Me-Me glared back at her before she started to make her sister's swing faster. Their weapons started to clashed together faster after they started pushing each other in the swing more. Soon Na-Na was starting to tell that her sister really had gotten stronger because she had to stay struggle to keep focus or she was going to lose the game. And if that happens Me-Me will not let her hear the end of it for a whole week.

A hour had passed, both was now sweating from focusing of their powers and concentrating so hard to not fall out of the swing. Me-Me had been leaning on the end of her swing for a while now watching the weapons clash together since she was getting a little tired. This wasn't very smart of her because she was only holding onto the chain of the swing with one hand. Na-Na started to slow down her sister's swing for a moment before she suddenly started to swing it rapidly which made her fall off. Me-Me continued to stay focused on her weapon and her sister's swing as she was now just had it stay focusing on her just her weapon since she was still sitting on the swing. After a few minutes Me-Me started to see a opening on the right side of Na-Na weapon more than her left. She started to calculate a way to throw her weapon out of the circle. When she had a plan thought out she started watch her sister's weapon get weaker on the right again. After she seen the open she suddenly tired to throw her weapon out but Na-Na throw her weapon out the circle instead. When Me-Me seen her weapon on the ground outside the circle. She fell back onto the ground and started breathing heavily. "That's last move toke a lot out of me, but I will say you have improved alot more than I expected." Said Na-Na calmly as she was trying catch her breath herself as she was looked down at her and smiled slightly at her for a moment after she sat up on the ground.

"I see you two have been playing that crazy game of yours again. I sometimes hate that your father set up that stupid sparing circle, but then I'm glad he did. When you two catch your breath I need one of you to go get some firewood before it starts raining." Said Nie-orya in a calm voice then she smile sligthly at the circle then looked up at the dark clouds in the sky as she was wiping her hands with a towel she was holding. She looked back down at them to see who was going to move first because she already had another job planned for the other one to do. "Yes Mother." Said Na-Na calmly then she got up from the swing and straighten her dress before she started to walk to side of the house to get the firewood. "Then Me-Me can you go find Ikyo before it starts to rains." Said Nie-orya strongly after she looked down at her and smiled slightly at her for a moment. "Why do I have to deal with her?" Asked Me-Me in a agitated voice because she was still mad at her even after all this time had passed. "Because Na-Na is helping me right now and your just sitting there trying to figured out how you didn't win your father's silly game. And bass on how she acted after you mentioned the river there's a possibility that she's scared of rain too." Said Nie-orya quickly in a worried voice before she started to look up at the clouds. Me-Me could see she that she was just as concern about Ikyo as she was about her brother. So without another word she got up onto her feet and started to go look for her.

As she was walking through the forest looking for Ikyo she was thinking about what her mother had said about Ikyo and the river. She wanted to find out for sure if she was really was scared of the water from the river or just was scared adout their fight, but in order to do that she needed to find her first. "Ikyo! Where are you? She has to be around here somewhere, I'm started to get tried of walking around this stupid forest." Said Me-Me sharply as she was looking around and called out into the forest again. Ikyo was in such a deep sleep that she just barely heard Me-Me calling her. She continued to stay sleep even after her her leg hanging down off the branch with her head resting on another branch by where she was sitting. After a while Me-Me found her sleeping up in the tree after she seen her leg she looked up at her and glared at her in surprise for a moment. "How can she sleep up there like that after all that shouting I did to find for her." Said Me-Me strongly to herself before she leaned back against the side of the tree and looked up at the sky.

She noticed the clouds was starting to get darker as night was started to get closer. As it was getting darker she started to get a little scared and wanted to grab her brother's hand, but he wasn't there. Every since she got lost in the forest one night when she was young she been afraid of the dark because of all the sounds she heard at night. She looked up at Ikyo when she noticed a small snake eating ants on the branch above her. This gave her a idea that was sure to wake up before it got too dark. She teleported onto the branch above her so she wouldn't wake her up by climbing up the tree then she gentle picked up the snake which started to warp around her hand and wrist. "Hey little guy, I need your help with something. You see that girl down there I need you to wake her up for me. And in return I will give you some nice sweet grapes." Said Me-Me calmly to the snake through it mind then she made a handful of grapes appear in her hand and put them in the snake's home that was inside the tree.

It nodded at her and she let it go onto the branch next to Ikyo. She stood up on the branch above her and watched as the snake tired to wake up Ikyo below her. It wrapped it self around a small branch near her and moved down to her ear and hissed in it quietly. "Wake up." Said the snake in a low voice near Ikyo's ear. When Ikyo heard this she just moved her hand off her book on the branch in front of her and made it fall onto the ground after she moved her hand onto her forehead. Me-Me rolled her eyes at her and looked up at the clouds in the sky. "I should have known that she wasn't going to wake up." Said Me-Me calmly to herself then she crossed her arms after before looked back down at her after leaning back on the tree. "Oku?!" Said Ikyo in a low voice as she was started to open her eyes and looking up at Me-Me believing it was him after closing her eyes then she turning her head to her side. "What?! Why is she dreaming about my brother?" Asked Me-Me in a low surprise voice out loud to herself as she was now looking down at her with a puzzled look.

Then Ikyo started to open her eyes after she seen the snake and was froze in place. "Goody your finelly awake." Said the snake happily to her as she was looking at it. When she heard it speak she yelled out and quickly moved back from it making her fall out of the tree. When she was on the ground she moved back against the tree holding her legs against her chest asking herself how can she hear the snake talking in her head. Me-Me was trying hard not to laugh at her but she couldn't hold it any longer. When Ikyo heard her she looked up at her sternly. "You can hear all the animals talking when your mind is clear silly. All mages can when their fully connected to their power core that want makes you hear them so clear or did you forget that." Said Me-Me as calm as possible before she started laughed some more at her as she was looking down at her. She seen that Ikyo was now looking at the ground in front of her and had tightened her grasp around her legs more as she was quivering slightly. Me-Me teleported onto the ground in front of her and picked up the book that had falling out of the tree earlier and teleported it home to Na-Na, which told her that she had found Ikyo. Then she looked up at the snake as it was crawled into the hole in the tree where she left the grapes. She tried to figure out why a such a little snake could wake up Ikyo when she couldn't.

Ikyo was still leaning towards the tree with her head now buried into her legs. "Don't tell me that little snake scared you." Asked Me-Me strongly after she looked back down at her with her arms crossed after she had noticed she was quivering slightly. "Yes! I… I was terrified! But you wouldn't understand because your not scared of anything!" Said Ikyo loudly and sharply back at her with tears running down her check after she looked up at her. Just then thunder and lightning started to break in the sky not that far from them making Me-Me jump in fear and teleported to the side of the tree near Ikyo. "That's not true! If… If it makes you feel any better I'm... I'm scared of… of the dark and loud stroms. I have been every since I gotten lost in the forest and heard a thunder storm for the first time, okay." Said Me-Me nervously and quickly before she looked down at Ikyo as she was rubbing the back of her neck. Ikyo could tell by her voice that she was trying her best to make her feel better even though she was scared. "When Nie-orya asked me about the river I was terrified then too and I just couldn't tell her why then because I wasn't ready to tell anyone until now. Maybe it just because of the storm, I almost always seem to be more open to let thing out when it's adout to… to rain. Now I know for sure that it's been bothering everyone every since I woke up." Said Ikyo in a low voice as she was looking up at the clouds. "Are… are you ready to tell me now if… if you don't mind me asking." Said Me-Me in a soft nervous voice then she looking back at her after looking at the clouds as they was getting closer to them.

"Yes, I think I'm ready. (she toke a deep breath) When I was very small three human boys had chased me under the dock of a river in the forest by my village as it was raining. After they couldn't find me I stay in the water until they was gone then a giant snake pulled me down under to the bottom until I passed out. When I woke up I was back home wrapped up in a blanket in my brother Houmeru's arms. That day was the worst day of me and my brother Yasha life because that same night it happen to him but instead of human it was three demons chasing him in the forest until he hid under a ledge on the side of a cliff they had chased him towards. But I didn't know adout it until the next day when he came home and told our mother. We both bearly went outside after that day." Said Ikyo calmly as she looked down at the ground. "Why did you just tell me all that instead of my sister or mother." Asked Me-Me strongly as she was looking back at her now regretting her plan to find out the truth about her fears before it starting to rain. "Because of how you feel about me, I never tried to take your mother away from you I was just trying to find my brothers when your mother had found me. I… I look up to you and Na-Na like my older sisters which haven't knew how that felt before until now. It kinda nice having someone there for me instead of me being there for them all the time. I have grew to trust you to protect me and Na-Na to help me understand my powers more in order to protect everyone that close to me." Said Ikyo in a low voice as she was looking down at the ground with tears running down her cheeks.

"I'm going to regret this for sure if I don't say something right now. Mother sented me to find you before it rains and because of how you reacted adout the river she's really worried about you. But I wanted to know if you was really scared of the rain by telling you that it was going to rain rigth before it started that was my plan until now." Said Me-Me strongly as she looked up at the sky and put her hand on her forehead. "Now you got you wish." Said Ikyo sternly in a low voice after she started to smell the rain and looked up at the sky for a moment. "What does that mean, it hasn't started raining yet." Said Me-Me sharply the she stepped away from the tree and stood beside Ikyo with her hands balled up at her side as she was looking down at her. She looked at her sternly because of her words but as soon as Ikyo looked up at her she started to look up at the clouds in the sky before tears started to run down her cheeks. As Me-Me looked down at her all her anger washed off her face and she started to look down at her with a concern look.

"Please Ikyo say something it's starting to get really dark now and it going to rain any minute! Okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry for talking that snake into waking you up and startling you and for trying to get you stuck in the rain to find out if you was really scared of water instead of just asking you if you was, I mean it Ikyo!" Said Me-Me seriously as she was looking down at her nervously. When she didn't respond she turned her head to her side and crossed her arms when she did it started to rain. Me-Me looked back down to Ikyo who now had her head buried in her chest again when she heard the lightning hit nearby it made her jumped. When it hit again without a second thought she quickly grabbed Ikyo by the wrist and pulled her up onto her feet before she started running towards the house. When she heard the thunder again she teleported them inside the house into the mud room. She then leaned against the door and slide down it onto the floor as tears started to run down her face then she covered her ears after hearing the thunder. "As you can see I was telling you the truth before about everything." Said Me-Me strongly after she looked up at her as she was standing in front of her before she looked down at the ground nervously.

"I know, I just wanted to ensure that you was and I got a apology out of it." Said Ikyo calmly then she put her hands on the back of her head and laugh slightly at her. "Why you!" Said Me-Me sharply then she suddenly got up and tackled her. "Hey! You tried to do the same thing to me so we're even now!" Said Ikyo strongly as she was holding her back arms back from her by her wrists as she was sitting on top of her. "Rigth, so can I tell everyone now why your scared of the river and the rain. Because if they come and see you and me talking instead of figthing they are going to ask why and it that happens I'm going to tell them and you can't stop me. You don't want that do you, because after today you are never going to hear me apology to you like that ever again, so is that what you want me to do hun mutt?" Asked Me-Me sternly as she was glaring down at her. "No don't tell them!" Said Ikyo strongly then she weaken her grasp on her wrists. When she let her go she tried to sit up but Me-Me pushed her back down making her hit the floor with a loud thud.

"Na-Na I think I heard Me-Me and Ikyo come in, can you make sure they are not fighting again while I go make some tea. You can handle them if they are right?" Asked Nie-orya calmly then she started to head to the kitchen. "Yes mother." Said Na-Na in a soft voice then she headed down the hallway to the front door to the mud room.