Yomiko Ra-chan: Aka 'The Paper'

[Music-chan]

During the long conversation, Yomiko was suppose to be looking up information on the whole Aoyama angle, but she had been slightly distracted by the conversation between the two 'guys.'  At the mention of showers, she just rolled her eyes and muttered under her breath as she stared down at the phone listing on the table.

"Boys.....sounds like somebody needs to get laid or something."

But the conversation dragged on....and on......by the time the others had acknowledged her again, there was no response.  Had any of the others looked around the large stack of books the woman had sat behind, they would have found Yomiko 'Ra-chan' with her head on the telephone directory, sound asleep.

[Bean Bandit]

Nenene leaned back in her chair, glancing around the pile of books on the desk at Yomiko, smiling slightly. "Just like her..." Shaking her head, she turned back to Ritsuko.

"Well, we have one address already. Why don't you go find her...or him." She smirked, having overheard the phone call, "And we'll wake up...uhm...Her, and look into the Kinomoto angle, and we can meet up later?"

[Carthrat]

"Sure, but I gotta get to my tank at some point today," replies Carthrat. "It's important.

But yeah, I can get to Ryder's place. You'll need to give me some money for a train, or just drive me down. They don't have metal detectors or anything on the subway, right?"

[Bean Bandit]

Nenene gave Ritsuko a baleful look. "You don't want much, do you?" she said, and eyed the girl. "No, there are no metal detectors, but a teenage girl without her bellybutton showing is somewhat out of place." she commented wryly as she dug in he pocket and pulled out a thousand yen bill, flipping it to the redhead. "Anything else?"

[Carthrat]

"Yeah. Where's the station?" replies Carthrat, pocketing the yen. "What line should I catch?"

[Bean Bandit]

Nenene gave her a sharp look. "Do NOT go to the train station. Take the subway. There's a station just outside the district, on the west side. And get a map. Next?"

[Carthrat]

"Yeah. Give me your mobile number," replies Carthrat, producing a notebook and a pen from somewhere. "In case something happens and I can't get to Ryder."

[Bean Bandit]

Nenene nodded, and rattled off a number. "Though, that has a fairly short range...if you can't get ahold of it, call my apartment, and leave a message." she added, and rattled off another number.

[Carthrat]

"Right," replies Carthrat, pocketing the notebook and grabbing her backpack. "I'll be going, then. I'll call you when I get there. Ja!"

[Bean Bandit]

"Ja." Nenene replied, waving as the girl left. Smirking slightly, got up and walked over to where Yomiko had taken her impromtu nap, and shook her gently. "Sensei...? Or Ra-chan...?"

[Music-chan]

At Nenene's touch, the dark-haired girl jerked upright with such force that she nearly fell backwards in her chair.  Her eyes were wide, still caught in some dream or rememberance.

"I WASN'T SLEEPING ON THE JOB! I'll get right on it! I-!"

Blinking, Ra-chan looked around, the dream fading and the reality of her situation coming back to her.  She picked up her glasses, which had dropped off her face at the sudden force of her awakening, and repositioned them on her face once more.

"I'm sorry! I was suppose to be looking up something, wasn't it? It's just that before this whole mess I had an early shift at work and I was yanked rather preemptively out of that and I'm still quite tired. I think most of the other guys had more rest than I had....maybe."  Taking a deep breath, "Yomiko" glanced around, then back down at the book she had slept on, rubbing her face in a distracted manner to remove the red splotch on her cheek.

"You know, I know a bit about Yomiko-chan and Nancy-san, but I'm afraid I hardly know anything about you. Before we continue, could you at least tell me how I should refer to you as? I don't even know your given name...."

[Bean Bandit]

Nenene smiled, and shrugged. "I wouldn't worry about it. I can imagine that this is something of a strange situation." She perched on the desk corner, and folded her arms under her breasts, a slightly sardonic look on her face.

"And...as for what to call me, it doesn't matter, really. Sensei and I were good friends, but she has a deep rooted respect for authors, and wouldn't call me anything but sensei...and when we first met, she was a substitute in one of my high school classes...so I called her Sensei, too. We never really got out of the habit. You can use my name, though, if you like. I'm Sumirada Nenene. What should I call you?"

[Music-chan]

"Ahhh, you can call me Yomiko if that makes you feel better. I'll get used to responding to that soon, hopefully.  But my name in my universe is Rachelle, or Ra-chan for short.  The guys also knew me as Inuyasha-chan, but that's a long story."

She grinned faintly and tried to smooth down the long hair, which had gotten rather mussed from her unplanned snooze. "I might just call you Nenene, but I can try for sensei too. We'll see.  Anyway, now that we have that cleared up, I guess we should be heading out.  Where did Rat go?"

[Bean Bandit]

"Either's fine." Nenene said easily, then nodded at the door. "She went out to meet up with the person she was on the phone with...you and I and Nancy need to look up someone...quite young."

The brown haired woman slid off the desk, and ran her fingers through her own hair. "Is there anything you know about this 'Sakura Kinomoto' that will make looking for her easier?"

[Music-chan]

"Sakura? Card Captor Sakura?"  'Yomiko' gave Nenene a wide-eyed look for a moment, then shook her head and held up her hands defensively.  "The only things I know about her is that she's a Card Captor. I never actually watched.....studied....whatever. My knowledge of her is limited. But I DO know what she looks like, if that helps.  I know she has an older brother as well, but that's about it. I'm not sure if that helps.....unless perhaps you cross-reference what names and addresses you might have with any sort of weird happenings in the area.  I think that would be the best way to narrow down choices, don't you think?"

Quietly, to her self, Ra-chan was sincerily hoping that Cy wasn't the one who had ended up in Sakura's body....