MAID AND HOUSEWIFE

They came back at Herakles' after a very useless and boring world meeting. They opened the door on a freshly cleaned leaving room. The smell of detergent lingered in the air, and Kiku could almost see his reflection on the sparkling floor.

"Did someone break into your house, Hera-kun?

-Well… No, I don't think so… Why do you ask?

-I've never seen your house so clean before, unless I've done the work. And you know well that I was in America with you.

-Oh, about that… It must be the neighbor. She does the cleaning when I'm not home.

-What? Kiku said, bewildered."

Kiku was not pleased at all. He began to breathe heavily and pace around the room nervously, gesturing with his hands in an attempt to say something intelligible. His face flushed harshly, as if he was trying to spit out something stuck in his throat.

"I can't… I can't believe it… You… actually trust someone else for this? I thought… I thought you needed me." He dropped his bag on the floor with a muffled thud. "How could you?"

While Herakles tried to think of a worthy answer, they heard footsteps down the stairs.

"Γεια σου, Ηρακλῆς."

Herakles looked up to the woman, maybe to escape Kiku's furious glance.

"Γεια σου. »

The woman then looked down to Kiku and switched to English.

"Oh, Hello" She began with a clumsy accent. "You must be… Honda Kiku, right?

-Well, yes, Kiku answered defiantly.

-I suppose you've been here before I was, uh? I didn't have much work to do; the house was so clean when I got there! Herakles often tells me how you always take good care of the house…"

Kiku glanced at Herakles, blushed and quickly avoided his eyes, mumbling something that sounded like: "Well thank you that must be true."

The woman chuckled and she exchanged a few words in Greek with Herakles before she left, greeting the two of them. Kiku looked genuinely embarrassed now, flushing furiously and looking the other way, thinking about how stupid he had been to get angry.

From that day on, Kiku would never question his n°1 housewife rank ever.

Sorry, K-chan, I really didn't have any inspiration for this one, so I took a long time, and the result is a bit lame… But anyway, this is it.