A/N: Ahh chapter 3…ok for this note I've got nothing, my brain's fried. I was at school all day during spring break, that's just wrong so wrong. So I keep telling myself it's all for the play, it's all for the play! And SO SORRY! I know it's kinda late!

Disclaimer: Same as the 1st chapter.

Word Key:

Text

"Talking"

'Thoughts'

Dreams

"Tape Recorded Words"

Tape Recorder

Chapter Three: Found It

Mahiru was shocked, did Nozomu just ask her what she thought he asked her. "Wha-what d-d-did you a-a-as-ask m-me?" she stammered out after she had erupted with the word 'what' causing the half-asleep vampire to come to full alertness, and repeated his question slowly.

"Today we're gonna put fresh sheets on the bed and I was wondering if you would strip'em for me? I'd do it myself but I've gotta supervise the 4 year old in the body of a sixteen year old were-wolf while we move the furniture around down here. What did you think I said?"

"Nothing," she replied quickly all the while mentally slapping herself. "Why do you guys have to move the furniture? After all we just moved it around last month."

'Hell if I know, maybe Oboro's just going through a phase…Hopefully.' Is what he wanted to say but didn't. "I dunno maybe he decided that this layout isn't working for the bar, there are a lot of different kinds of reasons that I have no explanations for."

Mahiru shrugged her shoulders it was a good enough reason for her, even if he had just said 'because' she would've thought that good enough reason. She stretched her arms out in front of her and laid her head down in them, closing her eyes to listen to the quietness of the kitchen.

It wasn't long before the silence was disrupted by a very moan of pain and the words, "Mr. Spatula is a meanie." The were-wolf slowly rubbed the spot where the said object had left an imprint. "Oh, hihi again Mahiru would you like something to eat? How about pancakes?"

She smiled; somehow he always made her laugh no matter what, probably because he acted like an idiot just to make his friends happy. "I'd love pancakes Akira."

After breakfast was finished and cleaned up, Mahiru changed into a pair of jean shorts and a tee-shirt. Grabbing a laundry basket from the linen closet upstairs, Mahiru started her journey into the different terrains of the bedrooms.

First room she ventured into was Misoka's, which was kept nearly spotless when he was there, but he wouldn't be back again until sometime next month; some sort of business trip apparently. Followed by Oboro's room; then Katsura's, those three rooms were the cleanest.

After them came what were nicknamed the 'Disaster Zones' which consisted of her bedroom, Nozomu's, and Akira's. All of which has some sort of massive amount of junk on the floors and in the closets. Then once she had the sheets from those rooms she went into the last room which everyone, except for the occupant, agreed on the name of, 'The Arid Wasteland'; simply for the fact that, there's nothing in there to make it look lived in.

Mahiru was gently humming the tune to Ryan Cabrera's song, 'True'; a song which she liked very very much, while she was striping the sheets off of Mitsuru's bed. What disrupted her trail of thought was the sound of hard plastic hitting the carpet, bouncing and rolling once it had made contact.

She winced when she heard the sound. 'Oh crap he's gonna massacre me if I broke anything.' Looking over she saw that the thing that had fell wasn't broken, but laying harmlessly on the ground a few feet away from the bed. "What the-?" Mahiru leaned over and examined it as she picked it up.

"A tape recorder, what would he need with one of these?" Looking around the girl quickly placed it in the basket containing the sheets; she would see what was on it later, for fear the Mitsuru would be back anytime soon. Gathering up the rest of the sheets Mahiru high tailed it out of there faster than she would ever be able to run again.

"Thanks Mahiru, could ya also go and put it by the washer then I'll take it from there?" The vampire asked, trying to keep his temper from boiling over at the were-wolf who kept on asking question after question on just stupid stuff. "Alright, if you want I could do it." She suggested.

Nozomu shook his head 'no'. "I need to do it to get away from-AKIRA STOP THAT OR YOUR GOING TO MEET MY GOOD FRIEND MRS. FRYING PAN!" he yelled at Akira who started sing the never ending song, getting on Nozomu's already fried nerves.

Backing slowly away from him Mahiru went and placed the laundry basket by the washer as instructed; taking out the recorder as she did so. Mahiru sprinted up to her room with it, curiosity had gotten the best of her and she needed to find out what was on that tape.

Sitting at her desk she pressed play and heard Mitsuru's voice start after a short pause,

"I feel like such a damn idiot doing this…" The girl didn't get too far into the tape before an all too familiar voice was heard from down below.

"GRR…DAMN YOU YOU STUPID WERE-WOLF!"

'Yikes he's back gotta hide it, gotta hide it, but where!' She quickly found a spot, in between the mattress and box-spring of her bed. 'He'll never think about looking for it under there…Hopefully.'

Mitsuru stomped up the stairs in a worse than usual sour mood, he had had what was by far the most disturbing zoned out dream-thing of his life. He said the three scariest words ever to the Damn Girl, and she said them back, and then they…KISSED!

The very thought made him want to throw up, or did it? He wasn't very sure so he decided to record it, that way he would be able to get it out of his head sooner. That way he'd be able to go back to hating her quicker.

In his room he noticed that his sheets had been taken to be washed and that when it hit him like a reinforced brick wall…the tape recorder…it was in his sheets. Maybe it wasn't, maybe it was still under his bed, only one way to find out. Mitsuru's fears where solid, it was in there; one of them would find it or already had. "Shit!"

TBC

A/N: Tune in sometime next week to find out what happens!

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