Whatever ride that Aoi had been on had come to a complete stop, into a brick wall. "Oh….ah my head…" She said groggily as she began to come too inside the dark apartment, a thin line of sunlight protruding through the blinders. Her head was a complete mess, and her mouth tasted like a bag full of cotton. "Ro-Chan…?" She called out in whisper. Roxy must have already gone to work she thought, moving her body so she was finally sitting up on the messy couch. Something wild must have gone in here…did they have people over? Who where they? And why is this phone sticking to my mouth? Wait a minute…

"AH!" Aoi freaked out suddenly, she stared down at the dangling cordless phone, sticking onto her jaw by her own drool. "Just beautiful." She carefully peeled off the phone, looking at the green tinted information box for the time. "12:30 already?" She shrugged and threw the phone down onto the ground.

"OW!!" a high pitched squeal came from the floor. Aoi screamed again in shock and nearly fell off the side of the couch. "R-Ro-Chan!?"

"Who do you think it is....?" Roxy held her head as she came from the layers of boxes and clothes covering her, rubbing her head as she sat up next to the couch. "Heh heh…wow, Monday already?" Roxy rubbed the back of her neck, and scratched the top of her blonde hair. "Pretty fun week for us, I'll say."

"Easy for you to say…"

"I just said that." Roxy pointed out.

"Shut up." Aoi groaned, rubbing her forehead in a daze. "I'm drawing a complete blank of everything before we got our money from Mr. Kenji. That and…brownies." Roxy scrambled slowly through all the junk on the floor, looking for her pair of socks. "Hey I remember that day! That began the whole trip."

*Monday* 1:32 pm

"We got paid! We got paid! We got paid!" Roxy cheered happily as she slid down the banister from the second floor. "Calm down already Ro-Chan. How much did we get again?"

"4,000 ¥! (Yen) The odds were so stacked against you we really made bank! He also threw in 5,000 more for how cool you were."

"So what shall we do with it?" Aoi asked as she sat into the passenger seat, waiting for Roxy. "Well let's see…we can invest it into future savings and blah blah blah blaaaah." Roxy joked in a high pitched nasal voice.

"Well that's the reasonable answer…now what's the Ro-Chan answer?" Aoi giggled.

"THE MALL!" The blonde girl yelled. "If you haven't noticed yet, Aoi…you're a savage. For winning all this cash I'm gonna get you some new threads!" Aoi wrinkled her nose annoyed, but it was true…3 days with the same clothes on was just hell.

"So anything good in that pile of clothes I found!?" Roxy had to yell into the dressing room Aoi was occupying. They went to a trendy place called "Beatz" The clothing store Roxy usually got her CD's and clothes from.

"Ro-Chan…" Aoi said angrily, walking out the dressing room with a school girl fuku, complete with loose socks and backpack. "What made you think I would like this!? I need casual clothes this to street parties, not an anime convention!"

"Alright so that was a joke. But think of the cash Kenji would pay us when you kick." Roxy laughed as she rocked in the chair. She stopped suddenly catching the death glare from her roommate, before walking back in "Well there are plenty of clothes to choose from in there."

"No…No…Ick…I hate purple!" Aoi murmured inside the dressing closet, throwing bits of clothes all which way. "How could this keep my…you-know- what's inside!? You'd think all these clothes were made by some pervert game designer." Aoi ruffled through the last layer, her brown eyes going wide at what she saw. "Oh…wow."

"What…what did you find?" Roxy threw the bustier that came sailing over the closet off her head. Aoi walked out slowly, but confidently in a Team Ninja© black denim outfit. Aoi looked carefully at the long sleeved jacket and the pants, to the matching boots and the white and light blue finger-cut gloves. "How does it look?"

"Ooooh, the trendy, dark angel look. I'm totally digging it on you, Aoi." The Japanese-American hopped up and circled Aoi, getting a closer look.

"But…it's missing something." Aoi played with her brown hair as she looked at the front mirror. Roxy tried to figure out what her roommate needed to complete the outfit, looking down to the pile of clothes Aoi threw around. Like a beacon of light Roxy picked up a sole pair of sunglasses from Code Kunoichi©. "Catch!" Roxy flung them at Aoi, who grabbed them and quickly put them on.

"…Now it feels complete." Aoi smiled staring at the "new" Aoi Minazuki. "Ring it up."

Tuesday 12:30 am

"Stay…still…and fight me!" Shinobu swung her rage-filled fists each way at Aoi inside the fighting circle. Aoi calmly avoided each punch and blocked the next kick as she danced around the gang member. "Tsk tsk tsk…What am I going to do with you Shinobu?" Aoi taunted her smugly. Shinobu growled, and threw a head level punch at the current winner in the ring, only to see her dodge it with a spin and…drop her guard?

"What the hell!?" The thug scrunched up the sleeves on her jacket to her elbows as she watched Aoi stand right in front of her, hands snuck into her side pockets. Aoi grinned dangerously waiting for Shinobu to make a move. "C'mon I dare you!" She yelled at her with a laugh.

"Don't mock me!" Shinobu roared and continued her assault. The crowd went crazy at each dodge and sidesteps Aoi preformed gracefully. "I'll tell your right now Shinobu…I'm going to win this with 5 attacks. No punches." Aoi claimed confidently.

"This is gonna be the worse day of your life!" Aoi dug into her jacket and brought out her infamous chain, swinging it wildly around her head and whipping it Aoi. At the split second she ducked under the illegal object, and with the momentum she kicked her foot up into the air doing a vertical split and nailing the gang member straight in the jaw.

"Aah!" Shinobu was sent reeling backwards, holding her face. "Oh by the way…I hope you didn't believe me when I said I wouldn't PUNCH!" With that Aoi threw her right hand out of her pocket and slammed it into the defenseless girls' stomach, then into her bruised jaw. The thud coughed violently being thrashed every which way. She screamed once and tried to swing the arm with the chain at it down on Aoi, but she was countered by the girl's variation of the one-inch punch, sending her flying back a few feet in pain.

"And here's the last one!" Aoi charged at Shinobu with victory in her covered eyes. As Shinobu came out of her daze she was greeted with a tremendously vicious flip kick, cracking her in the face and launching her almost clear out of the human ring. When Aoi landed the whole area erupted in cheers. "Aoi! Aoi! Aoi!"

"Thank you!" The once modest Aoi was just lapping up the applause and attention, waving her hands out to the crowd. To her next surprise a bouquet of flowers fell into her hands. She looked oddly at it then back to a crowd, seeing a rather handsome man wink at her. She tipped her sunglasses down to get a better look at the boy, smiling back somewhat bashful and quietly thanked him…

Wednesday 10:18 Am

"Ro-Chan how can you live in this mess?" Aoi's nose turned up somewhat as she waded around carefully.

"One day at a time…besides more of it is yours then mines." Roxy said, glued to the small television and the couch.

"Well not this time…were going to fix this place up!" The taller girl optimistically, throwing the broom to her roommate. "Let's get going!"

And so they cleaned…..top to bottom and every corner and area they can find…

….

….for five minutes.

"Hey Aoi…weren't we cleaning up the place?" Roxy was still in her seat, as if she didn't even move.

"Hard work mad us quit." Aoi shrugged and changed the channel.

"Oh yeah… want a soda?" The blonde girl reached over into a pile of clothes and food containers, and yanked out a root beer.

Thursday…something, something.

"……………………"

"……………………………………….." The two girls just stared at each other blankly.

"Aoi, are you drawing a complete blank on Thursday?" Roxy asked.

"Yep. Hope it wasn't anything too stupid." Aoi held her head trying to relief that growing headache.

Friday 10:48 pm

"AND DON'T YOU SAY IT'S TRUE BECAUSE I KNOW YOOOOU!" Aoi howled into the microphone with all her passion…and half the talent.

"….BUT IF YOU LOVE ME SAY IT BECAUSE IM FEELING BLUUUUUEEE!" Her tone death counter-part screamed into her microphone, following her lead. They were competing as a team in a karaoke contest in a club near the mall…and bombing tremendously.

"Aoi we rock at this!" Roxy squealed.

"Never had a lesson in my life either!" Aoi happily stated, preparing to sing another verse.

"AND IM GONNA GET YOU, GET YOU, GET YOOOOUU BOY!!!!!" The squealed as a team, taking a funky pose.

"Aaah, my ears!" One man yelled in pain, holding them in faked pain. The crowd inside the club began to show their appreciation for the duo…with throw able objects and cursing "AH YOU WOULDN'T KNOW GOOD TALENT IF IT BIT YOU IN THE ASS!" Roxy screamed at the booing crowd, and nearly getting hit with a bottle right after. Aoi ducked under other objects and grabbed Roxy's hand and pulled her to backstage. "Well…they just jealous." She huffed.

Saturday 7:46 Am

The two sat down on the couch to eat a microwave breakfast. Aoi munched quietly as Roxy drank some orange soda (It had to be as healthy as the juice, couldn't it?) As Aoi put down her fork her nose turned and she made a rather disgusted face.

"You totally let one go didn't you?" Aoi pushed Roxy on the shoulder with a weird look on her face. "That's disgusting!"

"What!? No way it was you! You farted!" Roxy pushed Aoi back, moving an inch away from her roommate.

"You!"

"You!"

"Nuh uh it was you!"

"It was totally you!"

"All right now it's me"

"Me too…

Roxy and Aoi stared at each other for a second…and unable to keep their laughing contained anymore they broke into maniac laughs.

Sunday 6:22 PM

Roxy wasn't a complete bum. She had a package delivery job and the company was nice enough to use her junk car.

"Wow…so this is your day job? Talk about interesting" Aoi sighed sarcastically, messing with the stereo to get a frequency. "Oh stop acting so cool." Roxy parked on the side of the road and grabbed the large brown box. "Anyway this is Kazuki's place…we met at cram school and we shared a few interests." She walked up to the door and rang the door bell. "Kazuki! He it's me Roxy!" Aoi walked up the door and put on her sunglasses. "How long is this going to take? There was something pretty good on television before we—"

The door opened up and out came the person. "Hey there Roxy…" Aoi's eyes went wide as saucers as she came face to face with the man who was at the party Tuesday. His wild hair…his cute smile and eyes."

"Oh, hello to you too Miss Aoi." Kazuki politely said. "Did you enjoy the flowers?"

"Y-yes…" Aoi could barley utter anything, looking down to her shoes so he wouldn't see her blushing face. This was too weird, she never felt so nervous or tense around someone before.

"Hey…You know Kazuki, Aoi?" Roxy handed Kazuki the box and walked inside, Aoi tagging along. "He's the guy who gave you flowers?"

"Hah…I just had them on me at the time." Kazuki closed the door behind them. "You really have talent you know Miss. Minazuki, your style is very creative."

"Oh..It's n-nothing really." Aoi's laughter was rather cracked as she walked inside…looking at Kazuki's eyes again…and falling over his dog clumsily. "EEK!"

To Be Continued…