Saturday morning started crazier than any other day since the Trio had officially moved into the house. Sei had been cuddled inside her bed, dreaming absolutely nothing in particular when someone jumped on top of her bed and began jumping up and down.

"Wake up!" a voice yelled. The one who was jumping up and down kept doing it. "Wake up, wake up, WAKE UP!"

"Huh? What… When…?" asked Sei, slowly opening her eyes and sitting up in her bed.

"Sei, its 12:45 which is to say time for BREAKFAST!" Yelled an exited Kadaj, nearing his face towards Sei while still standing on top of her bed.

She looked at him with sleepy annoyance and then fell back into her pillow and cuddled again. She was so not in the mood to get out of bed yet. "No, no, NO!" yelled Kadaj, getting her shoulders and shaking her furiously. "Get up, delinquent! Your fair protector has summoned the graceful prince to come and wake you!"

"Fair Protector?" asked Sei, looking up at him, now wide awake, thank you. "Graceful Prince?" Was Kadaj on drugs?

"He means your brother has told him to come and wake you," said a voice at the door. Sei and Kadaj turned to see Yazoo leaning against the doorway with a hand on his waist.

"What does he want me for?"

"Weren't you listening?" hissed Kadaj. "All that wasted breath for nothing! I didn't do all that jumping and yelling so you could take it for granted, you know!"

"Kadaj, settle down." Yazoo sent a warning glance his way before continuing. "He wants you to wake up because he said we were going to a place to buy clothes for us."

"Oh." Was her response. Yeah, she remembered now that Jake had mentioned it the night before. After a night of non-stop arguing about the scholar plans Jake had for the remnants, they had spent most of the night talking, playing card games and getting to know each other a little further. Staying awake until four in the morning with her new friends was awesome, but she wished she could have a little more quality time with her bed.

"Hey, how come all of your clothes are black?" Sei turned to see that Kadaj had disappeared from her side only to have reappeared near her open closet. He was looking at some pants he had pulled out with a curious gaze. "And what's with the chains on the pants?" he added.

"Interesting." Yazoo had walked all the way into her room and was standing by her dresser; in his hands he held a bracelet with silver bullets.

"Oh, I like that," said Kadaj, dropping the pants to the floor and running to Yazoo. Both examined the bracelet with certain amusement.

"Ok, guys go tell my brother I'll be out in a se—"

"Wonder what's in this drawer," interrupted Kadaj, reaching out for the top drawer of her dresser.

"Out of the room!" Sei yelled, tackling Kadaj and dragging him out the door. She closed it and then turned to the room to see Yazoo still in it looking around with his eyes.

"So," he said, shifting his weight to a leg and dangling the bracelet on his index finger like if it were a mini lasso, "do you want me to turn away, cover my eyes or lie on your bed and watch while you change?"

Sei opened the door and signaled for him to leave.

"C'mon, tell me why all of your clothes black," begged Kadaj.

"I like Black." Sei answered.

"Really? ME TOO!" He and the other four were heading downtown in Jake's car to buy clothes. There had been a big hassle about who was sitting where, but it ended up with Jake as the driver, Loz beside him, Kadaj and Yazoo in the back with Sei between them. They were going towards a small building, but big enough to be considered a Plaza. There were around 9 stores all different types. They parked in front of a dark store with the name of it above it in black and red letters; D.A.R.K.

All five got off the car and looked at it. The windows were tinted dark purple to add a mysterious air to it, and the doors were open. The five of them walked closer, and then the Trio slightly gasped in amazement. Dark clothes hanged from the black and red walls. Blue and green rays of light made the store look almost magical. Several objects were displayed on counters running horizontally along the lower walls; key chains, backpacks, shoes, posters, accessories, CD's, crazy hair dye, wigs, movies and other things too good to be true. A song could be heard, softly but playing heavily, an enchanted voice singing the lyrics.

They stood there petrified for a few seconds until Kadaj said "WOO HOO!" raised his hands above his head and ran all the way in like a crazy monkey.

Jake and Loz hurried after him, leaving Sei and Yazoo to walk in slowly and start looking at the things they would like to buy. Yazoo stopped in front of a shirt and looked at it for a moment before he began to take off his own. Sei was taken aback by his boldness that it took effort to ask, "Uhm… what are you doing?

"I want to know if it fits me," he said, using a duh-tone.

"There's a dressing room in the back, you can try them on there," She explained. He looked at her and then looked around at the few people who had turned to watch him and see what he was up to. He put his shirt back on and said, "Yeah, I should probably use the dressing rooms."

She smiled and nodded. She helped him pick clothes she thought would look good on him, and from time to time, suggested accessories for this or for that. She noticed he was a thinker; for everything he touched, he looked it over from end to end and if he liked it, he took it.

Sei tried to make conversation with him, but every time she opened her mouth to say something, he looked at her, and then she thought better of it and kept her mouth shut. Those green eyes of his were awesome, but in the strangely lit store, they resulted scary, and he almost seemed to be capable of knowing what she was going to do before she even did it.

"You can't catch me!" yelled Kadaj. He ran by them both with Loz and Jake chasing after him. She wondered why for a few seconds until she noticed Kadaj was wearing a skirt; Jake thought skirts were inappropriate for men like for women, unless the length went below the knee, for females. Sei had never complained about it; she hardly ever wore skirts to begin with. All that fluff wasn't her thing; being careful to close her legs neatly side by side, pull it down when the wind blew and sit still so others couldn't see her underwear. She liked to sit however she wanted; legs crossed or open. She liked to move a lot and pants offered freedom that skirts couldn't.

"Kadaj, come back here!" Yelled Jake. He was determined to get Kadaj out of that skirt no matter what it took. He jumped with tremendous impulse and tackled the little guy onto the floor. Then with Loz's help, he dragged him back to the dressing rooms. Sei looked back at Yazoo; it seemed he had ignored the whole thing.

"Is he always like that?" She asked.

"Only when he thinks it is time for fun and games." He replied. "May we go to the dressing rooms now?" he added.

She led the way and picked a well lit room for him. On the continuous room, she could hear a lot of banging against the walls and grunts; Loz and Jake were struggling with Kadaj. "HEY!" Kadaj said all of a sudden in a very loud voice. "Get your hands outta there! Ima join sexual-harrasmentals-annonymus!"

"What are they doing in there?" She wondered, blinking.

"How does this look?"

Sei turned to see Yazoo emerge from the dressing room and stood there looking at her. He was wearing black pants with front, back and leg pockets, removable chain straps, oval eyelet accents, red stitch, and a zip fly with button and drawstring closure. They weren't baggy like it was the usual style of the store, but they were loose enough on him to provide comfort. Not only that, but they also made him seem thinner and taller.

"Um… you… you look… fine…" she stuttered, blinking her eyes.

He smiled at her and trusting her judgment, decided he would take them.

He went on to pick more clothing items, shirts and pants alike and "modeled" for her. By now, the store clerks had come to see what the whole fuss was about in the dressing room Kadaj, Loz and Jake were in, and after having a quiet talk with Jake, decided they would overlook the matter. Instead of returning to work, some of the D.A.R.K. staff had stayed behind and along with Sei, helped Yazoo with suggestions on outfits, before they moved on to shoe wear.

There were many shoes and boots that were flashy with studs, belts, chains and numerous metal decorations, and whilst Yazoo had taken their word on clothes, he decided to follow his own instinct on a pair of bare knee-height black leather boots, much like the ones he already had, except these felt a bit heavier, and the texture wasn't so faded looking.

"There, isn't this much better than before?" asked Jake. Sei, Yazoo and the staff turned. The man was holding Kadaj's shoulder firmly. "Oh, Wow!" said Sei, looking at Yazoo's younger brother.

He was wearing black cargo shorts; white stitching detail with accents of silver tone D-rings, eyelet grommets, chains and zippers. He was smiling weakly; apparently, his dream of cross dressing had vanished by force. "Is the little dude gonna model for us too?" asked a store worker. Kadaj looked about to tell him off, but remained silent when Jake gave him a shoulder squeeze to warn him.

"Nah, kids fine; we got it all settled in the dressing room," reassured Jake, before thanking them for their help.

"Cheer up Kadaj; you may like skirts, but you look way better in those pants." Sei's comment was backed up by the store owners and Jake; even Yazoo was nodding thoughtfully.

His face brightened and then he flashed them all a grin before walking into the store to check out the shoes. Meanwhile, it was Loz's turn to get what he wanted. Yazoo and Sei stood near Kadaj in case he decided to run off and do something stupid, but their looking after needed some work; they were looking at a shirt, suddenly Kadaj came up behind them and said, "Guys, help me here, this is kinda tight."

Sei and Yazoo turned; Yazoo's eyes widened and his color drained; Sei started laughing uncontrollably.

Jake came their way wondering why Sei was laughing so hard and also to tell them that Loz was done picking what he wanted. "What's going… Holy sh—, KADAJ! Take that corset off!"

Again he chased after Kadaj this time with the help of the workers in the store. It didn't take much to tire him out; the corset was on so tight that it was hard for him to breathe. After struggles, they managed to take it off and he was breathing in large gulps of air.

"Speak to us, brother." Said Yazoo, kneeling down next to him and smirking like his life depended on it.

"Those things are so dangerous…" Kadaj's statement earned him a slap upside the head from Jake.

"C'mon lets go." They stepped outside the store with everything they had bought, and the three brothers wearing new clothes.

Jake was opening the trunk of his car when…"Hey, where'd Kadaj go?" asked Sei.

"Oh no…" Jake turned into the store searching for him with his eyes.

"Isn't that him?" asked Loz.

"Where?"

Yazoo saw him too, but his hands were still full with bags to point. So instead he read the store's name. "Victoria's Secret."

Jake's eyes and Sei's widened as they looked at each other for a fraction of a second. In a minute they put all the bags inside the car and all of them ran into the lingerie store. By the time they did though, Kadaj had a panty on top of his pants Super Man style and was adjusting a bra over his chest.

When he heard footsteps behind him, he turned and said "Look! I have boobs!"

The chasing started immediately with Jake launching himself in an attempted tackle that failed since Kadaj moved out of the way quickly and pulled another panty over Jake's head like a helmet.

Kadaj started laughing and ran around the store while the workers there started freaking out at how much mess he was causing. Yazoo began chasing after him as well, being tired of Kadaj's sudden urge to do silly stuff and ridiculize himself and the others. Kadaj felt his presence and ran away; Yazoo ran behind him but when they passed by a display window, his flying silver hair got caught in the hand of one of the display dolls who was dragged out of its place and into the whole mess.

The hand was still in his hair, but the rest had fallen into the floor and shattered. Yazoo stopped when he felt a certain heaviness on his hair and Loz offered to help him untangle the hand; Kadaj took this as an opportunity to quickly adjust a pink bra over Loz's chest who emitted a helpless yelp and stared down at it with surprise. He tried to take it off, but he didn't want to tear the thing off, and so Yazoo returned the favor by helping him unclip the bra from behind.

It was a funny view indeed, and Kadaj was laughing so hard, he didn't notice Sei come up behind him, grab him by the waist and drop him to the floor pinning his shoulders with her knees.

"Alright," said Jake, struggling to catch his breath. Sei was laughing once again, but she had her attention focused on the youngest remnant, in case he decided to try and rid himself of her. It wouldn't be that hard, to be honest; she'd won him over because of the element of surprise, but it would be pretty easy for him to just throw her aside and run off again. Instead, he remained where he was, a strange glint of lust in his eyes, which managed to make Sei feel uncomfortable. Jake and the others got to him before he tried anything, and between them all, freed him from the bra and panty. Jake excused himself with the store staff on their behalf and offered to pay for the damage, but the manager was so exasperated, he demanded they stepped out before he called the authorities.

"So, there goes all day." Said Jake, sighing as he turned the engine on. He turned on his seat to check if everyone was there and then asked if anyone was hungry.

"Can we eat out?" asked Sei.

"Yeah." Replied Jake.

They drove around the city looking for a restaurant with not so many people, until they found a small cookout-like place. There was a small tent with people under it cooking; outside the tent, there were a few tables; it was like a place where people could eat outside and enjoy the nice weather of the afternoon. There were a few fires to replace the sun light that was leaving since it was already getting dark. The light was dim and nice, almost giving the air of a campsite and, most importantly, there weren't many people there. They decided it would be nice to eat at that place.

"Ok, so were gonna eat here and…" Jake stopped. "Oh no, not again." Kadaj was gone.

"How is it possible for him to just leave without us noticing?" asked Yazoo, a bit of irritation dragging his words.

"You're his brother, you should know." Mumbled Jake.

They heard giggles, and Yazoo whirled around towards the noise. He sighed, and walked towards his younger brother, who by now had two female teenagers at his side, one under each arm, and whispering things in their ears that made them laugh. "Excuse me." Yazoo pulled Kadaj away from them and walked off, dragging him along without any further explanation.

They all sat down at a table a bit far from the rest—for Kadaj's own good—and ordered burgers. It was a good meal; they sat there and enjoyed each other's company for a few moments. Those lovely moments were interrupted by the young boy who kept talking too much and couldn't sit still.

"I knew I should've brought a rope," hissed Jake.

"How come your brother doesn't settle down?" asked Sei.

Yazoo and Loz shrugged.

"How come who when where who what?" asked Kadaj, standing up and hopping around the table on one foot.

"Honestly, I have never before seen my brother behave like this," Yazoo said thoughtfully. "Loz, do you think he got a hold of something he was not supposed to?"

"Not that I know of," Loz replied, munching on the second burger. "He was like that when I woke up."

"Oh my…" gasped Sei, covering her mouth with her hand as a light blush caressed her cheeks.

The guys turned to see what had caused that reaction on her, and then they too felt embarrassed. Kadaj was table-dancing for the two girls from earlier and a few more had gathered to see what was going on. He would've continued his stripping act if Yazoo hadn't also climbed up the table and drag him down with an arm around his younger brother's neck.

"Sorry girls, but you will have to wait until next time!" said Kadaj in mock resignation.

"There will not be a next time," hissed Yazoo.

Kadaj shrugged. "Eh, well, at least I got some money."He waved a couple of bills in Jake's face. "See? I don't need school. I can fend for myself really well just dancing on high things and getting naked for the human girls."

Jake extended his palm in a "give it over" gesture. His eyes also reflected that he hadn't changed his mind school wise.

"Hey, I earned it with my sexy abilities!" said Kadaj. "If you take it, you're stealing."

"Kadaj." Yazoo's grip tightened.

"Okay, okay. HERE. Jerk. JERK! I'll see you in court!"He twisted like a tornado in Yazoo's grip and pushed him away, freeing himself before walking away to the car, fuming. The girls were laughing nervously as they took the money back and walked away stealing glances at Kadaj.

"I say we go back home," Said Jake rubbing the back of his neck. The others, except Kadaj, agreed.

Sei took the remote control one more time and scanned trough the channels of the TV. "I can't believe there's nothing to watch…" she complained.

"Settle down, you peep squeak!" Jake was shouting at Kadaj, who was by now climbing the walls and "shooting spider webs", that were actually little paper air planes he had done a while ago.

"I don' wanna!" He said, jumping behind the couch, where he uttered little snarky noises and then fell silent.

It was quiet for a few minutes, to the point where everyone began to think he had passed out behind the couch, until Kadaj jumped back out, slapped Yazoo upside the head and yelled "SHUT UP!".

Yazoo reached back, grabbed his younger brother by the arm and with annoyance flashing in his eyes, pulled him over the other side and onto the floor. Kadaj, despite the hyperactivity in his body, had managed to get a hold of Yazoo's collar and so he flipped his brother down beside him. In a fraction of a second, the remnants were rolling on the floor engaged in what seemed to be something close of a wrestle. Seeing this, Jake rolled his eyes and stalked to the kitchen.

"Can you think of anything better than watching real life wrestling?" asked Sei, leaning forward to look after the brothers.

Loz grinned and shook his head. "This is how we used to train…" he paused and blinked in his brothers' direction as Yazoo flipped Kadaj onto his belly, twisted his arm back and pinned him to the ground using his knee; Kadaj was writhing here and there, screaming at Yazoo to get off his back and to let go of his arm because he was going to break it, whilst the older remnant poked his ear, face and head teasingly. "Sort of… actually this has nothing to do with training," added Loz. Sei sighed; well that was good, because all of this was really embarrassing. She could hear her brother making a lot of racket in the kitchen, and she wondered what he was looking for. Probably a rope to tie Kadaj down.

"SEI!" yelled Jake. Immediately, Yazoo and Kadaj stopped struggling; Loz stood up in a flash and Sei turned to the kitchen.

"Yes?"

"Come here, please," he said. She obeyed warily; she had a bad feeling about this. The Trio followed her and stood at the kitchens doorway.

"Sei, I can't find the box of chocolates we bought last week. Where'd you leave them?" asked Jake.

The others noticed all the counters were open and everything that had been inside was now lying on piles on top of the table.

"They should be over here," said Sei walking towards a cabinet that apparently Jake had ignored. Half way there though, she stopped abruptly and looked in the trash can. She let out a short laugh and reached into it, extracting a box with the letters "3 Musketeers" in bold red and blue letters.

"This what you looking for?" she asked with a wide smile on her face as Jake looked unbelievable at the empty box.

"Are they all…?" He swallowed. "…gone?"

Sei looked into the trash can and began extracting wrappers of the mentioned piece of chocolate. "3… 7…. 11…" she counted the wrappers. "20, yup, all gone." She informed.

"Oh, that." Everyone looked back at Kadaj. "You see, I woke up really early today in the morning, and I was feeling hungry. Since I didn't wana wake you guys up yet, I looked around and found those. I tried them, and they were so good, I didn't realize I had eaten them all until… well… they were gone." He smiled innocently.

There was a moment of silence for respect to the "killed" chocolate bars. Then Sei lifted her hand and covered her mouth as she made a sound that sounded like a sneeze. Loz was about to say "bless you" when he noticed her shoulders were shaking; she was laughing. And then she took in a deep breath and laughed louder and harder; her laugh seemed to be contagious, since the Trio laughed too. Jake just stared at them; he looked like he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Kadaj's hyperactivity made sense all of a sudden. As they laughed, they made a mental note to add "3 Musketeers" or any other chocolate to the list of things Kadaj shouldn't take.

Ya, so now chapter 8 is concluded. I had fun writing this chapter, I hope you all enjoyed it.

(DA36)