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The doorbell rang as Nori rushed to answer it. A man with curly, dark brown hair and a woman with long, light brown hair stood at the doorway. "Nori!" They cried as they trapped Nori in a bear hug.

"Jun-kun!" Nori called. Jun was upstairs, "arranging" the dolls. Shinku and Hina Ichigo sat on Jun's bookshelf; their heads bent low and their eyes closed as if they were asleep. Suisei Seki lay in her box on her back with her eyes closed, also pretending to be asleep.

"I'll bring tea to this room every day," he told the seemingly inanimate dolls.

"What about unyuu?" Hina Ichigo asked, barely moving her lips.

"Shut up!" Jun snapped.

"Jun-kun!" Nori called.

"Coming Nori!" Jun faced Hina Ichigo. "I'll bring some after my parents leave. I promise. I'll be back at night and don't move." Jun closed the door to his room as he walked downstairs.

"Jun!" his parents cried as they trapped him in a bear hug halfway down the stairs. "How have you been?" his father asked.

"Can we see your room?" his mother asked.

"Don't bombard him with such questions, Yuki."

"He's our son, Haru. I can ask him anything I want! So, Jun, will you show me your room?"

"Uh…" Jun prayed that the dolls would have stayed where they were and remained "inanimate". "Sure! It's kind of messy though." Not a lie. Jun led Yuki and Haru up to his room. Thankfully, Shinku, Hina Ichigo, and Suisei Seki hadn't moved.

"Isn't that nice?" Haru asked Yuki. "Jun still has a liking for dolls!" Haru walked toward Suisei Seki's box while Yuki picked up Hina Ichigo. "Where did you get this? It's so well-made!" Jun laughed nervously.

"I… er… I won them as a prize!" Not completely a lie.

"Do they have names?" Nori stumbled into the room.

"Of course!" she chirped. "This one's Shinku… the one next to her is Hina Ichigo… and the one in the box is Suisei Seki." The complete, total truth. "The names sort of came with the dolls, though."

"They certainly look very nice," Yuki said. "We'll go downstairs and get dinner ready."

"Ah, I'll get dinner ready!" Nori protested. Haru chuckled.

"It's our treat! It must have been hard cooking for all these years. We'll just carry the burden of cooking while we're here. It's the least we can do to pay you back for taking care of Jun." Nori thanked them as they exited the room, closing the door behind them. Jun and Nori simultaneously sighed in relief as Shinku slightly opened her eyes.



"Are they gone?" she asked. Jun nodded in relief.

"Shinku-chan, I'll bring you dinner after Mom and Dad go to bed," Nori told her.

"What happened to the unyuu?" Hina Ichigo asked.

"What will happen if Kanaria visits?" Suisei Seki asked.

"Shut up!" Jun snapped a little louder than intended. All went quiet for a few seconds.

"Jun?" Yuki called from downstairs. Shinku, Hina Ichigo, and Suisei Seki immediately shut their eyes. Jun and Nori froze. "What was that?"

"I was arguing with Nori," he told them shakily. "We settled it. Everything's fine."

"Good!" He and Nori once again sighed in relief.

XX

Jun's parents have arrived! I mentioned that there would be slight JunxTomoe. That will appear in the next chapter. I'll find some way to squeeze Suigin Tou into this too. PLEASE REVIEW!