Padfootlet: welp…here's ch 4….

Disclaimer: See ch 1

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"Hey Tal! Have you seen my keys?" Korimi yelled from the kitchen. Tala could hear her shoving things to the side as she desperately looked for the keys to her car. "Damn it I am going to be so late for my shift tonight! Boris is gonna kill me!" he heard her curse as something fell onto her foot.

Sighing, he set down the Harry Potter book to help his sister. 'Figures she would interrupt me at an interesting part,' He thought to himself.

"Where did you last see them?" He asked, moving the large stack of papers that were on the bar.

"I don't remember, I was so tired after last night's shift that—"

"Hold one…" Tala stopped in mid search. "Isn't tonight Friday?"

"Yeah? So?"

"Isn't tonight strip night at the club?"

Korimi paled, and straightened up. "Well…yeah…" She said carefully, eyeing her brother carefully, trying to decide if he was going to blow up or not. "But they're short a few bartenders tonight…I have to go in…plus I'm getting paid over time so—"

A muscle twitched at the corner of Tala's mouth, before it turned into a frown. "You do know that you don't even have to work with all the money we have right?" He said, forcing himself to be calm.

Korimi shifted uneasily, when Brooklyn saved her from answering. "Hey Korimi…I found your keys! They were in your—" He cut himself short when he saw a furious looking Tala and an uncomfortable looking Korimi. "Uh…well…me and Rei are going out tonight…here are your keys…see ya!" He tossed the keys at Korimi, who caught them, and hurried out of the kitchen. Brooklyn wasn't scared of much, but an angry Tala was not something he wanted to mess with.

Grabbing the keys Korimi rushed out of the large apartment.

"Don't think this means you're off the hook!" Tala yelled after her, before the door slammed shut.

"You really are too protective of her you know that?" Rei asked, standing at the doorway of the kitchen.

"Your sister isn't working in a strip club is she?" Tala growled out.

"No, my sister is an accountant in the United States," Rei said. "What's you're point?"

Tala let out a frustrated sigh. "I thought hornbag said you two were going out?"

Rei gave a confused look. "No…" he said slowly. "Brooklyn just left for work…"

"He's not a stripper is he?" Tala muttered under his breath.

Rei rolled his eyes. "You really need to get over the whole stripper thing you know that, Tal?" Rei said, soundingexasperated. "Besides…you were the one that slept with one…."

"That's different," Tala said.

"How?" The neko-jin raised an eyebrow at his friend.

"It just is, ok?"

Just then, the phone rang, and Rei, being the closest to the phone, picked up the receiver. "Hello? Rei speaking." He blinked before giving a small smile. "Sure he's right here…and next time I see you I'm gonna hurt you for saying that…" he said, before handing the receiver to his friend.

"Hello?" Tala asked, wondering who it was. His employees knew better than to call him at home unless it was an emergency (which there never was).

"Tala?"

The voice on the other end of the line sounded vaguely familiar but Tala couldn't put his finger on it.

"It's Kai…" The voice said again.

A light bulb seemed to go off in his head, before he spoke. "Oh, uh…hi, Kai."

"I'm off tonight…mind going out to dinner?" The bluenette asked.

Tala blinked in surprise. Was the incredibly hot, sexy stripper he had just met asking him out? 'Of course he is baka…and you are going to say yes,' a voice said in his head, sounding suspiciously like Brooklyn.

"Uh…sure…" He said after a long pause. "What time?"

"8…wear what you would normally wear," Kai said, before hanging up.

"He certainly gets to the point quick," Tala muttered, hanging up the phone.

"Well, that's Kai for you…" Rei said, grinning like the Cheshire cat.

Tala looked at him suspiciously. "How do you know him?"

Rei gave him an innocent look. "Oh, he just happened to be a friend of mine…you have a problem with that?"

"I KNEW you set me up!"

"Are you mad?" Rei asked, grinning, knowing that Tala wasn't going to argue his point. No one in his or her right mind would be angry about having a date with the hot bluenette.

"Of course not…" Tala said. "But it wouldn't have killed you if you had told me you knew him."

Rei simply shrugged and walked out. "You might want to find an outfit for tonight it's already 6."

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I know…short…but ya'll are going to have to deal, follow? Next chap….Kai's and Tala's date…REVIEW!