Note from author: Before I start this chapter I just wanted to say thank you to those that have read and commented. :) I really appreciate it and wanted to let you know that I will be trying to get you guys a chapter or two at least once a week. As it is summer now, I have much more time to work on it. Leave me any comments on how I'm doing. This will be a two part story one part in this time frame and one in the Kurama/Suichi time frame. Both will contain Choucho though—though she may get a human name later. :D

Hmm what else. Yes there will be time lapses if any of you were confused about that. Since it would take FOREVER for me to write about a day to day occurrence for 260 some odd years I'm going to be jumping around to different 'scenes' with her in it. I've had some questions about that.

ENJOY!

Chapter Seven

She couldn't believe her eyes. They had sent her a young child to take her home. She started to look around, expecting to see her father or an older Ysandi that would help her home. No one else was there. Looking back, she stared openly at her brother. "You were sent to take me home? Chime you are only two hundred years old! Not even a young adult!" she finally said. This was not good. They would only send an accomplished Ysandi to pick up an unruly runaway.

"I passed the Entrance when I was a century and a half." Chime said, his adolescent voice high pitched and almost sing-song. "Wanna see Limrin? He's my Bond. He's young too so we'll be able to be together for most of our lives!" He announced, holding out the necklace that all Ysandi had once they bonded with one of the Ysandi Butterflies. Her own necklace tugged, wanting to join its own brother. Choucho's hand went up to calm it.

"No Chime, leave Limrin back where you left him." Choucho said, smiling. He had to have been the strongest they could sent. "Lady Binjiko, this is my younger brother Chime. I will return with him to my family."

After that there seemed to be a whirlwind of planning, goodbyes and presents. While she had been there she had made more friends than she had thought. They showed themselves in the travel dresses, the hair ornaments, and other presents she received.

Within two days they were ready to leave. Chime stood on the path outside the castle passing his necklace from hand to hand. He was eager to be reunited with Limrin. The bond between Ysandi and their butterflies were strong and it felt like half their soul was gone when they parted. It had been a year and a half since Choucho had called upon her own Bond.

She stepped up next to her brother and took her own necklace and put it against her lips. As she blew out, a long shriek came forth, traveling the hundreds of miles between herself and her own Bond. It changed into a whine as she ran out of breath and it dropped down to nestle against her bosom again. Her brother repeated the process only his sounded more like wind battering leaves.

Each Ysandi waited no more than five minutes before the butterflies appeared before them. Limrin landed in front of Chime and nestled its large head against his. The woman that had come to watch stared at the two creatures that had appeared. Only fifty years old Limrin stood at four feet tall and had a wingspan of six feet. His wings were purple with designs of black and gold. Chime was his match in height and quickly climbed onto the back of his Bond.

However it was Choucho's that drew the most attention. Being far older than Limrin by over 350 years, this butterfly was six feet tall and had a ten foot wingspan. It had gold all over with splashes of sea blue and green over its whole body. It's large eyes watched the other female demons. After it was sure they wouldn't attack it moved to engulf the young woman with its wings in a hug.

Slowly it lost its butterfly appearance as it held the girl. Wings became muscular arms and legs. The colors became cloth over tough skin. Skin the color of sand became tense. He then pulled away, his chocolate colored eyes that matched her own scanned the crowds as one arm still held the girl to him. When he opened his mouth to speak, razor sharp teeth appeared. "Choucho, we are to go home now?" he asked.

"Yes Maze." Choucho replied, smiling happily into his chest where her face was resting. "We are going home." And with that the butterfly-turn man returned to his first form and the brother and sister flew to their home village. It took time little over a day because of the speed that the Ysandi butterflies could fly.

And she lived there for three more months before the one thing she wanted the most to happen-mysterious visitors found their clans village.

She was with her mother. She hadn't been allowed to be alone since she had returned. They didn't want her running off again—her parents had found her a new husband to be and they didn't want her running off again. A commotion in the village center brought them out of their house, Maze and her mother's Bond following in human form.

In the center of the village butterflies sat on roofs watching while the Ysandi demons encircled two hooded forms. Choucho and her mother pushed through so they could get a better view. The headman was standing in front of the crowd, conversion with the strangers—well truly he was demanding to know how they had found the village. It wasn't until the two women joined the front rows that the two strangers turned their attention and began to remove their hoods.

The first one to take off his hood caused a squeal of happiness to emit from Choucho. She broke from her mother's side before she could grab her and rushed the short distance between herself and Kuronue. Before she reached him however, male arms grabbed and held her back.

"Get off me!" she cried, turning her body so she could pummel her fists into- her betrothed? "Get off me you horrid creature." she cried out again, her struggles renewed.

"We request that you let her go." A now revealed Yoko said, uncovering his own head. A strong hand was keeping the bat demon from running to the girls aid and it was straining to do so. "We are friends of Miss Choucho."

The man that held Choucho glared at the men. "You have no power here or right to request anything." he snarled, "Much less claim friendship with my wife-to-be."

Kuronue's face which had already spoke volumes of his love and then anger turned to shock and sadness as he looked at the still struggling young woman. "Chou?" He asked, using the pet name they had come up with.

Maze's attention was caught as his Bond bit the arm of the man that held her. He walked over and punched the man that held her against her will, pulling Choucho to his own body in a protective away before releasing her. "Ysandi don't use their strength against other Ysandi." he growled, showing the sharpened teeth in his mouth.

Choucho wiped the blood from her lips before rushing into Kuronue's arms. "You never came back for me." she whispered. "You never helped me escape Binjiko." She weakly punched him for 'revenge' and then was dragged away by her mother and her Bond. She fought until a few other Ysandi and their butterflies wrestled her and Maze into submission. They also had put a wall between the girl and her would be defenders and rescuers.

The last thing she saw before they knocked her out was the fox Bandit and his best friend being pushed by very strong men into the headman's hut to 'talk'.