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"Alright." Kaguyo smiled, shutting the door behind them, "I... Hm... I may or may not soak. I'm kinda drunk." she giggled, stumbling into the bathroom.
The bath water was still running but she wasted no time stripping and nearly diving in. "Ohhhhh my god this is NICE." she gushed, splashing around, "You HAVE to get in here...!"
Although it seemed like she'd be ready to pass out soon. She kept yawning almost every thirty seconds.
She went to washing her hair and face, before just stretching out and soaking in the corner. "Ahhh..."

Yuki blinked, tilting her head. "Whaaa?? Really??? No way. I really doubt that's me..." she adjusted her glasses, "I was lucky to find I even had one, honestly... I didn't think I had any abilities until I got pregnant."
She took off the hunter's jacket, revealing a dirty wife-beater tank beneath. She was getting ready to take a blood sample. "If you say so, though... I mean who knows, right?"

Kazuhiko shook his head. "Those memories were given to you.... Alright, look, I have a bit of her energy... Tell me if it feels familiar, ok?"
He held out his hand, an icy wind of sorts wrapping around the man. "Doesn't it feel soothing?"

Yuki shrugged. "Hey, you pay my salary." she grinned, "And the only thing in the job description is to help with research. Technically this is helping, right?"
She started taking samples of her own blood after swabbing her arm with an alcohol wipe. "Alright... How much you need?"

"It's part of you." Kazuhiko kept pressing, intensifying it. "This is your mother's energy, my friend."
It was cold, but gentle...
It was like snow, and yet like winter in its entirety.
"I'm trying to get you to remember who you are." he explained. "Don't you find it odd you don't recognize your own mother?"

Kaguyo smiled, stretching out again. "I suppose not." she rinsed herself off, moving to him. She gave him a soft kiss on the cheek before kissing him again, climbing out of the bath. "I'm going to sleep, my dear. Aishiteru."
She stretched out her arms and snuggled into her towel, yawning loudly and staggering a bit. "Oh... oh goodness yes, bedtime." she muttered to herself sheepishly, "Goddess Kaguyo since when were you such a weakass at drinking...?"
It was just barely loud enough for Ainsu to hear, but she was awfully rosy in the cheeks. "See you in a little bit my love." she smiled warmly, exiting the bathroom.
As soon as she had on her nightgown and robe, she moved to lock the door.
Sad to say, it was time to leave.

Kaguyo paused in the doorway, watching him. "G'damn you're good... I really am that easy to read, aren't I?"
She bit her lip, eyes saddening. "I'm sorry, Su-kun."
She locked and barricaded the door, sprinting off into the hallways. With a quick blast of ki, she was off. With a pair of pants nearby and an advantage in power and speed... if she didn't pull this off correctly, she would be in some major s**t with Ainsu. The bath, the door, they would all be temporary obstacles to go through, like a tornado through a highly populated city.
If he caught her... When he caught her... there would be hell to pay for her deception.
Well... really, there wasn't any way to avoid that now, was there?
Time to find Konton.

Kazahiko shook his head. "Iie. Trust me... Here. Come and meet him."
He gently grabbed the man's---technically, child's---hand, opening a portal to Tir-Na-Nog.
The lands of the dead had many, many names.
"Ava!" he shouted, pulling the man out, "Help me convince him onegai!"
Avaon looked a bit unsettled, but unlike Kazuhiko, he was calm. "Don't be so rough, Kazu." he scolded him softly, pulling him off his body. "I'm sorry about my nephew. He can be a bit pushy sometimes."
"I'm just doing my job." the boy snapped, "I'm tired and hungry and half the people I know just died."
"Be calm." Avaon repeated to both of them. "Just don't eat anything here. Not the best idea. Do you remember anything, sir?"
"Not a---"
"Shhh." Avaon shook his head, "Let us talk for a minute Kazuhiko. I promise we'll be fine. Go play for a bit. You need a break, and there are tons of kids about."
Once he was gone, he tilted his head at the body. "Never thought I'd see that thing again, to be honest..."

Yuki smiled. "I wonder how different our blood could be?" she tossed him a small, labeled tube, "Couldn't be THAT different right?"

Yuki just smiled. "I think I get what you're saying. For all we know your blood doesn't make a certain enzyme anymore. We'll study brain activity as well, take a few MRIs and such. We'll need a Tarnbjin with abilities... Maybe Kaguyo or Ainsu, Po-ar. Po-ar might be pushing it, he's half....well... he isn't all Tarnbjin, is he?? I heard lots of rumors down below around when he was born."

It was one thing to hear him screaming after her....
It was another thing entirely to feel his energy like an avalanche behind her, matching and even overwhelming her own without barely an effort.
She started freezing the floor behind her, but they both knew where she was ice, he was fire. He could melt it just by raising his ki a few levels. Instead she attempted to freeze the air, freezing his clothes and all else that was wet; she was trying to give him hypothermia.
She even went so far as to seal off an entire section of the hallway with ice two feet thick, using the blast of energy to propel her forward even faster. She had to make it to the streets, or to the roof, or anywhere that she could hide... At least the ice wall would hold him for two, three seconds.
The way she was going, she was making a trail for herself. How hard was it to notice a thirty plus degree drop in temperature---indoors, at that?
But an idea struck Kaguyo, even if she didn't know if Ainsu would fall for it; she quickly slammed the down button on the elevator. Instead of waiting, she practically dove through the door into the stairwell, starting to rush downwards into the darkness. Some of the lights were out, and even with the city and advertisements shining in the windows, it still seemed inkily dark... Almost comforting, she couldn't help thinking. She didn't even run anymore, flying down the center of the winding flights; having only been here once before, she really had no idea where she was going. Even so, she knew she was close.
"I want to see him." she spoke into the darkness, eventually stopping. "Let me see him, damnit...!"
Where better to find Konton than somewhere dark and remote?
Everyone always used the elevators anyhow. If she was lucky, Ainsu would break into the elevator shaft...
Most likely, he would pinpoint her energy like a bloodhound, and if he didn't blast through the floors as well...
"Konton!!"
But with the violent opening of the door a few flights up, she bolted yet again, having another idea of where to go.
If he wasn't in the shadows, he would be in Shiori's room. She plunged deeper into the darkness, trying to estimate which floor the woman had been living on. "You stupid b*****d, where are you...?!" she hissed, "I know you hear me...!"
With all the little traps, barriers, and outright deception, there was the real likelihood that Ainsu would kill her. She wasn't acting like a friend, that was for sure... Certainly not like a lover...
She felt guilty, but she didn't want to risk him.
Turning around as she plummeted downwards, she released yet another blast of ice, this time letting it follow her a few floors down.
"That should hold him off..." she whispered, biting her lip. If he broke that, it could be dangerous for her...
Good thing she didn't intend to stick around long.

"Not an illusion." Avaon replied calmly. "Look, I'm a spirit... You can't touch me. We can both touch Kazu, yes... but... well, he's a different case entirely."
He glanced at the boy, who was sticking his fingers in his nose and chasing kids while making crazy faces. The boy certainly was a personality.
Point made.
"See? You're technically alive." he sighed, poking his hand through him. "Even if it's my body, I'm technically dead here. Chain was broken." he showed it to him. "Let me help your spirit out of that. Trust me, you'll feel a lot better afterwards. It's like you expand six or seven hundred times. Those things are terribly cramped. C'mon, wade into the water." he insisted, stepping in about knee-high. "Wanna see what you REALLY look like?"

Kaguyo had gotten to Shiori's room first, however... even if she could feel Ainsu racing to get to her.
He was dangerously close.
"Konton!" she shouted again, bursting into the room, "Where the hell are you you lazy sonoffabitch?!"
What better way to get him to come than to provoke him?
She barricaded the door, and even strengthened it with her ice.
It would buy her maybe a minute.
"Konton..." she spoke again, spinning around, "I know you hear me, Konton..."

Avaon shrugged. "Well, you don't believe us. Honestly, there's no harm I can do to you, nor this lake. You're alive, after all. I'm dead. I COULD f#ck with your energy IF I wanted to, but that's... well, clearly, if I had wanted to do that, I would when I had first seen you. Or better yet, let Kazuhiko extract you. Either way, look, you can trust me. If you are who I think you are, I know quite a bit of your mother.... A good bit more about your father. Would you care to know?"

Yuki smiled slightly. "Ah, I see..." she tilted her head, watching him. "Kazuhiko certainly takes after his grandfather then, doesn't he?"
She moved over to his side, trying to sneak a peek through the microscope. "So, see anything neat?"

Kaguyo froze for a few seconds, but quickly moved towards the passage.
Ainsu was most likely beginning to work at the door.
"I need to see him." Kaguyo answered honestly, kneeling on one knee, "Please, let me see him..."
They knew who she meant. "Neither of us have time for games. Please, I beg you. I am no threat to you, to any of you, and you know this... Just please, let me see him. I beg of you, just let me see Aled..."
She looked up at him, and for once she was being entirely honest. "I'll stay as long as you deem necessary, I won't interfere, please, just let me see him..."

Yuki smiled, examining the blood. "They do look a bit different, though, don't they?" she glanced over at the senior scientist, "Do you have any idea why?"
They didn't need to discuss the royal family any further, not until they had blood samples.

What 'Avaon' saw would have shocked him.
He certainly looked nothing like Avaon; in fact, he was a different race entirely.
He would have felt that the planet was not his own the second he stepped in.
"You're the son of Kaguyo and Ainsu." Avaon explained, arms crossed, "I think I know who did this to you. You died before you were born... That's why the only memories you have are mine. Don't worry though. Kazuhiko's right, you're going to be reborn. We all are at one point or another." he assured him, stepping forward. "I know you might not believe me...."
But the other thing he failed to mention was that the water helped shed the mortal form. His body fell listless into the water, barely on the shore; the soul was left standing, his reflection clear as a mirror.
"Do you understand, my friend?"

"What?" Yuki blinked, tilting her head, "Really?? I thought everyone just had one..."
Clearly she was mistaken.
"Shouldn't there be others?"

Kaguyo was about to run forward when the slamming of the door behind her made her stagger and hesitate.
One, two, three times he rammed into the door, four, five...
"I'm sorry, Su-kun..." she closed her eyes, shaking her head, "Forgive me..."
Just as the door shattered, she bolted forward into the tunnel, looking back with perhaps the most mournful look Ainsu had ever seen.
She really did regret this, there was no mistaking that.
"Forgive me..."

Avaon smiled, tilting his head. "You are certainly your father's son." he nodded approvingly, "I wonder what you have of your mother's? What sort of powers do you have, do you know?"