well, here it is. the sixth chapter of my first ever crossover fanfiction in the fanfictions I had written in the past. I'm also working on a triple crossover fanfiction, as well, if this site even has the ability to accept a three-way crossover fanfiction. I know; me, of all bloggers on this website, thinking about writing a three-way crossover. I'm simply doing this crossover as a Halloween celebration. this chapter of my fanfiction is all about Raimundo and his kid sister, Amara Pedrosa's, reconciliation. it happens when they reach the ritzier side of Tokyo which is where Amara ran all the way to in her retreat from her brother's teen anger toward her about the thugs from the previous chapter.
this sixth chapter is a good one-thousand-nine-hundred-thirty-four words worth of pure storyline, a storyline which does not include the chapter's descriptive introduction up above, this headnote, right here, which lists the number of words that make up this chapter, or the disclaimer that makes up the following paragraph after this headnote, right here.
disclamation: I don't own the 'Fruits Basket Another' manga series, except on paperback, that is. all rights for 'Fruits Basket' and its sequel series are due solely to Natsuki Takaya-sensei. I also don't own 'Xiaolin Showdown' in any way, shape, or form. all rights for that series and its beyond lousy reboot, 'Xiaolin Chronicles', are reserved solely for Christy Hui. I know, like the Fountain of Hui shen gong wu. if I, myself, were a gambler, I'd wager that she named that particular shen gong wu for herself. I also don't own the Halloween film 'Hocus Pocus' or its new sequel 'Hocus Pocus 2'. all ownership rights for the original are reserved for Disney Channel while the ownership rights for the sequel are reserved for Disney+.
Raimundo, realizing that he might as well have asked his own little sister to basically drop deader than the deadest corpse on the face of the planet, chased after Amara and joined her on the hay bed.
Raimundo Pedrosa: Amara, I'm sorry!
Amara just continued to cry up a monsoon of tears.
Raimundo Pedrosa (continued): It's just that I hate this place! It's not anywhere near as good as Rio was, I miss all my friends, and I wanna go home!
Even through her monsoon of tears, Amara still had a response to Raimundo's venting.
Amara Pedrosa: Well, this is your home, now! So, just shut up and get used to it, jerk face!
Raimundo finally saw that Amara was once again right, even about their family's new home in Japan. Raimundo knew that the life he left behind in Tubarão was no more, and that he had to make a new life in Tokyo. It would have to have started with apologizing to his kid sister, Amara.
Raimundo Pedrosa: Give me one more chance?
Amara Pedrosa: Why should I?
Raimundo Pedrosa: Because I'm your brother, and I'm the only sibling you have here with you in Japan.
Amara just giggled at the realization that Raimundo was finally ready to give his sister what she had wanted so much from him. Raimundo laughed with Amara just before looking up at the night sky in awe.
Raimundo Pedrosa: Whoa, Check that out.
Amara Pedrosa: What?
Raimundo Pedrosa: Something just flew across the moon.
Raimundo playfully grabbed onto Amara's waist.
Raimundo Pedrosa (continued): Fooled ya!
Amara Pedrosa: Let's go, jerk face.
Big brother and little sister turned around to find out that the house at which they had come to was so close to being the size of a castle from a traditional European fairytale. Both siblings suddenly realized that Amara was so depressed after Raimundo told her basically to drop dead that she must have run all the way over to the upper crust side of Tokyo, Japan.
Raimundo and Amara Pedrosa: Wow!
Raimundo Pedrosa: Check out this house!
Amara Pedrosa: Eh, rich people. They'll probably make us drink cider and bob for apples.
It may have been the truth about the wealthy and the upper class, but Amara was still willing to look inside just to see what candy these Tokyo residents might have had. They just went inside when no one was there at the door.
Raimundo and Amara Pedrosa: Trick-or-treat.
That was when Amara noticed something from within the room in which they had entered.
Amara Pedrosa: Jackpot! Whoa!
There, on the table which Amara had noticed, was a huge plastic rental cauldron filled to the brim with what Amara recognized as some of the tastiest Halloween candy in the entire country of Japan. Such treats were very well known for being incredibly expensive and extremely hard to come by, and the house in which Young Amara Pedrosa and her big brother, Raimundo, currently were had this set of candy for the trick-or-treaters on Halloween night. That was when a beautiful, yet somewhat familiar-looking young woman came into the room and spotted the two Pedrosa siblings from just beyond the staircase to the mansion.
Young woman: Raimundo Pedrosa!
The young woman in the home was none other than the girl of Raimundo's dreams...
Raimundo Pedrosa: K-Kimiko.
Amara suddenly understood what was happening.
Amara Pedrosa's mind: What do you know? I was wrong about 'Mundo's love life for once. Kimiko Tohomiko is a real girl.
Amara Pedrosa: Oh, so she's Kimiko.
Kimiko descended down the stairs pretty quickly for a girl who was supposed to be a lady of refinement.
Kimiko Tohomiko: I thought you weren't into anything about Halloween.
Raimundo Pedrosa: I-I-I'm not, but my kid sister, Amara, is. I-I-I'm just taking her trick-or-treating this Halloween.
Kimiko Tohomiko: That's so nice of you.
Kimiko Tohomiko's mind: Maybe I was wrong about Raimundo Pedrosa. For one thing, I took him for an only child throughout the week since he'd moved to Japan. I didn't know he was really a big brother.
Raimundo chuckled goofily at Kimiko's compliment towards him.
Raimundo Pedrosa: I always do it. My older siblings all did it for me, so now I do it for Amara.
Amara Pedrosa: My parents made him do it this time.
It was then that Raimundo slapped Amara in the chest in response to her tattling to Kimiko about it.
Kimiko Tohomiko: Do you guys want a glass of cider?
Raimundo Pedrosa: Sure.
Amara Pedrosa: No.
Kimiko acknowledged Amara's declination and just got some cider for her and Raimundo. The Brazilian teen male graciously accepted the cider from Kimiko, seeing it as a gift from her.
Raimundo Pedrosa: Thanks.
Raimundo then took a long sip of his cider like he was trying to simply down it in one gulp. It obviously did not taste too right to him, though. So, he went for mere conversation with his dream girl, instead.
Raimundo Pedrosa: So, um, how's the party?
Kimiko Tohomiko: If you really need to know, it's actually kinda boring. It's nothing but a bunch of my parents' friends. They do this every year at Halloween.
Kimiko and Raimundo both took a second sip of their apple cider. Raimundo seemed to like the cider a bit better the second sip around.
Raimundo Pedrosa's brain: Hmm. I guess it must be an acquired taste.
That was around the time when Kimiko walked over to the reason she had even stayed at her parents' party.
Kimiko Tohomiko (continued): I've got candy cauldron duty. By the way, Amara, I love your costume.
Amara Pedrosa: Thank you. I really like yours, too. Of course, I couldn't wear anything like it because I don't have any…
Amara averted her eyes from Kimiko and turned towards her brother, Raimundo's, direction before she continued.
Amara Pedrosa (continued): What'd ya call 'em, 'Mundo? Yabos?
Then, Raimundo suddenly caught himself choking on his own cider as soon as just hearing his kid sister mention such a word to Kimiko. He felt pretty embarrassed about what little Amara had said. Kimiko only chuckled at Amara's comment.
Amara Pedrosa (continued): 'Mundo likes your yabos. In fact, he loves 'em.
Kimiko only chuckled further at Amara's comment before handing a chocolate witch on a stick to the little girl with her own further commenting about Amara's witch costume.
Kimiko Tohomiko: I'm really into witches.
Amara Pedrosa: Really? Me, too. We just learned about those three sisters in school.
Amara began sucking at her chocolate on a stick as Kimiko continued talking to her, clearly seeming to enjoy Amara's company more than Raimundo's, much to his chagrin.
Kimiko Tohomiko: Oh, you mean the Hitsugaya sisters? I know all about them. My mom actually used to run the museum.
Amara suddenly became fascinated by the idea of an entire museum about the three wickedest witch sisters Tokyo had ever seen.
Amara Pedrosa: There's a museum about 'em?
Amara and Kimiko had suddenly begun to act more and more like sisters.
Kimiko Tohomiko: Yeah, but mom and her staff had to shut down the museum because…
That was when Kimiko bent down to look Amara directly in the eye.
Kimiko Tohomiko (continued) … a lot of spooky things happened there.
Raimundo suddenly came up with a wicked idea about the museum and about Kimiko.
Raimundo Pedrosa: Well, why don't we go to this old Hitsugaya house?
Amara suddenly looked at her brother, Raimundo, and mouthed a pleading 'no' at him. Kimiko gave Raimundo a similar plea through her aquamarine eyes.
Raimundo Pedrosa (continued): Well, come on. Make a believer outta me.
While she was not that into the idea of going somewhere which had been condemned by the public in addition to her own mother just before the woman had to get a new job in her second business as the CEO of the most high-end fashion design magazine in all of Japan, Kimiko quickly became drawn in by the idea of making a skeptic like Raimundo into a believer. The native Japanese girl even smiled at the young Brazilian teenage boy from her class for having the thought.
Kimiko Tohomiko: OK, let me get changed. My parents and their friends'll never miss me.
Raimundo felt his eyes follow Kimiko up the stairs of her mansion. Amara looked at her elder brother worriedly.
Amara Pedrosa: 'Mundo, we're not going up there. My friends at school told me all about that place. It's weird.
Of course, Raimundo could only pay attention to Kimiko as she walked up the stairs of her house.
Raimundo Pedrosa: 'Mara, this is the girl of my dreams.
Amara Pedrosa's thoughts: That's what this was about? Wouldn't it have been easier to just buy her a lunch or something?
Amara Pedrosa: So, what? Can't you just take her to the movies like a normal guy would?
Raimundo only got frustrated at his sister once again in response to poor Amara simply not wanting to go to the Hitsugaya sisters' museum with him and Kimiko.
Raimundo Pedrosa: 'Mara!
Raimundo suddenly realized that he had once again raised his voice at Amara and almost immediately realized his dreadful mistake.
Raimundo Pedrosa's brain: That's right. I'd already raised my voice at Little 'Mara once, tonight. And I had to ask her to give me another chance just outside this place. I can't risk her not trusting me to be her big brother this time. I gotta set an example for Amara. That's it. Negotiation. I gotta negotiate with my sister about getting Kimiko to take us to the museum about these old broads. Besides, Kim seems crazy about the type who treat their little brothers and sisters with respect.
Raimundo even got down on his knees in order to negotiate with his kid sister, Amara.
Raimundo Pedrosa (continued): Look, 'Mara. You just need to do this one thing for me, and I promise, I promise I'll do anything you say. Please? Please, please?
Amara pondered her brother's request for a minute.
Amara Pedrosa: OK, OK. Next year we go trick-or-treating as Wendy Darling and Peter Pan.
Amara then bent down to her brother, Raimundo's, position into which he had knelt to finish her deal with him in exchange for helping him win over the love of his life.
Amara Pedrosa (continued): With tights, or else, it's no deal.
Raimundo looked in the direction into which the stairs to the Tohomiko Mansion went up toward where Kimiko had gone to change out of her costume in weakness.
Raimundo Pedrosa's brain: Man, my sister is such an extortionist.
Just before Amara could walk away, however, Raimundo suddenly grabbed onto his kid sister just so he could agree to her end of their deal.
Raimundo Pedrosa: OK, fine, 'Mara. You got yourself a deal. I'm looking forward to being humiliated next year in those tights, but if it'll get Kimiko's attention in my direction, I'll do it.
Amara Pedrosa: That a boy, 'Mundo. I'm sure your friends'll understand why you're doing it next year.
Amara then gave her brother, Raimundo, a pat on the back.
