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Chapter 13

Unwanted Memories
"Shut up! We're almost there." I said, Cina'ed's jabbering decreased in volume but definitely not in pace as he kept asking Katsu all sorts of questions, which I too would, have eventually I asked, but now is not the time!

"Cina'ed!" He stopped.

"Wha?"

"I said shut up!" We walked a little bit farther, finally having more than a little silence.

"Hey Aikia?" I forced myself not to cringe in complete agitation.

"Yes Cina'ed?"

"What's the plan?" I stopped and thought about it; truth was, as stupid as it is, I hadn't completely thought up a 'plan' more or so just a vague idea of actions that could take place. Just as I'm about to answer, I hear yelling up ahead.

"Katsu, I want you to scout ahead." He nodded and quietly slunkered into the shadows, disappearing all together in the darkness. I leaned against the tree, thinking up a more well devised plan. How could I have been so ignorant! In all of my travels here, I had plenty of time to think up something good, but no. I am definitely becoming lazy.

"Aikia, Aikia. You don't have a plan, do ya."

"Of course I do. What do you take me for? A mindless brute like you?" He chuckled.

"Than what are we doin?"

"'We' are not doing anything. YOU are the one doing things. Like I said, you get to do what ever you like. I'm just there to make sure you stay out of trouble." That is undoubtedly the most pathetic plan I have ever made, even in short makings. He spat on the ground as we waited, trying to ignore the loud yelling up ahead. We stayed like this for nearly an hour or so.

"Master Aikia." I looked down at the kid. He barely made a sound.

"So? What's going on?"

"I saw two women. One wearing loose green pants, tight shirt, and a green over shirt. The other one was wearing a similar brown outfit, only her over shirt wraps around and is held tightly." I sighed. What they wore is not something that really concerns me in the least.

"...and the one wearing brown had a high ponytail with sixteen braids and a strange Katana."

"Any other weaponry?"

"Non that I could see."

"Hmm." I thought a bit on this. It's almost too easy.

"What do ya think Aikia?" I ignored him, and pushing off of the tree, I walked as they followed.

"What were they arguing 'bout ragamuffin?" I raised an eyeball as I looked at the corner of my eye, noticing Katsu's claws protruding a slight bit more than usual before relaxing his hands.

"About some girl underneath the pile they were digging up, then something about how stupid the other one was."

"So then, a regular ol' cat fight." Cina'ed snorted at his own pathetic joke. I must commend Katsu on his self-restraint. Especially when his hands were flexed dangerously and claws out threateningly, his ears too, twitched in agitation, but he did not do anything rash.

Finally coming to the clearing, we walked till we were ten feet away from them and I stopped watching them labor to move a wooden beam until finally it was removed successfully and fell to the ground besides them. But they did not stop there. The one with the braided hair knelt down on her knees and began moving away wood and stone.

"You do know your efforts are in vain, right?" I said, making my presence know. The girl wearing green swiveled around to stare at us, while quickly picking up a metal bar.

"Who are you? What business do you have here?" She spat.

"Aki." The other woman slowly stood up and turned to face me, and for once I felt the air nearly knocked out of me. I-it's her! It's really her, and here! There can't be any mistake. She looks exactly the same she did back...No! No! I don't know her. I have never seen her. What a preposterous thing to even think! I must be tired. I have been out of it all day.

"So Aki. What reason have you to be here? It's amazing really." She said with strict composure, but in her eyes there was a deadly rage burning, with an unquenchable need for spilled blood.

"Oh, you're talking to me?"

"Well I certainly aint talking to the bastards behind you!"

"I truly am sorry, but you must have me mistaken for someone else. My name is Aikia, and these two 'bastards' as you call them, are Cina'ed and Katsu." She slowly walked off of the pile of rubble, not bothering to look where she stepped, and never once tripping. Standing on firm ground she unsheathed her katana, but instead of taking a warriors stance, she examined it.

"This Katana is amazing really. Made by one of the greatest sword smiths back in the day. It was a gift to me. You see this hilt? It was specially designed with the images of a moon showering upon a willow tree near a river. On one side the moon is full, the other it is empty, but still there. It was a sign of love really. Only one other person knew of it. But of course you know this already."

"I know nothing of the stupidity you talk of except that that man must have been a fool, to have the ever changing moon be a symbol of love. Here I thought love was supposed to be inconstant, but if it is like the moon than I guess it is not. Then again I know nothing of love, having never been in it before." I stated passively. She looked sharply in my direction.

"At any rate I care not about your katana, unless you are threatening to use it, maybe not even then. Cina'ed, why don't you have some fun? I grow bored with this mindless chatter."

"Good thing, that talk was given me a head ache." He said cracking his knuckles.

"Master Aikia, what would you have me do?"

"Just watch. Maybe you'll learn something." The girl with the metal pipe jumped down from the pile and took a stance in front of the other woman.

"You will not lay a finger on Arelinita! I swear that if you even try I string out your guts and lay them in the sun to rot!" She hissed between her teeth.

"You hearing this Aikia? Looks like this one here's a threatening me." I nodded and waved for him to continue.

"That's fine by me. I like my women feisty." He said before walking towards her and bringing forth a sword made completely of fire in his right hand.

"Enuresis, leave the fighting to me."

"Oh just shut up." She said and charged at Cina'ed. Fire met metal and the bar fell the ground in a shiny liquid puddle, the girl however moved quickly behind Cina'ed hitting him behind the knee, bringing him to a kneeling position, but he had anticipated this. Going in to kick him, he caught her ankle and brought her to the ground.

"You know, I'm more a lover, not a fighter." He said dragging her to him.

"You bastard!" Arelinita cried and her katana swung, he too held up his sword, never letting go of his hold on Enuresis. However her katana did not melt and she thrust more weight upon it, forcing him back.

"Well, it seems I might have a challenge after all, with a sword like that." She stood above him.

"You're a filthy pig."

"That hurt. Even pigs have feelings." He feigned pain.

"Die." Was all she said and brought her sword swinging down, however Cina'ed is not one to be finished easily and held open the palm of his hand to fling a storm of fire upward and to thrown her back. Soon much of the wood that was lying behind her in the pile of rubble caught fire and her face was shadowed with fear.

"Enuresis!" She shouted but there was no need for the other woman was already digging more thoroughly through the pile than when we first arrived here. With more fury than earlier she stood up and resheathed her Katana.

"So, you admit defeat?" She ran straight at him, and in an instant her Katana was pulled out in a blur and cut Cina'ed's chest causing a sizzling sound to ring out.

"You filthy wench!" He cried knocking her aside. Facing her, he thrust his hands out to his sides, shoulder height. He began to murmur words that seemingly held no meaning, but he was muttering a complex spell. Arelinita stood up and ran right at him, but a barrier was protecting him and knocked her back, leaving a large indented skid mark in the ground. 9 distinct fireballs appeared one hovering above his head, one in front of each hand, one at his feet, one in between every one of those, and the last hovering in the middle of his chest. When at last he stopped murmuring he looked at her.

"Flames of the 27 souls!" He yelled saying the last words of the spell to release its magic and instantly growing brighter; three flames shot form every place that hovered in the air straight at her. As soon as the flames hit the ground a large ball of inferno formed and like an explosion got larger before turning into a mushroom cloud, nearly consuming the whole area.

"Ah, its sad really. To have to waste good flesh like that. Oh well, I still have another one." He said instantly perking back up from his almost sullen state a second ago.

"I mean, she really is a feisty girl and she wouldn't make such a bad..."

"Cina'ed?" I questioned, not caring really, but instead of an answer, he fell to the ground with a hot liquid spilling out of his body, burning the ground below him. The angry orange covered the area around him in a puddle that burned his flesh until his body became ash. When the wind came up, shaking the trees and tugging at my clothes, it swished the smoke far from this place to reveal Arelinita standing there with her katana, though undamaged, had an oily orange liquid running down it. She looked up at me and smiled a devils smile.

"Did I forget to mention, that the one who made this was also a very powerful sorcerer. He made this sword out of some very powerful magic. Yes, this is truly and amazing sword. I'm glad I get to finally use it again. Would you care to try and test it as well?" I looked at her skeptically. A feeling rose within me, but before I could identify it, it was squashed and buried deep, deep, deep, and even deeper from whence it came.

"Rin! Come look! I found her! She...she's alive! And unscathed! Not a scratch! She's alive!" Enuresis cried for joy as she pulled away one more beam and gazed down. Alive, Chihiro! No it couldn't be! She is supposed to be dead! Now I will actually have to do some work and kill her! That earthquake was a perfect accident; it meant less work for me. Ggrr!

"What's wrong AIKAI?" She said stressing my name. I composed a smile and bowed.

"As much fun as I've had watching this, I grow weary and choose to retire. Until next time." I said cheekily and with a wave of my hand Katsu and I appeared inside the study of the castle, where I started pacing.

"How do you know her?"

"I don't."

"You two seemed awfully familiar with each other."

"Did we? You must be confused. What do you know? You're just a child." I watched his ear twitch in agitation.

"Where are we anyways?" I paused.

"This is your new home. Welcome to the forgotten region." I said smiling and watched his look of surprise sweep over him.

"Come, I will show you to your room." I said walking out of the study and slipped into the hallway changing my appearance to invisibility. Katsu followed using his ears to hear me, though I barely made a sound, as he walked in the dark shadows that were casted by the lights.
Authors ending note: Aki? Who is this Aki and why does Rin seem to think that Aikia is him? And what does this mean, Rin possessing this sword? She was once in love? With whom? And when? Chihiro is Alive! And found! Cina'ed is dead. Though this is all good and peachy, still no one knows where Aikia and Ahrima live and where Kohaku can be found and how to get to him! And Aikia or Ahrima didn't create that earthquake? Is it just a natural phenomenon, or is there something more to it?