5659. Shoukaku, Haruna, until you two come up with some way to visibly tell your cars apart, please refrain from parking them next to each other. Or one of you re-key your car so that both keys don't work.

Yokosuka

"Haruna, repeat after me: "I will not go more than a hundred miles an hour on the way to the mall."

"Oh, Hiei, you're no fun." groaned Haruna.

"I'm serious. You know as well as I do that the only place you're allowed to drive like that is on Mount Haruna, not the middle of the city." Hiei admonished.

"Fine."

"Good." satisfied, Hiei hugged her little sister. 'Now, have fun."

"Don't worry, I will."

Haruna walked to the parking lot, and immediately was faced with a problem. Instead of the one silver Toyota AE86, there were two. In what had to be an outstanding coincidence, Haruna and Shoukaku had managed to buy the only two AE86's for sale in the entire city, meaning on many occasions someone mistook one for the other. Haruna grimaced as she remembered the one time Shoukaku's car had broken down, and the tow truck had taken hers instead.

Shaking away that memory, Haruna walked up to the first car, tried her key, smiled when she heard the familiar click, and hopped in. As she pulled away, she noticed something weird on the rear-view mirror, a set of tacky dice. Hiei must have had a decorating spell or something, she thought as she drove off.

Fifteen minutes later

"Ready, Imouto-chan?" asked Shoukaku as she and Taiho walked to her car.

"Yes. I have my permit, my logbook, the insurance information, and my written test results." beamed Taiho.

"And I got the car. Let's go." Shoukaku said as she started the car.

An hour or so later

Haruna was worried. She'd been driving for a while now, and she could tell that something was wrong with her car. There weren't any warning lights on, and the car sounded fine. In fact that was the problem. It sounded fine, yet it had taken an age to get up to fifty-five. Haruna concentrated on the road ahead. She could take a look at it when she got back.

Meanwhile

Shoukaku waved as Taiho left to go pick up her instructor, before reassuring herself that Taiho was ready. Calm down, she told herself. you managed to pass, and Taiho's a better driver than I am. The pep talk did wonders, though at the back to her mind, she felt a little bit on unease about her car. During the drive to the DMV, she had noticed it was accelerating faster than she'd ever noticed, but she chalked it up to having one of the motor-pool mechanics give it a tune-up before Taiho's test.

Taiho sighed in relief as she pulled out of the parking spot. The part of the test that worried her the most, parallel parking, was over. Now it was on to the road-test.

"Take a right here, and merge into the flow of traffic." her instructor said. "Than accelerate to the speed limit."

"Okay." Taiho said as she pulled up to the exit, and seeing she was clear, turned and tapped the accelerator. Instead of the light boost she expected, the car took off. Before she knew it, she was already passing sixty, and frantically, she put on the brakes, bringing the car to a screeching halt. Taiho looked across to her instructor. The man's glasses had fallen off when she braked, and his face was white with terror.

"Okay," he said, stuttering. "How about I drive us back to the office."

Later

Shoukaku and Taiho pulled into the base's parking lot, the young carrier's head low in defeat.

"Cheer up, Taiho. Quite a few don't make it on the first try." Shoukaku reassured her. "You'll pass next time."

"I just don't get it though, when I tapped the pedal, this thing just took off. It got to sixty in less than two seconds. I didn't even know this thing could do sixty!"

"I know, I'm gonna have the motor-pool look at it again. It's been acting weird all day."

They pulled back in to the parking spot they had started from in the morning, right next to Haruna and Hiei, who were standing in front of Haruna's car with the hood raised. Hiei was looking worried, while Haruna was looking livid.

"We got to call security, the police, somebody!" shouted Haruna.

"Again, why?" asked Hiei.

"My engine's been stolen!"

"It's right in front of you!"

"That's not my engine! My car has an engine that I custom-built. That thing in front of me is a lowly four-cylinder weed-wacker!"

"Um, hi Hiei, what's the problem?" asked Shoukaku.

"Oh, Haruna's upset that her car isn't going fast." groaned Hiei.

"That's funny, Nee-san's car's been going too fast today." said Taiho.

"Huh?"

"During my test, I tapped the gas pedal and the thing just took off. It actually made it to sixty without breaking down." replied Taiho.

The four were silent for a few minutes, taking those words into consideration while looking at the cars. If both had the hoods lowered, it'd be impossible to tell them apart.

"You don't think?" asked Haruna.

"But, that's impossible. My key worked!" said Shoukaku.

"Well, there's only one way to find out." Hiei took out her own set of keys and hit the panic button. Both car alarms immediately went off. Stunned, Haruna went up to Shoukaku's car, and tried her key. Everyone's jaw dropped when the door opened. She then got in the driver's seat, and turned it over. Instead of the normal stutter that Shoukaku had come to expect, the car roared to life , Haruna revving the engine as high as it would go.

"Nee-san, try your keys on Haruna's car." said Taiho.

Shoukaku complied, and with the same results.

"So, that means that I've been driving around in your car all day?" asked Haruna in wonder.

"And that Taiho took her test in yours." finished Shoukaku.

The first to break the silence was Hiei. "Well, I see a re-keying in one of these car's futures."