Thanx for your reviews! First off, sorry for the cliffhanger and for making you wait so long between chapters. I will try to update sooner from now on. Also I have decided the official pairing. It's going to be a love triangle with Yumi, Motoko, and Shinobu. Here it is, chapter 4.

Chapter 4) Confession

Naru had finished getting her laundry. She had put it out to dry the night before and had forgotten to bring it inside. Thankfully it hadn't rained at all and her clothes were fine. She put them away and made her way downstairs.

As she descended the staircase she could smell breakfast. She shook her head and smiled to herself. It looked like Shinobu didn't need her help with making breakfast after all. Then again the girl was able to cook unbelievably delicious meals for everyone three times a day, seven days a week. It was no wonder she was able to cook so well. Naru entered the kitchen seeing if there was anything she could do to help.

What she saw made her stop in her tracks.

She had walked in on Shinobu kissing Yumi. Without stopping to think about what was going on, Naru shouted the first thing that came to mind.

"What the hell are you doing?!"

The two girls broke their kiss and turned to look at her. Both their faces were red. Yumi looked irritated at having been interrupted. Shinobu looked like a child who had been caught with her hand in the cookie jar.

Naru crossed her arms, glaring at them.

"Just what is going on?"

Shinobu stood up, "Naru we were only…"

"I'm not asking you! I'm asking her!"

Yumi stood up and met Naru's gaze.

"Not that it's any of your business, but we were enjoying a private moment. That is until you so rudely interrupted us."

"In other words you were taking advantage of poor little Shinobu!"

"That's not true!" Shinobu stepped forward. "I wanted her to kiss me. I asked her to do it."

Naru's glare melted into a look of confusion. "Why would you do that?"

"I wanted to know what it was like to kiss a girl. You didn't really answer my question when I asked you earlier. So I… I decided to find out for myself."

Naru walked up to Shinobu, placed her hands on the younger girl's shoulders and kneeled down enough so she could look her in the eyes.

"Shinobu, I know you were curious but you can't just go and do things like that. You're still just a kid."

If there was one thing Shinobu could not stand it was being called a child or being treated like a child. Shinobu pushed Naru away, "Don't treat me like a little girl Naru! I wanted to kiss Yumi! Maybe I think she's pretty! Maybe…maybe I like her!"

Shinobu ran out of the room upset. Yumi went after her, giving Naru an angry glare as she passed. Yumi followed Shinobu up to the stairs and caught up to her.

"Shinobu wait!"

She grabbed the younger girl's wrist stopping her from going any further. Shinobu turned to face the older girl. She wasn't crying but looked as though she was on the verge of tears. She wiped her eyes and tried to smile.

"Don't let her get to you. Do you want to talk about it?"

Shinobu shook her head, "It's nothing. I just don't like being scolded like I'm a little kid."

"I can't honestly blame you. Naru was acting like she was your mother. Does she always act like that?"

"Sometimes, but it's only because she cares about all of us. We're like family"

Yumi smiled to herself, "So it's just how Naru shows she cares? Makes sense I guess."

Shinobu let out a small giggle and went to let everyone else know that breakfast was ready. After breakfast had been eaten Shinobu went to do the dishes while the others went off to do as they pleased.

After she had eaten Yumi spoke to Naru about what had occurred earlier. Naru apologized and the two managed to work things out. After Naru left Yumi walked up to her and offered to help. However, Shinobu had finished the dishes.

"You finished them already?"

Shinobu nodded as she put the last dish away.

Yumi shook her head, "You're good at housework, even better with cooking. You're cute and on top of all that have a great personality. Is there anything about you that isn't perfect?"

Shinobu blushed at the compliment, "Stop, you're embarrassing me."

Yumi giggled, "Anyway there's something I need to talk to you about."

"What's that?"

"Earlier when you were talking to Naru, you mentioned you might like me. What exactly did you mean by that? Do you like me as a friend? Or did you mean you like me as something more than a friend?"

Shinobu became flustered, "W-well I like you as a friend, but that doesn't mean that I don't find you attractive or anything like that!"

Yumi giggled at Shinobu, "I'm just teasing you. But if you like we can go out sometime."

"You mean like a… a date?"

"Well, not a date per se. What I mean is you and I can spend time together as friends."

"I'd like that. Can we go this weekend?"

"It's a date."

Yumi left the now blushing Shinobu to her thoughts. No sooner had she left the room than she bumped into Motoko. Who at this moment looked rather irked.

"Do all Succubi(1) move so quickly into a relationship or is that just you?"

Yumi's eyes narrowed, "What are you insinuating?"

"That you haven't even lived here for a full day yet you've already advanced on a young girl far enough to kiss her and ask her out on a date."

"Oh, that. Well the kiss was a spur of the moment thing. But we aren't going out on a date. We're just spending a day together as friends. And if I didn't know any better I'd think you were jealous."

Motoko blushed slightly, "Well maybe I would like to spend a day with you as a friend as well."

Yumi couldn't help but smirk. "And you said I was forward. Okay, we can go out the day after I go out with Shinobu."

Yumi gave Motoko a quick kiss on the cheek, causing the swordswoman to blush fiercely. She left the room and ascended the stairs to her rooms. Motoko placed her hand on her cheek where Yumi had kissed her. She smiled a little and suddenly found herself looking very much forward to this coming weekend.

TBC.

(1)- Succubi is the plural form of Succubus.

Okay, so I managed to get this chapter up pretty quick considering that I have a lot to do for classes. I will try not to let myself fall so far behind with updating this story. Next up will be Yumi and Shinobu's date. And the chapter after that will be Motoko and Yumi's date. Forgive me if I take a while to do these. I'm soft of making the story up as I go along and I criticize myself at almost every paragraph I write. But I will work on them a little each day to ensure they get finished soon.