The raven led the way into his apartment full of purpose. Tsuki followed hesitantly, still not sure if he had made the right choice in coming with the strange man. Tsuki threw his jacket on his desk and yanked his shoes off gruffly.

"Home sweet home," the raven growled to himself.

Tsuki took his shoes off slowly and looked around. The apartment was insane! It was bigger than any of Tsuki's friend's places, had an amazing security system, looked spotless, and generally seemed like an apartment an actor would be living in.

"This is the spare bedroom," the raven said to Tsuki, cutting off his admiration.

Tsuki had to hurry over to where the man was standing in a doorway. This room was bigger than Tsuki's apartment, and definitely seemed more comfortable. The bed was queen-sized, there was also a couch that looked more relaxing than Tsuki's bed back home, a dresser big enough to hold two of Tsuki's and was just as perfect looking as the rest of the place.

"Wow!" Tsuki allowed himself. "Your place is amazing!"

The raven didn't acknowledge the compliment and left to go to the kitchen. Tsuki followed and watched the shorter man take food out to start cooking.

"I can do that!" Tsuki offered hurriedly running to the man's side. "It's the least I could do!"

The man eyed him and said, "No. I don't let other people cook for me."

Tsuki nodded and stepped back. As he watched the man work he said, "I still don't know your name..."

"Orihara," the raven said shortly.

"What about your first name?"

"I was unaware that we were on first name basis."

Tsuki hesitated. "But I don't like calling anyone by their last names... It seems so formal and impersonal…."

"Hachimenroppi," the man said quietly. "Hachimenroppi Orihara."

Tsuki brightened and grinned, knowing the man couldn't see it. "Can I call you Roppi-san then?"

"No."

"Aw, but you call me Tsuki…."

"Because you asked me to on our way here."

"Please?"

There was no reply as Roppi finished cooking. He took food for himself and went to sit down at his table. Tsuki had figured that he'd have to cook for himself but was pleasantly surprised at having been left half of the food Tsuki had made. He took it and joined Roppi happily.

The raven didn't look at him. Instead he seemed preoccupied with three of his phones. He had taken them out and was messaging people with two of them while reading a message on the third and eating.

"How can I pay you back for letting me stay here?" Tsuki asked after a long time had passed in complete silence.

"You're going to work for me, obviously," Roppi said without looking at him.

"But what would you like me to do?" Tsuki clarified, glad that they were talking again.

"By doing anything and everything I want you to," the raven said, raising an eyebrow at him as if expecting an objection. "I do not have anything for you to do at this very moment, but I am going out for some business."

He got up and moved to his desk. He yanked his jacket back on, pushing many papers off the desk and onto the floor as he did, and went back to the entrance.

"Oh," Roppi said after putting his shoes on but before leaving the apartment. "I fired my maid this morning, so there should be no one at the door besides me. If you let anyone in, even one of your stupid friends, or even talk to someone to let them know you're here, then you'll wish you had been burned along with your apartment."

He left on that pleasant note and Tsuki stared at the door as his footsteps faded away.

Tsuki spent the next half hour looking around the apartment. It all lived up to his expectations of perfection, except Roppi's bedroom was locked and so Tsuki was unable to see inside. But after those thirty minutes came and went, the time quickly slowed to a crawl as Tsuki waited for Roppi to return.

Roppi didn't have a TV or anything else to pass the time in his apartment. He obviously wasn't home very much. Tsuki didn't dare trying to get onto his computer but tried to think of something else to pass the time.

The lack of something distracting to occupy his thoughts made Tsuki think back to why he was in the strange apartment in the first place. Now he was completely broke, jobless due to losing his messenger bag, entirely reliant on his friends and Roppi-san, and 100% destitute. He shook his head to rid it of depressing thoughts and continued searching for something to concentrate on.

Eventually Tsuki's wandering eyes found the mess Roppi had made by his desk. The raven hadn't put his food stuff away either, but Tsuki had already cleared away that after finishing his own meal. Finally finding something to do, Tsuki began cleaning the apartment.

There was a surprising amount to do, having appeared perfect on first inspection: all of the high places needed dusting, dirty dishes had been hidden in a cupboard, dirt had accumulated under the rugs from likely being swept there, and the couches needed to be cleaned under the cushions. Roppi probably didn't notice since he had a maid doing all of it for him, but his maid must have been awfully lazy to do such a patchy job.

Roppi returned three hours later carrying some takeout with him.

"Welcome home!" Tsuki said cheerfully when he came to greet the other man.

Late, Roppi replied, "I'm back." He took his shoes off and threw them down before stomping to his computer where he paused. "You cleaned," he stated blankly.

Tsuki had moved to straighten Roppi's shoes and nodded. "Yep. Your maid must have been very lazy, so I just passed the time cleaning." Then he realized what Roppi must mean. "Oh! Was I not supposed to?! I didn't move anything or look at anything I'm not supposed to!"

Roppi fixed a look on him. Then he lifted an eyebrow and said, "You did surprising well."

Tsuki was taken aback by the praise. "You're not mad?" he asked for clarification.

Roppi glanced at his desk. "I hate maids who don't clean everything exactly as I want."

Tsuki smiled. "Then let me be the maid while you let me stay here. It's the least I can do."

Roppi nodded and then sat down at his desk, going straight to work.