DISCLAIMER: I do not own the Wallflower/ Perfect Girl Evolution. Trust me, if I did, Sunako wouldn't have nose bleeds so often.

She smirked at the scared boy before her, "For the next three months, you, your sister, Uhei, and Etsu will be living in my home," she answered.

"What?" Etsu and Keiko screeched.

Sunako ate quietly as a tense silence engulfed the old group of friends and their pissed off kids. The little twerps were glaring mercilessly at either her or the ground, too peeved to look at their "traitors" A.K.A. their parents.

She sighed happily, hoping to make them even angrier by appearing to be content with all that had just transpired. Sunako gawked at her own desire to piss off a bunch of teenagers-kids. She figured that, after being forced into many uncomfortable situations by her friends in the past, she had turned into somewhat of a sadist herself. Kyouhei being just as easily entertained by the anger of others, too.

We've always been similar. She thought as she glanced at her best friend out of the corner of her eyes. Except in looks, Lord he's sexy.

Keiko ate her food violently, she had already managed to decimate three plastic forks as she repeatedly stabbed her Caesar salad. She mumbled as she tossed another into the trash and angrily grabbed the fourth fork.

Etsu was spelling curse words with lettuce leaves. Taking the time to delicately break off small pieces of her salad and spell very colorful words. Yuki's lips quivered as he continued to eat, phrases like: F***ers and Stupid B****es coming into view.

Uhei and Seiji were sitting next to one another a few tables away from the rest of them-Etsu and Keiko were probably sitting with the adults in order to keep close to their beloved Kyouhei-They were both listening to angry music. Uhei was listening to what sounded like angry rap and Seiji's ear buds gave off sounds similar to hard rock.

Sunako giggled. Kyouhei gave her a knowing look, definitely a sadist. Memories of her poking his wounds just so more blood would flow from his heavily injured body flooded his mind. He shuddered, a little grossed out and a little turned on.

I've got issues.

Takenaga, who had already finished his bento (made by Sunako), cleared his throat: "Seiji, Uhei, please come sit with us. You haven't heard it all," he called.

Seiji scoffed and Uhei immediately walked back. He was the best at remaining polite despite his seething anger, Sunako noted. The two teenage boys slowly and angrily stalked back to the lunch table that was littered with adults. Uhei sat next to Keiko and Seiji next to Etsu. Both of them relaxed a little as they found themselves in close proximity with females.

God, I love estrogen.

Sunako raised a brow: "What are you talking about, Takenaga?"

Noi smirked and Sunako felt goose bumps travel up and down her spine. That dark look from her earlier teenage years took over her pretty face: "And what the (beep) are you smirking about?" She growled.

This only made Noi giggle. Takenaga held in his laughter as well. Ranmaru burst out laughing before calming down and explaining: "Well, Kyouhei is the CFO* for American Family Fitness. I have my own connections, being the head of all Morii hotels and businesses. Turns out your boss, the CEO*, is old friends with my father. We convinced him to let you take a three month vacation. Of course, you'll have to do some work over the computer. Plus, you'll be managing one of the gyms close to Sunako's house."

Kyouhei nodded as he listened, until his eyes snapped open as realization began to settle in: "Are you saying what I think you're saying?"

Sunako looked at Kyouhei and then at Ranmaru and then back at Kyouhei. Ranmaru simply smirked as Sunako frantically looked around without a clue as to what he was implying and Kyouhei waited for him to answer his question.

Both them are still so dense.

Seiji rolled his eyes, "Kyouhei's coming, too!" He finally said.

Etsu and Keiko squealed in delight. Noi joined them, but for different reasons. Ranmaru pouted because he wanted to be the one who pissed off his favorite pair of dense friends.

Sunako gaped at her friends before finally turning to the man of the hour. I'm not exactly angry…

He jumped up, smacking his hands on the lunch table; crack. The part of the table that Kyouhei hit was now a big chunk of wood lying at his feet.

The kids stared at the man, awed by his bestial strength.

He winced. He hadn't meant to look that angry about it. He wasn't mad about the fact that he would be staying in Sunako's house, eating her food, and taking the chance to flirt with her until he was sure of her feelings. He wasn't happy; however, that his friends were meddling between them again.

How in the world was he supposed to make a move if two teenage girls were always following him around? What if they ended up making out one day and one of those little imps saw it?

Mmmm, making out…with Sunako. Kyouhei smacked his inner 13 year old and shook himself out of his lustful stupor. Takenaga smirked at him triumphantly. The look in his best friend's eyes said it all:

There's no getting out of this one.

He glared rebelliously before crossing his arms and defiantly looking at the ground. Until, he felt a hand on his knee. Her hand on his knee. Suddenly, he didn't care anymore. All of his anger left him as she looked at him with soft and knowing eyes. Man, she's grown up. If this had happened when they were in high school, only restraints and narcotics would've made them agree on sleeping in the same place-or accepting their friends' plans. He felt his heart beat faster and harder, screaming her name.

I love her so much it hurts.

"Well, looks like there's no getting out of this one," he said with a smirk. She smirked back: "But our friend's must be punished," he added.

Gosh they had grown so much. Since when had he used punishments instead of his fists?

The smiles and smirks that adorned their friends' faces fell away: "Punished? But-"

Kyouhei rolled his eyes, "It was very rude of you to make it impossible for me to turn this 'offer' down. If I suddenly went to my boss and sounded ungrateful, despite being offered a three month vacation, my job and your good standing with him would very well have been threatened. I mean, who turns down a vacation that long anyway? I wouldn't want to have an idiot working for me."

Sunako squeezed his hand under the table, "Hmm, you're right Kyouhei that was very rude. What do you suppose we do about it?"

Since when did they read each other's minds purposely?

"No deserts for them," he answered simply, squeezing her hand back. Their friends sighed with relief. Until Kyouhei actually finished what he was saying "And I'm not talking just any deserts, I'm talking about your deserts."

Gasps filled the air. Yuki cried and Ranmaru's lips quivered. Even Noi looked a little emotional as Takenaga's mouth straightened into a pouty straight line. Machiko and Tamao simply rolled their pretty eyes. Neither of them had grown as attacked to Sunako's cooking as the rest of the group. She was like a surrogate mother to the five of them and a best friend. They simply knew her as the latter.

Sunako grinned impishly. That was the reaction I wanted to see. Both Kyouhei and Sunako thought.

Yep, we're definitely sadists.

….

Seiji groaned, annoyed: "Can we get back to the subject at hand? I don't understand why you would send us away for an entire summer before high school in the first place. This is when we're supposed to get acquainted with our new schools and figure out how we want to get there and back. And what about orientation? Are we going to be gone for that, too?"

The kid had always been good with his words, and in this situation, he would do anything to get out of his parents' crazy and whimsical plans.

Takenaga smirked as his son's inherited intelligence surfaced once again. Even though his son was extremely rebellious-that was inherited, too-his ego was stroked every time Seiji came to conclusions that only he could come to himself.

Noi smiled inwardly, Seiji was so much like the old Takenaga. Except Takenaga had never disrespected any sane or respectable adults: "We have already taken care of everything. We have your classroom number, a map of the school, a list of clubs, several possible routes, and different types of transportation."

Seiji mumbled incoherent curses. He had no other excuses. In Japan, schools aren't separated by districts or counties. You apply like you apply for college. He couldn't use 'friends' as an excuse. It was likely that he would go to high school with only 1% of the class that he just graduated middle school with. He didn't have a girlfriend, either. Even if he did, he doubted that his ridiculously jealous mother would have let him stay just for some girl.

His eyes softened as his thoughts went over his mother's over-protectiveness. "No one's good enough for either of you. You're both the most special people in the world." He'd remembered her saying when he started dating a shallow big-boobed blond in the eighth grade. Of course, there were plenty of people out there equal to and of higher status than them. But he would never forget how sure and honest her eyes looked when she had said that. Or how lovingly his father had looked at her.

So that's how she got him.

Keiko groaned in a high pitched girly way. Seiji winced at his sister's piggish noises. His thoughts were interrupted by Etsu's creamy voice: "I don't understand the point of it all, why are you sending us away?" She asked.

Creamy?

Seiji shook his head. He knew the answer. And he was sure that all of the others kids knew the answer, too.

Yuki sighed as he placed a hand over Etsu's. Surprisingly, she didn't glare at him or smack his hand away. Seiji figured that physical touch made her weak against her own resolve. Must be her love language. Or something girly like that.

"Sweetie, we're not 'sending you away' because we want to be rid of you. We just think that you kids need some independence. Or, at least some time away from us. When we lived in the mansion, just us and sometimes Aunty, we got a taste of adulthood. And the distance from our parents helped us mature and find ourselves. Etsu, soon, life will be forcing itself upon you and you'll wonder where the time went. And Machiko and I aren't helping you. You're growing up and your emotions are running wild. You need some space. You need an adult in your life that can better relate to you, like Kyouhei or Sunako," he explained while running his thumb over her hand gently.

Etsu's lip quivered, but she quickly bit it back. She couldn't have her parents see that this was hurting her. That she felt sad. But Seiji saw it, and he was sure that anyone with a clue saw it, too.

Ranmaru looked at the kids as Yuki finished talking, "Honestly, we're scared for you. All of you. When we first moved into the mansion, Takenaga, Kyouhei, and I, we were only concerned with ourselves. The only one who tried to become friends was Yuki. I only concentrated on the girls-women-texting me. Takenaga was like a brown recluse. He refused to do anything with anyone. And Kyouhei was scarred because no one had approached him with only 'friendship' in mind before. And we see that in all of you," he added.

Tamao nodded as she grabbed her son's hand from across the table, he looked at his mother lovingly. Out of everyone in the group of kids, he was the only one being sent away for reasons other than rebelliousness towards his parents: "Honey, you need some time away from all of the girls who constantly follow you around. I know that you enjoy flirting with some of them, but it tires you sometimes doesn't it?" She sweetly asked.

He looked at the ground, his cheeks red. He nodded wordlessly as he squeezed his mother's hand. He didn't know what to do about all of the girls that constantly followed him around, so he just went with several of them at a time. But there was only one girl that he had ever found himself truly interested in. She had the same look in her eyes:

Love me for me and not my looks.

Kyouhei eyed Keiko and Uhei. He knew that they would be needing him more than Seiji and Etsu. He could see it in the way they approached new people. He was the same all the way throughout high school. He hoped to God that no one had touched them. Sure, he could deal with it because he was tough, and "Manly" as Sunako put it once when they were hammered at Noi's wedding. But they weren't so tough. Growing up in a loving home is good. He had a tough relationship with his mother, so he could deal with the ridiculousness of others from a very early age. Uhei and Keiko weren't so unlucky.

Noi grabbed Keiko's arm coaxingly, she didn't pull away but she didn't face her mother either. She stared at the table like it was the most interesting thing in the world. Everyone expected her to come up with a speech of her own: "No one in this town deserves you, honey. So, have fun in Hokkaido! I hear that there are a lot of cute boys there!"

Everyone "fell over" at the red head's words. Keiko couldn't help but laugh at her ridiculous mother. She's known for a long time that if their parents were compared to animals, then her father would be a sheep and her mother would be the wolf licking its lips.

Takenaga looked at his watch, "Wow, it's that time already," he said sadly.

Noi kissed her daughter's cheek before leaving her to embrace Seiji. Seiji loved his mother's hugs. He got along better with her than his father sometimes. He kissed her cheek like he always did. Noi giggled and walked her children to Kyouhei's car, Takenaga holding Keiko's other hand as they did so.

Ranmaru patted his son's head, "Well, it's time to go," he said. Uhei hugged his father tightly. Ranmaru laughed and hugged his cute little son back. Tamao embraced them both.

Etsu crossed her arms as her mother kissed her face and Yuki whined because he was about to do the same thing. I won't smile, I won't smile, I won't smile. Machiko laughed as they both hugged their stubborn daughter. She is so cute!

Sunako smiled as she and Kyouhei grabbed the kids' suitcases from their friends' cars and hauled them to Kyouhei's car. Luckily the kids were skinny enough to fit in the back.

"You know where we're going next, right?" She asked as they walked slowly, giving the parents more time to say goodbye.

"My bedroom?"

Sunako flushed before punching him in the ribs. He fell over and the luggage went with him. If he had said that 14 years ago, she would've gotten a huge nose bleed before beating the crap out of him. He loved her violence. She was the only person not worried about "damaging his beautiful face." Well, besides his friends. She was the first girl to be repulsed by him. He had been enthralled and thrilled by her. Plus she was so athletic and fun. No one was like her.

He jumped up and tackled her. They began to wrestle on the concrete, not bothered by the hardness of the ground. They said competitive things as each of them fought for dominance.

"Oi! Lovebirds! You won't be able to make that stop we talked about if you don't get a move on!" Takenaga yelled.

Both froze before quickly getting up and grabbing the luggage like they had never stopped carrying them. Kyouhei grumbled.

Stupid Takenaga. Kyouhei wondered when he had gotten so obsessed with the ex-Goth walking next to him, then he smirked. I always have been.

Sunako and Kyouhei loaded the luggage into the trunk before climbing into the front seats of the car.

Kyouhei started the engine before slowly pulling out and waving goodbye to his friends. They had sounded excited to be rid of their kids over the phone. But in this moment, their true colors showed. Takenaga was gripping Noi's hand tightly as he slowly moved forward with the car. Tamao and Yuki were actually crying.

He shook his head with a light smile. Kids change people.

Seiji shifted uncomfortably before looking at Sunako, who turned around to face him, "What 'stop' was my father talking about?" He suspiciously asked.

Sunako grinned, "The place that brought all of us old folk together."

The Mansion.

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