Chapter 10: Home sweet home

Several days had passed, the electricians had come, and set everything up, and everyone else had finished the building. Momiji had fallen off the roof at one point and was caught by Micharu. Michiko and Haru had gotten to know each other a little better over the last few days, and she was actually able to have intelligent conversation with him now.

The building was looking very nice, but they still needed to apply some stain to give it a polished look. They chose a cherry wood stain, and soon the wood was transformed into gleaming, dark planks. With the building painted, it was time to move everything in. Hatori had left with Momiji, but Hatsuharu had stuck around and was going to be spending the night. The boys carried out the futons and set them up, while the girls carried out their clothing.

The beds were in the far corner, next to each other, and the closet, one the other side of the room was slowly being filled with clothing. The shelving unit took up one wall, and that too was slowly being filled, as the girls brought in their bags of belongings. Tohru, Yuki, Kyo and Hatsuharu went inside, leaving Michiko and Micharu to arrange everything to their liking.

They had bought several things to spruce up the room. On the free wall space they hung up some wall scrolls, one of a gorgeous cherry tree in full bloom, another of a dolphin leaping from the ocean, and the last one was of Mount Fuji. It added a nice decorative flare to the room.

Each girl took half of the shelves. Micharu set up a variety of girly things, mostly cosmetics and cleansers, same as Michiko. Their personal things were rather adorable. Micharu had a tiny figurine of a seahorse sitting by a piece of coral, and Michiko had a tiny tea set in the shape and pattern of a cow. Each girl set their plushies on the shelves as well, along with the picture of their mother and father that they each carried in their purses. Michiko even handed her sister one of the pictures that she had taken of her and Hatori, which was squeed over and placed next to the plushie.

"So, what should do tonight? It's still early." Asked Micharu.

"I know, why don't we get Tohru to call Uo and Hana, we could all have a sleepover or something, and get to know each other."

"That sounds awesome, lets go ask her right now." Micharu said, as she dragged her sister by the wrist out of their room and into the house. They found Tohru in the laundry room. "Hey, Tohru, we were thinking that you could invite over Hana and Uo, we should all have a sleepover."

"Sure, that sounds like fun, I'll go ask Shigure." About an hour later, Hana and Uo arrived at the door, and Tohru introduced them to the new additions. "Hana, Uo, this is Michiko and Micharu, they're living here as well."

"Hey, what's up?"

"Pleasure to meet you."

Michiko leaned over and whispered to Micharu, "she is a bit creepy up close." Micharu nodded in agreement. "It's great to finally meet you,"

After introductions, they collected a variety of snacks from the kitchen, and made their way out to the girls new room. For about an hour they just sat around talking, before Micharu got an evil grin on her face. "How about a nice friendly game of truth or dare?"

Tohru looked slightly frightened, but Uo was up for it. Michiko clapped, "great, I love this game!"

"Alright, I'll go first, " stated Micharu, "Uo, truth or dare?"

"Dare"

Michiko grinned and whispered something to Micharu who also grinned. "Alright, Uo, I dare you to go into the house and confess you undying love to Kyo." Uo's eyes grew wide with shock.

"You gotta be kidding." Both girls shook their heads, and shooed her out. "Fine, fine, I'm going." Uo wandered around the house for a bit, oblivious to the congregation of girls following her. She found Kyo in the living room, along with Yuki and Hatsuharu. "Yo, orange top, I got something to tell you."

"What is it yankee?"

"The time has come for me to confess something to you, I've loved you for a long time, and I simply couldn't hold it in anymore. Every moment of my time, I yearn to be near you. I really don't hate your orange hair, I love it, I love you! " Uo turned red as she finished speaking, not nearly as red or shocked as Kyo was though. Both sort of snapped out of it, when they heard loud giggling from around the corner, as Michiko and Micharu spilled onto the floor laughing hysterically. Tohru and Hana were slightly more reserved, but still had smiles on their faces. Yuki and Haru just stared in shock at everything.

Micharu took a deep breath and stood up, placing a hand on Uo's shoulder, "nicely done, but now it's your turn to pick, so lets get back to the room."

A minute later they were back in the room, all sitting on the floor. "Alright" said Uo, "I pick Tohru, truth or dare?"

"Me? Oh um, truth."

"Ok, who do you like better, orange top or the prince?"

Tohru turned bright red at the question, "oh I don't know, I've never really thought about it before. Can I pass on this question?"

Michiko and Micharu whispered to each other, then nodded their heads, "Yes," stated Michiko, "but there will have to be a consequence. We've decided that instead of your truth, you will have to go into the house and give each of them a kiss, where ever you want."

Tohru blushed even harder, and shuffled out the room and into the house. She went into the living room and stood awkwardly in front of the boys, who all looked at her oddly. The other four girls were peeking around the corner to make sure she didn't chicken out. She walked up to Yuki, glancing behind her at the girls who had cut off her escape route. She leaned forward with almost lightning speed and planted a kiss on his cheek, before turning around and doing the same to Kyo, then running out of the room. More giggles were heard before they all went back into the room.

Yuki and Kyo sat there with huge blushes staining their features. Hatsuharu looked questioningly in the direction the girls had disappeared, "What do you think they're doing?"

"Probably some stupid girly game!" shouted Kyo.

"Why don't we go and see," suggested Yuki. The other boys agreed, and they walked out to the back yard. The peered in through the window, and watched.

"Tohru, it's your turn to pick someone."

"Ok, I pick Micharu."

"Dare."

Tohru couldn't think of much, so she turned to Michiko for help. They whispered for a moment before Tohru turned to look at Micharu. "Alright, she said that you have to walk into Shigure's room without your top."

Micharu blanched, "you evil!"

Michiko grinned, "sorry, but I know how evil you can be, so I'm just getting to you first."

Reluctantly, she pulled off her shirt, she was still wearing her bra, so it wasn't completely traumatic. Yuki and Kyo blushed and stopped looking through the window. Haru just sat on the ground by the wall. Micharu ran into the house and stopped at the entrance to Shigure's room. Taking a deep breath she slid open the door and took two steps inside. Shigure was sitting at his desk, and looked up, a shocked expression in his eyes. "Micharu, what brings you here?"

"Um, um… dare. Leaving now!" she turned around and scuttled down the hall and out of the house. She stopped dead in her tracks when she saw the three boys huddled by the window. She squealed and the girls all came running out. They too stopped and stared at the boys. "Hentai!"

After squealing and slapping, it was decided that the boys would have to join the game so that the girls could keep and eye on them.

Micharu sat down, with her shirt on now, "Michiko, I pick you, truth or dare?"

"Truth."

"Dare it is then! I dare you to sing I am Cow! To Hatsuharu of course."

Michiko's eyes widened, "I hate you."

"Hating me doesn't affect your singing voice, now get to it!"

"Fine, fine, whatever." She looked at Haru, "Please don't hate me for this." She took a deep breath and began. "I am cow, hear me moo, I weigh twice as much as you. And I look good on the barbeque. Yogurt, milk, cream, cheese and butter's made from a liquid from my udders, I am cow, I am cow hear me moo." She stopped singing, and turned to her sister. "Do I have to sing the whole thing?"

"Yup!"

Michiko glared, but continued on. "I am cow, eating grass, methane gas comes out my ass, and out my muzzle when I belch, oh the ozone layer is thinner, from the outcome of my dinner, I am cow, I am cow, I've got gas! I am cow, here I stand, far and wide across this land, and I am living everywhere. From BC to Newfoundland you can squeeze my tits by hand, I am cow, I am cow hear me moo!"

Yuki looked totally shocked, but Kyo was laughing hysterically. "That was awesome, where did you come up with that?"

Micharu answered for her sister, who was currently blushing like crazy. "It's by a group called the Arrogant Worms, they're a Canadian folk singing group. They have tons of weird songs like that. Michiko dear, it's your turn to pick."

Michiko looked up, her blush slightly faded. "Kyo, I pick you, truth or dare?"

"Dare."

Michiko's blush was gone as she stood up and walked over to the shelves. She selected a tiny glittering tiara. She handed it to Kyo. "You have to wear this on your head for the rest of the game, and you can only answer when someone calls you Princess Kyo."

Kyo grumbled, but took the tiara and put it on his head. "Rat boy, truth or dare?"

"I'll pick truth."

"Sissy, fine then, if you had to choose one girl from that stupid fan club of yours, which one would it be?"

"Hmmm, I've never really thought about it before. I suppose Miss Ida wouldn't be that bad."

"Alright Yuki," said Michiko, "you get to pick someone now."

"Miss Hanajima, truth or dare?"

Hana's eyes flashed, "dare."

Yuki looked at the other girls for advice. Michiko stood up, walking to the closet and extracting a baby pink dress, and handed it to Yuki. "Alright then, I suppose I'll get you to wear this for the rest of the game." Hana nodded, collecting the dress and going into the house to change. She returned look uncharacteristically cheerful, bathed in a soft pink glow that seemed radiate off the fabric. She sat down again, and turned her attention to Hatsuharu.

"Hatsuharu, truth or dare?" her voice wasn't quite as monotone or creepy as usual.

"Dare."

"Very well, I dare you to…"

"Prove your natural hair color to Michiko!" blurted out Micharu.

Hana looked over at the sisters. "Yes, that will do nicely."

Michiko blushed horribly as Haru stood, grabbing her hand and walking her outside.

"Um, Haru, I'm not entirely comfortable with this." Haru let go of her hand and turned to her, pulling her into a kiss.

"I know, I wasn't planning on proving it to you that way…yet." Michiko blushed deeper. Instead of showing her "that" he simply showed her his underarm hair, which sure enough, was half white and half black.

They went back inside, Haru sitting down calmly, and Michiko sliding in next to her sister, with a blush on her cheeks.

Tohru let out a yawn. "It's getting late, why don't we stop playing now, we can all get together in the morning."

Everyone nodded in agreement. Kyo took off his tiara and Hana went and changed back into her normal clothes. The guys left to go inside, and the girls set up beds. It was really late, and they laid down to sleep, obscure thoughts of the game running through their heads.

Michiko got up one last time, to go to the bathroom, on her way back a hand wrapped around her wrist, and pulled her aside. "Promise me one thing," a voice whispered.

"What?"

"Never, ever sing that cow song again."

Michiko grinned, and turned to face Haru. "It's not like it was my choice, I was perfectly happy at having you be oblivious to the existence of that song."

"Yes, well, your sister is evil."

"I agree. But it's late, I should be going back to bed now."

"Alright," he said, before pulling her in for one last good night kiss.