"Talking"

'Thoughts'

"Techniques/extremely loud shouting"

Last time

Shigure nodded and walked towards the room. Checking the room next to her own she nodded, 'Usable' with that thought in mind she pulled out a futon and laid Yami on it and covered him with the blanket.

With a final glance at his sleeping form she closed the door and walked back to the dinning room for dinner

Memories

Yami sleepily opened his eyes to stare at the unfamiliar ceiling. "Where am I?" he asked himself as memories flashed in his mind, groaning in discomfort Yami muttered into his hands "That's right I passed out at the Ryouzanpaku dojo."

Sitting up Yami looked around, noticing the window he got up and walked over to take a look outside. "It's still dark out, either I was only asleep for an hour or two or it's the next day already." Shrugging his shoulders Yami decided to go back to the living room and see if anyone was there.

Wandering the darkened hallways gave Yami a small amount of time to think about what had happened 'So that Kensei guy has a photo of me lying in the arms of Shigure-san, shit that can't be good.' Before his thoughts could continue however he noticed that he was in front of the same door Miu had opened when she led him to meet everyone. Taking a deep breath he smiled and opened the door expecting to be hit with an incredible aura.

Instead he was treated to the sight of a typical Ryouzanpaku dinner, basically Apachai, Sakaki, Kensei, and the Elder stealing Kenichi's food while he desperately tried to keep it to himself. Miu was giggling, and Shigure was feeding her pet rat Tochūmaru. Yami then spotted Akisame who appeared to be staring at his plate trying to make it disappear; he also noticed that the plate was full of green peppers 'Maybe Kōetsuji-san doesn't like green peppers' he thought to himself

Yami decided to see how long it would take for someone to notice him and sat down, leaning against the wall.

Strangely enough it was the rat that made the first signs of noticing his presence as its eyes gleamed. Silently Yami raised a finger to his lips as if to ask the rat to be quiet for a while longer. Tochūmaru nodded his head as he turned back to his owner and happily accepted some food from her.

Yami shrugged after no one seemed to acknowledge his presence and stood up. Quietly he walked behind Kenichi and swiped the remainder of his food while he and the others where temporally distracted by Akisame. When Kenichi turned back to his plate he freaked out "Ah! Shishous how could you eat my meal when I wasn't looking?" he cried in despair. Miu giggled again having noticed Yami take the food

"Here Kenichi-san have some more." Her cheery voice lightened Kenichi's mood as he happily accepted the offered food, while the masters shifted their gaze from Kenichi to Yami.

Sakaki smiled as he watched Yami lick his fingers clean "Oi Gaki you got a fast pair of hands don't you?" his smile widened when Yami simply smiled

"Why Sakaki-san I was just picking up some dinner." Yami smiled as everyone turned to face him as he sat down again. "After all it was just sitting there and I thought no one wanted it so I took it."

The masters snickered as Kenichi started ranting at Yami about how unfair he was being, and that he didn't even ask if Kenichi was going to finish it. Yami sighed and bopped Kenichi on the head "You're a man right? So deal with it! Life is unfair you simply deal with what you got, besides Miu-san gave you more right?"

Yami had brought up a valid point and Kenichi silently ate his food sulking about how unreasonable Yami was being. Yami however simply smiled as he asked Miu for a bowl of rice.

Akisame sighed as he quickly dumped all of his green peppers on Apachai's plate before turning his attention to Yami who was silently eating his food. "Yami-kun earlier I figured you are a mixed Martial artist like Kenichi-kun is, but I couldn't fully tell which ones you practiced could you tell me?"

The others silently stopped whatever they were doing to listen, interested in their newest tenant. Yami however swallowed his food politely before setting his bowl and chopsticks down. "I don't know." He simply answered before resuming eating.

Kensei looked at Yami incredulously "You don't know the Martial art you practice?" Yami shook his head lightly before finishing what was in his bowl and setting it down. "Then who taught you maybe we can tell you what you've learned."

Yami sighed deeply "I don't know who taught me." He thanked Miu for the food and moved to sit near the garden.

Miu looked concerned as Yami continued to claim no knowledge of his own Martial arts skills. "Yami-san do you even know why you know martial arts?" Miu asked hoping that his reasons could narrow down the search. Yami nodded his head.

"Hai, I can remember why I was taught." The others perked up as they motioned for him to continue "I was taught Martial arts to kill those who wished to kill me or my family" Yami stared curiously at Kenichi who had backed away from him "What's gotten into you Kenichi?"

The Elder rubbed his beard thoughtfully "So you only know your reasons to learn the martial arts?" he asked. Yami slowly nodded his head as he looked up at the stars. The Elder then grinned as he asked "Okay then Yami-kun can you tell me one thing? Do you live to learn the martial arts or do you learn the martial arts to live?"

Yami smiled as his red hair covering his eyes. "I practice the arts to live Elder." Yami grinned as he stood up "Well then, I think I'm going to go take a bath, then head off to sleep." The others nodded their heads and Kenichi pointed towards the forest. "There is a hot springs in the forest if you are looking for somewhere to relax for a bit. Also there is a shower room in the house near the guest rooms."

Yami nodded in thanks as he headed into the house for a shower. After stripping down and entering the shower he idly noticed that it seemed to be for more than one person at a time. 'Must be so that people don't have to wait turns.' He thought to himself. As he washed himself he let his mind wander to the topic of his knowledge of martial arts. "Why can't I remember anything about learning martial arts…I know how to use them yet I don't know what form I use, who taught me, where I learned it, or when I learned it. It's like my memories from that time period never existed broken up by events in my life I do remember. Like someone purposefully removed all of my memories of learning martial arts." He shook his head to clear his mind 'Great now I'm muttering to myself. They say that's the first sign of insanity.' He groaned as he turned off the water and grabbed a towel to dry himself off. Slipping into a pair of boxers and a T-shirt he made his way back into the room he woke up in and lay down on the Futon. Slowly he drifted off to sleep as his thoughts wandered back to his martial arts.

"Maboroshi-shishou" Yami muttered in his sleep. Kensei smiled from his hiding spot in the corner as he walked out to alert the others of his little discovery.

Appearing next to Shigure, or rather under her with camera in hand Kensei made to take a picture only to have Shigure viciously stomp on his face. After recovering Kensei coughed into his hands to gather attention "Well I had hidden myself in Yami-san's room in hopes of learning something from his subconscious or dreams as we like to call them. It seems that Yami knew one of, if not his only, Shishou as Maboroshi"

The Elder smiled while the other's tried to figure out who it could be. "Don't bother, if what Kensei said was true than none of you have ever heard of this person."

Sakaki sighed as he downed another beer "Then do you know this guy Jiji?"

The Elder, frowned if only slightly "Iie, I've only heard of him. He disappeared forty years ago. It was said he was unbeatable, as he moved so fast it was like he was a Maboroshi, eventually the title stuck and he became known simply as Maboroshi, or as others would call him 'The Silent Fist' unfortunately I never got the chance to fight him."

Miu looked awed as she listened to her grandfather tell his tale "So Yami-san was trained by a legend?" Kenichi looked skeptical but never voiced it

The Elder patted his granddaughter on the head lightly "Not necessarily, it could be an imposter, or someone with a similar style of fighting." He then laughed as Akisame started to rub his mustache again

"What I don't understand is why dies the name of his Shishou come to the front of Yami-kun's mind when he sleeps, when he can't remember his name when he's awake?"

Apachai glanced away from his Othello board "Apa… maybe big trauma haunt Yami Apapa" Shigure nodded her head as she cleaned her extensive arsenal of weapons. "Perhaps…his Shishou…was killed."

Kenichi briefly wondered how he would feel if he lost one or more of his masters. He shook his head as a horde of depressing thoughts filled his head. "If that's the case, then I feel really sorry for Yami-san." Miu nodded her head in agreement.

"Many apprentices spend more time with their Shishou then they do their actual family, much like you do right now Kenichi-san. Unless of course your Shishou is family, but that's not the point here." Miu said as she smiled at her grandfather who smiled back at her.

Sakaki sighed and turned to his side trying to hide his obvious sympathy from everyone else. "Oi, Jiji what do you think we should do about this huh?"

The Elder paused as he scratched his chin in thought "Well if he really did lose his Shishou there is nothing much we can do, other than be nice and act like we don't know anything."

Everyone solemnly nodded their heads as they went back to what they were doing, briefly wondering about Yami the boy with a broken past.

Next Day

Yami awoke to the sounds of Kenichi's terrified screams as he jogged around town dragging a tire, on which Akisame was seated. "Run faster you worm! Even slugs are faster than you!"

Yami had a sweat drop on the back of his head as he watched Kenichi turn the corner being whipped by Akisame. "Really what the hell are they doing so early in the morning?" he sighed and walked into the living room where everyone else was sitting sipping tea. "Guess I got no right to talk…" he mumbled as he went into a handstand and walked away from the table, when he deemed himself far enough away he switched to a one-handed hand stand, and then from there to a single thumb. At a sedate pace he began doing push ups, and as he rose he would spin on his thumb in a full 360 degree turn. Softly he counted his repetitions as his exercise caught the room's occupants' attention.

Shigure deciding to test him jumped from her spot on the beams of the roof onto his feet seeing if he would lose his balance. To her and everyone else's surprise he didn't fall but instead continued with his workout Shigure still on his feet.

That was what Akisame and Kenichi saw as they walked into the living room for breakfast. Both stared in surprise at the seemingly absurd way Yami did his push-ups. Smirking Akisame turned to the stunned Kenichi "You know Kenichi-kun Yami-kun would've had to gone through extensive physical training to pull this off." Kenichi merely nodded being too stunned to do anything else.

When Yami had counted to three-hundred he stopped as Shigure hopped off her perch and Miu walked in with their breakfast. Jumping to his feet Yami stretched out his arm and sat down next to Kenichi to eat. "You know…" he began after a few minutes into the meal "That was the first time someone has tried landing on my feet since my Onee-sans did seven years ago." Everyone stared at him in surprise, though some less obvious than others.

Shigure smiled slightly as she took a bite to eat before speaking "You have good…balance" Yami blushed at the compliment and covered it up by picking up his pace in eating much to the amusement of everyone around him.

Kenichi smiled as he set his finished plate down "Yami-san how long have you been able to do that many repetitions?"

Yami also set his finished plate down as he began to think. "Well…I think…five years now? I'm not really sure I just remember being told 'Keep on doing the same amount until it gets to easy than add twenty more.' Other than that nothing, that's all I remember."

Miu coughed to get their attention "As interesting as this is we need to go. School starts soon." Yami nodded as he stood up while Kenichi rushed to change out of his training uniform and into his school uniform.

As they were running to school Miu noticed Yami looking around the entire time. "Yami-san what's wrong you looked worried about something." She asked him as he turned to face her.

Yami looked behind him once before he answered her "I usually get ambushed by this gang from my neighborhood on my way to school so I was just making sure they haven't followed me here." He said as he continued to look around.

Kenichi looked rather scared at the thought of more delinquents "You mean you have gang problems too?" he almost shouted as they entered school grounds. Pausing to switch between street and school shoes Yami nodded his head as the three of them headed to their class.

"Well it's not as bad as you think, yes they are a gang but there are also all women with their admittedly perverse eyes set on me. Unfortunately they are led by my incestuous Miyabi-nee-san" Yami sighed as the thoughts of his perverted sister crossed his mind.

Kenichi was about to ask when Yami raised his hand stopping him "You seriously don't want to know." Kenichi shut his mouth and Miu just giggled. When all three of them entered everyone stared for a few seconds before going back to what they were previously doing.

Yami shrugged his shoulders, not really caring as he took his seat near Kenichi's and Miu's. Miu leaned forward to ask a question "So Yami-san what's this gang called that follow you everywhere?" her question caught everyone's attention as they dropped what they were doing and moved in to hear the answer.

Yami frowned when he saw the class wide interest "They call themselves the 'Amazons' they have this major complex about proving themselves as strong , if not stronger then men. To prove themselves they constantly challenge other male gangs to fights and win. However…they have these weird rules." He noticed that everyone was paying attention to every word he said 'perhaps they want to know how to stay out of trouble.' He thought to himself. He idly noticed the Alien hiding near the door taking notes.

"Anyways their rules are pretty simple: 1) any member who loses to another girl must recruit that girl to the sisterhood or be banned from the sisterhood, and 2) any member who loses to a guy must make that guy her boyfriend to strengthen the sisterhood. At least that's what Miyabi-nee-said the first time I had a run in with them."

Kenichi looked slightly relieved thinking they weren't people trying to pick meaningless fights, instead trying to prove themselves equal to men. 'Kind of like Kisara-san.' He thought to himself.

When the teacher walked in everyone shuffled back to their seats and the lesson began.

What no one in the class noticed however was a figure outside the window with a devious smirk on their face. "I've found him, I must tell Onee-sama!" then the figure was gone as if they had never been there.

End

Sorry for such a short chapter I just couldn't figure out how to drag it out