Welcome to Gaia! ::

Spica sat back in the new surroundings, she'd had to take leave months ago adn was only just returning to normal life. Looking around she found herself in a place that seemed familiar, but yet she'd been doing a lot of travelling and had seen a lot over her six months of back and forth trips from home and work trips. She looked around then back down at the table she sat at. She was at a small cafe with two of her children, she'd agreed to meet a friend here with with at least one of her children.

Minagi leaned over the table and stared at her mother who seemed to be dazed. "Mom!" she said clicking her teeth. When Spica didn't respond she just shook her head and smiled at her brother and twirled a finger close to her ear. She then sat back and began pulling lightly at the spikes of her now short hair. Her bangs still remained but the back was short and spiked.

Tsuyoi laughed at Minagi, "You know she can't hear you, she's got that look on her face! You know that 'I've seen this place before' look she gets." he said with a smirk. Tsuyoi had remained mostly unchanged over the passed few months, he'd grown as anyone would expect but it was more his personality that had changed the most. He was beginning to trust people more and had started trying to be more social; even if many of his attempts had failed.

Minagi nodded and looked around for any signs of the rest of their party. "Hmm.. I wonder when Ms. Raving is going to get here.. It's gonna be great to see Kyou again!" she said grinning widely.

Raving ran down the street to the cafe, her curled orange hair fluttering behind her. She had a cell phone in one hand and Kyous hand in the other. He kept squirming and complaining, telling her that he wasn't a little kid any more, which in Ravings mind was completely wrong. She now had too many grown children, too many who were already teenagers or adults saying that they didn't need her anymore, or that she was too wierd to be a good mother. To her an eight year old was definatly young, a mear child. She wasn't going to let Kyou act like a brooding teenager when he was eight. After all she hadn't rescued him from the Sohma house for him to be unhappy somewhere else. She was even thinking of bringing Kyou to theropy, but they she remembered that wasn't a good idea. After all theropy only works when you tell the whole truth. Kyou could never do that. She was yelling down the phone to Sora, one of her elder sons. "No!" she shouted. "Give Torcan one bottle at 4...yes four PM...then put him up for a nap. Yes in his own crib" she said sighing. "Okay look Sora I have to go. You're only minding him for about to hours. Look if things get out of hand get Ri to help you. Yes I know hes gay but hes had his own children, and grandchildren and greatgrandchildren so hes an expert. I have to go okay? Bye" she said turning off the phone. This has been the first time since she had given birth to Torcan that she had been away from him. She didn't expect this much trouble.

Kyou squirmed, trying to free his arm. Once he did he then folded him arms and started to brood, rather then sulk. Kyou wasn't a sulky child, he was just very angry. Since Yuki has gotten Hatori to erase Colettes memory of his transformation he had steadily returned to the same state that he was in before he had started coming to the center. He was much quieter and more awkward. When someone knew his secret he felt much safer, now that only his family did again he felt insecure and much more of a freak. Of course now his hatred for Yuki was full blown once again. Raving sighed, looking down at her adopted son "Don't be like that Kyou...sometime you'll be free, I'll made sure of it" she said smiling, never sure that she was telling the truth when she told him that.

Iasc rolled her eyes and continued to walk along behind kyou and Raving. It wasn't that they were forgetting her and she knew it. She was just an encreadably slow walker and had to hold the back of her skirt down whenever there was a slight wind. She was used to this much drama from Kyou now a days who spent so much time doing martial arts out the back garden, or suddenly exploding with anger over the simpilist things. But it had been like that for months now, so she was getting used to it once again. She understood scars like he had couldn't heal that easily. Not by people, or so she thought.

Raving opened the door the to tiny cafe and waved over to Spica and her gang. Kyou soon followed and bowed as he came closer to the table. He still hadn't lost some of his japanese mannerisms. Iasc closely followed Kyou and walked over to the table "Sorry we're late guys!" she said happily, sitting down.

Spica looked over adn waved. "Oh it's no problem, we haven't been here all that long. I came early anyways, I had to pick up somethine on my way here." she said lifting up a bag that sat next to her. "Come sit down, this place has the best rolls." she said standing up to get some extra chairs, she'd forgetten to do so.

Minagi grinned and bowed back as best she could from her seat, she noticed he didn't seem happy and it made her a little upset, maybe he was upset with Tsuyoi and her for not seeing him in so long. "Kyou-kun come sit over here." she said still smiling, hoping to coax one out of him.

Tsuyoi looked over Minagi and grinned, even though he could see the upset look on Kyou's face. "Yeah, come sit over here!" he said getting up and making room between himself and Minagi for Kyou to sit.

Shizuma made his way out of the bathroom and saw that Raving and the others had arrived. He looked through the bunch from Raving who was talking with his mother to the grumpy looking Kyou he knew to stay away from just by his face. And there stood Iasc! Shizuma raised a hand in the air and waved. "Iasc! Hey! It's been a while." he said making his way over to the little group of people.

Raving sat down on a chair beside Spica smiling brightly, placing multipal bags under the table and her cell phone ontop of the table. She grinned "Same here. Thats why we took so long to get here. I had to get a new martial arts costume for Kyou Kyou. Hes finally tall enough that he can actually get a small instead of getting them custom made like we did before" she said laughing. She looked over at Kyou and smiling a little. Maybe these children would help him feel better, after all, he really seemed to like them. She could tell that he was excited to go and see them when she told him. She understood that he just didn't feel the same ease around Colette and he once did. She looked back over at Spica "Good I'm starved" she looked at the large number of children "We could almost fill the entire cafe ourselves" she said laughing brightly.

Kyou noticed the two. For a second he stood there. It wasn't that he didn't like them, of course he did. He liked them very much. It was just that he was getting more nervous, after all he hadn't seen these guys in a long time. What if they didn't like him any more? What if they had changed and he didn't? What if he had changed too much and they didn't at all? What if the regected him as others had? Finally he swallowed deep and walked over, mustering a half smile and he did so. It was nervous and barely there but it was a smile for sure and he hadn't done that for a long time. For months at this point, he felt. Not for real anyway. Of course there had been fake smiles, many of them infact. In school, around people his own age. After all if he didn't pretend to smile they might not think he was fun and then regect him. But this half smile, was genuine, what little of it was there that is. He walked over and sat down between them. "Hello Minagi, hello Tsuyoi-kun" he said politely, feeling quite happy that they had asked him to sit inbetween them. "How are you two?"

Iasc waved frantically to Shizuma, smiling broadly. "Shizuma!" she shouted happily. She went over to the table and found the seat where he had originally been sitting on. "I know, its been almost too long hasn't it?" she said grinning from ear to ear. "Hows life been treating you since last time we spoke?"

Spica smiled nodding, "Oh that's great! Minagi's been learning a bit herself at home. One of my oldest is well trained in the art after living on the streets for 8 years. How she learned I'm still not sure, but I'm sure there's a lot of difference in the styles." she said smiling at Kyou as he sat between Tsuyoi and Minagi. SHe lowered her voice so only Raving could hear. "The both of them ahve been so overwhelmed with seeing him again. I can't tell which one is happier to see him!" she said with a small fit of laughter.

Minagi turned herself to face Kyou still grinning, she'd succeeded a little in getting Kyou to smile. "We've been doing really well! It's so nice to be back though. All that travel was getting boring. I like staying at home our going out places I'm already familiar with." she said shrugging and fiddling with a long strand of her bangs.

Tsuyi cut in before Minagi could start up again. "Thing have been great, I haven't been able to do much research on that language I was telling you about." he said his grey eyes beaming and his ears perked forward showing clearly the excitement that was rushing through him. Both He and Minagi had been equally excited about seeing Kyou and both for completely different reasons. Tsuyoi on a more talkative and friendly level. While Minagi had her heart set on getting closer personally with Kyou, she'd really grown to like him.

Shizuma sat next to Iasc grinning. "Oh things have been great! A lot of travel, but I didn't mind it. Gave me plenty of time to catch up on my reading." he said loking for a menu. "Have you ever been here before? It's really great, we used to come here a lot before Mom's work had us going all over the place." he said loking over the menu.

Raving smiled. "Kyou's been doing it ever since he was about 3 or 4. I think he was very angry even back then. The abuse that poor child got is almost unimagionable. I mean...I don't know if he'll ever be the same. Thats why I went and got him I guess" she said shaking her head. "I'm really glad that they're all back together again" Raving whispered "Kyous been feeling very down lately...something thats very hard to explain. Anyway for months hes been cutting himself off from the rest of his family. But once I told him you guys were coming back he suddenly seemed, almost back to normal again. Its nice to see him like that. I really do worry about that boy sometimes." Raving said sighing. "But I think your kids might be able to fix the darkness in Kyous heart."

Kyou looked at each of them in turn. "I'm really glad you guys are back." he said sincerly "I mean....it was really boring without you. Nothing to do but try to stay away from...certain people and do martial arts" He looked at the with his red eyes. Even if his body language was of a little boy who really didn't seem to care that much his eyes told a different story. When people who are organ doners die a huge majority of them will dont donate their eyes. This is because poets have written that the eyes are the window to the soul and in Kyous case this was certianly true. No matter how hard Kyou tried to hide his feeling you could always see what he was thinking by looking into his crimson eyes. And right now the orange haired boys eyes were filled with happiness, and gladness and love for his friends. He looked over at Tsu "Maybe we could research it later together?" he said, a small amount of excitedment entwined in his apethetic voice. A dark cloud that he had for months seemed to be lifting away slowly.

Iasc smiled "Oh did you read anything good?" she asked, placing her head in her hands, in an interested expression. "I've lately been reading more Shakespearian dramas and such, I borrowed them from my cousin Cullen" she said nodding. She shook her head from side to side. "Nope I've never been here before I must say. I tend to go to places much close to the beach, because I'm there so much" she explained to him. She was happy this family was back. Everything seemed right again.

Spica smiled watching the three-some chatting, it was nice seeing Minagi and Tsuyoi smiling so much. They never seemed to smile that much around the house, but both of their faces had lie up when she'd told them they'd been seeing Kyou soon. "That's sad to hear, I'm glad he's away from that now. I couldn't tell you, but a little bit of that will at least always stay with him. There's a little darkness in everyone's heart." she said pulling over a menu and starting to scan it over. "It is great to see them all back together, it'll do them all good. If Kyou or Iasc wanna come over they're welcome anytime." she said looking up and smiling around the table at all the kids.

Tsuyoi's eyes lite up and his tail flicked around excitedly behind him. A research partner! "Really? That sounds great, i could use all the help i can get. I've got most of the alphabet figured out and a good number of words but the book itself that I have is still a huge mystery to me." Tsuyoi continued on his ears errect and tail doing a happy little dance behind him.

Minagi giggled at Tsuyoi's excitedment but she wasn't going to let Tsuyoi steal all of Kyou's attention. Kyou was her friend just as much as his. She leaned over the grab menus for the three of them and handed them out. "Yeah, there's people I try and stay away from in my house too." she said opening her menu muttering something that sounded like 'Kayda' under her breath. "But maybe sometime we could practice together! I do martial arts as well. Not a lot mind you, I'm more into Alchemy than anything but to preform alchemy your body has to be in good form. My sister teachs me, she's really good btu I'm sure the style is completely different . But practicing with someone who uses a different style makes it allthe more interesting." she continued running her finger down the list of soups tapping her finger and smiling at one in particular.

Shizuma moved his hands back a forth a bit to express some of what he'd read hadn't interested him very much. "I did read one book that I like a lot. It was called The Sight it was by a guy named David Clement-Davis. It was really amazing. But Shakespeare, that's some good stuff. But I do have to say, I love my comic books" he added with a laugh. "You'll like it, the foods great. I wouldn't mind eating someplace by the beach though. My Mom owns a place on the beach. It's a ways out but it's nice to go and relax. Last time we were there my brother Kisho propsed to his girlfriend. That was back in July when it was still warm out." he said reaching out for the menus and handing one over to Iasc with a smile.

Raving laughed, tough a little bitterly. "Yeah I know all about that...after all only a sohma can know a sohma" she said. Then she softened "But I think these too might be able to help him, so very much." she looked down at the menu "Hum I think I'll have the soup. What about you?" she asked. She then smiled "Kyou missed them so much...I think they might even be his cure." she said saying it more to herself then to anyone.

Kyou smiled at Tsuyoi "Well you know I'm not very smart or anything" he said quietly "I'll will try my best to be some sort of help in your reasearch" he said nodding "What language do you hink it is?" he asked him before turning to Minagi in turn, making sure that the girl didn't feel in any way left out. "Martial arts you say?" he said. "I do martial arts quite along. Shishou taughed it to me since I was very very little. Then...anyway yeah i still do alot of practicing. I love martial arts but my goal is to beat that damed Yuki!" he said, getting this odd glint in his eyes. It wasn't bad or evil, just determination and Kyou being sure of something. "I'm not good enough yet but if I keep trying I will get good enough eventually" he said nodding. Then he would be accepted and wouldn't be shunned or locked away. That was so like Kyou though, believing that Akito would actually keep his promise not to lock him up like the former cursed one. of course he had to do it before hes 18. "I could always be your teacher if you like?" he said helpfully, trying to bring himself back from the spirit dampening reality.

Iasc smiled "Have you read Good Omens? Its a very good book. it has alot to do with angels and demons, not all of it is entirely true but its still a really good book. Of what comics? I read manga much more the comic books, I like the art in manga much more" she said nodding. "Of maybe we could go there sometime then? I could show you my surfing and stuff!" she said excitedly. She was passionate about surfing. "Aww thats really cute!" she squeed, like a typical girl, though she really wasn't a typical girl. "I'd love to go there sometime" she added smiling broadly. She took one of the menus and looked through it "Oh I think I want some shrimp" she said nodding.

Spica smiled looking at the three, all seemed so happy and full of determination to prove themselves in the world. "They just might be, and he may just save them in return." she said looking back down to the menu. "I believe I'll go for a Latte and Crescont sandwich." she muttered rechecking the menu. She wondered what was so mysterious about the Sohma family, she had heard a few mutterings here and there but had paid them all no mind. Kyou seemed to be a normal child by all means but something was very strange about him, but what was strange in their world? Nothing could truly amaze anyone anymore, so many different races adn cross-breeds. How could Kyou's family be any different. For whatever reason she didn't pay anymind, to her he was no different from the rest of them. He was no less than anyone, though sadly she knew there were people in this worl who believed themselves to be the better race. Those people, they sickened her.

Tsuyoi laughed, "You'll do fine. But really I'm not sure about what language it is. It's dead so no one really knows. I'm really curious to how my Mom got the book in the first place." he said with a confused face and turned to his menu tail curling this way and that as he thought. "I belive..." he started "I'l be getting... the" once again he paused in thought. "Aha! The fish sandwich." he pronouced grinning.

Minagi burst out laughing and covered her mouth to muffle her laugh. "Tsu! You always get that, why do you even think about it anymore?" she laughed and finally calmed herself and answered to Kyou feeling her heart flip over. She never heard of Yuki before, the only 'Yuki' she knew was her adoptive brother Yoshiyuki. She decided not to ask about him since he seemed to upset Kyou in some odd way. But she could feel the seriousness in Kyou and his determination in defeating the Yuki. "I'm sure you'll beat him one day Kyou! If you keep your mind to it and train with the most serious determination I know you can!" she said balling her fists and putting them up. She truly believed in Kyou and she could feel the determination that filled his body. But once He told her he would teacher her her heart skip a beat and her stomach fill with butterflies. Kyou train her? What more could she ask for than to spend time with him. "Sure! I-i'd love that!" she burst out her blue-green eyes filled with exhileration.

Shizuma recorded the name of the book adn reminded himself to pick it up the next time he went to the book store. "No, but I promise I'll look into it!" he said now ready to head to the nearest book store to try and find it. "Oh i read the Robo Dog and Kiki Kitty comic mostly, it's a hobby. I collect the books. I'm a huge Manga fan to. I have a huge collection at home. If you ever wanna borrow some your welcome to come see what I've got." he said then felt the corner of his eye twitch slightly at being called cute. He didn't find himsefl attractive even though his mother always said he looked hansome and braided his long green hair. He smiled and nodded. "I'd like that, I like going to the beach as well, it's a nice calm place to be and the sunsets are spectacular. But I'm sure we could all go to the Beach house sometime once the weather warms up a bit more. I don't think Mom would say no. She loves to go out there." he said picking up his menu and deciding on clam chowder. He had to be the only one in the family beside Cali who like the stuff. But it was the least of his worries. "Clam Chowder for me." he pronounced smilling over at Iasc.

Raving smiled and nodded "I think I'm going to go for a mocha latte and the vegtable soup" she said. She smiled to herself. She was so glad she had a friend who didn't ask the awkward question 'why is Kyou different?' because in Ravings opinion he wasn't, not really. People in the Sohma family always asked her why she had adopted Kyou, a cursed child and such a cursed child. Tragedy seemed to run in that childs family and what would happen to her? . He wasn't really cursed, not really and everyone else acted like they could catch the plague from him even being near him. Thus Raving adopted him, feeling he really needed out of the Sohma family. "Anyway how was your trip?" she asked smiling.

Kyou chuckled slightly at Minagis outburst of laughter. "Well...hopefully anyway, lets says its rather important I do" he said nodding. He couldn't tell her anymore, even if he wanted to he just couldn't. He watched her with his red eyes. He looked at her, slightly shocked when she said that she would like to be trained by him. He wasn't used to people actually wanting to well...spend time with him. "Really?" he asked quietly. "You know I'm not that good...I need training myself and I...might be a really bad teacher and stuff aswell..." he muttered trailing off, looking down at his shoes. He couldn't understand how she could get so excited with someone like him teaching her. "Well how about...um....5 every tuesday and friday?" he asked.

He looked at Tsu. "Maybe she knows the language did you ask her?" he asked him. "I know a language, Irish, Ravings teaching me it" he said, looking away. He still wasn't used to living with Raving, her being his guardian. Stupid Shishou and his stupid traininh. Why couldn't he stay and be with him like he promised? Now he would never be able to prove that he was worthy enough to call him his father. He looked down at the menu and thought. "Um...I think I'll have the clam chowder and some...orange I think..."Kyou said unsure.

Iasc smiled "I'd love to borrow some of your manga" she nodded. "I don't have too much myself but you can borrow of whatever of mine you want. Whats your favorite?" she asked him, resting her chin in her hands, watching him with interest. Then an idea struck her, she placed her hands on the table "We should make our own comic!" she said excitedly, her bright pink hair flowing everywhere. She smiled "I simply adore the beach, though I like it most when its dull I think. I mean its lovely when its sunny but it still really nice when its dull and quiet and its really pretty then too. She looked at the menu. "I think I'm going to get a sweet chili tuna bagel melt" she said licking her lips and grinning.

Spica smiled thinking about all the traveling she'd had to do. "Horrid." she said grinning. "I hated having to take the kids all over the place with me like that. A few times I left them with my friend Kyoh." she sighed, she still had to think of a way to repay Kyoh for watching the three in front of her all those times she'd been traveling around. Spica suddenly remembered something, she'd been off track for a while but it finally hit her. "Raving, you had your baby didn't you!? What did you have?" Spica asked grinning widely, she would have loved to have a baby, but she'd already told Raving about her inablilty in the maternal abilities of her body. But she was still going to try.

Minagi smiled warmly at Kyou, "Of course! I'm sure you're much beter than me if you've been doing it for some years now. ANd I'm sure you'll do just fine in teaching me. I'm a fast learner, and I can take things in really easily." She said her spayed tail flicking at the end under the table with excitement. "Five on Tuesdays and Fridays. I'll be sure to tell Mii so he can remind me." she said thining to herself. She knew she wouldn't need reminding but it was best she give Mii her laptop the information never the less. "I should do something for you Kyou-kun, if you're going to teach me I have to be able to repay you somehow." she said tilting her head and smiling. She wasn't sure how she'd repay him, but she'd think of a way. She loved being around friends and so far Kyou was her favorite to be around. He was much more interesting than Asa who was always thinking about Callista. Kyou had more reasonable things to mull over and so did she.

Tsuyoi shook his head sadly. "Nope, I already asked. Mom said it's been in her family for YEARS." he said shaking his head in slight disappointment. But he looked up smiling. "Irish, that's a cool language. One of my brothers has this really strong accent, a lot of people say it's Irish but no one knows really, not even him." he laughed. Tsuyoi's ears pressed forward at the sudden looks of discontentment on Kyou's face, he wondered what was troubling him. But it was short-lived, Tsuyoi smiled as Kyou thought about his order. "That's what Shizuma likes to get." he said sticking out his tongue, he hadn't quite taken to the taste of clam chowder.

Shizuma smiled, he was really starting to like Iasc, they had a lot in common, he'd never met someone with so many similar interests. He liked it and she sure caught his eye as well. "I'm not sure exactly what my favorite series is. Maybe Crescent Moon. It's about my Mom's race, the Lunar Race." he said gabbing his thumb back at his mother. "My Mom's what people call a Tengu, or a Wind Demon." Shizuma's eyes lit up at the idea of making a comic, he'd akways thought about it, but had never really given it much deep thought. "That sounds like a great idea Iasc!" he declared his tail tip rattling softly from someplace under his chair. His thoughts then turned to a cloudy day at the beach, he had to admit that did sound nicer than a sunny day a lot of the times, you didn't get so burned and the sand wasn't like walking on coals. "Yeah, I guess you're right, the sun is nice but a downcast day is better, not so much to worry about." he said,smiling at Iasc's choice of food. "That's an interesting choice." he said looking it over in his menu. It did sound good, maybe he'd try it as well, but maybe some other time, today he really wanted his soup.

Raving laughed quietly "I wouldn't be able to stand doing that. My children and I, though we all love each other very much we wouldn't get along too well in such small confints" she said giggling. It was true, it seemed alot of her children were in the moody teenager stage, which was no fun traveling with. Raving nodded, grinning from fluffy orange ear to fluffly orange ear. "I most cetainly did. I had a little boy called Torcan" she said smiling. "I was on the phone to Sora just before I came in here. Hes babysitting for the first time. Torcans already 5 months old, which is scary but anyway this is the first time I've ever been away from him, but I do trust Sora" she said nodding.

Kyou thought for a second "Um...I didn't mean that you'd be a bad student or anything...I just meant that I probably wont be a good teacher or anything" he said trying to explain his confused mind. "And...you don't have to be exactly on time or anything.....I wont get angry or anything" he added. "Um...you don't have to repay me. Its not like I'm doing you any favors...I really like karate and stuff....that doesn't mean I dont want to teach you or anything..."he added, shaking his head, trying to explain himself propperly.

Kyou smiled. "Well Raving has quite a stron Irish accent...maybe they could compair their accents or something?" he said thinking. "Hum...I guess we'll just have to figure the language out for ourselves as best we can then" he said softly. Kyou licked his small lips absentmindedly. "Well...I really like fish and stuff" he said. After all the cursed spirit inside him liked it and it was always good to please this spirit, Kyou though. They were just beads, how could they really keep in such a demon? So for fear that they wouldn't he thought he should try and keep the demon happy, as best the boy could do.

Iasc smiled back. "I must say I've never read Crescent Moon. My own personal favorite is probably D.N.Angel or maybe even Road Songs, though that only has one book out at the moment so I can't say its my favorite quite yet." she added giggling quietly to herself, flicking her pink hair absentmindedly as she did so. "Really? Do you really think its a good idea? I mean I really like to draw and stuff...but I'm not very good but we could still try and stuff and we could have loads of fun!" she said excitedly. Iasc nodded, glad that the boy agreeded with her about the dull beach. "Well I think the beach is so much prettier when its dull. I mean the sand almost seems to glow white. Its strange because the sea still looks blue even though its only reflecting grey skys...rather like some faces that you meet..." she said softly. Then gave a deliberate shake of her head to get rid of some of the seriousness of the situation. "Yup! I really love that sandwich...its yummy!"

Spica finished jolting down everyones choices for lunch and smiled. "There," she muttsered to herself before turning back to Raving "It wasn't all that bad, but I have to admit it's nice to be home." she said with a nod and looked over the paper, making sure she she got everyone's orders. "How adorible, Babies are always so cute, I have three at home about around that age. They were, I guess you can say, a Christmas Present." she laughed thinking of the little ones at home with her fiance. "Minoru and Zane the twins are always fighting, well Minoru does most of the fighting, Zane's a bit submissive." she giggled and pushed her chair back her small black wings fluttering slightly. "I'll go place our orders real quick, I'll be right back." she said and moved around the table and gave each of the kids a smile and even Tsuyoi a pat on the head.

Tsuyoi laid back his ears and gave a small growl, he didn't like it much when Spica did that. It made him feels extrememly childish, even though he really was young. "Yeah, we'll just have to compare.." he said has he started to subconciously fix his hair in a cat-like manor. Tsuyoi grinned under his hair at Tsuyoi, "ah the curse of being a cat, am I right?" he said licking his own lips at the thought of fish. He couldn't help himself, he didn't mind it, Spica had always enjoyed making seafood dishes anyways so it was an added bonus at home for Tsuyoi.

Minagi put a hand over her mouth trying to conseal her small fit of laughter, Kyou was so cute! "Well I like to be on time and it's really no big deal Kyou! You'll be a great teacher I know it, and I wanna do something in return for you, That's what's friends do for each other." she said a smile never leaving her face. She was right in her own sense and it was also just her theory of the way things were done by her standards. She believed in fair trade and was usually quite good about it. She rarely took from others without giving equal back and sometimes even a little more.

Shizuma pushed a bit of his own green hair behind his pointed ear and nodded. "I'm not the greatest artist but Minagi," he said pointing a finger at his sister who was happily enjoying Kyou's company "she's the artist of us. Tsuyoi's got the brains and I'm well I guess I've more an imagination." he said looking over at his mother placing the food order and licking his lips. "that food is gonna taste so good, I skipped breakfast this morning, I misplaced my wallet and Mom promised the book stare this morning." he said scratching his head and lifting up an oddly heavy looking bag from one of the near by book stores. "Habit I guess."

Raving smiled. "Oh wow really?" she asked with interest. "Maybe I should bring Torcan over to their sometime and then all the kids could have a playdate!" she said brightly. "Okie dokie! I'll of course make sure to pay for mine and Kyous and Iasc half of the bill" she added just making it clear. She looked over and Kyou, smiling and Iasc happy and felt happy herself. Kyou especially seemed to be coming out of his shell around these children and it would be great for him and Iasc was getting more confiden and trusting in others. She sat back thinking that someday they might even be completely healed, though she doubted it with Kyou.

Kyou laughed as Tsuyoi was patted on the head. Raving did that alot to him too. He liked it really, well he guessed that the cat part of him liked it anyway because he didn't like it so much. Kyou grinned back, noticing that Tsuyoi did the exact same thing as he did. "Yeah you're right!" he said laughing brightly. He had alot in common with the boy, alot more the most people knew.

"Are you sure?" Kyou asked, still a little nervous at the idea. "Okay then be at my house to Tuesdays and Friday then" he said, smiling slightly. He was going to go home and try to remember how he was taught first. It was such a long time ago it was hard to remember. Now karate and the like just came to him naturally, it was almost like breathing. Maybe he could be as good as his old teacher was to him, but he imagioned him as a father figure and he didn't want to be a father figure to Minagi that was for sure. He nodded" If you insist on repaying me then I guess I can do nothing about it can I?" he said with a slight smile.

Iasc laughed "I guess I'm the writer in my family, but I started writing with my older sister Cullen, she writes play and stuff. I mean I can kinda draw and stuff." Iasc smiled "Yeah I'm quite hungry aswell. I'm not to sure why though because I did eat this morning but I am just back from surfing so that could be why" she said laughing slightly. "Oh what did you get this time?" she asked him looking at the bag with interest.

Spica handed the list over to the man behind the counter smiled and nodded to him indicating the table with the large group. She then returned to her seat and back to her conversation with Raving. "A playdate sounds great! Maybe it'll get Minoru of her brother's case, she loves to pick on poor little Zane. Renai's a sweet little thing though, she'll love to play with Torcan." she said and blew at the long bangs that overlapped her right eye. "If you insist Raving" she said scratching her ear. "We should set of the playdate, from what I'm hearing Minagi's planning on spending some time with Kyou on Tuesday's and Friday's. That's good, she needs to get out of the house more." she said glancing over at Minagi.

Tsuyoi finished fixing his hair and glanced over at his mother for a moment perking his ears before turning back to Kyou. "I wonder how long that food is gonna take, I'm ready to eat." he said sticking out his tongue and smelling the food cooking in the bad. "Food smells so good!" he whined slightly nipping the end on his tongue.

Minagi nodded and pushed back some of her bangs. "Yes Kyou, I'm possitive!" she said trying to hold back laughing again. Minagi nodded and knew she was going to go home and have her laptop record in the calender that she had karate with Kyou on Tuesday's and Friday's. The idea of getting out of the house to see Kyou twice a week was almost unbareable, she tried to have the excited twitching of her tail that was swinging back and forth skimming the floor. Miangi shoook her head, "Nope there's nothing you can do!" she said grinning widely at Kyou.

Shizuma shrugged, "It's always nice to meet a fellow writer." he said. Shizuma opened the bag and pulled out a few of the books, Anthem by Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead and a few other miscellanious comic books to add to his collection. "It's a hobby, and I heard Mom talking about this auther Ayn Rand, she's supposed to be really good! I read the first bit of Anthem, it's kinda confusing but I think I'll get it when I read a bit more." he said with a reassuring nod to himself.
"Okay then why don't you bring your three over to my house on Tuesday along with Minagi" Raving said brightly "and then on friday I'll bring Torcan over to your house?" she added trying to think of a fair trade. Raving nodded brightly "That will be great for Kyou too, to have someone coming over to he house every week. It will give him simething to look forward too." she said nodding brightly.

Kyou nodded "Yeah I'm so hungry! I havn't eaten since this morning" he said nodding brightly. He laughed sniffing the air himself. "Yum I can smeel the cooked fish from miles away" he said sniffing more and licking his lips.

Kyou laughed to himself "Well if theres nothing I can do then I guess I'll just have to enjoy it wont I?" he said leaning back against the back of the chair. He was trying to think how he could teach karate to someone who had never done it before. He tried to think of the basic katas that he learned when he was a white belt. He would have to look it up on the internet tonight to make sure what he remembered was right. He was going to be a good teacher.

Iasc read the backs of the books with interest. "They look good though I've never heard of them before. The last book I read was good Omens and Neil Gamen and terry Pratchette." she said giggling slightly as she remembered it "Its seriously a hillarious book! I love it to bits! You'd think it would be really serious but its not at all" she said trying to explain. "I have to let you borrow it sometime!"

Spica nodded, that was a good idea. "That sounds like a plan to me!" she said smiling, she knew the kids would love it and the older kids would be loving it not having the younger ones begging to play a game. "I think it'll be great for the lot of them, especially the older kids finally getting a break from them don't you think?" she said chancing a glance over to the counter where the food should come from eventually.

Tsuyoi lifted his head slightly sniffing the air himself, his stomach answering to the smell with a loud snarl. Tsuyoi wrapped his arms around his stomach and looked away, he'd regretably skipped breakfast and was starving by now. He gave a nervous laugh and smile. "Guess I should've eaten this morning, no?"

Minagi shook her head at her brother. "As always Tsuyoi!" she said turning her attention back to Kyou. "Yes you will!" she said confidently, she was still unsure on how she would repay Kyou for doing this for her but she'd figure it out eventually. She knew that alchemy would be an interesting way of making soemthing for Kyou, but she could still only make small things like clay figures and tiny plush toys. Jing had said she wasn't ready for harder things like combining items to make something more useful. SHe'd learn within the next year or so as long as Jing didn't move out. But the way things looked Jing's boyfriend would be moving in with them. Minagi liked Shessen though so it wasn't a problem. "That food does smell good doesn't it." she said sniffing the air herself sighing at the smell of cooking food.

Shizuma shrugged, "Ayn Rand is an old author, her book were written in the early 1900's so they're not too well known." he explain picking up The Funtainhead which was the larger of the two. "Yeah, you'll have to let me borrow that, I'll read just about anything I can get my hands on." he said looking at his reciet from the book store. "Hmm... I'm gonna need a new book shelf pretty soon if i keep buying books the way I do." he said with a slight laugh. It was a habit of his to grab anything that looked intersting.

Raving nodded brightly "Yeah I mean there are so many little kids around our place. It will be good for Kyou to have someone his age to play with. You should brign Tsuyoi over aswell. Then they can all play" she said nodding. "Then the little ones can play and none of the older ones will feel left out" she said, nodding. "Plus it will very good for Kyou to have some friends to play with. Iasc too. You should just bring over all your children. I'm sure theres someone for all of them!" she said laughing. "After all there are alot of kids around my house!"

Kyou snorted ad he heard Tsuyois stomach growl. "Yeah I'm super hungry too!" he said sniffing the air more. "I can smell the fish from here!"

"Is there anything you'd be able to teach me?" Kyou asked interested. He was always interested in learning a new skill. He had a sort of inferiority complex and thus always wanted to do something new, to try to make him feel a little better about him, though it rarely did. Plus he was interested in hearing Minagis hobbies, something that she had a real passion for. "Then we could call it equal trade!" he said laughing brightly. His mum always taught him the importance of equal trade. It made sence to him.

"Oh wow when you're done can I read it after you please?" she asked smiing. "Oh have you read 1984 by george orwell? Now that is one freaky book, brillent but freaky!" she said laughing to herself. "Yeah my mum has a library set up for us in my house. You should really come over sometime. We could set up a book club or something!" she laughed excitedly flicking her pink hair out of her eyes apsentmindedly.

Spica clapped at the great idea. "That sounds perfect," she said taking a glance at the trio again she couldn't help but keep looking over at them. "I don't thin my oldest will feel left out. My oldest has a daughter, a little younger than Tsuyoi. She's a sweet little thing, a lot like her father though." she said thinking about her little granddaughter, but it wouldn't be bad idea to bring Inara over as well, it would give Kisho and Melody a day to themselves. "I've got a lot of kids around my house as well, nine of them come from the Chunsa Center... well one is an old friend of mine Misoka Asagi. I knew him from my younger years, before...I forgot." she said scratching the back of her neck, she didn't usually like recalling the things she couldn't remember because it always made her a bit aggitated because she knew there was no way to restore her memories.

Tsuyoi laughed and let go of his stomach just in time for it to give another growl, making him flinch. "Darn, that food better come soon I dunno how much I can really take of this. From now on I'm going to eat breakfast or at least put something in my stomach in the morning." he said making it a permanent mental note that he'd never forget. Tsuyoi nudged Kyou when he asked Minagi about what she could teach him. "You shouldn't have said that." he said with a strange grin on his face.

Minagi gave Tsuyoi a dirty look but put a smile back on her face and laced her fingers together. "Well, I could..." she stopped herself, she wasn't sure if she could but once Kyou mentioned 'equal trade' she spoke again. "I could try teaching you a bit of Alchemy. It's the art of equivelant exchange. Like I can make things, but I can't make something with water if the thing I wanna make doesn't have water in it. For example," she though to herself for a moment "well, Jing my older sister she's the one who teaches me, but it's like; you can't make a soft plushie out of a pile of rocks. Or even a bowl out of a puddle of water. It just doesn't work. But I can't make much yet, small things. But I'm still pretty good at it. I could teach you the basics if you like, first you have to know the laws of Alchemy though." she said, hoping that she wasn't boring poor Kyou with her senseless rambling about the art she loved.

Shizuma nodded, "No problem, the moment I finish it I'll call you. No, I've never read that, I'll have to look it up, it sounds interesting." he said recording the name of the book and author in his mind to write down on his book list when he got home later that day. "A book club sounds great! Maybe we could even get a few other of the Banir Kinder into the book club with us and we could have meetings like once a month or something like that." he said, this was getting exciting, finally someone on his level. "I'll come over when Minagi and them go over as well." he said nodding and tilted his chair back to see if any food appeared at the counter.

Raving laughed. "I know some of mine do. I've been told by them constantly, trying to make me feel bad and such because the younger ones demand more attention but they all just get over it eventually" she said with a bright grin on her face "Oh don't even get me started in naming all my bunch! Theres almost too many to name at this point. And yet I keep adopting. You'd wonder if I'd learn!" she said laughing brightly. "It sound be good for the lot of them though"

Kyou laughed. Obviously alchemy was a kind of passion for Minagi, like him and karate but it did sound fasinating. Making objects out of others. It sounded amazingly interesting "You'd seriously be able to teach me how to do that?" he asked in wonder. "That would be so awesome!" he said smiling. He very rarely got excited but the idea of this certainly did just that. "I'd love to learn some alchemy from you!" he said smiling brightly.

Iasc nodded brightly "Yeah we might be able to get others to come too! Then we can have a real good book club!" Iasc said excitedly. "And we'll have a place to discuss books and to hang out with friends aswell" she saif with a grin on her face. "Once a month would be great! We could all read a book in that month and then discuss it then. Of course you can come over as often as you like" she added.


((This has Iasc in it too but I'll probably quote it in Iascs journal aswell but anyway I don't think this is finished yet either))

Spica sat herself on a bench, Tsuyoi was staying home with a cold. The cold weather wasn't good for him and she didn't want him to get worse. She sat back making herself comfortable, Her wings reduced and hidden under her jacket.

Minagi ran around and looked, for others. She started up a tree and look down at her brother from above. "Shizuma-kun!" She yelled from above.

Shizuma looked up, he knew she was excited about seeing Raving and her kids again. He smiled and waved. He stood up against the tree with his arms wrapped around himself to keep warm. "Be careful Minagi!"

Minagi stuck her tongue out, she knew she'd be fine and she wanted to be the first to stop Raving and the others.

((Note: Spica was going things for Kyoh and forgot she was on Kyoh's account. >_>;; DERN YOU KYOH!!))

Raving walked along, her children running along infront of her. She wasn't able to run herself, the stomach seemed to be slowing her down. Instead she walked, keeping herself cosy and warm.

Kyou ran infront of them all, being quite alot faster the Iasc, though longer. Being a black belt in both Karate and Tai Kon Do he could run quite quickly. He saw Spica and two of her children, though he didn't know them.

Iasc walked behind Kyou. She wore a thick wolley cream jumper, a red scarf, a red tarten mini skirt, black tights and red boots. She saw Minagi in the tree and waved happily to her with a red clad hand.

Spica stood up to greet Raving. "Evening Raving!" she said cheerfully.

Minagi looked down at Kyou and Iasc. Poor Tsuyoi was at home so he could play with Kyou. She made her way down after a friendly wave with her black gloves.

Shizuma smiled at the pair coming up, they were both younger but he really didn't know anyone his age. "Hello" he said aiming his words to Iasc, Kyou seemed more of Minagi's range of coversation to him.

Minagi finally climbed her way down and saw that Shizuma had already oocupied himself with Iasc so she turn to Kyou. "Tsuyoi's not here. He's home with a bad cold. Sorry..." she bit her lip and pulled off her gloves and blew into them causing flames to emerge. "Much better!" she said feeling the warmth spread through her arms.

Raving smiled and walked over to her. "Hiya Spica" she said sitting down beside her. "What are you up too?"

Iasc smiled, walking over to him. "Hello" she replied happily. She hadn;t seen this boy around and he looked loder then her by quite a bit but she didn't realy mind. She had lots and lots of older brothers, she could deal with this. "I'm Iasc by the way" she added smiling.

Kyou shivered slightly and smiled. "Oh thats okay. I'm so sorry but I don't really know your name. I'm Kyou by the way" he added. He shivered again and watched as she started the fire. "Wow! Thats gotta be helpful on a cold day like this" he said laughing, fasinated.

Spica sat back down smiling. "I'm doing alright, I had Kisho watch the kids last night while I went out with Matsura." She shifted herself to bring her foot to her knee to sit a bit more comfortably in her position. "And yourself?"

Shizuma smiled and held out his hand. "Shzuma Hatashi." he said promptly with a smile. "You're not cold in those clothes?" he said gazing at Iasc oddly.

"I'm great!" raving replied happily. "I'm a little tired but I'm good. Staying at Ls house has helped me alot" she added "Theres less kids to manage that way!"

Iasc took his hand and smiled "Pleased to meet you Shizuma. I'm Iasc Orga" she said curtsing a little. She laughed at his last comment "Not really, I do alot of surfing"

Kyou took the flames, feeling their warmth wash over him. "Wow, thats amazing" he muttered. "Pleased to meet you Minagi" he said smiling at her. "Well I don't make friends to easily either, its nice to know that he likes me...I get kinda...nervous about that sort of thing" he added, watching as she smiled. She really did have a pretty smile Kyou noticed.

Spica smiled and nodded, "That's good to hear! I don't have many places to go with out being surrounded by people or my past. Only Matsura's house and I've only been there once." she gave a slight laugh remembering the incident, it's been a funny day and Matsura had almost lite his stove on fire.

Shizuma smiled. "well I guess that sould help you know couldn't it. I've been to the ocean twice before and that water really is cold!" he said laughing slighly. "Though I can't say I wouldn't mind learning to surf!"

Minagi smiled at Kyou's appretiation of the flames. She nodded as well she knew Tsuyoi's way ans remembered him biting someone he'd only just met once before. "Yes... Tsuyoi's... an on one. He's attacked people before because he didn't like them. He can be intimidating sometimes, but once you get passed it all he's really nice. He had a really bad past before he actually came to the Banir Kinder center. When he first came to us he hated us all..." She said biting her lip and chewing on it. "But besides that..." she stood there looking into the flames that lay warming her hands. "It's pretty isn't it? I dunno how I do it, but sometimes I accidently light things on fire. I've done it more than once." she said a slight blush rushing through her cheeks.

Raving laughed "Same here, Ls house is great though, really really nice I mean. And only Tine is staying with me there untill this is over and I'm finally able to start running away again" she added smiling.

"Yeah, so I then get really warm very easily so I tend not to wear alot" she explained, laughing brightly. "I truely love surfing though. Its alot of fun." Because of the ammount of time she spent surfing she was now increabaly slim, which she would be greatful for when she was older.

"I don't really attack people or anything" Kyou said laughing. "I didn't really have a good past either, but I just try to forget about it and eventually one day I wont remember it at all" he muttered thinking. He remembered Yuki suddenly and how he hated the rat boy. Yes the fact that he once liked him should be forgotten with the rest of his past. "Its beautiful. Really?" Kyou added laughing. "That must be a party starter. I'd love to be able to do something like that. The only thing I can do is Karate and Tai Kon Do"


((A RP with Spica from ages ago! XD This is before the one I quoted earlier in the time line of things))