The Adventures of Ken and the NekoNeko Syrum

Chapter Eight: The Grande Finale

AN: It took me damn near long enough, eh? I apologize. It's been a busy year in university for me and I haven't had as much time to write fics as I'd like. Check my profile for a list of other unfinished fics of mine I want to finish. Hopefully these won't be as typo-demon laden as the last chapter.

Just to refresh everyone's memory, when we last left the Mobile Flower Shop, Manx had finally arrived with the Anti-Neko Syrum. Ken drank it, and returned to his human form.

It was a miracle! Ken was normal again! Ken rushed back to the main room of the trailer to thank Manx when, due to a rather unlikely but equally astonishing coincidence, or an astounding feat of good timing, Omi arrived back from school.

"Ken-kun! You're normal again!" Omi noticed cheerfully, dropping his schoolbag to give his friend a congratulatory hug.

"The 'Normal' part is debatable, but he's not a Neko-jin anymore." Yohji commented, to which Aya agreed with a smirk, Omi disapproved with a whiny "Yohjikun!" and Ken ignored. Manx giggled.

Once Omi released Ken from his death-grip, Ken thanked Manx profusely.

"Thank you SO MUCH for bringing the antidote!" He said, then stopped and thought for a moment. "Say, where did that stuff come from, anyway?" He asked. That was a good question.

"I dunno. It was there when we got this thing." Yohji replied. The others nodded to confirm this.

"What about Omi's project then? Are you sure this isn't some science project or something?" Ken asked suspiciously. After all, Omi's brother Masafumi could make freaks like this, and brains ran in the family, didn't they?

"It was a physics project, Ken-kun, not chemistry." Omi said, calmly taking a seat at the table.

"It was really here when we got the thing?" Ken asked again. The others nodded.

"And no one got rid of it?" Ken was starting to get slightly irritated. They buy a motor home; find a strange phial of liquid in it and NOBODY cleans it up? They just LEFT it there so it could turn Ken into a Neko-jin for three days?

"It wasn't my day to clean the motor home." Yohji pointed out.

"It wasn't mine, either." Aya said.

"Wasn't that your day to clean, Ken-kun?" Omi asked innocently. Goddammit, it was, wasn't it? Why hadn't he thrown it out then instead of leaving it there to haunt him? Because he was an idiot, that was why.

"What the hell is it, anyway?" Now Ken was really irritated, especially when no one got up or said anything. "Well?"

"Well where is it?" Manx countered. Feeling stupid, Ken got up and retrieved the NekoNeko syrum from the back of the cupboard. Manx held the phial up at eye level, and gave it a swish. The liquid took on a yellowish tinge for a moment before fading back to its previously colourless state.

"I think it may be something they put in here to keep mice from eating the upholstery while the motor home's not being used." She said. A chemical that kept mice away. And it had turned Ken into a Neko-jin when he drank it. Funny. Very funny. So did it keep mice away on its own, or by suckering helpless motor home-dwellers into drinking it? Ken wasn't sure but he was not impressed. He took the bottle back from Manx and threw it into the nearest garbage can.

"There. Problem solved." Manx took that as her cue to take her leave.

"Well, if that's settled, then I should be going." She said, heading back towards her car. Ken and Omi went to see her off as Yohji mentioned something about a camera. It got Aya upset for some reason, but Ken didn't quite get it, and didn't really want to ask. He just wanted to flop onto his bed and sleep.

Maybe he'd make himself a tuna sandwich when he got up.

Short, yeah, but what was I supposed to do? This is the wrap-things-up chapter. Anywhoo, I hope you guys liked my little insane-ficcie.

The End