THE NEXT MORNING!!!!
The next morning was BEAUTIFUL!!!
IF YOU LIKE HORRID RAIN AND THUNDER AND LIGHTNING AND LEAKY HOUSES AND OTHER UNPLEASANT THINGS THAT WE'RE MAKING THEM GO THROUGH ONLY FOR OUR SICK PLEASURE!!!
HAW HAW HAW!!
So anyway, the morning came and Ayame went through his morning stretches like always. But unfortunately, he forgot that all the kids were upstairs in the loft with him but I guess that didn't really bother HIM, but it bothered Hatori so Hatori made sure to remind everyone to keep their eyes shut. Of course, they were sleeping and they WOULD have kept their eyes shut if Hatori hadn't awakened them to tell them to keep their eyes shut.
So now…now everyone's awake. Thanks to Hatori.
"GEE THANKS HATORI!!!" screamed Shigure.
"Why is it that Shigure can have conversations with the narrator?" wondered no one in particular.
"Because I am an aspiring novelist myself." Shigure replied pompously.
"I'm hungry!!" whined Momiji.
"Let's go downstairs and eat…I guess." Said Hatori. They all said HOO-RAY and paraded down the ladder. Well, except for Kyo because he was still sleepy because it was still raining. And Kagura who wanted to stay with Kyo, and Yuki who ALWAYS sleeps late except for yesterday and Haru who sleeps late because we say so and Akito who is just a lump.
So, Ayame, Shigure, Hatori, Tohru and Momiji paraded down the ladder!!
Only to find it…PARTIALLY FLOODED!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
Yes, they HAD forgotten to change all the pots so they were all overflowing and there was… I don't know what would be realistic… so let's just say two feet! But of course, two feet is a lot for someone who is only three and a half feet tall.
"WOW!!" exclaimed Momiji happily. "A swimming pool in the house!!"
"This has never happened before!" said Tohru because she was still there.
"Hatori, why weren't you getting up every hour to dump out the water?" demanded Ayame.
All Hatori could do was stare at Ayame with a dumbfounded expression.
"Okay…someone has to go over there and get all the food for everyone so we can bring it up into the loft until the water just magically disappears." Shigure said, scratching his chin thoughtfully.
"I'm not going to do it." Said Hatori.
"Who else COULD do it?!" yelled Ayame.
"You can." Hatori answered. "Do I have to do everything around here?"
"And ruin these brand new pajamas?" Ayame said in the 'you should know better, Hatori' tone. "What planet are YOU from?"
"I don't have any dry clothes." Hatori said. "At all."
"I was GOING to suggest that you could borrow mine but not if you're going to be wading through two feet of water then forget it." Said Shigure as if Hatori was right then and there DEMANDING that Shigure lend him some clothes.
"I'm not going to be wading through two feet of water." Hatori said.
"Well then how else are we going to get all the food that seemed to have magically appeared on the counter when we weren't looking?" Ayame asked skeptically.
Hatori looked over at the counter and then back at Ayame and Shigure. "That food didn't just magically appear out of nowhere when no one was looking." He explained. "I went and got it. Remember?"
"Oh right." Said Shigure. "And you wrecked the car."
"Real mature, Hatori." Said Ayame, crossing his arms like a disappointed parent.
"Well, it's really too early for breakfast anyway." Said Hatori. "Why don't we all just go upstairs into the loft and play a board game or something and maybe by the time we're done, all this water will be gone."
"But it's still raining." Ayame said, pointing to the window. "There's only going to be MORE water."
Once again, Hatori didn't answer if he didn't want to. And he didn't.
"Fine, let's go upstairs then." Said Ayame as if he were the mature and responsible one. Then they started going up the stairs only to remember a second later that Tohru and Momiji were there too! Luckily, they were being helpfully silent the whole time and they LIKED the idea of playing some board games so they quickly forgot about the food and went upstairs as well.
"It's too bad most of the kids are asleep." Said Shigure.
"EVERYBODY WAKE UP!!!" screamed Ayame as he turned on the light as bright as it would go and then flicked it on and off a bunch of time until people who used to be sleeping starting whining at Ayame. But he didn't care because he had already found the board game that he wanted to play and was setting it up: TWISTER!!! THE HOT SPOT!!!
"What foolish member of our cursed family thought that Twister was a good game to buy?" wondered Shigure as he looked on the back of the box to see people of both genders falling on top of each other.
"It was probably Ayame." Said Hatori.
"What?!" demanded Ayame. "I like this game! We're practically all guys here anyway and Tohru's the only one who will really cause any problems!"
"We can't just NOT let Tohru play." Said Hatori.
"I wanna play Twister!" whined Tohru.
"We'll just be careful of her!" said Ayame.
"Okay, Ayame, you keep that in mind." Said Hatori, picking up the little spinner and sitting down on a bed.
"What?!" demanded Ayame. "You're not playing?!"
Hatori raised an eyebrow. "No…" he replied as if were obvious. Which… it kinda was. Just think… Hatori… Twister… it just doesn't work.
"Can I be the spinner?" asked Haru.
"No, Haru, you must play and be social." Hatori replied. "Interact with everyone else once and a while."
If Haru was old enough to know the word 'hypocrite' then he would have said it right then and there. But he didn't. So he decided to play Twister with everyone else.
Then all the elder people wrote a 'L' on the smaller children's left hands and feet and an 'R' on their right hands and feet. And Ayame, with only mean and malicious purposes in his heart, switched the R and the L for Yuki, but only on his hands so that his feet contradicted his hands.
Finally…THE GAME COMMENCED!!!!
"Right hand red." Said Hatori since that's the most popular Twister move.
And everyone put their right hands on a red circle.
"Kyo, I said right hand red." Said Hatori when he noticed that Kyo was not putting his right hand on a red circle. In fact, he wasn't putting ANY appendage on ANY colored circle!
"I don't wanna play!" said Kyo as he stood up and pulled himself up onto the closest bed to him and curled up in a comfortable pink sleeping bag and fell asleep.
Hatori paused for a minute. "That was so abrupt." Said Hatori. "It just happened right then and there. And I didn't do anything about it. But that's okay since it's not my bed."
"Can you read the next move?" asked Yuki impatiently. "My right hand is getting tired!"
"That's your left hand, Yuki." Said Ayame.
"It's got an 'R' on it!" said Yuki, showing the R to Ayame.
"I recognize that fancy cursive R!" said Shigure almost as if he was in extreme awe. "Ayame, why did you change the symbols on Yuki's hands?"
"To be MEAN!" said Ayame. He WOULD have rubbed his hands together diabolically right then and there if not for the fact that he had his right hand on red at the moment.
"Whatever." Said Hatori. "Yuki, it's fine. All right…" And then he spun the spinner. YAY!! "Left foot blue."
And everyone put their left foot on the blue circle.
EXCEPT FOR SHIGURE!!!
"Shigure, that's the yellow circle." Said Hatori.
"Fine, get all technical." Said Shigure, switching his foot to the green circle.
"That's green." Hatori explained. "We're looking for blue."
"I don't wanna play anymore!" said Shigure, standing up and stomping over to where Hatori was sitting as if he were some kind of little kid throwing a temper tantrum.
"Well, that was very abrupt too and I'm not going to do anything about that either." Hatori said as he went to spin again.
"But don't you want to know why I don't want to play anymore?" Shigure asked since he obviously wanted to tell people.
"Sure, if you want to explain." Hatori replied.
"As you most likely know, dogs are colorblind and…considering the fact that I turn into a dog…I…I am ALSO colorblind!" Shigure said, striking a pose of despair and acting as though he were in a really bad play. "Just so you know that I'm not an idiot who doesn't know his colors."
"That's something I never knew about you." Said Hatori. "You being colorblind, I mean."
"All right, now you have to tell me a secret about you too so we'll be even." Shigure declared.
"Oh?" Hatori said.
"Yup." Shigure said with a nod.
"HELLO?!" screamed all the people playing Twister.
"Left hand green." Hatori said.
"You still have to tell me a secret." Shigure continued.
"You told me that you were colorblind willingly." Hatori said.
"And if you were my TRUE friend then you would tell me a secret that you normally would have kept from me!" Shigure said.
"Right foot blue."
"Now you're just avoiding the question!!" Shigure yelled, throwing a temper tantrum.
"Fine." Said Hatori. "But you have to promise not to freak out."
"I promise!" said Shigure, doing the boy scouts hand thing.
"Well…" Hatori said, lowering his voice if that was really possible. "Don't tell anyone, but I turn into a seahorse when I am hugged by someone of the opposite gender."
The room fell silent.
Ayame cleared his throat.
"Right hand yellow."
"I ALREADY KNEW THAT!!!" Shigure yelled.
"Really?" Hatori asked as if he were actually surprised. "I guess the cat's out of the bag now."
"Tell me a REAL secret about you!" Shigure commanded. "One that I couldn't possibly know!"
"All right." Hatori said finally. "I've erased your memory once."
"What?!" yelled Shigure. "WHY?!"
"I can't tell you." Hatori replied.
"Why not?!"
"That would defeat the whole purpose of erasing your memory in the first place now wouldn't it?"
"Hey Hatori, if you're not going to spin the board then give it to us or something!" yelled a crazy Twister playing person.
"Sorry." Said Hatori. "Left hand yellow."
"I'M GONNA FALL!!!" Tohru was suddenly screeching as she leaned over Haru to get her hand on the yellow circle. Of course, since Haru has such quick reflexes, he was unable to move out of the way in time so Tohru fell on top of him! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! Yes, he DID turn into a cow. But it wasn't a cow. It was a little baby calf! DAW!!!
Of course, Little Baby Calf Haru is a little bigger than Just Haru so since Tohru was on top of him, she got pushed upwards into Ayame who was leaning over the two of them. AND HE TURNED INTO A SNAKE!!! Don't worry, he was the same size as he usually is.
Just calm down. It's okay.
"That was a disaster, just as I had originally predicted." Said Hatori as he pulled the Twister mat out from underneath them all and then began to fold it up.
"How was that a disaster at all?!" demanded Kagura. She hasn't said anything ALL MORNING.
"How many reasons do you want?" Hatori asked.
"I don't know." Kagura replied. "As many as you're willing to give."
"Fine. Zero." Hatori said cleverly as he put the mat and the board back in the box.
"No!" yelled Kagura. "Give me ten reasons!"
"I'll give you as much as I can think of off the top of my head." Hatori compromised. "First of all, Kyo runs off to hide before the game even starts. Ayame switched the L and the R on Yuki's hands. Shigure can't play because he's colorblind. And not to mention what just happened about ten seconds ago involving Ayame, Tohru and Haru."
"I am a snake." Said Ayame.
"And you still haven't told me why you erased my memory!!" whined Shigure.
"Kyo's hiding somewhere?!" Kagura said, looking around as if she had just noticed that Kyo hadn't been playing with them the entire time.
"I'm still here." Said Momiji since he WAS still here.
Then Hatori opened up the little drawer in the corner and put the Twister board back in. He pulled out Dream Phone and put it on the floor. "Here, play with this." He said. "It doesn't matter if you know how to play or not. Just entertain yourself with the little phone."
"ALL RIGHT!!!" cheered Tohru, Kagura and Momiji.
"I don't wanna do that!!" complained Yuki.
"Too bad." Said Hatori, pushing Yuki over to the little circle where the other three had already started their game. Yuki whined for about a second but then realized how much fun it was and decided to play along.
"I don't feel like playing." Said Haru who was still a cow.
"Well, you can't anyway." Said Shigure. "Pressing buttons on a telephone would prove to be most difficult for someone with no fingers."
"Whatever." Said Haru.
"I am a snake." Said Ayame.
"We heard you the first time." Said Shigure.
"I wanted to make sure everybody was aware of my current situation so that I am not to be stepped on or swung around or anything that would be easy to do to someone of my present condition." Ayame explained.
"And Dale's Kyo, Spencer is Kyo, Alan is Kyo…" Kagura listed as she colored on each of the 'boy cards' with an orange marker.
"But then they'll ALL be Kyo!" Tohru pointed out.
"Exactly!" said Kagura. "That way, no matter what, I'll end up with him!"
"But what if I win and not you?" said Momiji. "Then I'LL get Kyo!"
"Wait…" said Yuki. "If I win, I'm with KYO?!"
"I guess so." Said Tohru.
"But you can give him to me." Said Kagura. "Okay?"
"OKAY!!" said everyone including Kagura.
"Please tell me!" Shigure begged. "I'll be your slave! I'll do your homework!"
"No." said Hatori as he did something manly. It doesn't matter what he's doing, you can envision whatever manly activity you want Hatori to be doing whether it be lifting weights, rubbing oil on his muscles or something else that he'd NEVER be doing but you can pretend he is for fun!! YAY!! "I'm trying to get into a good college and having you do my homework would only jeopardize those chances."
"Come on, Hatori, I'm smart!" Shigure whined. "It's not like I'm Ayame or anything!"
"Hey!" Ayame the Snake said as he wrapped around Shigure's head just because he could. I mean, if I were a snake, that's what I'd be doing!!
"Still…" said Hatori. "I erased your memory for a reason and it would only cause you pain and suffering if I were to remind you of what it was."
"That's so sweet, Hatori!" said Shigure. "But…still tell me!"
"Never." Said Hatori.
"PLEASE?!" pleaded Shigure some more.
"Shouldn't you be watching the kids?" Hatori asked, changing the subject.
"YOU'RE the one just sitting here being manly!" Shigure yelled.
"You're the one sitting here trying to get me to tell you why I erased your memory." Hatori reminded him.
"Ayame, do you know why Hatori erased my memory?" Shigure asked, looking up with his eyes since Ayame was still there.
"Yes." Said Ayame.
"TELL ME!!!" demanded Shigure.
"I'm sworn to secrecy." Ayame said.
"THIS ISN'T FAIR!!!" whined Shigure.
"It's not THAT big of a deal!" said Ayame.
"Don't listen to Ayame, he doesn't know a thing." Said Hatori. "I erased his memory about this event too."
"WHAT?!" yelled Ayame. "HOW DARE YOU!!"
"So it's something that concerns BOTH of us?!" Shigure said happily, discovering a new clue.
"It concerns all three of us." Hatori answered vaguly.
"NOW WE BOTH MUST KNOW!!!" screamed Ayame and Shigure.
"Look, I'm sorry I brought it up, okay?" said Hatori as gestured for them to run off. They were about to yell at him some more when Haru came over, still being a cow.
"I'm bored." He said. "I don't feel like playing Dream Phone."
"What do you feel like doing then?" asked Hatori.
"Well, I don't really want to be a cow anymore." Haru confessed as if that were wrong of him and he should just LOVE being a cow.
"All you can do about that is wait." Hatori explained.
"I don't want to be a snake anymore." Ayame said as if Hatori didn't just respond to that statement except it applied to a cow instead of a snake. But you already knew that. At least…you SHOULD know that.
"Do you think the water downstairs is magically gone yet?" Shigure wondered, looking over the edge of the loft.
"Shigure, the water isn't just going to disappear." Hatori sighed, shaking his head.
"I'm still bored." Haru said more loudly.
"What do you USUALLY do when you're bored?" questioned Hatori.
"I'm always bored." Haru replied.
"Then just do what you always do." Hatori said.
"Nothing?" Haru asked.
"Yes." Said Hatori. Haru shrugged and decided that he would do nothing.
"So anyway, Hatori…" started Ayame.
"Drop the subject right now." Hatori said as he took his manly activity to the other side of the room. Of course, Shigure and Ayame just followed right after him. "Leave me alone." Said Hatori.
"Not until you tell us why you erased our memories!" said Shigure and Ayame at the exact same time.
"If I tell you, I'll just have to erase your memories again." Hatori said, looking annoyed.
"We don't want YOU to live with the pain all by yourself!" said Ayame.
"It's not painful for me." Said Hatori. "Only you two."
"ARGH!!!" yelled Ayame and Shigure as they ran in circles while screaming like fools. Of course, Ayame SLITHERED in circles.
"SHUT UP!!!" yelled Kyo as he sat up in his bed.
"YEAH!!!" screamed all the other kids.
"You'd better listen to them." Said Hatori.
"Why should we?" demanded Shigure.
"Because." Said Hatori. They waited for him to continue but he didn't want to. So he didn't.
"I hate it when you do that!" yelled Shigure. "I talk to you or say something and you just stare at me as if I didn't ask anything! Why do you DO that?!"
Hatori decided that that wasn't worthy of his answer either.
"STOP IT!!!" commanded Shigure.
It was at around that exact moment that Kagura decided that she wanted Kyo to join her in Dream Phone! So she ran over to him and since he was just a little man, she easily pulled him out of bed and over to the Dream Phone board while he whined like a sissy.
"It can be your turn." Said Kagura as she handed the phone to Kyo.
"IT'S MY TURN!!!" Yuki yelled as he tore the phone out of Kyo's hand and picked up a 'Boy Card' which was actually now a 'Kyo Card' considering they were all decorated to look like Kyo with his name and everything!! "I'm calling Kyo!"
"Surprise, surprise!" said Momiji.
"I know who it is! But I'm not telling! HA!! HA!!" said Dale, AKA Kyo on the telephone.
"GRR!!!" growled Yuki, slamming the phone down on the floor. "That's the third time I've called the Kyo that laughs at me!"
"Why are they all named Kyo?" Kyo asked, looking through the deck.
"You're not allowed to look at the deck!!!" screeched Momiji, Tohru, Kagura and Yuki as they lunged forward to snatch them from Kyo but only succeeded with bumping heads with each other since they were all going for the same time. They all broke into tears and cried their heads off until Hatori, Shigure and Ayame came over to see what happened.
"I deduct that since Kyo is the only one who is not crying and because he's the cat, this must be his fault!" Ayame declared.
"And they were playing so nicely before he came over." Shigure said with a nod.
"And he's the cat." Ayame reminded him.
"Shut up you two." Said Hatori. "Then he'll start crying and then we'll have five crying children."
"Well he deserved it because he made them cry." Said Shigure.
"Since when are you two so malicious?" asked Hatori.
"Since you won't tell us why you erased our memories!" Ayame yelled.
"So you take it out on Kyo?" Hatori said with a raised eyebrow.
"Well…you know…" said Shigure, leaning over to Hatori and lowering his voice to a whisper. "He's the cat. He has no feelings."
"I do too!" Kyo whined. "I'm leaving!!" And then he stomped off and started making his way down the ladder.
"Kyo, there's water down there." Said Hatori.
There was a short pause.
"Hey…there's water down here." Came Kyo's pathetic voice from the first floor.
"Speaking of water, I am so hungry that I think I might very well just explode." Said Haru.
Everyone slowly turned their heads and looked and Haru who was just being a cow over in the corner.
"Unfortunately, the house is flooded at the moment." Said Hatori.
"So?" said Haru.
"And all the food is downstairs."
"Then go get it."
"But it's two feet of water, probably more."
"It's only water, right?"
"Right…"
"So what's the problem?"
"Haru, stop getting the best of Hatori!" said Shigure dramatically.
"He wasn't getting the best of me." Said Hatori.
"You can tell yourself that." Said Shigure, shaking his head as he pat Hatori on the shoulder.
"He wasn't." Hatori insisted.
"Sure, sure." Said Shigure.
Hatori decided to disregard Shigure. He didn't really care if Haru got the best of him, or if Shigure THOUGHT that Haru got the best of him because let's face it, Haru did NOT get the best of him. Or did he? Did Hatori now have to erase EVERYONE'S memory just in case they thought that he couldn't argue against a little kid?! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Of course, he accidentally did that scream out loud so now everyone was staring at him. Quickly, he cleared his throat and then walked off to the corner and stared at the wall in vain hope that everyone would just forget on their own.
"Okay…" said Shigure. "I think we should all just go OUT to breakfast!!"
"How are we going to do that?" asked Ayame. "Hatori destroyed the car."
"In order to go outside, we have to go downstairs and on the way to the door is the counter table and on the counter table is the food so if we're going to go downstairs, we might as well just get the food." Said Hatori from his secluded corner.
"Aww…" whined everyone.
"I will get it!" said Shigure, pointing his finger up in the air as he frolicked down the ladder and JUST missed stepping on Kyo who was just sitting on the ladder whining about how there was water everywhere.
Shigure then proceeded to wade through the water over to the counter. He picked up all the food and then started walking over to the ladder. On his way up, he looked as though he intentionally stepped on Kyo and then went tumbling into the water, getting EVERYTHING WET AND HORRIBLE!!!
"You stepped on me!" Kyo whined.
"Kyo, look what you did!" Shigure said, slapping his cheeks. "Now we don't have ANY FOOD!! Now we HAVE to go out to eat!"
"Shigure, that wasn't free you know." Said Hatori.
"Hey, tell Kyo, not me!" said Shigure, looking offended.
"I'm so sorry!" Kyo said, bursting into tears.
"Fine." Said Hatori. "We'll go out."
"We'd better hurry or else Haru will explode!" said Shigure with horseshoe eyes as he vaulted over Kyo and sprinted up the ladder to go and change out of his pajamas.
JUST THEN, AYAME TURNED BACK INTO A PERSON!!!!!! AH HA HA HA HA!!
"YAY!!" cheered Ayame.
"EEK!!" screamed Tohru and Kagura.
"Put some clothes on." Said Hatori as he yanked a bed sheet of the bed and whipped it out in front of Ayame.
"When am I gonna turn back?" Haru asked.
"I don't know." Said everyone at the same time.
"That's not fair." Said Haru. "I turned into a cow about an hour before Ayame turned into a snake."
"Haru, there was probably a void of less than a second." Said Ayame as he clothed himself.
Just then, Kyo came up the ladder. "I'm sorry I got all the food wet!" he said. "But I don't want to go out to eat! I don't want to go in the rain and get wet or walk or do anything else!"
"Too bad, now get dressed." Said Shigure.
Kyo sniffled and whimpered a little bit and Kagura helped him pick out something to wear before going off to get dressed herself. Eventually, everyone was dressed and ready to go…except for Haru who was still a cow. They tried to wait for him to turn back but Haru was the one complaining about being hungry considering cows have…what? Nine stomachs? Well, I don't know the exact number and I don't think Haru has nine stomachs.
Actually, when you think about it, do you think that when they turn into animals that they get their weird body abnormalities? Such as having nine stomachs? Or snakes being able to dislocate their jaws? Do you think Ayame can do that when he's a snake? Do you think he'd WANT to even if he could?! NOW I'M CURIOUS!!!
But back to the task at hand…writing…
What? We're done with the chapter anyway? Well, you'll just have to wait until the next chapter to see the task at hand returned to.