"It is believed that on the Spooner Continent, there exists a magical tree. If a couple sit underneath its branches and declare their love for each other, they shall be together forever."

Yurika gasped happily at her plan as she clasped her book on myths and legends of the planet Nife closer to her ample bosom. There had come no better time or opportunity to be united to Akito forever. The Nadesico had been assigned to escort several diplomats to Nife so that they could further build good relations with the governments there and the governments back home.

This, of course, doesn't mean that the crew of the Nadesico can't have a bit of fun there also.

The weather had been more than agreeable for the vacationing hunters as they headed off to, for the majority of them, nowhere in particular. The two Misu sisters, Tira and Chocolate, however, knew exactly where they where going.

There's a certain tree a few hours' walk away that can make love wishes come true. Both ladies knew about the troubles involved in going to this tree, for they themselves had come with similar intentions just last year, but this year they were ready.

"This time, Tira," Chocolate said the night before to her sister in private, "it won't be tourist season. No girls to distract Darling." The feisty redhead slammed her right fist into her left palm. "This time, he'll be mine."

"I don't know, sis," Tira mumbled behind her large glasses, but once again she went unheard by her sex-driven, overcharged sibling.

"Hey guys," yelled out Carrot to the rest of his team. Pointing down the road, he asked, "What do you think that is?"

Just past the small village, on the side of one of the mountains was a large, white...

"Tuning fork?"

"Palace?"

"Whatever it is," Marron said in a solemn voice, "we'll find out when we get there."

"The Diplomacy team is away, Captain," Hoshino Ruri said.

"Good," Yurika said with a tone of contentment in her voice. "Have you informed them of our stand-bye position?"

"Yes, Captain," Ruri replied in her monotonic voice.

"Alright! Everyone-shore leave!" she yells out happily to the rest of the ship as she heads off in search of Akito.

"Where are we, Ruri-Ruri?" Minato Haruka asked.

"A small village," the child began as she accessed Omoikane's files. "Big on hot springs."

"Hmmm," Minato said, pursing her lips with an erotic touch. "Interesting."

Ruri turned to look at Megumi Reinard to see if she heard, only to find that her teddy bear has already taken her place.

"Akito!" Yurika's voice bounced down the empty halls.

"Akito!!!"

Megumi walked into the hangar to find Akito looking over his Aestavalis before leaving the ship. She smiled and waved to him in order to get his attention. "Akito!"

"Yeah, Meg?" he asked with little fear of what could happen next.

She handed him a small piece of paper. "Please be there tonight, Akito." she said with a gentle smile. "I'll be waiting." She turned and walked out of the hangar, her purple hair trailing behind her.

"Tonight?" he asked, more to himself than anything else. Unfolding the small piece of paper, he saw that inside she wrote down a hotel name, a room, and a time.

Prospector found himself in the ship's kitchen having a drink with Hou Mei. "This 'shore-leave' is highly unprofitable," he said as he pushed his glasses back in place with his middle finger.

"At least they're sending their own money, not Negral's," replied Hou Mei. She DID have a point.

"Yes, perhaps you're right," he answered as he sloshed his drink slowly before placing it to his lips.

Tira's and Chocolate's jaws dropped at the sight of so many people moving around in the otherwise boring and sleepy village. "What!?!" Chocolate said as she pulled out a map and the sisters consulted it. "This can't be right..."

"Aww...," Gateau said as he hovered in front of the redheads, "another plan to catch Carrot backfired?"

Tira blushed and began to wave her hands in front of her defensively. "Why would I want a letch like Carrot?!?" she said in a panicky voice.

Chocolate titled her head confidently, seductively. "Why should I try to snare Darling." She smiled. "He's already mine."

Carrot, on the other hand, was still in shock after seeing so many of the beautiful women of the Nadesico and heard nothing of the conversation taking place behind him. Finally, he could no longer take the burden of not being with such beauties and jumped in glee.

"Carrot?"

"Darling?"

Too late. All that was left of Carrot was a dust trail heading into town. Now it's up to the Misu sisters to make sure he doesn't get into too much trouble.

In particular, Tira.

Akito walked around the village. It seemed more and more a resort town to him. There was a hotel on every corner. Hot springs too.

He soon found himself on one of the larger streets. A few steps ahead he saw Hou Mei's assistants being addressed by a young man with a sword at his side.

"Tell me, the young man said, "are all the women on your world as beautiful as you five are?" The girls smiled and giggled at this. It's been a while that they had been addressed in such manner.

"Now, which of you ladies will be willing to spend a night with me?" the young man said with no fear of what's going to happen next. The girls each accumulated a look of shock and a sweatdrop at this.

"Oh, I see," the young man continued with a sly smile. "Well, don't worry, I'm man enough to satisfy you all!"

What happened next, Akito wasn't sure. All he knew was that at the end, the young man laid plummeted to the ground and the girls walked away, clapping their hands in a finished sort of way.

"Are you alright?" Akito asked the battered young man as he approached.

To his surprise, he jumped up almost instantly, seemingly okay after such an assault.

"I'm fine," he said with a sad, dejected voice as he dusted himself off. "Happens all the time, high pain threshold, things like that." He gives Akito a crooked smile. "Besides, for all the millions of girls that say no, there's bound to be one that will say yes."

"You mean girls avoid you like the plague?"

The young man physically and mentally tripped for a split second.

"If only," Akito continued, "that could happen to me."

"Eh?" the young man replied.

"Tenkawa Akito," he said, stretching out his hand.

"Carrot Glace," the young man said as he shook the other's hand.

Yurika walked all over the ship before realizing that Akito had already left. Now she wandered around the town, hoping that she would bump into him. She wanted to be the one he declared his love to. That was all she wanted.

Somehow, all her daydreaming distracted her severely for as soon a she turned into a side street, she bumped into a young girl with frumpy-looking glasses and a red cloak.

"Oh!" I'm so sorry," Yurika apologized as she helped the redhead up.

"That's alright," the girl said, dusting off her cloak. "Say," she said, looking at Yurika through her glasses, "has you seen a guy with spiky black hair lately?"

"No," Yurika replied, confused at the question. Was she talking about Akito?

"Oh," the redhead said, walking past Yurika and into the main road.

"What was that all about?" Yurika asked herself.

"You can't be serious!" Carrot said in disbelief after Akito told him of his love-and-girls troubles on the Nadesico. "So many girls... willing to be mine..." He developed the silly look of a hentai daydreamer.

The rest of the bar was scarcely occupied. At the bar, the girl-crazy Carrot and the love-lorn Akito were having a couple of beers, talking about their troubles with women.

"I don't know what I'd give to have these women stop fighting over me," Akito lamented as he looked into his glass, fingering the rim.

"What I wouldn't give to have so many women ogling me," Carrot replied. Suddenly, it hit him. It was as if a pair of little horns and a tail appeared. He felt almost giddy with the thought of what could happen.

"I got it!!!" he proclaimed, amazed that he didn't think of it sooner.

As the Sorcerer Hunters, sans Tira and Carrot, made reservations for a couple of rooms in one of the hotels in town, a young lady in a uniform and with blue-lavender hair walked in. She approached the front desk, her face filled with confusion.

"Excuse me, sir?" she asked.

"Yes," replied the clerk.

"Hmm, do you know where the magical love tree is?" she asked quietly. Chocolate's ears picked up and became fully aware of the conversation.

"Love Tree?!?" the clerk guffawed. "We don't have a love tree around here. We only have hot springs."

"Hot Springs?!?" Shock and disappointment was etched all over her face.

"But you know what they say about hot springs, do you?"

"What?"

"It can bring two people very close," the clerk said with a knowing smile.

Chocolate thought for a moment, a sinister look in her eyes.

The young lady's eyes and smile grew larger as she realized her plan wasn't completely scrapped yet.

"That's how I'll get him!" she cried out happily as she clapped her hands together.

"That's how I'll get him," Chocolate whispered, clenching her fist as she smiled cleverly.

"You really think Yurika and the rest won't bother me when I wear this?" Akito said as he picked at the sleeveless shirt he was wearing. The pair stood in the men's room of the bar, Akito in Carrot's clothes, Carrot in Akito's uniform.

"See, we're a perfect fit!" Carrot assured him. He looked rather spiffy in the cook/pilot's jacket. The ladies can't resist him like this, and Tira and Chocolate won't be able to stop him!

"But what about this?" Akito said as he lifted the back of his hand to reveal the chip implants necessary for piloting the Aestavalis.

"Just hide it," Carrot said dismissively as he headed out. "You'll be fine."

It's amazing how much Hoshino Ruri saw despite her age. She saw Misamaru Yurika look around aimlessly for Tenkawa Akito. She saw Tenkawa Akito and the guy recently plummeted by the Hou Mei girls walking around disguised as the other. She also took notice of the redhead with glasses wandering around, looking for someone, and the three people she entered town with, a long-haired young man in white robes, another redhead wearing what looked like scraps of cloth, and a large muscular man with blond hair.

There was only one word for all that had been going on. She'll reserve it for later.

Akatsuki Nagare didn't want to walk, so he instead borrowed one of the small air speeders in the hangar. He spent much of his time speeding up and down the mountainside before he decided to go down to the village.

With a turn here and a turn there, he soon found himself on the road in the center of town and about to mow down some girl in red.

He slammed on the brakes, hard. The girl screamed but stood there, frozen and unable to move.

He didn't know how hard he hit her, but it had to be hard enough. She tumbled onto the hood of the speeder and stopped face first on the windshield, semi-conscious.

He climbed out of the now-still speeder with great urgency. He didn't want to believe she was seriously hurt, but he doubted he hit her hard enough to kill her.

He gently pulled her off the windshield and laid her on the ground. She was rather petite, he noticed. Most women willing to hide their figures tend to be obese or terminally shy. This girl, he mused, was definitely not of the former. As he knelt down, he lifted her head and rested it on his lap. She was still breathing, and there seemed to be no visible injuries.

He gently took off her glasses and rested them upon her forehead. He took in a gasp. He did not realize that her reflective glasses hid such a lovely face. A delicate, beautiful face.

Tira didn't see the speeder racing towards her until the last moment. She didn't know that she screamed, for that was more of a involuntary act than a conscious choice. She couldn't move, either, her body frozen in place.

The Sorcerer Hunters had an inane sense of each other. Like a family, they can feel it when something had happened to one of them. When Tira screamed, they each knew something was wrong and scrambled to where she was.

When she awoke, Tira found herself looking up into the eyes of a handsome man, of a stranger. Immediately, she felt the dull pain caused by the hit to her thigh. She was more than certain a bruise would result.

Are you alright?" the man holding her asked worryingly. She must have winced at the pain, or perhaps reached instinctively for her left thigh.

I'm okay," she assured him with a light smile. He admired how her eyes smiled at him too.

"Tira," Chocolate's voice rang as she and the other hunters made their way through the small crowd. Tira put her glasses back in place as they approached.

"Are you alright?" Marron asked as he helped her off Nagare's lap.

"Yes, fine," she assured them.

"Are you sure?" Gateau piped in.

"Yes, I'm okay," she smiled.

"Miss...uh...,"Nagare's voice stumbled as he got back up.

"Tira," she assisted with a smile. "Tira Misu."

"I'm truly sorry-"

"That's okay-"

"I just want to make amends, somehow..." He smiled handsomely at Tira.

"How about having dinner with us?" Marron suggested. It was about time for a meal anyway, for the sun was just about ready to set. "That way we can know more about you, Mr...uh..."

"Nagare," he assisted, looking straight at Tira. "Akatsuki Nagare."

Carrot stood on the edge of the crowd, growing more upset as he watched that playboy making moves on Tira. Although he wouldn't admit to it out loud, he cared for Tira dearly. Whether as a sister or as something more, he couldn't say, but he did care for her. To butt in and stop him, however, would be to admit he wasn't Tenkawa Akito, just a man disguised as him. Tira was quick and would whack him just for thinking he could get away with what he was planning, and he didn't doubt Chocolate would join in on the pain-giving.

"Darling!" Chocolate yelped. Carrot hid fearfully, hoping he wasn't caught so soon. When Chocolate didn't grab him immediately, he slowly showed his face.

Chocolate leapt at Akito happily, much to the dismay of Akito. He heard the scream just a few seconds ago and, since he was nearby, went to see what happened. He was hoping that his disguise would keep him free from all the wacky girls who wanted him, but it was little protection from a young redhead who quickly began to rub on him.

"Darling, where have you been?" Chocolate singsonged. "you know you don't have to go chase girls." She gently rubbed her palm on his crotch. "I'll always be handy to keep you company!"

Akito never saw this coming. No one ever did this to him. No one was this clingy, not even Yurika. His face grew red and his head spinned until finally...

"He fainted!" Tira exclaimed.

"That's strange," Marron pondered.

"I guess I was too much for him," Chocolate mused with glee.

Gateau lifted Akito-in-disguise on his shoulders. "Now," he said, addressing Nagare, "how about that dinner?"

The hunters turned and looked at Nagare, who had developed a look of stun disbelief. What just happened was too weird, weirder than what happens on the Nadesico everyday, in fact. He just hoped that there wasn't anything else weird about this bunch.

Carrot looked with disgust at Nagare. He better not try anything with Tira. He was more disappointed, however, with Tenkawa Akito. He didn't realize Akito couldn't take the pressure of being with Chocolate and Tira Misu.

"Akito," said a soft feminine voice from behind him. It took him a couple of minutes to realize that the voice was referring to him.

He turned and saw it was lovely girl that was trying to speak to him. To SPEAK with HIM! His heart jumped.

Megumi stood happily before him and smiled. Instantly, Carrot became as suave and romantic as possible.

"Akito," she asked hopingly, "will you be there tonight?"

"Why, of course," he said, taking her hand in his. He wasn't entirely sure about what she meant, but he'd figure it out sooner or later. Tonight... He had very high hopes concerning what she wanted tonight! "Why do you ask?"

"Well," Megumi hesitated, her eyes falling to the ground in thought.

"What?" he asked.

"Well, everyone's been saying you'd been acting weird. Hikaru said you tried to get with her. So did Imuzi and Minato. What's wrong?"

"Well," Carrot thought for a sec. In the last few minutes, he hit on a girl with blonde hair and glasses, an older woman with a funny laugh and dark hair, and a gorgeous blonde bombshell with a dress down to... He mentally giggles. Those three ladies didn't hit him or slap him or whack him at all! "It's the air down here." Megumi looked at him confused. "Yeah, the air. I bumped into some guy or another that lived on this planet his whole life and he's the biggest letch you'd never want to meet." He couldn't believe that he was talking about himself that way, but he had to cover for the new Akito's actions, doesn't he? "It's pretty expected that it would change me, too."

Megumi looked at him, more confused than shocked at the explaination that the air of a planet can change a person so dramatically. "Oh," she finally said to herself. "So you will be there?"

"With bells on," Carrot assured her.

Megumi smiled. "Okay, see you then!" Then, with a wave, she walked to the hotel she was staying at for the night. "Akito" would fall for her for sure.

"Akito!" another voice exclaimed as someone grabbed his arm.

He turned his head and found another young lady looking up at him with loving eyes.

"Akito," Yurika began, her voice swaying in singsong, "I finally caught you. Trying to get away from me?"

"No," Carrot answered with a soft, romantic voice. "Why would I want to escape from you?"

Yurika's eyes opened wide then she rubbed her nose teasingly upon Carrot's still-claimed arm. "Oh, Akito..."

"Say," Carrot suggested, "why don't we go for some food?" Yurika looked up.

"Yeah! And I'll cook it, ok?"

"Why not?" Carrot smiled at Yurika.

"I swear, this time you'll love it!!!" She led him to a nearby restaurant, the same establishment that the Sorcerer Hunters and Nagare entered a few minutes earlier.

"This time?"

The hunters took a large, six-person table and sat down. The restaurant was full of people that time of day, tourists, Negral employees, natives. The hunters fitted right in.

Gateau plopped the semiconscious Akito-in-disguise in a chair. Chocolate immediately sat right next to her beloved. Tira sat on the other side of Akito, to which Nagare answered by sitting in front of her. Marron sat in front of his brother, beside Nagare, and Gateau sat next to him.

The hunters couldn't have had a better guest. Nagare, much to the reawakening Akito's displeasure, told all sorts of stories about the people of the Nadesico, and not all of them were heroic or even nice.

"My lord," Nagare said, "you could never meet someone so pathetic!"

"Are you sure this Akito is that bad?" Tira asked.

"That bad! The poor fool has every girl on board going gaa-gaa over him." He points his chopsticks at Tira. "And he does nothing about it!"

"That can't be that bad," Akito said, in order to defend himself.

Chocolate glanced at him confused. "Darling, are you defending that boy's stand on women?"

Gateau joined in. "That seems very strange of you to say, Carrot."

"Letting pretty girls pine away for you isn't your favorite thing to do," Tira agreed.

"I just think that some girls should be left alone," Akito tried desperately to explain.  "No matter how cute they can be, some are scary."

"Like Barbara?" Chocolate said as she snuggled closer to Akito.

"Like Barbara?"  Akito repeated.  Who's Barbara?

"You don't remember who Barbara is?  Are you ill or something, Carrot?" Tira chimed in, placed the back of her hand on Akito's forehead.  Just mentioning Barbara's name tended to make Carrot's face go pale, but now he doesn't even react.

Akito pulled away, not knowing what to do. If they find out who he is, well, he doesn't know what would happen, but he is very sure that Nagare wouldn't let him live the shame of dressing up as a letch down.

"Uh," he stampered, "I'm not ill, Tira-san." The hunters flinched. Tira-san!?! "I, uh..., I guess I got hit on the head so many times that... uh... I'm not really acting normal." He giggled nervously, hoping the rest won't sniff his lie out.

Chocolate smiled. "Well, I knew somehow we'd get to him, right Tira?"

Tira nodded, though unsure of his explanation.

"Seriously, niisan," Marron stated.  He knew all those bangs to the head would get to his older brother sooner or later.

Gateau laughed heartily. "Well, well, our little pervert finally had enough of the rough treatment!"

Nagare looked at each of the hunters in turn, confused about what was going on.

Carrot-in-disguise and Yurika sat down in a cozy corner table for two. He couldn't help but be more interested in what his fellow hunters were doing, however. He tried desperately to calm down as that womanizing long-hair made major moves on Tira. How dare he do that!

"Akito?" Yurika asked softly. He turned and looked at the lovely captain gaze at him, her eyes full of concern. "What's wrong?"

"Oh, nothing," Carrot assured her, a smile brightening up his face. "You shouldn't worry. Everything's fine, now that I'm with you."

Yurika smiled happily. "Alright."

The waiter approached the pair, a notebook in one hand and a pencil in the other. "What would you two like for today?" he asked warmly.

"Um, do you allow people to make their own meals?" Yurika asked shyly.

"There are a couple of entrees that allow our customers that experience, yes."

"Then we would like the most complicated, and therefore the most delicious, of these!" Yurika gleefully requested.

"Of course," the waiter replied, bowing slightly before heading back to the kitchen with the order.

"You'll love it, Akito dear. Don't worry!" Yurika assured him.

<Worried?> Carrot thought to himself... This may not have been a good idea after all...

The waiter returned with a heavy table-top stove and placed it on Carrot's and Yurika's table. On top sat a large pot full of vegetables and bean curd. Next to it, the waiter sat down a plate covered with strips of raw red meat. Yurika was full of glee. She knows that, even though she's making the food, this time Akito won't get sick because of it. The food is already prepared. All she had to do was to cook it and serve it.

"This looks so delicious!" Carrot said in glee. Yurika turned on the stove and put in on low to let the vegetables and tofu simmer.

"And it will be, don't worry!" Yurika answered. She then took the egg that the waiter provided and cracked it open, letting the liquid insides pour themselves into a small bowl before scrambling it all up. She asked the waiter before how to prepare this dish and paid a lot of attention to what he and the chef said long before asking Akito to come. She wanted the meal to turn out perfect, and she's not taking any chances!

She tenderly plucked up a couple of strips of meat and placed it in the pot with the simmering vegetables and tofu. When one was brown and ready to be eaten, she pulled it out, covered it with some egg, and lifted it up gingerly. "Say ahh," she tenderly asked Carrot.

"Ahh," Carrot complied, letting Yurika put the delicious strip of meat into his mouth. Almost immediately, his face turned blue. He began to choke on the meat!!!

"Akito!!!" Yurika screamed, horrified that he's not breathing.

The hunters, Akito, and Nagare turned and watched the spectacle. "See," Nagare said, pointing to the spiky-haired young man in the yellow jacket, "he's the fool that I was talking about."

Yurika, though she may be a ditz and a characteristically "cute girl", does know something about choking, and really doesn't want her beloved to choke to death, even if the man she thinks is her beloved Akito really isn't. She got behind him and began to execute the Heimlich maneuver. She pressed her fist hard into his stomach, trying to dislodge the meat by force. With a few hard jabs into him, the strip of meat finally went flying and landed on the hunter's table.

Akito looked at the piece of meat still covered in egg film in admiration. "Looks like Yurika did a good job with this," he muttered to himself.

Carrot collapsed onto the floor, trying desperately to breathe.

"Akito! I'm so sorry!" Yurika said, wrapping her arms around him to help him up. "I guess I should have not put that piece of meat so far down your throat, huh?"

Marron looked at the young man coughing terribly for air, wondering what he looked so familiar to him.

"Marron?" Tira's voice brought him back. "Are you all right?"

"Yes, I'm fine Tira. Don't worry."

Soon, the meal was over, and the hunters were stuffed.

"Thanks for the meal, Nagare," Gateau said as he toothpicked at a bit of food still left between his teeth. Nagare grunted "you're welcome" in return. Once he told them that he was the president of the Negral Corporation and that big ship outside belonged to him, they practically insisted that he should pay for the meal. That settled, those "hunters" ordered anything they wanted from the menu, and since he was too nice of a guy to put a limit to their eating, their orders ranged from 15 to 50 credits each, the large muscle man eating the most. Right now, he was really not liking him.

"How about we all head to our hotel," Chocolate suggested, snuggling extra-close to Akito, much to his dismay. <She's been on me all through dinner,> Akito thought desperately, thinking about all the times she played footsie with him and made oh so lewd comments to him. At least her sister, Tira, had been nicer. Nagare has been all over Tira, however. Right now he was really not liking that guy.

"We can test the hot springs together, Darling," Chocolate cooed.

"Oneesama...," Tira mumbled.

"For what?" Akito said, trying to play the naïve fool. It didn't work.

"You'll see," Chocolate said as she grabbed his arm and took him with her back to the hotel.

"We should all head out," Marron stated as he lifted himself from his seat. "Nagare-san, thank you for the meal," he courteously stated.

Gateau, Tira, and Nagare rose up from out of their seats as well. "We do appreciate it, Nagare-san," Tira shyly said, "very much so."

"I'm glad to hear it, Tira dear," Nagare said as he reached for her hand. Gateau and Marron looked on, suddenly wary of Nagare's actions. "I'm happy as long as you're happy, Tira." Tira instantly blushed underneath her large glasses.

Marron cleared his throat, which quickly caught Tira's attention. "We're staying at the Okaido Hotel, alright Tira?"

"Ok, Marron," she replied as Marron and Gateau headed out.

"Would you like to go for a walk, Tira dear?" Nagare asked.

Carrot left Yurika at the restaurant after nearly dying in her hands. Or, rather, Yurika left him. She felt really bad about choking him with the food she made, so she went to the hotel room she reserved at the Okaido. Everyone else on the ship made reservations at the Okikimashoo Hotel, which was right next door. She tried to get a room there earlier, but by that time the place was booked with almost all the rest of the crew. Carrot, to tell the truth, doesn't know where his fellow hunters would be staying for the night. As he searched his pockets to see how much money he had, he wondered if he'd be able to get a room and afford it on his own.

He didn't come across his wallet. Instead he found a small, folded peice of paper. Intrigued, he opened it up to find written on it:
 

The Okikimashoo Hotel
Room 31
2100
Be there! -Meg

Carrot smiled happily. That's what that girl meant!!! Now that he knew what she meant, he would most definitely be there!

He mused all this by the restaurant's enterance as Chocolate and Akito walked out.

"Don't worry, Darling!" Chocolate comforted Akito. "It'll be fun!"

<Poor Akito,> Carrot mused. Carrot knows that what Chocolate may have in mind may not be fun at all.

Next came out Marron and Gateau. They were quiet and headed in almost the same direction as Chocolate and Akito.

<I wonder if that's where the hotel is...,> Carrot thought to himself once more. His fellow sorcerer hunters did not notice him as they walked by. They did not look back.

Some time after Marron and Gateau left, Tira and that Nagare character left the restaurant. There was something about that guy, who just kept making Tira smile and giggle, that made Carrot uneasy. He was so ready to go there and pound that guy, but he can't. It isn't just because of what and how he's currently fooling the girls. It's more like... it's more like he shouldn't. Tira is happy right now. And that guy's doing what he and Carrot know best: getting a chick. Overactive libidos aside, maybe Carrot's just jealous. That Nagare got closer to Tira than he ever got to any decent, nice girl, period. Maybe he's just jealous.

"Where would you like to go, Tira dear?" Nagare suggested.

Tira smiled at the question. "Anywhere would be nice."
 

To Be continued...Here