Tricks of the Trade
Disclaimer- What are you crazy? Of course I own all this stuff and the patent to the Slinky.
Chapter Two- What Was I Thinking"Well, this is another fine mess my headmistress has gotten me into!" Rei exclaimed unhappily.
"Ano, Rei chan," Usagi said quietly. "You said so yourself as a second year you volunteered to help out with any exchange students."
"Baka Usagi! I know that!"
"Then what's the problem?" Makoto asked patiently. "I mean, unless you volunteered to help out with the elementary school's musical at the same time or, maybe the Juuban Carnival. Like the last time you signed on to do two things at once then realized how stressful it was."
Rei said nothing else, but nodded her head and looked like she was going to kill her brunette friend.
Makoto caught the look then quickly added, "Well, this time it's not your fault since you had no idea when your school would be accepting new girls."
"Well, no, actually this time it's ojii chan's fault. There are two male tourists who are coming for the Cherry Blossom Festival and all and they want to experience a real Shinto temple and everything so they decided to call ojii chan and ask to stay here."
"That won't be too bad." Usagi said optimistically, "where are they from?"
"One is from America and the other is from I guess Europe or something." Rei replied. "But they know each other, the European guy claims from Eaton."
"Eat-in?" Usagi asked sounding confused. "Isn't that what they do at restaurants?"
"No, Usagi chan, I think it's a school in England." Makoto replied laughing. "Ano, Rei chan, how are you going to keep your little secret from the visitors?"
"I haven't thought that far ahead Mako chan. But I do know that they should be arriving from the airport soon." Right after Rei finished her sentence a horn was heard in the temple yard and Rei's two guests followed by their hostess rushed outside to see what all the fuss was about.
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"Konichiwa!" Usagi called out in her usual perky voice. "Welcome to Juuban!"
Trowa winced; he sincerely hoped that this girl with her blonde hair in strange buns wasn't Rei. If she was, Trowa would take up stock in whichever company made Imotrex and buy a few cases.
"Uh, you're not Hino Rei, are you?" Duo asked getting out of the taxi. Trowa had been in such a hurry to get out of the vehicle he had forgotten to pay the man, so Duo had to toss in a few yen.
"No, I'm Tsukino Usagi." Usagi gestured behind her. "The girl with the long hair is Rei chan." She turned around and waved at the two girls. "Ne! Rei chan Mako chan. This guy thought I was you Rei."
"And we all thank whatever powers that be that you aren't Hino Rei san." Trowa replied sounding more grateful than he should have.
"Are you two the tourists I'm expecting?" Rei asked ignoring the whole exchange.
"Yes, we are. I'm Trowa Barton and this is my friend Duo Maxwell."
"Hey." Duo replied looking at Makoto with stars in his eyes. The thought that he was going to be wearing a skirt come tomorrow completely slipped his mind for the moment.
"Hey." Makoto said back. She looked about as love sick as Duo at that moment.
"Ano, Mako chan, I think Rei chan has work to get done so we should probably get going." Usagi said, for once being the voice of reason instead of the voice that annoys everybody.
Makoto didn't reply or move, so Usagi took her friend by the wrists and dragged her off none so gently to the steps leading down to the street. While walking down the steps, Makoto finally found her voice again and said, " Ne ,Usagi I think that boy looks like my sempai." It's just a guess, but Usagi face faulted anime style with a giant sweatdrop.
After her friends left, Rei decided to allow the men into the temple house since they were probably tired and hungry. "You guys look about my age. Shouldn't you be in school or something?" She asked as she led the visitors into the house.
"We've been home schooled." Duo replied quickly.
"Oh, I see. I guess. So, what brings you to Japan?"
"An airplane."
Trowa smacked Duo on the head with his duffle bag. "Idiot, she means why did we decide to visit Japan." The green-eyed man bowed politely. "Please excuse my friend miss, he's suffering from jet-lag and hunger so he has no idea what he's saying."
Rei laughed softly. "As you can see, I have a friend like that who does such things without the aide of jet-lag. Of course, I'll show you to your rooms now. Please follow me."
"I thank you for your hospitality miss." 'I thank the goddess of mercy that that bun head wasn't you.'
"Oh, well, don't expect too much of it. I have to become a student guide at my school for some new exchange students. So that will take up a bit of my time."
"Exchange students?" Duo squeaked then composed himself and asked in a normal voice. "Where from?"
"Well, oddly enough, one girl is from America, her name is Devonney Matthews. Then the other one is from France or something, I believe her name is Tatiana Boulyn.
"Well, isn't that something?" Trowa said.
"Yes, it is." Rei agreed. "It's getting a bit late, and I have to get to school early to go over everything with the headmistress."
"Then we should probably all get to bed, it's about ten o' clock."
"You may want to fix your watch. It's only 8:45."
"Yes, well, my friend and I are rather tired, isn't that right, Duo?"
"I guess so" Duo replied casually. "Hey, does that tall girl come around often?" Rei said nothing, but Trowa smacked him in the head. "Hey, I was just wonderin'" Duo protested rubbing his head.
"Here is your room, the bathroom is across the hall. If you need anything, please do hesitate to call me since I have to go to school tomorrow. You should be able to find Yuuichiro with no problem. He's the guy that looks like he could use a haircut. Good night."
Rei left the room after that so Trowa and Duo were left to their own devices. "Shouldn't we try to get ready for tomorrow?" Duo finally asked, sounding like the specially trained soldier he was supposed to be.
"I guess so." Trowa muttered, but I really don't want to do it. The emerald-eyed man groaned loudly and began sifting through his toiletries bag for the razor and shaving cream he had brought along, when he turned around, he saw Duo standing in front of a mirror and trying to rip a piece of paper from his chin. "What are you doing?"
"Waxing my facial hair." The other man paused and tore the paper from his skin. "Ouch! I think next time I'll go with some Nair and the razor. I have no idea how a woman can do this."
"I think it comes with years of training. Now pass me those eyebrow shaping papers."
After a few grueling minutes, Trowa managed to shape his sandy bushy eyebrows into perfect arches. Duo on the other hand still hadn't recovered from the pain of waxing his chin, so he'd decided to forgo the whole eyebrow waxing and focus on shaving his legs, which posed another problem for the two men since neither one had ever shaved his legs in his entire life.
"Maybe if you prop your leg up on the toilet?" Duo suggested to Trowa when they had crowded into the bathroom across the hall, where Rei had told them to go. Trowa had stripped down to boxers with cows on them and his tank top and was now perilously trying to shave and appendage with a sharp object. Needless to say, the poor guy was a bit nervous.
"Like this?" Trowa asked gesturing to his leg.
"Yeah, now wet it down with the wash cloth then put the shaving cream on it." Trowa did as he was instructed then picked up his disposable razor, Duo freaked out. "You can't use that thing! It only has one blade! Lucky for me I brought a spare one of these." The braided plot handed his friend a pink Venus razor. "Here, this will give you a much better shave."
"I don't even want to know how you know that." Trowa replied taking the razor from Duo's out stretched hand.
"I read it on the box."
Trowa said nothing after that and instead began to shave his hairy man legs. Of course, he was going way too fast around his ankles and gave himself a rather deep cut, which started to bleed all over the place. Not knowing what else to do, Trowa freaked out and had to be calmed down by Duo.
"Relax, it's just a flesh wound. Look, if you're having this much trouble maybe you should do it in the bathtub instead and I'll leave you alone." And with that Duo left the bathroom and began to look for his boobs, he knew he had packed them somewhere in his suitcase and he wanted to make sure they looked natural in the bra he bought.
Left to his own devices, Trowa decided to try Duo's suggestion by filling the bathtub and shaving his legs in there. After filling the tub and easing himself in he found that Duo was right, but Trowa wasn't going to ask how the other man knew about such things the whole concept was scary. After finishing his task, Trowa wandered back into his room where he found Duo throwing things around and saying, 'Where are my boobs?'
Will, Duo find his boobs? Will Trowa like wearing the T&A School for Girl's Uniform? You'll find out in the next chapter. For now read and review and maybe next time you'll see your name up here along with these fine people:
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