It was important to do nice things for the people you loved.

Mob loved Minegishi a lot. They were her best friend and they had the bracelets to prove it. When you were someone's best friend that meant that you had to try and make them happy. Minegishi had been unhappy lately. Well more unhappy than usual. Winter was very hard on them because all the plants went to sleep. This was the southern hemisphere and in the southern hemisphere it was summer and not winter…but Minegishi didn't seem to feel any better.

Which was worrying.

They should have been happy. Sure they were in a Claw compound out far away from everyone and everything but it was warm out and there were plants everywhere. The first thing that Minegishi had done when they got here was take all the seeds out of their pockets and spread them around until they had a garden. Then they too off their shoes and laid down in it to commune with nature, they had said, but that didn't seem to help. That was what they were doing now. They were laying down in the sun on their bed of flowers but their aura still felt pointy and they were still holding their stomach and they had still been drinking all day even though when you drank too much your stomach got upset.

And Mob didn't know what to do.

"Here. See? I made you those purple flowers you like." Said Mob as she made some purple flowers grow next to Minegishi's head. They weren't the exact purple flowers that they liked but Mob was not the best at making specific flowers grow. She had tried her best, though, and she hoped that her best was good enough…and she hoped that her best made Minegishi feel better.

"Thanks." Said Minegishi as the opened their eyes. They put their weight on their elbows as they tried to sit up….and instantly had to lay back down. Stupid biology. Stupid reproductive system. Stupid piece of copper shoved into their reproductive system that made all of this worse than it had to be. Stupid Ryou for being stupid good at the stupid things he did which necessitated this stupid piece of stupid copper through their stupid reproductive organs that were stupid.

They'd get more poetic when the pain subsided.

"Do you want me to call….well not Fukuda because he's in Korea….but maybe if I ask my dad really nice I can have a plane and then I can carry you to the plane with my powers and then I can make you all better." Said Mob. She wished that there was something that she could do. Did they need more plants? More Russian vodka? Or…what did they drink in Australia? She had no clue…but Shimazaki would know. He'd know and he'd help Minegishi because he liked them, and he had said so, and when you liked someone you would do anything for them. Even get them Australian vodka or even teleport them to Korea because they had been holding their stomach for a while now and it was really starting to get worrying.

"Mob, I don't need a plane, I don't need you to carry me, and I don't need to see that cup of food residue from the bottom of the dishwasher after it's been left to sit for a few days. I just need to commune with nature, ok? I just need to commune with nature and I just need to let this pass." Said Minegishi. They hoped that Mob had literally no follow up questions because they did not need to explain the terrible facts of life to Mob just yet. No, let that happen later on when their organs weren't in the process of betraying them.

"Ok….and I won't tell Fukuda you said that…because that might hurt his feelings." Said Mob. She knew why Minegishi didn't like Fukuda, he had made fun of their breasts and hat had been a very rude and sort of…gross feeling…thing to do to anyone let alone someone as nice and wonderful as Minegishi. So it made sense that they didn't like him…but Mob was not going to do like Sho and repeat what they had been told.

Especially not on Fukuda's birthday.

He was turning forty four. First him and then dad. Mob had gotten him a present…and she wished that she had thought to give it to him before he left…but she could give it to him when he got back. Then maybe he would like her again. She didn't know what she had done to make him not like her, his reasons for being the way he was made no sense, but she would fix it and then things could be the way that they had been when she and Sho had been little. Then she could add Fukuda to the friend group and then everyone could get along and be happy…and stuff….

She would worry about him later, though, because their best friend needed them and Minegishi was way more important to her than Fukuda…not that she would ever say that to his face….and not that she should have been thinking thoughts like that because they were not nice….even if they were true….

"Mob, by all means hurt his feelings. I don't care about him and neither should you." Said Minegishi with a groan. Mob was too nice for her own good. She would end up in real trouble some day because of that…or she'd just end up snapping one day and then the rest of the world would end up in real trouble.

"I care about everyone. You especially, though, and I just wish that I knew how to make you feel better. You get like this sometimes and I just wish that you would tell me what I can do so that I can make this better." Said Mob. She hated seeing her friend hurt. She felt so…powerless. She wasn't powerless at all, though. She ranked second in Claw only to dad and she was the second most powerful esper ever, dad had said, but sitting there on the ground watching Minegishi hold their stomach like that…it made her feel like she couldn't do anything at all….maybe because she really couldn't. Not in this situation….and that was the worst.

"God…" said Minegishi

"What about God?" asked Mob

"Never change." Said Minegishi

"I'll try but I don't think that I can help that. I think that I got taller again. my favorite Elsa dress is too short now. Also I didn't think that I would like Evangelion but I do. I mean I don't understand it but me and dad are doing a third rewatch. I like some of it. I like the blue haired girl. I think that she needs to get together with Shinji. They like each other, I can tell." Said Mob

"It begins." Said Minegishi with a shake of their head.

"No, it doesn't. She never tells Shinji how she feels. Not even at the end of the series. She just congratulates him…for something. That's it. She never tells him how much she loves him and how they would be perfect together." Said Mob

"The shippening….the shippening…" said Minegishi in mock horror even though they knew that Mob couldn't read tones to save her life. Yup. That special time in her life was coming…and Minegishi would put up with all of it. Even the shipping. It was a good outlet for all of that romantic stuff that she wanted but her father would never let her have. Let her be happy at least in her own mind. Besides, Minegishi wasn't a hypocrite. Somewhere out there in the wide expanse of the internet existed an old account full of erotic Sailor Moon fanfiction novels.

SeiyaXUsagi for life.

"What?" asked Mob. She didn't think that it was fair that Minegishi knew so many more words than she did just because they read books all the time and had been alive for seventeen years longer than her.

"You're trying to put Shinji and Rei together. I don't know why, Asuka and Rei are clearly the superior choice, but to each their own." said Minegishi

"But…Asuka is mean. Really mean." Said Mob. She had been about to say that they were both girls but girls could love other girls. Mob didn't love other girls like that, she loved everyone of course but she loved boys like that, but it was ok to like both. Some people liked both like Sho and Shimazaki and Minegishi…well Shimazaki had said that Minegishi was something called 'pan' and that it was very complicated but it also meant that they liked both…well they said that they didn't care if a person was a boy or a girl and to Mob that seemed like liking both but she wasn't sure what the difference was. The whole thing was very complicated to be honest.

"She's just mean because her mother went crazy and gave all of her love to a doll. You'd be mean to if something like that happened to you….or maybe not because you're, well, you. If I were you I would have put your father in the ground a long time ago." Said Minegishi

"But…but if I did that then I would be an orphan….and also dad isn't so bad. I can't remember the last time he hit me and he stopped making me wear yellow and when he kisses me on the top of the head he only kissed me for a little bit and not for a long time like before." Said Mob. Things with dad had been pretty good lately. He hadn't been so smothery. He saved all of his smothering for Sunday…and even then he had been…a little better. He kissed her on the head less, which was good, and they went more places instead of being cooped up inside playing Minecraft all the time….he REALLY liked Minecraft….and she did too but it was nice to get out of the house…

Even if he had dragged her away more than once just when she had started making a friend.

She knew that she wasn't supposed to talk to normal people and stuff but…but sometimes it was nice to talk to people her own age. Dad didn't like it, though, not even when she gave him the excuse that she had been practicing her language skills. He said that she could practice with him if she wanted to practice…even though her Russian had been better than his…and Alexei had been very nice…and she had really wanted to get a cup of tea with him…

But that was in the past and there was nothing she could do about it and she just needed to be grateful for dad not smothering her as badly as he had been before.

"Does he still make you sleep in the same bed as him? And you two still cuddle?" asked Minegishi. Their childhood had been a shit show so bad that the Japanese government had removed them and stuck them in a group home….and they almost never did that. So, yeah, they knew that they weren't exactly the supreme authority on what was and was not normal in families but in their opinion Suzuki was trying to turn his Daughter into his dead wife. A better version of her. They weren't in the habit of psychoanalyzing people but they got the feeling that Suzuki had problems with intimacy and relating to other human beings, because he saw himself as a living God or whatever, so he was using his Daughter as a safe replacement for his dead wife because he couldn't just out himself out there like a normal human being.

Poor Mob.

Minegishi was getting very close to just laying down on that wire so Mob could have some peace from…whatever it was. Whatever it would end up being. They had their own past shit with all of this and…and they might have just been seeing themselves when they looked at Mob…but they were getting close to just laying down on that wire if they had to. If it ever got that bad. If Suzuki starting crossing lines….more lines than he had already crossed….then they would….

If it ever came to that.

"Yes but I don't mind cuddling with dad. He's warm and it's the only time that I can hug him. He's really nice….he can still be kind of smothery but he's nice. Besides, when he's with me then he's not getting mad at Sho and that's good for Sho…and all I want is for Sho to be happy because he's the best little brother in the whole world." Said Mob. She wondered if he was ok. She wondered if he had eaten his weekly vegetable. She wondered if he'd been taking his baths. She wondered if he'd been changing his clothes. She wondered if he'd been using too much toothpaste again. She wondered….

She wondered if he missed her as much as she missed him.

Missing people was not good. She missed mom and now she missed Sho…and she missed baby Mukai, too, even though she was in a better place now. Not dead or anything, that was what it usually meant when you said that someone was in a better place, no she was with her new family and she was happy. So Mob shouldn't have missed her because she was better off with her family so she could grow up and be normal. She could grow up and make friends and have a boyfriend, or a girlfriend if that was what she liked, and she would have her own school uniform and hang out with people after school and boys would tell her that she was pretty….and she would be very happy…and Mob knew that if she had kept baby Mukai with her then there would be no chance at all that she would have a normal life like that….

But Mob still couldn't help but wonder if baby Mukai ever missed her…or thought of her…or even remembered her.

"Mob, you have got to learn to put yourself first. It's like….you'll never be happy, truly happy, unless you start putting yourself first. You don't have to let your dad smother you just to keep your brother safe." Said Minegishi. If they didn't know how bad Suzuki could be they would have said that the little demon child needed to learn that his actions had consequences….but Suzuki was liable to put his son in the ground so maybe it was best that he just continued to be a little shrieking demon child for the time being.

"But…sometimes I am happy with dad. He makes me happy when he tells me that he loves me…well he also smothers me…but I love him. It's…love can be complicated sometimes. Besides, I don't want to be selfish. It's better to care about other people than to be selfish." Said Mob

"You and I have different definitions of selfish." Said Minegishi. They had no clue how they would get through to Mob…and the pain wasn't helping them think at all. Maybe this was a conversation best had when they weren't about to start writhing in agony on a bed of flowers. God…Mob was so lucky that she was only ten…but it sucked that every member of her family had some sort of serious personality disorder. Minegishi had no clue how Mob had come out the way she was. Maybe she took after her mother…or maybe she was adopted.

"What's your definition of selfish?" asked Mob

"A lot less restrictive than yours. You think that doing anything for yourself is selfish. I think that as long as you're not screwing someone over in any serious way then you're not being selfish…..but then again I'm a pretty selfish person so-" said Minegishi

"What? No you're not. You're the least selfish person I know. You're always there for me when I need you. No matter how I feel you're always there to make me feel better. Even when I feel good you make me feel better. You always want to hang out with me even now when you have a stomach ache and you have to commune with nature to feel better. You're there for other people, too. Like how you make fresh produce for Shibata or how you help Hatori fix his skin or how you do a lot for Shimazaki. Like how you help him buy clothes because he doesn't know what colors things are and how you put the narration on movies for him and how you always make him more fun stuff to smoke and how you're always there for him, too….you're not a selfish person at all. Please don't think that about yourself. Please don't ever think bad things about yourself." Said Mob. She didn't know if she had said that right thing or not because Minegishi got really quiet and they pulled their aura in really close. She was about to apologize, even though she had no idea if she had said anything wrong or what that could have even been, when Minegishi sat up. They hissed in pain but they still sat up.

And they hugged her.

Their bracelet got caught in her hair but she didn't care. She hugged them back even though she had no idea what this hug was even about. She hugged them back because they seemed like they needed a hug. She had no idea how they could ever even begin to think such bad thoughts about themselves. Minegishi was the least selfish person in the whole wide world and the best friend that she had ever had in her whole life who wasn't her little brother.

"Mob….you're made of sugar, aren't you? You've eaten so much sugar that you've become sugar." Said Minegishi. Great. Now they were getting all emotional just because Mob had been her usually, sugary sweet, self.

"Um…I think that I'm mostly water." Said Mob as Minegishi broke the hug. They laid back down really fast and made the flowers around them grow tall. They also brought the ones that they had squished back to life. They weren't laying down exactly as they had been before, there had been an imprint of here they had been laying, but they fixed it. Mob helped as best as she could. She tried her best to make purple flowers. She made some of them purple, some blue, and some pink. Well that was alright. Minegishi didn't seem to mind. They just liked flowers.

"You're mostly sugar, never forget that." Said Minegishi. Mob couldn't forget that. She could not stop being this person, the person that she was now, because Minegishi had no clue what they would do with themselves if Mob ever stopped being, well, Mob. If the world beat her down. If this life beat her down. The life that they led did not lend itself well to sweetness, to kindness, to goodness. The world did not lend itself well to sweetness, kindness, and goodness. The world took everything good and right in it and just plucked it, like a flower, and left it to die a slow death. Minegishi could not see that happen to Mob. Sometimes when they saw Mob they could see themselves. They knew that they were just projecting their own childhood shit onto Mob in those times….and they didn't want to wake up one day and actually see themselves….

But they had no idea what they were supposed to do.

"Um….ok….but I saw in a documentary that people are mostly just salt and water…but there's some sugar in us too. I ate a whole box of Elsa cereal today….I didn't really see the point in making a meal because Sho is gone…and I miss him so much." Said Mob. She had poured milk into a box of cereal and spent that morning watching Australian TV because she had been too tired to find something in Japanese. She had been tired since Sho left for his away mission. Not tired in the sleepy sort of way but tired in a sad sort of way…because Sho was an ocean away from her…so she had poured milk into a box of cereal and spent the day eating that until Minegishi woke up and their aura stopped being tangled up with Shimazaki's….

And maybe she should not have been thinking about him.

Maybe thinking about him summoned him, like the time she and Sho had tried to summon bloody Mary. It would have made sense since as soon as she had thought about him he appeared right in front of her. he squished Minegishi's garden with his shoes and also he threw big cans at the both of them. Mob caught them with her powers and set them down gently. Minegishi sat up and picked up their can.

"Fosters? Really Ryou?" asked Minegishi as they opened their can and had a sip. It was hot and they were thirsty…even though this tasted just like what they assumed the urine of an Australian drunk would taste like.

"It's Australian for beer! Also it's in a pretty distinctive can….and I have been drinking all day and I did not want to play that 'what the fuck is in this can' game." Said Shimazaki as he sat down next to Toshi. He loved Australia. He loved this country and he loved the people and he loved….well whoever he had been hanging out with…and he loved whatever he had been doing that day…and he did not need a ten year old kid to have fun!

Though maybe switching the baby kangaroos around would have been more fun with another person…people didn't realize how sharp their teeth and claws were….

"This is….a drink." Said Mob. She put hers off to the side. She would have to finish it to be polite, also because Minegishi never let her drink these days and she needed to enjoy the occasion, but it would be hard. This tasted like….not good. Mob didn't like beer that much, she liked hard liquor or champagne best, but she'd had much better beer. Sapporo was good beer….well everyone said that it was bad but she liked it. She liked it a lot better than this anyway.

But she would still drink because that was the polite thing to do.

"Mob, you're too damn polite." Said Minegishi

"Hey, no she's not. This isn't so bad. Remember the time we had that lake water beer over in…wherever we were in the States? Now that sucked." Said Shimazaki before downing a good amount of his. He'd tasted worse things in his life. Toshi was just being grumpy because they were a ketchup packet right now and would be for the next few days. No matter, no matter, he had something for them. He dug through his pockets and felt some sand…or something….falling off of him.

"Were you at the beach?" asked Mob as Shimazaki got her all sandy as he dug through his pockets like he had lost his phone…and if he had then she gladly would have found it for him. She could have called it or had Hatori find it…well when he stopped being busy. Shibata was teaching him how to do his laundry again. Last time he tried he used dish soap and it made a great big mess everywhere.

"And a…bachelorette party?" asked Minegishi as they picked some…creatively shaped….confetti out of his hair. He had left that morning saying that he had something important to do…and that important thing turned out to be a bachelorette party on the beach….and also he smelled like….had he been petting dogs again? And what the hell was he looking for in pockets? Hopefully nothing that he was planning on getting Mob into.

"Oh? Was that where I was? Part of this day is kind of a blur…but at least I proved to you that I don't need a ten year old to have fun! I had all kinds of fun! And also I thought of you….here." said Shimazaki. He couldn't exactly remember that day but he did remember Toshi, and he did remember to carry cash on him, and he did remember to ask the pharmacist what was actually in those bottles, and he did remember to ask in English too….and he had not been making fun of their accents he had just been trying to speak their language.

"What's that?" asked Mob. She read the bottle. Motrin. Not for her. Shimazaki said that if she took pills she would probably end up dying because she was little and she didn't know what she was doing. That was why she had to stay out of his pills and stuff. She didn't want any anyway. She had a beer and it….stayed down…and that was good enough for her.

"Motrin…thanks…Ryou. This is…actually really useful. Better than a lukewarm Fosters, anyway." Said Minegishi as they took a sip of their beer. He was looking at her, now, with his aura and…and they took a drink because they were thirsty and fro no other reason.

"I know that's Toshi speak for 'thank you, Ryou, I will be forever grateful'. I've known you long enough to be able to understand you." Said Shimazaki. At least he thought that he understood them. He understood them and….and he didn't understand himself. Yeah, he was the problem. He was…he had no idea what he was. He had a crush on Toshi, probably, and he had no idea when this happened or how it had happened or even what he was supposed to do with this now that it had happened….

He took another drink.

Toshi was Toshi. They were….they were Toshi. Even when they were a grumpy little ketchup packet they were still Toshi. How could he not have a crush on Toshi? He…this was….he had no idea what this was. He and Toshi had been good together for years. Now he was going to ruin it all with his stupid feelings that he had never asked for….whatever. This was whatever. So he had a crush on Toshi, big deal, it didn't change the outcome. They were what they were and they would always be what they were…so he needed to just keep drinking and keep on…remembering that Toshi didn't like things like that…and that he wasn't good at relationships either…

He wondered if any of these flowers around him were the kind that made you hear God.

"And no matter how long I live I will never be able to understand you. I mean…I make one remark this morning and you decide to spend your day doing God knows what just to prove that you're capable of having fun without Mob's little brother? Ryou…God…" said Minegishi. They took another sip to cover u the fact that they had been smiling. Ryou was…he was Ryou…he was Ryou and he was ridiculous and honest in his ridiculousness…..and they would not have had him any other way…and they didn't HAVE him at all.

And they didn't want to.

They didn't want to have him, to possess him, because that just…that would have been hypocritical of them. They never wanted to be owned like that so, of course, they would never want to own another person. Relationships just…why were they even thinking about this? Because their body was betraying them. First their organs and now their hormones. It was a full on mutiny in the body of Minegishi Toshiki and there was nothing that they could do but wait this out and hope that it wasn't this bad next time.

"It's hard to have fun without Sho….I miss him a lot." Said Mob. She thought that maybe she should have gone. She felt like the atmosphere was getting weird…but she also had this giant can of beer to finish. She had to finish this to be polite even though it tasted bad…and stuff….and also she never got the chance to drink. She couldn't drink at her house because dad might come home and then he would be mad because she was only allowed to drink socially, not on her own, and she couldn't drink inside of Minegishi's house because Hatori was in there and if he saw her drinking then he would want to drink….and he could not handle drinking at all.

So she just drank a little faster.

"We all miss him." said Minegishi even though, really, they had been enjoying the peace. No shrieking demon child, no passive aggressive healer, just them and Mob and the idiot brigade and the heat of the Australian summer and the plant life around them….and Ryou next to them….

"I didn't think that I would miss him this much…I mean he's gone on away mission before…..well once before….and I know that he's safe with Fukuda but I just…miss him. I think because now my family is just me and dad. No mom…don't tell anyone I talked about her…no Sho…and no baby Mukai, either, even though I know that she was just my pretend baby sister and also that she has her own family now…I don't know. I've been thinking about her a lot….because I missed her birthday….and stuff…" said Mob before she drank some more of her not so very good beer. She wished that her whole family would be able to come back together again. If mom had been back then they all would have been living at the Castle again and dad wouldn't have been so clingy and also they could have adopted baby Mukai. She would have fit right in with their family, she had red hair and blue eyes and freckles like Sho and dad, and she would have even fit in better than Mob did and she came from dad and mom loving each other very much…

But it was ok. At least she had friends.

She felt Minegishi's hand on her back. They would always be there for her. They would never leave, they couldn't, because their friendship bound them together. That was what the bracelets were for, they said, to bind their friendship together. Those bracelets were sort of like wedding rings only she wasn't in love with Minegishi and also they actually meant something. Mom and dad had wedding rings but mom had still just left…but that was what moms did, they left, but best friends were forever. Just like the Beatles had sung about….before they broke up….did everyone just end up breaking up and leaving? Was everyone going to leave her?

Minegishi's bracelet got caught in her hair.

No, they would never leave her. They had promised. They hadn't ever even thought of it, they had said before, and they loved her…well mom had loved her…but Minegishi loved her in a best friend sort of way. Minegishi still loved her even after the time she had eaten one of their pills thinking it was a mint, or the time that she had walked in on them doing private adult stuff with Shimazaki, or the time she had worried them by doing coke and having a Tokyo adventure with Shimazaki after the party….no matter what Minegishi would always be there for her….

And she loved them for that.

"He's coming back and then we'll be back to our regularly scheduled mayhem, ok? And don't feel bad about that baby. She's probably a hell of a lot happier in a stable home with people who know what they're doing….well you knew what you were doing but I sure as hell didn't…and who knows. Maybe she'll look you up when she gets older." Said Minegishi. They were trying to be nice. Mob knew what she was doing when it came to that baby…as much as a ten year old with access to Google could know. That whole thing had been a shit show and fuck Suzuki with one of Ryou's chewing on candles for ever even just up and abandoning his own daughter with what Minegishi suspected was his other daughter.

"Ok….I'll try…but I still feel sad…." Said Mob before she took a big drink of her beer. When you felt sad you had to chase the feelings away. Hard liquor was better, it worked faster, and also it may have tasted like burning but at least it didn't taste like this…but she was grateful for what she had. She was grateful to have had friends who gave her beer and gave her comfort and gave her love.

"Damn it Mob, you know how I feel about sad people…so boring….but I can fix this." said Shimazaki. He teleported away as soon as the idea popped into his head. He had to. The little man in his head who told him when he had bad ideas was starting to pipe up and Shimazaki had been ignoring him for thirty years. He wasn't about to let that whiny little nobody push him around.

"Is….is he coming back?" asked Mob

"I have no clue…but he had better not come back with coke or something because you are too young for coke…and we're not even doing anything today so that would just be a waste of coke." Said Minegishi. They wondered where Ryou had been off to. Hopefully to go crawl inside of an airport x-ray machine or something. Hopefully he wasn't going to come back with coke or meth or MDMA or acid or mushrooms or something else that a ten year old was not supposed to have.

He came back with something worse.

"Here. Since you like babies so much then you can play with this one." said Shimazaki as he handed Mob a sleeping baby. He wasn't going to keep it, that would have been wrong, he was just going to borrow it…and also keep it away from dingos because they were in Australia and dingos ate babies.

"What….what….what the H-WORD Shimazaki!?" said Mob. She regretted shouting because as soon as she did the baby in her lap woke up. This was not baby Mukai. This baby had brown hair and…and also judging by the little baby pajamas this was a boy baby but she wasn't going to invade it's privacy and check…and just….what the H-Word?! And F-word?! And M F Words!?

"What the fuck Ryou?! What is this?!" shouted Minegishi as a baby, someone's baby, started to cry. No. Nope. Not doing this again. It had been bad enough when Suzuki had dumped his love child on them and now…they were not dealing with this! And also kidnapping was a VERY serious crime!

"Mob wanted to see a baby so I brought her a baby to play with….and be careful with it. A dingo might try and eat it. They do that, you know." Said Shimazaki. What was everyone so pissed off about? It wasn't like he had stolen a baby from his other's arms and now it was a permanent member of the group. No, he had just borrowed one out of a crib. He was going to put it back.

"Yes, Ryou, I was alive in the nineties too….and you need to put this baby back before I feed you to a dingo! And that's if you're LUCKY!" said Minegishi. The crying was already getting to them. The crying, Mob's aura slamming into theirs in a panic, the pain of their organs…this was too much.

"I'll put him back when Mob's done playing with him. Come on, I'm not going to kidnap a baby. That'd be a fucked up thing to do." Said Shimazaki

"I-I'm done with him…please put him back! And don't let a dingo eat him….I don't know what a dingo is, animals are Sho's thing not mine, but….but I don't want him to be eaten….and I don't want him to be here either!" said Mob. No…no! Now Little Baby Boy was crying and….and he wanted his mom and….and it was a terrible thing to want your mom but not have her!

"Are you sure? You just barely-" said Shimazaki

"Ryou! Put that baby back where it came from or so help me-" said Minegishi. Drugs were a hell of a drug. Obviously this would serve as a cautionary tale for future Mob. Never do as many drugs as Shimazaki did or you'd end up stealing babies….renting babies….and maybe in the future they'd all kick back with a cold one and laugh about this…

But not now, though, now they just wanted to murder him.

"Ok, ok….God…..you try to do something nice for once in your life…" muttered Shimazaki as he teleported away with the baby and put him back. He had been trying to help, that was all. Mob had been sad and he couldn't stand sad people. Toshi had been upset for Mob, too, and sad Toshi…it was like getting a dick tattoo. It hurt. It hurt and you wanted to make it stop but you couldn't because the only thing worse than getting a dick tattoo was getting a messed up dick tattoo so you just held your dick along the length of the wooden spoon and let the needle do it's thing….

Toshi was mad at him…

Maybe if he brought them some plants….or something. Then they would be happy with him again. Or more Motrin. Or maybe if he showed them those pages he had made Fukuda write about their tits….no, that would have been a bad idea….but he had to do something…..beer? Good beer? Liquor? More soft socks? Lotion? Toshi like lotion…he'd figure it out. He'd fix this, he's figure out some way to fix this, because he could not have Toshi mad at him….

He had just been trying to help.

"I feel bad shouting at him…he had just been trying to help." Said Mob as she drank some more of her giant, terrible, Australian beer. She hoped that the baby was ok and back with his mom…and that the mom hadn't noticed that her baby had been gone…because that must have been scary for her….like the times when Mob had woken up and Sho had taken baby Mukai out of her drawer…and stuff…only worse because she wasn't baby Mukai's mom.

"Don't. Just because he was trying to help, the fact that he was trying to help, doesn't excuse the fact that what he did was stupid, ok? Stop being so fucking nice all the time….sorry, sorry. Just….I'm in a lot of pain, and before you say something there's nothing I can do but ride it out, and you can ride it out with me just…don't beat yourself up for giving Ryou what he deserved…ok?" asked Minegishi

"Um…..ok." said Mob. She still felt bad, though, because he had just been trying to help. That was what friends did, they helped each other, and their ideas weren't always good but….but they still tried. They tried because they cared. That was what friendship was.

Doing nice things for the people you loved.