People were already there watching TV when I arrived and stopped at the door to watch it with my eyes opened in shock as I saw the photos taken of me when I was with some of my �boyfriends� and friends.

Henry, James, Kuno, Ayato, Pierre, Marcos, Kevin, Viktor, Nicolai� the list was long. And among all those photos, there was some of Shin and me too. None of them showing a concrete prove of us being going out or dating. But they could obviously being mistaken by love photos too. I must agree it.

I looked at them astonished as the news presenters said a lot of lies about me. I wanted to get there and kill them for spreading such a big amount of lies. I was beginning to see all in red.

Then I concentrated on breathing deep as my breath was beginning to miss me. Then I felt a hand over my shoulder. I turned my face to see the old man that was the manager from our band over my shoulder, his face also showed worry.

�I swear that�s a big amount of lies.� Is what I said then.

�C�mon, don�t listen to this.� He said pulling from my arm softly.

I shook my head and got free. I wanted to see it, I needed to know what was being said about me.

Then my mobile phone began ringing mad on my pocket. I took it: Nobu.

I wanted to pick it up but I hung it down. It was matter of seconds that I got a mail at it I decided to open.

�R U ok? Where R U?� Nobu had sent me a message before calling Mishato as I found out later. �We have 2 speak. Where can we meet?�

I didn�t answer as Mishato was speaking with him. I then checked the message was not just Nobu�s but also Shin�s.

Five seconds later I found Yasu there, his shirt a bit wrinkled at the chest and his tie a bit loosened.

�Are you ok?� Was what he just asked me.

�No, I�m mad at it all.� I said with a serious face and correct voice tone. �How do they dare to spread such an amount of lies?�

Perhaps my lady training on forms and manners was useful on those situations after all.

�OK, ok.� He said passing his arm behind my back and making me lay my face against his chest. �Don�t worry, if you swear it�s all a lie then it can be solved.�

�Nobu and Shin are on their way here.� Mishato said coming out of the staff room and seeing us there. She didn�t expected Yasu to be there, but he was.

I wanted to shout, to hit and yell in fury, but my education didn�t let me do such thing.

I also wanted to cry, but I couldn�t either.

Anyway, the worse didn�t came there, the worse was when, four days later, press found their news on my relationship with Renato and an English actor that was the one before him. Nobu went jealous and after having been so for all that time, with great sadness, we broke up. In fact, he was the one doing it. It was on our home. He just caught his things and left for his old flat.

Then I ran out of the flat and through the streets with no idea of where I was going. I wanted to get lost of there. I wanted everyone in press leaving me alone for once and forever, but I knew it was not possible. I was now a famous singer, a tycoon daughter and they had turned that good things I got with hard work look silly comparing to the fact that I had lot of friends.

I don�t know where I was running towards, I don�t know why I ran or for how long. All I know is suddenly I fell down at the grass and I began punching the grass.

I was beginning to cry of fury when I found my fist being held to prevent me hitting the ground again and me being lifted up with no effort.

Who lifted me up was a guy who came looking for fight. He had it.

I ended up spitting some blood and bleeding from my knuckles and from some cuts I got from the guy.

Then I ran away again, and again I fell down after some minutes. This time I was near the river, next to a modern building full of flats. I began hitting the ground once and again leaving blood drops all over the grass and getting my knuckles dirty on earth from the place I was hitting.

I was beginning to form a pool with the blood coming out of my knuckles when I was held by my wrist to prevent me hitting the ground again. I wanted to hit the one holding me but I was stopped again as being held the other wrist too.

Then I looked at the face of the one holding me. I saw nothing cause of the tears filling my eyes.

�Hey, c�mon. Come my home.� A soft voice I knew said. �You will be safer there. Oh, my� your knuckles are bleeding!�

Then I buried my face at his chest robes. I didn�t knew why I did it, but I just did it without even thinking. I buried my face at Ren�s shirtless chest.

He then released my wrists and held my softly by the back as hugging me.

Ren�s Part.

I had seen a red glittering coming down my home when I was looking to the river sadly. We had nothing to do then cause the record agency was closed due to personal matters so Takumi was at his house and Naoki was somewhere near Sibuya.

It was now raining outside so that made me even more sad and bored.

As soon as I saw the red glittering was coming from a red haired girl who was running I nearly flight down the stairs when I saw her fall down.

When I reached her I checked it was certainly my friend Isabelle Okanzaki. Yes, her red hair was unmistakable for any of us.

She was punching the ground and her hands were beginning to be dirty with mud from the ground she was hitting.

I then held her wrists, one and then the other when she tried to hit me.

She was crying her eyes out. They were filled with tears and so red I was afraid she had been crying for a long while. She was also soaked till bones and showed a sad appearance.

�Hey, c�mon. Come my home.� I then said. �You will be safer there. Oh, my� your knuckles are bleeding!�

I hoped her to kick my balls as I held her arms; but instead she buried her face at my chest. Then I wished to have put on a shirt before going down, not just my leather jacket.

Suddenly I felt how she fainted. I wanted to shout on worry, but I held it. If I shouted no doubt we would call for attention and that would be even worse. No, instead of that I held her better and carried her up to my flat.

There I laid her over the bed. She then curled up at it.

She seemed to have gone through lot of pain and I was a bit worried. I mean� I had never seen her cry.

I left her there as I took my mobile phone to phone Shin, but I just had Yasu�s number. I phoned him. I was talking with him about what happened when I heard some steps and I saw her at the door.

�Hello.� I told her then. �I�m speaking to Yasu, do you feel better?�

She then nodded and I told Yasu what happened. He then asked me to ask her something.

�Yasu asks me where were Shin and Nobu.� I asked her.

Suddenly she began breathing fast and crying again and she fell on her knees. I then shouted and nearly left the phone fall to the ground.

�What�s going on?� Yasu shouted at my ear through the phone.

�Don�t know!� I said. �She is breathing fast and crying!� I told him.

There was a second of silence and he told me to make her breath on a bag and to make her lay down. He will come and we will take her to hospital. He also asked me to try and make her relax, to comfort her a bit.

I then took her and I made her lay at the sofa looking to the ceiling but she curled back at herself while I looked for a bag to make her breath in. I found a sandwich paper bag from the times Nana lived there with me.

�Yasu told me you have to breathe inside the bag.� I said kneeling down at her side.

I then held the bag at her face covering her nose and mouth and forcing her to breathe there. She then fainted again just a minute before Yasu arrived.

Isabelle B. Part.

When Ren mentioned Nobu I couldn�t help going over-nervous and I felt as if suddenly I forgot something, as if air was beginning to miss and I began breathing fast as I cried cause of Nobu and I broke up just some hours before.

Ren then ran to pick a paper bag and forced me to breath in it.

I then began to feel dizzy and I ended up by falling unconscious.

When I woke up I was at a taxi lying with my head over Yasu�s lap. I felt better now; at least I could breathe back normal.

�Don�t panic.� Yasu told me. �We are taking you to see a doctor we know. He will see what has gone on.�

�Do you think she got Hyperpnoea?� Ren asked then.

I then noticed he was sitting on the other end of the taxi, my legs over him.

�I should sit properly.� I said moving to sit down between both.

I tried to look proper, but the truth was that I had my clothes dirty and my hands also dirty and blood stained. I thought it was the guy I had beaten up because I couldn�t remember of anything else.

When I sat down Ren put his hand over my forehead and I went pink on my cheeks.

�She has a normal temperature�� He said.

�It seems it was a hyperpnoea attack.� Yasu said. �That doesn�t make her temperature rise too much.�

I was now ashamed of myself causing them so much trouble. Anyway, when we reached the doctor�s place and I saw Shin, Nobu and Mr. Gimpei there I went even more ashamed.

They seemed really worried about me, but I knew they had nothing to be frightened at. I mean� I didn�t knew, it was more like� feeling they had nothing to be frightened at.

Nobu�s Part.

�I can�t believe you spit up with her cause of that amount of rubbish.� Shin told me when I told him at the doctor friend of Gimpei�s house.

�Shin, she has done up half of the male population in the whole world.� I told him. �And she has kissed someone while she was with me�� I added softly as it was what hurt me the most.

�And what if she has done lot of men before you?� He asked me. �She was with none of them while she was going out with you!�

�There are photos of her kissing other guy while he was going out with me!� I said furious.

Then he fell silent and surprised. I thought he had seen the photos� I didn�t want to keep on with that chat. I just looked down furious clenching my fists. I was furious for what I found out by news at Channel Nana (7); but I was even more worried about her being ok now.

Yasu phoned me when I was settling my things back at my old flat. I had to lay on the bed because everything there remembered me on her.

Anyway, when Yasu called me telling me what has gone on and where will he take her when he picked her up I ran out of my flat to ask for a taxi to take me to the doctor�s house.

There was where I met Shin. He also was worried when I saw him.

�I can�t understand it�� He then whispered taking me out of my thoughts. �I wonder if you don�t have a real problem with women� She was perfect for you and you have left her gone��

He was really sad now; he had sat down on the ground and hugged his legs against his chest.

Shin�s Part.

I couldn�t believe what Nobu had just told me. I thought he loved my cousin as much as she loved him. I couldn�t believe it was just a silly rumour needed for them to break up. I was now depressed for so many bad news on the same time.

And I was really worried about Isa�s health. Yasu said that according to Ren�s description of facts she had gone through two hyperpnoea attacks on little time. That was really bad news.

�I can understand you want to hate me for breaking up with your cousin.� Nobu told me then with a soft voice as if he had to take it from the very deeps in him.

�Of course it�s not that!� I told him shocked. �I�m also your friend! I�m not going to be on a side or the other! And you should not stop being her friend despite of this!�

It was true; he thought that when that happened friends went to a side or the other. But I will not take that position. No, I will live with Isa because she was my cousin, but I will also meet Nobu, and I expected he didn�t stop being my cousin�s friend. That would only hurt everyone.

�At least give me some days to get over it all.� He said. �Just because I don�t want to be angry with the singer of our band.�

When did Isa past from his girlfriend to just the singer of our band? I couldn�t believe how he had gone so cold. No, I could believe it. He was just doing the same that my cousin when she was hurt so much. And the worse was that I couldn�t hug him as I would do with her as soon as I would meet her alone.

Then she arrived. She walked still in the waiting room where we were waiting for them to arrive. Behind her came Yasu and Ren. It was true; Yasu said Ren found her next to his house by hazard.

�Is the doctor in?� Yasu asked.

�Yep.� We said.

Then I jumped over Isa�s neck asking her if she was ok.

�I�m ok.� She told me. �It was just a bad minute. I still don�t know what happened. Sorry to have made you worried.�

I could hear how her heart beat faster when she noticed Nobu. She stayed silent while he spoke.

�I�m happy you feel better now.� Nobu told her still a bit worried.

�Thanks.� She whispered.

Then the doctor called her.

Isabelle B. Part.

�Hey, I swear it was not such a thing.� I told them when we were out of the doctor�s house. �Don�t you think that if it had been such thing I would have had it before?�

�Perhaps you got it now.� Ren told me. �Did you use condom each single time you two did it?�

I then coughed as Nobu shouted at him something about respect and love.

�Listen, now you are ok, I think I�m leaving for home.� Nobu then said when we reached the entrance and went into the streets. �I still have to settle my things back there.�

�You don�t have to leave home.� Shin said as Yasu surrounded my arms with his arm.

�I think it�s better like that.� Nobu just said then. �Anyway, if you organise a Mah-Jongg party again give me a call and I�ll be there.�

�Then come tonight for a game.� Shin said.

�Sorry, tonight I have things to do�� He said while I looked at him by the corner of my eye. �Maybe next time. See you. And Isa, take care, right? You need some rest��

I nodded as I felt as if tears were beginning to flow again from my eyes. I was now sad, terribly sad. I knew I would feel fury for some time, after all, that was my first state after a break up: Fury, later came the second state: Sadness. The last but one was self-pity and then, the last state: forget and half-recovering. It had always been like that, so not it was weird for me to feel sadness so early; normally the first state lasted for at least for a week or two. Why was I now past from the first to the second state so easily?

I went silent all the way back home. I then was nearly taken up by Yasu and Ren�s arms. I didn�t say a word; I just sat down at the sofa while the rest went from here to there doing things.

�Isa, c�mon, get to the bathroom and have a long bath.� Yasu told me. �It will help you.�

I didn�t said a word, I just shook my head looking down.

�Hey, wake up.� Shin said. �You have to recover. It�s not the end of the world. It has happened to you before and you survived.�

He kept on trying for a while till Yasu made him a sign for stopping. I knew they all wanted to help, but they couldn�t.

�Isa, please.� Yasu then said. �Have a hot shower and get in bed. That will help you.�

I didn�t move at first, but then I stood up and walked straight to my bedroom. There I lay in the bed and got in it.

I didn�t want to have meal, I didn�t want to have a bath� all I wanted was to wake up from that awful nightmare and check Nobu was still there, by my side.

I close my eyes and tried to sleep while I cried. I suppose I got slept while I was crying cause then I can�t remember anything else.

Ren�s Part.

�Are you sure you can stay here?� Yasu told me at the door.

Shin had gone into his cousin bedroom in order to be with her. He said something about giving back her favours and making her feel beloved. It sounded weird from my point of view.

�Yes, don�t worry.� I told him. �I can stay here tonight� Tomorrow I had to get to Cookie�s to keep on helping with something Takumi�s dealing with. But I can come here after that.�

�If she goes wrong again call me immediately, right?� He kept on saying.

�Yes, yes.� I said. �If you don�t trust me then stay here too.�

He then looked at me and took his things.

�Ok, good bye.� He said. �I�ll come back tomorrow to see how she is.�

�Ok, ok.� I said. �Bye.�

Then I close the door and walked to the living-room. Everything was silent now. I picked up the ashtray and emptied it on the litterbin. I then lighted a cig.

Things were worse than ever for me. Nana didn�t speak to me, I was about collapsing due to Takumi and the overload of work we had thanks to him� And now a good friend had gone through a hyperpnoea state due to that silly of Nobu breaking up with her. I didn�t mean to blame Nobu of that attack, in fact I didn�t know why that lovely couple broke up. And who was the one breaking up? It must have been Nobu; otherwise she would not have gone like that.

I wondered how was she had run for so long since her house to next to mine, and of course how did she got those knuckles wounds.

I was smoking my second cig when I decided to go and check how those two were. I then put off the cig and left the ashtray at the coffee table. I then stood up and went to have a look at the girl�s bedroom.

Perhaps I should have knocked first, but I just opened the door slowly trying it not to creep and I put my head in.

Shin was hugging her as if she was a little girl, he was still awakened but with his lips at her hair as if he kissed her head from time to time.

�Hey, how is she?� I asked Shin whispering.

�She has fallen asleep.� He answered me back on the same tone. �But she has been crying, her eyes are swollen and she had her face soaked on tears��

I then nodded.

�I�ll be on your bedroom if you don�t mind.� I said then.

He nodded and I left. I just removed my shirt and I lay over the bed. While I was looking at the ceiling I thought about it all.

I then thought Nobu was silly for leaving her gone away so easily; even when I didn�t knew why did they break up I thought it.

Suddenly an idea came to my mind. Perhaps it had something to do with the photos that TV has put up on their gossiping news showing her dating a lot of different guys.

Those photos were so awful that they probed nothing else than the fact that she had lot of guys around her. But perhaps Nobu mistook them and thought something else.

And then there were the photos showing her kissing with an English actor and then with the model guy that came to the recording of their video clip. Ren I think was called, no, Rena� Renato, Renato, that�s it.

Maybe he was her boyfriend once, but� I didn�t thought she would cheat Nobu. Anyway, there was no use on thinking on that now. I turned around to face the wall and try to sleep.

Isabelle L. Part

I think I have been sleeping for ages, but it�s just a full night. I have wake up a bit late today, Shin was by my side. He was hugging me while he sleeps and now I�m the one curling up against him.

The house is silent. Too silent, in fact.

I wonder where Nobu is because he is not there with me.

True, he has left. We have break up. I can�t believe it, I don�t want to. Anyway, I have to put myself up. Shin and Yasu still need me on one piece, singing as always.

I stand up and I get out of the bedroom. A hot shower will help me seeing things other way. Yes. I turn on the hot water and I take my shampoo. Nobu�s things still are there, I have come across his toothbrush and his hair grease when I took my shampoo from the self. I decide to force myself in the shower area delimited by semitransparent glass panes.

As I feel water caressing my skin I can�t help crying. Nobu has gone. I can�t help crying. It�s always like that. My heart has just got another wound, I hope this time I can get over it when in public.

After having the shower I get out the shower area and wrap myself with a big towel while I wrap my hair with another one smaller till I make a bit bun-like-thing.

Then I end up drying myself and I put on a bathrobe to get in the kitchen and begin trying to cook something.

As I did it, I didn�t even think or anything like that. I did it mechanically, trying to do it well and nothing else.

I just cook some meat stew and some boiled potatoes for the main dish.

Ren�s Part

I can�t believe anything of what happened. I think it is still a bit unbelievable for me. Why should she have acted it like that? Why should she have hugged me when I got in the kitchen and pick a piece of the fruits she was about making juice for putting on the roast meat?

I woke up cause some light was hitting my face, then I looked at my hand. It was still dirty with dry blood. No, it was not mine. I then remembered what went on the previous day and why I was on an unknown room.

Isa, Blast new singer, had a hyperpnoea attack when I mentioned Nobu after finding her at the ground next to my home and hitting the ground where she had left a little pool of blood mixed with mug. She was there under rain and I then remembered to have gone out in the rain wearing just my trousers and a jacket with no shirt under it.

Then I heard noises outside. Perhaps Shin had got up and was doing something around.

I stood up and walked out of the room.

�Hey, Shin.� I said. �Can you tell me where can I have a shower, please? I�m afraid your room was too hot for me� Oh, good morning.� I said noticing it was not Shin but Isa who was cooking at the kitchen.

�The bathroom is just over there.� She told me. �Just next to the toilet.�

�Ok, I didn�t mind to�� I began.

�The green towel is mine; you can take one from the wardrobe next to the sink.� She told me then while she began putting some peeled potatoes at the oven tray.

I thought she was still a bit sad so I said nothing and went to have the shower. While I felt water running down my body I thought about all. I didn�t knew how to take care of a girl feeling as she was feeling. In fact I didn�t know what was making her so depressed.

How was I supposed to act?

When I end having showered I took a bathrobe from a self next to the door and wore it. There were two bigger than another who was also a bit big, I took one of the bigger ones and wore it. Then I walked to the kitchen.

She was now cutting some fruits she was putting in a machine that would make them liquid so before she did it I picked a piece of wild apple and then some berries.

�Mmm, I think it will be a crime to make this liquid.� I said as I tasted the wild apple. �Those are just as heaven.�

�Did you manage to find everything?� She asked me.

�Yes, you guys have the best ordered private bathroom I have ever seen.� I confessed her trying her to laugh or at least smile.

She did none of them, she seemed to realise on what I was wearing and stared at me.

�Isa, are you� ok?� I asked stopping when she ran and hug me again burying her face at my robes.

Then I was really shocked. She was crying again, so all I did was surround her back with one arm while I rubbed her hair softly looking also sad.

I was told Nobu and her broke up yesterday so I supposed she was like that because the break up.

I could understand her a bit. I was also dropped by Nana�s pride. Now it was Nobu who had dropped her. And as I saw her crying so bitterly� I thought he made a great mistake. It was obvious she loved him more than anything.

Anyway, she would learn to forget. And so showed me when suddenly she stopped crying little by little and separated from me. She stood still and dried her eyes.

�Sorry, I remembered something and� Sorry, excuse me.� She said bowing, then she stood up and she was smiling. �Lunch will be ready on a while. Why don�t you go and wake Shin up? He will like to have a shower before meal. Ah, Yasu said he will also come here for meal. So that means four people for meal and dinner.�

�Oh, ok.� I said. �I have to leave for my record agency. It�s still a bit work to do��

She seemed to go a bit sad but she said nothing.

�Ok, then I suppose I will have to keep some meal at the freezer.� She said smiling as if all was ok.

�No, it�s ok.� I said. �I�ll come for dinner, if you don�t mind. I suppose that Naoki will also want to say hello so��

�It�s ok.� She said. �He is welcome here too. And you can also tell Reira.�

�You should try to get a bit further from us.� I said pocking her forehead softly. �After all, we are all two enemy bands.�

�Ah, music understands of enemies?� She told me. �I thought music just understood of Love, Friendship and Peace.�

That made me smile as I waved bye from the door.

She was still a bit tender and conscious of reality and hard at the same time; that was why she was perfect for that silly of Nobu. And he had left her run away�

�If I had a girl like her I would never let her go.� I said as I was sitting next to Takumi while he did more change to the last work he was working at.

�What are you speaking about?� Takumi asked at me angry.

�Hey!� Reira said. �Don�t let out your self-rage against Ren! He has done nothing on you!�

�Takumi, you are so evil some times�.!� Naoki added.

�Why have you come here if you are not doing anything!� He asked at them even angrier.

�To support you while you work.� Reira told him hitting his head softly with a paper.

�Stop it!� Takumi said.

�Takumi, I think I will have dinner out again tonight.� I told him.

�Stop flirting around and centre yourself on not giving another scandal!� Takumi told me.

�I�m not doing anything wrong.� I told him. �Geez� I suppose the best thing to do now is to leave you alone for you ending with that.�

�I�m going too!� Reira said catching me up at the door.

�Hey! Don�t leave me alone with him!� Naoki said nearly crying.

So, the three of us left the place. Those days, Takumi was a bit angry with everyone due to over-load of work and his perfectionist way of acting. Then it was better for all of us to leave him alone before he did something we all would regret.

When Naoki left on a taxi to get to somewhere he wanted to go, Reira and me used my car to take her back her home.

�Do you have any news from Blast singer?� She asked me.

�No, Nana keeps avoiding me.� I said sighing.

I didn�t knew why she always asked me about it when she knew nothing new had happened.

�I was not referring to her.� She then said looking ahead but to me by the corner of her eye. �Has she recovered from all the dung press are throwing at her?�

�She is somehow dealing well with it.� I said softly. �Anyway, she is a bit bad and not cause that. Her boyfriend and her broke up yesterday due to press.�

�Ah, yes.� She then said. �Shin has told me something about Nobu and her having problems and tension lately since the first appearance of certain photos��

�You knew it was Nobu?� I asked her a bit surprised on her knowing it.

�Yep, Shin told me.� She said smiling. �I really envied them, they made a great couple. And again I was mistaken� it seems red threads doesn�t really exist��

�No, they don�t exist.� I said. �They are more fragile things than threads that people do themselves. Sometimes they are so weak that a simple dust dot can break them��

I was now remembering not just Hachi-Nobu or Isa-Nobu, but also Nana-me history. All seemed to end up like that, sad endings.

�Ah, I have to stop at Channel to get something back, do you mind taking me to the big TV corner, please?� Reira then said.

�Oh, sure.� I said turning to take her there.

While we reached there I told her my little worries about the foe band�s singer health. She then seemed to also worried, but suddenly she smiled.

�She is strong both outside and inside. You have always said so.� She said smiling softly. �She will get over that.�

�I want to hope so.� I said as we arrived to the place she wanted me to drop her. �Anyway, that doesn�t mean I can�t stop worrying about her. Especially when I see her try to be strong keeping all her pain for herself.�

�That�s not good.� Reira said as I stopped to drop her.

When she went down the car, she put her head through the open window and smiled at me.

�Say her hello from me, right?� She asked me. �Tell her to call me if she needs someone to listen to her complains. And if you want my advice, if I were you, I would try to get her for me. Perhaps she is all you need and you all she needs.�

�Reira, stop taking those sleeping drugs, please.� I said joking at her. �They make your brain go really mistaken as drunk.�

�As you want, Ren.� She said waving bye before stepping at the pavement and waving bye again.

I then drove back home. Shin told me I could leave him a pyjama for me so when I went there I could use it instead sleeping on my jeans.

Anyway, I went to a barging shop and bought a cheap one that was formed on a pair of shorts and a t-shirt, all in bluish grey colour and plain. No pattern, no trademark� nothing. I could understand why it was so cheap. I also bought a pair of slippers I would also drop there and, when I went past a chemist�s on their neighbourhood, a toothbrush for brushing my teeth there.

Anyway, that was not the last surprise. I was driving through a side path when I nearly went over an animal that curled up at the road. Immediately I stepped over the brake and went out of the car to check if I went over whatever it was.

Luckily for me the animal was on one piece. Save and sound but shivering a lot. It was a bit dirty with dust and when I took it I checked it was a grey dirty kitty that looked as abandoned. Anyway, it seemed to have fainted because it kept its heartbeats so I took it with me. I put it over my jacket at the front seat.

I then went to the house and when I rang the bell, Shin opened the door.

�Oh, hi.� He said. �Come in, come in. Isa must be about arriving back from walking a bit. I suggested her that cause she seemed a bit down again.�

�I have brought the pyjama as you suggested me. A toothbrush, cause I wanted to clean my teeth from time to time when I have meals here, and� this.� I told him showing him the fainted kitty at my coat. �I thought I had driven over it but all it got from my car was a huge terrifying moment. If you are not allergic to cat�s hair perhaps you could keep it.� I suggested. �But first let�s bath it.� I added as I smelled it. �It smells as if it has been living at a litter bin��

Shin just smiled happy when I said the kitty stank, he offered to clean it but I was faster. I would bath it on some water to clean its hair. I was cleaning it as if it was a little hairy toy when he came back with the hairdryer.

�Does it have a name?� He asked.

�No, I just took it.� I said. �I don�t even know if it�s boy or girl.�

The kitty was now mewing softly as it seemed to be still very little. When I cleaned it better I checked it was a white cat with grey tabby lines and silken hair. It looked as an albino tiger.

�Perhaps we should take it to a vet first.� Shin said as he dried its hair with great care. �I think I know a pet shop owned by a vet ex-student that dropped the studies. Perhaps he would tell us if it�s boy or girl and if you broke something in it.�

�I said it just got scared.� I said.

Anyway, we took it to the pet shop and the guy at the counter had a look at the kitty.

It was female, 1 or 2 months� still a bit young but elder enough for eating solid things and being taught to live as a pet cat.

�It seems healthy but for her heartbeats.� The guy said. �They are a bit fast, but as you told me you nearly drove over her perhaps it�s just the scared reaction.�

Then he began telling us on basical cat cares and Shin bought some cat meal specialised for kitties of that age. He also sold us a bathroom tray for cats and a special thing for them to sharpen the nails.

�Believe me; you will prefer this to your curtains and furniture.� He said.

Then he wanted to sell us something else and we refused. What we bought was an anti-flea necklace that allowed the owner to adapt to the cat�s neck width.

As a present I also bought them a carrying box for them to move the cat whenever they had to do it.

Isabelle L. Part

�Shin, I�m back home.� I said after closing the door again.

I was sweating a bit after having run for so long. Shin was certainly right when he nearly ordered me to get out and train for a while. Running made my head be busy on running and not thinking on anything else.

Anyway, when I arrived there he was nowhere to be seen. I just shrugged and went to have a shower before he came.

I had that shower and I sang while I did it. Then I dried myself a bit and put on my bathrobe to dry my hair a bit. Having such a long hair is a bit of problem to get dry. I don�t like using hair dryer so I always twist it to remove the most water the best and then I begging rubbing my hair with a towel till I wrap it on the towel making it look a bit as a turban.

Then I walked to my bedroom and put on a kimono over my underwear. I have never loved that kind of robes to wear, but I have to recognise they were nice on hot days like that for staying home.

After a while, I removed the towel showing my wavy nearly curly red hair falling at my back as if it was a red silken waving curtain. I then began cooking some dinner. That was also taking Nobu out of my thoughts, and perhaps I could drink a bit more of black vozka if I had any left. I checked it up. Yes, there were still three bottles left hidden as last time Yasu tried to throw it to the litterbin.

I was counting them when I heard Shin arrive.

�Heya!� He said. �Ren has already came for dinner.�

�Hello!� Ren added to Shin said. �I hope I don�t bother you.�

�No, not at all.� I said taking one to put it on the fridge and hiding the rest back. �I had already came had a shower and I was ending cooking some dinner.�

Then I realised they were carrying some bags.

�Wow, you went shopping and you said nothing?� I asked.

They were beginning to leave me aside too. Not just Nobu dropped me.

�Ah, yes and now.� Shin said smiling. �Ren brought you a present.�

�Close your eyes first.� He said smiling as he kept something at his back. �And put your arms ahead, please.�

I then smiled as I put my arms ahead and closed my eyes. Then Shin covered my eyes to get sure I didn�t look and I was given something soft, really soft.

�What�s this?� I asked them smiling in fun. �Looks like��

�Mew!� it said.

Then Shin removed his hands from my eyes and I was astonished as I saw a kitty that resembled to a white tiger cub with a red ribbon with a little bell at its neck.

I then hugged it laughing in joy.

�This tabby cat is really super-extra-hyper cute!� I said moved. �Thanks!!�

�Ren bought you the carrying box to take it on travels and to the vet.� Shin said.

�Hey, I got already paid with that smile.� Ren said. �By the way, it�s a girl. You should name her.�

�What about Hachiko?� I asked remembering a legend one of Shin�s maids called Tama used to tell us when I was little and visiting them. �It�s not a dog but��

�Nah, it remembers us to someone else�� Shin said.

�What about Jumpaku or Sasameyuki.� Ren said. �As it�s all white� something related to snow will match her wonderful.�

�I think the last one was good.� I said thinking. �Sasa� how was it?�

�Sasameyuki.� He repeated me. �It means Little Snow Flake.�

�Then that matches her wonderful.� I said smiling as the kitty rubbed her head against my face. �Sasameyuko.� I said.

�Sasameyuki.� Shin said. �Hey! What about friendly calling her Sasa or Yuki for making it shorter? You would easier remember it.�

�Good idea.� Ren said then. �Or perhaps Nancy as Sid�s girlfriend, hum?�

Ren�s Part

�Good idea.� I said then. �Or perhaps Nancy as Sid�s girlfriend, hum?� I added remembering she was also a Sex Pistols� fan.

�Yuki is good thanks.� She said smiling as she raised the kitty to see her better. �What do you say? Do you like Sasameyuki or Yuki for short dear?�

The cat then tried to lick her face but was a bit far.

That made us laugh as we said that must mean she liked the name.

Anyway, we began making the new �girl� in the house, her toilet, eating place and bed.

We settled the �toilet� tray at the real bathroom next to the human toilet. It took us a bit to fill it cause we didn�t knew how to fill it.

Then we settled the cat bowls for meal and water and then, after filling them we settled her bed next to a radiator while Isa cooked meal and settled the table for us.

Then we saw her settle table while we sat on the sofa to smoke a bit.

�I wonder if Nobu would come.� Shin muttered for me.

�You told him about?� I asked him.

�Yep, but he has not answered me�� He said.

�Shin, where did you leave the wine cups?� Isa asked him.

�I think Nob� They must be on the right cupboard.� He said stopping when he was about saying Nobu�s name.

Whatever he did he just cared about both of them. Perhaps it was because they were his best friend and his cousin. I don�t know. Anyway, there was something else.

Someone rang on the door so Shin ran to open it because he thought it was Yasu.

�Yasu! What took you so�� He began saying.

It was not Yasu.

�Excuse us.� A delivery man said. �Miss Okanzaki lives here?�

�Hum.� He said nodding.

�Who�s up, Shin?� Isa asked from the kitchen.

�Miss, we have a delivery for miss Is-a-b-bel-lle Okanzaki�

�Miss Isabelle Okanzaki.� She said getting to the door frame followed by me too. �I�m Miss Okanzaki, so� what�s the delivery from?�

�England.� The man said as she signed up the note. �It arrived Tokyo this afternoon so we took it here because it was high preference��

�Send it back London.� She said stopping signing serious. �I said I will not get more international deliveries from that destiny.�

�But missus!� The man said frightened on the idea of having to return the box all that way and suffer the fury of the sender.

Then we heard some barks and we put the heads out of the door hole into the corridor to see some men were carrying a big box with holes.

�Ah!!� Isa said running to get the box and then pushing the men holding it and taking an iron bar from one of the men to open the cage. �How has he dared!! He is worst in the world!!!� She said as she tried to open the box.

�Hey, what�s wrong now?� I asked.

Then she managed to break the lock of the box and we saw a big black and yellow head coming through the now open trap door.

�My poor friend�� She said hugging the big black and yellow thing jumping over her till it made her fall backwards.

�Nero and Lucius.� Shin told me as I saw it was two bodies in fact. �Hey, Isa. They are too big now��

Then the things saw us and began running towards us.

�Oh, no!� Shin said. �Close the door! Close the door!�

I then was forced to do it and we heard how the two things barked and scratched the door.

�Shut up!� Isa ordered them to then them falling silent. �Ok, sit.�

I suppose they sat because she then knocked on the door.

�Ok, let us get in.� She said.

�No!� Shin said. �I�m not allowing those two mad things to get me!�

�C�mon Shin.� She said. �They are not bad guys� Just a bit big. Open the door��

�Shin, I think we should obey.� I said.

Then we heard something hitting the door.

�I said sit!� She said. �Shin! Open, we don�t want the neighbours to get angry at us!�

Then I unlocked the door and Shin ran to hide.

Anyway, two seconds later the two big things were over his chest, licking his face till Isa arrived.

�Hey guys.� She said. �Leave him. He also is happy to see you.�

She then hit their butts softly and then they went away Shin, seeing me.

�Sit, guys.� I muttered as I saw the two things coming menacely towards me. �Sit boys� Sit!� I shouted when they jumped over me.

�Hey, Ren.� Isa said smiling �They also like you.�

�Take them away from me!� I said shouting.

Then one of the dogs held my neck and I wanted to shout but I couldn�t.

�Drop it Lucius!� She then said putting her hands at his neck to pull from him. �I said drop it!�

Then she hit the back of his neck a bit hard and he dropped my neck so I held it.

�Excuse him, he hates people shouting.� She said taking them away from us. �Not to say how they go when someone threatens me.� She added patting their head.

Then she smiled as the big things sat down.

�What are them?� I asked. �Demons?�

�A German Shepard and an Irish one.� She said. �They were my pets on England.�

�Dogs?� I asked.

�Yep, but� I see neither my father nor my brother took them to the hairdresser lately�� She muttered. �I will have to take them here��

�Do not count on me to do it.� Shin said then.

�Don�t worry�� She said. �I�ll take them to the hairdresser before going work tomorrow.�

�Perhaps you would like me to take you?� I offered her as I realised she would not be allowed on the train with those two beasts.

�Well�� She said then. �I could take them on my car��

�Bah, I don�t mind taking you to your work.� I said smiling. �As long as them don�t jump to my neck.�

�There�s a trick for them not to bite you.� She said. �Bite them first.�

�Drop it.� Shin said embarrassed.

�As you want.� She said. �But perhaps he would do it.�

�To do what?� I asked.

�Biting them behind their ears.� She then said.

�Don�t even try.� Shin muttered as she took them to a spot in the living room. �They just allow her to bite them��

I then went purple as I saw her taking them some meat and them jumping to get it. They were terrifying with those big long teeth and fighting to get some meat.

I couldn�t help but to feel how a weird sensation climbed up my spine making me shiver once.

Yasu�s Part

It was nearly night when I arrived Okanzakis� home, and I mean Isa and Shin�s one. I couldn�t hear voices inside till they opened the door for me, then I heard the chaos her house had turned into.

�Get in! Get in!� Shin said before closing the door after me. �Ren! They are at the kitchen!�

Then I saw how Isa jumped over the sofa wearing what looked as a swimming costume and Ren running towards the kitchen.

A second later, I saw a couple of black things coming out of a sheet Isa was carrying at her arms the best she could as it moved a lot.

�Lucius, behave!� She was saying. �Ren, I�m taking him to the bathroom!�

�Ok.� He said wrestling with another sheet wrapping something that was pulling from him.

He seemed to be having problems with that. Then I raised an eyebrow.

�Shin, what�s going on?� I asked him that seemed not to being taking part on whatever they were doing.

�They are trying to bath the two demons.� He said going to help Ren who was being pulled by the moving sheet.

�They seem to hate baths.� Ren said as Isa finally managed to close the bathroom door. �Baths, and normal water and dog food�� Ren said. �Ah, and my tobacco.�

Then I heard some shouts at the bathroom and how the water splashed a wall.

�Who is possible that she can keep those things around?� I then asked helping them holding the sheet wrapped thing. �I came to have dinner but��

�Ok.� Isa said coming out of the bathroom soaked and carrying a big dog tied with a chain. �Here, can you dry his hair a bit while I bath Nero?�

�I expect this one doesn�t bite too.� Ren said then.

�He likes it, don�t you dear?� She said caressing his hair and making some water drops fall from his hair.

�Ok�� He said not very convinced as he took the chain and the dog barked at him while Isa took the other sheet and pulled from it while a big dog head got out of it and began biting the sheet ends where she was pulling.

�Ren.� I said after she closed the bathroom door again as he acted a bit scared towards the dog. �Are you sure that one is not mad?�

�She said so.� He said.

�They have been a bit scary even when they were just puppies.� Shin said handing Ren the hair dryer. �Ah!� He shouted when the dog tried to bite him. �They were supposed to be at England!�

�So you knew she had those pets.� Ren said.

�It�s the pets she owes.� He said. �She named them like that because they were a bit vicious towards people trying to hurt her!�

�Stop it, Nero!� We heard her shouting as we heard a hit on the bathroom door.

Then we went a bit frightened.

�Should we tie him somewhere before beginning trying to dry him?� Ren then asked.

�It�d be animal cruelty but I must agree.� I told him.

Then we managed to tie it to the heater because he moved even the sofa.

Isabelle�s Part

It was a bit hard to bath both dogs, especially when they didn�t like human soap too much either. Anyway, finally I managed to end up with Nero. He was the worst to bath because he was strong and too clever for normal tricks. Anyway, when you managed to soak him, he behaved better.

�Ok, Nero is also ready!� I said walking out of the bathroom holding his collar after having wrapping my hair on a towel and put on my bathrobe.

Then I saw Lucius standing tied to the radiator looking a bit embarrassed and with his tail at his legs.

�Hey, don�t do it.� I told them hitting their necks with both hands while Nero shook to remove more water from his hair and I untied the poor dog. �He is not so evil...�

�Ok, we settle table and you end up drying them.� Ren said standing up to walk away with Shin to hide at the kitchen.

Yasu on the other hand stood at the living room, his tie loosened to feel better and with his shirt wet.

Then I realised they were all a bit wet and shook my own head.

�Yasu, please. Can you hold my little ones while I take you a pair of dry kimonos?� I asked him handing him the two collars. �I thought you would be clever enough for not allowing Lucius to make you all wet.�

Yasu�s Part

It was very late on the night when we ended the meeting. Shin was sleepy and Isa a bit drunk. Ren was also a bit drunk. And I must admit I was not on my best either, but not drunk; I was tired.

As I was offered to stay there at the guests� room I agreed to stay there. Ren had settled himself at Nobu�s ex-room so I was helped to put a bed out of the wall and I settled on that room. Anyway, I heard Ren making noise at the girl�s room where he had taken her.

�Hey, I thought you were sleeping at another bedroom.� I told him.

�I would if she was not hugging me.� He said. �Don�t worry, I�m kindda used to this when she is like this. I�m not doing anything wrong on her despite of what you can think of me.�

I then looked at him. It was true; it was her who was wrapping him with her arms, while the two demons lay at her side carpet as if they were a pair of bodyguards.

I saw also a little white thing sleeping at the living room when I arrived. It was a white kitty and the two dogs didn�t even attack it, they smelled it but didn�t touch it.

�Three pets.� I muttered to myself as I took off my clothes from the radiator where she left them and turning them to dry the other side. �I wonder if they will be able to stand it too long�� Then I thought it twice as I went back my room for that night and got in the bed. �I suppose this will help them a bit too��

My last thought that night was addressed to Nobu and her. I wanted them to fix things up because if they kept on like that they would just hurt themselves. Nobu was going through rough time too, and she was evidently not well either, even if they faked smily faces when they were together.

Isabelle L. Part

I think I have been sleeping for ages again, but it�s just a full night, once again.

I have wake up a bit late today too, I had a terrible headache and this time I saw someone was by my side. I smiled as I thought Shin again sneaked in my bed tonight, but not he would never sleep next to Nero and Lucius and they seem to have spent the full night next to us. I then hear noises outside my bedroom so half the way of revealing who is the one sleeping there.

I walked out into the living-room followed by my two kids to see Yasu is already there. And after all, it�s not so late.

�Hi.� I said smiling. �Did you spend the night here?�

�Yesterday night you weren�t on your best again, were you?� He asked preparing me a glass with something. �For redraft.�

�Thanks.� I said smelling it and then taking it on just a swallow so as not to be rude. �I don�t think I can remember everything happening yesterday night.�

�Nobody having so much amount of alcohol would be able to remember it either.� He said sitting at the table. �Ehem, do you mind?�

�Nero, stop.� I ordered him.

Then he stopped sniffing Yasu�s trouser as growling to just growl. Then I caught a meat piece and threw it to him so as him to stop bothering Yasu.

�What are you going to do with those two demons?� He asked me.

�I am keeping them.� I said. �But first� I will make them get their hair cut a bit. They look a bit shabby now.�

�As a real pair of fur balls.� He agreed smiling mildly for a second.

�Well� are you also staying here for meal?� I asked him.

�I�d love to, but� I have to work.� He said. �Anyway, perhaps I could come for dinner.�

�That�d be wonderful.� I said smiling.

Arisa Terashima�

Isabelle B. Part

It was funny; when Nobu and I split up I didn�t thought it would take me so little time to recover again. It took me just a week and a half to recover after having being sent my two dogs from London. Yet I spent most of the time alone at Gaia�s Training Camp on the mountains. I went there all alone and just the staff and friends knew I would be there. Anyway, I was offered to be sent someone to help me there and I refused.
�I�d like to have some time alone.� I told Mr. Nishimoto. �Don�t worry; I can survive on my own. Furthermore, I�ll take my two babies with me.�

They already knew Nero and Lucius cause I had taken them there when I took them to the Hairdresser�s and vet, and also another day cause I would have to work there for nearly the whole day. And I think they didn�t like them either; plain and clear: They were also afraid or a bit afraid of them.

Anyway, the following morning I left for the camp. As it was hot, I had planned on spending the days hiking and swimming at the lake.

�You don�t have to leave, you know.� Yasu told me before I left.
�Yasu, stop worrying for me.� I answered him. �I really need a gap. You know, I need to stop, think about everything and nothing� And I can�t do it here.�

�Then let us go with you.� Shin said nearly begging.

�I�m glad of your offer but no, thanks.� I answered him back smiling. �But you can make me a favour.�

�Say!� he said. �Whatever you want!�

�Take care of Nobu.� I told them closing the boot of my car. �You have done all you could for me. Please, do the same for him. I�ll be just fine. When I come back I�ll be more than fine again.�

That came to my mind while I walked to a wonderful spot I�d found the last time we were around there. Hiking through the forest with Nero and Lucius running and chasing little animals, getting away for a while to then reappear minutes later. I was certainly having fun there.

My plans were to get there and mount my tent there. It was a wonderful spot surrounded by threes and next to a water fall with a lake-like pool where the waterfall fell.
I knew my dogs would certainly have lot of fun there. There was plenty of space for them to run, jump, chase animals� and of course, swimming.
I loved swimming, it prevent my mind to think anything else and relaxed me.
As soon as I arrived there I stopped over a big rock where I could see everything down my feet: the Training Camp buildings, the dusty road leading there, the lake were we had swum and fishing when we were there� Everything seemed just wonderful there. For a moment, I missed having a pair of wings to have flied around and let wind cradle me on the air, caressing me with its soft touch.

Then I turned, jumped down the rock and began mounting my tent. What I didn�t knew was that had just went out of the Training Camp lands when I crossed that iron fence someone put there once in order to prevent animals and trespassers to get in the lands. And also that a bit further from where I had settled my tent, there was another building, this time bigger and more luxurious than the camp the company had. Just up the water fall, following a trekking path.