That night, after dinner everyone was lounged on the sofa in the living room. Mia had gone to pick up Yuli from his friend's house and White Blaze from the vet. Rowen was busy reading a book, and Ryo, Cye, and Kento were all watching TV. Just then, Sage stumbled in holding his eye and was groaning. Everyone turned around to look at him. Cye's immediate reaction was to run to the kitchen and get some ice (which he did.) Rowen dropped his book and ran to his best friend. All of them stopped what they were doing and went to help Sage. "Who did this to you?" asked Rowen angrily. Cye came back with some ice in a towel and gave it to Sage who put it over his swollen eye. "Who do you think?" he asked. "Haruka?" asked Ryo. "How'd you guess." "Were you bugging her?" asked Kento. "If you call going to her room bugging her. I went to her room to apologize what I did, I put my arm around her again and she punched me in the eye." "Don't you ever learn?" asked Ryo. "Nope." Said Sage and everyone sighed.
"Yaaaaaaaaaaa!" Kento bolted up from his bed as he heard the scream and rushed over to its source. It was obviously coming from Hotaru's room. He burst into the room and was amused to see White Blaze on top of Hotaru licking her face. Hotaru giggled at the touch of White Blaze's tongue. "I never knew that you owned a tiger." Said Hotaru. "He's not mine, he's Ryo's." replied Kento and yawned. "Oh I'm terribly sorry, did I wake you?" asked Hotaru, concerned. "It's all right." He replied. Just then Ryo, Sage, and the others burst into the room. "Is everything all right?" asked Ryo urgently. "I heard a scream." "Yeah, Hotaru just woke up to White Blaze in her face." Said Kento pointing over to where White Blaze was lying his head comfortably on Hotaru's lap. "Next time though, tell me if you have a huge tiger living in your house." Said Hotaru. Everyone grumbled and left the room, sleepy and annoyed. "I'll never get enough sleep." Grumbled Rowen. Setsuna yawned and went back to bed. A couple minutes later she looked up and saw Haruka entering the room with a syringe. Setsuna groaned, "Haruka I'll be fine, leave me alone." "Your body is weak and will collapse if you don't get some medical assistance. Besides, you're the one who decided to help Hotaru, not me." Setsuna glared at Haruka through her covers, "When did you become such a medical genius?" Haruka grinned, "I learned from Hotaru. Now will you take this nicely or will I need to get some assistance?" "Go away." She mumbled. "Setsuna, you are seriously acting like a 5 year old." "Haruka, you've never taken one of those shots. After the needle enters your body it feels like your whole body's on fire." "Would you rather go through a couple hours of pain or end up in the hospital?" asked Haruka. "I'll live, alright! So will you please leave?" asked Setsuna sitting up. "That's it." Growled Haruka. "Rowen, will you please help me here?" she yelled. An instant later, a half-awake Rowen entered. "What's going… Hey, why do you have a syringe in your hand?" he asked coming wide-awake. "It's none of your business just go back to sleep." Setsuna said in a huff. Haruka scowled at her, "Rowen I need you to hold onto Setsuna while I stick this into her arm." Again Rowen was in shock. "That's not what I think it is, is it?" "No, it is not drugs. Remember what Setsuna did to Hotaru yesterday and made her wake up, well in doing so she weakened herself. This is an antidote that prevents the side effects of doing what she did. If you she doesn't take it, she could end up in the hospital or worse." Answered Haruka. Rowen immediately complied and went over to Setsuna's side and held her down. "You do know what you're doing right?" asked Rowen. "Yeah, I did it the last time this happened." Setsuna struggled against Rowen's grip, but he held firm. Haruka approached her and aimed the needle at Setsuna's right forearm. Setsuna turned her head and gritted her teeth as Haruka slid the needle into her arm. "Done." Said Haruka in a satisfactory way. Rowen gently lay Setsuna on the bed. She was biting her lip so hard that blood was dripping out. He could tell that she was in extreme pain. "What do we do now?" he asked softly. "We leave the room quickly just in case she gets mad and attacks us." Haruka said as she left. Rowen left the room and went back to his own. He felt that sleep had left him so he got dressed and went downstairs to the living room. To his surprise, Sage and Haruka were there also, sitting on opposite sides of the room. Sage had his bad eye closed because it was still hurt and bruised. Rowen coughed to announce his presence, "So, what would you like to do this morning?" he asked. "Could you show me around?" she asked. "Of course, but I think we have some matters to solve first." Said Rowen. "Like what?" asked Haruka curiously. "I think you owe somebody an apology." Said Rowen. "Oh, him. I'm sorry Sage for punching you in the eye, but I did warn you." Said Haruka. Sage grumbled what sounded like "whatever." Rowen sighed, that was as close as an apology anyone could get out of Haruka.
"This is the library and this is Ryo's bedroom." Said Rowen as he pointed to a large room filled with books and another with a sleeping Ryo in the bed. He was touring Haruka around the mansion and showing her everything. "This," he said pointing to a large spacious room that connected to an open courtyard, "is the weaponry room." "Can I take a look around?" she asked. "Sure." Came the reply. Wow, thought Haruka as she looked at the different types of swords. Sage, seeing that she was interested in weaponry, picked up a sword and called to Haruka, "Arm yourself." "What?" asked Haruka in surprise." I said arm yourself." He replied tartly. Haruka grinned and picked up a light, thin sword that was extremely long. "You are going to pay real bad for hurting my eye blondie." Said Sage angrily. "We'll see about that." Said Haruka, laughing inwardly. "Sage, what if she doesn't know how do use a sword?" whispered Rowen into Sage's ear. "Don't worry, I'm just going to teach her a lesson about treating your host with respect." He responded. Rowen grinned, Haruka was going to be dead meat. Sage swung his blade at Haruka's head. To his surprise she side stepped it and swung it upward, catching his blade and swinging him sideways. "Beginners luck." He muttered and attacked again. Again, Haruka side stepped it and defended herself. He swiped at her legs, she jumped and swung her sword at Sage's unprotected back. Sage heard the blade coming and swung his edge up meeting hers. Back and forth they went, swinging and blocking, attacking and defending. Rowen who was watching on the side whistled in amazement. This Haruka must be a swordsman for she fought extremely well. He could tell that they were equally matched in skill, both agile and strong, but Sage had one eye out and had only one view of everything around him. Just then Sage and Haruka had their blades locked and were having a tug of war against each other. Haruka ducked and jumped to Sage's blind side. She tripped him neatly and the next moment all Sage knew was that Haruka's one foot was on his chest and her blade at his throat. "All right, you win." Groaned Sage. "Better luck next time blondie." Smirked Haruka as she stood polishing her blade. Then they heard a yell of rage.
They turned around to see Setsuna, dressed in shorts and a tank top. She had blood dripping from her lip, and her whole body was sweating in pain. "How'd you…" started Rowen but was cut off by Sage, "What happened?" he asked. He was answered by Setsuna's cold glaring eyes. She went to the weaponry rack and chose a staff with double-edged blade on each end. "You are seriously dead Haruka." She said angrily as she twirled it expertly with her left hand. "This is not good." Whispered Haruka. The two guys glanced at her, "There is a side effect about that drug that I forgot to mention." "Like what?" asked Rowen. Sage just looked at the two of them in confusion. "Am I missing something?" he asked. "A side effect of the drug is that it makes you go kind of, well crazy. You can tell that she's in extreme pain, but some energy within her gave her the ability to still be able to get up and become mobile. The energy does not give her power or skill, just a very strong will to do something. Besides…" she was cut short by the whistling of Setsuna's weapon slicing down in front of her. She quickly picked up her blade and started to fight again. From the side, the two guys could tell that Setsuna was not fighting her best because she was right handed and that arm was hurt. Still though, she was putting up quite a fight. "Setsuna, what are you trying to accomplish?" Asked Haruka through gasped breaths. Setsuna ignored her and attacked even harder. Blood streamed from the side of her mouth and from her lip as she continued the onslaught. Rowen could see that it would soon be all over for both Setsuna and Haruka if this continued. He went over to the side and got his bow and arrows, aimed, and fired at Setsuna's shirt. He let go of the arrow and it pinned Setsuna against the wall. To his surprise, that did not stop her. She pushed of against the wall and pulled herself out of the arrow's grip. She turned her glance at Rowen, that was all the time that was needed by Haruka. She used the handle of the sword and knocked Setsuna out.
Setsuna groaned, It felt as if her head had been split in two by a sledgehammer and her body burned slightly from pain or from sourness, she could not tell. She tried to sit up, but found that she was, for some reason bound to the bed. She closed her eyes and remembered what had happened. It was like a movie playing in front of her eyes, from the shot to her fighting Haruka. Where'd she gotten the strength to fight Haruka was beyond her knowledge, but it didn't matter, the first thing she had to do was to somehow get out of the bed. As if to answer her prayer she saw Cye enter the room. "Are you all right?" he asked. "Depends what you call as 'all right.'" She answered, not looking at him. "What time is it?" she asked. "It's around 1 in the afternoon. Is there anything I could get for you?" he asked. "Yes, there is. Can you get me out of here?" "Well…" started Cye uncertainly. "Don't worry I won't attack anyone, I don't have the strength or the motive to do it." She reassured him. "Fine, but if you do, you'll be staying on that bed for the next two weeks." He warned. He loosened her bonds and helped her up. She collapsed on her feet and Cye pulled her back up. "Where would you like to go?" he asked as she leaned against him. "I need to find Michiru." She said.
When the two of them finally managed to get downstairs, they found everyone sitting in the living room as if expecting them. Cye helped her to the only seat, next to Rowen and went to sit where he originally sat, next to Michiru. They sat in silence for a while, then Ryo spoke up, "Will someone mind telling me what's going on!" Haruka related to him all that had happened that morning, emphasizing the part of where Setsuna had attacked her. Ryo noticed Setsuna's fist clench tightly together and grit her teeth as if in anger. "… then I knocked Setsuna out because she probably would have killed me if I didn't." finished Haruka. " Haruka, you do realize that I still want to hurt you right." Said Setsuna thinly and smiled a very dangerous smile. Everybody leaped up and acted as if to tie Setsuna down. "Hahaha, you don't have to worry. I don't have the strength to hurt a mosquito, let alone Haruka." She said lightly. Everyone sat down in relief. "What were you trying to accomplish anyways?" asked Haruka. "I wanted to repay you the pain that you caused me to have." she said through slitted eyes. "They look so much like Serena and Rei arguing." Muttered Michiru to Hotaru. She nodded. Realizing the tension that was building up between them, Michiru stood up and separated the two of them. She pulled Haruka to the side and whispered furiously at her, "Can't you see, that she's in pain? Just leave her alone. She can seriously hurt you if she gets too mad." "Hey, that shot was to her benefit. Who ever heard of someone hurting their friends because their mad at them." Argued Haruka. Michiru sighed, there was no hope for those two, she thought. Setsuna stood up, "I'm not going to stay in the same room with someone who enjoys to torture their allies." She said as she stumbled her way out of the room. An ally? After spending almost 2 years with her, is that all I am, an ally? Thought Haruka bitterly. She felt a hand on her shoulder and turned to see Sage standing there. "It's all right, it wasn't your fault." He said gently. She nodded, maybe there was a nice side to Sage after all she thought, then shook her head, impossible. He was a pompous person who cared only for himself and nobody else. Deep inside though she knew that was not true.