Satsuki awakens to the presence of another person. Her eye open and look into her mothers eyes. Satsuki stares at her mother with a blank emotionless face. Rage hidden deep behind her eyes. Ragyo nearly giggles to herself and she lowers her head to her daughters neck. She kisses her throat while her right hand gropes a breast.

" I will always be with you Satsuki..." Ragyo whispers sweetly into her ear before giving it a lick. Her hand traces it's way down Satsukis stomach. Ragyos kissing traces it's way around Satsukis neck, her hand finding Satsukis vagina. She inserts her ring and middle finger and gently yet firmly moves them in and out. Her thumb massaging Satsukis clitoris. Despite Ragyos skillful movements, Satsuki lays there on her back. Unmoving. She knows in her mind this will all end soon.

She awakens in a cold sweat. It's been two years since the defeat of her mother. Yet every night she has the same dream, awakening to her mother gently raping her. Even though Ragyo did similar things to her as she grew up, the dreams are so much worse. She looks over at her alarm clock on her night stand. It reads 5:30 am. She slept in. Only by a half an hour but still past her normal time of 5am. She slips into a silk robe and slippers and walks down the hall towards the bathroom. She stops at Ryukos room and peek inside the door crack. Ryuko is sleeping on her bed in some sort of jumbled up mess. Her face drooling onto the pillow as she snores. It looks like she just got into bed maybe an hour ago at the most. She's still wearing her clothes. She had enough sense to remove her shoes at least.

Satsuki enter the shower and turns on the blazing hot water. Steam billows over the curtain. She lets the water cascade over her body while her mind wanders about her dream. Every night she's haunted by the mental ghost of her mother.

Around 7am Satsuki sits in the kitchen with a cup of tea and a news paper. Her essays and other school work for the day already completed. She always takes advantage of the morning to complete her school work. Believing she is at her sharpest with her mind and body fresh. Unlike the way things were back at Honnouji. Her mother being gone means that someone else is now head of the school board. Any advantage Satsuki had is gone now. She must work like all other students. Not that this is any real inconvenience for her, she simply adjust her schedule to fit time for her assignments.

Movement catches her eye and she looks up to see Ryuko trudging down the hall. Her eyes are half lidded, she scratches the back of her head. She's only wearing her black jeans and a bra. She's let her hair grow out down to her shoulders. It falls in waves of red and black.

Her schedule and discipline are almost the exact opposite to Satsuki. 7am is quite early for Ryuko. She finds the coffee pot and pours a full mug. She doesn't add any sugar or cream. She takes a deep gulp, something that would burn most people, then sits down perpendicular to Satsuki. Her head flops down into her arm with a moan.

"You're up quite early." Satsuki says while turning her attention back to the news paper. She is answered with a groan. Her head turns over to face Satsuki.

"Huge presentation to do today." A half awake Ryuko breathes

"And what time did you get home?"

"4...I think."

"Ryuko, we've been through this. You need to make an effort to get proper sleep before a big day."

"Whatever... How about all the stuff you've got to do?"

"All my work homework has been completed. Shortly before you woke."

"How do you do it?" Ryuko rolls her head to face Satsuki. Satsuki bring her attention away from the new paper.

"Do what?" She asks.

"How is it even possible to function this early in the morning?" Ryuko groans, sits up, takes a sip of coffee, then slams her head back down onto the table. Satsuki continues to read the paper. She spots a story.

"It's appears a meteorite has landed just outside of Osaka."

"And.."

"It's red." She says with her eyes looking over ominously at Ryuko. Ryuko rolls her head to face Satsuki. Her eyes wander while she contemplates. The only audible sound is the second hand ticking by on the wall clock.

"Your just being paranoid." She turns the other way.

"I'm simply taking precautions." She says looking back to her paper.

Ryuko ignores the comment. "Just send over someone to check on it."

"If they want to keep getting paid, they already know what to do."

The meteorite landed in Yokohama. The members of nudist beach are arriving some 5 minutes after. The meteorite is crystalline. It at first appears to glow but is actually just refracting the light from the glowing hot ground created by its landing. A visible piece of red cloth peels off. As the nudist beach members arrive the cloths slithers away like a worm avoiding being seen by the flashlights.

Back at the Kiryuin house, Ryuko steps outside to light up a cigarette. She leans over the handrail of the patio and watches the sky. The stars slowly giving way to sunlight. She takes a puff and her memories drift back to the final fight with Ragyo. Her final threat. Senketsu burning off of her body as she returned to the atmosphere.

"Ryuko" Satsukis voice breaks her trance. Ryuko looks over at her.

"Shouldn't you be leaving for class?" Ryuko looks down at her cigarette. The ash trails for a couple inches.

"Yeah. Excuse me" Ryuko turns and heads inside. Satsuki looks up at the sky and sees only the sunrise.

In a few moments later Ryuko starts up her motorcycle. She hits the throttle and holds the front break spinning the wheel to whip her around so she can exit the garage. Her black and red hair fluttering in the morning air from the bottom of her helmet. Her cruiser style 1000cc honda she nicknamed Jiyu is her companion now. Nothing can ever replace Senketsu, but having a nice bike doesn't hurt. She rides off down the road with a leather jacket, boots, and a red bandana around her neck. Her hair flowing in the wind with the appearance of red and black flame. Satsuki watches her ride off into the distance. She turns and walks back into the house.

Satsuki states out the window of the current Revocs CEOs office. As always she is wearing a very formal business suit. Her gaze peers out over the city as it did back when she was student counsel president. The CEO trembles with flop sweat as he tries to reason with Satsuki. She has that effect on people.

"Ma'am please, I am aware that you are your mothers daughter, but control of this company remain in the hands of myself and the board " he says, dabbing his forehead with a cloth

"You all were nothing more than her pawns. By birthright I am majority shareholder of this company, and as the controlling shareholder I deserve a say in what goes on here. I demand you halt the production of the clothing that almost enslaved the earth."

"These clothing lines have brought is back from the brink of bankruptcy! I don't care how paranoid you are, Ragyo is gone! The life fibers are deteriorated, they are worthless threads."

Satsuki slams her hands down on his desk. He jumps back and the sweat increases. "They are not worthless. They are a tool of destruction. The life fibers are still out there in space, if the day come when the arrive you will have doomed us all. I'll ask you again. Remove the life fibers. "

The CEO bits his lip hard and digs into his courage with all his might. "Our decision stands."

At school:

"RYUKO!" Mako scream before attempting to tackle Ryuko. Ryuko ducks out of the way, mako lands on the ground and Ryuko picks her back up.

"Are you ever going to stop wearing that uniform?" Ryuko asks groggily.

" NO! A girl should always dress appropriately for any given situation, and in school a uniform is always the way to dress."

"If you say so." Ryuko replies. She knows better than to try and convince Mako of anything given that the girl is the most thick skilled human on the planet. Following up right behind her is Ira Gamagori. A man of ridiculously large proportions.

"Matoi" he nods at Ryuko. She sleepily waves good morning to him. Those two are clearly early risers. Mako then catches the scent of cigarettes coming off of Ryuko. "RYUKO! I told to stop smoking. A lady does not smoke! A lady shows elegance and takes care of herself and shows that she is trying no matter what the situation..." Mako continues on in the background as Ryuko groans to herself. Partly annoyed by her endearing friend but mostly because her body has still refused to wake up.

"Mako... I'm not like normal people. Smoking doesn't hurt me. Most things don't hurt me. You could cut my head off and I'll be fine. I know you care but right now I really don't want to hear it. And besides...I'm no lady." Ryuko looks away from her with that statement. Her more feminine side being ashamed of her. She feels mako hands grab onto her cheeks.

"I will never give up on you Ryuko." She says with the determination of a lion.

"I know" Ryuko replies and continues to class. Dreading the next couple hours of her life.