Tome was a genius!

In her humble opinion, that is. She was tired of all of this 'will they, won't they' crap that Reigen and Serizawa had going on. Honestly, life was short and they were already super old so they should just get on it. Heh. Honestly Reigen would thank her later, once the trip was over, and then Tome could die a happy woman. Sometimes people just needed a nudge, that was all, though Tome had no idea why Reigen of all people would need a nudge in any sort of direction.

After all they did frequent the same love hotels.

Not that Tome had been noticed. She could be very stealthy when she needed to be. Inukawa…not so much….but Reigen didn't know him and she certainly did have his mom's number in her contacts and certainly wouldn't call his mom when she caught him coming out of a love hotel early in the morning. Tome didn't get Reigen sometimes, why she was always stopping them from doing fun things and all of that. She was always saying 'your life is your own' but then in the same breathe she said things like 'Tome, you're too young for all of that' and 'Tome, this time I'm going to pretend that I don't know anything but next time I'm telling your mom' and 'Tome, if a desk drawer is locked then stay out of it.'

Really.

Maybe she'd loosen up after her and Serizawa's big trip.

"Ok, what's that look?" asked Reigen as she flipped the opened sign to closed. Mob and Rei had gone home for the day but Tome lingered on. Reigen was grateful for her help and all but the look on her face was concerning.

"Nothing! I'm just thinking about….aliens." said Tome

"Uh huh, sure. Just make sure that whatever you're planning you take care not to get arrested or anything like that." Said Reigen

"Hey! I know better than to get arrested!" said Tome

"Ok, ok, I believe you." Said Reigen. She didn't believe Tome one bit but Mob would fill her in on whatever shenanigans happened while she was absent. A big job had come in, some hotel a city away was having ghost problems they said, and while Reigen was loathe to travel so much in the middle of the week she couldn't pass up the free room, free meal, and the fact that the client had chosen the premium rate for this job.

The only problem was that it was in the middle of the week.

Mob was not missing school for this shit. The old Reigen might have asked Mob to come along but she did not get to disrupt Mob's life like that or demand so much of her time. She didn't have to pass on the job or anything, though, because now she had an actual adult on staff who was free to travel in the middle of the week. Well it would only be for one night, they'd come back in the morning, but it was still a lot.

"I'm going home now, lots and lots to do. Anyway I talked to the hotel guy for you, your room number is 999. Remember, 999." Said Tome

"Three nine, like the Galaxy Express. Tome, I know what you're up to." Said Reigen as she checked her phone. Yup, a confirmation from the hotel. Room 999. Tome had a real future as a secretary, it seemed. She was good at ironing out logistics. The client offered enough rooms for her entire staff plus meal vouchers and stuff like that, things that required logistical planning, and Tome had done a very good job of doing the logistical planning for Reigen. Not that Reigen couldn't pass along information or anything herself, it was just nice to have someone handle it for her. It had been such the day…so many bad backs…so many people desperate to know their futures. Business was good.

"I'm not up to anything! You're paranoid!" said Tome

"Come on, you know you can't get anything past me." Said Reigen

"Yes I can!" said Tome

"Three nine? I know you chose that room specifically for the reference you adorable little nerd." Said Reigen rolling her eyes. These kids would be the death of her, and other such things her mom often said but without the level of affection Reigen put into her thoughts.

"Right….yeah, that's what I did and that's all I did…and I am not adorable. Anyway I have to go home now and do…stuff. All kinds of stuff!" said Tome

"Yes you are! You're adorable!" said Reigen calling after Tome as she ran out of there like her DS was at five percent.

"Good bye Miss Kurata!" said Serizawa. Reigen smiled as she heard him coming up the stairs. He sounded happy, which meant that his solo job went well. It had been a small job, and Reigen had already checked the place out with Mob as a free 'consultation' to confirm that it was an actual spirit. A haunted pachinko machine that made you always lose, haunted by some guy who died after playing pachinko at that machine for over thirty years. Sad but straightforward.

And it had gone well.

"Hey." Said Reigen as Serizawa came in through the doorway, money clutched in his hand.

"Miss Reigen! Here!" he said as he practically shoved the money at her. Reigen took and money and counted it quickly. After some mental math she handed him his cut.

"No! I mean, you don't have to." Said Serizawa

"I'm pretty sure that I have to unless I want those labor law people breathing down my neck." Said Reigen

"But…ok, I guess. I mean…you already pay me hourly and you're putting me up in a fancy hotel-"said Serizawa

"Consider this a bonus. Also who said that the hotel was going to be fancy?" asked Reigen. It looked normal on the website but Reigen didn't have her hopes up. Two stars, but that might have been because of the haunting. The so called haunting. So far it all seemed like normal problems that a hotel would have. Loud noises, faulty lighting, a broken water heater, people taking bites out of the room service food, things like that. Even if this turned out to be a bust at least they got a free mini vacation out of it.

"Miss Kurata did. I heard her talking, I didn't mean to eavesdrop or anything, but I heard her talking with Miss Kurosaki and Miss Kageyama. She said that she made sure that you got a really nice room and that everything would be perfect…but I didn't really like the way that she 'perfect'…" said Serizawa. He knew that tone, that was the tone that Miss Kurata got when she was up to something. Nothing good ever came from Miss Kurata being up to something….

"We'll see what it is when we get there and if she did something…Tome-like…well then we'll cross that bridge when we come to it." Said Reigen. She had some idea, now, of what Tome had done. Reigen watched TV, she knew what was most likely going to happen. She and Serizawa would show up and then the room would only have one bed and, oh no! Whatever would they do?!

Order a rollaway.

Because real life did not work like that. She and Serizawa weren't going to suddenly go tumbling into bed together just because they had to share a hotel room. She would never ask that of him. He didn't need that from her. This was business, strictly business.

"So…tomorrow morning at the train station?" asked Reigen

"S-Sure! I won't be late!" said Serizawa. He'd set three alarms just to be sure that he wouldn't oversleep. This was going to be so…something. He had traveled before, extensively, but he had always been at the President's side then. It would be weird to go somewhere without him. Miss Reigen was nothing like the President, she was not Suzuki, so he had no idea what this trip would entail. Probably not hitting people with his umbrella or anything like that.

This would be fun!

Just him and her working…or hanging out….all night. Alone. In a hotel room. Together. Him. Her…alone…together…in a hotel room all night. He stopped that train of thought right in it's tracks. This was work, it was business, it was strictly business. Nothing was going to happen and he was crazy for even thinking that something could even possibly happen! She didn't like him like that. She couldn't like him like that.

Nothing was going to happen.