"Thank you." Rihan whispered in her ear. Her heart thudded away at the contact. Finally she pushed herself away. "N-no problem." Her cheeks tinted red. Rihan rubbed the back of his neck nervously. "Soooooo…." He said, breaking the awkward silence.

"So…."

"Are you coming tonight, with me? I mean with all of us. Not just me and you alone! No! Nothing like that!"
"Sure!" Wakana giggled in reply

-Back to the present-

Yura and Akahana finally returned, a few hours before dawn, carrying an unconscious Yuki. Aika and Harumi ran to them in relief. "Oh. Thank. God!" Aika said with tears in her eyes. "What happ-" Before Harumi could finish her sentence, she and Aika were breathing in a yellow powder. Their vision clouded then went black.

"What did you just do?" Akahana said, completely dumbstruck.

"Altered their memories." Came the reply in the most natural tones.

"W-what?"
"I'm not going to do it to you, though, it will be better if you remember."

"Why?"
"So that, at least you know that messing with yokai is not a joke."

"Who was he?" Akahana finally ventured.

"You mean the yokai?" Yura asked, the smallest of smiles tugging at her lips. "He was the Lord of Pandemonium."

"The WHAT?!"

"The most annoying, good for nothing, food-stealing, SHOWOFF I have ever known in my entire life; which includes my brother Ryuuji too." Yura concluded, a vein popping on the side of her head.

Then the exorcist left to sprinkle the dust on the sleeping boys and Yuki.

-Later that day-

Everybody, excluding the grown ups and exorcists, woke up with a severe head ache. At the breakfast buffet table Ishara made quite a shocking announcement.

"I'm going to visit the old mansion today, so any paranormal-investigation planned today will have to do without me."
"WHAT?" Kangin and Shenji shouted at the same moment.

"No way am I having you near that place. Ever again!"

"But Kangin! You don't understand."

"Ishara I understand perfectly fine! But you know the last time you were there, you nearly died!"

"I don't care, ok? My sister died and I could not even give her a proper burial! You could at least…." She couldn't continue anymore, and burst into tears.

Yuki stared at her mother in utter disbelief. Sister, Mansion? Dead? Proper Burial? What the heck was going on? And why did everyone else seem to know what was going on?

Ok ok ok! Forgive me for the 400 word chapter. I'm runnin low on inspiration right now, ok?