AC1252 - Lotus will interact with other girls later in the story, I'm just still trying to figure out how I want their reactions to Lotus be. I think Lotus's dub would be Cherami Leigh.

Huang Bai Lian - I don't think Teruhashi really has an ability she's just pretty and knows it, so she uses it to her advantage. The aura that surrounds her is just to show that she dazzles people she encounters. Lotus does have her own charm and her beauty is supposed to be on par with Teruhashi's, so she does attract people but unlike Teruhashi she doesn't put herself on display to draw in crowds. There is a special chapter coming just for Teruhashi's brother that I'm super excited about.

*NOTE* - AC1252 commented what would Lotus's voice actor be if she were a real character in the show. I think Cherami Leigh would be a good fit, but what do you guys think?

This is Lotus

This is Saiki

This is Saiki and Lotus together

~This is the thoughts of other people~

Hairo Won't Ever Give Up! - A Day Full of Bunny Hops and Lumber

Lotus quickly got used to having her guardian spirit, Helios, around. He didn't really bother her, well not when she was in public at least. He tended to hover over her when they were home. Helios wasn't like Violet when it came to over-enthusiastic coddling and praising. No, he was much worse, Helios's attitude was just like her mother's. Out in public, Helios didn't really show himself but just appeared to rid Lotus of any pesky spirits. When she was out grocery shopping a spirit kept pestering her complaining about the current prices of the produce, but it was really surprising when Helios appeared out of a pile of melons and headbutted the spirit away.

Sometime Lotus wouldn't even notice Helios was around at all.

Lotus and Saiki are shown walking down the street with a rather unsavory spirit trailing behind them in the background. Helios slid by swinging his Claymore like a sword hitting the spirit away like a home run.

So all in all Helios was the true defender that he promised he'd be, so Lotus was grateful for him. Even if he was loud.

"Okay so now I need some sugar." Lotus held a spoon and bowl while reading something. Before she could set down the bowl a bag of sugar was pushed towards her.

"Oh thank you Sir Henry," Lotus smiled seeing the ferret using his body weight to push the ingredient over to her.

"~You are welcome.~"

"Little Lotus what's going on in here?" Ethan asked walking into the room.

"Sir Henry and I are just baking. He mentioned something about wanting scones and tea, so I thought I'd make him some." Lotus said

"Scones and tea?" Ethan chuckled. "That's something I haven't heard in a while."

"That's right you must have drunk a lot of tea while you were in Scotland huh?" Lotus asked

"Yup." Ethan nodded his head. "Hmmm, it's sure been some time since I've done high tea. You know I could call back home and probably get the family to send some different types of tea."

"Really? That be nice. What do you think, Sir Henry?" Lotus asked

"~Sounds grand.~"

"Sir Henry seems to like the idea too," Lotus said

"Right then I'll get right on it!" Ethan declared

"It's not a mission but I appreciate it."

Lotus saw many strange things over the past few months and that list just keeps getting longer. She had just exited the girl's bathroom at school but had to stop when something odd caught her eyes. A group of boys were bunny hopping down the hall. And leading the pack was the class rep Hairo, who was not only hopping like a madman, but he also had a heavy looking box on his back.

"What on earth is going on? I was gonna for like 5 minutes."

At the end of the day Lotus never really did get her answer as to why Hairo had been bunny hopping with her male classmates, so she just chalked it up to one of the many odd occurrences that have suddenly entered her life. Currently, she was walking down the halls with Saiki and for some reason, unbeknownst to the psychics Hairo was with them.

"Hey did you guys know that scientists say that the average person sweats about 300 milliliters every night while they're sleeping," Hairo said

"You're telling us why?"

"And if that's true people should change their sheets much more."

"The school's sports day is coming up-"

"Sports!" Lotus shouted facing Hairo. "We're going to have a for real sports day?" She asked excitedly.

"That's right!" Hairo declared

Lotus's cheeks turned red as she got excited. "The school I went to before never had a sports day, I've only ever heard of them but never actually got to be in one. What kind of sports are gonna be there?!"

"All kinds! There's track, tug of war, bean bag toss, and all other fun sports." Hairo said

"I'm getting fired up now." Lotus declared with a burning light in her eyes steam coming off her smiling face.

"You're gonna overheat again."

"Anyways I'm working on building the entrance gate now. Kudo was supposed to be helping me, but he came down with a cold," Hairo said

Saiki and Lotus saw through Hairo's mind the conversation he had over the phone.

"You can't quit on me now! Beating a cold is just a matter of willpower! You show that stupid virus whose boss!"

"Are you a monster?"

"Really it's almost done all we have to do is connect the arch to the pedestal." Hairo led Saiki and Lotus to a classroom, "So if you just give me hand-?"

As he opened the door Hairo paused and froze seeing the almost finished gate was broken. Saiki plugged his fingers into his ears and Lotus quickly followed suit, and just in time too. Hairo let out a loud strangled scream of horror as he ran into the room.

"Pedestal! You were standing just fine yesterday! Can you hear me!? Get up!" Hairo shouted

"Pep talks don't work on pedestals."

"Why isn't he more concerned about who did this? Pedestals and arch's don't just break like that on their own."

"What a pain. This is more than what we can fix." Saiki turned around. "I'm gonna go now. Let's go Lotus."

"Saiki, Lotus, wait! We can do this! If we work fast we can finish before the last train leaves!" Hairo said determined

"Give me a break."

"And so the tsundere Saiki comes forth and helps his friend in need." Lotus self-narrated only to herself. She's pretty sure Saiki wouldn't like it if she called him a tsundere.

"Yaaaah you can do it! I believe in you! Don't give up! Never stop!" Hairo shouted as he rigorously sawed some boards.

Lotus and Saiki were off to the side hammering some nails into a board.

"Please stop. What a pain. What am I even doing here?"

To the average eye, it looked like Saiki wasn't really working hard, but they would have quickly been proven wrong when he hammered a nail and the hammer broke in half.

"Whoa!" Lotus gasped watching the head of the hammer fly off.

"Hard to figure out how much strength to use."

"Guess you don't have to worry about things like this huh, Saiki?"

Hairo appeared behind the two. "Dammit it this catastrophe! We've run out of lumber!"

"So we should give up."

"I'll buy more!" Hairo declared

"Give up already!"

Hairo gave his two helpers a thumbs up. "Saiki, Lotus, keep it up I'm counting on you guys!"

"Why are you so sweaty?"

With a war cry Hairo ran out of the room leaving Saiki and Lotus.

"Seriously I could just go home but then I'll have to deal with the guilt trip from him tomorrow. It'll be easier to work without tools since I'm not used to them." Saiki turned to look at Lotus. "Let's take this time to see how well you're improving on your psychic power control."

Lotus smiled nodding her head. "Alright!"

Saiki used his powers to lift up a board then chopped it into equal pieces. Lotus observed Saiki before trying this on her own. Her board lifted off the ground though a bit wobbly. She was about to use her powers to chop it but a hand on her shoulder stopped her.

Lotus was taken aback when she looked over her shoulder to see Saiki was holding onto it standing rather close to her.

"You too tense your gonna end up chopping more than just the wood. Or pass out from the breath your holding in."

Lotus let out a gasp not realizing she had been holding her breath as she tried to lift up the board with her mind.

"Concentrate, relax, and breath. Visualize what you want."

Lotus closed her eyes and followed Saiki's words and let out a calming deep breath. She opened her eyes and visualized in her mind the boards slicing themselves up into equal pieces. And like magic, the board's lifted off the ground and did just that.,

"I did it! Thank you, Saiki!" Lotus smiled

Saiki nodded and stepped away from the girl just realizing he had been standing so close to her the whole time and that his hand had been on her shoulder as well.

When the two psychics had the needed wood they lined the boards up correctly then Saiki grabbed some nails. With amazing precision and power, he drove each nail into the boards under a second.

"So cool." Lotus complimented

Hearing the compliment, Saiki turned away from Lotus adjusting his glasses.

"It'll look suspicious if we get too much done on our own."

"Your right."

So Lotus and Saiki sat down, sharing a box, as Saiki read a book and Lotus read Manga.

Hours passed and the sun was starting to set outside.

"It's taking a long time. What's he doing? Is he slacking off?"

"That doesn't sound anything like Hairo."

"Your right." Saiki closed his book. "Guess I better try to find him."

Lotus let out a snort like laugh as she watched Saiki cross his eyes. "What in the world are you doing?" She giggled

"Clairvoyance."

"Ah, an introduction to a new power. But do you need to cross your eyes to do it?" Lotus asked

Saiki nodded his head. "This one should be simple enough for you to handle compared to other powers. Just be careful it might give you a headache."

"Got it!" Lotus replied

"There I found him."

"What's he doing?" Lotus asked

Saiki's eyes widened a bit. "Where the hell did he get that?"

"What is he doing?" Lotus asked again

"He's got a giant tree trunk tied to his back, and he's trying to drag it back here."

". . . .Where the hell did he get that?"

"You know sometimes it's really just better to give up."

Hairo's thoughts started to filter into Lotus's mind meaning he must be getting closer to the school or her telepathy range was improving, which would make sense. The more she hung around Saiki the stronger her powers got.

"~Saiki and Lotus are working hard by themselves! I can't give up! I have to do this for them.~"

"Were fine, please give up."

"I'm more surprised his back hasn't given out carrying a whole tree trunk on it," Lotus commented

"~Crap!~"

"What now?"

"~The log is covered in some kind of fungi!~"

"Then just ditch it."

"~No I can't give up now!~"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!"

Saiki and Lotus looked towards the door of the room, and it crashed open. In came Hairo riding on top of the log. He and both the log smashed into the wall of the classroom, with Hairo smashing his face right on the wall.

"That's some slimy fungus."

A battered Hairo stood up giving Saiki and Lotus a thumbs up. "Sorry, it took so long but don't worry we can still finish by morning?" Hairo slurred

"Maybe you should sit down."

"Oh, you'll finish sooner than that."

Standing in the doorway of the classroom were several guys from their class along with a girl Hairo had helped earlier that day.

"What are you guys doing here?" Hairo asked

"We were doing after school activities and saw you sliding by on an out of control log."

"You always help us out."

"We wanted to help you."

These kind words brought tears to Hairo's eyes. "Wow….kay let's do it! Huddle up, guys!"

"Go, team!"

"Can we get started now?"

"Oh, Saiki," Lotus mused to herself.

He really was a good guy. If he really wanted to he could have left once the other students arrived, but he didn't.

So with many more hands, the sports day arch was being rebuilt. Everyone worked hard on different task giving it their all to rebuild the pedestals and arch.

"Stop the fungi from breeding!"

"Saw like crazy!"

"Hey no slacking off."

Lotus and the one other girl in the room gasped covering their eyes when Hairo managed to moon everyone in the room.

In no time the project was completed.

"Whoa, we're finished!"

"It looks pretty good!"

Everyone was cheering happy and proud of their work.

"What a pain. I didn't think it would take this long. Normal people have it rough too. Though doing this kind of thing isn't so bad once in a while." Saiki gave a small smile.

Lotus was happy that Saiki seemed rather pleased even through all the inconveniences he had to go through today. She was also pretty elated seeing Saiki's real smile, what a rare sight. She kinda wishes she had a camera.

"Hey but wait why are we preparing stuff for the sports day festival now?" A guy asked. "It's still a month away right?"

This seemed to make Saiki's mood do a full 180 and his small short-lived smile turned into a frown.

"Are you kidding!" Hairo flashed a bright smile. "A month will pass in no time!"

Everyone in the room froze going stark white.

"Yeah….we don't mix at all."

"You know I think pretty soon I'll be able to teleport on my own."

"We'll see."

"Thank you once again, Saiki, for taking me home."

"No problem."

Lotus was a bit taken back by that response. Normally Saiki wouldn't say anything, or he'd make a quip about it being bothersome or not wanting to owe someone.

Deciding not to push on it Lotus smiled. "Also thanks for staying today. I know you could have easily snuck off and left after everyone arrived but I'm glad you stayed. Having you around makes things fun and I really enjoy your company." Lotus walked to her door and with one last farewell, she gave Saiki a wave before going inside.

Saiki watched from his side of the street and without realizing it the smile that had graced his features earlier had returned.