The Native Land of Akazukin Cha ChaAkazukin Cha Cha Volume 8 Story 41 -- Popy's House Moving Page 20 [It's winter. Popy has just fisnished packing up his tent.] Popy: "It's snowing... the temperature will fall even lower soon, I better get going." Voices: "Popy!" [Popy turns to see Cha Cha, Riya(wolf) and Shiine shivering with tears in their eyes...] Popy: "Ah... what are you doing?" Page 21 //hishi// [Cha Cha, Riya and Shiine immediately threw themselves at Popy, who is very confused.] Cha Cha, Riya and Shiine: "PLEASE DON'T GO!!" Popy: "Ah... what's happening?" Shiine: "You're planning to go to the east, aren't you?" Cha Cha: "And you won't be back till Spring, nomads do that every year!" Riya: "We were afraid of this, and so we rushed over to see you. We guessed right!" [Popy sweatdrops.] Popy: "I didn't say I was going!" Cha Cha: "Really?!" //hiso hiso hiso// [The trio grouped and started whispering to one another.] Shiine: "But he said he wasn't going..." Cha Cha: "But this way, he'll have no way of becoming a real nomad!" Riya: "Right!" Popy: "You guys wish for me to leave that much?" [The trio turned around with smiling faces...] Shiine: "Actually, we don't hope for you to leave, it just that you must travel to become a real nomad." Riya: "Did you know that?" Popy: "I'd be a fool if I knew that..." Page 22 Cha Cha: "Then where are you carrying your haversack to?" Popy: "I'm going to Teacher Rascal's house." [Flashback: Popy talks about his conversation with Teacher Rascal.] Teacher Rascal: "Living in a tent during the winter is very cold, why don't you come over here and stay with me!" Popy: "..." Teacher Rascal: "If you don't come, I've come over to pick you up!" Popy: "...I'll come on my own." [The flashback ends. Cha Cha, Riya and Shiine are full of envy when they heard this.] Shiine: "You mean you're going to live with Teacher Rascal?" Cha Cha: "So lucky!" Riya: "Living together... eating together... staying together..." [Popy disagrees with this.] Popy: "Relying on someone is a disgraceful thing." Riya: "Don't bother about that, I do it all the time!" Shiine: "This dumb dog just doesn't know when to stop." //DING DONG// [They reached Teacher Rascal's house.] Page 23 Teacher Rascal: "Ah, welcome Popy. Cha Cha, you guys are here too!" Cha Cha, Riya and Shiine: "We came along to play!" Teacher Rascal: "Really? Well, come on in!" [The trio and Popy make themselves at home.] Shiine: "Someday, we want to live here too!" Teacher Rascal: "Great! Everyone can come!" [All of a sudden, Teacher Mayachon comes in.] Teacher Mayachon: "Rascal, I'm here for a visit! I even made some cookies, want some?" [She then realises that Teacher Rascal had guests.] Teacher Mayachon: "....." Riya: "I want..." [He's referring to the cookies...] Page 24 Teacher Mayachon: "WHAT ARE THEY DOING HERE?!" Teacher Rascal: "Popy didn't have a home for the winter, so I asked him to come over to stay." [Teacher Mayachon gets mad.] Teacher Mayachon: "Wha..wha..wha..wha..WHAT!! Even at home, Rascal spends time with Banana class?!" //gu o o//[Teacher Mayachon's eyes start to blaze fire...] Teacher Mayachon: This is too much! To what level do you want to try my patience?! If this is the case, I won't have any time to spend with him. [Unfortunately, Teacher Rascal is unaware of Teacher Mayachon's feelings and continues to be merry.] Teacher Rascal: "Let's eat the cookies together!" Teacher Mayachon: "WAAH!" Page 25 //PAAA// [Teacher Mayachon slaps Teacher Rascal.] Teacher Mayachon: "RASCAL IS SO STUPID!!" Teacher Rascal: "?!" Teacher Mayachon: "WAAH!" Teacher Rascal: "What? What's wrong? Mayachon?" [Popy gets up, and signals to Cha Cha, Riya and Shiine.] Popy: "Hey, let's go..." Cha Cha: "Huh?!" //walk walk walk// [After a short walk...] Cha Cha: "You don't want to stay with Teacher Rascal?" Popy: "....." {The answer is kinda obvious!} Page 26 [Suddenly.] Teacher Barabara: "Then come and stay with me!" Shiine, Cha Cha, and Riya: "Ah! Teacher Barabara!" Teacher Barabara: "When I heard that you're going to stay with Teacher Rascal I was so envious I hid at a corner and watched." Popy: "What was so good to watch?" Teacher Barabara: "I live by myself. Living with me would be a lot better than living at Rascal's!" Shiine: "How about it?" Cha Cha: "Let's take a look-see!" Teacher Barabara: [who had sprouted roses on his head.] "Yes, let's go, let's go!" [He touches Popy's rollup tent. His hands were thorny.] Popy: "Don't touch!" Popy: Don't spoil my tent! Teacher Barabara: [his flowers died off.] "Ah, I'm so sorry..." Page 27 [At Teacher Barabara's house. Teacher Barabara is showing Popy and the trio Popy's room-to-be. It is full of thorns.] Teacher Barabara: "If you agree, you can stay in this room." Popy: "But there are thorns everywhere." Teacher Barabara: "You....don't like it?" Popy: "It's great, I'll stay here then." Teacher Barabara: "REALLY?!" [He is very happy.] Teacher Barabara: Lonely me, I finally have someone who wants to stay with me. Oh buddy! Buddy! Little buddy! {actually the word used is 'tenant' but 'buddy' sounds a lot better.} [He starts to sprout roses again... a large amount this time.] Page 28 Teacher Barabara: I hope he's willing to stay with me FOREVER! //zowa// [Popy shudders upon reading Teacher Barabara's thoughts. Only Popy can read them.] Cha Cha: "Popy, what's the matter, you look terrified..." Shiine: ? //sound of flowers growing...// [Teacher Barabara tries to say something while sprouting his roses at his joy!] Teacher Barabara: "Popy... Teacher... Teacher..." //za za za za za// [A big wave of roses starts pouring out of Teacher Barabara's head.] Teacher Barabara: "TEACHER IS VERY HAPPY!!!" Popy and the trio: "WAAHHH!!" [They are washed away.] Teacher Barabara: [Searching in his shoulder-deep pool of roses...] "Popy? Everyone?" [Meanwhile outside the house...] Cha Cha: "We've been washed out of the house!" Page 29 //hee hee// [Principal Urara appears before them.] Principal Urara: "Come and live with me!" Popy and the trio: "Waah! Principal Urara!!" Cha Cha: "Principal, you were watching us?" Principal Urara: "Why would I do that for? I was just passing by." [Her eyes are sparkling...] Principal Urara: "For students like Popy, I decided to convert part of my house into a student dormitory." Shiine: "There's a student dormitory?" Cha Cha: "That's great Popy!" Shiine: "Let quickly take a look-see!" Principal Urara: "My house has a big family, it's very homely!" Cha Cha: "No one has ever been to Principal Urara's house before." //walk walk walk// [Riya is on Shiine's head... insulation?] Page 30 [They stopped in front of a house called "Happy Eyes House"] Cha Cha: "Happy Eyes House?" Principal Urara: "This is my home." [They enter and Principal Urara points to a building not far ahead.] Principal Urara: "I hope to convert that estate into a dormitory." [Barking is heard and a dog comes running in their direction.] Riya: "Hey there's a dog over there!" [He leaps off Shiine's head and runs towards the dog.] Shiine: "so cold..." [The dog pounches on Riya and starts slobbering all over him. The dog had Urara-like eyes.] Riya: .... Principal Urara: "That's my dog, Precious." Popy, Cha Cha and Shiine: "Ok..." Old guy: "How are you?" [He too has Urara-like eyes.] Principal Urara: "That's my husband." Popy, Cha Cha and Shiine: "Ok..." Page 31 Shiine: "AH! There are 2 Principal Urara!" Principal Urara: "Oh that's my sister, she looks just like me." [More "Principal Urara" appear. They're her sisters who look exactly like her.] Principal Urara's sisters: "Oh, you're students from the school!" [More "Principal Urara's husbands" appear. They are her brothers-in-law who look exactly like him.] Principal Urara's brothers-in-law: "We're so lucky to have guests!" Principal Urara's sisters: "Precious has also come out!" Principal Urara's brothers-in-law: "This is the first time students come to visit, come out everyone!" [The people approach. Cha Cha, Riya, Shiine and Popy are soon...] Page 32 //walk walk// [completely surrounded by alot of Urara, Urara's husbands and Urara's dogs...] Cha Cha, Riya, Shiine and Popy: "WAAAAAHHH!!!!" [Later...] Shiine: "So...so scary that we ran out!" Cha Cha: "This is the first time I hear that Principal Urara is a mixture of 7 sisters." Popy: "Her husband is a mixture of 7 brothers, and the whole family still has seven dogs." Riya: "What a nightmare..." Page 33 Popy: "Forget it, I'd think I'd better stick to living in a tent!" Cha Cha: "But, the snow's falling real fast, what will happen if you're buried?!" [Later at Cha Cha's cat house...] Seravi: "Really, you should have come here in the first place! Because the cat house is made for children. Just treat this place like your own home." Dorothy: "Yes, Seravi will be taking care of all your meals..." Seravi: "Dorothy, what do you take me for?" Dorothy: "Hm, what do you think?" [Riya bounces up and down with joy and hugs Popy!] Riya: "Yeah! Popy is now just like me!" Shiine: "Don't compare yourself to Popy!" //zzzzz// [That night while all were in bed...] Page 34 //pachi// [Riya's hand drops and slaps Popy!] Popy: "Ouch!" //dozu// [Cha Cha unknowningly kicks Popy!] Popy: "Ouch!" [Shiine comes around and tries to kiss Popy!] Popy: "Waah! Sleepwalking again? These fellas have such weird sleeping habits!" [He tucks Cha Cha in.] Popy: "You'll get cold sleeping like that." [Shiine talks to himself(he sleep tallks) as he fluffs his pillow.] Shiine: "Do I look like I'm sleep walking? Riya is so good is talking nonsense!" [The next day... Popy is hiding in his tent, he pitched it up inside the cathouse!] Cha Cha: "Good morning Popy, why are you sleeping in your tent?" Shiine: "You mean you can't sleep anywhere else other than inside your tent?" Popy: "Whatever you say..." {We know why...} Riya: ZZZZZZZ! ~End of Story 41~ Translated by and copyrighted to Michelle. = Previous Story = = Volume 8 = = Next Story = ŠTnlacc (The Native Land of Akazukin Cha Cha) Akazukin Cha Cha ŠAyahana Min.Shueisha/TV Tokyo/NAS This is only a site made by a fan.