Lita: If you don't know by now I'm not telling you….
++The guys said bye but Ryo stayed behind. "You'll pick me up at 6...I don't have a car..." Ryo said sheepishly. ++
~~"That's cool." Reisei said, she didn't care if she had to drive, she was getting a date with him, that was plenty!!! "I better get going before Dana thinks I got lost or something." She smiled.
++"Ok See you at 6 then Bye!" Ryo said.
~~Reisei pulled off and headed to Dana's house, she pulled into the driveway and sat there a second before getting out and walking up to the door and knocking.
++Dana's mom answered the door. She grabbed Rei in a hug. "It's been so long since you've been over!" Dana's mom sobbed on Rei's shoulder.
"Mom. She was over this morning." Dana said coming down the stairs. She had put on a light blue mini-skirt and white, sleeveless, turtle neck. Her hair in her normal braids.
~~Reisei hugged back with a look of completely, who knows what emotion, maybe just plain shock. "It's nice to see you, Mrs. Jinmei." She said.
++Dana's mom let go. "Well, I'll let you go otherwise Dana will yell at me..."
"Gee, Ya THINK!" Dana said. Dana's mom ran off to get the girls' cookies and milk. Dana grabbed Rei's hand and ran up the stairs and locked her room.
~~Reisei dropped down sitting on the floor indian style and shook her head, then she looked up at Dana. "Well, c'mon, we've only got two and a half hours and I know you're just dying to plan both dates." She said looking up at her friend.
++Dana sat on the seat under her window. "It's a nice day. You guys should have a picnic...I'll even make it for you guys!" Dana said.
~~Reisei resisted the urge to slap her forehead. "Well, I suppose that's better than you making me bok at some over done fancy restraunt. I figured that's what you'd make us do." This time Reisei did slap her head, she hoped Dana didn't remember that half the fancy restraunts around there had outside and inside dining. "Ok, so what are you going to pack for the picnic?" She asked to change the subject.
++"hm..Well, I could make stuffed shells and a pie. some salad, garlic bread...How's that sound? I can pull it off in time." Dana said.
~~"Ok." Sound cool Reisei said then a sheepish grin came over her face. "I don't exactly have anything date worthy. I have my normal, my school outfit, and some elegant dresses I got from my aunt, I have nothing in between in style." She admitted. First she waited for Dana to freak because she actually owned dresses, then she waited for her to freak over the fact that Reisei had no clue what the heck to wear.
++"YOU EVEN OWN DRESSES!? wow...." Dana said. "Alright let's see..." Dana opened her huge closet up. It was a really big walk-in closet. Dana owns a lot on clothes...She pulled out a dark purple knee-length skirt, and dark blue tang top, and a couple pairs of shoes. A pair of dark purple high heels, a pair of black high heels. "What do you think? I'll let you decide what color shoes."
~~Reisei's eyes widened slightly, she wasn't much of one getting into allt he colorfuls. "I don't think highhells will be needed, it's just a picnic right? Or are you planning on making it a picnic and more?" Reisei asked nervously.
++"Ok.." Dana tossed the skirt and top at Rei. She turned around and put the shoes back. She pulled out a pair of dressy black sandels. "How're these?" She said showing them to Rei. "If you want I have a black jacket you can put with the outfit and if you feel like I have some make-up in the bathroom...We should do something with your hair...I got it!" Dana said. "I'll do your hair..." Dana said pulling out the dress jacket and tossing at Rei. "Get dressed I'm gonna go start the food. When your dressed come down. Then I'll do your hair and make-up if you want." Dana said. She went downstairs and pulled out the ingrediants for everything she was going to make.
~~Reisei waited till her friend had left the room and let out a long sigh, tomorrow's date was going to be her own plan, she had everything she needed at home to get ready without confusing herself for that type of date at least. She couldn'tbelieve she was considering a fancy restraunt but what the heck, it'd be a change in atmosphere. She quickly changed and pulled on the skirt, top, and black sandals. She left the dress jacket on the bed and walked downstairs
++Dana had finished the salad and had put a batch of Stuffed shells in the oven when Rei came down.
"Mom, will you watch the food. and finish the shells for me if I'm not back in time?"Dana said.
"Sure hon." Mrs. Jinmei said.
"Ok let's go." Dana led Rei to the bathroom and sat Rei down. She went through all her hair peices, she pulled out a silver tie that had two silver kanji's on it. One stood for life and one stood for death. "I found this in a store and it reminded me of us.." Dana said. She put Rei's hair half up half down and tied it. She grabbed her hair curler and made some small ringlets framing Rei's face. "You can look in the mirror now. What do you think? and do want a little make-up?"
~~Reisei looked in the mirror, the hairstyle was cute. "Sure." She said, she didn't think a litle make-up would be to over doing it. She stdied the hair tye in the mirror and almost shivered, wearing the kanji of death on a date, well, it couldn't eat at her to much, she did after all have it tattooed on her ankle.
++"ok." Dana went into the cupbaord under the sink and pulled out her box of make-up. It was a big box. But she had a lot of nail polishes in it too. She started with the foundation. Then she put the lightest hint of blush on her cheeks. "let's leave it at that. We don't want to overdo it too much..." Dana said. "We can do nail polish if you want but it's not too important and the darkest color I have is purple. I don't own much black like you..." Dana said.
~~"I think this is enough." Reisei said and looked at her watch, then she remembered that she had taken it off when she was changing and had left it on Dana's bed. She sighed and looked in the mirror and pulled her locket into place.
++"Ok. I'm gonna go finish the food then." Dana said she put everything away and went to the kitchen. She started toasting the garlic bread while her mom finished the Suffed shells.
"Dana, what's going on? I very sure this meal isn't for the two of us."
"A little of it is. That's why I'm making so much. It's mostly for Rei though..." Dana said. "what should I make for dessert? Napoleans maybe?" Dana pulled out the ingrediants for Napoleans. While they were cooking she found a picnic basket and started packing the food. She finished with 5 minutes before Rei had to go.
~~Reisei walked back into the kitchen as Dana was finishing. "Thanks Dana-chan." She said as she picked up the picnic basket. "I need to get going." She said.
++Bye Rei-chan! Have a good time!" Dana called from the drive way as Rei drove away.
~~Reisei drove towards the mansion and suddenly her cool and calm attitude was disrupted by knots in her stomach. She looked in the rearveiw mirror one last time as she pulled into the driveway and parked.Nervously she get out of the car and straightened a wrinkle in her skirt before walking up to the door and knocking.
++Ryo also had been taken care of much like Rei had been. Seiji had picked out his clothing for him. Ryo asnwered the door when Rei knocked.
"Hi" Ryo said. closing the door behind them to block spying eyes.
~~"Hi." Reisei smiled. "Um, Dana packed a picnic for us, it's in the car. We can go to the park, or if you know a less disruptive place." She said, she looked over Ryo's outfit and could only imagine that the one and only stylish Date Seiji had picked it out for him.
++"The park sounds fine." Ryo said.
~~"Ok." Reisei said as they got into her car and headed for the park.
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"Rajura!" A voice boomed, the four warlords were standing in a room all facing forward, a candle by each, and at the front of the room was the dismembered head of Arago.
"Yes master?" Rajura asked taking a small step forward.
"Do you have any realization at all of who you fought last night?" Arago's voice echoed through the room.
"A mortal girl with a bigger mouth than mind." Rajura said, his pride was still mildly cracked.
"A powerful mortal girl who we need on our team." Arago corrected. "Shuten!"
"Yes sir?" The red hair warrior asked.
"I want you to go to the mortal realm and get the white hair girl known as Reisei. She could be of use." Arago said, Shuten nodded and disappeared from the room to head to the mortal relam and find Reisei.
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++When they got to the park Ryo carried the picnic basket for Rei. When they found a good place they sat down. "so.....how are you?" |
~~"I'm good, you?" She asked as they sat down.
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Shuten would have chuckled if it wouldn't have gotten him busted. Tracking down Reisei had been incredibly easy, what more so was that she had Wildfire with her. He kept out of sight while gripping his Kasuri-gama tightly, he'd watch for a moment before going into attack mode.
++"I'm good.." Ryo sensed Shuten around. "We have company..." Ryo stood up and transformed into his sub-armor. "Come out where ever you are Shuten!"
~~Reisei heard a metallic clapping before she saw another armor clad man stepped out from behind a tree. "Your senses are strong, Wildfire, but please, make this easier on yourself and put down the weapons, after all I am here for the girl." Shuten snickered. Reisei got to her feet and looked around for anything to use as a weapon, another pole would be nice, but they weren't at a pool.
++Ryo moved to stand in front of Rei protectively. "You'll get her over my dead body." Ryo said.
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Dana was walking up the stairs to her room when a wave of nausea and dizziness hit Dana and she collapsed on the staircase. She pulled herself up and crawled to her room. She all of a sudden was hurting all over and wanetd to throw up. She wan't going to. She climbed into bed and tried to sleep but something wasn't right. She could feel something bad happening but she couldn't go to it.
~~"It can be arranged." Shuten said. Everything in Reisei's instincts was screaming for her to get Ryo out of the way, but she knew he wouldn't want her too. Shuten sensed this, "Wildfire, you do realize that if she were certain she could your girl would throw you aside like a limp rag doll right now, don't you?" Shuten grinned and lunged forward thrusting the blade of his kasuri-gama at Ryo.
++Ryo turned around grabbed Rei and flipped out of the way of the attack. he set her down. "Armor of Wildfire Dao Chi!" He summoned his armor and pulled out his katanas. "Let's do this!" He growled.
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Dana couldn't this evil she was sensing faintly but sensing was keeping her from resting. When she could take it anymore she pulled herself out of bed. She went to her closet and pulled out the first pair of matching shoes she found. Not going to argue she put the light blue high heels on. She stood up and left the house. She ran/jogged to where she felt the disturbance ignoring the pain in every inch of her body especially her ankle.
~~Shuten snickered. "Oh you're just so certain you can always be the protector, aren't you, Wildfire?" Shuten asked.
++Dana came up behind Ryo and Rei. She leaned against the tree to catch her breath. This didn't look good.
"What's wrong with me..." Dana whispered hoarsly.
Ryo stepped up to Shuten. "I won't lose." Ryo said lunging at Shuten with both Katanas.
~~The muscles in Shuten's legs tightened and he lunged up jumping over Ryo and leanding behind Dana. "Little girl you showed up in the wrong place at the wrong time." Shuten grinned, Reisei had turned to face them, her fatures could have been stone at that moment, Shuten saw her face and grinned. "That's it, girl, let your hate for what I'm doing consume you." He said as he swung his kasuri-gama blade up and placed it at Dana's neck.
++Dana panicked. This wasn't planned.
"urk! bad." Dana mumbled.. Like hell she was going to worry about her life before Rei's."RYO! Forget about me! Do what you need to protect Rei! Don't worry about me!" Dana yelled her voice hoarse from it being sore and it seemed she may be losing it.
Ryo went and stood protectively in front of Rei. It seemed like the only thing he could do. Could he respond to Dana's plea to save Rei over her? He wanted to say yes but being a ronin he at the same time needed to save them both.
~~Shuten chuckled. "Now, Ryo, you can't tell me you're willing to give up this life just to protect Reisei." Shuten looked thoughtful for a moment, "Reisei..." He turned the name over in his head, "It means Serenity, such a misfitting name for someone with her powers, but then again I don't know her entire name either." He gently scraped the blade against Dana's neck.
++Ryo was torn. There was no way he could save both. The only one he could save was Rei. But then he'd have to sacrifice a life.
Dana felt the blade come closer to her neck. She noticed a small stream of blood stain her favorite white shirt. She was getting ticked. She was hurting but she was ticked. "HEY!" she choked out. "That's my favorite shirt! Do you know how hard it is to get blood out of white clothing?!" Dana said. She kicked backwards and drove her heel into his stomach.
~~Shuten was caught off guard but far from defeated by the week kick, he quickly regained himself and his hold on Dana. "Foolish child, I can kill you, and if you make me mad enough I will." He hissed. Reisei's hand clutched into fists and she moved standing right beside Ryo.
"YOU HURT HER AGAIN AND YOU'LL WISH YOU'D NEVER SO MUCH AS SET FOOT NEAR HER!" Reisei yelled, Shuten was pleasently surprised by the out break.
"Hurt? You mean like this?" He asked and grabbed a hold of one of Dana's hands and pulled two of her fingers painfully far back.
++Dana creid out in pain as Shuten pulled two fingers back. Yep, she heard the bones break...
"j-jerk!" She spat out.
~~Shuten smirked satisfied with the sound of breaking bones, Reisei's entire body stiffined, her cold face showed no reaction to the sound or her friend's cry of pain, but her eyes registered something all right. They registered the look that ensured that Shuten was going to pay for that very painfully and slowly. Moving fast she lunged forward.
++Ryo instinctivly grabbed Rei around the waist. "You can't fight him!" He hissed.
Dana turned her face to look Shuten straight in the eye. "Thanks, but I really don't need a hug." She spit in his eyes to show her contempt.
~~Shuten growled and removed his arm from holding Dana to full out slapping her hard enough to send her skidding a couple feet along the ground, and just to tormet the girl that Wildfire was now restraining he hit Dana further away from them.
Reisei cried out and tried to pry her way out of Ryo's grasp. "HE'S HURTING HER!" She yelled, she didn't have any doubts that Ryo could see that, but right now she was losing her grasp of logic, her train of through was running the same thing. :Get Dana to safety, kill the cracker jack. Get Dana to safety, kill the cracker jack.:
Shuten grinned back at Ryo. "Having some trouble there? I'll trade you, Reisei for this girl. Or I could just slice this girl into ribbons." He said and then looked down at Dana, who was on the ground, and pointed the blade of his kasuri-gama dangerously close to her chest.
++Yep. Dana was really feeling this fight. She kicked the blade away from her chest and rolled away. She got on her knees and sent a flying barrage of medium sized Frozen orbs and boling orbs.
Ryo was restraining Reisei as best he could. Dana was willing to die for Rei right? He could keep Rei safe and let Dana do what she wanted right? NO!! If Dana died Reisei would hate him. But if he let her go he might lose her.
Dana did her best to regain her balance. Once she was on two feet she was doing her best to stand.
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~~Shuten dodged most of the frozen orbs, some of the boiling orbs slammed into his armor and he could feel the heat on the metal and on his skin. He glared at the girl and then turned to Ryo and Reisei glaring threateningly. "Someday, someday, Wildfire, we're going to get our hands on that fiesty little witch, and when we do you WILL NOT be able to stop us." He said and disappeared. |
++Dana was shocked at Rei's show of emotion.
"Rei-chan.." Dana managed to say despite the pain. "Are you ok? Did he hurt you?"
Ryo was releived that this was over. He banished his armor and stood looking around. :That's odd...She took the beating of a life time and knows Rei's not hurt but she still....weird...:
~~Reisei forced herself to nod and used her hand to wipe the tears from her face. The day had been ruined, no, she hadn't really cared about the swim or the date being ruined, she could live through that, but as before stated, almost losing the two people close to her left the day ruined. She looked at Dana, and then Ryo, then back to Dana, "You need rest, should I take you home, or to my place?" She asked then she looked over at Ryo, "You'd probably like to go home too, wouldn't you?" She asked, she didn't know if Ryo would want to be with the other Ronins, or if he'd want to stay near her to make sure the cracker jack warlord didn't make good on his threats or what