This is the first chapter of the first fanfiction I'm posting up here...It was originally intended to be a oneshot, but then I thought it would be a good idea to make chapters of them packing and other stuff besides Fuuko and Ushio getting lost. I'm guessing it'll be maybe 4 or 5 chapters or so. Erm...please bear with me, as I'm still kind of getting used to the way you put up stories here.

Disclaimer: Clannad belongs to Kyoto Animation. This is fan fiction.

~Intro~

A few weeks ago, the Okazaki family, the Yoshino family, and the Furukawa family (or rather, Nagisa's parents) all decided that they were going to go on a vacation together this summer. It was a well deserved break. Tomoya and Nagisa had been working hard at their jobs, and Kouko was expecting a child**. Of course, Akio and Sanae wanted to join their daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter. Yusuke and Fuuko were not about to be left behind, either. The latter especially, since Ushio (Nagisa's and Tomoya's daughter) was going. So the grand total of people going on the trip? Eight people. This was going to be fun.

As for why they were going, Okazaki Shino—Tomoya's grandmother—had invited them. You probably didn't know this, but Shino owns a hotel complete with a hot spring, and it overlooks the most beautiful beach on this side of Japan. Tomoya would have brought more people, but they already had plans. So, it's just these eight people. Our story starts the night before these eight people depart for their trip. A.k.a., they're packing.

~The Yoshino's house~

"Fuu-chan, do you need help packing your suitcase?"

Ibuki Fuuko looked up from her starfish-patterned suitcase at the sound of her sister's voice. "Fuuko is a mature adult! She can pack a suitcase on her own!" she answered defiantly. There was a moment of silence that indicated Kouko's uncertainty.

"I'm coming in anyway," she replied, and opened up the door. The short-haired brunette had a beach towel folded over her arm, and her belly was larger than normal.

"Onee-chan, Fuuko said that she can pack on her own!" Fuuko retorted. Not only did she still look like a young teenager, despite being 26*, but she still had the mindset of one, too.

"Uwaah! Fuu-chan, what is all of this?!" Kouko gasped, staring at Fuuko's suitcase incredulously. Fuuko had packed nothing but wooden starfish. "What about clothes? Your swimsuit?"

"Fuuko needs these too, you know!" declared the starfish-crazed girl. She picked up one of the wooden starfish from the suitcase and held it to her chest. "After all…they're just…so……so…" In a flash, Fuuko was in her trance-like state. Kouko sighed and went over to her little sister's dresser. After she had picked out the clothes Fuuko would need for the trip, she went and started to take out the starfish from the suitcase.

"Aaaah! Onee-chan, what are you doing?! The starfish!!" Fuuko cried (now out of starfish-mode), desperately trying to save her seaside companions from the wrath of Kouko. Soon, her arms were so full of the wooden carvings that she couldn't afford to try catching any more, lest she drop the ones she was holding.

"You can't just have wooden starfish in your suitcase," Kouko replied tartly as she went for the bathroom, emerging moments later with a plastic basket of toiletries. She handed them to Fuuko, who reluctantly put them in the suitcase. When her sister wasn't looking, she snuck a wooden starfish into the basket, in between clothes, and so on.

Eventually, Kouko finished packing Fuuko's luggage. When she gave it an experimental lift, she grunted in surprise and dropped it. It landed with a thud on the floor. It was heavy!

"Fuu-chan, what's in this?" she demanded. Fuuko emitted a cry of surprise—or maybe fear?—and hid behind one of her wooden starfish. Kouko opened the suitcase. Everything seemed normal: changes of clothes, toiletries, swimsuit, a towel…However, Kouko noticed the wooden starfish that was with the toiletries, and soon, Fuuko was shrieking as she tried to catch the wooden starfish she had snuck in; Kouko was throwing them all out.

"You can only take one starfish, and that's it!" Kouko cried exasperatedly. "Geez, Fuu-chan!"

* Since the story takes place after the After Story arc of Clannad, Fuuko is now 26 instead of 25. Everyone's one year older, I guess...

** Kouko and Yusuke are married, so I guess they were bound to have a child at some point. I dunno, a lot happens in a year?