By the time the bus came to pick up the girls, Buttercup still couldn't shake the feeling that the new kids weren't quite normal. There was just something about them that shouted "strange". Though it seemed that they were easy to get along with… she observed them cautiously. Another thing that just seemed to weird to her was the fact that there was seven of them!

'Blossom and Bubbles don't understand…these people could be dangerous… Just because nothing has happened in this town for a while doesn't mean that it cant happen again,' Buttercup thought angrily. While she was thinking this, one of the girls took notice.

"Why does it seem that you just can't except us?" A girl with medium length brown hair and grey green eyes asked innocently.

Startled Buttercup snapped, "Why can't you just be honest?! Huh? You guys CAN'T all be family… Can you?"

The girl laughed, "It is surprising isn't it? So many of us? Hahah… I guess I never really took into account how that would look to others… Hm, well don't worry we don't come from the same mom. Keira the one you met earlier with black hair, she's my cousin. Aiko is my older sister."

Buttercup still couldn't quite believe her even though she seemed honest enough but she knew that not everyone is quite what they seem. They were still too abnormal for her to trust. She was going to watch out for her sisters. She was going to keep an eye on these girls and to do this she must fake trust them at least till she confirmed something.

On the other side of the bus, Blossom noticed that Buttercup was smiling and taking to one of the girls that had not introduced herself yet. She wondered what exactly got into Buttercup; she used to never trust anyone.

"Don't worry your sister is only talking to my cousin, Keito, she is no danger to her if you were worried," Keira said.

Blossom looked at the new girl. She noticed something different about her. "You are tanner then your sisters, Keira. Why is that?" Blossom asked.

"Eh?" Keira said then laughed, "Oh yes haha, I am aren't I? It comes from my father I would guess. It definitely didn't come from my mother."

"Why is that?" Blossom asked.

Keira seemed reluctant to answer, she knew if she did, she could blow the mission.

'Stupid bird boy. Always makes me try and recruit the people who ask questions baka baka baka!' Keira thought while coming up with a good story to tell the inquisitive girl. "Oh he just is out in the sun more often, my mother never could tan either."

'Could?' thought Blossom, 'Why could?' She had a puzzled look on her face that no one could mistake.

Mayu took that moment to jump in, "Yes, she was beautiful though right Keira? Her name was Leona."

Keira felt her eye start twitching, "Yes, yes she was…" Keira knew that sooner or later someone was going to notice the past-tense of their stories and start wondering something; if they weren't all ready.

Then of course Blossom had to ask, "Was? Don't you mean is?" Right after that question was asked everyone on the bus felt an icy chill run up their spine. Keira went quiet, as did Mayu, Kona, Aiko, and Keito.

"Yes was you little orange haired asks-too-many-questions bitch. She died," answered a girl with short blue hair. Who also happened to be pregnant.

The girl next to her tried to calm her down with a simple, "Now Patzie…" But it failed. The girl was all ready to upset and her hormones were all ready wacked up.

"Don't tell me to calm down! I will say what I want and when I want to! If the little bitch had enough guts to ask the questions then she has enough guts to take the answer," Patzie retaliated with.

Keira looked at Blossom, who was simply shocked, and then to Patzie who was extremely pissed and then back to Blossom. She repeated this cycle as Patzie continued to give Blossom a death glare.

Buttercup then said, "She's…dead?" This news explained a little of maybe why they were so distant maybe? But definitely didn't explain as to why they came off as abnormal.

Keito looked at her and smiled sadly, "My mother died too."