[Gift] LIMEWIRE!!!

“ALRIGHT SHIBANI!” With a loud snap of his fingers, Gin brought the dozing Shibani’s attention back to his hands.
“I’m listening, I’m listening!”
“Making sure! You and me… we are on a mission today, you know?! Buns like us… buns like us gotta loop arms if we wanna achieve our goals! You said you wanted to have some ultimate fun out in the snow, and I’m gonna SHOW you all the fun we can have… alright?!?!”
“Yeah! Alright!”

Gin’s open palm slapped down against the ground as he sat cross-legged in front of Shibani’s relaxed laying-down-in-the-snow position. Time was of the essence… though really, any passing bun couldn’t tell that from how these two were acting. Supposedly Shibani really really wanted to get out and play in the fresh Burrowgatory snow—since it coming up to the city was a rarity—so Gin (the genius he is) had devised an ultimate fun-time plan that he and Shibani could partake in. The only thing Gin needed to do was get Shibani as invested into the plan as he was… which was turning out to be more difficult than one would expect.

“In just a couple hours, Dan will be coming by. I invited him here as a challenge, and I’m recruiting you as my lieutenant numero UNO in my quest to absolutely clown on Dan! Ga-ha-ha!” Producing a stick from somewhere unknown, Gin started drawing in the fresh snow as Shibani peeked over his shoulder with an open mouth.

“You and me, Shibani? We’re going to build our fort right on the edge of this lot. Right there, where it’s kinda hidden by the wall.”
“Ooooh…”
“I have an ultimate secret technique to making strong ice bricks, and I’m willing to pass down this technique to you, Shibani. Be honored!”
“Ohhh!!!”
“Once we construct our fort, we gather ammo. Snowballs! A bajillion of ‘em! And then we wait… and once Dan rounds THIS corner, we STRIKE!”
“Yeah, that’s such a cool plan! But…”
“But?”
“What’s in it for me, again?”
“Aha, a good question! Why recruit you—Shibani—in my crusade against Dan? Well… I’ll let you know…” Gin leans over to Shibani’s ear, “Upon issuing my challenge I declared that the loser be indebted to the winner… that means, you can make Dan buy you anything you want.”
“Anything?” Shibani whispered back.
“Anything!”

“Technically he already buys me anything that I want… but y’know… I think I’m motivated!” With an uncharacteristic burst of energy, Shibani pushed himself off Gin’s shoulder and teetered over to the area that Gin had pointed out earlier… And with all the energy a sleepy bun could muster, Shibani started pushing snow around to form piles. “Let’s go! Like… like this, right?”
“Yeah yeah yeah!!! That’s the spirit! We’ll be getting this fort done in no time!” Gin cried cheerfully as he ran over to follow suit.

Two buns’ efforts are greater than one, so they should finish their snow fort… eventually.

…

As he walked down the snowy street, Dan squinted at the piece of paper in his hand. T’was a poorly scribbled note… he deciphered a time, place, and ‘CHALLENGE!!! LOOSER IS A STINKY AND BUYS 4 DA WINNR!!!’ from the scribbles and angry bunny emojis, but not much more. Oh jeez. Well… he may as well show up just in case things got out of hand… or if there were any mischievous buns that were apt to cause trouble for others if he didn’t show up for this ‘challenge’.

He rounded the corner, and…

Huh. Looks like someone was trying to build a snow fort here, but halfway through it… collapsed. There was Gin—frantically stacking bricks up in a futile attempt to keep the wall together—and Shibani was off to the side making an ever-growing stack of snowballs.

“NOO! WAIT! DAN, WHY ARE YOU HERE?! YOU’RE EARLY!” Gin pointed an accusatory finger at Dan… and Dan simply just looked at the nearby clock. He was right on time… and it seemed that both Gin and Dan recognized the fact, but Gin simply did not want to admit this.

“Uh… hello Gin, Shibani… what are you doing—”
“DESTROY!!!”

Immediately, Gin started picking up chunks of snow that sat beside him and tossed them Dan’s way. These snow pieces were either way off mark, not packed solidly enough to stay in a ball and dispersed midair, or were easily deflected with Dan’s mallet. Gin put up a valiant fight—he truly did—but once the final snowball flew from Gin’s hand and he realized that he was out of ammo, Dan simply picked up one of the snow bricks Gin had been fiddling with and smacked it right over Gin’s head. Wasted…

Poomf.

In the small of his back, Dan felt a snowball make contact. It wasn’t Gin… it was Shibani, who’d managed to toddle over with a single snowball and plop it right into Dan’s back.

“Boop! I got you, Dan! Looks like you’re the loser, right?” Shibani smiled goofily, showing his teeth as he jumped up and down to celebrate his victory. “I’m a winner, I’m a winner! Dan’s gonna buy me a chocolate bar! I won!”

Ah… Shibani’s smile was so cute, though…

“Y… yeah, looks like you did win. Congrats. I’ll… get you that chocolate bar.” Dan coughed into his hand to hide the blush that ran to his face.
“Chocolate and Dan’s mochi go well together! Yay, yay! Hey Gin… Gin?”

It looked like Gin had been out of the count, but when his name was called he immediately shot back up to a sitting position.

“Heh… looks like we got you, Dan. According to the rules of my challenge, that means that BOTH me and Shibani get chocolate bars!” Gin pointed at Dan again… and was then subsequently yoinked to his feet by an enthusiastic Shibani.
“C’mon Gin, let’s go have Dan’s snack! It’s delicious, I promise!” Shibani said as he started dragging Gin along, and the two were quickly followed by Dan.

Just as quickly as the passing fad came, it looks like Shibani’s attention turned elsewhere. Maybe it will soon go back to the snow… who knows.