FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO FORGOT TO PUT IN LAST TIMES...

After Kotaro's humiliating defeat at the hands of Seki, things have 
gone from bad to worse when Kouto met a Dark Warrior named Morticus 
Pallbearer, (Psst, it's really our old pal Kumayama-sensei) a ghoulish 
warrior intent on recruiting other warriors like him, to rebuild the 
Ottoman Empire.

Later, after Lumi-chan successfully halted Morticus' attack, none other 
than the game moderator himself, the End of The Rug, exiled the coffin-
wielding champion to the Underworld. 

In between Benma's and Ijimas defeat at the posts of The Bed, (Courtesy 
of Seki, guided by an unknown force that he did not earn, honestly.) he 
met new friends, like Kaede-sensei, and newer threats, like the mind 
controlled puppets (Poor Yashiko and Ijima) of the Black Daffodil, 
a.k.a. Akai Nakajima (Kouto's Dad). 

In speaking of Kouto, in terms of You Betray Me, I'll Betray You logic, 
he has decided to go without the End of the Rug's permission in order 
to challenge Seki once again. 

Later still, there was a message for Seki being delivered by none other 
than Sun Futon, not only The Mattress King, but the fastest delivery 
person of important messages Ikea can afford at dark times like this. 

Even so, Seki's world is still flowing smoothly like a well made bed... 

OR HAS IT?

---

A lonesome figure stood on the outskirts of the angel statue deep 
within the recesses of the part at night. It was unidentified at the 
moment, but it did look like it was staring out at the sky. 

"Seki..." The figure spoke while it clenched a fist of some sort. The 
voice sounded feminine to the least. "You may have caused a lot of 
trouble since you came to this campus, but when the time comes, it 
would feel like you got up on, The Wrong Side of The Bed!" 

---

FURNITURE WARRIORS
X PLUS SIGMA TURBO
THALLIUM BATTLE 2002

NOT FURNITURE WARRIORS TEN! By now, we know what FW1 is, and I'm not 
sure if this counts as two, AND THERE MIGHT NOT BE A THREE AFTER 
THIS... It would depend on the fic itself and where it's going, and 
who's doing it... 

Started by Brian Stricklin, continued by Ryunson, whose second parts 
are usually better than the first ones, lord knows why. 

Copyright STILL goes to Nihana-San and the original characters not 
created by Nihana go to their respected owners, obviously. If I were to 
claim it as my own work (With a few exceptions), I'll be, heck let's 
get this show on the road. 

---

CHAPTER ELEVEN 

Attack of the Wannabes! 

OR

Don't Discount a Furniture Warrior! Come on Down! 

OR

Climbing A Stepladder To Hell!

---

Sun Futon was well stocked for the task at hand. He didn't exactly get 
all sorts of candies and chips like any other convenience store 
shopper, but he did purchase some juices. Oh wait, he did managed to 
buy some food, as long as it was enough to travel to Tokyo, and placed 
it in a well furnished bag that had an ancient design of a mattress.  

Now back to the juice topic. It didn't matter to him which brand he 
purchased, nor did he care about which flavor was available, but he 
still enjoyed fruit, much like the awesome Fruit Basket of the Gods 
that he once stole and devoured the contents inside when he was about 
Lumi's age. 

He opened one of the bottles that he had bought and took the canister 
to his mouth. The liquid was a peach flavored elixir that slowly crept 
down his throat, and it flowed like a waterfall back home in China. He 
took the bottle out of his mouth and began to ponder the taste. 

"It's certainly not the way the Ancient Gods of Furniture prepare it," 
Quoted Sun Futon as he continued to fly across the ocean on his 
preferred flying mechanism of choice. "But what can I do?" He allowed 
himself a smile as he continued flying. 

---

The End of the Rug sat on the well-furnished chair... Actually, because 
of a desk monogram bearing his name, we'll call him Andy Hiroto. 
Anyway, he was tapping a polished pen on the antique table. He had been 
staring at the picture of Vanity and himself when they were in front of 
Hiroto High, along with the families of the four warriors of the 
Student Council. Even Akai was involved. 

In speaking of Akai, Andy had some papers he wanted to show someone. 
Someone willing, eager, and strong enough to handle the task that Mr. 
Hiroto had made in order for someone to carry it out right on schedule. 

The bad news is that the chairman's favorite messenger boy isn't 
around, probably now seeking revenge on Seki after besting him on the 
chair gladiator's first fight in Hiroto. The good news is that another 
capable soldier was opening the heavy doors to Andy's office. It wasn't 
Benma, due to the heavy training needed to have Seki as lunch, and 
Ijima was going... Somewhere. So due to the process of elimination 
rule, the person to go through the door was...

"Ah Kotaro, I've been expecting you." Andy smiled as he watched the 
computer champion hold the door. "Don't be nervous, come on in, we have 
so much to discuss." 

For a moment there, Kotaro was a bit nervous. Only Kouto has ever seen 
the chairman, but not any other of the trio of kids who don't know who 
the End of the Rug was. Now it's Kotaro's turn to step up to the plate. 
Slowly walking on over to the nearest cushioned chair he can find at 
Andy's desk, and sat down. "You called for me, sir?" 

"Yes." Andy grinned as he placed the file he was holding in the other 
hand right on the desk. "Now, I'm sure you haven't quite seen this yet, 
but I'm sure I will enlighten you on why I called you here today." 

Kotaro waited while the chairman opened the file containing a 
photograph of an all too familiar teacher. 

"This, I'm sure you recognized somewhere, is Kumayama-sensei, a tough 
teacher with an even tougher secret." He suddenly turned the page to 
reveal a photograph of something Kotaro doesn't know yet. 

"Now this is Morticus, Kumayama's alter ego who uses the ancient style 
of the Raging Pallbearers, the cause of so many dead students who made 
Kumayama very angry, not to mention him trying to rebuild the empire."  

"So you want me to eliminate this person, right?" Kotaro asked the 
chairman as the almond skinned young man responded with a straight 
answer. 

"No, I already did that, but that's not the problem here." He closed 
the file on Kumayama as he looked Kotaro directly in the eyes. "The 
soldiers he gathered are still functioning, but fortunately for us, 
Akai is going to a location to meet another Dark Warrior, and make 
these evil ones surrender." 

"So where do I come in?" 

"You'll gather information from the same Dark Warrior that Akai is 
meeting. Success or Failure to Akai, it doesn't matter, as long as you 
get the information from that warrior, everything should be going our 
way as planned." Andy smiled as he continued tapping on the table with 
his favorite pen, a Hello Kitty pen. 

Kotaro nodded as he placed his hands on his side. "All right, I'll get 
you the information on one condition."

"I make you president of the Student Council?" Andy Hiroto grinned as 
he placed his hands on the table clasped together. "Of course, if Kouto 
has no brothers or sisters, or even cousins." 

"I understand the events that may lead to Seki defeating Kouto once and 
for all, but I still don't understand why you would help Seki anyway."

"This is the last time you will question my intensions." Andy suddenly 
puts on his serous face. "Do not fail me. This task is too important to 
pass up, and if we mess up in that category, who knows what we might do 
about it."

Kotaro suddenly went back from a questioning operative, to a loyal 
soldier. "Yes sir." Kotaro spoke as he teleported out of the room. 

Andy smiled as he suddenly got out a picture of an all too familiar 
girl with lightbulbs on her head. "Lumi's starting to bloom, like the 
roses of the Rosewood Garden." He grinned with an even sharper smile, 
as he looked at the photograph even closer. "When the time comes, even 
Seki won't be able to take her away, much like my sister out of Kouto's 
own incapable hands." 

---

In speaking of Kouto, he was standing in the vast number of roses that 
bloom in the Rosewood Garden. 

The garden itself was a beautiful place, filled to the brim with 
flowers of all shapes and sizes. People on campus wonder where are 
those beautiful flowers on Hiroto High come from. Well it's no longer a 
mystery, now that the Rosewood Garden is here. 

But enough about that, what about Kouto? 

"Vanity." Kouto spoke in a sad tone as he gazed at all the roses in the 
garden. It looked like the roses haven't been tended in a while. "You 
always come here on your spare time to water the plants, but now that 
you are with that Seki upstart, things are falling apart around here." 

Kouto walked outside of the garden while muttering to himself. "I'd 
know that he was a threat to Hiroto, but now, he's gone too far." He 
got out a brand spanking new Entangler from Furniture Space as he 
twirled it around in true training film tradition. "Once we meet, you 
will be crushed, just like this cockroach." 

Entering Koutos range of vision was a small black cockroach. It stood 
near Kouto as it wiggled its antennas about. 

Kouto slammed the coatrack on top of the poor little cockroach as it 
was about to... No wait, it did scurry away. 

"What the?" Kouto was shocked as he saw the cockroach dodge the 
Entangler. "COME BACK HERE!" He snorted as he proceeded to smash the 
little insect. Unfortunately for Kouto, the little bug ran right into 
the crack on the wall. "I only spared your life because you are not 
worthy enough to be my enemy." Kouto gestured as he walked away from 
the embarrassment before it can follow him like magnet pieces. "Seki 
however, is truly an enemy to us all..."

As he walked down the area leading back into the school itself, he saw 
two young girls playing a game of conversational gossip. 

"Oh yeah, not only is Seki SOOO hot, he like, kicked the entire Student 
Council's asses to the ground!" 

"Yeah, and they are supposed to be the toughest kids in school!" 

"Nah, they're not that tough anymore." The girls spoke in unison as 
they giggled. 

Kouto ignored the women as he continued walking back inside the school, 
going towards the Venerable Duelist Arena and Squash Court. "Morticus 
was right, I am a loser." Kouto lowered his head in shame as he walked 
very slowly. He clenched his hand into a fist as he shook it in rage. 
"My world is falling apart, but I'll get it back, once Seki's head 
rests on the tip of the Entangler for all the world to see." He 
suddenly turned his sadness into an evil smile. "Then we shall see who 
is the toughest kid in school!" Kouto laughed pretty much like his 
father as he walked out of the hallway. Suddenly, he slipped on the 
floor as he fell on his rear end. He got up about five seconds later, 
and pointed at it. "You're next, freshly polished floor!" 

The janitor nearby just whistled as he went back to work. 

Kouto quickly got out a weird pendant from his pocket that depicted a 
very unusual coffin with a cross on it. "Morticus, even though you are 
completely off my carpet, I guess it's only fair to thank you for the 
trouble by using your water to put out Seki's fire!" Kouto laughed and 
laughed as he headed for the... Shoot, elevator's still down. 

"Great." Kouto bawled as the elevator STILL needed repairs after that 
last... Incident.  

---

"Kouto's challenged me to a rematch?" Seki scratched his head as he 
looked at the person who told him such message. 

"That's right." Yashiko smiled as she looked at Seki with straight 
eyes. "Even if you lose, I'll always be on your side!" She rushed to 
Seki and glomped him. "I'll help you light that fire of desire, the 
desire to show the school the true power of The Way!" 

"That's nice, but don't we have to get to class?" Seki stared at 
Yashiko's features as she pried herself off of him. 

"Of course! This way!" She pulled Seki in a certain direction that was 
later interrupted by a sagely voice of the elder brother of Yashiko. 

"Um, class is that way." He pointed the other direction as the force of 
an over-protective schoolgirl pulled him in the wrong direction. 

---

Elsewhere in the park on a very dreary night, Akai walked toward the 
strange looking angel statue as he brought the necessary materials. 
Finding a Dark Warrior because a recent death had become nearly 
impossible, but now, Akai was one step closer to finding what he 
wanted. A pure Dark Warrior, one of Morticus's allies of darkness 
intent on helping him restore the Ottoman Empire to its former glory. 

"There's no sense in hiding." Akai smiled as he stared at the figure 
near the statue. "Show yourself to me." 

The figure was identified as an all too built woman that has a figure 
quite more buxom than any other woman on campus. Full figured, but not 
fat. It was mostly made from used television sets, new and old that 
enveloped her peachy skinned, over-endowed body, especially those that 
would hug her... Let's just say that the figure brought a whole new 
meaning to the word, 'Boob Tube.' 

"I am here." She created an evil smile as she gazed upon the father of 
Kouto. "You called me?" 

"Yes." Akai grinned as he bowed with the upper body forward. "I 
understand you are one of Morticus's friends." 

"And your point being?" The woman arched her eyebrow at him. 

"It's useless to help him rebuild the empire, even though you were one 
of his favorite students, it would still be futile to even try." Akai 
smiled as he let out his hand. "However, Your life will be spared if 
you choose to surrender."  

Kotaro could be nearly unseen from a tree as he sat on the nearest 
branch he can find. He was holding one of his cables as he stared at 
the woman. He was also dressed in ninja garb. He literally wet his 
pants as he gazed upon the marvel that is her unusual costume. 

"Why should I surrender to an old frog like yourself?" The woman smiled 
as she slapped Akai's hand so willingly. 

Akai held his hand as he rubbed it with the unaffected hand while 
lecturing. "Because I know your deepest desires, your blackest 
thoughts..."

"GET TO THE POINT!" The woman screamed as her hair swished. 

"Boy, are you Dark Warriors rude. Very well." Akai smiled as he pulled 
out a black tinted mirror as he proceeded with the plan. "I am the 
Black Daffodil, and I will now show you who you are!" 

Akai laughed and laughed as the woman stared directly into the mirror. 
She suddenly produced a sweatdrop about as big as the principal's ego. 
The strange woman can so far produce only one word to respond by. 

"Copycat." 

"WHAT?" Akai suddenly realized the spell wasn't working. 

'Almost got it.' Kotaro smiled as he prepared the wires needed to make 
the drain attack work. Now all he needed was to charge up power. 

"What are you trying to accomplish anyway, manipulating the high school 
students for your own cult?" The woman chuckled slightly as she tossed 
some of her locks aside. 

"Why didn't it work?" Akai screamed out as he suddenly shook his hands 
while holding the mirror.

"Also, you should've paid attention to your own children, rather than 
playing this idiotic game of manipulation, very useless of you." The 
woman toyed with a lock of hair, giving Akai a malicious smile. "Even 
if you gave him the pendant that held the very essence of Morticus 
Pallbearer himself, he would still be more powerful than you'll ever 
be." 

"HOW DARE YOU TALK TO ME LIKE THAT!" Akai screamed even further as he 
suddenly smashed his mirror with his own hands. 

"Seven years old man, seven years." The woman shook her head, her hair 
dancing with the movement, while watching the shattered mirror pieces 
sparkle in the darkness.

Kotaro can be seen with the charger rising up to fifty percent. 'Come 
on, come on!' Muttered Kotaro as he watched the power charger take a 
near eternity to climb. 

Akai was getting angrier and angrier by the minute. In a few minutes, 
it transformed into insane glee as he held his head high and his legs 
stepping back abnormally. "Even if you could best me in combat, there 
is no way to beat the chairman at his own game. You really shouldn't 
have stuck your nose into our affairs." 

'Almost there.' Climbing over seventy five percent and now up to the 
late eighties, Kotaro's power level kept on going and going, much like 
the energizer bunny. 

"Are you sure?" The woman placed one of hands on her hips. "You're just 
delaying the inevitable."

'Finally, I got it!' Kotaro silently clapped his hands as he watched 
the power meter reach one hundred percent. He got out the wire and the 
hard drive on his belt that he needed in order to not only copy the 
abilities of the Dark Warrior, but to gather the information the 
chairman wanted. "FURNITURE SPECIAL ATTACK..." 

"And what might that be?" Akai gave an eerie stare as he tilted his 
head to his shoulder. 

"DOWNLOAD DRAIN!!" Kotaro threw out the wire that he carefully 
untangled and is now heading straight for the Dark Warrior like a bird 
of prey swooping down for its victim. 

Unfortunately for poor Kotaro, the woman has very excellent hearing and 
reflexes, enough to catch the wire in midair. The little connecter just 
popped out of the hand of the Dark Warrior, and not into the skin, 
which is required in order for the drain attack to work. 

"Take a wild guess." Smiled the female as she pulled the wire across 
her body. 

Kotaro fell out of the tree as he was like a fisherman that caught a 
fish that was too strong for the pole wielding boatman's own strength. 
"OUCH!" Kotaro screamed as he suddenly realized the true horror that 
was hitting the ground. "Now I'll never have chil... Oh wait, the cup 
saved me, never mind." Kotaro smiled as he suddenly realized that it 
was just a small bother rather than a life or death situation. 

"This is the best the chairman can send?" The woman smiled as she 
looked at Kotaro's limp body on the ground. "For a powerful man, he 
does train very weak children whose egos are stronger than they are." 

"What are you saying?" Akai looked at the feminine Dark Warrior 
completely ignoring Kotaro. 

"I thought you were smarter than that." The woman shook her head again. 

"Sir! You must get out of here!" Kotaro flipped upside as he faced the 
father of Kouto while pulling his pants up. "I'll handle this weird 
woman, we can't afford to lose you!" 

Akai just looked at the woman and Kotaro as he shrugged. "Very well. 
You will change your mind soon enough." He walked out of the park just 
as the mist in the area covered him. 

"So little man, you want to challenge me?" The woman laughed as she 
placed a hand over her mouth. "It took all four of you to best one of 
our soldiers, and it took the least likeable chairman in all of the 
school to defeat another. What makes you think one little lamb can take 
on a wolf like myself?"

"There's more to me than just weakness and ego," Kotaro pointed his 
finger to the sky as he announced his plan. "I developed these moves 
just for over-powering demons like yourself! Oh yeah, and Seki too, if 
I should even get a rematch."
	
The woman looked at the form of a too familiar boy with matching voice 
and reflexes. She laughed as both her enormous bosom and antennae on 
top of her head bounced in place. The color of her hair couldn't be 
told if it was black, brown, or even red. Either way, the antennae just 
stood there. "You haven't learned your lesson, have you, Kotaro?" 

---

"So Kotaro, as a boy, you nearly spent your life as a computer junkie, 
rejected by the higher class of society, even those of your opponent's 
nature." Akai smiled as he gazed upon the two warriors facing off near 
the angel statue. "At the same time, Natsumi, you spent nearly your 
entire life glued to and fighting with the ancient art of the 
television, inspiring you to do such athletic activities to make you 
strong as you are now." 

Akai snickered a bit, as he pulled out a whole new mirror from 
Furniture Space, this time, more fancy than before. "Even if the both 
of you were stronger already, deep down inside you are weak little 
stepstools for your masters."

He looked down at the newly formed mirror adorned with his namesake on 
every corner with blackened vines wrapping around the edges. "It 
doesn't matter who motivates you both, I will uproot their soldiers, my 
newest champion will see to that!" 

---

"Those days were over, Terebi." Quoted the computer champion as he 
crossed his arms. "Now I seek something greater, and you are just in 
the way." He unfolded said arms and got into a stance while he pulled 
out several CDs from Furniture Space. 

"Oh?" Terebi chuckled and placed her hands on her hips. "Face it, the 
reason the chairman even bothered sending you out here so you can be 
wasted here. He's now treating us Dark Warriors like his personal 
blender." 

"You can't be serious..." 

"Oh, but I am, you silly fruit." Terebi smiled as she bent over in a 
way Kotaro can be flushed with extremely lustful thoughts about her... 
Fashion sense. "But when the time comes, we will be the ones rectifying 
him for his foolish mistake!" 

"And what might that be?" Kotaro got out his computer as he calculated 
the events that Seki used The Bed, and the time various horrible events 
happened at Hiroto. 

"Betrayal." Terebi forcefully yelled as she placed both her armored 
hands on the hips of her over-formed behind while it heaved in place. 
"He has betrayed his own trust-worthy soldiers for what? Seki?! That 
little clout doesn't know the trouble he and his allies caused!" 

"I like your sense of logic, but unfortunately for you, big boobs do 
not a great fighter make!" Kotaro continued to stare, trying so hard to 
look at her eyes, and not her, Armored Bikini.

"The Rosewood Bride is to blame for all the disasters happening in 
Hiroto, and she will be severely punished beyond redemption, you should 
know." 

"Don't you dare talk about the Rosewood Bride like she's some sort of 
witch! FURNITURE SPECIAL ATTACK, HARD DRIVE CHARGE!!" Kotaro shot out 
his hand while he held a large hard drive, and charged towards the 
giant amazon.

"Oh please," Terebi snorted as she swatted the poor charge attack away 
like a fly. "That's real expensive of you to do that."

Kotaro continued to hold the CDs in his hand as he snarled at the 
female behemoth. 

"If you want information that badly, you'll have to entertain me 
first." Then, she went into her own battle stance as she did something 
in order to entice Kotaro's further lust to see if he can hook up his 
video games to her television sets to see if he can play on them. "Are 
you ready, little man?" Terebi chuckled as she stared right into 
Kotaro's eyes.

"All right." Kotaro nodded as he also tried to stare at Miss Terebi's 
eyes. "Get ready to feel the power of Kotaro V.2!" 

"It's time for the Terebi Natsumi Show!" The powerful woman leapt into 
the sky and pulled out a large television.  With a cry of "TV BOMBER!" 
Terebi chucked the fourty inch set at the frantic Kotaro. She was then 
struck by several of compact discs he had thrown at her."

Kotaro hastily dodged the TV set, and was almost caught flatfooted when 
it detonated.  A quick roll with the shockwave left him dusty, but 
stable.

Terebi landed on the ground, and as she did, her bosom heaved heavily, 
which of course, stopped Kotaro in his tracks. Terebi might have her 
feet implanted in the ground, but that wasn't going to stop her from 
getting up and back to battle. 

"It's hopeless." Terebi smiled as she witnessed Kotaro's reaction after 
that attack. "Even with your brains bigger than my assets, you are 
still no match for my beauty." 

"There's more to me than computer equipment, observe!" Kotaro 
teleported out of Terebi's sight as the larger of the two combatants 
snarled. 

"Where did ya go?" She looked all around her as she suddenly heard a 
noise. 

"MOUSE BOLO CHOKEHOLD!!" Kotaro shot out his mouse, and wrapped it 
around Terebi's neck while he pulled it. The amazon tried hard to 
struggle while the mouse is choking her. Kotaro gloated as he was 
confident to win the information he seeked. "I saw this in a movie 
once, it has to work!" 

Unfortunately for Kotaro, Terebi somehow managed to grab the mouse, and 
wouldn't you know it, she unwrapped it from her neck, and did so enough 
to gain some slack. She pulled Kotaro in as she continued to hold the 
mouse in. The Computer Warrior, however, was struggling to get his 
mouse back. "Let's go for a spin." The Television Giantess spoke in an 
all to seductive manner while she smiled. With that, she took the tip 
of the mouse and held it to the top of her head, with Kotaro at the 
end. Like a barbarian swinging a ball and chain around, she did the 
same to Kotaro and threw him near a tree. 

The flying body smashed right into the trunk of the tree as it reeled 
onto the ground, staggering to get up. Sure, Kotaro might not be the 
strongest member of the Student Council, but he is one of the 
sturdiest. He was also the type of person that would absorb a lot of 
damage, and still keep on going. 

"All right, all right," Kotaro somehow managed to surrender while he 
staggered. "Tell you what, you give the information about what you're 
planning to me, and I'll give you the Four Furniture Duelists brooch." 

"What good is that silly little brooch, besides promoting your Student 
Council's own stupidity?" 

Kotaro sighed. "If you must know, Four Families feuded in a cold war, 
until their children were born, and yes, I was one of them." Kotaro 
reached into his pocket protector and got out said brooch. "Kouto 
foolishly gave one of these to Seki, and because of his power, Seki 
claimed the Rosewood Bride from him." 
                
"Tell me more about the Rosewood bride other than the rumor from the 
other female students that she is a witch." 

"All I know is that once you claim ownership of her, she'll do anything 
for you, and once you fully endure that ownership when the time is 
right, then something special would happen. Remember, you can't exactly 
participate in the duels without it, but I highly recommend it." 

"Enough talk, where is she now?" Terebi raised a fist as Kotaro as the 
other person walked back very fast. 

"She's preparing Seki for tomorrow afternoon's battle with Kouto, but I 
must warn you, Seki's grown a lot more powerful because the Bed helped 
him win." 

Terebi smiled. She might've heard it somewhere before, but mostly from 
Morticus. As for her familiarity with Kouto, she was one of the women 
that Kouto hasn't even TOUCHED, or even seduced either yet, or not at 
all. "Tell you what, instead of giving you the information on our 
society, I'll find a way to counteract the Bed's energy from Seki. Now 
hand over that little brooch before I change my mind and finish you 
off."

Realizing he has so much to live for besides video games and anime, 
Kotaro threw the Four Duelists Brooch to the hyper-curvaceous woman, 
and she caught it in mid air. "I wish you luck in besting Seki, if he 
manages to win against Kouto." Kotaro teleported away as Terebi 
continued to smile. 

---

And at the time of tomorrow afternoon, Seki finished all of his classes 
along with his friends, enough to last until the next day, if there was 
a next day. Rumors indicating that the next fight will be Seki's last 
in the school, all because of Kouto having a nasty surprise for our 
hero. Whatever that was, it did not falter Seki, as he walked to the 
top of the arena through the stairs. 

"Once again, the stairs almost made me late." Seki was nearly worn out 
after that climb up to the top of the Ancient Venerable Duelists Arena 
and Squash Court. It's been a while since he faced Nakajima Kouto in 
combat, but now, the president of the Student Council has returned for 
a rematch, but... why? 

Yashiko, Vanity, and Lumi-Chan were all there too, as usual preparing 
the cheering ritual... Well, Vanity isn't cheering as happily as 
Yashiko and Lumi-Chan were, but at least she can fully support the 
current winner of the Tournament as much as she needed. 

"Too true." Kouto turned around as he lectured Seki while pointing to 
the sun. "Your life is like the sun, slowly preparing to set." The 
young man flicked his hair aside as he turned his mouth into a v like 
shape. "However, unlike the sun, you won't ever rise again, you want to 
know why?" Kouto laughed and laughed as he prepared the conclusion of 
the sentence. "Even expulsion from Hiroto won't stop you from coming 
back and trying to tear us apart so you can spread your fowl stench 
across campus." Kouto laughed even harder as he pulled out a brand new 
coatrack from Furniture Space, only that it looks horrible and morbid. 
A skull with a top hat on perched on a black coatrack that's longer 
than even the Entangler. "For I...Will... DESTROY YOU!!" 

Suddenly, both cheers turned to shock as Yashiko and Lumi-Chan watched 
Kouto said phrase. 'Destroy Big Brother?' The thought ran through 
Yashiko's mind like Lumi-Chan trying to find the restroom. 

"Kouto, what's happened to you?" Seki pondered as he watched the 
strange coatrack get summoned. 

Kouto now begins to laugh like an insane lunatic on a field day. "I've 
grown quite sick and tired of you meddling in affairs in which you 
don't belong, in fact, I am extremely sick and tired of your existence!  
Remember that terrible danger that attacked Lumi-Chan the other day?" 

Seki was horrified to remember such a travesty. Suddenly, the 
lightbulbs in Seki's brain turned on. "You, you're were that terrible 
danger all along!" 

"I'd wish." Kouto chuckled as he watched the horrified look on Seki's 
face. "That was your old pal Kumayama-sensei, bent on wiping you and 
Lumi off the desk of life after you humiliated him, just like the way 
you humiliated me."

"Where is he now?" Seki began to solve the greatest mystery of Hiroto 
High of all time, what happened to Kumayama sensei. 

Kouto quickly gathered all the evidence he can find, from his brain to 
his mouth. "Let's just say the being that helped you best Ijima and 
Benma in combat gave Kumayama the power to never bother you again, 
that's the good news. Well at least in your case anyways."

Seki begins to put on his 'So that's what happened' face and after a 
few seconds, changed it back to normal. "And the bad news?" Seki spoke 
as he drew out his Victorian Style Chair from the recesses of Furniture 
Space. 

Kouto laughed even further as he prepared to pull something out of 
Furniture Space as well with his other hand. It was indeed a well 
furnished... Coffin. "Kumayama tried to rebuild the Ottoman Empire, 
dressed as an ancient nemesis of mine, which inspired the true owner of 
The Bed to give your old teacher of history an eternal sleep." He 
placed the coffin on his left arm as dark energy begins to surround 
him. "If you can conjure a power that you did not earn, I guess it 
would be fair to summon a power I did not earn either, WHOOOAAAAHHH!!" 

Suddenly, from the dark pendant came forth the blackened energy that 
surrounded and electrified Kouto like a poor mouse's encounter with the 
very source of a power line. His uniform changed from a red suit to a 
gothic version of the uniform, adding a wicked cape to him. The energy 
dispersed as Kouto was suddenly... Transformed. 

Seki was shocked beyond belief as he witnessed the new and improved 
Nakajima Kouto.

"Isn't it amazing, Seki? The power of my former enemy Morticus 
Pallbearer flowing through my blood stream, giving me more strength 
than before, don't you wish you had this feeling?" Suddenly, Kouto's 
voice began to sound like Kouto and Kumayama are speaking in unison. 

"No." Seki shook his head as he stared at the evil energy surrounding 
Kouto. He later spoke in an uber-serious tone. "I do not wish to have 
such power. Kouto, why would you go to such extremes just to get back 
the Rosewood Bride?" 

"Nakajima Kouto is gone. I am Corpsuto now, and you, you're nothing 
more than words related to poison."

"Are you going to take that garbage, big brother?" Yashiko yelled at 
Seki while she placed her hands on her hips, and leaning in enough to 
have her assets wobble and her hair dancing. 

Seki didn't exactly knew what garbage meant, but it sounded like 
something... Weird. 

"That's right Seki, with the mixture of both Koutos and Kumayama's 
desires for revenge, I will say this." Corpsuto, formerly known as 
Nakajima Kouto, waved his hand high as he announced what he has 
planned. 

"If the toilet is not flushed, the refuse inside will stink up the 
bathroom." Corpsuto waved his ghoulish coatrack around high across the 
reddened sky. "I am the flushing switch, my power is the raging water, 
and the toilet is the school, not to mention the bathroom being the 
world!" Corpsuto swung his coffin from the left and right as he 
continued to dance while preparing for battle. "AND I WILL FLUSH YOU 
DOWN ONCE AND FOR ALL!! PREPARE YOURSELF, SEKI, FOR YOUR FINAL BATTLE 
ON HIROTO CAMPUS!!" Corpsuto screamed as he pointed his coatrack at 
Seki while the other opponent pointed his chair at Corpsuto.  

---

Sun Futon has been flying over the ocean. Despite numerous shipmen 
seeing a comet-like object going straight, they continued their work 
trying to capture fish. 

"Uh oh." Sun Futon looked over his bag as he examined the contents 
inside. "I'm almost out of food, so I, wait a sec!" He examined the 
strip of land that came into view. It had various kanji written on 
billboards and lights. It even had a white sheet with a big red circle 
on it in some locations in the city. This could only mean one thing. 
"Japan HO!" Sun Futon yelled as he pointed onwards. "This journey is 
indeed a bit shorter than expected, the journey to the End of Furniture 
Space was slightly longer than this!" 

---

"EVIL CRUSHING COATRACK UPPER!" Corpsuto screamed as he uppercuted Seki 
with his coatrack, now fused with the energy of darkness. 

Seki flipped back on his feet, and charged at Corpsuto with his chair. 
"CROSS CHAIR SLASH!" He screamed out as he shot out a ki blast at the 
ghoulish student council president. 

"COFFIN KI ABSORB!" Corpsuto opened his coffin shield and absorbed the 
attack. He fiendishly smiled as he spoke, "I can't shoot dark balls 
like Morticus can, but I am able, however, to perform... THIS!!" He 
suddenly transferred the power from the coffin to the coatrack, 
electrifying it with Seki's energy. "DARK CHARGING SHAFT THUNDER!" The 
monstrous gladiator screamed as he shot out Seki's own ki, mixed in 
with his own energy, with his coatrack, sending the blast right back at 
Seki. 

Fortunately, Seki managed to block the attack with his Victorian Style 
chair. Unfortunately, it pushed him back like a muscular man pushing a 
weaker person out of the way. 

"RISING CHAIR FIRE!!" Seki screamed as he thrusts his chair straight at 
Corpsuto's energy blast, and manages to slice Corpsuto... Not before he 
pulls out his coffin, and swipes Seki away from him. Seki manages to 
flip out of harms way and lands on his own two feet. "You're pretty 
good." Seki complimented the other warrior as the demon-possessed 
pretty boy did the exact opposite. 

"Shut up and fight, you fodder!" The coatrack warrior shot out his 
weapon of choice, while Seki charged in with his chair... Somehow, the 
hooks of the coatrack managed to hook the chair right through the 
sockets of the chair opening. 

"Oh no!" Seki screamed as he saw Corpsuto try to pry the weapon off of 
his hands. 

"It's useless." Corpsuto smiled as he pulled the victim closer to him. 
"The Rosewood Bride is mine once again, better start saying goodbye to 
your friends and sister."  

"Never." Seki growled as he started playing tug o war with Corpsuto. 
The winner gets to keep his weapon, the loser, falls. 

"I'm tired of this joke." Corpsuto electrified the coatrack as the 
currents went screaming toward Seki. Unfortunately for our hero, it 
seems that Seki's going to have the greatest shock of this battle. 
Literally. Because of it, Seki was forced to let go of his weapon. 

Corpsuto laughed as he held the demonic coatrack high to the sky. 

"Hey, that's cheating!" Commented Seki while he looked at the horrible 
warrior laughing. 

"And what do you call summoning The BED then?" 

Seki was standing there while trying to calculate a strategy trying to 
get the chair back from the very ugly looking coatrack. Besides, even 
though he used it twice per battle, Seki STILL couldn't figure out what 
the Bed was, why it was given to him, of all people, and what power it 
might possess. He didn't even know if it was cheating to use such power 
either.  

"I'll answer for you since you are INCREDIBLY SLOW WITTED!" Corpsuto 
suddenly rushed to do a fierce combo on our poor hero. A thwack here, 
and a few more whacks all over Seki's body later, the hero of this 
story finally manages to grab his chair while the other warrior was 
heading straight for him like a locomotive. While Seki did manage to 
get his chair back, he was still no match for Corpsuto's raging 
attacks. He fell to the floor shortly after words. "Pathetic, just like 
you are." Corpsuto gloated as he placed the end of his coatrack right 
on Seki's body. The young chair master shook while he reached out for 
the coatrack, but fell back to the floor. "Now whitness my triumph, 
everyone!" Corpsuto bellowed as he self-declared his 'victory'. "I am 
the true master of the Rosewood Bride, while this," He kicked poor Seki 
on over while he rolled on his front. "Is nothing but fish food!" 

"BIG BROTHER!!" Yashiko screamed in horror as she 'bounced' up to the 
arena while trying to save her idol sibling. She went on her knees and 
watched the body of Seki try to struggle. "Please, big brother, don't 
die!!" Tears left Yashiko's eyes as they fell on Seki's body. 

"You still care for this worthless, piece of flesh?" Corpsuto smiled 
satanically while he stared at the sobbing Yashiko. 

Suddenly, Yashiko grew angrier and angrier by the second while glaring 
at Corpsuto. 

"Sister, I'm fine." Seki moaned while he clutched himself while trying 
to recover. 

"I worked hard to protect my brother from both harm and crazy people 
like yourself trying to take him away!" She pointed to Corpsuto as she 
continued on, "You used to be my friend, then this Vanity entered our 
lives, and you lost her to my own sibling, and now this desire to win 
her back has corrupted your soul! You still have time left, FIGHT IT!!" 

"It's too late for me." Corpsuto frowned as he pointed his coatrack at 
Yashiko while he chuckled. "I wish to bring this world back in order, 
and you shall not destroy my dream like your rat faced brother did! But 
first, I would like to perform a little test." He made a little gesture 
as he smiled like a true monster. "Vanity, come here." 

Vanity was wide-awake. She recognized the voice of her former master as 
she watched him gestured some more. 'Is it the same Kouto as before?' 
she wondered. 

"That's right." Corpsuto snarled as he continues to call her over. 
"Come, show the entire school who your true master is." 

"Vanity, no..." Seki was about to reach out in a attempt to grab 
Vanity's hand, when...

"JUST SHUT THE HELL UP!!" Corpsuto screamed as he shot out a dark bolt 
of lighting out of his coatrack and electrocuted Seki with it. Seki 
screamed as he was shocked by the attack. 

"LEAVE MY BIG BROTHER AL...GGOOOOAAAAHHH!!" Yashiko screamed as she was 
also blasted by the attack. 

"YASHIKO ONEE-WHHAAAAHHH!!" Lumi-Chan was also blasted by the 
electrical attack. It even caused her newly purchased lightbulbs on her 
head to explode as well as those when the End of the Rug was giving her 
'The Good Night Kiss.'

"Idiots, all of them." Corpsuto smiled as he prepared to summon Vanity 
even closer to him. "Now Vanity, let's not waste any more time with 
these useless commoners. It's time to go home." 

By the look on her face, Vanity wasn't sure where to go next. She was 
sure Seki still has enough life force in him to even get up, or make an 
okay sign. Vanity suddenly remembered all the events with Kouto and 
Seki. 

At some times, Kouto was a nice person to even tolerate, but at other 
times, it's "I'm a bad mousie" for her. After Seki freed her from 
Kouto's grasp, she even had to put up with Yashiko's methods, from 
waffle irons to even Yashiko trying to BURN her at the stake. But Seki, 
now there was a kind soul. Deep down inside, he wanted Vanity to have a 
life outside of the Rosewood Bride, even though she didn't want such 
penalty. 

"What's taking you so long?" Corpsuto snarled as he struck the coatrack 
down while his cape swished. 

Vanity suddenly cried. She can't have multiple masters at once, so 
she'll have to run towards the man or woman who is truly deserving of 
her love. 

"Seki," She cried as she wrapped her arms around the wounded warrior as 
she bawled. "You've always wanted to set me free, and vowed to protect 
me until that day comes." 

"WHAT?" Corpsuto screamed as he suddenly entered the state of shock as 
his former property latched onto Seki like a plant around a tree. 

"In return for your kindness, I offer you this..." With that, Vanity 
opened her mouth, and closed in on Seki's head. With her mouth placed 
over his, she began to kiss him like in one of those romance movies. 

Yashiko awoke to find something even more nightmarish than those in her 
dreams; Vanity is kissing Seki once again! 

The green aura enveloped the two not exactly lovers, but it looks that 
way, and the open wounds in Seki began to close. Seki was at full 
strength when Vanity unlatched him when... 

"Time out!" Yashiko did the old T hand position when she slid on over 
to where Seki and Vanity were doing their, 'healing ritual.' "Look, Big 
Brother, are you going to finish the fight or not?" 

"I will." Seki nodded as he got up back in his stance with chair in 
hand. "Please get out of the way, all of you." 

Corpsuto was getting real angry now. He had to do something. It was 
something that was so far the only way to truly express the situation 
around him and his enemies. He let out a scream, which sounded like a 
horrible monster. 

---

"Whoa!" Sun Futon suddenly stopped his ride to hear the roar that was 
emanated from the Ancient Venerable Arena and Squash Court. "Could it 
be that the Ancient Chair Dragon has returned to claim my weapon? Nah, 
this noise is too modern." 

The roaring had suddenly stopped, later inspiring Sun Futon to speak 
such a phrase. "No time for dilly dally, Seki's in trouble! But I can't 
interrupt him right now." 

---
   
Seki glared at Corpsuto while the horrendous coat rack-wielding monster 
concluded his scream. His head turned back in Seki's direction as he 
snarled a lot. 

"Ever since you walked on this campus," Corpsuto growled at Seki as he 
pointed his coatrack at the Isujitsu warrior. "You've been nothing more 
than a virus that's been too contagious for his own good." Corpsuto 
suddenly charged up his coatrack, and spoke the following lines. "I vow 
to cure this and many more viruses, including the Big Tibetan Dojo, and 
you are the first to be erased." 

"I don't think so, HAH!" Seki leaped high in the sky with his chair as 
he screamed out, "FALLING CHAIR FIRE OR SOMETHING!" 

Corpsuto smiled as he countered the incoming attack with, "COFFIN 
CRUSHER!!" and whacked Seki aside. 

As Seki rolled back onto his feet, he countered with the following 
phrase, "FURNITURE SPECIAL ATTACK, HYPER RISING CHAIR FIRE!" Seki 
managed to uppercut Corpsuto three times in succession, and the villain 
didn't even block this time. 

"Not yet!" Corpsuto screamed as he took his coatrack, and screamed out, 
"FURNITURE SPECIAL ATTACK, EVIL COATRACK RISING HELICOPTER!!" He spun 
it in rapid succession as the dark energy consumed the coatrack while 
Corpsuto, like the move suggests, acted like a helicopter taking off. 
It really did a number on poor Seki as he fell to the ground. 

Corpsuto landed as he laughed like a hyena on a successful hunt. "Even 
the power of the Rosewood Bride can't save you now!"  

He was about to zap Seki once again when a glowing white figure 
appeared out of the heavens, and slowly entered Seki's body while the 
two auras collided into a powerful burst while Seki spoke the following 
words, "Don't count on it."  

"It can't be!" Corpsuto screamed as he whitnessed the sudden burst 
within Seki. 

"Let's finish this!" Seki screamed as he was surrounded by the influx 
of white energy. 

"FURNITURE SPECIAL ATTACK," Corpsuto hollered out as he tossed his 
hands high. "SHADOW ASSASSINS!!" Suddenly, three shadows in a straight 
line begin to form. One popped out from the shadow pit, wielding a 
knife. All three shadows look like the shadow girls who rhyme a lot, 
and they tried to cut Seki with their kitchen knifes. 

Fortunately, Seki managed to dodge past the assassins like the training 
dummies he so fought back at home. He leaped into the sky as he 
screamed, with a certain bed following suit. 

"I DON'T BELIEVE THIS!!" Corpsuto screamed as he witnessed the power of 
the Bed coming at him. He tried to block with his coffin, but the sheer 
weight and energy of the Bed destroyed the coffin, and inspired the 
villain to scream the following lines, "NO OUTSIDER HAS EVER FULLY USED 
THE POWER OF THE ROSEWOOD IN MORE THAN ONE TATIC, NO ONE!!" Suddenly, 
Corpsuto can be seen flying straight into the wall. The slammed body 
can now be seen gasping as students nearby evacuated that premises. 

"The nail is bent," Kouto, formerly the Kouto/Morticus hybrid Corpsuto, 
gasped as he looked at the sky. "The wheels are broken, and all the 
other objects I've said before have become useless." Kouto continued to 
gasp as the world around him starting to blur. "Because of my 
impatience, all is lost. I bid thee, fare...well..." It was simply 
decided that either Kouto died, or just plain passed out. Either way, 
all the Kouto haters in the audience cheered like there was no 
tomorrow. 

"So Seki used it again," Benma spoke as he witnessed Seki used the Bed 
a third time. 

"Ohohohoho, That's the third time this has happened." Ijima commented 
on Benma's statement as she polished her glasses. "You don't think..."

"I'm not sure." Interrupted the giant Student Council member. "Is there 
a way to counteract the Bed?" 

"I already got that covered." Kotaro smiled as he crossed his arms. "It 
was easy to trade one of The Four Duelists Brooches for the juicy info 
we needed in order to invite her to fight Seki." 

"So," Ijima smiled as she curled her hair into her finger. "When can we 
expect this Dark Warrior?" 

"Right about..." Kotaro smiled as he looked at his watch while staring 
out into the arena. He witnessed a dark portal come forth near Seki's 
location. "NOW!" Kotaro smiled in glee as he began to gaze upon the 
Dark Warrior entering the Arena. 

The females of the arena were horrified to see what appeared right onto 
the Arena floor, while some of the males were partying like it's the 
fall of Kumayama-sensei all over again. Heck, they might even do even 
the same to or an even greater party for the Fall of Kouto. 

Seki could not believe what he is seeing. Either he is gazing upon his 
prize for finally giving Kouto what he's been asking for all of his 
life, or another heavy burden. 

It was Miss Natsumi Terebi. She loomed over Seki while dressed in a 
normal school uniform. By the looks of things, Terebi was too much of a 
woman to be even called a woman, her blouse was even more filled to 
capacity than poor Yashiko's, and yes, Terebi even had a bigger shirt. 

In speaking of Yashiko, she was too horrified to see someone that was 
actually built like several women athletes on the school athletics team 
that was actually molded in together. 

"So, you must be that legendary Seki everyone's talking about." Terebi 
smiled as she placed her head on one of her wide shoulders. 

"Yes, I am." Seki pointed his chair at the amazon while he tries to 
recover from that battle with Corpsuto. 

"Oh, I see you have about three girlfriends, how do you do it?" Terebi 
smiled once again as she later pointed a finger at Seki while she bends 
on over, enough to entice a nosebleed from Seki. 

Seki quickly snapped out of the trance to speak the following lines. 
"They aren't my girlfriends, that's my sister Yashiko, my Clan Sister 
Lumi-Chan, and Vanity, not really a girlfriend, but..." 

"Look, why don't you get yourself a real girlfriend if you're going to 
have these sisters sexually frustrate you!" Terebi scolded Seki while 
she placed her hands on her hips. 

Seki was puzzled. There was Yashiko, whom always seem to be protecting 
him from all sorts of dangers, including other girls who are falling 
for him wherever he goes. Then there was Lumi-Chan, who had been on 
plenty of dates with a certain somebody Seki doesn't quite know yet. 
And let's not forget Vanity, the Rosewood Bride. She could be a friend 
if Seki wanted her to, but he's more intent on setting her free rather 
than actually getting laid with her, or treat her like a maid. 

Even though Seki has been deemed a hunk by some of the girls on campus, 
there is absolutely no way for him to be a raging pimp. As vulnerable 
as any girl that tries to get at him, Seki would rather be slammed by 
Yashiko's waffle iron a thousand times than sleep with the female 
student body. 

"Excuse me, Miss..."

"Terebi Natsumi." The buxom amazon spoke as she looked at the tan 
skinned object of desire among those who seek the prize foretold in 
legend.  

"I'm sorry, but only those that are deemed worthy by Student Council 
Members are allowed to fight in the arena. Proof of that lies within 
the Four Furniture Duelists Brooch." 

"You mean this?" Terebi pointed to where the brooch was located, right 
on one of her assets. Seki could not believe his eyes that someone 
other than the Student Council be a duelist. Exceptions point to poor 
Yashiko and Ijima for being under some brainwashing scheme, even though 
he doesn't know what caused it yet. 

Sucking in some air, Seki asked Terebi this simple question. "Are you 
sent by the student council?" 

Terebi laughed heartedly as she closed her eyes in a mirthful manner. 
"Even though Kotaro gave me the brooch, that doesn't mean I'm 
affiliated with those would've been protectors of the Rosewood Bride. 
Besides, didn't you destroy your greatest enemy a few minutes ago?"  
 
"I bested him in combat, and avenged all the wrongs he did, but I was 
just curious if you were planning to avenge him after that." 

"Don't be absurd, of course not!" Terebi suddenly turned her cheerful 
face into one of pure disappointment as she glared at Seki. "Never did 
like Kouto anyways, but now that you gotten rid of him for good, or so 
it seems, how about settling down and enjoying the rest of your life 
with your friends, or finding a real woman for your needs? I'm sure 
your drooling sister will teach you further." 

Yashiko's the type of woman that would be glad to teach Seki about the 
world and its functions, even the importance of dating a girl. Wait, 
Yashiko vowed to protect her brother from other women, as well as her 
not wanting to lose Seki to a girl he likes, or will like. Seki thought 
about it for a while, and then realized the important of his duties as 
a Big Tibetan Warrior. "I cannot do that." 

"Hmm?" Terebi looked at Seki while she placed a thumb on her chin and 
rubbed it. "What was that?" 

"I said I couldn't do that just yet. There is still evil in this 
school, and I vow to resolve what is causing it before I can finally 
settle down." 

"So, you would rather fight than try to find a woman who understands 
your needs, very well." Terebi frowned as she got into a battle 
position. Her breasts bounced within her blouse as she smiled a smile 
that makes the End of the Rug's usual smile look like an uncaring 
snarl. "Let me show you how futile it is to stop me from completing my 
task of obtaining the Rosewood Bride!" 

"Why do you want the Rosewood Bride anyway?" Seki roared as he got into 
a battle stance of his own with Victorian style chair in hand. 

"I'd be glad to tell you, but you might not live nor be in Hiroto any 
longer to witness it!" Terebi shot out her hands and at the same time, 
she pulled out a large television set from Furniture space. "Get 
ready!" 

"CROSS CHAIR SLASH!" Seki shot out a projectile as Terebi leaped into 
the air with her large television set. 

She jumped over the blast as she countered with, "TV BOMBER!" while she 
threw it at Seki. 

Seki was reminded when Kotaro chucked the computer monitor at him. It 
was a technique to punish all those who like to use fireballs. Only 
this time, Terebi's television set was much larger than Kotaro's 
monitor, and because of the sheer weight of it, Seki took damage from 
the television set. There was even more bad news for Seki when the 
television set exploded it was throwing him off.

As Terebi landed, not only did her bosom heave again, but also she 
caused a rather small quake on the ground just by landing.  

Seki flipped upwards and forwards, and took his chair straight down to 
the amazon. "FALLING CHAIR FIRE OR SOMETHING!!" Seki screamed as Terebi 
pulled out a slightly smaller television set out of Furniture Space. 

Even though she took damage from the previous attack, Terebi placed it 
on her hand, and screamed out "TV UPPERCUT!!" and did a move all too 
similar to Ryu of Street Fighter's Sho-Ryu-Ken. She punched Seki to the 
sky, then the Chair Champion flipped back, landed on his feet, and 
countered with this phrase. 

"FURNITURE SPECIAL ATTACK, HYPER RISING CHAIR FIRE!!" 

Terebi leaped once again to avoid the attack, and countered with her 
own move. "FURNITURE SPECIAL ATTACK," She summoned several television 
sets that are now hovering over her. "TV AIR STRIKE!!" She threw them 
all down to bombard Seki while the Hyper Rising Chair Fire is being 
performed. 

Seki took some heavy damage while trying to recover from the fight 
between him and Corpsuto. However, Seki was still able to even fight 
the full figured terror. 

"Come on little man." Terebi gloated as she placed her hands on her 
hips. "Let's see this Bed, the one that made you feared among warriors, 
or do I have to call myself the new owner of the Rosewood Bride?" 

"The...Bed?" Seki thought for a moment as the larger of the combatants 
frowned. 

"Don't play dumb with me!" Terebi pointed her finger at the isujitsu 
warrior while he tries to get up. "I know you have it, and I demand to 
know how you can actually use it!" 

"I don't know what you mean, but Vanity, will NEVER BE YOURS!!" 
Suddenly, Seki was once again consumed in white energy while a figure 
of almond skin and white hair came down to him and collided with him. 

Terebi smiled. "So the desire to protect the Rosewood Bride has 
corrupted you too, very well." Without warning, the Bed was once again 
summoned into play. "If you can summon the Bed's power, so can I!" With 
that, Terebi did something similar to Seki, only this time, blackened 
energy started to envelop her. The figure that enters her body is truly 
frightening and insane. 

"Can it be?" Ijima widened her eyes to see such horror. "Is that who we 
think it is?" 

"We hope not." Kotaro also widened his eyes to see energy kindred to 
the bed's power. "I didn't know this plan has a frightening side to it 
as well." 

"Not to mention this power is the absolute reason that The End of The 
Rug hasn't destroyed... That lunatic." Benma changed his face from a 
look of concern, to a look of more, pleasurable proportions. "This plan 
might still work after all." 

What Terebi has for her version of the Bed isn't that fluffy pink and 
white king and queen bed; this one is black, red, and a whole lot more 
horrible. The type that only an ancient demon sorcerer can sleep in. 

Seki and Terebi charged each other with both beds in each other hands. 
When they collided, the Beds suddenly have an effect that completely 
canceled each other out. The two combatants were forced back to the 
exact edges to the arena while the two faced off. 

"Impressive." Seki looked at Terebi after the attack. "At last, I have 
met an opponent that I can call worthy." 

"Save it." Terebi advanced toward the other warrior. "Face it, you are 
used to fighting spoiled rich kids, but not women with the power of 
athletes like myself! I guess I'll have to take the Rosewood Bride from 
you." 

Elsewhere, the Student Council was near horrified at the after shocks. 
"So it does exist." Benma chuckled slightly as he witnessed such power. 
"The Wrong Side of the Bed, the darker half of The Bed that was split 
in half when it was too powerful to be even controlled." 

"So yourself and I were..." 

"Yes, Ijima." Benma smiled as he nodded. "Seki used the Right Side to 
best us, because of his dare I say it, 'Heroics.'" 

"But the question remains, who decided it was okay to split the Bed in 
half?"  Kotaro asked Benma as a voice unfamiliar to the trio spoke. 

"I did." It was a too familiar figure with a Rug Beater in hand. The 
Student Council members turned around to see him in all his glory. 
Ijima and Kotaro tried to attack the figure, but the warrior had other 
plans. "RUG BEATER POLE VAULT!" The warrior placed the pole on the 
ground, and like an athletic warrior, he pole vaulted over the Student 
Council members, even Benma, and landed right in the arena. 

"It's not worth it." Benma sagely calmed Ijima and Kotaro as they 
turned around. "That was Sun Futon, the Legendary Mattress King, an 
immortal ex-trouble maker that had the ability to have power over all 
mattresses, even though he was crushed by a whole tower of them when he 
lost the challenge of the Ancient Gods. I suggest we wait until he 
leaves this place." 

"Benma's got a point." Ijima spoke as she scratched her head. "Kouto's 
impatience is what caused him to lose a second time, I pretty much 
doubt he can even take on Seki a third time, now that he's..." 

"Can we talk about this later?" Kotaro interrupted while the remaining 
combatants pause the fight now that Sun Futon has landed in the arena. 

"I don't know what you're planning to do," Sun Futon stood in place 
while glaring down Terebi. "But if you hurt him any longer while one, 
he's still recovering from the other battle, and two, I'm around to 
deliver the message, I will show no..." 

"GGGRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!" Nakajima Kouto got up with coatrack in 
hand, while clothes were ripped to shreds, and blood patches destroyed 
his near feminine features. He acted like a mad dog on rabies. 

"What, I thought I ended your reign of terror!" Seki looked at the 
battle damaged Kouto as the deranged ex-president of Student Council 
began to speak. 

"Not...Yut..." Kouto gurgled as he aimed his coatrack, mistakenly at 
Sun Futon. He was so damaged, that Kouto can't even see straight 
anymore. "Me... Will... Gill...You... Suggy..." Suddenly, the coatrack 
wielding playboy turned enraged retard leaped at Sun Futon. 

Then, the Legendary Mattress King did something that destroyed Terebi's 
inspiration to go further with any more damage to Seki. "EXTENTING RUG 
BEATER!!" The Chinese warrior yelled while he pulled out his weapon of 
choice and commanded it to extend to Kouto. Suddenly, the impact was 
too great for the former president to block, and lifted him far, far 
away from the arena. 

"Wow, that's amazing!" Seki applauded Sun Futon as the Mattress King 
finished his move. "Where did you learn that?" 

Sun Futon turned around. He looked at Seki and all of his friends in 
one place, Yashiko, Vanity, Lumi-Chan... Wait, Lumi-Chan?

"WAI!!" The little energy pack of little girl screamed as she witnessed 
the sheer might of Sun Futon. "Brother Ikea's Great Brother from China, 
Sun Futon!!" With boundless energy, Lumi started to glomp the Chinese 
warrior while screaming. "Where have ya been during the tournament?" 

Sun Futon changed his face from concern to mirth as he looked upon 
Lumi's current situation in Japan. "Yes Lumi-Chan, it is me, my how 
much have you grown!" Then he placed Lumi-Chan down while he began to 
lecture where the heck he was when he was needed during the fight 
against the Ottoman Empire. "Well, it's a long story, but to shorten it 
out, one of the things I did was splitting this, Bed in half! I don't 
exactly remember what it's called, but at least I stopped a further 
calamity, right?"

"In case you forgotten," Terebi stomped on over while she pointed at 
the sugar coated seed that was about to bloom into an equally sugar 
coated flower while lecturing Sun Futon. "She was the one who almost 
led you to your doom with the vortex incident!" 

Sun Futon slowly looked at Lumi as he spoke the lines. "So this is why 
I was losing it back there. Anyways," Sun Futon pulled out a telegram 
and handed it to Seki. "This is for you. Make sure she stays out of 
trouble, you got that?" 

"Anything for a friend of Master Ikea." Seki bowed as Yashiko happily 
brought several box lunches for a job well done.

Terebi snorted as she turned around. She stomped out of the arena just 
as Seki received his telegram from Sun Futon. 

"Here you go, big brother!" Yashiko happily bowed in an utmost 
fanservicey manner while she presented the lunches to him. "For a 
victory over Kouto, we shall have a victory feast, together!" 

"Actually, I'm not that hungry." Seki sweatdropped while he gazed upon 
legion after legion of box lunches that are ready to invade the young 
warrior's stomach. 

Luckily, The stomachs cavalry arrived just in time. "In case you don't 
want any of the lunches, shall I please have them?" Sun Futon virtually 
has no food left, but he does need food for the journey home. 

Seki nodded while Yashiko sweatdropped. 

---

Meanwhile, in a random evil laboratory, Terebi was stomping around, 
pacing back and forth everywhere she went. The surroundings look like 
they were in an ancient fortress of some sort, surrounded to the brim 
with both antique, and mechanical machines of evil. 

"Seki this, Seki that, GAH! His kinsmen had caused a lot more trouble 
than usual since they even walked on this campus!" She later changed 
her expression to a wicked smile as she continued to pace. "On the 
other hand, if we can lose Morticus, they have lost Kouto. Satisfactory 
for some sure, but for others, it is not enough!" She tossed her arm to 
reveal something truly horrifying.  

Poor Kaede-sensei was bound and gagged to a platform that was used in 
so many Frankenstein movies.

"You're probably wondering why you're here, right?"  

Kaede shook his head as he looked at Terebi. 

"I'll tell you!" She pointed his finger at him while she wriggled it. 
"Seki has gone to the dark side since the fall of the Empire, and his 
first crimes include humiliating your predecessor! Observe!" 

Suddenly, Terebi placed a tape inside a VCR that had scandalous footage 
of Seki being a truly naughty beast, in the movies they call, Hello 
Seki. Kaede was just horrified to see such discrimination against one 
of his favorite students portrayed as a villain of sorts. 

"Until the Dark Visitor arrives once more," Terebi smiled as she placed 
one of her hands on her behind while she tossed her hair aside with 
another. "We'll make Seki and his friends feel the pain we had, and it 
all begins with his favorite teacher!" Terebi laughed and laughed as 
Kaede continued to squirm through the Hello Seki marathon, A Natsumi 
Terebi production.  

---

MESSAGE FROM QUEEN RADIANCE... 

Seki, 

I know you are doing well in school, but there is more than just trying 
to keep up with your classes. 

First, the student council secretly works for a powerful being known as 
the End of the Rug, which powers can easily rival my own. Beware him.  

Second, The Black Daffodil is on the loose with his own set of 
duelists. He might've gotten to your sister and another member of the 
Student Council, but I hope and pray he doesn't add you or anymore of 
your friends to his collection. 

Lastly, renegades of the Ottoman Empire are plotting against you and 
your friends, and vow to take the school for the Dark Warriors. 

All three forces have some connection to a Dark Warrior that invaded 
the school about two years ago when the Ottoman Empire was recruiting 
other warriors into their forces, and I fear that he is increasing in 
power, so you should beware him most of all.  

All I can tell you is this; choose your path wisely but carefully. 
Also, do not let Lumi-Chan and Vanity fall into their hands. A grave 
disaster will happen if it does, but at the same time, don't let that 
obsession corrupt you. 

I wish you luck in dark times such as this. 

Queen Radiance and Master Ikea, of the Big Tibetan Dojo.

P.S. More messages may come from me depending on the current situation, 
so be sure to look out for them. Do not forget it! 

---

NEXT TIME ON FURNITURE WARRIORS X: 

IS Nakajima Kouto gone for good?

WHAT will become of the Student Council now? 

WHAT will happen to poor Kaede? 

WILL Natsumi Terebi provide more fanservice? (Poor Yashiko's falling 
behind, so we hope for her to catch up too.)

WHICH one of the three dark forces will attack Seki first the next time 
he has a duel in the arena? 

WHO is The Black Daffodil newest duelist? 

HOW long will 'Mr. Sunshine' remain in that Asylum? 

WHY is this chapter so long? (To make up for the short chap.10, who 
knows about that one?) 

Find out in chapter 12: From Bed to Worse! 

---

Author's notes: 

It's my least favorite section in the entire part. 

Okay, signing up again was hard to do, but thankfully I had the courage 
to do so. No offense, Mr. Shwager, but despite your chapter being oh so 
great, even the greatest master pieces have flaws in it which inspired 
me to create these travesties. Sorry to those who had to endure this 
long chapter, I had to make up for the short chapter of ten. 

First, I wanted to focus this story on one of the least recognized 
members of the Student Council, Kotaro. Reason is that Benma has his 
share of relations with Shiro and that woman, while Ijima has some dark 
tales to tell with Vanity and other people. Kouto has problems too, but 
unfortunately for him, he might not be coming back. Reasons I will 
explain later. 

Andy Hiroto: A.K.A. The End of The Rug. If The End of the World had a 
name which he goes by, Akio Ohtori, why can't Rug Boy? If he tells 
Lumi-Chan that his name is End of The Rug, wouldn't that frighten her a 
bit? So I gave him the closest name I could think of, first name Andy, 
last name Hiroto, named after the School. 

Natsumi Terebi: Like I said before, Yashiko's falling behind on the 
fanservice scale, so I had the forces of evil use their own fanservice 
icon to crank it up until Yashiko can get back on her feet. She is also 
Kotaro's sister or former object of desire that likes to throw around 
television sets, which is what Terebi means in Japanese, television. 
Part of her real name is Natsumi, Terebi is a codename she calls 
herself. 

Kaede's brainwashing: Terebi and the other remainder of Morticus's army 
wanted Seki to feel the pain they had by doing this. Feel free to mess 
with it if you choose.  

The Wrong Side Of The Bed: When Sun Futon cuts the Bed in half a long 
time ago, it was divided into two sections, Right Side, which Seki 
used, and Wrong Side, which a Dark Warrior used. Like David said, Seki 
can't be using that Bed to help him win everytime, and even tough 
opponents like Terebi showed him why he can't rely on that thing 
forever. 

And now, the moment you've all been waiting for, Kouto's removal. 
Reason being is two words, Saionji Syndrome. Both of them were the 
first to hold the Bride in their possession, lose the Bride, and get 
the boot in a later episode. After seeing the Black Rose Saga, which 
Akai's character is derived from, I looked at the Council meeting to 
see where he went. Poor Saionji and Kouto. Don't worry Kouto fans, he 
MIGHT come back, but it would all depend on future authors. 

This isn't a branching impro, and the fics about a few parts away from 
ending, so please; let Seki deal with these problems one at a time! 
Makes no sense if the heroes deal with everything at once!

Special thanks to Kenji for prereading this, cause if it wasn't for 
him, then those tenses would creep up on you like mold. 

Oh, and I encourage reviews and the like! Maybe if I do send this in, 
maybe I can do a rewrite, if it's okay with Ard and Cruton. Well, later 
everyone. 

Ryunson (lordryansen@yahoo.com)