The internet was a wondrous place!

In Rei's humble opinion, anyway. The internet was not only full of craft ideas and makeup tutorials and manga that was read purely for the literary value. The internet also had hacks. Makeup hacks, crafting hacks, and food hacks. How had she gone so long without the food hacks? Some of them were boring, like the one to make sure your rice never stuck to the bottom of the cooker again, but then again there were also interesting ones.

Like clear cola!

This was so cool! The cola really did turn clear! It was like lemon-lime cola but cola flavored. Also it tasted kind of like milk. Kind of like…orange fizzy milk cola. Not gross. Not…un drinkable. It tasted just fine and she did not waste a bottle of cola on this!

Even if her sister said so.

But what did Riko know? Nothing. Nothing at all. That was why her scores were so low and mom and dad argued all the time. This was cool and Rei had not spent her entire Saturday wasting food and trashing the kitchen. No. That was just mean sister talk. This was not a waste of cola and she could prove it! With a taste test! She'd give it to all of her friends, or maybe just her work friends because she did not want to spend a Sunday tracking people down, and then they'd love it and-

The future said that they'd hate it.

But then again the future was never one hundred percent.

And she couldn't see into the future with one hundred percent accuracy anyway. So really there was a chance that everyone would love and they'd say things like 'Rei, you didn't waste a whole lot of food and your entire weekend with this stuff' and 'Rei, you're awesome and you don't spend too much time on the internet' and other such good things.

Really. This would go well.

That was what she told herself on the way to Spirits and Such, anyway. She knew that Reigen would definitely be there, Serizawa would most likely be there, and also maybe Mob and Tome. Tome sometimes came by on a weekend if she wasn't doing anything else or sleeping until sunset and ruining her circadian rhythm. Mob was around a lot unless she had club stuff or family stuff going on. Rei couldn't blame her. If Ritsu were her brother…

Then Rei would be a weirdo.

So maybe not her brother. Not her blood brother, anyway. Did adoptive siblings count? In anime they didn't but real life was not anime...and she was a weirdo for even thinking like that. Not as big of a weirdo as some other people who were not to be named and also read weird manga all the time but said that the manga was literature. Which was crazy. Everyone knew that it stopped being literature when they stopped cutting away from the good part.

Not that Rei cared about stuff like that. She didn't. Not one bit. She cared about love and holding hands and stuff like that. Stuff that she was supposed to think about. Wholesome stuff. Good wholesome stuff that wholesome people thought about in the most wholesome way possible. Mob stuff. Yeah, there was nobody more wholesome than Mob. She didn't ever think about boys like…that. She never even thought about boys end of discussion. Just Teru and they had a wholesome relationship. He was very mature like that. He never even tried to kiss her or anything. Mature people were like that and Rei was a mature person so she didn't think about stuff that she shouldn't have thought about.

Also she didn't waste food.

And Riko was wrong for telling her that she was immature and wasteful and making mom kick her out of the kitchen just because she wasted, used, a whole bottle of the cola that she had no idea that Riko was saving. They were a family, there was no saving! It was every Kurosaki for themselves! She wondered if Mob ever had these problems. Probably not because she and Ritsu never fought about anything. Ritsu was so mature like that. He was so mature and grown up and brave and strong and he had saved her life so many times…

Ritsu was awesome.

But he was not who Rei was coming to see. Mainly because she had no real excuse to see him. He probably wouldn't think that her coming over with a bottle of milk cola and saying 'drink this' counted as a good reason. She needed a good reason. Maybe if she said that she needed more homework help…but then he might actually just spend the entire time doing homework again. She didn't get it. She sent out so many signals and he just wanted to do homework….if he wasn't interested he would have said something. Was he blind? Was she losing her touch? Had she even had one to begin with?

Or maybe all Kageyamas were just clueless. Mob could be really clueless sometimes. Not in a mean way, not at all, but she could be really clueless. Rei accepted that about Mob, especially if they were going to be sisters someday. They'd be sisters and be best friends and then they'd have daughters and their daughters would be best friends and Tome's daughters would be best friends with their daughters and then Reigen could be like their cool aunt since she was probably too old to have kids now so she'd be even older when Rei and Ritsu had their kids.

After Ritsu got established in whatever his career would be, of course. Rei would probably have to find a job too. She wanted to open up either a craft store or her own psychic business but like mom and dad said the cost of living, whatever that was, was super high so she'd probably have to have a job and then her children would grow up not knowing her or Ritsu and then their children would resent them forever and never call and other stuff like that!

She and Ritsu would work out these problems when they got married.

If they got married.

She couldn't see that far into the future. That sucked. What was the point of having future vision if you couldn't see years and years and years ahead into the future? She wished that she could do more…but not like how Mob could do more. That was too much. Mob had, like, all the powers and it hadn't done her any good. It actually made that boss guy try and kill her….that had been a bad day. For everyone. But it was over now and everything was ok and normal. Well as normal as things could be in a psychic consultation office.

"Hi Rei." Said Mob as Rei came through the door. This was a nice surprise. She hadn't expected anyone to come by. Tome was busy with Inukawa all weekend, she said, because both of her parents would be working nights and his parents would be working days. Rei usually did things with her other friends on the weekends. Not that Mob minded being alone in the office with Master Reigen and Serizawa. They were her friends, too.

"Mob, hey! Listen, I need you to drink this." said Rei as she thrust the bottle of clear cola at Mob. Mob put down what she had been doing, mostly just lifting things up and looking for where her hair ribbon had gone to, with a thud that made the floor bounce a little.

"Miss Kageyama! I mean, Mob! Are you ok?" asked Serizawa as he came rushing from the storage room. Miss Reigen had sent him looking for clean towels and massage oil. Saturdays were busy days for backrubs.

"I'm fine. I mean I'm still looking for my ribbon but I'm fine. Here, Rei says to drink this." said Mob as she called over two tea cups with her powers. Serizawa stared skeptically at the bottle before him.

"What is it?" asked Serizawa. It was…a liquid. Brownish in color…with flakes at the top…of something. The bottle was clear plastic and it looked like the label had been torn off.

"I don't know." Said Mob as she poured herself a cup of whatever this was. She knew that Rei would never try to poison her and she doubted that she could be poisoned anyway. She healed fast from most damage and one time when she was a baby she ate a detergent pod and nothing happened. Well mom and dad took her to the emergency room but the doctor said that she was perfectly fine.

"Just drink it and tell me if you like it." Said Rei. Mob drank her cup quickly. Serizawa still stared at his skeptically. He didn't want to hurt her feelings…but he had also been on the receiving end of this before. Last time someone told him to just eat something he ended up eating hamster food. Sho said that it was to settle an argument between him and Ritsu as to whether or not people could eat hamster food. It hadn't made him sick…but it hadn't tasted good either….

He decided to truth Miss Kurosaki on this. She was such a nice sweet girl. She wouldn't make him eat or drink anything gross, girls weren't like that. Not that he was an expert on them or anything but he knew that girls weren't really gross. They liked neatness and niceness and things that looked and tasted and smelled pleasant. Surely this couldn't be that bad…

It was.

And Mob agreed.

"Rei. This isn't good at all and you shouldn't give people this." said Mob. Sometimes you had to be hard on people. Rei was good at makeup and crafting and stuff like that but obviously cooking was not her thing. She needed Mob to tell her how terrible this was before someone else did and did it meanly.

"What….what is this even?" asked Serizawa. That tasted like….citrus? Fizzy citrus…and something else…well whatever it was it was not good. It was worse than the time back in his room when he tried drinking that bottle of juice that had rolled under his bed God knew when…the one that was carbonated…but hadn't started out carbonated…

"Clear cola." Said Rei

"But this didn't taste like lemon-lime…and that's the only clear flavor that I know." Said Mob

"There's also just lemon or just lime…it did taste kind of citrusy…but then why would it be so…brown?" asked Serizawa

"It's not brown! The milk took all the brown coloring away!" said Rei. Mob stared at her. She stared and she stared and she stared. Rei got a feeling like she was under a thousand microscopes. Mob's aura was visible a little…pink and blue.

Serizawa took a step back.

"There's milk in this?" asked Mob after a moment. Rei nodded slowly.

"Why did you do this to milk? It's done nothing to you." Said Mob

"The milk was supposed to take the brown coloring out by making it separate. You're supposed to just be left with clear cola." Said Rei. Mob looked…not pissed off but…like Rei had deeply offended her somehow….

"Who told you to do that to milk?" asked Mob

"Miss Kageyama….are you alright?" asked Serizawa. He could see her aura clear as day and she was not happy. He knew that she liked milk and all but…well she was a very serious person when she needed to be…

"It was a food hack…that I saw on Youtube…." Said Rei as she shrank under Mob's gaze. Mob nodded. A door could be heard opened and closing, followed by footsteps.

"And if you'll just head into the next room my assistant will write you up a receipt." Said Reigen. Serizawa jumped at the chance to get out of whatever battle it was that he could see brewing there.

"Hey Mob, who spat in your ramen?" asked Reigen as she pulled her suit coat back on. She knew that look. That was Mob's serious look. Not her 'save the world' serious look but instead her 'this is a big thing only for me' look that Reigen had seen a couple times before. The most recent of these occurrences being when she said that she would rather have an office dog than an office cat.

"Look what Rei did to milk." Said Mob simply. Rei smiled, weakly, over at Reigen as the bottle of what was, apparently, a serious crime against dairy floated across the room much to the amazement of the client. Reigen snatched it out of the air, opened it up, and smelled it.

"This…this is not good." Said Reigen. That was…milk and cola? Why? Who in their right mind would dilute cola with so much milk…not even dilute…there were flecks of something….did the syrup separate?

"I-I'm sorry. I did a bunch of food hacks from Youtube today and I didn't mean to-" said Rei

"Mob, I know you love milk but come off it. Rei…don't believe everything you see on the internet." Said Reigen as she capped the bottle and tossed it in the garbage. Such a waste of perfectly good cola. Well better she just mix it with milk rather than, well, with Reigen was mixing cola with when she was thirteen.

Though maybe she shouldn't have mixed her mom's wedding sake with discount store cola…but that had been a very fun night…the parts that she could remember that didn't involve her throwing up out her bedroom window…

"Rei…please don't ever do that to milk again." said Mob. That milk could have been drank…by her…or whoever. Now it was wasted…and Mob was craving milk, too.

"I won't….and I had no idea that you felt so strongly about milk." Said Rei. She had no idea that anybody in the whole world felt as strongly about milk, or at least wasting it, as Mob did. Maybe that was just part of being mature or something. Mob was super mature and all. Or maybe Rei was just super immature. Or maybe the internet was just full of lies.

"I didn't know that anybody felt that strongly about milk…" said Serizawa

"Mob loves milk." Said Reigen shaking her head. Thank God that they were still such kids. She didn't know if she could handle it if she had three little Arataki's looking up to her. The day would come when they had bigger problems than bad internet advice to worry about but hopefully that day would come later, much later. They were still such kids.

"They have other milk hacks! I mean, not mixing them with cola but there are others. If you ever want to do some hacks with me." Said Rei because, yes, that would be fun. Even if Mob could be super intense sometimes it would be fun to just…maybe…head on over to Mob's house and mess around in her kitchen. If Mob wanted to. She was mature, very mature, but she was older too and a Kageyama and maybe everyone in her family was mature. Either way it would be a fun day…and if she were to run into Mob's little brother well that would be just fine…

And it was just fine.

Reigen let Mob head out early to spend some time with her friend, as she had said. Rei thought that she just wanted to spend some time with Serizawa. Not that she would say anything like that. These things needed to happen organically, or so the internet said. You couldn't force love to happen, it had to grow like a tumor. Slowly and insidiously until you suddenly had a big old lump of love growing in you and…or maybe not like a tumor. Something else inside of you that grew. Well whatever it was it needed to grow. Like a flower. Yes, that was much better.

Or like a friendship. The kind that grew over bottles of milk in a kitchen under the disapproving gaze of Mob's mom on a Saturday. That had stared growing even before that, back when the world stopped making sense and death was coming close, so close, but not close enough to take you. Or even before that when they first met…and had been kidnapped…ok, yeah, they'd been through some stuff. Shared experiences and traumas helped their friendship grow.

If only she knew how to make other sorts of relationships grow.

But the internet would know. It was a wondrous place after all…even if it did occasionally give some terrible advice.