Antics #1: No Yelling

melmel12129: Well, I'm back again! 'Lo everybody!

I have been neglecting ideas in progress, especially ALL my wonderful Thrill fics which I have a writers block on regarding the fact that there was an epic Perfect Pair moment before Tezuka leaves for Germany and hears Atobe's cry. SORRY! Enjoy.

"DADDY! DADDY! LOOK WHAT I CAUGHT!" Yotsuba ran into the room wearing her tsukutsukuboshi fairy costume and holding a rather muddy huge cicada in her cupped palms.

Koiwai, in the middle of his "boxer dance" slowly lowered his arms and legs and appraised the cicada.

Jumbo poked his head into the room. "Mighty big, that one," he said, shaking his head, thinking about ways to impress Asagi with cicadas, no less.

"AND I CAUGHT IT ALL BY MYSELF!" Yotsuba grinned and held the cicada up in Koiwai's face.

"Stop yelling Yotsuba. You're going to annoy the neighbors. It's not good to yell," 'Daddy' taught another contradictory life lesson.

The cicada buzzed.

"Buzzzzzz..." it buzzed again. Then, it lifted it's wings and flew up, straight into Koiwai's eyes.

"AGGGHHHH!" Koiwai yelled.

"NO YELLING, DADDY!" Yotsuba yelled.

"NO YELLING, YOTSUBA!" Jumbo yelled.

"NO YELLING, JUMBO!" Koiwai yelled.

"NO YEL-" Yotsuba was cut off.

Fuka poked her head in. "I'm going to get some groceries. Want to come with me, Yotsuba?"

"YAY! Fuka-the-one-that's-not pretty is going to buy groceries with me!" Fuka glared at Yotsuba for the much hated nickname.

Jumbo, suddenly interested, ducked through the doorway. "Hey, is Asagi coming?"

Fuka rolled her eyes, "No, Asagi's out with her boyfriend."

"ASAGI HAS A BOYFRIEND?" Jumbo yelled.

"ASAGI HAS A BOYFRIEND?" Yotsuba yelled.

"ASAGI HAS A BOYFRIEND?" Koiwai yelled.

"STOP YELLING, WILL YOU ALL?" Fuka sighed and shook her head at Jumbo's forlorn face. Immediately, Yotsuba ran to get sheets of white paper. Scratching furiously at the printer paper with her black sharpie, she handed them out to everyone in the room.

The top read, 'THE YOTSUBA NEWS', and under read, 'ASAGI HAS A BOYFRIEND!'

"Here! One for Ena, one for Asagi-the-pretty-one, one for Mom, one for Miura, one for Tora, and one for Asagi's boyfriend!" Yotsuba cheered, seemingly not noticing Jumbo's HUGE (seriously, he actually fit under the door when he slumped) slump at the "news".

Fuka half smiles half frowns, remembering the previous newspaper, 'FUKA HAS HEARTBREAK' and recalls up a bad memory.

Fat-legged Fuka. Now that wasn't the best name ever. Just listening to it in her mind made her want to fall face down on the couch. Self-consciously, she looked down at her battered old T-shirt with a pun on it. Haha. Funny. Then, there was her baggy old jeans, and her muddy tennis shoes. Wow. This really was ugly compared to Asagi. She shook her head.

It wouldn't do any good to be sad, would it?

Yotsuba and Fuka headed off for groceries on the famous bike, and returned with tons of bags.

Yotsuba lifted up an entire bag proudly with shaking, thin arms. "DADDY! I got some cup noodle for Yanda-Bad-Guy!"

"That's good. Put that in the pantry," Koiwai directed, having finally the decency to put on some pants after finding it embarrassing to stand in front of Fuka in his boxers only.

Yotsuba did as he asked, and returned a bit later, as cheerful as ever and not deterred at all.

'And she's still not tired...how?' Fuka wondered, huffing. Ever pesissmistic, she blamed it on her "fatness".

Fuka went back to the Ayase Household, and after a few hours, it was dinnertime. Jumbo had left, and all that was left was Yotsuba and her "Daddy."

Yotsuba happily shoveled a spoonful of curry in her mouth, smiling and chewing with her mouth open.

Koiwai reminded Yotsuba, "Don't chew with your mouth open, Yotsuba."

"Ok, Daddy," Yotsuba grinned.

Then, as Koiwai ate a bite of curry, he discovered something rather...unsettling. "Hey, Yotsuba, where did that cicada you caught go?"

"DADDY! NO CHEWING WITH YOUR MOUTH OPEN!" Yotsuba's eyes turned into black circles of shock, opening her mouth in a gasp. She leant backwards as if to fall in surprise, but stopped herself in the nick of time.

Koiwai sighed. "Where did it go, Yotsuba?"

"It went...hm...I don't really know, Daddy. Aha! IT'S RIGHT...THERE!" Yotsuba's eyes got huge again and she pointed one shaking finger of power at...

Koiwai's hair. Koiwai screamed, slapping his poor, abused hair. Well, first, a cicada made it's nest there, then, the cicada pooped on it. Then, it got slapped like it was the end of the world.

The cicada buzzed away, out the open window. Where it would never be seen again. Koiwai hurriedly finished his curry, put his plate in the sink, then ran to the bathroom to assess the damage the cicada poop had done.

After repeatedly washing the poop out of his hair, he emerged, hair dripping wet, but satisfied with his work.

Seeing Yotsuba still frozen in shock next to her curry, he sighed for what had to be the at least third time that day. "Yotsuba, go get ice cream from the Ayase's or something." He didn't want to do this. He really didn't. It wasn't good to take food from other families like that. But it provided a source of entertainment for Yotsuba...so...

Upon hearing the word "ice cream", Yotsuba sprang up and made a mad dash towards the door. "BYE DADDY!"

Koiwai looked at Yotsuba's fast, blurring feet and sighed. "How nice it is to be young..."

I know, I know, sucky ending. I wrote this in 10 minutes. Once I got the idea, I wrote it and posted it. I didn't even edit it. Seriously. So if it's random, I KNOW. Ok? Next chapter is DEFINITELY going to have Yanda. I love how Yotsuba and Yanda interact, it makes me crack up. I have NOT finished the entire manga series, I have read 5 volumes. So bear with me here.

-melmel12129