It's in the morning and the Weib Kruez gang, are getting ready for their florist work. Aya is watering the flowers, Omi is fixing them up, Ken is bringing in more flowers, and Yohji is reading the newspaper.

"Looks like our work made it in the news" Yohji says to break the silence.

Yesterday night's mission was hectic. A little boy turned into a monster and a mad scientist was the one who caused it. A few of the guys felt sorry for the little boy who had died because of the scientist.

"Just hope the parents would find out about their son" Ken says.

"Maybe we can send some flowers to them?" Omi suggests.

All of a sudden a girl walks in and asks for a dozen tulips.

Omi goes and gets the dozen tulips and Yohji asks

"Attending a funeral?" the girl replies "Yes, my nephews..."

The guys look up and wonder if it's the boy who was part of the scientist experiment than gooes back to there work.

The girl looks down with tearful eyes "His body was found mutilated... Who would do such a thing?" she asks.

Aya says "Well we're sorry Miss..."

"Mrs. Iriya... Iriya Azuma…" she says.

"Mrs. Azuma" as Aya finishes his sentence Omi comes back with the dozen tulips

"Here you go" Omi says.

"Thank you. How much?" Iriya asks.

"150 yen" says Aya and Iriya hands him the money.

"Thank you for the flowers" and Iriya walks out.

"Poor kid" Yohji says and goes back to reading the newspaper"

"Huh?" Omi says with a questioning tone in his voice

Aya shakes his head and tells Omi it's nothing.

Hours pass until the busy hour comes when all the schoolgirls crowd around the flower shop just looking at the guys screaming their heads off saying how hot they are, ect.

- - -

That night Manx comes and explains to them their first mission of the beginning of Autumn. Aya puts his trench coat on and stashes his katana in it. Ken puts his goggles on his head and tightens his bagnuk around his wrist. Yohji puts his sunglasses on and stashes his wire in his coat sleeve, and Omi is tapping on his laptop and loading his crossbow at the same time.

"The enemy is located at the old science building. Omi I want you to gather some information at the control area." says Manx

Yohji responds "Just hope its not another mad scientist."

"Let's hope not" replies Ken.

Aya suddenly gets up noticing that Manx has gone "Time to go" he says.

- - -

At the science dome Aya says that they should split up to cover more ground.

Omi throws a dart at the security camera and says "I'll keep in touch once I'm at the control room…" and he puts on headphones

"All right" says ken and he dashes off into one direction.

Yohji follows and runs low in the other direction.

"Well I guess I'll be seeing you in a bit" Omi says and heads toward the building entrance.

Aya swiftly jumps up to a window and takes a glasscutter out.

- - -

Inside, Yohji hears voices in the speech room and slightly opens the door to listen.

The man grabs the girls arm, as she was about to walk away.

"Join us or die" the man says.

"But…" responds the girl

The man grips tighter on the girls arm before she could finish her sentence. The girl gives in and receives a marking of a dragon around a symbol that stands for death.

"Hey..." says Yohji leaning against a beam "That's no way to treat a lady."

The girl turns around "Weiss..." she says with coldness in her voice.

Men jump down from a balcony and come from behind curtains surrounding Yohji.

"That girl" Yohji says in his thoughts.

- - -

Aya jumps down from a leveler and the lights flicker on.

"Omi must've gotten to the control room." Aya says in his thoughts.

Than he hears something. Aya quickly moves in-between stone beams and looks for the intruder.

"Mommy? W-where are you?" a little voice says.

Aya scans the room and sees a little girl crying with a little brown puppy dog by her side. Aya comes out with a gun in his hand and the girl draws back slowly.

"I'm not gonna hurt you" Aya says putting his gun away and walking towards the little girl.

The little girl trips and falls on her bottom. Aya helps her up and asks why the little girl is here.

"My mother bought me up here and told me to play quietly and that she'll be back in 10 minutes. But when the 10 minutes passed it was 20 and I started to get worried that she might have..."

Aya cuts the little girl off and says "Ok kid now that's enough. Come on I'll help you find her"

Aya (surprisingly) gives the little girl a piggy- back ride and heads downstairs with the puppy following behind.

- - -

Ken is running down the hall looking in each room if the enemy is hiding in them. While he runs past a room he hears someone struggling than collapsing on the ground. He kicks down the door and points his gun where his sight is but all he sees is a guard with a dart in his neck.

"Bombay?" says Ken.

Omi pops out of a vent "Siberian? Am I glad that you're here" he says.

"What happened?" asks Ken

"I guess the tranquilizer wore out on him and he started to wake up so I shot him with another." Answers Omi

"That's just great. Did you shut off the securtiy cameras and such?" says Ken questionly

"Of course! Do you think I'm dumb enough to leave them on?" says Omi.

"Ah, gomen…" Ken apologizes

"It's all right," says Omi hopping onto a chair and typing madly.

"What are you doing?" asks ken again

Omi, annoyed, replies "Hacking into the system and downloading some information."

"Oh" says Ken sitting back on a chair.

- - -

The scene goes back to Yohji who is having a difficult time with Iriya and her friend.

"You bastards are the ones responsible for the death of a child." Iriya says

"Hey lady we're just doing our job." Replies Yohji.

Aya comes running into the room and puts the little girl down behind a few seats.

"Abyssinian?" says Yohji

"Teruo!" cries Iriya

Aya keeps the girl seated.

"First you take the life of my nephew, now your taking my daughter?!"

"Calm down lady! Geez" says Yohji

"Balinese." Says Aya

Yohji backs off.

"We mean no harm to your daughter" says Aya "I found her in the upper levels alone looking for you."

Teruo gets out of Aya's grasp and runs to her mother. Iriya kneels down to receive her daughter in her arms but as Teruo runs to her mother the man shoots Iriya. Blood spats onto the girls face as she stops dead in her tracks looking at her mother's body on the ground.

Her eyes quiver and cries out "Mommy!" and drops down to the ground.

"Don't worry hunny...mommies going somewhere for awhile... ok?" Says Iriya

Teruo sits in front of her mother crying and nods. The man walks to Iriya and points the gun to her head.

"Any last words?" he asks.

"bastard, you promised to help her..." Iriya says

"Yes but I didn't say anything about killing you now did I?" he replies back to her.

"You sick bastard" Iriya says

But before she could say another word to her daughter the man shoots her in the head.

"Mommy!" screams Teruo.

Yohji grabs the little girl before the man swipes her away.

"Give her to me!" he demands.

"And what for?" asks Yohji.

But before the man can answer Aya stabs him with his Katana. Teruo looks at the blood on her hands and feels her face than faints.

"What should we do with her?" says Yohji looking down at the girl in his arms

"Get her to the orphanage" Aya suggests while he takes his katana out of the body of the man.

"No they would be wondering what we're doing with a kid and where we got her." Says Ken walking in with Omi.

Aya turns around "Got the data Bombay?" he asks.

"Right here" says Omi holding up a small cd rom.

"Good, now about this kid..." says Aya

"We should have Manx check her out, just in case" says Ken.

- - -

"Her brain waves seem normal and the blood tests shows that she's normal. No mutation in the cells no nothing." Says Manx.

"You sure?" asks Aya

"Yes" replies Manx. "You should get her cleaned up and get her something to eat. I'll swing by sometime and take her to the orphanage. All right?"

"Exactly when?" says Yohji but Manx has already walked out the door.

"I think it'll be fun taking care of her." Says Omi

"You have school work and we all have to work in the flower shop." Says Aya.

"But we take shifts remember? And I can finish my homework in minutes!" says Omi.

- - -

Later that night Omi is giving Teruo a bath while the others fix something up to eat.

"We might as well just make peanut butter and jelly" says Ken "Its too late to cook something"

Ken gets out two slices of bread, a jar of peanut butter, another jar of jelly, and a butter knife to spread it on the bread.

"Guess who's ready to eat!" says Omi and the guys turn around.

Teruo is dressed in a huge shirt with the sleeves covering her whole arm and about a foot, from her fingertips, of the sleeves and the shirt slipping from her shoulder.

"Couldn't find anything else to fit her." Says Omi as a sweat drop appears.

Ken finishes making the sandwich, kneels down to Teruo and hands her a plate. "Do you like pp+j?" he asks

"Yes" says Teruo in a shy voice.

"Than here ya go." Says Ken leading the girl to a seat.

"Now we'll just be in the next room if ya need us. All right?" says Ken.

Teruo nods and starts to devour the sandwich.

- - -

In the lounge the guys flop onto chairs exhausted from their mission.

"So, who's bed she gonna sleep in?" says Yohji as he yawns.

"Not with me tonight, I have an exam tomorrow but tomorrow yeah it would work out." says Omi.

"Well I can't because I have plans tomorrow and, I have to open shop with Aya and well you guys know me at night." Says Yohji and Aya nods.

"So that leaves only you Ken"

"Me?" says Ken

"Yeah, you're the one that loves kids." says Aya.

Yohji and Omi agree

"Fine…" says Ken leaning his head back onto the soft chair and drifting off to sleep

- - -

Ken wakes up suddenly remembering Teruo. The others wake from their slumber and also remember the girl. Ken goes upstairs and checks the rooms. He opens his bedroom door and finds her sleeping peacefully on his bed.

"Guys!" Ken hollers but not to loudly "She's up here!"

The three run upstairs.

"And it looks like goldy locks likes mine." He chuckles.

"Ok she found her way to your room I'm goin to sleep" Yohji says, heads to his room and shut the door.

"Goodnight" Says Omi yawning walking to his bedroom and closes his bed.

"See ya in the morning" Aya says and heads to his room.

"Yeah good night" says Ken.

He walks into his room and closes his door also. He changes into his boxers and slip into bed looking up at the ceiling. Teruo shivers and Ken pulls the sheets over her and he drifts off to sleep.

- - -

Ken feels warmth on his face as the sunshines in from his window. He slowly opens his eyes and they become wider. Ken jumps out of bed yelling. The group runs into his bedroom alarmed.

"What?!" Yells Yohji.

Teruo slowly wakes up and sits up on the bed. The guys look at her with amazement. Teruo's hair is now long brown and soft instead of short and thin. Her appearance seems to be at an age around 12. The shirt Omi let her wear is now what looks like a mini skirt. Her arms and legs are longer and slender and her eyes are as Kawaii as Omi's.

"Wow Ken never knew you had it in ya" Jokes Yohji.

"Ha ha" says Ken.

"Whats going on?" Terou says with a sleepy tone in her voice

"Nothing just go back to sleep." Says Ken.

Teruo lays back down and drifts off to sleep. Ken grabs his clothes and shuts the door.

"Well she sure matures fast." Says Yohji.

- - -

Around lunch time the guys hear little pats on the stairs.

"Teruo?" says Ken and gets up from his chair and goes to the stairs.a few minutes later, "Teruo!" Yells Ken and catches her little body.

"What happened?" says Aya as he and the others come rushing over to the stairs.

"She's little?" says Omi "But wasn't she..."

"Yea" Yohji says.

"What are we gonna do?" Says Ken.

Teruo comes back to coinsiousness and opens her eyes. "What happened?" she asked.

"You almost fell down the stairs. Don't you remember?" says Ken.

"I did?" says Teruo with question "Must've slipped my mind."

"Well we should get you something to eat." Suggests Yohji.

Teruo's stomach grumbles "Yeah" she says and the group laughs.

"What would you like?" Aya asks.

"Would another pp+j sandwich be too much to ask?" Teruo says

"Pp+j it is!" says Ken putting Teuro down and walks to the kitchen to make the sandwich.

- - -

After lunch Teruo walks over to Omi and asks him what he is doing.

"Looking at some things. Would you like to see?" Omi asks

"Sure!" Teruo says with excitement.

Omi helps her on his lap and starts to read to her of whats on the screen.

Few hours later...

"-12 - (-43)= -12 + 43 = 31!" says Teruo.

"Correct!" shouts Omi "Wow, you've just learned integers in an hour!" he says "

Yay! Thanks Omi-Kun!" shouts Teruo happily.

Omi looks at her for calling him Omi-Kun

"Maybe she should start going to school." says Aya

"Yeah at this rate by this time tomorrow she'll be at the level of high school learning." Says Omi

"Looks like we'll have two brainy's under this roof for awhile..." Jokes Yohji rubbing their heads messing up their hair and everybody grins.

- - -

Night falls and the boys vote who stays home with Teruo.

She frowns "I can take care of myself. I don't want to ruin your plans for tonight."

"Oh no it's ok I've got school tomorrow any ways" Says Omi

"You sure?" she says

"Yea"" says Omi.

The guys say goodnight and head towards the Velvet Underworld.

"So, what shall we do?" asks Omi

"T.V!"Teruo says.

Omi laughs "Ok"

Teruo runs and jumps onto the couch ready to watch something. Omi laughs again and walks over to the couch and sits beside her.

"What shall we watch?" asks Omi.

"Um are there any good movies on?" says Teruo

"Well lets just flip through the channels and see whats on. Agree?"

"Agreed!" Teruo shouts happily and snuggles up to Omi.

Omi, surprised, laughs and puts an arm around her while he flips the t.v on.

- - -

It's 2:00 am and the guys return smelling of alcohol. Aya notices the t.v still on and goes to turn it off but sees Omi and Teruo sleeping together on the couch. Aya shakes Omi awake and says to slep upstairs. Ken picks Teruo up

"Mommy?" Teruo says

"No, its me Ken."

Teruo's eyes widen and she starts to gasp for air.

"It's only me Teruo... Ken"

"Ken...?" says Teruo still gasping for air.

Ken is shocked and puts her down onto the couch.

"Omi... Omi-kun, tasukete" shes says with quick breaths.

Omi looks at Ken with confusion "Me?" says Omi

"Just go to her" says Ken.

Omi walks over to Teruo and kneels down.

- - -

It's morning and Ken is sitting in a chair in the lounge sleeping. He wakes up slowly and sees Teruo in her grown form sitting up on the couch crying.

"Whats wrong?" asks Ken

"I acted so foolishly yesterday..." Teruo relpies "I'm sorry" she says and hugs Ken

"nande?" he asks

"Not knowing who you were..." Teruo says with tearful eyes.

"That's ok but I have one more question." Says Ken

"What is it?" responds Teruo.

"Why do you grow up than change back to a little girl?"

To be continued...