Hey everyone ^^

Okay, before you kill for not writing about the upcoming Genesis-meeting PLEASE let me explain!

First: It is true that I had holidays the past two weeks, but I had to finish an exposition for chemistry and it took me longer than I had thought it would.

Second: I have mentioned in the last chapter that Benkei and Yoshitsune had left Kioto because Yoshitsune had business at the Tool Toul To-headquarter; so, this chapter is about what happens to the Rumble King while Benkei visits Spitfire and gets to know Phoenix.

Third: I thought it might get boring for a few of you if I'm always writing about the same two persons, so I decided to make this Extra-chapter ^^ (This way I can also introduce a few more of my own characters which i can introduce to Phoenix and Spitfire later on.)

Please give it a shot!

at Hitsugi's Lover: I hope you don't regret putting me on your alert-list after this chapter XD and I promise as long as there is anybody that shows interest in this story I won't stop writing it! ^^

at Meg L.H: Don't kill m for making you wait a bit longer for the Genesis-meeting. . But I may say that falcon (a.k.a Falk) is definitely going to show up ~.^

at MIzz ANimE TenSHi: I've never gotten such many reviews at once X3 That comment absolutely made my day! ^^

Chapter twelve: Underestimated Genius (part one)

There was a room at the headquarter of Tool Toul To which everybody tried to avoid the most. There was a table at the cafeteria where nobody wanted to eat lunch. There was a name which every member of team only whispered. And there was a girl, a tuner, who owned that certain room and ate lunch at that certain table. A girl whose name everybody only whispered fearfully . . . well, almost everybody.

"AZARNI WHERE THE HECK ARE YOU?"

Ine was about to explode and every girl jumped out of her way as the Pledge Queen was running through the hallways. Murmurs filled the air and there was a tension floating in the atmosphere which you could have almost grabbed with your bare hands.

"AZARNI!"

The girl with that certain name looked up from her table where nobody ever wanted to sit with her during lunch. She blinked a couple of times and whispered to herself:

"I just had the feeling that someone was screaming my name . . . but I feel like I shouldn't be found by that certain person."

She was right, but that idea was formed in her head a few seconds too late because right in the next moment Ine Makigami shot through the entrance-door of the cafeteria and spotted Azarni sitting on the same table as every day.

"WHERE THE HECK HAVE YOU BEEN?"

Ine stopped in front of the certain table and glared down at that certain member of her team.

"Uhm, down here . . . I ate my lunch."

Actually Azarni was quite happy that the table separated her from the furious Pledge Queen. She thought about several things she had done lately which could have made Ine that angry, but she couldn't think of something which would explain the current situation. So, she asked out of reflex:

"What have I done this time?"

"NOTHING!"

What the . . . ? Her sensei just screamed at her because she had done nothing? Either Ine had had way too much coffee last night and was suffering a caffeine-shock right now or something really bad had happened which Azarni could have prevented from happening by doing something – whatever that could be.

"YOU HAVE DONE NOTHING! WHICH IS EXACTLY THE PROBLEM HERE!"

Ine was about to jump right into the face of that girl sitting in front of her while this certain girl was begging to all known gods that this was a coffein-shock. Hope still dies last . . .

"YOU HAVEN'T CLEANED UP THE MESS YOU'VE MADE YESTERDAY EVENING! YOU HAVEN'T FIXED THE SIGN 'STAIRS JUST CLEANED!' AND YOU HAVEN'T HEARD THE SCREAMING OF THREE GIRLS WHO FELL DOWN SAID STAIRS!"

. . . but it dies!

"Uhm . . . I absolutely wanted to clean up the mess from yesterday after lunch."

She was as good as dead!

Yoshistune stood in the entrance hall of the Tool Toul To-headquarter and looked startled at the door on his right side. Was that just Ine he had heard screaming wildly? He checked the signs next to the door: Cafeteria, Toilets.

The Rumble King grinned. Maybe one of the tuners had written something unfriendly on the wall of one of the toilets. One second later the Pledge Queen pushed said door open and looked pretty pissed off. A girl who seemed to be one of the older tuners followed her through the door, but as Yoshitsune got a closer look on the girl he raised his eyebrows. Wow, seems like she was the one who made Ine freak out like that, he thought because the tuner's view was kinda glued to the ground and she didn't seem to be that happy about the current situation.

The Pledge Queen lead the girl to an understated door and opened it for her.

"You'll find everything necessary in here. Take what you need and then get to work."

The girl snorted and followed the order unwillingly. "Sure", she grumbled.

Ine sighed and mentioned additional:"Unfortunately I'm too busy to overlook your work, but I'll send Kana to watch over you later. So, don't you even dare to think about skipping."

"Because there are so many possibilities for me to run away?", the girl responded ironically, but was ignored by her sensei who simply turned around and walked towards Yoshitsune. He had started to enjoy the scene, but now that he was facing Ine the amused smile disappeared from his face and was exchanged by a serious expression.

"Good afternoon, Yoshitsune. Nice to meet you", Ine greeted her guest with a professional smile. "The pleasure is all mine, Pledge Queen."

Azarni stared grumpily at the brooms and buckets, which were packed in that stinking little room. "Damn", she muttered and sighed before finally grabbing a broom, a bucket, a sponge and some other cleaning-stuff. Why the heck was she making such a fuss about this; it's just a table – my table, to be exact – with some old acrylic color on it. No big deal and Ine wouldn't have died if it had been cleaned two hours later. Azarni snorted again, left the little storage-room and kicked the door close. She ignored the shocked squeal of the young receptionist and her disgusted look as she recognized Azarni walking by. The older tuner ignored the reaction of the young brunette and just kept walking towards the elevator to get to the second floor where said table were waiting for her to be cleaned.

After the metal doors had shut and the small cabin started moving, Azarni stared at her face which was reflected by the shining metal. She was a nineteen years old girl with dark-blond, shoulder-length hair with turquoise highlights – her mother would have almost killed her the day she had had left the house with long, black hair and had come home with dark-blond, shorter hair and those highlights. A tired smile appeared on Azarni's lips. She had been sick of perverted high-school teenager who were flirting with because they thought she'd be a clueless virgin who was dreaming of the first true love. They had said the same things again and again: Your eyes are beautiful. Your smile is cute.

"Shitty bastards." Azarni gritted her teeth as the elevator stopped and she left the cabin. She entered a simple hallway with gray walls and doors, which were lined up at the right. Across from every door there was a painting hanging on the walls, but Azarni didn't pay much attention to them though most of them had been painted by her. She was a member of Tool Toul To for about nine years now and she knew almost every edge of this headquarter which didn't mean that she was happy working here. But she liked ATs and actually she really liked her work as a tuner though she wasn't as naive as most of the other girls which were dreaming of becoming the tuner of one of the eight kings. Every girl had her own favorite king and the girls who already were the tuner of a king were patronized – not only by Ine Makigami.

Once she had been the same way . . . when her hair had been still black hair, she was working hard and almost freaking out every time a king had visited the headquarter. But many things had changed since then.

Azarni's working room was at the end of the hallway where a glass door lead towards the stairs. The stairs had been polished two days ago and it still wasn't possible to use them because some kind of special polish had been used. Azarni shrugged and kicked the door which lead to her room open. There was a single table standing inside and a dark-blue colored office chair had it's place right behind it. Rays of sunlight shone through the glass of the window at the back of the room and stroked the dried acrylic color on the table.

"Well, let's get to work."

At Ine's office Yoshitsune had taken place in front of the Pledge Queen.

"How did it work out?", the Rumble King asked while pointing at his regalia which was lying on Ine's desk. The Pledge Queen took some sheets of paper out of one of the drawers of her desk. "I've asked one of the older one's to do the job because it's mostly easier for them to work with a regalia whose King they don't know."

"I see." Yoshitsune leaned back in his chair and took the sheets of paper from Ine. There was the technical report of the temporary tuning written on it because Yoshitsune didn't have a personal tuner by now, so the regalia couldn't be tuned personally for him and his way of riding. But he had to let them get tuned at least temporarily to be able to use them without taking the risk of suffering injuries. If the wavelengths of a regalia don't match the ones of the king at all, it is likely to be happening that the parts get worn out too fast which makes more risky.

Yoshitsune examined the ATs on Ine's desk closely. With the amount of knowledge he had he could say that the work was done by quite skillfull hands, but one the other hand he highly doubted that there would be a tuner in this team without a minimum level of skill which already was high above average skills.

"Would you mind telling me which of your girls did this?" He raise his view from the regalia and was surprised to see a glance of annoyance lighting up in Ine's eyes even if was just for a second.

"Her name's Azarni. She is a member for about nine years now. Actually I wanted to give the job to Yama, the oldest member, but she got ill."

"Why is that so? I mean it seems that this Azarni-girl had done a good job."

Ine snorted and crossed her arms in front of her chest. "I've never said that I doubt the fact that she has got what it takes to tune a regalia."

"So, why did you want to give the job to another girl?" Yoshitsune didn't know why he was that interested all of a sudden, but the fact that Ine seemed not to think of that girl so highly kinda caught his attention. Normally she was very proud of every single member. Ine sighed and placed her elbows on the top of the desk.

"She's not that very easy to handle. She can be stubborn like hell when she wants to be, she's got a short temper - oh, and she kinda is deaf to orders given to her . . . sometimes."

The Rumble King slowly nodded and remained silent for a few moments. "Why do you keep her in your team then?"

"I can't throw her out of the team just because I don't like the way she's working . . . at least she does a good job."

There was something in her voice which made Yosjitsune suspicious. Ine had been talking more relaxed before, but now she suddenly had tensed up. The grab of her hands had tightened and it seemed like she had memorized that line. It wasn't spoken freely and he was very sure she had thought it through for the case when someone would ever ask that question. Why didn't you push her out of the team?

Yoshitsune sighed. "Would it be possible for me to talk to her?"

"Sure", there that typical bossy tone was back in Ine's voice, "she's upstairs at third floor and I really hope she's cleaning up and fixing the sign – oh, I'd advise you to use the elevator . . . the stairs shouldn't be used by now." She mumbled that last part of the sentence and stood up to lead Yoshitsune towards the door as he suddenly remembered something.

"Oh, could it be that Azarni is that girl I've seen in the entrance?"

Ine raised her eyebrow questioning but seemed to remember that Yoshitsune had already been in the entrance when she had taken Azarni to lumber-room. "Yeah, that has been her . . ."

She opened the door and the Rumble King left the office with the regalia hanging over his shoulder.

"Come back when you've got used to the regalia a bit more. I guess it should be possible to pick a tuner for you then", Ine told him additionally as he walked towards the elevator. He turned around after pushing the button of saif elevator and nodded shortly in response. The Pledge Queen went back into her office and closed the door behind herself.

"Oh, come on! This is bullshit!"

With anger boiling up inside of her Azarni looked at the 'Attention! Slippery Stairs!'-sign hanging from the balustrade of the corkscrew stairs which lead to every floor of the headquarter. She had used all the warning tape she had found in her desk to prevent any human being – who knew a black and yellow striped tape wasn't the sign of the finish line of a race – from using the stairs. Actually it should be fine with just making it impossible to get through to the stairs, but Azarni didn't want too take the risk of being yelled at again because some genius decided to climb over the warning tape and to use the stairs anyhow. Because that genius would definitely slip, fall and run to Ine to accuse Azarni for not hanging up that f*cking sign. The problem simply was that said sign didn't want to stay stuck to the warning tape and if Azarni would suspend it from the balustrade said genius would mention that it gad been impossible to see the sign from that position. And the saddest thing of all was that Azarni knew all this out of former experiences with the members of this team.

She sighed and mumbled: "Man, and they call me short-tempered because I freaked out when they had accused me for breaking a vase in the entrance the third time though I had been absent the whole damn week because of a stinking flew."

When Yoshitsune left the elevator he was greeted with the scream "JUST STAY THERE YOU FUCKING SIGN!". An amused smile was formed on his lips and he silently approached the furious girl whose hair colour he recognize from their "meeting" in the entrance. She actually seemed to be simply a very strong-willed and self-confident girl, in his opinion – though he only knew her for about one hour.

"Hi", he said and the smile on his lips turned into a grin as he saw the girl with the charming name Azarni jumping around with shock-widened eyes.

"Who the hell -", she began, but was cut off by the Rumble King. "Are you Azarni?"

Her view instantly became sceptical. "Who wants to know that?"

"Me . . . I'm Yoshitsune."

"Ah", understanding lightened up in Azarni's blue eyes. "You're the new Rumble King."

"Yeah . . . you've been the one working on my regalia, right?"

"I've just done a temporary tuning because Yama had caught a flew, if you wanna –"

"I know that . . . I've already talked this through with Ine."

"So, why are you here then?" She crossed her arms in front of her chest, but Yoshitsune just shrugged and answered:

"I wanted to thank you for your good work."

"You shouldn't thank me before you've done a test run."

His grin got even wider; actually he really started to like that girl. She wasn't like these energetic youngsters. They could be really exhausting sometimes. A soft chuckle escaped his lips and he lifted on hand.

"Well, however . . . I thank you for your hard work. If you give me your phone number, I could call you to tell you how the test run went." Yoshitsune expected her to give in with an amused smile, but Azarni simply kneeled down to pick up the sign she was screaming at earlier and mentioned without looking at him.

"That's something you should discuss with Ine or your personal tuner. . . not a random member like me." With these words she straightened up and went into a room nearby the glass door. As Yoshitsune made an attempt to follow her, she closed the door and he could hear how she locked it, too.

"I think I've already decided which member I'd like to have as my personal tuner", the Rumble King mumbled and made his way back to the elevator. Maybe he would have stayed longer to wait till that girl opened the door again, but he knew Benkei was waiting for him and making her wait longer than necessary wasn't the best thing to do.

Heeeeeeeeeey, you've read the whole chapter? THat's great ^^ now you can tell me how you liked because if you did there'll be another chapter about Yoshitsune and Azarni AFTER the Genesis-meeting . . . uhm, and if you didn't like it, tell me why and I won't write another Extra-chapter about those two.

The chapter about the meeting is also already halfway finished - I swear! - but I'd have to know if I should mention Azarni in the next chapter or not! ^^

Well, then that's it for today! Bye FreakyPumpkin! ^^