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"Nnooo way, I reckon your the b***h, and...." Poke kept talking until it dawned on her as to exactly who she was trying to insult. You could tell it by the way her face suddenly went from smug to shocked and then slightly aghast.

"GAH! No no that's not what I meant!" she waved her arms around in a comedic way. "I didn't mean to insinuate that about you yuki I meant that Neko just seems to flirt with anything that moves and and.. Waaah I didn't mean it...." She let herself sink until just her head was showing.

Yuki barely had time to get out a scream before he was inhaling water. Breaking the surface with coughs and sputters, he looked around in alarm. The two dragons scampered off with his clothes. "I'm not sure if I should feel violated right now..." Yuki murmured to himself, at last seeming to calm a bit. For the moment, at least. He'd hopefully fallen in without anyone sneaking a peek at anything private.

Hitsu had watched the ordeal, trying to hide a chuckle behind a hand. The glare she got from her brother as she approached him only made it harder for her to keep from laughing. While he had tried to look threatening, his face had turned several shades redder. "Oh, just relax and get cleaned up. You'll feel better if you do."

Finding several to be questioning him, Yuki waved them off. "I'm fine!" Well, as fine as a man could be that had just been pinned and stripped by a woman that he hadn't planned to bed with... Which wasn't fine at all, really.

It took him a moment to realize that Poke was one of the people present... And a moment longer to process it enough to acknowledge it. "Poke? How did..." The last memory of her he had was hazy, but he knew that she'd been kidnapped and he'd failed to stop her from being taken. "How did you get here?"

It seemed that Poke had finally caught on. Oh how frustrated she looked now that she realized she had been insulting Yuki too. "Well, now that we seem to be back on the subject." Neko motioned for Poke to continue and explain what happened.

Through the main door to the bath three people entered. The twins followed by Mitsu who seemed to be feeling much better. Currently she had on a short sun dress, the straps made of frills and the fabric a variety of yellows, oranges, and reds. She held the door open a minute longer and Tobi came charging in full of energy and apparently healed of his wound. He stopped at the edge of the bath long enough to give a happy yip of greeting to everyone before strolling off throughout the room.

It wasn't apparent until Mitsu stepped closer to the bath that she was carrying something and so were the twins. Upon further inspection it appeared to be sets of clothes in various colors and fashions.

"We brought you something to wear," Mitsu said setting the clothes off to the side.

"Clothes to wear, clothes to wear!" Momo chimed in setting her bundle of clothing off to the side as well.

"Dinner will be ready shortly. Durzo will be here in a moment to collect you," Mimi replied before looping her arm through her sisters and pulling her back toward the door. They left, leaving only Mitsu to stand and wait for everyone.

"So...how is everyone's bath?" Mitsu asked casually taking a seat on the cool stone floor away from the pool. The ice bath had done wonders and she wasn't about to ruin it by getting too close to the hot water. The humidity alone was bad enough but at least the floor was cool closer to the door.

As Hitsu had moved closer to chat with everyone, Yuki had slowly began to make a little more distance between he and the small crowd. Nervous would have been an understatement; had he been in Neko's situation earlier he probably would have fainted.

He hadn't realized that Riyo had gone missing... Not until someone was wrapping their arms around his neck. A chill ran up his spine, eyes growing wide. He froze in place. The voice told him it was Riyo. There was a nude female behind him with her arms wrapped around him.

And, in about three seconds, there was a nude woman on his back.

Yuki just stood there, looking terrified. "Oh God... Oh God..." He looked over his shoulder, arms held out at length at his sides as though he expected someone to accuse him of having his hands where they didn't belong. "R-Ri-yo...? Wh-what are you d-doing?"

In the crowd Mitsu hadn't realized at first that there had been one more to join them in her absence. "Poke? Poke!" Okay, so she was going to have to risk getting close to the bath again. Moving to the edge of the pool, her own tail wagging behind her in this happy moment, she knelt down on the ledge. "Its so good to see you again." It was lucky enough that she seemed to remember the girl but for some reason she couldn't remember why she had left. That part of her memory seemed to be a blank.

It appeared that Poke was mumbling something but Mitsu didn't quite catch it as Riyo jumped on Yuki's back drawing attention to the situation. They looked like they were all still having fun in the pool. Too bad she couldn't join them. The desk lady, she had given a name but Mitsu couldn't remember it, told her to stay out of the hot bath, that she had gotten a heat stroke. It had amazed her how Mitsu had come around in the ice bath. Not many of their kind liked the ice bath, it was more to help numb aches and pains before healing. It had done an excellent job of cooling her off. In fact, it had been so comforting to be in the cold Mitsu didn't want to leave.

Riyo was a little offended that he was treating her like some kind of sick animal nobody wanted to touch. "The hell is wrong with you?" She asked with a raised eyebrow. "You act like I'm going to give you the plague or something. 'Fraid I'm gonna give you rabies?"

As much as Atticus would like to hear about Poke's disappearance (whenever she planned to tell them), there were clothes waiting for him and he didn't want to stay in this soup bowl longer than necessary. The light-weight man moved as quickly as he could over to the pile of clothes and didn't spend much time nit-picking. He simply made sure it wasn't a dress and moved off to the side where he thought nobody would see him.

When mitsu called her name, she looked up again with a smile. "Hey mitsu! I'm glad to see you too. Your looking good"

Suddenly she realized that there were clothes to be had, which was why everyone was going. She didn't want ot be left out of the fun. "Give me a sec mitsu, I think I'm gonna get some clothes too". She crawled out of the bath and stood up, but immediately regretted it.

"Ugh..." she almost feel over from the wave of dizziness that passed through her, a result of sitting in a hot bath in the hot sun for to long. She quickly sat down before she did decide to pass out.

At least she seemed to accept the choice of where he'd put his hands, Yuki wordlessly stepped away from everyone and began doing as she asked; walking around the edge of the bath with her on his back. The more he continued along, the more he seemed to relax... Not fully relax, of course, but at least he didn't seem to believe he was going to pass out anymore. Though, his face was still very red.

Hitsu watched the event with amusement, knowing that Riyo was just being harmlessly playful and her brother had taken it entirely the wrong way. It was adorable, in an awkward sort of way.

She looked up when Mitsu and Tobi had returned, smiling broadly as it seemed that both of them were doing great. Moving to the area of the bath where she had left her clean towel, Hitsu retrieved it. Climbing out of the bath, she wrapped it around herself.