Chapter 3:
As Kira was driving the jeep, she kept glancing at the young man next to
her. She could still feel his pain and that bothered her. She had put him in a
healing trance twice but he refused to stay there. That alone confused her. No
one had ever surfaced out of her trances without her telling them so first. Yet,
Ryo seemed to have no effort doing so. She slowly tapped her painted fingernails
against the steering wheel as she thought about how he kept coming out of her
trances. She could feel him resisting the trance even now and she knew he
needed to remain under the trance. Kira knew that Ryo trusted her, even though
he could not remember her. So she did not think that was the reason. She
believed that Ryo wanted to be the one who looked after the others. He is after
all, the Ronin leader.
Kira smiled to herself but the smile soon vanished as she felt Ryo's pain
intensify. She could not wait any longer. He was going to die if she did not pull
the pain out of him, and she simply could not let that happen after she just found
him. Pulling the jeep over in front of Mia's mansion, Kira placed her hands on
both sides of his head and pulled some of the pain away. Through the process,
she began to weaken and had to stop. Kira gathered Ryo in her arms as she left
the jeep and headed for the front entrance to the mansion. She managed to ring
the doorbell before she too collapsed onto the sidewalk.
"Hey Ryo, did you forget your keys, aga . . . ," Mia's teasing voice trailed off as
she saw the two people who were unconscious on her doorstep. Mia had seen the
jeep pull up but she never looked to see who it was that got out. Now, she could
see that there were two people, both of whom appeared to be exhausted,
mentally and physically. Mia reached a shaky hand down to check for a pulse on
Ryo's neck and breathed a sigh of relief when she felt one. Mia turned back to the
house and yelled "Hey guys, I need you now. Something's wrong with Ryo. "
The fear and the urgency that laced Mia's tone made all of the guys race for the
front door.
Rowen got there first and could not believe his eyes. Ryo was laying in the
arms of some girl who was younger than he and they were both out cold. Rowen
turned to Mia and asked "what happened to them?"
Mia just shrugged her shoulders. 'This is how I found them, but I am not
sure what is going on." Mia looked at the other three Ronin who were standing
behind Rowen, and said "Kento could you please take Ryo up to my room and
Rowen could you take this unknown girl upstairs as well?" The guys replied in
the affirmative. "Good, Sage could you run a test over them both to see what's
wrong with them while Cye and I will go in the kitchen and make some tea and
soup for them." Sage stated that he would do so and hurried up the stairs after
his comrades. Mia looked worriedly up the stairs as he disappeared. "Please Ryo,
be ok" she thought.