Chapter Two

I know that was a bad place to stop in the middle of but it was coming close for me as I wanted to have that up a little earlier to so I stopped there. This time I will not just randomly stop in the middle of something. It's out a little earlier than I planned so here's a little treat before the long weekend.

Konoe is getting the ice for Kureha who is now sitting down at the table know bouncing up and down knowing that Konoe is getting the ice for her. Jirou is just sitting at the table eating another instant ramen bowl waiting for Konoe to discus with him why was here this morning and why Suzutsuki called him this morning. Now that Kureha has her ice for her head they are all sitting at the table with both Jirou's and Kureha's eyes on Konoe.

Konoe with a little blush on her face from all the attention she's getting. She starts out by saying to the both of them in a very formal way, "good morning. How are you both doing this morning?"

Kureha right off the start with a big smile on her face says, "good morning, I'm doing well!" as the ice bag is starting to slip off her head.

Jirou just looks at her and says, "ahh yeah I'm doing good as well." With a little yawn "how are you doing?"

As soon as he asks that she looks down and says "I'm good."

He's about to ask another question when Kureha interrupts, "well I'm off brother."

"Huh where are you off to"

"I have plans with Usami and Narumi. We are supposed to meet up and go shopping to get ready for the summer vacation."

"Shopping for what?"

With a blush on her face as she's looking at Konoe "FOR THE SUMMER!" She's now running towards the door and leaves within seconds.

…..

"Well that's Kureha for you during the summer. She always says she's going to do things but never actually does tell me why she does anything." A little side tracked as it was from the conversation he then looks to Konoe while he realizes it's just the two of them and he has a little bluish on his face. Konoe has one too now after seeing his blush.

"So umm Konoe why exactly are you here anyways."

"I'm being punished"

"Huh? Punished for what?

"Because milady got hurt while under my care."

"But I thought that with all those signatures and everything Suzutsuki said to her father was enough to persuade him to make you her butler again, right?"

"Yes, she did and I'm gr-gr-grateful to you for your help with that as well, Jirou."

With an even bigger blush now "ye-yeah, you look happier when you are Suzutsuki's butler."

She now has an even bigger blush on her face as well. "So umm I need your help. I don't know who else to turn to…"

"Of course I told you I'll help you no matter what."

She has a smile on her face after hearing that, she takes a deep breath as she's about to explain everything. "Well as you know milady got hurt under my care, so I had to quit being a butler and live a normal life as a normal school girl. However since you all were trying your hardest to do everything you all could to get me back as Suzutsuki's butler her father let me go back in being a butler. There was a catch though… That catch was that I have to be able to live on my own for a month with no communication in anyway shape or form from Suzutsuki over the next summer. Also the only thing I was able to take from the mansion was the butler uniform I have on. With no nothing or anyone else to turn to, I decided to go and turn to you. Milady knew that I probably would turn to you so she was calling in advance to try and explain to you but obviously weren't listening. It was very risky calling you as if her father found out I wouldn't be able to be her butler. She risked it anyways to make sure that I would be taken care of regardless because I'm also not allowed to be back at the mansion either way. I also cannot let it known that I'm a girl to anyone as well." She stops talking for a minute to let Jirou take it all in. So she takes a couple sips of water from her glass on the table. While she was doing that Jirou is just sitting there with a look on his face that shows him trying to understand it all.

"So from what you've told me is that you have nothing but what you have brought with you?"

"Right"

"Meaning that you have nothing but that butler uniform and your wallet?"

"Looking at the ground …..no"

"Oh, so you have more than that? What else do you have?"

"All I have is my uniform and my I.D…."

"HUH?! So you have no cloths, no money, nothing?!"

"Yes I have nothing but my uniform sp stop asking"

"I'll be right back give me a few minutes."

"Hold on I'm not finished yet."

"There's more?"

"Yes I only stopped to make sure you were following me. But obviously you weren't paying attention since you had to ask me if I had anything other than this and keep asking if I had money."

"Yeah, sorry."

"The only things I have left to say aren't that important anyways, go do what you need to do go ahead and take care of business with whatever you need to."

"Alright if you say so"

He gets up from that table and instead of heading towards bathroom where she thought he was going. He starts heading toward the stairs and goes up there. He gets into his room opens his bottom drawer in his desk, moves a few books around and gets this small tin box which has a lock on it. He grabs it from his drawer, doesn't even put any of these things back the way it was let alone even close the drawer. He goes back down stairs and put the small box on the center of the table.

She looks at the box then looks back at him, "what's with the box?"

"That's a secret."

"Then why even bring it down."

"Because I will share this secret with you after I hear the rest of your story. Even though you said it wasn't important I still would like to hear it." He says as he looks at her with a worried face on.

She blushes a little "On-Only because you asked me." She takes a deep breath "Well, umm, I forget where I was at…"

"Well you were just saying about not being able to be found out that you were a girl."

"Yeah, I was, so you were listening. Well there isn't anything left about restrictions or reasons why."

"Then what else is left?"

"It's just me thanking you for taking me in for the month that I have to fend for me own. If Suzutsuki's father had said I couldn't stay with you I don't know where else I'd turn to. Also my father said I have let him know where I'm going to be at for the month, since he isn't allowed to help me out in any way shape or form."

"Wait your father has to be informed where you're going to be?!"

"Yeah, why?"

He turns his head from the table, looks away, and says very quietly under his breathe "He's going to kill me I'm going to die once this month is over, aren't I? Looks like I'll be seeing you dad once the month is over then."

"Jirou what did you say?"

"Nothing. Why exactly does he need to know?"

"Because he said 'so I can tell Suzutsuki's father where you are and who you're with.' I think that's what he said."

Jirou's face just turned white and started thinking. 'That's it, it's over dad. I'll be meeting you in the heaven's garden soon.'

"Are you ok, Jirou?'

Her saying that knocked him back into reality, "yeah that makes sense…"

"That's it there's nothing else that I have to tell you. So what's in the box? And why is there a lock on it?"

"I have a lock on the box because I keep emergency stuff in here that I don't want Kureha to get her hand on."

A huge blush comes across her face, a lot of "things" come across her mind of this and that. "Em-Em-Emergencyyy st-st-uffff!"

"Yeah in case it just happens"

"Just happens!?"

He takes the key from his pocket and the blush that was already on her face is getting even bigger than it was before. He unlocks the box and she talks a big gulp and starts mentally preparing herself. He opens the box and inside there was money, and a decent amount of it.

Author's Note:

I think this is a good way to end this one. I got this one out a little early since I had two hour plus ride home from ISU so be thankful for that everyone…or at least whoever is reading it and enjoying it anyways. I might get another chapter out by Monday night but no promises.

~Tonyjr3850~