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Ashori looked curiously at Razzer's arm, and drifted forwards a few inches unconciously. She realized what she was doing and floated back to her previous position. In a strange move, Ashori growled loudly and threw her arms up in the air. A black... bubble... of sorts covered her entire body. Since it didn't appear to be the beginnings of some sort of nova explosion, Razzer assumed it was a protective shield.

He noticed that Ashori seemed to be trying to vanish in the bubble. Her eyes were clamped shut and she seemed to be concentrating really hard. It looked like she didn't want the fight to go on any more than it had to. Arm now hurting slightly, Razzer turned away from the girl and strode to the half-demolished katana rack. Behind it was a small valve. He turned this valve and the water slowly stopped pouring out of the walls.

A quiet fell upon the dojo. Only the sound of a small dribble of water from one of the pipes indicated that there was any noise at all.

"Feel better?" Razzer asked quietly.

Ashori opened her eye, probably expecting to see a raging torrent of water hurtling towards her. Instead, she was surprised to see Razzer standing calmly. A few moments of silence ensued, and her energy shield went down.

She drifted a bit closer towards Razzer, keeping her eye on his arm. Ashori opened her mouth - presumably to ask about his arm - but closed it. Razzer ramined silent, and just looked wearily at her as she slowly approached. She thought the fight was over.

"Stupid move." Razzer hissed suddenly. "You realize that now that your shield is down - as is your guard - you're completely open for me to have killed you." he spat half-blood half-spit into the water.

"But since I've effectively accomplished what I needed to do, I don't need to finish you off." He looked tiredly around at the remains of his dojo. Completely and utterly destroyed. Worth it? Yes.

Razzer looked at the ground. His bandages (what remained of them) were drifting in the shallow water a foot away. He bent over and picked the tatters up. They were bloodstained and soggy. Sighing, Razzer tossed them back into the water.

Ashori froze, her eyes widening at his mention of her fatal mistake. She raised one of her arms in an attempt to bring the shield back up, but dropped her hand. Instead she settled for glaring at the ground.

"Maybe you should just kill me then." she grumbled. A few minutes of silence passed, before Ashori looked around the room at everything but Razzer. Then she looked at him, and reached into her belt. Withdrawing a bundle of bandages, she growled and tossed them to him.

His arm raised up and he caught the bandages. Choosing not to make a comment about her death with, Razzer examined the bandages. Grunting, he tossed them back to Ashori, who was now picking up her dagger.

"I don't need them." he said. In response, his arm gave a painful throb. The blood running along his arm had began to crust, and so the scars that were inked with blood now looked like tattoos. Razzer took a step forward, his feet making a wet squishing noise on the oversaturated carpet. He walked past Ashori and stepped over some debris, out into the courtyard. Sitting down on a bench, he tilted his head back and looked up at the artificially-created sky. Fluffy white clouds drifted lazily overhead, and the sun was shining brightly.

"You're not a bad fighter, you know." he said over his shoulder. Whether or not she was even there to hear, Razzer didn't know. But he said it anyways. He sighed and closed his eyes, shutting out the pain in his arm.

Kazuma seen two guys walking out of the building. " Hey you two. What is in that building?" Kazuma asked the two. " Its the new VR rooms. They are awsome. They just opened. You should try it." One of the guys told Kazuma. Heh that sounds amusing. I might as well try it out. Kazuma said in his head. He then bowed as a showing of thanks and ran off towards the entrance. He entered the building and walked around. He then made it accross a hallway with many doors. It looked like it was an endless hallway with millions of doors. He walked passed a door and it said something on it. "What is this?" Kazuma said to himself. He then tryed to open the door. But it didn't move. How strange i should open. Mabey it's stuck. Well anyway I will go and open this door with my matter manipulation ability. He said in his head. He then extended his arm out in front of him and opened his palm. The door was still the same. " Wow now thats weird. Ok then i will need to just sit here." Kazuma said. He then sat down and waited for the door to open.

He could hear her behind him now. She didn't come and sit beside him, though. Not that Razzer wanted it, though. He just sat and looked up at the virtually-created clouds. It was quite a contrast to what the scene was a few minutes ago. Small explosions all around him, water everywhere, and lightning bolts. But now all that was gone. There was just clouds and the cherry trees. A slight breeze rippled across the courtyard, jarring a few petals loose.

But then...

"JESUS CHRIST!" Razzer yelled, flinching in pain. His arm was burning, as if it had been dipped into molten lava. Looking down at it, his eyes widened in surprise. The scar-like marking on the back of his hand that looked vaguely like a kanji of "half" was glowing bright red, and it hurt like hell.

Razzer yelled out again, standing up quickly and gripping his arm. It was a futile move - putting pressure on his arm wasn't going to make it any less painful.

"WHAT THE HELL?!" He cried, looking around wildly. Why was this happening?

After a few moments, Laurel shrugged and shut herself into the VR room she had chosen. Walking over to the computer, she began to type in options, her fingers flying. A room appeared around her: glass walls letting sunlight stream in, glinting off the tiny pond in the center of the garden. Spiralling paths wandered through the various plants, and there were butterflies fluttering around here and there. Laurel looked around herself and sighed happily. The only thing missing was people. Gram's greenhouse looked too empty without Gram, Micha, and their parents. She turned back to the computer, and with a single command made it so people could come into the room if they wanted. She usually didn't want company, but she was awfully lonely without her twin. I dunno if I'm gonna hug her or punch her when she finally gets out of the hospital. *Hey! I heard that!* Micha's voice echoed in her head for a minute, then faded. Laurel groaned. Every once in a while, her sister would check up on her...and somehow she always managed to pick the most awkward moments...

Ashori withdrew her hands, watching him anxiously as she clasped them nervously in front of herself. She didn't even bother to cover the red eye again, something she always did when back in this state, too distracted by what was bothering Razzer.

Her eyes darted around the room again before returning to him. She bit her lip softly, wandering if it was something she'd done that had triggered it. She swayed very slightly in place, tail curled around her waist. "Hospital," she said suddenly. "They could... they could do something, right?"

She bit her lip harder, squeezing her eyes shut. It was impossible to block out the sounds of his pain, her ears taking it all in and actually making it louder than it would have been normally. Then she stared at him again, eyes wide. "Are you sure? Are you sure it wouldn't help?" She held up her hands again, but didn't put any power into them until she heard a reply.