Chapter Five
"We're going shopping, we're going shopping!" exclaimed Sakura and Yuffie
together as they giggled and Aeris and Mimiru came up behind them. It had
been a day since they had arrived. Mimiru was holding a list of in Matt's
sloppy handwriting as she walked with Aeris.
"Yes. We need clothes," Mimiru told Sakura, "and nothing more. This isn't
our money we're spending."
"Oh, don't be such a spoilsport," Aeris told Mimiru.
"Don't spend too much," Cloud told the girls as he came out into the main
hall.
"We will!" Sakura told him brightly.
"I know you will."
"And me! Don't forget me," Yuffie told him.
"Yeah. She will too," Leon told Cloud as he opened the door to the room
Cloud had just come from and stood in the doorway.
"Stay out all day," Stephiroth told them.
"Okay!"
Sakura opened the door and she and Yuffie ran our. Mimiru and Aeris
followed at a slower pace.
"Don't get too far ahead," Mimiru called after them.
"We can't," Yuffie replied, looking back. "You two have the money!"
Aeris laughed, "We can't very well let you take it or else it would be gone
before Mimiru and Matt could get the things that they need and Sakura got
even on article of clothing!"
"Hey, Yuff, have you ever fought against the heartless?"
"Yep. Why?"
"'Cause I was wondering how easy it will be to fight the heartless."
"It won't be that easy you know."
"I know, but I need the challenge and practice. Besides, if I need help, I
can always get one of the guys to save me. Kind of like a knight in
shinning armor."
"Ha, ha, ha," both Yuffie and Sakura laughed.
"Good one! If Cloud likes you, he'll save you!"
"Wouldn't that be great? And Leon can save you!"
Mimiru added, having eavesdropped, "And Stephiroth can save Aeris."
"Hey, Aeris! You like Stephiroth! That's so sweet!" laughed Sakura.
Aeris turned strawberry read and replied, "That's not true!"
"Yes it is, Aeris," Yuffie told her.
"Mimiru, you weren't supposed to tell!" yelled Aeris.
"I am sorry. You never said that! Why does everyone hate me?" cried Mimiru
as she stormed ahead of the party.
"Note to self and both of you, don't do that again," said Sakura.
"Right."
"Wait up, Mimiru!" yelled Sakura as she ran up to Mimiru from behind.
"What?"
"What?! What? Listen! Don't be mad at me, or Aeris, or Yuffie. The don't
know that you're sensitive."
"Fine. But..."
Suddenly Sakura whispered something in Mimiru's ear, causing Mimiru to
become surprised.
"You wouldn't do that!"
"Oh yes I would!"
"You're so evil!"
"Yes. I know. I am the evil master! I can be even more evil by spending all
the money. Hee, hee."
"Oh no you don't!"
"Yes I will!"
The next thing that Mimiru noticed was that Sakura already had run away
with the money. Mimiru ran after Sakura.
"What just happened, Aeris?"
"I don't know, but I do know that she took our money! After her!"
"Oh no! I better run and hide! Yeah right!"
The three girls ran after Sakura. After a few blocks they met up with her --
only because she had stopped in front of the window of a store.
"Hey! What are you looking at?" the three asked.
".... Look," responded Sakura in a daze.
"Wha?"
"How cute!" exclaimed Yuffie.
"Let's go inside! Come on, Yuffie."
"Yeah!"
"How pathetic," sighed Mimiru.
"Lighten up, Mimiru. They're only young once."
"I guess so. Let's go see what's inside."
Aeris and Mimiru followed the two girls inside the small toyshop. The two
of them stopped once they were just inside, watching as Yuffie and Sakura
embarrassed themselves by grabbing stuffed animals there was and hugging
them tightly.
Yuffie and Sakura ran up to the two older girls and started to beg them in
a very sad way, "Hey, Aeris, Mimiru, can we get these stuffed animals?
Please? Pretty please with sugar on top!"
"What do you think, Aeris?"
"Sure. I don't see why not."
"Yeah!" the two girls squealed.
"But only two each."
"'Kay!"
"Come on, Yuffie!"
"Why did you allow them to get two? That's wasting your money."
"I don't mind. Besides, it's just two stuffed animals."
"I guess so."
"Hey, look, Sakura! A chocobo!"
"Cool! But why a chocobo?"
"Simple. The chocobo can represent Cloud!"
"Give me that!" said Sakura as she snatched the stuffed chocobo from
Yuffie's hand. "Here. How about a little, cute lion to represent Leon?"
"You bet that I am buying that!"
"Excuse me, girls," a voice from behind them said, "but I am the store's
owner and I couldn't help but overhear that you were comparing these toys
to guys. Right?"
"Umm.... I guess so?"
"Well, it so happens that I am the one who made these toys and, if you
want, I can customize a stuffed animal to make it look like those people
that you like."
"Can you really do that?" asked Yuffie.
"Yes. I can if you give me a picture of them."
"And your price is what?" Sakura added to Yuffie's question.
"Well, for you two, I'll make it mega sale price. Making you pay twenty
monney rather than thirty monney. So will you take it?"
"Hum. Well, I guess we can, but let us ask first."
"Mimiru, Aeris, can we? Yes? Please?"
"I don't se why not. But no more after that, okay?"
"Okay!"
"Miss store owner, we can get them. So how much is it?"
"Well, I like you two. You've got spunk so I'll drop the price to ten
monney a customized stuffed doll and the other two for free."
"Really? Cool!"
"So your total comes out to be twenty monney," the storeowner said as she
rang it up on the cashier. "How will you be paying?"
Aeris came from behind the girls.
"Cash. Here you go," she said, paying the manager the twenty monney.
"Come back when you get the pictures of those guys so I can make the toys!"
yelled the manager as the group of girls exited the store.
"Are you two satisfied?" Mimiru said in a tone of voice that sounded
annoyed.
"Yep! Now it's your turn."
"Hey, you know that all you get now is the necessities and maybe a few
outfits," Mimiru told Sakura.
"Fine."
The girls went to many stores and small shops.
For Matt, Mimiru bought a few pairs of shorts, each a different color; tan,
jean, and navy blue. She also got him some shirts. They were red, green,
white, and dark blue. Sakura also made Mimiru buy Matt a black shirt to go
over the other ones with a tiger on its back.
Mimiru got herself some black and blue jean pants and a pair of kakhi
capris. She also bought a few sleeveless, turtlenecks. They were green,
black, white, and blue. Then she bought herself a dark gray and black
light, trench coat to wear over her daily clothes. Mimiru also got some of
the necessities for herself and Matt such as shampoo, soap, conditioner,
toothbrushes, toothpaste, a brush, and undergarments.
Sakura, on the other hand, when crazy. She bought three shirts, white,
black, and blue; two pairs of skirts, one short black pair and one jean
pair; a pair of black, baggy pants; and then a tan caprice with a dragon on
the bottom of one of the cuffs. Then, she got some tank-tops. They were
black, blue, and white. Also Sakura bought some normal shirts of different
colors with different designs. Next, she bought one character shirt with a
dragon on it and a blue and white tiger jacket with little bits of black on
it. Sakura finally got some undergarments, shampoo, conditioner, detangler
and a blow dryer, soap, toothpaste, a toothbrush, a comb, a shower cap,
bobby pins, and one perfume that smelled like tropical fruit.
"Do you think you have got enough things, Sakura!" yelled Mimiru from under
all the bags and boxes that she was carrying.
"Nope. That was very little," she replied from under her packages.
"Sakura, you're a character. Really you are," Aeris commented.
"Why thank you, Aeris."
"Sakura, I am with you all the way with your style and fashion."
"Hee, hee. See? Some people like shopping with me unlike you, Mimiru!"
"Hey, just because I don't shop as much as you doesn't mean anything."
"'Kay. Oh, and all reality shows are stupid."
Everyone just stared at Sakura. (Two circles for eyes and a dot for a nose)
"What was that?"
"Nothing. Just ignore that. Come on. Let's go back to the house."
"Hey, guys! We're back!" screamed Yuffie as she approached the front yard
where everyone was just sitting around.
"Man. Back already?" Stephiroth said under his breath.
"Hey, Yuffie," Leon greeted.
"Hi, Leon," blushed Yuffie as she got closer.
The other two girls just came behind.
"Hi ya, Aeris. Hi ya, sis," greeted Matt.
"Hi, Matt," the two girls responded.
"Hey, where's Sakura?" Cloud and Sora asked.
"She's getting something else."
"So, sis, is that all you got? Three bags in each hand?"
"Yep. Three for you and three for me."
"What are those boxes and bags doing walking by themselves?" asked Sora.
"I think that's Sakura," added Riku.
"Hello, hello!" Sakura said with a British accent.
"Here, let me help you with that, Sakura," Cloud said as he grabbed some of
the bags from Sakura's hand.
"Thanks, Cloud."
"I'll help too."
"No, Sora. That's okay. I got it. Besides, I think Kairi wants to talk to
you."
Sora looked over to Kairi and saw Kairi with a pathetic puppy dogface.
"I think she can wait. And you've been carrying these bags all day."
"You two are too kind. My god, I sounded polite just then. Creepy. Oh,
well. Come on."
Cloud and Sora followed Sakura inside the house to put away all of her
merchandise. In the hallway the group met up with Yuffie and Leon.
"Hey, you guys. Why don't you come with us to my room?"
"Sure.... I guess," the two replied.
Everyone entered Sakura's room. Sakura put away all her stuff, then sat
down on her bed.
"How much did you buy?" asked Leon.
"A lot -- I can't count it all."
Just then, a scream came from outside. It kind of sounded like Sora's name.
"Oh, Sora! I think your girlfriend is calling you!"
"Great. I have to deal with her now. Damnit!"
"Sora, you potty mouth. Oh well. That's okay. Just don't let Matt or Mimiru
hear you. They don't approve of that stuff. I do it all the time though.
Hey, if you want, I can give Kairi a major bitch slap!"
"Nah. I don't think I'll take you up on that offer," Sora told her as he
walked out of the room. "At least not yet."
"Well, now, that he's out of the room..."
Sakura reached into one of the bags that she did not put away and pulled
out a camera.
"Say cheese, boys!"
The sound of a camera clicked.
"Got it! Run, Yuffie!"
"You two are both dead! Get back here!" yelled Cloud and Leon.
The girls ran out the room, through the hall, and zoomed out of house, past
everyone in the yard, and were soon nowhere to be seen.
"They are so dead when they get back!" Leon said, wheezing.
"Just let them be. There's no point in going after them even though I would
like to know what was up with the picture."
"What did you say, Cloud?" Aeris asked.
"Just forget about it, Aeris."
"I wonder what that was all about. Gosh," said Goofy.
"Some teen thing I guess," Donald said with his strange accent.
The two girls ran until they came to the shop where they could get their
new toys.
"Come on. Let's give her our picture of the boys."
"Aww. They look cute. They're even smiling!"
"Cute!"
The two entered the store. It was empty and even a little dark.
"Hello? Excuse me? Hey!"
"What do you want?"
"Sorry, ma'am."
"Oh. It's just you two girls. Come, come on in."
"We brought you the picture."
"Good, good. Come in and have a cup of tea."
"Thank you. Umm... What's your name?"
"My name? My name is Eboshi."
"So how long will it take you to make the dolls?"
"Not long. Just an hour for both."
"Wow! You must be very skilled," Yuffie complimented.
Sakura took a sip of the tea Eboshi made for them.
"Ehh! Wow. This is great!"
"I am glade you like it.... What are your names?"
"Oh. Sorry. I am Sakura and this is Yuffie."
"Nice to officially meet you," Eboshi said as she continued to make the
dolls. "These boys are very handsome! I wouldn't mind having a man like
them."
Eboshi started laughing. Then the other girls burst out laughing as well.
The hour had passed and the girls had their dolls.
"Thanks, Miss Eboshi!"
"Come back and visit, girls!"
"We will! Bye."
"Shh.... Be quiet, Yuffie. We don't want to wake anyone."
"Right."
"Ahem. And where were you two?" Mimiru commanded.
"Nowhere, Mimiru. Just out."
"Do you know how much we have worried about you. All of us -- even
Stephiroth."
"Geez, Mimiru. You made Stephiroth sound mean when you said 'even
Stephiroth.'"
"Listen, Mimiru, can we talk about this later? Like tomorrow? Please?"
"Fine."
"Thanks. Night, Mimiru."
Inside Sakura's room, Sakura laid in her bed with her new toys that she had
just got. She thought that this was great -- the Keyblade, living in
Kingdom Hearts, and having a Cloud doll -- but she really missed her
family.
"Maybe we can get back with the Keyblade, but hey? What's the hurry? I'm
just going to college anyway. So what's the rush? Besides, I am with --"
Sakura yawned.
"-- Cloud."
Sakura finally fell asleep as she hugged her Cloud and chocobo.

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Sakura: hey Matt you never did that dare.
Matt: what dare?
Ed: hahaha Ed knows!
Mimiru: I don't know.
Cloud: I want my cookies!
Sakura: I'll make some later.
Kenshin: will anyone just review pretty please. That you will.