Well hello people! The amount of inspiration i have for this story is incredible, if that continues I'll probably be done with it in… let's say… basic math hhhhhh… like about a month, maybe shorter (fingers crossed).

Anyways, here is a brand new chapter! The episodes for these ones are #5 the Inconveniencing and #6 Dipper vs Manliness. It's recommended to go watch those before reading though, as reading it with the story does not seem to get the same affect.

Enjoy~

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"Mabel, do you believe in ghosts?"

Mabel spun around on the globe. "I believe you're a big dork!" She laughed. Dipper frowned. The page in the Journal he was looking at was interesting, but did ghosts really exist? Rolling his eyes, he puts his pencil against the globe his twin was spinning on.

Crash.

Dipper smiled to himself. Dipper: 1, Mabel: 0

Grunkle Stan throws him out of his thoughts. "Soos! Wendy!" He called out. "I'm headin' out. You two are gonna wash the bathrooms, right?" His frown turns into a grin. Dipper shivered. Stan really had to learn how to smile.

"Yes, sir!" Soos is quick to react and throws him a salute.

"Absolutely not, sir!" Wendy is right behind him and mimics his salute.

Stan glares at them for a second, before heading back out with a final warning of 'staying out of trouble'. Dipper heaves a sigh of relief and turns back to the Journal. It was debatable if ghosts were actually real, but the evidence and the sheer amount of notes were... Astonishing, to say the least. The Author almost never failed to give valid explanations and that should be enough reason.

"Hey guys! What's this?" Someone's voice cuts through his thoughts again. Dipper turns his head into the direction of the sound, raising his eyebrows when Wendy unveils some random curtains. "A secret ladder to the roof?"

Soos follows her, nervousness showing in his body stature. "Uh," he tries to object, "I don't think Mr. Pines would like that."

Dipper cuts him off, wild excitement dancing in his eyes. A secret ladder to the roof? His lip twitches up. "Can we actually go up there?"

"Sure we can! Roof time! Roof time!"

He and Mabel are over and climbing the ladder in less than a moment, chanting after her. Dipper's heart races. They chant after her and try not to slip, the light from the gift shop leaving them. They climb in darkness for a few seconds, before there is a loud thunk and light spills all over them.

"Whoa…" Dipper breathes as they climb out of the trapdoor and over to the other side of the roof. "Cool! Did you put all this stuff up here?"

Wendy winks at him and his heart flutters. "I may or may not sneak up here during work, all the time, every day." She throws a pine cone and hits a target on a totem pole. "Yes!"

Mabel raised her eyebrows and whistled, before running and grabbing a pinecone too. Her and Dipper both miss, the only difference with Mabel's pinecone was that Dipper's hits a car.

Wendy whistles. "Jackpot! High five." She holds up her hand. Her hair flows with the wind and Dipper stares at her, in a trance. "Don't leave me hangin'." He finally recovers and high fives her, the tip of his ears coloring a faint red.

"Does Pines-san know about this?"

Dipper jumps at the sudden appearance of the voice behind him, before sighing in relief. "God, Itachi, you scared me. When did you even have time to get up here?" He asks, slightly bitter Itachi ruined his moment.

Itachi had a weird knack for appearing in most random times. Dipper not once tried to get the older boy to confess the secret, but he failed. Every time.

"Nah, or he wouldn't have let me if he'd known." Wendy shrugs, before focusing on a completely new car pulls up in front of their house. "Oh hey, it's my friends!"

Itachi glances at the waving hand that appeared out of the car window, skeptic. Wendy shoots them a grin. "Hey, you guys aren't going to tell Stan about this, are you?" She asks hopefully.

Dipper smiles at her and pretends to zip his mouth while trying to elbow Itachi in the stomach and hope he gets the hint. Wendy's returning smile and similar motions make up for the fact Itachi moved away and he missed (dang it, he had some good reflexes).

And with that, she's off.

"Uh, oh!" Mabel wiggles her eyebrow at him, her smile unnerving him for some reason.

He scratched his neck. "What?" He asks, fearing of what was about to come.

She pokes him. "Somebody's in love!"

"Yeah, right! I just think Wendy's cool, okay? It's not like I lie awake at night thinking about her!"

"That is a lie, Dipper-san. You look at Wendy-san the same way Gleeful-san looks at Mabel-san."

Dipper facepalmed. "Oh no, Itachi, you too?" He rolls his eyes to the sky. Gods, why is this happening to him. His brain, slowed down and confused by all these san's finally catches up and shivers. "What the heck Itachi? I'm not that creepy!"

Itachi's lips curl up in a rare smile and Dipper could see he was this close to laughing.

"Argh, come on guys!"

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Gods must hate him, Dipper decided as he tried to protect his pride and ego from his sister's retelling of the 'Lamby Dance'.

Mabel continues, ignoring his angry whispering. "Dipper would prance around and sing a song about grazing." She waves a picture and Dipper wonders where did she get it from. Itachi quirks his brows in interest and the intensity of his gaze is creeping Dipper out.

Wendy glances at him, amused, her following comment cut off by a cuckoo clock. She blinks, before standing up. "Hey, look at that!" She grins. "Quittin' time! The gang's waitin' for me."

Itachi and Mabel both hum in acknowledgment and say their own goodbyes. Wendy grins at them and is about to leave the room when—

Then.

And then Dipper is running after her before his mind could catch up. "Wait!" His brain is screaming at him, what are you doing what are you doing what are you doing stop stop STOP!

Too late. "Why don't I-or we come with you?" The words are out of his mouth before he could even realize.

"Ooh... I don't know. My friends are pretty intense." Wendy rubs her chin. "How old did you guys say you are?"

"U-uh, we're thirteen! So, technically a teen." What is he doing they're only twelve Dipper stop you're going to ruin everything—

He points at Itachi. "And Itachi here is older than everyone here so I'd say he's a teen too." What was his guess? Seventeen? Sixteen?

Itachi frowns at him, probably displeased he got pulled into this. He is about to shake his head no and protest when Wendy cuts him off before he could even start. Dipper sighs in relief. After all, if he and Mabel screw up, Itachi would be able to save them. Distract him with his cool demeanor or something.

"All right. I like your moxie, kid!" Wendy says and brushes her hair out of her face. "Let me get my stuff and then we can leave, alright?" She's off and out of the room in seconds.

Mabel takes her chance. "Since when are we thirteen? Is this a leap year?" She cocks her head.

"Come on, Mabel," Dipper reassures her. "This is our chance to hang out with, you know, the cool kids. And Wendy and whatever."

"I knew it!" Mabel says before he could even finish his sentence. She jumps out of her chair and over the desk.

(Itachi's hands jerk in her direction before falling back in place when she lands safely.)

"You love her!"

Dipper sends a questioning look towards Itachi, before turning back to his sister. Mabel jumped around him and sang about love, all while teasing him.

Itachi only sends back an amused glance.

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They are throwing jellybeans inside some poor Thompson's stomach. If he was honest, Nate could've felt sorry for the guy if only they had other forms of entertainment. Sadly, they didn't, so he supposed Thompson had to handle it until they found a better thing to do.

"In the belly! In the belly!" He chants along with Lee while holding up Thompson's legs. Yet another jellybean misses and he is ready to put down the poor guy when—

A green jellybean flies through the air and into Thompson's bellybutton. Even more surprisingly, Thompson topples over due to the force of the jellybean and its pure impact.

Nate wobbles a bit, trying to locate the source of the missile. Seemed to come from behind…

And then, he sees them.

"Wendy!" Comes the delighted scream behind him and he copies it. "Wendy! Wendy!"

She waves at them. "Hey guys! These are my pals from work, Mabel and Dipper."

Nate's gaze turns skeptical. Pals from work? He wonders and raises his eyebrow. This 'Mabel's' declaration of chewing her gum so it looks like a brain did not do much for first impressions.

The other kid points at himself. "She's not much for first impressions. Unlike this guy!" They stare at him. The twerp withers. "This guy…"

Robbie is always the first to make a remark. "So are you, like, babysitting, or…" He trails off and Wendy snorts.

"Come on, Robbie!" She pauses and then switches the topic. "Guys, this is Lee and Nate." Nate waves and punches Lee in the stomach without missing a beat. "Tambry…" As always, she does not look up from her phone, "Thompson, who once ate a runover waffle for 50 cents."

"Don't tell them that!"

Everyone ignored him. "And Robbie. You can probably figure him out." Wendy concluded.

Robbie flicks his hair. "Yeah, I'm the guy who spray-painted the water tower."

"Oh, you mean the big muffin!" The sweaty kid, whats-his-name-Dipper exclaims.

"Um, it's a giant explosion."

They all glance at the water tower.

Lee laughs. "Kinda does look like a muffin!" Nate catches up too and together, they fill the clearing with chuckles. He pauses, feeling as if he didn't finish something.

Oh. Right. The strange presence behind Wendy. "Oh, and this is…?"

Wendy looks at him, question clear in her face, before looking behind her shoulder. She claps her hands together. "Oh right! Guys, forgot to introduce, this is Itachi."

Lee's laughter also cuts off as Itachi steps out from behind Wendy and gives them a slight nod. They stare at him for a few moments, Nate cocking his head.

Something was wrong about him. He looked human enough, with his black hair tied in a low ponytail and normal human structure, but something was off. Something he couldn't place his hand on, but it was very, very wrong.

This guy is giving me the chills, Nate decided, before awkwardly waving at Itachi. "Hey there. Newbie?"

Robbie twitches at Itachi too. Nate supposes it's because he wasn't used to another, power-radiating male and snorts.

The few moments of awkward silence end and they all call out greetings, Robbie's tenser than others. Itachi stays silent in his turn. Nate feels that this man needs to be respected for some unexplainable reason.

Not that he was going to question it.

"Let's hurry it up, guys. I got big plans for tonight!" Wendy breaks them out of their quiet trance. They are shaken out of it and soon, the loud banter is back in place.

And yet, Nate could not help but notice how the smaller twerps were at ease with this Itachi. He wondered if he was their older brother, pushing the possibility to the back of his mind.

Better not to cross paths with this guy.

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The air crackled around Itachi, murderous aura surrounding him. Dipper shivered as the temperature in the room seemed to drop several degrees, before jumping in surprise.

Itachi eyes were swirling red.

"Put. Mabel-san. Back. On. The. Ground." Itachi spat out, fury and warning mixing together in his voice. This was the angriest Dipper had seen Itachi ever become, and if he was honest, he was scared.

"Or what?" Possessed-by-ghosts-Mabel scowled at him. "I do not like your tone, young man."

Wendy whimpered next to Dipper. Itachi's cold voice wasn't something enjoyable, after all. "I will put you under Tsukuyomi," Itachi growled. "Do not make me do that."

The ghost laughed, the deep tone so unnatural in Mabel's body. Dipper wondered what the heck was 'Tsukuyomi' before ducking as another wave of flying objects rained on them. Itachi's eyes found his and less than a moment later his hands doing the weird symbols again.

A dome of blue fuzzing energy was around them again, reminding Dipper of that incident with the wax figures. "Wh-what?" He stuttered out, his eyes wide at this new type of protection. Was he sleeping? Yes, perhaps this was all a giant nightmare.

Itachi did not bother to clarify, instead of pulling up air into his lungs from where he stood next to them.

Hell, why are there more hand signs what the hell is happening get me outta here!

Dipper's body reacted before his mind could.

"Wait!" He jumped in front of Itachi. "Whatever you gonna do, don't do it! You might harm Mabel, the thing possessing her, I-I don't know how, but it's not gonna harm it — you're only gonna hurt Mabel!" Dipper explained. "Just… Just let me solve this! I think I know what to do, please Itachi, you gotta trust me."

Itachi caught himself in time not to burn Dipper's body. He coughed, clouds of smoke rising from his mouth, but nodded. "Be careful." Crimson eyes stared at Dipper with burning intensity. "Be careful," Itachi repeated as if to get the message through, before letting go.

Dipper nodded, thankful, before turning back to the ghost.

"Hey, ghost! I got something to tell you! I'm not a teenager!"

Everything that was floating is suddenly crashing on the ground again. At least, with this strange force field surrounding Dipper, he got nothing to worry about it.

"Hohoho! Well, why didn't you say so?" The ghost says, finally showing his true form. Dipper blinks. This was the terrible scary spirit? He looked… like a grandpa.

Name tagged 'Pa' the ghost drops Mabel on the ground. Itachi is instantly over there and catches her in midair.

"How old did you say you were?" Pa asks, no longer hostile and in fact, looking quite interested.

Dipper gulps. Something tells him this would be very, very uncomfortable in a moment. Itachi only sighs in relief from across the room, Mabel safely tucked away in his arms.

This is going to be so fun.

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Everything was thankfully back to normal now. Dipper's head was still throbbing from his fall from the ceiling to the floor. Itachi had recovered, the only memories left of him in the fury-induced state were his tattered and dirty clothes. His eyes returned back to their normal, onyx color, and softened every time he glanced at one of the twins. At the moment he was sitting on one of the overturned shelves and holding an ice packet to Mabel's forehead.

He looked around. Everyone else seemed to be okay. Nate was finally out of the hot dog fryer and Thompson was somewhere under the dance machine. Lee and Tambry were already on their feet, and Wendy crawled out of the Pitt Cola hiding place. Robbie groaned from behind the overturned cashier.

Lee blinked at the bright light that turned back on when Pa and Ma left them in peace. "What…what happened after everything went crazy?" He shot a wary glance to Itachi, who at the moment, seemed to be the calmest one here.

Wendy, who also recovered a moment later, waved her arms. "You are not going to believe it! The ghosts appeared," she let out a giggle, "and Dipper had to—"

She got the pleading look Dipper sent her. Her face turned to Itachi and she found him looking at her too, his eyes soft and shaking his head 'no'. "Uh," Quick quick quick think come up with a lie—

"Uh… Dipper just grabbed a bat, and just started beating ghosts down, left and right, and the ghost got all scared, and ran away like a couple of little girls, it was insane!"

Dipper raised his eyebrows. She left out the part with the force field. Huh.

(He really needed a chat with Itachi someday.)

"Alright! Dr. Funtimes!" Nate's voice cut off his string of thoughts and Dipper was thrown back into the present. He sneaked a glance towards Wendy.

She zipped her lips.

Surprised and relieved, he sent her the same gesture and smiled shyly.

Itachi only sent him a very amused look. Dipper guessed he and Mabel will confront him right the next morning.

Today was a success, hah.

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Dipper resisted snorting into his nonexistent cup of coffee. He could see Itachi's hand quivering from behind the tissue holder, trying very hard not to laugh.

"Lazy Susan! There's my little ray of sunshine! Where were you yesterday?" Stan said and they had to double their forces. Itachi was very still, with the exception of his hand and Itachi had to pinch his leg from under the table several times. Mabel had her eyes wide open and she stared at Lazy Susan unashamedly.

"I got hit by a bus!" Susan declared, making Stan erupt a series of noises that could classify as laugher if he wasn't so… Well, Stan-ish.

"Is this the 'flirting' Mabel-san talks about?" Itachi whispered next to him. They were at the Greasy Dinner, the little eatery run by a woman whose name was, apparently, Lazy Susan. Dipper shook his head and whispered back, careful not to let Grunkle Stan hear.

"This? Hah, this hardly counts, trust me. I've seen better attempts done by Mabel and that's saying something."

"You do split plates, right?" Stan asked, cutting off Itachi's replying murmur. Susan winked at him (or tried to, Dipper had never seen a person needing their hand to wink).

"Maybe… Wink!"

"Great! We'll all split a one-fourth of the number seven, plus a free salad dressing for the lady, a small plate of ketchup for the boy, and some mustard for the bigger kid."

"What?" Mabel shot him a disbelieving look. "But Grunkle Stan, I want pancakes!" She whined. Dipper had to agree with his sister and prepared to make a remark.

"With the fancy flour they use these days? What am I, made of money?" Ironically, a dollar bill shows out of Stan's sleeve. He taps it back into his sleeve, unaware of Itachi's lightning quick hand that snatches out the bill when Stan looked away.

Mabel awwwed, secretly winking at Itachi. Itachi only raised his eyebrows, as if saying 'What?' and tucked the dollar bill under the tissue holder. They'll spend it later when Stan is gone.

It would take some time until he is, however, so Dipper decided to take responsibility on his shoulders. "Don't worry guys, pancakes are on me. I'm gonna win some by beating that manliness tester." He said, ignoring Mabel's arms waving and pointing in the direction of the tissue holder.

"Manliness Tester?" Grunkle asks, oblivious to Mabel's obvious signals.

She stops, giving up when she sees Dipper's 'determination' look. "Beating?" She mimics Stan's tone, and before long, they burst out laughing.

Stan wheezes. "He says he's... he says he…" Another wave of laughing. Dipper frowned.

"What? What's so funny?"

"Oh, no offense Dipper," his sister takes a breathing break from her laughter, "but you're not exactly 'Manly Mannington.' "

"Hey, I am too!" He protests. I am 'Manly... Manny' or whatever it is you said."

Stan is sympathetically mocking in his direction. "Look, face the music, kid. You got no muscles, you smell like baby wipes, and let's not forget last Tuesday's…" He pauses, shaking. "Incident."

He fails to keep his sister out of it. "You were listening to girly Icelandic pop sensation "BABBA"?" Mabel asks, feeling another wave of laughter coming through.

"No!" Dipper waves his hands and tries not to shrink under Itachi's interested glance. "Heh heh, I wasn't. It's not important. Look, come on guys, I'm plenty masculine. You see this chest hair?" He brings down his shirt to show his chest.

Itachi is instantly wincing and Mabel is waving her hands and trying to protect her eyes. "Put it away, put it away!" She screams, almost falling off her seat.

"So smooth! My eyes!"

"Dipper-san, could you, ah, please cover your chest." Itachi's eyes are visibly burning and his voice is strained.

Dipper obeys, ignoring the renewed laughter of his relatives. "Fine, 'family of little faith'! Get ready to eat your words." He stands up, ignoring the way Itachi's brows droop in concern. "And a plate of delicious pancakes." He says and walks over to the manliness tester.

"Alright, Dipper. Time to manhandle this...man handle…" He cheers himself on, before grabbing the handle.

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Aaaaaand he fails. Badly. Manly Dan wins free pancakes for everyone, so technically his family is eating pancakes as he promised… He just didn't expect it's going to be this way.

"I need to get some chest hair and fast." Dipper decided and in that one moment, he was gone.

Stan rolls his eyes. "Yeesh! How am I related to that?"

Mabel wiggles her eyebrows. "Come on, Grunkle Stan. I'm sure deep down you have a soft side too."

Stan snorts. "Ha! Nothing in here but a cold, dark, empty soul." He reassures her.

"Pines-sama, that is a lie."

"Hah, have you seen me? I don't even have a soul!"

Right then, their food comes. Lazy Susan waltz in with a cheery "Food!" and Mabel could feel the sudden warmness radiating off her Grunkle. It felt… weird.

"Thanks there, sugar pot." Stan stumbles halfway through, entertaining everyone else at the table with his antics. "I-I mean, I mean uh honey wasp, kitten baby, b-baby cow."

Susan takes no notice but only laughs. "Ha ha! Silly!" She walks away with half of their food still on her tray. "Silly man!"

Mabel is in action the moment she disappears, interrogating Stan. "What was that about?"

"Nothing." Comes the quick reply. "I don't wanna talk about it. Talk about what? Why is this table wet?"

Itachi is not impressed with his feeble attempt at changing the topic. Neither is Mabel.

"Wait just a second. I think I have an idea happening here. You…" She rubs her chin. Stan's panic is clear in his darting eyes.

"No!"

"And her…"

"Stop it!"

Mabel screams in delight. Stan twitches, before sighing in defeat. "Oh boy…"

"You have a thing for Lazy Susan! You do have a soft side!" Stan presses his finger over her lips, shushing Mabel.

"Keep it down, will ya?! Alright. I admit it, okay? It would be nice if she liked me. But I've been out of the game for so long I wouldn't know where to start. I mean, look at her. She's so classy."

"Grunkle Stan, you are a cranky, gross, weird old man." Mabel begins earnestly. Itachi nods in agreement and Stan bristles. "But we will get Lazy Susan to like you because nothing is stronger than the power of—"

"Love?" Both he and Itachi finish at the same time.

Mabel shakes her head. "Nope. The power of Mabel. To victory!"

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"Okay, Grunkle Stan. Welcome to the first day of whatever is left of your life! First, a before picture."

Flash!

Stan screams and almost falls out of his chair, where he had been shuffling cards. Mabel shoots him a grin and continues, Itachi appearing behind her out of nowhere.

"I never miss a scrapbookertunity!" She takes the scrapbook from Itachi's hands because of course he would've been holding it, what else would he be doing. She slaps the photo on one of the pages. "Deedly dum, memories. Let's start out with some roleplaying. Soos will play Lazy Susan."

She points Wendy and Soos behind them because of course they had to appear out of nowhere too. Soos pats his stomach. "I'm soft, like a woman."

Stan stares at them. Not much for the first impression of a woman, but he didn't have a word in this, so he suppose he had to trust Mabel. Horrible decision, really, but he had no choice.

Mabel continued. "Grunkle Stan, show me how you approach a woman. Remember this is a safe, non-judgemental environment. I'll just be right off the side judging you on a scale from one to ten."

"Can I borrow some money?" Stan spits to the side and holds out a hand.

Silence.

"That was horrible, Pines-sama." Ah, Itachi was brutally honest as always. Mabel shrugged. Not exactly damaging the situation. She blew her whistle and everyone winced.

"This is gonna be harder than I thought."

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"Alright! Let's try to get that inner beauty on the outside. Smile harder." Mabel said. Pause. "Harder!" Another pause. "Perfect! There we go. Soos, Itachi! Come here!"

The said men appear next to her (Mabel suspects Itachi taught Soos that, but right now isn't the time). "Sup, hambone," Soos calls out a greeting, chewing on a sandwich. Itachi only bows

"Wha'd'you think?"

Confused silence. Then—

"AAAAAHHHH!" Soos drops his sandwich and promptly runs away. Itachi twitches, looking uncomfortable and somehow manages to disappear without any of them noticing.

"This is going to take some really great training music."

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"Lazy Susan. Listen: I know he's not much to look at, but you're always fixing stuff in the diner, and if you like fixing stuff, nothing can use more fixing than my Grunkle Stan! Also, women live longer than men so your dating pool is smaller and you should really lower your standards." Mabel finishes off her explanation.

Itachi nods helpfully and adds, "Pines-sama might be a crook, but he has a soul. And we promise to keep him in check."

Stan scratches his head, slightly worried about Itachi's promise. "So, Lazy Susan, what do you say?" He asks.

Her footsteps are quieter and quieter as she walks away. Itachi winces, patting Stan's back and Mabel is in the middle of comforting him when Susan returns before any of them could leave the eatery.

"Heeeeyyyy! Here's my number. Why don't you give me a call some time?" She says and hands Grunkle a piece of paper. It takes him a worrying amount of time to compress what had happened. Mabel suspects if Itachi wasn't so well mannered, he might facepalm.

It finally reaches Stan's mind. "Really?" He asks, disbelieving and very surprised.

Lazy Susan laughs. "Really! Haha!" She fumbles, before taking a plate out of nowhere. "Also, here's some pie. On the house. For you!"

And with that, she's off.

The trio is in stunned silence. And then—

"EEEEEEEEEEEEE! We did it! When are you gonna call? You wanna call now? I don't have a phone. Let's buy a phone! We can put it on a credit card. Let's get a credit card." Mabel is first to break their silence and Itachi's lips curl upward. She pauses, mesmerized at the rare gesture, before whooping once more.

Stan cuts her off. "Mabel! Let a man enjoy his pie, huh?" He complains to her, but they all can see that he's pleased.

Dipper takes this as the right time to suddenly be seen outside from the window of the eatery. Mabel screeches and waves at him. "Dipper! It's me, Mabel! I'm looking at you through this glass! Right here! This is my voice! I'm talking to you from inside!" Her excited wave is mimicked by Itachi, though much less vigorous and more self-reserved.

Dipper nods and motions Mabel to calm down. In a few moments, he is already inside and walking over to their table. Itachi eyes him with interest and voices the silent question. "Where were you?"

"Did you see me through the-?" Mabel asks simultaneously. Dipper is torn between answering both questions until at last, he settles on a simple "Yes."

Already from his tone of voice Mabel can sense something's wrong. Itachi furrows his brows in concern and Mabel tilts her head. "What's wrong?"

"I don't want to talk about it."

Stan chews on his pie and hums in satisfaction. "Good," is his simple reply and Itachi glares at him.

Dipper spills everything at once instantly. "It's just these half man half bull humanoids were hanging out with me…

"Here we go…" Stan interrupts, earning himself another glare, this time from Mabel. Dipper continues as if he didn't notice.

"But then they wanted me to do this really tough, horrible thing but it just wasn't right. So I said no." He concludes.

"You were your own man and you stood up for yourself." Stan suddenly speaks up. Itachi shoots him a surprised look. Mabel mouths 'Having a girlfriend must've really changed him,' and Itachi's eyebrows raise even higher. Dipper is as startled as them.

"Huh?"

"Well, you did what was right even when no one agreed with ya. Sounds pretty manly to me but, what do I know?"

So apparently Stan wasn't as cold as he seemed. Dipper grinned for the first time this day, his spirits lifted. Itachi is obviously glad and no longer glaring. Mabel gasps.

"Wait a minute, do my eyes deceive me?" She squints before her eyes open even wider. "You have a chest hair!" She declares.

Confusion takes over Dipper's face and then—

"Oh my god! You're right! I do! Haha, this is amazing! I really do! Take that, man tester! Take that, Pituitor!"

"Pituitor?"

Dipper ignores Stan. "This guy has chest hair!" He whoops out. And then cries out in pain as Mabel takes out pincers and pulls out his single hair. She grins.

"Scrap-book ortunity!"

"Don't worry kid," their Grunkle reassures him before Dipper could even try to whine. "If you're anything like me, there's more where that came from." He rips open his dirty shirt, exposing all the grey hair inside.

Itachi turns pale and Dipper can see him twitching. His own eyes burn and he dies to shield them. "Oh gross!"

Mabel bursts out laughing and Stan catches on. Dipper gives out small chuckles before turning serious again. "Seriously, that's disgusting." He makes a face. Itachi resists the urge to nod in agreement, before they all burst out laughing again.

Today was another good day.

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Sheesh, I feel like these chapters get worse and worse each time huh. I should probably stop using the transcript as a guide, huh. I really hope I don't loose subs for this, haha… Ha…

I did, didn't I?

Well anyways, I swear I'll get better. The next two episodes are going to be Double Dipper and perhaps Irrational Treasure. Feel free to review the episodes you're anxious to see and the moments you want to read!