Chapter 5 - Mailboxes and Cotton Candies

"My house is just next to that red-roofed house," said Xiaoyu but Hwoarang wasn't listening.

"Ok stop now," Xiaoyu said as they passed the red-roofed house but Hwoarang kept on driving.

"STOP!" Xiaoyu shouted and patted Hwoarang hard on the back.

"Lalalalala, what did you say?" Hwoarang asked still driving fast. Xiaoyu was tired of shouting and tried to step on the break pedal.

"Hey, what are you doing? Stop!" screamed Hwoarang but it was too late and they hit a mailbox nearby and it flew to the neighbor's window.

"Ahhhhrrrgggh!" a shocked someone shrieked.

"Oh no! Ok bye now i'll just creep back to the house," Xiaoyu uttered, turning to face Hwoarang but he already left in haste. "Oh that crazy -" Xiaoyu sighed and quickly ran towards her house.

The next morning...

"Mmmmm...yummy porridge mom," Xiaoyu told her mom smiling.

"Oh thanks dear," her mother said. Just then, someone knocked on the door loudly.

"Ahhhh!" shrieked Xiaoyu, dropping her spoon on the sleeping Panda's head.

"Raar graw!" exclaimed Panda startled and bumped at the table.

"Sorry Panda," Xiaoyu apologized, hurrying towards the door then opened it.

A tall blond-haired ponytailed woman with a murdering stare, wearing stiletto sandals and a suit which looks like she'll be attending a formal party, stood ominously at the threshold.

"You're Guilty!" screeched Nina holding a broken mailbox on her left hand.

"Mom, get the gun," Xiaoyu said horrified.

"The gun? Aaaaaahhhh!" Nina cried running off to her house next door, dropping the mailbox by Xiaoyu's feet.

"Ahahahaha...weird...that should do it though," laughed Xiaoyu as she closed the door with a slam that caused the glass windows to rattle violently.

"Raar grar," growled Panda grabbing Xiaoyu's feet.

"What is it Panda?" Xiaoyu asked. "Want to come and play ps2 with me?"

Panda shook her head, "Raar arrr grar braaawr," she growled.

"Oh, ok you want to take a walk in the park?" Xiaoyu asked again and Panda nodded.

Xiaoyu wore her pink dress with yellow flowers printed on it. "Mom, we'll just take a walk in the park," Xiaoyu called. Her mother poked her head out from the kitchen.

"Ok, uhhh...what happened to your mission yesterday?" her mother asked.

"Well it was a failure, changing the past is highly impossible... that grandpa Dr. B was right..." Xiaoyu answered feeling rather down.

"Oh dear, I'm sorry to hear that Xiao but don't be sad, me and your dad planned to buy you a ps3," said her mother smiling.

"That's great mom, thank you very much," Xiaoyu said smiling back but she still feels a bit down ...

As Xiaoyu and Panda were walking by the park they saw Hwoarang throwing stones at the lake laughing by himself. Xiaoyu and Panda looked at each other and shrugged as they headed towards his direction.

"Hey there Hwoarang!" greeted Xiaoyu happily.

"Aaaahhh," screamed Hwoarang nearly falling into the lake but luckily was grabbed by Xiaoyu just in time.

"Have you lost your mind? You almost killed me!" Hwoarang said mischeviously.

"Ha, you should thank me for saving your life." snapped Xiaoyu, resisting the urge to slap Hwoarang.

Hwoarang grinned foolishly, "Peace...hehehe."

"You seem happy today," Xiaoyu said smiling.

"Hmmm... I do? Maybe, hahaha," said Hwoarang laughing by himself again.

"What's so funny?" asked Xiaoyu hitting Hwoarang softly on the head.

"Last night I came back to check what happened and I saw this drunk blond-haired woman, I think that's Nina, holding a mailbox by her left hand walking towards your house. But she tripped on a stone and fell asleep by the street, a car almost hit her head. Ahahahaha," laughed Hwoarang. Xiaoyu remembered Nina stopping by their house that morning and laughed too.

"Uhh, by the way, why are you trying to save the Mishimas?" Hwoarang asked curiously, looking at Xiaoyu.

"How did you know?" asked Xiaoyu but didn't wait for an answer. "I just want them happy that's all."

"Oh I see," said Hwoarang looking at a far distance.

"Rar grar," growled Panda, scratching Xiaoyu's legs.

"What? Oh, you're hungry, ok," Xiaoyu said. "Uh, Hwoarang, we'll just buy some cotton candy, want to come?" she asked.

"Sure", said Hwoarang happily.

And so they walked towards the cotton candy man who has a long braided hair, wearing a red tuxedo.

"Sweet cotton candies for sale. Oh, yummy sugar bits transformed into a sweet fluffy cotton, isn't that amazing! Buy Now!" said the man smiling at everyone.

"AMAZING! I would like to buy--" Xiaoyu started but Hwoarang interjected so she just turned around.

"I'll buy some cotton candy," Hwoarang told the man. While Xiaoyu was looking around she spotted Jin sitting on a bench with Julia who was playing a guitar. She ran towards them with Panda.

"How many would you like sir?" said Feng Wei happily.

"Three cotton candies please said Hwoarang.

"Here ya go, three bags of cotton candies," said Feng.

"Uh Xiao --", Hwoarang said as he turned around but found no Xiaoyu in sight.
"XIAOYU! I don't have the money, Ahhhhh," he shouted running away as fast as he could.

"Hey where's my money!" screamed Feng and started to call the police.

Note: Thanks to Artemis de Psammead to make Feng Wei a cotton candy man... Thanks for reading, pls. review...