Hi everyone! I am deeply sorry for not updating so soon! I finally got off my lazy ass and started writing this story. If I wasn't lazy, I'd be continuing my story but I have limited internet so I can't really update much at home. I am so sorry and there aren't enough words to actually express how sorry I am. Other than that, I miss doing this story. So now, here it is!

Disclaimer: Okay, I have learnt that there is no need for disclaimers on each chapter but in this certain chapter, there are scenes that does not belong to me. It belongs to the creators of Shakugan No Shana. The spoken script might not be the same but it is the same situation. And also, the song Born to be Free does not belong to me. It belongs to X-Japan.


Chapter 4: Was Spying on Kaemon Even a Good Idea?

"Kero-chan, can you breathe?" asked Sakura in a whisper, as she turned her head a little and turned her eyes to look to her side.

"Hai," whispered back Kero's voice from inside Sakura's bag. "Don't worry about me, worry about spying on Miyazawa."

"Hai, hai."

After hearing Sakura agree, Kero squashed himself up in Sakura's bag beside his radio. Kero twisted the knob at the side of the radio.

"Tomoyo. Tomoyo. Come in Tomoyo!" said Kero into the radio, continuously twisting the knob until he got connection.

This radio was a special radio created by Tomoyo's mother's company. With this, it does not make any signal noises. It is absolutely silent that to others, it may seem the radio is switched off.

"Tomoyo desu.*" said a voice from the radio.

"Tomoyo, where are you now?"

"I am at the lockers. Miyazawa-san is in far sight. What of you?"

"Sakura and I are on our way to the lockers."

"Then I will watch Miyazawa-san. I will keep telling you where he goes off to, since you need to check for his aura, ne?"

"Hai," Kero then began to connect to Syaoran and Meiling. "Oi, oi! Gakiº, kozu˜!"

"Who you calling gaki?" shouted Syaoran at the radio, a read angry vein pulsing at the side of his head.

"Who you calling kozu?" shouted Meiling to the same radio at the same time as Syaoran shouted, a red angry vein pulsing at the side of her head too. (Temper, temper. XD)

"Has Miyazawa reached the classroom yet?" continued Kero, ignoring Syaoran and Meiling's questions of rage.

"Not yet. But we see him coming this way," said Syaoran.

"And we also see Daidouji-san watching him from the corner he just came from," said Meiling.

"Yosh,ˉ" said Kero. "Keep an eye on him but don't make anything obvious."

"Hai," Syaoran and Meiling said in unison.

.:During Homeroom and the First Two Sessions:.

This can't be possible…it just doesn't make sense…Kero thought to himself, as he watched Kaemon. This is an aura I haven't sensed in ages…this aura is as strong as Clow Reed's…no stronger than Clow Reed's by a little.(Omg Kero-chan! Are you serious? XD)

Kero continued to watch Kaemon in utter confusion, not knowing who the hell Kaemon is. Suddenly, there was a bang that came from the teacher's desk.

"Miyazawa-san! Will you care to tell me why you haven't opened up your notebook and text?" shouted an enraged Utada-sensei, the English teacher.

He knew of Kaemon's behaviour against both students and teachers, but he isn't like other teachers who let such a child take over and scare him. Kaemon just stared at the teacher with his usual frown, his arms crossed and his eyebrows furrowed.

"Miyazawa-san, do you hear me? Are you even listening to me Miyazawa-san!"

"Why don't you listen?" said Kaemon in a harsh tone that surprised Utada-sensei. Kaemon kept his arms crossed and his solemn expression as he continued, "Since I am from Australia, I know the English language very well. Look at what you have written on the board. You filled in a blank spot by mistake when you shouldn't have. Other than that, you have written it down wrong."

"Wrong?" squeaked Utada-sensei.

"Yes. Wrong," repeated Kaemon. "If I wrote down what you wrote into my textbook, I would be wrong myself. The real answer is 'that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet'," Kaemon said his answer in a perfect accent, "but I wouldn't have gotten the phrase correct if I had not memorised the true description beforehand."

Kaemon stared at the teacher with an evil look that sent shivers down everyone's spine, whoever looked.

Kaemon continued, but in a much ruthless, careless tone, "The reason why you got it wrong is because all you do is talk and talk and never get to the point. So if you want to teach me something, I suggest you study your subject properly before actually showing off how smart you think you are."

Utada-sensei couldn't hold it anymore. His face, face-faulted into a frightened expression, where his eyes went round and full on white with thick, black out-line. His skin went pale and his forehead went blue.

Utada-sensei ran out of the classroom while shouting, "Aaah! There is definitely something wrong with that boy!"

Kaemon's eyes narrowed with pleasure and a small, unseen smile crawled up his always-frowning lips.

The next class was the same, where Kaemon corrects and scares off the teacher.

"Wha-what?" began Sekido-sensei. "My explanation sounds like I'm talking in my sleep?"

Sekido-sensei ran out of the room screaming. "Gaa-ah! They don't pay me enough for this!"

.:Recess:.

"Naniˆ?" shouted the whole group, as Kero explained what he figured out so far about the mysterious Miyazawa Kaemon.

"That's impossible!" shouted Syaoran. "No one else is stronger than Clow Reed! Even by a tiny bit!"

"That is what I thought too," said Kero.

"Does that mean we have to keep spying on him?" asked Sakura, half-heartedly.

"Yup," said Kero, as he slipped into Sakura's bag.

"Well, here it goes," said Meiling through gritted teeth, with a huge bead of sweat sliding down her head and emo lines below her eye.

"Let's split up to look for him," said Tomoyo.

"Hai," all the rest said.

.:.:.:.:.:.:.

Sakura, with Kero in a shoulder bag, walked around the school play grounds. She continued to search but couldn't find Kaemon.

"Do you see him?" Kero asked from the bag, looking up at Sakura.

"Iie¶," replied Sakura. "Pass me the radio."

Kero gave Sakura the radio and she began to connect to all her friends at once. It is perhaps awkward to have to use a radio where a whole lot of people can see, but to those 'whole lot of people', Sakura and her friends were using only toys to play with like any other normal elementary kids.

"Tomoyo-chan? Li-kun? Meiling-chan?" Sakura called into the radio.

"Yes?" said three voices in unison.

"Meiling-chan, you first. Have you found Miyazawa-san?"

"No. I've been looking all around the quiet places but he's nowhere where I've checked."

"Li-kun?" said Sakura, turning to Syaoran.

"I can't find him either."

"What about you To-chan?"

"I am walking around inside the building but I don't know why Miyazawa-san would be—" Tomoyo paused.

"Tomoyo-chan? Did something happen?" Sakura asked with curiosity.

"I hear someone singing…" replied Tomoyo.

"Singing?" repeated Meiling.

Everyone could hear what each other were saying, since all the radios were connected to all of each other.

Meiling continued, "What has singing got to do with Miyazawa-san?

"Because it's Miyazawa-san who is singing."

"Huh?" Sakura, Meiling and Syaoran said at the same time in confusion, even Kero, who could hear the conversation from Sakura's bag.

.:.:.:.:.:.:.

Tomoyo pressed her ear to the door of the music room. She could hear strumming of a guitar and Kaemon's voice. She continued to listen until he ended the song. She could tell those words sung described how Kaemon was feeling.

"Tomoyo-chan!" Sakura's voice whispered loudly, as she, Syaoran and Meiling approached.

"Hey," Tomoyo greeted in a whisper, "I think Miyazawa-san will sing another song, so sssshh."

Everyone nodded. More strumming came and so did Kaemon's voice.

Touch the stream an ember ray
Seize the light and don't let the falcon find you
Close your eyes and see the sight
Where the sun be free to shine

Chorus:
Born to be free (free forever)
Born to be free (now and forever)
Nobody can steal (steal the freedom)
Our life away(they will not sever)
Born to be free (free forever)
I want to be free (we won't surrender)
We'll be forever free to love

Cut the leash fulfilling death
Try to hide and try not to die!
Into the shadow the butterfly
Where your heart will fill to fly

Chorus:
Born to be free (free forever)
Born to be free (now and forever)
Nobody can steal (steal the freedom)
Our life away(they will not sever)
Born to be free (free forever)
I want to be free (we won't surrender)

We'll be forever free to love

"Just believe in love
Breathe in life
You'll seize the world of difference
You'll cross the line... it's endless
As if destiny has it's own mind
It's love covers mine with blindness
It's hatred cuts through the skin of shallowness
But I wont run
I will rule"

Born to be free
Born to be free
Nobody can steal
Our life away
Born to be free
Born to be free
We'll be forever
We're free to love

Chorus:
Born to be free (free forever)
Born to be free (now and forever)
Nobody can steal (steal the freedom)
Our life away(they will not sever)
Born to be free (free forever)
I want to be free (we won't surrender)
We'll be forever free to love

"Isn't that by X-Japan?" asked Sakura.

"It's a metal song isn't it...?" asked Meiling. "It sounds weird to hear a metal song being sung on an acoustic guitar..."

"Oi! No time to guess who made the song and how it sounds like!" Kero said in a shouted whisper.

"Don't you think there's something strange about Miyazawa's voice?" asked Syaoran.

"Why? Because he's actually good at it?" asked Sakura.

"Mm-hm. I'd say better than me too," said Tomoyo.

"Don't you notice?" asked Meiling.

"Notice what?" asked Sakura.

"Daidouji-san, do you notice?" Meiling turned to Tomoyo.

Tomoyo nodded in agreement.

"Seriously, notice what?" Kero spoke up, he too, other than Sakura, was oblivious to what the others were aware of.

"Miyazawa-san's voice is a little too high for a boy," informed Tomoyo.

Kero and Sakura were speechless. Suddenly, the door opened, revealing an angry Kaemon.

"What were you doing, spying on me all day?" hissed Kaemon.

"What? N-nooo. We weren't spying on you," Sakura, an awful liar, said, waving her hands in front of her.

"I am not stupid. I know what you have been up to. I knew right from the start you were spying on me when Miss Curly-Haired here talked into her radio this morning at the lockers." Kaemon had pointed to Tomoyo.

"Huh? But I was far away…" Tomoyo's voice began, which then drifted off in wonder.

"Eeh!" shouted Sakura, "How did-?"

"I am not as deaf as normal people," interrupted Kaemon.

"Seriously Miyazawa, what is up with you?" asked Syaoran, in a near shout.

"What's up with me?" repeated Kaemon. "What's up with me? What's up with me is that you and your buddies here cannot seem to leave me alone! I know what you already know about me, now that you've been spying."

"Who are you exactly and what have you got to do with magic?"

"Ugh! Seriously, can't you people mind your own business! It is such a tire to have annoying weaklings like you, bother me all the time!"

"Who are you calling a weakling!?"

"The person I am staring at!"

As soon as Syaoran heard Kaemon's answer, he balled his hands to a fist and launched a punch at Kaemon. Kaemon caught Syaoran's fist and threw him behind into the music room. Syaoran landed on the floor hard with a little slide.

"Syaoran!" shouted Meiling.

She looked at Kaemon with anger flickering in her red-brown eyes.

"How dare you hurt my fiancé!" she shouted as she charged at Kaemon.

She lifted her foot to kick at Kaemon but he caught her foot and made her spin in the air in a horizontal position.

"Gah!" shouted Meiling as she landed on the floor on her side.

"What is going on here?" shouted a female teacher.

"Nothing serious, Miss," said Kaemon. "Just two clumsy little brats seemed to have stumble over my business and suddenly hurt themselves."

"We're not clumsy!" shouted Syaoran in complaint as he got up slowly from the floor.

Sakura and Tomoyo were just shocked at the scene that they were speechless. Besides, there wasn't even anything to do to help.

"Stay out of my business! Or you will regret it," threatened Kaemon.

He walked past Tomoyo and Sakura, intentionally bumping his shoulder hard onto Sakura's shoulder.

Before walking any further, he turned back and called,"That goes for the five of you."

"Five?" the teacher said, as she blinked in perplexity. "There's a fifth one of you?" All she saw were four 4th graders, two of them holding onto where their bones ached and two of them still in a shocked state. The teacher just took it that Kaemon must have miscounted.

.:3rd and 4th Periods of the Day:.

Science class, the experiments may be fun a bit…but not theory work, especially, if Kaemon was there to correct the teacher's mistake again.

"Mi-Miyazawa-san…w-what do you mean…my chemical formula is incorrect…? Making a fatal flaw in it…?" babbled Urashima-sensei, pointing at the formula written on the board with a trembling hand.

"I already told you, you idiotic teacher! Do I really have to go through all my explaining? Do we have to switch places, where I become some crazy teacher and where you become a confused student who doesn't seem to catch the words I say?" said Kaemon.

"Aaahh!" shouted Urashima-sensei, dashing out of the door. "Why did this even happen to me!"

The next class, would be something you'd expect.

"Miyazawa-san, have mercy!" Kawase-sensei said as he slowly slid the front of his body down the blackboard.

Then, he couldn't hold it anymore, thus he ran out, shouting, "My mum was right when she said I should have become a waiter instead!" He went to the open window and began to step out. "Sayonara◊, cruel world!" he continued as he jumped out the window (suicide just coz of some kids a little too harsh correction? O.o).

.:Lunch:.

Karma. He believed in karma. Sometimes, karma can be made without fate controlling it. Meaning, he could spy back on Sakura's friends like when they spied on him. He didn't need to spy back. But he did. A small, evil grin crept up his on lips as he stood on a tree branch just above the group.

"Li-kun, daijoubou desu ka?" Sakura asked.

"Hai! I'm fine!" said Syaoran.

"What about you Meiling-chan?" asked Tomoyo in her normal, soft voice.

"Don't worry about me. I don't even feel any pain!" Meiling said in a proud gesture, where she straightened her back and put her hands on her hips.

However, doing that put more pain onto her left arm, the arm that she landed on. Her eye twitched as soon as she felt the throb in her arm, signalling to everyone that she was lying.

"Miyazawa said the five of us…" Syaoran began, speaking his thoughts. "Could it be that he knows the stuffed animal was with us the whole time?"

Kero threw a piece of teriyaki chicken into the air and caught it in his mouth. He swallowed it with pleasure but as soon as he consumed it he shouted at Syaoran, "I am not a stuffed animal!"

After that, he popped another piece of the chicken into his mouth, humming with more pleasure.

"It is possible…I guess…" said Sakura with uncertainty in her tone, leaving the group to wonder.


*Tomoyo desu means 'This is Tomoyo' as you might guess

ºGaki means 'brat'

˜Kozu means 'kid'

ˉYosh has the same meaning as yosha

ˆNani means 'what'

¶Iie means 'no'

◊Must I mention what sayonara means? Oh well, just in case. It means 'good bye'

Wow. This is quite the long chapter so far. The past three chappies only filled up three pages. This one however filled 10! Some of the Japanese written has not been translated only because it has been mentioned in previous chapters along with translations so I thought I didn't need to keep putting in a conversion. Besides, I was running out on symbols to use. Don't worry everyone. I'll make sure I update soon.

And I'm starting to like Kaemon's character…well, I always did XD

.:In 2012:.

OMG! Sorry I haven't updated in like a year. I really should have updated since I don't want to keep an unfinished story in-progress when the world would end soon.

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