The Hangover

by cindyhasi

The van gang, Izaya, Shizuo, Tom, Shinra, Mikado, and Masaomi wake up in the middle of nowhere in a camper with a polar bear. With no recollection of what happened, the group has to put their quarrels aside and work together to get back to Ikebukuro. But as they unravel what happened, they find themselves in trouble they caused. and they have to fix the entire mess. Together.

4. Chapter 4

Hi next chapter is up. Thanks for all the reviews, favs and follows:3 Almost correct catkittypoke, the polar bear is from a zoo but they didn't take it with them.

The entire crew had slept like babies after their exhausting days and even then light sleeper slept a little heavier that night. But the night lasted shortly especially when the hotel owner barged in and commanded Walker and Kida to get up. The two simply stirred and Kida mumbled 'five more minutes'. Izaya woke up first to the ruckus and rubbed his eyes staring at the man with questioning eyes. "Heave your asses out of bed you two. The concert is today and you have practice to do. I'll give you two minutes to get up."

"Practice?" Izaya wondered aloud. The sleep had dissipated the instant he heard concert and practice now fully alert.

"You can go back to sleep if you want. You've seen the costumes. There's fitting to do, some last adjustments and practice. I don't know how well those two sing or dance."

Izaya chuckled, the memory coming back to him. "By the way, yelling at them won't help especially with Masaomi-kun, he'll just keep sleeping and ignore you. I've tried."

"What are you suggesting?"

"What on earth is going on!? It's five thirty in the morning which lunatic stands up to time like that after a day like yesterday!?"Shinra yawned awakened from all the talking. Slowly the rest of the crew woke up, yawning and complaining, partially from Izaya determined to have everyone witness Walker's and Kida's degradation for the entire day. Walker and Kida had woken up already too, but pretended to be still asleep.

"Two minutes are up. You two might want to get out. Bring the ice water buckets guys."

'He's bluffing.' Masaomi thought not even moving a muscle. Walker on the other hand already leaned toward jumping out of bed any second. A few seconds later Kida picked up the rustle and splashing noise of the buckets carried in. 'Crap, he's not bluffing!' "Alright, alright I'll get up! For what kind of costume do you need to start practicing at five thirty!?"

"It's more about the dancing and a tiny singing part."

Kida groaned pushing his face into the pillow. With a mumble and yawn the teen got up while Walker had already vacated the bed. The hotel manager called in two maids to make breakfast for the guests slowly getting ready for the day. With breakfast ready the hotel owner left the room with his crew announcing his return in an hour.

"So, what happened yesterday?" Izaya stared and blinked along with everyone else at Kida's question. The baffled expressions remained mainly because Kida's question was sharp and to the point referencing exactly their long running away episode from yesterday while his straight business, 'don't give me any bullshit' look completely contradicted with the tiredness in his eyes, slouched position, messy hair and general of falling asleep right away. "Izaya, do I seriously need to point out that I'm asking you?" Izaya wanted to retort, Masaomi's deadpan face burning into him and put the teen into his place but starting a brawl wouldn't be wise now. And Kida didn't look like he'd put up with any crap now. With a sigh and a mental note to put Kida in his place later, the informant gave a recap during breakfast. After about half an hour everyone was finished with breakfast and Izaya with his recap.

"So, we pissed off the mafia with a random attack and then I walked into a casino and hustled a large sum of money, pissing them off again. On top of that Izaya pissed off a bunch of pussies by simply being the dick he is and Shinra pissed off a bunch of rednecks by running his smart mouth in front of them. All in a single day. Any ideas on how to deal with this?"

"You're rude in the morning, Kida-kun.~"

"How about we keep running? There isn't really anything we can do about the mafia and the red necks probably gave up already and the guys with the plush animals are-"

"Pussies" Masaomi cut into Mikado's speech. Everyone stared at the teen lazily poking at the last piece of egg before stuffing it into his mouth.

"Okay, so there's not really anything we can do for now except stay here and pay up for the ice statue." Shinra announced. At 'ice statue' everyone except a sour Izaya stifled laughter. Izaya steamed on the inside. Would this joke never end? Knowing these people never, especially while Masaomi had picture and video. Izaya had also noticed that Kida had been far more rude and snippy to him since day one of this trip not even restraining himself with name calling in front of others anymore. It pissed Izaya off, annoyed him although it did interest him to see such bravado against him from Kida but it started to get too much for Izaya's taste so the informant decided to use any upcoming opportunity to catch Masaomi alone and give him hell. Shizuo went for another walk with Tom for the last 20 minutes to get away from Izaya while the rest stayed behind trying to remember anything to no avail. Time seemed to fly by for Walker and Masaomi and before they knew it the hotel owner entered the room again and motioned for the two to follow. "Whyyyy?" Masaomi groaned hanging with half his body over the back of the couch. Mikado sweat dropped. Was it him or did Masaomi get very moody all of a sudden? The two blondes followed out and Izaya immediately skipped after them trying to sling an arm around Kida's shoulder but got repeatedly shrugged off. The others followed after wondering what Izaya smirked about so broadly. Masaomi showing his hatred towards the man can't be that amusing. On their way to the stage Tom and Shizuo joined them. Upon arrival the hotel turned to the group. "You two go to the back of the stage, I'll give you the costumes there. You guys can make yourselves comfortable in the front row." The others sat down and Walker and Kida shuddered feelings, Izaya's insane smirk burning into their backs hurrying after the Russian man. The three and some personnel disappeared behind the curtain.

"I can't wait to get home. Ruri should be able to give us a lift, I hope." Mikado said.

"Yeah, but don't count on it. Maybe she can, maybe she can't. After all, it'd be a scheduled trip for her." Kadota added.

"Hey, you're in a good mood Izaya-san. What's so funny?" Mikado asked. The grin dancing on the informant's lips creeped him out a little.

"You'll see. Yesterday I got a sneak peek of the costumes. They'll look great on the two.~"

Mikado swallowed. If Izaya found it so great that he donned his predatory smirk, Masaomi was bound to hate it and Walker would probably dislike it.

"WHAT!? FORGET IT! NO WAY!" Kida's outburst almost made the others jump up in their seats and within seconds the nosy crowd gathered themselves around Kida and Walker holding each their costumes, Kida glaring daggers at the hotel owner.

"There's no 'no' for you blondie. Get dressed, get going." The man sighed. This was going to be difficult, was it? The others tried to get a glimpse but Kida and Walker quickly noticed them concealing the costumes.

"No!"

"Get. Dressed."

"Make me!"

"Alright. Security!"

Masaomi growled. Rebellion and anger didn't work. Alright, Plan B: Charm and pity. Replacing his anger with a begging almost tearful face, Masaomi dropped to his knees holding on to the man's sleeve turning away. "Alright, alright! I'm sorry, I'm sorry I'll never ever mess with ice statues again! 'Not yours, anyway' Please, I'll scrub toilets, I'll scrub the dirtiest, the absolutely worst toilets!"

"No deal, kid. Go get dressed."

'Damn it!' Plan C then: go into the stall, lock the door, and don't come out. Sulking, Masaomi walked to the stall giving the door a loud slam, sitting down on the bench with huff folding his arms behind his head. Walker still frowned and entered the other stall. Unlike Kida, Walker actually followed the commands and got changed. After five minutes, Walker made a sound out of his stall, "H-Hey, Masaomi are you done? I'm coming out when you are."

"Nope, not done."

"Are you even getting changed? Usually when people change clothing they make a little bit noise." The hotel owner pointed out walking up to the door. Kida bit his lip. Should he answer? If he said no, there'd be for sure consequences. If he said yes, it might only give him a few minutes or he gets busted right away and if he said nothing he most likely will get busted or they think something happened and barge in.

"Maybe."

"Alright, so you want to play that game. Security, would you like to give him a hand?"

"I bite!"

"I'll help, too, I know him really well!~"

"No, I yield just give me five minutes!" ANYTHING but Izaya right now. Kida kept his word talking to Walker in five minutes. "I'm done, Walker." "Ok, let's get this over with. Ready? Go." In perfect sync the two crawled and stumbled outside, heads down. The others jaws dropped to the floor and Izaya burst out laughing holding on to a table for support. Walker still wore the frown and donned a short sky blue dress with round puffy short sleeves decorated by white lace. A wide v cut with a tiny bit of white frill and a lace tied around the waist ending in a petite bow adorned the dress coming with white stockings and dark blue high hells. Poor Walker could barely stand holding on to Masaomi's arm and vice versa. To top it off Walker had gotten blonde hair extension ending in bright pink and a dark blue flower nestled in his hair. His manliness officially gone. Kida didn't look any better. Or just really kinky. Mikado being the walking tomato he was blushed possibly the deepest shade of red possible. Not that he was gay for his best friend but seriously Mikado blushes a lot. Masaomi's dress was a tad shorter and styled black and yellow with a white frilly underskirt to puff up the dress a little peeked out. Unlike Walker his dress had no sleeves revealing his bare shoulders and collarbone. The black dress had yellow stripes reaching up from the bottom fading into the black. A yellow lace like Walker's, a yellow bowtie in his hair and black & yellow striped stocking, black high heels, a sort of black collar with white frill at the edges and the yellow lacey string securing the dress tightly at his back topped it all off. Again, manliness got destroyed, although Kida looked a little less degraded because he glared at the hotel owner from under his eyes, one hand on his hip and shook less in the high heels than Walker. None the less, the outfits really bruised their ego. No, not bruised it but stabbed it.

"T-that's n-not a bunny c-costume." Shinra stammered pointing out the obvious. Kida looked ready to maul someone. "No shit, Sherlock." Everyone slowly came out of their stupor and set into little chuckles although didn't dare to burst out laughing besides Izaya by the murderous aura Kida wore. Because even in this dress, he could still look scary and is able to kick your ass. Izaya still laughed his ass off and staggered closer to the teen, "Y-you b-bow is s-slipping, would y–you, haha, like me to f-fix it, darling?~" "Touch me and I'll kill you." Kida growled looking deadly serious. Sadly that did not deter Izaya and the man skipped around the boy quickly fixing the bow into position before Kida could lash out, still staggering in high heels. Izaya snapped a picture of both, Walker and Kida receiving another glare from said teen.

"Now, let's get practicing!" The hotel owner announced amused at the group's antics.

"Sure, come over here I'll practice stabbing in high heels." Masaomi sarcastically replied.

"Ah, you're funny one aren't you? Come on now, to the front of the stage." Izaya still laughed hard and the others stifled their laughter. Walker clung to Kida's arm now and the two could barely keep their legs straight almost falling at least four times to the front of the stage. "Now, just walk around, get used to the shoes. You'll have to be able to dance in those by evening."

The pair awkwardly shuffled around and Walker tripped two times within ten minutes taking down Kida with him reluctant to let go of the shorter blonde's arms. Beside Izaya their friends had managed to keep it to amused smiles while the informant snickered and giggled away taking a video. Kida glared at the phone and its owner hoping they would suddenly explode. Tired of falling from Walker, Masaomi managed to stealthily detangle himself leaving Walker on his own. Walker still looked like a drunk in his attempts to walk in straight lines across the stage while Masaomi slowly got the hang of it able to walk normally rather quickly. While Walker almost fell in the background, Kida stalked up to the edge of the stage towards the hotel owner in confident strides mastering high heels in just under fifteen minutes, scowl on his handsome features. Mikado couldn't help himself but point it out, loudly and with cheer, "Wow, Masaomi you're an expert in high heels it took you less than fifteen minutes!" At receiving a death stare Mikado wished he'd never opened his mouth. "Good job, kiddo, now let's get to dancing. One of my personnel will partner up with you." "Hey, can I choose a partner?" Kida asked, innocent smile on his face. "Sure if you want." While they had conversed, Erika had climbed onto the stage and helped out Walker slowly growing used to the high heels. "You can practice dancing with your friend there when you're ready." Erika and Walker nodded in response to the hotel owner and the attention snapped back to Masaomi fixing Izaya with a venomous sweet smile, stretching one hand out. "Izaya-san, would you partner up with me?" Izaya was going to say no, but found himself doing the opposite as the idea of getting at Kida now etched in his mind. Izaya knew Kida had planned something the blonde didn't try to hide it. But just as much as Kida could get to him, Izaya could get back at the teen. It was rather a gamble and a battle of skill, but Izaya of course felt superior as always and agreed. He still planned on going through with original plan but also felt like lashing out at Kida now, not to mention that he was genuinely interested in Masaomi's plan. "Alright, darling. Try to keep up.~" Kida didn't reply but simply smiled taking Izaya's hand after he climbed up the stage. The two moved more to the left of the stage while Erika and Walker stuck to the right side with practicing. The two men faced each other talking in low whispers, "Don't call me 'darling'" "I can call you whatever I want, Kida-kun.~" The two began with a few steps back and forth Izaya taking the lead because Kida sincerely had no clue what he was doing besides attacking the informant verbally and deciding where to drive the heels in. To the teens dismay Izaya always made sure to hold Kida's hands so Masaomi couldn't try to steal the phone. He had left his own in the stall with the bathrobe and slippers. The two started to go at it faster and faster and faster. With a grin Kida quickly 'accidentally' drove his heel into Izaya's foot. Izaya grit his teeth in response and glared while Kida flashed him a sweet 'innocent' smile, "Oops!" "Nice one, honey. Let me teach you how it's really done.~" Izaya quickly stepped up the foot movements and started circles with Kida who wondered if the informant tried to make him throw up. With one swift thrust, Izaya flung out Masaomi and 'accidentally' let go of the teen's wrist sending him crashing to the floor and on his ass. "Looks like we have to work on your grip, sweetie.~" "Yeah, let's work on that.~" Kida rubbed his sore ass and quickly got back on his feet lacing his hands together with Izaya. Izaya found himself surprised when Masaomi took over the lead. A few twirls and Masaomi rapidly dropped himself. Izaya instinctively slid his arm under the arching teen's back only to be rewarded with a grin, a painful swift kick to the crotch and the ever 'innocent' "Oops!" Izaya froze and gasped in severe pain, Kida still smirking at him in his arms. Regaining his legs Izaya flashed him a grin, "Let's keep practicing, dolly.~" "Totally, sweetie." Malice dripped between the two. The pair did a few steps mainly trying to stomp on each other's foot. The two raged on making their battle look like wonderful dancing to the others. Faster and swifter they got by each minute and the two battled to get the lead. Eventually Izaya regained the lead and started twirling Masaomi a couple of times before stopping the twirl harshly, so Kida leaned against him in front of him, one arm painfully twisted back Izaya holding on to his hand, other hand resting on the teen's hip making it look like a perfectly normal dance move. Kida grit his teeth and bit his lip trying to put on a smile to hide his momentary loss. "What's wrong my sweet Kida-kun? Can't keep up, darling?" Izaya whispered into the blonde's ear smirking. "Not a-at all, honey." Pulling out of Izaya's iron grip was useless, so Masaomi sharply jabbed the informant in the gut making him loosen his grip. The two whizzed over the stage a few more minutes. Izaya shifted in order to twirl Kida again, but before the man could lock the teen's arm into a painful twist, Kida completely surprised him, iron grip on his wrist, stepping in front him and throwing the raven over his entire body. Izaya went sailing in a u arc and painfully landed flat on his back on the hard stage. Masaomi still held his wrist while Izaya gasped and flashed him another 'innocent' smile leaning over his face, "What a finish, don't you think, darling?" The others gasped at the brutal scene like fish out of water, eyes wide. Mikado clapped in his stupor noting again Kida's excellence in high heels to himself. Before the pair could continue in their death dance, Shinra jumped up from his seat pulling the two apart saying there's been enough practicing for now. Izaya slowly crawled to his feet, his back burning in pain, glaring after the teen. If he caught Masaomi alone, he was in for hell. Erika and Walker had stopped too and Walker seemed halfway decent now. Erika had a mile of yaoi running through her mind and awed like everybody else by Kida's flip. Masaomi walked off the stage in a huff and plopped down on a seat kicking a leg up on the stage, head thrown back and arms dangling behind the lean, arm and butt still throbbing in pain. Izaya sat down on his original spot with a huff and Shinra rubbed his back albeit smiling at his friend's misery.

"Well, I think you don't have to practice dancing anymore." The hotel owner awkwardly announced not used to such brutal endings to dances. Unbeknownst to the entire room, the hotel owner's daughter had sneaked in and watched the dance between Orihara and Kida with interest. "You know, I'm probably not allowed to fight you now cuz of the performance but if you don't mind I'd like to have a little fight with you tomorrow. You're really good!" Masaomi cracked an eye open and almost jumped out of his seat, as the girl had leaned over the blonde from behind him, faces just an inch apart. Regaining his composure, he sat up a little straighter and the girl straightened up, jumped over the seat into the first row and sat down next to him. The girl was well endowed, wore a black shirt, skirt and leather boots with fur trimmed edge, blonde straight long hair tied in a ponytail, an earring much Kida's and a silver necklace with a ruby embedded and green eyes. Unknown to both, Izaya had snapped a picture of the two having their face close to each other grinning at obtaining more blackmail. "Hello, milady may I know your name?" Masaomi quickly snapped to his flirtatious self ignoring that he's stuck in a dress. "My name is Katja and what is your name?" The girl replied, giggling. "I'm the one and only awesome Masaomi Kida!" 'His ego isn't bruised at all.' Mikado noted to himself with a smile. "Well, Masaomi how about my offer?" "Unfortunately, I'm most likely leaving tonight and I refuse to hit a female especially such a beautiful one as yourself, but can I make you happy in another way?" Masaomi sighed dramatically. "Aw, how come you are leaving? Oh wait, you're a guy and stuck in a dress. Are you one of the bad boys from Japan?" Katja purred remembering what her father had told her. "I'm a bad boy alright.~" Kida grinned. Walker had crashed on the floor with Erika from ogling at Katja when noticing her, thoughts of dancing out the head. With a blush he stared on and couldn't help himself but trying to peek since Katja, from his point of, view had one leg lazily crossed over the other, body turned to Kida which hiked up her skirt the slightest bit. Erika noticed and found her herself pout in surprise. Was she jealous? Shaking her head, she quickly got back on track and yanked Walker up on the arms continuing their practice not even giving Walker another chance to glimpse at his new crush. The hotel owner loudly interrupted the flirting with a loud cough, "Everyone, this is my daughter Katja." Tom caught himself ogling as well but quickly stopped noticing the man's scowl no doubt being a very protective father. "How about lunch everyone? I'm sure you're all hungry."

"But it's hardly noon."Mikado pointed out.

"Fine, it's brunch then! You two can stop practicing. Come on, now, you won't have a break for long. Katja please get to your chores."

"Fine, dad, I'm going. See ya later, Masaomi!" 'Geez, dad protective much again?' Katja hopped out of the chair and happily skipped out of the room. The hotel owner waited a few minutes then instructed Walker and Kida to take off the dresses for now so they wouldn't get dirty which they gladly did changing back into the bathrobes. Another reason why the hotel owner kept their clothing was to further deter them from running away and skipping punishment besides posting security by every exit. The group got back to their room and the man had been serious about brunch and personnel brought in food. Over brunch not much happened besides half hearted phone stealing attempts and a scuffle between Izaya and Shizuo broke out started by Shizuo accidently spilling freshly brewed coffee on Izaya; Masaomi laughed, but the fight was quickly subdued by Shinra and Tom before an all out war could break out. Again. More practice rolled around and an hour after being back on the stage, Walker finally didn't look like a drunk walking in high heels and Erika helped him with dancing. Kida had chosen a song from his phone and sang half of it which convinced the hotel owner that he'd do perfectly fine. While Walker still practiced, Masaomi watched with the others, eyes trailing over to Izaya multiple times looking for an opening for phone stealing while his own was safely with Katja whom he met again in the back since he was going to deposit the phone in the stall after the singing, telling the girl to not let Izaya have it no matter what.

"Boss, Miss Ruri Hijiribe has arrived.*" Erika and Walker froze and the crew gave the hotel owner a questioning glance.

"Thank you, please show her to her room and to the stage when she's settled in.* Do you guys want to wait here for her or go see her?"

"We'll wait here." Izaya answered for everyone. The hotel owner nodded and left leaving some personnel with them. Walker wanted to hide before Ruri could spot him a dress but stayed anyway figuring it was useless anyway. Ruri would see him in the dress sooner or later anyway and a lot of other people. Kida didn't even move a muscle. The personnel started hauling things from the back stage to the front preparing for the concert.

"I'll be right back; I have to go to the bathroom." Tom said getting up from the seat.

"I coming with I have to go, too." Masaomi joined figuring by the many walks Tom and Shizuo had been on there was no way he'd get lost with Tom. The two left and as soon as the door shut, Izaya jumped up stalking to the backstage making a beeline for the stall. Unfortunately for the informant, Katja blocked the door.

The girl lifted a box and turned almost jumping out of her skin Izaya materializing in front of her. "Geez, don't be such a creep."

"Hello there, I need to get to the stall.~"

"Sure, go ahead."

Izaya pushed open the door and inspected every inch finding no phone to his dismay. But if it wasn't here and Kida never had it on him when wearing the dress, where was it? Izaya sighed and seated himself with the others again next to Mikado, while Katja came to the front and passed a light to a guy on a ladder. Walker got completely distracted again much to Erika's chagrin. "Mikado-kun, did Kida-kun give his phone to you?~"

"Um, no. Doesn't he usually put in the stall in the back? I'm sure I saw him leave our room with it. Why do you ask Izaya-san?" Mikado was pretty sure though he already knew why the informant asked.

"Looking for this?" Katja had heard Izaya's question and hopped over to the two pulling out Kida's phone dangling it on its keychain out of reach. Izaya lunged for it, but Katja jumped back climbing onto the stage. "He told me you'd try to get it at the smallest opportunity and he told that you can't have it so don't even try cuz you won't get it."

"Really, didn't he think ahead! Well, there will be more chances and we are leaving today, it's not like he can have guard it forever. Not that I'd be so rude to hit a woman especially the daughter of our gracious host.~"

"Oh, I see. You think I can't fight just because I have boobs?"

"I never said you can't fight, let's just say I doubt you could beat me.~"

"Really now, let me see. I've beaten guys before and won championships and I'm certain in a fight with Kida I have a fair shot at beating him. Oh and last time I saw you with him he totally floored you so I'm pretty sure I can kick your ass."

"He just got lucky. Trust me I'll never allow him to do something like that again.~"

"Tch, I doubt he agrees or that you can do it. What, you're his dad now handing out allowances to him?"

"I'm not his dad and with not allowing him I mea-"

"I know what you meant, creep."

"I see why you two get along so well. You're both cocky and rude.~"

"Did you see that guys' face?" Masaomi giggled.

"No kidding. First that face when you come in a dress and take a piss but then you give him that stare and say 'What, never seen a guy in a dress? I pulled some prank, now stop staring.' Just priceless!" Tom chuckled.

"Hey can you hear that?"

"Hear what?"

"I think we are being watched."

"Seriously, think you have a stalker now?" Tom winked.

"Tom, I'm serious. Something isn-"

"D-don't m-move…"

"What, why are you scared? Listen, if that is a stalker and he's behind me, I'm just going to punch him in the face."

"I-it's-"

"I'm punching him in the face."

"K-kida, h-hold-" Before Tom could stop him, Kida whipped around and punched the someone behind in the face so hard that it would have sent a guy flying. Instead of a guy tumbling down the hallway, Kida met face to face with a very fat, very pissed off, murderous polar bear currently growling eyes fixed on the teen, body bulky and rigid, hair raised and nose pushed in from Masaomi's fist. The bear snarled face scrunching up in anger.

"H-hey b-bear. S-sorry?" The bear roared in fury and Kida quickly retracted his fist jumping back.

"What the fuck!? T-that's the fat polar bear from the camper! I-it s-stalked us!?"

"JUST RUN!" Tom agreed and the two sprinted off, Masaomi dashing past Tom easily, in high heels Tom noted, and grabbed the debt collector's wrist dragging him faster along with the fat bear hot on their heels, claws shredding the carpet, hair brushing past the wall from his sheer size, and fatness. That bear could use a diet.

"And you see-"

"AAAAHHHH!"

"AAAAHHHH! L-LOCK THE DOOR! LOCK THE DOOR!"

"I AM! WHERE IS THE LOCK!?"

"HURRY OR WE'RE DEAD!"

"DAMN I CAN'T FIND A LOCK!"

"I DON'T WANT TO DIE!"

"I'M TOO HOT TO DIE!"

"What is going on?" Mikado asked just as confused as the others at the scene unfolding before them. Masaomi and Tom zipped in, screaming, slammed the door shut and looked for a lock because apparently otherwise they'd die.

"FAT POLAR BEAR!"

"What polar bear, Masaomi?" Mikado questioned the two's sanity now. Was this a prank?

"THE ONE FROM THE CAMPER!" Tom added. Suddenly the door rattled and squeaked in protest, the heavy polar bear colliding with it from the other side roaring in anger looking for revenge. The very hateful bear slammed his body against the door again "SOME HELP PLEASE!?" the others scurried to the door. Ikebukuro residents pushing from one side, bear from the other, claws scraping off paint.

"What is happening!?" Shinra exclaimed, frazzled and confused.

"That fat polar bear that was in the camper followed us and is still pissed!" Masaomi exclaimed. Thump! The door wouldn't last too long anymore.

"Okay, hold on! So you're saying that the fat polar bear that almost killed you and Shizuo punched out of the camper is so pissed and vengeful that it tracked us here and wants to kill?"

"Yes, damn it, stop repeating, we need a plan!"

"I say we sacrifice Shizu-chan to appease the bear, after all he's the one that punched it and is the bear's target.~"

"Flea, you little pie-"

"Hell no, Shizuo is a good person! If we are sacrificing someone it's you, nobody likes you!" Kida defended Shizuo.

"No one is getting sacrificed!" Shinra exploded.

"Got a better idea?" Saburo snorted. The door wailed loudly and dented, slowly breaking out of its frame, fat paw trying to squish trough on the sides. "What is going on?" Katja exclaimed, her own phone already in hand dialing her dad's number.

"POLAR BEAR!" the Japanese resident shouted.

"Dad, there-"

"It's alright sweetie, I got it! Caught on a camera, security is on their way!"

"Crap!" The door completely ripped from the frame and a sharp claw missed Saburo's face by an inch. The bear roared squishing the Ikebukuro residents slowly away with the door. To their luck, boots stampeded down the hallway and shots fired, at least ten tranquilizer darts hitting the bear. With a synchronized 3, 2, 1, go! Everyone slipped away from the door in unison, and the bear falling asleep against the door crashed to the floor with it.

"Phew! Man, a polar bear, how did it get so far in the hotel?" the hotel owner stepped past the sleeping bear, employees training their guns on the sleeping animal. "I already called someone; they'll get the bear out in the wilderness. My, this one is fat!"

"Isn't it better to kill it, it just tried to murder us all! It's vengeful, I swear!" Shinra protested.

"Please, polar bears don't track people down in cities out of vengeance. It probably just wandered in and got so irritated that it lashed out, unfortunately it happened to you guys."

"But-" Before Mikado could protest another team entered the room and slowly moved the fat bear with the help of the other team towards an exit where a vehicle with a cage was already waiting.

"There, see nothing to worry about. Now, I'll have to get that door fixed and tell Miss Ruri it's safe to come down here." The hotel owner swiftly left leaving the room for complaints against the bear. "Man, that polar bear is fat!" Katja chuckled. The others just gaped at her. "H-how are you so calm? There was a polar bear, aren't at least a little bit freaked out?" Mikado asked. "Not really, no… it's not the first time we've had a wild animal wander in. First time for a polar bear but there's been two wolves and a Siberian tiger before." Katja replied with a smile. "Let's just get back to practicing, Walker." Erika announced after a minute of silence pulling the nodding blonde after her. The others helped the personnel clean up splinters from the door. Five minutes ticked by and by now the group had seated themselves again when Ruri entered, spotting them and making a beeline for them. Saburo immediately ogled and squealed on the inside with joy. "Hi guys, Kasuka phoned me and told me you'd be here so I didn't have to search for you." Her eyes wandered over Walker and Kida with a knowing smile. Kida noticed right away and turned red as a tomato looking down at the floor. "The hotel owner told me everything." Ruri chuckled, then added, "Well, let's get ready for the concert, I'll explain your parts at the back of the stage to you two. Let's catch up at lunch alright? I'll come to your room." Masaomi and Walker followed Ruri to the back. Besides Ruri showing them a few dance moves she used herself and the part of the song where the two would pitch in and all three practicing together on stage not much happened until lunch. Finally, lunch rolled around and Izaya ordered room service for everyone.

"Hey I was wondering, would you be able to give us a lift back to Japan?" Kyohei asked munching on his meal, Ruri sitting across from him, Mikado and Erika beside her.

"I've thought about that and looked into it. I'm sorry, guys; I can't take you with me."

"Crap, so there will be camping with Izaya." Masaomi grumbled.

"Really, Kida-kun you're already upset you don't even know how it'll turn out.~"

"Well, then let's get the camping gear right away after we get up tomorrow. There's one store a block away from here, it's marked down on a map here." Shinra said pulling out the map Izaya had picked up a while and showed it to everyone before tucking it in. Just in time too.

"FLEA I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!" A blob of mashed potato accompanied Shizuo's outburst whom couldn't hold back any longer. At least it wasn't a heavy object, the walks really helped. But with the velocity that it came and smacked into Izaya's cheek it did sting, not to mention the food was still pretty hot. Izaya returned the favor in a split second with a sausage. Shinra had risen though and placed his upper body between them leaning over the table to prevent fighting so the sausage smacked him in the face instead. Just hard enough to turn his head a little which pushed over a pitcher of lemonade splashing over Kida (back in the bathrobe, same with Walker) and Saburo. With a grin, Kida took up food himself and assaulted a protesting Mikado. After being pelted, Mikado took a split second he had and retaliated. Kadota tried to stop the food fight only to be dragged into it too and within seconds, food sailed in the air everywhere caking the occupants of the room and said room itself. Saburo had jumped over the table and dived for Ruri protecting her from the food onslaught using his body as shield and returning fire. Unfortunately for him Ruri didn't want to be protected and retaliated with hot food herself since she was wearing casual clothing and not the dress for the concert joining in the laughter. Chairs and tables got turned and Shizuo surprisingly not using furniture as ammunition but sticking to food. Shinra gave up on stopping this fight smiling and laughing with the others exchanging playful remarks in their rampage. The battle raged on for ten minutes, before it came to an abrupt stop when the hotel owner opened the door wondering what the ruckus was about, greeted by a blob of warm pudding launched by Masaomi with ferocity meant for Izaya who had jumped out of the way with a smirk. Immediately everybody froze and as the pudding slowly slid off and made a splat on the floor, everyone slowly crouched down with 'uuuhs' and 'ooohs' much like children about to be scolded. Masaomi made an extra effort to hide pulling a blanket from a bed closest to him over himself. The man took another step into the room almost slipping on thick sauce tightly stamped into the carpet, sighing using his thump to wipe off the remaining vanilla pudding on his face. "Alright, I don't know who started this, but I have pretty good idea and I did get a glimpse of the person who just threw that pudding. Listen, I've been very gracious to you guys but if you are all such troublemakers like the two blondies, I'll have to ask for cash and kick you guys out. And the two blondies still have to pay for the ice statue via concert."

"I did it! I started it, please don't kick us out! Just add something to my punishment." Masaomi crawled out from the blanket and stood up swallowing hard. He didn't mind taking a hit for the team but the team also included Izaya who he'd love to see get punished. But since he was already on the hotel owner's bad side Kida figured if he took the hit, the others besides Walker would remain innocent to the Russian man so he had no reason to kick out everyone. The others looked at Kida staring at the hotel owner with unyielding determination with wide eyes. Shizuo felt immediately guilty and noted to make it up to the poor teen as soon as possible. Izaya found himself gaping for once not smirking, honestly surprised at Kida taking the hit for him. Izaya didn't start it but he did fire back instead of simply ignoring the attack. So technically since he retaliated he really got the ball rolling after that.

"Blondie, you're the worst trouble maker I've ever met besides my daughter. Alright since it was you and I guess I should've expected more trouble."

"I started it too!" Heads turned to Mikado, "We threw the food at the same time at each other! It's not completely his fault!"

"Listen, I've been around you guys for a bit now and you're not the type to start such a thing, now stop trying to cover for your frie-"

"They did it because it's truly my fault!"

"Miss-"

"I proposed a challenge that made them do it, it's really my fault they are not to blame."

"Miss Ruri!" The hotel owner gasped along with the others.

"I'll make sure you are compensated for any damage we've caused, please forgive us. We won't cause any more trouble."

"Well, I can't possibly kick you out Miss Ruri or be furious with you. It was a dumb thing to do but I suppose it could be worse. Do you need your clothes washed?"

"Thank you very much, we're grateful for giving us a second chance." Ruri gave a little bow.

"What a day…" The hotel owner pinched the bridge of his nose, "Alright, you two boys are not off the hook yet. I won't severely punish you two but you do have to clean the room since you were stupid enough to accept the challenge. My personnel are getting cleaning stuff, grab it and get going. You blondie, practice a little more then you can stop for now, I'll let you and the other one know when to come back to the stage shortly before the concert starts. Also you two blondies, take a shower before the concert. Since these two boys will be busy cleaning, I advise the rest of you to clear out of the room for now. Might as well go straight to the washing machines, I'll send someone to wait there for you." The hotel owner turned around with a sigh and left the room. Slowly everyone started to file out with a sigh, Mikado and Masaomi staying behind smiling at each other. Shizuo stopped and put a hand on Kida's shoulder, "Sorry, I should be the one cleaning not you." "Don't worry about it, it's fine." "I'll make it up to you later." With a sigh Shizuo filed out last and the two teenage boys grabbed cleaning utensils and rolled up their sleeves.

"You know you didn't have to do that." Mikado said, rubbing out a rather persistent stain in the carpet.

"It's no big deal. In his eyes, I'm a bad boy already why get everyone else on his bad side? By the way, you didn't have to do that either."

"That's what best friends are there for; we look out for each other."

"Yeah… Now you have something to impress Anri-chan with when we come back, you bad boy!~" Without warning, Kida flicked a towel at Mikado's ass like a whip.

"OW! Geez, Masaomi that HURT!" Mikado yelled, blushing madly.

"You've been oddly silent." Shinra remarked sitting in an armchair beside Izaya lazily flipping magazine pages as they waited for the wash to finish.

"Why do you even read the magazine, if you don't understand it?" Izaya replied, glancing at his only friend, elbow propped up on the armrest, hand cupping his cheek. The others waited in the same lounge (not the one with the ice statue) indulged in their own little conversations.

"I'm not really reading it, I'm just bored. There isn't much to do when waiting for you clothes to get clean. You know, I'm surprised he took the hit for everyone. Could've blamed you and probably enough would've have pitched in."

"Well, you said it yourself; probably."

"You know I just don't get. What is it with you and him?"

"What do you mean?"

"You know what I mean; you just can't leave him alone. You pick him out in middle school, mess with him, ruin his life. His childhood friend comes, he makes another friend, he's happy again, you mess with him again and his friend, ruin life. I have a feeling you want to mess with his friend which ultimately messes with Masaomi too, we both know that. Are you abnormally attached to Kida or something?"

"Tch, judging me when you're obsessively in love with a headless fairy."

"Hey, don't pick on my love for Celty. Seriously though, are you?"

"Shinra, are you really asking me that?"

"I am. Well?"

"He's just fun to mess with. He's more interesting than other people. What can I say, he's got charm. Once you get to interact with him, you just don't want to stop.~"

"I'm actually starting to feel sorry for the kid." Shinra sighed and picked up another magazine.

Half an hour before the concert started, everyone had gathered by the stage, Izaya and co sitting down in the front row seats in their freshly washed and dried clothing, while Masaomi and Walker had followed Ruri to the back. Mikado and Masaomi had managed to get the room squeaky clean again and Kida and Walker had hopped into the shower before making their way to the stage. The hotel owner was running back and forth out the room and to the back stage, ordering his employees around. Katja had skipped to the back stage making a beeline for Kida. Eventually after a lot of distracting, her father had shooed her out and the young woman plopped down on a seat in a huff. The light got shut off and guests slowly starting filing in looking. An employee came forth with a microphone and gave a warm welcome, the hotel owner gave a little speech and finally Ruri poked her head out. Nodding to Walker and Kida, she slipped past the curtain stepping out onto the stage. The crowds cheered warmly for her and slowly with a lot will power Masaomi and Walker stepped out in their dresses positioning themselves right and left from Ruri a little further away from the front then hair. Cheers got extended again along with whispers and whistles making the two males want to promptly hide behind the curtain. Unknown to the Ikebukuro residents a few faces that didn't belong into the room had snuck in ready to attack from the shadows in the room. Ruri started singing and dancing, Kida and Walker following suit. First shyly then more boldly, Kida going faster and swifter since he coped with the high heels better. Kida scowled quickly and glared shortly at Izaya noticing that the informant filmed them. Darkly dressed and with hidden knives and two with crowbars on them the men silently climbed onto the stage cloaking in the shadow of the curtain. Tom noticed first who whispered to Shizuo, who told Shinra who passed it further along the line. Just about when they wanted to get up to intervene, one man raised a crowbar high above his head, ready to bring it down on Kida in the next step. People murmured but stayed seated unsure how to react. Just before the man could swing down or the other could intervene, Masaomi stepped a little bit backwards and threw out his arm, hand curled into a fist delivering a solid punch to the man's face making it look like it's part of the show. The man fell over knocked out, nose bleeding profusely from being broken. Kida gave his companions a reassuring smile mouthing for them to stay seated. He glanced to Walker who gave him a nod and a smile having noticed the culprits a while ago when Kida noticed them. Tension fell and the audience quickly accepted it part of the show oblivious to the truth. Walker and Masaomi continued to sing and dance getting the attackers with sharp elbows to the gut and harsh kicks. A steady stream of attackers climbed on stage, being punched and kicked off faster than they climbed on again. One man chickened out before even climbing on running away with a gross sob. Walker quickly side stepped an attempted stab and jabbed the butt of the mic into the attacker's eye and followed up with an elbow to the gut and a punch to the face throwing his fist in the air. Ruri watched from the corner of her eyes but resumed her position in the front seeing that the two could handle it. Before another attacker could pull out his knife Kida danced over to him and leaned against him driving in a heel in one foot. Masaomi kicked up his leg as the man bit his lip making him gasp as the heel collided with his crotch. Kida whipped around and grabbed the man's wrist swinging him around himself and throwing him out off the stage to the side much like Izaya had thrown him. Kida quickly moved to the center noticing a guy sneaking up on Walker and Walker walked up to center noticing the same move used on the fellow blond. With quick strikes, the two punched past each other taking out the other's attacker. A few more attackers climbed on only to be rewarded with Kida's and Walker's extraordinary coupled fighting & dancing skills. "Damn, he can fight and dance in high heels…" Mikado whispered to himself watching in awe, the others glancing at him with a raised eye brow. After being horribly trashed so much by the two cross dressing males and the song coming to an end, the flow of attackers slowed and two more chickened out. With a desperate yell the last attacker standing jumped on stage, crowbar raised high aiming directly at Kida. Masaomi smirked, stepped forward, grabbed the man' wrist as he passed directly behind the teen and flipped him over exactly like he'd done to Izaya. The man crashed to the floor with a loud and brutal smack flat on his back just as the song's last note faded away. The audience got up and roared in approval whistling and whistling non-stop. Ruri, Walker and Kida bowed and Masaomi knocked out the dazed guy with a swift kick to the head. That was going to hurt for a while. Ruri gave them a questioning look as they disappeared behind the stage.

"Can't explain now." Masaomi said, snatching his clothing finally handed back to him and changed with lightning speed. Walker followed suit happy to finally have his clothes back leaving a rather confused Ruri behind. A few seconds later, Masaomi dashed back out heading straight for the others grouped around their seats, dress tucked under his arm, Walker following him, Ruri stumbling after them.

"What a great show, good job bo-"

"No time, we have to go." Kyohei cut in.

"Thanks for everything." Erika said.

"HOLD ON!" The hotel owner shouted, the chaos of the day getting to him. The guests still filing out or asking employees when they could get autographs from the singers froze. "Umm, nothing to see here, please proceed.* Now, you guys, hold on! Don't worry about those guys, security is taking care of them, the last one is being dragged out as we speak. Mind telling me why they attacked?"

"We pissed them off."Shinra quickly explained. 'There's no time for this we have to go.'

"I could've guessed that. Listen, it's late, I'm exhausted, you guys exhausted even if you don't know it yet. I'll report attempted burglary, keep this a secret. I've made a promise to my daughter, I'm too nice of a guy to just kick you out after all this. Stay the night. The reported burglary will keeps cops around so those guys won't come near here and I'll tighten up on security. Shinra sighed and they shortly discussed the situation deciding to give in and stay the night. There were probably more of those guys lying in wait outside right now anyway. "You know where to find me or my employees if you need anything. You two can do whatever you want with the dresses." Walker and Kida nodded carrying them back to the room for now and Katja had given Masaomi his cell phone back who pestered the woman about the promise. She simply smiled and hummed to herself, walking beside the teen.

"Listen, Ruri, we can't have the others worry. We pissed off a gang when we were whacked out and I guess they came back for revenge. Please don't tell the others when we get back tomorrow okay?" Shinra pleaded.

"Alright, I won't mention it but if Kasuka directly asks me, I won't lie to him."

"Thank you." Shinra sighed. After a while Ruri turned into a different hallway to her own room bidding them good bye. A very sad moment for Saburo. Katja accompanied them all the way to the room, but stopped at the door and playfully punched Kida in the shoulder pretending he had been deeply hurt. With a giggle she said good night and skipped down the hallway. "Phew, finally it's over. I'm burning it." Walker announcing plopping down on a bed holding out the dress in front of him.

"I'm keeping it." Masaomi announcing. Heads turned to him yet again, would the surprises for today never end?

"I-I didn't know you were into things like that." Mikado uttered, finding himself occasionally utterly lost at his friend's antics.

"Not for me! I'm keeping it for Saki, my girlfriend. She's about the same size as me with a few adjustments, it'll fit her perfectly!" Masaomi looked around for a bag but quickly realized he had nothing for the dress to be transported in. Erika noticed and offered her satchel, gasping along with the others at the final surprise of today. As soon as she opened it, coal tumbled onto the floor. The satchel had been full to the brim and within all the chaos Erika hadn't noticed. Shinra bent down and picked it up a coal lump. "So, this how our liver's haven't failed yet. If we used some up already when we came here during the time we were whacked out we must've had even more coal."

"Hey guys, I just found a receipt in my pocket. All that's on it is some junk food and a whole lot of milk." Kadota shared studying the crumpled receipt.

"Milk and coal huh." Shinra stood up again and Erika cleared her satchel of the coal dumping it in the garbage can since in was no longer needed.

"My bag is covered in dirt from the coal now maybe we should find another bag for the dress, Masaomi."

"We can probably ask an employee for one. Let's do it tomorrow though, I'll put in a drawer for now."

"Well, I guess we should go to bed. It's late, I'm going to sleep. Same arrangements as last night?" Mikado asked. Everyone took a shower before settling down for the night not knowing when the next chance for a shower would come along.

Yay, another chapter done!:) I'm sorry, I took so long. I've also seen I've gotten another follower on Legend of the 4 Swordfighters; sorry, I haven't updated this in agesT_T but until my books are done, this story is on hold. Sorry but I'm kind of paranoid. Anyway, thanks for all the support again it makes really happy;) I will try to get the next chapter out within the next week and our Ikebukuro resident's trip will be revealed further through flashbacks. And camping!:D