Meiko flipped the light switches on as she and Kaito entered her house. "It's not much, but you can stay here as long as you need, you got it? Here, you can stay in this room." She said, leading him down the hallway and opening a door on her right hand side.

Kaito peered curiously into the room. Having known Meiko for years now, he had been in her house several times before, but had never entered this particular room. It belonged to her younger brother, Meito, but he had just moved out about a month ago. "Is… is it okay for me to use his room?" Kaito asked nervously.

"Sure. I don't think he'll be returning any time soon, he's found a new apartment." Meiko reassured him.

Kaito stepped inside and sat on the bed. The room was mostly empty, containing only a desk, a nightstand, some drawers, and the bed he was currently occupying. He looked over at Meiko, still standing in the doorway, and patted the spot next to him. She walked over and sat down.

"Haven't you been lonely without him?" he spoke softly.

"Somewhat…" She admitted, reluctantly. She was trying to be nice right now, since his house had just burned down and all. So she figured she'd at least answer him honestly. They both sat on the bed in somber silence. "…Well, it's late, Kaito, you should get some sleep." She said interrupting the stillness.

"But tomorrow's Sunday." He grumbled. Sunday was the only day the two had off from work. "And I'm not really sleepy."

"Well, there's not really anything to do at this hour." Meiko objected, looking at the clock and noticing it was now two AM. She wasn't exactly feeling sleepy either. Tired; yes. But her nerves were too on edge for sleep, she assumed Kaito felt the same.

After a moment Kaito laid down on the bed, stretching and letting out a deep sigh. Meiko figured he was finally going to try and sleep, but as she got up to leave he clutched her hand. "Please… Stay here." He pleaded. Suddenly, he pulled her down to him, wrapping his arms around her.

"Kaito…!" she protested, wide eyed. "Let go!" she struggled, but seemingly had lost all her strength. She blushed.

"Please…" he mumbled burying his face in her shoulder.

Meiko, noticing his tears, hesitantly gave in and wrapped her arms around him in response. "It's okay, Kaito. It's okay."

Kaito's eyes widened, he couldn't believe she was being so kind. His cheeks reddened and he eventually drifted off to sleep, still holding her.

He dreamt of pure white snow and gentle red flames that helped ease the cold and loneliness away.

When he awoke, he saw an unfamiliar room and nearly panicked, but soon remembered where he was and regained his composure. He also remembered what he had done last night before having drifted off to sleep and the memory of it brought a dark red blush to his cheeks. I wonder how long Meiko stayed with me, he thought to himself, blushing even darker red. How am I supposed to face her? He hurriedly made the bed and stepped cautiously out of the room, he passed by her room and noticed she wasn't there. So she's awake already. He sighed and finally headed to the kitchen.

Meiko was standing near the stove frying some eggs, she glanced over at him. "If you're hungry, you're making your own food," she said plainly, acting no different than usual.

Kaito smiled warmly, "Yes, ma'am." The realization had just hit him that he got to live with Meiko, and he was ecstatic. The young blue haired man smiled uncontrollably as he helped set the table and cooked his own breakfast.

Meiko scowled "Why are you so damn happy?" she questioned, thoroughly surprised after what had just happened yesterday.

"Oh… No reason." He smirked, sitting down at the table to eat.

She stared at him suspiciously for a few moments, but gave up and shrugged it off, "Fine, whatever." She said taking sips of her coffee. "By the way, we're going shopping today, Kaito." She added. "I need to buy groceries, and you need to buy yourself clothes and whatever else it is you need." She set down her coffee mug. "Meito left some of his clothes in the drawers in your room, you can use those for now. Go take a shower."

They both finished their breakfasts and cleaned up. Kaito headed over to "his room" (he didn't feel entirely comfortable calling it his) and picked out some clothes from the drawers. Most of the clothes were too large; Meito was taller and more well-built than Kaito. He quickly took a shower and changed into them.

"Hurry it up!" Meiko called from the living room.

Kaito walked over to Meiko, and as soon as she saw him she burst out laughing.

"You…You look like a little boy in those clothes!" she said between bursts of laughter. She calmed a bit and put on a serious face. "I can let you borrow my clothes." She said earnestly, but her serious expression gave way to more laughter as soon as she got another look at his flustered expression.

"Hey! It's not my fault your little brother is so… Mature for his age!" he protested, not being able to come up with any sort of comeback, and also thinking of how it must run in the family…

After getting Meiko under control, the two walked outside, toward the supermarket.

I tried adding more fluff for this one. That fluffy enough for ya'?

I didn't think I'd get this chapter done so fast, but all of the sudden I felt in the writing mood today. ...Poor Kaito, being laughed at. Hahaha

His dream was kind of symbolic, but I suck at symbolism, so whatever.

Anyway, thanks for reading! Til next time!