Yotsuba & A Jumbled Night by: Kounellii

Kou's comments: This will revolve around the antics of the Triple Threat boys and Yotsuba all in one stormy night. I might actually draw this into comic strip form for my deviantart account of the same nameX3

Disclaimer: I only own a couple of the volumes, if I had the rights I'd include this story in the manga. Duh!

-+The Uninviteds+-

Lying on the wood paneled floor of the living room was Yotsuba. As her father, Koiwai, pulled a shirt over his head, he looked out in his not-so-unusual baffled expression through the neck hole.

Looking rather silly for a grown man paused in a process of putting on a t-shirt, he asked her in a stern tone, "What are you doing and why aren't you in your pajamas yet?"

An instant reply of giggling erupted, causing Yotsuba to roll across the floor like a tootsie roll. After one, two, no, three body rolls she finally came to rest on her stomach to assume the position she was in earlier. Wearing a vastly maddeningly cute determined look, she raised her out-stretched arms and legs up a little from the floor.

"Hehe guess Daddy!"

Koiwai pondered upon not what it is, because he could tell from her pose and the red briefs she wore over her blue over-alls, but how he should say what he knows it is. These long and ridiculous roundabout thoughts were also not uncommon for him.

He decided to take the longer route of guessing.

He settled down onto the floor in a cross-legged position. Bringing his hands up into the "thinking man" pose, he bent his head forward and scratched his chin. He pretended to scrutinize the whole situation, narrowing his eyes as if he couldn't guess what he was looking for. "Hmm… you look kind of like… like… yes, it must be so!"

Koiwai jumped quickly onto his feet and struck a daring pose of pointing his finger down at her, "YOU'RE POTATO CHIP GIRL!"

"EH? NO WAY! WE ALL KNOW THAT'S FUKA!" protested Yotsuba, pounding her little fists on the floor as her feet waved up and down in unison.

Sweatdrops poured down Koiwai's face.

"Uh, I get why you would call her that, but to actually say it out loud…"

*DING DONG*

"Yay! Did you order pizza for me again Daddy?" she gushed while placing her hands to her cheeks as if the pizza was a reward for having just cosplayed as Superman.

"No I didn't. Maybe the Ayases left something here."

He crossed the hall and looked through the peep hole of the front door. As soon as he looked through he undid the latch and opened the door.

As Yotsuba came hurrying from behind while pulling up the borrowed red briefs every step of the way, she cried out happily at the familiar giant.

"JUMBO!"

"Hey Yotsuba! I'm assuming you have a fantastic story to tell about those over-sized and super ugly briefs," commented Jumbo, pointedly ignoring the offended look on his friend's face over said underwear.

He gave his large, swan-printed, umbrella one final shake before he left it on the side of the front step to dry. It leaned against the wall next to Koiwai's striped umbrella and Yotsuba's bright green, transparent, Tweety bird umbrella ((I used to have one when I was her age)).

Koiwai and Yotsuba had to cover their faces while Jumbo shook off the rain droplets like a dog. Apparently his umbrella only managed to keep his head dry.

"Ugh, Jumbo! You should buy a bigger umbrella, normal-sized ones don't work for you," remarked Koiwai.

His friend shrugged. "I would but I'm too lazy to carry a large one. Besides, the only umbrella big enough to keep me dry is a beach umbrella."

Koiwai sighed, thinking whether or not he should wipe the hallway down or just let the water dry on its own.

"Yotsuba, go get this idiot a large towel. I'll fix up hot chocolate for us."

"Ai aye Captain!" She once again zoomed off holding up the red briefs toward the linen closet.

In the kitchen, they seated themselves at the coffee table. Koiwai placed the ceramic mugs in front of each person. Jumbo picked his up and blinked in surprise.

As if on cue, Koiwai explained the doodles on them. "Ena and Miura took Yotsuba with them to a craft fair. There was a booth that let children make a design that could be printed on cups and stuff."

Jumbo nodded in amazement. "Well done Yotsuba! I will forever be happy to have a mug saying I'm the BEST Jumbo in the wurrld!"

To which Yotsuba flashed a wide grin. "I know right! Daddy likes his mug too, see!" And she reached out and dragged the mug closer to Jumbo, leaving a fresh trail of hot cocoa.

"Haha! I'm pretty jealous. Yours has an expertly drawn picture," said Jumbo, smiling widely at Koiwai. Beneath the scrawled writing of "Boxer Man is My Daddy!" was a picture of a man with a pair of boxers on his head.

Before Koiwai could throw the briefs Yotsuba left on the floor at Jumbo, they heard a loud yell.

"KOIWAI-SENPAI! Er, that's a huge ass umbrella… AND JUMBO I GUESS! LET ME IN!"

Instantly Yotsuba looked shocked and dismayed.

"NOOO YANDA!" she screamed as she rushed at the door to keep it closed.

"Yotsuba? Hey it's pouring heavily out here and I'm freezing too. C'mon, let me in!" called Yanda as loudly as he could from the other side of the door. The rain continued to slash against his legs.

But Yotsuba had an idea to keep invaders out from the last time her nemesis visited. With a glint in her eye she asked, "What's the password?"

Yanda still shook the knob. "Password? It's…. uh, Yotsuba!"

"Oh shoot! Aww, Daddy, does that mean he gets to come inside?"

Koiwai and Jumbo easily filled up the width of the narrow hall. Koiwai looked up at Jumbo. "Well, was your name the password?"

Yotsuba nodded vigorously.

"Oi! I wanna come inside. My apartment is leaking so I drove through storms and maelstroms to be here. I'm going to sleepover."

Jumbo walked up to Yotsuba and patted her on the head, probably in reassurance. He squinted his eyes and looked down at his soaked up friend in the peephole. "Alright, you got one password correct. Now what's my password?"

Through the peephole, Yanda wore a look of disdain. "I'll get you for this as soon as I'm insi-"

"BEEP! Wrong! See you tomorrow!"

"NO WAY! That wasn't what I was gonna say for the password, okay, uh, it's Jumbo's the biggest idiot in the world!" yelled Yanda, looking a little frazzled. His light backpack that held his clothes and other essentials for a sleepover was dripping wet.

"Wow, that was actually a pretty close answer. 'Cept for the idiot part you would've been golden," sneered Jumbo through the door.

Yanda frowned and bared his teeth at him. "Man, do you even HAVE a password?"

"You know how they say the best well-kept password is the one that always changes? Well I'm just basing my password off of whatever you say."

"THAT'S SO BULL EYE!" roared a fed-up Yanda.

His corduroy pants were now completely soaked. Earlier it was only slightly wet since it was a short distance from his parked car to Koiwai's front door. To his surprise, the door swung open.

"Ding ding ding! You finally got the password," congratulated Jumbo, extending a friendly hand to Yanda.

But Yanda was too pissed to be relieved. He rushed and jumped at him succeeding only to put his stomach on Jumbo's arm. "GRAHHH!"

"AHH! There's a Yanda on my arm! GROSS!" wailed Jumbo. He waved his arm frantically, causing the already freezing Yanda to turn green in the face.

He's one of those people who're easily seasick.

"NASTY!"

EXTRA: It's so easy to get into these characters! The password thing is something me, my brothers, and my cousins used to do to our uncle (he acts like Yanda). I still do that to this day to my brothers. Please review and I'd love to hear which superhero you want the guys to be. Yotsuba is already Superman (or Supergirl).