A/N: I've had this idea swimming round in my head for a while now and thought I'd write it down before I completely forgot. Don't worry, my other story, "Always and Forever", is still my main priority [if my parents ask, my degree comes first ;)]

Mai Hime belongs to Sunrise and all other franchises mentioned also do not belong to me. I would be rich, sitting in a tub of Nutella, constantly reading fanfiction if I did.

It was a typical Saturday night in the dorm room of Tokiha, Minagi and Kuga. Both Mai and Natsuki were watching a movie waiting for Mikoto and her bodyguard, Nao ("Is this really necessary Tokiha?" "Yes Nao. Apart from being an excellent way for you two to bond, it also stops Mikoto from doing something silly") to come back from visiting Reito. The movie must have been very boring because sooner or later, Natsuki's mind seemed to drift off and begin thinking about lasts night's dream.

"You know how Midori was on about getting us to sing the theme tune to this anime she's writing about us?" Natsuki started.

Mai turned to her friend, thankful for the distraction from what could possibly be the worst movie ever recorded. "Yeah. I think we should stop allowing her to drink on Karaoke night."

"I think we should stop letting her drink, period. Anywho, my sub-conscience must have picked her drunken ramblings up and mixed them with the musicals Shizuru makes me watch, because last night –"

"Here we go..." Mai said with a smile on her face, turning her body fully now to give her full attention to Natsuki.

"I had a dream..." Ever since Natsuki began talking to Mai, a topic that began to re-surface every now and again was Natsuki's strange dreams involving the Hime and their friends. Hence Mai's unadulterated attention; she knew this was going to be a good one. "Basically, we were on this farm. Everyone was there. You were an exotic bird of some sort, I was a wolf, Shizuru was a snake and so on."

"I guess it was a zoo then... a very strange zoo."

"Yeah. So we were all there and Midori – "

"The tiger?"

"Yes, Midori the tiger," Natsuki paused to snigger, "She was getting us to sing this song."

"What was it?"

"I can't really remember. Something between Sailor Moon and Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers"

"Urgh! That is so Midori."

"I know! So there we were, over enunciating our vOwEls," Natsuki's attempt at enunciation caused them both to fall into a fit of giggles, "Suddenly, the question 'Where's Nao?' pops into my head."

"Well, if we're all the same size as our animals, you might not have been able to see her as a spider." Mai hypothesised.

"I suppose that's what my rational mind might have thought, but in my... dream addled state, she appears as..." At this point Natuski's giggles were so hard, they stopped her from continuing her sentence.

"As what Natsuki!" Said Mai, desperate for the punch line.

"A COW!"

"Ehhhh?"

"She appeared as a cow. She had brown hair with a red mane type thing, a swishy tale and a cow bell!"

"Your sub-conscience really does not like Nao!" At that, they both completely dissolved into laughter. That is how Nao and Mikoto found them as they walked through the door; laughing hard enough for tears and clutching their sides in pain.

"What the hell's up with you two?" Nao tried to ask nonchalantly, though it was quite obvious that her curiosity was piqued.

"Oh nothing Nao..." Saying her name caused Mai to start laughing all over again.

Wishing Shizuru was here so she'd have someone else, other than Mai, understand what she was about to say, Natsuki asked, "We just wanted to know how you've been doing."

"What?" Nao knew she wasn't in on a joke, and it annoyed her more than anything.

"How Nao Brown Cow?" Natsuki 'reiterated'

The vein on Nao's forehead was now visibly bulging.

Calming down from her new wave of hysteria and knowing what musical Natsuki had just quoted from, Mai stated, "I don't think she's got it!" Both she and Natsuki immediately turned into blobs of giggles as Nao stormed out of the apartment. "We probably shouldn't have teased her like that." Said Mai, through her subsiding giggles.

"I don't know about you, but I could have laughed all night."

"Enough with the not quite quotes already!"

Mikoto, completely unaware of what was going on went to the kitchen with a shrug of her shoulders, softly mumbling a tune that had gotten stuck in her head a couple of days ago when Shizuru had come round with one of her musicals. "All I want is a room somewhere... Lots of chocolates for me to eat..." The sound of a stomach rumbling was heard before, "Mai! I'm Hungry."