Love of the Mabudachi Trio

Chapter Two: The Carnival

By: Tanokai

A/N: I wish to thank everyone who has reviewed. I would like to give a special thank you to Maidenofthemist89 who let me know that Hatori was a bit straightforward and said that Aya and shigure were probably rubbing off on him. I added a little line like that in this chappie. Thank you! Three reviews in a few days! I love you all!

3:00PM the next day

Bring! Bring!

Anishi forced herself to wake up from her afternoon nap and answer the phone.

"Hey, Anishi? How are you?" Shigure asked, happy as ever.

"If you even think about telling me you want to move the next deadline I'll snap you in two!"

Shigure shrank from the angry voice of his new girlfriend. He gave a nervous laugh. "'No. No. It's nothing like that. I just wanted to know if you wanted to go to the carnival tonight. It's the opening night. It'll be here for a month, but I thought that the first night would be the best"

"Huh? Oh, yeah. Sounds like a blast," All of the energy in Anishi's voice was gone now.

"Are you feeling alright?" Shigure asked, a bit concerned and confused.

"Huh? What? Oh. Yeah. I'm fine."

"You don't sound alright."

"I just woke up. I'm not a morning person. Hey, you mind if I pick you up to go to the carnival?"

"Um. No. Just wondering why you would ask."

"Well, I just got a car and I haven't had any reason yet to drive it."

"I see. You do have a license, yes?"

"Of course I do!" Ani snapped at him.

"Sorry. Sorry. Just thought I would check. So, you have a car now? What about Mayumi and Losan?"

"Well, Mayumi has a car herself. The office she works for gave it to her so that she could get there without too much trouble. They came by this morning to give it to her. The car I got is Losan's as well. She rides her bike down to her work, though. We mainly got it so that I could get to your house, we don't live that close to you."

"Yes I suppose that's true."

"So, what time does the Carnival start? Six right?"

"Yes. How'd you know? Were you already planning to go?"

"No. May was babbling about it last night. She's going with Hatori tonight."

"Hatori?"

"Yeah. Something wrong?"

Shigure gave a quiet chuckle. "No. I just find it interesting that Hatori would ask any girl to go anywhere with him. I think me and Aya may be rubbing off on him. He's not usually so straightforward. Hmmmm. I wonder..."

"Wonder what?"

"It's probably nothing. I have to get going now. I have a lot to do today."

"Bye, my procrastinating novelist."

"Bye my lovely flower!"

5:30PM that day

Losan yawned and stretched as she stood up. She had been working for some time on "Mogeta". She wasn't sure she could stand again. Heck, she couldn't even feel her butt. After taking a look at her watch and seeing that it was five thirty in the afternoon, she realized that she had worked a few hours over then she planned. Gathering her stuff into her back pack, Losan wondered what she would do that night.

"Probably sit and watch something" she thought aloud.

Losan left the building and walked to the small bike rack outside where she unlocked her bike and put her lock in her pack.

"I was definitely sitting to long! I'm barely getting the feeling back in it! For a while I wasn't even sure it was there." She sighed and then let out a shriek. Someone was touching her butt!

Turning quickly, Losan hit whoever the pervert was with her pack.

She blinked as she stared at the white haired fiend. "Ayame!"

"Hello, Losan. I can't say I've been hit by many women. That was definatly an experience."

"Well, I wouldn't have hit you if you hadn't touched my butt!"

"My apologies, you were just saying you didn't know if it were there, I was just making sure it was for you."

"You what?"

"I was just making sure no one had stolen it while you couldn't feel it. I know it would have been terribly embarrassing for you if it were gone and you didn't know."

Losan smiled. She then chuckled. He was quite amusing.

"So, now that we have both established the fact that your wonderful butt is still attached to the rest of your wonderful self, how would you enjoy going to the carnival with me? Because every beautiful princess should be accompanied by and equally beautiful prince who can do nothing else but accent the beauty of the princess."

Losan blinked. Yes. It seemed he could definitely sweet talk a woman, even if he did have to involve himself in it somehow. "Ok." She happily stated. "Um. Just let me drop off my stuff at home, it's not too far away."

"Alright, I'll walk you there then. Can't have anyone stealing your butt."

When Losan and Ayame got to the house that Losan and her friends lived, Losan saw that Mayumi was fuming and Anishi was ready to leave. She blinked, slightly confused. "Anishi, what did you do to make May so angry?" Losan was careful to stay far from Mayumi, and Ayame fallowed her example.

"Me? It wasn't me! She's mad because her trial was moved to another day," Anishi seemed anxious to leave. For two reasons, to get away from Mayumi and to pick up Shigure and go on their date.

"Oh. Where are you going then?"

"Me and Shigure are going to go to the carnival tonight. I was going to go pick him up."

"Oh! So are we! Can I drive?"

"You?"

"It's our car. Besides you'll get plenty of chances to drive it to the Doggie's house!"

"Ok. Ok. You can drive," Anishi tossed her the keys.

"Yay!"

Losan slammed on the brakes just bare stopping before she hit Shigure's house.

Anishi was so scared she was nearly in tears. Ayame, however was apparently having fun as he complimented her driving and had rooted her on the whole way. As Anishi got out of the car she looked at the pair.

"Both of you! In the back! Now!" she yelled before going to the front door.

Both Ayame and Losan happily complied. Smiles broad across their faces.

Just before she knocked, Shigure opened the door and smiled, "There you are."

"Hi! Are you ready to go?"

"Yup. Ak!" Shigure quickly hid behind Anishi as they made their way to the car. "What she doing here Ani? She scaring me."

"Hi Doggie!" Losan stated as she waved happily.

"Hi." Shigure waved nervously, while hiding behind Anishi still.

"She and Ayame are going as well. When we get there we're going to split up and then meet back at the car when the carnival closes."

"I see. Is it safe to go in the car?"

"Yes. She's going to be on her best behavior. No hugging until we get back here later. Right Losan?"

"Right!"

"Comforting."

About the time Anishi, Shigure, Losan, and Ayame got to the carnival, so did Hatori and Mayumi. The three pairs, however, rarely saw each other after entering the carnival grounds. Anishi and Shigure seemed fascinated with the shows and the haunted house. Losan and Ayame stuck to the food, and Hatori and Mayumi tried their luck at the games. One game they did not try, however, was "Dunk your partner" The other two pairs did it however. The game was simple. It was a dunk tank where one of the two would be he dunked and the other the dunker. The dunked would sit upon the platform while the dunker threw balls at a target to dunk their partner. When Ayame and Losan went up, Losan was being dunked. It took Ayame three tries to dunk her. With Shigure and Anishi, Shigure was being dunked. Unfortunately, Anishi's aim was pretty bad, after ten tries, which was the max, she got ticked off and walked over to the target and pressed it herself. You can bet Hatori and Mayumi stopped to watched both of the couples.

Four hours and a lot of money after they first entered, Hatori and Mayumi were leaving the carnival with only three prizes: Two goldfish and a seahorse stuffed animal. They had both tried their luck at getting a goldfish and succeeded. Hatori would keep his in his office, and Mayumi in her room. Hatori had been the one to win the other prize. They both played the game where you try and toss a ping pong ball into a small glass bowl. If you got it in a white one you got a small prize, a blue one won a medium prize, and if you got it in the only red one you got a large prize. By some miracle he had gotten it into the red one, though he admitted he was trying for a white one initially, but the ball had bounced out and into the red one. He let Mayumi choose the stuffed animal she wanted. She looked at the selection: a large seahorse, a large octopus, or a large blowfish. She had a love for sea creatures since she was a kid, and lucky her, her favorite animal was there. When she asked for it Hatori turned slightly pink. After thinking about it for a moment, Mayumi turned, not a little pink, but bright red. She had forgotten that Hatori turned into a seahorse when hugged by a girl.

Now, two hours before the carnival closed, they were leaving. Both of them had had long days and were tired, and not to mention, they both had to wake up early the next day.

Once they got to Mayumi's home they both got out of the car and headed inside. Hatori had left his bag of medical supplies over the other day. Mayumi first went into the kitchen and tried to get a glass fishbowl from the top shelf of one of the cabinets. Losan used the bowl to put her fish in when she cleaned her large tank. Unfortunately, Mayumi was to short to reach it.

Seeing her trouble, Hatori got it down for her. "Here."

Mayumi smiled a bit embarrassed. "Thank you. Sometimes I hate being short. Oh! That's right. Your things. It's um… Where did I put them? Now I remember! I put everything in your bag and then put it in the spare room. If you go down the hall there," she pointed to the only hallway in the house. "and go into the last room on the right it'll be on top of some boxes."

When Hatori entered the room he noticed that there were nothing but boxes in that room. Apparently they hadn't gotten to unpacking everything since they moved in a few months back. He found his stuff easily, but was amazed at seeing a lot of seahorse related items around the boxes labeled "Mayumi". He picked up his bbag and then left the room back toward the entrance.

"Bye, Mayumi, I-" Hatori stopped what he was saying when he realized Mayumi was asleep on the couch. The fish bowl was on a table, the fish in it, and Mayumi was laying on the couch, her arms wrapped around the large seahorse stuffed animal, an unopened book in her hand. She must have been very tired. I was then that Hatori did something very not Hatori-like. He walked to her, and gently kissed her forehead. It was then, that something very strange happened. Something that Hatori did not expect. Poof!