A/N: This is the first (and ultra-mega late) extra! :D Hope you enjoy. ~SEi

Disclaimer: I do not own xxxHOLiC. HOWEVER... most of these extras don't really have much to do with it. Please do not steal my OCs, though they are really of no importance to me at all. (o_o;)

Note: There are going to be Y-Extras, in which we read about the POV of Yousuke, as like this chapter. DW-Extras are, as you may guess, are DouWata extras related to this story.

- - - - - - - - - - - Y-Extra. Part 1. The Friend

Ding~ Dong~

The school bell rang long and low, stating the end of school for the day. Tanaka Jun ran over to his friend and classmate, Harufumi Yousuke's desk and said, "Hey, can I go over to your house today?"

"Hm? Why?"

"My sister is over today and I don't want to go home. You know how she acts. Anyway, it's almost the weekend so it should be no problem, right?"

"Mm... okay then." Yousuke slung his school bag over his shoulder and said, "Let's go, then."

"Ah." Jun stopped him. "Do you think I can... sleep over instead? I'm sure my mom won't mind." (Jun's mother knew that when her step-daughter came for a visit, they would fight constantly and they wouldn't stop until they were separated by about a street-long distance. And she knew why they fought. It was mostly her fault for marrying the man...)

"Sure, I guess."

"Thanks, man."

o o o

"So, what should we do?" Jun asked when they sat themselves down on Yousuke's room floor.

"I don't know. Play video games?" Yousuke suggested.

"Aiight."

They played and beat six video games in three hours and when Yousuke's mother called them from downstairs for dinner, Jun collapsed on the floor and said in a deadpan voice: "That was boring."

Yousuke, who was leaning against his bed, replied, "No kidding. We've been playing these games for years."

"You should get more games."

"I know. But my mom hasn't been giving me much of an allowance lately. I don't know why."

"Well, dude... Just ask her; it's not so hard." He got up without waiting for a reply. "Now let's go get dinner. I'm starving and my eyes feel like they're gonna fall out from staring at the TV screen for so long."

o o o

"Jun-kun, are you alright? You looked as if you were going to sleep on your dinner."

"Yes-Uh-No-Yes-No ma'am... I'm fine. Just fine." Jun rubbed his eyes and grinned.

"... If you say so..." Yousuke's mother began cleaning the table. When she headed for the sink, Yousuke looked at his friend and said, "You really don't look fine. Did you get enough sleep last night?"

"Sure! Why not? I even slept during math class and lunch."

"That's not really good..."

"You-chan's right, Jun-kun."

Startled, the boys looked at the middle-aged lady enter the dining room from the kitchen doorway. "You should go to sleep early."

"It's alright, Auntie."

"No, I insist. It must be your parents right? Fighting all-" She changed the subject quickly with a clap of her hands. "Oh, why don't you two go to the outdoor bath house and take a long hot bath? It'll be good for both your physical and mental health," she said as she pushed them out of the kitchen.

o o o

"Your mom is as weird as ever."

"Sorry."

"No worries, man!" Jun said, splashing his friend with hot water. "But man, she's really weird. I mean, who takes hot baths outdoors in someone's yard in the summer?"

"We're in a private bath house, Jun."

"I know." He leaned back against the side of the large tub and looked up at the ceiling. "Okay, so both your parents are weird. Whose dad would actually build their own private bath house in their own yard?"

"Mine would. But he can't help it. My dad's not fully Japanese."

"Yeah, I know." He yawned. "So where's your old man now?"

Yousuke thought for a few seconds. "He should be in Italy right now."

"For work or vacation?"

"Work, as always."

"Do you ever see him? 'Cause the only time I ever saw him was on your 14th birthday."

Yousuke looked toward the small window in the wall. "...Occasionally..."

There was a short silence before Jun interrupted it with the sound of splashing water as he got up and out of the tub, quickly putting the towel -that was on his head before- around his waist. "Come on out of there before you start getting dizzy."

Yousuke did as he was told. It was funny how they were at his house but Jun was acting like it was his own. But it didn't really matter. He was fine either way.

As Jun put his clothes on in the small room that was attached to the large bath house, he called to Yousuke: "Hey, do you have some ice-cream?"

o o o

"Psst," whispered Jun. "Are you sleeping yet?"

"No..." answered Yousuke, suppressing a yawn. He turned around in his bed to look down at his friend who was looking up at him from his futon. "What's up?"

"Can't sleep. I think the ice-cream made me hyper."

Yousuke rolled his eyes and sighed. He was really sleepy. The hum of the air conditioner was making him drowsy, too. "Try to save that energy somewhere in your brain or heart or muscles or whatever... for tomorrow."

"Yeah, man. I'll do that."

After a few minutes, he asked, "What're we gonna do tomorrow?"

"Hmm..." Yousuke closed his eyes. "We can go to the park and play some basketball with the other guys."

"Yeah. Good idea. Goodnight, man."

Yousuke mumbled a reply.

x x x

The next morning, when the boys got up from their sleep, they heard something tapping on the window. Yousuke pulled open the curtains and found the window pane wet as if someone had splashed a bucket of water on it.

It was raining.

Well, that was kinda obvious. Comments? Thoughts? Review, dear reader.

And here's a random xxxHOLiC question:
Since Watanuki's often referred to as a 'cat'... what do you think he thinks about cats? Does he like them? Or does he hate them? :O