Hey guys,

Well, I'm back once again after spending a day of doing absolutely nothing, well other than trying to catch up on AGT and watching my favorite PIXAR flick, UP. Oh, wait, I did do one more thing and that was basically finish Chapter 23 of DBR, which has every member of the spellbook reading roster in one room. Boy was that rough, because every character has their own way of talking and interacting with others and since we have six bookreaders on the final roster well, let's just say it was pretty difficult, not to mention the two non bookreaders on the team too.

But anyways, I've gotten some work done and thank you to a little thing that somehow has become very critical when I write. And shockingly that's a little 58 minute long youtube video entitled CLANNAD, CLANNAD After story - Sad Soundtrack Collection. Funny story, I honestly do not like Clannad and only like a select few episodes of Clannad After Story, but the music has become very dear to me and you better believe that when I am editing or writing a chapter I am listening to that soundtrack.

Alright, enough rambling, I better give you the next chapter for your reading pleasure. How about we take a little journey into understanding our Sherry, Aislinn? I am ready, so let's dive on in!

xKiha

"Uh, who the hell are you?"

Kimiko couldn't believe what she was hearing right then, after a fight like they had managed to have in her home could the girl really be joking about something like this? It wasn't a very funny matter, no not in the slightest. "Uh, Kimiko, I'm the girl you and Cheshire visited and almost burned my book. Don't you remember? My partner, he's a little poison demon?" The girl not very sure what to say other than that as she continued to eye Aislinn with a confused glance.

"I don't remember you," The girl saying somewhat coldly, her eyes now looking over Kenja with little interest. "What about you?"

"In honesty," Kenja's voice never losing its calamity as he spoke to the girl with scars. "We do not know one another, I have seen you in class before but this is the first time we have spoken. Flynn had told us that we might be able to get you to join our alliance in the demon battles that are going on currently."

"Flynn?" Aislinn muttering as if this was the first time she had ever come in contact with this name. "I don't know any of you people."

The blond boy turned to his friend and gave her a confused look only to be given a similar look in return, had she really managed to forget who Kimiko was? How could you forget something like that happened, that kind of power and the fact that Tsumi was even placed in a coma like state in the end wasn't exactly a forgettable thing when you put it to mind. In fact, there were days when Tsumi, and even Kimiko, would rather forget that that all happened.

"Look," The both snapping out of their silent state to see the girl standing up from her desk. "I don't know you and I'm pretty sure I don't want to. It would probably be smart if you would leave me alone."

"Is that so?" Kimiko saying as she reached into her satchel, showing Aislinn the purple spellbook that rested inside comfortably. "I don't think you mean that."

The raven haired girl paused for only a minute to look it over, frowning but never showing as much interest as she probably could have when it came down to it. "You better put that thing away, because I won't hesitate to destroy that thing if you give me the chance or if you even try to strike at me."

"You already spared it," Kimiko saying as she became a little more desperate with getting this possible ally to listen to her. "You had the chance to destroy the book and yet you instead left us be. Now we're coming to you with the chance to have the security of a group, something you shouldn't refuse if you want to have a good strategy."

Aislinn smirked, shaking her head slightly. "I am not going to join a group of strangers." Giving them both a cold glare before walking out of the room and leaving the two teenagers in a little bit of shock.

"What exactly was that about? I thought you said that you and her had battled once and that you were lucky enough to be spared a book burning."

"I don't know why she doesn't remember. I mean, it's clear she wasn't making a joke, but I don't know how somebody could just forget something like that. I don't think I could ever forget a single battle I've fought so far, even if I wanted or begged to."

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"Just remember this much, just because I am going with you still doesn't make us friends. I am going with you for every other reason we decided to come, but not because we're friends."

Tsumi sighed as he looked to Kesai, the child's soft purple eyes focused on the kitsune as he nodded. "Yeah, I know. You don't want to be friends so we're not. Look, right now we need to focus on other things that are more important than why you are afraid to admit you like the security of a group."

The child's ears went flat against his head, hissing back. "No! I don't need the group at all."

Sure, sure. Tsumi beginning to wonder just how the seemingly forever calm Kenja managed to deal with the child the way he did, but somehow all the poison demon could see was the teenager telling him something like how Kesai means well or how he will warm up to everybody eventually. Warm up indeed, his progress so far was rather small and now he was beginning to grow a little annoyed with Kesai's attempts to push him away.

Well, this wasn't worth getting all hyped up about as the two children reached the High School.

"Remind me why we're here again." The redhead folding his arms.

"Hold on, give me a moment." The poison child closing his eyes as he began to focus, waiting a few moments in silence before opening a single eye and focusing it on whatever stood behind him in a few trees. "Cheshire, stop hiding." For a moment there was silence, the child's voice growing a little bit more agitated but still remaining focused. "I know you are there, just come on out."

Kesai then picked up on the sensation of another demon, being able to inhale her scent from where he stood before focusing on some tension with ears pricked straight up. As he became aware of the scent's movements he frowned, taking moments to do the math and figure out just what was going to happen. "Move!"

Tsumi was left in shock as the kitsune suddenly barreled right into him, the both hitting the pavement right as the snow leopard demon hit the ground in what seemed to be a pounce while landing on her feet. Her silver eyes fell onto both of the children right away, frowning. "What do the both of you want?"

"We were actually coming to talk to you about an alliance we have going on right now." Tsumi swallowing back all of his nerves as he spoke, just grateful that her claws weren't out. "We were hoping to see if maybe you and Aislinn would be willing to join us and become part of the alliance."

The anthropomorphic creature snickered, shaking her head with new found humor. "You want us to help you out in this kind of a fight? I don't think so."

Kesai frowned, his ears once again lowering in frustration. "Look, I'm not into this idea either, but Flynn wanted all of us to see if you and your bookreader wanted to join us. You can say no, either way I don't care, but at least consider it or give it more than a second's thought."

"Hn," Cheshire studying the kitsune with some growing interest. He didn't seem as annoying as Tsumi was, maybe even a little down to earth when it came down to it. "I don't think we have met before, who are you?"

"Kesai," The boy not showing a deep interest in her but instead muttering his name and giving Tsumi a look that told the poison demon that he wanted to get out of here as soon as possible and do something more interesting.

The leopard smirked, somewhat enjoying his nonchalant attitude. "I see, well I'm Cheshire."

Tsumi then frowned, clenching his fists together as he began to wonder why everybody was suddenly off the actual topic here. "So, do you think you will at least consider joining the alliance? Just run it by Aislinn and give it some thought."

"I don't see why I couldn't think it over." The leopard saying this only as a means to get the poison child to shut up. "However, this won't do me any good if you want Aislinn and I to discuss it together."

"And why is that?" Tsumi's voice getting slightly nervous as he looked to her in curiosity.

"Because, it's almost impossible that Aislinn even remembers fighting you, let alone remembers your face or that we almost destroyed you. She won't have any memories of what happened that night at all, so you will feel like all new people she has never encountered in her life even though you were almost defeated at her hand. "

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"I guess I forgot to tell you about Aislinn's faulty memory."

Kimiko nodded, folding her arms slightly as she gave Flynn a lop-sided look and narrowed her thin eyebrows. "Yeah, what was with that? She acted as if she had never seen me before, even though she almost-" The brunette realizing where she was going with this and quickly going quiet. "N-Nevermind, maybe I'm being too hard on her, I guess sometimes people can draw a blank."

"Well," Kenja leaning against the lockers in the now empty hallway as everybody had already left to go home in their little cliques. "All I know is if she doesn't have a consistent memory, how can we hope to keep her affections enough for her to remember us and want to work with this team? She may come around, but how can we hope that she will continue seeing us as friends? I don't know if Kesai would be alright with the idea that the team he is already reluctant to be a part of might just have a person who could turn on him in a moment."

Flynn began to realize that neither of them were very keen on the idea, trying to think of something else to say that might help persuade the both of them to at least consider allowing Aislinn and Cheshire to fight alongside the both of them. "Well, you know what happened to her, right?" After all, he was aware of what had occurred after dealing with this quick memory loss.

"No." Both Kenja and Kimiko looking to the sophomore in curiosity, figuring it wouldn't hurt to know what exactly was going on with Aislinn. Maybe a look into what happened would help them get a feel of what had happened to her and if it even managed to give her a really good excuse to why she might be bitter or rather forgetful.

"Well, her cousin and his boyfriend trusted me with this information because they figured I wouldn't hurt anybody with it and all I need from you both is two things, to not tell Aislinn ever, because the last thing she needs to hear is things from the past she cannot remember," The boy with blue hair waiting until the both of them gave him a conformation nod before going ahead with his story.

"Well, when she was a little girl Aislinn and her family moved around a lot and she was never really the social child the rest of her siblings were, she sort of preferred to spend time on her own instead of playing with other children or making friends. It didn't bother her and even though her parents were somewhat bothered by the fact, they accepted it as simply a part of their daughter's personality and nothing more.

"However, since they lived in America back then, Japan wasn't a place they commonly visited. So when they decided to visit Aislinn's cousin one month, they figured they would rent a small plane and take a trip over there instead of going with a bunch of people to make it a family event. Well, I guess the world can be a horrible thing when you think about it, because the plane never did touch down in Otaru like it was supposed to.

"The engine exploded; well at least that's what the people who investigated the remains of the plane think that's what happened. Well, no matter what happened to start off this horrible chain of events, it ended with the Pilot ejecting himself from the aircraft and leaving Aislinn and her family to their deaths. Honestly everybody considers Aislinn a miracle and one of the lord's favorite people because somehow the girl managed to survive in what seemed like an impossible crash and well obviously a seemingly impossible accident to survive in no matter who you are.

"She woke up from a medically induced coma about three days after the crash occurred and when they asked her what she knew, she only said one thing in return. She told them 'I know my name is Aislinn, I know I am fluent in Japanese and English…but the rest of it is all blank' which wasn't that big of a shock to the doctors who had expected at least this much. However, when she was asked if she remembered anybody at all, she was able to recognize her cousin Kirii and that baffled everybody but helped show that there was some hope for Aislinn.

"So, after some harsh tooth and nail fighting, Kirii won custody of Aislinn and began raising her just like his own child. She recovered soon enough and even started going to school again eventually, but even though her body healed she was never able to gain the brain strength she had before this. Her memory didn't exactly serve her well and she was prone to forgetting almost everything she had been told or faces of people she had met before which pushed her away from the other children in the school and left her on her own. Honestly, according to Kirii it takes a lot of persistence to make Aislinn remember you and since she's become somewhat withdrawn that persistence is not an easy thing to pull off."

Kenja turned to Kimiko who was biting into her lip, she wasn't sure she had wanted to know that much about what had happened to the girl, trying to hide her emotions but shaking her head even so. "I-I guess this leaves only one option for the both of us, something that we can't really evade but need to face right up forward if we want it to work."

"And what exactly is that?" Kenja lifting an eyebrow in curiosity.

"Well, we need to be persistent. We have to make friends with her; we can't give up a chance like this to have another ally to fight with us."

At first the blond couldn't believe what she was saying, then smirking softly and shrugging. "Alright, well it won't hurt to give it some attention and to at least try."

Kimiko nodded as Flynn looked from one to the other just to make sure they were both being completely serious which they both were, smiling softly as he approved of their willingness. In fact, although he wouldn't exclaim it, he was grateful for this. "Good, I'm sure that you two will be able to break through her shell and manage to make friends with her."

Kimiko gave him a smile, nodding as Kenja couldn't help but softly chuckle to himself. This was such a ragtag little group of misfits and now they were going to add another into the mix. 'Figures.'

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"So, that really happened to Aislinn?" Tsumi frowning as he put more thought into this information.

"Pretty harsh." Kesai muttering as he brushed his jacket off. "No wonder she can't remember anything, I probably would have a shitty memory too if that kind of a thing happened. And I was lucky enough to survive that would probably be nothing but a little problem."

Cheshire looked over the both of them with a bit of disinterest, nodding slightly before looking back at the trees and the brush behind her. "Yes, well I better get going, I have more important things to do other than talk with weaklings like the both of you."

"Hold on, Cheshire."

The leopard turned around to see Kesai with a rather sincere look in his big green eyes that Tsumi could only figure was probably understanding or respect or something on that line. "Well, would you at least consider joining us as part of our team? Sure, it can suck to make friends some times, but after getting a ton of talks from my partner I guess it isn't all that bad. Anyways, from what I've heard from Tsu, you're a pretty tough demon with some pretty interesting spells that I'd like to check out. So, will you at least consider staying around, at least for now?"

Cheshire was a little bit surprised at this, instead of getting some stupid speech or babbling from the poison demon she got this, smirking to herself softly and figuring she liked this change. He was less whiney and seemed to have a dignified bum of an attitude and for a reason she couldn't decipher, this was refreshing. "Fine, I'll think about it. But don't expect anything from me, after all since Aislinn won't remember any of you I doubt she would want to fight alongside any of you guys."

'Not with Kimiko's persistent personality,' Tsumi thinking to himself as he watched the leopard disappear before their very eyes. Then turned back to Kesai only to see the kitsune give him a smile of success and pride. "I guess you should let me do a little more of the talking, after all I may have just have gotten us another ally to join the team."

The poison demon returned the smile, figuring that they might just be on better terms now that the fire demon was able to show him up on something. "Yeah, you did good. Thanks, Kesai."

Both giggled in success, well they had held up their part and the rest was left up to the humans in this operation. But knowing their partners, this wouldn't be all that difficult.

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"Hey, could I sit with you?"

Aislinn's teal eyes gazed up from her meal to meet the smiling figure of Kimiko, the girl frowning before coldly hissing. "Who the hell are you?"

'Don't give in, we are going to be nice and not throw in the towel no matter what happens here and now.' The brunette smiling back to the girl in hopes that this might just help her case, even if in the slightest bit which still would be better than nothing at all. "I'm Kimiko Isahowa, I am in your class and I was thinking that maybe we could be friends."

Aislinn simply gave her the cold shoulder, Kimiko holding in a sigh but never dropping the smile she was going to make sure she kept while trying to make friends with her.

This might take a while, but there is no way that by the time Christmas comes around that Aislinn won't remember Tsumi and I and that she won't have an opinion on whether or not she wants to be on our team or not. As long as I keep this up and don't let anything push me away from this, we will eventually be able to build something up, whether it be good or bad.