AN: OH MY GOD, I'm SO SORRY FOR TAKING SO LONG WITH THIS!! Several things have been preventing me but I have returned! Rejoice!

Okay, I've read several stories that mention "Mary Sues" but I'm not quite sure what those are... Anyone wanna tell me?

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"Are we almost done?" Shigure whined, laden with bags and a weary expression, "These bags are heavy."

"You offered to carry them instead of me so quit being such a baby," I said, "If you want to keep complaining I will take the bags."

"No, I'm a man and I will carry your bags for you!" Shigure said dramatically.

"Samii, I believe he just wants to complain. This is Shigure we're speaking of," Ha'ri reminded, massaging his temples.

"Rough day?" I asked him jokingly.

"Not at all," he replied sarcastically.

"When are we going home?" Shigure asked, exasperated.

"Boys, tell me! Have you ever had cheese fries?" I asked suddenly, pointing at them.

They stared at me then Ha'ri said, "What?"

"Oh you poor, poor sheltered men," I shook my head sadly, "I will make you cheese fries tonight and then you will love me for life because they'll be the tastiest things you've ever had."

"But I already do love you," they replied, completely serious and straight-faced.

I blushed as Ha'ri looked at Shigure suspiciously, who responded, "Like a sister! Stop looking at me like that Ha'ri!"

"Well, you two did date. How am I supposed to know you don't have lingering feelings?" he said, a little angrily.

I glanced at Shigure and we silently agreed not to tell him the truth about our little arrangement. It's best for him not to know. I smiled, took Ha'ri's free hand in one of mine and pulled him down the street toward the next store that I could.

"I am not going in there," Ha'ri said outright.

"Why not?" I asked innocently.

"There is lady's underwear everywhere and I will not," he insisted.

Indeed it was a lingerie store that I was trying to force him into just to embarrass him. Shigure had already sauntered in and was currently flirting with the cashier, who looked about 16.

"If we don't go in there, Shigure is going to be arrested. That girl is total jail bait," I persuaded, yanking on his arm.

"She's what?" he asked, stopping struggling for a second to stare at me.

"You know, jail bait... Shigure could go to jail if he tries anything!" I said, sighing exasperatedly.

"Oh, right," he said, stomping into the store and dragging Shigure out, "There, can we go?"

"Yes! I vote for that," Shigure said, pointing at Ha'ri.

I sighed and said, "I suppose but we have to stop by a grocery store to buy some supplies for dinner, okay?"

"Alright!" they said gleefully then headed toward the car to put the bags in it.

I caught up with Ha'ri and asked, "Not doing too well huh?"

"Well, my day started out pretty well but after our tickle fight on your bed, it's gone downhill," he admitted.

"Aw, you didn't like being tickled?" I asked, innocently.

"Considering I thought we'd be doing something else, no I did not," he replied.

"Well, after you pushed me on my bed, the first thought that came into my mind was whether you were really ticklish or not so I had to try. It's not my fault that I found it on the first go," I said smugly, setting the one small bag they deemed I could carry, in the trunk with the other stuff.

"Grocery store then?" Shigure asked, walking towards the nearest one.

"Get potatoes, vegetable oil, bacon bits and shredded cheddar cheese. I'm going to blow your mind with this, believe me," I said, setting off away from the grocery store to an appliance store next door. I needed to find a home deep fryer.

"Where do you think you're going?" Ha'ri muttered in my ear.

"Looking for my tool in this heavenly experience. It is required. Go help Shigure or he's going to buy the wrong stuff," I ordered, turning Ha'ri around and pushing on his back to make him walk back to the grocery store. He walked off, shaking his head.

"What I wouldn't give for a Texas Roadhouse right now," I muttered, thinking of the restaurant I had eaten at while in America that had the best cheese fries I had ever tasted. Thinking along these lines, I wandered down one of the aisles in the "small kitchen utilities" section of the store. When I happened upon the fryers, I took about 20 minutes, trying to decide which one I wanted. Finally I just decided on a small Fry Daddy that looked like the one my roommate in America had. After buying the fryer, I met the Ha'ri and Shigure at the car then we made our way home to start the cooking.

About halfway home, a car with tinted windows pulled up behind us and started to follow us. At first, I just thought I was being paranoid then they parked behind us outside of Shigure's house and the driver got out of the car, went around and opened the back door for the passenger.

"Stay in the car," Ha'ri instructed.

"No," I said stubbornly, getting out before he could stop me.

I turned to face the person exiting the car and was greeted by a familiar voice in the wrong body. "Well, so you have returned after all," said Akito as stepped out of the car with a devilish smile on her face.

AN: Again, a thousand apologies for the long wait!