The original lyrics to ''Chow Down'' (from The Lion King Broadway show) belong to (c) Disney.

''Sekiyo...are you all right?''

It had been about twenty or so minutes since Ami found Sekiyo, and they were all back in the Puffy Amiyumi tour bus, a large purple RV-like thing that was seemingly much roomier than it appeared to be from the outside.

Sekiyo languidly opened her eyes. ''Huh? Wh...what happened?'' She sat up, rubbing her head.

''You passed out,'' Ami explained to her.

''I...I did?'' Sekiyo said, trying to remember what all had happened to her in the past several hours. ''I...I...I...I ran away from home and then I met Puffy...'' Sekiyo snapped wide awake. ''Puffy?'' She exclaimed, pinching herself. ''It...it wasn't a dream?''

''Nope,'' Ami said.

''Oh...'' Sekiyo muttered, growing more and more excited, until finally she leapt up and hugged Ami without thinking. ''I ADMIRE YOU!'' She shouted.

''Uhm...you...you can let go now,'' Ami said, gasping for air.

''Oh..sorry,'' Sekiyo said, letting go.

''What's all this about?'' Donjo said; he had been observing the matter for a while.

''Are you letting her stay here with us?'' Kaz asked, standing by Donjo.

''Not if I have anything to say about it,'' Someone approaching from the back of the room said. Sekiyo and Ami turned around.

Sekiyo, seeing who it was, got up excitedly. ''You...'' She said, ''Are you Ami or Yumi?''

''Yumi, and don't you ever forget it!''

''Easy, easy there,'' Donjo said, ''Don't be so...snippy with Miss...uhm what's your name again?''

''Sekiyo.''

''Er...yes, I thought so. Anyway, Yumi, don't be so snippy with Miss Sekiyo here.''

''Why should I,'' Yumi said, ''if the little whelp is going to cause nothing but trouble for all of us...and if we haven't been through enough already...''

''Well, what about Koja?'' Kaz asked. ''He certainly gives me trouble, and I'm the manager, the head honcho for cryin' out loud!''

''That's your problem,'' Yumi said, ''I should be focusing on Miss Sekiyo here for the time being.''

''Me?'' Sekiyo asked, bewildered. ''What do you want with me?''

''For you to get out of here right now and let us all get on with our lives,'' Yumi said with a cunning grin, ''after all, you're nothing but a useless weakling.''

''Yumi!'' Ami snapped back at her. ''Leave her alone.''

''Make me!'' Yumi said defiantly.

''All right! All right!'' Sekiyo shouted angrily. ''Can't we all just get along?''

''Heck no, what fun would that be?'' Yumi said.

''Yumi,'' Ami said; she was rather angry with Yumi but tried her best to sound calm, ''This...is...not...the time for that.''

''Well, that's what you think,'' Yumi said, rolling up her sleeves, then violently swinging her arm in an attempt to slash Sekiyo with the spikes on her armband. But all she succeded in doing was heavily bumping against the door, swinging it open.

Yumi got up and noticed Ami and Sekiyo walking outside to where she had fallen.

''What do you want from me now?'' Yumi said, brushing the dirt off her arms.

''What do you want from me?'' Sekiyo asked.

''Didn't you just ask me that, whelp?'' Yumi said.

''I know, I just wanted to drill it into that skull of yours as hard as I could.''

''Miss Sekiyo...'' Yumi said with a sly laugh and even more sly grin, ''do you expect me to just give up, right here, right now?''

''Uhm...no...'' Sekiyo said nervously.

''You...baka, you! And you say you're a fan! Feh! You don't know anything about me at all, do you? Do you?''

At this point Sekiyo could not stand Yumi's verbal brickbrats any longer. ''Stop this right now, you stupid grungy knucklehead!'' She shouted.

Yumi looked at her carmel-haired tormentor steely eyed. ''She called me knucklehead! Said I was grungy! Did I hear stupid?'' She sang.

''Uhm...'' Sekiyo hunched her shoulders up nervously.

Yumi went on. ''Tell me again! Gee, it's so despicable...the things you said...that you're so kickable...when you are dead!''

Sekiyo just froze in fear with a deer-in-the-headlights sort of look.

Yumi grinned in that cunning way once again. ''It's time to throw down!''

Ami looked on pusillanimously.

''Throw down! Th-th-th-th-th-throw down!'' With that, Yumi tried to slash Sekiyo again, but the girl leapt out of the way at the last minute. Yumi's spiked things left deep slashes in the ground. Furious, she tried this again, only to miss Sekiyo once more. ''I'm slashin' at the bit, baby!'' Yumi sang, ''The beast is on the prowl, kid! Throw down! Throw down!''

She stared her down in that fierce way again. ''The whelp's been invited on a date! Prime material handed on a plate! I'll tear you down, won't be long to wait, seeing you're already on the ground! Throw down! Th-th-th-th-th-throw down!''

Yumi tried to punch Sekiyo with all her might, but again, Sekiyo dodged quickly.

''This time I won't miss!'' Yumi said, and this time she didn't. With one mighty blow to the gut Sekiyo was on the ground once more, whimpering in pain.

Ami was furious. But if she tried to pitch in and help, Yumi might beat her up too. So she just stood there angrily, trying to devise some way to help Sekiyo.

Meanwhile Yumi was standing over Sekiyo and grinning evilly. ''Your eyes are lookin' so helpless! Such sad, pitiful stuff, whelp! Rock on!''

Sekiyo managed to get up off the ground, only to just barely miss a karate-chop from Yumi.

''Who knew this sly old girl could be so bad? Well dealing with folks like you makes me mad! I'm gonna settle up the mess a tad! I've never had a fight of such renown! Throw down! Throw down!'' Yumi sang.

Yumi did her slashing thing again, only to discover that in just barely a minute, Sekiyo was gone. In a killing rage Yumi scanned the area and noticed her running off with Ami.

''Tryin' to run?'' Yumi said, ''Don't make me laugh, baka!'' And with that she tore off after them.

Sekiyo tried her best to avoid Yumi's most fierce attempts to rip her apart, but it wasn't long before she stopped running, out of breath. She thought that she was safe now...only to discover that Yumi was furiously approaching her...and she was cornered.

When Yumi spotted Sekiyo she began walking towards her slyly, with a truculent gleam in her eyes.

''I think I should start this all from scratch! So many worthless segments to detach! Stay there and stare, yeah that would be just fine!''

And, well, Sekiyo was doing just that.

Yumi snickered evilly as she raised up her sleeves. ''You're mine!''

But before she could make another single move Ami blocked the way. ''For the last time Yumi, leave her alone!''

Yumi was forced to give up. ''Ahh! Kuso! Why do you always have to ruin everything?'' Yumi shouted at Ami.

''Why do you always have to stir up so much trouble?'' Ami asked.

''The whelp was asking for it!''

''Stop calling me that!'' Sekiyo shouted.

''Shut up!'' Yumi snapped back at her.

Ami sighed. ''You know what? Let's all just get back to the bus and calm down a bit, all right?'' And with that she walked off, with Sekiyo obidiently following. Yumi scowled and followed the two of them back to the bus.

Later that night, Sekiyo and Yumi were sitting on the couch together. The TV was on, but they didn't really watch it; they were just sitting there trying to recover from Yumi's outburst.

Finally Sekiyo asked, ''Ami...''

''Yes?''

''Why does Yumi hate me?''

Ami hesitated for a moment. ''Well...if you want to know the truth, I really don't know. Maybe she thinks you're better than her.''

''But I can't play music or sing like you guys can,'' Sekiyo said, ''I'm not better than either one of you.''

''Well, then maybe it's something else,'' Ami said. ''But for now, I'll make sure that she doesn't do anything to you again.''

A/N: Well I got a song in here finally...hope you all liked it!

Aaaannddd...I have nothing else to say besides review me; flamers will get their butts kicked by Yumi...and you saw what she tried to do to Sekiyo, didn't you? Didn't you?

----Shaddie-chan