Itazura (PREQUEL TO ATRG)

Ah, April.

Time for some pranks. Hehe.

My name is Gray the Trickster God, and I’m here to bring you some fun! So sit back, relax, actually don’t because there’s a spider behind you-

Ha. Got ya.

Now enjoy this wonderful story!

he he he~

I see an endearing girl, with braids swinging in the spring breeze. She is wearing a flowery dress, with vivid colors and flashy earrings that hang from her earlobes. I catch a whiff of her mango-scented shampoo and get a sneaky idea.

Hey little girl, you're dressed really pretty, and it would be a shame if someone accidentally dumped a jug of water on your head…

“AAAAAAAHHHH!”

I tried hard not to explode with laughter at the sight of the soaking girl, clutching at her earrings and looking for the source of the water, which she would never find, of course.

You might think I’m a bit cruel, or something. But trust me. This is my job. My job is to spread mischief worldwide, and every day. And it gets better. Way better.

*eViL LauGh*

Ah, another innocent boy, running down the streets…

I weave around the motorcycles with ease, and catch up to the huffing boy without breaking a sweat.

In his arms, I see three ice creams: one chocolate, one vanilla, and one mint flavored one.

What?  None for me? This calls for a punishment!

I laugh to myself and, using my expert aim, lob a banana peel at the floor…

“Woah!”

The boy somersaults in midair, then does- I kid you not- the splits on the floor, the ice cream splattering right on his head.

Well, he certainly did the banana splits. I think, shaking with silent laughter again.

Now, being a trickster god isn’t only fun. You have to run around, learning and honing your aim, practice shapeshifting,  and you also have to master turning invisible. Luckily, I am experienced in all of these areas to provide you readers with maximum comedic relief.

My next victim is the easiest one yet, as she is sleeping under a tree when I find her.

I notice her perfect mascara, her bright lipstick and her eyeshadow, and suddenly devise an evil plan…

Taking out a brush, I mix yellow and blue together, and paint her face partly green.  Then I mix her lipstick into brown eyeliner. Her eyeshadow turns red, and her blush turns black. I then add a cup of water to make her seem like a monster, with the dripping makeup and the lipstick looking like fangs. Jumping into the trees, I prod her with a stick and she wakes up.

“WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY FACEEEE!!”

People who are close enough to see it either start sniggering or pull out their phone to post a photo of the ruined-makeup woman. One boy even mock-screams and pretends to faint at the sight of her.

She starts ranting, and I race to find my next victim.

A-ha. A perfect victim. What’s more perfect than a well dressed businessman on his way to work?

I can’t start pranking him yet; I have to wait for the perfect moment to prank him, where people with a sliver of humor will see…

Around alleys, across streets, downtown. When will he ever reach his workplace?

He hikes around a park and finally, FINALLY reaches to open the door…

In a flash, I snap my fingers and the door bursts open, and he is pummeled with pies and whipped cream. I then turn into a small boy, and shout:

“Mishter, ya just got pied!”

Everyone turned around to see a little boy pointing at a very shell-shocked man.

Their reaction was similar to the makeup woman, albeit with more pointing and shrieks of laughter.

I turn and run down the street, delighting in the sounds of laughter…

Pranked people POV:

“I CAN’T BELIEVE HE RUINED MY DRESS!”

“That’s nothing. He made me late for a meeting and also made me drop all of my ice creams!”

“I AM RUINED! LOOK AT MY FACE!”

“Lady, calm down. He embarrassed me in front of the mayor! How else is- Oh yeesh, he really pranked you!”

The four victims were gathered at the business man’s house after the pranks to swear revenge on the trickster inhabiting the city. They had heard of him, but they had never gotten pranked until this day.

“Well, if he wants to prank us, we’ll prank him! Get bananas, weights, pies, salt, milk, ANYTHING that we can use to prank him back!”

The four nodded and began to move.

!st attempt:(Back to trickster god POV)

I’m so bored…

After pranking those people, I’ve wandered around town, looking for places to cause trouble, but had no luck so far.

I duck down to pick a flower, slowly smoothing out it’s petals. Then I hear a THONG!

“Dang it, I was so close-”

Whipping around, I see the girl I dumped water all over frozen in a standing position, and then look at the thing she threw.

Ah, a weight. Classic pranking material. Jokes on her though. I reached for the flower and avoided the weight in time!

“Ahaha, you amatuer! Lemme show you a real prank!”

I snapped my fingers, and two cannons appeared, shooting cream at her.

“AIIEEEEEEEEEEEE!”

“That’ll show you!”

Ugh. Hopefully the next prank is a little better.

2nd attempt:

Ah, the perks of being able to fly.

As I move around the clouds, I notice a kite. 

Not just any kite though.

It keeps on following me, as if it’s living, and it’s getting closer to me! 

I look down and see the banana-split boy, grinning as he thinks about the kite tangling me up.

“Not today, banana boy!”

He looks up in shock as he sees the kite flying back to him, and crumples as the kite slams him into the floor.

What a foolish attempt. Geez, people are weird.

3rd attempt 

I walk to  the tree where I pranked that woman with the melted monster face, stretching out and yawning as I prepared to take a nice long nap…

“HIYAAA-”

I quickly open my eyes and jump over the woman, wondering if this is a bad dream. 

“Don’t be too loud when attacking! See, I avoided your-.”

Seriously. These people are using my own things against me. 

I rip the banana peel off my face, and send it splat in the middle of her face.

“OH COME ON YOU-”

Well, that woman can swear better than the dumped water girl.

4th attempt (final hehe-)

This is suspicious. No attacks for quite a while.

I shapeshift into a young boy, and walk down the park again, grumbling a little because the monster makeup interrupted my nap.

“Ugh, when did a fun day become so blah! No victims, everyone is gone, and I really can’t find those four!!”

Well, I guess I’ll take a nap here.

By the way, I don’t just have this much fun on April 1st. Usually I prank people, but just small pranks. But sometimes, they can go viral. Ah, I love chaos.

Drip. Drip. Drip.

What was that?

Drip. Drip. Drip.

Wait a second.

DRIP. DRIP. DRIP.

Smash.

(Author note: I’ll try to describe this!)

Well, I think I may have overreacted a bit.

The dumped water girl was feebly stirring for the remains of a giant pie that had splattered everywhere, throwing rainbow shaving cream and live birds droppings on everyone’s face, except mine.

The banana split boy was bombarded with even more bananas. He lay on a mashed banana throne, and was groaning as he felt his head. The bananas stuck to him like a couple of wart plasters, and he was unsuccessfully trying to unstick himself.

Mrs. Makeup Monster was crying and screaming, as the permanent dye on her face got into her eyes, and she looked like a deluded Cookie Monster. Need I say more? She definitely got the worst prank. Ha.

Business man was cursing up an even worse storm than the two girls as confetti and salt were sprinkled onto him and he was forced to dance in a tutu while I filmed him, his eyes red with rage.

Did I overreact?

I think I did.

So, this character Grey will be part of a series I'm writing, and this is just a little intro to him and also a NEW STORYY

Yes, in the series there will be the LGBTQ+ I promised :)

And this story is dedicated to:

Ethan Avacas and W.W. Skybelle :D Thanks for being there!

Special Shoutout the my sis Priya for helping me overcome my block :)))

I'll be naming the titles of the series with Japanese! <3

Have a great day!