Once the group reached the preserve they walked to the bishie room and
showed Heero his sleeping quarters.
"Naoko..." Sakura whispered once everything was very quiet.
"Yeah?" Naoko replied.
"Ca-chan's here... but where did Mooie go?" she asked.
"BUT KNIVES!!! Please don't go!" Mooie's voice traveled over the room.
Knives walked out with a big tear in his shirt and Mooie came out after him. Sakura stared in shock.
"What the hell are you doing, Mooie?!" Naoko shouted.
"Humph, like I'd tell you," she replied.
"She's trying to seduce me," Knives told her.
"But you KNOW you love me, you're just hiding it," Mooie cried.
Naoko just closed her eyes in pain. "You're supposed to be PROTECTING the bishies, not HARRASING them.........."
For once in his life, Knives looked as if he were about to agree with a human.
"Don't MAKE me staple myself to your leg, Knives!" Mooie warned, which just furthered Knives' poor opinion of the human race.
Vash wandered from the front door. "There's this girl that calls herself 'Portal Girl' that wants to see you guys..........." he told them.
Naoko, Mooie, and Ca looked confused. Knives looked indifferent. Sakura, however, seemed to know what was going on. "Oh yeah! She called here a while ago. She said she's been searching for this place for a while........... She wants to work here."
Portal Girl burst in. (sorry about no description.... the authoresses don't know what she looks like) She was holding a bazooka. "Give me a job, or meet Spike!! Because he's dead! And, I'm going to kill you!................ and........ um....... because this is a killer bazooka!! YEAH!"
Sakura and Naoko glanced at each other. Ca turned to a wall and started scribbling. "yes....... 2 plus pie equals ice cream....... yes.............."
Sakura glanced toward Ca and the wall and saw hundreds of equations all resulting in ice cream.
Naoko walked over to Portal Girl and inspected her. "Well, I suppose you can be a greeter..."
"And what EXACTLY does a 'greeter' do?" Portal asked.
"Well... I'm not really sure... but the roster says we need a greeter," Naoko replied.
Sakura sweatdropped; only her partner wouldn't know what they do.
"Naoko... what do greeters usually do?" Sakura asked.
"Greet people," Naoko replied.
"That's what she wanted to know," Sakura told her.
"Well, this is a bishie preserve! Maybe things are done differently here!" Naoko argued.
"I'm pretty sure that it's universal," Sakura told her friend.
Portal Girl looked mildly interested. "Can I use my bazooka?" she asked.
"The best way to greet people!" Mooie informed her, armed with a glue stick.
"What's that for?" Vash asked her.
"Knives," Mooie said simply.
The said bishie, who was staring at Ca's equations, looked up. He glared. "And what are you going to do? Human?"
Mooie gave him THE LOOK. "Make you eat it..." she said. "IM GOING TO GLUE YOUR SHIRT TO A WALL, OF COURSE!!"
Naoko face faulted. Sakura looked shocked. Ca merely spread her arms and shrieked "NOT MY EQUATIONS!"
Every bishie that was in the room turned toward the wall. Ca was trying to spread her arms out to cover all of the equations, but to no avail. Her arms weren't long enough.
Mooie uncapped the glue stick and grabbed Knives' shirt. "Come along..."
"Uh... Mooie... I don't think you should do that...." Sakura said quietly.
Just then a large gust of wind blew a girl in through the window. She seemed to be unconscious but not injured. Sakura looked shocked. Mooie let go of Knives and turned to the girl.
"Um... is she alright?" Apricots asked as he walked out of the cafe, followed by Q-Bert, and the little orphan.
Sakura walked over to the girl and shook her gently. "Hello? Wake up."
The girl blinked open.
"HIKARU-CHAN?!?!" Sakura shouted shocked.
"ONEE-SAN?!?!" Hikaru shouted back.
Both girls backed up in shock.
"What are you doing here?!? I asked you first!" both girl said simultaneously.
Naoko blinked in confusion. "What's going on...?"
Sakura turned to Naoko "This is my little sister, Hikaru. I haven't seen her in a while, ever since she moved out with mom."
"Oh!! Ok."
Hikaru stood up and stared around. "How did I get here?" she mused.
"You flew in, Vash told her.
"You look familiar, young lady...." she told him thoughtfully.
"um... he's a guy," Naoko told her.
Apricots and Q-Bert exchanged a look. Sakura spotted it. "What, now that you were both unregistered bishies, you have some secret club or something?"
Apricots looked at Sakura steadily. "You are very perceptive," he told her.
Naoko just noticed him. "HI Apricots!!!" she beamed. "I've been meaning to ask you!! Do you have any special talents?"
"I can do this," Apricots said and stared at her. Naoko swooned and fainted. "Look amazingly handsome," he explained to the others.
Hikaru bent down to examine Naoko. "I think she's sick..." She said vaguely.
Ca looked at Naoko. "PERFECT!" she screeched. "JUST RIGHT!! EXACLTY WHAT I NEEDED!!" she grabbed Naoko's collar and dragged her off somewhere.
"HELLO!!!" Portal girl shouted. "Where am I supposed to be?!?"
The group turned towards her, they seemed to have forgotten she was there.
"Oh... tell the lady in the front that you are the new greeter and she'll give you your uniform and you equipment," Sakura told her and went after her partner.
The little orphan boy ran after her, followed by Hikaru, who was followed closely by Inu Yasha, who was followed by Apricots and Q-Bert. The rest of the group stayed behind and Mooie once again brought out the glue stick.
"Sakura-onne-san," the little boy called after her.
"ONEE-SAN!" Hikaru shouted.
"Stupid..." Inu Yasha mumbled.
"What?!?!" Sakura shouted in reply turning to face them.
"WATCH OUT!" Hikaru said just as Sakura ran into one of the trees that was in the forest.
Sakura fell down on the ground. Inu Yasha looked down on her with pity.
Sakura got up and rubbed her head. "Oy....." she said.
They heard a scream. "That sounded like Naoko-chan," Vash said thoughtfully.
Everyone else looked at each other. "NAOKO!" they shouted.
Ca bounded out in front of them. "I DID IT!! I REALLY AND TRULY DID IT!!" she cackled. She scampered back towards the sobbing Naoko. The group minus Portal Girl followed her.
When they reached Naoko, she was crying tears of happiness. There were thousands of ice cream tubs everywhere.
Sakura sweatdropped. "Only Naoko would cry because of ice cream..."
Apricots walked over to her. "You're okay, right?" he asked.
Naoko oggled at him and nodded turning a slight shade of red.
Sakura hugged Inu Yasha tightly, "I see a budding romance!"
Q-Bert's eye twitched as he watched Sakura hug Inu Yasha.
Naoko proceeded to stuff her face in the ice cream.
Ca beamed. "My weapon is complete," she said.
Naoko choked. "You poisoned this!! Didn't you?"
"No, no, of course not!" Ca said, twisting her hands and watching Naoko eagerly.
Naoko stared at Ca, then keeled over, snoring loudly. Everyone else sweatdropped.
"Erm........ should we leave her here?" Q-Bert asked.
"ILL STAND WATCH!" Vash shouted and saluted.
"You'll do no such thing!" Sakura slapped him. "Pervert.........."
KABOOM!!!
Everyone looked towards the entrance. "Uh oh..........." Sakura said.
"Baka...." Inu Yasha said. "You let that Portal Girl keep her bazooka.........."
The group, minus Vash, who was dragged out after everyone else had left by an irate Sakura, rushed to the entrance. On the way, they passed a pissed Knives who was stapled to the wall and a giggling Mooie who was petting him.
When they reached the entrance, they saw Portal Girl holding a smoking bazooka and a fangirl cowering in the corner, crying.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!?!" Sakura shouted at her.
"I greeted her," Portal replied beaming happily.
Sakura rushed over to the cowering fangirl. "Are you all right?"
The girl looked up and grabbed Sakura's collar, "You are the perfect sacrifice!"
The girl dragged the screaming Sakura out the front door and to a nearby car.
"SAKURA!!!" Q-Bert shouted.
Inu Yasha started after the car but Q-Bert shoved him out of the way. "I'M rescuing her, thank you very much."
"But, you can't fight!" Inu Yasha said faintly.
Naoko wandered in. "What did I miss?"
Everyone sweatdropped.
"Aren't you glad I greeted her?" Portal Girl demanded.
"Sakura-chan was kidnapped!" Vash wailed to Naoko.
"Well, good for her!" Naoko said. "I'm glad she's finally getting some action!"
*~*
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU WEIRDO?" Sakura demanded of her captor.
The girl glared at her. "Sacrificing you, you idiot!"
Sakura huffed. "That's not very polite! I don't even know you very well!"
"SAKUUUUUUUUUUURAAAAAAAAA!!" Q-Bert's voice wailed. "I'LL SAVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!"
"Oh boy..........." Sakura said. "This should be interesting........."
"We're here!" the girl cackled and dragged Sakura into a hole.
"AIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Sakura screamed all the way down.
The two popped out in a very dark room. The only light was that of the fire that burned brightly in the middle. Hundreds of people were standing around.
Sakura's eyes widened. "Y-you're not going to BURN me are you!?!?"
"Of course, that is the only wait of sacrifice for a bishie captor," the girl explained.
A girl in the crowd lowered her black hood, she had a very bad haircut, it looked almost forced.
"K-kagome?" Sakura said to herself. "Don't tell me that all the people here are fangirls that had their bishies taken away."
"Bingo!" her captor yelled and bound Sakura hands and feet.
"Hey! Q-Bert'll rescue me any moment! You won't stand a chance!" Sakura shouted just as another girl tied a gag around her mouth.
One girl spoke out. "Are you SURE that killing her will put an end to the preserve?"
"Of course." Kagome said. "They are like a pack of wolves.. when leaderless, they fall apart."
Another girl spoke. "But........ wolves find new leaders when their old ones die........"
"SILENCE!" Kagome shrieked.
"What about Naoko?" a third girl asked.
"She can't last long without her best friend," Kagome said shortly, obviously wishing to get on with the sacrifice.
"OH REALLY?" Naoko's voice boomed. "WELL, NOT IF I HAVE MY ICE CREAM!!"
Sakura sweatdropped.
Kagome shrieked and ran behind one of the other girls. Naoko appeared and quickly untied the gag that was in her friend's mouth.
"Naoko! How did you get here!?" Sakura asked while Naoko was undoing the ropes that bound her hands and feet.
"Simple really. There is a mailbox over in that corner. See?" she replied pointing to a large mailbox in the back of the room.
"Then... where's Q-Bert?" Sakura asked.
"We'll deal with that later. Our priority now is getting out alive," Naoko said.
"AHAH!" Kagome cackled. "There is only one way out! and no one knows it but us!"
Sakura glared at her. "You know... I can still cut your hair shorter."
Kagome froze. "She's serious..." she thought. She pulled her cloak back over her head just as Q-Bert fell through the hole in the ceiling.
"Ai....." Q-Bert moaned as he rubbed his head.
"Are you okay?" Sakura asked, crawling over to him.
"erm... yeah..." he replied and looked away.
Sakura walked back over to Naoko. "So, what are we going to do with them?"
"Well... why don't we give them a taste of their own medicine?" Naoko suggested.
Sakura smiled malevolently and all of the fangirls backed away.
Then, one by one, more and more bishies started to appear out of the mailbox. The girls who were hooded and cloaked backed up against the wall.
"I suggest you let us get out," Naoko suggested to Kagome.
Kagome looked at the rest of her group. More than half looked like they wanted to wet themselves. "Alright..." Kagome said. "Let me just show you the WAY!" and with the word "way" she attacked Sakura.
Q-Bert, being foolish, tried to protect Sakura, but only succeeded in knocking her down. Kagome tripped over the two of them and ran into Naoko.
Naoko looked down at what she was stabbed with. "You know," she said. "Rubber knives aren't very effective against a solid...."
Kagome sweatdropped and backed away. Sakura and Q-Bert stood up, trying their best to look dignified, and led the Preserve Peeps out of the hole.
"Well," Apricots stated. "That was interesting."
"Can I have doughnuts now?" Vash asked.
Inu Yasha and Knives snorted at the same time, then looked at each other quickly.
"I think they've found a new friend," Naoko whispered to Sakura.
"Naoko..." Sakura whispered once everything was very quiet.
"Yeah?" Naoko replied.
"Ca-chan's here... but where did Mooie go?" she asked.
"BUT KNIVES!!! Please don't go!" Mooie's voice traveled over the room.
Knives walked out with a big tear in his shirt and Mooie came out after him. Sakura stared in shock.
"What the hell are you doing, Mooie?!" Naoko shouted.
"Humph, like I'd tell you," she replied.
"She's trying to seduce me," Knives told her.
"But you KNOW you love me, you're just hiding it," Mooie cried.
Naoko just closed her eyes in pain. "You're supposed to be PROTECTING the bishies, not HARRASING them.........."
For once in his life, Knives looked as if he were about to agree with a human.
"Don't MAKE me staple myself to your leg, Knives!" Mooie warned, which just furthered Knives' poor opinion of the human race.
Vash wandered from the front door. "There's this girl that calls herself 'Portal Girl' that wants to see you guys..........." he told them.
Naoko, Mooie, and Ca looked confused. Knives looked indifferent. Sakura, however, seemed to know what was going on. "Oh yeah! She called here a while ago. She said she's been searching for this place for a while........... She wants to work here."
Portal Girl burst in. (sorry about no description.... the authoresses don't know what she looks like) She was holding a bazooka. "Give me a job, or meet Spike!! Because he's dead! And, I'm going to kill you!................ and........ um....... because this is a killer bazooka!! YEAH!"
Sakura and Naoko glanced at each other. Ca turned to a wall and started scribbling. "yes....... 2 plus pie equals ice cream....... yes.............."
Sakura glanced toward Ca and the wall and saw hundreds of equations all resulting in ice cream.
Naoko walked over to Portal Girl and inspected her. "Well, I suppose you can be a greeter..."
"And what EXACTLY does a 'greeter' do?" Portal asked.
"Well... I'm not really sure... but the roster says we need a greeter," Naoko replied.
Sakura sweatdropped; only her partner wouldn't know what they do.
"Naoko... what do greeters usually do?" Sakura asked.
"Greet people," Naoko replied.
"That's what she wanted to know," Sakura told her.
"Well, this is a bishie preserve! Maybe things are done differently here!" Naoko argued.
"I'm pretty sure that it's universal," Sakura told her friend.
Portal Girl looked mildly interested. "Can I use my bazooka?" she asked.
"The best way to greet people!" Mooie informed her, armed with a glue stick.
"What's that for?" Vash asked her.
"Knives," Mooie said simply.
The said bishie, who was staring at Ca's equations, looked up. He glared. "And what are you going to do? Human?"
Mooie gave him THE LOOK. "Make you eat it..." she said. "IM GOING TO GLUE YOUR SHIRT TO A WALL, OF COURSE!!"
Naoko face faulted. Sakura looked shocked. Ca merely spread her arms and shrieked "NOT MY EQUATIONS!"
Every bishie that was in the room turned toward the wall. Ca was trying to spread her arms out to cover all of the equations, but to no avail. Her arms weren't long enough.
Mooie uncapped the glue stick and grabbed Knives' shirt. "Come along..."
"Uh... Mooie... I don't think you should do that...." Sakura said quietly.
Just then a large gust of wind blew a girl in through the window. She seemed to be unconscious but not injured. Sakura looked shocked. Mooie let go of Knives and turned to the girl.
"Um... is she alright?" Apricots asked as he walked out of the cafe, followed by Q-Bert, and the little orphan.
Sakura walked over to the girl and shook her gently. "Hello? Wake up."
The girl blinked open.
"HIKARU-CHAN?!?!" Sakura shouted shocked.
"ONEE-SAN?!?!" Hikaru shouted back.
Both girls backed up in shock.
"What are you doing here?!? I asked you first!" both girl said simultaneously.
Naoko blinked in confusion. "What's going on...?"
Sakura turned to Naoko "This is my little sister, Hikaru. I haven't seen her in a while, ever since she moved out with mom."
"Oh!! Ok."
Hikaru stood up and stared around. "How did I get here?" she mused.
"You flew in, Vash told her.
"You look familiar, young lady...." she told him thoughtfully.
"um... he's a guy," Naoko told her.
Apricots and Q-Bert exchanged a look. Sakura spotted it. "What, now that you were both unregistered bishies, you have some secret club or something?"
Apricots looked at Sakura steadily. "You are very perceptive," he told her.
Naoko just noticed him. "HI Apricots!!!" she beamed. "I've been meaning to ask you!! Do you have any special talents?"
"I can do this," Apricots said and stared at her. Naoko swooned and fainted. "Look amazingly handsome," he explained to the others.
Hikaru bent down to examine Naoko. "I think she's sick..." She said vaguely.
Ca looked at Naoko. "PERFECT!" she screeched. "JUST RIGHT!! EXACLTY WHAT I NEEDED!!" she grabbed Naoko's collar and dragged her off somewhere.
"HELLO!!!" Portal girl shouted. "Where am I supposed to be?!?"
The group turned towards her, they seemed to have forgotten she was there.
"Oh... tell the lady in the front that you are the new greeter and she'll give you your uniform and you equipment," Sakura told her and went after her partner.
The little orphan boy ran after her, followed by Hikaru, who was followed closely by Inu Yasha, who was followed by Apricots and Q-Bert. The rest of the group stayed behind and Mooie once again brought out the glue stick.
"Sakura-onne-san," the little boy called after her.
"ONEE-SAN!" Hikaru shouted.
"Stupid..." Inu Yasha mumbled.
"What?!?!" Sakura shouted in reply turning to face them.
"WATCH OUT!" Hikaru said just as Sakura ran into one of the trees that was in the forest.
Sakura fell down on the ground. Inu Yasha looked down on her with pity.
Sakura got up and rubbed her head. "Oy....." she said.
They heard a scream. "That sounded like Naoko-chan," Vash said thoughtfully.
Everyone else looked at each other. "NAOKO!" they shouted.
Ca bounded out in front of them. "I DID IT!! I REALLY AND TRULY DID IT!!" she cackled. She scampered back towards the sobbing Naoko. The group minus Portal Girl followed her.
When they reached Naoko, she was crying tears of happiness. There were thousands of ice cream tubs everywhere.
Sakura sweatdropped. "Only Naoko would cry because of ice cream..."
Apricots walked over to her. "You're okay, right?" he asked.
Naoko oggled at him and nodded turning a slight shade of red.
Sakura hugged Inu Yasha tightly, "I see a budding romance!"
Q-Bert's eye twitched as he watched Sakura hug Inu Yasha.
Naoko proceeded to stuff her face in the ice cream.
Ca beamed. "My weapon is complete," she said.
Naoko choked. "You poisoned this!! Didn't you?"
"No, no, of course not!" Ca said, twisting her hands and watching Naoko eagerly.
Naoko stared at Ca, then keeled over, snoring loudly. Everyone else sweatdropped.
"Erm........ should we leave her here?" Q-Bert asked.
"ILL STAND WATCH!" Vash shouted and saluted.
"You'll do no such thing!" Sakura slapped him. "Pervert.........."
KABOOM!!!
Everyone looked towards the entrance. "Uh oh..........." Sakura said.
"Baka...." Inu Yasha said. "You let that Portal Girl keep her bazooka.........."
The group, minus Vash, who was dragged out after everyone else had left by an irate Sakura, rushed to the entrance. On the way, they passed a pissed Knives who was stapled to the wall and a giggling Mooie who was petting him.
When they reached the entrance, they saw Portal Girl holding a smoking bazooka and a fangirl cowering in the corner, crying.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!?!" Sakura shouted at her.
"I greeted her," Portal replied beaming happily.
Sakura rushed over to the cowering fangirl. "Are you all right?"
The girl looked up and grabbed Sakura's collar, "You are the perfect sacrifice!"
The girl dragged the screaming Sakura out the front door and to a nearby car.
"SAKURA!!!" Q-Bert shouted.
Inu Yasha started after the car but Q-Bert shoved him out of the way. "I'M rescuing her, thank you very much."
"But, you can't fight!" Inu Yasha said faintly.
Naoko wandered in. "What did I miss?"
Everyone sweatdropped.
"Aren't you glad I greeted her?" Portal Girl demanded.
"Sakura-chan was kidnapped!" Vash wailed to Naoko.
"Well, good for her!" Naoko said. "I'm glad she's finally getting some action!"
*~*
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU WEIRDO?" Sakura demanded of her captor.
The girl glared at her. "Sacrificing you, you idiot!"
Sakura huffed. "That's not very polite! I don't even know you very well!"
"SAKUUUUUUUUUUURAAAAAAAAA!!" Q-Bert's voice wailed. "I'LL SAVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!"
"Oh boy..........." Sakura said. "This should be interesting........."
"We're here!" the girl cackled and dragged Sakura into a hole.
"AIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Sakura screamed all the way down.
The two popped out in a very dark room. The only light was that of the fire that burned brightly in the middle. Hundreds of people were standing around.
Sakura's eyes widened. "Y-you're not going to BURN me are you!?!?"
"Of course, that is the only wait of sacrifice for a bishie captor," the girl explained.
A girl in the crowd lowered her black hood, she had a very bad haircut, it looked almost forced.
"K-kagome?" Sakura said to herself. "Don't tell me that all the people here are fangirls that had their bishies taken away."
"Bingo!" her captor yelled and bound Sakura hands and feet.
"Hey! Q-Bert'll rescue me any moment! You won't stand a chance!" Sakura shouted just as another girl tied a gag around her mouth.
One girl spoke out. "Are you SURE that killing her will put an end to the preserve?"
"Of course." Kagome said. "They are like a pack of wolves.. when leaderless, they fall apart."
Another girl spoke. "But........ wolves find new leaders when their old ones die........"
"SILENCE!" Kagome shrieked.
"What about Naoko?" a third girl asked.
"She can't last long without her best friend," Kagome said shortly, obviously wishing to get on with the sacrifice.
"OH REALLY?" Naoko's voice boomed. "WELL, NOT IF I HAVE MY ICE CREAM!!"
Sakura sweatdropped.
Kagome shrieked and ran behind one of the other girls. Naoko appeared and quickly untied the gag that was in her friend's mouth.
"Naoko! How did you get here!?" Sakura asked while Naoko was undoing the ropes that bound her hands and feet.
"Simple really. There is a mailbox over in that corner. See?" she replied pointing to a large mailbox in the back of the room.
"Then... where's Q-Bert?" Sakura asked.
"We'll deal with that later. Our priority now is getting out alive," Naoko said.
"AHAH!" Kagome cackled. "There is only one way out! and no one knows it but us!"
Sakura glared at her. "You know... I can still cut your hair shorter."
Kagome froze. "She's serious..." she thought. She pulled her cloak back over her head just as Q-Bert fell through the hole in the ceiling.
"Ai....." Q-Bert moaned as he rubbed his head.
"Are you okay?" Sakura asked, crawling over to him.
"erm... yeah..." he replied and looked away.
Sakura walked back over to Naoko. "So, what are we going to do with them?"
"Well... why don't we give them a taste of their own medicine?" Naoko suggested.
Sakura smiled malevolently and all of the fangirls backed away.
Then, one by one, more and more bishies started to appear out of the mailbox. The girls who were hooded and cloaked backed up against the wall.
"I suggest you let us get out," Naoko suggested to Kagome.
Kagome looked at the rest of her group. More than half looked like they wanted to wet themselves. "Alright..." Kagome said. "Let me just show you the WAY!" and with the word "way" she attacked Sakura.
Q-Bert, being foolish, tried to protect Sakura, but only succeeded in knocking her down. Kagome tripped over the two of them and ran into Naoko.
Naoko looked down at what she was stabbed with. "You know," she said. "Rubber knives aren't very effective against a solid...."
Kagome sweatdropped and backed away. Sakura and Q-Bert stood up, trying their best to look dignified, and led the Preserve Peeps out of the hole.
"Well," Apricots stated. "That was interesting."
"Can I have doughnuts now?" Vash asked.
Inu Yasha and Knives snorted at the same time, then looked at each other quickly.
"I think they've found a new friend," Naoko whispered to Sakura.
