As Katrina spun the rest of her story to Mrs. Newa, Dai was slowly making his way down the stairs, a sleepy face clouding his usual cheerful personality.

"Morning..." Was his mummbled greeting.

Looking over at the stairs, Mrs. Newa and Katrina stared at Dai, a hint of curiosity locked upon Katrina's face soon replaced by -.- at Mrs. Newa's happy chirp again. "Oh! Good morning dear... Have a nice sleep?"

The only response was a small grunt, before he trotted away into the kitchen. With a small laugh, Mrs. Newa shook her head and glanced down to Katrina again. "Boys, they never seem to be any different in the morning..." Just the, Dai's dad fallowed Dai, exactly like him.

Grinning, Katrina nodded again and looked over at her. "I see what you mean..."

Laughing, Mrs. Newa turned back to Katrina, an idea forming in her way to happy little head. "How about we leave the slugs home and go out to town. Oh! And let's also sign you up for school, okay?"

Smiling, Katrina nodded slightly and the two of them snuck out of the house, smiling and laughing sighlently to eachother in that evil way most girls do.

Walking down the streets, Katrina caught glimpses of people glaring at her, as well as sending their heated glances to Daisuke's mom.

'What the hell is their problem?' Kiva was twitching and tempting herself to take over and give those people a reason to bolt.

Shrugging, Katrina kept her pace up with Mrs. Newa, occasionally glancing over at the people from the corner of her eyes. 'I do not know Kiva...'

Soon finding herself in front of a large pair of gates, Katrina looked up in ahw before turning at Mrs. Newa for information with a curriously innocent face.

"Don't worry... I'm sure Daisuke will show you the way back to here incase you weren't paying attention..."

Katrina merely laughed nervously as a sweat drop formed and she began to walk into the large court yard. Soon coming into a large office, Katrina moved behind Mrs. Newa in false shyness as they both approached a large desk; a crow like woman sitting behind it.

"Can, I help you." Even her voice was like a birds, only causing Kiva, the lovle mature one to snicker.

"Yes, I would like to sign a new student up here." Mrs. Newa pushed Katrina out from behind her, getting a glare that she missed entirly for she was back to grinning at the woman.

"Please fill out these forms..."

Grabbing the pen and paper from the woman, Mrs. Newa handed them to Katrina and watched as she filled out the list of questions with keen brown eyes.

'They want to know WHAT!?' Kiva screached after several minutes and looking at the last question.

Wincing, Katrina tapped the paper lightly with the pen's tip. 'Look yourself! It says "Please fill out your full name, last middle, then first." What are we going to do?!'

'I know! Use mine! People will never know... But use your real first name, okay?' The devil was grinning at her quick fix while Katrina merely went -.-'

'Yhea...' Scratching lightly upon the dotted line, this is what Katrina wrote: Last name: Grendinheart, Middle Name: 'none', First name: Katrina.

Reaching out to grasp the paper Katrina offered her, the crow lady glanced through her half moon specticals at the name, then back to Katrina over the edge. "That is a very interesting last name..." She sighed and rubbed her head lightly with wrinkled, be-ringed fingers as if a headace had befallen her. "Not to mention your hand writing is horrible..."

Folding her arms, Katrina took a defiyant glare to the old drown with narrow blue eyes. "I didn't ask you though what you thought of my penmanship, ma'am."

The woman looked like she had been hit with a giant fist. Her old mouth ahd fallen open lightly and her grey eyes were wide in shock.

Laughing nervously, Mrs. Newa grabbed Katrina's shoulders and began to steer her out. "We'll just be going now, room number 2-D, right?"

"Yes…wait!" She held out a limp hand to the two, but they were already gone.

"Now, what do you think of this dear?"

Stepping out of the dressing room hesitantly, Katrina looked like she was going to die of embarrassment her eyes never leaving the maroon carpeted floor. So far, she had managed to count 5 tacks on the ground, 12 staples, many many plastic strips, and several thousand dust bunnies. Currently, she wore a deep red halter with black velvet flowers mixed into the dye, a pair of light, stone washed jeans complimenting it benith. Clasped to her neck, was a gold necklace/bar with a crystal embedded into it, a small golden chain hanging down from the two sides, connecting to hold up a large, tear shaped crystal.

Laughing nervously, she rubbed the back of her head with a small smile and closed eyes. "Uhmmmmm, listen, you really don't have to…"

"Non-sense dear! Now come on, you look lovely in that, but we have to get you some more cloths for this heat wave!" Steering a twitching Katrina around, Mrs. Newa eventually settled for a pair of white shorts that ended halfway down Katrina's thigh and stopped in tears as well as a light blue halter top toned in with white. "Wonderful! Now to accessories!"

Mentally screaming, Katrina twitched and talked to the one person she thought she could count as sane...FORGET THAT! 'Of all the bloody people who take us in, it has to flipping be a girly-girl!'

'Ahhhhh! The fashion, oh the fashion!'

Twitching again, Katrina just rubbed her head. So much for that sane demon. 'Just stop it Kiva…' Sighing, Katrina allowed Mrs. Newa to put multiple blue and white bracelets onto her left arm, while clipping a silver and turquoise necklace around her neck. "Are we done now?" She managed to whine but also sound hopeful at the same time. And while not being sean, Kiva was making hopeful puppy eyes at Mrs. Newa.

"Yes! Come on and let's go pay!" Grabbing a grateful Katrina's wrist, Mrs. Newa ran to the counter, paid for a pile of clothing as high as Mt. Vesuvius, then dragged her back out. "Let's go eat, I'm starved!" Finally! Something she could agree on!!!!

Walking in through the house door, Katrina quickly dropped her bag and ran behind Mrs. Newa when she saw Daisuke gawking at her. Only to soon raise an eyebrow at him upon watching him rushing upstairs clutching lightly his chest. 'He okay?'

Kiva simply shrugged and kicked back into her mental chair. 'I don't want to know…' Picking her masivly buldging bad up again, Katrina was about to fallow Daisuke, but his mom held him back with a strong hand upon her shoulder.

"I wouldn't dear… Come on, let's go work on your uniform…" Noting the unusual depletion of peppyness from her voice, Katrina nodded hesitantly and gave a smiling Toa her bag before fallowing Mrs. Newa into a back laundry room.

Finally making his way down the stairs, Daisuke only found Katrina sitting across from his dad; looking all to much like a staring competition was occuring. "Hey guys, what's going…"

Katrina's yelling cut him off. "I know you cheated! No one in the world could play poker like that!" She jumpped up and pointed an acusing finger at Daisuke's dad, only causing the red head to go wide eyed and slink back to the shadows of the stair well.

Scoffing, Mr. Newa snapped his head dramatically to the side with a determined face. "You have no proof…"

"Proof? PROOF!? Does that card hanging from your sleeve count as PROOF!?" She now was pointing at the red Ace hanging from his low sleeve with burning eyes. Daisuke was sure if she kept it up, the card or his dad would set on fire.

Sighing, Mr. Newa reluctantly pulled out the card in his sleeve and put his hand down on the table. "Fine, you win…"

At those words, Katrina smirked evly at the man, if possible having horns form on her head. "And for my prize? Go on, do it!"

Sighing again, he walked off, soon to return with a box of hair die. "As you wish, I must put these pink highlights into my hair…"

"And?"

"And…I won't wash it out for a month as well as put up the hammock on the balcony…"

She instantly beamed normally at the older man. "Thankyou! And I expect those highlights in by dinner."

Grumbling, he walked off to the bathroom, leaving a frog mouthed Daisuke and a beaming Katrina alone in the room.

"What the heck was that all about?"

Turning to Daisuke, Katrina flashed him a little devil smile. "Oh, just a small game of poker… Come on, I want to go back up stairs and now that you're out, you can help me hang up these blasted clothing!" Smiling, she threw a bag of shirts at Daisuke, while she made her escape upstairs before he could utter a word. Sighing heavly, he turned around and walked back up to his room with a defeated, fake crying face and whimpering. "Why me..."

Plopping down on her bunk, Katrina looked out the balcony, past the man with pink highlights setting up a hammock, and at the sea. She smiled warmly as she stared intently at the refracted moon hovering in the dark bay. Daisuke had taken his leave from the house an hour ago, so Katrina was left alone in the room to just stare and zone out into her own little world.

"There, it's all set up your majesty, good night…" The man's sarcastic tone caused Katrina's eyes to slide over to him as he stood up. As he departed from the room, Katrina hopped down and walked to the railing, where she once again leaned out over it, a slight breeze catching her hair and blowing it back.

'Never in all my years, have I lived somewhere so quiet and peaceful…'

Nodding to Kiva, Katrina continued to gaze out at the starry boundaries, her mind beginning to wander from her in an adosesent daze. Off in the distance, where the seagulls had all landed to rest their tired feathers, a figure swooped over them, startling the poor birds into a squawking frenzy.

"What in the name of…" Leaning farther over, Katrina squinted her eyes to slowly make out the figure to be a shadowy man, flying by a pair of midnight black wings. She swore she saw a flash of purple before something scared her shit-less.

"Katrina? What are you doing?"

"Ahhhhh!" Instantly she flailed, almost falling over the balcony's edge in her shock as she stared down the ground with wide, frightened eyes. Once she regained her balance, Katrina spun around to face Mrs. Newa in the door way while clutching her heart to try and slow down it's rappid pulse. "Oh, er...n-nothing, just catching a breeze be-before bed." She managed to stutter out her responce while watching the woman shrug and walk out of the room again. Once she was sure that Mrs. Newa had retreated down the steps again, Katrina instantly spun around and scanned the horizens again with her blue eyes, only to sigh defetedly and rest her head down upon her palms on the concret railing. "odd…" Sighing in disapointment, she walked back over to her bed and climbed up; instantly plopping down and passing out into a dreamless sleep.