"Wow!" said Kisa as she and Hiro walked into the small cafeteria like area where there were about twenty other kids ranging from the ages of eleven to thirteen hanging out. The room was bright and there weren't any strobe lights or loud music. In fact, there was no music playing. "There are so many kids here! We can make so many new friends!"
"Yeah…" said Hiro who not so secretly wanted Kisa all to himself.
"Children!" called some lady who was probably the boss of the pre-teen social. She will be called Ms Tootie. "Gather 'round! We're all going to form a circle and introduce ourselves!"
"Come on, Kisa." Said Hiro. "We can still leave."
"I don't want to leave!" said Kisa.
"I could buy you an ice cream." Hiro said.
"No…I want to stay here." Kisa said, her eyes getting watery.
"Oh all right!" said Hiro as he and Kisa went over to the group of small children who were all sitting in a circle.
MEANWHILE!!!
"This is amazing, isn't it Kyo?!" screamed Kagura over the loud music as the whole group walked into the darkened room with many strobe lights. There were about forty other kids ranging from the ages of fourteen to nineteen were all dancing or sitting around foolishly. She turned around. "Kyo? HEY!! WHERE'D YOU GO?! He's gone already!!" Then she ran off to find him.
"YAY!!" cheered Momiji. "Come on, Tohru! Let's dance!"
"Okay!" said Tohru with horseshoe eyes.
"I'll be watching you from here." Said Yuki as he sat down at one of the tables on the side that was off the dancing floor.
"Okay, I'll come back later!" said Tohru.
"Well if you insist!" said Yuki, standing up.
"Oh…okay!" said Tohru.
"Come on!" Momiji pleaded. "Let's boogey!"
Meanwhile, Rin was sitting at some table by herself and Haru suddenly came literally out of nowhere and sat down next to her. There was a moment of awkward silence.
"So…" said Haru.
"No." Rin said.
"Why not?" asked Haru.
"Because you're too boring for me." Rin answered. "I want someone more exciting. Someone who's a little more unpredictable."
"Oh." Said Haru.
"Someone who would care when I said something like that." Rin added, rolling her eyes.
"I care." Said Haru.
"No you don't." Rin replied. "You didn't react when I insulted you. At all."
"Yes I did…I said 'Oh'." Haru pointed out. "But it wasn't really a surprise when you said you wanted someone exciting and unpredictable because you already told me that before."
Suddenly, the music quieted down.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" yelled Momiji, running around in circles. "IT'S A SLOW DANCE!!!" Then he ran over to Tohru. "Tohru, do a slow dance with me!"
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Tohru asked.
"Well not TOO close!" said Momiji. "We can just hold hands! That's all we were allowed to do in middle school."
"Okay!" said Tohru as she grabbed Momiji's hands and they just kind of swayed back and forth foolishly until Yuki came out of nowhere.
"May I cut in?" he asked, trying to sound like a prince.
"Um…I'm dancing with Momiji right now." Tohru replied. "Maybe at another time?"
"Well…um…okay…" said Yuki, feeling kind of embarrassed that he had wasted his prince voice.
MEANWHILE!!!
"Come on, Hatori, give in to peer pressure and have something to drink!" Shigure practically pleaded.
"Why?" Hatori said, taking a sip of his water.
"Because I feel like a fool drinking alone…" Shigure admitted.
"Then convince Ayame." Hatori answered.
"I've tried before." Shigure replied. "But he said that it'll ruin his skin and you know Ayame and his skin…"
"Well…I can't say that alcohol will ruin your skin but it will certainly ruin your endocrine system." Hatori said. "And parts of your nervous system."
"Hm…endocrine…" said the bartender. "That's the biggest word I've ever heard spoken in this bar."
"Antidisestablishmentarianism!" said Shigure just so he could top Hatori.
"Okay, I stand corrected." Said the bartender.
"Say, Bartender…" said Shigure. "My two friends are really anti-drinkers! What should I do?!"
The bartender looked over at Ayame who was acting like a drunken fool off of his virgin strawberry daiquiri.
"He's just doing that for attention." Shigure assured the bartender.
Then the bartender looked at Hatori who was sitting straight as a board with his hands folded on the table.
"You're certainly not drunk, Endocrine Man." Said the bartender. "And by the looks of it, I doubt you ever HAVE been."
"People don't necessarily come to a bar to get drunk." Hatori said. "Some people have to be the designated driver and some people drink responsibly just to have a little fun."
"See?!" said Shigure. "You see what I have to go through?!"
"Yeah, we get ones like Endocrine all the time." Said the bartender.
"Stop calling me Endocrine." Said Hatori. "Do you even know what that means? I'm sure you don't because if you did then you would have a better job than a bartender."
The bartender didn't seem fazed by this since he probably got it from drunken people all the time. Not the part about endocrines, but the part about his job.
"Call him a seahorse." Said Shigure to the bartender. "It annoys him."
"Shigure…" said Hatori.
"Why?" asked the bartender.
"Beats me!" said Shigure with a shrug. You know, of course, that he's lying and he knows perfectly well why Hatori dislikes being called a seahorse!! He turned to Hatori and gave him possibly the most obvious wink in the entire world that practically involved his entire body.
"I don't get it." Said the bartender. "Did you have an embarrassing sexual experience with a seahorse or something?"
Hatori didn't look as though he was going to answer that but he didn't want to make it look like he actually DID. "Don't make me hurt you." He said.
"Oh, violent threats from Hatori!" said Shigure. "Don't mind him. He's a drunken seahorse."
"Not only am I not drunk but I am not a seahorse either." Hatori said.
"You say dragon, I say seahorse!" said Shigure as if he was enjoying this… which he probably was.
Hatori took this opportunity to look at the amount of alcohol Shigure had consumed up to this point. "Shigure…you haven't had anything to drink yet, have you?" he said, seeing that Shigure's glass was full.
"Not yet…" Shigure replied.
"Then stop acting as though you're drunk because you don't have an excuse for your absurd comments." Hatori said.
"Whose to say I didn't have anything to drink BEFORE this?" said Shigure even though that was definitely only his first drink.
"Fine…then I think we should leave." Hatori declared.
"Oh Gure-san, I am so slammed." Said Ayame as he slumped over Shigure. "I have had far too much to drink. Let's go out and party-harty the night away like drunken fools!"
"Oh Aya, we're going to have CRAZY hangovers tomorrow morning!" Shigure replied.
"My legs feel like jelly!" said Ayame as he attempted to walk around. "It is difficult to walk!"
"At least you CAN walk!" said Shigure as he got up and flopped to the ground.
"We're leaving now." Hatori said, standing up.
"I cannot understand your slurred speech, Ha-san." Said Shigure.
"Perhaps you have had too much to drink as well?" suggested Ayame.
Hatori slapped his forehead and shook his head with disbelief. "Do you want a drink to drink your troubles away?" asked the bartender.
"No." Hatori answered. "I'll have you know that alcohol is a depressant."
The bartender paused. "Do you want a drink anyway?" he asked.
MEANWHILE!!!
"Okay, now it's YOUR turn to tell us your name and something special about yourself!" said Ms Tootie to Hiro.
"What makes you think that I'm going to tell you anything about me?" Hiro said, eying Ms Tootie suspiciously. "Do you even know me? How do I know you're not some kind of evil molester? Do you just do this to build our trust up? The other kids might not see through your act, but I do. Oh, wouldn't it just be easier to ask me which room I'm staying in directly?"
Ms Tootie didn't say anything for a second.
"Hiro…please just do what she says." Said Kisa.
"Fine." Said Hiro. "What do you want me to say? My name…"
"Something special about you and what you like." Ms Tootie finished.
"My name is Hiro Souma." Hiro said. "Something special about me? I…I really can't tell you that. And I like things that are of no concern to you."
"I'm sure there's something special about you, Hiro." Said Ms Tootie.
"You have no idea." Said Hiro.
"Then why don't you share it with the group?" Ms Tootie requested.
"What if I don't want to?" Hiro asked. "What if it's a secret? Are you FORCING me to? I could have you arrested for…"
"That's okay…" Ms Tootie interrupted, turning to Kisa. "Why don't you tell us about yourself?"
Kisa nodded, having WAY too much fun. "I'm Kisa Souma." She said. "Hiro and I are related very distantly. Um…I really can't tell you what's special about me either. But I do like Mogeta…and I like playing with Hiro and my sisterly figure Tohru."
"Come now, why can't you two Soumas tell us something special about you?" asked Ms Tootie.
"Because it's a deep dark secret within our family." Said Hiro. "One that you couldn't possibly comprehend or deserve to comprehend for that matter."
"Hiro…" whispered Kisa, sounding whiny.
"Kisa, I'm going to go and buy you an ice cream." Said Hiro, standing up. "I will be right back. Don't tell them our secret." Then he left the room.
"Well now…" said Ms Tootie. "What's the little secret?"
"I can't tell you." Said Kisa. "It's not just because of Hiro. We're really not supposed to tell. But I also must apologize for Hiro. He's usually a very delightful person. He's just a little shy around strangers."
"Shy?" said Ms Tootie.
"Yes." Said Kisa, nodding her head. "Once he gets to know you, you'll see what a kind person he really is."
"I see…" said Ms Tootie. "Well…I still think we should be able to share our secrets, don't you think so, kids?"
And all the kids who have been silent till now nodded and agreed.
"I really can't tell you…" Kisa said.
"Is it a secret about you and Hiro?" said Ms Tootie.
"Well…yes." Said Kisa.
"Oh!" said Ms Tootie with a smile. "I think I know what it is!"
"And eleven other people." Kisa added. "Unless you want to count Akito then it's twelve other people and if you want to count Tohru then it's thirteen other people…but I can't say she's really involved in a very intimate way."
"Maybe not." Said Ms Tootie, scratching her chin. "So is it like a play group you and these thirteen other people have?"
"No…" said Kisa. "I wouldn't call it a playgroup. In fact…that would probably be the last thing I would call it."
"You're not really helping us out here with these answers." Said Ms Tootie.
"Well, I don't really want you to figure it out." Kisa confessed.
"I can tell you do!" said Ms Tootie.
"No, I really don't." Kisa replied. "It's a family secret that no one else can know except for Tohru because she's special."
"Then we'll just play twenty questions until we figure out what the secret is!" said Ms Tootie since she now NEEDED to know what it was.
"I'm sorry…but I don't think you'll ever figure it out." Kisa said. "And even if you did figure it out which you probably won't…I'm not going to tell you that it's right."
MEANWHILE!!!
"THERE you are, Kyo!" said Tohru as she ran up to Kyo who was sitting by himself in the corner. "I haven't seen you for this entire dance!"
"It hasn't been very long." Said Kyo.
"I know!" said Tohru. "But I still haven't seen you for the WHOLE thing!"
"I guess…" said Kyo in that way that made you think that he wanted her to just go away but in reality…he DIDN'T!! NO ONE wants Tohru to go away!! EVER!! Except maybe Hiro…and Akito…but I think that's probably it.
"Wow!" said Tohru. "I really like this song! Do you want to dance with me?"
"What?" said Kyo. "DANCE?"
"Yeah!" said Tohru. "We don't have to touch each other at all. It's a pretty fast song!"
"Fine…but only because YOU want to so badly." Said Kyo, standing up. "But if you don't want to, that's okay."
"No!" said Tohru. "I do! I do! Nothing would make me happier!"
"Whatever…" said Kyo.
Tohru grabbed onto Kyo's hand and pulled him out onto the dance floor. Tohru danced around way to happily and excitedly and dragged Kyo around who looked as though he'd rather be anywhere except on the dancing floor but that's only the way he LOOKED because deep down, there's no place he'd RATHER be! So Kyo was only stumbling around foolishly, AKA "The Drunken Dance", while stepping on Tohru's feet and bumping into a bunch of people but luckily they were ALL males so it's no problem. But then he caught a glimpse of Yuki over in the corner staring enviously at him and then decided to pick it up a notch and act like he was having the time of his life…which he WAS!! But now he could SHOW it!!!
"Stupid cat…" murmured Yuki.
Then when Tohru's favorite song ended, a slow song started. Yuki immediately sprung up and ran over to Kyo and Tohru who were already holding hands looking as though they were going to start dancing to the slow song!
"Tohru, you said that I could dance the next slow song with you." He said.
"Well…Kyo and I only really got half a song to dance to and we're both kind of tired so this is a good way for us to calm down." Said Tohru.
"But I asked before he did." Yuki said, staring at Kyo who was sticking his tongue out at Yuki.
"We can dance the NEXT slow song together." Said Tohru.
"Well…fine…" Yuki said but you could tell that he was crying inside. So he went over to where Haru and Rin were still sitting and sat down too.
"Why don't you dance with Yuki?" Rin asked since Haru was in that mode where all he does is repeatedly ask if she'll dance with him over and over and over without even giving her time to answer…so it was kind of like Bart Simpson.
"Will you dance with me?" Haru asked Rin.
"No!" yelled Rin.
There was a pause.
"How about now?" asked Haru.
"Look, just go and dance with Yuki." Rin said again.
"No, that's okay." Said Yuki.
"Rin, if you don't dance with me before this slow dance is over, I might very well just turn Black…" Haru said.
"You and I both know very well that you cannot bring out your Black personality at will." Said Rin.
"I'm not threatening you." Said Haru. "I'm just saying that it might happen if I don't get what I want. Right now."
"Haru, I am having no fun at this dance at all." Said Rin. "It's because I'm spending all my time with you and you are just the most boring person on the face of this earth. I almost wish you could turn into Black Haru because Black Haru is a lot more interesting than White Haru."
"…If we danced it would be fun." Said Haru.
MEANWHILE!!!
"Give me another shot, bartender!!" yelled Shigure, slamming his shot glass down on the table.
"Um…okay." Said the bartender. "Same stuff?"
"SAME STUFF!!!" screamed Ayame.
"Actually…gimme a whole mug!" Shigure demanded.
"Same stuff?" asked the bartender.
"SAME STUFF!!!" screamed Ayame.
"Okay…" said the bartender as he filled a mug up with water from the tap and then gave it to Shigure.
"CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG!!!" chanted the whole bar as Shigure chugged the water.
"Why am I still here?" Hatori wondered to himself. "The least they could do is actually get drunk. That way I wouldn't have to question their mental stability."
"YAY!!!" cheered the entire bar as Shigure slammed the mug down on the table and they all threw quarters at him as he got on his chair and did a little jig.
"Then again…I'd hate to see them actually drunk." Hatori said.
"It's funny…" said the bartender. "I've never had a group of three come into my bar and then not drink at all…yet still be the center of attention."
"I'm not the center of attention." Hatori pointed out.
"You're the center of MY attention." Said the bartender.
"Are you coming on to me?" Hatori asked.
"Yes." Said the bartender.
"Shigure, Ayame…it's time to go." Said Hatori.
"Don't be such a stick in the mud, Hatori!" said Ayame.
"Yeah you party pooper!" said Shigure.
"The night's hardly begun!" Ayame added.
"You guys have…um…had too much to drink." Said Hatori. "And I think it's time we went back to our room."
"I'll TELL you when I've had enough!" yelled Shigure and Ayame at the exact same time.
"Why don't you just go back alone?" asked the bartender.
"But then they'll be here all night." Hatori replied. "And I'm the designated driver…so to speak."
"They're not even drunk." Said the bartender.
"I am painfully aware of that." Hatori replied.
"Are you seeking companionship?" asked the bartender.
"Not from you." Said Hatori.
"Do you want to just drink your troubles away?"
"Is that your pick-up line?"
"Yes."
"I am not interested in you."
"That's too bad…" said the bartender with a sigh. "But do you want to drink your troubles away anyway?"
MEANWHILE!!!
"Kisa!" said Hiro, coming around the corner with an enormous ice cream cone that not even a large fat man could possibly finish. "The ice cream was free and it was self serve too! I got you this HUGE ice cream cone!"
Everyone who was sitting around in the circle turned around and stared at Hiro as if he had just suddenly come in and interrupted them by saying something incredibly foolish. Which is what he did.
"What are you all staring at?" Hiro asked with a scowl. "Did you expect me to get you all an ice cream as well? How would you expect me to carry all that? Do you think I'm your ice cream fetcher? Is this the way you ALWAYS treat someone who you don't even know? Well, I can't imagine that you all have very many friends."
And then he sat down next to Kisa.
"Here you go, Kisa." He said.
"Thank you Hiro!" said Kisa, trying to be polite.
"I think someone has a crush!" said Ms Tootie as the entire circle giggled.
"What?" said Hiro, sounding annoyed. "You better not have been talking about me. If you were, I fail to see the humor in that."
"Loosen up, Hiro!" said Ms Tootie. "We're all just having a little fun!"
"This is not fun." Said Hiro.
"We were just playing the Name Game!" Ms Tootie exclaimed. "Hiro Hiro bo Biro banana-fana fo Firo…!"
"Stop." Said Hiro.
"Your name is an easy one!" said Ms Tootie. "You're Hiro! A HERO!! You're big and strong…like Hercules!"
Hiro looked as though he was going to go on a forty minute tangent but Kisa put her hand on his shoulder. "Please don't say anything, Hiro." She said.
"When is this over?" Hiro asked.
"Eight thirty!" Ms Tootie replied.
"What time is it now?" Hiro almost demanded. Then again, he probably DID demand it.
"Seven thirty!" Ms Tootie sang.
"Kisa, I think I want to go and get another ice cream cone." Said Hiro, standing up again. "Will you come with me?"
"No, Hiro, I want to stay here and make some friends." Kisa answered.
Hiro looked as though he was not expecting that answer and as though Chipmunk Santa had cancelled Christmas for no reason. He fell back to the floor as if he had a ton of bricks on his back.
"What?" he said.
"I'm going to stay here." She said.
"Why…?" Hiro whined.
"Aw…I think somebody needs a hug!" said Ms Tootie, standing up and opening her arms.
"NO!!" Hiro yelled, getting lively again, springing up and dodging Ms Tootie at the last second.
"We know you're shy, Hiro." Said Ms Tootie. "Kisa told us all about it! I think it's time you warmed up to ol' Ms Tootie and gave her a nice big hug! Trust me, it'll make you feel lots better."
"Trust me, it really won't." Hiro said.
"You can't hate me that much!" said Ms Tootie.
"Even if there wasn't certain circumstances that didn't allow me to physically hug you, I still wouldn't do it." Hiro said.
"Oh…do you have a disease?" asked Ms Tootie.
"No!" Hiro said, sounding and looking disgusted.
"Then give me a hug!" Ms Tootie commanded.
"Hiro, you should have just said yes." Said Kisa.
"But I'm healthy!" Hiro said.
"I know that, Hiro, but she didn't." said Kisa. "But she does now."
"Here I come!" said Ms Tootie as she begun to chase Hiro around the room.
MEANWHILE!!!
"Tohru, Rin won't dance with me." Said Haru, walking up to Tohru who was just standing there.
"I'LL dance with you!" said Tohru WAY too cheerfully.
"It's not the same…" Haru complained. "Make Rin dance with me."
"You can't make anyone do anything they don't want to!" Tohru said. "And if you don't want to dance with me then that's okay! Maybe you can do something nice for her and then she'll want to dance with you."
"Maybe I could dance with you and get her jealous so she'll be BEGGING to dance with me." Haru said.
"Um…I hadn't thought of it that way…" said Tohru slowly.
"That's okay." Said Haru.
"But I can't dance with you the way you would want to dance with Rin." Tohru reminded him.
"Okay." Said Haru as he grabbed Tohru's hands and the two just swayed back and forth even though it was a fast song that they could potentially get down to.
Haru didn't bother hiding the fact that he was staring at Rin. In fact, that's what he was doing. He was about three feet away from her just STARING at her. So, just to spite him, Rin got up and asked Momiji to dance. Since Momiji is a dirty pervert, he agreed and the two of them started dancing.
"Tohru," complained Haru. "At dinner, Rin said that she wouldn't go out with Momiji because he's too feminine for her. But now she's dancing with him."
"I'm sure it doesn't mean anything." Said Tohru. "After all, you're dancing with ME!"
"But that's different…" said Haru. "She's having fun."
"So you're not having fun dancing with me?" asked Tohru.
"No…I'd rather dance with Rin." Said Haru truthfully. "Or even Yuki. Nothing against you because you're a nice person and everything but I'm just not attracted to you the way everyone else is."
"Everyone else?!" gasped Tohru. "Oh my god! You don't mean that!"
"Yeah." Said Tohru. "Yuki's been moping and complaining about how you haven't danced with him all night."
"Oh!" said Tohru. "That's right! I promised him I would dance with him next!"
"Well, I don't think he minds." Said Haru. "He's dancing with Akito."
Tohru turned around and watched as Akito probably forced Yuki to dance with him just by looking at the horrified expression on Yuki's face.
"Well…at least they're not fighting!" said Tohru because she's a dumb ass.
"But Rin is STILL dancing with Momiji." Haru continued.
"I'm sorry…" said Tohru, not knowing what else to do. She couldn't very well interrupt Rin from her dance with Momiji if she was TRULY having a fun time but she also couldn't just leave Haru here depressed and alone and potentially going down the road to Black Haru.
"That's okay, Tohru." Said Haru. "I see that you were trying to help me."
"Um…all right…" said Tohru just as Kagura ran over.
"I can't find Kyo ANYWHERE!!" she yelled. "I checked in all the highest places of this boat but I still can't find him!"
"He's been here this whole time!" Tohru laughed.
"Really?!" Kagura said, looking around. "Where?!"
"Oh…I don't know NOW…" Tohru confessed. "But I did see him a little earlier. But who knows? Maybe he's gone now."
"That doesn't help!" whined Kagura.
"Well, I'll help you find him!" Tohru offered.
"What about me?" asked Haru.
"Um…you should just try doing something nice for Rin!" Tohru said, wanting to help BOTH of her friends. Then she ran off with Kagura to go and find Kyo.
"Tohru!" yelled Yuki, suddenly appearing in front of Tohru. "Dance with me now!"
"I can't." said Tohru. "I'm looking for Kyo."
If Yuki were a piece of glass, he would have shattered. "Why?" he asked.
"Because we can't find him!" Kagura yelled. "And we have to hurry!"
"Yeah!" said Tohru. "Before the next song starts!"
"Why?!" Yuki demanded.
"To dance!" Tohru replied. Yuki gasped, hung his head low and then trudged off very sadly. "I wonder what's wrong with Yuki?"
"I don't know." Said Kagura. "But I haven't danced with Kyo ALL night!"
"Then let's find him!" said Tohru, not about to tell Kagura that she had already danced with him. They searched high and low for a few minutes before they saw a big orange poof over on the other side of the dance floor.
"There he is!" said Kagura.
"Oh no!" gasped Tohru, slapping her cheeks. They both ran over to the poof to find only a stack of Kyo's clothes so they quickly collected them and then continued searching, assuming that he probably wasn't going to stick around if he had just turned into a cat. Although, it wasn't long before they found him since he was bright orange.
"We found your clothes!" said Kagura.
"Did anybody see you?" Tohru asked.
"I don't think so." Said Kyo. "I only bumped into her but I don't think she noticed."
"HEY!!!" screamed some random teenager. "They didn't let me take my pet on this cruise!! You shouldn't be allowed to take a pet!!"
"Yeah!" said another random teenager. "They don't allow pets on this cruise!"
"I just said that." Said the first random teenager.
"Yes but I reiterated it only to show that there is more than one of us standing here." Replied the second.
"We have to get Kyo out of here before he turns back!" said Tohru as she grabbed Kyo and ran out of the dance as fast as she could just like she did in episode 7 when she was running out of the school with Momiji as a rabbit. She ran at top speed all the way back to their rooms and then into his room.
"I'm not giving you your clothes back until you promise to come back to the dance and dance with me!" Kagura threatened, holding Kyo's clothes tightly as Tohru put him down.
"I don't care!" said Kyo. "I have plenty of OTHER clothes I can wear! It's not like those are the only clothes I have!"
They all stood there in silence for a minute.
"Um…you all wanna leave so you're not standing right here when I turn back?" Kyo said suddenly.
"Oh." Said Tohru and Kagura as they just continued to stand there. Then Kyo cleared his throat and they both finally left the room.
"I can't believe Kyo won't dance with me!" cried Kagura. "It's not fair!"
Suddenly, Rin casually walked around the corner. "Tohru," said Rin. "Momiji told me to come and get you."
"Why?" asked Tohru.
"Haru turned Black." Rin answered.
"What could I possibly do?" Tohru asked.
"I don't know." Said Rin. "Momiji just wanted you to come."
"All right!" said Tohru, turning to Kagura. "You wait for Kyo."
"I was going to do that ANYWAY!!" Kagura declared.
Then Tohru ran as fast as she could back to the dance as Rin just walked slowly after her. When they got back to the dance, it was empty and everything was broken and ruined and Haru was just kind of standing there all by himself acting as though he didn't really do anything.
"Tohru," he said, turning around. "You brought her! You ARE a miracle worker!"
"He's not Black anymore." Said Momiji, popping up behind Tohru.
"Maybe you should just dance with him." Said Yuki since he has a tendency of being everywhere just so he can say something stupid and make everyone think that HE did everything. And then after that, he has to turn around and make it all about himself. "Just like you should dance with me, Tohru."
"The dance is over!" said Tohru with horseshoe eyes. "Maybe at the next dance we can!"
"Yeah, Haru, the dance is over." Said Rin. "And that would you be your fault too."
Haru looked around. "I don't know…" he said. "They might come back…"
MEANWHILE!!!
"How dry I am…!" sang Ayame as he and Shigure hobbled down the hallway on the way to their room with Hatori walking in front of them.
"Kagura, what are you doing sitting out here?" Hatori asked.
"I'm waiting for Kyo." She answered, knocking on the door. "Kyo, have you turned back into a person yet?"
"Nope, still a cat." Kyo called from inside the room. Of course, Kyo had long since turned back into a person and was now watching television in his jammies which were decorated with little fish and cat heads. Well…if I turned into a cat, I would definitely get paraphernalia to match that but I don't know if Kyo would but we'll just say he does.
"I see." Said Hatori, opening the door to his room.
"We are so dry!" Shigure continued as they both followed Hatori into the room and then shut the door.
"All right you two…" said Hatori. "Cut the drunk act. I know very well that neither of you consumed any alcohol."
"Yeah but it's still fun to pretend as though we have!" said Ayame.
"So you're not even going to bother denying it?" Hatori asked as if he were expecting an argument and actually prepared comebacks and responses to anything they were going to say.
"Why deny it?" said Ayame. "What do you say?! Tomorrow night?!"
"YEAH!!!" cheered Shigure as he slapped Ayame five.
"No." said Hatori. "We'll just take cool it for tomorrow night."
"But that's not fun!" whined Ayame.
"Neither was that." Said Hatori since he probably prepared responses to THIS argument too.
"Isn't anybody going to ask if Akito had any fun?" came a voice from the other side of the room. All three of them flinched at the mere sound of Akito's name but then they realized that it was only Kureno sitting in the corner and they had simply just not noticed him when they had come in!
"Um…did Akito have any fun?" Hatori asked since out of the three, he's probably the most afraid of Akito. Ayame seems to have absolutely no connection to Akito and as for Shigure…I just don't think Akito's ever haunted Shigure's dreams.
"No." the chicken answered. They waited for him to continue but when he didn't, they decided to just disregard the chicken all together.
Suddenly, there was a knock at the door. Shigure turned around and opened it because he was standing the closest and Kisa was standing there.
"Is Hatori here?" she asked.
"Hatori, it's for you." Said Shigure as Hatori walked over.
"Yes?" he asked.
"Hiro and I were at the Pre-Teen Social and the teacher who is female wanted to make Hiro feel more welcome so she hugged him." Kisa explained. Hatori slapped his forehead.
"I'll be right back." Hatori told the older people as he left while muttering about how all of the cursed people should just be as antisocial as he was and they wouldn't have this problem. Kisa ran after him.
"This is just so crazy!" Ayame observed. "The boat hasn't even left yet!"
As soon as he said that, yes, the MOMENT he said it…maybe he wasn't even finished saying it, but anyway, the boat suddenly jolted and started moving and rumbled a little. Then a little intercom man came over the…well, the intercom I guess and informed everyone that there were no problems and they had, in fact, finally started the cruise!!
MEANWHILE!!!
"What time is it?" Tohru asked to Yuki as they as well as Rin and Haru walked down the hall on the way to their rooms.
"Almost eight thirty." Yuki answered.
"Oh!" said Tohru. "That means Kisa's social is over. Let's go pick her up!"
"I'm going in the room." Said Rin as she swung the door open and slammed it behind her.
"She did that on purpose." Said Haru, looking annoyed.
"Kagura!" exclaimed Tohru to Kagura who was sitting leaned up against the wall next to the door. "What are you still doing here?!"
"I'm waiting for Kyo!" Kagura answered with a sigh. "I just hate it when it takes this long to turn back into a person."
"Oh okay!" said Tohru.
"Where's Momiji?" asked Kagura.
"He went to get himself some ice cream." Tohru replied. "I was going to go and pick up Kisa and Hiro. Does anyone want to come with me?"
"I would love to accompany you." Said Yuki.
"Does anybody else want to come?" Tohru asked.
"That's all right." Said Haru. "I'll just go in my room and sit by myself."
"Tell Kyo to hurry up." Instructed Kagura as Haru went in the room.
"Are you going to come too?" asked Tohru to Kagura.
"No, I'll wait here." Kagura replied.
"All right." Said Tohru with a smile.
"Looks like it's just you and me." Said Yuki to Tohru.
"Yup!" said Tohru. The two of them turned around and walked down the hall and rode the elevator and climbed the stairs and it was a BLAST!!!
"This could be a date…as long as we don't tell anyone." Said Yuki.
"Oh." Said Tohru. "But I hardly think a short walk to go and pick up Kisa and Hiro would be considered a date!"
"Well…you never know." Said Yuki.
Then they walked in the door to where the social was supposed to be only to find Hatori, Kisa, Hiro sitting there casually surrounded by a bunch of unconscious people lying around in the room.
"What happened?!" gasped Tohru.
"Stupid Ms Tootie thought that she could hug me and get away with it!!" yelled Hiro who was human and fully clothed.
"It's not like it's a punishment." Said Hatori. "It's just that they all saw him transform into a sheep so I had to erase all their memories. We're just waiting for them to wake up so no one walks in and gets suspicious." Then he paused. "Come to think of it…that really just happened so what we're doing is superfluous." He stood up. "Come on you two." He said to Hiro and Kisa. "We'll go back to our rooms now."
"What?!" yelled Hiro. "Now?! It's only eight thirty!"
"Actually it's eight thirty three!" said Tohru with a dopey smile as she looked at the clock on the wall.
"Hi!" said Momiji as he walked in with an enormous ice cream cone, similar to the one that Hiro had earlier. "The ice cream was self serve! And it was FREE!"
"Momiji, don't tell me you are going to eat all that ice cream." Said Hatori.
"Okay, I won't tell you that I will eat all this ice cream." Said Momiji.
"It's unhealthy this late at night." Hatori informed him.
"But this is a vacation!" said Momiji. "I'm supposed to gain weight and get stupider!"
Hatori looked stunned enough that he couldn't even respond to such a foolish comment, since he is a doctor and all. Any doctor would certainly go as far as to have a heart attack if their patient were to say something like that.
Momiji was pleased with himself that he had stupefied Hatori so now he could eat his huge portion of ice cream without being bothered. Hatori seems to get stupefied a lot, doesn't he?
"Let's just go back to the rooms!" said Tohru. "Maybe we could all get together in one room and watch a movie or something! There are televisions in the rooms, aren't there?"
"What a great idea, Tohru!" said Momiji who already had more ice cream on his face and clothes than what was left. "Let's all listen to Tohru's idea!"
At that point, they decided to leave the room filled with unconscious people and go somewhere else so they would not be questioned if someone were to just walk in…which you KNOW they would considering Yuki, Tohru AND Momiji had already done so!! It was only a fortunate thing that they all knew about the current situation.
When they got back to where all four of the rooms were, they told everyone about their marvelous plan. (This is how the rooms were arranged just in case it comes up and you know the drill…it WILL because we're telling you.)
Mabudachi Trio and the Chicken The Girls
Hiro, Akito and Ritsu (them leftovers) Hallway The Teenage Boys
"Which room should we stay in?" wondered no one in particular. It's not important because as of right now, there's a plethora of characters and this was a comment lacking personality so it can be your favorite character who said it. Isn't that great how we're so interactive with you guys so you get to choose who says what line sometimes? Don't get used to it…SERVENT!! BWA HA HA HA HA HA!! We just insulted you…just so you know.
In the end, they all decided to stay in the old people room. This meant, of course, that when the movie was over, the old people had to carry the young people to bed!! Specifically, Hiro and Kisa. AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!! Of course, The Chicken insisted on carrying Akito to bed even though he wasn't sleeping which isn't cute at all…it's actually kind of creepy.
In case you didn't catch that, the movie's over already and it's…oh say…I don't know…eleven thirty. Yeah…it was a REALLY long movie. Actually, they just watched the cut version of Heartbreakers twice since that movie was just playing repeatedly on the television.
So, since everyone had such a long day, it was bedtime and they were ALL tired.
"Why did we have to have the party in HERE?!" complained Ayame as he made his bed since the covers were all folded and NOT perfect.
"Because we can't have the boys in the girl's room, the boy's room is a mess and that other room with all the leftover people smells bad." Shigure said.
"If Akito were here, he would resent the fact that you called him a leftover." Said the chicken.
"But he's NOT here!" said Shigure, pointing his finger up in the air.
"That's right!" Ayame said. "So let's bad mouth Akito all night long!"
"I will not permit that!!" yelled the Chicken at the top of his lungs.
"Yeah…" said Hatori who obviously wanted to rant about Akito but feared that Akito might somehow find out and then throw a vase at him, blinding his OTHER eye so he would have to grow his hair out on the other side so he would look like Cousin It!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
"I was just kidding anyway." Said Ayame. Then he noted the fact that Shigure was climbing up the ladder into his bed. "What?!" he demanded. "Why are you going to bed?!"
"Because it's bedtime." Shigure replied.
"Not for us!" Ayame yelled, slamming his hand down on the table as if he were a young child who wanted to stay up past his bedtime.
"Please don't yell like that!" said the chicken who has not been referred to by his name for a very long time.
"Really, Ayame, how can you have so much energy at this time of night?" inquired Hatori.
"How can you guys NOT have so much energy?" Ayame asked. "I mean…we should be partying!"
"Partying?" Hatori said, raising an eyebrow but IT WAS THE EYEBROW THAT'S COVERED BY HAIR SO NO ONE KNEW!!! But you and me did so it's okay.
"Yeah!" said Ayame. "Let's all go and find something that the three of us can do until the crack of dawn!" Then he eyed the chicken. "You can come too… if you must…"
"Ayame…save it for some other night." Hatori said.
"But we're on a cruise!" whined Ayame. "And we're going to bed before midnight?! I don't even go to bed this early on a REGULAR day!"
"That explains a lot then." Said Shigure. "How early did you go to bed when you were still in school?"
"Not THIS early!" yelled Ayame. "This is just ridiculous!!"
"Ayame, it's not THAT early when you really think about it." Hatori said.
"But I don't wanna go to bed!" Ayame yelled, throwing a temper tantrum.
"You don't have to!!" yelled Shigure. "You can go out by yourself, can't you?"
"I think I will!" Ayame said, stomping over to the door, opening it and then slamming it behind him as if he was trying to make as much noise as he possibly could.
"Nice work." Said Hatori as he went into the bathroom to change into his pajamas. Shigure just took of his suit to reveal that he was already wearing his pajamas underneath and the chicken had already changed a long time ago before anyone had even come in. Hatori emerged from the bathroom a few minutes later with his pajamas that were decorated with little seahorses being burned and eaten by dragons. That's kind of psychotic. So instead, the seahorses and dragons were playing together nicely and civilly. Of course, he had brushed his teeth and combed his hair and did all kinds of other stuff that people don't usually do on slumber parties…but it's not like this is a slumber party!! It's actually a set time of one week as opposed to just until we don't feel like writing anymore. But actually, we can do that and just leave all of you hanging.
MEANWHILE!!!
"Goodnight Mom!" said Tohru as she gave her mom's picture a hug and put it on the end table that was near her bed. She was sleeping on the bottom bunk and Rin was on top of her, and Kisa was sleeping on the OTHER top bunk and Kagura was underneath HER!! HAW HAW HAW!!! Everyone was sleeping except for Tohru so she did the polite thing to do and didn't wake anyone up to talk all night like they had previously planned. Now, since Tohru's not going to talk or do anything, let's move on!!
MEANWHILE!!!
"I don't wanna go to bed!" Momiji whined from his top bunk as he fidgeted around uncontrollably. Haru was in the bottom bunk that Momiji was NOT in… DEAD as far as anyone knew. Kyo had long since made himself comfortable on the other top bunk that was not occupied by Momiji.
Yuki walked out of the bathroom wearing his mouse and cheese pajamas. Oh and Haru was wearing white pajamas with black spots and Momiji was wearing yellow sleepers with bunny ears on the hood and a bunny tail just so you know. But anyway, Yuki walked out of the bathroom only to see that all the beds were taken except for one! The one under Momiji who was fidgeting around and making the bed squeak just like a mouse. HAW HAW HAW!! LIKE A MOUSE BECAUSE YUKI IS A MOUSE!!!
"Momiji, you'll have to stop moving around so much." Yuki instructed, climbing into the bed.
"But I'm not tired…" Momiji whined. They all sat there in silence for a minute.
"You were the last one in bed." Said Kyo. "You have to turn the light off."
"Since when is that a rule?" Yuki said, getting all smug for no reason.
"IT'S COMMON COURTESY!!" screamed Kyo, getting all angry for no reason.
"What do you know about common courtesy?" Yuki asked.
"SINCE ALWAYS!!!!" yelled Kyo as if that made sense. "OH FORGET IT!! I'LL TURN THE LIGHT OFF!!" And then he stormed over to the light switch and flicked it off, then went back to his bed, mumbling to himself the whole time.
They all lied there in silence for another minute.
"I need a nightlight…" Momiji cried, sniffling.
"How old ARE you?!" yelled Kyo.
"I sleep with a nightlight every night!" Momiji whined. "It's a blue canary nightlight and it's by the light switch and it watches over me!"
"Did you bring it?" asked Yuki.
"No." Momiji answered, continuing to sniffle. "I thought maybe one of you would have."
"WHY WOULD I HAVE A NIGHTLIGHT?!" Kyo yelled as if Momiji had singled him out for the sole purpose to insult him when in reality, Momiji hadn't really singled him out at all.
"I have a nightlight." Said Haru.
"Haru, I thought you were sleeping." Said Yuki.
"I WAS." Haru answered. "But in case you hadn't realized it, those two have been screaming at the top of their lungs for the past five minutes and obviously I woke up." Then he got up, turned the lights on and opened the drawer that had his suitcase in it. He fished around in it for a little while before finally pulling out a nightlight that was in the shape of the Dairy Fairy. He plugged it in, turned off the light and then got back in his bed.
"Thanks Haru!" said Momiji knavishly as he curled up with his bunny rabbit stuffed animal.
"I can't sleep with this nightlight!" yelled Kyo. "It's bad enough that Yuki's in the same room as I am but to have this stupid cow glowing over in the corner just makes it that much worse!"
"HEY!!" yelled Momiji. "The Dairy Fairy is NOT stupid!!"
"Are you saying that cows are stupid?" Haru asked since that's kind of a touchy subject for him.
"No, I'm just saying that GLOWING ones wearing tutus and carrying wands are stupid!" Kyo answered.
"The only stupid one here is you, you stupid cat." Said Yuki.
"No one asked you, you damn rat!!" yelled Kyo.
The room fell silent for yet another minute until Kyo yelled out an irritated and rather long and loud groan.
"If someone doesn't turn off that nightlight then I'm going to go over there and permanently turn it off!!" Kyo threatened.
"Just get over it, stupid cat." Said Yuki. "You can just wait until Momiji goes to sleep and then you can turn it off."
"But I want the nightlight too." Said Haru.
"Then you can wait until Momiji AND Haru go to sleep and then you can turn it off." Yuki corrected himself even though he secretly wanted the nightlight on as well so the Dairy Fairy could protect him from the monsters under the bed.
"I don't want to have to wait that long!!" Kyo complained.
MEANWHILE!!!
Hiro was dreaming about Kisa. In his dream, Kisa had been stroking his hair lovingly to an un-Kisaish extent. Now, even though this was Hiro's dream and he was clearly enjoying every moment of it…AT FIRST…now he was starting to feel a little uncomfortable that Kisa was fondling him so.
Finally he awoke from his dream only to be faced with Akito who was lying an inch from his face in his bed fondling his hair.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" yelled Hiro.
"What troubles you my little ewe?" asked Akito as if he didn't know.
"First of all, a ewe is a FEMALE sheep!" Hiro started.
"Be silent!!!" yelled Akito.
Hiro then remembered what exactly he just did. Sometimes, Hiro just talks without thinking. That's something you may not know but it's true.
"Please don't hurt Kisa!" he pleaded, stepping over Akito and getting out of bed. He was sleeping on the bottom and Akito SHOULD have been sleeping in the OTHER bottom bunk and Ritsu…who cares where he was sleeping?
"No such thought crossed my mind." Said Akito BUT HE WAS LYING!!!!
Now, you know how Kagura has a cat backpack? Well, Hiro has a tiger backpack that he doesn't carry around because people would make fun of it. So he quickly packed up all his necessities and hurried out the door without saying anything to Akito.
He crossed the hall and went over to Kisa's room which was actually DIAGONAL to his room. He opened the door slowly and peeked his head in to see that everyone was sleeping but luckily there was a Tony the Tiger nightlight so he could see things vaguely in the room. He followed his sheep instincts and found Kisa's bed immediately.
Now, just as a forewarning, Hiro is a YOUNG person and there are no sexual thoughts going through his young mind right now.
"Well…maybe a LITTLE…" Hiro whispered as he climbed over to where Kisa was and shook her awake. "Kisa! Wake up!"
Kisa turned over and looked up at him. "Hiro, what are you doing here?" she asked. She may have been whispering…but one can never tell with that Kisa.
"Can I sleep in here?" Hiro asked, making himself a little room.
"But what about your bed?" asked Kisa.
"Akito's in my bed." Hiro replied.
"Oh." Said Kisa. "I understand. There's plenty of room for you!" Then she moved over a little more.