Ah damn. My back hurts, my chest hurts, and my flippin diaphram hurts from coughing so much. God I hate colds. But even though I've been a bit under the weather, I felt the need to update again. Almost ten chapters into the sequel, and Kia hasn't reunited with anyone yet. Will she ever? Only time will tell :P

Chapter 7 - Found

Balance. Strength. Flexing of muscles, tightening and relaxing to a rythmatic beat. Kia pulled herself back up on the bar, forcing her body to work to its limits.

"Three. Two. One," she counted. Letting her body swing, the teenager used the momentum of her body's contortions to go in a loop, her hands just barely gripping the bar. One loop, two loops, three loops-

"I think you've done enough training!" Azukami shouted from across the gym. "You keep that up and you're going to sprain your arm again."

Releasing the bar, Kia let herself drop to the floor, nearly ten feet beneath her. Landing in a crouched position, she slowly rose to her feet. "With as much as your exercise, it's a wonder you still can get your ass handed to you by Ritsuka." Azukami spoke without intention for Kia to hear her, but the black haired girl listened anyways.

"Experiance," Kia said. "Agility. Flexibilty. Strength. She's perfect in every way." Kia's eyes narrowed slightly at the thought of Ritsuka. She was indeed a beautiful and dangerous Doll, but she treated Kia with a great disdain, like she was fresh mud on her brand new pair of $40,000 diamond studded slippers.

Shoving the thoughts from her mind, Kia began to wipe the sweat from her arms and legs, muscles feeling sore from the workout. A good one, like she had worked all of the kinks out of her body. "Come come," the redhead said. "A Doll is here for you to meet."

Kia sighed, closing her eyes. "Reject or New?"

"New."

"How new?"

"Fresh from the street near Kaitana's Coffee Shop. Hit by a semi-truck."

"Ouch. What was she doing there?" Kia asked, walking alongside the red haired girl. She couldn't help but sneak glances at the other Doll's still healing body. Azukami's legs were back to normal and walking, but everything above her torso was still taking time.

"Looking at information about you," Azukami stated, her onyx eyes looking at the girl from the corner. A small smirk made its way across her lips.

"Me?" Kia gasped, shocked. "What for?"

"You fucked up. And the new Doll's name is Ko, you should know."

Kia took off running towards the lab.

Azukami sweatdropped. "Leave the cripple behind, thank you. It's not like I had anything else to say."

Tansen heard the sound of feet running down the hallway, and the door to his lab swung open. Kia appeared, breathing heavily. "Dayum," Tansen spoke, raising an eyebrow. "You got here fa-"

"Ko!" Kia panted. "Where?"

"She's quite alright, my dear," Tansen said, calming the girl down. "She's on a steady dose of sedatives and she isn't feeling an ounce of pain." The brown haired man pointed towards the containment of preserving fluid for Kia to see. Walking over, Kia looked at the state of her best friend's body and felt her heart drop.

Ko had been hurt severely, and if she was still going to stay normal, she wouldn't have survived the accident. Ko's head looked like it had been crushed by the tire, her body ripped apart from the impact. Part of Ko's chest revieled ribs and her pelvic bone had been pulverized.

"Both of her lungs were punctered by the incident, and her liver was brought in an icebox. A Doll body is currently is the process of being made for her." Kia looked at the doctor, a stinging sensation in her eyes.

"She...was looking for me?" she asked.

"Kia," Tansen said, holding Kia's shoulders. "I know what you're thinking, but this is in no way your fault. There are traces of another Doll and a Douji on her body, and this has nothing to do with you."

Kia nodded. "I'm going to go to the scene and see if I can find something."

"As you wish. Hide yourself though, if you don't want to be seen."

"Yes sir."

Kia wandered the streets of Tokyo, making her way to the coffee shop. She could feel the strands of fake hair brush her face and ears, and she silently moved the short blonde strands behind her ears.

It had taken her forever to get all of her black hair into a bald cap so she could get the extremely whiteblonde haired wig on. Thick black makeup surrounded her eyes and she wore light blue contacts to accent it. White go go boots, black tights, medium jean skirt and a silver blouse was her choice of fashion. Never in her life was she one to borrow clothes from Dante, but this was exceptional.

Kia's eyes scanned the horizon, slipping down her sunglasses to get a better look around her. "There's Kaitana's. And there's the street," she mumbled. Looking around, she saw a boy in a pink shirt and jeans standing near the street, and in front of him were puddles of blood that must have been taped off by police.

'Hmm.' Walking over to the boy, she called out. "Hey!" Immediately he looked up, like he knew it was her calling him. Pink eyes with blue irises. Jealousy. 'Shit!' she cursed in her mind. "What happened 'ere?" she asked him. He looked at her, and his eyes narrowed.

"You don't fool me," he stated. "I know who you are."

"Dat's funny," Kia said. "I don't get out much. And I certainly never met you before."

Standing up, Jealousy wrapped an arm around Kia's waist and dragged her off. "The hell, boy?" Kia shouted. "Put me down!" His arm merely wrapped itself tighter around her, and he ignored her demands. After getting a good distance, he finally dropped her. Grabbing a good fistfull of her "hair", the pink and blue Douji pulled off the wig.

"What in the hell are you doing?" Jealousy said. "Why in the hell did you do that? Do you know how many people have been worried about you? Even Vice-"

"Don't bring him up! You cannot tell anybody I'm here!" Kia growled, snatching her wig back from him. "No one needs to know that I'm still alive. And he wouldn't give a shit if I was alive or not. Now swear that you won't tell anyone that you've seen me."

"Yeah, I swear," Jealousy said, rolling his pink eyes. "I won't tell anyone, but you will."

"No I won't!"

"You've already have." Jealousy pointed behind her. Crossing her arms, she grunted and turned to face whatever Jealousy was trying to give her attention to. Kia looked to see a boy with wild black hair and golden eyes. Kia felt her heart stop when she realized who's attention she had recieved.

"Kia," Vice said, staring at the girl.

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