"It must have been terrible for you. I do have a picture of your real parents if you want to see it."
Koza sighed. "Mother was very beautiful and kind. She always told me that she regreted leaving you behind, but father insisted that it was for the better. Father was always kind of a jerk. He was very stubbron, but he was an honorable man. It's a shame that you never got to meet them. You would have liked them....well you would have liked mother, anyway."
"It will be for now. Soon, you'll be able to fulfill all your desires. Just remember that if you need anything, feel free to ask me, I won't turn you away. After all, I've been through the same stuff you're going through."
"I once thought that way....You can make a new life for yourself, I'm sure. You just have to have a little faith in yourself."
"Alright, if you say so...." Koza reluctantly got up and sat down next to Maiko. "What's wrong, sister?"
"I'll leave that to you. I'm sure that she dosen't want to talk to me..."
Koza led everyone to the plantation. The workers recognized Koza and hid everyone in the barn. "They'll be back with some food shortly." Koza said as he sat down.
"Just forget what I said. Let's just go to the plantation for now. We can figute out what to do then."
"You think that if I hadn't have met you, you would still be safe? From the little I've seen of this organization, they would have found you eventually and you would be on the run, just as we are now. So get over it."
"Let's not worry about that now. All the events point to one source, the Hogyoku. We'll need to disguise ourselves well and dig up any information that we can find on them."
Koza disarmed guards along the way and knocked them out. After some time, they finally made it out of Hellena. "Follow me. There's a plantation that's loyal to the Ishida clan close by. We can hide out there."
Koza knocked out the guards outside the cell block and grabbed everyone's weapons. "We don't have much time, so let's move."
"Okay, whatever you say." Koza picked the lock to Takahiro's cell and opened the door.
"I promise. Besides, it was Takahiro's idea to leave you clueless, not mine. I wanted you to know. Do you want me to let him out of his cell or not, because once we leave this block, we're not coming back." ooc: Note that if you say yes, you're going back to controling him.
"I left him in there because I didn't know if you wanted me to let him out or not. He says he still loves you, so I'll let him out if you say so. I wouldn't have bothered to break out, but I'm practicing something you taught me when we first met."
"This time, they aren't keeping me in here." Koza pulled a couple of needles from under his skin and picked the lock to his cell. He picked the locks of the other cells, except for Takahiro's, and opened the doors. "Let's get going, Maiko. If you really want to die, I can think of better places than a dank prison."
Koza sat in his cell. He noticed some marks on the wall, reading 'Koza Ishida was here' with nine tick marks beside it. "Oh joy, they had the insight to put me back in my old cell." He said sarcastically.
"I wish I could, but I can't." Everyone was surrounded by the emperor's personal guard. They were soon taken to the inperial prison 'Hellena' to await their execution for the crime of killing minister Uzuki.
"Free of what? Free of pain and suffering? If it were that easy, I would have killed myself nine years ago!"
"I don't think there's going to be any home for you for a while. The man who attacked you had attacked me the night before. I assume that he was with this 'Hogyoku' that Uzuki had mentioned before he took his final breaths. I'm afraid you're stuck with me for a while as they'll be hunting all of us now."
