A/N: Rukawa's getting talkative in this chap. So I guess I should apologize for the OOC-ness. Gomen.

Stinky Plans

"That seems a bit uncalled for," Rika said.

"It's necessary."

"Is it really?"

"I know my sister. She's more stubborn than anyone I know. If she's insistent on avoiding Sendoh, she'll avoid him like a plague," Rukawa stated.

"Wow, it speaks," she said with false amazement, "but seriously, can't we just tie them together?"

"And have her chase and kill us? No."

Rika sighed, "Well, she's your sister. If you say so. We'll do it your way."

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Miyuki smiled, "I'm so happy you're willing to come to my house."

"Well, I want to see how your house is like."

"Is that all you want to see?" Miyuki asked grinning.

"What else could there be?" Rika asked.

"I don't know…" she said opening the door.

Instantly she heard Sendoh's voice, "Rukawa, not funny. Uncuff me now. Hello…"

Rika pulled Miyuki to the washroom where the voice came from.

She looked at Sendoh handcuffed to the pole where the shower curtain was held, 'What the?!'

"Miyuki help me," Rika said fidgeting with the cuffs.

Miyuki took a deep breath and went over to examine the handcuffs, when Rika pulled out a pair of her own and cuffed her beside Sendoh.

"What are you doing, Rika?"

She backed away, "Sumimasen. It's Rukawa's idea."

'That do'aho!!!'

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"Rukawa Kaede, you dumb ass!! Get your butt over here and release us this moment or I'll make you regret it!!" Miyuki shouted on top of her lungs, tugging against the cuff.

Sendoh tried to cover his ears without success, 'She's mad.'

Rukawa got to the door, "Not until you two talk things out and reach an understanding."

"We reached an understanding that you must be tortured. Now release us!" she yelled.

"No."

The plunger flew at Rukawa who ducked just in time and closed the door after saying, "Not until Sendoh tells us to do so."

She finally looked at Sendoh, "Uh…hi…"

"You've been avoiding me," he said getting right to the point.

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"Are you sure they'll be ok?" Rika asked.

"More or less."

That uncomfortable silence again.

"So…" she said, "when do you think we'll be able to release them?"

He shrugged.

'Ok, he's really helping. Does he not know how to keep a conversation going?'

"Meow…"

Rika looked down at the cat, "Oh, you guys a cat."

"Yeah."

"…"

Finally Rukawa spoke, "You can make him do tricks with cheese."

"What kind of tricks?" she asked.

"I'll show you," he said, "Diamond, come."

The cat looked at him, then turned and went towards the couch.

Rukawa sighed, "Chibi Kaede, come."

The cat immediate turned around and walked back towards him.

Rika smiled, 'That's so cute. His cat is named after him.'

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"Well…only until I think of a better plan."

Sendoh stared at Miyuki, who was now leaning against the tiled walls, "A better plan? Like what?"

"I don't have one yet. So far the ones I've came up with are pretty dumb. Uh…maybe you should call Kaede to release us now…"

"No," he stated advancing towards her, "he's right. We need to talk and if this is the only way, so it be."

'He's so serious,' Miyuki thought, "what do you want?"

"I want to know if you like me."

'Crap,' she thought, "if I didn't like you, we never could've been friends and-"

"You now what I mean," he said.

"Look, can't we talk about this another time? I got one foot in the bathtub and one foot in the laundry basket. This is not a good time," she said looking at the laundry basket, "especially since I'm so busy trying to get Kaede's jersey into the toilet bowl with my bad foot and-"

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"Miyuki," he said, "just answer the question."

She sighed, "Fine. I do. But seriously can't we talk about this after school? After the finals? I can't think about this right now. I need to focus on passing and you should as well. Give me some time. Please."

She looked really drained at the moment.

Sendoh looked at her and gave in with a sigh, "You promise?"

"You know I never lie," she said, "although I think we should add another rule to our agreement. We got to pass our finals, don't want your parents saying I'm bad influence on you."

He smiled, "Hai."

"Great. Now onto our revenge plan."

"Revenge plan?" he asked.

"We're cuffed in the bathroom. My wrist hurts and it's all Kaede's fault. You don't think I'm going to let him off that easily do you? We got to give him a taste of his own medicine."

He really kind of felt thankful towards him it was Miyuki he couldn't say no, "Right, lets not forget Rika then."

His sister was always picking on him, 'Might as well teacher her a lesson while we're at it.'

.

Rika laughed as Chibi Kaede stood on it's hind legs, "That's so kawaii. You trained it to do everything a dog does: roll over, play dead, sit, shake hands, everything."

Rukawa smiled, "It is pretty cute."

"You're capable of smiling."

"Baka," he said, "isn't everyone?"

"But I never seen you smile," she said, "you got a nice smile."

He shrugged, "Guess, your laughter's contagious."

"Shouldn't you be laughing then? Actually I got something to tell you, I-"

"Ok, Kaede you can release us!" Miyuki shouted.

"Agreed!" Akira yelled.

'UGH!' Rika thought, 'why did they have to yell now?'

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Rukawa looked at Miyuki, "No hitting or being mad."

"Ok. No acts of violence and I'm not mad. Actually I'm quite thankful," she said, "now please release me. These cuffs are really uncomfortable, my wrist hurts and if you don't hurry, I might get mad.

He unlocked her and then Sendoh. Then Miyuki jumped onto him and Sendoh quickly cuffed him to the toilet seat, "What-"

Miyuki covered up his mouth and stole his keys.

"You two stop it!" Sendoh shouted, "don't fight!"

Rika raced in, "What are you two doing?"

She tried to pull Miyuki off of him and got cuffed next to him. Miyuki let go of him and backed out the door with Sendoh.

"Miyuki you promised," Rukawa reminded her.

"I did. Cuffing you to the toilet isn't violent. And I'm not mad, I just feel the need to get even," she stated, "now you two talk things out while Akira and I, go for dinner."

"Akira…" Rika said.

"Bye-bye," Sendoh said steering Miyuki away.

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She looked at him.

He sighed, "How could you fall for that?"

"It's my fault now?! I'm stuck here too you know."

Rukawa sighed and pulled down the toilet lid and laid his head down.

"You're going to sleep here?!?! Now??!"

"Why not?" he asked.

Rika stared at him in disbelief, 'What does he mean why not?'

"Nothing better to do."

'Nothing better to do!?! I'm here. He can talk to me or-'

"Zzzzzz…"

Rika stared at him, 'Unbelievable. What the heck is he?'

.

"You think we should've brought them something to eat?" Miyuki asked.

"You think they'll be hungry after being cuffed to the toilet for almost two hours?"

"Good point. Lets hope they don't have to use the washroom," she said pausing.

He followed her gaze the a shop call Love Stop.

She smiled, "I believe I've been too easy on Kaede…"

"What does that have to do with a kinky sex show?" he asked looking at her oddly.

She grinned.

.

'Eeeew! His drool is coming this way…' Rika thought and added more toilet paper to her dam, 'why does he have so much drool?!'

'But he's pretty cute,' she decided brushed his hair off his face, 'guess you can't control how you act when you're asleep.'

He grabbed her hand.

"…"

"We're back."

Rukawa blinked but didn't release her hand. She wonder if he knew he was holding onto her.

"Yuck! What the heck is that?" Miyuki asked pointing at the wet and half-melted toilet paper.

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"Toilet paper plus drool," Rika said.

Miyuki was grossed out, "Dump that away."

Rukawa sighed and pushed it into the garbage can.

'He was holding onto her hand…did we come back at a bad time?'

"Baka."

She grinned, "Oh, right. Time to uncuff you guys."

Rukawa looked at her untrustingly.

She smiled and uncuffed Rika. Then not so accidentally dropped the other key into the toilet bowl and even less accidentally flushed the toilet, "Oooops."

"My key," Rukawa said letting go of Rika's hand and glared at her, "Demon Queen."

She hadn't heard that nickname in a long time. She shrugged, "I'll get you a knife and you can slowly saw you way out of it."

Sendoh was laughing.

"What do we do?" Rika asked.

"Have you learnt your lesson?" Miyuki asked, "you know it's not good to mess with me."

Rukawa glared at her.

'He seems genuinely angry. Better stop playing around.'

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Miyuki smiled, "Ok, calm down. Here's the real key, baka. The one I flushed was false."

Rukawa caught the key Miyuki tossed him and began unlocking himself.

"Well…oniisan and I better go," Rika said, "bye."

"Bye," Rukawa muttered uncuffing himself.

"See you after the finals Miyuki."

"Sure," his sister said.

He heard the door open and closed. He went out to see Miyuki letting out a sigh of relief.

"You ok?"

"Fine," she said, "I saw you and Rika holding hands. What's up with that?"

"I think she likes me."

"Oh no!" she said exaggeratingly, "you don't say! Whatever gave you such a ridiculous idea?!"

He ignored the sarcasm he heard, "I woke up but she didn't know and…"

Miyuki laughed, "Sly. Faking sleep now. So what exactly was she saying to you?"

"It was doing and it's none of your business."

"What does that mean?!" she asked, "you tell me now what she did! You can't just get my curiosity up and then say none of your business!"

"Nah."

Miyuki attacked him in a unserious manner, "Tell me now!"

He smiled slightly holding her off by putting his hand against her head, 'She still doesn't know that I like her back…hm…what to do? Should I tell her or…'

"If you don't tell me I won't be able to sleep all night. And if I can't sleep neither can you," Miyuki declared.

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(After Exams)

Sendoh rang the door bell and Rukawa answered, "What?"

"Um…is Miyuki here?"

Rukawa looked thoughtful, "No."

"Do you know when she'll be back?"

Now he looked extremely thoughtful with his hand on his chin.

"Rukawa…"

Rukawa looked at Sendoh and finally said, "She went back to the States."

"What!?"

Rukawa went into the house and came back with an airline ticket, "Here's the address she'll be at."

"…" Sendoh looked at Rukawa, "uh…"

"Plane leaves in 4 hours," Rukawa said closing the door.

~TBC