Author's Notes (1): Okay, my Japanese sucks, but thankfully next to none used for this one. The one I did use is Neesan- and I do hope I used it correctly (younger brother to older sister).

Author's Notes (2): I have no idea what Tomoko's younger brothers' names are, so I made them up. And the villains, I hope are fairly recognizable. If not, the anime that they belong to in are written at the end.

Title: Watching Kids in the Park

"Why the hell does that guy want to come here?" muttered the boy of fifteen years as he looked around the public park with boredom. He readjusted his tennis bag on his shoulder, wincing momentarily as his newest treasures, the much desired DVD special edition of Titanic and Breakfast at Tiffany's, knocked against his tennis racket. Reminded of his treasure and what he wanted to be doing instead of wandering around the park looking for the tennis courts, he scowled momentarily. "Atobe had better have a good reason for interrupting my down time."

There was nothing going on as he walked along the path between the trees. He flicked his shoulder length black hair back in annoyance. "What could be so interesting about street tennis? Or anything in a park this small? There's nothing here. I don't understand him."

Muffling a yawn, he shook his head to wake himself up. In mid-shake he stopped then cocked it as he heard a voice. "What was that?"

Then he heard it again, a small voice crying out and some thrashing. Curious, he walked between the trees and towards the sounds. Not wanting to disturb anyone if there was nothing wrong, he walked cautiously towards the sounds.

Then blinked as he saw a young girl with long brown hair sitting on top of a small boulder, one of many that was used to decorate the path in the park. Her brown tresses framed her small face, making her look like a porcelain china doll. From her size, she looked like she was an elementary school girl. She sat on the boulder with her hands clasped to her chest, her eyes closed and he face dreamy as she sang, "Moon River, wider than a mile... I'm crossing you in style one day... dream maker, you heart breaker, Where ever you're going…I'm going your way… Two drifters off to see the world, it's such a lovely world to see..."

Entranced at the sound of someone singing the theme song to his favorite movie, Oshitari Yuushi moved closer to get a good look at the child who was singing. "We're after the same rainbow's end…Waiting 'round the bend… My huckleberry friend… Moon River and me…"

Though she was slightly off key and had an obvious Japanese accent while singing, there was no choice. He just had to smile at the pure sweet sound of her voice. It certainly wasn't anything like an angel singing, but who could resist not smiling when a child knew her song and sang it with so much love in her heart. He absentmindedly sighed as he thought, "Humph, I suppose if she trains she could have a good voice someday. Pity she's not older."

He was about to leave when she suddenly wailed out, "Oh what am I to do? Someone please help me! I'm so scared! What I am to do? I am a princess trapped on this enchanted rock. There are dragons and ogres and monsters all around me! My retainers are all gone and my family imprisoned. Who is to save me?"

A rustling came from behind the girl and out jumped a pair of identical twin boys, both of whom looked as if they had just gotten out of their diapers yesterday. One was brandishing a covered tennis racket with both hands as best as he could while the other twin was holding up a small toy shovel in the air. The two stood with their arms entwined, chests out and stomachs in. Both looked like Superman of the old movies when he presented himself or Atobe when he was at his most dramatic and his chest stuck out.

"We will save you!" shouted the twin with the shovel. "I am Yuki!"

"And I am Yoshiro!" shouted the twin with the tennis racket.

"We will save you, princess!" shouted out Yoshiro with a lisp. "For we are the-"

"Brave samurai of the Osakada clan!" finished Yuki. He entwined his arm around his brother's. "We're the Super-duper Stupendous Fantastic Ultimate-Samurai Twin Osakadas!"

"Oh! I'm saved! It's my heroes!" Princess S'kuno sighed loudly as she clasped her hands to her chest. "It's the Super-duper Stupendous Fantastic Ultimate-Samurai Twin Osakadas!"

"Super-duper Fantastic Ultimate-Samurai Twin Osakadas?" Oshitari repeated as he stared dumbly at the twins then chuckled as he realized what was going on. Shaking his head at their antics and thankful he was no longer an embarrassing grade-schooler, he quickly ducked behind a tree ready to leave the children to play their innocent game of imagination.

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"Monsters and evildoers beware! You will pay for kidnapping Princess S'kuno!" Yoshiro shouted with a lisp. "For we are the brave Twin Osakada Samurai!"

"We'll free you from that place, Princess S'kuno!" Yuki lisped just as loudly. "We got the magic racket and shovel! Just tell us where's the monsters! And who put you in the foul cage!"

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A puzzled look on his face, Oshitari had to stop as he looked back at the playing children. "What child in grade school says 'foul'?"

Unable to resist, he snuck back to watch the children.

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"Oh my heroes! It was the evil magicians most foul," Princess S'kuno cried out as she looked at the two heroes. "They were the magicians from- um, the magicians from Ginka!"

Yoshiro looked at the princess. "S'kuno- we fought them already. You have to think of a new name for the villains."

"Sorry, sorry," Princess S'kuno apologized. "How about the evil magicians from Yamabuki?"

"I think we did that name," Yuki said as he stuck his finger in his mouth. "And we need a scarier name, S'kuno."

"All right, let me think," S'kuno said as she racked her brain for a name. The smiled brightly. "I know, how about the evil magicians of Hyotei!"

Yoshiro scowled as he looked at S'kuno. "That's not a scary name!"

"Not scary at all!" Yuki agreed as she looked at S'kuno.

Sighing, S'kuno brought her hair over her face, making her look like Cousin Itt from the Adams family. She brought up her arms in a threatening manner as she loomed above them and announced in an eerie voice, "The powerful and evil magicians of Hyotei do deeds most foul. They have defeated many a good samurai, wizard and hero. They have used their magic to make the rivers run dry and the animals go wild. They have taken all the cookies and candy for themselves and melted all the ice cream!"

Yoshiro looked at S'kuno with wide eyes. "That's not real, S'kuno!"

"ALL the cookies and candy?" Yuki asked doubtfully.

"And they eat broccoli and Brussels sprouts for breakfast!" S'kuno added. "And they put in place of all dessert! And they want everyone to eat carrot cake!"

Yoshiro made a face. "S'kuno! That's just gross!"

"Bleech!" Yuki grimaced. "Carrots are yucky!"

"And let the heroes know, they have cast a spell on me- if you do not rescue me, I will change into a monster like this forever!" S'kuno cackled as she peered at the twins through her hair. "And I will make sure that you both will always eat broccoli, Brussels sprouts and carrot cake everyday! Ha-ha-ha!"

The twins stared at her, unsure if she was pretending or not. "You can't do that!"

"Oh, I can feel myself changing!" S'kuno pulled her hair away from her face. "Oh, please save me! Save me from being a broccoli and Brussels sprouts eater!"

Secretly glad that S'kuno had pulled her hair back and was looking like her pretend princess-self, Yoshiro brandished his imaginary weapon again, "We will save you from that Princess S'kuno!"

"We'll save you, S'kuno!" Yuki shouted as he lifted the tennis racket. "You'll be free!"

"Look! There's a two headed dragon over there!" Princess S'kuno screamed as she pointed at a large bush. "And there's a basilisk with it!"

The twin vigorously attacked the life-threatening bushes. When the bushes were quite dead, a twin shouted, "Are there anymore, Princess S'kuno?"

"Oh no! It's the Toguro the Elder! And there's Cherubimon! " Princess S'kuno cried out as she pointed to another set of bushes. And again, the violent bushes went down in defeat.

Before they could ask again, the little princess pointed at another set of bushes. "Oh heavens! It's Naraku! And there's Envy! And there's Voldemort! And a revived Gyomao!"

"I got you, Naraku!" shouted Yoshiro as he twirled the tennis racket above his head then attacked the bush. "You're dead Voldemort!"

"You must pay for all your crimes, Envy! Go back to sleep Gyomao!" hollered Yuki as he thrust and thrashed his shovel at the other bush. When his bush was quite mangled, he looked over at the entrapped princess. "Are there anymore Princess S'kuno?"

"Oh no! There's a huge two-headed ogre over there! And a Hydra over there?" Princess S'kuno cried out as she pointed at another bush.

The twin brandishing the shovel looked at his twin then asked, "What's a Hydra?"

"Oh, sorry! It's a nine headed-snakelike monster," Princess S'kuno answered as she gave him an apologetic smile.

"Okay, Yoshiro, you get the Hydra, you got the tennis racket," ordered the twin with the shovel.

Yoshiro didn't like that. He shoved the tennis racket at his twin. "Niisan- you should get the Hydra, you're older."

His older brother shoved the tennis racket back at him. "You wanted the tennis racket because it was bigger so you should get the bigger monster."

Alarm started to filter through Princess S'kuno's face. She stood as she separated the boys, just in case they wanted to harm each other instead of the bushes. "Boys, forget the Hydra- it was my mistake. There is no Hydra."

"But there has to be another monster," Yuki pouted as he looked at her.

"We only got eight. Maybe nine if you count the ogre," Yoshiro scowled as he looked at her. "If there aren't any more monsters, then we can't call ourselves the Ten Demon Killer Twins."

Princess S'kuno sighed as she scratched her head then pointed at a bush. "Okay- there's the two headed ogre and over there! The most dreaded and most foul-"

"I'm back!"

"Oh no! It's back! The most hated monster of them all!" Yoshiro shouted as he hid behind his twin. "Stay away!"

"You won't come near us! Stay away monster!" Yuki shouted as he hid behind Princess S'kuno. "Princess S'kuno will protect us from you, you foul beast!"

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"I don't think I like Hyotei being called evil magicians, Oshitari-san," said a voice over Oshitari's shoulder. "And a cookie and candy thief."

Startled, the Hyotei tensai looked back to see Choutarou Otori's face, his eyes watching the boys stay away from the newly appeared girl. He shook his head amusedly. "I don't think I like being called a broccoli and Brussels sprouts breakfast eater. I don't think I'd mind having the carrot cake for breakfast though."

"Is carrot cake good, Oshitari-san?" Otori asked as he looked at the tensai.

Oshitari's answer was cut short by a loud shout.

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"Tomo- Tomo-chan!" Sakuno exclaimed as she looked to see her friend stomp towards them. Recognizing the irate look in her eyes, she put up her hands to try and stop her friend. "You're back from shopping so soon!"

"Who are you calling a foul beast, you brats?" Tomoko shouted as her hand came down to bop the two twins on their heads. "IS that any way to call your beloved Neesan?"

"Ittai!" Yoshiro shouted as he grabbed his head.

"Ittai!" Yuki screeched as he grabbed his head. He scowled at his older sister. "Ittai!"

"That should hurt!" Tomoko scolded as she glared back. "I go away for twenty minutes to do the shopping and you're calling me that!"

"Foul beast!" Yuki and Yoshiro shouted as they glared up defiantly. Then regretted it as soon as the hand came back down again. "Ittai!" "Ittai!"

"I'll 'foul beast' you, you brats!" Tomoko threatened. "Just for that I'm going to make you eat ALL your carrots and broccoli tonight!"

"S'kuno! Protect us!" Yoshiro cried out as he grabbed Sakuno's hand.

"Save us from the broccoli!" Yuki cried out as he grabbed Sakuno's other hand. When there was no answer, he looked up to see her face covered by her long hair. "S'kuno!"

"Too late… S'kuno is no more- she is now the Broccoli Eating Monster of Hyotei!" Sakuno intoned loudly. She loomed over the twins threateningly. "AAAHHHH!"

"NOOOoooo!" screamed Yoshiro and Yuki as they grabbed each other then fell down on their bottoms. "Neeeeee-saaaaan! Ittai!"

"Quiet! You two are so loud!" Tomoko scolded as she looked down at her brothers. She shook her head as she looked at her friend. "Neh, Sakuno, if you get them too worked up, my parents won't appreciate it no matter how much the brats deserve to be scared."

"Okay, I'll stop," Sakuno said cheerfully as she pulled her hair back and started to tie it into a pigtail. "Did you get everything you needed?"

"Yep, now we can head off home," Tomoko said as she lifted up her bags of groceries. "Yoshiro, Yuki, the two of you can carry a bag."

"That was mean, S'kuno!" Yuki shouted as he looked at her.

"And you really shouldn't have called your Neesan a foul beast," Sakuno said as she knelt down to pick up her racket and the toy shovel. "Didn't I tell you that you shouldn't use that unless we're pretending?"

"Since we don't know what 'foul' means, it doesn't count," Yuki said stubbornly.

"It does since you called your sister a beast and you know what that means," Sakuno countered as she looked at him in askance. "So you know it's not a nice thing to say to a person."

"S'kuno, Hyotei isn't real right?" Yoshiro demanded as he scowled at her. "You made it all up!"

"Hyotei? You used Hyotei?" Tomoko blinked as she looked at her friend. "I thought that Ginka was the villain."

"They wanted a new villain," Sakuno shrugged as she grabbed the hand of Yuki and started to lead him out of the park. "So why not use Hyotei?"

"It's not a scary name," Tomoko said as she grabbed Yoshiro's hand and followed her friend.

"Neesan! Hyotei is real?" Yoshiro screeched as he looked up at his sister.

"You weren't pretending, S'kuno?" Yuki screeched in horror. He looked at his brother. "I'm hiding all my candy!"

"We have to eat all the ice cream!" Yoshiro gasped in fear.

"Just what did you tell them about Hyotei?" Tomoko demanded as they walked down the path.

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"Great, the name of Hyotei is being used to scare little kids now," Oshitari said as he shook his head in rueful amusement. He started towards the path he wandered from. "I suppose that would be a good thing when they start going to junior high school."

"It could be worse, Oshitari-san," Otori laughed as he followed. "We could be the ones receiving the scolding and the smack on the head." He winced in remembered memory. "Think all sisters know how to hit like that?"

"She was kind, she used the palm of her hand," Oshitari shrugged. "My Neesan used her knuckle on my head to keep me in line. Gakuto is lucky; his older sister just likes to flick his forehead."

"Poor Oshitari-san," Otori chuckled. "I guess we should be thankful we don't have older brothers like Shishido-san. I heard that Shishido-san's older brother would grab him by the neck then headlock and knuckle him until he apologizes at least twenty times."

"Sounds very painful," Oshitari winced as he imagined it. "Thank heavens I'm too big for my sister to put into a head lock."

"So am I," Otori chuckled. "Have been since I was in the fifth grade."

"Where the hell were you two?" called out a voice. Oshitari and Otori looked to see an irate Mukahi Gakuto looking at them. "We've got to hurry and meet Atobe before he gets pissed. And this had better not take long, I have to get home fast- I'll be in big trouble if I don't."

"Sorry Mukahi-san," Otori said cheerfully as he walked faster.

"We're coming," Oshitari said mildly as he walked over to his doubles partner.

"Where the hell were you?" Gakuto asked as he looked behind his partner. "What was going on over there?"

"Nothing special, we were just watching some kids pretending while looking for you," Oshitari shrugged. He smiled slowly. "Did you know that Hyotei are considered evil magicians that eat broccoli and Brussels sprouts for breakfast?"

"What?" Gakuto shouted as he stared at his partner. "Have you been watching too many of your romance movies, Yuushi?"

Otori nodded angelically. "And we eat up all the cookies and cakes and candy of the world and we melt all ice cream. And we change little girls to Broccoli Eating Monsters."

"Hairy Broccoli Eating Monsters," Oshitari added as he looked at his partner's gaping face.

"Very hairy Broccoli Eating Monsters," Otori nodded.

"You're nuts." Gakuto stared at the younger teammate then at his partner. "The both of you- I'm walking to the tennis courts myself."

While Otori tried to hide his laughter, Oshitari snickered aloud at his partner's agitation. "Hey! We were only teasing Gakuto! Gakuto!"

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Author's Note (3): I used villains that a kid aged five or six might know, especially one that has an older sister. The villains from anime series and one fictional work: Toguro the Elder: Yuyu Hakusho; Cherubimon: Digimon (not that I watch it, but it's a kids thing); Naraku: Inuyasha; Envy: Fullmetal Alchemist; Voldemort: Harry Potter series; and Gyomao: Saiyuki