Aamori gave a small smile when Yu hugged her and then started to run off. She sighed softly and continued to walk. It took her longer then before but she did finally at least make it to the bridge. She paused when she reached the bridge and stood there for a moment while shaking her head slightly. She hadn't even made it back to the house yet and already she was embarrassed. Though, walking all that way in her undies probably wasn't helping too much either and she still had farther to go. She gave a heavy sigh and finally got herself moving again. When she reached the house she just stood outside debating with herself on wether or not she wanted to go inside or leave and try to figure out some way to remove the thorns herself.

Kanone and Sonia had gotten back not all that long ago, but Sonia had gone to bed already. Kanone was just sitting in his room polishing all of the fingerprints off of his fiddle before putting it away. He was starting to worry about Aamori since he hadn't noticed her anywhere in the house...but then again he hadn't checked everywhere. He sighed once he had his fiddle put away and stood up again, starting for his bedroom door. He'd already removed his nice clothes and taken his hair down for the night. He was wrapped up in a robe just like the one Celestine had put on earlier, though his was blue rather than green, and a little shorter. His only came down to his knees. He wasn't really planning to go out, he just wanted to give the house a good once over. If she wasn't here he could bet both his pinkies that he knew where she was.He checked the only available bedroom and didn't see her, so he checked the bathroom, but the door was standing wide open. He peeked into Celestine's room and shook his head when he saw him sleeping with that big dog thing. Well...that was pretty much every room up here. He finally turned back around and started for the stairs, heading down to check out the lower level. Hell he may raid the ridge while he was down there.

Aamori lingered outside for awhile longer still debating with herself. Though, she pretty easily came to the conclusion that there was no way she could remove the thorns herself. She'd have to ask someone to help her, maybe Hikari or LaRae. She could only hope that one of them was awake still. She gave a heavy sigh and finally started up the porch and towards the door. She quietly cracked it open and slipped inside, making sure to shut it again behind her. She glanced around for a moment, seeing LaRae asleep on the couch and then Hikari asleep too. She shook her head lightly and then walked over to the bench where her staff was and set down her sandals and skort.

Nero was still sitting in the kitchen, at the table. He was leaned back in the chair with his arms crossed over his chest and his head tilted down so that his hair was in his face. He'd dozed off a few times, off and on but he was currently awake.

Kanone had just gotten halfway down the hallway that led to the kitchen when he heard the door open and stopped. He looked back and sighed softly when he saw Aamori come in. Well that saved him from having to check the kitchen. He turned back around and walked quietly up behind her, his bare feel making hardly any noise on the hardwood floor. "Hmm not a sight I'm going to get to see again, huh?" He asked playfully. "Did you seriously walk all the way back here like that?" he asked with a quiet chuckle. He couldn't see her rear end for her hair, so he couldn't tell why she hadn't put on her skort...he just thought maybe she didn't feel like it.

Aamori hadn't heard Kanone when he came up behind her and startled easily. She was glad she'd set her things down already or else she'd probably have dropped them. She hadn't thought that anyone was still awake, since everyone in the living room at least was asleep. She tilted her head down slightly, incredibly embarrassed to say the least. "I hadn't intended on being around you like this again..." She paused. "...Yes ...I did." She said quietly, referring to walking all the way back here like this. She gave a heavy sigh. "...I slipped and fell..." She muttered quietly.

Kanone laughed softly when she said that she walked all the way back like this, but he cooled it when she said that she'd slipped. "Are you alright?" he asked softly. He put his hand on her shoulder and turned her around a little, trying to look at her face. "Hey don't be too embarrassed, I've seen it once already." he said simply. "Where did you fall?" He guessed she must have done something to herself if she hadn't gotten dressed again. There didn't appear to be anything on her skort so he assumed that it just hurt too much to put it back on.

Aamori glanced at him for a moment when he turned her around, then gave a sigh. "...I'll be alright." She said quietly. "...And I'm not exactly embarrassed about you seeing me like this again. I mean.. It's not like it's anything new to you." She commented with a pause. She shook her head slightly and then averted her eyes. "...Lets just say that I'm rather klutzy when my feet are wet and smooth rocks aren't very friendly. Oh... and those stupid flowers don't like me one bit." She muttered the last part about the flowers.

Kanone smiled at her and shook his head slightly with another soft chuckle. "Oh, I get it." he said when she said that the rocks weren't very friendly. He smiled weakly when she mentioned the flowers again. "Oh... Did you learn the first time?" he asked playfully and then glanced down. "Um..." he blushed slightly and averted his eyes, "Do I need to get the tweezers again?"

Aamori sighed softly. "It isn't like I purposely tired to fall on them..." She said as started to look back at him. She couldn't help the faint pink that hit her cheeks when he asked if he needed to get the tweezers. She thought about it briefly and gave another sigh. If the thorns didn't hurt like they did she probably would've tried to wait it out until either Hikari or LaRae woke up, but the longer it went the more sore it got. "...Um..." She paused. "...I'd really appreciate the assistance." She said quietly.

Kanone snickered and then coughed quietly to cover it. "Ahem...Alright." He said with a sort of grin. This was definitely going to be awkward... "Well come on, don't think I can do this with you standing up." he said simply as he started for the stairs. He paused and glanced back to her briefly and then gave her a slight smile. He knew it had to be uncomfortable for her to walk like that so he walked back over to her and gently knocked her legs out from under her, letting her fall back onto his other arm as he picked her up. He smiled at her when he looked down and adjusted her weight slightly. "Sorry, just thought it's be a little easier on you than trying to walk up the stairs." He said simply as he started up. "Ew your hair's wet! I'm going to have to change robes." He said with another laugh.

Aamori shook her head slightly. Maybe I should've waited for one of the girls... She watched when he started towards the stairs and was about to follow after him but he'd already come back over. When she felt her legs knocked out from under her she very faintly squeaked. She looked up at him when she realized that he'd picked her up and then averted her eyes; Though she couldn't resist chuckling lightly when he said her hair was wet and he'd have to change. "...Did I forget to mention I fell into the lake after falling on the flowers?" She said lightly with a faint chuckle.

Kanone chuckled again as he reached the top of the stairs, "NO you didn't! Thanks, a lot, really." He said playfully as he went into the guest room. He set her on her feet again and smiled, "Here, just lay down on your stomach...I need to go see if I can even find the tweezers." he said as he rubbed the back of his head. He patted her shoulder and then left the room, heading to the bathroom which was only one door down. He went to the cabinet and started messing around until he finally found what he was looking for and then dashed back down to the stairs to get the cream that he'd put on those marks earlier since he'd forgotten to put it up earlier. He then came back to the room and smiled slightly at her. "Okay... Here we go..." he said as he went to set the cream down. "I think I will let you fend for yourself with that stuff." He said lightly. He highly doubted she wanted him rubbing that on her tail end.

Aamori looked at him and smiled a little. "It must have slipped my mind." She said quietly. She stood up straight once she was back on her feet and then glanced over at the bed when he told her to lay down. "Oh... um.. alright." She looked back at him for a moment and watched him leave the room before she stepped closer to the bed. She just stood there for a minute, starting at it; She knew that it was going to hurt when she tried to lay down. Then again, any movement hurt. She sighed heavy and then set her hands out in front of her while she bit her lip and crawled onto the bed. Sure enough, it hurt just as she thought it would. She lowered herself down and moved her arms so that she could rest her head against them. She turned her head and looked at Kanone for a moment once he'd come back into the room. She watched him set down the cream and then listened to what he said afterwards and chuckled lightly. "...I think I might be able to manage that." She paused. "But if you didn't want to do the cream for me you could've just said so." She said jokingly.

Kanone just grinned as he went to sit down on the edge of the bed. "Oh I never said I didn't want to... I just didn't want to get slapped when I started to." he said simply. He brushed her hair aside and looked down again, his face already turning red. He looked away and got up to turn on a lamp before sitting back down and leaning a little closer, trying to see where the thorns were. Unfortunately, they seemed to have just disappeared under the fabric of her underwear since they were so tiny. "Oh brother..." His face started to turn about three shades of red as he reached up to slide her bottoms down some. "Sorry I can't get to them any other way." He said as he turned his eyes up toward the opposite wall. He was trying to just pretend this was her back or her arm or just...well any other part of her but where it was. He sighed and finally turned his eyes back down again and quickly started to pick at the thorns, just dropping them on his robe as he got them out. He had to take it off later anyway.

Aamori blushed a bit more hearing what he said then shook her head lightly while burying her face into her arms. She continued to lay there relatively motionless when he moved her hair aside. Her ears perked up a little when she felt him get up from the bed but she didn't bother looking to see where he was going. She gave a soft sigh when she felt him sit back down on the bed and continued to just lay there. She flinched when she suddenly felt him slide her underwear down and was about to say something but he'd already apologized and given an explanation. Her face was well hidden so you couldn't tell that she was even starting to turn red. She gave a small sigh and tried to relax a bit, knowing full well what was coming next. Even though she was aware of what was coming she still startled with a yelp when he plucked the first thorn out. She tried to burry her face more to keep from making anymore noise; She didn't want to go waking anyone.

Kanone continued to pluck at the thorns quickly and silently, just trying to concentrate on what he was doing and not what he was looking at. Why was that so hard to do? It really wasn't helping that Aamori was one hell of a babe. He just sighed and shook his head again. He was at least trying to keep his mind from wandering, that had to count for something.

Celestine had been sleeping peacefully, at least until Kanone and Aamori got up there. He was a light sleeper anyway, on top of his having very sensitive hearing. Their voices were enough to start to drag him out of the sleep he was in, and Aamori's yelp was the final straw. He opened his eyes and then groaned and shut them again when he realized there were lights on, too. He couldn't very well sleep with a light shining in his face from the open door. He sighed and finally got up, intending to just go shut the door. He rubbed the top of Nobu's head for a second before sliding out of the bed and walking across the room. He paused for a moment and then stepped into the hallway and walked across to the other door to see what the hell they were doing. He stopped dead in his tracks when he saw Kanone in there and Aamori half naked. "What in the seven hells is going on in here!?" He snapped, sounding pretty angry. That was not what he wanted to wake up to.

Kanone startled, accidentally jabbing Aamori with the pointed tweezers as he was going for another thorn. "Ahh! What!?" he looked up to Celestine quickly and blushed again. "whoa whoa, no!" he said, already reading the look on Celestine's face.

"Couldn't you have at least closed the door!?"

Aamori had been trying her best to keep herself quiet while he plucked the thorns but she couldn't keep everything contained. She also started squirming a little every couple of thorns that were removed. She startled terribly when she heard Celestine and then yelped again when she felt the tweezers stab into her. She glanced over at Celestine only for a second before she reached for a pillow and pulled it down tightly over her head to hide her reddened face. Now she was really wishing that she had just waited until one of the girls got up; This picture had to look bad. Moments later she finally thought to extend her wings a bit to try and cover up her rear. There were still thorns so she obviously couldn't just get up and leave the room like she wanted to. She was now throughly embarrassed even more so then she thought possible.

Kanone's face was nearly as red as Aamori's. He pulled his hand back when she tried to cover herself and shook his head at Celestine. "No No No!!! This is so not what you're thinking! Look I have tweezers!" he said, holding them up as if that was supposed to mean something. He knew He knew him hovering over Aamori's butt in little more than a night robe was probably just screaming dirty thoughts in Celestine's mind.

Celestine's face was a little red as well just because he'd walked in on this. "What in the hell are you doing with those!? ...J-just...don't answer that..." he said, shaking his head. He raised his hand to his face to half hide it. God he couldn't believe this. Right across the hall with the door open and everything.

"I'm pulling thorns out of her butt, you genius what else would i be doing with them!?" He said as his face turned and even deeper shade of red. "Vengeful gods, Celestine, go back to bed!"

"Well why are you doing it!? You could have at least gotten another girl!"

"Everyone else was asleep! Geez, what is with you!? I'm just trying to help."

"You JUST met her today!" If she was going to ask a boy she could have at least gotten one that had known her for more than 12 hours.

Aamori continued to lay there barely moving, except for the pillow that she kept trying to pull down harder on. She really wished that she could just be invisible right now, or something. Anything to just stop the embarrassment of this situation. The part she hated most was no matter how much she tried to cover her head she could still hear them. She knew she shouldn't have come back; She should've just turned right back around instead of coming in the house. At least then she might have saved herself from this. And in the meantime, while they go back and forth she's still got thorns in her rear.

Kanone just stared at Celestine for a moment, "Well fine, here do you want to finish!?" He said, holding the tweezers out to him. "Since you've known her for for a whopping ten days."

Celestine just shook his head and turned around, "I'm going back to bed." He said as he slammed the door behind him and went back to his room, shoving that door closed behind him as well. He just went back over to the bed and heaved a heavy sigh as he crawled back under the covers and buried his head under the pillow. "It isn't meant for me to sleep..." he muttered in a muffled voice.

Kanone sighed when Celestine finally left and shook his head when he heard a second door close non too gently. He looked back over to Aamori again. "Well...that was sufficiently awkward......." he muttered before tapping her wing. "Do you want to keep the rest for a souvenir?"

Aamori's face only turned a brighter red when she heard Kanone ask Celestine if he wanted to finish. She nearly choked on her own breath, at least until she heard him say he was going back to bed. She then flinched at the sound of the door slamming and then again when the other door was shut. She just laid there for a moment longer before ripping the pillow off her head and then lifted it slightly while coughing a little. She'd forced the pillow down so hard she could've easily suffocated herself. Once she'd caught her breath she let her head plop right back down and then pulled her wings away from her rear so that he could get at the rest of the thorns. She gave a heavy sigh. "...Tell me about it..." She half muttered.

Nobu lifted his head up as soon as he heard the first door shut and then tilted it to the side when the second shut and watched as Celestine got back into bed. He just stared at him, buried under his bedding and then laid his head back down. He wasn't exactly sure what had gone on because he'd fallen asleep himself and based off this aftermath he wasn't so sure he even wanted to ask.

Kanone shook his head again and went back to plucking at the thorns again. "I don't know what he was having such a fit about. Guess he was jealous you didn't ask him first." he said with a snicker. He finally plucked the last thorn that he saw out and then lightly ran his hand over her skin to see if he'd missed any. "I'm not feeling you up, I promise." he said just before he did feel one. These things were really hard to see since they were white. He just plucked that one out as well and then sighed, "Alright...I think that's all of them." he said finally, tossing the tweezers onto the night stand.

Celestine just lay there for a few minutes before finally pulling his head out from under the pillow and resting on top of it again. He sighed and then finally just nuzzled his head against Nobu again and closed his eyes, though they didn't remain that way for too long. That image was pretty well burned into his mind. "Auhg... I give up..." He said as he rolled onto his back again and stared at the ceiling.

Aamori bit her lip when he started plucking thorns again; This time trying her hardest not to make any noise what so ever. She was at least glad she had her face to the bed because hearing that comment from Kanone made her face turn beat red again. "...I-I didn't ask anyone!" She paused. "Y-You offered... and everyone else was asleep..." She sighed. "...I knew I shouldn't have come inside..." She muttered. She tensed up when she felt his hand run over skin. "But you're enjoying it aren't you?" She asked quietly; Though not expecting him to answer. Once he said he thought he got them all and tossed the tweezers she gave a sigh and then rolled away from Kanone before pushing herself up and then getting up from the bed; In the process quickly pulling her panties back up. "...Thank you." She said quietly before turning back to look at him for a moment.

Nobu continued to lay there even when Celestine nuzzled against him again. He was about to go back to sleep but lifted his head up again when Celestine spoke and then rolled onto his back. '...You give up? ...Give up what?' He asked as he tilted his head.

Kanone just grinned when Aamori asked if he was enjoying it. Should he lie? When she got up and thanked him he just nodded, still with a hint of color in his cheeks. "No problem." He said simply and then grinned as he tossed the cream onto the bed again, "And yes, I enjoyed it very much." He said with a laugh. "Here, I'm going to change. You can sleep in here." He said simply as he got up to leave the room, closing the door lightly behind him. He went back to his room and changed onto another robe, this one black. He just sighed before leaving his room again and starting for the stairs. He was about ready for a drink.

Celestine just sighed again. "...Sleeping." He muttered, "I cant even close my eyes right now. I think I'm just going to sit outside." he said simply as he sat up again and rolled off the other side of the bed and went to the window. He just crawled out onto the edge of the roof and then walked around to the side of the window and stretched out on the shingles.

Aamori gently lifted her hand to her forehead slightly and shook her head with a soft laugh. Of course she'd known how he'd answer that; He'd only answered that way to all the other questions that were relevant to the topic. She lifted her eyes when she noticed the cream on the bed and just stared at it for a moment before looking back to Kanone. She gave a slight nod and watched him leave the room. Once he was gone she moved back over to the bed and picked up the cream. She gave a sigh and moved over to the end table and set it down. She didn't feel like bothering with that right now. She gave another heavy sigh and then just laid down on her stomach again on the bed. She was at least happy it didn't hurt so much to move around now. She was just sore and didn't think she'd be sitting for a little while. She reached for the pillow that she'd used to nearly suffocate herself and rested her head against it. Thinking about it she wasn't even sure herself what Celestine's fit was for and he couldn't possibly be jealous. What was there to be jealous about? She sighed softly and nuzzled lightly against the pillow.

Nobu just stared at Celestine for a moment and then watched as he got up from the bed again. '...Okay... Well... if you decide you want to try sleeping again come back inside because I doubt I'll be able to get on the roof...' He kept his eyes on Celestine until he was out of the room and then sprawled out on the bed again, taking up most of it.