Suryasree: I must say I am not satisfied with Tokiya's dark water. It's just so darn limited! No way am I settling with that!

Tokiya: That's my psychic device you idiot! There nothing for you to settle with.

Suryasree (pouts): You are sooooo mean Tokiya-nii! I'm sooooo not giving the awesome new psychic device to you.

Tokiya: Humph! As if I care.

Suryasree: Grrrr…Change of plans, I'm making you suffer more than I had planned for! Bwahahahaahahahaha! *cough cough* Yosh! Hope you all like this chapter!

Tokiya: (Now, what is she planning?)

STANDARD DISCLAIMER APPLIED


CHAPTER SEVEN

THE WATER DRAGON


"You must excuse me."

Fuuko and Tokiya turned towards the direction of the voice and saw a huge red ball glowing.

The wind slowed its pace and started blowing gently again.

The whole forest fell into silence again. Nothing could be heard except for the rustling of the leaves of the willow trees.

The huge red ball slowly grew dimmer and shorter and then it cracked. And out came a small cuddly animal with three eyes. The moonlight glowed gently on its fur exposing its placid features as the tiny creature materialized.

"Master, you must forgive me for using your friend's power like this. Nevertheless, I had to as he was the one with the power replace the four other orbs of the God of Wind." Confessed the little, yet powerful creature.

"Wha-?" Fuuko stared at an equally surprised Tokiya, "He has what?"

The soul of God of wind flew and faced Tokiya, "You mean to say that you have no clue of what just happened?"

"No" Tokiya stated in a matter of fact tone.

"I see…" the soul of The God of Wind faced Fuuko, "Master, I'm glad you finally found me. I must say I was getting rather worried."

"Well I'm glad too. I wanted to ask you many questions!"

"I'll try my best to answer them, master."

"Firstly, what just happened to Tokiya? What does he have to do with any of these?"

"Ah! I'm afraid that it's just not my place to answer. Your friend here must find the answers for himself. All I can say that the scroll that you posses will answer most of your questions."

"What do you mean by it's just not your place?" asked Tokiya, getting a bit frustrated. Afterall, he isn't used to being ignored by anyone.

"Well, you see, I'm just a mere psychic device. I don't know all the details, but since you're the current wielder of the Dark water, I believe that you must be the chosen master for the Water Dragon."

"WATER DRAGON?"

"Yes, it is the main psychic device that controls the water, completing the Dark Water."

"How is it that I never came to know about this?" Tokiya murmured to himself. 'So all along the Dark water was incomplete? But…but sensei never told me anything about it.'

"Eventhough we psychic devices are not living beings like the life forms that dwell in this world, we still have our own code and choices. We always choose our masters and give them power to wield us. We're just the souls of the actual elements that you wield, more like a carbon copy. The Water Dragon, like me and my brother devices, chooses the user according to their psychic level energy. And as far as I can say, you're the chosen one."

"Wow Michan! The name of this psychic device is really classy. It must be a real powerful psychic device!" Fuuko said, while poking him on his chest with her elbow, "Oh and by the way, what about the scroll? I don't seem to be able to see its contents."

"Well master, you must sprinkle the scroll with the holy spring water.1 Then only you shall be able to unlock the secrets. But to know the location of the spring, you must attain the key."

"The key?"

"Yes, the key is the only way to get there."

"How do I obtain this key?"

"You have the key in yourself, master. But to attain its power you must undergo through a few trials."

"Trials?"

The creature nodded its head and spoke, "For you to face the trials, you must use the shadow sphere and also master all the moves of the God of Wind inside it, along with mastering the control of your own psychic energy."

The wind came to a standstill. The God of Wind was now giving a gentle red glow as it was slowly disappearing. "I'll be looking forward to the time when we will be able fight together, master. Till then, please take care." The voice of the soul of God of Wind echoed and faded.

"What do you think Michan?"

"Nothing, all of these just came so suddenly upon us. All we can do is to wait for the morning to come and pay a visit to Kagerou."

"Yeah."

"Let's go now."

"Uh huh, speaking of which, it's a good thing you came, huh Michan!" Fuuko patted on Tokiya's back, earning a questioning look from him. In reply Fuuko raised her hand to show the fuujin, "I couldn't have replaced all of these if you weren't here."

Tokiya just shrugged, "Let's go."

"Hai!" Fuuko chirped.

The two teenagers left the forest heading towards Fuuko's house. Fuuko bid goodbye to Tokiya and climbed the tree that was near to her bedroom's window.

Tokiya just nodded back and turned around and started walking back to his house.

'The Water Dragon, huh? Wonder what exactly it is.'


(Day 2)

The sun was slowly peeping through the gap of the white curtains as a gentle breeze passed through the street. The newspaper boy carried on with his usual routine of throwing the news paper on the pavement near the door of every house on the street, while the birds chirped its sweet melody as it fed its babies with the worms they caught in the early morning.

Down the street, in the house of a very special person, the clock struck eight and the alarm started to ring.

Fuuko peeped out of her blankets and picked up the clock from the side table to glance at the time.

"Eight already!" Fuuko sprang out of bed and looked at the clock again. "Bullshit" she quickly got out of the covers and grabbed the first cloths that came to her hand and headed towards the bathroom. 'Dang! Tokiya told me that he will be meeting me here sharp at eight thirty! I'm so screwed!'

(Thirty minutes later)

Fuuko entered the kitchen only to find Ganko sitting on her chair near the table, silently playing her new PS2 as she was swinging her legs to-and-fro under the table, and her mother making pancakes on the oven.

"Morning mom, morning Ganko." greeted Fuuko, which was responded by a similar greeting from both of them, as she entered the kitchen. Fuuko briskly walked towards the sink and took three plates and spoons and placed them on the table.

'Eight thirty, uh-oh, he is going to be mad if he finds me eating.' Fuuko sweatdropped as she imagined a pissed off Tokiya. 'There is only one secret weapon.'

Immediately, she heard the door bell.

"Uh, I'll get it!" Fuuko rushed towards the door. "Tokiya! Hey, aren't you on time."

Tokiya raised an eyebrow, "I always am, monkey."

"Who is it dear?" came her mother's voice from the kitchen.

"It's Tokiya, mom!" Fuuko turned towards Tokiya and grinned, "Ne Michan, since this is your first time to my house, come inside and have breakfast with us!"

"I've already eaten, monkey. Quit making excuses and come. Or else I'll just leave you here and go by myself." Tokiya turned to make a move just when Fuuko grabbed hold of his arm and pulled him in.

"Mom! Tokiya will join us for breakfast!"

"Wha-I didn't make any such statement, you stu-"

Tokiya stopped when he saw Fuuko's mother coming out of the kitchen. He snatched his arm out of Fuuko's grasp and composed himself. 'Stupid monkey! She had it all planned out!'

Fuuko grinned and mentally patted herself. No matter how cold and rude Tokiya is to them, he will always be a gentleman in front of women older than him. Fuuko stifled a laugh at the thought of it, earning a quick glare from Tokiya.

"Oh Mikagami dear, it is really nice to see you at last." Fuuko's mother smiled warmly at Tokiya. "Fuuko speaks a lot about you. Why don't you join us for breakfast?"

"I would love to, but Fuuko and I have plans to…"

"Hey mom, don't worry. We have time for breakfast." Fuuko quickly took the spatula from her mother's hand and headed towards the kitchen, "Let me do that." Leaving an angry Tokiya, silently cursing the devious purple head monkey for interrupting him and worse-delaying him! (Eventhough Recca's house was just ten minutes walk from Fuuko's house and also he informed Kagerou that he will meet her at nine.)

Fuuko's mother smiled at Tokiya and continued, "Well, in that case, would you like to have some pancakes with us?"

Tokiya sighed in defeat, "Yes, . I would love to."


(Meanwhile)

Kurei finally sighed in relief at the break of dawn. He couldn't sleep the entire night trying to decipher the secret writings in the scroll. He massaged his forehead as he quickly took a sip of the wild rose tea that was kept for him on the study table.

Kurei paused when he felt someone entering the room, "Well, Raiha? I assume everything is ready?"

Raiha frowned at the thought of Kurei staying awake for the whole night trying to decipher a scroll, "Well, we have called her and informed her."

Kurei quickly finished his tea and got up, "In that case, get everyone ready, we will be leaving soon."

Suddenly, out of the blue, Joker popped out. "Ne Kurei-kun! Can I tag along as well?"

"I suppose you can. This is a very important issue and we must get things cleared before taking any steps at all." Kurei said sighing.

"Oh yeah" exclaimed a chibified Joker, jumping high in air, making Raiha to sweatdrop.

"Let us go, Raiha." Kurei walked towards the door.

Raiha bowed and moved aside to let Kurei pass, "Yes, as you wish, master Kurei."

Kurei nodded and open the door, "And make sure you bring only that scroll along with you." He closed the door behind and walked down the corridor. 'It is time.'


"Stupid monkey." Tokiya cursed Fuuko once they were considerably away from Fuuko's house.

"Hey, that's not nice. Besides, what can I do if mom asked me to take Ganko along?" Fuuko pouted.

Tokiya controlled his burning desire to strangle the girl besides him, "You know very well that I don't mean that. You should have been ready to leave twenty minutes back!"

Fuuko looked at the both ends of the street and crossed the road while holding Ganko's hand. After crossing, she turned around facing Tokiya, "Sheesh, either ways we would have to wait for Ganko to come. It isn't my fault that my mom had to go out for some work! Geez!" Fuuko made a dramatic turn and continued to walk catching Ganko's hands.

"Quit making that as an excuse. Just accept, you overslept." Tokiya continued to walk besides Fuuko.

"Yup, she did." Ganko chirped.

"Ganko! You traitor! Whose little sister are you?" Fuuko said, feeling outraged.

At this Tokiya smirked, "See, monkey? Even a six year old girl is better than you." This made Fuuko even more furious.

"Why you-"Fuuko suddenly paused making her companions curious. "What's wrong?"

"Shush!" Fuuko turned around to the direction where she felt that she heard something familiar. "I knew it." Fuuko said with a bit of annoyance. "Huh?" Both her companions turned to follow her line of sight only to find Domon running towards them claiming his undying love for the wind wielder, as usual.

"Oh Fuukooooooooo! My love!" said Doman, running towards Fuuko, who punched and knocked him down.

"How many times should I tell you I'M NOT …N-O-T, NOT YOUR LOVE."

"Waaaah! Fuuko-sama! You're so mean to me!"

"Just shut up.", said Fuuko with a vein popping out. She faced Tokiya and said, "Let's go."

Tokiya merely nodded and followed her.

"Wait for me Fuuko!"

"Why are you coming with us to Recca's house?"

"Where ever Fuuko goes, Domon shall follow." said Domon showing a V-sign, making Fuuko sigh even more.

All the four of them then walked towards Recca's house.

Fuuko reached out for the doorbell and pressed it.

Kaoru opened the door and asked them to come.

"What's the matter Kaoru? You look pale." asked a curious Ganko.

Suddenly all five of them stopped dead on their tracks when they saw the visitors in front of them. Right in front of them were Kurei, Raiha and Joker looking at them directly.


Yup, tad bit changes here and there. I hope you won't mind. :P Please let me know of your opinion on this chapter so far through reviews and PMs. I hope you guys liked the small tofuu moment that I decided to insert in this chapter. Arigatou!

1 The holy spring is suppose to be located on the same mountain top, which Kurei tried to climb in chapter 3. So, when fuujin said "Yes, the key is the only way to get there." It meant that particular place. And regarding how Fuuko is going to find the location considering Kurei is in possession with the map, well, you guys have to keep on reading. :D Enjoy!