Everyone had their bags packed for their train ride to their next destination

Everyone had their bags packed for their train ride to their next destination."Where exactly are we going, Hatori?" Kisa asked.

"Well, Ayame and Shigure insist…that we go to Las Vegas." Hatori answered with a sigh.

"Vegas?! Oh, I hear that place is absolutely beautiful! So many lights! So many shows!" Tohru gleefully cheered.

"So many hookers…" Kyo murmured. Yuki responded by slapping the cat across the cheek with the back of his hand.

"Must you always have such a dirty mouth?"

"I'm just saying it because it's true!"

"Yes, well, I was hoping you'd notice there are young people here and you would hold that filthy tongue of yours." Yuki said crossing his arms.

"What's a hook-" Kisa's question was interrupted by Hiro's hand covering her mouth.

"It's a woman with no dignity who you should never have to come across in your entire life." Hiro explained in his own way.

"Oh, I am afraid it's too late for that, children. We have one in our very presence at this moment now!" Ayame said as he made pointing gestures to Rin.

"Hey! You want me to rearrange your face, you she-male?!" Rin exclaimed

"Just make sure Haru doesn't wear purple or else people are gonna be asking him how much you cost!" Shigure joined in on the teasing.

"SHUT UP!" Rin screamed as she chucked a tube of lipstick from her purse at Shigure. Haru just grabbed her waist and pulled her close to him and put his head on her shoulder to calm her down.

After the train ride was over, they headed over to their next hotel for the evening. They found it more convenient to just keep the same sleeping arrangements. As Hatori's half got into their rental car, Ritsu decided to turn on the radio. It was in the middle of a news bulletin about a 23-year old teacher who was caught having an affair with a 16-year-old student.

"How dishonorable. I can't think of anything more that disgust me." Hatori scoffed at the new report. Tohru just looked down at her lap and put her arms around her legs. Kyo noticed she looked a little upset, but he didn't see why. Then it hit him, her parents had been one of those cases of a student and teacher falling in love.

"Um, Hatori…" Kyo tried to stop the doctor.

"In a second, Kyo. I mean why would people stoop down to such a low level? Can't they just find people their own age?" Hatori finished his little rant, "Now what did you want, Kyo?"

"I'll tell you later."

Meanwhile, in Ayame's car, Shigure pointed out a little restaurant.

"Oh, look! That looks like a good place to eat." Shigure said pointing to a Chick-Fil-A. Haru looked out the window to see the big poster advertising the restaurant and made an uncomfortable face. Having cows misspell almost every other word did not sit well with him. Why must people always make cows seem so stupid? He hated it, and it was the kind of thing that set him off.

As they arrived at the hotel, Kyo marched straight over to Hatori.

"Hatori, Tohru's parents met when her dad was a student teacher at her mom's school. They got married after she left middle school when she was 15." Kyo explained as he whispered. Hatori's eyes lost all color and his cheeks turned bright red. How dare he just embarrass her like that?

"I'm so sorry…I…I didn't know." Hatori said as he walked away feeling like complete dirt.

Later that evening, Hatori sat in the chair in his hotel room trying to read the book he'd bought in LA, but he just couldn't get what he'd done off his mind.

"Hatori, where are you going?" Shigure asked when he saw his friend leaving for the door.

"I have to pick up something." Hatori answered.

"I'll go with you; I need to get something, too." Shigure said as he followed Hatori out to the car.

They drove to the nearest Hallmark, which they heard was the best place to get what they needed. Shigure found almost instantly what he needed, and took the time to spy on Hatori grabbing an apology card.

"What's this about, hm? What did you do that's so bad that your conscious couldn't take it anymore and forced you to run out here in the middle of the night and buy a card for it?" Shigure circled around Hatori.

"I…I insulted Tohru." Hatori murmured.

"WHAT?! How DARE you insult my precious flower! Seriously though, what did you do?" Shigure said.

"Well, to put it shortly, I said I hated student-teacher affairs, and her parents were one. What about you? What are you here for?" Hatori said as he picked out the card with a little puppy with huge eyes on the cover saying, "I'm Sowy."

"Well, I needed to pick up a postcard to update Akito on our trip." Shigure said.

"Oh, yeah , I still can't believe Akito allowed us to travel all the way to America."

"…"

"Shigure, please tell me Akito knows about this trip."

"Hatori, I swear to you, I informed Akito about our cross-country trip."

Meanwhile, back in Japan, Akito lay on the floor in her room listening to the birds chirping as she always did. Seriously, didn't she have any hobbies? Kureno sat in the corner like he normally did.

"I still can't believe you let them go on that trip." Kureno said. Akito turned and looked at him.

"I just decided to take a break from them. Give them some time to miss me. They're so going to be wishing they'd never left once they get back." Akito explained while a bird perched on her finger.

"But across the country?" Kureno asked.

"Look, Kureno, Japan, although a very crowded country is also a small country. It doesn't take long to travel across and back. They're probably already on their way back." Akito assured him.

Meanwhile, back in Las Vegas at the hotel, Haru lay in bed unable to go to sleep. He was still thinking vividly about that Chick-Fil-A poster with the cow and the sign that said "EAT MOR CHIKIN." It was really making him angry. He decided to calm his nerves by flipping through the magazine that Kisa had gotten. As he looked at all the American actors and actresses, he came across another Chick-Fil-A ad, but this one had a cow in a dress and wig and a shade of deep red lipstick on. That was it. His lid popped and Black Haru emerged into the dead of night. He marched out of the hotel and towards the nearest Chick-Fil-A about a few blocks away. There were people who noticed the black-and-white haired Asian kid breaking through the Chick-Fil-A window, but they were either too drunk or too stoned to do anything. This was Las Vegas at night after all.

As Haru crashed through the window he broke the legs of all the chairs and tables. He knocked over all the registers and jumped to the kitchen area. He ripped the door off the freezer and threw the frozen food items around everywhere. He crushed the deep fryer baskets and spilled cooking oil and grease all over the floor. He got a hold of all the condiments and smushed them all over the ground. Finally, he roundhouse-kicked the stove into the wall. As, he was about to sabotage the play place, he slipped on an open mustard packet and banged his head on the hard tile. He lay there out cold in a pool of mustard, mayonnaise and ketchup.