Satori packed Ken's lunch and looked at the clock. "He's gonna be late... again..." She decided to walk into his room and wake him up. "Ken?"
When she entered his room, he saw him hugging his pillow like he won't let it go while mumbling some things she can't even hear and then smiled. 'He really IS cute!' She shook her head and blushed a bit. 'Better wake him up...' She began to shake his shoulder but he won't even budge.
"Hmmmm..." Ken just turned away from her, still clutching the pillow, giving a silly smile.
Satori sighed and shook his shoulder harder. "Ken! Wake up! You'll be late!" She just rolled her eyes. "Sheesh! This guy can sleep during earthquakes..." She sat on his bed as she tried to think of way to wake him up. Finally, she gave a sly smile and went to his desk and retrieved his gun. "Ken-san?" She said as she imitated a 7-year-old's voice. She poked his gun on his arm and smiled as Ken stirred a bit.
"What..." He said groggily, burying his head deeper into his pillows.
Satori peered into gun through its hole and continued with a small voice. "Ken-san, is this my new toy? I like it... It's so shiny..."
Ken stirred and murmured. "Toy? We haven't bought any toys... just clothes and..." His eyes immediately widened as he heard Satori's voice change. 'Oh-no!' He quickly looked at her and saw that she was peering into the gun's hole. He quickly snatched it away from her. "NO! Satori! Give it back! It's not a toy! I told you it's dangerous to play around with..." He noticed Satori's eyes were still in the same yellow color and that she was trying to hide her laugh. "Hey..."
Satori burst out laughing. "You should've seen your face!" She finally said when she got her laughter in control. "Here!" She tossed his alarm clock on his bed and quietly left his room and went back to the kitchen. After a few seconds she laughed again after hearing the loud banging in Ken's room and the sound of his things crashing on the floor.
"I'M LATE!" Ken said as he tried to grab his things with one hand placing them hastily inside his bag while his other hand was busy in combing his hair. "You should've called me earlier!"
Satori raised an eyebrow and planted her hands on her waist. "Excuuuse me! I tried! Can I help it if you forgot to set your alarm clock again? Besides..." She grinned a bit. "It looked like you were enjoying your dream too much that you refused to wake up."
Ken stiffened for a while and then blushed a bit. "Um...Satori..." Satori tilted her head sideways and looked at him in response. "Did I say something in my sleep?"
"You kept mumbling but I can't understand a thing." She tilted her head to the side. "Why?"
Ken gave out a relieved sigh and shook his head. "Nothing. I better go! Bye now! I'll see you later!" He grabbed the brown bag on the kitchen counted and ran out of his apartment.
Satori just blinked and went back to the kitchen and grabbed the other bag. "Why did this thing became heavy?" She looked inside the bag and stared at it in disbelief. "Oh-oh... I wish Ken will consider having egg shells, banana peels and chicken bones for lunch..." After hearing the oven ring, she rushed to it and removed her cake. "I'll just bring his lunch and this to the headquarters later."
CHAPTER 5: SATORI MEETS YUMIKO
Soon enough, it was lunch time in Tokyo Police Headquarters. Yoji, Aya and Omi huddled on Ken's desk. "Well? What did she packed for you?" Yoji asked as he sat on Ken's desk. "Hurry! I'm hungry!"
Ken opened his brown bag. "Satori prepared. . ." He stared at it in disbelief. "Egg shells, banana peels and chicken bones for lunch?!"
Omi peered in. "Eeeww... Did you two had a fight?"
Ken shook his head and remembered seeing two bags on the counter and slapped his hand on his forehead. "I brought the wrong bag!" His stomach grumbled. "And I haven't ate breakfast yet..."
"My poor Ken..." Ken stiffened at the sound of that voice. "We can share mine..." The other three gave out a groan of frustration while Ken slumped over his desk. A silver-haired police woman stood beside him and ran her fingers over his arms. "What's wrong? I cook well..."
'I would rather have a root canal...' He thought. "No thanks Yumiko." Ken mumbled as he squirmed away from her. "I'm not too hungry..." He lied. The remaining police force inside the room shook their heads and resumed with their own business. "I can just eat in the cafeteria with them..." Ken said as he was standing up but was forced back to sit down when Yumiko sat on his lap. Omi grimaced with dislike while Ken tried harder to get Yumiko off his lap. "Yumiko! Will you get off me?!" But Yumiko refused to move and just moved closer to Ken as the other three tried to talk Yumiko to get off Ken, but to no avail.
Meanwhile at the lobby, Manx was finishing her report when she noticed a shadow above her. She looked up and smiled brightly when she saw Satori. "Hey Satori!" She looked at Satori's outfit. It was an aqua blue baby t-shirt with a matching skirt. "Cute outfit! When did you bought it?"
Satori smiled and blushed a bit, surprising Manx that a marionette was able to blush. "Ken bought it for me, together with several outfits. He said that I can't wear his clothes all the time."
"Though he doesn't mind you to doing it. . ." Manx grinned knowingly as Satori blushed more. "So, what brings you here?"
Satori raised a food basket. "Ken grabbed the garbage bag by mistake, so I brought his lunch over, together with some foods for you guys."
"Great! I don't have to waste money on cafeteria food!" Manx stood up. "Come on, I'll show you Ken's office is. I'm telling you, it's a jungle in there." Satori gave a soft laugh and Manx caught several officers looking at Satori. "Well, let's go. KEN might be waiting for you." She said loud enough (especially Ken's name) for them to hear and they quickly looked away. If there's someone they don't want to become enemies with, it's either Ken or Aya. Manx smiled slightly and walked ahead, with Satori following her with no knowledge of what just happened.
Ken was still trying to remove himself from Yumiko when the office door opened and Manx came in. She smiled a bit at the scene. 'Get yourself out of this Hidaka.' She thought as she moved inside the office. "Hidaka, someone here wants to see you!"
Yoji looked over to see Satori came in, her eyes widen in shock when she saw a woman sitting over a struggling Ken's lap. "Ken, it's Satori."
"Satori?!" Ken quickly looked over Yumiko's shoulder to see Satori standing beside Manx, her expression going first to being surprised, to small bit of anger, to hurt and then blank. Expressionless. He became nervous to the last expression. He can read nothing over her face. He literally heaved Yumiko off him as he quickly went to Satori. "Satori... I... um..." He doesn't know why he is nervous and felt guilty all of a sudden. He feels like he has to explain the scene to Satori. "Satori... I can expl..."
Satori quickly cut him off, her voice cold and face still expressionless. "You left your lunch." She doesn't know why she suddenly felt all those emotions but there's one emotion in which she can be very sure of. Jealousy. "You took the garbage by mistake."
Aya looked at both of them while Yoji waited for Ken to explain everything to Satori. Ken flinched from the sound of her voice and took the basket from Satori. "Why don't you come in first?" Ken asked, quite unsure of himself.
"No thanks. I think I'm disturbing something." She looked sharply at Yumiko, who stood up and linked her hand over Ken's arms. Ken quickly brushed it away.
Yumiko smiled at Satori. "Hi. I'm Yumiko Hanageshi." She smiled. "Ken's girlfriend." Ken just looked at Yumiko and then at Satori, as if pleading her not to believe what she just heard but still, her face's expressionless. Yumiko smirked and looked at Ken. "How thoughtful of your maid to bring your food over here, sweetie..." Everyone's eyes, except Satori's, whose left eyebrow is raised, widened at the endearment and the maid part. Ken was about to put Yumiko in her place when Satori spoke.
"Funny that Ken never told me that he had a girlfriend." Satori asked, emotionless.
Yumiko smiled and looked at her. "We just got together last week. Actually I just slept at his house last night around 9PM." She stroked Ken's armed and added. "I loved your red bed sheets." She said silkily as she made small circles with her finger over Ken's shirt.
Most of the police officers gasped but Aya, Omi, Yoji and Manx glared at her and Ken's temper is rising very, very fast but it soon cooled down a bit when he saw Satori's expressionless face fell and she gave a shocked expression.
"You did?!" She looked at Ken and put on a hurt expression. Ken opened his mouth to explain, hating to see Satori with that expression on. But Satori beat him to it.
"Ken, I didn't know that!" Yumiko smiled but Satori is not yet done with what she's going to say. "I didn't know that you had a twin brother! You haven't told me!" She looked accusingly at Ken and he only stared back at her, along with the others, all with an 'IS-SHE-CRAZY' look on their faces.
Omi moved closer to Aya and whispered. "You think her memory program needs some adjustment?" Aya just shrugged.
Yumiko's smile faded and she frowned. "What the hell are you talking about?!"
Satori shook her head and smiled. "It's not nice for a guy's girlfriend to swear in public. If you indeed are Ken's girlfriend." Yumiko's eyes widen. "Why? Shocked?" It's now Satori's turn to smirk. "I'll tell you one thing, you'll never be Ken's girlfriend. I know it." She tugged Ken away from her and stood beside him.
Yumiko gasped as Ken smiled a bit. "Wh... What are y... you saying?!"
Satori sighed. "Simple." She raised her finger one-by-one, as if counting as she stressed out her points. "One, You're lying. Two, Ken would not want to have a lying girlfriend." She crossed her arms. "I mean what guy in his right mind would want to have a girlfriend like you?"
Yumiko was turning red with rage. "Who do you think you are?! What proof do you have?!"
"How rude of me not to introduce myself." She bowed in a friendly manner, infuriating Yumiko more. "Hi. I'm Satori. Ken's friend and we live under one roof." Ken, Omi, Aya, Manx and Yoji hid their laugh as they saw Yumiko's face then Satori added, "We went out yesterday and got home at around 11PM. And if you said you were able to sleep with him, then he must have a twin or you're dreaming." Satori finished with a voice as smooth as velvet.
Yumiko glared at Satori and brushed her aside when she walked out, fuming. Satori watched her go. "By the way, Yumiko?" Yumiko turned to look at her, face still angry. "You may be interested to know that Ken's bed sheet is in blue. That's it." She wiggled her fingers at her. "Bye. Nice meeting you. Have a nice day." Yumiko sneered at her and stifled a scream and stomped off.
Manx linked her arm with Satori's. "Wow! That was awesome! I didn't know you had it in you!" Yoji and Omi also praised her along with the other officers.
Satori laughed a bit and caught Ken's mocking gaze and blushed.
"Dig in guys! I've prepared enough for everybody!" She looked at Yoji, who is already grabbing the food basket from Ken. Satori sweat dropped and added, "I think." And they left Satori with Ken when they agreed to buy drinks for the group and the others prepared the other room for lunch. Satori looked down as she played with her fingers. "Um... Ken?" Ken looked at her, smiling. "Sorry. I shouldn't have acted that way."
Ken shook his head. "You put Yumiko in place. Even I'm surprised and I loved the show." He said, winking.
"No. Not that." She frowned. "I don't regret doing that. Besides, it felt good." She laughed and looked at him. "Sorry that I gave you the cold treatment. I don't even know why I acted that way..." She blushed.
Ken gave a knowing smirk. "Is Satori jealous...?" He chuckled when Satori quickly looked at him, blushing.
"M... Me? O... Of course not!" Satori stuttered and Ken smiled as he raised an eyebrow at her. "Well... A bit..." Ken laughed and Satori blushed triple time. "Quit it!"
Ken stopped laughing and he looked seriously at Satori. "You said you're jealous right?" Satori nods. "Do you like me?" Satori just blinked at the suddenness of his question. She looked down, doesn't know what to answer.
'If I said No, he may just walk away and think I'm ungrateful because of all the time he gave me. Not to mention the things he bought for me. But if I said Yes, he may just laugh or walk away. How can he even like a marionette for heaven's sake? I'm man made!'
Ken watched as she tried to answer his simple question and chuckled inside, smiling a bit. 'I'm giving her a hard time.' He walked towards Satori and playfully poked her forehead. Satori suddenly looked up. "You don't have to answer it now." He kissed her forehead and whispered beside her ear. "You know what? You look real cute when you blush." In return, Satori smiled and blushed a bit. He took Satori hands. "Let's go. Knowing Yoji, he'll leave us nothing to eat!"
Satori gave a small laugh and followed Ken, unknown to her that her emotional circuit is lighting up and acting real fast. 'What's happening to me?' She looked at their linked hands. 'How come whenever I'm with him, I felt so happy, nervous, giddy and excited all at the same time?' She heard Manx call her and she quickly went out of her reverie and went to her side.