"Dare."
Nozomu, Akira, and Misoka looked at Mahiru in complete shock. She actually had the nerve to pick dare…Mitsuru's dare! Was she out of her mind?
Mahiru mentally slapped herself. "IDIOT!" She thought, "Why do I always do that?"
Ah yes, I forgot to mention another trouble Mahiru had always had with truth or dare. She always, without thinking first, would blurt out dare. It was a major problem for her, caused by nervousness. Of course, whenever she played the game with her human friends, she had nothing to worry about. But now, she had a definent reason to be scared. Scared of what, you might ask?
Scared of the evil smile that was creeping onto Mitsuru's face.
"Dare, huh?" He said, a hint of sick pleasure in his voice. Nozomu and Misoka were worried for Mahiru, but they were curious to see what the tengu had in mind.
Akira, on the other hand, chickened out.
"Ehh…I just remembered! I have to go, uh, CLEAN THE CHICKEN COOP!" Akira said, getting up.
Nozomu raised an eyebrow. "But we don't have a-"
Too late. Akira already ran off. Nozomu sighed. "For the love of the moon, if ANYONE should be frightened, it should be Mahiru." He mused.
Mitsuru was thinking of the perfect thing he could do to torture poor little Mahiru. After much debate with himself, he thought of something.
"Alright…" He began.
Mahiru winced.
"I dare…"
She winced more.
"You…"
She started shaking.
"To…"
She was about to foam at the mouth by this point.
"Watch this mystery tape."
And now, she was just confused. "What?"
He pulled out a black tape with no identifying labels on it. Actually, it was a blank tape that Mitsuru recorded shows onto. But why would he dare her to watch them? Something does NOT seem right here…
"Really? Is that all?" Mahiru asked.
"Yes." Mitsuru said innocently.
Mahiru took the tape into another room. Misoka and Nozomu were very suspicious of this dare.
"What exactly is on that tape?" Misoka asked.
An evil, almost insane chuckle was Mitsuru's response.
About ten minutes later, Mahiru came out of the room, looking as if she saw a ghost. "That was cruel, Mitsuru. Just plain cruel!" She said.
"What in the world was on that tape!" Nozomu asked, turning back to the tengu.
"Oh, just Barney the Dinosaur, Teletubbys, My Little Pony, and Blues Clues! MWAHAHAHA!" Mitsuru laughed.
Misoka was startled. "BARNEY? BLUES CLUES? Mitsuru, you know that our leaders forbid us to look upon that filth! Do you remember what happened to Oboro when he accidentally watched Gulla Gulla Island? He was out cold for a week, and mumbling something about giant yellow frogs!" Misoka then proceeded to throw the tape in the fireplace and burn it.
"Hey, what did I miss?" Akira said, coming back from Who-Knows-Where.
"You don't wanna know." Nozomu said.
After Mahiru calmed down, she asked Nozomu. He chose truth.
"Ok, what was the strangest dream you've ever had?" She asked the vampire.
Nozomu wasn't sure if he wanted to answer that one, but he consented. "Well, I believe it was the one where Mitsuru was a giant baby…"
Flashback into dream…"WAAAAAAAAH! I WANNA PWAAAY!" Said a monsterous Mitsuru, dressed in a diaper and bonnet, shaking a rattle of doom.
"AH! CALM DOWN, MITSURU!" Nozomu said, running for his life.
"NOOOOOOOOO!" Mitsuru threw the rattle at him.
"AHHHHHH!" The rattle squished Nozomu.
End dream flashback.
"Heh, never knew you had such an imagination, Nozomu." Mitsuru said venimously.
"Yes I do, and I'll use it right now. Truth or dare, Mitsuru?" The vampire asked.
"HEY! I JUST WENT!" Mitsuru yelled.
"Too bad."
"Fine, I pick dare." Mitsuru grumbled.
"I dare you…to kiss Mahiru on the cheek."
To be continued.
