Areona

I sat, looking around the room. Hajime was sitting in a corner, reading his usual book. Shidosha was bothering Damien, Akira was looking out the window, and Sayoku was playing Solitaire. Me? I was drinking my nightly dose of hot chocolate. Over all the room was quite. I mean, you heard the odd yell from Damien and a sigh here and there from Akira. Once and while Hajime turned a page in his book and Sayoku shuffled her deck of cards. Then it started. "Hey Sayoku, fight me!"

Sayoku sighed and put down her deck of cards, "You know what Shidosha? I feel up to a challenge today. Yup," she said leaning back, " I think today I want to lose, so I am just going to keep playing Solitaire OK?"

"What is that suppose to mean?"

"I think it means she doesn't feel like kicking your ass today," Damien half-chuckled from the side of the room."

I put my cup down and stood up. "I'm going for a walk," I said, and went to grab my sweater.

"You mind if I come with you?" Akira said rising from is position from the window.

"Sure," I said as I walked out the door.

Hajime

Oh boy, Areona's leaving me with these three? Well I'm not going to get much reading done now. I put my book down and stood up.

"BASE LOCKDOWN"

"Oh great not again! I thought you said you were going to fix the stupid security system Damien," Sayoku sighed from the couch.

"Ya, ya I said I would get to it eventually."

And as if things couldn't get any worse the electricity went out.

"Well, I'll go get some candles," I said getting up.

"Aw man, this is going to be so boring," Shidosha complained.

Sayoku's eyes shone in the light of candle. It was really creepy actually. " We could always play a game," She said in a rather intimidating voice.

Areona

Walking at night was always nice. The air was bitter tonight and I was shivering, but that didn't bother me. " You look cold."

I looked over at Akira. "Nah, I'm fine."

"Where are we going?"

"To the grocery store." I told him smiling.

He nodded his head and the rest of trip was basically in silence.

"So what are we picking up?" He asked looking at his thumbs.

"Well," I began, " Sayoku needs some more applesauce and straws, Hakime needs more feed for Hayate, Shidosha is almost out of pickles, I need more hot chocolate, Damien gets angry when he only has half a box of cookies left and you need some sweets!"

"Wow you didn't breath once while saying that." Akira said in shock.

"I know…" I said out of breath.

We headed back after we picked everything up, obviously, but we talkd alittle more. "So, you and Sayoku are pretty close huh?"

"Yup," I smiled.

"But… Your totally.. opposite."

"Ya, people use to tell us that all the time. But no matter what people said we still stayed friends."

"Well that's great I guess."

Sayoku

Things weren't looking good for me. Shidosha's left hand was in the way, as well as Damien's right foot. Lucky for the two iof them came home then. " We're back!"

"DON'T CLO-,"

"But it was too late. They had closed the door. Now someone REALLY had t do something about the stupid security thing. "Why is it so dark in here? And why are you guys playing twister?" Areona asked.

"Because SOMEBODY didn't fix the security system. And Then SOMEBODY had to say 'Let's play a game'," Hajime joked.

"Well I guess something needs to be done about this." I said getting up.

I grabbed a flash light and left.

Shidosha

"Wait Sayoku, take Hayate with you!"

I don't like my sister sometimes but I'm still protective of here. She beats me and always pulls me away when I am trying to score a date with Areona, but when guys are nice to here it makes me… angry.

"What's an owl going to do to help her?"

"Well, I just thought.."

"Well whatever," I said cutting Hajime off. " I'll go with you if you want."

"Really I'll be fine by myself." She said waving her hands.

"I am sure she'll be fine Shi!"

I'm not sure why but when Areona told me that I felt better. Since the day Sayoku and I left the village I've worried about her, but Areona had this way of making me feel better. Maybe it was because she was the only one who knew that Sayoku and I were siblings… Or maybe because I had a HUGE crush on her. Who knows? Anyways, right when Sayoku went to leave the electricity came back on. "Shidosha," she said through the tool box at him, "You and will go fix."

When they left I helped clean up and flirted with Areona a bit. " You know, you could use a big, strong man to protect you Areona." I said.

"Ya..ya.. that's nice," she said backing away.

RIGHT when I was about to make my move there was a knock on the door.