[Scene: Twilight at the O'Sama house. Kunzite and Zoi pull up in the Maserati. It's warm so Zoi's just wearing jeans and a t-shirt and Kunzite's shirt is partly unbuttoned.]

Kunzite: Home at last.

[Gazes at Zoi adoringly as he strokes a lock of his hair.]

Zoi: [smiles] What?

Kunzite: You're finally spending the night here. I've been looking forward to this for a long time.

Zoi: Me too.

[They kiss for a while before getting out of the car to walk to the house]

[Kunzite sneaks up on Zoi and scoops him up into his arms and keeps walking.]

Zoi: Hey, put me down!

[Kunzite ignores him]

Zoi: I can walk, you know. In fact, I'm fairly certain I can fly.

Kunzite: After everything that's happened, I'm not taking any chances of something jumping out of the woods and snatching you away from me.

[Kunzite carries Zoi into the house where they see Jeddy watching Martha Stewart. He pauses the TV turns and as Kunzite enters with Zoi.]

Jeddy: Hey, Kunzite. Hey, Zoi. Welcome home.

Kunzite: Hello, Jadeite.

[Zoi just stares at Jeddy with his mouth agape while Kunzite looks at the TV where Martha Stewart is making Grand Marnier whipped cream]

Kunzite: More cooking experiments?

Jeddy: I figured we'd have bunch tomorrow to celebrate the new addition to the family. Zoi's dad said he likes orange juice and waffles, so I thought I'd make Belgian waffles with whipped cream, powdered sugar, and fruit compote.

Kunzite: Where is Nephrite?

Jeddy: He's up in his room, engaging in soul-searching and quiet contemplation.

[Jeddy pantomimes drinking from a bottle]

Kunzite: [grins] So he regrets not taking me down when he had the chance?

Jeddy: Oh, you know it! [to Zoi] I'm thinking of starting bunch at 7am. What time do you normally get up?

[Zoi just makes a sour face at Jeddy.]

Kunzite: He'll be getting up when he gets up. He just got out of the hospital. I want him well rested when I start his Shitennou training tomorrow.

Jeddy: Oh right. See you in the morning.

[Zoi waits until they are upstairs before speaking]

Zoi: [aghast] Jeddy's cooking us brunch?

Kunzite: Cooking is a hobby of his. Just like fashion design is a hobby of Beryl's. When you've lived as long as the rest of us, you'll realize the importance of developing hobbies.

Zoi: That's not the point. He tried to kill you with a crossbow yesterday!

Kunzite: Well, we can't hold that against him.

Zoi: But… he tried to murder you…

Kunzite: [smirks] I can see you're going to have to get used to having siblings…Rule 1: Don't hold grudges and don't seek revenge. That will get you killed faster than anything.

Zoi: I don't understand. So I'm just supposed to let them try to kill us?

Kunzite: No. If they attack you, you fight back. And you can attack them first, but only if mother approves. What happened with Jadeite was a special case. Yes, he tried to kill me and, yes, he'll try again when the opportunity presents itself. It's my responsibility to keep that from happening.

Zoi: I don't get it.

[Carries Zoi into their bedroom and places him on the bed]

Kunzite: You're still thinking like a human. You have to think like a jungle animal. Think of us as a pack of carnivorous animals. I'm the alpha male, Jadeite and Nephrite are the beta males. For as long as I live they will always be my inferiors. A pack is only as strong as its alpha, so at the first sign of weakness, they have to try to kill me, to challenge me for leadership of the Shitennou.

Zoi: [very serious] I will never challenge you for leadership of the Shitennou.

Kunzite: [kisses his forehead and smiles] Well you're not exactly a beta, are you? You're my tiny co-alpha.

[Kunzite helps him off with his t-shirt and jeans and tucks him into bed. Zoi snuggles against the pillow under the covers.]

Zoi: A bed. A real bed. You have no idea how good this feels after days upon days of sleeping in birdcages and hospital beds and suitcases.

Kunzite: Suitcases?

Zoi: Uh…nevermind. So what we are doing tomorrow?

[Kunzite folds up Zoi's clothes and puts them in the dresser.]

Kunzite: Tomorrow, if you're feeling up to it, we will start your training.

Zoi: Oh, I'm feeling up to it. I'm up for quite a lot actually.

[Kunzite turns as Zoi tosses his underpants on the floor. He's shaking out his ponytail and pulling his hair over his shoulders so it doesn't get caught underneath him and giving Kunzite a come-hither look.]

Kunzite: [smiles] Oh, no. I've been mourning your death for the past three days. That is the furthest thing from my mind.

Zoi: It's never very far from my mind.

Kunzite: [Edging closer to the bed] We have plenty of time for that sort of thing later. I get you all to myself for the next few weeks.

Zoi: [takes Kunzite's hand] You said I'll need training? What sort of training?

Kunzite: [Sits the edge of the bed to explain but is becoming increasingly distracted by the outline of Zoi's body through the sheet.] All sorts of training… There are two types of powers you will develop… learned powers and innate. Your innate powers arise from your character…The first thing we have to do is determine is what form your innate powers will take… since that will suggest a proper course of study to augment or compensate as needed.

Zoi: What form do your innate powers take?

Kunzite: Negation. Jadeite is illusion, Nephrite's is astrological.

Zoi: And mine?

Kunzite: From what little I've seen of your energy signatures, I'm guessing yours is nature based…which makes perfect sense given your love of flowers…Tomorrow morning we'll go to the field out back and we'll play a form of word association… I'll give a command, and you'll draw upon your powers to comply.

[By now, Kunzite is openly leering at Zoi]

Zoi: You're losing your resolve, aren't you?

Kunzite: What resolve?

[Kunzite pounces on a giggling Zoi, pinning him to the mattress and kissing him. They make out for several minutes before Zoi breaks it off with a suggestive look.]

Zoi: This is not fair. I'm completely naked under here and you still have all your clothes on.

Kunzite: Then take them off me.

[Zoi unbuttons Kunzite's shirt the rest of the way, but stops as his fingertips burst into flames.]

Zoi: [nervous] Maybe it's not a good idea to stick sensitive parts inside each other until I get this under control.

[Kunzite touches Zoi's wrist and the flames die out.]

Kunzite: You can't harm me, and I'm certainly not going to harm you.

Zoi: Are you sure I can't hurt you?

Kunzite: [nods] As long as the house is still standing when we're finished, everything should be fine.

[Zoi goes back to what he was doing]

Kunzite: This will be interesting. I've never done it with a Shitennou before.

Zoi: You'll have to tell me what it's like.

Kunzite: [smiles] What do you mean? You've done it with a Shitennou before.

Zoi: Yes, but I have no basis of comparison.

[A few minutes later in Neffy's room, Neffy watches the bottle of vodka on his nightstand shake and then rock and then fall over and roll on the floor.]

Neffy: Jesus H. Christ.

[Neffy opens another bottle and does his best not to think about what's going on in the other side of house.]