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Jewel noticed the boy and put down her head while kind of trying to hide behind Lloyd. She'd never been able to play with any kids her age before because they always were scared or just made fun of her. She looked up to see that Lloyd had an irritated look on his face. It made her want to hide more until Jewel heard him sigh and saw him just shake his head and grin. Lloyd then said "Guess you get to meet another person…or child anyway," She saw Kichiro glare at him and Lloyd give him a look as if daring him to say something.

"Lloyd be nice." Mika shot back at him for the remark he made toward Kichiro. He went back to eating his ramen and she walked over towards the little girl for an introduction, "Jewel this is Kichiro; Kichiro this is Jewel."

Jewel just sat there watching her hands in her lap until Kichiro spoke up. "Hi! So…wanna draw or something? Mika can get us some paper and stuff." She shyly nodded her head and Kichiro instantly pulled her by the arm and over to one of the tables, the bar counters weren't all that easy to draw on, while Mika just shook her head and grabbed some papers and pencils for them.

Noticing that Jewel had barely eaten any of the ramen she grabbed the bowl and set it on the table by her. 'Kichiro dragged her off so fast she barely had time to eat anything.' The girl looked at the bowl and then Mika and just smiled. Smiling back she turned and went over to sit with Lloyd. 'Well he eats quick. Probably has his head in the clouds.' He had a blank look on his face. 'Must not be something too important then.'

"Lloyd," Mika gave a quick yell causing him to jump.

"What did you do that for?" He asked irritated.

Trying not to bust out laughing she answered, "Just though it'd be funny," Lloyd glared. "So what were you thinking about?"

"About what the hell I'm going to do with this girl."

"Take her with you when you leave. She seems to get along with you pretty well."

"The thing is, is I'm not real good with kids."

"So, she'll probably grow on you before you have to leave."

"And what makes you think this?"

"First off you can't just dump her off somewhere, unless your just some cold-hearted bastard. Second she's not staying with me, I've already got a handful. Third you're the one who found her, so it's your responsibility to take care of her."

"Great, I become a dad after two minutes instead of nine months of patience," they both got a laugh out of this.

Mika turned around on the stool to watch the kids draw. She heard Kichiro asking her all kinds of questions, but she didn't seem to be answering any off them. Then she began to feel a strange aura around the girl, like her powers were about to be unleashed. "Lloyd…"

"Yeah"

"You do know that…"

"What?"

"No, never mind"

Lloyd become really confused then. 'What did she want?' He looked at her and noticed she seemed to be really concentrating on Jewel. After a few minutes of pondering it though he began to get a head-ache. "I'm going back upstairs to my room"

He was just getting off the seat when Mika said, "Take her with you to."

He just stared at Mika. 'She has that same look on her face, except her eyes…they look as if to have a direct look of disturbance in them.' He was puzzled again, but all it was doing was giving him an even worse head-ache. He agreed and walked over to Jewel and told her it was time to go up to the room for a little bit. She stood up, grabbed her drawing, waved goodbye towards Mika and Kichiro, and followed Lloyd up to the room.

"Mika?" Kichiro said after they were upstairs.

"Yeah," she could still 'feel' the danger in the air from Jewel's aura. It was giving her goose bumps.

"That girl, she was a Nicedge. I don't think she can control her powers at all though."

In a childish, yet sweet, tone Mika asked, "And why do you say that?"

"Her energy felt almost as powerful as yours…but that's just about impossible."

"Kichiro, nothings impossible," Mika was about to head towards the room when B.T. walk back in the bar. "And where have you been?"

"Oh, I had to get some supplies and stuff. Are you singing tonight?"

"Yeah I am. Oh, and Lloyd found a little girl in the streets. He's going to be taking care of her now."

"Really now, hmm…don't suppose I can charge him for the extra person," joked B.T.

"I don't know, maybe," Mika smirked. "Hey Kichiro can you go get Yasu and Jen? Their singing with me tonight."

"Sure, it'll give me something better to do instead of sitting here all day," as soon as that was said he ran off to find the two girls.

"That boy is goin' to get himself into a lot of trouble someday," B.T. predicted.

"Who knows. Maybe his little habits will be broken someday," she sighed. "For now though, he as good as it comes."

"I guess so. Mika you look a bit shaken, what happened."

"It the girl that Lloyd found."

"What about her?"

"Well that the problem, she a Nicedge."

"So are you."

"Yeah but this is different. She can't control her nature power. While Kichiro and her where drawing her aura kept getting stronger and stronger, probably the strongest aura I've felt in years," just thinking about it gave her goose bumps.

"So she'll be real powerful once she can control her power then. This Lloyd guy, so far he doesn't seem so bad. Maybe he's not here to kill you."

"Yeah, Kichiro said the same thing. That if he was here to kill me he would've done it already."

And adding more to the idea of Lloyd not attacking yet B.T. said, "That and he would've never gone near that girl."

"True, but when I sing tonight he'll definitely know I'm a Nicedge. I have too much trouble controlling my aura when I speak a lot," this gave then both a chuckle. "Well whenever the girls get here just send them up too my room 'along' with Kichiro, ok?"

"Ok," agreed B.T., even though he probably will just keep Kichiro down to help with some cooking and cleaning. So with that Mika headed back up to her room to think some things through.

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