Chapter 6: A Trip to the Drug Store

Schu sat in the driver's seat, waiting for Brad to limp his way out to the car. He turned around to see that Ken, Nagi, Ran, and Farf were all sitting in the back seats, happily. He looked at Farf, he saw that he had a large grin on his face. "What the hell are you so happy about?" Schu asked reprovingly, "you just sit there with this large grin on your face, like you own this car. well I'm not going to take that kind of crap! Get out of my car!"

"Technically it's Aya's car, you DID buy it with HIS stolen credit card, so if anybody is going to be kicking anybody out of the car, it will be him," Ken said with a smile, knowing that he had successfully angered Schu. "So why don't you stop complaining, or I'll tell him about everything else you bought."

"You stole my credit card?" Ran asked, "How could you do that?"

"HEY! HOW THE HELL WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT YOU WEREN'T DEAD!" Schu yelled with his body twisted around to see the interior of the car.

"Oh, calm down Schu, it'll be all right," Brad said from the passenger seat.

"Fine, I won't talk to you guys any more," Schu started the car and left the house.

On the way to the drug store, Ran began to wonder, what did they buy with his money while he was gone, finally he turned to Ken to ask, "What else did they use my card for?"

"Well," Ken started, "There was the Bed Bath and Beyond, they went to the mall once or twice, ummm.." Ken sat and pondered he began to search his memory for any and all other occurrences when they used the card, "and there was the time when they took into that shop down town, I was across at the video store with Farf, but Schu and Brad went across." He paused, "To Lin Gary's. Or was it Lawn Jerry's, I'm not sure. I think that's it, I may have the name wrong, but I think that's what it said, it may have been French.. I dunno."

Ran looked up at Brad and Schu, he looked back to Ken, "you're so innocent Ken, don't ever change," with this he let out a large sigh then sat quietly looking at the road ahead.

Farf sat in the very back of the SUV, with his favorite stabbing pillow, feathers flew across the back like rain does in the spring, he paused for a moment to admire their beauty as they fell to the floor of the vehicle. He then looked at the pillow, and began to stab at it again.

A bug landed gently on the back of Farfie's neck it walked around, little hairs began to rise up at the touch of the insect. It searched around for a spot to perform its task, it searched all across Farf's neck, until finally it found it's spot. It stuck its head back, then thrust it forward forcing its pincers into the flesh.

Farf slapped the back of his neck, but missed. He grabbed his knife and began to stab madly at the fly as it buzzed by his head. He finally gave up at stabbing at the air and waited. The fly reluctantly landed on a nearby pillow. Farf turned his knife around in his hand, so the tip was in between his index finger and his thumb. He then threw it directly at the insect piercing right through it. "HA! GOTCHA!"

Ran turned around and glared at Farfarello, he gave an innocent smile. Ran sighed and turned around, "weirdo." Farf quickly pulled the knife out of the fly and held it above his head. He decided it would be a bad decision to kill Ran and went back to stabbing his pillow.

"Okay guys, here we are," Schuldig said, pulling into his parking space, "everybody out!"

They all piled out of the car and walked into the store, inside they saw a vast world unlike any other, Nagi headed off to the back of the store. Farfarello looked around, he saw toys, cards, bunny rabbit dolls. he quickly turned back to the bunny rabbits. He drew his knife and ran at them like a crazed maniac. Schu helped Brad to the back of the store. Ken and Ran looked at each other. Ken looked around to make sure nobody was looking, then looked at Ran again.

"You think we should do it?" Ken asked still eyeing every body who walked past. "I mean, don't you think we would get caught?"

"Nah, we could get away with it, where should we go though?" Ran asked smiling, "where could we do it where nobody would see us?"

"The bathroom perhaps?" Ken suggested.

"Sounds good to me," Ran said now beaming. He began to quiver with excitement. "I've really missed doing this, it's been so long. didn't we normally start in the changing rooms though?"

"Those weren't sound proof enough, people always heard, and plus you would scream sometimes," Ken smiled even more now, remembering the good old days.

"I couldn't help it, it was so exciting, exploring new things like that, you had a new list of ways to do things and even more fun things to do every time."

"Remember the time with condoms?" Ran asked laughing.

"Hey, I didn't know that I shouldn't have put it in that one." Ken said arguing.

"Hey, there's only so many places it can go, I don't know how you could have screwed up," Ran said now with a stern voice.

"Look, at least I don't scream in the excitement."

Ran and Ken gave up the argument and proceeded to the bathroom. Although Schu didn't know what they were doing, he had a pretty good idea when he saw them both go into the bathroom. He said with a chuckle, "Jeeze guys, you aren't really going to." he let out a sigh, then he looked up with a look of terror in his eyes, "NO GUYS! NOT IN HERE! NOT IN LONGS! NOOOOOO!"

"What?" Brad said from the floor, he had opened up the Gundam model sets and began to put them together. So far he had five stationed around what appeared to be a table. He then walked off to the toy aisle.

"ALRIGHT GOOD CHAPS! TIME TO LISTEN UP! THIS IS GOING TO BE A CLEANING EXTRAVAGANZA!" Graham said standing on top of the table. He pointed at Professor Plum, "YOU SIR! WHAT IS YOUR NAME! EH?"

"Irwin, Irwin Johnson. I'm American, from New York, I came here for-"

"SILENCE! I DIDN'T ASK FOR YOUR HISTORY YOU DAMN YANKEE! GO BACK TO YOUR SMOG INFESTED SKY!"

"What's his problem?" Yuriko asked Kotori, "He seemed really nice an hour ago."

"WHAT ARE GOING ON ABOUT?" Graham screamed at them, "SOMETHIN YOU'D LIKE TO SAY?"

"Yeah, there's something I'd like to say. What the hell is your problem? You think just cause Ran put you in charge it means you can order us like we're dogs?" Kotori yelled, "I think you need to think about what you're saying."

"Oh, oh my, I didn't realize what I was doing, sorry about that lassie," Graham said. "Here, how about this. Would you be oh so kind to lend me a hand with the cleaning?"

"Sure, we'll help you, but could you answer us a question?" Yuriko said, "Where are you from, you have a tendency to change accents every now and then."

But the question went unheard, Graham was already humming what sounded like "God Save the Queen", until of course it changed to "Loch Lomond", but he seemed to be enjoying himself all the same. He had grabbed the feather duster and began to dance around while reaching for any and all cobwebs.

* * *

Jerry looked around the store, it was 3:00pm, and every thing seemed to be going well, he looked back at his counter. It seemed to be missing something; he looked around on the floor. He could see nothing, until then he looked over his counter. On the ground lie box that once contained small stuffed dolls. He picked up the box and wondered, "How on earth did this happen?"

"GOTCHA!" a voice called from an aisle. He looked toward the direction of the sound. He saw feathers fly into the air. He decided to investigate. What he found was less shocking than entertaining. Farfarello sat stabbing at the dolls and pillows that sat around him.

"Farf, what did I tell you?" Jerry said reprovingly, "Didn't I tell you that you weren't going to be let back in here if you stabbed at our stock again?"

"But I plan on buying all of these!" Farf said argumentatively, "Really! I swear!"

"Farf, you know you don't have money."

"I have a credit card!" Farf said holding Ran's card in the air.

"Okay then, don't stab the customers." Jerry said walking away.

* * *

"Here we go," Nagi said, "Trojan, America's number one trusted condom." He grabbed the entire shelf full of condoms and let them float in the air. Various boxes opened up around the store, mainly in the toy section. Almost all of the boxes floated into the now opened boxes as they closed and went back onto their shelves. "Boy this is great." Nagi said to himself. He took the remaining condoms and placed them strategically across the store in various carts while the people weren't looking. Until one man, he had seen this man before. This was the man that always caught him. He threw a box into the air, and it landed on the man's head, this was most certainly not in Nagi's plan. The man quickly turned to see where the box had come from.

Nagi sat huffing in the next aisle, this man was onto him, and he could sense it. He stood up, looked around, then proceeded to walk down the aisle. This was no longer a little fun; this man had been torturing him for years.

***Nagi Flashback***

Nagi darted around the corner of the Wal-Mart aisle, still loudly humming the theme from "Mission: Impossible". He began to run down the next aisle, he was running faster, and faster. He suddenly came to a halt. He had run face first into the stomach of an old balding man.

"Something' wrong son?" the man asked the small child, "You aren't screwing around are you? Cause if you are, I'm turning' you in!"

Nagi looked quickly at the aisle walls. Suddenly the toys began to fly into the man's head, repeatedly making loud noises. The man fell to the ground, the toys still attacking. Nagi ran away, but in the distance he could here a loud voice, "I'm going to get you, you son of a-"

"Clean up in aisle thirteen, Larry, I need a clean up in aisle thirteen," an even louder voice called. Nagi ran out of the store and into the parking lot.

***Nagi Flash forward***

"I'm going to die," Nagi told himself, reassuringly, "It'll be quick and painless."

***Nagi Flashback (not as far this time)***

A young Nagi hopped into the clothes rack. The woman came by examining random shirts with her small son. She came closer to Nagi, her son looked around frightened, "Jimmy says this store is haunted," the boy said quivering

"Well Jimmy doesn't know much about Factory-2-U then, now does he?" the mother asked, "the store isn't haunted son, what would make him think that?"

"H-h-he says that the clothes can talk."

Nagi took in a breath as the people walked by; he didn't want them to here him breathing. Then he whispered to the boy, "Hey kid, psst! Hey kid! Pick me!"

The child let out a scream that echoed outside of the store, he ran out screaming his lungs out. Nagi sat and chuckled. Suddenly Nagi felt himself being lifted into the air. He moved his head around to see what was the cause; a large balding man with his gut hanging out of his shirt was holding Nagi by the collar of his shirt. Nagi let out a small sound, then the clothes from all over the store flew into the air and onto the man.

As Nagi ran out of the store, he could once again hear the man screaming, "I'll get you! You know I will!"

***Nagi flash forward***

Nagi finally gave up on running. He sat down and assumed the fetal position. A large shadow was cast over him. He looked up to find the man standing above him. "Oh God," Nagi said.

* * *

"C'mon lassies, if we finish this job we'll be able to hear me play some of me pipes!" Graham yelled across the house. So far they had gotten through five of the seven rooms. Unfortunately, what started out to be a quick tidying up, soon became the spring cleaning of the century.

"This is Hell," Yuriko whispered to Kotori.

"I know, but if we don't listen to what he says, he may change his accent and go psycho on us again," Kotori said with a chuckle.

"He isn't that bad, besides, if you would just do what he is telling you to do faster, we'd be done with all of this crap," the professor said from behind the both of them.

Yuriko turned around and slapped the professor, at which point he fell to the ground. "It's nothing personal, I just think it's a good stress reliever."

* * *

"Jeeze. That's a lot," Ran said.

"Yeah, but you'll need it all," Ken said between breaths.

* * *

"You know, it wouldn't kill you to actually notice that a line is developing," Schu said impatiently. Behind Schu stood Brad, and behind him stood an old woman with purple hair. The nurse looked up to see Schu tapping his foot in impatience.

The woman looked down at her feet again, "So I said, 'I don't care what you say John, we're through,'" She stood twirling the cord around her index finger, "Yeah, I know he was probably sad, but he needed to hear it. I mean, come on, what did he think would eventually happen? Ya know?"

"HEY! TALK TO ME YOU BITCH!" Schu screamed loudly, "DAMMIT WOMAN! GIVE THIS MAN HIS BLOODY PERSCRIPTION!"

The girl looked up at Schu, "Hey Sammy, I'm gonna have to call ya back.no, no, it's nothing, I've gotta get back ta work, that's all. Okay, see ya later," the girl set down the phone.

"Thank you very much, now I need to get some medication for my dear friend Brad Crawford here." Schu said with an upturned hand in the direction of Brad.

"Okay, I'll see what I can do sir," she walked away mumbling about Schu to herself.

"Schu, I want to go home," Brad said, "I just want to go home and sleep.sleep, what a thing, I missed it so."

The woman came back to the pharmaceutical counter. "Sir, it will take about a day before this prescription will come in, so you will have to come back tomorrow, for now, I'm afraid you will have to go with a generic over-the- counter drug." The woman pulled out a large bottle of pain pills. Schu looked at it in shock of its size.

"Does he need all of these?" Schu asked curiously.

"Oh no. He'll probably only need to take two or three if you come back in the morning as early as possible," the woman responded gleefully.

"Can these be ground into a fine powder? Preferably one that is sniffable?" Schu asked inquisitively.

"Y-yes? I don't see why not," the woman said eyeing Schu. She began to stare at him with great confusion.

Schu looked down at Brad who sat grasping Schu's pant leg. Brad had closed his eyes and fallen asleep using Schu as a pillow. Schu bent down and ran his hand across Brad's cheek. Brad's eyes slowly opened. He looked up at Schu with a smile, "We gonna go now Schu?"

"Yeah Brad, we're gonna go."

* * *

Nagi sat curled in a ball. What would he do? How was he going to get out of the situation? He began to ask himself this over and over again. Finally he stood up, "No more," he clenched his fists in anger. As he looked around, he saw that the coast seemed to be clear. He loosened his grip in his fists and proceeded to walk cautiously toward the end of the aisle.

The large balding man sat in his aisle, waiting to hear a sound. He looked across at the shampoos; he quickly turned away because of how much it pained him to see such things. As he turned around to face the other side of the aisle he saw hairbrushes. Anger welled up inside of him, as he looked around at all of the hair care products.

"Damn you!" the man screamed, knowing that Nagi could hear him. Nagi jumped at the booming sound of the man's voice. "I'll get you! You know I will! AAAAAARRRRGH! WHERE ARE YOU!" the man stood up and looked intently into the cracks in the shelves. Nagi could sense that somebody was staring at him, but was unable to determine the source. Nagi looked around slowly trying to find the man.

"AHA! I SEE YOU!" the man screamed seeing Nagi's hair through the aisle. "You can't escape me this time you little snot!" the man hit his hand into the shelf, causing it to fall over, but as it fell closer to the ground it began to slow, then finally stopped. Nagi propped it back up, then began to fall in the opposite direction. "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" the man screamed as the shelf came closer and closer. The man turned and ran to the opposite side of the aisle forcing the shelf to fall over. He ran onto that shelf and hopped into the next aisle.

Nagi looked intently at the man as he ran. Shelves began to fall behind him the faster he went. Finally, the shelves he was pushing over began to fall in the opposite direction. Until he was cornered the shelf behind him and the shelf in front of him both began to fall on him.

Both shelves landed on top of the man.

* * *

"Okay every body! The house is finally clean! Now, we shall all get our reward. Are you ready for it?" Graham asked excitedly to Kotori and Yuriko.

"YES!" they both screamed so happy with the fact that they had cleaned the entire house and it was finally over.

"Oh good show, good show. Now, I just have to find my recording of The Pirates of Penzance and we'll be set!" Graham walked off humming to himself and singing under his breath, "I am the very model of the modern major hmm hmm hmm."

"Why though?" Kotori screamed.

"The question my dear, is not WHY? It is in fact WHY NOT!" Graham screamed back, "besides, there is this one pirate in it that wears purple. it entertains, believe me."

* * *

"Three thousand, four hundred and forty four. Three thousand, four hundred and forty five. Three thousand, four hundred and forty six. Three thousand, four hundred and forty seven," Ken sat counting in the bathroom while Ran was supposed to be roaming the store, searching for a place to hide. Ran popped up from out of the stall.

"Ken, I'm ready, you can come find me now," Ran said with a giggle, "I know you'll have trouble finding me, I've picked a spot so good not even you could find me in."

"RAN! I GAVE YOU ALL OF THAT TIME TO HIDE!"

"I know, I was really shocked at first, but I'm good now. I'm glad you took all of that time to do it. HEY! WHAT DO YOU MEAN I NEED IT?" Ran screamed.

"I meant that you stink at this game, and so I would give you more time than usual." Ken said impatiently.

"Well if I'm that bad, then how come I found such a good spot?" Ran asked.

"If I find you within ten seconds, will you buy me an ice cream?" Ken asked.

"YOU'RE ON!" Ran sat back down and hid, he began to count, "one, two, three." Ken flung the door to the stall open.

"Found you. Now go buy me a tub of ice cream." Ken said monotonously.

"W-WHA-WHAT? HOW DID YOU? BUT YOU. I THOUGHT. YOU WERE.. AND.damn it. I'll be back." * * *

A low moan could be heard from underneath the piles of shelves that were now stacked on top of each other on top of the large balding man, "Damn you." the shelves began to vibrate. "Ngh," the vibrations stopped momentarily, then began again. each time beginning more and more violently, then slowly dying down. Until they began to slide off of each other. The shelves then flew off into the air as the man stood up. The aisles began to go into the walls, as Nagi noticed the shelves' deadly paths and placed them all back in order.

The man looked across the seemingly unscathed drug store. He turned around, to look for something to stand on so he could hop from aisle to aisle. When he turned around he noticed a white-haired, yellow-eyed man with an eye patch. "Having fun their son? Ready for Halloween?"

Farfarello looked up to see the man standing there. He glared at him with disgust. Farf's knife lay on the ground next to him, jabbed into a small teddy bears head.

"Oh good Lord!" the man cried.

"LORD? WHERE!" Farf quickly grabbed is knife from the teddy bear and held it in his hand ready to strike.

"YOU'RE AN ADULT!" the man yelled.

"Nooo. I thought I was still a little boy."

"You're all freaks!" the man ran to the end of the aisle, he turned to see what was down the next aisle, there was nothing. Then he went to the next aisle, still nothing. He ran down each aisle looking for signs of Nagi, while screaming out, "I'M GOING TO GET YOU!"

Nagi waited in the last aisle. Which was now the aisle for hair-care products. The various shampoos and conditioners floated around awaiting their new destination. The man rounded the corner.

The bottles began to swell as they floated slowly toward the man. He stood there in astonishment, he had never seen such an abnormal thing as this. The bottles swelled more and more as the floated toward him.

The shampoos and conditioners stopped in front of the man's face. Nagi turned and walked away, he lifted his arm into the air, every thing stood still. He lowered his hand, all of the bottles flew at the man exploding every where as they hit him. The pieces of the bottles were every where floating in a sea of hair-care products. The man lay on the ground in pain, as he basked in the ocean of Pert Plus. He attempted to stand up, but slipped and fell to the ground again. He shouted into the air as he lay there, "I WILL GET YOU ONE DAY NAOE! I WILL! DAMMIT, YOU KNOW I WILL!"

* * *

Ran looked around the store searching for an ice cream refrigerator, he had no luck though. He walked along each aisle, scanning for any thing resembling an ice cream. After about ten minutes of searching, he wound up finding Farf, sitting on the ground stabbing randomly at various teddy bears and other assorted stuffed animals.

"Farf, do you know where to find ice cream?" Ran asked curiously.

"No." Farf went back to stabbing vigorously at the dolls.

Just then, Ken rounded the corner with a shopping cart. Ran looked at it and noticed the large amount of soccer balls, along with some action figures. "I'm ready to go now Ran, where's my ice cream?"

"I can't find the ice cream," Ran said sorrowfully.

"That's okay, lets go Farf," Ken said happily.

"We're going home?" Farf said excitedly. "YAY! I've been wanting to go home since we left."

* * *

Ran, Ken and Farfarello met up with Brad and Schu at the front of the store. Ken pushed his cart up to the counter. He counted out all of the balls and asked Jerry how much it came to. Ken pulled out his wallet ready to pay the man when Brad asked, "What do you intend on doing with those?"

"I have my reasons," Ken responded.

"I don't think what you want to do is a good idea, I don't want to have any more visions of us doing that. it's disturbing, so stop making plans to do it and they will go away," Brad said dramatically.

"Well that's just too damn bad, we will do it. Plus it'll be good for you to get some exercise. So there," Ken said defiantly.

"All right, but don't expect us to enjoy it," Brad dramatically said.

Nagi walked up from behind them with a smile on his face, "I've done it again. I avoided that crazy bastard once more," Nagi looked at all of the soccer balls and saw Ken.

***Schu flashback***

"You'll teach me to play soccer won't ya?" Nagi asked Ken. "Of course."

***Schu flash forward***

"Have your own damn flashbacks! I want to remember my OWN memories!" Schu screamed at Nagi, "The last thing I want is some whacked up version of you and Ken bonding!"

"Well soooorry, I can't help it if you can't control your thought invading you sick bastard," Nagi said rudely.

Jerry noticed that Farf wasn't holding anything in his arms, "Hey Farf, what happened to paying for the dolls?"

"Nagi! Code three!" Farf ran out the door. The entire pile of stuffed animals lifted into the air behind Jerry. They all flew at him, causing feathers to fly all over the store. All of the skilled assassins ran out to the car.

Schu hopped into the front seat and turned on the ignition. Brad got in on the passenger side and put on his seat belt. He looked over at Schu, seeing Schu's worried expression, he put his hand on his shoulder. Schu smiled at him and put on his seat belt.

Farf, Nagi, and Ken all piled into the back seat and put on seat belts, but there was no sign of Ran. They all looked out the windows for him, but he could not be seen. Then out of no where the doors to the store flew open. Ran ran outside followed by a surprisingly fast moving bald man. The man dove for Ran's leg missing and falling flat on his face. Ran was getting closer and closer to the car. Ken hopped into the middle seat and opened the door. Ran dove in and Schu drove off into the distance.

The voice of a man could be heard in the distance, "I'LL GET YOU NAGI! I'LL GET YOU!"