under the seat he took out a clipboard with some sort of list written on it and began looking it over.

"What’s that?" I asked, and leaned over to see.

"Ah-ah, no peeking." He tucked it away under the seat after he had finished looking it over.

We soon pulled into a large one-story building… with a neon sign featuring a picture of a pair of roller skates.

"A… roller skating rink?" I asked. Something strange was afoot. Why would he take me roller skating, and to a place that was filled with other people?

Perhaps this could be my chance to escape! There had to be someone inside who would help me! This is what I thought as we entered. Right away, I could hear music blaring, and bright lights flashed everywhere. I could barely even hear myself narrate!

"Here." Akio handed me a pair of purple rollerblades.

So he wanted me to skate, did he? Then that’s exactly what I wouldn’t do. "I don’t want to."

"You sure?" He looked at the people skating. That’s when I realized, to my astonishment, that they were all Shadow People!

"Absolutely sure!"

"Hmm," Akio muttered smugly before calling out, "Y-Ko! Z-Ko!"

A couple of Shadow Girls skated up. "Hai, hai, what do you need?" they both asked.

"My… date… is having trouble getting her skates on. Would you mind…?"

"NO WAIT!" I cried before being tackled and pinned down by a small group of Shadow Girls. Before I could resist, my shoes were yanked off.

"NO! NO STRIPPING! NO!!" I realilzed then that my shoes had been replaced by the rollerblades, which had been locked on with small padlocks. I stopped thrashing and observed Akio placing the key to the locks in his pocket.

"Ready?" he smirked.

"Yeah…" I muttered in defeat. I got up, ignoring his outstretched hand.

Once we were out on the rink, I did my best to lose him. I tried speeding up, slowing down, braking, even skating off the rink completely… I even tried telling someone that I had been kidnapped (which wasn’t entirely false), but no one would believe that a kidnapper would take his captive skating.

I stood on the edge of the rink, watching Akio warily. I cringed when he skated over to me, stopped, and leaned against the wall beside me. "You’re not skating," he simply said.

I remembered the key in Akio’s pocket. I was struck with an idea. After recovering from being struck by such a large and fast-moving idea, I executed this plan by sticking my hand into Akio’s pocket.

"Oh, I’m so happy, my little rose petal!" he purred, and thrust his hand into my own pocket and started moving around in there.

"Urk! YAAAAHHHH!! Somebody help me! RAPE!! HE’S TOUCHING MYYYAAAHH—"

THUD! Never let your knees melt while you’re standing on roller skates.

I looked up at Akio angrily. "I am NOT a magic lamp, and rubbing me will NOT make a genie come out!" I yelled.

"LOOK OUT!" a voice called, just before two Shadow Girls crashed into me and fell right on top of… my ankle.

"I-TAI!" I cried.

"Oh, no, I’m sorry! So sorry!"

"Do you know? Do you know? Do you know how sorry we are?"

They both moved away from me, allowing me to see Akio, kneeling down next to me.

"Are you okay? Are you hurt?"

"I’m fine…" I muttered, sitting up. I was thumped back onto my back by Akio grabbing one of my feet and pulling it close to him so he could examine it.

He unlocked one of my skates. "Oh, no, your ankle is… is…" he removed my sock. "…is just fine."

"What are you up to? Wait… I didn’t know you had a foot fetish! Let go of my leg!"

The girls who had crashed into me coughed conspicuously. Grumbling, Akio reached in his pocket and handed them some money.

After unlocking the other skate and tossing me my shoes, he got up. "Ready to go?"

I looked at him with a puzzled expression. "What, skating again?"

"Nope. We’re leaving."

"Already! But we haven’t even been here for two hours!" And this had to be better than whatever else he might have planned. Still, all the Shadow People were creeping me out. I finished tying my shoes and stood up. "Okay, let’s get out of here."

Soon enough, we were on the road again. Akio got out the list and crossed something off it.

"What is that for?" I asked.

"Eh?" Akio asked. "This?"

"I want to know!… I think."

"No, that would spoil the surprise." He sped up and headed toward our next destination.

Something really weird was going on. Well, besides the obvious, that is. "What are you up to?" I asked, looking directly at him.

"Oh… about six foot five. Why?"

"… …"

Drip… drip… drip drop… drip… patter patter patter patter…

"Shimatta! It’s raining again!" Akio muttered and flipped the switch to put the roof up.

VVRR-click. VVRR-click. VVRR-click. VVRR-click. VVRR-click.

"Something’s wrong…" he muttered.

"No kidding."

VVRR-click. VVRR-click. VVRR-click. VVRR-click. VVRR-click.

"It’s stuck."

"Really? I couldn’t tell."

VVRR-click. VVRR-click. VVRR-click. VVRR-click. VVRR-click.

Meanwhile, the rain was getting everywhere. Cheerfully, I reached into my purse and pulled out a collapsible umbrella.

"How do you have that with you?"

"I always go everywhere prepared," I grinned smugly.

"I don’t suppose you have another?" he asked without any actual hope.

"Nope. And if I did, you wouldn’t be getting it."

"Ah well. We’re almost to your next stop anyway."

"Akio-san! I want to go back to Ohtori now! We’ve been away from Ohtori Academy for… a long time!"

Akio chose to ignore my pleading. "Ah, there it is, up ahead."

I looked out past the pelting rain and saw another building with a neon sign. As we drove closer, I saw what it was. "You’re taking me to a discotheque?"

"This’ll be a lot of fun. Trust me. Even more fun than roller skating."

Well, that wasn’t saying much. "Akio, I can’t dance and there’s no way you’re ever going to make me." I was also determined not to subject my eyes to the sight of Akio’s dancing. I had never seen him dance, but I was sure that it couldn’t be pretty. We pulled into the parking lot and walked through the rain to the front door. Once again, as soon as we opened the door, we were met with a blast of ear-shattering sound and flashing lights. I again struggled to hear myself narrate.

"Come on, Reanna, this will be great. I even brought outfits for the two of us." He held up two outfits, one of which was a white disco suit, and the other I recognized as belonging to a character from The Slayers—Naga.

"AKIO! THERE IS NO WAY I’M WEARING THAT THING!! And if you think for even one moment that I’m going to let you put it on me, you are sorely mistaken!"

Akio smirked and licked his lips. I shivered. (Really. I’ve seen him do it. It’s really scary) "Oh, I wasn’t expecting you to let me."

"Help…"

Five minutes later, Akio dragged me out of the changing room. I was indeed wearing that awful Naga outfit. And it really didn’t fit me in a certain area. I’ll just say that it was like putting a softball into a bowling ball bag.

"There, you’re all ready," he smiled.

"I can’t believe I’m wearing this thing," I moaned and bowed my head in embarrassment. "Eep! Akio, I can see my nipples!

"Well, that’s all good! Now come on and let’s dance." He pulled my wrist, trying to pull me out onto the dance floor.

"NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT!"

Akio got out on the dance floor with scores of dancing… Shadow People. "Let’s go, Reanna, shake your bootie!"

"I don’t wanna shake my bootie!" I stomped my foot stubbornly, causing an undesirable reaction from my chest area. I blushed.

Just then, "YMCA" began blaring on the speakers, and all the Shadow People cheered and began doing the familiar dance and a couple of Shadow Girls pulled me out into the light and music. And so I found myself in the middle of a throng of disco-dancing shadows.

"Reanna, you must know this song, now let’s go!" Akio called, while doing his version of the YMCA dance.

"NO WAY!" I covered my eyes. I did NOT want to see Akio dancing. I tried to convince myself that if I successfully could block out what was going on, I would find myself safely back at Ohtori. But, I was snapped out of this by a tickling sensation in two very private places! My eyes popped open. More open then eyes should ever open and, somewhere in the midst of the screams and howls, sang the highest note I’ve ever sung in my career of being a choir student.

That’s when I realized that Akio wasn’t even standing near me. Then what—

"Chi chi! Chi!"

"Cha! Cha cha!"
"What the—"

"AH-kio! This IIIs yOUR doing! StOPPP it beFORRE IIII hAAAVE a…"

But everyone around me was applauding. But I only heard the clapping—the room was spinning too much for me too see them doing so.

"That’s a brilliant bit of dancing!"

"Far out!"

"Woohoo! Shake it up!"

"Help…"

True… I was doing what looked to be a combination of break dancing, the jitterbug, and belly dancing! Unfortunately, I have never been very athletic, and soon something twisted or sprained or something and I fell onto the floor. Fortunately, at that moment, the tingling stopped and two little monkey-mice jumped out of my outfit and bounded over to Akio.

"Good work, Chi Chi and Cha Cha," Akio whispered and came over to me.
"Reanna! I’m so sorry! Sometimes my pets can get a little out of control. They must really like you!"

I bolted up, panting. "Like hell! You did that on purpose and now I’ve never felt so humiliated in my life!"

"Well, that’s a start…" Akio said.

"When I think about what could have happened…"

Akio pondered that. "That would have made this club much more popular, that’s for sure."

"Oh, shut up."

Akio looked wounded. "Well, can you stand up?"

"Yep."

"Can you move your leg?"

A smirked and kicked Akio in the shin.

"OWWW!!"

"Yep."

"That really hurt…"

"I’m taking a stand. We’re getting out of here, right now!" I asserted, pulling Akio’s ponytail and yanking it like a leash. "Come on, let’s go!"

One of the shadowy dancers approached us. "Your dance was the most far out thing I’ve ever seen! We want to make it this dance club’s trademark dance!"

A cheer went up from the other dancers.

"No, please, it’s not—"

The sexy smirk crept back into Akio’s face. "Don’t be so modest, Reanna. She’d be delighted. But… I’ll only allow it if you name the dance after her, and let it be known by that name for all time."

"No…" I groaned.

One of the dancers considered, holding his chin in his hand. "We were kinda going to call it the "orgasm," but if you wanna name it after the creator, that’s fine with us…"

Suddenly, a familiar voice called out, "Reanna! Reanna, is that you?"

I looked around. "Utena?"

Utena pushed her way through the crowd. "Reanna-sempai! Don’t tell me you’re on a date with Akio!"

"No, I’m not! He just won’t take me back to Ohtori! Today it was the skating rink, and now this!" I groaned, shoving my way through the crowd to the back of the room. Utena followed.

"Skating rink? Dancing?" Utena said to herself. "Akio, don’t tell me you’re trying that stupid ankle thing again!"

Akio made a face that was obviously feigning confusion. "’Stupid ankle thing?’ Whatever do you mean?"

"What’re you talking about, Utena?" I asked.

Utena sighed. "Akio is… trying to make you break your ankle. I’m sure if you think back to previous events, it will all come together."

I thought about the events that took place here and at the skating rink, and suddenly, everything came together. "I get it now! AKIO! This is the lowest and most disgusting thing you’ve done yet!"

Akio smirked. "I make it a practice to always top my old records."

"Ano… what about the dance?" a dancer said.

Utena turned to me. "Come on, Reanna. Me and my friends will take you back to Ohtori."

"Thank you, Utena-kun! You’re a lifesaver! Or at least a virginity-saver!"

"It’s no problem! After all, I’m a prince who saves princesses!"

Akio made an angry face. "Oh, no you don’t! I’m not done with her yet!" Akio picked me up by the waist as if I was as light as a feather and charged out of the dance club.

"Utena-kuuuun!" I cried, flailing my arms. "Tasukete!!!"

Utena scowled. "He won’t stop until he gets Reanna in bed! Or in the car… or some other place… and therefore, he must be stopped, and only a prince like me can stop him!"

"What’s she talking about?" asked a dancer.

"I don’t know…"

"Akio must not be permitted to take Reanna! And you can join me and we can band together to stop him! Who is with me?" Utena cried, striking a dramatic pose in the middle of the dance floor.

After a pregnant pause, the music started up again and everybody resumed their dancing. Utena sighed and exited the club.

Akio and I were back on the road.

"Akio, I hope you realize that by carrying me off, this is now officially a kidnapping and I won’t put up with it!"

Akio smiled sweetly, an eerie sight. "Don’t worry. Soon you’ll realize how silly you’ve been acting all this time, and we can both look on this and laugh…"

I hit the dashboard in a fit of frustration. "I don’t know what you’re on, but—" I stopped speaking when the dashboard popped open, spilling its contents onto my feet. "Oops." I bent down to pick everything up.

"Uh, don’t bother with that," Akio said hastily, "I’ll get that later…"

I raised an eyebrow suspiciously. "What are you keeping in here…" I picked up a stack of papers and shuffled through them. "Wait a minute… what’s this? Parking tickets? Akio, these are all unpaid!"

"As of yet, you mean. I really was going to pay those!" Akio laughed nervously.

I shuffled further through the papers. "What?… printouts of restraining orders? ‘Ohtori Akio is hereby forbidden from entering any Hooters building?’"

Akio shrugged. "It was a long time ago…"

"And… receipts? $1000 for a… a sex machine??!! You own one of those?!"

"Er… it was an impulse buy, you know…?"

"You sicko…" I shuffled further through the papers, my curiosity overcoming my disgust…