Sai

My nose is bleeding? I touch at the skin below my nose and feel a warm wetness. Pulling my fingers away I look at them and see blood. Lots of it. Crap. Looking away from Kaji I wipe at my nose cleaning up the blood. I then turn back to say something, but she gives a look that signals it started to bleed again. I rub at it furiously to clean it up again and it stops, that is until I look up at Kaji in Deamona's hardly there clothing. Another gush of blood comes out.

Kaji

His nose had started to bleed for the third time in a row and I was starting to get worried. I start to move forwards him to offer my help, but he waves his hand at me, shaking his head and stammering

"N.. no that's ok! I just need to use your bod... Bathroom! were is it again?"

Did he almost say what I thought he almost said? Giving him a confused look I nod while saying

"Yah forth door on your right down the hall behind you."

He nods then quickly heads off in the direction of the bathroom holding his nose so the blood couldn't flow out of it. I sigh in exasperation and sit down at the table. I wonder what was wrong... I know! I'll ask Saiyo! she seems to know a lot about these kinds of things!

Fire disappears from around me as I reappear in the apartment. A quick scan of my surroundings tells me that Gaara's in his room likely still fuming, Deamona is in her room, and Saiyo is just starting to head towards Gaara's room. Quickly I silently run up behind Saiyo and tap her shoulder and covering her mouth at the same time. She struggles for a second until she realizes who it is. I gesture for her to be quiet when she talked, then let go of her mouth.

"Before you ask me anything I have a quick question. What does it mean when a guy's nose bleeds continuously but only when he's looking at me?"

Saiyo seems to have a difficult time suppressing her amusement at my naiveness, but manages to ask in a steady tone

"You mean Sai don't you?"

A little taken aback I respond with a simple

"maybe..."

she seems to take even more amusement in this and grins while saying

" Well considering he's IN LOVE WITH YOU"

she stresses those last words

" he's likely thinking dirty thoughts."

Even more confused now I ask

"what's a dirty thought?"

She sighs as she hits her forehead with her palm in exasperation. She then looks up at me with a bland expression saying

" You really are naive aren't you? Sigh. A dirty thought is a thought related to something that either is sexually related or gets the person sexually excited. Get it now?"

I nod, turning slightly red. Saiyo suddenly seems to clue into what I'm wearing, her eyes widen and she says

"Well now I get why he would be excited! Your hardly wearing anything!"

I look down at I'm wearing, skin and scars showing clearly. Suddenly I feel naked, though that doesn't bother me much either, I'll admit it when it came to skin not being covered I really could care less. Clothing could get itchy or be too tight but your skin was your skin and it was almost impossible for your skin to get in the way of your movement. I look up to her and ask

"what's wrong with Deamona's cloths?"

She just frowns and instructs me to get something more covering on. I Sigh in defeat and go change. Rather than go back to talk to her I Inferno Step back to my home. Sai had finally gotten out of the bathroom and had jumped back, startled as I reappear right in front of him singeing his already hardly there clothing. Smiling at him I pass him a small bundle of fire proof clothing and walk towards the front door, saying over my shoulder

" I'll make you some more of those in a bit. You can get changed in my room, it's right across the hall from the bathroom"

I then head out the door and into the bright sun.

Sai

I listen to what Kaji told me and head to her room, to change. When I finish and head back to the kitchen though Kaji is nowhere to be found. Her chakra had completely disappeared. That's when I found the note on the table. How it had alluded my attention until now was completely passed me, but that didn't matter. On the note was one simple word that could mean so much to those who know what Kaji is. DEMON. Apparently a demon had come into her territory and she had gone to get rid of it. Now the question wasn't whether or not Kaji could take care of it, but whether or not I should go to make sure she had back up if needed...

Kaji

Fire flows around me as I use my Inferno Step to meet the demon. It obviously knew of my presence since it kept on pulsing it's aura like a sonar. I reappear in the middle of a large, flat of the dessert. This place was on the edge of my 'territory' but close enough to make me nervous when a demon of this power entered it. I look around at my surroundings, trying to locate the demon. Nothing, but then why did I feel such a power radiating from this place. It had never been here before. That's hen I realized exactly were the power was coming from. I look to the sky and my eyes widen as the dark outline of a person comes speeding down at me. It moved to quickly for me to move and soon I felt the crushing weight of it on my along with the cold feel of a blade in my shoulder. I fall to the ground under the weight and it jumps off quickly landing a couple of feet away. I can finally see what it is clearly. Before me stands a young man no older than I am. He is tall and has skin so pale it looks like it's only seen the light of the moon. His hair is a dark green that is contrasted by the bright gold of his eyes. He's familiar in some strange way, like I had seen him before... but were from? Two cat ears suddenly stand at attention on the top of his head and the matching tail wags lazily. Shock hits me hard taking the breath from my chest. I remembered him now... but he was supposed to have died long ago... I KILLED him. I stare up at Torako in shock as he stares down at me. A cocky grin across his face as he revels in my shock. The cocky bastard had always been like that, even when he was being dragged away for his daily surgical procedure. Beside my extreme hate of this guy I had to admit he was the closest to knowing what I had gone through and quite possibly the only other near successful experiment. Rage fills me. I killed him! I watched the blood pour from the deep gash in his throat, the empty cavity of his torso, and I had watched as the life had left his eyes. This guy was supposed to be dead. I forget the wound in my shoulder as I stand up to face him. The rage was clearly showing in my eyes as I say through clenched teeth

"You are supposed to be dead. How the hell did you live though having every single organ in your body torn out and your throat ripped open?"

I had to force the word to come out as calm as possible, just seeing this guy made my blood boil. In response he smirks and says

"What? Not happy to see me? Well I guess that's to be expected from you Kaji-chan. You were the one who killed me after all. Unfortunately for you I don't know how to stay dead, especially when I have so much fun watching you suffer"

I couldn't handle it anymore I charged at him, drawing my sword as I went. It was always at my side, even if not always noticeable, today was no exception. Sparks fly as metal hits metal. It seems he wasn't expecting my strength to improve since that day, because he looks shocked as he flies back. I fallow and slash wildly at him, hitting every time. Deep gashes appear all over him, the deepest being from the top of his forehead to his chin across both eyes. He stumbles back holding his face, but the smirk remains. Blood pours from the wounds making a large, crimson pool beneath him. My blood lust rose as I too smirked, but mine soon turned into a blood crazy smile as I jumped at him again, completely forgetting my sword. A bad decision on my part, because the next thing I feel is cold steal slicing though the skin on my stomach. I jump back a bit. My eyes widen as my pupils shrink, which along with my smile gives my a crazy look. Once again giving into the blood lust I push forward, the wound, like my sword completely forgotten. Things seem to go in slow motion as I break through his defense and he watches as my sharp nails meet the soft tissue of his stomach. Blood spurts everywhere and my vision goes red. His eyes widen as one arm plunges into him, the other digs into the flesh of his one real leg, rending flesh, tendons, and arteries from bone. He doesn't get to react as I look up at him smiling crazily, and turn up the heat. Fire surrounds the arm within him cooking his insides and boiling his blood. The pressure of his blood expanding from the heat makes his eyes bulge and turn red. My smile remains as I watch them explode and hear him scream in agony. This time I'd make sure he'd stay dead. I do his by turning up the heat again, this time though his entire body catches aflame incinerating everything and leaving only the ash in the air and a giant disk of glass on the sand. A laugh bursts from my mouth and a sink to my knees. I kneel there for a couple of minutes, until I hear Sai's voice ask from behind me

"Kaji? what happened just a bit ago?"

I turn to him, the crazy look gone from my eyes but the insane smile still there and respond

" Taking care of a ghost from the past"

I chuckle lightly. My energy was gone, drained away with most of my blood, and I collapse into the darkness of my mind.