DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!! DON'T SUE ME!!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVE NO MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!

AN: I forgot to mention this in the first chapter but *(spoiler alert)* this story takes place after just the episode with House's father's funeral and 10 years after chapter 185 of the xxxHolic manga. So Watanuki has been in charge of the shop for 10 years here and is 27 years old. (i think. correct me if I'm wrong about what his age should be.) I read the chapters after that of coarse but I don't want what happens in the manga to interfere with my story. (I absolutely love the manga the way it is! but....you never know....)

CHAPTER 2

"Japan! You can't be serious!" House yelled.

"I'm very serious Dr. House." Cuddy smirked.

/Flashback/

"Did I come at a bad time?" Dr. Wilson asked his eyes shifting nervously between one and the other.

"No," Dr. Cuddy sighed and sat down behind her desk, the tension in the room immediately dissipating. "Come on in."

"So…." Wilson began nonchalantly as he walked up to Cuddy's desk. "What did he do this time?"

"I didn't't do anything." House huffed indignantly "Why do you always assume that I did something wrong?"

"Because that's usually the case." Wilson stated as he turned back to Cuddy. "So?" he asked.

"He hasn't had a case in 3 days! Not only that, he hasn't even shown up for clinic duty at all during that time! Discounting the 20 hours he missed during his last case!" Cuddy shouted. "He hasn't done a damn thing in 3 fucking days!" she slammed her fist against her desk again in frustration.

"That is not true! I've done plenty!" House declared.

"Really?! Like what?!"

"Well…I've been catching up on all that pesky paperwork you keep insisting is so important." House said crossing his arms.

Cuddy's eyes narrowed, "You mean having your team doing it for you." Cuddy interrupted him.

"What gave you that idea?" House asked feigning innocence.

"Don't try and pull that crap with me! I went to your office looking for you but you weren't there! Instead I find your team doing your paperwork that should've been done a month ago!" she shouted.

"What? They needed to do something too, so I was just killing 2 birds with one stone." House smirked.

"They have their own clinic duty to catch up on, that you keep dragging them away from!" Cuddy shrieked.

"Whatever. Anyway as I was saying before I was rudely interrupted," House glared at Cuddy. "I was also doing a follow up on a few patients of mine these past couple of days. That's hardly nothing. Yeah like I said, plenty." House crossed his arms smugly.

"My ass you were following up on patients! More like you were going into coma patients rooms and watching TV!"

"Cuddy I'm shocked! How can you think that?" House said with fake hurt in his eyes as he placed his hand over his heart. "I was checking their vitals!"

"It doesn't take *4* hours to check a coma patient's vitals House!" Cuddy screeched. She then sighed and relaxed in her chair while rubbing her temples.

"? If I could interrupt for moment?" Wilson asked as he moved closer to her, "I think I may have the solution to your problems." Wilson smirked as he handed Cuddy the envelope.(AN: refer to chapter 1.)

Cuddy opened said envelope and smirked as well. "Perfect!" she then turned to House and ordered "Get your team in here! Wilson go down to the ER and bring (AN: not sure how her names spelled. review or PM me the right spelling so i could get it right next chapter.) and in here as well!"

/End Flashback/

"We are all going to the 2 week long World Medical Conference in Japan on Monday. there are 10 plane tickets in here and 10 hotel room reservation vouchers at prestigious Teito Hotel where the conference will take place which is more than enough for all of us."

"Really!? I've always wanted to go to Japan!" Cutner smiled, "They have all sorts of cool tech there!"

"This isn't a vacation. We're going there on business, not for fun." Tuab (AN: yeah not sure about his name either...) sighed bored.

"I know that! I just.... wanted to....." Cutner mumbled.

Cuddy continued over Cutner's mumbling "Our hospital was given the great honor of representing the US at the conference so i expect you all to be on your best behavior, especially you House!" Cuddy glared.

"All right, all right sheesh. But really, I'm not the one you should tell to behave. If memory serves It's Wilson that you should be telling to behave." House smirked at Wilson.

"Your never going to let me live that down are you?" Wilson sighed exasperatedly.

"Of coarse not! You know me so well!" House smiled at him, "Just make sure I don't have to bail you out of jail again." House snikerd at him.

Chase looked at Wilson with surprise, "You were in jail?"

"It's a long story...." Wilson looked away evasively, embarssed.

"But still, going to this conference doesn't seem like a bad idea. meeting skilled doctors from around the world and establishing connections with them could really further our career's."Fourman (AN: yeah i really need to learn how to spell their names.......) thought aloud.

"We would also have the chance to learn about the way they practice medicine. I hear that the hospitals in Japan more advanced." Thirteen smiled.

"Not to mention this is also great chance to learn about another culture." Cameran chimed in.

"Well that settles it! Everyone head home and pack your things! Meet back here tomorrow (which happens to be a Saturday) at 6am so that we can catch the 8am plane to Tokyo Airport."

As everyone was about to get up to leave House said "I never said anything about going." he smirked at Cuddy while twirling his cane.

Cuddy glared at House. "I wasn't giving you an option House! You are going whether you want to or not! You have no say in the matter!" she yelled at him. "Let's not forget that you have 36 hours of clinic duty to make up." she smirked at him again. "If you come along willingly and behave yourself I just might count it as time served."

"And if I don't go willingly?" House raised an eyebrow in challenge.

Cuddy's smirk widened. "I'll add an extra 100 hours to the amount of clinic duty you will have to make up when we get back."

House stared at Cuddy in horror of what she had just said.

"And no matter how you try you'll never be able to make it up!"

House continued to stare at her looking for any sign of weakness that it was a bluff but saw none. House sighed resignedly shoulders slumped and muttered a soft "Fine."

"What was that? I couldn't hear you!" Cuddy's smirked widened into a grin of victory at House's submissive behavior.

"I said fine!" House yelled agitatedly. "You better be ready to get a huge bill because I'm so going to buy all of the most expensive pay per view porn they got!!!!!!!!" House grumbled while dry swallowing some viccoden .

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The next night (AN: I have no idea what the time difference between New Jersey and Japan is! I'M SO SORRY!!!!) House and company arrived at Teito Hotel and deposited their bags in their individual rooms and met up again at the hotel lobby. They had decided to go out rather than dining in one of the hotels 5 star restaurants. They wanted to get a little sight seeing in before retiring for the night. While on their way back to the hotel they seemed to have gotten lost.

"Okay. Where the HELL are we!!!!!!" House yelled. They had been walking in circles for seemingly hours and it was getting very late and House's patience was wearing thin. He is a cripple after all. House looked at there surroundings and noticed something odd. When they were walking the streets while looking for a restaurant the places they passed had a lot of neon a shopping or market area, but now they were in what appeared to be a more residential area with apartment and business buildings. nothing like the busy streets they had been on earlier. "Damn."

The others took note of their surroundings as well and couldn't help but agree with him. "Well...." Cuddy began, "Why don't we try asking for directions?"

"Oh yeah real genius idea." House rolled his eyes sarcastically. "I don't speak Japanese, do you?"

"It wouldn't hurt to try!" Cameran glared at House.

"Well you guys go on ahead I'll wait here." House stated as he leaned against a black wooden fence (AN: *hint hint*) "Because incase you all forgot-" House waved his cane for emphasis, "Walking is not my forte. And I think I've reached my quota for the day." House reached in his left pocket and pulled out a bottle of viccoden. He then popped some pills in his mouth before putting it away.

The others felt slightly guilty at the fact they made a crippled man walk allover the place with them for several hours. But then when they noticed what he was leaning against they went for a closer look. "Um.....guys?" Chase started as he was rubbing his eyes to check that he wasn't seeing things. "Was that house always there?"

"Chase is right. I could have sworn it was an empty lot a minute ago." Wilson agreed rubbing his eyes as well.

House and company walked over to the entryway of the fence to get a better look at the house. "The real question is why the hell is there a old style Japanese house in the middle of to buildings." House stepped over the threshold of the entryway when suddenly he and others lost control of their legs. "WHAT THE HELL!!!" House shouted as their legs carried them to the over to the house.

"How are we going to explain this to the owner of the house?" Taub asked as they stopped in front of the doors.

"We'll just ask them for directions back to hotel like we planing to do before." Thirteen reasoned "After all we can't just say our legs had a will of their own and brought us here."

Just as Thirteen finished her sentence the doors opened to reveal 2 little girls. The one on the right had blue eyes and long blue hair that reached just above the floor in pig tails while the one on the left had pink eyes and hair that was shoulder length.

The 2 girls smiled and pulled House and the others inside as they said in perfect cinq "We welcome you to our shop!"

END CHAPTER 2

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AN: Sorry I took so long to update this story, but i tried to make up for it by making this chapter as long as possible. And don't worry xxxHolic fans! Watanuki will finally makes his appearance in the next chapter! PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *LOOKS PLEADINGLY AT THE READERS*