(Lidia-If I name the chapter side story, it's because nothing major (important) happened that day. It's just…life. But I will probably reference it so you should still read! Don't whine!)

The Legendary Knight: Side story

Kai ran up and jumped on Sasame's back. He almost fell forward but straightened himself. "Hey. Don't surprise me like that."

Kai wrapped her arms around his neck and leaned in to one side of his face. "I'm bored, Sasame. I can't even stay in my room by myself. They don't want anyone to be walking around alone during this red alert or high alert thing."

"High alert."

"Who cares? The important thing is that I have nothing to do."

"You can help Kei with work."

"Work? No way!"

"You can come with me to work."

"You work?"

"Yes, I do."

"Oh. Alright. I don't have to walk, do I?"

"I'd appreciate it."

"Then I guess that means no! Now walk!"

Sasame sighed and walked down the path leading out of lefaenia.

-

After about two hours, Sasame walked out of the radio room. "I hope I didn't take that long. I-" Sasame looked down at her. She was curled up over the armrest of the couch, sleeping. Her mouth was partially open, revealing those pearly with teeth of hers, and she had the same curly strip of hair hanging in her peaceful face. Sasame didn't really want to wake her up. I guess we should get going. Sasame softly rubbed her shoulder. "Kai, Get up."

Kai rubbed her eyes, then looked at him with half open eyes. "I fell asleep? I'm sorry."

"It's alright," Sasame smiled while helping her up. "Climb on," Sasame said mostly lifting her onto his back since she was too tired to jump. "Are you hungry?" Kai nodded her head. "Good. We're stopping by the restaurant where Goh and Mannen work to eat.

"Kay," Kai replied softly.

-

"Hey, guys. What are you doing here?" Goh greeted with a smile.

"Why else would we be here?" Kai asked sarcastically as she took her seat. She was now wide awake. "I'm hungry." They seated themselves in the outside section.

"They gave me the day shift at the radio station today," Sasame explained.

"Oh. In that case, I'll bring you guys something out."

"I thought Mannen worked here too."

"He does, he's the busboy." Goh pointed over toward Mannen who was angrily wiping down a table. Kai almost laughed. Goh walked back inside the restaurant.

Then a few girls sitting at a table not too far away caught her eye. They were all giggly and quite loud about it. Then she saw one of the girls purposely knock her drink over. "So that's why he's so angry."

Sasame turned in his chair a bit to see what she was talking about. "O, yeah. Mannen complains about them a lot. They come every other day and knock things over on purpose just so he can go over there." Kai couldn't hold it in anymore. She began laughing hysterically.

Mannen turned around to see where that familiar noise was coming from. Kai? Her and Sasame were seated at a table not too far away.

"Hey Manny-baby, you missed a spot," one of the girls giggled.

This job is so degrading. He sighed in annoyance and continued cleaning up their mess.

Goh brought them some food and drinks about five minutes later, which was enough time for Mannen to clean their mess, twice. "I feel kind of sorry for him," Kai said to Sasame as Goh walked away.

"Yes, but it's his job. He can't just, not, clean up the mess. Even if they did do it on purpose."

Kai waited for Mannen to finally finish cleaning the drink from the floor. Then she smirked at Sasame. "What?" he asked as if he were missing something.

She grabbed her cup and turned it over, dumping every last bit of her lemonade onto a section of the table and some on the floor. "Oops." Now Sasame wanted to laugh. "Hey, Mannen!" Kai called out. He turned around to see the mess she made. Mannen sighed, now more with relief, before walking over there. "It was an accident," Kai said with the most innocent look on her face.

"Well thanks." Mannen took his time now while cleaning. He was talking more than cleaning.

Once the girls noticed he finished, the other one called out. "Hey Manny-baby! You missed a spot!"

Kai got an annoyed expression on her face. They had just cut her off in the middle of a conversation. She grabbed what was left of Sasame's drink and dumped it out on the table. Then she shouted at the two girls, "Manny-baby is BUSY!" The two girls obviously caught an attitude and left. "I swear, sometimes you just have to be mean with people like that." Sasame and Mannen just stared at her. "Stop staring, it's rude. And you should clean that up." After a little while more, Sasame and Kai decided to leave. Goh and Mannen would see them at home in a little while.

-

Not too far away from the house, something popped into Kai's head. She immediately stopped walking. "That's it. I can't believe I forgot it!"

Sasame looked at her oddly. "What is it?"

Kai's face went red slightly. She was a little embarrassed to ask. "I sort of, forgot something…back at home."

"Well that's where we're heading now-"

"I meant my home. The island."

"Oh." Sasame paused while she stared at her feet. "You want me to take you back so you can get it?"

Kai nodded. "Unless it's too much trouble, then you don't have to," Kai quickened, while finally looking up at Sasame. Her face turned even redder when she saw the surprised look on his face. She looked back down at her feet. "It's not that important anyway. Just forget it." Great. I look like a childish idiot. I'm embarrassing myself.

"It must be that important to you if you brought it up," Sasame smiled. "It's not late. We can go now."

Kai looked up with a happy smile and a reddened face. I know he's going to ask what it is when we get there…Sasame pointed out the direction and they started on their walk. Sasame led her to a desolate area. "What are we doing here?"

"You didn't think we were going to walk all the way there did you?" Sasame asked with a smirk on his face. Before she could answer, he hoisted her off her feet and took off into the air. She blushed a bright red as she flew, cradled in his arms. After a long while, which seemed like forever to Kai, they reached the island. Kai quickly removed herself from Sasame's hold a few inches before they even landed on the floor. "Something wrong?"

"No. I'm just in a rush. I want to hurry before it gets dark."

"Take your time. We've got plenty of it."

Sasame covered his nose in disgust of the smell. Rotting flesh lay all around. Kai walked up to her old dwelling. She walked up the stairs with Sasame trailing close behind. She paused in front of Mao's bedroom door. She wanted so badly to see her again, but not like this. She was dead now. Kai continued down the hall to her room. She cracked open the door and slid in, insisting Sasame wait in the hall. What she had come there for, were two photo's double framed, sitting in her windowsill. One was of her, Mao, and her mother, when her and Mao were younger. The other was of her and Mao just last year. By that time, her mother had died as her father informed her when the clan first attacked while she and Mao were away. They hadn't sent much people, and mostly only managed to kill some of the women. Yet, looking at it made her feel happy. She didn't want to tell Sasame what it was because she thought he'd find it childish, just like her fear of the dark. She grabbed the black scarf from her closet that she used to tie her hair back on midnight assassinations, and wrapped the frame in it. Kai quickly stuffed it down her shirt before rejoining Sasame in the hall.

She probably won't like if I ask. "You got everything?"

Kai looked at him nervously. "Uh, yeah." They walked outside in silence until Kai spoke again. "Sasame?"

"Yes?"

"I was just thinking, since we're here…"

"Are you forgetting something?"

"No. It's just, you did ask why I was…afraid of the dark. And I thought since we were already here, I could show you why."

Sasame became overwhelmed with curiosity. He followed her into the wood. The farther they walked, the less rancid the smell. Until they reached a pair of metal double doors leading underground. The chains were laying aside on the ground. "What is it? A basement?"

"An old cellar," she replied while opening the door.

Sasame saw that the cellar was pitch black, so it gave the illusion that there were shadows moving around. The sound was disturbing and it smelled worse down there than back by the homes. "You went down there?"

"I was thrown down there when I seven. Stayed down there for about a month. Two maybe."

"A two months, with that thing down there?"

"Yeah." Once the smell began to get to her, she let the door fall closed.

"You don't seem phased by all of this."

"O, I'm fine during the day. We should probably leave now."

-

"'Night," Himeno waved as she walked into her room.

"Good night," Kai smiled while closing her door. Then she sighed. I'm just remembering how that girl can talk up a storm. Kai walked over and set the frame on the end table beside her bed, then went to sleep. Perfect. Feels like home already.

-

"SASAME!" Hayate shouted from the top of his lungs. Which happened to be pretty loud.

Sasame winced at the loud boom so early in the morning. He lifted his head from his pillow with eyes half open. "Yes, Hayate?" By this time, Goh and Mannen had come to see why the normally passive yet cranky Hayate was making such a commotion. Then they saw why and went wide-eyed. "W…what is it?" Sasame asked, turning to see what they were looking at. There, sleeping through the noise, was Kai, just inches away from him. In shock, he fell out of bed, and landed on his bottom.

Hayate reached over and shook her shoulder violently. "Get up!"

Kai's eyes opened half way. As soon as she saw those dark blue eyes, she frowned. "Who is it this time? Can it not wait until the morning?" Kai rolled over and pulled the cover over her head in an attempt to go back to sleep. Hajime, Shin, Kei, and Himeno had now noticed the commotion. "Five more minutes dad."

"Dad?" Mannen said, ready to laugh.

"I said get up!" Hayate shouted, now angrier.

"Fine, fine, where's my sword?" Kai began reaching under the bed looking for it, until she lazily fell off it and landed on her face. She quickly sat up and blinked a few times. Hayate now broke away from his angry face and look at her oddly. "What? Why are you all staring at me?" Then she noticed whose room she was in. "Oh…"

"What do you mean Oh. What the hell are you doing in here! Sasame, why was she sleeping in your bed?"

"Calm down. It's not that serious. It isn't what it looks like." She stood up and unwrinkled her pajama pants. "I tend to sleep walk from time to time." Everyone gave her blank looks. "Well it's true. Ugh, whatever. If you don't believe me, fine. I took advantage of Sasame in his sleep. You choose what you'd rather believe." She walked passed them to her room. That was so embarrassing. Great, now I'm going to end up waking up in a closet somewhere. Damn sleep walking!