Chapter 4

He had finally arrived at their location with the injured little hell-cat in his arms, struggling for him to release her and for some reason her anger kind of turned him on. What in the world was this girl doing to him? Well, whatever it was, he most certainly was not prepared for it as Ren Tsuruga and Kuon Hizuri was having just as difficult of a time. He just couldn't keep his true nature from trying to escape those bonds when she was around. Perhaps it would be best if he avoided her or, at least stepped away for a moment to gather himself and analyze the situation.

"Yashiro-san, would you mind helping her out while I speak to Director Shingai?" Ren asked as he approached his manager.

"Of course, what happened?" Yashiro asked with the curiosity still eating at his mind after witnessing the female's behavior toward his charge.

Ren sighed. "It seems as though she has injured her ankle on the way up and our leading "lady" left her there on the path to fend for herself."

"Ah, I'll take care of her." So that's why she was so irritated. Yashiro pondered inwardly.

Ren gave him a small smile of thanks. "Thank you."

{"You know what Mother would say don't you Brother?" His twin smirked sinisterly and Deimos groaned.

Here we go again. He's never going to stop with the teasing. "Do tell Phobos... What exactly would Mother say?" He asked with irritation, regretting his words the moment they left his mouth.

"You. are. in. love..." His voice lilted playfully, teasing and jabbing him in the ribs with his elbow.

"The woman is irritating and she's a nuisance on the battlefield. Music has no place in such a situation. She's bullheaded, strong-willed and the fact that my power has no effect on her disturbs me. She smells too nice and her skin is too soft." He finished gruffly with a look Phobos had never in all of their existence had seen on him.

Phobos' eyes went wide and he gasped at the revelation. "By the blood of Tartarus! You are in love!"}

Yukihito glanced back at his charge and then at the girl whose ankle he was wrapping. These strange visions he had been having for the past couple of weeks were disturbing him. Perhaps it was some kind of brain addling virus going around or, something. He mentally shook off the last little bits of the vision.

"Umm.." The now sweetly behaving female started as he finished up with her bandage.

He fastened the little clips on the wrap and examined his work. "That should do it, for now."

"Thank you, Umm..." She said quietly.

He looked up and smiled at her. "I'm Yashiro."

"Thank you, Yashiro-san." She said shyly.

Ren stood in the lounge as they waited on Ruriko-chan, trying to piece together the foreign images that had flashed into his mind since his strange loss of time outside of Lory's office. He just couldn't figure out what the hell was going on and couldn't make any sense out of them. He couldn't be doing this right now, there were far too many things going on in his life for something like this to start up.

"Um..." He felt a tug on his sleeve and the overwhelming desire to snap a neck so, he fought it and just pasted on his signature smile.

"Ah... It's Ruriko-chan. You're finally here." He smiled brighter. "I was getting tired of waiting for you."

She was stunned to silence and shivered at what she now saw as a not so friendly smile.

He sighed and shook his head once she stomped off in anger; although, it was quite amusing when he saw his manager and the LoveMe girl carry her back like an oversized sack of potatoes. Yes, so far, that had to be the highlight of this disastrous day.

"I see the turtle who didn't go to the hospital." He smirked inwardly at the jab. At least he had this little form of entertainment today.

"The lard goes to a suspicious circle of inexpensive pancakes?" Kyoko repeated in confusion what she thought she had heard from him. Is he crazy?

"I said that I see the turtle who didn't go to the hospital..." Ren repeated making sure she understood every syllable.

"I am not a turtle!" She huffed indignantly. "I can still walk if I don't use my left leg." She suddenly felt a pair of hands in the middle of her back, shoving her to the ground, forcing her to put unnecessary pressure on her damaged ankle.

Ren and the director quickly knelt to check on her to make sure she wasn't further injured. "What? It's not as if you're really hurt! You were obviously pretending to be hurt to get Tsuruga-san's attention. SO DISGUSTING!" Ruriko screamed at her in anger and jealousy.

"Hey, are you okay?" Ren asked softly with worry as he watched Kyoko shiver in pain, covering her face. He could feel the anger as is ebbed into his mind.

"Tripping while we were coming up here had to be another one of your disgusting little plots for attention." She bit out with arrogance shining in her voice, thinking that she was revealing something that the LoveMe member didn't want the world to know. "You must really like him to be throwing yourself at him like that."

This was the very last straw. The arrogant little diva was seconds away from either becoming a permanent decoration in the ryokan's garden or, a nice meal for a very large reptile. No! I cannot expose us. Father warned me. "Are you talking about yourself?" A sinister female voice filled Ruriko's mind as the room felt heavy and fell silent.

"Ruriko-chan...You took it too far... Apologize now." The director commanded in a voice filled with disappointment and anger.

A shiver of dread shot up her spine when Ren shot her a heated glare. This isn't how it's supposed to be! What the heck? Why is everyone on her side?! Ruriko fumed.

"Sorry about all of this." Director Shingai said softly to Kyoko.

Kyoko sighed tiredly. It had taken a lot out of her to fight off her primal urges for retribution against the deserving creature at her Father's behest. One did not go against the commands of the King of the gods and come away unscathed. She would fight as hard as she could to keep from turning the girl into a lawn ornament or, rat. "No need..."

{"There, you shouldn't have been out here in the first place." He scolded as he hoisted her to the back of his horse and led it to the encampment. "You're lucky it was only your wrist." His voice was filled with what she could only describe as worry.

She nodded quietly. "I'm sorry, but it's what I have to do. I cannot help my nature. I am drawn to them no matter where they are." She explained quietly.

He sighed and nodded. "I suppose I understand." He did. He had felt that same type of pull many times himself when he was around mortals.}

Ren offered his hand and helped her up from the floor, which incensed Ruriko from a slow simmer to a full boil under the surface. At this point her jealousy was in full force with no abatement in sight.

"Thank you." Kyoko mumbled.

As the pair quietly stood off to the side, they both pondered the vision that they unknowingly shared. One in confusion and the other in sadness and longing.

Lory smiled brightly in his office as the feeling washed over him. "This is quite unexpected. Another two have started to awaken. I wonder who they are?" He rubbed his hands together in glee. It was exciting, like finally starting to see the partial picture of a puzzle one was putting together or, perhaps more like a game of hide and seek in this case. Yes, that's exactly what this was, the gods playing hide and seek and at the moment, Zeus was it.

"Ruto, we have two more family members here." He announced.

"Do we know who they are yet, Father?" He asked.

Lory shook his head. "No, but that's part of the fun of it. The discovery."