[AQ] Aim for Top![Juon/Mitsuo]

[Mitsuo Takahashi]

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+ Description: A Sports Day is being hosted at the park, offering all kinds of events from individual participation to partner and team events. Perhaps you’re attending alone, or with a friend, or end up discovering a rival you want to win against--or maybe you’re there to help out, or just to watch and take pictures!
+ Compete on your own: +2 Roost, -1 Guardians
+ Compete with friends: +2 Guardians, -1 Roost
+ Spectate or document the event: +1 Faberge, +1 Roost, -1 Guardians
+ Help work the event: +1 Guardians, +1 Faberge, -1 Roost
+ Requirements: None
+ Submitted by Teale

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It was Sports Day today!

Mitsuo was honestly vibrating with excitement. It had been a while since he played much sports in such a big event such as this, and though he wasn't one for much competition, he couldn't deny the thrill of vying with everyone else for the first place. What luck that they were holding one so soon after he had moved in to Otonoki! The freckled boy had arrived early to the venue, all decked out in sports attire, his water bottle in hand as he searched for the tent for the participants. He had already registered and signed up for as many events as he could!

Mayyyyybeeeee he was overdoing it but honestly he could care less right now.

His mother had promised that she too would come to watch him at the games, after she finished up a few chores at home. Mitsuo couldn't wait! Especially for his mom's lunchbox. He was sure she was going to cook up a storm!

It was all going to be great!

That is, until he accidentally knocked over a box of bottled water for the contestants.

"Oh man, I'm sorry!" he said, apologising profusely, bending down to grab at the runaway water bottles as they rolled out onto the grass. Some of them went pretty far too, hitting people's shoes as they moved down. He wanted to run after them, but he was already having his hands full trying to rearrange the bottles that had fallen near him. "I'm sorry! Could you get them for me please?"


Juon

[Juon]

And so another of these unofficial sports days held in the park had creeped up on him, and of course as the occassion always went, he was more than encoutaged to attend. Juon wasn't entirely sure why his coach always urged him to participate in these sorts of things--he'd been entered in another in the spring against his will, and had come out of it with a scarred up knee and a scarred up pride. But, no--"It's good for teamwork-building.", "You could use the extra activity; build those muscles!", and "It'll be good to get out of the natatorium for a workout for once.", were all reasons his coach tended to cite for reasons to participate--or, more specifically, his excuses for forcing Juon go to.

And so there he was, pouting up a storm as he kept to the sidelines before his events came up, hoping to be left alone as he gathered up the necessary will needed to just get through the day.

He'd been roped into helping out carrying cases of bottled water out from someone's car, only to get back to the table after a trip and see that one of the cases had been cleanly knocked over, a second year flailing in an attempt to recover, chasing some bottles down as others were already seeminglyntumbling out of his too-full arms.

A sigh.

He couldn't just get through a day without incident, could he?

"Sure, sure," he grumbled, already starting toward the other in a crouched jog to catch up and grab the bottles he'd been unable to snatch up. He already felt tired; how did he always seem to manage to get wrapped up in things like this?

"How did you manage this, anyway?" came his complaint toward the other. "These could not uave been easy to knock over so thoroughly, geez."

[Mitsuo Takahashi]

Mitsuo was running like mad! Or well, doing his best as he ran after the rolling water bottles, grabbing them and tossing them into his arms. Which, he had belatedly realised, was already quite full. In panic, he could only watch as the water bottles continued to roll down away from him, standing right in the middle of it all, as if trying to figure out what to do. So he couldn't help the absolute smile of relief that lit up his face when someone responded to his plea! ...And a smile of sheepish guilt as he noted the grumpy tone in the other's voice. Whoops.

He'll apologise later, right now he needed to get them back into the crates!!

Quickly, as the other ran after the scattered water bottles, he rushed back towards the crate - before realising oh shit it was still lying on its side! There was no way he could turn it right side up with all of the bottles in his arms! With a frown, he stared at it for a few seconds; before the sound of the other's voice reached his ears. "I'm sorry!" he said, turning to the other with an apologetic expression. "I didn't mean to! I was just really excited is all!" And didn't watch where I was going but he wasn't going to say that to the other boy. He didn't look very pleased about it all.

Finally he decided that if he couldn't pull the case back up, he will just have to kick it back upright. It probably would make more sense just to put the water bottles down and turn it right side up with his freed hands, but Mitsuo didn't want to put them all down after he had already collected them! With a huff, he hooked the side of the crate with his foot and kicked -- and with a stroke of luck, it landed right side up! Hurray! Quickly he dumped the bottles into the crate haphazardly. "Are there any more bottles out there?" he called out, looking left and right for all the scattered water bottles.