Hiboshi and Tomoe had just finished breakfast and were heading over to the shop part of Hiboshi’s residence when a knock sounded on the side door. Hiboshi went over and opened it to find a red headed kid with a strange look on his face that gave her the impression he had done one too many drugs lately. “Can I help you?” She asked blocking the opening so he couldn’t get in, she glared at him fully prepared to slam the door in his face and deadbolt it.
Tomoe peeked around Hiboshi’s skirt feeling like a small child hiding behind their mother. Not that she had many choices if she wanted to see who it was. Hiboshi was wearing a big western gown that puffed up to make anything below her hips look like a tent, which happened to take up the entire door. So her choice was to look like a child or to try to see from the window. She got an eyeful of who it was and her gaze widened “Leeaif… What are you doing here?” Last she had seen him; he had freaked out and ran into the night. One of her eyes turned blue as Ko joined her to see Leeaif’s return. “What was with before? Are you O.k.?” Tomoe asked noticing the lack of expression that looked wrong on Leeaif’s face. ‘What do you think happened to him?’ Ko asked inside Tomoe’s mind. ‘This doesn’t look right.’ He continued.
‘I don’t know.’ Tomoe whispered mentally. Beginning to feel skeptic and suspicious she pushed her way in front of Hiboshi to take a protective stance between the two. “What’s going on?” She spit out; her worry at the weirdness slowly growing. What if Leeaif had just been a spy this entire time? She apparently thought that a little too loudly because Ko started to deny it ‘No he couldn’t be a spy, I traveled with him all the way here, that doesn’t make any sense!’
‘I was there too Ko. Although I don’t want to believe it either, don’t let your guard down.’
A door opening and closing near the front banged in the background echoing to reach their ears. It was too early for it to be a customer so it had to be that new employee Hiboshi had talked about. “Hello, Hiboshi?” a faint question followed into the now dead silence. Tomoe looked over at Hiboshi and nodded towards the front telling her to get herself to safety in case a fight erupted.
Hiboshi picked up the message and left going to greet the new arrival. “I’m coming!” She shouted as she headed towards Aiko. Her footsteps sounded as they daintily clapped down the hall to the bar until the room was filled with silence. Tomoe stared up Leeaif from directly in front of him wondering what in the world was going on…
