"/And where do you think you two are going? The New Years cleaning isn't nearly done./"

Hachizou Akatsutsumi and Jaime were sitting in the entrance-way putting on their shoes when Kakiko Akatsutsumi's question froze them in place.

"/You said she was in the back yard./" Momoko's dad whispered to Jaime.

"/She was! I didn't keep tracking her./" ( Read more... )

The nightmare started out as the usual kind: Momoko walking down the streets of the city, any city, every city... except everyone is gone and all over the city streets are scrawls in paint, blood, or ash, "Where are you Blossom?" "Why did you leave?" "Save us" "We are dying" and more. She sees tattered clothes on lines, drapes fluttering through ( Read more... )

Portalocity had lost their reservations and Momoko was Not Happy. It would show more if it wasn't for Jaime being around to stop her from eating cake and cookie batter all day. In return, though, he'd had to listen to her arguing with the Portalocity Rep that this was an emergency and that their holiday travel policies were stupid (he'd called them ( Read more... )

Momoko had worked the late shift Friday, so sleeping in was only natural. As was waking up and being hungry. What wasn't natural was being six.

After a few minutes seconds of being very confused about where she was and some time bouncing on the bed to get her happy back, Momoko left her room and found the kitchen ( Read more... )

Momoko woke with a start and a frown. She blinked a few times, then looked over to see Jaime still sleeping peacefully away. Totally unaware of what he'd just done.

She shoved him off the bed.

[for he who used to be sharing the bed]

For the first time ever, Momoko had missed Homecoming back at Fandom. Not that it could be helped! Her part-time job had offered her double shifts and when Jaime's weekend schedule hadn't freed up either, she'd taken the shifts and then did a 'thank you for helping look for me when I was abducted' favour for Traci-13 that involved actually visiting ( Read more... )

It was a small restaurant, far enough from their apartment that they'd had to take the car. Momoko had no idea how Jaime had even known about it, since the signs were very small and the building was old... it looked like it had once been a courthouse! But the lighting inside was perfect and the food as delicious as it was varied. They had a small ( Read more... )

Like most good Japanese, Momoko had gone home for Bon. Friday had been spent at the cemetery tending to the graves of relatives and then attending the local bon odori in the evening.

Saturday, however, was another story. Or rather lots of stories, because on Saturday our heroine had permission to return to Tokyo City for Comiket!

COMIKET!!!!!
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Momoko had called on Friday morning to tell Jaime that she was going to be late coming home this weekend due to a last minute job from Oracle. It was an easy one, she'd assured him ( Read more... )

Momoko had spent the morning putting in job applications and then the afternoon shopping for birthday presents for Lion-o and Jono. Now, she was just looking around the city and trying to get used to where things were. She was going to be moving here all the way in just a few weeks ( Read more... )