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((Yumi doesn't move as perfectly as Chaos does, but she does move in a very special way. She all the time balances on only one foot, leaving strange tracks... also she usually always tries finding the hardest possible material to stand on (usually rock), so in the forrest she most probably didn't leave any traces. But finding rocks on a field is a lot harder *hint hint*))

Yumi just continued following Chaos. The soft ground on the field made it impossible for Yumi not to leave a few traces behind her, knowing this she became restless and started moving faster than before. Her eyes were now wide open and darted from side to side.

The copy moved so much faster than the original. She had to to be since she was going the longer way and she needed to head the targets off at the pass. If she failed she knew that the original would not let some huge body of water to keep her from them. Since she was just a copy, she didn't understand the original's passion for catching up with these people...she figured that one of the targets was a man. She sighed and put on an extra spurt of speed, she could see the ocean now and she smirked.

Lotus was starting to get even more upset, A body of water isn't going to stop me Chaos, I don't care how big...she thought to herself, gritting her teeth. She suddenly shifted her aura again, her hair turning snowy white, here eyes red amber.

((FIrst of all, the aura thing is one of her things as well, she's a master of disguise, second, she's also master copy cat. Third, Lotus did give her copy instructions and she's been working on this copy so much that she's a little more complicated than if she made another one.))

Akira looked up at Kashi(?) and only smiled wide, saying nothing as usual, disclosing nothing...as usual. She sniffed at the sake and stuck her tongue out and wandered around, making mischeif.

((I have trouble believeing that a person can achieve so much in 5 years to outdo two people each having trained in the same areas, but very intensively, and continuously for over 20. Just my opinion though I guess ^^ Also if she was a master of disguise why did she just start using that trick? Anywho))

Kashi chuckled and finished the sake off before rising to watch the littler one. Such an odd child. "Come on Akira...we need to find a place to stay for tonight." He turns walking toward the door, if Akira followed that was her choice. He moved from the room like a wraith on a mission, yet it was simply natural for him...almost too natural

Chaos purposefully didn't speed up like Yumi did, and finally reached the coastline after her. He moved her into the boat quickly and pushed off leaping into it as he used a paddle to push off with. He could see the copy of Lotus. She looked so much like her, but that didn't matter. He shook his head. Even him or Yumi couldn't make this jump now. It was too far, and she would just land into the water. He sighed heavily. She would have to travel well over 30 miles to find the next port, and then she'd have to pay for the boat. He shook his head as he paddled forth into the ocean.

Now was their time to travel. If Lotus followed she wouldn't last long on the island. She wouldn't be welcome there after all. No one leading her, or showing her the way. She had been lucky to find it last time, this time...she wouldn't be so lucky if she went. Then again she couldn't know where he was headed too. There were plenty of islands out in the ocean the direction they were heading. And she wouldn't be able to keep her eyes on them forever...

((Remember Blue, Lotus is only 18 years old, Sakura is 20, and Yumi is 29. Both Sakura and Yumi have had more experience and time. Sakura mastered his masters' technique and Yumi nearly mastered hers. Lotus' father was killed and had no one to learn from for a good 5 years or so if I remember right. Unless she was training herself in ways that were completely and nearly impossible, she couldn't learn such tricks as 'doppleganging' and such. And on top of that none of those such techniques were included in your profile. You can't master a technique in 5 years remember. Also, copies and dopplegangers aren't real. They were tricks of the light, and of movement. Not real entities. If you noticed when Chaos had used them the copies were close together or many of them spread out. Light and movement changes a lot of things. Anyways that's my spilling of thoughts and such.))

Sakura looked up at the sky and could sense her. She was so foolish. If that was his trick then she didn't have a clue how to use it. She kept changing and altering and adjusting herself. She made it so obvious where she was. He could nearly sense when she came out of the clouds to keep track of them. He began to count the moments as he neared a cave. Once he felt her get farther away up into the clouds he sharply turned into the cove and disappeared from the water.

She wouldn't be able to find them now from that high up. The cove was too small for her to be able to see. He sat in there waiting. He felt her presence and would wait for it. Even if she tried to disappear she couldn't any longer. He had a track on her movements. Nothing supernatural as her flying or her physical copy, but simple knowledge and technique. He had learned these things through his training. He sighed softly and would continue to keep his patience. This was interesting to say in the least, very interesting in fact. The biggest difficultly he could see is that he wouldn't kill her, although she wished to do so to him. Such an odd child.

((she doesn't want to kill him))

Lotus suddenly felt empty. She stopped her progress and lowerd until she was under the clouds and then lowered some more, she didn't see them. The emptyness swallowed her and she closed her wings and dropped, falling , falling falling, Crash! She had made an effort to keep herself from being stunned but she did not make an effort to swim. She stay under the surface, floating, not caring anymore, too tired to care anymore. She only wanted to see him one more time, just once but now she didn't care what happened to her not even when her lungs started to ache.
For a second she was terrifyed of dying this way, who would continue the Masamune line if it wasn't here? She made a few strokes but then stopped. Who cared what happened, if the secrets of her family died along with her. She would have sighed but only stared up as surface becmae further and further from her. She didnt' realize she had dropped near the cove her former quarry had disappeared in.

Akira, of course followed him, appeared nearly under him as if by magic. She always walked really close to him, sometimes going under the tails of his coat. She had had enough practice that she didnt' interfere with his walking pattern. She always knew when he was about to do something drastick like run or jump because his muscles tightened suddenly and she only had mere seconds to move. She had practice this as well.

She woke slowly, swimming to the surface of conciousness until she opened her eyes. She coughed a little, rolling on her side, slowly, with groan. She paused, trying to catch her breath. She wondered why she wasn't dead, why she was alive in a...cave? She looked around and stood up too fast. She stumbled and sat down and then saw the words. She read them over about five times, then looked out to sea...b*****d! she yelled at him in mind speech.
She wasn't concentrating really so she wasn't sure if she heard him. She was further irritated by the hot salt water streaming from her eyes; she'd missed him again. She looked aroudn her and noticed he wings were missing. She swore softly to herself, her throat was a bit raw--she'd have to make another one. She felt in her pack and saw that her other weapon was still intact. She set it out to dry.

Five, six, seven... at the righthand side, up above, down... no there was something clearly wrong with the whole situation. Finally the men melted into one, a demon? Green green eyes, diamonds in the pitchblack, a sword? Moving forwards something grasped her from behind, making it impossible to move.

Yumi woke up with a scream. It took several minutes for her to calm down. Only then she started looking around and wondering where she was. Alone in the room she noticed her swords in one corner and a small bowl with water in standing on a small table besides them. Crawling over to the bowl she also saw a clean new kimono. Yumi filled her hands with cold water and washed her face. After changing into the kimono she slided open the door. It was clearly still early in the morning, since the beautiful garden in front of her was still covered by mist. While attaching the swords to her back she walked into the garden. Where am I? What happened? Everything around her looked unfamiliar, the huge house behind her, the smaller buildings around her, even the whole tiny village. While sitting there on the cold rooftop Yumi slowly started remembering what had happened before she had fallen in sleep. This has to be the island... Chaos?

After a few hours the mist had lifted and Yumi could see the whole beauty of the village. The women one after another started opening doors and windows and slowly a faint smell of food being prepared reach Yumi up on the rooftop. Making her way back to the house she had woke up in, she found many surprised and clearly upset women gathered in her room. Without saying anything Yumi bowed and the women bowed back while looking rather confused.

"So anyone feel like explaining what I'm doing here and where the man who took me here is? And also, I'd love to taste a little bit of that marvelously smelling fish you're cooking, I'm quite hungry." She finished her sentence with a big smile. Yumi's happy face broke the ice and the women happily and rather loudly escorted her to the kitchen.

After eating a big and delicious breakfast Yumi headed towards the house she had heard Chaos was sleeping in. While she was eating the women had managed to tell her everything about how she got there, where she was, Yumi was even forced to listening to a LOT of gossip. Feeling rather satisfied and energetic she knocked on the door.