Drabble: 29

Theme: Buried Treasure

Words: 487

Usagi bit her tongue, trying to stop herself from giggling. Similarly, outside, the girls were doing the same.

"Shh!" Minako said loudly – very loudly. "Here they come! Act natural!" The sounds of the girls dashing madly back to their towels, snickering as they went reached Usagi's ears.

But as the sopping wet figures of Motoki and Mamoru approached, it was clear they were already suspicious.

"What are you doing?" Motoki questioned as soon as they were close enough.

"What?" Rei said casually. "Can't a group of girls sunbathe at the beach without being questioned?"

"Yeah," Makoto agreed in a threatening tone. "So we're sunbathing. What of it?"

Mamoru smirked as he reached for his towel. "Yeah, well, when you're all done practicing your yoga on the towels that aren't even your own," Usagi heard them make sounds of confusion and the rustle of the towels on the sand, "you might actually be able to pass off looking casual. Hey, Ami? How's that book you're reading?"

"Oh, it's, it's great, thank you Mamoru-san. It's really interesting." Usagi heard Ami stutter.

"I'll bet it'd be more interesting if the book was the right way up," the man commented smartly. Usagi could just imagine the blush on Ami's face.

"Say," Motoki intervened. "Where's Usa?"

Usagi had to bite down on her tongue so hard, she was sure she was drawing blood. Guffaws emerged from her friends, however.

"She's hiding," Minako chirped. "Hiding from 'the mean Mamoru-baka', she said."

"She can't be hiding," Motoki frowned. "She left her purse behind, and the only place to go here would be the ice cream shop up through the carpark."

"Like Odango would turn down an ice cream," Mamoru added. Usagi narrowed her eyes.

"So where is she?" Motoki said again.

"We buried her!" Makoto cried. "And you'll never find her!"

Usagi saw Motoki and Mamoru look wildly around. "But... But this beach is flat," Motoki said. "You can't have... bury-buried her, could you?"

More giggles and guffaws met him.

"WhErE iS sHe?" Mamoru demanded, suddenly looking like a crazed man.

"Somewhere under the sand, probably," Rei said, a shrug evident in her voice. "That's what she gets for eating all the grapes on the car ride over here."

"We've got to find her!" Mamoru said urgently to Motoki.

"Her friends are evil!" the blonde man agreed. They split up and began running down both ends of the beach, looking for any evidence of their blonde friend.

Usagi finally burst out laughing. A pair of eyes met hers through the peep holes they'd made for her in the sandcastle. Usagi grinned at Minako.

"He'll never think to look under here," she said, motioning to the castle above her with just her head. The rest of her body was in fact trapped in the sand.

"Just think of it this way," Minako winked. "You're like buried treasure or something!"

The girls broke out laughing again.

More like MAMO-CHAN'S BURIED TREASURE! MWAHAHAHA! Oh, I just loved the idea of the group going to the beach and being ridiculous. Don't you? xx