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The slender red-headed woman yawned as she got out of bed and blinked sleep out of her dark bluish green eyes. She stretched and cast a quick glance at the empty spot in the bed next to her, Hurry up and get back home you idiot.

Sighing, she went to wash her face and brush her teeth, afterwards getting dressed in the light grey robes and black and white stockings she had picked out for today, then wrapping her chin length, except for the thin long tail in the back, hair into a white headdress with black and lace trim. She opened her jewelry box, and stuck her pony tail through a aquamarine jeweled holder and pinned her headdress with a silver crescent moon.

She left the bathroom and went down the hall to a small door decorated with pictures of dragons fighting ninja dogs, "Oi, Karin-chan," she slowly opened the door and snuck inside to the bed with the sleeping reddish golden haired child sleeping in it, Lifting the covers away from the girl, the older woman smiled, "Karin sweetie, it's time to get up, you've got school today remember?"

Bright green eyes shot open at that, and the small girl started running around the room throwing clothes on.

"Easy, easy," the woman laughed, "We have plenty of time." Both of them left the room at that and headed to the kitchen.

Breakfast was a quiet affair, and both soon were at the door, putting on matching blue shoes and exiting their quiet house to enter the streets of the currently lazy city. The woman took Karin to the school, a few blocks away, and waved at her as she left.

Then she stretched her arms over her head, grinning as the village started to slowly wake up on her trek to the small building that held her other pride and joy.

She unlocked the door, and removed the shutters to the outside bar. Nodding to herself she went to the back of the place, and gasped at the mess that was in her kitchen.

Crockery laid smattered on the floor, pots and pans were skewered all over the place except for the back table, where a still tied up, almost naked, blue haired boy was yawning and opening his eyes.

Seeing the woman he quickly closed them shut, hoping that she might go away.

"Wai... Don't give me that! Haru! What the hell?!" she looked around at the mess, "WHAT HAVE I SAID ABOUT BUTTSECKS IN MY KITCHEN?!"

"um..." he chewed his lip, "To clean up afterwards..."

She puffed her cheeks out and placed her hands on her hips, "AND DID YOU?!"

"Uh...no," he said in a very small voice, "B...but I was..."

She went over and untied him, then handed him a broom, "I'm going to the market, and when I come back, you and this mess had better be gone!" with that she huffed out of the kitchen and marched down the street to the food stands, muttering about stupid yaoinobi and their buttsecks on her way.

An hour later she returned to the bar with her groceries, and went to the kitchen, which was so cleaned it sparkled, and she made a mental note to be nice to Haru for a few days.

He didn't tie himself up after all, she told herself, I'll punish the other one later.

"Mira-chan," a voice called out from the front, "Are you open yet?"

"Just a minute!" she called out, putting the bags down and pulled on a apron as she peeked her head out to see the red-haired medic nin, "Oh Yuko! The usual?"

"Yes please, but hurry, there's a few interesting cases at the hospital today and I'll need the energy," she smiled.

Mira went back to the kitchen and prepped the food, and quickly brought out the bowl of ramen for Yuko, plus a bento box, "Here, you may not get any lunch otherwise," she raised an eyebrow, "Interesting cases huh? Does that mean..."

"We can't talk about it yet," Yuko said winking, "Dyzzi hasn't quite given it clearance yet."

Another customer came in then, a woman with shoulder length blue hair sat down a bit aways from Yuko, "Mira-chan!" she said happily, "I'm hungry today! Bring it on!"

"Coming Aleria," Mira said disappearing back into the kitchen, when she came out, she found a very annoyed Yuko taking out a scapel to dissect the apparently [i]very[/i] hungry Aleria chewing on her arm.

"Every damn day!" Yuko said exasperated.

"Allie! Stop that!" Mira said, reaching over and pulling her off, "Hey... NO SASORI if you keep this up!"

That seemed to satiate the girl enough to sit calmly up and eat the ramen instead.

"Sasori's mine anyways!" Yuko said as she paid for the ramen and picked up her bento, "See you later Mira!"

"Uh-unh, he's mine bitch!" Aleria called after her, earning her a whack over the head from Mira, "Aww, what was that for, I was just having fun!"

"You keep it up, and you're going to lose privileges," Mira said crossing her arms, "Now Allie. I have a small question since you closed up last night."

"Gee! Thanks for the ramen! See you later Mira-chan!" Aleria called out as she threw money on the counter and ran away.

"Wai... damnit get back here!" Mira called out, then puffed her cheeks out in annoyance. She sighed then turned back to the bar, "Eh, I'll just ask Neji or Tenten when they get in."

A few more customers came in and she busied herself with serving them as the morning wore on.