It was chaos, winds roaring, children screaming, lightening striking, people running undeterred by the violent crashes to put out the fires springing up left and right. Two girls ran through the throng of people toiling around them, but it wasn't the storm they were running from, no, they were being chased by something with deadlier accuracy. If anyone looked at them they would have been met with a odd sight, if they could go beyond the fires threatening to consume their village. They would have seen May, a fifteen year old girl with long blue hair in a raven black bandana wearing a mask covering the bottom half of her face and neck, a red shirt and black pants completing her ensemble. That would have been normal, not worth a second glance if it wasnt for the black dragon tattoos curling around her arms and legs proving that something just wasnt right with her. She had peculiar emotion, a spark in her red eyes that showed fearlessness but was now clouded with curiosity about the girl pulling her by the hand and grinning like a fool.

This girl was even more peculiar, in a masochistic 'oh my god you cannot be that stupid!' kind of way.

The girl, Kagami, was a head shorter than May and her complete opposite. May's skin was pale while Kagami's was as dark as the dirt in the school yard and marred by fading scars. She had black hair, orange eyes and wore black pants and shirt with an orange belt and grey cloth that went around her shoulders, held together by a silver clasp.

The cloth that made Kagamis belt trailed behind her, as she mentally gloated to herself, which she regretted as she ran into a thorny bush and hit the ground pulling May with her. 'Huh' Kagami though as she tumbled to the dirt 'I expected more of an ow.' Realizing she fell onto May she instantly pushed herself up to a kneeling position.

"Sorry about that, do you need help up?"

Kagami tried to help May up but was soon pushed out of the way by a frustrated(pissed off) girl.

"This looks and feels wrong, whats the matter with you?" May definitely had better things to do than follow this moron.

Kagami blushed and hid her smile , looking away quickly, there were many innuendos coming to mind that she shouldnt say if she wanted a friend.

May laughed softly and murmured "I was kidding" than suddenly pulled Kagami to her chest.

Kagami was currently wondering what was going on, she just met the girl for Christ's sake!

"Shh! I hear someone." May whispered to her.

It wasnt hard to hear their followers, they were pretty loud, the footsteps stopped and someone began speaking but was interrupted by the steady clangs of a bell signaling the end of the storm.

Cursing was heard and retreating footsteps, but not before a guys voice called out to them.

"You may have been able to hide from us this time, but when we catch you brats", A tense silence followed before the voice resumed, dripping with menace, "you will pay, and pay dearly."

May strained her ears and released the breath she didnt know she was holding and crawled out of the bush, stretching and popping her neck. Kagami followed smirking, she had succeeded!

"So who are you?"

"What?" 'very eloquent there.'

"Your name, you dragged me on your little escapade and I want to know who to blame." May laced her tone with anger and annoyance and took a threatening stance to get a faster reply.

Kagami looked at her for what seemed like the first time, taking in her posture and what expression she could see on the masked face. The adrenalin that flowed through her was fading and she felt tired, not feeling up to cockiness or sarcasm, she fell back on her manners. She sat down to get through the inevitable conversation.

"Kagami, who are you?"

May wasnt expecting that and replied "May" to give herself time to think and narrowed her eyes.

Kagami took the silence in stride and pulled out the red bean paste buns she had successfully taken.

This shouldn't have gotten a rise out of her brother, but he's been on edge lately and everything she did was wrong.

"Want one?" There's nothing like a good bribe.

May took it warily and ate it, who could blame her, she hadn't had lunch that day and was starving.

"So", May began "who were those guys?"

Kagami swallowed a rather large lump of the treat and answered "my brother and his gang, their getting verytouchy lately."

"Touchy?" May growled "you call running us down touchy?"

"Fine, determined or bored. Better?"

May sighed and got up, this was pointless.

"Hey wait up!" Kagami jumped up and ran after May, "Im not done with you yet!"

May was currently looking at the ground and ignoring the girl behind her, that's why the feet she saw surprised her. She looked up to see a woman in her 20s with pig tails and wearing the same grey cloth as Kagami.

Kagami, who finally caught up with May seemed to see the woman at the exact time she did. Kagami instantly grabbed May by the shoulders to use her as a human shield, pulling the girl in front of her, much to May's ever increasing annoyance.

The woman seemed amused by that.

"I've found you"

All Kagami could do was pretend to melt into nothingness. She was so screwed.