Adventures with the Little Selected Kids 2!!
Mr. Fujiyama was setting up a huge camera with a green screen in the back of it and enjoying himself in the process. He was humming merrily as he polished the camera lens when he heard the sound of a throat being cleared. Mr. Fujiyama turned around to see the kid he clearly remembered as Taichi Kamiya, or Tai, and his dad.
Tai was wearing a T-shirt that said 'T is for Train' and it looked VERY cute!! YAY!! He also had those VERY familiar goggles around his neck.
"All right Tai, whoa…what's with the camera?" asked Mr. Kamiya.
"Oh, didn't you get the notice?" asked Mr. Fujiyama. "Picture day is today."
"Picture day?" asked Mr. Kamiya. "In day care?" Mr. Fujiyama shrugged and nodded his head. "Okay then. Tai, smile good for the camera and no funny faces this time! Make it a good picture for once."
"Don't worry Dad!" said Tai, giving his dad the thumbs up. "You can count on me!!"
"Good well…have a nice day!" said Mr. Kamiya as he left.
The next person to walk in with her child was Wufei and her daughter Sora Takanouchi. (No, not THE Wufei but you know Sora's Mom? She looks all Wufeiish and that kind of stuff so we'll just call her Wufei.)
Sora was wearing a yellow jumper with a long sleeved flowery shirt underneath. She had little red spots all over her.
"Sora just had the chicken pox." Wufei explained. "But she's not contagious anymore so don't worry. She doesn't notice they're there so if you don't point them out then she won't get upset," she added more quietly.
Tai put out his hand. "I'm Taichi C. Kamiya!" he said proudly. "The C stands for Cool!" Then he paused. "You have red spots all over your face," said Tai, pointing to Sora.
"No I don't," Sora answered as a matter of factly as she touched her face. "Mom says they're gone."
Tai crossed his arms. "Your mom's a liar." He said.
"Well, I have to go now," said Wufei quickly as she walked out the door. Mr. Fujiyama bent down so he was eye level to Sora.
"You sure look pretty today!" he said. Sora giggled.
"Thank you, Mommy dressed me up for pictures!" she said. Then she and Tai went off to play with blocks. My, my how little kids love their blocks!!
The next pair to enter was definitely Yamato Ishida, or Matt, and his mom. Matt was wearing a cute little shirt and black pants with a black tie. Mrs. Ishida was just about to leave when she noticed that his tie was crooked.
"Matt, you were playing with it again, weren't you?" she said, bending down.
"It's uncomfortable!" he whined. Then he started making gagging noises as she tried to fix it. "ACK!! I CAN'T BREATH!! YOU'RE CHOKING ME!!"
When she FINALLY finished, she stood back up and looked at Mr. Fujiyama. "Make sure he leaves that on," she instructed. Then she left.
"Mr. Fujiyama, can you hold this?" asked Matt, holding up his tie which was already off.
"Matt, you're not supposed to take it off." Said Mr. Fujiyama.
"No, my mom told me it was okay to take it off." Matt lied. "She said she WANTED me to and if you made me keep it on then she'd kill you and cancel Christmas."
"Well, I'll make you put it on when we take the pictures." Mr. Fujiyama warned.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!!" Matt yelled as he dropped the tie and ran off to play blocks. Mr. Fujiyama shook his head and picked up the tie when suddenly, he heard the sound of crying. He turned around to see who he recognized immediately as Mrs. Izumi and her son, Koushiro or more commonly known as Izzy. She was carrying him as he cried hysterically in her shoulder.
"What's wrong with him?" asked Mr. Fujiyama.
"Oh, he's just a little cranky and doesn't want to be here." Mrs. Izumi replied. "I feel bad about leaving him with you while he's like this. He can be a real terror sometimes."
"NAW," said Mr. Fujiyama stupidly. "Izzy's a great kid. I bet he's real excited about getting his picture taken today!" Izzy was wearing a little suit that similar only instead of a bow tie, he had a regular tie. Mrs. Izumi put Izzy down, all red-faced and sniffling and urged him to go over with the other kids and play with blocks.
When Izzy finally got over it, Mrs. Izumi left and Mimi Tachakawa came with her retarded mother came in. Mimi was wearing this PERFECTLY white dress. It was so white that if you spilt water on it, it would leave a stain. Then Mrs. Tachakawa left and Mimi went to play blocks too.
Mr. Fujiyama went over to his desk and picked up a little miniature clipboard that looked very cute. Then he checked off everyone's names, put down the cute clipboard and then walked over to the group that was playing with blocks.
"It looks like we're all here," he said cheerfully. Everyone gave him this look that said 'So?'. Mr. Fujiyama cleared his throat. "Since we're not going to take pictures for a couple more hours, let's write in journals!"
"But Mr. Fujiyama, we don't have journals." Tai said.
Mr. Fujiyama whipped out five journals of different colors; blue, orange, purple, green and red. "I know, I prepared them just for you."
"I WANT THE PURPLE ONE!!" yelled Mimi, making a grab for the purple journal. Mr. Fujiyama held it out of her reach.
"No, I've already written the names on all of them," Mr. Fujiyama explained. "This one is for Izzy. You have the green one." Mimi looked as though she was about the cry.
"BUT I WANT THE PURPLE ONE!!!" Mimi shrieked, tears streaming down her face. "I DON'T LIKE GREEN!!"
"Wouldn't it make more sense for Izzy to have the green one since green is a boy's color and purple is a girl's color?" asked Matt.
"No, there is no such thing as a 'boy's color' and a 'girl's color'." Mr. Fujiyama replied. "Every color is universal." Matt raised an eyebrow. Then Mr. Fujiyama gave Izzy the purple one, Mimi the green one, Matt the blue one, Tai the orange one and Sora the red one. HURRAH!! (The crests? What do you mean? I don't know what you're talking about!! He-he…*loosen collar* Oops, I'm not wearing a collar!! SILLY ME!! OH WELL!! BACK TO THE STORY!!)
On the inside of the journal, the words 'I love…' were already written. Mr. Fujiyama had wrote them, wanting the kids to finish the sentence or something like that.
"Mr. Fujiyama, someone already wrote in my journal," said Sora.
"Oh, I did that." Said Mr. Fujiyama.
"Can I have a new one then?" asked Sora. "A pink one?"
"Me too!" whined Mimi, kind of cranky.
"No, you're supposed to finish the sentence and fill in what you love," Mr. Fujiyama explained. "And then you draw a picture of it. And THEN you turn back to the cover and decorate your name!"
"I don't know how to write." Said Izzy.
"That's all right, just draw a picture." Mr. Fujiyama said.
"I don't know how to draw." Izzy continued.
"Don't say that, EVERYONE can draw in their own SPECIAL way!"
"Not me. I'm not special."
"Yes you are."
"No I'm not."
Mr. Fujiyama was JUST about to say something when he figured that no matter what he said, Izzy was just going to continue to lower his own self-esteem. So Mr. Fujiyama sighed and turned to Sora. "I love…brfs?" he read, kind of confused.
"Butterflies," Sora corrected him.
"Oh…aha," said Mr. Fujiyama. "Now I see it." Then he looked over at Matt who was hunched over his journal, finishing the last letter.
"T…" he said out loud as he drew the line.
"What do you love, Matt?" Mr. Fujiyama asked. Matt paused and then nodded. "Let me see." Mr. Fujiyama said, looking the journal that said 'I love Matt'. "You love yourself?" Matt nodded again. "Well…I guess that's okay…"
"At first I was going to write 'waterslides' but I didn't know how to spell it." Matt explained. "But I guess this is the next best thing."
"I see." Mr. Fujiyama said, nodding his head and he looked down at Tai's journal. He cocked his head to see what he wrote. "I love ggls?"
"Goggles." Tai said, pointing to the goggles that were around his neck.
"You love goggles?"
"What's there NOT to like?" Tai asked. "They keep the water out of your eyes when you're on a waterslide. I keep them with me just in case there's a waterslide. I wouldn't want to be caught without them."
"That makes sense I guess." Said Mr. Fujiyama with a shrug as he looked down at Mimi's journal. She had just copied 'I love' so it said 'I love I love'. There was also a picture of a badly drawn heart in the space to draw the picture. "You're supposed to write what you love." Mr. Fujiyama said.
"I love a lot of things." Mimi explained. "So I just drew a big heart to show everything I love." Mr. Fujiyama nodded and looked at Izzy who's journal was blank.
"Aren't you going to do anything?" Mr. Fujiyama asked.
"I'm not supposed to use these markers." Said Izzy, holding up one of the markers. "They're stay forever. They go through the paper and on the floor and the table. When I drew on the wall, it stayed there and my mom got mad and told me not to use them because they'll never go away. I'm not supposed to use them cause I'll get in trouble. I don't want to get in trouble so I won't use these markers because I'm not supposed to. They're the BAD markers that I'm not allowed to color with because they stay on the wall…"
"Okay, okay, I get it." Said Mr. Fujiyama. "How about I get you a pencil?"
"But I'm not supposed to use the pencil either." Izzy said. "Because it pokes a hole in the couch. My mom doesn't like that and she had to flip the cushion over."
"Um…a crayon?" Mr. Fujiyama suggested.
"Okay, I'm allowed to use a crayon." Izzy said. Mr. Fujiyama retrieved a crayon for Izzy to use.
"Sora, can I play connect the dots on your face?" Matt asked, holding up his marker.
"No," Sora answered.
"But you have little spots all over your face." Matt explained. "And I tried making my own connect the dots in my journal but it only ended up looking like Tai's picture."
"Hey, my picture is GOOD!!" said Tai. "Goggles are COOL!!"
"Is that what they were?" Matt said, looking at Tai's picture. "I never would have guessed!"
"You take that back!!" Tai yelled.
"No!" Matt said, crossing his arms. Tai jabbed Matt with a marker leaving a red spot on his shirt. "Look what you did!" Matt said, looking down at the spot. "You ruined my shirt!" Matt picked up a black marker and jabbed Tai with it.
"That hurt you dork!!" Tai said, looking down at the spot on his 'T is for Train' shirt. "You ruined my T is for Tai shirt!!"
"Well, T is also for…um…TERRIBLE!!" Matt said.
"M is for MORON!!" Tai argued. They were obviously just about to jump on each other when…
"TIME TO GO OUTSIDE!!" bellowed Mr. Fujiyama obviously seeing a fight in progress.
"YAY!!" said all the kids as they threw down their markers and ran out of the room in a cloud of flying paper and dust clouds.
"Try not to get your clothes dirty!" Mr. Fujiyama called after them.
"Mr. Fujiyama, can I stay in here so I won't get my dress dirty?" Mimi asked, pulling down on Mr. Fujiyama's shirt.
"Um…okay." Said Mr. Fujiyama. "You can draw in your journal more." Mimi nodded and went over to the purple journal and started decorating it.
Outside…
"I'm higher!!" Tai called.
"No way!" Matt yelled back. Tai, Matt and Izzy were each on the swings. Matt and Tai were fighting over who was going higher while Izzy stayed completely still because he didn't know how to pump.
"Can I have a push?" he asked finally.
"Anyone dare me to jump off?" Matt said, ignoring Izzy.
"Yeah!!" Tai said.
"One…" Matt said as he pumped some more. "Two…THREE!!" Then he jumped off and landed in the sand in front of him, making a cloud go up around him. He stood up a minute later all covered in sand and dirt. "Bet you can't get farther than me!" he said, making a line with his foot. "Here's my line."
"I bet I can!!" Tai said.
"Can someone give me a push?" Izzy asked again.
"I can!" Matt said, running over behind Izzy. "This is what my dad does." He explained as he pulled Izzy back and pushed him forward doing an 'underdog'. It wasn't that high but Izzy obviously found it fun and exhilarating and Matt looked proud of himself.
"Isn't anyone watching?!" Tai yelled.
"Yeah, if I wasn't then you'd cheat!" Matt said, crossing his arms. Tai counted down from three and then jumped down. He probably realized that he wasn't going to beat Matt so he rolled around in the sand until he passed Matt's line.
"I beat you!" Tai declared, standing up and brushing himself off.
"You cheated!" Matt said, running over to Tai and pushing him.
"Na-uh!!" Tai said, pushing Matt back.
"Ya-HUH!!" Matt yelled back. Tai jumped on Matt and then they started fighting just as Sora walked over to Izzy who was starting to slow down from his push. He didn't look fazed at the fact that Matt and Tai were fighting practically right in front of him.
"Can I have a push?" he asked Sora.
"Um…I really WANT to…" Sora said, fidgeting.
"Then do it!" Izzy said, nodding his head.
"But…I don't want to get dirty." Sora finished. Izzy frowned, a little disappointed.
"You won't get dirty," Izzy assured her. "I promise." Just then, Mr. Fujiyama ran over because he heard the fight and grabbed Matt and Tai by the collars of their shirts and pulled them up off the ground as they swung their fists at each other.
"Look at your two!" he said, shaking his head. "You're an absolute mess! You can't take your school pictures looking like this!"
"We were just playing, Mr. Fujiyama." Said Tai.
"Tai cheated and said he won when I did!" Matt said, pointing to Tai.
"Yeah but…" started Tai.
"Quiet," Mr. Fujiyama interrupted him. "We're going to end recess early because I have to get you two cleaned up."
"It's not fair!" whined Tai.
"We're clean!" Matt assured Mr. Fujiyama. Mr. Fujiyama raised an eyebrow.
"Mr. Fujiyama, can I have a push?" asked Izzy.
Five minutes later…
"Okay, now you three write in your journals while I clean up Matt and Tai, all right?" said Mr. Fujiyama to Sora, Mimi and Izzy as he held on to Matt and Tai's hand.
"Mr. Fujiyama, someone colored hearts all over my journal," said Izzy, holding up his purple journal.
"Are you sure you didn't do that?" asked Mr. Fujiyama, shaking his head. Izzy nodded. Mr. Fujiyama didn't believe him so he just nodded back. Mr. Fujiyama pulled Matt and Tai out in the other room.
"Outside today I…" Sora read. Then she thought about it for a minute. "Sld," she wrote finally. Mimi copied the sentence and drew some more hearts and stuff like that. Izzy didn't do anything because he couldn't find his crayon and he wasn't allowed to use the markers on the pencils!
At this point, Matt, Tai and Mr. Fujiyama returned. Mr. Fujiyama had obviously just washed their faces off with a face cloth and brushed them off.
"I'm not very clean, Mr. Fujiyama." Said Matt.
"That's your fault," said Mr. Fujiyama. "Now write in your journals about what you did outside today."
The two sat down in front of their journals. Matt stared at his paper. "Outside today I…" he read and then paused. "Matt," he wrote finally because he didn't know how to write or spell 'Kicked Tai's butt'.
Tai wrote 'swin' because he had gone on the swings.
Mr. Fujiyama walked over with a bunch of ziplock bags with all kinds of good things to eat inside like raisins, M&M's, peanuts, cheerios, goldfish and all those other little bite-sized morsels that little kids like.
Well, you know the drill. Tai inhaled his, Izzy ate one, waited and then ate another one, Matt picked AROUND the raisins, Mimi ate one kind at a time and Sora ate hers like a normal person would!! HURRAH!!
Tai looked over at Mimi. "Hey, Mimi got more than me!!" he whined.
"That's only because you ate all yours already." Mr. Fujiyama explained.
"No, Matt took all mine!" Tai said, pointing to Matt.
"Yeah right!" Matt argued. "We all SAW you suck all yours up like you were a vacuum cleaner!!"
"You are SUCH a liar!" Matt yelled throwing a raisin at Tai. It bounced off his forehead. Tai bent down, picked it up and tossed it in his mouth. Matt stuck out his tongue. "Ew," he said. "That was on the floor!!"
"Thanks Matt!" he sad in that annoying tone that people use JUST to be annoying.
"Your welcome Tai!" Matt answered, trying not to sound annoyed.
"Can I trade your M&Ms with something?" Sora asked.
"No, I want my M&Ms." Mimi answered, protecting her bag.
"But you're not eating them." Sora pointed out.
"I'm saving them for last." Mimi replied.
"Izzy, sharing is good, can you share your stuff with me?" Tai asked with big pleading eyes.
"No," Izzy answered.
"PLEASE?!" Tai asked again. Izzy shook his head. "Come on, you're not eating anything! You're gonna waste it all!"
"No, I'm not, I'm going to eat it all!" said Izzy. Tai grabbed onto Izzy's bag.
"Just a little?" he begged.
"NO!" said Izzy, pulling it back. Soon, it ripped and all the contents spilled all over the floor. Tai immediately started scooping all of Izzy's treats into his bag while Izzy stood there crying. Matt has also come over and started stomping on all the pieces that Tai hadn't picked up yet.
"This seems awfully familiar." Said Mr. Fujiyama to himself. Then he realized that watching it happen isn't going to help the situation so he walked over to the three. He picked up Izzy and placed him over by the girls who were playing with dolls. (Something different.) He then picked Matt up and sat him down on a chair. He did the same to Tai.
"This is the Time-Out chair." Explained Mr. Fujiyama. "You can't get up."
"Yes I can." Said Matt as he stood up.
"Sit down." Said Mr. Fujiyama. "You can't get off the chair until I say you can't." Then he walked away to take an aspirin.
"This isn't fair! I don't want to sit here! There's nothing to do!" whined Matt as he fidgeted around on his chair.
"What did I do?" wondered Tai. "Is this a punishment? Why am I getting a punishment when I didn't do anything?"
Meanwhile, over with the girls and Izzy…
Izzy had just started calming down when the girls crawled over to him with a doll in each of their hands.
"What's wrong?" asked Mimi.
"I know how to get him to stop crying." Said Sora. "My baby was just crying and I got her to stop right away." She said as she held up her doll.
They both started rubbing him on the head and telling him to calm down and that it would be all right. Izzy scooted himself away.
"No, stop it!" he whined.
"Don't worry, everything will be all right." Said Mimi.
"Stop crying." Said Sora. "You can play with us."
"I don't want to play with you!" he cried.
"Shh…calm down…"
Back with Matt and Tai…
"No, it's YOUR fault!" yelled Tai at Matt.
"It's not MY fault! I didn't do anything! I was just sitting there, coloring in my picture of me beating you up when…" started Matt.
"You didn't beat me up, I beat YOU up!" yelled Tai.
"In your dreams!" challenged Matt.
"I'm strong! I can pick up my dad!" said Tai.
"I can beat up my dad!" yelled Matt.
"LIAR!!"
"I don't lie!" bragged Matt. "Unlike you, Tai. I bet everything you said was a lie!"
"NO!! It was ALL true!!" whined Tai. "I bet everything you said was a lie too!"
Matt stood up. "I don't lie, I told you!"
"You're not supposed to get up!" yelled Tai.
"You can't tell me what to do!" Matt said as he crossed his arms.
Back with Izzy and the girls…
"How come I have to have this doll?" whined Izzy holding up one of those dolls that daycares always have that ugly and dirty and no one wants them.
"Because we're letting you join in OUR game and you have to do want we say or you can't play." Threatened Sora.
"But this doll is so yucky!" he said as he tossed it on the ground.
"Izzy! It's not nice to treat your baby like that!" Sora said as she picked up Izzy's doll.
"I don't want to play!" Izzy whined as he crossed his arms and refused the doll when Sora offered it to him.
"You have to play!" Sora yelled as she thrusted the doll into Izzy's chest. Mimi would have joined in but she was off in the corner caring for her own 'baby'. "You already said you would!"
"But I don't want that doll." Said Izzy quietly in a whiney voice. Then he stood up and brushed off his knees. "I don't want to play." He walked over to Matt and Tai who were beating each other up again.
"YOU TAKE THAT BACK!!" yelled Matt in Tai's face as he pinned him to the ground.
"NO!! YOU TAKE BACK WHAT YOU SAID FIRST!!" Tai yelled back as he hit Matt in the face.
"I DON'T TAKE THINGS BACK!!" yelled Matt as he practically burst into tears. He hit Tai in the head and then ran off to the bathroom. Tai sat up and ran over to a corner and started crying. That left Izzy standing there being oblivious and cute. Mr. Fujiyama came back just AFTER this all happened. All he saw was Izzy standing in the middle of the room and Mimi and Sora off playing with dolls in the corner. He didn't notice Tai. He walked over to Izzy.
"Izzy, what happened, I heard a lot of yelling." He said as he bent down to Izzy's height.
"Mimi and Sora wouldn't let me play with them unless I used the yucky doll." Izzy said to him.
"Where are Matt and Tai?" Mr. Fujiyama asked him. Izzy pointed to Tai in the corner.
"Matt's in the bathroom, I think." He said.
"Could you go and get him?" Mr. Fujiyama asked Izzy. Izzy gave an exasperated groan as he trudged off to the bathroom.
Izzy found Matt in the corner of the bathroom crying. (Preschool bathrooms, or at least the one that I went to, don't have stalls.)
"What are you doing?" Izzy asked walking closer to Matt.
"GO AWAY!!" Matt yelled.
"What did I do?" Izzy asked in an offended tone.
"GO AWAY!!" Matt repeated.
"Mr. Fujiyama told me to come and get you." said Izzy as he grabbed Matt's arm and started pulling on it.
"LEAVE ME ALONE!!" Matt yelled, pulling his arm away from Izzy.
Izzy crossed his arms. "You're not supposed to sit on the floor in the bathroom." He said. "It's dirty and gross and you could get sick."
"I don't care!!" Matt yelled.
"You want to get sick?" Izzy wondered.
"I don't care." Matt repeated.
"You're going to get in trouble for sitting on the bathroom floor."
"No I'm not, my mom doesn't care." Said Matt.
"My mom does!" said Izzy as he grabbed Matt's arm again. "Now get UP!!"
"NO!!"
"YES!!"
"NO!!"
"YYEEEEEEEEESSSSS!!" Izzy yelled as he held it out as long as he could which was only about five seconds. Even still, it was incredibly obnoxious.
"NOOOOOOO!!" challenged Matt as he held his out too.
"YES TIMES A MILLION TRILLION ZILLION!!"
"NO TIME A MILLION TRILLION ZILLION AND ONE!!"
"YES TIMES A MILLION TRILLION ZILLION MILLION MILLION BILLION!!"
"NO TIMES EVEN MORE THAN THAT!!"
"YES TIMES MORE THAN THAT!!" Matt stood up and splashed Izzy with toilet water. (Of course there was nothing in it.)
"NO!!"
"YUCK!!" Izzy yelled. Matt laughed at him and splashed him some more. Izzy reached into the toilet and splashed Matt back. "YES!!"
Matt splashed Izzy again and pretty soon they were engaged in a water fight.
Back with everyone else…
Mr. Fujiyama had finally gotten Tai to calm down when he started to wonder when Izzy would return with Matt. He walked over to the bathroom and opened the door.
"Why me?" he wondered when he saw the two of them. He dragged them out of the bathroom by their hands, Izzy attempting to explain the whole way.
"…and I said no and Matt splashed me with the water from the toilet but there was nothing in it so it was clean…" said Izzy quickly.
"You guys are not being cooperative." Said Mr. Fujiyama. "You're supposed to get your pictures taken and you're getting all messed up."
"But my mom says that my pictures always look good." Said Izzy.
"Yeah, I take pictures very well." Said Matt.
"I bet you do but you still want your clothes to look nice when you take pictures." He paused, trying to think of a nice quiet activity again. "Let's write some more in our journals." He gathered all the kids up and sat them down by their respected colored journals.
"Mr. Fujiyama, someone drew hearts all over mine!" complained Izzy.
"Oh, that was me, do you want to trade?" Mimi said.
"But you wrote in yours too!" Izzy said.
"It's okay!" insisted Mimi. "Please?"
"No," said Mr. Fujiyama. "I made each one specially for each of you."
"But why do I have to have the green one?" whined Mimi.
"Because he want to torture you!" said Matt.
"Matt, stop. I don't want her to start…" started Mr. Fujiyama.
"NO!!" Mimi yelled.
"Yes, because he hates you." he paused. "Everyone hates you!"
"NO THEY DON'T!!" yelled Mimi.
"Yeah, I mean, I hate you." said Matt. "Tai hates you, Izzy hates you…" Sora was in the bathroom so he knew he could say that Sora hated her too even though she would disagree if she were there. "Sora hates you too."
"That's not true!" Mimi yelled.
"Mimi, just ignore him, he's trying to get you to…"
Mimi burst into tears.
"I HATE YOU!!!" she yelled.
"So do I." Said Matt as he started coloring again. Mr. Fujiyama grabbed Matt's hand and pulled him into the hallway for a disciplinary talk.
Meanwhile, Mimi was crying at full blast. Tai was just trying to ignore her by coloring and occasionally yelling, "Shut-up!"
Izzy sat there blocking his ears, because he remembered that these particular crayons smudge on the rug so he can't use them unless he's sitting at the table but he assumed that he just couldn't. Besides, he didn't like coloring ANYWAY.
"STOP CRYING!!" he yelled at Mimi. Mimi ignored him. "I'll give you my journal if you stop crying…"
"I don't WANT it!!"
"But you already colored all over it," Said Izzy. "I don't want it!"
"No he won't, because I'll just take yours."
Mimi wasn't about to pass up the PURPLE journal that she had wanted this whole time so she gladly switched journals with Izzy and started coloring in the purple one.
Izzy sat there with the green journal in front of him. He went through the entire bucket of art supplies and decided that he wasn't allowed to use any of them so he went over to Mr. Fujiyama's desk. He looked around on it and finally saw the overhead markers. He had never seen them before so he must be allowed to use them! He sat down and started drawing an indecipherable picture.
Tai was sitting alone drawing his version of Matt with scribbles and mean things all over his face. He grumpily pressed down too hard on his marker and practically drove the tip into the marker base.
Sora had returned and decided that she wanted to draw everyone. They were all stick figures with different features. She drew herself in the middle bigger than the rest with a star around her. She then drew Tai. Tai had a big scribble on the top of his head for hair. Mimi the stick figure was wearing a dress and had long hair. Izzy was a mini little stick figure that was smaller than half the size as all the others. She got to Matt but couldn't decide what to do so she gave him a mad looking face whereas all the others had big smiles. She labeled them with their names or what she thought were how to spell their names. She wrote down, Sora, Ti, Mat, Meme and Ise. (Little kids can never get their Z's straight.)
Mimi, of course was drawing hearts. What else? Oh, and also rainbows and butterflies and princesses. Although with some of them, you couldn't really tell what they were.
Matt and Mr. Fujiyama returned and Matt sat down angrily to finish his picture of Tai. He also added Mr. Fujiyama and Mimi off the side and drew all over them.
Mr. Fujiyama walked around to see what everyone was drawing.
"Very nice…" he said as he examined their pictures. He didn't quite catch what was going on in Matt and Tai's pictures.
After a minute of that, the kids were beginning to complain about how hungry they were. Especially Tai. Mr. Fujiyama retrieved their lunchboxes and told them that during lunch, he would be pulling them aside one by one to take their pictures.
"Izzy, I'll trade you that disgusting cookie for my delicious, YUMMY apple." Said Matt as he held up his apple. Izzy shook his head. Tai leaned over to him. (Izzy was sitting in between Matt and Tai.)
"Why would you want Matt's stupid apple when you could have my carrots! YUM!! And all you have to give me is that cookie." Said Tai. He paused. "And half of your sandwich. I love peanut butter and fluff!"
Izzy shook his head again. He then attempted to wipe the fluff that was all over his face. He probably got more on his face than in his mouth.
Mr. Fujiyama walked out with a clipboard.
"Matt Ishida." He called. Matt hoped out of his chair.
"See ya later losers!" said Matt. He turned to Izzy. "Whatever you do, don't give your cookie to Tai." Then he ran off to get his picture taken.
Mr. Fujiyama tied Matt's bow tie back around his neck and sat him in the position he wanted. "Okay, SMILE!" he said.
"I don't smile." Said Matt staring into the camera.
"Of course you do! You're mom wanted me to make sure that you did."
"But I look stupid when I smile!" Matt complained.
"Fine, don't smile! Remember yourself as a grumpy little kid. I didn't want you to smile anyway. I hate your smile. Don't smile!"
Matt smiled to annoy Mr. Fujiyama. The rewards of reverse psychology. Mr. Fujiyama flicked the camera as the flash went off.
"I'M BLIND!!" Matt yelled. Mr. Fujiyama let Matt handle himself as he went out for his next victim…I mean…
"Izzy Izumi." He said. He looked down at the list and then at Izzy as he got up. Tai ate his cookie the moment he turned around. "Izzy Izumi, that's an interesting name. Why did your parents name you Izzy if your last name is Izumi?"
Izzy looked at him. "What do you mean?"
"Never mind." Said Mr. Fujiyama as he lifted Izzy up and put him on the stool. He had to raise the stool's level up a little so that more than the top of Izzy's face could be seen in the picture. He wiped the fluff of his face of course. "Okay, look over here…"
Izzy followed Mr. Fujiyama's hand.
"Now smile." Said Mr. Fujiyama. Izzy smiled and looked incredibly adorable. Mr. Fujiyama took a picture of Izzy and Izzy hopped off the stool while rubbing his eyes.
"Tai Kamiya…" Tai ran over, all-too-ready. Mr. Fujiyama fixed the stool and cleaned the remains of Izzy's sandwich off of Tai's face. He didn't have to tell Tai to smile because he was already smiling.
Back with everyone else…
"Tai ate my cookie!" Izzy cried when he saw that it wasn't there.
"You gave Tai your cookie?! I told you not to!" Matt yelled.
"He stole it!"
"Well, we should steal some of his lunch!" said Matt as he leaned over to Tai's place. He couldn't take anything because Tai had already eaten it all.
The two boys looked upset as they turned to the two girls. Sora had a normal, boring lunch with nothing really interesting. Mimi, on the other hand, had all kinds of stuff that she couldn't possibly finish even if she was older. Matt leaned across the table toward Mimi.
"Mimi, can I have a brownie?" he asked.
"Me too?" asked Izzy.
"NO! You were mean to me!" she yelled at Matt. Then she turned to Izzy and handed him a brownie. "You can have one though."
"Thank you." said Izzy as he happily took it.
"HEY! You gave IZZY one! That's not fair!" said Matt. Mimi stuck her tongue at Matt. Just then, Tai returned and Mimi was called to get her picture taken. She seemed very excited about it. She looked at Izzy.
"Guard these with your life!" she said as she slid them over to him and threw Matt a nasty glare. Izzy picked up the Tupperware and put it on his lap.
"Hey Izzy, hurry, give me one!" said Matt.
"I'm supposed to guard them." He said. He then handed Matt his own brownie. "You can have mine though, I don't like it. It's has nuts in it and nuts are yucky." Matt shrugged and took it.
"What about me?" Tai asked.
"NO!" Izzy yelled. "You ate my cookie!" He paused. "And the rest of my sandwich."
"You said I could!" Tai pleaded.
"No, I said no!" Izzy yelled.
"Izzy, gimme a brownie!" said Tai. "I'm bigger than you and I could hurt you easily!"
Izzy hugged the Tupperware. He never thought that Tai would ACTUALLY hurt him. "No! I'm guarding them." He said. "Ask her when she gets back." That was when Mimi came back.
"Good job!" she said, taking it from him. As Sora left to get her picture taken, Tai started begging Mimi for a brownie.
"Aren't you full?" she asked him.
"No, I'm STARVING!!" Tai the bottomless pit whined.
"Fine." Said Mimi as she handed him a smaller sized brownie that was kinda crumbly and screwed up.
"Hey! Izzy got a bigger one!" complained Tai.
"I like him better than you." said Mimi plainly.
"HEY!" said Matt. "You gave Tai one and not me?!"
"I like him better than you." Mimi repeated. Matt crossed his arms and started pouting.
That was when Sora and Mr. Fujiyama returned. "Okay, we're going to watch the rest of the movie that we started last time until your parents arrive." Said Mr. Fujiyama. All of the kids gathered on the rug in front of the TV. Mr. Fujiyama turned the movie on and "Homeward Bound" came on again.
"YAY!!" said Mimi and Sora because they had been wanting to finish this movie forever.
Once again, the melodious French-horns the played for Shadow made the boys feel a bit drowsy. There must be something about those horns. Tai was the first to fall asleep. All that food must have made him tired. Matt after, maybe the amount of fighting, yelling and crying he's been doing has made him tired. Izzy never actually did fall asleep. He just sat on the floor with a half-dazed look on his face as he leaned forward. He only really moved when Sassy, the cat, fell into the water and down the waterfall. He found that hilarious and couldn't stop laughing. Soon, you could hear footsteps in the hallway as Mrs. Ishida came around the corner.
"Oh, he's sleeping." She noticed as she picked Matt up. "I hope he wasn't too much trouble."
"Not that bad." Said Mr. Fujiyama. "Only one time-out and one potential time-out." Mrs. Ishida looked at Matt with a frown.
"How did pictures turn out." She asked.
"He was pretty good about those." Mr. Fujiyama replied. After Mrs. Ishida had gathered all of Matt's things together, she left with him still sleeping in her arms. Next to come was Mr. Kamiya. He saw his son sleeping on the floor.
"He must have had a very busy day." He observed.
"Yes, he was full of energy and only had one time-out." Said Mr. Fujiyama.
"That's great!" said Mr. Kamiya.
"And his picture is going to turn out great, he had a nice big smile."
"Yeah, he loves getting his picture taken." Said Mr. Kamiya as he picked up Tai and left.
There was a long void where no parents came for a while when finally Wufei (Not the REAL one of course.) came to pick up Sora.
"I hope she wasn't any trouble." Said Wufei.
"No way," said Mr. Fujiyama. "Sora's probably the most well-behaved one of them all. I hardly knew she was there half the time."
"That's great, I'm so proud of her!"
Sora stood up and left with her mother.
The only other noise that came after that was when the little boy dropped the pumpkin after hearing the news that they had found his pets. Izzy seemed to think that it was even funnier than the cat falling down the waterfall. He kept bringing it up until finally Shadow fell into a hole and he thought that was even funnier.
"That's not funny!" said Mimi.
Izzy was laughing hysterically and pointing to the TV screen. "Yes it is!"
"But he's hurt!" Mimi complained.
"No he's not!" said Izzy. Just then, Mrs. Izumi walked out. "MOM!!" said Izzy happily as he ran and jumped into his mother's arms.
"Hi Izzy!" she said as she lifted him up. "How was he today? Was he grumpy after I left."
"No, compared to the others, he was good." Said Mr. Fujiyama as he handed Mrs. Izumi Izzy's things. They were about to leave when Mrs. Tachakawa came to pick up Mimi and the two mothers got into a conversation with each other before finally leaving.
Mr. Fujiyama sighed and slumped down into his chair. He still hadn't figured out what possessed him to be a daycare teacher.
TWO MONTHS LATER!!
Mr. and Mrs. Izumi sat at the kitchen table looking at their mail when they came across Izzy's school pictures. They pulled out his picture and looked at it. "What a cute picture!" said Mrs. Izumi as she put the big one in a frame that she had ready when he got his pictures back. (I wish I got one of those pictures.)
MEANWHILE!!
Mr. and Mrs. Ishida noticed Matt's picture. They pulled it out. "How cute." Said Mrs. Ishida.
"I wish he didn't smile though." Said Mr. Ishida as he looked at the picture. "He looks possessed."
MEANWHILE!!
"Great picture Tai!" said Mrs. Kamiya as she hugged her son.
"Thanks mom!" said Tai. Mr. Kamiya gave him a thumbs-up sign.
MEANWHILE!!
Mr. and Mrs. Tachakawa barely even looked at the picture before they sent it away to be blown up to a huge size and framed.
MEANWHILE!!
"Sora, you look so cute!" said Wufei. "Despite the dots all over your face."
"You said they were gone!" whined Sora. "Now my picture's ruined!"
"No, it looks great!" insisted Wufei. Sora looked at it and decided that she didn't notice the dots THAT much and that she liked the picture.
Well, I hope the sequel lived up to the original!!