The Ring of Light: Part 4
Toya and Aya are walking up the long trail to Aya's house, they aren't talking at all. The
element quartet, Hikaru, Umi, Fuu, and Sakura, are stealthily following at a safe distance behind.
They speak in whispers. Hikaru asks, "Did someone cover the motorcycles, so if Toya leaves
before us he won't see them?" "Yes, I covered them myself." Fuu says proudly. "I really don't
see why we have to do this." Umi complains. Hikaru turns around to look at Umi, "Will you shut
up! You've been complaining ever since we left the school." Umi shoots a murderous look at
Hikaru as she turns around. "Just wait until your asleep, then you'll be sorry!"She thinks to
herself. Fuu points out to umi, "You shouldn't be complaining; you were the one that made
Hikaru worry so much." Umi retorts, "Well I didn't think she would go spying on them, she's
never been this drastic before!" Hikaru leans on Sakura's shoulder. "What are they saying?"
Sakura shrugs Hikaru off her shoulder. "Nothing, they aren't saying a thing. They're just
walking." Hikaru doesn't believe her. "What do you mean? Your power must be defective."
Sakura stops walking and speaks louder. "My powers are not defective! If you don't believe me,
why don't you just walk right behind them?" Hikaru shoves the three girls into the bushes lining
the trail. "Shhhhh! Keep the noise down, they might hear you!" Sakura shoves Hikaru off of her.
"I'm sorry, I didn't realize I was being so noisy. I'd better go wait by the road so I don't risk them
hearing me." She gets up and starts to walk back the way they came. "You can handle this on
your own." Hikaru latches onto Sakura's leg. "NO! I'm sorry, really, please stay." Sakura looks
down at the helpless Hikaru gripping her leg and sighs. "Alright I'll stay, as long as you don't tell
me to be quiet. Now get off of my leg!" Hikaru lets go of Sakura's leg and hugs her. "Thank you,
Sakura." "Yeah, your welcome."She pries Hikaru away. They quicken their pace to get closer to
Toya and Aya, then continue to follow them. Hikaru asks, "So, what are they saying now?"
Sakura shakes her head. "Hikaru, if they say anything, you'll hear it!" "Okay, sorry." Hikaru
apologizes. "How long is this going to take, I am getting really tired." Umi says while yawning.
Fuu yawns also. "At this rate, we might be here all night." Hikaru halts on the trail blocking the
others from going forward. Umi pushes Hikaru. "What is it now!" Hikaru pushes Umi back.
"They stopped, lets move into the bushes. We can move closer then." They all crawl into the
bushes. Umi says, "Ow. Hikaru, stop pushing!" They settle and listen to Aya and Toya's
conversation."My house is up ahead, I can walk the rest of the way by myself."Aya says. "Are
you sure?" Toya asks. Aya nods. "Then I'll see you tomorrow at school. You might want to bring
an umbrella, it looks like it might rain tomorrow." He turns and walks back down the trail. Aya
calls after him. "Bye, thanks." she continues walking toward her house and looks up at the dark,
cloud covered sky. Then she arrives at her house and sees the open window. She thinks to
herself, "How am I supposed to get back in? It will take me forever to get up to the window
without waking my mom."
Umi is walking quickly down the trail with Fuu, and Sakura following closely, Hikaru is
hanging back. Umi shouts back at Hikaru. "I can't believe we wasted our time just so we could
here them say 'good-bye'." "She is right. We could be sleeping right now, but instead you have
us spy on them for no reason." Fuu agrees. "Okay, I'm sorry. But at least I know nothing
happened. What would you rather have, me keeping you up all night with my worrying, or me
sleeping peacefully and quiet?" Hikaru argues. Sakura says, "I suppose this way has a better
outcome, but since you never sleep quietly the other option wouldn't be much worse." Hikaru
complains. "I'm too tired to retaliate." Umi says amazed, "That's a first!" A dark shadow leaps
out of a nearby tree, and lands in front of the girls. "Well, what do you know, look what I've
found. It's a bit late for a walk wouldn't you say ladies." "Kusinagi, we're tired, can't we fight
you tomorrow?"Umi says sleepily. "If you want to fight now you won't get much of a
challenge."Fuu brings up. Kusinagi shrugs and says. "I thought so," he points behind them,
"that's why I brought them." The four girls turn around to face five of Ultimecia's lackeys.
Kusinagi salutes. "Have fun, and so long." he jumps away. Sakura glares at Hikaru. "If we hadn't
followed Toya and Aya, we wouldn't have to waste our strength on these guys." "Oh, come on,
they're a piece of cake. It'll take about ten seconds to get rid of them."Hikaru pipes in." Yes, let
us finish this, so we can go home."Fuu says. Sakura whispers to Hikaru, "She always speaks
proper, even when she's about to collapse from exhaustion." Hikaru nods. Sakura and Fuu hold
the minions in place with their powers as Hikaru envelops them in flames. When their enemies
have clearly been devoured into smoldering ashes Umi douses out the last flickering embers.
"Now can we go home." She whines.
The next day, Aya is escorted to school by Umi. It is raining, Aya is walking under an
umbrella, Umi doesn't have one but doesn't seem to mind. Aya asks "Umi, would you like to
squeeze under here?" Umi shakes her head. "No. I love the rain." Aya raises an eyebrow. "That
makes sense, as you have the element of water."Umi twirls in the rain."Uh huh, lets go. We don't
want to be late."
Aya is in her math class, her teacher is explaining the Pythagorean Theorem, for the
thousandth time. "Math is so boring!"She says quietly to herself and puts her head on her desk. "I
could just fall asleep." And before she knew it she was lost in a dream.
She is in a clearing of trees, everything is blurry. One of Ultimecia's henchmen, that she
has been warned about many times confronts her. It's voice croaks, "Hand over the ring, it's of
no use to you." Aya shakes her head. "It wouldn't be of any better use in the hands of evil." The
minion thinks this over. "You won't give it up then?" Aya retorts "No!" The minions human like
figure heaves. "Then suffer like the pitiful human you are!" The minion transforms into an ugly
ogre-like creature, and charges toward Aya. Two gigantic fireballs fly into it's side, wind and
vines circle about it to keep it from moving. The monster continues to be bombarded by fire and
water, Aya looks around, but none of her friends can be seen. Everything beyond eleven feet of
her vision is very fuzzy. The fire and water stop, the wind and vines holding the monster upright
fade, the limp body falls forward. Aya can't move, "I'll be squished!" She thinks. The body drops
ever closer, and at the last moment Aya is snatched out of danger by a cloaked figure. Her
rescuer's face is covered, she cannot see who saved her. A gust of wind blows and the hood falls
to reveal. . .Kusinagi!
Back in reality, Aya's teacher is standing over her desk. "Aya, miss Aya Mikage!" The
class snickers as Aya continues to sleep. The teacher taps Aya's head with his yard stick. Aya
wakes up and jumps out of her seat. "Kusinagi!" she suddenly becomes aware of what has
happened. "Y..yes Mr. Yomoshida? I'm so sorry, would you like me to solve a problem?" "No,
miss Mikage, but see to it that you attend detention when school is let out." Her teacher says,
while walking back to the front of the class. Aya, while bowing repeatedly, says. "Yes Mr.
Yomoshida. I'm sorry, this will never happen again!" The teacher says, "Lets hope not" and
continues on with the lesson. Aya sits back in her seat and puts her head on the desk as the
laughter of the other students dies down. "Great, detention again!"She bumps her head against
the desk. Ryoko throws a piece of paper at Aya, and it bounces off of her head. Aya looks up and
around to see Ryoko mouth the words 'Read it'. Aya averts her attention back to the small piece
of paper. It reads:
Hey Aya,
I guess you will be held up in detention this afternoon, so you wont be able to come to the shrine
today. Don't worry, it is okay, I understand. You must have had a busy night to be as tired as you
are. You might be able to get some sleep in detention.
Ryoko
Later that day in detention, Aya is the only one there. The teacher is a chubby man who
teaches history, and never says no to something edible. The rain now beats lightly on the
window. Aya thinks to herself, "I wonder if they ever found out that Toya and I left early
yesterday. And what was with that dream? It was probably nothing." The classroom door slides
open, Sakura walks in, covered in dust. "Aya!" Aya looks surprised. "Sakura! What are you
doing here?" Sakura shrugs, "Sleeping in class." She remembers waking up to her science
teacher right in her face. She had screamed and jumped up, spilling the concoction the students
next to her were working on into her and Fuu's, which caused a small explosion. She brushes
away the thought. "What about you?"She asks. Aya shrugs. "Same." Sakura smirks, "Really?"
Aya nods. The teacher interrupts. "Ahem. This is detention, there is to be no talking."Sakura rolls
her eyes, unseen by the teacher, as she walks to a desk two in front of Aya and sits. She pulls out
a piece of paper and a pen. The teacher returns to his paperwork. Sakura scribbles on her paper
then folds it and discretely uses her power to float the note to Aya's desk. The note reads:
What a coincidence we are in detention together. Well, anyways, I found out some
information you might want to know about, last knight. If you want to know, take this note, and
throw it away.
Aya, curious to know what it is Sakura has discovered gets up. The teacher watches Aya
walk to the trash can, throw the note away, and sit back down, then returns to his work. After
about nine minutes Sakura takes a large thermos and cup out of her briefcase and walks up to the
teacher, thermos and cup in hand. "Hello Mr. Nurisaki, how are you doing today?" Sakura says
with a sweet, innocent, and peppy voice, quite different from her own somewhat rough and
demanding voice. Mr. Nurisaki looks up from his papers. "Miss. Sakura Yuri, I'm doing well,
what about you, you look a little. . ." "Dinge?" She provides. The teacher nods. "There was a
slight incident in science." Sakura explains. "Oh, is everyone alright?" The plump teacher asks
with concern. Sakura puts on a big smile and shrugs her shoulders. "Yep!" she squeaks. "That is
good. So, what can I do for you Miss. Yuri?" Nurisaki asks. Sakura drags her finger along the
edge of the table and watches it. "Oh, I was just wondering if you were thirsty? Because, I have
some fabulous homemade tea, that will relax you as soon as you take a swallow." She plops the
thermos and cup up onto the desk. "Really! I can't say no to that!" Mr. Nurisaki says excitedly. "I
didn't think so."She says with a glint in her eye as she fills the cup half full with the tea and
pushes the cup toward the teacher. Sakura gives one last sweet smile before turning around as
Nurisaki lifts the cup to his mouth and drains it. Nurisaki collapses on the desk. Sakura, her
normal self once again, walks to the desk in front of Aya, turns it so it faces hers and slumps into
the seat. She begins a speedy explanation. "Ok last night, after we got home, Umi tried to
suffocate Hikaru with her own pillow. Regardless to say I couldn't get back to sleep, so I decided
to look for information about your ring. Hikaru's grandmother has plenty of books about ancient
'so-called' mythology, so I had to do a lot of searching, but I did find a few things out. Any
questions so far.?" Sakura pauses to give Aya a chance to take in what she is saying, then gets
ready to carry on. "What did you do to Mr. Nurisaki?! And what was that act about?" Aya
inquires as soon as she gets the chance. "Oh, that. . . That was homemade tea. . . With a lot of
sleeping pills in it. I told him it would relax him as soon as he swallowed, and look at him" she
turns around and jabs her thumb in the direction of the snoring teacher, "Out like a light." Aya
feels better now that she knows Sakura didn't kill Mr. Nurisaki. She continues on to her next
question with an arched eyebrow. "Okay, what about the act you put on?" Sakura laughs. "How
else do you expect me to get better than average grades with this life I lead?! I hardly get any
sleep, and I constantly have other things on my mind. I'm not a genius like fuu ya' know, or Umi
for that matter!" She leans back in her seat. Aya recovers from her stunned posture. "So you
pretend to be the teachers pet for a good grade?!" Fuu's voice casually echoes throughout the
classroom from the door. "No, she sucks up to the teachers, but only the ones whom's class she
has trouble with." Aya turns around swiftly. "Fuu! Hi." Her voice expresses surprise. Sakura
nods. "She's right ya' know." "What are you doing here?" Aya questions Fuu. "Everyone is
heading to our place, we thought we could solve some of the mystery around that ring of yours,
but it seems as if Sakura has already done that. But I'm the only one who knows anything about
the necklace. . . Well, I am here to collect the two of you. I asked your friend about you Aya, that
is how I knew you were in detention. I knew that Sakura would end up in detention for some
reason today, so here I am." Fuu slightly spread her hands out at her sides, waiting for a reply.
"Are we going or not? It would be rude of us to keep them waiting. Toya, Hikaru, and Umi are
already on their way." Sakura stands up and packs her thermos back into her briefcase. "Coming,
what about you Aya? Aren't you coming?" Fuu leans against the doorway. Aya looks down at
her desk. "But there isn't enough room on the motorcycle, is there?" She looks up at a smirking
Fuu. Sakura notices the look on Fuu's face. "What did you do?" she says worriedly. Fuu waves
her hand as if brushing away the question. "A minor detail. I spent some time last night making
an add on seat for the motorcycles. I thought it would be wise to make accommodations for Aya.
There is plenty of room now. . . And Aya, don't worry, it wont break. Like Sakura said, I am a
genius." Aya smiles and stands, then stops. "What about him?" she points at the sleeping teacher.
Sakura looks over at the dosing Mr. Nurisaki. "Don't worry, he should be out for another hour at
least, and detention will be over by then." Aya heads for the door. "Then what are we waiting
for?" She exits and walks down the hallway. Sakura and Fuu follow shaking their heads. "We
were waiting for her to make up her mind." Sakura says with a slightly irritated tone.
Toya and Aya are walking up the long trail to Aya's house, they aren't talking at all. The
element quartet, Hikaru, Umi, Fuu, and Sakura, are stealthily following at a safe distance behind.
They speak in whispers. Hikaru asks, "Did someone cover the motorcycles, so if Toya leaves
before us he won't see them?" "Yes, I covered them myself." Fuu says proudly. "I really don't
see why we have to do this." Umi complains. Hikaru turns around to look at Umi, "Will you shut
up! You've been complaining ever since we left the school." Umi shoots a murderous look at
Hikaru as she turns around. "Just wait until your asleep, then you'll be sorry!"She thinks to
herself. Fuu points out to umi, "You shouldn't be complaining; you were the one that made
Hikaru worry so much." Umi retorts, "Well I didn't think she would go spying on them, she's
never been this drastic before!" Hikaru leans on Sakura's shoulder. "What are they saying?"
Sakura shrugs Hikaru off her shoulder. "Nothing, they aren't saying a thing. They're just
walking." Hikaru doesn't believe her. "What do you mean? Your power must be defective."
Sakura stops walking and speaks louder. "My powers are not defective! If you don't believe me,
why don't you just walk right behind them?" Hikaru shoves the three girls into the bushes lining
the trail. "Shhhhh! Keep the noise down, they might hear you!" Sakura shoves Hikaru off of her.
"I'm sorry, I didn't realize I was being so noisy. I'd better go wait by the road so I don't risk them
hearing me." She gets up and starts to walk back the way they came. "You can handle this on
your own." Hikaru latches onto Sakura's leg. "NO! I'm sorry, really, please stay." Sakura looks
down at the helpless Hikaru gripping her leg and sighs. "Alright I'll stay, as long as you don't tell
me to be quiet. Now get off of my leg!" Hikaru lets go of Sakura's leg and hugs her. "Thank you,
Sakura." "Yeah, your welcome."She pries Hikaru away. They quicken their pace to get closer to
Toya and Aya, then continue to follow them. Hikaru asks, "So, what are they saying now?"
Sakura shakes her head. "Hikaru, if they say anything, you'll hear it!" "Okay, sorry." Hikaru
apologizes. "How long is this going to take, I am getting really tired." Umi says while yawning.
Fuu yawns also. "At this rate, we might be here all night." Hikaru halts on the trail blocking the
others from going forward. Umi pushes Hikaru. "What is it now!" Hikaru pushes Umi back.
"They stopped, lets move into the bushes. We can move closer then." They all crawl into the
bushes. Umi says, "Ow. Hikaru, stop pushing!" They settle and listen to Aya and Toya's
conversation."My house is up ahead, I can walk the rest of the way by myself."Aya says. "Are
you sure?" Toya asks. Aya nods. "Then I'll see you tomorrow at school. You might want to bring
an umbrella, it looks like it might rain tomorrow." He turns and walks back down the trail. Aya
calls after him. "Bye, thanks." she continues walking toward her house and looks up at the dark,
cloud covered sky. Then she arrives at her house and sees the open window. She thinks to
herself, "How am I supposed to get back in? It will take me forever to get up to the window
without waking my mom."
Umi is walking quickly down the trail with Fuu, and Sakura following closely, Hikaru is
hanging back. Umi shouts back at Hikaru. "I can't believe we wasted our time just so we could
here them say 'good-bye'." "She is right. We could be sleeping right now, but instead you have
us spy on them for no reason." Fuu agrees. "Okay, I'm sorry. But at least I know nothing
happened. What would you rather have, me keeping you up all night with my worrying, or me
sleeping peacefully and quiet?" Hikaru argues. Sakura says, "I suppose this way has a better
outcome, but since you never sleep quietly the other option wouldn't be much worse." Hikaru
complains. "I'm too tired to retaliate." Umi says amazed, "That's a first!" A dark shadow leaps
out of a nearby tree, and lands in front of the girls. "Well, what do you know, look what I've
found. It's a bit late for a walk wouldn't you say ladies." "Kusinagi, we're tired, can't we fight
you tomorrow?"Umi says sleepily. "If you want to fight now you won't get much of a
challenge."Fuu brings up. Kusinagi shrugs and says. "I thought so," he points behind them,
"that's why I brought them." The four girls turn around to face five of Ultimecia's lackeys.
Kusinagi salutes. "Have fun, and so long." he jumps away. Sakura glares at Hikaru. "If we hadn't
followed Toya and Aya, we wouldn't have to waste our strength on these guys." "Oh, come on,
they're a piece of cake. It'll take about ten seconds to get rid of them."Hikaru pipes in." Yes, let
us finish this, so we can go home."Fuu says. Sakura whispers to Hikaru, "She always speaks
proper, even when she's about to collapse from exhaustion." Hikaru nods. Sakura and Fuu hold
the minions in place with their powers as Hikaru envelops them in flames. When their enemies
have clearly been devoured into smoldering ashes Umi douses out the last flickering embers.
"Now can we go home." She whines.
The next day, Aya is escorted to school by Umi. It is raining, Aya is walking under an
umbrella, Umi doesn't have one but doesn't seem to mind. Aya asks "Umi, would you like to
squeeze under here?" Umi shakes her head. "No. I love the rain." Aya raises an eyebrow. "That
makes sense, as you have the element of water."Umi twirls in the rain."Uh huh, lets go. We don't
want to be late."
Aya is in her math class, her teacher is explaining the Pythagorean Theorem, for the
thousandth time. "Math is so boring!"She says quietly to herself and puts her head on her desk. "I
could just fall asleep." And before she knew it she was lost in a dream.
She is in a clearing of trees, everything is blurry. One of Ultimecia's henchmen, that she
has been warned about many times confronts her. It's voice croaks, "Hand over the ring, it's of
no use to you." Aya shakes her head. "It wouldn't be of any better use in the hands of evil." The
minion thinks this over. "You won't give it up then?" Aya retorts "No!" The minions human like
figure heaves. "Then suffer like the pitiful human you are!" The minion transforms into an ugly
ogre-like creature, and charges toward Aya. Two gigantic fireballs fly into it's side, wind and
vines circle about it to keep it from moving. The monster continues to be bombarded by fire and
water, Aya looks around, but none of her friends can be seen. Everything beyond eleven feet of
her vision is very fuzzy. The fire and water stop, the wind and vines holding the monster upright
fade, the limp body falls forward. Aya can't move, "I'll be squished!" She thinks. The body drops
ever closer, and at the last moment Aya is snatched out of danger by a cloaked figure. Her
rescuer's face is covered, she cannot see who saved her. A gust of wind blows and the hood falls
to reveal. . .Kusinagi!
Back in reality, Aya's teacher is standing over her desk. "Aya, miss Aya Mikage!" The
class snickers as Aya continues to sleep. The teacher taps Aya's head with his yard stick. Aya
wakes up and jumps out of her seat. "Kusinagi!" she suddenly becomes aware of what has
happened. "Y..yes Mr. Yomoshida? I'm so sorry, would you like me to solve a problem?" "No,
miss Mikage, but see to it that you attend detention when school is let out." Her teacher says,
while walking back to the front of the class. Aya, while bowing repeatedly, says. "Yes Mr.
Yomoshida. I'm sorry, this will never happen again!" The teacher says, "Lets hope not" and
continues on with the lesson. Aya sits back in her seat and puts her head on the desk as the
laughter of the other students dies down. "Great, detention again!"She bumps her head against
the desk. Ryoko throws a piece of paper at Aya, and it bounces off of her head. Aya looks up and
around to see Ryoko mouth the words 'Read it'. Aya averts her attention back to the small piece
of paper. It reads:
Hey Aya,
I guess you will be held up in detention this afternoon, so you wont be able to come to the shrine
today. Don't worry, it is okay, I understand. You must have had a busy night to be as tired as you
are. You might be able to get some sleep in detention.
Ryoko
Later that day in detention, Aya is the only one there. The teacher is a chubby man who
teaches history, and never says no to something edible. The rain now beats lightly on the
window. Aya thinks to herself, "I wonder if they ever found out that Toya and I left early
yesterday. And what was with that dream? It was probably nothing." The classroom door slides
open, Sakura walks in, covered in dust. "Aya!" Aya looks surprised. "Sakura! What are you
doing here?" Sakura shrugs, "Sleeping in class." She remembers waking up to her science
teacher right in her face. She had screamed and jumped up, spilling the concoction the students
next to her were working on into her and Fuu's, which caused a small explosion. She brushes
away the thought. "What about you?"She asks. Aya shrugs. "Same." Sakura smirks, "Really?"
Aya nods. The teacher interrupts. "Ahem. This is detention, there is to be no talking."Sakura rolls
her eyes, unseen by the teacher, as she walks to a desk two in front of Aya and sits. She pulls out
a piece of paper and a pen. The teacher returns to his paperwork. Sakura scribbles on her paper
then folds it and discretely uses her power to float the note to Aya's desk. The note reads:
What a coincidence we are in detention together. Well, anyways, I found out some
information you might want to know about, last knight. If you want to know, take this note, and
throw it away.
Aya, curious to know what it is Sakura has discovered gets up. The teacher watches Aya
walk to the trash can, throw the note away, and sit back down, then returns to his work. After
about nine minutes Sakura takes a large thermos and cup out of her briefcase and walks up to the
teacher, thermos and cup in hand. "Hello Mr. Nurisaki, how are you doing today?" Sakura says
with a sweet, innocent, and peppy voice, quite different from her own somewhat rough and
demanding voice. Mr. Nurisaki looks up from his papers. "Miss. Sakura Yuri, I'm doing well,
what about you, you look a little. . ." "Dinge?" She provides. The teacher nods. "There was a
slight incident in science." Sakura explains. "Oh, is everyone alright?" The plump teacher asks
with concern. Sakura puts on a big smile and shrugs her shoulders. "Yep!" she squeaks. "That is
good. So, what can I do for you Miss. Yuri?" Nurisaki asks. Sakura drags her finger along the
edge of the table and watches it. "Oh, I was just wondering if you were thirsty? Because, I have
some fabulous homemade tea, that will relax you as soon as you take a swallow." She plops the
thermos and cup up onto the desk. "Really! I can't say no to that!" Mr. Nurisaki says excitedly. "I
didn't think so."She says with a glint in her eye as she fills the cup half full with the tea and
pushes the cup toward the teacher. Sakura gives one last sweet smile before turning around as
Nurisaki lifts the cup to his mouth and drains it. Nurisaki collapses on the desk. Sakura, her
normal self once again, walks to the desk in front of Aya, turns it so it faces hers and slumps into
the seat. She begins a speedy explanation. "Ok last night, after we got home, Umi tried to
suffocate Hikaru with her own pillow. Regardless to say I couldn't get back to sleep, so I decided
to look for information about your ring. Hikaru's grandmother has plenty of books about ancient
'so-called' mythology, so I had to do a lot of searching, but I did find a few things out. Any
questions so far.?" Sakura pauses to give Aya a chance to take in what she is saying, then gets
ready to carry on. "What did you do to Mr. Nurisaki?! And what was that act about?" Aya
inquires as soon as she gets the chance. "Oh, that. . . That was homemade tea. . . With a lot of
sleeping pills in it. I told him it would relax him as soon as he swallowed, and look at him" she
turns around and jabs her thumb in the direction of the snoring teacher, "Out like a light." Aya
feels better now that she knows Sakura didn't kill Mr. Nurisaki. She continues on to her next
question with an arched eyebrow. "Okay, what about the act you put on?" Sakura laughs. "How
else do you expect me to get better than average grades with this life I lead?! I hardly get any
sleep, and I constantly have other things on my mind. I'm not a genius like fuu ya' know, or Umi
for that matter!" She leans back in her seat. Aya recovers from her stunned posture. "So you
pretend to be the teachers pet for a good grade?!" Fuu's voice casually echoes throughout the
classroom from the door. "No, she sucks up to the teachers, but only the ones whom's class she
has trouble with." Aya turns around swiftly. "Fuu! Hi." Her voice expresses surprise. Sakura
nods. "She's right ya' know." "What are you doing here?" Aya questions Fuu. "Everyone is
heading to our place, we thought we could solve some of the mystery around that ring of yours,
but it seems as if Sakura has already done that. But I'm the only one who knows anything about
the necklace. . . Well, I am here to collect the two of you. I asked your friend about you Aya, that
is how I knew you were in detention. I knew that Sakura would end up in detention for some
reason today, so here I am." Fuu slightly spread her hands out at her sides, waiting for a reply.
"Are we going or not? It would be rude of us to keep them waiting. Toya, Hikaru, and Umi are
already on their way." Sakura stands up and packs her thermos back into her briefcase. "Coming,
what about you Aya? Aren't you coming?" Fuu leans against the doorway. Aya looks down at
her desk. "But there isn't enough room on the motorcycle, is there?" She looks up at a smirking
Fuu. Sakura notices the look on Fuu's face. "What did you do?" she says worriedly. Fuu waves
her hand as if brushing away the question. "A minor detail. I spent some time last night making
an add on seat for the motorcycles. I thought it would be wise to make accommodations for Aya.
There is plenty of room now. . . And Aya, don't worry, it wont break. Like Sakura said, I am a
genius." Aya smiles and stands, then stops. "What about him?" she points at the sleeping teacher.
Sakura looks over at the dosing Mr. Nurisaki. "Don't worry, he should be out for another hour at
least, and detention will be over by then." Aya heads for the door. "Then what are we waiting
for?" She exits and walks down the hallway. Sakura and Fuu follow shaking their heads. "We
were waiting for her to make up her mind." Sakura says with a slightly irritated tone.