[CoolNard]

Tatsu and I enter the house to find Suzette and Nozomi sitting on the window sill. By the manner we are being greeted, our little test-drive must have been under their surveillance. They wave gleefully.

"Um... where's Aisha?" Tatsu finally asks, his eyes straining at the floor, apparently having difficulty concealing his guilt.

"I'll get her-" Nozomi starts but is hurriedly cut off by Suzette, who has placed her hand in front of Nozomi.

"She's fallen asleep on the couch," Suzette casually answers and shifts her attention to me, smiling zealously for some reason...

"That's alright, she doesn't have to be involved in this anymore than she is," I chip in at Suzette's cue, "Grab chairs, all of you, I have some important issues to address."

Minutes later, everyone is seated by the window, each sipping a mug of piping hot tea.

"Well, the first order of business is..." I rig my thoughts and voice with assertiveness, and solemnly scan their faces, "the whereabouts of Ichirin and Myzura."


**I have a lot of ideas but this is one that will naturally be addressed first, and I'm sure Kanji will want to address it himself, in and out of RP. We have to get it in line that Ichirin and Mu might not be returning but still leave that possibility opened.**