Chapter 2: Tamahome! Give up the Money Already!

(YAY! Second chapter! *Throws confetti* WHOHOO!!! This chapters mostly about Tamahome, and his experience playing with......MONOPOLY!!! Bum bum buh... What a scary thought. And yet again I say...I do NOT own any of the characters here except Salaru....and I do NOT own Monopoly...*Thinks* Maybe I gotta make a song about this so I won't get bored...)

Salaru looked to all of the others, showing them the board. "This is the Monopoly board." In her other hand the rest of the items appear. "These are the rules. In order to play, you HAVE to read them or you'll be lost." Tasuki grabs the piece of paper from her hands and glances at it.

"Fffffeeeao---rr--ssttt. Ruu....Trakkkee..." Tasuki attempts to read the instructions while everyone cringes and Salaru is forced to grab it out of his hands.

"Let me explain it to you first."

"This sounds like a fun game." Said Nuriko, after hearing her explain the rules.

"We...we get money!!??" Tamahome grinned widely.

"Well...yeah. You get money but-" Salaru was cut off by Tamahome rejoycing.

"LETS PLAY THIS GAME!!!"

Everyone sat around the board while Salaru set up everything. "Ok. First, someone has to be the banker." Tamahome's eyes light up.

"The....banker!!??"

"I wouldn't trust Tama at ALL! He'd keep it all fer himself!" Tasuki protested.

"I would NEVER do such a thing!" Tamahome glared at him. "What do you take me for!?? A bandit??" Tasuki gave him a death glare as he unsheathed his tessen.

"No fighting when we're playing Monopoly!!" Salaru yelled.

"I'll be the banker." Chiriko volunteered.

"Yeah! Chiriko will be good at it! He's good at counting!" Nuriko agreed.

"So it has been written, so shall it be done!" Salaru declared it. Everyone looked at her strangely. "For dramatic effect. You all understand right??" Silence filled the room, until Tamahome spoke.

"So, about this game...." Everyone then started excitingly talking all at once, Tamahome's sentence not making it through all of the others.

"Lets start this already!!" Tasuki angrily said above all of the other noises.

"Alright! Chiriko, distribute the money!" Salaru shouted to him. Chiriko did as she told and started giving distributing the money. First in 500's, then 100's, 50's, 20's, 10's, and 1's. Tamahome glomped all of the money, hugging it and counting it for himself.

"This is the best game ever! You get money!!!" Everyone else sweatdropped.

"Tamahome, this isn't-" Chichiri was interrupted by Tamahome shouting out.

"And when you pass Go you get 200 more!?!?"

"Shut up already Tamahome! Get over it! We get money!" Tasuki's expression was obviously annoyed. After a few minutes of singing, acting all chibi, and recounting his money again, everyone started to ignore Tamahome and looked to Salaru.

"What now, no da?" Chichiri asked. "Someone rolls, no da?"

"Yes. You roll and see who gets the highest. Whoever has the highest number rolls first." Everyone started rolling, all having their number until they all looked to Tamahome.

"Tamahome.....?" They all said persistently, waiting for him to roll. He finally looks up from his dream world.

"What?? We're getting more money!??"

"You'll get more money if we actually start da game!!!!" Tasuki's anger rang throughout.

"Ok!" He rolls the dice, rolling a 10.

"Tamahome goes first!" Salaru announced. "He got the highest score!"

"Yay!" Tamahome's happy chibi grin still showed on his face and he rolled. "I'm going to get some money!!!!!" Tasuki restrained himself from whacking him on the head with his tessen right then and there, but Salaru kept on giving him looks so he sighed and instead yelled at Tamahome.

"Hurry it up already dammit!!" After staring at the dice for a moment, he rolled them.

"A five!" He starts moving his piece from the Go board, and it lands. "Income Tax. Pay 75 dollars!??"

"Yes. You take 75 from your money and place it in the center of the board." Salaru said thoughtfully.

"I have to...GIVE IT UP!?? BUT I JUST GOT IT!! I'M KEEPING IT! I DON'T HAVE TO GIVE IT AWAY!" Tamahome protested, holding on to it.

"It's part of the rules!" Salaru's voice rose a little.

"If you're the fun goddess you'd want me to have fun! So you wouldn't take away my money!"

"Dammit Tamahome, it's not even real!!" Tasuki yelled at him.

"What do you know!??" Tamahome yelled back at Tasuki.

"I knew this was going to happen..." Salaru shook her head in disapproval while the others glanced at Tamahome.

"GIMME DA MONEY! IF YOU CAN'T PUT IT DOWN I WILL!" Tasuki attempted to grab it away from Tamahome but he guarded it with his life, holding the money in death grip.

"YOU CAN'T TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME!!"

"Tamahome! Give up the money already!!!!" Nuriko yelled from across the board, now trying to pry it out of Tamahome's hands.

"It's going to rip if someone doesn't let go!" Mitsukake says in the background, the silent healer finally speaking up after all this time.

"I'm going to have to do this..." Salaru says, getting up and waving her arms, Tamahome's money vanishing completely.

"I'm never letting go!!!" Tamahome wailed, until he looked down and it was gone. "It's.....GONE!!!!! NOOOO!!!! MY BELOVED!!!!!"

"Wait'll Miaka hears this." Nuriko nudges Chichiri as he watches.

"Now...if you can't give up the money, then don't play this game at all!" Salaru's voice rose. "Even the Fun Goddess has its boundaries. If it was real I could see, but if I give the money back to you, will you listen?" After a moment of silence, Tamahome nodded. "Good." She waves her arms around again and Tamahome's money appears back. "Now, give up the 75 dollars like they want you to." Tamahome reluctantly took out 75 dollars from the pile and placed it in the center of the board hesitantly, cringing the whole way. Everyone watched in awe.

"Finally we can get this game started, no da." Chichiri's turn was next, then Tasuki's, Nuriko's, Mitsukake's, Hotohori's, and Chiriko's.

When it got back to Tamahome's turn again everyone groaned. They didn't want a repeat of what was going to go on. "Seven...." He goes 7 paces until he lands on Reading Railroad. "It's 150 dollars!!!???" Salaru barged in.

"Well, you don't have to buy it, but if you want to win and even have a chance in the game it's good to buy things, then if you know what you're doing you can make a big profit later. To spend money is to make money." She says with a grin on her face. Tamahome thought about that after a while, then grinned.

"Ok! I'll buy it!" He gives the money to Chiriko and gets his Reading Railroad.

After about a hour playing it the results were as follows. Tamahome had officially lost it. "HAHAHAHHA!! YOU WILL ALL BOW DOWN TO MY SUPERIOR MONOPOLY PLAYING!!!"

"Take it easy Tamahome, no da. All you did was buy all of the Railroads and win the money in the center of the board, no da. Techniqually Chiriko is beating you, na no da." Chichiri filled him in.

"He will not after this move!!!" Laughed Tamahome as he rolled and went down 5 spaces on the board. "Go to Jail...."

"HAHAHAHHAHAH!" Tasuki pointed and laughed. "So that's your 'superior Monopoly playin'!??"

"But I didn't do anything!!!!! I'm innocent!!! They're sending me to jail!!?? HOW COULD THEY!??"

"Tamahome, please snap out of it," Nuriko tried to say as kindly as possible. "you're scaring Chiriko." Chiriko was in the background, gripping onto Mitsukake burying his head in his chest.

"Please Tamahome" Salaru says unimpressed. "it's only a game. Just go to jail, and if you roll a double then you can get out of it."

"Oh, is da Fun Godess startin' t' lose it a little??" Tasuki laughs in the background. In Salaru's subconscious she wrote herself a mental note. "Note to self: please strangle Tasuki before the day is out."

As the endless insanity of the Monopoly game commenced, Tamahome was still in "jail", wailing about it, rolling the dice and not succeeding in getting the doubles. The others were very close to strangling Tamahome or hitting him on the head with the Monopoly board but something kept telling them that they shouldn't.

"Not again!! Why!!?? Why must I be punished!??" Tamahome started pleading, waiting for some answer to go hit him on the head, and it did as metal fan met head.

"I had enough of your fuckin' complainin' already!" Tasuki looked at him angrily, about to whack him on the head again with his tessen.

"This is not working out!" Salaru started to get very angry, until she waved her arms in a spell, silencing Tamahome so whatever he said would not be heard. Tamahome started opening his mouth to speak, but nothing came out. He stopped, then yelled louder, stomping his feet and yelling some more, but no one heard him. Tasuki was in hysterics.

"HAHAHAH!! Tama's on mute!!!"

"Now we can finally continue the game!" Hotohori said in a slightly annoyed tone as he rolled.

And yet the game rolled on, much smoothly with muted Tamahome , and now and then Tasuki taunted him a few times until Salaru told him to quit it. "My turn now!" Tasuki managed a fanged grin as he rolled and started going 4 paces. "Go to jail!?? KUSO!!!"

"Uh-oh," Nuriko looks to Tasuki's mini tantrum. "not him now."

"The game is very corrupted, no da." Chichiri concluded as he watched Tamahome trying his best to be heard, from making scary evil demonic faces to kicking bottles that he wrote the name "Salaru" on to show him that that's what he'd do to her if she didn't release him from the muting. Chichiri then looked on the other side to Tasuki who unsheathed his tessen and pointed it to the board. "Tasuki, no!!!" Chichiri yelled but it was too late. Everyone had to evacuate the board as the words escaped his mouth.

"REKKA SHINEN!!!!" Flames whirl out of the tessen as the board and everything surrounding it was flamed, including Tamahome, who failed to get up with everyone else.

"No more!" Salaru yelled. "They cross the line of fun ness, they must be punished!!" Tamahome and Tasuki stopped and looked towards her, nervous looks on their faces. "I will........" The two awaited for their punishment.....

(Yup I know, cliffhanger, hehehe, oh well. I didn't know I was going to do a lot of Tamahome bashing and for those Tamahome fans out there, gomen ne.I don't hate Tamahome, I actually like him ^^ Of course Tasuki is better anyway....*Wide evil grin*. But anyway, enough of that. Stay tuned for the second chapter, which I am very undecided on at this moment for the next game that they're going to play. But I have my ideas. If you have any, don't be afraid to give them to me, I don't bite.......yet....*Evil laugh* But really, tell me what ya think....and remember, reviews will encourage me to be more stupidly insane with my work so keep on sendin' 'em! And remember, if you flame me, I still have my suit on so, pleh!)