Here's for Ryu acting like a ponce. Hey! ^_^

Oh, Wolf, he didn't. He pulled out the excuse that I use, actually… when in doubt, say 'your mum'. It works every time. ^_^ Except if you're talking to your mum, then I guess it won't, but… err, yeah. ^_^ Blame it on the coke, baby, the coke… mmm, coke… vanilla coke!

Yay! ^_^ For some reason, this chapter made me think of something. Only prob is that my memory sucks and I've forgotten what it was. Damn. At least I can remember that Hayabusa is a sexy biatch. If I couldn't, where would I be?????

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It was becoming a routine. They were sitting around the lounge area, trying now desperately to think of something to get the super ninja.

"He's gone to see our Mum!" Kasumi exclaimed happily to Hayate, who shot his sister a strange look.

"Mum's been dead for years, Kasumi,"

"Well… he said he was!" she exclaimed. "I wanted to come too, but…" the young kunoichi's face fell. "There wasn't enough room in the car!" The kunoichi bawled.

"I've made a decision," Helena announced. Everyone turned to look at her, even Kasumi, with her big amber eyes tear-filled.

"Hayabusa is officially the most difficult person to buy a gift for. I say we tie him down and make him up, and then buy some random object and give it to him,"

"Tie up?" Christie suddenly looked extremely interested.

"No hot irons," Hayate told her.

Christie's face fell. "I suppose you're going to tell me no torture, either,"

"Yup," Hayate nodded.

"That's no fun!" Bayman protested.

Everyone looked at him sceptically.

"You want to tie Hayabusa up and torture him?" Jann-Lee asked quizzically.

"Hmm. Bet that's not all he wants to do," Leifang snickered.

Everyone looked disgusted, except for Christie and Bayman. Must have been an assassin thing. With a sudden swirl of leaves, Hayabusa himself appeared in the room.

"G'day," he said, sitting down beside Hayate.

"Hi. Okay, now back to the conversation. Why do you want Hayabusa helpless?" Helena asked, raising a fine eyebrow.

Bayman grinned. "So I can bash him up for drawing bananas on my face, of course,"

"Well, I didn't do it," Ayane added helpfully.

"What are we talking about?" Hayabusa asked, confused.

Helena paused. "We're talking about why Bayman wants you tied up and helpless,"

"Oh," Hayabusa blinked. "Perhaps because he wants to bash me up for drawing bananas on his face?"

"A confession!" Bayman roared. "Hayabusa did it!"

The assassin lunged.

"Ah, dude, that's Leifang," Zack corrected the assassin.

"Oh. Damn," Bayman stopped trying to choke Leifang and pounced onto Hayabusa.

Everyone looked slightly scared, watching the assassin.

"You little… umm… what's that word where someone's a brat?" Bayman asked, pausing in his efforts to choke Hayabusa.

"A brat?" Kasumi interjected helpfully.

"That's it. You little brat!" Bayman roared.

"You… you… big brat!" Hayabusa yelled back.

"I should have stabbed you back at the third tournament!"

"You tried and missed, remember? Goes to show that you're an idiot!"

"No, you caught it, arsehole! Don't you have any consideration for my assassinating?"

"Not when you messed up my hair!" The super ninja pushed off the Russian assassin, before lunging at him with the poise of a cat. "You are soooooooooooooo dead!"

"Wait! Wait! Truce!" Bayman coughed.

"Why?" Hayabusa asked, confused once more.

"My hair!"

"You have no hair!"

"Well, just because you have enough for ten people doesn't mean that yours is better! It just means it's… better!" Bayman yelled. "Besides, only poofs wear it that long!"
"Poof?" Helena, Kasumi and Leifang stood up furiously.

Bayman visibly paled. "I meant…"

"POOF?" All three girls strode over to where the Russian assassin was standing.

"Shit," Bayman high-tailed it out of the room.

Hayabusa, meanwhile, buried his head into his hands.

"You guys are so mean to me! I don't know why I put up with it!"

"Neither do I," Ayane said helpfully.

"Ohhhhhh!"

"Err… Ryu…?" Hayate was looking slightly concerned now.

Nothing.

"Hayabusa?" Tina tried.

Still nothing.

"Boobies!" Kasumi exclaimed happily.

Still nothing.

"Chocolate cake!" Helena chided.

"Where?" Hayabusa exclaimed, jumping up, before looking at her with big emerald eyes and dropping his head again. "You guys are so mean, you don't even know what to get me for my birthday!"

"Neither do you," Leifang argued.

"That's beside the point! Oh…" With that, Ryu stood up, hair flowing elegantly behind him, and flounced out of the room.

*

Whether he's being gay or not, he's mine :P Well, not really, but I'll swap a can of vanilla coke for him.