"I thought you said room twenty one Kai!" Riku said as they ran down the hallway towards the room they'd heard Saya was staying in.
There had been something else the person tried to tell them, but they were gone before they could start the sentence.
"Get off my back! It's not like I was listening too much after I heard Saya was here!"
They made it to the room and stopped to catch their breath for a second.
"Just don't freak out when you see her." Kai said to Riku while taking a deep breath.
"Oh yeah. Like I'm the only one that'll be really happy when we see her again."
Then the two stood up fully and Riku knocked on the door.
Kai was right behind him.
After a second they heard muffled footsteps and then heard the door unlocked, after that Haji opened the door.
"Hey, Haji! You're back!" Riku said enthusiastically.
Haji regarded them as he always regarded everyone.
"Is Saya in there?" Kai asked, not wanting to wait much longer.
"She is unavailable at the moment; however she will be out soon."
"Well, can we come in?" Riku asked.
Haji waited for a moment, then stepped back, away from the doorway.
The two started to enter the room, but when Haji stepped out of the way and they saw the girl with long black hair and blue eyes that was instantly recognized as Diva sitting at a table in the room, they were frozen still.
"What the hell?!" Kai commented while Riku was unable to even let out a sound.
Diva turned towards them at Kai's comment and held the same expression she had before but for some strange reason, there wasn't that thing behind it that made her frightening. Of course, the two were still scared thoughtless for a few moments. And though Kai was able to regain himself, Riku still couldn't do anything but sweat.
The girl that had almost killed him before was sitting in a chair looking at him like nothing had ever happened.
"Are these two playing as well?" She asked Haji enthusiastically.
"They came to see Saya." He replied quietly.
The door to the bathroom opened.
"Sorry it took me a while-" Saya noticed Kai and Riku.
"Oh Kai, Riku, it's good to see you."
Though Kai was now looking at Saya, Riku couldn't take his eyes off of Diva.
"Saya, it's been awhile." He said, trying his best to ignore Diva's presence.
She noticed it.
"Yes. Yes it has." Saya looked like she was trying to come up with a way to tell the brothers what was going on.
Diva noticed that Riku was staring at her.
"Saya, why is this boy looking at me?" Diva asked Saya, oblivious to the current atmosphere of the room, and of what she'd done to Riku.
Kai's hands clenched into fists, though he didn't do anything else.
"Diva, be quiet right now, okay?"
Diva pouted.
"That's not fair! I've been waiting for you to get done and when they come in here, you don't want to play anymore!"
Saya really didn't want this to escalate into something serious. And Kai's now bone-white fists were starting to shake.
"Diva!" She said in a normal tone, but in a scolding manner. Diva looked much more hurt than Saya had intended.
She got on the bed and crawled over into a corner.
Though Saya wanted to apologize immediately, she figured now would be a better time to tell her brothers about what was going on; somewhere else.
"Riku, Kai, will you guys come with me?" She asked quietly.
"Yeah, sure." Kai said with an effort.
The two walked towards the door, and Kai brought Riku with them as they left.
"Haji…" She said, looking at him with an expression that said the rest of her sentence.
"I understand, Saya."
She nodded respectively, then left, closing the door behind her.
They walked down the hall a bit and then stopped in an out-of-of-the-way area.
"Saya, what the hell is Diva doing here?" Kai asked, calmer now then before.
Saya would have been surprised at the suddenness of the question if it hadn't been Kai that asked it.
"Well, it's hard to explain. But, basically, she's different now."
"What do you mean, 'different'?" He asked, still upset but now somewhat curious.
"She's human now, first of all, and second, she's… her personality is just different."
"So… what? She's suddenly excused from what she's done because she's 'different'?"
Kai was now more angry than curious.
"Kai, it's not that simple. Of course she's not excused from it, but things are different now."
"I don't understand how a little personality change makes things that much different."
"You don't feel the same about what I've done."
He was caught off guard.
"I killed all those people back then in Vietnam. And you don't try and get me to make amends for it."
"That's because you're-"
"Different?" She said, interrupting him.
He let out a sigh.
"Fine. If you think that she's different like you, I'll try to keep that in mind. But what about Riku?" The two looked down at him. He was still almost completely oblivious to what was going on.
"She doesn't have to be as strong or as quick as she used to be to kill him."
"I didn't mean she's incapable of killing people. I meant she won't even try."
Kai was getting very frustrated by now and he seemed like he was just going to run back to the hotel room and kill Diva himself.
Seeming to sense his older brother's feelings, Riku spoke up.
"Saya, if you say she's different, I'll believe you!"
Kai was nearly forced back at his surprise of what Riku just said.
"But Riku."
Riku put on as happy a face as he could.
"Don't worry about it Kai, if Saya thinks she's better I'm sure she is."
Saya hugged Riku for his understanding.
However, Kai wasn't adjusting as completely as Riku was.
"Fine. Riku, you have a key. When you're ready to come back I'll be there." Then he walked off.
Riku was disappointed at Kai's inability to understand, but didn't expect his older brother to be any different.
"Don't worry about him. It'll just take a bit longer for him to get comfortable with this."
Saya nodded.
"So Riku, did you want to come back to my room, or should we do something else?"
Riku wasn't sure.
Though he trusted Saya's judgment, he wasn't sure if he was ready to actually be in a room with Diva.
"I'm… not sure."
Saya seemed to understand why he didn't know, but didn't show any sign of being upset.
"Well, then how about we flip for it?" She asked, pulling a quarter out of her back pocket.
Riku decided that was fair enough and agreed.
Saya flicked the coin up into the air, caught it, and flipped it over onto the back of her hand and held it over the coin.
"Heads we go back to my room, tails we go somewhere else."
Riku nodded, and Saya pulled her covering hand away.
It was heads.
Riku accepted the flip and they walked back to Saya's room.
Saya opened the door and walked into the room.
Diva was still lying on the bed, facing the wall.
The two walked into the main area after Saya closed the door.
Haji was sitting silently in a chair cleaning his cello.
"Diva, I'm sorry about before. But how about this; we can play whatever game you want, and I promise we won't stop until we finish it."
Diva quickly moved to sit up and face her at the same time.
"Really?" She said in a tone that showed no hint of being upset. Like a cat a minute after you stepped on it's tail.
Saya couldn't help but smile at her.
"Really."
Sorry it took me so long to add another chapter, I've been working on other things. It turns out I have enough for another chapter after this one, but I don't I have any more than that. Like I said before, if you like this story(which I assume you somewhat do since you're still reading it.) just tell me that you do and I'll start working on this again. I know it seems like an underhanded way to get a review but since I'm not working on it right now and I am working on something else if I'm going to start doing this again I'll require a reason to.
