Invasion of the Riceballs

Chapter FOUR

"Things really are getting stranger and stranger." Tohru said. "If this riceball invasion doesn't end, I don't think I'll make another one. Ever..." She said sadly. She was still trying to solve the mystery of the riceballs appearing in strange places, and yet no one had confessed that they had put them there. Tohru was washing the dishes, thinking.

Shigure and Kyo were out of the house going grocery shopping, and Yuki was fixing his room. He had reported to Tohru that he had found 38 riceballs in his room. Tohru was starting to get scared, but she forgot the myth Momiji had told her.

"Shigure's house is haunted."

"Uh...Yuki? You there?" She called out. Yuki walked downstairs. "Yes Miss Honda? Do you need help with something?" Tohru looked at her feet again. "Could you help me find out what is going on with the riceballs? I swear I don't have anything to do with it. I just need help."

"I'll be glad to help you. I've been waiting for someone to complain about it..."

"Thank you so much Yuki! You really are a nice person, one of the nicest that will ever come to my life."

And with that comment, Yuki blushed and transformed. "AGH! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to..." Tohru said. "Er, it's okay..."

For the rest of the day, Tohru and Yuki searched the house where riceballs DIDN'T appear, but that seemed to be nowhere. They could see a riceball everywhere they went. "If Kyo makes me angry, I'm going to make him eat all of these." Yuki said, but he was just joking. Tohru didn't feel too good about that, not knowing it was just a joke.

Yuki caught something when he put his hand in a large vase. "Ah! I found it! Their hideout..." Tohru gazed at him. "What? AHHH! OH MY GOD!" She yelled. Inside the vase were about 50 riceballs, and they were moving, and talking! Tohru freaked out. "They're alive!? All this time they were ALIVE!?" She yelled. Before Tohru could look at the vase again, a riceball jumped on her. "What the?" Yuki asked, and it was kind of funny looking at the moving riceball.

"Yes, YOU! You have been feeding my friends to that dude with the orange hair! When he gets home, I'm gonna destroy him!" The little riceball squeaked. He's gonna destroy Kyo! Tohru thought. Yuki started to dig through the vase. There were many yells coming from the riceballs. When Yuki stuck his hand in there, the riceballs said...

"AHH! INTRUDER!"

"THERE'S A HUMAN HAND IN HERE!"

"OH LORDY, LORDY!"

"MY LEG! YOU GRABBED MY LEG!"

"DON'T WORRY! THE SACRED RICEBALL WILL PROTECT US!"

"JOHNNY?! HE JOHNNY, WHERE'D YOU GO!?"

Yuki looked in amazement. "Sorry Johnny!" He said as he let Johnny scamper.

Tohru looked at the little riceball. "So you're saying, I'm the mother of all of you riceballs?" The riceball looked at her. "Some of us were made from you, but the mother riceballs had babies." Tohru and Yuki looked at him in disgust. "THEY CAN HAVE BABIES!?!?! OH MY GOD." Tohru yelled, as she finally fainted, squishing Johnny. Johnny's mom than slapped her, but it felt like a poke.