So, now it's the next chapter.
"Is everybody ready to go?!" said Shigure as he bounced up and down like a fool.
"We passed a restaurant on the way to the store yesterday." Hatori said. "It's actually very close. We just have to walk in the rain for about a half a mile at the most."
"Oh is THAT all?" said no one in particular. You can have it be your favorite character. Unless your favorite character is Ritsu, Hiro, Kisa or anyone else who isn't there. It can't be Hatori either because Hatori would NEVER go and dis himself. Especially a second after he just said something.
So they all went down the ladder and started going through the water and were just about to leave when they turned around to see Kyo still sitting on the ladder.
"Come on." Said Hatori.
"No." said Kyo, scoffing.
"Don't worry, Kyo, you can touch the ground!" said Tohru.
"I don't care." Said Kyo.
"Fine, I'll carry you." Sighed Hatori as he went back over to Kyo and slung him over his shoulder. Then he went back over to the door and they all opened it, TOGETHER, it was a joint effort, and a lot of the water came flowing out of the house and they wondered why they hadn't thought of that in the first place.
"Wait, it's raining!" complained Kyo.
"Obviously." Said Hatori. "That's why it's flooded in the house."
"And that's why you're so annoying right now!" said Shigure.
"Well, you're annoying 95 million percent of the time." Said Ayame. "But you're just cranky annoying as opposed to being loud, bratty annoying."
They started walking outside.
"But aren't there any umbrellas?!" Kyo yelled suddenly.
"No." said Hatori. They continued walking some more.
"I'm getting wet." Kyo whined.
"THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S RAINING!!!!" HOLL-ered Ayame.
"I don't like the rain!" Kyo cried.
"Oh geez, Hatori don't carry him if he's CRYING!" said Shigure.
"Why?" asked Hatori.
"He doesn't deserve it!" said Shigure. "And that's what he wants! You're not supposed to give a kid what he wants when he starts crying."
"Well remind me not to be nice to you when you're in a bad mood." Said Hatori.
"Kyo's ALWAYS in a bad mood!" Shigure argued.
"You know what I mean." Said Hatori, shaking his head.
"I'm tired." Said Momiji.
"Oh and I just remembered that we left Akito at home too." Said Ayame, slapping his fist into his palm.
Everyone stopped dead in their tracks and stared at Ayame.
"Oh wait, here he is!" said Ayame as he turned around to see Akito lying face down in the mud. "He was following us the whole time!"
"Well carry him." Said Hatori.
"But he's all dirty!" exclaimed Ayame in a disgusted tone.
"He's going to get clean in about five seconds." Said Hatori. "As long as you take him out of the mud."
"But if I take him out of the mud then I'LL get dirty!" said Ayame.
"But you'll clean off in five seconds too." Hatori pointed.
"Oh, my hair's getting ruined, I think I'll put on my rain bonnet!" said Ayame as he tied a flowery decorated rain bonnet and tied it around his head.
"Don't change the subject and pick up Akito before he suffocates." Said Hatori.
"Oh FINE." Said Ayame. "But I don't see why it has to be ME." And then he picked Akito up off the ground.
"I'm tired." Said Momiji again because everyone ignored him the first time around.
"How come you're carrying Kyo and not me?!" demanded Yuki.
"I'll carry Kyo so you can carry Yuki!" Kagura offered.
"YAY!!" cheered Tohru. "We're going out to eat! I'm so happy!"
"How much further do we have to go?" asked Shigure.
"My clothes are getting dirty!" exclaimed Ayame.
"At least you have clothes." Said Haru. Everyone then took the opportunity to look at Haru who had turned back to normal and he was IN HIS BIRTHDAY SUIT!
"EEEEK!!!" screamed Kagura and Tohru since they do that every time.
"So, Haru, here are your choices." Said Hatori. "You can either put on your clothes now and be wet while we're at the restaurant like me, or you can walk the rest of the way to the restaurant naked and then put your clothes on when we get to the restaurant."
After a moment's contemplation, Haru finally said: "I'll walk to the restaurant naked."
"I was hoping you wouldn't say that." Said Hatori with a sigh.
"Well. Sorry." Said Haru.
"Haru, put some clothes on!" said Kyo. "It's disturbing!"
"Why?" asked Haru.
"Because!!" yelled Kyo. "I don't want to see you naked!"
"Then don't look at me." Said Haru.
"You're right in front of me!!" Kyo yelled.
"Then move." Said Haru.
"I can't!" said Kyo as he squirmed around a little bit.
"Then close your eyes." Haru instructed.
"FINE!!!" yelled Kyo as he put his hands over his eyes. It probably didn't disturb him as much as he was letting on, he just had to prove his point.
"There it is!" said Ayame suddenly, pointing to the restaurant in the distance. It was one of those crazy places that serves breakfast all day long while also serving everything else. (Knowing that, of course, is completely irrelevant because it's not like they're going out to breakfast at some insane time so they would have been served breakfast regardless!)
Then they all frolicked happily to the restaurant and while the waitress was IN THE MIDDLE OF WELCOMING THEM TO HER RESTAURANT, they ran right by her and went to the bathroom so they could change their clothes into something dry.
"Where's all the dry clothes?" Hatori questioned to everyone who was there.
"In the bag." Shigure answered.
"What bag?" Hatori asked.
"The bag YOU were supposed to bring!"
"Why should I have to be in charge of a bag of dry clothes when I don't even have any?"
"I don't know! YOU'RE the only sensibly mature one!"
"Well…I brought dry clothes." Said Ayame, whipping out an entire outfit from behind his back that was on a clothes hanger with the little plastic layer over it as if he had just gotten it from the dry cleaner's.
"So am I just going to stay naked?" Haru asked as if it didn't REALLY bother him.
"No." said Hatori as he took of his OWN soaking wet jacket and draped it over Haru. Considering their humungous size difference, it was as if Haru was wearing…A DRESS THAT LOOKED A LOT LIKE A REALLY BIG COAT!!!
"But now I'm wet." Complained Haru.
"We all are." Said Momiji.
"Not Ayame." Shigure pointed out.
"Not me!" said Ayame proudly.
Then there was a knock at the door. They opened it to see Tohru and Kagura standing there.
"Were we supposed to be doing anything in the bathroom?" Kagura asked.
"No, let's just go sit down." Said Hatori as everyone went over to the waitress who was still standing there like a fool.
"I'm glad you've finally decided to allow me to welcome to into my restaurant!!" yelled the waitress whose name was Macramé.
"Um…sorry." Said everyone was they hung their heads low.
"It's okay." Said Macramé. "Welcome to Macramé and Spanky's Breakfast Fun Palace!! Would you like the smoking section or the non-smoking section?"
"Hm…" started Hatori but then Ayame cut in.
"We will NOT be poisoning so many young lungs with putrid smoke!" he declared. "We shall sit in the non-smoking section!"
Hatori and Shigure, being the smokers they are, were sad because they had been deprived of their precious life-shortening sticks for a few days now but that's okay because they shouldn't be smoking in the first place! They were so busy fighting back their horrible addictions that they didn't have time to ponder about Ayame's sudden noble turn. Perhaps he was simply fighting for his OWN lungs but just wanted to look COOL or something. That crazy Ayame!
Macramé nodded and grabbed a whole stack of menus and ran off like a fool and they all followed her. They only watched her push all the tables together herself and didn't offer their services because they didn't feel like helping her. Then they all sat down at the table and we'll show you how they were all sitting just because…we rule.
Shigure T Ayame
Akito A Hatori
Tohru B Yuki
Haru L Kagura
Momiji E Kyo
SURAH!!!
"Should I just order everybody pancakes?" started Hatori.
"WE HATE PANCAKES!!!!" everyone screamed at the very same time. Unfortunately, they screamed so loudly that the building exploded but then it reformed a second later, thankfully.
"Okay fine…" said Hatori a bit tentatively as he picked up his menu and hid behind it.
"I want Kangaroo Flapjacks." Said Yuki.
"Those are pancakes." Shigure pointed out.
"No." said Yuki. "They're Kangaroo Flapjacks."
"I want Kangaroo Flapjacks too!!" said Tohru.
"What do you want, Kyo?" Kagura asked as she shared her menu with Kyo. Yes, she was obviously taking FULL advantage of the fact that it was raining but WHY NOT?! Hey, if I were her then I would do it too!
"I'm not hungry!" Kyo said, swatting her menu away.
"Sure you are!" said Kagura with horseshoe eyes as she brought the menu RIGHT back! Of course, Kyo had used up all his energy on the previous swat so he couldn't very well do it AGAIN, so he figured that he might as well look at the menu since he was lying about not being hungry. "Well, if you don't tell me what you want then I'll just order something FOR you!"
"Fine!" said Kyo.
"Well…how about…" started Kagura, looking at all the pictures. "Oh! Let's get these with the strawberries on them! It comes with hash browns!!"
"What are you looking at?" Hatori asked, looking the menu up and down.
"The one in the upper right hand corner." Said Kagura.
Hatori looked at the picture. "Kagura, those are pancakes that come with strawberries."
"And hash browns!!" Kagura yelled.
"Okay…" said Hatori as he whipped out a piece of paper and started writing down all the orders as not to make another fatal mistake like last time. "Okay, Tohru, Yuki, Kyo, Kagura and I are getting pancakes. Anyone else?"
"Actually, I think I want pancakes too." Said Shigure.
"I guess I will too." Said Ayame with a sigh as if he were sacrificing himself for a good cause.
"Fine." Said Hatori, sounding ALMOST frustrated. "Well…Haru, Momiji? What do you two want?"
"I think…I want FOUR pancakes." Said Haru, putting his menu down.
"ME TOO!!!" cheered Momiji. "But I want the butter and bacon to be arranged like a happy face!!"
"Haru, you don't need FOUR pancakes." Said Hatori. "Neither do you, Momiji. I'll just get you both one."
"That's not fair." Said Haru, slamming his fist down on the table.
But Hatori ignored him and wrote everyone's orders. "I'll just get Akito a pancake too because I like pancakes and so should he." He declared. At that exact moment, Macramé came over ready to take their order!!!
"What'll it be?" Macramé asked in her voice that sounded like she was smoking since she was born while chewing a piece of gum loudly with her mouth open.
"We'll all take pancakes." Hatori said. "Only give those two at the end a single pancake and decorate it so it looks like a happy face. Those two have strawberries and hash browns. And those two have the Kangaroo Flapjacks. He's just having a pancake…actually, just make it a piece of a pancake. As for the three of us, just give us some sort of…pancake dish."
"WAIT!!!" screamed Ayame. "I don't want just some sort of REGULAR pancake dish!!"
"Too bad." Hatori said.
"No, I must give my special request." Said Ayame.
"Then do it." Hatori said with a sigh.
"I must have the most perfectly cooked pancakes." Ayame said. "And I only eat pancakes when they're perfectly round."
"Ayame…" started Hatori.
"As for my side of eggs, they must also be perfect." Ayame continued. "If you accidentally cook mine NOT perfectly then give it to either Hatori or Shigure and start mine over again."
"That's enough…" Hatori interrupted.
"Oh and…" started Ayame but Hatori just killed him. But he didn't really, he just put a piece of tape on Ayame's mouth. Ayame just peeled it off a second later so then Hatori killed him but he didn't really, he just put some kind of metal bar with rivets over his mouth but it was fake so it was just a sticky piece of metal but the stickiness can't hold up metal so it just fell off so Hatori decided that if Ayame tried to say anything else he would just kill him but not really and then really find some way to shut him up.
"Well it's a good thing that Hatori didn't REALLY kill Ayame." Said Shigure.
"Would you stop reading what the narrator says?" Hatori asked. "That didn't REALLY happen."
"I'll stop reading the narrator's lines if you answer my questions from now on AND tell me why you erased my memory!" Shigure compromised.
"No." said Hatori.
"And what'll you have for drinks?" asked Macramé.
"We'll just all have orange juice." Said Hatori.
"WE HATE ORANGE JUICE!!!!" screamed everyone as the building exploded again but reformed a second later. It also caused Hatori to go partially deaf in one ear but luckily it was only temporary so he's fine now.
Bet you think Hatori's going to go around the table and everyone's going to remember that they actually DO like orange juice. Well, no. They all actually hate orange juice like they said.
Everyone got various juices and milks and sodas but is it really important to know who got what?
So Macramé wrote everything down and then she left.
They twiddled their fingers for a few minutes without anything to talk about.
"I'm gonna make a castle out of the jelly packets!!" Momiji said randomly as he grabbed all the jelly packets off the table and started making a castle.
"Can I have one?" Haru asked as he took the peak of the castle before Momiji could even respond. Then, in record-breaking time, he opened the jelly packed and began eating the jelly as if that was a meal.
"HEY!!" Momiji whined. "That was my castle!!"
"Can I have another one?" Haru asked, taking another jelly packet.
"STOP IT!!!" Momiji cried as tears poured out like waterfalls.
"Kyo, stop making Momiji cry!!" yelled Ayame.
"Ayame, you don't have to scream." Said Hatori. "We're sitting right here."
"I didn't do anything…" Kyo said sadly.
"I believe you." Said Kagura. "Mostly because I'm watching Haru torture Momiji as we speak."
"Kyo…" said Ayame sternly.
"You have no idea what's going on over there." Said Hatori. "It is literally the opposite side of the table."
"We didn't sit very strategically." Said Shigure.
"OH WELL!!" said Ayame with a very flamboyant chuckle.
Macramé came back right then, carrying ALL the plates of pancakes as well as all the drinks all by herself without ANY platters at all. "We are very efficient here at Macramé and Spanky's Breakfast Fun Palace." She explained as she distributed all the stuff and didn't forget where a single meal went.
"Who is Spanky anyway?" asked Shigure.
"The cook." Said Macramé as she pulled out some exceptionally long straws from her apron. "He wanted me to make sure you all got these nice long straws." Then she left.
Everyone shrugged it off and started eating and drinking.
"Why does my pancake have a happy face on it?" Haru asked about five minutes later.
"Oh, I guess I accidentally ordered to one like Momiji." Said Hatori who was eating very properly with a napkin in his lap while sitting up very straight and with the knife and fork in the upright position and all that other stuff.
"I can't eat it!" said Momiji. "It's too happy!"
"Me neither." Said Haru. "I didn't want my pancake to have a face." It was just then that he noticed his parsley garnish. He picked it up and put it in his mouth and then started working on chewing.
"I didn't want pancakes." Said Kyo. "I hate pancakes."
"Then eat the hash browns!" said Kagura.
"There are onions in the hash browns!"
"Have you ever had hash browns that DIDN'T have onions in them?" asked Momiji as he fixed the bacon on his happy face pancake so that it looked happier.
"I've never had hash browns that DID have onions in them!" Kyo yelled. "I hate onions!" Kyo decided that these onion-infested hash browns offended him so he scrapped all of them into his napkin, tied the napkin up like a little hobo's bag and put it on the floor next to his chair.
So breakfast was more or less a disaster. Momiji didn't eat his pancakes because he felt bad, Haru didn't eat his because they had a face on them. Kyo simply ate the strawberries but left the pancakes while Kagura copied him even though she wanted the pancakes. She wanted Kyo to think that they had the same interests even though Kyo probably didn't even notice! Akito could no longer support the immense weight of his head so now he was face down in his pancakes. Tohru simply wasn't hungry! Shigure was too busy begging Hatori to tell him why he had erased his memory and Ayame couldn't eat a meal without brushed hair so he was making sure his hair was sufficiently brushed. (Actually, Ayame just needed a reason why he wasn't eating because it can't be a disaster unless NO ONE eats!) Yuki had gotten up to go to the bathroom and stepped on Kyo's hash browns and decided right then and there that he would have none of that and that Kyo could simply not get away with soiling his shoes like that!
Yes, I know that Kyo's the one who usually picks the fights but that's only to the untrained eye. Yuki's not all nice like he seems, he's really got an evil side! The Soumas like to call his evil side, BLACK YUKI!!!!
Just kidding. Yuki's evil side is not distinguishable enough from his regular personality to be a schizophrenic like Haru and Yuki is rarely ever mean. Ninety-nine times out of one hundred Kyo will be the one who picks the fight but this particular instance happens to be that ONE time where YUKI picks it!
"You put that there so I would step on it!" Yuki HOLL-ered as he pointed to Kyo. Kyo looked down at Yuki's feet and then back up at Yuki. He just didn't feel like doing his favorite thing in the world (which is fighting with Yuki) right now. DAMN THAT RAIN!!!
"No I didn't!" he yelled. "Now go away!"
"YEAH!!" yelled Kagura as she hugged Kyo into her small child-sized bosom.
Yuki was just about to retaliate when suddenly, Hatori stood up.
"Time to go." He announced as he picked up Akito.
"You mean we walked all the way here and we're leaving already?" Shigure whined.
"Yes." Said Hatori. "Let's go. Now."
Suddenly, a man wearing a chef's hat came over.
"Hi, I'm Spanky! Did you enjoy my pancakes?" the man asked. This man had a very noticeable lisp. Then Spanky noticed the numerous untouched plates of pancakes. "You insult me!"
"The parsley was good." said Haru.
"I poured my sweat into those pancakes and you just act as though it's nothing!" Spanky cried.
"I'm very sorry." Said Hatori. "I shouldn't have ordered them in the first place."
"Do you know how HARD it is to sweat for so many pancakes?!" Spanky continued.
"You LITERALLY sweat into the pancakes?!" Shigure screamed.
"Shigure, it's just a figure of speech." Said Hatori.
"Yes, yes I did!" Spanky announced.
"Wait…you did?" Hatori asked. Then he paused as he thought about the pancakes he had just consumed. "Why would you do that?"
"I like to put a little of myself into my work." Said Spanky. "Sometimes it's my sweat, other times I put in some hair or…"
"That's enough." Said Hatori as he looked as though he would vomit right then and there. He would have liked to pull out a cigarette to ease his pain and suffering but then he would set a bad example for the children and would never be able to tell them the harmful effects of smoking. IT'S BAD!!!
"Well, good thing I was too busy brushing my hair to eat so I did not anything grotesque that could potentially be harmful to my perfect complexion." Said Ayame.
"GROTESQUE?!" screamed Spanky. "GET OUT OF SPANKY'S RESTAURANT!"
"Spanky, it's my restaurant too!" whined Macramé.
"But they did not insult YOU." Said Spanky.
"And the service was bad too." Said Ayame just because he felt that if he was being kicked out ANYWAY, he might as well go out with a SHA BANG!!
"GASP!!!" screamed Spanky and Macramé. "NOW PAY US AND LEAVE!!!"
"Pay you?" Shigure said with a raised eyebrow. "Your pancakes were poisonous and disgusting."
"Well, HE ate them." Said Spanky, pointing to Hatori.
"That was BEFORE I found out that you poured your sweat into them, as you phrased it." Hatori replied.
"Fine then we're going to have to get the police involved!" said Spanky.
"We're ALL minors." Said Shigure.
"DARN!!!" said Macramé and Spanky since it didn't occur to them that even minors could get in trouble with the police and get community service and a fine. So they smoked at the ears so much that it was as if Shigure and Hatori's wishes were granted and they were in the smoking section but then they everyone was punted out of the restaurant faster than you can say 'Gomamon Digivolves to Ikkakumon!!'
"AND WE'RE NEVER COMING BACK!!!!" HOLL-ered Shigure but you couldn't hear him over the crash of thunder.
"It's still raining…" complained Kyo but suddenly, all the skies brightened up and it stopped raining and the flowers bloomed and birds were singing and then a BEAUTIFUL double rainbow formed and they followed it to the end and found a pot of gold!! But not really. But all that other stuff was true, just not the thing about the pot of gold. You can pretend as though they followed it to the end and found nothing but there was absolutely no pot of gold included in this story.
"To think what we could have done with that pot of gold." Said Shigure, snapping his fingers.
"Shigure, I thought we had a deal that if I answered your questions from now on then you would not speak to the narrator or refer to the narrator's pointless rants." Hatori said.
"No, the other part of the deal was that you would tell me why you erased my memory too." Shigure said.
"It was not." Hatori replied.
"You don't tell me, I don't stop conversing with the narrator." Said Shigure as he crossed his arms.
"You don't stop conversing with the narrator and I erase your memory so that you'll NEVER find out why I erased it in the first place." Threatened Hatori.
"It's not like you're going to anyway…" whined Shigure.
"I might if you comply with everything I say." Said Hatori.
"Is that a fact, Hatori?" asked Shigure.
"Can we please go home and not just stand here?" asked Kyo in a really whiny voice as he stood in between Hatori and Shigure with his arms folded while shivering since he was, after all, WET. Hey, they ALL were!! HAW HAW HAW!!!
"I guess that might be a good idea." Said Hatori.
"You can explain on the way home." Said Shigure as he rested his arm on Hatori's shoulder.
"Don't touch me." Said Hatori.
"Right!" said Shigure as he lifted his arm up. "Now you HAVE to tell me!"
Hatori groaned and slapped his forehead.