Author's Note: So my chapters may come a little bit later than every week, because school's been tough, I have a lot of hard subjects this semester! And I finally get homework, which I'm not used to.

Fun chapter to write, I have no idea why, because it seems like nothing much has happened but at the same time it felt like I got a lot of what I wanted to write. If you don't understand, you'll see what I mean!

Enjoy! : )

"So in the end…we fell asleep?" Toru's voice was roaring.

Rio had a spaz attack and all of his body kicked into the air. "That scared me Toru!"

Misaki rubbed her both her eyes and then yawned. "Shut up Toru I'm tired."

"But I wanted to talk about the Youkai world last night; I thought I'd be excited enough to stay awake." Toru whined as he brought his head to face down.

"As long as we have Rio here then we can ask him anytime." Misaki was still tired and she slowly rose up from her sleeping spot.

"That's true…but when we were little, every time we had a sleepover we'd stay up all night doing something fun…and we fall asleep at something important!" Toru was still talking in a loud voice.

"We had a rough day yesterday, especially because I got punched yesterday." Rio held his face. "Well we should get ready for school."

"Huh? I thought you didn't like going to school!" Toru exclaimed.

"I do, it's just that you two love it." Rio walked up to his door and slid it. "Ahh the weather's gloomy today."

Outside was pouring, the sky was grey, and raindrops were everywhere. Overnight puddles had formed on the streets and even around the Nura household.

"Rain?" Misaki pouted. "I hate the rain."

"Oh awesome it's raining!" Toru cheered.

Rio and Misaki gave him a gloomy stare and scolded him at the same time, "Shut up Toru."

From the pond emerged Kappa, who was dancing to the rain. "Rain, rain, rain~!"

"Why don't you tell him to be quiet…?" Toru pretended to cry.

"Because he can kick more ass than you can." Rio explained to him. "Now, let's get ready to go to school."

The three walked to school in the rain, they all brought their own set of umbrellas to avoid getting wet. When they reached school they found out there was a bunch of gossip around the school about them. Whispers around the school and they could make out the gist of it.

"Its them!"

"Shush be careful they might beat you up."

"Those three? As if they look harmless."

"You didn't hear? They beat up Isao and his crew."

"They're jerks, isn't that a good thing?"

"I thought so too, but supposedly Isao said one of them transformed into some type of monster. He said one of them called themselves the Youkai, Nurarihyon!"

"Youkai? Seriously? Isao just made an excuse for his lost!"

"So Isao is telling people about the fight huh?" Toru scoffed as they were walking the hallways.

"What's worse is that he's making people believe I'm a Youkai." Rio looked disappointed.

"I'm surprised he caught on that you were that guy that beat him up." Misaki remarked.

"Oi isn't Rio the one that's a Youkai?"

"That's what Isao said!"

The students all made way for them to pass through the hallways with ease.

"I'm already not even supposed to let you two know. Now the entire school knows." Rio sighed. "Let's just…go to class."

They headed for their classroom, and opened the door. They saw Isao and his buddies like talking by the window when Isao spotted them but look afraid and hid from them.

"Rio…" Misaki nudged him. "Aren't you going to talk to Isao? Tell him why he spread around that rumour."

"Rumour? Too bad it's all true. There's nothing to reverse it." Rio sounded depressed.

"Giving up without even trying?" Toru shouted at him.

"It'll be easier like this, don't you worry." Rio yawned and then looked unhappy.

Toru and Misaki exchange an unsure look at what Rio had said. The bell rang and all students sat at their desks.

"Alright class!" The teacher entered through the door and slammed on the desk. "Today we're having a new student, come over here."

A girl with long black silky hair up to her waist walked through the door. Her eyes were dark brown that they looked almost black, she was short and if she was compared with Rio, she would be at his shoulders.

"Yes a girl!" Toru celebrated as he jumped out of his seat and fist pumped.

Can this idiot just… Misaki shook her head.

Shut up already? Rio coughed.

The girl blushed at the comment and brought her fingers to her lips to hide her expression.

"Alright calm down Toru." The teacher tried to calm him down and Toru sat back down. The teacher looked at the girl. "Okay, go ahead introduce yourself."

"Ahh, y-yes!" She flustered, shook a bit and then brought her fingers away from her lips. She didn't make eye contact, she stared at the ground and began to speak. "I-I-I'm Ren Shimizu, p-p-please to meet you all, h-hope we get along!"

Ren looked toward the door, and bit gently on her lip, she was shaking. The students started whispering loudly, commenting on her. She heard comments about her she being shy it was cute, or who wanted to make friends with her already.

"Ummm, okay…Rio!" The teacher looked at him.

Rio brought his head up. "Yeah…?" He seemed to have no excitement in his voice.

"The seat beside you, no one's using it right?" The teacher looked at the desk; it was at the back and beside Rio. In front of Rio were Toru and Misaki.

"Yeah it is sensei." Rio assured him.

"Alright Ren! Go sit over there, beside Rio." The teacher pointed to the desk's direction.

"YES!" Toru loudly celebrated. Toru turned toward Rio and whispered. "You better act nice!"

Ren walked to her desk slowly, without making eye contact with anyone. She pulled the chair and sat down. Rio was looking out the window while she was fiddling with her fingers and looking at them.

"Stupid rain…" Rio complained as he leaned on his arm and was slouching.

"Hmm?" Ren turned toward his direction. What is he talking about, the rain…is amazing!

"Oh, nothing…just pay attention." Rio had his cheeks flat on the desk but was staring outside at the rain dropping from the grey sky.

As class was going on, Toru had been trying to answer every question the teacher asked, hoping it would impress Ren. However he's stupid and had gotten every question wrong. The class ended and the bell rang.

Misaki turned around. "Lunch time!" She turned towards Toru. "Whoa…what happened to you?"

Toru had a gloomy aura around him, his head in shame. "D-don't look at me."

"So Ren, want to have lunch with us?" Misaki asked with a smile on her face and went forward to make sure Ren could see her smile.

"Ummm…" Ren was nervous unable to give an answer.

"Ren eat with us!" A female classmate spoke to her.

"Yeah we aren't associated with a Youkai!"

Ren's eyes opened up, surprised. Youkai?

"They're dangerous!"

"Why you guys!" Misaki snarled at them.

"See look Ren, she wants to hurt us! You'll just end up as her punching bag."

Rio pushed his chair back, and stood up. He walked to the girls slowly, and grabbed one of their shoulders and then gave a sadistic look. "What the hell did you like say about Misaki?"

"Erm, well, you know…" The classmate panicked.

"How scaaaaary!" Her friend pointed out. "Now Ren, let's go you can hang wit-…"

"Y-Y-Youkai are i-interesting." Ren stared at Misaki. "W-w-where are we e-eating?"

"That's right!" Misaki brought fist to her hips to show her victory over the other girls.

Toru shot up and was out of his gloomy state. "You can look at me again~!" He stared at Ren, "especially you."

"Toru don't scare her away!" Misaki scolded him.

"We eat here." Rio answered Ren's question that no one bothered to answer.

"Oh…" Ren sat down back at her desk, and took out her bento from her bag and began eating.

Everyone else sat down at their desk, Toru and Misaki turned their chairs so they'd be face to face with Rio and Ren.

"So…y-you are a Youkai?" Ren stared at Rio's lunch.

"It's a rumour, you shouldn't believe them." Rio told her and took a bite out of his sandwich.

"Oh…this ended up more b-boring than I thought…" Ren sighed and continued eating.

"S-s-soooo Ren Shimizu…what makes you so interested in Youkai?" Toru stuttered hoping to start a conversation with her.

"N-nothing at all!" Ren refused to make eye contact.

"Hey Ren, your home is that way?" Misaki asked her.

Ren turned around and nodded her head as she started to walk away.

"Well, thanks to me, we have made a new friend!" Misaki celebrated and hugged Toru and Rio.

"Thank you Misaki! You are a goddess!" Toru began to praise her and bow down.

"Eh, doesn't really matter." Rio lazily told her.

The three walked home and reached Toru's house. They stopped, and just began to talk about whatever, outside of the house before Toru went inside.

"Hey, who is she? I've never seen her before." Misaki pointed in a direction down the path.

The young girl wore a striped robe of blue and grey. Her long hair covered her face, and she started grinning at them.

"Let it rain on them!" The girl yelled. A cloud appeared above the three friends' heads and it began to give a stream of water on their heads.

"What the?" Toru stared at the girl confused as he ran away from the cloud.

"How'd she do that?" Misaki wondered as she followed Toru.

"Watch it…this is…a Youkai." Rio growled, as he brought his arms out to show he was there to protect them. "My dad told me, if it's dark in an area, my body will think its night."

Rio's body transformed into the Youkai of Nurarihyon, he picked up his sword from out of his robe.

"And I guess it's true, now…who are you?" Night Rio interrogated the girl.

"Ame-Onna." She grinned again and maintained her distance. "So a kid like you, is a Youkai? Tch! I bothered the wrong kids."

"Ame-Onna? Now why does that sound familiar?" Misaki began to think hard.

"Ame-Onna is a Youkai that can produce rain, right?" Toru wondered if his answer was right.

"That's right kid. Impressive." Ame-Onna complimented him with he raspy.

"Kid? You look as old as us!" Toru scoffed.

"So I'm guessing you're causing this rain, or is this just the natural weather?" Rio asked her.

"No, this…is all me." Ame-Onna pointed to the sky. "And so is this."

The grey clouds began to release streams of water instead of rain drops and it was pouring at an insane amount.

"If you don't stop me, this town will be flooded. Try and stop me, boy."

Possible Title of Next Chapter: Leaks, Floods, Tsunamis!