"My god…" Aiko gaped when she saw the total number of bags her sister had collected. "All my money…" She felt like having one of her rare emotional break-downs.

"Hey, I thought we discussed this! The money's mine now." Kayuri said firmly, hands on hips.

Aiko always had so much more money as compared to her sister, for the following reasons:

1. She rarely needs to buy things, whereas Kayuri constantly feels the need to go on mega shopping sprees.

2. Aiko, being the youngest, gets bullied into doing most of the chores around the house.

3. As you know, she uses her sister's money to pay for a few things.

Never the less, Aiko was devastated at the fact that all her money was suddenly declining at such a dangerous rate.

"This calls for… ultimate peril." Aiko said in a quiet, yet horrifyingly menacing way.

Meanwhile, Sasuke and Naruto looked like they were about to collapse from carrying all the bags that Kayuri had made them carry. But, of course, being vampires, they wouldn't. Which doesn't help Kayuri's spending issue at all.

"It's almost six. We should be getting back soon." Gaara declared after looking at his watch. As opposed to Naruto and Sasuke, Aiko had only made Gaara carry four bags, while she held three.

"So you got the groceries?" Kayuri said, waving a hand at the bags that she and Gaara were holding.

"Uh-huh." Aiko nodded.

"Good… Then we can go home." Naruto sighed, his normal hyperactivity gone.

"Wait… there's still one thing I need to get…" Aiko dropped her bags on the floor and jogged off towards a nearby sports shop.

"What's she getting?" Sasuke asked, watching Kayuri's expression of uber shock.

"I… have no idea…" Kayuri was gob smacked.

"What's with the face?" Naruto asked, one eyebrow raised.

"Me and her are the two most anti-sport orientated people on earth. We'd do almost anything to avoid unbeneficial activities that require large amounts of moving." Kayuri was now looking rather concerned.

'Has my sister gone sane?' Was all she could ask herself in such a situation.

"Wow, you guys sound like Shika." Naruto laughed.

"Who?" Aiko asked, having suddenly appeared between him and her sister.

"Gah!" Kayuri jumped, noticing the sudden appearance of her sister.

"Heheh, gotcha." Aiko sniggered. "I have collected… the metallic implement that we discussed earlier."

"Ooh...!" Kayuri nodded, finally understanding why her sister had entered such a store. A store of... physical activity. Oh my god…

"So can we go home now?" Naruto asked, pouting.

"Yup. Let's go." Aiko picked up her bags once more and walked off towards the front doors, everyone following.

"Ah~, I can hear the ramen calling...!" Naruto cried happily.

* * * *

"Ramen!" Naruto cried, dropping all the bags he was carrying and (once again, literally) disappeared the moment he got inside the dorm.

"Hey, watch it! There's important stuff in those bags!" Kayuri yelled after him.

"I know better than to ask what you're referring to…" Aiko sighed.

"Lingerie." Kayuri grinned, causing everyone to sigh.

"Anyway… we need to get on with business." Aiko suddenly had a look of purpose. "It's time to initiate mission we-refuse-to-eat-only-ramen-and-drink-only-coffee."

"Yes!" Kayuri nodded vigorously and sprinted into the kitchen. Aiko followed after taking the rest of the bags from Gaara.

"Right, cold stuff first." Aiko said, and the girl began to unpack the groceries, first came out the bacon, and eggs of which Kayuri had claimed that she would die if she were to go another day without them, as well as a bottle of milk, some juice, ice-cream (it had taken awhile to decide what flavour, and they eventually got two tubs of the stuff), some 'just add water' baking things, as well as an assortment of other foods, mostly frozen, and whatever Kayuri had needed, after STILL not being able to fit a large amount of her cosmetics in her bags… or Aiko's.

"What's wrong with ramen?" Naruto asked after walking into the room with the others.

"Ramen is not a balanced diet." Was all that Kayuri would say on that subject. "Let me show you my amazing cooking skills!" And she pulled out a large frozen meat pie, some frozen vegies, and, ten minutes later, a meal was cooked. She served it up and put plates on the table, glaring Sasuke and Naruto into taking a bite. Aiko wasn't stupid enough to refuse the food, as Kayuri had made dinner at least once a week for pocket money, so she knew it wasn't toxic.

"PAI!!" Aiko cried, realizing what the meal was. Naruto and Sasuke gave her freaked out looks. Kayuri sighed.

"I forgot to tell you…" Kayuri said to them.

'Or warn you, more like…' She thought.

"She… ehm… likes pie." Kayuri smiled awkwardly.

"OOHHH, POTATOES!" Aiko exclaimed, picking up a fork and prodding the mashed potato on he plate.

"Uhm… and potatoes." Kayuri responded to the boys' still freaked out faces.

"Hey, don't pretend that you guys don't get like this over certain things as well!" Aiko said crankily when she looked up and saw their faces for herself. "And Kayuri does this too…"

"Yeah, you just do it more than me." Kayuri countered the comment as she sat down at the table.

"I suppose…" Aiko sighed. "But I'm not as bad as you when it comes to shopping and make-up and stuff… so I suppose we're both even."

The same pointless arguing continued all throughout dinner, as is to be expected. But then, later, after dinner, Aiko wandered into her and her sister's room to find… THE BIGGEST. MESS. EVER.

Every surface that had been even partially visible was now covered with clothes, shoes, make-up, lingerie… well, you get the idea. Aiko started to twitch uncontrollably.

"KAYURI!!" She screamed, hands much happier now that they were in fists.

"Yeah?" Kayuri replied innocently, appearing behind her fuming sister.

"Listen up and listen good," Aiko ordered menacingly, "You're going to show me where my stuff is and I'm going to go take a shower. When I get back, the room is going to be exactly the same as it was before – No, it's going to be cleaner."

"Yes, ma'am!" Kayuri saluted mockingly. After a little digging and feeling around, Kayuri tossed her sister's stuff at her. Aiko then glared a little and stalked off towards the bathroom.

"I suppose you'll be wanting help?" Sasuke smirked at Kayuri as he appeared at the doorway with Naruto.

"Wow, I love you guys!" She cried, sprinting forth and hugging them. "Right. Naruto, I'm assigning you to shoes, Sasuke retrieves clothes and I get… my things."

So, they each went about on their duties. Naruto picked up a multitude of converses, flats and rather painful looking heels while Kayuri scurried about collecting her lingerie. Sasuke and Naruto were rather thankful that they had not been assigned to that job.

* * * *

About twenty minutes later, Aiko emerged from the bathroom. Unlike her sister, she did not feel the urge to change pyjamas almost every night, so she was wearing the same black shirt and baggy brown pants from last night.

As she walked down the corridor, she saw Gaara climb in through a window in the lounge room out of the corner of her eye.

"Hey." She greeted him casually. He acknowledged her with a glance, saying nothing as he closed the window behind him. Something about antisocial behaviour flickered through her mind, but she shook it off. "Where've ya been?" She tilted her head to the side a little.

"… Out." He said plainly.

'Oh, you're so helpful! I'm just trying to have some sort of conversation!' Aiko thought, a bit irritated.

"Well, yeah. I guessed." She half smirked.

'Why is she talking to me…?' Gaara thought, staring at her.

"Geez…" Aiko muttered, with a sigh. "You know, Gaara… now that you're living with us, you're going to have to loosen up a little. After all, you're the ones that bite, not us… Anyway, g'night."

Gaara stared after her, slightly stunned.

She had smiled at him.