Chappy numero dos!
"Uhh…Atsune-chan…you certainly look different…" Cye blushed.
"Is that…a good thing…or a bad thing?" she asked warily.
"GOOD! I mean…good…"
"Yeah, cause no offense to your friend Mia, but she was kinda fashion-challenged…"
Cye chose to ignore that, and firmly grabbed her wrist and gently…well, dragged for lack of a better word, her downstairs.
The others looked up to see Cye enter the room, pulling a strange girl who was gibbering about something that didn't make any sense. Obviously.
"Atsune, I presume?" Rowen asked with an amused look on his face.
Atsune gave him a smacking kiss on his cheek, leaving little boy blue quite dumbstruck. "You can bet your ass I am!" she beamed.
The others were staring, and the…turquoise-haired girl got very uncomfortable. She fidgeted under their gaze, and contemplated how to get away. She decided to go with the time-tested method:
"LOOK! FLYING APPLESAUCE!" she exclaimed, pointing behind them. All six of them whirled, wondering what the hell she was talking about. "Zoinks," she giggled, and dashed back upstairs, leaving the Ronins and Yuli staring at the wall like idiots.
Halfway down the hall, something big and hard suddenly blocked her path, and she fell back onto her ass. And no, she isn't stupid enough to run into a wall. Sure enough, as she looked up, Atsune found herself staring into an amused pair of eyes. They belonged to a studly dude with crimson hair and a weird outfit. Know who it is, yet?
Dun, dun, DUN!
"Well, looks like the Ronins have a new guest…" he laughed, offering her a hand to help her up.
"Duhhhh…" Atsune's brain had short-circuited at the sight of the should-be-dead-but-isn't, former-dark-warlord-turned-monk. He was pretty, can you blame her.
"Atsune!" she turned her head to see Sage standing there. Obviously they had finally smartened up and come to look for her. The others were behind Sage.
"Shiny…" was all she could say as she pointed at Anubis.
They followed her gesture and were astonished to see their "dead" "friend" standing there. And he was indeed shiny. And wearing the Ancient's clothes still.
"What…" Cye started.
"…the hell." Kento finished for him.