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A/N: Thank you so much to Eveyleinchen for the very kind review! Thank you as well to everyone else who reads my fanfiction!
They were at a restraunt when it happened. Inukashi had been complaining about being hungry, so Shion had decided to stop at the nearest restraunt. While Nezumi was ordering food for the others, Rikiga realized he left his cell phone in the car.
"Hey, Shion, can I borrow the keys? I need to get something from the car." Rikiga asked.
Shion shrugged and handed the car keys to Rikiga, who hurried to the car and retrieved his phone. Since he got back before Nezumi, the latter didn't suspect anything. After everyone finished eating, they returned to the car and Shion remembered Rikiga hadn't given the car keys back.
"Rikiga, can I have the car keys back now?"
Rikiga searched his pockets for the keys, but couldn't find them. "Um..."
"How did you lose the keys?" Inukashi demanded, surprised. Nezumi, who hadn't noticed anything was wrong until her outburst, glared at Rikiga.
"You lost the keys?!"
"Um, no, of course not, I just... um..." Rikiga attempted to reassure them, though it quickly became obvious he had no idea where they were.
"Let's just see if he left them in the restraunt," Shion suggested. The four headed back to the table they had eaten at, but there were no keys around it.
"Where else could they be?" Rikiga asked, confused.
Inukashi frowned, "That doesn't make sense, they can't have just disappeared. Unless someone took them..."
Shion glanced out the window. "The car's still there, so no one's stolen it."
"Maybe someone found them and took them to the manager," Inukashi suggested, before going to speak with the manager to ask. When she returned, she shook her head. "Nope, no one's turned in any lost keys."
Meanwhile, Nezumi had gone back to the car to make sure if anyone did take they keys, they couldn't steal the car. At one point he noticed the keys on a seat in the car. Sighing, he entered the restraunt again and told the others.
"Rikiga, you locked us out of the car?" Inukashi shouted. "Now how am I supposed to get home? I need to give my dogs a bath today!"
Rikiga tried to convince her to calm down and stop yelling, but neither Nezumi nor Shion appeared willing to help him, both also annoyed about being locked out of the car.
"How are we even supposed to get the keys out?" Inukashi continued ranting. "I mean, we can't just break a window or something!"
"Well, we could pick the lock..." Rikiga suggested.
"Then it would look like we were stealing the car!"