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Hiko-sama's 50th birthday !!!

            Sano and Kenshin were rubbing their sore heads while Hiko was looking at the sake bottle suspiciously. He still didn't know what Sano had diluted the sake with and the rooster still wouldn't tell.

*** POP ***

A frog had jumped out of the mouth of the sake bottle looking a little dazed.

Hiko glared at Sano, who was looking a little sheepish. Just a little.

Sano laughed nervously. "Ah, I've bet you haven't seen a drunk frog before, have you? Ehe..he..he…"

Before Sano could be given another thwack from the abused cane there was a soft knock on the door.

It was none other than Aoshi Shinomori bearing an intricately wrapped parcel.

He wordlessly handed it to Hiko then sat crosslegged in another corner of Hiko-sama's tiny beat-up shack ™.

"Oh, it is so beautifully wrapped Shinomori-san!", exclaimed a goggle-eyed Kenshin.

"Thank you, the blue symbolizes peace with the red ribbon hints at passion… the yellow is for… and the whites… the greens…"

As soon as Hiko got the package he started to unwrap it with no further ceremony.

"Hey! Why'd you just open his gift but you checked mine like it contained something nasty."

"It did contain something nasty."

While Sano fumed away, Hiko finished opening his gift.

It was a beautiful dainty tea set.

Hiko picked one tiny dainty tea cup. If it looked tiny and dainty before, it looked microscopic in his hand.

Sano snickered. "What are you gonna drink in that? Sake?"

"Not your sake I won't."

"Hey! I really did work hard to buy that sake. Take that back!"

"Too bad you didn't work hard to keep yourself from drinking it."

Sano and Hiko bickered about the sake, the frog in the sake and everything else about the sake. Pretty soon, there was a tussle in the tiny beat-up shack.

Kenshin looked at them and sighed. "Well, what are we going to do?"

Asohi looked at Kenshin. "I could give you another foot massage."

Author's notes:

            To DragonGoddess: I couldn't resist. Thank you for the fun idea!

            And thank you to all people who reviewed!

            To people who didn't get the foot massage thing, remember the day Asohi and Kenshin spent together, in one of the last episodes? Aoshi gave Kenshin a foot massage then. O_o

            I just had to write this in because I wanted Aoshi to be around for a later chapter.

What if:

            ***POP***

            A frog jumped out of the mouth of the Sake bottle.

            "Aieeee!!!!" Hiko screeched like a girl, "I hate frogs!" He takes the cane and bashes the poor unsuspecting little frog to a mushy splat on the floor.

            ***Sano and Kenshin sweatdrop***

What if:

Hiko picked one tiny dainty tea cup. If it looked tiny and dainty before, it looked microscopic in his hand.

"Hey, I lost it in my hand!"