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Ouch. Wow my head hurts. And why is that? Oh right, because I’m an idiot and drank way too much last night. I shoved my face further into my pillow to block out the light coming in from the window. Something’s not quite right here and it took me a few seconds to figure it out. The light was coming from the wrong side of me and the bed seemed too spacious as well. That’s weird, am I still drunk? No… my head hurts way too much for me not to be sober. I took a deep breath to try and clear my head but then I froze. What is that smell? It smells…good, I mean, really good. It’s not exactly sweet but… I just can’t describe it. Ok so putting aside that smell, it’s time for me to be freaking out. I’m not in my room, so where am I?
I slid one eye open to see that the rest of the bed was empty, I raised my head a little and saw that the room I was in was empty as well. I rolled onto my back and the movement made me realize, to my utter relief, that I was still fully clothed. I took a deep breath in my relief and the scent washed over me again. God, I need to figure out whose bed this is and find out what kind of cologne they wear…or perfume. I sat up and examined the room to see if it would give me any clues. It was obvious that this person did alright for themselves but either they were extremely dull or they were never in here except to sleep. I slid out of the bed and stretched, already I wanted to be back in it, that was a seriously comfortable bed.
“Ok Inora,” I said out loud. “What happened last night?” I stood still for a moment concentrating hard. Then little by little bits and pieces came back to me. Within a few minutes I had remembered most of the night, just not the end. Ok Shigure said that we should leave and I said that we should go… Oh my God. It all came back to me. I’m at Hatori’s house and I just slept in Hatori’s room, in Hatori’s bed! Wow, that is…fucking amazing. Too bad he wasn’t in it with me…no I shouldn’t think like that about him. The last thing I really remember was Hatori wrapping up my hand, then I fell asleep against…his…chest. Wow, that’s even more amazing.
Wait there was something else though, Aya and ‘Gure’s voices kept waking me up. Then I was lifted up… there was that smell. Oh my God he carried me to his bed too! I couldn’t help but jump around for a second like a school girl. As I jumped around I noticed that someone had taken off my shoes, and as I looked down I saw that they also took off the corset thing. Hatori must have done that as well, I could feel the blush on my cheeks. Now that I was paying attention I could hear voices in the house, I opened the door to find myself at the end of a hall. The voices were coming out of what appeared to be the living room at the far end of the hall, right next to the front door. As I walked down the hallway and saw some of the other rooms I noticed that everything was very neat but dull. He needs more color in here. I poked my head around the doorway to the living room.
“Ah Inora, nice of you to finally join us,” ‘Gure said with a huge grin. I stuck my tongue out at him and plopped down on the couch next to Aya.
“Whatever,” I said shrugging. “Hatori… thank you so much for your help last night.”
“Oh so you remember?” he asked with a slight blush. I don’t know why but it seemed to be a good idea to lie.
“Not really,” I said with a sheepish smile. “But I assume you’re the one that wrapped my hand?”
“Oh,” he looked a little relieved. “Yes I did, it’s just sprained so-” he cut off when the phone rang. “Excuse me.” he got up and answered the phone in another room.
“You really don’t remember?” Aya asked me.
“Well… actually I do remember most of it,” I admitted. “It just seems like it would make him feel better if I didn’t.”
“I think your right, for the most part,” ‘Gure said quietly. But he didn’t have a chance to explain what he meant because Hatori dashed into the room.
“You need to get her out of here,” he said urgently. “Akito’s coming.”
“Why on earth would he come here? I thought you always went to him,” Aya asked, but even with his questions he was still getting ready to leave.
“I tried to say I would go there but he insisted, I think he was tipped off,” Hatori said quickly.
“Wait,” Shigure said in a voice that made everyone freeze. “If Akito was told that someone was here we’ll just sneak Inora out and Aya and I will stay.”
“Your right,” Hatori said simply and ran into the kitchen. He came back a minute later with a piece of paper that he shoved at me. I looked over it for a second and saw that it was a map.
“Right,” I said and dashed back to his room and slipped my boots on along with the corset. I knew from the map that I was going to have to crawl through some plant life so I didn’t want to have to carry anything. I ran back down the hall and stopped by the front door for a second, I gave the three of them a small wave before opening the door.
“Be careful, try not to be seen,” Hatori said quietly.
“I think I figured that much out on my own,” I said with a grin. “You will have to explain to me later why this is such a big deal.” And with that I darted out the door.
As soon as I was outside I heard voices coming down the path, I jumped behind a bush that was by his front door. I held my breath as Akito and some woman stood a foot away from me and knocked on the door.
“Akito-” Hatori started but was cut off as Akito simply walked by him into the house. I saw Hatori poke his head out of the door for a second, probably to see where I had gone to. I finally let myself breath again as the door closed with a thud. Careful not to make too much noise I got up and ran down his path, as soon as I was out of sight of that house I crouched down behind another bush by a fence to study the map. I saw that I just had to get to the other side of this fence and go across what looked like a garden to reach the exit. It also had some writing on it, but I can just speak the language, not read it. I just shrugged and hoped that it wasn’t too important.
The fence was a problem, it was taller then my head, I can’t jump or pull myself up that far. This bush was pretty big and the fence was the kind that had boards running vertical to make a flat surface. I grabbed one of the boards at the bottom and pulled out; it pulled out easily and swung just from the nail on the top. I did the same to the boards on either side of it until there was a gap just big enough for me to fit through. As I stepped on the other side I let the boards swing back into place, they looked perfect. On the other side was a garden, but there was a house with a lot of windows facing it. It looked to me like someone important lived there.
The garden, thankfully, seemed to be made up of bushes so I was able to crawl under them without a chance of being seen. Unless of course someone was walking through the garden, which they weren’t because it had stared to rain. Of course it would rain right now, why should the weather like me? I sighed but then I saw the tree that I was supposed to be heading for, it was right against the outer wall. The tree had been drawn on the map but not the exit. All of the arrows pointed to it, however, so there had to be some way out over there. Ah, that’s what all this writing is for, awesome. There was some open space between the bush I was in and the tree, I popped my head over the bush to glance around quickly. There wasn’t a soul anywhere so I dashed over and practically dove behind the tree.
“Ah here we go,” I said out loud. There was a hole in the wall that was blocked on the other side by a tree as well. I slipped out of the hole and took a peek around on the other side to make sure no one would see me come out of a tree. It was starting to rain harder so everybody had deserted the street. Why does it always rain on my way home? I laughed at the thought as I walked quickly back home. Then another thought occurred to me, I was calling it ‘home’. I didn’t want to originally but now the thought of it made me smile. The walk back seemed to take no time at all.
“Hey,” I called into the house, a huge grin spread across my face as I said my next sentence. “I’m home!”
Nothing. Well that’s disappointing; I had been expecting a ‘welcome home’ for my first time saying that. Then I laughed at myself when I realized that they were all at school. Wait what about Dan, where is he? I went into the living room to see if he was still asleep when I found a piece of paper on the couch.

Inora,
I guess you’re still asleep, I went for a walk in the woods I’ll be back in a while.
-Dan

I sighed in relief, he didn’t suspect a thing. Man I seem to be having a bit of a lucky streak lately. I went up stares to shower and change my clothes. After I warmed up I got something to eat from the kitchen and sat down on the couch. I heard the door open and close and Shigure wandered in.
“So? How did it go?” I asked.
“Fine Akito was a little suspicious at first but I think we won him over,” he said with a tired smile. “By the way Aya says he hopes to see you soon. I think he likes you a lot.”
“Oh well that’s great, he is a really fun guy,” I said with a grin. “So… would you mind explaining what happened?”
“Right, I keep forgetting that you don’t know,” he said, moving to sit next to her on the couch. “Ok so you know that Hatori injured his eye, what you don’t know is that he is almost blind in that eye. You see Hatori was in love once, her name was Kana. She came to be his assistant and they hit it off right away, eventually they fell in love. At one point in time she transformed him, but she just laughed and said that she loved him more then ever. You can imagine how odd it would be if your boyfriend wouldn’t hug you and you didn’t know why. They became engaged a while after that and Ha’ri went to Akito to ask for permission, well you know how Akito is. He got extremely angry and threw a vase into Hatori’s face; it broke and dug into his eye. Akito began to scream that it was all Kana’s fault, and she took it to heart.
“Her grief consumed her and anytime Ha’ri would try to comfort her… she would just get worse. Collapsing on the floor, sobbing. Akito kept whispering in his ear that she would really rather just forget. He tried to not believe him until Kana said the same thing in one of her worse moments. So Hatori erased him from her mind, the memories that they shared together. She left with no worries and Ha’ri… was left alone to suffer.”
“I…” I tried to say something, anything, but my voice wouldn’t work. Shigure seemed to understand.
“He just doesn’t want you to go through anything like that,” he said quietly. He got up and wandered to his study. With him gone I let myself go, tears spilling down my face. I brought my knees up to my chest and buried my face in them to muffle my sobs. How could anyone do that to Hatori? What was odd was that I wasn’t all that angry at Akito, but I was livid at this Kana bitch. It took me about five minutes to finally calm down; once I had I hastily wiped away the last of my tears.
I heard the door slam shut and the sounds of someone roughly taking off their shoes. Yuki walked into the living room looking seriously pissed off. I didn’t really know what to do, Yuki was the only person I couldn’t get to open up to me, and I had gotten kind of tired of trying. So I just looked at him and gave a rather lame “welcome home.” He just stared at me, eyes wide, like he was looking for something. I stared back for about three seconds before I realized what it was. He finally wanted to really talk to me, well that’s good news.
“Come here,” I said patting the seat next to me. “You wanna tell me what happened today?” he needed no more encouragement. He practically ran over to my side and was in a rant before he had completely sat down.
“It’s those damn fan club girls! I used to be able to ignore them unless they were trying to ask me out. But then again not really because they were always giggling in doorways of the room I was in, or hiding around a corner to take my picture! But they were always focused on me and it didn’t annoy anyone else so I could deal with it. But now? No. Now they’re trying to go after Miss Honda because she hangs around me so much. They even go after her friends! They try to come up with these weird plans to get rid of them. These girls are crazy I swear, there’s no stopping them!”
He fell into silence. My mouth fell open; I had never heard him talk so much. I mentally shook myself and immediately started thinking of what I could do for him. “How often do they ask you out?”
He seemed surprised at my question but answered, “Usually about two times a week.”
“Hmmm. Well… you could start telling people you have a girlfriend. No… no, that wouldn’t work. They sound too fanatical, like they would need more proof.” I continued to think in silence. Suddenly it came to me and I gave him a wicked grin. “So they always follow you around right? Let’s say, especially right after school?”
He nodded looking confused. “That’s actually exactly when they’re the worst.” I smiled at him again then stood up.
“Well let me sleep on it. I’m positive I can come up with something.” I left him there still seriously confused and walked down the hall to Shigure’s study. I couldn’t help but giggle at my plan when I walked in. Shigure sat up and looked at me curiously.
“’Gure!” I drew out his name so it was clear that I wanted something from him. “I need your help with something tomorrow. Do you mind?”
“Depends on what it is.” He sounded suspicious.
“I’m gonna help Yuki with some girl problems. I just need you to walk me to their school; I have no clue where it is.”
He was very interested now. “Girl problems?”
“His fan club is starting to piss him off,” I said simply.
“Ahh yes, the fan club. Ha’ri, Aya and I had one in school as well, which is really saying something because we went to an all male school.” He looked off into the distance thinking about the old days. “Sure I’ll take you there. Are you going tell me what your plan is?”
“Nope!” I said with an evil grin, then turned and walked up to my room.
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The next day at school Yuki had forgotten all about the conversation he had had with Inora. School was just letting out and for once he got to go straight home. He walked out of the front of the school and, like usual, there were girls everywhere. If it didn’t annoy him so much he probably would have laughed. They were seriously hiding behind corners, trees, garbage cans, bushes and just other groups of people. He sighed but other then that showed no signs of having seen them.
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Over by the gates I stood with Shigure. “Wow,” I said. “This is worse then I thought.”
“Poor boy, he’s never been one to crave attention, especially not on this level. I on the other hand…well.” He chuckled to himself.
“Yeah, yeah. I know you’re an attention whore.” I winked at him then walked forward. I felt slightly nervous, I wasn’t expecting there to be so many people. But I guess this is what we want if we’re gonna to make the huge impact we need. Or so I had to keep reminding myself as I continued to walk towards him. As soon as I knew he was within ear shot I stopped and but on a big show. I was already getting a lot of looks, if my blond hair and blue eyes didn’t draw enough attention, what I was wearing defiantly would. I had on very low riding jeans and a very short red tank top that gripped my body tightly resulting in about three inches of midsection showing. I completed the ‘hot bad-girl’ look with black high-heeled boots. I stood on my tip toes and waved my hand enthusiastically above my head.
“Hey Yuki!” I shouted in my most girlish voice possible. He looked up and I watched his face turn from confusion to realization then finally settle on vague suspicion. He gave me a tentative wave back. Well that was no good, if this is going to have the desired effect he is going to have to do some better acting. I walked towards him again, resisting the urge to roll my eyes.
“I couldn’t wait for you to come home, so I came to get you sweetie!” I had everyone’s complete attention now. I could hear the whispers run through the crowd when I said ‘home’. I heard things like “They live together?” “Wow way to go prince!” and “She did not just say that!” finally when I was a foot away I grabbed his hand. I took another half step and began to lean forward, the muttering stopped instantly. I barely kept from laughing when I saw that he looked kind of afraid. I slid my eyes closed when our lips meet. I moved mine warmly against his but he seemed to be frozen.
“Come on. Work with me Yuki,” I whispered desperately. Finally he kissed me back very hesitantly; I immediately adjusted the speed of my lips to match his.
He seemed to loose himself. He brought his hand up and wove it into my hair; then grabbed at the back of my neck to pull me closer. That caught me off guard. Mutterings started up again though now louder. “Whoa! Go Prince!” “The witch obviously cast some sort of spell on him!” “That bitch thinks she cam have him? She’s dead wrong.” Yuki showed no signs of stopping, so I had to. But I had to collect all of my thoughts first so I wouldn’t blow the whole operation. I tugged my head back ever so slightly. He got the message loud and clear; he dropped his hand and immediately froze up again. This time I did roll my eyes but our lips were still connected so no one would notice. I guess freezing is better then running away with his hands over his head.
“Just act as normal as possible,” I whispered into his lips. I pulled away from his face and cast a judging eye at all of the people standing around shamelessly staring at the two of us. “Don’t you people have something better to do with your lives?” I kept Yuki’s hand in mine and led him to the gates.
Shigure was still waiting there; as we walked up he gave us a round of applause. “Well done! I couldn’t have done it better myself!”
“I think it would have caused a whole new batch of problems for Yuki if you had done that,” I said rolling my eyes at him.
“Well yes, but it would have been interesting. However, I meant I couldn’t have come up with a better plan.”
“Uh huh. Yuki are you ok?” I asked giving his hand a little squeeze.
“Huh? Oh yes, I’m fine.” He was staring at his feet.
“Right,” I said unconvinced. “Well let’s go home.” I dropped his hand once we were out of view of most of the people.
“Yes, I have some phone calls to make!” Shigure said in a sing song voice. Yuki didn’t notice, so I decided to stand up for him.
“’Gure don’t do that to the poor guy. You know Aya will freak out.”
“Sorry! It has to be done!” he said. I rolled my eyes at him but left it because Yuki was still acting weird. I became more concerned as time went on, he was silent the entire walk home and then through dinner. What really worried me was when he didn’t utter a word as Shigure told Aya and Hatori what happened over a three way phone call.
“Oh Aya I don’t think there’s any need for tha—uh… Hello?” Shigure turned to give me and Yuki a look. I knew what that meant, but Yuki was still in his own world, Ayame was coming. “Ha’ri? Are you still here?” pause “I’m sure Yuki would appreciate it. Thank you.” He hung up and looked at us again, or more at me because Yuki was just gone.
“Aya’s coming.” I said it as a statement more then a question.
“WHAT?” Kyo screamed running, I assumed, to the roof.
“Yes… but Ha’ri should be not far behind,” he said ignoring Kyo, he was happy. I knew he didn’t get to see both of his friends together very often, and I don’t think that the last time counted. But now it was my turn to be distracted, Hatori was coming as well. I tried to stop the smile from creeping up on me face but I failed epically. Instead I just turned my face away from Shigure’s piercing stare to try to hide my grin.