Chapter 4

Tara gladly took her friends hand and Akira lifted her up onto her feet. They embraced for a while, James in between both of them.

James cleared his throat, "As much as I like having your breasts pressed against me, we still have a little problem."

They released and James transformed back to human, straightening his clothes and rolling his shoulders. He looked back and saw Akira fully; she was the same height as Tara, maybe an inch shorter, the girl had her jet-black hair in a long braid that went down to her waist. Her eyes were a deep purple and stared literally into his soul. She was in her assassin's uniform, all black, tight around everything; the cowl on it was down. He felt a bit exposed as Akira stared back at him. She leaned over to Tara and whispered something in her ear; Tara looked at her and laughed. Oh yeah, this is why I didn't like having her around, James thought as he looked back at the other sister who was in the corner holding her thigh staring at them.

(Alright, I'm going to take a minute and tell you a bit of Akira's back story, don't worry hopefully it wont take to long. And this is probably the only time I'll be able to tell it. She was born in Tokyo; in that city, so overpopulated she didn't have the brightest future. Her mother was a prostitute and had her on accident. Since she turned out to be a girl, her mother kept her intending that she would be raised to become like her mother as well. Of course naturally Akira didn't want to be like her mother. One day a dark man came to their business, he was different from the others, he wasn't drunk and he wasn't too old. He had a creepy air to him; little five-year-old Akira was interested in this man. He asked strictly for her mother and once they were done her mom didn't come out of the bedroom like she normally did to wave the man good bye. Akira looked in and smiled at her moms corpse flailed out on the bed. She hummed tunelessly as she approached the man who was checking out. She tugged at the mans coat looking up at him. The man looked at her and she motioned to let her whisper in his ear, thank you. The man shocked realizing that this little girl had caught him and that she had thanked him for killing her mother. He smiled at her; she was the perfect material to become a killer. The man brought her to the temple that they were currently at now and took her as a student along with some others to be trained as assassins. She was trained till she turned fourteen which then her Sensei new she was ready for bigger things. They transferred to a bigger different "school" where Akira met Tara, who was taking the summer to train there. The "school" had eight ways to train and ranging in age, there were eight in each group. So Tara was trained in the ways of the Wolf and Akira was trained in the ways of the Panther. It was a great "school" yes, but what shut it down was the way they trained their students. The more advanced students trained by killing random innocent people that their teachers targeted. Akira and Tara advanced more quickly than the others and only in a month did they make their first kill. And they loved it, the felling of stalking their prey taking them out like wild animals. They got carried away in the hunt. But summer had to end and Tara almost forgot about the DWMA until she got a phone call from James. They weren't dating back but they were partners. She realized what she had to do, she stayed with Akira for another week into school doing their normal training and hunting together. Until the falling out of the "school", they had finally been discovered and were forced to shut down and disband. Now Akira had lost her home and some of the people she called family she didn't know what to do all she had left was Tara. Tara invited her to come to Death City and go to school there but she knew she couldn't live like that. So she became a hired assassin, waiting for that moment where she knew she couldn't kill anymore. It never came though. The two friends kept in touch and Akira came over for a month once, until a year before we are now, and Akira stopped communication and disappeared. Well until now.)

Akira saw who James was looking at and took a peak at her soul.

"Human." Akira said monotone. The other two looked at her confused.

"Her soul is human, that's strange I was sure both of them would be Kishin. Oh, speaking of Kishin." She grabbed the egg that came up from Eola's corpse and handed it to James. He thanked her and swallowed it whole. Tara walked over to the sister and crouched in front of her looking at her strangely. The other two walked over and did the same. The poor sister shrank back into her corner feeling extremely awkward.

Then Tara looked at Akira, "Wait, why are you here? Did you know we were coming? Aww that was sweet of you, I was planning to call you later see if you were still around, what have you been up to lately anyways?"

Tara plopped down on her butt and crossed her legs looking intently at Akira. Akira looked at her and rolled her eyes.

"This is my old village that I'd told you about were I followed Sensei too. This used to be the temple we stayed at. I decided to take a break and visit this old place. And the reason why these two are here is because I killed their parents for this mob boss, they must have tracked me here." She looked at the sister. "Ally isn't it? Yes, I remember you're sister tried to stop me from killing your parents, such a futile attempt and she thought she was stronger than me. Now look at her. Funny, it was only a month ago that I did it."

The girls eyes grew with hate and fear. Akira smiled.

" 'Kira, you're scaring her, tsk, you haven't changed a bit." Tara nudged her a little and stood up. James got up to and stared at Akira shocked that she even said that. He had to do something to help the sister, I guess they could ask her to come with them…that'd be to awkward…might as well leave her then, there wasn't much they could really do about it.

"Come on lets go then." Akira said walking away. Tara gave the girl one last look of pity and left with her friend. James stayed behind for a little bit.

"Hey, I know we left a really bad impression on you, killing your sister and all but maybe you could come to the school. You know, start out new and stuff. Just don't go and kill people like that, you might get on the list and then…yeah…" James shuffled his feet a bit and then turned his back towards her and walked awkwardly away. He caught up with them and grabbed Tara's waist and pulled her close as they walked. She hugged him back and he kissed her on top of her head. The bus had just arrived at the stop and they hurriedly got on.

"Akira, you're coming with us?" Tara asked sitting across from her, James sat to her right.

"Yeah, I figured that I'd just go with you guys since there's not much to do there anymore. Besides, I thought after I had taken care of those two I'd give you guys a surprise visit. But since you came and did it for me it makes things simpler. You guys are staying in what Hiroshima right?" Akira looked serious enough. They looked at each other wait for one to answer.

"Umm, yeah I guess that'll work. We got a room with two beds so we can just share one and you can have the other." James said, they were going to do that anyways. It was an hour ride to Hiroshima and all the other passengers gave them weird stares. A girl dressed in all black, another girl whose shoulder still semi-bleeding, and a handsome young man whose arm was around the girl with the hurt shoulder. They got there at 9:00. Their bags were still there; they had dropped them off at their room before heading out. Akira had brought her duffle bag with her of all her things. They got to the room and Akira went to take a shower and James went to wrap Tara's shoulder.

They came home the next day late; Machi happily greeted them and gave Akira a lick. Akira settled in on their couch and they went to their bedroom to get some rest.

(Short chapter, took me a whole weekend to do it though, yeah I'm disappointed in myself as well…hope you enjoyed! Write that review!)