A/N: this is my first furuba fanfiction! Yea! So yeah, this is basically about my invasion of furuba land and the craziness of it all, so I hope you enjoy it!

Chapter 1: Prologues, Introductions, and Bears, oh my!

"Konnichiwa! Would you like a teddy bear little girl? They're complimentary for every child under the age of 12!" said the preppy flight attendant who seemed to be beyond the recommended dosage of perkiness.

"What are you talking about? I'm 17 years old!" the girl replied with an obvious disdain in her voice.

"Oh, Gomen-nasai! I just thought since you were so short…" she apologized but was cut off by the girl who yelled, "I'm not short! I'm just vertically challenged!"

"Oh-okay then, have a g-good night sleep!" the flight attendant replied before running off in tears.

The girl just gave an annoyed 'humph!' and returned to her post, staring out of the airplane window. After awhile, she sighed and then pulled out a purple spiral-bound notebook and a ballpoint and set herself to writing:

June 21, 2005
Tokyo entry number 1

So right now I am on my twenty hour flight to Tokyo, Japan, the greatest city on earth! (next to Sydney, Australia, anyway…) So yes, I get to spend some time exploring the sites while my dad makes his business rounds with the suppliers in Japan. We should be here for about a week, I'm so excited! Maybe I'll get to make some new friends, friends who are just as vertically challenged as me! Well, at least it's a possibility… I just hope we all make it there all right… You see, despite the protests of my dad, who claims that the hotels won't allow pets, I have brought along my precious Momo the kitty! I couldn't just leave him at home at the mercy of my little sister! The poor thing would be tortured and then traumatized for life! So right now he's kinda squished inside my bookbag, but I'm afraid the sedatives will wear off soon… It was hard enough smuggling the cat through customs, I didn't want to risk smuggling sedatives, I mean, that would be considered to be illegal drug smuggling! So anyway, I just hope he doesn't get too noisy… The real problem will arise when I have to smuggle him back, I don't know where to acquire sedatives in Japan, and I'm not very fluent in Japanese… Oops, my dad is back from the little bladder-challenged's room…

ZePuKa

"Hey sweetie, you getting tired yet?" he asked, sitting in the seat next to the girl who we now know as 'ZePuKa'.

"A little, but this annoying flight attendant woke me up real fast with her overly-happy and otherwise frown-challenged tactics." She replied, slumping in her chair on top of her notebook so as to hide it from view.

"Well, try to get some sleep, we arrive in Japan tomorrow, or rather the day after tomorrow in their time, or is it going to be nighttime?"

"Agh! Don't confuse me!" she grumbled, interrupting her father's banterings.

"Oh, I guess we'll find out in the morning, I mean night! Oh whatever! I'm going to sleep!"

"You do that." ZePuKa responded, her answer soon followed by her dad's snores.

"I shall never understand how the diurnally challenged do it! I take forever to fall asleep! It must be the curse of us creatures of the night, mwahahahahaha!" she laughed maniacally until she was interrupted with a fit of coughing. "Curse you, artificial ventilation sytem!" The girl known as ZePuKa then got her bookbag, deciding that it was safe to let the cat out of the bag (literally) so it wouldn't suffocate but as she did, a photo fell out. It was a picture of herself and her best friends. "Oh, I wish they could have come along!" she studied the picture bit more, noting that she needed a more recent picture, considering that her hair was still long in the picture, but was now really short and with a more reddish tint to it. In fact, everyone in the picture had shorter hair... for the summer, of course… for the perspirationally challenged. "I'm going to miss them…" ZePuKa was awakened from her dazed state by sickly and muffled meow that came from her bag. "MOMO! I'm sorry! I forgot about you! You poor thing!" So she took the cat out and started mauling it to death, petting it harshly despite its protests. "Who's a cute kitty? You are! Yes you are!" the girl chanted in a baby voice, and surprisingly, the cat didn't put up a fight.

A/N: yeah, that was the short promo to my stories, and I'll admit, this was a rather boring chapter, I can't wait to post all the stuff I wrote about the adventures with the furuba gang! But sadly, in order to write those, I had to introduce myself, and I figured to do that, I would just write a reason for me being in Tokyo and a little about myself… but yeah, I'm not completely myself in character form, so I don't know why I bothered… oh well! Please don't judge my story too harshly on this chapter alone, my prologues tend to be WAY different than the actual story I write, and there are variations from chapter to chapter! So yeah, please review, even if it's just to accuse me of animal abuse!