A/N: Because I respect men who don't think women's bodies are disgusting.

Also, I use both Kyoko and Setsu here, depending on if she's in character or not. Let me know if anything is confusing. No plot spoilers!


Living with Tsuruga Ren, even under the guise of Cain Heel, was different than living with Shotaro. For one thing, even though Kyoko made dinner, Cain helped out with the dishes afterward without being asked. Shotaro had never helped with housework of any kind. Ever.

"Thanks for helping, brother," she said, bumping her shoulder into his affectionately.

He smiled down at her, that particular smile that always set butterflies flapping around in her belly.

"A-are you studying the script tonight?" she said, switching the subject as she put the last dish away.

"Yeah," he said, drying his hands, and loping back into the living quarters of the hotel suite. "Read lines with me?"

"Sure. Just let me get changed..." Kyoko had finally found a Setsu-appropriate yukata that she could wear over her more exotic underwear and was eager to try it on while in character.

But it was not to be. In the bathroom she found a small spot of blood in her underwear.

How annoying, she thought with a sigh, washing her hands and ducking under the sink to find her bag of personal items. At least I keep track on my calender and I knew it was coming on a Setsu day... Kyoko frowned. She couldn't find her box of tampons... Wait a minute... this was the wrong bag! She distinctly remembered packing tampons in her overnight bag, but this bag was one she usually kept at the Love Me office lockers in case she had to stay late during Dark Moon or Box R filming. She'd taken it home to clean it out and must have grabbed it by accident. Frantic now, she pulled the bag out from under the sink and dumped it out on the floor, fingering through the mess.

Makeup, nail polish remover, hairbrush, hairspray, a scattering of bobby pins, and pantyliners... but no tampons.

"Damn it!" she swore.

"Setsu?" There was a light tap on the door.

Kyoko's eyes widened and she clamped a hand over her mouth. Setsu would never lose her temper or freak out over things that Kyoko would. Low tension, she told herself. Calm down. How would Setsu react to this situation?

Setsu stood up, stepping over the mess she had made, and opened the door with her typical languid expression. Cain looked down at her and then over her shoulder at the scattered stuff on the floor.

"Something wrong?" he asked.

"Not really," she said with a shrug. "I gotta go to the store."

She turned around and shoved her makeup and other items back into the bag, causally tossing it under the sink. Passing her brother, she called out over her shoulder.

"Need anything while I'm out, brother?"

Cain looked at the clock. It was after midnight. "You're not going out this late." His eyes flicked from the top of her leather corset to the tight leather mini-skirt.

Setsu pouted. "But I need... stuff."

Cain cocked his head. "We just went grocery shopping yesterday. What could you possibly need?"

Setsu put a hand on her hip. Inner Kyoko cringed, but she would not be defeated in this scene, not over something so silly.

"Tampons," she said, as if bored. "I'm out."

"Oh." Cain's face went carefully blank and then he turned and left the room.

Setsu raised an eyebrow and then shrugged. Guess I won this round, Kyoko thought, stunned. Men are so predicable...

Cain emerged from the living quarters wearing his hoodie, and shoving his wallet in his pocket. Setsu stared at him.

"What?" he asked, catching her stare.

"You're actually going?"

"Do you need tampons?" he asked.

"Yes..."

"Then I'm going." Cain opened the door and slouched through it.

When she was sure he was gone, Kyoko indulged in a writhing roll around the floor in utter embarrassment. She had just sent Tsuruga Ren to buy female sanitary products! And worst of all, tampons! Why hadn't she made him get pads instead? But no, Setsu would hate pads. She would use tampons so she could wear her cute underwear without getting them messy.

Kyoko couldn't lose to him! She'd already heard that "no good" sigh from him too many times as Setsu. She wanted to be able to hold her own and... well, tonight at least she had done it. She examined her actions again, but no matter how she tried to second guess herself, she knew that Setsu wouldn't care if her brother had to purchase those particular items. They were lovey-dovey siblings after all... and they wouldn't be uncomfortable about such things. Besides that, even as Kyoko, there were some mundane human matters you couldn't avoid dealing with when you lived with someone else... Kyoko wasn't sure if it was Tsuruga Ren or Cain Heel who took magazines to the bathroom, but she tried not to think about it.

She brightened at a sudden thought. She had seen him in the shower, and now he had to buy tampons for her. They were even! It was done and over with and the embarrassment now would be minimal if it came up again. She nodded to herself, pleased at her growth as an actress.

Still, though, she was grateful for the time alone to collect herself and cool her heated cheeks.

Far later than it should have been, Cain returned to the room carrying four bags.

Setsu folded her arms across her chest and gave him a look. "Brooother... did you go overboard? On tampons? I only needed one box."

Cain set down the bags on the table and began unloading them.

"I didn't know what kind to get, so I got one of each." He lifted the first box, squinting at the text. "Unscented, regular, with plastic applicator; unscented, super, cardboard applicator; sport, fresh scent... here's one that's organic... and I got these because they were cute, like you." He lifted out a box that appeared to be a junior set, the really small kind that young girls just starting their periods use. There was a popular female cartoon character on it in a lurid pink color that was strangely familiar. He'd also gotten a range of sizes from the junior ones, to the super maxi sizes that resembled toilet paper tubes.

Kyoko felt the blush that was building up and couldn't do anything to stop it. Instead, she covered it with a giggle. "I wonder what the cashier thought seeing you with all these boxes."

Cain shrugged. "Who cares? You needed them; that's all that mattered to me."

Kyoko dropped her hand, looking at him. He really meant that. He wasn't embarrassed in the least. Feeling oddly touched for some reason, she sorted through the boxes, wrinkling her nose at the pink cartoon one, and put the ones she wouldn't need back into the bags.

"You can take those back. I won't need them."

Cain gave her one of his looks.

She didn't budge. "I don't need more than one! Do you know how many tampons are these boxes? This one box alone will last me at least a few months."

"Take two, just in case."

She opened her mouth to argue, but he gave her his puppy-eyes expression. She looked away, throwing up her hands. "Fine," she sighed and plucked up another box. "Happy?"

"Only if you are," he said, stroking her cheek.


* yukata - a light kimono, typically worn in Japanese inns after bathing. Kyoko is wearing one when she meets Reino in Karuizawa. Ren wears one several times in the Heel arc after bathing. Hotels usually provide them, like some American hotels provide robes.