Threshie: Gomen for the sorta…odd ending last chapter. ^^;; It was gettin' too long again… It's hard for me to type shorter pieces of a big story because I have to be careful about the length of all the scenes, etc, and I'm trying to level each chapter off at about four or five pages. ^~;; Can't blab your guys to death, here! Also, did you get the pun in the last chapter's name? 'Kasa' literally means 'umbrella' in Japanese, so the title, if fully translated, would read, 'My other umbrella is an umbrella'. ^^;; LOL. Thankfully, you guys know I was talking about the hat kind of kasa, not an umbrella, otherwise the title would be very silly-sounding. Oh, and if you're wondering where Rufus is, I gave him a short vacation. ^^;;
He was starting to get nasty, and I figured that it was probably stress about not spending enough time on more important things than fanfiction (like finishing that never-ending mountain of reports he's always typing on, spending time with his girlfriend, Mindee, who gets really annoyed when he's always busy, and maybe hanging out with his twin brother, Tom, who he barely gets to talk to anymore), so I gave him little a break. ^^;;
Therefore, he will not be in this chapter! I'll be doing the ANs alone, if I do them at all--without further ado, enjoy the chapter! In comes Gen-chan! ^^;; Does anybody even read these things, I wonder…? Oh, well…
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Chibified Escapades: Who Said Anything About Plan B? 9/22/2002
Mallory York/Threshie
Chibi Kouji was the first to recover from the heap the two hapless chibis had become.
"Gen-chan?" The chibi bandit leapt to his booted foot, peering around the tent anxiously, as if his life hung in the balance of whether Tasuki was present of not. Thankfully, the form of a chibi with wild, orange hair was spotted by His Chibified, Blue-haired Banditness, and chibi Kouji rushed over, dumping the makeup tubes aside. "Gen-chan!"
"REKKA SHINEN!" Chibi Kouji stared with big, hazel eyes, the rest of him charred black, as he realized that Gen-chan had fried him with his tessen.
"Gen-chaaaaan! Anata wa akuma desu!" The blue-haired, chibi bandit sniffled, checking to make sure that Headband-sama hadn't been charred out of existence. Thankfully, it was only singed, though the rest of him was a bit more burnt than that.
"Ore wa akuma desu ka?" Chibi Tasuki's attempt at looking miffed was foiled, as he yawned cutely, revealing a pair of chibi fangs. Giving up on the tough guy act, he crawled off of the bedroll and blinking wide-eyed at chibi Kouji. After a second of staring, he smiled helplessly, shrugging a bit. "I was asleep, Kouji-chan! Watcha expect?" Chibi Kouji stopped sniffling and immediately brightened at chibi Tasuki's words.
"You're right, Gen-chan--I was overreacting! Guess what?" Chibi Tasuki sweatdropped and acquired a slightly hurt expression.
"Who cares what? We haven't danced yet!" Chibi Kouji blinked, then grinned.
"Hai, Gen-chan!" Linking arms, the two chibi bandits danced in circles, making an awful racket, stomping muddy little footprints into Tasuki's bedroll, and quite frankly giving chibi Chichiri second thoughts about their mental stability.
"Daaaa," he sighed, sweatdropping massively, "They never change, no da! Tasuki-chan, we finished the dare, no da!" The dancing bandits paused, then both quite abruptly plopped down on the floor near chibi Chichiri, chibi Kouji snagging a nearby makeup tube and handing it to his bandit buddy.
"Hai, we did! We had to sneak into Goku na-san's room and everything!"
Chibi Tasuki blinked, "Goku na-san?"
Chibi Kouji sweatdropped and laughed nervously, "Err, Tomo-san, of course! Eh-heh-heh-heh…" Chibi Chichiri sweatdropped. I thought bandits were supposed to be good liars, no da…
"Since we finished the dare, no da, now we get to dare you to do something, Tasuki-chan!" The chibi monk proclaimed. Both chibi bandits blinked, then chibi Tasuki sweatdropped.
"A-ano…I gave ya this dare 'cause I thought it was impossible!"
"Impossible?" Chibi Kouji 'dahaha-ed' merrily, "Nothing's impossible for a Reikaku bandit, Gen-chan, you know that!" Chibi Tasuki sweatdropped, then sighed.
"Nobody said you were going to be helping Chichiri-chan," he said, unscrewing a makeup tube and peering inside curiously, "You're sure you didn't just buy this somewhere in the right colors?"
"Very sure, no da," chibi Chichiri sweatdropped, "So sure that we'll never approach Tomo again, no da! The Cackle…" He shuddered, remembering the headache quite clearly.
"Hai," chibi Kouji agreed, but he didn't sound as sure of himself. His eyes went sparkly again. "Goku na…"
Chibi Chichiri sweatdropped, "Baka na, no da."
Chibi Tasuki frowned, "Then I guess I'll have to go to Plan B."
"Plan B?" Both chibi Kouji and chibi Chichiri asked in unison, the tiny monk adding the customary 'no da' on the end.
"Hai," chibi Tasuki jumped up, unstrapping the tessen from his back and pointing it ahead of him dramatically, "Plan B!"
Chibi Kouji smiled at chibi Chichiri, getting large, sparkly eyes again, "Gen-chan no sugoi, ne, Chichiri-chan? Plan B's sure to work perfectly!" Chibi Chichiri sweatdropped.
"You knew about Plan B when we went on our…adventure, no da?" He asked softly, ignoring the redheaded chibi bandit whom was polishing tessen and chattering boasts to himself in the background.
Chibi Kouji grinned widely, "Never even heard of it before!" Sweat. Drop.
"But you're sure that it'll work perfectly, no da?"
"Well, if Gen-chan came up with it, it's got to be good!" Chibi Kouji smiled, giving a victory sign, and chibi Chichiri sighed, holding his head.
"Why me, Suzaku-sama no da?"
"So Gen-chan," chibi Kouji began, coming over to his chibified bandit buddy, "What exactly is Plan B, anyway?"
Chibi Tasuki sweatdropped, "It's not a very smart idea, but it was my last resort, so that sorta makes sense. Eh-heh-heh-heh…"
"But what do you do to follow Plan B, no da?" Chibi Chichiri asked curiously, blinking his single eye, "Are we a part of it, no da?" Chibi Tasuki blinked, then frowned slightly, looking at both of his friends carefully.
"Hai, you'll come in handy I guess."
"Da?/Eh?" The two asked, blinking in surprise. Chibi Kouji grinned cheerfully.
"I was supposed to be part of Plan B? Arigatou for including me, Gen-chan!"
Chibi Tasuki nodded sagely, "Anytime, Kouji-chan. You're good at running, right?"
"Running?" Suddenly this plan didn't sound so good to chibi Kouji anymore.
"Yeah," chibi Tasuki bared his fangs in a grin, looking rather creepy, "You can distract Suboshi!"
"S-Suboshi?" Chibi Kouji asked, eyes widening, "You mean Plan B involves Kotou?"
"Hai," chibi Tasuki nodded, "Chichiri-chan's going to take us there so that we can act out Plan B!"
"He is?"
"I am, no da?" Chibi Tasuki sweatdropped.
"Hai to hai, minna-san! Can we get movin' on Plan B, here?"
Chibi Chichiri sweatdropped, "But what about our deal? You said that if I completed the dare, no da, I could dare you back, na no da!"
"Uhhh…" Chibi Tasuki sweatdropped massively, glancing around for some sort of assistance and finding none. "Um, you can dare me to do something after we perform Plan B, okay? Timing is essential!"
"Hai, no da, but you have to promise, or I won't use my kasa and teleport us there," chibi Chichiri announced determinedly.
"Oh, man," chibi Tasuki groaned, sighing, "I promise you can dare me when we finish Plan B. Now can we go?"
"Hai, no da!" Chibi Chichiri smiled cheerfully, dragging the muddy kasa to where they sat and waving his chubby fingers over it once more. The chibi bandit duo stared at it for a long moment, than chibi Kouji grinned.
"Gen-chan, you have to jump inside that thing! Dahaha!" He added, as chibi Tasuki's eyes widened a bit.
"What happened to it?"
"Oh, well, due to some…selective memory," chibi Kouji grinned at chibi Chichiri, who looked faintly embarrassed, "We had to use it as a rain barrier so we could reach your tent! And now it's all wet--dahaha!"
"You do these things on purpose, don't you?" Chibi Tasuki groaned.
"No da!" Both the chibi bandits looked up at the finishing phrase just in time to see the kasa glow muddily on the edges. Chibi Tasuki cringed.
"BANZAAAAAIII!" Chibi Kouji cannonballed into the center of the hat and fell right through the bottom of it.
"Your turn, no da," chibi Chichiri announced to the remaining, redheaded chibi bandit.
Chibi Tasuki frowned, "What a mess," but only peered into the kasa in an irritated manner for a few seconds before heaving a sigh and crawling over the edge. With a faint 'plop' as he hit the mud at the bottom, the fanged chibi bandit disappeared as well. Chibi Chichiri sweatdropped.
"Plan B had better be good, Tasuki-chan, no da," he sighed, crawling into the muddy kasa and abandoning the hard-earned makeup on the floor, "And it had better not involve The Cackle, no da." With a poof, the chibi monk had vanished, leaving only a muddy straw hat and four small makeup tubes in his wake.