Herro everyone time for another chapter, not feeling so good so I can't give you a proper intro, so get ready for some more hero action and intrigue and I hope you enjoy.

Aoi: "Since when did you have an older brother?"

Ki: "Eh? What do you mean? He's the guy that beat you in the Reranking Tournament."

Aoi: "What are you talking about? I was the one that won, it was against a Thermal Manipulator and a strong one at that, his name was Eishun Fuyuki."

Ki: "Eishun?"

Aoi: "Yes, he's a blonde fellow that just transferred in this summer and- Oh she's gone."

Before Aoi could finish I ran out of the garden and over to the library to access the school archives on a computer, once there I pulled up the student profiles and found Eishun.

Ki: "What the…"

On the profile was a picture of a blonde, brown eyed boy with a rather handsome face and but all his information was a near copy of Kyousuke's.

|Eishun Fuyuki

Power: Thermal Manipulation

Level: Advanced

Side effect: Extreme Durability

Recent Transferee from Chiba High School etc. etc.|

He even has a little sister, but she doesn't go here, what the hell is going on?

I tried to find Kyousuke's profile but it was nowhere to be found, I left the library and headed over to Kouhei's house.

{Knock, knock, knock}

Ko: "Hello? Hm? Who are you?"

Ki: "Kouhei don't you remember me? I'm Kyousuke's little sister, sure we never really talked but we've met a couple of times."

Ko: "Sorry little girl but I don't know you or any Kyousuke guy, I think you've got the wrong house."

Ki: "Eh?"

Kouhei closed the door before I could ask anymore question, so I headed over to neighbor girl's house.

{Ding, Dong}

Ma: "Hello? Oh Kirino what are you doing here?"

She remembers me?

Ki: "Hey there…MMM-Manami, have you seen Kyousuke?"

Ma: "Who?"

Ki: "My older brother."

Ma: "You don't have a brother."

Ki: "Of course I do."

Ma: "Our families have known each other for years, I would know if you had a brother."

Ki: "…No."

Ma: "Kirino are you okay?"

Without answering her I ran off and headed back home.

Yo: "Oh Kirino you're back already?"

Ki: "Uh, yeah turns out there weren't as many things to do as I thought so I got it all done pretty quickly."

Yo: "Well okay then."

I ran up the stairs to my room and frantically searched through my closet to find my special box, but it was gone.

Ki: "My box…what happened to my box?"

I kept rifling through my closet seeing if I just put it somewhere else but after completely emptying everything out I still couldn't find it.

Ki: "What happened? Everything is going crazy."

I then sent texts to my friends to see if they knew anything.

Ru: |Who?|

Sa: |Kirino I didn't know you had a brother.|

Ka: |Never met him.|

Ay: |He must be very reclusive, I've never seen him around your house and your parents never talk about him.|

Again nothing, I had hit a brick wall, Kyousuke was gone and anything relating to him has disappeared.

Ki: "Why is this happening?"

{Vvvvvm}

My phone suddenly vibrated and I looked to see I had gotten a text message.

Ki: "Hm?"

|If you want answers head to the park, come alone.|

A cryptic message telling me to go somewhere alone, obviously a trap from some hacker, but still if there's a chance it'll lead me to Kyousuke I'll take it and if not, I'll at least be able to take out my frustrations on some asshole.

I quickly left avoiding my parents and went to the park and started walking around until I heard something.

"Psst."

Ki: "Hm?"

"Pssst."

I looked over at a wooded area to see someone in a fedora and trench coat with a pair of sunglasses and a bandana covering their face hiding behind a tree.

Ki: "A-are you-"

"Don't look at me!"

I immediately looked away and from what I heard the stranger was a woman.

"Okay walk over to that bench and sit to look less conspicuous."

I did as she said and nonchalantly walked over to the specified bench and sat.

"So you've noticed haven't you?"

Ki: "…Do you know where Kyousuke is?"

"So you have noticed, looks like I was right, well listen if you want to find your brother you have to sneak into the underground labs at the school, once inside locate the cold storage room, that's where he's being held."

Ki: "Who are you? Why are you telling me this?"

"Let's just say I'm a person that actually cares about your brother's wellbeing, but I still need to look out for myself and I don't want to risk my job, so I'm asking you to do this."

Ki: "How do you expect me to do this? Those underground facilities have tight military grade security, it would take a well trained spy sneak into there."

"It's your choice on whether to do this or not, but it should be fine, during the weekend the security is laxer so as long as your quick about it you should be able to get out just fine."

Ki: "Then what?"

"That's up to you, Kyousuke legally doesn't exist anymore and is nothing more than a tool to be used by the government, but he is a valuable asset so you taking him could be considered high treason. If you go through with this you'll be on the run for either the rest of your life or for a few days based on how good you can hide, you can kiss all hopes of normalcy goodbye, are you willing to go through that to free your brother?"

Ki: "…Yes."

"Pff wow so serious, ahem, I see well good luck to you, I hope that you don't regret the decision you've made."

Ki: "Why are they doing this?"

"Hm?"

Ki: "Why my brother? Why does he have to be put through all this? {Sniff} Why does he have to get hurt so much?"

"Jeez, uhm, that's just the way the world works I'm afraid, your brother has something within him that the people in power want and they're going to do everything they can to get it and, besides running, normal people like you and me can't really do anything about it."

Ki: "{Sniff} Hm, well I plan on doing something."

I got up from the bench and immediately ran home to think up a plan, even though I was only a fourteen year old school girl with absolutely no stealth training or combat skill outside of basic hand to hand and I'm a about to break into a high security military facility. But still there was no way I was going to leave my brother to whatever fate those people had planned for him or at least I wasn't just going to sit here and do nothing.

Ki: "{Sigh} This is hopeless."

I'd call Ruri to help me sneak in with her cloaking ability but I'd rather not drag anyone else into this, I don't know if I should even leave a note…well this is it.

I packed up some black clothes and a face cover to put on once I got there and walked out without mom or dad noticing, once I made it to the campus I entered the main building and snuck into one of the bathrooms.

Okay all the entrances to the labs are heavily sealed so the only way to get in unnoticed is through the vents.

I donned my black clothes and mask and bundled my hair into the cap, I felt incredibly nervous but the thought of turning back never crossed my mind. Before anyone else could enter the bathroom I climbed onto the stall divider to remove the vent grate, I slinked inside backwards so as to be able to put the grate back into place and I began to make my way down.

1 hour later

This place is a friggin maze!

I had made it to the underground facilities but I've made little progress in finding the cold storage room when I looked out one of the grates to see my progress and I noticed a map.

Okay I'm near the cafeteria and cold storage is…700 feet North…back to crawling I guess.

Another hour later

Finally!

There it was, the most beautiful thing in the world to me right now, a black rectangular sign with the words "Cold Storage" in white text sticking horizontally out of the wall. I listened for any footsteps before cracking the grate a little to look down the hall, after confirming that the coast was clear I quietly dropped from the ceiling and placed the grate on the floor directly under the vent, I then walked up to the door but noticed a keypad next to it.

Shit.

Knowing I didn't have much time I flattened my hand and jammed in between the door and the frame making a loud creaking metal noise.

{CREAK!}

Then as fast as possible I pried the door open, rebent the metal to look normal and closed the door back so no one would think I was in this room. I waited a few seconds and heard footsteps rushing outside and stop in front of the door.

"It came from here."

"Ah, it's just the grate, screws were probably not tightened enough and it fell out."

"Damn I was hoping it would be a cool spy guy sneaking in."

"Then wouldn't he have killed us?"

"No! He would've just knocked us out."

"Yeah sure, anyway let's leave this for maintenance and get back to work."

They walked off and when I knew they were out of earshot I looked around but couldn't see anything since it was pitch black, I felt around the wall for a light switch and flipped it on. A single large light lit up and cast a bright beam down onto a containment pod but left most of the room still dark, the pod was horizontally aligned and had a small window on the cover and inside I saw-

Ki: "Kyousuke!"

I ran up to the pod and looked down onto Kyousuke's sleeping face, I was happy and excited to finally see him but just as I was about to break him out I suddenly felt something being wrapped around my neck, I immediately struck at the person behind me and got them in the nose.

{Whack!}

"Agh! Ah fucking hell!"

What the, that punch didn't feel like it hit very hard, wait that voice and that outfit.

Ki: "Hey you're the person from the park."

"Yeah it's me."

Ki: "What are you doing here? And why'd you put this collar on me?"

"Well it's obvious I lured you here but not with malicious intent and that collar is to keep you from killing anyone, thankfully so since that punch you just gave me would've broken more than just my nose."

Ki: "So why'd you lure me here?"

"Well before I tell you that let me take this damn disguise off first."

The stranger unbuttoned their jacket and removed their hat and bandana, I was completely shocked at who they really were.

Ki: "A…Arika!?"

Ar: "Hey there little sis."

Ki: "But wha- why- what the hell is going on?!"

{Fwim}

"I'll be the one to answer that."

Ki: "Eh?"

I turned to see the door slide open and two people walk in, a Japanese looking black haired woman in a dark grey pantsuit and a Caucasian man with dark blonde hair wearing a brown blazer with a white shirt and black pants.

Ar: "Uh, Nico what's with the getup?"

"Not now Arika, I'd rather not shock her to death."

"Anyway Ms. Kousaka we've brought you and your brother here-"

Ki: "Wait!? Who are you people?"

"Hmph, my name is Naoki Kirishima."

"And I'm Nikola Johannes."

"Now as I was saying, we brought you two here for a very important reason."

Ki: "Well why is he in this pod?"

Na: "That's not important, the reason we've brought you here is because of your brother, I'm sure your parents already gave you an abridged explanation of what he really is."

Ki: "Sort of."

Na: "Then you know he's dangerous and unpredictable-"

Ki: "Grr, no he isn't!"

Ni: "Hm?"

Na: "…"

Ki: "My brother…Kyousuke is the nicest person I've ever met, there's no way he's a monster like you think he is!"

The woman stood there in silence for a while then walked up to me.

Na: "Be that as it may, there is something you have to realize, the being in there very likely isn't your brother."

Ki: "I already heard that BS from my parents."

Ni: "It's the truth, what lies inside your brother is something I've been studying for decades and though I may not fully understand it I do know some of how it works and the hard truth is that your brother or at least the mental part of him is not human."

Ki: "That can't be true."

Na: "Why would we bring you here only to lie to you."

Ki: "…"

Na: "Ms. Kousaka, your brother is a very dangerous lifeform, a category A threat possibly even worse, just by leaving him alive we're putting the entire planet at risk, but we left him alive."

Ki: "…Why?"

Na: "Because we need him, as dangerous as he is there are other dangers out there that only a being as powerful as him can stand up against and we hope to find a way for him to properly use that power to do so and that's where you come in."

Ki: "Me?"

Ni: "Yes, new and positive variables I've never encountered before have come to light and I believe it has something to do with you."

Na: "We believe you've attained a sort of connection with Kyousuke, though Kyousuke's consciousness isn't human it still behaves as such thus allowing him to make emotional connections."

Ni: "Though the nature of the alien consciousness makes those connections much less likely to manifest, so the fact that you've managed to make one with him shows that maybe there's a chance we can have him use his powers for good, if we work together we could potentially save the world."

Ki: "…"

Ar: "That may sound like a bunch of stuff ripped off from some movie little sis but it's all true and besides it's not like you have a choice, either you choose to work with us or we find or most likely fail at finding someone that will, while you spend the rest of your life as the only person that knows he exists."

Na: "And if we fail…we'll have to put him down."

Ki: "Shut your mouth! If you so much as lay a finger on my brother I'll cave in that bitch mouth of yours!"

Ar: "Heh she's a real firecracker isn't she, no wonder your powers didn't work on her."

Ni: "You're lucky she has that collar on ma'am."

Na: "Such a delusional girl, so what's your decision Ms. Kousaka?"

Ki: "Fine, but when whatever you have planned for him is over, you people will never come anywhere near us again."

Na: "Very well."

Ki: "And you have to restore everyone's memories."

Na: "We were going to do that anyway but sure, Nick let's move him to a more appropriate room."

Ni: "Righto."

The blonde man walked up to the pod and pressed a button that opened the cover, he then grabbed Kyousuke and carried him on his shoulder before he and the woman made for the exit.

Ar: "Alright little sis let's go."

Ki: "Hey!"

Arika grabbed my hand and pulled me out of the room, I tried to resist but for some reason I wasn't able to overpower her and she easily dragged me away, on the way though Arika stopped in front of a door while the other two continued without us.

Ki: "Hey! What are you doing?"

Ar: "Here change into this."

Ki: "Eh!"

Suddenly Arika pulled out the bag I had left in the bathroom I had changed in which I immediately snatched from her.

Ki: "How'd you get this?"

Ar: "Kirino we've been watching you the whole time, heck we've been monitoring your family since the day we found out about Kyousuke's powers, after what we've just told you I don't see how this should surprise you."

Ki: "…"

Ar: "Just change and we'll join the others."

I walked through the door to see that it led to a bathroom so I entered a stall, quickly changed into my street clothes and exited.

Ki: "Why did I have to change anyway?"

Ar: "We may have spilled some of the beans to you but we still have to keep Kyousuke in the dark."

Ki: "Why is that?"

Ar: "The boss will explain things so let's go."

I followed Arika to another room where Kyousuke was slumped in a chair and the other two were standing in front of a desk.

Na: "Alright please take a seat Ms. Kousaka."

I did as she said and sat in the chair next to Kyousuke a little worried at why he wasn't awake.

Na: "Now before we start I need you to swear to not tell Kyousuke about anything we've just told you."

Ki: "Why?"

Na: "Because as we've told you before Kyousuke's powers are unstable and we can't have Kyousuke under too much emotional or mental stress or else that stress could manifest in very destructive ways."

Ni: "If you care about him and if you wish to continue to care about him you'll make sure nothing like that happens."

Ki: "I see…I swear not to tell him."

Na: "Okay then, Nick wake him up."

The blonde man walked up to Kyousuke and touched his hand to Kyousuke's neck and all of a sudden Kyousuke jerked up.

Ky: "Gah! Oh man that was a weird dream, hm? morning Kirino, {yaaawn} Eh? Uh, where are we?"

I was so relieved to see he was alright, I had to keep myself from squeezing him in an out of character hug.

Na: "Greetings Mr. Kousaka."

Ky: "Eh? Who are you guys? Arika you're here too?"

Ar: "Morning sleepyhead."

Ky: "Just what the heck is going on?!"

Ni: "Calm down, you're among friends."

Ki: "Yeah idiot, stop spazzing out."

Ky: "Oh yes because I should be perfectly calm when waking up in a strange place with strange people, wait what are you doing here?!"

Ki: "Mind your own business."

Na: "Mr. Kousaka, my name is Naoki Kirishima and my associate here is Nikola Johannes."

Ni: "Hello."

Na: "We're from the Department of Superhuman Affairs or DSA, I'm sure you have many questions but let's start with the first that's on your mind, why you're here."

Ni: "You see, it has recently come to our attention that there is something odd about you."

Ky: "Odd?"

Ni: "Yes, you haven't noticed?"

Ky: "Hmm, there was the tournament."

Ki: "Yeah, you did start showing some new abilities all of a sudden."

Ky: "But doesn't that happen all the time?"

Ki: "Yeah but not the way it happened with you."

Na: "Yes we've observed it too and it is odd, which is why we brought you here under these circumstances."

Ky: "Please don't tell me I'm some kind of "chosen one" or something."

Ni: "Um, well, no but you are a very interesting person Kyousuke, you may not know this but your power is very special."

Ky: "How so?"

Ni: "I'm not advised to tell you anything about it and it's best that you don't know for now, in case you fell into the wrong hands, but it is something that if cultivated properly could be of great use for the betterment of humanity."

Ky: "Oh you mean like how Eva the Plant Whisperer helps grow crops in third world countries?"

Ni: "Sort of."

Ki: "Well if that's the case why'd you bring us here in secret?"

Na: "…Because Kyousuke's powers are a little more dangerous."

Ky: "EH? Uh h-how dangerous are we talking?"

Ki: "Well it has to be significantly more dangerous than a mid-tier superhumans powers for the government to get involved."

Na: "Shut your mouth, there's really nothing to worry about though."

Ni: "Yes, as long as nobody finds out and you agree to work with us you may go down as one the most beneficial superhumans in history."

Ky: "I see but how exactly would my powers benefit humanity?"

Ni: "Uh, that's something we're still studying but with your help we could greatly boost our research speed and maybe even be able to find others with your powers."

Ky: "I see, well I'd be an asshole to say no, so why not?"

Na: "Great, you have our thanks Mr. Kousaka."

Ni: "You won't regret this."

Na: "And you are to tell no one about this, it's to remain top secret, understood?"

Ky: "Sure it's not like I'm the type to brag anyway, but one more question, what the heck is my sister doing here?"

Na: "She just saw us taking you so now she has to be in on the secret."

Ki: "Hmph."

Na: "That'll be all for now, though for tonight we ask that you sleep in this facility for…research purposes, Arika you know what room we chose, please show him."

Ar: "Yes ma'am, alright you two follow me."

Kyousuke and I got up from our seats and exited the room with Arika.

Ky: "So Arika you're some kind of secret agent?"

Ar: "Yeah I work with those other two bozos while at the same time attending this school as a student."

Ky: "Really? You'd think with government funding they'd send you to a better school like Tokyo Academy."

Ar: "Well, uh, they just thought I could more easily keep my cover at a lesser renown school, it's definitely not to spy on you or anything."

Ky: "Okay."

As we were walking we passed a big open area full of tables and chairs.

Ar: "Here's the cafeteria, you guys hungry."

Ky: "I could eat."

Ar: "What about you little sis?"

Ki: "…"

Ky: "If you don't take this offer you'll have to leave now and you won't see him again 'til tomorrow."

Ki: "Yeah I could use something to eat too."

Ky: "You two go ahead, I have to use the bathroom first."

Ar: "Alright the boy's room is just down the hall."

Ky: "Thanks, Kirino grab me a sandwich and a soda please."

Ki: "I'm not your maid!"

Ky: "Thanks you're awesome, ugh."

Kyousuke ran off to take care of business while we grabbed some food instead of a serving area that served hot food it had a bunch of racks and refrigerators. The fridges were full of cold and microwavable food along with drinks and some deserts while the racks had dry goods and chips, I grabbed the stuff Kyousuke asked for and Arika got a veggie wrap for herself.

Ar: "Aren't you going to get something yourself?

Ki: "I'm not hungry."

Ar: "Go ahead and get whatever you want and don't worry Kyousuke will be just fine here for the night so go ahead and stuff your face."

Ki: "…"

Ar: "Alright super spy there's no need to worry all this food is drug free and micro-chip free, come on you've had a stressful day especially after your little trip through the vents."

Ki: "Wait how did you know I used the vents?"

Ar: "I already told you we were watching you the whole time and you weren't exactly subtle, I could hear you coming from inside the cold room, we told everyone to ignore you but react accordingly to anything else to keep you from catching on."

Ki: "Jeez I just fell right into this didn't I?"

Ar: "Yeah but did you really expect to outsmart government agents?"

Ki: "No."

Ar: "Hm, but that didn't stop you from trying, you're a good sister."

Ki: "Sh-shut up."

So I sat down in one of the oddly comfortable plastic chairs while Arika grabbed a piece of strawberry cheesecake and set it in front of me.

Ar: "Just relax and eat something, I already told you everything is going to be fine."

Ki: "…You know you're a lot nicer than I expected you to be."

Ar: "What made you think I wouldn't be nice?"

Ki: "Well for one you did try to rape my brother after your match with him."

Ar: "Hey that's my policy anytime a guy beats me in battle, plus you know how much girls like me like guys that push them away."

Ki: "Hmmph."

I began eating the cheesecake, reluctantly enjoying it but still worrying about our situation.

Ki: "Hey by the way, what did you do to my powers, ever since you put this collar on me I haven't been able to use them."

Ar: "Well that's the magic of that special collar, where normal collars use electric shocks or herbal relaxants to suppress power usage this one uses classified technology to completely block it."

Ki: "Wow this place is legit, I always thought it was only used for research."

Ar: "Actually it is but with Kyousuke going here now we need to use it as a sort of base of operations to keep an eye on him, plus with its proximity to the coastline and its unassuming position being under a school it makes a great place for classified business."

Ki: "So what should I expect from working with you people?"

Ar: "Well you and I are going to be seeing each other a lot since I'm going to have to pose as Kyousuke's friend from now on. But besides that, all you really have to do is make sure to contact one of us if something is happening with Kyousuke and to be there as emotional support for him, you know make sure he doesn't lose his mind, sort of like his handler."

Ki: "Handler? What is he a Panda bear?"

Ar: "A Panda bear capable of bringing destruction on a massive scale, yes."

Ki: "That's a part I'm still not getting, you keep telling me he's dangerous but you're not telling me why."

Ar: "Sorry can't tell you that and if I did there's a chance you'd take back your decision."

Kyousuke's POV

Ky: "Ugh, what the hell did I eat."

After an explosive visit to the bathroom I went back to the cafeteria to rejoin the girls though I was quite surprised to see them casually talking.

Ky: "Yo."

Ki: "Jeez what took you so long?"

Ky: "Sorry, had a bad reaction to something."

Ar: "So Kousaka how are you taking all this?"

Ky: "Sort of wishing I didn't have these powers actually."

Ar: "Eh!? What are you talking about!?"

Ky: "I'm not really a guy that enjoys being under the spotlight, I mean I'm happy I won the tournament but being on the world's stage is a different matter."

Ki: "Yep, that's what I was expecting."

Ar: "Well I think it's kind of weird, most people would give their right hand to be a famous Superhero or just famous in general."

Ky: "Well that's just not me, I prefer to keep my feet on the ground rather than dance among the stars."

Ar: "Why?"

Ky: "I forgot who said this but "from the top you have much farther to fall" or something, but still it's not like I'd trade my soul to change it, it's just something I'd rather not deal with but if it means doing some good for mankind then I'll just bare it."

Ar: "You're a weird guy."

Ky: "Hey if that turns you off then even better."

Ar: "Hey!"

Ki: "Pffhahaha."

We finished our food and Arika guided me to the room I would be sleeping for the night.

Ar: "Alright here's the box you'll be sleeping in."

The room wasn't very big, only a little bigger than an average walk-in closet but I wasn't going to complain.

Ki: "Looks kind of like a prison cell."

Ar: "It's mainly used for overnighters, so make yourself at home and you can move into your penthouse tomorrow, though if you want a little company to keep warm-"

Ky: "No."

Ar: "Boo~"

Ky: "Just one more night and I'll be soaking in that hot tub, well Kirino guess I'll see you tomorrow."

Ki: "U-uh actually…"

Ky: "Hm?"

Ki: "I'm staying."

Ky: "Wha? Why?!"

Ki: "Because I don't feel like walking all the way back home."

Ar: "Are you sure? There's not a lot of room in there."

Ki: "Yeah, besides, uh, I already told my parents I was staying at school tonight."

Ky: "Then why don't you just stay in the penthouse?"

Ki: "…Because I…left all my bedsheets with mom for her to clean."

Ar: "Aren't all the upper floor dorms pre-furnished."

Ki: "Yeah but…I forgot the keys at home."

Ky: "Then just go get them, our parents will understand if you forgot them."

Ki: "It's probably dark outside by now and I'm too scared to go by myself."

Ky: "No you're not."

Ki: "Grr…Just…JUST LET ME STAY HERE IDIOT!"

Ky: "Ah, alright fine jeez!"

Ar: "She's got quite the singing voice."

Ky: "Tell me about it, what's up with her today?"

Ar: "There should be a futon with some extra pillows and a blanket under the bed."

Ky: "At least I'll have a place to sleep."

Ar: "Well I'll see you guys tomorrow, try not to take the little sister route~"

Ky: "Just leave already!"

Arika closed the door and left, I turned to Kirino to see her sitting on the small bed with an oddly serious look on her face.

Ky: "Hey, uh, you okay?"

Ki: "Hm? Mind your own business, idiot."

Ky: "Yeah, yeah."

I reached under the bed, pulled out the futon and set up my sleeping space though the whole time Kirino sat there with her knees tucked close to her chest just staring at me.

Ky: "Uh…is there something on my face?"

Instead of saying something she just looked away.

Ky: "Okay."

Ignoring me again, I can never read her.

I turned out the light and got under the blanket.

Ky: "Night."

Ki: "…"

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Kirino's POV

Okay looks like he's asleep.

After waiting a half hour for Kyousuke to fall asleep I left my bed and crawled in next to him on the futon, I then set an alarm on my phone to wake me up early knowing he most likely wouldn't wake up to it. After that I securely wrapped my arms around him to make sure he didn't go anywhere and against my will I started to cry a little.

Ki: "Don't ever disappear like that again, {sniff} you idiot."

I smothered my face into his back and fell peacefully to sleep.

(The Next Day)

Ky: "We made it, we finally made it!"

Ki: "It's so beautiful."

After waking up and having some breakfast we rushed over to the administrative building so Kyousuke could make me his new partner, the winner of the tournament is allowed to pick anyone in the top twenty or within ten miles of their residence for their partner. Then once we had approval we went to the dorms and got our stuff together to take up to the penthouse, it took up the entire top floor so we had to use the personal elevator and when we finally reached it, it was a sight to behold.

Like I said this place was the peak of luxury, the indoor area took up half the floor while a courtyard and pool took up the other half, the indoor area featured an in-ground sofa with a massive, retractable, one hundred and ten inch flat screen TV, a fully stocked kitchen with an island table and a high tech chrome refrigerator. The bathroom was huge with Jack and Jill sinks, a large open shower and a Japanese style bathtub, then there was the work out room with gear specially designed for super humans. There was even a game room with a pool table, foosball, air hockey, dart board, all the most recent consoles with all the most popular games and a monster PC. Outside was just as nice, there was a large open grass patch with a small Koi pond, a bamboo thicket and other pretty plants at the edges, the pool area had cushioned lounge chairs, a poolside fire pit, the classic parasol shaded table and finally the piece de résistance.

Ky: "Hot tub!"

Ki: "Man, all this place needs is a robot butler."

Ky: "I fought so hard and it's finally here in front of me, so this is what it means to actually put effort into something."

Ki: "Wow this view is amazing, I can actually see our house from here."

Kyousuke didn't listen and instead primed the tub to heat up, turned on the bubbles and ran to the bathroom to rinse off, change into some trunks and dove in.

{Splash}

Ky: "Aaaaahahaha~"

Ki: "Kyousuke you do know it's like eighty degrees out, right?"

Ky: "Don't care!"

Hmhm it's good see him enjoying himself after everything that's happened.

Ki: "Hm, maybe they were right to keep him in the dark."

Ky: "Did you say something?"

Ki: "You look fat!"

Ky: "Thanks you too."

But still, I'm wishing that all this never happened, that Kyousuke was still at home safe and sound and that I'd kept my stupid mouth shut about applying for CHA.

Ky: "Uh, Kirino you okay?"

Ki: "Huh?"

Ky: "Why are you crying?"

It was then that I noticed the wet feeling on my cheeks and I began to panic.

Ki: "I-It's nothing my eyes are just dry from the wind up here, idiot!"

I ran off to the bathroom and looked in the mirror to see my eyeliner running down my face.

I guess I'm not as good at bottling up my emotions as I thought, as much as I don't want Kyousuke to be any part of this it's already too late, all I can do now is to try to keep him happy…this is going to be a challenge.

I washed my face and went back out to see Kyousuke still soaking in his tub so I decided to follow his example and forget about all my worries, I pulled out my phone and called my friends to invite them over for a little house warming party.

Ka: "Kaaaaaa!~ I'm finally here!"

Sa: "Wow this place is nice."

Ay: "I never thought I'd step foot in here."

Ru: "I've only seen places like this in magazines."

Ki: "Go ahead and look around girls we have free reign of the place."

Kanako immediately went to the fridge to check on the snack situation while Saori and Ruri went to look at the game room.

Ay: "Hey Kirino, where's Kyousuke?"

Looks like everyone got their memories back.

Ki: "He's outside in the hot tub."

Ay: "I see, after all he's been through he deserves a little relaxation."

Ki: "Whatever, come on let's look at the garden."

Elsewhere

"Where do you see him?"

"…He will be somewhere in Tokyo a few days from now, he will be heavily guarded most of the time but around 2:00 in the afternoon he will be left alone for a short period. At that point we will strike, throw them all into disarray to give us the opening to look for him, will you be ready Clark?"

"Yes sir, but please I ask that you use my code name."

"Very well Nuclear Fist."

"Uh, Nucular Fist sir."

"Hm?"

"I pronounce it as Nucular Fist instead of Nuclear."

"Okay then, be ready and in position when the time comes."

"Yes sir."

3rd Person POV (Gonna try and practice with this some)

Ky: "Alright our first patrol mission together, what do we have?"

Ki: "Nothing serious, just a water golem."

Ky: "Water golem? Sounds easy."

Ki: "I've never faced one of these before but as long as we follow what our teachers taught us it shouldn't be much of a problem."

Ky: "Yeah."

"Always remember students, when fighting most golems take out its control cluster first if you can, it won't kill it but will greatly weaken and disorient it, as well as cause it to lose whatever shape it has and turn into an amorphous blob."

They entered the center of the evacuated zone which was the park and walked over to the pond where the monster was last seen.

Ki: "Alright do you see anything?"

Ky: "No maybe it's in the pond."

Ki: "If it is we're going to have to find a way to lure it out."

Ky: "Yeah it'd be suicidal to just walk up to where it has the home field advantage."

Ki: "Good thing I brought some water golem bait."

Ky: "What would a water golem be attracted to?"

Ki: "Well a water golem is basically a big, land walking, inside-out jellyfish, so what would a jellyfish love more than some fragrant chum."

Kirino pulled a jar and a clothes pin from her pack and clipped the pin onto her nose before she removed the lid.

{Pop}

Ky: "Agh!"

Kyousuke's nose was then assaulted by the horrid smell but it seemed much more intense than just normal fish.

Ki: "Yep, perfectly aged mackerel chum should do the trick with any water monster."

Ky: "Where the hell did you get that abomination?"

Ki: "That convenience store sells more than just food you know, anyway hold this while I get the giant ziplock bag ready."

Ky: "Wait we're going to capture it alive?"

Ki: "No we're going to capture it first then kill it via dehydration with your heat powers, we'd only do live captures to get an extra bonus to our reward but we don't need that since we still have your prize money."

Ky: "What do you mean we- GYAAAH!?"

Ki: "Kyousuke!?"

Suddenly a large water tentacle shot out of the water, engulfed Kyousuke and rapidly pulled him into the pond before anyone could react.

Ki: "Kyousuke!"

Kirino ran to the edge of the pond not thinking about the danger she was putting herself in and she tried to look through the murky water to find her brother. Kyousuke was struggling down below, being pulled farther and farther down by the currently invisible creature but then he noticed a large purple mass just a few feet away from him. So he took aim and fired a burst of intense heat at it causing it to turn white and fall apart but when it still wouldn't let him go he began to raise the surrounding water temperature.

Ki: "Kyousuke!"

Though she knew there was no reason to be, Kirino was still worried for her brother's safety, but suddenly she noticed something at the center of the pond.

{Blurburburburburb}

The water began to boil and a large amount of steam was rising from surface.

{Splash!}

Ki: "Eh?!"

Ky: "{Inhaaaaaale!}."

Just then the water tentacle lifted Kyousuke up out of the pond and threw him back to shore next to Kirino.

Ki: "Hey, you okay?"

Ky: "Agh, I took out the control cluster, I think."

It was then that Kirino saw the golem slowly dragging itself out of the pond, since it was now too hot to inhabit, and head towards a water fountain to escape down the drainage grate. Once she saw that Kyousuke got his senses back she grabbed the giant ziplock bag, opened it and gave one side to Kyousuke. Kyousuke knew immediately what she wanted him to do and they both rushed to the creature before it could escape and trapped it inside though it began to wildly thrash about.

Ki: "We got it!"

Ky: "Okay what now?!"

Ki: "Alright stay calm."

Ky: "Gah! This thing is about to break the seal!"

Ki: "Okay keep a tight grip on this side of the seal and I'll unzip it a little."

Ky: "Unzip?!"

Ki: "THEN as fast as you can put your hand inside and raise the temperature as high as possible to dehydrate it and let the steam eject from the opening, with your hand too hot for it to touch it won't be able to escape out of the opening, got it?"

Ky: "Yeah."

Ki: "Okay, three, two, ONE!"

Kirino pulled down the zipper a little and Kyousuke rapidly stuck his hand inside the bag and just as the golem began to make its way out Kyousuke exerted enough heat to boil the monster but not melt the bag, causing it to jolt back into the bag. As the heat began to rise steam jetted out of the opening and the bag fogged up, more and more steam came spritzing out until there was no more, the swell in the bag was practically gone and there seemed to be no movement, so thinking the job was done Kyousuke pulled out his hand.

Ky: "Well we did it."

Ki: "Hmmm."

Ky: "What?"

Without answering Kirino opened the bag, reached inside and pulled out what looked like a purple marble.

Ky: "what's that?"

Ki: "I don't know, I didn't hear anything about this in class."

Ky: "What do you think it is?"

Ki: "Maybe…it's some kind of defense mechanism."

Ky: "Eh?"

Ki: "Yeah to keep itself from dying the golem used what was left of its body to create a glasslike shell around a partially regenerated control cluster and I assume that, just like with one of those dinosaur toys, it just needs to make contact with water to expand back into a full sized golem."

Ky: "Uh…"

Ki: "Well anyway that's up to the monster research club to figure out, let's go turn it in."

|Patrol mission complete

Completion rating: A-

Mistakes: Let guards down

Special Items acquired: mysterious sphere

Bonus: +10%|

After calling the police station to confirm that the threat had been taken care of they made it back to the edge of the evacuation zone where they parked the bikes they used to get there and biked back to school.

"Whoa I've never seen anything like this before, you sure this is the golem?"

Ki: "Has to be, we used an empty ultra-sized ziplock bag to catch it then once we vaporized it, this is what was left."

"I see, well your theory would make sense, but it's never occurred with any other specimen, dehydration would just leave behind a thin membrane. Maybe this is some undiscovered species we have here, we'll get to work on it immediately, thank you for your contribution Ms. Kousaka."

Ki: "Yeah."

"Oh and, uh, Mr. Kousaka."

Ky: "Hm?"

"Y-you think I could have you're a-autograph?"

Ky: "Uh, sure."

The student researcher pulled out a small book and gave it to Kyousuke to sign and once that was done he gave a "thank you" and a bow before heading back to his lab.

Ky: "So it begins."

Ki: "What?"

Ky: "Exactly what I was hoping against, popularity."

Ki: "Of course."

Ky: "Don't get me wrong there are some perks to being popular but people are always looking at you with high expectations, there's always pressure for you to be a good leader, to be smart, strong, in shape, charismatic and when people see that you don't meet those expectations or you make one bad mistake they start looking down on you like you don't deserve to be at the top."

Ki: "Wow you make it sound rough."

Ky: "Honestly the only reason I even tried to win the tournament was to…help you out and also get that sweet hot tub, I could do without all the notoriety and fame."

Ki: "So basically you only want to be a hero for personal gain."

Ky: "When you phrase it like that it sounds bad, I'm more than willing to go out of my way for the greater good if I have to."

Ki: "Yeah, guess that's just you."

Ki: That's just you…could Kyousuke really be an alien? No, that stupid, this isn't some crappy B movie…though he did go through a sudden personality change when we were younger, I always assumed he just got lazy but…did that thing take over his mind? …No there's no way that could be, he's still just my stupid older brother.

AN: And that ends this chapter, sorry there wasn't much action but I'll definitely put a lot more in the next one, so until next time I hope you stick with me.