"DO YOU KNOW–" Tohru, now extremely red-faced, was stopped my the little girl, who introduced herself as Aiko, as she slowly stated, "Is that the Muffin Man?" she asked, pointing to Kyo.

"Hee-hee...yes, Aiko-chan, that's the one and only Muffin Man," Tohru chuckled. She quickly picked up Kyo so that he wouldn't transform, but all the sudden Aiko started screaming.

"OH! I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO MEET THE MUFFIN MAN! I LOOOOVE MUFFINS! OOOO! MOMMY, GUESS WHAT? I MET THE Muffin Man today..." her voice trailed off as she skated happily away.

(Note: I finally gave that damn girl a name, because it was getting on my nerves that I couldn't call her by anything.)

"Why the hell did you tell her I was the Muffin Man! And what's with that anyways!" Kyo yelled, still in his cat form. Tohru gave him a warm smile that could melt ice, and he shut up, but not after rolling his eyes a few times.

Until now Yuki had forgotten about everything, and he suddenly yelped, "NII-SAN!" Shigure looked over at him like he had gone completely insane.

"What do you mean, Ay–" He was cut off by a happy, flowery voice.

"Miss me, brother?" Yuki expected to see a snake crawl out from somewhere, but when he didn't see one, he stated, as calmly as possible,

"Ayame, get out here right now! Or go home." Again, he heard that voice, but it was a little more powerful this time.

"You don't understand, dear brother. Look UNDERNEATH Tohru-chan." Every gaze pierced the ice that lay below Tohru's slender, shaking legs. She too, looked down to see a freezing snake slithering around UNDER THE ICE. How he survived, nobody knows. But Yuki didn't seem to be worried about his health.

"Get out from under there! Slither somewhere else!" he bellowed angrily. But the stubborn Snake refused to move an inch.

And he stuck his snaky tongue out at his younger brother. It was just a playful joke, but the result wasn't a laughing matter. (For some) You see, the Snake's thin tongue became hopelessly stuck to the bottom of the ice. People stared for a second, and then some busted up laughing at Aya's feeble attempts to remove his tongue from the bottom of the cold, wintery ice.

"Ack! Helb, me Brobbur!" He yelled. Yuki just stared and walked away, while Tohru (of course) tried her best to help him. Aaya couldn't say much, since it was very hard to talk with your tongue stuck where it shouldn't be.

Finally, when all weak attempts had failed, the Sohmas were forced to call an "outsider" to get their relative out from under his cold prison.

"Uhh...sir...exactly how did this snake get under here in the first place?" Now that was a question none of the Sohmas had pondered yet. All eyes went to the Snake. He gave everyone the look that said, "Hehe...I can't talk, remember? Snakes don't talk..." Hatori put his face is his hands, while Kyo and Yuki steamed quietly. Shigure was trying not to chuckle and break the silence. Tohru's mini-van sized eyes darted innocently from the man who was going to help the Snake, to Ayame himself. Everyone else just stared, a worried expression on their faces.

"Hehe..this is going to be good," Shigure muttered under his breath. He always loved situations like this.

(Note: If I make the characters not seem like themselves, please tell me. And slap me. I hate when people make the characters act weird, and I would like to avoid that myself. Now, back to the story.)

"I'm n-not sure," Tohru stuttered. "But I know that we need to get him out." She had a determined look on her face, right before falling face-first on to the chilling ice.

"Oww..." She said, swirls in her eyes. When the teen tried to support herself, she found that she couldn't. Tohru's small wrist was twisted.

"Well, at least the paramedics are already here..." Kyo trailed off. Some of the others tried to explain what had happened to Ayame and Tohru, but it was hard to cover up. Especially with their stories.

"And then she slipped on pudding descending from the skies..."

"While he went to catch her, the snake dropped and was covered in pudding.."

"And it was poisonous to him, so he knew that he had to get to water to wash it off.."

"And so he magically slithered under the ice." When Shigure and Kagura were done "explaining", people just stared at them, trying to figure out if they were just joking, drunk, or completely insane. And then as if he had appeared out of thin air, Ritsu was there, yelling,

"NO! IT'S MY FAULT, I'M SORRY!" and then he skated wildly off, leaving everyone more confused.

"..." The poor men finally got the freezing snake out of the ice, and left as soon as he (and Tohru) were safe and checked. In fact, they left in such a hurry that they all fell on top of each other. I don't blame them... .;

But finally, Ayame changed back.

"POOF!"

"Eep!"

After everything was normal again, Momiji got an idea.

"Let's go get a warm drink!" He started jumping furiously around, and only stopped when Kyo smacked him.

"WAH! KYO'S HITTING ME!" he cried. Kyo started screaming at him that he would break the ice if he didn't stop being so wild.

While nervously watching the two boys fight, Tohru wondered where Haru was. She didn't have to answer, because he suddenly appeared, and he was apparently "Black".

Oh-no...what happened? Everyone seemed to think.

"Hey! Kyo! We never finished our last fight!" he took a small but noticeable step towards Tohru, and Kyo launched into him.

Note: Sorry it took this long. I don't really have much of an excuse except for homework. Review on! .