A/N: Hey! I'm back! Thanks to Mizuna Kurenagi for reviewing, a part of your review really stuck with me and so I dedicate the ending to you! Also I'm doing Romeo and Juliet in English Class now, *crying* (T-T)! Now on with the chapter!

- Recap -

"Aria is gone!"

- End Recap -

"What?! How?!", the Shinsengumi and Chizuru exclaimed, Mizuki and the guards were calm.

"I don't know, she just disappeared.", Sannan said.

"What do you think of this, Mizuki?", Kondou asked.

"Well, she could have been kidnapped by Seiji, but there would have been a struggle, so that place is the only other option.", Muzuki replied.

"What it the place you're referring to?", Hijikata asked.

"I would tell you... However, it's easier to show you.", Mizuki smiled.

"What about Seiji?", Tsubasa asked worryingly.

"Well, the Shinsengumi and my cousin will go first with you, Ren and Rin, then the rest of you will go. I'll be the last one to leave so if Seiji appears I can stop him from entering.", Mizuki explained.

"I'll stay with you.", Saitou volunteered.

"Thanks for the offer, but I'll be fine. I will meet all of you on the other side, then."

With that Mizuki waved her hand and a hole appeared in the wall, revealing a sunny meadow on the other side.

"Wow!", the Shinsengumi and Chizuru exclaimed.

One by one everyone went through the portal, Mizuki entering last and closing the portal behind her.

"Welcome to the Hideout.", Mizuki gestured to the large, grand fortress looking structure, all of the Shinsengumi's jaws dropped right to ground while Chizuru looked like a frozen statue with wide eyes.

"Come on, I'll show you around.", Mizuki snapped her fingers to get their attention, then walked towards the fortress.

Mizuki arrived at the doors to the building and pushed the gates open with both of her hands, revealing... a couple hundred men and women in the centre of the large courtyard.

"WELCOME BACK, MIZUKI-SAMA!", they all shouted in unison, dropping on one knee with their right fist over their heart, Aria was in front of group.

"Rise.", everyone stood up at attention.

"As you all know, Seiji has appeared again so patrols are to be doubled and changed, we don't want anyone in or out. Training will also be more intense from now on. On a second note I would like to introduce my cousin Chizuru and the Shinsengumi. Not a hand is to be laid on them unless it is for training purposes only. If I or any of the leaders of the divisions catch you laying a hand on them out of training, the consequences will be sever. Do you all understand?", Mizuki ordered.

"Understood!", all of the men and women shouted.

"Good. Now welcome Chizuru and the Shinsengumi!", Mizuki said, gesturing to Chizuru and the Shinsengumi who had retreated to a safe distance away to save their bleeding ears.

They reluctantly made their way to where Mizuki was.

"Welcome and greetings to the esteemed friends and family of Mizuki-sama!", they all bowed.

The Shinsengumi bowed back, "Greetings to all of you, too!"

After that, Mizuki dismissed them, half of the guards also left to help with patrols and training.

"Okay, before we start, does anyone have anything they want to do in particular?", everyone shook their heads.

"Then to make the tour simpler, I think the captains should go to the training area, Yamazaki and Chizuru should go to the Medical area and Kondou, Hijikata, and Sannan will come with me to the main building.", everyone agreed and so they split up.

- Training Room -

"Attention! The captains of the Shinsengumi will be joining us today! Let's show them the ropes, now shall we?", Tsubasa barked out to the group of men and women stretching in the centre of the training area.

"Yes, sir!", all of them began to run around the track in the large yard.

"Go and join them, as for now, you will all be treated as one of them. There will be no ", Tsubasa told them.

Nodding, the Shinsengumi captains started running as well.

"Good! After you've done 100 laps, go take a drink before hitting the training stations!", all of the men groaned.

'It was going to be a long day...'

- Medical Centre -

Sakura and Natsume lead, Chizuru and Yamazaki to a large building to the east of the courtyard, and facing the training area to the west of the courtyard.

"Welcome to the Medical wing!", Sakura exclaimed.

"But it doesn't look like a medical wing, it looks more like a three story house.", Chizuru said shyly.

"Yeah, however compared to the Main building over there, this building seems like a rock!", Natsume gestured towards the north.

"Let's go in.", Sakura opened the door.

Inside the Medical wing there were two floors, the first was to house the injured the second housed the critically ingured and also acted as a surgical room.

- Main Building -

Aria, Mizuki and the commanders entered the grand building.

"Just to let you know, you shouldn't go opening any door on the first and second floors as they are reserved for the many warriors and their families. The third floor is only for the elite and special guests, such as yourselves.", Mizuki said as they slowly made their way to the forth floor.

"Finally the forth floor is where our secret operations are held, and so the whole building is surrounded by an invisible barrier to keep out the unwanted guests.", Mizuki and the rest emerged on the forth floor.

They walked down a short hallway, but suddenly a bang was heard from a room just ahead of them, Mizuki scowled.

"What was that?", Hijikata asked warily.

"Oh it's nothing, I deal with that later.", Mizuki gave a long glance at the door as they passed by the room.

Finally the reached at the end of the hall, stopping at a double door. Mizuki opened the doors, revealing a lab and an office. The lab took up half of the room while the office occupied the other half.

"Let's go into the office.", Mizuki said steering away the curious commanders away from the lab.

"Well to get this over with, we too are looking for Kodo. He is a dangerous man to have around and thus he has to be killed. It was foolish of the leader of Aizu to trust Kodo, but on an other note, our spies just may have found him. We have narrowed his hideout to three places and our spies are discreetly keeping an eye on those places. It wasn't an easy task as Kodo is a master of deception and evasion, we can't get our hopes up yet.", Mizuki said gesturing for them to take a seat at the table, facing her.

"Y-You did?", Kondou asked, they had been trying to find him for many months now.

"Of course, the places of interest are-"

Suddenly another loud bang was heard, interrupting their conversation, only this time the sound was heard throughout the entire fortress causing everyone to stop what they were doing and immediately rush to their rooms and locking the doors. Mizuki and Aria as well as the other guards rushed to the mysterious door, the captain, commanders, Yamazaki and Chizuru following them. They barged into the room revealing a chained glass jar containing what seemed to be coloured fire, cracks were rapidly spreading across the glass and chains.

*Smash*

Just as Saitou entered the room, the coloured fire burst through the glass and chains as if it was possessed, speeding towards the oblivious purple-haired captain. The coloured fire slammed into Saitou's chest, the force rendering him unconscious.

"SAITOU!"

A/N: What was the coloured fire? What will become of the purple-haired bishie captain? Find out next time in the next chapter of Winged hope! Coming soon to a store near you.

*Note: Something amusing happened as I was writing this! So I didn't really know how to spell bishie when I was writing "the purple-haired bishie captain", so I searched up bishie anime on google since I wanted to make sure that it actually shows bishie character and the first thing I see is Saitou!

So how did you like this chapter? I hope you enjoyed it, bye!