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Chapter Twenty-Seven

At Yusuke's signal, the whole party folded away to Japan. This shook several observers as the group formed up behind Yusuke and Shiriusu-oji and just walked into nothing. They were gone between one step and a the other.

They appeared in the back yard of Miyamoto HQ on Hokkaido and just kept walking, right into the house. As they entered, the men peeled off to go to their quarters, a lounge or where ever they needed to go.

Sirius nodded. "Remusu-kun, any business we need to deal with?"

Remus shook his head, "No, Shiriusu-kun. I took care of anything immediate yesterday."

Yusuke sighed, "Well, thank you. I really would like a day or two to just fuck around. I'm sick of dealing with Eigo no oroka-sa."

Sirius snorted, "English stupidity, indeed. You do need to rest. You're scrambling your languages again."

Yusuke grumbled a bit then headed for his rooms. "I'm going to take a nap. Call me when Father gets here. And no more English. Japanese only. I'm losing my touch."

Remus glanced at Sirius who just shrugged. It was obvious that Yusuke was thinking intensely. This could only be good for the gumi and bad for someone else.

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Yusuke was most displeased to find out that an emergency in the south had taken his father and all three brothers away at one time. Musashi-sama was in Tokyo, to be closer to the action. Ichigo-san was in Tottori with Ren-san. No one at HQ was sure exactly where Masa-san was.

His own orders were to relax, train and be ready if, or when, he was called. It seemed that the Shikkō-sha might be needed. The rumor was that Koreans were causing trouble down South. Shiriusu-oji wasn't happy about this but he, Yusuke, had told him that it was his honor and duty to obey. Remus-aniki had agreed with Yusuke, much to Shiriusu-oji's annoyance.

So, for now, Yusuke decided to work on the two talents he had that had been most difficult to practice at Hogwarts; koto and calligraphy.

He also needed to clean out his mallet space. He chuckled to himself, who would have thought such a thing would be so useful. But it did have the habit of collecting junk. This made it hard for him to find what it wanted, especially his cigarettes. He decided to do that next morning, after breakfast. For now, he was going to have a nice, private meal and go to sleep. He was going to be off balance until he was back on Japanese time. Even the three or four hours he needed would help.

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As it turned out, he was up at 3am. He just couldn't sleep any more. He got up and wandered the garden for a while. The moon was at three-quarters so there was plenty of light. He found the rock and sand Zen garden especially relaxing. He watched the moon shadows as they moved across the garden, feeling truly relaxed for the first time since he'd gone to Scotland.

He did't like the class set up, the food was heavy and greasy, and most of the professors were barely competent. The attitudes of the purebloods made him want to shoot the lot of them, inbreeding was rampant and it showed. He smoked as he watched the moon set then got up and wandered through the house for a while. The smells, sounds and sights reassured him, settling his nerves in a way that he would never admit to. This was home, not England.

Sirius woke up, unsure of the reason but he got up just to check around. He found Yusuke sitting on the engawa.

"Can't sleep?" He settled siza beside Yusuke.

"No. I don't sleep much, three or four hours a night mostly. I'm always up and about before daylight." Yusuke offered Sirius a cigaret, which he took. The smell of cloves hovered in the air around them.