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Emichii: Yo!! Nice to meetcha!! It's been AGES since my last Furuba fic. Huhh…
Anyway, to all those who know me from another fic and those who don't, Welcome to The 2nd Mabudachi Trio!! This will be mainly a haruhana and probably a yukichi!! Eh heh… so I guess it's a bit of a crack pairing extravaganza!! Hope you like!! Read and review!!

The 2nd Mabudachi Trio

Ep.1- Return of the Mabudachi Trio!!

Once upon a time, in a school called Kaibara High, in a class of Year 11 students, there were 3 classmates.

There were just 3 semi-normal classmates who happened to sit near each other. Their names were Hatsuharu Sohma, Machi Kuragi and Momiji Sohma. And they had no idea that fate (Shigure) would throw them together as the 2nd Mabudachi Trio.

Machi had always been a really quiet girl who just happened to blend into the background. She sat in the desk behind Momiji and beside Hatsuharu. Sadly, the truth was, she didn't really have any friends. She was the loner, the shadow, the one who was bullied.

However, lately, she'd been eating lunch with Haru and Momiji, and was starting to know them really well. A close friendship was quickly building between the three young people, and if it wasn't for the friendship between them, there would've been no way all three of them could've been able to get through the disasters that awaited them.

Momiji had turned his chair around and was eating lunch, facing Machi. Haru was sitting sideways on his chair, facing the others, with one leg resting on his desk. He was chomping away on his lunch, blatantly ignoring the class representative who was telling him to get his foot off the desk.

"How's the Student Council going, Machi?" asked Momiji.

Machi was quiet for a moment. "Okay, I guess." Actually, most of the time, the Kaibara Student Council got absolutely nothing done thanks to the combination of princely Yuki, crazy Kakeru, insane Kimi, hot-tempered Nao and destructive Machi.

Haru looked over at Machi, "Oh yeah. Yuki's the president, isn't he? I'm sure that makes the student council heaps of fun."

Yuki… Machi stared blankly ahead as she thought of the charming president. Most of the time, Machi really wanted to hate him because he was so perfect it made her want to vomit. But after a while, she gradually began to realize he was just a normal person too, and he had some really wonderful qualities that made her start to really really like him.

The blonde boy with the rabbit backpack grinned cheerfully. "Haha!! Yuki is so popular!!" Momiji stretched his arms out above his head and added carelessly, "It'd be a real shame if anyone found out. Especially the girls. Oh it'd be hilarious if they hugged him and-"

"Momiji." Haru said very sternly. The two-toned hair teenager stared at Momiji with a warning apparent in his eyes.

Momiji looked guilty and he shut up. Haru sank back into his chair. Machi just watched them in bewilderment.

Suddenly, Hatsuharu stood up so abruptly, both Machi and Momiji were completely shocked.

"Haru?" Momiji wondered.

Haru ignored Momiji and rushed to the classroom door. He stood there and looked outside into the hallway.

"What's up?" Momiji got to his feet and hurried over to Haru, followed by Machi.

Hatsuharu just stood there, mesmerized by whatever he had just seen. Finally, he spoke. "That girl…"

"Who?" Momiji asked.

Machi and Momiji stuck their heads out the door and looked down the hallway, where three girls were walking through the corridor.

Haru was acting most uncharacteristically but he was still in a daze, and sounding like he normally did when he was white Haru. "That girl with the long black hair is so hot,"

Momiji turned around to stare at Haru. "What's wrong with you, Haru?? You know her name. You've met her many times before!!"

"I have?" Haru mumbled.

"She's Saki Hanajima, Tohru's friend!"

Haru blinked, confused by this bit of information. "Really? I don't remember her looking so beautiful…" Then a cheeky grin spread across his face. "Of course, even in my memories, she was always strikingly good-looking."

Momiji rolled his eyes. "Haru, you player."

Hatsuharu looked offended. "I'm not a player!! I'm…" Haru's tone went serious, "… a lot deeper than that."

Machi was watching the other two with a slightly amused look on her face. "So… she's Honda-sempai's friend?"

"Huh? You call Tohru Honda-sempai?" Momiji said. "Oh. Well, yeah I guess that makes sense." After all, it wasn't like Machi knew Tohru all that well anyway, and Tohru was from a higher grade.

Haru sighed deeply and leant back against the wall. He gazed down towards the ground with a distant look in his eyes.

"Hatsuharu?" Machi looked a little worried.

The boy with the white and black hair was silent for a second and then said, "Sometimes… Saki's long black hair reminds me of Rin."

"Who's Rin?" asked Machi curiously.

Haru tilted his head towards the ceiling and then slowly replied, "She's… my ex."

Momiji's gaze grew serious. "Haru…" he started.

Hatsuharu immediately straightened up and pasted a normal smug grin on his face, shoving his hands into his pockets.

"Don't worry about it," he said, sauntering back towards his desk.

After school, Machi, Momiji and Hatsuharu were heading the same way out the building, when suddenly they were shocked out of their minds by a crazy black-haired man jumping into the middle of their path.

"GYAH!!" Machi cried in surprise.

"Shi??" Momiji shouted.

"Sensei, what are you doing here?" Haru asked, slightly testily.

Shigure took a deep bow and said cheerfully, "I'm here to appoint my successors!!"

"What?" The three teens stared dumbly at him.

Shigure stepped in front of Machi and started shaking her hand heartily. "I trust you know these two young men very well!! You all seem to be very good friends!! That's good!! Just what I was looking for!!"

"Sensei…" Haru started.

Shigure stepped back and made a peace sign with one hand. "I hereby declare you three the 2nd Mabudachi Trio!!!"

"EH?" They gaped at him still confused and shocked.

Out of nowhere, another figure bounded onto the path. Ayame straightened himself up and flicked a hand under his long silvery hair. "That was a wonderful performance, Gure!!"

"Of course, Aya, I do my best!!" Shigure laughed.

The two childish adults laughed and chattered away while the three teenagers stood and stared blankly.

"Brother…" Yuki emerged from a doorway nearby, looking both furious and surprised. "What are you doing here?"

"Yuki!!" Momiji and Hatsuharu cried in unison.

"President…" Machi muttered softly.

"YUKI!! Oh my beloved brother!!" Ayame cried out.

Yuki angrily grabbed Ayame's sleeve and demanded, "Why are you at my school?? You and Shigure have been drinking again, haven't you??"

"COMMANDER!!" A black-haired guy ran out and started fussing over both Yuki and Ayame. "Commander, it's been ages since we last saw you!!"

"Kakeru…" Yuki turned to Kakeru with eyes flashing.

"Yun-yun, you're always no fun at all!!" Kakeru whined. Suddenly, Kakeru turned to Machi, Hatsuharu and Momiji with a bright scary-looking smile. "Machi!! How are ya??"

"Kakeru," Machi started, looking at her older half-brother.

Kakeru stopped his cheeky grin on his face and gave her a rare serious gaze for a change.
"I see you're with some friends." he said.

Machi was quiet.

Kakeru smiled. "I'm glad to see that." He gave her a friendly pat on the head as he turned to go. "You hardly have any friends at all, so I'm really happy. You two look after her, okay??" Kakeru told Haru and Momiji.

Kakeru went off to bug Yuki about the Commander and other random things he was going to tell him. Yuki was angrily trying without much success to drag both Ayame and Shigure to the nearest exit.

Machi stood in silence staring at the ground. She really cared for Kakeru, but sometimes he was too careless. Now that she actually had two good friends, he didn't have to say that she hadn't had any friends before in front of them!

Dammit… Machi didn't know what to do. Both Haru and Momiji had very clearly heard Kakeru.

Then suddenly, Haru spoke up, "It's all right, Machi."

"Huh?" she looked up.

Haru gave her a sad smile. "We all understand."

"Yeah," Momiji agreed softly.

Because of the curse, Hatsuharu had always had a hard time making friends and trusting people. Plus, with the addition of Black Haru controlling half of his personality, it was very hard to open up to people and make friendships.

Momiji shrugged his shoulders upwards to stretch them out. He sent the other two a big smile. "I guess we can agree we've all been through a lot. I hope that this year will be different from the others though. This year, we have each other and it'll be much better with friends around!!"

Haru nodded in agreement.

Machi smiled one of her rare but cute smiles.

"Where is Hatori?? He's your keeper, not me!!" Yuki was in great annoyance.

"Aww, Yuki, be nice!! It's not every day we get to visit your school!!" Shigure whined.

"Besides, Yuki," Ayame said, "We needed successors to out Mabudachi Trio and today we finally found them!!"

Yuki opened his mouth and was about to yell, when suddenly he was interrupted by someone else.

"Yo."

"Hatori!! Thank goodness you're here!" Yuki said with great relief.

Hatori stood straight and stern in his black suit. "Come on, you two. Let's go."

"Okay Tori!!" Ayame said cheerfully, following the doctor. Shigure had no choice but to do what Hatori said, although he really wanted to stay.

"What? But the party's just started, Commander!!" Kakeru said.

Ayame waved to Kakeru and Yuki as the Mabudachi Trio left. "Don't fret, Manabe!! We'll be back before you know it!!"

Please never come back again in my lifetime! Yuki thought in frustration as he turned back towards the building. He walked back inside to finish off some last presidential duties, passing Haru, Momiji and Machi.

"Um…" Machi murmured.

Immediately, Yuki turned towards her and smiled in his princely fashion. "Good afternoon, Machi," he said and then continued walking away.

Machi flushed but tried her best to hide it. His super perfect princely ways still infuriated her!!

Momiji noticed this and a knowing smile spread across his face. "Hey Machi, you like Yuki, don't you??"

"What? No!!" Machi said hurriedly.

"Yes you do!!" Momiji said excitedly. He was positively bouncing up and down with cheer.

"No I don't!!!" Machi repeated louder.

Haru rolled his eyes. He couldn't be bothered with such childish matters. Seriously!! These two were in year 11 now, and they still did the whole yes-you-do, no-I-don't thing primary school children did.

"Ahh!! Yun-yun left me behind!!" Kakeru realized as he ran after where Yuki had gone. He ran full-speed after the president, accidentally bumping into Momiji as he rushed past.

"Oh! Sorry!" Kakeru called apologetically as he hurried past.

"Huh?" Machi was bewildered as Momiji, pushed over accidentally by Kakeru, started falling towards her.

"Uh oh…" Momiji muttered under his breath.

Hatsuharu sighed deeply and turned towards the sky with a look of absolute exhaustion on his face.

POOF!! A strange-sounding poofy sound was heard, accompanied by a cloud of wispy coloured smoke.

The smoke cleared and Machi's eyes were wide open, as she gaped at the rabbit in front of her. Momiji (rabbit) sighed and whispered in German, "Ach nein…"

Hatsuharu ran a hand through his hair and thought about how he might explain it.

And so, the newly-named 2nd Mabudachi Trio experienced their first chaotic mess. But little did they know; there'd many disasters to come, and that they'd be even bigger and crazier than this one.

That's the end of chapter one!! Did you like?? Please review and tell me what you think! Next chapter comes out next week so be sure to read that as well!!