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Naru sat at the breakfast table, sitting beside Keitaro looking directly across at Kitsune, who sat hogging into her bacon and eggs that she had cooked, and throwing down her orange juice, trying to cure her immense hangover that she was suffering. Keitaro too was at the table, drinking the coffee he held in his right hand trying to wake himself up after the late night he and Naru had. The three sat at the table, all in silence, taking their own methods to wake themselves up.

"So, what did you two get up to last night while I was gone?" Kitsune asked as she gave Naru a subtle wink.

"I don't know what your thinking about, but we were just studying in Keitaro's room when we fell asleep because we were exhausted from such a long day yesterday." Naru nudged Keitaro under the table ordering him to follow along.

Kitsune sensed that Naru was hiding gossip from her, so pushed the topic further. "Oh really? But you guys came home from Tokyo U early yesterday, so how exhausted could you have been."

"We… we were very busy after you left." She replied, stumbling to make her excuse.

Kitsune smirked, knowing she had backed her into a corner "Oh really, and why were you studying in Keitaro's room then? Isn't your room the one that you study in?"

Keitaro jumped into the conversation, slamming his coffee on the table and spilling a little over the edge of the mug. "We just wanted a change. You know what they say, a change is as good as a holiday." He laughed nervously and then stared directly at Kitsune, seeing her reaction.

"Oh, so what exactly were you studying Keitaro?" Kitsune asked, sensing the fear in Keitaro's voice.

"We, were…" Naru slide her hand under the table out of Kitsune's view and flicked Keitaro's arm to connect with her breast, interrupting his sentence.

"Keitaro, WHY?" She yelled before picking him up by the scruff of his neck and throwing him straight across to collect Kitsune mid-flight. The both of them fell out the window and landed on the ground out the front of the apartment, with Kitsune sprawled over the severely damaged Keitaro. Naru looked out the window to inspect the damage, and make sure she didn't kill either of them. Once she saw the two of them without any notable broken bones, she returned to the table and finished off Keitaro's coffee.

Kitsune sat up, sitting on Keitaro's chest, and shook off the impact of the blow. Not to soon after Kitsune came to, a small trap door like opening emerged from the ground in front of her. A woman slowly climbed out, Her long black hair flowing behind her as she emerged. Kitsune sat there, her eyes as big as tennis balls, shocked by the fact there was a trap door under the lawn, and even more amazed by the fact a girl was coming out of it. She stood up and quickly brushed herself off, her dress falling back into place perfectly and gracefully. She then gazed up at the sky in awe for a moment before returning her gaze to the ground with a large smile on her face.

"Good morning Mr. Urashima." She said before greeting him with a formal bow. "It's been a while since I have seen the morning sky and I forgot how wonderful it was, thankyou." She said before bowing again.

"So Keitaro, Who's the gorgeous girl?" Kitsune asked, raising her eyebrow to Keitaro while still sitting on his chest.

He tried to speak but with Kitsune sitting on his chest he could get out noting more than a few squeaks.

"So your not gonna tell me about your secret love affair then." Kitsune jumped off his chest and abruptly ran over to Sapphire. She then whispered into her ear, "You may wanna stay away from this one hun… he's a peeping tom, you can never really trust him…" her attention was quickly drawn away from insulting Keitaro when she noticed the ring on Sapphires finger. "Woah, what is that exquisite jewellery?" she grabbed Sapphire's hand and drew it the her face for a closer look.

"Oh, that's just a little old rock that has been handed down to me. I cherish it very much." Sapphire quickly took her hand back from Kitsune.

"I'm Sapphire by the way, and since I have the ability to tell when you have been in Onyx's presence I can tell you that I am indeed a guardian of a stone of Amzuth"

Kitsune looked the woman that stood before her up and down. "Well, nice to meet you Sapphire. I think Keitaro and Myself are due to go back inside and patch things up with Naru now, would you like to join us?"

"No thankyou, I have everything I need in my house down there. I just came out to see the surrounding area and get a bit of fresh air, something I haven't had in a while"

"Alright, enjoy Hinata then." Kitsune walked back inside, dragging the crushed Keitaro behind her as she quickly got away from the awkward conversation that was beginning to form in front of her eyes.

"Kitsune, why did you drag me away from her for?" Keitaro complained as she came to a stop behind the closed doors of the Hinata Apartment.

"Because, Someone like her is far to beautiful to talk to in your presence." Kitsune simply winked at Keitaro and walked off to see what Naru had been doing since she and Keitaro had abruptly left the room, all be it through Naru's attack, but still she wanted to check on her friend. After all, she had tried to source out what had happened the previous night. Kitsune made her way to the Kitchen to check for Naru, she poked her head in the door and saw nothing. She then made her way to Naru's room, where she was meet at the door by Naru coming out of the room in a rush, and charging straight past Kitsune and down the hall.

"Gotta run, heading to University for the day, Dragging Keitaro with me, Very late, BYE!" Naru shouted as she flew further away from Kitsune.

"Well, guess that leaves me here for the rest of the day again. Hmm." Kitsune said to no-one at all. She made her way to her room, and threw herself on the floor, spread out as though she had no energy left in her. "Guess it's just you and me pop culture magazines." She picked up the top magazine from the pile and started flicking through the pages looking for a story to help her pass the time.

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Su and Shinobu arrived home after their day at school, Su carrying a small device in her palm and Shinobu carting along a large tube shaped container that was about the same size as her. The container was being held only just off the ground with Shinobu's brittle arms shaking under the weight she was carrying. Kitsune heard the commotion of the two coming up the stairs to the apartment and peeked out one of the nearby upstairs windows to take a look at what the two young girls were doing. As she looked, she saw Su jumping her way energetically to the top of the stairs and Shinobu totally covered by the container she carried. Kitsune quickly jumped down the stairs and shot out the front door, forgetting to open it and breaking right through, knocking it off the hinges and throwing it onto the ground. Finally she stopped herself onto of the door on the ground, almost guarding the entrance so the girls couldn't get in until she was informed what the interesting new toy was.

"Hello Kitsune!" Su shouted. "Have you been putting pictures of Keitaro on the other side of the door again?" She asked inquisitively, always thinking only of the most fun situations she could be involved in that could happen.

"Not this time Su, but enough about what I am doing, what's that contraption you have there?" Kitsune ran over to Su, and leant over her shoulder looking at the small palm screen in Su's hand and leaving Shinobu to continue carting the container up the hill.

"This is the newest Tama-tracker! It can scan for Tama anywhere in the world!" Su pressed the button on the device in her hand and an image of the globe appeared and circled around with a small red dot over Japan. She then touched the top left corner of Japan and dragged her finger down to the bottom right corner, a small box surrounding the area she had covered with her finger. Once her finger lifted the selected area filled the screen. She repeated the process several times until an image of the top of the Hinata Apartments appeared with a red spot at the top of the stairs. Kitsune looked up and saw only Shinobu and the container she carried.

"So then Su, is Tama in that container?" Kitsune asked, inspecting the container from afar.

"Well, no, actually, that chamber is so we can track more than just Tama. When something is scanned in that chamber, it will be tracked on the computer here. And for our science project, we scanned a 1000 yen note, and it showed up with all the 1000 yen notes in the world. Once we isolated to just the school, we managed to find 50000 yen, and so after we 'donated' our findings to the teacher, we got an A for the project!" She explained standing proudly and promoting her achievement.

'I think they call that bribes' Kitsune thought to herself as she walked over to Shinobu who was still carting the chamber. "Put that ol' thing down for a sec Shinobu."

Shinobu put down the large metal chamber with a light thud on the ground, the door on it quickly opened by Kitsune. "What are you looking for Kitsune?" She asked, rubbing her arms to help them recover.

"I want that 1000 yen you've scanned, that's what!" Kitsune slammed the door shut and began to frisk search Shinobu. The small, weak Shinobu's face going bright red as she done so. "Come on Shinobu, where's the money?"

"Well, um..." Shinobu started, trying to wriggle out of Kitsune's search. "After we scanned a note, we scanned me to show when we track single unique targets."

Su cut the rest of Shinobu's sentence off. "And due to the fact the would be no-one else like Shinobu..." She started as she ran over and poked Shinobu's small breasts a few times, causing the girl's face to go an even brighter red. "There was only one target that came up in the entire world. You see the chamber scans the object inside for size, shape, mass, and what it is made up of. And because no-one in the world has as flat of a chest as Shinobu, she was the only target that came up, and that's what we are tracking now." Su fluttered over to the door that now lay on the ground. Kitsune stopped frisking Shinobu as Su finished her explanation. Su yelled at the two as she started walking inside. "Lets take it inside and into the living room!" She fluttered on in, and Shinobu and Kitsune together carted the chamber in soon after her.

Kitsune began looking at ways she could use this wonderful device Su had concocted for her own entertainment while she carried it in. 'I could use it to track Keitaro, but I can do that even without a device.' Both Kitsune and Shinobu let the chamber down, sitting it beside a couch in the living room.

"Come on Kaola, now our classes are joined together, we can work on our homework together." Shinobu said, her voice less timid then normal when she spoke to Su. A smile emerged on Shinobu's face as Su took her hand and the two girls ran up the stairs.

"Hold it there you two!" Kitsune shouted to stop the girls from escaping. "You never told me your classes joined, aren't you two in different grades?"

Su poked her head back downstairs, "Yes, for most classes we are separate, but Shinobu's science teacher is currently on holidays, and due to the fact no-one could replace them, our classes joined together."

"That explains why you were doing that project together I guess, carry on." Kitsune turned and walked into the kitchen, her mind still pondering the new source of entertainment. 'Track anything I want, I could do some money detecting like the girls done, but that would mean that I would need some to begin with. There has to be something this thing is good for, after all, the writer wouldn't have introduced it like he did unless it was significant, and besides, who spends a whole chapter talking about a hunk of metal. This guy must really have no life, let alone a girlfriend... wait, I gotta get my thoughts back together. What can I use that heap for?' Kitsune took up some bread and put it into the toaster. She plugged it in and started it up before pacing the kitchen, losing herself in her thoughts again. 'Maybe I can track all the Sake in the apartments, but I only searched a week or two ago and all the bottles I found were empty. Hmm, what could I possibly do. Keitaro and Naru wont be home to annoy until later, as usual. And Su and Shinobu are doing their homework together. Motoko is still at that training camp...' The smell of burning bread cut through her thoughts and snapped her back to reality. She shot over to the toaster and pulled the plug, causing the black bread to shoot up from the toaster. Kitsune grabbed the two bits of bread and threw it onto the plate that sat nearby.

"Nothing like pitch black toast, the only way to eat it." She said to no-one in particular while grabbing the butter and vegemite*. She grabbed a knife from one of the draws in the kitchen and spread the products over the burnt toast. Slowly Kitsune wandered back out into the living room and threw herself across the couch that was beside Su's chamber. Thoughts of what to do continued to run through her mind while she lay there eating her toast, trying desperately to think of something to entertain herself while she waited for her other entertainment to get home.

*Vegemite is an Aussie export that is commonly spread over toast. The product is made from yeast extract or something like that and I must say tastes bloody good mate!