Crossover antics with Erky~

[kyonko_narrates]

"Kyonko-chan! It's time to get up!"

Kyonko groaned, pulling the covers over her head and mentally cursing whoever decided that her little brother just had to be her own personal alarm clock. Really, why did he insist on waking her up this early every single day? It wasn't fair to her or

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[dontcallmeerky]

Erk's eyes flickered open slowly. "Mnuh? What is it, love?"

His headache must have been so bad he couldn't feel it now, because he thought he wasn't in pain but this room didn't look familiar at all.

[kyonko_narrates]

"Shhh!" she hissed, pressing a hand over his mouth. The last thing she needed was for her parents to catch a boy they didn't know in her bedroom.

"Come on, Kyonko-chan! Breakfast!" her brother cried, having finally stopped banging on the door.

"I'm up! I'm up! Let me get dressed and I'll meet you in the kitchen!" she shouted back before looking nervously back down at Erk.

[dontcallmeerky]

Erk blinked as his head cleared. Oh, dear. He wasn't hallucinating.

How he'd gotten to Kyonko's world, he didn't want to speculate. Well, he did, but not now. Preferably somewhere he was less likely to get caught.

"Do your parents usually check your room?" he whispered. He was hoping there was some way for him to get out of the house without getting caught.

[kyonko_narrates]

"No," she said quietly to make sure no one heard as she climbed out of bed, "But you might want to duck into the closet just in case."

She pulled her uniform out of the closet while she continued speaking.

"I can duck back after I leave for school with my brother claiming I forgot one of my workbooks, then give Nagato a call? He'll probably let you stay at his place for a bit while we figure this out."

"KYONKO-CHAAAAN! MOM MADE PANCAKES!" came her brother's voice and a renewed banging on the door.

"I'm coming!" she shouted in exasperation as she pulled off and threw aside the oversized shirt she'd worn to bed and began to change. She'd done this so many times in front of Erk she wasn't that embarrassed by it anymore.

[dontcallmeerky]

Erk nodded. "All right..." He'd been less comfortable places than inside a closet, so once she had everything out he slipped inside.

[kyonko_narrates]

She gave him a quick kiss before shutting the closet door and promising him she'd be back soon. Then, while still brushing her hair out, she headed downstairs, heart pounding in her chest.

'What are we going to do?'

After one of the more tense forty-five minutes of her life involving talking nice with her parents and hoping her father didn't decide to go back upstairs before he and her mother left for work and then dropping off her brother to walk to school with his friends, she ducked back to her house and up the stairs, cell phone in hand.

"Erk? You okay?" she hissed, going through her contacts list for Nagato's number and hoping he wasn't on his way to school already.

[dontcallmeerky]

"Fine. Just a little stuffy," he murmured, taking a deep breath. "Are your parents gone?"

[kyonko_narrates]

"Yeah, Mom shouldn't be back from the Daycare Center until after school and Dad doesn't get back from the office sometime around dinner," she explained, opening the door all the way to let him out while she waited for Nagato to pick up his phone.

[dontcallmeerky]

Erk sighed as he slipped out. It was lucky he'd fallen asleep in most of his clothes last night. "Well, this is a fine mess. I'd heard of a few others who ended up in different places occasionally, but none that went to a world that wasn't their own or another nexus..."

[kyonko_narrates]

Very lucky. Or Kyonko would be screwed in more ways than one.

"I have no idea what's going on either," she said with a sigh, tapping her foot impatiently while she waited for Nagato, "I mean, I'm glad you're here and all, but--Nagato? It's me! What? Fifteen minutes last night? Wow, time really does pass faster there than--yeah, Erk's here. Could he hide out in your place for now? ....My parents would murder him if they knew he was in my room. ....Okay! Thanks! See you at school. If I don't fake sick to avoid a tardy on my record. Bye!"

She snapped her phone shut and visibly relaxed.

"He says we're going to have to discuss a few things with the Brigade since this world hopping nonsense can't stay between just me and him now."

[dontcallmeerky]

"I kind of expected that," he sighed. "At least most of them should be halfway reasonable. Though I'm beginning to have my doubts about... Koizumi, since I recently met the male edition. He was perfectly civil, but he's a little... odd. Like he's talking more to himself than to you."

[kyonko_narrates]

"Itsuko can be like that, too," she said with a roll of her eyes, "She'll probably be in the weirdest position out of all of them because of this since her Organization is the only one directly involved with Haruki. Sort of. The Time Travelers and the Data Entities just observe, from what I've been told."

Which, in the end, wasn't all that much. Kyonko hadn't ever cared to ask that much about it, but now with Erk here she was very aware of how little she knew. She knew her famly wasn't in any kind of danger, but how would Erk be seen by the other organizations? Another rival? Someone who seduced her and was pulling her strings to get to Haruki? Someone who needed to be--

'I'm thinking way too hard about this.'

"It'll be okay. We'll figure this out," she said quietly, reaching for his hand. Then, out of nowhere, she leaned forward and kissed him briefly.

"Sorry. Just wanted to indulge in a fantasy I've had for a while."

[dontcallmeerky]

Erk nodded. "Hopefully they won't object to someone else suddenly-" and it was about here that he was cut off by the kiss.

"... What fantasy would that be?"

[kyonko_narrates]

"Kissing a boy in my room," she said shyly, looking away for a moment before returning to the issue at hand, "I don't think they can object at this point? You're here and they know if they try anything that Haruki's practically attached to my hip these days. Who in their right mind wants to piss off someone who is, for all intents and purposes, God?"

[dontcallmeerky]

"If they want me gone, they can work out how to get me home," Erk said, a little smugly - though it occurred to him that they might just kill him. Kyonko might do something drastic if they did, but that wouldn't do him a lot of good.

He pushed the thought away; worrying about it now wouldn't help anything.

[kyonko_narrates]

"Exactly. It's not like you're here on purpose or anything like that!" she said, his smugness bolstering her own confidence about this.

"I'm going to change into some street clothes and call in sick. It'll take a while to get to Nagato's place. There's some leftover pancakes in the fridge if you're hungry. Help yourself."