Author: Kazumi Kairi or Kairi-chan
Review from the last chapter:
Now we know that Izumi has Wind the strongest Element Power. Unlike her powers she can control any elements and her friends helped her train to control hers and learn how she could defend it from danger. Then we now know that she was highly connected to the PROJECT DESTRUCTION and the link of the two genius scientists, Izuko and Minoru. DAESTRA appeared and kidnapped the blonde beauty for two reasons. First she could give him stronger since he holds many Element Powers and make him powerful user. Second, she is the project that he and his men were trying to get it.
But then an unexpected event as Izumi suddenly used her Elements Power to fight against DAESTRA and his men. They weren't able to keep up so they retreated leaving Izumi and the young assassin boys behind. But Kouji suspected the girl wasn't Izumi anymore…
Kairi: There will be more angst in this chapter… anyway please read it!
Caught 1.1 Her Story"I am Kazehime." Said the woman seriously.
Takuya/ Akai Eagle, Junpei/ Thunder Beetle, Tomoki/ Shiroi Kuma, Kouichi/ Black Leo and Kouji/ Blue Wolf were staring at the girl who wasn't the same Izumi whom they know instead another woman yet she shared some similarities between them. Although there are slight differences from Izumi and the woman called Kazehime. Kazehime has pair of cat-purple eyes, her blonde hairs were longer and her height reaches the same as Kouji and Takuya.
"So then…" Kazehime whispered. "WILL YOU STOP THE FRIGGIN STARING AT ME LIKE I'M SORT OF ALIEN OR SOMETHING!" she suddenly burst out of anger to them. "I'M NOT A DOLL DISPLAY OR SOMETHING!"
The boys all went to chibi as few majority sweat-drops were dropping above their heads. "My she sure is different from Izumi." Takuya pointed out.
"Now… could you tell me where the hell and what did you do to Izumi?" Kouji screamed at the woman angrily.
"Tsk! Tsk. Temper my boy… Izumi was in deep sleep right now. I just take over her body just to protect her." The strange woman explained. "Really I didn't expect her to call me again after all these years I've been in slumber."
Kouichi or Black Leo stared at the woman with dotted eyes. "So in other words… it'll take a long while for her to wake up?" he guessed.
"NEVER MIND THAT! JUST TELL US WHY THE HELL ARE YOU IN IZUMI'S BODY IN THE FIRST PLACE, YOU FREAKING WOMAN!" the lone wolf lad continued to yell at her.
Kazehime shot him her best icy cold stare at the lone wolf assassin lad, which causes Takuya, Tomoki and Junpei felt scared of her glare. Then again only Kouichi and Kouji were the ones weren't affected to her. The strange woman wasn't angry at Kouji's harsh word but she was staring at the lad's deep blue eyes. She could see some feeling within him.
"Shall we talk over some lemon tea?" Kazehime suggested. "I don't like to tell my story in a place like this."
The young assassin boys stared at the mysterious woman with slight of sweat-drop appearing above their heads while Kouji stared at her irritated. Kazehime stared back at the group of young assassin boys showing irritated look on her face then she glared at the lone wolf lad again. Although he wasn't affected to her glare instead he glared at her back.
"Okay… but when will she be waking up?" Junpei asked Kazehime curiously.
"I don't know it's up to her whether she wakes up or not." She replied coldly. "I didn't do anything to her when she called me, okay. Junpei, Takuya, Kouichi, Tomoki and Kouji."
"How do you know our names?" Takuya gasped.
"I'm part of her have you forget that means I know what happen and the names that Izumi knows." She replied then she looks at the lone wolf lad. "Including from what happened earlier before you Kouji left Izumi. If you know what I mean."
Kouichi blinked his eyes confusedly to what Kazehime said. "What does she means, Otouto?" he asked his brother.
"I don't know." Lied Kouji as his face turned red. "Damn woman."
"Err… right." Tomoki mumbled. "We should head back to Mishida-sama."
"Yah…" Takuya agreed.
As the assassin boys and the woman called Kazehime who was now taking over Izumi's body were heading back to their headquarter again and they were expecting to see their boss again, far away from the boys in the secret lair where the Shi no Akuma have hidden themselves away. DAESTRA was half covered with bandages over his body.
"Boss you shouldn't move or your body will get damage." His lackey warned him.
"SHUT UP! HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN I HAVE THE STRONG ELEMENT POWERS WITHIN ME! THAT MEANS I CAN HEAL MYSELF IN NO TIME!" DAESTRA yelled at him as he hit him using his power. "NOW LEAVE ME ALONE!"
DAESTRA's lackey was shaken in fear from his leader's threaten words yet he immediately obeyed what he told him. As he left him alone, the mysterious man had his evil smirk pasting to his lips then he was looking at his bare hands.
"That girl… she is perfect…" he whispered. "I'll get her powers."
Back to the headquarter again, Kouji has keeping his eyes close to the mysterious woman in case she did something nasty on their way back even Kouichi and Tomoki who also didn't trust her. Kazehime noticed at their attention but she ignored them then she saw Takuya was approaching Kourei.
"Mishida-sama is everything fixed?" Takuya asked.
"Yep… I erased everyone's memory about what happened minutes ago." Kourei grinned. "Also I put back the hole how it was before."
"That's good…" Junpei sighed in relief as he took off his mask.
Then Kourei noticed Kazehime's presence. "Is it me? Or has Izumi was different from the last time I saw her?" asked the leader of the boys.
"Unfortunately, Kourei-jisan… this woman isn't Izumi anymore she is Kazehime." Kouji said. "She's the soul of PROJECT DESTRUCTION."
"Relax… I won't attack you or anything, boys. I'm not really a coldhearted project as you believed in." Kazehime told them coolly. "Let's get inside of that room to discuss something."
The lone wolf lad was about to say something but then Takuya stopped him then he goes in the room. Later on, Kazehime, Tomoki, Junpei, Kouichi and Kourei followed the goggle head lad. Kouji sighed defeated then he followed then and closed the door.
"So what do you guys what to discuss about?" asked the woman.
"Isn't it obvious, woman… We want to know how you end up to Izumi's body!" yelled the lone wolf lad.
Kouichi held his twin brother's shoulders. "Easy there, Otouto. This isn't the time
"Do you really want to know so badly, everyone?" Kazehime hissed as she saw the boys nodded their heads. "I guess it can't be help."
Kazehime closes her eyes for a moment the scenery suddenly changed as the room faded away and turned into complete darkness. Later on, they were on some laboratory and they see many scientists were working on seriously.
"OH NO! WE'RE NOT SUPPOSE TO BE HERE!" Junpei shouted out panic ally.
"Relax Junpei everything you see are just illusion." She explained him. "This is also part of my… our power. It's better to show what happen than telling."
"Whoa! Everything was so real!" Kourei and Tomoki awed amazingly at their surroundings.
"This is the laboratory when I was born." She stated. "See that two scientists over there."
Kouji, Kouichi, Kourei, Takuya, Tomoki, and Junpei turned their attention to what the woman pointed out. To their surprise they see Izuko and Minoru were working together then they saw a body with mixture of dead human and animal body parts around the corpse. The two scientists were sad unlike the other scientists around them.
"Izuko… I don't think it's a right thing to do." Said Minoru with sad tone.
"So am I…" Izuko agreed. "I don't like putting all these dead corpses' body parts. Let's stop it."
"And that was my body…" she added as she pointed out the strange body. "Different wasn't it?"
"Whoa! Your body was different!" Takuya exclaimed surprisingly.
"QUIT THAT SAPPY PERVERT THOUGHT, KNUCKLE HEAD!" Kouichi scolded him.
"WHY ARE YOU CALLING ME 'KNUCKLE HEAD', KOUICHI?" yelled back the goggle head lad.
"So that's their reason why they discontinue…" Junpei whispered. "They don't like the idea to put body parts of dead people."
"Correct because of their huge mistake they decided to stop the project and begin with a new life." She explained.
Kouji watched the two scientists living their normal lives then the next thing he and his friends saw was in the hospital. Izuko was carrying a beautiful girl and Minoru was standing next to his wife looking at his first child.
"What shall we call this girl, dear?" Izuko asked him curiously while she was holding the baby.
"Izumi!" he glee happily at his wife. "It means spring. Suits her well right?"
"Izumi, huh? Not bad name you just take out Izu from my name and Mi from yours to form Izumi." Smiled the wife happily. "I'm so happy."
Minoru smiled continue smile at his wife then he looks at his first daughter. "Izumi… from now you will have a wonderful life." He said.
"I knew Izumi has a connection to her names from her parents!" exclaimed Kourei as his fist slammed to his palm. "Don't you agree with me boys!"
"…"
The boys continue watching them as they saw Izuko and Minoru were happily living their lives normal with little Izumi. They could see pure joy and happiness as they give and protected the scientists' daughter.
"But the following years something dreadful happen to Izumi." She stated out sadly.
"What?" Kourei and Kouichi gasped surprisingly.
"IZUMI?" Kouji gasped.
Again the scene changed as the boys could see little Izumi was in deeply coma. She was treated many sort of medicines that might save her life although none of them were helpful or they were just failures. The young girl was suffering the pain and the loss of her life. Her parents are trying their best to save their only daughter's life until…
"IT'S NO USE!" Izuko screamed. "VACCINES WEREN'T ENOUGH TO SAVE HER!"
"Don't scream like that, dear. We're not going to give up so easily." Minoru told her. "We've made a promise to her that we'll find the cure."
Izuko fell onto her knees and started to cry loud while Minoru curses secretly, gritting his teeth and punched his fist to the wall. They did their best to find a cure for little Izumi but everything they do were nothing. Later on, they noticed little Izumi was standing behind her parents.
"Otousan… Okasan… when will I can play?" little Izumi asked her parents innocently.
Izuko smiled at her daughter. "Soon, dear… right now we're still trying our best to find the best vaccine." She replied as she hugged her. "Please wait just a little bit more."
Kouji, Kouichi, Kourei, Takuya, Junpei, and Tomoki felt sorry and hurt of young Izumi's suffering. Now the lone wolf lad understand the true pain that she went to later on they see a different scene that aren't also plesant. Minoru and Izuko were talking one total stranger whom they seem to know him.
"I know a cure that may save your daughter's life." The stranger announced with an evil smile.
"IF YOUR THINKING OF PUTTING US BACK FROM THAT HORRIBLE PROJECT AFTER THE YEARS WE'VE DECLINE WE WON'T GO BACK!" Minoru yelled at the stranger angrily.
"But what if I say the only cure is to transfer the soul of this body to your daughter?" the stranger added.
"What? But that won't be easy!" Izuko yelled at him.
"Sadly I don't joke around… It's true to what I said that is the only cure for your daughter's life. Would you save your daughter or you rather not?"
Minoru gritted his teeth together while glaring at the mysterious man as he held to his shirt collar and even lay a punch on him although he couldn't hurt that stranger as his fist landed on the wall. The father was bursting in tears so as his wife as she held her husband's should probably try to cool him down.
"Alright." Izuko said. "We're going to do this but let me remind you that we're doing it to save our daughter!"
"Izuko…" Minoru whispered
"So it's decided then." He smirked. "Come to the same place… with your daughter along."
The scene of the mysterious man meeting the two scientists faded away so soon then the scenery changed into the same place where Kazehime was born. This time Izuko and Minoru were trying their best to put Kazehime to their sleeping daughter. The next thing that Kourei and the boys witnessed young Izumi cried loud and screaming in pain. Kouji stared at the screaming little girl shocking he shouted out to stop it although no one hears his scream after all they're only in the memories.
"That's how I got transferred to Izumi's body." Kazehime stated. "In order to save her life it was success and I was able to hold her body, although there are some test… horrible test."
"Like what?" Kourei shot her a question.
Kazehime didn't reply to the middle-aged man's question. Her purple cat eyes were filled of sadness as Kouji and Kouichi noticed. Then she waves her arms around as the scenery changes again this time they're seeing in some experimenting room somewhere in the laboratory. Then Kourei and the boys widening their eyes in shock what they're about to witness more. This time they're seeing little Izumi was being beaten or was put on many test causing the young girl suffered.
"These are the things they've used for experimenting… it was really cruel. Her parents tried to cancel it although they've failed." She explained.
"STOP IT THIS NONESENSE!" Izuko and Minoru screamed. "CAN'T YOU SEE SHE'S ALREADY SUFFER!"
"Okasan… Otousan…" little Izumi whispered.
Then the next thing they knew little Izumi's eyes changed as her sapphire blue eyes turn to pair of cat-purple eyes. Suddenly she growls angry at the other scientists including the mysterious man then she sprang and kills them one by one until only Izuko and Minoru were left.
"Izumi…" Izuko whispered softly while she was looking at her daughter.
"They're so cruel!" Kouichi gritted his teeth together "They have no sense of humanity they just treated her like… like…"
"An animal, Kouichi." Kazehime finished his sentence. "It can't be help that's how human nature was. Although Izuko and Minoru didn't get killed."
"Why?" Tomoki asked Kazehime.
"It's because I could sense their love for Izumi and they are greatly ashamed from what they did. So I didn't kill them." She replied.
"So how did Izuko and Minoru escaped?" Junpei asked her.
The scenery changed once more as it shown nighttime, Izuko and Minoru were wearing heavy cloak that covers their identity and their faces. Izuko was carrying the sleeping young girl inside her cloak and she was holding her tightly yet she tried her best not to wake her up.
"This is it, Izuko… our chance to get away in this place." Minoru told her. "Are you ready for this?"
Izuko nodded her head to her husband then she looks at the sleeping child. "Izumi… hang on." She whispered.
Izuko and Minoru managed to get through then they were able to escaped from the horrible laboratory. Then again they disappeared from the distance and they were never heard from anyone ever again. The next thing happened, Izuko and Minoru were living peacefully with little Izumi, as she was healthy again like a normal little girl.
"Strange…" Kouichi pointed out. "Doesn't she remember what happen when she was at the laboratory?"
Kazehime shuts her eyes again. "No in fact Izuko and Minoru use some machine to erase her memories when they're at the Laboratory…"
"Was that machine still alive?" Takuya and Kourei asked her.
"No… it was destroyed after they used it to Izumi." She replied,
"So… that's how everything happen." Kouji whispered softly as he was watching the young blonde haired beauty.
"That's how it happens." She added. "Now they've finally found their place they changed their lifestyle and they continue to live as doctors like before. Still…"
As Kazehime was about to say another word about Izumi's past but she didn't as she waves her hands in the air once more which causes to change another scenery once more. Kouji, Kourei, Kouichi, Takuya, Tomoki and Junpei looked at the scene carefully to witness what they're going to see this time. As they see little Izumi was happily playing in the sandbox while her parents were sitting at the bench as they are watching their smiling daughter.
Then the next thing they knew, they saw a mysterious hit man appeared somewhere above the building and he was holding a sniper. The gun was trying to aim at the young Izumi then Izuko and Minoru quickly saw it. Without any regret they ran towards their only daughter. The next thing Kouji and his friends knew the parents covered their daughter then two or more bullets aim at them. Later on, one man appeared behind the bushes while he was holding a gun and fires at Izuko and Minoru but he didn't get to see the young girl. Kouji, Kouichi, Kourei, Takuya, Tomoki and Junpei stared in horror while Kazehime looks away with sour face.
"That second man… he must be one of DAESTRA's lackey." Tomoki pointed out. "I saw that symbol from his arm!"
"So… which means they were hit numerous times." Whispered the elder twin lad.
"That's how Izumi ended up living in lies…" Kazehime concluded the story with sad tone.
Kouji was still staring at the young blonde haired beauty who was bursting out her tears to her beloved dead parents. She tried to wake them up although they didn't wake so she continues on crying. Later on, the scenery changed back to the room.
"I can't believe she was suffering all this time." Kouichi whispered showing pity to the blonde haired girl.
"Oi." Kouji called her. "Does Izumi know about you?"
Kazehime stared at the lone wolf lad still had her look sternly at him yet Kouji still wasn't affect to it. She could see his deep blue eyes were showing his concern for the certain blonde haired girl.
"She doesn't know yet." Kazehime concluded. "But I keep on watching her and shown up to her yet she still doesn't want know. No matter how many times I tried to tell her."
"So she couldn't accept it after all." Kourei whispered.
"However there is one clue that I could only say this only once." She announced seriously.
The boys and Kourei stared at the woman with serious look. "What?" they asked her.
Kazehime sighed softly. "Could you take out some snacks out I mean I'm hungry." She replied with irritated tone.
Then everyone except for Kouji fell down in anime style with a huge majority sweat-drop above their heads. The lone wolf lad fumed up angrily at the woman's words then he glared at her angrily although she wasn't affected to his glare.
"Anyway… aside from that. Kouji… I know you may be cold but could you look after her ok." She requested him.
"What do you mean?" Tomoki asked her.
Kazehime looked at the boys then she let out a small smirk, which the boys could see it. Kouji was confused to the strange woman's advice but then something hit on his head as he realize what she really meant. Before he could say another word, they saw no Kazehime instead they see Izumi who was back to her normal self yet they see her face was in shock.
"Izumi?" they gasped surprisingly.
End of Caught 1.1Kairi: Phew... I finally made it... I'd like to say that in April 29 will be my 3rd anniversary of my staying in this site. I think I was here since April 29, 2003. I'd like to thank the following reviewers who reviewed from my 10th chapter…
Luisa D., Destiny Flame, and catluv101.
By the way... to catluv101 if you're reading in this 11th chap. I want to thank you for reveiwing my fic. Also I'd like to correct you that my birthday is in May 23. Also it's my 3rd anniversarry for stayin in this site for long.. hope you like in this chap.
See you guys later!
