Chapter 3: to save a life

"Have you lost your mind?" ryotaro asked as Tai walked towards one of the trains many doors. "No I haven't, if I can save dad then he can help us stop ragyo later on and I won't have to kill her myself." Tai explained causing the others to moan in disapproval. "What, what's wrong?" asked ryuko. "The rules of time clearly state that those who travel back with either a ticket or pass are not allowed to change history." Momotaros answered. "And that's bad, why?" satsuki asked. "Because, if the change is of such high importance like for instance stopping world war II from happening, then the flow of time will be significantly altered and that could cause major problems." Answered urataros. "But our dad's death can't be that big a blip on the flow of time's radar, can it?" asked ryuko. "Most likely not, but still we don't want time to be altered on a whim." Answered kintaros as he fell back asleep. "Owner, aren't you going to stop him?" asked sieg. "No, history was altered when he died anyway." Replied the owner. "What do you mean, that our dad was supposed to live that night?" asked Tai. "Yes, but an enemy of ours gaohu knew this and went back and told ragyo, thus your father died." answered the owner. "Damn her." Tai mumbled. Soon enough the train came to a full halt and the doors opened. "We're not gonna let you do this alone." Ryotaro said as he wrapped his belt around his waist. "No, this is my fight stay here." Tai ordered as he jumped out of the train.

Tai had to be careful not to be seen to soon, he waited until nui had arrived to make his move. He headed down into ishin's hidden lab to wait for her, and soon enough she found her way into the lab. "Who are you?" asked nui. "I'm the reaper come to claim your soul." Tai answered as he pulled out his sword. "The reaper come to claim my soul huh, well I guess I could work up a little bit of a sweat if you're actually any good at fighting." Nui exclaimed. Just then a whoosh of air went past nui and soon enough Tai was behind her, his sword covered and dripping in blood. Just then nui's head fell of and both her body and head exploded into a mass of life fibers that were absorbed by Gaia. "Not this time girly." Tai replied in a calm neutral tone. Just then Tai heard the door to the lab open. "Who's down there?!" ishin shouted. "Time for us to pull a ninja vanish here gaia." Tai exclaimed. "Right boss." Replied Gaia. The two then leapt out of the lab and headed for den-liner. "Well did you get it done?" asked ryuko. "Yep, now we just need to make one last stop, then we can go home." Tai replied as he headed towards the front of the train to put in the new time and date to travel to. Soon enough Tai was back in the dining car and the train started to move again slowly gaining speed and it returned to the dimension of time. "So where are we goin' now?" asked ryuko. The day of honnouji's construction." Answered Tai as he took a seat next to momotaros. "Why there?" asked satsuki. "There's something I need to do there, it won't take long." Tai answered. "This isn't another assassination is it?" asked ryuko. "No just a little something I need to do, oy Naomi coffee please." Tai exclaimed. "Your usual?" asked Naomi. "Yep." Answered Tai. Soon enough Tai's coffee was ready and brought to him. "Here ya go." Naomi exclaimed in her normal cheery tone. "Arigato." Tai thanked as he took a sip of his coffee.

Soon enough the train came to a halt and was right outside of the Honnouji construction grounds. "Perfect, we're here." Tai said as he finished his coffee. He then made his way to the door and jumped out. "You guys stay here I won't be long." Tai called out as he walked over to a young satsuki. "Uh lady satsuki who's that?" asked one of the construction men. "I don't know." Replied the younger satsuki. Tai couldn't believe he was seeing his sister like this she was so small and looked so adorable. "Good day, you're satsuki kiriyuin right?" Tai asked. "I am, who are you?" asked satsuki. "My name is taiketsu kiriyuin, I'm your brother." Tai replied. "I don't have a brother." Satsuki replied curtly. "Not yet, you see I'm from the future and I'm here to give you some vital information to help you with your little coupe against ragyo." Tai explained. "How do you know about that?" satsuki asked sharply. "I told you I'm from the future." Tai answered. "Listen in three years go to this address at 8 p.m. and ask for ishin matoi and when you see him ask him about RYUKO matoi his daughter and the kamui he's developing, when he's done with his story tell him you need a kamui too." Tai instructed as he handed the younger satsuki a piece of paper with ishin's address on it. "Understood." Replied satsuki. "One more thing, don't let ragyo find out about this of nui or they'll kill him." Tai warned. "Of course." Satsuki replied. "Good now if you'll excuse me I must be off." Tai exclaimed as he headed back towards den-liner. Soon enough Tai was back on the train and it returned him and his sisters to the present. "Whatever changes you made occur had better been worth it." Ryotaro said as he showed them off den-liner. "Don't worry they were." Tai answered. "What did he change?" asked ryuko. "Don't know." Ryotaro answered. Just then satsuki started moaning and grasping at her skull. "Sis you okay?" ryuko asked worry clear in her voice. "Yeah it's just that, I feel like my memories are splitting apart at the seams." Satsuki replied as she sat herself down on a bench. "Oh yeah that's just the delayed reaction to me running into your younger self in the past, time's rewriting your memories, it'll pass soon." Tai explained as he pulled out a lighter and cigarette. "You smoke?!" exclaimed ryuko. "You don't, what with having to deal with getting shot at every day?" Tai asked. "No, I just have a few beers." Ryuko replied. "Probably a lot safer then smoking anyhow." Ryotaro joked. Tai then just gave up on trying to have a quick smoke and threw the rest of his cigarettes on the ground and crushed them under his boot. "Anyway, if we need you we'll call you." Tai said as he started to walk away from den-liner. "Right, and if we need you we'll call ya." Ryotaro replied as he went back inside den-liner. Soon the train took off Tai and his sisters started the trek back to his office.