"Come on you guys, the cake and ice cream is ready!" Angol Mois screeched from the other side of the wall. Tamama was already running, so that he was to get the biggest piece possible. The rest proceeded with their usual strut, talking how entertaing the party was. Giroro was stopped in tracks when he heard his older brother's voice.

"Giroro, Happy Birthday," Garuru said.

Garuru had a envelope in hand that was in crimson with a bow that had a skull on took the present from his brother's hand and looked into the yellow glasses. He could see a faint blinking motion from behind the nearly opaque lenses.

"Open it, it is from headquarters," no happiness was coming from his voice.

He took the knife that was hidden in his belt and slit a opening. The paper was also red, so it was either very important or had something to do with his birthday. Giroro's eyes began to scan across each sentence.

"Promotion?"Giroro asked.

"yes, they said that you have showed persistance and courage in the invasion of PekoPond,"Garuru responded.

"But.. the rank of Sergeant is so sudden, I do not believe that I could serve my best while at that rank. You see how Keroro leads the platoon,"

"He is happy at the very least. He is oblivious and ignorant, but why else would he have survived so long. You do not seem to happy though Giroro,"

"I am content is all. Honestly, I am satisfied with everything that I have."

"But there are many things you do not have,"

"Being..."Giroro's inquiry brought a pain to Garuru's 's last sentence had made the moment freeze. Garuru did not want to kill his brother's day. How could Giroro be so oblivious? Did he honestly love war this much?

"Headquarters also gave you a raise,"

Giroro did a short fist pump. This was long overdue.

"I was not done, Headquarters gave you a raise because they are confident that this planet will be conquered within the next month. If it is not then the entire Keron army will take it by force."Garuru said. Each sentence was a dagger to the heart.

"Now, the Invasion-Overseers did finally notice Keroro's lack of interest and commitement to the invasion. In the event of him being discharged, you will take command." The dagger of words were shoved a little bit deeper.

"Is that all explained in this letter?" Giroro asked

"Not all of it, some I was told. The other information was overheard," Garuru said.

Giroro drew in a deep breath. This was not the best way for his brother to say Happy Birthday to him.

"Let's eat some cake," Giroro suggested.

Garuru nodded his head.

"Poor Sergeant Giroro, that must be the newest bug to bite him in the ass," Kururu said to himself.

Kururu was picking up the trash while everyone else was enjoying cake and ice cream. He could just have some later. The Sergeant Major picked up the plastic cup and threw it in the trash.

"That is recycable you know," the forgotten one said.

"Oh, fantastic a bug to bite my ass too," Kururu sarcastically said.

"This bug is not around often enough to do that much damage though. Even when it is the victims just scratches away the bite,"

"Why are you speaking in metaphors?" Could you just say what you are thinking for a change?"

"I was not invited,"

"Yes, you were,"

"I did not hear about the party at all,"

"It was in the email that I sent out"

"You know damn well that I do not have the interweb!"

Dororo was not the type to raise his voice. This sudden change in sound was received by Kururu's headophones and they were sending pleasurable vibrations ringing into his ears. A sort of therapeutic sense to him. Dororo continued to yell at him.

"You guys always forget me! Unheard and unseen, huh? No more of that!"

Kururu had his back to the edge of the swimming pool now. Dororo kept stepping foward with a intimidating aura.

"This does not sound like you are made at me, Dororo. It sounds like your mad at everyone else."

"You and the platoon are all together in this! I am so tired of no one asking where Dororo is"

"That is the point of being a ninja right?"

Kururu had stayed near the edge while Dororo was getting closer. Finally they met eye to eye.

"Hey, Kururu, have you seen Dororo? Koyuki would never come without him," Giroro interrupted their stare down."What is going on? Why aren't you two enjoying the cake?"

Both of Giroro's companions were speechless. Neither knew how to explain what had happened, is happening, or is about to happen. Kururu trying to gain a little bit of ground. Instead he tripped found himself falling. To perhaps catch hisself he grabed onto Dororo's mask. Dororo would never allow himself to be caught without his mask. Instead of trying to fight or push Kururu's hands he also fell into the water. Dororo surfaced first.

"We heard something going down over here. Is everything ohk?" Garuru asked.

"Everything is fine," Dororo answered. He was having difficulty talking and trying to retye his mask at the same time.

"Where is Kururu?" the minute that Pururu asked that a few bubbles arose from the stop that Kururu had fallen into originally.

"A Keronian that does not know how to swim?"

"He knows how to swim, he is just.. very bad at it," Tororo the stalker said."I was doing research on him and though he had the highest IQ a that time, he was very poor at sports."

"Why is no one saving him!" Pururu screamed.

"Geez, old lady, we could do that right now. It is only a simple click of a button," Tamama told the pink grandma.

Tamama ran over to the dessert side of the cafe. There was a panel with one, lonely button on it that said," push me in a case of emergency." Tamama flipped open the protective case and pushed the button.

Immediately on a plate like object the Sergeant Major arose laying down on his belly. The plate was a gigantic plug that drained the pool of all the water. The plate brought him to were the rest of the guests were at.

"The plate is not going to restart him breathing system," Tororo told the Keroro Platoon.

"No one want to kiss this mess," Tamama said when he poked Kururu's bloated belly.

A cough escaped from Kururu, along with some water.

"Oh, wow, I reallyjust rejuvenated you," Tamama said with suprise in his voice.

"I designed that in case Fuyuki was drowning. We all know he is terrible at swimming," Kururu told them.

Fuyuki began to have waves of depression arising from his head. Kururu looked at Dororo. Nothing was said but Kururu's blank expression let Dororo only imagine what he was feeling. The rest of the evening went normally.. for the others. Dororo looked down at the floor for the dinner and Kururu had his music turned up louder than before. Soon all the party had ended.

"Bye! See you soon! Come visit again!" Keroro shouted as everyone was waving goodbye.

All of the Hinata household went back inside. Except for Giroro, Dororo, and Kururu.

" I need to go for a walk," Dororo said and began to walk outside the Hinatas' gate.

"He needed to leave," Kururu said. "We don't want him around."

Giroro turned his head in awe. Dororo has been nothing but a good friend to him. Sure, Giroro may have neglected him a few times...actually, a lot of times.

"You don't want him around is all. He is not a troubling presence, you on the otherhand have survelliance on all of us but no one knows what the hell go on in your lab," Giroro told Kururu.

"Him and all of his hippie shit makes him vunerable to the elements of evil. Not my fault that he is that way," Kururu said.

Giroro stood there looking at his reflection in Kururu's glasses. What emotions were hiding behind them? Instead of arguing with Kururu the mad genious-Idiot, Giroro decided that it was time for a bath.

"Kururu?"

"What else Giroro?"

"All you have done with your life is spread hate, your animosity is eating away at you. Soon you will dissapear as well. With nothing to show that you ever existed," Giroro said.

Kururu just stood there returning the hateful look to Giroro's back as Giroro walked away. He caught himself. He was giving a hateful look. That is the only look that he knew. Then Kururu realized: No one loved him.

A/N Nothing to interesting to really announce. I work in the cafeteria so I deal with slobs each day is all. I love when my headophonos vibrate. This is a really long chapter I know. em, no YAOI in this chapter. Soon come on! I need the "mood." My idea is that Kururu's headphones are able to turn loud sounds into very pleasurable vibrations is all. I have to much time to philosophize(if that is even a word).