MadiSano: I'm back, in chapter two! I had even more fun with this chapter than the first! Hahaha! Enjoy!

CHICKEN LITTLE (continued)

There was a hole in the sky.

Tiny; but surely a hole.

"Kami-sama," Megumi muttered, placing a thoughtful thumb and finger on her chin. "The sky is falling."

"I told you," Sanosuke said, giving her wrist a little irritated shake. "I told you the sky is falling! Never believe me when I say the sky is falling!"

Megumi stared up at the crevice in the heavens, slowly and constantly shaking her head. "This isn't possible…there's some error…it's inconceivable…"

It was silent for a bit, until Sanosuke said to Megumi, "Oi, Kitsune. You're hand's all sweaty."

Megumi then realized that she was, indeed, holding Sanosuke's hand. As though bitten, she withdrew her hand quite quickly, in shame.

Pretending nothing had happened, Sanosuke said, "Now you have to come back to the dojo with me and tell everyone that the sky's falling! I already tried tellin' Kenshin, Kaoru, and Yahiko, but they wouldn't believe me!"

"No one did, when Chicken Little told them that the sky was falling," Megumi whispered, looking up at the sky once more.

Sanosuke frowned. "What is it with the Chicken Little thing?"

"Ironically, there's a fairy tail about a little chicken who told everyone that the sky was falling, but no one believed him," Megumi explained, and then glanced back up at the fissure in the clouds. "And now…"

Sanosuke nearly felt like crying. "Of all the things to be reincarnated as…"

"We must go and inform Sir Ken of this," Megumi said, turning on her heel, and beginning to continue to the Kamiya dojo. Instead, her foot caught on something and she fell splat on her face with a shriek.

"M-Megumi!" Sanosuke cried, stifling his giggles as he helped the lady doctor to her feet.

Face flushed crimson; Megumi proceeded to brush herself off without saying anything to Sanosuke. He rocked back and forth on the heels of his feet, unsure of what to do. For as long as Sanosuke had known Megumi, Megumi hadn't been the person to be clumsy. So, Sanosuke could understand of why she was embarrassed.

"Wonder what ya tripped over," Sanosuke mumbled, inspecting the place where Megumi had fallen. His shoe brushed against something, and, with a little kick; the octagonal piece of the sky appeared.

Megumi backed away, surprised. "Is that…?"

"Yeah," Sanosuke said, picking up the piece of the sky, no longer afraid of it. He only jumped slightly when it blended in with the surroundings; Megumi, however, leapt backwards with a loud gasp.

"Where'd it go?" she asked, startled.

Sanosuke allowed himself to chuckle. Megumi gave him an indignant look, demanded of why he was laughing.

"It blends in with whatever's behind it," Sanosuke explained, moving the sky shard a bit to the left, so Megumi could understand. "So that if a cloud moves from one piece to the other, it'll look natural. Ne?"

Megumi folded her arms, looking suspiciously at the slice of sky. "Then how does it rain, if the clouds are inside the panels?" she questioned, looking narrowly at Sanosuke.

There was a silence.

Sanosuke shrugged. "They have lil' buckets up there filled with water?" he tried, giving Megumi an unsure smile.

Megumi arched a sable brow. "I'm sure," she muttered sarcastically. "Then how do the little buckets get refilled?"

"Uhh…lil' blue elves fill them up every time it has'ta rain?"

"Then what are the clouds for?"

"Eating,"

Megumi blinked in confusion. "Eating?" she repeated.

Sanosuke nodded seriously. "It's not like the lil' blue elves can just waltz in'ta the market an' buy tofu, y'know."

Shaking her head in despair, Megumi said, "Never mind…but," looking up, she said, "We have proof to Sir Ken that the sky is, indeed, falling. Come with me to the dojo."

Beckoning for the rooster to follow, Megumi continued down the sakura path to the Kamiya Dojo.

At the Kamiya Dojo...

"The sky is falling! The sky is falling!"

Peals of laughter could be heard inside the Kamiya Dojo, where Myoujin Yahiko and Kamiya Kaoru were dancing about in circles, both wearing red strips of cloth tied around their heads.

Yahiko struck a dramatic pose, plucking a piece of grass from the earth and sticking it halfway into his mouth, so the latter fraction hung out. "I swear, it fell outta the sky and hit me on the head! But my thick gel-saturated Rooster hair softened the blow and saved m'life! The sky is falling!"

Laughing hysterically, Kaoru also picked up a piece of grass and put it between her teeth, imitating Yahiko. "Yes, yes! The sky is falling! Yeeeee-hah!"

Yahiko leapt onto Kaoru's shoulders, and the teacher unsteadily hobbled around as her student yelled at the top of his lungs: "Cock-a-doodle-doo!"

They both fell to the earth, cackling insanely.

Kenshin sat on the porch, watching the lively duo's antics. He, also, was amused by Sanosuke's behavior; but had an amount of respect for the fighter that would not allow Kenshin to join in the jaunt. Besides; it wasn't of Kenshin's character to do so.

So, Kenshin contented himself with watching Yahiko and Kaoru continue.

"There was a guy with Chicken Hair,

And Sano was his name-o!

S-A-N-O!

S-A-N-O!

S-A-N-O!

And Sano was his name-o!"

Kaoru bowed as Yahiko clapped for the nifty lyrics of her song. (Though, he grimaced slightly—her singing wasn't as efficient.) In turn, Yahiko made up his own, which in fact was a bit cleverer than Kaoru's.

"Double, double, toil and trouble,
Fishbone break and sake bubble
Double, double, toil and trouble,

Something 'wicked' this way comes!

Squinty eyes and chicken hair,
Enough to give ya quite a scare
Rock-hard fist and softened heart,
He was crazy from the start…

Something 'wicked' this way comes!"

Kaoru and Yahiko burst out laughing once more, but were interrupted when Kenshin yelped shrilly, "O-oro!"

Looking to the dojo gates, Kaoru and Yahiko were horrified to see Sanosuke standing stiffly in the doorway, red in the face with his arms folded. Takani Megumi stood beside him, covering her surprised mouth with a hand.

"S-Sanosuke!" Kaoru said, whipping the red bandanna from her forehead, and spitting out the shard of grass. "I…ah…um……"

Yahiko, failing to see the awkwardness of the situation, yelled, "Hey, Sanosuke! Guess what?"

"Mm?" Sanosuke growled, beginning to advance slowly. Megumi decided it was better to walk slowly behind him, in fear that Sanosuke might explode.

"THE SKY IS FALLING! BWAHAHA—"

POW.

After leaving an unconscious Yahiko in the dust, Sanosuke let out a heavy sigh and cast his gaze over Kenshin and Kaoru. Frightened, Kaoru backed up nearer to Kenshin.

"Ahem." Sanosuke narrowed his chocolate eyes, as Megumi walked up to his side. "I was tellin' the truth 'bout the sky. It is fallin'—Megumi's seen it, too. Right, Fox? You saw the hole in the sky, didn't ya? The sky's fallin', just like I said, right?"

There was a small silence, until Megumi lowered her eyes to the ground, biting her lip.

"Well?" Sanosuke pestered eagerly.

Megumi was silent for a bit longer, fully aware that all eyes were upon her. Until at last, the vixen doctor looked up and said, "No."

Sanosuke's eyes widened, and in horror he shrieked, "WHAT?"

"Yes, the Rooster's been hallucinating," Megumi said, with unambiguous seriousness in her voice. "Rooster-Head has a very wild imagination that he should try to control; I suppose he doesn't want to be sent to the loony bin."

Jaw dropped, Sanosuke glowered at the doctor.

Kenshin and Kaoru sighed in union, looking relieved. "How can we help Sano?" Kaoru inquired Megumi.

"Well," Megumi said, putting her hands on her hips. "In his case, the rooster is suffering from dehydration. Too much sake, too little water. If we don't get some water into his system, he could become very sick. Possibly even die."

"B-But…" Sanosuke said, "The piece of the sky I gave to you…"

Megumi cleared her throat. "No such thing," she announced, narrowing her eyes. "You just thought you saw—"

"But I felt it!" Sanosuke yowled angrily. "You felt it! There was even the lil' hole up in the sky, and then you wanted to know how it rained—a-and then I said the lil' blue elves refilled buckets up in—"

Cutting him off, Megumi said to Kaoru and Kenshin, "As you can see, he's definitely been consuming a ridiculous amount of sake, and need professional h—"

"I can't take this anymore!" Sanosuke shouted, making all three of the people around him jump. He turned on Megumi, who unblinkingly shifted to meet his angry gaze. "You—you lying vixen! I—I can't believe that ya did that to me…! You know I…I mean…you…I…t-the sky…t-the sake…the…the...whole...STUPID...THING—! URAAH! I'm outta here!"

Turning on his heel and fleeing the dojo, Sanosuke disappeared.

A silence followed, until, Kaoru said surreptitiously to Megumi, "I think he likes you."

MadiSano: Lol! I love this fanfic. It's so weird...like me...but I like how I'm handling it. I think this just might be the first fanfic I've written without much complaint from myself. This is probably so because I haven't taken the time to seriously critisize my work...but that's YOUR JOB! REVIEW! PLEASE! Ja ne!