Disclaimer: none below was mine, all characters were belongs to Kurumada Sensei, the only character belong to me was Ilus the trainer.

Genre: general

Warning: beware of my English, which is not my mother language

Setting: day after Aiolos' death

Treasure Memories

Um…Brick?

"……" from afar Milo looked at his friend, the brother of the traitor, they called. He groaned when he remembered that they were separated from Aiolia early in the morning by his so called master after hearing about the new about Aiolos the traitor. Now his friend was doing his training alone while he and his so called 'pack' doing their training on the other side further than Aiolia. They trained in silent by breaking the brick with their finger. Being a future gold saint chosen from the start, even at young age of 7, their cosmos was greater than usual kid. They were given the basic training before they were sent to their other destination. Shaka would be in India, while Mu in Tibet, Camus would be going to Siberia while he was going to Milos Island. But Aiolia… he shuddered, he didn't know how would Aiolia deal with all that stare, being a brother of the traitor and should train in this ground for another 6 years or maybe forever. A sigh came from his mouth as he paused from breaking another brick.

"Thinking of something?" a voice on his head suddenly snapped him from his thought, he turned his head slightly just enough to see Shaka's face. His golden hair friend was taking another brick to be break, never really looking at him. "About Aiolia?" he continued telepathically.

"Shaka, what do you think? Aiolos ni-chan was a traitor?"

"… I don't know…" he shrugged his shoulder a little while taking another brick. But before he could break it, he received a rather hard knock on his head and an 'ouch' could be heard from Milo. Rubbing his head, the future scorpion saint looked up only to meet with his basic training sensei (teacher). Shaka was also stroking his head.

"I always said no chatting while training!" he said glaring at the two kids "And that include telepathic!" he continued before Milo could say something. "Understand?"

"Uh yes, Master Ilus." The blue hair kid nodded slightly, while Camus who was breaking another brick from his pile resisted himself from rolling his eyes. Mu was trying not to smile but still an amused look could be seen on his eyes. The master finally went toward another direction to assist another kid with their training. The four of them began to break another brick in silent, but it was not long before Milo's mind wander toward Aiolia again. Sighing, he finally spun his head toward his best friend.

"Oi, Camus." Silent… "Camus!" he said again telepathically "I know you can hear me! Or should I shout?"

"Shut up, and concentrate of your training!" ah finally a reply, Shaka also tried to synchronized his cosmos with Milo and Camus so he could actually 'hear and chat' with them. Mu on the other side knew when their cosmos were synchronized, the purple hair kid was pondering if he should stop them or joined them; after all he was also curious.

"Camus, what do you think of Aiolos ni-chan??" Milo finally asked him when he watched in amused toward Mu who was blushing as he tried to synchronize his cosmos. Ah curious killed the cat.

"I don't think that he was a traitor…" Shaka took another brick from the pile while he voicing his opinion. Mu was also nodding his head slightly as he gazed toward his right, afraid of being found out by his master. A paused when finally Camus let out a sigh.

"But Father Kyoto said he was so…"

"I know." Milo gazed at the future saint of Leo again, should he be that lonely forever? Aiolia was one of his 'packs' after all, being the youngest generation of the chosen gold saints they got along well. He knew that they would leave this training ground soon and wouldn't have enough time after they started their gold saint training but still. "We can not let him alone like that, more over after this traitor thing…"

"I actually agree with you, Milo." Shaka added almost with his sarcastic tone.

"Hey! What that supposed to mean!" Milo gave his golden hair friend a glared. Mu was chuckling slightly as he already knew there was constant rivalry between the two. Shaka and Milo was always fighting for the alpha position on the pack. Feeling a glared from both of them, Mu's chuckle became a grin while Camus who watched in silent from the start finally smirked in amused. Suddenly they heard a tapping sound in front of them, twitching his eyes slightly, the future Aquarius saint stared up and found Ilus in front of them tapping his foot impatiently. Massive sweat drop when they saw a death glare on his eyes, with a vein or two popping on his forehead. Twitching his eyes browns slightly he finally said "Are you finish with telepathic thing?"

"Um, master…" Shaka began but cut by the silver long hair trainer

"Good, now" he said as he took a pile of brick out of nowhere. "Break this one with your forehead, as punishment." He glared at the boys pressing on punishment word, and before Milo could let out a groan "100 each before you complaining, understand?!" he continued before he walked toward Aiolia in triumph. A groan from Milo could be heard while Camus was glaring at his friends.

"Your fault, you hear that Milo?! I hate you."

"Wah! Shaka started the telepathic thing first!" Milo defended himself; the future Virgo saint was sticking out his tongue toward him, which was reply by a playful jab on his side. They finally began to break the brick with their forehead. After quite a while, Milo finally gazed toward him and began to open his mouth again. "Um, Camus. Do you really hate me?"

"…" he ignored the question and continued to break the brick while Shaka and Mu paused listening to it.

"You know. Camus would never really hate you." Shaka shook his head a little, continued to break his number 21 brick.

"I know it! Right, Camus?!" He said beaming, Camus almost rolled his eyes but a hint of smile could be seen on his face. "I know that you always love me." A groan followed by a chuckle from both Shaka and Mu.

"Now could you just concentrate at the training? I don't want another punishment." He finally let out a sigh, taking the brick and broke it into two part with his forehead (without so much effort)

"… can we chat?"

"No."

"But, sensei already gave us the punishment, right? And Father Kyoto always said no more than 100 bricks even if it were for us."

"No, we can't."

"Yes we can." Shaka actually agreed again with Milo. "I think we can chat now, since Kyoto-sama very caution about breaking this with our forehead, 100 was max."

"See 2 vs 1." The blue hair saint grinned in triumph, being Camus even if he was cold but he would never ever back away from competition, he quickly gazed at the future Aries saint who looked at him with his nervous smile before he spun his head back toward Milo.

"Make it 2 vs 2."

"Wha- I didn't say any." A glare "um, well I think Camus right."

"Fine, Aiolia?!" They twitched as soon as Milo shouted for him. Aiolia even if he was quite far enough from them, still could hear the shout and glanced at the group in confused. "Aiolia! Can or can't we?" if the brown hair boy was confused before, now he was bewilder. He uncertainly yelled back "Can?" which made a grin on Milo's face wider, Shaka even chuckled a little.

"That's unfair. Aiolia wasn't with us in this punishment."

"What unfair, he is still in our pack."

"Fine…" a paused as they continued to break another brick

"So can we chat now?" Camus was more likely want to bang his forehead on the brick but instead he took one of the brick and cracked it with both hand.

"Uh, that was against the rule. Ouch!" feeling a brick being hit against his forehead by his own friend made him yelled in surprise instead of pain. Shaka who was looking from the side in silent was now laughing upon seeing Milo's face. Camus himself grinned slightly as he took another brick and broke it against his forehead. Upon hearing the laughter, Milo frowned and took a brick from his pile.

"Shaka." He called sweetly

"Yah?"

"How many brick did you already break?" inserted the innocent eyes here

"45 why you ask- argh!" feeling a sudden cold brick hit on his forehead and broke apart

"Make it 46 then." taking another brick when he felt a brick hit his forehead.

"As gratitude, Milo dear." Shaka said shooting his devil glare along, he was ready for the brick war. A paused…

"Here your 47, Shaka!" they both began breaking the brick with each other head, Mu was ready to break them apart while Camus was looking at them in amused. But unfortunately for him, he was receiving another hit 'accidentally' and ready to storm inside the fight when another tapping sound stopped them. This time the veins in Ilus's forehead already popping about 3 or 4 plus his blue eyes even turned into red in fury. A twitch…

"All of you! Five laps around training ground!"

"What! Five?!" Milo yelled in surprise

"Ten!" he added

"T-ten?!" Shaka gritted his teeth in annoyed

"Make it fifteen!"

"Fifteen…" Camus said under his breath, Mu also ready to speak something but a death glare stopped him from speaking.

"Yes, Mu?" another vein was popping on his forehead.

"We'll... we'll do that." Mu said almost whispering.

"Good." Satisfied, Ilus finally walked from the scene. Three others were now giving a death glare to our poor purple hair kid. The future Aries saint could only sigh. Today would definitely be a long day.

Owari

Authoress note: the brick scene inspiration taken from scene on one Shaolin Kungfu movie, where JetLi played a main character of it. This was one of old Chinese movie.