Hey! Roxy Goth here with a 2-shot for animaniacs! Hope you all enjoy. This takes place during the beginning of the 60 years the siblings were trapped in the water tower. Other fanfics writers write disagreements happening between the siblings once the show is over, but my thinking is surely they'd have worked through major annoyances during the time they were locked away with no likelihood of ever getting out? So with that in mind I wrote this.
This has been partly inspired from the 'I'm mad' segment.
I do not own animanics in any way shape or form.
"You've eaten all the cereal again!" Yakko was rudely awoken by the sound of his sisters voice.
"No I haven't! There's still some left." His brother sounded disinterested.
"Oh yeah? Where?"
"Have you tried the cupboard? You know, where they always are?"
A tut of annoyance from Dot, then a pause presumably while she inspected said cupboard. Then her voice came through again, whinier than ever. "There's only Daisy Loops left!"
"So…?"
"So you know I prefer Bugs Chocolate Bunnies!"
"For cryin' out loud, jus' have the Daisy Loops, Dot! Geez, it's not hard. Ralph's comin' by tomorrow anyway, so…"
"You said you'd leave some for me." His sister sounded hurt. Yakko was by now adjusted to the idea that it was now morning, 11:15 to be exact, and started trying to muster the energy to get out of bed.
"It's not my fault! I got hungry…"
"And you think I'm not? Ugh! Wakko you're so…stupid!"
By this time Yakko had got out of bed and was standing by the side of his bed rubbing his eyes. His jumped when the door flew open and Dot stormed in.
"Do not. Say. A word." She hissed pointing at her oldest brother.
"Wasn't going to."
Dot paused and looked at Yakko in a mix of annoyance and embarrassment. "Did we wake you?" She asked, taking her brothers clearly-just-got-out-of-bed look.
Yakko waved a hand airily. "It's fine. I'd have had to get up at some point."
"You must think we're idiots."
"Why?"
"Arguing over…" She sat down on her bed. "Over cereal." Dot gave a little laugh. "Who argues over cereal?"
"Anyone when they've been locked up for thirteen years." Yakko said, bluntly.
"How much longer till they clean the water tower?"
"Once every four year, they kindly cleaned it for us before we moved in, then again during the 4th, 8th and twelfth year so…two and a half years? I think, feel free to give or take."
Dot sighed. "Two and a half years. Great, so either me or Wakko are gonna be dead by that time."
"You've just gotta learn to get along."
"I don't know if I can, Yak. I'm not like you and Wakko, I get irritated when people insult me."
"I get irritated when people insult me, I just insult-slash-outwit them."
"Yeah, well you have a talent for that and also you use that for people who aren't family. Plus you're older. I'm 9, Wakko's 11 and your 13 and still ageing." Dot looked at her brother again. "How old do you reckon you're gonna get, Yakko?"
"Hopefully not much older." The oldest stretched a bit before carrying on. "I'd quite like to be some age between 14 and 16, I think. Anyway, enough about me. What was that about with Wakko, then?"
"Oh, nothing really."
"It must have been something, it woke me up!"
"In all fairness you're a light sleeper, it's Wakko who sleeps like the dead. And he snores like a train."
"But we love him anyway." Yakko said brightly, putting an arm around his sister and pulling her close.
"Yeah we do." A note of fondness crept into her voice.
"So…what happened?"
"Basically." Dot pulled away before turning to look Yakko in the eye. He made himself comfortable as well. He knew how Dot got when she went into rant mode. "I'd only been in the kitchen two minutes before we started arguing…actually I'll start at the beginning."
"Always the best place."
"Whatever. Anyway yesterday I noticed we were getting low on Bugs Chocolate Bunnies, you know, the ones I actually like."
"I prefer Daisy Loops."
"Only cause there's a picture of Daisy on it!"
"That has something to do with the reason, yes, I'll give you that."
"Anyway, I noticed this and said to Wakko, we're running out and he said 'Don't worry Ralph is coming by on Saturday to see if there's anything we need for the monthly shop, and then we'll have two more boxes.' So I said, okay then, fair enough, how about we only have a bit tomorrow, which is today, each and then we can finish the box Saturday morning when it doesn't matter because we're gonna have some fresh ones anyway, are you with me?"
"Yes, I'm following." Yakko said, sounding a bit distracted. However Dot knew by now that he was actually listening and very carefully indeed so she carried on.
"So today I go into the kitchen and Wakko's eating Bugs's cereal, which is fine because he was meant to have half some of it anyway. So I go over to the cupboard and what do you know? As well as eating his amount for tomorrow, he's eaten mine as well!" She sounded irritated. "So I started arguing with him and you know what happened after that."
"Y-es, I do."
Dot took a breath. "So what do you think?"
"Honestly?" Yakko said, making eye contact with her. She nodded. "Honestly I think your right, it is nothing really. Hmmm…However, Wakko seems to need to eat more than us, I think he has faster metabolism. He can't help it, you know that right?"
Dot nodded slowly, wondering where her brother was going with this.
She soon found out. "However, that doesn't excuse the fact he broke a promise, which I'm assuming is what you're actually upset about, right?"
"Yeah! He SAID-!"
"That he would leave some of Bug's cereal for you, I get it." Yakko said, rolling his eyes a bit. "Okay." He added seeing his sister looked less-than-impressed. "I'll go have a word with him. Knowing Wakko he just needs someone to explain the full picture to him." The oldest jumped of the bed. "You stay here and calm down a bit, read a book, listen to music, pretty yourself up or something, just calm down, okay?"
His sister nodded.
"Great, I'll be back soon. If you hear the sound of me being mashed by a mallet, feel free to come out and investigate." And with that he left the room to go and talk to his brother.