Me: Hello everyone! We are at chapter 19! Thanks for being so loyal to my fic and thanks so much for all of your reviews I appreciate it a whole lot you guys are awesome. Now lets bring Toya out shall we? *pushes Toya and makes him talk*

Fine, fine! Konichiwa my name is Toya Iwahara, I live in Tokyo Japan all by myself no family to hold me down whatsoever. I don't need anything but my job, my Harley, and my best friend Kira Minamoto. We've been friends since we were kids and she is the only one that understands me. So yeah I am 16 and I'm the Dragon of Light?! What the hell? Light?! What kind of fu~

*pushes Toya away* none of that now, you can not say that word at all. Ok now you know Toya lets get on with the chapter shall we?

It was a beautiful day, the sun was up and not a cloud in the sky for now. The weather report said there was to be a rain storm later but no one really thought it would happen seeing there was not a cloud in the sky. The students in class 2-A quickly got to their seats as their teacher Takanari Misumi came in with his always stern yet happy look on his face.

"Ohaio Gozaimas everyone", said their homeroom slash english teacher.

"Ohaio Misumi-Sensei", the class said in unison.

"Lets get on with attendence shall we?", he said and read off the list. "Andou? Shinguji? Sakura? Imai?", he said the names one by one and everyone was present till he got in one name in particular. "Iwahara?", he said and there was no answer. "Iwahara!", he shouted this time and again no answer he looked to find Toya's desk was missing. "God damn that boy!", he hissed. "Minamoto!", he exclaimed making Kira stiffen in her desk.

"Yes Misumi-sensei?", she asked.

"Where is Iwahara? I thought he was going to be here today, this is the 5th time he's ditched this month alone!", he exclaimed his face turning into a deep shade of red.

"Umm well in Toya's defence he has been showing up more lately", she stammered mentally cursing at Toya wherever he was. "It beats the 10 times he ditched last month".

Mr. Misumi sighed and pinched his nose in aggravation, "I guess you right, but if he doesn't show tomorrow I can guarantee that he will receive so much detention he wont be able to have a free day till graduation!".

"Yes sir I'll tell him that when I see him", she said and was relieved when he went down the list and finished the attendance. Kira waited anxiously for school to be over for she couldn't wait to give Toya a piece of her mind, she was going to make him pay. Even though she was known to be a shy girl during school she was always fired up when it came to two things. Sports and Toya being a complete asshole.

During Phys Ed she used all her anger as much as she could through sports, she put on her lucky glove which she always wore during any sports event and kissed her tiger claw that she always wore around her neck. Then she released the 'beast from within' as Toya called it when she was unstoppable and full of rage. They were playing volley ball and she was the attacker. Every time the ball came at her she would jump beyond the blockers and smack it so hard and so fast no one dared get in its path. For they feared that if they even tried there was a big possibility of a few bones breaking. Everyone who knew about their relationship felt sorry for Toya and what he was in for afterwards.

"Geez she left a freakin scorch mark she kept hitting the same spot over and over", a few people whispered. "If I was Toya I'd run far away like now".

Finally the day was over and Kira stalked away fired and ready to give Toya the greatest beating in his life. She looked at all the usual spots where Toya usually hanged out when he skipped school, she couldn't find him anywhere finally she went to the Convenience store where he worked and asked his boss if he knew where he was.

"Toya?", his boss said then thought about for a minute. "Yeah I think he said he was heading towards the spot under the bridge to gets some R&R."

"Thank you sir", she said bowed then ran off as fast as she could.

"Boy is he gonna get it today", his boss sighed and continued what he was doing before.

Kira ran to the bridge and found Toya lying on the grass looking at the sky, with a peice of straw in his mouth. His somewhat spiky hair blowing against the breeze he was wearing the usual all outfit that he wore when riding his bike, she then looked to find his Harley right there and fumed. Quickly and qietly she charged after Toya.

Meanwhile Toya was dazed as he looked at the clouds that passed through the sky, it was getting dark and the sun was just starting to set. He was at first going to go to school but when he saw the beautiful weather he just couldn't pass the chance of riding on perfect weather, after all the rainy season was coming soon so this was his last chance for a good ride till summer. Toya had good instincts no one could ever get the jump on him, somehow he just knew when someone was sneaking up behind him. There is only one person who could sneak up behind him and he would have no idea till it was too late.

"Oh Toya", she said Toya immediately stiffened and sat straight up. He slowly turned his head to find Kira standing firm and absolutely fuming with rage. "I found you", she said then punched him square in the jaw as she screamed, "You JERK!!". Only Kira could ever sneak up on Toya without him knowing.

"YOU ASS! YOU BIG NO GOOD LOUSY SON OF A BITCH!", she cried as she kicked him in the gut making him fall over again face down on the grass almost knocked out.

"Nice to see you too Kira", he said sarcastic as he slowly sat up and spit grass out of his mouth. "What did I do this time?".

"You skipped school again that's what!", she hissed. "I had to stick up for you again! Musumi-sensei is going to give you detention to graduation, if you don't come tomorrow! Can't you at least stay for a week? Just one week is that too much to ask?! That way teachers won't get on your case and they wont turn to me when you are missing!".

Toya put his hands up in surrender and tried to calm her down, "Ok, ok I get it", he said and sighed. "I'll be there tomorrow I promise, its just that the rainy season is almost here so I had to ride my Harley today while the weather was still sunny, its suppose to rain tonight you know?".

"Geez you and that motorcycle of yours", Kira said rolling her eyes. She then sighed and sat next to him feeling better now that he was coming tomorrow. "Can you believe its been three years? I wonder how Miyaka-chan is doing, and Kyoko-san? Do you hear from them?".

Toya nodded, "There doing ok, dad is still in rehabilitation he can rot in there for all I care." Kira sighed and nodded remembering that day that would change her best friend forever.

It was when they were little at the age of 6, she remembered how she ran to his home just as they were loading the car. "Toya", she cried. Toya then turned he was so little and sweet he grinned brightly and waved at Kira. "Toya are you guys really moving to Osaka?" she asked him. He nodded.

"Yeah dad got a new job offer so were moving to Osaka", he explained. Kira sighed and wanted to burst into tears she was going to miss her best friend. "Hey cheer up I'll be back when I'm 16 years old I promise! Then we can hang out and when I'm old enough to leave the house for good I'll move here and we can be together again."

"You promise you'll come back?", Kira asked him extending her hand and her pinkie, "promise me you'll come back."

Toya smiled and extended his hand then wrapped his pinkie finger around hers, "I promise."

'And he did keep his promise', Kira thought to herself while glancing at Toya and sighed. 'Just not the way we thought', she then remembered what had happened 6 months ago when he returned. One of the teachers Shimizu-sensei told me about a transfer student from Osaka who'd be placed in my class and asked me to go get him and show him around. Of course I said yes and went, as I walked out I found the transfer student out by the front gate. He was leaning against and was in a total daze. He was tall about 5'8 or taller his hair was black and spiked around the frame of his face, he wore the uniform but with the jacket loose and the tie loose also, many of the guys did that too look cool. He came on as someone very dark and I figured he was gonna be the type to skip class every week. I sighed, 'Great another deliquent', I thought but still I went up to him and introduced myself.

"Hello you must be the new transfer student", I said while approaching him, "Shimizu-sensei told me you were in my class so he asked me to show you around." He looked at me and eyed me top to bottom and sighed as if I wasn't what he was looking for. I wanted to hit him so bad but resisted with all my might, which surprised me for there was only one person I wanted to hit. "Anyway I'm Kira Minamoto its nice to meet you". Teh transfer students expression quickly changed and his eyes nearly popped out of his head, he jerked his whole torso in my direction and looked at me even closer.

"Kira?", he asked as if it was the most beautiful name in the world. "Is that really you?".

"Yeah", I said confused by why his attitude changed so quickly.

"Its me! Toya Iwahara", he exclaimed and it was my turn now to be surprised. I looked at him really closely and saw that it was true when you got a closer look at his face you could totally see the resemblance.

"Oh my God! Toya its you?", I asked shocked and delighted at the same time. He nodded and we hugged into a tight embrace. "I missed you so much! But why are you here transferring to this school did your family move back? I thought you'd visit me in the summer." Toya's expression quickly reverted from joy to despair and anger.

"No its just me I'm by myself Kira, my family is not with me and they aren't even with each other", he said and punched the gate with all his strength. He had changed so much, something awful must have happened to make the Toya I knew this way.

"What happened?", I asked for I had to know. Toya sighed and explained, things were going great for them for awhile but soon his dad lost his job because he accidentaly lost a very important client to the company. He tried to get better jobs but all he could get was a job as a janitor for a factory. Because of this his father went into drinking and bought a lot of illegal drugs, it wasn't long before he became and alcoholic and a drug adict. His mom then ordered a divorce for he continuously beat her and all of them, she took him to court for custody of her children but she had no job and was living with her parents. His father got rid of all the drugs that day and sobered up so he got custody of him and Miyaka, but his father wasn't settled for just having custody he had to get rid of his mom Kyoko-san for good. So he framed by sneaking cocaine in her pocket during the final trial she was arrested and taken to prison for possession of illegal drugs.

"I can never forgive him for what he did to my mom", Toya said and punched the gate again. "He then of course had to go after Miyaka", he explained and told me that afterwards he continuously beat Miyaka, except when Toya was home. For some reason his father never beat Toya and didn't do anything to Miyaka when she was home, so many times did he want to skip school but he couldn't for it was the law to go to school till the end of Middle School. She always got home before him and at that time her father would beat him, Toya had enough. He couldn't stand seeing her father beat Miyaka when he walked through the door, he had to end it. He his a video camera that he borrowed from a friend in the place where her father would always wait for Miyaka, he recorded the events that happened that day. He then took the evidence to the police and they arrested and confiscated all his drugs, Toya told him how his father framed his mother that she never did any drugs a day in her life. They released her as soon as his father confessed and she was given custody of them again.

But Toya was not going to live with them, "I couldn't face them not after I failed to protect them especially Miyaka", he told me. "So I am living here in Tokyo alone till I am strong enough to be with them, Miyaka and mom are so strong stronger then me. I don't deserve to live with them, even when father beat her Miyaka smiled, even though what dad did to mom, she still said 'I forgive you'. I can't forgive him and I wasn't able to do anything so I will get stronger then I will return to them, that's why I am here." I stared at him in shock hearing his story I couldn't believe that this had happened to him.

He wasn't what I expected I thought Toya would be his go-lucky self that I knew back then, instead he's this. Someone who see's himself as weak and hates himself more then anything, how could this have happened to my best friend? I prayed that day that he'd find his strength and realize its been there all along. Because he was strong he was able to put his dad in prison all by himself that is not easy to do, he was able to wait till he was old enough to live on his own and free his mom. He has strength plenty of it.

Ever since that day he and I have been together all the time, the teacher's heard of our relationship as friends so whenever he ditches they come to me he's a real pain in the ass sometimes but hey I still love him. The weird thing is I don't love love him, I can only ever see him as a brother and he sees that with me also I guess that's a good thing this way things will never grow awkward between us. We can stay friends forever.

"Hey", Toya said releasing me from my trance,"the sun's setting better get you home. Would you like a ride?".

I nodded and smiled we then got up and before we got on his bike he asked. "Are your parents home?".

"No", I answered quickly and suddenly remembered what they told me to ask him. "Um they wanted to know if you could stay with me while their gone, they'll be gone till next Tuesday so they'd really appreciate it."

Toya leaned against his bike and thought about it for awhile he then smiled, "Alright sure, lets just go back to my apartment and get my things then we'll head to your house." I beamed at him relieved that he agreed, my parents worried about Toya. For years they have been trying to get him to stay with them but he has refused. They were great friends with his mom and she asked them to watch him for her. We all worried about Toya.

AS I got on his back he looked at the sky and sighed, "You know sometimes I wonder why he changed so much? My father how coudl he become so different? Guess I'll never know". He then brought his bike to life and we sped away to his apartment and as we ride I think about what he said about his father and thinks. 'I can say the exact same about you', I wish I can tell him this but I keep silent not wanting to reopen old wounds.

AS Toya and Kira ride off they have no idea of the three pairs of eyes watching them closely with evil plans corrupting their minds.

"Are you ready Spicer?", Chase Young asked the ever annoying boy genius. Jack nodded his head frantic.

"Yes Chase! You can count on me! I'm just so happy that you called me personally for this mission", he squealed.

"Just as long as you don't mess things up is all I'm concerned about Spicer", Chase said with a growl. Jack stiffened and shook a little but regained his composure and saluted him like a soldier in war.

"I wont fail you Chase I swear on my life and soul!", he said then quickly regretted his words.

"Is that the boy?", Wuya asked pointing to Toya, Chase simply smiled and sneered.

"Yes that is the one, let us go greet him and welcome him to his very doom", Chase said then smiled a wicked smiled as the sun slowly sank as day was over and nighttime began.

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Finally finished chapter 19!

Me: sorry it took me so long everyone i Just really wanted to get this right its such an important part in the story. Geez this has got to be one of my longest chapters ever.

Toya: Hey! What about me what's gonna happen?

Me: YOu'll find out later.

Xiaolin Gang: WE weren't even in this chapter!

Me: You will be in the next one.

Chase: We didn't get to attack him!

Me: YOU'LL ALL DO THAT IN THE NEXT ONE! BE FREAKIN PATIENT!

Everyone:....*silent*

Me: *exhales and breathes* ok look forward to the next chapter of New Beginnings here's where the real fun begins! Look forward to it!

Kira: Bye bye and thanks for reading!