Photobooks: Chapter 8.
"Woohoo! Vacation!" yelled Kiba and Yobio on the same time while pumping their fists into the air. Yone rolled her eyes. They had already arrived at the Junhoshi Mountains.
"Yeah!" yelled Sora too.
"We needed this vacation! We worked too hard!" announced Yobio. "So, let's make the best of it!" she said and pumped her fist into the air with a grin. They walked to the big wooden house in front of them. When they got inside, they looked in awe.
"This house is… huge…" said Yone.
"Of course it is" said Yobio, a bit too harsh. Yone glared at her while she didn't look. "It's no use, Yone. I can see, that you're glaring at me…" said Yobio as she put her bags on the floor. The newcomers stared at her.
"What do you mean?" asked Takama. His voice was bored as always.
"Yobio-san can see into the future" said Ichi. Yone looked at her.
"You can see into the future?" asked Yone sarcastically. Yobio then looked sad.
"It isn't cool at all. It's more like a 'curse'. I can see who is going to die when they're older, and I don't want that…" said Yobio as she put her hands in her black pants. "I want to prevent people from dying, but that's not easy at all…"
"Meh," began Sora. "This house isn't clean at all" she said. Yobio glared at her.
"How dare you to stop my emotional moment? Well, let's clean up!" she said. She passed a few brooms to the others. "Takama, you do the living room. Shizuko, do the kitchen. Ichi, do the dinner rooms. Kiba and Yone, do the bedrooms. Mieru, do the restrooms. Sora, do the bathrooms" said Yobio and smirked.
"What? Why do I have to do that?" asked Sora. Yobio shrugged.
"Because I am gonna clean the snow outside" said Yobio and threw a black scarf around her neck. She grabbed a shovel from a big wooden closet, and walked away.
"Pf, well then. Let's do this!" said Sora to herself.
-x-
Two hours later, everyone was ready with cleaning. The house from the inside, was white. So it had a very clean expression.
"I'm so hungry…!" whined Kiba. Yone rolled her eyes.
"Me too!" said Sora. Sora then came up with an idea. "You know? I am a Mage, so I can use my Magic to have food for all of us!" she said. Yobio rolled her eyes.
"Warning! It may be dangerous due to the maker of the food…" Yobio said and smirked. Sora glared at her. She then huffed, and walked away to the kitchen. "Let's watch TV or something…" said Yobio and turned on the TV.
"We got an notice of our favorite thieves in The World: Alice and Kid signed the notice on the same day! They also have the same target. This time, it's the famous Junhoshi Diamond, in the Junhoshi Mountains!" told the woman on TV.
"Eh? Alice? Who is that?" asked Kiba. Yobio and Yone rolled their eyes.
"You really don't know anything at all, do you?" asked Yone. Kiba just smiled.
"She is the rival of Kid. She often gets the most wanted title, then Kid gets it" said Yobio.
"So, they are actually competing about who gets the most wanted title? I wouldn't want that at all!" exclaimed Kiba.
"FOOD IS READY!" yelled Sora from the dining room.
"Finally!" yelled Kiba and stood up, along with Yone and the others. When they got into the dining room, they looked in awe at the food in front of them. It had a mix between Thai food, Japanese food, Chinese food and Korean food. "Looks… delicious…!" said Kiba and got a seat. Yone took a seat next to him. Yobio and the others sat also on a seat.
"Itedakimasu!" they said all in unison. Yobio took a bite from the food.
"It actually tastes…" began Yobio. Sora looked at her hopefully. "Normal" she ended. Sora glared at her.
"Well, thanks…" she said.
-x-
The next day.
"Let's go for a walk!" said Sora after they finished their breakfast.
"What was your idea?" asked Takama. Sora thought for a second.
"Well, since we didn't go to the mountains yesterday because of the cleaning, let's go to a quiet place and… talk" said Sora.
"That doesn't sound bad at all. Let's go" said Ichi.
-x-
"Ah! Why did we go all up the mountain?" asked Sora tired and fell on her stomach on the ground. Yobio rolled her eyes, and sighed.
"It was your idea" said Yobio. Sora groaned. "Anyways, let's play Hide and Seek!" announced Yobio. They all sweat dropped. Sora stood up from the ground.
"Why play something childish as that?" she asked. Yobio also sweat dropped.
"Because it's the only fun thing I could think of…" she said.
After a few minutes, they were all hiding, except for Sora. "Where are they…?" she asked. She looked behind a tree, and saw Kiba looking the other way. "Ha! Found you!" she said. Kiba looked at her, and put on a sad face.
"Aw! That's not fair!" he said.
"Oi! Can somebody help me out here!" yelled Yobio from a distance. Sora and Kiba looked up. They ran to the place where Yobio's voice came from. They saw a few men standing around Yobio and Mieru.
"What happened?" asked Sora. Takama, Ichi and Shizuko also arrived. A man walked up to Yobio. He slammed with his fist and tried to punch her. Yobio punched in his face, and then kicked in his stomach. The man fainted on the ground.
"These man found out about Mieru being here" panted Yobio while kicking into another man. The others also arrived then.
"How did they-" began Sora but punched a man in his face. "Found out?" she asked. Yobio shrugged.
"I don't know…" said Yobio.
"Hand over the girl…" said a man scary. Yobio looked at him with a smirk.
"And what if I don't?" asked Yobio. The man smirked back.
"I'll kill you" he said. Yobio then laughed. The others stared at her.
"No one can kill me! Before you even grabbed an knife, I already have stabbed you!" she said.
"Yeah, right…" he said. Yobio groaned and grabbed a clock. She stopped time. She walked towards the man, and kicked him. She pushed him, and he fell flat on the ground. She continued time again. He groaned. "What the heck am I doing on the ground…?" he asked. Yobio held the clock in her hand.
"Nothing" she replied.
-x-
"Pf, that took quite a long time…" sighed Yobio and threw her arms behind her head.
"Who do you think they send those men?" asked Ichi. Sora shrugged.
"Maybe Kouhei!" said Kiba. Takama shook his head.
"I'm sure Kouhei knew nothing of Mieru" said Takama. Mieru sighed.
"Why are shape shifters illegal…?" she asked.
"They can change into anything. A weapon or something dangerous, you know. That would be dangerous to the country, wouldn't it?" told Yobio. Mieru nodded.
"Well, let's walk now" said Sora.
-x-
"I bet you can't run all the way up this hill" said Sora to Yobio and smirked. Yobio smirked back.
"Let's see then" she said. The others groaned. Sora and Yobio got into running positions, and counted to three.
"One, two, three… GO!" they yelled at the same time. They ran away all the way up the hill. Yobio was quicker than Sora.
"O-Oi! Yobio! Look out there's a cliff!" yelled Sora. Yobio stuck out her tongue.
"I won't be tricked by that, Sora!" she yelled back.
"Y-Yobio! I'm not lying!" yelled Sora and stopped running. Yobio looked in front of her. She gasped. She fell, but grabbed on time a branch. "Yobio!" yelled Sora. "Guys! Help me!" yelled Sora. The others arrived quick.
"What happe- Yobio!" they all said.
"Help me to get her back!" said Sora. She handed out her hand. "Grab my hand, Yobio!" she said. Yobio refused. Sora looked at her with a confused look. "Y-Yobio…?" she asked.
"Yobio, idiot! Grab her hand!" yelled Yone. Yobio just looked at them.
"Just… go. I have a feeling something is going to happen. I will return later. Just go now" she said.
"We will not go without you, idiot!" said Yone. Yobio grinned her boyish grin.
"You're an idiot too, Yone" replied Yobio and winked.
"Idiot!" yelled Kiba. Yobio sighed.
"See you!" she said and loosened her grip on the branch. Everyone widened their eyes.
"YOBIO!" they all yelled. They watched Yobio fall.
"YOBIO, YOU IDIOT!" yelled Sora. When they didn't saw Yobio anymore, tears started to fall. Sora took a huge breath, and screamed. "YOBIOO!" Ichi put a reassuring hand on her shoulder.
"It… can't be helped. Let's just go. Yobio doesn't want us to be here, she said something would happen…" said Ichi. She smiled, but you could see the sadness in her eyes.
"That idiot… Even though I hated her, I knew she had a good heart…" said Sora. Tear drops fell on the ground.
"We all knew that, Sora-san…" said Ichi.
"Let's go…" managed Kiba to say. He had lost a friend.
"Yes. Yobio doesn't want us to get hurt…" said Takama. Sora and the others looked one more time at the cliff in front of them.
"IDIOT!" screamed Sora at the cliff. Ichi threw her arms around her shoulders.
-x-
Yone started coughing. Kiba threw his arm around her shoulders.
"Are you alright?" he asked. Yone shook her head.
"I smell smoke nearby…" she said and coughed again. The others also started coughing.
"Maybe this is what Yobio meant…" said Sora.
"Let's just hurry up. Maybe there is a fire somewhere" said Takama. He coughed.
-x-
After 15 minutes, they started to smell the smoke more and more. They also caught glimpses of orange lighting in the woods.
"I wish Yobio was here. She could tell –cough- where we should go…" said Sora. She wiped of her forehead. The fire started to go towards them. Suddenly it was in front of them, and behind them. Then next to them.
"Where should we –cough- go now? There is no other way!" said Kiba. Sora coughed also.
"Oh, holy. Spread your water on this fire" said Sora while pointing her finger in the air. Her other finger in front of her mouth. A blue magic circle appeared around her. Suddenly, it started raining. The fire quickly vanished.
"Thanks, Sora" said Kiba. He put his jacket around Yone. "You alright?" asked Kiba. Yone nodded.
"Okay, just let's go back to the house" said Takama. The others nodded.
-x-
The dinner was awkward. The dinners always had Yobio arguing with someone else, or she making fun of the others. She would also tell stories, but the dinner was quite quiet now.
"Sorry, I'm going to bed" said Sora and stood up. She wiped away her eyes, and walked away.
"Me too…" said Yone. Kiba and the others quickly followed.
-x-
Somewhere else.
"Good job…" said the black haired man. He had a pale skin, and icy blue eyes. The girl in front of him had her eyes closed. Then she opened her green eyes.
"Of course, leader…" she smirked.
The story had just yet to be begin...
Inspire-chan (2011): Sorry I didn't update… again!
I'll give you a hint. The men who found out about where Mieru was, was someone who told them. She is an important character in the story. She is in almost every chapter, so it can be easy to guess.
Hint, hint! Yobio said: "No one can kill me! …". I hope the others already knew what that meant. And I hope you too! And, no. Yobio can't sense powers. But she can see in the future, remember?
Aw, it was quite sad to let Yobio die… Sorry if any of the characters are a bit out of character. This part just had to be sad!