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Chapter 5

"Oh no you don't!" Rogue grabbed Risty by the back of her shirt and hauled her back to the sofa. "You're watching these and you're gonna like it!"

Risty raised an eyebrow at her.

"Okay, you're gonna watch these even if you don't like it."

Someone knocked on the door. Kitten opened it up and admitted Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, and a scowling Hiei.

"Where are Koga and Kana?" Risty asked.

"They went to see the other peoples." Kurama answered. "Did I just say 'peoples'?"

"Yes! You did! You said 'peoples'!" Risty yelled, then she danced around the room chanting: "You said 'peoples', you said 'peoples'" until Rogue smacked her over the head with a pillow.

"Since there's nothing better to do around here we thought we come over and see what you six were doing." Yusuke explained.

"Well, we were just about to sit down and watch some nice home movies." Ryu crooned, "Would you like to join us?"

"What kind of home movies?" Kurama asked suspiciously.

"Whatever I happened to grab on my way out the door this morning."

"Okay."

The four boys sat down and Ryu pulled a tape out of her bag. "Training."

"No, not training." Risty groaned.

"Shush." Ryu pushed in the tape and pressed play.

Training: Day 1

A much younger Kurama, Risty, Rogue, and Kitten were standing in the middle of a field.

Risty scowled and glared at the camera. "You better have a damn good reason for bringing us out here at seven o'clock in the morning and you better have a damn good reason for having my camera." she snapped.

Kurama hit her on the back of the head. "No swearing."

"And would it kill you smile every now in then?" Kitten asked.

"No, but it might kill you."

"Chill Ris." Ryu's voice said. "Look at it this way, one day we could be sitting in a cheap hotel on an island in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do and we'll pull out this tape and sit around watching it for lack of anything else to do."

"I hate it when you're right." Risty muttered.

"Shut up and watch the movie!" Ryu scolded.

"So, what are we doing out here anyway?" Rogue asked in broken Japanese with a strong southern accent.

"We are going to begin training."

"At seven o'clock on a Saturday? I don't think so."

"Shows how little I knew."

"I thought it would be a good idea if on a Saturday we came out here and beat the crap out of each other. You know, work out our frustrations."

"Okay then, I'll work out my frustrations..." Risty slowly advanced on the camera.

The screen went black and yelling could be heard.

"Ris? What are you doing? I'm sorry. Stop! Please!"

Training: Day 4

The screen again showed everyone when they were younger, but this time Ryu was also visible.

"I can't move." Kitten moaned from her place lying in the grass. "Rogue? Please help me up."

"I would if I could stand." she answered. "But because I can't... I guess you're SOL. Ow!"

Kurama had smacked her.

"You guys definitely need this." Risty announced. "Once a week for four weeks and you can't even sit up straight."

"How come Kurama can stand?" Ryu groaned.

Kurama shrugged and flopped down on the grass. "What are you working on now?"

Risty had her back to the group and was working on something. She held up a black leather vest with about fifty-some pockets in it. Then she held up a small bag and a black lump.

"This is one pound of sand, and this is five pounds of lead. I'm putting them into this vest. It makes you stronger, builds up endurance, and your body becomes so used to the weight, that when you take it off, you move faster." Risty explained. She slipped a bag of sand into one of the pockets and sewed the pocket closed. "There." She slipped it over her head and pulled a t-shirt over top of it.

"How much does that thing weigh?" Kitten asked.

"It was about fifteen pounds, I just added another couple sand bags so... About twenty-three pounds."

"How long have you been wearing that thing!"

"I've been wearing it to school for the past two months, I don't wear it to train though."

"You're insane."

The screen went black.

"Do you still wear that thing?" Kitten asked.

"Yeah, it weighs about fifty pounds now, so do each of my swords."

"So you walk around with 150 pounds hanging off of you!"

"Pretty much."

Training: Day 25

"Kurama!" Risty yelled. "I need to test my new swords!"

"New swords? Again?"

"Yeah! Your rose whip cut the first seven. So I forged new ones, they're much stronger this time!" she began jumping up and down. "Please?"

"Alright, just stop jumping."

Kitten ran between them. "Go ahead!"

Risty pulled a sword from her waist and her backpack strap and held them in an 'x' in front of her. Kurama slashed at her with his rose whip and it got wrapped around the sword in her left hand. Risty quickly brought her other sword down and cut right through Kurama's whip. Kurama stood staring in shock at the rose that lay cut in half on the grass as Risty spun around happily.

"It worked! I finally made two strong enough! I am awesome!"

"Risty, you're smiling." Rogue pointed out.

Risty stopped spinning and covered her mouth with her hands.

"Risty smiled, Risty smiled." Kitten started chanting.

Risty glared at her, someone yelled 'Risty don't!" and the screen went black again.

Training: Day 37

"I'm thinking of moving." Risty announced suddenly.

"What!" everyone yelled.

"Not like moving away, just, like, moving to the outside."

"Good!" Kurama turned a page in the book he was reading. "It's safer living with a bunch of humans than it is living with a bunch of demons."

"Definitely. But where are you gonna stay?" Rogue started reading over Kurama's shoulder.

"I was hoping I could stay with one of you for a while, the problem with humans is they won't let a ten year old girl live by herself."

"You can stay with me!" Kitten said excitedly. "My mom won't mind! Honest!"

"Alright!"

"We didn't get much stupider than that." Kitten said.

"Nope." Risty agreed.

"Except for that time..."

"No! No talking about that!" Kurama ordered.

"Don't worry, I'm sure it's on one of these tapes." Ryu added.

"No!"

"This is gonna be great! We can share a room and get midnight snacks together, and make prank phone calls, and drive my mom crazy..." The whole time Kitten was talking Kurama kept nodding and agreeing with her.

Deciding he wasn't paying attention Risty added: "And sneak out in the middle of the night during the full moon and sacrifice foxes as an offering to pagan gods of death and destruction."

Kurama nodded and then looked up quickly. "WHAT!"

Kitten and Risty hit the ground laughing. "Kurama fell for it, Kurama fell for it."

"Ryu, make sure you're recording this, Risty's laughing again." Rogue ordered.

"Oh, I'm getting it. Don't worry."

"Go to Hell."

Kurama smacked Risty on the back of the head. "No swearing!"

"Fuck off."

"No swearing damn it!"

Risty smacked Kurama on the back of the head. "No swearing." she said sweetly.

Training: Day 50

The group was in the woods, this time a younger Dante and Kina were with them.

Risty was standing in front of a huge eight-foot tall, black dragon. Its bat-like wings were folded against its back. Sprouting straight back from its head were two long, sharp, silver horns, and each of its toes ended in long, sharp claws. The dragon's long tail ended in small spikes and was folded neatly around its muscular hind legs. The dragon closed its pale blue eyes and yawned, revealing sharp, silver fangs and releasing a small flame.

Kitten and Rogue were standing behind Kurama and Kina was standing behind Dante, the camera was shaking as even Ryu tried to stand as far from the creature as possible.

"Come on Ryu, you're a dragon-demon, you shouldn't be scared." Dante teased, his voice shaking.

"Yeah, but I've never actually seen a real dragon!" she snapped back.

"Guys, this is Kagayakashii, you can just call him Kai." Risty placed her hands on either side of Kai's nose and rubbed her nose against it, softly crooning. "He's my little baby, yes he is. He's my good little boy." The dragon lightly tapped her with its nose.

Noticing everyone was standing as far from Kai as possible Risty smiled at them.

"It's alright. He won't hurt you. He's only about two years old you know. He's probably more afraid of you than you are of him. I'm the only person he's ever really seen, and his mom and dad taught him to keep away from humans."

No one moved, but the camera did stop shaking.

"There's a clan of dragons living in the woods near here. A very assorted bunch. His mother's a European dragon and his father's a Wyvern. I think he got the best characteristics of each. His dad's size, mother's coloration and forelimbs. He's taken me as his rider, which is a first for anyone of their clan. Then again, no one else has ever found out about their clan..." she looked back at everyone and saw they were still standing around uncomfortably.

"He's not going to eat us?" Kitten asked suddenly.

Kai pulled his head back and snorted, as if offended by the idea. I am not going to eat you. I doubt you taste nearly as good as chicken. And mother says humans are very bitter.

Everyone took a step back as the deep voice resonated through the clearing.

"W...Who said that?" Kitten stuttered.

I did.

Everyone looked up at the dragon's head. His mouth hadn't opened, but there was no doubt that he had spoken.

"Now, I'm going to quickly demonstrate my new swords." Risty said, drawing the swords seen on day 25. "This is a piece dragon-skin." she held up a flat object that resembled Kai's skin. "Every year on January first and June first the clan sheds their skin so they are able to grow. Dragon scales are one of the hardest objects in existence. If you tried to cut a dragon's hide with a diamond, the diamond would shatter." she placed the piece of skin on the ground and drove the sword in her left hand right through it. Everyone in the clearing gasped.

"Fílisk, Faery Light. Blessed by the head priest of Fí, the god of faeries. Strong enough to break through dragon scales."

She sheathed the sword and held up the one in her right hand. "You sure about this?" she asked.

It won't hurt me. Kai assured her.

She brought the sword down and left a cut on Kai's right hip. "Demsklien, Demon Killer. Blessed by the head priest of Dems, the god of demons. Sharp enough to cut a dragon's scales. What do you think?"

The screen went black.

"You only had five days on there." Kurama pointed out.

"I cut out some stuff so it would fit on one tape." Ryu explained. "I think that was enough, don't you?"

"Yeah, what's next?" Risty began shuffling through Ryu's bag.

"How about this one?" Rogue held up a tape titled "Risty."

"Sure." Ryu pushed the tape in and pushed play.