2 hours earlier, at Black Star and Tsubaki's shared apartment:

*BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP*

"Mhhhhnnnnn?" Tsubaki, still sleepy, pulled the warm covers closer to her body and burrowed her head into her soft, comfy pillow.

*BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP*

"Unnnnnnnhhhhhhhh, five more minutes." She winced and pulled the sheets even tighter to her body and covered her ears with her pillow. "mnnnnnnnnnnnn."

*BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP-* *Click*

Tsubaki then felt swift, cool air surrounding her body, making her shiver. "Wh-what?" She looked up to see her blue haired meister standing beside her bed, holding the sheets in his hands.

Black Star looked at Tsubaki lying in her bed. "Tsubaki, time to get up" he said, in a low, soft voice. He placed the covers on the foot of the bed as he said this.

Tsubaki reached for the sheets and began to repeat, "Five more minutes." As she was pulling the sheets back onto her body, Black Star reached out and grabbed her arm. He pulled her up so now she was now sitting up on the bed.

As he was watching his sleepy partner try to recover from her dream world state, he noticed the covers slowly slipping down her chest "T-tsubaki..." A rosy blush came upon his face. "Wake up, come on, did you forget what we had planned for the day?" He placed his hand on her slender shoulder.

Tsubaki quickly opened her eyes. "B-Black Star? What are you-?" She looked to her side and noted that he had his hand on her shoulder. "What time is it?" She looked at the clock on her head-dress. "Oh no!" Tsubaki literally sprang out of her bed and ran towards the bathroom.

"I can't believe she wears THAT to sleep in." Black Star chuckled to himself as he watched Tsubaki from behind, quickly sprinting to go take a shower.

Just as Tsubaki was turning to go into the entry of the bathroom, she stubbed her toe on the door. "Owowowowow!" She continued to half walk, half limp to the bathroom sink. "Ahhhhhhhhhh, dang it." sobbing and quietly cursing under her breath.

She limped painfully over to the tub. "Maybe dowsing my foot in water will help?" She turned the hot water knob. "Oh well, I was going to take a bath anyway." The water spilled from the faucet, filling up the tub with comfortable lukewarm water. "Ah, perfect~" she sang as she began to undress herself. Tsubaki gasped.

Black Star looked at the covers now laying deserted on the bed. "I guess there is no use for it..." He sprawled himself on the bed and wrapped the covers around him. "Heheh, smells like Tsubaki." He soon fell asleep, listening to the lulling sound of the rushing water that was being drawn for Tsubaki's bath.

"Did he see me like this?" Tsubaki thought as she took a glance at her attire. She was wearing a pink tank top and short baby blue shorts. She looked into the mirror above the sink. "These shorts...they barely go below my thigh..." A blush crept its way onto her face. "He...saw me. Heehee~" She again started to undress herself, taking off the shorts and then her top. She slinked her way over to the bathtub, placing her fingers into the water to test its warmth. "Ah, I guess this is good." She stepped into the warm water, sloshing it as it rose up her body.

"Hummmmmmmmm~Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm~Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm" Tsubaki started to hum a catching little tune, that brought a smile to her face. Then, as if to follow her humming, she began to sing. "Lalalaaaaaaa~ladedumanum~Lalaaaaaaaaaa~Oh la la~"

The sound of Tsubaki's singing reached into the room where Black Star had been sleeping in her bed. "Mnnnnnn, that sound is so pretty, what is it?" he said still half-sleeping. A smile came to his face as he hugged one of the stuffed animals Tsubaki had lying on her bed.

As tsubaki was lathering her hair with shampoo, she continued to sing. "Lulaleehaaaaaaaaaahhhh~Laa-ahlaaaaaa~" she rinsed out her hair and picked up the soap bar sitting in the little dish which occupied a corner of the tub. When she grasped it in her palm, it slipped out and made a "plop" noise when it broke the surface of the water, drifting down to the bottom, sliding against Tsubaki's leg as it fell. "Urgh, why does that always happen?" She reached to the bottom, trying to pick up the slippery soap. "Ah, there we go." Tsubaki held the soap firmly in her hands, and rubbed it against her features, bubbles forming everywhere, and a fragrant smell filling the room. After bubbling up her body, she sank under, submerging herself under the now soapy water.

"I guess now I should get out, I still have to do some things before Maka and Soul come to pick us up." Tsubaki removed the plug from the tub, watching the water form a little, mini, underwater tornado as the water was being sucked into the drain. She stepped out, and grabbed the dry, red towels, wrapping them securely around her curvaceous body, and the other to contain her hair.

"Oh yeah, that's right." Tsubaki peered over to the counter. "Darn it, so I did forget to bring a change of clothes." Then another thought came to her mind. "Black Star, he didn't walk in on me. N-not that that was something I was looking forward to, or anything like that! But...I wonder, what could he be doing?"

Tsubaki walked out of the bathroom and headed into her and Black Star's bedroom, where she saw him sitting upright on the bed. He turned his head her way, a cocky grin, widening across his face. He stood up from the bed, and started to leisurely strut his way over towards Tsubaki.

"Hey, Tsubaki." his grin widening even further.

Tsubaki blushed. "B-Black Star, please, I don't have time for this."

"Eh? Why not?" he pouted. He leaned over her, staring at her as if in a wonderful trance.

Tsubaki averted her eyes from his resolute, blue-green ones. "I-I-" she was blushing so furiously that she had started to stutter. "I n-need to get...d-dressed."

"Tsubaki...you know, I really like it when you sing. It makes me feel like, how do I put it? Hmmm...I guess you could say that I don't feel alone when I hear your singing."

The blush on Tsubaki's face grew to an even darker shade of red. "You heard me singing?" she once again made contact with Black Star's eyes.

He smirked. "Yes."

"Then, you were?" at the same time she said this, she thought " No way, he could not have possibly...could he?"

"Heh, yeah, I was st-"