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Mak gave a slight scoff at what Hikaru said, taking another bite of his hotdog and munching happily until what he heard next.

"Heeyy.... take that back." he said looking at the older boy. "'Side, I've got a big stomach, not a big mouth. You've got the big mouth, not meh." he said, trying to decide whether he was being messed with or not.

Yin walked through the town in an almost dazed and entranced sort of sense. Her long hair fluttered in the wind and she smiled contentedly enough at the people hurrying by her. She liked to be around people, but interacting wasn't her strong point. She walked into a large park and sat down in the green grass right beside a bench. She watched some children play, romping and rolling around in their made up fantasy. Yin wondered, had she ever played like that? she couldn't remember. She didn't remember much of anything.

She sat oddly, her legs tucked beside her and leaned on the bench as if trying to sleep or get up. She looked almost like she was hurt. Her eyes were half closed and she looked almost like a statue built beside the bench. She hummed to herself a waltz she had once heard in some dream or memory and was content to watch the world go by in the laughter of childhood than to interact with it.

Yin looked up with curious eyes. Not a word and barely a movement betraying her presence. She simply watched this person in silent wonderment.

Yin smiled softly and stood ever so quietly, turning her back to this starnger and walking out of the park back to the busy-ness of the street.

~Until we meet again stranger~ she thought to herself, then dissappeared into the crowd of people.

"How is the subject?" an official looking man asked as he entered a darkened room with only several computer monitors lighting it up. "He seems to be awakening slowly, though..." said one of several men stationed at the computers, looking up at the official. "Good, inform me when he awakens" he said, turning and leaveing the room

Mak blushed even harder, blinking and staring at Hikaru in confusion as he jumped to his feet. He cocked an eyebrow, giving a small smile and nodding.

"Wait a minute.... I have buisness to finish!" he said ina matter-o-factly tone, turning to the remainder of his hotdog and finishing it off withone bite followed by the downing of his orange float. He seemed to freeze in place a moment before turning back to Hikaru as his normal self.

"Okay then!" he said happily, taking Hikaru's hand and getting to his feet. He blinked at the older boy curiously for what he said, a small frown forming across his face at the memories and thoughts flooded through his mind.

"What do yah mean?" he asked curiously, knowing that Hikaru had a head start on knowing things that were coming due to his empathy, Mak trying to catch anything by the look of the air elementals eyes.

Melody was walking home now, she'd had her fun and was finally going home. She got home and tossed her new prizes from the fair into a chair and crashed on her bed. She watched the ceiling for a moment and sighed. She was living on borowed time and borrowed energy. It was only a matter of time before someone found out all her dirty little secrets, and when the right people found them out? Then what? What was she going to do then? She rolled over and faced the wall. No one would find out, she kept all her secrets well hidden, and they were not going to come back to haunt her.

She heard her appartment door open and close then and 'looked' at the person's energy. It was her room mate so she did nothing. "God is dead." She whispered. Then turning over yet again, she turned on her radio full blast, and fell asleep.

As Rin fiddled with cooling various spots on Hikaru, she decided to see if Mak was at all sensitive to empathy yet. She reached out and giggled in his mind before sending a chilly finger up his spine.

"I wonder what those two have been up to lately" She guessed, shrugging. She got a bowl of ramen and heated it up on the stove as suddenly a soft object rolled around her ankles. Rin smiled and picked her cat up, hugging her and kissing her little forehead. "You hungry, Bellah?" She asked. Belle's purring suggested she was indeed so and so Rin set her down to get some cat food.

Looking outside, she saw a squirrel munching on a nut. It stopped and looked up at her and blinked. ~strange thing~ Rin thought. Belle pawed at the balcony door, and so Rin decided to let the little cat scamper about if she didn't want anything to eat.

Belle took off, then haulted, seeing the squirrel. Raising her fur, she hissed at the creature, who only tilted its head in wonderment. Belle made threatening growls and hisses but the squirrel only blinked. Finally, Belle charged. The two sprang around the yard, the squirrel seeming to be having fun while the streaking black cat was out for death. Soon, the pair scurried up a tree.

It was a few minutes before any movement could be seen. "Huh..." Rin said, somewhat curious as to what was going on. Soon, however, Belle could be seen flying from the tree like some sort of Super Kitty and bounced off of the ground. She gathered herself and desperately ran towards the house. Behind her scurried at least a dozen squirrels as they all chirped and chased the poor cat until she slammed into the glass door, previously shut. The squirrels were only inches away as Rin slowly slid the door open and the cat wizzed through the house, the squirrels right behind.

"Oh...kay..." Rin said to herself. She could hear things crashing all about her house as Belle ran for cover, running all about the house before finally going back to the kitchen. Rin hurriedly scooped the cat up and scowled at the squirrels for making such a mess. "If you were human I'd make you clean everything up..." She said to them. They finally decided the cat wasn't worth their time and scampered back up their tree. Until next time.

Sighing, Rin shut the door and let Belle down, the creature's claws an unwelcome pair of guests to her shoulder. Sniffing the air, she could smell something burning. "MY RAMEN!!" She shouted, dashing to the stove. She turned off the bubbling pot and sighed. Her ramen was burnt on the bottom, but really creamy everywhere else. It could be saved. Smiling, she scooped it in the bowl and ate.