Yeeey, Bring the House Down!

Author's Note: An alternate take on the events of episode 101 of the original series. Enjoy the story and R&R.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to or of the Yo-kai Watch franchise.

Pairings: Unresolved Keita x Kanchi, non-romantic Kuma x Keita, non-romantic Teppei x Hideo, non-romantic Daniel x Mamoru, non-romantic Haruhiko x Kenji, non-romantic Kanchi x Mao, non-romantic Kouichi x Takumi. Referenced (pre-canon) Keita x Fumika.

Summary:

Yo-kai Yeeey has a stronger effect on his friends than Amano Keita could've anticipated. It's spin the bottle gone wrong! Or is it?

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This, this is no doubt a Yo-kai's doing!

Each of the fifth-graders who barged into his house greeted him exuberantly, yelling Merry Christmases, giving him an attempted kiss on the cheek, and spewing a jumbled mix of Japanese and English Jibanyan scratched his head at.

Keita swept the room with his Yo-kai Watch searchlight, unmasking the culprit: Yeeey, a 'Merican Yo-kai Whisper explained made people total party animals.

He swore to his mom the party would be small, and yet, attendance was ballooning! From three to more than he risked counting!

"Let's play spin the bottle!"

"Ooooo!"

"Uh, eh? What's spin the bottle?" Being a simple Japon boy, he couldn't unpack the USA-isms Yeeey had his friends spouting.

"Tch, tch, tch! It's very easy, Keita! Piece of cake, desu!"

"Whi-Whisper! Do something!"

"You sure? You're capturing all the attention, stud."

"Super popular, nyan."

Teppei spun the empty bottle Kouichi unscrewed over the rug. It landed on Hideo, and before Keita's stunned eyes, the gamer laid a big wet one on the NyaKB fan.

Eeeeeeee!

Daniel and Mamoru. Haruhiko and Kenji. Kanchi and Mao.

It wasn't all innocent. The kiss between Kouichi and Takumi got boing. Like, "mature audiences only channel" boing. What Keita and co. missed, when Denpakukozo fiddled around with the power during the guys' late-night TV sesh.

You couldn't tell by first appearances, but Takumi was the extrovert, used to leading in dance class, whereas Kouichi preferred playing detective. And here they were, swapping saliva!

Keita tried convincing himself it was pretend. That Yeeey had inspirited him as well. Every spin of that bottle, he puzzled who would kiss who next.

Until the defining moment arrived.

"Hey Keita! It's me and you!"

KANCHI.

Keita didn't have the benefit of Kanchi's headphones to filter the world out. Of course, that didn't really mean much because the Yo-kai's possession of them muted the ick factor, for the doers and their audience. Whisper and Jibanyan excluded. Those two, legit interested.

What about Fumi-chan?

Reeling from the mere idea of it, the kiss came and went and the game continued. But satisfied the party reached utmost happy levels, Yeeey agreed to call it quits.

…just as Kuma kissed Keita, mid-smooch.

"Oh my gawd!" Kuma panicked, Yeeey's vocal tic lingering.

The boys collectively spat at their momentary insanity, muttering excuses to leave.

Unlike the others, Kanchi hadn't made a show of it. He offered to stay behind and clean up the mess, a modicum of acknowledgement for Keita.

So it wasn't insanity. But it wasn't courtship, either.