A/N: Thank you all so much for all your reviews, and I am sorry I haven't updated, I had the worst case of writer's block ever. Ever time I started I hated it and started all over. So this chapter has been in the works for quite a while.
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Chapter Three
"You don't have to help me clean up Jr.," MOMO protested as she straightened up, clutching several stuffed animals to her chest. The room was a mess; the stuffed animals were everywhere, it would take her forever to put them all back in their proper places.
"No, I'm helping you MOMO, I caused most of this." He waved his hand as he picked up several bunnies, in varies shades of pastel. "Hey MOMO… you really like rabbits don't you?"
She beamed. "Besides unicorns, they're my favorite!" He laughed uneasily, he sure couldn't get his hands on one of those, besides, where would she keep the damn thing? It would probably eat its weight in an hour… they were like horses or something…
But a rabbit he could do. Hell he could probably spray paint it to look like one of the stuffed animals…(A/N: Oh dear gods… that poor bunny rabbit!)
It took them the better of an hour to put all of the soft animals back in their right places when Shion poked her head into MOMO's room. "Hey MOMO, I was thinking when we docked tomorrow that we could go shopping, so that you'd have something to wear to the carnival."
"Oh wow! Thanks Shion!" MOMO beamed at her and Shion smiled.
"It's nothing. As long as you don't mind us stopping by my brother's for a bit."
"You have a brother Shion? I'd like to meet him very much." MOMO smiled and Jr. shifted from foot to foot uneasily while Shion rolled her eyes.
"Don't get too excited, he's a real hermit." She waved before the door slid close, leaving the pair alone again.
"So MOMO…" Jr. fiddled with one of the big bows on a bunny. "I was thinking… about this carnival thing… we could go together." He felt his face flame but MOMO's face was one of delight.
"Really Jr.? Can we ride those big wheels?"
Jr. blinked. What the hell was she talking about? Oh what did it matter, like he could say no to her anyway. "Sure thing."
'Jr. I think you had better get back to your room.'
Jr. blinked, Gaigun didn't sound too pleased.
"Jr. is something wrong?" MOMO asked, looking at him curiously.
"No. I just need to be getting back to my room. See you MOMO." He backtracked out of the room, waving to her before the door slid shut, shielding her from his view.
'Does he just try to have the worst timing?' He thought furiously to himself before kicking his own door open and throwing himself into his chair.
'I thought it best to talk to you now, before you made an even bigger fool of yourself Rubedo.' Gaigun's voice was smooth and calm as always in his head.
'What the hell do you want?'
'Just giving you fair warning, you don't want to get too attached to that girl.'
' I am not too attached!'
'Even in your head the words sound hollow.' Gaigun shut down their link, leaving Jr. to fume and kick a chair in his anger.
chaos was left alone with KOS-MOS, trying again to explain.
"No, I didn't have a real reason to come down…" He trailed off, wondering why he'd even bothered. He was confused as to why he wanted to spend more time with her, and it confused her even worse.
Lately she'd shown more emotion, and he'd happily thought of it as progress… but at times like this…
"Then why?"
chaos hung his head; after all, what could he say? He himself didn't know.
Shion beamed at MOMO, placing the pretty blue hat on her head, completing her outfit. They had bought at least six new outfits that MOMO could even mix and match, leading to even more outfits.
"Thanks so much Shion! I love my new clothes!"
"Don't mention it MOMO, it was about time we got you some new ones anyway."
They sat down at a small table in the sunshine, and Shion waved over the waiter and asked for two ice creams.
She watched as MOMO ate the ice cream happily enough and looked at all the bags of clothes next to her. 'She really shouldn't be thanking me at all, it's not as if I'm paying for them.' Which was true. She'd only had enough money to buy MOMO one outfit but Jr. had overheard her and handed her enough money to buy her twenty.
"Jr.! Really, it's nice of you, but…""What am I going to do with it? Just buy her as much as she wants. Tell her it's from you." He waved as he walked away leaving Shion behind, smiling.
'He doesn't care if he doesn't get the credit. He just wants her to be happy.' Not that Shion could blame him, MOMO was so cute and upbeat, it would have been hard for her to explain why she could only get one little outfit.
Just watching Jr. try to say no to her was amusing, he never could quite do it.
"Shion."
She looked up to see MOMO looking at her.
"When we get back, I'll thank Jr. too."
Shion blinked in surprise. "What?"
"I know he paid for all of this." MOMO looked down into her ice cream. "He doesn't have to buy me all these things, I told him so, but he still does it."
'So maybe there was another reason he didn't want me to tell MOMO.' Shion thought with a smile. "He just likes to buy you things. He can so he does."
MOMO didn't say anything so Shion began to eat her ice cream thinking that maybe MOMO would prefer a hug to all of the things Jr. buys her.
"So, what do you think?" Shion asked, stirring her coffee.
Allen shrugged. "Well Jr. certainly has enough money to throw around, and it's not like he's pouring his money into a terrible thing. He's just buying her stuffed animals."
"But maybe she doesn't want just gifts." Shion said.
"Well he doesn't just get her gifts though. It's not like he doesn't spend time with her."
Which was true, for while the two were speaking Jr. and MOMO were playing behind them in a large pool of plastic balls and having a terrific fight with them.
A blue ball whizzed past them, hitting a surprised Hammer right in the face. "HEY! WATCH WHERE YOU'RE THROWING!"
Instead of apologizing, Jr. threw another ball, hitting him in the gut.
"THAT'S IT!"
Hammer chucked the balls back, one hitting Matthews while the other bounced off Jr.'s head.
Before they knew it, it exploded in a furious fight between the four, only ending when Jr. hit Ziggy and was dragged from the pool and pummeled with balls from the two other boys.
"True…"
