THE NEXT MORNING!!!
The morning was very still. Suddenly, Ayame sat straight up in bed with his finger pointed in the air.
"I've got it!!" he bellowed. This, of course, caused everyone that was up in the loft to awaken. That means that Shigure and Hatori woke up because Ayame was ALREADY awake.
"What have you got?" whined Shigure who was obviously enraged about being awakened early. Of course, you couldn't tell that he was enraged because he was still half asleep and he was whining.
"An idea!" Ayame replied, not lowering his voice at all.
"That's a first." Said Hatori which caused everyone else to wake up in the entire cabin!! They were all angry at Hatori for waking them up. Oh well!
"So what was your idea?" asked Shigure as everyone sat around the kitchen table.
"It's an idea of what we can do today." Ayame replied as he poured himself a bowl of cereal. It was that soggy box of cereal that we described earlier but that didn't bother him. Everyone was eating.
"Were we even brainstorming on what we could do today?" wondered Hatori out loud.
"Well, it's just that yesterday was a very confined day because we didn't have a car AND it was raining outside." Ayame started. "So I figured we could take our recently acquired car out on this sunny day and explore to see if there's any civilization near by and perhaps do some shopping."
"YAY!!!!" cheered Kagura and Tohru.
"Sounds okay to me." Said Shigure.
"All right." Said Hatori with a shrug.
"Wow!" said Ayame. "Hatori actually agreed with one of my ideas without bringing up an argument or possible flaw!"
Everyone gave a mighty cheer and went outside and were JUST about to pile into the car when they realized that it was a two seats in the front and three seats in the back kind of cars.
"Well, here's the flaw." Said Hatori. "Convenient Store Bob Souma owned a very small car. Now, either some of us can't go, we all cram in uncomfortably or some of the smaller animals can sit on Tohru's lap."
"HURRAY!!!" cheered Tohru.
"Any volunteers?" Hatori asked.
"I will." Said Haru.
"No…you'd actually be bigger." Said Hatori.
"I still volunteer." Said Haru as if he was now passionate about turning into his animal.
"Well, let's figure this out strategically." Said Hatori. "Now, I'll be driving and Shigure…you can stay human and sit in the passenger seat since you're pretty big as a dog too. Ayame, you can turn into a snake and…"
"Wait…why?" demanded Ayame.
"Because you're one of the biggest ones here as a human but as an animal, you're one of the smallest ones." Hatori explained.
"Same goes for you." Said Ayame, crossing his arms.
"I'm just a better driver than you, then." Said Hatori.
"Um, excuse me Mr. I-think-I'll-just-go-out-and-blow-up-the-car?" Ayame said, tapping his foot. "I wasn't the one who blew up the car."
"That was a freak accident." Hatori answered.
"It was still an accident." Said Ayame. "What if one of the children had gotten hurt?!" Hatori was about to retort when Ayame interrupted him with; "You have no argument! Plus, it was my idea to go into town so just let me drive! Now just give Tohru a nice big hug and we can finally be on our way!"
"Yeah, give me a nice big hug!" cheered Tohru as she jumped up and hugged Hatori's legs so he turned into a seahorse!! HURRAH!!! SEAHORSES ARE SO MUCH FUN!!!
"See? You might as well now since you're already a seahorse!" chuckled Shigure since this whole argument didn't really concern him so he could say stupid things like that. But then again, Shigure can ALWAYS say stupid things like that even if he IS in an argument that concerns him. That crazy Shigure!
"As long as I remain dry…" started Hatori the Seahorse.
"Stop!" said Shigure. "I can't take you seriously when you're a seahorse. Just don't talk or anything."
"Just remember to bring my clothes." Said Hatori.
"OH NO!!" screamed Tohru. "I need to get water!!"
"Not yet, Tohru." Said Ayame.
"All right, everyone except for Haru go and hug Tohru!" Ayame instructed.
"But I wanted to hug Tohru." Complained Haru even though he probably just made that up right then and there.
So they all took their turns hugging Tohru and she carried Hatori, Kyo, Yuki and Momiji into the car and sat them down on her lap looking FAR too content. Kagura sat in the middle and Haru sat on the other side. Shigure sat in the front with Akito on his lap and…OH NO!!! AYAME SAT IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT!!! ARGH!!
"READY?!" yelled Ayame as he stuck the key into the ignition but he put it in upside down. "Oops." He chuckled as he fixed it and started the car. He started driving at about two miles an hour down the middle of the road. It was a good thing that they were practically in the middle of nowhere or else there would be some ungry people behind them beeping their crazy horns like fools NOT TO MENTION the fact that he was driving down the middle of the road but I really already said that.
"A little faster, Ayame." Said Hatori.
"Hatori, if you talk again then we're going to throw you out the window." Shigure threatened.
Hatori knew that Shigure would NEVER throw him out the window but he decided that he never really talks anyway and just let Shigure feel like he had accomplished something.
"I'm bored." Said Haru. "I wish I were a cow right now. If only I had hugged Tohru then I would be a cow and I would be happy."
"Being an animal shouldn't make you happy." Said Kagura since she was really the only one who was listening to him or heard him for that matter.
"Have you ever been a cow before?" Haru said as if being a cow just made the world go round.
"No, but I have been a boar." Kagura answered.
"I think if you asked anyone in the entire world then they couldn't tell you what it's like to be a cow." Haru continued. "But then you could come and ask me and then I'd be able to tell you."
"That's nice Haru." Said Kagura.
"Well, being the only person in the world who is half cow does give you certain advantages." Haru said as if he was making any sense.
"What sort of advantages?" asked Kagura.
"My hair is naturally two colors." Haru answered.
"You're not half cow!" said Kyo from Tohru's lap who had just tuned in to the conversation. "You're just a person who turns into a cow!"
"I am a cow." Said Haru. "I am 50 percent cow."
"No you're not." Said Kyo.
"Yes I am." Haru said.
"I wouldn't call it HALF-COW…" said Yuki who had begun to listen as well. "When I hear that, it makes me think of some horrible mixture between a person and a cow with…I don't know, a cow head and a person body or something."
"I wish I looked like that." Said Haru.
"No you don't!!" yelled Kyo.
"The coolest thing about being a cow is being bigger than everyone else." Haru said.
"I like being a bunny!" said Momiji.
"Being a cow is better." Haru said.
"How could you like turning into animals?" asked Kagura. "I hate it."
"That's just because you're a pig." Haru said. "If you were a cow like me, you'd love it."
"Stop saying you love it!!" Kyo yelled, throwing a temper tantrum. "You're just trying to make fun of us because we're animals!!"
"No, I'm jealous." Haru said. "I wish I were an animal right now. But what I'd really like to be is a cow. Sometimes I try to imagine being some other animal but then I get really sad because I stop to think how lucky I am that I'm the cow."
"Haru, are you being sarcastic?" asked Hatori who wanted to join in on the animal conversation.
"Well…at least I'm not a seahorse." Said Haru.
"Yeah…" said everyone.
"Here's Spanky and Macrame's Breakfast Fun Palace!" said Ayame as they drove past Spanky and Macrame's Breakfast Fun Palace.
Everyone looked out the window and then yelled at Ayame to drive faster because this only went and showed them all JUST how slow Ayame was actually driving.
"FINE!!" yelled Ayame. "I'll put the pedal to the metal!!" And that's what he did. And they drove really fast for a little while until he was finally yelled at to slow down. "Drive faster, drive slower! GEEZUMS!! WHICH ONE?! WILL YOU MAKE UP YOUR MINDS ALREADY?!"
Just then, everyone looked out the window to see a sign that said, 'Welcome to Swellsville!! Population: 90'
Even though this doesn't really happen in real life, as they entered the town, the counter went up to 100!!! HURRAH!!!
"We are ten percent of the population." Said Hatori.
"Hatori, seahorses are seen and not heard." Shigure said.
"HERE'S A PARKING SPOT!!!" screamed Ayame as he tore into a parking lot that had more than a hundred spots in it.
"If every single person had a car in this town had a car then everyone would be able to find a spot!" said Yuki.
"Why would EVERYONE have a car?!" demanded Ayame. "What if there's a baby or something?! Why would a baby drive?! Or have his own car for that matter?! That's really stupid, Yuki."
"I thought it was clever…" whined Yuki.
All of the humanoids exited the car. They waited around for about three minutes for all the animals to turn back into humans and then they got far too impatient and ran off and told the other group to meet up with them later.
This meant that Shigure, Ayame, Akito, Kagura, Haru and Tohru left Hatori, Yuki, Momiji and Kyo behind just in case you couldn't figure that out in your head. Unless you figured that out and then read this paragraph then you wasted some of your precious, much needed brain cells that you certainly can't spare thinking about something that we were about to tell you.
"That was so mean!!" whined Momiji as he turned back into a human right then and there!! He then got over his sadness and got dressed in one of his horrible and flamboyant Momiji-ish outfits. "I'm gonna go and catch up with everyone else!" he declared.
"No you're not." Said Hatori who was STILL a seahorse. "You are going to wait for the rest of us to turn back and then we'll all leave together."
Just then, by some bizarre and unexpected coincidence, Kyo and Yuki both turned back to humans at the exact same time!! They argued about who turned back first as they got dressed.
They waited very not-so-patiently for about ten seconds before becoming bored.
"Can we just go now?" asked Yuki.
"No." Hatori answered. "You must wait for me."
"But we're bored!" whined Kyo.
"Too bad." Said Hatori.
"Well…we're going to leave anyway." Said Kyo.
"We are?" said Momiji.
"WE ARE!!" yelled Kyo, getting all determined.
"YEAH!!" said Yuki. "I'm not agreeing with you because I was going to suggest that anyway."
"ALL RIGHT!!!" agreed Momiji, getting excited.
"Bye Hatori, see you when you change back!" said no one in particular except for Momiji and Hatori. Then they ran off before Hatori could command them to come back. He could have chased after them if he were any animal except for a seahorse but unfortunately for him, he WAS a seahorse.
"All right, we're three mischievous young boys in a foreign town and we have no supervision!" said Yuki.
"What does 'mischievous' mean?" asked Momiji. Yuki and Kyo looked at Momiji and then ignored him.
"I've got it!" said Kyo. "Let's go into a restaurant, eat the most expensive thing on the menu and then leave…WITHOUT PAYING!!!"
"YEAH!!!" said all two of them. Then they ran into the most restauranty looking place they could and sat down at the counter.
"Where are your parents, children?" asked the guy behind the counter. He was GOING to call them young boys but then he looked at Yuki and Momiji and realized that two out of three of them were GIRLS!!! Yes, WE know that they're really boys but this crazy man behind the counter who will be referred to as Jyou didn't know that!
"They're…uh…not here." Said Yuki.
"I can't serve you if you don't have any supervision." Said Jyou.
"Why not?!" demanded Kyo, slamming his hand down on the counter. "Since when is that a law?!"
"Well…do you have any money to pay?" asked Jyou as he started cleaning a glass with a rag.
"He's on to us!" Kyo whispered to the gang. Of course, since he's a little kid he didn't realize that his whispering was really just him talking only leaned over in the direction of the person he wanted to talk to.
"Why don't you three kids get your parents?" suggested Jyou.
"Let's get out of here!!" screamed Momiji. Then he and the other two darted out of the restaurant as fast as they could. Jyou didn't really care since he knew that their parents weren't going to come.
"Got any other plans?" Yuki said.
"How about…we go into a store and break something that looks really expensive?!" said Kyo.
"YEAH!!!" they ALL said. They were just about to run into a store when they rounded the corner and crashed into someone. Specifically, YUKI crashed into KAGURA!! This caused Yuki to turn into a rat. JUST KIDDING!! You should know by now if you've watched the show that when cursed people hug each other, nothing happens.
But, instead of Yuki turning into a rat, there was a chain reaction that started! The chain reaction wasn't very long or complicated. All that happened was that when Kagura crashed, she let out a girly scream and Tohru ran over to see what was wrong and since Haru was STILL walk ever so aimlessly, he crashed into Tohru and turned into a cow!! SURAH!!
"Isn't it great, Haru?!" said Tohru. "You WANTED to turn into a cow and now you did! Aren't you so happy now?"
Haru looked around at his shredded clothing just fluttering to the ground since, after all, he DID get bigger so instead of his clothes just being in a pile around him like everyone else, all of HIS clothes get torn into a zillion pieces because they're small and he's large.
"Isn't it great, Haru?" Tohru repeated since Haru seemed to not have heard her and you can never really tell with Haru.
"My clothes are ruined." Said Haru. "Stupid…big…cow body."
"Hey, where's Hatori?" asked Ayame. "Shouldn't he be watching you three?"
"He SHOULD be." Said Kyo. "But he's still in the car. Actually, he might be someplace else but for all we know, he's still in the car…just lying there."
"What an irresponsible lazy bum!!" said Ayame. "Here we are carting seven kids around a town and Hatori's just lying in the car!"
"He's probably sleeping." Said Shigure who had Akito in a papoose.
Just then, Hatori walked around the corner buttoning his top button. "There you are." He said though he didn't sound TERRIBLY anxious. But then again, Hatori's voice shows little emotion. "Wait…Haru's a cow. Why?"
"Because he crashed into Tohru." Said Ayame.
"No, Tohru crashed into ME." Said Haru.
"No I didn't!" said Tohru with horseshoe eyes.
"Did anybody see you?" Hatori asked.
"I don't know." Haru said but he suddenly turned back into a person right then and there!!! "I think people saw that though."
"WOW!!" said some random person. "Didja see that, Pappy? That thar moo-cow just turned inta a real boy raht in front a' mah eyes!"
"I have never been so embarrassed!" said Haru who was just standing there naked. "He called me a moo-cow!"
"How'd that happen?" asked the random person's father who was wearing a fedora with a long red feather in it and a few fishing hooks.
"Well…if you and your son and anyone else who just saw that would just come with me into an excluded area where no one will see anything then I will explain everything to you entirely." Hatori said with intentions of just erasing everyone's memories.
"A MAGIC SHOW!!!" screamed some girl with a pink bow and blond curly hair and an overly cutesy pink dress.
"Yes." Said Hatori. "A magic show. It was just a trick. I was GOING to explain that to you but this girl did a good enough job that I don't have to say anything else. Now…if you'll excuse us…"
And Hatori had a Hulk moment and hoisted everyone except for Tohru above his head and carried them around the corner since there seem to be a lot of corners to walk around in this town. "Let's just leave now." He said to everyone when they were out of earshot.
"NO!!" yelled everyone.
"We haven't even gone into any stores yet!" said Ayame.
"And I'm naked." Said Haru.
"Isn't that a reason that we SHOULD leave?" Hatori said.
"No." said Haru. "We should stay longer."
"All right, let's get Haru some new clothes and then get out of here." Hatori said.
"I want my old clothes." Haru said.
"Here's all the pieces I could find!" Tohru said since she felt bad about ruining Haru's clothes and handed Haru all the shredded pieces of his clothes. She then realized that he was naked and she was a girl so she shrieked and hid behind someone.
"This is the last straw." Said Haru. "I am turning into Black Haru."
"Why?" asked some confused person.
"This was my favorite shirt." Haru explained. "It was my H is for Haru shirt."
"You mean H is for Horse, right?" asked Momiji.
"No." said Haru. "H is for Haru."
"I distinctly remember it saying H is for Horse." Said Momiji.
"H is also for Hatori!" said Tohru knavishly.
"I thought it said H is for House." Said Yuki.
"It said H is for Haru." Said Haru.
"Let's just quickly go now." Said Hatori as he had another Hulk moment and pushed them into a little kids store that sold toys AND clothes!! HURRAY!! So, while everyone was off picking out toys (including Ayame and Shigure), Hatori took Haru over to pick out clothes.
"I want to go pick out a toy." Said Haru.
"I hate to say it, Haru, but I think you're running out of clothes almost as fast as I am." Said Hatori. "I'm actually wearing Shigure's clothes right now."
"So?" said Haru.
"Well, what I'm saying is that you're going to get clothes instead of a toy." Hatori said.
"That's not fair." Said Haru. "I want clothes AND a toy."
Hatori wasn't about to sit here and argue with Haru.
"I want crayons." Said Haru.
"We have crayons back at the cabin." Hatori said.
"No we don't." Haru said.
Once again, Hatori wasn't going to argue with Haru and just allowed him to pick out some crayons and then got him some clothes to last him until they got home.
"So is everyone ready to go?" asked Hatori as he went to the cash register. Everyone ran up with their toys. We'll tell you what they got so you don't have to think of it later. And plus, it'll come up later on.
Haru got his crayons. Kyo got himself a stamp and ink with a big letter K on it. OH WHAT WILL HE DO WITH THAT?! Kagura got a little kid's make-up kit. Momiji got Wheelchair Olympic Barbie. Tohru got a bead set with about ten thousand beads Yuki got the board game: MOUSETRAP!!! No pun intended. Actually, yes. It was intended. Ayame got Pretty Pretty Princess because that game always makes him feel pretty. Shigure got a Make-Your-Own-Diary from Jazzy Jewelry. Akito got some Play-Doh. Hatori decided that he was too old to be getting foolish toys so he just got himself one of those lollipops that spins when you press the button!! It had TAZ on it!!
"Let's go home now." Said Hatori as he pocketed his lollipop, saving it until no one was looking.
Then they all went home. We're not going to describe it because we don't feel like it. And if we don't feel like doing something in a story that WE'RE writing, no one is going to tell us otherwise. So, if you really want to, YOU can write the car ride home and then give it to us. We won't submit it under this name and we probably won't read it either so don't bother wasting your time.