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Hello, as promised a new chapter for this month

It called to her.

Attractively, seductively

Curiously, she floated close to it and reached out with a wavering tendril. Like a magnet, the darkness gripped it tightly, wove itself around entire being, disallowing to escape like she did before.

Slowly, the darkness consumed her.

Kita arrived in the kitchen. "What is it Man-…" She was welcomed with the sight of Manta covered in flour. Hao was smirking, as usual.

"I said no bullying!"

Hao smiled, innocently, "It was an accident…I…tripped." He snorted and threw his head back laughing. Kita shook her head sighing, she crouched down next to Manta. "You, alright, Manta?" Manta coughed, puffing out another white cloud of flour. He smiled feebly, gave a thumbup and fainted.

"Hao…you didn't drop the actual bag on him did you?"

Hao smirked.

"Honestly, Hao, you just became 20 last month (May) but you'll still acting like a five year old and as far as I know, real five years olds are better than that!" Kita sighed again, she went and took two brooms from the closet. She shoved one into Hao's hands. He looked at it blankly. "We need to clean this up."

"We?"

"Yes, we!" She snapped, her patience wearing thin. Hao blinked, Kita? Losing her temper? Chances – One in a million.

"Kita."

"Yes?" Kita asked plainly, concentrating on sweeping the white powder back into a pile.

"Did…did something go wrong?"

She sighed for the third time, "It's nothing much, sorry I snapped at you. I just…well… yah." She called Dragon. "Take Manta to Yoh please? And tell him, Hao dropped a bag of flour on his head." The giant reptile nodded and took off with Manta's shirt firmly held in his jaws.

"Manta! What happen to you?"

Hao grinned and swept more vigorously, obviously wanting to get the work done. Kita coughed and flapped her hands trying to get the flour away. "HAO!" She bent over coughing and sneezed so much that she fell over the ex-maniac.

The flour cleared. Hao looked at the heavy weight on himself. "Kita?" Her eyes were closed and her body was a dead weight. "Kita?" He leaned up and shook her. "Hey wake up!" There was no response; he pressed his fingers to her neck.

No pulse.

"Kita! Wake up!"

"W-wah?"

Her eyes opened slowly, the pupils muddy and dazed. "Kita are you alright?" Hao asked, watching the mass in the eyes cleared, there must have been some sharp reflection because something flashed in there. "Oh. What am I doing on your lap?"

"You blacked out."

She stared at him. "Ri-ight."

"What else would you be doing on top of me? Unless…you want to molest me."

She knocked his head lightly, giving out a small puff of flour. "If you think that way, why would I black out?"

He shrugs.

"Oh my god! Kita, you're cheating on Ren!" Horo Horo yelled, pointing his finger accusingly. Anna rolled her eyes and slapped him hard. "Observe, you moron." Horo Horo looked closer.

Kita on Hao's Lap
Flour
Broken bag in corner
Kita's on Hao's Lap
Manta-shaped cutout on flour
Eggs
Kita on Hao's Lap
Kita on Hao's Lap

"Oh my god, you're cheating on Ren!" Horo Horo screamed and stopped thoughtfully, "Kinky too."

Anna slammed him into the wall. Kita got off Hao and grabbed a cloth. "Hao sweep that up, I'll clean the tables."

'Geez, all I wanted to do was make some cookies.'

/Well, with Hao here, makes things twice as difficult doesn't it? It would worth the trouble of kicking him out/ Dragon asked slyly.

As usual, she ignored him, after living with Yoh for two years, Dragon had gotten onto Horo's habit of twisting things up. Kita stared at the pile of flour. 'Well the floor is clean and we are going to cook it anyway, it's a shame to let it go to waste.'

With her mind made up she set to work.

Phoenix had not watched the conversation between Kita and Ren, but she was empathic and felt the uneasiness of Kita. Silently from rooftop, she watched the golden-eyed boy from behind.

Kita placed the last tray of cookies into the oven. Now to do the cleaning up, she scanned the room for the long-haired man only to find he was gone.

'Great more cleaning up for me'

Phoenix watched Ren for thirty minutes straight realizing that the man had not moved an inch.

"So bored that you are actually watching this man?"

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