Chapter 10: Blackmail

Arachne sat by the window in the garage, staring at the endless rain that seemed to be pouring from the sky that day.

"This sucks." said Spiral, throwing a ball into the air and catching it. Ichigo nodded. "I agree, we cant do anything but stay inside. I bet Hiyashis celebrating." The girls sighed.

"Tis a bad day." said Rhythm sauntering into the room. "Where have you been all morning?"

Arachne gave a smirk. "Oh, beating the crap out of Metal."

Spiral stopped throwing her ball up. "Er…?" she asked.

Rhythm scratched her head. "Um…what'd he do?"

Arachne gave a sigh. "Insisting that I like Noburo, and that I should go out with him."

Rhythm sweat dropped as did Spiral and Ichigo mainly smiled. "Hehe..."

"So what are we gonna do today?" asked Arachne, smiling.

Rhythm yawned. "Sleep." she said.

Spiral rolled her eyes. "You always sleep." she said.

Ichigo giggled. "And always tired."

"...And always hungry. Im surprised we even have food." chimed in Arachne.

Rhythm winced. "Hey! Is that anyway to talk to a friend?" she asked.

Spiral, Ichigo and Arachne looked at each other before nodding. "Yes."

Rhythm grimaced. "I feel so insulted."

The door clicked open to the guys room and Metal popped out. Metal sat down next to Arachne and wiggled his eyebrows. "Hello ladies!"

"Hello pervert." said Arachne, looking the other way.

Rhythm yawned. "Im going to sleep, wake me up if you need anything."

Noburo opened the door to the main entrance of the garage, and came in carrying a few grocery bags. He crossed over to the table, where he laid the bags down on. Giving a sigh he dug around in his book bag and took out a book in English and set it down on the table why he unpacked the bags.

"Noburo!" shouted Ichigo suddenly, making the poor guy hit his head on the top counter. He looked up at him and she smiled. "Can you come here for a second?"

Noburo gave her a confused look and Ichigo gave him one of her mental ward faces. One that could send chills even up the bravest of people. She patted next to her. "Common Noburo, I wont bite!"

Noburo crossed over the floor and sat down next to Ichigo. "Um, yes Ichigo?" he asked.

Ichigo smiled at him and hugged his arm. "Oh Noburo! I simply cant figure this out! Can YOU help me?!"

Spiral sweatdropped. "Why is she talking like that?" she asked.

"Um...because shes a pyscho?" asked Arachne.

Noburo was busy explaining to Ichigo an English phrase she was looking at. Ichigo kept asking questions about what another word meant, leaving Noburo to start a whole new explanation.

This sort of thing pretty much continued into the night…

"BLACKMAIL!" shouted Metal.

Noburo looked up at Metal. "What…are you talking about?"

Metal pointed at Noburo and grinned slightly. "I HAVE BLACKMAIL ON YOU!!"

Noburo sweat dropped. "Y—you …do?" He was currently doing his homework…or at least trying to…

Metal jumped off the couch and pointed a finger at Noburo. "JUST YOU WAIT! HAHAHAHAA!!" He kept pointing at Noburo and then ran out of the room and into the boy's room.

Rhythm walked into the room yawning. She looked over at Noburo to see him doing his homework. She looked around. No one else was in the room besides her and Noburo. They were probably all doing something else, sleeping, yup, sleeping. That's all anyone ever did in he garage. She walked over to Noburo.

"Noburo, what are you doing up?" she said and rubbed her eyes. He looked up at her. She looks like she did when we were kids... He thought. She sat down next to him.

"Just doing a little work…" said Noburo as he wrote something else.

Rhythm looked down at the English on his paper. "Ooh…English…"

Noburo nodded and smiled. "Can you read it?"

Rhythm thought for a minute. "A little…" She looked down at the writing on the paper. "They right from left to right, yes?"

Noburo nodded. "Go ahead, tell me what you know."

Rhythm took the paper and looked at it. "I am…pleased to say…this book…er…"

She smiled. "I can't read anything else…"

Noburo laughed lightly. "It's okay, I didn't expect you to."

Rhythm leaned against Noburo and yawned. "I'm tired…"

Noburo snickered. "But you just took a nap…"

Rhythm yawned again. "Yah…I've always had this sort of condition ever since I was a kid…falling asleep all over the place…" She layed her head on his lap and he went back to writing.

Noburo smiled to himself and went back to writing his homework, while Metal fummed on about blackmailing him, Ichigo played her gameboy, Spiral slept and Arachne raided the kitchen. "Yup...just a normal day at the garage."

To be continued…