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Noon, Yakumo family home, Ran's PoV:

It was a dark and stormy... day? Ohh, this isn't a horror novel, is it? From within the home, one could hear the pitter patter of the rain against the roof, and easily feel the drowziness that rain tends to bring with it.

Outside, Chen and Usagi were rushing to bring in the laundry from the clothes-line, Chen looking quite adorable while doing so. In the end, only half of the laundry could be saved from the sudden shower, while the other half would need to be dried all over again. Of course, Chen didn't quite make it out intact; she was turned into a cat by the rain. Well, that would be what I would think if I were actually watching, but sadly I wasn't. Instead, I was being cuddled with by the woman with the most irritatingly loud snore, to the point that one might mistake it for a chainsaw being used to cut dangling chains, while someone saws wood. The afore mentioned sound had taken a strangely long time to wake me up, although this didn't prevent me from letting out a groan of annoyance. "Mnn... Why must you snore so loudly...?" I swear, it's as if she gets louder with every passing year!

I rubbed a bit of sleep from my eye, before beginning to try and wiggle out from my Master's ohh so loving embrace, only to find myself being pulled closer to her by way of those lecherous hands of hers. As a result, I couldn't help but bite my lip so as to stop a squeak of surprised protest from escaping from my mouth. Waking her up when she's in a mood to sleep very rarely goes well, one way or another; one time, I found myself turned into a man, and she would simply not allow me to... to... ...Although, depending on one's mood, one might find themselfs enjoying her rather naughty punishments, I will admit.

My eyes widened with surprise when the groping hand between my legs found a destination to torment, earning a gasp from me. While I was busy being gently pleased, a camcorder began to poke out of one of the gaps, causing my brow to twitch. Why must Yukari do the strangest things in her sleep...? Furthermore, knowing that I'm being recorded is enough to kill what little mood I was in for this sort of thing!

Patio, Usagi's PoV:

After the two of us had finally managed to bring in the laundry, Chen and I made our way inside, both of us shaking the water from our hair like a pair of- Well, I suppose we both could be considered animals, could we not? Especially her. But that was beside the point.

As we made our way inside, Chen ran up to a door, and began to paw at it. "...Do you want me to open that door?" Chen nodded, and got out of the way. Taking that as my signal, I opened the door, and found... "Blankets?" I looked to Chen, who simply shook her head. I looked again. "Ohhh... Towels. You want me to dry you off." Chen nodded, and I took that as my signal to get to rubbing her down. Thankfully she wasn't all that wet, or I might be stuck here a while. After a bit of rubbing, Chen suddenly turned back into a girl, and the sudden displacement of her body was enough to knock me on my rear, with her body pinning me to the ground.

Grinning down at me, the hardly dressed cat said, "Thanksh, Ushagi!" With that said, she quickly resolved the awkward situation by way of getting off of me, and rising to her feet, careful not to scratch the floor with her toeclaws. Now on her feet, Chen grabbed a towel from the linen closet, tossing it to me.

I barely managed to catch it before it smacked me across the face, what with my lightning reflexes. "Th-thanks, Chen." I proceeded to quickly rub my hair dry, before putting it around my neck to make sure I wouldn't drip all over the place.

"Let'sh go get shome clothesh! I shouldn't be walking about in the nude after all!" With that said, we headed for Chen's room. We took numerous turns on the way there, before eventually arriving at her door. "Wait here." With that said, she made her way into the room, and I waited outside for the next five minutes. As I was about to knock, the door opened to reveal Chen, fully dressed, sans hat. Before I could say anything, she exclaimed, "Time to make lunch!" She clenched her hand in a odd little fist, which was the only way she seemed to be able to do as such without punching four holes in her palm with those long claws of her's. She then rose her fist into the air.

"...Want my help?" I gave her a questioning look, while blushing a bit at how adorable that little declaration of hers had been.

I think... I think I can understand Ran's problem a little bit better now...

Yukari's room, Yukari's PoV:

I began the sniff at the air in my sleep, before my eyes creaked opened. My stomach groaned like a zombie with a megaphone duct taped to its face, signifying that it would be wise to aquire sustenance, lest I start acting as a zombie might. I have been known to do a bit of sleep walking, if I go to bed hungry... With my trip down memory lane, with a short-cut through shame ville out of the way, I grabbed my fox, and hopped into a border of dressing, soon finding myself clothed in... ranch salad dressing. "...Right, I really should stop doing this while not thinking..." Once more I hopped through, so as to remove the white goop from my skin, before hopping into a border of dressed and undressed. I do hate when I somehow make mistakes that should only be possible in written word.

Giving myself and my pet fox a once over, I nodded to myself. Everything looked fine, and quite lacking in condiments. With that out of the way, I began to open a large number of gaps in the blink of an eye, untill I finally got the exact one that I wanted. Contrary to popular belief, I am not absolutely perfect with these things, even if I do well not to let it show. With the correct gap open, I dropped Ran through, where she landed lightly in her seat, followed by myself passing through the other side of the gap.

Where as Ran had fallen through the bottom of my gap, reversing the side of entry had allowed myself to climb through the top, instead of falling in a heap on top of Ran. After a few moments of adjusting myself so as to get comfortable, Chen and Usagi came into the room, each carrying two plates of food. "Good morning, you two~" I gave them a slight wave, and had the gap-chair move to the side of the dining room table.

Chen felt the need to point out my error, and said, "Erm... It'sh lunch time, Mashter..."

As she set down my plate, I responded, "...So it is. Good afternoon, you two~" With her cargo deposited, Chen took a seat on the other side of the table.

Making her way to the seat beside me, Usagi sat her extra plate in front of the still resting fox, before shaking her lightly by the shoulder with her now free hand.

"Uhm... You need to wake up, miss Ran... It's time for lunch..." The bunny-girl was especially quiet, which was quite contradictory to what she was trying to achieve.

After tiring of the slightly cute show, I grabbed Ran's hat by one of the ear-beads, and lifted it off of her. "Raaaan~" I was just as quiet in my words as my guest had been, but it was enough, as my fox was quite startled by the volume of the sound. You see, Ran always has had rather sensitive ears, and I'm sure that my sealing of them hasn't helped them become any less sensitive. In fact, I am fairly certain of it being the exact opposite of that, by making them simply become more and more acute.

With that out of the way, we four began yet another quiet little meal, where nothing interesting happened. When was the last time I had something interesting to watch...?

I shall have to consider fixing this, some time.

Early night, Garden of the Sun, Yuuka's cottage, Yuuka's PoV:

My, this bird does look quite lovely when she sleeps. So peaceful. I know just how to make her lovelier.

I began to remove the blindfold, and gag from the respective locations one would use them, and sat them to the side. Won't be needing these for now~ I do so love to hear their cries of pain...

With things cleared, I couldn't help but grin widely at the drooling, sleeping face of the crow. That is, untill my grin turned wicked, and I drew my arm back, so as to slap her with a... moderate portion of my strength; being as old as she is, I'm sure she can take it! At the worst, she will simply need to regenerate a bit... What's a broken jaw to a youkai as strong as her?

Aya's PoV:

I was suddenly shocked into conciousness by what felt like the flick of an oni. Repress, repress... Good! There're no oni on the... mountain...?

"...Aya... yaya...?" I let out a little wimper at the sight before me, as I had been given a moment to think it all to only be a dream. But nope, it wasn't! This current pain, combined with my sore body, are more than enough to confirm that!

"Good morning, little birdie~" Yuuka gave me the widest, most cheer-filled grin she seemed to be able to muster, filling me with enough dread that her oddly cute clothes were completely overlooked. And boy, had I noticed, I would have been dying to get ahold of a picture of her in them.

Just as I was about to respond, I found myself falling from the wall. I tried to catch myself, but most of my body was still bound, which in turn causing my head to explode in dull pain upon impacting with the ground. Even if I can take a lot more than this, damn if it doesn't hurt like hell to hit my head on stone from any height!

Before I could recover, I found myself being placed atop a wooden horse, and felt a horrible pain in one of the places that even youkai can feel debilitating pain from. As she began to prepare to strap me in place, there was a quiet rapping on the front door, which would be too distant for human ears to hear.

Out of nowhere, Yuuka took off at speeds I thought impossible of here, so fast were they! ...Compared to her usually slow stroll, she was just about jogging away from me, and heading up the steps at what one might consider blinding speeds.

...Well, if one is already blind, that is.

Wriggle's PoV:

I began to fidget about nervously, after having kicked the proverbial hornets nest, and waited for either a greeting, or my execution.

Before I knew it, the door opened, revealing Yuuka in her adorable pink pajamas, and sleeping cap. It took a great deal of effort, but somehow I managed not to stare at her. The red-eyed flower master let out a cute little yawn from behind her hand, before asking, "What is it, bug...? It's late for me, even if you are awake at only these hours."

I swallowed hard, and replied, "S-sorry, mistress... I, umm..." My words trailed off, and my face reddened.

At my cute expression, Yuuka couldn't help but smirk. "If you don't tell me, I certainly can't do as you would ask. So tell me, what would you have little old me do for you~?"

...She seems oddly awake, for someone whose sleep was interrupted... Best not mention that...

My face now beet red, I shouted, "P-p-please p-punish me...!" The embarassment of asking was enough to cause me to majorly stutter. I'm not very good with pressure, after all.

The grin upon my mistresses face caused me to quiver. I knew exactly what she was about to do, and wasn't surprised when she threw me over her shoulder. Ahh, I love this flowery scent of... Yuuka's clothes. It's almost... sedat... ing.

Aya's PoV:

Why do I have to act before I think, so much? Ohh, real good job, Aya! Try and get off the wooden horse, even if you're too bound to do anything but slink about like a lowly worm, after smashing your face on the ground again!

I let out a sigh, and simply waited.

And waited.

And waited...

What's taking Mas- Yuuka, I have to wond-?

And then, the door swung open, revealing the one for which I waited, carrying one who I wasn't expecting. The queen of the insects...?

The cheerful flower master chose now to answer my confused look. "My, stretching your legs, are we?" I couldn't help but sigh at her bad joke. I'd say it was intentional, but her jokes never are good, from what little time I have spent with her.

"...That was horrible..." At my responce, Yuuka began to giggle to herself, setting the sleeping bug on the wooden horse I had fallen from. Before I could ask what she was doing here, I found myself in the arms of the sadist before me. It was more by virtue of my lack of attention, than her moving with any form of speed.

"I'm done with you, little birdie~ I have a Wriggo to deal with!" ...What a horrible nickname, not that the one she's given me is much better...

As she carried me up the stairs, she undid that which were actually thick steel ropes. I believe the humans use them in their flying contraptions? Anyway, I was quite glad that I was finally being released. So glad, in fact, that I didn't even notice that I never even noticed that I was still buck-naked.

"Do come again, you hear~" Like hell I'll do something like that! I... There's no way I'm a masochist! Nope, no way, no how!

While I was busy with denying my newly found nature, we made our way to the surface, and by we, I mean that she carried me like a little baby. Yuuka, picking up on my lack of a struggle, chose now to teaes me over it. "Why, aren't you submissive all of a sudden, hrm~?" She looked down at me with a grin, and made her way out of the already opened front door.

I couldn't help but blush at the accusation. "A-Ayayaya! I was just thinking, that's all!"

After a short moment, I found my body being lightly tossed into the air, Yuuka catching me with a single hand. "Well, I suppose this is farewell, little birdie~"

Just as I began to to smile, she pulled back as if throwing... a... "W-what are you doing?"

Confirming my fear, I was suddenly hurtling through the air at speeds even I would have trouble reaching. With my wings weak from being restrained for so long, I couldn't even try and fly; at this rate, I'll crash into... ...Well, at least she threw me towards home...

Best brace for impact...

A/N: Well, still going strong on daily updates, though im starting to run out of ideas for the Yakumo's… perhaps moving on from them in the next couple chapters.

Y/N2: Translation: I had no idea as to what I wanted to do, and only a vague idea as to the direction of the story in the long run. Said direction held up like an umbrella in a tornado.

A/N2: ...Must you pick on every flaw?

Y/N2: Yes, I must~

A/N3: Gah! The length has more than doubled, by the end! By the way, the numbers after the A/N's and such mean that they are seperate from the prior one. In other news, this third one shall likely push it close to 2,000 words, and I'm still not done.