• “Do you think Mr. Hiro is happy now?” Leiko asked the next day at lunch, Suichi, Kinoko, Kouji, Yuki and Shin; Who was out of the hospital, sat in silence while they all thought of Mr. Hiro and the untimely death that he had met the day before

    “I think that he is very happy, but we still have to think about his brother, because he is going to come after us if we don’t go after him” Kinoko pointed out as she took a bite of her ham and pickle sandwich

    “Have you guys noticed that Sota hasn’t been around a lot?” Yuki said as she watched Sota walk through the cafeteria towards the teacher’s lounge

    “Well with him teaching our class and correcting homework every night…he’s just been working really hard and he’s sleepy all the time” Leiko said sadly

    “Oh no…” Suichi exclaimed as he stood up and looked down at the others

    “What?” Kouji asked, Suichi looked down at them all with a scared look on his face

    “Sota is an easy target…” Suichi replied, Leiko and the others tilted their heads

    “Think about it…Sota is never with us, he’s always here and he comes home really late…I think that we’re going to have to keep a watch on him” Suichi folded his arms and sat back down

    “I think you’re crazy” Leiko retorted as she took a drink of her soda, Suichi looked at her as if she were crazy

    “What? But it makes perfect sense!” Kouji exclaimed, coming to Suichi’s side

    “Sota is a smart and strong guy, I don’t think that he’s going to get into any trouble…” Leiko brushed them off as Mikio strolled over

    “Are you healing alright Shin?” Miki smiled down at Shin sitting at the table, Shin nodded and smiled back

    “Yea, I’m alright just a little bit of pain but the doctor’s said that it would go away when my stitches came out” Shin nodded at him and went back to eating her food

    “how about everyone else? Miki looked from Kouji to Leiko and then to Suichi where he caught and held Suichi’s gaze

    “We’re fine” Leiko smiled up at him, Miki turned to her and flashed her a wide smile, nodded and turned on his heel to head off in another direction.

    Seconds after Miki walked away, a boy named Suki sauntered over and plopped down between Leiko and Suichi, since Haku was gone he had filled Haku’s empty slot in the fashion club but they were like twins

    “So when were you all going to tell me that you know Miki!” Suki demanded, everyone stared at him oddly

    “I’ve been trying to get at him for almost a week now” Suki giggled as he started playing with Leiko’s hair, Leiko clenched her fists on the table glaring down at her food

    “Suki…if you want to keep your hands…you had better vanish” Leiko said thru clenched teeth, Suki instantly drew back his hand and sat bolt upright

    “Well sounds like Aunt Flow is visiting Leiko” Suki sad as he hopped up and jogged away from the table.

    As the six of them headed home after school they were stopped by Suichi

    “I think that we should keep an eye on Sota…he’s just too vulnerable, does he even keep Gloria, his spirit guide with him?” Suichi asked them, Leiko nodded

    “She’s always sleeping inside his bag just like Biru and Chip…Suichi I think that your imagination is getting the better of you…” Leiko said off-handedly, Suichi couldn’t take it

    “MY IMAGINATION?! SHIN HAS GOTTEN INTO THE HOSPITAL TWICE NOW AND YOU DON’T THINK THAT THEY WILL GO AFTER YOUR BROTHER?!” Suichi screamed at her, suddenly water rose from some of the puddles and the fountain in the yard of one of the houses nearby; the water surrounded Suichi like small orbs making their way around his body, Leiko turned around and glared at him, fire appeared and surrounded Leiko’s hands and slowly surrounded her in a thin rope of fire

    “STOP…both of you…” Kouji screamed as he stepped in-between them and looked at them both as if he had never seen them before

    “They are getting too worked up, they need to keep control over their powers…” Kinoko stated blatantly, Kouji nodded in agreement as Suichi and Leiko turned their backs on each other and walk in opposite directions causing the fire to vanish and the water to fall helplessly to the floor.

    “She is ridiculous!” Suichi threw his hands up angrily venting to Kiera; who was following silently at his ankles

    “Calm down Suichi, I think that Haku was right…you told me that he thinks that it is just a bad time for her right now, so just let her be and we’ll do the recon by ourselves” Kiera suggested as they reached the school once again and Suichi dropped down against a tree in front of the school.

    Suichi and Kiera sat there talking for almost two hours before Sota came strolling out of the double doors of the school heading for his car in the teacher’s parking lot

    “There he is!” Suichi whispered, ducking behind the tree to watch closely

    “he looks so tired” Kiera said sadly as they watched Sota trudge over to his car and pull open the backdoor to toss his messenger bag into the backseat tirelessly.

    Slowly the sky turned a black color and Sota looked up at the sky and swore to himself

    “Ready Gloria?” Sota said to the rabbit that had been following at his ankles from inside the school, the rabbit nodded in agreement as Sota transformed her into his fighting gloves; suddenly a small girl appeared less then ten feet away from Suichi with a sketchbook open in her arms and a large odd looking pencil in her hands; she was drawing on one of the pages and when she finished she ripped out the page and threw it onto the ground in front of her.

    “Anger…” Suichi whispered so that only Kiera could hear, they watched as the ink slid off the page and the paper crumbled and vanished and in it’s place stood two large black monsters that were the size of buses, they had large pig like faces, eyes the size of large marbles, they had tenticles that were protruding out of every part of their body with one giant horn from their foreheads;

    “Must we do this now?” Sota sighed to himself, thinking about all the homework that he had to grade later that night

    “haha, you look tired Mr. Anzai” Anger smirked to herself glaring at him with fire in her eyes

    “not too tired” Sota replied as he struck a fighting pose, Anger pointed at him and the two monsters made a beeline for him, Sota jumped up and performed a jump kick to one of the monster’s faces

    “honestly, I think you should have taken an Art class…” Sota exclaimed as he punched the second monster in the stomach sending it flying into the air where he charged up and drew more metal out of the earth and the shards penetrated the monster’s leathery skin causing it to bleed a blue gel substance and explode against a tree nearby.

    Anger watched as her monster was destroyed and ferociously started to draw on her sketchpad once more

    “OH NO YOU DON’T!” Suichi exclaimed as he rushed out with a transformed Kiera only to tackle Anger to the ground; Anger’s sketchpad slid a few feet away from them and she tried to reach for it but it was too far.

    Suichi hopped up and dove for the book but was caught at the ankles by Anger, Suichi made a kcik for her face but missed and hit her shoulder instead; Suichi swung his sword forward and pointed it at the sketchpad and screamed

    “Arctic Strike!” forcing a large beam of icicles and sheer cold to engulf the demonic sketchpad; the sketchpad was penetrated by thousands of small ice shards and began to bleed a dark brown color.

    Sota watched as the monsters that Anger had drawn started to melt into ink blots on the ground before vanishing in a large ball of dark energy.