"Yuki? Yuki, are you alright?" Akito gently poked him as Yuki finally came to.
"I don't know…GAH!" Yuki shouted as he rubbed his eyes after looking at Akito.
"What is it? What's wrong?" Akito asked worriedly.
"Nothing…Please…don't worry…about it." Yuki struggled to say as he stared at Akito. First of all, apparently he was actually a she, said the two growths on her chest which he could now see. Also, Akito was wearing some yellow halter midriff exposing her stomach and some red sweat pants. Finally, there was the dramatic make up and big dangling earrings
"Oh, if you're okay then, you want to play a round of DDR?" Akito asked sweetly.
"N-No thank you." Yuki stuttered as he tried to stand up again.
"Alrighty then, if you say so!" Akito shrugged and went back to her dance mat.
"You…you had the cake yesterday?" Yuki asked a sweat poured down from his head.
"You mean Tohru's cake? Yes, and it was delicious! She's a very talented girl, also she's really pretty. Why haven't you asked her out yet, Yuki?" Akito asked teasingly as she talked and played DDR at the same time. Yuki thought about this critically. Akito has no problem with her zodiacs dating anymore. We can talk about our girlfriends and he, I mean she, won't get upset. The thing is…will she remember it? Will anyone remember any of this? He excused himself for a minute to ask Haru.
"Haru? Is Akito going to remember anything when he gets better?"
"No."
"You swear?"
"Cross my heart and hope to die."
"Alright, thank you." So Yuki went back to Akito's room and answered her question.
"Actually no, and I never really plan on taking Ms. Honda on a date." Yuki said and made Akito stop in her tracks. She paused the game and rushed over to Yuki.
"Why not?! Did something happen between you two? Did you two get into a fight?" Akito interrogated as she was interested in this topic.
"Well, we did get into a fight this morning, but I'm sure she just had some food poisoning. The reason why is because I adore another girl." Yuki confessed.
"Who?! Tell me! Tell me!" Akito jumped up down as excited as a teenage gossip queen.
"Her name is Machi."
"Oh, that's such a pretty name! Is she good-looking?"
"She's beautiful, and I feel we really understand each other."
"Aw, how romantic! I love a good romance! Which reminds me, Shigure gave me a wonderful romance novel for my birthday! I still have to thank him…Oh, anyway, back to Machi. How do you know her?
"She's on the student council with me."
"Oh, so you see her, like, everyday?"
"Yes."
"Does she know you like her?"
"Um, I think I've given some hints."
"Like how?"
"I gave her a leaf, a mogeta, and I almost kissed her once."
"Almost?"
"A cell phone interrupted us."
"Is that so? Well next time, you should leave a giant bouquet of roses on her desk! And then when she walks into the room, you should plant a big wet smooch on her!"
"Um, thanks, I'll give it a try." Yuki muttered. Yuki didn't know what was scarier, regular Akito or the new happy, dancing, dating advice-giving one.
"Knock knock!" came a voice from outside the room.
"Come in." Akito called out. The door slid open, and a middle-aged woman with long, flowing raven hair rushed in and gave Akito a giant bear hug.
"Honey! How are you doing, my darling baby girl?! Oh, you're growing more beautiful every day!" The woman, who Yuki finally recognized as Ren, Akito's (doting for now) mother.
"Only because I look like you, Momma!" Akito embraced her mother like a toddler. Anyone else would see this as a touching mother-daughter scene, but this was the most frightening thing Yuki had ever encountered. He didn't pass out again, but he did need to sit down on the floor now.
"Oh, you're playing DDR? Can I join you?" Ren beamed.
"Sure you can!" Akito exclaimed as she plugged in the second dance mat. Suddenly, Ren noticed Yuki sitting on the floor.
"Oh, would you look at that? Its little Yuki! Get up so I can look at you. Aw, you're growing to be such a handsome man." She praised.
"Thank…you." Yuki muttered as his throat was becoming dry and shriveling. He just sat there lightheaded while Ren and Akito battled it out on DDR. Just when he thought things couldn't get any weirder, Rin walked in.
"Akki! The cookies are done!" She called as she walked into the room. Yuki's eyes bulged once more as he watched Rin stroll right in. The normally scantily-clad girl was wearing a neatly buttoned pink blouse with a long blue skirt and had her hair tied in a bun! He almost refused to believe it was Isuzu.
"Ah, Ren! It's so nice to see you!" Rin smiled.
"Isuzu! Oh, please, I absolutely must apologize for that hair incident. It was so dastardly of me!"
"All is forgiven. I like having it short now anyway!"
"Yay! The cookies are done!" Akito cheered as she bit into one of Rin's cookies.
"Would you like one, Yuki?" Rin offered.
"Um, no thank you…" Yuki mumbled.
The three ladies and Yuki sat down around the table and enjoyed some tea and cookies as Rin, Akito, and Ren had one of those womanly chatter sessions. Yuki did not think the situation could get anymore ironic. A couple days ago, these three would be holding knives to each other's throats! Now they were just chatting as if they had been friends for years.
"Akito, I was wondering, where is Kureno? I had expected to see him around you." Rin asked.
"Oh, I'm not sure actually." Akito tapped her head to think.
"You don't know?!" Yuki asked surprised.
"He took off this morning. I think he said he was just going sight-seeing or something. He didn't say when he'd come back." Akito explained.
"You let him go off and you don't even know where he is." Yuki said not believing that Akito would EVER let go of him.
"What? He's a grown man. He can take care of himself." Akito said as she took another sip of tea. Ok, I'm not getting any help here. Who else might know? I need to think backwards for this. Ok, who is the last person I'd ever go to for advice?
"Akito, do you know where Ayame is?" Yuki asked.
"Yeah, he and Ritsu went to the gym." Akito answered as she took a bite out of her cookie.
"The…gym?!"
