Hey, another chapter, I think I'm doing too much too early. I plan on doing and update every week on the weekend or every two weeks from this one on. I read the other review on the first chapter and the same tip came up on separating this stuff, so I decided to look at some other stories and see how they lay it out, so tell me if this one is a better improvement from the last.


"Oni-chan, hurry up! We have to get IA and then make it to school on time!"

"Then don't tell me stuff I didn't have to do before right before we leave!"

"Sorry I forgot!" Kaiko laughed nervously. Further up the street the blue siblings saw IA on skates, clutching on to the streetlight in front of her.

"Oh thank god, Kaito over here!" Kaito passed IA, leaving her dumbfounded. "Huh? ... Kaito?" Kaito then turned around and passed her again.

"I think I left something at the house, Kaiko."

"K-Kaito, this isn't funny, I can't hold on to the street light forever."

"Oni-chan, you didn't forget anything lets just go to school, just us two!" Kaiko said happily.

"K-Kaiko, don't join his joke, my grips starting to slip!" Kaito turned back around once more and was about to pass IA again.

"Sounds good let's go!" "Kaito! Come get m-" IA was cut off by Kaito grabbing her hand and yanking her close to him. "Just screwing with you. You actually thought we'd leave you here?"

"We got you good, IA! Oh, want to have a sleepover today! It's Friday so lets start off the weekend with fun!" Kaiko asked.

IA refused to look at the two cruel blue jokesters who had played her. "I don't want to talk to you two now." IA pouted and looked down at the passing ground.

"Oni-chan, look at what you did! Apologize!"

"What! You joined in, it's you're fault too!" Kaito shouted back.

"You started it!"


Kaito was once again sleeping in class, the teacher as oblivious as yesterday to Kaito's action's. Luka looked over to Kaito, who was sound asleep. 'Not a care in the world, huh? Too bad thats going to end afterschool. Maybe I should give him another shot... I mean if he really is this ignorant, then he isn't too different from when I was a kid and first met Miku.' Luka glanced to her teal haired best friend's direction to find her trying to balance a pencil on her nose. Luka couldn't help but smile at her friend's antics. 'I'll give it one more try. Miku, you really make me do more then I need to, you know that?' Miku suddenly sneezed, causing her pencil to fly off to who knows where.

"Huh? Who's talking about me?"

'Ha, I guess thoughts sometimes count too.' Luka inwardly joshed. Just then another student walked in and handed a sheet of paper to the teacher and left.

"Ah, they finished the student assignment for the program. Megurine Luka, Hatsune Miku, Sakine Meiko, and Kamui Gakupo, please stand up." All whose name was called stood up. "The mentorship program you signed up for has assigned the second years that you will be in charge of. Sakine Meiko, Kagamine Rin will be under your wing."

"Alright, I got the party blond!"

"Kamui Gakupo, Kagamine Len will be under your wing."

"Understood."

"Hatsune Miku, under your wing will be IA... huh, thats the full name."

"Alright! This is going be so much fun!"

"And lastly, Megurine Luka."

'Wait, everyone from our group got someone from the those second years we had lunch with. The only one left is... noooooo, no way, no, no, no, no! If I get Kaiko, odds are he'll be around too! No way, I changed my mind, I'm not giving him a second shot, I don't want to be enemies with him, but theres no way I'm going to be his friend either!'

"Under your wing is..."

'Dear god, from the two hundred kids in that year, please don't give me one with blue hair!' Luka begged.

"Shion Kaiko." The teacher announced.

'God, are you colorblind?!' Luka screamed in her head as she drown in despair.

"As a reminder you must spend the day with them every Monday and Friday doing whatever activity you agree upon, unless certain circumstances prevent you from doing so."


Luka wandered through the halls, looking left and right for Kaito, not entirely sure if she'd really want to find him. Everyone had already ran out of school, hoping to secure a good spot for the fight about to transpire. "Where did he go? The school isn't that big, not many places he could go. Oh, found him." Luka caught Kaito walking out of the bathroom with an outfit different then his usual get up. He wore what he had on at the junkyard, and seemed to be searching through his phone for something specific. "Kaito, got a second?" Luka asked as she walked up next to him. Kaito looked over, paused for a bit, then waved and gave a small smile.

"Ahhhh... Luka, right? Sure." Kaito motioned her to follow him, so she did. "So what's up?"

"Just thought I'd tell you there's still a chance for you to not get hurt, you'd get full punishment now, but-"

"Not interested." Kaito said bluntly.

"Still insistent on going through with it; Gakupo's been training nonstop since this yesterday getting ready, and no one thinks you stand a chance besides your sister and IA."

"And?" Kaito asked in a bored tone.

"I'm just trying to warn you, but whatever, take your chances. If you just lay down and say you're sorry, then they'll pass on the fight, it wouldn't look good for them to hit someone who won't fight back."

Kaito kept looking through his phone and tapping on the screen. "Texting everyone your goodbyes?" Luka teased.

"Nope."

"It'd be a good idea."

"There it is."

"Huh? What is?" Luka asked.

"Something I like, but haven't heard for a while." Kaito put on his black ear phones and tapped the screen; his pace slowing down as well.

"Walking a bit slow there, getting cold feet?" Luka teased, but got no response. "Yoo hoo, anyone home in there?" She said while waving her hand in his face. "Kaito, stop ignoring me its getting on my nerves. Kai... to?" Luka stopped talking as she saw his eyes. Kaito's eyes were completely devoid of life, like he was nothing more but a shell of what was once there. "... I'll... see you there then." Luka jogged ahead, leaving behind what seemed like Kaito.


Miku and Meiko sat on the bench inside the group of kids circling around the three disciplinary officers standing there. Miku was hugging on to the bench while another student tried to pry her off, Meiko leisurely sitting in her spot. "Come on, just let me sit there!" A kid yelled.

"Noooo! Someone's coming soon! Just go away!" Miku pleaded.

"You've been saying that for twenty minutes, so where's this person, huh?" He countered.

"Um, I think that would be me." Luka said from behind. The kid sighed and walked away. Miku sat up and patted the empty spot next to her, Luka took her hint and sat down.

"Thank god you got here, so many people wanted that seat, but only your butt could be there!"

"Thanks Miku, everyone's getting riled up here, aren't they?"

"Yeah, I think there gonna send them out to get him soon. Do you think he left?" Miku asked worryingly.

"No I talked to him on the way here, he changed clothes and is walking pretty slow." She answered.

"Really? You know, I can't tell if that's good or not." The teal hair girl said.

"That makes two of us." Meiko commented. Just then IA, Kaiko, Len and Rin walked up carrying signs at their sides. Kaiko was the first to greet.

"Luka-senpai! I heard you're my mentor for the year! Want to cheer my oni-chan on with us? We can share my sign!" Kaiko held up her sign, with IA and the Kagamine twins following. IA and Kaiko's signs were about the same, they both said 'GO KAITO GO!', the only difference was that Kaiko had popsicles drawn on hers while IA had vanilla ice cream cones on hers. Rin's sign said 'sign my arm' and Len's simply said Kaito in big letters with an arrow pointing to Rin's sign so they wouldn't deal with other people thinking she meant them.

"Uh, I'll pass. And just call me Luka, I don't really like the senpai at the end."

"Aw fine, by the way they told us that we have to hang out every Friday and Monday so you wanna come to my house today?" Kaiko asked.

IA then spoke to Miku. "Um, same here, you're my mentor and I'll be at Kaiko's today."

Miku grabbed Luka's arm and held it up. "Sure, we'll be there!" Luka looked at her best friend with wide eyes.

"Miku! I never sai-"

"Don't worry about it, we have to do something together any way. Besides, this'll get you more time away from home, right?"

Luka looked down gloomily. "Right, I should take it whenever I can, I'll just need to make a call then."

Kaiko jumped in joy. "Alrightly, we'll play till we pass out!" Miku couldn't help but point out a concern of hers.

"That's cool and all but what about your bro-" Miku voice was lost in the crowd's sudden boost in volume when they saw Kaito walk out the school building.

"Alright, its time for the fight!"

"My money's on our sword guys."

"I'm betting on blue, gotta bet on miracles every once and a while."

"Whatever, I just want some action!"

"All of you, silence!" Spoke a spiky blond haired boy wearing all white uniform. "Kaito Shion, I'm the head of the disciplinary committee, Leyasu. I be supervising the fight, stop twenty feet in front of those three and I will be initiating the fight after I describe the rules, the wooden sword on the ground is yours to use." Kaito did not respond, he simply walked toward his three opponents, who all had their wooden swords out and ready, Gakupo with an especially fierce expression on his face.

"Go oni-chan! We'll have ice cream at home waiting for you!" Kaiko cheered happily.

"Kaito, control yourself!" IA warned.

"Autograph my arm!" Rin yelled.

"She means Kaito!" Len clarified.

When Kaito approached the sword, he kicked it out of the way and continued on his path. "That's past twenty feet, go back!" Yelled one of the three.

"I don't he hears you, this idiot's listening to music during a fight." Said the other one.

"If it makes you that uneasy, go ahead and go wild, if he won't listen to the rules there's no need to restrain yourself." Gakupo told him.

"Alright! I'll set him straight!" Yelled the boy to the right of Gakupo, who pulled another sword out from his side, and charged at Kaito with a wooden sword in each hand. Once his weapons were in reach of Kaito he swung his right sword at Kaito's ribs, only for Kaito to grab it and yank it back out of his attacker's grasp, throwing it out of site.

'Crap! I don't have that good a grip with one hand! This time I'll go for the head!'

Executing his thoughts, his sword went straight there, Kaito right arm was pulled back for a punch, not blocking the sword. 'Heh, shoulda tried grabbing it a-' Kaito caught the sword with his mouth, then bit down hard, causing it to snap in two, the, now broken, sword still attached to the hilt could was now too short to touch him. Then he launched his punch directly at his opponents face. Once his fist connected it pushed the boy's face back toward the ground behind him, knocking him and a few of his teeth out.

Kaito continued onward, without a scratch on him and his eyes as lifeless as ever.

"Dammit, the hell is your problem! I'll break your face for what you did to him!" The boy to the left of Gakupo lunged toward his adversary, his sword ready to dislocate a jaw.

He got in close, but before he could swing, Kaito kicked his shin hard, causing him to get down on one knee, which resulted in a knee to the face, lifting his body upright. Kaito then punched him hard in his stomach, making him gasp out as he had his wind knocked out him, causing him to pass out. Kaito grabbed the boy by the head and threw him to the edge of the crowd, and once again continued on toward the last man left, not a single sign of emotions from his eyes.

'I underestimated him, but this is beyond what anyone could of predicted though. In thirty seconds two he's taken two of us down, as if they were nuisances; no they may as well not have been here at all. If I can land the first hit, that'll be the only likelihood of me winning. Keep calm, steady your breathing, hold on to your weapon, using every bit of strength...' Gakupo rushed toward his enemy and with all his power, thrust his wooden sword at Kaito's chest. 'And pierce through your opponent!'

Kaito however, got ahold of his sword before it reached him. 'I'm not letting you throw this away!' Gakupo stomped his right foot on the ground, and pulled his sword back as hard as he could to prevent Kaito from disarming him. What surprised him though, he felt no resistance, in fact he felt it being pushed toward him. 'Did he know I was going to pull back?! Shit I got to-'

Gakupo's thoughts were cut short as the handle of his weapon smash on his nose, breaking it. Kaito wasn't finished though, he keep hitting that way five more time before forming his free hand in a fist and punched both of Gakupo's wrists, which were still holding on to his weapon, one broke and the other became dislocated. Gakupo screamed out in pain, but soon silenced by a kick from Kaito that rammed his face to the ground. Kaito turned around and walked away, since there was nothing left for him to deal with.

"Don't walk away... I'm not finished..." Gakupo managed to breath out, getting on his elbows and knees, desperately trying to stand up, but couldn't find sufficient strength to do it. Kaito walked on but stopped as he saw Leyasu hold out his wooden sword and drop it in front of him. He motioned for Kaito to take off his headphones. Kaito paused what was playing and took off his headphones.

"You won, you're pardoned of all previous misdeeds, and are free to leave. You know, when I saw you grab your first opponents sword, I thought I'd want a piece of you, then I saw you chomp the other in two pieces, thats when I knew no one here stands a chance against you. We could all charge you at once and there'd be only a blue haired demon standing around a bunch unconscious bodies on the floor. Also, this fight was a failure, not because of your victory, but because the crowd control they have to do now is ridiculous, I'm sure you noticed it. Every one of my members are working their asses off now, I need to re-think this rule."

All around Kaito and Leyasu, students were trying to push through, some out of concern for the fallen officers, others simply wanting revenge for their friends. One in particular was being restrained by the arms.

"Gakupo! Let me go! I need to check up on him, he needs help!" Screamed Luka as she tried to wriggle her way out of officers grip.

"Ma'am, calm down before I use force like some of the other officers!" He struggled saying while trying to hold her back.

"I'm... not... done yet... just... need to stand..." Gakupo groaned out. He hadn't moved a single muscle from his previous position. "Give me... a second to stand."

"It's over, if you hadn't noticed, everything past your elbows is out of commission, stop embarrassing yourself." Leyasu said while walking to Gakupo.

When he pasted Kaito a chill went up his spine. 'Maybe demon isn't the right description, even so, maybe I'll take a shot at him at the end of the year, someone needs to take over for me.' He thought.

"Sir, I can... continue." Gakupo groaned out

"Didn't I say stop embarrassing yourself? I wasn't asking, it was an order."

"Please... I-" Gakupo was knocked out by a quick chop to the neck, delivered by Leyasu.

"You may be a samurai, but a plain swordsman like me won't keep going because of some stupid reason like pride when he's already lost." As Gakupo lay there, there was a very faint tear stain. "Now to shut up everyone here. Attention all potential ER patients! Cease all movement before I issue you first class trips to the hospital!"

Silence spread through out the crowd; when Leyasu said something, it was always a demand. He invoked fear in the entire student body with over the three years he was here with his ability to maintain order and take down misbehaving students, and it showed right there. "The fight is over, everyone get lost. These students will be taken to the infirmary and will take no visitors so get that idea out of your head now, that is absolute. Now disperse before you piss me off more then you already are."

Slowly, students left and right left, some with sadness in their eyes, other with smiles on their faces as they talked about what they saw, and some with hate plastered on their face.

"Oniii-chan! You did great, did you see our signs, did you hear us cheering?" Kaiko asked as she ran toward her precious brother, followed by IA. Kaito's dead eyes slowly revived as he saw his two friends come toward him.

"Of course! How couldn't I hear my friends?" Kaito said as he rubbed the top of their heads. "But only IA got the pictures dead on, you drew the popsicles more for you, didn't you?" Kaito asked knowingly.

"Maybe I want some popsicles on the way home! Can we? Huh, huh come on, popsicles?!" Kaiko begged.

"Sure, what about you IA?" Kaito asked.

"I'm fine with popsicles too." She said plainly.

"Alrighty, lets go; oh and I don't feel like skating today so we'll walk."

Kaiko and IA groaned. They were used to getting escorted by Kaito most of the time by skate whenever they wanted to go somewhere that when they had to walk with or without him, it was exhausting and a bore. "Fine... Oh I forgot! Luka and Miku are coming with us!"

Kaito thought about his sisters statement for a bit before resuming to speak. "They are? Um... I guess its fine, but they're not allowed to go in my room, no matter what."

Miku and Luka looked at Kaiko who was calling for them, each thoughts vastly different. Miku was in awe of what she saw. 'Wow... that was awesome. I never thought he was so amazing, I gotta know more about him!'

Luka however, harbored nothing but negative emotions for Kaito. 'This cruel, heartless... I can't believe he did that to Gakupo! He has serious problems, not even a hint of mercy, after this I want him as far away from me as possible.'


Kaito, Kaiko, IA, Miku and Luka walked through the door of the Shion's house. Kaiko, IA, Miku and Luka came in with a popsicle that matched the color of their hair while Kaito had his eight inch vanilla swirl. Kaito went straight in the kitchen as the for the four females, they made themselves comfortable in the living room. Kaiko sucked on her icy treat, so IA figured she would take the role of the more talkative one, since Kaiko would always immerse herself in eating her popsicle.

"So have you two ever played videogames?" IA inquired.

Miku shot up her hand enthusiastically. "Oh you bet we do! We play them all the time, but Luka kinda sucks at most of them."

"Hey!"

"It's true, no use denying it." Miku said smugly.

"Well me and Kaiko tend to play fighting games, pretty competitively too, so would you like to play us?"

Miku answered for her and Luka. "Aww yeah, thats just my style! Let's split into teams then! The mentors versus mentees! You ready Luka?"

"Sure, you can go ahead and get it set up." Luka said as she glared at Kaito in the kitchen who was watching them from there. 'What's your problem, look away you monster.'

IA was setting up the game to the t.v. as Luka continued her bitter thoughts. 'That dumb stare, do you even have a brain in there, no I don't think you do because with brains comes a conscience! How can you act normally after what you did, eating ice cream... straight from... the tub? What happened to the other one? Wait... that spoon is going pretty deep in there... did he eat more than half the tub!? What is wrong with this freak!?'

"Okay, it's ready to go, Kaiko, are you done yet?" Asked IA.

"Yup, yup! Are you ready for some Ultimate Marvel versus Capcom 3!" Kaiko shouted as she jumped from the couch and sat next to IA, chewing on the stick of the eaten popsicle. Miku sat down with them and grabbed a controller.

"Luka, stop staring at Kaito and help me take them down!" Miku nagged to get her friends attention.

Kaiko tilted her head. "Huh? Do you want to be my oni-chan's new friend? That'll be super hard, oni-chan is really picky about his friends."

Luka broke from her stare and quickly sat down next to her teal best friend. "No, not at all."

"Aw, why?"

"I don't-" Miku jumped in before this situation could go south, she knew that after Kaito injured Gakupo, Luka would be a bit intolerant of Kaito for a few a while. Miku figured she would have the one diffusing any kind of tension before it exploded.

"Luka you go first for me! I'll swoop in at take them out after you lose a few rounds, mkay?"

"Wow, thanks for the faith." Luka said sarcastically.

"Anytime! Hey do you mind if I get a something to drink from your fridge?"

"Go ahead! Oh could you get a blueberry popsicle for me while you're there?" Kaito asked as perky always.

"Sure." Miku stood up and left those three to bond over beating the crap out of each other in a game. When she walked in the kitchen she saw Kaito's head in the freezer. She tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention. "Hey, I'll have some apple juice and my blue friend over there wants to order a popsicle, blueberry flavored, if you got it in stock." Miku joked. Kaito looked back briefly before turning back and rummaging through his fridge. When he finished, he brought out a small cup of ice cream, a blue popsicle and a juice box, and laid it out on the table.

He handed Miku her juice and popsicle, and started eating his ice cream. "Got a sweet tooth?" Miku teased as she poked his cheek.

Kaito nodded, still watching those in the living room. Miku bit the top of her juice box and sucked out the juice from the small hole she made. "That was pretty amazing, your fight I mean. You know, Luka's kinda mad at you now but don't take it personally, she's just worried for Gakupo."

"It's ok, you're a good friend, making sure no one says anything that'll cause a problem." Kaito answered back.

"You knew?" Miku said a bit shocked.

"Lets just say... I'm used to the aftermaths of fights." Kaito said in a low, quiet voice.

As Miku talked to Kaito she became more and more curious about him. At first he seem aloof, but then she saw him act ridiculously affectionate toward his sister, and then fierce battling three people, without any type of expression; Miku couldn't help but feel intrigued about him. "You're used to this kind of thing?"

"Lets not talk about it." Kaito responded in his usual known toneless voice.

"Sorry I d-"

"Miku, switch out with me! I lost to Kaiko three times and I'm tired of it, get revenge for me!" Luka whined.

"Coming." Before Miku left, she took one last look at Kaito, and went to go take her friends place.


"This isn't fun anymore..." Kaiko and IA moped in their spots for a while, they had lost more than seventy matches to Miku and they were beaten even worse each time to the point where they never got a hit in.

"Man, you guys suck. You know I'm not bad like Luka, right?" Miku said confidently. Unfortunately, that made Luka depressed as she drew circles with her finger on the floor.

"I just that the characters I like to use aren't that fast..."

"No, It's fine Luka, you were probably doing alright before! Besides, I'm just unbeatable!" Miku said self-assuredly.

"Wanna bet?" Said an unknown voice from behind her.

"Oh you finally joining in Kai-... Stranger walked in the house! Someone get a crossing guard!"

"What, who, where?"

"It's you! Kaito, get off the couch and do something!" Miku screamed.

"Why? Benkai comes here all the time."

Kaiko's ears perked up when she heard this. She turned around and a huge smile broke across her face as she jumped on him. "Benkai! You came to visit! Oh my god, do me a solid Benkai and beat her for me. Me and IA can't do it!"

"I guess I could, is this like a the munchkins versus the bigger munchkins? If so alright, but only one match and that's it." He said.

"Aw yeah! You guys are going down, Benkai's playing for me and IA, this last match decides the true winner!" Kaiko confidently proclaimed.

Miku and Luka looked at Benkai in fear, this was the apparently the toughest guy in town, who commanded every other orphan who lived here, sent every bad one packing, and scared them enough to make them never come back. "Y-y-you're B-Benkai, the r-rustic k-k-king?" Miku stuttered out.

"Only one with that name in town, could ya drop the king thing though, I only really use that when I'm a joking around or screwing with people. Chillax, I'm more docile then dippin' dots on the couch over there." He assured.

"Hey, don't make me tell them why the apple company's logo looks like someone took a bite out of it!" Kaito hollered at him.

"*Gasp* Hey, that was an honest to goodness mistake anyone could have made!" Benkai argued.

"Bull."

Miku exhaled. "Oh thank god, I thought you'd be some super scary guy, but you're kinda of a goof ball."

"Great. Thanks Kaito, I meet someone new in two minutes in your house and now I'm a goof ball." He complained to his best blue haired friend.

"For you that's a step up." Kaito taunted.

"Whatever, trust me I'm super awesome... Yeah I don't know your name."

Miku responded to Benkai right away. "Oh I'm Miku and this is my best friend Luka!"

Benkai looked over to who Miku had mentioned. "Oh there's someone else? Sorry, didn't see y-... Leia!" Benkai cry out, hugging Luka like he was about to lose someone.

"What? Ah, get off me!" She told him, Benkai completely ignoring her demand.

"Leia! Leia... I'll never let go..." He said softly.

Luka turned to her friend for help. "Miku help! Pull him off!"

Kaito decided to stop Benkai's mistake from continuing on any longer. "That's not Leia, Benkai! They don't even look the same."

Benkai grew a questioning look on his face as he stopped hugging Luka to take a good look at her. He found that his friend was right, he had mistook her for someone else dear to him. "Oh my bad, it's just that you look like someone I knew. I mean you look really, really similar."

Kaito grew a bit miffed at Benkai statements. "No she doesn't, they're nothing alike. Leia's hair was a way lighter pink, her eyes were a deeper blue, and her voice was higher too."

Benkai felt embarrassed at his mistake, his face reddening as he tried to explain himself. "Heh, yeah I might have just been really missing her lately, I mean its impossible, but come on are you saying you don't think they look even the slightest bit alike? Like come on, they could pass for twins."

Kaito responded quickly. "I don't see it."

"Whatever grumpy, you ready for midnight though?" Benkai asked.

"Of course, every month. I got my flower and drawing." He answered as it were the most obvious question in the world.

"Enough, no more, Benkai beat Miku already!" Kaiko whined.

"Oh right, forgot about that. Here gimme the controller, I'll show mercy until I get bored." Benkai said cockily.

"I'll make you eat those words!" Miku countered.

Miku and Benkai went to character selection and assembled their team. Miku picked Felicia, Wolverine, and X-23, her best team with the most speed. Meanwhile, Benkai picked an unusual one consisting of Strider Hiryu, Iron Fist and lastly, Vergil.

"Weird team, the only fast one you have is Strider." Miku stated.

Benkai chuckled at her comment, thinking her simple thinking was cute. "Oh don't worry about it I'm only using Vergil."

"What? His start up attacks are the slowest." She argued.

"Worry about yourself kiddo, just don't get super bummed out after this!"

"Kiddo! You're the look the same age as me!" The tealette yelled.

"No, I'm sorta as old as Kaito! I think... probably... Kaito how old are you?" He asked.

Kaito yawned out his answer. "Sixteen."

"Ah, see I'm sixteen, what are you fifteen at best?" The red haired teen questioned.

"I'm the same age!" She answered.

Benkai tried to restrain himself from laugh too much. "Really? *snicker* That's sad, shorty."

"That's it, I'm starting it now!" Miku smashed the X button over and over, even during the loading screen she didn't stop. Once the fight started, Miku went all out with short combos with specials chained up afterwards. Benkai took the time to chat with Kaito a bit while he let Miku have her limited time of enjoyment.

"Dude my drawings are top notch lately, she's totally gonna love the one I made for today." Kaito smiled. "Lucky you, I never seem to get better at it. Well, she'll still appreciate the effort and get a good laugh out of it!"

Benkai laughed at the truth in Kaito's words. "Ahhh, I remember those times where she promised she wouldn't laugh when she see's it and then run away as far as she could so you couldn't hear her laugh!"

"Dude, you're second character's almost dead." Kaito pointed out.

"Oh, thanks for reminding me about this." After Benkai second character died, Miku started rubbing her sure victory in his face.

"HA! Oh, three to one, you are so screwed now! Take this for calling me sh-" Miku lost all her bravado when Benkai's final character, Vergil, went berserk on Felicia, doing a combo that didn't stop till her character's health bar vanished.

"Ah." Miku squeaked out.

"Hey, look at that, she died. Want to see it again?" Benkai taunted.

"Luck! Take thi-" Once again Vergil had gotten the first hit and chained every attack perfectly and to finish off Miku's second character Wolverine, he used Vergil's level one special which cut everywhere one the screen in an instant. "H-How..."

"Don't worry I'll make this last one go much faster!" Miku didn't attempt attacking now knowing the risk, so she decided to stick to guarding for a while. This was futile however as Vergil vanished and appeared on the other side, transformed into demon form, activated X factor and used his level three hyper combo before Miku had the chance to switch which side she was guarding on, and killed X-23 who had full health.

Benkai, Kaiko and IA were all holding hands, while skipping around in circles chanting over and over 'We're the champs.' Miku face was buried in Luka's chest, seeking comfort because of her complete annihilation. "I suck, I suck so much..."

Luka petted her friends head in an effort to bring her spirit's up. "It's ok, you won all those other rounds, that was a thirty-five win streak with both of them! You're very skilled, ok?"

"But this was the one that really mattered!" Miku whined.

Luka sighed. She knew her friend wouldn't stop complaining for a while, and she'd always whine about her loss to Benkai until she wins one, so Luka gave her friend a suggestion to get her off her back. "Why don't you ask for a rematch then?"

Miku stood up and clenched her fist, a look of determination taking over her once grim expression. "You're right! Benkai, I cha-"

"Crap, Kaito the time! Let's get going!" Benkai said as he released his hands from Kaiko and IA's hands.

Kaito looked at the time from the T.V. and jumped from his seat and rushed to put his shoes on. "Aw man, I forgot to check it before!"

Miku fell to the floor dumbfounded. Before Benkai could get much closer to the door, Miku grabbed on to the bottom of his legs. "Waiit! I want a rematch, come on, one more!" Miku begged.

"You'd lose right away so there's no point, get better and I'll think about it." Benkai said to the now stone-like Miku as he slipped his legs out of her grip.

"Oni-chan, what time are you coming back?" Kaiko asked.

"A little after midnight, Luka, Miku, could you two watch them till I get back, thanks!" Kaito said as he ran out the door with Benkai.

Luka opened her mouth to object but the door slam shut before she could. "Are you serious? Geez, that guy..." Luka walked over and bent down to her teal haired friend that was still on the floor. "Miku, get up, we're babysitting now."

"Hey, we're not babies! Me and IA are fully matured big kids!" Kaiko shouted.

"Kaiko, it's just a term." IA said.

"I know, but I'm a big girl now, I don't need to get babysitted." She defended.

"Sure, sure. It's pretty late now and no one's had any real food yet; Do any of you want me to make something specific?" IA offered.

Luka replied right away. "No, it's fine! We're suppose to take care of you two, please allow us!"

"Don't worry, I do the cooking here, its my pleasure to make food." IA explained.

"Leeks, if you got 'em!"

"Miku!"

"She said she didn't mind, and I want leeks. Luka loves any kind of fish so give her something like that please!" Miku requested.

IA went to the kitchen to start cooking. "I'll call you both when the food's ready."

Kaiko ran after IA shortly after. "I'll help with the taste testing!"

Luka looked at Miku with an upset expression. "Miku, we're suppose to be the adults here and you're acting like a kid while they do things for us!"

Miku sat up and shook her head nonchalantly. "Luka, you're exaggerating. It's just some food she's making for us, there's nothing wrong with that. Besides, we're basically role models so we're doing what we gotta do as long as we don't do bad stuff."

Luka sighed. "You're right, I'm just stressed we have to be here for till after midnight, that's more then three hours from now."

"And now you gotta phone home or else huh?" Miku asked knowing her friends stress.

Luka nodded in response. "I'll be fine, I'll exaggerate my reasons like always."

"Hey, while you're at it, make up a lie for all day tomorrow; Think about it, more time away from there. You, me and Meiko should go fool around at the mall tomorrow, maybe get some cute new outfits while we're at it!" Miku proposed.

Luka smiled at her friend and the care that she showed for her. "I'll try."

"Good, now wanna go a round with me? I gotta get some serious training in to beat that guy!"


A little while later... "Ok! The food's ready, come eat!" IA called. Miku and Luka walked in while Kaiko had finshed placing the food on the table and IA was putting away unused food in the fridge. Miku took her seat with the plate that had curry and a single leek on the side, and a cup of juice. Luka took the seat next to her. Her plate had various types of well made sushi, a cup of soy sauce on the side and a cup of juice as well.

"Wow, you made all of this? You're very skillful IA." Luka praised. IA blushed as she took her seat with Kaiko. "Oh, it's nothing. I cook for them almost everyday, I guess I'm just used to cooking for others, I enjoy it a bit too." IA said modestly.

"I only got one leek, can I have like two more?" Miku asked.

IA looked at her apologetically. "Sorry, that's all there is. Honestly, I was surprised there was even one. I think Kaiko just made a mistake when shopping and grabbed it without noticing, she does that often."

"Nooo... Well kinda." Kaiko stuck her tongue out and rubbed the back of her head.

"Ah, its alright! This still looks super good, so lets dig in!" Miku and Luka both took one bite and froze afterwards.

Kaiko smirked at them. "Oh, I forgot, you guys never tasted IA's cooking. Don't get addicted because she's ours!" Both previously motionless girls instantly ate their food as fast as they could but stopped after a few seconds, Luka ate her food too fast that she choked a bit before swallowing her sushi and as for Miku, she burnt her tongue because the curry was still a bit hot.

Luka composed herself before speaking. "IA, your cooking is amazing, its really some of the best I ever eaten." Luka complimented.

Miku joined in too. "Oh my god, yes! So you feed them every day too, Kaiko you're way too lucky!"

"Without IA, me and oni-chan would starve!" Kaiko stated.

"That's not true, you'd just be eating burnt food instead." IA teased.

"No, I wouldn't! Remember who tasted it, with out me we'd never know if its good or not!" she countered.

"I could taste it myself."

"No, you'd do it wrong!" Kaiko yelled.

"Realllly? How so?" IA asked in a very sarcastic way.

"It's like... the, when, uh... the thing! The thing you do when you eat it, if you don't do it right, everything's ruined!" Kaiko terribly tried to interpret.

"Ah, yes the thing! How could I forget the thing? Yes, that thing. That thing is the thing, not that thing but the thing! I totally know the thing!" IA mocked.

"Stop it! It's not funny!"

"Oh, never! The thing is no laughing matter, it is the thing after all."

"Stop embarrassing me IA! Come on, not in front of my mentor, Luka's gonna think I'm stupid or something!" Kaiko pleaded.

"Not something, the thing, remember?" IA started giggling uncontrollably at the end of her last taunt.

"IAAAAAA!" Kaiko whined. As they continued to go back and forth, Luka couldn't help the warm smile she had because of them.

'Now that I think about it, they're just like Miku and I are.' Luka could remember and exact replica of this situation she had with Miku but with the word 'it' instead. IA took the role she had and Kaiko fit Miku's spot perfectly, they seemed nothing less then the next year version of themselves. Luka was more clam, cool, collected and quiet, while Miku was the opposite; energetic, silly, excited and loud. A part of Luka wished she had received IA instead of Kaiko, but she thought odds were they'd be in this group of four when they got together so they could cross over a lot on the mentoring. Luka turned her head to her best friend, wondering what she thought of this.

'Sweet! I got the super smart one that does almost everything perfectly.' Miku cheered inwardly.


Kaito and Benkai were walking up a tall grassy hill with a cherry blossom in bloom on top. "Wew, dang I thought we'd be late but I think we ran too fast to get here this early." Benkai said relieved.

"Eh, we'll can stay longer then, I mean I do need to leave almost right after midnight." The blue haired boy said.

"Heh, I gotta head back to the junkyard to make sure everyone's sleeping ok too. Ah man, when'd we get so needed?" Benkai grumbled.

"I have a sister so that's just the usual for me."

Benkai sighed. "So I'm the only one with new responsibility? Life isn't fair."

"It was... up to that day." Kaito said sadly.

Benkai avoided responding to Kaito's comment. "And we're here." He stated. Where the cherry tree stood, at its roots there was a single pink lily and a grave stone. Engraved on it said 'Leia - our elegant, benevolent, unselfish, compassionate, best friend.' Both of them sat next to the grave stone, pulling out what they had brung and laid it out in front of the lily. Kaito's picture was crudely drawn and was hard to make out but it seemed to depict three small kids, one with blue hair, one with red and the last with pink, all of which appeared to be holding hands.

"I think she loves mine more, mine has color!" Kaito claimed cockily.

"Phhtt! You're crappy crayons can't go toe to toe with my sketch, she clearly loves mine way more, right Leia?" Benkai's drawn was pencil drawn, but it had extreme precision and detail. His illustrated what appeared to be him, Kaito and a girl as kids sitting on the branches on the tree next to them. They patiently waited for a response; then a wind blew, making the lily lean toward Benkai. Benkai shouted his victory, while Kaito rolled on the ground trashing like a toddler.

"Bs, bs, you always pick his! You're picking favorites!" Another wind blew and turned the flower toward Kaito. "Don't try to comfort me now, it's too late! You suck!"

"Don't listen to him Leia, he's just cranky since he has to go to school now." Another wind blew as soon as Benkai finished his sentence, leaning it toward him once more. "Oh right, we didn't tell you, Kaito goes to school now, can you believe it! He's gonna flunk out so bad."

"Hey!"

"Dude, I read, write and do math better then you. You're screwed." Benkai stated matter-of-factly. Kaito let out a small wheeze of air when he realized his friend was right. The flower abruptly started shaking a little. Kaito quickly sat up with a smile. "Hey, we got her to laugh again!"

"Yes, we're awesome!" Benkai said as he high-fived his best friend. Soon enough, they immersed themselves in conversation long into the night.


Luka and Miku were both carrying Kaiko. They laid her down on her bed next to IA who was fast asleep, nibbiling on her thumb.

"Nooooo... oni-chan not back yet... let me waii-" Luka put a finger over Kaiko's lips and softly shushed her.

"He'll be here soon, just fall asleep already." Luka closed Kaiko's barely open eyes shut as she slowly back away with Miku. Kaiko squirmed at bit more before giving in to her exhaustion. Luka closed the to her room silently and retreated back to the living room with Miku. She sat down on the couch, tired and weary from her long day.

Miku plopped herself and let out a large sigh. "Wowy, Kaiko sure has a lot of energy, glad that's not my problem." Miku said.

"Hey, you're no different, in fact, you two are too similar." Luka argued.

"Yeah, I guess... but I got the does it all one, clearly I made out better than you."

"Well, she's nothing but pure, so that's enough for me. As long as she's a good person, what more could I ask for?" Luka said humbly.

"True that. Sooo... Since we're talking about Kaiko, what do you think of her brother?" Miku asked.

"Don't like him, terrible person." Luka simply stated.

"Harsh, come on, it was either him or Gakupo, you got to let it go; we're in the same class so you'll see him everyday, so try to get along." Miku pleaded.

Luka pouted before answering. "Fine. Don't expect me to be buddy-buddy with him though." Just as Luka finished the door had opened, Kaito yawning while walking in.

"Yo." He greeted.

Miku sat up from her seated and stretched. "Where ya been all night? It's like past one now."

"Visiting a friend."

"Oniii... *yawn* -chan. You're late... bedtime..." Kaiko was unable to finish her sentence as fell toward the floor. Kaito, however, caught her and lifted put her over his shoulder.

"Sorry, Kaiko doesn't go to sleep unless I'm around, I'll put her to bed, you guys can go now." Kaito said as he carried his sister into her room.

Kaito went back to close the front door he left open to find Luka and Miku still in the living. "You guys can leave now, you know." Kaito said in a non-offensive way.

"Great, then walk us home!" Miku asked.

"Eh?"

Luka sighed. "It's one in the morning and you want us to walk home by ourselves? It's way too dangerous, something could happen to us."

"Oh."

Miku popped back in the conversation. "So take us home then, come on, chop chop."

Kaito rubbed the back of his head. 'Mmm, I guess I should... and they did watch Kaiko and IA for me.' "Alright, lead the way."


Kaito, Miku and Luka walked through the streets, most of the street lights off for some reason or another. "They really need to fix the street lights here, it makes walking home scarier." Miku said aloud. She waited for someone to respond, but only silence could be heard. Miku knew that Luka was avoiding any conversation with Kaito and as for Kaito, he just didn't seem like he cared or wanted to converse with anyone. "So guys, today was fun right? Lots of games and good food, huh?" Neither spoke.

Miku nudged her friend and gave her a pleading look. Luka merely shook her head, shot a quick glare at Kaito and went back to minding her own business. "Ahhh... Kaito! Why ya so quiet buddy?"

"Because she's mad at me, and I wanna see how many times she's gonna try to give me quick mean look before we get to your house, thinking I haven't noticed. It's sad that she's already at fourteen." Kaito said nonchalantly.

Luka shot up her head and turned to Kaito with an angry expression. "You knew!?" She shouted.

Miku hung her head in failure as she walked. 'Nooo, we were so close to my house.'

"Course I knew, one, peripheral vision and two, no one's hair whips that much while walking when I turn to check. So which one was it I beat up that set you off, I can't really remember them or their names too well." Kaito asked in a bored tone.

Luka stopped walking upon hearing this. "You don't even remember the people you hurt!?" Just then a street light ahead of them shut off in an instant.

"Uh, guys? We're like twenty feet from my house, and standing out here at this time isn't the best ide-"

"I've already beaten the crap out of hundreds, maybe even a little over thousand, three more won't make me give a damn about who's ass I kicked." Kaito said in his toneless voice.

"You're heartless then! Choosing to hurt someone else just makes you a degenerate!" She yelled at him.

"So those guys I fought were degenerates then? Then it evens out." He argued.

"Gakupo is not a degenerate! Unlike you, he's selflessly protected others!" Luka defended.

"Isn't that the one that started this in the first place? So technically, he's the worse them me. They all struck first, I just countered afterwards. If we'd switched roles, would they be at fault, would anyone besides my sister and IA have a reason to resent them, though they wouldn't, would you treat him the same way you're treating me? No, I'm a new kid no ones knows, so no one should care much what happens to him, right? The assumption that I've done wrong is completely biased, you're just mad that you couldn't do anything for you're friend and you're taking out on me, the cause of his injuries; Though my actions are the effect of what he started in the first place. But it's easier just to pin it all on me isn't it? I'll admit that that time I spit that rice on him was not cool, but that's the only thing, everything else was him." Kaito said as uninterested as before.

Luka became dumbfounded at Kaito. She realized that what he said had much truth, she even felt guilt beginning to well up inside. 'Have I really letting my feelings cloud my judgment this much? ... Now that I think back on it, I'm embarrassed about the way I acted. Should I apologize? I mean I should, but... I can't bring myself to do it. It's just too awkward.' Her face dejected, her thoughts swirling around.

Miku spoke again to remind them what they were doing. "My house is right over there, all we have to do is wa-" Miku stopped talking when she noticed all the street lights started flickering on and of at an alarming rate. 'Ok, now I'm getting creeped out here.'

Meanwhile, Luka was still contemplating on how to apologize, not noticing the lighting issue around her. She snapped out of her thoughts however, she felt a hand on the top of her head and Luka looked up to find Kaito looking at her with a warm expression she had never seen on him, or anyone for that matter. It simply captivated her. "Let's just move on without another word, I've been through similar situations from your view point, nothing good comes from dwelling on stuff like this, K?" Kaito asked nicely and sincerely.

Luka nodded slowly. "T-than-" Just then, every street light shut off.

"Kyyaaaaa!"

After a few seconds the lights turned back on, showing Miku chewing on one of her pigtails, then releasing it from her mouth, relief washing over her. Luka, on the other hand, had her face buried in Kaito's chest, shaking like a startled kitten. Once Luka opened her eyes, she realized that she was clinging on to Kaito, immediately she pushed herself away from Kaito, grabbed Miku and rushed toward her friends house.

"We can walk ourselves from here, bye!" She yelled quickly as she yanked Miku faster toward her house. Kaito looked at them curiously, but he shrugged his shoulders and headed home.


The second they walked in the house, Luka let go of Miku and covered her face. "I can't believe I did that... it was just that got surprised and I just clung on to the first thing on could. My god, that was so embarrassing!"

"Yeah, you looked like such a scaredy cat! I can't wait to tell Meiko tomorrow!" Miku joshed.

"Talk and I'll tell her your hair chewing habit is back." Luka threatened.

"Ah! You know what, its late and I'm tired, lets call it a draw and just never speak of it, deal?" Miku offered.

"Deal. You told you're parents I was sleeping over right?" She asked for confirmation.

"Yeah, yeah, they know. They got your spare clothes washed and everything, now lets crash cause we've been up way too long. Ahhhhhhhhh, come on." Luka followed Miku to her room, her thoughts trailing back on recent events.

'This year s going to be an interesting one, I can feel it. The only problem I can see is Kaito, I know we're sort of ok now, but he just doesn't make sense most of the time and there's no explanation about him in general. He's lived here his whole life yet no one's knows him, he's friends with the king of orphans, and his personality that switch's from aloof and reserved, to warm and childish. With him being Kaiko's brother, odds are I'll be seeing him a lot. After what I just did though, I'd be too embarrassed to be around him. Ah well, tomorrow I'll get my mind off of this.'


Ah, this one took a while to finish, but it came together pretty well I think. A lot of hints on character backstory in this one for later chapters, notice any one's that were real minor? Like always, please review for motivation! :)

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-Author-chan123

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