"So, what are we going to do about my door?" Hachi asked.
The other mews looked at her.
"Did you seriously just ask that?" Ana inquired.
"Yes!" Hachi nearly yelled. "In case you hadn't noticed, I change in my room and we live with three men!"
"Actually, one man and then there's Haru and Ahsim," Ana remarked.
"I resent that!" Ahsim objected.
"That aside, why would any of them peek at you?" Misha asked.
Keiichi smirked.
"True. I mean, Haru likes Misha, Ahsim is crushing on Ana and Kei has a very strong interest in Ariha."
Kei glanced sharply at Keiichi who grinned back at him.
"Sometimes your guard goes down," he said.
"Take advantage of that fact again and you'll find that you have come to possess a sword in your ass," Kei growled.
Ariha smirked.
"Is it wrong that I'm oddly turned on by the thought of being between two arguing guys?" she asked.
Ana glanced at Ahsim.
"If you crush on me, I'll crush every bone in your body," she hissed.
Ahsim gulped.
"Yes ma'am," he said.
After that, no one said a word and the car ride home was silent.
"Oh my god! You found Taykoe!" Haru said as soon as they walked in the door.
"Thanks Captain Obvious. I never would have guessed," Ana snapped.
"Be nice," Hachi ordered.
Ana turned her evil glare on her.
"My dear, dear Hachi," she said with murder in her voice. "Would you care to sleep in my room tonight?"
Hachi gulped and ducked behind Taykoe.
"I'm sure the living room has a very nice couch," she said, trembling.
Ana grinned evilly and then walked past Haru, heading upstairs. Ariha and Kei both let out a suppressed shiver.
"Scared of Ana, too?" Hachi asked.
"No, there's a bit of a draft in here and in case you hadn't noticed, we're both soaked," Ariha replied.
She looked at Taykoe.
"This shirt shrinks when wet so I expect a new one," she said.
For a second, it seemed she was dead serious until she smiled.
"Was that a j-"
"BANZAI!"
Taykoe let out a surprised cry as a pillow hit her in the face. Ariha and Kei turned fast. Instinctively, Kei's hand went to his sword's hilt. Standing on the stairs, with Ana, over her shoulder was a girl with blonde hair cut to her neck.
"Don't ask me how this happened! I'm still confused!" Ana yelled.
Haru sighed.
"This is my sister, Kori," he announced.
Kori saluted them, all business now.
"Kori, put my mew down!" he ordered.
"Make me," Kori challenged.
Haru made strangling gestures but said nothing.
"I'm confused," Ariha declared.
"As am I but that's my normal state of mind," Misha said.
"She knows about the mews?" Ahsim inquired.
Haru looked at them.
"Bakas. Kori is the whole reason for the mews," he replied.
Keiichi let out a loud groan.
"Jumping Jashinists! Don't all scream in your head at once!" he ordered.
"So, he made us to protect Kori?" Taykoe muttered to herself.
Ariha glanced over at her.
"This really bugs you, doesn't it?" she asked.
The two were in their room, laying on their beds.
"Yes, it does!" Taykoe cried.
She studied Ariha, taking in the girl's seemingly indifferent attitude.
"How can you be so…so," Taykoe trailed off, trying to find a more polite word than the one she had planned.
"Impassive? Calm? Indifferent?" Ariha offered, never looking up from her book.
"Yeah," Taykoe said.
Ariha smiled a bit, glancing up at Taykoe with her good eye.
"Nothing surprises me anymore," she declared. "Not since I came back here."
"Thanks for coming back," Taykoe said.
"No problem."
The door to their room crashed open.
"OH MY GOD!OH MY GOD!OH MY GOD!OH MY GOD!OH MY GOD!OH MY GOD!OH MY GOD!OH MY GOD!" Hachi cried, running into the room.
She leapt on Ariha's bed, reaching over her and flipping on the radio.
"In other news, we have reports that both Yoshiki Nakamura, creator of the popular manga, Skip Beat and Masashi Kishimoto, maker of the Naruto series, have both been detained."
"That is horrible," Taykoe said.
"I know!" Hachi cried.
"You're really torn up about this," Ariha remarked, pushing Hachi's leg off her stomach.
"Of course I am! Without Nakamura-san, I won't know what happens in Skip Beat!" Hachi wailed.
"Tragic as that is, what can we do about it?" Taykoe asked.
"Plenty," Ariha declared.
She smiled.
"Being the boss's daughter gives me access to every nook and cranny of the company. Even where they're keeping their detainees," she announced.
"YAY!" Hachi cheered.
"Ladies, we're breaking into my father's company."
