SUP EVERYONE! I AM BACK SOONER THAN I THOUGHT I WOULD BE HERE I AM. LOVE FROM ME.

-LETS BEGIN!-

The man flopped onto his bed ready to sleep after a day of teaching and grading papers. He found it ironic how he used to be the ruler of Edo and now was teaching about it instead. His eyes started to droop and dropped of into slumber.

---FLASH BACK---

"Dad!" a little voice fumed through the large mansion. The little boy ran through the hallway looking for his father. The black haired man, with the gravity defying hairstyle,

entered the same hallway and caught his son by he waist and flung him into air. The little boy squealed with laughter as he was thrown into the air. As the man caught the little boy and put him down the boy said "It's time to play in the garden! Let's go! Let's go! LET'S GO!". The man chuckled at the urgency in his son's voice, knowing that a child's biggest concern was playing! Oh how tension free this time of life was! "How about you go on ahead and I join you in a little bit."

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Happiness never lasts forever…..

"'Kay!" came the eager reply and the little Rikuo ran off.

The man sighed and shot a sad look towards the door of the kitchen which was near by. Inside he heard a plate shatter. He knew his wife was rather graceful but when it came to lady-like stuff for example stitching or washing plates; she was a total flop….. he was aware that he would probably never see her again but he assumed he had a few days left. He walked on and on, the courtyard never seemed to end. Sometimes he wondered why the hell his house was so gigantic. All the yokai occupied the room but there will still millions of them in the house that were empty. Finally he reached the Yamabuki garden he had built in the memory of his first wife, it was one of his three favorite places; the other two being a certain branch on the illustrious the large weeping cherry blossom tree and a large plum blossom garden he had built when he had proposed to the quirky brunette who was now his wife. As he walked he saw a sight made his heart stop. Rikuo was playing with a girl, a girl with black hair and black eyes. The spectacle made Rihan's throat close up. He calmed himself down but even though he was aware that the girl was just a double, a fake he couldn't help feeling a bit of sentiment. He stepped back and started to concentrate his fear and soon he had accomplished his task. Another Rihan soon stood before him. "You know what to do?" asked the first. "I just have to die, right? Plain and easy." The latter replied casually. "For Wakana and Rikuo." The former breathed. "For Wakana and Rikuo." The second echoed, then smirked and said "You might wanna watch from the bushes." "Yes, I will. To ensure that you complete the job." Each parted ways, one into the foliage that surrounded the little path and the other onwards to his death. As the scream "AH~ Rihan-sama!" raged through the garden, the dieing yokai winked at his assassinator. The teary eyed Rihan made his way to the nearest train station, got on a train and got off at its last stop. He had nothing to remind him of his life at the nura house except for his kimono and his prized dragon sword .All had gone according to plan….

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But it's the people you love that make the happiness possible.

_-END OF FLASH BACK-_

-Kyoto-

Risa listened keenly to the voice on the phone and nodded. It was not a big job, eradicating a clan especially with her new found potential. The Tokage* clan was notorious for killing humans as sacrifices for their lord. It was a disgusting business but the clan never intervened because the area around Harku did not fall under their jurisdiction until a few months ago. The Tokage always made the sacrifice at the full moon so she had only four days to save the humans and punish the clan for its deeds. The nura clan had issued many warnings to the clan but they refused to obey, so now they must pay.

_-HARKU PUBLIC SCHOOL-_

Akahana sat on the roof with the rest of her friends. Yuki had settled among them quite nicely and now it seemed that they all had been friends since forever. But one thing concerned her; Hideak had not come to the school for the past few days. She could not understand it. First his mother and now him. "Daiki-ji-san must be worried about both of them, poor him; losing his wife and only son in less than a week." She thought. Just as the thought passed her mind she saw a dark cloaked figure over her. "What was that, Akahana?" she asked her fellows. "What was what?" Mikio asked. "The thing in the sky just a second ago. Mikio." Came the stunned reply. "I did not see anything, Akahana-chan." Yuki put in.

Akahana directed her gaze towards Yuki and said "Maybe it was just my imagination. But did I not tell you to stop using honorifics? We're friends so there's no need!"

"Oh-okay." She replied.

She was rather happy that she had quickly made such great friends. She was surprised that her parents had not gone on another assignment yet.

Far from the school, where the after school clubs were taking place and the sun was disappearing beneath the horizon, stood an abandoned warehouse. (Why always an abandoned warehouse?). To normal humans it was just a deserted old building, but in reality it concealed a terrible secret. The only humans who became aware of the secret were the ones marked for death.

-NURA MANSION-

Wakana ran around in a frenzy looking for the things she needed. She had made up her mind to go to Hanshin. Her suit case stood open on her bed with clothes lying here and there. In her frenzy she had even found her old school girl uniform and had been pleased to find that it still fitted her perfectly. She looked forward to her visit to her old town she wondered if that man who sold cooked corn still stood outside the middle school that was in the way to her home from school or the old lady in the bakery still made those delicious cakes. She loved the town so much but all the sad memories made her reluctant to visit.

-THAT'S ALL FOR TODAY FOLKS! -

I JUST WANTED TO THANK U MY SILENT READERS AND MY FOLLOWERS SUPPORT BECAUSE MY LAST CHAPTER HIT THE THOUSAND MARK. I AM VERY HAPPY. I WOULD BE VERY HAPPY IF SOMEONE COULD TELL ME WHY I HATE YAMABUKI SO MUCH? I DON'T KNOW WHY…..

*TOKAGE MEANS LIZARD.

AND COMMENT IF YOU HAD GUESSED THE REAL IDENTITY OF THE TEACHER BEFORE THIS CHAPTER.