Chapter Three: Hide-And-Seek Gone WAY Out Of Control

"ALRIGHT!" The aggravated Ryou screamed. "Guess I should set up games. But you have to stay in the café."

"YAY!" Everyone screamed. "Games! I wanna play hide-and-seek!"

"Fine. You people do remember how to count, right?" Ryou asked. "Then…. Taruto is It."

"Ryou has to play too!" Keiichiro whined. "RYOU! WAAH!"

"Big baby," Snarled Pai.

"You talk big now, but how about after I stuff your face full of fist?" Zakuro threatened, trying her hardest to get at him, but Ryou pick him up into the air.

"Wheeee!" Pai threw his arms in the air and began giggling.

"Alright, I'll play…" Ryou gave up and decided to humor the Mini-People. He set Pai on the ground a little farther away from Zakuro.

Taruto turned around and placed his face in his hands. Everyone scattered.

"I'll count to ten!" Taruto warned. "Six… three… one… two… five… eight… four… nine… seven… TEN!" He whirled around and took his hands off his face. No one was in sight. The boy crossed his legs and floated around the café, trying to see if any of the people were easy to spot. None were, so he began searching in the harder spots. In the kitchen he opened up the cabinets in hopes to find someone. He only found Ichigo.

"I FOUND YOU, ICHIGO!" He screamed at her. She was curled up, asleep. He smirked and got close up to her ear. "AHHHH! A DOG!"

"WHERE?" Ichigo screeched, running out of the cabinets and into the lobby, crying.

"The dog's gonna kill me, nyan….!" She kept looking around for the dog.

"There was a 99.9 percent chance that I was joking, Ichigo." Taruto taunted.

"Waahhh…." Ichigo whimpered. "That means there's a chance there WAS a dog after me!" She jumped on a series of books, shelves, and a bird to get to the roof. She fell asleep on one of the roof-support-thingies.

"OUCH!" The bird screamed. "Way to go, baka, now I'm found!" Minto brushed her dress off. "And you got my pretty dress dirty."

Taruto floated up towards Minto and shoved a finger in her face.

"FOUND YOU!" He screamed. "Now sit down there and wait until I find everyone else."

Minto jumped off of the roof-support-thingies and landed on the ground skillfully thanks to her wings.

"Go find everyone else, then." Minto flicked her wrist towards the lobby. Taruto sighed and floated away. Time to check everywhere else.

Purin was easy to find. She was pretending to be the TV antennae.

"Purin," Taruto said. "I know it's you. You can come down now."

Purin stayed up there still, not moving. Taruto got a little tired of her doing that, so he pushed her off.

"ITAI!" The kawaii little monkey screeched. "THAT HURDED NO DA!"

"Go sit with Minto and wait for me to find everyone else." Taruto commanded.

"NO!" Purin said. "I'm HUNGRY, na no da! I'm going to get a SNACK! No da!" She ran off and slammed a near-by door.

"Why did you slam that door when you're going to the kitchen?" Taruto asked. "That's very illogical."

"Because the kitchen door doesn't SLAM na no da! And I wanted to be DRAMATIC NO DA!" Purin bounced into the kitchen. Taruto stood still a moment longer and then heard, "OOH! SUGAR COOKIES NA NO DA!"

Keiichiro instantly jumped out from behind a curtain and ran into the kitchen.

"Not the cooookies!" He pleaded, crying. "NOT THE COOOOKIES!"

Taruto looked under one chair and saw Zakuro and Pai at each other's throats. He just walked away.

Taruto then tried to think of all the places a half-fish would be placed. He walked over to the girls' restroom, closed his eyes, and ran in. He heard a scream.

"AHHHH! YOU FOUND ME! HENTAI!" Retasu was in the sink, with the water running.

"It wasn't MY fault you chose a place I can't normally go into!" Taruto debated. "Just go to the lobby and wait with Minto and the others. I still have to find Kisshu and Ryou." Taruto turned around and left.

"Ano! Wait! I can't get out!" Retasu called to him right when he closed the door.

"Kisshu! Ryou! Where are you?" Taruto searched the whole place upside down and catty-cornered. He couldn't find them. Finally, he got an idea.

"Minto! Lemme see your cell-phone!" He held his hand out, expecting her to give it to him. She smirked.

"100 yen a minute." She said. Taruto rolled his eyes and agreed. She handed him the phone and he dialed the number of the café.

Ryou came out from the basement to get it.

"Mosi-moshi?" He asked into the phone. Taruto held back a snigger.

"Yes," He said with a sort of manly voice. "Is there a Kisshu there?"

"Uh! Yes, there is. Here he is. KISSHU!" Ryou yelled. Kisshu appeared in front of Ryou and got handed the phone.

"Moshi-moshi?" Kisshu asked into the phone.

"FOUND YOU!" Taruto screamed with all his might.

Kisshu whirled around and saw Taruto pointing at him and Ryou.

"FOUND YOU FOUND YOU FOUND YOU FOUND YOU!" Taruto kept yelling that in Kisshu's face so much Kisshu tackled him.

"DOG PILE!" Pai screeched, jumping into the two. Zakuro was the next to jump in.

"I'll get you, Pai!" She threatened. Ichigo ran up to them, giggling and laughing. She jumped in to.

"Kittie funny nya!" She liked getting into fights. "Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!"

Instantly all the little bitty kids jumped on top of each other in a desperate attempt to get on top. Though most of the kids were trying to kill each other.

"Hey! Cut it out! This is not good!" Ryou began picking up kids and setting them aside. They'd just run back into the pile once more and begin fighting again.

"If you all stop this right this instant I'll give you ICE CREAM!" Ryou screamed, throwing his hands in the air. The kids all became silent and watched him carefully. "Uh, yes. Let's go to the freezer and get some ice cream."

Everyone instantly shot up and ran into the kitched, jumping over things and spilling food and sauces everywhere.

"Oh boy," Ryou placed his head in his hands. "What have I done?"

THE END!

n.n The chapters are getting better! Believe it or not, I'll be updating Therapy Trap next. I just got a break though on it. Please review so I'm encouraged to update! n.n