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The 2nd. Task
(Part Five)
"Are you alright Hisoka?" Tsuzuki asked as it was now the third time that Hisoka had to retie his shoe. Finally Hisoka got it and stood up.
"I'm fine but it is your fault for making me fall on you." Hisoka said. He was still looking a little pink. "Now let's go." Hisoka said as he walked past Tsuzuki. Stopping a bout four feet a head of Tsuzuki Hisoka pointed in front of him.
Tsuzuki shrugged and walked past Hisoka. "Okay but I don't know how I caused you to fall when you stepped on your own shoelace and fell onto me." Tsuzuki stated as he smiled at Hisoka.
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"I'm going to go to bed" Raphael said as he yawned. He was still tired from all the pushups he had done.
"But Mr. Hisoka doesn't want us going to sleep until he gets back." Tsuki said as he watched Raphael go to his tent.
"So just lie and say I had just fallen asleep." Raphael said and he disappeared into the tent. "Oh and dipstick?" Raphael said as he peeks out of his tent. "Don't wake me when you come to bed." He said. Raphael then closed the tent and went to bed.
An hour had gone by when two figures came up behind Tsuki. Tsuki was about to scream when one of the figures covered his mouth. "It's us Eric and Tibiae." Eric said. He released Tsuki's mouth.
"Geez you guys scared me. Why are you both here?" He asked as he was confused.
"No time, where are you and Raphael sleeping at? Oh plus where is Raphael?" Tibiae asked as he looked around.
"We want to scare him and give him a taste of his own medicine." Eric said.
"He's in our tent there a sleep." Tsuki answered as he was getting curious and excited as to what the cousins were going to do.
"Dang it. We were hoping he would be awake." Tibiae said.
"Plan B then cousin?" Eric suggested.
"Yeah." Tibiae said and they started to head to the tent.
"What do you guys have planned?" Tsuki asked as he followed.
"Can't tell you. We don't want you to end up taking the fall for this." Eric said.
"But you will find out soon enough." Tibiae said. Tsuki smiled. He decided it was best if he returned to his post by the fire and wait there. He could see the cousin shadowy forms as they went into the tent and pulled out the sleeping Raphael while he was still asleep in his sleeping bag.
He watched them lift him up and carrying him off into the woods. An hour had passed when the cousin returned with an empty sleeping bag. "You'll find out soon enough." Eric said in only a loud enough whisper for Tsuki to hear since he was over by the fire. Tibiae placed the empty sleeping bag back in the tent and Eric hurried back to his troupe should Yuu or Yuri come and check on them.
Two hours later:
"Well at least you managed not to fall on me." Hisoka said. They were coming up to where the paths split and they had to go their separate ways again.
"Hai." Tsuzuki said as he was very pleased with himself on that part.
"Well, tomorrow is the last day and we did not see anything wrong here at all." Tatsumi said as he was quite curious as to how it is that they did not see anything strange.
"I know." Tsuzuki said. "The only thing that we saw other then trees was the yellow police tape that said caution do not enter. Beyond that there was some badly messed up land that looked like something big had went on there." Tsuzuki added.
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"Hey Tsuki where's Raphael?" Hisoka asked as he only saw Tsuki but no Raphael.
"Oh I think he is still with one of the other troupes." Tsuki said. Tsuki had spent a long time coming up with that story so that no one would get into any trouble.
"I see." Hisoka said. "Well, why don't you go to sleep and I'll wait up for hi." Hisoka suggested. Tsuki nodded and went straight to his tent.
Hisoka had only just sat down by the fire when Tatsumi, Tsuzuki, Yuri, and Tibiae came running towards him.
"HISOKA! HISOKA!" Tsuzuki yelled.
"We have a problem." Tatsumi said.
"Nani?" Hisoka said.
"Raphael was supposedly said he would check on the troupes but neither troupe saw him.
"What! But Tsuki said that Raphael went to go check on them and probably was still with one of them." Hisoka said as he jumped to his feet and almost burned his foot when his foot kicked the log.
"Well, When Eric came to check on Tsuki he said that he went to go check on one of the troupes." Tibiae said as there was a shaky tone in his voice. :He never came to us." Tibiae added.
"Nor us." Yuri said as he was getting as shaken up by this as Tibiae was..
They were about to head out to look for Raphael when they heard a scream.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Everyone was at a stand still when they suddenly saw Raphael running to them. However when he reached them everyone plugged their noses. "EWWWW!" They all said.
"Somehow I ended up in the woods and I was dressed. Then a skunk skunked me." Raphael said. "I can't get the smell out." Raphael said as he was starting to panic.
"Okay just calm down. Tomorrow is when we reach the top and then we can think of what to do about the smell." Tatsumi said.
"You mean I have to smell like this?" Raphael asked. But everyone had wasted no time in wanting to get away from him. Hisoka woke Tsuki up and helped him move his stuff in with him so that Raphael could sleep and not make Tsuki suffer to.
"So is what you guys did even things up?" Hisoka asked as he figured that Tsuki had to know something about this. "You can tell me tomorrow." Hisoka said as they laid dow in his tent and went to sleep.
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In the evening somewhere between six and eight pm:
"Hey Bon, Tatsumi, Tsuzuki!" Watari called to them as he spotted them coming up the path in a single file line with their troupes walking behind them and all plugging their noses and trying to keep away from Raphael who was now forced to walk by himself.
"Watari!" Tsuzuki started to run at Watari like a puppy excited to see his master has come home. However Hisoka grabbed him by the back of his shirt collar and stopped him from doing that.
"What are you doing here Watari?" Tatsumi asked.
"I'll tell you after the kids leave on the helicopters. Watari said.
"It won't be on you forever." Tsuki said as he went back and walked with Raphael. "Just bathe in tomato sauce with your smelly clothes and that will take care of the smell." Tsuki said. He helped Raphael load his gear onto the helicopter.
"That's good." Raphael said as he smiled for the first time today.
"Well, see you at the next meeting." Tsuki said and he started to walk away.
"Hey Tsuki?" Raphael said. Tsuki turned around thinking he was going to call him some kind of name. "I'm sorry about scaring you guys." Raphael said. "But next time tell them to put shaving cream on me instead." Raphael said as he gave Tsuki a smile.
Once everyone had said good bye to Hisoka, Tsuzuki, and Tatsumi they all climbed onto the two helicopters and were soon gone.
"We didn't find anything strange at all." Hisoka said.
"Yeah I was expecting to at least see something.
"You did." Watari said. It turned out that what made the animal crazy like that was that someone had dumped a bad smelly toxic waste in the woods and t was the smell of the chemicals that made the animals go crazy. But turned out they got it taken care of fast when they heard that the cub scout troupes were coming in just a few days." Watari said.
"Really?" Hisoka and Tsuzuki had both said at the same time.
"Yeah really." Watari said. "Most of the animals have gotten it out of their systems with the exceptions of a few non-poisonous snakes and some skunks but we figure that they will be back to normal to soon." Watari added. "Sorry that it was a waste of your time." Watari said.
"Well, guess this was in a way a vacation after all." Tatsumi said as he pushed his glasses up.
"Tsuzuki why do you have a jar of candy in your hands?" Hisoka asked.
"It's for Chief Konoe. Now let's go." Tsuzuki said. The four of them then disappeared.
"Hey where's my candy jar?" A guy inside the cabin asked.