Lani and Lulu: This is the very first fanfic we've ever created. We used episodes fifteen and twenty-one.
Disclaimer: We don't own Death Note - er, we mean Mushishi. But we don't own Death Note either. Hee-hee, you can tell what we've been watching recently, huh?
Ginko always wanted a traveling companion. Well, besides that talking-bottle. But because dogs were rare finds, it seemed that Ginko would never have the perfect pet.
One day during episode fifteen, when all the animals fell from the trees and plants and were supposed to be safely unconscious, Ginko decided to make his move. As he, too, flopped down on the ground, he noticed a little weasel lying nearby.
After glancing around, he inconspicuously grabbed and stuffed the little weasel into his coat pocket.
But alas, the director had spotted the weasel's fuzzy little tail peeking out. The director asked, "Ginko, what's that in your pocket?"
Ginko responded, "It's a Mushishi."
The director narrowed his eyes. "Ginko, you're a Mushishi."
Ginko thought fast. "It's a mushi . . . in my pocket."
The director rolled his eyes and chose to ignore the fuzzy tail that squirmed angrily in his star's pocket.
Later, after episode twenty-one – when the mad lady stabbed Ginko – Ginko crawled off to his doctor friend, Adashino. Ginko hoped that Adashino would help patch up his gushing wound. (Ginko still kept his new pet nestled in his coat pocket.)
When Ginko arrived at his friend's house, Adashino asked excitedly, "What weird thing did you bring me this time?! Huh?! Huh?! Anything else for my collection?!"
Ginko shook his head. "No, Doctor! I've been stabbed, you have to help me! That's what things are for!" (Of course he meant "that's what friends are for," but due to blood loss he couldn't think clearly.)
Adashino frowned disappointedly and thought, Thing? That's it? He brings me nothing, and all I am to him is just a thing to aid him when he needs help?
Suddenly, a little, squirming fuzzy weasel managed to squiggle out of Ginko's pocket.
Adashino blinked, then reached down and plucked it up. "Oh cool, a weasel!" he said.
Ginko took a hold of Adashino's pants leg. "Pay for that!" he shrieked, not realizing that it was the weasel Adashino had taken.
He dropped money beside Ginko with a smile. "Fine, here you go! After all, that's what things are for!"
And then he scampered off with the weasel, before it could get away from him too.
Ginko then noticed that his weasel was gone. He shouted after the doctor, "WEA – SEL!"
Of course, the weasel eventually did escape from Adashino, so now Ginko is on a heroic quest to catch his pet again, as every loyal pet owner should.
The End
Lani and Lulu: In case we weren't clear, the woman who stabbed Ginko was the wife from episode twenty-one. Ever since this fanfic, whenever we shout two syllable words, we have to break up the syllables: just like Ginko. :D