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"Blah, blah, blah." Talking

Blah, blah, blah. Thinking

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Chapter 4

Kaori couldn't believe it. Mac, her old riding partner, her ex-best friend, the only one who used to brighten up her day was holding her. No, no, no, no, NO! He can't be here! Kaori thought over and over through her head. When she first say Psymon and Zoe, her first two thoughts were:

a) They had gotten married and came to Japan for a crazy honeymoon.

Or

b) The SSX was here.

Looks like thought b) had won, but she never excepted Mac would continue the doing the thing.

"That's my name so don't wear it out! I'm guessing YOU'RE a huge fan of mine, right?" Mac said while letting go of her. Kaori snapped out of her small daze when he said that.

"Iie! I am not!" Kaori shouted harshly as she backed away, giving him an icy glare. Mac's silly grin quickly turned into a 'So-much-for-a-thanks.' look.

"You could be a little nicer Ms. Suzuzuno. I did just save you form adoring fans." Mac said bluntly.

Kaori turned her back on him and said, "Even if you didn't, supposedly, save me the manager would've done something himself." And as if on que, a small, pathetic looking man came down a flight of stairs looking around frantically.

"I need to go reasure him. It was nice meeting you...Mackenzie-kun." Kaori said as she briskly walked over to the manager, leaving a confused Mac behind her. Mac stood there idiotically as he watched her comfort the man.

Mackenize-kun...That women sounded fami-

"MACKIE!" Mac's thoughts were shattered as two, small voice's shouted his name childishly. He turned just in time as two, equally small beings ran over to him form the entrance and lunged forward onto one of his legs each. (Meaning they held one of his legs.)

"Sandy! Mickey! When did you two get here?" Mac asked, temporarily forgetting the strange women. The two peered up at him with innocent face's and pointed back to the doors. Mac followed their fingers to see Mr. and Mrs. Logan come in with luggage and snowboards. "Hey Elise! I see you got your figure back!" Mac teased across the room as he tried ever soooo hard to walk to the couple. (Have you ever tried walking with little kids hanging on your legs? It's DAMN HARD!)

Kaori turned her head to the sound of Elise hitting Mac upside the head. "No way." she whispered. Elise got married? And I MISSED IT? Kaori's face turned solem. I guess this is what I get for disappearing for 3 years. Kaori was broken form her train of thought by the manager.

"Er, um, Ms. Suzuzuno? Your, um, room is ready, but there seems to be, a um, small mishap." He looked at Kaori, waiting to see if she would get mad.

"Iie, its okay. Whatever the problem is I will learn to cope." Kaori said a little icily as she set her luggage on one of those hotel, roller, things. (A/N: You tell me what these is called and I will praise you!) But she still held her snowbording case.

"Oh, well, um, okay. Here's you key and your room is on floor 23, room 302."

Kaori took her key, grabbed the roller thing, and made her way towards the elevator. Soon the elevator door opened up. But before Kaori could step inside, two little girls ran inside yelling, "I WON!" at the same time. Kaori had to do a double look at the two before having to hold in a LOUD squeal. The two little girls were twins.

Both had silky blonde hair to there shoulder's and blue eyes. The girl on the left of Kaori was wearing a dark red turtle neck, black fuzzy looking pants, and black children's snow shoes. While the girl on her right was wearing a fuzzy pink turtle neck, white jeans, and white children's snow shoes. The tow looked at each other with anger in their eyes.

"Nah uh Mickey! I won by an inch!" The girl in red said, placing her hands on her hips.

"Like, no ways, Sandra! I won!" The girl who was Mickey said, sticking her tounge out at the girl Sandra.

Seeing that this wasn't going to end soon, Kaori cleared her throat, causing the fighting siblings to gaze up at her. They stood like that is silence for 30sec. before the elevator dinged, singloging that it was about to close. Kaori stuck her hand out in the middle. This caused the doors to open up again and back into its oringal place.

"If you don't mind, I would like to get through." Kaori said with a faint smile. Hey, they were kids right?

It seemed the twins just realized that they were being rude, and in somebody's way. (A/N: Though to me, that's the same thing.) Just when they were about to apologize, a stern voice came form behind Kaori.

"What did I say about monkeying around in hotel's!" The voice with all to familiarness's in it. Kaori felt a wave of nervousness wash over her.

"I'm sorry-uh wait...Gomen! That's it, gomen. There little demons sometimes." Stepping past Kaori to get the twins was Elise. She grabbed both her daugthers hands was about to leave, but to Kaori's dismay, Elise looked at her. There was a long, AWKWARD, silence. Elise's once calm expression, turned to annoyed as Kaori adverted her eyes.

"Have..we met...before?"

Kaori started to shift her weight from side to side, something she did when she was trying to avoid something.

"I-iie." Kaori stuttered a bit. Elise, who secretly dis-believed, shrugged.

"Okay, and once again, Gomen." And with that Elise walked back to where Mac and Nate stood. When Kaori was sure Elise was out of hearing range she sighed a heavy sigh.

"That...was close." Kaori muttered, stepping into the elevator.

She rubbed her eye's and yawned. I'm getting tired. Kaori thought, pressing the button for floor 23. The elevator closed and jerked upwords. Kaori's stomach began doing backflips. She disliked elevators alot.

Kaori then heard a happy "Ping!". She sighed and raced out the doors when they opened up. Pulling that thing with her, Kaori began her search for room 302. Which really only took 15 sec. because Kaori only took five steps before she saw it.

After getting the door open, Kaori took a good look around. Japan was trying really hard to make everything look more western, and they were doing a fairly good job. But one thing bothered her...

" Why are there two beds?" Kaori wondered out loud. She had asked for a single bedroom suite. But, instead the room held two.

Was this what the manger was talking about? Kaori thought about what he had said eariler. Yep, this has to be the "Small Mishap". She rolled her eyes while setting her snowboard on one of the beds. Leaving the roller thing with all her luggage near the door, Kaori pick up the phone and dialed room service.

"Moshi Moshi, Room Service!"

"Uh, yes, would you please send up a bottle of sake up to room 302?"

"Hai! It'll be right up!"

"Arigato."

Kaori put the phone back in it's place and walked towards the window. She pulled the curtins back, only to see a very snowy moutain top. Looking down through the glass, Kaori spotted the steaming hot springs.

"That's what I'm going to do." Kaori thought outloud. Going over to the roller thing, she picked up one of the suitcases that held her clothes. Setting it on her bed, Kaori pushed aside a couple of clothes until she found what she was looking for. Smirking to herself, Kaori shut her suitcase and went into the bathroom.

Well, this is it. He thought, opening the door to room 302. It was dark all around except for the light coming out of the window. But he didn't care. Dropping both his snowboard case and duffle bag right infront of the door, he gazed ober at the two beds. One of them was already occupied. The only bed open was the one near the window.

Looks like my room mate has already been her. He thought, pulling off his sweater shirt off. I gotta pee. Walking ober to the bathroom, he didn't think twice about the light seeping out from the bottom. His belt was already losened when he opened the door. But he stopped in his tracks at what he saw.

There, not 5 ft. away, was Kaori with her hair done up in high pigtails, a towel held close to her chest, and a pink bakini bottem on with a chibified panda on it. There was a long silence. They both suddenly blushed deep red.

And then, Kaori screamed bloody murder.

A/N: Sorry this one took so long TT. I've been prewriting in a small journal so I wouldn't forget. Good Reviews Plz!

Iie: No.

Moshi Moshi: Hello? (Over the phone.)

Gomen: Sorry.

Hai: Yes/ Okay.

Arigato: Thank-you.