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James opened the door, "Oh, more kids in masks?" he chuckled setting the bowl of candy on the card table beside the door, grabbing another large bowl that was instead filled with condoms. "I wonder if you're older than twelve?" he chuckled grabbing one condom for the four people he suspected to be older than the traditional trick-or-treating age.

"Doctor Valentine?" Nagi asked, lifting up the ghoul mask he was wearing.

"I knew it!" James shouted excitedly.

"You're passing out condoms on Halloween?" Nagi asked blankly.

"To kids like you who are too old for trick-or-treat," James said, holding up the other bowl that contained chocolate and lollipops, "These are for the kids."

"Heh, at least you're preaching safe sex," Nagi said dryly.

"Girls, take off your masks," James sighed.

"Only if we can have chocolate!" Anka demanded.

James chuckled, "Alright."

Nami and Anka took off their masks and each grabbed a handful of candy, tossing them into their trick-or-treat bags. "Thank you," Nami grinned.

"Lulu, aren't you taking chocolate, too?" James asked, noticing that she hadn't removed her mask.

"No, I want something useful since you're offering," she grinned beneath the mask, holding up her pillow case for James to toss and condom in.

"Before you do that," Nagi grabbed the condom, "Let me do a little something so it's a trick to her and a treat for me."

"I thought you were obsessed with N-" James started until Nagi threw his hand over James' mouth.

"Oh, I am, I'm just spiteful toward Lulu," Nagi said, as the blush left his cheeks.

"What are you doing?" Lulu asked, sliding her mask onto the top of her head.

"Poking holes in the condoms," Nami said as she returned with a knife.

"NO!" Lulu objected, grabbing the bowl of condoms and cradling it protectively.

James ruffled Nami's hair, "You're Nagi's little minion, aren't you?"

Nami blushed, "I can be."

"Well, are you gonna head out and trick-or-treat to the houses that will give you candy?" James asked.

"Yeah, and then we're getting drunk at my house. Here's an invite," Nami grinned, handing James a card.

"How weird is it that we party with one of our teachers?" Anka asked as they walked away from James' house.

Nami shrugged, as did Nagi. "No," Lulu shook her head. "He's hot."

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"Well, we've got candy..." Nami said simply as she stared down at the empty bar.

"No wine?" Lulu asked.

"Not even a single beer?" Anka frowned.

"Not even..." Nami muttered. "Well...that sucks...what are we gonna do now?"

Nagi shrugged, "Watch Halloween reruns and eat candy?"

"Yeah..." the other three sighed.

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After watching the reruns of Hocus Pocus, Practical Magic, Don't Look Under the Bed and other family oriented Halloween movies, the ground glared down at the remains of candy...the endless wrappers with the remnants of chocolate and sugar caked to them and the empty huggies bottles.

"Wow...we need more chocolate," Lulu said as she hopped up.

"Indeed we do," Anka agreed.

"How're we going to manage that? Aren't most of the stores around here closed by now?" Nagi mused.

"Well... we could wander the streets looking for one thats not... or wonder if there're some late night trick or treaters out and about," Nami suggested.

"Or... you know... sneak into some halloween parties," Anka said thoughtfully, "They're bound to be pretty wild about now and nobody'd notice a couple of teens sneaking in and snagging the candy..."

"Anybody else have a costume?" Lulu asked.

"I do, naturally," Anka replied. "Say, Nami...aren't your parents having a party?"

"They are. It's starting later tonight..." Nami answered, "and we ate all of the candy for that party."

"So Anka's going to give us all costumes?" Nagi guessed.

"Could this holiday go any other way?" Anka asked.

"I notice you use any and every oppotunity to get us into your designs, any particular reason for that?" Nami asked, rifling through the empty wrappers in hopes of finding a missed candy.

"Well... I love designing costumes and the like for us," Anka grinned sheepishly, "I was hoping to get us out of the store bought rubber masks anyway."

"So to Anka's house then?" Lulu questioned.

"Nah, I've got everything we need in my bag," Anka replied, pulling it up from beside the couch and opening the clasp to dig through it.

Nagi stared in awe when he watched everything come out of Anka's tiny bag. Every kind of cloth imaginable and several different costumes came flying out of the fray. "Are these one size fits most?"

"No, I measured each of you. 32/28/36," Anka said, pointing at Nami. "34/26/36," she said pointing at Lulu. "And I haven't measured you yet," Anka said as she pulled out a roll of measuring tape. (any idea anything about measurements by chance, Dee?)

"They're custom made?" Nami asked happily as she grabbed a costume.

"Would I do them any other way?" Anka asked happily as she unraveled the measuring tape, putting it up to Nagi's chest.

"Shouldn't he be in his underwear for that?" Lulu asked.

"You're right. Strip," Anka said firmly.

"Do what?"