Authoress Note: Well...this is awkward. I promise I didn't mean to take this long to update! But I did...SORRY! Anywho I'm gonna stop talking cause I'm sure you didn't come here to listen to me drone on and on and on and I'm droning...

Chapter Eight : Homecoming

Tea's POV

"Alright Joey, you have my attention until seven because I have to go somewhere." Will warned as soon as she walked in though door.

I giggled and looked at Yugi, rolling my eyes. "Where are you going?"

"Somewhere..." she answered looking away.

As much as I like her as a friend she just has so many secrets! Oh well I'll wait till she's ready to tell me because that's what friendship is! As she passed by me I smelled something emitting from her jacket, it smelled like...cologne. Does she has a boyfriend? I'll ask Bri maybe she'll know, I turn towards Bri whose also noticed the smell and looks like she's about to murder Will. Thinking about the smell I realize that it's really familiar, but who wore that? Wait wasn't it...Kaiba?! No way, our Will is dating that jerk?! I shivered at the thought, maybe I should check things out before I jump to conclusions.

Will's POV

"Willow can I talk to you?" Bri growls into my ear.

I flinch and nod before following her out into the hallway, once outside she corners me and glares.

"I know you told him that you are a Guardian, but now you're going past the boundaries you can't keep talking and keeping in contact with him. You'll put him in danger!"

"He's not stupid!" I exclaimed.

Bri stares at me because of my fierceness, she narrows her eyes before opening them wide. "You like him!"

I blushed slightly and look away from her eyes, she just turns my head back and looks at me. "You really do like him. Holy shit Will! You have the same look I did when I liked Danny, oh shit what are we going to tell Dante? How do we let a human become one of us? Unless he allows us to change him or make him into a Guardian. Out of all guys in the world you pick a human, a fucking human! Will are you sure?! Please tell me you're not, please!"

I turn away tears fighting to show themselves, but I won't let them. "I'm sure."

"Oh god please no."

"I've gotta go, I'll be back later." I mumbled pushing away from Bri and running out the door of the game shop.

I don't stop running until I get to the cemetery where I fall to my knees in front of Aria's tombstone. Tears fall down my face and I look down before sobbing my problems to her. I know she's dead and she can't hear me but sometimes it feels like she's still her and not gone, like my older sister is comforting me through my problems.

"Will...?"

I wipe away the tears and look around, nobody's here.

"Willow." the voice says again. "My sweet Willow. Don't worry, I'm still with you and the family and no matter what we will all support you. Now Little Dragon get up and go back, I shall be back don't worry."

I open my eyes and sit up from the ground, how did I fall asleep? Wait did I fall asleep? That must be it a trick of my tired mind, nothing else. After all Aria is dead. But that voice, it sounded like hers, sweet, loving, caring but stern and she called me Little Dragon, something only Aria and Dante had done. Suddenly I felt as though the spirit was leaving, my heart clenched up and I looked around.

"Please don't go." I whisper.

"I'm not leaving forever, I'll be back before you know it, but if you need me before that just use this." the voice is back. I feel a slight pressure against my neck and I looked down to see a blue and white necklace with a pair of dragon wings sprouting from the heart in the middle.

"Thank you, Cotton." I gasped.

Cotton was Aria's nickname, it was given to her after she ate three bags of cotton candy without throwing up or being scared by it. Little Dragon is my nickname because when I was little I loved anything to do with dragons, specifically the Blue Eyes White Dragon. Dante was given Bro-sama since the Aria, Bri and I had been in love with Japanese things and Bri was known as Inferno because of her love for the Red Eyes Black Dragon.

Grinning I walked back to Yugi's place, so what if I was falling for a human. I can make this work, after all I'm Willow Kisa Night, I fight for what I want and most of the time I will get it.

"Jeez Will where did you go?" Mana asked throwing her arms around me.

I laughed "Just to visit someone."

"Oh okay come watch with us." Mana giggled.

"Who?" Bri asked.

"Cotton." I shrugged and played with the necklace around my neck.

"Oh." Bri and Mana whisper.

"What time is it?" I asked.

"Umm about six fifty five..." Joey drawls.

"It's what?!" Mana, Bridget and I scream running out the door of the game shop saying our goodbyes.

Mahad's POV

"Where are they?!" Dante yelled at me.

I gritted my teeth and glared at my younger cousin "Patience! You can't expect them right away!"

Under my breath I muttered "How are you the ninth ranked without patience?!"

Dante shot his best glare at me, one that would have an average human man trembling with fear, but to me it wasn't more than a three year old enfant glare. "I heard that." He grumbled.

"I don't care either way, oh and turn down your music I can hear it from here!" I said.

"Oh really?! Then maybe I should turn it up louder! That way I won't be able to hear your bullshit!" Dante shot back.

This is our way of showing that we care for each other...insults.

"At least I don't look like bullshit." I retorted walking up and flicking his gray hair out of his face.

He smirked and grabbed my hand attempting to bend it back. I kicked him in the shin and unhooked my wrist from his grip. His leg kicked out from the ground and I jumped barley avoiding it. Dante got up off the ground and grabbed me in a head lock. I laughed and pushed him off with a small struggle.

"Oh its on." Dante growled.

"Of course it is." I grinned.

"YO IDIOTS!"

Will's POV.

"YO IDIOTS!" Bri called out jumping towards them.

I put on my best pout after I jumped down from the tree I was in. "Aww you just ruined it."

Mana giggled "I think that's a good thing."

I looked at the Dante and laughed "True. Dante you were getting creamed."

"Shut up." He groaned.

Mahad was staring at Mana who seemed to notice him after a little bit of staring she flung herself into his arms. I jumped back slightly so that I wasn't hit by her. While the two embraced Dante, Bri and I felt a little awkward watching them. Turning on our heels we started walking towards the Academy.

"Fuck!" Dante said before looking around in his pockets.

I face palmed "You forgot the key didn't you?"

"No, Mahad has it."

"So what we have to wait here for him?!" Bri asked.

Dante scratched the back of his head "Yeah."

I turned to face him before raising my hand and slapping the back of his head. "Moron."

"Thanks Will." he raised an eyebrow and hugged me.

I fake scream and tried to runaway from his hug, but he just held on tighter and soon Bri joined in.

"Aww cute haven't seen that since I left, its so cute!" Mana shrieked from behind us.

Dante let go of Bri and me before turning towards Mahad. "Got the key?"

Mahad laughed and threw it at me, I caught it with my index and middle finger.

"Thanks."

Mahad nodded "I trust you more than Dante."

Dante was glaring at Mahad while Mana hugged the hell outta him. "Thanks Mahad feel so trusted!"

Mahad grinned and I shook my head while opening the Academy gates.

"Home." I heard Bri whisper beside me.

Nobody's POV

"They've arrived at the Academy Master." a small blue haired boy squeaked.

"I realize that! Now get out and tell the army to be on their guard. When the plan is ready I'll give the call, they won't know what hit them." The one called Master bellowed.

"And your children Master? Should we spare them?" the boy cowered in fear.

"Don't worry about them, I'll turn them myself and train them to kill the Night." Master laughed.

Will's POV

"Dante, WHAT HAPPENED TO MY ROOM?!" I screamed chasing him down the hall with one of his shirt that I found on the ground.

"Nothing!" He yelled back running faster.

I finally caught him and grabbed his trench coat collar. "You're cleaning my room right now." I growled dragging him back towards my room.

"But...but...Will!" He stammered.

"You're cleaning it now and that's final!" I stated pushing him into my room and crossing my arms. "Well you can start now."

Dante grumbled in protest but followed my order and started cleaning.

"Wow." Mana muttered poking her head in through the door. "You got Dante to CLEAN?!"

I nodded and grinned "Yup! He made this disaster area so he's cleaning it."

"Harsh little sister aren't you?" Mana laughed.

"You have no idea." I smirked before Renee walked in.

I screamed and threw my arms around her. Renee laughed and hugged me back before letting go and kissing Dante's cheek. I hid my smirk with my hand when I heard her murmur "Told you we shouldn't have used her room." into his ear. Dante just grumbled nonsense and continued to clean up my room.

"Hey Will, you wanna go shopping?" Renee asked walking out the door.

I shrugged and looked at Dante "Why not, my leather jacket is getting old and I need a new wardrobe for those events."

Renee nodded "By those events you mean business parties?"

"I guess you can say that." I shrugged.

Renee looked at me "Oh, you're turning eighteen soon. They want you to get married soon don't they."

I sighed "Yeah, mom's concerned since I haven't dated anyone recently."

"Well that's your choice isn't it? Who to date and when?" Renee asked as we walked down to the parking lot to get her car.

"Apparently not." I grumbled and looked away.

Renee's eyes softened and she switched the topic. "Well since we're going shopping, let's buy you a new guardian outfit."

I perked up a little and looked at her "Really? You'd do that? But aren't they expensive?"

"You're broke aren't you?" Renee laughed.

I nodded "Repairing a sword that snapped clean in half isn't cheap."

"I'll use Dante's credit card." Renee smirked and pulled out his wallet from her jacket pocket.

"Seems I did teach you something." I laughed.

"Well after watching you take his wallet about a hundred times, I have the process memorized." She giggled.

I laughed and got into the passenger seat of her dark blue Ferrari. She slid into the driver's seat and took off literally speeding away.

By the time we got to the Guardian's outfit store, Bleeding Real, my head was spinning and I could see why Dante and Renee made such a bad driving couple.

"Ahh Guardian Night and Hikari Renee, what may I do for you?" The store keeper Hazel asked cheerfully.

"Now Hazel you know you don't have to be so polite with me." I grinned.

"Sorry Will its a habit." She laughed.

"Same with me Hazel, you know I hate the Hikari part in front of my name. It makes me feel like I'm boxed into something." Renee smiled.

Hazel nodded and guided us over to the back of her store. "I have something for you Will. I thought of the design myself and when it was complete it reminded me of you. So here consider it your early birthday present from me." Hazel pulled the curtain aside and I deadpanned at the sight of the outfit.

It was all made of black leather with a blue belt that slung around my hip loosely. The top half ended right at the middle of my rib cage, it had small one shoulder strap that was made of blue almost white diamonds. The pants were like regular jeans but had chains hanging down from the waist. The boots had a blue heel and looked a little like combat boots with the laces and chains that hung down from the top. To top it all off it came with a black leather jacket to hide a little more skin.

I ran towards Hazel and hugged her tightly while jumping. "I love it, I love it, I love it!" I squealed.

Renee laughed "Thanks Hazel from the way she's acting I'm sure she loves it! After all its not everyday that you see the Guardian Willow Night jump up and down like a preschooler."

Hazel laughed and folded the outfit up before using her magic to fuse the outfit to my ring. "You know how it works just press the new gem on that ring and you'll be wearing that outfit in the blink of an eye."

I looked at my ring to see a blue and black gem stone on it. It went well with my other two black gems. Renee paid for the outfit and we went back to her car.

"Well at least now I know that you have a small soft spot for amazing combat outfits." Renee laughed.

"Shut up!" I growled denying the fact that I had just turned into a preschooler for a maximum of three minutes.

"Now for dress shopping!" Renee giggled before dragging me into the mall.

Four hours later we left the mall with about five guys carrying about twenty bags each.

"Umm Renee when I said I needed a new wardrobe I wasn't meaning this much..." I looked at the guys as they put the bags into the car.

"Thanks guys you can go now." Renee smiled sweetly at them and they left. I gulped as she turned around her eyes slightly cold and scary. "You said a new wardrobe and this isn't that much."

I nodded slowly and mentally slapped myself for forgetting the most important rule of shopping with Renee. Never tell her that she bought too much unless you have a death wish.

Back at the Academy Dante had just finished cleaning when we ran in, kicked him out and started shoving the dresses into my closet.

"Well hi to you too." Dante grumbled.

"Shut up." I said quietly.

"Hey hun." Renee smiled kissing his cheek.

"Holy shit! Will think I can borrow a dress sometime?" Bri asked from the door before walking in.

"Knock yourself out." I shrugged smiling.

"Yay! Hey did you hear there's a formal dinner with the Dean." Bri called out from inside my closet.

Now Mana poked her head in "Really?"

"Yeah he wants to talk to us about something." Bri said coming out with a red strapless dress that ended above her knee. "Is this too fancy?"

"I wonder what and how would I know ask Renee." I said walking back and forth trying to think of what he might possibly want.

"Mmm yea too fancy how about that pretty..." Renee and Bri disappeared into my closet again.

"It's probably nothing will, maybe he just wants to see us and ask how the mission is going." Mana put her hand on my shoulder and Dante ruffled my hair before leaving out the door.

"Get ready we only have two hours."

"Kay bye bro." I waved and Mana smiled.

"I'm taking one of your outfits and help Renee pick one out for you." she grinned evily and dragged me into the walk in closet.

"How did I let you talk me into this?" I asked pointing at the dress I was wearing.

"Guardian outfit." Renee sang clutching Dante's arm tighter when I glared at her.

"Come on sis you look nice." Dante said smiling.

"Says the one who gets Renee to pick out what to wear for formal things!" I shot back.

"Ohmigod... WILL?!"

I was trampled to the floor by three girls who hugged the hell outta me.

"Hey Clover, Camera, Jelly." I laughed.

Jelly giggled (her real name Jennie) and hugged my tighter before helping me up. Her dark pink hair was cut shorter so that it barley reached her chin and she was wearing a black mini skirt and blue top that said "You're not wrong if you call me psycho."

Camera (Cleopatra) pulled my curled hair and raised an eyebrow "Renee got to you?"

I laughed "Yup but I have to say that it wasn't as painful as being Clover's barbie doll model."

"Ouch." Clover made a face and playfully pushed my shoulder.

"Hey babe."

Jelly's face lit up and she flung herself at her Hikari boyfriend,

"Hey Speed." She giggled.

Speed's actual name was Speed. His parents were both Air users and were said to be the fastest and most dangerous air welders. Ironically when they had a child he was named Speed and somehow possessed a power as great as his parents combined. Speed was the heartthrob of most Hikari girls and even some Guardians in training girls.

"Hey Will, you coming to the prom here?" Speed asked with his usual smile.

"No." I grumbled.

"Aww too bad Mark was looking forward to asking you." Speed grinned.

I glared at him "I've told him thousands of time. I'm not going out with him! I'm sorry but he's just a friend to me."

With that I hugged everyone goodbye and half ran half walked to catch up with Renee and Dante. Stupid heels!

"Oh Will! Love the new black fish tail dress!" Clover called out to me.

I grinned and turned around "Take it once I leave, you know I hate dresses!"

"Cool! I'll raid your closet when you leave!" She laughed.

I rolled my eyes and grabbed onto Renee's arm before dragging her ahead of Dante.

"Hey Will she's MY girlfriend!" Dante protested.

"And my sister sucker!" I laughed and Renee giggled.

"W...Will!" Dante stammered embarrassed.

"Aww did I get the great General Dante flustered?" I mocked.

By now we were at the Dean's so Dante couldn't say anything. I walked over to Bri, Mana and a very amused Mahad.

"Human?" Mahad whispered.

"Yea he's huma... Hey Will!" Bri quickly changed the subject.

I growled knowing exactly what they were talking about and in a hushed mad voice I said. "We'll talk later...ALL OF YOU."

Mahad and Mana shrunk down while Bri shuddered. Dante and Renee gave us weird looks before knocking on the door. Alex opened it and gave us a look of sympathy, that's when I knew this was NOT a welcome back dinner.

"Please be seated Nights and Veils." The Dean stood up and guided his hand over the seats. Dante and I sat as far back as we could from the Dean. Both of us know that we can't shoot him with the guns we have concealed, but the temptation is just suffocating.

"Now welcome back girls. Mana what a surprise, but before I allow you to come back into this Academy I must run some tests to make sure you aren't one of...them." The Dean glared at her.

"With all due respect sir, I've already had the council run tests on her and she's come out clear with only her Guardian thoughts and feelings." Mahad cut in.

"Brave." Dante muttered under his breath to me.

"No joke." I murmured back.

"Very well General Veil, but if I find her doing anything unguardian like she will be killed." Dean growled and Mana grabbed my hand squeezing it tightly.

"On a lighter note, how's your mission?" Dean asked.

I stifled a groan and Bri answered for us "It's a challenge sir, we still haven't found anything for his punishment."

"Alright well I hope to hear of some improvement as time goes by." Dean said sternly.
By now the food was here and we all changed our attention towards it.
One hour later we were leaving the Dean's dining room and practically running to our rooms. Let's just say eating that close to the Dean took away a good chunk of my appetite.

"Hey Dante." I smiled opening the door and letting my brother in.
He was dressed in a pair of sweats and a baggy shirt with the words 'Wanna mess with genius?'. I started laughing and grabbed my sweater before throwing it on the cover my dark red tank top.
"Really Dante? You genius?" I smirked.
"Really Will? Short shorts and a tank top?" Dante retorted picking me up over his shoulder and pretending to chuck me out the window.
I laughed and shrieked quietly before he put me down. "I might have actually missed you Dante."
"I missed you too." he smiled pulling me into a hug.
This time I didn't resist and hugged him back, barley noticing Bri as she slipped into my room and joined into the hug.
"You girls should get some sleep since you have school tomorrow." Dante grinned before kissing our heads and leaving out the door.
"Night Dante." we called after him.
I looked at Bri "Let me guess you wanna sleep in here just like old times?"
Bri nodded and walked over to the bottom of the bunk bed, she curled up into a ball and fell asleep quickly. I sighed and kissed her head before jumping up onto the top bunk and pulling the covers over my head. Reaching under my pillow I grabbed my phone and noticed one text message from Seto.
i have something of yours

what would tht b?

your necklace

i'll get it later thx Seto!

Mhm see you.

cya

I smiled and locked my phone before placing back under my pillow and drifting off into a three hour sleep.

Authoress Note : I'm sorry again for the delay but I gave a pretty long chapter that I was actually gonna end like halfway through but I decided to give you more. Anyway please review, oh and I need two guy names and their descriptions if you want yourself or your OC in here. I need Clover's and Camera's bfs.