"You!"

Yatsumi was enraged to find the last person she wanted to see near her. Ritsu looked embarrassed as he approached her with caution, "How are ya feelin? We tried the best we could ta bandage ya up without havin to take ya to the hospital."

Yatsumi gritted her teeth, disgusted at the blantant lies this insect sprouted, "We?! How did you even get in here? Everyone knows that the Sendos and the Kasanodas despise each other!"

Ritsu cocked his head, confused at the weird change of subject, "Uh, yeah? We do. What does that have ta do with anythin?"

"Well, what the Hell do ya think yer doin here at the Sendo estate?"

A long pause passed, before Kasanoda face planted on the floor. He picked himself up, his eyes bewildered at the accusation.

"Ex... Excuse me?"

Yatsumi gingerly stood up, smiling triumphently at the prospect of her mortal enemy getting what was due. "The Sendos... They own this place. Tetsuya himself said he was apart of them! Imagine what they'll do when they find you here..."

Ritsu sighed, this wasn't going anywhere near the way he planned. He opened the sliding door and called out to Tetsuya.

"Yes, young Lord?"

Yatsumi's jaw dropped. This Sendo... Did he just call Kasanoda his lord? She raised a trembling finger to Tetsuya, which caught the attention of both men in the room. "I... I don't get it... You're a Sendo! You should hate him! Why are you callin him your boss?"

Tetsuya gave a wary glance to Ritsu who jerked his head for him to answer. "Well, the young lord saved me. I am grateful to him and have sworn to stay by his side, watching him grow and become the fine leader he will be!"

Yatsumi lowered her gaze, just in shock of the absurdity of all of this. Tetsuya turned to his lord, "If that is all, young Lord?"

"Yeah. I'll let ya know if we need anything."

Tetsuya nodded and gave one final worried look to Yatsumi before exiting the room.

Yatsumi's mind was in a jumble and when she finally looked up, it was just her and Kasanoda alone in the room. She scooted away from him, knowing at this situation, she had no way of winning against him. "What now? Am I gonna get killed? Used as a hostage? I won't talk! Or tell ya where my family is! You're a disgusting piece of crap!"

Kasanoda frowned. He wasn't sure how to deal with Yatsu acting this way. "Calm down. I brought ya here cuz you were burning and and needed medical attention and Tetsuya is one of the few guys I can trust my life with. Please, I just wanna talk."

Yatsumi was wary of Kasanoda. For one, it was his organization's fault that both their families were at war with each other. Secondly, being civil was the last thing on her list of doing with Kasanoda. Unfortunately, she had no choice in the matter. Making sure to stay at least ten feet from him, she nodded at him to start his story. Kasanoda motioned for her to sit down and started, "Look, I don't know what your pop believes, but we didn't have anythin to do with messin up your guys' heist. There's no way it could have been one of us since we were already busy that day."

"Busy? Busy doin what?"

Kasanoda looked a bit embarrassed but took a deep breath. "We were havin our monthly Kick the Can tournament with the Host Club."

They sat across each other in silence. It felt like an eternity until Yatsumi broke the silence by laughing. It started out as a chuckle, and just escalated into full blown bursting out. Kasanoda stared, dumbfounded at the situation. He started to join along in the laugh until Yatsumi stopped suddenly. She turned to stare at him, rage evident in her burning eyes and slowly stood, looking down at him like he was nothing more than dirt on her shoes. "If you expect me to believe that story, then you must think I'm an idiot. Kick the can? That's the best excuse you can come up with? Really? Why should I believe you? Especially after last night when you messed me up! And to add salt to the wound, you bring me to your compound, knowing that this is the LEAST safe place for me!"

"Hey, you attacked me! I wasn't gonna take it like some grunt! If I had known you were a dame-" He stopped midsentence and clamped his hands over his mouth.

She stared at him, shock courseing through her. He couldn't have said what he just did. Then again... She looked herself over and realized she was in completely different clothes. EVerything finally clicked into place and she looked up to RItsu, who was trying his hardest not to look at her. "Did... did you change my clothes?"

"... Yeah, I did..."

"...So... you know..."

"... Yeah..."

Yatsumi sat in silence. He knew. Her rival knew she was actually a girl... He saw her without clothes on...

"... AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" She stood up, face flushed in shame and ran past Kasanoda. She bolted through the screen door, knocking out the guardmen on duty and taking out anyone in her way.

Kasanoda was frozen at the destruction that Yatsu had left behind. Tetsuya rushed into the room to protect Kasanoda from any harm, "Young lord! Are you ok? I heard the screams of everyone and came as soon as I could!"

Ritsu nodded, "Uh, yeah. Me and Yatsu were just havin a disagreement and... she's gone now."

Tetsuya let out a breath of relief and looked around the room. The screen door was broken, outside in the hall were a couple of members who were knocked out, and others were trying to figure out what had happened. He looked over to Ritsu who was deep in thought. He could only hope that with the current circumstances, that his young lord wasn't over his head. Although honestly... such a fire spirited woman would be just what he needed. He had faith that his lord would figure this all out.