A/N: I have no new reviews yet...*Sigh* I feel so dejected. :P Is my story
loosing interest allready? I update regularly enough, I think. Look, three
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chapter 10 and get no more reviews, I'm only gonna send the rest of the
story to my friends and people who personally ask me for the chapters. I'm
working on chapter 7 now, so please, review! Arigato! :D
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"I have been skulling those kids for a week and a half and nothing besides Shuu tripping while playing baseball has happened.", Sai said as she redied herself for school one day. "Aries and I have gone out every day and searched for youkai hanging around and have found none.", Istas added. "They may be bluffing", Kurama said slowly. "However, that is unlikely and we don't want to take chances, now do we?".
"No. They're such bright, happy kids, the three of them", Sai said. "Kids?", Kurama raised his eyebrow. He did not know Sai looked at his little brother as a "kid". "I feel like I'm babysitting sometimes", Sai admitted. "I mean, they're what? Sixteen? Mitari's seventeen? They're children compared to me, even I look the same age as them.". Istas laughed. "You know you enjoy it. You come back every day smiling.". "Actually, I do", Sai admitted. "Truthfully, I do." ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Sai slipped into the classroom right on time that day. This time, though, she walked right to the table Shuu, Mitari, and Aya were sitting around and seated herself with them. They greeted her with their usual cheerful hellos and bright smiles. "Uggh...I wonder what we're gonna be disecting now.", Aya muttered. Sai laughed and noticed she was wearing her hair down. "You want a scrunchie?", she asked. "I always have an extra and your hair's so long...don't want any organism blood in it.". Aya looked slightly sick as she accepted the hair tie. She's no sooner gotten her hair up then the teacher came in, wheeling in a cart with five very large parcels on it.
"Today we're gonna examine the anatomy of a shark!", she cried as though it was the best thing she ever did with her class. Aya's allready colorless face went even whiter. Shuu's mouth fell open. Mitari looked like he was about to be sick. "It's a good thing this class only has twenty students. This kind of stuff gets expensive.". "We could...umm...not do it at all", Mitari suggested rather boldly. There was a murmer of agreement. "And why, Mr. Kiyoshi, do you suggest we not do disections?", the teacher, Mrs. Krynee, asked coldly. "Well...it...just doesn't seem right...", Mitari stammered. His face had gone bright cherry red. "No, Mit. Don't back down", Sai thought.
"That animal...didn't do anything to deserve its fate. That animal was hauled from the sea and poisoned so a class of highschool students could examine it. I'm afraid I see that as cruelty on the part of ningens.", Mitari continued, his face roughly the same color as a tomatoe. Sai felt she would explode with pride. Mrs. Krynee's face had gone white and she kind of looked stunned. "I was told you were a very shy student, Kiyoshi...you'd never stand up to a teacher...obviously, I was misinformed...yes...if you feel that strongly about it, I guess we could do an alternative...". The classroom erupted with cheers. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Ok, so we'll meet at my house and work on the project there", Shuu said afterschool that day. Their alternative assignment was to get in groups and construct a model of the insides of a shark using their textbooks. Everyone agreed that was much better than cutting the thing up. "Right. Everyone know what they're bringing?", Aya asked. She was met with a chorus of "yes". "Ok, then. We'll meet at my house in thirty minutes then", Shuu said cheerfully and bounded into his house. Sai, who did was not hiding out as close to Shuu as the Aya and Mitari were said farewell to the other two and raced off to her house.
She hurried into the house, said hi to Rinku, and dashed to change into normal ningen clothes. After she'd pulled on a black tanktop and a pair of denium cutoff shorts she headed into the kitchen. "Ah, where's Kurama-san. Have I got a story to tell him!", Sai asked happily.
"You won't find him here anymore. He went to buy ningen clothes and he's gonna move back in with his ningen family. They're expecting him-his stepfather has even given him a job in his computer shop.". "Ohhh...I'm going there now...we have a group project. I guess I'll pull him aside and tell him there..." Sai looked at her watch, a ningen device that told time. "Ack! I'm gonna be late!", she cried and hurried out the door.
Sai arrived exactly the same moment Aya did. "Hey!", Aya called cheerfully, a bright smile on her face. Sai was shocked-she looked so different out of her school uniform. She was wearing a white tube top and skirt with a little white jacket-vest covering her shoulders. Her silver hair was pulled up in a high ponytail and held there with a white bow. "She looks like a kitsune except her eyes are blue instead of yellow!", Sai thought. "Are you OK?", Aya asked, breaking into her thoughts. "Yeah, I'm fine", Sai answered, ringing the bell to the Hakataka residence.
Shuu answered the door wearing jeans and a blue T-shirt. "Come on in, Mitari's allready here", he said, ushering the girls inside. He led them into the living room. Mitari was looking at the Anatomy book and jotting down notes on the anatomy of a shark. "Wow, look at that...", Mitari said. "Good thing Mrs. Krynne doesn't want a lifesized model". "We'd never get it to school!", Shuu laughed. He headed into the kitchen to get everyone snacks. Sai watched him go with a horrible sense of forbodeing. For Kurama to move back in, she new something was up. She also now understood why he was so protective of his little brother-she'd be, too, if Shuu was her little brother. Then she realized she was starting to view not just Shuuichi, but Mitari and Aya, too, as her little brothers and sister. She'd protect them at any cost.
"No, no...The lung doesn't go there...move it over to the left a little!", Mitari said, instructing Aya where to to place the lung. The silver-haired girl was having difficulty because she was laughing so hard. Mitari turned around and caught Shuu making faces at her. "Why, you...", Mitari cried, throwing a pillow at Shuuichi, who caught it easily. An all- out war broke out. Sai laughed at them until Shuu hit her in the face with a pillow. "Ohhh...Shuuichi Hakataka, you're going down!", she cried, and, grabbing a pillow off the couch, joined in the melee. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Well, well, well....This is an unusual way to find even a bunch of ningens like themselves.", a cold voice said. The children and youkai stopped their war and turned around. "YOU!", Sai screamed, reconizing Yoda. "Me.", Yoda said calmly. "Hello, girl. I didn't expect even one of your kind to sink so low as to be with a bunch of ningens. I thought only Kurama did that.". As he spoke, his eyes passed over Aya, Shuuichi, and Mitari. "There's a pretty girl...she's almost too pretty to be ningen. Maybe I'll kill you three and take her back to the Makai with us.". Aya shivered and backed into the wall. "It's like she knows what this idiot's talking about", Sai observed.
"Yoda, you may have beat me last time, but I swear it, if you fight me now, I'm going to kill you.", Sai growled. "You won't lay a hand on these ningen children!". Mitari suddenly snapped up as though waking from a trance. He ran to the table, picked up a glass of water, and, to Sai's shock, slit his finger open. "Look at what ningens do when they're scared. He's totally lost it!" Sai suddenly remembered what Yusuke, Kaito, and Yanagisawa had told them about the Black Magic Portal. Could Mitari have been one of the affected kids three years ago? Her question was soon answered-Mitari's blood mixed with the water, and a large water serpant came crashing down on Yoda. Sai stared, trembling. She'd never seen such a thing, even in the Makai...and here was a ningen, doing this! It also ment the Black Magic Portal had been reopened.
"I have been skulling those kids for a week and a half and nothing besides Shuu tripping while playing baseball has happened.", Sai said as she redied herself for school one day. "Aries and I have gone out every day and searched for youkai hanging around and have found none.", Istas added. "They may be bluffing", Kurama said slowly. "However, that is unlikely and we don't want to take chances, now do we?".
"No. They're such bright, happy kids, the three of them", Sai said. "Kids?", Kurama raised his eyebrow. He did not know Sai looked at his little brother as a "kid". "I feel like I'm babysitting sometimes", Sai admitted. "I mean, they're what? Sixteen? Mitari's seventeen? They're children compared to me, even I look the same age as them.". Istas laughed. "You know you enjoy it. You come back every day smiling.". "Actually, I do", Sai admitted. "Truthfully, I do." ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Sai slipped into the classroom right on time that day. This time, though, she walked right to the table Shuu, Mitari, and Aya were sitting around and seated herself with them. They greeted her with their usual cheerful hellos and bright smiles. "Uggh...I wonder what we're gonna be disecting now.", Aya muttered. Sai laughed and noticed she was wearing her hair down. "You want a scrunchie?", she asked. "I always have an extra and your hair's so long...don't want any organism blood in it.". Aya looked slightly sick as she accepted the hair tie. She's no sooner gotten her hair up then the teacher came in, wheeling in a cart with five very large parcels on it.
"Today we're gonna examine the anatomy of a shark!", she cried as though it was the best thing she ever did with her class. Aya's allready colorless face went even whiter. Shuu's mouth fell open. Mitari looked like he was about to be sick. "It's a good thing this class only has twenty students. This kind of stuff gets expensive.". "We could...umm...not do it at all", Mitari suggested rather boldly. There was a murmer of agreement. "And why, Mr. Kiyoshi, do you suggest we not do disections?", the teacher, Mrs. Krynee, asked coldly. "Well...it...just doesn't seem right...", Mitari stammered. His face had gone bright cherry red. "No, Mit. Don't back down", Sai thought.
"That animal...didn't do anything to deserve its fate. That animal was hauled from the sea and poisoned so a class of highschool students could examine it. I'm afraid I see that as cruelty on the part of ningens.", Mitari continued, his face roughly the same color as a tomatoe. Sai felt she would explode with pride. Mrs. Krynee's face had gone white and she kind of looked stunned. "I was told you were a very shy student, Kiyoshi...you'd never stand up to a teacher...obviously, I was misinformed...yes...if you feel that strongly about it, I guess we could do an alternative...". The classroom erupted with cheers. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Ok, so we'll meet at my house and work on the project there", Shuu said afterschool that day. Their alternative assignment was to get in groups and construct a model of the insides of a shark using their textbooks. Everyone agreed that was much better than cutting the thing up. "Right. Everyone know what they're bringing?", Aya asked. She was met with a chorus of "yes". "Ok, then. We'll meet at my house in thirty minutes then", Shuu said cheerfully and bounded into his house. Sai, who did was not hiding out as close to Shuu as the Aya and Mitari were said farewell to the other two and raced off to her house.
She hurried into the house, said hi to Rinku, and dashed to change into normal ningen clothes. After she'd pulled on a black tanktop and a pair of denium cutoff shorts she headed into the kitchen. "Ah, where's Kurama-san. Have I got a story to tell him!", Sai asked happily.
"You won't find him here anymore. He went to buy ningen clothes and he's gonna move back in with his ningen family. They're expecting him-his stepfather has even given him a job in his computer shop.". "Ohhh...I'm going there now...we have a group project. I guess I'll pull him aside and tell him there..." Sai looked at her watch, a ningen device that told time. "Ack! I'm gonna be late!", she cried and hurried out the door.
Sai arrived exactly the same moment Aya did. "Hey!", Aya called cheerfully, a bright smile on her face. Sai was shocked-she looked so different out of her school uniform. She was wearing a white tube top and skirt with a little white jacket-vest covering her shoulders. Her silver hair was pulled up in a high ponytail and held there with a white bow. "She looks like a kitsune except her eyes are blue instead of yellow!", Sai thought. "Are you OK?", Aya asked, breaking into her thoughts. "Yeah, I'm fine", Sai answered, ringing the bell to the Hakataka residence.
Shuu answered the door wearing jeans and a blue T-shirt. "Come on in, Mitari's allready here", he said, ushering the girls inside. He led them into the living room. Mitari was looking at the Anatomy book and jotting down notes on the anatomy of a shark. "Wow, look at that...", Mitari said. "Good thing Mrs. Krynne doesn't want a lifesized model". "We'd never get it to school!", Shuu laughed. He headed into the kitchen to get everyone snacks. Sai watched him go with a horrible sense of forbodeing. For Kurama to move back in, she new something was up. She also now understood why he was so protective of his little brother-she'd be, too, if Shuu was her little brother. Then she realized she was starting to view not just Shuuichi, but Mitari and Aya, too, as her little brothers and sister. She'd protect them at any cost.
"No, no...The lung doesn't go there...move it over to the left a little!", Mitari said, instructing Aya where to to place the lung. The silver-haired girl was having difficulty because she was laughing so hard. Mitari turned around and caught Shuu making faces at her. "Why, you...", Mitari cried, throwing a pillow at Shuuichi, who caught it easily. An all- out war broke out. Sai laughed at them until Shuu hit her in the face with a pillow. "Ohhh...Shuuichi Hakataka, you're going down!", she cried, and, grabbing a pillow off the couch, joined in the melee. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Well, well, well....This is an unusual way to find even a bunch of ningens like themselves.", a cold voice said. The children and youkai stopped their war and turned around. "YOU!", Sai screamed, reconizing Yoda. "Me.", Yoda said calmly. "Hello, girl. I didn't expect even one of your kind to sink so low as to be with a bunch of ningens. I thought only Kurama did that.". As he spoke, his eyes passed over Aya, Shuuichi, and Mitari. "There's a pretty girl...she's almost too pretty to be ningen. Maybe I'll kill you three and take her back to the Makai with us.". Aya shivered and backed into the wall. "It's like she knows what this idiot's talking about", Sai observed.
"Yoda, you may have beat me last time, but I swear it, if you fight me now, I'm going to kill you.", Sai growled. "You won't lay a hand on these ningen children!". Mitari suddenly snapped up as though waking from a trance. He ran to the table, picked up a glass of water, and, to Sai's shock, slit his finger open. "Look at what ningens do when they're scared. He's totally lost it!" Sai suddenly remembered what Yusuke, Kaito, and Yanagisawa had told them about the Black Magic Portal. Could Mitari have been one of the affected kids three years ago? Her question was soon answered-Mitari's blood mixed with the water, and a large water serpant came crashing down on Yoda. Sai stared, trembling. She'd never seen such a thing, even in the Makai...and here was a ningen, doing this! It also ment the Black Magic Portal had been reopened.