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Allure had an incredibly worried look upon her face, her brows were tilted upwards and her lower lip was drooped downwards. She was clutching the box very tightly in her hands, and the Mochi was still continuing to glare.

Finally, she noticed Sake .. sitting with someone new by the bar, seemingly close to where they were located yesterday. With a gasp, she dashed towards him, waving a free hand in the air.

"SAKE..! And ... Hi! I'm Allure!" She flashed a quick smile to Lulu, before thudding the box on the counter, so hard that Mochi almost wobbled off, but it hopped back to the EXACT point where it was sitting, and began garbling once more.

"Sake ... You must help me!" Allure whimpered, pointing an accusing finger towards the pink puff and the white box.

"Mochi has gone crazy.. or something ... Or maybe I did something wrong? Can you possibly talk to it .. and .. well.." She lifted a hand to scratch the back of her head lightly..

"It won't let me open this box for some reason .. And I'M SO HUNGRY!" She whined loudly, now drooling at all of the sushi passing by on the belt. Her stomach growled.

Millions of tiny sweatdrops seemed to appear along Allure's brow. Wow, she really did appear like a completely crazy, and insane person, didn't she? Some patrons that were inside the resturaunt turned around to stare at Allure exclaiming and flailing around, then they simply returned to doing what they were doing before. Perhaps they were all used to the ... interesting occurances that happened there. But Allure was still very concerned.

"Oh! Uhm.." Allure's hands went outwards, as she took the plate and lifted it from Lulu's hands. "T-thanks very much, nice to meet you, Lulu .. erm..." She bit her lower lip, and set the sushi down on the table. Boy, did it look good. And she was so hungry too ... No! Her mind shouldn't wander right now. She turned to Sake and awaited to see what he would say.

The Mochi scowled at Allure .. and slowly swivvled so that it could see Sake. Suddenly, that happy go lucky smile returned to the pink puff's face. It squeaked eagerly at Sake, and bounced up and down atop the to go box. It nodded vigerously, and then jumped off, allowing Sake to do whatever it needed to do. It also nodded in response to what Sake had said .. A few squeaks were given, that could only be understood by Sake, or something that could understand and translate Mochi speech.

Basically it said what Sake had already assumed, this sushi was enchanted with the magical rice, that gave life to whatever it was in. Mochi was protecting her little friend from being consumed by Allure ... It couldn't imagine what kind of horrors would occur if THAT happened...


Allure bit her lip very hard, and scratched the top of her head. Right afterwords, she pulled herself a seat next to Lulu. Allure's chin met fisted hands as she struggled to prop her elbows upon the countertop. She awaited to see what would happen .. Did this mean that her little sushi roll would be walkin and talking just like Sake?

"Thank you..."

Allure half-way expected the little roll to eminate a few mewing or purring sounds when the box was opened, and it's form was revealed. A little smirk curled around her lips as she imagined the irony of a piece of tuna resembling a cat. Oh, what a world! Allure sowly leaned forward, almost sticking her face in a roll that was placed upon the counter for her by Lulu, as she watched Sake interact with Neko and Mochi.

Mochi squeaked and squealed happily, still giving answers in a langauage that Allure could not understand, but she hoped that one day she would. The pink ball of fluff eagerly hopped into the styrofoam box, and tilted it's head to the side, nodding at the Neko roll's appearance.

"It is adorable..." Allure whispered, as if conversing to Sake all on her own. The roll was quite charming. Little fuzzy green edamame ears and a tail adorned the tuna and black bean paste based roll. Allure smiled somewhat proudly of her new found friend ... but she was still worried that Mochi wouldn't let her near it.

"Oh?" Allure suddenly snapped out of the trance of watching Sake move around with the new roll, and she looked to Lulu. "Sorry! I almost inhaled your meal .." She laughed nervously, and sat herself straight up within the chair. She forgot that her stomach was growling, and she moved her hand to snatch up some chopsticks.

Breaking the wooden chopsticks apart, she rubbed them together to get rid of any splinters or non-smooth surfaces that were upon the untensils, and then she adjusted them perfectly within her hand, moving her fingers so she could get the optimum grabbing strength. As if painting with an elaborate sort of brush, she gracefully picked up a slice of a roll, and shoved it into her mouth.

A look of joy and euphoria spread across Allure's face as she tasted the different tangy flavors within the roll. "Mmmm..!" She squeaked out loud, nodding to Lulu. She muffed the words "This is SO GOOD!" And then shoved the remainder of the roll into her open mouth, stuffing it as full as possible.

"Mmmphh!! You have good taste..!!" She giggled.

Allure smiled, and lifted her chopsticks up to her lips and bit on the ends of them lightly. She always enjoyed sinking her teeth into the wood, especially when it was soaked up in the chili sauce of the rolls. At that moment, she remembered that she didn't make her soy sauce and wasabi mixture!

She set down her chop sticks upon her napkin, and reached out onto the belt. She snatched up a glass jar of wasabi. Lifting the lid off, she swirled the spoon inside around, and took out a large chunk of wasabi. She placed it onto her little mixing bowl, then put the jar back upon the belt for someone else to use.

Looking around, she took the light sodium soy sauce and poured it upon the wasabi chunk. She smiled and looked to Lulu .. "I don't pick this kind because I'm sodium concious or anything, I just think the green label is so cute, and it goes so well with the green wasabi!" She giggled, and set the soy sauce bottle down. Picking up her chopsticks again, she swirled and mixed the tips around in her mixing bowl, letting the mixture change from green and black, to an odd looking olive brown.

"Perfect!" She squeaked, and took another roll that Lulu had offered her. She squeezed a rather large piece of roll between her sticks, and dipped it lightly into the sauce mixture. It was relatively thick because of the large amount of wasabi, but it was nice and spicy.

"Ooo!" She winced, closing her eyes, and quickly bringing two pinched fingers to the top of her nose. "The wasabi ... it goes straight to your brain!" She smirked, and reached for the water that Lulu had ordered for her. Taking a quick sip, she nodded to Lulu. "Thanks for this again..."

"But .. I have a question.." She smiled. "How long did it take Sake to fermet? I mean, what did you do? Should I do as Sake says ... and keep Neko inside the box? I'm not sure what to do, really ... Mochi just kind of ... came out so active and lively! I wonder why Neko is different?"

Allure still had quite a bit to understand.

Mochi was attatched to Sake, she was really eager for Neko to become a ferment just like Sake .. so she would finally have an active friend to play around with! Mochi nodded, and hopped out of the box, watching Sake close it. She squeaked and cooed happily.

"Oh?" Allure tilted her head, as if her ears had just perked up, like a dog responding to a whistle or the jingle of a leash. A small grin started to curl up her lightly pinkened lips, and she lifted a hand slowly to her chin, curling it into a fist. She thought to herself for a moment, bringing some chopsticks in her free hand to twirl around still in the mixture. A few taps were given so that the rest of the sauce would slowly glide off, and she set them on the napkin.

"Kappa, you say?" She bit on her lip lightly, yet when she finished the fine gloss seemed to still remain rather nicely. She flashed another grin at Lulu. "You mean .. like Kappa Roll? The cucumber type roll?" A quickl glance was sent to the mobile belt in the middle of the bar, in which all of the rolls and other types of goodies resided. She tried to search for some kind of cucumber roll, or something relatively similar, just to see if it were alive. But of course, her search resulted with no avail, she gave a slightly disappointed sigh that was only audible to herself.

"How many others ... ones that are beyond the point of fermentation, do you know of?" Her head cocked to the side, causing her hair to just barely miss sticking into the sauce upon a semi-empty sushi plate, which consisted of the perfect combination of mayonaise and red hot chili sauce. Curling her fingers around that midnight darkened hair, she tossed it over her shoulder so it landed nicely behind her back.

She wondered what else was out there ... maybe she could talk to some other patrons of the resturaunt and discover what their experiences were, and what the best ways to take care of her little ones were.

The Mochi squeaked, which Allure now recognized as the little pink ball's form of speach. It was rather cute, since the sounds varied in pitch and tone, for a slight moment, she was curious to see if it could sing .. but that would definately have to wait for another time. It bounded next to Sake, as if going to give it an embrace, and it watched the sushi rolls pass by ever so slowly on the belt.

Allure shot a glance over towards her little Mochi friend, and the styrofoam box that now could only be concluded as the Neko roll's new home. It was really surprising, that not only was she able to find Mochi, but she indeed found Neko as well. As Lulu's words spiraled into her ears, and rolled along lazily into her brain, taking some time to register, Allure thought that she really may have been lucky. It was the first time, in a long time, that Allure actually admitted something like that to herself.

"Wow .. Thank you Lulu! I never thought of it that way, and I guess I never really realized what the odds were to find these special guys..!"

Mochi squeaked unhappily, peering at Allure.

"Or .. erm .. I mean, girls..?" Allure quickly lifted a hand, so that her voice would be somewhat blocked from Mochi's hearing. "... Could it be a girl..? ... errr.."

Then she coughed, attempting to redirect the conversation again. "Aw .. You have to go so soon? Alright, it is getting a little late. Thank you two so much for teaching me all of this information.. I really needed it, believe me. Maybe we can get together sometime again. We can exchange phone numbers and addresses, does that sound good? Again, I really appreciate it." Allure lifted her hand with a smile.

Mochi then swivveled around and grinned widely at Sake. Hobbling towards the sushi that Lulu kindly laid out, she .. yes, she, glanced over what was available. She pointed out a few bright colored pieces of sushi, and some masago, and smiled happily. She was very easily entertained.