Vignette Four: Upside Down Maps and Broken Compasses

FRIENDS: Will help me find my way when I'm lost.
BEST FRIEND: Will be the one messing with my compass, stealing my map and giving me bad directions.

"We need to go that way!" Ichigo proclaimed, pointing in one direction.

"But the map says we need to go the other way!" Lettuce said frantically.

"Lettuce, you're holding the map upside down! Just give it here!" Mint snapped, snatching the piece of paper out of the porpoise girl's hands.

"Pudding thinks she broke the compass, na no da!" Pudding proclaimed, holding up a compass with a wildly spinning needle.

"We don't need the compass, we know we're going that way!" Ichigo said, still pointing.

"The last time we went the way you suggested, we ended up where we started!" Mint snapped.

"Yeah, well my cat senses are telling me to go this way!" Ichigo argued.

"Oh, your oh so wonderful, always right cat senses!" Mint said sarcastically. "Of course, why didn't you say so before!"

Ichigo fumed.

"Listen here, birdie!" She said, then began chewing out Mint.

Zakuro stood there and listened to the arguments and smiled vaguely.

She couldn't ask for better people to be lost in the woods with, breaking their only compass and giving each other bad directions.