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Author Note: Hi everybody! I wasn't going to continue this story, but I had so much great feedback from all you wonderful reviewers and well, I just had to go on. Plus, I couldn't just leave Saori and Tatsumi standing in the doorway now could I? I've made it so my thing accepts anonymous reviews and gosh darn it, I had a trojan bug on my computer so I couldn't use it for a while, otherwise I would've done this earlier. Now on with the story...

The Chocolate Bunny Incident:

Chapter 4

By: Rekkanotara

Being nearly run down by four seemingly overactive saints, Tatsumi yelled over his shoulder while waving his fist in the air, "Watch where you're going you little ingrates!"

Saori merely shrugged it off as one of the group's many strange adolescent male quirks. 'Hmmph, boys, I'll never understand why they act the way they do.' she thought to herself.

Moving further into the house, neither Saori nor Tatsumi were prepared for what they saw next.

Saori shrieked at the sight of the interior of her home, "My house! It's it's horrible. Who would do such a thing?..."

Tatsumi carefully moved in front of Saori in a protective stance holding the purple haired girl back with an outstretched arm. "Be careful lady Saori, this must've been the work of thieves. It's no wonder those good for nothing punks ran scared. But don't worry, I'm here as your faithful body guard and I will not let anything happen to you." Tatsumi huffed out.

Slowly the two inspected the hall step by careful step. Saori had no choice but to follow close behind Tatsumi as the big oaf's body just about engulfed the entire width of the hallway and despite her smaller size, Saori couldn't wedge by the man to see for herself what could've caused such a mess inside of her house.

Inside the living room, an overly cheerful Shun bounced from chair to chair drinking his gloriously bubbly soda. Upon hearing a familiar scream and a couple of even more familiar voices, the green haired saint began to hop up and down laughing out, "Yay! More playmates!" 'Hmm, I used all the other good stuff on the other guys... Well, time for more supplies...' Shun thought to himself as he began to skip through out the living room and an adjoining room looking through any drawer and nook he came across.

Hearing a rustling in some nearby rooms, Tatsumi and Saori stopped dead in their tracks.

Saori slipped a long strand of hair behind her ear in an effort to get a better clue as to what the noise could be. "Tatsumi, do you hear that? It sounds like someone's in the other rooms. We should really go check it out. If it really is a burglar, then we have to make sure he, she, they, or it doesn't get away." Saori ordered.

Swallowing what was left of his courage, Tatsumi made a rather large and noticeable gulp as he ever so slightly moved aside so that Saori could take the lead. He was all fine to face whatever dangers might've faced the duo if their wasn't exactly any sight of danger, but now they knew that someone else was still in the house and possibly posed a threat.

Gathering more implements for his fiendish plot, Shun stuffed all the supplies he could fit in the pockets of his overalls. "There, all ready... Now it's time to take over the WORLD.... muahahahaaha!" Shun laughed out before continuing, "Or at least a little part of it..... muahahahaaha!"

Saori relaxed a bit as she neared the living room again since entering the house. She knew that laugh or rather she knew who it sounded like. "There's no need to worry Tatsumi, it's just Shun making all that noise, maybe he can tell us what happened." Saori stated.

"I don't have a good feeling about this." Tatsumi muttered.

"Oh don't be silly Tatsumi, what could possibly go wrong?..." Saori chuckled before she was rudely cut off by a very hyper Shun who knocked her down on his way jumping on Tatsumi.

"Ack, Get off me you little brat!" Tatsumi yelled out as he spun around trying to grab the smaller boy off his back.

"Tsk tsk tsk; that's not a very nice way for a horsey to talk." Shun whined as he grabbed onto the collar of the older man's pressed purple suit in an effort to keep his perch atop his new found steed.

Brushing herself off, Saori let out a furious growl of retort, "Shun! What in the world do you think you're doing?!? Get off Tatsumi right now and tell me what the heck is going on here!"

"Can't .... I have to tame this here rascal or else my work will never get done." Shun responded as though riding Tatsumi up and down the hallway was a common place event in the household.

Backing up somewhat, Saori took a quick glance into the living room where she saw several multi colored soda cans littering the floor which answered quite a bit of questions for her.

Tatsumi was growing more furious with each passing second as the young saint poked, prodded, and choked him in the goal to tame what the boy had called a wild horse. He kept reaching back attempting to grab Shun but to no avail.

"Hmm, it seems I need more drastic measures to tame this beast." Shun stated as he reached into one of his pockets and pulled out a slender blunt object.

Tatsumi's face grew pale as he immediately knew what the object was that Shun was now holding in his hand.

"I think it's time for me to brand you Tatsumi; I mean all the good horse tamers brand their horses so everyone knows it's theirs." Shun said as he popped the cap to the magic marker with his mouth and began scribbling a design on Tatsumi's head while the taller man screamed in horror.

Saori immediately froze as she approached the spot where she'd left Tatsumi and Shun alone. She knew Shun was on a sugar high of sorts and thought she could handle seeing whatever the green haired boy could muster given his current state, but what she saw when she entered the hallway shocked her. It shocked her enough that she fell to the floor in fits of laughter.

Shun had skillfully drawn a huge smiley face on the bald surface of Tatsumi's head in green ink and was now in the process of using a lighter to get said victim to move, all while still being perched on Tatsumi's back.

Saori was ready for this, or so she thought. Picking up a bucket she had dropped earlier during her laughing fit, she flung the contents which consisted of ice cold water over the two; thankful that the water was still mostly inside the bucket after being dropped. She remembered being told by some of the house employees whom also worked for her grandfather that whenever she had gone off on a sugar high that dumping some cold water on her would usually get her to calm down. It was now time to put this idea to the test; of course she didn't remember most of the stories that her grandfather's employees told her as actually happening, but she hadn't thought nothing of it till now.

Now fully drenched in icy cold water, Shun flicked the lighter desperately to get it to start, however, the said lighter had been flooded with water and had become useless. Seemingly unphased by the chilled water, Shun merely jumped off Tatsumi with a whine of displeasure and stumbled backwards with an enormous pout on his face.

Tatsumi wasn't handling himself any better though. After have cold water splashed on him, he had shrunk to the floor and curled up in a fetal position and was now sucking his thumb mumbling nonsense.

Shun turned around to face Saori who was backing up slowly herself.

"That wasn't a very nice thing to do Saori... You broke my horsey!" Shun announced closing the small gap between himself and Saori. "Now what should your punishment be?... Hmmm...." Shun questioned as he held his index finger to his lips contemplating his next move.

Saori was in full panic mode as she thought to herself, 'Darn housekeepers and their wild stories. I knew it sounded a little too easy..."

With a snap of his fingers Shun interrupted the silence that was building, "I know you need a new hair style courtesy of my little friend, Mr. Glue" Shun blurted out with a sinister gleam in his smile.

Fidgeting a bit more, Saori almost knocked down a nearby painting letting her hands do the guiding for her.... After hearing the crazy plan Shun had in store for her hair, she began to get a little freaked out... "Um now Shun, you really don't want to do that now do you? T-There's gotta be something else you can find that would be even more fun to do.... Yeah, that's it.... Something else, anything else....." Saori spoke up quite worried now.

Taking a minute to think about what Saori had just said, Shun thought aloud, "What could be more fun than using Mr. Glue?? Hmm, nope! Nothing that I can think of.... Now where was I?" Shun began to move forward whistling as he went along.

'You've gotta be kidding me! He actually couldn't think of anything better?!?' Saori thought to herself. Taking another look around Shun at the still shocked Tatsumi, Saori just yelled out to him, "Forgive me Tatsumi, but I have to take care of my hair.... You understand...." And with the flick of a strand of hair over her shoulder, Saori did a complete turn around and bolted for the nearest exit which happened to be the front door.

Elsewhere

"Ikki! You did it again!" Seiya yelled; "He's your brother, you need to deal with him!"

Ikki merely shrugged at Seiya's moral rants; "And what do you expect me to do? It's not like I can lock him up and throw away the key until he gets better..." Ikki yelled back.

All four saints had ran a good four blocks away from the mansion on adrenaline alone. They stopped at a local park to regroup and gather their bearings.

Scratching his head, Hyoga added his two cents into the conversation, "You know what... That isn't such a bad idea. Last time we might've succeeded had there been more than two of us and I took care of that crazy dog of his.... What did he call him....? Mr. Jingles I believe.... So we should have a shot now, but we need a stronger way to contain Shun."

"And what's that supposed to mean Cygnus?! You still blame me for this too don't you? Well, we wouldn't have had to deal with this anymore had Shiryu not left the soda in the living room." Ikki belted out.

Scrunching his face up a little, Shiryu replied, "Hey! He's never reacted this way to soda before and besides you were the one who was getting all touchy feely when you were pushing me out the door."

Slapping his head, Ikki rubbed his eyes with his thumb and index finger all the while shaking his head back and forth.... "Yeah, I suppose you're right... For the most part.... The chocolate might've had something to do with the soda affecting him, although it didn't help that he had multiple cans to choose from..." the phoenix saint replied.

"Look guys, this isn't getting us anywhere... And don't forget, we left Tatsumi and Saori to Shun's twisted mercy. Now I really don't care if he does anything to Tatsumi, but it's Saori's house and she might kick us out.... I don't know about you guys but I really like my room and I don't know, the rent of about ZERO dollars a month kind of makes me feel all warm and tingly inside." Seiya interrupted the argument which he'd inadvertently started.

"Everything makes you feel all warm and tingly Seiya." Ikki joked before continuing; "But you're right. We can't just leave her their to suffer, no matter how hyped up my little brother is.... And at least we don't have to deal with that blasted dog!"

As if sensing he was being talked about, said dog came running around a nearby corner with fangs bared and a high pitched yelp that would get anyone's attention. For the moment, his target seemed to be clear as he was staring directly at Hyoga.

Getting a bit antsy, the four teens turned around when they heard the maniacal barking and knew that Mr. Jingles had come back to take his revenge on evil person who had hurt him earlier.

Throwing his hands up in the air, Hyoga yelled in frustration, "You've got to be kidding me! How the heck did he find me all the way out here?"

As the little chihuahua came closer step by step, each saint prepared to move out of the way to let the little mutt at his intended target.

Hyoga, however had other plans and as the said dog got within reach, jumping up with fangs ready and mouth open, the saint of ice pulled the nearest body to him and had barely missed getting a horrible bite from one very angry dog.

Wiping his brow, Hyoga could only look on as the closest person to him had (through his own actions of course) become the new target of Mr. Jingles' rage. Hyoga just stared apologetically as he backed away watching Shiryu taking the full force of what looked like a painful bite on the butt.

Mr. Jingles was out for blood this time and held on for dear life. Every time he felt his grip lessening, he just clamped on tighter, emitting even more high pitched yelps from the person he had hooked onto.

Shiryu hadn't been prepared for any of this and was now running around the park screaming like a loony with a dog attached to his rear.

Ikki just glared at Hyoga and gave the blonde a little talking to, "Hyoga! How could you?"

Hyoga merely smiled guilt evident in his features as he shrugged.

Ikki then took this moment as the perfect time to act as he yelled out to Shiryu, "That's good Shiryu! Just keep him busy for as long as you can and we'll take care of Shun!"

Getting a scream of curses in response, Ikki grabbed Seiya and Hyoga's arms ready to head back to the house. "Come on, this has to end.... NOW!" Ikki ordered.

Hyoga and Seiya really didn't have any arguments as they looked back at what could've been their fate if they too stayed.

Back at the Mansion

"Hey! Get back here! I'm not done yet! I was thinking maybe bunny ears next!" Shun yelled at the top of his lungs at Saori's dissapearing form, running out the front door after her. 'Why do they always end up running away?' Shun thought with a huge pout on his face, looking almost as though he was about to cry. Suddenly, he took one deep inhale and pronounced, "Well, that just means I need some help. That's it! I'll just turn one of the others to the dark side." Finishing up his tirade with a series of maniacal laughter.

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Note: Uh oh! That's some temper Mr. Jingles has.... Oh yes, poor poor Tatsumi and Shiryu! Tee hee hee, be afraid; be very afraid. I'm planning on turning one of the others into another sugar crazed maniac! Yes I have someone in mind already, but I'm curious to know who all of you would like to see become a dribbling sugar fiend... Many thanks to all who have reviewed and will review :)