AN: This is going to be mad. This is going to be a bundle of laughs. This is going to twist Fujimoto to no end, but oh well. Mad ideas are mad, and should be loved. Lots of cute Fujimoto, however, is a promise.


Fujimoto stood blinking in a small puddle in the doorway, face blank and a forced list in his hand. He watched as the pink car of Lisa pulled away, Koichi waving at Sosuke and Ponyo who stood in front of Fujimoto smiling. As the car speed around the bend, Ponyo turned to face her father, grinning with glee. "Yay! We've got you for the weekend!"

She hugged his legs, Sosuke laughing at her. Fujimoto opened his mouth, trying to speak, but instead he just mimicked a fish more than his life style ever could. "Don't worry, it's only a weekend. Nothing can wrong in such a short amount of time."

Glancing down slowly, Fujimoto managed to close his mouth and shake his head. "I can't stay on land for that long. Funny things will happen to me."

The last part of his sentence had gone quiet, as he thought over the consequences of being out of water for a too long extended period of time. Ponyo, missing her father's discomfort, finally detached herself from his legs and jumped up and down. "We've already thought of that."

Grabbing his hand, she pulled him from the puddle, to which he gave a cry, and into the house. The wooden floor had been covered in a plastic sheet with water spread across, making it slippy. It was just moist enough for Fujimoto, but dry enough for no real damage to be caused.

Ponyo pull him through the house, showing everywhere possible had been covered in the plastic sheet and water until she finally, after many complains off Fujimoto about the stairs that couldn't be covered in water, opened the final bedroom door.

Inside was a double bed, now pushed into the further corner of the room, with furniture scattered tightly next to it. In the much clearer corner in front of the door, was a bed. A water bed. With a towel, brush and note piled near the pillows neatly.

"You've got to be joking."