Nez: Damn, I had typed out three chapters in one night! Wh00t! -dances-

Zan: Then why is your updating so slow?

Nez: Pacing my dear brother. Pacing the reader is key.

Zan: Whatever. Not owning certain books, steak sauce, stores or anything else.

Nez: Yup! We own the rights to squat! Now onward!

Chapter Ten: Pocky Run

Tuesday morning came and passed lazily as Monday morning. Before the guys knew it, Nehszriah had showed up at the back door again. She was back in her black outfit that the guys were so used to seeing her in and this time, Fufu and Fish-chan were with her.

"Come on! We're going out!" Nehszriah yelled down the stairs into the basement.

"This better not be a triple date!" Sirius hollered as he put his boots on.

"Unless you want to be dating the Fufu!" Fish-chan called. Fufu turned red and Nehszriah elbowed the Fish-creature.

"Alright, we're here!" James sighed, all three guys having stepped outside into the blinding sunlight.

"Follow us!" Fufu said happily, walking away from the house. The others followed in accord and after a while of walking, they all came upon a strip mall by the interstate highway.

"Where are we?" Sirius asked.

"Simple," Nehszriah said, pointing to a store in the center of the line. "Otaku Shop!" She led everyone in and the girls happily fanned out into the depths of the store.

"The Maraurders were dumbfounded, like so many other times in their adventure. It was a whole store with Japanese items. There was anime and manga and food and toys and magazines and all sorts of things that someone obsessed with Japanimation could want.

"Umm... Nehszriah...?" Remus asked, wandering around the small shop. Sirius was drawn in towards the shelving unit filled with manga and James started to have a stare-down with a plushie that resembled Jaken from the anime Inuyasha.

"Look Remus!" Nehszriah squealed, pointing at a DVD. She was nearly drooling with glee.

"What is it?" Remus asked, a bit perplexed.

"Kyo Kara Maho!, a really cool anime. I wants it," Nehszriah said in a slightly possessed voice.

"Oookay..." Remus said. He then went to go and join Fufu by the soundtracks shelves.

"Hiiiii Sirius," Fish-chan said as he looked through a volume of a manga called s-CRY-ed.

"Hello Fish," he muttered.

"How have you been?" she grinned, trying to get Sirius to look at her.

"Fine. Nearly eaten by small children and Nehszriah's brothers, but fine in the end," he said with a highly phlegmatic tone.

"Hmph! Don't you want to know how I am?" Fish-chan asked, more than a bit annoyed.

"Hmm... not really," Sirius said, now looking through a volume of Rurouni Kenshin.

"Umm... James," Fufu whispered, prodding the frozen Maraurder. "You can't win the fight with Jaken. Give up."

"He is a worthy adversary indeed," James snarled, not breaking his glare at the green stuffed demon and his toy flower of flowery doom. Fufu and Remus just sighed.

"Hey Nehszriah," Fufu said, prodding the girl who's glazed over face was now fixated upon a Cromartie High manga. "Didn't we have a puropse for coming here besides to have you and Fish ogle?"

"Ogle? Huh? Oh, yeah! POCCCCCKY!" Nehszriah squealed. She hopped over to the stand with what looked like boxes of food and picked up about a half dozen of the colorful containers.

"Pocky? What is pocky?" Remus asked, examining one of the boxes for himself.

"They are biscuit sticks dipped in flavored stuff. There is chocolate and coconut and strawberry and pumpkin and a few other flavors too," Fufu said. "Hey Fish, which kind did you want?"

Fufu looked for the Fish-chan, but she could not be found. Not even Sirius was in an eyeshot. There was only James and the plushie.

Hmm... I wonder where they went off to, she thought. Fufu just shrugged her shoulders and went on selecting flavors of the precious snack food. The pocky was then bought and Remus, Nehszriah and Fufu left, having to drag James out the door with them.

"I have not yet won!" he screamed. "Release me!" James flailed and tried to get away as Remus and Nehszriah dragged him past the middle-aged men playing trading card games and out the door.

"Great, thanks a lot James!" Nehszriah yelled as soon as James came peaceably. "We are probably the laughing-stock of the whole shop now!"

"That is very hard to do too," Fufu added, remembering that the men playing cards were snickering at them.

"So what," James growled.

"Hey," Remus said. "Where is Sirius and Fish? Did they leave before us?"

"Sort of," Nehszriah said through a giant strawberry pocky stick.

"What do you mean 'sort of'?" James asked.

"Exactly," Nehszriah said, staring off at a random bird, nearly running into traffic. She was only held back by Fufu, who just sighed and muttered something about Nehszriah being a scatter-brain. Then, Nehszriah, Remus, James and Fufu all went back to Nehszriah's house to watch the movie Donnie Darko. Fufu and Nehszriah kept on having to reexplain the plot every now and then after a while, Fufu's mom called, saying it was time for her to come home.

"Seriously, where is Sirius?" James asked once Fufu left.

"Now that... is a secret!" Nehszriah said, holding up one finger and grinning like Toran did over at Ureth's house. James and Remus became worried. What had happened to Sirius?

Sirius woke up hazily in the dark room. He could barely tell where he was at that moment, let alone where he had been all day. The last thing he remembered was being in the Otaku Shop with his friends and then, everything went black.

"Glad to see you're up," Fish-chan said. Sirius looked next to him to see the Fish-person standing there, hovering over him.

"Gick! Where am I Fish?" Sirius yelped.

"Ohhhh... my apartment," she answered innocently.

"What time is it?"

"Quarter to midnight."

"When can I go back to Nehszriah's?"

"Never."

Sirius knew it would definitely be a long night.

Nez: There we go! -grins-

Zan: -laughs- You are crazy.

Nez: -grins- That I am!

Zan: Why was that one so short though?

Nez: To make room for my, erm, our reviewers!

Zan: Suuure...

Annual 5-Chapter Review Reply

Fufu: Yay! You're back in the fiction! Keep on reviewing, there is going to be a greatly amusing chapter in the near future.

Inuyasha: See, you were not even in this set of chapters, so I do not want any whining about Muggle-ish-ness.

Fish: Sorry you only appeared in this last chapter. I hog our boy-toys. -Zan shudders-

Zeraf: Hi. -looks around- -points- LOOK! A normal person! Run for it before you become infected with the mundane-ness! -winks-

and my in-person reviewers who really should look online but don't...

Ureth: I am glad you are satisfied, for so am I.

Toran: Do not rush quality for quantity. Threatening in the hallways at school isn't very nice either.

Luke: Umm... chibis are cool. So are flagellum. I see your reappearance soon.

Yup, there it all is. I hope peoples are happy and fuzzy on the inside, 'cause I'm not. I feel rushed and exhausted and not like writing any more for a while. Of course, I also did not update normally like I should have, so you are going to receive two chapters today. Domo Arigato and review!