Mei: Ohayou, konnichiwa, and Konbanwa minna! Welcome to chapter 5 of Kept In Darkness. Thanks for any review (and or or flames) you may have sent. Enjoy.

Chapter 5

Shinobi Temple

Thorn was in her normal kitsune form, cuddled next to Jin, who was hugging her for warmth. Shousei and Kashin were playing Chinese checkers, while Mei sat outside with Touya. But Kashin got tired of playing and winning all the time, so she went to sleep and Shousei ended up leaving.

"I love the rain," Mei said calmly, letting the warm drops of water run down her face and off her cheeks.

"Yeah… Look at the forest," Touya told her, gesturing to the forest the temple was surrounded in. The small drops of water on the leaves reflected the light from the sun, making them glitter, like beautiful starts fell from the sky and landed on the leaves of the tall trees.

"Hey, Umi! Why don't you do this more often?" Mei shouted to the still dancing water demon.

"Takes a lot of energy," She informed her. Mei rested her head on Touya's shoulder, right before there was a knock on the door. Touya got off the rail on his balcony and went to answer it.

"No, Touya! Don't answer it!" Mei quickly rushed in front of the oblivious ice demon, as a shower of rocks hit her.

"Mei! Darn you Risho!" He yelled, catching the young youko girl. Kashin's delicate cat ears twitched as she sat up.

"Oh no! What happened?" Kashin screamed. Risho smirked, and walked off. "You're trying to kill her aren't you!" She growled.

"No! I would never do that!"

"Well that's solid proof right there, mister!"

Kashin was right. Mei was lying in his arms, injured, and he was doing nothing to help!

"God… Such trouble makers!" A female voice said from outside in the hall.

"I know!" A voice said, but Touya recognized this voice as Shousei. But he didn't know the first one.

"Can we come in?" Shousei asked, knocking on the door.

"Yes!" Kashin yelled before Touya could open his mouth. Shousei and an unknown wolf girl walked in.

"Hi! I'm—Oh my god, Mei!" The wolf said.

"What the heck happened!" Shousei yelled.

"He's trying to kill her! He's trying to kill her!" Kashin answered.

"No, I'm not!" He screamed again.

"He's not the type to go around trying to kill the few people that still trust him," Umi said, walking in through his balcony door. Touya looked up at her, she knew him so well… But how? Maybe he was just predictable. "Jerk! You don't remember me!"

"Am I supposed to..?" Touya asked, greatly confused. He obviously forgot somebody important.

"I thought you did, but I guess I was wrong," She left the words hanging in the air as she walked out to the balcony and jumped back to her room.

Touya didn't notice Thorn had gotten up and was next to Mei, in her youko form. Kashin was behind Thorn, telling her her version of the story.

"Touya is trying to—," Kashin started.

"Shut up!" Thorn yelled, cutting her off ", Touya would never try to kill her!"

Kashin stayed quiet.

"Dang, Thorn!" Shousei had never before seen Thorn this angry.

"What!" The youko looked about ready to explode, she couldn't believe Kashin would ever think that!

"Nothing!" She told her quickly and looked down at the ground.

"Sapphire!" Thorn yelled, Touya assumed Thorn was talking to the black wolf wearing ice and dark blue.

"Yes?" She answered, Touya was right. Her clouded eyes matched the blue jewels she wore.

"You and Kashin go get bandages for Mei!"

"Right," They said, and ran out to get bandages for their wounded friend.

Umi's room.

Umi took off her fighting clothes and got into loose pants and a baggy shirt. She rested her head on her pillow.

"I swear… I'll kill you…" She said, slowly drifting off to sleep.

Dreaming

"Umi, this is my little brother, Touya," Ryou said, gesturing to the child with the rare multi-colored hair.

"Hi, I'm Umi, I'm dating your brother!" She smiled and knelt down in front of the child.

"Really?" He asked, standing up straight so the snow went up to his small waist. Ryou turned a slight pink and Touya just looked at him and giggled.

"C'mon, you can meet my parents," Ryou said, taking her hand and heading towards the temple.

"Who's the girl, Ryou?" A white tiger taunted from the top of the temple.

"I'm Umi, nice to meet you!" She said, smiling up at him.

"Same here," the tiger jumped down, bowed and left.

"That was Akuma, no relation, just a friend," Ryou explained to Umi as they walked into the temple, where his mother and father usually fought each other as training.

"Hi, Ryou!"

"Hello, mother. This is Umi," He gestured to the water demon still holding his hand.

"Hi," Umi bowed.

"Oh, Ryou, you're back," his father stepped out from the shadows.

Later

"I'm sorry, Umi, it just…" Ryou thought about how to phrase his break up without breaking her heart ", it just won't work."

"Fine then!" She shouted in a mix of sadness and anger ", See if I care!" She ran off, blinded by tears.

Shinobi Temple

Umi sat up quickly, breathing hard. She looked down, and realized she was clutching her covers.

She tightened her grip out of sheer anger ", I swear, I'll get revenge for my broken heart. And since the rest of Ryou's family is dead, I guess I'll have to kill Touya…" A smirk slowly appeared on her face.

Mei: The end of chapter 5! I hope you enjoyed it! Bows repeatedly. Please review! Please…?