I grab my bag and walk out of the front school gate when school is finished. I walk to a hardware store and pick out some paint cans and wood. I take out my phone and call Theodore's number.
"Theo can you bring your car over?" I ask through the phone while I'm paying for everything.
"Okay where are you?" Theodore answers.
"I'm at a hardware store on the way home from school" I answer.
"Okay I'll be there" Theodore says.
I hang up the phone and take my credit card back. I grab the paint cans and wait for Theodore at the front of the store. 10 minutes later he shows up with Ren in the back seat. We start piling the wood onto the back of Theodore's car which is a white Toyota 2017 truck.
"Why did you bring him?" I ask Theodore.
"I saw him on my way so I decided to give him a lift" Theodore answers. "Why do you need all this wood?" Theodore asks.
"Kai wanted to paint Ezra's dog house. Then when the rest heard it they wanted to paint the other dog houses" I answer putting the paint cans on the back seat floor.
"Okay I understand that but why the wood?" Theodore asks while loading the last pieces of wood on the back.
"They wanted to make a play pen for the small rodents" I answer hopping into the passenger seat.
"Oh" Theodore says while seating in the driver seat and starting the engine. I turn the radio on and music flows through the speakers. I tell Theodore where my house is and he drives us there. We unload the timber and paint into the front yard.
"Asra, Beast, Ezra" I call out to them. They run through the open gate which divides the front yard and the back yard. I swap seats with Ren and open the back door for the 3 of them to jump in. Ezra takes up one seat and a half. Because I am so small I share my seat with Asra while Beast fits in half a seat.
"As always you always pick the animals people are most scared of" Theodore says while driving.
"And as always they get scared" I say back.
"So where did you get the wolf?" Theodore asks.
"I found her mother near Friuli mountain in Italy few years ago, she was hurt and pregnant so I took her back to where we were staying. Few hours later she went into labour and delivered 3 small pups. 2 girls which had black fur and 1 boy which had red and white fur. Asra was the youngest with her sister Astra being the eldest. I own both of them while I gave the male to Aunt Cora who named him Archie" I tell Theodore how I got Asra.
"Who's looking after her sister?" Ren speaks for the first time.
"My best friend" I answer.
"Which one?" Theodore asks.
"Yes" I answer. (Atasi)
"Has she changed since the last time we met?" Theodore asks.
"No she still dresses and sounds like a hippie" I answer.
"That child was a weird one. Dressing as a hippie and talking like one too" Theodore shakes his head thinking of Atasi.
"She was stopped by the police last time we went to Australia" I tell Theodore.
"Why?" He asks.
"The police thought she was high" I answer. "They didn't take her because she stopped talking slowly and spoke normally."
"Has Aria been to America lately?" Theodore asks.
"Yeah she went a few days before we went to the cemetery. Why?" I ask him.
"Nothing" Theodore says.
"Did you think she'll be influenced by movies into taking drugs?" I ask him calmly.
"No" Theodore says too quickly.
"You did, didn't you?" My eyes widen and I hit him on the shoulder.
"She wouldn't do that even if she was paid to and do you want to know why?" I ask. "Because she has 5 amazing best friends who would slap her if she did and because she knows what drugs can do to the human body" I don't let theodore answer.
"What can drugs do to the human body?" Ren asks.
"How the hell did you get into our class because you sure ain't smart" I say to him in english which he doesn't understand. "Drugs can cause disfiguration, death and addiction." I answer his question anyway.
We arrive at the club and get out. We walk into a room with Damien and Beatrix already there.
"Adi here do work again I see" Damien says.
"Yup and also to prove someone wrong" I answer while taking a seat next to Beatrix.
"Who's the unlucky person?" Damien asks.
"Ren" I answer without hesitation.
"Why?" Beatrix asks while hooking her arm around mine.
"When did we first met?" I ask the 3 of them.
"11 years ago, why?" Beatrix answers.
"Where did we meet?" I ask them.
"Oh I get what's she doing now" Theodore says. "We first met in the woods." He answers.
"Okay now where were the woods?"
"Near the orphanage" Damien answers.
"..." Ren doesn't say a word.
"Was Epstein Ito in the same orphanage as you 3?"
"Yes he was the oldest child with his wife being the second" Beatrix answers.
"Okay when we met did you know how to fight?"
"No, you taught us how to fight" Beatrix answers honestly.
"Chikara taught you how to fight?" Ren asks shocked. "That means that she's the phoenix!" Ren exclaims.
"She's actually called many things as well as saviour and hero" Theodore tells him.
"Do you have that slipper ready Ren?" I ask Ren with a smug smile.
"..."
"Does someone has a slipper?" I ask smugly.
"Wait!" Ren shouts.
"What?" I ask with a smile on my face.
"How can a 5 year old know fighting and save kids who were 10 years older than her?" Ren asks. The smile on my face dissapears and is replaced with an icy look. Ren smiles at how he found a flaw. "So how does a 5 year old know fighting?" He asks again.
"That's something that you don't need to know" Beatrix's smiley face dissapears and she speaks with an icy tone. Ren looks shocked at first but still thinks that he's right.
"How does a stupid person like you get into the smart class?" I ask him. His face stiffens for a second but only for a second. I manage to catch his face stiffening because of Edith's training. "You are Ren Yamashita. Yamashita is your mother's maiden name right?" I ask him.
"...yes" He answers softly.
"So I wonder what your father's surname is" I say with a cold smile. "Ren Kitamura" I say the name slowly and softly.
His eyes widen and his mouth opens.
"What?" Damien, Beatrix and Theodore is confused about the situation.
"Ren's father is Kiyoshi Kitamura a rich buisness man in Tokyo. Isn't that right Ren Yamashita?" I ask Ren with a cold smile.
"How did you know?" Ren asks shocked.
"The first time I saw you in the club. I only had a hunch because you looked like what Old Kitamura was when he was a teenager. My hunch was confirmed when you said that your father ran away with another woman after your younger brother was born. 4 years ago Kitamura came back home with his sister Akari who looks nothing like him because she is adopted." I explain. "Kiyoshi Kitamura had told many stories about his son but no one believed he had a son and labeled him as crazy but that didn't stop Old Kitamura giving the buisness over to him because Old Kitamura knew that he had not 1 son but 2."
"How do know about this?" Ren asks with narrowed eyes.
"I'm..." I pause. "My grandmother and Old Kitamura are somewhat siblings. My great-grandmother found Old Kitamura when he was a baby, she was just 26 (600) years old then. When Old Kitamura was 10 years old great-grandmother found out she was pregnant. Another 10 years later she had given birth to 4 children, 2 boys and 2 girls. The youngest of the 4 was my grandmother. Old Kitamura was terrified at the thought of my great-grandmother giving birth because he thought that once she had kids of her own she wouldn't want him but my great-grandmother shared her love equally between the 5 children." I tell him the truth.
"So you know everything about the Kitamura family?" Ren asks.
"Yes and the person you thought was another woman was Kiyoshi's adopted sister who was bringing him back because Old Kutamura's health was bad and he wanted to see his son for the last time." I answer.
"Did the old man die?" Ren asks.
"No he still lives" I answer.