It's chapter 40 already! Wow.... I spend waaaaaay to much time on each arc...... and waaaaay to long on each chapter....

..... Don't worry; this is not a filler like the last one

Chapter shout out!!! So the lucky people who decided to join all of us in being gakuseis are Sammiieexo, aria_heart, Yoru Tenshi, and sasakisazara! Damn it, I still really wish I could really dedicate chapters to more than one person, all these people deserve it! And I'm just saying, I highly recommend everyone to read a story from any of the people in any of my shout outs if they have one. I just think that everyone deserves to be recognised for their talents!

I am just going to quit saying I'm sorry for every late chapter, because it's seems like it is every chapter, so I'll just do this...

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l Free punches l

l--------------------------l or you guys can tell me how much you hate me because it is late.

l I really don't mind because I deserve it. -_-"

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I really think instead of trying to take over the world we should make our own school..... That would be awesome!!!!!!!

That was me talking without my filter on, sorry, but still, that would be.

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Chapter 40-

Feathers, Cherry blossoms and Kimons. What could go wrong?

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"Damn it, I can't feel my fingers anymore. They are so cold!" I exclaimed as I what I just accidently dropped hit the ground and shattered into pieces.

'Ice is cold you know. And if you hold it long enough it will freeze.' Suteki replied, almost with a bored tone in her voice. 'Now if you had maybe had done what I suggested it may be going along faster.'

"Well I am sorry for trying to base it off something I can actually see for myself and feel its texture!" I snapped back as I stuffed my hands under my armpits to try and warm them up as I muttered various curses at her. I couldn't help it, I have been out here for a good two-three days with no company but her, and because of my chakra nature with the only too COLD ones, making something EVEN COLDER I could barely feel my fingers most of the time. Why couldn't I have been blessed with fire nature, or god forbid, even lightening! At least then I wouldn't be freezing my digits off, frying them maybe, but not freezing! I sat there muttereing profanities under my breath for a good few minutes before I could feel movement coming from my poor fingers. When they were finally able to move again and slowly picked up my journal from besides me and flipped though all my recent entries. Not that I had written anything more, no after that I had a series of drawings, flowers, animals, simple things like hair accessories, and all of them I had tried to draw in very good detail, trying to make it look real. I sighed and closed the book when I got to the last picture, a single tulip, and set it back down to the ground and looked to the left to me. All over where pieces of discarded wood and shavings, along with a few cravings, most ruined as a result of frustration.

"I just don't know why it isn't working though! I have been doing everything I can, but I won't work! I draw it until it looks real; I then carve an identical thing out of wood, taking my time to get it right! Spending hours poring over a simple bow even! And yet I still can't make anything but weapons and a tiger lily out of ice!! This is so frustrating!!!"

'Like I said, if you had done wha-'

"Shut up Suteki, I heard you just fine the first time." I snapped again at her again. I ran a hand though my hair with frustration before I picked up one of the closer discarded cravings, a tulip, the one that paired with my last drawing, and it had no bigger than my hand, or maybe a little bit bigger, but not much. I brought it up to eye level and glared at it, but at the same time, fully examined it and ran my hands over the soft wood, feeling all the curves and lines. When I could easily picture the flower in my head from just feeling it with my eyes closed I set it down and grabbed a shard of ice that been one of the pieces that had shattered before. I took a deep breath before I poured my concentration into that shard and painfully slowly making that shard of ice into a tiger lily. I only did it painfully slowly because over the years of being able to morph ice into certain thing, I no longer had to really think about how, so now I did it slow so i could see exactly that. After a good minute I now help my single red tiger lily in my hand.

"Okay, here goes nothing, again." I said under my breath before I closed my eyes and pictured the wooden tulip and the drawing of it in my mind and covered my lily with both hands, slowly pouring my chakra once again into it, but trying to change its form into something foreign. After a few seconds i could slightly feel the ice start to change, so i opened my eyes, still keep the image in my head and tried to pour in a little bit more chakra to give it a kind of push. I watched as the tiger lily in my hand slowly began to change its shape, starting at its steam and leaves, and slowly reaching the base of the flower's top. The moment the base did start to change it took less than a second from some cracks to form all over and then the whole thing shattered in my hands once again. I yelled in frustration once again and threw all the shards away.

'Told you. The results are all ways going to be the same if you keep continuing on what you are doing.' Suteki ever so smugly said. I didn't bother to reply back to her, my mood was bad enough right now. Nothing I seemed to be doing worked! Every time I tried to change the shape of either one of my ice weapons or my tiger lily, the moment it would change the most, like changing the lily's petal shape and base to a tulip's, they would shatter! It was so frustrating (As you have already notice.)

'I really am starting to have second thoughts about doing this training now... Just by no non-existent progress shows I'll never be able to make it to where I can pull THAT off...' I thought to myself as I stood up and stretched my arms above my head.

'Why are you even bothering then if you think like that?' she asked me, making my mood even worse. You would think after all most three weeks of listening to her comments you would think that I would now be used to then and not feel like punching or swearing at her. I bent over a picked up a small stick and played with it in my hands.

"You know what? I think I like you better when you don't sound normal. Then you would at least have a chance to choke when you are having a laughing fit." I told her, making her pout (I think)

'Welll excuuuse me for trying to help. ‘She shot back, stretching out the word excuse. '... HeHe hehehe.... You know what's funny? If I really wanted to, I could just make you do as I say....'

I couldn't help but laugh at that. "HA! Like you could force to do anything, especially that. There's NO WAY I'll go to sleep just 'cus you said so." I said to her as I tossed my stick high into the air.

'Well it's not like you have to be willing to do it. I am in your mind, so it would be quite easy to knock you out form the inside... In fact, I might just do that. Heheheheheh.'

*thunk*

I had gone silent after she had said that and accidently dropped the stick I was currently throwing into the air. I stood there ridged as a piece of ice before I snapped out of it and went into a panic mood. "Suteki!!! No founded Hoshi-sama, please think about that!! Please, you know what happens to me if I fall asleep! I don't want to go through that anymore! Please reconsider!"

'Mmmm.... As much as it is entertaining to watch you beg like that.... Nope... It's too late, I feel like I want to do that even more now because you called me Hoshi! Night night! HAHAHAHAHA!'

"Suteki! Plea-" And just like that, I felt like a switch got flipped in my head, because suddenly went black and I lost control of my body, falling rapidly to the ground.

*thud*

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"Ow!!" I yelled as I suddenly sitting up, rubbing my now soar and most likely roaring red face. "Grrr... When I get my hands on the crazy bitch I’m going to...." I mumbled to myself as the pain faded away...

"You're going to do what?" A voice suddenly asked. I jumped from surprise when I heard that and the sound of chimes. I looked in the direction of the sound and found no other then Suteki, still wearing her blood red sleeveless kimono, the only difference was that it now had golden swirls all over it along with silver feathers and a pure black sash in the middle and a slit running up the side of the dress that all most went all the way down to the ground. She also had her hair up into a messy bun with her hair swept away from her face and on each ear had a pair of dangling silver feathers with gold swirls, matching the ones on her dress. I had to admit, for a dead lady, she did look pretty good, even if I could still faintly see her skeleton wings on her back. 'So I guess she hasn't completely gone off the deep end like usual yet...' As she walked towards me the ever evident sound of her chime feathers was heard. I stood up and glared at her.

"I'm going to give her the beating of her life." I growled at her and lifted up a fist, shaking it at her, which she completely blew off and placed a hand on her cheek.

"Ohh... But then you would ruin you beautiful clothes, Harmony-chan." A tick mark appeared on my forehead when she said the last part, showing how annoyed I was, and she knew it.

"Why you...." I growled at her again before I thought about what she had just said. "Wait.... Beautiful clothes..?" I slowly looked down and saw that I too was wearing a kimono, sleeveless like Suteki's, but mine was pure white at the top and faded into a pale blue at the bottom and had a deep purple sash holding it up, and it went almost to my knees, but not fully, and it had a slight slit on both sides, but not much, just an inch or two. Also, in the blue part was the faint outline of white butterflies, and there was also white butterflies on my sash. I also notice that my extremly short hair was now pulled back into two little ponytails. And once again, I was bare foot. So all in all, I wasn't sure if I wanted to beat her to a blood pulp or puke at the site if my clothes. "What... In... The... Hell?!" I yelled when I noticed what I was wearing. "Suteki, I better be sleeping right now!! If I end up wearing this later, I'm so going to kill you!!!"

Suteki gave me a devilish grin. "You are, don't worry. It's just like all the first couple of times that you visited me." For the second time in less than a minute, Suteki caught me by surprise.

"Wait, what?! I'm sleeping right now?! I was fugitively speaking before! How the hell did I fall asleep?!" I yelled before I shook my head and tried to remember what happened prior to arriving her, but it seemed everything that happened a minute before was in a fog, so I couldn't remember. "Suteki! What did you do! I know you are the one who caused this!" Suteki tried to do the how 'cute-confused-look-with-head-tilt but with her sadist smirk, it completely ruined it.

"I don't have the slightest idea what you are talking about, Harmony-chan" She said and once again, emphasizing the word chan at the end of my name, making me that much more annoyed. I threw my hand to the side and clenched the other into a fist.

"Don't give me that bull crap Suteki! I know for a fact you had something to do with this! And enough with the chan!!!!" I once again yelled, trying to fight the urge to just run up and sock her in the face.

Instead of answering me like she usually did, this time Suteki gave me another sadist smirk before walking past me and the cherry tree till she was standing on the right beside the water that was connected to the waterfall. She just stood there, back turned, and said nothing. I stood there watching her for a second before my annoyance took over and I ran at her.

"ANSWER ME SUTEKI!!!" I yelled as I ran at her. She turned her head to face me, but I was expecting that, because the next moment, my fist made contact with her face, sending her towards the waterfall.

She must have also been expecting that because after she got hit she calmly flipped over and positioned herself at land softly on the water at the base of the waterfall. When she landed she look towrads me, no longer having her sadist smirk on her face. Just like she had just moved, her face mirrored it, calm, while I was the exact opposite. I was standing on the grass, glaring, huffing and was anything but calm.

"Answer me, Suteki. Why. Am. I. Asleep?!" I said slowly as I pulled my fist back, shaking slightly.

"Because your body needed. I'm surprised how long you have lasted, you are way further than the human limit, and with you using up so much energy every day, it's even more impressive that you haven't dropped dead yet." Suteki responded. I had lowered my head after I punched her, so I couldn't see her, but I could clearly hear her walking towards me. When I heard this I quickly jumped a few feet away for her, and closer to the cherry tree.

"I don't give a damn if I have 'passed the human limit'!!" I yelled again, silently wishing that I had my weapon pouches on me right now, or even a vial of water, and silently cursing at my pathetic state right now, because I was still shaking and it threw off my balance and coordination, making my landing off. I stared a bit before placing a hand on the tree trunk behind me to re-balance myself, but I was still visibly shaking.

"Geez, calm down Harmony. I can see you shaking like a leaf from here." I cursed again and tried to get control of my nerves as Suteki stepped onto dry land. She took a few more small steps closer to me and then leaned over, like she was examining me. I full on glared at her and raised my arms into a defensive stance while she stared.

'What in the hell is she doing, just staring at me? It's not like her to just stare and stay silent. Plus it's starting to creep me out a little.'

"You really get scared easily then, don't you? First you get scared because if the thought of you sleep, and now this. You're getting scared because I was quite for a little bit." I was about to ask her how the hell she knew what I was thinking, but then I remembered that this place was no different than anywhere else and that she would all ways hear my thoughts.

"I said that I was getting creeped out, not scared, crazy old hag." I said instead, making sure that I said I emphasized the crazy old hag part, hoping that it would be enough to make her forget about what we were talking about. I guess you can say it worked to an extent because after I had said that Suteki snapped and punched me in the face, slamming me into the cherry tree and knocking my breath away. You would think after the first time of getting punched by her I would have learned my lesson and not insult her to this point, but it hurt from f-ing much the first time around, and this time hurt just as much or even more so.

"HeHe HeHe.... That's not a very nice then to say to me, you little scaredy bitch." Suteki sneered as she roughly grabbed me to hold me in place and held an ice feather against my throat. I wasn't sure if they could be used as a weapon, but I was sure as hell not going to take the chance as I stared into her once again black midnight eyes with the strange marking around almost the whole left side of her face. The wind around us was roaring around us and tore Suteki’s hair out of her bun, making it fly wildly in the wind, just like it did the first time I had ever saw her. "I could end your life right now, you know that right?" She said that in such a way that even if she hadn't spoken like a maniac, it showed her mental instability. It also didn't help that she gave me a sadist smile once again and showed off her fanged filled mouth.

"No, you can't. Because if you do, you die also." I pointed out as I regained my breath. "And I don't really think you want that to happen seeing as you finally agreed with me to help me try to help you live."

She started at me for a few seconds before she started to chuckle. "I guess you may have a point there. I can't have you die. Yet." She said before she closed her eyes and realised me. When she did the wind died down and her marking went away, along with her wing, sorta, I could still faintly see their outline. When she re-opened her eyes they were back to the pure amber colour that we share. She chuckled again before she re-fixed her hair back into a messing bun, using a frozen senbon to hold it in place like I had done before. "Besides, I didn't bring you here to kill you, no matter how much you manage to piss me off."

I took a step away from the tree and once again distanced myself from her. "The why did you? And why must I have be asleep for this? Could you have just told me?"

Suteki shook her head. "No, it had to be in person... In a sorts if you call this 'in person'. And also, your body drastically needs some sleep, even if you didn't notice it yourself, so I thought I would kill two birds with one stone to get you here. Besides, I don't see why you are still so afraid of sleeping, it's not like you have had anymore of you horrid nightmares since I've been with you." She said with a small shrug.

. . . My reaction to what she just said.

"NANI?!?!" (Just felt like doing that ^.^) "What the hell do you mean by 'killing two birds with one stone?!' Suteki?! And what is so important that you had to say it to me 'in person'?!" I couldn't help but yell at her again, she was really pissing me off and surprising me at the same time, not a very good combination. 'Though what she just said it true, I haven't had any nightmares lately whenever I had tried to sleep...'

"This." She said simply and held up the ice feather that she had before help to my throat. "Is what was so important that I needed to speak to you face-to-face?" I couldn't help but be extremly confused then.

"Huh? A god damn feather? Really? That's what was so important? If that's it then I will be going." I told her and turned my back, getting ready to concentrate and wake up. It took me about a minute to realize that it wasn't going to work thought, seeing as I was still standing here in this god damn kimono. I faced Suteki, and saw that she hadn’t tooken a single step forward before. "Let me guess, you're the reason I can't leave. That's why you didn't try and stop me."

"Maybe, maybe not." She said with a shrug. '

Bulshit to that.' I cursed inwardly, making her walk over to me and smack me upside the head. "OW! What was that for?!"

"No swearing. All I know is that your body needs to recover, so that's most likely why you can't leave. So just suck it up. Heheheheh. No swearing, that's some funny shit."

. . . '

"And you tell me not to swear. Crazy hypocrite." I muttered before I sat down on the ground and took my hair out of the pigtails, giving in. "Fine, so if I can't leave, why don't you tell me what is so important about your god damn feather?"