Author's Note: Arigatou to Sailor Moon, Shichan Godess, Anime Princess, and Taura Callisto. Thank you for the kind reviews. I totally appreciate it, especially since this fic has been sitting idle for quite some time. Gradual Decline, I am sorry that you couldn't finish reading this because of the Mary Sue thing but really I am doing my best to not make her a Mary Sue. I hope . . . Anywho, thank you for at least attempting to read it and reviewing. ^_^ The Mary Sue thing is kinda the reason this fic has more or less been idle. I mean I started it in November and haven't really touched it since January. sighs So any feedback or help with the story line would be much appreciated. Oh and Shichan, yes I do believe it will be a RyoxMia fic. I think . . . Okay enough of my ramblings, On with the ficcie. Enjoy!!



Chapter 4:



Sage looked in on the girl first because he felt some sort of weird vibrations coming off of her. It was like a magnet was slowly pulling him to her. The girl had been placed in Rowen's room across the hall from Mia's, so that the Ronin's could take care of both Ryo and the girl with ease. The blue-haired boy looked up as Sage entered. "Hey Rowen, how is she?"



Rowen looked at his pale haired friend and could have sworn that there was more than simple curiosity behind Sage's question, but he didn't press the matter. Instead he shrugged his shoulders and said, "well, she's still out of it, but she doesn't seem to have anything physically wrong with her."



Sage nodded softly as he knelt next to the girl and placed his hands on her forehead. Beginning to concentrate, he used his powers to see if there was anything that he could do to help her. As he concentrated, he began to see a form in a dark red armor with orange streaks dancing around it. Cherry blossoms floated around the figure's body as they reached out and gathered several blossoms close to them. A sheer puddle of the blossoms lay at the red armored figure's feet. The form looked at Sage and a slow smile graced its face causing Sage to jerk out of his trance with a startled yelp.



Rowen looked over at his friend in alarm. "Sage, what is it? What's wrong?"



Sage sat there looking at the girl and his body shook from the brief encounter with her and her armor. He blinked uncomprehending down at the still form for several minutes before Rowen was able to pull him out of his haze.



Rowen placed his hand on top of Sage's shoulder and only then did Sage look at him with confusion. Sage began to mumble to himself, "she's a Ronin like us, but where did she come from?"

Rowen who had been listening to Sage drew back in surprise. "She's what?!" he practically shouted.



Sage looked at him and simply said, "she is one of us."



Rowen looked across the hall where Kento stood perusing a feverish Ryo. Kento went into the bathroom and returned a minute later with a damp cloth that he pressed to Ryo's forehead.



Ryo was burning up with fever and he was becoming delirious. He kept screaming "Noooooooo. Where is she? What's going on?!!" None of which made any sense to the others.



Sage shook his head in wonderment before turning back to the blue-haired boy. "Rowen, would you please go check on that tea and soup that Mia and Cye were making?"



Rowen did as he was asked and left Sage alone with the girl. She was beautiful and full of spirit, much like Wildfire's only slightly more wild if that can be imagined. Sage shook his head as he began his vigil over her bedside. He knew she would be waking up soon since he had used some of his powers to establish a link between them. It was now only a matter of waiting.



Kira could hear voices murmuring, but she was having trouble concentrating on the voices. She began to slowly surface toward consciousness.



"Hush, I think she's waking up."



Kira groaned as she regained consciousness. The first thing she saw was one violet eye peering down at her. She jumped back against the headboard, startled until she realized that it was only Sage looking at her curiously.



"Hey it's ok. I'm not going to hurt you."



Kira looked up at Sage and said simply, "I know. I was just startled, that's all." Sage smiled kindly at her and asked her who she was. Kira raised her blue eyes to meet his one violet eye, the other was covered with Sage's blond hair, and said "My name is Kira ummm Dayken."



"Well, Kira my name is Sage Date. It's nice to meet you." If Sage noticed the slight hesitation of Kira's then he did not let on.



Kira smiled knowingly as she looked over Sage's shoulder and saw three other guys standing in the hallway.



Sage noticed the direction of her gaze and started laughing. "Guys come on in here. Guys meet Kira Dayken. Kira this is the guys. The one on the right is Cye Mouri, our resident chef. Next to him is Kento Rei Faun, as you can see he is always eating" Sage said teasingly.



"Hey, I am not" replied Kento indignantly, as he finished putting a sandwich in his mouth.



Cye simply rolled his eyes.



"Oh and the one with the blue hair leaning against the doorframe is the one that carried you up here. In fact this is his room. Kira meet Rowen Hashiba."



Kira looked at each of them in turn and was bombarded by their auras. She wasn't expecting their auras to be so strong, though she suspected she should have known. 'Oh well,' she thought to herself. 'I'll get used to them.' "It's nice to finally meet all of you," she stated. The others gave her a shocked look. What did she mean finally meet them, they all wondered?



Cye came over to her with the tea that he had made. Handing her a cup, he said "here, this should help ease any of the tension that you might be feeling."



Kira nodded to him, grateful to have something to warm her soul. She was feeling so cold and she wasn't sure why. She began to shiver uncontrollably from the cold, but Sage wrapped a blanket around her shoulders and sat on the bed next to her. Kira felt the light shining around him permeate her soul and she felt somewhat revived. Sage gently shook his head at the other guys telling them that it was ok for them to leave.



The guys all nodded their heads as they slipped out of the room. Cye went across the hall to check on Ryo, while Kento and Rowen went downstairs to find Mia.