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Tsuzuki hadn't had an easy time getting all the roses into his apartment, the spare room was filled with the damn things though... However flattered he was by the sheer mass of flowers, it was still slightly impractical... Well, the admirer was being a hopeless romantic...
Tsuzuki removed his shoes, putting them on the shoe rack, carefully inspecting his other shoes. There were no little presents from Nanashi. He walked into his lounge, finding Hisoka playing with the kitten, brushing noses with it as he lifted it up. Nanashi pressed his paws to Hisoka's cheek, and he smiled.
It wasn't that Tsuzuki hadn't often seen Hisoka smile. In fact, he was the one who had seen the boy's rare smile first, but this time it was different. So innocent. So pure... Playing with a kitten had made him giggle and act... his age?
The doorbell rang, and it was all Tsuzuki could do not to groan. Why did moments like these have to be wrecked by idiot house callers? It was probably just Watari coming around to see if he'd managed to figure out who the admirer was already. He heard Hisoka get up behind him, and turned to see the boy cuddling the kitten as he went to see who was at the door also. Curiosity killed the cat, so to speak...
"Tsuzu-" Tatsumi paused, seeing Hisoka stood behind the dark haired man. Tsuzuki saw the look that passed between to two of them, then they nodded to each other.
"I was wondering if you have a spare room? I have had to take on a young charge due to one of the cases and I think that you'll be more capable of looking after her than I am. Plus I don't have a particularly homely house, seeing as I'm working most of the time," That was a low blow. Tsuzuki shrugged, letting Tatsumi in. He then saw that following him was a young girl of about fourteen. Her black hair was cropped short, typically she had large dark eyes. She was dressed in her school uniform, a green blazer, red bow and extremely short skirt.
"Hi! I'm Yuzuriha!" She replied. Tsuzuki shook her hand, surely this girl didn't need babysitting. She looked perfectly capable to him. "I'm fourteen years old and I've been in Meifu for three days. I've heard a lot about the two of you, Tsuzuki-san, Kurosaki-san. You're the elite of the shinigami, aren't you?" She rambled. Hisoka seemed to be pulling away from her, and as she approached the kitten screeched and clawed over Hisoka's shoulder to get away.
"Shit!" Hisoka grabbed at his neck where the cat had scratched him. It was already healing over. Yuzuriha was watching him carefully. There was no reason for the kitten to act that way but Tsuzuki felt a slight change in the magical levels when she drew nearer. There was something strange and dangerous about her magic.
"Oh, I didn't know you had a cat. Inuki will try to be good!" She said brightly. Tsuzuki blinked and looked around, not quite understanding who Inuki was.
"I have a dog that no one can see. He's called Inuki. Only those who are caught up in the fate of the End of the World can see him!" She chimed. Hisoka's eyebrows disappeared into his hair line, and Tszuki and he seemed to share the same thought for a moment. It was 'Wacko'.
"Well, the spare room is over there," Tsuzuki gestured to a door. Tatsumi lead Yuzuriha over to it, opening it and quickly being buried under an avalanche of roses.
"Oh, Tatsumi-san, we put the roses in there," Hisoka said sarcastically as he passed. Tatsumi gave him a withering look and Yuzuriha chuckled.
After much debating and a few violent protestations from Yuzuriha and Hisoka (the two didn't really see eye to eye. Hisoka was introverted and kept to himself, Yuzuriha was loud and wanted it her way or the high way), they managed to remove the roses onto the balcony. Yuzuriha arranged all her things in the room and came out.
"Oh cool! You have that new games console!" She giggled, running over to the TV. Tsuzuki, Tatsumi and Hisoka looked at each other, then at a brand new games console with a big red bow around it.
"No way... How on earth did they get in while we were helping Yuzuriha?" Hisoka breathed. Tsuzuki didn't really care, he was opening the envelope that came with it eagerly, smiling with anticipation on playing on his very own games console. He'd only ever played arcade games before, and was looking forward to playing games in his own home.
"My dearest Tsuzuki. So you can remain a child forever. Never grow up."
"You have a secret admirer Tsuzuki-san?" Yuzuriha asked, her eyes bright. Tsuzuki nodded, looking at the message once more he chuckled and grabbed hold of a controller.
"Budge up, we're going to play on the new console!"
Hisoka could have sworn that Tsuzuki's face had literally turned into the letter face: .
Yuzuriha is from CLAMP's X 1999. You may think she's rather strange by the way she introduces herself. Well, that was virtually lifted from the TV series introduction of her character when she bursts into the room and just says "Hi! I'm Yuzuriha! I'm fourteen years old."