"Who will help me set up Mousetrap?" Yuki asked, tearing the box of his game open so he would never be able to use that box again.
"I'LL help, Yuki!" gasped Ayame, kneeling down next to Yuki.
"No!" said Yuki. "Not YOU! You'll just ruin it!"
"No I won't!" Ayame insisted as he started setting it up. Yuki wasn't about to argue because it was getting done. Finally, when Ayame finished, he put all four of the little colored mice under the cage and let it fall down on them and then sat there chuckling warmly to himself since that is a very satisfying feeling so I can only IMAGINE how satisfying it can be if you're a mean older brother who's doing it to his little brother who turns into a rat.
AND AS IF THAT WASN'T ENOUGH, he reached behind him and grabbed Tohru, who was making friendship bracelets for everyone, by the collar and then threw her at Yuki, TURNING HIM INTO A RAT!! Then he pulled out a shoebox that was just lying around the house and dropped it on Yuki.
"That gets me every time!" laughed Ayame, slapping his knee and standing up. Of course, he kicked over the little set up of mousetrap because he was finished with his cruel trick and couldn't have Yuki enjoying himself because of something HE did! NOW THAT WOULD BE BAD!!
"Are you okay, Yuki?" Tohru exclaimed, throwing the shoebox off of Yuki. He turned back into a person right then and there and clothed himself so that we won't have to deal with him being a rat. YAY!!
Tohru decided to go back to her beads and pretend as though she didn't hear Yuki's request to play Mousetrap with him.
"I'm going to make everybody a bracelet!" Tohru declared. "And you'll all have a different color!" She was sitting at the craft table with Shigure, Akito and Haru as they played with their new toys. "Does anybody want a specific color?"
No one really answered her because they were far too engrossed in their activities. Haru was coloring, Shigure was decorating his brand new diary and Akito was lying there with his head on the table with his Play-Doh was next to his head but he was still in the papoose.
"Shigure?" she asked. "Do you want any color for your bracelet?"
Shigure looked up from gluing a doily on the cover of his diary. "What?" he asked, looking around.
"I'm making you all friendship bracelets!" Tohru exclaimed, not sounding frustrated at all. "What color do you want yours to be?"
"Um…I don't mind." Shigure replied. "Er…green…and um…orange."
"Okay!" said Tohru. "How about you, Haru? Should I just make it white and black like a cow since you like cows so much?" she added with a foolish chuckle.
"I'm coloring." Haru said. Tohru figured that she probably wouldn't get a straight answer out of Haru so she only decided to make it black and white like a cow whether he liked it or not. BUT OF COURSE HE WOULD LIKE IT!!!!
"Do you want a certain color, Akito?" Tohru asked with horseshoe eyes. Akito only kind of grunted and twitched so Tohru decided to make him one with the brightest colors she could find so make him happier!!
"WIN THE OLYMPICS, BARBIE!!!" shrieked Momiji as Wheelchair Olympic Barbie wheeled past Tohru. She was soon followed by Momiji who was cheering and waving his arms in the air. Momiji ran by Tohru and grabbed Olympic Wheelchair Barbie when she didn't have any momentum anymore. "Barbie, you've just won the Olympics! What are you going to do now?!"
And with a squeaky voice he replied, "I'M GOING TO DISNEY LAND!!!"
With that, Momiji pulled out his Disney Land Barbie Play-set and started having Wheelchair Olympic Barbie going on all the wheelchair accessible rides.
Kagura was playing with her pretend make-up set. In case you didn't catch it the first time around, it wasn't REAL make-up. It was just colored plastic in the shape of make-up. She was making herself pretty for her non-existent date with Kyo tonight!!
SPEAKING of Kyo, he had just ran by with his stamp with a big 'K' on it and stamped it on Yuki's game board.
"I claim this!" he declared.
"HEY!!!" yelled Yuki. "THIS ISN'T YOURS!!!"
"It is now!" Kyo said. "K is for Kyo."
"NO!! YOU got the stamp and I got this game! You can't have BOTH!"
Kyo looked at the fuming Yuki for a minute and then stamped his face.
"YOU CAN'T DO THAT!!!" screamed Yuki, throwing a temper tantrum.
"I JUST DID!!!" laughed Kyo, excited over his recent triumph over Yuki which is probably the only one he'll ever have in his whole life so we should just let him be excited.
"What's going on here?" Hatori said, walking over.
"Kyo stamped me on the face!" Yuki yelled, pointing at Kyo.
"Who…ME?!" Kyo said as if he were surprised.
Hatori looked at the stamped 'K' on Yuki's face and the stamp in Kyo's hand with a K on it that he was not attempting to hide at all.
"Kyo, if you stamp anyone else then I'm going to confiscate that." Hatori said.
"He stamped my game too!" Yuki added.
"The only thing you can stamp is paper." Hatori said.
"WHAT?!" yelled Kyo. "THAT'S NOT FAIR!!!"
"Either that or nothing at all." Hatori said.
Kyo was about to rant and rave about not being able to stamp anything except paper, but he decided that he'd first see if he enjoyed it and THEN rant about it because if he ranted about it and then enjoyed it then he'd look foolish and he knows from past experiences.
So he went over to the craft paper and looked at Haru who had a stack of paper next to him. He was also drawing a 'picture'. Think back to the last time you babysat a kid. Now think of the picture the kid drew you. That's Haru's picture. Pretty bad, huh?
"Haru, I need paper." Kyo said.
"It's mine." Said Haru as he took the stack and put it under his picture that he was currently drawing and then continued coloring.
"Give me at least MOST of it." Said Kyo. "You're only coloring. I need it for important things."
"No." Haru said as he continued coloring.
"Then give me half of it." Said Kyo. "Or a little more than half of it."
"It's ALL mine." Haru said.
"It's not ALL yours!" Kyo argued.
"I bought it with my own money." Haru retorted.
"No you didn't!" Kyo said, stomping his foot.
"Yes I did." Haru said, not even bothering to look up at Kyo anymore.
"Haru, I'm older and bigger than you and I could beat you up easily!" Kyo threatened.
"You still wouldn't have paper." Haru said as if that was clever.
"THAT'S IT!!!" yelled Kyo as he stamped Haru's picture.
Haru gasped and dropped his crayon and threw his hands over his mouth. Kyo found that to be satisfying so he stamped it again and Haru gasped again.
"Kyo, stop picking on Haru." Said Shigure as if he cared at all.
"He RUINED my picture." Said Haru who was still in shock.
"Get over it Haru." Shigure insisted. "It's not like your picture was anything except scribbles anyway."
"FINALLY someone's actually on my side!" Kyo said.
"And Kyo, don't do that again." Shigure said.
"What if I WANNA?" Kyo asked as he stamped Haru's picture again. Haru gasped again.
"Kyo, if you do that again then I'm going to take that stamp away." Shigure threatened.
Kyo decided that he wanted to test Shigure so he stamped Haru's picture again and Haru gasped again.
Shigure paused. "ONE more time, Kyo!" he said. "I'm not kidding!"
"Stamp!" said Kyo as he stamped Haru's picture again. Haru wasn't exactly doing anything about it. He was just gasping.
"Don't make me come over there, Kyo." Said Shigure.
"I DARE you!" said Kyo as he stamped Haru's picture two more times. Haru gasped two more times.
"Kyo, just go away." Shigure said.
"Make me." Said Kyo, sitting down at the table and taking the paper away from Haru. "I just want to make my own picture." And he started stamping one K on every single piece of paper.
"He's wasting all of my paper!" Haru whined.
"Kyo, stop wasting all of Haru's paper." Said Shigure.
"It's not ONLY his." Said Kyo.
"Actually it is." Shigure answered.
"I don't see his name on it." Kyo said. "MY name's on it…to some extent."
"Well…I guess you have a point." Said Shigure with a shrug.
"But I still want to color!" Haru cried as he looked as though he would burst into tears at any minute.
"Give Haru some paper." Shigure instructed.
"Fine." Said Kyo, giving Haru one piece of paper that he had already stamped. "Play with that."
"But it has a K on it!" Haru complained.
"Use the back." Kyo replied.
"I don't want to!" Haru yelled. "The front is better!"
"They're the same!" Kyo pointed out.
"No they're not!" Haru said.
"Fine…I stamped the back." Kyo said, flipping the paper upside down. "The clean side is the front."
"You just made that up!" Haru yelled.
"Kyo, give him a clean piece of paper before he turns into Black Haru." Shigure said.
"Bring him on!" laughed Kyo. "I can beat him up whether he's black or white!"
"Speaking of black and white, I finished your bracelet, Haru!" said Tohru since she was still sitting there.
Haru looked at the bracelet and then at Tohru. "I want to play with the beads too." He said, moving over closer next to her.
"SURE!!!" Tohru said. "There's plenty for everyone to play with the beads!"
"But don't you want any paper?!" Kyo yelled, slamming his hand on the table.
"I don't need paper to play with beads." Said Haru who began stacking the beads up like a castle.
"Um…Haru?" said Tohru. "I think you're missing the point…"
"No I'm not." Haru replied.
"You're supposed to put them on the string!" Tohru explained.
"Not ME." Said Haru.
"Okay!" said Tohru since as long as she was making other people happy, SHE was happy!
"GO BARBIE GO!!!" cheered Momiji as Wheelchair Olympic Barbie flew by at the speed of light, followed by Momiji who was merely running at the speed of sound.
"Okay guys!" said Ayame as he slammed his game down on the ground in front of Hatori, Kagura and Yuki who were all just sitting in a circle not saying anything. "We're all going to play Pretty Pretty Princess and see who is the prettiest princess of us all!"
"I'll just watch." Said Hatori.
"No, no, no." said Ayame. "We need FOUR people to play. You can be pink. I'll be light blue, Yuki can be yellow and Kagura can be purple."
"I wanna be pink!!" whined Kagura.
"And I want to be light blue!!" complained Yuki.
"I'd rather not play." Hatori said.
"All right!" said Ayame. "It's my game so I'm going first."
"HURRAY FOR BARBIE!!! YOU WON AGAIN!!!" screeched Momiji again as he ran back over towards the craft table since he's our transition man so we don't have to uncreatively write MEANWHILE!!!
"I'm out of paper!" Kyo said.
"You used ALL that paper just stamping a K on all of them?" Shigure said with a raised eyebrow."
"Yes." Said Kyo. "Get me more."
"Maybe if you asked nicely." Shigure said.
"PLEASE." Kyo said in the most sarcastic tone he could produce.
"We don't have anymore paper." Shigure answered.
"WHAT?!" yelled Kyo. "YOU MADE ME ASK NICELY FOR NO REASON?!"
"Yup." Shigure said, almost feeling satisfied with himself. "Why don't you play with beads?" And then he got up to make himself some Joe for no reason but there really is a reason but you'll find out later.
Meanwhile, Momiji was still playing his Wheelchair Olympic Barbie!!
"FASTER BARBIE, THEY'RE GAINING ON YOU!!!" Momiji screamed.
"Oh NO Hatori!" gasped Ayame, slapping his cheeks. "You got the BLACK RING!! And all you needed was the crown and you would have won!!"
Hatori tried to look as though he didn't care as he did his best to wedge the horrible black plastic ring that's about four inches tall onto his pinky finger. Of course, he DID care. He was getting into the game and now he needed to prove to everyone that he was the prettiest princess but how was he going to do such a thing if he had the Black Ring?! Oh hot diggity dog!! I'm a poet and I don't even know it!!!
"It's too bad too…" said Ayame who had only the light blue necklace and the ring. "The Black Ring was really starting to suit you, Yuki."
"No it wasn't!" Yuki argued. All Yuki had was the yellow necklace!!
"I wanna wear this jewelry all day!" Kagura declared as she played with the little clip on purple earrings and gazed into the beautiful ring.
"You CAN'T!!" Ayame yelled. "It's MINE!! Now, anyway, since I am the only one who hasn't got the Black Ring yet, I automatically get a piece of jewelry!"
"That's not true." Said Hatori as he looked through the instruction booklet.
"Yes it is!" Ayame lied, snatching the booklet away.
"Good thing I have a photographic memory." Hatori said.
"You probably think you're SO funny." Said Ayame with a scoff. "Fine, I'll play by your stupid rules just so you won't get upset."
"Who's upset?" Hatori said, raising an eyebrow.
"YOU'VE BEEN TRAINING YOUR WHOLE LIFE FOR THIS!!!!" screamed Momiji as he ran by but Ayame grabbed him by the shirt and stopped his pointless frolicking.
"That's enough." He said. "It was okay at first but now it's getting obnoxious."
"But Wheelchair Olympic Barbie must win the Olympics!!" Momiji HOLL-ered.
"She's already won it a million times." Said Kagura.
"She needs my mental support!" Momiji complained, trying to get free of Ayame's grip.
"She's a doll." Ayame reminded him.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!" Momiji cried in his horrible dub voice. "Ayame is being mean to me!"
"Ayame, just leave him alone." Sighed Hatori. He secretly just wanted to get back to the game but we know Hatori and he wasn't about to admit that he was actually having fun!!
"OH!!" yelled Momiji, not being his horrible dub voice anymore. "I didn't notice that you were playing Pretty Pretty Princess!! Can I play?!"
"Well…sure." Said Ayame. "Hatori, you don't have to play anymore."
Hatori paused for a second. "I, Hatori Souma, finish everything I start." He said finally.
"Oh." Said Ayame. "I guess you're right! Momiji, you'll have to either wait or go away."
"Okay!" said Momiji. "I'll just play with Wheelchair Olympic Barbie until you finish this game!"
"No, you can't play with Wheelchair Olympic Barbie." Said Ayame.
"What can I do until you're done then?!" Momiji demanded.
"It's not a long game." Ayame answered. "You can just watch us play."
"OKAY!!!" said Momiji. "Can I wear all the jewelry that you haven't gotten yet?"
"No!" said Ayame. "It must stay in the jewelry pot!"
"PLEASE?!" begged Momiji.
"Ayame, it was your turn." Said Hatori.
"ALL RIGHT!" said Ayame, spinning the spinner and moving his piece only, to his dismay, TO LAND ON THE BLACK RING!!! "ARGH!!! This Black Ring doesn't match all my light blue!"
Hatori would have chuckled cruelly at Ayame's expense if that was in his character but he only did it in his head as he handed Ayame the Black Ring and felt as though he had accomplished something just by seeing the expression on Ayame's face.
"MY turn!" said Yuki. In his turn, he accumulated the BRACELET!! YAY!!
And then Kagura went!! She had an entirely unfruitful turn and didn't get any new pieces of jewelry.
And then it was Hatori's turn! Man, if you could see him perspiring in anticipation of getting that crown! All he needed was a TWO and he'd get that crown! And THEN he could proudly say that HE was the prettiest of ALL the princesses!!
At that exact thought, Hatori stopped moving his hand towards the spinner.
"What is it, Hatori?" asked Ayame.
"Do I really want to be known as the prettiest of all the princesses?" Hatori asked himself more than anyone else. "This could come back to haunt me."
"Don't worry, I'll only tell girlfriends who I DON'T like." Said Ayame.
"What are you talking about?" Hatori asked. "You're trying just as hard… if not HARDER to be the prettiest princess."
"But I deserve to be…wait…did you just say that you were trying hard?" Ayame gasped.
"Um…no?" Hatori said. "I said you were trying harder than me."
"But you said first that you were trying hard to be the prettiest princess!!" laughed Ayame. "I'll never let you live this down!! I wish I had a camera so I could take a picture of you with those pink earrings on!"
"I HAVE A CAMERA!!!" said Shigure who popped up behind Ayame and snapped a picture of Hatori.
It was a disposable camera too so they wouldn't get these pictures developed for a while but BOY would they laugh once they got them developed! Well, Shigure and Ayame would laugh. Hatori wouldn't. Even if he had laughed once before in his life, he wouldn't laugh at that because it was a HORRIBLE cruel trick to play on him!!
So, figuring that he couldn't do anything about it now, he calmly took all the jewelry off and set it down in the jewelry pot. "You can take over, Momiji." He said.
"YAY!!" cheered Momiji.
"I can't wait to get these developed!" laughed Shigure.
"I'll take that." Said Hatori, yoinking the camera out of Shigure's hand.
"Oh that's okay." Said Shigure. "I'll just take it back when you're not looking."
"Not if I destroy it." Hatori said.
"NO!" yelled Shigure. "You can't destroy THAT camera! There were other pictures used up before I just took that one and I don't know what they are and I just want to see!"
"You mean you don't know what's on your camera?" Hatori asked.
"No, that's the weird part!" Shigure replied. "I just can't remember for some reason! I've searched all my memory files but I can't find anything and…!"
Suddenly, Shigure stopped and started pondering and scratching his chin.
"Say…" he started. "I recall you telling me that you erased our memories for some reason… is there a picture on that camera that explains why you would do such a thing?"
"You erased our memories?!" Ayame yelled, looking up from the game he had already gotten engaged in with Yuki, Kagura and Momiji.
"No, why would you say something like that?" Hatori asked, pocketing the camera.
"Oh I don't know, Hatori." Said Shigure. "I can never tell with YOU anymore!"
"What's that supposed to mean?" Hatori asked.
"I'm going to write about this in my diary." Said Shigure. "That way, even if you erase my memory AND destroy that camera, I'll be able to look back on it in my new diary. I'll even write a note to myself that tells my future self that if I don't remember this particular event then I should go and speak to you about erasing your friend's memories!!"
"Then I'll destroy the diary too." Hatori said plainly.
"Is NOTHING sacred?" Shigure asked, grabbing his diary and opening the pages and then gasping dramatically and nearly fainting. "LOOK at this!" he yelled, showing everyone a page of his diary that had a big K on it. He flipped through the diary to see that there was a K on every single page. "WHO could have done this?!"
"Hm…it could have been Kyo or Kagura." Ayame deducted. "And Kagura was playing Pretty Pretty Princess with us and let's think…who's the one with the brand new K stamp?"
"I KNOW that." Said Shigure. "I was being sarcastic."
"Why do you keep a diary anyway?" asked Yuki. "Only GIRLS do that."
"I have many diaries, Yukum." Said Shigure. "But this one was special because it was new. Hatori, punish Kyo!"
"Why do I have to?" Hatori asked.
"Because you've already established the bad guy image." Shigure replied.
"Oh and you've established the good guy image?" Hatori pointed out.
"Hey!" yelled Kyo. "I'm innocent until proven guilty!!"
"Kyo, it was OBVIOUSLY you." Said Shigure.
"Ask Tohru and Haru! They were watching me the whole time!" Kyo said.
"He did it." Said Haru.
"Don't believe anything HARU says!" said Kyo. "Has he EVER told the truth?!"
"Well, Tohru?" asked Shigure.
"I didn't see!" Tohru said. "I was to busy with my beads."
"Akito was there!" said Kyo but then he decided against it. "SOMEONE had to have been looking! I didn't do it! Ask anybody!"
"We were over here, Kyo." Said Hatori.
"Well I didn't do it!" Kyo said.
"You are SO obviously lying!!!" yelled Shigure. "Good diaries are hard to come by!!"
"Shigure, this cost $4.99." Hatori said, looking at the price tag that was still on the back.
"But I looked long and hard for it." Shigure said, hanging his head low.
"Well, Kyo, you've vandalized a lot of things." Said Hatori. "So I'm going to take your stamp away and you're going to have to sit on timeout for a little while."
"But I didn't do anything!!" yelled Kyo. "I wasn't even HOLDING my stamp! I was playing with beads! See? I made this!" He showed them part of a bracelet that he had been working on.
"A LIKELY story." Said Yuki who wanted in on the tormenting. "I SAW him do it, Shigure. And he enjoyed it."
"How DARE you!!" Shigure yelled at Kyo.
"I saw him NOT do it!!" Kagura said.
"You're just saying that because you love him." Shigure said.
"Well…Yuki just said that because he hates him." Kagura pointed out.
"No!" Yuki said, sounding offended. "That is NOT true, Shigure."
"Actually…now that I think about it…I think I saw YUKI do it." Said Ayame.
"Ayame, shut up." Said Shigure. "This is SERIOUS!"
"Wait…it was Momiji since he wasn't REALLY doing anything." Ayame said, slamming his fist into his palm.
"Ayame…" said Hatori.
"Then again…I might have spotted Haru performing the deed out of the corner of my eye…" Ayame continued.
"Ayame, stop lying." Hatori commanded.
"Actually, the last one was true." Ayame confessed.
"Haru, is this true?" Hatori sighed, figuring that Ayame was still lying but he might as well ask anyway.
"Yes." Haru answered.
"Whatever." Said everyone.
"I did it." Haru repeated.
"Sure you did, Haru." Said everyone else.
"Haru, did you steal Momiji's Wheelchair Olympic Barbie?" Hatori asked, tricking Haru into lying so he could prove that Haru's just a chronic liar. "Because we can't find it anywhere and someone said that you were playing with it last."
"Hm…yeah." Said Haru. "Me and Wheelchair Olympic Barbie were going for the gold."
Everyone stopped.
"Okay, so punish Kyo." Whined Shigure.
"No, I really did stamp every page in Shigure's diary with Kyo's stamp." Haru said, pulling the K stamp out of his pocket. "Except for the third to last page."
Everyone stopped again. Shigure flipped to the third to last page to see that…GASP!! IT WASN'T STAMPED!!!
"WHY would you do that, Haru?" Shigure asked.
"I wanted to get Kyo back for stamping my picture." Haru answered.
"But I'M the one whose suffering!" whined Shigure.
"Obviously he just wanted to get Kyo in trouble." Hatori said. "The only question is, if he wanted to do such a thing, why would he go and admit to performing the deed a minute later?"
"Hatori, this is HARU we're talking about." Said Ayame.
"I wasn't trying to get Kyo in trouble." Haru said. "I was just using his stamp without his permission."
"WHAT?!" yelled Kyo.
"Well…we should just punish Kyo anyway." Shigure said. "Since it was his stamp and Haru obviously doesn't have any brain capacity so there's no way he knew what he was doing."
"THAT'S NOT FAIR!!!" yelled Kyo.
"I do too have a brain." Said Haru.
"Of course you do, Haru." Said Ayame. "You just choose not to use it."
"You guys…" Hatori said, shaking his head.
"What is it Hatori?" asked Shigure. "What are you frustrated about?"
"Well, I was just hoping that maybe we could avoid confrontations since we're leaving tomorrow and all." Hatori replied.
"WHAT?!" yelled everyone. "SINCE WHEN?!"
"Since I decided it." Hatori said. "I am out of clothes and this whole vacation has been the opposite of enjoyable and I just wish that I could erase my OWN memory so I wouldn't have to remember this."
"Ouch." Said Ayame with a sniffle. "You cut me real deep just now, Hatori."
"How about all the kids go OUTSIDE to play since the day is nice and they don't need to be inside?" Hatori suggested opening the front door and booting them all out into the front yard.