(Disclaimer: I do not own YST nor RW, they are owned by Sunrise. Neither do I own the characters of the original series.)

(Author's Notes: The SECOND CHAPTER is here! Yay! You know what I mean! Please still continue to R&R! Sorry if there are some mistakes, just tell me, okay? PLEASE NO FLAMING, just bear with me, kei... sorry...)

SAMURAI PHANTOM REKKA: HANA JUNIOR HIGH'S INVISIBLE THIEF

Prologue: REALIZATIONS

"Y'know what?" said Ryo one beautiful Saturday morning taking some tea and rice crackers for breakfast, "I still can't hardly believe that really happen'd..."

"Surely it is!" Byakkouen answered with his mouth full of fish, "And if isn't, how can you explain a talking striped cat having breakfast with a human, eh?"

"THAT isn't normal..."

"What's more: how can you explain about last Tuesday night?"

"It's really like a dream... no, a nightmare!" and finished his tea, "By the way," turning to the cat, "I forgot to ask: Speakin' of last night..."

"Well... about last night..." and gulped his meal thoroughly, "You need not to worry about that. Everything went back normal in the museum and Tsukabashi's painting will never bring harm to anyone anymore! We have already sealed the oni, remember?"

"Yeah, right..." Ryo stood up and took the plates to be washed in the kitchen.

"And do you still remember Mr. Takano? And the three other men who were once stucked in the painting?"

"How are they?" he asked from the kitchen.

"They're okay now. They had been at home since Wednesday after that incident, I guess. But I think they will never make it for their job this week, especially Mr. Takano, due to fever. He caught it after that night..."

"Did they remember anythin'?" he asked, a little worried.

"Don't worry. They didn't remember anything..."

"Not a single thing?"

"Na-ah. Not even my voice."

"...That's odd..."

"It sure really is... According to what I have heard, they even said that they were just dreaming about that night..."

"They thought so..." and he went back to the sala, sitting on couch, "Ei, Kitty..."

"What?" the cat stood up.

"Well, I'm just wond'rin'," and he rested his chin with his hand, "Does it have any connection to the mysterious archer we saw last night?"

Byakkouen's face was filled with thoughts when Ryo asked about the archer.

"Man, he's so rude! He even didn't bother to introduce himself! Is that so hard? I mean, to introduce himself first before chargin' or somethin'?"

Both cannot help themselves but to remember that night, when the Blue Archer mysteriously appeared in the moonlit sky, floating. His blue energy arrow saved him from theoni's realm. But one strange thing is that the archer also attempted to hit him. After that incident, he just disappeared without noticing him...

Indeed, the mysterious Blue Archer.

"An' ya even said that you've felt a diffusion on that archer... D'ya think that he's also a Phantom like me or Shuten?"

"My instincts could not be mistaken..." seriously, "A diffusion is within him. What I'm wondering right now is that how he had managed to control it almost perfectly..."

"Have ya ever tried to guess the diffusion he has right now?"

The cat curved his lips, "Well... not much, yet. But the mental ability he has might give me a clue: he has psychokinesis..."

"...Psycho... what?"

"Psychokinesis. It is an ability to control something mentally. Make objects fly, gravity control, etc. But still I couldn't guess his elemental power, if he has, if it is embedded by a Confucian or a Bushido virtue. This never happened to me before when I still can guess it right..."

"So it wouldn't help at all..." and he leaned on a couch, "Man, whatta mystery he is!"

"You bet!"

As Ryo looked outside the window, a bright and warm sunshine with the concierto of the birds in the cypress trees didn't help his bothering self at all. Still thinking about the last night's incident, the mysterious figure of what they called 'The Blue Archer' started to bother his mind.

Blue Archer... looking at the sky, Who REALLY are you...?

(This is the prologue to this chapter. Sorry for the delay, I was celebrating Christmas and at the same time got sick on New Year's Eve! Isn't it that AWFUL? Anyway, for those who just reviewed my first fic, THANKS A LOT and please continue to R&R especially this one. Sorry for the mess!)