Making her way to the Great Hall for an early dinner, Kurumi found a seat at the Gryffindor table and removed Momotaro II from her shoulder. He instantly began to squeak in excitement, which Kurumi assumed meant that he recognized the location, and rolled back and forth on the table. "No, Momotaro II," she said with a sigh. "There will be no pumpkin soup tonight." She couldn't handle any more bubble baths going horribly wrong and it really was only a matter of time before someone noticed that flooding that nearly always happened. Granted, the prefect did clean everything up afterwards, but all the time it took was keeping her away from studying for her OWLs.

*meeep....squeak....meep*

Kurumi glanced down at the pygmy puff and noticed the obvious change in attitude. Did he really like pumpkin soup THAT much? "I promise that we will do something fun instead," she said. Just what that something was was beyond her at the moment. The pygmy puff also needed to eat and had been particularly fussy about just what he ingested. While Momotaro had loved tuna fish cookies, Momotaro II turned his back to them and, once, Kurumi SWORE she saw it stick its tongue out at her. "You need to eat first." She was sounding like her mother....which brought a frown to Kurumi's face.


*squee sque squeeeeeeeeeeak*

The pygmy puff rolled around in AGONY as he smelled the gloriousness that was the golden bath. Why wasn't the human summoning a bowl like she always did? He wanted to soooooooooooooooak!

Summoning a cup of tea, Kurumi picked up a sugar cube and dropped it into the cup and stirred it with her spoon while she waited for it to melt. Suddenly, Momotaro II became animated again and his tongue lashed out at the sparkly squares and devoured one without even swallowing. Was that....good for him? "Momotaro II! There is hardly any nutritional value in sugar cubes." If any really. Kurumi wasn't even sure if these particular cubes were made with artificial sweeteners or not. But this didn't stop the pygmy puffs from eating cube after cube, protesting when the Gryffindor attempted to take the small plate away from him. "Sugar? You eat sugar?" That WOULD explain why he was so hyper all the time...


*BOUNCE BOUNCE BOUNCE BOUNCE*

This food must surely be the food of the redhead GODS!

"Fine, have all the sugar cubes you want," she sighed. As long as he was eating and happy, that was all that mattered, right?

Kurumi sipped on her tea some before grabbing a plate of shrimp mayonnaise and picking at it with her fork. Momotaro II, smelling the sweetness of the candied pecans that came with the dish, flicked his tongue at it and devoured several shrimp.

*SQUEAK! SQUEAKSQUEAKSQUEAK!!*

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Half of her shrimp gone, Kurumi moved the dish away from the pygmy puff and just stared at him. Could it be? Testing a theory that was forming in her head, Kurumi grabbed a small serving size of shrimp cocktail and set it in front of the pygmy puff. She watched as he bounced towards it, flicking his tongue out at it to taste the surface of one of the shrimp, and then devoured them all - leaving the sauce on the table.

"Interesting," she smiled, jotting down a few notes on a spare piece of paper so that she could write a journal entry after dinner. Kurumi then spent the remainder of her dinner fighting off Momotaro II from her shrimp dish. Once she had finished eating - and there were no more sugar cubes left on the table - Kurumi picked the pygmy puff back up and headed to the library.

Time for a little bit of research before writing this journal entry.