Chiba Familly Robinnson
Chapter 3
By Antigone (antigone@lunap.com ) and Klutz (lunap@lunap.com)
Websites:
Antig's: http://antigone.homestead.com

Klutz's: http://lunap.com

Both's: http://layouts.homestead.com/10banindex.html


Er...you know the drill.

	"You were up all night doing *what*?" Antigone spoke into what 
appeared to be a cell phone fashioned crudely out of a banana.  
    "Jeeze, Klutz-chan, no wonder you are tired." Antigone sighed, 
shifting the 'nanaphone to her other shoulder. "Look, I sympathize with
you and 
everything but it's not *my* fault he's so depressed....uh-huh...
uh-huh...well, devise a way to cheer him up, Klutz-chan, I know you
want 
to."
    "Baka," Klutz's voice filtered tinnily through the 'phone', "It's 
*not* me he wants.  Now get her over here, pronto, so we can see some 
Mamo-smiles, Okies?"
    "Klutz-chan.... Klutz?  HELLO?!"  With a sigh, Antigone pushed the 
antenna back into the banana and frowned. 'Why me?'
    Usagi was dreaming.  It was a nice dream... she was pretty sure it 
was anyway.  It started fading the minute sunlight fell across her
face, and 
began to disappear further, along with sleep, no matter how hard she 
tried to hold onto it.  Someone was trying to wake her up, apparently. 

    "Usagi-sama, Usagi-sama...!" Antigone sounded amused, "I've been 
trying to wake you for fifteen minutes!"
    "I was dreaming!" She sat up, rubbing her eyes.  "What time is it?"
    "I guess by your way of telling time... about 10:30."
    "Ten-thirty?! Wake me when it's noon."
    "Usagi?! Usa..."
    The loud sound of snoring again echoed through the tent.  With a 
sigh, Antigone began shaking Usagi's shoulder again, pressing invisible

"buttons" on her 'nanaphone.  
    "Klutz-chan, it's Antigone.  We may have delays...."

    "So where are we going again?" Usagi asked, as she, Antigone and 
Arat stumbled through the wilderness.  Arat was posed on a pair of
makeshift 
crutches, making painful faces every few feet.
    "We are going..." cringe, "to the Ddmuf village..." stumble, "to 
tribe for some more coffee... and possibly," wince, "some painkiller
for me."  
Arat answered.
    "You really should have stayed home you know, Arat," Antigone said,

sighing.
    "I wanted to see Ma---"  Arat broke off at Usagi's deadly stare, "I
 
wanted to show Nayr up."
    Usagi started sniffling, "No! You said you were coming to see 
Mamoru-baka!" she stopped and crossed her arms, "I forgot he was gonna 
be there. I don't wanna go anymore."
    Arat cowered under Antigone's glare. "Usagi-chan... it might not be

so bad..."
    Usagi paused, a picture of an SD Mamoru sitting on a throne 
surrounded by beautiful girls, all dressed, for some reason, like
Jeanie from that old 
American TV show.  They were all fawning on him, and he would just
greet 
her with his stupid, know-it-all grin. 'Ohayo gasimasu, Odango Atama!
Come 
to join the masses?'  
    She fumed, smoke starting to come from her ears.  Just then, 
Antigone put a calming hand on Usagi's shoulder.  "Nah, Usagi it's not
like that 
all."
    Side-long glance, "It's not?" She didn't ask how Antigone had seen 
her thought-bubble.
    Antigone shook her head, "They don't dress like that (not ALL of 
them anyway), and it's already one-thirty in the afternoon, so Mamoru
would 
probably say 'Konbon-wa', not 'ohayo'."
    Usagi's wail echoed through the forest.
    "Usagi-sama," Arat ran up to her, "I don't know if you are jealous 
or 
not, this being first season, so no one really knows how you really
feel 

about Mamoru or anything but... um, you should go anyway.  After all,
he 
is 
the only one here from your world, with him you aren't alone.  And, 
besides, sometimes friends can be in the strangest places... you can
find a 
treasure right before your eyes."
    Usagi still sulked.
    Antigone shook her head at Arat. "Usagi-sama," Antigone said,
enticingly, 
"They have *great* chocolate at the Ddmuf village."
    A moment.
    "Ok." the goddess gave her consent, with a pouting nod, "Let's go."
    "And *that's* the way to do it." Antigone whispered to Arat as they

walked on, "Eighteen manga, and 200 episodes, you'd think you'd learn 
something."
    Arat lowered her head, "Gomen nasai. I'll try better."
    Antigone just smiled, "No matter," she said, "we are here!"
    Usagi looked around and blinked.
    "How can you tell?  It looks exactly like the same jungle we've
been travelling through for the last fifteen minutes!" she exclaimed. 
Antigone blinked.
    "You mean you don't see it?  Instead of smelling coffee, I smell
chocolate brewing, and the trees here are taller.  Also, the ground is
more trampled in certain paths, because the Ddmuf like to have routine
like Mamoru, where as we just wing it like you."  She paused and
pointed ahead of them, where a girl was walking towards them.  "Also,
that's MK, well, Klutz to you's, advisor, Aisyle coming to greet us. 
They seem to like to plan ahead.  Well, except for Klutz of course…"
Antigone trailed off, wondering why Klutz was so unlike most of her
tribe, but shook it off.  After all, at the co-tribe banquet they had
last season, she *had * been voted most likely to take over the world.
      Aisyle bowed to Usagi and then straightened, smiling.  "Kon-wa
Usagi-san, Antigone-san, Arat.  We've been expecting you, please,
follow me." She said, and turned to lead them down some trampled dirt
that soon exited the jungle and led to the Ddmuf tribe territory.  The
huts and buildings looked pretty much the same, but the smell of
chocolate was a lot stronger, and the women were dressed more decently
that Usagi had imagined they would.  
	But the thing that surprised Usagi the most was that the temple ahead
and to her left was not surrounded by girls, (or guys she remembered)
but seemed very empty.  
	"Why isn't anyone at Mamoru-baka's temple?" Usagi wondered aloud.  
	"He's kind of depressed at the moment."  Aisyle commented.  "I wonder
why?"  She managed to look completely confused.
	Usagi looked away, around the small huts and people walking by.  A few
of them reminded her of Ami-chan and Rei-chan.  
	"So, where's the chocolate?" she asked finally.  Aisyle gestured
towards the temple.
	"We store all our chocolate in there, for safe keeping.  Come on, I'll
show you around."
	Aisyle kept talking as they walked toward the temple, explaining the 
way her tribe worked.  "The only thing is, Klutz is a bit different
from the 
people she leads.  So does Antigone..."
    Usagi smiled as Antigone blushed. "So I like to plan things. Sue
me. 
That's why I *admire* Usagi, because she doesn't have to." Antigone
gave 
a quick bow.  
    Usagi laughed, "It's the opposite thing...how does that go?"
    "Opposites attract," Arat said, "By the way, can I get some sort of

something for my leg?  It hurts..."
    Aisyle frown in concern for a moment. "Of course. I'll take her to 
the medical hut."
    Klutz came forward as the two left.  "Konbon-wa, minna-san! 
Usagi-chan!  I heard a rumor you wanted some chocolate?"
    "Hmm, Hai!" she said, happily.
    "Antigone, would you like to come into the temple with us to get 
some?"
    Antigone looked for all the world as if she was sweat-dropping.
"Ah, 
sure, why not?" 'Wouldn't miss this for the world.'
    
    Mamoru sat up a little in surprise when the door to the temple 
opened slowly.  He heard Klutz's voice, "Can I enter O Great One?" she
teased.
    Mamoru sat back down, frowning a little in disappointment. "Yes of 
course. It's your temple, after all."
    "Well, *someone*'s in a bad mood," her heard another voice say, 
almost laughing at him.
    He sulked.  Then he heard a familiar voice say, "That's not a rare 
thing." 'Why am I so happy to hear Usagi's voice? She only insults me.'
    He looked up,  he saw the three figures standing inside, the third 
one he placed as Antigone, the woman he met briefly before. And sure
enough, 
Usagi was there, blonde, beautiful and smiling.
    "I'm probably not going to be very good company..." he said, to all

of them, but he was only seeing Usagi.
    Usagi shrugged, "You never are."  She then blushed fiercely as she 
realized it might be wrong to insult him in his own temple.
    Looking around she commented, "Wow, this isn't exactly how I
thought 
it would look."
    Mamoru looked up for a second. "How did you think it would look?"
    Usagi blushed, and shrugged.
    "Funny story, Mamoru-san-," Antigone started but Usagi made cutting

motions with her hands, her face still seriously red. Antigone shut up.
    "Why did you come?" he asked Usagi, quietly.
    "Chocolate." she shrugged simply, not looking at him.
    "Help yourself then," he said, an unreadable expression on his
face. 
    Then he almost smiled, "Just try not to throw it at me, ok?"
    She sat down across from him, agitated all of a sudden. "I, um,
also 
wanted to...you know... say," she spread her hands for a second, "say 
um... yeah."
    Mamoru looked at her for a second, amusement beginning to drown out

his bad mood. "Usagi-chan I have *no* idea what you just said."
    "I'm-sorry-I-threw-pies-at-you." she muttered, all in one breath.
    He nodded, "Apology accepted."
    Usagi glared at him, arms crossed.
    "What?" he asked, frustrated.  Couldn't he do anything right? What 
the heck did she WANT from him?!  What did he have to do...
    For a moment Usagi thought.  For a moment she shrugged.  Thought 
some more.  Then she said slowly, "I am angry at you because I still
feel 
bad."
    All four of them burst out laughing at that statement, and when the

laughter quieted down Klutz and Antigone realized Usagi and Mamoru were

still looking at each other, faces not giving anything away.
    "Klutz-chan..."
    "Shh! Look at them..."
    "But Klu--"
    "Shhh!"
    "Klutz, I want chocolate!!"  Antigone voice echoed through the 
temple and both 'deities' blushed and quickly busied themselves with
passing out 
and eating the sweet candy.  Klutz stood to the side, a sneaky little
smile 
forming on her face. 
    "I have a plan." she whispered to Antigone, in a singsong voice.
    Antigone's eyes widened in horror as she stared straight ahead. 
'This had better a good one,' she thought, 'because the last time Klutz
had a 
'plan' I ended up upside down in a coconut tree singing 'My Friend's
Love'...


*Klutz Falls to knees and screams: "FEEEEEEEDBAAACK!  FEEEEDBAAACK!"
Antig: Er, Klutz, is that impression of 'a streetcar named desire'
*really* necessary?
Klutz: *blinks, stands up, straightens clothes* Of course Antig!  We
want what few readers we have to give us some feedback asap!
Antig: Ohhhh right!  *falls to knees and screams:*
FEEEEEEEEEDBAAAACKKK!  Now please!
MK and Antig