Another day at H!P

[Blizzard]

Welcome back erink the genius!  Still hilarious as ever!  Kei needs to just admit defeat before she gets so far in the hole that she needs a ladder to get out!  But then again, it's a lot more fun if she doesn't!  Hope you keep writing more!

[Amarghetta]

I just went back to re-read the first chapters, and somehow I enjoyed them more... (Probably because I now I know a thing or two about most H!P girls, lol.) They're pure gold!

Welcome back, btw.

[erink]

"Esteemed members of Hello! Project, friends, colleges, children whose names I still do not know, we are gathered here today for a very special reason." Yuuko began majestically, look out at the sea of faces before her.
"Yossie's finally coming out of the closet?" Miki asked sarcastically from the middle of the room.
"No." Yuuko said flatly, shaking her head.
"Kago-" Came a call from the back of the room.
"No."
"Oh! Oh! I know, I knowIknowIknow!!" Sayumi yelled, raising her hand so high in the air that the rest of her body was practically going with it.
"Yes, Sayu?"
"There is going to be a dedication ceremony for the new garage and you are going to name it in my honour!" Sayu jumped up from her seat. She put her arms up as if in prayer and looked dreamily at the ceiling. "After all, I am the cutest. This is just so perfect. The Sayumi Michishige Motor Complex. The cutest place to park you car in the-"
"I'd like to park a car right in your-" Miki was cut off.
"Enough." Yuuko shouted.
"Take a seat you  no good, delusional, little-" Rika was cut off by an amused but slightly annoyed Yuuko.
"I said enough."
All the girls quieted down.
"First of all, no you are not getting the new garage named after you, you twit. And second of all, the special reason were are all here today is becuase I need to make an anouncement."
"You finally found a man willing to marry you?" Mari asked. True she knew the real reasons they were gathered, but she couldn't pass up the opprotunity, especially knowing that Miki would jump at it.
"Let's rephrase that," Miki began. "You finally blackmailed, beat, or otherwise terrorized, tortured, or tricked, a man into marriage?"
"No. No I did not. And I want you to know that in one to two business days both of you will pay for that."
Miki and Mari smiled at each other while other girls started to laugh.
"The reason were are all here today is because I have a little game for us to play."
"Listen, if this is a two-ten-jack tornament, or poker again, I'm out. It took me all this time just to re-establish my credit." Masae stated.
"No. It's not. For the love of god will you all just let me get on with it?!"
"Okay, okay." Masae mumbled putting her hands up.
"This will be dangerous. This will be trying. This will be a test of friendship and sisterhood. This will be vicious.
This will be underhanded. This will be full of lying and deceit. This will be a test of strategization and wits. This will  be- "Yuuko paused and licked her lips. "Girls, if you could just cover you ears, yes, yes, just for a moment."
The members of Cute and Berryz looked at each other uncertainly and slowly brought their hands over their ears.
Yuuko nodded, and resumed.
"This will be pretty fucking awesome."
She paused and looked around, satisfied, letting her speech sink in.
Goto raised her hand.
"And what excactly will this be?"
"A scavenger hunt."

[JFC]

"Esteemed members of Hello! Project, friends, colleges, children whose names I still do not know, we are gathered here today for a very special reason." Yuuko began majestically, look out at the sea of faces before her.
"Yossie's finally coming out of the closet?" Miki asked sarcastically from the middle of the room.
"No." Yuuko said flatly, shaking her head.

Damn.

"Oh! Oh! I know, I knowIknowIknow!!" Sayumi yelled, raising her hand so high in the air that the rest of her body was practically going with it.
"Yes, Sayu?"
"There is going to be a dedication ceremony for the new garage and you are going to name it in my honour!" Sayu jumped up from her seat. She put her arms up as if in prayer and looked dreamily at the ceiling. "After all, I am the cutest. This is just so perfect. The Sayumi Michishige Motor Complex. The cutest place to park you car in the-"
"I'd like to park a car right in your-" Miki was cut off.

Damn! 

"You finally found a man willing to marry you?" Mari asked. True she knew the real reasons they were gathered, but she couldn't pass up the opprotunity, especially knowing that Miki would jump at it.
"Let's rephrase that," Miki began. "You finally blackmailed, beat, or otherwise terrorized, tortured, or tricked, a man into marriage?"

Zing! I mean...DAMN!!! 

"This will be dangerous. This will be trying. This will be a test of friendship and sisterhood. This will be vicious.
This will be underhanded. This will be full of lying and deceit. This will be a test of strategization and wits. This will  be- "Yuuko paused and licked her lips.

...

"This will be pretty fucking awesome."
She paused and looked around, satisfied, letting her speech sink in.
Goto raised her hand.
"And what excactly will this be?"
"A scavenger hunt."

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!   

[Amarghetta]

Oh, I loved the sarcasm flying around! It reminds me so much of my family and friends, lol.

Scavenger hunt? Uhm, it sounds like fun.

[rndmnwierd]

Can't wait. I'm valley girling over here in my excitment.

[Owaranai_sLaVe]

LOL x10 with Miki's comment on Yossui's denying gayness <3~
Even funnier when Miki put Sayu in her place for trying to act "smart" again OH AND HELL YEAH, Rika finally tells Sayu off. Even with her hair half gone, no one can forget that Rika is/was the cutest girl. Oh Charmy~
Mari and Miki double team, hell yeah. Yuko reactions are always the grandest.
And finally.... I laughed my ASS off reading Yuko directing the kids to cover their ears. It's cute AND funny.

-Owaranai_sLaVe

[00HB]

Yeeee! Again, Yuko prepares the ground for a merciless battle!
Who knows what to expect?
[but it's sure to be a lot of fun! xD ]

[erink]

"Let's not waste time. Get crackalacking on this."
"I'm sorry, did she just say crackalacking?" Miki whispered to Mari.
"I think she did." Mari replied as the two of them started giggling.
"Ya-gooch!" Yuuko bellowed.
"Yyes?"
"I need you and Tsuji to call a temporary cease fire with Kei. Can you do that?"
"Sure." Mari answered looking Yuuko straight in the eye.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Kei's ear shattering scream peirced through the room.
"Starting now." Mari said.

[erink]

Kei stumbled out of bed. What time was it? She strained to see the face of the alarm clock and took an educated guess that she should probably hurry up and get to breakfast. She had overslept by quite some time.
Oversleeping in Hello!Project was like taking a leap of faith. If you weren't there, chances are that they would make plans to do something without you, leaving you all alone to scratch your head and wonder where everyone went.  If you were really lucky, there is a possibility that the girls will cancel their plans to be bitches that day and you can sleep till your hearts content, completely unscathed. Conversely if you were really unlucky they would plot against you for the simple fact that your absence meant they wouldn't have to be secretive about the evil doing that was going to happen. People tended to show up just for the reason that if you are present you are given opprotunities to make sure that whatever practical joke or trick was being meticulously planned you have increased chances of not being the person on the recieving end.
Kei made her way to the bathroom and fumbled around the counter top searching for her contact case. In the process she knocked over a tube of toothpaste, a peice of paper, and her hairbrush.
She wondered about wheter or not Miki still had hard feelings over the clothes issue. And then, dismissing a completely ludacris question that really didn't even need to be asked, she pondered about things like how much it would cost to bribe Miki, deciding that it was probably more than she could offer. While her head dismissed it all as rumors, her heart hoped that her family really wasn't in with the yakuza.
With contact on finger, she began looking in the mirror. Having a swollen eye the size of, well the size of a rather large object made this quite difficult. After a few minutes of struggling she succeded.
Only to experience a rather intense burning sensation. She jumped and screamed immediately trying to remove the contact. Thanks to the swelling, removal was about twice as hard as getting it on there was in the first place. Her eyes teared as it continued stinging. Finally after what felt like forever she held the contact back on her finger. she put her arm on the counter and leaned over.
"What a way to wake up." Kei mumbled, all traces of her sleepiness disappearing as her eyes continued to water.
Out of the corner of her eye she caught something. The piece of paper that she had knocked over. She crouched down.
The note read;
"Dear Kei,
It's plane to see your an idiot.
4 to -1."
Scrawled in the corner of the note was Tsuji's unmistakable handwritting that read.
"Hahah. You suck."
Kei shook her head. Not only was it a simple attack, it was one littered with common misspelling
They were winning battles. But she still questioned if they would win the war.

[JFC]

"I need you and Tsuji to call a temporary cease fire with Kei. Can you do that?"
"Sure." Mari answered looking Yuuko straight in the eye.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Kei's ear shattering scream peirced through the room.
"Starting now." Mari said.

The timing is impeccable.

With contact on finger, she began looking in the mirror. Having a swollen eye the size of, well the size of a rather large object made this quite difficult. After a few minutes of struggling she succeded.
Only to experience a rather intense burning sensation. She jumped and screamed immediately trying to remove the contact.

What the hell? Did Mari and Nono replace the contact solution with lemon juice or something? 

Scrawled in the corner of the note was Tsuji's unmistakable handwritting that read.
"Hahah. You suck."

[Mikan]

I was staring at this thread the other day wondering when it would be back. How you going? Its such an empty space in the forum without you here. Brings me back to the good old days ^^

Love the new entries, of course. Cracked a smile. Not as long as usual though.

Can I ask what the hell they put on the contact? Not that I would ever repeat this harsh and dangerous trick...

[erink]

Tap water. Simple, effective. Mates said it stings like a mother.

Thanks Mikan. You make me all warm and fuzzy while kind of sort of kicking me to get back into gear.

[rndmnwierd]

Poor Kei, serves her right for existing. Keep it coming!

[Mikan]

Tap water! But of course!

*Cuddles Erink* I wub you. Keep em coming ^^

[erink]

Yuuko stood at the front of the cafeteria holding a clip board. She looked down at it and lifted several papers.
"Alright" she began "due to the lack of time we will just be keeping the teams from Kana with some minor alterations. Everyone just go and sit with your group." She looked up at the girls. "No one remembers their group, do they?"
The girls looked around and then started shaking their heads.
"No, no not really."
"I think I switched shirts with someone so I don't remeber the colour..."
"Okay, okay. Luckily I have them here."
Yuuko readjusted her grip on the board.
"Alright, everyone just go stand over by the wall and come sit where I tell you.
She waited for the girls to relocate. Miki hesitantly moved over to where Aya had saved her a spot.
"Now," Yuuko began. "On to the altercations."
Yuuko began writing on the board furiously. After scribbling and scratching, adding arrows and subtracting names, she was ready.
"First off, referees. Any objection to Maeda, Shibata, and Inaba?"
The girls shook thier heads.
"Now then, Erika is no longer with us-"
"God rest her soul." Mari interjected, making the sign of the cross.
Most of the girls started snickering while Yossie looked as though she was going to be sick, thanks to the reminder of the rather large mess there was still left to be clean up.
"That means there are twenty six of us. Okay then. Two teams of five then four teams of four."
"Wait," Masae shouted. "Having an extra person is an advantage."
Yuuko shook her head. "Oh Masae, don't you worry. If anything I think you will be happy when you see the teams of five. I mean, the younger girls get to stay together because this is their first time doing something like this and my team, my team has Kei. If anything I have to work twice is hard to carry the deadweight."
"You're so wise and fair." Masae said as Kei rolled her eyes.
"Right then. Here are the teams, girls."
Yuuko placed the paper on the wall while reading from it.

White- Kaori, Nacchi, Kei, Yaguchi and Me.
Red- Takahashi, Eri, Sayu, Risa, and Reina
Blue- Miki, Kore, Yui, and Murata
Yellow- Masae, Miuna, Asami, and Ayaka
Green- Ishikawa, Tsuji, Goto, and Yoshizawa
Pink- Mai, Aya, Makoto, and Saito

"From now on the cafeteria will be headquarters. Refs and the kids will be here the entire time. Everyone will be given an envelope. Inside is the list. Every challenge or item is given points, team with the most points wins. Each team will be given a video camera which will be nessecary for some items. Use your cellphones to take pictures as proof. Call the refs when you complete a task and they will mark it after you send them the picture. As you know we still have the vans left over so every team gets one. Any questions?"
None of the girls said anything.
"Alright. Make sure you have the phone numbers of the refs, Berryz, and Cute members. Go get ready. Meet back here at 7 to pick up the envelopes.

[erink]

Headquarters was buzzing. A gaint map was plastered on a rolling chalk board. A dry erase board had been placed at the back of the room. The long table was moved to the center. It was filled with lists, contact sheets, cellphones, and refreshments. The girls were ready.
Cute and Berryz members passed out the envelopes.
"On your mark" Shibata yelled. "GO!"
At excactly 8 o'clock. The Hunt began.

The girls ran out of the cafeteria at top speed. Some girls like Yuuko and Miki were not above shoving or triping. Mai ran down the hall screaming "Get to the van, get to the van!" while Nacchi and Kei opted to take the other hall towards the parking lot.

[Sukoshi]

YES! you're back!    And with the hunt too!   

LOL I so forgot about Erika...that poor girl..I'm sure she'll turn up sometime but when she does no one will be able to remember who she is 

[rndmnwierd]

Omg Erika! I miss you! 

[JFC]

"Now then, Erika is no longer with us-"
"God rest her soul." Mari interjected, making the sign of the cross.

They never did find her, did they? 

White- Kaori, Nacchi, Kei, Yaguchi and Me.
Red- Takahashi, Eri, Sayu, Risa, and Reina
Blue- Miki, Kore, Yui, and Murata
Yellow- Masae, Miuna, Asami, and Ayaka
Green- Ishikawa, Tsuji, Goto, and Yoshizawa
Pink- Mai, Aya, Makoto, and Saito

Aw, Miki and Aya don't get to be on the same team?

At excactly 8 o'clock. The Hunt began.

And so it begins.