Kurama's a little OOC in this chapter. Bear with me!
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"Naoko?" Kurama called, as he walked into the rooms that had been 'assigned' to the girls while things were being sorted. Sukina and Mukuro were busy explaining to the Enki and the Council their relationship while Naoko waited for them. Alina, Carmen, Jenni and Serene were with Shigure, who had to figure a way to heal the injured Afro-American twins in a few hours and how best to revive Serene's body so that her soul could return. The first was no difficult. The second was… nearly impossible.
"I have faith in you," was what Mukuro had said to the plastic surgeon.
"I'm in here!" Naoko called out from a door to his left. That would be the study, Kurama thought, walking into it.
"What are you doing here? I thought you were going to be at the meeting," he found Naoko lying on a comfy armchair, her legs over the sides. Kurama found himself staring at her long, slender tanned legs (this is shameless, I know :p)
"If Shuura, Mukuro, Enki, Yusuke and the others can't keep my sister alive, nothing will. And I thought you were going to be there as well," she said, pulling herself up over the back of the armchair to look at him at the door, her legs disappearing momentarily from view.
"Touché. I'm here to get an answer from you," he said, moving to sit in the armchair opposite her.
"On?" one eyebrow shot up as she turned to look at him.
"Why did you guys leave? Or is that a question I should know the answer to by now?" he asked her.
Naoko shrugged. She put away the book she was reading on the coffee table between them and threw her legs over the armchair again. Kurama could not help but notice that she was wearing black shorts and a sleeveless tied white shirt. Her sneakers, he noted as he looked for a safe place to put his eyes, were next to the chair's legs on the floor.
"You should know the answer to that by now. My sister and I work best alone, but if we had to work in a team it would have been with those girls. Besides, you guys weren't suppose to follow us all the way through. You were the back-ups. The last hopes if the girls and I failed," she said, seeming not to take note that she and her friends were the most important people in the world right now.
"Uh huh. Somehow I find that rather hard to believe," he said, fixing her with a cold stare.
Naoko returned his stare. They remained like that for a few moments until someone knocked on the door to the rooms. It was Rinku. "They want you guys in the throne room," he said. Both of them got up and immediately went.