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This is Lotus

This is Saiki

This is Lotus and Saiki

~This is the thoughts of others~

Welcome to Okinawa! - Nankuru Naisa!

"I sure hope this three-day trip goes smoothly."

"With you there to stop all the disasters I'm sure it will."

"That just means more trouble for me."

"You mean us. The Pink Psychic Duo of Saiki and Lotus. What do you think?"

"Are we supposed to be superheroes or something?"

"Well, we do technically have superpowers."

Lotus giggled while Saiki looked to his left staring out the window of the bus. He and Lotus were sitting together with Nendou and Kaidou in the row in front of them.

"No need to fret Saiki, any trouble you have to face I'll be there with you. It's you and me, right?"

Saiki hummed in his mind focusing on the ocean passing by.

"You and me huh…."

Nendou sat up from his seat looking back at Saiki and Lotus.

"Whoa cool! Look, it's green!" He shouted pointing out the window.

"So far I see nothing but sea."

"Someone's been dumping green paint out there huh buddies?" Nendou said

"Seriously?"

Lotus sweatdropped seeing that the ocean was a deep blue. "Uh...is Nendou colorblind?"

"Unfortunately Nendou's not the only one excited."

On cue, Hairo jumped from his seat.

"Alright, Okinawa! Crank up the heat!"

"You're sweating like crazy Hairo!" A few guys cheered

"Since we're on vacation everyone's obnoxiously loud."

"Ta-da!"

A few seats ahead Chiyo had opened her shirt revealing her yellow bathing suit beneath.

"Oh, hey, what are you doing?" Teruhashi questions

"Oh, no worries. I'm wearing a bathing suit underneath."

In front of those two girls was Mera, the glasses-wearing girls listing off menu items, chanting them like some kind of incantation.

"Okinawa soba, pork, bitter melon, bean soup….."

"What is she trying to summon?"

"At this point, Kaidou's the only one keeping quiet."

Kaidou hadn't spoken a word his nose dug deep into a book he was holding.

"Hey, runt." Nendou reached over smacking the top of Kaidou's head. "You had your nose stuck in that dang book this whole time. Try living."

Kaidou sighed closing the book. "You sure are a kashimashi today. Oh, hey you weren't kidding the sea is quite chura."

"Chura?" Nendou questioned with a confused look.

"Let's get some air in here," Kaidou spoke opening one of the windows. "Oh man, it's ippei achisan outside!"

"'Ippei'?" Nendou spoke still perplexed

"Oh, I know you're using Okinawa dialect!" Chiyo said

Kaidou turned to the girl and his cheeks went red as Chiyo's uniform shirt was still open showing her bathing suit.

"Chimu don don!" Kaidou exclaimed

Chiyo screamed turning away. "Ah! I forgot my shirt was still open!"

"I'm speaking the Okinawan dialect," Kaidou said

"Dialect? They use funny words like salsa and methanol," Nendou said

"Pretty sure you got that wrong."

"Super wrong."

"I think you mean to say Kashimashi which means obnoxious and Chura which means beautiful. Ippei means very. Achi san means hot. Chimu don don means your heart is beating quickly," Kaidou explained

Teruhashi popped up in front of Kaidou looking over her seat. "Wow, you know a lot of words Kaidou!"

"Teruhashi!" Kaidou said with bright eyes and flushed cheeks.

"Can you teach me a few?" Teruhashi asked

"Yeah of course!" Kaidou said with a bright smile.

Saiki's bored look got even flatter with annoyance. "Great, now Kaidou's the most excited kid of all."

Lotus sighed, "He's going to go overboard trying to impress Teruhashi now. This is not going to end well for him."

The busses arrived at a small shopping district and the students followed out, antsy little bundles of excitement.

"Alright, everybody time for lunch!"

Lotus took a seat at a table in the back Saiki joining her. Even though the two psychics went to the back they were quickly joined by Nendou, Kaidou, Chiyo, Mera, and Teruhashi.

Trying to take in the culture the group decided on ordering some soba Okinawa style. The food arrived rather quickly and looked delicious, although Nendou didn't seem all that impressed as he stared at his bowl.

"So, this is Okinawa soba," Nendou held up his bowl. "It don't look like soba to me."

"They call it soba but it isn't made with buckwheat flour," Chiyo explained

"Well whatever it is, I'm hungry! Let's eat!" Nendou said

Kaidou picked up his chopsticks putting them between his hands in a praying position.

"Kowakisabida."

Chiyo and Teruhashi stared at him with a neutral expression, the charm of the Okinawa dialect quickly starting to wear off.

Kaidou took a bite out of his food and smiled. "Oh wow, this is Ma san! This is definitely ippei ma san!"

Now Chiyo and Teruhashi looked at Kaidou with strained smiles trying to hold back their annoyance.

"You were right. Teruhashi complimented his language skills and now he's going overboard."

"Called it!"

"Eat up! It's ma san!" Kaidou said

Chiyo nodded her head but her brow twitched.

"~That's getting really annoying.~" Both Chiyo and Teruhashi thought

Mera wasn't paying anyone any mind as she was already on her third bowl of soba, and at the pace she was moving that bowl wasn't going to be around for too much longer.

"Wow Mera your such a gachi maya!" Nendou said

Mera briefly paused in her consumption of soba just giving Kaidou a nod of acknowledgment.

"Wow, this food is so ma san, that I feel like nada soso. Oh, and by the way for those who don't know ma san means delicious, gachi maya means glutton, and nada soso means crying," Nendou said

"Shut up. This is overkill."

Chiyo and Teruhashi's expression were even more strained to the point they had to close their eyes to hide how irritated they were.

"Oh wow that's cool Kaidou," Teruhashi said

"Yeah, I can't even keep track of it all," Chiyo said

This only served to fuel Kaidou.

"No need to worry even if you don't get the Okinawa language, Nankuru naisa!" Kaidou said

"Nankuru naisa means it'll all work out. He's been dying for a chance to use that."

"I ate a lot that was good!" Nendou said, patting his stomach.

Kaidou once again put his hands in a prayer position. "Kowachisan."

At this point, Chiyo and Teruhashi were done.

The uneven numbered group left the restaurant.

"Hey we still have some time left," Chiyo said

"Wanna check out some souvenir shops?" Mera suggested

"Yeah, let's go!" Teruhashi said

Teruhashi, Mera, and Chiyo started to head in one direction the rest of the group was about to follow, that is until Kaidou let out a slight gasp pausing. There was a rather sketchy looking store with an even sketchier storefront. A large sign was posted up top with the cartoon picture of a snake on one side and a mongoose dressed like a kung fu fighter on the other. The bold sign read, "Death Match, Habu vs. Mongoose."

"Habu vs. Mongoose! Ultimate death match!" Kaidou shouted

"Looks sketchy."

"Sounds scary," Teruhashi said

"Yeah." Chiyo agreed

"Come on let's go look at souvenirs," Mera said

The three girls skirted off, Lotus being the only female to stay behind. She might have gone off with the other girls, but she felt more comfortable around Saiki and the other two males, plus she didn't need to be plagued by Teruhashi's thoughts of the imaginary rivalry the two had going on.

"They're such fools you can get souvenirs anytime. When do you get to gaze upon the fiercest creature in Okinawa," Kaidou said striking one of his Jet Black Wings poses.

"This side of him is annoying too."

"Cool! What is this place? It looks pretty sweet!" Nendou said

"No, it looks sketchy!"

"Not interested. Lotus let's go look at souvenirs."

"Okay."

The two were about to venture off in the direction Teruhashi, Mera, and Chiyo went, but they didn't even take one step before a shout from Chiyo grabbed their attention. She was watching with wide eyes as Mera stuffed her face with free pineapple samples.

"Ahh! Mera you're not supposed to eat that many of the free samples!" Chiyo exclaimed

"But this pineapple is fresh and juicy!" Mera spoke through her stuffed cheeks.

The store owner popped up waving his hands in a panicked manner. "Gachi maya! Gachi maya!"

Teruhashi was standing off to the side with dozens of love-struck guys surrounding her.

"Guys just started gathering around me for some reason!" Teruhashi spoke shyly but it was clear the girl was eating up the attention.

"What a cutie! Chimu don don."

"Ultimate deathmatch then?" Lotus said

"Yup, sounds pretty good now."

"Welcome to the Habu versus Mongoose show!"

A man with graying hair greeted the group with a snake draped over his shoulders.

"Ahhh! Snake!" Kaidou and Nendou shouted

"Don't worry this snake is my friend he would never bite you I swear. Here!" The man tossed the snake over to Kaidou and the serpent landed on the teen's shoulders.

"Ahh snake! Get it off me! Get off me! It's going to kill me!" Kaidou cried freaking out.

"Nankuru naisa."

"Here Kaidou I got it," Lotus spoke walking over.

Without an ounce of fear, Lotus took the snake off of Kaidou and the snake took to draping itself over her shoulders. Both Nendou and Kaidou gaped watching as Lotus stood there perfectly calm wearing the snake as if it was an everyday accessory.

"Whoa Warrior Queen Lotus has the ability to control the animal kingdom," Kaidou said

"Hehe...funny he should say that." Lotus thought, thinking back to her little Pet Shop fiasco.

The four took a seat before the man, the snake still chilling around Lotus's shoulders.

"If you encounter a Habu in the wild, run away. Can you guess where they bite you first?"

"Uh, the legs?" Kaidou guessed

"That's right the legs! Because they want their fangs in your shanks! Just a little rhyme I made up."

"Eh…"

The four teens looked at the man with blank looks.

"If you see a Habu ask if it has poison. It'll say yes I'll snake it in! Just kidding!"

More blank looks. If this man was a standup comedian he would be bombing his set.

"How about this one. What is it that makes a Habu so charming? It's poiseonous get it poise? Poise-onous?"

"This old man doesn't know when to quit."

The man finally stopped his jokes and pulled out a television along with a VCR.

"Well, here it is the Habu vs Mongoose match."

"What?! What do you mean they're not fighting here?!" Kaidou shouted

"Ain't like the old days. We got animal protection laws now."

"Its already been decided," Kaidou grumbled

"It was a three-minute video and as expected the mongoose won."

"I wanna go," Kaidou said

"Me too," Nendou said

"Wait, hold on. How about a souvenir."

The old man held out a small red package. The labeling was odd so it was hard to tell if it was snake-themed food or food for a snake.

"Shady."

"But I don't want to carry it around," Kaidou said

"Nankuru naisa. How about some Habu power and Habu oil too?"

The snake pitch went on for about 20 minutes and in the end, Kaidou lost. The poor teen exited the shop arms full of Habu products, tears peeking out the corner of his eyes.

"Nada soso," Kaidou lamented

When the group tried to get back on the bus a few screams echoed through the group of students.

"Huh?"

Several girls were pretty shaken, looking rather scared, including Teruhashi and Chiyo. Lotus raised a brow when she noticed the terrified screams were directed at her.

"S-Snake!" A girl shouted

"Snake?"

Lotus glanced to the left to see two black beady eyes and a flicking tongue.

"Oooh right. Forgot that he was there."

"How can you forget you have a snake on your shoulder?"

Lotus put a hand up. "No need to panic anybody."

She walked over to a grassy wooded area. She gently took the snake off her shoulder before releasing it back into the wild. Lotus dusted her hands off before making her way back to the bus, dozens of eyes on her.

"Whoa, you see that?"

"Yeah, she handled that snake like it was nothing."

"So fearless."

"It was incredible."

"So cool and calm."

Lotus gave an awkward chuckle with a closed-eyed smile. She wasn't expecting this kind of reaction. She was used to reptiles, especially snakes thanks to her parent's job once taking them to the outback of Australia, she and her sister spent a few months there. They even received specialized classes on how to deal with certain wildlife there, there was a big section featuring reptiles. She might not be able to handle bugs but snakes were not a big deal to her.

The murmurs kept going and it was even worse since Lotus could hear their thoughts, but what really made this situation stressful was the smiling Teruhashi, but this was not a happy smile. It was heavily strained and her brows were twitching.

"~My rival...How...She's playing the fearless cool angle! Everyone is just loving it! Well rival we'll just see who's the most lovable by the end of this trip!~"

Lotus shoulders sagged and she internally groaned. "I'm not going to have a relaxing trip at all, am I?"

"Nope."

The students finally arrived at the hotel, which was a lovely resort on the beach. Everyone gathered in the main lobby as Hairo went over the rules for tonight.

"Dinner is at 1800 hours. Come to the dining hall on the first floor. Each class has 20 minutes to bathe after that we have free time but you're not allowed to leave the hotel!" Hairo said

"Pretty swanky hotel."

"They have a video arcade."

"Arcade?" Lotus thought perking up.

"Thank god our first day is almost over. Wish I could relax, the real hell is about to start."

Lotus peeked over Saiki's shoulders seeing the room assignment sheet, and she winced.

"Oohh I feel for you man."

"Who are you rooming with?"

"Well…"

Lotus showed the female rooming sheet and Saiki had to blink making sure he was ready things right.

"You're alone?"

"Yeah," Lotus scratched at her cheek. "Since there's an odd number of girls when they made the rooms I was the only one leftover. They were gonna stick me with some girls from another class but it turns out they're all full too. Oh!" Lotus placed her fist in her palm an idea springing forth. "How about you share the room with me?"

" . . . .What?"

"Well, I'm sure it's gonna be rowdy and awkward in your room. It'll be hard to get a good night's sleep. So when everyone goes to bed you can just teleport in my room to rest. There's plenty of space."

Saiki stared at Lotus and her charming smile. The girl blinked confused when Saiki brought up his paper blocking his face from her view.

*DOKI DOKI*

"Alright luggage is done and put away, time for some food."

Lotus exited her room turning down the halls.

"I said ask for help!"

"And I said I don't need help!"

"Stop being so stubborn!"

"You stop being so annoying!"

"How dare you!"

"What in the?"

Lotus turned around going in the opposite direction she had been. As she turned a corner she spotted an elderly couple in the throes of a rather heated argument. The man was hunched over trying to carry several large suitcases by himself and the woman had her hands on her hips glaring down at the clearly struggling man.

"~This idiot! I know his back has been hurting him! Why won't he just ask for the hotel workers to carry our stuff!~"

"~She doesn't think I can't carry our stuff! I'm still a gentleman who can take care of her!~"

"Ahh, so that's it…"

The couple continued to argue back and forth, Lotus was surprised no one came out of their rooms complaining about the noise. The young lady walked up behind the two.

"Excuse me?"

"And another thing...!"

"Excuse me."

"And why do you have to…!"

"Excuse me!" Lotus shouted finally grabbing the attention of the couple.

"What?!" They both shouted looking to Lotus.

"Uh...Would you two like some help?" Lotus asked

The Old Man stared at Lotus before he frowned angrily. "No! It's a man's job to lift the heavy stuff! I don't need anyone's help!"

Lotus felt her brow tick. "I feel a little insulted by that comment."

"Is it also the man's job to use his brain! Take some help you hold fool!"

Once again the couple started arguing. Lotus sighed palming her forehead.

"This is going nowhere."

The pink-haired girl put two fingers in her mouth letting out a shrill whistle putting a stop to torrents of yelling.

"Please can both of you stop. Maam," Lotus looked at the woman. "Your husband just wants you to know that he's still capable of taking care of you in every way. He doesn't want you to have to do the hard stuff if he can do it for you."

The old man crossed his arms looking rather smug, but that quickly dropped when Lotus whipped her attention to him.

"And Sir, your wife is just watching out for you. She wants you to stay healthy and not overexert yourself. She wants to take care of you as much as you want to take care of her. You both should think about each other's feelings and compromise. So please swallow your pride and anger, apologize to one another and just let me carry the bags."

The wife and husband looked at one another bashfully, the kind of look one would see on a child who had just been scolded.

"I...I'm sorry dear," The man said

"I'm..I'm sorry too," The woman said

Lotus smiled clapping her hands together. "Great! Now just show me where you're going."

Lotus picked up the bags hoisting one on her shoulder and holding two others in her hand. The elderly couple blinked staring at Lotus.

"~She's strong.~"

"Here we go!"

Lotus smiled dropping off the couple's bags.

"Thank you so much dear!" The Woman said

"It was no problem," Lotus said

"How the heck do you carry those so easily? What's up with this generation," The Old Man said

"Dear!" The Old Woman scolded whacking her husband's arm.

"What?" The Old Man questioned

"That's rude?" The Old Woman said

"How's it rude it's just a question," The Old Man said

"Please just ignore him." The Old Woman spoke turning to Lotus. "Thank you again, dear. And thank you for helping us to stop arguing." She chuckled putting a hand on her cheek. "Now that I think about it, it was really silly. I kind of feel a bit embarrassed, I hope no one else heard us."

"Hehe...yeah I don't think so."

"You two have a nice night and a great vacation," Lotus said giving the couple a bow.

"You as well."

Saiki sat eating dinner, noting how Lotus had yet to join the rest of the students.

"You sure like to eat Mera," Kaidou said

"Yeah she ate all the snacks I brought too," Chiyo said

Mera emptied her bowl before turning and holding it out. "More rice please!"

"Hey, where are we going tomorrow?" Teruhashi asked Chiyo.

Chiyo pulled out a schedule looking it over. "Well, first it's the pineapple garden."

Mera gasped with an excited look. "Pineapple garden?"

"How are you that hungry while you're eating?" Teruhashi said

"Then after that, it's the famous aquarium," Chiyo said

"Fish! So tasty," Mera said

"Those fish aren't for eating."

"I can't believe the first day is almost done. It feels like the trip will be over before we know it," Teruhashi said

"What are you talking about its barely even begun," Chiyo said

"Yeah, I guess you're right. Should we go take a bath now?" Teruhashi said

"Yeah, sounds good?" Chiyo giggled

"They're acting weird, what are they up to," Kaidou said

"Something stupid."

When Teruhashi and Chiyo exited Lotus came in.

"Hey girl buddy where have you been?" Nendou asked

"Yeah, dinner is almost over," Kaidou said

"Oh I was just helping some people carry their luggage got a little sidetracked longer than I expected," Lotus said

"Warrior Queen Lotus is truly a Queen of her people, going as far as to do menial tasks to keep the peace," Kaidou said

"Suuure."

Lotus looked at the table seeing most of the food gone.

"I'm gonna go talk to Coach Matsuzaki maybe he'll let me stay a little longer and get some more food."

After explaining her situation to Coach Matsuzaki the man allowed her to stay behind, past the student's allotted dinner time, and lucky for her the dining staff still had some food in the back.

"That was good." Lotus thought as she made her way to the bathhouse.

She disrobed her clothes wrapping a towel around her body, before putting her hair up in a bun. Lotus entered the hot springs and smiled.

"Man it's been a while since I've been able to bathe in a place like this, and lucky me, all the other girls finished bathing, so I have the whole place to myself."

Lotus stuck her foot in the water testing it out before completely submerging herself.

"Ahh, this is nice…."

Lotus closed her eyes resting her head back relaxing. About 5 minutes passed when Lotus felt the water around her slosh a bit.

"Huh? Did someone come in and I didn't notice? I don't have my ring on so I would've heard their thoughts."

Lotus opened her eyes and saw no one. She sat with a perplexed look.

"That's odd, I could've sworn I felt the water mo-!"

Lotus froze as she saw something, or rather at what she didn't see.

"W-Where are the other buildings?"

Lotus got out of the water making her way to the tall fence. Using her powers she gave herself a boost and the moment she was able to see over the fence she gasped gaping. Lotus's eyes bulged and her jaw dropped as she saw nothing but ocean as far as the eye could see, no land in sight.

"W-W-W-WHHHAAAAAATTTTTT?!"