OK so here is chapter 9

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Chapter 9: Names...are they clues

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After Tohma's visit everything seemed to go back to normal for the next few weeks, now at 30 weeks Shuichi was feeling big as a house and the little one was restless 24/7. The only think that seemed to calm her was Yuki's voice. To solve this problem, Shuichi TVod all interviews that Yuki had. Sora cut back on his hours but increased his pay, as much as he objected. In all honestly Shuichi was happy to rest his feet as they now were swollen as hell. Although he spend most of his time off at the bookstore. Ever since Tohma's appearance he didn't want to be alone in his apartment.

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Yuki looked over the art samples that Mizuki had sent him. It had been rough few hours convincing her that he was serous about publishing a children's book. After their meeting she had taken the manuscript and said she'd find some illustrators for it. So far he hadn't seen any that he thought conveyed what he wanted.

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Shuichi looked up from his drawling pad. In the spare time that he had he had starting drawling to use up his artist energy. He had been good at art in school one of the few classes he passed without Hiro's help.

Sora had looked at the drawling and said they where very good. She had asked him about maybe sending a few out to see what publishing companies thought of them. He had looked at her like she was crazy, but when she prosisded he agreed, but only with a 'pen name' they had chosen Yuna Yukimora.

This is how his art ended up in the hands of Mizuki. Yuki had refused all the well known children's artists. So she had started going through new submissions. She brought over a folder of art to him, hoping he would find something in this batch. Pretty soon she'd have to go out side of their publishing house to find more artists.

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Yuki sat on the couch with Mizuki as he went through the folder. He quickly discarded the top few calling them crap. He stopped though picking up one holding it in both hands. It was a simple color pencil with a little water color. It was just as dreadful as the rest, but the contents made him stop and look.

It was a blond man in black robes, standing with a woman in an orange dress, with...pink hair flowing down her back.

He stared at it his mind back in on that day, how much he wished to be able to reach out and touch Shuichi again. He nodded to himself, handing the picture to Mizuki. She flipped it over and looked at who the artist was.

"Yuna Yukimora, she's new to us. I'll contact her and send her an unlabeled manuscript" she said with a nod.

"Where is she from?" he asked pulling out a cigarette.

"Kyoto" Mizuki said looking at him, "why?"

"Give me the address I'll take the manuscript" he said just holding the cigarette en-between his lips.

"I have to talk with her first" Mizuki said, "its policy" He grunted and nodded. She stood and showed herself out.

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Sora and Shuichi had agreed that they store phone would be Yuna's contact number, but seeing as it had only been a week since they had sent in the picture they hadn't been expecting a call. Sora answered the phone and listened to the other end.

"I am Yuna Yukimora" she said smoothly, she listened to what was being said glancing at Shuichi every now and then as he watched her.

"No, quiet honestly I would prefer not to meet the author." She said, "Yes, that's right just send it to the store...I live in the apartment above it," she answered "all right thank you I'll get working on it as soon as it gets here" she hung up and looked at Shuichi. Who was sitting next to her with his list of names.

"Well, it looks like Yuna's got her first job" she smiled as shuichi nodded. He grabbed his stomach as a hard kick connected.

"Ouch Laylee" he snapped, he had been trying names out. And this one felt better on his lips then any of the others. He was pretty sure it was the one for her.

"Laylee?" Sora asked looking at him.

"Well I really liked the names layla and lee so I just combined them into one" he said sheepishly placing a hand on the back of his head. Sora laughed nodded.

"What about Middle and Last names? Will she be a Shindou or a Uesugi?" she asked

"For a middle name I was thinking either Erin or Eirian" Shuichi said, "as to the last name will...she's Yuki's daughter she should have his last name"

"Laylee Eirian Uesugi" Sora made a face, "Laylee Erin Uesugi" she nodded at that one a did Shuichi, he didn't want her name to be a mouth and a half full. And besides now that he thought about Eirian would make her name 666, and he didn't like the idea of that.

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Yuki stared at his computer screen thinking. That picture had shaken him up a bit, plus Mizuki had called and said the artist did not want to meet. She just wanted the manuscript mailed and she'd get to work. Something was off about this he could feel it. He opened a search engine.

He typed in 'Kyoto Yuna Yukimora' and about a few hundred hits. He browsed through them, clicking on one from the news paper. It was an article about a shooting at a gay rights pic-ate 4 years ago. He raised an eyebrow and started to read, when he was done he sat back thinking. Yuna Yukimora had been shot and killed that day 4 years ago. But, something still bothered him about this. The article went on to talk about a bookstore she had left to her parents.

He searched the book store and found it was still open in Kyoto. He nodded printing out the address, before going to his room to pack. He didn't know what he expected to find or why he was so interested in this artist but he was.

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ok so there it is, tell me what you think also i like to read theories so if you have any idea on what's going to happen i would love to see it.