Sup! I am back earlier than I thought but we are movin so u won't hear from me for some time. ENJOY! AND CONGRATS TO ALL MY READERS; YOU HAVE SURVIVED THE DOOMS DAY! LOL!

-THE BEGINNING-

"Ah! Rihan-san!" The girl exclaimed with pleasure.

"You remembered my name?" He asked.

"Of course! How can one forget the person who saved their life?"
Rihan just let the smallest of smiles replace his usually gloomy expression.

'So he can smile' she mused to herself.

"Well, I am here because I am gracefully avoiding a few people…" he said as a vein popped on his head.

"Gracefully avoiding? I think you mean hiding, Rihan-san."
"Ha!" He snorted. "Rulers of Dynasties don't hide, they gracefully avoid."

"If you say so….." She said in a tone that sounded as if she was saying yeah right.

"And who are you hiding from?"

"Gracefully avoiding! And an over protective subordinate…" another vein popped onto his head. "Seems like you have good people who surround you. You are very lucky." Wakana said, her voice wavering momentarily. "Yes but some times they can be too much to take…"

"Hey Wakana?"
"Yes Rihan-san?"
"Well, first; just Rihan is fine. Second; tell me about yourself."

"Oh? Why this all of a sudden?"
"Well, If we are going to be friends, then I have to know stuff about you." Rihan said without really expressing the fact that he found her very…..different from the other girls that he had met. And she surprised him again by not even letting the faintest of red creep up her cheek! He had even made the first move to friendship! How can she not be reacting in the normal way? WHAT WAS WITH THIS GIRL?

"So you want to know about me, eh, Rihan-san?" She said, her voice lost it usual cheer. "Let's start at the beginning, shall we."
And for the next hour Rihan found himself engaged in a tale equivalent to fable, so unbelievable yet so true. He smiled when she told him about the good times and felt his heart waver at the sad deaths and separations.

"And that's how I got here…." She sighed.

"RIHAN-SAMA!" The voice echoed through the neighborhood.

"Damn. He's found me already?" The Yokai commander gulped.
"Well see you later, Wakana." Rihan closed his eye.

"Come back soon." She replied smiling. "My place is always an open option for 'gracefully avoiding'"

Rihan, found himself decidedly pleased but was still disappointed at her dissatisfactory reaction. She was very amusing, not like the others he had met. Her compassionate eyes reminded him of Yamabuki but still were entirely different from hers. Her personality was well… bouncy (if you know what I mean.) while Yamabuki's was cautioned and composed.

A gasp interrupted Rihan's thought. "Rihan-sama! Are you SMILING?"

"Kuro, is it forbidden for one to smile?"

"No, sir but shall we go home before Kubi-nashi finds out that you are here?"
"Good Idea.."

-Back to present time-

The airplane landed in the Hanshin International Airport and the passengers began to shuffle outwards to the lobby. One passenger in particular was very uneasy as he shuffled along with the crowd. His messy, uncombed brown hair were just short of his blue eyes. How many years had it been since he had been here last? Seventeen? No eighteen.

He was on his way to meet his sister in law and brother. The two yokai hunters had prospered much and now were conducting an investigation on some mysterious disappearances. It had nothing to do with him but he came any way. If Ishara was hurt he would never be able to forgive himself, he had made a promise after all.

-Well that's it for now folks-

Hey guys, I was wondering that after I am done with this, should I write a Mamiru x Risa story? Just a thought cuz this one is not focused on Kekien-Nura relationship.