Yo! I'm back, yeah I know it's been a while but I have been gone for a lot longer before. I'm English so if I say football I mean soccer not American football. Enjoy! Oh wait! I've changed the ages so they are now:

Yaya, Kairi – 14/15

Amu, Tadase, Nade, Nagi, Rima – 16

Kukai, Utau -17

Ikuto – 18/19

Chapter 4: Aftermath

Amu's POV

After a while, Rima came back inside. I smiled at her but she looked so distant that she didn't notice. "Are you ok, Rima?" I asked, concerned. She suddenly came back into reality and gave me a small smile.

"I'm fine, it was just my mum. I need one of you to take me back." She replied and stuffed her phone into her back pocket.

"Yeah, we need to get home too." Me and Kukai agreed. I looked at my phone and realized that I had at least four missed calls from mum and dad.

"It would be safer for you guys to stay here. Especially since demons are looking for you now." Kairi suggested.

"I know, but I can't just drop everything immediately. I still have a home and a family and friends and school." I listed. I knew I was making excuses but this was too much for me. First, my powers start coming in, then a demon tries to take me and then Ikuto, who's been gone for years, suddenly turns up with a bunch of his spirit friends.

"But-" Ikuto and Tadase start.

"Please, I just…I just need space…from all of this for a bit." I told them honestly. "So, can someone take us back?"

"Fine, let's go." Tadase stood up and took my hand. I assumed that we all had to hold hands for this to work so we all joined up. The air was suddenly sucked from my lungs and I knew we were travelling. Tadase took us back to the street just outside the club and I called for a taxi.

When I got home, I took the house keys from my purse and opened the front door. Since all the lights were off, I gathered that my family were asleep and I probably should be too. I quietly went upstairs and smiled when I heard Ami laughing in her room and saw the faint glow from her laptop screen.

Entering my room, I immediately collapsed onto my bed. I expected to sleep straight away but I couldn't. I had to many things running around in my mind that it couldn't shut down. I turned my head to see my bedroom wall. It was full of pictures of places I've been, people I've met and possibly hundreds of pictures of my friends. A particular one caught my eye. Our class were on a school trip to Canada and it was freezing. Me, Kukai and Tadase were huddled together, trying to get warm, and Rima leaned in next to us and took a selfie. But in the background, I could see something small and blue. I'd noticed it before but I didn't think anything of it but now it was so obvious.

It was Ikuto's annoying little head. And it wasn't just in that picture. No, it was in practically all of them.

"Oops, didn't think I was that obvious." My heart momentarily stopped beating when I suddenly heard a voice behind me.

"Ikuto! You can't just teleport into my room without warning. I could've been changing, you pervert!" I whisper/yelled at him when I spotted him leaning against the far wall.

"Relax, it's not like there'd be anything to see anyway." He commented. My face went bright red out of a mixture of anger and embarrassment. "Calm down, I'm just kidding. I forgot you're so damn sensitive."

"It was hard not to be when you were always making fun of me." I replied and folded my arms across my chest.

"You were tiny and scared of every little thing. I couldn't stop it even if I wanted to." He said with his classic smug look plastered on his face.

"What are you doing here anyway, Ikuto?" I asked, changing the subject.

"Nothing really, just wanted to see what your room looked like now. I was hoping that you'd be asleep so it didn't look as creepy." He answered, changing his smugness to a sheepish smile.

"Well, I'm tired. We can catch up tomorrow, ok?" I asked.

"Your place or mine?" He smirked.

"How about Starbucks?" I suggested, smirking back at him. He agreed and it wasn't long before he disappeared. I sighed and fell into some much-needed sleep.

Rima's POV

I tiredly strolled into my mum's company building and made my way to the first coffee machine I could see. I got home last night hoping that she would be in bed, but no, she made me stay up with her to talk about business plans and how I was supposed to observe Amu. You see, I've known about Amu's powers ever since I became friends with her. Mum and the company had the most knowledge about the various rifts and what they had the power to do. But, luckily, mum didn't know about Ikuto and the others and the demons. That was something I didn't want to share. I wanted to do my own research for once, to be involved in something strange and not have to exploit it.

I lazily sipped my coffee and walked towards the glass elevator. This whole place was state of the art, like one of those futuristic science facilities that you see in the movies. I stepped into the elevator and I ran along the different buttons to find the right one. But the coffee hadn't sunk in yet and I was too tired to think properly, so it took a lot of effort to read all of the tiny numbers. My finger trailed away from the buttons and traced mindlessly along the glass until something beeped and flashed red. Whatever it was, suddenly jerked me awake and into a state of curiousness and I stared at the makeshift button on the glass.

Without even thinking about it, I quickly pressed on the glass button and the elevator began to free-fall past into a dark tunnel. I had to hold into the sides just to keep my feet on the floor. After a while, it slowed down and I could see the light at the bottom. When it came to a stop, the doors opened and I stepped into bright-white corridor. It was nearly empty apart from the large metal doors on either side.

Suddenly I heard an intense conversation from around the corner so I ran to the nearest object and hid behind it. A small group of people dressed all in white lab coats paced down the corridor and continued arguing as they walked straight past me. When the coast was clear, I stood up and followed them. What was up with me today? Must've been the coffee.

I caught up with them as they went inside a huge white room and closed the double doors behind them. Because they left them slightly ajar, I could see inside through a small crack between the doors. A soon as I looked inside, I had to look away. Why was this place so damn bright? I was surprised that no one was blinded by the sheer intensity of it. I shook my head and tried again, hoping that my eyes were used to the pain.

At first, all I could see was a cluster of white lab coats and I few pieces of their equipment on a table. Come on, what are you doing? I urged them to move and coincidently they did. I immediately wished they hadn't. Sitting on the edge of a therapy chair, was a teenager around my age with dull light brown eyes and long purple hair. The kid suddenly glanced at the door and directly at me with lifeless eyes. I instinctively took a step back and ended up tripping over my own foot.

"Who's out there?" I heard someone ask before I scrambled to get up. By the time they opened the door, I was already gone.

Kukai POV

"Souma! Take a time out!" My coach called out to me when I lost the ball for the third time this match. I ignored the concerned looks from my friends as I trudged across the field and sat down on the bench. "What's with you today?" He asked me after sending Daichi out in my place.

"Nothing, coach." I replied but he and I both knew I was lying. "Just a little distracted." I said honestly. Damn right I was distracted. Who wouldn't be if they just found that one of your best friends had super powers and the other had been lying to you for as long as he'd known you? But it's not as if I could tell that to my coach.

"'A little' is an understatement, Souma. I've seen you play better with a broken ankle. Go home, sort yourself out, and come back whenever you're ready." He told me.

"But-" I began to protest. I'd been looking forward to this game for weeks.

"No, Souma. Go home." He said firmly and crossed his arms. I sighed and made my way back to the changing rooms, muttering under my breath. This was ridiculous. When I was a kid, I always dreamed of meeting superheroes and being a sidekick but I never thought it would actually happen. Now, two of my best friends are practically superheroes but it isn't as exciting as I thought it would be. Tadase wouldn't bring me on missions or whatever he does. He didn't even trust me enough to tell me that he had powers in the first place.

My phone vibrated in my pocket as I stepped into the changing rooms. Another message from Tadase. He hadn't stopped texting and ringing me since last night. I hadn't texted back, I didn't want to. All he would do is give me excuses to why he felt the need to lie to me for years on end. As I stared at my phone screen, I didn't realize that it was almost pitch black in the room, which was strange because it was 10 o clock in the morning. I shrugged it off and turned the lights on. But when I did, there was someone standing in front of me. Wait, two people standing in front of me.

"Is this the kid?" The smaller guy asked. His eyes were black and I could see dark veins trailing up his neck and chin.

"Yes, the energetic one." The taller one nodded her head. She had long black hair and at least looked a bit like a human. "You are a friend of Hinamori, correct?" She asked, pointed a long finger at me.

"Who's asking?" I asked, trying to keep my cool because inside I was screaming.

"You don't need to know." The smaller guy stated.

"Just answer the question, boy." The woman said, annoyed.

"You don't need to know." I mimicked but I wished I hadn't. These guys were demons, weren't they? And I just mimicked one of them. I am so dead.

"You have a lot of guts for a human." The woman jabbed me in the side and glared at me.

"Can I eat them?" The guy asked her, happily. I'm gonna die. I am going to fricking die.

"He's no use to us. Go ahead." The woman waved him off. "Let this be a warning to Hinamori." I barely heard her speak over my body screaming at me to run. I wanted to, I really did. But I couldn't move. The small guy ran at me, his mouth a lot bigger than it was before. I had finally found my own super power. I could see the future. I would be dead on the floor in less than three seconds.

There was suddenly a flash of light and the king of creepiness went flying through the far wall. Tadase landed on his feet and gave me an apologetic look. "Sorry, I'm late."

"Behind you!" I yelled when I saw the demon chick raise a clawed hand towards him. She brought it down and slashed his shoulder. Tadase took out his staff and teleported behind her. He jabbed it into her back and she screamed before bursting into flames.

"Are you ok?" He asked putting his staff away.

"You're bleeding. I think we should be worrying about you." I told him and looked at the cut on his shoulder.

"No you shouldn't." Someone said behind me before I felt something sharp against my neck. The king of creepiness was back and his teeth were closed around the side of my neck. "Tell me where Hinamori is and this kid doesn't get eaten." He threatened.

"How do I know you'll keep your word?" Tadase asked.

"You won't. But if you don't tell me where she is then the kid is definitely being eaten." He replied.

I used one of football boots to partially take off the other one. I kicked the air and the lose shoe flew up and hit the demon in the face. He growled in pain and fell backwards. His teeth were still around my neck and I fell back as well. "Tadase, go in my bag and get me a fork." I managed to get out.

"You have a fork in your bag?" He asked but did as I asked. Sure enough, next to my numerous snacks was a plastic fork. He threw it at me and I caught it before repeatedly stabbing it into the demon's chest until he burst into flames, resulting in a ring shaped burn around my neck where his teeth had caught fire. Tadase helped me up and took me home. I wasn't just his friend, I was his sidekick.

I hoped you enjoyed that because it was a long chapter for me. Thanks for all the reviews, follows and favourites and the advice. I'll see ya soon, bye!