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At some point Ryuichi had cast aside his father role and regressed with Shuichi to age 5 and now the two of them were performing aqua-batics of the type and complexity generally reserved for genuine sealife.
A scream - it was hard to tell who it was since all chibi's spoke in exactly the same tone - aka irritating yet endearing. Staged of course since Ryuichi was humming the Jaws theme while crawling up the bathtub Kraken style.
'Change back now! Change back now!' Chanted Tatsuha mentally as the Kraken latched onto its squirming victim and started to squeeze. Shuichi screamed for mercy.
"That's so weird." Commented Ryuichi who had in fact returned to normal. "What's she doing?" He asked the equally confuzzled, normal-type Shuichi who just shrugged.
They watched in curiosity while Tatsuha turned blue from lack of oxygen, his face still screwed up in concentration with his attempt to disengage the chibi-no-jutsu using sheer will power.
"You'd think she never saw two grown men wrestling in a bath tub before." Commented Sakano wiping away a nosebleed.
The second thing he noticed was the babysitter passing out.
"Don't be silly!" Giggled Ryuichi. "Shu isn't a grown man! He's only a baby!"
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"Care to explain Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde here?" Asked a rather miffed Mika having burst through the wall of Yuki's sanctum. Yuki looked up from where he was creating a decoy of himself (to distract 'Keichi' while he escaped of course) from stationary consumables (he knew it was feasible, he'd used the tactic before on Shuichi - he was however afraid his supply of paperclips was a little on the low side). Removing his welding mask (safety first) Yuki examined the photographs Mika produced, trying not to make eye contact with her terminator eye which was glowing red as it tended to when Mika was not just pissed but homicidally so.
"'That' I'm not even going to ask about." Mika gestured at the cowed and hog-tied K just outside the door. "Explain why and what my darling little brother is wearing." She demanded coldly.
The pictures (featuring Sakano, Ryuichi, Shuichi and Tatsuha) seemed to be taken from the Tohma surveillance network (and from the quality, intimacy and sheer number of shots, Yuki was suddenly very glad he had refused 'home security' compliments of NG).
Oh. And there was a very nice (though disturbing on the grounds that it was almost voyeuristic) shot of a startled Shu in the bath. That was a keeper. Well it would have been if Shu was ALONE in the bath. In the next shot Shuichi and Ryuichi were peering over the edge of the bathtub at Sakano who was giving Tats expired air resuscitation.
That one had potential too. After all he didn't just have a reputation as a cold bastard to maintain, he was a cold SADISTIC bastard, thankyou very much. It didn't hurt to have a little leverage just in case he needed a kidney one day. Why if Tats wasn't the potential organ farm he was, Yuki would have nothing to do with the world's second most annoying brat at all! Of course that couldn't justify why he kept Shuichi (brat #1) around. Maybe Yuki was a masochist too.
"I really don't know." Answered Yuki. It was true. Tatsuha had very clearly said he was going to disguise himself as a French maid. He hadn't said anything about a schoolgirl. Nope.
Mika's twitchy face thing went into overdrive.
"Go get him!" Demanded Mika. Why she hadn't just gone there herself and dragged him home kicking and screaming like she normally would was anyone's guess. If Tatsuha was there he might have suggested it was because Sakuma- sama's home was a holy place and malevolently nasty evil .things couldn't enter. However he was not. Eiri was forced then to believe something mundane (and not as satisfying). Like Mika probably had an appointment with her psych or something (well the poor woman WAS married to Tohma after all). Still it would have been nice to test the hallowed ground theory.
"No." Replied Eiri. Which really, really sucked! He HAD to go rescue Shu before Hiro did it and now he couldn't because Mika said he had to! It really sucked being a cold sado-masochistic bastard. A rustle and a blur and the sound of a large, albeit stealthy, American in his ventilation (again). Okay Mika could have her way just this once.
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Knock! Knock!
"Who's there?" Asked Ryuichi from the other side of the door. Yuki was very, very tempted to make a joke. Proof again just how much Shuichi had messed up his brain.
"Yuki Eiri."
"Who?" Asked Sakuma innocently.
"Yuki Eiri."
"Whoooooo?" Prompted Sakuma.
"Usagi Yuki?" Asked Yuki, finally realizing it was not just Sakuma having difficulty hearing through the door. This revelation was accompanied by a rather large sweatdrop.
"I should have known you would find my secret base eventually!" Squawked Ryuichi taking Yuki's coat and offering him a pair of house slippers. "Did it take you long to find this place?"
"Yes! I would never have thought to look for you in your home." Remarked Yuki dryly to the cackling Ryuichi. "I'm here for Shuichi." And Tatsuha. But not out loud. Thinking is enough.
"You and which army?"
Yuki pointed at Tatsuha who sighed and slipped off his wig.
Ryuichi screamed.
Sakano, who had been casting cow eyes at the 'babysitter' all afternoon, suddenly didn't feel so good.
"You said you weren't an evil Yuki clone!" Ryuichi accused.
"I was going to defect to your side! Honest!" Defended Tatsuha.
Without warning, Shuichi, who had remained unusually quiet through out the exchange (naturally in hopes he could still somehow wheedle a trip to the aquarium) leapt to his feet, running past Yuki to pounce on whomever it was who had just entered Ryuichi's home.
"OHOHOHOHOHO" Declared Mika stepping around the doorframe. "I should have known Eiri would need backup."
The very picture of Shuichi purring while rubbing himself cat style around Mika's ankles was disturbing. Extremely disturbing.
"Why are you all looking at me like that?" Asked Shuichi to the room as Mika tousled his hair affectionately.
"Shuichi. . . that's. . . Mika!" Explained Ryuichi, taking Mika's coat to the closet.
"So?" Yes Mika. Beautiful Mika. This was how Yuki would look once Shuichi manipulated him into having a sex change. Then who would be seme? Eh? Eh?
"Oh god no! Her evil vibes are affecting Shu-chan!" Screamed Tatsuha as Shuichi's eyes glazed over.
Suddenly the door was kicked in.. Well for everybody in the room. For the one doing the actual kicking it was quite expected. It was particularly a surprise to the door however, since it had not actually been in any way, shape or form, locked (or come to think of it, closed, but who needs a perfect plot anyway?).
"Hiro!" Announced the stunned audience (except of course the door, which couldn't say anything at all since it was just a door na no da!).
It was, of course, Hiro at the door.
Hiro suavely strode into the room, guitar strung over his back casually (one presumes so he could play it as he rode off into the sunset later). He flipped his hair over his shoulder casually, smiled with sparkleys (which would have caused all the girls in the room to swoon except the only even remotely female in the room was Mika and she don't count - in lieu, Sakano pulled off a fairly good facsimile (maybe too good)). With a single glance he summed up the situation, grabbing Shu around the middle with his free arm, he picked him up easily and strode out of the room unopposed.
"My Hiro!" Shuichi was heard to proclaimed once out of range of Mika's deadly evil radiation.
"Kakkoii!" Whispered Ryuichi as the assembled watched Hiro carry off Shuichi like something out of a bad romance novel. A very cheap, very badly edited romance novel in Yuki's opinion.
"Aren't you going to try and get Shuichi back?" Yuki asked Ryuichi who had settled for playing video games now.
"Are you mad?" Asked Ryuichi, staring at Yuki as though he suspected it to be true. Which was really, really disturbing coming from someone who routinely spoke to a pink stuffed rabbit. Everything was disturbing today. "It was Hiro!"
"He did it again!" Whined Yuki pouting. Will not cry. Will not cry. "Hiro did it again!"
"Oh shut up Yuki. We all know Hiro's as straight as an arrow. He's dating Ayaka for crying out loud!" Snapped Mika peevishly (robbed of the easily controlled Shuichi and without other immediately receptive prey (Tatsuha, Eiri and Ryuichi had already warded themselves with various religious paraphernalia whilst Sakano remained unconscious).
Ayaka. Yes Yuki had his suspicions regarding Ayaka. Largely based on the premise Ayaka was just trying to convince Hiro he loved Shuichi, and Hiro would convince Shuichi to elope with him and then where would Eiri be? Married to Ayaka the friggin' Mika-clone, that's where!
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Notes for the clueless
Cube: Your Butler in the game PM2 (the guy who basically looks after the daughter you're raising)
Kraken: ye olde gigante type squid thing
Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde: The little ghosties in PacMan (who knew they had names?) from memory its blue, green, pink and yellow (in that order) I couldn't help myself throwing in that reference cos its so cute! But probably meant nothing to no one but me :P
At some point Ryuichi had cast aside his father role and regressed with Shuichi to age 5 and now the two of them were performing aqua-batics of the type and complexity generally reserved for genuine sealife.
A scream - it was hard to tell who it was since all chibi's spoke in exactly the same tone - aka irritating yet endearing. Staged of course since Ryuichi was humming the Jaws theme while crawling up the bathtub Kraken style.
'Change back now! Change back now!' Chanted Tatsuha mentally as the Kraken latched onto its squirming victim and started to squeeze. Shuichi screamed for mercy.
"That's so weird." Commented Ryuichi who had in fact returned to normal. "What's she doing?" He asked the equally confuzzled, normal-type Shuichi who just shrugged.
They watched in curiosity while Tatsuha turned blue from lack of oxygen, his face still screwed up in concentration with his attempt to disengage the chibi-no-jutsu using sheer will power.
"You'd think she never saw two grown men wrestling in a bath tub before." Commented Sakano wiping away a nosebleed.
The second thing he noticed was the babysitter passing out.
"Don't be silly!" Giggled Ryuichi. "Shu isn't a grown man! He's only a baby!"
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"Care to explain Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde here?" Asked a rather miffed Mika having burst through the wall of Yuki's sanctum. Yuki looked up from where he was creating a decoy of himself (to distract 'Keichi' while he escaped of course) from stationary consumables (he knew it was feasible, he'd used the tactic before on Shuichi - he was however afraid his supply of paperclips was a little on the low side). Removing his welding mask (safety first) Yuki examined the photographs Mika produced, trying not to make eye contact with her terminator eye which was glowing red as it tended to when Mika was not just pissed but homicidally so.
"'That' I'm not even going to ask about." Mika gestured at the cowed and hog-tied K just outside the door. "Explain why and what my darling little brother is wearing." She demanded coldly.
The pictures (featuring Sakano, Ryuichi, Shuichi and Tatsuha) seemed to be taken from the Tohma surveillance network (and from the quality, intimacy and sheer number of shots, Yuki was suddenly very glad he had refused 'home security' compliments of NG).
Oh. And there was a very nice (though disturbing on the grounds that it was almost voyeuristic) shot of a startled Shu in the bath. That was a keeper. Well it would have been if Shu was ALONE in the bath. In the next shot Shuichi and Ryuichi were peering over the edge of the bathtub at Sakano who was giving Tats expired air resuscitation.
That one had potential too. After all he didn't just have a reputation as a cold bastard to maintain, he was a cold SADISTIC bastard, thankyou very much. It didn't hurt to have a little leverage just in case he needed a kidney one day. Why if Tats wasn't the potential organ farm he was, Yuki would have nothing to do with the world's second most annoying brat at all! Of course that couldn't justify why he kept Shuichi (brat #1) around. Maybe Yuki was a masochist too.
"I really don't know." Answered Yuki. It was true. Tatsuha had very clearly said he was going to disguise himself as a French maid. He hadn't said anything about a schoolgirl. Nope.
Mika's twitchy face thing went into overdrive.
"Go get him!" Demanded Mika. Why she hadn't just gone there herself and dragged him home kicking and screaming like she normally would was anyone's guess. If Tatsuha was there he might have suggested it was because Sakuma- sama's home was a holy place and malevolently nasty evil .things couldn't enter. However he was not. Eiri was forced then to believe something mundane (and not as satisfying). Like Mika probably had an appointment with her psych or something (well the poor woman WAS married to Tohma after all). Still it would have been nice to test the hallowed ground theory.
"No." Replied Eiri. Which really, really sucked! He HAD to go rescue Shu before Hiro did it and now he couldn't because Mika said he had to! It really sucked being a cold sado-masochistic bastard. A rustle and a blur and the sound of a large, albeit stealthy, American in his ventilation (again). Okay Mika could have her way just this once.
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Knock! Knock!
"Who's there?" Asked Ryuichi from the other side of the door. Yuki was very, very tempted to make a joke. Proof again just how much Shuichi had messed up his brain.
"Yuki Eiri."
"Who?" Asked Sakuma innocently.
"Yuki Eiri."
"Whoooooo?" Prompted Sakuma.
"Usagi Yuki?" Asked Yuki, finally realizing it was not just Sakuma having difficulty hearing through the door. This revelation was accompanied by a rather large sweatdrop.
"I should have known you would find my secret base eventually!" Squawked Ryuichi taking Yuki's coat and offering him a pair of house slippers. "Did it take you long to find this place?"
"Yes! I would never have thought to look for you in your home." Remarked Yuki dryly to the cackling Ryuichi. "I'm here for Shuichi." And Tatsuha. But not out loud. Thinking is enough.
"You and which army?"
Yuki pointed at Tatsuha who sighed and slipped off his wig.
Ryuichi screamed.
Sakano, who had been casting cow eyes at the 'babysitter' all afternoon, suddenly didn't feel so good.
"You said you weren't an evil Yuki clone!" Ryuichi accused.
"I was going to defect to your side! Honest!" Defended Tatsuha.
Without warning, Shuichi, who had remained unusually quiet through out the exchange (naturally in hopes he could still somehow wheedle a trip to the aquarium) leapt to his feet, running past Yuki to pounce on whomever it was who had just entered Ryuichi's home.
"OHOHOHOHOHO" Declared Mika stepping around the doorframe. "I should have known Eiri would need backup."
The very picture of Shuichi purring while rubbing himself cat style around Mika's ankles was disturbing. Extremely disturbing.
"Why are you all looking at me like that?" Asked Shuichi to the room as Mika tousled his hair affectionately.
"Shuichi. . . that's. . . Mika!" Explained Ryuichi, taking Mika's coat to the closet.
"So?" Yes Mika. Beautiful Mika. This was how Yuki would look once Shuichi manipulated him into having a sex change. Then who would be seme? Eh? Eh?
"Oh god no! Her evil vibes are affecting Shu-chan!" Screamed Tatsuha as Shuichi's eyes glazed over.
Suddenly the door was kicked in.. Well for everybody in the room. For the one doing the actual kicking it was quite expected. It was particularly a surprise to the door however, since it had not actually been in any way, shape or form, locked (or come to think of it, closed, but who needs a perfect plot anyway?).
"Hiro!" Announced the stunned audience (except of course the door, which couldn't say anything at all since it was just a door na no da!).
It was, of course, Hiro at the door.
Hiro suavely strode into the room, guitar strung over his back casually (one presumes so he could play it as he rode off into the sunset later). He flipped his hair over his shoulder casually, smiled with sparkleys (which would have caused all the girls in the room to swoon except the only even remotely female in the room was Mika and she don't count - in lieu, Sakano pulled off a fairly good facsimile (maybe too good)). With a single glance he summed up the situation, grabbing Shu around the middle with his free arm, he picked him up easily and strode out of the room unopposed.
"My Hiro!" Shuichi was heard to proclaimed once out of range of Mika's deadly evil radiation.
"Kakkoii!" Whispered Ryuichi as the assembled watched Hiro carry off Shuichi like something out of a bad romance novel. A very cheap, very badly edited romance novel in Yuki's opinion.
"Aren't you going to try and get Shuichi back?" Yuki asked Ryuichi who had settled for playing video games now.
"Are you mad?" Asked Ryuichi, staring at Yuki as though he suspected it to be true. Which was really, really disturbing coming from someone who routinely spoke to a pink stuffed rabbit. Everything was disturbing today. "It was Hiro!"
"He did it again!" Whined Yuki pouting. Will not cry. Will not cry. "Hiro did it again!"
"Oh shut up Yuki. We all know Hiro's as straight as an arrow. He's dating Ayaka for crying out loud!" Snapped Mika peevishly (robbed of the easily controlled Shuichi and without other immediately receptive prey (Tatsuha, Eiri and Ryuichi had already warded themselves with various religious paraphernalia whilst Sakano remained unconscious).
Ayaka. Yes Yuki had his suspicions regarding Ayaka. Largely based on the premise Ayaka was just trying to convince Hiro he loved Shuichi, and Hiro would convince Shuichi to elope with him and then where would Eiri be? Married to Ayaka the friggin' Mika-clone, that's where!
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Notes for the clueless
Cube: Your Butler in the game PM2 (the guy who basically looks after the daughter you're raising)
Kraken: ye olde gigante type squid thing
Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde: The little ghosties in PacMan (who knew they had names?) from memory its blue, green, pink and yellow (in that order) I couldn't help myself throwing in that reference cos its so cute! But probably meant nothing to no one but me :P