How did it come to this?

Author: Pseudo-lux-serpens

Sorath was so close to Touya that she could feel his body heat.

Sorath: *very serious* I really can't remember what it was that I wanted.

Touya looked back at Sorath with surprise at how short term her memory really was. Sorath just backed up, scratched her head. Then shrugs it off.

~later~

they're all just sitting around outside. . . talking. . .

Jin: so where do you live?
Sorath: I'd like to live on Pluto. It seems fun there.
Jin: where on earth.
Sorath: on this continent. But I don't even know where my brain lives. Maybe IT lives on Pluto. . .
Jin: right. . . but, where's your house?
Sorath: house? I don't have a house.
Rinku: so where do you live? Like out in the wild.
Sorath: I guess.
Touya: what does 'I guess' mean?
Sorath: I just like, live here. I hang around the forest.
Chuu: so ya' don't have a home?
Sorath: I guess not.
Rinku: so where do you sleep?
Sorath: sleep? What is this 'sleep' that you speak of?
Jin: you don't sleep?!
Sorath: I guess not. But I would be able to tell you if you would tell me what it is!
Rinku: it's when you. . . like when. . . huh. . . I don't know how to explain it. but you know when you pass out?
Sorath: yeah.
Rinku: well, it's like that except you do it when you get tired. Wait. Why aren't you really really tired?
Sorath: coffee.
Jin: coffee?! You live on coffee?!
Sorath: yeah. So?

Everybody face faults. A little bit later and a whole lot of expiations later.

Sorath: so you guys sleep all night! That's what you do all night. That must really cut down on the time that you spend doing. . . well, stuff.
Chuu: I still don't know how you could live on coffee.
Sorath: I don't know. But I don't drink a whole lot of it. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that I'm a sun demon.
Touya: maybe.
Jin: so what else don't you do?
Sorath: what a dumb question. 'what else don't you do'. For gods sake I didn't even know what sleeping was until you told me, how do expect me to find other things that I do or don't do odd. Until now I thought nobody slept.

Everyone sits there for a while. After a while some random conversation starts up. They end up talking for a long time. Then it starts to get dark.

Chuu: we should probably go home and have dinner.
Sorath: hey, can I see what a house is! Please. And I wanna try this sleep thing.
Touya: I guess. But don't do anything stupid. Please don't. . .
Sorath: I'll try my best.

Everyone but her looks worried. They all go back to their house. Sorath seems to be very surprised at how sturdy it is. They all go inside.

Chuu: so, who's making dinner?
Sorath: ooh ooh! I wanna try!
Rinku: maybe I'll help her. . .
Sorath: okay! Yay! I get to try to cook!

Touya, Jin, and Chuu all go about their own business as Sorath goes through all of the kitchenware.

Sorath: *hold up a pan* what does this do?
Rinku: that's a pan. You cook things in it. don't you eat either?
Sorath: oh yes. I just don't 'cook' it. what does 'cook' do?
Rinku: *sweat drop* uh. . . this is going to be a long dinner. Cooking something changes it. basically you heat it up and it changes.
Sorath: I wanna try! Hey, I've seen one of these. It's a stove right?
Rinku: right. . .
Sorath: what do I 'cook' on it?

After a while of expalaining to Sorath what assorted things were they actually got to cooking. Sorath in a thirty minute session managed to find out how to burn people with a pan, found out that food changes color when you cook it, pans get really hot, Rinku doesn't like being burned by pans, food gets hot when you put it over a fire, pans can melt, oil can get hot, oil can burn you, just about everything that's solid can be melted, wood pans aren't good for anything, wood burns, plastic burns, food burns, hair burns, Rinku burns, pans can burn if provoked enough, just about everything can burn, and last and most important that cooking is very painful if you don't do it right. In the end it was a very productive session. Except that they didn't get any food made. Rinku ended up making it all himself. They all ate dinner. After that Sorath decided to stay for the night and see if she could do this 'sleep' thing.

A/N: sorry it took so long for the people that liked it. I've been preoccupied by other fics. If you have any ideas for things to happen to them in further chapters, don't hesitate to tell me. I would like to get those reviews in! and if you want to be in the fic tell me first off, I'll give you a list of things for you to answer (by e-mail) and what funny thing that you want to do. I would have to go against pairings in this fic. I tend to go overboard with those. So if you want to be in the fanfic then you have a slim to none chance of being part of a pairing. But it is possible! But I'm probably going not going to put the Rekai Tantei in this. Not that I don't like them and all, I just like the DT characters.