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PREVIOUSLY

'Kurei really made a monster out of her …' he blinked for a moment and all he saw was cherry blossom leaves scattering all over the place without a single shadow of where Fuuko was.

"I bet a very pissed-off Kurei will torture us when he hears about this". He shivered at that dark thought.

CHAPTER IV

Fuuko was huffing, trying to catch her breath while trying to control the tornado carrying her. She was fast losing consciousness as dark spots started to form in her eyes.

In an effort to hide herself, she directed her winds towards the forest. After her last spurt of energy, she fell in a pond in a splash. She wasn't a good swimmer but at least she knew some kind of stroke. 'Breast stroke?' she wonder "more like death stroke if there is one" she chuckled.

So after a minute of trying to swim towards the land, she took her time and just floated there. 'It will take some time before they can track me so might as well enjoy my free time' at that she smiled closing her eyes to relax and re-energize herself.

After a few minutes of just laying there she decided to make camp at that forest. She caught some fish and as she went to gather firewood, she started to explore the place memorizing and implanting the in's and out's of the said forest on her mind. She remembered that the building holding her was deep in the mountains. It seemed like a research laboratory for commercial purposes.

'I think this mountain is surrounded by water.' Her instinct told her as she smelled the sea from a far away place. Tomorrow, I'll survey the mountain more and I'm sure to find a way out.

Soon, it turned dark and she went to make a small fire to not give her location away. "Shit!" Fuuko cursed as she was unsuccessful to make a fire. 'It's times like this that I would like Recca's stupid affinity to fire' she thought 'Even Kurei might be a tempting offer!' she whined, her teeth chattering due to the cold.

"Just when you need those fucking retards, they're not there" a still whining Fuuko could be heard as she still tried to make a fire. At long last she was able to do it by furiously rubbing those two stones together. "Yes!!" her shout reverberated throughout the silent forest. She stilled for a moment remembering where she was. And a howl of what seemed like wolves were her answer.

"Shit!" she cursed again and hurriedly ate her fried fish and then went up on a tree to sleep. 'Wouldn't want those wolves to feast on me now, would I? ' she darkly chuckled thinking she outsmarted the wolves.

Morning came and something was irritating her nose. She tried to swat it but after that, the supposedly thing was pulling on her hair! 'I must be dreaming' she thought and tried to ignore it but after a while something wet tickled her right cheek…. As she wiped it with her hand, cracking her eyes open, her shriek went off on the silent forest. "OH MY GOD!" she shouted and tried to push a rather intimidating monkey trying what it seemed to like kiss her.

As she pushed the monkey 'More like a gorilla' she thought disgustedly she went off balance and fell off the tree landing on her rump at the forest floor.

"Ouch! Fucking gorilla! Fucking tree!" and the list went on as she cursed her fate while rubbing her sore behind. She glared at the monkey and the monkey just sticked out his tongue outwardly mocking her. She raised her middle finger in a rude gesture hoping the monkey gets what she means.

"I must be out of my mind!" she told herself embarrassed while walking near the edge of the pond to wash off the gorilla's saliva on her cheek and hands. 'Fighting with a monkey?' boy, would mi-chan never let me live it down when he found out about this' she thought with a soft laugh.

Mikagami Tokiya's suite

"Hachoo! Hachoo!" a certain long haired bishounen was sneezing. Mikagami reached for some tissue and wondered who was thinking about him.

He was in his suite located at the top of a building. He is now the president CEO of his father's business. His father retired a few months ago and now, he's the one running their business. His mother and father decided to tour the world while leaving the company in their son's capable hands.

His work was tiring and boring but he seemed to excel in this kind of things. They're business was security system. Inventing and installing them to banks, houses, safes in jewelry stores etc. Everything that needs security is their specialty.

As he was lounging, sitting on his table while sipping some white wine, he turned the T.V. on and flipped through the channels. He paused on one of the news as it showed the glamorous wedding of a young couple. It was the merging of the Sakoshita firm and Hanabishi fireworks industry company. 'Yanagi seemed to be glowing then, and that idiot's smile seemed to blind everyone with its brilliance.' He reminisced their wedding.

Of course he was there but he didn't like attention to himself so he just watched from the sidelines and congratulated them when necessary. But truly, he was happy for the both of them, ever since the kidnapping thing happened to Yanagi, Recca didn't leave his eyes off her even for a moment and HIM being the security expert, installed all the high tech and expensive security gadgets on their new home.

So, there is no need to say that Yanagi is now safe. Meanwhile, Domon didn't attend the wedding. He and Recca had a row about Fuuko. Domon didn't believe that Fuuko would ever abandon any of them like that specially Yanagi but Recca was stubborn and didn't want to invite Fuuko to their wedding. Any news about her and even her name was banned in their house. So, in the end, Domon didn't attend since Fuuko was not invited.

He hadn't made a comment back then, but he was curious as to what she might be doing now after almost 10 months. 'Forget her Mikagami, Remember she was the one who gave up on US' he reminded himself again.

After the interview with the new couple, the sudden breaking news showed in the television. "Reporting live from the Mountain of Kirikara, it seemed that the Shinimori Building collapsed and is now under heavy repairing and construction after a natural disaster--."

Tokiya turned around hearing that but it was not in any of his interest so he looked out on the glass windows to stare at the clouds hovering there bored while refilling his almost empty goblet of wine.

--According to the civilians, multiple tornadoes and hurricane seemed to came from the inside of the building but others say it came out of nowhere and crushed the building and some of the scientists still buried deep underground--

That line caught his attention so he turned around and increased the volume to listen to the rest of the report.

--/the said reporter could be seen running after an injured scientist being carried out by the emergency team in a stretcher/ "Sir, what can you say about this unfortunate event?" the reporter asked while they were walking toward the ambulance, the injured scientist seemed to be in a daze and didn't appear to hear any of the reporter's question instead he was mumbling "Oh my god, she's going berserk! She's gonna kill us! My god my god, help me!" he repeatedly mumbled while shivering with a dazed and scared look on his face. "Oh, it seems that, THAT patient received a massive blow to the head so he was saying those things." She reported slightly chuckling not believing anything that man said. "Anyways on the next updated news--"

The reporters' next words seemed to blur on Mikagami's ears. All he heard was multiple tornadoes and hurricanes and SHE'S going berserk "It can't be." he muttered setting his wine goblet on top of his mahogany desk table and lifting his other hand to massage his aching temple. 'But multiple tornadoes and hurricanes in the middle of Mt. Kirikara?? It's impossible and if any of that happened, it will be the first ever that I've heard.' He silently analyzed the situation. 'But what that injured scientist's saying doesn't add up!' he muttered heatedly confused. 'There's only one person that I know that can do those kinds of things' he thought dejectedly.

He sat on his chair and slumped his head at the headrest. "It must be the wine" he muttered covering the top of his face with his hand; closing his eyes to relax himself. "I must be drunk." He convinced himself even though his instincts told him otherwise.

Kurei's Mansion

As Kurei was watching the video recorded from the security camera in his recently fallen Shinimori Building, by the time he finished watching, he suddenly laughed loudly shocking everyone in the room expecting him to burn them to the ground with his flames.

'That dark laugh only means that something more sinister is going through his head' Raiha thought as he stood in front of Kurei, presenting the report together with some other scientists cowering at his back.

"She's definitely perfect!" boomed Kurei with sadistic pride. "Did you see how strong she was? I didn't made a mistake choosing her." He grinned while looking over the records of her progress.

"But did she actually think I would let her get away that easy?" he asked his retainers darkly. "I'm not that stupid, hurry up and bring me Dr. Igara!" he ordered the others scaring them out of their wits; they immediately ran when a ball of fire started forming on their lord's hand.

"Excuse me, my lord, but I have a question if I may?" Raiha asked his lord bowing a little asking for some permission. Kurei motioned for him to stand up. "No need to bow Raiha, we've known each other since forever so go ahead, what is it?

"As you can see here" Raiha motioned in the security camera's video, "when I slashed her clean on the right shoulder, after a few minutes her wound seemed to heal by itself, I was wondering if you had anything to do with that." He asked curiously.

"Well, I can no longer keep it a secret from you now, can I?" Kurei grinned as he started to explain "At first I had the Sakoshita girl kidnapped where my foolish brother was in-loved with to be experimented on because of her healing abilities but as the experiment went on, her body could not withstand the pressure so that's when my darling Fuuko comes into play, she's definitely much more stronger than her and a match too." Kurei boasted.

"I knew you wouldn't like this idea so I kept it a secret from you. And would you know that my precious pet and that Sakoshita girl were sisters?" he chuckled darkly. "I didn't know it at first, it was just a hunch so I had their backgrounds investigated and low and behold, they're actually related but they don't know it themselves."

"We could use her in different ways and I have many plans for her." He said. 'Plans to exploit her, of course.' He thought to himself. Kurei finished with a dark glint in his eyes. And he noticed Raiha's clenched fist at his sides so he didn't try to aggravate him further.

Before Raiha could voice his negative opinion a knock on the door interrupted them. Kurei signaled the door to be opened. "Sir, Dr. Igara is now here as you requested." The scientist bowed and then after being dismissed went away quietly.

"Dr. Igara, I think you might already know why I've summoned you here? Right?" he asked while sitting comfortably in his desk intimidating the said doctor.

"Ummm.. Yes, yes," he mumbled, a little embarrassed moving towards the table and opening his laptop while nervously positioning his glasses, looking at the two intimidating occupants in the room.

Raiha was curious enough so he stayed silent the whole time waiting for the Doctor's report while still eyeing Kurei cautiously.

"Number 3773 or the girl who just escaped from Shinimori Building, Kirisawa, Fuuko is currently at the North Forest of Mt. Kirikara." Dr. Igara pointed at the red dot on his laptop. "The tracking device we've implanted in her is now active and she's on the move but not yet outside the said island." "We can still catch her if we send our Re-con team there." He finished and waited for Kurei's command.

"That's all for now Doctor, I'll send for you again soon. You're dismissed" Kurei motioned for the doctor to leave his office. While he himself is in deep thought facing the scenery outside.

"What are your plans now? Hunt her? Take her back?" Raiha asked patiently waiting for his reply.

Kurei took his time before replying when an idea came to his mind. "Be patient Raiha, all my plans will set into motion soon" he said with hidden plans already forming in his head.

'You may escape me now PET, so I'll let you taste freedom for a while then I'll personally hunt you back and place you where you should belong' he thought while lighting his cigar and blowing smoke on the glass window, imagining Fuuko's terrified face when she sees him again.

Author's note:

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-TBC