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"Son of a goddamn bitch!"
Kusanagi flinched at the loud volume of Bandou's yell and then glared over at the rowdy bunch when he heard the table fall over with bang onto the hardwood floors. Bandou was stomping away from the up turned table still cursing as everyone else laughed at their black-haired clan mate.
Dewa was already beside him having left in the middle of the round that had just came to grinding halt from Bandou's tantrum. "Shouhei must have won. Again." Dewa commented as he sipped his drink looking at them all with a bored expression.
"Yeah, well at this rate my bar is going to be messed up and I'm going to have Cirrhosis."
"What do you mean I can't play?!?!"
Kusanagi and Dewa both looked back towards the trouble table. Seeing Bandou glaring at their clan mates and the now righted table and new game starting.
"Man did you not see what you just did last round? Take a breather." Kamamoto said as he dealt out the new round to the rest of the group consisting of himself, Eric, Chitose. Shouhei, and Fujishima.
"No fuck that I'm not letting Shouhei beat me!"
"I already did so sit down and shut up. It's just a game man." Shouhei rolled his eyes at the other as he sorted his hand with a soft hum.
"No man you kept playing plus fours on me every turn! That is SO not cool!"
"Sucks to suck man." Shouhei shrugged looking like he was doing his best to not laugh at his friends face as they started the next round up.
Bandou grumbled lowly as he plopped down into one of the seats roughly letting out quiet curses under his breath but watched the game all the same. Chitose had a large grin on his face the whole time as the round continues that even from across the bar Kusanagi can tell he doesn’t know what he’s doing.
“I think Chitose has the way the game works backwards but I'm not telling him that.” Dew says from beside Kusanagi before taking another drink of his self-made drink letting out an appreciative hum at the taste. “Don’t tell Yata but his recipe for this drink is actually good.”
Kusanagi laughed softly and nodded. He was just glad their fiery vanguard was willing to learn and help at the bar more often. “He won’t hear it from me. But it’s been a popular drink as of late.” Said cleaning more of the glasses behind the bar for when it picked up later in the evening. “Who do you think of going to win?” He asked out curiosity.
“Either Kamamoto, Eric, or Shouhei. Shouhei has won the last three rounds now but Eric and Kamamoto have been right there with him each time just a matter of who it falls on. Fuji just wants to mess everyone’s game up when he can so he’ll purposely stack his hand to do so.” Dewa answered him taking slither drink with hum. “And Chitose has no idea how the game is supposed to go so he’s definitely going to lose.”
“Why is Fujishima wanting to mess everyone else’s game up?”
Dewa shrugged looking at him. “Honestly no clue. He does it for every game that the objective to get a certain thing done while also trying to sabotage other players games. Should have seen him when we played Unstable Unicorns TM and he played Pandamonium and Catastrophe on Eric and Bandou. I thought Bandou was going to destroy the entire game because he would have won on his next start if Fuji hadn’t done that. Fuji ended up winning because they couldn’t get the card off their boards in time.” He chuckled at the memory and looked over at their clans second. “You know you could stand to come play games with us every so often.”
“I’ll pass. Thanks though.” Kusanagi said looking over the glasses until he was satisfied that they were all in fact clean. “I have the bar to worry about and clan business to do. I’m also not a big game player.” He explained once he looked up to see Dewa frowning at him.
“Uno!”
“Uno.”
Both looked back to the table hearing both Kamamoto and Eric both say Uno. Chitose had about ten cards in his hand, Shouhei two before his turn putting him down to one as well, and Fuji had three but a look in his eye that said he was up to something that had Kamamoto looking at him wearily when it became the Gingers turn.
“Hmmm oh decision, decisions, decisions.” Fujishima said with a hum and a smirk laying his cards down to show them off. A Skip, a Reverse, and a Plus Four. “See two of these lead to Eric winning and the other, of course, leads to Shouhei winning once again.”
“I really hate how you play games Fuji. This is bullshit!” Bandou growled out as Chitose frowned at his hand realization dawning on him.
“You’re not even playing Bandou. But you know what…. You chose. What card should I play and in turn who I let win the game?”
Bandou frowned looking at the cards then at the other people at the table. “Eric. Obviously, I don’t want Shouhei winning AGAIN. So, play Skip on Kamamoto and have Eric win.” Said as he nodded at his answer.
“So, wait the object is to have no cards in your hand?” Chitose piped up looking around the table as they all nodded Fuji picking up the Skip card to begin his play. “Oh… well then.” He continues before calling on his red aura and setting the cards on fire till they were nothing but ashes. “Do I win?”
“God damn it Chitose!”
“No, Eric still wins.”
“Are you serious right now man?”
“Those were my cards!”
Kusanagi groaned shaking his head as Dew started making them both another drink. “That's it. I’m done. I’m so done with them.”