Chapter Fourteen
Teal and Miharu walked out of her bedroom and closed the door behind them. They had just finished putting Suki, Miharu's younger sister to bed, and they walked into Teal's living room. She sat on the couch, while Miharu sat across from her, and Teal could see the exhaustion and stress in her eyes.
"Are you okay?" Teal murmured.
"Not even close...we don't have a place to stay anymore, Teal." Miharu sighed.
"I told you, you guys could stay with me and my mom. She said it was okay too."
"How do you even know you won't be kicked out next?"
"We're not."
"But how do you know that?"
Teal was quiet, and Miharu place her head on Teal's shoulder. "Thanks for doing this, you really didn't have to. But I'm just trying to be logical. They're kicking people out of their houses left to right. What makes you think they won't come banging on your door next?"
"Because I'm going to stop all of this, Miharu."
"How?"
"I don't know...Xiao is coming back to Tokyo tomorrow, along with some of my other friends I met at the tournament. I'm going to JCo tomorrow too..."
"I know you're not gonna just waltz up in there, are you? You'd be captured and killed in a second. Helena is probably already looking for you."
"That's what's confusing me. If someone went MIA on you, wouldn't their house be the first place you check? I wonder why no one has approached me yet."
"Maybe she has other things to worry about."
"Or maybe, by me approaching her, I'm doing exactly what she wants...but I wasn't just going to go in there like this. I was going to use my invisibility power."
"Not a good idea." Miharu suddenly said, shaking her head.
"Why?"
"JCo maybe small, but they're not that stupid. The guards have weapons and special suits that can detect any type of abnormal powers being used from a mile away. You have to go in there pretty visible."
"Shit...thanks for ruining my plan Miharu." Teal smirked.
"I was just letting you know the truth." Miharu shrugged. "How are you going to get in there?"
"I have no idea...it's really late, I think we should get some sleep. You've had a pretty rough night."
"Yeah, I guess you're right." Miharu said, laying across the couch.
Teal pulled out the futon from her living room closet and set it up, laying across it and falling asleep not too soon after.
The next morning came, and Teal and Miharu decided to go back to school for the day. They had to make it seem like everything was still normal between them, since their mothers had no idea what was going on. Xiao's flight had landed at around 5 in the morning, and surprisingly she was still hyper enough to go to school also. Teal didn't want to admit it, but she did kind of miss Mishima Polytechnic. Kinda. She barely payed attention in her morning classes, as usual, and Mr. Achoa, her lovely Chemistry teacher, scolded her for missing two weeks of school.
"I ought to fail you, Yakima!" He said after class was over. He banged on his desk angrily, but Teal didn't even flinch. "Why the hell weren't you in my class for two weeks?!"
"Mr. Achoa, I don't think you're allowed to swear at your students." Teal giggled.
"It's not funny, Teal." He said through his teeth.
"Mr. Chang didn't tell you why I missed school so many days, did he? You definitely would not be having this conversation with me if he did."
"No, he didn't. Why did you miss school?"
"Ask him." Teal said, getting out of her seat. "And I can't fail your class, I actually work my butt off and deserve the B+ I'm sitting on right now. I have enough credits to graduate right now if I wanted to. You have a good day ."
She walked past her temper-tantrum having teacher, and went out of the room. When she got to the lunch room, she spotted Miharu and Xiaoyu at the doors.
"Finally!" Xiaoyu complained. "What took you so long?!"
"Nothing, Achoa had to throw his temper tantrums, as always." Teal said, walking up to them. "You guys ready?"
"Yeah. Are you sure we're allowed to be off of school grounds during school hours?"
"Not at all." Teal said. "We'll be given a week's detention immediately if we're seen."
"What?!" Miharu and Xiaoyu said simultaneously.
"Teal, why did you make us go through with this plan in the first place?" Miharu complained.
"I can't get any more detentions, Teal. I won't be able to graduate this year." Xiaoyu said.
"Relax guys, I said if we're seen. Gimme your hands." Teal said.
Xiao and Miharu looked at each, and then at Teal in confusion. The three girls held hands and immediately began becoming invisible. Once all of their bodies were completely invisible, Miharu shouted happily. "Whoa! This is awesome!"
"Shh!" Teal said. "Keep quiet and follow me. Don't let go of my hands until I say so."
They walked through the halls quietly, as they went towards the school's front doors. There were a couple of students and teachers in the hallways that the girls walked by, and Xiaoyu had a hard time suppressing her laughter. She let out a little, high pitch, chuckle, which caused the student and teacher that was near them to stop talking, and look around. Teal squeezed Xiao's hand as hard as she could, and gave her a shut-the-hell-up-before-we-get-caught look. Xiao looked down as Teal finally led them out of of the door. Once they were down the street, and a good distance away from the school, Teal released their hands and they turned visible again.
"There, we're out." Teal said. "See, that wasn't so hard."
"Yeah, except for the part where Xiao almost got us caught." Miharu smirked.
"I'm sorry, I couldn't help it!" Xiaoyu. "Now, where are we going?"
"Lili's hotel suite. I have to let her know that we're on our way. Miharu, are you sure that we have an early dismissal in school today?"
"Yup. After lunch, everyone's dismissed for the day. It's a teacher's workshop, or some pointless stupid school holiday." Miharu said.
"Good. Let's go."
They got to the hotel where Lili was staying at in around 15 minutes or so, and her suite door was already halfway open.
"Lili?" Teal called out. "We're here."
"Whoa, this is amazing!" Miharu said in awe as she looked around the huge room. "This must be like thousands of yen a night."
"It's 80 thousand to be exact." Lili said, walking out of one of the rooms. "That's pretty cheap."
Miharu looked at Lili in surprise, and then looked at Teal.
"Yes, she's serious." Teal laughed.
"Why wouldn't I be?" Lili shrugged. "Anyway, are you ready Teal? This might take awhile."
"Yeah...are you sure you can do this Lili?"
"I used to be quite the make-up artist in Monaco, Teal. I have a list filled with Monegasque celebrity faces I did beautiful artwork on."
"Okay if you say so."
"Follow moi." Lili said, swaying her hips elegantly as she walked into the room she had came out of before.
Teal followed Lili into the other room, with Miharu and Xiaoyu not too far behind. Lili had transformed that room into an make-up studio. There were tons of hair products, wigs, make-up, brushes and accessories sitting around.
"How the hell did you do this in a matter of hours?" Teal asked.
"It's for me to know, and you to never find out. Oui, I have my ways." Lili winked, pointing to the hair salon-like chair on the other side of the room, in front of the vanity mirror. "Sit in that chair."
Teal sat in the chair and Lili stood behind her, taking out Teal's ponytail. Her hair fell across her shoulders almost immediately and Lili played with it.
"You take care of your hair pretty well. But it's really curly." Lili said, teasing it.
"Yeah well, blame my father's side of the family. I am half African American." Teal smirked.
"Hmm.." Lili said, looking at Teal's face. She was really deep in thought, so Teal was quiet.
"Do you even know what you're doing?" Xiaoyu yelled.
Lili gave her a look, "Let the expert work her magic."
"Expert? Please!" Another voice called out.
Teal looked towards the door and saw Asuka walking in.
"Took you long enough." Lili huffed. "And yes, I am an expert. Sit down, shut up, and learn."
"Whatever." Asuka said, sitting on the bed next to Miharu. "Hi. Are you Miharu?"
"Yup." Miharu said. "You must be Asuka. You're actually prettier in person, those tournament pictures of you make you look like a man."
"Miharu!" Teal yelled, and laughed. What the hell is her problem?! She has no type of filter for her mouth.
"No, its fine." Asuka said, laughing also. "I agree with her about that, but thanks I guess."
"If I said that, you would have punched me in the face." Lili said, slightly upset.
"That's because you don't have room to talk about anybody else." Asuka brushed her off.
Lili rolled her eyes and looked back at Teal. "You ready for this?"
"I been ready. Let's do this." Teal breathed out.
"Alright. By the time I finish with you, you'll no longer be Teal Yakima. You will be Helena Kovac, CEO of Jubilee Corporation." Lili said, smiling.
Whoa whoa! I wonder what kind of plan Teal has, changing her appearance to look like Helena. We'll see, VERY soon! This is going to be very interesting Updating ASAP, review honeys!