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"So how'd it go?" Renkotsu asked, not looking up from the book he was reading.

"They were all boring!" Jakotsu complained. "Where's Suikotsu? Is he going to get more food or what?" He asked the older man.

"He already left."

"Okay." Jakotsu said nodding. He then slid up behind Renkotsu and started playing with his bandana. "So how are you?" He asked teasingly, just to annoy his superior.

He sighed. "I'm fine, though I was better before you came home."

Bankotsu smiled. "Jakotsu leave him alone. Before he turns into super- meanie on you."

"He's lucky I haven't already." Renkotsu murmured, turning the page of his book.

The door opening signaled their other friends' arrival. The 'mother' of the house, of sorts. "So, how'd it go?" He asked Jakotsu and Bankotsu, handing them some bulging grocery bags.

"They were all boring." Jakotsu repeated from earlier.

"I see." Suikotsu mused. "Well...I got everything you guys asked for, in bulk, like you asked."

"Good!" he said happily.

Renkotsu nodded, and Bankotsu smiled. "You're a really great guy Suikotsu. You know that right?" He told him, taking the bags Suikotsu had forced him to carry into the kitchen, where he and Jakotsu began putting up the food.

"Well, it keeps them quiet at least." Renkotsu said, returning to his book.

"Think of it this way, we do all the mandatory work, and you and Suikotsu bring in the money." Jakotsu told him, matter-of-factly.

"That's true."

"But why do we want a whelp around, again?" Jakotsu asked.

"It teaches responsibility." Renkotsu offered.

"It'll give this place some life." Bankotsu added, also agreeing with Renkotsu.

"And the girls like guys with kids...." Renkotsu mused quietly.

"It's not a puppy, Renkotsu." Suikotsu said rolling his eyes good- naturedly. "Besides, you're the only one that needs a girl or is interested in them." He added laughing. Seeing as, Jakotsu and Bankotsu didn't like girls and he was occupied at the moment.

"Hey Suikotsu, if you like your girl so much, propose already, You've been going out for forever."

"I'll propose the day you find yourself a girlfriend, Renkotsu." He offered. "And if you don't find one in a month I was planning to do it anyway, on our 4th anniversary."

He gave a tight nod, and turned a page.

Jakotsu gave them both odd looks, and shook his head. "What is it with men liking women?" He asked himself, walking up the stairs of their large house. It had been Bankotsu's fathers, but when he died it was left the four of them. "I'm going to sleep if you don't mind." He called down the stairs.

"We don't mind in the least!" Renkotsu called back.

"That's an idea, let's go to sleep. I know you have to go to work tomorrow, Renkotsu, and so does Suikotsu, so maybe you'll be in a good mood if you get lots of sleep." Bankotsu said cheerfully, clapping his hands together.

Renkotsu ignored his comment, but got up anyway and went off to his room. Bankotsu ran up the steps to his room, which was right beside Jakotsu's.

Suikotsu was the last to go to bed, shutting the lights as he went to his room.

"Are you goin' to go back?" Renkotsu asked as they were sitting around the table.

"Tomorrow." Jakotsu said eating some cereal.

"How long will it take to officially adopt a child if you find one?" Suikotsu wanted to know.

"A few months if you decide to keep it."

"Oh."

"Well I have to go to work." Renkotsu said, standing up and leaving.

"As do I." Suikotsu said, exiting as well.

Bankotsu got up and grabbed his laptop. "Hey, lets check out Kouga's webpage Jakotsu...we can see what we've got for choices when we go back."

"Sure."

He clicked around until he found a page with names, age, pictures and other information on the adoptable children. "All the same as before." Jakotsu said.

"No, look a new one, Souten Raidon."

"Wasn't she the one who was brought back while we were there?"

"Yeah, Hiten's little sister." Bankotsu agreed nodding.

Jakotsu looked at the picture closer. "Kid seemed to have spunk."

"But...why does it say she's a boy?" he asked confused.

"Cause Kouga's stupid." He told him.

"That's true." He said with a laugh.

"BANKOTSU!" A voice from downstairs yelled.

"WHAT IS IT?!" He yelled back.

"Dinner!" Renkotsu yelled up the stairs.

"Alright, we're coming!" he turned to Jakotsu. "C'mon Jakotsu."

"Wouldn't want to keep the old grump waiting," he said getting up, and they both walked downstairs.

They sat down in the kitchen, just the four of them, like always. Eating, talking, arguing, that was their life usually. And it got rather dull. "You guys are boring." Jakotsu told Suikotsu and Renkotsu.

"Good, that means I'm doing my job." Suikotsu told him.

Jakotsu smiled as Renkotsu glared at him. "Stupid old grump, that's what you are." Jakotsu informed him.

He huffed. "I'm not old." Renkotsu protested. "I'm only 24."

"You're older than me, so you're still considered old." Jakotsu told him.

"Suikotsu is older than me." Renkotsu protested.

"So? He's cooler than you." Jakotsu said, sticking his tongue out at Renkotsu. "And he's NICE sometimes."

Suikotsu just shrugged smiling a little. "I'm nice sometimes!" Renkotsu protested.

"Really? Name one time you were nice." Jakotsu said.

"Well, I...." He stopped, unable to think of anything.

"Exactly." Jakotsu said pointedly.

"...Stop it Jakotsu." Bankotsu said smiling a little.

"Alright." He said pouting a little.

"Loser." Renkotsu teased.

"Well," Jakotsu said to him. "I'll bet that when we do get a kid, you won't be able to get him or her to actually like you."

"I bet I can." Renkotsu countered. "I'll give you twenty bucks if this thing don't like me in a week of getting it. And I'll do all your shares of housework...for a month."

"And I'll do the same if it DOES like you."

"And remember our deal Renkotsu, you get a girlfriend, and I propose to Kikyou." Suikotsu interjected.

"Yeah, yeah."

Bankotsu rolled his eyes. "Welcome to my life." He muttered to himself.

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