Author's Notes: Yeah, now it starts!!! XD

Disclaimer: Suikoden is not mine.

The Great Easter Egg Hunt

Chapter 5: And So It Begins

            Leona raised her hand. "Let the egg hunt begin!!!" She brought it down in one quick movement, a signal for the players to move.

            "Get out of my way!!!" Nanami snarled at Nina, as she ran past the schoolgirl, elbowing her.

            "Ouch!!! No, YOU get out of my way, you uncouth little tomboy!!!" Nina shrieked.

            "AAAAAAAAGH, how dare you call me that!!!" Nanami pulled out her Flower Rod and shook it threateningly at the Nina.

"Eek!!" Not to be outdone, Nina swung her book belt at Nanami.

"Hey, hey, enough!!!" Apple placed her hands on Nina's shoulders to restrain her.

"Onee-chan, Tomo-chan and Templton are already ahead of us." Riou told his sister, hooking his arms through hers to stop her from tearing Nina apart.

"Hmp, you're SO lucky Riou-chan is here to hold me back. I'll get you next time." Nanami promised before turning on her heel and following Riou across the lawn. "Hey, Riou-chan… you called me Onee-chan!!!"

"I did not!!!" Riou denied.

"Oh yes you did!!! KYAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Nanami guffawed.

"Bring it on!!!" Nina screamed after Nanami, shaking her fist.

"Hey Nina, let's go over there." Flik pointed at the thick bushes dotting the border of the lawn. "Knowing Kuma-san and his lack of imagination, he'd hide them there."

"Yes, Sir Flik." Nina nodded, hearts in her eyes.

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"Eek!!" Pete tripped over a stone and fell.

"Are you alright?" Yuzu asked, helping him up.

"I scraped my hands!!" Pete sobbed.

"Oh, sweetie…" Tengaar cooed hovering over Pete. "Tuta, you have some sticky bandage, don't you?"

"Yes, Onee-chan." Tuta handed her his first aid kit. Before Tengaar can get it, sombebody grabbed it first.

"Here it is." Hix dug a hand into the bag and pulled out the plasters. Tengaar stuck them unto Pete's hands.

"There, there, stop crying." Tengaar ruffled his hair. "Go on then, Hanna-san is waiting for you children." She pushed them in Hanna's direction.

"Careful now." Hix called after them.

"Watch your step." Tengaar called at the same time. They both turned to each other.

Hix frowned. "………"

Tengaar crossed her arms and turned away. "HMP!!" She stomped towards a tree one of her teammates had climbed in search of eggs. "Wakaba-chan, you're too high up!!! Come down now!!!"

"Just a minute, Onee-chan" Wakaba called to Tengaar. Now, I know there has got to be an egg here somewhere—AHA!! A nest…

"BOO!!" Sasuke suddenly appeared, hanging off the tree branch in front of her, startling the girl.

"Mind your own tree, ninja!!!" Wakaba shrieked.

"This is not YOUR tree." Sasuke retorted. He reached into a bird's nest below and took an Easter egg cleverly disguised amongst the bird eggs.

"HEY!!! I was supposed to be the one to find that!!!" Wakaba yelled at him.

"Oh well, too bad." Sasuke stuck out his tongue at her. "Looks like you're just a slow, stupid girl. He blinked to the next tree before Wakaba can strangle him.

"COME BACK HERE YOU IDIOT!!!" Wakaba hollered. She mustered all the strength she had to jump to the next tree. "EEK!!!" Her feet slid off the branch and she managed to hang on the branch with her hands, clinging for dear life.

"WAKABA-CHAN!!!" Sasuke hopped nimbly to the branch and held out his hand to her.

"I can manage." Wakaba said through gritted teeth. She swung herself unto the branch—inadvertently kicking Sasuke and knocking him off the branch.

"ACK!!!" Sasuke fell with a painful thud on the ground below.

"I'm sorry!!!" Wakaba apologized.

"Shut up, you stupid girl, you did that on purpose!!!" Sasuke yelled.

"I did not!!!" Wakaba yelled back.

"Like hell you didn't!!!"

"I said sorry!!!"

"I don't want your sorry!!!"

"Fine then!!!" Wakaba huffed. She climbed higher unto the tree, searching for eggs.

"Hey Luc-kun," Sasuke called to his teammate. "Can you teleport me back up that tree. I'll teach that Amazon girl a lesson."

"………" Luc shrugged. With a wave of his hand, a ball of light engulfed Sasuke and the ninja then disappeared.

"Hey Luc-kun, Luc-kun!!!" Millie ran over him, smiling happily. Bonaparte was waddling behind her, a basket of eggs on his head.

"………"

"Did you find any eggs yet?" Millie asked him.

"… No."

"Oh, okay." She picked up her basket and held it out at him. "Would you like some of mine?"

"………" Luc felt a bead of sweat slide down his forehead. "Er… I seem to remember this was supposed to be a contest…"

"Oh, right. We'll have to beat you." Millie shifted to basket to one hand and the other one pointed at his hand. "What's that?"

Luc lifted his hand. His fingers were clenched around a perfectly spherical crystal that sparkled like ice. It gave off a subtle blue glow. "It's… a Northern Star…"

"That's a Rune, right?" She pried his fingers off the crystal and peered at it. "What does it do?"

"It points perpetually to the direction of Crystal Valley." He replied.

"Oh, I see. Oh right, a little arrow." Millie tilted her head. "What did you bring it for?"

"I don't know. Futch thought it might be useful."

"May I hold it?" Millie asked. Without waiting for an answer, she placed her basket on the ground and took the Northern Star in both hands.

"Luc-kun, I'll just see how it works okay?" She said.

"………" She asks too many questions.

Millie turned around and around, watching the little arrow, which was consistently pointing northward. "Ooh, amazing."

"Hey, Millie-chan, let's get going!!!" Meg called as she and Futch walked towards them.

"Okay, in a minute." Millie said, still playing with the crystal.

"Luc-kun, let's go." Futch said.

"Wait." Luc said, waiting for the girl to give the crystal back to him.

"Oh, I'll walk with you for a while." Millie told him.

"………" Luc rolled his eyes. "You know what, take the crystal and leave."

"Really? Thanks!!" Millie threw her arms around him then ran off in some random direction.

"I think she forgot…" Luc gestured to the basket of eggs.

"Oh, right." Meg took the basket in her free hand. "Guess we'll see you guys later."

"Yeah, later." Futch said.

"Good luck." Meg winked.

"Not that we'll need it." Futch chuckled.

Author's Notes again: Meep!!! ^-^ BTW, that Northern Star thingy is just and idea I pulled out of the back of my mind.