They're not mine, I wish they were, no copyright infringement is intended. Amayadori is from the Greenwood CDs. It’s a Mitsuru and Shinobu duet. This goes beyond pointless. Happy Mitsuru and Shinobu Day! ________ The Cuddliest Chibis in the World or Mitsuru and Shinobu are Hiding Under My Bed Akane stopped outside the door to room 310 and spared a glance for the new Trowa/Quatre picture that had been added to the multitude of anime pictures - with the odd Magnificent Seven, Sentinel and Starsky and Hutch added here and there - already covering the top half of the door. She knocked briefly, then entered without waiting for a reply. "Hey, maj, I-" She paused. "Okay. What is it this time?" majik looked up innocently from her position on the floor. "What do you mean?" She was crouched on the floor beside her bed, a gold-colored plastic bowler hat perched on her hair at an angle, the words "Mardi Gras!!!" emblazoned across it in bright colors. A gold plastic face mask covered her eyes, and five or six strands of gold, green and purple plastic beads were draped around her neck, with one looped around her wrist and over her middle finger. That same hand held a green and gold party favor raised halfway to her lips. "Mardi Gras is over, you know," Akane pointed out, closing the door behind her so no one else could witness her Neechan's temporary insanity. "I know that," majik huffed. "April's gonna give me copies of the pictures." "Oh, God..." "I bet the party favor war would make great Christmas cards." "maj," Akane interrupted. "Why the hat?" "I'm celebrating," majik said, as if that was supposed to make some sort of sense. "Celebrating..." Akane trailed off, hoping maj wasn't too far gone to pick up on the verbal clue to finish the sentence. "It's March 15th!" majik said delightedly, throwing both hands up in the air. "So... what? Caesar's dead?" majik gave her a pitying look. "I can't believe you forgot. You're missing all the fun!" "What fun?" "It's Mitsuru and Shinobu Day!" maj popped the party favor between her lips and blew. Hard. Akane clapped her hands to her ears. "majik!" With a beaming grin maj let the party favor drop. "I wanted to celebrate in style, but..." she glared into the space beneath her bed. "They're not cooperating." "They?" Akane paused. "Are you kidnapping chibis again?" majik nodded vigorously. "uh-huh." "You've got Mitsuru and Shinobu under there, haven't you?" majik nodded again. "uh-huh." Akane seemed to consider this. "Don't you usually keep them in your closet?" "They tried to make a break for it and I cornered them under here." "All right." That made sense. As much as it could, at least. "The last time you tried this, Heero and Hiei nearly killed you and Duo and Kurama refused to cooperate with your fics for a week." maj giggled. "I'm not worried. Shinobu doesn't carry a gun, remember? And Mitsuru's not going to kick up too much of a fuss as long as I keep writing limes and lemons..." She shook her head fondly. "Really, that boy." Akane crossed the short distance and knelt beside majik, bending down to peer under the bed. "You sure they're actually under here?" "mm-hmm." "You've got so much junk under here, I don't know how you can see anything." "At least my junk is *under* the bed. *You* need to perform an archaeological expedition every night just to go to sleep." "Yeah, yeah..." Akane trailed off. "Is that them?" "Where?" majik followed Akane's finger. "Oh! Sugoi! Hi boys! Come out and play?" The two chibis glowered at her and ducked behind one of the tupperware storage cartons stowed there. "mou!" majik scowled. "I wanna cuddle Mitsuru! It's Mitsuru and Shinobu Day and I should be allowed to cuddle Mitsuru if I want to!" "I think Shinobu wants to cuddle Mitsuru, too," Akane smirked. "And, like you said, it *is* Mitsuru and Shinobu Day." majik pouted. "I wanna cuddle him..." "Maybe later, kiddo. When Shinobu's done with him." If anything, majik got more upset. "You've read my fics! They *never* get tired of each other!" Akane paused and grinned a little. "Yeah. I noticed. Well," she shook herself. "Maybe you can sneak into a story one of these days and grab a cuddle when they're not expecting you." "I'll bring you too and you can molest Kazuya, okay?" majik was no longer pouting. "Okay," Akane agreed, glad the threat of poutiness had ended. God forbid her Neechan ever chose to use that pout for evil. She'd conquer the world in a week. "Six days," majik said confidently. "You're reading my mind now?" "It's my story. I can do whatever I want to do." majik beamed. "Wanna see me go dragon form?" Akane fought back a grin and shook her head. "Save it for the Fushigi Yûgi parody, okay?" "All right... "Come on," Akane said, pushing her self up to a standing position. "Leave them alone for a while." "Can we harass NeoBolts to finish translating Amayadori?" majik asked hopefully. "Sure." "Yea!" majik jumped up and pulled off the gold mask, revealing a purple on beneath it. She removed that one also to reveal a green one. That one she pulled off and handed to Akane. "Your color, 'mouto-chan?" "Why thank you." Akane didn't hesitate before slipping it on over her hair. majik put the other two masks back on. "Come on! Maybe by the time we come back they'll be asleep and I can catch them unawares!" Akane laughed as majik dragged her out the door. "You have problems, you know that?" Happy Mitsuru and Shinobu Day!