Adventures in Ninjasitting

**The Fuzzy Pony** is the fourth episode of season 2 of the Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles tv series.

## Summary

Sitting in the courtyard of Gen's mansion, Usagi with Spot by his side, tries to meditate, but distractions bother him. In the end, he decides to get something to eat and gets into an argument over what when they'll eat some daifuku.

Soon, Usagi tells his Auntie and Toshiko that he'll be gone for a bit to enjoy some daifuku. Gen decides to tag along, and Auntie asks that Hana be taken to the Neko Ninja HQ to play with the children there. Toshiko claims that since hanging out with Auntie, her personality has changed. As it turns out, Hana now acts like a little old lady.

At the Neko Ninja HQ, Chizu and Kitsune observe the ninja's practice. Gen and Usagi then arrive with daifuku, and when Gen asks how things are going around the place. Chizu then relays her lament over how she wants to put the children into homes, but it's been difficult due to their personalities. Hence Usagi suggests the children join his group for the day, and Chizu agrees. Alone with Chizu, Kitsune suggests that the Ninjas practice dancing to exhaust their excess energy, which amuses Chizu, but she decides against it. At that moment, Lord Kogane arrives at the scene and announces his suggestion to "rebrand" the ninjas as they're bad publicity. Acting contrary to what Kitsune believes she often does with her ideas, she embraces Lord Kogane's suggestion yet cringes when he believes the Ninjas should be renamed Lord Kogane's Dream Team.

Meanwhile, Usagi tries to help the children do some good deeds, but every task they're given, they do to an awful extreme. Wishing there was a way to calm the children down, Hana informs Usagi that Lady Fuwa used to have them mediate and explains how simple it was for them to do it, which impresses Usagi. Returning to Lord Kogane's side, he shows his proposal for new ninja outfits that are too gauche for ninja standards, and instead of weapons, they'll use balloon origami. Lord Kogane's new vision for Neo Edo is spreading balloon origami and propaganda about himself and painting murals of... things. These suggestions leave Chizu aghast, and she mentions that it's better to change how the ninjas think, but Lord Kogane scoffs at the idea and moves on to suggest new hat colors.

Usagi and Gen take the children to an arcade, but they cause havoc and mischief there for the other arcade patrons. So, Hana has the children regroup when Usagi and Gen try to reason with them. In the children's defense, they state they can't help but be ninjas, which brings up when Chizu said no to Lady Fuwa and offered to show them where she did it.

Lord Kogane tries to have Chizu's ninjas perform balloon origami, but with no success. A guardsman then reports that "tiny ninjas" are wreaking havoc around the town. The news gives Lord Kogane that instead of trying to glamorize the ninjas, he'll make them more terrifying by making them into his goon squad. Hearing this infuriates Chizu, who refuses Lord Kogane's proposal as her desire to reform the ninjas to a non-violent fashion supersedes his selfish one. After an intense staredown between Chizu and Lord Kogane, he concedes and leaves. Now with Lord Kogane gone, Chizu admits she's been narrow-minded, but accepts that she is and asks that Kitsune learns to live with it.

Usagi's group arrives at the Kaikishi Temple, and Tetsujin states his worry for the Ki-stone and believes that it's sick. Curious to know why tiny ninjas were following Usagi and Gen, they explained how they spent their day together with said tiny ninja. Hence, Tetsujin decides to reason with them, and he successfully does. Just then, Admiral Nochi and his Bat Squadron invade the temple hoping to destroy the Ki-stone. However, their plans are foiled but are unsuccessful, thanks to Tetsujin convincing the ninja children to forget what he said before and fight the bat invaders, which causes them to retreat.

Afterward, Chizu picks up the ninja children from Gen's home and finds them meditating in a circle with Usagi in Gen's garage area. Because news had spread that the ninja children had stolen vegetables in the city, Auntie proposed she take the children to her farm. After Toshiko drives Auntie and the children to the farm, Kiyoko coos and down in the tunnels, the Warbottos place an orb on one of five small pillars with two others with orbs already placed on them.

## Characters

* Yuichi Usagi
* Karasu-Tengu (Mentioned)
* Gen (Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles)
* Chizu (Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles)
* Kitsune (Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles)
* Kiyoko (Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles)
* Lord Kogane
* Lady Fuwa (Mentioned)
* Admiral Nochi
* Toshiko
* Hana
* Auntie
* Tetsujin