Daisuke walked to the train, as he did every morning, doing various good deeds on the way. Finally, no one seemed to really care about Dark anymore, except for a couple of police, Takeshi and, of course, Risa, but the lack in fans put him in a good mood. Even the Dark fan girls had slowly diminished; either they had moved on or Risa had all threatened them, one of the two.

While his missions to the art museum were decreasing (an art museum can only have so many possessed objects), Daisuke still had one thing on his mind: the suspicious letter he had gotten from Adonis this morning asking him to go to his hot springs.

"Doesn't he seem sort of suspicious?" Daisuke asked his mom during breakfast.

"Well… maybe. But you are Dark. You can handle it, my little bowl of syrup!" his mom replied. "Go and have some fun! And make some friends besides Takeshi. Please. I don't want to put you into counseling again."

Daisuke decided he would have to accept the invitation, for his own sake.

Takeshi caught up to Daisuke. "Hey, dude," said Takeshi, holding up an envelope in his face, "Look what I got in the mail!"

"A letter from Donis; I got one too," Daisuke replied.

Takeshi looked crestfallen as he stared back at the pink frilly stationary. "I thought it was from a girl…"

"It could have been from Mio."

Takeshi shuddered. "So you already opened yours then? I though we'd open it together…"

"Uh… together?"

"You know. Like a candy bar."

"It's just asking you to go to his hot springs that he apparently owns because he's filthy rich," Daisuke said with a shrug, "I guess I'm going."

"I guess I'll go too then," Takeshi decided. "Hot springs are always fun."

"Hiiiiiiiiiiiii, Iiiiiiiimmmmmmmmm Mmmmmmmmmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiooooooooo Haaa-Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiooooooooooo," Mio Hio stated happily.

"I see we have a new way of talking today," Daisuke stated flatly.

"Yeah," Mio said, abandoning the idea entirely. "Do you two know what a toh sa-ga-na-irps is?"

"You mean hot springs?"

"Oh no, not you too!" Takeshi cried. "Oh, why would Donis invite her? He barely knows her!"

"Good morning, chaps! Did you receive my hot springs invitations?" Donis asked merrily, as he always did.

"Yeah, I'll go," Daisuke answered.

"Splendid! What about you, short one?"
Takeshi blinked, realizing he was short by Donis' standards. "Uh, I'll go… that is if Mio doesn't!"

"Well, why ever not?" Donis asked confused about why anyone wouldn't want a girl to come on vacation.

"Because she's in love with me!" Takeshi said through gritted teeth.

"Is she in love with me too?" Donis said excitedly.

"I don't know! But who cares? I don't love her!" Takeshi shouted.

"I don't like your friend very much," Donis whispered to Daisuke, who nodded in agreement.

"Hi, I'm Mio Hio," Mio said, approaching Donis.

"Hello, there! Will you come to my hot springs with us?" Donis asked happily.

"I'm good at swimming," Mio stated flatly.

"How wonderful!"

"What's wonderful?" Mio asked, surprised.

"Why, that you can swim, of course!" Donis grinned.

"I can't swim," Mio said, shaking her head.

Donis didn't know what to say; he'd never had such difficulty conversing with a girl before.

The train pulled up then and the all got on- all except Mio.

"Are you coming?" Daisuke called.

Mio shook her head. "I can't drive it."

"But we have to-"

"Okay! Stay there! Bye!" Takeshi shouted as the doors closed.

"That was harsh, dude."

"I care not."

"I wash my hands of you, Takeshi! What a horrible thing to do!" Donis turned away from Takeshi.

"Yeah… whatever."

"Hey! I don't know you! What are you thinking inviting us to your hot springs for, you sketchball?!" Riku shouted, marching up to Donis huffily.

"I always like Daisuke's friends! Except Takeshi," Donis said haughtily.

"Yeah, well, I don't want to go," Riku said, handing back her invitation.

"I do! I do! I love hot springs!" Risa mega-squealed, racing up. "When do we leave?"

"Tomorrow after school," Donis said happily.

"Yay! I'm so uber excited!" Risa danced around in a circle. "Now you have to spend the weekend helping dad clean underneath all the furniture!"

"Ugh… fine, I'll go anyway." Riku growled, "But you'd better not be some creepy… pervert guy."

"I came to your house once, why do you hate me so much?" Donis asked unhappily.

"You're… you're just a suspicious character."

"I couldn't agree more," Daisuke mumbled.

At tomorrow after school, a big Greyhound bus pulled up and Donis raced up.

"Come one everyone, it's two hours till we get there!" he shouted and raced inside to take his favorite spot in the front.

"This trip is such a waste of a weekend. But I guess cleaning is too," Riku said. "The two options both suck. Ah, great."

"I wanna sit with Takeshi!" Mio leapt up and hugged her favorite person.

"Help me," Takeshi choked through his strangled hug.

"Uh, you can sit next to Riku," Daisuke said, unlatching Mio from him.

"Wait… what? What did you say?" Riku turned around.

"I'm sure you two will get along great."

"HEY! NO WE WON'T! DAISUKE!"

"Thank you…" Takeshi sighed, rubbing his shoulders.

"Yeah, you'd better be thankful. Riku's gonna kill me when we get there."

So they got there. And Riku killed Daisuke.

"This place is really big," Mio observed. For once, everyone else agreed with her. Donis skipped forward.

"Dude… you just skipped," Takeshi observed.

To which Donis replied, "Yes. It was a manly skip!"

"But a skip nonetheless."

"Well anyway... Please go inside and pick whatever room that you want!" They all raced in like a bunch of sugar-high children.

"We're sharing a room!" Riku said, grabbing her sister's arm; the bus ride with Mio had apparently not gone very well. Risa was yanked after her before she could comment.

"Us too, dude! Come on, this one near entrance in case we need to run away!" Takeshi ran into the first room.

"Well, I get the master bedroom by myself, of course," Donis laughed to himself and walked away.

Mio peered into the room the Harada sisters shared. "Can I stay with you two?"

"Uh…" Riku started, not wanting to be overly rude.

"No," said Risa, who didn't care if she was overly rude.

"Waaah, you made the Mio cry." Mio walked away to go sleep behind a bush in the hallway.

"Cannonball!" Takeshi shouted, racing forward and jumping into it.

"Takeshi! You can't do that, it's rude!" Daisuke said, walking forward.

Takeshi grinned. "So? Everyone left; now we have the whole thing to ourselves!"

"This place isn't exactly private, is it, Donis? I thought you said this was yours," Daisuke mumbled, side-glaring at Donis.

Donis smiled sheepishly. "I was hoping you wouldn't find out."

"The fact that it's a country club was obvious enough." Daisuke shook his head.

"Do you hear something?" Takeshi asked, swerving his head around. "It sounds like someone's trying to get in here… from the other side."

"You mean the girl's side. Don't talk about them like they're aliens."

"They practically are!"

"Why wouldn't they wouldn't they try to get in here?"

"Donis."

"I'm sorry."

"I wonder if she's going to keep doing that."

"She seems pretty intent on plowing through there."

Risa and Riku watched as Mio walked slowly against the fence.

"Hey! Mio! What are you doing?" Riku shouted.

"Getting as close as I can to my Takeshi-kins," Mio stated. "But something is blocking me from my beloved."

"… I see." Risa dunked her head under the water, to look as if she didn't know her, only to realize it was really, really hot.

"Hey! You know who I saw in the lobby?" Risa said to her twin, once she had calmed down from her hurting face.

"Who? Dark?" Riku feigned over-enthusiasm.

"Ha, ha. No. Satoshi!"

Riku stopped smiling. "What? Is everyone coming here?"

"I guess. I saw some people from summer camp that we hated too, but I think they left after I filled there room with, um, never mind." Risa walked away to go point and laugh at Mio, thus saving herself from further interrogation.

"Hey, Daisuke, is that your cell phone playing the Chips Ahoy song?"

"… It's not called that."

"Whatever."

Daisuke answered his phone to find his mother's voice on the other end.

"Hello? Oh, hey Mom-"

"Hellooo, Mrs. Niwa, how are you? … Well that's a shame. Hey! I haven't been to your house in while!... Oh, yeah, the restraining order… But I thought that expired… Okay, okay, here's your son." Takeshi sadly handed back the phone.

"What is it?" Daisuke asked, watching Takeshi beat himself over the head with a plastic rock.

"I just wanted to say that another possessed art thing is here! It's called the Horn of Neptune! But you'll have to find it yourself!"

"But Mo-om!"

"Don't Mo-om me, mister! You have a job! Bye-bye, my little centrifugal bumble puppy!"

"Mom! Don't- aww, man."

But then, at the sight of Satoshi, and the realization that his weekend just got worse, Daisuke dropped his cell phone in the water, where it shut off. Which didn't make his weekend any better.

Each paragraph ending is kind of cruddy… I was sort of in a hurry to get this done. But anyway, do you know that centrifugal bumble puppy is actually a game? Like, for little kids? My sister saw it in a book she was reading. I don't know much else about it though.