April Fool's Day:Ronin Style
7:34 am-April 1st
A scream rings through the air.
?White Blaze! What on earth has happened to you?? Ryo cried in shock. He had woken up this morning to find not the white tiger he had grown up with, but one that was. . . pink. During the night someone had snuck into his room and dyed his beautiful tiger pink.
White Blaze, surprised by his owner?s reaction, looked himself over. He glanced back at Ryo with an expression of confusion and anger on his pink face. The tiger emitted a low, puzzled growl.
?I don?t know who did it boy, but why don?t we find out.? Ryo said jumping out of bed and leaving his room to go gather his other companions.
7:46 am-April 1st
Everyone was awake and sitting around the kitchen table; everyone except Rowen who was still in bed, with him it was like trying to wake the dead.
?So none of you did this?? Ryo said as he motioned towards one embarrassed tiger who, presently, was cowering beneath the table. Everyone shook their heads. ?And no one saw anybody else do it either?? Another simultaneous shake of heads. Ryo sighed heavily.
Kento?s laughing was the first thing to break the heavy silence that had descended upon the room. Sage, Cye, and Ryo all looked up at the rude noise to see Rowen standing in the doorway. Everyone burst out laughing though Cye and Sage were doing their best to hide it but failing miserably. Rowen looked at them all in surprise, what was so funny?
?Look at your face,? Sage choked out between laughs.
Rowen raced upstairs, looked in a bathroom mirror and yelled. His face looked like a cross between a clown?s and a cat?s. Someone had taken a dozen different colored markers and scribbled all over his face, he also had lipstick on. Quickly soaking a washrag he vainly tried to wash off his face. The lipstick came off fairly easy, but the marker, Rowen dejectedly found
out, was permanent.
Depressed, he wandered back downstairs. Kento was hiccupping from laughing too much and the others still snickered now and then but otherwise everyone had pretty much calmed down.
9:56 am-April 1st
Ryo had gone out to try and give White Blaze a bath, Rowen was hiding his face behind a large book, Cye was kicking Kento?s butt at cards and Sage had decided to grab a quick shower.
Some peculiar sounds followed the end of Sage?s shower. Mostly those of him cursing
loudly and stomping angrily down the stairs to confront Cye, Kento, and Rowen in the living room.
?Uh oh,? Muttered Kento after one glance at Sage?s red face.
Cye looked up from the cards. ?What is it now?? He asked ignoring the earlier comment.
Sage hesitated before saying, ?Whose been putting Rogaine in my deodorant?? Everyone broke out laughing and Kento started hiccupping again.
?Is it blonde?? He asked loudly making everyone laugh even harder. Sage walked up to Kento looking ready to punch his lights out. Sobering up quickly, Cye stepped between them. Kento decided to retreat to the kitchen at that point.
Sage, quarry lost, stomped back upstairs to take care of his problem.
12:02 pm-April 1st
Kento looked up just as the back door opened and a very frustrated-looking Ryo walked in. He was completely drenched with water, soapsuds dotted his shirt here and there, and his entire left side was covered in mud. Following his was a very smug-looking, but bone dry, pink tiger.
?What happened to you?? Kento asked, taking another bite of an over-stuffed sandwich.
?I learned the hard way that White Blaze doesn?t like baths. When he wouldn?t get wet voluntarily I tried to force him but he just dragged me through the mud.? Ryo paused. ?I?m going to get a shower.? He said tiredly and made his way upstairs.
About ten minutes later, the quiet climate of the house was violently disrupted as a string of cursing came from the bathroom. Everyone rushed to the door as a very pissed off Ryo emerged in a bathrobe.
?Someone?s put dead bugs in my shampoo!? He yelled, more frustrated than shocked.
Cye grimaced as he pulled a dead beetle from Ryo?s jet-black hair and tossed it into a nearby wastebasket.
?We?ve really got to figure out whose doing this.? Ryo remarked quietly.
12:12 pm-April 1st
Everyone dispersed when Ryo went to go comb the bugs out of his hair. Kento had gone back to his room to relax and listen to the radio. Unfortunately, when he turned on his stereo the tape player kicked in instead. What he heard, though, wasn?t even close to the tape he had in there. In fact, it sounded just like a giant purple dinosaur he used to watch when he was three. It was going full blast and Kento couldn?t do a thing about it because the stereo buttons wouldn?t work.
Rowen burst through the door with only one question on his mind, ?Why the heck are you playing Barney??
The other Ronins hurried into the room trying to figure out what the racket was all about.
?I love you. . .? came from the stereo.
?Shut. . .? commanded Ryo, voice hoarse from being abused all day long.
?You love me. . .?
? . . .It . . .?
?We?re a happy family. . . ?
? . . .OFF!?
?I can?t!? Kento yelled back.
?Unplug it.? Supplied Sage. Kento tore the plug from the wall but the music didn?t quit.
?Take the batteries out!? Cye suggested. Kento picked up the stereo and began to fumble with the door that held them in. The little door fell to the floor and he scrambled to pull the batteries out.
?They?re jammed!? He yelled.
No one had noticed when he left, but Rowen pushed his way back into the room and walked over to Kento. Only then did anyone see the screwdriver he held. He raised it high above his head then plunged it deep into the back of the doomed stereo. Kento let out an angry cry as the player gave one last hum, sputtered, and finally died. The room lapsed into silence as Rowen walked out.
?Hey, what?d you do that for?? Kento yelled after Rowen. But it was too late; he
had already gone back to his room and was buried deep in another book.
6:05 pm-April 1st
After helping Kento clean up his dismantled stereo and promising him that they would pick up a new one tomorrow, Cye had finally gotten around to cooking dinner. Everyone had already assembled at the dining room table by the time he had gotten all the food set out. Kento, as usual, had started eating before he even sat down.
Cye took a seat slowly, thinking he had forgotten something. He deliberately picked at his food for a moment, deep in thought. Suddenly, it came to him and he tried to get up. But he couldn?t for some odd reason. He tried to rise again but only got the same result.
?Cye, what?s wrong?? Ryo asked from the other end of the table. He had noticed what Cye had been doing, although, it looked more like a nervous fidgeting to him.
?Well, uh,? Cye started, ?I seem to be stuck to my chair.?
All the talking in the room stopped the minute he said that. Everybody walked over to his end of the table to investigate.
?Why on Earth are you glued to your chair?? Sage asked.
?I didn?t do it!? Cye cried.
?We need to get you out of this.? Said Ryo. ?Unzip your pants.?
?What!?? Cye yelled in confusion.
?That?s the only way to get you out of this mess.?
Reluctantly, Cye obeyed. He struggled out of his pants nearly tipping the chair over. When he was free he was left standing in his t-shirt and a pair of boxers.
?Fish?? Kento asked, on the verge of laughing. Cye?s boxers were covered in
rainbow fish; they looked like something out of a Dr. Seuss book.
?Hey!? He complained trying to hide them by pulling his shirt down. Cye then retreated upstairs to put on a new pair of pants.
Everybody went and sat back down to eat. Sage had a way too pleased smile on his face all of the sudden.
?What?s with you?? Kento asked. Normally Sage was never this happy.
?I?ve figured out whose been doing all this.? He said calmly.
?You what?? Called Ryo, Rowen, Kento, and Cye-who had returned-in unison.
?I?ve figured out who our joker is and it is-?
After this part the story gets pretty ugly, so I?ve decided to stop it here.
The End
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