Maru's World
A Mally-kun Production
Episode Two
Attack of the Flashbacks
Author's Note: Hello, and Welcome to another exciting episode of Maru's World! Mally-kun here, happy you decided to stick with us. When I wrote the original Maru's World, I had a lot of fun with it, but I realized I left a lot of loose ends, a lot of unexplained things. Where did the Original James from Team Rocket end up? How did Naru and Maru know eachother? How did Maru set up the lovely Jenny and Joy? So I decided that a sequel was in order. As the title suggests, this episode is rather flashback heavy, because that was the best way I could think of in order to explain. Another thing different from the last episode (each individual story is an episode, split into 6 chapters) is I swapped char mods for refs. Last Ep1 was heavy on mods, light on refs. This Ep is other way around. More on that later, as this note is getting overly long. None of the characters in this story are mine, save for Maru. Chars belong to their respective creators. The title was done in varying sizes of Treasure; This note in 11.5 pt. Mariah; This chapter in 13.5 pt. Signature. Luckily this chapter is short, what with the giant author's note. None of the other notes will be this big though, I promise.
Maru suddenly opened his eyes. The shower had tuned cold, and he grimaced. He'd been sitting on the seat in the shower for over an hour, it seemed. A long time to be lost in thought. The pat two weeks had been interesting, to say the least. After the night he had spent with Kagome, nothing had really changed between them. She would still get violently angry if she didn't get what she wanted, and quickly. He sighed, then stood and turned off the water. Sometimes he wondered if he had been dreaming the whole thing...
Maru stepped out of the shower, putting a towel over his wet hair to rub it dry as he headed into the living room. With just Kuroneko here, he didn't really need to worry about getting decent. The little black cat wandered up and brushed against his ankle, purring. Maru smiled down at him, then frowned... Something was amiss. "Oh no..." Slowly he looked up, into the wide-open eyes of Naru Narusegawa. The towel broke the sound barrier as it dropped to cover him, and it was hard to tell who was the more embarrassed.
"Na-Narusegawa!" Naru sighed, and sat down on the couch, looking away. Kuroneko jumped on her lap, and Maru went back into his room to get some pants on. "Christ! What's Naru doing in my house? We aren't supposed to meet until tomorrow, right?" He grabbed a shirt, and was slipping it on when Naru entered the room. "Lemme guess... you forgot what day it is. Right?" "No, we're supposed to meet tomorrow, on the 13th!" The young woman smiled. "Maru, come with me." She led him into the kitchen, and pointed at the calendar. "Look. Today is Saturday. The Thirteenth." The elfin man looked, then glared at the grinning Naru. "Feh2... Shut up." She laughed. "Of all the days to forget, ya senile old man." He frowned. "I'm not that much older than you... and what's so special about today?" Naru gave him a surprised look. "You're kidding me, right? Tell me you're kidding." He sighed. 'Just fucking tell me..." She poked his chest. "Baka, it's your birthday!" He fell over, feet twitching.3 Naru waited patiently for him to regain his composure, not to mention his place on his feet. "Naru, you can't be serious. My birthday was just a couple of months ago." 'YEAH! Like TWELVE months ago, you thick-headed jackass!" Maru put up his hands in surrender. "Okay. You win. It's my birthday... happy?" Naru sat down on the couch and sighed. "My god you can be difficult." Maru hoped over the back of the couch and plopped down next to her. "Yeah, but you knew that already. I mean... we DID go out for two years..."
1 Ep is just short for episode
2 Feh is of course a way to express displeasure, usually used in scoffing at something, but can be used like "Bah" or "Meh".
3 In case you've never seen an anime or manga, I'll explain this. Characters tend to fall over, feet twitching in the air when they are stunned by something. Yeah. But most of you probably already knew what it meant
