Authors Note: This is a side project, I still need to finish A Series of Unexpected Events.

Authors Note 2: Samuel, Emma, Jack, Liam, & Leo are all of my OC's, they are non existant in Nekopara.

June 2020

Samuel, Emma, Jack, Liam, and Leo have just graduated high school, and they agreed to go back to Kamakura, with their intention to visit the Minaduki's again, as for Liam, he'd meet them for the first time. A 5 way payment was made in early June, just a week before graduation. They were all leaving within the next few days. This time, unlike the unexpected one the former 2 took, there was no itinerary, they were just gonna chill with them and maybe take them for a bit of, fun? That was on the table. The packing commenced hours after graduation, they had their few days at home since they weren't gonna be home again until mid-August. This was the long vacation they've been bragging about at their jobs lately (Liam has been fired for sheer unprofessionalism for bragging about meeting the Minaduki's way too much that his boss couldn't handle it anymore, him and Samuel worked together), all but 1 kept their jobs surprisingly. The last day before leaving, they made sure it was gonna be their last United States day they were gonna remember, just for the summer, they'd be back a month before Fall commenced. They did an escape room, saw Wonder Woman 84, hit up Concord Mills Mall, etc.

Come the next day...

Well, the big day was here, bags packed, bells packed, all was good to go, passports ready as well (duh), and they made rental car reservations with the Narita International Airport (NRT), flying from Charlotte, to Detroit, to Tokyo, which was gonna be an hour and 20 minutes to the Minaduki residence from there, what was better for Samuel, him Chocola kept in touch after him Emma left Japan on February 27, 2020 (they called that weekend, recuperating weekend, The Invisible Man definitely was not a good idea for recuperating for Emma...), she knew he was coming back up, and got herself some time off from La Soleil, despite her being everyone's #1 favorite employee there, well, not immediately, maybe in late-June, early July

Liam was still trying to hold back his excitement until they arrived. They promised to stop at La Soleil for a quick bite on the way to the Minaduki's. While at Starbucks at the CLT, they discussed possible things they'd do. "I say we visit that one amusement park where Maple did that Neko Witches thing, god I loved that moment!" Jack suggested, they also gave suggestions, "Maybe we should get Maple to give her singing voice to us if anything.", "OOH OOH, maybe we could visit the beach with them" (they did pack their swim/bathing suits for said purpose). Suggestion after suggestion, with each either agreeing or tweaking so everyone could agree. Sure they we're gonna do everything before August 15. "What about July 4?" Emma piped up. True, they'd miss the epic July 4 party the group were invited to every year. "Oh... yeah, not to worry, I'll figure something out, I'm sure he'll stream the party like he always does." Liam reassured everyone as the time to board leg 1 of the flight came near. Welp, here goes.

3 hours from CLT to DTW, a 4 1/2 hour layover, and 28 hours from DTW to NRT, so 35 1/2 hours later...

They were sure tired, hungry, and relentless, while Emma was driving, it was obvious they needed to relax. "Ugh, when we stopping?" Jack, who, unfortunately for them, got carsick in situations like this (normally he'd be fine), wasn't too happy about this, but still asked that. For them, it was another 30 minutes to La Soleil, another 45 to the house, oh god, what could possibly go wrong? "Jack, maybe if you didn't eat 3 damn servings of the pasta during the layover in Detroit, you probably wouldn't be feeling horrible!" Liam was thinking he overate and was about to have the regurgitative reaction to such, so he was just teasing Jack. When Emma heard gagging, the good news was there was a gas station right there, all got out, in the restroom, Samuel witnessed something he'd never unsee... Jack puking in the damn urinal! "WHAT THE FUCK MAN!?" Obviously he was over the border crazy with this. *sigh* (from Samuel), but it did put a shit eating grin on his face, he had every right to poke fun at what he saw, That's gonna be fun. And he did, for the next five minutes, Jack was red hot pissed off for that time being.

30 minutes after that incident...

FINALLY they pulled up to La Soliel, not one, not two, but everyone was relieved. "Ah man, finally, some god damn AC, that gas station obviously doesn't give two shits about anyone's safety!" Almost everyone had different variations of this. True, that gas station they took a rest station at looked to be on the verge of shutting down, it was that bad looking. But enough of this, the rental car was the exact same as the one Samuel & Emma had when they "accidentally" came up here after crash landing about 10 feet from the Minaduki's. But oh man, were they ready to crash the night at La Soleil, it was around 8:30 at night, nearing the time La Soleil was to close for the night.

All of the cats, plus Shigure, were cleaning up around the place, they heard their doors opening while in the middle of this. The first one to react to the doors opening, to no ones surprise, Chocola. "Welcome to L-" Chocola was trying to finish when she recognized the group. Samuel had just enough time to whisper to Jack, "I forgot to mention this, but Chocola & I are in love.". It was clear he didn't want Liam hearing this, it'd be his first time meeting them. "Uh... I wasn't told they ALL worked here!" Liam was attempting to keep his excitement to himself. Before he could even react once more to greet Shigure, Chocola ran up to Samuel and got him in a tight hug. "GOD DAMN IT I'VE MISSED YOU!" Samuel exclaimed, yes it was true, Samuel & Chocola seemed to be deep in love. Only Jack & Leo were able to react with variations of "How the?" "It's THAT easy for a Minaduki cat to love you as deep as she does to Samuel?" They tried keeping that as everyone was was greeting themselves and introducing Liam to them for the first time. "Uh, Chocola, I think he gets it by now" Vanilla, her twin sister, tried to respond, but almost no avail could break up the love fest going on in the background. "Well... if it isn't the twin lover of DIS BOI!" Vanilla didn't want to get in to it too much even though she was in love with Jack. "Well, it's great to see you again" Emma responded as everyone else reconciled with them. Then, "Hey uh, Shigure, we had a long drive here, I know you're not the prime owner of this joint, but could you possibly ask him if Sam, Jack, Leo, Liam & I could crash the night here? We all need major rest, and this place seems good to do so." The shop's owner, Kashou, came out at that point, and heard Emma's predicament. Greeting everyone, then, adding in, "If you want to stay the night here, I wouldn't have any problem with that. And it looks like you all had a long day, how about I make dinner for all of you." All of you meant, Sam & the crew, plus Chocola & Vanilla, a little after they went to the living spaces and configured their sleeping spaces, the other cats left the shop to head back home. As for the sleeping positions that night, June 16, it would be as follows: Emma & Jack would have the sofa, Liam would be with Kashou, Samuel with Chocola, and Leo having a sleeping bag on the floor right by the sofa. Where's Vanilla in this case, she knew all too well that Chocola was madly in love with Samuel, so, despite them being on a basis of them "being together no matter what" she came to senses that just being twins cannot have an excuse to being together all day, every day, and left Chocola & Samuel to their own time. Vanilla hung out with the other 3 out in the living room, preferably playing several rounds of Super Smash Bros on the Switch. Lord only knows what Samuel was doing... oh dear.

The next morning...

Basically everyone assumed Chocola & Vanilla got to work a bit after the 5 woke up nearly at the same time, somewhere between 8:15 & 8:45 in the morning, coffee & breakfast made, provided by Chocola. "Wherever Chocola may be, she sure does have a kind heart for us all, not just him!" Liam was a little bit too enthusiastic at what she layed out for everyone. Even the true youngest, Cacao, who Samuel & Emma found some months ago, to which the Minaduki's made a part of their family, and such, she doesn't work for the Soleil, mainly because she's a bit too young to work with them (She usually hangs around in the living spaces), came and had some of this buffet with them. "Oh... that's Cacao in case some of you, in particular, don't know." Samuel piped in on this conversation, as Cacao went around handshaking the new guests. She had only met Samuel & Emma. The other 3 had yet some more ad-libbing, "OMG! If that's not the cutest thing I've seen, IDK what will!" "Awww, she's so damn cute! IDK how anyone would not to headpat her" "This may have to be the cutest thing ever!" "I may faint, why, CUTENESS OVERLOAD!" Yup, they couldn't contain it. "GENTLEMEN PLEASE! We get it, she's cute and such, but you're taking it WAYYYY too far." Jack attempted to retaliate with "Not as far as what lord only knows what you did with Chocola last night", he failed miserably to roast him. "Uh, I'm sorry but you didn't see a damn thing! So how do you know, at least I didn't eat 3 damn servings of pasta and throwing it up in the damn urinal!" That's when everyone, minus Jack, lost it for a good 5 minutes, even Cacao was crying with laughter, it was ridiculously funny for her to hear. Jack decided to resign himself as the "guy-who-projectile-vomited-in-a-urinal" for the whole day, it seemed childish but it was absolutely hilarious, and he didn't care how anyone put it.

Just more or less of where this whole thing begun, much later that day things would spice up even more, stay tuned for the next part.