"We just realized that we should be watching you and not just standing out there like fools." Announced Shigure.
"Shigure, YOU may have been standing out there like a fool but I, for one, was standing outside in a very cool fashion." Said Ayame as he adjusted his collar. Hatori just shook his head and wondered why he willingly spent all his free time with these two.
"I'm bored…" complained Kagura as she looked around and realized that her two coloring buddies and her love had left her. Now she was stuck with two LITTLE kids!! AND THEY WERE BOYS!!! EWWW!!! Oh and Akito was there too.
Well…Akito's a boy too but it's not like he counts as a person who's actually there anyway.
"How about we play a game that EVERYONE can play?!" suggested Ayame. "Well, except for Yuki. He doesn't have to play."
"THAT'S NOT FAIR!!!" yelled Yuki.
"Not Haru since he'd slow down the speed of the game." Ayame continued.
"Hey." Said Haru.
"And not Kagura because she can be destructive." Said Ayame.
"That's not true!!" said Kagura even though it was.
"And not Kyo because he's the cat." Ayame said. He then paused as it was silent. He looked around for Kyo and waited a few moments for him to complain or argue but nothing came. "I SAID; And not Kyo because he's the cat!" repeated Ayame, a little louder. "Meaning that he can't play simply because he's a feline!"
"Ayame, obviously Kyo is not in the room at the present time." Said Hatori, wanting to shut Ayame up as he continued reading his best selling novel.
"Where could he be then?!" demanded Shigure since he was enjoying the torturing of the younger kids as well.
"In the bathroom?" suggested Hatori, not even looking up from his book to check where Kyo was.
"Brilliant." Said Ayame.
"Just move on." Shigure said.
"Oh all right." Said Ayame. "I can't very well make fun of Tohru so Momiji can't play either because he's a cry baby."
They paused again.
"Say…come to think of it, Tohru and Momiji aren't here either!" said Shigure.
"I would NOT slow down the game." Said Haru, looking offended.
"They can't ALL be in the bathroom!!" declared Ayame as he opened the bathroom door. "NO ONE is in the bathroom!!"
"Hatori, where are they?!" whined Shigure.
"How should I know?" Hatori said with a shrug. But then he stopped. "Wait, did you just say that they're missing?"
"Um…maybe…" said Ayame slowly.
"All right, what did you do with them?" sighed Hatori, putting his best selling novel down.
"Nothing!" said Ayame. "I came in here to mock them and all of a sudden, they weren't here! You were with me the whole time!!"
"I was reading though." Hatori pointed out.
"Well THAT was immature!" said Shigure. "You should have been watching us and the kids!"
"I shouldn't have to watch you two." Said Hatori. "You're old enough to be able to take care of yourselves."
"I didn't mean that." Said Shigure. "I meant that you should have been helping us watch the kids."
"Fine, fine." Said Hatori. "We should just find out where they are and then go and get them. And, since you guys are very mature, why don't YOU do all the work for once?"
"No problem!" said Shigure with a laugh.
"Let's ask around!" said Ayame, getting all excited. "Haru, where are Kyo, Momiji and Tohru?"
"I am not slow." Said Haru.
"Kagura?" Shigure said, wondering why they even bothered with Haru in the first place.
"Yes?" said Kagura.
"Where are they?" asked Shigure.
"Who?" asked Kagura.
"Momiji, Tohru and Kyo." Shigure replied.
"Kyo's HERE?!" Kagura asked, looking around. "I thought he left!!"
"Stop playing dumb!!" yelled Ayame. "We know you know where they are!!"
"Ha ha ha!" laughed Kagura.
"That suspicious little laugh tells me that you DO know where they are." Said Shigure as he rubbed his chin.
Kagura shook her head. "No. I was just laughing because Ayame got frustrated so easily."
MEANWHILE!!!
"THE FROGS IN THE POND ARE CALLING…MOMIJI YES IT'S TRUE!!!" sang Momiji in his horrible dub voice. If you were picturing him to be singing this song in Japanese, go back up to where it says MEANWHILE and picture it all over again only in English. If you don't know what he sounds like in English, then think about a whiney adult woman with no acting skills and then you'll have Momiji's dub voice! Of course, try and picture this whiney adult woman about nine years younger because Momiji is younger as well.
"ARGH!!" yelled Kyo. "If I have to hear that song one more time, I'm going to get REALLY angry!"
"That was only the first time!" Tohru said with a smile.
"SO?!" Kyo yelled. "I don't want to have to hear it again!!"
"Let's sing it again but you guys can echo!" said Momiji. Kyo grabbed Momiji's shoulder and pulled him close.
"You're not being a very good slave!" Said Kyo in Momiji's ear even though he said it loud enough so that Tohru could hear. "Slaves listen to their masters!"
"Well then let's not play slave and master anymore." Said Momiji.
"That was the whole reason you were coming!" Kyo pointed out.
"Well, I changed my mind." Said Momiji.
"You can't do that!" Kyo whined.
"Kyo's picking on me!" Momiji cried.
"I have an idea!" said Tohru, trying to break up confrontation. Kyo and Momiji turned their heads to Tohru and waited.
"Well?" asked Kyo after about a minute of waiting.
"What's your idea?" asked Momiji.
"How about we stop fighting!" Tohru said as if that were the best idea in the whole wide world.
"Well…maybe for now." Said Kyo. "But don't think it's because you convinced me or anything. It's just because…um…I don't feel like fighting with stupid over there anymore."
"I'm so glad!" Tohru said with horseshoe eyes.
"Oh Tohru!" Momiji cheered. "You SAVED me!"
Momiji lunged at Tohru and gave her a big rabbit-sized hug. It was rabbit-sized because he couldn't very well give her a hug without turning into one so I suppose it's impossible to receive a Momiji-sized hug unless the person hugging you were EXACTLY the same size/height/weight/proportion as our friend Momiji.
"Great!" said Kyo as he threw his arms up in the air. "This just figures! Well, I'M not carrying him! He can WALK!"
"I'll carry him!" Tohru suggested. She would have carried him even if Kyo hadn't blatantly and loudly refused.
"So where are we going?" asked Momiji the Rabbit.
"No speaking while you're a rabbit!" Kyo yelled. Then he cleared his throat. "We are going on a journey! It'll be a test of strength and wits to see who rises triumphant! We must all work together or else we will never reach our goal! The one who gets there first is the winner!!" Kyo was starting to get a little passionate about his little mission that he made up right then and there. "The treasure is there for the taking and it will be ours! And that damn rat won't get ANY of it!"
"MY EARS!" whined Momiji since his is so pure that swear words damage his ears no matter how minor they are. Tohru's ears hurt too but she was too busy holding Momiji to caress her own ears. Plus, she saw that Momiji was a rabbit and rabbits have HUGE ears to the pain that HE is going through but he ten times worse than the pain that she is going through and she should be grateful for not being cursed with the burden of turning into a rabbit when hugged by the opposite gender.
Of course, in thinking about Momiji's sad life, Tohru's eyes began to water.
"Wait…why are you crying?" asked Kyo. "This is going to be fun and we're going to be rich!"
"It's just that…" sniffed Tohru. "It's just that…you guys are so strong…to be living like this…day in and day out…I hardly hear you complain ever and to just go on smiling each day as if nothing is wrong. Acting as though everything is normal…"
"What are you talking about Tohru?" asked Momiji.
Since Kyo, no matter how brash and rude he may be, is a sucker when Tohru starts crying, he hit Momiji on the head and told him to shut-up.
This made Tohru laugh because 'Kyo was acting normal again' even though he was never really acting differently to begin with. She finally found the strength to continue on Kyo's nonsensical perilous journey.
MEANWHILE!!!
"They're not in the loft!" called Ayame from atop the loft down to Hatori who was frantically searching the cabin for the elusive three missing children.
"They're not on the roof!" said Shigure as he came back inside because he was outside…looking on the roof.
"And they're not down here…" Hatori said as the three of them stopped and all rubbed their chins at the same time. Then Yuki came inside.
"They're not in the back yard!" he said.
"And they're not in the front yard!" said Kagura as she ran back in the front door.
"And they're not in the bathroom." Said Haru as he shut the bathroom door behind him.
"Haru, we already established that." Said Hatori.
"I was just making sure in case you didn't see them." Haru replied.
"Well where could they be?" wondered Ayame.
And the six of them took that opportunity to ponder. Of course, they weren't all necessarily pondering about the whereabouts of Kyo, Momiji and Tohru, mind you! Yes, Hatori WAS but everyone else wasn't. Yuki was thinking about his cheese and granola and other things that he would like to be eating right now but couldn't be because they were confiscated from him. Kagura was thinking about the one thing she ever thinks about; KYO!! HAW HAW HAW!!! And Ayame was thinking about his one split end that he had just come across while he had been stroking his hair lovingly. Shigure was still brainstorming on why Hatori had erased his memory. Haru…well, he didn't have time to think about something before he was interrupted.
By…HATORI!! "You know," he started. "While we're just standing here pondering, they're probably getting further and further away."
"Who?" said everyone with a raised eyebrow.
Hatori paused. "Kyo, Tohru and Momiji." He replied.
"Oh right." Said Shigure. "But who ever said that they were outside in the first place?"
"Well they're not in here." Hatori said.
"When you say 'here', you mean the cabin right?" Ayame said.
"What else would 'here' mean?" Hatori said, looking annoyed.
"You have to learn to be more specific because not EVERYONE can read Hatori's mind." Said Ayame, crossing his arms.
"I got it!" said Kagura, slamming her fist into her palm. "I bet they drove the car somewhere!"
"There is no car!" said Shigure. "Hatori crashed it. Remember? You were there after all."
"There's no car?" Haru said, looking surprised. "Then how did we get here?"
"Here meaning the cabin, right?" said Ayame.
"No, the car." Said Haru. Then he paused. "Wait…no…it was the cabin. Actually, I don't really know now. I'm confused…"
"Imagine how I feel!" said Ayame, throwing his hands up in the air.
"I think we should go and find the other three kids…" started Hatori.
"Does anyone have a pocketknife that has a teeny little pair of scissors?" Ayame said suddenly.
"I do." Said Shigure, pulling a pocketknife out of his sleeve. "Why?"
"My split end." Ayame replied. "It's really bothering me." He then cut the little piece of hair off and the expression on his face making him look as though he were cutting off a few of his fingers. "Thank you." He said, handing the pocket knife back to Shigure.
"No problem." Said Shigure, sticking it back in his sleeve.
Then there was silence.
"Are you two done now?" Hatori asked.
"Yup." Said Ayame and Shigure, giving Hatori the thumbs up.
"Okay then." Said Hatori. "NOW let's go and find the three missing kids."
"Let's just go have Yuki, Haru, Akito and Tohru find them." Said Ayame, sitting down on the coach.
"I'm Kagura!" whined Kagura, throwing a temper tantrum.
"Right, whatever." Said Ayame, fishing around on the coffee table for a suitable magazine to read.
"But if we sent them out to look then they'd…" started Hatori but then he realized that trying to argue with Ayame was pointless. "Never mind. Shigure, how about you and I go and search for the kids and Ayame stays here to watch the other four?" Then he stopped again. "Wait, strike that."
"I'll stay here with Ayame then!" said Shigure since he really didn't want to go out and search anyway.
"But you two are definitely not responsible enough to stay home together with four children." Said Hatori. "So the thing to do would be for me to take Ayame with me to go and find the other kids because you, Shigure, are more mature than Ayame."
"Yes, this is true." Said Shigure.
"BUT, it doesn't look as though Ayame is going to be moving at all." Said Hatori, looking at Ayame who was reading his beloved Vogue Magazine.
"No he doesn't." agreed Shigure.
"So maybe we could ALL just go to find them." Said Hatori. "But then again…it's not like you two will do anything except complain so I might as well just take all the kids and go by myself."
"Very good!" said Shigure. "You figured it out all by yourself! Now hurry and find them before they get too far away!"
"But that doesn't make any sense." Said Hatori since he just came up with that previous idea just to make fun of Shigure and Ayame and never actually expected them to go along with it!
"Fine…we'll watch…Akito." Said Shigure, looking at Akito who wasn't going to move. Ever.
"And how about I leave another kid behind too?" Hatori suggested. "How about Haru? He doesn't ever do anything bad. Come to think of it…he doesn't ever do anything at all. And I'll also leave you with…Kagura."
"But I want to go meet Kyo!" whined Kagura.
"And I DON'T want to go meet Kyo!" said Yuki.
"Fine, I'll leave Yuki behind." Said Hatori. "Wait…no. Ayame and Yuki don't mix but then again…Yuki and Kyo don't mix either so no matter where Yuki goes it's going to be a conflict. I should probably just leave him behind so that there wouldn't be a disaster with the kids but…my common sense is telling me to take him with me."
"Don't worry!" said Shigure. "I'LL take good care of Yuki!"
"Shigure, I know from past experience that when Ayame starts making fun of Yuki or any child for that matter, you just join right in with him." Hatori said truthfully.
"Gasp!" said Shigure. "How dare you say such a thing! I am hurt!"
Hatori considered this for a good ten seconds. "Well, okay." He said. "I'll leave Yuki behind but if I get any stories about you torturing him then I'll never tell you why I erased your memory."
"OKAY!!!" said Shigure excitedly.
"All right." Said Hatori as he opened the door and left. Kagura followed after him.
Everyone didn't say anything for a minute.
"Where's Hatori going?" asked Haru.
Ayame looked up from his magazine. "Yeah, where IS Hatori going?"
"Um…I think he went…um…to the store or something." Said Shigure with a shrug as he walked over to the coach, pushed Akito down and then sat in the empty spot where Akito USED to be.
"What can I do for fun?" whined Yuki.
"Play with Haru." Said Shigure.
"But…" Yuki said, looking at Haru who was just standing there scratching his head with that blank, dazed Haru-ish look on his face, probably still wondering where Hatori and Kagura had wandered off to.
"Well, get his attention." Said Shigure. "Jiggle some keys or something!"
"I don't have any keys!" whined Yuki.
Shigure pulled some keys out of his sleeve. "Here." He said.
Yuki shook the keys a little bit until Haru finally realized that the keys were jiggling and started looking around until he finally located Yuki who was standing there with the keys. He looked at the keys and nodded in a very satisfied fashion as if his goal was completed…which it probably was. When Haru didn't change his reaction or say anything, Yuki groaned and handed the keys back to Shigure.
"Well, you got his attention, now go play with him!" Shigure urged.
"I didn't get his attention!" whined Yuki. "He's just confused again!"
"YUKI!!" yelled Ayame. "SHUT UP!!! I'M GETTING SICK OF HEARING YOUR STUPID VOICE!!!"
MEANWHILE!!!
"I'm getting tired!" complained Momiji.
"You haven't even been walking the whole time like me!" said Kyo as he stood up on a rock and looked all triumphant.
"I'm kinda tired too…" said Tohru.
"Well…I guess since you've been walking the whole time we can rest a little by that tree over there." Said Kyo.
"Can we rest by the river please?" Tohru asked in a very ditzy tone.
"No." said Kyo. "I said the tree."
"I like rivers though!" said Tohru.
"YOU can rest by the river but I'M resting by the tree!" said Kyo as he stomped over to the tree. Tohru didn't want to make Kyo feel bad about his tree so she went over to the tree too. "I thought you were going to rest by the river!"
"Well…I WANTED to but I wanted to rest with you more!" said Tohru.
"But…you DID want to rest by the river, right?" Kyo asked.
"Yes." Said Tohru.
"FINE!!!" yelled Kyo. "WE'LL REST BY THE RIVER!!!"
"But I wanna rest by the tree!" complained Momiji.
"Good!" said Kyo. "All the more reason to rest by the river!" Then he went over to the river and Tohru giggled and went over to the river too just as Kyo put the backpack that he had brought on the ground. "Now, I brought some supplies."
"Isn't that Yuki's backpack?" said Tohru.
"I hope not!" said Kyo as he opened the backpack only to realize that all the stuff in it belonged to Yuki. "Aw man!" said Kyo. "You mean to tell me that I've been carrying around Yuki's backpack this whole time? I have half a mind right now to just throw it in this river! As a matter of fact, I think I WILL!"
"No!" said Tohru as her eyes started watering. "Don't do it! I know you and Yuki have your differences but that's no reason to throw his stuff into the river!"
"He would do the same to me!" said Kyo.
"No he wouldn't!" said Tohru. "Because I would be here to stop him!"
"Well, I can't have Yuki topping me by listening to you." Said Kyo. "So I won't throw his stuff in the river but I'm not carrying it back."
"I'll carry it!" said Tohru.
"No!" said Kyo. "Momiji will carry it!"
"I don't wanna!" whined Momiji.
"That's okay, I'LL carry it!" said Tohru.
"Fine, I'LL carry it!!" yelled Kyo in a very frustrated tone as if he had been arguing for hours.
Tohru took this time to have some inner monologue. "Wow! I made a new discovery today about Kyo. I don't know exactly what it is but I know that I made a discovery and that it's very good. And I also know that whenever I make a new discovery, whether it be little or big, it always makes me happy! And since I'm happy right now, I must have made a new discovery. Making new discoveries about my friends makes me want to find out just a little more about them."
"So Kyo, what's your favorite color?" asked Tohru.
"What kind of stupid random question was that?!" yelled Kyo.
"I'M SORRY!!" said Tohru, waving her arms around foolishly.
"No, it's okay." Said Kyo. "Ask as many stupid random questions as you want. They're not stupid."
"Okay!" said Tohru. "I'm happy now!"
"THE FROGS IN THE POND ARE CALLING MOMIJI YES IT'S TRUE!!!" Momiji bellowed at the top of his lungs.
"SHUT UP!!!" screamed Kyo, hitting Momiji on the head.
"WAAA!" said Momiji, not sounding like he was really crying at all. "Kee-yo hit me!"
MEANWHILE!!!
Yuki was now doing a puzzle. It had about twenty-four huge pieces yet he was still struggling. It was also one of those foamy type puzzles so you could take it into the bath if you wanted to!
Haru was sitting all by himself, jingling keys.
Ayame and Shigure had left the room because they didn't want to be seen with the little kids even though no one was around to see them.
And you know what? Akito was doing something different. No, he wasn't being a lump. Well…yeah, actually he was. He was just a more LIVELY lump.
"Yuki…" he whispered.
Yuki looked up from his puzzle. "What?" he asked, looking around.
"Is Kyo bothering you?" Akito asked.
Yuki looked at Akito for a minute and didn't really say anything.
"Is Kyo bothering you?" Akito repeated, making a gesture that SO told Yuki to get his little fanny closer.
"Kyo's not here." Yuki answered, standing up.
"No, I mean in general." Said Akito in his creepy little kid voice. "Is Kyo an annoyance? Is he the fly in your soup?"
"Where have you been?" Yuki said, raising an eyebrow.
"I'm sorry." Said Akito. "I was just…confirming it."
"Well um…yeah, I guess he does bother me." Yuki said. "A lot."
"Yes…that is not uncommon." Said Akito. "The cat is the annoyance to the entire Souma family. But he is more than the cat. He is a monster."
"Um…okay…" said Yuki, getting a little scared.
"You, Yuki, are very special to me." Said Akito.
"Er…" started Yuki. "You kind of changed the subject…"
"Which is why I want to make sure that you are happy." Said Akito.
"Uh…" said Yuki, looking longingly back at his puzzle.
"Do I bore you, Yuki?" asked Akito, sounding creepier than ever before.
"No!" said Yuki. "I just…wanted to finish my puzzle. Not that I don't want to talk to you or anything…it's just that you haven't really said anything this whole vacation and I'm a little confused."
"Come closer, Yuki." Said Akito.
"Um…I think I'm close enough." Said Yuki.
"No." said Akito. "So I can reach you, Yuki."
"Uh…okay." Said Yuki, taking a few steps closer.
"Closer yet, Yuki." Said Akito.
"Why?" Yuki finally asked.
"Over here." Said Akito.
"What if I don't want to?" asked Yuki.
"I want to be able to hear you better." Said Akito.
Suddenly, the jingling stopped. "Yuki." Said Haru.
Yuki turned around to look at Haru who had already started his jingling again. "What?" asked Yuki.
Haru looked up. "Nothing." He replied.
Yuki looked back at Akito who didn't say anything so Yuki decided to go back to his puzzle.
"Don't worry, Yuki." Said Akito suddenly. "You are very important to me and as long as I'm around, Kyo will not bother you. Now finish your puzzle, Yuki, and never be afraid again."
Just then, Shigure and Ayame came around the corner chuckling warmly about something crazy that only they would find funny.
Then Ayame turned and looked at Yuki. "Yuki." He said mysteriously.
"WHAT?!" Yuki yelled, jumping up about ten feet in the air.
"Nothing." Said Ayame. "I just wanted to distract you from your puzzle. You were just so engrossed in your puzzle that I wanted to jerk you out of it for no reason."
MEANWHILE!!!
Hatori and Kagura were still standing outside the front door.
"Why aren't we looking for Kyo?" asked Kagura.
"Because we don't know if they went north, south, east or west." Hatori replied solemnly. "And if they went north and we end up going south then we would just be going in the complete opposite direction."
"Well…if they went north then why would we go south?" asked Kagura.
"We don't exactly know which way they went." Hatori answered.
"But you just said that they went north." Kagura pointed out.
"That was just an example." Hatori replied.
"But what if it's true?" Kagura asked.
"We don't know that for sure." Said Hatori, trying to remain patient with Kagura since she was still just a furling. "What if we go north and they actually went south?"
"Then we can go south." Said Kagura.
"I don't think you understand." Said Hatori.
"No, Hatori, I don't think YOU understand." Kagura said, putting her hands on her hips.
"Excuse me?" Hatori said.
"You're excused." Said Kagura.
Hatori decided to ignore her and took a glance around in vain hope that maybe they were just chilling around the yard or perhaps they had returned from wherever they had gone. But alas, they were nowhere to be seen.
"How far could they have possibly gone?" Hatori wondered out loud. "I mean, they're just a couple of kids…"
MEANWHILE!!!
"Wow!" said Kyo as he pushed the door open to a convenient store. "I knew I recognized this store!"
"I remember how long the drive was!" said Tohru happily.
"I wasn't there." Said Momiji. Oh, just in case you didn't already know, which you probably didn't, Momiji has turned back into a human. He turned back a long time ago but you didn't know because we didn't tell you but now you have no excuse for not knowing because here we are making a big deal about it.
"Let's get a lot of supplies!" said Kyo as he ran down one of the isles. Convenient Store Bob watched them run down and then waited for their parental supervision to walk in the door.
But obviously none did.
When Kyo, Tohru and Momiji approached the cash register with their arms filled with assorted goods and items and placed it all on the counter, Convenient Store Bob became suspicious! After all, he was a very suspicious fellow. "Do you three have any money?"
"Nope!" said Kyo. "Do we need any?"
"Yes." Said Convenient Store Bob.
"Can you let it slide just this once?" asked Momiji.
"No, I'm going to have to ask where your parents are." Said Convenient Store Bob.
"They're at home!" said Tohru. "We're here on a vacation with some of our friends who are old enough to drive."
"My mom is always in my heart!" said Momiji but he was ignored.
"Where are you staying?" asked Convenient Store Bob.
"The Souma Cabin!" said Kyo. Since the Soumas are such rich and prominent people and probably even owned the convenient store too, Convenient Store Bob knew who they were.
"I'm a Souma too!" said Convenient Store Bob. "Do you three happen to know my nephew Ritsu?"
"Wow!" said Tohru. "I've met another member of the Souma family! I always get so happy! Are you a Jyuunishi person?"
"No." said Convenient Store Bob Souma. "Are you?"
"I'm not even a Souma!" chuckled Tohru.
"GASP! And you know the secret?!" gasped Convenient Store Bob Souma.
"Well…YOU do." Said Kyo.
"I'm a Souma." Said Convenient Store Bob Souma.
"Oh…oh right." Said Kyo.
"So you three are staying at the Souma Cabin and you're not even Soumas?!" demanded Convenient Store Bob Souma.
"No, we're Soumas." Said Kyo, pointing to himself and Momiji.
"And we're members of the Jyuunishi too!" said Momiji. "I'm the rabbit!"
"And what animal are YOU?" Convenient Store Bob Souma asked Kyo.
"That's none of your business." Said Kyo, crossing his arms.
"He's the cat!" said Tohru knavishly.
"YOU are the cat?" said Convenient Store Bob Souma. "As a proud member of the Souma family, I must hold utter prejudice against you for no reason whatsoever."
"Well I'm used to it." Said Kyo, scoffing.
"That's not very nice!" said Tohru. "I know plenty of Soumas that aren't prejudiced!"
"Well, members of the Jyuunishi don't count." Said Convenient Store Bob Souma.
"Why not?" asked Tohru. "Would you think they'd count as DOUBLE or even TRIPLE?"
"Um…no." said Convenient Store Bob Souma.
Suddenly, the little bell to the door rang which signaled a new customer coming in.
"Uncle Bob?" came a voice. Convenient Store Bob Souma turned his head to see his ten-year-old cousin who turned into a monkey upon hugging someone of the opposite gender whose name just so happened to be RITSU!!
"Speaking of the devil!" Convenient Store Bob Souma said excitedly. "What are you doing here…"
"OH NO!!!" Ritsu yelled as he clutched onto his head and screamed. "WHAT HORRIBLE THINGS I MUST HAVE DONE TO BE CONSIDERED AS THE DEVIL HIMSELF!!! I AM HORRIBLE!! I AM TERRIBLE! I SHOULD DIE RIGHT NOW!! I'M SORRY FOR EVER COMING INTO YOUR LIVES AND MAKING YOU THINK SO POORLY OF ME AND HAVING MY HORRIBLENESS REFELECT UPON MY FAMILY!!!"
Suddenly, Ritsu's mother ran into the restaurant as fast as she could.
"I DIDN'T HEAR WHAT HORRIBLE THING MY SON MUST HAVE DONE BUT WHATEVER IT IS, I'M SO SORRY!!" she yelled ever louder than Ritsu. "I AM BUT A WORM IN YOUR PRESENCE!!"
"AND I AM LOWER THAN A WORM!!" Ritsu wailed.
"I was kind of glad that we had left him behind in the first place…" said Kyo quietly. Ritsu's mother heard him with her impeccable hearing.
"I'M TERRIBLY SORRY THAT MY SON IS SO BAD THAT YOU WOULD LEAVE HIM BEHIND PURPOSEFULLY!! I THOUGHT YOU LEFT HIM BEHIND ACCIDENTELY BECAUSE HE WAS NOT ON TIME OR BECAUSE OF SOME OTHER FAULT ENTIRELY DERIVED FROM HIMSELF!!! NOW I KNOW THAT HE WAS LEFT BEHIND BECAUSE EVERYONE HATES HIM!!! OH GOMENASAI!!!" (I haven't heard dub-Ritsu or dub-Okami/The Land Lady so I don't know how crazy they sound when they rant. I assume they won't sound as horrible as dub-Momiji but that's not saying much because NO ONE can sound as horrible as dub-Momiji. Oh gomenasai.)
MEANWHILE!!!
"I finished my puzzle!!" shrieked Yuki suddenly as he sprung up and was just about to do a little jig but then realized that everyone around him would most likely make fun of him if he did. I mean, everyone was already giving him a skeptical glare after shrieking foolishly.
"I'm so happy for you, Yuki." Said Ayame.
"No you're not!" said Yuki.
"What do you mean?" said Ayame. "I am SO proud of you!"
"You're just making fun of me!" Yuki said angrily.
Ayame gasped. "ME? Make fun of YOU? Come now, I think you know me better than THAT!"
"Yeah, that's the point." Said Yuki.
"Yuki, I just absolutely love you." Said Ayame.
"Ayame, don't tease Yuki." Laughed Shigure.
Then Ayame and Shigure chuckled warmly together at Yuki who started sniffling pathetically.
Just then, Hatori and Kagura walked back in the door.
"Where's everyone else?" asked Shigure.
"We figured it was pointless to wander aimlessly off in a random direction." Hatori replied.
"But if you were going in a direction then it wouldn't be aimless." Said Ayame.
Hatori decided to ignore Ayame.
They stood there in silence for…um…a certain amount of time until suddenly, the doorbell rang!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
"I thought the power was out." Said Hatori.
"It came back on while you stood outside doing nothing." Said Ayame, crossing his legs and getting comfortable. Everyone looked at each other for a good seven seconds. "Answer the door, Hatori!!!"
"Why are you two incapable?" asked Hatori.
"Because you're the closest!!" yelled Ayame. Hatori couldn't argue with THAT logic so he turned around and opened the door since the door was in arm length. When he opened it, he saw some random man, Kyo, Tohru and Momiji!!!
"I found a few stray Soumas!!" said the man.
"I'm not a Souma!" chuckled Tohru.
"Thank you." Said Hatori as he slammed the door on the guy's face only after pulling the three children in the door. He was just about to lecture them in great length when there was another knock at the door. He opened it and the guy was still standing there.
"You know, I'M a Souma too." Said the guy who was actually Convenient Store Bob Souma.
"That's great." Said Hatori as he was JUST about to slam the door again but Convenient Store Bob Souma put his foot in the door.
"You know, I had a feeling you were going to do that!" said Convenient Store Bob Souma. "That's why I put my foot in the way."
"Er…okay." Said Hatori.
"Do you mind if I come in?" asked Convenient Store Bob Souma. "I've been here before! I came on a vacation here a few years ago."
"We're using the cabin right now." Said Hatori.
"Don't mind if I do!" said Convenient Store Bob Souma as he pushed right by Hatori and started strolling in the house. Everyone who was already inside looked at Convenient Store Bob Souma and then at Hatori and then back at Convenient Store Bob Souma and then back at Hatori and then back at Convenient Store Bob Souma and then…then they didn't look at anything. They just closed their eyes.
"Um…what's he doing here?" Shigure asked Hatori.
"He says he's a Souma." Said Hatori.
"Well he's not welcome on our Jyuunishi, Tohru, Kyo and Akito Adventures in a Cabin!" said Ayame, standing up as if he were appalled.
"GASP!!" said Convenient Store Bob Souma. "Are you all part of the zodiac curse?"
"Please just leave." Said everyone.
"NO!!!" said Convenient Store Bob Souma who will just be known as Bob from now on. "So guys, what should we do?"
Everyone didn't know how to tell Bob to leave since they had already tried asking him nicely and that obviously didn't work because he was still here and he thought he was included.
"Do you mind if I watch the television?" asked Bob.
"There is no television." Said a random child who had already searched the house for a television.
"YES THERE IS!!!" screamed Bob as he ran over to a cabinet and opened it and then spun some stuff around until it finally revealed a television just kind of being a television.
"YAY!!!" cheered the kids.
"You're not welcome here." Said Ayame to Bob.
"Oh so the cat's welcome and I'm not?" said Bob, pointing at Kyo.
"Yes." Said everyone as they killed Bob and then buried his body in the backyard. But just kidding. They just punted him out of the house right into the convenient store which meant that they now had his car!!! HURRAH!!!