I am soooo sorry for the long wait, my sis was getting lazy so it took some time before she was finally able to well continue. To make it up I am able to post 2 chapters hehe. Anyway let's start already

Disclaimer: I don't own Shakugan no Shana or this story

Chapter 5 Preparations

Yuji's POV

"Yu-chan what on earth happened to you two?!" My mother asked when I entered the room, while holding an injured Shana in my arms.

"It's nothing mother, we met another Flame Haze." I told her while I walked to the living room and placed Shana on the couch.

"What, another Flame Haze!" My mother almost screamed in surprise. She walked towards Shana to help her.

"It's alright, I made sure that we escaped and that she wouldn't see anything."

"Yu-chan, how can you say that? You're covered with scratches and look at your clothes!"

"Huh?" I looked at myself and realized that my clothes were a bit dirty.

"It's alright Chigusa." Shana said while she got up.

"Shana-chan are you alright? Does it hurt?" My mother asked worried. She checked if Shana was ok.

"It's ok… if Yuji wasn't there… then… I surely… would have been… killed." Shana said in a soft tone. She hid her face to hide her embarrassment.

"That's a relief, I'm sure you're exhausted. Why don't we take a bath together? I'm sure you'll feel better after you've taken a bath." My mother said cheerfully.

"No, no, I mean it's alright; Alastor can cleanse my body" Shana countered.

"But that's not the same as taking a bath, I'm sure you'd love it." My mom said as she gave Alastor to me and dragged Shana to the bathroom.

Normal POV

"Shana-chan, can you tell me what happened?" Chigusa asked while she was washing Shana's back.

"Ummm well, after we finished out dinner, we got outside and not far from there we're attacked. We didn't pay much attention to our surroundings, so we weren't able to notice that a Flame Haze was getting close." Shana replied as she turned her face around to face Chigusa.

"I see, I can't believe Yu-chan would let you get injured and I told him to take care of you." Chigusa said in an angry tone.

"It's wasn't Yuji's fault." Shana said in a low voice as she turned her face back and dropped it.

"What?" Chigusa asked as she tried to look at Shana's face.

"It wasn't… Yuji's fault… he wanted to help, but…"

"But what?"

"I didn't want any help."

"Why?"

"Because I'm a Flame Haze; Flame Haze don't ask for help and especially from a Tomogara. Flame Haze and Tomogara don't go together."

"Oh Shana-chan, not that again listen, it doesn't matter if you're a Flame Haze or a Tomogara. It's still possible to become friends, besides aren't you and Alastor-san friends?" Chigusa asked Shana.

"Alastor is the Guze no Ou I'm contracted with, that's different matter, with Yuji… it's more…" Shana replied.

"That's still no reason, if a Guze no Tomogara doesn't eat humans and leaves the Flame Haze alone like Yu-chan, then it's alright to be friends. It's about the inside that counts. Yu-chan has helped you sometimes, hasn't he. Isn't that what friends are for?"

"No, but that's… KYAAA! Chi… Chi… Chigusa what are you doing? " Shana asked as she started to feel uncomfortable when Chigusa rubbed her breasts.

"You haven't washed yourself yet Shana so I thought if I don't do it we might be still be here till morning." She said while smiling.

"… uuh Chi… Chigusa?"

"Ara Shana-chan, did I make you feel uncomfortable? Gomenasai."

"No, it's just this is the first time that some…" Shana blushed and tried to hide her expression.

"Wasn't Yu-chan the first one who felt them? Gomene Shana-chan, that Yu-chan behaved like that, but he's a good boy he won't harass woman." Chigusa smiled.

"I know, Yuji would rather run away from woman, than stay close to them.

Meanwhile

"*Achoo achoo*"

"You're a Guze no Ou and yet you get a cold?" Alastor asked Yuji.

"I have no idea where that came from, I've never gotten a cold in my whole life." Yuji replied.

Back at Shana and Chigusa

Well wasn't that a nice bath Shana-chan?" Chigusa asked.

"Yes it was, thank you Chigusa."

"You're welcome."

Yuji's POV

Shana and my mother came back from their bath.

"I'll prepare dinner right away." My mother said and she went to the kitchen.

"Did you had a nice time?" The Tenjou no Gouka asked Shana.

"Uh, the water was very warm." Shana replied.

"Yokata, I'm glad you liked it Shana." I told her.

Shana looked at me for a while.

"Shana is something wrong?" I asked.

I wanted to get up, but Shana stopped me. "N-n-NO! I'm fine." She replied.

"Really? You look a bit nervous, are you really fine?"

"Urusai I'm fine!" She shouted. She took a seat next to me and turned on the TV.

"Dinner is ready!" My mother called from the kitchen.

"We're coming!" I replied.

We sat on the table eating our dinner, thought Shana seemed to act strange. My mother looked worried at us.

"Ow, I almost forgot to tell you two, the head master called. He told me that he found substitute teachers. Your classes will start tomorrow again." My mother told us while she took a bite of her food.

"That's great to hear." I replied. I thought of being able to go to school again. I didn't really liked it, staying home; I couldn't keep my mind occupied and I would think of the things I had to do as a Guze no Ou, as the Souzoushin…

"Yu-chan?"

"Huh?" I went back to reality and I looked at my mother's worried face.

"Are you spacing out again?" She asked. "Hurry up or your dinner will get cold." She told me with a smile on her face.

"Yes mother." I replied to her and I quickly finished my dinner.

Shana just stared at us as she calmly ate hers and just watched us with a neutral expression not caring what was going on.

Normal POV

"Oww crap, were definitely going to be late." A young teenage male with brown hair said.

"How come we got to hear that school started again today, this morning!" Another teenager with black hair said as he and his friend ran through the street.

"I don't know Tanaka, but this really pisses me off." The brown-haired teenager said.

"Oi Saitou, let's just take a short cut. The black-haired teen known as Tanaka said to his friend.

The two teenager ran into a small street, but they suddenly stopped. The two looked very shocked at the scene in front of them; they saw a young woman around her mid-twenties with long blonde hair, tied up in a pigtail, wearing glasses beaten up lying on the ground. Next to her was a book that hung on her shoulder like a bag.

"Damn that fucking Guze no Ou, I nearly died." She growled in frustration. "After I've killed that FUCKING Lamies, that boy will be the next one on my dead list together with his Flame Haze lover!" She clenched her fist and hit the ground causing it to break.

"HAHAHAHA! My angry beaten up Margery Daw, we seriously got kicked hard by that Guze no Ou, but don't worry. We'll just have to come up with a good strategy next time. That's going to be hard, since we don't know the Guze no Ou's identity or his fighting style. As long as you don't get your ass kicked like last night HAHAHAHA… ouch!"

"Odamari baka Marco!" Margery yelled at Marcosias as she punched him.

She looked up when she noticed the two high schoolers, who heard the entire conversation of the Flame Haze with her Guze no Ou.

"Looks like we've been found out." Marcosias said.

"Good, I was thinking of getting someone to guide me in town." Margery said grinning. She looked at Tanaka and Satou, who stood there shocked at the event they just saw.

Yuji's POV

"Alright class has anyone seen Tanaka and Satou?" Our homeroom teacher asked.

"No." The class replied.

"I must presume that they're skipping again." Our homeroom teacher said, while scratching his head. "I expect that you guys have made your homework that was given to you four days ago. Before we start the lesson I want to remind you, that each one of you, who still hasn't chosen a club will have to choose one. If you have a good reason for not joining a club, then speak to the principle about it. The classes will end earlier so the students without a club can try out the different clubs and make a decision."

"*Sigh* This is going to be a long day."

After the lessons were finished, we looked around the school to try out some club facilities.

"Club activities is an obligation in school right?" Shana asked me.

"Yeah, I was in the track and field club the first two periods in middle school, but I quit."

"Why?" She asked.

I looked around in the hope that no one was listening. "Well let's say that a 'small accident' occurred. After my mother found out, she told the teachers to let me leave the club. And after that I never joined one again." I replied.

"What about now?"

"Hmmm? Well I have to find a way to talk myself out of it." I said while I gave her a faint smile.

First we took a look at the soccer club.

"Sakai! You and Hirai did pretty great, I've never seen someone as fast as you two how about joining my club?" The soccer club president asked.

"I think I want to look around more Buchou, but thank you for the offer." I said.

Shana nodded and followed me.

"They really hang out a lot together and they call each other by their first names, do you think there dating?" One of the club members asked his president.

Next was the cooking club.

"Why was I here again?" I asked Shana.

"URUSAI! Were here only to check these clubs out right?" Shana yelled irritated.

"*Sigh* You dragged me here just for the food, right?" I asked her, while I looked at the assignment we got for the cooking class.

We had to make a cake. I looked at the assignment, it looked pretty hard.

"Crap I've never cooked before, it was my mother who did the cooking and I never bothered to look how she did it, but since I'm not going to choose a club in the first place, it doesn't matter much."

"Alright if you brats think you don't need to do your best, because you don't wanna join this club, then your damn wrong!" The club president shouted. "Even if you're not gonna join, you still have to do your best or I'll force you to eat your burned poison that you made got it!"

"Great, the president is a violent delinquent. Even if I did my best I've never heard of a Guze no Ou that can cook. There wasn't even someone in Bal Masqué that cooked. Wait a sec there was a time when the general made a chocolate cake for the priestess on White Day and she gave it to Ribersal… the next day he was terribly ill and lost a lot of power of existence."

"Yuji watch out!" Shana yelled.

"Huh?" I was walking to the sink while thinking, when I accidentally bumped into a girl.

"Kya!" The girl fell on the ground and dropped her ingredients.

"I'm sorry are you okay ehh?" I froze completely as I was the milk spilled over the girls clothes and revealed a little of her underwear.

"I'm fine thank you. Uh Sakai-kun what are you doing?" She asked while I looked away.

"It's nothing wait, how do you know my name?" I asked when I was able to look at her again.

"We are in the same class, I'm Yoshida Kazumi." The girl replied.

"Ah I see. Now I remember the teacher wrote your name on the blackboard this morning as one of the students who didn't choose a club." I said while I helped her up.

"Eh you remembered my name?" She asked shyly. She looked away.

"Actually, I have a photographic memory so I remember everything I've read." I told her.

"Oh I see." She looked a little disappointed, I wonder why.

"Yuji! What are you doing come here and help me out!" Shana yelled. She came towards me and dragged me back.

"Umm Shana, you do know that I can't cook." I said to her as we continued or assignment.

Shana just ignored me and tried to figure out what the cookware was for.

"Sakai-kun!"

I looked up and saw most of the girls surrounding me. "When I'm done with cooking would you like to try my cake?" One of the girls asked.

"No he'll try mine!" A other said.

"No mine!"

"Sorry but I'm a little busy now, maybe later?" I said. What I didn't realize, was that two girls were looking at me from a distance, Shana looked irritated and Yoshida Kazumi who looked insecure.

"Hirai-chan when you're finished cooking can I try your cake?" One of the guys asked.

"No I want to eat her cake." A sempai declared.

I wouldn't recommend them to eat it I'm sure Shana never cooked.

After a few hours we were finished with baking our cakes. I looked at full disgust at my cake that looked like it was burned or expired. "I'll send it to Friagne as a thank you gift for not having bothered us for a while."

When I looked at Shana's cake, I suddenly had the urge to throw up.

"Umm Shana, you call that food?" I Asked as I looked insecure at her.

"Urusai, yours doesn't look that good either, does it?" She said with an irritating tone.

"Well, at least I admit that I can't cook."

"What did you say?!"Shana asked in a threatening tone.

"Umm excuse me?"

I turned around to find the source of the voice. Yoshida Kazumi stood behind us hiding something behind her back and looked very shy.

"Is there something Yoshida-san?" I asked.

"Uhm this well would you?" she said. Her face was getting redder.

"Could you speak clearer, I don't understand what you're saying." I asked.

"Umm here, this is for you!" She said as she pushed the cake into my hand and ran away.

At Friange

"Marianne I assume that everything is ready?" Friagne asked as he stroke Marianne on her head.

"Yes goshujin-sama, but shouldn't we do something about the Flame Haze and the Guze no Ou we can let them fight each other?" The Rinne asked her master.

"We could by revealing the Guze no Ou's identity but that isn't interesting. I'll sent a Rinne to watch them." He said while he looked at a replica of the city.

"But goshujin-sama they would sense it immediately."

"Oh don't worry Marianne with the Hougu, Zeria I'll be able to hide its presence everything will be ok trust me, my Marianne." Friagne assured to Marianne while kissing her head.

After school Shana and I were on our way home.

"Yuji?"

"What is it?" I stopped walking and looked at her.

She looked away from me with an embarrassed face. It looked like she wanted to ask me something but felt humiliated to ask me… or at least for her pride as a Flame Haze. "Well, since it's getting really dangerous in the city and I… well just to make sure that there won't be trouble and to prevent Chigusa from being in danger…"

"This 'request', has it to with my mother or are you looking for an excuse?"

"I wasn't done talking!" her face was getting red from embarrassment. "It's just that… that…"

"You want me to train you. Isn't it?

"No it's… it's not that." Shana denied.

"Then what is it?"

"It's only practice we have to fight the Kariudo sooner or later and there's the Chōshi no Yomite who wants us dead. So it's obvious that we need to train to protect the city." I could see that she was trying to look serious but she found it hard to hide her embarrassment.

"To protect the city, eh?" I repeated her last sentence.

"Yes. So let's hurry we need to find a training spot." Shana started to walk ahead of us while looking around for a spot where no one could see us.

"Isn't that the same as training? You shouldn't be bothered with what the Chōshi no Yomite said."

Shana turned around to face me. "URUSAI!" She has nothing to do with it."

"You seem pretty annoyed thought." I noticed that Shana was trying to hide her intentions.

"Are you done talking?" She asked annoyed.

"I might stop, if you just say directly your intentions." I answered simply.

She stopped walking and dropped her face. "I might have made a name over the years but I'm not that skilled, the only thing I know is how to put up a Fuzetsu, restore the damaged surrounding and how to handle a sword. So I want you… even though…"

I sighed "You don't need to tell me everything I get it." I walked up to her. "Well shall we look for a spot?"

"Sure." Shana started walking again without looking at me.

After 20 minutes we found a perfect spot near the river it was quiet and rarely visited by people. I looked for some rocks and sticks that could be used for training. Since it wouldn't be that smart to put on a Fuzetsu and go 'all out', the possibility that the Chōshi no Yomite and the Kariudo would mistake it for Shana and I fighting each other is pretty big. The training won't work if Tomogara and Flame Haze are disturbing us, thinking they can take advantage of the situation.

Out of the rocks and sticks I collected I made a perfect dummy by using my Power of Existence. "Alright Shana we can use these for training."

Shana looked at the dummy and then at me. "Are you looking down on me?!" She asked irritated.

"No, but you need to learn how to use you Power of Existence properly. You know that we have an upcoming battle so…"

"I get it I get it." Shana unleashed her powers and took a battle pose. "So what's next?"

"Concentrate, try to feel the Power of existence within you. And try to send that power to your sword." I explained to her.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, she open then and went straight ahead to the dummy. "Haaah!" Shana let out a battle cry when she slashed through it. "Chikuso! It isn't working." She cursed to herself.

"Shana nothing will work immediately, you need to practice more." I told her while creating a new dummy. "Try again."

She went at it a few more times, when she was don we tried something new. I turned the dummy in what looked like a bird and let them fly through the air. "Maybe this will help remember concentrate and try to burn them."

We went on a couple of minute, but it Shana didn't improved much. "This sucks!" Shana yelled throwing her sword on the ground and falling next to it. "Nothing changed!"

"This is the first day Shana, even for a Flame haze it's impossible to learn anything quickly. I'm sure that sooner or later you'll get the hang of it." The Tenjou no Gouka assured her.

"It's not my fault, Yuji's training sucks!" Shana complained.

"You shouldn't blame it on me when things aren't going your way Shana. I'm sure that it didn't take you a few seconds to become an excellent Flame Haze."

"Of course not I've been training ever since I met Alastor."

"See, you shouldn't be so frustrated about today."

She turned her face away from me. I signed "Well you did your best for today, we can

Continue tomo…"

"NO!" Shana suddenly got up and looked at me with a serious look. "Just a little more. I'm not tired, I want to train more."

"fine but let's eat first you're probably hungry of al that training."

Shana nodded and took something out of her bag and gave it to me. "Here."

"What's this?"

"It's for you, just see it as a snack."

I looked at the content. "Is this the cake that we made at school?"

"I made a new one. Before we had to leave the club president gave me some help."

"Pwew, so the president helped her that's a relieve at least it won't be that bad." "Umm well Shana you know that I…"

"It's just as a thank you so don't get your hopes up."

"Me? Hopes on what?"

Shana started to get angry and stuffed to cake in my mouth. "You should be thankful, that I repay you for what you do for us! Just eat the damn cake!"

After swallowing the cake I coughed a few times. "You know, you should be grateful Yuji. I won't let anyone taste my cooking." She said. Why I was still trying to get the breath again. Suddenly I got a terrible feeling in my stomach and throat. I covered my mouth and ran towards the park. "Kuso, toilet I need a toilet were is it." Lucky it didn't take me long to find the toilet and I immediately ran inside.

After I spit everything out, my stomach finally calmed down. "I thought I was going to die. What did she actually put in that cake?" I cleaned my mouth and went outside. In front of me stood a man around his seventies I think. "This presence he couldn't be …?"

"What an unexpected surprise." The old man said "It's an honor to meet you Sairei no Hebi."

Me: ... I can't believe it took her that long to finish this.

Shana: I can't believe you didn't remind her that often.

Me: But I did, it's just she get's distracted easily. When she finds an interesting manga or anime she forgets everything. i think she only starts to write when she sees me working on my own fics...

Yuji: Isn't that nice? It means you're like her... role model?

Me: She's not a kid...

Friagne: I'd love it if she gave me a bigger role.

Me: because till now you seems to be like a chicken, who's hiding in his hideout letting his slaves doing all the, uhm dirty work?

Friagne: Why do you make everything sound so bad?

Me: Don't be sad, yuji will give you his own baked cake and you have no idea how many girls would love to have it.

Friagne: But that is poison!

Yuji: Thanks a lot...

Friagne: You admitted yourself that you're a cooking disaster.

Yuji: Still gives you no reason to be rude.

Me: You know I never said you should eat it. just crystallize it and sell it on eBay. You could sell it for a high price.

Friagne: I'll think about it.

Me: Okay that was it for today guys. If you'll scroll down and leave a small review, then I'll post the next chapter soon after checking some grammar XD