YUYO enjoyed the swingset more than someone her age should. Up-and-down! Up-and-down! Up-and-down! Faster… faster… faster… At the end of the long arch, there was that second that you flew, or at least you felt like you were flying. YUYO stretched out her arms, spanning her imaginary wings. This time, however, her petite frame slipped in the swing. YUYO really did go flying, towards playground equipment headfirst.

Everything went black after that. Or before that?

???? stared at the tinkering ceramic seahorse. The smug look on the inanimate painted face mocked ????’s agony. ???? reached up and slapped the silly piece of playground equipment across the face, hurting her hand in the process; however, the throbbing pain radiating in her head drowned out any pain she felt in her now injured hand. ???? reached up and touched her hand, pulled away with a hand slippery slick in red wetness. Crimson blood stared at her. She panicked. Not only did it appear her memories were gone, but she had injured herself.

She resorted to her self-preservation skills, buried deep within her natural instincts. She turned around and started balling her eyes out, ensuring that anyone in the immediate area would come to her assistance. After all, ???? was only a small girl and she had been hurt.

 

The screaming caught Meowkazawa’s attention. Beezlebubble launched first in action, however, charging forward towards the wailing Yumi. Beelzebubble knelt down and immediately started to examine the head wound Yumi suffered.

“RAWR!”

“AHHH! FREAK!” Yumi repelled from the massive man over her. She fell back awards, crawled in reverse, scrambling away from Beezlebubble. Beezlebubble lowered his head in shame. The only person that ever accepted his dinosaur fetish now rejected him, crushing her heart in that very instance. “Stay away from me! I’m still a virgin! Don’t rape me!”

The last stew of concerns alarmed Meowkazawa, finally drawing him into action. He tossed himself onto the floor, covered Yumi’s mouth. He wasn’t aware of the play Yumi was getting at but those words would end up getting Jack thrown into jail. Despite their many, many differences, Meowkazawa and Jack reached a mutual understanding. Now that Meowkazawa thought twice, he might have set himself up with some jail time, at the very least a strong line of police questioning, as he now covered the mouth and held down an injured girl in the middle of the park after she finished screaming ‘rape’. Meowkazawa knew that in prison, he would be turned into a bitch given his soft furry mask. He supposed that what he gets for abandoning his beautiful wife and wonderful child back in Japan to be with Yumi.

“Yumi, you need to calm down. We’re in a public place. People won’t understand your jokes. Do you want Beezlebubble taken away from you?” Meowkazawa whispered in Yumi’s ear. She suddenly bit his hand and went fleeing into the nearby woods, letting out a bloodcurdling scream. Against his better judgment, Meowkazawa found himself in close pursuit.  

“I wouldn’t stay here if I was you,” Meowkazawa warned Beezlebubble. Beezlebubble nodded his head feverishly, snapping out his morose place of mind.

“RAWR!” Beezlebubble shouted, joining the pursuit of a bloodied girl, dressed up like some magical girl from a Japanese anime. Concerned parents shielded their children from the commotion. A few tough guys joined in the pursuit, but Meowkazwa assured they were chasing after the weird perverts chasing after an injured girl. Meowkazwa had to believe there was a God who was up there, laughing at Meowkazawa’s misfortune.

“The prognosis is temporary amnesia, caused by a serious concussion,” the doctor declared. He stepped out over the room, eager to see another patient. Both Beezlebubble and Meowkazawa nursed bruises on their freshly swollen faces. The thugs managed to catch up, both happened to be mixed martial artists, and both happened to kick their asses all while some Karens swarmed Yumi. Police showed. Luckily, Meowkazawa explained away handcuffs through he considered that a miracle of God rather than any savvy charisma check.

“Are you my dad?” Yumi questioned. “Or are you my Dad? Am I a dinosaur?”

“He didn’t say how long temporary was, did he?” Meowkazawa frowned, ignoring the question.

“Are either of you my guardian?”

“I am that,” Meowkazawa answered. He took Yumi by the hand and started to lead her out of the hospital. “It’s time to go home.”

“Are my parents dead? Am I an orphan?”

“Of course not. They’re fine. They’re in Japan- hey, look don’t start crying now!” Meowkazawa exclaimed when he caught sight of Yumi stopping dead in her tracks. She looked up at the fluorescent ceilings lights in the hospital hallway, and waterworks gushed out of her large round button eyes. “Yumi! It’s going to be alright!”

“Why did my parents abandon me with some weirdo in a catmask? That must mean they don’t love me!”

“I’m your manager. You’re a professional wrestler,” Meowkazawa answered. Beezebubble went to release an affirmative roar, but Meowkazawa stopped him with a shaking of his head. He didn’t want the poor girl anymore confused as she was. Yumi, however, did not stop crying. In fact, in addition to her sobbing, she started to hammer her fists onto Meowkazawa’s chests. The entire hallway turned and stared at Meowkazawa. Two burly nurses left their wards and approached Meowkazawa and Beezlebubble, the two men dressed in furry outfits, trying to make unwanted advances on a poor, injured child.

 

?????????? turned towards the brute next to him, wondering why an adult man would degrade himself by dressing up as a dragon. The beast narrowed his eyes. Was there something on my face? ?????????? reached up and felt soft, fur. What was wrong with him? Was he a freak too? ?????????? hurried towards the mirror within the hospital room, his hands running over the cat mask adorned on his face. ?????????? desperately tried to remove the mask from his face, but the mask was stuck. Furthermore, there was a faint odor emitting from the mask. How long has he had this mask on?!

“The prognosis is temporary amnesia, caused by a serious concussion,” the doctor stated. ?????????? jumped and turned. He was in a hospital. A small girl, dressed in odd cosplay, stood beside the doctor, shaking her head grimly.

“Doctor! Doctor, please…. YUYO doesn’t think she should be babysitting these men. She has a match to prepare for…”

“What’s a YUYO?” the catman asked as he returned to sit beside his lizard compatriot.

The lizard compatriot shrugged his shoulders. “Rawr?”

“Okay. Okay. Enough of the lip service, boys. As of today, you’re in the care of Nurse YUYO and she’s going to make certain you two are all okay. Thank your kind, benevolent master for devoting her time in your speedy recovery,” YUYO spoke.  YUYO then turned towards the doctor. “Doctor, I need a nurse’s uniform STAT or this won’t work.”

“We don’t hand those out. Besides, you’re all clear to go home.”

“YUYO thinks that is UNFORGIVABLE! Let’s go, you two!?”

“Are you my daughter?” Meowkazawa found himself asking weakly, following the small girl before him as she parades him and the Jurassic Park fanatic out of the hospital.