"You have beautiful eyes." The two chorused in unison and they flinched in the end, shooting conversing looks at the other.

"Thank you…" her voice called them.

Mikan blushed lightly as she tapped her lips with a flinch.

"Umm… Could I…"

She leaned nearer their faces and smiled timidly.

"Could I touch your faces?"

Natsume and Ruka looked at each other.

"No way…" the raven-haired boy argued with a thick blush, inching away.

"Natsume." Ruka scolded.

"It's just that… I have never seen a boy before…"

After a little hesitation, Ruka leaned forward and smile.

"It's okay. You could touch my face." He whispered, nailing the tow laswt words in a pleasant way to convince his friend.

"Don't be stupid!" Natsume quickly crawled next to his brother. He was getting a little pissed with his teasing tones.

Mikan cheerfully as she raised her hands at a snail's pace, towards their faces.

The boys felt their bones shake at the sight of her delicate fingers nearing them, and when her silky soft skin had touched them, they felt like melting.

Silence drifted the air as they all blushed, until…

"You look…"

She pinched their cheeks.

"So KAWAII!!!!!!!!!!" she exclaimed with sparkling eyes, wobbling their faces.

"Mikan?"

"I never thought you two would be so handsome!!!!" she added, hugging them like stuff toys and she kissed their hairs a couple of times.

Ruka flushed while Natsume frowned, hiding his blush.

"Kawaii!! Kawaii!!"

"I'm so lucky to have so handsome brothers like you!"

Like she'd already seen an ugly person. He grunted in his thoughts.

"Mikan… You could let go now…" his blonde friend told her shyly, couldn't take it anymore.

Mikan puffed her cheeks and she quickly jumped off the bed, as if she had no wounds or anything.

"And this is the most wonderful place I've ever seen!!" she cried with glittering eyes, her eyes running along the view of the dark cracked walls of the gloom room. Yeah, she actually called it the most wonderful place she'd ever seen.

Ruka and Natsume fell on the bed as they heard the rest of her eye-gawking praises of the ugliest dungeon-like chamber of the whole palace. (I'm just exaggerating the descriptions, but of course… the dungeon still looked uglier than this room! XD)

Pathetic. Natsume thought fumbling his swelling reddish cheek.

Silly, Ruka answered him mentally as she climb on top of a chair shildishly.

"… and this is the most beautiful painting I've ever laid eyes on!..." she marveled with watery eyes, gawking up at an old mural of an unknown bald sorcerer.

This kid's got a nick on the head… (Natsume closed his eyes and shook his head.

Blonde boy smiled and hugged his bunny. But she still looks cute.

"Kawaii! Kawaii!!"

Hell, and I thought she'd make a good gf... I swear I've encountered someone just like her… I wonder what I'd call her… Natsume thought…

"And this is the cutest whitest little bunny in the world!" she praised holding the bunny to her nose.

Oh… now I remember…

"Idiot." A cool voice came in from outside the now opened door, catching everyone's attention.

ooXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXoo

"Pliers…" an ebony-haired girl uttered, stretching her hand a bit behind her head and the tool came in quickly and she dug donw on her specimen.

-Tit-

"Long nose…"

"Here."

"Hammer."

-Tit-

"Chainsaw…"

-Tit-

"Spoon."

-Tit-

Needle…"

Her pale-faced companion panted as he held out the piece of pointy object.

-Tit-Ti-Tit-Tit-Tiiiiiiiiiiiiit-

Hotaru wiped a sweat as she stood up with a sigh, and the beating machine had stopped, too.

"At long last!"

Yuu's eyes widened.

Grim music suddenly played from nowhere as lightning crashed behind their backs.

"After four straight hours of hard work…"

Her partner's eyes widened even more as a bright smile painted in his lips. "Is it finished?!"

"Yes! And finally!" she raised the specimen high up in the air as thunder echoed within the room.

"After seven years of hardship… I shall now be able to peel any shell with the least burden!"

For a second, Yuu stopped jumping up and down.

"At long last! Meet the all new Mega Crustacean Peeler deluxe!!!" she cried with glowing but plain steady eyes.

Yuu fell on his head.

"Hotaru?! What on earth is it? I thought-"

"I could earn a million rabbits with this baby!"

"Hotaru!"

"Inchou… Meet MCPD…MCPD, meet my brother Inchou."

"Processing… Processing… Ohayou, Inchou… I am MCPD… I do my job in 10 cpm. How about you?" the robot chorused.

"That's 10 crabs per minute." She explained when suddenly…

Bang!!!!!!

Hotaru's head smoked at the shot of her own famous baka gun (for the first time in history) while Yuu clasped his hands tightly as a bold cross form on his temples. His finger was about to pull another trigger.

"How'd you steal that?!"

"You sold it for 500.000 rabbits, dummy! Weren't you supposed to be working on invention 205?!!!"

The nonchalant girl massaged her head.

"Yeah?"

"Where is it?! I kept wasting my breath for this cheap chunk that peels seafood?! What excuse do you have for Oni-sama?!" he yelled a bit OOC. He always panicked whenever things don't get along his way.

Yuu was younger than Hotaru and was the second to the last warrior, yet he was indeed the most responsible among them six.

"You know how much I hate delays, Imai…"

"Lalalaladum…." She whined, pouring a pail of steaming crabs into her mecha's mouth. "This would take a minute…"

The spectacled boy steamed even more.

"Or are you even listening?!"

In no time, Yuu noticed a small wooden chest fly towards his head. Good thing he had good reflexes.

"Imai." He mumbled with pissed eyes, catching the box.

"Top secret project 205." It said along the golden plate attached on the lid, and Yuu's eyes glistened with a smile.

"You could've asked for it, four eyes."

"Hotaru you're a genius!" he praised, squeezing her tightly in his arms as he kissed her cheeks a million times.

"That would be 800,000 rabbits."

Yuu's sweat dropped.