ephemeral, eternal by Bakugods
Anime » Ace of Diamond/ダイヤのA
Romance & Humor, Eijun S., Furuya S.,
Miyuki K., Wakana
Published: Jun 14, 2015
ephemeral, eternal
high as a kite
summary: Eijun goes to the dentist and gets his wisdom
tooth removed.
pairing/s: eijun/wakana, furuya/haruno,
tetsu/takako
"Okay." He says in finality.
The short-haired woman blinks in confusion
and shock, "W—what?" Her eyebrows
furrow on her forehead.
"I said, okay." He gives her a thumbs up, "I'm
going." And with that, an awestruck
expression plasters itself on Wakana's face
and breaks into a satisfied, relieved smile.
She shakes her head and gives him a pat on
his shoulder.
"Good. Come on, then." And she grabs the
car keys and heads out, with her husband
following behind her.
"W—W—Where are... where are... we..?"
Eijun drawls, his eyes looking at every
corner of the interior of the car. Wakana
glances at Eijun from the road and she
giggles.
"In the car, Eijun." She answers him, but he
still continues to look dazed and his mouth
hangs open.
"Car... red lights..." he mutters under his
breath, his eyes closing to a half but
proceeds to look around him. "Huh..
baseball... bat..." He snickers lazily when his
half-lidded eyes meet the baseball bat
keychain hanging on the rear-view mirror.
Wakana observes him with an amused smile
on her face and continues to drive, turning to
a neighborhood street. "Do you know what
day it is?" She asks with a curious tone. Of
course she has to ask. She's having too
much fun seeing him make a fool out of
himself under the influence of a drug.
"Day... uhh, it's Christmas, right? 'cause it's
really, really..." He pauses and lets out a
long, exhausted exhale, "really... hmm...
bright." And he rubs his eyes tiredly like a
child.
"Mmhmm." Wakana replies and parks by the
sidewalk, along with other vehicles parked in
front of a house. "It's the 1st of July!" She
announces, turning off the engine and
unbuckling hers and Eijun's seatbelt.
"July..." Eijun murmurs, his eyes sleepy and
dropping to a close. Until they snap wide
open, his pupils shrunk and his eyeballs
almost popped out of their sockets. "It's—It's
—It's Grocery 20% Sale Month!" He shouts,
sitting up on his seat in complete panic.
Wakana throws her head back and laughs at
his sudden outburst. Okay, she doesn't mind
dealing with this kind of Eijun. Tame,
innocent, clueless Eijun; compared to the
loud, obnoxious Eijun she has to tolerate
and control with every single day of her life.
She doesn't mind at all.
"Uh-huh. What else, sweetheart?" She says
this time, muttering a let's get down to Eijun
as both of them got off the car—with Eijun
almost dropping to his weak knees once his
sneaker-clad feet hit the concrete.
"It's—uh... a Friday?" Eijun guesses, walking
very slowly to where Wakana was standing.
She giggles and grabs his arm to guide
him before walking towards the house they
parked in front of.
"Nice try, but give me another guess." She
pushes, climbing up the short steps of the
front porch of the house. Eijun furrows his
eyebrows in confusion and his lips form a
childish pout.
"...Saturday?" He scratches his cheek,
looking around, once again, aimlessly.
"Close enough." Wakana reaches up and
was about to ring the doorbell when the front
door unexpectedly swings open in front of
them.
"Ah! It's the Sawamuras!" The person who
had opened the door—who happened to be
Kuramochi—exclaimed in recognition, a
sash wrapped across his torso with paint
balls in different colors hanging on them and
a protective armor stained with paint was
protecting his front back. His left hand holds
a toy rifle and he was wearing turtle helmet.
Wakana stared at him weirdly, "Yoichi-kun?"
She says, but said man only huffs through
his nose and faces the male Sawamura.
"Oi, Bakamura! Are you giving Wakana-chan
a hard time again?!" He scolds, grabbing his
friend by the ear. But Eijun only falls forward
on to Kuramochi and started to murmur
things again.
"W—Whoa!" Kuramochi yells, grabbing hold
of Eijun's shoulders.
He glares at him and his eyebrow quirked.
Wakana shakes her head in apology,
grabbing Eijun and making him stand up
straight once more.
"Aaa, sorry, Yoichi-kun. He just got back
from the dentist and the only time the clinic's
open happened to be today so—"
"He got his wisdom tooth removed!" A
familiar voice says from behind Kuramochi.
Wakana looks behind Kuramochi and sees
the green-haired man's fiancé walking
towards them, wearing the same outfit and
weapon as Kuramochi, except his armor
barely has any paint on it. "Yeah." Wakana
answers, shaking Eijun's arm.
"Miyuu~ki?" Eijun says slowly once he sees
the former catcher, his tongue rolling
clumsily as if testing the name in his mouth
for the first time.
Miyuki laughs and stands beside Kuramochi,
"He's as high as a kite!" He flicks Eijun's
forehead, with the latter not reacting and still
looking dazed. Miyuki laughs in amusement
and calls from the inside of the house, "Hey!
Get the camera!" And proceeds to making
fun of Eijun's stupefied self.
Wakana watches the two of them as she
hears shouts from the inside of the house:
"This is going to go viral!" Jun.
"Oogah!" Masuko.
"Ya—ha! Look at his face!" Yoichi.
"Ehh? He looks dumber than usual!" Mei.
Wakana shakes her head and enters the
house, seeing Jun and Yoichi holding a
recorder on their hands. The rest of the men
were either laughing out loud or cleaning
their mess up. She sees her idiotic husband
sitting on a couch looking dazed as ever,
drool now dripping down his chin. His eyes
are half-closed.
She laughs again at the hilarious scene, her
hand covering her mouth to stifle her
laughter.
NEXT DAY
"Ha?" Eijun exclaims before wincing at the
pain from his teeth, his hand gripping his
cheek tenderly. Wakana looks up at him from
the fresh laundry she was hanging up on
their closet.
"What is it?" She sticks her head out from
their walk-in closet.
"Jun-san tagged me in a video..." Eijun
quietly mutters as his hands worked on
selecting the video link. Wakana bites her lip
in amusement and heads back inside the
closet, trying her best to keep herself from
laughing.
She hums in response and ignores him
entirely, making him think that she wasn't
listening anymore. She hears the video start
and Jun's voice resounded from his phone,
"Yo, Eijun!"
Eijun buries his face on his phone as he
intently watches the clip.
"Yaha! How does it feel being high?" Eijun's
eye twitches at Kuramochi's remark, his face
filled with utter confusion. Then there was
laughter at the background.
"H—high?" Eijun questions more to himself,
until his own face shows up in the video. His
face freezes in shock and his eyes widen in
exaggeration as he gasps. Wakana purses
her lips and gripped the shirt in her hand
tightly, restraining herself to laugh as she
gives glances at Eijun's expressions.
After a few minutes of the video playing,
Eijun remains silent. But by every passing
second, his face flushes redder and redder
than before. All in embarrassment.
Diamond no Ace is rightfully owned by Yuji
Terajima and Kodansha.