[YOTB] Mochi Borrowing - The Hand that Feeds

  The last ingredient to collect for Shibani was Black Sesame Seeds and when Bronx was rudely awoken by the pale Succubun pounding on his bedroom door he nearly declined to help but, unfortunately, he was a sucker for the cute puppy dog eyes so he agreed to help. Luckily he had to get the from Hutch who he was on friendly terms with, unluckily the reason for the pounding on his door was because Shibani urgently told him Hutch needed help wrangling chaotic Lunell Imps since they escaped from their cages.

  Bleary eyed and tired he rushed headlong with Shibani down to town and quickly to the Imporium. First they made a stop at Dan’s to get Bronx some breakfast at, he squinted at the clock on the wall, twelve pm. Bronx inhaled the breakfast as if he was a vacuum cleaner. Shibani laughed at him when he scalded his tongue on some coffee, he glared only half heartedly making the Succubun laugh harder. 

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  The Imporium was chaos, when Shibani and Bronx entered they were immediately yelled at to “Shut those damned doors!” by one irate Succubun wrestle the leashes of at least four Lunells, two in each hand, while he stood on at least five more and it nearly sent Bronx into a fit of hysterics, or it would have had he not immediately bombarded by two Lunell trying to get past him just as he shut the front doors and locked them for good measure. The green and blue Lunells in his face promptly screeched so loud he had to cover his ears until they swooped back to the other side of the store knocking things off of shelves and on to the already messy floor.

  “Great, thanks for showing back up, now, if you two don’t mind can I PLEASE get some help?!”

  Hutch had to yell over the cacophony of noise, Bronx winced and yelled back.

  “Yeah no problem!”

    Hutch pointed to some empty cages, others had only one or two Lunells captured, Bronx was glad he had on a tee shirt and long jeans because this was about to get hot and messy, not even in the good way. 

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  Hutch had four Lunells caged back by the time Bronx had one, they were all so damned fast that it made his head spin, he was running around like a chicken with his head cut off and when he’d finally catch one, and leash it, another would swoop over and trip him up making him lose his grip on the damned leash! Bronx was, admittedly, getting a little frustrated but Shibani was promised Black Sesame Seeds in return for the help so he was doing his damnedest to help him out. He sighed, stretched, and dove back into the fray with gusto.

  Within the hour he had managed to cage two, shibani caged one, and Hutch had three more caged which left a whole flock of them hanging around in various places, nearly all of them hard to reach least of all carefully. He heard Shibani screech in terror as one nearly attached to him like a face hugger from that one movie that was popular several decades ago– Bronx laughed until he got two Lunells trying to fly up under his shirt which made him screech like a damsel in a horror movie, Shibani laughed right back in his face while Hutch rolled his eyes and captured a couple of more Imps. 

  –

  It took a total of three hours and fifteen minutes to get the Lunells all caged up, safely, and by the end of it Bronx was laid out face up on the tile floor trying to cool off; he was hot, tired, and for some reason he felt the need to cry– how the hell did Hutch put up with these Imps on a daily basis? Was this what owning an Imp was like?

  Shibani came over and looked down at him, raising a bag of the sesame seeds triumphantly, smiling wide.

  “Thanks for the help Bronx.. Are you okay? Do you need help?” Shibani actually look so worried he just smiled and shook his head.

  “Nope, I’m good, Shib.”

  Shibani smiled wider again and motioned him up.

  “Come on, come on, let's get back to Dan’s and make some mochi!” 

  Hutch waved from behind the main counter, well, it was only his hand, the poor man was hunkered down tiredly out of sight.