Thank you for getting this far in the story. I've gotten a little more time on my hands so I'm going to focus a little more on the story and make sure every detail on point. Now that things have heated up its time to add some spice to it. I hope that got you going because now is the time where it all will be twisted and make you sit on the edge of your seat. Are you ready? Well here we go. (A Special happy birthday wish to my beta Andreas. Without him the story would not have be improved.
-Chapter 7- Chaos thy Name is...everything?
Morning had come and Keitaro was back in his room sleeping. Unlike him, the girls of the house were not that lucky. Motoko and Kitsune were dragged out of bed to the kitchen, not for breakfast, but to be interrogated by the other three girls of the house.
Su was bouncing off the walls in her pajamas looking for food, while Naru stood across the table from Motoko and Kitsune. Shinobu was at the stove making food for everyone. Naru stood authoritatively in her pajamas."Ok! What the hell happened last night!" she said in a stern voice, leaning over a little to get on eye-to-eye level with the two girls.
Kitsune and Motoko fidgeted, not being eager to tell the whole story except the parts that didn't involve their newfound feelings for the inn manager.
Motoko still had to wipe some sleep off her eyes. She unenthusiastically replied "We just went out and tried to help Keitaro relax a little.", while trying to play their date down. Kitsune nodded in agreement, for once unable to find the right words to smooth over the situation. They did not look their best either for the day. The short haired fox had badly muffled hair that displayed her in an unusual chaotic style and wore only a very revealing tank-top and shorts. Motoko was a little more composed than Kitsune. She wore a robe and her night shade hair was pulled into a pony tail.
Naru shook her heard knowing there was more to the story "No. Helping him relax would be taking him to a Spa. First I get a call from my art teacher stating that he is a connoisseur of art and that she invited him to her next show! Then I here that he was one of the guitarists for a world known band Three Days Grace for a night!" She slammed her hand on the table looking at them frustrated with the extravagant events that had happened that night. Then this morning we have a parade of women and paparazzi looking for this place just after sunrise!".
Kitsune and Motoko shrank in their chairs at Naru's reaction, knowing that if worst comes to worst they would have a stampede of people trying get Keitaro for their own use. After both of them had proclaimed their love for him last night that was the last thing they wanted.
Kitsune finally spoke up "It's not like we did it on purpose, it just sort of happened naturally." hoping the explanation would calm down the fiery red head. Naru rolled her eyes and turned away from both girls, frustrated with what had happened. The conversation had stopped and Shinobu served the food for the girls when Kanako entered and sat down at the table. Everyone looked at her for a second but turned back to their food, eating quietly, afraid to speak in front of Keitaro's ghastly sister.
Kanako cleared her throat, making everyone look at her once again. "Today girls, you will be cleaning top to bottom." She looked at each one blankly not showing any emotion towards them.
Kanako was angry at all the girls for trying to take her brother once again from her. She would even defy his request, if for the only reason to protect him. Shinobu nodded while everyone started to spark their debate. Kitsune started by saying "I just woke up. I went out last night." This set off a jolt of jealousy in Kanako that only infuriated her even more "What you did last night does not save you from your duties here as of now."
The raven haired samurai growled, aching to use her blade but held herself back since it was Keitaro's sister. Su on the other hand frowned "Aws, but I wanted to play with Keitaro today. I had a new toy too!" Her statement was followed by a shovel full of food into her mouth. Everyone except Kanako jumped at the blonde teens comment. They had known from previous experiences that her form of play and toys came down to injuries and and heavey structural damages on the Hinata House.
Naru in that statement changed sides of the argument "Maybe we should clean. It's the least we could do for Keitaro. Since he got here, no one except for Shinobu and him has done a lick of cleaning." Shinobu nodded quietly, not wanting to argue or fight with anyone. With reluctance everyone stood up and started cleaning.
Shinobu focused on the kitchen since she was in there the most during her free time. The others decided where and what they would clean.
Kitsune grumbled in annoyance as she scrubbed the second floor, whispering to herself "I thought Keitaro said I didn't have to do this?" Kanako stood behind Kitsune ominously with a growling voice "What did you say?" Kitsune jumped a little scrubbing the floor furiously "Nothing! Nothing! Nothing at all!"
Kanako smiled "That's what I thought." and walked away ready to give the other resident cleaners a hard time.
Su was running around in her room tossing random machinery around trying to clean out her forest-like area. Kanako walked in on the hyperactive girl and yelled at the top of her lungs "What the hell is this! Clean out this room now!"
Su couldn't avoid scowling listening to her screams. She stoppedher bounces across the room "Ok, sorry" Su's usually happy face didn't leave any hints of its existence, usually her always happy demeanor was only affected when she encountered any issues with her brother in Molmol. She was even unable to understand her own reaction, as why she was so affected by Kanako's threats and mean behavior. Was it fear of losing Keitaro? As a playmate? Or was there something else?
Kanako smiled triumphantly as she reached her goal of hurting another resident's feelings. She then dashed from Su's room to Motoko's, ready to get to her, too. She stepped into a seemingly spotless room. Kanako was displeased at the scene, the whole reason she was doing this was to get rid of the girls and hence her competition in one swoop,. A thought came to her head as she walked over to the samurai suite of armor against the front wall of the room.
She smiledviciously as Motoko walked into the room. Motoko raised an eyebrow wondering what Kanako was doing. "Kanako? What are you doing? My room is clean. I made sure of it." She still had the small lingering hope that Kanako would for once leave without much of a fight. However, luck was not on her side this time. Kanako smiled walking over to the walls of Motoko's room examining the scrolls she had on the walls. "My these scrolls are quite old and dingy." Kanako said waiting for Motoko to reply. Motoko scowled at her retorting "Yes they are, they have been in my family for generations." Kanako then looked at the samurai seriously "Take them down, they are a eye sore to this whole room."
The proud women stuttered at the command "B..b..but, those scrolls are a symbol of my heritage and honor." Kanako shook her head "Then leave. Either you take them down or you can leave this Inn today. Whatever solution you choose is fine with me."
She walked past Motoko and stopped just before the door not saying a word, knowing that statement alone would set the samurai woman off. She hoped and expected Motoko to attack her for insulting Motoko's honor, giving her a reason to throw Motoko's ass on the street in one fatal swoop. Kanako grinned at the idea as she waited for the infuriated samurai to attack, but she waited in vain. Kanako rolled her eyes knowing the proud samurai wanted to attack, but her honor forbade her from attacking the innocent. It did not matter how lucid the tongue, Motoko could not attack her.
Kanako turned around to see that the raven haired samurai was cleaning the armor with a white clothe. She glared at the cleaning woman angry that her plan did not give her the results she wanted. Kanako walked out the room slamming the door behind her off to find her next target. She then found Naru cleaning the windows of the hallway. Kanako smiled thinking to herself, "Three down, two more to go."
She casually walked over to Naru ready to push the auburn beauty over the edge. "Nice job cleaning the windows, except for one thing." Naru looked at her questioningly dressed in a odd array of cleaning clothes. She was the only one properly dressed for the job at hand. Naru had her hair in a pony tail, with a lank gray t-shirt, and shorts on.
Kanako smiled inwardly. She was ready to break the woman that broke her brother.
"Well the inside is clean, but the outside just doesn't seem to be as well." Naru looked at Kanako still not understanding what she was saying. Kanako sighed "Clean the outside as well or you are done for, and I mean gone from the house." Naru's eyes widened at the statement "B..bu..but" Kanako stopped her before Naru could even start "No buts, no arguments, its either do it or go." Kanako turned around, unable to hold back the smile knowing that the proud auburn haired girl would never do it.
Kanako started to walk as Naru spoke "Ok, I'm going. I'll use the hose." Kanako spun around and shot her words quickly "No! They must be hand washed!" Naru opened her mouth to speak but again Kanako cut her off "If I correctly recall a year or so ago you told my brother do the same. All he had was a support line which broke and he fell. You had no problems then, so there should be no problems now."
Naru froze at the comment, falling silent. She then walked down the hall making Kanako smile big not holding back at all. Kanako's smile fell in a crash as Naru came back with a rope in hand stepping out one of the openings in the window.
Kanako fumed screaming "YOU BETTER HAVE IT SPOTLESS BY THE TIME I GET BACK!" she stomped off, angrier then she had been in her whole entire life.
There was only one person left and Kanako was going to let it all go towards her. Unknowingly Shinobu was cleaning the deck at the top of the roof, after being finished with the kitchen. Kanako stomped up the stairs finding her target in sight now folding clothes at the corner of the deck on the roof. Kanako switched steps from loud stomps to taps of the foot wanting the maximum satisfaction of scaring this girl away, from start to finish.
She leaned over the young blue haired girl's shoulder whispering "May I have a word with you?" Shinobu jumped at her in that second clasping her chest "Oh my gosh! I'm sorry." Shinobu bowed "How may I help you?" Kanako's eyes flashed knowing that this would be too easy to do. Kanako glared giving the most dangerous stare she muster in orderto frighten the timid girl as best as she could.
Kanako's glare worked too easily as the shy fourteen year old backed away fearfully "Is there something wrong?"
Kanako sighed giving a nasty attitude that an alligator would fear. "Well everything you clean is horrible. The kitchen's refrigerator has tons of leftover food, while the deck corners are dirty, and the clothes that you are hanging up are dingy" The words stabbed into the teens heart making tears fly freely from Shinobu. Cooking and cleaning were her pride and joy and Kanako had shattered her slowly developed confidence within a few seconds. Kanako finished the blow by stating "Look, you have no say in the decision. I am your manager and if you do not follow what I have instructed then you will be evicted. If you come back before the two weeks are up you will be evicted and arrested for trespassing. Simple as that" Kanako said coldly as she stared down at the timid girl.
Shinobu's eyes grew wide and she fell to her knees in shock "Please it..was..for him" she said barely whispering.
Kanako said again getting hotter than ever knowing who she was talking about. "Get your stuff now or you will be evicted" Kanako said calmly. In tears Shinobu dashed off the deck gathering her things and left without a word. No one knew what had happened since everyone else was in their respective areas cleaning. Kanako smiled with satisfaction at what she had done. She had taken one down with four others still to go.
Kanako breathed a big sigh, yelling at each of the remaining girls to be in the kitchen in five minutes. They came quietly with questioning looks as each one looked for Shinobu.
Kanako walked in with a cold look on her face stating what had happened in her own view "Now girls, as you see, Shinobu Maehara is gone from the building." Everyone jumped in shock. Naru screamed "WHAT! WHY!" Kanako raised her hand silencing the group "She was not meeting the standard of the inn and has been put on suspension for two weeks." Motoko gripped her sword tightly wanting to strike this demonic woman down but for some reason she was glued to her seat quiet.
Kitsune clenched her jaw ready to let her acidic tongue fly but knew whatever words flew would get her evicted or worse travel back to the ears of Keitaro.
Su frowned, wanting to test one of her toys on the mean lady but unfortunately she had dismantled all of them to clean her room better. Naru fumed ready to bludgeon Kanako to death with her bare hands. Naru's knuckles were white from her balled gripbut she slowly let go of her grip "Is that all?" she said catching Kanako totally off guard.
Kanako glared at the auburn woman unable to do anything at the moment. "I'm going to the store for a bit. This place better be clean by the time I get back." Kanako walked out of the room quickly screaming out in her thoughts "I WILL BREAK THAT BITCH!"
Meanwhile upstairs Keitaro had opened his door to find a letter on the floor. He opened it and read it. His expression changed from questioning to surprise.
The letter read
Dear Keitaro Urashima,
There has been an incident and I have to go for a few days. I regretfully will be gone for two weeks. Please take care of the girls and cook as best as you can for them. I'm sorry that my cleaning and cooking was not up to standard. I will work in the next two weeks to improve myself to meet everyone's and especially your demands.
Thank you so much for you time,
Shinobu Maehara.
Keitaro ran down the stairs. He stoppedjust before kitchen hearing a conversation going on. "Naru, we can't stand this bitch. She is the spawn of satan!" Kitsune said furiously letting her tongue fly. "I agree with her assessment. She is definitely a demon in human form." The stone samurai said still squeezing her sword tight trying to repress her anger. "YEAH! SHE'S A MEANY! WE GOTTA GET KEITARO BACK!" Su said jumping up and down in her chair wanting to make as many weapons as possible to shoot the purple haired goth out of the nation.
Naru raised her hands silencing the girls starting "Listen girls, the plans with Kitsune and Motoko worked well. We got some of him back with that. We just have to keep on pampering him as much as possible and she'll be gone ASAP!"
Keitaro stomped in "YOU SELFISH BITCHES! NO WONDER SHINOBU LEFT, SHE WAS TIRED OF WHAT YOU WERE SAYING ABOUT ME AND MY SISTER!"
All of them looked stunned as he emerged, unable to speak. Naru stepped towards him "Keitaro.."she whispered trying to correct the situation. "NO!" Keitaro shook his head stepping back "KANAKO'S HERE TO STAY AND IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY TO ME IT HAS TO GO THROUGH HER OR HARUKA!" Keitaro ran upstairs slamming his door behind him.
All their work thus far had been undone. All of the girls fell to their seats ready to break. They had Keitaro close and blasted him away just because they couldn't hold their anger. Motoko looked at the slumped Naru in her own chair "What now?" Naru barely unable to speak said "I don't know. We have to hold on...but, I don't know."
There suddenly was a knock on the door of the inn. "Hello! My name is Mutsumi Otohime and I would like to establish residence here!"
The girls looked at the front door all thinking the same thing "Now what?"
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Whew, that chapter was a pain in the butt. I know its been a while but I just having been feeling the inspiration to write and I'm sorry for the wait. I will work on the next chapter ASAP and hopefully my beta will bounce it back to me so all the kinks will be fixed quick. Thank you for reading. Please read, comment, and review.
