Hello again! I'm back with the second installment. I think installment is a better word than chapter; so much more interesting. I'd just like to say, have no fear. I will try and finish this. If I don't it'll be because of school, or some life-threatening illness (which school can be, sometimes.) It will not be because I don't like Romance Fics. Anyway, read, and enjoy.
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What's New with You, Kaolla Su?

Chapter 2

It was already 10:00 am. That meant that Su had only one person to test out her new device on. And, oh what a person she was. Lying there on a couch in one of Hinata House's living rooms was Kitsune Konno. She lay there in a drunken stupor, brought about by her late-night drinking escapades the day before.

The perfect guinea pig, Kaolla thought.

Carefully, Su put her masterpiece on Kitsune's head. The stage was set, and all she needed to do was flick the switch on the top of the odd-looking headpiece.

Su giggled mischievously and whispered, "Dream Alteration...Begin!"

She turned it on and the device started blinking. It made a strange whirring sound, and immediately, a picture appeared above Kitsune's head. Su jumped up and down. It had worked just like she wanted. Now, if her plans were correct, she would be able to tamper with her dream. Su stared at Kitsune's current dream. Several very good-looking shirtless men were handing her all sorts of different alcohols.

She looked at the 'Dream-Kitsune' and said, "That's not fair. She's having a good dream."

Su immediately set out to change that. She touched the shirtless men in Kitsune's dream and thought about elephants. Immediately, the nine men turned into large gray elephants with pants on. Dream-Kitsune looked around bewildered and Su laughed. The Dream-Kitsune, however, started climbing all over the elephants and smiling.

That's not fair, Su thought; she's too drunk in her dream to care.

Su touched the dream again, and giant bananas started chasing Dream-Kitsune, but she simply turned and ate them. Su scowled. Kitsune was determined to have a good dream, but Su had her ace-in-the-hole for that. She touched the Dream-Kitsune and cackled. Dream-Kitsune's breasts immediately shrunk to a quarter of their size. Dream-Kitsune looked down at her quickly shrinking appendages and fell to the floor, screaming.

"Noooooooooooooooooo!" Kitsune shouted as she woke up in a sweat.

She turned around and saw Su who laughed maniacally and ran off. Kitsune looked puzzled, and shook it off. Smelling breakfast, she ambled over to the kitchen, where many of the residents were gathering. Shinobu was there, adding a few last touches to her food, as well as defending it from Su, who appeared to be walking on the ceiling with some odd mechanical boots. Naru, Keitaro, and Mutsumi were at the table, talking about something or other. Motoko was just coming in from the hallway that led to the landing outside, where she practiced her swordsmanship. Kanako was there as well, talking with Motoko. She had just come back from the Alps for a bit. Apparently Granny Hina had taken a pretty bad fall when climbing, and was in the hospital with a few broken bones.

No worries, Kitsune thought. There was no way a few broken bones would stop her. The only ones missing from the table were Haruka, Sarah, and, of course, Seta. They returned to the Kingdom of Mol Mol, telling everyone that they'd be back in a few months, once the excavations were complete.

"Ah," Shinobu said, spotting Kitsune, "you finally decided to wake up."

"Yeah," Kitsune replied, sitting down, "had a funny dream."

She shot a look at Su, who beamed at her, and sat down at the huge table, chanting at Shinobu for food, and eyeing Tama-chan hungrily. Kitsune wasn't sure what exactly happened to her dream, but was sure Su had something to do with it.

"Nice, er...hat, there Kitsune," Keitaro said, snickering.

Kitsune touched the Dream Alteration Device in shock; she hadn't even noticed it. She took it off and saw the little label that said 'by SU' on it. She yelled and, much to Su's delight, started chasing Su around the house. She threw the device at Su, who caught it and ran off to her room. Kitsune sighed, and everyone, minus Su, had breakfast. Su didn't mind this, however, as she had a huge stash of bananas in her room. She pulled out her journal, climbed up into a tree, and started writing again.

Dream Alteration Device is a success. I successfully changed Kitsune's dream from the outside. Maybe if I attach it to the computer, I can map out a dream I want and save it in the device, that way I can control which dream I want.

She sucked on the end of the pencil a bit. It wasn't as good as a banana, that's for sure.

Make banana-flavored pencils for sucking on.

Hmm...this Dream Alteration Device could probably help her in more ways than one. She had heard something about dreams being able to affect how you did things in the real world.

Maybe if I send Keitaro messages in his dreams, he'll listen to them.

She proceeded to rip the page out of the Journal and, like every page, feed them into a computer that stored and locked all the pages from the outside world, unless of course, you had the password.

"Su!"

It was Keitaro. Su jumped down from her spot, and ran to the door.

"Yes?" She called out.

"The Fireworks Festival is tomorrow, and we're going out to get our own. You wanna come?"

Su thought for a bit. The Japanese were weird. It seemed like they had festivals every other day. That was okay, though, festivals were fun, and she got to spend more time with Keitaro.

"Okies!" Su ran down the hall, hopped on to the stair railing and slid down.

"Look out!" she called, but it was too late, and poor Keitaro was lying there on the ground under the weight of Su.

"Sorry, Kei..." she said.

"It's...okay," he gasped, getting up as Su got off him.

Su scowled as she noticed Naru, Mutsumi, and Shinobu by the door waiting for them.

"Figures," Su muttered to herself. She walked over to the crowd and waited for Keitaro to recover.

"Hi, Su," Shinobu said, happily.

"Hey, Shinomu..." Su replied, looking wistfully over at Keitaro.

"Something the matter, Su?" Naru asked, "You're usually more full of energy."

"Hmm?" Su looked over at Naru, and forced a smile. "Nope!"

Except maybe you're too pretty, she thought. Looking at Naru's gorgeous figure, and long light brown hair. Somewhere in which, there was a hint of red. Su turned away. It wasn't fair that she's so beautiful and gets Keitaro.

"Alright," Keitaro said, smiling at everyone. "Are we ready?"

Naru took Keitaro's arm, and they all walked out the door, Mutsumi started talking about some mid-term that Shinobu had to do. Su looked around, and walked over to Keitaro, who was talking with Naru. Su put her chin up on Keitaro's shoulder and walked like that, looking up at him. Keitaro looked over at her and smiled.

He has such a pretty smile, Su thought.

She grabbed his arm, and walked with him, though Naru continued to take up Keitaro's attention, by talking to him almost non-stop. Su looked around at all the trees and such. She had to savor it all before they got into the city, and it was all pretty much buildings.

They got to the shop they wanted, and saw it filled to the brim with fireworks. Everyone went their separate ways, looking at the fireworks. Shinobu was looking at the ones with really bright colors. Naru was looking at the ones that made really piercing shrieks. Those ones were called "bloodsuckers", and Keitaro said they should probably be called "Narus" to which he got a punch in the face. Mutsumi had some how managed to find a firework that exploded in the shape of a watermelon, and was very pleased with that. Su looked around at all of them, and then spotted the biggest one of all. Her eyes widened. Colors, sounds, crackling, twirling, smoke. It had everything!

"Ooh! Ooh! Keitaro!!! Look at this one!" Su cried out at him.

"Wow, that one's big!" he said, walking over. "Hey, clerk! How much is that one?"

The shop clerk came up and said, "200 yen."

"200! That's incredible!"

"Yes, yes," the clerk said, then lowering to a whisper, "very, very good, but very, very unstable. Blow up in your face half the time. So...it's cheap."

Keitaro took it, while Su started ripping up a firework.

Hmm, she thought, peering inside. I bet I could make some really good ones.

"Hey! Hey!" the clerk ran over to where Su was. "You break, you buy!"

They bought all the fireworks they could and returned to Hinata House. On the way back, Su was delighted to find that Keitaro was talking to her about all the fireworks and things. She talked animatedly about all the great fireworks she was going to make for herself. Su talked with Keitaro all the way back to Hinata House, where they unloaded their stash of fireworks. Everyone gaped at the huge one, and Su proudly told everyone that she had found it.

"Keitaro bought them, though," she said, smiling over at Keitaro.

This could turn out to be a good day, Su thought to herself.
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There you are. The second chapter is over. How'd you like. Like last time, the rules are as follows: Reviews are greatly appreciated. Flaming is not allowed, although I am open to some "constructive criticism" as they say. Compliments are, of course, appreciated.