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Shoutarou woke up from his nap absolutely covered in stuffed animals. 

“PHILIP!” he yelled, 98% sure it was his partner and not Akiko or Queen and Elizabeth. Or if it was them, it was because of Philip, not their own nefarious plans. After all, it wasn’t like Philip owned any teddy bears or anything, just Fang. 

“Shoutarou, you’re awake! I was looking up stuffed animals, and they’re fascinating, did you know they first--” 

“Whenever they were made or whatever, why am I covered in them?” Shoutarou interrupted. 

“Oh, because you were having trouble sleeping and my research said that having a stuffed animal can help, although it’s probably a placebo effect, since you think that by having the stuffed animal by you will help you sleep.” 

“That’s ridiculous,” Shoutarou scoffed. “Ouch!” 

“Are you trying to say you didn’t have a stuffed animal when you were young, Shoutarou-kun?” Akiko asked, waving her slipper. 

“O-of course not,” Shoutarou said, immediately feeling guilty about the bloodhound in a detective outfit that he had named “Windscale”. 

Of course that was when Queen and Elizabeth came in. 

“Is Shou-chan trying to be hard-boiled again?” they asked in unison. 

“He’s half-boiled,” Philip said as he absentmindedly picked up some of the animals that had fallen. “I already saw that he had one, and that Aki-chan didn’t have stuffed animals but instead several blankies, which hold similar value to some young children. But Shoutarou’s was a--” Shoutarou lunged and covered Philip’s mouth, cursing in his head when Philip licked him. 

“Shou-chan, you should get Philip a stuffed animal of his own,” Elizabeth suggested. Queen nodded as Philip looked intrigued, twisting out of Shoutarou’s grasp. 

Which was how Shoutarou found himself at some utterly ridiculous cutesy shop, looking for something that Philip might like, Queen and Elizabeth chattering his ear off. Somehow, he managed to find something that actually represented them…decently well. Philip’s face lighting up at the green bird was cute, he had to admit. And if he had picked penguins because they mated for life…no one’s business but his own. 

And if he was sleeping better because of the purple penguin he had placed on his side of the bed, he was most certainly not going to admit it. 

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“We’re all back together!” Gai said, looking teary as the Gokaigers inspected his apartment, poking around in curiosity.  

Marvelous reached out and ruffled his hair. “I see you haven’t changed after being on Earth for a few years.” 

“Oh! I got something for you guys, when I realized you’d be out adventuring for a while,” Gai said, rushing to another room and coming out with five gift bags, one in each color of the Gokaigers. “I’m not sure if you guys have these on other planets, but I saw an ad for them and couldn’t resist.” 

The Gokaigers took the bags, curious. Marvelous pulled his gift out first, finding a red teddy bear with an eyepatch, wild yarn hair, ears and bottom paws with a map pattern, and a long red jacket. It was holding a cloth gun and sword, which were attached with Velcro.

Joe raised an eyebrow, pulling out a blue bear with a long black yarn ponytail, a tight blue leather jacket, and sword pattern ears and paws. Instead of a gun and a sword, it was holding two swords. 

Luka smirked as she pulled out her yellow bear, with its brown yarn hair, the marching band-ish style jacket, and starred ears and paws. Like Joe’s bear, it had two swords. 

Doc’s green bear had a curly crown of yellow yarn hair, his fancy jacket with the curlicues, and vegetable ears and paws. Rather than swords, his bear was sporting two guns. 

Ahim’s smile was bright as she brought out her pink bear, which had her hair in her old style, a pink fur jacket, and a sewing supplies pattern for the ears and paws. Her bear also had two guns. 

“I also made one for me, see?” Gai said, showing his teammates his silver bear with brown yarn hair, a denim jacket with silver inlay and a scarf, with sparkly ears and paws, holding a trident in one paw. 

“What are these for?” Marvelous asked, inspecting it. 

“They’re supposed to help you sleep, and you name them! Mine’s named GokaiSix.” 

The other five Gokaigers looked at each other, amused. 

“Well, I’m naming mine Curry, if we have to name it,” Marvelous said. 

Gai raised his chin. “You do.” 

Joe shrugged. “Kirikiri, then.” 

“Yellow Bear,” Luka said brightly. 

“I like the name Luigi,” Doc said, confused when Gai hid a smile. 

“Hmm…Sonrisa, I think,” Ahim said. 

Gai gave his brightest smile before bursting into tears, reassuring the slightly alarmed Gokaigers he was fine, just happy. 

“We’re all back together again!” 

Marvelous scoffed, but his eyes were fond as he looked at their sixth member. 

“We’re back.”

“Welcome home.” 

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Hiroto watched as Renn carefully looked for cracked eggs in the carton in his hands. Satisfied, he added it to the basket, where it joined five other cartons. 

“Thanks for coming again, Hiroto, sorry about that,” Renn apologized as he headed towards the vegetables, looking at green onions. 

“It was a good escape,” Hiroto shrugged. There had been some argument between Gunpei and Hant when he and Miu came, which Hiroto had negative desire to deal with. Going with Renn to get groceries for the week just made more sense than trying to get in the middle of that . 

“Hmm, okay, that should be okay for the week,” Renn murmured. “Just! Let’s go checkout.” 

Renn gave exact change to the cashier, Hiroto noticed. The vegetables he had bought were on sale, as well. 

Once they were out of the grocery store, Hiroto took two of the bags out of Renn’s hands, to Renn’s slight confusion. To cover his blush, Hiroto walked ahead, stopping when he realized that Renn had stopped in front of a toy shop. 

“What is it?” Hiroto asked, coming over. 

“Hmmm? Oh, nothing,” Renn said, although the slight frown on his lips and wistfulness of his eyes betrayed that something was wrong. 

Hiroto looked more closely. There were a lot of stuffed animals in all sorts of colors, but Renn’s eyes were going from a red condor, a blue lion, a yellow bear, a green orca, a black german shepherd, a gold chicken, and a silver tiger. Hiroto wasn’t sure Renn had noticed that there was even an orange alligator, a blue whale, a burgundy mammoth, a white T-Rex, and a turquoise triceratops amongst all the stuffed animals. 

“You want to get them for the rest of the Go-Ongers, don’t you,” Hiroto said. 

“Just! It would be a nice little present. But it’s not in the budget,” Renn answered, adjusting the bags in his arms and getting ready to walk away before Hiroto stopped him. 

“I’ll get them,” Hiroto muttered. 

Renn’s face lit up. 

“Everyone, look what we got!” Renn called as they approached Ginjiro. It appeared that Hant and Gunpei had made up from whatever argument they had had, considering that they were laying in the grass together, looking at clouds or something. 

Everyone came over, and Renn started handing out the stuffed animals, beaming as the rest of the Go-Ongers started exclaiming over them. 

“This is why you’re the mom friend, thanks Renn!” Hant said, showing his orca to Birca, who predictably said something ridiculous about it. 

“How’d you afford these, though?” Sosuke asked, rolling his eyes at Speedor’s jealousy. 

“Hiroto paid for them!” Renn explained, putting the rest of the stuffed animals on the table where the rest of the Engines could see them as they charged. 

“Wow, thanks Dad!” Sosuke said. 

Hiroto tried not to die of embarrassment as the Go-Ongers all started calling him Dad (again).

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“Kairi, I really can’t do another roller coaster,” Keiichiro protested as Kairi dragged him across the amusement park. 

“No fun,” Kairi pouted, which was nearly enough for Keiichiro to break. But he had to hold firm if he wanted to hold on to his lunch.

“Come on, let’s do some of these games, yeah?” Keiichiro said, pointing to a shooting game. “I’ll win you something.” 

Kairi raised an eyebrow. “Did you forget who was much better than you when we went out of Tokyo?” 

“I can still win you something,” Keiichiro pointed out. “Plus, maybe my shooting’s improved, what do you know?”

“Prove it, then,” Kairi said with a smirk. 

Keiichiro paid for his chances, then proceeded to get Kairi a medium prize, where he picked out a red fox. 

Kairi smirked, then grabbed the gun, shooting perfectly and getting the largest prize, which happened to be a giant red bull. 

“Want a rematch, Mr. Hot-blooded Policeman?” Kairi asked, laughing as Keiichiro tried to hold it. 

“I’ll show you,” Keiichiro promised, finding a different game, a ring toss. 

Unfortunately for Keiichiro, Kairi was better at that than him too. And at every game they played. Keiichiro would win Kairi a cute small or medium prize and Kairi would win a large prize, if not the largest. 

“You’re going to get us banned from playing these games, you know,” Keiichiro complained as Kairi attempted to put a red shark in his already full arms. 

Kairi just grinned at that, looking far too pleased with himself. “Come on, I think we played them all anyways, it’s time for more rides.” 

Somehow, they managed to get on the Ferris Wheel with all their stuffed animals, which looked like an explosion at the toy factory. Keiichiro couldn’t even be mad at Kairi’s smug expression, especially when he got to kiss it off Kairi’s face when they reached the top. 

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Kusakabe Hikoma’s heart clenched as he heard the young boy cry. He was too young to be taking this role, a necessary one if they wanted to defeat the Gedoushu, but it just wasn’t fair . In the morning, he knew, Takeru would act as if nothing had happened. He was a serious little boy, probably from the shock. He needed to act his age sometimes. 

It didn’t take long for Jii, as he had told Takeru to call him, to come up with a plan. 

He had the Kuroko watch over Takeru for the day and went to a nearby toy store. He was able to find a blue dragon quite easily, but he ended up having to go to the zoo for a red lion, a green bear, and a yellow monkey. A pink turtle was found by the Kuroko at a local aquarium. 

When he came home, hiding the bags so that Takeru wouldn’t find them, he found the boy curled up on the couch with his friend, that Genta kid that Jii couldn’t entirely bring himself to run off. The two of them were asleep, and Takeru was clutching a white squid that looked homemade. The Kuroko’s body language was apologetic, but Jii waved them off, reassuring them that it was fine. 

His plan would wait a bit then, if Takeru had this for the day. 

Still, it didn’t take long for Takeru to have another night of nightmares, and Jii gave him the red lion to hold as he tried to calm the young boy down. 

This pattern continued, Takeru waking up from nightmares to a new stuffed animal, although they became less and less frequent, and by the time he got the yellow monkey, he had pretty much stopped having them. 

Eventually, Takeru outgrew them, and they were hidden away, although Jii knew exactly where they were hidden. 

Just in case Takeru ever needed them again. 

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Koyomi was gone. Haruto couldn’t believe it. A year of trying to make sure no one fell to despair and it was her father that caused everything. He almost couldn’t bear to go into her room in Omokagedo, but some force pulled him in there. It was pretty bare, as Koyomi didn’t need much, but something yellow under the bed caught Haruto’s attention. He reached down and pulled it out, finding three more of whatever-it-was with it. 

The items were slightly dusty, so he opened the window and clapped the dust off them the best he could before he took a good look at them. Cloth familiars, clearly homemade. The Red Garuda was the most worn, while the Violet Golem was nearly brand-new, if not for the dust. The Blue Unicorn was well made, but the Yellow Kraken probably needed restuffing. 

Haruto tried for a smile, seeing how much they were loved, but he ended up crying instead, holding them all as he remembered Koyomi. 

When Rinko and Shunpei found him a few hours later, asleep with clear tear tracks, it wasn’t hard to figure out what had happened, two of the familiars on the floor and Haruto clutching the other two. 

By mutual agreement, the stuffed animals were placed in places of honor once everyone had held them and cried over what Koyomi had left them. Not for sale, obviously. 

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Ankh watched with disdain as Eiji tried, yet again, to win a stuffed animal from a claw machine. Why he wanted the damn thing, Ankh wasn’t too sure. Something about “wanting to repay Chiyoko-san for her kindness and these had costumes”, or something dumb like that. Something that was wasting Ankh’s time. And wasting Eiji’s money. Money that could be spent on popsicles. 

“Darn it!” Eiji said when the claw machine, surprise surprise, didn’t let Eiji grab the parrot in Carnaval clothing. 

“Oh my god,” Ankh griped before he thought of an idea. Smirking, he turned into his Greeed hand form and slipped inside through the slot, grabbing the stupid parrot and coming out with it, turning to his preferred form and shoving it at Eiji.  

“Ankh!” Eiji scolded, looking around to see if anyone had seen Ankh’s stroke of genius. 

“What? You paid for six games, that’s enough to justify me grabbing it. It’s rigged, anyway. Come on, you owe me a popsicle.” 

Eiji sighed but accepted the parrot, muttering about how he was supposed to get it fairly. 

Ankh ignored it, pleased with himself. 

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It wasn’t like Kengo wasn’t used to stuffed animals being around in the Rabbit Hutch. After all, Miu had brought in quite a few when she settled in. 

But this…this was too much. And could only be the result of one particular idiot. Probably with some help, but Kengo could bet that it was a certain someone’s idea. 

“Kisaragi!” Kengo said exasperatedly when the idiot of that name came in, smile bright. Because of course it was. 

“Hey, Kengo!” Gentarou said. “Do you like the stuffed toys we got? They were on clearance at the museum!” 

That…did explain why there was a lot of planets with smiley faces. “Did you buy out the whole store?” 

Gentarou just kept smiling brightly. Kengo groaned. Ryuusei, behind Gentarou with Yuuki, looked bemused at the whole thing. 

“Did Kengo see that one?” Yuuki piped up. 

“Which one?” 

Gentarou looked around, eyes catching on something. He used those long legs of his to easily get to the pile that Kengo had piled everything in and reached in, finding what he wanted and throwing it at Kengo. He easily caught it and looked at what made this one so special. 

A bunny with alien antenna. He snorted, making Gentarou beam . 

And if the bunny became Kengo’s partner at the desk…well his friends weren’t the type to judge. 

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“Why are we here again?” Kohana complained. 

“I want to get something nice for the Imagins and Naomi,” Ryoutarou explained patiently, a faint smile on his face. 

“Stuffed animals, though?” 

“Are you complaining that your big brother is getting you stuffed animals? A cute girl like you deserves stuffed animals, though!” A random woman said, reeling back when Kohana glared at her. God, being eight sucked sometimes. 

“He’s getting them for his kaijin friends,” Kohana said through gritted teeth. 

The woman’s husband chuckled. “Kids and their imaginations!” he said, ruffling Kohana’s hair. 

Thankfully, Ryoutarou knocked over an entire shelf worth of stuffed animals from trying to reach one on the top shelf, bringing an end to the idiotic conversation. 

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“What are these, Ryoutarou?” Momotaros asked, holding his stuffed peach with a face in front of him. 

“The girls are going to love this, they love a man who’s not afraid to show his femininity,” Urataros said, fingering the tiny blue turtle keychain Ryoutarou had found. 

“Zzzzz,” Kintaros said, a yellow bear now in his crossed arms. 

“Mine’s the best!” Ryuutaros sang, holding his purple dragon and skipping up and down the DenLiner car. 

“It is quite adequate for a prince,” Sieg said, admiring his white dove. 

“Coffee!” Naomi called, her stuffed coffee mug backpack on her back. 

Ryoutarou smiled as everyone got their coffees, glad that they liked the gifts. 

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It started because of a prank. Nico had put some of her stuffed animals in Taiga’s coat pockets, and they had fallen out of his pockets when he came into the CR. But somehow, it led to Taiga bringing more stuffed animals to the CR, after Emu had said that some of his patients really liked having stuffed animals when they were in the hospital. And because Poppy liked having them in the CR, as did Parad. Kiriya stole some for his office. Hiiro tried to act all mighty, but Taiga saw him look at some of them with wistful eyes. 

It wasn’t like they were expensive, and making the other doctors happy was…kind of nice. 

He may have started putting them in his clinic, as well, not that anyone needed to know. Although he didn’t know why he was surprised when Nico blabbed. Sometimes he was a nice person, jeez!   

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The school festival that Tsukasa was currently supervising as a “student teacher” was full of happy students, all dressed in their uniforms. This high school was based of a British one, which meant there was a rugby team and some cliques and quite a bit of English thrown into the Japanese jargon. Tsukasa didn’t get why it was also space-based, but figured he’d find out. For the moment, he was helping Kurosawa Gentarou with the dunk-booth. Gentarou had already been dunked in several times but was taking it in stride. 

“Hey, sensei, if you want to go win some prizes for your girlfriend, you can, my friend is going to help here now!” Gentarou said, pointing to a student. 

“Not your friend,” the student replied. “But I am here to take over.” 

Tsukasa nodded and went to find Natsumi and Yuusuke. “Where’s the thief?” he asked. 

As if by magic, Daiki showed up and placed a giant red teddy bear in Yuusuke’s arms, a giant white bear in Natsumi’s, and a medium sized magenta bear in Tsukasa’s. 

“Sorry, Tsukasa, this was the biggest pink bear I could find,” he said with a smirk. 

“Magen--” 

“Magenta sure, sure. But these were the only treasures worth stealing, well at least until I find the real treasures of this high school.”

Tsukasa sighed. “You’re never going to change are you?” 

“Not in the slightest, sensei .” 

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Masao was here. His son . Maybe his circumstances weren’t very conventional ( everyone was surprised that Wataru had a one night stand), but here he was, as Wataru knew he would have to be. 

And he was noisy . Waturu figured he couldn’t be that surprised, considering the outfit he was wearing at Megumi’s wedding, but he needed a way to get some sleep . 

Shizuka was the first one to give Masao a stuffed animal, a bat, “because duh”, she had said when she first tucked it into the crib. The one she had found was small and brown, and Kivat the Third had thoroughly approved. 

Megumi managed to find a white bat that somehow set off some weird memories for Wataru, but Masao liked it a lot. Nago, when they had dropped it off, frankly looked terrified of the whole ordeal, but still smiled when Masao had hugged the stuffed animal in his sleep. 

Kengo somehow found a giant one at a zoo, and Masao loved that one. 

Jirou, Ramon, and Riki didn’t give him bats, instead giving Masao a blue wolf, a green fish, and a purple…something. 

All the stuffed animals helped Masao sleep through the night, for which Wataru was truly grateful. As for him, he made plans to make a bat made of wood for when his son was old enough. 

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Souji watched in slight confusion as Amy and King debated the best way to get a giant stuffed plush Stegosaurus into the Spirit Base. 

“Come on, Souji, help push it in!” King said, startling the high schooler. 

“Ah, okay,” Souji agreed, pushing and prodding the blue Stegosaurus into the manhole cover that was the hidden entry point. 

“Thanks, Souji!” King said once they got it in, clapping him on the back. “Aren’t they great? Amy got them, custom made by her parents!” 

Souji nodded in confusion, made no less confused when the three of them were in the Spirit Base with six stuffed dinosaurs. 

“Come on, let’s get them set up!” King was enthusiastic, as usual, and Amy was happy too as she instructed Souji where to place the dinos. 

“Wow! They look nice!” Amy said once they were all set up. 

Souji raised his eyebrows but didn’t say anything. If it made them happy, that was enough for him. 

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The thing about having Kaito and Zox as boyfriends was that neither of them shied away from spoiling him, Stacey thought. They went about it slightly different ways, in that Zox took and Kaito bought , but when the two traveled the Worlds, there were lots of souvenirs for Stacey either way. 

And what Kaito seemed determined to get Stacey the most of was plushies. Stacey didn’t know why, exactly, but Kaito seemed to have a knack for finding plushes of all sorts of things. They filled nearly half of Stacey’s room at this point.

Stacey would have told him to stop if he hadn’t liked it so much, his favorites on his bed keeping him company when his boyfriends weren’t there. 

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“Here, catch,” was the only warning Sento got before something was thrown at his head. 

“Watch it!” Sento yelped, barely managing to catch it--whatever it was--before it hit his laptop. “What even is this?” he asked, looking at the projectile curiously. 

Banjou suddenly looked embarrassed. “Misora made me buy it,” he mumbled. 

Considering it was a rabbit with dragon wings, it wasn’t impossible , but Sento doubted the claim all the same. 

“You know, I’d have a much better chance at catching an object thrown at me if you stood farth--” 

“Are you gonna make this a math problem?” Banjou interrupted. 

“If you are going to be reckless around my work area, I think a basic understanding of physics will help you wreck less things.” 

“See if I get you anything nice again!” 

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Ren only realized that Shinji had stopped when he nearly ran into him. 

“What are you doing, Kido? Walk!” 

“Ren, look!” Shinji said, pointing to the window and grabbing Ren’s arm. 

Ren shook Shinji off and looked. It was a toy store, and in the window was a giant red dragon, at least a meter long, if not longer. 

“And what of it?” 

Shinji looked like he couldn’t figure out his own emotions, which, Ren couldn’t either. Why was the idea of Shinji with a red dragon so…emotionally charged? 

“Let’s go, Kido,” Ren sighed, pushing Shinji away from the store. Shinji kept looking back until they turned the corner. 

“Tezuka!” Ren heard when he came down, ready for his shift at Atori. “I got you this, cause it reminded me of you, for some reason…!” Shinji’s voice trailed off into an obvious frown, even if Ren couldn’t see him. 

“What is it?” 

“A little pink manta ray keychain!” 

Tezuka took the keychain, looking thoughtful, and Ren tried to stop feeling jealous. That was ridiculous, after all. 

“Kido. Get back to work,” he said instead. 

“Ren! I got you one too! A bat, look! At that toy store we passed a few days ago!” Shinji’s enthusiasm almost made him fall up the stairs, if Ren hadn’t caught him. “Ah! Thanks Ren, here!” 

Ren accepted the keychain, a tiny fuzzy thing that could easily be a phone charm. He caught a glimpse of Shinji’s expression, all bright and cheerful, and idly wondered when Shinji’s birthday was. 

“Thank you, sir, for your purchase! You know, we were almost afraid no one would ever buy it, as it is quite large.” 

Ren tried not to scowl at the cashier ringing him up, instead looking outside and seeing that annoying lawyer that came to Atori every so often. There was a green water buffalo plush on the shelf that oddly reminded him of that lawyer, but Ren wasn’t going to think too deeply about that. Bad enough he was buying this for Shinji, a big hit to his debt, at the very least. 

“Rennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn! Thank you!” 

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“This is garbage,” Sonoza said bluntly. 

“Is not!” Haruka argued. 

Sonoza ate the page in response, causing Haruka to drop her head on the table. 

“What are you doing, my companion?” Tarou asked. 

“Oh, you know, sucking at my life’s calling.” Haruka moodily got her chin on her arms, blowing up at her bangs.

Tarou frowned at that. He was clearly in the middle of a delivery run, considering his outfit. Haruka had to wonder who let an all white uniform fly. At least the old one was a darker blue. 

“Here.” 

A plush bunny was placed in her arms, one that was holding a little box. 

“What’s this?” 

“My company is having a promotional trial, and we were given several of these to hand out as we please. You seem to need motivation.” 

Sonoza looked at it, hands flapping as he studied it. 

“I like it.” 

Tarou gave him one as well. 

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“Hey, Shou, do you think Lepi would like this?” Hikaru called. 

Shou came over, finding Hikaru holding a plush bat wearing a sombrero.

“Why is wearing that?” 

“Tourist silliness, mostly,” Hikaru admitted. “But it’s cute, isn’t it? Don’t you think Lepi would like it as a souvenir?” 

Shou considered the plush with a thoughtful frown, then looked at the shelves behind Hikaru. Lots of knick-knacks declaring that they were in New Mexico, which weren’t useful whatsoever. 

“I suppose that’s the most fun thing for him. Sakuya would want one too.” 

Hikaru grinned, grabbing one of a different shade of brown. 

“Got it!” 

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“Misao!” 

“What is it, Amu?” 

“My plushie is dirty.” 

“Oh.” 

“Fix that, please,” Amu said, pushing the indeed dirty plush of her into Misao’s hands. 

“Oh, hey, mine’s dirty too, if you’re gonna clean hers clean mine too, thanks!” Leo said, climbing to grab his from the ceiling. 

“Mine got wet, I hope that’s okay,” Sela said, showing Misao her bedraggled shark. 

“Someone, or two someones, tried to use mine as scratching practice,” Tusk said drily, handing Misao his beat up plush. 

“I’ll get them back to you as soon as possible!” Misao squeaked, just as Yamato walked in and immediately started scolding the Zyumans for not treating their plushes better. 

(Which, Misao had to make a plush for him too!) 

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Jeramie hummed to himself as he put the finishing touches on his current project. 

“What are you doing?” Gira asked, coming up from behind and tucking his chin on Jeramie’s shoulder. 

“Perfect timing, here, for you.” 

Gira gave Jeramie a puzzled look that turned into one of delight as he realized what was given to him. 

“You made this, Jeramie?”

Jeramie shrugged modestly. 

“Kuwa-chan,” Gira declared, putting the plush version of his Shugod on his shoulder. 

“Very nice!”

“You made some for the others, I’m guessing?” 

He hadn’t, but before the week was over, Yanma’s dragonfly was placed on his desk, Himeno had a whole special place of honor made for her praying mantis, Kaguragi’s bee was found at the foot of his throne, and Rita’s pocket Moffun gained a butterfly friend. 

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Hikawa wasn’t sure why, exactly, he was surprised to see Shouichi with a stuffed animal in hand as he opened the door, a needle in his mouth. 

“One of Mana’s?” Hikawa asked after a second of gaping. 

“No, actually, this is Tai—“ Shouichi started explaining cheerfully. 

“IT’S MANA’S!” Taichi yelled, startling Hikawa enough that he took a step back. 

Shouichi looked back to the house. “Do you want him repaired or not?” 

“Him?” 

“Well, yeah, Taichi’s had him forever, this stuffed dog named—”

“DON’T TELL HIM!!” Taichi came running, grabbing the stuffed animal and darting back to presumably his room. 

“Did you have any stuffed animals as a kid, Hikawa-san?” Shouichi asked, stepping back so that Hikawa could come inside. 

“Ah…”  

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“Kagami-san! What’s your favorite animal?” 

Kagami blinked, finding two sets of expectant eyes on him, for Tsurugi had overheard Jyuka’s question. 

“What kind?” Jyuka persisted. 

“I dunno, dogs?” 

Jyuka studied him, then gave him a bright smile. “Okay, I got it! I’ll make you one!” 

“What?” 

“Jyuka has joined the sewing club while the tennis club is on break,” Tendou explained, coming out of nowhere to explain. 

“Ah…” 

“Sewing?” Tsurugi asked, looking intrigued. 

“I’m going to make a stuffed dog for Kagami-san!” Jyuka said gleefully to her brother. 

“I shall also make an animal that is stuffed for KaGAmi!” Tsurugi declared. “I shall be the man who is on top of making stuffed animals!” 

Kagami rubbed his temples, knowing to expect two wildly different stuffed animals soon. 

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“What do you have there, Mitsuzane?” Takatora asked, not actually sounding interested. In fact, he sounded rather frustrated, although not at Micchi. 

“Oh, just something handed out,” Micchi replied vaguely, cursing himself for not hidden it before coming into the house. 

“Alright, make sure it’s thrown away properly.” 

“Yes, I’ll do that.” 

Of course, he was going to do no such thing. Mai and Kouta had given him this, a silly, badly-sewn together grape bunch with a big happy face, and he was going to keep it forever.

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Pirika was using most of her processing power to focus on the coding she was doing, a solid 97.73% of it. 

The other 2.27% was on her stuffed animals, the collection she had started recently to keep her company for long days. She could see, out of the corner of her eye, if she put a certain mode on, the silhouette of the three Ultramans that used Hiroyuki as a host. 

Apparently, they approved, considering that they were all settling in on various plushies, like they were going to take a nap. 

Which...what WAS Hiroyuki up to…? 

Yup. Asleep across the desk. Well, no matter. Kana could yell at him later, when he was done being tired from that latest kaiju attack. 

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“Oh, sir, don’t forget: you get a small free stuffed animal since you’ve renewed your membership! Any of the ones 2,000 yen or less!” the cashier said brightly, handing Ishiro the voucher for such a thing. 

“I do?” 

“Yup! So feel free to stop at the gift shop the next time you come! But be warned, it expires in a month.” 

Ishiro schooled his expression back to normal. “Thank you for letting me know.” 

“No problem!” 

Ishiro studied the stuffed animals, too focused on trying to pick the perfect one to notice that Sakito was poorly hiding behind a pole with Mira and Genba. 

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"Isn't this an exquisite treasure?" Akito heard Ignis ask Kengo, making him glance over. 

Ignis was showing a stuffed monkey, one that held cymbals, thankfully not one of the creepy ones. 

Akito muffled a snort, not needing Ignis to notice him. 

(And obviously, of course, Kengo agreed, although even he seemed a little confused on how this particular plushie was an "exquisite treasure".)

(Either way, Akito noticed it appeared to have become Ignis's broom buddy.)