Three days later…

Saya stood in front of a full length mirror defying with all her might what she saw in the reflection. I'll blaze trails through forest, climb tall mountains, hell, I've been living on and off in a desert for the last few months. She thought going back to high school should be a piece of cake, but as she stood there she simply couldn't make the leap. Going back to high school was not going to be easy.

"Why can't Asa do it?" she inquired with less tact then pure terror to Haruka.

"I need protection at school." She replied simply, "and Mamoru draws too much attention."

"Asa?"

Exasperated Haruka replied "She's got her own project to deal with."

Saya gazed back into the mirror. "What's my story?"

Haruka sighed, really wondering if it was necessary to force Saya to go back to high school, she seemed to hate the idea so much. This wasn't the first argument the pair had encountered, and she foresaw it wasn't the last.

"The story is that you're a transfer student from America studying abroad in Japan for a few months."

Mamoru poked his head into the room "Look if she doesn't want to do it, let her sit her ass here and I'll go."

Haruka put her hand to her face, god this was becoming a disaster. Mamoru shrugged, leaving the doorway to go practice his swordsmanship back on the rooftop.

"Look Saya," Haruka said "you remember me telling you about me marrying Mamoru one day?" Saya nodded that she did, too afraid to speak, horrified where this conversation seemed to be going. "I see something like that for you and my Sensei." Saya gulped. It felt like she couldn't breathe. The room started to spin and her vision wavered into blackness. Haruka moved in to catch Saya as she fell to the ground.

"Wow Haruka how did you manage to get her to keel over like that?" Asa inquired as she inspected Saya for new bruises. "Nothing broken, she'll live."

"I just told her about why she needs to attend school with me. She just looked at me funny and fell over."

Asa laughed. "And what was it you told her?"

"Remember what I told you about your job here?" Asa nodded. "Well I told her that I foreseen her with my Sensei."

Asa took a second to process this, "That explains a lot. How much information do you have on Saya?"

"I've done an intensive background check, so I know her history working as a hacker for the United States government, her home town, even where she lived before starting work as a mercenary."

"It figures, she would have wiped everything about that incident from her records. She's pretty thorough like that." Asa pondered it for a minute, "Well, do you know why she suffers from insomnia?"

"Well I thought it was from being in war. I mean some of the others have problems as well, but when I mentioned my Sensei" Haruka went quiet for a moment. "I started to see things." Asa hugged the young girl, only knowing too well the horrors that she must have seen.

Haruka was silent for a minute. "I think what I saw was her past."

Asa looked at Haruka with sad eyes. "What did you see exactly?"

Haruka looked at the window "I saw a house fire. Then the image flashed to a heated gun fight. I seen a man wounded and dying on the ground. I think I seen Saya screaming, sobbing for him as a group of people grabbed her and towed her away." Haruka thought about it for a second before concluding. "I think he was her lover?"

Asa looked into Saya's room where she slept peacefully for once. She knew the terrors would start soon, but for now she was going to let her friend sleep naturally. "Saya was very young when she meet her husband, probably your age actually. They got married fresh out of high school. She was contracted to work for the United States Government on their databases, while he worked as a marine in the U.S. Navy. They were very happy together for the few years they were together. From what I've heard from her, a Russian crime syndicate tracked her down and wanted her for her computer skills. There was a huge gun fight at the naval base where the syndicate attacked.. In the fight, the crime boss murdered Saya's husband as he tried to protect her. After killing him in front of her, they kidnapped her. I am told they beat, rapped, and cut into her skin their wishes. Essentially, they tried to destroy her in every way possible. From what she's disclosed to me, they did anything to force her to use her skills to make them money."

"That's horrible!" Haruka said in shock, her premonitions hadn't prepared her to hear some parts of Saya's story.

Asa continued. "One day she just snapped. The ones who she didn't disassemble into puzzle toys with a knife, ran for their lives. She spent the next 6 months tracking each and every one of them down to extract her revenge."

Mamuro spoke up, it looked like he had been eavesdropping from the hallway, "That's why they call her the Wolf." Asa looked at him. "One of the reasons yes." From the next room the screaming started.


Ok, why do I loose you guys on this chapter? I mean do you not want character development? I swear it gets better, (Ok maybe its just a delusional writer here ranting on how it might get better, cause she thinks it does (like chapter 5?) Sure maybe/)) Yes it does! I mean I know reading about Saya not wanting to go to school sounds like any other student...is it my lack of author comments?...I'm stumped here really I am...

On another bright sun shining note (Do you see that sparkly? WHERE? Over there in the inter-web grass! Writer encounters a shinny!) It looks kinda funny? Is that what a reader looks like? Ya! Its a rare shinny reader! I caught one! Several? That too! Ohhh Thank you all my lovely shinny readers! Can you share some with the other Chapters they feel lonely.