JaPHAN

CHAPTER 4

Dan and made sure to get Jordyn and Henry's cell phone number before they departed from the Ghibli museum. Especially with his huge plain unfoiling in his mind, he needed to make sure that he had accomplices. Besides, they were as good as best friends now, and he definitely wanted to hang out again.
"Dan?" Phil asked, entering the hotel room where Dan lay, sprawled out on the bed, thinking about what to do about his Phil problem.
"Yeah?"
"I have a surprise." Dan sighed...Phil had an interesting history when it came to surprises.
"Well...hit me with it." Phil smiled and reached behind him before pulling out two tickets and two costumes.
"I bought us tickets to an anime convention! And we're gonna cosplay...as L and Light...because everyone says we look like them." He smiled bashfully.
"Oh my god Phil!" Dan sighed, rolling over on the bed. Phil frowned.
"You don't want to?" Dan chuckled softly.
"I'm all in for the convention...but I don't know about the cosplaying."
"Please?" Phil asked, his voice shrinking. "It will be fun." Dan sighed, knowing that deep down he couldn't let Phil down.
"Aright. Alright...I'll dress up as Light."
"Really?!" Phil asked, looking extremely excited. Dan laughed and nodded.
"Sure why not?" At this, Phil handed him the costume and pushed him into the bathroom.
"Go get changed! The convention starts in an hour!" Sighing, yet chuckling at the same time, Dan eyed his Light costume. It looked pretty real, he had to admit. It even had the Death Note. Dan figured he had nothing to lose though, so he put on the costume.
"Phil?" He asked, exiting the bathroom. He looked over to see Phil crouching on the bed.
"Kira..." Phil grumbled, causing Dan to nearly collapse in a fit of giggles. Phil had his costume on, and looked just like L, he had to admit. Phil broke character when he fell backwards, laughing as well. Still chuckling, Dan grabbed his phone from the nightstand and and typed in a message to Jordyn as they exchanged numbers the previous day.
"Going to anime convention with Phil today...he made me cosplay. Gonna have to see how this works out."
Within a minute, he got a message back.
"Haha that's awesome! I expect pictures! Have fun!!!" Dan smiled to himself and slipped his phone into his back pocket.
"You ready?" He asked Phil.
"Yeah!" Phil replied, slipping in his shoes.
"L doesn't wear shoes."
"Dan do you really want me to walk barefoot through the streets of Japan?"
"Guess not."
"Good."
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They received several strange looks on the streets of Tokyo. And on the bus. But there were some who recognized them, not Dan and Phil, but Light and L. Dan and Phil smiled and greeted people, people who didn't speak English but who pushed pieces of paper and pens at them anyway. They wanted autographs.
"This is weird," Phil muttered to Dan whilst smiling and signing papers. They had signed thousands of autographs before, but none like this.
"Extremely."
*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*
The convention was crazy. Crazy colors everywhere, people in eccentric costumes. And Dan and Phil could understand nothing that anybody was saying.
"I swear that guy over there, yeah the one dressed as Ciel Phantomhive? He just said 'senpai' I heard it!" Dan said excitedly. Phil laughed at him.
"Notice me senpai?" He asked Dan with mocking sympathy.
"Oh Phil you'll always be my waifu!" Dan laughed, a bit nervously, before turning his head away. He didn't notice how Phil's face lit up for a moment.
"Konichiwa!" The pair chanted as a Sailor Moon cosplayer walked past.
"Oh, kawaii!" She said brightly. Dan and Phil grinned simultaneously.
"Arigato!" They said to here, bowing slightly. When she was gone, they sighed with relief.
"Good she's gone...those are the only Japanese words I know." Dan admitted.
"Me too," Dan said. "Besides anime...sushi...wasabi..."
"Like from Big Hero 6!" Phil said excitedly. He elbowed Dan happily. "That's our movie!"
"That's still so surreal to me," Dan replied. "We're in a Disney movie." Phil threw an arm around his best friend heavily, nearly sending them both to the ground.
"It's amazing! That's why they call me AmazingPhil!" He joked loudly, his arm slipping off Dan's shoulder. Dan chuckled, silently wishing that Phil wouldn't have removed his arm. A few convention goers walked past and pointed at them, speaking excited, rapid Japanese. Dan and Phil, or Light and L, waved. The anime enthusiasts waved back, but stopped when they caught sight of Dan's Death Note prop. Then, their eyes widened in fear.
"They think it's real," Dan giggled.
"That's because it is!" Phil said, grabbing the book, and pretending to write down Dan's name and his cause of death.
"Dan Howell...." He muttered. "Death by giant platypus invasion..."
At this, Dan mock-screamed and pretended to fall over.
"Not the playtpuses!" He cried.
"Platypi," Phil said.
"Huh?"
"The plural of platypus is platypi."
"Of course you'd know that you dork."
*_*_*_*_*_*_*
They caught lunch at little cafe that was in the convention space. It was sushi of course.
"I love sushi," Phil admitted. "Like I could live off this stuff and this stuff alone."
"I totally agree," Dan said, wiping his mouth with his napkin.
"Hey Dan?"
"Yeah?"
At this, Phil pulled his cup of tea to his lips and glared at Dan over the top, a spitting image of L. Dan raised his eyebrows, impressed.
"If only you were crouching."
"Good idea!" Phil exclaimed, pushing his chair back and attempting to leap onto it in a split second. Unfortunately though, he missed, crashing to the ground. Dan leapt out of his chair.
"Phil!" He ran around to the other side of the table, where Phil sat on the ground, shocked and wincing. He grabbed Phil's hands and pulled him up.
"Are you okay?!" He asked. Phil looked up at him, his heart a flutter at the touch of their hands.
"Yeah, I'm fine...thanks Dan." Dan blushed, letting Phil's hands go, though somewhat reluctantly.
"No problem." He said softly, setting Phil's chair back up and returning to his seat. Phil sat down and they resumed their meal, but this time it was full of lingering physical contact and stolen, yet loving, glances.