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Reika peered at him through her eyelashes. "Kaoru?"

"Hm?"

"Have you ever cosplayed before?" Currently, they were sitting cross legged around a teburu, a casual conversation running among themselves. Each door en route to Reika's designing basement was left wide open for an easy escape from Toshi: should she make a rather hapless entrance.

Kaoru grinned a knowing grin. "Yeah, you could say that." He sipped the Suntory bottled tea that Reika so sweetly provided. "What's your surname?" he asked.

'Great.' Reika thought. Yet another one way ticket to sheer embarrassment and humiliation of many sorts. She took a long swig of tea, then looked him sourly in the eyes. "Matsuda." Bitterness dripped from each consonant.

"Oh." he offered. Kaoru snorted once, twice: very rapidly, this turned into full fledged hysteria. "Matsuda? Like the lingerie company?!" Reika nodded. She wasn't just humiliated. Oh, no. Reika was mortified.

"Oh! *pant* Gosh!*pant* My sides hurt!" Kaoru spoke between fits of laughter. "Do you sew those, as well?" he joked. "This is priceless!"

"How rude!" Reika crossed her arms in a huff. "Well what's your surname?"

It took quite some time for the teen to calm down from his fits of mirth. He heaved a few steadying breaths prior to answering. "Ahaha, haha... okay, I'll stop. My surname is Hitachiin." he responded rather nonchalantly, returning back to his snorts and chuckles.

This flew right over his head, but it wasn't going to be dismissed by an aspiring designer. "Hitachiin? As in, the illustrious fashion company?"

Kaoru was examining his, Reika now realized, overly priced watch. "That's the one. Say, do you have any candy gummies around here?" She ignored his request. Celebrities were no big phenomenon to her, nor were any particular scholars or athletes; but fashion designers, oh man. Reika was now more infatuated with his family then she was with the fact that a strange, handsome teen showed up at her place of work.

"Do you design anything, as well- WAIT!" Kaoru jumped. "That's why you referred to my work as that of a 'commoners.' That explains your knowledge of fashion. YOU'RE A HITACHIIN!" she exclaimed over-excitedly. Kaoru clamped a hand over Reika's mouth.

"Are you trying to wake your manager?"

Reika pursed her lips shut, signifying the end of her nonsensical babble. "At any rate, no. I don't design anything... yet." He winked. "I still attend school."

"I'm a home schooled student." Reika explained flatly.

"Ah."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

Kaoru amusingly patted Reika on the head. "It's not an actual word, Reika, there isn't any meaning. I wouldn't expect a home-schooler to know that." She punched him, giggling.

"Can we have breakfast?"

They both subconsciously regarded the window. The sky was gradually growing lighter, around 3:45am... probably. Reika couldn't help but wonder where all the time had been stowed away. She knew this Hitachiin twin for how long exactly? A couple of hours?

"I don't see why not." she sighed, rising up from the polished mokusei table.

After preparing a rather commoner-type breakfast consisting of leftover steamed rice, miso soup, and tamagoyaki; the odd pair plopped down on one of the whimsically prepared dining tables. "Y'know, I haven't eaten this since I last saw a good friend of mine."

Kaoru immediately began eating without another word, and he had obnoxiously left his bowl of rice resting on the table.

Reika stared in utter disbelief. Such mazushii koi. She cleared her throat, then coughed into her shoulder. It seemed as if nothing would grab his attention: and what was worse, he continued eating.

"Wow." she blew a quick wind of air out of her mouth. Nothing. "Excuse you!" Reika cried out, slamming a fist onto the table with a thud. Sudden noises and ruffles were no longer an issue. Toshi observed that some guests were early risers. Quite frankly, she was probably just too sluggish in the morning to go see about it anyhow.

Kaoru looked up from his breakfast, and what tipped Reika over the edge was his ignorant reply. "Huh?"

"That's really intelligent." Reika spat.

"What'd I do?"

"Where are your manners?"

"Such as?"

"Ugh!"

How appalling!

"What? No sign of appreciation for the meal? Not even a hint of gratitude?! You can't even be bothered to lift your bowl off from the table!"

Kaoru studied her intently for a second. However, from both ends of the stick, it looked like neither one of them would be swallowing their pride anytime soon.

"If it bothers you so much, why don't you sit somewhere else?" he snarled.

"If I bother you so much, why don't you stay somewhere else?"

Reika stood up from the table, knocking down Kaoru's glass of water through the sudden shake.

"Really nice going!" she blamed.

"Well as long as you don't point fingers." Kaoru raised his hands sarcastically, in mock defeat.

"It's a shame, you realize." he pressed on. "I was planning on drinking that water."

"What a damn pity!" Reika gripped her own glass of water, and in one swift motion; poured it over Kaoru's newly dried hair.

"What the-"

Reika laughed a mischievous laugh, meanwhile water was pooling around the floor. She grinned, "I mean, you're welcome."

A/N: Before you yell at me, you should know I've gotten sick and I've slopped together a third chapter so as not to break the daily cycle. I'm well aware it's both short and boring, thank you very much. I figured this story would be more fun with a little Japanese culture every now and then. So you know, it's common etiquette to hold your bowl when you eat, and ask the maker of the meal to begin before actually eating. And no, it's not how I portray Kaoru... it's how I portray rich people. (Kidding.) Here's the glossary.

Teburu- Table

Suntory- A brand of bottled tea.

Mokusei- Wooden.

Mazushii koi- Lack of table manners.

Tamagoyaki- Rolled omelet.

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