Hello all you readers out there and welcome to Kasumi chapter 5! I hope you all enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Monster Rancher :)

(I'm sorry, but I don't feel like doing a recap. If you don't remember what happened, just read Chapter 4, Thanks.)

~~KASUMI'S POV~~

I winced as a pain shot through my back. Second time today.

"How many time have I told you, Kasumi? You have to run faster you useless Pixie!" Kurai yelled at me. Then he went off to scold the other monsters. I took a deep breath and ran on. The power of the fan was so hard when you were endlessly running towards it. I looked at the fan in front of me and gasped. Inside it was my memories, of when Rozu was my trainer instead of Kurai, that day when I saw Rozu die in front of my eyes, my childhood with...Gaara. Those images were telling me to push faster. My body was slowly dying out, this was too much for me. Running for many days straight, it was like torture. Before I closed my eyes and fell, I saw Rozu breathe for the last time in her life.

I gasped and opened my eyes. 'No, it's okay Kasumi,' I told myself. 'You're with Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro now. No more Kurai.' I took a deep breath and calmed myself. My head glanced over to the clock. 6:30 A.M. Well, since I'm awake, I should get up. I walked over to my dresser and pulled out my clothes. Then I realized something. Yesterday, I fell asleep on the balcony. Just then I woke up in my bed. Hm. Somebody must've put me here. Probably Temari or Gaara. I walked over to the mirror and brushed my hair. Then I proceeded to put my shirt on. Something black flashed into my vision for a second. I stopped what I was doing and lifted the back of my shirt. There were two black lines where my wings would be. In the middle of that was a circle. It had the kanji for 'blood' on it. My eyes widened. Why blood? Is there some kind of bloodlust demon inside of me? I couldn't say anything. Instead, I went to Temari to see if she knew about this. My feet shuffled their way to her door and I knocked.

"Hey, Temari?" I asked and whispered at the same time. I heard some footsteps and the door opened.

"Kasumi?" She asked, clearly worried. "What's wrong?" I looked down.

"I..uhh...came I come in for a second?" I asked quietly.

"Sure!" Temari exclaimed. She opened the door for me to come in and closed it when I entered.

"Temari...I have a question." I said, my eyes still facing the floor.

"What is it? Tell me!" She asked in a worried tone. I turned my back to her and asked,

"Do you know what this is?" Then I lifted up the back of my shirt. Temari let out a small gasp, and a silence fell upon us. She mumbled something that sounded around the lines of 'seal', and 'blood', until she finally said something.

"Come with me. I think Gaara knows how to do this." She said, and then stood ahead of me, motioning me to follow. I hesitantly followed her, curious of what Gaara might do. We entered his office to see he was watching the town awaken. Temari walked quickly to Gaara, and they exchanged some whispered words. Gaara turned to me.

"Show me the seal, I'll see what I can do with it." He said, well, commanded. I spinned around on my heels and lifted up the back of my shirt. A steady silence filled the room until Gaara spoke again.

"I can release the black lines, but the blood seal is strong, even though it doesn't look it." He informed me.

"Y-you can release the lines, I'm really unsure about the blood one." I told him. There was a small movement, and then I felt an odd sensation in my back. The familar weight of wings was on my back again. Wait, wings? Gaara, did he...he just released my wings. How did they get sealed? I took a deep breath to tell them about my wings.

"Well...if you didn't know, in the Monster World, I was a pixie, and so...uhh...these were my wings." I said shakily. Temari was the first to speak up.

"How could you be a Pixie when your wings are angel wings?" She was right though. My wings didn't look anything like a Pixie's wings. If I didn't tell anybody about me and they saw the wings, they would think I was an angel. I was silent for a moment.

"Actually...I'm what they call a...rare Pixie." Now that I said it, I have to do some explaining.

"What do you mean by rare?" Gaara asked me the big question. I sighed and continued to talk.

"I thought you would say that. In the Monster World, there are a lot of breeds, yes? Okay, to explain this, I need and example. Let's say we have a Dragon and a Pixie. They are both main breeds. After they both die, people can combine them. If we combine a Dragon and a Pixie, we get a Daina, which is a Pixie with Dragon features. Some monsters are not combined with anything. That would be a rare breed. They have no "sub" breed, while they still have a main breed. So, it's kinda like...I have no parents." I said uncertainly.

"If you had no parents, then why were you in Suna?" Gaara asked. That was what I didn't know.

"I wish I knew. Somebody must've put a memory erasing jutsu on me or something." I told him and shrugged. I sat down in a chair to think. Why can't I remember anything? And why a blood seal?

"We should seal your wings back in so nobody else sees." Temari offered.

"Wait, hold on." I had just remembered my little wing trick. I used it when my wings were irritating me.

"Now how did I do this again..." I whispered to myself. I gathered some Fairy Dust in one hand and a Ray Cast in the other, and then clapped my hands together. The combination gave me a sparkling teal Ray Cast. In one swift motion, I put my hand over each wing, and they were both gone.

"I wonder why I didn't think of doing that before..." I thought aloud. Temari and Gaara were still confused.

"It was a trick I made up on my own. All the other Pixies use it now." I said and sat back in the chair I was sitting on earlier.

"One day, you're gonna have to tell us all what you can do." Temari said with a tint of humor in her voice. I smiled and said,

"I can do many things, but I usually keep to the things I'm used to." Then I looked down at my feet and realized I haven't put my boots on yet. I stood up abruptly and stretched for the first time this morning.

"I should go get finished dressing. I'll...umm...be back soon, I guess. Thanks for all you've done, you know, helping me with my problems and everything." I stated awkwardly and shuffled out the door.

~MEANWHILE, IN GAARA'S OFFICE~

"She is an interesting one, isn't she?" Gaara asked out of nowhere. Temari nodded.

"But I still don't get why a Blood seal. She never seems like the one with something evil inside of her." Temari explained to Gaara, who was standing in front of her.

"I'm still curious about her parents. If she lived in Suna, and then was suddenly whisked to the Monster World, wouldn't she have to have a connection the the Monster World or something?" Gaara asked some more questions. Temari raised her eyebrows.

"Kasumi is rubbing off on you and it hasn't even been a week yet. She must be special to you, hm?" Temari implied, smirking and waiting for Gaara's answer. Instead, she got a murderous glare from Gaara. She got the hint and walked out of the room, leaving Gaara to his thoughts.

'If Kasumi is technically a human and Pixie, she would have a reason for that, right? Wait. Human...and Pixie...her parents are probably a human and a Pixie! How did we not think of that?' Gaara brought his thoughts to a conclusion. He strolled downstairs an awaited for the long day forward.

~NOW, BACK TO KASUMI~

I hurried to my room and slipped on my boots. I was about to leave the room, but then I remembered my katana. Slowly walking over to it's case, I delicately picked it up and secured it to the katana hook on my waist-line. I inwardly smiled to myself. This was why I trained so hard when I was under Kurai's command. My mind drifted to the blood seal. I don't think of myself as a bloodthirsty killer. 'I wonder what would happen if somebody unsealed it. That's what I do and don't want to know.' I pulled myself out of my thoughts and walked downstairs, ready for the long day ahead of me.


A/N: The blood seal was kinda a random thing...I decided Kasumi should have a demon-like thing, so I chose a certain something :3 Anyway, thanks for reading, make sure to review so I know how to improve! Thanks!