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Chapter 12

Meeting the Gang

Kenji lead Mitsukai and Inukuro across the busy street toward the park. It was dark out, save for the lights that lit the paved path that weaved throughout the park. He lead them through the crisscrossing maze of paths to the other end of the park. They arrived at what looked like an empty lot. It looked like a fire may have happened there years ago. At one side of the lot there was a large tree that stood proudly beside an old well that probably dated back hundreds of years. Mitsukai stared at the tree for a long moment. It seemed to draw her toward it. She took two slow steps before a shout from somewhere snapped her out of her trance. She looked around wide eyed to see where the shout had come from. Her gaze soon landed on Kenji and Inukuro who stood at the bottom of a steep set of stairs. She realized that she had been a bit out of it and gave them an apologetic look. She ran down the stairs to the two guys.

"Sorry guys. I kind of zoned out for a sec there." apologized Mitsukai. "What was that place anyway?"

"It used to be an old shrine but it burnt down something like 16 years ago. No one knows how or why but that tree and that well were left untouched by the fire. People witnessed them burning but the next day they were completely normal though everything around them had been scorched." explained Kenji.

"Oh." Mitsukai took one last look at the great tree then followed Inukuro and Kenji toward their destination.

A few moments later they arrived at a large high school. They stood and looked up at it for a moment before Kenji walked through the gates towards a large tree that was surrounded by smaller cherry blossom trees. Under the large tree were two picnic tables. Inukuro and Mitsukai follow Kenji to the picnic tables. Kenji sat down on top of one of the picnic tables. Inukuro sat at the same table and Mitsukai sat at the base of the tree. They sat there for a while in silence for a while. Mitsukai took the time to allow her mind to wonder back to the well and great tree. Soon she was just staring straight forward, staring into space. She had no clue how much time had passed all she felt was a sharp jab in her side. Thinking someone was trying to harm her she jumped up and without even looking konked whoever was behind her in the head. Unfortunately for Kenji he was standing directly behind her. Inukuro had dared him to poke her while she was zoned out. Now he was on the ground with a huge bump on his head. He was growling rubbing the bump on his head while the nine other teens around them laughed hysterically. Mitsukai suddenly noticed that they were not the only one's there. There were 12 of them all together, 7 guys including Kenji and Inukuro and 4 girls including herself. She looked at them with a confused look. She looked at her brother. He was laughing the hardest. Mitsukai knew that Kenji wouldn't have done that on his own if he knew she would attack him so she guessed that Inukuro had told him to do it. Mitsukai growled low in her throat and glared daggers at Inukuro. Inukuro's laughs stopped suddenly. His smile was now replaced by a look of pure terror. He held his hands up in front of him, a sign for Mitsukai to calm down.

"Hey, Kai it was just a joke you know that...heehee...OH SHIT!" he spun around and took off as fast as he could, Mitsukai hot on his heels. The others...who remained strangers so far...were now laughing twice as hard.

Mitsukai finally satisfied with her brother's current state, which was on the ground groaning in pain, walked back to the others and took her place leaning against the tree. All nine of the strange teens seemed to size Mitsukai up, especially the guys, especially one guy in particular.

"I like this chick already!" said one of the guys. Mitsukai could tell that he was full wolf demon.

"Me too!" said the guy who had been checking her out.

"You like any pretty girl Kotaro." piped up one of the girls.

"Okay...umm, who are you peoples again?" Mitsukai asked.

"They're my friends." came Kenji's voice.

Mitsukai turned to see Kenji finally getting up off the ground and walking over to his group of friends. He stood beside Mitsukai and pointed each of them out while saying their names.

"Kage, Fumio, Chie, Naomi, Takeo, Akio, Sayuri, and Kotaro. Kage and Takeo are brothers. They're not twins but they were born in the same year. And watch out for Kotaro he's a perv."

"Hey!" Kotaro protested.

Mitsukai studied each of them. Kage and Takeo both had dark, almost black hair, and kind of greyish eyes. They definitely looked like they could be twins. Fumio was the wolf demon. He had chestnut coloured hair and chestnut eyes. Chie had dyed red hair and dark brown eyes. Naomi was the only girl with no dye in her hair. Her hair was raven, almost black, and her eyes were almost black too. Akio also had raven hair except his was lighter more blue and his eyes were a navy colour. Sayuri's hair looked like she had dyed it blonde and then added a bunch of different shades of red and brown. Her eyes were hazel. Finally Kotaro. Kotaro looked half japanese. His hair was a auburnish colour and his eyes were a light green.

She smiled she was going to like having them as friends, she could tell. "Nice to meet ya all! Wow, big group."

"Oh there's more." Chie smirked.

"More?"

"Three more." said Kage.

"Who?"

"Midorime ( i made that name up, don't know if it's right), Emi, and Sasuke." said Kenji counting them off on his fingers.

"Midorime and Emi are cousins. They're visiting their family in Osaka. Some big family reunion of sorts." explained Naomi.

"And Sasuke?" Mitsukai didn't know what it was but Sasuke's name seemed so familiar to her.

"Sasuke was supposed to be here tonight..."said Kenji looking around. "Don't know where he is."

At that moment a shadowed figure jumped from the large tree landing crouched on the ground in front of Mitsukai. He stood slowly. All Mitsukai could see were his brilliant golden eyes. He stood about half a foot taller than her.

"I'm here."

A/N muwahahahahahaaaa hehehe cliffie LOLZ! n/e way sry it was kinda short. Tell me if it was too short. Hope you all enjoyed. Cya

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