Chapter 7

I looked at myself. I don't remember anytime when I felt something flow throughout my body—that's not true. Before we left, I asked chaos if he needed a hug. When he grabbed my hand, he must've done it.

"How did you do it?" I asked. "Data is very… difficult to fuse with another's body. Data is more for computers, isn't it?"

"Right," Fayte agreed. "How did you get it in her and how did you know that it'd actually go in her?"

"The aura she gave off, is similar to the readings of the Y Data," chaos replied. "Of course, Albedo doesn't know that the real Y Data is no longer in MOMO, but now inside Sumina. I thought, maybe, Sumina was a realian that was dropped here on Earth, but I don't think she is anymore. She's just human."

I nodded, but maybe the Y Data is what also gave me that extra boost in our battle with Albedo. I fainted to find where chaos had hidden the Y Data within me. I was still conscious, I could hear what everyone was saying, I just was looking throughout my mind and soul to see where it had gone.

"Sumina! Why'd she faint?" I heard Ta say. I wandered, looking through the doors of my mind.

"Maybe she was still tired from her last battle," Onii-chan said.

"I think… she's looking to see where I had placed the Y Data," chaos replied, stroking my hair softly. I looked around some more, no longer paying attention to what anyone was saying.

I found it, and it was extraordinary. I couldn't understand it, but it was a bunch of numbers spiraling within each other and around in a ball. In a way, it was beautiful.

I opened my eyes and got up. "I see, I see," I said, shaking my head. "Amazing chaos, but if you needed the Y Data, why did you put it somewhere else? Couldn't have you just give it to whoever you needed to give it to?"

He frowned. "I… don't know how to reach home and within the time it takes me to find the way home, I could lose it. It was all I could do," he replied seriously. I smiled.

"It's alright. I saw it, it's beautiful," I said, still smiling. He was in that trance again, like he was staring through my soul. He smiled also.

"I'm glad you think it's so beautiful. Can you read it?" he asked.

I shook my head. "No, I can't."

"Who can then?" Ta asked, confused. "We'd need some super computer to take it out and then a genius to figure it out…"

"How do you plan to take it out of Sumina?" Fayte asked, serious. I could tell he was worried too. He's almost as protective of me as he is his sister.

"Since there can be no traps within Sumina's soul, there should be no problem to getting it out," chaos said. "Not like MOMO."

"What do you mean, not like MOMO?" Ta asked.

I could sense chaos give off a, 'I'd like to keep this stuff to myself' aura, although his face showed a calm smile. I interrupted.

"Let's just skip this and uhh… go on to how we can protect ourselves from Albedo," I replied. "Except for you Ta, Albedo will need to figure out how to protect himself from you."

Ta puffed out her cheek and sighed it out. "Fine, fine. He doesn't sound that cute, alright?"

I called up an illusion cast by my magic. The illusion was Albedo and my memory of fighting him. "I know a lot more about him than I rather would. First, he can regenerate—"

The scene of me flinging his head off popped up, and I instantly glanced at Fayte. He seemed all right. I hope he was. Ta gasped, however. And then she became silent as soon as his head came back.

"Second, he has more physical strength than I do. A lot more," I continued, showing how he held me to suck out my memory. "And he has the ability to suck out memories and keep them as well. Which is probably the way he'll try to suck out the Y Data."

chaos seemed to want to say something, but I continued on. "Also, it's very dangerous for any of us to be alone because Albedo could use us as bait, and I guess he does have the will to kill. He'll kill any of us at anytime or use us as bait, then kill us all."

Fayte nodded and Ta did the same, holding her ferrets close to her. "So… we'll have to stay here," I said finally. "I can't have any of us die and chaos needs as much protection as we do now. One more thing…"

I smiled happily as the illusion of Onii-chan pushed Albedo aside to save me. "Onii-chan… is either as strong or a little stronger than Albedo is, so we all have a chance."

Ta stared into the illusion as it was played over and over until I changed it. "Senichi-sama, you saved Sumina? Oh wow! My bro is a ladies' man!"

Although, this made absolutely no sense to me, I still blushed. Onii-chan sent a glare to Ta and she shut up, while chaos sat there silently, watching Fayte push Albedo away over and over again.

"Wait…"

We all stared at him, confused.

"Slow motion it, Sumina," he said. I did as he said. He watched it over and pointed at something, I instantly stopped the illusion.

"Look at that," he said, pointing at Albedo's side. I didn't see anything strange. "Albedo, he should've known that Fayte was there."

"And…?" I said.

"Maybe… Fayte is hurt," he answered. I stared at Fayte, worried.

"Onii-chan!" I said worried. "Oh no, what are we going to do?"

"Look here," chaos said, pointing at a thin faint yellow going from Albedo to

Fayte. "Something is inside you, Fayte. And… you are his bait now."

I gasped, shaking my head. Ta did the same. "No," I said. "I'll fix him. I can fix anything… almost. Just tell me what could be wrong."

"I don't know, Sumina," chaos replied.

"Nar'ne un varn'mun ke kan a. Un ve que se'kun'van darsh. Hani? Hani?" I replied angrily. Everyone looked at me strangely and I knew why. I must've spoken in my language again. "Sorry, sorry. I'm used to talking in that language. I never really spoke to anyone since I came here."

"Yeah… err, what did you say?" Ta asked worried.

"Nothing you want to know," I said. Anger flowed throughout my body again. I shut my eyes in my anger. I didn't know it then, but I gave out this sickening aura that made everyone want to puke. My eyes turned golden and my pupils sharp. "Curse you, Albedo…"

My aura was flowing out of my body now, making my hair levitate a few millimeters. I felt a hand on my shoulder, looking up; it was Onii-chan. He smiled softly and whispered the two words that probably would've only been able to stop me. "It's alright."

"No, it's not," I choked out, my aura decreased gradually. "I was weak, so I couldn't help myself. Then, you came in and now you've got something inside you. I can try and find it, but it'll feel weird to feel my presence in your body, not to mention there will be the chance that our minds would link and we would hear each other's thoughts in the real world."

"I don't know you'd want to then," Ta commented, grimacing. "There are a lot of things in that sick mind of his…"

I stared, confused. Did she mean, like, bugs? Bugs are gross. "Err, yeah. Thanks for being our comic relief gal this chapter," I replied.

"What?"

"Anyway," Fayte said, interrupting the both of us. His face was quiet a shade of red. "Sumina, there isn't any chance that I would die, right?"

"I don't think so," I replied, thinking it over. "The only way you could die is if I wanted you to. The only worry would be our minds linking."

"The only worry? Are there more consequences to this that you think wouldn't make us worry?" chaos asked. "What are the other chances?"
"There aren't many," I replied. "The most worse one after our minds linking is probably me learning about Onii-chan's past. Well, not all of it, but bits and pieces. Nothing more."

"Anything else?" Fayte asked. I knew he'd be the one worrying the most because I was going inside of him."

"Nope," I replied, lying. "Nothing that has to go on about your safety."

"What about yours?" chaos asked, his eyes reading my soul. I shook my head.

"There isn't anything that will hurt me," I replied. In my head I added, "to the point of death anyway. Unless Fayte died already, which I doubt."

"You're hiding something," Ta said, pouting. "I know that look in your eye when you lie. C'mon tell. Tell."

"Nothing, honest," I replied. Instantly, a pulse of Onii-chan's aura hit my senses. The aura he gave off was one of worrying, of both himself and me. I nodded my head reluctantly. "Alright… there is one thing…"

"Is it going to harm you in any way?" Fayte asked. I shook my head.

"I only feel what you feel," I replied. "It's nothing much. It's just a mental task for me. If I can't go any farther… I'll leave your mind. I promise."

"How will we know you're still alive?"

"I can communicate with Onii-chan. When I go into his body, we're one," I responded. "Of course, he can say things out loud or in his head, but when I go through his memories, they're going to come back to him too. I'll find it though, and just get rid of it."

"You can get rid of it also?" Ta asked. "But I thought you could just see what's wrong."

"I can do a lot of things," I replied smiling happily. "Any last words?"

"Come back," chaos replied. "When you find it, come back. Don't try and cure it until we know what it is. There may be a way to without you having to cure it."

"Okay."

"Promise it," chaos said, his voice stern. I nodded.

"I promise!" I said, nodding. "One more thing, once I link minds with Onii-chan, I can find my way back to my body. So I don't have to be resting on Onii-chan the whole time. Just leave my body on my bed and I'll be just fine."

"What?"

I rested my forehead on Onii-chan and whispered in my mind the words to enter his body. My soul departed my body and went into Fayte's. I opened my eyes; I was in his mind now.

It was really weird to be one with Onii-chan. I walked through the hallway, thinking of where Albedo would've put whatever he put inside of Onii-chan. I walked silently until Fayte contacted me.

"Sumina, are you alright?"

"Yes, Onii-chan."

"Find anything yet?"

"No, Onii-chan," I replied, opening a door to his mind. A flash back hit me. It went by so fast I couldn't even remember what it was. I shook my head. "It's not in there…"

I felt a pulse; I didn't know what it was. It felt… strange. "Onii-chan… did you feel that?"

"Feel what?"

"Never mind," I replied. I sprinted off towards the direction of where I thought the pulse was coming from. I ended up crashing into a door. I felt another pulse. I was sure it was through this door this time. I stopped myself from turning the knob. What if he didn't want me to find something out and it was through this door? "Onii-chan…?"

"Yeah?"

"Can I… open this door?" I asked politely and softly. "I feel… like maybe you don't want me to."

"I don't even know what door you're going through… and there are doors in my mind?" he asked, confused.

"I'll explain later, but… brace yourself… maybe, it might not be the best memory," I replied. I hesitated before I turned the doorknob. I pushed open softly and looked inside. "Onii-chan…"

It was the two of us… when we were little. I was a mess… a big mess. I lived in the wilderness because I couldn't go anywhere else. I felt warm tears go down my face as I watched myself become a little warmer to the boy I once thought was prying.

I felt my heart flutter with happiness with what I saw. If Kyohei had seen all this, he would've went after Fayte right on the spot.

"I feel… safe again," I heard my younger self say. "Onii-chan… thank you."

I felt so many emotions within me, a combination of Fayte's and my own. Then, I saw it. It was a gnosis, a thin ghostly one with a long black robe and markings streaking down the right arm. "What the fudge nugget are you?" I asked it. It charged for me, seeing something it could hurt.

I dodged it and charged up my magic for a clear shot. I hesitated. "chaos told me to come back. I promised."

I pointed at the gnosis. "YOU AND ME, LATER, AT THE BIKE RACKS!"

At that statement, I left Fayte's mind and floated to my own. I got up, blinking. It took a short second to get used to my own body again. Remembering how my mission turned out, I grinned. "I found it… and we're meeting at the bike racks…"

End of Chapter 7

Author's Notes: What Sumina said was partially like... "Well... what are you going to do about it?HUH? HUH?" This chapter was weird, but I like it. XD Although, chaos and Albedo are the only characters in this fic... for now.