"Before you go do you think we could talk about something for a sec? I didn't want to say thinking in front of Takashi or Hakkai 'cause they're a bit overprotective, but I'm kinda concerned about their relationship with Chikao."

Outside of the Shibas' house where you sit ready to take off on your motorcycle, you instead lean back and keep up the chat with Yuzuha in the hopes that she might spill a bit more about Chikao or Otsuda.

"Don't worry, Yuzuha," you assure her with a smile. "Mitsuya and Hakkai are both happy for you!"

"That's not what I mean..." she shakes her head as she takes a few steps towards you. "Chikao hates all the guys from Toman. After the announcement at the meeting, he couldn't stop complaining about them for the rest of the day."

"Sounds like a douche," you scoff, though you keep your comment quiet enough that she couldn't quite hear what you said. "I mean, what do you think about Chikao? Is he a good person?"

"Of course he is!" she explains almost defensively. "He's a wonderful person and I'd do anything for him."

Anything!? you repeat in your brain, taken back and alarmed at her choice of words. She'd do anything for him? That alone scares you.

"You know, maybe he just doesn't get along with them because he's from another gang. I saw that white jacket laying on your bed when we went inside," you admit to her.

Yuzuha sighs exasperatedly. Not at the fact that you admitted to snooping around her room, but because now she's got to hope you aren't going to be too mad about the whole situation. "He was in a gang, but he's not anymore. He got into drugs and was kicked out so he could go to rehab... When he got out I met him."

That's a bit strange. Thinking back to a couple of months ago, you remember having to sign papers for Chikao and Kisaki's friend who was apparently deep in drugs and sent to rehab. Is this a true story or a fabricated excuse they use when they want something?

"I'm sorry, Yuzuha. I didn't mean to pry, it wasn't my place," you apologize, thinking that you might have overstepped if the story is in fact true.

"Don't worry about it," she replies with the tiniest of smiles. "You're my friend. I don't want to hide anything from you anyway."

"Well I'm just happy that you're happy," you say with a similar gesture to hers.

"Thanks," she then giggles. "By the way, you've been pretty close with Takashi lately. What's up with that?"

"Eh? Mitsuya?" you repeat, caught off guard by her question so your lie sounds a bit, well, terrible. "I've just been keeping him company while Luna and Mana are gone, that's all."

"Oh yeah?" she smirks. "Is that all? Just keeping him company?"

"Hey, what happened to constantly trying to set me up with Hakkai?" you scoff.

"The kid gets hit on all the time at his job but never does a single thing about it," she rolls her eyes. "I'm assuming he must want to be alone forever."

"Come on, you shouldn't say that," you chuckle while shaking your head in disagreement. "He really looks up to you!"

"I know. He'll find the one someday. Just like you," she sings.

"Please," you roll your eyes as you place your key in the ignition. "That's probably the last thing I'm thinking about anymore."

Yuzuha lets out a small chuckle at your sentence, obviously not buying it because of your horrible lie earlier. She steps back and waves, watching as you do the same before you start up your bike and ride away.

The next evening you ride over to Mitsuya's just as your little group had planned. You knock and wait until Hakkai lets you in with a bright smile on his face.

"Oh, hey, Hakkai! Am I late?" you ask as he steps aside and allows you in.

"Nope, you haven't missed anything," he replies. "Taka-chan's been sitting by his sketchbook this whole time..."

You sigh and walk across the room to where Mitsuya's sitting hunched over a small desk. "Aren't you taking this whole making the wedding dress thing too seriously since, ya know, we're trying to prevent it from happening?"

"You're not going to be able to prevent it from happening. Besides, since it is going to happen I might as well help her look good," he snaps back.

Hakkai sighs as he takes a seat on the nearby rug. "I can't believe she's planning to get married next month. It seems like that's way too fast."

"It is!" you agree as you turn on your heels to face him, only to be distracted by a nearby bookcase of manga and design books.

You walk over to the bookcase, quickly scanning a few of the titles as your finger breezes by. You think it's pretty cool how serious Mitsuya is about becoming a designer. The only thing you're good at- well, used to be good at- was cheating people out of money. Mitsuya's a good person, and you can't help but feel bad about how he got pulled away from a normal life all because of that asshole Kisaki. You know he wants to do something about it, but how are you going to convince him?

"Okay... So what are we going to do about this whole Otsuda and Kisaki thing?" Hakkai suddenly asks.

Mitsuya puts down his pencil and sighs. "You two aren't going to let this go, are you?"

"'Course not," you tell him. "We're not letting Kisaki get away with doing whatever the hell he wants and we certainly cannot let Yuzuha marry that piece of shit Chikao!"

"Fine," he shakes his head as he spins around in his chair to face you and Hakkai. "If we're going to do this, we're going to do it right."

You smile to yourself as you realize Mitsuya's actually put a bit of thought behind this idea you had come up with. You thought he had completely shut it down. It's nice to know he's on board.

"Unfortunately, like Hakkai said yesterday, you're going to have to do most of this alone, Y/N. Hanma and Kisaki are already suspicious of us but they still have a bit of trust left in you."

"That's fine," you nod. "I can do it by myself."

"Good," Mitsuya says as he stands up from his chair and begins to walk across his room towards you. "Here's what we'll do..."

From a clothing rack on your right side, Mitsuya pulls out a lavender-colored dress. "You're going to have to be a good actress. Think you can do that for me?"

"Mhm. Anything," you reply with a smile.

Hakkai's eyebrow twitches as he watches the interaction between the two of you. He looks almost confused as Mitsuya tosses you a dress that's almost too perfectly your size.

"Go change. We'll wait."