I guess I just wanted to write this before my exam. Had been discussing with Belphy about this. I have been unsure if I should be continuing this story. As usual, I need to see how this one will lead to. My speculation for the setting Douhan-chan has gone haywire. This is the 2nd sequel to "The Fool's Pursuit".

Sequence to be read: "The Fool's Pursuit"/"The Fool's Pursuit: The Fading Crow" - "Each and Every Bonds" - "Pursuit of Bonds"

Aiming to finish before October. Update will be slow though.

Please read and review. Who knows it may inspire me with better ideas to write. It happened too many times already. Thank you for the support.I'm quite bad at describing things.

K is not mine. If not, I would have revived Totsuka.

Chapter 1: New Journey

It was another peaceful day where people continued on with their day-to-day lives. It had been six months since the Roulette Ritual incident.

The Silver King, Isana Yashiro was happy. He was in the arms of his beloved clansman lying on his lap watching the day passed by in the corridor of Ichigen's residence. He had been doing this for six month. It was really peaceful.

The Red King, Kushina Anna, went to school, despite being a King, she was in fact a normal 13 years old girl. This was what Anna decided and wanted for herself.

The Blue King, Munakata Reisi was as usual sitting in his office, playing with his puzzles while listening to his Akiyama Himori and Benzai Yuujirou with regards to the incidents involving Strains and feeling bored about it.

The three of them wished this peaceful moment would last forever and ever but they were well aware this moment was peace before the storm. The new Gold King had been chosen and the sixth and the Purple King, Totsuka Tatara had taken off to the world to meet him. Their common concern was whether the hideous Green King, Hisui Nagare and established contact with the new Gold King before them. The world would come to an end if they were not careful enough.

"It's rare for you to call me." Kusanagi Izumo, the strategist of HOMRA was polishing his wine glasses.

"Eh? You don't have to express your unhappiness to me. The boys volunteered themselves. It's summer holidays and there's nothing wrong for them to go on a holiday." Kusanagi continued his business conversation turning his back to face the shelves of wine glasses looking a little disgusted. He wished he could hang up immediately.

Behind him was the slim version of Kamamoto Rikio challenging Akagi Shouhei in a battle of strength. They were holding on their stares at one another, whoever made a move first would lose.

"Kamamoto, don't lose." A voice rang out. Much to his dismay, Kamamoto was startled and Shohei took the chance and slam his fist on the table claiming his victory.

"You fell for it, Kamamoto hehehe! I'm betting on Shouhei-san to win." A middle school young boy in brown hair was pointed his finger and laughed his head off.

"Minoru-kun, you shouldn't startle people like that." Kamamoto cried in disappointment. He could have won against Akagi.

"Don't blame Minoru-kun. He is mischievous and that is what being young is about." Shouhei defended the smug looking Minoru who folded his arms with a smirk.

"You finished school? Where is Anna?" Kamamoto regained his composure and scanned his surroundings. Both of them were supposed to return by now.

"That old man had taken her away. You know that fiery old man with beautiful red." Minoru continued his insult until Kusanagi could not stand it.

"Can you lower your volume? I'm having serious talk right here." Kusanagi briefly turned his head over to the guys in cold sweat while listening to Minoru's "speech" on how terrible that man in subject was. They could not get along with one another was well-known among HOMRA.

"You'll be surprised how strong he had become, you headhunted him from us remember?" Kusanagi was hoping to end the conversation soon.

At this moment, Kamamoto realized who Kusanagi was talking to. Come to think of it he had not seen the new bartender today who used to be a member of the Blue. He was sent out for a mission. Most likely an alliance mission judging from their conversation.

"He had approved the trip. As long as two kings are agreeable, he can help us. Adolf K. Weismann, no, Isana Yashiro doesn't read report, I'm well aware of it but as long as he knows what he's doing, I've no reason to object. After all, I'm merely a strategist for my Red King."

It was finally Kusanagi sighed after hanging up. That man on the other line was a nuisance but yet his words were important. Kusanagi had the same concern actually turning his head warily at the smug looking young boy boasting about his triumph for the day.

"Beware of the newest member of yours. He's more than what you think he is."

"Kouzuki Minoru huh? He is the eldest son of the family of four. Nothing abnormal with his family and his background. He just dyed his hair back to brown." While the rest of them received their power from Suoh Mikoto, the former Red King and continued to serve his successor, he was the very first clansman Anna had taken in of her own since her awakening as the Red King.

It was a Strain incident which led to their meeting and Anna took him in as her clansman in order to save them out of the pinch. Anna found him interesting because she could not read him and they had been hanging out a lot since.

"To be honest, because Anna can't read him, this is the problem." Kusanagi said to himself while taking a cigarette out for a puff.

"Either he is a Strain capable to block her from reading him, or he could be potentially be the wild card, the next Colourless King."

"It can't be right? He's too young to be plotting this far."

"Are you sure about that, sending him for abroad a mission relating to the Dresden Slate? You must be out of your mind, Munakata." An one-armed man sat opposite his partner in conversation and highlighted his concern.

"Losing his power doesn't make him unrelated to us. Besides, Kusuhara-kun volunteered to go, Zenjou-san. In fact, I admired his courage." Munakata Reisi prepared his tea for the afternoon. "Two Kings had agreed to allow him in the mission and I'm not one of them unfortunately."

"You wanted to grant him the permission anyway even if the Red King didn't nod her head because you find it interesting. " Zenjou Gouki retorted with a sigh. Not that he could stop him. The former Blue clansman, Kusuhara Takeru had a mind of his own. Munakata smiled pouring out hot water into the teapot.

"How are you feeling lately, Zenjou-san?" Muankata decided to change the subject.

"As fit as a fiddle. You should be concerned of yourself. I will slay you for real if I see you unfit." Zenjou gave Munakata a serious stare. Since the Roulette Ritual, his Weismann reading had been quite stable. Not even almost losing his life caused any change to his condition. As expected from the power of the Purple King, the King who could affect the time of one's physical condition. It was as though he had never taken a bullet for his subordinate.

"I can reject your wound doesn't mean I can stop your Sword of Damocles from deteriorating. You better take care of yourself, Munakata-san." The carefree King warned in a lighthearted tone when he last saw him before he headed out on his journey.

"Speaking of which, it had been two week since I heard from Totsuka Tatara." Munakata said serving his teacup to Zenjou. He was not afraid to confide in Zenjou. They had been through enough that they had a mutual trust with one another.

"Did that triple S ranked Strain you're watching over try to look for him?" Zenjou questioned. Munakata shook his head. He could understand where Totsuka Tatara came from when he was asked if he had met up with Suoh Mikoto. They found it awkward but none of them would admit it.

"He's leading a life like a normal man, having three meals and workout daily to get me out from his eyes. Today he had a date with the Princess."

"Princess?" Zenjou scratched his head.

"Kushina Anna." Munakata liked to tease Zenjou this way. At least he would not debate with him.

"I see."

"Not just Kusuhara-kun, Fushimi-kun is going with him. Today is 20 July and I'm surprised Fushimi-kun is travelling out of the country." Munakata took a sip of his hot tea in his thought while Zenjou decided to find out what he meant on his own. Munakata wondered if Fushimi could ever find his peace and move on with his life.

A girl with white hair placed a bouquet of roses before a grave. She noticed a new first press limited edition of a game before the grave and acknowledged that someone she knew was here before her.

"Happy birthday, Misaki." She said quietly. The current Red King, Kushina Anna stood before the grave of her former clansman, Yata Misaki. It had been a while since she last came here for his memorial. She could not bring herself to come here.

"Have you been doing well up there, Misaki?" Anna looked on gently at the engraving of his name. She blamed herself for not working hard enough to find Misaki when he was taken by JUNGLE. Saruhiko was right to blame her. That was the reason she had been avoiding to come here. If only she was stronger as his King, she could not even protect her friends.

"Yata will not blame you, Anna." A male's voice was heard as a hand was seen patting her head.

"I know. Misaki has a big heart, Mikoto, thank you for accompanying me here." Anna said quietly. It felt like Yata and Anna had huddled together to sleep when Yata woke up from a nightmare was just yesterday.

Suoh Mikoto in his high school hairstyle in blue jacket, white shirt, six star necklaces around his neck and jeans had accompanied Anna. This was the first time he came visit his former vanguard who was always eager to do things for him and to please him because he looked up to him as a big brother. Yata was easy to understand.

It came to a shock when he heard about Yata's death when he was imprisoned by the Dresden Slate. Munakata told him the full story on how it happened and how he died tragically. They agreed that Yata might never recover mentally from that ordeal even if he survived for what was done to him. He was humiliated, experimented on like a guinea pig, and he killed mercilessly when he gone out of control and ended up killed. He was broken. Maybe death was a release to him. Suoh would have torn the culprit into pieces if it was not for Munakata's threat of depriving him from his freedom as a high level Strain. Hisui Nagare was too much for them to handle right now.

Even though no one was willing to explain to Anna, Anna knew. She gripped her arms in guilt. Her expression was dark and she was about to cry whenever she thought about it.

"Anna." Suoh placed his hand on her shoulder to comfort her and allowed her to let out her tears. The Green King or rather the human on the whole was just too cruel. Anna had been through being experimented and to be honest she could never get over it. What Yata experienced before he died was much more than she could imagine. His death enabled JUNGLE's progress in utilizing the power of their clansmen to a greater height and reducing sacrifice from the after effect.

"Mikoto." Anna tugged on his hand. "Have you met Tatara?" The sixth King, Totsuka Tatara was the invisible entity who had been communicating with Anna without showing himself. He had finally appeared to Anna once when Anna decided to call him by his name. Totsuka was not surprised when she managed to deduce his identity.

"I'm willing to if he's willing to see me. Nope. I haven't met him." Mikoto wanted to meet Totsuka. He would forgive him if he would explain his situation.

His attention returned to reality when he heard sound of purring and he saw Anna running to the source and found a pink kitten groaning in the ground. It was badly hurt lying in a pool of blood. It reacted when it seemed to recognise Anna and turned into a girl with pinkish white hair. Anna's eyes widened as this was the first time she seen her changed her form. She was a dual colour clansman Neko from the Silver and the Purple Clan. She was surprised to see her as she had heard that she accompanied the sixth and the undead King, Totsuka Tatara to find the newly awakened Gold King. Now she found her covered in blood especially in her abdomen.

"Anna... save Tatara! A war is impending... " Neko could barely finished when she fell limp on her arms.

"Mikoto." Anna turned to him anxiously. Suoh reacted and picked her up carefully on his arms. Suoh activated his power to warm Neko to keep her alive.

"Hey, don't you die on us, woman." Mikoto carried her and ran all the way to the hospital. Not when she had not told him what had happened to Totsuka he had been worried about.

"What trouble have you got yourself into this time, Totsuka?"

A middle school aged young boy with a helmet with strips of green halo light on the side of the helmet signifying that he was a low ranking member of the Green Clan was seen talking to a girl with hair at shoulder length with a ponytail at the right side of her hair.

"As expected from Kouzuki-kun, our King has high expectation for you. You should be able to gain enough point to obtain the power from our King before long." The girl said with a smirk.

"Of course, Oogai-san. I've been aspiring to be like you to be trusted and be of help to our King. Let's rebuild this messed up world of ours." Kouzuki Minoru said. He felt he was lucky to be accepted by the Red Clan without trying too hard.

"Aya will become no. 3 of JUNGLE and make you look me into your eyes, Saruhiko." Oogai Aya, a high ranking clansman of JUNGLE, second cousin of the no. 3 of Scepter 4, Fushimi Saruhiko grinned smugly at the photo of the worried expression of the bartender, No. 2 of HOMRA. They would take him down and HOMRA would fall.

\(^_^)/End of Chapter 1\(^_^)/

For the sake of new readers, I decided to try and insert some of the characters bio from "The Fool's Pursuit" and "Each and Every Bonds" so you will understand what was going on so far. I will be featuring thought-to-be-dead supporting characters this time. Feel free to tell me who you wanted to read about. I try to summarise for you.

Characters Bios

Kusuhara Takeru

He was supposed to be killed after taking a bullet for Munakata Reisi in the novel Side: Blue. He was saved by the Gold King's order with the power of the sixth and the Purple King and most powerful healer of his, Mizuchi Koushi. He was ordered to assist the Silver King to help him with his cause. After the Roulette Ritual incident, he resigned and returned his sabre, Ruseimaru to Scepter 4 and joined Bar HOMRA as information broker.

Totsuka Tatara

Former Red Clansman. He was currently the sixth and undead Purple King. He was a King awakened at the age of 9 but he rejected the call by the Dresden Slate. He was called upon once again at the age of 14 when he was discovered by the Gold King, Koukujouji Daikaku. His friend, XX-chan decided to grant his wish, wiped his memories and enabling him to stay with his new friends at that point of time, Suoh Mikoto and Kusanagi Izumo. As his sealed memories began to return to him, he was summoned by the Gold King to accept his responsibilities. Totsuka being stubborn as he was, was unwilling to heed his advice in the expense of his own life, desired to remain in HOMRA and assisted the Gold King in the background in exchange to stay in HOMRA.

The breaking point occurred when he was shot by the Colourless King when he was forced to finally accept the call. Totsuka was at the scene where the Gold Clan seize possession of Suoh Mikoto's body in the Ashinaka High School incident and used his power to preserve Suoh Mikoto's life until his wound could be healed by Mizuchi Koushi. Not long after, Totsuka left with Mizuchi Koushi on their quest against the Silver King, Adolf K. Weismann who was the cause of his misery. Totsuka awakened his power as the Purple King fully during the Roulette Ritual and received the power of "rejection" saving Munakata's life. He was now on the journey with his only clansman XX-chan in search of the newly awakened Gold King.

Suoh Mikoto

His life was saved by the combined power of the Purple King, Totsuka Tatara and the Gold Clansman, Mizuchi Koushi by the order of the Gold King. His soul on the other hand was imprisoned by the Dresden Slate as punishment for defying his destiny. He was chosen by Adolf K. Weismann to succeed him as the Silver King should the Roulette Ritual worked out. He was now a Triple S level Strain kept under the watch of the Blue King.

Extra:

Kouzuki Minoru (appeared in The Fool's Pursuit: The Fading Crow)

Formally known as Yata Minoru, he was Anna's middle school classmate and Anna's first Clansman. He doesn't get along well with Suoh Mikoto who was protective of Anna and both often get into argument. Minoru had not heard from his elder brother for some time and did not know he was also with HOMRA.