Chapter 10:

The next morning, Megumi woke up to see some yokai yelling and rushing about. She quickly got dressed and brushed her hair, putting it up in her usual bun before opening the door to leave.

"Hey Kubinashi-kun, what's wrong with everyone today?" Megumi asked the fear stricken yokai boy.

"Some yokai from the Tono village came here a few minutes ago and took Lord Rikuo away to their village for something but none of us know exactly..." Kubinashi answered.

"Grandpa is most likely behind this, I'll go and talk to him. I'll see you later, Kubinashi-kun!" The granddaughter explained before walking off to find the old man.

Nurarihyon turned out to be walking around with Rihan and they were quietly speaking about Rikuo.

"Hey dad, grandpa! Do you know why some Tono yokai took Rikuo away? Isn't the Tono village full of strong yokai?" Megumi asked her elders and Nurarihyon sighed.

"As I was just telling my son, yesterday Rikuo said that he wanted to go to Kyoto but so far he needs to learn a lot of things such as controlling his fear in Yokai Form. Your brother has been sent to Tono to be taught about these things in order to go to Kyoto." Nurarihyon explained calmly and Megumi frowned, but before she could talk, Rihan said something.

"Megumi-chan, you don't need to worry about your brother. Knowing him, there's a very high chance that he'll be back tomorrow. How about today you have yourself a day off from worrying about him?" Rihan smiled at his daughter and ruffled her hair playfully.

"Well... I guess you're right. I could probably see my school friends today, they are always asking why I can never hang out with them out of school..." Megumi suggested to herself out loud, "I'll see you two tonight then!" She told her family members before walking to her bedroom and grabbing her cell phone.

"Hello?" -Ami

"Hi Ami-chan! Um I was just wondering since I'm not busy today if we could hang out? You know like go shopping or something?" -Megumi

"Ooh hey Megumi-chan! Yeah totally! I could ring up the other girls too if you'd like!" -Ami

"Okay, sounds good! …I'll meet you there then!... Bye!" Megumi ended the phone call and began packing things in a small backpack. She put in a small purse which held some money, her sketchbook, some pencils for drawing and cell phone.

"Hey Megumi-chan, if I may ask, why are you packing?" Kubinashi appeared at the bedroom door.

"Oh hi Kubinashi-kun, I'm just packing because today I'm going to hang out with some of my school friends seeing as Rikuo isn't around." Megumi informed her friend who smiled at her happily.

"Ah okay, well be sure to have a good time with them and don't forget dinner is at 6!" He told her and she nodded before leaving.

(up until this part I would have added on 13 of Nov but because my computer had blue screen of death I lost the chapter 10 which I had written before... also I don't want to leave such a tiny chapter so I'll try and write more during this week! On Friday I'm busy though but I'll try and upload chapter 10 by 17th or something!)

"Hey! Is that Nura-san? Well this is a first, you're finally hanging out with us out of school!" Megumi heard a girl say while she approached the group of 4 girls including Ami who scolded the other girl for being rude but Megumi chuckled.

"Today I don't have to worry about my trouble-some brother because he's out of the house. Well, we should start shopping now. I need to be back home at 5 for dinner." Megumi told the group who nodded.

"Same! Now where should we go first?" Ami asked and two people said the Clothes Store. As they walked, Megumi looked around her, seeing lots of people walking around too and there were a lot of shops like one which sold sweets and chocolates, books and the list went on inside her head.

"...Wow." The black haired girl breathed out in awe when they arrived to an apparently famous Clothes Store. Megumi had done gone out much before to these sort of shops and she was happy to finally find something new in her life.

"Haven't you been here before, Megumi-chan?" Ami asked said girl who shook her head and Ami gave her a weird look before looking away acting as if nothing happened. Looking at the price of an outfit, Megumi pouted disappointedly when she saw the price was were expensive.

"Didn't you bring much money?" A girl asked Megumi and she shook her head with a frown.

"I didn't know we'd go to expensive stores... I only bought 25000 yen (The expensive story is VERY expensive lol, Megumi has about £20... Not sure about $ sorry but I used google so just try that :D ~Chloe)..." She told them so they decided to leave and go somewhere else. One shop outside though caught Megumi's eye. In the window was Canvas, paints, brushes, pencils, pens and sketchbooks.

"Um, I'm just going to check out this shop if it's OK." Megumi excused herself as she almost skipped into the Art shop.

"Ah! Hello, do you happen to be looking for anything specifically, dear?" A man in his thirties appeared with a smile behind the counter which was at the end of the small building.

"Uh, I think for now I am just looking around... I haven't been to this kind of shop before." Megumi told him as she looked at the different sized paint brushes and canvas placed around the rather cramped room. 'I think I should get a couple of paint brushes, a simple box of small paints and a sketchbook...' Megumi thought to herself as she collected the items and took them to the till to buy them.

"Hey Megumi-chan! What'd you buy?" A girl in the group asked with a grin and said girl showed them all. "Awesome! You gotta show us your paintings sometime!"

"Yeah, I'll be sure to show you some one day." Said Megumi with a smile and the group walked on towards another shop. They ended up spending 4 hours shopping when Megumi saw Kubinashi walking around.

"I'll see you lot at school, bye!" Megumi told the group of girls before walking off to the neckless boy.

"There you are, Megumi-chan! I was looking for you, I think you may have lost track of the time because it's nearly 7 o'clock!" Kubinashi informed the black haired girl with a frown as though he was her elder.

"Oh, ha ha I guess I did. I mean my friends showed me all of these nice shops. There is a Sweet Shop which sells really delicious treats like lollipops. Here, I got you one." Megumi handed him a lollipop which had a yellow wrapper and was decorated with small pictures of something but he couldn't tell what the pictures were, "This lollipop is Vanilla flavour, the wrapper tells you. Anyway, we should head home now." She explained with a smile.

Once they had arrived home, Megumi had to quickly adjust to being around yokai again after spending the whole day with normal humans. She found her father and grandfather sitting in the main hall looking like today had not been very interesting.

"Hey dad! Grandpa!" She greeted the two men as she sat down with them.

"I see Kubinashi-kun managed to find you in time. You should really keep a watch with you, Megumi-chan." Rihan spoke with a smile to his daughter but then all of a sudden he was met with a lollipop.

"My friends took me to a Sweet Shop and I bought a few of these lollipops. I've got one for you, Grandpa, Rikuo-kun and Kubinashi-kun!" Megumi replied with a toothy grin. Both Rihan and Nurarihyon took a lollipop each but Tsurara arrived to tell them all dinner was ready. Yokai crowded into the main hall and after a small amount of minutes, dinner was being served.

A couple of hours later after dinner, Megumi was showing her father what else she had bought in town. They stood by the Sakura tree and Megumi decided to try out the paints while talking to Rihan who watched.

"Hey dad... You know that Rikuo had to go to Tono in order to learn about his fear... well I was wondering if you'd be able to... like tell me how you'd use you fear. It's just...-"

"You want to know how to control fear in yokai form so that in Kyoto you can protect your brother?" Rihan guessed with a frown and Megumi slowly nodded, "Do you not know how dangerous Kyoto will be? Your yokai form won't be there to help you all of the time in Kyoto afterall you are only one sixth yokai blooded. Most likely everyone in our clan will be fighting so there is a less chance of protection for you, Megumi." Rihan told his daughter, looking slightly annoyed and concerned.

"I want to go to Kyoto to help Rikuo-kun. I already have a good idea of what I could do there. I could hide around away from yokai but appear when Rikuo-kun is in really deep trouble since I could heal some wounds, couldn't I? At school recently, the club I joined... Is a club about using a katana to defend myself and if you explained to me about controlling fear then I could protect myself and help Rikuo-kun when he is in need!" Megumi argued and Rihan sighed, closing his eyes before opening them again and giving the black haired girl a look.

"You sure are stubborn, Megumi-chan. I'll talk to Kubinashi-kun and he could look after you when you go to Kyoto. But once you are there, you have to protect yourself because at some points no one may be there for you when you might really need someone." He quietly said and his daughter nodded her head.

"I understand, thanks dad."

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3 or 4 pages, I don't wanna count. I tried making a deadline since my computer got bsod a couple of nights ago! It's nearly midnight and I wanted to finish this chapter so bad! This chapter may be disappointing though because while Rikuo was gone, I tried making up a mini story as a filler but I totally suck at writing original stuff lmao XD