A/N: Hi, I'm back…after a short while this time. I was helping my sister with her Kana story and was kind of busy with my Kanata Project, so…yeah. Also, I updated this about a week ago but it didn't come up! IT GOT DELETED! If those things weren't happening it'd've been here already. But what's passed is past, and I've forgiven them. So here you go.

Disclaimer: Kana is mine, Rin is mine, and the hyperventilating lady Kura in this chapter is mine. I own nothing else except the plot and my dignity. Wait-oops! There it goes. Never mind.


Chapter Four

Suddenly, a VERY loud bang was heard, and footsteps, and a banging on the door.

"Come in!" Kana yelled. Aniyaku rushed in. "Miss Kana! Master Haku! Trouble!"

Both Haku and Kana narrowed their eyes in perfect synchronization.

"Elaborate." Aniyaku stood for a second, clutching his chest and wheezing. "There's-there's a new costumer in the-the room-down the hall…she's-breaking every-everything and asking for-for 'Akana'…" Kana blinked. "Oh shit. Go and make sure Mikai and Toro stay in bed, and keep everyone else in their room, hurry!" Aniyaku bowed and ran off, while Haku looked at Kana. "Is it me, or do we have a second Koanaoshi?" Kana smirked. "Ha, ha, very funny. Come on."

The room mentioned was-as Haku and Kana discovered-a luxury suite. Loud crashes and bangs and screaming were heard beyond the sliding door. Kana cringed as Haku stepped forward to open the door.

Kana's P.O.V.

I was quite amazed such a young woman was creating this mad havoc. Apparently, Haku was too, just standing there staring, then blinking every three seconds. But, unfortunately, the evidence was there-pieces and pieces of broken pottery and china scattered on the floor, stains and tears on the walls and cracks just about everywhere else. The woman was standing with her back towards us, breathing deeply and haggardly. She was dressed in a fine yellow silk kimono with a white phoenix pattern on it. Her obi was lime green, matching the lining of her kimono and the length of silk draped over her shoulders. I stepped inside cautiously, and SNAP! she turned around, glaring at me with her gold-flecked amber eyes as if I just killed someone or something. I cringed, and stepped back beside Haku, who was standing there with his usual look of indifference. I copied.

"State your name and business." He intoned in a freakishly hollow voice. I blinked as the woman, who seemed no younger than 17, started screaming in a very, very high voice, "WHERE IS MY AKANA? GIVE ME BACK MY AKANA!" With a swish of silk she turned into a giant golden roc, swooping our way. We ducked, and her sharp feathers missed our heads by mere millimeters. I ran out the room, looking down the hall as the roc swooped out from behind the rails and spiraled up, searching the baths (good god, woman!) for this 'Akana' of hers. Haku stepped gingerly out of the room. "Is she the spirit of mass destruction or something? You need to see that room. She's throwing the king of hissy fits." I shot a shut-up-and-follow-her look at him and turned into my golden phoenix shape and tailing the roc, followed closely by a silvery white dragon.

Below us, I could hear screams and yells of "Master Haku and Mistress Kana can fix this!" "Don't worry!" "Go back to your rooms!" "Lord Haku and Lady Kana will protect us!" "Stop screaming!" I rolled my eyes and followed the roc as it landed on the bridge suspending over the baths, turning back into a woman. I landed, too, and turned back into my human form as my feet-claws, talons, whatever-touched the wood of the bridge, and I saw Haku do likewise. I could hear Rin yelling that if Toro goes out it'll distract me from 'saving lives', and I could also hear Lin screeching likewise. I stepped forward as she hung herself over a rail, examining a closed door. "Who are you?" I asked gently, "What do you want? Why are you wrecking everything?" She seemed to notice me for the first time, and straightened herself up. "I come from Lord Yamato's Castle in the Sky. I am his eldest daughter, Sakura-Kura, if you please-and I am here to find my younger sister. Who are you?" I blinked. O-kay… "Kana." I turned, seeing Haku come up right behind me. "Well, thanks a hell lot for answering for me. I'm not stupid." He just looked at me. I glared, and turned back to the woman. "I'm supposing this Akana is your sister."

She, however, had completely, in my opinion, lost her mind, because she all but threw herself on me, and lifted me up my by shoulder, hugging me (more like strangling) as if I were her life. "Akana! My little Akana! Come home! I need you home! Father needs you home! Mother needs you home! Shimon needs you home! Mari-" "MMMPPHHH!" Just then a green disc of light hit her in the back and I was pushed back. Before I had time to catch myself…Haku did.

Damn.

Haku's P.O.V.

I looked down at Kana, who was swept up bridal-style in my arms. She had a bruise on her left arm, and her fiery eyes were glaring holes into me. I smiled. "Are you okay?"

"Do I look okay?"

"Yeah."

"HOW!"

"You're safe enough."

"Hmph."

I looked back to Kura, who was glaring with equal ferocity. "Give me back my Akana!" He smirked. "Not a chance, my lady." She roared, lunging for me. I jumped, throwing another disc. She transformed into that roc again, and sped towards me rapidly. I slammed myself flat on the bridge, slamming Kana down with me. When I rose, holding/supporting Kana in/on my right arm, the roc was trying not to slam into the female department. She failed.

My first reaction: Yes! Ha-ha.

My second reaction: Wait…the female department?

My third reaction: Oh shit.

Sure enough, the screaming Yuna and (female) lesser spirits that worked in the baths department came screaming out, making a mad dash for who-knows-where. The roc turned and aimed for me again, and I jumped up, floating in midair. Unfortunately, I forgot about my sister figure. One of the bird's damnable steel-tipped feathers tore into her left leg, and she yelled out in pain. I swooped down and drew her up in bridal style again, examining her wound. "Shit." Even worse, she was unconscious. Therefore, she can't jump around to shift the wind against the roc's wings.

And then she sees me. Of all times, it had to be now, didn't it?

"Haku?" I looked down and saw Sarai looking up at me with those soft blue-gray eyes. Idea. I rushed down, laying Kana on the wood floor gently. Her face was peaceful, yet she was hardly breathing. I wonder why-ah. I saw the puddle of blood she dripped on the bridge. I looked at Sarai. "Mikai. Take care of her for me for a second, okay?" She looked at me quizzically. "Who is she?" Okay. Think, Haku, think. She can't be family, she looks too unlikely…but she has to be close, very close. Oh damn…only option- "She's my fiancée, Mikai. Will you look after her?" I could have sworn her face fell, but she smiled and nodded. With that in mind, I zoomed after the roc. "Akana! What did you do with my Akana?" "I don't have your Akana. I had my Kana. And you injured her." Without notice, I raised my hand and a torpedo of water shot out, hitting the roc square in the chest.

And that's when Yubaba decided to drop in. "You, boy," she snapped, "Where's Kana?" "With Mikai, wounded, bleeding." I snapped back. "Go take care of her. I'll deal with this oversized chickadee." I sighed, and transformed into my dragon form. Suddenly, from behind me, I heard, "No damn way."

Sarai's P.O.V.

Haku had a fiancée? Since when? I looked quietly down at the girl lying in front of me. She had waist-long raven hair sprayed around her body. She had on a white haori with long, large sleeves tied at the middle with a violet ribbon and lavender colored, puffy bottoms. I quickly ripped off a part of her sleeves and bandaged the wound. And then I ripped off the bottom part of her haori and bandaged over the bandage. I ripped a length off the other sleeve and neatly covered the bandage. I looked up, seeing Haku throw a disc at the giant gold bird that crushed my bedroom. Suddenly, I felt a twitch, and looked down just as the other girl's ruby eyes snapped open. I bit back a scream. She sat up and looked at me. "Sarai, you do pretty damn good bandaging." I blinked. "How do you know my name?" She winked at me. "I know lots. Now where the hell is that dragon-" Suddenly she blinked. "Wait…how did I get here? We're not on the bridge…" "Your fiancé brought you here." I answered quickly. She blinked. "Fiancé?" I smiled. "Haku, your fiancé!" Her eyes narrowed. She mumbled something and stood up, leaning over the rail.

I heard Yubaba's yell of: "Go take care of her. I'll deal with this oversized chickadee." The girl growled. "NO DAMN WAY!"

I watched in surprise as the girl erupted in flames, resurfacing seconds later as a golden phoenix. Haku, in dragon, form look back, surprised. The phoenix swooped over the roc, surrounded by fire. I heard Haku curse, and, surprisingly, tackle the phoenix. "Kana! Snap out of it!" So that was her name. Kana means white flower. Well, she doesn't seem much of a white flower to me. The fire around Kana disappeared, and Yubaba threw a glowing green thing at the roc. It screeched, diving, before orbs of blue, red and green-gold hit it all at the same time. I stood, gaping, as the orbs turned into a cage, engulfing the roc. "Mikai! Let's get out of here!" Rin grabbed me, and the last thing I saw before being dragged away was the roc turning into a beautiful young lady with dark hair and amber-flecked eyes, and Yubaba using a glowing finger to remove a tiny black smog cloud from the young woman's back.

This place is getting weirder by the second.


Kana's P.O.V.

From what I've gathered so far from Haku, I got this wound from a feather, Mikai took care of me, The Fire erupted and we defeated the Darcloud that was on Kura's back. Apparently, she had heard news of a girl looking exactly like her sister in the bathhouse, and when she was descending the Darcloud caught onto her. She must be powerful if the Darcloud is attracted to her.

Yubaba had relented to Lady Kura's pleas and allowed her to come visit me.

She looked ay me sadly. I was getting uneasy, but suddenly she spoke. "I do believe you are my sister. She went missing a few months ago. Tell, pray you, what your favorite color is?"

"Lavender."

"Age?"

"Eleven."

"When did you get here?"

"Haku tells me I came a few months ago when I crashed on the bridge. He doesn't remember my real name anymore, but he swore he saw me somewhere else. He doesn't remember that either."

"Yet I remember him. How strange."

"…"

She sighed.

"You definitely don't remember anything?"

"About what?"

"Your childhood."

"No…"

"Well, if you're Akana, you have two sisters and four brothers. Your other sister is Hikari. Your brothers are Shimon, Marion, Turin and Yukito. Your mother is Nadeshiko of Young Spring and your father is Yamato God of the Sky."

I listened, fascinated. "How are they now?" She sighed sadly.

"Mother lies on her bed and cries half the day. Father blames himself for not allowing you freedom because of the Fire. Shimon refuses to marry and insists on looking for you day and night. Marion and Turin are still training and are fine, but they hide their sadness. Yukito feels like dying."

I winced. If I were this Akana, I'd hate myself to death. Kura went on:

"Since Akana was not allowed to leave the castle grounds, the gardeners had created a circular field of a one-mile radius filled with lilies, roses, tulips, dragon snaps, every kind of flower there was. There was a marble platform in the middle, canopied by cherry trees. A path lined with silver bushes led up to it. A silver-and-gold fountain was in the middle, and in front of it was a plush settee, silver and purple. Akana wound lie there to think in peace. We called the place White Sanctuary, though it was far from white with all those flowers creating little pictures of everything she liked. Nowadays Hikari just lies there and blanks out. I think she even sleeps there; if so she locks her bedroom door and pulls the velvet curtains closed in White Sanctuary. She allows no one to tend to the flowers but does so herself. She let vines grow around the columns of the gazebo Marion built for her underneath the cherry trees. It's so beautiful now, and she's still hoping you-I mean, Akana would come back to see it."

I sniffed. I hoped I wasn't Akana. That would be awful. "Well," I started, "I help you look when I can. I'm sure you'll find her." "I'm afraid I already have," she whispered, "And that she doesn't remember. But thank you, Kana."

She stood to leave. "I'm not sure if you noticed this, but your name means White Flower. Akana's name meant White Lily. They are very close in meaning." And she left, leaving me to worry over her family-but mainly Hikari.

Little did I know I'd be meeting her a bit too soon.


A/N: Well, here we are! R&R, please. You see that little scroll-down at the bottom left corner? Scroll to 'Submit Review' and click 'Go', and give me your opinion on this chapter or the rest of the story.

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