The end is getting closer! Oh no! Only one more chap on this fic before I'll take a break before beginning the sequel. Have any character you would like to appear in the fic? I'm flexible… a little I guess. Though only YnM characters!
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Tsuzuki Asato: I'm so glad that you liked it. Thanks a lot!
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Chocola: Actually it is HPDM not DMHP but thanks anyway. I have a bad habit of making people hooked on my fics.
Piper of the charmed ones: You think? Thank you! I will keep it up… to bad that there will only be one more chap….
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Puppies and Owls!
Chapter nineteen: Terazuma?
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Tsuzuki stretched and scratched his head. "It feels so good to be back to normal. To have cloths on your body and have hands to scratch yourself with!" he exclaimed and looked at the rest of the group.
Watari smiled and threw on his lab coat. "Doesn't it? I mean, I kind of liked to have the ability to fly. Don't you miss it, Tatsumi?" he asked and looked at the secretary.
Tatsumi and Hisoka were not smiling. Might it be the fact that they didn't have cloths in the room like Tsuzuki and Watari? Tatsumi frowned and snatched one of Watari's spare lab coats and threw it on, buttoning it all the way. "To be honest no. I'm glad and happy to be back into a human because now I can take away this months salary" he said and took one of Watari's spare glasses from the drawer in the desk.
Tsuzuki and Watari gaped. "What!" they yelled at the same time.
The secretary walked over to the door with a smile on his face. "And as I promised before, no holyday bonus!" he said and left the lab to get his own cloths.
Tsuzuki gasped. "No money this month! Tatsumiiiiiii!" he whined.
Hisoka snorted at his companion's childish behaviour. "Don't worry, Tsuzuki, he won't take your salary" he said and went over to the door.
Tsuzuki un-fisted his hands and blinked at his partner. "Sure?"
"Sure. The chief is probably waiting for us to show up. We missed Watari's birthday partner so he will probably be pissed and you know who he will blame, don't you, Tsuzuki?" Hisoka asked and left the room. "I'll meet you there when I have changed. Don't waist any more time in here" he advised.
Watari sighed and sank down in a chair. "I can't believe I missed myself becoming one year older… yet I don't regret it" he said and started to replace the test tubes they had been using to make the potion. How could his desk become so messy?
Tsuzuki sat down beside his friend and frowned. "Why don't you regret that? I would and I'm turning eighty-eight two months from now" he said and helped Watari clean the desk.
The blond smiled. "I had a great adventure! I got to experience how it is to be like 003! Sure some things were unpleasant, like coughing up a cotton ball and almost being eaten by a cat, but still!" he said with a smile. "If I could I would do it again later on but for now I'll stay human"
"I surely hope so. Promise me that you'll flush the potion, ok? Just in case" Tsuzuki said and picked up the trash can to throw away some broken glass.
The two cleaned for a few minutes before Watari stilled all his movements. "Oh my"
Tsuzuki didn't like that tone. Not at all. "What is it, Watari? Something wrong?" he asked. He had a feeling that Watari wouldn't tell him if he didn't ask.
Watari turned around. In his hand he held an empty tube. "I had three tubes of the animal-potion. I can only find one now and it is only half full. That was the one we took from. I know Muraki snatched one, but where is the last one?" he asked and looked around. "I looked everywhere but I can't see it"
Tsuzuki stiffened. What if…? "Muraki probably snatched that one to. Who knows?" he said and placed the trash can back on the ground. "Any how, let's go and see Konoe before the old man collapses with worry"
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"We're back! Missed us!" Tsuzuki asked as the entered the assembling room.
"Tsuzuki-kun, Watari-kun! Welcome back!" Wakaba smiled and ran over to greet them. She held a long broom in his hand and placed it to the side to hug the two.
Konoe was not smiling. The old man scowled and glared at the two, instantly sending cold shivers down their spines. "Where have you two been the last couple of days? Out celebrating Watari's birthday without telling me or have you been testing some potions and been incapable to come when I have called for you?" he asked.
Watari and Tsuzuki looked at each other and sweat-dropped. How could the chief know about the potion? Of was he just trying to hook them? "What do you mean, chief?" Watari asked. "What potion?"
"Yeah, what potion? What are you talking about?" Tsuzuki asked, acting like he didn't know what the chief were referring to.
Konoe frowned and pointed up to the ceiling. "I'm talking about that" he said without looking up.
Tsuzuki and Watari looked up to see what Konoe was pointing at. Tsuzuki couldn't see a thing. What was the boss talking abo… "Um… Ew?"
Skittering around on the ceiling was a six centimetres green and black…
"Lizard! We got a huge problem here, sir! Call the terminator! Fast!" Tsuzuki called as he spotted the small animal.
Watari adjusted his glasses and shook his head. "That isn't a lizard. That's a gecko"
Tsuzuki looked at his blond friend. "Aren't geckos and lizards the same thing?" he asked.
"Why yes but geckos…"
"Enough you two!" Konoe snapped, instantly getting their full attention. Looking up he saw the small gecko skitter around, it's mouth opening once in a while to let its pink tongue out. "That is how I found out that you have been making potions during work hours"
Watari blushed. Busted! "Is it equipped with a camera or something? A mini spy?" he asked.
"No, Watari-san, that used to be Terazuma a few hours ago" said a new voice.
Tsuzuki was about to turn around when he felt something warp around his waist. Looking down he saw nothing. "ACK! Count! Let go of me you pervert!" he yelped as he recognize the man behind him.
Count didn't listen to him. "But I have missed you so much, Tsuzuki-san! I have been so worried about your welfare as well as your beautiful body!" he said and hugged harder.
"NO! LET GO!"
Watari didn't seem all that worried about Tsuzuki, he was kind of used to Count flinging himself on the amethyst eyed man. "So the gecko in the ceiling is Terazuma?" he asked Konoe as Tsuzuki tried to throw the invisible man of him.
Wakaba nodded and smiled. "Yes it is. He went to your lab yesterday and found this 'juice'. You can guess the rest" she said and picked up the broom. "I have tried to shoo him down so that I can place him in a jar for safe keeping"
Tsuzuki, who finally had managed to shake of Count, snatched the broom from the girl's grip. "I'll show you how it's done" he said and used the brush to try 'brushing' the gecko from the ceiling.
Terazuma saw the brush come at him and skittered away as fast as his small legs could carry him. When he was cornered he hissed at the broom and skittered over it and tried to hide in the lamp.
Tsuzuki used the broom to chase the gecko and his left foot to fend of the perverted man behind him. "He's a fast little bugger. Fast for a man that sits behind a desk doing nothing" he muttered. "Count, please lay off! I'm trying to get Terazuma down!"
The invisible man let out a huff and turned to the door. "Fine, I'll leave but you will come to my castle of candles later for tea. I will not take no for an answer. See you then my beautiful Tsuzuki-san!" he said and slammed the door.
Tsuzuki looked after him. "Rotten old man…"
Terazuma felt the ceiling shake under his small pads and fell from the ceiling. Landing on something soft he twisted his body and looked around.
Tsuzuki was about to look back to the ceiling when something landed on his hair. Realising what it was he yelped and slapped the gecko off his head. "Get off! Get off! Blach!"
Watari, Wakaba and Konoe watched as the little gecko soared through the air and landed on the windowsill. For such a long flight Terazuma looked ok. Looking around the gecko found something of interest and skittered over.
Tsuzuki sighed and wiped his forehead. "At least he came down. Where is Hisoka and Tatsumi? They said they were coming when they had finished dressing themselves"
Wakaba looked at him. "'Dressed themselves'? What do you mean? What happened to their cloths?" she asked.
Konoe nodded. He really wanted to know.
Tsuzuki smiled and rubbed the back of his head. "Long story, but their cloths are currently at Muraki's apartment"
"MURAKI!"
Watari frowned and looked at the three. "Have you guys noticed that Terazuma is eating a fly at the moment?"
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Hisoka and Tatsumi came into the room but stopped dead in their tracks as they saw the group of people bent over the table. "Um, hello" Hisoka said and went over.
Tsuzuki looked up and smiled. "Hi! You're late!" he called back and ducked his head back. "Hold still, Terazuma, or do you want to spend the rest of your life eating flies?"
Tatsumi's eyebrow lifted high against the ceiling. "What are you doing?" he asked.
Wakaba looked at the secretary and smiled. "We are undoing Watari-san's potion. Poor little Terazuma-kun" she said and looked back at what they were doing.
Hisoka and Tatsumi leaned over and had a look. Tsuzuki was gripping this small poor lizard and Watari was trying to fins a way to shove the bottle with the potion in it down it throat without harming it. The lizard itself was trying to wiggle out from Tsuzuki's grip.
"Let the poor thing go, Tsuzuki!" Hisoka growled at his partner.
Tsuzuki looked at him with big eyes. "But is I do he'll run away again! I promised him a fly if he behaved" he said and looked down at the gecko. "Terazuma the gecko, that sounds kind of right"
Tatsumi frowned and crossed his arms over his chest. "I'll get back to work. Use a pipette, Watari, or you'll drown him" he said and left for his office.
Water blinked and looked at the bottle. "Now why didn't I think of that?"
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Sorry about the short chap but this fic is at its end. One more chap to go.
