Summer Vacations and Summer Fights

In this chapter Sango and Kohaku have their first taste of the drama that is beginning to plague the Sohma family. Also you get to meet Akito's mother, Ren Sohma, as she lays a big surprise for Neyla.

Neyla came back from the Feudal Era with Sango, Kohaku and Mirokyu like she promised. Living arrangements were hard to come by for them so Neyla came up with only one solution for them. Sango, Kohaku and Mirokyu were living with Kagome until Neyla could work out an arrangement with a landlord she knew. Going to Akito would be suicide because of the constant fighting between her and Akito: five fist fights and ten verbal arguments. Even though the fights continued, most of the Zodiac stood by Neyla's side. Three weeks after Neyla's return from the Feudal Era, she was able to get Sango, Kohaku and Mirokyu an apartment to stay at and he would cover the first year of rent for them; but they had to find work and save up money to pay the rent next year. Neyla talked to Sakura and Sasuke about hiring her friends from the Feudal Era; at first they were a bit skeptical but when her friends showed their skills and that they could perform the tasks given to them, Sakura and Sasuke agreed to gave them a job as couriers. But Neyla had to tell Akito about the demon slayers and monk working for him as couriers. She gulped and went to Sohma House on Hinoki's back, Akito wasn't thrilled to see Neyla anymore Neyla was to see him. Akito was reclining on his tatami as usual with Hatori tending his medical needs. Neyla sighed and sat down on her knees before Akito.

"I hope you haven't come to start another fight," said Akito recalling the fights they had.

Neyla laughed and replied, "No I've come for a couple of business related things."

"And what would they be?" asked Akito.

"First, we hired a few of my demon slayer friends as part of our courier business," answered Neyla.

"I don't care if you hire people to assist you in your business as long as you pay us back," Akito said calmly, "What's the other business thing, did you come to ask for the summer break?"

"Yeah I did," answered Neyla, "We really want to have it off. We've been working our ass off for you, especially protecting you guys from Deepground."

Akito paused for a moment then he thought about it for a minute and decided.

"Very well," said Akito, "You and your ninja friends can have summer break off. I gather you guys are going to the summer house?"

"No just me," replied Neyla, "Sakura and Sasuke are going back to the Hidden Leaf Village for the summer. I'm going to the summer house, but I wanted to invite my friends Sango and Kohaku to join me at the summer house. If that is cool with you."

Akito nodded and said, "They may go with you to the summer house for the summer."

"Thank you Akito," Neyla said getting on her feet, "You da bomb."

Akito smiled as she began to leave, then she turned around asked Akito something, "Hey Akito you don't mind if I kidnap Hari do you?"

Akito's eyes widened, without Hatori around to take of him no one would be there to take care of him. Neyla studied his eyes and realized he needed a doctor to stay with him while Hatori was at the summer house. She had an idea; Dr. Catherine Halsey would ideal to take of Akito. If she put up with the crap that Neyla put her through, she could easily put with Akito's crap. Neyla quickly calmed Akito down and said, "Don't worry I'll get Dr. Halsey down here to take Hari's place and take care of you for the summer."

Akito agreed to let Hatori go to the summer house with her and her friends. Neyla also requested that a few more of the Zodiac go to the summer house; she wanted Kagura, Rin, Kisa and Hiro to come with her and Akito them to go.

Later Neyla was getting ready for her summer of the beach, swimming and good friends to spend the summer with. Foehammer radioed in that the dropship was an hour out and would depart when ready. Neyla went on her daily raid into the Sohma archives to try and get more information on the Zodiac curse and what the bond between God and Zodiac was. With little luck she quickly put what info she gathered and marked it in a folder, "Top Secret: Omega Level Clearance, Commander Only." As she snuck out, a woman took notice and approached her directly. She noticed Neyla about to close her laptop computer when she said, "If you want information on the Sohma's curse, you should come to someone who knows and understands it."

"Who the hell are you?" asked Neyla.

"Ren," answered the woman as she approached Neyla, "Ren Sohma, I'm Akito's mother."

Neyla's eyes widened, she had never seen or heard of Akito's mother, Ren Sohma. Neyla took a deep breath and asked Ren about the Zodiac Curse and she explained it clearly for Neyla as she was recording the conversation from the webcam on her computer. Ren revealed a lot of secrets about Akito, including that Akito was a girl but was raised like a boy instead. Neyla's eyes widen when she said that about Akito, she hadn't noticed that about Akito. Ren continued and revealed that one of the Zodiac members, Kureno Sohma, was freed by accident. There was some object that freed him from the Zodiac curse; Neyla paid extra attention to all the details as she continued to record the conversation. Ren finished before she told Neyla everything that could give her an edge on Akito. Neyla wanted to hear the rest, but Ren told her that it would have to wait until summer break was over.

"Hey I'm sorry about…" Neyla began but Ren put her hand up and shook her head.

"You don't need to apologize," said Ren, "I understand you were startled by my presence. And don't worry, I won't tell anyone about your raids into the Sohma archives."

Neyla smiled and thanked Ren for the conversation, she found it to be very helpful and she could inform the Zodiac so they would know what's going on.

Neyla boarded the dropship to the summer house with everyone she invited. As they strapped in Neyla was thinking about the conversation she had with Ren Sohma and finding out that Akito wanted to teach the Zodiac a lesson for leaving him alone. Kisa took notice and asked if she was okay.

"Are you okay?" asked Kisa, "Is something wrong, you're not hurt are you?"

Neyla turned to Kisa and answered, "I'll tell you when we get there, there's something I need to tell you guys, even the Sohmas and Tohru already at the summer house."

"Is it serious?" asked Hiro.

Neyla nodded instead of answering. Sango asked if it concerned her and Kohaku and Neyla said it only concerned the Sohmas and Tohru Honda. She felt it was something they needed to know right away. No one said anything else on the flight to the summer house; Sango wondered what Neyla wanted to tell the Sohmas.

Tohru ran and embraced Kisa as she came into the house; she was very happy to see her. Kyo was happy to see that Kagura came and kissed her. Hiro gave a huff of annoyance; he really didn't like that everyone was getting along. Neyla noticed it and told him to let go of the past, because she thought that Hiro was still holding onto his guilt for what happened to Kisa. After Hatori went outside to smoke, Neyla sent Sango and Kohaku outside as well so she could talk to the Sohmas.

"There's something I need to talk to you guys about," said Neyla, "It's about Akito and some new information I learned on Zodiac."

"Raiding the Sohma archives again, are we?" sassed Rin.

Neyla chuckled but composed herself and told them everything she learned before coming to the summer house. She laid out everything starting from learning that Akito was actually a girl instead of a boy; the guys were sickened when they heard that Akito was a girl and not a guy. Kisa, Kagura, Rin and Tohru were shocked to hear it. Neyla finished laying everything else from the bond of the Zodiac to Kureno Sohma being released from the Zodiac curse by accident by some artifact. Rin looked away, turned back and said, "I knew it! I knew there'd be a way to break the curse, I just didn't know how."

Later, Neyla radioed the castle base to send a security team for the summer house and a sniper team at the guest house. She knew Akito was coming and she would have to keep him in check otherwise there was bound to be a fight, well there'd be a fight even if a sniper team was there. While Momiji, some of the Sohmas and Tohru went looking for stag beetles, Neyla, Sango and Kohaku trained and practiced their demon slayer attacks and abilities on some hologram enemies that Cortana projected around the grounds of the summer house. Not much happened that day except Kisa and Hiro got into a fight and went to bed early. The next day, Akito came and the Sohmas braced for a storm, meaning they were expecting Neyla and Akito to fight. But at the moment Neyla, Kisa, Hiro, Tohru and the demon slayers were on the beach enjoying the summer sun and swimming. Shigure was there too sunning himself and watching everyone enjoy the beach and eyeing the girls in their swim suits, he especially eyed Sango. Shigure just marveled at what a beautiful woman Sango was; Neyla saw Shigure looking at Sango and threw a rock at him hitting him on the head. She felt he was becoming a bigger pervert by the day and it annoyed her. Hiro was talking to his mother, Satsuki, on his cell phone and found out she was pregnant. Hiro wasn't happy at all about his mother being pregnant. The older Sohmas came back from the grocery store with watermelons, when Tohru told everyone about Hiro's mother being pregnant Momiji came up and idea said they should do a water melon smashing tournament to celebrate. Hiro made a comment that he wasn't happy about it at all.

Later, Neyla spotted Yuki taking a walk on a trail. She approached him and warned him that Akito was at the hanare and might be expecting him to be lonely. Neyla quickly came up with an idea, she saw another trail path and suggested that Yuki walk on that path and she would go on the one he was walking on. Yuki agreed, he wanted to avoid Akito as much as he could. When Yuki was out of sight, Neyla used a transformation spell and made herself look like Yuki and walked along the trail until she met with Kureno Sohma and Akito, being accompanied by Dr. Halsey. Akito noticed Neyla, passing as Yuki, and approached her.

"Hello Yuki," greeted Akito, "are you alone, like always?"

Akito began talking about how "he" shouldn't get "his" hopes up and think about being saved from the dark path "he" was distended to stay on. Neyla crossed her arms and yawned while Akito was going on and on. Dr. Halsey saw "Yuki" and noticed the posture "he" was in and recognized it as Neyla's posture; she knew the real Yuki Sohma was afraid of Akito. Neyla yawned again out of boredom and Akito noticed "Yuki's" boredom and was offended.

"Do I bore you that easy?" demanded Akito.

Neyla snapped her fingers and dispelled the transformation and crossed her arms again. Akito moved back in fear and anger.

"No," answered Neyla, "I was just 'cutting through the crap' and found nothing useful in your dumb speech."

Akito ran towards Neyla and threw a punch that Neyla dodged quickly and threw her own punch and connected on Akito's face. Akito retaliated and hit Neyla in her stomach; she doubled over and quickly got up before Akito kicked her in the face. For ten minutes Akito and Neyla traded punches and things started to get bloody. Dr. Halsey approached Neyla and tried to stop her from punching Akito in the face but got slugged for it instead.

"Stay out of our fight, please," requested Neyla.

Dr. Halsey tried to get in between them to break up the fight, but had to dodge wild punches and cheap shots that Neyla and Akito threw at each other. Both Neyla and Akito took a moment to catch their breath before fighting again, Dr. Halsey thought she found her opportunity to stop the fight but when she tried to step in, Dr. Halsey got slugged by Akito on accident. Neyla had dodged the punch that Akito threw at her, Akito apologized for hitting her. Kureno brought Dr. Halsey away from the fighting and had her sit down while he tried to examine her for any cuts or bruises on her face. Dr. Halsey gently pushed Kureno away from her, thanking him for his offer. Akito focused a lot of her rage into a punch and connected on her jaw sending Neyla a couple of feet back and landed on the ground. Neyla stood up; she was covered with bruises and blood running down her face, arms and legs. Akito faired a little better than Neyla; she had more bruises and cuts on her arms, legs and face. Neyla quickly charged towards Akito and landed a sharp punch on Akito's face. Dr. Halsey once again stepped in, to end the fight. Before Neyla could punch Akito again, Dr. Halsey slugged Neyla in the face and turn to slug Akito in the face. Akito stopped fighting, but Neyla retaliated by slugging Dr. Halsey harder. Dr. Halsey fell to the ground and Neyla limped back to the summer house, not before she helped Dr. Halsey off the ground.

"Tell the Zodiac that their presence is required," demanded Akito, "And you will be there as well, it's mandatory."

Neyla turned around and flipped Akito off with the middle finger and replied, "UNSC 3-9ner-2."

Akito looked dumbfounded at Dr. Halsey and she replied, "That's a non-response code, or as Neyla likes to put it: 'Go to hell.'"

Akito became angry, Neyla was becoming a big threat to her and the 'bond' that she held on to for dear life. Sooner or later, Neyla would have to be dealt with without interference from the Zodiac, she knew if she tried to do anything to Neyla, Sakura, Sasuke and Tohru she'd have to deal with the Zodiac. Most of the Zodiac had felt that the ninjas and Tohru were part of the Sohma family.

As Neyla was walking to the summer house she fell on the ground, passed out from walking all the way toward the summer house. Sango's demon cat, Kirara, was enjoying a nice stroll on the trail by herself when she saw Neyla lying on the ground in a pool of blood. Kirara lightly nudged Neyla trying to get her to stand. Kirara ran off to find Sango so she could help Neyla, but Sango was busy training with Kohaku. So Kirara went and found Kyo Sohma to help her with Neyla. Kirara nudged Kyo to get his attention, Kyo looked at Kirara as if he noticed her for the first time.

"What do you want?" Kyo asked Kirara.

"Neyla is hurt on a dirt path and needs help," is what Kirara said to Kyo, it's a good thing Kyo was possessed by the cat. Otherwise, Kyo wouldn't have been able understand what Kirara said to him.

"What Neyla's hurt?" asked Kyo surprised, "Where is she?"

Kirara hurried towards the door and answered Kyo, "This way, follow me."

Kyo followed Kirara on the trail and found Neyla on the ground, trying to get up.

"Hey, hey don't move you're hurt," said Kyo as came to Neyla's side and helped her up off the ground.

Kyo slowly brought Neyla back to the summer house when Sango took notice and saw Neyla was hurt. She stopped practicing and helped Kyo bring Neyla into the summer house. Once inside they set Neyla down on the couch. While Kyo went and found Hatori, Sango cleaned Neyla's wounds. When Hatori came into the living room, he noticed the trail of blood coming from the outside. When he saw Neyla on the couch bloodied and bruised, he sighed and said, "I take you got into another fight with Akito. And from the look of things I'd say it got bloody again."

Hatori bandaged Neyla's wounds and she told him what happened between her and Akito; about finding Yuki and warning him about Akito's arrival, transforming into Yuki and running into Akito on purpose, having to listen to Akito's nonsense and then the fight that Akito started. The Sohmas and Tohru gathered around Neyla and she told the Sohmas that they had to go see Akito, she also fingered Shigure as the one who brought Akito to the summer house to "teach them a lesson" as Akito said she wanted to do.

"I don't want to see Akito," Kisa said bravely, "I'd rather stay here with sister then see Akito."

"Me too," said Rin.

The Sohmas refused to go with Shigure and see Akito, if she was going to hurt the people they cared about, then they weren't going to see Akito and if Akito was going to try and "teach them a lesson." Shigure tried to get them to change their minds but they wouldn't. Shigure sighed and left, he knew Akito wasn't going to be happy about it. Shigure walked silently along the path wondering what Akito would say to him when she found out the Zodiac refused to come and say hello. Hatori was already at the hanare when Shigure arrived, he saw none of the Zodiac members had followed him.

"Where's everyone at?" asked Hatori.

"They refused to come and say hello," answered Shigure.

"I'll bet it's because they found out that you suggested to Akito that he should come and 'teach them a lesson,'" said Hatori. Shigure sighed and nodded.

Hatori stepped forward and said, "Stop meddling in people's lives. Sakura and Sasuke were hurt because you told Akito about their love life, when it's none of our business. If you don't rein in your mischief, I'll slit you open."

Shigure smiled and said, "I have no idea what your talking about."

Hatori walked into Akito's room followed by Shigure. Akito gestured them in, to help her off the floor. Kureno and Dr. Halsey sat next to him. Dr. Halsey had a couple of bruises and a cut from the last punch Neyla threw at her. Akito looked at Shigure and asked him where the Zodiac was.

"They refused to come and see you," answered Shigure, "I tried to get them to reconsider, but they wouldn't budge."

Akito raised her hand and replied calmly, "You don't need to explain yourself, I understand."

Hatori helped Akito off the ground and Akito thought of what she wanted to do to Neyla. Neyla was beginning to be a pain in the ass for Akito and their relations had soured, they were enemies.

"I guess I'll have to go to them and teach them a lesson," Akito said to Shigure and Hatori, "That ninja and monster need to know that they'll never win against me. I will always remain in the Zodiac and those two monsters will have to see things my way."

Hatori left the hanare silently without a word, leaving Shigure to walk with Akito; he wanted no part in Akito's scheme to make Tohru and the ninjas leave the Sohma family, nor did he want them to suffer like the Sohmas had to. As Hatori left the hanare, he noticed snipers in hiding and figured Neyla had them there to keep an eye on Akito.

"So what are you guys doing here?" Hatori asked the snipers.

"We're here to keep an eye on Akito Sohma and keep him contained here at hanare," answered Linda, the lead sniper.

"I see," replied Hatori, "Well Akito is going to the summer house to try and 'teach a lesson' to the younger Sohmas."

"Sir, we'll keep him here sir," said Linda. Hatori nodded and left towards the summer house.

Later during the night, Neyla was making a sweep of the summer house and the grounds during the night, Akito slipped past Neyla's sniper security. Akito got in the summer house and waited for Neyla to reenter the house so she could ambush Neyla in the dark. When Neyla came in the house she stretched before she walked towards the stairs, Akito waited quietly grabbing a flower vase. Neyla quietly tip toed to the stairs and when she did Akito struck. Neyla however was able to sense Akito's presence and dodged the swinging vase. Neyla quickly unsheathed her Spartan combat knife, she had on her at the time, and fought back. Akito got nicked five times and was almost stabbed to death. Neyla quickly reached for the silent alarm to alert the guards outside the summer house of an intruder. Akito furiously began assaulting Neyla after she triggered the silent alarm. Neyla was slapped and punched hard and was bleeding again. Neyla punched back and made a break for the stairs to alert Hatori and Shigure of Akito's intrusion. Akito threw the vase she had in her hand on Neyla's forehead, when Neyla turned to see what Akito had in her hand and then ran as the security team entered the summer house. Neyla was flat on the floor unconscious and had her head busted open. Akito made a break for the hanare but was caught by the sniper team Neyla had in place.

"And where have you been?" asked Linda in a parental voice.

"It's none of your business," sneered Akito, "I'll do what I please and you can't stop me."

As Akito said that it was none of Linda's business, she received a report that Neyla had been ambushed in the summer house and that Akito was spotted fleeing the house. When Akito finished her answer, she walked into the hanare. The snipers looked at Linda and she nodded, they were going to keep Akito locked down at the hanare for the rest of the summer or until she decided to leave.

"I want two snipers each posted at both doors," ordered Linda, "The snipers guarding the doors will have to switch to assault weapons. No one goes in and Akito doesn't come out."

Linda picked four random snipers and placed them on guard duty while the rest moved back into the forest to keep an eye on the hanare.

The next morning everyone wondered what happened to Neyla during the night, Kisa had a worried expression on her face. Rin shook her head and looked towards the hanare suspecting Akito had something to do with the attack, she noticed that Akito was becoming more and more hostile to Neyla. Sango and Kohaku asked Neyla how she got attacked and told them that Akito ambushed her as she was going up to her room for the night.

"Akito took one of the flower vases and hid until I came to the stairs," explained Neyla, "When I was at the stairs I sensed Akito's presence and fought with Akito again. She swung a vase at me and tried to kill me. Akito is going too far with the Zodiac, she's going to imprison them till they die."

Sango's eyes widened, what kind of person locks up their own kin until they die. She and Kohaku had heard Neyla talk about the Zodiac in the Feudal Era. But Neyla had said that Akito was a guy not a girl. Sango asked Neyla to explain what was going on here; so Neyla told her and Kohaku what she had learned from Ren Sohma, starting from the fact that Akito was raised to look like a guy to Akito was holding on to the bond of the Zodiac just because she was lonely. She made a mention that Kureno Sohma, the rooster, was no longer part of the Zodiac, that he had been freed by an artifact. Neyla got up and walked outside, gently motioning for her demon cat Hinoki to follow her. Hinoki was always a big help to her when she needed it. Neyla and Hinoki walked along the path to the hanare to make sure Akito was confined, but she wasn't confined. Along the path Hinoki could sense Akito's presence and made a hissing noise to Neyla. Neyla saw Akito and Kureno walking along the path and over heard Akito talking.

"I think that monster should be isolated," Akito said to Kureno, who just listened, "I even would consider having her exterminated. She's nothing but trouble to me. She also needs to be realize to that she can't win against me."

That hit Neyla square in the face and she had it with Akito and it meant that she, Sakura and Sasuke would have to protect Tohru as well. Akito, if she even thought about killing Tohru, Akito would have to answer to her or be glassed to hell alone, Neyla would make sure of it. She wanted to let her tiger spirit take over and just beat the tar out Akito, but the Zodiac needed to be warned about what Akito said about Tohru. So she rushed past Akito knocking her down on purpose with Hinoki running behind her and trampling Akito as well. Akito got up and didn't say a word but continued to walk towards the summer house, Kureno saw Hinoki left paw prints on Akito's clothes and face and wanted to crack a smile but kept it to himself as he took a handkerchief wiped Hinoki's paw prints off of Akito's face. Neyla found the Zodiac at the hanare and gathered them together, even Shigure and Hatori.

"I was just on my way to see you guys, because Akito ordered me to come here," said Neyla as Hinoki jumped in her lap, "I just learned that Akito is becoming more and more hostile towards Tohru."

"And we should concerned… how?" asked Shigure happily, as he lit up a cigarette.

Neyla shot Shigure a dirty look that would've blown out his cigarette. Neyla suspected that Shigure was trying to aggravate things.

"Funny you should say that," sassed Neyla, "when Tohru's experience here with the Sohmas might cost Tohru her life!"

The Zodiac froze and Neyla said that Akito might have Tohru killed, this was a wake up call for Yuki and Kyo, mostly Yuki.

Neyla looked at Shigure and continued, "Not the results you were expecting when you began stirring things up and drew us outsiders in your pot. It looks like your pot boiling over and you can't control it."

"Look I'm not trying to get anyone hurt or lose their life," insisted Shigure.

Shigure turned away and left the room, Neyla was right his pot was boiling over and he couldn't control it. He stepped outside and continued to smoke. Hatori shook his head, Yuki became enraged and Kisa was afraid. Hiro tried to comfort Kisa but it didn't make her feel any better. Akito had forcefully ordered Neyla's security teams stand down so she could enforce the "bond" between her and the Zodiac. The last thing she wanted was that ugly demon slayer and her barbarians to interfere. Kisa ran back to the summer house with Hiro following her.

"Hey Kisa, wait, Akito said we have to stay here for the day," called out Hiro.

"I don't want to stay and I don't care about Akito," Kisa shouted back to Hiro, "If she's going to hurt Onee-chan Tohru then I'll run away and make sure the Zodiac stays incomplete and I'll stay with Onee-chan Neyla."

Hiro was stunned and amazed at the same time; he was stunned because she would run away Sohma House and probably put him danger, but he was amazed that Kisa had become braver after she went back to school and coming back from the Feudal Era after fighting demons. Kisa said that she wouldn't let Akito hurt Tohru. She stopped and showed Hiro her Dream Sword that Neyla created with her magic power, Hiro was quite impressed with the sword. Then she recited the inscription on her headband that Neyla gave her.

"I am the tiger, proud and powerful," said Kisa recalling the inscription, "I use my strength and compassion to protect others."

Kisa swung her sword showing off a combination attack she learned from Neyla. Hiro smiled and closed his eyes and thought, 'That demon slayer finally did something worth while to help Kisa.'

Yuki also left the hanare in defiance of Akito's orders and the "bond" of the Zodiac. Neyla could tell that he was now trying to pull away from Akito, they began to try and pull away from Akito. Neyla knew what she had to do, find this artifact and free the Zodiac. But in order to find this artifact, she needed to talk to Ren Sohma some more outside of Sohma House away from Akito and find out more about this artifact. She needed to know what it looked like, where it was kept and how to use it. And Neyla felt Ren knew about it since she had vast knowledge of the Zodiac curse. If that failed, she could always raid the Sohma archives for info on it.

'I know that Rin is always talking about trying to break the curse and she's got me helping her,' thought Neyla, 'Not that I don't mind, I mean I'm learning more about the Sohmas.'

Later that night Akito went to the summer house in the rain to confront Tohru, Neyla had gotten word after she had the hanare bugged when heard of Akito's intention of coming to the summer house. She ran to the summer house to stop Akito before she could hurt Tohru. By the time Neyla got there, Akito already had grasped Tohru's face in her hands and looked like she was going to hurt Tohru. Neyla summoned her Keyblade and channeled enormous energy, every bit of her magic power and chockira into her Tsunami Backlash Wave attack as she ran to fight Akito. Akito was going to tell Tohru not to get conceited when Neyla interrupted Akito.

"Take this Akito!" Neyla shouted to Akito.

Akito turned to Neyla as she unleashed her most powerful attack on Akito.

"Tsunami Backlash Wave!" shouted Neyla as she unleashed her attack on Akito.

The attack as ten times as powerful than the original Backlash Wave. This was because the Tsunami Backlash Wave was stronger near water or in the rain. Seven giant tsunamis rapidly struck Akito in succession sending her flying back. Akito got up and walked away when she saw Kureno Sohma, Akito paused and turned to Tohru.

"This is Kureno Sohma, the rooster," introduced Akito.

"You…mean…the former…rooster," interrupted Neyla as she was panting heavily.

That Tsunami Backlash Wave attack took so much out of Neyla because she channeled too much power into the attack. Akito's eyes widened she knew Kureno's secret, about being freed from the Zodiac. Neyla fell on the ground and struggled to get up, as she did Akito moved toward her looking at her with eyes of hatred. Before Akito could do anything to Neyla, her security team arrived and took defensive positions around Tohru, Neyla and Momiji and took aim at Akito. Akito wanted to hurt Neyla but she'd have to go through the Helljumpers and that would be suicide on her part. Akito walked away with Kureno following her.

"You always hide behind your soldiers when someone threatens you," sneered Akito as she walked away.

"No Akito," shot back Neyla as she kept trying to get up, "I don't want to get into another cat fight with you anymore."

Akito paused again and turned to Neyla with even more fury in her eyes. Neyla learned her secret and had the idea that her mother told Neyla.

"That's right I know your secret and so does the Zodiac, just like those who know your secret," taunted Neyla, "And I should tell you that they're really pissed that you deceived them."

"What else did you tell them?!" demanded Akito.

"UNSC 3-9ner-2," responded Neyla.

Akito realized that Neyla wasn't going to tell her so she left in a furious rage. When Akito was gone, Neyla finally fainted from trying to get up, she used enough energy to protect Tohru and Momiji. Corporal Locklear saw that Neyla fainted and picked her up. After two more days, the Sohmas, Tohru and the demon slayers went back to Tokyo, summer vacation was over. Sakura and Sasuke also returned to Tokyo, but they had some scars too from their fight with Sasuke's revived brother.