Part 26 : Reluctant

"Ahh.. So you've come back. Have you finished what I asked you to do, my apprentice?" the master asked Sora sheepishly.

Sora unwillingly threw the bented object towards the master. He caught it.

"You give me this piece of crap?!" the master shouted when he looked at the object. He threw it back at Sora.

"The freaking memories are in here!!" Sora shouted back at the master.
"Oh. Is that so?" the master said, tone changed.

Sora picked the object up and pressed it. A screen appeared from it. Amaya's memories of Akira telling her about Kaze ran through the screen like a video. Sora looked at it. He knew he was in for big trouble. But then again he knew if he took that piece of memory away from Amaya, the master had no reason to kill her.

When it finished, the master looked at Sora. "Well?" he asked Sora.
"If you hit me again, I'll be toast. Then I guess I wouldn't be so usefull to you anymore, eh?" Sora said confidently.

The master looked at him furious. He knew he's got a point. "You are dismissed." he said furiously.

Sora walked away.

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"Amaya, why did Kaze help you?" Narumi asked Amaya.
"How would I know?" Amaya asked him back.

"I'm still cracking my head trying to figure that too." Kazuki said.

"Kazuki, he's not that much of a threat now since he helped me right?" Amaya said thinking hard. "But then again we shouldn't be so careless."

"Could I ask you something, Amaya?" Narumi asked.
"What?"

"Shiro Takeo. What do you know about him?" Narumi questioned.

"Er.. He's in my class..? and... He's not that bad and scary as he seems. Maybe we should get him to go with us to the camp." Amaya said hesitatingly.

"You sure?" Kazuki asked.
"Y...yeaa... I guess." Amaya said again.

"You'd better be sure." Kazuki told her. "If anything happens, you'd be responsible."

"Okay. But the camp is in a month's time. So I've got time to ask him."

Part 25 : Confusion

"Sora- I mean, Akira! Oh my gosh! What happened to you?!" Amaya exclaimed.

Akira was in a clinic taking medicine with bandages everywhere. He looked so pale. He pulled her out of the clinic as soon as he was done.

"What happened?"
"Nothing."
"You call this nothing?!" Amaya exclaimed.
"The master tossed me for something."
"What is it??"
"I gotta go. Bye." Sora jumped away.

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"Thanks for the food Amaya!" Narumi and Kazuki said.
"Haha. Sure. No prob." she said as she piled the plates into the sink and washed them.

What in the world happened to Sora?!

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Sora sat on top of Amaya's neighbour's roof. From where he was, he could see into Amaya's room. He watched her come in, went into the washroom come out in a different shirt. She off the lights and went to bed.

Sora held a bented rectangular shaped object in his hand very tightly. He waited till midnight. He jumped from the roof to the balcony outside Amaya's room. He gently open the window and landed softly in her room. He walked slowly over to her bedside.

He took out his eyepatch. Sora looked at Amaya frowning. "I'm so sorry, Amaya.." he whispered. He placed the bented obkect on her forehead and it started glowing dark blue.

Amaya suddenly woke up in fright. Seeing the glowing from her head and Akira standing next to her bed she wanted to scream in horror but Sora covered her mouth and mumbled something. Amaya fell asleep again. When the glow faded, Sora took the object away from Amaya's forehead and regrettingly went away.

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"Good morning, Amaya. What's wrong?" Kazuki said in the morning.

"Uhh.. I don't know. It's like I forgot something important.." Amaya said running her fingers through her hair.

"Gasp! You forgot to change your clothes!" Kazuki exclaimed.
"What?! Did I?!" Amaya looked at her clothes. Looking back at him, she said, "Kazu, I did. There's no school today."

"OH.." he said sarcastically. "haha.. at least you remembered that."

He tugged his hand in hers and pulled her along. "C'mon, forget about it. If it's important you'll remeber it again."

"Right." she said and went down with him.