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Hello everyone! I hope that you all had a merry berry Thanksgiving! Anyway, here's the next chapter.

Chapter Four: Temper, Sister.

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The sound of softly beating rain woke Rei up. Looking around the room she noticed warily that she could not find her sister. Sighing she stood up from her bed and shivered a bit when her feet protested at being taken form the warm bed to be put of the freezing cold floor. A muffled version of her name came from behind the door of one of the closets. Grabbing the Shinsei Chi she watched as the golden runes on its handle shine once before turning a red color. With the changing of the runes she felt a surge of power ripple through her small frame as memories of the blade's battles swept through her mind's eye. A loud crash from the closet jolted her from her examination of the sword as she once again regarded the closet. Striding over she gave the door a sharp tug and wasn't surprised when her sister came rolling out of the closet with a dazed expression on her face. Rei shook her head as Aki stood up and gathered her bearings. Finally she asked her sister the question that had been nagging at her for a while.

"What is the matter with you? You are always getting into everything?" Rei muttered as she gazed at the various articles of clothing and weird trinkets that had flowed out of the closet along with her sister.

Aki shrugged before she knelt down and began to sort through the stuff she had pulled form the closet. Rei watched quietly as the small assassin organized various things into neat piles. A pile next to her foot was an assortment of items that had monetary value. Next to that pile was a pile of silver and gold colored leather buckles and straps. Other piles held maps and clothing, however it was a lone book that seemed familiar that caught Rei's eye. She bent down to pick it up when lightening fast Aki snatched it up. Gray and purple eyes started at one another, neither willing to give up.

"Let me see." Rei ordered as she held out a hand, fully expecting her sister to comply.

Her sister however just raised an eyebrow at Rei before she went back to sorting through her piles of near-stolen goods. Rei felt her blood heat up in slight annoyance as Aki continued to ignore her. Walking back over to her bed she assumed her meditation position at the foot of her bed. Chanting the names of the elements she repeated the name of fire four times before it granted her the vision she wished to see.

Vision of a tall, strong man with bright gray eyes and an easy smile flew through her head. She watched as the man taught his daughter of five about moving silently, about how to become the master of the shadows. She was surprised to see glimpses of her mother there, hold the child when it was younger, teaching the child to call upon the aid of the winds in great times of need. Then Rei witnessed horrified as the seven-year-old girl watched as a shadowed figure killed her father before her eyes. Words of an ancient stone on his lips. He spoke of the Valara, the stone that keep a man immortal or turn him to ashes.

Violently Rei was pulled from Aki's past when she felt her sister's rough shaking. Burning eyes studied her for a moment before they softened. Rei felt the book that Aki had refused to give her before shoved into her chest.

"You can look now. Since you seem to know about my past anyway…well, most of it. Remember when you asked me why Badger Town was our best chance at survival? Well the stone, Valara, is located their. No one knows except paladins that it beneath the city, and I'm the only one that knows how to work it without ending up dead. So I was taking you there when we were…sidetracked. Anyway the plan was to use the stone to grow older and stronger, since we really can't do anything to avenge our families like this. While in the body of a child I mean." Rei watched as Aki walked over to the door that led out into the mirrored hallways of the haunted manor. "We have to leave now."

Rei stood up and went to stand by her sister. "Why?" She asked.

Haunting melodies of a piano began to weaves its way through out the manor and there rooms. The sound of the sadly played keys began to make tears slide down her face, turning she saw that Aki was crying also.

"The song seems like a good reason to me, especially when the boys aren't even in the house." Aki murmured as she nervously moved to her bed and began re-packing and strapping her stuff.

Rei nodded at her sister's last comment, she had not felt the vampires' auras since yesterday. Sighing she clipped her sword to her side, silently wondering when she would have to use it again. The word soon rang through out her head; Rei shivered at the malicious sound of it. Perhaps Aki and herself should have stayed with the bloodthirsty pack of paladins? Even the Dead seemed better than the deep vibrations of evil that was rising out of the floor of the manor in abundance. After she had strapped her bow and her quiver of arrows she looked down at the white colored leather bound book. Swirling black letters told her that the book stored more than just information about the stone.

"Why a black magic book?" Rei asked.

Aki slashed one of her short swords in a figure eight before she sheathed it. Turning she gave her sister a bright smile. "I thought it was pretty."

Rei's left eye began to twitch at the unexpected, childish answer. Her sister was really weird. Looking back at the front door she frowned before she turned towards Aki.

"Can you open the door?" She asked.

Aki took a quick glance at the door before she shook her head. Rei nodded as she handed the spell book to Aki. After ordering her sister to take a few steps away from the door Rei stood back also. Humming she began to call to the elements of wood, air, water, and fire. Humming the name of each element she began to weave into the strange tune another word, open.

Aki watched as the beautiful doors began to slowly creak open at the sound of Rei's humming. Once the door opened enough Aki grabbed her sister's hand and slipped past right before the door closed again. She was about to compliment Rei when a soft, barley heard whistling noise reached her ear. Aki's eyes narrowed as she hurriedly unsheathed both of her short swords. A second was all that stood between the moment that she crossed the blades in front of her face and the moment that two sharp kunais were stopped inches form her face. Letting out a loud sigh she uncrossed her swords and watched as the kunais clattered to the floor.

"Rei?"

She turned to see that the priestess had successfully parried the other two kunais that had speed past Aki. Smiling she grabbed her sister's hand as she ran down the hallway that the kunais had come from. Without their vampiric guides the house seem more dangerous to Aki, a fact that had her body tingling with anticipation. She hadn't had a good fight since her father died. Clear gray eyes turned into dark stormy hues as she thought about the shadow cloaked assassin. She would find him. Glancing out of the corner of her eye she remembered that Rei hadn't had an easy life either. Shame, you would think that life would be at the very least normal for one of them. She focused her eyes back to the racing path; she would make sure that Rei's father paid for his crimes too.

"Stop!" Rei shouted.

At the sound of her desperate scream Rei watched as the world slowed down until it completely stopped. Red swirls swam through out the picture of her sister almost running straight into a trap. Slipping her hand out of Aki's frozen one she walked in front of her reckless sibling path. Looking at the ground beneath Aki's raised right foot; Rei chanted softly the name of the earth element. As she waved her hand over the spot she watched satisfied as the spike trap was uprooted and destroyed in a burst of flames. Breathing heavily she slumped against the mirror wall. The red swirls flew towards her until they began to pass through her body, each one making her stronger. Waving her arm in a dismissive manner at the red swirls she stood up and took her place behind her sister again.

"Go." Rei breathed.

Purple eyes watched as her sister and the area around them began to move again. Almost as soon as they had a good speed going again they stopped as they were confronted with three totally agitated vampires. Blue, green, and purple eyes mixed with red stared at them hard. Rei studied them checking for anything that seemed a little off.

"Hello again." Aki said as she clapped her hands. "We were just—" Her words cut off as she narrowed her eyes looking past the vampires to the corridor that they had appeared from.

"Come." Rei blinked as she found her hand being grabbed by Heero's hand. She didn't protest as the boy lead her through the twisting hallways towards a bright light a few hallways down. At the sound of her sister screaming and the other two boys cursing Rei whipped her head around and instantly wished that she hadn't. Six burning red eyes glared at her as an enormous body of gray sizzling mass bounded down the hallway after them. She wanted to throw up at the sight of a half-eaten arm that dangled from in between the beast's front teeth. Looking at the badly, if at all, manicured hand that was reaching for her sister, Rei felt fear. She was about to do something really stupid when her body was suddenly crushed to Heero's.

Rei felt the breath that she was going to use to yell at Heero vanish as the silent vampire suddenly jumped into the bright light that she had seen earlier. A silent scream caught in her throat as she gazed at the hard brown earth that she was about to crash into. Relief swam through her when she heard the soft beating of wings. Staring up into blue/red eyes she saw the slight concern in Heero's eyes before it was quickly replaced by his usual coolness.

"Thanks." She murmured.

He snorted. "I wouldn't have let you fall."

She nodded then looked past him to Aki who was currently being held up by Trowa while stating how awesome flying was. Rei shook her head at her sister's behavior. A sudden rumble averted five pairs of eyes to the large mass that was currently choking on it's own blood. Rei tore her eyes away from the sight.

"What was that?" Aki breathed as she watched semi-fascinated as the mass struggled to move even though it had broken more bones and ripped more muscles than she had, which was surprisingly a lot.

"That was our father. Though now, as you can see, he's nothing more than…"

"Duo don't push it."

Duo shrugged as he gave Aki a wink that told her that he would tell her later his personal nickname for the beast.

"Let's get out of here." Rei muttered.

"Wait! Rei do you have the book?" Aki asked.

Rei gave Aki a 'you've got to be kidding me' look. "I gave the book back to you when you couldn't open the door."

Aki looked thoughtful for a moment, then without warning her face to contort to an expression of extreme anger.

"Dammitt all to hell!" Rei watched wide eyed as her sister without warning vanished as a sudden raging wind swept by.