Omake Chapter 1-D: Kanako

[Bean Bandit]

Sun dawned over the Hinata Inn, delicate tendrils of light poking playfully over the horizon, and probing into the large, recently refurbished building.

The inhabitants of the building all slept peacefully, and perhaps none more so that the young woman sleeping in the manager's room.

Resting on a futon, and under a thick comforter, her bound black hair lay neatly on the pillow her head rested on, her catlike eyes closed in sleep. Beside her on the double-wide wide futon lay a man sized lump, topped with short black hair. On the floor beside the woman...girl, really, a small cat with extraordinarily large ears snoozed quietly.

It was to this young girl that another of the summoned spirits came, and stirred within her body...

[Kwokinator]

Kwok opened his eyes.  He felt weird... although he couldn't quite describe the sensation.  

Unfamiliar ceilling...

Wait a minute, forget about the ceiling.  The entire room is different!

He then noticed the man-sized lump next to him.

"AAHH!!" he screamed, and quickly hopped up and away, giving the lump a nice kick.

"Wait a minute, that's not my voice..."

[Bean Bandit]

The man-sized lump rolled away, pulling the comforter with it, and was revealed to be another futon, tied in a roll, and topped, strangely, by a black wig, that fell off as it rolled onto the bedroom floor.

As Kanako hopped out of bed, she was immediately struck by the chill of the morning air, as the window to the room had been left open...

[Kwokinator]

Kwok ran to the window and looked out.

"Maybe I can tell where the hell I am... then I can do something..."

[Bean Bandit]

Beyond the window, Kanako could see a well-kept yard, and a thick forest grove of trees, scattered beyond the reach of the grounds.

To her right, she could see the wall of the building she was in, which extended for a fair ways beyond the wall of the bedroom she was in. A little further than the house itself, the neat and tidy yard gave way to a more wild looking field of grass, and sand and stones were in evidence scattered about. A soft breeze brushed her cheeks, whipping a long lock of long black hair up to tickle her cheek, as the breeze also carried a faint sound of bubbling water, possibly a creek, or small river of some sort.

To her left, the neatly kept yard extended until a hill ended the visible ground, and if she looked from far enough out, she could see a simple, but carefully maintained stone walkway leading up to the house.

Directly in front of her, a youngish man, dressed in a t-shirt and shorts, and a pair of small rectangular glasses, and a round head topped off with a mop of black hair similar to the wig that had rolled off of the rolled up futon she had been sleeping beside, looked up at her.

"Oi! Morning!" he called, and then REALLY looked. "ACK!" he exclaimed, falling over backward as his nose began to bleed heavily.

[Kwokinator]

Kwok's eyes widened as he recognized who the young man was.

"AH!" he practically screamed. "What's Keitaro doing here?!"

[Bean Bandit]

Just then, there was a slight scraping sound, and head with long, light reddish hair poked down from the ceiling of the bedroom behind Kanako.

"Good morn-!!! Kanako, what are you doing in Keitaro's bedroom dressed like that!" she demanded.

[Kwokinator]

"What?" Kwok practically cried. "Kanako?!"

He looked around for a mirror, hoping that he didn't really turn into Kanako.

[Bean Bandit]

Fortunately, the room had a small mirror on the wall closest to the door, across the room from where Kanako was now.

The red-haired girl slipped easily through the hole in the ceiling, dropping lightly to the floor to stare at Kanako at first in annoyance and in growing concern.

"Kanako-chan, are you alright?" She asked her, eyeing the girl oddly. "I know Keitaro didn't seem to recognize you yesterday, but there's no reason to flip out over a guy like that..."

[Kwokinator]

Kwok looked into the mirror.  

He really WAS Kanako...

"I'm alright," he waved it off. "But I think I slept too much... I forgot where my room is..."

[Bean Bandit]

The red-headed girl, Naru, gave Kanako a strange look.

"You must have slept too much. You've stayed in this room since you came here." she replied, and cast a glance about. "Where did Keitaro sleep?"
Naru asked, then blinked at Kanako's attire, which consited solely of a corset and panties, and a slightly alarmed expression crept across her features. "He didn't sleep with you, did he?"

[Kwokinator]

Kanako pointed out to the window.

"He slept there..."

[Bean Bandit]

Naru blinked and walked over to the window, and smothered a grin as she saw Keitaro being chased around the lawn by two small blond girls. "Idiot..."

She turned back to Kanako, bowing apologetically. "Sorry...when I saw you in his room dressed like that, the first day after he got back, I just thought..."

[Kwokinator]

"That's okay," Kwok smiled back a bit. "I don't mind."

"Can you, err, leave me alone for a moment?  I need to do some thinking..."

[Bean Bandit]

Naru looked slightly suprised by the request, but shrugged. "Allright..."

She replied nodding and hopping up, and grabbing the edge of the hole in the ceiling, the stretch required exposing her midriff as her pajama top lifted away from the bottoms, and with a slight wiggle, pulling herself back through the hole in the ceiling up to her own room.

A slight scraping sound, and the hole was covered again, and Kanako was alone...