Sorry about this guys, I've re-written the first chapter and deleted the others...mostly because, I want to take this in a differnt direction now, and it's been two years since I updated last and I am SO SORRY. I hope these make sense, and I hope that if anything doesn't you'll point it out to me. It's the holidays now, so I'm gonna try to write more and actually get some of this done. I know where this is going and it's either going to be really long, or it's going to be split into two different stories, so opinions on that too, if you can...anywhom, hope you enjoy and it's not really crappy and stuff...It's been a while since I've written anything...

"Ah, thanks Kazu." She said as he left her at the largest entrance of the large mall, smiling a little at him. "I'm gonna speed shop okay? So I can meet those friends of yours."

She saw a small grin flit across his lips as he looked back at her. "Right then, you know where the school is? We'll be there, doing some stuff."

She nodded and he sped away on his AT's waving slightly and as she promised she shot into the mall and bought a number of things that she thought would be useful for the hot weather from the shops that actually caught her interest, but, she swore to herself, there would be no book buying on her part.

Once she'd bought all that she thought she would need from the 'proper' shops she slipped out of the mall and down an alley way, being careful to not be seen and shrunk her bags, putting them into the larger bag, that contained her AT's, which she also took out.

Shoving the skates on she took off, looking for another shop, the final shop she'd need that day and hummed as she skated in, pulling out some other clothes deemed more 'fit' when using the AT's. A voice suddenly spoke behind her and she jumped in shock, almost slipping, if it wasn't for the set of large hands that caught her elbows and held her upright.

"Sorry about that." The male spoke, stepping away from her, she spun to face him, a man much taller than she with orange, flame-like hair. She couldn't help but stare, he was just so pretty. She heard him chuckle.

"Oh, um, it's fine." She knew her face was red and she looked down out of embarrassment, stepping away slightly.

"Well, it's nice to have the Queen back." He grinned down at her.

She just blinked at him, not understanding what he meant. "Huh?"

"You run the 'hidden' road, the Shimmering Road."

She felt her eyes widen, she knew of the roads and everything about them, really, she'd know to read about them, but nothing about The Shimmering road had even been mentioned. She opened her mouth to speak, but she couldn't find any words.

He smirked at her. "I think we should talk." She shot a look at her watch and nodded, quickly grabbing the pair of shorts that she's wanted, quickly getting them and following him out.

She was in shock as she left the older man, he had been kind and nice, and had talked to her about her cousin and friends, and what they were going to be caught up in. She could honestly say that she was scared for them. Thinking over what they had talked about she felt a shiver run down her spine, Spitfire, as he had finally introduced himself to her, had shown her a number of things, how Kazu and his friends could fair in the future, and by proxy how everybody else would too. She felt ready to be sick, with the 'could be's' and the 'might's'. She didn't want anybody to go through what she had just seen.

Spitfire had said, that none of her information had been programmed into anything, so she was unpredictable, she was something that could completely change what she had been shown, she had at the time, wanted to hit the man for showing her the 'future', but realised that he cared for what happened to the group more than anything.

She was making her way back home, she knew she was too late to go as see Kazu and his friends at the school, she just hoped that she'd make a good impression at school the next day, already knowing that Miki had enrolled her in the same school as Kazu, although she would be in the high school rather than the middle school section. Which meant that she'd have to make friends in her own class.

She let out a heavy sigh. She'd skated too quickly, she was already home.

She quietly opened the door, carefully taking her AT's off in the doorway. It sounded like Kazu was already home, and that he'd brought company.

"Kazu?" She called into the house, still pulling off one of her AT's. She heard chairs scraping over tiles, they had been in the kitchen. She hopped up into the main hallway as Kazu and a few of his friends peered through the kitchen doorway. She waved. One of the girls waved back, and Kazu glared.

"Where were you?" He half growled at her.

She took a step towards him and placed a hand on his head. "Well I had finished shopping a few hours ago." She squeezed her way past the people in the door, looking confused at the boy who was sat at the counter, a glare on his young looking face. Mentally shrugging she looked back at her cousin. "Then this guy called Spitfire-"

She was cut off by Kazu groaning. "Right...he seems to like to talk to people he doesn't have to." She felt herself smile at him, moving to the counter, and grabbing an apple from the fruit basket, she let out another sigh before taking a large bite.

"Look, I know you guys are all good with your AT's and you're all fine..." Feeling tears spring in her eyes, she took a deep breath. "Well, just be careful okay? ...and who are you guys anyway? I should know my cousins friends." They all stared at her for a moment, confused by her quick changes in emotion and sudden topic changes.

Buccha was the first to introduce himself, and the others soon followed, Hermione thought that she recognised Ringo and Akito from somewhere, but couldn't place where. She in turn told them who she was and they all settled around the dinning table at the other side of the room, where the boys decided to scrounge up all of the food that they could.

She felt oddly in place with the group of friends, all so different, but still with a very strong bond, reminding her of her own friendship with her boys. While the girls yelled at the boys for making such a mess she felt herself slip into her memories, thinking back on the day, she wasn't sure how, but she would help Kazu and his friends, there was no way that she'd let some 'old' meddling men ruin what was going on at the table, and for some reason, she couldn't get the image of Spitfire and Aeon Clock...doing what they did. She tuned back into the real world, only to see Kazu looking at her worried, she sent him a watery smile. Biding the others goodnight, she left, hoping that Kazu would leave her to go to bed.

She had no such luck.

"Hermione?" He asked, stepping close to her as she reached the bottom of the stairs. "Are you alright?"

She nodded, but suddenly, as an image of her cousin broken flashed through her mind, a sob escaped her lips and she pulled him into a tight hug, fairly sure she might be cutting off his breathing, but not wanting to let go. She felt him pat her head, a slight growl rumbling through his chest.

"Did he do something to you?" He spat. "I swear-" He stopped as she shook her head no as another sob rocked her body.

"You can't...die okay?" She cried. "I can't loose my favourite cousin."He didn't say anything, confused by her out of character behaviours and instead hugged her tighter and rubbed her back.