Author's Notes: Read if you want...
Ryu-Sama - *sniffles* Nobody liked chapter two...
But somebody liked chapter 3!
Ilanna, If you find Rogue hard to understand, you should just say it how it looks...
LeDiz, Heero's only kind of the leader. Quatre (whose voice actor does Kurt's) is the actual brains behind it. You could call Heero the "determination" behind it. Heh... Duo's my favorite, though...
eyes in the darkness, Lemme guess... annoyed at the cliffhanger? I'm honored that you are enjoying my story so far...
ShimmeryMoonStone, I'm glad you like...
Sankyu for actually taking time to review! I always feel too depressed to write quickly when I'm not getting any responses...
Max - That's because Ryu lacks the determination Heero has. That's why Heero's my favorite.
Ryu - And that's why he's just the muse.
Max - *smacks Ryu*
Ryu - Itai! *cringes away from evil muse*
Warnings for the chapter: A little more than a hint at shonen ai. (slash) Possible Duo abuse? Definite Katsuya abuse, if you know who he is... A lot of violence toward the end of the chapter. Looks like my crossover has spread. *shakes head in disgust*
~@~
Heero blinked at the huge pair of deep blue eyes invading his vision. "We aren't allowed to use our powers at school, you know. If you did, it could cause a lot of the students to be permanently expelled."
How did this little boy know what he had been about to do?
~*~
"Hi, I'm Hilde Schebeiker. I hope you don't mind the interruption."
Heero scowled at him. What kind of evil parent would name a boy something like Hilde?
"What's your name?"
"Heero Yuy. Get out of my way."
"Sorry, can't do that."
"Why is that?" He glared. (the evil ''Yuy Deathglare TM")
"'Cause if I do, you'll just do it anyway. So, sorry."
"Outta my way, boy," he started to push Hilde aside.
Hilde hit him. "That is so rude! I'm a girl!"
"Nani?" Heero couldn't believe his ears. "Ch', Kasuka ningen Onnako. Onnako no shonen. Baka." (1)
"What?" Hilde wasn't sure just what he had said, but, going by his tone of voice, it wasn't nice. "Geez, you'd think some people would be a little nicer. You don't want an education?"
"There isn't anything to learn here that I don't already know."
"Really?"
"Hai."
"Tolerance. The ability to deal with others fairly."
"Hn."
"Give it a chance."
"I don't get a chance. Kasuka ningen shouldn't either."
Hilde frowned. This was actually kind of hard. She weighed her options. She saw the future for each, and finally chose what she was going to say. "Here, we do. Get a chance that is. You would get one too, you just have to follow the rules. If you want, I'll help."
Heero blinked. Someone helping -him- get adjusted? That's a new one. "Shimatta," he sighed, distractedly. "Fine. I'll go along with you until I find something about it that I don't like."
~*~
Kurt was bored. He was left alone after school, and now he couldn't find anybody to talk to. He teleported around the complex, and didn't see a single soul.
It took him a while to realize that everyone was gone on a field trip. He wasn't allowed to go, because Scott was busy fixing his holowatch. Wait... That meant that Scott was here, somewhere. And if Scott was still here, so was Jean... probably. So, he had someone he could talk to!
Picking the only place he hadn't really looked, Cerebro, he teleported.
"We don't know that she's not alone, Pro... Oh! Hey, Kurt! What are you doing here?" Jean looked a little startled.
Scott shifted from side to side. "His watch was broken, so he couldn't go on the trip. Go find Duo, Kurt. He's still here."
Kurt frowned at him. "I looked all over ze mansion. Nobody else is home. Unless he's in one of ze showers, but I even checked zem."
Scott scuffed at the carpet, looking to the professor.
"It's alright, Scott. He might be able to help. And he's right, Duo isn't anywhere on the grounds." The Professor nodded to him. "There is a young girl, of considerable power. Her name is Jounouchi Serenity. She is presently living in the mountains. She reads out as nine or ten years old. Cerebro finds no record of her. All I know at the moment is her name, and that she is, indeed, alone up there."
Kurt tilted his head to the side. "Do you know vhat her abilities are?"
"No. But she seems to be using them constantly."
"Oh. Vouldn't she be afraid of me?"
"We don't know."
Kurt was thoughtful for a moment. "I could alvays hide. Unless herr Scott has fixed mein vatch?"
~*~the next day, at lunch~*~
Duo stretched his arm a little further. Whose cruel joke was it to give him a top locker, anyway?
Nope, still couldn't reach it. "Damnit! Why'd it have to fall back there, anyway..."
He glanced around to see if he could find anyone willing to help him get it. Imagine his surprise when Pietro appeared.
"What'sup? Needanyhelp?"
He almost jumped a step back. "Why do you keep sneaking up on me?"
"I'mnotsneaking. I-always-show-when-your-facing-me,-right?"
Duo blinked. "Uhm..." C'mon... decipher... "Yeah. But it's still sneaking. You just zip right in. Haven't you ever heard of a casual approach?"
"Too-slow."
"Figures..." Duo wondered if he should ask for help. No matter how he tried, it was just out of reach. "Damnit..."
"Need-help?"
Could this guy read minds or something? "Sure."
"What're-you-trying-to-reach?"
Duo sighed, "My lunch."
Pietro reached easily past Duo's head and pulled out a small, brown paper bag. "This-it?"
"Thank you!" Duo jumped up and down for a moment. Chocolate! Little did anybody know, that's what his daily lunch consisted of. He promptly pulled out a Skör bar and shoved it half into his mouth.
Pietro looked alarmed, "Hey!-You're-gonna-choke-on-that!"
Duo shook his head. He never choked! After biting off and chewing the first half of his candy bar, he frowned at the silver-haired boy, "You're too tense. Have you been drinking coffee?"
"Coffee?Me?Drinkcoffee? Noway,Wandawouldkillmeifshecaughtmedrinkingcoffee. SowouldLanceandjustabouteverybodyelse!"
"Why's that?" Duo downed the rest of the Skör bar and started on a 3Musketeers.
"I-have-too-much-energy-as-it-is! Just-think-how-much-worse-it-would-be-if- I-had-caffeine!"
"I see your point." Duo's motions, that is, his eating and drinking went a little faster as the sugar hit his system.
Pietro was shocked. Didn't he have anything healthy in there? "Is-all-of- that-junk-food? You know you can get diabetes from having too much sugar?"
"Hmm?" Duo glanced around the halls. Everyone was headed outside. And damnit, he wanted pizza! "The cafeteria's closed by now, isn't it?"
Pietro nodded. "Is there any thing healthy in there?"
"Nope!" said Duo cheerfully, trying to balance a couple of books on his head, keep a hold on his lunch, and close his locker at the same time. "Unless... Do peanut butter cups count as healthy?"
Pietro shook his head.
"Then, nope... Wait! Pocky should count! At least, it's not bad for you..."
Pietro shifted on his heals. "Uhm... Wouldyouliketogoouttolunch...dinnerwithme?"
"Where at?"
"Whereveryouwant...justsolongasitdoesn'tcosttoomuch,thatis."
"Pizza."
"Pizza?"
"Yup. Pizza. Sure, I'll go with you..." Duo thought a moment. "Are you considering this a date?"
Pietro nodded.
"Hmm... Most guys don't want to bother once they realize I'm a guy, but whatever works."
"So...Doesthatmeanyou'llbemyboyfriend?"
"Uhm... sure. Just so long as it's not an absolutely serious kinda thing. Exclusive, but not serious. Does that work?"
Pietro nodded. "Thatwouldworkjustfine... Do-you-need-help-with-those?"
"Hmm? Oh, my books. No. I'll be just fine... Ah, man! Gotta run..." Duo tilted his head in order to balance the books better. "After school, in the front parking lot?"
"Soundsgood! Seeyouthere!"
Duo ran precariously down the hall, to the normal X-men meeting place. He'd almost run into a wall when the books disappeared from on top of his head. Pietro was -walking- next to him.
"Lookedlikeyouwereabouttocrash."
"Uhm... thanks..."
"Whereyouheaded?"
"The... usual table..." Duo panted. He suddenly felt himself lifted from his feet, and after a dizzying view of the halls, and outside, he found himself seated right next to Kurt, who was looking at him funny.
He could see Pietro walking, really fast, around the rest of the Brotherhood, on the other side of the basketball court.
"Vhat vas zat?"
"Huh?"
"Vas zat just my imagination, or did Pietro just drop you off here?"
"Yeah, he did."
"So, vhat vas zat all about?" Kurt stared at his lunch bag.
"Oh... he's gonna take me out for pizza after school."
Scott fell off of the bench. "What?!"
Jean choked on a sandwich while Kitty pounded on her back.
Kurt just stared. And then... He started laughing. "It's a date, isn't it?"
Duo scowled at him. "I made sure it was nothing too serious when I agreed. And I like pizza. And I missed it today!"
Jean finally swallowed the piece of sandwich that got caught in her throat. "Where were you last night, anyway?"
~*~
Somewhere, in a bad part of town, a teenage boy was thrown to the pavement by a large hairy man.
"Where is she?" growled the man towering over the relatively small teen.
"Where is who? How'm I supposed ta know whatcha talkin' about?" said the teen with a heavy Queen's accent. Looking at him, one would immediately assume he was an American boy, born on the wrong side of the tracks. But on a closer inspection, there was an oddly oriental look to him.
"You smell like her, kid. So, if you don't give it up, right now, you are going to die."
Two boys, standing to the side winced as the blonde was ground into the pavement. They could hear his bones cracking as Sabertooth pushed harder.
Another boy, also watching, paid close attention. It was always good to know new ways to cause pain.
Pietro grimaced and gagged as a wet groan came from the teen struggling under Sabertooth's claws. Todd glanced up at him in sympathy. He felt a little ill too, but that might be from Lance's cooking.
"You had enough, boy?" Sabertooth snarled at the limp form under his hand. It twitched.
Pietro winced. He was still conscious? The poor guy.
Sabertooth kicked the still form. The teen twitched again. They could hear his bones popping and cracking. He was probably trying to get up. Pietro winced again. He probably would never be able to again.
Then... he sat up.
"Shimatta! Doncha like, know, it's rude ta pick on someone smalla dan yarself. Gah..." His leg twitched. They stared at a face that was void of mark. Sure, it was dirty, even bloody, but there wasn't a single scratch. "K'so. Doozo, somebody remind me why I was stupid enough ta come ta Amerika in da first place?"
Was this guy like the Wolverine? He healed like it. "Whoa," said Todd, "he took a beating like that, and he did like that one dude, yo."
Sabertooth growled as the boy glared at him. "Maa? Answer me, bakakiba!" he yelled at the snarling face. He hated being pushed around like this. He got enough of that at home. At least there, he liked the person who did it. His rival. Pretty cool guy, once you got past all of the dog insults.
Sabertooth didn't understand. The only person he knew of who healed like that was his arch-rival, Wolverine. Now that he thought about it, the boy smelled only like a sibling of the one he was searching for. And if he was, he could be of some use. He lifted the boy from the pavement, amazed at how well he had healed. The boy glared at him.
Todd decided to be brave for once. "Hey, you like, got a name, yo?"
The blonde boy stared at him. "Why ya wanna know?" he yelled, and then frowned. Would it really hurt to tell them his name? "Jounouchi Katsuya. Ya can call me: Jou, Joey, Katsuya, Kat... maa, anyt'in' ya can get from mah name. Jes' so ya know, Katsuya'd be mah first name. I'm from Nihon."
"What?"
Katsuya frowned. Oh, yeah, stupid Amerikajin. "Japan."
~@~
Ryu-Sama - What was Duo doing the night before? Just where is Quatre in all of this? Who are these new people? Where are they from? Where was everyone else, the night before? And why am I still asking questions? Why does Max think I'm an idiot? Will I ever shut up? And remember...
Don't forget to tell me what you think. Is it good? Bad? Did it suck royal ass? Or did you (Kami-sama forgive me for this blasphemy) actually like it?
C'mon people! I live for reviews!! Tell me all! Or else my happy thoughts will go away!! Wah!!!
Important notes:
(1) "What?" "Ch', weak human girl. Girl-boy. Idiot."
Most of the rest of the Japanese used was insults. Nothing too enlightening.
Max - You are an idiot because you keep babbling.
Maz - You're still pissed that we were right about those burritos.
Ryu - I'm never gonna let you two dictate what I eat, ever again.
Max - Why?
Maz - Because you nearly poisoned him!
Ryu - It wasn't entirely his fault. You're the one who wanted the garlic salsa.
Max - *nods*
Maz - But that stuff is so good!
Ryu - Just because he thinks that -anything- is edible doesn't mean it's his fault.
Max - *nods*
Maz - *whispers to audience* I don't think he knows the meaning of the word "sarcasm".
Ryu - But I still think it was the burritos.
Max - But...
Ryu - *clutches stomach* *whimpers*
Maz - See what you did?
Max - *whines* It was not my fault.
Ryu-Sama - *sniffles* Nobody liked chapter two...
But somebody liked chapter 3!
Ilanna, If you find Rogue hard to understand, you should just say it how it looks...
LeDiz, Heero's only kind of the leader. Quatre (whose voice actor does Kurt's) is the actual brains behind it. You could call Heero the "determination" behind it. Heh... Duo's my favorite, though...
eyes in the darkness, Lemme guess... annoyed at the cliffhanger? I'm honored that you are enjoying my story so far...
ShimmeryMoonStone, I'm glad you like...
Sankyu for actually taking time to review! I always feel too depressed to write quickly when I'm not getting any responses...
Max - That's because Ryu lacks the determination Heero has. That's why Heero's my favorite.
Ryu - And that's why he's just the muse.
Max - *smacks Ryu*
Ryu - Itai! *cringes away from evil muse*
Warnings for the chapter: A little more than a hint at shonen ai. (slash) Possible Duo abuse? Definite Katsuya abuse, if you know who he is... A lot of violence toward the end of the chapter. Looks like my crossover has spread. *shakes head in disgust*
~@~
Heero blinked at the huge pair of deep blue eyes invading his vision. "We aren't allowed to use our powers at school, you know. If you did, it could cause a lot of the students to be permanently expelled."
How did this little boy know what he had been about to do?
~*~
"Hi, I'm Hilde Schebeiker. I hope you don't mind the interruption."
Heero scowled at him. What kind of evil parent would name a boy something like Hilde?
"What's your name?"
"Heero Yuy. Get out of my way."
"Sorry, can't do that."
"Why is that?" He glared. (the evil ''Yuy Deathglare TM")
"'Cause if I do, you'll just do it anyway. So, sorry."
"Outta my way, boy," he started to push Hilde aside.
Hilde hit him. "That is so rude! I'm a girl!"
"Nani?" Heero couldn't believe his ears. "Ch', Kasuka ningen Onnako. Onnako no shonen. Baka." (1)
"What?" Hilde wasn't sure just what he had said, but, going by his tone of voice, it wasn't nice. "Geez, you'd think some people would be a little nicer. You don't want an education?"
"There isn't anything to learn here that I don't already know."
"Really?"
"Hai."
"Tolerance. The ability to deal with others fairly."
"Hn."
"Give it a chance."
"I don't get a chance. Kasuka ningen shouldn't either."
Hilde frowned. This was actually kind of hard. She weighed her options. She saw the future for each, and finally chose what she was going to say. "Here, we do. Get a chance that is. You would get one too, you just have to follow the rules. If you want, I'll help."
Heero blinked. Someone helping -him- get adjusted? That's a new one. "Shimatta," he sighed, distractedly. "Fine. I'll go along with you until I find something about it that I don't like."
~*~
Kurt was bored. He was left alone after school, and now he couldn't find anybody to talk to. He teleported around the complex, and didn't see a single soul.
It took him a while to realize that everyone was gone on a field trip. He wasn't allowed to go, because Scott was busy fixing his holowatch. Wait... That meant that Scott was here, somewhere. And if Scott was still here, so was Jean... probably. So, he had someone he could talk to!
Picking the only place he hadn't really looked, Cerebro, he teleported.
"We don't know that she's not alone, Pro... Oh! Hey, Kurt! What are you doing here?" Jean looked a little startled.
Scott shifted from side to side. "His watch was broken, so he couldn't go on the trip. Go find Duo, Kurt. He's still here."
Kurt frowned at him. "I looked all over ze mansion. Nobody else is home. Unless he's in one of ze showers, but I even checked zem."
Scott scuffed at the carpet, looking to the professor.
"It's alright, Scott. He might be able to help. And he's right, Duo isn't anywhere on the grounds." The Professor nodded to him. "There is a young girl, of considerable power. Her name is Jounouchi Serenity. She is presently living in the mountains. She reads out as nine or ten years old. Cerebro finds no record of her. All I know at the moment is her name, and that she is, indeed, alone up there."
Kurt tilted his head to the side. "Do you know vhat her abilities are?"
"No. But she seems to be using them constantly."
"Oh. Vouldn't she be afraid of me?"
"We don't know."
Kurt was thoughtful for a moment. "I could alvays hide. Unless herr Scott has fixed mein vatch?"
~*~the next day, at lunch~*~
Duo stretched his arm a little further. Whose cruel joke was it to give him a top locker, anyway?
Nope, still couldn't reach it. "Damnit! Why'd it have to fall back there, anyway..."
He glanced around to see if he could find anyone willing to help him get it. Imagine his surprise when Pietro appeared.
"What'sup? Needanyhelp?"
He almost jumped a step back. "Why do you keep sneaking up on me?"
"I'mnotsneaking. I-always-show-when-your-facing-me,-right?"
Duo blinked. "Uhm..." C'mon... decipher... "Yeah. But it's still sneaking. You just zip right in. Haven't you ever heard of a casual approach?"
"Too-slow."
"Figures..." Duo wondered if he should ask for help. No matter how he tried, it was just out of reach. "Damnit..."
"Need-help?"
Could this guy read minds or something? "Sure."
"What're-you-trying-to-reach?"
Duo sighed, "My lunch."
Pietro reached easily past Duo's head and pulled out a small, brown paper bag. "This-it?"
"Thank you!" Duo jumped up and down for a moment. Chocolate! Little did anybody know, that's what his daily lunch consisted of. He promptly pulled out a Skör bar and shoved it half into his mouth.
Pietro looked alarmed, "Hey!-You're-gonna-choke-on-that!"
Duo shook his head. He never choked! After biting off and chewing the first half of his candy bar, he frowned at the silver-haired boy, "You're too tense. Have you been drinking coffee?"
"Coffee?Me?Drinkcoffee? Noway,Wandawouldkillmeifshecaughtmedrinkingcoffee. SowouldLanceandjustabouteverybodyelse!"
"Why's that?" Duo downed the rest of the Skör bar and started on a 3Musketeers.
"I-have-too-much-energy-as-it-is! Just-think-how-much-worse-it-would-be-if- I-had-caffeine!"
"I see your point." Duo's motions, that is, his eating and drinking went a little faster as the sugar hit his system.
Pietro was shocked. Didn't he have anything healthy in there? "Is-all-of- that-junk-food? You know you can get diabetes from having too much sugar?"
"Hmm?" Duo glanced around the halls. Everyone was headed outside. And damnit, he wanted pizza! "The cafeteria's closed by now, isn't it?"
Pietro nodded. "Is there any thing healthy in there?"
"Nope!" said Duo cheerfully, trying to balance a couple of books on his head, keep a hold on his lunch, and close his locker at the same time. "Unless... Do peanut butter cups count as healthy?"
Pietro shook his head.
"Then, nope... Wait! Pocky should count! At least, it's not bad for you..."
Pietro shifted on his heals. "Uhm... Wouldyouliketogoouttolunch...dinnerwithme?"
"Where at?"
"Whereveryouwant...justsolongasitdoesn'tcosttoomuch,thatis."
"Pizza."
"Pizza?"
"Yup. Pizza. Sure, I'll go with you..." Duo thought a moment. "Are you considering this a date?"
Pietro nodded.
"Hmm... Most guys don't want to bother once they realize I'm a guy, but whatever works."
"So...Doesthatmeanyou'llbemyboyfriend?"
"Uhm... sure. Just so long as it's not an absolutely serious kinda thing. Exclusive, but not serious. Does that work?"
Pietro nodded. "Thatwouldworkjustfine... Do-you-need-help-with-those?"
"Hmm? Oh, my books. No. I'll be just fine... Ah, man! Gotta run..." Duo tilted his head in order to balance the books better. "After school, in the front parking lot?"
"Soundsgood! Seeyouthere!"
Duo ran precariously down the hall, to the normal X-men meeting place. He'd almost run into a wall when the books disappeared from on top of his head. Pietro was -walking- next to him.
"Lookedlikeyouwereabouttocrash."
"Uhm... thanks..."
"Whereyouheaded?"
"The... usual table..." Duo panted. He suddenly felt himself lifted from his feet, and after a dizzying view of the halls, and outside, he found himself seated right next to Kurt, who was looking at him funny.
He could see Pietro walking, really fast, around the rest of the Brotherhood, on the other side of the basketball court.
"Vhat vas zat?"
"Huh?"
"Vas zat just my imagination, or did Pietro just drop you off here?"
"Yeah, he did."
"So, vhat vas zat all about?" Kurt stared at his lunch bag.
"Oh... he's gonna take me out for pizza after school."
Scott fell off of the bench. "What?!"
Jean choked on a sandwich while Kitty pounded on her back.
Kurt just stared. And then... He started laughing. "It's a date, isn't it?"
Duo scowled at him. "I made sure it was nothing too serious when I agreed. And I like pizza. And I missed it today!"
Jean finally swallowed the piece of sandwich that got caught in her throat. "Where were you last night, anyway?"
~*~
Somewhere, in a bad part of town, a teenage boy was thrown to the pavement by a large hairy man.
"Where is she?" growled the man towering over the relatively small teen.
"Where is who? How'm I supposed ta know whatcha talkin' about?" said the teen with a heavy Queen's accent. Looking at him, one would immediately assume he was an American boy, born on the wrong side of the tracks. But on a closer inspection, there was an oddly oriental look to him.
"You smell like her, kid. So, if you don't give it up, right now, you are going to die."
Two boys, standing to the side winced as the blonde was ground into the pavement. They could hear his bones cracking as Sabertooth pushed harder.
Another boy, also watching, paid close attention. It was always good to know new ways to cause pain.
Pietro grimaced and gagged as a wet groan came from the teen struggling under Sabertooth's claws. Todd glanced up at him in sympathy. He felt a little ill too, but that might be from Lance's cooking.
"You had enough, boy?" Sabertooth snarled at the limp form under his hand. It twitched.
Pietro winced. He was still conscious? The poor guy.
Sabertooth kicked the still form. The teen twitched again. They could hear his bones popping and cracking. He was probably trying to get up. Pietro winced again. He probably would never be able to again.
Then... he sat up.
"Shimatta! Doncha like, know, it's rude ta pick on someone smalla dan yarself. Gah..." His leg twitched. They stared at a face that was void of mark. Sure, it was dirty, even bloody, but there wasn't a single scratch. "K'so. Doozo, somebody remind me why I was stupid enough ta come ta Amerika in da first place?"
Was this guy like the Wolverine? He healed like it. "Whoa," said Todd, "he took a beating like that, and he did like that one dude, yo."
Sabertooth growled as the boy glared at him. "Maa? Answer me, bakakiba!" he yelled at the snarling face. He hated being pushed around like this. He got enough of that at home. At least there, he liked the person who did it. His rival. Pretty cool guy, once you got past all of the dog insults.
Sabertooth didn't understand. The only person he knew of who healed like that was his arch-rival, Wolverine. Now that he thought about it, the boy smelled only like a sibling of the one he was searching for. And if he was, he could be of some use. He lifted the boy from the pavement, amazed at how well he had healed. The boy glared at him.
Todd decided to be brave for once. "Hey, you like, got a name, yo?"
The blonde boy stared at him. "Why ya wanna know?" he yelled, and then frowned. Would it really hurt to tell them his name? "Jounouchi Katsuya. Ya can call me: Jou, Joey, Katsuya, Kat... maa, anyt'in' ya can get from mah name. Jes' so ya know, Katsuya'd be mah first name. I'm from Nihon."
"What?"
Katsuya frowned. Oh, yeah, stupid Amerikajin. "Japan."
~@~
Ryu-Sama - What was Duo doing the night before? Just where is Quatre in all of this? Who are these new people? Where are they from? Where was everyone else, the night before? And why am I still asking questions? Why does Max think I'm an idiot? Will I ever shut up? And remember...
Don't forget to tell me what you think. Is it good? Bad? Did it suck royal ass? Or did you (Kami-sama forgive me for this blasphemy) actually like it?
C'mon people! I live for reviews!! Tell me all! Or else my happy thoughts will go away!! Wah!!!
Important notes:
(1) "What?" "Ch', weak human girl. Girl-boy. Idiot."
Most of the rest of the Japanese used was insults. Nothing too enlightening.
Max - You are an idiot because you keep babbling.
Maz - You're still pissed that we were right about those burritos.
Ryu - I'm never gonna let you two dictate what I eat, ever again.
Max - Why?
Maz - Because you nearly poisoned him!
Ryu - It wasn't entirely his fault. You're the one who wanted the garlic salsa.
Max - *nods*
Maz - But that stuff is so good!
Ryu - Just because he thinks that -anything- is edible doesn't mean it's his fault.
Max - *nods*
Maz - *whispers to audience* I don't think he knows the meaning of the word "sarcasm".
Ryu - But I still think it was the burritos.
Max - But...
Ryu - *clutches stomach* *whimpers*
Maz - See what you did?
Max - *whines* It was not my fault.
