(Go Play In Traffic - 10)

They all piled up into the suit that Eiri had gotten for them. It was large enough to accommodate them and a few others.

"Just in case." Eiri had said softly. Erica loved it. No rules, no mom, no Kate, just her and her new friends. All of them were older than her, but she didn't care, she was happy!

"MARIO'S ALL SPARKLY!" Ryuichi yelled. Erica was playing the Super Nintendo that she had borrowed from Kate, telling her mother that she was taking it over to Amy's house. She had gotten a star, which made Mario glitter while he was running. Erica was so busy laughing at him that she ended up dying. "Awwww… make him sparkly Erica… sparkly sparkly MARIO!"

They had effectively been ignoring the cuddling gay couple over there, and just played the Nintendo, which was fine, it was alone time, at Erica saw it, with Ryuichi.

"Yuki!" Ryuichi yelled. "Mario's sparkly!"

"That's great." Eiri growled softly. He didn't want to talk to anyone right now. Little… erm… busy.

With that said Ryuichi went back to looming over Erica while she was trying to defeat the level, laughing so hard because he kept singing the Mario's Sparkly song. She just couldn't get over it. She still had Kumagorou, he was sitting in her lap, and Ryuichi said that he wanted to watch the game so he could stay there for now.

There was a knock on the door.

"FOOD!" Ryuichi yelled running to the door and pulling it open, he took the pizzas from the delivery and skipped back into the room. "Yuki. Money!"

"Yeah yeah yeah." Yuki said, dislodging himself from a cuddling Shuiichi to come to the door and pay the man. They came in and sat down, eating pizza and talking. Even Eiri seemed to be getting into a friendlier mood now that he was sure he had a stable situation.

"You! Leave!" Eiri growled at Ryuichi, he stopped kissing Shuiichi and glared at the other.

"But… why!" Ryuichi whimpered.

"Because I can't do this with you looming over us!" Eiri growled at him.

"I am not looming." Ryuichi pronounced as he was squatting quite literally on the edge of the bed, staring at them. "I am bored."

"Well you are not joining!" Eiri growled.

"Ewww! No!" Ryuichi squeaked.

"Well than leave! Go play in traffic or something!"

Erica was laying in her room, singing along to the CD she had of Nittle Grasper and Bad Luck music as Ryuichi snuck up under her window.

"She's pretty good." Shuiichi said sitting there. He was leaning against the wall under her window. He just sat for a little bit thinking. He missed home some, but that was all right, this was a new adventure right?

She didn't know all the words exactly, but she had asked him to teach her Japanese, and he had, with Eiri's help agreed that he would. Then she would know what she was singing and the exact way to sing it. Then, maybe he would ask her to be a back up vocalist when she got older. Too bad he didn't realize that Nittle Grasper didn't really exist here.

When she stopped singing he would look in the window, she was gone, maybe she had gone to the bathroom, but he took that moment to climb in the window and was sitting on the edge of her bed when she came back in.

She jumped almost screaming before she realized whom it was sitting there.

"Ryu, what are you doing here?" She asked softly.

"They kicked me out." He said shrugging. "They say I needed to go play in traffic."

"Awe, that is so mean!" Erica said softly.

"No. There were gonna…" He looked around and whispered… "Do it…" Blush.

Erica saw him blush and laughed. She just shook her head.

"What are you blushing for?" Erica asked laughing. She would turn off her music and lay back on the bed. Ryuichi sat there talking to her until the both fell asleep. Erica woke up that morning and looked over, she couldn't help but smile seeing Ryuichi sleeping calmly next him.

"Hey." She said softly brushing his hair out of his face. He didn't wake up; he just squirmed a little bit and settled back down. Glancing around she saw that there were no more men in her bed, only Ryuichi. The alarm hadn't gone off yet, but she could hear her mother moving around getting ready for work. She would pull the blankets over Ryuichi to cover him and get out of bed to go to the bathroom. She got detained talking to her mother, and it took her almost a half an hour to come back in.

When she came back he was sitting up, with her blanket wrapped around his shoulders. When she first walked in he had a very serious look on his face, but as soon as he saw her, his child like demeanor came back and he would wave at her, all elated like!

"Are you going to school?" Erica asked. Ryuichi nodded, he was holding Mr. Bear to his chest and her sketchbook sat next to him opened to the page with Mr. Bear on it.

"It is really good." He said softly, looking out the window and then smiling. "Really, really good."

"Is something wrong?" She asked gently.

"No." He said, those wide green eyes looking at her, a smile on his lips as he brushed his dark hair out of his eyes. "Nothing at all, why do you ask?"

"You just looked, all, like something was wrong when I came into the room." Erica said sitting next to him. She would tuck her feet up under her. Ryuichi smiled and then just shook his head.