Trouble: Welcome back— I didn't get the full twenty reviews this time but I'll update for you guys anyway.

Hero: Sorry about the long wait— Trouble is really lazy too!

Trouble: Am not! (smacks Hero) any way I do not own yuyu hakusho, but Ai is my character.

Hero: Get on with the story already! (rubbing his head)

Trouble: I was getting there! I don't need some mean old lawyers on my tail because I didn't do a disclaimer!

Gentle Breeze

Chapter 5: Suyou

Touya was on a new mission: find the ninja girl that attacked him and find out who exactly she was! Maybe it would be easier just to look for Jin. Unfortunately poor Jin seemed to be out of the Ice Masters thoughts, the only he could think about was the girl's face.

The only clues he had, were the canteen and the memory of her weaponry. And from what he could tell she didn't belong to any ninja clan, so that meant she was possibly a "rouge". That only made things harder on him.

Touya rubbed the tiredness from his eyes and continued on… he hadn't had much sleep. The girl had haunted his dreams as well as his every waking thought. Yet he was determined to find her, and he would give up until he did.

After about an hour of directionless searching Touya came across a set of footprints, they were light and small, and couldn't have been very old.

He followed them until he found himself in a clearing. There were too many flowers to catch a specific scent, and the trees surrounding it were thick and good for hiding within. Touya shifted his weight a little, conscious of the fact that he was technically a sitting duck. The girl was toying with him and they both knew it. The footprints had belonged to her and Touya was meant to follow them. It didn't take him very long to realize that she'd laid out a trap for him.

Touya waited on baited breath. Any minute she could attack him, not only that, ninja's hardly ever play fair. This one was no exception, she'd thrown that powder into his eyes to get away, and she'd attacked him while he was down and unarmed. Now she'd laid out a trap and fell into it so willingly, like helpless pray ready to give in without a fight.

He could sense her this time, she wasn't hiding as she had before.

"So Ice Master," her voice echoed around the clearing. Touya couldn't pinpoint her exact location, but he got the odd feeling that she was behind him. "Why did you come into my territory?!"

"I was looking for someone!" Touya answered honestly.

"Who? And why are you stocking me and not them?" she demanded, her voice coming from all around him.

Touya actually didn't know the answer to that question, and he stayed quiet. But it didn't matter because she'd made a mistake… she'd stayed in the same place long enough for him to know where she was.

To her shock the entire clearing had become ice. Now the tables were turned.

"One last time, who are you?" Touya asked calmly and slowly turned around, only to have a shurikun whiz past his head.

The girl was standing on the ground in clear view with her katana drawn, it was obvious— she wasn't going down with out a fight.

Touya summoned his ice sword that extended from his arm. "I'm not helpless yet, Ice Master!" she yelled. Then she suddenly rushed him. He was surprised that she was so fast, and her katana struck his own and the vibrations shook them both.

The best that Touya could do was block, or hoped she'd missed (but that didn't happen very often in ninjitsu). She was stubborn and persistent, causing Touya to doubt whether or not he should still go easy on her.

'She maybe fast but I have the field advantage,' Touya thought, suddenly a pillar of ice shot out of the frozen ground knocking her away. She fell to the ground and within a second Touya was on top of her with his ice sword prepared, though he didn't have any intention of using it.

She couldn't pull the powder trick again, Touya had her hands pinned.

"Who are you?" he demanded.

"Suyou," she said calmly she knew that there wasn't much hope now, she couldn't see the harm in telling him anyway, he was after all wandering alone in these woods. Not only that she would welcome death.

"Well Suyou, who are you? What are you?" he asked.

"I'm Suyou! From the northern Konashi Clan!" she hissed angrily.

"The Konashi Clan died out years ago! That why you didn't carry its mark, you'd be killed on the spot for it!" Touya stated.

"Precisely! You certainly have a brain in that head of yours, Ice Master!" she snapped, her voice colder than the ice around them.

"My name is Touya, but if you must you can continue calling me 'Ice Master'," Touya said. "Anyway, why are you here? The Konashi Ninja Clan existed in the far north! But this is so far south."

"Fine Touya! I'll tell you if you get off of me!" she snapped, with a gleam in her eye.

"You expect me to fall for that?"

"No," she said innocently, "But…"

Before Touya knew what was happening, she kneed him hard in between the legs. She jumped up as Touya went down. She made a run for it but was cut off by a three-foot thick ice wall. She spun around to see poor Touya kneeling on the ground.

"Dislocated groin," he murmured pitifully.

"More like dislocated brain!" she snapped back, "You got what was coming to you!"

He looked up at her in the most pitiful way. "Shouldn't have expected you to play fair," she murmured his face still in the frozen ground.

She looked at him bitterly for a minute. "Survival of the fittest!" Suyou countered.

"Well you're the one that's trapped, so who's the fittest now?" Touya said smiling now, he seemed to have recovered from the previous blow.

"Why were you following me in the first place?!" she demanded.

Touya didn't quiet know how to answer that question, the truth was he didn't even know the answer. He'd just gotten that strange feeling that he had to find her, for some celestial reason.

"I have my reasons," he answered calmly.

"WHAT????!!!!" she screeched causing Touya's ears to throb. "You hunted me down for a reason that you don't even know?!" She must have been reading his thoughts because that was exactly what he was thinking.

"Well, I need your help with something," Touya said calmly.

"What?!" Suyou snapped. "You could have said something earlier!"

"Where's the fun in that?" For that another shuriken whizzed past his ear. "Why aren't you killing me?" he asked simply.

Suyou was shocked by the question, she searched her brain for an answer but nothing came.

"See? I really don't have an answer for why I followed you, and you don't know why you spared my life. I guess it's just something in our hearts told us to. We're even now right?" he said logically.

Suyou was quiet for a minute, "Fine Touya! If that is your real name! I'll accompany you on what ever little adventure you have plotted for yourself!"

"Would you stop acting so professional, it doesn't suit you!" Touya said calmly, sitting in the middle of the clearing with his arms crossed and his eyes closed, making him look very wise.

Suyou kicked the ground. "Can you at least let down the ice wall?" she snapped.

"Why?"

"It's cold!"

"Really? I never noticed," Touya said with a sly smile in Suyou's direction.

Trouble: I know… I know… Touya was a little OOC, and I know I didn't have any Jin or Ai in this chapter! And yes if you're wondering ai does mean love in Japanese, why I named her that I don't know but it sounds really neat so that's her name!

Sayonara!