Ren�s part

I was on the sparing time hut on the mountains we had made built for us when we were in need of a relaxing gap. Now we had some free time but for Takumi, I had told the rest I would spend some time there for relaxing. Just a day or two. Naoki immediately offered to came too. I thought Reira would also come but she said she would stay at the city. Then I knew Shin was there too. In fact, I didn�t knew where the red haired had gone till today that Yasu called me telling me she was out of the town on a secret spot, alone with her dogs and looking for some silent to think about her things and relax a bit. I must say Yasu was a bit worried about her cause she didn�t want anyone to go with her. Anyway, he and everyone knowing her a bit knew she would have no problems on living on such a building.

�Say baldy.� I had told him. �Do you know where is that spot? Perhaps we could get there and check she is alright.�

�It�s a secret place for Cookie people.� He said. �I can�t tell anyone, not even you.�
I wondered if he wanted me to have an eye on her or not, because he called me but he didn�t tell me the exact place where she was, just that she was at the Training Camp on the mountains.

Anyway, that afternoon Naoki and me took my car and drove to the hut. It was a good place because it was on a calmed place next to a little river that ended on a water fall. Anyway, getting to the base of it was a bit difficult so we had to nearly drive there or jump. We loved to jump from the water fall top when we went there on summer. Takumi went mad when Naoki or I did it and Reira went frightened. But I personally think it�s funny. Another activity we could do there was cycling, yet we didn�t do it too often. Other activity we could do was just walking on nature, what was a bit boring in my opinion, but perfect for thinking and relaxing. Anyway, my favourite was getting the waterfall and throw stones down at it. Relaxing, funny and interesting if you did it against someone. Especially against Naoki that didn�t had any ability for it. But he had a special gift for splashing with his stones. And also cycling with a pair of mountain motorbikes we used for racing and racing freestyle through a near path at the nearby where some earth bumps were perfect for freestyling.

That afternoon was not different.

Isabelle B. Part

I was swimming with my dogs when I heard an indefinable sound appearing to be a roar from a motor. Then when I got tired of floating and swimming I went out and began walking around with my pets in order them to have some action other than swimming at the water for seconds and then going back to earth. I was used to Nero and Lucius chasing an animal and disappearing for some seconds, but I was sitting on a rock to rest a bit .Then suddenly I realised that Lucius was missing. I had just taken my sight out of him for a second since I sat down but he seemed to have disappeared just then. I then began calling him, but he didn't seem to appear and it was beginning to go a bit dark due to a storm coming near.

Nothing happened; he seemed to be further than what I thought. And I didn't want to think about it but I was beginning to think something bad had happened to him. So I kept on walking around with Nero by my side and calling Lucius madly.

Ren's part

Naoki and I finally decided to take the motorbike. We were a bit bad with the freestyling but anyway we got fun out of it. We were returning back the cottage due to a storm about arriving when I heard Naoki shouting while I parked out of the cottage. He had been left behind cause he had to stop in order to pee. Now he was driving madly as he arrived back the cottage white as a sheet.

"A wolf!" He babbled when he reached me. "There's a wolf somewhere over there!"
"Don't say nonsenses!" I told him. "There are no wolfs around here."

"I tell you it was a wolf!" He then said again.

He was really terrified so I thought it was not a joke to pull my leg.
"Ok, let's have a look at your wolf." I said.

I knew there couldn't be wolfs around there cause in case there were, they would be upper in mountains. And of course, when it was about raining no animals but for slugs would get out and risk getting soaked with rain.

It was terribly hot, so I was wearing just my jeans and no jacket or helmet. Then we began moving a bit to look into the "wolf" matter.

Anyway, when we arrived the place where Naoki said he saw the wolf it was plain clear there was no wolf there.

"Are you sure it was a real animal and you didn't imagine it?" I then asked him.
"Yes!" He said still a bit frightened.

"There are no wolfs so low at the mountains." I told him. "You must have imagined it."
But just in that exact moment we heard a howl that curled up our veins. Just as we realised it had began raining.

We then reached next to the waterfall surroundings and then we saw a tent.
"What is this doing here?" I asked noticing the tent.

"Who cares?! There's a wolf or more around here! Let's get back the cottage and lock doors and windows!" Naoki said terrified holding my arm.

I was also a bit frightened, especially when I identified the howl as not too far from us.
Then I saw it, a fast thing moving towards us and then a pair of eyes with a long fanged mouth looking at us.

"Ah!!" We shouted when the thing jumped over me.

Isabel L. Part

I was looking for Lucius when it began raining. I would have loved to move back to the tent but I didn't want to leave Lucius there without knowing if he was right or not.
Suddenly I heard a not distant howl coming just about 300 m. from where I was. I then began running towards where the howl came.

I was about reaching the place when I heard a terror scream coming from another spot near where I thought the howl came from.

Ren's part

"Stop, boy." I said. "Good boy. Stop, boy."

It was not a wolf what had jumped over me and what Naoki saw on the forest. It was just a dog looking a bit dirty and wild. When it jumped over me it fell over my shoulders making me fall down and getting my shoulder between his jaws. It was pressing a bit but it didn't even hurt much.

Naoki was terrified, really terrified for moving the slightless.
"Move, boy." I told him. "Stop, boy. Good boy. Drop it, boy."

I kept on trying with no results.

"Lucius! What the..! Drop it boy!" A female voice said.

It took a bit but finally it dropped me and howled. I stood up holding the place where he bitted me. He had not even made me bleed.

Then I noticed it was a dog, and not any dog. It was one of the monsters Isa had as pets.
"Good boy." I said patting his head. "What are you doing here all alone?"
"Ren... that's a wolf." Naoki told me.

"No, it's not." A voice said from behind us.

Then I looked at our side and saw a shadow lighted with just a lightning.
Again Naoki and I shouted in terror.

Isabel L. Part

"Stop shouting, you morons!" I shouted to the two guys Lucius and now Nero had got by their necks. "Drop them guys! I said drop them!"

Then both dropped their necks on my command as I had hit both's butts softly for them to stop holding their necks at their jaws.

Then I held them by their dog belts and pulled from them to move from the guys. Suddenly I realised that I knew the two preys.

"Ren, what are you two doing here?" I asked them.

Ren's part

I thought a killer was there when we saw the person with the lightning and we shout. Then the dog and another one held us by our necks down to earth once again.
"Ren? What are you doing here?" The person said.

Then I realised it was Isabelle, my friend and the "wolfs" were her pets.

"Same goes for you." I said rubbing my throat. "Uggg, we are soaked and dirty now..."

I had got used to that welcoming from the dogs when we shouted. I had forgotten they hated shouting people.

"Don't tell me you are the one living here." I asked her while Naoki stood up terrified of the dog that had bitten his neck.

"I was camping here for tonight." She answered me.

�Ah!" Naoki said then realising on who was. "Nice to see you here too..."
Then I realised that she was wearing what looked as a pair of shorts and a cotton shirt that was now stick to her body cause of the heavy rain.

"Mind if we keep on chatting back at the cottage, please?" I asked them as the rain went heavier.

"The tent is nearer." She said.

"No." I said. "The cottage has a good ceiling and is warmer than this."
Finally we managed to convince her to come with us to our hut. I didn't doubted on her, but I really doubted that tent would stand such a heavy rain as it was falling now. So I made her mount on the motorbike behind me while Naoki mounted his own one. Then the dogs would follow us while Naoki carried her bag.

When we arrived the cottage we parked the motorbikes at the tool cabin and we ran in the building soaked to the bones.

"Uff, finally we are safe..." Naoki said. "Ahhh! What are those things doing in too??!!"
"Stop shouting." She said from the door soaked from head to toes. "They hate shouting people."
"Here." I said handing her a towel. "We'd better dry up a bit before we catch a cold. Naoki, why don't you light the fire at the fireplace? We could hang the wet clothes there."
"Good idea." He said, and then he stopped. "But I don't know how to do it!!"
"I'll do it then." I said as the dogs began moving from a place to another as if they were mad. "Isa, can you tell them to stop at a place, please?"

"Nero, Lucius, sit!" She ordered them.

Then the two big dogs stop next to fire place and laid there. Perhaps they were terrifying, but I must add they were really well trained.

Then I went to light the fire while Naoki went to have another towel from the toilet.
When he came, Isa sneezed once and then again.

"You should remove those before you catch a bigger cold." I told her as I wrapped myself on my towel to remove my trousers and underwear to dry them.
"Yes, I suppose it's... atchoo!... The best idea, yep." She said sneezing once again.
Then she began removing the shirt and shorts till she was wearing just what looked as a little swimming top and knickers, all a two pieced swimming costume.

Then Naoki began bleeding from his nose and me too.

"Can I borrow a sweater to wear, please?" She asked. "I'm afraid my clothes were all wet due to rain..."

We didn't said anything, but Naoki lent her a t-shirt that looked as a short dress on her, she wore it on the bathroom and when she came out she was looking really amazing with just a t-shirt from Naoki and towel covering her as if it was a weird kind of long skirt.
She then put her wet clothes and underwear for dry them next to the fire too and sat down at a sofa, her hair wrapped on a towel so as to dry it.

"Did you also came here to relax?" She asked us.

"Yep." I said going out of my astonishment. "I mean... Takumi was working and I asked him to come here and rest a bit. Naoki is just as a flea."

"Wonderful..." He whispered as he stared at her.

"I'm sorry Nero frightened you." She then said. "I lost him of sight from a second and he seemed to get lost."

"Don't worry." I told her then. "That silly mistook him for a wolf."

"Oh, he scared me." Naoki said still bleeding from his nose for a second as he realised she was wearing nothing under the towel and his t-shirt which fell gracefully over her shoulders.
"Sorry." She apologized then again.

"It's no use now." I told her. "So, what were you doing on our lands?"

"I thought I was still on the record agency's lands." She said. "I have came here looking for silence and peace for making my mind up."

I knew what she was referring to with it. I supposed she had still not forgot Nobu. Seeing her so unprotected made me feel like protecting her; and not just me.
"Anyway, living up on a dirty tent all by your self is hard." Naoki said. "Why don't you stay here for the night? You could share room with me if you feel cold in the night."
My jaw opened and she went pink on the proposal she was just been done.

�She is not!� I said. �There are plenty of rooms for her to stay! So there�s no need on her to share it with you!! In any case she would share it with me.�

I didn�t thought it would be any use, but it seemed it was.

First, she refused sharing bed with any of us yet our acting made her laugh. Then we smiled. Naoki knew of what happened to them and he could be lot of things but he was not a bad guy. He went also happy to have made her happy for a moment.

The two dogs were a different matter, when I said they were as her bodyguards I didn�t exaggerate the slightless. They really protected her, day and night.

Anyway, now she was with us there was no need for them to do it. Naoki and I would take care of her for that night and the following days.

Beginning for leaving her have Reira�s bedroom.

�Hello!� I said after knocking on the door. �I was wondering��

�Hi, get in.� She said smiling as she shuffled the cards a bit weirdly in front of Naoki. She seemed to have had some fun, then I looked at them.

�Naoki!!� I told him getting to her side and taking a bottle from her side. �I told you not to allow her to get any bottle!�

�Allow me.� She said kissing me and taking the bottle back to her. �This is mine� Ah, we were playing a hand to cards. He was teaching me how to play Poker.�

�Perhaps I can make her play strip Poker when she gets how to play.�

�No poker, please.� I said. �She is not on her best��

�I can play!� She said. �I�m just ok. Just some hands, please��

I really wanted to play against her, if she was not better than us then I would really enjoy on seeing her, but�

Who cared! I wanted to see more!

�Ok, ok. But just some hands.� I said. �Naoki, that goes for you. Just to underwear, right?�

�Yep!!� Both of them said at once.

Then we began playing. I could remember someone once mentioning me she was as a really good croupier from Las Vegas Casinos. Seeing her loosing her sweater and accessories made me doubt it.

Then she began looking at it.

�Wanna keep on with it all?� I asked her.

�Yep.� She said. �May the looser shuffle the cards, please?�

It was really funny how Isa changed in less than a minute. When she was just wearing an underwear t-shirt and the towel as if it was a skirt, she began winning once and again. Now I knew why Yasu and the rest didn't want to play against her to that.
Funnily, she seemed to be satisfied when we were just wearing a towel after having lost everything else.

"Another hand?" She asked shuffling the cards with not even looking at them.

"I think that for a night is more than enough." I said. "If we lose again we will be completely naked."

"Pity..." She said smiling in fun. "Ah, this is just great."

"What has he given you?" I asked them.

"Some shake." Naoki said smiling. "She says beer does nothing on her."

It was true; I think her record of beer with no effects on her was at 16 cans before she began feeling a bit sleepy. But shake didn't seemed to affect her much either.

"Naoki..." I told him.

"Ok, she has drunk what remained of that Russian thing Takumi bought on the airport." He said.

"Vozka!" She said happily. "But I prefer black one! This one is just too weak..."

"It's 56�, that one." I said holding the empty bottle she had left on the bin. "What graduation does the black one have?"

"70�" She said serious. "And then there's the normal black one. And... Have you ever heard speak about Jack Daniel's? Oh, I also love that one... I can drink 4 glassed on a row and nothing happens to me."

"Wow!" Naoki said surprised. "That's too much alcohol..."

"And which degree is that?" I asked.

"90� if the tag is black and 85 if it's green." She told me.

"Ok, I take this." I said taking the bottles to lock them again. "You are a great danger to yourself when you drink too much."

I wasn't able to say much more because she fell asleep at the ground.

"Do you think she is ok?" Naoki asked. "I didn't want her to go so drunk that she would fall asleep..."

"I told you not to allow her laying a finger on a bottle. She is keeping her depression for herself!" I told him as I locked the mini-bar again and went to their side. She had been laying on a big blanket so I wrapped her as I could on it.

"C'mon, let's take her to her bedroom..." I added her as I managed to hold her up. She seemed to weigh less than before. "Has she gone on a diet lately?"

"She seems a bit thin, I must agree." Naoki said. "What happened for her being so... like that?"
"Her boyfriend and her break up a couple of weeks ago." I explained him. "I'm really worried about her cause it's not usual on her to act like this."

"Well... I must agree she must have an iron stomach to stand so much alcohol on a go."

"I think she has drunk a full bottle of one of her vodka kinds. It really tasted as medial alcohol..." I told him as I laid her in the bed.

"Ren... Ren... I'm freezing..." She then muttered.

"Shh..." I told her. "It's ok... It's not cold in here."

"Ren... it's freezing here..." She said. "Can you get here and hug me till I can heat a bit..."
Naoki and my noses then began bleeding as we saw her bare leg getting out of the blanket.
"I'll get in there." Naoki said happily.

"Nobody is going to get in there." I told him as I held him by the back of his collar. "Isa, we will put another pair of blankets over you, ok?"

Too late, she had fallen asleep again. We then put the quilt over her and went out of the bedroom.
"Ren, you have spend some nights at her place, haven't you?" Naoki asked me. "How is she when she is sleeping?"

"You have seen her." I told him. "Ah... I wish I had something so warm next to me tonight..."
Then he went shocked as he seemed to understand what I meant.

Anyway, I went in my bedroom before he could ask anything else and closed the door.
Our bedrooms were a bit little but warm, Reira's was biggest one from all. Anyway, she would not even realise on it as she would have fainted due to alcohol.

I stayed looking at the ceiling for a long while, thinking on Nana and me; I could understand how she felt cause I had felt something similar when Nana and broke up.
I wanted to have shared my life with her forever. I would have even died for her. But everything was far now.

I wanted that girl to feel a bit better. Yes, she was the one who listened to me, who stand me when Nana and I went discovered as couple some time ago. When I was not with the other Trapnest members.

Now it was my turn to help her a bit.

Naoki's part

I had met that red haired goddess long time ago, even when I didn't remembered about it and Ren remembered me when she was revealed as Blast's new singer. Since then I have met her a bit more on some other occasions. I didn't saw her as a friend, just I couldn't. Everything I saw her I did it as a woman she was; a fucking perfect beauty woman that looked as a real goddess from my point of view. A woman I would do without even asking her for money, in fact, I would pay nearly anything for having the opportunity of doing such a woman up.

Anyway, when Ren told me why she was like that, my point of view changed a bit. I felt pity for her. I didn't knew well how she felt cause I had never being tied emotionally to anyone, no girlfriends to cry for, no split-up depression... Nothing.

Anyway, I couldn't see such a beautiful and amazingly funny girl so sad, despite of her hiding it. Then I heard her crying for a second, I thought on standing up and going to try and comfort her a bit, but then she stopped crying.

Before I fell slept, I thought that while we were there I would not allow her to leave. No, I would do whatever I could to try and make her feel a bit better.

�And how is that summer for you Hatchi?� Shin asked Nana Ichinoise (Komatsu).

�We can�t complain, can we Sasuki?� She answered smiling while the little girl played with her new doll. �The house has refreshing system so the weather in home is the heat we want.�

�Ah!!� Shin said. �I wish we had that too!�

�By the way, do you know where your red haired lady is?� Nana asked.

�You know her.� Shin said. �She will come soon but she had things to do so��

Then we heard a car horn down the window and we smiled.

�Ok, we know where she is now, don�t we?� Shin said.

�I think we should tell her not to blow her horn here when she arrives late.� Yasu said. �Or the neighbours will complain again.�

Three minutes later a lady wearing a good, well branded and expensive kimono knocked on the door smiling and Sasuki ran to open it.

�Ohaio everyone.� The lady said getting in the room.

�Aunt Isa!!� Sasuki said happily jumping to her neck. �You have come!!�

�Hello.� Everyone said.

�Hello, Isa.� Nana said smiling. �Happy to see you have found the place.�

�I�m not so silly so as to get lost.� She said. �I have had to return back over my steps just twice before arriving here by car.�

�But Nobu gave you a plan to come here.� Shin said.

�Oh, I think you mean this.� She said taking a piece of paper from her breast with just two fingers. �Don�t tell him but I think Sasuki would have drawn it better.�

They the looked at the plan and had to agreed with her while they held their laugh. Nobu had drawn it at a paper and it didn�t looked too clear to be a map.

�And where is him?� She then asked. �Did he also got lost?�

�He is at the bath tube.� Nana said. �I was to tell you to change clothes but��

�Ah!� She then said. �I have brought a little present for Sasuki from England!�

Then she put her hand in her kimono sleeve and took out a present.

�Ooops, this is not Sasuki�s!� She said smelling it. �Shin�s� Yasu�s�� She added taking a bigger one and then another two normal sized ones. �Nana and Hachi�s� I think I lost them!!�

�Oh, no!� Sasuki said looking into her sleeve. �They can be lost!!�

Isa then smiled motherly and in fun while Sasuki looked into her sleeve.

�Sasuki.� She then said. �How long is you have not washed your ears?�

She then looked up at her.

�Look what you have in your ears!� She added acting as if she was picking something from her right ear. �Ah! They were not lost! They were in your ears!�

Sasuki and Nana then went really surprised as Isa took a lot of packets from Sasuki�s ear. And then the little one took them surprised.

�Wow�� Nana said surprised looking at the red haired as she uncovered her mouth. �You can do magic��

�It�s too easy to perform magic for a little girl and� well, and Hatchi.� She said sitting up on the table with Yasu and Shin and taking a beer from the fridge.

They then drank their beers while they all opened their presents and Nana and Sasuki went really thrilled when they saw their presents. Hatchi got an expensive foulard and Sasuki got a good branded t-shirt and some toys including a limited series doll.

Nobu then asked about the shouts from the bath tube and Isa stood up and walked there.

She first knocked on the door and then got in to kneel down next to the tube full of foam.

�Hello, my love.� She said then. �Did you miss me?�

�Just a bit.� He said smiling. �So, how was the travel? Did you found the house?�

�Oh, yes.� She said smiling as she put her hand in the water stirring the water. �And the travel was just fine. And I saw my father, weird but� anyway, I managed to close the agreement and we have now the other hotel firm.�

�I think I�m the boyfriend of a shark woman.� He said smiling and taking her hand to make her get to his face and kiss her.

�Oh, I nearly forgot.� She said smiling. �I got you some presents. They are outside so when you get out��

�You know I will like anything you have bought me.� He said smiling sweetly.

Meanwhile on the living room, the rest chatted.

�And you said she was over England and then back here?� Nana said.

�Yes, even now she is our singer she has still a family.� Shin said.

�She has more family sense than others I know.� Yasu said looking at him. �Anyway, her brother called her so as her to fly over England and met a man they had to deal with. So she went there and dealt with the man. What I don�t know is if she got what they look for.�

�I bet she did.� Shin said. �She always gets what she wants. She is a good business woman and she can be really persuasive if it�s need of.�

�You seem to know her pretty well for the little time you have always spent with her.� Nana said. �Could it be my dear Shin had an affair with the red haired Celebrity?�

�Is it true, uncle Shin?� Sasuki asked. �Are you really dating her?�

�No!� Shin said laughing. �Just some nights on the same bed�� He added sexily making Nana yell in surprise and Yasu go red.

�Hatchi!� Isa said going out the toilet. �Is everything right? Are you ok?�

�Yes, yes.� Shin said. �I was just telling them we have spent some nights on the same beds.�

�True, but I think they have mistook what you meant to say.� She then said looking at him and then realising Sasuki was also there. �Shin, there�s a little girl. Please��

�They took it as I meant, but she is right.� Shin said. �There was cousin�s love and nothing more. She has always done better men� ouch!� He said as he was hit by the red haired.

�Stop it, Sasuki is there.� She told him softly. �C�mon Sasuki.� She added smiling at her. �Do you want to come down with me and light a couple of the crackers I brought you all?�

�Sure!!� She said happily.

�I�ve got some butterfly ones, the noisy ones� ah! And I have also brought lot of those sticks that give off light sparks. And Shin, I brought you the dragon eggs.�

�Yeep!!!� He said. �I used to love them yet I have just seen them once!!�

�I think you should wait for Ren.� Yasu told us. �He will also like that child�s occupations.�

�I want to take Sasuki far from the two perverts.� She said smiling jokingly. �Anyway, I�ll keep some for him too. I never get my luggage checked on my family�s jet.�

�Amazing�� Hatchi said when Shin, Isa and Sasuki left down to the river side to light and play with the firecrackers. �A jet��

�I think her family had three, so now her mother died she kept her mother�s one.� Yasu said. �And of course, her father would not allow her to travel from Tokyo to London on a normal plane full of commoners.�

�So she really is a princess!!� Hatchi said astonished.

�NO!� Yasu said laughing. �She is just born on a really wealthy family, so her father takes great care on her well being even when she has turned down all her offers of that. All he wants her is not to put any kind of dirt over the family name.�

�What a nasty family!� Hatchi said as Nobu went out of the bathroom wearing his male kimono as he tied his obi. �Poor Shin and Isa� With such a non loving family��

�She has not being as unloved as Shin.� Yasu said.

�Who are you talking about?� Nobu asked.

�Your lover.� Yasu said. �Nana said she was as unloved as Shin, I disagree.�

�I don�t think she was unloved as Shin.� Nobu said sitting at the bench. �But she has never been too loved either. She told me once she didn�t like her life and that was why she did the best she could to look for her father�s approval and then she was tired of crashing against a wall and decided to start a new life far from her family.� He added looking out of the window how the three of them laughed at the riverside playing with the firecrackers.

�She has been given the best of the best by her father.� Yasu said. �But she seems never to have been given what she looked for.�

�Love.� Hatchi said dreamily understanding.

�And a father�s approval.� Yasu said. �To say it that way, she would also be a kind of orphan as Ren, Nana, Shin or me. She comes from the same family than Shin so their lives have not being so different.�

Then Hatchi fell a bit moved. She could imagine how it was, even when she had never felt like that she could imagine how they had felt. To her eyes, Nobu was a warm dog, she a noisy one, Yasu a wise and silent dog, Shin a distant puppy� but Nana, Ren and Isa were cats. Life had made them like that.

Life made them like that. They had been beaten up, unwanted and given the back by society or their families. She had grew up on a noisy family that loved her very much even when her parents complained too much about her giving them too much problems and Nobu on a little family that loved him despite of him leaving them to play guitar professionally. The rest had never been shown love by their families and that if they had one.

Suddenly, Ren and Nana�s distant and twisted nature was explained cause they didn�t met their parents; and Isa�s warm nature of caring for the weaker ones or considering them as family was also clear for her.

The red haired was forced to become that cause of her growing up alone. She was strong to take care of herself and no needing on help for achieving what she wanted. She must have felt cold lot of times, sad and depressed. But she got over everything standing against adversities. That was why she adored Nana and Isa so much. They were really strong, inside and outside.

�I think I�ll cook them some biscuits next time we join.� Hatchi said.

When night was about falling, and they were ending having the meal Hatchi and Isa had managed to cook for all, Ren arrived. As he said he arrived just before the fireworks; a quarter of hour before then.

�Hello!� He said. �Ah!! Isa!! You are also here!!� He added jumping over her neck as if he was a little guy.

�I�m also happy to see you too, Ren.� She answered smiling.

�I�d heard you were off for a working trip.� He said being separated from her by Nobu in jealousy.

�Oh, yes. My brother wanted me to be on an agreement meeting he had to get another firm under his iron fist so I couldn�t say no to my own brother.� She said smiling. �By the way, here you are�� She said smiling as she handed him some presents.

He opened them to discover a box full of animation films and a punk t-shirt.

�From the same place where Sid Vicious from Sex Pistols used to bought his clothing.� She said as if it was something normal.

Ren then went more than happy while Hatchi offered him some dinner he refused because the first firework lighted the sky.

Hey, Nana. We are all together on the old flat Hatchi and you shared. This year I�m also here, feeling as if I was filling an empty space I will never fill the way it is. Because I have to fill my own space but also one I know I�ll never be able to fill as you did. Because us, people are the same on a 94 but that 6 of difference is just what makes us so different yet we are so similar on the same way.

Isabelle B. Part

I was sleeping when I saw a weird vision. I was in a great hall, wearing as the perfect tycoon daughter I used to be. Acting as it was supposed from a girl with my status.

Then I saw how my new friends from Blast and Trapnest were around there; not everyone. Nobu was missing, Nana Oosaki was missing and Ren was missing. Suddenly I saw someone holding my hand while I was smiling to everyone there. Then I turned my face and shouted when I saw my dad smiling as a guy with no face held my hand.

Then I shouted and I saw a guy coming to rescue me. Then I got married to someone, but I didn�t saw his face� When I was about seeing his face�

�Nero!� I said as he was licking my face. �You have to be always that opportune?!�

Then he stopped and sat back on the ground while I noticed Lucius was crouched at my feet.

I then laid facing the ceiling while some sun beams were hitting my face making my eyes being half close.

�Where am I?� I muttered. �This is not my home� and this is not my tent��

Then I heard guys� voices outside and I nearly jumped out of the bed, especially when I realised I was wearing just my knickers and a man�s tank top.

�What have I done??� I wondered sweating.

I could remember some things. Last thing I could remember was playing strip-poker with Ren, Ren and� Naoki!

I then touched myself till I noticed I was wearing knickers then I relaxed a bit. That must mean I did nothing I could regret now�

I then held my neck at the back and laid my head backwards, breathed deep and looked around. It was a girl�s room. I could see a lot of plushies and pink things that nearly made me feel sick. Especially when I saw myself wrapped on a pink quilt. That made me literally ran out of the room to check it was not part of the nightmare.

As soon as I went out of the bedroom I saw Ren shouting something at Naoki while he went out of the bathroom soaked and wearing just a bathrobe open on his chest.

�Oh, hi.� He said when he saw me opening his eyes. �Sorry, didn�t wanted waking you up.�

�It was� not you.� I said looking away a bit pink.

�The boiler has got damaged.� Naoki said appearing at the corridor. �Oh, hello sleeping beauty.� He added on a sexy way.

�Mo� morning?� I said him. �What�s wrong with the boiler?�

�I�m not a technician so I don�t know.� He said then.

�Why don�t you try hitting it?� Ren asked him.

�I have tried but�� Naoki said.

�Damn�� Ren said then. �I will have to remove the foam with cold water��

�Stop crying you little guys.� I said a bit bothered. �Let me put something else on and I�ll have a look at it, right?�

�I think I�ll clean with cold water.� Ren said then.

�A bit of cold water doesn�t kill anyone.� I told him.

Then I walked in the living-room and took my clothes. I had a summer dungaree as my exchange clothes for walking so I took it and my underwear and went to change into the toilet.

Naoki�s Part

I had been frightened when Ren shouted when the boiler broke up. After going up to inform him I noticed Isa was there wearing just the same than in the night. She seemed still a bit disorientated but well. And so damnly sexy when she had just woke up!!!

She offered to have a look at the thing when she got wear with something else she went to look for at her bags.

�You don�t need to wear anything else.� I told her. �You look cool just like that.�

�I think I prefer wearing a pair of trousers too, thanks.� She said. �Oh, yes. Do you have some water and fruit salts here please?�

�Hangover?� I asked her remembering Reira used to drink that after a night out drinking a couple of beers. �I think you should try with artichoke pills Reira uses to take.�

�No thanks.� She said as she drank the water on just one gulp. �That is ineffective, as fruits and some other things that commonly are thought to be effective�� She said before drinking a bit more. �I prefer water and perhaps a banana, nuts, chicken� Those have Vitamin B6. That�s really effective for that.�

�I think we have some nuts around here� Yep.� I said handing her some. �You seem to know about it.�

�I have had to deal with this� million times.� She answered leaving the empty glass over the kitchen surface to walk towards the toilet carrying a boulder of clothing rolled to form rolls. �I usually take some prickly pear cactus fruits.�

�I don�t know of those.� I recognised.

Perhaps I was showing her I am just another silly blond, but I really wanted to know of that.

�Really?� She said. �Oh, sorry. I forgot perhaps you don�t have those here. It�s a fruit about this size, red� a bit unpleasant to eat on the time you must take them for this but� highly effective. It reduces the effect on alcohol hangover by inhibiting the production of inflammatory mediators; furthermore, some studies have yielded differing results, with some studies witnessing significant reductions in nausea, dry mouth, and loss of appetite as well as the risk of a severe hangover. So I take that really willing when I�m suffering of hangover.�

I think she didn�t planed to do it, but she had made me go gobsmacked at her wide and nearly not-understandable for me explanation. All I had understood was that those pears were something really wonderful for hangovers and that they were a bit hard to find on Japan. I could also understand the symptoms they healed.

Anyway, while we chat and she was at the toilet, she had changed clothes into something else.

�Sorry, I have made you bored.� She said smiling mildly as she walked out. �So, where is that boiler? I�ll do what I can for fixing it, young men.�

Then I was astonished as I saw her going out of the toilet ready for dealing with something that seemed to be bigger than her.

Ren�s Part

I was having a shower when suddenly the heater broke up so I shouted and ran out of the bathroom shouting to Naoki after a while when I asked him to fix it and he didn�t do it. Then I saw Isa coming out of Reira�s room and apologized for having wake her up and she said it had not been me as she looked away apparently embarrassed on me wearing just a towel around me. Then Naoki came and he told me he didn�t knew what was going on with the heater and we went a bit nervous. However, Isa acted as a super heroine once again. She offered to have a look at the boiler.

I didn�t thought she could even have a try against the boiler-heater when Naoki wasn�t able to do it and he said he didn�t fix it by the old �Hitting it� way; so I went back in the toilet getting ready to clean myself with cold water.

When I ended I was shivering slightly as the mountain water was freezing cold comparing to the one in Tokyo. I put on a bathrobe and then I began drying my hair with a dry towel as I walked down.

�Hey, anyone in the house??� I asked.

�Ren?� Naoki called me.

Then I walked to the room where the boiler-heater was and I saw him sat on his knees with a tool box next to him. And I also saw a pair of feet coming under the boiler.

�Have you called a technician?� I asked him.

�No, she is having a look at it.� He said.

�Wrench, please.� She called putting a hand out of under the little space where she was laying. �Hi, Ren. Nice to hear you.�

�Here.� Naoki said passing her a wrench. �What are you doing now?�

�I think perhaps it can be a loosened nut or maybe it�s you hit something you shouldn�t have so� Anyway, I need to remove something to try and get back it.�

�No, get out of there and enough.� I said. �You will end up by hurting yourself.�

�Why?� She asked. �Yuck!! Men! How long haven�t you clean here?!�

Then we saw how a fur ball rolled to our sight. Then we saw it was in fact a dead rat.

And Naoki began shouting so the dogs came.

�Hey, don�t allow them to eat it.� She told us. �Nero, Lucius, out.� She told them then.

The two dogs didn�t left, but they lay at the door.

A minute later we saw her legs disappear and then I decided to get there too.

�Not enough wide for me�� I muttered when I wasn�t able to get in where she was. �How is it?�

�Good.� She said. �Could you turn the green thing to the right, please?�

Naoki then turned it and she shouted and we heard a thud.

�Are you ok?� I asked her.

�Sorry! Sorry, sorry, sorry�� Naoki said.

�Ouch! I said to the right!� She said a bit angry. �I have hit myself against the heater��

�Ok, ok.� He said. �Then� here you are.�

�Thanks.� She said. �Ah!� She said as we heard a hissing to the stop. �Try with the blue now.�

Ten minutes later the heater was working again after some little troubles and she began working to put everything on her way back as normal before getting out.

Then I laughed as I saw her with her hair messed, wet and dirty, as her face and hands, with black powder and dirt from the place.

�You look as a sexy tramp.� Naoki said laughing too.

Then she looked at herself and laughed softly too.

(Naoki�s voice)

�It�s incredible she finally laugh.� I told Ren as we got the motorbikes ready for some practice.

�Well, you must agree with me that she was so funny with all that dirt all over her and with her hair so messy that you couldn�t help laughing.� He said back. �I hope she wants to come to see us and doesn�t get bored.�

�I think girls would kill for seeing us doing whatever we want to do.� I told him. �What do you think she will be wearing like when she gets down?�

I began trying to imagine it, but I couldn�t. We allowed her to get anything she needed from our wardrobes because her clothing was now just washed or getting dried but still wet as we checked before getting out.

�Don�t know.� He said then. �I bet it will not be a dress, so perhaps something of us.�

Anyway, when she came out I felt as if my eyes were about falling from its orbs and Ren wore the same face.

She was wearing her long and wavy hair untied with a bandana holding it backwards off her face; she seemed to have went into both Ren and mine�s wardrobes and took a pair of elastic tissue faking leather from Ren�s and a hooded sleeveless sweater from me.

What I loved more was the sweater whose arm hole was so big that her breast was barely seen so she had put a tube top covering her breast and allowing us to see the rest.

�Well, where are we going?� She asked smiling as she came to us.

�We were thinking on free-styling a bit.� Ren said.

�I ask to carry her.� I said faster than him.

She then smiled as Ren offered her a helmet. It was his own so he would ride without it. In exchange she gave him the bandana he tied to cover his head. Then we cycled fast towards our favourite spot to practice.

Ren�s Part

Naoki and I were cycling doing some freestyling while Isa was sat on a rock seeing us and clapping for our best acrobatics. Naoki was beginning to go happy of catching her attention so well, and I smiled as I knew she was just seeing him as a friend. Anyway, even I was proud of catching her sight and her claps when I did it well.

�Hey, who is best?� Naoki said when we stopped and taking his helmet off.

�Both were good.� She said.

�Do you want to have a try?� I asked her offering my motorbike. �If you know how to drive a motorbike.�

�I can drive both motorbikes and cars, thanks.� She told me smiling to stand up and get my helmet.

�Er� be careful not to fall, ok?� I told her when I realised perhaps she could drive it but not freestyle.

�I promise I�ll do my best for not falling.� She said putting all her hair in the helmet the best she could and fastening it.

�Try copying an easy one.� Naoki said.

�I bet I can surprise you.� She said.

�Allow me to disagree.� Naoki said. �And if I�m not surprised then you will sleep in my bedroom.�

�And if I surprise you I sleep with Ren?� She said joking.

�Well, it sounds ok for me.� Both Naoki and I said.

�Ok� later do not cry.� She said lowering the visor of the helmet. �It was you who suggested the bet.�

We really doubted she could do anything to surprise us; but obviously we were mistaken.

We saw her get to the beginning of the way we used for doing freestyling and make the motorbike let out smoke as she held the brake. Then she let it go and we saw the motorbike begin running faster and faster.

Anyway she didn�t stop there. We saw her do some acrobatics over the motorbike without falling, then she stopped at the end of the track and with a single step on the ground, she turned the motorbike to go back the other way round.

And then she made us held our breath when we saw her flying doing a perfect curl with her motorbike on the air, then she linked it with a perfect angel acrobatic, literally flying over the motorbike with it without even touching it but for her belly. Then she sat back on before landing and stopped the motorbike.

�What do you think?� She said taking the helmet off. �In a real bet I would have got the motorbike.�

�I think she won� again.� I said swallowing and holding Naoki�s collar to prevent him to jump to her neck once again.

�For a night, I have Ren at my bedroom.� She said winking. �Your fans would kill me, and any room would be better than the one with so much disgusting pink things.�

�See?� I told them. �I told Reira million times pink is not nice.�

�But pink is so femalish�� Naoki said as a deceived little kid.

�It�s disgusting.� Isa said. �Since I was six it has make me go sick. In fact I think that since that age I have never ever wore pink. I could Green, blue, white, red� all colours but for pink.�

�Ok, ok. You don�t like pink.� We said. �And what about food?�

�We know you like strong drinks.� Naoki said. �I mean� Takumi will kill you if he finds out you ended up his vodka. He treasured it.�

�I�ll buy him a bottle.� She said. �I will give him one of my personal collection, happy?�

�I don�t think he wants to die from vodka drinking.� I said. �He will burn inside and die.�

�That�s not true!!� She said offended. �It�s just vodka! It�s not poison!!�

�I don�t think�� Naoki began telling me about it when we reached back the hut.

�Believe me; she must have a steel stomach� I answered him while she got in the hut again and rubbed her pet�s heads motherly.

She then walked out to walk the dogs a bit and we stayed in getting some food of the cooked one we had brought ready for dinner time when she returned.

�I don�t believe she has any kind of strength against strong alcoholic drinks.� Naoki said. �How would have her developed it? She is said to come from a wealthy family.�

�Maybe cause of that.� I answered him. �Or maybe because she is also say to have been drinking strong things since she was elder enough for it.�

�I wonder what kind of life she has had for being such a surprising lash.� He then said.

(Isa�s voice)

I couldn�t believe when Ren and Naoki brought me to my agency�s training camp the very following morning.

We were silent because the three of us knew what happened the previous night. The kisses at the darkness of the living-room just lighted by the fire at the fireplace. Even when I knew I had definitively broken up with Nobu, I wasn�t feeling completely well with that all.

�We have a party tonight at Tokyo�s suburbs.� Naoki said. �Perhaps you would not mind to come.�

�C�mon Naoki.� Ren said. �I bet Blast was also invited.�

�I don�t know.� I said going out of my daylight awaken sleep. �I should turn my cell phone on��

Then it burst on messages and lost calls. That made me go surprised and Naoki and Ren laugh after a while.

That made me feel a bit better, while I picked up the little things I brought there they took care of my babies and then I went out to pick my car and put all in the boot.

�Ok, ready to leave.� I said. �You got lot of messages and calls; won�t you have a look at it?�

�Yeah, yeah.� I said. �While I�m on the way back.�

�I think I�ll drive your car while you do it.� Ren said then. �I�m not too fond of the idea but� Naoki could drive my car.�

�Yeeep!!� Naoki said happy. �I�ll finally being allowed to drive that car!!�

�Just because we don�t want our best competitor�s singer to get died on a car crash.� Ren told him.

He then smiled at me and offered me his hand. I didn�t thought when I hit it smiling. No, I needed no help. I had noticed it now. I was hard and that was why Nobu dropped me. Because he got tired of having to stand at my shadow on protecting matters; than that the fact that in the past I was not a good girl either. Yes, I had lot of mistakes I now regretted, but I never dropped them because I got pregnant from other man.

That was I thought while I heard all the messages at my mobile and read the written messages.

�So, anything important?� Ren asked me.

�No that I can see�� I said ending reading and beginning listening again. �Work, friend�s mails� More work, you see?�

Then I heard a familiar voice on the other end of the phone and I went white. Ren must have notice it because he went a bit worried.

�Anything wrong?� He asked me.

�Yes, my family.� I said worried hanging the phone down. �I mean� my father will be giving a party and as he is ill my brother has told me to go to the party.�

�Then go.� He said throwing his cig through the window.

�No.� I said dryly. �You can�t understand it, can you? I decided to live apart from them.�

�C�mon�� He said making me put my head at his chest with just one arm. �I know you are willing to go. Forget your pride just for once and go.�

�So, what is that all for?� I said separating from him. �I don�t want to go. I don�t want to become a porcelain doll again.�

�Really?� He asked me. �I have never seen a human doll. Do you also wear those little robes and cute things?�

That made me laugh softly.

(Yasu�s voice)

�It can�t be true.� I said while Nobu had breakfast with Shin and me.

�You have gone back with that actress?� Shin asked. �I can�t believe you did. After all you dropped our Isa because she seemed to have had some past relations she is not much proud of.�

�That�s true.� Nobu said. �But at least Yuri didn�t lie to me. She told me who she was from the first moment. Isa didn�t tell me she had been dating so much famous men. And a porn star!!�

�Ah, and Yuri is Mother Teresa of Calcutta too?� Shin said angry. �I�m not going to be angry for you dropping her with such weak accusations, but I�ll be mad if you said so and then began going out again with an old porn star.�

Then I had to step between both. Even if I had to agree with Shin that Nobu was being too twisted for him, I couldn�t allow them to fight openly in a public place.

�Let�s wait for her to arrive and then we will see.� I said.

Then Shin stood up and walked to the toilets angry, that moment was when I took my opportunity to speak Nobu man to man.

�I agree with him.� I told him. �Saying a thing and then doing the opposite is too twisted for you. If you wanted to drop her just had tell her openly why and do not lie such obviously to everyone.�

�I didn�t lie to her.� He answered. �It�s just� she has lied to me. She never told me how many men she did before me. And I can�t keep on acting as if nothing was happening trying to protect someone who doesn�t want to be protected.�

�You should have told her that way.� I said softly after falling silent for some seconds. �I can�t force you to go back with her but��

�I hate when you think I don�t care about her.� He said a bit angrily looking away. �I don�t want her to be depressed.�

�If you are not going to date her then you should care less about her.� I told him off. �And if you care so much of her then go back going out with her, idiot.�

I think I was a bit too hard to him, but he was needed of it. If he wanted us to tell him he did it well, to support him� that he was mistaken.

Anyway, when Shin came out, Nobu said he was on hurry and left.

�Do you think he will understand?� Shin asked me.

�I don�t think he has even grow up much since Nana times.� I recognised. �Anyway, have you told your cousin about the party tonight?�

�Yes.� Shin told me. �I suppose she turned her mobile off cause I have called her lot of times but she has not answered.�

�Well, then she must have it doubled cause I did the same.� I said lighting a cig.

(Ren�s voice)

�So, you are coming to the party?� I asked her.

�Yes, I think so.� She answered smiling. �Yasu and Shin told me about it so I must suppose they are also going.�

�I�ll come to pick you up then.� Naoki whispered her smiling. �But do not tell Ren.� He added winking at her sexily.

�Naoki, she is mine now.� I told him. �Do not forget it.�

�I�m not of anyone�s.� She answered standing stiff. �Anyway, yes. I�d thank someone came to pick me up. But I bet Gaia would send someone to pick me up.�

�Don�t worry, it will not be a too smart party.� Naoki said. �Just� family party.�

�I know how family parties are for high status people, don�t worry.� She said smiling. �I�ll be reluctant yet I hate those kind of parties.�

�I bet you are.� I said. �You have lot of personality, you are hard. I bet you will just look brilliant to show everyone you can do it.�

�We will see.� She said. �It�s lot of time since I don�t wear like that so� perhaps I deceive you. Till tonight.� She said smiling.

�See you then.� Both of us said.

�Ok, let�s bet on the outfit.� Naoki said. �I say she will wear something princess like, as Reira.�

�I can�t see her like that.� I said driving and trying to imagine it. �No, I say she will wear smart but not too much. Something cool but on the same time comfortable.�

�Don�t think so.� Naoki said laughing. �She will look as a princess and Reira will have competence.�

�We will see, tonight.� I answered him.

(Isa�s voice)

�Ahhh!!� Yuki the male caretaker in the staff that Gimpei sent to pick me up said when he saw me going out of the lift wearing my blue channel night dress for casual parties on the high spheres. �So cute!!�

�Thanks.� I said smiling and laying my head slightly to a side. �I wanted to match the party.�

�It�s just so� surprising. You will certainly catch the attention at the party.� He told me while he drove to the party place.

�And why is it so surprising?� I asked confused. �I mean� I thought you had already seen me like this on one of the concerts.�

�Yes, but� after Nobu and you broke up�� He said making me shocked. �We thought you would not be on mood to come so pretty.�

�Ah, Yuki, Yuki, Yuki.� I said smiling with my eyes closed in pride. �You still have to learn about women�s minds.� I added looking at him by the very corner of my eyes. �I want to show him I�m ok and what he is missing since the very moment he dropped me.�

�You are so cool!� He said in admiration making me laugh.

(Nobu�s voice)

�Are you sure she would come?� Shin asked nervous. �I can�t see her!�

�Just stop worrying.� I told him. �You know her, she will make an entrance.�

�Nobu!!� Yuri said waving at me. �How happy to see you are here!!�

She was really sexy wearing a red dress that looked as a Channel or a Prada, letting half seen her breast.

�What is she doing here?� Yasu and Shin asked me with serious faces as if they were angry. �What would happen if she sees?�

�I�� I began saying trying to find an excuse.

�Yuri!� Naoki said arriving too. �Oh, dear! You also came! I didn�t know you were invited too!! Perhaps you would not mind me showing you the bedrooms?!�

�Stop it!� I said.

�Haven�t you thought on what would happen if Isa finds out?� Shin told me off.

�Too late.� Ren said putting his cig off and pointing with his sight to the door where Yuki, one of our staff members had appeared with the red hair untied floating around Isa. And she made our jaws fall down as we saw her wearing a blue dress matching perfectly to her red hair.