"So what possessed you to come down here for a vacation with four kids under the age of twelve?" asked Ayame as he and the chicken shared a delightful cup o' tea.
Kureno smiled, pulled out his wallet and showed the large sum of money given to him by various parents.
"HEY!" Ayame said. "I'M not getting paid and I had to watch TWICE as many kids!"
"Well, you have Shigure and Hatori." Said Kureno as he stroked Akito's head while Akito purred like a kitten.
"No offense to those two…" said Ayame. "But I've been doing most of the work. Plus, they're sick now."
"How long have they been sick?" asked Kureno.
"I don't know." Said Ayame. "A while."
"So you've been watching all these kids all by yourself all this time?" Kureno demanded, in awe as he fed Akito some candy and nuzzled him more affectionately than he really should have been doing.
Meanwhile, Rin tapped Haru on the shoulder.
"Guess what I'm wearing…" she whispered in his ear. Haru scanned Rin up and down.
"Shoes?" he said, feeling smart.
"No!" said Rin as she lifted up her shirt (that was really only a children's sized tube top anyway) to reveal what looked like a half a T-Shirt. "I'm wearing a bra."
"Okay." Said Haru, a little confused. Ritsu ran over to Rin and pulled her shirt down.
"Don't do that!" he yelled. Then he paused. "OH MY GOD!! I TOUCHED YOU WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION!! I'M SO SORRY!! I SHOULD BURN!!"
"When did you come back?" asked Kyo.
"Um…a second ago when I noticed Rin was topless." Said Ritsu.
"Well, go back wherever you were and stay there!" Kyo commanded.
"OH GOMENASAI!!" Ritsu yelled as he shook Kyo around crazily. Then he dropped Kyo on his arse and ran back into the bathroom and locked the door.
"KYO!!" Kagura and Tohru yelled at the same time as they ran to Kyo's 'injured' aid and didn't even bother to chase after Ritsu.
Haru walked over to Ayame, Akito and Kureno.
"How about a little sugar for Haru?" Haru asked. Ayame paused for a second and then looked at the chicken who shrugged.
"Um…very well!" said Ayame as he bent over to Haru with his arms outstretched and looked as though he were going to kiss him.
Haru's eyes bugged out as he took a few steps backwards.
"Don't you want your sugar, Haru?" asked Ayame.
"Yeah…" said Haru. "I never said I want you to hug me or kiss me!"
"Hm…" said Ayame. "Somehow, I have reason to believe that that's what you were implying."
"I just wanted some candy!" Said Haru as he pointed to the candy that the chicken was force-feeding Akito.
"Come on, Akito, you LIKE candy!!" Kureno said as Akito made some grunting noises and moved his head around like a fool.
"I want some candy…" Haru complained.
"This is Akito's candy." The chicken replied.
"He can share." Haru decided.
"Haru, Hatori and Shigure may bow down to your Black Haru-ness but I'm telling you right now that Ayame Souma does not fear you!!" Ayame yelled, pointing at Haru who was whimpering and trying to get closer to the candy as the chicken held him back with his foot.
"I want some candy!!" cried Haru.
"As I've previously explained, this candy is for Akito." Said Kureno, scoffing at poor little candy-craving baby Haru.
"It's okay, Haru, why don't you play with us now?" asked Tohru as she walked over to Haru since she was finished helping Kyo.
"But I want some candy…" Haru whined.
"I'm sure Akito would be happy to share his candy with you!" said Tohru naively.
"No." said the chicken as he stuffed a Milk Dud up Akito's nose by accident. "No he wouldn't."
"Aww…" said Tohru. "That's not very nice."
"I know but he needs this candy."
"Oh, in THAT case!!" said Tohru happily as she turned to Haru. "Haru, he NEEDS that candy."
"I need it too…" said Haru. "In fact, I probably need it more."
"We can get you some candy some other way!"
"How?" asked Haru.
"Well…last time Kyo took us too a convenient store!" Tohru said. "Maybe he'll do it again and you can buy something there! All you have to do is ask Kyo!"
"Kyo probably forgot the way." said Haru because now he's in a bad mood and when a little kid gets in a bad mood, he's usually extremely pessimistic.
"Let's go ask him!" said Tohru as she grabbed Haru's hand and began frolicking off in the general direction of where everyone else was switching off playing Mouse Trap.
"Kyo lost!" said Hiro. "MY turn!"
"No it isn't!" Kyo yelled. "I did NOT lose!!"
"Yes!!" yelled Hiro.
"Hiro, please don't argue with anybody anymore!" said Kisa but no one could really hear her because her voice is so squeaky and not loud especially compared to Hiro and Kyo.
"Can we play too?" asked Tohru.
Hiro turned to Tohru and glared right at Hiro with this horrible sinister two-year-old glare of doom.
"Um…" said Tohru nervously. "Never mind…"
"Of course you can play." Said Kisa with a weak little smile. "You can sit next to me."
Hiro then noticed that the spot that Kisa was pointing to was in between him and her! So, like before, he scooted as close to Kisa as he could but at that exact time, Tohru had decided to sit down so Hiro really only scooted directly into Tohru and turned into a SHEEP!!
Hiro looked down at himself, then angrily up at Tohru and then looked back at the Mouse Trap game and continued with his life as if that didn't happen. After all, it was now HIS turn because Kyo couldn't very well argue in front of Tohru so he had once again stormed off in uncontrollable rage!! POOR KYO!!! But that's okay for Hiro because now he gets a turn.
"I want a turn now too." Said Haru. He had forgotten about the candy because now he's distracted!!
"You can go instead of me." Said Kisa with horseshoe eyes.
"Okay." Said Haru.
"And you can go instead of ME!" laughed Tohru.
"No, I couldn't." said Kisa.
"Sure you can!!" said Tohru happily.
In the end, it was Kisa, Hiro, Haru and Tohru. Kagura had decided that she was much older and much more mature so she had to go off and find Kyo. But it's not like that would be a very long search since he was most likely on the roof anyway. So she fetched the ladder, climbed up on the room and then pushed the ladder down so matter how mean Kyo gets, she wouldn't leave or vice versa!
"I can't pick it up!" whined Hiro as he tried to pick up the dice with his little hooves since he was still a sheep.
"I'll do it for you!" Tohru offered as she leapt forward to be ever helpful. Hiro then batted the dice out of her reach.
"No!" he yelled at her.
"Um…okay." Said Tohru.
MEANWHILE!!
"I'm going to die!!" whined Shigure extra loudly as he writhed in pain in his bed.
"Do you ever shut-up?" asked Hatori more to himself than to Shigure.
"AHHH!! I'm gonna be sick!!!!" Momiji yelled as he picked up the plastic bowl next to his bed and barfed into it. "BLAAAHHH!!" (I bet that was in his dub voice.)
"My stomach still hurts but I'm hungry!" cried Yuki.
Hatori wasn't really feeling THAT sick anymore but he still wasn't feeling WELL. He climbed out of bed and walked downstairs slowly and discombobulated-like.
"GOOD MORNING HATORI!!" Ayame yelled.
"Nanoo!" said the chicken as Hatori emerged.
"What are you doing here." Said Hatori as he looked the opposite of happy.
"I brought the rest of the Jyuunishi people!" said the chicken. Hatori took that opportunity to look behind him and noticed the new people who weren't there when he went to bed. "Aw, come on! You act as though you're not happy to see me!"
"I'm not." Said Hatori. "Who said that you could come down here anyway?" Hatori asked.
"I'm not at liberty to tell." Said Kureno as if it were a big secret that no one else could know.
"Hatori, you silly goose!" said Ayame, springing up and giving Hatori a few shoves in the direction of the ladder. "Get your little behind back in bed and rest!" Ayame then turned to Kureno. "He's just cranky because he's sick, that's all. He'd usually be VERY happy to see you!"
"I know." Said the chicken. "I could tell by his bedraggled looks that he obviously wasn't feeling very well."
Hatori looked at Kureno and then walked to the bathroom so that he could check on himself and fix himself up so that he could be more presentable but the door to the bathroom was locked.
Suddenly, Yuki came down the stairs quickly.
"BABY BROTHER!!" Ayame cheered excitedly. Yuki ran right by him and to the locked bathroom door and struggled to open it only to also discover it locked. "Uh-oh…"
"Get a bowl or something." Said Hatori as he looked slightly urgent. "Yuki, go to the sink."
Suddenly, Yuki threw up all over Hatori.
"Why me?" asked Hatori as he went to take off his disgusting clothes. Then he remembered that he couldn't shower either because the shower was stolen. So he decided that maybe he go and just wash all the…vomit off of him in the lake. He didn't have much a choice. POOR HATORI!!
So he went outside but he instantly heard voices from the roof.
"WHAT'D YOU DO TO THE LADDER?!?!" yelled Kyo.
"It fell down!" said Kagura cheerfully.
"LADDERS DON'T JUST FALL!!"
"THIS one does!!"
"What are you two doing up there?" Hatori asked, looking up at Kagura and Kyo while shielding his eyes from the sun.
"Hatori, this stupid girl knocked the ladder on the ground!" Kyo yelled.
Hatori looked on the ground to see a ladder. Wow.
"Well, get off the roof." Said Hatori but he wasn't going to do anything about it. He WOULD have…if he wasn't ill and covered in Yuki barf.
"I WANT to!" said Kyo.
"Me too!" said Kagura, latching onto Kyo's arm.
"I'll be right back." Said Hatori as he walked around the house and went to the lake.
MEANWHILE!!!
"Can I have a turn now?" asked Rin.
"It's my turn." Said everyone almost at the same time except for Tohru.
"You can take MY spot!" said Tohru way too happily.
"I don't want YOUR mouse." Said Rin, crossing her arms.
"That's okay!" said Tohru. "Because like my mom always says…um… well, I'm sure she'd have SOME piece of advice for this situation like…oh…I don't know! Maybe…share your mice with EVERYONE!!"
"You are very wise, Tohru." Said Yuki who was looming over Tohru.
"Oh!" said Tohru. "Are you feeling better, Yuki?"
"Yeah." Said Yuki, sitting down in between Tohru and Haru.
"I don't want you here." Said Haru. "Cause you're sick and I don't want to get sick."
"You're sick Yuki?" Kisa whispered but she was disregarded since no one really heard her except for Hiro who only leaned on top of her. He had, by the way, turned back into a Hiro now.
"Don't sit here." Said Haru.
"Yeah, don't sit here!" said Rin.
"Cause you're sick." Haru added.
"Yeah, you're sick!" Rin said.
"You're sick." Said Hiro.
"You're sick?" Kisa said since no one heard her the first time.
"Why do I have an echo?" Haru said, looking annoyed.
"YEAH!!" said Rin.
At that point, Momiji came out of nowhere clutching his Wheelchair Olympic Barbie and wedged himself in between Rin and Haru.
"You're sick too!" Haru whined.
"I'm feeling a little better." Said Momiji as if Haru had asked.
"HEY!!" yelled Rin, pushing Momiji over and then scooting over right next to Haru.
"WHY'D YOU DO THAT?!?!" Momiji screamed loudly.
"You took my spot." Said Rin.
"You weren't there though!!" cried Momiji. Just then, the Chicken came over. He was cradling Akito who is, contrary to popular belief, not as small as any of the other children besides maybe Ritsu. He's actually quite large considering he's nine and not…I don't know…six or whatever.
"What is going on here?!" demanded the Chicken.
"We're playing Mouse Trap." Said Kisa.
"WHAT?!" the Chicken said.
"Mouse Trap!" Hiro yelled.
"Oh!" said Kureno. "Akito LOVES Mouse Trap. He was actually just telling me how much he liked it. So how about Akito plays Mouse Trap with you guys while Ayame and I go off and do teenager stuff?" He plopped Akito down on the floor and then looked around. "All right, you sick people should go back upstairs so that the healthy people don't get contaminated."
"No…" said Akito in his creepy little kid voice.
"Oh…" said the Chicken as he went into some kind of trance. "Yuki can stay down here but Momiji, you really should go upstairs."
"FINE!!!" screamed Momiji. "I KNOW WHEN I'M NOT WANTED!!!" And with that, he grabbed Wheelchair Olympic Barbie and ran upstairs as fast as he could in tears.
Then Kureno frolicked off to go back over to where Ayame is.
Everyone looked at Akito who seemed as though he could hardly even support the weight of his own head.
"You can take MY mouse, Akito!" said Tohru randomly just because the silence was too eerie for her.
"Yuki…" said Akito, ignoring Tohru. "Are you playing Mouse Trap?"
"No, I'm just watching." Yuki replied.
"I really like the game Mouse Trap." Said Akito. "Do you know why?"
"Um…"
"Because the Rat is very special to me. You are the rat, Yuki, and you are very special to me. I would like to reach out and touch your face but I fear I am far too weak for that."
"Let me help!" said Hiro, grabbing Akito's hand, lifting it up and shoving it in Yuki's face.
"HEY!!!" Yuki yelled as he started crying like dub Momiji. You know, I think Yuki and Momiji are the only ones who ever cry like dub Momiji. I have to get some variety in the crying like dub Momiji department.
Akito turned his head and glared at Hiro who was already distracted because he was nuzzling Kisa.
"HOW DARE YOU!!!!" screamed Akito, standing up and smacking Kisa so hard that she went flying across the room and crashed into the wall.
Hiro gasped, looked at Akito, then at Kisa and then at Akito again. Then he burst into tears. He wasn't crying like dub Momiji, though, even though a second ago I was going to have more people crying like dub Momiji instead of just Yuki and Momiji but I think I like how it's only Yuki and Momiji so I'm going to keep it that way unless I get the terrible urge to make someone ELSE cry like dub Momiji.
"That wasn't very nice!" said Tohru as Akito went back into lump mode. Then she got up and ran over to Kisa and started comforting her. She went back and forth between Kisa and Hiro since they were both crying and they were LITTLE kids and she was OLD and MATURE and had to be the helpful one!!
Everyone else, meanwhile, was just watching. Including Ayame and the Chicken.
At that exact moment, Hatori came back in the door with Kyo on one side and Kagura on the other side of him.
"I hope I didn't miss anything." He said as he looked at the screaming Hiro. Kisa had already gotten over it but Hiro was still crying.
"Hm?" said Ayame, turning around. "OH MY GOD HATORI!!! ONCE AGAIN I MUST REMIND YOU NOT TO GO SWIMMING WITH YOUR CLOTHES ON!!! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO WEAR A BATHING SUIT!!!"
"Ayame, be silent." Said Hatori. He probably would have said something along those lines even if he WASN'T sick but he's in an especially bad mood because he IS sick.
Kagura and Kyo ran over to where the huge mass of kids were playing.
"Don't you think it's time we fed Akito?" asked Kureno, opening the refrigerator. "And everyone else?"
"Whatever." Said Ayame with a sigh as if he was just SO tired of feeding the children.
"How about these?" said the Chicken, pulling out the bowl of the berries that remained. Remember the berries? The ones Shigure picked? GOOD!! "My, my! These look delicious!!" With that, the Chicken dropped a handful on the ground and then put his hands by his side as if they were wings and started pecking at the berries, eating them one by one and bending ALL the way over without bending his legs.
Actually…that image is a bit troubling.
He just took a handful of berries and…ate them. Normally.
"Anybody else want some?" the chicken asked, going over to where the group of children still were.
Rin, Haru, Tohru and Yuki were all playing nicely. Akito had his head leaned on Yuki's shoulder and Yuki was trying to inch away from him. Hiro was still sniffling as if he was the one thrown against the wall and Kisa was comforting him. Kagura and Kyo were still arguing about the whole ladder and roof incident.
"BERRIES ANYONE!?!?!?!" yelled the chicken.
"YAY!!" cheered Tohru since she wanted to be polite even though she didn't really know this strange fowl. "I'd LOVE some!"
"Me too!" said Kagura since she IS a swine after all.
"Yeah, I want some too!" said Rin since she IS a steed even though that doesn't have anything to do with anything.
"I would like some too, please." Kisa said as loudly as she could which wasn't all that loud and she's a large carnivorous feline mammal.
"Well then dig in!!" said Kureno as he dropped the bowl on the ground and all the females had some berries while Kureno chuckled warmly and watched them all and got horseshoe eyes. When they were done, he took the empty bowl and left.
TEN MINUTES LATER!!!
"WOW!!" said Ayame, slapping his cheeks. "Who ever would have thought that these berries were actually poisonous and you would become sick if you ate them?! I SURE DIDN'T!!"
Yes, at this point, Kagura, Tohru, Rin, Kisa, Kureno, Hatori, Shigure, Momiji and Yuki were all sick. Well, Momiji and Yuki were feeling better so they were downstairs with all of the healthy people.
"I want to go and visit Tohru!" said Yuki like the perverted child he is.
Everyone else decided that they wanted to visit Tohru too. Except for Hiro who wanted to visit Kisa and was beating himself up about how she was sick and blaming himself. So everyone went upstairs and Yuki ran over to Tohru who was being all sickly.
"Are you okay?" asked Yuki as he started stroking Tohru's hair and then lifted up a piece of it and sniffed it. Then he started coughing and choking and had to pull some of her hair out of his nose.
"I haven't washed my hair in a couple of days." Said Tohru. "So you really shouldn't sniff it like that."
"You shouldn't sniff it at all you perverted rat!" yelled Kyo.
"No one asked YOU, stupid cat!!" yelled Yuki.
"I wasn't the one sniffing her hair!" Kyo said, crossing her arms.
"She likes it." Said Yuki.
"Um…not really." Said Tohru.
"Oh." Said Yuki. Then he just started stroking her forehead. Tohru didn't want to tell Yuki that he was a creepy child for touching and sniffing her when he really didn't have any right to since that would have been impolite so she only tried to endure it.
But then Akito literally came out of nowhere and fell on top of Yuki.
"Yuki…you are very special…" Akito said as he started stroking Yuki lovingly.
"Hey!" Yuki said, struggling to get free but Akito was much larger than he was.
Then the chicken crawled over. He was very sick but he still wanted to fondle Akito since there was a fondling chain going on.
MEANWHILE!!!
Haru was sitting by himself downstairs in front of the Mouse Trap board.
Suddenly he looked up. "Where is everyone?" he wondered.