Thank you sooo much to all my lovely reviewers! I'm so sorry it's taken me so long to update but here it is at long last… Chapter 3! Dedicated to my myspace buddy "Yoh" and his potatoe patch in Indiana! Whoopee! Just one point before we begin, I read somewhere that Anna revives the Hanagumi so they can work as maids in the Funbari Onsen which explains Macchi's sudden appearance ). Enjoy!

24th November

Yet another day of pointless time wasting and of being tortured by the natives aka Horo Horo and Yoh.

They thought it would be highly amusing to steal all of my milk and fill the onsen with it, followed by breakfast cereal. This of course resulted in me chasing them all round the house with my quan dao and Anna being extremely pissed that the pool looked like a bowl of bran flakes. Alas, another day in the seventh circle of hell.

25th November

Today has been a day of contrasts. Or in the simple negative language of Horo Horo it was "knarly dude!." This morning I was dragged from my usual training schedule to accompany Yoh, Horo Horo and Manta to of the daylight horrors known as shopping malls. After wandering round aimlessly for around an hour Boro Boro decided it would be a "hella dope idea dude" (whatever the hell that means?) if we went and jumped on the beds in one of the furniture stores. Everyone, except me (being the only sane person. Why the hell don't they have a counsellor! I'm not the one wanting to jump on items of furniture for entertainment!) Erm… Yes where was I? Ah yes, everyone EXCEPT me chuckled heartily at this suggestion and merrily skipped through the doors, while I felt myself, once again, slipping into the seventh circle of hell. Of course, we ended up coming out of the store with a lot less money than what we had went in with. After being there for a grand total of…. Wait for it: 10 minutes! Horo Horo had managed to totally obliterate a little kid's racing car bed… Afterwards he'd continuously insisted that it could have happened to anybody but has he recently noticed the size difference between him and a kid of around 4 years old? (Also considering the fact he'd demolished 2 large pizzas, some ramen and a large bottle of soda before going in…) Has he considered the fact that him bouncing on a 4 year old's racing car bed is like a pot bellied seagull bouncing on a daisy expecting it to hold it's weight? Obviously not…

And now there was the teeny little task of carrying a mangled racing car bed, which we hadn't wanted in the first place (it was if you break you buy kind of place), back to Funbari Onsen… Lets just say Anna wasn't exactly thrilled when we trooped up to the front door carrying the thing plus a mini fridge and a large orange stuffed toy owl… I'm not even going to ask why Yoh bought that… It's sitting on the racing car bed looking Miss. Kinomoto-ish…

No reply from that Frankie person so far… Thank god… More later, Yoh has just fallen asleep with his head in a bowl of ramen, I'd best wake him up… Possibly by hitting him with a certain retarded-looking stuffed owl…

Later, 25th of November

Well I succeeded in waking him up… But at a "terrible" price. It turned out that the bloody owl was so cheaply made that its head fell off. Luckily Anna made Horo Horo clean up the stuffing that had fallen all over the floor. (Privately I think this was because she was still pissed at him for breaking the bed and the cereal incident yesterday)

Macchi showed up for work but Anna insisted that she took the afternoon off and (still being pissed off at him) said that Horo Horo could do her work instead.

Macchi and Yoh then proceeded to march outside with identical scary looking grins on their faces mumbling something about a "potato plan" whatever that was. It turned out that the two of them had decided to make a potato patch in the yard. Why potatoes out of interest? And for what reason? I wasn't aware either of them even liked potatoes that much but then again Macchi doesn't often need a reason for doing anything as long as she thinks it will be "FUN!" "FABDABULOUS!" or "ACE!" They then began to merrily dig up the lawn with clumps of soil flying around everywhere. I wondered vaguely if they needed planning permission to do this? And whether it was a safe idea considering Manta had just been hit with a flying clump of earth and landed in a bush in the corner… Perhaps it is a good time to head home considering I have another appointment with Miss. Kinomoto later because she's received another letter from Frankie (good grief) and more importantly because Anna has just stomped out of the house looking like a pissed off sabre toothed tiger after spotting the "potato plan's" general destruction of the yard…. (And I thought she was mad yesterday).

I rest my case….

Horo Horo's birthday in 2 days… Uh oh…