Hello! The next chapter is up, and boy is Shinku taking this to the next level :) I had fun making her do unspeakable things...mwahahaha...though that means that I've had to up the rating a bit ;P

Enjoy!

When You Wind the Wrong Way

Chapter Four

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The silence blanketed the air around them. It was an expectant silence in an awkward kind of way, the sort that descends on those who are waiting for some sort of significant event to occur. And yet it could not be said that the party gathered at noon, seated at the Sakurada family dinner table, actually knew what it was exactly they were anticipating.

Hinaichigo shifted in her seat, being the youngest and most fidgety, and Nori lay a hand on the little doll's arm as if to hold her still. The air changed, and the object of their collective attention noticed it. Shinku looked up from her cup of tea.

"What?" She looked around at all of them, and then (of course) directed her full attention to Jun. "What is it, Junjun?"

Suiseiseki snickered, Suigintou snorted into her cake, and Tomoe coughed rather loudly as Jun choked midway through a sip of black tea.

"Wh-what did you call me?"

Shinku snuggled up next to him, wrapping both her arms around one of his, her face in a dreamy expression he would never had been able to lay eyes upon had she been functioning normally.

"I said…what's wrong, Junjun?" She batted her eyelashes coyly at him, causing him to start choking again. Opposite him, Suiseiseki ducked underneath the table, stuffing both fists and the entire slice of cake in her mouth in an effort to stifle the peals of laughter that threatened to burst out. Suigintou's eyebrow twitched and she looked pointedly away from Jun, instead stabbing at the strawberries on her plate with a ferocity that terrified Hinaichigo stiff beside her.

Jun glared at Souseiseki across the table, but the doll merely gave a tiny nod of her head and busied herself with her own plate. Tomoe too, gave Jun an encouraging half-smile and quickly returned to her own food. Jun sighed. He'd just been practically abandoned, left alone to the mercy of a (literally) love-sick Shinku.

"Umm…ah…Shinku?"

"Yeees, Junjun?" She giggled girlishly.

Oh god. That nickname…

"Um…could you not call me that?"

Shinku frowned.

"But don't you think it's cute~?"

"Er…" Jun debated whether or not to be honest with her here, but Souseiseki glanced sharply up at him.

"Ahem." She raised an eyebrow.

"Ahh…on second thoughts, Junjun's just fine."

"Oh, Junjun, you're so cuute~!"

Jun winced at her sickly sweet voice, but forced himself to push on.

"Ah, Shinku, aren't you going to drink any of that tea?"

"Hmmm…" The blonde seemed to pretend to ponder this suggestion for a few moments. A cheeky smile spread across her lips, accompanied by a mischievous twinkle in her eye that gave him a terrible sense of foreboding.

"Maybe…" she stood up on her chair over him, and leaned in close, tilting his chin up with a finger, the tea cup held in her other hand. "Perhaps, I might…if we went...mouth-to-mouth…"

HOLY CRAP! Jun's silent and incoherent screams echoed throughout the traumatised chambers of his mind.

The others' reaction to Shinku's bold proposition was both simultaneous and spectacular. Souseiseki choked on a slice of cake. Suigintou stabbed her fork right through a strawberry, her plate and the table. Tomoe spat out the tea she had been drinking whilst Suiseiseki had lost all self control and was now cracking up so hard there were tears streaming down her face and she was clutching her stomach in pain. Nori screamed with something like delight and managed to knock both Kanaria and Hinaichigo right off their seats.

"N-never mind…if you don't want the tea, you d-don't have to drink it…" Having recovered his ability of speech, Jun was still a mental mess as he stood quickly and stepped away from the table, trembling. Shinku pouted, looking disappointed. Souseiseki sighed. Operation 'Tea' had failed, or so it seemed. Unexpectedly, Suigintou managed to give them a small opportunity.

"Shinku, how could you refuse the tea that Jun went to all the trouble of brewing just for you? He poured all of his feelings into it." The silver doll's voice was deceptively sweet, as always, but Shinku was, in her current state, gullible and innocent enough to be fooled. Her eyes widened, and gasped.

"Oh, Junjun, I'll savour every single drop of this black tea that's full of your love!" She downed it in one gulp. They watched.

Shinku lowered her cup and set it down on the table.

They waited.

Nothing.

Shinku merely flicked a strand of hair out of her face and continued making goo-goo eyes at Jun, who had backed away against the wall, still wide-eyed and quivering with her damaging attack on his already fragile sanity.

"Ummm….Jun, won't you come back to the table? We're having flower-topped hamburger for lunch." Nori cast a worried look over at her brother. He slipped awkwardly back into his seat. Shinku wasted no time in trying to cuddle up to him once again.

Souseiseki sighed and wiped the sweat off her forehead. Getting Shinku back to normal was proving to be exceedingly tiring. Her sister was being more persistent and more forward with Jun than she's expected. But then, Shinku had always been something of an enigma, even among the Rozen Maiden. Even now, she'd shocked everyone with her daring behaviour.

"Oh, Juuuun…" Shinku sang as she cut a piece of hamburger. He noticed with what remaining functional part of his brain he had that even when wound the wrong way, Shinku managed to carry out even the simplest of tasks, such as cutting her meat with a knife and fork, with the grace befitting the lady she usually prided herself on being. The doll waved her piece of perfectly cut hamburger in front of his face.

Don't tell me…

"Say 'ahhhh', Junjun…"

Holy crap, I'm screwed…

His body tensed up, and he couldn't move. He was rooted to the spot. Once again, the others around the table stopped and watched with a kind of horrified fascination without making a single move to save Jun from his predicament.

I'm screwed, I'm screwed, I'm screwed, I'm screwed…

He stared as the fork moved towards him. He could have sworn that it veered slightly to the right at the last moment, and planted the hamburger not on his lips, but on his cheek. Shinku pulled it away and whilst her eyebrows were raised with surprise, her glittering eyes and wicked smile told otherwise. Still looking mock-astonished, the blonde pointed at Jun's cheek.

"Oh my, Jun, it seems you have some sauce on your face right there." She leaned in right up against his face, and her eyes narrowed ever so slightly, her smile grew even more playfully naughty.

"Sh-Shinku…" Jun stuttered, desperately trying to escape from the inevitable fate that awaited him. He groped around the table for a tissue, a handkerchief, anything…

"Don't worry, I'll get it off for you…I'll clean it off…" Shinku ran her tongue over her lips saucily, and before Jun could do anything else, she had delicately licked the hamburger sauce clean off his cheek.

HOLY SH - #$&*Q$#! &#^%!*(!*#&&^$%$#!

His sanity had officially just parachuted out the window and boarded a jet plane to Namibia.

Goodbye, Jun's Last Shreds Of Innocence. Hello, Mentally-scarred-for-eternity Jun.

The others at the table couldn't even move. They just sat, like statues of stone, each one with the same expression of complete and utter shock. In fact, 'shock' was probably an understatement as to describing the silence that had descended upon the dinner table. The absolute astonishment transcended mere words – it simply could not be expressed in them. They were astounded, flabbergasted, gobsmacked, stunned, dazed, dumbfounded…if all those words were combined together, it wouldn't even be enough to capture the mind-numbing experience they (with the exception of Shinku, who was thoroughly enjoying herself, of course) were all immersed in.

The stunned silence was broken by a muffled thump as Jun fell backwards off his chair. Souseiseki and Suigintou were the first to shake off their shock and regain their senses.

"Shinku…I don't know…what to say…"

Suigintou floated over Jun's limp body, lying on the floor. She nudged him rather distastefully with her toe.

"It seems that was too much for the weak, pathetic medium. He's fainted."

"SHE JUST LICKED HIS FACE DESU!" Suiseiseki screamed, grabbing Souseiseki and shaking her twin furiously.

"Wahhhhhh! Stop thaaaat!"

"Shinku licked Jun nano!" Hinaichigo, though not quite understanding the situation, didn't want to be left out.

"Somehow that scares me, kashira…" Kanaria was staring at Shinku as if seeing her for the very first time. "I don't think I'll ever look at her quite the same way again."

Shinku herself was completely oblivious to the commotion surrounding her and was instead kneeling beside the unconscious Jun.

"Ahhh, looks like I'll have to do mouth-to-mouth CPR…don't worry Jun, I'll revive you with my kiss of life…"

Miraculously then, he sat up suddenly, and yelled.

"THAT WON'T BE NECESSARY, THANK YOU!" He was panting, looking slightly crazed with his glasses hanging crooked, his eyes round and wide, his cheeks flushed and hair sticking out at odd angles. His face was the colour of a beetroot.

"Oh Jun, that was soooo hot and romantic! Shinku's going to steal your first kiss!" Nori had both hands clutched to her chest, eyes shining. Jun blushed even harder, surprised he didn't set the carpet aflame.

"Heehee…pretty soon you're brain's going to malfunction from overheating." Suiseiseki chortled, having gotten over the worst of her shock, and wasting no time in teasing Jun about this latest development. "Oh wait, sorry. You're brain's already defective, desu."

"Juuunnnn…" Shinku drawled slyly, sending shivers down his spine as she dug her fingers into his hand. She just hated being ignored. "You taste so yummy~"

Tomoe's eyes almost popped out of her skull.

"S-scandalous…" she murmured.

"It seems Shinku's become more daring," Suigintou observed drily. She leered nastily at Jun. "Having fun, you poor fool?"

"Jun, you taste so delicious I want to nibble on your ear…" Shinku continued as if nothing had happened, eagerly advancing on her medium. He gave a strangled cry and tried to scramble to his feet, but his legs weren't listening to him and stubbornly remained in their state of jelly-like trauma. He flopped back onto the ground.

"SOUSEISEKI!"

"I'm sorry, Jun. It's much worse than I thought. Shinku's always been strong…"

"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?"

"Just please, Jun, put up with it a bit longer."

"WHAT?"

"Fight on, chibi, desu!" Suiseiseki cackled gleefully.

"Don't worry; she's just going to nibble your ear a bit." Suigintou laughed unpleasantly. "I'm almost jealous of you, medium. Almost."

"Ahhh, Shinku's going to eat you up, Jun!"

"So dirty, kashira!"

Hinaichigo and Kanaria were about as helpful as Souseiseki.

"Scandalous!" Tomoe looked horrified.

"Kyyyaaaaa!" Nori looked excited.

"Sh-Shinku!" Jun felt his back collide against the wall. He had nowhere to run. He was completely cornered. Souseiseki bowed her head.

"I'm sorry, Jun."

Shinku was smiling wickedly. She slowly moved around behind Jun and slipped her dainty arms around his neck. Once again, his body and rational mind shut down. He was paralysed. He barely registered the long blonde curls falling around his shoulder, brushing lightly against his cheek.

Her breath fanned the back of his neck, her arms tightened around his chest…

Her lips brushed against the top of his ear...

And then…

Hahaha...sorry, but I'm going to have to stop it right there, before things get too graphical...XD

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