Chapter 7

After dealing with the police (one speeding ticket, one obstruction of justice and one court date) the boys and one girl were on their way home. Kay was asleep in the back seat with Ken and Omi while the other two were taking over the front. Behind the wheel was Yohji and he apparently didn't like the situation.

"This sucks, I can't handle this truck it's too big. Aya, take over for me."

"No, you were the one who volunteered at the bar and so you will drive."

"But Ayaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Sorry bout that, zoned out."

"Shut up Kudoh, you're going to wake Kay up with all that whining."

"Wow, you are actually worried about her. The great Aya Fujimia, Abyssinian of Weiss, holder of the patented Takatori glare one through five and currently working on six, actually cares for someone."

"Shi-ne Kudoh. It's only the fact that they are all asleep and we are coming up on the exit anyway so it no longer matters."

Yohji seemed to wake up to his surroundings at that moment and swerved violently to the right to get onto the exit. That swerve, however, seemed enough to jam Kay's head into the window, make Ken fall on Omi and Omi to land in an interesting position on Kay. When the youngest member opened his eyes, he found his head on a pair of boobs.

"Enjoy the view?" said Kay looking down at the now blushing and stuttering blonde.

"Way to go, chibi. Never thought you worked so fast," said the other blonde in the car.

Omi just continued to splutter apologies and other nonsense that noone really understood.

"Relax, Omi. It isn't the first time that someone tried that. It is the first time; however, I didn't break someone's nose for trying that."

Omi grabbed his nose and shied away.

Aya just sighed, "Kay, we turned down the exit, where to now?"

"Just keep going straight, you'll pass up a bunch of houses then come to a gravel road. I live kinda apart from everyone else." Yohji nodded and did as he was told. You drive like an old woman. If you don't speed up you aren't gonna make it through the mud coming up. Gun the damn thing already." Yohji gladly pushed the gas pedal to the floor and they ran through the puddle in a splash of mud. "Don't worry; your bags have the tarp on them, their fine." They passed up a lot of people and they all waved at Kay. She just rolled down the window and waved back. "You're pretty popular, huh?" Ken asked looking at all the people they passed. "No, it's just that everyone knows everyone. You turn down that road there and you can get to Shreveport, it's a pretty decent city with a mall and all. Interesting place to hang out. I used to go there all the time. Ah, here's the road, right there is my, our shop. It's mostly a tourist spot now, they all want to come in and talk to a redneck or hillbilly or whatever they call us nowadays. Mostly I sell feed there for horses or cows." Yohji turned down the gravel road. "Do you own any horses or cows?" "Yea, I own my own horses, eight of them, and a few cows. Of course," about a pack of twenty dogs came running up to the truck approached the house, "there are also the dogs." The boys looked warily at the dogs but Kay just jumped out of the car and into the middle of Dobermans, German shepherds, rottweillers, and an assortment of mutts with a few Chihuahua's thrown into the mix. Aya was the first to step, carefully, into the yard but immediately pulled back into the truck as the dogs came running. "Kay, please call off your dogs."

"Sorry about that," she yelled to Aya and with a wave of her left arm like she was throwing a baseball, all the dogs ran off. Now that the dogs have run off the boys were able to get a good look at their new house. It was a large two story yellow stucco house with a shingled roof. There was an in ground pool in the backyard just visible through the geranium bushes surrounding the place. Also, a deck surrounded the front part of the house and swung to cover the left side. "C'mon in and see your rooms. Afterwards, I'll give you all the grand tour. You're more than welcome to change out or decorate your rooms however you like. They grabbed the bags and walked into the house, once inside they all gasped and Omi dropped his bag on his foot, "Owee". They walked into a living room which was the size of two of their bedrooms put together. The boys stared in wonder but Kay looked disturbed about something. "What is it?" Ken asked, looking at her face. Kay shook her head and just said quietly, "It's clean, what the hell?" Then she looked at the small table that had a note on it. 'Kay, don't be mad but the girls and I just had to clean. This place was a mess and you shouldn't let guests see it like this. Call us if you need anything, Love Mrs. Reeds and the Women's Circle.'

Kay shook her head and smiled, "they scare the shit out of me more often than not, but they do care."

"What's the Women's Circle? Sound's like a cult group." Omi asked, Ken was wondering the same thing. Kay just burst out laughing, "Oh, man. Don't let them hear you say that. If they get angry not even a team of well trained assassins could stop them." Ken and Omi looked somewhat worried about that. "So that means that you shouldn't get any ideas Yohji about the girls you see here. C'mon though, follow me. You're gonna have to find out whose rooms are whose, I done forgot. I just put the boxes with matching names in rooms." She led them up the stairs and into a hallway to the right. "This section of the house can be yours, do with it what you will, just don't pull down any of the walls. I sleep over that a way," she pointed to the left. They approached the first door which happened to be Ken's room. The room was larger than the one he had in Japan. He walked in and put his bags on the bed next to the window. There was a table with a T.V. and DVD player on it. "This is all yours now. All of your rooms are basically the same. "I's an eastern facing room so you're gonna wake up with the dawn." Kay said. "I'll get used to it." Ken said and fell face first onto the bed. "Once a survivor, always a survivor." Omi mumbled, trying unsuccessfully not to laugh. "This one's Yohji's room, I remember this one because of the windows." Kay said leading them to the room right next to Omi's, Ken was still blissfully oblivious on his new bed. They opened the door and walked into a room where almost the entire east wall was covered with windows. "This will be interesting." Yohji said as he surveyed the windows. "Hope you like it. Omi, Aya, these are your rooms." She said as she showed the other two boys their rooms. Aya's room was across from Ken's and was a decent size. Omi's room was next to Aya's and the first thing he noticed was that there was a computer jack in it. "Sorry, but I saw a computer disk and what looked like a bunch of printouts in your box so I put it in this room." Omi went all starry-eyed. "Yay, thank you." And with that he pulled out his laptop, hooked it up, put it on his table and started typing away. Yohji went into his room to unpack and Aya soon followed suite. "I'll give you boys a holler once dinner's done and then I'll give you the tour." Assorted calls of confirmation and one snore was their reply.

Arrrrrrrggghhh, my computer is being stupid. Someone please stop the stupidness.