(Enter Eiri Yuki - 8)

There was a distant beeping in the background. Eiri wondered how long ago it was that he had fallen asleep. He didn't mean to, he wanted to be awake when Shuiichi came home because he had a thing or two to say to the little… well there were a lot of colorful words coming to mind to describe him. But either way. What was with the beeping?

"Yuki?" The blackness started to give way to the blinding headache and longing to vomit that took its place.

"Go away Shuiichi, I have a headache, and shut off the alarm." He growled. Erica repressed the urge to shriek. He thought she was Shuiichi! How cute. Eiri turned over in his sleep, pulling the covers up over his head, but because he was used to having a king sized bed as opposed to Erica's little twin bed he would proceed to roll off of the bed, landing on the floor with an ouf!

Erica gasped, jumping out of bed, she had learned now how to sleep with clothes on. Shuiichi was right behind her, and Ryuichi was still sleeping, kicking his foot like a dog.

"Yuki!" They both gasped.

"Shuiichi in stereo." Eiri grumbled wondering how he had gotten so close to the edge of the bed and why there was no carpeting on the floor. Then it hit him… Shuiichi! He would sit up, too fast too fast! Everything put into motion the hung over Eiri would cover his mouth not to vomit on the floor, those golden eyes looking up at the duo in front of him.

"Yuki!" Shuiichi whimpered. Eiri didn't pay any attention to the girl next to Shuiichi or the fact they were not at home. He could come to his feet and embraced Shuiichi.

"Where have you been you baka?" Eiri growled, but Shuiichi just melted into him.

"At first it was sooooo awful. People in America are so mean Yuki. But then Erica made it all better and somehow brought Ryuichi here, and then someone killed Mr. Bear… it was so sad. And now you are here… I missed you." Shuiichi explained, calmer than normal.

"I missed you too. Who is Erica?" He asked.

"Me!" Erica squeeked. Eiri would place a finger against one temple and his thumb against another. That squeek hurt. But not as much as:

"Eeeeeeeeirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" And Ryuichi would tackle him and Shuiichi to the floor.

"Get off!" Eiri growled pushing Ryuichi clear of himself. "You really need to call Tohma, he is worried sick about you. And where am I?"

"We are in America. Massachusetts." Shuiichi said proud that he managed to get it all right. It would be at that time that Eiri managed to get tackled again.

"Yuki-sama!" Erica said jumping on him. Again he was on the floor, this was getting old and fast.

"Off, off off off OFF!" Eiri growled, pushing Ryuichi and Erica off of him. He would then stand up and help Shuiichi up. "How did we get here and how to we go home? I have to apologize to Tohma for last night."

"Last night?" Shuiichi asked, his violet eyes getting suddenly very large and wet looking.

"No!" Eiri said rolling his eyes. "Nothing happened!"

"Is that why you are apologizing?" Ryuichi asked.

"No!" Eiri said again. "I fucking reamed him a new asshole when he didn't deserve it."

Erica was just sitting there watching the group of them. Shuiichi clung to Eiri, kissing him dispite the audience, Erica just blinked as Ryuichi tossed himself down on the bed next to her.

"Aren't they cuuuuuute." He said all dreamily. Erica looked over at Ryuichi and resisted the urge to say something completely corny.

"Erica I fix…ed…" Kate stopped staring at the pair of kissing males and Ryuichi and Erica sitting on her bed. "Wonderful, we have Eiri now. Erica can I talk to you… now."

Erica got all little, Eiri and Shuiichi broke off the kiss and looked at the woman standing in the door with a semi battered looking Mr. Bear in her hands.

"Kuuuuuumaaaagooooooorou!" Once again Kate met the floor thanks to Ryuichi. "He's better… white… er… and… battered… but it is still Kumagorou."

He would cling to the sitter who was still trying to catch her breath.

"Alright, take the rabbit and go on, I have to talk to Erica alone." Kate said getting up and giving Mr. Bear to Ryuichi who took him into the room talking to him like a long lost friend. Erica walked out and into Kate's room, which was right across the hall from her. "There are too many of them, sooner or later your mother is going to notice them, and what about Eiri, he looks like a grown man, he acts like a grown man, he is a grown man! He can't be staying in your bedroom, and your mother won't let him hang out with you… what are you going to do now?"

"I don't know!" Erica whimpered. "they don't have anywhere else to go!"

"Well they can't stay here. You have to talk to them. Now!" Sometimes Kate could be a complete pain in the ass! Erica growled and stormed out of the room, she didn't want to loose her room full of bishies! Damn it! She walked back into the room almost in tears. No sooner had she walked in than was her face grabbed and the serious looking Ryuichi had it.

"She wants us to go huh?" He asked softly. Erica looked into his eyes and nodded.

"It's alright. I have money, we can get a hotel room." Eiri had passed out fully dressed; he still had all of his credit cards.

"And you can come any time you want to." Ryuichi said softly kissing her forehead. She effectively… melted.

"Does that mean you guys are not going to school with me today?" Erica asked.

"I don't know. Eiri can't go can he?" Shuiichi said softly. "I don't want to be without him again."

Even Erica found it hard in her heart to argue that point. She sighed. She wanted them to come to school with her; it was the two of them, now three that had made school fun. She didn't want to be without them.

"What if he got a job there or something?" Erica asked.

"I have a job, I am certainly not looking for another one." Eiri said quirking a brow at her.

"Um, what if he is like… Shuiichi's… something from Japan." She was really trying. Shuiichi looked up at Eiri.

"I don't think that we can go back. I tried and tried to call you and someone else kept answering your phone." He would cling to Eiri's arm. "They said they didn't know who you were. At first I thought it was Tohma, but they got really mad at me."

Eiri took out his phone and opened it.

"No service." He said closing it. "Odd"

"Maybe you could get a job at the school… just until… you… figure out what is going on… something's gotta pay your bills right?" Erica said hopefully a skillful changing of subject.

"All right. I will try for now. But I am not staying." He said walking out of the room.

"Hello Eiri." Kate said as he walked out of the room.

"Bathroom?" Eiri asked coldly.

"Over there." With that Eiri would walk into the bathroom and Kate looked at Erica. "Did you talk to them?"

"Yeah, they are going to get a hotel, and Eiri is going to try to get a job at my school." Erica said. She was sad about them leaving, but she did smile thinking that he would be working at the school, wondering what it is that he would be doing.

Shuiichi walked out into the kitchen and sat down at the table. He seemed a little better than he had been, seeing Eiri had the effect on him. He loved Eiri, which only made it harder to even think about ever being away from him again. And Eiri had missed him, and admitted that he missed him, which was a first for Shuiichi really.

"Well then you better get ready before any more men mysteriously appear in your room." Kate said walking out of the kitchen to go tend to the girls who both wanted to wear the same dress and the minor argument had turned into a major blow out.

"She is angry?" Eiri said standing in the door of the bathroom. He looked like hell in some respects, but was still as attractive as ever. He had dark circles under his eyes from not sleeping enough, and that pallid look that you got when you were hung over, but other than that he was still pretty.

"A little." Shuiichi said softly. "It must be stressful for her to have all of us magically appear here, she has been hiding us from Erica's mother and Charlie."

Eiri nodded some as Erica went around getting them some breakfast. They all ate silently accept for Eiri, who instead of eating would get a cup of coffee and smoke a cigarette.

"I am going to have to get a car and try to find a place to live while you are at school with her." Eiri said softly. "I will apply at the school, but there is no saying I will get a job right away."

"But Yuki…" Shuiichi started.

"No Shuiichi. I need to get things ready so that we have things we need and I can't do that with you under foot." Eiri said sternly almost as if talking to a child.

"Under foot?" Shuiichi said, almost as if it hurt.

"That's not nice." Erica said glaring at Eiri some. "If you missed him so much you should be nicer to him."

"That's alright Erica." Shuiichi said as Eiri just stared blankly at her. "He's right. I would just be in the way."

Erica looked at Shuiichi doubtingly. It was one thing when reading a book to think that Eiri's cold demeanor was attractive, but she thought now that they were real they might be a little more loving together. That was silly, they hadn't changed any, they just came out of the book just the way they were. Sometimes though, she wondered why Shuiichi put up with Eiri.

"Erica." Ryuichi said coming out of her room. "My pants are stinky."

"Um…" Taylor said looking at him; she supposed that they would be, seeing as they had been wearing them for two days for Ryuichi and three for Shuiichi, who looked up as if he agreed with Ryuichi.

"Go see if anything of your mother's will fit them." Kate said ushing the girls through the kitchen. Lisa would stop and walk up to Eiri, Raven on the other hand stood clear of him, she thought he was kind of scary but Lisa wasn't scared of anyone.

"Hi." She said. Not flinching as Eiri's cold gold eyes looked down at her.

"Hello." He said flatly.

"I'm Lisa and I have to go to school." She said. "I am in the first grade, Miss Heart's class, Room 115."

He just blinked at her. Not knowing what to do when she hugged around his legs.

"You're so pretty!" She announced, Eiri looked up and then down at her again.

"Handsome Lisa." Kate said patiently. Lisa was a little slow, she had PDD, which was like autism, and couldn't really get all thoughts out correctly, talking more like a toddler than a child at times. "Boys are Handsome and Eiri is a boy."

She looked up at him and smiled. He couldn't help but smile back at her a little bit.

"You're so handsome!" And again she attached herself to his leg. "Do you like me?"

"I guess you're all right." Eiri said questioningly.

"You're so nice to me." She said running off to get her coat and bag on. He watched her go, not really sure what to make of her. He would grin softly and then take another drag off of his cigarette.

"You're sweet sometimes." Shuiichi said from the table. Eiri just huffed at him and sipped his coffee.