Chapter six

Minako gasped at the person who appeared in the doorway. "T... Taiki?! I thought you were working at the Ice cream parlor!" He smiled. "Minako... hi! I decided to work here instead because they have NEON GENESIS EVANGELION!!! The ice cream parlor I used to work at wouldn't make it a flavor. It wasn't catchy enough. Don't you disagree?" Minako's eyes turned into little hearts. "Uh-huh.... I love Neon Genesis Evangelion too...."

Usagi got one of those P.O. ed marks on her head. "Minako... what do you mean by 'you thought he was working at the ice cream parlor....?'" Minako blushed and said embarrassedly "Nothing! That's just where I thought he worked!" Usagi raised her eye brows. "Where you wanted to flirt with all the cu--" Minako slapped her hand over Usagi's mouth "Usagi..." she whispered angrily, then went all nice and stuff. "Usagi... you picked out a wonderful store to work at... thank you..." Usagi turned blue with fright while Minako started batting her eyelashes at Taiki.

"Minako... are you felling alright?" Usagi whimpered. Minako ignored her and blushed when Taiki stared at her concernedly. "What's wrong Minako?" he asked. Minako sat there for a few seconds before she noticed that he was talking to her, and then started giggling very high pitched-like.

"T...Tai...Taiki... I'm just fine, thank you...!" Taiki raised his eyebrows. "O-Kay...." he said cautiously. "Well, I'm supposed to show new workers around, so... come on!" Usagi followed diligently while Minako floated in the air above Taiki's head, spinning around in circles. "Welcome to..." Taiki noticed Minako. He stared. "What's she on?" he whispered to Usagi. "Bubble gum." she whispered back. He suddenly noticed the curious, toxic yet sugary scent slowly filling the room. "NOOOOOO! Everyone outside!" Taiki called "Before it gets us!" Everyone ran outside before they could die from poisoning by second-hand bubble gum smell, except for Minako, who bounced out the window.

"WOO-HOOO! WATERMELON BUBBLE GUM!" She bounced some more before she fell asleep on the sidewalk." Big sweat bubbles appeared on everyone's head, and Taiki said to the little kiddies watching "Second-hand bubble gum scent is almost as bad as directly chewing it. You can get bouncy... or giggly... or even..." "Taiki! Don't scare them!" Usagi cried. Taiki shrugged. "I'm just trying to get them to learn from Minako's bad example." "LEARN?!" The kiddies cried. They immediately dashed off, before he could teach them anymore.

After the decontaminate-ers disinfected the shop, Usagi, Taiki, the shopkeeper, and Minako (now sober) returned. Taiki resumed his speech. "Well... after that little break, welcome to the..." Minako's eyes popped out of her head as little red hearts. "Ooh... Taiki... the way you talk is so romantic...!" Taiki sighed, and whispered to Usagi "What's she on now?" Usagi shook her head. "Nothing. She's always this hyper around cute guys." Taiki rolled his eyes. "Whatever.... now lets start working! I'll teach you." He held up a comic book. "This is a comic book." Usagi's eyes turned into little red hearts, and grabbed it. "A manga!!!!" She started prancing around like Minako was. "Laa laa laa!" they sang



Taiki got on of those big sweat bubbles on his head. "Right... so..." He turned to the shop owner. "Can I fire them?" He shook his head. "Sorry, but we need the help. They're the only people crazy enough to apply for this stupid job." "But we have to get them to behave!" Taiki shouted. He decided then and there what he must do.

Minako and Usagi were still going wacky all over Taiki and the manga, when suddenly Taiki grabbed then manga from Usagi's hand, and all the other manga in the store. "It is a far, far better thing than I have ever done before!" He stepped into the door way. "I do this for your own good! Goodbye!" He called as he raced out into the street. Usagi and Minako stared, now sane from lack of manga and Taiki. "No, Taiki, don't!" yelled Minako. She was too late. A car came up and ran over Taiki and the manga, who both now lay motionless in the middle of the street.

"NOOOOOO!!!!! TAIKI!!!!!" Minako yelled and ran over to him. He lay there motionless, barely breathing. "NOOOOOO!!!!! MANGA!!!!!" Usagi yelled and ran over to where they lay, with tire prints on them. "How could this happen! How could this happen!" they yelled together. The man driving the car stopped, and turned around. They got a good look at it, and the driver stuck his head out the window. It was a fisher price car made of plastic. "Thossse high ssschool kidses should watch where they goingsss, my preciousssss..." the driver who they could not see yelled out the window before he sped off.

Minako and Usagi watched. "That was weird...." Usagi said. Minako was calling an ambulance for Taiki and the manga. "Does the manga want a private room?" she asked Usagi. "Of course! My little manga babies want their privacy!" She was patting each of the manga's heads, as they had ugly fisher price logos on them now. "Minako frowned. "Taiki, can you pay the hospital bill for the manga?" He tried to shake his head but failed. "N... n... nn..." he attempted to speak. "Yes?! Oh, Taiki, you're such a sweetie! Let me give you a hug!" She tried to put her arms around him as he vainly tried to escape. "Aiyaaaaaaa!" he screamed as Minako squeezed him, breaking a few bones.

Next part I'll get back to Rei and Mamoru's ordeal

Sorry about the freaky paragraphing