It had been 4 years since Rihan Nura was almost murdered by his old wife and he was slowly recovering, sadly not quick enough though so his father, Nurarihyon had to be in control of the Nura Clan again for a while until Rikuo Nura, Rihan's son would be ready to become the third leader of the Nura Clan. Anyway Megumi is now 10 years old while her younger brother Rikuo is 8. As Rikuo wanted to feel more human whilst living with the Nura Clan, he began a year or so ago attending a school in Ukiyoe Town; which was within the Nura Clan's Territory.
Moving on swiftly, today was the day in which Megumi would start attending the school too as she wanted to keep the promise to her father about protecting her younger brother as much as she could. So the two siblings were walking to the bus stop and Megumi sighed when she found that the bus was already there waiting, before Rikuo ran ahead of her up to a girl who looked like she was his friend.
"Rikuo! You're late. The bus is already here." The girl scolded him as if she was his mother. Megumi then got onto the bus after them and sat in a free place on her own, watching the scenery go past as the bus began moving. She took out her sketchbook to start trying to draw anything she saw. There were some Sakura trees, some local stores, parks and adults who looked like they might be going to work. There were a couple more stops in other parts of the town and at one stop, the bus became almost full so a girl who looked around Megumi's age asked to sit next to her and she nodded before continuing her drawing.
"...That drawing looks well nice!" The girl said quietly out of nowhere, Megumi blinked before looking at her and she looked back with a friendly smile so she had to do the gesture back, "Um sorry, you must be new at our school? I'm Ami Okamoto, what's your name?" She began conversation so Megumi closed the notebook and turned to her.
"I am Megumi Nura and it is nice to meet you Okamoto-san." She said formerly and Ami giggled.
"You don't have to be so formal! Just call me Ami-chan and are you Rikuo's sister or something because you have the same surname?!" Ami asked while moving around on her seat a bit trying to get more comfortable.
"Yeah we are. I'm his older sister and today I'll be starting 5th Grade since I am 10 years old." Megumi replied to her possibly new friend Ami.
"Cool! I'm 10 too and in 5th Grade! Yay, we can hang out together in all of our lessons! You can meet my other friends too if you'd like?" Ami said enthusiastically with a grin causing the other to smile back happily with an OK.
Meanwhile, Kana noticed Rikuo looking at the black haired girl every few minutes.
"Um Rikuo, how come you keep looking at those two girls for?" She asked and Rikuo looked at her before smiling.
"The girl with the long black hair is my older sister, Megumi! She's starting today and also if you're wondering, we don't look very much alike 'cos she gets more of her looks from our father while I get my brown hair and eyes from our mother! Also I should get her to meet you today at lunch or something!" Rikuo answered the girl excitedly while Kana giggled a bit at his hyper mood.
"OK, that would be fun." Kana replied with a soft small smile and after a few more minutes the bus arrived at their school so everyone got off.
Skipping time to the end of the school day, Rikuo had never got Kana or anyone else to meet his big sister because he got upset from a lesson where some male students did a presentation on how Yokais do not exist at all. Whilst Megumi had met the rest of Ami's friends who were all nice and friendly. Megumi also sat with Ami on the school bus home but when the bus started leaving, she realized that her brother never got on.
"Ugh... I think Rikuo just missed the bus... Well hopefully he'll get home some other way." She told Ami with a sigh before taking out her notebook and doodling pictures of Sakura flowers.
*CRASH!*
Everyone yelped and screamed as the bus crashed into something, Megumi and Ami quickly went to check the younger kids as the bus did not have any seatbelts.
A couple of people were knocked out cold so the two 10 year old girls put them each on two chairs away from where the bus got damaged the most, otherwise nobody got seriously injured to their relief. Megumi noticed Rikuo's friends all staring out of the window with worry, so she checked too and found... found Yokai! A whole group and one she could easily recognise because they'd usually come to the Nura mansion for meetings with her grandfather! The windows were mostly broken so you could hear the yokai surrounding the bus from a short distance, they were saying something about the third heir? Rikuo?! But he wasn't on this bus! All of a sudden, she noticed one of the other in the group mention her! Though luckily they never said her name in case the kids on the bus overheard as she knew that Rikuo didn't want his human friends to find out he was a quarter yokai, even the third heir of a yokai clan too!
The yokai began to approach the school bus until a group of... other yokai appeared and Megumi's eyes brightened when she realised it was the Nura Clan!
"Look master! We found them and they're all alive!" One of the Yokai from the Nura Clan said happily and a short boy with long white hair like Megumi's father Rihan appeared. Who was he? Megumi had wondered with confusion.
All of the yokai began fighting and the bad yokais were soon gone except for a couple along with the leader. Ami and Megumi quickly got everyone out of the bus and the white haired boy walked up to them all with the clan following behind.
"I'm so glad you're okay." He said to the group of students although his eyes were glancing at Megumi, before turning back to the enemy leader who Megumi finally found out was Gagoze and as one of the enemy's members tried attacking the white haired boy, he got stopped by some red strings coming from Kubinashi!
Megumi told the 8 year old kids to turn away as she noticed Kubinashi strangle the enemy to death and when all of Gagoze's yokais were defeated and killed, Gagoze tried attacking the kids when the white haired boy stopped him and attacked him with his sword.
"-A yokai who takes pleasure in killing the weak, could never be the leader of this dark world..." The white haired boy began saying, "-I will certainly become the third supreme commander!... -...I will be the lord of Pandemonium and every last yokai will follow me in my Night Parade of a hundred Demons!" The boy announced before slicing Gagoze in half! He then stood up proud before out of nowhere collapsing... He quickly went out of view as the Nura clan crowded around him so Ami, Megumi and some other 10 year old people helped the younger kids out to the police and parents who were all waiting impatiently. Surprisingly for Megumi, she had walked through the crowd to leave when someone called her name and she turned to the voice to see an adult with long black hair tied up in a long ponytail and a big fringe which covered their right eye.
"Dad?" She asked confusedly and he grinned with a nod, the two began walking home and as it was more quieter now she asked some questions.
"Hey dad... You know where I was, when the Nura Clan arrived, do you know who the white haired boy was? He said that he was going to be the third leader of our clan and I remember you telling me that Rikuo was going to be the third leader...?" For some unknown reason to Megumi, her father smiled at her.
"That white haired boy... he must have been Rikuo's Yokai. He had come out tonight because some of the yokai at our house would not listen to a human, only a yokai." Rihan explained to her easily and she frowned.
"Well... I wish I could say thank you to him... I'm pretty sure all of his friends who were also on that school bus would really like to thank him, but what I wonder... is whether his yokai self will appear again soon? I mean he only appeared finally today and Rikuo usually prefers to stay 'normal' and human doesn't he?" Megumi asked with curiosity.
"Don't worry about it, Megumi-chan. His yokai may appear again, it's up to Rikuo himself though, of what he'll do when he is older. As you are his big sister, you should try and help him make the right choices, OK?" Her father replied so she nodded before they arrived home.
4 years later...
It had seemed like decades to the Nura Clan and Megumi since Rikuo's yokai had appeared and he never did for the next 4 years after the bus crash. Megumi still wanted to thank the Yokai and Rihan was also now able to walk around out of out of the house into town although some yokai had to keep watch of him if he got in trouble or something.
This morning it was a school day for Rikuo and Megumi, by the way since the two were now 12 and 14 year old they were in Middle School so they had a school uniform this time which was kind of simple, well for Rikuo...
"Hey Megumi-chan! You've got the collar wrong! Here lemme fix it for you quickly!" Rikuo told his older sister who sighed.
"Really? What idiot made this pointless ugly outfit!" Megumi complained while Rikuo laughed at her in amusement.
"OK... done. Now let's get to school before we're late for our classes!" He said, dragging his sister and running out of their home.
"Rikuo! Megumi! I haven't finished your lunch yet!" Their mother appeared with a frown on her lips.
"Don't worry! We'll buy something from the school canteen!" Megumi told her and Rikuo nodded before the two attempted leaving again, but people kept holding them up!
(Nearly four pages again! :) ~Chloe)
