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Kage smirked wider and walked slowly over to the guardian. "Just know that I'll always have my eyes on you and on your little contract partner, Samantha is it? I can hear every conversation, see every interaction, know whatever you two are deciding to do next to try and get rid of me..." Once within reach, he lashed out and grabbed Juubei by the throat, lifting him off the ground. "You understand that, pup?"

Kage only laughed at the guardian and tightened his grip. "I can go wherever I want..." Then he perked up as he heard the shower water in the bathroom turn off. With a final smirk, he tossed Juubei to the side of the room before trotting back to the picture on Samantha's bedside table. He shifted back into his own wolf form and literally jumped back into the picture.

Samantha came out a moment or two after Kage left, dressed in jean shorts and a blue t-shirt with some pink markings so it matched her oddly bright pink hair. While drying her hair, she froze up when she saw Juubei on the floor in the corner of the room. "J-juub-bei?..."

Janice was dressed in long jeans and a black shirt with white markings. She glanced over to Kage who jumped out of one of the multiple pictures around her room. "Where were you?" "Just checking in on some stuff," Kage replied carelessly. Janice merely shrugged and let the topic drop.

Samantha shook her head and trotted over to his side, looking up at him with worried eyes along with the towel on her shoulders and wet hair dripping down her back. "Wh-what happened?... I-i was only gone for a few minutes..."

Samantha bit her lip before giving him a quick hug. When she let him go, she glanced around the room. Then, for some odd reason, she walked over to the bedroom door and opened it a bit, then shut it again. She was silent for a few moments as she was trying to listen to something, then turned back to Juubei. "He may be stronger, but that doesn't explain how he got into the room... My bedroom door was shut and if he opened it at all, I would have heard it, even in the shower..."

Samantha looked over at the table and walked over to it, picking up the picture. She looked at it a bit before stiffening slightly. "So that's how he's been hiding from me..." she whispered quietly. She would have crumpled the picture, but it was from her sister, and she would never do such a thing.

Sammy looked up at Juubei, raising an eyebrow at how he could talk to her through their thoughts. /Um.../ She glanced down at the picture again and ran her fingers lightly over it, tracing the dark lines that represented the black wolf before sighing softly. /Very... She's very close to him.../

Once finished getting ready, Janice headed out of her room and down the flight of stairs. She grabbed a quick bowl of cereal before leaving the house with a small drawstring bag. It was filled with the usual stuff: art notebooks and pencils. Kage remained hidden until Janice was outside the house, then appeared in his wolf form as he followed her around to the park like usual.

Samantha walked over to the window and watched Janice leave. Since she has been to the dream realm obviously, she could see Kage following her. /We need to find a way to break the contract.../

Samantha ran a hand through her hair, realizing her hair was still wet from her shower. She grabbed the towel that had fallen from her shoulders and onto the floor, picking it up to dry her hair a bit more before brushing it. "Does that mean we have to find these elders back in the dream realm?" she asked out loud, getting annoyed with just talking through their thoughts. Truthfully, it was just plain weird at first too.