[center][b][u]Epic Collab Post of Power (Super Ultra Hyper Arcade Remix) (feat. Ryuu and Carmen) (with special guest Kathy "No Scope" Argall [/b][s]and Sanic (Drive-In)[/s][b])[/b][/u]

[b]Summary:[/b] Ryuu has a crisis. Carmen learns something.[/center]

[i]Oh my God.[/i] Ryuu had stiffened into a thinking statue.

Carmen looked down at her number (she hadn't even checked it before) and was shocked and mildly amused to find that her number was one of the ones called. Then she instantly became confused.

"Um, Kathy," she spoke up, probably revealing her number to everyone else in the process. "What exactly is...'blowing a...raspberry'? That wasn't covered in the books, you see." She shrugged, innocently.

Kathy looked around to see who the number she had called out were, and found that she didn't have to search for very long. Just a few seats away from and right within sight, she noticed Carmen's change in expression. [i]'Carmen..? Which number is she? The one blowing the raspberry or the one that has to hold her hand out for one?[/i]

Carmen's question surprised her. She would have thought that everyone had known at it was. "It's... Um..." She looked around, as if expecting the answer to come to her from her nearby surroundings. Then, as if remembering something, her face lit up brightly as she realized there was a perfect way to describe it to Carmen. "Blowing a raspberry is like... Basically, you put your lips against someone's skin and 'buzz' against it. Like when you're blowing a trumpet."

[i]Sweet Jesus of Mother Mary.[/i] Ryuu did not move at all.

Carmen listened to Kathy's explanation, sort of not understanding but then immediately understanding when the trumpet comparison was brought up.

She stood up.

"So...who's the lucky 19?" she asked with a mischievous grin...and, obviously, a flick of the hair.

Ryuu could only think to himself,

[i]First, there was nothing.

But then, there were raspberries.[/i]

[i]And melons.[/i]

The otaku gulped, staring at his glove with extreme intensity. No, he was not that interested in his lonely, stupid-a-s glove- he had just been thrown into a situation he did not expect at all. Blowing raspberries? What was that? Was that the thing where people went "huehuehue" and blew into the air like geese?

Of course not.

The sunglasses-wearing student glanced throughout the table, nervous about what to do.

He stood up reluctantly, not ready to lose his hand's pureness.

Carmen's head whipped around...slowly.

Beholding the newly stood otaku, Carmen smiled. "Oh, how nice," she remarked simply, and walked over.

[i]Oh Jesus.[/i]

She walked up to Ryuu and tilted her head at him, taking his bare hand and holding it up like it was a priceless gem or something.

"I'm [i]terribly[/i] sorry about this, Ryuu," she said, looking as not sorry about this as it was possible to be. "But rules are rules, you know."

With that, she put his hand to her lips and loudly and unceremoniously did the deed. No shame.

Before she walked back to her seat , she said simply, "Also, I [i]really[/i] am grateful that you didn't kill me earlier in the race. It was really quite nice of you."

And with that, she whipped her head (and hair) around with that same smile and walked back to her seat. 

What was this feeling?

[i]It was the feeling of euphoria. Ryuu could sense himself standing before untreaded lands filled with fresh fruits. From melons to grapes, from strawberries to raspberries. Mother Nature blessed him with the ability to appreciate so many of these things. Something felt off, yet so right. It was as if-[/i]

As if he was about to nosebleed.

[i]Oh, godda-[/i]

The instant moment Carmen flipped her hair, Ryuu dramatically swung his head's direction toward the ceiling, unceremoniously covering his gloved hand over his nose. The otaku froze before falling stiffly on the bar floor- Harry Potter Sorcerer's Stone style.

Ryuu covered his face with both of his hands at this point, rolling around as he crashed into random walls with an intense speed. That trumpet-blowing woman of a cunning talent had just made him fall over like a little girl. It felt as if he was b-tchslapped so hard in the face, his intestines had flew into his stomach.

He lay still on the ground for a while before getting back up. His entire glove reddened by his nose's profuse bleeding, Ryuu sat back at the table as if nothing happened.

In other words, it looked like as if everything happened. The otaku looked down at the table, avoiding every single gaze that would be sent over to him, as he thought to himself,

[i].....................[/i]

...And due to being able to think of nothing, the otaku simply let out a quiet "Tsk," his mind in a completely dazed state.

Carmen sat down next to Lily and looked back over at Ryuu to see the aftermath...and what an aftermath it was.

She blinked.

Turning to Lily, she simply said "That's a new one." and left it at that.