Blu: well, you must all hate my guts for taking so long. I am sorry Haruna-san

Haruna: it's cool

Blu: well, if you didn't already get it, Noata is 17, therefore able to drive

T9: no one asked you that

Blu: I don't care, I was answering myself. And yessh, I know that Haruko is the only one for our Takkun, but let's face the facts, she will never come back

T9: so you are just giving him to Ninamori? SHE'S A SLUT!

Blu: and you think I DON'T know this? It will all make sense at the end of this chapter

All: YAY! DEATH TO NINAMORI!

All Ninamori fans: that's not nice

All: so?

ANF: so, take it back

All: fine, just PAIN to Ninamori

ANF: nuh uh

All: fine, she just needs to leave Takkun to Haruko

Blu: it's really freaky how we are all talking at the same time, so I am starting the chapter now!

All: YAY!

~*~*~

"Come on, start for Takkun…come on, start dammit!"

I turn the key again, waiting for the engine to flare and P-kun to spring with life.

Nothing.

"Don't tell me she won't start!" Ninamori complains over my shoulder. I shoot an annoyed glance to her

"Fine then, I won't," I reply. I tap the small glass window on the front panel. "We are out of gas."

"So?" She asks, "Lets go get some more." I shake my head.

"No can do, this is no normal Vespa," I explain. "I don't think fuel from this planet will do anything."

She looks at me with confused expression. "That makes no sense, how could it not work?"

"Just help me push it up the hill?" I ask, changing the subject. I truly doubt Ninamori could understand the principle of space travel on a little yellow motor scooter.

Like even I do.

~*~

Kamon sits at the low table, sipping his beer. After leafing through the 'funnies papers', he sits back to criticize the daily news.

"Crap…crap…mega crap…"

~*~

Ninamori and I push the relatively light Vespa up the steep hill. Lucky, because it's like 10 at night, there isn't much traffic we have to deal with.

But, thanks to my luck, some jackass drives passed us and throws his trash in our direction.

"EWW!" Ninamori screams as she jumps out of the way of a flying ramen cup. Loosing my footing, P-kun and I begin to skid back to the base of the hill.

Fast.

~*~

"Oh yeah, this is exactly the type of crap I want to read at home!" Kamon jokes, looking over the food section. (A/n: hey, there is one in my town's paper; I think Mabase should have that crap too, don't you?) "It just makes me feel all shitty inside!"

~*~

"NOATA!"

Another car whizzes by, nearly hitting me. Maybe the highway wasn't the BEST idea in the world. I try to gain some traction, but the concrete and my shoes don't want to help. P-kun and I finally skid to a stop at the base of the hill.

"Great, now to do it all over again…"

~Twenty minutes later~

"Are you sure you are ok?" Ninamori asks as I rip the rest of the paper from my jumbo cup of ramen. "Your hands are raw."

"Well, I almost used them to stop with," I point out, jabbing my chopsticks into the bowl of the Styrofoam.

"I'm really sorry," she assures me. I nod and stuff some ramen into my mouth. She looks at me totally sickened as I swallow down the mouth-full. "I can not believe you just ate that! Eww!"

I can't help from laughing. "It's not THAT bad," I insist before grabbing up some more. As the flavor hits my mouth, I feel my face twist into the expression of pain. "Ok, maybe it is."

Ninamori laughs. "I told you not to get it, but did you listen? No!"

~*~

"Well, there is always the local section to laugh at," he assures himself before chugging the rest of his beer down. Placing the rest of the paper under the low table, Kamon removes the local section and begins to study the first line. "Hmm…what is THIS then?"

~*~

I grab up Ninamori's un-opened ramen and rip off the packaging. "HEY!" she cries, looking from me to the jumbo cup in her hands. "Give it back!"

"No way!" I reply, scooping most of the contense into my mouth.

She glares at me; I glare back. It's a battle of wits.

She cracks.

Soon we are both laughing. Ninamori digs her chopsticks deep into the mound of noodles. "YUCK! Eww, how can you eat this?"

"I had to once, now you have to."

"That's not very fare!" she huffs. I grin at her. The first grin I've had in years. She smiles back…

Almost like Haruko…

"Well, I guess it is kinda…fun."

~*~

Kamon reads over the dark letters on the front page;

EX-MAYOR'S DAUGHTER FOUND DEAD BY RIVER