Milerand Estate

[Jance Khærte]

Kriete 29th, 6:10PM

"Well then, kinda hasty aren't we? Jance grinned and wiggled his eyebrows at the two of them, offering up a nudge to Yuusuke with his hip, and a suggestive rub of his leg against Cherry's before his snagged the image from the girl's teal forehead.

Large, expansive, and expensive,
the bulding fits in well with the scenery of Liesdro.
Architecture looking fittingly shiny, nothing special...
Aside from the fact that it's three times the size of Jance's house.

"We're off," he announced, holding the picture in his head and tugging his trusty goggles over his eyes. With this long of a teleport - hell, it lasted a whole five seconds, that's ages - the Lakunai was pleased to hear a happy giggle from one of his travel-mates and feel startled hands grip his clothes from the other before it was over. It wasn't often that he got to teleport with anyone other than well...frankly, the last time he had done so with another person was that Crescent kid, Endless.

Gods, he was cute. Long time no see to him, which was, well, a pity. Because he was the first object in his flirting toward the opposite sex that actually resulted in anything. Girls, sure. Easy. Guys on the other hand were a little harder to get reactions from.

Speaking of guys... Jance eyed the other elf, who had yet to open his eyes even though they had very clearly stopped moving. So, why not? Jance prodded through his image thoughts for a moment; who knew, maybe he'd find two guys that could be all over him within the same lifetime. He grinned at himself and stared at the boy's forehead for a second, hoping that Cherry wouldn't point it out to him before he finished.

Vieri, a house, a bird...
Vague images, wandering thoughts.
Definitely not Jance though.

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Jance pouted for a second before something caught his interest and he blinked out of Yuusuke's thoughts, just as said Yuusuke finally opened his eyes.

Was that Endless? Of course it was, nobody else's eyes glowed like that. But why was his face so close? Jance frowned slightly.

"Hm."[/blockquote]

[Cherry Milerand]

Cherry giggled in delight as the feeling of teleportation overtook her. In her short time with Jance, she had already gotten to experience it twice, with this time being her third, and the feeling didn't show any signs of getting old anytime soon. Rushing, rushing, rushing! A spark of undeniable freedom! It was a wonderful feeling. She sort of envied Jance somewhat to be able to do it as often as he wanted to.

Of course, she was also giggling because of his actions - rubbing his leg against hers had her in fits. She didn't know why, but she never seemed to find it very arousing when people flirted with her. She just always ended up finding it funny. Case in point, Kikuriku. That guy flirted with her all the time, but she always laughed it off because she could tell it wasn't serious, and because it was, of course, funny. It was no different here.

All too soon, however, the rushing had stopped and they were standing in front of a great, immaculate building that shined almost as brightly as the eternal sun. She grinned and released her grip on the other two boys, placing hands on her hips as she stared at it. "Ah! Home sweet home!" she cried happily. Ever since she had met with Ellis, just over a week ago, she had vowed to herself to stop worrying so much about Tristan all the time and go and see her parents again. She had been uncharacteristically sad when she thought about how ungrateful she felt she was being, and had happily gone home the very next day.

Since then, in just the short nine days following, she had already been to visit on three different occasions, much to her family's delight. And as much as she hated to say it, she was getting very used to it - she feared that things kept up this way, she might actually, deities forbid, move back home! She giggled to herself. Oh, wouldn't her mother love that.

Well! No time to waste thinking about the prospects of Cherry's future living arrangements, the Lamini girl had far more important things to worry about right now. "Now then, you!" she announced, pointing a finger at Yuusuke, who was being released by Jance (and Cherry had noticed the way he had been staring at the boy. Fun fun.). "We've got to get down to business! Come with me~"

And without any further words, she grabbed a hold of the Venese's wrist and tugged him toward the elaborate golden gate in front of the manor. She simply help up her free hand and tapped it, and it freely swung open for her. Then began the long trek toward the front door - she'd never understand why on earth her parents felt the need for such a ridiculously long walkway leading to their doorstep. Although there were some pretty plants dotting the path, a few gardeners out and about working on maintaining them. A few of them looked her way, cocking an eyebrow at Cherry's guests (of course, used to her by now).

"Don't worry about the looks, they're just concerned that you two aren't very classy-looking. But it's fine, my parents won't care, trust me!" she assured her traveling companions as the trio made their way down the path at a healthy gait.

Finally arriving at the door, Cherry wasted no time in swinging it open, calling out loudly. "Mummy! Daddy! I'm hoooooome!"

And then immediately they were set upon.

A trio of Maids all rushed out into the living quarters to greet Cherry with bows and bright grins, a butler fellow emerged from a room off to the side, standing at attention with a calm smile on his face, several different well-dressed men and women (who had all been seated on a large couch around a lovely coffee table) all looked over, rising to see their niece/cousin/aunt/however they were related to Cherry.

And then further ahead, at the top of a staircase, a Green-skinned, Teal-eyed Lamini woman rounded a corner from a nearby hallway, her face just lightning up as she hastily made her way down the steps as quickly as her large, fancy dress would allow.

"Oh, Cherry darling! It's been ages!"

"Oh, don't be silly, mom~" Cherry responded, waving off the comment as she released Yuusuke and stepped forward to give her mother a hug. "I was here just two days ago!"

"Well, it feels ages, dear." her mother responded, a soft smile on her lips.

"And who might these fine lads be?" a deeper, more masculine voice sounded in the large Living Room, and all eyes turned to see another Green fellow, dressed smartly, enter the room, a calm, expectant smile on his face as opposed to Cherry's ecstatic one. She ran forward and practically jumped on him. "Daddyyyyy!"

"Hello, hello, Cherry. Were you going to answer my question?" He asked with a chuckled, as he struggled not to fall over.

"Oh! Of course! Mummy, Daddy, everyone else (the other Lamini in the room all chucked), this is Yuusuke," she said, pointing at her dirty guest, "And this is Jance!" she introduced the Lakunai next. "YuYu, Jancey, this is my Mother and Father, Leila and Daniel, and these are my other relatives - there's my Uncle, my Aunt, that's Cousin Andrew, oh, my little nephew Deryn (he's not REALLY my nephew, but cousin Laura is like a Sister!), my cousin..." and Cherry just went on, introducing every one of her dozen relatives that all happened to be in the room, who all nodded, or bowed, or waved in turn.

She then leaned over to Jance and Yuusuke, giggling. "The Teal Skin was a recessive trait in both my parents, so I got it even though they had the Green kind. Heh, neat huh?" She then pulled away and announced loudly: "Now then! My guest Yuusuke here is in dire need of a bath! Zelda, Megan, would you please?"

Two of the three maids that had entered earlier bowed politely, smiles remaining firmly on their faces as they cooed, almost too happily, "Of course, Young Mistress!" They then proceeded to grab a hold of Yuusuke, giggling very quietly as they began to bring him upstairs between the two of them.

"Don't fight them~!" Cherry called happily. "Just let them do their work without resistance, and it'll be much easier for everyone!"

Several of the family were already in stitches at the antic. Things always had a habit of getting lively when the wayward heiress came home. Cherry then grinned at Jance. "Well! You hungry?"

Note: Feel free to control any of the NPCs as you so see fit. =P

[Yuusuke Aelchr]

Whatever Yuusuke had been expecting when it came to this teleporting thing, it hadn’t been this. Well, first, he also hadn’t been expecting the sudden close contact, either. Being sandwiched between two people, both of which scared the crud out of him [no matter how nice they smelled, wasn’t exactly his image of teleportation. But…seeing as he had no choice in the matter, it could definitely have been worse.

Then Jance offered up a suggestive hip nudge. Nevermind. He just shut his eyes and waited at the announcement of departure, when damn they were moving fast. The Venese started, fingers grasping at the shirt of the…Lakunai? He looked like one…in front of him. This was a hell of a lot faster than what Yuusuke was used to when flying. Suddenly his stomach returned to it’s original place, presumably because they had landed, but he waited a moment before his hesitantly re-opened his lids.

Only to notice both this Jance guy, and Cherry watching him, looking confused and amused, respectively. However he could only notice this for a second, as he proceeded to be blinded by the enormous house before them. “I uhm…wow,” Yuusuke lost his thought process, mesmerized by the mansion before he could ask Jance what was wrong. Maybe the Lakunai wasn’t pleased with Cherry’s slamming of a dirty Venese onto him. And before he could remember, he was suddenly jerked to the side again, guided by that strong grip on his think wrist, with Jance, obviously having forgiven whatever he had done wrong, following good-naturedly behind.

After a long amount of pulling and awkward stares from the multiplying numbers of people appearing, a majority of them green and teal people, and an extremely awkward introduction to the girls’ parents [thank the deities that Jance was there too, if Yuusuke ended up looking like the boyfriend…], he finally snapped out of his muddled confusion when the name “Yu Yu” came up. “Yu Yu.”

Really? Apparently “Jancey” didn’t mind the nicknames, he noticed after a quick peek at the odd Lakunai. It was interesting though, about the recessive skin trait that Cherry explained. Yuusuke hadn’t learned about such things, and it did look a little odd that Cherry and her parents basically…switched colors. Of course, that didn’t mean that he understood all of what sh-

A bath. A bath? Yuusuke had little time to react to the girl’s announcement before his light form was dragged off by two much too pleased-looking maids. Who were young. And looked approximately his age. The Venese boy gulped, eyeing the girls with worried eyebrows framing his jade eyes before – oh Gods – they reached an elaborate bathroom with a bath approximately the size of Yuusuke’s old house. He froze, desperately trying to back pedal as the girls just lifted his body off of the groud – quite an easy feat, even for a single one of them most likely – and carried him forward again. As the girl on the left headed for the water taps [both of which were the size of his two fists put together], the one on his right stayed for a moment and looked him over before grabbing his shirt and pulling it off.

“I, ah! Wait, hey!” Yuusuke scrambled frantically away, pants unbuttoned and shirt now in the garbage pail. “I uh…I can do this part myself, really, just uh…” Could he ask them to leave? Well, it was worth a shot, but they probably wouldn’t disobey their Lady Cherry. “Can you just turn away for a bit and uhm…hand me a towel?” he asked awkwardly, eyeing the heap of sparkling clean, white towels in the corner. After a moment of pouting, the maid by the taps tossed the smallest towel the boy had ever seen at him, then turned away, the other girl following suit.

Taking the chance, Yuusuke held the towel corner in his teeth and stripped out of his pants and undershorts, wrapping the towel around his waist hastily before fishing a frantically chiming Carillon out of his pocket. “You’re scared too, huh?” he asked softly, then waited for the maids to hear his voice and expectedly giggle and shove him into the bathtub, the girl on the right gently taking Carillon before Yuusuke was plunged completely into the water, left hand desperately grasping at his towel to keep it in place. He’d heard about situations like this before and he did not want anything like those.

He just hoped the two giggling girls stayed where they were.

[Jance Khærte]

Apparently, Cherry had toned the image of her house down considerably when she had shown it to him; it was lucky he was wearing his goggles, and he kept them on throughout the long trek to the actual door of the mansion. If only she’d shown him the inside of her house, to save that poor Yuusuke kid the trouble of being dragged the whole way.

It was surprising though – usually Jance could tell the difference between teleporting one and two people…but these two just felt like one. And judging by the way that Yuusuke had no say in the matter of where he was headed…it was probably him. Venese, maybe? Jance eyed the boy’s ears. Sure looks like it. And, while the moment was open again…Jance shuffled through the boy’s brain again, looking for those two glowing orbs in his vision, when instead of pausing on Endless’ eyes in the moonlight, he noticed Endless’ eyes…not glowing. But peering over from a cup of coffee.

The question was, how old were these memo-…

Cheese on toast that is a lot of tealy-green people. A lot of them. Which probably provided an answer to his question on why she didn’t just send them to teleport into her room or something. Imagine, these lovely, loving parents she was introducing them to, hearing awkward shuffling in the supposedly empty room, and then seeing their darling daughter, slightly sweaty from the heat of Fiamont, accompanied by two equally somewhat-sweaty boys. Jance chuckled to himself at the thought.

But luckily for one of them, one of them got to take a bath. One of them got to take a bath accompanied by two adorable young maids. The Lakunai pouted as the dragged the frightened boy off.

“Hey so uh…Cherry? How long have you known this guy? Jance’s eyebrows pulled in towards the center, and the tug on the sides of his face reminded him that he was awkwardly still wearing his goggles inside the house. Lowering his voice, he added another question; “Like, do you know if he’s dating anyone?”

Not that he wanted to date the light little Venese, no no no. But…was he dating Endless?

[Cherry Milerand]

Cherry snickered to herself at Jance's questions. He had completely ignored her inquiry about his hunger - no, he had far more important questions to ask. Well, good thing he used his conversation voice - Cherry's relatives were all chatting again amongst themselves, with just her parents still paying attention to her (introductions were over now, so the other members of the family probably felt they could go about their business before her loud intrusion).

This was good for Jance, considering it might be awkward for him if the whole room had heard him asking about if Yuusuke was seeing anyone. But of course, it was just delight for Cherry. After all, she did love playing matchmaker. But then, she loved a lot of things.

"Actually," she responded with a smirk. "I only just met him today, on my way into those mining tunnels. Well, I technically met him a little while ago, selling him a pet, but that wasn't much of a real meeting. But anyway, I thought he looked awful in those rags he calls clothes, so I dirtied them up - oh, don't tell him I did that on purpose - and brought him here. See, now I have an excuse to dress him up in clothes of my own design! Ah, my genius astounds me." She explained, adding that list bit rather playfully. "But no, I wouldn't know if he's seeing anyone; what, you interested?" she inquired, eyebrow raised and a knowing smirk plastered onto her teal face. "As if I have to ask."

Abruptly, she turned to the butler fellow, still smartly at attention. "Could you bring us a couple sandwiches, Horus? Thank you~" The man smiled and nodded, and marched off. Cherry didn't know about Jance, but she was certainly hungry. And she could probably use a bath, too. To be honest, the bath upstairs was so incredibly large because many people could use it at once - often the Milerand ladies would journey up as a troop and make use of it whilst chatting and gossiping, and the men would do the same at a separately disclosed time.

It was fine for them; they were family. But strangers didn't usually bathe together, not unless they were in a hot spring, and even then they didn't usually make the springs unisex. And so Cherry concluded, with a slight frown, that it would be inappropriate for her and Jance to wander up and join Yuusuke in the bath. T'wouldn't be proper, nope. She sighed. "Sorry if you're feeling dingy, by the way. You can use the bath later, when he's done with it."

She briefly considered the idea of joining Jance up there - after all, he liked Yuusuke, right? But then she remembered his flirting and considered that he might swing both ways; in which case, that would also be a no-no.

[Jance Khærte]

“So he’s just some random guy…” Jance trailed off in though, still distracted by the sight of Endless still so clear in the boy’s mind. Maybe they had just broken up or something? They looked relatively recent, with Endless still with the same hair style and age and all. “Are you sure he wanted new clothing, though?” He certainly wasn’t acting like it, so far.

Then he realized she assumed that he liked that little string bean. “Who, Yuusuke? No, he’s just fun to creep on. But uh…” Jance stuck out his lower lip in thought. If Cherry had just met this kid today, and didn’t know if he was dating anyone, how would she know his relationship with his little friend the Crescent? So it really wasn’t worth explaining anything to the girl, when there was absolutely nothing within the range of things to find out. The thing was though, there was always a chance she might know the kid. Or even, just telling her might get him kudos points, and get that silly notion out of her head that there was anymore than flirting going on in Jance’s general vicinity. “Uh…I’ll explain in a second.” Jance awkwardly eyed the elder Lamini couple that was looking politely at their daughter and her remaining companion. “But yeah, those sandwiches sound good,” he agreed when the classy-looking butler reappeared with a platter. “Mind if we head up to the bathroom now? I need to ask that kid a question. I’ll explain on the way.”

The Lakunai thanked the butler and he picked up a sandwich from the shining – hell, it was pretty much glowing, like everything else in the country – platter, attempting to refrain from touching more than one or two in the process, then wandered off awkwardly in the direction that the maids had dragged the blonde elven boy, waiting for Cherry to follow. When they were out of hearing range, he explained; “To boil it down…I’m kind of in hot water or…something of the sort with this other guy, named Endless…Hot stuff. But er…I saw recent looking pictures of the same guy in this kid’s head when I was casually…skimming through. That’s pretty much it,” Jance finished awkwardly, feeling weird to be admitting that he was kind of serious about a person for once.

Kind of.

[[OOC: Shooort but trying to get things back together with Yuubaby]]

[Cherry Milerand]

Cherry pouted slightly when Jance made his inquiry regarding that silly little thing Yuusuke had. You know, free will and all. She supposed it was obvious the boy really didn't want new clothes, but seriously, what did that really matter? Cherry was doing him a favor! Sure, he wanted no part in it, so that was like, negative karma or something, but she was pretty sure she balanced it out with the free clothes, bath, hospitality, and general friendly atmosphere. So, technically, she was gaining Karma here, right? Yeah, totally.

But Jance was quick to disappoint her (only slightly) when he mentioned that he wasn't actually interested in Yuusuke - he was just flirting, like he did with Cherry. Cherry made a mental note to herself that she ought to stop flirting with so many different people. It might bite her later. Hell, it already HAD with Kiku. Digressing...

Then the boy did something that shocked her. Well, okay, not her, but you could say she was feeling shock on the probable behalf of her parents, whose eyes widened a bit as Jance made the announcement that he was going to head right on up to the bathroom and interrupt little Yuyu's private time in the bathroom. Cherry watched him go for a moment before making the decision to follow after him. She turned around, giving her parents a shrug and a grin, as if to say "Hey, I'm the host!", and then quickly turned back around to trot off after her pale companion up the large set of stairs.

On the way, he decided to start explaining what was really going on - aha~! So Jance was being an image thief (again), and rummaging through Yuusuke's head. And he spotted a recent image of some other he was crushing on. Okay, okay, things were back into Cherry's territory now - match-making, like many other childishly girlish things, was one of her specialties after all.

The two emerged into the large - well, large was an understatement - bathroom, with its over sized tub designed to fit several people at once. Cherry had been up her quite recently with her mother, aunts, and a few cousins, and ended up staying for just hours. This place was addicting at times. Her dreamy remembrance of the relaxing atmosphere was snapped away though when she noticed a sight that had her in stitches.

There, in the water, was Zelda, wearing a one-piece, appropriately decent swimsuit, holding Yuusuke's arm up above his head in a death-grip and scrubbing quite vigorously at his armpit with as a Stick-Scrubby-Thing. Cherry forgot what they were called. The girl seemed rather intent on her work, and the hapless Venese (who was clad in nothing but a very small towel) looked extremely awkward, obviously quite uneasy by the whole situation. Then there was Megan, standing nearby (also in a bathing suit) with a bucket, inside of which was something she was stirring around with a wooden spoon. Ah, she must've been mixing together the shampoo ingredients.

Cherry was in fits of laughter, looking at Yuusuke's face, her suddenly serious-looking maids, and Jance's equally amused expression. And it just grew worse when Yuusuke noticed them, and his face turned a shade of scarlet she didn't think possible.

"O-Oh, oh, oh my g-god!" she shouted, gasping between words. "You have n-no, no idea how funny you look!" She raised a hand to point at him, her other cradling her cramping stomach as she tried to get her laughs under control. When she had finally settled (slightly), she turned to Jance, still giggling profusely. "You wanted to talk to him then?"

[Yuusuke Aelchr]

Okay. Yuusuke could deal with being forced to take a bath, sure. That was within the realm of forgivable instances. However, something he doubted he would easily forgive would have to have been the little maids disappearing for a moment - giving him false hope - then crushing those hopes and pulling him into shock and fear as they plunged into the monstrous tub with the Venese boy. In they splashed with a cheery “CANNON-BALL!” battle cry [hell if Yuusuke knew which one it was], but when they reappeared, the smiles were wiped clean off of their faces as the emerged holding a bath-scrubber and a stick-brush-thing.

“N-no, really, I can do that myse-..!” Yuusuke whimpered out a mouthful of bubbles as one of the maids dunked his head underwater without warning before pulling him back up with determined expression.
“Miss Cherry ordered me to get you clean, I’m only doing my job,” said the first.

“Please just cooperate with us, alright? You wouldn’t want to fight us girls, right, Sir?” the other followed up, expressions not giving away the obvious undertone of delight in their words.

“But I…!” Yuusuke was caught off again by a sudsy washcloth that was slapped to his face before the maid in possession began rubbing vigorously. Just as well though, he really couldn’t think of a come back from that. Because hell, fighting with girls was dangerous. Last time the blonde had gotten into a scuffle with the female gender, he’d come out with a broken nose and a scar on his left leg because he had been too afraid to fight back. His hand gently twitched towards said scar and he felt it as a reminder, wrist brushing against the towel that was – luckily - still wrapped around his waist.

And hopefully it’ll stay there… he thought warily, jade eyes peering over at the maids after his face was freed from the terry cloth and rinsed thoroughly. Because he could feel them eyeing the towel. He reached to grasp at the corner that was tying it together when suddenly that arm was taken out of his control and tugged viciously out to be washed as well, underarms included. Luckily it was just these two, because for the sake of…

…damn, Yuusuke swore to himself when he looked up to see, lo and behold, Cherry and Jance, both laughing their clothed little asses off. And just for the Lakunai to talk to him? “What do you want, I’m er…” The Venese felt his face heat up more, if possible. “I’m a little busy here.” Eyebrows furrowed he tried to escape the next limb snatch from one of the maids but failed, hands luckily jumping down to his towel as a reflex as the shorter of the two girls grabbed at his left leg and pulled, scrubbing at his feet and nearly knocking the boy head over heels.

“Couldn’t you hav-…!” Yuusuke spluttered, struggling to keep his head within breathing capability. “Couldn’t you have waited until this w-…was over?”

[Jance Khærte]

Now for all the shit Jance could take, this was just too funny. He hadn’t actually expected the two giggling girls to get in with Yuusuke…Well now that I think about it…I wouldn’t have doubted it. Judging from their expressions and all. Watching the boy’s obvious in amusement with Cherry was all fun and games, however.

As Cherry so graciously reminded him; he had barged into the sparkling bathroom for a reason. “Blondie, I’ve got a question for you,” he said, flirtation greatly dropping every moment that he remembered Endy’s grinning face popping out of that smooth forehead. It wasn’t jealousy, definitely not. But Endless had acted like something was there, and well, Jance liked getting somethings.

“Do you know a kid named Endless?” Blunt, he ordered himself, get to the point and maybe this skittish kid will actually answer. “About yea high, skinny but…not as skinny as you…” he added, eyeing the Venese’s leg that was currently getting the dickens scrubbed out of it. “Know him?”

Jance looked over at Cherry, frowning slightly at the lack of response from the drowning elf in the tub. “They’re ruining my interrogation…” His mouth twitched at the maids in the tub before he thought of a better idea. Eyebrows staying low but anger removed, he added in an extra, “What do you say we get in and rescue the kid?”

Because he couldn't miss the opportunity, of course.

[Cherry Milerand]

Cherry's face adopted the look of a blank smile as she stared and blinked at Jance. Had he REALLY just suggested getting in? With Yuusuke? Now, Cherry was never one to refuse the idea of pushing the envelope, but that was maybe a bit too far. At least, in her parents' home it was. So she politely coughed, her voice still shaking with the traces of laughter and shook her head at Jance. "Sorry, buddy, but I'm not one of the maids, and it wouldn't be a very good idea for me to indulge in that idea. But..." she added, her voice trailing off slightly. "There's no reason why you can't get in. I mean, you're both guys and all."

She turned around then. She was certain that she had probably caused the Venese enough exasperation that day anyhow, so maybe that was also influencing her decision. So she stepped casually over to a nearby seat - because of course a bathroom as large as this one would certainly keep chairs around for the sake of lounging about - and had herself a nice sit. Jancey could talk to YuYu all he wanted - she'd just stand by and listen for a bit.