A/N: Second chapter up as I promised. Not much action yet. I'm moving the mission to the third or fourth chapter. Now's more of introduction still. Gomnasai! Enjoy.


Chapter 2: No more Aya

The day was bright and clear and the "Kitty in the House" flower shop was bustling with life during after school hours as always. The girls enjoyed going to the shop for two reasons. The first was the variety of beautiful flowers and wondrous aroma there, while the second was obviously eye candy.

However, those who looked into the shop today were disappointed to find only three men there tending to the shop. Yohji, Ken and Aya were present but Omi was missing.

"Ken it's a mad house in here! Where's Omi?" Yohji yelled across the room as he carried a heavy flower pot towards him.

"Omi should be back by now. Didn't school end two hours ago?"

"See! Even Aya is back!" exclaimed Yohji as he noticed a pretty raven haired girl in two long braids trying to walk into the shop with all the crowding girls. "She's in the same school as him if I'm not wrong? He didn't even escort her back as planned. The loving brother -" he nodded his head to the overly busy Aya at the cashier. "– will surely have him killed when he gets back. That cheeky brat must have gone out on a date!"

The new girl that was working there, Aya was not on the rest of the girls' list of interests. Often, the hottest topic would be about the four guys. But ever since her sudden appearance, she was now often the topic of gossip among the girls whenever they wanted to "talk" about something.

Who is she? Why does she have the same name as that cool guy, Aya? The girls were absolutely green with envy. Who was she to be the only rose among the four cute thorns? All the four men were so nice to her. Only when they found out that she was Aya's sister did the finger pointing and bad mouthing stop. Besides, after a few weeks, everyone grew to like Aya. She was a quiet and sweet girl.

"Oy Ay... er... RAN!" bellowed Yohji above the chattering girls and a few other customers. "Announcing the safe arrival of your imouto!"

"Yeah only if she doesn't get trampled on first," added Ken in an undertone as he eyed her through the glass from inside. She was trying her best to get through the crowd but was shoved around instead.

Aya Fujiyama was now Ran Fujiyama again. There were a few incidents contributing to the decision of the change of name. The guys couldn't take it after two weeks. The following situations happen frequently:

... ... ... ... ... Flashback 1 ... ... ... ... ...

"Aya"

"Nani." "Nani?"

"No no no, not you! Her!"

... ... ... ... ... Flashback 2 ... ... ... ... ...

"Aya go fetch that pot there for the new jasmine tree"

"Hai!" said the girl standing up. Her brother would then make her sit and go to do the heavy task himself.

... ... ... ... ... Flashback 3 ... ... ... ... ...

"Konnichiwa! I'd like to speak with Aya please?" asked a guy who went into the shop one day. After he asked his question, the guy became very interested with the floor. He was shy and red in the face but seemed quite determined. He heard footsteps coming towards him and it stopped. At that moment, he bowed his head, thrust out the little frilly present he has been holding and said,

"Aya! I like you a lot! Will you go with me on a date!"

"Ting ting!" There was the sound of the bell as someone came in to the shop behind the guy.

.-sweat drops-

There was a stunned silence except the rocking chair of the old Granny.

The guy looked up to see a tall, stern looking man with flaming red hair. Shocked, he could only manage a "You...you... are..." A girl giggled softly behind him but he was too embarrassed and preoccupied to care.

"Aya Fujiyama"

The other three guys at the far end of the room were trying with all their might not to laugh. Yohji had tears in his eyes.

"Nana...na..na.ni...go.re..." he muttered weakly. "Demo..."

"Iie." (No) Aya said coolly and turned to walk away.

The poor guy felt he was suddenly dragged outside from behind out the door again. When the sound of the bell signified that Aya and the guy was safely outside, the whole room erupted with laughter.

"Aya! Now we know why you treat the girls so indifferently!" said Ken between laughs.

"Explains why you keep shunning girls! Hahahaha!" added Yohji who was tearing and slapping Ken back with good humour.

"Haha! That was Kei from my class. He was telling me he was interested in Aya. Hahaha!" chirped in Omi, wheezing with laughter.

Aya grimaced

After that incident, no love letters were delivered by hand. Kei must have warned the other guys not to do so. (Beware of the red head! He is scary!) All was delivered through post. It was even more annoying for Aya when he keeps receiving his sister's love letters than people coming and passing the thing to her themselves. Yohji was tearing every week and Ken and Omi were simply aching with laughter every single occasion.

... ... ... ... Flashback 4 ... ... ... ...

"Aya"

"Nani." "Nani?

"No no not you! Him!"

... ... ... Flashback 5 ... ... ... ... ...

"Aya come here" said the old lady affectionately.

He walked to the old woman wondering what on earth she wanted. She never talks much.

"Come closer so that Granny can see you" she said adjusting her enormous spectacles.

He did.

"You've grown so tall in just one day!"

"?"

"Come, turn around and bend down. Granny has something for you."

"?" He did as he was told. After all, the old woman had been with them a long time. Ken, Omi and Yohji stared.

The old granny whipped out a beautiful, shiny, pink and frilly ribbon and tied it to his hair. "There you go. You look very pretty."

"!..." Ken, Omi and Yohji stifled their laughter badly behind.

"It was my daughter's you know."

"... ..."

She squinted and took hold of his hair again and brought it closer to her face. "Aya wasn't your hair black yesterday? You dyed your hair red?"

sweat drops-

"Kamaimasen(never mind). Red is an auspicious colour. Now go run along."

(Aya grimanced) -more sweat drops-

... ... ... ... ... Flashback 6 ... ... ... ... ...

"OMI! Can you fetch the towel for me please? It's on my bed." shouted Yohji in the shower.

"I'm busy checking the GPS satellite signal of you know what! Ken! Go get Yohji his towel!"

"I'm fixing the radio! Aya! You go!"

Aya found a yellow towel by the bed and went to the bathroom to pass it to Yohji.

Before Aya could knock on the door, Yohji opened the door wide. "You want me to freeze to death? Why so..." The next thing he knew, it came like a bullet...

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" screamed Aya.

Omi and Ken came rushing into the room first. Aya was the last to run in. He had heard his sister's scream all the way from upstairs and was terribly worried. The three young men were faced by Yohji who was in full view, dripping wet, cold, frustrated and quite naked.

... ... ... ... ... End of Flashback ... ... ... ... ...

That last incident was the last straw. Thus everyone agreed that Aya should use his old name again. He was nowRan Fujiyama. Just like old times.


A/N: I tried to add more question marks and exclaimation marks but the system thingy only shows one in the end so I gave up..I can't even use the asterisk! It keeps disappearing every time I put it in. -pouts-

I'm not sure whether I should go on about the day. Because of the name of this chapter, I think I should stop here. Chapter 3 will be a continuation of the same day. I'll put in more action then -n.n-

(Much awaited and appreciated reviews...)

Thanks for reading!