(Lidia- Foul language used. Ass and Damn are used freely but others are starred out like s, b, and f. –ing or –ed included. Warned for Shin's, or rather KAI'S language. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED…again. Oh and before I forget. Not any BIG BIG scenes in this one. It's kinda shorter than usual. But I've been busy. I just transferred schools and everything. I gotta catch-up. I'll make it up to you sooner or later! Next time, I'll post two at the same time! Unless something else doesn't come up THANKS FOR READING! AND THANKS FOR REVIEWING! (. )( .) )

The Legendary Knight-

Kai waited impatiently while sitting on the waiting bench outside the elder's meeting room. Why would they want to see me alone? I didn't even do anything. She tapped her foot against the leg of the bench until she couldn't stand the anxiety hovering over her. "That's it. I'm leaving. I didn't even eat anything." She squeezed her growling stomach before standing up. "Ugh, I smell. They could have at least let me wash that bloody smell off." Just when Kai got up the nerve to leave, the door opened. She watched Mannen and Kei walk out, a bit tensed.

"You can go in now," Kei said, holding the door farther open for Kai.

She walked in hesitantly, not knowing what she'd say if they asked something. She almost jumped when the heavy wooden door closed behind her. She walked in, center floor. As she looked over the elders, only one thought came to mind. I'm supposed to nervous around these geezers. In that instant, she calmed down. There, in the room on a higher level than anything else, were seven old men. Each looked old, sickly, and feeble. Their skin sagged and their eyes seemed swollen shut. They wore the robes of her superiors and, despite their old age, held a sort of defiant aura about them. Each seemed to be staring at her, but she wasn't sure if they could see her. They gave her ghostly gazes as if they were the living dead. Perhaps they were. They're freaking me out. The head elder made a gesture to the young speaker standing not to far away from them.

"We're done here. You may go. I do, however, ask that you return every two weeks on Thursday to see the elders."

Kai looked confused. "But-"

"Go."

Kai still didn't seem to get it but took the opportunity to leave anyway. When she exited the room, Kei greeted her with a, "How was it?"

"Uh…not what I expected."

"I thought so. You have to come back right?"

"Yeah. But why? I mean all they did was look at me. Or at least I think they were looking at me."

Kei explained as the two walked out of the building, back to the palace home. "They can't see like we see. They see your aura and your soul. They see good and bad. We see human," Kei explained as if it were the most simple thing in the world. Kai understood, but it only freaked her out more. "Oh, and before I forget. Your room is ready now. Glass included. Don't go breaking it again. If there's a problem, talk to someone."

Kai nodded but pushed the talk to someone about it part to the back of her mind. At least I have my own room now! Himeno's too much of a chatterbox for me to get any sleep. I guess I can't really blame her. She's stuck here with a bunch of guys all day. Not that that's a completely bad thing. A small grin found it's way to Kai's face.

"What's so amusing?" Kei asked as he noticed this random gesture.

"N-nothing," she replied nervously. Then she slapped him on the back. "I'm going to take a shower. See you later Kei." Kai walked off alone.

Kai dried her wavy wet hair before heading out the door. Immediately, she bumped into someone and hurt her nose. "Move!" she shouted while pushing the person into the hall wall. She rubbed her nose and opened her eyes to see Shin rubbing his head. "AAAAiii! I'm so sorry. I thought you were someone else."

"It's alright," Shin said while smiling…a painful smile. "Hayate told me to come up here and tell you that the elders have requested you be banned from the cave. And he said take out that ring. And he said you're getting that tattoo removed. And Hajime said he wanted to see it before Hayate made you get rid of it. I told him you wouldn't though. It's not anyplace inappropriate is it?"

Kai looked surprised for a moment. Well I don't want to yell at Shin. He's just the messenger really. "No it's not. Just the lower back. Tell Hajime I said NO YOU LITTLE PERVERT! And could you do me a favor and tell Hayate something for me?"

"Yea, sure."

"Now listen closely because I want you to repeat every word exactly how I say it whether you like it or not. Tell him I said—"

Shin's eyes widened at what he was being told to repeat. I don't think the others would let me say that. He waited until Kai was finished with her angry rant before saying something. "Kai…"

"Yes Shin? Do you need me to repeat it for you-"

"NO! I mean, I remember. It's just that…I don't think I should say that."

"Nonsense. I used fouler language when I was your age. Don't tell me you've never cursed once?" Shin gave her the most innocent look. "Never mind. Don't answer that. Just say it to him exactly as I told you. Hayate will be too angry with me to even care that you repeated it."

Shin thought about it a while. She does have a point. Shin was still hesitant before agreeing.

"Hey Shin," Hayate greeted as the nervous boy came down the stairs. He, Goh, Sasame, and Mannen were watching television in the rec-room. "Did you tell her what I said?"

"Yes," Shin replied uneasily.

"She's probably pissed," Mannen laughed and Sasame, Kei, Goh did as well.

"Yeah. Whatever. It's not that big of a deal."

"Actually. She thinks it's a very big deal."

"Huh? What'd she say?" Hayate asked and the rest listened in eagerly.

Shin looked a bit nervous but decided to say it anyway. "She told me to tell you that you can go f yourself you son of a b. Who the hell do you think you are you controlling bastard. I'm not taking this damn ring out. I'm not getting this f tattoo removed. In fact, I'll get another one that says Hayate can go f himself. Or should I get Hayate is full of s? I don't know which one appeals to me more. You're not my f father and you're not my f mother. Hell, according to you, you aren't even my f brother. Kiss my ass. Then move up a little higher and kiss my tattoo before I ask you to GO TO HELL YOU ASS HOLE." Shin sighed at all the profanity. "More or less. I didn't use the same tone she did." Hayate was brimming with anger while the other's laughed to no extent. Before Shin could even apologize on Kai's behalf, Hayate had already made his way up the stairs. "You shouldn't laugh you guys. I think she hurt his feelings."

Mannen laughed even harder, if that were possible. "What feelings? He's just angry she said anything other than yes sir."

Hayate burst in through her room door but she wasn't there. "Great! Where the hell did that coward go!"

"O you mean Kai? She left two seconds ago?" Himeno said as she made her way down the stairs. Hayate followed her.

"Where'd she go?"

"I don't know. She didn't say."

Hayate cringed his teeth together. Damn it...

Kai was just about to walk out the door when it slammed shut in front of her. "Now where are you running off to?"

"Get your hand off the door, Mannen." Mannen just continued to stare down at her with an amused grin on his face.

"Now what fun would it be for me if I just let you run away, eh?" Kai punched him in the arm pretty hard. He kept himself from wincing. "Like that hurt. I'm still not moving."

"Move!"

"Make me." Kai wrapped one arm around the back of his neck and before he even realized what was going on, Kai had kneed him in the stomach. "Alright…I'll…move," he said between breaths.

She stared at him with a grin on her face as if thinking about something. "Hey. Why don't you come with me?" she asked, slapping him on the back while he was already doubled over on the floor.

"Bad enough you hit me but must you continue while I'm already in pain!"

"If you were a real man it wouldn't hurt!"

"Well maybe you're more of a man than I am!"

"You two argue like an old married couple," Sasame said, approaching them with a smile.

"Who asked you!" Mannen snapped.

"Gee, Mannen. Why so hostile, Mannen? THAT time of the month already?"

"Now wait a sec you two-"

"Don't insult me just because you're gender confused!" Mannen shouted, completely ignoring Sasame.

"Well what Mannen? You know so much about how a girl's supposed to act so what am I doing wrong? Should be cooking something? Cleaning something? Planting flowers with Himeno everyday?"

Sasame sighed. Please don't say something stupid.

"YES! That's EXACTLY what!"

Sasame held his breath. He had to say something stupid.

Kai just stared at him for a while. She didn't seem angered by what he just said but Sasame saw her fist clench tightly as if she were going to hit him. "Never mind, just stay here. I'll be back later," she said in a calm tone as she walked out the door.

"When are you coming back?" Sasame asked concerned.

"Later!" Kai slammed the front door closed.

"You just had to say something misogynistic didn't you?" Sasame scowled at Mannen.

"…Is that a bad thing?"

Sasame sighed. "Forget it. Let's go."

"You're not going to go look for her are you? I'm not going!"

"You made her angry! You're coming , Mannen!" Sasame said in a more firm, louder tone.

"She shouldn't have been able to get that far, that quickly," Sasame said, pausing for a bit to survey the area. It was obvious she left to the outside world. They had searched half Lefaenia before a civilian told them he saw her walk on the path out. In the process of looking for her, they were drawing quite the crowd of girls.

"Great…" Mannen muttered under his breath. He looked over his shoulder at the followers. "I bet if we run fast enough, we can ditch 'em," Mannen whispered to Sasame. Sasame thought about it for a few seconds and nodded in agreement. They darted off a few blocks, and hid in an alley way until the crowd disappeared. They began their walk down the sidewalk again.

"It's getting really cold, Mannen."

"Yeah. It's about to snow. Maybe she's not out here Sasame. Could you try hearing her out?"

"Yea, sure, hold on." Sasame stopped walking and closed his eyes to focus in on the sound waves. "She's at the beach…"

"What the hell is she doing there? It's Winter."

"There she is," Mannen pointed out. As the two approached they noticed that she was drenched in water.

"Kai are you alright?" Mannen reached down to help her up.

"Don't touch me!" she snapped before slapping his hand away.

"Well excuse me for caring! You ungrateful-"

"Mannen," Sasame scorned. He turned his attention back to Kai. "What happened?" he sighed.

"I slipped in."

"You probably tried to drown yourself. What kind of excuse is I slipped in." Kai got up and tackled Mannen down onto the floor. "Get off!"

"If you won't shut your damn mouth, I'll shut it for you." She began tightening her grip around Mannen's neck. Mannen noticed her eyes were red again.

Sasame reached down and whispered in her ear. Mere whispers from the songbird could put anyone to sleep. And that it did. He lifted Kai off Mannen while the knight gasped for air. "Did you have to take your time!"

That's not like her at all. If anything she vents anger into something else.

"Sasame!"

"Huh?"

"You're not even listening!"

"Oh, I'm sorry. Continue."

"Never mind. Let's just go home."

Kai opened her eyes her eyes, still half asleep. She was greeted by a pair of blue ones staring back at her. They looked angry and she wanted to go back to sleep to get away from them. Then she felt herself being violently shaken awake. her eyes sprout open and she was now wide awake. "WHAT! I'M UP!" She glanced over at the clock. It was seven in the morning and she grew weary of this early to rise business.

Mannen now hovered over her. "She looks fine now...but before-"

"What do you want?" she asked bluntly, cutting off his observation.

"Sasame says your snapping at people more often and Mannen tells me you tried to kill him."

"Eh?" Kai was confused. She stared at the two of them and saw they were serious. "I admit I was angry but I didn't try to kill him. I just left. As for snapping at people, if this is about what I told Shin than I can assure you that that is not me angry. I was just stating the truth."

Hayate got an extremely angry look on his face. A breeze blew through, but soon died down, along with his expression. "I'll deal with that later. Right now, we're talking about yesterday. Mannen said your eyes went red again when you tried to kill him yesterday."

"When did I do that?" Kai thought about it for a while. She was actually serious about not remembering and it scared them. "Well I don't know what you're talking about and I seriously don't care. Afterall, that bastard deserves it after what he said to me!"

"Get over it!"

"You're not even going to apologize!"

"WHY SHOULD I!"

"You're such a BASTARD!"

"Look who's talking!"

Kai got out of bed and punched him in the arm, a little harder than usual. "I hate you!"

"Well I don't exactly like you either!"

"Than why the hell are you here!"

"Fine! I'm leaving!"

"Fine!"

"Good!"

"Alright then. But you're STILL HERE!"

Mannen walked out and slammed the door. Just as he did that Hayate started...laughing? "Sasame was right. You two do argue like an old married couple."

"I don't remember asking you." Hayate's laughter was soon cut off by a loud ear pulsing alarm.

"What's that?" Kai asked.

"The alarm! Someone's been caught breeching the perimeter." Hayate got up from his seat, changed into his uniform, and rabbed Kai by the hand. He took off rather quickly in a swift blue light. But by the time they got there, by he time sny of the knights had gotten there, it was too late. The fountain was still fine, but an injured gaurd said that two women had gotten awa with some of it. "Damn it!"

"It was...Takako's children...it had to be."

"You've done well my dear children." The old woman held out a feeble hand to grab the jar.

"It's only enough to sustain you as you are until we finish what need be done."

"And how have my two hateful darlings decided to approach the obstacle?"

"Mind games," Takata smirked.

"We're planning on breaking down the new woman we told you about tonight," Kana finished.

"Good. Good," Takako aproved. She leaned back in her chair. "I raised you well."