"Congratulations, team. You fought hard over these last sixteen weeks, and I'd like you all to know that you all deserve this." Supervisor Goro Sasabe spoke with his proud, booming voice into the microphone. He stood on the stage and smiled a contagious grin as everyone there smiled along with him. "So there you have it. Our newly graduated class of firefighters 2020!" Everyone in the crowd cheered his words, throwing their firefighter helmets in the air. Lucky for their reflexes considering they all caught their helmets as gravity pulled them back down to the ground. If one had landed on someone's head, I'm pretty sure the partying would be over.
The excited new young firefighters jumped around with glee in each other's arms in the most bro-ish way you'd ever see. However, there was one new graduate that was all too happy in his little bubble.
Makoto Tachibana scanned around the room of people and smiled with pure joy when he spotted his family. His two younger siblings, Ren and Ran sprinted towards their big brother. They leapt into his arms, causing Makoto to flex his shoulder muscles to hold the two up. And let's just say every woman who was holding a drink in their hand had now spilt it all over the floor of the hall.
"Big brother! Big brother!" the twins shouted in unison. Makoto squeezed the two of them close, clearly loving them dearly. His eyes were closed and he was focused and in his element with the people he loved. Makoto had very protective instincts and would do anything to protect the people he loved; that was why he had always pictured a family member in trouble when it came to firefighter drills, knowing that he'd stop at nothing to keep them safe.
Makoto opened his slanted green eyes and flashed his parents a huge smile before setting down the twins to hug his mother. He wrapped his huge, muscular arms around the smaller woman and squeezed her just as tight as he had with his siblings. "Makoto, dear, I can't breathe" his mother gasped and the male immediately loosened his arms without completely letting the woman go.
"Thank you, Mom" he whispered in her ear, and he truly meant it. He knew that without his parents, he'd never be standing where he was today. With that thought, he suddenly let his mother go and she dropped slightly due to the height difference, but she got her balance back pretty quickly.
He made his way over to the tall man to his left, stuck out his hand as a gesture for his father to shake it and thanked him for everything he had done for him. Mr Tachibana looked at the hand as if it was an alien and he slapped it away, pulling his son in for a very manly hug. Makoto hugged his father just as he did the rest of his family - but this time it was different. Makoto had so much respect for the man he embraced that he almost let out a tear, despite holding it back.
To end the hug, the two men seemed to have this code as if to say 'you can stop hugging me now' by slapping each other on the backs. Although, it clearly didn't hurt Makoto in the slightest, considering the majority of his weight was the muscle off of his back.
After showing his family a fair amount of affection, he decided it was time to congratulate his classmates on graduating too, knowing that they'd all worked just as hard as he had for this.
Makoto slightly awkwardly waddled over to the gang of guys who were without a doubt celebrating their hard work. "Makoto, man!" One of the guys exclaimed, "look, guys! I found him!" All of the guys celebrated having Makoto around because they all respected him, as Makoto respected everyone around him.
Suddenly, one of the tallest and most muscular men of the group went up to Makoto and wrapped his arm around him, "Listen, Tachibana: Shiina is throwing a huge congrats party at his sister's cafe tonight and all the boys are going" Sousuke explained, "you're gonna come right?"
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Makoto thought for a moment whether it would be wise to go with these guys to a party and inevitably get drunk when he could be doing something much more useful like working out or helping the twins prepare for bed. But then he wondered to himself when he had ever gone out and gotten drunk. He had just turned 19 in November and he had never gone to a party.
Makoto removed the muscly arm away from his broad shoulder and made his way back over to his happy little family. "Mom?" Makoto asked for his mother and Mrs Tachibana immediately turned around to meet her son's gaze. "Is everything alright, darling?" She asked, reaching her small hands up to her son's strong shoulders as a way of comforting him. "Yes, it's all fine. It's just that - all the guys are meeting up at Asahi's sister's cafe tonight for a party and I was wondering if I could go?" Makoto brought his hands together in a nervous way, bracing himself for a firm 'No', but he never received it. The answer he got in return was a lot better than he had expected.
"Of course you can, sweetheart." His mother started, "you're an adult now; you can do what you want." The woman chucked to herself slightly. "I'll drop you down there and I'll pick you up in case you get drunk." Makoto smiled at his mother's words and faced his father who opened his mouth to speak. Mr Tachibana got extremely close to his son's ear and whispered just loud enough so that only Makoto would hear his words. "Don't get anyone pregnant and don't get yourself killed." Makoto's eyes went wide at the words and thought that his father's words were a little 'out there'. He knew that he had no girlfriend and that he wouldn't get so drunk that he would die. However, the words had shaken him.
Later that night Makoto looked in his long floor length mirror and shook up his shaggy green hair. He had put in an effort with his clothes too, wearing a white top and a cargo jacket with dark blue ripped jeans. He took a deep breath as he stared deeply into his own green eyes. Makoto made his way to the step by the front door to slip on his shoes as his mother did the same. "I won't be long, Dear!"
After a short drive, Mrs Tachibana slowed down the car to a halt. "Let me know when you want me to come and get you." She smiled brightly to her son, reassuring him that it was completely alright to enjoy himself. "I will," Makoto replied, "I promise." He then lightly pecked his mother's cheek before exiting the car.
Already stumbling out of the house in front of him was the party's host, Asahi Shiina, who was already very clearly drunk. "EYYYYYYY! MAKOTOOOOO!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. The man ran his fingers through his chestnut hair and greeted his taller friend. Hearing the racket, out came a woman with short hair the same colour carrying a baby. "Asahi, I thought I told you not to start drinking until everyone came!"
The red-haired man spun his head around and scrunched his eyes, "don't start with me, Akane!" Asahi's threat seemed useless considering he was using Makoto's body just to help him stand on his own two feet.
The next second another male, Kisumi Shigino, came out of the cafe. "Asahi?" He asked as he poked his head out of the door, "there you are! I went to the bathroom for a second and you just disappeared!" The pink-haired man chuckled to himself until he felt the glare of a woman pierce his skin. He looked at Akane with wide eyes and asked her why she stared. "I trusted you to keep him sober until at least the guests had arrived," Akane replied, never breaking her stare.
A small squabble began between the Akane and Kisumi and so in the meantime, Makoto dragged the tripping Asahi inside the cafe as other guests slowly started to show up. Everyone from the fire force was there and there were also too many girls to count.
Many drinking games were thoroughly planned, yet of course not by the host because he'd already close to blacking out at this point. The first game was Ring of Fire where there were many rules to do with cards and a jug... Makoto didn't entirely get the game and lost many rounds and got super drunk super quick. All the green-haired male knew was, the end of the game had come when he picked up the last King from the card circle. That gave him the complete go-ahead to end the game after he drank all that was in the jug; a mixture of Beer, Wine, Hard Cider and Mead. Not to mention that he had drunk 6 bottles of Sake throughout this long and agonizing game. It was safe to say that Makoto was instantly wasted after just one game, and they had a long night ahead of them.
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