Hey, everyone! This chapter has no effect on the story, it's just random. Though there may be references to this chapter in the rest of the story, you should be able to figure it out even without reading this.

Black Butler/Kuroshitsuji reference in this chapter!

"Hey, Miss Yuuki, where's Hanabusa going?" Sora asked. She was observing him through the window.

"Grocery shopping, Sora." Yuuki replied and stepped out of the room.

"Grocery shopping, huh?" Sora said to herself, and unseen by anyone, she grabbed her coat and ran after Hanabusa.

Hanabusa jumped and turned back. "Guess that kid isn't there after all…My imagination is going overdrive…" He turned and continued to walk, when he heard a thud behind him. He turned again, and saw Sora behind, picking herself up after a fall. "Oh, it's just the kid." Hanabusa continued to go on. Then he stopped. "THE KID?" Once more, he turned. She wasn't there. He shivered. "I'm going crazy…"

"No you're not!"

There she was. In FRONT of him. "How did you get there? You were over there a minute ago!"

Sora looked confused. "I walked, of course."

"B-but…"

"Is something wrong, Hanabusa?"

"No. Nothing, kid."

"Can I come too grochiry shopping too?"

"Grochiry?"

"Yeah, Grochiry."

"Do you mean 'Grocery'?"

"Yeah, Gro-gra- What you said."

"No."

"Why not?"

"No."

"Please?" And she looked at him with puppy eyes, and he couldn't resist.

"Fine…"

Hanabusa and Sora had reached the local grocery story. Sora had to be pulled away from various dogs many times. Sometimes at the cost of a little skin. But Hanabusa was a vampire. He healed quickly. That isn't to say it didn't hurt.

"…and, no pulling apples off the bottom of the stack or something." Hanabusa was lecturing Sora on staying out of trouble. "THAT GOES FOR CANS TOO." For Sora was about to pull out a can from a HUGE pile.

"Really?"

"YES."

"Ok, then!"

"Now don't leave my sight!"

10 minutes later-

"WHERE IS SHE?" Hanabusa ran around frantically, earning weird looks from other shoppers.

Th PA system turned on. "There is a lost child in Aisle 6. We request the guardian to come collect her."

Hanabusa ran.

Aisle 6-

"I'm not coming down!" Sora yelled from her perch atop a shelf.

"You HAVE to, miss!" An unfortunate salesperson replied. "I'm sorry the spider scared you!"

"I'm NOT coming DOWN!"

Hanabusa arrived at the scene. "Sor-How the *BEEP* did you get up there?"

"HANABUSA!" Sora cocked her head. "What does *BEEP* mean?"

Hanabusa clapped his hands to his mouth. "N-nothing. You just forget it…"

"Ok…" Sora shifted her position, and the shelf swayed. She fell of onto the floor, but the shelf continued to move.

The salesperson jumped to the side to avoid a few glass bowls that had fallen off the shelf. Hanabusa ran forward, the picture of a hero. If it was a movie, he'd have been running in slow motion.

He tripped. The shelf fell.

"KID!" Hanabusa cried. "Oh…I'm gonna miss her. Sure, she caused me a lot of trouble, but she never meant it…" He let his head drop, and he lay face down on the floor.

"Hanabusa? Are you ok?"

Hanabusa sniffed. "She's haunting me…"

"No I'm not! I'm perfectly fine!"

His head snapped back up. "You are? But…how?"

"It missed me!"

"It did?"

"Yeah! Isn't that lucky? I would have been hurt bed, huh? Even worse than the time I fell and scraped my knee?"

Hanabusa stared. He had the feeling this kid hadn't the slightest idea about death. "Um…yeah."

The journey home was uneventful. Hanabusa just couldn't understand why they were letting Sora stay with them, even though she was a hunter's child. That was ASKING for trouble…

"Cuteness is death…" He muttered.

"Huh?" Sora looked up.

"Nothing, kid. Let's go inside." He opened the door.

"HANABUSA!" Hanabusa was knocked down by Kagami who attacked him with a hug.

"Kagami! Get off me! What's the big idea?"

Kagami got up, but didn't answer him directly. She turned back to the house. "And THAT, Ichijou, is how you imitate Lizzy."

Ichijou stepped outside. "That IS much better than mine. But I didn't have anybody to fall on, you moved…"

"Have you two been watching anime again?" Hanabusa practically screamed. It was worse than Kaname sometimes, when they watched anime together and then got influenced by it.

"Yes." They replied so similarly, it was almost scary.

"Ok…"

Ichijou glanced at his watch. "Oh, I have to go. See you later, Hanabusa and Kagami!"

"Bye, Mister-Whoever-You-Are!" Sora said.

After Ichijou had gone, Kagami turned to Hanabusa. "I have something to show you!" She dragged him inside.

After pushing him down on the couch, Kagami rummaged in a bag, and pulled out a book.

"A book? What's so interesting about it?" Then he saw the title. "How to Take Care Of Children? Why do I need that?"

"Well, you obviously don't know how to look after a kid; you made her cry, after all."

"B- but I didn't do it on pur-"

Kagami didn't allow Hanabusa to finish. "Chapter 1: Know how to scold." She shut the book.

Hanabusa looked skeptically at her. "What, you were all fired up, and then you shut the book after reading the chapter heading?"

"Well, the book says in bold that you have to complete each step, and well, the first step is at like, -10% completed."

"Well, I can't tell her off without a reason!"

"Yeah…you're right." Kagami muttered

"THANK YOU." Hanabusa said.

"Sora, bite him in the arm!"

"Ok!" Sora said happily.

"Wh- OW!" Hanabusa stood and tried to shake Sora off.

"No!" Kagami yelled, "SCOLD, not SHAKE!"

"FINE!" Hanabusa looked down at Sora, determined to yell. He opened his mouth but then closed it again when he saw her face. It looked so cute and innocent… "Um…b-bad girl?"

"Not like that, you DOLT." Kagami said, and took a deep breath. "BAD GIRL! YOU SHOULDN'T BITE PEOPLE! IT'S THE WORST BEHAVIOUR! HAVEN'T YOU BEEN RAISED BETTER? LET GO RIGHT NOW, OR YOU WILL BE PUNISHED!"

Both Sora and Hanabusa backed up. A lot.

Sora started sniffling. Then the thunder in Kagami's face disappeared, and it turned happy. "Now, that's a good girl!" She cuddled Sora.

"Thank you!" Sora said with a smile.

Hanabusa didn't understand it. HE hadn't yelled at Sora. But that didn't stop her from crying and running off to get captured by a random Level E. Kagami went all out, then said a simple 'Good Girl', and everything was fine.

"You don't have to understand, Hanabusa…" Kagami said in a creepy tone.

"H-how did you know that was what I was thinking?"

"Oh please, I've known you long enough for that. You really should learn how to disguise your thoughts." Kagami smiled, and pulled out her book again. "Ok…Chapter 2 now!" She flipped through the pages. "Ooh…this is going to be fun…"

Hanabusa did not like the look on her face.

"Ok! Here comes the train! Open wide and say 'ah'." Hanabusa said without much enthusiasm.

"Nu-uh" Sora said, and clamped her mouth shut.

Hanabusa turned to Kagami. "Can't we just give her something she likes?"

"No way!" Kagami said. "It must be nutritious."

"Why are you putting me through this TORTURE?"

"Consider this payback for…the tarantula incident."

"I said I was sorry!"

"Sorry won't cut it!"

"Hmph. Like I was saying, open wide and say 'AH'!"

Sora shook her head.

"Ok…something different…Here comes the plane! Now EAT."

More head shaking.

"HERE COMES THE JUMBO JET WITH THE PLANE ENGINE WHICH WILL SELF DESTRUCT AND KILL EVERYONE IN THE WORLD IF YOU DON'T OPEN YOUR MOUTH!"

Sora stopped shaking, mostly because she was stunned. Hanabusa took advantage of this, and forced the spoon into her mouth. Sora choked it down.

Kagami took out the book. "Um…to prevent you from getting arrested because of child abuse, I'm going to say we completed that step."

"Great. What's next?" Hanabusa had long ago given up arguing with her.

"Chapter 3: Bath Time!"

Hanabusa blushed.

Kagami snapped the book shut. "Don't worry, I'll do that!"

A while later-

The sound of running water stopped, and Kagami led Sora outside in a bath robe. "Wait here, Sora, I'll be right back!" Saying so, Kagami ran downstairs.

Hanabusa was sitting on the sofa. "Done?" He asked.

"Sort of." Kagami replied and picked up a bag. "Come on."

"What's in the bag?"

"Clothes for Sora!"

"You bought them yesterday?"

"No, they're my old clothes."

"You're gonna dress her up in rags?"

"Who said they were rags?"

"Well, they must be old…aren't they?"

"You'll see…"

Five Minutes Later-

"Ta-da!" Kagami announced.

"Looks a little loose…" Hanabusa muttered.

Sora nodded, and pushed the shoulder of the dress up again. "These clothes are pretty, don't make me take them off!"

"Time for a little…female magic!"

"How are your powers going to help here? Are you gonna make her forget it's loose? Or maybe make everyone AROUND her forget it's loose?" Hanabusa laughed. He was teasing her, reminding her of a little plan gone wrong when they were children.

"I'm not gonna use my powers!"

"Then…how are you going to.-"

"With THIS!" Kagami brandished a pin.

"This I gotta see."

One minute later-

"All done!"

"That isn't possible. Just one pin…"

"Just because you only SAW one pin doesn't mean there weren't more." Kagami said in a wise-sage tone.

"Yeah, yeah." He observed Sora's outfit. "I don't like it that much. Too pink." He turned to Kagami. "Don't you think so?" When he saw her face he backed away slowly. "Hey…what's wrong with you?"

"Y-you said you liked it when I wore it for your 8th birthday!"

"Um…you see… that was…"

"Come on, Sora. We have better things to do." Saying so, Kagami stormed out of the room.

Dinner Time-

"I'm starving!" Hanabusa declared as he came down the stairs, heading towards the dining room. "Hey, Akatsuki!" Akatsuki didn't return the greeting quite so enthusiastically.

The two of them sat down at the table. Hanabusa looked at the empty seats. "Its just you, me, Kagami and Ruka tonight, huh?"

"Yes."

"Don't talk much, do you?"

Ruka came into the room. "Kagami's finishing up cooking and bringing it in."

"Kagami's food is gr-" Hanabusa jumped up as realization hit him. "K-Kagami's cooking?"

"Yes, what's wrong?"

"Oh snap…" Hanabusa moaned and sank back into his chair.

"I'm guessing he got her angry again." Akatsuki said.

"What did you do this time?" Ruka asked Hanabusa.

"The usual." Said Kagami, as she came in with the plates of food, along with Sora. She placed one plate in front of each person.

There were only four plates. Guess who was left out.

"Where's mine?" Hanabusa asked.

"You don't get anything."

"Please, Miss Kagami? I heard Hanabusa say he was hungry…" Sora pleaded.

Kagami looked at Hanabusa. "You are SO lucky she likes you." She got up and went into the kitchen.

After a few minutes Kagami came back with a covered plate. She dropped it in front of Hanabusa. "There."

Hanabusa cautiously lifted the lid. There was a loaf of bread. He bit into it. "Ugh, this is stale!"

"I know."

I know Kagami sort of slipped into 'Mary-Sue' right now, but…I couldn't HELP IT!