DISCLAIMER: I don't own Lupin III…. What, you want something witty? Jeeze… I'll bet I just crushed someone's hopes by not putting anything witty… I'll go to my corner now…
Ahola!
There's a special reason why this greeting in particular was used. Read-on and find out. Sorry once again if this is coming late, but I've just had a lot of unavoidable things happy recently which keeps me away from my favorite hobby. Well, as always, I hope you enjoy this chapter—Lord knows it took long enough to write! Look for the special cameos, bwahahahaha…. Please review if you wish, and I will see everyone around later!
Fun Fact of Boredom: Well, there's another reason to have Beatles lyrics at the beginning of every chapter… It turns out that the guy who did the music for Lupin (yes, including the beginning theme) Yuji Ohno, is none other than the brother of Yoko Ono, widow of Beatle John Lennon. That's kind of creepily coincidental O.o.
'I need to laugh, and when the sun is out,
I've got something I can laugh about.
I feel good in a special way,
I'm in love, and it's sunny day.'
—The Beatles, 'Good Day Sunshine'
Chapter Seven
A Few Weeks Later: Blue Hawaii
A Mansion in France:
"Oh my… Isn't she adorable?" Fujiko gasped as she laid eyes upon Dakota. Lupin simply rolled his eyes, shrugged and then exchanged glances with Leo and Max, who stood in the hall behind Dakota, who Fujiko found quite intriguing.
"Yeah, it'll be good having a kid around the house! Jeeze, I remember when you two were both her height! Max, you were trying set the cat on fire, and you were stealing lobsters from the local fishing docks, Ari," said Lupin with a smile of reminiscence.
"Would you like to see where you'll be staying, Dakota?" asked Fujiko, taking her by the hand.
"I'd like it if you called me Dako, Mrs. Lupin," Dakota replied.
"And I'd like it if you called me Fujiko, Dako," said Fujiko with a smile. "I don't like Mrs. Lupin very much…"
"Hey!" snapped Lupin. Fujiko chuckled, and led Dakota up the stairs to her room. Lupin's frown turned to a smile once more, and he looked to Max, "Zenigata, congratulations on becoming a dad! The childbirth must've been hell, though!"
"You may have graying hair, Mr. Lupin, but your sense of humor is as fresh as ever," replied Max with a knowing smile.
"Eh… You're cute, Kid," Lupin looked over his reading glasses at Max, and was clearly not amused by this. "I've got to talk to my son for a little, Max, but I hope you don't mind…"
"Not at all," Max shook his head, and exited out of the house. "I'll be in the car, LeBlanc!"
"Fine, I'll see you there, Max!" Leo called as Max exited the household. "I'm kind of glad he left… I wanted to talk to you about something…"
"Thank God!" sighed Lupin, slapping his forehead, "I didn't want to have to be the one to start this conversation… You want to sit in the library?"
"I can't keep Max too long…" said Leo, pointing over his shoulder to the front door. "He scares me when he starts playing with the buttons on his car…."
"This won't be long… I promise…" said Lupin. He led Leo into the library, closing the door behind him, "I'm glad you know… I didn't want Blondie finding out about this…"
"About what? I think we were going to talk about a couple of completely different things, Dad…" said Leo.
"I need you both to disappear for a few weeks," said Lupin sternly.
"Disappear? Why the hell would I do that? Fuji's in Hawaii!" snapped Leo.
"Because there's a hit out for your good ole' buddy, Zenigata," answered Lupin. "Jigen gave me the info, so you know it's as good as gold, Ari…"
"A hit? From who? Why?" snapped Leo frantically.
"Max is, well…. He's bi, isn't he?" sighed Lupin.
"Dad! What does—"
"It has everything to do with it, Arséne!" snapped Lupin, who seemed more grave than usual about this. "Jacob Aurel. His name ring a bell? He's a Romanian businessman with a wife and kids… His wife is the one who put a hit out on Zenigata!"
"Jesus, Max!" Leo moaned, and slapped his forehead, "What in the hell did you do this time!"
"Not just him… Him and Jake… His father doesn't know, and thank God for it! It'd probably do the old man in!" Lupin continued, "Now I've got a couple of tickets to Jerusalem. You'll be staying with a few of Natasha's relatives…" Lupin rose, crossed the room, and removed an envelope from a book. "I don't want to see you outside of that city until I give you the go ahead. You're Zenigata's only friend, it seems, so you're just as likely a target…"
"What? I've got a job! You know I can take on anyone that comes in my way!" snapped Leo. "Max can, too! He doesn't look like it, but he can really kick someone's ass when he wants!"
"Leo, Ari, whatever I have to call you to get this through your thick Eurasian skull—Stay away," said Lupin firmly. The gentleman thief smiled, and reclined in his seat, "Now, what'd you have to tell me?"
"I don't want you teaching Dakota any tricks. I don't want to come back to find out she knows how to pick a lock, crack a safe, drive a car, make a mask—I don't even want to see where you've taught her a card trick, or how to pull a rabbit out of a hat," said Leo firmly. "All right?"
"All right… But that's a huge untapped resource you're telling me not to touch, Leo," sighed Lupin. "Her dad was the best thief in American… Almost competition for yours truly!"
"She's not a resource, she's… I guess she's your granddaughter," Leo shrugged.
"Great…. Dako Zenigata, granddaughter of Lupin III and former Inspector Zenigata… I think I just heard my father laughing in hell…" muttered Lupin. "Why does she want to go by that, anyway?"
"Sometimes people want to change, and that includes a name change," responded Leo with a shrug and without any irony in his tone to his own past experiences. "I let her get a haircut, too, and she's dyed her hair brown and gotten her ears pierced. I can't say I'm for a little girl doing that, but if it helps the grieving process, I'm all for it…"
"Speaking of hair dye, does this mean I shouldn't let Ming around the her, either? You may come home with a blue-haired kid!" laughed Lupin.
"Why? Are they visiting?" asked Leo.
"Ming, get the damn dog!" yelled Jigen in the living room.
"I would if I weren't carrying Mako!" Ming replied.
"Well, I've got Yoko!" snapped Jigen in response.
"Heh…" Lupin sighed at the sound of two small girls arguing, and their parents arguing above this, "Looks like the Calvary's here…" mumbled Lupin with a roll of the eyes, "I'll see you later, Dad, bye!"
"Yeah… Bye…" Lupin waved dimly as Leo exited. "Be careful… And for God's sakes don't be as stupid as I was at your age… In other words, please don't turn into Fuji…" he moaned.
A Hawaiian Beach:
"YEA!" Heiji called as he caught hold of a large wave and soon disappeared under it.
"Anyong," said the vendor who sold Odori her snow cone.
Odori blinked a few times in surprise, but nodded her head, and exchanged this Korean word for 'hello'. She took the lime-flavored snow cone, and walked back over to the shaded table where Yukiko and Ryo sat.
"The people here are too damn friendly…" Odori muttered suspiciously.
"I don't know, I kind of like it… A lot of fresh air!" said Yukiko with a small smirk from beneath her fedora, which she wore along with her white two-piece bathing suit.
"Fresh air? You?" Ryo chuckled, "You… You're kidding, right? Fresh air goes with you like oil and vinegar, Yuki… What's up with you?"
"Eh, I don't know," Yukiko shrugged.
"Hey, there's Fuji…" said Odori as she bit into her snow cone.
"Heh…That looks good, Dori… I'll be back," Yukiko rose, and walked over to the vendor. Odori and Ryo exchanged questioning glances until Yukiko arrived once again, now with a snow cone in hand.
"Yukiko… You hate limes…" muttered Ryo, "A lot…"
"Eh, I'm not sure… First whole week without smokes, and things just taste different," Yukiko answered with a shrug. "I feel almost bad for putting dad through this hell, though… Thank God for nicotine patches…"
"Hey, Heiji-chan, could you teach me?" inquired Fuji as she walked over to the beached Heiji, who was re-strapping his foot to the surfboard.
"Eh, sure, c'mon!" Heiji nodded to her, "Climb on!" Fuji nodded, and kneeled upon the front of the board while Heiji paddled out with his hands, "Okay, now, hold on for dear life, okay?"
"Why?" asked Fuji, "Why should I hold on for dear life?" She watched and held her balance as Heiji rose, and immediately dug her nails deeper into the board when she got the first feel of a wave. She yelled with terror as Heiji caught hold of a large wave, and both disappeared beneath the waves.
"That's your idea of fun?" Fuji choked as she stumbled onto land, her long black hair completely covering her face.
"Yeah, wasn't it great?" Heiji shouted, slapping her on the shoulders and walking past her. Ryo noticed deep nail marks in Heiji's board as the young Ishikawa passed; nail marks from Fuji.
"He spent too many years in front of that damn computer… It fried his brain," coughed Fuji, wiping her wet hair away from her face. "Where's Ally?"
"Fishing," answered Odori, nodding out to a small boat upon the sea.
Ally was out in a small boat sitting quietly, and one eye opened as there as his bob nodded in the ocean water. A smile grew upon his face, and he rose, "All right! Come on to Ally, kiddo!"
He struggled with the fish, and let out a triumphant call when he brought it aboard. This quickly turned to horror when the shark upon the ground of the boat went to bite him. Ally jumped up in his chair and went to shoot it, but before he could fire a sword was sticking out of the neck of the animal. He looked upward at Toshiro, who had come aboard with him. Toshiro pulled the sword from the animal, and flicked the sword of its blood, "That blood landed in the water, so ya oughta get more sharks… They can smell it for miles…" Toshiro explained.
"Heh, well, Toshiro, after three years it's good to know that there's a use for you…" Ally laughed as he went back to his fishing.
"I'll skin this," Toshiro added, dragging the shark into the back of the boat and putting on a special pair of gloves as to not be injured by the sandpaper-like skin.
"Hey, uh, save the teeth, okay? I want to use those…"
"Jewelry for Carmen?"
"Eh…"
"Odori works well with metal… I could even work it into something nice, if you wanted," said Toshiro.
"Well, okay…" Ally leaned back in his chair, "Why the hell did you want to come out here with me in the first place?"
"Because Yukiko made me…" answered Toshiro.
"What? You're kidding me! She made me come out here with you! I didn't want you anywhere near a boat with me in it!"
"Why's that?"
"You know as well as I do that women are bad luck on ships," chuckled Ally.
Toshiro gave a calm questioning glance, and opened up the cooler when Jigen had his back turned to him. He found a small Styrofoam bowl—exactly what he wanted. He opened it, and smiled. It was childish, but after a crack like that, he wasn't above putting worms in Ally's drink.
"Gh-What, what the hell?" Ally choked as he took a sip of the crawling concoction. He looked into it, and glared back at Toshiro, "You bastard!"
"I'd have a witty comeback if you technically weren't right, Ally," replied Toshiro with a shrug. "Let's face it—You, Ryoko, Odori and Max are the only non-bastards out of all of us!"
"You forgot Heiji, dumbass!" growled Ally as he continued to spit out his drink.
"Heiji was sick when he was born, but he wasn't premature," explained Toshiro.
"Add that to the list of things I don't want to know about your family…" mumbled Ally. "This crap tastes worse than Mountain Dew!"
"God… That almost makes me feel sorry for you, Ally," said Toshiro.
"I'm gonna hurt you… You better hope to God that you're a light sleeper!" hissed Ally darkly.
While this went on the one end of the beach, two men walked down the opposite edge of Hawaiian beach where Lupin was staying, one miserable from the heat and the other confused as to what he was doing in Hawaii in the first place.
"So… Lupin's here, right?" asked Max once again.
"Why else would I come here?" Leo sighed in response. "I think we're the only guys I've ever seen who wear suits to the beach…"
"Well, we could go swimming afterwards if it'll make you feel better… Crap, I thought I was the cranky one out of us…"
Leo sighed, and stopped, "Sorry… I've just got a lot on my mind right now… I'm starting to think we shouldn't have come here…"
"Heh, yeah, I'm sort of getting the creeps… It's like we're being watched…." Max mumbled.
A Beach House Upon a Mountainside, a few hundred yards away:
"I hope you know that Ming was probably the pissiest I've seen her when you drug me here, leaving her with the twins!" snapped Jigen angrily as he sat next to Lupin the Third, who surveyed Leo and Max from inside the beach home.
"And Amaya was less than thrilled that I rode on an airplane… I need to be careful about those things, Lupin," said Goemon.
Jigen turned to Goemon, "Jesus you've turned into a hypochondriac!"
"And you've turned into a cranky old man, Jigen," snapped Goemon.
"Old? I've got a set of toddlers at home, what does that say to you about old?" asked Jigen.
"Fine then. Old and careless," said Goemon coolly as he burnished a sword he had forged when his children were still little. It was called Ryusei, and although it wasn't as nearly as renowned as Zantetsu, it was almost as strong.
"Careless? You—"
"Would both of you two quiet it for second? It's just like the old days… You two complaining about your wives… You've become so whipped, it's not even funny!"
"Heh, I'm not the one who got the vasectomy," Jigen retorted. "So how are our two little inspectors, neh? Playing beach blanket make-out, yet?"
"Cute… I hope you know that my son's perfectly straight!" snapped Lupin, looking away from his binoculars.
"Lupin, we must all come to realizations. I realized long ago that my children did not exactly turn out how I imagined…"
"Yeah, Odori may be adopted, but she's a pregnant version of you…" Jigen answered.
"Hm… True… And when Toshiro moved to America, certainly I was a little…. Stunned… But we must all overcome."
"You know, I'm really surprised you didn't go having a heart attack when you found out you were going to be a grandpa, Goemon," said Jigen.
"Hm, who says I almost didn't? Each of my meals consisted with an Aspirin chaser for a month," Goemon said with a sigh.
"I can't concentrate with you two around…." Lupin shook his head as he watched Leo and Max.
"Then why the hell did you bring us here in the first place?" snapped Jigen.
"Because I needed it… I've been subpoenaed by the nation of Great Britain, and it's got nothing to do with stealing…" muttered Lupin.
"Does it have something to do with Remy?" inquired Goemon, "Because I have children which study there now, and they'll quickly take care of the trouble…"
"Goemon, believe, I wish it was," sighed Lupin. "Ari, how did I know you were going to be here? How did I know you weren't going to listen to me?"
"Because none of your family listens to you?" Jigen responded with a chuckle.
"Don't remind me…" Lupin mumbled.
"So, what's going on outside? I've got thirty percent vision in one eye, seventy in the other… Gimme a play by play, will ya?"
"Well, there's this really hot girl in a bikini… Heh, way to make an old man feel young, hee hee hee!" chuckled Lupin.
"Perv…" Jigen mumbled, rolling his eyes.
"That hot girl is Ryoko," said Goemon.
"WHAT?" Jigen removed his fedora, and repeatedly beat Lupin over the head with it, "You Goddamn perverted son of a—"
"Woah, Jigen, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, okay?" Lupin shouted, "Quit it, there's a gun in your hat, and it hurts like a bitch!"
"You sick bastard…." growled Jigen when he finally calmed.
"Me, the sick one? By the time Ming was in kindergarten, you were killing and boozing away!" responded Lupin.
"Hm, there's some action going on, if you two would quite arguing long enough to look…" said Goemon.
"Huh?" both turned their heads, and looked to see that Max had seated himself upon the sand, and was looking out at the ocean.
"It used to look a lot like this in the beaches in California…" said Max as he looked out over the ocean.
"Yeah, it looked like this in Japan, too," Leo admitted as he stood next to Max. He sighed, and looked down at his partner. "Jacob's wife put a hit out on you…"
"What?" Max choked, and looked up at Leo with disbelief.
"Yeah… She's, she's pretty mad at you Zenigata…" Leo continued, and seated himself next to Max. "That's what my dad had to tell me that night… Damn it, why can't I lie every once in a while?" he growled, slamming his fist onto the ground. "He wanted me to go to Jerusalem with you, and hide out for a little while…"
"Why'd we come here, then?" inquired Max.
"I… I don't know…" Leo shook his head, "I guess this is my way of being impulsive… Listen, Zenigata… I know you would've wanted this, anyway…."
"You don't know as much as you do about me," hissed Max, narrowing his eyes at Leo. "You should've told me about this… I would've been able to keep a closer watch… You're as likely a target as I am!"
"Why does everyone keep saying that?" mumbled Leo under his breath.
"Wow… Trouble in paradise…." Jigen could hear the bickering of the two from the opened window above.
"Shush!" Lupin glared and nudged him sharply in the ribs, and then once again turned his attention to the two. His attention soon was turned to someone off in a much longer distance… Someone with a gun…
"Jigen, gimme a paper and pencil… Goemon, gimme your sword!" Lupin demanded.
"Eh, here," Jigen passed Lupin the two items to Lupin. Lupin quickly scribbled upon the paper, and grabbed Goemon's sword out of his hands before he could protest. Lupin threw the sword much in the fashion of a javelin, and Max fainted when the sword landed in between himself and Leo.
"What the hell?" Leo ripped the note off, quickly read it, and went into action. He hid the sword beneath the blanket, and climbed atop Zenigata, "Oh my God… I can't believe I'm doing this…" he moaned, and leaned down, "Please don't wake up, please don't wake up!" He took a deep breath, and kissed his partner.
"Hey," the assassin meant for Max nudged Leo's shin with his shoe. "You seen this guy around?"
"Would you excuse me?" Leo snapped in a heavily American-accented voice, "We're on our honeymoon here!"
"Wha?" the assassin looked down at the feet of the person beneath Leo, and noticed the men's clothing. The assassin found this too bizarre to interrupt any longer.
Leo resumed this act with Zenigata, and soon became aware of a pair of hands on his shoulders. He was soon the one on the blanket, and Max on top. Leo pushed Max away, and a look of horror was now written across LeBlanc's features.
"Wha…" Max fell back in shock, "Leo… I…"
"WHAT THE FRICKIN' HELL?" Lupin shrieked from the beach house. This was followed by a loud thud, and a curse from Jigen.
"We have to go return something to Goemon, Max," Leo picked up the sword from beneath the blanket and wiped his hand with his sleeve as he walked towards the beach house, his sword slung over his shoulder. Max slowly rose, and silently followed Leo.
"Eh, how's my dad, guys?" Leo asked with worry as he walked into the house and found Lupin on the couch, Jigen fanning off the older thief with his fedora.
"Out like a friggin' light…" Jigen muttered, slapping Lupin a few times on the face.
"Here, Goemon, think fast!" Leo tossed Goemon his sword, and Goemon quickly caught this, and sheaved the blade.
"I never suspected shonen-ai (boyXboy love) in the Lupin family…." Goemon admitted.
"Heh, I don't think Lupin did, either," said Jigen with a wry chuckle.
"Here," Max lifted a glass of water from the table and splashed it on Lupin's face. Lupin came to slowly, and he muttered something inaudible as he laid eyes on his son and Zenigata.
"What did he say?" asked Goemon.
"Eh, I can't repeat that… That's a dirty word, even by my low standards…" Jigen answered.
"Ugh… I'm fine, guys, don't worry…" Lupin rose, and spat out some of the water which had been thrown onto his face. "You two are safe, right?"
"Yeah," Leo nodded. "Dad, what in the hell are you doing here?"
"Eh, I asked Amaya to break into your computer and see when your flight left…" Lupin shrugged.
"You stalked me?" Leo shrieked.
"Well, don't you think that kinda came in handy?" Lupin snorted, "I just saved you both from imminent death, and you thank me be screaming at me? Nice, Ari, nice…"
"Eh, you wanna go get a drink?" Jigen asked Goemon quietly.
"M-hmuh," Goemon nodded.
"Me too," Max's eyes darted from the tense scene between Leo and his father and Goemon and Jigen, who were standing in front of him. "Do you guys have any Captain Morgan and Coke?"
"How did they think you were straight?" Jigen inquired. Max gave a small laugh, and vanished into the kitchen with Goemon and Jigen.
"Thanks for the backup, partner," grumbled Leo. He folded his arms, and seated himself on a coffee table in front of his father. "You overreacted…. You knew that I didn't mean anything…."
"I… Listen, how would've you reacted, huh?" asked Lupin.
"Heh, you tell me… You're the one who married a guy…." Leo muttered absently.
"How'd you know that?" asked Lupin with a great deal of surprise.
"Mom told me," replied Leo quickly.
"Okay, I'm sorry about the screaming like a girl, but I'm not sorry about following you. I know you better than you think, Kiddo. Don't forget where your genes come from."
"My jeans?" Leo raised his eyebrows, "Saks. The shirt's from Macy's."
Lupin looked appalled at this, "You… You shop retail?"
"Um, yeah… Not exactly making the big bucks chasing Fuji all around. I now know why Zenigata ate only Ramen; it's less than a quarter of a Euro per meal!"
"Well, at least you don't shop at WalMart, so you're not a total loss," Lupin rubbed his forehead, and rose. "You and Max are heading for the first flight to Jerusalem in the morning, and we're going to escort you there, personally."
"Heh, you try," Leo winked, and rose. "You want to grab a drink, Dad? You need it…"
"Well, we don't see eye to eye on a lot, but I agree with you on that one," Lupin shakily rose from the couch, and walked out of the room with Leo. They opened the door to the kitchen, and found Max, Jigen and Goemon seated at the kitchen table, each drinking their own individual drinks.
"So, you said his name was Collin?" Max repeated.
"Yes," Goemon shuddered. "Collin Gilmour…"
"Holy… Oh, wow, that's awkward…" Max muttered, and took another sip of his rum and cola.
"What?" inquired Goemon.
"Blind date a few years ago, I get set up with some widower who's a lot older than me… I don't like dating anyone older than me, but, you know, I humored the guy…" Max trailed off. "Crap! I can't have just a normal date… It's always someone who's friggin' connected to the family!"
Jigen laughed loudly and nearly fell back in his seats, "Jesus am I glad I had enough sense to not date, period!"
"What do you call Ming, then, Jigen?" inquired Goemon.
"A one night stand that's last almost twenty five years…" Jigen muttered, taking another sip of his drink.
"So, you two are going to go to Jerusalem, no fights, no me stalking you halfway across the world?" Lupin asked Leo hopefully.
"Yeah," Leo nodded. "How did you know to check the flight times, anyway?"
"I knew you weren't going to listen," Lupin shrugged. "I never did!" He followed with a long laugh, and Max noted the pained expression upon Leo's face. He would definitely have to talk with Leo later that night.
Later that Night, a thatched-roof restaurant:
"What the hell are you doing?" Yukiko wondered as she watched Toshiro sketch and made notes upon a notepad. She looked back up at the dancers, and down at his notepad again with interest.
"Taking notes… We thought about doing a Polynesian theme at the theater," Toshiro responded. "Their costumes are terrific, don't you think?"
Yukiko smirked, rolled her eyes, and scruffed his hair, "To think, I'm in a relationship where the guy likes to look at clothes more than I do!"
Fuji wore a Cheshire Cat smile as she sat between Ryo and Heiji, "I always thought this place was just full of coconuts and hula skirts… But apparently it's full of cute natives, too!" she giggled happily.
"Here you go," one waiter moved along their table, placing leis about their necks as he moved along.
"Hee hee… Getting leid here is pretty damn easy, too," Fuji chuckled.
"Perv," Ryo said tiredly.
"This looks so much like Kabuki!" said Toshiro to himself with amazement, "Without the twenty tons of makeup!"
"I know you've got pigeons, but ya ever think about another hobby?" Yukiko asked.
"Hey, he's back!" Fuji's eyes shifted to two Hawaiian women, younger than herself, and she gave a frown of curiosity as they approached Heiji.
"Mari, Lara, how are you guys?" asked Heiji as the two approached him.
"Terrific!" the shorter one, Mari, answered. "Lara and I are going to the local college here!"
"Wow, really? Have you guys decided on majors, yet?" Heiji inquired with sincere interest.
"Electrical engineering," answered Lara.
"And I'm between becoming a programmer or a computer tech," added Mari. "Well, we didn't want to bother you, so we'll see you around Professor Ikeda."
"See ya, girls!" Heiji waved good-bye, and then faced the stunned looks of his family and friends.
"Who… Who were they?" asked Fuji.
"Two girls I tutored while I was on sabbatical… You can't keep an active mind down for long… Those two weren't even thinking of college before I started giving them math and computer tech lessons… And it was a fair trade-off…."
"What'd they give you?" asked Fuji with a quick snap.
"They taught me how to surf," Heiji responded. "What were you thinking? They're like four years younger than me, Fuji! I don't even like younger women that way!"
"So you'll go older?" asked Fuji hopefully.
"I mean that in a mental sense as well as in a physical sense," responded Heiji, sipping his drink calmly.
"Hmph," Fuji crossed her arms and sat back in her chair. Thieving was her best ability, and acting spoiled was her second best. Karaoke placed third.
"Huh, would you look at this…" Ryo muttered as she looked through a travel brochure she had acquired in the airport. "An ancient treasure…"
"Huh?" Fuji nearly fell out of her chair, and her smile returned, "Treasure?"
"Uh-oh… Ryo said the T-word…" mumbled Odori. She glared down at her empty plate, and yelled to a waiter, "Whose thumbs do I have to cut off to get some more fried SPAM? It's supposedly a bottomless plate, and I can see the bottom of my plate!"
"Where is it, Ryo-san?" Fuji asked excitedly, leaning closer to Ryo.
"Well, it's actually at an old plantation…" muttered Ryo, "You're not gonna believe this, though…"
"What?"
"It's haunted," Ryo chuckled.
"….You're right, I don't believe it! Let's get going!" Fuji rose from the table excitedly, only to have her jacket pinned to the table by Odori's sword. She turned back around to see a quite annoyed Odori.
"I'm still hungry… Odori said darkly, staring Fuji down seriously.
"O-kay…." Fuji pulled out the sword, passed it to Odori, and slowly slid back in her seat. "We'll eat first, then we'll go look at the haunted house…"
"Very good," Odori gave a small nod of satisfaction, and gave way to a rare smile as she was brought another plate of fried SPAM and eggs done sunny-side up, and Hawaiian classic.