A normal day in Hyotei. Which means an extra ordinary day in Hyotei. Because a normal day is when things that happen everyday happen. And extra ordinary things happen everyday in Hyotei. This is because the Hyotei regulars are NOT normal people. So a normal day for them would be a rather extra ordinary day for us if we were to be in their situation at that specific moment. And- oh, never mind.
It all started when Mukahi Gakuto came up with a really, really, REALLY stupid joke.
"Do you know why they say the cow jumped over the moon?" he asked.
Oshitari looked up from his book and adjusted his glasses. "In the evenings, the moon seemed to be much lower than it is at night. One certain person went outside in the evening and just happened to see a cow jumping. To him, it looked like the cow was jumping over the moo-"
"Aargh! Yuushi!" Mukahi screamed. "I do NOT want a scientific explanation!"
"Gakuto, that wasn't a scientific explana-" Oshitari was cut off, once again, by the one-and-only Mukahi Gakuto (who else?).
"That's a JOKE I invented! You're supposed to answer it with something FUNNY!" he screamed, "NOT WITH ANCIENT HISTORY!"
"…"
"Anyway," Mukahi continued, Mukahi continued, "Does anyone else want to guess?" He looked at Oshitari. He didn't seem to want to guess. He looked at Shishido, He seemed bored. He looked at Ohtori. He didn't seem to know. He looked at Jiroh. Said person was sleeping, which obviously meant that he wasn't listening. He looked at Kabaji. Well, if asked, Kabaji would probably say 'Usu' or he would grunt in some non-committal language. That was definitely not the answer. Seriously, sometimes Gakuto doubted that Kabaji knew how to speak at all. He looked around for Atobe in order to look at him, but he was no where to be found. No one knew the answer. So that means…
"Yes! Victory!" Mukahi shouted, punching the air. "I'm the only person here smart enough to find the right answer!"
"…"
"A cow always says 'Moooooooo!' so people added an 'n' at the end and said the cow jumped over the 'Mooooooooon'!" Mukahi grinned at everyone.
Everyone just looked at him.
"The cow didn't jump over the moon!" Everyone turned to look at Jiroh instead, who had just woken up. "It jumped over my second grade teacher's car!"
Everyone blinked. Including Oshitari.
"Well, it didn't make it all the way across- it left a nice big dent on top," Jiroh continued.
"…"
And that is how the Hyotei regulars spent their day- musing about jumping cows.
And far away, very far away, in a land called who-knows-what, a single cow sneezed.