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I knoe this ain't as good I can feel it in my bones…………..

Okay change of plan, to prevent further confusion between whose is a thought and which one is Phoenix and Dragon speaking

/Thoughtspeech./

'Thoughts'

"Speech"

I'm REALLY sorry everyone, its just that my computer decided not to let me go on any interactive sites, so I couldn't update I couldn't go on msn and check my emails, so it was hell! And I had to wait for a month before the repair man came and fix it!

The painted wolf pup – you never replied any of my emails yet, don't worry everyone gets carried away, I don't really like coffee……..my dog running around is enough to wake me up, such a small dog and yet being able to make such a loud noise…..

Anonymous – (blushes from comment) thnks and I apologize, look up to see the reason, there will be a side fic to this, and I'm still deciding if I should make a third sequel to this one

Emarista the Torturer – yah I knoe, but you will know the reason later why I called her that name


Chapter 4 Could you tell me?

Yoh's House

Anna went outside to take a walk and saw Dragon standing there. "Dragon, did you deliberately stay here?" The great reptile nodded. "Go." Dragon looked at Anna in confusion. "Last time, we wanted to know why and that one included me, but this time I have a feeling it's between Hao and Ren personally, so go." Dragon nodded at Anna in understanding way and took off, tracking down Phoenix's scent.

"Anna-sama." Anna turned around to see Tamao behind her. "Yes?" "I thought you wanted to go." "I did," Anna replied softly. "But I changed my mind." "Why Anna-sama? You promised me we would go rescue her you promised!" Tamao cried. She dropped to the floor, she wanted her best friend to come back. Anna went over to her, "I know Tamao I know, but this time it not for us to interfere." She put her arms around the younger girl. "She'll be safe I know she will be." Tamao looked up with a weak smile, "I'm okay." She pushed off Anna and ran out of the Asakura's estate. "Tamao……….." Anna whispered. She hurt Tamao and she felt guilty.

Outside the Asakura's estate

Tamao cried silently, Anna promised her but now they ain't gonna do it. This just isn't fair, Kita was her best friend, Anna should have understand, at least let her go.

Tamao felt a soft breeze blowing behind. She turned around, there was Dragon looking at her with his sapphire eyes. "Dragon, you stayed behind, but why?" Dragon cocked his head at her and seemed to grin. Tamao stepped back, she was still a bit afraid of the mighty reptile. Dragon stared at her in confusion and stretched forward. She shut her eyes tight and expected Dragon to bite her but instead, she felt a slight tug at her sleeves. Dragon nudged her and motioned with his head to his back.

"You heard? " Tamao whispered questioningly. Dragon nodded. "So will you take me to Kita?" Dragon nodded again.

Dragon lowered himself so he was hovering slightly off the ground and waited for Tamao to climb on. Tamao stared for a moment and shakily reached out a hand to touch Dragon's neck and stroked it before confidently swinging her leg over his back and sitting on him. Dragon looked at her, as though he was asking "are you ready?" Tamao gulped, "Yes, we can go." He took off silently like a knife cutting through the air. Tamao squealed and grabbed hold of his mane. Dragon sighed, even though it was kind of right of him to take Kita's best friend, Horo Horo was so going get piss at him. Oh well who cares about him when you got a friend to save?

Hao's Place

'a flash of gold and orange trapped in a cage. Blue and white coils, golden eyes, a grin, red scarf, pink eyes, blue hair and a laptop.'(1)Kahiya shook her head, she knew each of them belong to a separate person she knew. 4 were very special to her. Who was the boy with golden eyes? Who was he? She cried out silently in her mind asking for more memories, who am I? Who are they? Who is that boy? But her mind remained a wall, unable to give anymore.

A slight touch at her back send Kahiya jumping backwards and falling down, she looked up to see Hao with a worried look on his face. "Dai jou bu?" Kahiya started to get up only to find that Hao was just about to sit down beside her. He put his arms around her and drew her closer to him. "Yah, I'm fine. Just thinking of something." "Oh yea?" Hao smiled and gently pulled her into his lap. "Yea." She replied leaning against his lean body. He brushed his lips against her bare shoulders, "You know you look better in a dress, stay in it." "Yea right," she replied, "but I don't really like wearing dresses, I mean this is a shoulder-less sort it only starts on the arms!" "Well you will just have to put up with it won't you?" he asked. "Don't you have any other clothes?" "No, only my own." She pushed him playfully, "Stop teasing I know there should be clothes that I have, I live with you don't I?" She started to get up but Hao pulled her down.

"Don't" Hao said. "I want you to wear that, you look absolutely beautiful." As soon as the words slipped out of his mouth, he immediately regretted it, a tint of red lined his cheeks. Kahiya turned around, "Is that why I can never find any clothes for me to wear except for dresses?" Hao nodded, going redder. She sighed, and gave in.

She thought for a moment, why did she say she hated dresses? She seemed okay with it at first, it's as though she never liked dresses in her entire life. " You will NOT MAKE ME WEAR ONE!" "YES YOU ARE GOING TO WEAR ONE, CAUSE I SAY SO AND I AM GONNA BUY ONE MYSELF." "Can't I wear pants?" What? Who was going to make who wear what? Wear one to what? can't who wear pants? Who? (2)

Hao got up, "I need to go take a bath. Would you like to join me?" He winked at Kahiya. She slapped him. He rubbed the sore side of his face, "ow, that stings a lot, I was just joking." Kahiya stared at him with a look of shock on her face, she immediately apologized, "I'm sori, I doin't know what came over me." She tenderly touched the angry red slap mark that appeared on his cheek, Hao winced. "Sori, I didn't mean to hit that hard, I didn't know I had so much strength in one slap." Hao had to grin at that, Kahiya frown at him. "Fine, fine, all you have to do is help me dry up after my bath." Kahiya looked at him, "okay then geez……"

Hao trudged off. Kahiya stared at her hands. She could have hit harder. Kahiya shook her head. What? She could have hit harder? How could she think like that? She decided to go back to the tent to tie up her hair.

Somewhere

The wind blew strongly around Phoenix and Ren as they flew on (well as Phoenix flew on). It was as though it was tugging at them to go back. Ren pressed himself flat against Phoenix's neck to prevent himself from falling.

As they traveled further and further the wind blew stronger and stronger until Phoenix was flying as strong as she could against it. "Phoenix, can't you go any faster?" /I'm a bird for kami's sake/ Phoenix gasped. /I do have feathers I can't go very far only Dragon can handle this/ "Sorry," Ren muttered. /Ren, I know you are anxious about Kita, and want to get to her as fast as possible, but I can't go against this, its like a hurricane/ Phoenix said gently, /We need to stop and wait for Dragon, can you see any caves around here/ Ren looked around, he spotted a cave. "There!" Phoenix swiftly flew towards it.

Somewhere Somewhere

"Where are we?" Tamao asked even though she knew that Dragon could not answer. Dragon paused in the air to look around. He sniffed the air trying to catch Phoenix's scent but the wind was blowing from all direction, this was definantly no ordinary breeze. He tried calling out to Phoenix. A faint voice answered, but that was all Dragon needed, he caught on with his sensitive ears and swiftly headed towards where Phoenix was.

In a cave somewhere

Ren sat by the fire, Phoenix layed nearby. He shivered. Phoenix twisted her neck around. /Ren are you okay/ "Yah, I'm fine just alittle scared." /Scared of what/ "What happen if Kita didn't actually get nabbed by Hao, what happen if she delibrately left me?" Phoenix snapped, /Tao Ren! How on earth can you think like that? Of course Kita loves you with all her heart! Shame on you, shame on you to doubt on your lover/ Ren lowered his head, "Gomen, I, I just think Kita been living with Hao for 4 years, so I guess….." He continued in a mumbled whisper. Phoenix turned her head towards the entrance, /Dragon coming. With someone else./

Dragon landed gently next to the entrance letting Tamao enter first before going in himself. "Tamao?" She reconized the voice immediately. "Ren!" Dragon went over to Phoenix and nuzzled her gently. "Tamao what are you doing here? You might get hurt, we are talking about facing Hao!" Tamao gulped, "Well Kita is my best friend and I cannot just stand there at home and wait for you and Kita to come home!" Ren smiled, "I'm glad I'm not the only one here." Dragon went outside, "Where are you going?" Ren asked. /I'm going outside to deal with the hurricane its obvious it was created by Hao./ "Ren-sama, daijobu?" he looked up "yea, don't worry about me, worry about yourself."

Dragon came back, /All done./ He said. Ren blinked, "So fast?" Tamao looked between the boy and the dragon, she was getting confused, why was Ren talking to the dragon? He must have become delusional because of Kita.

"Ready to go?"

Hao's Place

Hao came back and hugged Kahiya from behind, his hair dripping wet, quickly soaking Kahiya's dress. "Hey! I said I will help you dry your hair, but I did not say that you will give me bath!" Kahiya replied. He handed over the towel and sat in front of her. She kneeled down and gently rubbed the towel onto Hao's head, moving down onto his hair. Hao closed his eyes, no one ever done this to him before, maybe except for his real mother.

Kahiya continued, rubbing the hair trying to dry it as fast as she could, she didn't know why she had to hurry, she felt that something was going to happen soon. She squeezed the water of the hair. Suddenly another flash came back to her.

(Flashback)

She turned to find herself staring into a pair of light brown eyes. "Sorry to disturb you, my name is Nichrome." She nodded acknowledging his presence. "You dun like him do u?" he asked quietly. Her eyes widened. This guy knew her feelings? How did this guy knew? Could she be in dead trouble?

Nichrome sat down next to her and asked "You don't like him do u?" he knew that might put him in danger but he had to ask it. She nodded. "I don't." "but then why stay with him." "I have no choice." She answered. " Were you forced to marry him?" "No" "Then why?" Nichrome asked, he was desperate to know the answer. "He captured a friend of mine, a phoenix to be precise, a creature that was born from me and I cannot let her go." Nichrome wanted to comfort the girl, he wanted to put his arms around her in assurence. "GRRRRRRRRRR……" A dragon appeared. Nichrome's eyes widened. "hi Dragon." She greeted. "Don't worry he won't hurt you." She said to Nichrome. "but please whatever you do, don't tell Hao, or you might get killed." Nichrome nodded. She greeted him good night and went back to the tent.

(End of Flashback)

She remembered a name, Nichrome, where was this Nichrome? She had to find him, maybe he can help her with all these flashbacks. And why was there a Dragon? Aren't they, mythical creatures?

She peeped over Hao's shoulder, he fell asleep. She nudged him, "Hao I'm going for a walk, your hair's dry already." He lazily opened an eye, nodded and went back to sleep.

She walked towards the forest knowing that somehow whoever Nichrome was lived in there.

Somewhere

"Cmon Dragon you sure that its this way? Hao would have stayed in one place wouldn't he?" Ren urged, Dragon growled deeply inside his throat, he was getting very annoying.

In the Forest

She walked and walked not even knowing that she was walking delibrately in the same direction of Nichrome's tent. Finally she arrived at a small skin tent with smoke coming out. "errrrr………..hello?"

A boy came out, "Kita? That's you?" She blinked, 'Whose Kita, my name is Kahiya." "Oh Kami!(3) So I was right you did lose your memories Kita." "Hey your Nichrome right?" "Yes." "….." " Did Hao treat you alright?" "Hao? Of course he did, he's my fiancée, he was very gentle with me, and I like him a lot." Nichrome stared in surprise. 'That was unexpected." He thought. "But Hao forced you to stay with him!" Kahiya/Kita glared, "Well if you think that way, than fine I don't know why I came here Nichrome I thought you could help me but you didn't." And with that she left.

"This ain't good." Nichrome though grimly.

Hao's Place

Hao woke up as soon as he felt Kahiya come back to the camp. "Had a nice walk?" he asked as he circled her with his arms. "It was okay."

"HAO! KEEP YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF KITA!"


Sorry guys I knoe this story is gonna be short, but I did say that the sequels are gonna be shorter, cause I suck at them XX, i apologize once again for the long waiting! (starts bashing up her computer)

1 Anyways try and guess, its not that hard, but it you couldn't well the flash of orange and red is Phoenix, blue and white coils is Dragon, golden eyes is Ren, a grin is Yoh, red scarf is Anna, pink eyes is Tamao, blue hair is Horo Horo, the laptop…. I think we know………

2 seriously I kinda confuse myself when I reread that bit, but if you think real hard, (which is impossible for me), it makes sense

3 I think Kami is a god in japan I don't know that's what they always say, like oh god…..