Finding Love in a Movie Audition
Author Note: I am **so** sorry that I haven't updated forever. I haven't had any inspiration forever and well, I did have inspiration for this chapter but I lost the first copy of it so I had to rewrite it and then I forgot to save that one so I had to rewrite the last couple scenes and then I got tired with it so I'm going to rewrite the whole thing again and hopefully this will be up as soon as possible. I am **really** sorry that I didn't get this up before and I hope that all of my reviewers won't be too mad at me *gives a pitiful look*..*tries to make it up to everyone by handing them all kai and rei and tala plushies* All right onto the chappie, I think you've waited long enough for it *nods*
Disclaimer: I only own the idea, the fanfiction account and the girls *nods*
Chapter Ten: Barnyard Fun in a Movie Audition
It had been about two days since the dancing audition. Tala and Aurora were trying their best to forget about Shara but unfortunately that isn't so easy when the girl is following you around. Not to mention that she seemed to be somehow connected to the movie audition. Aurora was so pissy that Tala had offered that the second the audition was over they go to the beach for a while, just the two of them. Aurora had obviously agreed.
"Do you have to go to this stupid movie audition?" Aurora asked as she looked around her and noticed all of Shara's friends that were filing into the building. "I mean, it's not like with Kai's money you or him or Rei are going to really need this."
Tala laughed at Aurora. "Don't be so protective. I'll be just fine. Don't worry, I'm not going to run off with any of the girls in there because I have a much better girl to go back to. You'll live with me not being around for a few hours. I promise that I'll be back soon." Tala swooped down and kissed his girlfriend. "Bye."
Aurora sighed. "All right, you can go then." Aurora gave another glare at the theater and then nodded. "Okay, I'll see you right after?"
Tala nodded. "Yeap."
"OK. I know I shouldn't worry but I do." Aurora smiled and gave him another quick kiss. "If you can't reach me on my cell phone I'm at work." Aurora rolled her eyes. "Just get over there and save me."
Tala chuckled. "Will do."
With that Aurora felt that she had done as much as she could and she climbed into her car and then turned on the engine. She backed out and waved to Tala and then headed away. Tala waved too and then turned to Kai and Rei who were shaking their heads.
"What?"
"Your girlfriend is too protective and you are encouraging it." Kai said simply as he leaned against his car and stretched out his legs. "You should just go, I'll be fine so stop worrying about me."
"I can't do that." Tala argued. "I don't want her to be afraid that I'm going to go off with someone like Shara and if this is the only way that I can do that, well then so be it."
Rei shrugged. "Just leave it alone Kai. Just because you don't see the purpose of it doesn't mean that the rest of us don't." Rei smirked. "Just leave well enough alone and I think that we're being called into the theater." Rei said as he pointed to Leslie gesturing to them.
Kai sighed. "You know what? I think that that's the only good thing about Leslie. He tells us when it's time to go in there."
Rei hit Kai on the shoulder. "You're not in a very nice mood today, are you?"
"No." Kai agreed. "You try to be in a nice mood when people are throwing love notes to you through windows. Three of them went through open windows and one went through a window that was **not** open." Kai growled. "I had to get someone there to fix it this morning and I don't think I've been in a good mood since."
"We can tell." Tala said softly and Rei laughed, but thankfully Kai didn't hear that one. "Come on, lets get this over with."
"Okay." Kai said and they all headed inside the building.
"All right today we're going to send you somewhere and see how you react with your surroundings." Leslie said as he looked down at them all. "You're going to follow this map and we'll see you in about an hour." Leslie and Ace were handing out maps and then Leslie was in front of them. "Do you want one map or two?"
"What kind of question is that?" Kai asked, growling. "We only need one."
Leslie shrugged. "If you say so." Leslie handed them only one map and then moved on.
Kai growled. "That was stupid. Why on earth would we need more than one map? We're all going to go in one car."
Rei nodded but wasn't so sure about taking only one map. "I got to go to the bathroom. I'll be back in a minute. You guys head out to the car and I'll meet you there. K?"
Kai nodded. "Yah sure. We'll see you."
Kai and Tala headed out to Kai's car as Rei went to the bathroom. He came out and took a quick detour before actually heading to Kai's car. When he got there he saw that Tala had already claimed the front seat along with Kai, obviously, so he was stuck in the back. Rei shrugged. Small price to pay for knowing that they would actually get to where they were going.
"All right, now that Rei's back, lets go." Tala said as he waited for Kai to put the key in the ignition and get going.
Kai nodded and did just that and handed the map to Tala, expecting Tala to be able to tell him where to go. Unfortunately that wasn't such a good idea.
"TALA!!! It's a fucking dead end." Kai said as he turned to glare at his friend. "Are you sure you know how to read the fucking map?"
Rei sighed, he knew this was going to happen.
Tala returned Kai's glare. "Of course I know how to read this map. What do you think I am? Stupid? No, unlike you I never had servants to do everything for me. I had to learn how to do everything the hard way."
Kai growled. "I never had anyone to do everything for me either Tala so watch your mouth."
Tala's eyes looked like they were literally daggers of ice, ready to be launched right at Kai. "I have to watch my mouth? I'm not the one that swears at the drop of a fucking hat so I would watch what you say you stupid moron."
Kai glared and snatched the map out of Tala's hands, only to have it snatched back and this went back and forth for a little bit until someone held onto it too hard and, well it broke in two.
"TALA!" "KAI!"
Rei sighed and shook his head. It always happened like this.
"Now how are we going to get there genius?" Kai snapped at Tala.
"I don't know, why don't you tell me since you're the one that tore the map."
"I tore the map. Why you little-"
"Guys." Rei said finally.
"WHAT?" They said in unison.
"I have another map. Now if you'll switch me spots Tala I think we can get there in about fifteen minutes."
Tala and Kai grumbled something to themselves but Tala switched spots with Rei and Rei was sure that someone, or both of them, muttered thanks.
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Kai drove into the driveway/parking lot of a huge barnyard petting zoo sort of thing. Rei looked around and groaned. "I can't do this. Animals hates me. Well not all animals. Cats like me but chickens and dogs hate me." Rei sighed and sunk into his seat.
Kai chuckled and turned off the car. "Oh, we're going to go in there and don't worry. I'm sure nothing in here will attack you at all. Now Tala, well we may have to worry about him." Kai jumped out of the car and looked at his two companions. "All right you two, get your butts out here. We have to go and join the tour. Come on, I swear it will be...livable."
Rei looked at Kai and then sighed. "Okay, I'm going. But only if you promise that I can go back to the car the second something tries to kill me."
Kai nodded. "Yeah, sure. The second something tries to kill you I'll let you go back to the car." Kai looked at Tala. "Come on, you have to follow as well." When Tala shook his head, Kai sighed. "Would you just get your ass out here. We know that you both are chickens but for Pete's sake, nothing's going to kill you. Otherwise they wouldn't let little kids in here."
Tala growled and climbed out of the car and stood next to Rei. They both sighed, not wanting to go in there and then Kai grabbed them both by the ear and lead them into the petting zoo. Tala winced but didn't say anything about Kai's grip. Rei, on the other hand, was going 'ow ow ow ow'.
"KITTENS!" Rei said all of a sudden and Kai let go of his ear as Rei ran over to a box of kittens and picked one up. "Aw, it's so cute and cuddly." Rei turned around and offered a small, orange and white puff ball to Kai.
Kai looked at it once and then again and then shook his head. "No thanks." When Rei glared, Kai shrugged. "I would probably hurt it. I don't know how to hold them like you do."
Rei sighed and decided that there was no way he was going to be able to 'teach' Mr. KnowitallHiwatari to hold a kitten so he sighed and offered Tala the kitten next. "Come on Tala, it's cute and cuddly and it doesn't bite."
Tala looked at it and snorted. "There is no way in hell you're going to get me to hold anything, and definitely not that flea-bitten excuse for an animal." With that Tala crossed his arms and stared at the wall, not meeting Rei's eyes anymore.
Rei sighed and put the kitten down, only to pick up another one that tried to leap into his lap but missed and crashed his face into the ground. "Aw you poor thing. Don't worry, I see you." Rei cuddled with the new kitten for a little bit and petted it and then turned to Kai and Tala again, offering the new kitten to them. Again they refused the kitten and Rei sighed. What party poopers!
Kai watched as Rei picked up kitten after kitten and held it close to his chest and then turned around to offer it for Kai and Tala to hold. Both Kai and Tala would say no and then Rei would sigh, turn around and put the kitten back in the box and pick up another one.
Kai watched as there was a mother cat up on the hay loft, watching them as they picked up the kittens and held it. Well, while Rei picked up the kittens and held them. Kai sighed and then looked back down at Rei and found that he was being offered a pure white kitten with little black paws. Rei was looking at him with a really pitiful look this time and Kai sighed and took the kitten.
Rei looked pleased when Kai tried to hold it the way he had seen Rei do it. In fact Rei jumped up and moved his hands a little bit so that he was holding it properly. The kitten started purring and Rei grinned so much that Kai thought his cheeks were going to pop off. "It likes you." Rei commented, petting the kitten.
Kai smiled and then scooped down to put the kitten back in the box. Tala watched it all and shook his head. Then he looked up and saw the mother cat and sighed. "All right, are we done with the cats now or do you want to go and hold that one too?"
Rei glared at Tala and sighed. "You're just so mean." With that Rei left the barn. Kai started to follow him when he heard Tala gasp in shock and turned around to see the that cat as jumped on Tala and was now scratching the hell out of him.
"REI!" Kai called for help, not knowing what to do with a killer cat. Rei came in and started laughing at Tala. Kai growled. "Not a good time to be laughing." Kai reached out and tried to grab the cat. The second Kai touched the cat it seemed to calm down and it turned and jumped on Kai and began rubbing it's body against Kai's face.
Rei watched this development and starting laughing even more. Tala began to tend to his wounds and Kai just let the cat do what it wanted to, not in the mood to have to deal with an angry mom cat.
Rei continued to laugh.
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"It's not that funny." Tala said for the millionth time as Rei continued to laugh.
Rei didn't stop laughing and just tried to muffle it by putting his hand over his mouth, this of course made Tala growl even more and Kai just shook his head and watched the two of them go at it.
"Look!" Rei said all of a sudden and squatted down and looked at a nest that was filled with nothing less than eggs. "Wow. I think there's got to be a dozen of them. Sheesh, what in the heck do these animals do." Rei got up and looked around for a mother bird and saw none and shrugged.
Kai rolled his eyes. "There isn't that many. There's probably about eight." Kai looked around though too, seeing if there was a mother anywhere. "Guess there's not going to be a hatching anytime soon."
Rei looked at the eggs and shook his head. "Well then, I guess we get to go now, right?" Rei shivered. "I don't want to be around if this turns out to be a chicken's nest and the mother hen comes back. Those things just don't like me, I swear."
Tala nodded. "Yeah, I agree with you. Who could like you if you looked like one of their natural enemies."
"What?" Rei said, turning around.
"Well you do have the teeth kitty cat." Kai reminded Rei gently.
Rei hissed and Tala laughed. "Look he even expresses his anger the same way that they would." Tala began to walk towards the pond that was about three feet away and then found himself inside the pond as Rei went over and pushed him in.
Rei went away laughing, back to the nest, where Kai was standing while Tala got a mouthful of pond water. Tala sat up and spat out the water and picked a lily pad off of his head and glared at Rei. Unfortunately a frog jumped on his face at the time and made it look a little less then terrifying.
Rei laughed and laughed and was a little wobbly on his feet as he did so. All of a sudden he stepped down and heard a crack. He jumped, turned around and backed off. "Oh my god. I stepped on an egg." Rei exclaimed.
Kai and Rei both looked down and saw a little crack in the egg that was furthest away from where Rei had stepped. "There you go, see Rei. You didn't step on it."
Rei sighed in relief. Then he looked down again and noticed that there was another cracking sound. "Okay, then what's going on?"
Tala came out of the pond and went to stand behind Kai and Rei. "Well that would be obvious dodobrain. They're hatching." Tala shook his head, which resulted in Kai and Rei being sprayed with a million drops of pond water.
Kai glared at Tala. "Why don't you go change into the shorts I have in my trunk."
Tala sighed. "All right. I'll be back, don't think that you can run away from me because I'll find you."
Kai nodded, rolling his eyes. "Don't worry Tala, we won't leave you. We promise." Kai leaned closer to Rei and 'pretended' to whisper but allowed Tala to hear them. "So the second he's gone, we run for it."
"KAI!" Tala paused. "Wait a second, you just tried to make a joke." Tala shook his head. "I swear it's the farm air." With that he walked off to where Kai's car was parked.
Rei and Kai watched him leave and then looked down at the eggs again, watching them to see if they were indeed hatching or whether or not Tala had no idea what in the hell he was doing, just like usually.
Rei finally sighed and got up, off the ground where he had decided that he would sit down for a while. "I am tired of looking at these stupid things. They're obviously not going to hatch so lets go out of here and see if those kittens are awake again."
No sooner had Rei turned around than a huge crack was heard. Kai and Rei both looked down at the nest and saw that half of the eggs had cracks in them and then all of a sudden there was an even bigger crack and then there was a very fluffy little birdie staring up and Rei. Rei eeped and jumped back, looking at it in shock.
The little chick squealed with delight and then ran over to Rei, tripping about half way there and then jumped up and down on his shoe. Rei turned to look at Kai in shock. Kai just chuckled and watched as the other chicks hatched and did basically the same thing.
"Kai! Help!" Rei said finally as he looked down and noticed that he now had about eight chicks on his feet. "What on earth is going on? Why won't they leave me alone?"
"Well Rei-" Kai said slowly, looking down at the chicks and then shaking his head as he did so. "I think that they think that you're their mother."
"WHAT!!!" Rei asked as he looked around and moaned. "That's not fair. That's not fair at all. How come they think that I'm their mother. Don't they know that I don't look a thing like them? Don't they know that there's no way in hell that I could ever be their mother? Don't they know this?" Rei sighed and tried to shake them off of his shoe, finding to his horror that it wasn't working. "GET THEM ALL OFF OF ME!"
Kai tried to calm Rei down but it didn't seem to be working juding by the fact that he was jumping around, which lead to the chicks all falling off of him but now he was running around as they followed him. Finally Rei jumped into a tree and watched as the chicks all surronded the bottom of it, looking up at him and peeping.
"Kai-" Rei whined as he realized that there was no way for him to get down without having to deal with the chicks again. "How do I get rid of them?"
"I don't think you can." Kai said carefully, looking at the little things. Kai shrugged. "Or at least I've never heard of a way for you to."
"Thankfully you never grew up on a farm." Rei looked at the chicks and moaned again. This was just not fair. What did he do to deserve having eight chicks follow him around and he didn't even want to ponder what would happen when the mother realized that he had stolen her chicks. She would be furious. She would be raging. She would be ready to murder him. Rei winced at the thought.
Tala came back and looked up and Rei, hiding in the tree and then the little chicks running around the bottom of it and put two and two together and began to laugh.
Rei and Kai both glared at him but Tala didn't notice, he was too busy laughing his head off. "Sheesh Rei, we know that you would like to have kids but chicks?" Tala continued to snicker at Rei. "This is just too funny. Wait until Leslie hears about this."
Rei growled. "NO ONE is going to hear about this Tala or I'm going to kill you." With the tone of voice that Rei used, Tala and Kai realized that he was dead serious.
Tala looked up at Kai and Kai looked back at Tala. What in the hell were they going to do?
Kai sat down on the grass and tried to think of a way to get Rei away from the chicks and then all of a sudden Rei's gentle voice punctured the silence. "Uh Kai?"
"Yeah."
"I have to go to the bathroom."
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Kai and Tala stood outside the bathroom, and Tala was laughing his head off again. Kai was holding five of the seven chicks that had hatched on Rei, thinking that Rei was the mother. Rei, unfortunately, was stuck with the other two.
"AH!" With that Rei ran out of the bathroom, trying to pull his pants up as he ran. "These **Things** just won't give me any privacy. I think that there was a reason that we didn't see any mother hens at that nest. I bet these things have been perverted since she laid them."
Tala kept laughing as he watched all of the chicks jump out of Kai's hands and run after Rei as well. "Yah well, maybe they just like you and maybe they're hungry."
Rei stopped dead in his tracks. "You don't think they think that I'm going to feed them with my-" Rei stopped talking for a second and let this sink into his own mind. "TALA!!!"
"What?" Tala questioned. "I didn't say anything wrong. You're the one that thought of it." {A/N: I **hate** it when people me that and trust me, they tell me that a lot all of the time just because I pick up on the wrongness of what they just said *pouts*} Tala shook his head and looked down at the chicks. "Maybe we should try to go and find out what happened to the mother hen."
Rei looked down at the chicks, his uh middle section and then over to where there was a bunch of chickens. He shook his head. "Oh no we don't. What happens if the mother hen gets mad at me for making them think that I'm their mother. I'm not going to get attacked by a chicken just because you think that it might help. Hell, you've been attacked by a cat for pete's sakes. Even I can deal with a cat."
"That's because you're part cat." Tala offered simply and then leaned against the barn. "Why don't we let Kai decide what we should do with the chicks."
Kai shrugged. "I don't know. Like you said, I wasn't raised on a farm. But I was taken to one every summer and last thing I knew, chicks were afraid of the dogs. Maybe if we go and play with the dogs for a while the chicks will go away."
The second Kai said the word 'dog' Rei was shaking his head, going 'oh no'. Rei kicked a rock. "We are **not** going to find a dog. Do you know what hates me more than chickens? DOGS! They've always been the things that attack me, jump on me, and try to separate my arms from my shoulders with their teeth. There is no way in hell you're going to get me anywhere near a dog. You're just going to have to think of another plan Kai."
Kai shrugged. "Well that's my best plan so you're going to have to live with it." Kai heard the sound of horses and then smirked. "Unless-"
"Unless what?" Rei asked, as he looked at Kai with a weird look on his face.
"Well we could go horseback riding. The chicks won't be able to keep up and we'll leave them behind. Well actually we'll walk them to the pond, where the nest is and then gallop off. There's no way they could keep up with us at the speed so we'll get rid of them. That way they won't be able to follow you around anymore because they won't know where you are."
Rei cocked his head to one side and started to think about this. "Well-" He said slowly, a grin spreading on his face. "I guess that would work. Do you think that they will let us ride the horses?"
Kai nodded. "Sure they will. If they won't, we'll just have to bribe them a little."
Rei smiled. "Well then, lets go."
They all headed to where Kai was sure the horse sounds were coming from and came across a goat pen. Kai and Tala looked at it and then sighed.
"We could jump over it." Tala offered as he looked around. "I think that would be good enough to get us over. I don't really think that we're going to have a problem with our jumping abilities."
Rei sighed. "All right. Maybe we'll lose them in the goat pen." Rei said with a shrug and jumped gracefully over the fence and then turned to wait for Kai and Tala to do the same.
Kai was the next one to try to jump over the fence. He did a pretty good job of it and then he stood next to Rei and sighed.
"What's wrong?" Rei asked as he realized that Kai was sighing. "Come on, just because you didn't jump perfectly is no reason to get all mad."
Kai shook his head. "That's not it." Kai pointed. "Looks like we just taught your little followers how to jump."
Rei looked down and saw that the chicks were jumping over the very bottom board on the box. Rei groaned. "They just have to imitate everything that I do, don't they."
Kai shrugged. "I guess so." Then Kai turned to Tala. "Are you going to jump over or not?"
Tala sighed and then backed up a little bit and jumped. It looked really good and Kai scowled, realizing that this meant that Kai's jump was the worst out of the three of them.
Unfortunately a dog saw Tala jump and decided that he didn't want Tala to jump and ran over and grabbed the bottom of Tala's pants and yanked.
And Tala's groin connected with the fence.
"OW!"
~*~ ~*~ ~*~
Tala sat in the back of Kai's car with a ice bag on his groin. Tala looked up at Kai and glared. "I swear, if we ever go to a farm again, I will murder someone."
Kai nodded and then walked over to where Leslie was standing, watching Tala and shaking his head. Kai put a hand on Leslie's shoulder and then smiled. "Don't worry about it. Tala will be over it by tomorrow and it's not your fault anyway. You didn't know that one of your dogs were going to do that."
Leslie nodded but still looked quite worried. Kai rolled his eyes. "See you later?"
Leslie nodded. "Yeah, see you."
Kai smirked. "You owe me a horse-back riding lesson by the way, my friend." Kai jumped into his car. "Bye."
Rei was already sitting in the front seat and watched as the chicks all jumped up and down outside of the car. "Goodbye chicks." Rei turned to face the road ahead. "And good riddance."
Kai just shook his head and turned on the car and they were gone. They got about five minutes down the road before Rei groaned in pain. Kai quickly turned to him. "What's wrong Rei?"
"I forgot something Kai." Rei said quickly.
"Okay then." Kai turned the car around and they headed back to the barn while Tala moaned, saying that he refused to get out of the car.
When they stopped Rei jumped out of the car and ran to where there was seven chicks crying in the grass. He scooped them all up and they stopped crying, peeping for joy. Rei purred and then carried them all back into the car. "All right we can go now."
Kai said nothing and just drove off.
Author Note: I am **so** sorry that I haven't updated forever. I haven't had any inspiration forever and well, I did have inspiration for this chapter but I lost the first copy of it so I had to rewrite it and then I forgot to save that one so I had to rewrite the last couple scenes and then I got tired with it so I'm going to rewrite the whole thing again and hopefully this will be up as soon as possible. I am **really** sorry that I didn't get this up before and I hope that all of my reviewers won't be too mad at me *gives a pitiful look*..*tries to make it up to everyone by handing them all kai and rei and tala plushies* All right onto the chappie, I think you've waited long enough for it *nods*
Disclaimer: I only own the idea, the fanfiction account and the girls *nods*
Chapter Ten: Barnyard Fun in a Movie Audition
It had been about two days since the dancing audition. Tala and Aurora were trying their best to forget about Shara but unfortunately that isn't so easy when the girl is following you around. Not to mention that she seemed to be somehow connected to the movie audition. Aurora was so pissy that Tala had offered that the second the audition was over they go to the beach for a while, just the two of them. Aurora had obviously agreed.
"Do you have to go to this stupid movie audition?" Aurora asked as she looked around her and noticed all of Shara's friends that were filing into the building. "I mean, it's not like with Kai's money you or him or Rei are going to really need this."
Tala laughed at Aurora. "Don't be so protective. I'll be just fine. Don't worry, I'm not going to run off with any of the girls in there because I have a much better girl to go back to. You'll live with me not being around for a few hours. I promise that I'll be back soon." Tala swooped down and kissed his girlfriend. "Bye."
Aurora sighed. "All right, you can go then." Aurora gave another glare at the theater and then nodded. "Okay, I'll see you right after?"
Tala nodded. "Yeap."
"OK. I know I shouldn't worry but I do." Aurora smiled and gave him another quick kiss. "If you can't reach me on my cell phone I'm at work." Aurora rolled her eyes. "Just get over there and save me."
Tala chuckled. "Will do."
With that Aurora felt that she had done as much as she could and she climbed into her car and then turned on the engine. She backed out and waved to Tala and then headed away. Tala waved too and then turned to Kai and Rei who were shaking their heads.
"What?"
"Your girlfriend is too protective and you are encouraging it." Kai said simply as he leaned against his car and stretched out his legs. "You should just go, I'll be fine so stop worrying about me."
"I can't do that." Tala argued. "I don't want her to be afraid that I'm going to go off with someone like Shara and if this is the only way that I can do that, well then so be it."
Rei shrugged. "Just leave it alone Kai. Just because you don't see the purpose of it doesn't mean that the rest of us don't." Rei smirked. "Just leave well enough alone and I think that we're being called into the theater." Rei said as he pointed to Leslie gesturing to them.
Kai sighed. "You know what? I think that that's the only good thing about Leslie. He tells us when it's time to go in there."
Rei hit Kai on the shoulder. "You're not in a very nice mood today, are you?"
"No." Kai agreed. "You try to be in a nice mood when people are throwing love notes to you through windows. Three of them went through open windows and one went through a window that was **not** open." Kai growled. "I had to get someone there to fix it this morning and I don't think I've been in a good mood since."
"We can tell." Tala said softly and Rei laughed, but thankfully Kai didn't hear that one. "Come on, lets get this over with."
"Okay." Kai said and they all headed inside the building.
"All right today we're going to send you somewhere and see how you react with your surroundings." Leslie said as he looked down at them all. "You're going to follow this map and we'll see you in about an hour." Leslie and Ace were handing out maps and then Leslie was in front of them. "Do you want one map or two?"
"What kind of question is that?" Kai asked, growling. "We only need one."
Leslie shrugged. "If you say so." Leslie handed them only one map and then moved on.
Kai growled. "That was stupid. Why on earth would we need more than one map? We're all going to go in one car."
Rei nodded but wasn't so sure about taking only one map. "I got to go to the bathroom. I'll be back in a minute. You guys head out to the car and I'll meet you there. K?"
Kai nodded. "Yah sure. We'll see you."
Kai and Tala headed out to Kai's car as Rei went to the bathroom. He came out and took a quick detour before actually heading to Kai's car. When he got there he saw that Tala had already claimed the front seat along with Kai, obviously, so he was stuck in the back. Rei shrugged. Small price to pay for knowing that they would actually get to where they were going.
"All right, now that Rei's back, lets go." Tala said as he waited for Kai to put the key in the ignition and get going.
Kai nodded and did just that and handed the map to Tala, expecting Tala to be able to tell him where to go. Unfortunately that wasn't such a good idea.
"TALA!!! It's a fucking dead end." Kai said as he turned to glare at his friend. "Are you sure you know how to read the fucking map?"
Rei sighed, he knew this was going to happen.
Tala returned Kai's glare. "Of course I know how to read this map. What do you think I am? Stupid? No, unlike you I never had servants to do everything for me. I had to learn how to do everything the hard way."
Kai growled. "I never had anyone to do everything for me either Tala so watch your mouth."
Tala's eyes looked like they were literally daggers of ice, ready to be launched right at Kai. "I have to watch my mouth? I'm not the one that swears at the drop of a fucking hat so I would watch what you say you stupid moron."
Kai glared and snatched the map out of Tala's hands, only to have it snatched back and this went back and forth for a little bit until someone held onto it too hard and, well it broke in two.
"TALA!" "KAI!"
Rei sighed and shook his head. It always happened like this.
"Now how are we going to get there genius?" Kai snapped at Tala.
"I don't know, why don't you tell me since you're the one that tore the map."
"I tore the map. Why you little-"
"Guys." Rei said finally.
"WHAT?" They said in unison.
"I have another map. Now if you'll switch me spots Tala I think we can get there in about fifteen minutes."
Tala and Kai grumbled something to themselves but Tala switched spots with Rei and Rei was sure that someone, or both of them, muttered thanks.
~*~ ~*~ ~*~
Kai drove into the driveway/parking lot of a huge barnyard petting zoo sort of thing. Rei looked around and groaned. "I can't do this. Animals hates me. Well not all animals. Cats like me but chickens and dogs hate me." Rei sighed and sunk into his seat.
Kai chuckled and turned off the car. "Oh, we're going to go in there and don't worry. I'm sure nothing in here will attack you at all. Now Tala, well we may have to worry about him." Kai jumped out of the car and looked at his two companions. "All right you two, get your butts out here. We have to go and join the tour. Come on, I swear it will be...livable."
Rei looked at Kai and then sighed. "Okay, I'm going. But only if you promise that I can go back to the car the second something tries to kill me."
Kai nodded. "Yeah, sure. The second something tries to kill you I'll let you go back to the car." Kai looked at Tala. "Come on, you have to follow as well." When Tala shook his head, Kai sighed. "Would you just get your ass out here. We know that you both are chickens but for Pete's sake, nothing's going to kill you. Otherwise they wouldn't let little kids in here."
Tala growled and climbed out of the car and stood next to Rei. They both sighed, not wanting to go in there and then Kai grabbed them both by the ear and lead them into the petting zoo. Tala winced but didn't say anything about Kai's grip. Rei, on the other hand, was going 'ow ow ow ow'.
"KITTENS!" Rei said all of a sudden and Kai let go of his ear as Rei ran over to a box of kittens and picked one up. "Aw, it's so cute and cuddly." Rei turned around and offered a small, orange and white puff ball to Kai.
Kai looked at it once and then again and then shook his head. "No thanks." When Rei glared, Kai shrugged. "I would probably hurt it. I don't know how to hold them like you do."
Rei sighed and decided that there was no way he was going to be able to 'teach' Mr. KnowitallHiwatari to hold a kitten so he sighed and offered Tala the kitten next. "Come on Tala, it's cute and cuddly and it doesn't bite."
Tala looked at it and snorted. "There is no way in hell you're going to get me to hold anything, and definitely not that flea-bitten excuse for an animal." With that Tala crossed his arms and stared at the wall, not meeting Rei's eyes anymore.
Rei sighed and put the kitten down, only to pick up another one that tried to leap into his lap but missed and crashed his face into the ground. "Aw you poor thing. Don't worry, I see you." Rei cuddled with the new kitten for a little bit and petted it and then turned to Kai and Tala again, offering the new kitten to them. Again they refused the kitten and Rei sighed. What party poopers!
Kai watched as Rei picked up kitten after kitten and held it close to his chest and then turned around to offer it for Kai and Tala to hold. Both Kai and Tala would say no and then Rei would sigh, turn around and put the kitten back in the box and pick up another one.
Kai watched as there was a mother cat up on the hay loft, watching them as they picked up the kittens and held it. Well, while Rei picked up the kittens and held them. Kai sighed and then looked back down at Rei and found that he was being offered a pure white kitten with little black paws. Rei was looking at him with a really pitiful look this time and Kai sighed and took the kitten.
Rei looked pleased when Kai tried to hold it the way he had seen Rei do it. In fact Rei jumped up and moved his hands a little bit so that he was holding it properly. The kitten started purring and Rei grinned so much that Kai thought his cheeks were going to pop off. "It likes you." Rei commented, petting the kitten.
Kai smiled and then scooped down to put the kitten back in the box. Tala watched it all and shook his head. Then he looked up and saw the mother cat and sighed. "All right, are we done with the cats now or do you want to go and hold that one too?"
Rei glared at Tala and sighed. "You're just so mean." With that Rei left the barn. Kai started to follow him when he heard Tala gasp in shock and turned around to see the that cat as jumped on Tala and was now scratching the hell out of him.
"REI!" Kai called for help, not knowing what to do with a killer cat. Rei came in and started laughing at Tala. Kai growled. "Not a good time to be laughing." Kai reached out and tried to grab the cat. The second Kai touched the cat it seemed to calm down and it turned and jumped on Kai and began rubbing it's body against Kai's face.
Rei watched this development and starting laughing even more. Tala began to tend to his wounds and Kai just let the cat do what it wanted to, not in the mood to have to deal with an angry mom cat.
Rei continued to laugh.
~*~ ~*~ ~*~
"It's not that funny." Tala said for the millionth time as Rei continued to laugh.
Rei didn't stop laughing and just tried to muffle it by putting his hand over his mouth, this of course made Tala growl even more and Kai just shook his head and watched the two of them go at it.
"Look!" Rei said all of a sudden and squatted down and looked at a nest that was filled with nothing less than eggs. "Wow. I think there's got to be a dozen of them. Sheesh, what in the heck do these animals do." Rei got up and looked around for a mother bird and saw none and shrugged.
Kai rolled his eyes. "There isn't that many. There's probably about eight." Kai looked around though too, seeing if there was a mother anywhere. "Guess there's not going to be a hatching anytime soon."
Rei looked at the eggs and shook his head. "Well then, I guess we get to go now, right?" Rei shivered. "I don't want to be around if this turns out to be a chicken's nest and the mother hen comes back. Those things just don't like me, I swear."
Tala nodded. "Yeah, I agree with you. Who could like you if you looked like one of their natural enemies."
"What?" Rei said, turning around.
"Well you do have the teeth kitty cat." Kai reminded Rei gently.
Rei hissed and Tala laughed. "Look he even expresses his anger the same way that they would." Tala began to walk towards the pond that was about three feet away and then found himself inside the pond as Rei went over and pushed him in.
Rei went away laughing, back to the nest, where Kai was standing while Tala got a mouthful of pond water. Tala sat up and spat out the water and picked a lily pad off of his head and glared at Rei. Unfortunately a frog jumped on his face at the time and made it look a little less then terrifying.
Rei laughed and laughed and was a little wobbly on his feet as he did so. All of a sudden he stepped down and heard a crack. He jumped, turned around and backed off. "Oh my god. I stepped on an egg." Rei exclaimed.
Kai and Rei both looked down and saw a little crack in the egg that was furthest away from where Rei had stepped. "There you go, see Rei. You didn't step on it."
Rei sighed in relief. Then he looked down again and noticed that there was another cracking sound. "Okay, then what's going on?"
Tala came out of the pond and went to stand behind Kai and Rei. "Well that would be obvious dodobrain. They're hatching." Tala shook his head, which resulted in Kai and Rei being sprayed with a million drops of pond water.
Kai glared at Tala. "Why don't you go change into the shorts I have in my trunk."
Tala sighed. "All right. I'll be back, don't think that you can run away from me because I'll find you."
Kai nodded, rolling his eyes. "Don't worry Tala, we won't leave you. We promise." Kai leaned closer to Rei and 'pretended' to whisper but allowed Tala to hear them. "So the second he's gone, we run for it."
"KAI!" Tala paused. "Wait a second, you just tried to make a joke." Tala shook his head. "I swear it's the farm air." With that he walked off to where Kai's car was parked.
Rei and Kai watched him leave and then looked down at the eggs again, watching them to see if they were indeed hatching or whether or not Tala had no idea what in the hell he was doing, just like usually.
Rei finally sighed and got up, off the ground where he had decided that he would sit down for a while. "I am tired of looking at these stupid things. They're obviously not going to hatch so lets go out of here and see if those kittens are awake again."
No sooner had Rei turned around than a huge crack was heard. Kai and Rei both looked down at the nest and saw that half of the eggs had cracks in them and then all of a sudden there was an even bigger crack and then there was a very fluffy little birdie staring up and Rei. Rei eeped and jumped back, looking at it in shock.
The little chick squealed with delight and then ran over to Rei, tripping about half way there and then jumped up and down on his shoe. Rei turned to look at Kai in shock. Kai just chuckled and watched as the other chicks hatched and did basically the same thing.
"Kai! Help!" Rei said finally as he looked down and noticed that he now had about eight chicks on his feet. "What on earth is going on? Why won't they leave me alone?"
"Well Rei-" Kai said slowly, looking down at the chicks and then shaking his head as he did so. "I think that they think that you're their mother."
"WHAT!!!" Rei asked as he looked around and moaned. "That's not fair. That's not fair at all. How come they think that I'm their mother. Don't they know that I don't look a thing like them? Don't they know that there's no way in hell that I could ever be their mother? Don't they know this?" Rei sighed and tried to shake them off of his shoe, finding to his horror that it wasn't working. "GET THEM ALL OFF OF ME!"
Kai tried to calm Rei down but it didn't seem to be working juding by the fact that he was jumping around, which lead to the chicks all falling off of him but now he was running around as they followed him. Finally Rei jumped into a tree and watched as the chicks all surronded the bottom of it, looking up at him and peeping.
"Kai-" Rei whined as he realized that there was no way for him to get down without having to deal with the chicks again. "How do I get rid of them?"
"I don't think you can." Kai said carefully, looking at the little things. Kai shrugged. "Or at least I've never heard of a way for you to."
"Thankfully you never grew up on a farm." Rei looked at the chicks and moaned again. This was just not fair. What did he do to deserve having eight chicks follow him around and he didn't even want to ponder what would happen when the mother realized that he had stolen her chicks. She would be furious. She would be raging. She would be ready to murder him. Rei winced at the thought.
Tala came back and looked up and Rei, hiding in the tree and then the little chicks running around the bottom of it and put two and two together and began to laugh.
Rei and Kai both glared at him but Tala didn't notice, he was too busy laughing his head off. "Sheesh Rei, we know that you would like to have kids but chicks?" Tala continued to snicker at Rei. "This is just too funny. Wait until Leslie hears about this."
Rei growled. "NO ONE is going to hear about this Tala or I'm going to kill you." With the tone of voice that Rei used, Tala and Kai realized that he was dead serious.
Tala looked up at Kai and Kai looked back at Tala. What in the hell were they going to do?
Kai sat down on the grass and tried to think of a way to get Rei away from the chicks and then all of a sudden Rei's gentle voice punctured the silence. "Uh Kai?"
"Yeah."
"I have to go to the bathroom."
~*~ ~*~ ~*~
Kai and Tala stood outside the bathroom, and Tala was laughing his head off again. Kai was holding five of the seven chicks that had hatched on Rei, thinking that Rei was the mother. Rei, unfortunately, was stuck with the other two.
"AH!" With that Rei ran out of the bathroom, trying to pull his pants up as he ran. "These **Things** just won't give me any privacy. I think that there was a reason that we didn't see any mother hens at that nest. I bet these things have been perverted since she laid them."
Tala kept laughing as he watched all of the chicks jump out of Kai's hands and run after Rei as well. "Yah well, maybe they just like you and maybe they're hungry."
Rei stopped dead in his tracks. "You don't think they think that I'm going to feed them with my-" Rei stopped talking for a second and let this sink into his own mind. "TALA!!!"
"What?" Tala questioned. "I didn't say anything wrong. You're the one that thought of it." {A/N: I **hate** it when people me that and trust me, they tell me that a lot all of the time just because I pick up on the wrongness of what they just said *pouts*} Tala shook his head and looked down at the chicks. "Maybe we should try to go and find out what happened to the mother hen."
Rei looked down at the chicks, his uh middle section and then over to where there was a bunch of chickens. He shook his head. "Oh no we don't. What happens if the mother hen gets mad at me for making them think that I'm their mother. I'm not going to get attacked by a chicken just because you think that it might help. Hell, you've been attacked by a cat for pete's sakes. Even I can deal with a cat."
"That's because you're part cat." Tala offered simply and then leaned against the barn. "Why don't we let Kai decide what we should do with the chicks."
Kai shrugged. "I don't know. Like you said, I wasn't raised on a farm. But I was taken to one every summer and last thing I knew, chicks were afraid of the dogs. Maybe if we go and play with the dogs for a while the chicks will go away."
The second Kai said the word 'dog' Rei was shaking his head, going 'oh no'. Rei kicked a rock. "We are **not** going to find a dog. Do you know what hates me more than chickens? DOGS! They've always been the things that attack me, jump on me, and try to separate my arms from my shoulders with their teeth. There is no way in hell you're going to get me anywhere near a dog. You're just going to have to think of another plan Kai."
Kai shrugged. "Well that's my best plan so you're going to have to live with it." Kai heard the sound of horses and then smirked. "Unless-"
"Unless what?" Rei asked, as he looked at Kai with a weird look on his face.
"Well we could go horseback riding. The chicks won't be able to keep up and we'll leave them behind. Well actually we'll walk them to the pond, where the nest is and then gallop off. There's no way they could keep up with us at the speed so we'll get rid of them. That way they won't be able to follow you around anymore because they won't know where you are."
Rei cocked his head to one side and started to think about this. "Well-" He said slowly, a grin spreading on his face. "I guess that would work. Do you think that they will let us ride the horses?"
Kai nodded. "Sure they will. If they won't, we'll just have to bribe them a little."
Rei smiled. "Well then, lets go."
They all headed to where Kai was sure the horse sounds were coming from and came across a goat pen. Kai and Tala looked at it and then sighed.
"We could jump over it." Tala offered as he looked around. "I think that would be good enough to get us over. I don't really think that we're going to have a problem with our jumping abilities."
Rei sighed. "All right. Maybe we'll lose them in the goat pen." Rei said with a shrug and jumped gracefully over the fence and then turned to wait for Kai and Tala to do the same.
Kai was the next one to try to jump over the fence. He did a pretty good job of it and then he stood next to Rei and sighed.
"What's wrong?" Rei asked as he realized that Kai was sighing. "Come on, just because you didn't jump perfectly is no reason to get all mad."
Kai shook his head. "That's not it." Kai pointed. "Looks like we just taught your little followers how to jump."
Rei looked down and saw that the chicks were jumping over the very bottom board on the box. Rei groaned. "They just have to imitate everything that I do, don't they."
Kai shrugged. "I guess so." Then Kai turned to Tala. "Are you going to jump over or not?"
Tala sighed and then backed up a little bit and jumped. It looked really good and Kai scowled, realizing that this meant that Kai's jump was the worst out of the three of them.
Unfortunately a dog saw Tala jump and decided that he didn't want Tala to jump and ran over and grabbed the bottom of Tala's pants and yanked.
And Tala's groin connected with the fence.
"OW!"
~*~ ~*~ ~*~
Tala sat in the back of Kai's car with a ice bag on his groin. Tala looked up at Kai and glared. "I swear, if we ever go to a farm again, I will murder someone."
Kai nodded and then walked over to where Leslie was standing, watching Tala and shaking his head. Kai put a hand on Leslie's shoulder and then smiled. "Don't worry about it. Tala will be over it by tomorrow and it's not your fault anyway. You didn't know that one of your dogs were going to do that."
Leslie nodded but still looked quite worried. Kai rolled his eyes. "See you later?"
Leslie nodded. "Yeah, see you."
Kai smirked. "You owe me a horse-back riding lesson by the way, my friend." Kai jumped into his car. "Bye."
Rei was already sitting in the front seat and watched as the chicks all jumped up and down outside of the car. "Goodbye chicks." Rei turned to face the road ahead. "And good riddance."
Kai just shook his head and turned on the car and they were gone. They got about five minutes down the road before Rei groaned in pain. Kai quickly turned to him. "What's wrong Rei?"
"I forgot something Kai." Rei said quickly.
"Okay then." Kai turned the car around and they headed back to the barn while Tala moaned, saying that he refused to get out of the car.
When they stopped Rei jumped out of the car and ran to where there was seven chicks crying in the grass. He scooped them all up and they stopped crying, peeping for joy. Rei purred and then carried them all back into the car. "All right we can go now."
Kai said nothing and just drove off.