"And what's that?" Link asked, pointing to a speaker phone on the wall.
"Naoko... I'm going to leave this up to you... bye!" Sakura said, walking off to find her little sister.
As Sakura wandered around she came across the little orphan boy she had brought back.
"onee-san! Where have you been?" the little boy asked.
"Just out doing my job," Sakura replied and ruffled his hair. "Say... have you Hikaru?"
"Yeah, she was in the library with some of the other bishies.
"Thanks! Would you like to walk with me?" Sakura asked holding her hand out for the little boy.
He gladly took it and the two headed off towards the library.
Sakura opened the door and heard a young woman instructing some other people on the proper way to wield a sword. "Ahh... Hikaru is already starting to teach people. That's good!"
Cael winced. "That's not right!" he said.
"How would you know?" Sakura asked gently.
"I killed squirrels at a very young age," Cael said, matter of factly.
"Aww!! That's not nice!" Hikaru said, walking out from behind a bookshelf, holding a Sesshoumaru plushie.
"That was't you?" Sakura asked.
"Nope. I was looking up explosives," she said and held up a book labeled "Dynamite for Dummies".
Sakura sweatdropped, but looked relieved.
"Anyway... Hikaru-chan, it's time for you to start the actually training of the bishies. You will be starting with Apricots and Link. I trust that you will be able to handle them, ne?" Sakura said.
"Yep yep!" Hikaru replied saluting.
"Good. Now Cael... I would like you to stay with Syaoran and Q-Bert, they'll take good care of you. I don't want our newest bishie-to-be to get hurt." Sakura told him.
She patted his head and pushed him out of the library.
"He's so cute, isn't he?" Sakura smiled while she watched the boy run back to the bishie preserve room.
Hikaru nodded enthusiastically.
"Anyway, back to the training. Naoko likes both Apricots and Link. I want you to train Apricots to use a sword so he and Link can have a duel. The winner of the duel will be the one that Naoko will like the most. You just have to make it look like they wanted to duel themselves. This is so that we can give a demonstration for the rest of the bishies in the preserve so that they know what a real fight is all about. Do you follow?" Sakura said.
"Nope! Not one bit!" Hikaru cried happily.
Sakura sighed. "Teach Apricots to use a sword and help Link get better. He's very clumsy at the moment."
"Yes ma'am!" Hikaru exclaimed.
Hikaru skipped out of the room happily and Sakura went over to watch the bishies that were learning how to use bokkens.
To her surprise, it was actually a fan girl instructing fellow rabid fan girls on the art of incorrectly using a bokken in order to attract a bishie that knows how to use a bokken correctly and would take pity on them enough to teach them to use it correctly, and thus provide a chance for them to be caught.
"Um......" Sakura said as she walked up to the group. "I don't think that will work....."
The girl instructing whipped around. She proved to be a very short and obviously enthusiastic girl. "It will!!" she chirped. "SEE!!" she held up her arm, which had a Kenshin plushie chained to it.
"Uh.................." Sakura decided to just back away and let the girl continue on.
Back with Naoko and Link.........
"And what's this?" Link asked, pointing to a desk.
"That's something you write on.........." Naoko said.
"And that?" he pointed to a pencil.
"That's something you write WITH."
Meanwhile, Sakura had left the fan girls and was wandering around the preserve when she came upon a black door. She looked around to make sure no one was there and then tried to open the door, but it was locked. Now, being the unsuspecting person that she was, she didn't think anything of it and continued on her way.
In the Bishie Training room, Hikaru was setting up the various targets for her first Bokken lesson, as she called them. She even had little lesson plans written out.
"Now..." she mumbled, "just to find Apricots and Link."
She skipped out of the room and went in search of the two bishies.
"What's that?" Link asked pointing to a small stuffed squirrel that sat on the registration desk.
"Uh.... that's a stuffed squirrel," Naoko replied.
"Does it bite?" Link asked.
"No... it's stuffed," Naoko explained and poked the squirrel. It suddenly latched itself on to her finger.
"AHAHAHAHH!!! Got ya!" a voice yelled hysterically.
Naoko turned to face the person whose voice was mocking her. "Who might you be?"
A girl with shoulder length brown hair and a pair of overalls on put her hands on her hips. "The name's Rika. I'm a cook!"
Naoko stared at her in shock. While, in the background, Hikaru quietly snuck up behind Link and put her hand over his mouth and dragged him away.
"A cook? Who said we needed a cook?" Naoko asked.
"It's right here! In the newspaper!" Rika held up a piece of newspaper with magazine letter clip outs that read "COoK neeDED FOR prESERve! PleASe comE immEdiATley!"
Naoko paused. "I never put that there........."
Just then the original cook marched out. "I'VE HAD IT!!" she shrieked amidst Portal Girl's greeting a family of tourists with a grenade launcher. "WELCOME TO THE BISHIE PRESERVE!! HAVE A NICE DAY!" she bellowed, waving the smoke out of her eyes.
The cook seemed to get madder. "FIRST it is the demanding MALES that you call BISHIES, then it is that INSANE PORTAL GIRL SHOOTING ME EVERY CHANCE SHE GETS!!" To that, Portal Girl beamed at the cook. "Then it's that VASH robbing me of ALL donuts in the WHOLE PRESERVE!!!" The cook stormed out, which a Vash, whose hands and mouth were full of donuts, walked into the entrance to see what was happening.
"VASH?!" Naoko bellowed.
Vash whimpered through his donut. "ywesh?" he garbled meekly.
Before Naoko could yell anymore, Rika walked up to him and shook his arm. "Hello, Vash the Stampede! I shall be you new cook!"
"Um... I didn't hire yo-"
"DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY!!" an unfamiliar voice screamed.
"Natsu-chan! You don't need to be so loud..." Rika said, rubbing her ear.
"Sorry," a girl with a long, black braid said and walked up to Naoko and peered into her eyes. "I'm here to be your project coordinator!"
Naoko gaped at the so-called Natsu-chan.
Hikaru walked past, dragging Apricots by the shirt. "NATSUMI!" she shrieked, dropped Apricots, and rushed to the newly-declared Project Coordinator. She hugged Natsumi and squealed.
Apricots rubbed at his neck. Naoko and Vash watched him start to run towards the hallway, obviously trying to escape Hikaru.
"NOT SO FAST!" Portal Girl yelled. She whipped around and shot the top of the hallway, blocking off Apricots escape. "Can't let a Bishie get away from a fellow coworker!" she said cheerfully.
Apricots looked dismayed, then ran to hide behind Naoko.
"Ahh! Get away! Hikaru will attack me!!" Naoko said and ran to hide behind Vash.
Vash dropped all of the doughnuts he was holding and did some nifty moves that made Naoko sweatdrop.
"OOOOooooooooooooooooh! So you wanna do some Tae Kwon Do, do yah?" Natsu hollered.
Vash looked at her and she looked at Vash. Suddenly she did a jump spin hook kick and knocked Vash over who in turn fell into Naoko knocking her over.
"AHHAH! Beware of the madness!" Natsu shouted.
Portal girl stared at Natsumi in awe and Apricots, well, he was watching Naoko as she struggled to push Vash off of her legs.
Before Apricots could do anything, Hikaru grabbed a hold of Apricots shirt again. This time, he actually tried to fight back, but Hikaru just threatened him with a rubber mallet. "Portal Girl?" Hikaru asked.
"RIGHT!" Portal girl blasted a hole in the debris of the hallway, providing a pathway for Hikaru. "There you go!" Portal Girl said. "Hey, can you train me on more deadly ways of greeting people sometime?"
Before Naoko could say anything, Hikaru said "SURE!" and marched off, dragging sad-looking Apricots behind her.
Naoko struggled to get up again. Unfortunately, Vash seemed very comfortable where he was, the pervert that he is. He grabbed a donut in reach and started munching. "You're pretty comfortable, you know," he beamed at Naoko.
"That's sweet!" Naoko said and beamed. "but if you don't get off now, IM GOING TO EAT YOU!"
Vash quickly got off of Naoko's legs, not wanting to be eaten alive. That was a very scary thought to him. Naoko bounced up and started running after Apricots but quickly got tired.
"I think I'm going to go take a nap," she said to herself.
As she quietly walked back to the bishie captors room Sakura was following, staying hidden in the shadows of the walls.
"Now, as soon as she's asleep I'll snag her," Sakura though.
Naoko snuggled up under her red and black neko sheets as was quickly sound asleep. Sakura tiptoed over to her and carefully slipped a gag around her mouth and shoved her in a bag without her waking up. She tried to sling it over her should but didn't have enough arm strength to do so, so she just dragged Naoko off the bed and off towards the stairs to the roof. As Sakura was walking up the stairs and dragging Naoko behind her, Naoko began to wake up. She started making noises, but no real words were said because of the gag.
"Stop grunting Naoko!" Sakura yelled and kicked the bag.
Naoko kicked back and just barely missed Sakura's leg. Now, when Sakura saw this, she began to run faster making it impossible for Naoko to do anything but try to protect her head the best she could.
When they reached the roof Sakura opened a large glass window that looked as if it was over a VERY LARGE swimming pool. She stuck her head down.
"Yeah... that water looks like a soft enough landing in case she falls," Sakura laughed.
She untied the end of the bag and wrapped a large, thick rope around Naoko's feet and slowly pushed her through the window. She anchored the rope around the chimney and let Naoko hang, upside down.
The bag that was around Naoko's head slowly slid off, letting Naoko see her surroundings. Her eyes widened and she scream through the gag. Down below was an arena, and on the side lines was Hikaru, Apricots, and Link.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY PRINCESS?!" Link demanded.
"Just an exercise!" Sakura said hastily, more afraid of Apricot's deadly look more than anything Link could ever say.
"She's the next Houdini..." Hikaru said and looked up at Naoko, who was busily trying to chew through her gag.
"Hmm..." Was all Apricots would say.
"Here are your weapons," Hikaru said and handed two swords to Link, and two katanas to Apricots. "Have fun!" She shoved them into the water-filled arena.
Link just glared. "And WHY should I fight instead of trying to free the princess?" he demanded.
"Because the winner gets to catch her when I cut the ropes.
Naoko began to chew more feverishly.
Link sighed and turned to Apricots.
"I really don't think this is necessary," Apricots said. "It looks as if she will free herself in about five minutes."
"Not if I have anything to do with it!" Sakura cried. She started to throw porcupines in the general direction of Naoko.
Naoko screamed in fury and started to swing back and forth in order to not be hit.
"Naoko... I'm going to leave this up to you... bye!" Sakura said, walking off to find her little sister.
As Sakura wandered around she came across the little orphan boy she had brought back.
"onee-san! Where have you been?" the little boy asked.
"Just out doing my job," Sakura replied and ruffled his hair. "Say... have you Hikaru?"
"Yeah, she was in the library with some of the other bishies.
"Thanks! Would you like to walk with me?" Sakura asked holding her hand out for the little boy.
He gladly took it and the two headed off towards the library.
Sakura opened the door and heard a young woman instructing some other people on the proper way to wield a sword. "Ahh... Hikaru is already starting to teach people. That's good!"
Cael winced. "That's not right!" he said.
"How would you know?" Sakura asked gently.
"I killed squirrels at a very young age," Cael said, matter of factly.
"Aww!! That's not nice!" Hikaru said, walking out from behind a bookshelf, holding a Sesshoumaru plushie.
"That was't you?" Sakura asked.
"Nope. I was looking up explosives," she said and held up a book labeled "Dynamite for Dummies".
Sakura sweatdropped, but looked relieved.
"Anyway... Hikaru-chan, it's time for you to start the actually training of the bishies. You will be starting with Apricots and Link. I trust that you will be able to handle them, ne?" Sakura said.
"Yep yep!" Hikaru replied saluting.
"Good. Now Cael... I would like you to stay with Syaoran and Q-Bert, they'll take good care of you. I don't want our newest bishie-to-be to get hurt." Sakura told him.
She patted his head and pushed him out of the library.
"He's so cute, isn't he?" Sakura smiled while she watched the boy run back to the bishie preserve room.
Hikaru nodded enthusiastically.
"Anyway, back to the training. Naoko likes both Apricots and Link. I want you to train Apricots to use a sword so he and Link can have a duel. The winner of the duel will be the one that Naoko will like the most. You just have to make it look like they wanted to duel themselves. This is so that we can give a demonstration for the rest of the bishies in the preserve so that they know what a real fight is all about. Do you follow?" Sakura said.
"Nope! Not one bit!" Hikaru cried happily.
Sakura sighed. "Teach Apricots to use a sword and help Link get better. He's very clumsy at the moment."
"Yes ma'am!" Hikaru exclaimed.
Hikaru skipped out of the room happily and Sakura went over to watch the bishies that were learning how to use bokkens.
To her surprise, it was actually a fan girl instructing fellow rabid fan girls on the art of incorrectly using a bokken in order to attract a bishie that knows how to use a bokken correctly and would take pity on them enough to teach them to use it correctly, and thus provide a chance for them to be caught.
"Um......" Sakura said as she walked up to the group. "I don't think that will work....."
The girl instructing whipped around. She proved to be a very short and obviously enthusiastic girl. "It will!!" she chirped. "SEE!!" she held up her arm, which had a Kenshin plushie chained to it.
"Uh.................." Sakura decided to just back away and let the girl continue on.
Back with Naoko and Link.........
"And what's this?" Link asked, pointing to a desk.
"That's something you write on.........." Naoko said.
"And that?" he pointed to a pencil.
"That's something you write WITH."
Meanwhile, Sakura had left the fan girls and was wandering around the preserve when she came upon a black door. She looked around to make sure no one was there and then tried to open the door, but it was locked. Now, being the unsuspecting person that she was, she didn't think anything of it and continued on her way.
In the Bishie Training room, Hikaru was setting up the various targets for her first Bokken lesson, as she called them. She even had little lesson plans written out.
"Now..." she mumbled, "just to find Apricots and Link."
She skipped out of the room and went in search of the two bishies.
"What's that?" Link asked pointing to a small stuffed squirrel that sat on the registration desk.
"Uh.... that's a stuffed squirrel," Naoko replied.
"Does it bite?" Link asked.
"No... it's stuffed," Naoko explained and poked the squirrel. It suddenly latched itself on to her finger.
"AHAHAHAHH!!! Got ya!" a voice yelled hysterically.
Naoko turned to face the person whose voice was mocking her. "Who might you be?"
A girl with shoulder length brown hair and a pair of overalls on put her hands on her hips. "The name's Rika. I'm a cook!"
Naoko stared at her in shock. While, in the background, Hikaru quietly snuck up behind Link and put her hand over his mouth and dragged him away.
"A cook? Who said we needed a cook?" Naoko asked.
"It's right here! In the newspaper!" Rika held up a piece of newspaper with magazine letter clip outs that read "COoK neeDED FOR prESERve! PleASe comE immEdiATley!"
Naoko paused. "I never put that there........."
Just then the original cook marched out. "I'VE HAD IT!!" she shrieked amidst Portal Girl's greeting a family of tourists with a grenade launcher. "WELCOME TO THE BISHIE PRESERVE!! HAVE A NICE DAY!" she bellowed, waving the smoke out of her eyes.
The cook seemed to get madder. "FIRST it is the demanding MALES that you call BISHIES, then it is that INSANE PORTAL GIRL SHOOTING ME EVERY CHANCE SHE GETS!!" To that, Portal Girl beamed at the cook. "Then it's that VASH robbing me of ALL donuts in the WHOLE PRESERVE!!!" The cook stormed out, which a Vash, whose hands and mouth were full of donuts, walked into the entrance to see what was happening.
"VASH?!" Naoko bellowed.
Vash whimpered through his donut. "ywesh?" he garbled meekly.
Before Naoko could yell anymore, Rika walked up to him and shook his arm. "Hello, Vash the Stampede! I shall be you new cook!"
"Um... I didn't hire yo-"
"DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY!!" an unfamiliar voice screamed.
"Natsu-chan! You don't need to be so loud..." Rika said, rubbing her ear.
"Sorry," a girl with a long, black braid said and walked up to Naoko and peered into her eyes. "I'm here to be your project coordinator!"
Naoko gaped at the so-called Natsu-chan.
Hikaru walked past, dragging Apricots by the shirt. "NATSUMI!" she shrieked, dropped Apricots, and rushed to the newly-declared Project Coordinator. She hugged Natsumi and squealed.
Apricots rubbed at his neck. Naoko and Vash watched him start to run towards the hallway, obviously trying to escape Hikaru.
"NOT SO FAST!" Portal Girl yelled. She whipped around and shot the top of the hallway, blocking off Apricots escape. "Can't let a Bishie get away from a fellow coworker!" she said cheerfully.
Apricots looked dismayed, then ran to hide behind Naoko.
"Ahh! Get away! Hikaru will attack me!!" Naoko said and ran to hide behind Vash.
Vash dropped all of the doughnuts he was holding and did some nifty moves that made Naoko sweatdrop.
"OOOOooooooooooooooooh! So you wanna do some Tae Kwon Do, do yah?" Natsu hollered.
Vash looked at her and she looked at Vash. Suddenly she did a jump spin hook kick and knocked Vash over who in turn fell into Naoko knocking her over.
"AHHAH! Beware of the madness!" Natsu shouted.
Portal girl stared at Natsumi in awe and Apricots, well, he was watching Naoko as she struggled to push Vash off of her legs.
Before Apricots could do anything, Hikaru grabbed a hold of Apricots shirt again. This time, he actually tried to fight back, but Hikaru just threatened him with a rubber mallet. "Portal Girl?" Hikaru asked.
"RIGHT!" Portal girl blasted a hole in the debris of the hallway, providing a pathway for Hikaru. "There you go!" Portal Girl said. "Hey, can you train me on more deadly ways of greeting people sometime?"
Before Naoko could say anything, Hikaru said "SURE!" and marched off, dragging sad-looking Apricots behind her.
Naoko struggled to get up again. Unfortunately, Vash seemed very comfortable where he was, the pervert that he is. He grabbed a donut in reach and started munching. "You're pretty comfortable, you know," he beamed at Naoko.
"That's sweet!" Naoko said and beamed. "but if you don't get off now, IM GOING TO EAT YOU!"
Vash quickly got off of Naoko's legs, not wanting to be eaten alive. That was a very scary thought to him. Naoko bounced up and started running after Apricots but quickly got tired.
"I think I'm going to go take a nap," she said to herself.
As she quietly walked back to the bishie captors room Sakura was following, staying hidden in the shadows of the walls.
"Now, as soon as she's asleep I'll snag her," Sakura though.
Naoko snuggled up under her red and black neko sheets as was quickly sound asleep. Sakura tiptoed over to her and carefully slipped a gag around her mouth and shoved her in a bag without her waking up. She tried to sling it over her should but didn't have enough arm strength to do so, so she just dragged Naoko off the bed and off towards the stairs to the roof. As Sakura was walking up the stairs and dragging Naoko behind her, Naoko began to wake up. She started making noises, but no real words were said because of the gag.
"Stop grunting Naoko!" Sakura yelled and kicked the bag.
Naoko kicked back and just barely missed Sakura's leg. Now, when Sakura saw this, she began to run faster making it impossible for Naoko to do anything but try to protect her head the best she could.
When they reached the roof Sakura opened a large glass window that looked as if it was over a VERY LARGE swimming pool. She stuck her head down.
"Yeah... that water looks like a soft enough landing in case she falls," Sakura laughed.
She untied the end of the bag and wrapped a large, thick rope around Naoko's feet and slowly pushed her through the window. She anchored the rope around the chimney and let Naoko hang, upside down.
The bag that was around Naoko's head slowly slid off, letting Naoko see her surroundings. Her eyes widened and she scream through the gag. Down below was an arena, and on the side lines was Hikaru, Apricots, and Link.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY PRINCESS?!" Link demanded.
"Just an exercise!" Sakura said hastily, more afraid of Apricot's deadly look more than anything Link could ever say.
"She's the next Houdini..." Hikaru said and looked up at Naoko, who was busily trying to chew through her gag.
"Hmm..." Was all Apricots would say.
"Here are your weapons," Hikaru said and handed two swords to Link, and two katanas to Apricots. "Have fun!" She shoved them into the water-filled arena.
Link just glared. "And WHY should I fight instead of trying to free the princess?" he demanded.
"Because the winner gets to catch her when I cut the ropes.
Naoko began to chew more feverishly.
Link sighed and turned to Apricots.
"I really don't think this is necessary," Apricots said. "It looks as if she will free herself in about five minutes."
"Not if I have anything to do with it!" Sakura cried. She started to throw porcupines in the general direction of Naoko.
Naoko screamed in fury and started to swing back and forth in order to not be hit.
