"Who?" Abe asked.
"Shy." Love repeated, walking to the door. "Shy, dear, come here."
Once close enough to the door, the final Mihashi slipped into the room and clung to the kind trait. He only slightly peeked his face out to look at the others, but promptly returned his face to Love's shoulder.
"I'm glad you've brought Fear back." Love said. "Thank you."
Shy mumbled something the others couldn't hear, so Love relayed the information.
"Looks like Shy was hiding outside when he saw Kanou trying to talk to Fear." He said. "And once Innocent knocked him out, he got Fear out of there to calm him down."
"Oh, so that's why Fear disappeared!" Innocent said. He stepped up behind Love and leaned on the shoulder that Shy was hiding in. "You know you could've just told me." Shy whimpered slightly and Innocent smiled. "But now everything's good! Now we can go home!"
"Uh guys?" Determined got everyone's attention. "I think Kanou's waking up…"
"Put 'im down." Lust said. "Everyone out, I'll handle him." Determined complied and sat Kanou down in one of the chairs at the table.
"Remember what I said." Maturity warned, shooing everyone out of the room. "One."
"I know, I know." Lust rolled his eyes. "And I'll be quick about it."
Once the door closed, Lust took off his jacket and tossed it onto one of the other chairs. Kanou began to move, raising an arm to rub his eyes before blinking them open. Lust didn't give Kanou a chance to ask what was going on before placing his lips on his.
"You know, I think I have to agree with Lust." Mischief said as the group walked down the hall. "He probably is the best person to pick to handle Kanou."
"What do you mean?" Tajima asked. "Isn't Lust just going to knock him out?"
"Yeah, but it's more than just that." Determined said. "Lust has a special ability he can use in the real world. We all have one."
"Really?" Hanai asked. "Does that mean you've been out of Mihashi's head before?"
"No, we just know from the beginning." Determined answered.
"Yeah, and Lust's ability is pretty sweet." Mischief grinned. "He can use some sort of mind-control, as long as he kisses someone. On the lips, of course."
"Are you for real?" Izumi asked. "Well, I guess that does suit him, he is lust after all."
"It's so cool, he can even give you commands for when he's not around." Mischief said. "As long as he kisses you, he can control you!"
"But he can only do one command per kiss," Maturity said, "which is why I limited him to one."
"Do you really think that Lust is going to listen to you?" Evil asked.
"If he doesn't, he knows what will happen." Maturity said, rather darkly. "And I have my ways of finding out."
The rest of the Mihashi's visibly shuddered at Maturity's words. Guess Maturity had his own strengths like the rest of them.
"What we'll focus on now is getting back home." Responsible said, coming to the outside of Mihashi's door. "Alright, guys, get in your groups. Let's make this quick."
The group of Mihashi's then separated into their designated pairs and groups of three: Happiness hugged Sadness while Anger held his hand; Mischief, Hate and Evil stood together; Nervous held onto Fear; Reckless sat happily on Determined's shoulders; Hungry carried Tired; and Maturity put a hand on Innocence's head. Love and Shy waited a short ways down the hall, watching for Lust when he joined them.
"Lust shouldn't take long, so we'll start without him." Responsible said. "You Nishiura guys might want to stand back. We wouldn't want any of your ending up in Mihashi's head by accident. We've already had a big enough debacle as it is."
The Nishiura team nodded and took a few steps back. Responsibility turned towards the door and put his hands on it, focusing until the outer edges began to glow blue. He turned the handle and opened the door to what looked like a flaming portal. "Portal's open. Basics, you're up first."
"Right!" Happiness chimed, leading Sadness by the hand. He stopped in front of the door and waved to the team. "Bye guys, nice seeing ya!" The other two emotions made their own motions to say goodbye to the team, before walking through the door and disappearing. Hunger said something that couldn't be heard through his full mouth before he followed suit with Tired on his back.
"Rest of the pairs are next." Responsible said. Nervous led Fear rather slowly, and waved goodbye has the others had, before Reckless shouted his goodbyes and startled Fear into the portal, dragging Nervous along with him. Determined threw Reckless through the door before following suit, saying he couldn't wait to visit again. Maturity and Innocence were the final pair to enter, and while Innocence waved goodbye with a kind smile on his face, Maturity gave an 'I'm watching you' sign, which the team quickly noticed was for Lust, who had just ran up.
Once Maturity and Innocence were gone, Responsibility called up Hate's team. Mischief ran up to Tajima and gave him a high five while the other two headed for the portal. As he ran up to join them, the other two's goodbyes were a synchronized 'fuck you', and Mischief laughed as they vanished.
"Now Love's team." Responsible said. "Finally this is all over with."
Before the group stepped towards the portal, each one ran back one after the other directly to Abe. Shy delivered a peck on the cheek before sprinting into the portal covering his face with his hands. Love did the same on the other cheek, though smiled before heading for the portal. But he came back to pry Lust to Abe as the trait kissed the catcher roughly on the lips. Love dragged Lust away by his jacket, and Lust gave Abe the 'call me' sign before being thrown into the portal. Love waved goodbye before disappearing as well.
Abe was more than surprised with their actions, that he didn't fully react until they were gone. Turning a bright shade of red, he was about to ask Responsible what the hell that was about, but the trait just chuckled.
"Shouldn't be that hard to figure out, Abe." He said. "Bye guys. Give us about ten minutes, then you can come in."
Stepping through the door, Responsible closed it behind him, and the hall fell to silence. That is, until Tajima pointed out that Abe was blushing a dark red, and proceeded to tease him. The catcher grumbled that he didn't understand why those three did that, but Tajima stopped laughing long enough to give him a straightforward answer.
"I'm pretty sure that's saying that Mihashi likes you." He said, before buckling back into laughter. "You should see your face!"
"Shut up!" Abe shouted, putting the cleanup hitter into a headlock.
"Come on, guys, chill." Sakaeguchi said. "We can talk about that later, let's just wait the ten minutes we have to and check on Mihashi, ok?"
The catcher sighed before reluctantly releasing Tajima from his grip and letting him fall onto the floor.
"What do you think is going on in there?" Nishihiro asked.
"Probably some magical mumbo jumbo or something." Abe said. "I don't know."
"Say… do you think Mihashi's going to have any memory of what happened over the past couple days?" Hanai asked.
"Oh I sure hope so!" Tajima exclaimed. "His reaction would be hilarious!" Abe proceeded to step on the cleanup's head, keeping it to the floor, before the team noticed Kanou walking up the hallway.
"Hey." He said, carrying the flowers that were for Mihashi. "What's everyone doing out here, is Mihashi still asleep or something?"
"Uh, yeah, we think so." Izumi said. "We're just waiting a little bit before we go in."
"Oh, then would you guys mind if I went in first?" the Mihoshi pitcher asked. "I'm pretty sure there's a vase in there, and I don't want these to wilt."
"Sure, go ahead." Izumi said, though wasn't sure if he should make Kanou wait to go in. Responsible had told them ten minutes, would anything happen if they went in before that?
As Kanou walked past the Nishiura team to the door, they decided to just let Kanou go in and find out if anything would happen.