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Vincente stealthed his way inside, so his sister wouldn't see. He stood behind her and once again tapped her on the shoulder. "Your a lot of trouble you know, and your too smart." He said, wrapping his hand around her mouth and lifting her off the ground. "So keep quiet and I promise I won't drop your real chakrams into molten lava like the last ones."

Kageko felt herself lifted off of the ground as a mouth clamped over her face. "Mmmph! Mmmmph!" she said in surprise, then added in a couple more after Vincente threatened her chakrams. When translated, she had basically said, "Wh-what the! No! Not my chakrams! You touch my chakrams and you’re dead! You hear me?! Dead!". To add in to the effect, she started kicking and squirming, attempting to get out of her brother's grip.

As she frantically tried to escape, Kageko missed the appearance of yet another visitor of the kage.

"Grrrr...," Kageko growled sullenly, but her anger wasn't really anger. It was just an annoyed anger that knew that nothing will come out of it. "Just study the maps," she muttered, loud enough for Vincente to here, "That's what I did." However, even as she pouted, she was starting to become gradually less angry. Even though she often had bursts of anger, the small girl never maintained them for long, being unable to be truly angry at people she was close to. She had learned a long time ago that being really, really angry was scary. Kind of like the feeling she had when her brother was fighting Shaoran. As a result, she had unconsciously become unable to be truly furious.

"E-Eh?!" Kageko exclaimed with distress. She wasn't exactly sure how strong her chakrams were, she had always been to afraid to test them out, so she was unsure whether or not they'd melt that easily. "Y-you didn't!" she complained, "Hmph! It's not like I can tell you where every single trap is even if I wanted to. For one, they're everywhere so it'll be impossible for me to describe the specific locations. Plus, it'll be a lot easier to just look at the maps to find them!". Those chakrams were the only thing she had that were a clue to her life before being adopted by the Valtieri family. If they were destroyed....

Kageko sighed in relief... and then decided to stay stubbornly quiet. This was her way of getting back at Vincente. Besides, he really should know how to at least activate the traps, they worked in the same way that the training rooms did. The only difference was that the traps were spread throughout the entire house and had controls in various parts of the house. Actually looking around for the first time since the ruckus, Kageko noticed a boy, around 14 or 15, already in the Otokage's office. "Hey!" the eleven-year-old greeted cheerfully despite the fact that her brother was still sitting on top of her, "May I know your name? I don't think we've met."

As soon as Vincente got off of her, Kageko took the chance and ran forwards, managing to dodge her older brother's intended trap. She might have been smaller and weaker than him, but she was much more agile and fairly fast herself. Not to mention, her smallness also made it harder to hit her. "Ermm... nee-san, she suggested as she got ready to dodge, "I don't think we should be damaging the Otokage's office." In this confined hallway, there was absolutely no way for Vincente to suddenly disappear without a trace, even with his stealth ability. It was simply physically impossible. "Besides," she continued in a semi-whiny voice, "Why can't you just read, or at least remember? Mom and Dad told us how to activate the traps a really long time ago. At least, they told me when I was around eight." It was the truth, Vincente should also know where the map was hidden. That is, if he managed to remember.

"Half of it isn't even reading," Kageko explained, wondering for the hundredth time exactly how thick her brother's skull was. She admired his fighting abilities and whatnot, but often found him lacking a bit in the intelligence department. She continued her explanation, "Actually, the most you're probably going to read is how to use the traps and the legend for the map. The rest of it is just symbols and remembering where the symbols are. Oh, and also remembering what each symbol stands for. But that's about it." In response to the second part, the girl simply pouted, "Hmph, I'm not that weak.... I think."