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Chapter 27) Flour Wars and Secrets shared

As the door clicked shut all eyes turned to Shin who claimed to have an idea. The smile on his face was both friendly and a bit mischievous. Everyone was waiting to hear what he would say and if it really would be as fun as the surprise water balloon fight.

"I think it would be best to keep things pretty simple. If we move the room around everyone could comfortably fit in here just to hang out, relax with games, or a movie." Shin suggested. "Though I'm not sure where we could go to make the snacks." Shin mused and Aisha smiled.

"That's easy. There's a communal cooking area, or a few we can just take over one." Aisha stated. This was an interesting idea and at least they would be setting up for something fun later.

"Considering that Anubis will be expecting something more I like this idea." Rajura smirked.

"Hmm, I'm more interested to watch you two try and make snack." Kayura smiled. "Though I think we should move the room around first." Kayura hopped off the couch she'd been sitting on and looked around the room.

"Hey we can put on some tunes as we work too." Musa smiled, and concentrated a little bit of magic on the tip of her finger before pointing at the stereo and taking control to put on some music. It was some of her favorite songs. One's you could move and dance to, and it seemed Aisha liked them as well. Aisha started dancing as Shu easily pushed the couch out of the way. Rajura and Naaza started moving the desks, and end tables, while Shin moved the floor lamps.

"Come on Kayura, let the boys do the heavy lifting, I wanna see your style?" Musa said pulling Kayura into the middle of the room. It was already cleared and the four guys were discussing how to make the most of the space. Kayura flushed a little and looked off to the side.

"I don't really know how to dance, it's not something my training ever brought up." Kayura admitted.

"Hey no problem. I'll show you." Aisha smiled and took Kayura's hand as she was moving. "It's easy just let your body move. Start by gently swaying, and it's okay to move your feet." Aisha instructed as she stepped in close and started dancing with Kayura.

"I'm not sure." Kayura stated as she tried to follow Aisha's instruction.

"Don't sweat it Kayura, you'll do fine." Musa said as she danced along to the music too. It was as she was dancing that she peaked out to the guys and saw the four had stopped to watch them. Musa grinned as the boys stared all wearing the same stunned look as they watched the three girls dance. No matter the guy there were just somethings that were predictable. Their stares didn't last too long as they went back to moving things around, except for Shin. Both Kayura and Aisha noticed the shy way he kept stealing glances at Musa as she dances and even sang with the music. Even more amusing was the knowing smile on Musa's face. Aisha shook her head, as it seemed Flora wasn't the only one interested in one of the ronin. Interestingly though the guys they normally saw around Alfea would have already tried to pick them up already. It was something that Aisha wondered about. Maybe she could ask one of them later.

Kayura was quickly becoming more and more confident, while the boys finished setting up the room. Well there was one more thing to put down and that was the long coffee table that borrowed out of the suite that the Warlords had so that they could all have a place to set plates when the time came. As the song finished the three woman jumped onto the couch laughing and allowing Naaza and Shu to put the coffee table down.

"Well that was fun."

"More for some than others." Rajura commented with a smirk, and Shin laughed. Even Naaza was chuckling at the light-heartedness that had overcome the room. It was nice to see the warlords enjoying themselves as it wasn't very often they engaged in activities like this. It made Kayura wonder would they do this again once this war was over.

"It wasn't all that bad. Though I guess we should now, go see what we can make for snacks." Shin chuckled.

"Okay but someone can help me up." Musa stated stretching out her hands with a smile. Her grin seemed to grow as Shin and Naaza each took a hand and easily hauled her up onto her feet. It was such an odd thing to consider but she was sure none of the specialist, except Riven when she'd been dating him, would have done this for her. Goofed around and humored her.

"So Torrent what is it that you have planned?" Naaza asked as he opened the door for the girls. Yet he couldn't help the mild annoyed growl as Shin just smiled and shrugged his shoulders.

"I told you. I figured it would be nice to make snacks." Shin finally chuckled and Naaza huffed. The girls chuckled at the exchange from the boys and as they left the room Musa paused to put a lock spell on the doors so that no one would see what they'd done with the step up of the room. It was suppose to be a surprise after all. It was a quick walk to the kitchen areas that could be used, and thankfully they had managed to find one that was free.

"The nice thing about the school is everything you could need is here, and they keep any baking supplies well stocked. And we are free to use it." Flora explained and Shin hummed watching as Aisha and Musa opened up the cupboards showing him what there was to work with. There was a lot of raw ingredients, and he had an idea.

"I think we should make everything mostly from scratch. We could easily make pizza, some dip for chips and something sweet for dessert."

"Maybe something with fruit in the center?" Flora asked and Shin nodded.

"Now this is sounding good." Shu said clapping his hands together.

"Okay so what do we need and who will work on what?" Musa asked and Shin looked around.

"I'll work with everyone and give help when anyone needs it. Flora why don't you, Rajura and Kayura would on the desserts. Shu, Naaza and Musa why don't you take care of the pizza, and Aisha we'll focus on the dip first and then help the others." Shin said dividing up the tasks evenly. As some worked to get what they needed for this project Musa went ahead and set up some music. Next the four girls tied back their hair was well as Rajura's, and even Shin pulled his hair back just to be safe.

"So should we do a spicy and non spicy dip?" Aisha asked Shin as she grated was of the mozzarella with Musa. They both needed it and would need a lot of it.

"I think that's a good idea." Shin smiled. He was working with Flora at the moment on the fruit filling that would go in the pastries. They had decided to do two types and go for black raspberry and cherry fillings. Shin was explaining each step that they took with adding each ingredient to the warm pot stirring it till it was thick and right where they needed it.

The music played and eight friends worked on each project. They had decided to make three pizzas one cheese, a veggie one and a meat lover's one, the dip was currently baking in the oven both the spicy and non spicy. Even the pastries were coming out well from the cookies to the small little pie like treats they were doing. Everyone had flour on their hands and smears of white on their cheeks or forehead. There was dusting of white hand prints on Shu's shirt and Naaza's pants from where the two had tried to dust off their pants. Bowls, and used utensils that were no longer needed had been pushed to the center of the work space so they all could work on the treats, for now.

"We need more of the white flour." Kayura said as she tried to pluck sticky pieces of dough off her fingers. It was a mystery to her how Shin seemed to enjoy this so much. It was Naaza who moved quietly around people to get it from the top shelf. Unlike the first bag they'd gotten down this one was pushed to the back and just out of normal reach.

"Can you reach it?" Shu asked noticing that the flour hadn't appeared yet.

"Of course I can Hardrock." Naaza said in a slight growl.

"I don't know maybe you could magic it down-"

"Hardrock I can handle this!" Naaza snapped finally brushing the bag with his fingers.

"Look out!" Aisha warned having looked over at the commotion. Her warning came too late as the flour tipped and Naaza was doused in a cloud of white. As the powder settled the whole room was quiet all wide eyes staring at the green haired warlord. Finally the stillness broke, laughter both hidden and not so hidden filled the air along with the music that was still playing. No one could keep from laughing as Naaza tried to rub the flour off his face, and brush it out of his hair. He set the half empty bag down on the counter and narrowed his eyes around the room.

"I told you so." Shu laughed clapping a hand on Naaza's shoulder. A white puff of flour dust raising with the action. Naaza glowered at Shu's gloating till he had an idea of fit revenge, dropping a handful of the flour over Shu. With more laughter erupting at the childish antic, it only encouraged Naaza to toss a handful across the counter at Rajura.

"Hey!" Aisha laughed as Rajura knocked into her trying to avoid the cloud of white like it was poisonous. Flora yelped as Shu decided to join the fun and tossed some flour at her.

"Boys knock it-" Kayura started, as she flicked the spoon that she'd forgot she was holding. "..." Kayura blinked wildly as the raspberry filling dotted her face, as well as Naaza and Shin. Shin dapped his finger in the filling that had gotten on his arm and grinned as he smeared it on Musa's shoulder.

"Shin!" Musa laughed and moved away while he laughed. Oh this meant war. The music fairy grabbed some of the unused shredded cheese and threw it at Shin. That was all any of them needed to grab anything they could and start throwing it at each other while trying not to make a huge mess. With the screams, laughter and loud comments about people cheating spectators had gathered in the doorway watching three of the famous wink, act like young adult having fun without a boyfriend.

"What is going on here!" Griselda bellowed and the three winx girls stopped immediately, and a moment later so did the boys and Kayura. "Look at this mess!"

"Sorry miss G. We just-"

"Just what Musa? You girls are suppose to be responsible adults by this point. Yet here you are indulging in childish-"

"Enough! What harm has truly happened?" Rajura spoke up defending the girls and shocking Griselda.

"Do not interrupt me young man. Your presence is barely tolerated as is!"

"Why because of our connection to earth?" Rajura challenged wanting to find the root of this bias against them.

"Because you are human and lack magic. You shouldn't be here, you couldn't even cross the barrier without Miss Faragonda." Griselda huffed.

"He couldn't but I could. Now unless you have a reason for this absurd scene please kindly leave. We will clean up here." Naaza snorted and Griselda blinked wildly. That was right Naaza and Kayura both passed through the barrier when the others couldn't.

"Miss, we are sorry for the trouble. I didn't think it would be wrong to have some fun, as long as everything was left as we found it." Shin smiled stepping up next. The girls looking around at the boys and Kayura and finding themselves feeling better.

"Yeah, dude this is our fault not theirs." Shu said as he rubbed his nose. "And well we won't do it again." Griselda looked even less thrilled now that the ronin and warlords were owning up to the mess but she didn't move towards them. Swiftly she turned and casted them one final look and warning.

"You better get this placed cleaned up." She warned and left, the younger fairies that had gathered had long scattered away.

"Wow… That could have been worse." Aisha said looking around the group.

"I like her." Kayura smiled and set her filling covered spoon back in the bowl she'd plucked it from.

"I still hate it when she scolds us like that. I always feel like I've messed up really badly." Flora stated looking down and Rajura touched her shoulder.

"You didn't mess up anything Lady Flora. It fact it has been a great pleasure being around you and your friends." Rajura smiled. "It has been a refreshing change." Rajura added after looking himself over. He was just as covered as everyone else here with flour and filling.

"Why don't you guys go shower off I'll put the rest of the stuff in to bake and clean up." Shin suggested.

"You sure man there's a lot here?" Shu asked looking around.

"I'm sure, besides you'll just make it worse and start another game. That how you are." Shin smiled.

"Ouch man, that hurts." Shu feigned being hurt by the rather truthful comment.

"I'll stay and help Shin." Musa said levitating a broom to her to tackle the flour mess. "It'll go faster, plus I know where everything goes." Musa pointed out and Shin nodded conceding to let her help him.

"Well have fun both of you I'm planning on a nice warm bath." Kayura smirked and stretched. As the group was leaving Shu was looking back over his shoulder at Shin and Musa. He chuckled and shook his head. It was amazing how far the girls had come in trusting them, and amazing how strong and kind hearted they were too.

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It was as the sun was setting that everyone was gathering back together. The topic of Stella's new powers had been decidedly tabled for the night in favor of relaxing, mostly at Stella's insistence. It seemed trying out her new strength from this unknown form against Seiji and Anubis had been tiring for all three. Stella had already complained to Bloom while she freshened up after the workout. Right now everyone was settling into the room which had been nicely arranged so that everyone would have a spot around the table surfaces and view of the entertainment system if they wanted to watch a movie or play a game. Both were highly tempting to the group. For now they were were munching on the dip chips and pizza, idly chatting while Ryo and Tecna picked up the cards from their last game. Tecna had won, but Ryo volunteered to clean up. Now they were working together while everyone else lounged..

Aisha had fallen rather quiet wondering about Naaza and Kayura. None of them had really thought on it but now with it being pointed out a second time. Sure Naaza seemed slightly different from the others, like the fact his eyes were well, almost scary. Black beady slits for his pupils and no iris, it was creepy and unnerving but Aisha had learned through her time with him and Anubis, that Naaza was a sweet man. He wasn't like Shin always doting or worried about your comfort, or Ryo and Shu who would gladly take your burden for you. Naaza was sweet because he didn't treat her any different than he did Kayura, Anubis, Rajura or even any of the ronin. Aisha turned her dark blue green eyes to Naaza who was sitting next to Roxy munching on a slice of pizza.

"Is something on your mind Aisha?" Shin asked as he sat next to her. It was uncanny how he could tell when one of them was feeling pensive or bothered.

"Well yeah, I guess I was just thinking about when you guys passed through the barrier. How Miss F had to let most of you through but Naaza and Kayura were able to pass through without a problem." Aisha stated and a quiet hush fell over the room. While the girls were curious, for the first time since they'd meet the ronin there was clearly an uncertain silence over the group.

"It is because Kayura is a member of the Ancient Clan, and they were a clan of mystics gifted with power." Naaza spoke up. The tension among the ronin and warlords was still clear as Naaza spoke. "As for I…" Naaza's voice dropped as did his gaze a hint of uncertainty on his face. "I am part demon, and therefore not entirely human." Naaza stated and the girls looked around each other.

"But didn't you tell us that Arago is a demons?" Tecna asked.

"Yeah and weren't those freaky look-a-like goons demons too?" Stella asked remembering the things that had been with Darcy when they had stepped into the nether realm.

"Yes they are also demons." Rajura answered a tension in his voice as he waited for the reaction of their new allies.

"But would a demon stand out on earth?" Flora wondered, after all they'd been lead to believe before they helped Roxy magic was practically gone from earth.

"It probably would of, but Naaza like Anubis and Rajura are from feudal Japan era. Thanks to the distortion of time in the nether realm they haven't truly aged." Touma said logically answering Flora inquiry. "Tales of demons, and magic are far more prominent the further back in time you go for earth. Something that has always been a curiosity." Touma said folding his hands under his chin and leaning on the coffee table from his spot on the floor. He had to admit it was easy to say that magic was the excuse man used to define the science he didn't yet understand in the past. Now though he wondered if magic had been a larger part of earth long, long ago than he had originally given credit for. It very possible after meeting Roxy and Bloom and them, that more legends and stories were in truth, fact hiding in plain sight.

Roxy and Bloom knew better than the others the ideas that earth held on demons. How they were believed to be evil and more times than not the villains in a story, or movie. Having gone to Alfea they had found more mentions of demons, along with other creatures of darkness. For all of the girls they could recall lessons of evils that existed with no light in them. The examples they knew of creatures like this had been the army of darkness that the trix had summoned Bloom's first year here. The girls looked at each other as they all came to the same decision on the secret that had just been shared with them.

"Were you worried about us not taking that well?" Bloom asked and Naaza nodded slowly.

"Yes, it isn't something that is well accepted." Naaza admitted and it was the truth.

"It doesn't' matter to us. You're still the same person." Roxy smiled and patted Naaza arm.

"Roxy's right, being a demon doesn't change who you are. Though it might explain why you are a little off." Stella smiled, and was nudged for by Tecna for her brutally honest observation. "What? He is!" Yet Stella's comment seemed to draw a small smile from the warlord of Fall.

"If that is the worst that is said, I think I will live." Naaza said with a small but grateful smile gracing his lips, and the easy that had been in the room at the start of the night returned.

"Well since that's all settled. I say we have some fun." Musa smiled using magic to turn up the music. It didn't take long for floor space to be cleared and for Aisha, Kayura and Musa to start dancing while everyone else clapped and cheered them on. As thing went on they'd broken into smaller groups before eventually parting for the night, everyone feeling refreshed and ready for whatever tricks were sure to come their way.