Fic Off Ch 3
Two-Day Rentals are Evil!

Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket or any other copyrighted material mentioned. Booya.

Summary: The Fruits Basket rent a two-day rental. It's returned late and Kyou gets pissed off that they owe money.

Qualifications--

SENTENCES:: 1) "It's brand spankin' new!"

2) "I was assaulted by the DVDs!"

3) "Give me a reason not to set you on fire."

4) "Ich bin ein berlina!" (In German: "I am a donut!")

SCENES:: 1) Someone popped ALL the popcorn in the video store.

2) Someone chewing on a pen and it breaks.



Tohru came prancing into the living room, holding a rectangular box with the words "Blockbuster Video" written on it. "I got us a movie, because you were all complaining how bored you were!" She smiled proudly.

Kyou raised an eyebrow, "What'd you get?"

"I got Lilo n Stitch!" she beamed happily. "It's brand spankin' new!"

"A kiddie movie?" Shigure drooped his head. "Why couldn't you rent that new sexy movie, what's it called?"

"Don't be a pervert," Yuki hissed, smacking Shigure. The rat of the Juunishi looked to Tohru, "Why don't we invite Momiji? He'll enjoy it."

Tohru looked guilty for not thinking of that, "That's a good idea."



Now seated in front of the TV, Momiji was bouncing in place. Shigure came down from upstairs and waved to Momiji, "Guten tag, Momiji."

"Guten tag!" Momiji grinned with horseshoe-eyes.

"How are you?" Shigure asked, sitting down by the hyper bunny.

"Ich bin ein berlina!" squeaked the young blonde and giggled childishly.

"Is that so?" Shigure chuckled. Tohru came in and sat down with a bowl of popcorn. She clicked the remote and the movie came on.

Momiji and Tohru were the only ones who really enjoyed watching it.



Two days later, Kyou felt like being helpful to Tohru when he saw the movie still siting on the coffee table.

"Want me to take this back?" Kyou asked Tohru, who was cleaning up after lunch.

"Oh, that's passed it's due date! Yes, please, take it back right away!" she seemed worried, but Kyou waved it off as Tohru overstressing.

Shigure decided to go along with Kyou, to escape his publisher; Hatsuharu was there visiting, he went too.



At Blockbuster...

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN I HAVE TO PAY?!" screamed Kyou.

Shigure chuckled from near the back of the store. He glanced around and sighed when he realized Hatsuharu had wandered away.

Shigure was looking through the "adult" section. He had a red pen and a notebook, he was writing down movie titles. He would pause and chew on his pen and look through more movies.

"It's late, you owe us for keeping it too long," explained the manager.

"That's a load of crap! You should pay ME for even bothering to come here and watch your lousy movies!" Kyou hissed.

"Give me a good reason why we should pay you," the store manager glared.

"Give me a reason not to set you on fire!" threatened Kyou.

Shigure heard this, and not wanting to make a scene, went to find Kyou.

"Excuse me," Shigure walked over to the counter, "what's the problem?"

The manager's face turned pale and he stepped back, "N-no problem here."

"Yes there is!" Kyou growled, "They want me to pay!"

"D-don't worry ab-bout it," the manager was shaking and Kyou raised an eyebrow.

Shigure stepped closer and the manager screamed and stepped further back, "St-stay away!"

Little did Shigure know, his red pen had exploded in his mouth and it looked like he had just eaten raw meat.

"What's the matter?" Shigure tilted his head in confusion.

"You don't have to pay, just don't hurt me!" whimpered the frightened manager.

Shigure blinked and was about to ask why, when Kyou threw the movie box at the scared man, "Now, that's more like it!" He chuckled and proudly turned around.

"WHOA!" he stared at Shigure's mouth, the red ink dripping.

"What? Why does everyone keep doing that?" he asked, thoroughly confused by the reactions he kept getting. Shigure lifted his pen and started chewing on it again.

"Oh," Kyou scoffed.

"Hm?" Shigure glanced at the pen and suddenly realized what had happened. "Well, then we should explain to the store manager that it was all a mistake."

"NO!" Kyou hissed, "Let's find Hatsuharu and get out of here."

"After I find a bathroom and wash this stuff out of my mouth," Shigure compromised.



The search for Hatsuharu was difficult. He had obviously lost himself in the aisles.

When they finally found him, he was surrounded by bags and bags of... popcorn?

He was seated in a corner, eating popcorn piece by piece. He looked up at Shigure and smiled.

"What are you doing?" asked Shigure, raising an eyebrow.

"I got lost," he started, "so I started trying to find my way out of here. But the harder I tried, the more lost I seemed to get. There were so many twists and turns and I kept seeing the same things over and over. I was so scared and I figured that my search for an escape was useless. I was figurin' I was trapped for good. And the worst thing..." Hatsuharu paused, shaking at the horrid memory.

"What?" growled the impatient Kyou as he tapped his foot.

"I was assaulted by the DVDs!" he screamed, hugging onto a bag of popcorn for security.

Shigure had to concentrate not to laugh, "Well, what's with the popcorn?"

"I found food, so I grabbed as many bags as I could... which was all of them. Then, during my search, I found a door. Inside was some brooms, mops, and--like a Godsend--a microwave. So, I popped it all. I was planning on surviving on it, but you guys showed up." He smiled, glad to be rescued.

"Well, let's go," Kyou grumbled.

Hatsuharu grabbed a bag of popcorn and stood up. He followed Shigure and Kyou to the exit.

When they returned home, they told Tohru of their adventures.

She decided that was the last time she rented a two-day rental...



A/N: I did this as a "Fic Off" (Lol... Fic off...) with my sister. The qualifications were a few sentences, two scenes, and it had to be done in an hour. Read my sister's under the the pen name "KonekoTsuki", it's titled "Fic Off". XP I hope you liked it, please review!!!