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Ayumi smiled and nodded in agreement, "I simply do agree." she responded and looked to the food that Maya brought in. She smiled yet again and bowed slightly so that Mirielle wouldn't fall off her perch on her wrist. "You are much too kind. I appreciate your hospitality. Don't mind if I quickly have a sip of tea."

As she said that, Mirielle had its jewel-like eyes on the snacks and flew from its perch to nibble on one of the snacks on the coffee table. Ayumi giggled as she poured herself some tea into a cup and sipped it. "Forgive my pet, she's fond of sweets." she spoke, looking up at everyone.

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Syaoran felt the reassuring grip from Kurogane. He looked up with his determined face.

"I won't give up. I promised her I wouldn't."

He sighed and walked out to see the commotion that arouse outside. There was delightful chatter in the air. Syaoran noticed the clothes that Hane had bought out. The traveling party was wearing the same clothes they had when they first started out. A thought poke at his mind. This world, Ikai, seemed to be full of magic users. Was this another place that had spirits similar to the kudan of Hashin? The time dimension witch, Yuuko, also said that traveling between worlds was a difficult task. Strangely enough, many of the friendly people in the room were dressed in different outfits that did fit into Ikai.

She smiled back and eyed the clothes; that was surprising. There were so many. She slipped her bag off her shoulders and put it next to her things. She cast a last glance at the blue dress she was wearing, and she eyed the hidden slits, hoping that the way people dressed in Ikai would allow as much freedom and movement as her own clothes.

She got up and gave a stretch before walking over to Hane. "Would you like some help with those?"

"Thanks. You can choose any outfit to your liking." She smiled then the Twins shouted. "Just make sure they fit!" They both said and went back to playing. Hane then turned to Mizuna. "Don't worry I got it, you don't have to help." she smiled again layed the outfits sepratly accross on another table.

She eyed the pile of clothes and immediately began looking for something like her outfit. Then she stopped. Youko-san would have said the whole point of going to new worlds and places was to experience new things. Sighing, she tried casting a more general eye over the clothes.

She spotted a jade green shirt with long sleeves which were cut into slits at the shoulders. She picked it up and held it to herself; it looked like it would fit and the neckline was fairly high too. As she looked at the top, she noticed some light brown pants which looked her size. She smiled, they looked like they could endure traveling. She picked it up and folded them over her arm.

"Thank you Hane-san." She repeated after Ayumi. Mi waited behind Ayumi; she'd change after the other woman was done.

Ayumi beamed at Kaijin and bowed slightly, "Thank you, kind one." she spoke and giggled a bit at Kaijin's hyperness. She then walked into the room and closed the door behind her--hoping that no perverts would spy on her as she changed...too much of that has happened in her time, the guards would spy on the maidens of the palace as they'd change.
Ayumi began to remove all seven layers of her kimono, one robe after the other and placed them atop each other on a rack.

She held the skirt in front of herself and looked at it strangely on a fact that, in her time, women only wore layers of long silky kimonos like robes. "Ehhh? How do people put these on?!" she fretted and blinked at the clothing. As some sort of guess as to how to put it on, Ayumi slipped the skirt over her head and looked at her reflection in a nearby mirror. Indeed, she looked weird--and she knew it too. "This can't be right..."

Ayumi sighed and pulled the skirt down her body so that it rided at her waist--tugging it up and back down a bit so that it wasn't too short or too long. "Yatta!! I think I got it! Hmmm...now...about this thing..." she trailled off now holding the blouse with kimono-like sleeves, "Maybe it goes on the same way as the other one..." she thought and pulled the blouse over her head and fixed it so that it covered her stomach.

Now, her arms were rather stuck--how was she gonna get out of this now?! "Eh?! Oh no, I'm stuck! Uhhh...ummm..." Ayumi began to scuttle out of the room, with her arms still stuck underneath the blouse--not knowing that the sleeves were so that she could put her arms through them. Ayumi looked at everyone and blinked, "Ummm...anyone care to help me here? My arms are stuck..." she blushed, feeling awkward because she didn't know how to put on such clothes from such a different world.

Syaoran took off his weather worn cloak and placed it in the room with Sakura-hime. He stretched his muscules as thought he was preparing for a fight or battle. One never knew if a surprise could come. He walked out again and smiled at the comical commotion.

"Thank you again for your gracious hospitality." he said with a kind smile while looking down at the table to examine the clothes she had laid out for the visitors.

She smiled and thanked them before going into the room and slipping out of her clothes and into the shirt. It was quite interesting, and now that she looked at it carefully, she noticed a pattern of leaves and flowers along the edges of the shirt. She finished changing into the pants and looked down. They were a dark brown and you could see vertical grooves. It felt loose and capable of keeping her comfortable.

She put the other clothes away in the bag; she eyed the cloak a moment then sighed and put it away too. She pulled out the tie holding her braid and let her shoulder length black hair loose. She slid the bag she always carried across one shoulder and left the other in the room. Sighing, she walked out into the living room; she stopped once in the living room and tugged on her boots.

"This is so comfortable and it fits perfectly! Thank you Hane-san. Are you sure there's nothing I can do for you?"