(Running Through Time) ~ A Yearbook of Chase and Marshall ~

Chapter 6 pt 3

Chase was surprised with what Marshall did, and they fell over because Chase lost his balance. Chase only hugged Marshall back, and Marshall wagged his tail quickly while panting.

"Hehe, excuse me..." Marshall apologized.

"Ah, this... is usual, don't you remember? You are always like this to me." Chase licked Marshall's face.

"Hey!" Marshall blushed deeply. "I-I--!" He lost his words.

"Let's end it now. It's getting late, let's return to the Lookout." Chase rolled Marshall over to a safe spot and got up.

"A-alright... let's go..." Marshall also got up and took the music player, while rubbing his red face. "W-wait up, Chase!" Marshall chased his brother who already went several meters from that spot.

"Relieved already?" Chase asked when they arrived.

"Relieved already." Marshall nodded happily.

"I'm glad that we make up already. I hope... we won't quarrel again, right?" Chase asked.

"I can't promise we won't fight again, but if we do, we can talk about it, and make sure we can solve the problem. Once, I heard from Rocky that communication is all we need to maintain a healthy relationship." Marshall grabbed Chase's paws and looked at him.

"He told me the same thing, that's why I want to apologize." Chase grinned.

"And then... I'm glad that you can lead us again. It's not that I don't like Rocky, but surely the leadership under his control is quite weird, haha. He's not used to lead a big group." Marshall giggled.

"Hey, don't let him hear you. He'd hit you with his hammer, you know that?" Chase hit Marshall's head lightly.

"Alright, alright! Sorry!" Marshall grimaced while laughing.

"Go back to your house and sleep, okay? Good night, sweetie." Chase nuzzled Marshall's cheek.

"Night, Chase." Marshall did the same and returned to his house.

Without their realization, a boy was looking at them from the balcony.

"Phew, finally... you guys are such good pups." He went back to inside.

"Morning, Chase!" Marshall greeted Chase who was going around the houses, trying to wake the others up.

"E-eh! How unusual to see you awake this early without my help!" Chase laughed.

"Ah, I wanna try to wake up by myself without your help sometimes. Is it okay?" Marshall giggled

"Obviously! I'm really proud of you, dear." Chase ruffled Marshall's head. "Mind waking Rocky and Rubble for me? I'll wake Skye up. Skye, it's morning already!" Chase knocked on the pink dog house.

"Wait up, I'll go outside soon!" A voice can be heard from inside that house. "Thanks for waking me up, anyway!"

"Sure, no problem." Chase walked to Zuma's house. At the other side, Rubble was awake already.

"Hey, Marshall. Why, you are smiling! Have you make up with him already?" Rocky asked when he opened his dog house after Marshall knocked it once.

"Yep, Rocky. Last night, we did." Marshall nodded and also approached Zuma's house. At the same time, Chase was standing in front of Zuma's house already.

"Together?" Chase raised his eyebrow.

"Sure." Marshall counted down slowly and knocked on Zuma's house loudly and quickly.

"WAKE UP ZUMA! WAKE UP!" was literally what both Chase and Marshall screamed. The others couldn't help but laugh at those two.

"GOSH YOU TWO AW—Wait, eh!? Chase and Mawshall made up alweady!?" Zuma was annoyed, but then he was surprised to see a German Shepherd along with a Dalmatian he knew laughed together when he went out from his house..

"Y-yeah, we did! We did, last night. Sorry for disturbing you two, Zuma." Chase still laughed.

"We need to do this more, Chase." Marshall laughed harder.

But, when they laughed, Zuma hugged both of his friends.

"Finally! I'm glad that you guys awe back togethew!" Zuma kept on hugging those two tightly.

"Ow, ow, Zuma! That hurts!" Chase moaned in pain while laughing.

"Calm yourself down, Zuma! Calm down!" Marshall also moaned in pain and laughed. Zuma released those two, and the others approached them.

"Thank god! At least we can see Marshall smiling again." Rubble sighed in relief.

"And finally I can get away from the leadership thingie. How can you survive this job, Chase? I don't understand." Rocky joked, and everyone laughed.

"And now Zuma won't have to replace you anymore, Chase. Zuma is skilled with your car, I gotta admit it." Skye giggled.

"Yep... but I have to remove the mindset to throw the caw to the water. A million times I almost dwove youw caw away, and a million times they have to wemind me to not do so." Zuma laughed in embarrassment.

"What!?" Chase couldn't believe it. "My beloved car! And, my house!" Chase pretended to panic.

"Not too expressive, Chase. Try again." Marshall covered his mouth and held his laughter.

"Shut up!" Chase hit Marshall's head softly.

"Ow!" Marshall grimaced, but still laughed.

"I miss this moment so much. Thank you guys, for worrying about us and helped me to find the solution." Chase stopped laughing and thanked the other four.

"No problem! We are family, aren't we?" Skye nodded.

"And you know what? Family means no one is left behind." Rocky also added.

"Also, things feel different without Marshall's laughter." Rubble scratched his ear. "I'm glad that thing returned back to us." He also smiled to those two pups.

"If you two evew had anothew pwoblem, just hit us up and we might be able to help." Zuma smiled.

"Ah, you guys... Sometimes I wish my hand is long enough to hug you all at once." Chase shrugged and smiled. "I'm blessed to have a caring family like you guys."

"Thus means, family hug!" Rubble pulled the others and 'hugged' with each other. They... kind of stacking each other, thought.

"Yeowch, I'm stuck here!" Skye yelped, who was stuck between the boys. They released the hug.

"Alright... I... guess we need a new formation for Skye." Chase joked, and everyone laughed.

Finally everything returned back to normal. The leadership returned on Chase, and he got his collar back. Chase was ready to work once again, along with his brother. Also, the others were ready to back them up, whenever trouble got them.