Conjunction

15


Commissioned by Kenainath.


"Alright, lemme see if I'm wrapping my head around this."

Usa nodded, sipping on the tea Kaede had made for them as the four of them sat around the older woman's small sitting room. Looking into the dogboy's pretty face, she once again found herself comparing him to the man she wanted and finding them eerily similar. Cut from the same cloth was an understatement. If she didn't know better, she'd think he was this guy's reincarnation. But she did know better, so as weird as it was it really was just a coincidence that they were so alike.

"It's a lot to take in, I get it. Go on, ask whatever you'd like."

"Arright. So, you're from the future," he gestured to Usa, who nodded, before pointing to Kagome. "You came from her time through the well to get here." Another nod. "But before that, you came from further in the future."

"Yup."

"How far?" Kagome asked, out of curiosity. "Are we like, driving around in flying cars by then?"

Usa chuckled. "Yes, actually." Kagome's eyes went wide with excitement. "They're magical flying cars, but still. Flying cars."

"We've got that here," Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "You know who has a flying wagon."

"It's not the same!" Kagome growled.

"It kinda is," Usa chuckled.

"So, are we talking one hundred years? Two? Five?"

Usa rolled her eyes. "Not that far. Only like t—" Use paused, then smiled. "I'll be born next year, in the future you just came from. Mom's already a bit over a month pregnant. How old do you think I am?"

Kagome hummed, studying Usa. "You look about… sixteen? Seventeen?" Frowning, she tilted her head. "You can't tell me we're only a little over a decade off from flying cars, magic or not."

"Kagome, lass. It's not polite to ask a young lady's age," Kaede scolded.

"I mean, she can't be that old!" Kagome protested, and Usa giggled.

"Anyway," Inuyasha cut in, "as I was sayin'. You're here from further in the future and you wanna try and stop something bad from happening, and to do that, you wanna borrow the Shikon Jewel."

"Yeah. Pretty much. You find it and put it back together, I can purify it, borrow it for a few days, then bring it back. Then you can do whatever you want with it."

"Nunuh. Ain't no way. Not happening," the man growled.

Nodding, Usa asked, "Why not?"

"Why not?! It's dangerous!" the man roared, sitting forward as it glared at Usa. "You don't get it! The damn thing's cursed!"

"And I'll break the curse." Turning to Kagome, Usa asked, "What do you think?"

"Maybe if it were Sailor Moon asking—"

"I am Sailor Moon," Usa glared.

"Of your time, not of my time. I don't know you. I don't know anything about you. For all I know, you could be some evil clone or something."

Usa palmed her face with a sigh. "Okay. Alright. So if I get mom to ask…?"

Kagome bit her lip, then nodded. "Maybe. I'll consider it."

"Fine. Come with me. We'll go back through the well and you can meet her in the present. If you want, I can have the rest of the senshi there too."

Kagome perked up at that, before blushing and shaking her head. "N-no! No. Just, just Moon is fine!"

"You're seriously considerin' this?" the dogboy asked, incredulous.

"Yes," Kagome nodded.

Inuyasha frowned, settling back on his butt and staring at the young priestess. Finally, he asked, "Why? This 'Moon' girl is a complete stranger."

Kagome opened her mouth, then paused. Thinking about it for a moment, she finally asked, "If your dad were alive and he asked to borrow it, would you let him?"

"Well, yeah."

"Why would I agree? I don't know him. He's a complete stranger to me."

Inuyasha glared. "Everyone knows my father's reputation. If he said he'd give it back, he'd give it back."

Kagome nodded. "Everyone knows Sailor Moon's reputation where I'm from. You remember television, right?" she asked, and he nodded. "She's been on tv a lot, with them showing her and her friends saving the world. She's a genuinely good person, and everyone around the world knows it, not just in Japan. So if she said she just wanted to borrow it, I'd believe her."

Settling down, the dogboy let out a quiet, annoyed sound before nodding. "Tch. Fine. When do you wanna do this?"

Kagome blinked, sending him a confused look. "What's it matter?"

"I'm goin' with you."

The priestess frowned. "You hate my world."

"Yeah, I do. But if you're gonna be dealin' with something like that," he nodded towards Usa, "Better you don't go alone."

Kagome rolled her eyes. "We're not going to get attacked on the way there and Sailor Moon isn't going to start a fight!"

Usa let out a sigh and shook her head. "Given how our lives work, you've all but guaranteed we're gonna get jumped now. Mom's probably been brainwashed by the dark kingdom and we'll have to fight her to bring her back to her senses. So thanks for that."

Kagome's mouth fell open in incredulity and she made to protest, only to stop halfway and let out a quiet, distressed sound. "Crap. I can't even argue that that kind of thing doesn't happen to us. It totally does!"

"So, you wanna go now or wait?" Usa asked, looking over the pair.

The dogboy shrugged. "It's getting dark. I'd rather get done and get back soon. Don't want to be out at night when we come back."

Sighing, Kagome nodded and pushed herself to her feet. "Fine. Let's go."

After saying their goodbyes to Kaede, and Kagome and the dogboy going to tell the others of their group that they'd be back later, the trio set off back down the road, back down the trail two of them had taken to get there. They were through the well and out the other side not long after, with Inuyasha carrying Kagome through a leap up and Usa taking it under her own power.

Pulling out her cell phone, Usa dug through her contacts. "Alright, give me a minute," she murmured, hitting the call button and putting the phone to her ear as she waited. So glad I brought my cell phone from the future. This time's tech is crap! Being able to magically call anyone, anywhere, on any phone and skip the whole phone network issue is great.

A moment later, the phone picked up. "Tsukino residence—"

"Put your sister on."

There was a pause, then an audible sigh. "Usagi's out on a date with her boyfriend."

"Crap," Usa muttered. "Alright, any idea where they went?"

"She said something about picking up Rei and going to some club. She was wearing… uh…"

"Spit it out!"

"A lot of black stuff. Black shirt, black skirt, black eyeliner, black lipstick, even her nails."

Usa considered it for a moment before nodding. "Okay, I know where she went. Thanks."

Hanging up, Usa turned to the miko and half-demon. "She's out on a date. We can head to a park near where I think they are and I'll leave you two there while I go get them."

"Sounds good," Kagome agreed, climbing onto her bike. "How far is it?"

Usa laughed and shook her head. "We're not riding. It'd take a train ride to get there and I don't think you want to bring him on a train," she gestured at Inuyasha, and she boy frowned.

Kagome sucked in a breath and nodded. "Mm. No. Then how…?"

"Teleportation. Keep your arms and legs inside the circle and I'll get us close."


Music pounded loudly from the building across the street, even muffled as it was by distance and the walls. Ranma could feel it in his chest and feet. He wasn't looking forward to going inside, but Usagi had practically begged, so he was going along with it. What he hadn't known was that they weren't going to be alone for this little date. Once they'd made it to their destination, Usagi had spotted someone and immediately run over to latch onto the girl in a hug.

The woman currently feeling up his girlfriend was a hair taller than Usagi, with long, black hair, red eyes, and pale skin. At the moment, she wore a set of short boots, black jeans that looked painted on, and a red shirt that did more to show off her impressive bust than to hide it. She was made up similarly to Usagi, with dark red lipstick, a lot of eyeliner, and had painted her nails alternately black and maroon.

Usagi meanwhile wore a taller set of boots that gave her about two inches of lift, long black socks that came up to mid thigh, a short black and gray skirt that left a large part of her upper thighs bear, what may as well have been a black sports bra for all that it covered, and a pink jacket that she had left open and was practically hanging off of her. She had also added some fingerless gloves and a black choker, along with golden crescent moon-shaped earrings.

The crowd in the line waiting to get inside looked… so much weirder. Some of them had even shaved or dyed their hair, or had it in weird cuts and styles. Ranma felt like he was standing in the wrong crowd.

"So. You're him."

Ranma raised an eyebrow at the dark haired girl eyeing him up over the tops of her dark sunglasses, arms crossed over her chest as she all but glared. "What's it to ya?"

"Not as tall as the last one," the girl ticked off on her fingers. "Not as handsome. Not as polite. Definitely not as wealthy. What does she see in you?"

Ranma smirked. "I've got a big dick and I know how to use it."

The girl glared, blushing as her mouth opened to retort, but Usagi cut her off. "Rei~! Ranma!" Usagi pouted, grabbing the slightly taller girl by the arm, even as she glared at Ranma. "Be nice!"

The part time priestess frowned, before finally letting out an annoyed sigh. "Fine." Looking to the building and the line waiting to get in, she frowned. "Looks like we're going to be a while."

Ranma snorted. "Nah. C'mon," he said, offering an arm to Usagi, who took it with a happy smile. He offered the other arm to Rei who, after a moment of indecision, sighed and mirrored her best friend. With that, Ranma walked straight up to the front door, where a bouncer stood beside the door with his arms crossed. The guy was big and while his suit hid everything below the neck, Ranma caught a glimpse of a tattoo on his lower neck, just above the collar. Meeting the bouncer's eyes, Ranma pulled Usagi and Rei along and raised an eyebrow.

The possibly a yakuza frowned minutely, before nodding and holding open the door for the three of them. A wall of noise washed over them and Ranma cringed at the sound. Lights and lasers strobed inside and from what he could see, the place was a chaotic mess of bodies. He wasn't sure what to call the noise pounding over the speakers, but it wasn't music.

Usagi grabbed his hand, then Rei's, and pulled them right into the middle of the writhing mass of bodies. A moment later, Ranma found himself in the middle of a sexy sandwich as Usagi pushed Rei back into his chest before moving behind him, where she began to grind her body against his. Turning her head to look at him over her shoulder, the dark haired girl glared again as she met his eyes, before she began rolling her hips—grinding her ass against his crotch.

If that's the way you want to play, Ranma grunted as he felt himself reacting. Grabbing her hips, he squeezed, drawing a quiet gasp from her lips that disappeared under the noise of the beat, then began to practically dry hump her on the dance floor as he pulled her into him harder. Rei's eyes went wide as she felt his cock against her ass. Reaching back, she grabbed the back of Ranma's head as she arched her back until her lips were close to his ear.

"I see you weren't lying about this," she murmured, reaching down between them with her other hand and cupping his dick through his pants. "Good~."

"What makes you think you're gonna see it?" Ranma asked, one hand leaving Rei's hip to rest on her belly, before trailing down to just over her mound.

Rei snorted quietly. "Because I know how Usagi thinks. She's wanted this for years."

"Doesn't mean it'll happen tonight," he shrugged, before smirking and pressing into the girl's belly, sending a jolt of ki into her. Rei's eyes rolled in her head and she locked up against him, tremors going through her whole body as she shook in place. Her jaw clenched and she bit down a moan.

When she finally came back to her senses, the priestess sent him a heated look, biting her lip. Her grinding resumed, much more insistently this time. Ranma smirked and, instead of going for the big 'I win' button as he had the first time, trailed his hands over her body as he began lighting up pressure points and nerves with ki, driving Rei's arousal up and priming her for further teasing.

"Are you having fun?" Usagi asked against his other ear, amusement in her voice. When he nodded, she giggled. "Good. She's kind of a brat! I bet if you try, she'll be begging us to take her home by the time we're done~."

Ranma didn't even have to ask if that was what Usagi wanted. It was blatantly obvious that it was. Especially when she moved around Ranma to press herself into Rei's front, forcing the other girl's head where she wanted her and kissing her.

Not my kinda place, but it ain't half bad if we're just using it as an excuse to make out.

Ranma lost track of time as he settled into the zone, treating the entire encounter as one long, drawn out bit of foreplay before the main course. So it was that he was a bit confused when Usagi pulled Rei away to dance with her and he suddenly had his arms full of an entirely different girl. The redhead smirked up at him as she rubbed her tits against his chest, one leg coming up to wrap around him and pull him close as she ground her crotch into his.

Usa—or Hina, rather—smirked up at him. Leaning in, she draped her arms over his shoulders and pulled herself up his body, letting Ranma hold her weight. The girl leaned in and, before he could do anything one way of the other, nipped at his ear. "Oh, daddy~. Is this for me?" she asked, grinding her hips forward.

"…No," Ranma grunted, grabbing her firm ass and holding her still so she couldn't grind against him. "That was Rei's doing."

Hina laughed, her voice sounding throaty and intensely sexy in his ear. "Oh, I know. I saw how those two were pretty much dry humping you. But where's the fun in that?" she asked, pulling away just enough so that he could see her smirk. "Neither of them have the guts to follow through right here and now. That's a shame, really. You could be stuck like this for a while Or…"

"Or?" Ranma grunted as she fought against his grip, and he felt the heat of her crotch against him—her skirt pulled up enough that her wet panties were pressed directly over his cock.

"Or I could take care of it," she murmured. Reaching down, Hina slipped her hand into Ranma's pants and wrapped it around Ranma's thick, throbbing cock. "Umi-sen-ken. Do it. I dare you."

Not one to back down from a challenge, Ranma wrapped his ki around himself and slipped below the notice of the crowd. The moment she felt him doing it, the girl in his arms did likewise, before wrapping them both in her magic and doing something very similar to hide them from magical senses—as evidenced by Usagi and Rei glancing their direction, before Usagi frowned and said something to Rei, who shrugged and went back to kissing the blonde.

Hina had Ranma's dick out and her panties pulled to the side a moment later, and an instant after that both of them sighed as she sank down onto his cock. Hina wrapped herself tightly around Ranma, burying her face in his shoulder and neck and kissing him as she began working her body up and down Ranma. Ranma groaned as the girl's pussy squeezed and pulled at his cock in ways that the other girls simply didn't—fully under her conscious control and working with the goal of getting him off as fast as possible.

Her ki wrapped around and pressed into him in the same way Ranma did with the girls and he found himself fighting back, returning the favor as he tried to bring the redhead in his arms off before she got him to pop off—competitive spirit wouldn't let him lose this particular fight. She was still kicking his ass in their spars and he had to regain his lost pride somehow.

Hina panted in Ranma's ear, her hands sliding over his back and chest, lighting up pressure points as he did the same for her. Her lips found his neck and she kissed, licked, sucked, and bit—trying to leave her mark behind, so everyone would know. To her delight, Ranma answered her, mirroring her actions as he assaulted her own neck and throat, leaving Hina's body quivering as she fought to hold off her orgasm.

"Yes~. Pay attention to me," she whimpered against his neck. "Love me, fuck me, punish me, fight me—I don't care just look at me~."

Hina came with a quiet squeal into Ranma's ear, her body trembling in his arms as her ki swelled within her, flooding into Ranma. Ranma's hands dug into the girl's ass as he pulled her down tight against him, burying himself as deep as he could get in this position and let go as she finally set him off. He pushed back with an equal volume of his own ki into Hina, feeling her greedily drink it down, like she had been dying of thirst. Something about the girl and her ki felt intimately familiar, but Ranma was too lost in the feeling of her to think on it any more deeply than that it was probably because she was Usagi's daughter and Usa's half-sister, so of course she would feel familiar.

Finally, Hina relaxed in Ranma's arms. With a groan, she pulled herself up and off of him, before sliding down to her knees, straightening her panties as she did. Ranma jerked as Hina slurped his cock into her mouth. She bobbed up and down on him, licking away at his shaft and even his balls, before finally tucking Ranma back into her pants.

Standing, Hina let out a satisfied sigh and patted Ranma's chest. "Head outside. We need to go meet some people. I'll let mom and Rei know and we'll meet you there."

"Alright," Ranma nodded, dropping the technique keeping him beneath notice as Hina did likewise, before making her way to Usagi and Rei.

Ranma slipped through the crowd and out the front door. Outside, he breathed a quiet sigh of relief to be out of the noise of the inside. Anything that loud played hell on his enhanced senses. Gonna have to talk to Usagi and convince her we can't come back to places like this. If she wants to do some bumping and grinding, we can turn on a radio and do that at home.

After a minute or two, the three women came out. Hina took a bottle of something from Usagi's purse and took a swallow before handing it back, eventually spitting off to the side and making a face as she did. Usagi giggled while Rei looked between Ranma and Hina with a mildly confused look.

"What?" he asked when they got across the street.

"When did she get here? And, did she…?"

Ranma rolled his eyes. "You were too busy trying to suck Usagi's soul out through her mouth to notice."

Rei blushed, eyes narrowing into a glare. "Shut up! That was, that was just for your benefit! We were only putting on a show! That's all!"

Hina laughed. Sending Ranma an amused grin, she wagged her eyebrows. "Take her home and fuck her silly, and she'll flip from tsun to dere. Promise."

"What?! I will not! Wait, that's not going to happen—!" Rei protested, only for Usagi to pout.

"You mean you don't want to pick up where we left off?"

Rei looked suddenly torn. "Well, yes, but— She shouldn't just…"

"What? It's how mom shut you up any time you got irritable in the future, when I was a kid. Ask Usa, she'll confirm it." Rei's eyes went wide as her blush crept further down her neck towards her chest. "I don't see what the big deal is. You'd be happier if you just admit it."

Shaking her head, the redhead waved for them to follow. "Anyway, we need to get going. I left those two in the park, so there's a non-zero chance that if they haven't killed each other, they're either already fighting youma or they're fucking like rabbits. Either way, I wanna see!"

Slipping into an alley, Ranma and Hina took to the rooftops while Usagi and Rei transformed and joined them a moment later. As they ran, Ranma asked, "So, who are these people anyway?"

"Girl's a nobody. A miko with more actual mojo than Rei and a reincarnation of another miko. Her claim to fame is being the vessel for the Shikon Jewel—"

"That was destroyed centuries ago!" Mars sent Hina an incredulous look, only for the redhead to nod.

"Yeah, turns out, you can't actually destroy the nigh-omnipotent wish-granting magic jewel. Her ancestor tried. Had it burned with her when she died. It followed her through the afterlife and wound up in her reincarnation, where it was then removed and shattered. There's a lot of magic, demons, and time travel involved. Speaking of, the guy is a half-demon. Son of some big shot demon general at the time."

"So, we're gonna fight?" Ranma asked, and Hina rolled her eyes.

"No, you idiot. He's a decent enough guy and she's got him on a magical leash. We're not going to fight. We're going to try to make a deal."

Frowning, Ranma studied the redhead for a few steps before asking, "What for?"

Blowing out a sigh, Hina growled, "For something that might, maybe be capable of leveling the playing field between you and Mamoru for long enough for you to kick his ass. If it looks like he's going to lose, he's going to pull out his trump card and get a huge magical power up. You need to be able to close that gap, or get close enough, that you can beat him down anyway. I'd loan you mine, but I can't. It might not complain about you holding it, but there's no way it'll let you actually use it. And since the only three of these in existence are accounted for, we need to go with the next best thing. Trust me, I did a lot of research and digging before I came back. This one is on my short list."

"Is it really that bad?" Usagi asked quietly, from where she was running alongside Ranma.

"It's that bad," Hina nodded.

"Okay, seriously, what are you guys talking about? I get that Usagi's got a new boyfriend and Mamoru's going to be pissed when he gets back—" Rei began, only for Usagi to interrupt her.

"I'm pregnant."

Rei missed a step and fell off the roof they were jumping from. Hina snickered as the other woman had to hurry to catch up. "You're what?! No one told me!"

"Sorry! I haven't had a chance!" Usagi defended herself with a wince. "You've been busy and haven't been around much."

Rei sighed, nodding. "Sorry. Grandfather's getting on in years and I have to look after him in addition to school and my miko duties."

"No, it's okay! I get it!" Usagi sent her friend a smile.

"Touching. Anyway," Hina cut in. "Mom's pregnant. Mamoru's gonna try to challenge Ranma because this is actually a threat to him. In my time, that was when he actually realized that no, mom wouldn't take him back. Big fight for all the marbles. In my time, Ranma won the first part of the match. Mamoru didn't like that, so he pulled out the Golden Crystal and bitch slapped Ranma into the ground. Fight over, Ranma lost. It was cheap, but apparently didn't count as cheating. So we need something that can at least give him a chance."

Frowning, Rei asked, "Why does it matter? Can't Usagi decide who she wants to marry for herself?"

"Ancient Silver Millennium treaties," Hina shrugged. "Basically, the Prince of Earth is required to marry the Princess of the Moon to uphold them and join the kingdoms. Heal the divide between the Earth and the Moon and all that. Ask Puu, she'd know more of the details."

"Yeah, yeah. Big political things," Usagi waved the idea off like shooing away a fly. "Let's talk about something less boring!" Turning a leer on Hina, she asked, "What did you and Ranma do when you two disappeared, huh? Hmm? Hmm? You're moving like someone who just got a thick, juicy creampie—"

"We fucked," Hina sent her mother a leer. "Right there in the middle of the dance floor. It was hot as fuck. I'm getting wet just remembering it."

Ranma sighed, which turned into a quiet groan. "Can we not talk about sex for like, ten minutes?"

"But, but Rei got me all worked up~!" Usagi whined, sending Ranma a pout. "We're going back to your place after this is done!" Looking around Ranma to Rei, she said, "And you're coming!"

"What if I don't want to?" Rei asked, just to be obstinate.

"Your future queen wills it!"

"But what if I wanted to be romanced? Wined and dined? Treated like the princess I am?" the red-clad senshi demanded.

Usagi turned an amused smile on her friend. "That's not what you told me you want~."

Rei's blush went nuclear. "I told you that in confidence!"

"And I'm confident we'll enjoy making it come true!" the blonde giggled.

"…Maybe I've changed my mind about it," Rei muttered.

Hina rolled her eyes and pulled a length of rope from her stuff space, before waving it at Usagi. "I've got rope if you want to borrow some."

"Y-you shut up! You don't know what you're talking about—!"

"Mole on your inner left thigh," Hina grinned. "And you're ticklish under your right boob. Just the right one."

Rei nearly fell again and barely caught herself, stumbling on the landing of the next jump "Eeep! How do you know that?!"

"From the future," the redhead chuckled. "Maaaybe we had some fun?"

Usagi hummed, before shaking her head. "No, I don't think that's it."

"Spoil my fun," Hina grumbled. "You were super chatty about it and didn't care that I was around to hear, when I was still around. You thought I was too young to understand and wouldn't remember anyway."

Blinking, Ranma turned a curious look on Rei. "So wait, like… shibari?" Rei made a distressed noise and looked away, refusing to meet his eyes. With a grin, he turned to Usagi. "We should get her and Ami together at the same time."

Usagi giggled, nodding. "Where do you think Ami got the idea? Rei here is a very traditional girl!"

"Usagi shut uuup! Don't tell him that you idiot!" Rei whined.

Deciding to get in on the teasing, Ranma asked, "Like, how traditional?"

"She wants to try a wooden horse," Usagi supplied.

The senshi in red whimpered, while Hina laughed. "You guys had one. Apparently, her favorite thing to do was being tied to one and tied to Ami in front of her, and forced to make out while you and either Makoto or Minako went at it."

Rei opened her mouth to protest, only for the protest to die on her lips. After a moment, she glanced at Ranma. "…And you're okay with that? You don't think it's weird?"

"It's a little weird," Ranma shrugged. "But I can turn into a girl, so my idea of 'weird' is kind of off." Turning a smirk on the girl, he added, "Besides, if you can say it's not stupid if it works, then you can say it's not weird if it's sexy."

Rei blew out a sigh that turned into a chuckle. Looking over to Usagi, she sent the blonde an exasperated, if fond, look. "Then I guess I'm going home with you." She turned a look on Ranma and quieter, added, "It's my first time with a man. Please be mindful."

"Ah, yeah. I'll keep that in mind," Ranma murmured. He was saved from any awkwardness over that as they jumped down from the final building between themselves and the park. Reaching out with his senses, Ranma found Hina's guests immediately even as Hina began leading them that direction.

A few moments later, they found a girl in a high school uniform sitting on a park bench. Perched on a limb in the tree above her was a young man with silver hair, wearing red clothes. Triangular ears twitched on his head as he hopped down from the tree when the girl stood, and the group of four came to a stop in front of the pair.

Sniffing the air, the golden eyed man glanced between Ranma and Hina and raised an eyebrow. What he asked, however, struck more of a nerve than if he'd asked the obvious. "Why d'you smell like a cat?"

"Why d'you look like a dog?" Ranma fired back.

"Because I am, jackass! What's your excuse?!" the newcomer growled.

"Shitty father. You wanna go?! We can throw down right here, right now, dog boy! Anytime, any place!"

"Inuyasha!"

"Ranma!"

""Knock it off!""

"What?" Hina looked disappointed. "No! Come on! You're wasting a perfectly good opportunity! I really wanted to see where this dick measuring contest was going! Either they fight and we break out the popcorn, or they whip 'em out, and we break out the party favors~."

The pair exchanged an annoyed look and Inuyasha crossed his arms over his chest. "Tch. Fine. Whatever. Hurry up, Kagome."

"Yeah, fight ya later." Ranma grunted, taking up pretty much an identical stance. "We got places to be."

"I'd win."

"As if."

Usagi and Kagome shared a look of their own, and a quietly muttered, ""Boys!""