"OhMyGosh! Athren put some clothes on!" Amaya covered her eyes and headed off to go back downstairs.
"Athren!" Raya scolded, "You embarrassed 'Kira-chan!"
Akira was speechless. Her faced had turned a bright shade of red and stayed frozen in place as she took in the spectacle laying on her bed.
Athren was on his side, his stomach turned toward the door, in nothing more than silky black boxers with big red hearts on them.
"Hello Akira." He said in his deepest, most seductive, which made Akira turn a shade of red that was previously unseen on a living being.
"Wow 'Kira-chan," Raya teased, "looks like someone missed you!" with that she shoved her sister into her room and shut the door. The hall went silent upon seeing the very bold move that had been made. Suddenly a scream came from within the room, followed by fits of giggles.
"And that's our cue to leave." Hikaru muttered, going into her room and shutting the door.
"Hey Izzy." Raya started, looking up at her younger sister (A/N: Yes, Izzy is taller. Raya only comes to a grand height of 5'5", so Izzy has three inches on her at 5'8")
"What is it Raya?" her sister questioned upon seeing the mischievous look on her sisters face.
"Am I okay enough to be able to cook yet?"
"I suppose so…wait! Since when do you want to cook?" Izzy eyed her smaller big sister with a wary glance.
"Since Kurama made lunch and I can't be shown up in the kitchen by a male…" she gave her sister her most dazzling smile, hoping she accepted it.
"Okay. What are we having?"
"Can't tell you. It's a surprise!" she started back down the stairs, but looked back at Izzabelle, "Make sure everyone is ready to eat at five sharp!"
"Will do!"
Raya spent the next few hours busy at work in the kitchen. With Kurama assisting, everything stayed clean and organized. By five when the guests arrived, the table was set and everything was ready to be served.
"Ohhhh! That smells GOOD!"Yusuke practically yelled as he sat down at the table.
"Indeed." Izzy smiled as she sat beside him.
As soon as everyone was seated, she began to bring out the plates. Mouths dropped as they surveyed the meal.
"Fettuccine with marinara and parmesan crusted chicken. Now what would you like to drink?" Raya said after everyone had their plates. "We have water, sweet and unsweet tea, and an entire wine cellar." Before anyone could answer the mouths of all the guys dropped.
"You drink?" Athren shouted "But you're not legal!"
"So? It's not like we're getting hammered then cruising the town! It's just a glass or two of a well aged robust red wine to perfectly compliment a wonderful highly spicy pasta dish. Now drinks?"
In the end, everyone but Raya, Kurama, Amaya and Seiko had tea. Ten minutes later, everyone was talking and laughing like they had always been friends, instead of having met the day before. When the pasta was done, desert was announced.
"Cake anyone?" Raya asked, coming in with a large chocolate cake and enough plates for everyone.
"Raya! You made desert! Are we trying to impress someone?" Hikaru taunted.
"More like trying not to be shown up…" she gave Kurama a sly sideways glance. "Well, now who wants some?"
Five minutes later, with everyone eating cake, the question had to be asked.
"So, Raya. Any reason that we have seven layers this time? Don't we normally only have four?" Athren waggled his eyebrows at the red head.
"Actually, I had cake like this at a coffee shop the other day…so I recreated the recipe!" she smiled like it was the most normal thing in the world.
"You made the cake off of memory alone?" Yusuke was amazed.
"You mean you can't?" Izzy questioned, clearly flirting with him.
"Hey do you want to watch a movie?" Amaya spoke for the first time that night.
That was the only excuse that need to crowd around the bookcase filled with DVD's trying to pick something good. They we're quickly joined by the boys, who looked completely astonished at spectacle in front of them. The Kimiyashii house held more films than most video stores could ever hope to have.
"I'm thinking…horror. Anyone else."Amaya looked around for objections. "Okay then how 'bout this one?" she quickly withdrew a movie from the shelf they were staring at.
"Yes!" they all shouted in unison.
Within minutes, they were sitting all around the living room staring at the TV screen intently. It was a vampire movie, and they were hooked. It was just scary enough to make your heart race a little, mixed with enough blood to make the squeamish cringe. All in all, it was perfect.
Two hours later, they stared at the blank screen watching credits, but not caring.
"That…was…AWESOME!"Yusuke commented.
"Glad you liked it. Now it's time for bed." Raya stated, checking the time.
With that, everyone rose and headed to the appropriate rooms. Athren and Akira to theirs, Seiko and Amaya to theirs, Izzy to hers and Hikaru to hers. Yusuke, Kuwabara and Hiei each went off to their respective guest rooms. Kurama made as to go with them, but Rayanna caught his hand.
"Where do you think you're going?" she whispered.
"To my room?" he wasn't sure what she meant, but the intentions behind the question could not possibly be as innocent as the voice used to ask it.
"But you're still babysitting remember. And that means that you have to stay with me tonight." She smiled sweetly up at him as she led him upstairs.
As soon as he walked into the room, he spotted his bed clothes lying on the bed. He briefly wondered when they had been put there. Raya pulled him out of his musings as she spoke.
"You can change in here or in the bathroom. I'll be in the closet until you tell me that I can come out." She called over her shoulder as she closed the door.
Once he was alone in the room, he was able to really look at it. The better part of the room was dominated by the largest bed he had ever seen. It was easily twice as big as a king sized bed. The rest of the room was sparsely furnished. There was a desk in one corner with a thin laptop and a glass of pens on it, and one wall held an ornately decorated full length mirror. Seeing the wrought iron around the mirror reminded him to look at the bed spread. It had a blood red comforter with embroidered roses on it in black. Underneath the comforter were black silk sheets. After his inspection of the bedroom, he decided to go to the bathroom, just to look.
The bathroom was just as amazing as the bedroom itself had been. It was half the size of the bedroom. A sink stretched all the way down one wall with a mirror above it. There was a glass shower in the corner without the sink. It was at least three times the size of a normal shower with two shower heads on each of the tiled walls. Farther down the wall was what appeared to be a small swimming pool. Upon closer inspection, he couldn't help but marvel at the sheer size of the bath tub. Each side held a
small ledge about two feet below the top of the tub. It had the same matching brown tile as the shower. 'Well, it seems that she doesn't do anything half way.' Kurama thought as he finally decided to change into his grey lounge pants and white tee-shirt that he would sleep in.
When he walked out of the bathroom he called to Rayanna. "I'm done changing."
"Well it's about time. I thought that girls were supposed to take longer to get ready." Unfortunately, Kurama was too preoccupied to answer. He took in the form of his bedmate for the night. She had put on a pair of short, white, girl boxers with roses covering them and a black tank top. She had also put her hair up in pigtails and donned a pair of black rimmed glasses. She looked…well nothing short of…adorable. She shook him out of his thinking as she spoke again.
"Okay, get into the bed. Let me know when you are ready for me to turn the light out." As she spoke, she walked over to the light switch by the door. Kurama was quick to comply with her wishes.
"Okay. I'm in bed. Now what?"
Raya, however did not acknowledge that the man had even spoken. She simply turned off the light and sprinted silently to the bed. She quietly crawled under the cover and scooted away from the edge of the bed, and thereby closer to Kurama (not that he minded). She kept scooting until she was right next to him, on the complete opposite side of the bed from where she started. She leaned in closer and sat up, her face only inches from his own. She then suddenly closed the space, giving him a delicate kiss on the mouth before laying back down, on his chest.
"Good night, Kurama-chan. I love you." She said softly.
"I love you, too, Raya-chan." He whispered back softly. But his words had fallen on deaf ears, as the red headed girl was already fast asleep. But, that didn't mean that the rest of the house was…
A/N: You know, this may sound sadistic, but I've come to like my cliffhangers. Because of the unconventional-istic-ness (which is so not a real word!) of my story, no one knows what will happen next!! (Not even me at this point…oh well…)