Yomiko Ra-chan: Aka 'The Paper'

[Carthrat]

"Don't forget Sakura," chimes in Carthrat, shrugging. "But, yeah. Don't mind me for the next fifteen minutes."

Carthrat wanders off, intent on getting cleaned, and then hopefully finding some more-suitable clothing for wandering around in.

[Bean Bandit]

Nenene nodded. "Tell me what you're looking for, and we can see..." she offered. "I should be able to narrow it down, at least..."

[Asrana]

Nancy took a deep breath, trying to ingest the information that was assaulting her in droves. "No...it's alright...they don't really need me that much at work, unless there's an emergency, and then they have my pager..." she shrugged, smiling helplessly.

"But, if you don't really have a use for me, I guess I should go...?"

[Bean Bandit]

Nenene smiled at Nancy. "If you really want to help, I can probably use you." she offered. "But you shouldn't risk your job for it..."

[Asrana]

Nancy shook her head, smiling. "It's no risk, I just need to call in first."

[Bean Bandit]

**Timeskippiness!**

About a half hour later, they resumed their positions at the kitchen table, Nenene having retrieved a laptop computer from her car, and began connecting to the internet, and Nancy having discovered a bookshelf dedicated entirely to phone books for Tokyo and it's wards.

Nenene looked to Yomiko curiously. "Alright, we're ready. Who're we looking for?"

[Carthrat]

"Minako Aino, of Juuban ward," replies Ritsuko. "Umm.. Tsuruko Aoyama, and Sakura Kinamoto. That's it. I don't know anything about the last two."

[Asrana]

Nancy sighed, blowing a lock of purple hair out of her eyes. "Right...thank whoever invented register sorting..." she murmured, pulling up one of the thick volumes, and beginning to search...

[Bean Bandit]

After a few moments of entering instructions to her computer, Nenene turned to Ritsuko with a puzzled look.

"The only address I can find for any Aoyama family is a post office box in a small town in near Kyoto..." she told the girl, frowning. "I might be mistaken, but you don't really have time for that, do you?"

[Music-chan]

Yomiko was nibbling on what was left of her breakfast, a piece of some sort of bread, and leaned over Nenene's shoulder.  "That's probablly where she lives, but I still don't think we can rely on her, or any of our friends, to stay stationary.  Did you find the address for the Hina hot springs?"

With her free hand, the dark-haired woman riffled with a stack of index cards idly, her mind trying to turn over how to arrange all this.  "We could call the place, I guess. Do they have a phone number we can contact?  And we could call the Hina boarding house as well....maybe the woman is there.  There's just too many options!"

[Carthrat]

"Let's look up the others first," replies Carthrat. "We'll try and find out as much as we can before delving deeper."

[Bean Bandit]

Nenene nodded, and turned back to her computer, glancing idly at Yomiko. "Do you want me to send an email to someone who might be where she is before we move on?"

[Carthrat]

"Sure," replies Carthrat. "Make out the sender to be one C-Rat, or at least the subject, and tell him to reply for more details, including *his* name."

[Bean Bandit]

"Gotcha." The bespectacled woman replied, her fingers flying over the keyboard. Within moments, she switched to resuming the search for the remaining two...

[Asrana]

It was only a few moments later when Nancy spoke up, holding a finger on a name in the phone book. "Cell phone number for Aino Minako?" she asked the other three, looking up.