^_^ Me again. Weee, the first chapter is all typed up! Aren't I special? *cough* Sariyuki guessed correctly, of course. I'd give you a prize, but I'm too lazy right now. You DO get this cool mention in the author's notes though! And I hope this gets uploaded better than the last one...

The Adventures of Sakuma Ryuuichi

by Eike

Chapter 1

Ryuuichi had been having the strangest week. After that Friday afternoon, his body parts kept falling off! It got annoying after a while. And why did everybody have to keep screaming? Hadn't they ever seen somebody re-attach their arms before?

Well, no matter! He still had Kumagorou, so everything was fine.

"Ohayou, Touma!" Ryuuichi smiled at his fellow band member. His tongue nearly went flying when he shouted like that, but he managed to clamp his mouth shut in time. It was a good thing too, because his tongue was the hardest part to get back correctly.

Touma smiled back at him, but it was a forced smile. Ryuuichi wondered if he was also having problems with body parts flying off. That could be one of the reasons he seemed to be in pain...

"I need to have a word with you, Ryuuichi."

Ryuuichi contemplated it (ooh, a big word!), then shook his head. "I'm too busy right now, na no da. Shuuichi's going to play his new song! How about I give you some part of me, and you can talk to that?" Hmm, which part didn't he need? Maybe a toe, or his pinky? His ear would probably work too, but he wasn't sure if he wanted to part with that.

Touma frowned. "I need to talk with ALL of you, Ryuuichi, not just a body part."

Ryuuichi shrugged. The movement dislodged his right arm, and it fell to the floor with a thud. A look of disdain crossed Touma's face.

"Yes... pick that up and join me in my office."

Ryuuichi nodded sadly. He REALLY wanted to hear Shuuichi's new song! But if Touma wanted something, he usually got it. Ryuu-chan picked up his arm and followed the blond into the office.

Touma was glaring at him from across his desk. Not very nice of him to do, since he was the one that had called him in. He could at least be friendly about it! But the glare finally got to him, and he sunk down into his chair. He clumsily put the arm back where it belonged.

"That's on backwards, Ryuuichi," Touma told him. Ryuuichi glanced at his arm and tried to move it. Sure enough, it bent in the wrong direction. He gave an embarrassed laugh and quickly fixed his mistake.

"Ne, what did you call me for? 'Cus, Shuuichi's new song is really pretty, and I wanted to hear it, and maybe sing with him, and we were going to have lots and lots of fun and you ruined it, na no da!" Ryuuichi gave his cutest pout. It always worked on other people, but not so on Seguchi Touma. He just turned up the "anger" levels on his glare, making Ryuuichi wish he had Kumagorou with him. He had decided to leave the bunny at home from now on because of the many instances where Kumagorou went flying with whatever part had just dislodged himself (more often than not, the arm that had been swinging Kumagorou around). Besides, Kumagorou still hadn't gotten over the shock of losing his wonderful pink color. Even after several baths he had a brownish tint, and it made him sad.

"Now, Ryuuichi, please explain this... act of yours," Touma demanded.

Ryuu-chan blinked a couple of times. "What act?"

Touma sighed. "The one where your body parts are dropping from your body." As if to prove his point, Ryuuichi's foot fell off. Ryuuichi gave a small "oh" before picking up the appendage. His shoe and sock obscured most of it, but he could see parts of the bone sticking out, where the joints were. Shrugging, Ryuuichi put the foot back where it belonged.

There was a silence, interrupted only by a small sniff from Ryuuichi. After this silence continued for at least another five minutes, the pressure got to our poor hero and he started wailing. "I don't know why it's happening! There was this scary old hag last Friday, but all she did was put a sticker on my forehead and say some big words. Then this BIG bus drove over me an' Kumagorou, and Kumagorou turned all red but I was okay, and I had to give him eight baths and he STILL isn't clean, and then the next morning I woke up and I was okay until I tried moving and then my leg came off but I put it back so I'm fine and I don't hurt so everything is okay, na no da!"

It took Touma a while to process everything, but once he did, he grimaced. "This sticker she put on you... was it by any chance a white rectangular one, with some kanji on it?"

Ryuuichi thought for a moment, then shook his head. "It stuck to my forehead! And I only saw that it was glowing red, like she was."

Touma sighed. "I need to look some things up, but I think I've figured out the problem here. You can go... just please keep all your body parts, okay?"

Ryuu-chan nodded and smiled. "I'm going to go watch Shuuichi now! Bai bai, na no da!"

Ryuuichi skipped down the halls, wailing as he tripped when his foot came off again. It was just a minor inconvenience. No big deal.

-tsuzuku-

Ah, I figured out how to get to Tatsuha! BWAHAHHAHAHAH. Poor Ryuu-chan. Poor, poor, Ryuu-chan. *trips over shoes*

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