Dana and Reisei - Hidden Helps
By: Reisei Kurai (Maybe Ryidi in most of the AN) and Lita Inverse
Note: I do not own Ronin Warriors.
Another Note: We had this all set up really confusing, I'm trying to fix that, it's going to be a slow going process for me though because there's still a lot more to this story that I have to get edited. So just try to bear with, please, and I promise I'll have it all nice as soon as I can.
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Reisei Kurai walked out of the school, Gods she was glad for it to be the end of the day. She walked across the student parking lot to her 1989 white Pontiac sunfire and unlocked the door. She tossed her backpack in the back and got in, she put the key in the ignition and turned it on, then looking over her CD's she sighed. She just wasn't in the mood to listen to all the loud tones she had in her car. She leaned back and grabbed her backpack and dug through it finally pulling out a CD marked 'Soothing Sounds' and put it in. Soon chimes and various other instruments were playing very relaxing sounds. Reisei tilted her head back against the headrest of her seat and waited for Dana Jinmei, one of her best friends, if not her best friend, come out.
Dana came out of school lugging a backpack which probably weighed more than she did. "Stupid math homework...Dangit why do they have to make these text books so Darn HEAVY!" Dana fumed to herself as she walked up to the car. "What's up Rei?" Dana said as she heaved her backpack in the back and got in the car. "Why do they have to assign so much homework...."
Reisei grinned, "Not much." She said and then blinked at the backpack. "Damn, baka teachers, eh?" She asked as she pulled her legs into the car and closed her door pulling her seatbelt on. She wasn't going to mention that the only thing she had to do was study for her mythology test. "So, where we going, your house, my apartment, mall, arcade?" She asked throwing the last two in as a joke, and sort of a tease towards her best friend about having so much homework.
"Just because you got the good teachers doesn't mean you have to rub it in my face....Let's go to the mall. I need to get my stress level down some by walking and talking before I start on the home work. I'll get in a lot of trouble if I throw my Math book into the wall again...The hole it made last time was really big...Mom is gonna kill me if I do that again. Amazingly enough the math book survived it twice..." Dana Grimaced at the thought of math. "Let's go to my house first I want to get out of this uniform..." Dana looked down at her black knee length skirt and white dressy blouse. "Then we can drop our bags of at your place while you change...." Dana looked inside her purse which she was afraid might get mangled in her backpack. :I have about $75 that should me something....:
Reisei remained quiet on commenting about the teachers and nodded at the plan. She shifted into reverse and pulled out of the spot and then she shifted into drive and pressed the black flat she was wearing into the gas pedal, they broke 60 as they got out of the parking lot. Reisei slowed down considerably on the actual road though, probably because she didn't want to have to pay for a ticket.
"If you want to change the music you're welcome to, my CD's are right there." She pointed to a 20 CD CD tower that had been strategically placed right between the two seats and moved back some so that it was actually in the backseat. "Nah. The music is good, relaxing too. I need that. Before I scream my head off. They really should have home ec. at the end of school. I wouldn't be so frustrated. They just HAVE to end my day with the most frustrating class don't they?" Dana said. "ending the day with math is just plain stupid..."
"Ok." Reisei said and then, even though it wouldn't be of much help, she said, "At least they have your subject...Street fighting should be a course..." She expected to be slapped for being a smartass. Even though she did think it'd be really cool if street fighting was a course in school. She turned into Dana's driveway surprised at how fast the trip had went. She parked and took the keys out of the ignition.
Dana looked at Rei. "You would say that. I'll be right back or you can come in but I don't guarantee you'll make it out alive." Dana said getting out of the car. She unlocked the door and went in. She left the door open for Rei. She went upstairs to her room. She changed into a pair of Light blue shorts and a white Tang top that said 'Angel' in gold. She went back downstairs.
Reisei grinned and got out of the car and followed Dana into the house, as she closed the door behind her she peered around and let out a sigh of relief. No sign of Dana's dad...or mom...or...Reisei shuddered...Dana's little brother. She brushed a piece of white string off her skirt as she waited for Dana downstairs.
Dana was at the top of the stairs when Dilan rushed past her from his room and glomped Rei knocking her over in the process. "REI! wherehaveyoubeen?Ihaven'tseenyouinalmostTWOdays! Danasaidyouwereavoidingmebutshe'salwaysmeantome!"The first grader said in a rushed hurry.
Dana walked downstairs. "Who's mean to who here? I'm your sister and you go and say hi to my friend before me I can see how much you love your big sister" Dana feigned hurt holding her hand over her heart. She regained her composure. "Now let her up we're going back out."
Reisei's eyes went wide as she was knocked over. "Well, Dilan, between work and school I don't have all the free time in the world." Reisei said trying to make excuses, she may have been flat out rude at times but making a little kid, no matter how annoying, cry, was not on her agenda. The bun that Reisei wore her hair in for the school day had come out with the force of the knock sending white hair over her shoulders and face. She looked up at Dana, it looked like two sapphires peering out of a mop. She lifted Dilan off her gently and got up.
"Now say good-bye Dilan we're leaving." Dana said.
"Bye Rei!" Dilan waved enthusiastically.
"Let's go." Dana grumbled and grabbed Rei's collar and dragged her out of the house. Dana let go in front of the car. "My family scares me..."
"You're family scares me too..." Reisei said as she climbed back into the drivers seat and found a scrunchie to hold her hair in a pony tail until they got to her apartment. "What's his deal? Am I the only person he talks to in the outside world or something?" She asked.
Dana got in the car too. "Never speaks to his own sister." Dana said then her tone turned into one of a teasing sort. "I think he's got a crush on you...." Dana buckled her seatbelt for the trip to Rei's place.
Reisei blinked, "Uh-huh...I think I'll stay FAR away." She said and grinned as she pulled her seatbelt on and then backed out of the driveway heading for her place.
"Yeah well...First graders are like that..." Dana laughed a bit. "at least he doesn't know about about any of our 'special' powers. he's infatuated with you enough..."
"Oh so true..." Reisei said, "I don't need him begging me to teach him how to fight...or how to heal...which I can't even really teach him but I just know that if he knew about it he'd ask to learn about it." She said. Her apartment really wasn't that far from Dana's house, five minutes tops, she pulled into the parking lot and parked in the spot closest to her apartment, which today just happened to be right in front of her door. She reached into the backseat and hauled up her backpack and then undid her seatbelt and got out. "We can grab a soda while we're here to hold over till we get to the mall." Reisei grinned.
"Good Idea." Dana said she undid her seatbelt and got out before struggling to get her backpack out. She managed but also managed to land on her butt with the backpack in her lap. She tapped her fingers against the pavement impatiently. "Not. One.Word." She glared at Reisei whom she was sure was going to break out into a fit of giggles. Dana shoved the bag off her and stood up. She picked up the bag and followed Rei into the house.
Reisei's cheeks turned bright red as she fought to contain laughter, she only nodded as to say, 'Ok, I'm not saying anything.' Reisei walked up to her apartment and unlocked the door and let Dana go in first, then she followed and closed the door behind. She tossed her backpack on the couch and her keys on the coffee table. "Don't mind the mess, I was to lazy last night to clean up." She said, the living room wasn't at it's worst of times, but it was sort of messy, a pile of clothing laid in one corner, a pillow and a blanket on the couch, along with Rei's backpack, where she had crashed last night because she didn't feel like walking to her bedroom, papers cluttered the desk against one wall, and one the coffee table was also a plate with the remains of a couple pieces of pizza, Reisei's dinner the night before. She walked into her bedroom and changed into her black shorts, a black tank top, and her back army boots. She pulled $125 from her top drawer and tucked it into her pocket. She figured Dana only had $75 so they'd be even. She walked back out into the living room braiding her white hair.
Dana set her backpack down gently in front of Rei's couch. :No need to make a hole here in her already trashed living room. She looked up as Rei came down. "So what soda do you have?" Dana asked. Dana sighed. :The only time she ever wears anything other than black is the white shirt on our Uniforms.:
Reisei went to grab her red button up shirt that she used as an over shirt that was on her desk chair but thought against it, it was to warm for it. She had different colored shirts upstairs, but most the time she stuck to blacks and grays, it's just what she felt more comfortable in. "Orange, rootbeer, pepsi, mountain dew." Reisei said as she strolled into the kitchen, she'd have to get her wallet out of her backpack but that could wait till she grabbed the sodas. She opened her icebox, which had a couple cans of each type of soda she named in it, and really not much else, some fruit and veggies, day old rice, milk, that was about it. She grabbed a rootbeer and waited to hear what kind Dana wanted.
"I'll have a rootbeer." Dana said. "How's Panda express sound when we get to the mall. I have an urge for Chinese..."
"Hmmm. Sounds good." Reisei said as she grabbed another rootbeer and closed the icebox door. She walked back to the living room and gave Dana her soda then she grabbed her backpack and took her wallet out and put it in her pocket with the money. She grabbed her keys off the coffee table, "Ready?" She asked popping the soda open and taking a sip.
Dana took the soda. "Let's go." Dana followed Rei out to the car and got in. "So what else is on our agenda for the mall?" She asked taking another sip of her soda.
Reisei pulled out of the parking lot. "Hmmm...Eat, I don't really know what stores I want to go look in. Maybe Famous." reisei said and then cast a look to Dana, "Say a word about me shopping in Famous and I'll kill you." She said.
"Well fare's fare. You didn't laugh at me earlier so I won't comment." Dana said. "We'll see when we get there. but first things first and that's food!" Dana cheered a bit and clamly drank her soda.
"Agreed!" Reisei said and began to drink her soda while driving with one hand, she switched lanes and headed onto the highway. Twenty minutes and a can of soda later they pulled up to the mall and parked.
Dana got out of the car with Rei and they headed to the food court.
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The five ronins sat at a table. Shuu was pigging out but every so often would make a comment about Shin's food being better. Ryo, Touma, and Seiji were talking about the warlords as Dana and Reisei walked by.
"We need to be careful. Rajura's illusion's could be very bad..." Ryo said.
Reisei walked up to the food court with Dana and saw the guys, she caught Ryo saying a name and stepped up, "Hey, I know Raj." She said, she didn't actually know who this Rajura person was, but it would make for a nice joke.
Dana stood back Trying not to burst out into laughter at the looks on the guys' face's at Rei's comment. Dana knew all to well that Rei didn't know anyone by that name..
The ronins stared at the white hair girl. one thought ran threw all their minds at once: Well, she does look like him. They stood up taking battle stances. They couldn't transform in the mall though.
Dana watched them take battle stances and lost it. She collapsed to the ground laughing. She was going to start rolling on the ground in a minute.
At first Reisei got an oh shit look on her face. Then hearing the laughter behind her caused her to crack, she crossed her arms over her gut. "Man, you guys need to lighten up, I don't even know anyone by the name Rajura." She said with a wide grin on her face, a strand of her white hair fell from her ponytail and into her face. She turned and walked over to Dana. "Want help up?" She asked. The thought of how seriously those guys had taken her joke almost sent her into laughter again.
Dana was crying she was laughing so hard. She grabbed Rei's hand and yanked herself up. She was still laughing so hard she looked ready to topple over again. She started to calm down some and wiped away the tears thatw were pouring down her face. "That guy must be bad news if you react that way to some one saying they know him....It's a him right?" She said still laughing with more tears. She wiped her eyes and face and stopped laughing but still had a huge grin on her face. "I wish I had a camera. Reisei's right though you need to lighten up." The guys dropped there battle stances and stared at the two girls'.
Shuu spoke up. "You shouldn't go around making jokes about knowing people you don't! And just what is so funny anyways.?!"
"You had to see your faces to get it......" Dana smiled. "You guys' look like you go to our school...Rei?" Dana looked at them sheepishly. "I'm horrible with naming faces."
"Reow! It was a joke!" Reisei said throwing out a fake hiss and arching her hands like cat claws. She looked at Dana and then back at the ronins, "Yea, now that you mention it they look very familiar." She thought for a moment and then looked at Shuu, for a second his face seemed familiar but with no name but then his name came to her. "You! Shuu! You're the one who beat me in karate today!" Reisei said.
Dana fell over. Not from laughter but from shock. "h-h-he beat y-y-you? i-i-is t-t-that p-p-possible? even we're evenly matched..." Dana would've laughed again but she liked her head. She pulled herself up again. "i'm gonna be bruised there tomorrow I know it. This is the third time." She grumbled loud enough for only Rei to hear. "I'm Dana. Dana Jinmei. and you guys are?"
"Well as you know I'm Shuu." He pointed to the blue hair boy, "That's Touma," Then over to the blonde, "Seiji" over to the light brown hair boy that looked remarkably like Dana, "Shin" and over to the black hair boy. "and that's Ryo"
Seiji looked over at Shuu. "We can introduce ourselves you know" Dana's stomach growling brought all attention to her. Dana rubbed the back of her head sheepishly. "um...I'm kind of Hungry I had to skip lunch to go re-take a test I missed last time I was absent...come to think of it I skipped breakfast cause I slept in.. " Dana started saying the last part to herself as she looked up remembering. "Reisei let's go get food before I collapse again and this time can't get up.."
Reisei glared at Dana, "It was a one time thing, and I didn't exactly make winning easy on him!" She said. She looked at the guys, "I'm Reisei Kurai. Sorry about the little joke, I just can't resist trouble." She grinned. She looked at Dana as her stomach growled, "Seriously. At least I know to eat every so often." She said, "Let's go get some food." She then looked back at the guys, "We're going to be here for a while so, ya know, if you want to hang out you're welcome to." She said, hoping to make amends from nearly having them jump her ass.
"Well, EXCUSE me for trying to be a good student! You have to make a few sacrifice's every once in awhile!" Dana made a 'harumph' sound as she turned around. "If you want to get anywhere you have to make sacrifices and you need to push yourself!" Dana stuck her nose in the air.
The ronins just blinked at the sight before them.
Seiji, the king of flirts, said, "After you get your food you can come sit with us..."
Reisei only shook her head, "I could bring up so much that proves you push yourself to hard, like the gym incident." She said and dropped it at that. "Let's get you some food before you pass out, I don't think your mom would appreciate you crashing on my couch tonight...And your dad would appreciate it much less." She said and headed to go get the food.
Dana looked at Rei as she walked away. "Which one...Hey! wait!" Dana ran after her friend who was already in line..."Care to wait for a person?" She said.
The ronins blinked.
"You'd think she'd say what and not which...."Touma said.
"You'd think...." Seiji said.
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After they got their food they headed back over to the ronins table. Reisei was carrying both her food and Dana's, she set it down on a table and pulled two more chairs over and sat down in one.
"Ok, right to the chase, I'm serious, what's so bad about that dude I mentioned kidding around?" She asked.
The ronins looked nervously at each other as Dana tore into her food in a mad frenzy.
"It's nothing important. Just a guy who likes to pick a lot of fights that's all..." Ryo said.
"Oh, sounds like one of the guys I'd meet in a street fight. Maybe I'll meet up with him someday." She said casually, she hoped Dana didn't intervene with the fact that most of those guys ended up in the hospital. On the other hand that would be ok if it would give Reisei some reassurance that Dana wasn't going to inhale her food so fast she'd choke on it. Reisei began eating some of her chicken fried rice.
Dana looked up at Reisei and saw the look she flashed her for a brief second. She swallowed her mouthful and set her fork down. "All the guys she fights end up in the hospital." She turned to Reisei and put her hands on her hips and looked indignant. "and NO I'm not going to choke on my food. Thank You Very Much!" Dana finished eating the rest of her food. "I'm not to much in the mood to go shopping any more. Reisei what do you think about the park? Might be able to pick a fight..." Dana knew if she wanted anything that was a sure way to get it.
"You want to go look for a fight??" Reisei grinned and turned back to the others. "Thanks for the company and all, maybe we can do it again some time, but I can't pass up the opportunity to search out a fight." Reisei declared pulling her ittou makkura from her pocket. She closed the carton of her food to take home and eat later as she stood up.
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Rajura was watching from the netherrealm, he was inspired by the two young women, especially the white headed one with the dangerous look about her. "I must pay these two a visit.." He said to himself and disappeared from the room.
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Dana resisted the urge to chew Reisei out for being rude. "You guys are welcome to join us. If you want to." Dana said and looked at Reisei's yo-yo, she barely resisted the urge to wince. She sparred with her once while they used their weapons. That thing HURTS!! never sparred with weapons again.
Shuu looked at the yo-yo looking thing, "What's that?"
Seiji threw a look at Shuu. "We'd be delighted to join you."
"All right Great! um..I hope you have your own car or something.....Rei?"
"Sorry..." Reisei shrunk from the look she got from Dana she then looked at Shuu and grinned. "It's my ittou makkura, a very dangerous and deadly weapon, as Dana has learned." She grinned. She looked at Dana and then the guys. "I can only fit four people in my car unless we have people sitting on other people's laps, then I can fit seven." She said.
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Rajura arrived at the park, he hoped the girls would be there soon, he was so looking for a good blood bath and any possible benefits either of the girls might bring.
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"That thing HURTS! dangit. you weren't supposed to hit that hard..." Dana motioned for them to follow her and Rei outside. She looked at the car. "good thing we took our backpacks out....um....Rei...I think I'll leave seating arrangements up to you."
"Then I guess you better be happy I didn't hit you with the SHARP end." Reisei said then she looked at the car and everyone, she opened the door. "Ok...Ummm...Shuu and Shin in back. Erm...Touma and Seiji can sit on their laps..." Reisei felt kind of odd doing this, "Ryo in the front and Dana will sit on your lap." She said, she was just mentally daring someone to ask why she wasn't sitting on anyone's lap. Or vice versa.
Dana laughed at the thought of two guys sitting in each others laps, then she facefaulted with Ryo when they heard their arrangements. Dana sat up off the ground and rubbed her face. "oww...."
Seiji grimaced a bit at the thought of having to sit on a guy's lap.
"just love to cause trouble don't you?" Dana said referring more to her face then the arrangements.
"Sorry guys. That's the way it goes, but since Dana seems so unhappy." Reisei teased, "Ryo, you and Seiji change places." She waited until everyone got in the car and then she got in and scooted her seat up as far as she could to give them more leg room. She closed the door and looked in her rearview mirror which was cluttered with guy's faces, then she looked over at Dana. "You might want to warn them..." She said and waited for someone to say 'warn them about what?'
Ryo looked up worried, "Warn us about what?"
"Nothing." Dana looked at Rei, "I cleaned all the purple people eaters out of here yesterday...." She winked at Rei. She was in one of her more mischievous moods. "Along with the man-eating spiders, anaconda's and wolves. and there's no acid there anymore...And my dad is at home doesn't know what we're doing and I hid his shotguns...well all I could find of them anyways..."
Reisei laughed, "Yep. Every time Dana's around me we have to hide her daddy's shot guns, he doesn't trust me." Reisei joked then she looked around, "This, "She began as she turned on the car, "Is what you should really worry about, hang on." She said and shifted out of part and slammed on the gas flying through the half empty parking lot and out onto the road where she promptly slowed...a little...
Dana was unfazed by the speed but was thrust forward when she learned Seiji was fazed. when she could sit straight again she rubbed her head. "oww.....I'm just accident prone today aren't I?" She didn't notice the four others in the back fly forward too. "Shoulda warned you about that too I guess..."
Reisei laughed, "Sorry guys, just like I need to fight I have a need for speed." She said and slowed down to avoid throwing the ronins around anymore. It wasn't to long before they were at the park and Reisei opened the door and slid out of the car then pulled the seat forward to let Ryo, Shin, Shuu, and Touma out. She shook her ittou makkura for a moment, sort of a ritual she had been taught by a friend she viewed as a brother before he ran off. "Ittou makkura.." Reisei mumbled as she ran her hand down the shaft of the steel and it grew to a fairly thin five foot long staff, the blunt end wasn't all that big and it was the biggest end, the sharp end was thin, she held the staff and leaned on it some.
Dana hopped out of the car and pulled out her ribbon. She watched as it flowed in the slight breeze. She thought how it would look cooler with more of a breeze and her hair down, maybe a skirt too.
Sage got out and closed the door he went and stood with his friends.
Dana's ribbon was a greenish-blue and the handle was a light blue. "Ready when you are Rei!" She needed some excersise.
Reisei grinned and pulled her staff up into battle stance, as she got ready to spar/attack her friend a blade shot down from somewhere and plunged into the ground just inches from her foot, she looked up following the extension of the blade and saw a figure standing in a tree. "Who are you AND what do you want?" She asked, she was mildly annoyed that they'd been disrupted.
"I am Rajura, warlord of illusion." Rajura grinned under his face mask as he stepped into the light. Reisei sucked in a deep breath.
"Don't you think it's a little early for Halloween?" She asked and was met with a glare from Rajura's one good eye.
Dana looked at Rajura who was clad in his armor. :uh-oh!:
"You better run Cause Rei and I are gonna chew you up and spit you out!"
The five ronins transformed into their sub-armor.
"You two stay outta the way." Ryo said.
"WHAT?! Turn down a fight?! are you nuts?!" Dana screamed at the ronins, then turned around perfectly calm, "It's against my religion. So let's whoop this guys butt!"
"Ahhhh. Wildfire. I should have expected you'd show up, but actually come here with the girls, what fun is that?" Rajura asked. Reisei didn't know, but she sure wasn't happy. When Rajura came down to the ground Reisei struck, she sprinted forward and spun her staff over her head and took aim right at Rajura's gut with the pointed end. But as she got close the world around her seemed to melt into something else as she saw Dana there and literally forced herself to fall to her knees to stop from spearing her friend. Then the vision faded and Rajura was standing over her, "My what spirit you have, girl, and what a nice little toy." He said, his pale blue eye burning into her eyes. Moving fast she swung her legs out and caught the warlord off guard sending him onto his back.
"Don't f*ck with my mind, man, I'm warning you." Reisei growled as she grabbed her staff and used her leg muscles to push into a back flip and she landed on her feet by Dana, unsure of how she jumped so far, but not putting much, if any, thought into it.
Dana glared at Rajura. "So you have some tricks up your sleeves eh? Well I have a few of my own." Dana leaped into the air and flung a good sized Boiling ball and Ice ball at Dais. Both coming from a different direction. "Well, I have a few of my own." She did a flip in the air and Aimed a kick for his head. "I won't be so easily fooled!"
Rajura vanished from where he had been as the ice and water collided followed by Dana's foot. He reappeared on the roof of Reisei's car. "Both of you have such spirit, such power, I can help you put that power to use." Rajura said letting his eye move from Reisei to Dana and back again.
"I put my power to use enough as it is." Reisei said sprinting and jumping up onto the hood of the car and thrusting the pointed end of her staff at his knee cap, he jumped back.
"Nearly got me, twice, and the same for your friend and her little toys." Rajura snickered.
The ronins stood slack jawed at the sight. They didn't do this well with only one when they first met Rajura. Mostly they were surprised at the powers these two weilded.
Dana fumed. "They're NOT TOYS!!!!!!!!!" A frying pan appeared in each of Dana's hand and she flung them at Rajura's head. "Do NOT INSULT MY TECHNIQUE'S DANGIT!!!!!" She leaped into the air and fired a barrage of small ice orbs at him. A small thundercloud appeared over his head and would occasionally lightning on him. Teleportation wouldn't save him from that one. It was more of a curse then an attack. Dana flipped in the air and landed next to the ronins ribbon in hand.
Rajura had dodged the frying pans and ice orbs, but the rain and lightning was truly something unable to be dodged, he growled. "You may be powerful, but you're a pest." He growled and pulled his Chi Lin Tou, with a flick of his wrist the six blades flew out. "WEB OF DECEPTION!" He screamed. Reisei dodged the two blades that had come straight at her. She growled and something shone in her eyes. Most of the blades had been aimed for Dana.
"LEAVE MY FRIEND ALONE!" Reisei yelled and something shone on her forehead for a brief second, it was gone just as fast as it appeared, as for Reisei herself, she still stood, looking read to kill.
"Yikes!" Dana said. She dodged 3 of the 4 aimed at her. The other one missed her by a hair width. Right behind her back to. She was breathing heavily when she noticed a cut on her arm. "Oh! ow!" She put a hand on her heart and stumbled back a bit. "Oh..oh..ow.. it hurts so much!" Dana was making fun of him as she tends to do to people when she's scared. Unless it's her little brother. "I have been struck by a mortal blow!" Drama class at school came in handy. She fake stumbled into a tree. "I don't know if you know this or not but..." She stood up and touched her cut lightly. It healed up right before everyone's eyes. She bowed. "Thank you! Thank you!" She stood up and glared at Rajura. "How's them apples?"
The ronins remained to shocked to fight. (their author -Lita- remains too lazy to write them in the fight)
Reisei looked at her friend cracking up some until am armored fist connected with her jaw sending her stumbling back. "HEY! LOW BLOW A**HOLE!" She yelled and sprung forward, this time, she wouldn't miss, she spun her staff as she lept onto the car and slammed the blunt end forward right into Rajura's gut, armor or no armor, he felt it. His eye widened. She turned and made a cheering motion towards Dana and then looked at Rajura, "Why don't you come out of that armor and fight us small, helpless little girls like a big man." She said in one of thos complete innocence tones, even though she was far from completely innocent.
"We'll finish this later!" Rajura swore as he disappeared, Ryi let herself slide to sitting position on the hood.
"Is it just me or does he have a bad attitude?" She asked, she noticed the ronins amazed looks, "What?" She asked.
"Your right he does have a bad attitude. Hehe. I may be a pest but I'm a darn right powerful one!" She looked at the ronins stares. "What?"
"How can you just shrug off a fight like that?" Touma said.
"Easy. like this." Dana shrugged her shoulders. "See all gone..."
"Why are you so powerful...how?" Seiji asked.
"Oh yeah! like we can explain THAT one..."
Reisei looked at the ronins and then at Dana, and back to the ronins. "We were born like this." She moves to laying across the hood of her car like a bored child. "Dana and I, we've always been two girls to kick a butt and get it done, the powers aid, we don't know how we got them, or why, but they sure do help." She said, her staff had shrunk back to normal size and she stuck it in her pocket.
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Rajura sat in his room sulking, the damn cloud still over his head, shocking him every so often. Shuten opened the door. "Unsuce-" He didn't get to finish, instead his eyes widened and he cracked up laughing at the rain cloud over Rajura's head.
"Go away!" Rajura snapped. Nazza and Anubis came to the door.
"What's going on?" Nazza, the warlord of venom asked, when he and Anubis saw the storm cloud hanging over Rajura's head they both dropped into undignified snorts of laughter with Shuten. Rajura got up and shoved them all out the door causing them to collide with each other and fall on the floor. Then he slammed the door.
"Jeez...I guess he's really sour..." Shuten mumbled.
"Yep. He probably got beat by girly ronins." Anubis said, they all stood up and headed down the hall not knowing just how right they were.
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The ronins looked at each other. "Born with them?"
"Yeah....That's one way to explain it....The other would be..." Dana gets a thoughtful look on her face, "gee, I don't know..." Dana looked at Reisei, "I guess I should get started on my homework....Baka Teachers..." Something dawned on Dana, "Hey, should I get rid of the cloud over that guys' head or leave it for awhile....?"
"I think he's learned his lesson for now. Wherever he went I'm sure he got soooo made fun of for that." Reisei grinned and hopped off the hood of her car. "You guys can come over to my place if you want to, or I can take you home, or leave you here, or whatever." Reisei said, she looked at marks in the ground from the Chi Lin Tou. "Man...that was one nasty weapon. I'd hate to get hit with it." She mumbled.
"All right." Dana closed her eyes and willed it away. (She made sure it gave a little stronger bolt then usual before it disappeared. Hey She could have fun...)She opened her eyes. "Luckily it only cut my arm...it would've really hurt hitting dead on. and I mean DEAD on...Yea you guys could come and see how we kick butt girls' live. Or how that one does anyways. Dad'll shoot you if you walk in front of the house...."
The ronins looked at each other. "It doesn't matter. We don't have any homework. and we're interested in your powers...we like to know more about them.." Ryo said shrugging.
Dana collapsed in a heap it sounded like she was crying. She looked up chewing on a handkerchief "Why is it the teachers always pile the homework in my classes but never anyone else's?" Dana buried her face in her hands and continued crying. "I think they have something against me..."
The ronins blinked a couple time and banished their sub-armor. Then blinked some more.
Reisei had no comment on Dana's behavior. "Um, we'll have to stop by the gasstation, I don't exactly keep food and drink around for tons of company." She said, she hoped anyone didn't mind that. She honestly didn't see such a big deal in her powers, by hey, that was her. She hopped up sitting back on the hood of her car and pulled off one of her combat boots, she scratched a tattoo on her ankle, a symbol in black, before swiftly pulling the boot back on. She jumped off her car and looked around. "I'm ready to go whenever you guys are." She said.
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Rajura was shocked one last time then he noticed the cloud disappear. "THANK GOD!" He yelled and then moved across the room and dropped down into his bed to do some thinking and sleeping and sleeping and thinking.
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Dana hopped up as if nothing had happened. "That's fine." The ronins didn't have time to figure out what the tattoo was of but decided not to ask. "Well I'm ready guys?"
"Yeah we're ready" Rang out from the group.
Dana looked at Rei. "Didn't I tell you you'd get to fight? I never lie."
"Ok then, let's get going." Reisei said, everyone piled into her car and they left the park, first stop, gas station. She got out and looked around, "Everyone coming or what?" She asked.
Dana hopped out of the car. "You guys stay here. We'll just get some potato chips dip and any other junk food we can find. Right Rei?" Dana said.
"Yea." Reisei said. When her and Dana got in the store she went the opposite direction of Dana collecting some chips and junk food and a case of soda. then headed up to the counter waiting to meet Dana there.
Dana grabbed a bunch of chips, some dip and whatever else looked good. She met Rei and the cash register. "We got chips, dips some cookies and I grabbed some more soda for your collection. How's that sound?" Dana had a sweet tooth at the moment
"Sounds like we've got plenty." She said and paid for the stuff. "Let's put it in the trunk, I don't think we have room anywhere else." Reisei said as her and Dana walked outside.
Dana nodded and took the bags. When Rei popped the trunk she put the stuff in. "Well if that's it let's go." Dana said getting in the car.
Reisei closed the trunk and got in the car with Dana. "All right." She said and started the car but suddenly she was stopped by the vroom of an engine and a familiar voice.
"Hey Supi-do Oni." A male said as he pulled up by the car.
"Hey Kurt." Reisei said, the guy revved his engine again.
"Want to take 'er for a little race?" He asked.
"Sorry, I've got a car full and places I've got to be." She said.
"Well then, maybe tomorrow we can eat lunch together?" He asked, Reisei grinned.
"You're about fifty miles ahead of yourself." She said and pushed on the accelerator leaving the parking lot.
When they got to Rei's apartment they all hopped out of the car and followed Rei in(after they got the snacks out). Dana went over to her backpack and tried to lift it. Tried being the key word she failed. She tried again. Then again. Then just gave up and dragged it over to the middle of the room. She sat down and unzipped it. Grumbling about evil teachers and pulled out her math book. She set it next to her along with her history book, then her science book, her literature book, her English.
"I know my binder is in here somewhere...." She dug deeper into her backpack. "AHA!" She sat up and looked through her binder. "Shoot." She set her binder next to her books and dug into her backpack again. "There's my planner." She opened her planner and flipped through it.
Reisei blinked and hurried to clean up the living room, as a matter of fact she was pretty good at it to, it was picked up in five minutes. She then grabbed her deskchair and sat in it indian style and pulled off her combat boots dropping them under her computer desk. "So, what to talk about?" She asked the guys, she'd let Dana concentrate on her homework.
Dana looked at Rei. "Can we plot the demise of the teachers?" Dana looked at the looks she was getting from the ronins. "What?"
"Shouldn't you be doing your homework?" Touma asked. "Not plotting to kill people and you should know killing is wrong."
"JEEZ! I'm getting to it. What are you anyways? My mother?" Dana grumbled and looked at her homework. "There's SOO MUCH!!!" She wailed then got serious and grabbed her mathbook. "Alright. lesson 110 problems 1-30 do the ABC questions..." Dana said to herself.
"We always 'plot' to kill people. But we'd never make good on those fake plots. Ermmm...not unless the person really deserved it anyways." Reisei said, then she moved one her chair and pulled her knees to her chest wrapping her arms around them and resting her chin on her knees. Her left ankle was in perfect veiw of the ronins if they had been looking her way. They all seemed on being intent to make sure Dana wasn't going to seek and destroy any teachers though. The tattoo on her ankle was the Japanese symbol of death in black with a metallic purple as the background, it was designed in a way as if the purple were shining from beneath the symbol.
Dana glared at the ronins. "I'M NOT GOING TO GET ANYTHING DONE WITH YOU WATCHING ME LIKE HAWKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm a big girl and I can take care of myself!" Dana harumphed as she returned to her homework. The ronins quickly turned around and looked at Rei for conversation.
"What's that for?" Shuu pointed to the tattoo. The fact that some one had death tattooed on them seemed eerie to him.
Reisei grinned, this could be the perfect time for another joke, "Well...ya see..it all came about in a bet that I couldn't kill this huge dude with my bare hands...if I could do it I got the tattoo, if not then I didn't..." She said wickedly, then she waited about three minutes before coming back in with, "Not really, actually it was a spur of the moment thing I got at 4:30 in the morning one time after having a dream where I was Shinigami." She said and then added, "And that time I'm not kidding."
The ronins stared at Reisei. "You shouldn't majke jokes like that..."
A scream of frustration came from behind them. They turned around in time to dodge the math textbook that was aimed for the wall behind them. "ahh.....I feel much better..." Dana said and picked up her math book.."Dangit. That's the third time...I swear it should've taken SOME damage by now..." She looked at the dent in Rei's wall. "Whoops! Sorry about your wall Rei!" Dana said then sat back down and worked on her homework.
"Would you guys chill out about the jokes. You act like my parents, and no, that's NOT a good thing." She said and then pondered for a moment, "I guess it could be worse...You could be exactly like them and tell me everything I do is of the devil and that I should recite scripture and pray forgiveness." She said then the math book incident happened and Reisei studied the wall. "It's ok. I should be able to fix it without losing any of my security deposit." She said as she sat back down in her chair.
"That's good. Dad's making me pay for the hole in the wall in my room...I held back to make sure it didn't go through the wall and come out on the other side like it did in my room...My parents were pretty pissed....They took away two weeks of allowance!" Dana continued grumbling when she finished her math.
The ronins looked at Dana "through the wall?"
They shook their heads and looked at Rei, "Do you guys have any other powers then what we saw?"
"YES!" Dana said and triumphantly slammed her math book shut. "Now I only have everything else!" Dana realized what she said and sank back to the ground and started science. "Pg. 356 1-4 A,B,C,D, and E...."
Reisei thought for a moment, "Hmmm, my 'staff', healing, reanimating, quickness in running and fighting, heck, quickness period, I think that about covers it for me...Wait...no it doesn't, I can...well...I can make wounds and sickness appear with the touch of my hands if I'm extremely mad, or I can make them worse...and, well, there's no easy way to explain it, but I can electricute someone or literally use my hands to shoot poisin in their blood streams if I'm mad enough, not to the point of death, but you'd be amazed at what you can live through." Reisei said softly, she almost slunk back in her chair too because she knew that the guys would not be happy to hear that. She tried to avoid using the last two powers she brought up, but sometimes anger was to much. "As for anymore Dana has, ask her, I don't think she was holding back in that fight though." She said, she could just tell that the guys were going to say or do something about her powers.
"Shouldn't have held back..." Dana mumbled to herself, "Should've used the coffee table's....Other than that I didn't hold back."
"YOU and COFFEE TABLES are a DEADLY combination." Reisei said enunciating certain words by raising her tone. She remember being hit by one in a spar match when they were both having fairly bad days and winced.
Dana's eye's flared. She grabbed the Coffee table over her head (after shoving her books off it. won't make that mistake again) "Care to restate?!"
"DON'T MAKE ME JOLT YOUR SORRY BUTT!!" Reisei yelled jumping up and knocking her chair over in the process. Also at the same time easing backwards slowly so she could bolt up the narrow stairway and lock herself in her room if needed
Dana smiled and set the coffee table down laughing. "We do this a lot don't we?" Dana said recounting the last ten times they had this conversation.
Reisei let out a mild sigh of relief and nodded. "Notice how it always takes place in MY living room?" She asked as she picked up her chair and sat down again, then something came to mind. "What was up with that warrior looking dude? I mean...it's a little early for Halloween..."
Dana blinked and sat down and worked.
"umm..." Ryo started and proceeded to tell about the dynasty. Mean while Dana finished Science, and history. leaving only English and literature. She could read before bed. So she started on her English homework.
Reisei blinked, "Umm...wow? So there's some big butthead dude sending out his four little cracker jacks to take over the world?" She asked. "Now I know why you reacted the way you did at the mall."
Dana finished the last of her homework. "YES! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!" She stood up laughing. "I'm done! Finally!!!" Dana looked at the odd looks she was getting. "I'll....just..sit...back..down...here.."She said sitting back down.
"No more soda for you, Dana!" Reisei said and then looked around the living room, suddenly she felt odd, very odd, like she didn't belong. :Well no DUH SHERLOCK! Of course you and Dana don't belong, these are guys with mystical armors, not average dudes.: She scolded herself mentally, but had to correct herself too. She felt like Dana belonged, she felt like she didn't.
Dana pouted a bit. she saw the look on Rei's face as she looked around the room.
"Rei-chan is something wrong?" She said in a soft voice packing up her books.
"Huh? No. Nothing. Just a bit tired." Reisei smiled at her friend. "I'm not used to having company, or facing a cracker jacked warlord in one night." She said.
Dana looked thoughtful. "Has anyone from our school ever hung out with us? I don't remember..." Dana looked at Rei she never thought about it before but she couldn't really remember a time they had anyone but each other from school to hang out with.
The ronins though thought they could trust Rei, something kept telling them not to. That same thing though told them to make sure the dynasty didn't get a hold of Dana at all costs...(I'm special....-Lita-)
"I don't think so." Reisei laughed dryly, "Than again I've always preferred to avoid people. You being the exception." She said to Dana and stood up from her chair stretching some.
Dana finished packing her backpack and decided to leave it there until she had to go home. "I think they've always preferred to avoid us..." Dana said. She looked at the ronins. "Soo...um...." Dana stood up and went over to Rei. "I forgot what to talk about with other people it's been so long....or never which ever....." Dana whispered to Rei.
Reisei grinned and then looked at the guys. "What are the chances of the cracker jacks coming after us? I mean...Dana and I didn't exactly not crush that guy's pride..." She said and plopped back down in her chair, a small yawn escaped Reisei's lips, she was getting tired, it was getting late, she looked at Dana, "What time ya gotta be home?" She asked.
"...I forgot to ask....Give me a sec I'll call home...." Dana called her house and had to refrain from yelling at the people on the other line.
"It's very likely..." Touma said.
Dana hung up the phone and glared at it. "stupid people never shut up...." She grumbled to herself. "9 or 9:30...." Dana took on a nasal voice. "'It's a school night and we haven't been together as a family for so long'" Her voice returned to normal. "There might be a reason for that...."
Reisei looked in thought and nodded when her friend told her what time, she looked at the guys. "What time do you guys gotta be home?" She asked.
"It doesn't matter. When you drop her off you can drop us off somewhere we can walk....No use in making you drive us all the way..." Ryo said.
"Wait a minute! Time out! You guys can't come to my house not even to drop me off...." Dana said.
Shuu looked puzzled. "...why?"
"For three very good reasons. 1. My father would shoot you. 2. My mother would try to find out which one was boyfriend or just interrogate all of you. and 3. My brother would never shut UP!!" Dana said now holding three fingers up.
Reisei rolled her eyes remembering being tackled earlier that day by the chatter box that Dana called a little brother. "Umm...well, I could always take Dana home and come back and get you guys and take you guys home. I mean, Ryo, you make it sound pretty far, no use in making you guys walk when I can just take you." She shrugged, she was willing to take the guys home, but if they didn't want her to she wouldn't argue.
"I guess that's ok..." Ryo said.
"Phew! Dad would've killed me and Rei too...." Dana said and looked at the clock. "Well we still have an hour to an hour and a half....What do we do now?"
"Your dad is ALWAYS ready to kill me, Dana." Reisei looked at the clock and realized she was right. "I dunno..." She thought for a second, "On second thought...Wanna rematch, Shuu?" Reisei asked looking over to him grinning. Shuu looked up. "Sure..." He looked around. "Where will we hold it? There isn't that much room here..." ++
"There's a nice little field behind the building. C'mon." She said, just to prove for a mildly fair fight she took her ittou makkura out and set it on the computer stand by her lap top.
They all gathered outside in the field behind the apartment.
Dana, Shin, Touma, Ryo, and Seiji formed a circle around Shuu and Rei. The ronins were cheering for Shuu while Dana cheered for Rei. What did any one expect her to cheer for anyone else?
"Are you gonna use your staff?" Shuu asked hesitantly. That thing looked like it hurt...
"Nope. I left the staff in the house, this is a completely weapon free fight. That is...unless Dana sees me losing, then she might go grabbed my coffee table." Reisei said jokingly. She knew she was going to receive a glare from Dana, wouldn't be the first time. "Ok, Shuu, let's do this." Reisei said and took a step back from her opponent and bowed.
Dana (as expected) glared at Rei. "I might have to grab the coffee table if he's losing now that you mention it.." Dana said jokingly.
Shuu steeped back and bowed.
Reisei would have commented but her mindset had already set into concentration on the fight. As soon as Shuu stood up from his bow and was prepared Reisei threw a kick at his chest which he easily caught. Using her leg muscles though Reisei pushed up on the leg she'd been left standing on and swung out kicking at Shuu's head, he had to let go of her foot to duck back and as Reisei came down on what appeared was going to be her side she caught herself with her hands and flipped onto her feet.
Dana cheered for Rei. There was a short round of applause at Rei's first move.
:She didn't show this much ability today when we fought at school. Sure she showed a lot of ability, but not a move like that.: He thought to himself as he advanced on Reisei and threw a punch at her gut and while she was distracted to block that he thrust his other hand upward at her nose palm first, his fist was blocked and her head jerked to the side sending his hand up and grazing her ear. Both of her arms came up around Shuu's forearm and she swiftly spun and leaned forward hard pulling Shuu over her back and flipping him onto the ground. She stepped back waiting for Shuu to get up.
Dana clapped and jumped with glee at her best friends fight. The ronins murmured about her and how well she fought.
Shuu was feeling only MILDLY embarrassed. He just got tossed like a rag doll...By a GIRL. He jumped up and cast a look at Dana and then looked at Touma, Seiji, Ryo, and Shin like 'Say a word about this to anyone and I'll kill you all.'
Reisei had gotten bored with waiting as was standing and not paying much attention which was her mistake, one she didn't normally make, not even in spar. Shuu had moved and grabed Reisei's arm and was soon performing the same move on her that she just had on him, the only difference was she was so light that she thuded against the ground with twice the force.
"Ow..." Reisei mumbled, Shuu put his foot on her stomach and looked at the guys with a triumphant grin. Suddenly Reisei's hands pushed up hard on his ankle causing him to lose his balance and fall onto his butt. Both opponents were back on their feet at the same time.
Dana looked at the fight. Reisei let nobody beat her out of school. She fought til' she couldn't move, or at least that's what Dana would assume. Rei never really had a fight last long enough to tell....
The ronins stifled some chuckles at Shuu's look.
It wasn't long before the two lunged at each other again, the only difference this time was that Reisei had stopped relaxing and had picked up her speed, greatly, Shuu was having trouble blocking, he was doing it, but still having trouble with it. Reisei sprung onto her hands and locked her knees around Shuu's neck then with a great force her body swung and flipped Shuu onto his back. Reisei rolled onto her feet and stood over Shuu. "Done?" She asked looking down at him.
Shuu thought for a moment. "....done...."
Dana ran up and congratulated Rei on her victory. "Glad I didn't have to get the coffee table." She said looking at Shuu. "If you decided to continue I would've had to knock you out for being an idiot..."
Shuu glared at Dana. ".....and what would have been stupid about continuing?"
"The fact that you were losing badly...." Dana said.
Reisei stepped from over Kento to the side of him and reached her hand out to help him up. "Don't let Dana fool you, you make for a good opponent." Reisei said, she wasn't trying to get on the ronins bad sides. She wondered what they thought about their friend being beaten. And poor Shuu, this had to be a major blow on his pride.
"tee hee. I'm just fooling anyways. By the time I got the coffee table I'd have to hit both you..." Dana said. "What now? I'm horrible at this...maybe it's good no one hangs out with us....."
Reisei looked at her watch. "Wow...that took longer than it seemed. It's almost nine." She said and looked around.
"Well, I guess we should get going then...." Dana said as they made their way back to the house. She went over and picked up her backpack. She succeeded. she put it on her back and almost fell over. "Gah!" Dana struggled but gained her balance before she fell. "Stupid backpack.."
Reisei grinned, as her and Dana headed back out to the car she called over her shoulder, "I should only be 10-15 minutes tops, make yourselves at home though, you can turn on the TV if you want to."
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The ronins took this chance to look around to see if they could trust Rei or not.
"I have a pretty good feeling that we can trust Dana but Rei...." Seiji trailed off.
"I know what you mean. They're best friends too. You'd think we'd feel like we could trust both...." Shin said.
"Did you notice how much Rei looks like Rajura and Dana like Shin?" Ryo said.
"Yeah I did..." Touma said.
The ronins headed up to check her room where Touma found a box of papers. "Hey guys over here." They all looked at the morbid poetry and drawings..
"It looks like she has a lot of pent-up anger pain and hate...That might not be good for others around her..." Shin said.
"yeah...but she obviously cares for Dana like a best friend should..It makes you wonder if Dana is the same and just better at hiding it..." Ryo said.
"I don't think so. I get the feeling that Dana lives a very happy if annoying at some times life. Unlike Rei..." Seiji said. The ronins put the stuff back in the box and returned to the living room talking.
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When they arrived at Dana's house Dana got out of the car.
"See you tomorrow Rei." She said and shut the car door.
"See ya!" Reisei called as she pulled out of the driveway to head for home.
She opened the door to her house and was greeted by a giant cookie that was smiling at her.
"AHH!" The cookie was taking down and her mom looked at her.
"What?"
"DON'T DO THAT!!!" Dana said loudly. :Uh-oh shouldn't have yelled...: Dana thought looking at her mother's trembling lip. "I'm sorry mom I didn't mean to yell..." :It's going to be a LONG night: Dana thought...
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As Reisei was driving back to her apartment she stopped for no reason in front of one house. For a moment she just watched as the big figure of a man moved in front of a window waving his fists. In the window next to it she could see the figure of a lean woman doing close to the same. Reisei pulled in a deep breath and sighed, she could only imagine the person that stood between the two windows. She shook her head softly and began driving again leaving her old home and her family behind her. She got back to the apartment and walked in, something didn't feel right, something had happened while she was gone. she stepped in, all the guys seemed fine, so she didn't ask. "Whenever you guys are ready to go we can or you can hang out here a little longer. Whichever." She said shrugging. She felt like she was being studied under their gazes.
"We're good to go. We don't want to keep you up. You look tired..." Ryo said.
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Dana made it to her room. She had been forced to take the insanely large cookie up stairs with her and a large glass of milk. She set the plate and glass on her white desk. She looked around her room. It was neat and pretty big. She had a queen canopy in one corner by her window. Her blankets were all light blue's and white's. Her wall had the faintest hints of blue in them. She had picture's of animals and outdoors scene's scattered across her walls. Her desk was on the other side of the room as the bed. She had her own computer on it. Her window had on of those built in benches and a light blue pillow on it. Her closet was huge. She kept her dresser in there because the brown wood stood out in her room. She sat in front of her window and stared out it for a few minutes before she got up and turned on her computer. She took some sips of the milk and a couple bites of the cookie. The cookie wasn't that bad. It just irked her when her food was smiling at her. She logged on and started to aimlessly surf the net.
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Reisei nodded, something did not seem right. "Yea, uh, hang on I just gotta go grab something." She said and headed for the narrow stairway, once in her room she looked around, it all appeared pretty normal, but the lid on a box of her old poetry and drawings was ajar. She never even opened that box, much less left the lid ajar. She felt a bit of fury that they took 'make yourself at home' as 'go ahead and search the place.' She fixed the box and sat it back down on the shelf it had been on hard, the thud echoing down the stairwell. She walked down and without a look to the guys walked towards the door, "Come on, lets get you guys home." She said spinning her keyring on her finger.
The ronins followed Rei out. When they got to Mia's mansion they said they're good bye's and went inside.
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After awhile Dana finished her cookie and milk. She logged off the net. She couldn't seem to find anything of interest anyways. She took her dishes downstairs and was immediately 'detoured' by her father.
"So what did you do today with Reisei?" Her father asked sternly.
"We went to the mall then the park and I finished my home work talked then came home." Dana was very good at not telling the truth but not Lying either.
Her father eyed her suspiciously. "All right. You'll be home for dinner tomorrow right?"
"Maybe. I don't know really." Dana said she went upstairs and changed into an aqua leotard and white tights. She got her ribbon and went to the basement. She had claimed the basement because no one else was using it. She had put a stereo down there with a training pole and mats. She had some wooden swords and other weapons to train with too. She also had plenty of room to dance or work out or flip across the room as much as she pleased. She turned on her music and practiced her newest routine with her ribbon.
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Reisei called Ryo back over to the car before he got in the mansion and stared at him stone faced. "The least you can do when you dig into someone's past is put the lid back on the box." She said, she wanted them to know she knew they had been through her room. With that she waited for Ryo to back away from the car and when he did she hit the gas.
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Once she got back home she walked into the apartment and slammed the door hard, then she locked it and sat down on the couch, her chin quivered even though it was impossible to tell in which emotion. After a bit of debating with herself she grabbed the phone and dialed Dana's number, when Dana's mom answered Reisei asked for Dana.~~
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Dana was lost in her dancing and music when her mom came down holding the cordless and turned off her music. Dana nearly had a heart attack and fell over mid-leap.
"MOM! Don't scare me like that!!!!Geez!"
"I'm sorry honey I forgot you get lost in another world when your down here....Rei's on the phone." Dana's mom handed Dana the phone and went upstairs.
"Hey Rei-chan what's up?" Dana said breathing heavily. She just nearly had a heart attack and was working out harder than usual.
"Sorry if I caught you at a bad time." Reisei said standing up, she began deciding to check around to see if anything else had been disturbed. "Our little warrior friends seem to have a nosy streak too." Reisei said into the phone.
"No you didn't catch me at a bad time. I was just practicing my new routine with My ribbon and mom scared me." Dana said. "A nosy streak? how so?" Dana asked she decided to walk around. She put the phone on her shoulder and pressed it to her ear as she threw random kicks at her training pole.
Reisei's jaw set in a look of thankfulness, nothing else had been disturbed, she picked up the bags of chips and the sodas and carried them in the kitchen, she put the soda away in the icebox and the chips in a cabinet. "Well, while I was taking you home, they took it upon themselves to search my apartment. And the only way I know is because a box of old papers that I never open, well, the lid was, amazingly, partly open on it when I got home." Reisei said, she wasn't going to say what papers, that minor detail could be left out.
"Hhmm..It wasn't right for them to do that.." Dana threw a back kick at the pole and hit to hard. "ow.." She decided to sit down for the rest of this conversation. "Then again you didn't leave the best impression and think of what they're going through right now they can't trust anybody...." Dana was internally plotting how she would kill each and every one of them for invading her friends privacy.
"Good impression or not, trust someone or not, they should keep their nosy a$$es out of where they don't belong. And they don't belong in my bedroom." Reisei said, then after a brief pause she added, "Just do me a favor and keep them from searching your belongings too. I know it's not likely since they can't really get in your house, but stuff like your backpack and purse. They have no right to do that, I'd really be forced to kick their a$$es if they searched your stuff too."
"hehe Yeah your right. And I'll keep my stuff close to me. So do you want to plot how to get them back or leave it?" Dana said rubbing the back of her shin. :oww...note to self don't kick to hard....:
"I'll just leave it be unless they try something again. I'll let you go, Dana, I'm tired." Reisei said and hung up the phone. She set it on it's charger and made sure all the lights downstairs were off, slowly she climbed the stairs to her bedroom and closed the door behind her. Changing into her nightgown she slid into bed and closed her eyes. A figure appeared in the dark of the room, a figure with one eye, it stayed in it's dark corner watching the girl sleep.
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Dana said bye and hung up the phone. She knew she wouldn't be able to sleep so she returned to her routine with her music. She again was lost in another world.
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Rajura walked over to the bed quietly and sat down, he reached his hand to Reisei's face and brushed some of her bangs out of it.
By: Reisei Kurai (Maybe Ryidi in most of the AN) and Lita Inverse
Note: I do not own Ronin Warriors.
Another Note: We had this all set up really confusing, I'm trying to fix that, it's going to be a slow going process for me though because there's still a lot more to this story that I have to get edited. So just try to bear with, please, and I promise I'll have it all nice as soon as I can.
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Reisei Kurai walked out of the school, Gods she was glad for it to be the end of the day. She walked across the student parking lot to her 1989 white Pontiac sunfire and unlocked the door. She tossed her backpack in the back and got in, she put the key in the ignition and turned it on, then looking over her CD's she sighed. She just wasn't in the mood to listen to all the loud tones she had in her car. She leaned back and grabbed her backpack and dug through it finally pulling out a CD marked 'Soothing Sounds' and put it in. Soon chimes and various other instruments were playing very relaxing sounds. Reisei tilted her head back against the headrest of her seat and waited for Dana Jinmei, one of her best friends, if not her best friend, come out.
Dana came out of school lugging a backpack which probably weighed more than she did. "Stupid math homework...Dangit why do they have to make these text books so Darn HEAVY!" Dana fumed to herself as she walked up to the car. "What's up Rei?" Dana said as she heaved her backpack in the back and got in the car. "Why do they have to assign so much homework...."
Reisei grinned, "Not much." She said and then blinked at the backpack. "Damn, baka teachers, eh?" She asked as she pulled her legs into the car and closed her door pulling her seatbelt on. She wasn't going to mention that the only thing she had to do was study for her mythology test. "So, where we going, your house, my apartment, mall, arcade?" She asked throwing the last two in as a joke, and sort of a tease towards her best friend about having so much homework.
"Just because you got the good teachers doesn't mean you have to rub it in my face....Let's go to the mall. I need to get my stress level down some by walking and talking before I start on the home work. I'll get in a lot of trouble if I throw my Math book into the wall again...The hole it made last time was really big...Mom is gonna kill me if I do that again. Amazingly enough the math book survived it twice..." Dana Grimaced at the thought of math. "Let's go to my house first I want to get out of this uniform..." Dana looked down at her black knee length skirt and white dressy blouse. "Then we can drop our bags of at your place while you change...." Dana looked inside her purse which she was afraid might get mangled in her backpack. :I have about $75 that should me something....:
Reisei remained quiet on commenting about the teachers and nodded at the plan. She shifted into reverse and pulled out of the spot and then she shifted into drive and pressed the black flat she was wearing into the gas pedal, they broke 60 as they got out of the parking lot. Reisei slowed down considerably on the actual road though, probably because she didn't want to have to pay for a ticket.
"If you want to change the music you're welcome to, my CD's are right there." She pointed to a 20 CD CD tower that had been strategically placed right between the two seats and moved back some so that it was actually in the backseat. "Nah. The music is good, relaxing too. I need that. Before I scream my head off. They really should have home ec. at the end of school. I wouldn't be so frustrated. They just HAVE to end my day with the most frustrating class don't they?" Dana said. "ending the day with math is just plain stupid..."
"Ok." Reisei said and then, even though it wouldn't be of much help, she said, "At least they have your subject...Street fighting should be a course..." She expected to be slapped for being a smartass. Even though she did think it'd be really cool if street fighting was a course in school. She turned into Dana's driveway surprised at how fast the trip had went. She parked and took the keys out of the ignition.
Dana looked at Rei. "You would say that. I'll be right back or you can come in but I don't guarantee you'll make it out alive." Dana said getting out of the car. She unlocked the door and went in. She left the door open for Rei. She went upstairs to her room. She changed into a pair of Light blue shorts and a white Tang top that said 'Angel' in gold. She went back downstairs.
Reisei grinned and got out of the car and followed Dana into the house, as she closed the door behind her she peered around and let out a sigh of relief. No sign of Dana's dad...or mom...or...Reisei shuddered...Dana's little brother. She brushed a piece of white string off her skirt as she waited for Dana downstairs.
Dana was at the top of the stairs when Dilan rushed past her from his room and glomped Rei knocking her over in the process. "REI! wherehaveyoubeen?Ihaven'tseenyouinalmostTWOdays! Danasaidyouwereavoidingmebutshe'salwaysmeantome!"The first grader said in a rushed hurry.
Dana walked downstairs. "Who's mean to who here? I'm your sister and you go and say hi to my friend before me I can see how much you love your big sister" Dana feigned hurt holding her hand over her heart. She regained her composure. "Now let her up we're going back out."
Reisei's eyes went wide as she was knocked over. "Well, Dilan, between work and school I don't have all the free time in the world." Reisei said trying to make excuses, she may have been flat out rude at times but making a little kid, no matter how annoying, cry, was not on her agenda. The bun that Reisei wore her hair in for the school day had come out with the force of the knock sending white hair over her shoulders and face. She looked up at Dana, it looked like two sapphires peering out of a mop. She lifted Dilan off her gently and got up.
"Now say good-bye Dilan we're leaving." Dana said.
"Bye Rei!" Dilan waved enthusiastically.
"Let's go." Dana grumbled and grabbed Rei's collar and dragged her out of the house. Dana let go in front of the car. "My family scares me..."
"You're family scares me too..." Reisei said as she climbed back into the drivers seat and found a scrunchie to hold her hair in a pony tail until they got to her apartment. "What's his deal? Am I the only person he talks to in the outside world or something?" She asked.
Dana got in the car too. "Never speaks to his own sister." Dana said then her tone turned into one of a teasing sort. "I think he's got a crush on you...." Dana buckled her seatbelt for the trip to Rei's place.
Reisei blinked, "Uh-huh...I think I'll stay FAR away." She said and grinned as she pulled her seatbelt on and then backed out of the driveway heading for her place.
"Yeah well...First graders are like that..." Dana laughed a bit. "at least he doesn't know about about any of our 'special' powers. he's infatuated with you enough..."
"Oh so true..." Reisei said, "I don't need him begging me to teach him how to fight...or how to heal...which I can't even really teach him but I just know that if he knew about it he'd ask to learn about it." She said. Her apartment really wasn't that far from Dana's house, five minutes tops, she pulled into the parking lot and parked in the spot closest to her apartment, which today just happened to be right in front of her door. She reached into the backseat and hauled up her backpack and then undid her seatbelt and got out. "We can grab a soda while we're here to hold over till we get to the mall." Reisei grinned.
"Good Idea." Dana said she undid her seatbelt and got out before struggling to get her backpack out. She managed but also managed to land on her butt with the backpack in her lap. She tapped her fingers against the pavement impatiently. "Not. One.Word." She glared at Reisei whom she was sure was going to break out into a fit of giggles. Dana shoved the bag off her and stood up. She picked up the bag and followed Rei into the house.
Reisei's cheeks turned bright red as she fought to contain laughter, she only nodded as to say, 'Ok, I'm not saying anything.' Reisei walked up to her apartment and unlocked the door and let Dana go in first, then she followed and closed the door behind. She tossed her backpack on the couch and her keys on the coffee table. "Don't mind the mess, I was to lazy last night to clean up." She said, the living room wasn't at it's worst of times, but it was sort of messy, a pile of clothing laid in one corner, a pillow and a blanket on the couch, along with Rei's backpack, where she had crashed last night because she didn't feel like walking to her bedroom, papers cluttered the desk against one wall, and one the coffee table was also a plate with the remains of a couple pieces of pizza, Reisei's dinner the night before. She walked into her bedroom and changed into her black shorts, a black tank top, and her back army boots. She pulled $125 from her top drawer and tucked it into her pocket. She figured Dana only had $75 so they'd be even. She walked back out into the living room braiding her white hair.
Dana set her backpack down gently in front of Rei's couch. :No need to make a hole here in her already trashed living room. She looked up as Rei came down. "So what soda do you have?" Dana asked. Dana sighed. :The only time she ever wears anything other than black is the white shirt on our Uniforms.:
Reisei went to grab her red button up shirt that she used as an over shirt that was on her desk chair but thought against it, it was to warm for it. She had different colored shirts upstairs, but most the time she stuck to blacks and grays, it's just what she felt more comfortable in. "Orange, rootbeer, pepsi, mountain dew." Reisei said as she strolled into the kitchen, she'd have to get her wallet out of her backpack but that could wait till she grabbed the sodas. She opened her icebox, which had a couple cans of each type of soda she named in it, and really not much else, some fruit and veggies, day old rice, milk, that was about it. She grabbed a rootbeer and waited to hear what kind Dana wanted.
"I'll have a rootbeer." Dana said. "How's Panda express sound when we get to the mall. I have an urge for Chinese..."
"Hmmm. Sounds good." Reisei said as she grabbed another rootbeer and closed the icebox door. She walked back to the living room and gave Dana her soda then she grabbed her backpack and took her wallet out and put it in her pocket with the money. She grabbed her keys off the coffee table, "Ready?" She asked popping the soda open and taking a sip.
Dana took the soda. "Let's go." Dana followed Rei out to the car and got in. "So what else is on our agenda for the mall?" She asked taking another sip of her soda.
Reisei pulled out of the parking lot. "Hmmm...Eat, I don't really know what stores I want to go look in. Maybe Famous." reisei said and then cast a look to Dana, "Say a word about me shopping in Famous and I'll kill you." She said.
"Well fare's fare. You didn't laugh at me earlier so I won't comment." Dana said. "We'll see when we get there. but first things first and that's food!" Dana cheered a bit and clamly drank her soda.
"Agreed!" Reisei said and began to drink her soda while driving with one hand, she switched lanes and headed onto the highway. Twenty minutes and a can of soda later they pulled up to the mall and parked.
Dana got out of the car with Rei and they headed to the food court.
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The five ronins sat at a table. Shuu was pigging out but every so often would make a comment about Shin's food being better. Ryo, Touma, and Seiji were talking about the warlords as Dana and Reisei walked by.
"We need to be careful. Rajura's illusion's could be very bad..." Ryo said.
Reisei walked up to the food court with Dana and saw the guys, she caught Ryo saying a name and stepped up, "Hey, I know Raj." She said, she didn't actually know who this Rajura person was, but it would make for a nice joke.
Dana stood back Trying not to burst out into laughter at the looks on the guys' face's at Rei's comment. Dana knew all to well that Rei didn't know anyone by that name..
The ronins stared at the white hair girl. one thought ran threw all their minds at once: Well, she does look like him. They stood up taking battle stances. They couldn't transform in the mall though.
Dana watched them take battle stances and lost it. She collapsed to the ground laughing. She was going to start rolling on the ground in a minute.
At first Reisei got an oh shit look on her face. Then hearing the laughter behind her caused her to crack, she crossed her arms over her gut. "Man, you guys need to lighten up, I don't even know anyone by the name Rajura." She said with a wide grin on her face, a strand of her white hair fell from her ponytail and into her face. She turned and walked over to Dana. "Want help up?" She asked. The thought of how seriously those guys had taken her joke almost sent her into laughter again.
Dana was crying she was laughing so hard. She grabbed Rei's hand and yanked herself up. She was still laughing so hard she looked ready to topple over again. She started to calm down some and wiped away the tears thatw were pouring down her face. "That guy must be bad news if you react that way to some one saying they know him....It's a him right?" She said still laughing with more tears. She wiped her eyes and face and stopped laughing but still had a huge grin on her face. "I wish I had a camera. Reisei's right though you need to lighten up." The guys dropped there battle stances and stared at the two girls'.
Shuu spoke up. "You shouldn't go around making jokes about knowing people you don't! And just what is so funny anyways.?!"
"You had to see your faces to get it......" Dana smiled. "You guys' look like you go to our school...Rei?" Dana looked at them sheepishly. "I'm horrible with naming faces."
"Reow! It was a joke!" Reisei said throwing out a fake hiss and arching her hands like cat claws. She looked at Dana and then back at the ronins, "Yea, now that you mention it they look very familiar." She thought for a moment and then looked at Shuu, for a second his face seemed familiar but with no name but then his name came to her. "You! Shuu! You're the one who beat me in karate today!" Reisei said.
Dana fell over. Not from laughter but from shock. "h-h-he beat y-y-you? i-i-is t-t-that p-p-possible? even we're evenly matched..." Dana would've laughed again but she liked her head. She pulled herself up again. "i'm gonna be bruised there tomorrow I know it. This is the third time." She grumbled loud enough for only Rei to hear. "I'm Dana. Dana Jinmei. and you guys are?"
"Well as you know I'm Shuu." He pointed to the blue hair boy, "That's Touma," Then over to the blonde, "Seiji" over to the light brown hair boy that looked remarkably like Dana, "Shin" and over to the black hair boy. "and that's Ryo"
Seiji looked over at Shuu. "We can introduce ourselves you know" Dana's stomach growling brought all attention to her. Dana rubbed the back of her head sheepishly. "um...I'm kind of Hungry I had to skip lunch to go re-take a test I missed last time I was absent...come to think of it I skipped breakfast cause I slept in.. " Dana started saying the last part to herself as she looked up remembering. "Reisei let's go get food before I collapse again and this time can't get up.."
Reisei glared at Dana, "It was a one time thing, and I didn't exactly make winning easy on him!" She said. She looked at the guys, "I'm Reisei Kurai. Sorry about the little joke, I just can't resist trouble." She grinned. She looked at Dana as her stomach growled, "Seriously. At least I know to eat every so often." She said, "Let's go get some food." She then looked back at the guys, "We're going to be here for a while so, ya know, if you want to hang out you're welcome to." She said, hoping to make amends from nearly having them jump her ass.
"Well, EXCUSE me for trying to be a good student! You have to make a few sacrifice's every once in awhile!" Dana made a 'harumph' sound as she turned around. "If you want to get anywhere you have to make sacrifices and you need to push yourself!" Dana stuck her nose in the air.
The ronins just blinked at the sight before them.
Seiji, the king of flirts, said, "After you get your food you can come sit with us..."
Reisei only shook her head, "I could bring up so much that proves you push yourself to hard, like the gym incident." She said and dropped it at that. "Let's get you some food before you pass out, I don't think your mom would appreciate you crashing on my couch tonight...And your dad would appreciate it much less." She said and headed to go get the food.
Dana looked at Rei as she walked away. "Which one...Hey! wait!" Dana ran after her friend who was already in line..."Care to wait for a person?" She said.
The ronins blinked.
"You'd think she'd say what and not which...."Touma said.
"You'd think...." Seiji said.
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After they got their food they headed back over to the ronins table. Reisei was carrying both her food and Dana's, she set it down on a table and pulled two more chairs over and sat down in one.
"Ok, right to the chase, I'm serious, what's so bad about that dude I mentioned kidding around?" She asked.
The ronins looked nervously at each other as Dana tore into her food in a mad frenzy.
"It's nothing important. Just a guy who likes to pick a lot of fights that's all..." Ryo said.
"Oh, sounds like one of the guys I'd meet in a street fight. Maybe I'll meet up with him someday." She said casually, she hoped Dana didn't intervene with the fact that most of those guys ended up in the hospital. On the other hand that would be ok if it would give Reisei some reassurance that Dana wasn't going to inhale her food so fast she'd choke on it. Reisei began eating some of her chicken fried rice.
Dana looked up at Reisei and saw the look she flashed her for a brief second. She swallowed her mouthful and set her fork down. "All the guys she fights end up in the hospital." She turned to Reisei and put her hands on her hips and looked indignant. "and NO I'm not going to choke on my food. Thank You Very Much!" Dana finished eating the rest of her food. "I'm not to much in the mood to go shopping any more. Reisei what do you think about the park? Might be able to pick a fight..." Dana knew if she wanted anything that was a sure way to get it.
"You want to go look for a fight??" Reisei grinned and turned back to the others. "Thanks for the company and all, maybe we can do it again some time, but I can't pass up the opportunity to search out a fight." Reisei declared pulling her ittou makkura from her pocket. She closed the carton of her food to take home and eat later as she stood up.
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Rajura was watching from the netherrealm, he was inspired by the two young women, especially the white headed one with the dangerous look about her. "I must pay these two a visit.." He said to himself and disappeared from the room.
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Dana resisted the urge to chew Reisei out for being rude. "You guys are welcome to join us. If you want to." Dana said and looked at Reisei's yo-yo, she barely resisted the urge to wince. She sparred with her once while they used their weapons. That thing HURTS!! never sparred with weapons again.
Shuu looked at the yo-yo looking thing, "What's that?"
Seiji threw a look at Shuu. "We'd be delighted to join you."
"All right Great! um..I hope you have your own car or something.....Rei?"
"Sorry..." Reisei shrunk from the look she got from Dana she then looked at Shuu and grinned. "It's my ittou makkura, a very dangerous and deadly weapon, as Dana has learned." She grinned. She looked at Dana and then the guys. "I can only fit four people in my car unless we have people sitting on other people's laps, then I can fit seven." She said.
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Rajura arrived at the park, he hoped the girls would be there soon, he was so looking for a good blood bath and any possible benefits either of the girls might bring.
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"That thing HURTS! dangit. you weren't supposed to hit that hard..." Dana motioned for them to follow her and Rei outside. She looked at the car. "good thing we took our backpacks out....um....Rei...I think I'll leave seating arrangements up to you."
"Then I guess you better be happy I didn't hit you with the SHARP end." Reisei said then she looked at the car and everyone, she opened the door. "Ok...Ummm...Shuu and Shin in back. Erm...Touma and Seiji can sit on their laps..." Reisei felt kind of odd doing this, "Ryo in the front and Dana will sit on your lap." She said, she was just mentally daring someone to ask why she wasn't sitting on anyone's lap. Or vice versa.
Dana laughed at the thought of two guys sitting in each others laps, then she facefaulted with Ryo when they heard their arrangements. Dana sat up off the ground and rubbed her face. "oww...."
Seiji grimaced a bit at the thought of having to sit on a guy's lap.
"just love to cause trouble don't you?" Dana said referring more to her face then the arrangements.
"Sorry guys. That's the way it goes, but since Dana seems so unhappy." Reisei teased, "Ryo, you and Seiji change places." She waited until everyone got in the car and then she got in and scooted her seat up as far as she could to give them more leg room. She closed the door and looked in her rearview mirror which was cluttered with guy's faces, then she looked over at Dana. "You might want to warn them..." She said and waited for someone to say 'warn them about what?'
Ryo looked up worried, "Warn us about what?"
"Nothing." Dana looked at Rei, "I cleaned all the purple people eaters out of here yesterday...." She winked at Rei. She was in one of her more mischievous moods. "Along with the man-eating spiders, anaconda's and wolves. and there's no acid there anymore...And my dad is at home doesn't know what we're doing and I hid his shotguns...well all I could find of them anyways..."
Reisei laughed, "Yep. Every time Dana's around me we have to hide her daddy's shot guns, he doesn't trust me." Reisei joked then she looked around, "This, "She began as she turned on the car, "Is what you should really worry about, hang on." She said and shifted out of part and slammed on the gas flying through the half empty parking lot and out onto the road where she promptly slowed...a little...
Dana was unfazed by the speed but was thrust forward when she learned Seiji was fazed. when she could sit straight again she rubbed her head. "oww.....I'm just accident prone today aren't I?" She didn't notice the four others in the back fly forward too. "Shoulda warned you about that too I guess..."
Reisei laughed, "Sorry guys, just like I need to fight I have a need for speed." She said and slowed down to avoid throwing the ronins around anymore. It wasn't to long before they were at the park and Reisei opened the door and slid out of the car then pulled the seat forward to let Ryo, Shin, Shuu, and Touma out. She shook her ittou makkura for a moment, sort of a ritual she had been taught by a friend she viewed as a brother before he ran off. "Ittou makkura.." Reisei mumbled as she ran her hand down the shaft of the steel and it grew to a fairly thin five foot long staff, the blunt end wasn't all that big and it was the biggest end, the sharp end was thin, she held the staff and leaned on it some.
Dana hopped out of the car and pulled out her ribbon. She watched as it flowed in the slight breeze. She thought how it would look cooler with more of a breeze and her hair down, maybe a skirt too.
Sage got out and closed the door he went and stood with his friends.
Dana's ribbon was a greenish-blue and the handle was a light blue. "Ready when you are Rei!" She needed some excersise.
Reisei grinned and pulled her staff up into battle stance, as she got ready to spar/attack her friend a blade shot down from somewhere and plunged into the ground just inches from her foot, she looked up following the extension of the blade and saw a figure standing in a tree. "Who are you AND what do you want?" She asked, she was mildly annoyed that they'd been disrupted.
"I am Rajura, warlord of illusion." Rajura grinned under his face mask as he stepped into the light. Reisei sucked in a deep breath.
"Don't you think it's a little early for Halloween?" She asked and was met with a glare from Rajura's one good eye.
Dana looked at Rajura who was clad in his armor. :uh-oh!:
"You better run Cause Rei and I are gonna chew you up and spit you out!"
The five ronins transformed into their sub-armor.
"You two stay outta the way." Ryo said.
"WHAT?! Turn down a fight?! are you nuts?!" Dana screamed at the ronins, then turned around perfectly calm, "It's against my religion. So let's whoop this guys butt!"
"Ahhhh. Wildfire. I should have expected you'd show up, but actually come here with the girls, what fun is that?" Rajura asked. Reisei didn't know, but she sure wasn't happy. When Rajura came down to the ground Reisei struck, she sprinted forward and spun her staff over her head and took aim right at Rajura's gut with the pointed end. But as she got close the world around her seemed to melt into something else as she saw Dana there and literally forced herself to fall to her knees to stop from spearing her friend. Then the vision faded and Rajura was standing over her, "My what spirit you have, girl, and what a nice little toy." He said, his pale blue eye burning into her eyes. Moving fast she swung her legs out and caught the warlord off guard sending him onto his back.
"Don't f*ck with my mind, man, I'm warning you." Reisei growled as she grabbed her staff and used her leg muscles to push into a back flip and she landed on her feet by Dana, unsure of how she jumped so far, but not putting much, if any, thought into it.
Dana glared at Rajura. "So you have some tricks up your sleeves eh? Well I have a few of my own." Dana leaped into the air and flung a good sized Boiling ball and Ice ball at Dais. Both coming from a different direction. "Well, I have a few of my own." She did a flip in the air and Aimed a kick for his head. "I won't be so easily fooled!"
Rajura vanished from where he had been as the ice and water collided followed by Dana's foot. He reappeared on the roof of Reisei's car. "Both of you have such spirit, such power, I can help you put that power to use." Rajura said letting his eye move from Reisei to Dana and back again.
"I put my power to use enough as it is." Reisei said sprinting and jumping up onto the hood of the car and thrusting the pointed end of her staff at his knee cap, he jumped back.
"Nearly got me, twice, and the same for your friend and her little toys." Rajura snickered.
The ronins stood slack jawed at the sight. They didn't do this well with only one when they first met Rajura. Mostly they were surprised at the powers these two weilded.
Dana fumed. "They're NOT TOYS!!!!!!!!!" A frying pan appeared in each of Dana's hand and she flung them at Rajura's head. "Do NOT INSULT MY TECHNIQUE'S DANGIT!!!!!" She leaped into the air and fired a barrage of small ice orbs at him. A small thundercloud appeared over his head and would occasionally lightning on him. Teleportation wouldn't save him from that one. It was more of a curse then an attack. Dana flipped in the air and landed next to the ronins ribbon in hand.
Rajura had dodged the frying pans and ice orbs, but the rain and lightning was truly something unable to be dodged, he growled. "You may be powerful, but you're a pest." He growled and pulled his Chi Lin Tou, with a flick of his wrist the six blades flew out. "WEB OF DECEPTION!" He screamed. Reisei dodged the two blades that had come straight at her. She growled and something shone in her eyes. Most of the blades had been aimed for Dana.
"LEAVE MY FRIEND ALONE!" Reisei yelled and something shone on her forehead for a brief second, it was gone just as fast as it appeared, as for Reisei herself, she still stood, looking read to kill.
"Yikes!" Dana said. She dodged 3 of the 4 aimed at her. The other one missed her by a hair width. Right behind her back to. She was breathing heavily when she noticed a cut on her arm. "Oh! ow!" She put a hand on her heart and stumbled back a bit. "Oh..oh..ow.. it hurts so much!" Dana was making fun of him as she tends to do to people when she's scared. Unless it's her little brother. "I have been struck by a mortal blow!" Drama class at school came in handy. She fake stumbled into a tree. "I don't know if you know this or not but..." She stood up and touched her cut lightly. It healed up right before everyone's eyes. She bowed. "Thank you! Thank you!" She stood up and glared at Rajura. "How's them apples?"
The ronins remained to shocked to fight. (their author -Lita- remains too lazy to write them in the fight)
Reisei looked at her friend cracking up some until am armored fist connected with her jaw sending her stumbling back. "HEY! LOW BLOW A**HOLE!" She yelled and sprung forward, this time, she wouldn't miss, she spun her staff as she lept onto the car and slammed the blunt end forward right into Rajura's gut, armor or no armor, he felt it. His eye widened. She turned and made a cheering motion towards Dana and then looked at Rajura, "Why don't you come out of that armor and fight us small, helpless little girls like a big man." She said in one of thos complete innocence tones, even though she was far from completely innocent.
"We'll finish this later!" Rajura swore as he disappeared, Ryi let herself slide to sitting position on the hood.
"Is it just me or does he have a bad attitude?" She asked, she noticed the ronins amazed looks, "What?" She asked.
"Your right he does have a bad attitude. Hehe. I may be a pest but I'm a darn right powerful one!" She looked at the ronins stares. "What?"
"How can you just shrug off a fight like that?" Touma said.
"Easy. like this." Dana shrugged her shoulders. "See all gone..."
"Why are you so powerful...how?" Seiji asked.
"Oh yeah! like we can explain THAT one..."
Reisei looked at the ronins and then at Dana, and back to the ronins. "We were born like this." She moves to laying across the hood of her car like a bored child. "Dana and I, we've always been two girls to kick a butt and get it done, the powers aid, we don't know how we got them, or why, but they sure do help." She said, her staff had shrunk back to normal size and she stuck it in her pocket.
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Rajura sat in his room sulking, the damn cloud still over his head, shocking him every so often. Shuten opened the door. "Unsuce-" He didn't get to finish, instead his eyes widened and he cracked up laughing at the rain cloud over Rajura's head.
"Go away!" Rajura snapped. Nazza and Anubis came to the door.
"What's going on?" Nazza, the warlord of venom asked, when he and Anubis saw the storm cloud hanging over Rajura's head they both dropped into undignified snorts of laughter with Shuten. Rajura got up and shoved them all out the door causing them to collide with each other and fall on the floor. Then he slammed the door.
"Jeez...I guess he's really sour..." Shuten mumbled.
"Yep. He probably got beat by girly ronins." Anubis said, they all stood up and headed down the hall not knowing just how right they were.
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The ronins looked at each other. "Born with them?"
"Yeah....That's one way to explain it....The other would be..." Dana gets a thoughtful look on her face, "gee, I don't know..." Dana looked at Reisei, "I guess I should get started on my homework....Baka Teachers..." Something dawned on Dana, "Hey, should I get rid of the cloud over that guys' head or leave it for awhile....?"
"I think he's learned his lesson for now. Wherever he went I'm sure he got soooo made fun of for that." Reisei grinned and hopped off the hood of her car. "You guys can come over to my place if you want to, or I can take you home, or leave you here, or whatever." Reisei said, she looked at marks in the ground from the Chi Lin Tou. "Man...that was one nasty weapon. I'd hate to get hit with it." She mumbled.
"All right." Dana closed her eyes and willed it away. (She made sure it gave a little stronger bolt then usual before it disappeared. Hey She could have fun...)She opened her eyes. "Luckily it only cut my arm...it would've really hurt hitting dead on. and I mean DEAD on...Yea you guys could come and see how we kick butt girls' live. Or how that one does anyways. Dad'll shoot you if you walk in front of the house...."
The ronins looked at each other. "It doesn't matter. We don't have any homework. and we're interested in your powers...we like to know more about them.." Ryo said shrugging.
Dana collapsed in a heap it sounded like she was crying. She looked up chewing on a handkerchief "Why is it the teachers always pile the homework in my classes but never anyone else's?" Dana buried her face in her hands and continued crying. "I think they have something against me..."
The ronins blinked a couple time and banished their sub-armor. Then blinked some more.
Reisei had no comment on Dana's behavior. "Um, we'll have to stop by the gasstation, I don't exactly keep food and drink around for tons of company." She said, she hoped anyone didn't mind that. She honestly didn't see such a big deal in her powers, by hey, that was her. She hopped up sitting back on the hood of her car and pulled off one of her combat boots, she scratched a tattoo on her ankle, a symbol in black, before swiftly pulling the boot back on. She jumped off her car and looked around. "I'm ready to go whenever you guys are." She said.
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Rajura was shocked one last time then he noticed the cloud disappear. "THANK GOD!" He yelled and then moved across the room and dropped down into his bed to do some thinking and sleeping and sleeping and thinking.
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Dana hopped up as if nothing had happened. "That's fine." The ronins didn't have time to figure out what the tattoo was of but decided not to ask. "Well I'm ready guys?"
"Yeah we're ready" Rang out from the group.
Dana looked at Rei. "Didn't I tell you you'd get to fight? I never lie."
"Ok then, let's get going." Reisei said, everyone piled into her car and they left the park, first stop, gas station. She got out and looked around, "Everyone coming or what?" She asked.
Dana hopped out of the car. "You guys stay here. We'll just get some potato chips dip and any other junk food we can find. Right Rei?" Dana said.
"Yea." Reisei said. When her and Dana got in the store she went the opposite direction of Dana collecting some chips and junk food and a case of soda. then headed up to the counter waiting to meet Dana there.
Dana grabbed a bunch of chips, some dip and whatever else looked good. She met Rei and the cash register. "We got chips, dips some cookies and I grabbed some more soda for your collection. How's that sound?" Dana had a sweet tooth at the moment
"Sounds like we've got plenty." She said and paid for the stuff. "Let's put it in the trunk, I don't think we have room anywhere else." Reisei said as her and Dana walked outside.
Dana nodded and took the bags. When Rei popped the trunk she put the stuff in. "Well if that's it let's go." Dana said getting in the car.
Reisei closed the trunk and got in the car with Dana. "All right." She said and started the car but suddenly she was stopped by the vroom of an engine and a familiar voice.
"Hey Supi-do Oni." A male said as he pulled up by the car.
"Hey Kurt." Reisei said, the guy revved his engine again.
"Want to take 'er for a little race?" He asked.
"Sorry, I've got a car full and places I've got to be." She said.
"Well then, maybe tomorrow we can eat lunch together?" He asked, Reisei grinned.
"You're about fifty miles ahead of yourself." She said and pushed on the accelerator leaving the parking lot.
When they got to Rei's apartment they all hopped out of the car and followed Rei in(after they got the snacks out). Dana went over to her backpack and tried to lift it. Tried being the key word she failed. She tried again. Then again. Then just gave up and dragged it over to the middle of the room. She sat down and unzipped it. Grumbling about evil teachers and pulled out her math book. She set it next to her along with her history book, then her science book, her literature book, her English.
"I know my binder is in here somewhere...." She dug deeper into her backpack. "AHA!" She sat up and looked through her binder. "Shoot." She set her binder next to her books and dug into her backpack again. "There's my planner." She opened her planner and flipped through it.
Reisei blinked and hurried to clean up the living room, as a matter of fact she was pretty good at it to, it was picked up in five minutes. She then grabbed her deskchair and sat in it indian style and pulled off her combat boots dropping them under her computer desk. "So, what to talk about?" She asked the guys, she'd let Dana concentrate on her homework.
Dana looked at Rei. "Can we plot the demise of the teachers?" Dana looked at the looks she was getting from the ronins. "What?"
"Shouldn't you be doing your homework?" Touma asked. "Not plotting to kill people and you should know killing is wrong."
"JEEZ! I'm getting to it. What are you anyways? My mother?" Dana grumbled and looked at her homework. "There's SOO MUCH!!!" She wailed then got serious and grabbed her mathbook. "Alright. lesson 110 problems 1-30 do the ABC questions..." Dana said to herself.
"We always 'plot' to kill people. But we'd never make good on those fake plots. Ermmm...not unless the person really deserved it anyways." Reisei said, then she moved one her chair and pulled her knees to her chest wrapping her arms around them and resting her chin on her knees. Her left ankle was in perfect veiw of the ronins if they had been looking her way. They all seemed on being intent to make sure Dana wasn't going to seek and destroy any teachers though. The tattoo on her ankle was the Japanese symbol of death in black with a metallic purple as the background, it was designed in a way as if the purple were shining from beneath the symbol.
Dana glared at the ronins. "I'M NOT GOING TO GET ANYTHING DONE WITH YOU WATCHING ME LIKE HAWKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm a big girl and I can take care of myself!" Dana harumphed as she returned to her homework. The ronins quickly turned around and looked at Rei for conversation.
"What's that for?" Shuu pointed to the tattoo. The fact that some one had death tattooed on them seemed eerie to him.
Reisei grinned, this could be the perfect time for another joke, "Well...ya see..it all came about in a bet that I couldn't kill this huge dude with my bare hands...if I could do it I got the tattoo, if not then I didn't..." She said wickedly, then she waited about three minutes before coming back in with, "Not really, actually it was a spur of the moment thing I got at 4:30 in the morning one time after having a dream where I was Shinigami." She said and then added, "And that time I'm not kidding."
The ronins stared at Reisei. "You shouldn't majke jokes like that..."
A scream of frustration came from behind them. They turned around in time to dodge the math textbook that was aimed for the wall behind them. "ahh.....I feel much better..." Dana said and picked up her math book.."Dangit. That's the third time...I swear it should've taken SOME damage by now..." She looked at the dent in Rei's wall. "Whoops! Sorry about your wall Rei!" Dana said then sat back down and worked on her homework.
"Would you guys chill out about the jokes. You act like my parents, and no, that's NOT a good thing." She said and then pondered for a moment, "I guess it could be worse...You could be exactly like them and tell me everything I do is of the devil and that I should recite scripture and pray forgiveness." She said then the math book incident happened and Reisei studied the wall. "It's ok. I should be able to fix it without losing any of my security deposit." She said as she sat back down in her chair.
"That's good. Dad's making me pay for the hole in the wall in my room...I held back to make sure it didn't go through the wall and come out on the other side like it did in my room...My parents were pretty pissed....They took away two weeks of allowance!" Dana continued grumbling when she finished her math.
The ronins looked at Dana "through the wall?"
They shook their heads and looked at Rei, "Do you guys have any other powers then what we saw?"
"YES!" Dana said and triumphantly slammed her math book shut. "Now I only have everything else!" Dana realized what she said and sank back to the ground and started science. "Pg. 356 1-4 A,B,C,D, and E...."
Reisei thought for a moment, "Hmmm, my 'staff', healing, reanimating, quickness in running and fighting, heck, quickness period, I think that about covers it for me...Wait...no it doesn't, I can...well...I can make wounds and sickness appear with the touch of my hands if I'm extremely mad, or I can make them worse...and, well, there's no easy way to explain it, but I can electricute someone or literally use my hands to shoot poisin in their blood streams if I'm mad enough, not to the point of death, but you'd be amazed at what you can live through." Reisei said softly, she almost slunk back in her chair too because she knew that the guys would not be happy to hear that. She tried to avoid using the last two powers she brought up, but sometimes anger was to much. "As for anymore Dana has, ask her, I don't think she was holding back in that fight though." She said, she could just tell that the guys were going to say or do something about her powers.
"Shouldn't have held back..." Dana mumbled to herself, "Should've used the coffee table's....Other than that I didn't hold back."
"YOU and COFFEE TABLES are a DEADLY combination." Reisei said enunciating certain words by raising her tone. She remember being hit by one in a spar match when they were both having fairly bad days and winced.
Dana's eye's flared. She grabbed the Coffee table over her head (after shoving her books off it. won't make that mistake again) "Care to restate?!"
"DON'T MAKE ME JOLT YOUR SORRY BUTT!!" Reisei yelled jumping up and knocking her chair over in the process. Also at the same time easing backwards slowly so she could bolt up the narrow stairway and lock herself in her room if needed
Dana smiled and set the coffee table down laughing. "We do this a lot don't we?" Dana said recounting the last ten times they had this conversation.
Reisei let out a mild sigh of relief and nodded. "Notice how it always takes place in MY living room?" She asked as she picked up her chair and sat down again, then something came to mind. "What was up with that warrior looking dude? I mean...it's a little early for Halloween..."
Dana blinked and sat down and worked.
"umm..." Ryo started and proceeded to tell about the dynasty. Mean while Dana finished Science, and history. leaving only English and literature. She could read before bed. So she started on her English homework.
Reisei blinked, "Umm...wow? So there's some big butthead dude sending out his four little cracker jacks to take over the world?" She asked. "Now I know why you reacted the way you did at the mall."
Dana finished the last of her homework. "YES! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!" She stood up laughing. "I'm done! Finally!!!" Dana looked at the odd looks she was getting. "I'll....just..sit...back..down...here.."She said sitting back down.
"No more soda for you, Dana!" Reisei said and then looked around the living room, suddenly she felt odd, very odd, like she didn't belong. :Well no DUH SHERLOCK! Of course you and Dana don't belong, these are guys with mystical armors, not average dudes.: She scolded herself mentally, but had to correct herself too. She felt like Dana belonged, she felt like she didn't.
Dana pouted a bit. she saw the look on Rei's face as she looked around the room.
"Rei-chan is something wrong?" She said in a soft voice packing up her books.
"Huh? No. Nothing. Just a bit tired." Reisei smiled at her friend. "I'm not used to having company, or facing a cracker jacked warlord in one night." She said.
Dana looked thoughtful. "Has anyone from our school ever hung out with us? I don't remember..." Dana looked at Rei she never thought about it before but she couldn't really remember a time they had anyone but each other from school to hang out with.
The ronins though thought they could trust Rei, something kept telling them not to. That same thing though told them to make sure the dynasty didn't get a hold of Dana at all costs...(I'm special....-Lita-)
"I don't think so." Reisei laughed dryly, "Than again I've always preferred to avoid people. You being the exception." She said to Dana and stood up from her chair stretching some.
Dana finished packing her backpack and decided to leave it there until she had to go home. "I think they've always preferred to avoid us..." Dana said. She looked at the ronins. "Soo...um...." Dana stood up and went over to Rei. "I forgot what to talk about with other people it's been so long....or never which ever....." Dana whispered to Rei.
Reisei grinned and then looked at the guys. "What are the chances of the cracker jacks coming after us? I mean...Dana and I didn't exactly not crush that guy's pride..." She said and plopped back down in her chair, a small yawn escaped Reisei's lips, she was getting tired, it was getting late, she looked at Dana, "What time ya gotta be home?" She asked.
"...I forgot to ask....Give me a sec I'll call home...." Dana called her house and had to refrain from yelling at the people on the other line.
"It's very likely..." Touma said.
Dana hung up the phone and glared at it. "stupid people never shut up...." She grumbled to herself. "9 or 9:30...." Dana took on a nasal voice. "'It's a school night and we haven't been together as a family for so long'" Her voice returned to normal. "There might be a reason for that...."
Reisei looked in thought and nodded when her friend told her what time, she looked at the guys. "What time do you guys gotta be home?" She asked.
"It doesn't matter. When you drop her off you can drop us off somewhere we can walk....No use in making you drive us all the way..." Ryo said.
"Wait a minute! Time out! You guys can't come to my house not even to drop me off...." Dana said.
Shuu looked puzzled. "...why?"
"For three very good reasons. 1. My father would shoot you. 2. My mother would try to find out which one was boyfriend or just interrogate all of you. and 3. My brother would never shut UP!!" Dana said now holding three fingers up.
Reisei rolled her eyes remembering being tackled earlier that day by the chatter box that Dana called a little brother. "Umm...well, I could always take Dana home and come back and get you guys and take you guys home. I mean, Ryo, you make it sound pretty far, no use in making you guys walk when I can just take you." She shrugged, she was willing to take the guys home, but if they didn't want her to she wouldn't argue.
"I guess that's ok..." Ryo said.
"Phew! Dad would've killed me and Rei too...." Dana said and looked at the clock. "Well we still have an hour to an hour and a half....What do we do now?"
"Your dad is ALWAYS ready to kill me, Dana." Reisei looked at the clock and realized she was right. "I dunno..." She thought for a second, "On second thought...Wanna rematch, Shuu?" Reisei asked looking over to him grinning. Shuu looked up. "Sure..." He looked around. "Where will we hold it? There isn't that much room here..." ++
"There's a nice little field behind the building. C'mon." She said, just to prove for a mildly fair fight she took her ittou makkura out and set it on the computer stand by her lap top.
They all gathered outside in the field behind the apartment.
Dana, Shin, Touma, Ryo, and Seiji formed a circle around Shuu and Rei. The ronins were cheering for Shuu while Dana cheered for Rei. What did any one expect her to cheer for anyone else?
"Are you gonna use your staff?" Shuu asked hesitantly. That thing looked like it hurt...
"Nope. I left the staff in the house, this is a completely weapon free fight. That is...unless Dana sees me losing, then she might go grabbed my coffee table." Reisei said jokingly. She knew she was going to receive a glare from Dana, wouldn't be the first time. "Ok, Shuu, let's do this." Reisei said and took a step back from her opponent and bowed.
Dana (as expected) glared at Rei. "I might have to grab the coffee table if he's losing now that you mention it.." Dana said jokingly.
Shuu steeped back and bowed.
Reisei would have commented but her mindset had already set into concentration on the fight. As soon as Shuu stood up from his bow and was prepared Reisei threw a kick at his chest which he easily caught. Using her leg muscles though Reisei pushed up on the leg she'd been left standing on and swung out kicking at Shuu's head, he had to let go of her foot to duck back and as Reisei came down on what appeared was going to be her side she caught herself with her hands and flipped onto her feet.
Dana cheered for Rei. There was a short round of applause at Rei's first move.
:She didn't show this much ability today when we fought at school. Sure she showed a lot of ability, but not a move like that.: He thought to himself as he advanced on Reisei and threw a punch at her gut and while she was distracted to block that he thrust his other hand upward at her nose palm first, his fist was blocked and her head jerked to the side sending his hand up and grazing her ear. Both of her arms came up around Shuu's forearm and she swiftly spun and leaned forward hard pulling Shuu over her back and flipping him onto the ground. She stepped back waiting for Shuu to get up.
Dana clapped and jumped with glee at her best friends fight. The ronins murmured about her and how well she fought.
Shuu was feeling only MILDLY embarrassed. He just got tossed like a rag doll...By a GIRL. He jumped up and cast a look at Dana and then looked at Touma, Seiji, Ryo, and Shin like 'Say a word about this to anyone and I'll kill you all.'
Reisei had gotten bored with waiting as was standing and not paying much attention which was her mistake, one she didn't normally make, not even in spar. Shuu had moved and grabed Reisei's arm and was soon performing the same move on her that she just had on him, the only difference was she was so light that she thuded against the ground with twice the force.
"Ow..." Reisei mumbled, Shuu put his foot on her stomach and looked at the guys with a triumphant grin. Suddenly Reisei's hands pushed up hard on his ankle causing him to lose his balance and fall onto his butt. Both opponents were back on their feet at the same time.
Dana looked at the fight. Reisei let nobody beat her out of school. She fought til' she couldn't move, or at least that's what Dana would assume. Rei never really had a fight last long enough to tell....
The ronins stifled some chuckles at Shuu's look.
It wasn't long before the two lunged at each other again, the only difference this time was that Reisei had stopped relaxing and had picked up her speed, greatly, Shuu was having trouble blocking, he was doing it, but still having trouble with it. Reisei sprung onto her hands and locked her knees around Shuu's neck then with a great force her body swung and flipped Shuu onto his back. Reisei rolled onto her feet and stood over Shuu. "Done?" She asked looking down at him.
Shuu thought for a moment. "....done...."
Dana ran up and congratulated Rei on her victory. "Glad I didn't have to get the coffee table." She said looking at Shuu. "If you decided to continue I would've had to knock you out for being an idiot..."
Shuu glared at Dana. ".....and what would have been stupid about continuing?"
"The fact that you were losing badly...." Dana said.
Reisei stepped from over Kento to the side of him and reached her hand out to help him up. "Don't let Dana fool you, you make for a good opponent." Reisei said, she wasn't trying to get on the ronins bad sides. She wondered what they thought about their friend being beaten. And poor Shuu, this had to be a major blow on his pride.
"tee hee. I'm just fooling anyways. By the time I got the coffee table I'd have to hit both you..." Dana said. "What now? I'm horrible at this...maybe it's good no one hangs out with us....."
Reisei looked at her watch. "Wow...that took longer than it seemed. It's almost nine." She said and looked around.
"Well, I guess we should get going then...." Dana said as they made their way back to the house. She went over and picked up her backpack. She succeeded. she put it on her back and almost fell over. "Gah!" Dana struggled but gained her balance before she fell. "Stupid backpack.."
Reisei grinned, as her and Dana headed back out to the car she called over her shoulder, "I should only be 10-15 minutes tops, make yourselves at home though, you can turn on the TV if you want to."
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The ronins took this chance to look around to see if they could trust Rei or not.
"I have a pretty good feeling that we can trust Dana but Rei...." Seiji trailed off.
"I know what you mean. They're best friends too. You'd think we'd feel like we could trust both...." Shin said.
"Did you notice how much Rei looks like Rajura and Dana like Shin?" Ryo said.
"Yeah I did..." Touma said.
The ronins headed up to check her room where Touma found a box of papers. "Hey guys over here." They all looked at the morbid poetry and drawings..
"It looks like she has a lot of pent-up anger pain and hate...That might not be good for others around her..." Shin said.
"yeah...but she obviously cares for Dana like a best friend should..It makes you wonder if Dana is the same and just better at hiding it..." Ryo said.
"I don't think so. I get the feeling that Dana lives a very happy if annoying at some times life. Unlike Rei..." Seiji said. The ronins put the stuff back in the box and returned to the living room talking.
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When they arrived at Dana's house Dana got out of the car.
"See you tomorrow Rei." She said and shut the car door.
"See ya!" Reisei called as she pulled out of the driveway to head for home.
She opened the door to her house and was greeted by a giant cookie that was smiling at her.
"AHH!" The cookie was taking down and her mom looked at her.
"What?"
"DON'T DO THAT!!!" Dana said loudly. :Uh-oh shouldn't have yelled...: Dana thought looking at her mother's trembling lip. "I'm sorry mom I didn't mean to yell..." :It's going to be a LONG night: Dana thought...
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As Reisei was driving back to her apartment she stopped for no reason in front of one house. For a moment she just watched as the big figure of a man moved in front of a window waving his fists. In the window next to it she could see the figure of a lean woman doing close to the same. Reisei pulled in a deep breath and sighed, she could only imagine the person that stood between the two windows. She shook her head softly and began driving again leaving her old home and her family behind her. She got back to the apartment and walked in, something didn't feel right, something had happened while she was gone. she stepped in, all the guys seemed fine, so she didn't ask. "Whenever you guys are ready to go we can or you can hang out here a little longer. Whichever." She said shrugging. She felt like she was being studied under their gazes.
"We're good to go. We don't want to keep you up. You look tired..." Ryo said.
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Dana made it to her room. She had been forced to take the insanely large cookie up stairs with her and a large glass of milk. She set the plate and glass on her white desk. She looked around her room. It was neat and pretty big. She had a queen canopy in one corner by her window. Her blankets were all light blue's and white's. Her wall had the faintest hints of blue in them. She had picture's of animals and outdoors scene's scattered across her walls. Her desk was on the other side of the room as the bed. She had her own computer on it. Her window had on of those built in benches and a light blue pillow on it. Her closet was huge. She kept her dresser in there because the brown wood stood out in her room. She sat in front of her window and stared out it for a few minutes before she got up and turned on her computer. She took some sips of the milk and a couple bites of the cookie. The cookie wasn't that bad. It just irked her when her food was smiling at her. She logged on and started to aimlessly surf the net.
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Reisei nodded, something did not seem right. "Yea, uh, hang on I just gotta go grab something." She said and headed for the narrow stairway, once in her room she looked around, it all appeared pretty normal, but the lid on a box of her old poetry and drawings was ajar. She never even opened that box, much less left the lid ajar. She felt a bit of fury that they took 'make yourself at home' as 'go ahead and search the place.' She fixed the box and sat it back down on the shelf it had been on hard, the thud echoing down the stairwell. She walked down and without a look to the guys walked towards the door, "Come on, lets get you guys home." She said spinning her keyring on her finger.
The ronins followed Rei out. When they got to Mia's mansion they said they're good bye's and went inside.
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After awhile Dana finished her cookie and milk. She logged off the net. She couldn't seem to find anything of interest anyways. She took her dishes downstairs and was immediately 'detoured' by her father.
"So what did you do today with Reisei?" Her father asked sternly.
"We went to the mall then the park and I finished my home work talked then came home." Dana was very good at not telling the truth but not Lying either.
Her father eyed her suspiciously. "All right. You'll be home for dinner tomorrow right?"
"Maybe. I don't know really." Dana said she went upstairs and changed into an aqua leotard and white tights. She got her ribbon and went to the basement. She had claimed the basement because no one else was using it. She had put a stereo down there with a training pole and mats. She had some wooden swords and other weapons to train with too. She also had plenty of room to dance or work out or flip across the room as much as she pleased. She turned on her music and practiced her newest routine with her ribbon.
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Reisei called Ryo back over to the car before he got in the mansion and stared at him stone faced. "The least you can do when you dig into someone's past is put the lid back on the box." She said, she wanted them to know she knew they had been through her room. With that she waited for Ryo to back away from the car and when he did she hit the gas.
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Once she got back home she walked into the apartment and slammed the door hard, then she locked it and sat down on the couch, her chin quivered even though it was impossible to tell in which emotion. After a bit of debating with herself she grabbed the phone and dialed Dana's number, when Dana's mom answered Reisei asked for Dana.~~
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Dana was lost in her dancing and music when her mom came down holding the cordless and turned off her music. Dana nearly had a heart attack and fell over mid-leap.
"MOM! Don't scare me like that!!!!Geez!"
"I'm sorry honey I forgot you get lost in another world when your down here....Rei's on the phone." Dana's mom handed Dana the phone and went upstairs.
"Hey Rei-chan what's up?" Dana said breathing heavily. She just nearly had a heart attack and was working out harder than usual.
"Sorry if I caught you at a bad time." Reisei said standing up, she began deciding to check around to see if anything else had been disturbed. "Our little warrior friends seem to have a nosy streak too." Reisei said into the phone.
"No you didn't catch me at a bad time. I was just practicing my new routine with My ribbon and mom scared me." Dana said. "A nosy streak? how so?" Dana asked she decided to walk around. She put the phone on her shoulder and pressed it to her ear as she threw random kicks at her training pole.
Reisei's jaw set in a look of thankfulness, nothing else had been disturbed, she picked up the bags of chips and the sodas and carried them in the kitchen, she put the soda away in the icebox and the chips in a cabinet. "Well, while I was taking you home, they took it upon themselves to search my apartment. And the only way I know is because a box of old papers that I never open, well, the lid was, amazingly, partly open on it when I got home." Reisei said, she wasn't going to say what papers, that minor detail could be left out.
"Hhmm..It wasn't right for them to do that.." Dana threw a back kick at the pole and hit to hard. "ow.." She decided to sit down for the rest of this conversation. "Then again you didn't leave the best impression and think of what they're going through right now they can't trust anybody...." Dana was internally plotting how she would kill each and every one of them for invading her friends privacy.
"Good impression or not, trust someone or not, they should keep their nosy a$$es out of where they don't belong. And they don't belong in my bedroom." Reisei said, then after a brief pause she added, "Just do me a favor and keep them from searching your belongings too. I know it's not likely since they can't really get in your house, but stuff like your backpack and purse. They have no right to do that, I'd really be forced to kick their a$$es if they searched your stuff too."
"hehe Yeah your right. And I'll keep my stuff close to me. So do you want to plot how to get them back or leave it?" Dana said rubbing the back of her shin. :oww...note to self don't kick to hard....:
"I'll just leave it be unless they try something again. I'll let you go, Dana, I'm tired." Reisei said and hung up the phone. She set it on it's charger and made sure all the lights downstairs were off, slowly she climbed the stairs to her bedroom and closed the door behind her. Changing into her nightgown she slid into bed and closed her eyes. A figure appeared in the dark of the room, a figure with one eye, it stayed in it's dark corner watching the girl sleep.
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Dana said bye and hung up the phone. She knew she wouldn't be able to sleep so she returned to her routine with her music. She again was lost in another world.
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Rajura walked over to the bed quietly and sat down, he reached his hand to Reisei's face and brushed some of her bangs out of it.
