Chapter 4

Kazuma arrive back in the room at the new hotel he moved into, he was pretty upset that Ayano would actually get made enough to have him get kicked out. But he deserved it because that was the stupidest idea to cure his boredom ever. He wasn't even sure why he thought of doing that in the first place. However he had just now came back from an interview with a Mr. Okinawa who was looking for a body guard. However Mr. Okinawa turned Kazuma down because he was too young.

Kazuma opened the door to the hotel room and immediately saw a person standing there. He immediately recognized the person, there was very little people who had silver eyes, and only one of them was full of darkness.

"What are you doing here? And how did you know to look for me here?" Kazuma said.

"I figured the contractor of wind would like to be somewhere that he could have access to the wind, so to me that meant somewhere very high up. I figured what a person like you could afford and narrowed it down to this hotel. You want the room to be as high as possible but still be able to pay for the room. So since floors twenty eight through thirty are specialty suites all of them fairly expensive I figured you would be on floor twenty seven. I chose this room because it was room two thousand seven hundred and three and the word air had three letters in it. Wind is just moving air so I thought you would choose that,"

"Um, that's a little weird, and I'm not sure how you guessed the right room with that thought, I just asked for this floor and they gave me this room. Yet that still doesn't explain why you're here," Kazuma said.

"Why did you quit?" Royuku asked.

"Why would you want to know?"

"I like knowing why things happen," Royuku said.

Kazuma thought for a second before responding, "I quit because of you, because she trusted you and I didn't" Kazuma explained.

"Your right, she shouldn't be near me" Royuku answered.

That caught Kazuma off guard he hadn't expected Royuku to say that, now Kazuma began to wonder what he would say next.

"It would be too dangerous for her to stay near me, you have to become her body guard again," Royuku said.

"Whoa, slow down. Why would it too dangerous for her to be near you?" Kazuma asked not because he thought highly of Royuku, but because he wanted to see what this person's answer would be.

Royuku offered Kazuma a seat which was weird because this was Kazuma's place. Kazuma however sat in one of the chairs while Royuku sat on the couch across from him. Then Royuku explained.

"I'm being hunted," Royuku answered, "by a former friend named Aon."

"Former friend? Now what did you do to get him to, hate you?" Kazuma asked.

Royuku stood up and briefly walked over to the window and looked outside. Unsure of what he really was searching for out there, he shut the blinds and slowly walked back.

"His full name is Aon Miyamoto; he had a sister named Hinata Miyamoto. She was the contractor of the light, just like how I was learning to become the contractor of darkness," Royuku started to explain, " We were in love, some much for each other that we were inseparable from each other as it seemed. We never hurt each other; we always spoke our feelings and fixed problems when they came up. We had something so special, so perfect, I wanted to be with her forever… However a greedy genetic scientist heard about us somehow, I never figured out how he did. His name is Dr. Kento Sato, and he kidnapped my dear Hinata along with me. I watched the man murder her right in front of me, and my powers weren't strong enough to save her at the time. I have promised to protect her yet I was unable to do so, I don't remember exactly how I escaped my death. But since I survived and Hinata didn't Aon blamed me for not being able to protect her."

Royuku could still remember that moment, when the dagger punctured through her chest, the sickening sound it made, and the smell of her blood as it dripped on the steel plated floors. The look in her eyes as her life left her. The look that told him that she was afraid, that she didn't want to die, that she wished this wasn't the end. The tears that streamed from her eyes during her last moments in this world.

"Failed to protect her, I don't want anything to happen to anyone else because of this," Royuku explained. He walked toward the door and reached for the handle.

"I know you don't trust me, but believe this, know that your cousin Ayano is in danger around me, and I'm not sure if I would be able to protect her, but I know you can," Royuku said finally before leaving.

Kazuma sat in the chair thinking about what Royuku had said. Wondering if it was all true, because it all sounded pretty convincing. It seems so believable yet fictional at the same time, it was like one of those stories that come from movies or television shows. Yet it all seemed to make sense, it filled in all the holes. Kazuma stood up and ran toward the door.

"I better not get screwed by this," Kazuma said to himself as he started making his way back to the Kannagi grounds.

It was getting dark outside, and Ayano had finished her shower and quickly put on her pajamas ready to turn in for the night. She turned to head over to her bed when she was caught off guard by a person standing in her room. He had silver spikey hair and orange eyes. The second she saw him he threw a dart into her neck which she pulled out almost immediately, giving a little shriek when it happened.

Ayano's vision seemed to start getting distorted, and she willed for a small fire ball to come and torch the boy but nothing happened. She tried again but nothing happened, except for a small feeling of noxiousness from the world around her seeming to spin.

"Why are you here? What did you do to me?" she asked, her words slurring slightly.

"Your magical abilities are used with concentration; this is just a concoction that makes it impossible to concentrate long enough to use any of your powers," the boy said barely understandable to Ayano from the condition she was in.

"Don't worry; it's strong enough where you will go unconscious soon, unless if you fight it, then it will take longer," the boy said.

Ayano was angry, angry that this person would just come in and attack her. She wanted to rip his head off, so she tried lunging at him but her vision and coordination failed her and she sprawled onto the floor. The drug's effects wouldn't allow her to pick herself up. The whole world spun and twisted, some parts were magnified while others seemed to turn microscopic. Ayano tried to crawl toward this mysterious person, determined to hurt him, but when she stretched her hand out it appeared to be five feet big until she placed it on the floor where it appeared only a few centimeters big.

"The colors you see will start looking different," the person said, "And you will start to have tunnel vision crawling up on you."

Ayano could see this as he spoke about it, her skin seemed to turn bluish in color, the orange eyes of her enemy now looked jade green, and his silver hair had a slight red hue. Ayano saw in the mirror that to her, her own hair looked Navy in color. She could feel the thudding of her own pulse in her ears and blackness started to crowd in on her vision.

"Good night, Ayano Kannagi. We have a long trip in front of us. If we are to make it to Osaka as scheduled," the person said right before Ayano completely blacked out.