You guys asked for fluff, so here's a chapter dedicated mainly to Yumi and Ulrich! Read and review!

Yumi arrived home to yelling. She had no idea what her parents were fighting about, but she highly suspected that neither did they. Glad that she'd eaten dinner already, she went straight to her bedroom. She could still hear the yelling, just like every other night. Any other night, she would have been unfazed by the yelling, but this night Hiroki ran into her room. Yumi was a strong girl, but seeing her usually obnoxious and cheerful little brother in tears sent her over the top. With all of the Odd trouble she and her friends were enduring, she just couldn't deal with her parents' problems.

Yumi held her little brother on her lap as he cried. He'd obviously had enough already as well. "Hiroki?" she asked as she wiped his cheeks with her sleeve. "Do you want to stay at Dennis's house tonight?"

Hiroki nodded silently and Yumi ruffled his hair. "Go get your things together, and don't forget your toothbrush this time. I'll call his mom and ask if it's alright."

"Ok," Hiroki mumbled as he quickly did as he was told.

Yumi sighed as she looked for her neighbors' phone number on her cell phone. Finding it, she pressed 'Send' and waited for someone to answer. "Hello, Mrs. Andrews? It's Yumi. I was wondering if you would mind it if Hiroki spent the night at you house… My parents are kind of fighting again… Yes… Oh no, that's alright. I am already going to stay with a friend of mine tonight… Thank you very much. I'll bring him right over… Goodbye."

She hurriedly threw some of her own overnight things into a bag and threw it over her shoulder, finishing at about the same time as her brother. They walked downstairs and into the battleground together, unnoticed by either parent. Yumi cleared her throat loudly to grab their attention and they froze. Mrs. Ishiyama straightened her body out, trying to look quiet and proper again, but the illusion of their darling mother had already been shattered in the past weeks. Mr. Ishiyama made no attempt to straighten up, holding his ground as the furious husband, not the loving father. "What's wrong?" Mrs. Ishiyama asked sweetly.

Yumi grimaced. "I'm going to take Hiroki to the Andrews's house for the night," she announced. "I'll be staying in Aelita's dorm."

This did not make her father happy at all. "I did nto give you my permission," he said.

"Well I don't want your permission," Yumi replied. "Hiroki and I need a peaceful night of sleep without your shouting. And since you won't stop willingly, we need to spend the night out of this house."

Yumi's mother looked guilty, but her father looked unconvinced by her reasoning. "You will not leave this house without my permission!" he snapped.

"Don't even start!" Yumi cried, shocking even herself with her own bravery. "Hiroki is an 8-year-old boy! He doesn't need to hear you two argue all of the time! And I have a very sick friend to worry about, so I'd rather be there for him before I have to deal with your self-created problems! Recently, I've been feeling like I'm the adult and you're the kids! I can't deal with it! You two need to fix things, preferably soon."

Both of her parents were shocked beyond words at her outburst. Yumi turned to her brother and grabbed his hand. "Come on Hiroki," she said as she led him out of the door.

Ulrich was lying awake in bed while his roommate pretended to sleep, just like every other night recently. Ulrich had found his mind wandering every night. He was a very confused young man. So many things were happening in his life that he didn't know what to feel. He thought about Yumi and how happy she made him at a time when he needed someone to be there for him. He felt bad for being happy when he thought he should be sad, but he also knew that Odd wanted him to be happy. When Ulrich wasn't thinking of Yumi, he thought about how much fun he always had with Odd and about how scared he was for his friend's life. He didn't know what he would do if Odd wasn't able to get the heart transplant.

A knock at the door interrupted his thoughts. He turned on the light looked over to see his friend pretending to wake up. "That had better not be your girlfriend," he said as he went to the door, causing Odd to make a sour face. "She should know better than to come past nine."

"She's not my girlfriend!" Odd said.

Ulrich opened the door to find Yumi staring at the ground nervously. "Y-Yumi!" Ulrich gasped. He noticed the bag slung over her shoulder. "What are you doing here?"

Yumi looked up at him. "My parents were fighting," she said. "And I just couldn't take it tonight. I told them that I was going to stay with Aelita."

"Come in," Ulrich told her as he stepped aside and opened the door wider.

Yumi entered and sat down on Ulrich's bed. "I hope I didn't wake you guys up," she said.

"Nope," Odd said. He smiled softly. "You're always welcome here Yumi. You can even stay here tonight if you want!"

Yumi raised an eyebrow at him while Ulrich sat down beside her. "I agree with Odd," Ulrich said.

Yumi leaned into Ulrich as he put his arm around her comfortingly. "Thank you…"

"So what happened?" Odd asked.

Yumi remained silent and Ulrich shot a warning look at Odd. "You don't have to talk about it Yumi," he said.

"It's ok," Yumi told him. "It was just a crappy night. When I got home, my parents were yelling at each other and Hiroki was crying. I'm just sick of their fighting. They act like little kids. They don't even know what they are fighting about anymore!"

Ulrich kissed Yumi's cheek lovingly. "It will all be ok," he assured her. "Do you want to go to sleep now?"

Yumi nodded and pulled her pajamas out of her bag. She suddenly blushed as she realized that she'd get caught if she went to the bathroom to change now. Ulrich seemed to be thinking along the same lines. "Uhh… Odd and I won't look…"

Odd laughed a bit and the couple glared at him. "Ok… I promise not to look," he said as he rolled over with his back facing them.

Yumi stood uncomfortably and went over to the corner of the room with her back to the boys. She glanced over her shoulder to make sure that they were both looking the other way. Satisfied that they were, she quickly changed into a tank top and pajama pants. When she was done she walked back over to the bed and put her clothes in her bag. "Thanks for letting me stay with you," she said gratefully.

Ulrich smiled. "No problem," he told her. He went over to his closet and pulled down some blankets from a shelf on the top.

When Ulrich began to set the blankets up on the floor Yumi gave him a weird look. "What are you doing?" she asked.

"I'm going to sleep on the floor," Ulrich told her.

"You don't have to," Yumi said. "We're small enough that we can both fit on your bed."

Ulrich blushed crimson. "Umm… Are you ok with that?"

Yumi smiled at him and nodded her head, happy that her boyfriend was such a gentleman. "Come on," she said as she waited for him to lay down first.

"Ok…" The brunette boy lay down on his side, leaving as much room as possible for Yumi while she turned off the lamp beside the bed. He was taken by surprise when Yumi settled down so close to him.

Yumi rested her head on his arm and looked into his eyes through the darkness. "Are you ok with this?" she asked him quietly.

"Yea…"

The two of them heard snickering in the background and rolled their eyes. "Goodnight Odd," they both said in unison.

"Night!" Odd said happily.

Yumi closed her eyes to sleep, but Ulrich just stared at her face in adoration. He could hardly believe that the girl of his dreams was sleeping beside him in his bed. "You're so beautiful," he thought aloud, speaking in a soft whisper.

Yumi's eyes opened and she looked at him longingly. She kissed him more passion than she'd ever even thought she'd had, and she didn't want it to end. However, Ulrich pulled away after a bit and she rested her head on his chest. "I love you Yumi," he whispered nervously.

Yumi smiled. It was the first time either of them had said it, and it was the most gratifying thing she'd ever heard. "I love you, too," she whispered.

They both relaxed into each other's embrace more and closed their eyes, ready to sleep peacefully, but of course Odd had to make some sort of commentary to ruin the moment. "Ah, what about me!" he exclaimed jokingly.

"You're like a little kid," Yumi replied sleepily, keeping her eyes shut.

"But I'm feeling left out!" Odd pouted. "You hear that Kiwi? No one loves me!"

"We love you Odd," both Ulrich and Yumi teased.

Odd laughed with satisfaction. "Love you too!"

"Go to sleep Odd," Ulrich said with a yawn. "Now."

That's it for now! Please review! Next chapter will get back to Odd stuff. And the real OddSissi stuff is coming up! And there's going to be some Xana action soon!