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He was just looking for books, pun books to be exact, at the local bookstore in Tokyo. He'd already collected all one hundred eight volumes from his previous series, but it obviously was not enough for him. As he was flipping through the fourth volume of his new findings, a girl approached him, and at this same time, there was someone on the other side of the room watching him.

The girl tapped on his shoulder and asked for his name. When he looked up at her, he noticed that she wasn't wearing a work uniform, meaning he wasn't in trouble for God knows what reason. "My name is Izuki Shun, how about you, miss?" he replied, just as equally friendly as she had asked for his, but before she could answer his question, she vibrantly stated "Wow! I love how that bright blue book matches your outfit!"
A typical girl; always getting off topic about clothes or anything fashionable. He never understood this, even if he did have two sisters.
He looked at his outfit more carefully and noticed that it didn't really match the book at all. What a strange girl, he thought, but at least she was cute. And at that moment, a pun came to mind. "Massao na sao ha ikaga?" (Hey miss! How about a bright blue pole?) he blurted. The girl made a face, as if utterly disturbed by seeing someone puke or even a dead body, and walked away as the male wrote down the pun.

The person on the other side chuckled into his fist, understanding that, even if he couldn't hear their conversation, the shorter male had been turned down by the girl that had first approached him. The taller male walked up to Izuki as he finished writing his somewhat genius pun, and surprised him. "Having some trouble picking up girls? Or should I should I say, are the girls having trouble picking up you?" the stranger asked, jokingly. Izuki tightly gripped his belongings and took a step back before saying anything, then he gulped and nervously asked, "Do I know you?"

A great blow to this "stalker"!

"How cruel!" cried the male, "I'm Kaijou's shooting guard, Moriyama Yoshitaka! I was in the practice match between our teams! Don't you remember me?"
Obviously, Izuki could not recall such a person, but politely bowed anyways and apologized for not recognizing him. "Well, um... Moriyama-san, you seem really nice, really, you do, but I-"
Moriyama interrupted, "No 'buts'! We can get to know each other! I saw a poster just outside of here about a comedy show later today in the plaza." he looked at Izuki's books, which were in a much looser grip than when he was first approached, "I was thinking that maybe we could go together?"

Izuki tried to hide his excitement, but his eyes glimmered at the mention of the comedy show he was already planning to attend. "I was already planning to go it, in fact, that's why I bought more books." he changed the position of his books, unable to contain his incitement. "You like puns too, Moriyama-san?"

"I do! I'm quite the ladies man, if I do say so myself, so whenever I go somewhere to search for some beauties, I ask myself 'Nanpa no seikoritsu nan pacento?' (What percent of girls can you pick up?) as motivation, you know?"

"That's a good one! Do you mind if I write that one down?!" Izuki asked, suddenly hyper.

"Um, sure. You really liked it that much...?" Moriyama didn't think it was that great, considering the fact that he didn't exactly know how many girls would be one hundred percent. So it was a void pun and he made a mental note to polish it up a bit when he had the time.

"Of course! All puns are great, in my opinion." the shorter male said with a smile as he finished writing down the pun.

In that moment, Moriyama felt a spark in his chest, but he didn't know what to think of it, so he passed it off as some gas that hadn't made it to his mouth.

"Izuki-kun, if I may call you that, do you want to go buy those books now so we can get a good spot for the show?" asked Moriyama.

"Yes, of course! I'll let you call me Izuki-kun if you let me call you Moriyama-kun. It's only fair."

"Please! I don't like it when friends add '-san' to my name."

"Friends? ...To be blunt, I thought we were just acquaintances. I just didn't want to be mean and refuse you."

"E-eh... Izuki-kun..." Moriyama said as he fell to the floor on all fours, being as dramatic as Kise, maybe even more than his kouhai.

"I'm sorry Moriyama-kun, I didn't mean to be mean... Ah!" Izuki pulled out his notebook again and wrote, yet, another pun.

Moriyama looked up to see Izuki's sparkling eyes as he wrote the pun down. The male on the floor thought, "Maybe this wont be so bad..." and got up to walk Izuki to the cash register. "Shall we go to the show?" he asked Izuki, walking ahead and holding out his hand out of habit. Izuki stared at it for a brief second as if to think of what to do with it, then answered with a smile, "Yes!" and walked on ahead.

Moriyama's hand dropped to his side, and he thought, "I take that back; This is going to be tough..." and he followed after Izuki.