Manish Pandey is having his very precious,very pyaara,rare and uneventful sleep which is a dream come true moment for him...And there comes dhak...dhak...dhak...Manish muttered arey sapne mein bhi heart ka dhak dhak kyun sunayi de raha hai yaar Meiko...

To this a voice replied :Abey manisha....wo Ashri ko dekhne ke baad tera dil ka dhak dhak nahi hai gadha...Go and open the door quickly and let me have my sleep peacefully...

Manish opened his eyes at once realising that it's the door bang and not his dream...Rubbing his eyes sleepily,lethargically dragging his feet to do their work until the door and muttering something on lines of why him always,he opened to door to find....

To find....

To find an exasperated,huffing his breath just like a dragon breathing fire Rahuliya urf KL Rahul..

This made Manish think that Veer kya kam tha mera neend ka dushman ab he is forwarding his legacy and passing it on to his kids...

Looking at Rahul,he enquired raising his eyebrows..Rahul with very much no regret at all in his voice asked:Manish bhai...were you asleep??

Manish:Nahi...naach raha tha mei...wo bhi baarat wali...

Rahul:sach mein??bolna chahiye tha na we would have practised for yuz ka shadi ab se...

Manish(knowing it's tough to be sarcastic with this guy for this is veer's kid out and out):Rah...seriously yeh puchne ke liye you knocked my door at 2 a.m..ya wait don't tell me tum guys ne kuch kaand kiya and you want me to cover it,nahi uske liye tho veer hoga na....Oh freak...ab veer ne kya naya kaand kiya???

Rahul's lips stretched into a thin smile seeing manish bhai's profound faith on virat...But just to humour him,rahul said:Your trust ,bharosa and love on jad bhai is amazing..The way you immediately thought only virat bhai will do kaand...

Interrupting him before he can complete his sentence,Manish said:Arey trust wust kuch nahi....baat ye hai ki dekho waha bed pe...tera jad bhai ghode bech ke so raha hai...isilye veer ke upar gaya mera thoughts nahi tho inse compare kare tho mera veer accha baccha hai..don't tell him that though...

Rah(teasingly):Kitna ghode becha wo ab tak???

Manish(hitting rah's shoulder lightly and saying offhandedly): Tereko veer ne thoda jyada hi pampering karke sar pe chada diya...nautanki...Aaja pehle room mein...

Asking him to sit on the bed and showing him a signal 5 min,manish started waking up jaddu using his janm siddh adhikar as bestie saying if I have to sacrifice my sleep for veer even you have to and he knew it jaddu will khushi khushi se coz it's for their veer...

Jaddu whiningly sang "Tu mera manisha,mein tera jaddu,tu mera neend kyun churaya...tu mera neend kyun churaya??"
(Tu mera nagin,mei teri dushman tune)

Rahul is trying to control his laughter with a lot of effort but he miserably failed so...Listening to that,jaddu woke up...

Then manish turned towards rahul as if saying explain..Coming back to all the seriousness he had before he entered manish's room,Rahul opened something and showed Manish which Jaddu snatched it first ..Following a mini custodian battle for the phone,Manish picked it and the information he read on it literally brought fire in his eyes...

The article that was tweeted by his very own Ranji home team...A stupid article from TOI that fed false information abt some imaginary tension and rift between him and his veer...Bla bla and all that shit...

Jaddu:Rah...yeh kisne send kiya tujhe coz as far as I know you don't use twitter much na...

Rahul:Dev hai na(to which Jaddu raised his eyebrows) ,He sent it to Mayu and Mayu showed me this ..jisse dekhte hi Meiko itna gussa aaya and mein bhagte bhagte aaya aapke room pe..

All this while Manish is silent but he simply said "You leave this matter Rahul ..mein sambhalunga..."with a specific look to his eyes...Seeing which Jaddu exclaimed"Ab gaya wo log"

Rahul:Matlab....

Jadd:Matlab ye jo mad glint mani ke aankhon mein dekh rahe ho na wo last meine 12 saal pehle dekha...Tab bhi jo log veer ke against the unka anzaam teekh nahi tha aur trust me aaj bhi nahi hoga...

That was when Rahul actually reminisced the tone in which Manish said mein sambhalunga coz that was not Manish Krishnanand Pandey neither it was Captain Manish.. For it was Manisha,veer's Manisha who didn't think anything about any consequences if it involved veer ya jaddu even at a miniscule level which Rahul has only heard of until today....Manish's eyes had that steely glint and madness which Rahul was unable to point his fingers on...

Rahul:Woah...that means Manish bhai is not that calm,composed and accha baccha types as we thought...Jaddu bhai batao na pls...kya hua tab??

Jaddu(howling with laughter falling on the floor):Yeh gadha....aur accha baccha...no way...humse jyaada shaitan tha yeh...hum bas pakad gaye har wakt aur yeh nahi...wahi farak tha...And u know this guy was jealous of mera and veer ka bond ek time pe...Yeh humne mayu ko bataya actually,mani knew veer before than me and jab he saw veer and me in the warmup camp of u-19,he thought I stole his veer away from him and my god he literally gave me a warning saying"Stay away from my veer",jadd theatrically mimicked mani...

Rahul(thoda whiningly trying his luck):What yeh baat mayu ko pata tha...so now you should tell me that 12 years pehle wala in order to compensate. .pls jadd bhai...

Jadd muttering slowly( na veer ko and na uske kiddos ko inkaar kar paunga mein iss lifetime pe ,meri kismat na):Teekh hai ...Teekh hai...So ,hang on mera veer ki rahuliya ab hum jaa rahe hai 12 saal backwards,Mani the gangster dekhne ke liye...dum tana nana dum tana nana(dramatically)

For once,rahul decided against protesting abt that name coz he is more interested in the story

Flashback:

In jaddu's words:

Wo tha 2007 ka september,ek foggy morning in delhi....early morning 5 o clock...no one except few joggers,chai wale and chole bhature shop wale were present...tab utni shaant aur peaceful environment mein...

Stopping him in between,rahul said:bhai hume utna dramatic affects nahi chahiye...story batao bas...

Jaddu:Chod hi dho...no one is appreciating my narration skills...Aap normal log jaisa seedha saadha,sukha sukha hi batata hu...

So,there stood a boy of 18 years with chubby cheeks having his head down as the coach( nahi nahi temporary coach for one week who came in place of their beloved sir) is scolding that guy....The guy being stubborn enough said his stance is perfect and is according to what their sir has taught...But this temporary coach is not buying even a word of it and uparse calling that guy as arrogant and all because of his personal vendetta...The entire camp knows that the guy is correct but no one except two guys are ready to take a stand for that guy...The coach enraged gave the guy a punishment of 75 laps of the entire ground in one hour in that biting cold which didn't go well with the above mentioned two guys ..

The guy completing his 73rd round fainted not being able to take it more...Seeing which his two friends ran at once not giving care to the warnings of the coach...

Guy2:Virat... virat utho na...

Guy 3:If u r trying to scare us and trick us,let me tell you I'm not at all convinced with this trick and I know you didn't faint... remember that ok...and get up now...

(P.S:So ab tak you would have understood that guy 1 is virat kohli,guy2 and guy3 are manish pandey and ravindra jadeja respectively)...

But seeing him not getting up with his laughter saying I tricked you guys, both of them are scared to death and carried him to the infirmary immediately...After knowing he fainted due to overstress,Manish eyes donned a steely glint and said to jaddu "mein sambhalunga...tum chod de "...Jaddu being the naive person he is back then (in case of manisha) tried protesting arey tum ant ko bhi harm nahi pahuch sakte ho bhai...Manish is lyk:Whatever bro...

Uske baad 2 days mein the temporary coach resigned and left with his belongings at once...And what happened and provoked him to do so, only the unholy Trinity knows...They were the only ones who knew that Manish mixed the water in washroom with red ink for that particular pipe of coach's room...He was the one who made that ghostly noises around the corridor where coach's aloof room lies....He tormented and tortured the coach continuously for 2 days in the similar way like moving things achanak se,playing sounds all of a sudden ,made him slip into a manhole and lot more ...And that was the day jaddu understood Manish is beyond what he shows to the world under his masuum chehra and this was the starting point of the chronicles of their unholy Trinity...

Completing this flashback and checking the forehead temperature of a statued and stunned rah who just came to know abt his beloved manish bhai ka real avtar,jaddu in a very jadduish way patted rah's back and said "so rest be assured my boy...that admin ,that journalist and few management log of ur ranji team are gonna face Manisha,the gangster and Manisha,the monster... hell will be unleashed...hahahahaa..."

Before rahul left the room,Manish said "don't show this to that idiot...He will start over thinking and once I go there I will make them pay...don't worry rahul"

To which rah cheekily replied"bhai aap ne liya social media sanyaas ,virat nahi..."

Manish said loudly,laughing "Tho koi baat nahi...veer ko bhi mere tarah banale??"

and slowly muttered with jaddu "yeh veer ke kids na bilkul unke upar hi gaye re jaddu....they are so much like him na..❤️❤️❤️"

A week later:

Manish is all set to leave Australia after the limited overs series and is so excited to meet Ashri after so long...par he is sad at the sametime as he has to leave In this haalat... Jaddu has got a harmstring injury and no amount of assurances from physio is calming his veer as of now...He so wanted to stay and provide that sanity to veer but he had to leave...Upar se veer's whining of "mani tusi jaa rahe ho...tusi mat jao" is not helping the purpose at all...

It's as if he is trying to convince a toddler scratch that even they are better to convince at times...par kya kare jaisa bhi ho yeh pagal insaan is his bestie and he will not change it for the world...

Manish tried all the things possible and finally he said "accha veer...think lyk this na...I will be there for you to pick you up from airport and tujhe pata hai na ,Ashri is missing me...nahi tho mein pakka nahi jaata...And cherry on top I will be there,with you ,beside you for my god child ka birth....I will see him/her first,even before this gadha....ye hui na baat"

To this veer gave a beaming smile and jaddu started whining"nahi....nahi...nahi...aisa kaise hoga.... mujhe bhi dekhna hai mera god child ko pehle...infact ye Manisha se pehle...veer....veer...vee....can we say my hamstring is completely injured...grade 3 tear and can I also pls come with you guys .....pls....pretty pls....mujhe bhi dekhna hai...

Hifing with Mani,veer said nahi jaddu you can't.....And you won't....Now start sulking ,so that I and mani can live in peace...Na na na na na...."

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Not proof read...As I mentioned many times The unholy Trinity has a special place in my heart along with Hulrat,Vinks,Mahirat and other ships...Feel free to drop in any requests for one shots...Lots of love...