"Morning, boys." Yumiko grins as she walks into the lounge in a red dress. 

"Morning, Yumiko!" Ota smiles brightly, waving at her as the other turn to look. "We were waiting for you! Are you ready?"

"Ready for what?" she asks, looking at all of them. "Just follow us. Grab your jacket, let's go." Eisuke says, placing his coffee cup down and standing up, the bidders and Yukio following suit. 

Yumiko obediently grabs her jacket from the chair she had hung it on, tugging it on as she fixed her slightly messed up hair. She follows the bidders down to the lounge when suddenly, groupies began crowding around, annoying Yumiko to no end, especially when women began flocking to her brother.

"Ah, Yukio-san! Where are you going?" "Yukio! I have some time tonight, wanna come over~?" 

Her eye twitches and Yumiko glares at the group of women flocking around the group of bidders. Her brother was always popular, and so was Yumiko, but the difference was, Yumiko always walked away, her brother on the other hand...

"Tch, let me go. I have other places to be." Yukio sighs irritably, pushing the women aside and walking to Yumiko's side, causing the women to glare at her enviously. 

Yumiko threads her arm through her brother's, looking back to the women with a smirk, causing her brother to chuckle and pat her head with his free hand. The women behind them whine even more when the bidders either excuse themselves politely, or rudely pushed and walked away.

They all stand around Yumiko, who once more, laughs slightly and sticks her tongue out to the women, who glare at her before walking off.

The bidders and the twins climb into the spacious limo that of course, Eisuke had set.

~*****~

After a quick, 15 minute trip, they all arrived at a mall a bit away from the hotel. "Here we are!" Ota cheers, following the bidders out the car, Yumiko following out last as she thanked Baba for holding the door.

"What are we doing here?" she asked, looking up to the mall with curious, amazed eyes.

"Shopping, of course! We had nothing else to do and we have another IVC coming up soon. Might as well go buy something new, right?" Baba says cheerfully, walking alongside Yumiko as he grinned.

"Shopping...? That thing girls always do, correct?"

"Ya' make it sound like you've never gone shopping before, kid." Mamoru chuckles slightly, putting out the cigarette he had as he opened the door, holding it for all the others. Once the detective caught up, Yumiko answered.

"Well..." she says sheepishly, keeping her head down. "I've never actually gone shopping before... Most of my free time was spent on training or studying. My father's right hand man usually was the one who bought me my things. Yukio's been to malls for shopping before, but mostly only for different tux try outs. My father already had dresses for me at home."

"So basically, this is your first time shopping?" Eisuke posed the question as they strolled through the throngs of people, ignoring the looks women threw at them and all the looks the men gave Yumiko or the bidders. Well, they did have Ota Kisaki and Eisuke Ichinomiya with them, after all.

"Pretty much. I never realized a mall could be this big though." she chuckled, looking around with curious eyes, holding onto her brother's hand to make sure she didn't get lost in the crowd.

"Well that's great! Let's go shopping then, you'll love all the stores here!" Ota says, grabbing Yumiko's wrist, the girl refusing to let go of her brother, causing her to drag Yukio as Ota dragged them and the rest of the bidders off.

The first store they went to was The Sweet Cherry under Baba's suggestion. It was a fairly normal store, well, despite the high prices they had for the clothing items. There were dresses and different shirts and such.

Yumiko strolls through the aisles, watching some of the women gaze at the clothing longingly. She sighs, the boys following behind her as she looks through the clothes. "Look at this one, Yumi!" Ota suddenly calls, turning her around as he presses a dress against her figure.

It was a black dress, ending near her knees, a lace belt around the waist. It sets her silver hair off completely, her red eyes bought out even more by the dark color.

"Not bad." Eisuke smirks, crossing his arms as Mamoru and Soryu nod, Baba grinning as he complimented her. "You look really pretty, Yumiko! Let's go find some more clothes!" 

After picking out about 2 shirts and two more dresses, the bidders and the twins go to the cashier, lining up to pay. They stood behind a man, who was holding a pretty, white dress. Once the man got up to the counter, the cashier suddenly said he didn't have enough money.

"100 more yen...? I don't have that much money anymore..." he mutters, opening his wallet. "I'm afraid I can't let you buy this, sir." the woman bows, beginning to place the dress away when Yumiko stepped up, the bidders and her twin brother watching on, surprised.

"I'll take that, and these dresses. Just put the white one in a separate bag so I can take it out quicker for tonight." Yumiko says, the man looking dejected as he watched on. The man watched as the dress he wanted to buy was packed and handed to the silver haired girl, who smiles as she handed the other bags, with her original things, to the identical boy behind her.

He turns away and begins walking with heavy steps, when someone suddenly taps him on the shoulder, making him turn around. The same silver haired mystery girl smiles at him as she hands him the singular bag that contained the beautiful white dress he had wanted.

"This is the dress you wanted, yes?" she smiles, thrusting the bag in his hands. "I- yes... But you can have it! You payed for it!" he says, trying to hand it back to her, as the boys behind her merely watched on.

"It's cool. I can tell you really wanted it. But if you don't mind me asking, whom is it for?" she chuckles, eyeing the bag in his hand. "T-This? It's supposed to be for my girlfriend for our 6 year anniversary... I was going to propose to her tomorrow."

"Really? That's great!" she beamed, causing the man to smile as he held onto the bag slightly tighter. "She's a lucky girl, huh? I wish the best for you both!"

"Ah yes, I really do love her. My name's Hisao by the way." he says, shaking Yumiko's hand. "Hisao... Hisao... That sounds very familiar."

"Ah, do you know Akira?" he asks, smiling. "Akira! Yes, she was my old friend from college! She never told me she had such a good boyfriend though!"

"Oh wait, are you perhaps the Yumiko she speaks about?" he asks with a grin. "That's me, yes. Why?"

"Well she said that if she gets married one day she wants you as the bridesmaid, haha."

"Really?!" Yumiko beams, "Of course! How about we exchange number and you can contact me once the wedding's set? I'd love to help!"

"Sure. I'll make sure she knows what you did for me." he chuckles, as they exchanged numbers before fixing his jacket. "Thanks so much, Yumiko. I hope to see you again."

"No problem! Just pay me back by making my friend happy!"

"You don't need to tell me!" he calls back with a laugh. Yumiko turns around to find the bidders waiting impatiently. "Now if you're done flirting, let's go, Yumi." Yukio rolls his eyes as he leads his sister out the store.

"Aww... Are you mad, onii-chan?" she teases, making her brother stick his tongue out at her. 

~*****~

After a long time of shopping, Yukio began to regret his choice of coming along when...

"Come, onii-chan! Put this on!" Though Yumiko usually hated stuff like this, apparently she was in a good mood when she had wanted to buy matching PJ's with her brother.

"No, Yumi!" he says, as his sister drags him into a dressing room, tossing the outfit to him before shutting the door in his face.

Once he changes into the outfit, he comes out to find his sister in a matching pink one. His cheeks were dusted pink, making the bidders laugh and chuckle. "You look good, Yukio." Eisuke smirks, looking at the boy before turning to his sister.

"I think the outfits are good. Great pick Yumiko." the CEO says, making the boy irritated.

"Really?! Great! We'll get this, come on onii-chan."

"Yumiko, you-" "Go!"

As he walks back into the changing area, he sighs.

"I swear, Yumi... The things I do for you."

~*****~

A/N:

I'm sorry for taking so long to update this and that this chapter was a bit uneventful. I really didn't have any ideas for this update. But I'll have more drama and such for the next one. 

I had finished To My Dearest so I have more time for this now. I'll probably update this again tomorrow. I really hope you guys understand the late update on this, I really try my best to update this as much as possible.

But having more than one route is a bit difficult so it just confuses me a little bit because I don't want to repeat anything from a previous route or chapter.

Well thanks for reading,and sorry again, guys.

Ciao!

~Dark Angel