Team Five
It was morning 'round these parts, so that meant it was time to get the mail. Oishi was sitting on the front porch in a style similar to how Kamio had the day before entirely by coincidence.

He was GOING to wait until a reasonable hour until he awoke the household and informed them that Shishido Ryou had received a letter from the coaches, but he realized how absurd he was being. After all, they had just made him sleep outside.

So he rang the doorbell and, as it turned out, most of them were up already. Simply by chance, Shishido answered the door.

"Is that the letter for the winner?" Shishido said, holding out his hand.

"Yes." Said Oishi. "And…it's for you."

"Oh look at how excited I am." Said Shishido as he took the letter and ripped it open. "Come in already so I don't have to stand here like an idiot."

Oishi came in and shut the door. They went into the kitchen.

Kamio choked on his Cinnamon Toast Crunch and pointed at Oishi. "No way!" he yelled. "He's an outside pet!"

"Not anymore." Said Shishido, waving the letter around. "I'm changing the family around cause I won yesterday."

Everyone threw their articles that indicated which family member they were into a pile on the kitchen table.

"You?" Kamio demanded. "You were the one who kept throwing me off my rhythm! I did so much better than you!"

"Don't talk to me like that when I have the authority to make you the outside Pet again." Shishido warned.

"Oh, like you won't do it anyway." Sniffed Kamio. "I'm the only second year on the team!"

"You know…that's a good point." Shishido nodded. "And, if not for the fact that Sengoku recently annoyed me SO MUCH, I probably would have made you the Pet again. But, as I previously stated…"

He looked at Sengoku who was slowly chewing HIS Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

"I was so sure that anyone except you was going to win." Said Sengoku, his mouth full.

"Well, you're the Pet now." Said Shishido as he handed Sengoku the Pet collar. "And just so you know…yes, you're an OUTSIDE PET." Shishido chuckled satisfyingly as Sengoku looked sad. "How lame do you feel now?"

"Pretty lame." Sengoku admitted.

Then Shishido picked up the tool belt.

"I'M the Dad now." He announced.

"Surprise surprise." Said Itsuki.

"And Kamio, since you're the second year as you just said, you can be the Sister." Shishido said.

"Aw…" Kamio said sadly as he took the bow. "It doesn't look good with my hairstyle."

"And…" Shishido picked up the apron and the hat. "Well…Oishi, you were kind of psychotic when you were the Mom so you can be the Brother, and you can be the Mom, Itsuki."

Shishido passed out the remaining articles.

Then he clapped his hands together. "Now who wants to help me get our Pet outside?"

"Can't I just finish my Cinnamon Toast Crunch first?" Sengoku pleaded.

"That's already your second bowl!" Shishido said as if that sort of thing REALLY annoyed him.

"Let me just finish it first!" Sengoku begged as he started shoveling more cereal in his mouth

"Now you're talking with your mouth full, chewing with your mouth open and biting off more than you can chew!" Shishido said as he stomped over, grabbed Sengoku by the collar and started dragging him over to the door.

The others just watched as Shishido tossed Sengoku out the door and slammed it shut.

Shishido reentered the kitchen. "Finally…" he said as if he had been working to get Sengoku out the door for more than like five seconds.

Team Six
"If you two don't fess up and tell me which one of you I hate and which one of you I have no opinion on then so help me…!" Kaidou said threateningly as he stood in front of the twins.

"You hate him!" they both said frantically as they pointed at each other.

"You two—!" Kaidou started rolling him his sleeves just as Oshitari came out of the Kids room with sleepy hair and his Superman pajamas.

"What's going on so early in the morning?" he said with a yawn.

"They won't tell me which one of them is the one that I hate!" said Kaidou angrily.

"Why does it matter?" said Oshitari.

"Hey!" said Atsushi and Ryou.

"I won the individual challenge the other day, and I have to reassign the family and I can't remember which one I hate." Said Kaidou. "Because I want to make one of them the Pet."

"Can you remember why you hate the one you hate?" Oshitari said as he sat down and folded his hands.

"Not really, and that makes me even madder." Said Kaidou angrily as he glared at the twins.

"You know, the reason why I cut my hair and wear this bandana all the time is to avoid this kind of confusion…" Atsushi sighed.

"Then why don't you just forget about hating them?" Oshitari suggested.

"But that's not fair because I DO hate one of them!" said Kaidou.

"Then hate them both." Oshitari shrugged as if it was no big deal.

"No, don't hate them both!" said Ryou and Atsushi together.

"Fine, fine…" Kaidou peered very closely at both of them. Then he pointed right in Ryou's face. "You look like a girl, so you'll be the Mom."

"Aw man!" exclaimed Ryou.

"And before you start laughing, you can be the Pet." Kaidou said, pointing at Atsushi.

"Aw man!" exclaimed Atsushi.

Kaidou crossed his arms. "That worked out okay." He decided. Then he looked back at Oshitari who was just sitting there idly by. "Thanks."

"Whatever." Said Oshitari. "It's not like it was THAT huge of a problem."

"You can be the Brother." Kaidou offered. "Because of course I'm the Dad. Which makes Akutsu the Sister."

"Hallelujah." Said Oshitari.

"Well now that THAT'S over with, I'm going on my morning run." Said Kaidou. "I'll be back in a couple of hours."

Kaidou then flung open the door and departed.

"Who wants to be the one who gives Akutsu his bow for the day?" Oshitari said to Atsushi and Ryou.

"Hahaha…very funny…" said Ryou.

"How is he anyway?" said Atsushi. "I mean, he was hallucinating about public service announcements and stuff last night."

"Well I don't really know." Said Oshitari. "He was snoring last night so I smothered him with a pillow for a few minutes, and after that he was pretty quiet."

Ryou and Atsushi stared at Oshitari who only took a sip of water as if what he just said didn't sound remarkably like murder.

"Hahaha…very…funny?" Atsushi tried.

"What is?" said Oshitari.

"Um…never mind…" said Atsushi hesitantly.

"Say, is he one of the types that wakes up late or early?" Ryou asked.

"Hm…late I think…" Oshitari said, looking like he was in deep thought.

"Well good." The twins gave a sigh of relief and then they glared at each other. Cause, you know, they don't really like each other that much.

Team Seven
Everyone was sitting around the living room absolutely silently. Suddenly, Tetsu slapped his hands together, which made everyone jump, and also woke up Jirou.

"What was that all about?" demanded Sanada.

"Mosquito…" Tetsu answered, opening his hands up. But the mosquito just sort of flew away and wasn't smooshed. But it definitely looked like he received brain damage from the impact.

"Wake me up when something interesting happens…actually, never mind…" Jirou said, rolling over and falling back asleep.

There was more silence, except for the sound of Inui and Renji scribbling in their notebooks.

"Are you guys mad at me?" Tetsu asked.

"No." said Renji and Inui at the same time.

"Well then how did you know I was talking to you?" Tetsu tried.

Renji and Inui froze and then looked at each other, then over at Tetsu.

"What makes you think we're mad at you?" Renji asked.

"I don't know." Said Tetsu. "You're acting as though you are."

"You didn't follow my plan for reassigning the families." Inui said.

"Yes I did!" said Tetsu. "You said to make you and Renji either the Sister and Brother or the Mom and Dad! And then to make me and Jirou and me whatever you guys weren't! And to make Sanada the Pet! I DID that!"

Inui looked back at his notebook.

"Oh." said Tetsu. "Did…you guys want to be the Mom and Dad?"

"Maybe." Said Inui and Renji.

"I wanted a turn to be the Dad…" Tetsu sniffled, sad that everyone was mad at him. And he missed Tachibana. SO MUCH.

"Well, all of you stop being so childish." Said Sanada. "Look at me. I am gracefully accepting the role of the Pet for the betterment of my team and it's about time all of you did the same."

The other three bowed their heads in shame.

"He's right." Renji said.

"We ARE being childish." Inui agreed.

"We're acting like elementary school kids." Said Tetsu. "We should act our age and be mature middle school kids."

"Right." Renji and Inui agreed.

"That's more like it." Said Sanada. "That's how mature middle school students act."

Just then, the handicapped mosquito landed on Sanada's big ugly nose.

Sanada stared at it via crossing his eyes.

Everyone else stared at the mosquito as well.

"I thought I killed that mosquito." Said Tetsu, looking at his hands.

"Apparently not." Inui adjusted his glasses.

Sanada slapped his nose where the mosquito was and then took his hand away from his face. Oddly enough, the mosquito survived and even found the strength to fly away.

Even WITH a massive amount of brain damage and lots of broken body parts, the mosquito will live on until its very short lifespan finally comes to an end.

"Now I have a mosquito bite at the end of my nose…" whined Sanada as he itched his nose.

Then they all watched the extremely disabled mosquito land on Jirou's face and start to suck his blood. They all tried to stifle their laughter as the mosquito got fatter and fatter and stupider looking and stupider looking.

But that's when Jirou moved his head slightly and then slapped his face where the mosquito was. The family gasped and half expected the mosquito to be alive.

Jirou lowered his hand and did not awaken, but he revealed that he had blood covering half of his face and all over his hand.

"It…might be okay…" said Tetsu.

"There is a zero percent chance that mosquito survived." Inui reported.

Team Eight
"As soon as I turn this envelope over, we will discover who the individual winner is from yesterday." Said Yuuta as he held the letter upside down. He was into the anticipation, I guess.

"Well, we know it's not Atobe because he didn't do anything." Said Bane, counting off on his fingers. "Not Jackal because he exploded, not you or Shinji because you failed at working together at ALL…" Bane leaned back in his chair. "Hate to say it, guys, but it looks as though I'M probably going to be the winner this time around."

"Let me see that." Said Atobe as he took the letter from Yuuta.

"Hey!" said Yuuta. "We were all enjoying the anticipation!"

"I wasn't." said Atobe. "And that's all that's important."

Atobe then looked down at the face of the letter and cracked a smile. He started chuckling, which eventually turned into all out laughter at the sight of the name on the front.

"Was I right?" Bane asked.

"I think he's laughing AT you, not WITH you." Jackal said.

"At the risk of sounding crude by using this phrase…" Atobe turned the envelope around and showed it to them. "Read it and weep."

Atobe Keigo.

"WHAT?" they all yelled, running over to get a closer look.

"How could YOU have won?" demanded Yuuta as he took the letter away and opened it up.

Atobe didn't really seem to care as he just walked around pointing confidently at the rest of the family.

"What is this?" said Yuuta furiously. "After reviewing your team's attempts in the challenge, we established that you all performed horribly, and therefore we had no choice but to declare Atobe the individual winner, because there's always a chance that he could have done a good job had he gotten the opportunity."

"That's nothing to be proud of." Said Shinji to Atobe who looked quite proud of himself.

"I just find it ironic." Said Atobe. "Because if I HAD been given the chance, I wouldn't have done anything anyway."

"Why am I not surprised?" said Jackal with a sigh.

"So let me guess…" said Yuuta. "I'm the Pet now, aren't I?"

Atobe looked as though he was going to answer in the affirmative, but instead he only put his hand up in front of his face in his special way and smiled cruelly.

"No." he answered.

"No?" repeated everyone.

"You may all stay in your currently family roles." Atobe clarified.

"Wait…so you're CHOOSING to remain the Pet?" Yuuta said.

"Yes." Said Atobe. "That is what I am doing."

Everyone's mouths hung open as Atobe walked backwards to the Parents room while pointing at them all.

"He's TAUNTING us!" Bane said finally.

"But he's got a point in his taunting." Shinji said. "It really doesn't make a difference to anyone that he's the Pet. He gets the best room and he gets to push us around."

"He's just showing that he doesn't need to be the Dad in order to be in charge." Yuuta frowned.

"How enraging!" said Jackal. "Let's show him and change his role the next time one of us win!"

"And what exactly would that do?" Bane inquired. "Then not only would he continue to push us around, but one of us would have to wear the Pet collar."

"You know, he probably LIKES wearing that." Yuuta said.

"It DOES go with that shirt he was wearing." Shinji agreed.

The entire team let out a helpless sigh.