"Where are we headed, Sempai?"
Kintaro smiled. "Just Kintaro, Hotaru-chan. And we're headed to a surprise."
Hotaru nodded. "Your friend, Hikari-chan, had a lot to say about you."
Kintaro nodded. "I'm sure she did. She doesn't like the tension between Yuri-chan and myself, so she tries to relieve it. Unfortunately she's too close to the problem and can't see the mountain for all the hills."
Hotaru blinked. "She suggested seducing you."
"Did she also tell you that it wouldn't work?"
"Well, I had figured that out for myself. I'm curious as to why."
"Not that you aren't pretty or anything. You are very attractive, but I respect you too much to have casual sex with you, and I don't love you enough to make love to you. If you see what I mean." Kintaro was meeting her gaze calmly.
"I think I do, Kintaro-kun. And thanks."
Kintaro leaned over and pressed his forehead to hers. "Any time, Hotaru-chan."
They rode in comfortable silence for awhile.
"Rei-san had a vision where you seduce me and we destroy the world together," Hotaru remarked. She watched Kintaro for his reaction.
He looked thoughtful for a few moments. "I suppose under extreme stress that I might go over the edge like that. It is very unlikely. But I think I should have a talk with Hino-san. If such an event is possible, then we should do what we can to avoid it."
"The seduction or the destroying the world part?" Hotaru teased.
Kintaro grinned at her. "I meant the part where seducing you leads to us destroying the world. I'd like to keep the option to seduce you open without any nasty, destructive side effects."
Hotaru giggled as he waggled one eyebrow at her suggestively. She suddenly gasped as their destination came into view out the window.
Kintaro shrugged. "Some of my extended family have too much money and too much time on their hands. I tend to get stocks instead of holiday money. Sometimes I actually find a use for them."
"You own stock in…"
"Yes. I couldn't rent the whole park for us, but we have a dinner appointment in the Shareholder's restaurant. And we have priority passes for any ride you wish to go on. You'll even get to meet any of the characters you'd like to see."
Hotaru was speechless and wide-eyed as the limo entered a side gate of the magical theme park she had always dreamed of visiting.
Sunday morning came way too early for Haruka.
"He took you where?"
Haruka sat bolt upright at the tone of Michiru's voice. Surely Kintaro hadn't done anything to Hotaru. Haruka vaguely remembered hearing happy singing sometime in the night when Hotaru came home. She scrambled out of bed, throwing on a robe, and dashed for the stairs.
"I don't believe it," Michiru exclaimed. "How could he do this?"
Haruka bounced off the door to the kitchen and stared at Michiru and Hotaru. "What's wrong?"
"What's wrong?" Michiru repeated. "This little minx weaseled her way into the good graces of a shareholder." She gestured broadly at the pictures scattered on the table.
Haruka picked one up and peered at it. She tossed it back on the table with a grunt of disgust. "I thought it was something more serious."
"More serious?" Michiru demanded. "What could be more serious? She had priority passes for all the rides and she got to meet all the characters!"
Haruka rolled her eyes and headed back to bed. Michiru followed her.
"She even got to meet…" Michiru paused for dramatic effect. Haruka shrugged.
"I don't care who she got to meet. I'm going back to sleep."
"But Haru-chan…" Michiru hugged the blonde from behind. Haruka sighed. "I wanna go too," Michiru begged in a little-girl voice.
"Fine," Haruka grumbled, "get Shareholder-san to take you."
She instantly knew she had made a mistake and that she would pay for it, but sleep was too strong a lure, so she sighed and tumbled back into bed with the hope that Michiru would forgive her. Maybe if she dressed up in the outfit from last Halloween.