**

Aoko Nakamori yawned widely.

"Don't tell me you're _tired_," her classmate and best friend Kuroba Kaito teased gently, slinging a supportive arm around her shoulders.

"Yes, she's only been sprinting around Tokyo Disneyland since the doors opened this morning trying to keep Kaito from scaring the children, why would she possibly be tired?" Hakuba Saguru asked wryly, earning himself a mock-hurt glance from Kaito. "This was supposed to be a fun, _relaxing_ holiday trip."

"But it's _Disneyland_," Kaito protested. "I wanted to see EVERYTHING!"

"And ride everything," Hakuba countered. "Repeatedly."

Akako said nothing, as she was still trying to recover from six consecutive runs through Space Mountain. Hakubu was thoughtfully supporting her with one arm.

"If you can _call_ it riding," Aoko Agreed. "You're supposed to stay _in_ the cars Kaito, not slip out from the restraints and try to grab some kid's candy floss during the tunnels."

Akako turned green.

"Let's talk about something else," Kaito said hurriedly. "Was there anything else we need to see?"

"I think we've just about done the lot," Hakuba said. "Shouldn't we be heading back now?"

Kaito's eyes twinkled suddenly. "But what about the Fantasy Parade?" He asked innocently. "It's starting in five minutes, and we have such a good view from here."

"Oooh! I want to see!" Aoko said.

"Standing still is good," Akako seconded.

Hakuba just narrowed his eyes at Kaito. Insanely dangerous tricks on the rollercoasters aside, the magician had been more or less well-behaved all day long. It looked as though that was about to change however.

Hakuba tried frantically to figure out what the other boy had planned. Thinking furiously, he tuned out the music of the approaching parade. *There are no jewels here, you haven't slipped away, you're just standing there watching the parade... so...*

"You're missing the parade," Aoko told him suddenly. "And they're singing in English too! What are they saying?"

Hakuba turned his attention to the parade and choked.

"Look out! Look out! Pink elephants on parade!
Here they come; Hippoty hoppity
They're here and there; Pink elephants everywhere!"

Kaito sang along with the parade, as a giant pink elephant float went past them all.

"Look out! Look out! They're walking around the bed
On their heads; Clippoty cloppity
Arrayed in braid; Pink elephants on parade.

What'll I do? What'll I do? What an unusual view!

I can stand the sight of worms
And look at microscopic germs
But Technicolor pachyderms
Is really too much for me."

At this point in the song, Akako got the joke and began to smile.

"I am not the type to faint; When things are odd," Kaito continued singing gustily, a merry grin on his face. "Or things are quaint; But seeing things you know that ain't,
Can certainly give you an awful fright; What a sight!"

He gently disengaged himself from Aoko as Hakuba turned on him, a dreadful expression spreading over his face. Laughing, he sprinted away, the wrathful British detective in hot pursuit as the song came to its end:

"Chase 'em away! Chase 'em away!
I'm afraid; Need your aid
Pink elephants on parade!"

"What are they doing?" Aoko demanded. "Boys are so weird." Her brow creased. "And why was there a stuffed elephant plushie on the top of that big model of Dumbo?"

"Because it was on parade," Akako said helpfully.

Aoko thought about it for a moment, and then nodded. "And that's why it was pink?"

Akako started laughing.

End.

Hakuba: YOU DYED SIR STINKY PINK!!!
Kuroba: With magic ink! Pinky stink!
Hakuba: STOP SINGING!!! GIVE ME BACK MY ELEPHANT!!!