"Amazing though that his girlfriend is THIS flat-chested," noted Yzma as she stripped the drugged girl bare. A little extra sleeping draught when she was done and the girl was basically as limp as an empty pair of socks. "Now where to start?" Oh yes, Naruto Uzumaki would no doubt take any attack on HIMSELF without much difficulty. His obviously weak, underfed, not-very-bright girlfriend? Oh yes, THAT would get him!
The door swung open, causing Yzma to nearly have a heart attack.
"I got her, Yzma, this is the 'Hyuga heir', that everyone says... who's that?" asked Kronk.
"Kronk, you idiot, you - you got her? That IS her, well well well," said Yzma. "How interesting?"
"Why is she naked?" asked Kronk, trying not to look.
"Never mind that, Kronk, just stand guard and don't let anyone in," said Yzma, getting a funnel out of her bag and choosing a potion. "I'll be done with these two shortly. Oh dear. The label fell off."
"Well, I DID tell you that you should spring extra for the more expensive labels, this stuff doesn't stick to glass very well," pointed out Kronk.
"Oh, bother," said Yzma. "Well, good enough. Let's see what THIS one does."
*POOF!*
"A llama?! AGAIN! I'm SICK of llamas," declared Yzma.
"Well, this one's pink so that's different at least," pointed out Kronk.
"Kronk. Outside. Guard. Now." Yzma pointed helpfully at the sole door to the room.
"Right, right," said Kronk. "Don't get in a mood again. Everything seems to go South when you do."
"I. Am. NOT. In. A. Mood," said Yzma very precisely.
"Oh boy," said Kronk, taking the time to go outside and close the door carefully behind him.
Looking over the slumbering pink llama named Sakura, Yzma was momentarily tempted to keep her like that. Maybe an amnesia potion. Then breed her and see if that lovely pink color bred true. Might sell well enough to recoup her finances somewhat and she WAS running short of cash. "No, let's try this one."
*POOF!*
"A panther? Now THAT is ridiculous, whoever heard of a Pink Panther? Let's see. Maybe a llittle of this to the Hyuga girl?"
*POOF!*
"Oh, now THAT works out considerably better, a helpless little black kitten. Yes, now back to the girlfriend," said Yzma.
Hanabi Hyuga knew SOMETHING was wrong. She hadn't thought anything in particular about all the squirrels gathering nearby. They were just rodents after all, even if they were CUTE rodents. When one had approached her, all big eyed and furry and cute, she'd first made sure there were no witnesses before trying to coax the squirrel a little closer.
Then the damn things had MOBBED her, tied her up, stuffed a smelly rag in her face, and carried her off!
What, were they saying she was some kind of nut to be gathered up and stuffed in a tree or something?
Now she was slowly coming to, but careful not to betray her wakefulness. There was some liquid that went down her throat, that had been what caused her to awake, and now she was feeling most peculiar. Her tail twitched in annoyance as she tried... to... figure out. Wait one moment. Tail?
Slowly an eye opened, revealing a black-and-white vision, there was some weird doctor over there, going through a medical bag and working on a... giant chicken?!
Making each move as slow and deliberate as possible, Hanabi craned around to look at herself. Aided by the fact that there was a set of medical instruments on a tray and the stand holding it all up was reflective.
A black-looking cat with familiar looking eyes blinked back at her, with exactly the same blinking as she was doing. Oh that.
"MEOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW?!" asked Hanabi, going straight into a panic and running. Not caring where she was going as long as it was away.
"Can't Kronk do ANYTHING right?" asked Yzma as she saw the door swinging shut behind the vanished kitty. "Well, that's the improved version of the transformation potion. She won't be able to talk. Now for you, my dear. Just on the off chance she can find a way to communicate, I can't spend time doing the sort of experimentation I'd really like to. Certainly leaving you as a giant pink chicken would have its possibilities, but let's try this."
"MEOW! MEOW MEEEEEEEEEEEEEOW!" said the kitten, running into the compound. "MEW MEOW MEORRRRR!"
Hiashi Hyuga looked at the odd kitten, carefully reached down, then picked it up by the scruff of the neck. Walking to the compound gate, Hiashi flicked his arm, causing the now-yowling cat to slam into the wall across the street and slowly slide down it.
He managed to get four steps in before hearing that cat yowl at him again, limping back across the street towards him.
"I don't know what you think to accomplish, but pets are not allowed here," said Hiashi to the creature.
The cat looked up at him giving more plaintive yowls and hisses.
"BEGONE!" thundered Hiashi, hoping the creature would read the tone of his voice and posture and go back to whatever alley was its home. He didn't raise his voice, simply putting enough force in his words that it might as well have been. That and a little Killing Intent should do the job. "GET OUT OF HERE! YOU HAVE NO PLACE HERE AND NEVER WILL!"
The cat's eyes were very large and it began shaking.
Hiashi took in the stance and figured that once more should rid him of the beast. He stomped a foot down. "Get out of here before I order the guards to kill you."
The cat fled, making the oddest noise. Almost as if it were crying.
Hiashi shook his head at the bizarre illusion. Then checked to make sure he wasn't under a genjutsu. Well, whatever. It was gone now.
Hanabi looked back at her home. Former home.
Feeling more alone, cut loose, abandoned, and just generally miserable than she'd ever felt in her life, she began trudging off (at least as much as a black kitten could trudge) to wallow in some self-pity. She really felt she deserved the right to do so at the moment.
"ch-ch-chik," said something.
Hanabi's head shot up to behold exactly what she had feared. Squirrels. Who would no doubt take her back to that weird medical ninja with the round glasses. All she'd been able to see was the rough height and the glasses - everything else had been covered up with the surgical gown/hat/gloves/mask combination. She knew one thing though, she did NOT want to go back and have that medic-nin finish whatever he'd been planning to do to her! No way!
Hanabi turned and sprinted away, veering away from the false safety of her former home when she'd realized that had been her first instinctual reaction.
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