3. The Rotary Brothers

"Brother, I didn't bring you to the beach just so you can type into your computer all day long." Takahashi Keisuke huffed. The steady clicking of the keyboard punctuated his remark.

"Hmm? I need to finish these reports so I can meet with the sponsors later."

"All work and no play Besides, don't you think those girls playing volleyball over there are sexy? Especially the one in the sapphire bikini?"

"Should you be ogling them? You already have a girlfriend."

"Brother! Kyoko and I are not exclusive yet! Besides" Keisuke noticed the slight quirk in his elder brother's lips and realized he'd just been had.

"I give up!" If Ryousuke did not even look up at all throughout the conversation even when he was teasing Keisuke, then there was probably nothing short of a national disaster that could get him to look up from his laptop.

"I'm going to get some ice cream, do you want so?"

Suddenly, a volleyball whooshed by Keisuke to slam into the back of the laptop's screen.

"get it." The girl Keisuke was ogling said to one of her friends who were closer.

A bit flat-chested but still pretty enough

The girl was wearing a brown bathing suit. She had the smallest chest among her friends.

Though since both her friends have really--well developed--assetsmaybe it's just in comparison

Now that she was walking towards them, Keisuke could see that the girl was very shapely in a coltish sort of way.

Not my type, though she seems familiarmaybe we've met before? xxx

Oh great! It hit a guy's laptop

"Takumi, you're the closest one. Go get it." Sayuki said merrily, the same a mischievous sparkle in her eyes that Takumi had learned to distrust.

She probably did that on purpose

Takumi knew there was no way she could get out of this one though so she went to apologize to the guy and get their ball back. As she approached the man, she noticed he wasn't alone and that they seemed to be familiar.

Oh shit!

That was all Takumi had time to think about before she was there and there was no getting around it.

Maybe I can get away without introducing myselfbut then, I'll have to do that sooner or laterand it's going to get worse the more I put it off

Unfortunately, Takumi's luck had run out.

"Hello miss, you seem familiar. Have we met before?" Ryousuke-san asked her flat out.

I'd rather face a sheer drop on a mountain pass than this

Panicking, she let out a squeak. xxx

"Hello miss, you seem familiar. Have we met before?" Ryousuke had beaten Keisuke to the punch asking the question he wanted to ask.

She's also familiar to Ryousuke? We might have met her somewhere before and what's with Ryousuke?

There was real interest in the question and it was the first time Keisuke ever seen his older brother show any interest in a girl other than their cousin. The question turned the girl very red and she squeaked.

Is she a fan?

Keisuke could see the girl's breaths come fast and shallow and wondered if he should be ready to catch her.

There was that one time in Nagoya with that fan of Ryousuke's who came face to face with him and

Ryousuke was a gentleman but he wasn't the type to catch strange girls if they fainted in front of him. Keisuke had to pick up the slack and catch the poor girl before she hit the ground.

"UmRyousuke-san"

Where have I heard that voice before? Though it's kinda strange, I could have sworn it should be an octave or so higher

That tone was also familiar.

"Takumi, why are you taking so long?" The woman Keisuke was admiring earlier yelled impishly.

Huh?

But Keisuke's brain was putting things together and making its own conclusions.

"Fujiwara? How?" Ryousuke asked, looking very stunned.

Keisuke would have teased his older brother if his brain didn't feel so broken by the realization that this was the other driver of Project D.