DAY TWO- The Chaos (part I)
*Yawn* "Nine O' clock. I guess I should go make some breakfast for everyone." Yuzumi sleepily stated. She got up, got dressed, and walked toward the kitchen. Now Yuzumi isn't the greatest of cooks, she can't cook much more than Ramen and Macaroni, but she looked in all of the cabinets to see if there was anything she might be able to make. Ahhh. Bisquick. That should be easy to make. I mean how hard can pancakes be? Besides, the directions look easy enough. She said to herself.
She then rummaged through the kitchen looking for the ingredients and utensils. Lets see. First stir in milk and eggs, but do not over stir. How can you over stir something? She read. Yuzumi vigorously stirred the mixture, and spilled half of it on the counter. That was pretty easy. Now I just put a little bit in the pan and let it cook. Yuzumi said as she completed the action.
A few minutes later, "Alright now's the tricky part. I have to flip it so that it cooks on both sides." She slid the spatula under the pancake, picked it up, tossed it back into the pan, and it bounced out. "Oops. Eh he. I'll just put that back into the pan. No one will know." Yuzumi managed to get the pancake into the pan and waited for it to finish.
After tentatively watching the pancake, Yuzumi decided that it was done. That wasn't so hard. It's a perfect pancake. Hmmm. I better taste it to make sure. She walked over to the silverware drawer and took out a butter knife. She then buttered the pancake, and tried to cut it. The only problem with this was that the pancake seemed to have the same consistency as rubber. "Oh no. This pancake is like a rubber band." Yuzumi despaired as she began to frantically cut the pancake, but it fell off of the counter and bounced across the floor. "Hey that's cool. It bounces just like one of those bouncy ball things." She then ran over to the pancake and bounced it around for a few minutes. "Alright enough of that. I guess I should go wake up Sakura, and get her to make breakfast."
Yuzumi grabbed a pot, a spatula, and a pot lid. She proceeded to put the pot on her head, tied the lid to her chest, and brandished the spatula like a sword. Next, she tentatively went back to the room that she and Sakura were sharing. Yuzumi tried to wake up Sakura, but nothing worked. "Geezz. She says I'm a heavy sleeper. Even opening one of her eyes and shining a flash light in it didn't work. What can I do....That's it!" Yuzumi excitedly thought. "Sakura FIRE!!!" She yelled.
"What? Where?" Sakura woke up and excitedly asked.
"Just kidding." Yuzumi said, with an innocent smile.
At this point Sakura, who was NOT a morning person, began to throw everything she could get her hands on at Yuzumi, and repeatedly shouted, "How dare you wake me up for no reason!"
"I need your help making breakfast for Kenshin-san and Inuyasha." Yuzumi, who was glad she put the armor on before waking her up, desperately stated.
Sakura suddenly stopped, "Whaaa?"
"Don't you remember? Last night Kenshin-san and Inuyasha were somehow transported here." Yuzumi reminded Sakura.
"Oh yeah. I remember now. Let's go make breakfast for them"
They proceeded to walk to the kitchen, but Sakura stopped and stared at the mess before her, "What happened?"
"I was trying to make pancakes. Watch." Yuzumi, who had the same expression as Lilo in Lilo and Stitch, picked up her pancake and bounced it across the room.
Sakura looked at the pancake, then at Yuzumi, next at the mess on the counter, turned, and headed back to bed.
"Waiiiiiit!" Yuzumi said as she blocked Sakura's way. "We have to make breakfast for the guys."
"Oh alright. I'll make waffles since you used up all of the Bisquick."
"You have waffles? But I looked in the freezer and there weren't any." Yuzumi asked in a worried voice.
"Everything in this house, except pancakes, macaroni, and Ramen, is made from scratch. Your job is to clean up the mess you made while I make the waffles. What kind should I make? I can make blueberry, peanut butter, chocolate chip, plain, strawberry, and honey nut. And you can take off the armor now."
"Umm...I don't know." Yuzumi said as she took off the pot and lid, put the dishes in the dish washer, and scraped all of the batter into the bowl. "How about both plain and chocolate chip?" Yuzumi asked as she threw the bowl with the batter at the ceiling. Much to Sakura's astonishment, the batter stuck to the ceiling and held the bowl there with it. "There all clean."
Sakura looked at Yuzumi, who reminded her of Grr from Invader Zim, and rubbed her temples. "Yuzumi, clean that off the ceiling, and clean it up properly." Yuzumi looked at her with utter disgust.
As Yuzumi went to get a step ladder, Sakura pulled out the waffle iron, put oil on it, and let it heat up. Then she got out the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, milk, eggs, and butter. Yuzumi returned with the step ladder and glared at Sakura. "I guess I should probably triple the recipe." Sakura said to herself.
"I guess. It's not like I can cook." Yuzumi said in a jealous tone, as she began to scrape the batter off the ceiling.
Sakura neatly poured the flour, baking powder, and baking soda into a sifter, and sifted it. She set the flour mixture aside and carefully combined the milk, eggs, and butter. "See Yuzumi? It's not that hard to cook, and I'm not making the same mess you did." Sakura taunted Yuzumi.
"Shut the hell up." Yuzumi said as she climbed down from the ladder.
"There should be some orange juice in the refrigerator. Poor some for everyone." Sakura told Yuzumi as she added the flour mixture to the eggs, milk, and butter.
"Okay......Sakura! The waffle thingy is smoking!" Yuzumi exclaimed.
"Oh good. That means that it is warm enough. Just in time too." Sakura calmly stated. She took the batter over to the iron and began pouring the batter into it. "Well now all we have to do is wait for these to cook."
"I thought that when things were smoking in a kitchen it means something bad." Yuzumi muttered to herself. "Hey we can play wall tennis!"
"That's great Yuzumi, but we don't have any rackets...." Sakura began.
"Sure we do." Yuzumi joyously interrupted, and held up the spatula she was using earlier. "See?"
"Right... but we don't have a ball either."
Yuzumi held up the pancake.
"I thought you threw that out."
"I had a feeling it would come in handy." Yuzumi stated with a smile.
The waffle iron began to smoke again and Sakura ran over to it and removed four perfect waffles. "Now for the next batch." She got the next batch put into the iron, garbed a spatula, and joined Yuzumi in a game of wall tennis.
Twenty minutes later, Sakura and Yuzumi finished the breakfast preparations. Inuyasha and Kenshin walked into the kitchen to see what smelled so good.
"Hey food." Inuyasha happily stated.
"I hope you didn't go to a lot of trouble." Kenshin humbly replied.
"Oh no Kenshin-san, it was no trouble at all." Yuzumi declared.
"Yeah no trouble for you, considering I did the work." Sakura muttered. "Inuyasha-sama, you can sit here and I'll get you a plate of waffles."
"A plate of what?" Inuyasha suspiciously asked.
"These." Sakura said as she set a plate of them on the table.
"Kenshin-san you can sit here, and I'll bring you some waffles too." Yuzumi said.
Inuyasha and Kenshin looked at each other, and then sat on the floor around the table.
"I think your table is a little high." Kenshin politely stated.
"That's because in this country we sit on chairs to eat." Sakura said.
"Oh." Inuyasha and Kenshin stated in unison. They got up off the floor and sat on the chairs. Inuyasha then looked at the table and asked, "Where are the chopsticks?"
"Well, in America we don't actually use chopsticks. Sakura and I do because we want to live in Japan. Instead here one uses a fork." Yuzumi said as she held up a fork and pointed to it.
"This is a strange place, that it is." Kenshin remarked. "And how do you use a fork?"
"Like this." Sakura said as she demonstrated. Inuyasha and Kenshin looked on and seemed to be confused. Both of them gave several attempts to use the fork, and failed, miserably.
"The hell with fo....whatevers." Inuyasha angrily stated. He then picked up the pancake and ate it with his hands. Kenshin looked at Inuyasha and followed his example. Sakura and Yuzumi took their seats, looked at their forks, shrugged, and began to eat with their hands too.
As they were eating, Sakura decided that it would be a good idea to tell the boys that they will be going to a festival. "By the way, Inuyasha-sama, Kenshin, there's a festival today, and since Yuzumi and I won't be going to work, we thought that we would bring you guys along."
"Sounds okay to me." Kenshin said.
"What about sending me home?!" Inu-yasha heatedly asked.
"We will, but we thought that you might like to have some fun. Besides we still need to figure out how you got here." Sakura said as she walked over to the phone. "Yuzumi I'll call Mel, and then you call your boss. Remember to act sick." She told Yuzumi as she dialed her boss's number.
"No problem. I can't cook like you, but I can act better than you." Yuzumi, who was still a little miffed about Sakura's superior cooking skills, stated.
Sakura stuck out her tongue as Mel answered the phone. She then affected a weak, sickly voice and said, "Hey Mel, I'm not going to be able to work today. I caught some kind of bug and currently have a fever I'm sorry. …… Yes I'll make sure to drink lots of liquids. …….. Thanks." Sakura then hung up the phone. "She says to get better and take as much time off as I need."
"A fever was a good idea 'cause you didn't sound all that sick. I'll call my work now." Yuzumi picked up the phone and dialed her work. When her manager answered the phone, she mimicked the voice of someone with the stomach flu. "I won't be in today. I caught the flu. …….. Okay, bye." With that she hung up the phone. "Damn bastards. They said don't be sick too long 'cause we are going to need you next week. They could have said 'get better' or 'we wish you well', but no instead it's 'we need you to make us money and we don't care if you drop dead as long as you are making us money'."
"That's why I don't work in a grocery store, Yuzumi. Mel actually cares about her employees. Well I'm going to take a shower and put on a change of cloths. Yuzumi, since I made the breakfast, you get to clean everything up." Sakura ran into the bathroom and locked the door before Yuzumi could react to her command. 'It's a good thing it's Inuyasha who's here and not Miroku.' She thought as she undressed and got ready for the shower.
"Arrrrggggg. One of these days Sakura! Just you wait! One of these days I'll make a great meal, and then YOU can clean everything up." Yuzumi angrily declared as she began to clear the table.
Meanwhile, Kenshin and Inuyasha just sat at the table. "Did you understand any of that?" Kenshin asked in an effort to make conversation with the strange dog-eared person next to him.
"Nope. What I really don't understand is how their boss can be in that little thing they picked up and talked into." Inuyasha said deciding that of the humans he had ended up with, the samurai was the most sensible.
"I don't understand half the things in this world, that I don't." Kenshin agreed.
When Yuzumi had finished the dishes and cleaning everything up, she got an idea for revenge. "Kenshin-san, Inuyasha I'll be right back, so just stay there." She informed Kenshin and Inuyasha with a sly smile.
"Should we be scared?" Kenshin inquired.
"Nahh. They're just humans." Inuyasha indifferently replied as he sipped his orange juice.
Yuzumi quietly walked up to the bathroom door and carefully tried the knob. Locked. She thought, Come on Sakura, it's not like Miroku is here or anything. Inuyasha and Kenshin won't do anything. Yuzumi pulled out a paper clip and picked the lock. She noiselessly entered the bathroom and gathered Sakura's clothes. Then, she locked the door and left the bathroom. Chuckling to herself, she went back into the kitchen, and set the blender up. "This'll fix her. Mwaahaaaahaa!" Yuzumi cackled evilly as she put Sakura's clothes into the blender and turned it on.
Inuyasha and Kenshin just stared at her. By this point Kenshin was just a little worried about how Sakura was going to react when she found out her clothes had been taken. He pictured Korou's reaction, and shuddered. Inuyasha, however, was slightly amused. He wanted to see Sakura's reaction, though he hoped she wouldn't shout 'Inuyasha get my clothes back' like Kagome always did. Then he remembered that she was his priestess, a thought that highly pleased him, and he could tell her to get them herself.
After a few minutes, the blender began to make strange noises and smoke. Then, it caught on fire. "Aaaahhhh! That's not good!" Yuzumi exclaimed as she threw the blender out the window. The blender landed in the pool and was thus extinguished.
At the same time, Sakura finished her shower and noticed that her clothes had been taken. I'll bet Yuzumi took them. She thought as she stormed out of the bathroom and into the kitchen. "Kisama[1]!!!!!!!!!" She shouted as she pointed at Yuzumi.
Yuzumi looked out the window, then quickly at Sakura. In her haste Sakura had forgotten that she was butt naked. Yuzumi noticed this and looked at the guys.
"Oro?" Kenshin said with his eyes wide.
"Hmmm. She doesn't look exactly like Kagome, though there are similarities." Inuyasha observed.
Sakura looked down and realized that she had forgotten to put on a towel. She grabbed two cans of cocoa and threw them at Inuyasha and Kenshin. "You perverts!" The cans hit the guys and knocked them out. Sakura then ran into her room to put on some clothes.
Yuzumi looked at the guys, then out the window at the smoke. "Thank you sooooo much, Kenshin-san, Inuyasha. Your sacrifice is not in vain." She then went into the bathroom to take a shower of her own. She took the precaution of locking the door and booby trapping it so Sakura couldn't pull a similar stunt.
Once Yuzumi and Sakura were done with their morning preparations, and the guys finally regained consciousness, they got ready to leave. "We should take my car." Yuzumi declared. "Your car, Sakura, will probably break down on the way there." She added with a prideful grin.
"You're right. One of these days I'll get a better car, but I can't afford it right now." Sakura agreed with a slightly sullen expression. "Yuzumi you get your car started and I'll open my gates. Then we can worry about getting the guys in there." Sakura whispered to Yuzumi.
"Right, somehow I don't think it's gonna be easy to get Inuyasha into the car." Yuzumi agreed. She got into her car and put the key into the ignition just as Sakura finished opening the gates. She turned the key and started the engine. It gave a beautiful roar, or purr for guys.
"A yokai[2]!" Inuyasha stated as he drew his sword. The sound of the car starting reminded Inuyasha of some of the yokai he had encountered, so he was bent on destroying the car. "Kaze no Kizu[3]!"
"Yuzumi, get out of there!" Sakura urgently shouted.
Yuzumi saw what Inuyasha was doing and froze. Not my car. Not my car.
Kenshin and Sakura noticed Yuzumi's state, and ran to the car, opened the door, and dragged her out of there just as the Kaze no Kizu hit the car. The car exploded, and then evaporated. Once the smoke cleared all that was left of the car, was a little scorch mark on the ground. Yuzumi could only look at the burnt ground and cry "My car."
"Inuyasha-sama, that wasn't a yokai. A car is something you ride in. Think of a bicycle that's covered like a wagon and you use a special form of magic to make it go forward really fast." Sakura explained as best she could. She knew Inuyasha, and maybe Kenshin for that matter, wouldn't understand how the engine worked, so she just thought magic would suffice.
"Oh, um, oops?" Inuyasha said.
"Magic? This thing doesn't really work with magic, does it?" Kenshin whispered to Sakura.
"No, but it's the best explanation I could come up with. Where Inuyasha-sama is from, magic does exists, so at least he'll accept magic as an explanation to how it works. It's really hard to explain how a car works, unless you know about batteries and things, so just pretend to believe in magic and take my word for it." She whispered back.
"Okay." Kenshin said.
"Well, I guess we have no other choice. Everyone get in my car." Sakura sullenly declared.
Everyone followed her and loaded up into her car, everyone except Inuyasha.
"It's not gonna eat me is it?" Inuyasha suspiciously asked.
"No, Inuyasha-sama. You ride in it. The car isn't alive." Sakura said in a coxing manner.
"Alright, but if I get eaten I'm sending you to hell." Inuyasha dubiously relented.
"Who's the child now?" Yuzumi said with a hateful look. Instead of replying, Sakura hit her over the head. "Oh." Yuzumi sullenly said.
Yuzumi and Kenshin got in the back seat, and Inuyasha sat in front with Sakura. Sakura put the key into the ignition, and turned it.
*VRRRRR* *VRRRRR*
Nothing happened. "Okay, let's try this again." She turned the key and the car started.
*PUTT* *PUTT* *PUTT*
The car slowly backed out of the drive way, then died. "Ha, ha. That's what you get. If someone hadn't destroyed my car, we would be on our way already, but no SOMEONE had to destroy my car. Someone who shall go unnamed, destroyed my…" Yuzumi began to insanely rant until Sakura hit her over the head with the window scraper that has a brush at one end and an ice scraper at the other, thus, knocking Yuzumi into a sedated dream like state. "Hee, hee. I see Legolas. Hmm. Elf yum." She said as she was hallucinating. Everyone looked at her, then out a window.
"I'll close the gates, and then try the car again." Sakura said as she got out of the car.
"I don't see what's so great about the magic. It doesn't appear to work." Inuyasha complained to Kenshin.
"Yeah, maybe this one is broke and the other one wasn't." Kenshin supplied.
Sakura got back into the car and started it.
*PUTT* *PUTT* *RRRRRR*
It finally meowed into gear and they were off.
After Inuyasha's complaints about him being able to run faster than the car, and Yuzumi's complaints about Kenshin not having enough room, and that Sakura needed a new car, they finally got to the festival. They got out of the car and headed to the demonstration platform. There were other people there, and they gave Kenshin and Inuyasha understanding looks. They sat down and watched the mock fights. After the Ken Jitsu[4] demonstration, they called for volunteers from the audience to try using a sword.
"Kenshin-san you should go up there." Yuzumi said.
"Yeah, they might get a little suspicious of Inuyasha-sama's sword and it would draw attention to the fact that he really is Inuyasha. Go for it Kenshin." Sakura cheered.
"Well okay." Kenshin said and went up onto the platform.
Inuyasha indifferently shrugged, "Have fun."
The sensei gave the first person in line a katana and set up a target. As they went down the line giving each person a turn, they finally came to Kenshin.
"Here you go." The sensei said and offered Kenshin the sword.
"No thanks, I already have a sword." Kenshin said by way of turning down the offer. He stepped forward and drew his sakaba and cut the target in half.
"Hey, you're pretty good. We'd be glad to let you join our dojo." The sensei said after noting Kenshin's perfect technique, and hearing the applause of the crowd.
"Thank you very much, but I don't want to join a dojo." Kenshin politely declined with his hand behind his head in a sign of slight embarrassment. He then turned and walked back to where Inuyasha, Yuzumi, and Sakura were seated.
"That was cool Kenshin-san." Yuzumi excitedly declared.
"Okay, I'll admit it was cool." Sakura agreed, "Though Inuyasha-sama could do better." She added under her breath.
"What did you say?" Yuzumi suspiciously inquired.
"I said lets get some food." Sakura lied.
"Do they have Ramen here?" Inuyasha asked.
"I don't know. Let's find out." Sakura answered.
They headed off to the food booths and looked around. After soothing a disappointed Inuyasha, they got whatever food was most appetizing, and sat in a group under a tree. As they began to eat, several girls gathered at a distance and talked excitedly amongst themselves. Sakura and Yuzumi noticed this, and proceeded to glare at the girls.
"Yuzumi, we're going to have to finish up here soon. Unless I miss my guess, those are cultish fan girls. They probably recognized Inuyasha-sama and Kenshin. They also probably know that they really are Inuyasha-sama and Kenshin, not just cosplayers." Sakura quietly informed Yuzumi.
"I think you're right. Let's get the goods and get out of here. I don't want those girls to get any ideas about kidnapping Kenshin-san and Inuyasha." Yuzumi whispered back.
"Right, I hadn't thought of that. Let's finish eating, then grab the goods, and go." Sakura proposed to Yuzumi, who shook her head in agreement.
They quickly finished their food, and began to walk toward the sales booths. As they left, the group of fan girls started taking pictures and recording the moves of the guys. The group appeared to be split into two ranks: the photographers, and the reporters. One girl, who appeared to be their leader, held an arrogant and cunning smile on her face. Yuzumi and Sakura noticed this and began to worry about how the guys would react. Kenshin appeared unperturbed, but Inuyasha was obviously getting very annoyed.
"Would you get the hell away from me?!" Inuyasha shouted at them when he'd reached the limit of his tolerance.
At that moment the girl who appeared to be their leader, stepped forward and slightly inclined her body in a small, but polite, bow. "We are sorry to disturb you, but we have the information that we require for the moment. We will now depart, but we will meet again under different circumstances." With that the girl smiled cunningly and led her fan girls away.
"I didn't like her attitude." Yuzumi said in disgust.
"I didn't like that last declaration. We better be on our guard, Yuzumi. She's up to something." Sakura warned.
Once the fan girls were out of sight, Yuzumi and Sakura lead the guys to the kimono and katana booths. At the booths, they surveyed the items for sale. Most of these items would cost several hundred dollars to purchase. The kimonos were very pretty, and the katanas were all battle ready. After asking many questions about the goods, Sakura and Yuzumi decided to put their plan into action. They went into the dark corner that was near the booths and pulled two black scarves out of their pockets. They tied one scarf around their mouths and the other around their foreheads. Next, they pulled out some smoke balls and lighters.
"Ready?" Sakura asked, as Yuzumi nodded her head. Meanwhile Inuyasha and Kenshin looked at the two of them, then at each other, and got ready to run. "Okay on three we throw the smoke balls at the stage, grab the goods, and run." She turned to the guys and said, "This could get messy. Be ready to run, fast. One.." They flicked the lighters to ignite them, "Two." They light the smoke balls. "Three!!!" Sakura and Yuzumi threw the smoke balls at the stage, thus causing chaos and confusion. They then proceeded to collect several katanas and put on some of the kimonos
With the kimonos billowing out behind them, they made a mad dash toward Sakura's car. As they were running the smoke began to clear and the shop keepers began shouting and chasing after the gang. Finely, they reached Sakura's car and they hoped in. Sakura put the key in the ignition and turned it.
*RRRRRRRR* She tried again *RRRRRRRR*
"Awww kuso! What are we gonna do?" Yuzumi worried.
"Shut up at let me try again." She turned the key again. *RRRRRR* "Come on, come on." She chanted until the car meowed into life. "Okay let's get the hell outa here." She proposed as she pulled out of the parking lot.
Yuzumi took a quick glance at the shop keepers and saw them hoping into a car and begin to give chase. "Step on it Sakura. They just got into a car and from the looks of it they're gonna catch us."
"No they won't." Sakura insisted as she merged into traffic and headed for the highway. The shop keepers also merged into traffic, and were gaining on Sakura and crew.
"Sakura they're gaining on us! Can't this thing move any faster?" Yuzumi franticly asked.
"Looks like it's time for a short cut." With this Sakura pulled off the road and headed for an arroyo. "They won't catch us!" She maniacally predicted.
[1] A very rough and insulting way of saying you; of translated as you bitch/bastard
[2] a form of demon
[3] Wound of the Wind; one of Inuyasha's sword attacks
[4] 'ken' sword and 'jitsu' martial art
Author's ravings: There's chapter two. Hope you enjoyed it, and hope it was written better than the first chapter. I have a lot of time on my hands at the moment so it's easy to update. I'll probably slow down once school starts (that or I get swamped with work).