Mai's P.O.V

I arrived home without any trouble, and went straight to put my earrings and navel rings back on. I grabbed the clothes I wore (they smelled of gas) and burned them, then flushed the ashes down the drain. I put some different clothes on and walked into the living room, to see the house I'd just burnt down already on the news, with Suzuki and Miharu watching.

"Rich people's news travels fast" I comment as I flop in between them on my old green couch.

"Great job Mairu" Suzuki praised me, before saying "I thought you were only going to burn part of the house though."

I shrugged "less evidence this way, nothing will be left, except the feather tail put into a pot of cold water.

You see, the silver tails aren't a bad gang. Sure, were not planting trees and helping orphans (we do in our free time every once in a while), but were not doing drugs (unless you count the occasional smoker) or beating up cops and starting riots, Were basically a bunch of girls (and a guy or two) with piercing, tattoo's, and Yankee attitudes that have banded together.

But that doesn't mean we can't fight a gang war (high school version of gang war: bunch of kids from both gangs gather somewhere and have a huge fist fight, worst thing that ever happened is someone broke a collar bone and a leg and a few ribs, leaving scars (which happened to have been me)

Were not defenseless, but we aren't going to blow people's brains out. I grab my cigarettes and ask

"Do you mind if I smoke?" they shook their heads, I lit a cigarette.

"You know" Suzuki started "you were very rude to your friends earlier, you should apologize."

I glace at the clock, I couldn't call then, because no one in their right mind (except us) would be up watching the 3:00 a.m. news.

"I will around lunch" I promise "that way I know there up."

"Won't they want to know why you sound tired?" Suzuki asked

I shrug and say "I'll just tell them I was up late doing homework. That's not a complete lie; I have a lot of homework to do."

Suzuki's P.O.V

I smirk; I've always liked Mairu's dry sense of humor. Of course, it didn't exist to years ago though, but it's here and in full bloom now. Mairu's like my second in command, and I don't min asking for her advice (she asks me for advice back anyway) I may not like that she's a smoker, but I can't tell her not to. I don't think, however, that she can't stop. After her crush (she told me about what happened at S.P.R and with naru a year ago) she sought for comfort from the nearest thing, and unfortunately cigarettes were there.

Mairu is one of my best fighters, and one of my most experienced. Not only has she lost a friend to the curse, she gained many scars from the gang wars from a year ago. I wasn't leader back then, but I swore when I became leader to not make as many mistakes. And yet a gang war is on the horizon, and we don't have the women power to take them down.

Most of our members quit after the battles, and retired to a safer life. There well respected as war veterans (whenever we see them on the street we bow our heads), and because we can't re-recruit them, we call them the untouchables. Mairu's no untouchable, but she's pretty damn experienced. But that S.P.R is shaking her up pretty bad, even if she don't show it.

I just hope she finds out what she really wants, even if she leaves the silver tails because of it.

Mai's P.O.V

'Lunch time' I think to myself 'time to apologize.'

I flip open my cell and start calling. Naru and Lin don't care, I offended Masako's pride, irritated Ayako, and hurt monk.

And even after all that happened, they still (and I quote) 'want to reconnect with me' (unquote).

I call Suzuki "can I ask a stupid question?" is my greeting

"Shoot" she replied

"Why are some people to persistent for their own good?"

Suzuki laughs and says "your old pals still buggin ya?"

I groan and reply "there sticking their noses in places they don't belong. I can't seem to get them off my back."

"I seem to remember you have the same qualities" she replied "there just watching over you. Seeing if your okay and all, there worried."

"One of the main reasons your recruit some of our members" I remind her "is because no one is going to miss them if they have to go underground for some reason."

"no one was going to miss you" Suzuki countered "until S.P.R came back into your life, but I don't mind. By the way, I've noticed your grades are getting horrible, you need to bring them up."

She then hung up on her end. I shook my head; she has always had the craziest of ways to bring things up.

Naru's P.O.V

Mai has changed greatly in the past 2 years I've been gone. Not only has she dyed her hair, her arms are covered in tattoos, she even smokes! She looks like one of those damn Yankees you see on the street. But she's much too respectable to be one of them; she's not that damn stupid. The thought of her smoking, how she looked in the dinner with one in hand, scares me. I don't want her to get lung cancer; she's my assistant after all.

She and that girl (Suzuki I believe) looked ready to kill when they found out about that other girl (Miharu I think it was) was hurt. They said something about a curse and about a calling card. I want to know what I'm missing, but Mai has closed her heart off from all of us. I don't like that she's keeping secrets.

Maybe going back to Europe was a bad idea.

I hope you have liked my story so far, so R and R! JA NE!