Just Like a Circus

(This story is basically a cross between 'The Very Safe & Legal SMG4 Show' and the It's Always Sunny episode 'The Gang goes Jihad'...I am so canceled. Enjoy!)

Saturday morning at the Amamiya Residence can only mean one thing; a morning of absolute leisure. In the living room, we see Ren, Ann, Kimiko, and Morgana relaxing as they watch a T.V program together. The eldest Amamiya child, Minato, is currently away at college at Nagoya; he'd usually pay his family a visit on some weekends, but this isn't one of those weekends. Nevertheless, the three humans and one cat were very relaxed as they watched T.V and ate some cinnamon buns that Ren had baked.

"I love mornings like these," Kimiko sighed peacefully as she petted Morgana, who was resting on her lap, "Nothing to do except sit around and love life."

"Mmm," Ann purred to herself as she took a bite out of her cinnamon bun, "Nice buns, babe…and these cinnamon buns are pretty good too."

Hearing his wife's double entendre made Ren chuckle as he took a sip from his coffee.

"Nothing can possibly ruin this morning," Kimiko said, and as if on cue, the house phone started to ring as Ren answered it.

"Amamiya Residence, Ren speaking," Ren answered.

"Ren!" Futaba was heard on the other end in a panic, "Leblanc! Trouble! Closed down! Everyone's coming! Get here now!"

"O-Okay, Futaba, we'll be right there!" Ren said as he hung up the phone, "Come on girls, Morgana, we've gotta get down to Cafe Leblanc right now!"

"Why, what's wrong?" Ann asked, concerned, "What did Futaba want?"

"I don't know," Ren said, "But we'll find out when we get there."

Ren, Ann, and Kimiko slipped their shoes on as they and Morgana got in the car and drove off for Cafe Leblanc.

When they got to Cafe Leblanc, they saw a small crowd that consisted of the Sakamotos, the Watanabes, the Yajimas, the Kitagawas, the Tanakas, and the Mishimas standing before Sojiro. Right behind Sojiro was the cafe with a 'Closed' sign in front of it.

"Cafe Leblanc closed at this hour of the day?" Ann asked, "Something must be wrong."

Ren, Ann, Kimiko, and Morgana joined the crowd of their friends to find out what was going on.

"Sojiro, what's going on?" Ren asked, "What's happening with Cafe Leblanc?"

"It's horrible,," Sojiro said woefully, "But with everyone here, I feel I can explain everything now."

"Not everyone," Mana said, "Where's Minato?"

"He's still in college," Kimiko said as she pulled out her phone, "Let me see if I can get him over FaceTime. Hopefully he's not sleeping in."

Kimiko went to the FaceTime app and clicked on Minato's name. Within seconds, a sleepy-looking Minato, still dressed in his pajamas, came on the screen.

"Kim, this better be good," Minato said, "It was Gouki's birthday yesterday so me and some of his friends went out to the local bar to celebrate and-"

"Are you sure a drunken bender is something you want to mention in front of our parents," Kimiko asked as she turned the screen in Ren and Ann's direction, who looked at their son disapprovingly as if saying, 'Really, Minato?'

"Oh, uh, hey guys," Minato chuckled nervously, "What's up?"

"Something's going on with Cafe Leblanc, and Sojiro is about to tell us," Ren said as Kimiko turned the phone screen in Sojiro's direction.

"Spill the beans, gramps," Riku said, "What's going on with your cafe?"

"This morning a man in a dark blue suit came into the cafe to give me a letter," Sojiro explained, "I opened the letter and it was a notice to vacate the premises!"

Hearing that made everyone gasp.

"Apparently this man was a representative of the company that owns the 'Triple Seven Convenience Store' chain and he told me that my cafe would be the perfect location for their newest store," Sojiro continued, "My cafe was on a part of the property that they purchased. They're going to tear down Leblanc and most of the other homes and shops on this block. I have three weeks to vacate. Either that or raise ¥71,132,500 ($500,000) to save my shop."

"For real!?" Ryuji exclaimed.

"That's unbelievable," Shiho frowned.

"This is bullshit!" Sumire shouted, catching the attention of her husband, "Sorry, I don't know what came over me."

"Don't worry about it," Ichiro said before muttering, "It was kind of hot."

"There's gotta be some kind of loophole in all of this," Makoto said.

"Makoto's right," Daisuke said, "I mean, they can't legally take the cafe away, right?"

"This notice to vacate says they can," Sojiro said, taking the slip of paper out from his pocket.

"This is unreal, man," Minato said, "We've known this place for our whole lives. We were all here first! We can't let some corporate fat cats take what's rightfully ours!"

"So many parties and memories were made here," Yuuki said, crestfallen, "And now it's going to be taken away in the blink of an eye."

"What do we do now?" Kas asked.

After a moment of silence, Hayato and Hifumi's son, Hotaru, started to walk away from the group. In the time it took for everyone to get very nervous, Hotaru had already come up with an idea to potentially save the day.

"Hotaru, where are you going?" Hifumi asked.

"Trust me, mom, I have a plan," Hotaru said before looking at the members of the gang that were in his age group, "But I can't do it alone. Friends, come with me if you want to save Leblanc!"

"I'm with you, babe!" Himari shouted.

"Let's fuck shit up!" Kas said.

"We're not going down without a fight!" Kaito said.

"See you later mom and dad!" Kimiko said to her parents as she, her friends, and her brother who was still on his phone, left the area.

"Should we be worried about them?" Yusuke asked.

"I don't think so," Haru reassured her husband, "They're all grown up now. I trust them completely."

"Ahem, can we get back to the topic at hand, please," Futaba asked, "Alright, I know the task of raising over ¥71,000,000 in the span of three weeks sounds like a daunting task, but I think if we team up and put our heads together, we can do it."

Everyone was starting to get fired up from hearing Futaba's words of encouragement.

"Futaba's right," Ren said, "We've faced tougher odds than this and everything turned out okay. Let's help Sojiro raise the money so we can save Cafe Leblanc!"

Everyone cheered as they decided to team up and save the very establishment that they've grown to know and love, as well as consider a second home.

"Alright, gang, so where do we begin?" Hayato asked.

Gilligan Cut To…

At the front of Cafe Leblanc, the 14 adults, along with Sojiro and Morgana, had set up a lemonade stand…clearly short of ideas on how to raise money. All 16 present looked bored out of their minds. Any pedestrians that walk by just keep on walking, not paying the lemonade stand any mind.

"Remind me again why we thought a lemonade stand was a good idea to raise money?" Sojiro asked.

"What do you mean 'we'?" Futaba asked, "This was all Ryuji's idea."

"I just thought that it worked for Himari when she was younger, it might work for us," Ryuji said, "Stay optimistic, guys, I'm sure someone will stop here any minute."

Two Hours Later…

The lemonade stand is proving to be unsuccessful as the money jar on top of the stand is still completely empty. Most of the group of 16 have fallen asleep, they've been waiting so long for someone to stop at their stand for a glass of lemonade, and they were starting to wonder if they should move on to another plan to raise the money.

"I wonder what our kids are doing to save Leblanc?" Hifumi asked.

"I don't know, but it's gotta be more fun than this," Hayato said to his wife.

"There's gotta be a better and faster way to make money than this," Makoto said.

"Maybe if we do something that'll catch everyone's attention," Ann suggested.

"Good call," Ichiro said, "But if only one of us was a very talented former Tanuki Scout skilled in just about everything under the sun…oh wait!"

"What do you have planned, babe?" Sumire asked.

"Wait here, everyone, I'll be right back," Ichiro said as he ran off elsewhere.

A few minutes later Ichiro returned with a can of lighter fluid, and two batons with rags on the ends of them. Ichiro doused the ends of the batons with lighterfluid before pulling out his lighter and lighting them on fire.

"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to showtime!" Ichiro said as he started juggling and twirling the flaming batons, much to the surprise and enjoyment of his friends.

"Holy crap, that's awesome!" Daisuke cheered.

"This is the part of our relationship that I love," Sumire swooned, "Finding out just how many amazing things my Ichiro can do."

"No joke, guys, I'd pay money to see a show like this," Ryuji said.

Hearing Ryuji's comment gave Sojiro an idea.

"Money, a show, that's it!" Sojiro said.

"What's it?" Yuuki asked.

"The 16 of us," Sojiro said, "We put on a show that showcases our skills, and we'll charge entry fees. We'll make so much money that way and we'll make ¥71,000,000 in no time."

"I like this plan," Futaba said, "Not to mention it sounds like fun."

"What kind of show do you think we should put on?" Ren asked.

"I was just thinking it's been years since I've been to a good circus," Sojiro said, "Why don't we do that?"

"A circus?" Ichiro asked as he stopped twirling his fire batons, "That's a wonderful idea!"

"But what acts will we all do?" Haru asked.

"Well obviously Ichiro and I will be trapeze artists," Sumire said as Ichiro nodded in agreement.

"I feel like I've been getting better at driving that motorcycle Ryuji got me for my birthday a few years back," Makoto said, "I'll be your stuntwoman!"

She then looked towards her husband, Hayato, and Hifumi, "And you three are going to help me!"

Hearing that made Hayato, Hifumi, and Ryuji feel a bit nervous.

"Why do I get the feeling this isn't going to end well for us?" Hayato asked.

"There was a time in my life when I dabbled in magic," Ren said, "Ann, Morgana, and I could be the magic act."

"It's not really a circus without clowns," Yuuki said, "Maybe Futaba, Shiho, Daisuke, and I can be your clowns."

"I'll be a clown as long as I can juggle," Shiho said.

"I didn't know you could juggle, Shiho," Daisuke said.

"There's a lot of things you don't know about me, babe," Shiho smirked.

"You're right, Sumire," Daisuke swooned, "Finding out new things about your lover is amazing."

"Well, Haru, Yusuke, what are you two going to do?" Sojiro asked the artist and cafe owner.

"I'm not too sure, Sojiro," Yusuke said, "Perhaps we can-"

"Knife throwing," Haru said bluntly.

"Wait, what?!" Yusuke asked nervously.

"Good enough," Sojiro said, "Alright, we all know our jobs. We have six hours until showtime, go and practice, everyone!"

"WHAT?!" The 14 adults shouted.

"Six hours?!" Makoto said, "You really expect us to get our respective routines down pat in six hours?"

"We have no time to lose, Makoto," Sojiro said, "Besides, this writer has made stranger things happen in these stories. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go over to Shujin Academy to see if we can use their gymnasium as a venue."

Sojiro leaves the area to go to Shujin while the 14 adults and one cat scatter to go over their routines for the circus.

While the adults were getting ready for the circus later in the evening, the younger adults of the gang were gathered at the Yajima Residence so they could put Hotaru's plan into action. The group was seen in the living room; the furniture moved aside so they could work. The likes of Riku, Kaito, Himari, Kimiko, and Mana were seen wearing army fatigues and towels covering their heads, save for their eyes. Behind these five is a brown tarp to conceal the living room environment behind them. Nariko and Mai were working the lights, Mitsu and Kas were working two cameras, Hotaru was directing, and Minato couldn't do anything because he was still on FaceTime in college, Kimiko's phone standing upright on a nearby table so he could see what was going on.

"Are you sure this is going to work, Hotaru?" Riku asked.

"This Jihad tape has to work," Hotaru said, "We'll make it, send it to the Triple Seven Headquarters, and then they'll have to back off."

"Let's just get those over with," Himari said, "This towel is making my face itch."

"I'm ready for my close up, Mr. Yajima," Mana said in a boisterous tone.

"Alright, everyone, quiet on the set," Hotaru said, "Lights and camera, are you ready?"

"Yup," Kas said as she and Mitsu were ready to hit 'record' on their cameras.

"I'm ready," Nariko said as she and Mai got the lights exactly how Hotaru wanted them.

"Then let's do this!" Hotaru said, "We're on in 3…2…1…action!"

With that, Kas and Mitsu pressed the record button on their cameras as Himari began talking in 'mock Arabic' while making random hand gestures while Kimiko, Mana, Riku, and Kaito stood behind him, trying to look menacing.

"Hang on, cut, cut, cut," Hotaru said as Mitsu and Kas stopped recording. Himari, Kimiko, Riku, Kaito, and Mana lowered their towels to show their faces so they could talk to Hotaru and breathe.

"What are you talking about, Hotaru, that was perfect," Minato said.

"Yeah, that's pretty much what these Jihad tapes sound like," Riku said, "A bunch of guttural sounds that no one understands but we're nonetheless afraid of the people on them."

"But they're not going to understand what we're trying to say," Hotaru said, "Himari, babe, I gave you a script."

"Yeah, a script written in English," Himari said.

"Jihad tapes have to be done in English so we can understand them," Hotaru protested.

"Look, I'll try and throw in some English words during my rant, how about that?" Himari asked.

"That'll work," Hotaru said, "Alright, everyone, are we ready for another take?"

"Not quite," Mana said, "I feel like I should have something in my hands."

"Like what?" Hotaru asked.

"You know, a weapon," Mana said, "Like a sword, or a hammer, or a machine gun."

"Where do you expect to find a machine gun," Mitsu asked.

"There's that guy, Iwai, or whatever his name is," Mana said, "I bet he'd give me one."

"Mana, I love you, and I mean no disrespect, but I don't trust you with a potato gun, let alone a machine gun," Minato said.

"Alright, so no weapons," Hotaru said, "We're on a time crunch here and I'd like to get this tape done soon. Are we ready for another take?"

"Yeah, babe, we're ready," Himari said as she, Riku, Kimiko, Mana, and Kaito put the towels back over their faces.

"Alright, 3…2…1…action!" Hotaru said as Mitsu and Kas pressed the record button on their cameras.

Himari began speaking in Arabic gibberish once again, but midway through her 'speech', Mana lowered her towel and started to make her way out of the Yajima Residence.

"Screw it, I'm getting a weapon," Mana said as she made her leave, "I'm going to go get a weapon."

"Mana, you don't need a freaking weapon!" Hotaru shouted as Mana ran out the door.

"You know, I'm going to get one too," Kimiko said.

"Yeah, me too," Kaito said as he and Kimiko followed after Mana.

"Oh yeah, let's go get a weapon everybody," Mitsu said before flipping out, "EVERYBODY! EVERYBODY, GET A WEAPON!"

"This is a disaster," Mai said bluntly.

"I'm going to go get a burger," Minato said as he shut off his FaceTime call.

"Hey Hotaru," Riku said to the scarlet haired man, "Is there a way we can make your living room look more like a cave?"

Hotaru just shook his head and wore an expression on his face that reads, 'I'm surrounded by idiots'.

Later that night at the Shujin Academy gymnasium, the bleachers were currently being filled by members of Tokyo's general public. Among the audience we see Naoya Makigami, Mika, Sadayo Kawakami, Yamato Hashimoto, Chihaya Mifune, Munehisa Iwai, Kaoru Iwai, Hayato's mother Reina, Nanami Sakamoto and her boyfriend Koji, Tae Takemi, Shinya Oda, Zenkichi Hasegawa, Akane Hasegawa, Ichiko Ohya, Sae Niijima, and Ryuta Watanabe among the other members of the Watanabe Family.

The audience members were eagerly awaiting for the circus to begin when, suddenly, the lights started to dim and the sound of a drum roll could be heard. The drum roll came from Daisuke, who was in his clown costume, as he sat with his drum set in the corner of the room. When the drum roll reached its crescendo, Sojiro appeared in the middle of the gymnasium in a puff of smoke, and he was currently wearing a ringleader's outfit.

"Welcome, one and all, to Mr. Sakura's Fantastically Phantasmagoric Circus!" Sojiro announced proudly as everyone applauded, "We have a wonderful show planned for you all tonight. I'm not going to waste anymore of your time, so let's get right to our first act! Get on the edge of your seats, protect the kids and wives! Because it's time for Haru and Yusuke's show with thousands of pointy knives!"

As the audience cheers, a poster of Haru and Yusuke's segment of the show appears. On the poster, we see Haru in the foreground smiling as she holds a series of knives between her fingers. Behind her, we see a very nervous Yusuke.

We then cut to the knife throwing show as we see Yusuke nervously standing against a wooden wall as in front of him, Haru takes aim with her knives.

"Stay still, Yusuke," Haru said, in an uncomfortably soothing tone.

"Goodbye, cruel world," Yusuke lamented as he shut his eyes.

A few more moments of taking aim and Haru throws a series of knives at the board. When she was done, she had made an outline of Yusuke's body using the knives she threw. All of the knives were a hair's breadth away from Yusuke as he opens his eyes and steps away to find his knife outline on the board.

"Wow!" Yusuke said, amazed, as the audience started clapping.

"So, you want more, eh?" Haru asked the audience who answered with louder cheers.

"What is wrong with you people?" Yusuke asked himself as we cut to him on a round, rotating board as Haru was ready to throw more knives.

"Darling, I'm saying this because I love you, but you need some serious help!" Yusuke cried as he remained pinned on the rotating board.

"What's wrong, Yusuke, afraid to give the people what they want?" Haru asked as she readied her aim.

Once again, Yusuke shut his eyes as Haru started throwing the knives. Like before, she made an outline of Yusuke's body on the rotating board with the knives she threw. When she ran out of knives, she shut off the device that was making the board rotate as she got Yusuke down from it. He looked upon the board to see another perfect outline as the audience cheered loudly. Haru and Yusuke take a bow before moving aside so Sojiro could introduce the next act.

"So, you folks like danger, eh?" Sojiro asked, "Then you're all going to love this next act! Look up in the sky and what do you see? It's Sumire and Ichiro, ready to put on a show for you and me!"

Another poster shows Ichiro and Sumire, dressed in their gymnastics outfits, as they fly on the trapeze.

We then cut to the gymnastic couple as they stand on a platform above the gymnasium. In front of them are two trapezes and another platform on the other side of the room. Below all of that is a safety net to catch the two of them in case they fall.

When the applause dies down, Ichiro gets on the trapeze first and starts to swing about. Once he gets some momentum going, Sumire jumps off of the platform for Ichiro to catch her, now both of them are swinging. When they got to the other trapeze, Ichiro lets go of Sumire so she can jump to it. As Sumire jumps towards the other trapeze, she does a flip in the air before grabbing onto it.

Both Sumire and Ichiro continued swinging on the trapezes, jumping from one to the next while doing flips and twirls in the air among other tricks like standing on the trapeze rather than holding onto it with their hands. Eventually their act came to an end when they jumped off of the trapezes with a flip and they landed onto the net to listen to the cheers and applause from the audience.

"We did good, Sumi," Ichiro said as he hugged his wife.

"Damn right we did," Sumire said as she and her husband got off of the net and walked off so Sojiro could introduce the next act.

"Before we get to more action, how about some magic?" Sojiro asked the audience, who cheered in response, "That's good. Hopefully our next act won't end in something tragic!"

The next poster shows Ren standing atop a pedestal wearing a magicians outfit while Ann, who is wearing a sequined red dress, and Morgana are on either side of him.

"Thank you all so much for coming," Ren said proudly, "And welcome to 'Resplendent Ren's Magic Show'! Starring yours truly, his lovely assistant Lady Ann, and their trusty sidekick Morgana!"

As Ren introduces his wife and cat to the audience, they all cheer and applaud while Ren prepares his first trick.

"For my first trick, I'm going to need Morgana to get in my hat," Ren said before taking his magic hat off so the black cat could hop inside.

"I hope you know what you're doing, Ren," Morgana said as he got in Ren's magic hat, which he put back on his head.

"Just trust me, Morgana, you're doing great so far," Ren said before addressing the audience, "As you just witnessed, Morgana is currently residing within my hat. But, if I tap it three times…"

Ren taps his magic hat three times.

"...And get a kiss from my lovely assistant," Ren continued as Ann gave her husband a five second long kiss on the lips, prompting someone in the audience to shout, 'Lucky!' After the kiss, Ren continued his spiel, "Then once I remove my hat…"

Ren takes his hat off and shows the inside of it to the audience to reveal that Morgana had disappeared, causing everyone to gasp, "...Morgana is gone!"

"But where did he go?" Ann asked her husband.

"I don't know," Ren said, "Oh, Morgana, where are you? Oh! There he is!"

As he said that, Ren pointed to a fat lady's purse in the audience and Morgana pokes his head from it, catching everyone by surprise. As the audience cheers, Morgana hops out of the purse and goes back to his owners.

"Impressive, yes?" Ren asked, "Now for my next trick, I need my deck of cards. Lady Ann, do you have them?"

"Right here," Ann said as she reached into her cleavage (A.K.A the 'Victoria's Secret Compartment') and pulled out a deck of cards before handing them to her husband.

"Thank you," Ren said gratefully before unfolding the deck and showing them to his wife, "Go on, darling, pick a card, any card!"

Ann eyed each card carefully before taking one from the middle of the deck and examining the suit and showing the audience before handing it back to her husband; the card was the Jack of Hearts. Ren puts Ann's card back with the deck before putting the deck in his pocket.

"I assume you remember the suit your card was, yes?" Ren asked.

"Yes, babe," Ann said.

"Alright," Ren responded before turning to Morgana, "Morgana, would you be a good little kitty and cough for me?"

Morgana made a coughing noise before he started to feel as if something was stuck in his throat. The black cat continued coughing and coughing until whatever was stuck in his throat came out. When the obstruction popped out of Morgana's mouth, it was a playing card all crumpled up and covered in saliva. Putting on a rubber glove, Ren picks the card up and unfolds it before showing it to Ann, revealing it to be the Jack of Hearts.

"The Jack of Hearts, is this your card?" Ren asked.

"It is!" Ann exclaimed, causing the audience to gasp and cheer once more.

"For my grand finale," Ren began as the cheering died down, "I'm going to…*yawn*, hang on one second everyone. I'm feeling a little tired. Ann, can you get me a chair, please?"

"Here's your chair, Ren," Ann said as she put a chair behind her husband.

"Cheers, babe," Ren replied as he sat down on the chair, "Don't worry everyone, I just need to take a quick break. All this magic can really take a lot out of a guy, you know?"

As Ren rambled, the chair he was sitting on was slowing lifting itself off the ground, causing the audience to gasp.

"What's this?" Ren asked as he pretended to notice that the chair he was on was levitating, "Either I've grown taller or this chair is magically floating by itself!"

"Hang on," someone from the audience said, "I see strings attached to that chair! He's faking it!"

"Hmm?" Ren went as he noticed four strings that were attached to the chair, allowing it to float off the floor, "Why, there are strings attached to my chair. Let's fix that, shall we?"

With that, Ren took a pair of scissors out from his pocket and cut all four strings. When he did, the chair still remained floating in mid-air! "Ta-da!" Ren shouted, causing the audience to cheer louder than ever before. The chair floated back down to the floor as Ren stood back up and rejoined Ann and Morgana. The two humans and one cat took a bow as they walked off for Sojiro to introduce the next act.

"What did I tell you, isn't this the best show in town?" Sojiro began, "I have no better way to introduce our next act, so, send in the clowns!"

The next poster showed Futaba, Shiho, Daisuke, and Yuuki in clown clothes and make up, holding a pie, a bottle of seltzer, a mallet, and a bicycle horn respectively.

The four clowns come running to the middle of the gymnasium, laughing in a goofy and hysterical tone, ready to entertain.

"Hey, Yuuki," Daisuke said in a goofy tone, "Knock, knock?"

"Who's there?" Yuuki asked, just as goofy.

"Teddy bear," Daisuke answered.

"Teddy bear who?" Yuuki asked.

"I'm going to hit you in the head with a teddy bear!" Daisuke responded.

"Huh?" Yuuki went before Daisuke pulled a teddy bear out of hammerspace and hit Yuuki in the head with it, causing the audience to howl with laughter.

With the guy clowns getting their bit out of the way, it was the girl clowns' turn.

"Hey, Futaba," Shiho said in a goofy tone, holding a pie "I baked you a pie. Why don't you get a closer look to make sure I baked it right."

"Okay," Futaba responded, also in a wacky tone.

As Futaba's face got closer to the pie, Shiho shoved the pie in the gamer girl's face, covering Futaba's face in pie crust and blueberry filling.

"Aw, look, I'm all dirty," Futaba said as she pulled a bottle of seltzer out from hammerspace, "I guess I'd better clean up."

Futaba shook the bottle before pointing the nozzle…at Shiho, thinking the nozzle was pointed at herself. When Futaba pressed the button, a deluge of seltzer gets sprayed in Shiho's face. Seeing this made Daisuke come over to his wife to see if he could help her.

"Say, darling, you need a napkin?" Daisuke asked, "There's one in my pocket, why don't you reach for it."

"Much obliged, honey-boo!" Shiho said as reached into the pocket of her husband's clown pants and pulled out a napkin…only for that napkin to be attached to another one, which was attached to another one, which was attached to another one, which was attached to another one! Shiho kept pulling napkins out from Daisuke's pocket until a pair of boyshort panties came out from it, causing the audience to laugh like a pack of hyenas.

"So these are where my undies went," Shiho jokingly said as she held up the panties before dropping them and the napkins to the floor.

After that, Shiho took three balls out from her pocket.

"You want to see something cool?" Shiho asked before she started juggling the balls,

At first, Shiho juggled normally. Then she walked around the gymnasium while juggling. Then she juggled while standing on one leg. Then she juggled with one hand. And then she turned to her partners.

"Care to supply me with more things to juggle?" Shiho asked, "The audience isn't screaming yet!"

With that, Daisuke gave Shiho the seltzer bottle to juggle, while Yuuki gave her the messy pie plate to juggle, and then Futaba threw herself into the mix so Shiho was now juggling the balls, the seltzer bottle, the pie plate, and Futaba herself! Seeing this made the audience cheer.

These cheers meant Shiho could stop juggling and Futaba can get herself back on the ground. The four clowns chuckled before taking a bow and running out of there so Sojiro could introduce the fifth and final act.

"A fun show so far, but now let's get to something extreme," Sojiro said, "Our Makoto has a stunt that will make you feel like you're in the middle of a wild dream!"

The next poster showed Makoto on her motorcycle, posing like a badass, while Hayato, Hifumi, and Ryuji cheered her on in the background.

We then see Makoto as she stands next to her motorcycle. In front of them is a ramp, three flaming rings and at the other side of the rings we see Ryuji, Hayato, and Hifumi tied up together and standing on a platform.

"We didn't sign up for this!" Hayato shouted.

"Are you all ready to see some action?!" Makoto asked the cheering audience, "Then get ready for the most amazing stunt of all time!"

Makoto sat herself down on her motorcycle, and revved the engine a little bit before driving up the ramp, and through the rings, making it to Ryuji, Hayato, and Hifumi so she could grab them from the platform. Once Makoto grabbed her three friends, who were laying across the back of the motorcycle, she landed back on the floor and parked her bike, causing the audience to cheer.

Makoto gets up from her bike and takes a bow as she frees her husband and two friends.

"You guys alright?" Makoto asked.

"Never ask me to do anything like this with you ever again," Hifumi said.

"Noted," Makoto said as Sojiro walked over to the center of the gymnasium.

The 14 adults and Morgana join Sojiro in the center of the gymnasium and they all take a bow as the audience cheer and shout their praises for a show well performed.

"We're well on our way to saving Leblanc, everyone," Sojiro said, "Let's keep up the good work."

"Yeah," Everyone nodded their head as they continued to listen to the people's cheers.

Meanwhile, at the Yajima Residence, we see the 11 kids (Minato is still on FaceTime) as they watch the Jihad Tape on the Yajima Family T.V.

On screen, we see Himari doing her speech while Kimiko, Kaito, Mana, and Riku are behind her; all five of them are seen in their 'terrorist' gear.

Himari's speech consisted mostly of guteral sounds and Arabic words before she used English, saying, "Do not tear down cafe! Bad decision!"

Suddenly, Mana, Kaito, and Kimiko held up some ball peen hammers.

"We will crush your skulls with our weapons!" Mana exclaimed.

After that, Hotaru paused the video as everyone looked horrified and disgusted at what they just witnessed.

"We can't send this," Hotaru said, mortified.

"Nope," Himari concurred.

"I don't know what you were thinking Hotaru," Kas said, "This might be the dumbest idea you've ever had."

"Yeah, if we send this to the people at the Triple Seven Headquarters we're going to get arrested," Kimiko said.

"Or murdered," Minato chimed in, "This is a little too extreme."

"I just thought if we sent in a Jihad Tape it would scare them into not wanting to tear down Cafe Leblanc," Hotaru explained, "In my head this was a good idea. But seeing it now makes me wish I never came up with it in the first place."

"So basically we wasted a whole day doing something we immediately regret doing," Kaito said.

"Pretty much, yeah," Hotaru said, "Maybe we should all just help our parents with raising money so we can save Leblanc the honest way instead of…whatever the hell this way is."

"Good plan, babe," Himari said, giving Hotaru a kiss on the cheek.

"Well what do we do about the Jihad Tape then?" Nariko asked, "Because I don't want anyone else to see this. I mean, this is something we need to take to our graves!"

Hotaru thought for a bit as he tried to come up with a solution. He took the tape out of the VCR player and looked at the tape before finally giving an answer to Nariko's question.

"Anyone down for a bonfire?" Hotaru asked.

"I'll get the marshmallows!" Riku said as everyone headed to the backyard to burn the Jihad Tape.

END