*Hikari, dressed as Zack without the armor, is sitting on the floor, in the process of constructing a buster sword*

Hey there readers, Hikari here to bring you the next chapter. It's just me this time. I believe that Riku is busy, but with what, I can only guess.

Hope you enjoy the new chapter :3

Chapter 10

The following day after the near fight, Yata headed down the street in a peaceful residential area. He was going to go see Tatara. He didn't have anything else really planned, and he did want to check up on how his friend was doing. Tatara had been let out only a few weeks after the event, but he was told to still take it easy. So Yata knew that Tatara was probably just relaxing at home. He walked with his hands in his pockets as he kept thinking about what had happened last night.

"The guy… Saru. What the hell is his deal?!" his thoughts grumbled to himself as he walked. No matter how hard Yata tried, he couldn't stop thinking about the encounter.

Yata soon came down the street that Tatara lived on. He walked up to the front door of the house once he got there and rang the doorbell. After a moment, a little girl with long silver hair, pale skin, and bright red eyes had opened the door. She had on a red and black lolita dress, white stockings, and a pair of red dress shoes.

"Misaki." She spoke in a quiet voice. "Here to visit Tatara as well?"

"Ah Anna, I didn't know that you were visiting Tatara," Yata said as he smiled at the young girl. "How have you been?" he asked before stepping inside the house.

"I've been well," Anna answered as she closed the front door once Yata was inside. "What about you, Misaki? You appear to be frustrated with something."

Yata sighed as he shook his head sightly. "Ah it's nothing really, just something rather annoying that happened last night."

They walked down the hallway until they reached the living room. There Yata saw that Tarata was sitting on the couch, and a familiar red headed young adult man was sitting in one of the chairs across from him. Of course it made sense he was there since he was Anna's adoptive father.

"Hey Mikoto," Yata said as he smiled at the man. He then looked over at Tatara. "And hey Tatara."

"Yata!" Tarata beamed. "It's so nice of you to drop on by. Take a seat." Tatara gestured to the couch spaces next to him before Yata walked over and sat down.

Mikoto waved a small bit to Yata, but other than that, didn't say anything. Anna then walked over to the chair next to Mikoto and climbed up onto it and sat back down. Tarata then looked over to Yata and gave a cheerful smile.

"So how have you been Yata? Any news on those new skateboard tricks you and Sora are working on?"

"We've been getting some things down, not ready to show anyone yet though. But how are you feeling?" Yata asked, quickly glancing to Tatara's neck. Though it was half covered by his shirt, part of the bite marks, now as scars, could still be seen.

"I've been fine. Now that I got my strength back I can get back to doing what I enjoy most!"

"And what would that be? You have a lot of favorite pastimes and hobbies."

"You are correct about that. But I was thinking of making a new song," Tatara replied as he held up some sheet music. A few of the sheets were blank, but others had musical notes and side notes written all over it. "I'm hoping to have it ready in a week or so and then I'll go and play for everyone in the park."

"I can't wait," Anna commented quietly as she clasped her hands together. "I'm sure it will be beautiful."

Tatara hummed happily. "Thanks Anna. You are my biggest supporter after all. It wouldn't be the same if you weren't there to cheer me on."

Tatara then paused for a moment before he turned over to look at Yata. "So anything else interesting happen lately?"

"Well…" Yata started as he remember the events of the past few days. "There is one thing…"

"Oh?" Tatara asked curiosity.

"Two nights ago when Sora and I were practicing our tricks, we encountered these two weirdos."

Mikoto raised an eyebrow slightly. "Weirdos? How so?"

"Hmph I don't know. They just kind of showed up and then left, but man was one of them completely annoying. I came so close to punching him in the face. The fu-" Yata started to say until he felt the intense glare from Mikoto on him. Yata held his mouth open for a moment as he glanced from Mikoto over to Anna, who was looking at him curiously. He then cleared his throat. "The stupid monkey."

"Monkey?" Anna asked.

"Saru…well that is the first half of his name at least," Yata replied. "That guy really ticked me off. Not only that, but he stole my wallet!"

"Did you report him to the police?" Tatara asked.

"I was going to… but then last night he just found me and returned it."

"Just returned it?" Mitkoko asked, sitting up straight in the chair, now a bit more curious about Yata's story.

"Yeah nothing was stolen or taken as far as I can tell. But he still then proceed to tick me off. With that dumba-... stupid smirk on his face," Yata replied as he caught himself once more from nearly swearing in front of Anna. "He also can use magic."

"Do you think then he could actually be a warlock or some other supernatural?" Tatara asked.

"How should I know? I only talked with him a few minutes before his apparent older brother showed up and literally dragged him off."

Tatara thought about it for a moment before he asked yet another question. "So you don't know anything about him besides his name?"

"Yeah only his name, not the brother though. Still ticks me off though."

"Well if he is a warlock," Mikoto interjected. "I'd say steer clear of him. Your current level of magic probably is not as high as his."

"I may just be human, but I can learn to use strong magic. So when can you give me another lesson? Maybe later today?" Yata asked, wanting any chance he could get to improve his magic.

Mikoto shrugged as he laid back in the chair. He closed his eyes as he relaxed. "Maybe some other day…"

Yata huffed. "Well if you won't teach me anymore, I'll just go ask Axel."

Mikoto shrugged nonchalantly. "Fine by me."

Yata groaned in frustration. It was always so hard to tell where Mikoto would go with a conversation. Most of the time it always ended up with him just brush it all off and trying to fall asleep. Tatara though started to bring up other subjects to talk about, and they all started to have more enjoyable conversation.

A few hours after Yata had visited Tatara, he was heading on his way home. He carefully checked his surroundings though as he walked. Wondering if Saru would be walking behind him or not. As he continued though, he did see someone familiar all the way at the end of the block.

"Sora!" he called out as he picked up his pace and headed over to him.

"Hey Yata, how're doing?" Sora asked. "Did you report your stolen wallet yet?"

"Didn't have to. That monkey Saru, showed up last night and returned it to me."

"Wait what?! Seriously?" Sora asked, his face stretching with surprise.

"Yeah he was just trailing behind me or something then just gave it back. The f**cking weirdo."

"Um… was the other guy there too? The other brother?" Sora asked.

"He did show up after I was about to fight the monkey," Yata replied as he gave a sigh. He couldn't ever get away from the subject now could he? It just seemed it would stick around for days.

"Did you get his name this time? I… I was just curious. After all we learned the taller one was Saru, I was just wondering about the other guy."

"Nope, his name was never said. All I learned though that Saru's full name is Saruhiko, and that other brother… has quite the intimidating angered glare."

"Oh… okay. Well who knows, maybe we'll run into them again," Sora said with a smile.

"Oh hell no! I don't want to see that stupid monkey's face again!" Yata huffed angrily.

"Aw come on, you're just saying that. I think it would be cool to properly meet those two and actually to know them," Sora replied as he placed his hands behind his head.

"You really think it would be cool to try to meet the guy who tried to fight me just out of random?!"

"Well I'm sure you also tried to start up the fight with up, so what difference does it make" Sora replied as he smirked.

Yata groaned as he rolled his eyes. "Whatever. See you tomorrow though? We still have to work on a few more things until we can properly coordinate our stunts."

Sora nodded. "Yeah, see you then."

The two then walked off in different directions. The sun was starting to dip below the horizon and Sora glanced up to the sky to look at the changing colors. He enjoyed watching the sky as he walked the rest of the way to his house. When he got there he took the key out of his pocket and placed it into the keyhole and opened the door.

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