A day in the life of Pururu. – By The-Derp-We-Call-Taruru

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{{A/N: RIGHT! TODAY IS A GOOD DAY! I feel a bit better today, I was able to get up and walk around the house and I ate a whole bowl of cereal and that was two hours ago and It is still inside my stomach and not outside. THAT HAS TO BE A GOOD SIGN.
And I got like two people saying "eat your greens". I will have you all know I totally eat my greens! I eat green M&Ms and green Skittles and green apple liquorish and green smarties, green tea and green pistachio ice-cream. I'm totally full of green! IT DID NOT STOP ME FROM GETTING ILL. Doctors are full of lies. Ignore them all! Throw apples at them.
Ahaha anyway. Thanks for all the reviews again! You guys are all great! I'm really touched so many people told me not to write because I was sick. That's really sweet guys okay. (v;3;)v Normally people just tell me to stop whining and get on with stuff anyway. You readers are so nice I love you all.
Alright, time to try and write something! …drats. Where have all my ideas gone. They were here yesterday! WHERE DID THEY GO! COME BACK IDEAS! COME BACKKKKK!

Damn they must have run away to Mexico.
Oh well, I'll do my best anyway.

This chapter is long and so out of character and I hate it. But at the same time I kind of gave myself cute mental images of the baby duckies part and I melted my brain. Soooo…yeah. You may suffer "d'aww" effects. I will not be held responsible if any of my readers melt.
Sorry about all this. Author sleepy. Ignore author. .3.

Enjoy~}}

Work diary: day 27

I'm still waiting on a reply from you headquarters. Just a short message or something to tell me that my project is being read, I'd really appreciate it. I just feel a little silly writing about everything that happens, if it's just going to be ignored.
You know what I mean?

Right so anyway, today everything went pretty darn smoothly I think, except for the breakfast incident.
I got up at about the normal time of 4am, everyone was already in the dining area having breakfast. Even Zoruru was up, I guess he must have felt a lot better overnight. He didn't have so much of a fever either anymore. Taruru's tongue was still pretty swollen and such, but he seemed to have no problem eating anymore, haha. We always have type G for breakfast. Urgh, I am really developing a hatred for that stuff. I know it is supposed to be healthy, but it just tastes so salty and blehh. -
Hahaha, listen to that, I'm actually starting to sound like Tororo now. Being all picky and childish about my food. Goodness, spending so much time around certain people really starts to change your personality like you wouldn't believe. ^^;

So back to the morning. Yeah…I may have completely forgotten about that microwave sludge monster I trapped in the fridge yesterday. Oops. ._.
Taruru opened the fridge to try and find milk to soothe his tongue and that 'thing' leaped out and made everyone jump out of their skins.
…Oh, figure of speech by the way. That's something I learned from a citizen on a planet we visited a while back. It doesn't really mean jumped out of their body skin, it means it made them jump in shock. I made the mistake of using foreign figures of speech around the others before and just ended up confusing everyone. ^^;

So anyway, this 'thing' had gotten bigger. Turns out trapping it in the fridge was not a great idea. It had eaten all of its content and grown about three times its original size. Quick thing it was too, it was slithering about and climbing on everything. Everyone was sort of panicking too because no one except me had any idea what it was. I think they thought it was some kind of gross parasite alien. I probably should have explained and everything, but I got embarrassed at the time. I didn't want everyone to be mad at me for creating an accidental monster in our microwave. ._.

Everyone was crashing around trying to catch the damned thing. It caused such a ruckus. The lieutenant materialized this large sniper rifle and kept trying to shoot it. He has a great aim, it's amazing, he hit it every time. Unfortunately the slime ball just kept absorbing the bullets and getting bigger. Zoruru kept zapping around trying to catch it and slash at it with his scary metal arm blade thingy, but it kept just regenerating every time it got cut. Tororo spent most of the time standing in the corner and laughing at us from what I saw, I guess since Garuru took away his laptop, there wasn't really much the kid could do anyway. I tried to help too, I bashed at that thing with my biggest needle as best I could. Guess what? The stupid slime ball ate my needle! The cheek of it! :'(

Then came Taruru. Now, Taruru is a part of this team because he can shoot very impressive lasers from his eyes. I mean, obviously we can all shoot eye lasers, but his lasers are just…wow. So he started shooting at this thing with his eyes, the problem was that the slime ball seemed to just absorb this energy. It got bigger and bigger and soon it almost took up the whole room.

Then it exploded.

I think it's safe to say everyone lost their appetite after that. In fact, I'm pretty sure half the platoon lost their breakfast too. Just…yuck. ~
Everyone got covered head to toe in slime. The entire room got covered in slime. It was nasty! It stunk as well, like heavily rotting food. Urgh, I had to take like three baths and I still can't get that stench off of me. I hate it!

I feel pretty bad because Tororo got the blame for all of this. Apparently Garuru thought it was some kind of prank in revenge again. The poor tadpole got forced to clean up the whole room by himself. I know I should step up and take the blame. Ohh…I feel like a terrible person I just… I don't want to make a bad impression. You know? :(

Well anyway, moving on from that morning chaos. After everything was cleaned up, we landed back at the grand star docking bay. Wow it was the first time I had seen Keron again in almost a month. For some reason I think I felt like breaking down in tears. I guess maybe I was actually more homesick than I let myself believe. Haha ^^;
I'll have to get used to it though. I hope to have a long career ahead of me in the platoon. The past twenty seven days have been the most exiting days of my life I think. Traveling the universe! Fighting aliens! Saving innocent lives! It's exhilarating and I just love it! ^^

But it sure was nice to feel Kerons damp air against my face again.

Anyway, we got issued half a day's break after all our hard work. Okay…it may not seem like a lot of time off after almost a month of working nonstop. But I guess to be fair, the majority of the month was spent around the ship doing paperwork or training while traveling. It takes a really long time to travel to different planets. So I guess the traveling part doesn't really count as work. Plus we're a fairly new platoon, and although we received the "A" grade title, we're still classed as a rookie platoon until we complete the tenth mission. Rookie platoons don't get many holidays. I still think we deserve longer, do you have any idea how hard we've been working?! I haven't had a proper eight hours sleep since I started here!

With half a day, we didn't have any time to loose. Everyone kind of just went their separate ways at first, Garuru told us to meet back at the ship by midday. I had no idea what to spend my time doing honestly. Half a day was obviously not enough time to go all the way home to visit my family. I couldn't really shop or anything, it was too early for anything to be open. There wasn't anyone around at this time of day either. The docking bay was pretty much empty except for some scouting ships flying in and out on the occasion.
In the end I just decided to go outside and stroll in the park a while.

It was really pleasant actually. I forgot how much I missed kerons moist atmosphere. The temperature was just right for Keronjins, nice and warm and damp. It was pretty out in the park too, must have been the time of year for flowers, there were plants growing everywhere. The sun was shining. It was just lovely. ^^
I'm sure this is all un-important to you up at headquarters, haha. Sorry.

I guess the others didn't have an awful lot to do during our time off anyway either. I found Garuru in the park too, sitting by the side of a pond and feeding the ducks. It was quite funny, he doesn't seem the type of man to be feeding ducks, more, the type you would normally see shooting them down for target practise or something. ^^;
It was rather sweet watching him though. He looked so relaxed. I don't think I've ever seen the captain relaxed, not since I started here. I guess being the leader of a high ranking platoon must be stressful.

I went and sat down with him after a while. I didn't have much else to do. I would have gone over right away but…I guess maybe I didn't want to bother him or anything. I suppose this is the first time we have all had a break from each other. I guess maybe I thought he would get mad at me for bothering him. I got anxious.
Suddenly though, I saw Taruru climb out of the pond and run around bothering him anyway. So I figured, I can't be any worse, right? That's what gave me the courage to go over. V(o-o)v

He let me sit with him and help him feed the ducks. He said there was not much else to do, that it was too early in the day and there simply was not enough time to travel home. Same problem as me I suppose. ^^;
So instead he said might as well just sit by the pond and relax for once. It was really nice. There were lots of baby duckies too, they were adorable. I think I saw the leader almost smile. That's a very rare sight, haha ^^;

I think…I may have fallen asleep. In my defence, as I mentioned earlier, I haven't really had a proper eight hours sleep since I joined the platoon. Plus it was a lovely warm day, it was just so comfy. When I woke up I was on Garuru's lap. How humiliating o/ / /o
I think I probably did an impression of a tomato at this point. I don't think I had ever felt so awkward in my life.
He didn't seem to mind at all though. I mean, he wouldn't look me in the eyes or anything for the rest of the day, but he didn't move me away, he just let me lay there and kept feeding the ducks.

I probably would have slept all afternoon if Taruru hadn't woken me up by splashing us from the pond. That boy is hyper to no end. -_-'
Garuru yelled at him, but Taruru said since he was off duty, he could not punish him or anything. Which, fair enough, was true. I thought after that he would just leave it, but no. Out of the blue the captain stood up and jumped in the pond with him, splashing him back.

…I really did not expect that. Maybe the lieutenant has a fun side after all. Hahaha ^^

I kept getting splashed so I went and sat on a low tree branch a little way back to watch. It was really sweet watching them jump around splashing each other, it put me in a fit of giggles. Lucky it was so early no one was up and about yet, I don't think the leader would have been caught dead by anyone else acting like this. Heck, I was surprised he was caught dead letting us see him act like this. I feel like, even though it's been just short of a month, it already feels like we are as close as family. :)
That, and I think the moisture in the air was getting to everyone's heads. ^^;

I fell off the branch I was sitting on not long afterwards because Zoruru started talking from next to me and I had no idea he was there, it scared the life out of me. Geez, he is really good at sneaking up on people. -0-
He actually 'asked' me if it was alright for him to sit with me, politely too! It scared me a little. Normally he is rude and obnoxious…well, form what I have observed. He doesn't really talk all that much normally.
He didn't talk at all after that either, he just sat there with me. I felt rather awkward. I'm not a big fan of awkward silences. He seemed comfortable enough though.

Tororo came and met up with us in the park later too, I think he was just as surprised as I was to see the leader splashing around in the pond with Taruru. It really was a sweet sight, I can't stress it enough. They looked like father and son or something, ahaha. ^^;
I was really hoping Tororo would go and join them actually, that boy really needs to get some exercise. He's getting pudgy. :\
He did not though, he brought lunch with him instead. Which was nice, we all had a picnic together. It was pleasant. The baby ducks climbed out of the pond and gathered around Garuru as he ate, he was not impressed. I think he was kind of irritated, one even sat on his head. It was adorable, I had to bite my tongue not to break down laughing. The others were not so afraid to show their great amusement at this. ^^;
I have to give it to the captain though, he has patience of steel. He didn't even yell or anything. He just let them sit there as he ate and rolled his eyes at us.

I think it's quite nice. Even though we only had half a day we were allowed to spend away from each other, we ended up spending it together as a platoon anyway.

After lunch we all headed back to the ship to receive our next mission brief. Apparently we're being sent off to another really cold planet. I offer you another unenthusiastic "yay". Would it really be that much trouble giving us a mission on a nice beach or something? -_-
This time to explore some cave there, apparently headquarters has been picking up some sort of strange distress signal for some time now. It's our job to go and check it out. It could be kinda fun. Sounds like we're off on another adventure! Haha! ^^

I did have to excuse myself for a few minutes as the ship took off again. It's that departing moment that makes me feel really homesick. You know? I didn't want the others to see me cry. Wow…I feel so silly for crying anyway. I am an army medic in an A class platoon. I need to be strong.
In all fairness, I'm sure the others were hit with that wave of homesick too. Not that they would show it. You know how hard headed boys are. ^^;
I did occasionally catch one of them staring longingly out the window though I'm sure. That's as much proof as I need.

No one seems to want to talk about today anymore. I guess the nice moist Keron atmosphere brought back everyone's energy all of a sudden and we all felt a bit silly and childish. It's understandable. Haha. Now I think everyone feels a bit embarrassed. I don't understand why personally, I think it was sweet how everyone got on together so well for once. Now everyone is back to being grumpy and arguing. -_-

The rest of the day was spent traveling. Garuru demanded silence after Tororo and Taruru started shouting "Marko" and "Polo", and Zoruru threatened to cut their tongues out. So it was a nice quiet trip.
I think we land on this new ice planet some time tomorrow morning.

I think I'm going to go now. I want to at least attempt to get somewhere close to eight hours sleep for once, haha. ^^;
I will update again when I can.

Sincerely Pururu~