A/N: There's probably gonna be some obvious errors b/c I've been too lazy to seriously proofread it.
And More (Part I)
Sendoh looked at the address, and rang the doorbell. A four year old boy answered the door, "Who you?"
"Sendoh Akira," he said with a smile.
"Don't know you."
Another boy almost a head taller appeared and asked, "What do you want?"
"Is there a Huyuno Miyuki here?"
They huddled and began murmuring, then looked at him, and huddled again. Finally asked suspiciously, "Why?"
"Because I'm looking for her."
"Are you here to kidnap her?" the older one asked, "because if you are, we'll let you come in."
"No…so, there's a Miyuki here?"
They huddled again. Sendoh was very curious about what they were talking about. Then they shouted, "No!!"
And the door was slammed in his face.
"…"
A woman reopened the door, "I'm sorry for my son's impoliteness. What are you selling?"
"Nothing…I'm here to see Miyuki."
"Ah, you must be Sendoh Akira. She went to pick up some groceries with her dad, but she'll be back soon. Please come in."
"You know me?"
"Kaede phoned and said you'll be arriving. He also mentioned you have no place to stay, so why don't you stay here?"
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Rukawa stuffed the suitcase into the front seat and sighed, "Five suitcases…"
"Stop complaining," Rika said, "if you told me sooner, instead of at the last minute, I would've been able to determine what I needed to bring. Plus, I'm the one with the duffle bag in my face and suitcase on my lap. So stop complaining."
"It's your suitcases," he muttered.
"Why did you send my brother to San Francisco, anyways?"
He shrugged.
"How can you not know why you do what you do?" Rika asked.
"Why are you complaining? You're getting a free trip to San Francisco."
"Sir, ma'am, where to?" the driver asked.
"Airport," Rika said, 'duh!'
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"Tadaima!" she shouted.
Her seven year old brother, Alexander came out, "Demon Queen a weird oniisan came to see you."
"Weird? You mean Kaede? Thought he was your leader," Miyuki smirked and went to the living room.
'Sendoh!?' she thought looking at her three other brothers crawling all over him, "…"
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"Miyuki, here have some coffee!" one of the 5 year old twins Christopher or Jonathan said.
"Gee, thanks," Miyuki said eyeing it sceptically.
"Try it! We made it ourselves."
She smirked and took the coffee, "Thanks, Jonathan."
She sipped it, "Um…very good. Milky and it's still warm."
The four of them exchanged looks.
"Really?" Christopher asked
She sipped it again, "Yep."
"Let me try that!" Alex said and grabbed the drink and took a huge gulp and began spitting, "sick!!"
"You rugrats are such bakas. Next time don't make the drink look so gross and smell so sick, if you want to trick me into drinking it," she crackled, "you're no match for me."
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The plane shook.
"We're going to die!" the man sitting next to Rika shouted.
"Please remain seated. We are experiencing some turbulence. But it'll be over soon. I repeat please remain in your seats. Thank-you for you cooperation," came a voice from the intercom.
"Oh, that's what they'd like you to believe. In a couple of minutes this plane will go out of control and we'll crash and burn!"
Rika nudged Rukawa.
"Go away."
"Trade seats with me."
"No," he said yawning.
The creepy psycho guy said, "Since we're going to die, how about a kiss?"
She shook Rukawa, "Trade. Now!"
"No."
"Come on. Don't be shy. Pucker up," the psycho said.
"Can't you see I'm sitting next to a psycho?" she hissed.
"Kiss him," Rukawa said with a shrug.
'I will not strangle him here. I will not kill him. I-'
"We have gotten past the turbulence. Thank-you for your cooperation."
"We'll be fine!" the man said, "this calls for a celebration. You know how lucky we are to be alive? We should celebrate this joyous occasion with a kiss!"
"No. I'm not kissing you," she told the man.
"What if I kiss you," he asked.
'What have I done wrong? Why me? Why am I here?' she groaned inwardly, 'I'll tell you why. Its that baka Rukawa and his stupid phone call!'
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"Where are you going?" Christopher asked.
"Taking Shadow for a walk. Look how fat he is."
"His name is Cream Puff," Gabriel said.
"I can just hear his friends laughing at him," Miyuki said, "plus he's not a white dog."
"His full name's Chocolate Cream Puff," Alex retorted.
Miyuki laughed, "Oh, he's got a first, middle, and last name. I'm so impressed. But I'm going to call him Shadow and there's nothing you can do about it. Mom, dad, I'm take the dog out for a stroll."
"Sendoh, do you mind going with her too?" her dad asked, "it's dangerous for her to go out alone so late."
"It's 7. The sun doesn't set for like 2 hours."
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Rukawa got no clue why he refused to switch seats with Rika, he guess he just liked seeing her squirm and act all annoyed.
"Your breath mint is different from mine," the guy beside her said, "why don't we both eat ours then we can kiss with minty fresh breath and determine which one taste better, yours or mine."
Rika was trembling and it wasn't in fear.
"I think my blue one taste better. What do you think?" he asked.
"Shut up!" Rika shouted waving the plastic knife at him, "I had it up to here with you. I will seriously lodge this knife into your throat and make you shut up!"
Rukawa looked at the poor frighten guy. The people from in front and behind stared at her.
"What are you staring at?!"
"…"
"Miss, please keep your voice down and…" the stewardess began and shut up upon seeing Rika's face.
Rukawa smirked, 'The rest of this trip is going to be peaceful.'
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"Why did you lie?"
"Huh?" Miyuki said.
"In order to avoid me you came all the way here? I thought we were going to speak after the exams."
"We were. But my parent's anniversary is in four days and I thought I should come and celebrate with them. I told Kaede to tell you because like you, his last exam is three days after mine, like yours."
"And when do you plan on going back?"
"In two weeks. I got summer school. Didn't Kaede tell you?" Miyuki asked.
"No."
"So that's why you're here. Kaede gave you his ticket didn't he? What is he thinking? He's such-"
"We might as well talk now then."
'Guess, it's inevitable,' Miyuki thought and smiled, "alright. You want to do the talking or should I?"
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"We're back!" Miyuki called walking it.
'That was a long walk,' Reijiro (Mr. Huyuno) thought.
Sendoh yawned.
"Akira are you sleepy, if so Miyu take him to your room."
"Sure, I'll-my what?! Where am I sleeping?"
"In your room of course," Reijiro said.
"You want me and him to sleep together?" she asked in disbelief.
"Well, we thought you two would have lots to talk about," Saori (Mrs. Huyuno) said, "and I'm sure we could trust Sendoh. He seems like such a gentleman."
"I am," Sendoh added.
"We got a guest room."
"No!! It's my room now!" Alex screamed.
"There's a sofa bed in the basement," she continued.
"Nuh-uh. I'm sleeping there because it's too hot to be sleeping with those two in the summer," Jonathan said.
"Since when!?"
"Starting tonight," Reijiro said.
"Fine. What about Kaede's room?" Miyuki asked.
"You can't touch Kaede-niisan's room!" Chris opposed.
"Yeah! That's our secret base. Didn't you see the sign posted there? All tresser-passers will be par-sa-cuted!" Jonathan said.
"One, it's trespasser and persecuted. Don't use words you can't pronounce and don't understand," Miyuki said making a face.
'They do love to argue,' Reijiro thought.
"You're wrong!" Jonathan said.
"Am not!"
"Is too!"
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"You made us miss the connecting flight," Rika scold.
"Not my fault."
"If it's not your fault who's is it?" she challenged, "you're the one who threaten the steward when he tried to wake you."
"You slept too," he pointed out.
"Oh, don't try to blame this on me. This is all your fault for the crummy planning and close connecting flights."
Rukawa sighed, "Baka."
"Do'aho."
"Better find a place to sleep," Rukawa said.
"Well duh, our next connect flight is in 13 hours."
'Maybe I shouldn't be taking her home,' Rukawa thought, 'she'll probably offend my parents. Shouldn't have asked her to come.'
"Pick up the bags. We got to go," she said.
'She's already commanding me around and we're not even going out yet. Wonder if dad and step-mom is following my plan.'
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"Maybe I should just go to a hotel or something," Sendoh suggested.
"Don't be silly, that'll make us terrible hosts," Saori said and added firmly, "I insist you stay here."
"I'll sleep on the couch," Miyuki said, 'something is so off with them.'
"Sorry honey. Your mother and I plan to watch an all night scare-a-thon and you'd kind of be in our way…" her dad said not so subtly.
"Miyu's always in the way," Gabriel said.
She made a face at him and sigh, she was out of objections, "Fine, Akira follow me."
"I could sleep on the ground," he said.
"You can sleep on the bed too. I got a queen size mattress, plus I trust you. It's just you know how you like to defy your parents…or maybe it's just me," she said, "they're just not acting like themselves."
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Sendoh looked at the stuff animal wall.
"You want to right or left side of the bed?" she asked.
"Right?" he said, "actually I'm not even that sleepy."
"It is just 9. You know what? Ice cream makes you sluggish and sleepy, like you want to hibernate," she said, "and we can sneak into Rukawa's room and see what those rugrats did to the place."
She seemed normal. But why did she have to set such a hard condition? She said she'd go out with me if we can see a shooting star together. The probability of that is slim to none.
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Rukawa frowned at the shouting and opened his eyes, "What do you want?"
"For you to wake up. Plane leaves in two hours," Rika said.
Rukawa yawned, "Plenty of time."
"No there isn't. Stop laying there like a corpse."
"Annoying."
She glared, "Fine! I'll go without you!"
'Like you can carry all that luggage,' Rukawa thought yawning.
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Miyuki blinked and yawned, 'What the!?!?! Who's arm is this?! Oh…right, Sendoh…'
She was debating whether or not to get up. She somehow ended up with her head on his chest and he had his arms around her. If she got up she'd surely wake him.
She looked at the ceiling and smiled, 'Oh, well. Guess it wouldn't kill me to lay here a little longer…'
~TBC