Chapter 6: Start of a New Life
Ren woke up early the next morning and went into the living room. She saw Ken'ichi drooling on his pillow and sleeping on the floor as if he had just slept where he dropped. Ren sighed and walked into the kitchen carefully stepping over Ken'ichi. She almost collapsed when she saw the state of the kitchen. Food and dirty dishes stacked all over the place.
'Now this won't do!' She said to herself filling the kitchen sink up with water and soap. She started to wash a pile of plates when she heard moaning and yawning coming from the fridge. She spun around to see a topless Ken'ichi getting food straight out of the fridge and eating it.
'What do you think you're doing?' She demanded. Ken'ichi jumped.
'Huh? What? Why are you up?' He said placing the half eaten old sandwich on the bench.
'Why are you eating out of the fridge like that? Why are there so many dirty dishes? And I'm up because I like to get up early!' Ren said turning back around and continuing with washing all the dishes.
'Right, well there are so many because I can't clean and I'm eating out of the fridge caus there are no clean plates to eat off.' Ken'ichi said cramming the remains of the sandwich into his mouth.
'Can you at least get a top on?' Ren said burying her head into cupboards to stack clean plates in.
'Oh! Right, sorry about that.' Ken'ichi said as he slowly crept backwards then ran to get a top. Ren sighed and stacked a pile of plates into the cupboards, sighed and started to wash another pile of plates. Ken'ichi walked back into the room fully dressed.
'So, what's to eat?' He asked scratching his head.
'You just ate, remember?' Ren laughed. Drying the all the things she had just washed. There was a knock at the door interrupting them and Ken'ichi went to answer it. He opened the door and got tackled.
'HEY! What are you doing?'
'The Glorious and Powerful Chisoku Tamagashi has returned!' Chisoku said putting Ken'ichi in a headlock.
'Get off me Chisoku!' Ken'ichi demanded and threw him at the wall. Ren was standing at the kitchen watching everything they were doing in shock. The two boys kept fighting each other with Ren watching in shock; it had taken them 1 hour to finally calm down and rest.
'Hey, Ken'ichi. Who's the hottie?' He said staring at Ren and nudging Ken'ichi in the side. 'Are you gonna introduce me or not?'
'Her name's Ren Yam…' Ken'ichi paused
'Why are you trailing off?' Chisoku asked.
'It's nothing, really!'
'Right well nice to meet you Ren Yam!' Ren glared at him.
'My name's just Ren!' She yelled at him and went into the kitchen to continue to clean.
'I like her!' He said to Ken'ichi.
'Well you'd better not; she's out of both of our league.'
'In what way? The Glorious and Powerful Chisoku Tamagashi can get any girl!' Chisoku said standing up giving his pose of mightiness that wasn't mighty at all.
'She's royalty.' Ken'ichi said rubbing his head from the pain of being noggied for 10 minutes straight.
'ROY…' Ken'ichi covered Chisoku's mouth. 'Is she who I think she is?'
'Yes and we have to protect her for the mean time, if word of her being here gets out there will be a lot of enemy soldiers coming to try and get their hands on her and added on she doesn't know she is will make it harder for us to do our job.' Chisoku nodded and went to help Ren out.
'You need any help, Ren?' Chisoku asked
'No I'm just about finished.' Ren said packing away the last plate. "Now are you two hungry?'
'No, I…' Ken'ichi said nudging Chisoku. 'Yeah actually we are.' Ren smiled at the two and went to the fridge. She opened the door to see it was empty.
'Oh! Wow! How about you two take me to get some supplies and fill this fridge up a bit?' She said.
'Nah, I'm not feeling that good!' Ken'ichi said holding his stomach. Ren sighed.
'I'll…' Chisoku got interrupted with a nudge from Ken'ichi again. 'I'm actually feeling not that go as well.'
'Ok, well you two get better soon caus there will be no food in this house unless I go shopping!'
'Ah huh' the two nodded pretending to be sick. Chisoku and Ken'ichi stopped faking when Ren went to go clean up the rest of the house.