Adventures with the Little Selected Kids 3!!
Mr. Fujiyama was sitting at his desk. He was humming merrily to himself while listening to classical music that was playing on the radio that was next to him.
"Here's where the violins kick in!" he declared as he dramatically pretended as though he were conducting some orchestra. After a couple of minutes, he stood up and danced around in the style of what looked like an Indian tribal dance or something. He did that for a couple minutes.
All of a sudden, he heard someone clearing their throat. In one swift motion, Mr. Fujiyama straightened up, took out a remote and turned the radio off. Mr. Fujiyama turned around to see Mrs. Ishida and the one kid he HOPED it wouldn't be, Matt Ishida. He was wearing a green long-sleeved shirt and pants.
"Of all the kids…" he said to himself. Then he smiled and walked over to them.
"A stunning performance Mr. Fujiyama!" Matt said, clapping his hands. Then he burst into fake laughter. Mrs. Ishida looked at Matt for a minute and then looked at Mr. Fujiyama.
"This is the man who's going to be watching my kid all day?" she wondered to herself.
"Can you do that dance again, Mr. Fujiyama?" asked Matt. Mr. Fujiyama tugged on his collar.
"Why couldn't it be someone like Izzy?" he wondered to himself. "He wouldn't have said anything. He probably wouldn't have even noticed because he'd be crying in his mom's shoulder or something…"
Just as Mr. Fujiyama thought that, Mrs. Izumi entered with her son, Izzy Izumi, you guessed it, crying in her shoulder. He was wearing an orange button down shirt that looked a little big for him so the sleeves were rolled up. He was also wearing pants.
"Come on, Izzy, it's okay," his mom said, patting him on the back. "You get to stay with Mr. Fujiyama today!"
"I don't want to!" Izzy cried. Mrs. Ishida smiled and secretly laughed at Mrs. Izumi's expense because MATT never did that!! Then she left.
"But it's going to be really fun!" Mrs. Izumi assured him as she attempted to put him down.
"I bet Mr. Fujiyama's dance will cheer you up Izzy!" Matt said.
"No!" Izzy whined, rubbing his eyes. Mr. Fujiyama smiled nervously.
"Does he have a bottle…or a pacifier that could occupy him or something?" Mr. Fujiyama asked Mrs. Izumi. She stared at him as if he were stupid.
"Izzy is three years old." She said.
"Oh." Mr. Fujiyama said with a shrug.
"Watch, watch, I can dance just like Mr. Fujiyama!" Matt said, jumping up and down, obviously trying to get attention. He ran over to the radio and turned it back on. "Here's where the violins kick in!" he repeated as he started dancing around cutely. Izzy found this amusing. Mr. Fujiyama didn't turn the radio off because he didn't want Izzy to start crying again. Mrs. Izumi seized her opportunity and quietly slipped away.
Izzy soon joined in on the dancing even though he didn't really get what he was dancing to. Mr. Fujiyama shook his head and walked to his desk just as Tai Kamiya ran in, soon followed by his dad.
"I'M HERE!!!" he declared. Then he noticed that Matt and Izzy were both having a grand old time so he shrugged and joined in.
"Mr. Fujiyama taught me this dance." Matt told him.
"Me too!" said Izzy as if he saw it. Tai was wearing a long sleeved shirt with 'M is for Monkey' on it with some brown pants on.
"I like your M is for Matt shirt." Matt said, pointing to Tai's shirt. Tai looked down at his shirt and then smiled evilly.
"Yeah, they got a PERFECT picture of you!" he said.
"You didn't let me finish," Matt said. "I was JUST about to ask you why they put YOU on the M is for Matt shirt! I wonder!"
Because Mr. Fujiyama KNEW that they would start fighting, he turned off the music and lumbered over with a giant box of blocks. He dropped the box right in the middle of the three. The three stared at the blocks and then at Mr. Fujiyama.
"Mr. Fujiyama, I'm too old to play with blocks." Tai said, crossing his arms.
"Well play with them anyway." Mr. Fujiyama said, walking away because Mimi Tachikawa had just entered with her stupid looking mom.
The three boys stared at the giant cardboard, fun looking box that the blocks were in.
"Well, have a nice time Princess!!" said Mrs. Tachikawa as she waved to Mimi and left. Mimi was wearing a pink dress. Fun.
"Mr. Fujiyama, I'm ready to learn and have fun today." She said.
"We have to wait for everyone to come first." Mr. Fujiyama explained.
"But I want to start NOW!!" Mimi whined. "My dad told me that we were going to learn and have fun!! I hate you Mr. Fujiyama!!"
"Why don't you go play blocks with the boys?" Mr. Fujiyama suggested.
"Okay." Mimi said cheerfully as she skipped off. When Mimi reached the middle of the playroom, all she found was a big pile of blocks and an upside down cardboard box. Mimi knocked on the side of the box. "Matt, Tai, Izzy?" she said.
"NO GIRLS ALLOWED!!" yelled the box that sounded remarkably like Matt and Tai.
"YEAH!!" the box added in Izzy's voice.
"Come on, PLEASE?!" Mimi pleaded.
"NO!!!!!" said the first two voices.
"YEAH!!!" agreed the third voice.
"Okay," said Mimi as she started to lift the box up but then it slammed down again.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" yelled Matt.
"NO GIRLS ALLOWED!!!" Tai yelled.
"YEAH!!!" Izzy added.
"Come on, I don't have anyone else to play with!!" Mimi practically screamed at the top of her lungs. Then Mr. Fujiyama walked over.
"Why aren't you boys including Mimi?" he asked.
"Cause they're jerks!" Mimi said, crossing her arms and making that face that three-year-old girls make when they want attention that you just want to cringe but that would make them start crying so you don't; you only laugh in their faces and then when they start crying, you just say that you were thinking of a funny joke or you were only kidding and that you love them while you hold them and rock them while the younger sibling of that child just watches you looking oblivious. Not that that has ever happened or anything.
Where was I?
"If you don't let Mimi play with you then you can't play in the box." Mr. Fujiyama warned. There were a couple of groans from inside the box but after a couple minutes of complaining, the box was lifted up. Just then, Sora Takenouchi and Wufei (Not the REAL Wufei, just Sora's Mom who looks remarkably like Wufei that it's not even FUNNY!!) entered the room. Mimi seemed to forget about the whole box thing and she and Mr. Fujiyama went over to Sora and Wufei.
The boys in the box looked at each other, shrugged and dropped the box down again.
Sora and Mimi went over to play with the yucky dolls.
Mr. Fujiyama walked over to the box and flipped it on its side. "AHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" yelled the boys.
"In the fort!!" Tai yelled. They all retreated and crawled in the back of the box but then the box flipped backwards so it was standing up straight so the boys were trapped inside. The box was so gynumbus that Matt and Tai could barely even see over the edge and Izzy had no hope of ever escaping. HAW HAW HAW!!
Also, in the process of flipping the box, they all bumped their heads. Izzy sat down and started crying while rubbing his head. Matt and Tai blamed it on each other and started beating each other up like there's no tomorrow. This made Izzy cry even harder because there wasn't all that much room in the box and he usually watched these fights from AFAR!!
Mr. Fujiyama looked over the edge and shook his head. He grabbed Matt and Tai and pulled them out while they still swung their fists at each other.
"We were just playing Mr. Fujiyama." Said Tai. Mr. Fujiyama put them down with a sigh and then got Izzy out of the box and tried to comfort him. Matt and Tai looked at each other.
"I bet we're going to get one of those talks again." Matt groaned.
"And then the stupid chairs." Tai said in the same tone. Then they decided that they needed something to occupy themselves to they walked over to the girls to harass them.
"Can we play too?" Matt said, kneeling down next to them.
"You wouldn't let me play with you." Mimi said.
"Yeah I did!!" Matt argued.
"I wanna play too!" Tai said eagerly. Mimi and Sora looked at each other, shrugged and handed Matt and Tai each a yucky doll that they didn't want. Matt and Tai looked at each other with disgusted looks on their faces.
"You PLAY with these?" Matt said.
"You TOUCH these?!" Tai added.
"They're pretty." Sora replied.
"Then why don't you play with them and let US play with the other ones?" asked Matt.
"No, this one's my favorite, I play with it EVERY TIME." Sora said, hugging her doll.
"Well, I HATE this doll!" Matt said, standing up. He ran over to the window and squeezed the doll.
"Have a nice day, you are my pal." Said the doll.
"I won't have a nice day and you are not my pal!" Matt yelled at the doll as he threw it out the window as far as he could (which was about a yard.)
"You threw Tammy out the window!!!" screamed Mimi. Just then, Mr. Fujiyama walked over.
"Calm down!!" Mr. Fujiyama said. Then he looked around. "It looks like everyone's here! Now we can have fun and LEARN!!"
"But I don't want to have fun and learn!" whined Mimi.
"That's okay because I JUST remembered something that we had to do!" Mr. Fujiyama said, snapping his fingers. He walked over to his desk and came back with five pieces of paper. "These are you progress reports." He explained. "They tell you about the progress you've made!"
"Wow Mr. Fujiyama." Said Matt sarcastically.
Mr. Fujiyama shot Matt an evil glare and then looked at the 'respect' mark on Matt's only to see that it was ALREADY the lowest so that he couldn't make it lower. "Oh well." He said. "All right, one is the worst, four is the best and the other things are everything in between!!"
Then he stood up straight. "Ishida, Matt!" he said.
Matt stood up and took the paper and stared at it.
"Izumi, Izzy! Tachikawa, Mimi! Takenouchi, Sora! Yagami, Tai W.!"
"The W stands for 'Wonderful'!" Tai explained as he took the paper out of Mr. Fujiyama's hand.
Then they all stared at their progress reports with blank looks on their faces.
Here's what they're progress reports said:
Matt Izzy Mimi Sora Tai
Reading 3 1 1 3 4
Writing 2 1 2 4 4
Behavior 1 3 4 4 1
Respect 1 4 4 4 3
Creativity 3 1 3 4 3
Cooperation 1 3 4 4 2
Interaction 1 4 4 4 1
Movie Time 4 4 3 3 4
Journal 3 1 4 4 4
Sharing 1 3 4 4 1
"Mr. Fujiyama, the '1's are good, right?" asked Matt. "I mean, cause if they're bad then my parents are going to kill me."
"Oh no!!" Sora yelled. "If the ones are the best then I didn't get ANY ones!! ONLY FOURS AND THREES!! MR. FUJIYAMA, I HATE YOU!!!"
"No, no, no, no!!" said Mr. Fujiyama. "The FOURS are the best and the ones… well…we'll just say they're not as good."
"Mr. Fujiyama, I thought I was your FAVORITE!" Tai said.
"Me too!" Matt said. "And you taught me that dance too!!"
Mimi and Izzy were staring at their papers kind of obliviously…it's not like they made any sense to them…cause they can't read…getting a one in reading and all…
"Mr. Fujiyama, I am hurt!" Matt said. "They only thing I got a four in is…movie time! What kind of stupid teacher grades a kid in movie time?!"
"What do you MEAN I don't SHARE?!" Tai yelled. "I SHARE!! I share all the time!!"
"What is this again, Mr. Fujiyama?" asked Mimi.
"Is mine good?" asked Izzy. Mr. Fujiyama took their two papers.
"Mimi, you did very well in all the subjects except for reading and writing! We're going to have to work on that with you! Izzy…you did very well in everything except for reading, writing, journal and creativity!"
"Mr. Fujiyama, will you tell me what I did good in except for movie time?" Matt asked, handing Mr. Fujiyama his paper.
"Uh…" Mr. Fujiyama said. "You did very well in reading, journal, writing and creativity!"
"Me too!" Izzy said.
"No, those were the things that Matt did WELL in," Mr. Fujiyama explained.
"I did well in them too." Izzy said, confused.
"No, I read off the things you need to work on." Mr. Fujiyama said.
"Great!" Matt said. "I only have to work on THREE things!"
"No, IZZY only has to work on three things and you have to work on everything BUT three things!" Mr. Fujiyama said.
Matt paused. "Mr. Fujiyama, I thought you liked me." he said, crossing his arms.
"What about me, Mr. Fujiyama?!" asked Tai eagerly.
"Let's see…" Mr. Fujiyama said, taking Tai's paper. "You need to work on you behavior, your interaction with peers, cooperation and sharing!"
"Only…FOUR things!" Tai said happily.
"So…why are you giving us these?" asked Sora.
"So your parents can see how you've been so far." Replied Mr. Fujiyama.
"If this is bad, my mom does not want to see it." Said Tai.
"Don't worry about the progress reports," said Mr. Fujiyama as he went around and took the progress reports from all the kids and put them on his desk. "I will give them to your parents when they come to pick you up at the end of the day, all right?"
"ALL RIGHT MR. FUJIYAMA!!" yelled the kids as they gave him the thumbs up.
"GREAT!!!" said Mr. Fujiyama happily. "Now we're going to go out for recess!!" Then all the kids ran out of the room in a cloud of flying paper and smoke.
"We have to get our progress reports back from Mr. Fujiyama," Matt told Tai and Izzy as the three climbed up onto the HIGHEST point of the playground even though it wasn't really all that high.
"How are we going to do that?" asked Tai.
"We'll have to STEAL them!" Matt said as if it were the most obvious thing in the whole wide world.
"But I'm not allowed to steal things." Said Izzy.
"Well…I've officially made you ALLOWED!!" Tai declared, tapping him on the head. Izzy stared at Tai with a confused expression on his face.
"Okay, here's my plan so far…" said Matt. Izzy and Tai turned their heads toward Matt. "First we have to kill Mr. Fujiyama so that he won't be there to stop us…"
"How will we kill Mr. Fujiyama?" asked Tai.
"I'm not allowed to kill people." Said Izzy.
"Geez, you're not allowed to do ANYTHING!!" sighed Tai.
"Okay, first we shove him out the window and take him to the roof and push him off. If he's not dead by then, we can climb up and push him off again."
"That doesn't sound too hard." Said Tai.
"Why are we killing Mr. Fujiyama again?" asked Izzy.
"So we can change our progress reports to all fours!" declared Matt.
"Oh okay!" said Izzy as if he had figured it out on his own. "I get it now! You don't have to tell me!"
Suddenly, Mimi and Sora climbed up. They probably only wanted to go down the slide but the boys didn't know that.
"NO GIRLS ALLOWED!!" yelled Matt and Tai.
"This isn't your playground!" yelled Sora back at them.
"Yes it is!" said Matt.
"I don't see your name on it!" said Sora. The others marveled at Sora's "good" comeback.
"I haven't written it there yet!" said Matt, kind of at a loss for words. Then Sora went down the slide because she didn't want to fight because of her long history of pacifism. Mimi was just kinda standing there obliviously and didn't even notice that Sora had left until the boys pointed her out. Then she looked at Sora and back at the boys.
"Can I play with you instead?" she asked. "Sora's kinda boring."
"NO GIRLS ALLOWED!!!" yelled Matt and Tai at the top of their lungs.
"YOU'RE SO MEAN!!" Mimi cried. Then she went down the slide and went in to go and tell on Matt and Tai.
"I think that we should kill the girls too just because they got mostly fours and we didn't!!" Tai said, rubbing his hands together diabolically.
"Even better!" Matt said. "We'll change their fours…TO ONES!!"
"YEAH!!" Izzy said enthusiastically.
Just then, Mr. Fujiyama walked over while holding Mimi's hand who was just starting to get over it. "Boys," he said stupidly while putting his free hand on his hip.
"We didn't do anything." Tai said, shrinking behind the piece of wood that we supporting the HIGHEST POINT OF THE SLIDE!!!!!
"Come down here right now boys." Said Mr. Fujiyama.
"What if we don't want to?" sneered Matt.
"You have to." Mr. Fujiyama said.
"We don't want to!" Tai yelled.
"It's SNACK time!" Mr. Fujiyama tempted.
"Tai, don't listen, it's a TRAP!" Matt said, shaking Tai around who was staring at Mr. Fujiyama.
"But how do I know?" Tai asked. He seemed to get hungry as soon as the word 'snack' was mentioned. "What if it really IS snack time?"
"If you boys don't come down then I'll let the girls eat your snacks!" Mr. Fujiyama warned.
"We don't care Mr. Fujiyama!" Matt said. But then he and Izzy looked at Tai.
"Fight it Tai!" Izzy said, jumping up and down.
"I can't!" Tai whined. Then he got on the slide and slid down.
"TRAITOR!!!" Matt yelled.
Mr. Fujiyama thought for a minute, trying to get the other two down. "Izzy, your mom's here!" he said finally, not thinking about what Izzy would do when he found out that his mom WASN'T there.
"Really?!" Izzy yelped as he went down the slide and immediately ran towards the pre-school place.
Matt looked at Mr. Fujiyama evilly from his place still perched up on the highest point in the playground. "You're evil Mr. Fujiyama," he said, squinting and looking evil but still very cute.
"Come on down, Matt!" said Mr. Fujiyama. "If you come down, I'll change your progress report!"
"You lie!" Matt yelled, pointing dramatically at Mr. Fujiyama.
"Fine then, stay up there all by yourself." Said Mr. Fujiyama with a shrug.
"Well that's what I'm going to do!" Matt said, crossing his arms. Then Mr. Fujiyama turned around and started walking off back to the pre-school with Sora, Mimi and Tai following behind him.
Mr. Fujiyama looked at his watch and pressed the little timer button.
When he reached the pre-school he found Izzy standing at the door staring at Mr. Fujiyama. "She's not here!" he said, tears forming in his eyes.
"Oh really?" Mr. Fujiyama said, looking around. "I thought she was!"
"You lied to me, Mr. Fujiyama!" Izzy cried. "You told me she was here and I believed you cause you promised me!"
"Mr. Fujiyama, what do we have for snack today?" asked Tai.
"Oh…um…it's not really snack time." said Mr. Fujiyama. Tai stared at Mr. Fujiyama for a minute with an annoyed expression on his face.
"You lie to Izzy…" Tai said. "I can take that. In fact, I really don't care! But when you lie to me…that's just going too far! I HATE you Mr. Fujiyama!!" Mr. Fujiyama shrugged. Then he looked around to see that Izzy was missing. He looked out the front door to see Izzy standing there.
"Izzy, what are you doing outside?" he sighed, opening the door.
"Well, you said you saw her," Izzy explained. "So I thought she would be waiting for me to come outside from the parking lot."
"I already told you that she wasn't here."
"Yeah but you told me that she was and I believed you and she wasn't here. So I came outside and she wasn't here either and I believed you and you lied to me, Mr. Fujiyama!"
"Sorry about that Izzy." said Mr. Fujiyama with a sigh.
"But you LIED Mr. Fujiyama!" Izzy continued. "You're not supposed to lie! People get hurt by lies and it's not nice! And you hurt me and that wasn't very nice!"
"I'll keep that in mind." Mr. Fujiyama replied.
"Cause I thought she was HERE…" Izzy said as tears started forming in his eyes again.
"So are you going to start crying again?" asked Mr. Fujiyama, kind of annoyed.
Izzy frowned. "Yes!" he cried as he burst into tears. Mr. Fujiyama sighed and went over to Izzy but Izzy just pushed him away, sat down and continued crying.
"Fine then I'm going inside without you!" Mr. Fujiyama said.
"GOOD!!" Izzy yelled.
"And I'll let Tai eat your snack!"
"GOOD!!"
"All right, bye!" Then Mr. Fujiyama went into the Daycare. He looked out the window at Izzy who just started crying louder, obviously trying to get attention.
"Mr. Fujiyama, can we have snack now?!" asked Tai, coming out of nowhere.
"What?" Mr. Fujiyama said, turning around.
"Can we have snack now?!" Tai repeated.
"No, we have to wait for Matt and Izzy to come back inside." Mr. Fujiyama replied.
"Oh." Tai said with a frown. "I'll go get Matt." Then he walked out the backdoor to the playground. Mr. Fujiyama shrugged and said whatever and walked over to the girls who were playing with the yucky dolls. Mr. Fujiyama strutted over to them like an idiot and clapped his hands like a moron.
"Ah, my behaving children!" he said, smiling contently.
Sora and Mimi looked up at Mr. Fujiyama with oblivious looks on their faces. Then they shrugged and decided that they didn't care and just went right back to playing dolls.
MEANWHILE!!!
"Da da da da…DA-DA!!!" Tai yelled at the top of his lungs as he jumped around, singing his own theme song. "SECOND RECESS!!! Da-da-da-da-daaa! WOOSH!! THERE GOES WONDERFUL TAI MAN!!" Then he put his arms out and started running around, pretending as though he was flying. "YAY FOR TAI MAN!!"
"You look like an idiot!" Matt declared, standing up on one of the tires.
Tai stopped and looked at Matt. "You're just jealous because you're not a super hero!" he said, sticking his tongue out.
"Oh yeah?!" Matt said, jumping down. "I am the arch enemy of Tai Man…I AM…SUPER MATT!!!"
"Not SUPER MATT!!" Tai said, grabbing his heart and stumbling backwards.
"Yes, don't even TRY to defend yourself, Tai Man!" Matt said, laughing like a little insane weasel.
"Tai Man does not fear Super Matt!" Tai said, standing up straight. "Because I stand for justice and peace and happiness!! And I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America!"
"Ha!" Matt said, pushing Tai. "I DON'T pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America!"
"GASP!!" Tai said.
"And there's nothing you can do about it!" Matt said, crossing his arms.
"Oh yes there is!" Tai said, picking up a stick off the ground. "Duel with me, Super Matt!"
"Okay Tai Man!" Matt replied, picking up a stick of his own. "Unguard!"
"Unguard!" Tai Man said. "THRUST!!"
"LUNGE!!"
"SWISH!!"
"WI…uh oh!" Matt said, turning around. "It's Mr. Fujiyama! He's coming!"
"RUN FOR IT!!!" Tai yelled. "Even TAI MAN fears Mr. Fujiyama!!"
"Super Matt doesn't fear Mr. Fujiyama, he just doesn't want to go inside!" Matt said.
"Yeah, same with Tai Man!" Tai said. Then they both ran off and hid inside a tire. "He can't get us in here because he's too big."
"And fat." Matt added.
"And stupid!" Tai finished with a laugh.
MEANWHILE!!!
"Hi Mr. Fujiyama, I hope you didn't give my snack to Tai." Izzy said, pulling down on Mr. Fujiyama's shirt as if nothing had happened earlier.
"No, I didn't." Mr. Fujiyama answered.
"Good." Izzy said, nodding his head. "Can I have it then?"
"No, we were going to go across the street to have lunch at a restaurant." Mr. Fujiyama replied. Then he went outside to go and search for Matt and Tai since they…hadn't returned yet.
"But I already packed my lunch." Izzy said as if Mr. Fujiyama was still standing there.
"We're feeding our lunch to the dolls!" said Sora as she picked up her cupcake.
"Can I have your cupcake?" asked Mimi.
"No, I have to feed it to my baby." Sora answered.
"But you're really just going to be shoving it in the doll's face and smooshing the cupcake." Mimi pointed out. "It's not like she's going to be eating it."
"Yes she is, she's REAL!!!" Sora said, hugging her doll.
"But you're wasting a perfectly good cupcake!" Mimi whined. "If you're not going to eat it, then let me!"
"I'm not going to eat it but my BABY is!" Sora said.
"But you're baby is a doll." Izzy said.
"NO SHE'S NOT!!!" Sora screamed.
MEANWHILE!!!!
"MATT!!! TAI!!!" Mr. Fujiyama bellowed, looking around for the two boys.
"We'll NEVER come out!" Matt whispered to Tai. Tai covered his mouth and started laughing. "SHHH!! We can only come out at nighttime when we hunt for food! Mr. Fujiyama won't be able to catch us because he'll be sleeping! And we'll eat those berries that Mr. Fujiyama told us not to eat! Remember last time when you ate some and got REALLY sick?!"
"Yeah!" Tai said excitedly.
"We'll get used to getting sick and then we won't care when we get sick!" Matt declared.
"And we'll swing through the trees like Tarzan!" Tai said. Then his face lit up. "AND WEAR LOIN CLOTHS!!!"
Matt burst into loud laughter but then he stopped and they both stared at each other, figuring that Mr. Fujiyama had probably heard them.
MEANWHILE!!!
"GIMME THE CUPCAKE BACK!!" Sora whined as she chased after Mimi who held onto the cupcake for dear life.
"CATCH IZZY!!" Mimi said, throwing the cupcake about as far as she could in the general direction of Izzy. The cupcake tumbled on the ground and Izzy ran over and picked it up.
"I got it!" he said, holding it up.
"GIVE IT BACK!!" Sora screamed as she burst into tears and ran towards Izzy. Izzy tossed it up in the air and it splattered down on the ground, breaking into about a million crumbly pieces.
"Catch Mimi!" Izzy said, jumping up and down and laughing. Mimi ran over and picked up the biggest piece and ran away with it. Sora trudged after her, tears streaming down her face. Mimi took a bite out of the cupcake as if it were the most delicious thing in the whole world.
"MMMMM!!" she said.
"NOOO!!" Sora yelled. "That was for my baby!!"
"Izzy!" Mimi said, throwing the cupcake underhand so it went high up into the air and landed behind Sora. Izzy quickly grabbed it and took a small bite out of it.
"Mmm, chocolate!" he said happily.
"STOP!!!" Sora screamed.
"Get it Mimi!" Izzy said as he tossed the cupcake in Mimi's general direction but it really only splattered Sora right in the face. "Oops." He said as he walked over to Sora. "I'm sorry Sora."
Mimi walked over too. "Me too!"
"GET AWAY FROM ME!!" Sora yelled, pushing them away and crying.
MEANWHILE!!!
"Hmm…could they be HERE?!" Mr. Fujiyama said, looking underneath the tire that Matt and Tai were hiding under since he knew where they were when Matt had burst out laughing.
"IT'S MR. FUJIYAMA!!" Tai yelled at the top of his lungs. They scrambled out of the tire out the other side as fast as they could but Mr. Fujiyama reached through the tire and grabbed each of their legs so that he was lying underneath the tire.
"We were just playing Mr. Fujiyama." Said Tai.
"I told you two to come in!" Mr. Fujiyama said, pulling Matt and Tai through the tire on their stomachs. He grabbed them by their collars and stood them up straight.
"No, you said that I could stay out here forever." Matt said as Mr. Fujiyama brushed the sand off his shirt.
"And you said that I could come out and get Matt." Tai said.
"Meaning that you had to come back in after you got him!" Mr. Fujiyama said, starting to brush of Tai too.
"Yeah but Mr. Fujiyama, you never made that clear." Tai said. "You never said 'Come back in when you find him'."
Mr. Fujiyama grabbed their hands and dragged them back inside the daycare only to see Sora crying with chocolate on her face and Mimi and Izzy playing with blocks as if Sora wasn't there.
Mr. Fujiyama sighed, decided not to ask and got Sora cleaned up. Then he sat them all down in a cluster and clapped his hands together. "We're going to walk across the street to the restaurant and have lunch there kind of like a field trip." He explained. "Now if you all continue with your poor behavior, we'll never go on a trip like this again, okay?"
"OKAY MR. FUJIYAMA!!" yelled everyone, giving Mr. Fujiyama the thumbs up. Then Mr. Fujiyama got them all dressed up in their cute little hats and coats and they all went outside.
"My mom says to look both ways before you cross the street." Said Izzy as if no one else knew this fact.
"Thank you Izzy," said Mr. Fujiyama idiotically. "Now, everyone get into partners and the left over can cross the street with ME!!" Matt and Tai immediately stood next to each other. Mimi approached Izzy because she didn't really want to be with Sora since Sora was kind of being an idiot. (Even though Sora has every right to be mad at Mimi and Izzy.)
"All right, now join hands with your partner!" said Mr. Fujiyama.
"Are you serious?!" Matt yelled. "I don't want to hold Tai's hand!"
"Yeah!!" Tai yelled.
"Well then one of you can hold hands with Sora and the other can hold MY hand!" Mr. Fujiyama said, walking over to them. Matt and Tai stared at each other and then at Mr. Fujiyama and Sora. And then joined hands. Mr. Fujiyama shrugged. "Okay, when I say it's okay, we cross the street!" he said as he looked both ways on the street.
Since it was a dirt road and a dead end, it's not like any cars were coming by and it's not like any cars would be coming by. But Mr. Fujiyama still waited and looked both ways. "Okay, let's run!" Mr. Fujiyama said as he started running across the street, holding Sora's hand tightly.
Izzy and Mimi quickly followed after Mr. Fujiyama but soon Izzy fell over flat on his face. He brought Mimi down with him. They sat up and cried right in the middle of the road.
Matt and Tai were taking their sweet time crossing the street. I guess they were just walking slowly because Mr. Fujiyama had specifically told them to run.
Mr. Fujiyama sighed and came out to help Mimi and Izzy. He picked them up (since they really only weighed about a pound collectively) and took them across the street.
"TAKE THAT BACK!!!" came Tai's voice.
"NEVER!!!" came Matt's voice. Mr. Fujiyama looked up to see Matt and Tai rolling around on the dusty road while yelling pathetic insults at each other like 'jerk' and 'dork'. Mr. Fujiyama quickly ran out onto the street and grabbed them both (since they really only weighed about two pounds collectively) and took them across the street.
"We were just playing, Mr. Fujiyama!" said Tai as Mr. Fujiyama put them down.
"What did I say about behavior?!" Mr. Fujiyama yelled, shaking his finger in Matt and Tai's face.
"I don't remember." Matt said.
"Matt was taking too long to tie his shoe!" Tai said. "So I called him a butthead! And then he said that I liked Barney and I said to take it back and then he said never and then…"
"Okay, that's enough!" Mr. Fujiyama said. "Let's just go!" Then they walked in the restaurant and sat down at a table. Within minutes of sitting down, a guy came up to them with a pad of paper and a pen.
"Well, what do you want?!" he asked in a voice that sounded as if he smoked all the time.
"Okay, Tai, what do you want?" asked Mr. Fujiyama. Tai looked at the waiter guy. (We'll just call him Bob.)
"I want a hotdog." Tai said.
"Anything else?!"
"Yeah. I'll have…" started Tai.
"Fries? Onion rings? A baked potato? Coleslaw?" said Bob at about a thousand miles an hour.
"I want French Fries." Tai finished.
"Ketchup?" yelled Bob. Tai nodded quickly. Then Bob moved on to Matt. "NEXT!!"
"I want the same only instead of a hotdog, I want macaroni and cheese and instead of fries, I want onion rings." Said Matt.
"Ketchup?!" asked Bob.
"Yeah, I said I wanted the same as Tai." Said Matt as if it were obvious. Bob scribbled this down and moved on to Izzy.
"NEXT!!"
Izzy paused and held up the menu so that he couldn't really be seen over it except for the tip of his head.
"WELL?!" said Bob. "Speak up boy!"
"I'm looking at the menu." Izzy said quietly.
"I don't have all day boy!! I will give you to ten!" yelled Bob. Izzy quickly scanned the menu, or at least the pictures. Mr. Fujiyama took the menu away and looked at the kid's part.
"Izzy, you can have a Hot Doggie, Mac 'n Cheese, Smiley Face Pizza, PB&J, Finger Lickin' Chicken, Rumbly in my Tumbly Soup or Bitty Burgers," he said, reading off the menu.
"Can I get Smiley Face Pizza?" called Sora from across the table. Bob turned to her as he scribbled this down.
"Fries? Onion rings? A baked potato? Coleslaw?" yelled Bob.
"What's Coleslaw?" asked Sora.
"You want Coleslaw?!" said Bob as he wrote this down.
"No, I just wanted to know what it was…"
"NEXT!!"
"Can I have chicken nuggets?" asked Mimi.
"Finger Lickin' Chicken?" asked Bob quickly. Mimi paused, a bit confused. "Yes? No? Yes? No? Yes…"
"Yeah…" said Mimi quickly and quietly. Bob was a bit frightening.
"Fries? Onion rings? A baked potato? Coleslaw?"
"French Fries."
"NEXT!!" yelled Bob as he went back to Izzy.
"I'll have a peanut butter and fluff." Said Izzy.
"One PB&J!" yelled Bob. "Fries? Onion rings? A baked potato? Coleslaw?"
"Um…could I have some popcorn?" asked Izzy.
"Fries? Onion rings? A baked potato? Coleslaw?" repeated Bob. Izzy didn't say anything. "Speak up!"
"He'll have French Fries." Said Mr. Fujiyama.
"I don't want French Fries, Mr. Fujiyama." Said Izzy.
"NEXT!!"
"I'll have a Steak and Cheese sub with Fries and Ketchup." Said Mr. Fujiyama. Bob wrote this down. Mr. Fujiyama looked at his watch. "And it will all be to go." Bob nodded and thrusted it in the cook's face.
"But Mr. Fujiyama! I want to eat HERE!" whined Tai.
"I thought we could take it back to school and eat it outside and have a picnic!" suggested Mr. Fujiyama. "Out on the playground."
It wasn't like any of them were going to argue about having a second recess and for SOME of them, *coughTaicough*, it would be a THIRD recess.
So Bob came back with their individually wrapped lunches and practically tossed them at them and ran off to serve the next people. They all picked up their respected packages and walked outside.
"Okay, we're splitting up the partners." Said Mr. Fujiyama as he observed the two groups as they held hands all too ready to cross the street. "Uh…Mimi and Tai and…Izzy and Matt."
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" yelled Tai loudly as he ran away from Mimi. Izzy and Matt shrugged. They couldn't care less because they were both boys so they weren't worried about getting cooties.
"Okay, how about Mimi and Sora and Tai and me?" suggested Mr. Fujiyama.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" yelled Tai as he ran over to Izzy. "I'll be Izzy's partner since he's the only one left."
"No! I'M Izzy's partner!!" yelled Matt as he grabbed Izzy's other hand.
"Well, he's MINE now!" yelled Tai. Mr. Fujiyama shrugged.
"I guess you can be a threesome…"
"YAY!!!" Yelled Matt and Tai in unison. Then they glared at each other.
"I don't want to be in a group with Matt, Mr. Fujiyama." Said Tai.
"And I HATE Tai!" said Matt.
"We're JUST crossing the street! It will take ONE second!" said Mr. Fujiyama, beginning to get frustrated.
"I think it'll will be longer than that, Mr. Fujiyama." Said Tai.
"Not MUCH longer." Then Mr. Fujiyama concocted an idea that he must have thought was good at the time. He picked up Matt and Tai and held them like oversized footballs.
"We were only pretending Mr. Fujiyama!" assured Tai. Then Mr. Fujiyama told Izzy to be a threesome with the girls. Izzy could care less because he was probably too young to understand that there's a difference between boys and girls besides the obvious. And with that, Mr. Fujiyama crossed the street. The group of three was about to cross but Mr. Fujiyama told them to stop because there was a car coming. Then they walked about halfway across the street when another car zoomed by in front of them.
"Okay! Come on!" called Mr. Fujiyama.
"But what if another car comes!" called Sora even though there obviously wasn't one coming for quite a while.
"Don't worry, I looked both ways!" said Mr. Fujiyama. Then the three of them started running but Mimi was in the middle and going too slow so she toppled over, pulling Izzy over on top of her. Mr. Fujiyama swore to himself and started turning red.
"Mr. Fujiyama, I'm going to repeat those words!" said Tai.
"AND say where I heard them!" said Matt.
"I wasn't swearing…" Mr. Fujiyama said as he tried to cover himself.
"We heard you Mr. Fujiyama, you said…" started Matt.
"No! Don't say it!" said Mr. Fujiyama as he walked out and picked up Izzy and Mimi and carried them off the road. Sora had long abandoned both of them when they had fallen earlier and walked to the side of the road.
They all walked back to the school only to discover that the door was locked and Mr. Fujiyama didn't have the keys.
"As if anything else could go wrong…" Mr. Fujiyama muttered to himself.
"Maybe there's an open window or something…" said Matt as he ran around the building. "FOUND ONE!!" came his voice. Of course, Mr. Fujiyama's hopes were shattered when he realized that the open window was actually a childproof window that doesn't open very much so that your kid can't fall out even if it is only two feet off the ground.
Fortunately for Mr. Fujiyama, Izzy is a very small child so he grabbed him and shoved him through the crack. Izzy looked out the window at Mr. Fujiyama.
"I'm IN!!" he said happily as if it were an accomplishment.
"Okay, now go and open the door." Said Mr. Fujiyama.
"Okay." Said Izzy as he ran off. Mr. Fujiyama and the other four kids stood by the door for a minute. They saw the doorknob shake around a bit. "It won't open!" came Izzy's voice.
"That's because it's locked." Said Mr. Fujiyama through his teeth. "Switch the latch above the door knob."
There was a short pause. "I can't reach it."
Mr. Fujiyama sighed. "Okay, go to the back door and take the board out of the way. Then slide the door open."
They all ran around back and saw Izzy through the glass sliding door. Mr. Fujiyama pointed out the board to him and Izzy picked it up and opened the door.
"YAY!! WE'RE INSIDE!!" cheered Matt as if it had taken forever.
Mr. Fujiyama paused. "Okay, let's go back outside and eat our lunch!" said Mr. Fujiyama. They all ran outside and sat underneath a gigantic tree and unpacked their food.
Tai had only gotten a hotdog and it's not like it takes that long to eat ANYWAY so he quickly ate his.
Matt's macaroni and cheese had kinda moved around too much and was kinda nasty and soggy so he didn't eat much of that. He also wasn't all that crazy for onion rings and couldn't remember WHY he had gotten them in the first place.
Izzy refused to eat his sandwich because not only did it have jelly instead of fluff and the crusts weren't cut off but he can't have a peanut butter and jelly without POPCORN! So Tai ate his sandwich for him and half of his fries.
Sora ate her pizza although the pepperoni in the shape of a smiley face was kinda nasty so she picked those off. She also found coleslaw to be extremely disgusting and ended up spitting it out in front of her.
Mimi ate her chicken fingers and French fries. She had nothing to complain about except for the fact that Sora had spit coleslaw out in front of her.
Mr. Fujiyama decided that he was going to eat his by the door just in case any parents came by and because he was annoyed and wanted to be alone and/or away from small children that he could get the temptation to crush. All of a sudden, he saw Matt and Tai spring up with their fists raised. He immediately dropped his food and sprinted over to them and pulled them apart.
"Okay, now you have to give me a million dollars." Said Matt.
"FINE!!" Tai said with a sigh. "But not right now because I don't have it right now."
"What?" asked Mr. Fujiyama.
"We were betting on what your reaction would be if we started fighting or looked like we were going to start fighting." Matt explained. "And I won."
Mr. Fujiyama's face turned red and he was just about to strangle the two of them when suddenly, he heard footsteps. He turned around to see Wufei (no, not the REAL one, just Sora's Mom) approaching them.
"Hi!" she said. Sora got up and walked over to her mom. "I hope that Sora wasn't any trouble."
"Oh no, she was just fine!" Mr. Fujiyama replied. Then he pulled Sora's progress report out of his pocket. "Here, this is Sora's progress report so you can see how she's doing!"
"Oh Sora, I'm so proud of you!" said Wufei, looking at all the fours. The progress report seemed to glow in Wufei's hand as she marveled at it. Just then, Mrs. Ishida came out the door as well.
"Hello!" she said cheerfully, obviously in a good mood.
"Hi mom!" said Matt, standing up and brushing himself off. Mr. Fujiyama said hello to Mrs. Ishida and yadda yadda yadda. Then he told her about all the stuff that he did that day that was bad and he watched Mrs. Ishida's cheerful smile fade away to a frown. And to make it even worse, Mr. Fujiyama handed her Matt's progress report.
Mrs. Ishida stared at it for a minute and then folded it in half.
"How did your son do?" asked Wufei, holding Sora's progress report in such a way that the whole world could see it. "My little Sora got almost ALL fours! Nothing lower than a three!"
"Yes, Matt got fours…" said Mrs. Ishida slowly.
"Yeah, I did!" Matt said as if he was proud of his…three or so fours.
"Let's go home now, Sora!" Said Wufei as they joined hands and skipped merrily away to get an ice cream reward while singing happy songs.
"Come on, Matt." Mrs. Ishida said, crossing her arms and walking over to the parking lot.
"My mom is so weird!" Matt thought out loud as he followed after her.
Suddenly, Mr. Kamiya ran in very quickly. "Hurry Tai, your sister's in the hospital again!" he said. "Get your stuff and let's go!"
"Stupid Kari always getting sick." Tai mumbled as he stood up and followed after his dad.
"Don't forget Tai's progress report!" Mr. Fujiyama called. Mr. Kamiya ran over, grabbed the progress report and then shoved it in his pocket. Then he left with Tai.
And then Mrs. Tachikawa picked up her daughter, Mimi. And she was very happy with Mimi's progress report. Then they left.
"Come on, Izzy!" said Mr. Fujiyama. "Let's go inside and wait for your mom! She should be here any minute!"
"I don't believe you, Mr. Fujiyama." Said Izzy. "You lied last time and I bet you're lying now."
Mr. Fujiyama sighed and was JUST about to argue when Mrs. Izumi came outside. "Oh, she's here!" said Mr. Fujiyama.
"Mr. Fujiyama, lying is BAD." Izzy said, crossing his arms.
"Izzy!" said Mrs. Izumi.
"MOM!!" Izzy yelled, standing up and running over to his mom and hugging her. Mrs. Izumi picked him up and walked over to Mr. Fujiyama.
"I hope Izzy was good today!" she said.
"He was decent." Said Mr. Fujiyama. "He really only had one part of the day when he wasn't all that great. Oh and here's his progress report."
"Oh great!" Mrs. Izumi said, taking the paper and looking at it. "What is this? Reading and writing? Don't you think Izzy's a little young for that? And creativity? My son is creative!" Mr. Fujiyama shrugged. Mrs. Izumi sighed and then left with Izzy, telling him that he was VERY creative or else his self-esteem might have been lowered.
MEANWHILE!!!
Mr. Kamiya was sitting in the waiting room with Mrs. Kamiya and Tai. He suddenly remembered the paper that Tai's teacher had given him when he was in such a rush to leave. So he took it out and looked at it.
"Tai," he said in a stern voice. "What is with these ones in things like 'behavior' and 'sharing'…?"
Tai shrugged. "Mr. Fujiyama HATES me so he gave me bad grades to be mean."
"Tai, this is serious," said Mrs. Kamiya as she looked at his progress report. "You have to improve your behavior or no desert for a week."
"Okay, I will." Said Tai crossing his arms and frowning.
MEANWHILE!!!
"I'M GONNA RUN AWAY!!!" Matt yelled from his room.
"You know, I don't think that just keeping him in his room for a long time will make him improve his behavior in school." Said Mr. Ishida to Mrs. Ishida.
"YOU'LL NEVER EVER EVER EVER SEE ME AGAIN!!" Matt continued to yell. "I'M GONNA JOIN THE CIRCUS!! AND THEN YOU'LL BE SORRY!!"
"Yeah but how ELSE are we going to enforce this?" sighed Mrs. Ishida.
"AND THEN I'LL COME BACK AND KILL TK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT!!!"
"MATT!!" Mr. Ishida yelled. "DON'T EVEN SAY THAT!!!"
There was a short pause. "JUST KIDDING!!!"
MEANWHILE!!!
"Sora, I'm SO proud of you!" Wufei continued to praise Sora. Then she looked out the window at her neighbor, Rosalie, who was outside playing with her kids and being way too overprotective. "Guess what Rosalie?!" she yelled. "My Sora got ALL FOURS in daycare!"
"No, Mom, I got TWO threes!" Sora corrected her.
"Whatever," said Wufei as she shut the window before her psychopathic neighbor could reply.
MEANWHILE!!!
"Oh Mimi, we absolutely LOVE you!!" said Mr. Tachikawa as he hugged Mimi and gave her many kisses and presents.
"Oh dear, I forgot to tell you that Mimi got her progress report today at daycare!" said Mrs. Tachikawa.
"OH!!!" said Mr. Tachikawa who gave it to some guy before he even looked at it. The guy went off to have it altered so that all the low grades were changed to fours and then the progress report would be blown up to a larger size and framed.
MEANWHILE!!!
"This progress report says that Izzy's not creative." Said Mrs. Izumi to Mr. Izumi as they sat on the couch and talked about Izzy who was in bed. (It's their favorite After-Izzy's-Bedtime Activity)
"Don't worry," said Mr. Izumi. "I'll have a talk with Mr. Fujiyama and get this whole thing straightened out."
"No, don't." said Mrs. Izumi. "I don't want Mr. Fujiyama to go and think that we're very persistent. I don't want him to hate Izzy."
"Okay, whatever you think is best." Said Mr. Izumi. Little did they know but Izzy was peeking through the door crack. That's HIS favorite After-Izzy's-Bedtime Activity: Listening to his parents talk about HIM. Cause it's usually GOOD things.