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I'm so sorry for the long wait on this chapter but at least it's finally done. (^-^;) I know I'm late on the update and I wasn't able to meet my deadline of updating during my winter break, but that's because school started again and I also got sick with a cold for a week. I actually got done with writing this chapter sometime early January, but I just didn't take the time to sit down and edit it until recently.

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Summary: She thought the only way to save everyone from the Jewel was to not make the final wish, and instead, consume it into her body so that she could remain the protector of it forever. But by consuming its limitless power, the Jewel turns her into a monster that controls her and makes her kill the innocent and destroy the world. Now in order to save everyone from what she had become, she must seek out the one person who has the power to kill her—Saitama.

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or One Punch Man.

"Talking"

'Thoughts'

Chapter Six: The Avian King

Kagome stood on the balcony of the apartment complex with a nice, hot cup of tea in her hands as she enjoyed the serene moment of the first light of dawn. She watched as the sun began to rise in the distance, covering the sky in beautiful gradients of warm colors; the cool morning breeze swept through her long hair, causing the strands to brush softly against her cheek. She brought the cup to her lips and blew the top of the hot liquid before taking a small sip of her drink. She leaned her weight on her elbows as she set them on the railing and thought about everything that had happened since she landed in this world.

She took her eyes away from the sunrise and decided to instead look down at her cup of tea and watch the ripples created by the movement of her hands. "Even with so much power, why do I still feel so useless?" she spoke softly to herself. She thought back on how if she used too much of the foreign power she would easily collapse afterward or be too weak to even move, which would not be useful in the middle of a fight. She looked at her hand as a soft purple aura began to glow before quickly fading away as she closed her hand into a fist. "It seems I need to train more…" Whenever she felt like this, she always thought training helped her with her control and gaining concentration. Plus, she hasn't done much training since she's been in this world so she must be very rusty with her combat skills.

With determination in her eyes, she decided to quickly gulp down her tea, which was probably not the greatest idea because it was still hot. She yelped from the stinging heat that flooded her tongue and throat and covered her mouth with her hand as she tried to somehow ease her pain. A purple glow appeared from her hand again causing the pain in her mouth to completely disappeared. 'Huh?' Kagome looked at her hand with astonishment. 'My powers couldn't heal me before…I could only use it to heal others,' she thought as she clenched her hand shut. 'I guess this shows how different these new powers are.'

Kagome turned back to the door to the apartment with her now empty cup and walked inside. 'I really need to train with these powers more. My body isn't used to the strain it causes on it yet.' When she walked into the living room, she was greeted by the familiar sight of Saitama with his blanket laid messily over his person due to his tossing and turning during the night. Kagome chuckled as she set her cup down to arrange the blanket so that it covered his body better. As she got up to go wash her cup before leaving to go somewhere to train, Genos walked in from visiting his doctor. "Welcome home, Genos," she greeted him warmly.

He returned her smile. "I'm back."

"Were you at your doctor's place again?" she asked him.

"Yes. I was doing my daily check up with him to make sure everything was in order." Genos looks down at his sensei who was still sleeping. "I see Saitama-sensei is still getting his rest."

Kagome smiled down at the bald man. "It appears he's always a late sleeper, but living a life where you don't have many worries gives him the liberty to do these sort of things, so it's good that he can relax like this." She continued her way to the kitchen to clean up. She turned the water on to gently wash her mug before setting it on the rack next to the sink to let the mug dry.

After she was done washing her cup, she picked up her bag and began heading towards the door. "I'm going to be out all day today," she told the cyborg.

Cyborg gave her a curious look. "Where are you going?"

"I'm going to train somewhere secluded. Despite the power I have, I still feel so weak since my body can only handle using so much of it before I collapse," she responded. Genos nodded in understanding, he too felt the same feelings before—the feeling of wanting to be strong, to not be useless when people needed him.

"I'll let sensei know where you went when he wakes up."

Kagome nodded as thanks. "I'll see you guys later today." With that said, Kagome walked out and closed the door with a soft click.

Kagome walked down the abandoned roads of the restricted area of Z-city where Saitama lived and thought about the most appropriate place to train. 'I'm pretty sure I can't train in an average gym, I would end up blowing up the place or something.' Kagome stopped walking and crossed her arms in thought, her head slightly tilted to the side. 'Hm… This world seems to be full of cities, which is definitely not the best place to train. I wonder if there's an open field somewhere, far away from people.'

This world was still somewhat new to her since she hasn't been anywhere besides Z-city, and even then, she hadn't been around the whole city yet. After thinking about all the places she's been to, trying to remember ever passing a huge, open area away from civilization, it suddenly hit her. The rocky area she had first met her friends. 'Of course! They were training there when I first met them. It would be perfect.' After coming to a decision, Kagome turned to the direction from where she sort of remembered where the location of that area was.

After some trial and error with the directions and a lot of backtracking, Kagome finally found the location she was looking for. "Why was finding such a big open field so hard," she muttered to herself, tired from a couple of hours of walking (and some running) around looking for the damn place. "Well, at least I'm here now. I better get started with training, I lost a lot of time trying to find this place."

While focusing her energy, Kagome pictured a human figure to spar with and held out one of her hands in front of her. A bright purple light came from her hand and materialized into a humanoid shape in front of her. The haunting shadowy figure stood up straight like a lifeless mannequin before getting into a fighting stance. "We're only going to fight the old fashioned way with punches and kicks, so I won't be using any powers," Kagome informed the figure, not even sure if it needed to be informed since she was the one who created it. "With that said, show me what you got." Kagome got into her own fighting stance with a smirk.

The ghostly figure showed a familiar smirk similar to her own and began to run at her with extreme speed. The figure went so fast Kagome could barely follow the movement without activating her powers to help her eyes track the other's movements. As the figure reached Kagome and pulled back its arm to punch her in the face, Kagome was able to assess the situation and quickly duck before the figure was able to make contact with her. Since her body was low to the ground, she tried to side swipe the shadowy legs, but sadly, the figure had guessed what she was trying to do and was able to jump over her outstretched leg and away from her. Their elaborate dance continued for hours with different kicks and punches thrown at each other: a roundhouse kick here, a sick kick there, a hook punch to the head, a knife hand to the neck, and a lot of dodging.

The battle continued until the sun was beginning to set and the shadows of the stone ridge grew larger and began covering the dirt field in darkness. The two figures stood on what looked like a battlefield, one stood with unchanging posture, while the other was hunched over, breathing hard with sweat dripping down her face. "Wow. I'm either out of shape, or I made you too strong," Kagome puffed out in between breaths. The figure stood unmoving, showing no response to her statement.

Kagome brushed her sweaty bangs out of her face and looked up at the darkening sky. "I should head back. The boys are probably going to worry if I'm not there by the time the sun sets completely." Kagome turned to the figure. "We'll continue this tomorrow," she said to the figure before letting it fade away with a wave of her hand.

Kagome straightened up her posture and ran a hand through her hair. She became disgusted by the amount of sweat and dirt that had collected. "That's so disgusting. I really need a bath when I get back." She turned to grab her bag and began walking back to the apartment.

Days passed the same way after that. Kagome continued to train herself, both physically and with her powers. Ever since she got out of that monster, she had felt weak, as if she hadn't used her muscle for so long. She felt so limp when Saitama had carried her, completely like a ragdoll. It sickened her to feel that way. She had never felt so weak in her life.

But all of that was about to change as she continued to train herself until she could stand by Saitama and Genos' side in battle. It would not be good to put them in danger if she suddenly became weak from over exerting herself and collapse in the middle of a fight. She refused to let another enemy use her as bait to get to her friends. When the time comes, she'll be the one there to fight for them and rescue them from danger.

After another long day of training, Kagome decided to stop early so that she could make it home to make dinner for everyone. After dispelling the shadow figure she had created for her training, she went to her bag to take out a small towel she had brought with her to wipe the sweat off her face. Even though she had only been training for about a week now, she could already feel her training paying off. Not only did she feel physically stronger, but she also felt that her body was slowly getting used to the strange power now residing in her. Obviously, a week was still not enough training, but at least she saw some results already even if the results weren't that noticeable. Once she was cleaned and somewhat presentable, she put the towel away and grabbed her bag. She swung the strap over her shoulder and began walking home.

The walk home was peaceful, which apparently by Saitama's observation was weird since Z-city was a popular place for bad things to happen and monsters to show up, especially where Saitama lived. Since his section of the city is blocked off and everyone had already fled during a previous encounter with a horrible monster, the area he lived in was pretty much abandoned and a great place for monsters to be attracted to. The city hadn't been completely quiet, there would still be a few minor enemies that show up, but nothing major enough for the news to report. Usually, lower leveled heroes in the area could take care of them.

Kagome walked absentmindedly and hummed to a random tune as she made her way home. Since her mind was not focused on her surroundings, the sound of a sudden smash into the building next to her caused her to jump and turn to the source. What she saw was a weird bird-humanoid creature laughing at something, or someone.

A groan made Kagome turned her head toward the ruined building in the restricted area of Z-city. A familiar figure crawled his way out of the rubble with a scowl on his face. Kagome cupped her hands to call out the person's name. "Genos! What are you doing?" she yelled out, wondering who the bird-man was.

Genos looked at her. "Kagome? Why are you back so soon today?"

"I wanted to come back and have enough time to make dinner for you guys," she responded. She was going to say more to him, but it seemed as if the bird-man was getting annoyed that he was being ignored in the middle of his battle.

"Who are you?" he asked demandingly. "And how dare to interrupt my battle! I am the Avian King and I demand complete attention from inferior creatures like you!" he shouted at the two figures below him, who had ignored him earlier to have their own conversation.

Kagome rolled his eyes. 'Another self-absorbed villain, it seems.' She turns around. "I'm sure you can handle this guy, Genos, so I'm going go home and wash up from training," she said, already making her way away from the two of them. If this guy was anything like the previous monsters that had shown up during the week, then Genos didn't really need her help to take care of him.

The Avian King was starting to get even more annoyed by the disrespect from the woman who had interrupted his battle with the cyborg. "Like I'm going to let you escape," he stated as he waved his wings in one powerful stroke to shoot off some of his feathers which then turned into razor sharp blades as it flew towards the Kagome.

Genos watched as the feathers grew larger and surround Kagome in a weird feather prison. "Kagome!" he yelled with worry, wondering if she was hurt at all by the attack.

Kagome was surprised by the sudden attack and reached for the feathers that now trapped her inside. Once her hand touched the material of the feathers, a stinging pain shot through her hand, causing her to quickly withdraw it and hold it close to her body. She inspected her hand and saw thin, almost invisible, spikes in her hand. 'Ow! I really shouldn't have done that,' she thought to herself. She felt so stupid. How many times has she been in a battle to know not to touch an enemy's attack?

Genos quickly jumped to her feather cage. "Are you OK, Kagome?" he asked, really worried for his friend.

Kagome held her hurt hand in her other hand. "Besides a hurt hand, I think I'm fine," she replied.

Genos looked down at her hand that contained thin needles poking out. "What is that?" he asked.

"I'm not sure. I got pricked when I tried touching the feathers."

Genos powered up the fire cannon on his hand. "Hold, on. I'll get you out of there soon." Before his cannon could charge up all the way, a blur flew by them and threw the cyborg into another building, smashing that structure into bits just like the previous building.

The Avian King flew nearby Kagome, who was still trapped in the small cage. "Ah-ah, not so fast. I can't have you break my lovely cage so soon." He smiled down at his prize. "We wouldn't want this little birdy to escape, now would we?"

Kagome narrowed her eyes at the nickname he decided to give her. "Just because I'm trapped right now, doesn't mean that I'm helpless. I can still destroy you easily even though I'm trapped in here," she said with a menacing voice.

The Avian King smirked. "That, my dear, I already knew." Kagome perked up at his statement. "I could sense great power from you and that's why the feathers that surround you are also infused with a type of power that sucks the energy from the creature from within and gives them to me," the Avian King explained with a triumphant smirk. "And the best part is, since you were clueless enough to try touching my feathers, the needles in your hand now keep you from channeling your powers." Kagome got a horrified look on her face.

"So you mean…"

The smirk grew on the man's face. "That's right." He held a hand out in front of him and a purple and pink ball of energy swirled in his hand. "I can now use your power to hurt this friend of yours," he told her and started shooting energy balls toward an already hurt Genos.

"Genos!" Kagome shouted with worry, knowing the kind of damage her powers could do to her friend if used at full force.

After the attack, there was only silence from the rubble. There was absolutely no noise or movement from the pile of debris. Tears began to appear in Kagome's eyes as she thought about the destruction of her friend. "Genos…" she solemnly whispered as a single tear began to fall from her eyes. She couldn't believe that her powers had been used to harm the people who were important to her again.

The rubble began to glow red before being blasted out of the way by a hot beam of fire aimed straight at the enemy and sending him flying into a wall. Kagome watched with hope as a metal arm stuck out of the crumbled stone and began to crawl out of the pile, revealing a somewhat beaten (but still alive) cyborg. Kagome's sad tears turned into tears of happiness after finding out her friend was safe. Thank goodness the enemy didn't really know how to use her powers to its full potential. He only knew how to use the raw energy behind the power, he didn't know how to focus the energy and mold it into something worse, which she was so thankful for. She didn't even want to imagine what the enemy could do with her kind of powers. Probably either destroy the world or try to rule it.

Kagome leaned closer to the side where Genos was. "Are you alright, Genos?" she asked him with worry clearly present in her tear-filled eyes.

Genos began making his way to her. "I'm fine. And no need to worry about me, you're the one trapped in the cage." He looked around and began inspecting the feathers. "The enemy said that the feathers are made of tiny microscopic spikes that can embed itself in human skin." Genos gripped one of the feathers and began to break it under his hand. "Since I'm a cyborg and none of my human parts are on the outside of my body, this shouldn't affect me, then," he stated as he tugged at the feather, causing it to break and shatter into pieces.

Kagome continued to hold her hurt hand as she watched him work on the cage. 'He doesn't have external human parts?' Kagome looked at the metal of her friend. 'Then how is he able to feel anything if he doesn't have nerves?'

While Genos was working on the cage, the enemy picked himself up from the pile of rocks he had landed in and watched with hate as he saw the cyborg try to let out his power source. He focused his hand and aimed it at the cyborg as a familiar purple energy collected in his hands before shooting a purple energy beam at the cyborg, knocking him away from the cage again. The Avian King then flew out of the rubble and over to the cyborg. "What did I say about touching my cage?" He aimed his beam again at the cyborg and shot with a great force.

"Stop it!" Kagome shouted. Despite Genos tearing part of the feathers away, the space was still too small for her to get out of without injuring herself on them. 'I need to help him!' she shouted at herself as she watched Genos' metal body begin to tear apart from the force of the blast.

The enemy laughed manically as he grabbed the broken cyborg and threw him into the air and began slicing him into more pieces with his razor sharp feathers. He infused some of Kagome's powers into his feathers to make then even sharper and deadlier to anything that touched them. As he continued to use her powers, Kagome could feel the energy leave her body. The jewel on her head began to pulse as he continued to use its power.

The enemy laughed as the energy began to consume him and make him stronger. "What wonderful power this is! I feel so powerful!" he shouted into the sky. His body beginning to change and grow larger. His wingspan increased and his feathers got bigger along with his muscles. The Avian King was going through a transformation due to the power boost caused by consuming her powers. "With this power, I can rule the world!" he boasted, completely forgetting the two figures below him.

While the enemy was distracted, Kagome searched for her friend and pound him unconscious and in pieces. She looked horrified by the amount of damage that was done to him. She couldn't take it anymore. She didn't care if the feathers would hurt her, Kagome pushed her way through the small opening Genos had made earlier to get outside of her cage. The parts of the body that had touched the feathers got small spikes pricked into her skin just like what had happened to her hand, but at this point, she didn't care. All that mattered was that she got to her friend. 'I said I would protect them.' She crawled up the rubble to reach him. 'And that's what I'm going to do.' Even though she was weak to the point of passing out, she reached out her unharmed hand and placed it on the cyborg. 'Even if it kills me.' She forced the last of her power to transfer over to him, causing her to pass out. The Avian King mainly used the foreign power given to her by the Jewel and hadn't really touched her pure energy, so she used a majority of that energy fused with a small amount of the Jewel's power on Genos.

In her half-conscious state before her eyes fell shut, she saw her friend begin to move, which brought a smile to her lips. 'He's alright… That's good.' She closed her eyes. 'I'm going to rest for a bit now.'

Genos felt something course through him, giving him power. Even though he thought he was finally defeated, something had given him enough strength to open his eyes and move his body. When he opened his eyes he felt whole again, not in pieces like he had been not too long ago. He looked down and saw that his body wasn't fixed up perfectly, but it would have to do due to the circumstances of the situation.

He went to move his hand and felt something tug on it, which caused him to look to his side. Once he saw who it was, he opened his eyes in shock and fear. He went to pick up the woman by his side and cradle her limp body in his arms. The panic he felt lessened when he realized that she was still breathing. "Thank goodness," he muttered, letting a relieved breath. He then took some time to inspect her body and he saw tiny white needles sticking from many places of her body, clearly indicating how she had gotten out of the cage. "Kagome…" he said sadly at the unconscious woman, who still had a small smile on her face. 'She had risked her well being to save me,' he thought, touched by her actions, not used to having someone worry about him.

The Avian King noticed that the energy he had been sucking out of his prisoner had stopped, which made him look down at his cage and found the woman was no longer inside but instead in a cyborg's arms. He flew down to their level. "I see she somehow got out, but no matter, I still got all the energy I needed from her. She's basically a useless doll now," he stated, uncaringly, throwing her out like a piece of trash.

Genos gritted his teeth by his words and scowled at the enemy. He placed Kagome down gently and stood up in front of her, protectively. "She's not useless!" he growled out before jumping up with incredible speed to punch the bird-man in the face. The hit landed perfectly due to the enemy not expecting such speed from the broken cyborg.

The Avian King flew back a few feet from the attack but was overall fine. "I was just stating the obvious." He dodged a kick from the cyborg. "There's nothing wrong with calling something so powerless, useless."

Since Genos' kick didn't land, he continued to fly passed the flying target and land on the side of a building. "She is strong! She had enough power to kill you with just her pinky!" He shot off the building, blasting the spot he was standing on into pieces while flying at the figure again.

"Had, yes. But now that power is mine, so her body is nothing but a doll at this point," the Avian King said while dodging Genos' attack again. But Genos had anticipated the Enemy dodging to the side, so he easily propelled his body by using the blasters on one side of his body to make him do a quick 360 and roundhouse kick the enemy in the side. Before his kick had landed, Genos powered up his boosters on his legs to make his kick hit even harder, causing the bird-humanoid to crash onto the ground and skid a good distance away from his initial landing spot.

Genos landed on the ground in front of the huge ditch he had made with the enemy's body, his body and eyes still blazing with the fire fueled by his determination and hate for the enemy. Since he didn't think such a simple kick, even with the amount of power he had put behind it, would end the battle simply like that, when a familiar bright beam shot out of the dust cloud, Genos was expecting it and quickly jumped out of the way. In his opinion, he had always had quick reflexes, but something felt different. He knew the beam was coming, but even then, usually the beam would shoot at him very quickly, barely giving him enough time to jump out of the way. If he hesitated even for a split second, the beam would've gotten him. But something had changed. The beam was still fast, but it felt slower than before. It's as if his senses had been heightened just by a small amount, but a small amount was all he needed.

He jumped out of the way and blast his fire cannon in the direction the beam had came from. When the dust dispelled, he saw the enemy put up a purple shield with a smirk on his face. The battle between them continued without an end in sight.

But as time went on and the enemy kept using the Jewel's energy, something was happening without the two men knowing. The Avian King was still going strong with his purple beam attack when he suddenly stopped in the middle of his attack and gripped his chest. Genos was blocking the assault when he felt the attack suddenly stop, causing him to look at the enemy. He watched as a purple energy began to surround the flying bird-humanoid, turning darker as seconds past.

"W-what's going on?" The enemy began to panic and try to get the substance off him, but with no result. The energy eventually turned black and began to consume his very being. The King began to scream out in terror and pain as the black energy began to eat away at his flesh. A low evil chuckle could be heard, but the source of the voice was unknown.

"You wanted my power, and you got it, but in return, I require payment," an ominous voice spoke out.

"P-payment?" The Avian King tried to fight against the black cloud surrounding him.

"Did you really think I would allow such a weak being to use my energy without having them give up something of theirs?" the voice said with amusement. "I am not that generous or kind."

The energy continued to eat away at the enemy's body.

"And by the amount of energy you used, it seems that your payment will have to be your life."

The Avian King screamed as the black cloud ate away at his flesh like a potent acid.

Genos kept kneeling where he was and watched as the enemy became nothing as time went on. Eventually, the surroundings became quiet from the lack of activity as the screams from the enemy disappeared, leaving a cloud of black energy floating in the air where the enemy had been.

Genos wasn't exactly sure what had happened, but whatever it was, it had completely consumed the Avian King. He continued to watch the floating mass as it continued to float in one spot before suddenly shooting down and into the jewel on Kagome's forehead. 'All of that was from Kagome's powers?' Genos thought. He tried to pick himself up to go meet his friend but had found that he no longer had strength to carry himself anymore.

Since her powers had returned to her, Kagome was able to slowly opened her eyes, but she was still exhausted from having it drained from her the first time. She slowly moved her previous injured hand to her face. It surprised her when she woke up with feeling to her hands and what she saw made her understand why. The spikes from the feathers were gone. She tried to move her head to where the feather cage was and saw that it was no longer there. 'What had happened?' she asked herself, curious on where the enemy had gone. 'Where's Genos?' she wondered as she looked around for her friend, but couldn't see him from her current position.

She slowly picked up her body from the destroyed building she was resting on. Her body felt as heavy as lead and her head ached with a jolt of pain as she lifted her head. She grabbed her head in pain as she felt the jewel pulse with energy, shining brightly before dying down as the pain went with it. 'What now, Jewel?' she asked it, getting really annoyed by the thing and how much trouble it has caused her.

As time went on, the jewel began to heal her and give her more energy. When she was well enough, she picked herself up completely and looked around for Genos. When she found him, he was in pieces yet again, but luckily this time it wasn't as bad as before. Kagome clumsily stood up and made her way to her hurt friend. "Genos! Are you OK?" she asked him as she knelt down to his lying form on the ground.

"I'm fine," he said weakly. "After turning into a cyborg, most of my human parts were replaced so I can't really feel pain, or anything really," he pointed out, trying to sit up. Kagome helped him by lifting his upper body and resting it on a building.

She looked at him with sad eyes. "You can't feel pain? Does that also mean you can't feel other things like warmth and skin?" she asked him.

Genos shook his head. "It's hard to feel things if your nerves are gone and are replaced with metal." He looked down at his metal hand that hasn't felt anything since he was fifteen.

Kagome looked at his hand as well. "So you've lived for a few years now not being able to feel another human. Don't you miss it?" she asked him.

Genos set his hand down and looked at her. "I don't have a need to feel others. Ever since that cyborg attacked my family, all I've wanted is to hunt it down and avenge them. I have no need for feeling if all I do is fight," he stated, not appearing sad at all by the fact he no longer had skin.

Tears began to build up in Kagome's eyes from hearing him say such things, which caused Genos to suddenly panic by her change in mood. "What's wrong, Kagome? Are you hurt?" he asked, very concerned about her.

She shook her head. "I'm not hurt, but I am upset."

"Why?"

Kagome met his eyes. "I'm sad that you're willing to live like this. To be happy about the fact you can't ever feel the touch of another person!" Tears fell from her eyes, hitting the dirt floor she sat on. "I'm sad about why something this horrible had to happen to you when you were so young and yet you don't care."

Genos looked down at the floor. "It's not that I happy about it, Kagome…" She looked up at him. "It's that I've learned to live with this fact. When I first became a cyborg and found out I could no longer feel with my hands or any part of my body, it was scary. I lived every day since then wondering if I would ever be able to feel the touch of another person." Genos exhaled and turned his eyes upwards, watching the clouds float by. "After a while, I've learned to live without it because in a way I think I actually forgot what touching others and feeling things felt like. At that point, you can't really miss something if you don't remember it." He chuckled softly to try to lighten the mood, but it didn't seem to work since Kagome continued to cry as she looked at him.

He reached out and brushed the tears from her face. "There's no reason to cry. There's nothing we can really do about it now. I am who I am. There's no going back to the way I was."

Tears continued to stream down her face. "Genos…" Kagome jumped on him and gave him a tight hug. "I'll find a way for you to feel again." She pulled away and stared determinedly into his eyes despite tears still flowing. After her determined statement she leaned down to hug him again, but this time, it was a gentle, sweet hug. "I promise."

Omake:

Saitama sat at his little table with his head laid on it and his manga opened next to him. "Where are those two?" he muttered, bored since there was no one home except him. He didn't want to admit it, but he's gotten used to two people always being with him, and when they weren't around, it got boring. He let out a sigh as he continued to wait for them to come home.

Red: OH MY GOD! That was so long and it took forever! Phew! I'm glad that's done with. This chapter became way longer than expected and it didn't exactly go the way I originally planned it to go, but hey, I think it worked out. Maybe? I don't know. You guys can let me know what you think. But this just shows how I don't know which direction this story is going to go just like you guys. Haha. (^-^;)

And like always please let me know what you think in the reviews and I'll respond to them on the next chapter. Until next time, everyone!