Sry about the long wait, but heres chpt 17, this one is loaded with some heavy past explainations and if you're confused feel free to ask cuz ill be more than happy to explain! I'm not sure if i alrdy mentioned this and im too lazy to go check.............just wanted to let you know that finally the name dispute for the former character known as Luna has finally been changed to Mina officially!

The girls and their families to refresh your brains!

---Satori Irerno: 17 year old girl. Light moon silver hair that ends about mid back and fairly long bangs that end a bit before the bottom of her chin framing her face. Mercury eyes that can change to an amber color.

Tsurina Irerno: 38 years old.Fiery curly red hair and hazel eyes.Mother of Satori and Atomsk. Husband is deceased.

---Kira Efimia: 17 years old. Wild pure blonde hair with blood red streaks that ends below her shoulder blades and messy bangs. Blue grey eyes.

Mai Efimia: 38 years old. Straight blonde hair with neat bangs an inch above her eye brows and cool blue eyes. Kira's mother.

Chaz Efimia:40 year old male. Rugged ash brown hair and pale grey eyes.Fairly muscular and tall. Kira's father.

---Loreli Ningumi: 17, straight dirty blonde hair that ends a bit below her shoulders, no bangs. Bluish almost teal eyes that can change within four shades depending on how she feels.

Cordelia Ningumi:40 years old. Semi wavy dirty blonde hair ending a bit before reaching her shoulders. Dark blue eyes and wears glasses.Mother of Loreli.

Todd Ningumi: 39 years old. Fox red hair and rustic sea blue eyes. Loreli's father.

---Eiji Mujaki: 17 years old. Fawn colored light brown hair ending mid back withwispy side bangs framing her face. Bright greeneyes.

Melinda Mujaki: 40 years old. Shoulder length dark brown hair with minor wisps of grey with the ends curled inward. Green eyes and wears glasses. Eiji's mother.

Claude Mujaki: 42 years old. Short Coacoa brown hair with a receding hairline. Light blue eyes and also wears glasses. Eiji's father.

Belle Mujaki: 13 years old. Short coacoa brown hair ending above her shoulders and darkemerald eyes. Eiji 's younger sister.

Brenna Mujaki: 20 years old. Shoulder length brown hair hair and bright blue eyes. Eiji's older sister.

---Sonson Anamari: 17 years old. Shortest out of the girls. Really short purple hair in the back butgets longer as it gets to her face. In the front her hair reaches about three inches under her chin. A lighter shade of purple eyes with three different shades of purple circling her pupils.

Korinn Anamari: 40 years old.Curlyfushia/purple hair ending right below her shoulders. Light brown eyes. Sonson's mother.

Rod Anamari: 41 years old. Rustic brown hair styled in a mullet. Violet eyes. Sonson's dad.

Tozu Anamari: 14 years old. Short rusty colored hair. Brownish purple eyes. Sonson's younger brother.

---Mina Sinclair: 17 years old. Semi curly orangy/red hair with blonde highlights which reached to her waist. Hazel eyes.

Roslin Sinclair: 39 years old. Curly red hair about mid back. brown eyes.

David Sinclair: 39 years old. Has a mix of light and dark brown hair and also has a mustache. brown eyes.

Holly Sinclair: 12 years old. Red/brown hair and brown eyes. Mina's younger sister.

Michael Sinclair: 14 years old. Dark brown hair and hazel eyes. Mina's younger brother.

Ta da! There's all the girls' familes. now here's the story. REVIEW!


Chapter 17:

"SATORI! WHERE ARE YOU!" Kira's hands were cupped around her mouth as she shouted. She had gone over the bridge and had been walking the dirt trail, but yet she still had found no sign of Satori.

She gasped as a sudden strong wind blew by and sent chills down her spine despite the warm temperature. She held her hair out of her face as she squinted through the petals that were raining down for any sign of Satori. She looked farther up ahead. The dirt trail continued up with a forested area to the left and a grassy field to the right. This continued until the trail went up a mildly steep hill and up to a road. Kira frowned as she watched several cars pass by, going both directions and leaving the sharp vroom sound as they passed.

She sighed and ran a hand through her hair, "Man, I don't want to walk a damn marathon…"

Her hands fell at her sides and she looked around dully. She then turned around and started to walk back at a very slow pace. Her hands began curling into tight fists.

She looked up at the sky frowning (I wonder where she went off to. Why does she always have to go off somewhere? I wouldn't be wasting my time looking for her if she would have just stayed with us. Damn loner, I wouldn't be surprised if this was the last time I saw her, she left once and who's to say she won't do it again. Guess we weren't a good enough reason for her to stay.)

Kira growled angrily. She was mad at her, Satori. She was mad at her beyond belief. But she was too happy that she was back to show it, and not to mention she was afraid if she did show it, it might drive Satori away. But she still was angry. Angry at her for making her cry like that. Angry at her for making her feel so lost and alone, unwanted and hopeless. Since they had met, they had been great friends, and with everything they had overcome, the bond grew incredibly strong. It was their pain that had brought them together as young children. Two people who had found each other in the dark. They had such a surprising understanding for each other; they could almost read the others thoughts. But now Kira had no idea what was going through the head of the silver haired girl. Something was different now and she couldn't figure out just what exactly it was.

Kira and Satori loved their other friends greatly too, but all of them had their secrets. Even though they all had been buds since childhood, they still had things they had yet to share with each other. Perhaps it was because everyone has their deep dark secrets they never reveal to anyone, maybe due to fear of revealing themselves was the reason. Fear of being rejected for those secrets, fear of just the thought that someone knows such potentially incriminating things about you, and if the trust was misplaced, they could ruin your life if they told anyone else.

Even Kira and Satori had things they did not share with each other, but it wasn't because they were in fear of the other's betrayal. They knew the other wouldn't do such a thing. It took a tremendous amount of courage to tell those things to a close friend, and it was harder than you would think to summon the courage to do it. It may be easy to stand up to the bully at school, or maybe the gull to try a new weird looking food, but summoning the courage to reveal something potentially relationship threatening to a friend, it was far more difficult than you would think.

To find unconditional loyalty and friendship in the world today was as rare as finding unconditional love. Total trust between two beings was a difficult but beautiful thing to gain, and though Kira and Satori had achieved that before, now in Kira's mind, the trust she had confided in Satori was starting to waver. There was a new hidden glimmer in Satori's eyes, and for some reason it made the hairs on the back of her neck stand on end.

In the past Kira kept her darkest secrets out of fear Satori's view of her would change. There was always that hidden fear, each one of them was afraid to be totally open, each one was afraid to be rejected.

Kira just kept her deeper thoughts to herself despite the little voice in the back of her head telling her she knew better than to doubt Satori's loyalty. Hell once you truly won Satori over, and this was a fairly challenging thing to do, the girl would show you more loyalty and love then you would think she was capable of. But Kira just couldn't do it even though she wanted to strengthen her bonds with Satori. But then it seemed all things died when she left, and then after awhile, they were all reborn.

Now she figured if she could still have great relationships with her friends whom she knew all concealed things from her also, and who never pried to find out her own secrets, then why should she have to try and make things better when things were great as they were. As the old saying goes, 'If it's not broken don't fix it.'

They may not have known every fine detail about each other, but they knew enough to make an incredible bond between the lot of them. Each one of them was unique and special, and by just being there, they had unknowingly saved each other numerous times.

Kira smiled sadly. It was kind of funny how pain could be a reason people befriended one another. But those dark times had passed, Kira had nearly learned to forget the past, and then Satori left. Kira remembered that terrible day well. It was three days after Atomsk had left, three days after the day Satori was found in the middle of the street that morning, curled up into a tight ball sobbing horrendously. Kira had been there; the image of Satori curled up so tightly, horrid sobs racking her small frame, was an image she could never forget.

The Past

After running around the house like mad searching for her daughter and son, Tsurina Irerno began frantically making phone calls. The first call she made was to Sora Albatou's home.

The phone rang four times and a semi sleepy Sora answered, "Albatou residence." The almost wispy and smooth voice stated.

Tsurina's voice was frantic and distressed, "Oh thank god Sora. Please tell me, is Satori or Atomsk there?!"

Sora sensed the distress in her friend's voice and immediately rose from bed, "I shall see if they are here."

She put on a soft blue robe and hurried over to Dilandau's room. Everything was dark still and he was asleep. She rushed over and gently shook him by the shoulders, "Dilandau, is Satori here? Have you seen her?"

A young Dilandau groaned and sat up rubbing his eyes, "Wha? No, why…"

Sora smiled grimly, "Ok, you may go back to sleep." She kissed him on his pale forehead and retreated from his room.

Dilandau knew something was wrong and got up as his mother left his room quickly, shutting the door behind her as she left.

Sora picked up the phone again and sighed, "I am sorry, but they aren't here."

Tsurina bit her lower lip, "Thank you anyways Sora."

Sora knew Tsurina was about to hang up, "Wait! What's going on? Did something happen?"

"Neither of them were in their beds. I don't know where they are! I checked the whole house! I must go now, thank you!" Tsurina hung up and searched over her address book hurriedly.

"Loreli? No, she's at camp. Eiji and Sonson are away on a trip as well… Then that leaves Kira!" Tsurina entered Kira's number as fast as her fingers could move.

The phone rang five times before Mai answered, "Hello?"

"Mai! Thank goodness!"

"Tsurina?"

"YES! Please, is Satori or Atomsk there?"

Mai carefully got out of bed so she wouldn't disturb her husband, and made her way out of her room. She knew something was up, "What's going on that you'd think they'd be here?"

"They're gone! I looked everywhere! Are they there? Or at least one of them?"

Mai opened Kira's door and peered in. She shook her daughter until she woke up, "What mom! I'm trying to sleep here…"

"Do you have any idea of where Satori might be? Don't lie this is important."

Kira's eyes widened despite her tiredness, "Why? Did something happen! What's going on!"

"Answer me."

"No, I don't. Now tell me what's up!"

"She and her brother are missing."

"What?"

Mai got up and headed downstairs and paced, "They wouldn't just leave without telling you would they? That's not like them."

Tsurina fell onto the couch in the living room and stared out the front windows and rubbed her temples, "No, they wouldn't. That's why I'm afraid…" Tsurina's eyes caught something lying in the middle of the road. She was overcome with fear when she realized what it was, "OH MY GOD! SATORI!!" She dropped the phone and rushed outside.

Mai was getting scared, "Tsurina? TSURINA!" Mai cursed and hung up the phone. She grabbed her jacket and keys and headed for the door. Kira, who had been listening to the conversation on another phone, put her shoes on and grabbed a sweatshirt as she ran downstairs. Her mom saw her, "Kira? Go back to bed!"

Kira had a determined and worried face, "I'm coming too! Let's go!"

Mai nodded in submission and they both headed out the door for the car.

Tsurina rushed to the middle of the road and fell to her knees. It was Satori, curled up into a tiny ball, sobbing furiously. Tsurina scanned over her limp form and then tried to scoop her daughter into her arms, but Satori wouldn't let her touch her.

"Satori what's wrong! What happened?! Where's your brother!" With that she cried even harder. Again she tried taking her in her arms but she refused to be touched.

By that time Kira and her mother had come and pulled off to the side of the road and hopped out of the car. Kira dropped to her knees beside Satori as well, "Satori! Satori! What's wrong with you!" She tried shaking her but she didn't stop crying and Kira had never seen Satori cry.

Satori managed to choke out a few words, "Ato', he….(sob) He left! He's gone…he's not coming back…. he left!"

Tsurina's eyes widened as her eyes began to glisten with unshed tears.. She knew why he had left, Atomsk had talked with her about it the previous night but she had to be strong so she refused to cry, "Atomsk, what have you done…"

Tsurina took Satori into her arms and picked her up even though she struggled. She thanked Mai and Kira for coming and took Satori back into the house with Mai and Kira following behind.

Satori was sitting in the big chair in the living room with a blanket over her; She stared blankly into space as silent tears spilled from her eyes. Mai was with Tsurina and Sora talking in the kitchen. Sora had come over a few minutes after they had gone inside leaving Dilandau at home. Sora and Mai comforted their friend as best as they could while Tsurina tried to compose herself so she could talk to her daughter.

Kira stared at her friend from her sitting position on the footrest of the big chair.

(She looks so empty…) Kira placed a hand on Satori's shoulder, "Hey, You know what? I think that we-"

10-year-old Kira couldn't finish before someone burst through the front door panting. The voice was loud and demanding. And not to mention it sounded irritated, "Where is he! Where's Atomsk! I need to speak with him right NOW!" The owner of the voice growled and stormed into the living room. Kira and Satori stared at the girl. The girl was around 19 years old. She had crazy and frantic yellow eyes and peachy orange hair that ended at her shoulders.

She scowled at Kira and her attention was turned to Satori, "Sa! Where's your brother!"

Satori glared at Raharu for talking to her with such familiarity. Raharu was one of Satori's older friends. Well, one of her crazy, deranged, older friends. Well, actually Satori used to consider her as a friend, but Raharu had used Satori shamelessly to get close to her brother. They had become enemies, being as that Atomsk was involved with criminal activity, gang violence, and not to mention some murders and hacker pirating. Raharu though very young for her age, had managed to get into the FBI's special criminal unit with some help from her father.

It all started when not too long ago she was promised a nice promotion if she was able to capture a highly wanted criminal that seemed impossible to track down because he covered his tracks and protected himself with precise and mind blowing hacking skills. Her boss gave her the assignment, and as it would turn out, she was assigned to hunt down "The Pirate King''. The FBI had been trying to bring him in for some time and if Raharu could nab him, she would definitely get that grand promotion. She was thrilled and once she got an assignment, she didn't stop until it was completed, using any means necessary.

Until after extensive solo investigating, did things get complicated. For the first time during her career she was posed with a choice. She discovered that her would be target; the infamous "Pirate King" was none other than Atomsk Irerno. How did she find out it was him? You see Raharu had known and had been considerably close to Irerno family in the past, mainly Satori before she went into the FBI. So she also was quite familiar with Satori's brother Atomsk.

One day while investigating his latest hack job, she traced and found a barely notable data trail. The data link was very small and very well hidden and had yet to seal itself, but Raharu had managed to briefly analyze it before its programming caused it to self delete. The piece of data she found was a small signature crest that was a gorgeous red phoenix with a pierced nose. A signature crest is the personal image a hacker used to label their work. Kind of like the way each different company labels their products with their own logo.

To anyone else the little sliver of data would be worthless since everyone already knew that the mark of the Pirate King was either the odd little circular symbol or the phoenix. But Raharu being Raharu didn't bother to fully read the entire report and only actually looked at the parts that she thought were important. Which meant she didn't look at the part showing what his signature crest was. This leads us to how she managed to figure out that the "Pirate King" was actually Satori's older brother. If you knew Atomsk or had seen him shirtless, which Raharu had seen him stalk through his house shirtless from time to time when she had stayed over, you would know that on his back is a fairly large tattoo of a phoenix, the very same phoenix the "Pirate King" used as his signature crest.

Her choices: Use this piece of knowledge which revealed just who the pirate king was and bring him down which in turn would mean betraying old friends and gain success, or stay on the case and make sure no one ever found out who the "Pirate King" really was and protect their family. Raharu chose in favor of self-gain and betrayal.

How could she give up the opportunity when the pirate king himself was right under her nose and she just so happened to be friends with his family? Her plan was to get even closer with the Irerno's and then take him down. She tricked Atomsk with her connection to Satori and almost got him killed while trying to bring him in. Raharu's sorry excuse was that she was doing her job. Once everyone found out the truth Raharu was condemned to never show her face again. And once you betrayed the Irerno's you dared not even look at them. Due to that incident, Atomsk had to go into hiding and could only visit his family secretly.

"Where is he! You tell me where he is and everything will go smooth! You know where he's hiding!" Raharu now stood over the children.

Satori growled and shot to her feet, "Why don't you just leave him alone! You just can't stop can you! You don't even know when you've crossed the line! You can't just go around controlling and manipulating whenever you want and expect everything to be ok! How dare you show your face here! You're nothing but a self centered bitch! How does it feel to know that all you've got is a nice little promotion and badge! I hope when you start paying for what you've done, you get hurt so bad you'll rot away knowing that things are the way they are because you made them that way! I hope you get used over and over and then discarded like trash! I HATE YOU! You made my brother leave! I hate you! "

Raharu stood there stunned. She had never seen such a young child radiate with so much raw hate and malice. But that wasn't the worst part…no… what really destroyed Raharu's cool and control over herself were Satori's eyes. They burned like mercury fire, and then they changed to metallic amber, identical to Atomsk's eyes but the only difference was that around Satori's pupils was an extremely light ring that looked like it was glowing, making it so that you lost yourself in the black abyss.

Raharu could only stare into her eyes, her Vespa helmet slowly slipping out of her white-gloved hand until it fell to the floor with a thunk and then rolled onto its side. She remembered when those eyes had once looked at her with admiration and awe. Satori had looked up to her, but not anymore though. She no longer felt the welcoming warmth the people in this house once showed her. She wondered that if she were to die, would anyone come to her funeral? Maybe some of her colleagues, her father, and some of the people who might have been affected by one of the fugitives she had brought in and felt they owed her thanks. None of them she really gave a damn about. Her colleagues were too stingy and serious; she hated her father, and the other people she didn't give a damn about.

She wanted someone who genuinely cared about her to mourn for her. She suddenly realized that no one really gave a damn about her; she was looked upon as the manipulating bitch that would turn on you in a second if it meant her success. She heard what they said about her at work. Her father despised her and thought she was an annoying blemish on his name. The only reason he tolerated her was because she was his only daughter, and if he tried anything she'd blackmail him in a heartbeat. So basically the only ones who did once upon a time care she ended up betraying and now they hated her. Suddenly she wished Satori would never have to look at anyone the way she was glaring at her ever again. She wished she would look at her with adoration and mischievousness like she did before all this, before…well, Raharu ended up using herself.

By now both Tsurina, Sora, and Mai had stormed into the living room.

Mai glared at the older girl with her fists curled. Sora moved to stand beside the chair the girls were in, ready in a second to defend them. And Tsurina, she had her fists curled ready to kill the shameless whelp who was the cause of this. Tsurina walked over to Raharu positioning herself protectively in front of Kira and Satori, "What are you doing in my house Raharu!" she hissed.

Raharu looked at her, noticing how intimidating the woman could really be. She frowned and managed to make herself appear as authoritive as she could, "Well, just for the record Ms. Irerno. Your son killed an entire business committee, and somehow managed to hack into their hidden accounts and take everything!"

Satori glared, "Oh yea! I bet he had good reasons!"

Raharu shot Satori a menacing look, "128th block downtown on Richter's avenue! Giovanni incorporated, when we got to the scene after the call, it was a mess. Your brother and his cronies went in up to the top floor and murdered everyone. After doing a thorough scan, we also found out they had hacked into the president's account and the other executives' and took everything. I am not allowed to reveal all the details, but to say the least Atomsk is in deep trouble, and by not telling me where he is, you are withholding information from government authorities. Don't make me arrest the lot of you. Atomsk was only bringing your family down! Turn him in! Don't-"

Raharu was abruptly cut off by a punch from an enraged Satori.

Raharu stared wide-eyed at her, putting a hand to her tender cheek as Satori lowered hers to her sides, "Don't talk about my brother like you know him. You don't! And to let you know, he left! HE'S GONE! I watched him go! He's not coming back!"

Raharu's eyes widened in surprise, "Gone?! What do you mean?!"

Satori was livid as she trembled with rage, "Oh what a big disappointment that is! Now who are you going to turn in to become chief officer and detective!"

Those words hurt Raharu a bit more than she would have liked. She felt her legs starting to buckle and felt a bit panicky as she looked at everyone in the room. And if looks could kill, Raharu would have been massacred. She slumped into the black leather recliner. Trying to make some sense out of what was going on.

The realization had hit her fairly hard. Atomsk had left, which had to be pretty huge if he was leaving his own family! The one thing he cared for above all else. It was now she wished she could've gone back in time and changed everything. All that 'family and friends are more important than work' junk she deemed and worthless bullshit seemed to be laughing in her face. Once she thought about it, there wasn't much she cared about, the only things she did care about was money, being better than everyone else, being powerful, and a few minutes ago, bringing in Atomsk once and for all. Raharu put a hand to her forehead and looked at everyone again, but this time more critically.

Tsurina used to smile when she saw Raharu at her door, hell, the older woman even took her under her wing and to Raharu became like the mother she never had. Now the usually crazy and proud warrior woman was showing the almost legendary fiery temper and wrath the female side of the family possessed, looking like she was two seconds away from lunging at Raharu and breaking her neck to silence her forever.

Raharu looked over to Kira's mother Mai. Raharu used to take Kira and Satori places together all the time and Mai had trusted her enough to allow Kira to go, thus putting her daughter in Raharu's care. Mai was always very polite to her, and currently, the usually friendly and moral blonde looked more than willing to assist Tsurina in whatever way she could, even if it meant holding Raharu down while Tsurina proceeded to beat the living daylights out of her.

Her gaze then fell on the long white haired woman who was wearing a simple maroon button up dress with a wine colored blouse on underneath it. Raharu did not know this lady but she had seen her a few times and knew her to be the mother of one of Satori's male friends. Raharu guessed that on a normal day this woman had a calm and wise elegance about her, however this was no normal day, and right now the woman was staring at her with hateful distaste, and from the way she stood by the children protectively, she apparently thought of Raharu as a threat, and if the situation called for it, this woman would see to it that this threat in particular could never threaten anything again.

Raharu shivered when she looked to the children. Kira was standing beside Satori, eyes narrowed and teeth bared. Raharu had to admit the girl did look like a hell cat ready to send her just there, hell. And once again Raharu's neon eyes moved to Satori, and she imagined this must be what Atomsk looked like when he was truly and whole heartedly angry. And Raharu was sure that if he was here he would be looking at her the very same way, standing by his pack.

Raharu couldn't help but smile sadly, all these people in front of her were a strong and powerful pack. Three beautiful and strong females ready to fight for their young and their honor. Ready to kill this intruder who dared to step into their territory and cause such havoc. All five of them, Raharu thought, looked so glorious just then. She wondered what the males would have done to her if they were present. She felt like the outsider who was being banished from her tribe. Perhaps if she had tried a little harder, this could have been her pack, they would have protected her, nourished her, but she ended up jading herself. And now she would try to repent for what she did, because she knew she could never be forgiven. These females would never forget what she did, it would be forever etched in the depths of their memories.

Raharu felt like crying but she didn't, instead it was a mix of being in awe of this 'Pack' in front of her, shame for how stupid she was, and then sadness for what she could have had, but lost. Raharu hated feeling weak, and that's exactly how she felt, weak, vulnerable, unwanted. All those things she had ridiculed and deemed beneath her, she wished she could have those things now. She wished she had the support and love these people had. But because of everything she had done, they looked upon her with no sympathy what so ever. She had gotten herself into this mess. But now because of her own selfishness, she would have no help getting out from the people who had once meant so much to her, and at one point cared for her in return.

"I-I am truly sorry, sorry that it only now that I realize all I have caused, all I have done… has destroyed so many things, I know you all must think I'm pretty pathetic and that I'm just making up stupid excises. All of this was for a stupid job, a stupid job that has made me lose everything worth anything. I apologize to you all. I'll be honest with you, though I know I will never have any of your trust again, I have never really cared about anything worth while. But now after seeing you, I know what I'm missing… All my walls have come crashing down and I don't even know what I want anymore, except to have what you all have. I don't even know what I'm doing. But I'll repent since I know I'll never be seen with the same light ever again by any of you. Again I apologize for fucking everything all up." With that she stood. But she noticed that Satori wasn't on the chair. She heard the front door slam and she knew where she had gone.

She bolted from the living room after her. She couldn't lose the one thing she had left of Atomsk. The least she could do was protect Satori, she was so dear to Ato' and Raharu knew that it must have killed him to leave her.

She burst out the door to chase after her.

Kira sat there staring with so many thought barreling through her young mind.

Three Day's later

"She's, she's gone?!" Kira's hands were trembling as she continued reading the letter she found lying on her desk.

Dear Kira,

Sorry about all of this mess I had gotten you caught up in. You've been the greatest friend I could have ever wished for. So have all the others. I thank you for all you've done for me. My mother and me appreciate everything everyone has done for us. But you see we have to go away. I don't know how long. I don't know anything… but we're going there, we have to. If we don't, you all will be in danger, just as we are. I hope our paths cross again, I don't know if they will but if I get the chance I'll be there again. You are all my pack, and we'd do anything for you. Please, tell them all. I am only sorry I could not tell you all myself… I'm going to miss the lot of you so much! I'll never forget you guys, I'll always remember. I just hope that you don't forget me. But please don't confuse this as a goodbye letter. No, that is not what this is. This is an 'I'll see you soon' letter. I promise I'll return one day. I love you guys! Not even the ocean can keep me away. For now we have to protect our pack, when the danger is gone, we'll be back, I'll always come back. I promise.

-Satori Irerno

Kira's eyes were harboring tears as she collapsed to her bedroom floor and sobbed. It had only been three days after Raharu had chased Satori when she ran out of the house. Kira now wished that she had gone after them because maybe it was then that this 'something' happened to cause her to leave. She hated Raharu now, it was probably her fault they had to leave, but she was gone too. Raharu was gone. So was Satori, so was Tsurina, and Atomsk. They were all gone. Later that day Kira had walked down to Satori's. She nearly felt her heart fall out of her chest when she walked through the barren house. It looked as if no one had ever lived there. No trace. Like they were ghosts or figments of her own imagination. And that had made Kira wonder, were they real? Or had it been some hallucination or dream? It had to be; after all, so many people had interacted with them. This danger Satori spoke of, Kira figured that was why they had to leave no trace. So it wouldn't find them. Kira wanted so many questions answered, but no one could help her with that problem.

It was two days after that she had informed all of the others and she showed them the note. Some cried, some frowned and held back emotions, some were just blank, and some were just sorry they hadn't told her things they had longed to tell her. But Kira hadn't told them about Raharu, only the things to help explain the situation. Kira cried for days after that, and she felt so terrible. It was hard for her, but her friends helped her through it. They were all suffering. Chesta, despite his own depression, had comforted her the majority of the time. All of her friends helped her get by. After a few years all of them started to change. Dilandau seemed to be effected pretty badly by Satori's absence even though many of the others had managed to get over it to some extent or hide it. He started drinking heavily and got into all sorts of trouble but he started straightening up after his mother kept him home from school for a week to talk. Migel, Dallet, Gatti, Viole, and Guimel's range of sadness varied with the relationship each one had with Satori. The girls acted fine on the outside but they too were changing with the years. Sonson had gone into a guy craze. Loreli started to not trust anyone, sadly she started having doubts about her own friends' trust. Eiji was doing her best to keep everyone upbeat and together, but she too frowned more than usual. And Kira well, she hated everything with a passion. At the very mention of Satori's name she snapped and went ballistic.

They all had matured a great sum. But each of them wondered every passing day about the circumstances of Satori's leaving. It was just too odd and so much was left unexplained. But they eventually got over it and moved on. It's not like she was dead or anything…even though it may have seemed that way. No calls, letters, emails, no nothing.

Present

Kira sighed. That day was unforgettable. So much anger she had inside her. But maybe now some things could be answered. She had been wanting answers for the last 6 years.

Kira smiled grimly, "Well she's back now… so it…it should go back to the way it was when we were all happy…. or will it…what the hell am I saying, it won't be exactly the way it was…"

Kira looked to her right when she heard someone curse. It was Satori's voice. Kira bolted into the woods in the direction of the voice's source.

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That was really long wasn't, i spent a lot of time editing it too. You know what's a good soundtrack? Ghost in the Shell stand alone complex. Gets me in the writing mode, so does Daft Punk discovery! How's everyone doing? Good X-mas? Good food?

In a neighborhood where the girls and slayers all live on xmas eve

Loreli, Kira, and Satori are all walking around the neighborhood looking at all the decorated houses until they stop by Dilandau's house, which has utterly nothing on it at all.

Kira: "Hah! Figures"

Loreli: "Well, he's certainly Grinchy"

Dilandau: "(walks out of his house to get the mail and notices the girls) What are you three gawking at?"

Satori: "Your beautiful decorationless house!"

Dilandau: "(sneers) Im not wasting my time putting all that shit up,just to takeit down again!"

Kira: "Hah! You gotta be kidding me! This is too frickken hilarious! (starts laughing)"

Loreli: "(slaps her forehead) Come now Dilandau! Show your Christmas spirit!"

Satori: " Show us your stuff! Or we could always come by every night singing Cristmas carols!"

Dilandau: "(snorts and stalks back into his house. Then after a few minutes he returns sporting a four foot long red light up candy cane and stakes it into his yard) There happy now! (turns around and goes back into his house mumbling)"

The girls start cracking up.