Wow, where to even start? First of all, I'm TERRIBLY SORRY FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO POST SOONER! I've pretty much had this chapter planned out for several months, and I've even had half of it already written (I was able to write the rest of it today), but my laptop is being so annoying, I can't save anything to it because when I go back to open anything it'll automatically delete it. So I've been paranoid about saving things to my computer.
Right now I'm actually on my brother's computer, which I'm not allowed to be on so, SHH! Don't tell anyone, kay?
But I was getting fed up with how long it was taking to get this chapter finished, so I snuck up here and decided to finish it while my parents were distracted downstairs by something. lol
And also, I'd like to thank the reviewers from last chapter; YuMeNami, ElleSteinig, Lulu4Ever, Yellowmoon27, and Seengot
Despite how long it actually takes me to get chapters out, you guys are the reason why I try my hardest to write and get the next chapter up as soon as I truly possibly can!
P.s
I know like no one knew about it since It's a new convention and all, but did anyone go to Naruto Trek in Florida last March? I was on Spring Break then and went down to Florida with my friend's family, so we were at Naruto Trek for Friday and Saturday (it was her first convention, so yay! xD)
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It's a Twing Thing
Chapter 11
Sai attacked his wet hair with a towel as he ambled down the brightly lit hallway,on his way back to his own room. It was still fairly early in the morning, even the maids had been surprised to see him up at such an hour on a Saturday!
He grinned when he noticed Yasai pawing at his sister's door, knowing immediately that she was still asleep.
"Why that lazy little..." He laughed, opening her door a crack and peaking into the dark room.
Her blinds were pulled closed, keeping the early morning light out, which is what made the room seem so dark. Sai watched as the fox rushed in, jumping up onto the girl's bed and staring at Sai's sleeping sister.
Sai shook his head before smirking. He sauntered over to her night stand and pressed a button or two on her alarm clock before backing up a little.
"Three...two...one...zero!" He counted down, when he reached zero her alarm went off. Sei coughed and rolled over with a groan, making her brother frown a little. She pressed the snooze button and turned to stare at her twin brother standing by the bed.
"Something wrong?" She asked before coughing into her hand. Yasai nuzzled Sei's cheek and licked her chin.
"Haha...Yasai...stop!" She smiled, patting the worried fox on the head.
"Are you feeling alright, Sei?" The emerald eyed boy asked his sister, concerned for her health.
Sei frowned before covering it up with a grin, and waving it off,"I'm fine, I'm fine!"
He didn't seem to buy it and was about to further question her when one of the maids, Isuzu, came in.
"Kaito-sama, Nanami-sama, sorry to disturb you, but there are some visitors downstairs who say they're friends from school." Aiyara Isuzu spoked quickly, bowing to the two 15 year olds.
Aiyara Isuzu was a fairly young woman with shoulderlength blonde hair and chocolate brown eyes who couldn't have been any older than 25 years. Isuzu was rather new and had only been working for the Tsukyoshii's for a few weeks, which, the twin's figured, explained her apparent nervousness.
"Eh? I wasn't expecting anyone..." Sai wondererd aloud before glancing over at his sister,"Were you?"
The messy haired girl sneezed before shaking her head 'no'.
"Do you know who they are, Isuzu-san?" She asked.
The blonde woman shook her head,"I don't, I'm sorry."
"What do they look like?" Sai asked curiously.
"Ano, well...they're identical two eachother and kept, ano, ...hanging off of eachother..." Isuzu said nervously.
"Ah, thanks Isuzu-san!" Sei smiled,"Tell them I'll be down in 10 minutes."
Isuzu bowed,"Alright, sorry again for disturbing you."
"Don't worry about it." Sei and Sai answered in unison with identical grins.
Sai turned to his sister after the maid left and crossed his arms over his chest, staring down at her.
Sei pulled the covers back and put her feet on the carpetted floor. She made a motion to stretch, yawning in the process, then she noticed the look her brother was giving her.
Sighing, she said,"I told you, I'm fine! Now, shoooo!" she pushed him out of the room so she could get dressed.
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"Did you tell her that we were picking her up?" Hikaru turned his head to face his brother.
"No, I wanted her to be surprised." Answered the younger Hitachiin twin with a shrug.
The two boys were currently sitting next to eachother on a couch in the foyer with their legs intertwined with eachother's. Hikaru appeared to be rather bored and half asleep, while Kaoru was attentive and stared around the room curiously.
"Here she...no wait, that's her brother, isn't it?" Hikaru noticed the red-head descending the staircase first, and the two boys sat up in their seats. When they saw that it wasn't Sei they slouched back boredly again.
"Hey, you guys are here to pick up Sei, right?" The shorter boy stood infront of the ginger-haired boys.
Hikaru and Kaoru exchanged looks before replying,"Yeah."
"Well, can I ask the both of you a favor, then?"
The twins sat up once again, noticing Sai's somewhat serious disposition.
"That depends on what it is." They spoke.
Sai frowned, glancing up towards the stairwell to make sure that Sei wasn't coming, before turning back to the twins,"She won't admit to it, but I can tell that she doesn't feel well. And I know I can't convince her to stay home, so can I trust you guys to keep an eye on her?"
Kaoru and Hikaru frowned at the thought of Sei's stubbornness.
Sai noticed the identical look on either twin's faces,"So, can I count on you guys?"
"Yessir!" They saluted.
The shorter boy grinned at their eagerness,"And don't tell her that I told you too, 'kay?" Sai looked up and walked away from the twins when he noticed his sister walking down the stairs.
Sei wore a pair of blue jeans, a black hoodie that was a size or two too big for her, and a pair of white and blue sneakers.
"It's not that cold out..." Hikaru mused once he saw that she was about to pull a blue wool hat over her head.
"Well it's cold enough if there's still snow on the --achoo!--ground." She argued, sneezing halfway through.
"Mm, I guess you're right..." Hikaru shrugged.
"Well, are you ready, Nanami-chan?" Kaoru held his arm out for her, his brother mirroring the act, and she accepted both.
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It didn't take too long to get to the Ohtori estate, and once they got there Sei was struck by awe.
"What?" Hikaru and Kaoru asked boredly.
Sei closed her mouth, but her eyes were still a little wide.
"Kyouya-senpai lives HERE?"
The boys shrugged,"Yeah, what about it?"
"It's so...--achoo!-- ...huge!"
Hikaru was about to retort when Kaoru sent him a look and said,"Let's get inside, it's cold out here."
Sei let herself be led up to the front door by the Hitachiin twins. The boys knocked on the door and it wasn't long before it was opened by one of the maids.
"How may I help you?" A young blonde woman in a maid's outfit asked politely.
"Ah, Kyouya-senpai's expecting us." The burgundy haired girl answered before the two boy's had a chance to.
The woman tilted her head a little,"One moment please." and she scurried off, presumably to confirm what Sei had just said. It wasn't long before the woman returned and bid them to follow her to the kitchen where they'd be working on teaching Sei how to cook.
The maid left them once they made it to the kitchen, Kyouya was already waiting inside for them and already had most of the ingredients set out for them to use.
"Ohayo, Kyouya-senpai." Sei smiled, and Kyouya nodded, taking note of her unusually rosy cheeks and excessive warm clothing.
"We're going to work on making pizza today, as you probably perceived from the ingredients layed out on the counter." The tall bespeckled boy pointed towards the counters covered with different items.
Sei nodded, looking around the kitchen,"Where to start..."
"With the dough would be nice." Hikaru laughed.
Sei glanced towards him,"Right...ano...what am I supposed to be doing..?"
Kyouya brought her over towards the long island-counter in the center of the kitchen where there was cook book opened to a page with a picture of a delicious looking pizza, the instructions on how to make it listed at the side.
Sei read through the steps on how to make the pizza several times before setting to work, the boys watching her a moment before the twins pulled Kyouya to the side.
"Her brother told us that she's sick today, and asked us to keep an eye on her, so that goes for you too." The two ginger-haired boys spoke quietly to the tall raven haired Shadow King, making sure that Sei couldn't hear what they were saying.
"She's sick and yet you still brought her here?" Kyouya raised an eyebrow at the younger boys.
"Well, she's stubborn and won't admit to not feeling well, what else were we supposed to do?" Kaoru countered defensively.
Kyouya sighed, massaging his temples,"Leaving her at home would've been the best way to go, the best way to get better is to rest. The last thing she needs to be doing is cooking."
"What do I do when I'm done?" Sei called out over her shoulder to the whispering boys.
Kyouya diverted his gaze over to where she was working, chuckling a little at her flour smeared face,"Make several more batches of dough, the more you practice at making it, the better you'll be when it comes time for you to make it for your teacher."
The burgundy haired girl nodded, turning back around and setting to work making more dough.
Biting her lip a little while reading the instructions,"I need to add the yeast to make it rise...but it takes nearly an hour and a half to do that, so, maybe if I add double the amount of yeast, the dough'll rise in half the time it would normally take!" She grinned,"This cooking thing isn't as hard as I thought it would be."
Sei hadn't even noticed the mess she was making until the twins popped up on either side of her and looked her up and down before laughing. She looked up curiously at them and then over at Kyouya who was chuckling aswell, she frowned at them.
"What? Did I not do it right...? I followed the directions..."
"N-no! It's not th-that, haha--!" Hikaru started but found that he couldn't finish, so Kaoru, through his laughter, picked up after his brother.
"--Y-you, ah, have f-flour all over y-yourself!"
And true enough, she did, all over her clothes, her once black hoodie was now a bright ghostly white color from all the flour she had accidentally spilled on herself while making the dough.
"Here." Kyouya was now standing infront of her with a wet washcloth and moved a little too close for comfort as he tried to clean the flour off of her face.
The emerald eyed girl stumbled back against the counter and ended up knocking over the bag of flour that she had been using, sending it flying to the floor. Hikaru and Kaoru watched in amusement as it pretty much exploded from hitting the tiled kitchen floor, sending up a cloud of white hovering in the air. When it settled and everyone was able to see once again the Hitachiin twins bit their lips and glanced at eachother before falling to the floor in a fit of uncontrollable laughter. Before it was only Sei who was covered head to toe in flour, but now Kyouya's face and clothing were blanketed in white aswell.
Sei turned away and coughed, making sure that her face wasn't anywhere near the counter she had been preparing the dough on, before looking up at Kyouya who had an unreadable expression on his face. She glanced over towards the two twins sprawled on the floor as they held onto eachother, Sei thought they were about to burst from laughing so hard.
Her attention was brought back to Kyouya as he removed his glasses from his face and wiped the flour off of the lenses before placing them back on, staring down at the sheepish girl infront of him.
"Ah...I'm sorry Kyouya-senpai, I didn't mean to, ah...yeah..." She wriggled her nose a little before turning away and sneezing.
The twins on the floor both looked at eachother before sitting up and sneezing, the flour had apparently wafted through the air over to where they had been.
"It's fine," Kyouya shrugged,"Looks like you've finished the dough, so the only thing left to do right now is to wait for it to rise."
"So, what're we supposed to do while we're waiting?" Hikaru asked boredly.
Kaoru glanced over at Sei and saw that her face was a little more red than it had been earlier and he wondered if it was from her sickenss, or embarassment, either way, he was worried about her. He moved closer to her when he noticed her leaning on the counter for support and closing her eyes.
"Nanami-chan, you alright?"
She opened her eyes a little and nodded,"Yeah, I'm..--cough--..fine."
The three boys frowned at her.
"Your not very convincing." Kyouya rolled his eyes at her attempt to make them think she was fine when clearly they all knew that she wasn't.
"You're not fooling anyone, Nanami-chan." Kaoru spoked softly from beside her.
"Or are you trying to fool yourself?" Hikaru asked from her otherside.
"I...I'm okay, really I am, why won't you believe me?" She bit her lip at the disbelieving looks she was receiving from the boys.
"Because we know that you're not, look at yourself, you can't even stand up straight anymore, you've been coughing all day and," Hikaru placed a hand on her forehead," you're burning up!"
She sighed,"Please, I just want to get this recipe down so I can pass Home Ec..."
"There'll be plenty of time for that later, for now, you should lie down." Kyouya placed an arm around her waist and guided her out of the kitchen, the twins in tow, and towards the living room where he layed her down on one of the couches.
"How about a movie?" Kaoru suggested, but she was asleep before he had even finished asking the question.
POP!
"What the hell was that?!" Hikaru cried out, following Kyouya and his brother into the kitchen where they had heard the sound coming from.
"What the..." Kyouya stared speechless at the sight before him.
On the counter that Sei had been working on was the covered container where she had put the dough to let it rise, but right into the center of the saran wrap was a hole, which the boys noted, hadn't been there before they left. The pizza dough now covered the wall behind the counter, splattered in various places around the kitchen, all in all it was an amusing sight to see.
"Wow, she really can't cook..." Kaoru laughed.
