"." - Talking (NO Duh!) ^.^ - Language (btw, I know tt for these two chappies, I haven't been writing this, mainly cos I'm too lazy. Anyhow, the language will always be what it was the last time I wrote this thing, k?) (.) - My daft self . - Singing/Battle Chants CAPS - Shouting or emphasis on that word *Note: '-' will be replacing those dot dot dot thingies since dot dot dots show as only one dot on ff.net.

Disclaimer: I don't own CC/CCS.

By the way, sea-dragon, I'm not kidding abt the similarities between Aya and Gojyo. The hairstyles are the same, except Aya's hair is longer, they both have the same attitude, the same posture, the tendency to curse and swear and the immaturity, except Aya's more immature. And no, the number thing was NOT based on real-life and NO, I was not flustered. I was just worried about you telling everyone else. The LAST thing I need is two particular girls pestering me about it. I'll try not to be biased towards her, dun worry, k? But the 'camera' is gonna be following her around, her being the main chara, you understand. The romance thing, it is NOT between me and anyone, it is between AYA and someone, that is IF there is gonna BE any romance between AYA and anyone. Seriously, you people! Why is it that everything means romance? It could just mean a really good and close friendship. GEEZ! There is a dif between Chan and me as writers. He uses real names, real personas. If I use real personas, I do NOT use real names, k? And abt the chickens, it's supposed to make fun of the British. As in that civil war thing, they yelled, "The British are coming! The British are coming!" You're coming in one or two chappies after this one, k? And dun worry. I'll make you a tad bit taller than you really are. Still more than ten cm shorter than Aya tho. Hehez. And before I stop, help me ask the sad bunny if I can put him in the fic? Ryo meets Ryan SHOULD be quite funny, don't ya think? My com contracted SARS, as I have already told you and can't be bothered to do it myself. Your idea anyway. One last thing, about the Gojyo thing, WUP ASS! Hahahaz. So, ONWARDS!

Aoi Youkai

*Chapter 4: Aftermath*

~*~ Flashback ~*~

He smiled and nodded, "Looks like we've got another sister complex to deal with. Pity. I have a feeling that he'll have to start letting go of her and trusting Aoi very soon."

~*~ End Flashback ~*~

That morning, Aoi and Tsuki emerged from their house to join the others to walk to school to find Aya jumping around shrieking like a deranged banshee. Aoi and Tsuki sweatdropped and glared at Aki, knowing what caused the madness, "YOU SAID YOU'D DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO KEEP HER AWAY FROM COFFEE!!"

Aki threw his hands up in defence, "Well, if she hadn't burned all her energy last night helping you, she wouldn't have been in the half-dead state she was in this morning. She was so half-dead that I HAD to let her have some coffee to prevent her from falling asleep in class today, and she, um, KINDA got carried away."

Aya was hyper all through class that day until lunch when the gang poured a full bottle of sleeping pills (nicked from the nurse's office, of course) into her water bottle, and she returned to her normal self (whoa. Even I'M not that bad). Aoi took the chance to ask her about the side effects of the previous night's spell, to which she replied, "What night? What spell?"

"LAST NIGHT. THE SPELL THAT YOU USED TO CHANNEL YOUR ENERGY TO ME. YOU SAID THERE MIGHT BE SIDE EFFECTS. WHAT SIDE EFFECTS?" He said this all nice and slow to make sure she understood.

"Oh THAT spell. Well, for one there could be a permanent mental link, we'll just see. Also, we may be able to pass energy to and fro without a spell. We also may end up having control over each other's magic, like, I'll have control over the cards and you can use my spells."

Aoi thought, 'What the...'

Aya then smiled, and 'thought' back, 'Yes. 'What the...' is right.'

Aoi was puzzled, "You say something, Aya?"

"Think something. Anything."

"Uh, ok?"

She started roaring with laughter, "That, Aoi, is all too true."

Aoi started cracking up too as the rest stared at them. Tsuki finally had enough, "Ok. I've had enough. WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON??"

"Aoi says," *gasp for breath while trying to talk while laughing* "that," *ditto* "Kinoshita-sensei," *DEEP breath* "PROBABLYCARRIESTHATUMBRELLAAROUNDCOSSHE'LL-MELT-IFSHEGETSWET!!!!" Aya couldn't stand it and collapsed to the ground in fits of laughter.

Aki stared at his sister for a while as his mouth started to twitch, despite him pressing his lips together so hard, they were white. He then turned to stare at the sky, using one of their old friend's techniques. He muttered under his breath, "The sky looks LOVELY today. The perfect shade of blue. Just the right amount of clouds." Didn't work, plan B. He took several deep breaths and calmed himself, "I suppose you guys needed some translations?"

They took a peek at the two rolling around laughing their asses off, "Yes."

"He said that, Kinoshita-sensei probably carries that umbrella around because she'll probably MELT if she gets wet."

They stared at him for a while and he said, "Ok. I can't take it anymore." And he broke down clutching his sides laughing.

One by one, they fell prey to laughter and people passed by staring at a third of the freshman class rolling around laughing their asses off.

*After school*

(Note: For their first semester, freshmen don't have Extra Curricular Activities, after this referred to as ECA, k?)

Sen waited outside the sorcery classroom waiting for her friends to come out. (Remember? She doesn't take sorcery) She was just on the verge of tearing her hair out when the bell rang and the gang came bursting out of the room. "FINALLY! I need to tell you something, guys."

Yong Li yawned, "What?"

Ryo chastised, "Close your mouth when you yawn. It's positively atrocious. I mean, seriously, you still have a bit of seaweed from that onigiri you pilfered from Aya."

"She could spare it. Anyhow, what is it, Sen?"

"Sugimori Hideki and Hideko-chan are back."

Yong Li groaned, "Aw man. That bastard again? Hideko-chan isn't TOO bad, but that bastard? How do you know, anyway?"

"Had to top up the office's first aid kit and overheard the secretary talking to his mom. Apparently, they're supposed to be AWOL, but the mom's arguing. Speaking of the devil..."

They turned and saw a group of boys and a girl coming in their walk out of the door. The girl realised they were there and smiled, "Konnichiwa, minna- san!"

They greeted her in return. Tsuki decided to introduce the new additions to the group, "Konnichiwa, Hideko-chan. Kochira wa Lee Aki-san to Lee Aya-san desu. Aki, Aya, kochira wa Sugimori Hideko-san desu." (The literal meaning of kochira wa is 'as for this person', but basically, it means 'This is Aki and Aya. Aki, Aya, this is Sugimori Hideko.')

Hideko smiled and was about to say something when one of the guys interrupted her, "So, new girl huh?" he walked around Aya examining her head to toe, receiving the Lee family death glare, then he smirked up at her, "Hmm, not bad. Tall, unlike most of the shortasses those lower-class freaks are. Feisty too." He smirked again and placed his mouth roughly over hers pushing her against the wall, feeling a sharp well-placed pain in his back almost immediately after, "Ah F***!!!" (Sorry for the mush, dragon, in this paragraph or at any point beyond this. If it makes the story better, it makes the story better)

Aki had elbowed him in the back and was currently glaring at him while the others kept the rest from being involved. Hideki turned on his new opponent as a sword materialized in his hand. He sneered and got into a stance. He charged and stabbed forwards. Aki dodged this easily to the side and high- kicked his wrist, making the sword fall with a clang to the side. Hideki, not giving up, drew his fist back to punch Aki, but the smaller built boy was faster. He grabbed his opponent's drawn-back wrist with his left hand and used his right hand to push Hideki to the ground. He leaned his weight onto the boy's left wrist and back, keeping him down. Hideki had other ideas. He stretched out his palm, using a summoning spell to bring his sword into his hand. Aya saw this and jammed her heel into his right forearm, making the bone snap. She then ground her heel down and twisted for effect, making him yell in agony. The brother-sister team then released their victim as they sensed Sumitomo-sensei rushing towards them. Hideki was just picking up his sword as she came into sight. She sighed, "Really, Sugimori-san. Your first day, and you're ALREADY in trouble. I sometimes wonder if my career as a teacher is cursed. I ALWAYS end up with the troublemakers. I'm afraid we've got to call your mother right after we hung up on her."

Hideki growled, as his sister sighed, coming to the rescue, "I'm sorry ma'am, but this was all an accident. My brother was trying to show off for the new girl here, and fell."

Their form teacher replied, "Ok then. But any more of this, we'll have to call you mother."

As she walked away, and Hideko glared at her twin, "I saved your ass once, I damn bloody well won't do it again."

"Whatever, imouto-chan. We're going to the nurse's office. Now."

He started walking away with his posse and his sister trailing unwillingly behind when Sen spoke up, "No use. It's locked."

"What. Do. You. Mean. Locked?" He growled menacingly.

"I mean, my mom's smoothing over some complications down at the dock about the new stocks and the sub's standing right here in front of you."

He stuck his broken arm in her face, "Well, do your job then, SUB."

She swatted his arm away, making him wince, and glared the best her good nature allowed her, "Firstly, I don't bloody care for your bloody tone. Secondly, I bloody won't, after what you bloody did to my friends. I bloody agree with Hideko-chan that she SHOULDN'T bloody save your bloody friggin ungrateful ass bloody again. You can bloody go to the bloody hospital building if you bloody want that bloody fixed. And by the bloody way, you bloody better get that bloody fixed bloody soon. It bloody would actually bloody be VERY bloody if the bloody skin had bloody broken and it could bloody clot." (Yes, you guessed it. When Sen gets mad, her sentences are peppered with the word bloody)

They were glared at once again as he stormed off with his bevy of underlings and Hideko glancing apologetically backwards. Trailing behind, Aoi asked his best friend, "Hey, ok back there?"

"Yeah, just a bit shaken. That's why he has to get arm fixed instead of his testicles."

"Ha. Now THAT'S the Aya we all know and love. Still shaken?"

"A bit. And know what would make it all better?"

"What? I am at your command, oh great one."

"Really? Then a treat at the sundae place will be nice, every Friday for as long was we live. I've yet to see what it's like there, anyway."

"Alright."

Then, they heard Yong Li's voice, "Hey, why don't we all go down to my place to play with my Playstation VIII? I just bought Final Fantasy 25!"

Aoi yelled to the front, "You guys go ahead. I've just been bullied by my best friend into giving her a treat at the sundae place every Friday for as long as we live."

Tsuki faced her brother, "Ok then. I'll be seeing you at home. Don't let things get carried away, k?" She winked.

Her brother glared in reply, "Ah shut it."

At the ice-cream parlour, Aya ordered the first thing that caught her eye, a triple chocolate sundae. Three scoops of chocolate, hot fudge, cold fudge, chocolate chips, whipped cream and a wafer to top it off.

Done, done, done. I'm finishing these things much faster now that my com's contracted SARS. For the less open-minded and humorous, it's got a virus inside preventing me from starting up and it's gotta be reformatted. Bummer. Gotta download all my stuff again. Maybe if I'm lucky, I'll be able to get my dad to get an ADSL modem. What absolute sadness. Anyway, BE LIKE SEA-DRAGON and -REVIEW-!!!!! Ja ne, for now!