Tsukushi opened her eyes and sat up. A cover that was keeping her warm fell off her body and she looked around the room. She immediately recognized the bare room with hardly anything in it. "You're up." a familiar voice echoed as Hanazawa Rui walked into the room with a warm cup of tea, "I was worried about you." She blinked and looked at Hanazawa. At first her mind wasn't registering what had happened earlier. Then suddenly it all came back and she stood up, "Hanazawa Rui! How could you play such a cruel trick on me! I understand Nishikado and Mimasaka, since this type of garbage is in their records! But you assisted them in this stupid trick!" Hanazawa smiled and placed the tea down and placed one of his hands on her head, "I'm glad you're ok." "Hanazawa Rui what exactly was the meaning of that whole retreat? Nishikado said that it would turn me into the best bride for Domyouji. How is stranding me in the middle of no-where going to make me a bride!"

RING RING Before Hanazawa could even give an answer his phone went off, "Hello? Oh it's you Akira...You can't find her? The whole area is flooded? I'll go over there shortly. Yeah, let's just hope she didn't die." -CLICK-

"Hanazawa Rui, what was the meaning of that?" Tsukushi asked as he placed his cell on the bed. "Akira and Soujirou have been searching for you since early this morning." "Eh? And you didn't tell them that I'm here?" "Bingo. It was their plan to place you there and not get you last night. So I think that they should have the fear of what Tsukasa will do to them. Of course, if anything happened to you and I didn't know about this, they would have to deal with my wrath. Yet my wrath isn't half as harsh as Tsukasa's."

"What if she died! Tsukasa will kill us!" Mimasaka panicked now sitting at a cafe with Nishikado. "That girl won't die." Nishikado responded when suddenly his cell rang. Nishikado picked up the cell phone and before he could even say hello, a yell was ringing in his ears. "SOUJIRO! MAKINO's NOT PICKING UP THE PHONE! WHERE IS SHE!" Nishikado looked at Mimasaka and took a deep breath, "Maybe... She turned her phone off." "BULLSHIT! I KEEP GETTING A MESSAGE ABOUT HOW THE USER IS..."

"Young master. You should be getting some sleep now instead of talking on the phone. Remember, you have a lot to accomplish..." "SHUT UP! THIS IS IMPORTANT!" Tsukasa yelled at the servant who entered his room in New York. The servant bowed, "I'm sorry." and then left the room. "Soujirou... just tell me where Makino is." Tsukasa sat down on his large bed lowering his voice. -CLICK- "That bastard hung up on me!"

"Thank you for saving me Hanazawa Rui." Tsukushi said as she bowed on her way out of the house. She started to walk to her part-time job when suddenly arms grabbed her from behind, "GOOD! YOU'RE NOT DEAD!" Tsukushi felt like she was going to suffocate, "HEY GET OFFA ME ASSHOLES!" Nishikado and Mimasaka let go of Tsukushi immediately, "You have no idea how worried we were." "We spent all morning searching for you." She glared at them, "Listen... I have to go to my part-time job now. Goodbye." The guys, now relieved then decided that they would go out somewhere.

Tsukushi continued to walk to her part-time job. She finally made it and walked inside the shop. "Hm? Yuki's not working today?"

Hanazawa Rui sat in his bed and started to watch the television. While flipping through channels, he caught the end of a cooking show. RING RING He picked up his phone and started to listen to who was on the phone, "Ok then." -CLICK- He walked to the dango shop and in front, he met Mimasaka and Nishikado. "So... what exactly is this master plan you two came up with?" Nishikado smirked, "It's a good one. You'll find out." Hanazawa looked at them; "I'm out. Not going through with whatever this is." "No Rui. You have to come." "Why?" Mimasaka then whispered in his ear their master plan and Hanazawa looked at him like he was crazy; "It's not going to work. You can't force this on them." "We'll see about that" Nishikado responded as he opened the door to the dango shop.

Tsukushi looked at Nishikado, "What now! Haven't you tortured me enough yet?" Nishikado smirked, "Don't worry Makino-san. I came only to make up for what happened earlier. Say that you'll come on a trip with us." Tsukushi tilted her head, "A trip? You think that I'm going to buy that after what happened? Plus, I have to work." "If you don't believe me, then you can invite anyone you want to come on the trip so that it's guaranteed that nothing will happen." By this time, Yuki walked into the dango shop, "Hi Tsukushi... Nishikado-san." Before Tsukushi could say anything Nishikado spoke, "Yuki-chan, how would you like to go on vacation with us?" Yuki's eyes glistened, "Oh really? I'd love to. But I can't afford it." "That's alright Yuki-chan. We're going to be treating." Tsukushi was upset with how things were going, "Absolutely not. I'm not going." Nishikado then looked at Yuki, "Well, Makino doesn't want to come, but you will come right?" Yuki smiled, "Of course! I'd love to go." "Eh... Yuki..." Tsukushi started but stopped.

Mimasaka now walked into the dango shop, "Soujirou... is she coming?" "Makino-san? She disagreed. However, Yuki-chan is going to come along with us." "I'm surprised that Makino-san isn't going to come. I just spoke with her family and they all agreed that they would go on the vacation." Tsukushi started to tense up; "Of course they're going to say yes! They would go on any vacation if it's free!" Hanazawa then walked in, "I guess I'll be going. Kazuya, Sakurako, and Shigeru all said that they'd come as well." The three guys then spoke in unison, "So everyone's going but Makino." Yuki smiled, "So when are we leaving?" Nishikado responded, "This Saturday. It's going to be the best trip yet."

After work, Tsukushi walked home. When she arrived, her entire family was packing luggage of whatever they found in the house. "Eh! What are you three doing?" Susumu answered, "We're packing, what does it look like?" "I realize that, but WHY?" Mama and Papa then smiled, "Oh Tsukushi! Isn't it wonderful! Mimasaka-san invited the whole family to go on a trip with him and your other friends! This is just what we all need!" Tsukushi looked down then she grabbed her phone and called Nishikado, "Fine... I'll go."

Nishikado hung up the phone and smiled, "She's in everyone."