Thanks a lot for all the reviews!! Especially the ones from The Street Blader!! I want to thank especially Mystic_Water for helping me write this, because if it wasn't for her, this fic wouldn't be up for a LONG time. Thanks a lot and enjoy this chapter!! Don't forget to R and R please!!
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"Mou!! Baka southsides!! Why do they insist on chasing me!!" moaned Kristy as she darted through different alleys trying to escape the southsides that were chasing her.
//Maybe if you didn't keep taunting them mistress. They would probably leave you alone// stated KitteFae.
//Bah. I think they would have still chased me even if I DIDN'T provoke them. 'Sides, it's not my fault they're so easily provoked.// replied Kristy.
"Come back here you baka neko!! We'll teach you to make fun of us!!" shouted one.
"Try me you bunch of idiots!!" Kristy shouted back.
"Grrrrr….That's it!! Launch your blade now!!"
'Uh oh!! Not good!!' thought Kristy as she running faster to escape the beyblades that were heading her way. As she turned another corner, one of the beyblades managed to hit her leg, cutting it a bit. Kristy hissed but continued running until she outside the alleys. She looked behind and saw that they were still pursuing her.
She kept running and running until she saw that some how some south sides managed to get in front of her.
'Kuso!!' she thought as she looked behind her and in front of her as they closed in and were grinning maliciously at her.
"No where to run baka neko. GET HER!!"
They all launched their beyblades at the cornered neko. They grinned as they thought it had made contact, but the neko-jin managed to kick up some dirt and block their view.
"DAMMIT!! WHERE IS SHE!!" they shouted wondering what was going on until they heard moans of pains and they thought they had gotten her, but suddenly they saw the others beyblades coming towards them and shouted.
Suddenly they heard laughter and angrily looked up and saw Kristy had jumped to the concrete post of the steel fence. Her red hair tied in a ponytail waving in the wind. Wearing a turquoise tank top and a denim skirt (I have a reason for that skirt thing).
HA!! No matter how many times you baka south sides try to get me, I can out wit you, out grace you, out MANUVER you'll never get me!!"
"DAMN YOU!! YOUR LUCK WILL RUN OUT YOU BAKA!! AND WE'LL BE THERE TO GET YA!!" the south side yelled back and the rest of them grumbled back to the allies. Kristy stuck out her
Tongue at the retreating backs of the south sides and then sighed.
"Never underestimate me boys. Now where the heck am I?" wondered Kristy as she looked
around. Kristy saw a familiar school that she had recalled. Once she remembered what it was she almost fell off the post laughing. It was the EXACT school that Vincent had gone to or FORCED to go to more
Like it.
"Oh gawd!! This is just too interesting!! Now I can explore this place." grinned Kristy as she loved
Exploring. That's coming from her nature as she acts like a cat sometimes.
She saw a bunch of Sakura trees lined up by the gate and gracefully leapt from one to another,
going deeper into the school. She looked at her watch that was under her purple wristband and saw that it was about almost 10:00 a.m. It was break time. Many students were walking and talking around the schools rather absurdly large field. She stopped jumping when she got to the third to last tree and watched. There seemed to be a lot of students and as she continued watching she didn't notice something going on with the branch that she was standing on.....
"Gee I still don't see why Vincent thought this school was so terrible. It seems normal to me...."
Kristy said to herself out loud. *CRACK*
"Huh?" Kristy said as she looked down. She sweatdropped and saw that her branch was breaking.
"Oh no.....Gotta move.....gotta move.....gotta....OH SHI.....!!!!" yelled Kristy as she went falling down as the branch broke off and she started cursing.
"OH GAWD!! AND I JUST HAD TO WEAR AN F*&*^% SKIRT!! DAMMIT!!" shouted Kristy as she was still plummeting down with tears coming out.
Suddenly Kristy looked down and saw somebody walking underneath her. When she got a closer look, she gasped and blushed heavily as she came plummeting down.
'Oh gawd, oh gawd, it just had to be a boy didn't it!!' Kristy thought wildly as she came closer to the earth.
"OI!! LOOK OUTTT BEEEEELLLLLLOOOOWWWWWW!!!!" The kid looked up and he suddenly got a bloody noise for looking up when a girl is coming down wearing a SKIRT!!
"WHAT THE!! WHO'RE YOU!!"
"JUST WATCH OUT!! AIIEEEEE!!!!!" shouted Kristy as she suddenly shut her eyes and waited to hit bottom.
When Kristy didn't feel that she was in any pain, besides the one in her leg from earlier, she looked around and she blushed. Some how the guy had dropped all of his books and managed to catch Kristy in his arms, but was still majorly blushing his bloody nose had stopped.
"Are...you....all right?" he asked. Kristy just nodded and he gently put her down leaning against the trunk of the tree.
"Yes. I'm sorry." replied Kristy blushing. The guy looked at her and then sat down Indian style and taking out a handkerchief. Kristy stared at him and saw that he was wrapping it around her wound that the Southside had cause.
"Oh wait!! You don't need to take care of that!! I can....." started Kristy but was cut off when the guy looked up and his dark violet eyes stared at her leaving her speechless.
"Don't worry. If you leave it like this, it's bound to get infected and I wouldn't want you to injure yourself more." Then he finished and leaned back.
"So what's your name? You can't be from this school 'cause you don't have a uniform. I'm Tori. Tori Saito." replied Tori. Kristy blanched. She didn't know if she should tell this city kid who she is or where she's from.
"Eeerrr....my name....my name is Neko Mystic. Yeah. Neko Mystic at ya service." grinned Kristy. Suddenly Tori laughed and Kristy was staring.
Tori then stopped laughing and letting go of his stomach from which he was holding so while he was laughing himself to tears.
"I'm sorry Neko-chan. It's just that if you think about it....its kinda funny." he replied. Kristy was still confused. "What do you mean Tori-kun?" Tori grinned and replied, "Well, you know Neko means cat right?" Kristy nodded. "Well, 'Tori' means bird. Think now."
Kristy suddenly started laughing too and Tori joined her. "Oh geez!! That IS hilarious Tori-kun!! HAHAHAHA you bird and me cat......bird goood food for cat." grinned Kristy as she looked at Tori who got the idea. "Oh no!! The koneko (kitten) is after me!!" laughed Tori. Kristy couldn't help but laugh at that and they both who had gotten up, just as quickly fell down.
When they had calmed down they just sat there. "So what're you doing here Neko-chan?" asked Tori.
"Well, I was always a bit curious on this school, so I wanted to explore it a bit and so I was jumping from one sakura tree to another and then.....you know what happened." replied Kristy. Tori blushed.
"Yeah. Hey I got an idea!!" Tori said. Kristy watched him as he helped her up and tugging her along towards the school. Kristy was blushing because Tori were holding her hand and she strangely liked it. As he tugged her along and she helped him carry his books, they were oblivious to the obvious jealous stares that they were receiving from many other girls in the school.
"Hey!! Who's that red-headed girl with Saito-san!!" shouted a blonde with brown eyes glaring at the blushing Kristy and the smiling Tori. A girl with green hair and blue eyes joined her.
"I have no idea Eri, but we are SO gonna find out. NO one is going to get Saito-san WITHOUT us first. Let's find the other girls and see if they have anything on her.
As the two of them disappeared into the crowd, Tori had gotten Kristy into the building and dragging her through the seemingly endless halls. "I can ask if Mizuki-san can give you a pass so you can come here whenever you want during this school year. Like a exchange student kinda thing." smiled Tori.
"Sure!! That'd be great!!" grinned Kristy as they made it to the main building.
Kristy blushed furiously, as she and Tori walked right past the group of scowling girls.
"Morning, Eri-chan, G'morning girls!" He gave them a bright smile, as he continued to drag the neko girl into the school,
"C'mon, Neko-chan."
"H-hai…" Kristy muttered timidly, trying her best to avoid the glares and gazes from he jealous girls.
Kristy had to refrain herself from gasping, and ogling at the building, as they walked through the halls. The place was enormous. She couldn't see why Vincent despised this place, it seemed rather welcoming.
'Oh no! Vincent!!' she thought desperately.
She was suppose to get back tot eh Shadow Blades 30 mins ago. 'Oh well,' she thought with a shrug, 'I'll leave as soon as I'm done here, its not like Vincent's not use to me ignoring him anyway.'
Tori glanced to Kristy as she sighed, "Something wrong, neko-chan?"
Kristy straightened her back, "iie (no), iie, I'm fine!"
"Good, c'mon, Mizuki-san is in here!" Tori grinned as he dragged her along.
((Okay, now let me do a quick scene with the Shadow Blades))
As Vincent was falling unconscious he was leaning forward and was almost off the building that they were sitting on.
"VINCENT!!" shouted Street as she quickly grabbed the back of his shirt and pulled him back on the roof.
As she pulled back, and brought Vincent back with her she stared at his face. As Street held him, she started to get worried as Vincent's face started to change emotions. At first it went from calm and peaceful to suddenly it went to painful one and he started to mumble and moan.
"No....Nanashi.....noo......pops.....mother......NOOO!!!" shouted Vincent as he started to thrash around and Street was desperately trying to hold onto him to calm him down.
"VINCENT!! CALM DOWN!"
Vincent still wouldn't stop struggling and was still thrashing about in Street's arm. 'Okay, not working, looks like I'm going to have to take him back to the apartment.'
"DARK FANG!!" shouted Street as she summoned her bit-beast. A large dragon appeared and took Street with Vincent on its back to the Shadow Blade's apartment.
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"Hahaha!!" laughed Trista as she took the cards away from the frustrated Averus, who sweat-dropped at the small cards he had left. They were playing Egyptian war and apparently when the doubles came up, Trista beat Averus to them and now he was done to next to nothing as Trista almost had the entire deck.
"Awww man!! There goes my jacks!!" moaned Averus as he slumped his head and Trista grinning madly at her victory.
Suddenly they heard a loud flapping of wings and turned their heads towards the door as it was kicked opened and they stared as they saw a worried Street with a sweating Vincent with his arm around her neck and holding onto her waist.
"Vin....Vincent is .....I don't know!! Help him guys!!" shouted Street desperately as Vincent was starting to struggle again.
As Trista and Averus ran over to where Street had fallen to her knees, tired from holding down a struggling Vincent, they never noticed a small black aura surrounding Vincent and disappearing into him.
**Mean while back with Kristy and Tori**
Kristy was pulled into a large room by Tori, his hand not leaving her wrist. A woman glanced up at the duo from behind her desk, black hair that goes down to her neck, brown eyes, wearing a white turtle neck with a blue long sleeved jacket and a long black skirt.
"Oh good morning Saito-kun, I see you have a new friend."
"Morning, Mizuki-san!! Hai. This is Neko-chan, Neko Mystic!" Tori smiled, as he finally let go of Kristy's wrist.
"Ohayo." Kristy muttered, blushing slightly, remembering the name she gave Tori as her own.
"So, what can I do you two for?" Miszuki smiled fondly.
"Anou…I was wondering if you could give er a pass, like a transfer/exchange student kinda thing. So she can visit us when she wants!" Tori gave a sheepish smile and a pleading look to Mizuki. Mizuki smiled softly at Tori's expression,
"No problem, Tori-kun." she turned to her computer and began to type quickly.
As Mizuki typed away, Tori turned to Kristy smiling softly, "So…anou...how often will you visit?" he asked gently.
Kristy was about to say something about; when ever Vincent let her go roaming on her own, but decided against it, knowing he would want to know about the alleys too.
"Whenever I'm not too busy, I guess." she smiled back.
Tori nodded, just as Mizuki-san, handed Kristy a school pass, expiring on that very day the next year. It had Mizuki's signature, an expire date, and her name... ok well her fake id…Neko Mystic. Kristy nearly fell over, she didn't realise how pathetic that sounded until she read it, and "Too late now." she muttered.
"Hmm? Did you say something, Neko-chan?" Tori, took her by the wrist again, as he took her out of the secretary's office, before waving at the smiling Mizuki-san.
"Oh…no no! Nothing!" Kristy quickly corrected herself, she was about to ask where Tori was taking her, before something caught his attention.
"KAZE!!" He gave a bright grin, dropping Kristy's hand and racing over to a boy with black messy hair, and bright friendly blue eyes.
"Hey Tori." The boy smiled back.
"Kaze, this is Neko Mystic, Neko-Chan. this is Kaze Youko, my best friend!" Tori said happily, as Kristy came walking up beside them.
"Konichiwa!" Kristy said as brightly as she could, trying to sound polite.
Kaze nodded, "Nice to meet you..." he seemed a bit skeptical at Kristy's fake name, who could blame him? Who wouldn't be suspicious?
"... Well Tori wasn't, but he seemed a bit too naive and cute for his own good..."
Kristy's eyes widened //CUTE???// she thought, she blushed furiously, //Oh, Kami....//
Kristy heard her icy cat snicker at her, but tried to ignore her baka neko.
"Although..." Kaze said grinning between Tori and Neko. "It seems you finally picked a girlfriend huh Tori-chan" grinned Kaze, looking at the blushing faces of Tori and Kristy.
"WHAT!?" they both shouted. "But we just met!!" they stuttered at the same time.
Kaze laughed hard at the blushing duo.
Kristy growled in embarasment at Tori's best friend, Kaze, he had some nerve. She was trying her best to ease her bright blush, failing just as horribly as Tori was.
She flustered up her best fake smile, and turned to Tori, "Tori-kun, I have to go now. I have people to meet up with. They are probably waiting for me."
"Oh…" Tori seemed a bit upset, but Kristy quickly added as an after thought:
"But don't worry, I'll come by this week and visit you, both, again!" Kristy smiled faintly.
Tori grinned, as Kaze rolled his eyes, but Kaze nodded none the less.
Tori waved at Kristy as she made her way out of the school, "Bye, Neko-chan!!" he waved frantically calling after her.
"Ja ne!" Kristy smiled back, and the moment she was out the door, she began into a full out sprint, towards the exit area to get off the school property area. But she was stopped abruptly, when the girls she had seen early, staring at her and Tori, jumped in front of her. Kristy slid to a strop, glaring at the girls for interrupting her run.
"Nani?" she asked hastily.
The girl with blonde hair and brown eyes scowled at the neko girl. "What are YOU doing, with Saito-kun?!?!" she screeched.
The girl, who stood beside her, had green hair and blue eyes, "Yeah! Everyone know's Eri-chan has been after him for months... then YOU come along, and catch his eye in a matter of minutes!!" she snarled.
Kristy blinked at the girl's immaturity levels, "You're kidding right? He was only being nice to me! Don't tell me he hasn't been nice to you!"
"Oh he's nice alright... nice in letting me down easy!! He's soo adorable... kawaii... sekushi... a COMPLETE Bishounen... who do you think YOU are anyway? Stealing My bishie..." Eri's voice dripped in malice, as she glared at Kristy.
Kristy sighed heavily, "Honestly, I don't have time for this!" she gasped, "Sod off girls, I'm in a hurry!" she moved to brush past Eri, but was only shoved back by her green-haired companion.
"Don't walk away when Eri-chan's talking to you!" the blue eyed, green haired girl snapped
"Don't piss me off girls. You don't wanna do that..." Kristy folded her arms over her chest.
"Hn, you're as arrogant as some alley trash kid!" Eri meant that as an insult, Kristy didn't take the 'trash' part too impressing, but the other part was thouroughly true.
"Baka... I am an alley kid. Member of the Shadow Bladers, one of the most feared gangs in the alleys! Kristy Maxell and I was chosen for my martial art skills, so back off!!" Kristy snapped back, completely ignoring the fact that she had given herself away, to some city trash, local bitches.
The two girls paled at Kristy's declaration of identity.
"HAH!! I knew Neko Mystic was a cracked up name!" The green haired girl pointed an accusing finger at Kristy, but she suddenly squealed in fear, as in an instant, Kristy's aqua blade was aimed right at the girl's head.
"It's rude to point you know!" Kristy hissed dangerously, "Now move aside before, 'I' move you both!" her voice was dangerous but oh so promising.
Eri tugged at her friend, and pulled her aside, so Kristy could stalk past them, ignoring their paled expressions.
"You baka." Eri snapped in a whisper at her friend, "Do you realise who the Shadow Blader's are? I heard they kill city kids! Just like the Dark Alleys! You don't wanna mess with her, I've heard of that Maxell kid! She annoying as hell, and not only does she torture kids from other alley areas, like the south-sides, but she likes to torment city's kids too! She's a real brat, that one!" Eri glared after Kristy, then glanced back at her green haired friend, "This is perfect!" Eri exclaimed, "C'mon! Let's go tell Saito-san!!!!" and with that, the two raced off towards Tori and Kaze, eager to tell them the GREAT news...
**Back to Kristy**
Kristy was fuming, as she bounced from roof top to roof top, to get in to the North-side alleys, "Stupid girls... BWAH... baka's... Think they are soo tuff, because they are popular in school... Think they can bad mouth Kristy Maxell!!!! Yeah, right!!! This Neko-girl will kick their asses if they ever mock me again!! I'll-huh? AACK!!!" Kristy was too busy mumbling to herself, that she didn't realise she had bounced into someone, who was over look the alleys on a roof of an abandoned apartment. Kristy fell to her butt, before scowling up at a familiar face, "Great..." she sighed heavily.
A black haired boy with red tipping the ends, sneered down at Kristy, "Nice, bumping into you too koneko (kitten)." Rayden Clyde smirked down at Kristy, before giving her his hand to help her up.
She would have growled at the koneko statement, his new favourite nick name for her. At least he didn't call her sex kitten anymore. The last time he did that, he was given a black eye which was evident for a few weeks, so this was his new nick for her, which she still despised.
She murmured an, "Arigatou." instead, as he pulled her to her feet.
"What's got you in such a fumble, that you are too much in a hurry to watch where you are going?" Rayden folded his arms; the leader of the Red Raiders, and Keeper of the Eastside alleys.
"Just a run in with a few city bitches! And I'm late! I was suppose to be back, an hour ago, Vincent is going to have my head... plus extra training hours... with HIM." she snapped, brushing herself off.
Though she hated Rayden's team mates, especially the girl, Scarlet, she didn't mind the Red Raider's company here and now. Sure he was an idiot, and likes to tease her, but he was always willing to listen when she was ranting.
Rayden raised an eyebrow, "You never are ON time are you, koneko?"
Well that was true, Kristy knew this, but it still infuriated her, "I don't have time for you mocking me. I'll see you around, Clyde no baka!" She smirked, before she continued on, back to her apartment.
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Kristy came in to the apartment, completely exhausted from running and jumping all the way to the North-side alleys.
"I'm Home! Gomen Nasai Minn-san, I ran into some-" Kristy stopped in mid sentence, as she glanced around the room, to see Street pacing about he living Room, she could hear Trista in the washroom, running water for some reason, and the voices of Averus, and a loud moaning...
"Street?" she blinked, catching the Street Blader's attention.
Street usually wasn't happy when Kristy showed up, but this however; she seemed relived that she was home, "Maxell…"
"Street...What's going on? Where is everyone? Street?? Hoi! Street??" Kristy slowly approached Street timidly. "What's wrong??"
Street looked thouroughly worried, in fact, if Kristy wasn't mistaken, she could have sworn she some wetness in Street's worried eyes, and "I don't know Maxell..."she paused," its Vincent...
Kristy stared at Street's face shocked.
"Vin…Vincent!? What happened Street!! What's wrong with Vincent!?" cried Kristy. Street shook her head and replied,
"Well, me and him were talking about some things that has been bothering him lately and so he talked a bit, and then he said….." started Street, but then she stopped as she remembered the promise that she had made to Vincent and shook her head as Kristy intently waited for an answer from her.
"All he said was stuff that I couldn't really understand what he was saying. But he was moaning and he started to thrash around like he was having a terrible nightmare." Finished Street as she shook her head and frowned.
Kristy was really worried. Even though sometimes she could care less for her leader, she still cared for him. She was thankful for him that he had accepted her when she was running away from her step-father. She looked at the distressed Street and headed for the kitchen.
Meanwhile in Vincent's room………….
"Vincent!!" shouted Averus trying to get him to stop struggling with Trista's help. "Calm down!! Listen to us!!"
Even though Vincent was still struggling and sweating, he managed to calm down and was lying still in his bed. Averus and Trista let out a sigh of relief as Averus took out a thermometer. He put it into Vincent's mouth and Trista continued dabbing Vincent's forehead with a wet wash clothe. After a minute or two, Averus took out the thermometer and looked at it. His eyes widened.
"Dear kami!! He's been training us and running around with this temperature!! It's no WONDER he fainted and had a dizzy spell." Gasped Averus staring at the thermometer.
"What is it exactly?" she asked. Averus looked at Trista's worried eyes and silently handed her the thermometer.
"WHAT!? 101 degrees!! He should be in a hospital!!" shouted Trista almost dropping the bin with water in it. Averus nodded and stood up.
"He should, but unfortunately we can't. The adults need actually proof of things like health insurance and all that stuff. Do me a favour and bring in extra blankets." Sighed Averus, moving a strand of copper hair out of his eyes.
"Sure. I'll refill the bin with water to help bring down his fever." Replied Trista as she stood up and quietly walked out of the room, leaving Averus who rubbed his forehead and sat down on the desk chair and watched Vincent for any sudden movements.
'What's wrong Vincent?' thought Averus.
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When Trista opened the door and went to the bathroom again, she got a quick glance at the living room and instead walked towards there. She saw Kristy, who was finally home, handing Street a much of hot cocoa, as she was sitting down on the couch.
"Glad to see that you came back. So I guess you've heard what happened to Vincent huh." Sighed Trista.
"Yeah. He was really running around with him like this?" Kristy wondered out loud as Street tensed.
'I promised him. I wouldn't tell.' She thought as she drank from the mug. "Thanks Maxell."
Kristy replied" Yeah. Hey Street, shouldn't you get back to your Alley Blades?"
Street shook her head as she placed the mug on the coffee table in front of her and stared at the roaring fire in front of her. She closed her eyes and thought a bit about Vincent and a few moments.
******Flashback (These are just vivid memories)******
"Idiot girl! I knew I shouldn't have left her to go off on her own. Stupid baka has probably gotten herself killed by this time. Hn! No surprise to me," Vincent muttered to himself.
"Oh I'm hurt, really I am, Shadow Blader," snickered Street jumping down at the gaping Vincent.
"You had no right to pry, Shadow Blader," Street whispered painfully… painfully? Vincent reached out to lay a hand on her shoulder but Street turned whacked his hand away. "Don't touch me!"
To her surprise, Vincent did not slide into his own fighting position. Instead, his hand rose. Street flinched, thinking he was going to hit her, waiting for him to strike before she attacked, as was her nature. Instead, gentle fingers softly wiped away certain dampness on her face. Street's eyes widened and her fists relaxed.
"Gomen nasai…(I'm sorry)" Vincent whispered, brushing her long black hair out of her now softened eyes.
"What are you thinking about?" Street asked softly, amused. Vincent came out of his thoughts and drew Street closer as he smiled.
"You…" Was all he answered before closed his eyes and claimed Street's soft lips for the second time that morning. This kiss was calm…like water instead of the fire of the first one. It was passionate but soothing as both put a little of their softer sides into the kiss before their tongues danced in a smooth but sensual dance, dominance flowing both ways.
*****End of Flashback*****
Street shook her head as she blushed a tiny bit at the last part.
"Even though I should, they can handle me not being there for a while. Besides. They usually do what they want and I force them to train. I want to make sure Vincent is alright. He's a good friend to me." Sighed Street as she took her mug again and stared at it. When she looked up Kristy had disappeared and returned with a spare blanket and two pillows.
"If you're going to stay here. I might be a while Street." Replied Kristy. Street actually smiled back at Kristy for a brief second, then returned back to her usual facial expression.
"Thank you Maxell." Replied Street, as Kristy disappeared into her own room to do some thinking of her own.
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"Saito-san!! Saito-san!!" shouted Eri at the end of the day. Tori was with Kaze as they discussed their plans for tomorrow.
"Yes? What is it Eri-chan?" asked Tori. The girls for some reason looked satisfied with something and Kaze didn't like it.
"It's about the girl. Neko Mystic." Replied the Mako, Eri's friend.
"What about her?" Tori asked frowning.
"Well have you heard of the Shadow Blades?" asked Mako. Tori nodded and Kaze didn't like where this was going.
"Well it seems that Neko Mystic is…is…." Started Eri.
"Is what?" asked Tori.
"An alley kid!!" she replied waiting for his reply. Kaze stared at the two girls and Tori just frowned.
"So?" he replied.
Eri and Mako were flabbergasted. How could Tori reply so…so…CALMLY!! She was an ALLEY kid, one the most number one kids NEVER to associate with.
"Bu…….but Saito-san!! She's an ALLEY kid!?" cried Mako. "Doesn't that mean anything!?"
Tori shook his head. "Not really. So what if she is? She probably had a good reason for not telling me, even if her name WAS phony. I wouldn't care. She had a good reason for not telling me and I respect that."
So a please Kaze left with a disappointed Tori.
"I think this was why she didn't tell me. Because she would think that I would react like that." Replied Tori.
Kaze put a comforting hand on Tori's shoulder. "Hey. That's good. C'mon I wanna get to the arcade. They're having specials!!" grinned Kaze sprinting ahead.
Tori laughed as he tried to catch up with his best-friends.
'Although, I can't help think why suddenly I feel I need to go to the alleys.' Thought Tori as he followed Kaze.
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//Where am I// thought Vincent as he was floating in a black void.
He tried to move and when he did he noticed that he was shrinking. He looked around frantically for the cause of it, but no answers came to him. So when he stopped shrinking he looked at himself and saw that he was back being a six year old.
//What is going on here?// Vincent thought.
'…..cent….Vincent…..big brother!!' shouted a cute voice.
Vincent quickly turned his head and in front of him stood a five year old Nanashi, grinning cutely at him. He tried to say something but nothing would come out.
'C'mon big brother…it's nice over here!!' laughed Nanashi as he led Vincent deeper into the darkness. Vincent was too confused but followed, but he didn't know that this was just a plot to make Vincent full of darkness. As Vincent followed his 'brother' deeper, he didn't see the darkness expanding or that two glowing evil gold eyes were staring at him.
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End of Chapter five.
Oh and sorry Lunar Heart!! I took a couple of scenes from you Street blader fic and put it into this fic. Hope you don't mind!!
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"Mou!! Baka southsides!! Why do they insist on chasing me!!" moaned Kristy as she darted through different alleys trying to escape the southsides that were chasing her.
//Maybe if you didn't keep taunting them mistress. They would probably leave you alone// stated KitteFae.
//Bah. I think they would have still chased me even if I DIDN'T provoke them. 'Sides, it's not my fault they're so easily provoked.// replied Kristy.
"Come back here you baka neko!! We'll teach you to make fun of us!!" shouted one.
"Try me you bunch of idiots!!" Kristy shouted back.
"Grrrrr….That's it!! Launch your blade now!!"
'Uh oh!! Not good!!' thought Kristy as she running faster to escape the beyblades that were heading her way. As she turned another corner, one of the beyblades managed to hit her leg, cutting it a bit. Kristy hissed but continued running until she outside the alleys. She looked behind and saw that they were still pursuing her.
She kept running and running until she saw that some how some south sides managed to get in front of her.
'Kuso!!' she thought as she looked behind her and in front of her as they closed in and were grinning maliciously at her.
"No where to run baka neko. GET HER!!"
They all launched their beyblades at the cornered neko. They grinned as they thought it had made contact, but the neko-jin managed to kick up some dirt and block their view.
"DAMMIT!! WHERE IS SHE!!" they shouted wondering what was going on until they heard moans of pains and they thought they had gotten her, but suddenly they saw the others beyblades coming towards them and shouted.
Suddenly they heard laughter and angrily looked up and saw Kristy had jumped to the concrete post of the steel fence. Her red hair tied in a ponytail waving in the wind. Wearing a turquoise tank top and a denim skirt (I have a reason for that skirt thing).
HA!! No matter how many times you baka south sides try to get me, I can out wit you, out grace you, out MANUVER you'll never get me!!"
"DAMN YOU!! YOUR LUCK WILL RUN OUT YOU BAKA!! AND WE'LL BE THERE TO GET YA!!" the south side yelled back and the rest of them grumbled back to the allies. Kristy stuck out her
Tongue at the retreating backs of the south sides and then sighed.
"Never underestimate me boys. Now where the heck am I?" wondered Kristy as she looked
around. Kristy saw a familiar school that she had recalled. Once she remembered what it was she almost fell off the post laughing. It was the EXACT school that Vincent had gone to or FORCED to go to more
Like it.
"Oh gawd!! This is just too interesting!! Now I can explore this place." grinned Kristy as she loved
Exploring. That's coming from her nature as she acts like a cat sometimes.
She saw a bunch of Sakura trees lined up by the gate and gracefully leapt from one to another,
going deeper into the school. She looked at her watch that was under her purple wristband and saw that it was about almost 10:00 a.m. It was break time. Many students were walking and talking around the schools rather absurdly large field. She stopped jumping when she got to the third to last tree and watched. There seemed to be a lot of students and as she continued watching she didn't notice something going on with the branch that she was standing on.....
"Gee I still don't see why Vincent thought this school was so terrible. It seems normal to me...."
Kristy said to herself out loud. *CRACK*
"Huh?" Kristy said as she looked down. She sweatdropped and saw that her branch was breaking.
"Oh no.....Gotta move.....gotta move.....gotta....OH SHI.....!!!!" yelled Kristy as she went falling down as the branch broke off and she started cursing.
"OH GAWD!! AND I JUST HAD TO WEAR AN F*&*^% SKIRT!! DAMMIT!!" shouted Kristy as she was still plummeting down with tears coming out.
Suddenly Kristy looked down and saw somebody walking underneath her. When she got a closer look, she gasped and blushed heavily as she came plummeting down.
'Oh gawd, oh gawd, it just had to be a boy didn't it!!' Kristy thought wildly as she came closer to the earth.
"OI!! LOOK OUTTT BEEEEELLLLLLOOOOWWWWWW!!!!" The kid looked up and he suddenly got a bloody noise for looking up when a girl is coming down wearing a SKIRT!!
"WHAT THE!! WHO'RE YOU!!"
"JUST WATCH OUT!! AIIEEEEE!!!!!" shouted Kristy as she suddenly shut her eyes and waited to hit bottom.
When Kristy didn't feel that she was in any pain, besides the one in her leg from earlier, she looked around and she blushed. Some how the guy had dropped all of his books and managed to catch Kristy in his arms, but was still majorly blushing his bloody nose had stopped.
"Are...you....all right?" he asked. Kristy just nodded and he gently put her down leaning against the trunk of the tree.
"Yes. I'm sorry." replied Kristy blushing. The guy looked at her and then sat down Indian style and taking out a handkerchief. Kristy stared at him and saw that he was wrapping it around her wound that the Southside had cause.
"Oh wait!! You don't need to take care of that!! I can....." started Kristy but was cut off when the guy looked up and his dark violet eyes stared at her leaving her speechless.
"Don't worry. If you leave it like this, it's bound to get infected and I wouldn't want you to injure yourself more." Then he finished and leaned back.
"So what's your name? You can't be from this school 'cause you don't have a uniform. I'm Tori. Tori Saito." replied Tori. Kristy blanched. She didn't know if she should tell this city kid who she is or where she's from.
"Eeerrr....my name....my name is Neko Mystic. Yeah. Neko Mystic at ya service." grinned Kristy. Suddenly Tori laughed and Kristy was staring.
Tori then stopped laughing and letting go of his stomach from which he was holding so while he was laughing himself to tears.
"I'm sorry Neko-chan. It's just that if you think about it....its kinda funny." he replied. Kristy was still confused. "What do you mean Tori-kun?" Tori grinned and replied, "Well, you know Neko means cat right?" Kristy nodded. "Well, 'Tori' means bird. Think now."
Kristy suddenly started laughing too and Tori joined her. "Oh geez!! That IS hilarious Tori-kun!! HAHAHAHA you bird and me cat......bird goood food for cat." grinned Kristy as she looked at Tori who got the idea. "Oh no!! The koneko (kitten) is after me!!" laughed Tori. Kristy couldn't help but laugh at that and they both who had gotten up, just as quickly fell down.
When they had calmed down they just sat there. "So what're you doing here Neko-chan?" asked Tori.
"Well, I was always a bit curious on this school, so I wanted to explore it a bit and so I was jumping from one sakura tree to another and then.....you know what happened." replied Kristy. Tori blushed.
"Yeah. Hey I got an idea!!" Tori said. Kristy watched him as he helped her up and tugging her along towards the school. Kristy was blushing because Tori were holding her hand and she strangely liked it. As he tugged her along and she helped him carry his books, they were oblivious to the obvious jealous stares that they were receiving from many other girls in the school.
"Hey!! Who's that red-headed girl with Saito-san!!" shouted a blonde with brown eyes glaring at the blushing Kristy and the smiling Tori. A girl with green hair and blue eyes joined her.
"I have no idea Eri, but we are SO gonna find out. NO one is going to get Saito-san WITHOUT us first. Let's find the other girls and see if they have anything on her.
As the two of them disappeared into the crowd, Tori had gotten Kristy into the building and dragging her through the seemingly endless halls. "I can ask if Mizuki-san can give you a pass so you can come here whenever you want during this school year. Like a exchange student kinda thing." smiled Tori.
"Sure!! That'd be great!!" grinned Kristy as they made it to the main building.
Kristy blushed furiously, as she and Tori walked right past the group of scowling girls.
"Morning, Eri-chan, G'morning girls!" He gave them a bright smile, as he continued to drag the neko girl into the school,
"C'mon, Neko-chan."
"H-hai…" Kristy muttered timidly, trying her best to avoid the glares and gazes from he jealous girls.
Kristy had to refrain herself from gasping, and ogling at the building, as they walked through the halls. The place was enormous. She couldn't see why Vincent despised this place, it seemed rather welcoming.
'Oh no! Vincent!!' she thought desperately.
She was suppose to get back tot eh Shadow Blades 30 mins ago. 'Oh well,' she thought with a shrug, 'I'll leave as soon as I'm done here, its not like Vincent's not use to me ignoring him anyway.'
Tori glanced to Kristy as she sighed, "Something wrong, neko-chan?"
Kristy straightened her back, "iie (no), iie, I'm fine!"
"Good, c'mon, Mizuki-san is in here!" Tori grinned as he dragged her along.
((Okay, now let me do a quick scene with the Shadow Blades))
As Vincent was falling unconscious he was leaning forward and was almost off the building that they were sitting on.
"VINCENT!!" shouted Street as she quickly grabbed the back of his shirt and pulled him back on the roof.
As she pulled back, and brought Vincent back with her she stared at his face. As Street held him, she started to get worried as Vincent's face started to change emotions. At first it went from calm and peaceful to suddenly it went to painful one and he started to mumble and moan.
"No....Nanashi.....noo......pops.....mother......NOOO!!!" shouted Vincent as he started to thrash around and Street was desperately trying to hold onto him to calm him down.
"VINCENT!! CALM DOWN!"
Vincent still wouldn't stop struggling and was still thrashing about in Street's arm. 'Okay, not working, looks like I'm going to have to take him back to the apartment.'
"DARK FANG!!" shouted Street as she summoned her bit-beast. A large dragon appeared and took Street with Vincent on its back to the Shadow Blade's apartment.
*****
"Hahaha!!" laughed Trista as she took the cards away from the frustrated Averus, who sweat-dropped at the small cards he had left. They were playing Egyptian war and apparently when the doubles came up, Trista beat Averus to them and now he was done to next to nothing as Trista almost had the entire deck.
"Awww man!! There goes my jacks!!" moaned Averus as he slumped his head and Trista grinning madly at her victory.
Suddenly they heard a loud flapping of wings and turned their heads towards the door as it was kicked opened and they stared as they saw a worried Street with a sweating Vincent with his arm around her neck and holding onto her waist.
"Vin....Vincent is .....I don't know!! Help him guys!!" shouted Street desperately as Vincent was starting to struggle again.
As Trista and Averus ran over to where Street had fallen to her knees, tired from holding down a struggling Vincent, they never noticed a small black aura surrounding Vincent and disappearing into him.
**Mean while back with Kristy and Tori**
Kristy was pulled into a large room by Tori, his hand not leaving her wrist. A woman glanced up at the duo from behind her desk, black hair that goes down to her neck, brown eyes, wearing a white turtle neck with a blue long sleeved jacket and a long black skirt.
"Oh good morning Saito-kun, I see you have a new friend."
"Morning, Mizuki-san!! Hai. This is Neko-chan, Neko Mystic!" Tori smiled, as he finally let go of Kristy's wrist.
"Ohayo." Kristy muttered, blushing slightly, remembering the name she gave Tori as her own.
"So, what can I do you two for?" Miszuki smiled fondly.
"Anou…I was wondering if you could give er a pass, like a transfer/exchange student kinda thing. So she can visit us when she wants!" Tori gave a sheepish smile and a pleading look to Mizuki. Mizuki smiled softly at Tori's expression,
"No problem, Tori-kun." she turned to her computer and began to type quickly.
As Mizuki typed away, Tori turned to Kristy smiling softly, "So…anou...how often will you visit?" he asked gently.
Kristy was about to say something about; when ever Vincent let her go roaming on her own, but decided against it, knowing he would want to know about the alleys too.
"Whenever I'm not too busy, I guess." she smiled back.
Tori nodded, just as Mizuki-san, handed Kristy a school pass, expiring on that very day the next year. It had Mizuki's signature, an expire date, and her name... ok well her fake id…Neko Mystic. Kristy nearly fell over, she didn't realise how pathetic that sounded until she read it, and "Too late now." she muttered.
"Hmm? Did you say something, Neko-chan?" Tori, took her by the wrist again, as he took her out of the secretary's office, before waving at the smiling Mizuki-san.
"Oh…no no! Nothing!" Kristy quickly corrected herself, she was about to ask where Tori was taking her, before something caught his attention.
"KAZE!!" He gave a bright grin, dropping Kristy's hand and racing over to a boy with black messy hair, and bright friendly blue eyes.
"Hey Tori." The boy smiled back.
"Kaze, this is Neko Mystic, Neko-Chan. this is Kaze Youko, my best friend!" Tori said happily, as Kristy came walking up beside them.
"Konichiwa!" Kristy said as brightly as she could, trying to sound polite.
Kaze nodded, "Nice to meet you..." he seemed a bit skeptical at Kristy's fake name, who could blame him? Who wouldn't be suspicious?
"... Well Tori wasn't, but he seemed a bit too naive and cute for his own good..."
Kristy's eyes widened //CUTE???// she thought, she blushed furiously, //Oh, Kami....//
Kristy heard her icy cat snicker at her, but tried to ignore her baka neko.
"Although..." Kaze said grinning between Tori and Neko. "It seems you finally picked a girlfriend huh Tori-chan" grinned Kaze, looking at the blushing faces of Tori and Kristy.
"WHAT!?" they both shouted. "But we just met!!" they stuttered at the same time.
Kaze laughed hard at the blushing duo.
Kristy growled in embarasment at Tori's best friend, Kaze, he had some nerve. She was trying her best to ease her bright blush, failing just as horribly as Tori was.
She flustered up her best fake smile, and turned to Tori, "Tori-kun, I have to go now. I have people to meet up with. They are probably waiting for me."
"Oh…" Tori seemed a bit upset, but Kristy quickly added as an after thought:
"But don't worry, I'll come by this week and visit you, both, again!" Kristy smiled faintly.
Tori grinned, as Kaze rolled his eyes, but Kaze nodded none the less.
Tori waved at Kristy as she made her way out of the school, "Bye, Neko-chan!!" he waved frantically calling after her.
"Ja ne!" Kristy smiled back, and the moment she was out the door, she began into a full out sprint, towards the exit area to get off the school property area. But she was stopped abruptly, when the girls she had seen early, staring at her and Tori, jumped in front of her. Kristy slid to a strop, glaring at the girls for interrupting her run.
"Nani?" she asked hastily.
The girl with blonde hair and brown eyes scowled at the neko girl. "What are YOU doing, with Saito-kun?!?!" she screeched.
The girl, who stood beside her, had green hair and blue eyes, "Yeah! Everyone know's Eri-chan has been after him for months... then YOU come along, and catch his eye in a matter of minutes!!" she snarled.
Kristy blinked at the girl's immaturity levels, "You're kidding right? He was only being nice to me! Don't tell me he hasn't been nice to you!"
"Oh he's nice alright... nice in letting me down easy!! He's soo adorable... kawaii... sekushi... a COMPLETE Bishounen... who do you think YOU are anyway? Stealing My bishie..." Eri's voice dripped in malice, as she glared at Kristy.
Kristy sighed heavily, "Honestly, I don't have time for this!" she gasped, "Sod off girls, I'm in a hurry!" she moved to brush past Eri, but was only shoved back by her green-haired companion.
"Don't walk away when Eri-chan's talking to you!" the blue eyed, green haired girl snapped
"Don't piss me off girls. You don't wanna do that..." Kristy folded her arms over her chest.
"Hn, you're as arrogant as some alley trash kid!" Eri meant that as an insult, Kristy didn't take the 'trash' part too impressing, but the other part was thouroughly true.
"Baka... I am an alley kid. Member of the Shadow Bladers, one of the most feared gangs in the alleys! Kristy Maxell and I was chosen for my martial art skills, so back off!!" Kristy snapped back, completely ignoring the fact that she had given herself away, to some city trash, local bitches.
The two girls paled at Kristy's declaration of identity.
"HAH!! I knew Neko Mystic was a cracked up name!" The green haired girl pointed an accusing finger at Kristy, but she suddenly squealed in fear, as in an instant, Kristy's aqua blade was aimed right at the girl's head.
"It's rude to point you know!" Kristy hissed dangerously, "Now move aside before, 'I' move you both!" her voice was dangerous but oh so promising.
Eri tugged at her friend, and pulled her aside, so Kristy could stalk past them, ignoring their paled expressions.
"You baka." Eri snapped in a whisper at her friend, "Do you realise who the Shadow Blader's are? I heard they kill city kids! Just like the Dark Alleys! You don't wanna mess with her, I've heard of that Maxell kid! She annoying as hell, and not only does she torture kids from other alley areas, like the south-sides, but she likes to torment city's kids too! She's a real brat, that one!" Eri glared after Kristy, then glanced back at her green haired friend, "This is perfect!" Eri exclaimed, "C'mon! Let's go tell Saito-san!!!!" and with that, the two raced off towards Tori and Kaze, eager to tell them the GREAT news...
**Back to Kristy**
Kristy was fuming, as she bounced from roof top to roof top, to get in to the North-side alleys, "Stupid girls... BWAH... baka's... Think they are soo tuff, because they are popular in school... Think they can bad mouth Kristy Maxell!!!! Yeah, right!!! This Neko-girl will kick their asses if they ever mock me again!! I'll-huh? AACK!!!" Kristy was too busy mumbling to herself, that she didn't realise she had bounced into someone, who was over look the alleys on a roof of an abandoned apartment. Kristy fell to her butt, before scowling up at a familiar face, "Great..." she sighed heavily.
A black haired boy with red tipping the ends, sneered down at Kristy, "Nice, bumping into you too koneko (kitten)." Rayden Clyde smirked down at Kristy, before giving her his hand to help her up.
She would have growled at the koneko statement, his new favourite nick name for her. At least he didn't call her sex kitten anymore. The last time he did that, he was given a black eye which was evident for a few weeks, so this was his new nick for her, which she still despised.
She murmured an, "Arigatou." instead, as he pulled her to her feet.
"What's got you in such a fumble, that you are too much in a hurry to watch where you are going?" Rayden folded his arms; the leader of the Red Raiders, and Keeper of the Eastside alleys.
"Just a run in with a few city bitches! And I'm late! I was suppose to be back, an hour ago, Vincent is going to have my head... plus extra training hours... with HIM." she snapped, brushing herself off.
Though she hated Rayden's team mates, especially the girl, Scarlet, she didn't mind the Red Raider's company here and now. Sure he was an idiot, and likes to tease her, but he was always willing to listen when she was ranting.
Rayden raised an eyebrow, "You never are ON time are you, koneko?"
Well that was true, Kristy knew this, but it still infuriated her, "I don't have time for you mocking me. I'll see you around, Clyde no baka!" She smirked, before she continued on, back to her apartment.
***
Kristy came in to the apartment, completely exhausted from running and jumping all the way to the North-side alleys.
"I'm Home! Gomen Nasai Minn-san, I ran into some-" Kristy stopped in mid sentence, as she glanced around the room, to see Street pacing about he living Room, she could hear Trista in the washroom, running water for some reason, and the voices of Averus, and a loud moaning...
"Street?" she blinked, catching the Street Blader's attention.
Street usually wasn't happy when Kristy showed up, but this however; she seemed relived that she was home, "Maxell…"
"Street...What's going on? Where is everyone? Street?? Hoi! Street??" Kristy slowly approached Street timidly. "What's wrong??"
Street looked thouroughly worried, in fact, if Kristy wasn't mistaken, she could have sworn she some wetness in Street's worried eyes, and "I don't know Maxell..."she paused," its Vincent...
Kristy stared at Street's face shocked.
"Vin…Vincent!? What happened Street!! What's wrong with Vincent!?" cried Kristy. Street shook her head and replied,
"Well, me and him were talking about some things that has been bothering him lately and so he talked a bit, and then he said….." started Street, but then she stopped as she remembered the promise that she had made to Vincent and shook her head as Kristy intently waited for an answer from her.
"All he said was stuff that I couldn't really understand what he was saying. But he was moaning and he started to thrash around like he was having a terrible nightmare." Finished Street as she shook her head and frowned.
Kristy was really worried. Even though sometimes she could care less for her leader, she still cared for him. She was thankful for him that he had accepted her when she was running away from her step-father. She looked at the distressed Street and headed for the kitchen.
Meanwhile in Vincent's room………….
"Vincent!!" shouted Averus trying to get him to stop struggling with Trista's help. "Calm down!! Listen to us!!"
Even though Vincent was still struggling and sweating, he managed to calm down and was lying still in his bed. Averus and Trista let out a sigh of relief as Averus took out a thermometer. He put it into Vincent's mouth and Trista continued dabbing Vincent's forehead with a wet wash clothe. After a minute or two, Averus took out the thermometer and looked at it. His eyes widened.
"Dear kami!! He's been training us and running around with this temperature!! It's no WONDER he fainted and had a dizzy spell." Gasped Averus staring at the thermometer.
"What is it exactly?" she asked. Averus looked at Trista's worried eyes and silently handed her the thermometer.
"WHAT!? 101 degrees!! He should be in a hospital!!" shouted Trista almost dropping the bin with water in it. Averus nodded and stood up.
"He should, but unfortunately we can't. The adults need actually proof of things like health insurance and all that stuff. Do me a favour and bring in extra blankets." Sighed Averus, moving a strand of copper hair out of his eyes.
"Sure. I'll refill the bin with water to help bring down his fever." Replied Trista as she stood up and quietly walked out of the room, leaving Averus who rubbed his forehead and sat down on the desk chair and watched Vincent for any sudden movements.
'What's wrong Vincent?' thought Averus.
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When Trista opened the door and went to the bathroom again, she got a quick glance at the living room and instead walked towards there. She saw Kristy, who was finally home, handing Street a much of hot cocoa, as she was sitting down on the couch.
"Glad to see that you came back. So I guess you've heard what happened to Vincent huh." Sighed Trista.
"Yeah. He was really running around with him like this?" Kristy wondered out loud as Street tensed.
'I promised him. I wouldn't tell.' She thought as she drank from the mug. "Thanks Maxell."
Kristy replied" Yeah. Hey Street, shouldn't you get back to your Alley Blades?"
Street shook her head as she placed the mug on the coffee table in front of her and stared at the roaring fire in front of her. She closed her eyes and thought a bit about Vincent and a few moments.
******Flashback (These are just vivid memories)******
"Idiot girl! I knew I shouldn't have left her to go off on her own. Stupid baka has probably gotten herself killed by this time. Hn! No surprise to me," Vincent muttered to himself.
"Oh I'm hurt, really I am, Shadow Blader," snickered Street jumping down at the gaping Vincent.
"You had no right to pry, Shadow Blader," Street whispered painfully… painfully? Vincent reached out to lay a hand on her shoulder but Street turned whacked his hand away. "Don't touch me!"
To her surprise, Vincent did not slide into his own fighting position. Instead, his hand rose. Street flinched, thinking he was going to hit her, waiting for him to strike before she attacked, as was her nature. Instead, gentle fingers softly wiped away certain dampness on her face. Street's eyes widened and her fists relaxed.
"Gomen nasai…(I'm sorry)" Vincent whispered, brushing her long black hair out of her now softened eyes.
"What are you thinking about?" Street asked softly, amused. Vincent came out of his thoughts and drew Street closer as he smiled.
"You…" Was all he answered before closed his eyes and claimed Street's soft lips for the second time that morning. This kiss was calm…like water instead of the fire of the first one. It was passionate but soothing as both put a little of their softer sides into the kiss before their tongues danced in a smooth but sensual dance, dominance flowing both ways.
*****End of Flashback*****
Street shook her head as she blushed a tiny bit at the last part.
"Even though I should, they can handle me not being there for a while. Besides. They usually do what they want and I force them to train. I want to make sure Vincent is alright. He's a good friend to me." Sighed Street as she took her mug again and stared at it. When she looked up Kristy had disappeared and returned with a spare blanket and two pillows.
"If you're going to stay here. I might be a while Street." Replied Kristy. Street actually smiled back at Kristy for a brief second, then returned back to her usual facial expression.
"Thank you Maxell." Replied Street, as Kristy disappeared into her own room to do some thinking of her own.
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"Saito-san!! Saito-san!!" shouted Eri at the end of the day. Tori was with Kaze as they discussed their plans for tomorrow.
"Yes? What is it Eri-chan?" asked Tori. The girls for some reason looked satisfied with something and Kaze didn't like it.
"It's about the girl. Neko Mystic." Replied the Mako, Eri's friend.
"What about her?" Tori asked frowning.
"Well have you heard of the Shadow Blades?" asked Mako. Tori nodded and Kaze didn't like where this was going.
"Well it seems that Neko Mystic is…is…." Started Eri.
"Is what?" asked Tori.
"An alley kid!!" she replied waiting for his reply. Kaze stared at the two girls and Tori just frowned.
"So?" he replied.
Eri and Mako were flabbergasted. How could Tori reply so…so…CALMLY!! She was an ALLEY kid, one the most number one kids NEVER to associate with.
"Bu…….but Saito-san!! She's an ALLEY kid!?" cried Mako. "Doesn't that mean anything!?"
Tori shook his head. "Not really. So what if she is? She probably had a good reason for not telling me, even if her name WAS phony. I wouldn't care. She had a good reason for not telling me and I respect that."
So a please Kaze left with a disappointed Tori.
"I think this was why she didn't tell me. Because she would think that I would react like that." Replied Tori.
Kaze put a comforting hand on Tori's shoulder. "Hey. That's good. C'mon I wanna get to the arcade. They're having specials!!" grinned Kaze sprinting ahead.
Tori laughed as he tried to catch up with his best-friends.
'Although, I can't help think why suddenly I feel I need to go to the alleys.' Thought Tori as he followed Kaze.
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//Where am I// thought Vincent as he was floating in a black void.
He tried to move and when he did he noticed that he was shrinking. He looked around frantically for the cause of it, but no answers came to him. So when he stopped shrinking he looked at himself and saw that he was back being a six year old.
//What is going on here?// Vincent thought.
'…..cent….Vincent…..big brother!!' shouted a cute voice.
Vincent quickly turned his head and in front of him stood a five year old Nanashi, grinning cutely at him. He tried to say something but nothing would come out.
'C'mon big brother…it's nice over here!!' laughed Nanashi as he led Vincent deeper into the darkness. Vincent was too confused but followed, but he didn't know that this was just a plot to make Vincent full of darkness. As Vincent followed his 'brother' deeper, he didn't see the darkness expanding or that two glowing evil gold eyes were staring at him.
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End of Chapter five.
Oh and sorry Lunar Heart!! I took a couple of scenes from you Street blader fic and put it into this fic. Hope you don't mind!!
