Yay! 20th chapter! I honestly didn't think I would make it this far! I'm excited! Anyway, Natsumi's FINALLY started to figure out that Giroro feels for her! But how will she react? I will answer that eventually, but probably not in this chapter. This chapter is the one you've all been waiting for. Or, if YOU weren't, I was. Gertrude's experience that bonds her with Giroro. Oh, the budding of romance… Bwahahaha… Kukuku…
After that little incident, the morning went along relatively uneventfully. Aki hadn't returned from work the night before, so they didn't need to worry about that quite yet. Fuyuki and Natsumi left for school, and FART was finally given a tour of their base, after Tamama and Tamomi showed up and Kululu and Kulala stopped their vicious mind-comments after waking up.
Eventually, the ARMPIT Platoon went about their daily business, and FART got down to business. Sort of.
"Okay, girls. Go do whatever you think appropriate to complete the first step of our mission; lure the Pekoponians into a false sense of security," Kerora ordered, and Gertrude rolled her eyes.
"I think that they already trust us more than they should. Since we have the opportunity, and the house to ourselves, we should strike now!" she argued, slamming her fist down on a coffee table in Kerora's room.
"I'm in charge, Gertrude. Just for a few weeks, and then we'll get started, I promise," Kerora said. This wasn't good enough for Gertrude, however, so after the meeting was over she went up to Kulala and told her the plan. Kulala was all for it so she pulled out her laptop and hacked into Kululu's files. He was about to object, hearing Kulala's thoughts, but then he heard what they were up to he just grinned.
Giroro didn't stop them either, because he was all for it. It was exactly what he would've done. Actually, he did do it, but that wasn't the point.
"Here you go," Kulala said, handing Gertrude the laptop. On it were Kululu's files on the Hinatas.
(To understand this next part, realize that Kululu puts all of his files under false names to confuse anyone who tries to hack in. Kulala and Gertrude don't know this. The file entitled 'Natsumi Hinata' is actually information on Fuyuki, and the file entitled 'Fuyuki Hinata' is actually Natsumi's information)
Gertrude clicked on the file about the pink-haired girl, Natsumi. A list of traits popped up, and by the looks of it, she wasn't a threat at all. Her only good attribute was that she was especially observant and a great detective and that wouldn't be much of a problem. The she clicked on the Fuyuki boy's file.
Her eyes widened fearfully. Athletic, smart, temperamental. He sounded dangerous. She'd have to take him out now, before he interfered with their invasions. She closed the laptop and set to work, setting up booby traps all over the house, mostly concentrated in his room. Now she just had to wait.
Before long, he was home. Natsumi had stayed behind to give the soccer team pointers, again, so Fuyuki was all alone. Fuyuki completely avoided all of her traps downstairs, going straight up to his room. He opened the door and was instantly caught in a trap and had swords pointed at him. Gertrude stared at him with cold, heartless eyes.
"AH! DON'T HURT ME!" Fuyuki yelled, cowering under the net he was trapped under. He started bawling. Obviously, Gertrude's information had been faulty. There was no way he was 'athletic, smart, or temperamental.' She was about to dispose of his anyway, but his cries tugged at her heartstrings. He was so helpless and weak…
Her heart started thumping loudly in her ribcage, and her face heated up. Thinking fast, she tried to cover up her attack.
"You'd think that you'd be used to this kind of thing by now. Don't they do field exercises with you on a regular basis?" she asked gruffly. Thankfully, he seemed to buy it.
"Wait… you weren't going to hurt me?" he sniffled, sitting up. She threw the net off of him.
"Of course not, silly Pekoponian boy," she replied. I could never hurt you Fuyuki Hinata. I… I love you.