Deep in The City was a room that allowed no light to enter. In the black shodows contained in the room boomed a loud and deep voice. "So, this child can bear the Rekka yoroi. It looks like she is more trouble then what she first appeard. I can't take the chance that she will be able to wear the other armors as well. I let her wake Rekka, but it will not be that easy to get to Suiko. Akutoo!! Come here." The shadows in the room seemed to dance as Akutoo appeared out of nowhere. "Yes, my master" he excliamed as he knelt. "Akutoo, I trust that you will stop this little nusence from getting the Suiko yoroi." "That I will master, That I will." Akutoo then stood and made the shadows dance again as he dissapeared.

The next morning in the den Katie was looking at a map of Japan. "OK. I'm here and the Naruto Wirlpools are here. That would take about 2 weeks round trip." "2 Weeks, what are we going to do while your gone"asked Jun. "Well you can all help Erika around the house and help Ryo get better." "But what if they deside to attack us?" asked Seth " My advise. Get Ryo on Bayakuen's back and run." "Your not sereios are you?" "I am serious, Mike. Look I need to get going. I'll see you guys in 2 weeks. OK" "Ok, Bye"replied everyone in sadden tones.

'I know they are scared and I really don't want to be gone this long, but how else would I get to these place to find the wearers?' thought Katie to herself as she got into the van. She waved good-bye as she headed away from the house.

The next day Erika was on her way up to Ryo's room to check on him when she heard Bayakuen roar. Erika ran the rest of the way and threw the door open. In the room was Ryo trying to stand. "What do you think your doing"Erika asked pushing Ryo back into the bed. "You should not be up. you are still too weak to..." Ryo then cut her off. "I'm sorry but who are you, and what is going on?" "Oh, I'm sorry" Erika blushed in embarassment."My name is Erika. And you are in the old Yagu house. Katie just retrieved you a few days ago and brought you back here." "What do you mean *Retreived me* and where is Nasuti and the other guys?" "You don't remember? Ohh. Well you've been trapped in crystal in an enternal sleep for a hundred years. Nasuti is dead and the other guys ,guessing you mean the Troopers, Well, Katie just left yesterday to retreive the wearer of the suiko yoroi, and the rest are still trapped." explained Erika. "Ok I got most of that but who is Katie" "Katie is our gardian she lost her parents the same way as the rest of us. and when she turned 17 she left the orphanage and took us with her so we could have a real home." " The rest of you" "Yea there are seven including Katie and I. there is also Seth, Mike,Makoto, Ami, and Jun." "Jun!!" " Not the same Jun. Looks the same but this one is the great grandson of the one you knew." "Oh. How is Katie able to retreive us?" " Well, the second day we were here some weird things happened and Katie received a subarmor like yours but it is brown and white." "what kind of weird things?" " Tell you what, I go and get you something to eat, Your probably hungry, and then I'll bring everyone up here to introduce and tell you what happened. OK?" " OK". Erika left a very confused Ryo to go get him something to eat. "Well, at least you here boy." Ryo said as he patted Bayakuen.

Katie steped out of the van and streached. "Man, driving strait for a week is not fun. So, these are the Naruto Wirlpools. Let's see Suiko would probably be at the base of the wirlpools, so I would probably need his armor to get down there. I wonder where his armor orb is?" "You looking for this?"came a sinister voice. At the base of the water appeared a warrior holding a spherical looking object. "Who are you?" asked Katie after she had put on her subarmor. "I, my child, am Akutoo. And this, I beleave is what you were lookin for" " Give that to me right now." yelled Katie as she started to run to him. "What a foolish child. Evil Warriors ATTACK!!" Several warriors apperied from nowhere and started to attack Katie. Katie fought back as much as she could. With any chance posable she would take a step toward Akutoo. Finally after several minutes she reached him and kicked his hand holding the sphere. The sphere went flying. Katie chased it and had to dive to catch it. As she layed in the sand she noticed that what he had was not he orb but just a smoothed rock. At first Katie firgured that he was just joking with her and still had the real orb, but when she started to get up she noticed a peice of old armor laying in the sand not far from where she was. She reached over and picked up the armor. It looked like it had been there for years. Underneth the armor lay the real armor orb. Katie picked it up as she stood up. "I bet you master would be really disapointed if you came back without this" Katie said holding up the rock. "If you know what is good for you, you will give it back and give yourself up." "OK. here" Katie then through him the rock. As Akutoo was watching the rock fly through the air, the orb Katie was holding behind her back heald itsself and then dissapeared. Akutoo caught the rock and looked back at Katie. "Wait a second. Wasn't your subarmor brown." Katie just gave him a questioning stare and shook her head in disbelife. "Well come on and join us?" he said in a humerus tone. "Sorry, not in this lifetime."

"BUSOOOO SUIKOOOO"

Akutoo could only stare in disbelief. This child was able to trick him. The Suiko yoroi was on Katie and Akutoo started to attack her. As they were fighting Katie remembered what Erika had told her about the yoroi.

"Katie the Suiko yoroi gets its power from water. So for it to be at its strongest you need to be *in* the water if possable. Do you understand" "Yea I get it try to get into the water and stay there, Then I will have a better chance of winning."

Katie started to head torward the water slowly moving the battle from land to sea. Just before they were in the water Akutoo through a a powerfull blast. Katie was able to jump aside but was not able to save her van. The blast tore it into several peices. 'Great now how am I going to get home' Katie asked herself. Once in the water Katie could feel the yoroi getting stronger. she was able to swim faster even though she had armor on. Katie tried to just swim from him but that wasn't working. Off in the distance she noticed the two wirlpools and a huge orca circuling them. 'That must be where Suiko is, but how am I going to get enogh time to get down there. As soon as she thought that, as if he had heard her the orca swam between Katie and Akutoo alowing her the time to get Suiko. Katie thanked the orca and swam down to the crystal case.

"OK, now how did I do this last time. OH thats right." Katie consentrated and a light blue bubble formed around her and the case. The armor dissapeared and the orb appeared in her hand and she placed it in the indentation at the top of the case. On the orb and on the wearers forhead glowed a kanji. The kanji for Trust. the top of the case and the orb dissapaered. There lay the wearer of Suiko. He had changed in to his subarmor and Katie was now back in her own brown subarmor.

Katie picked him up and headed for the surface. She noticed that the orca was hurt, so she told it to go and that she would take care of Akutoo, though she wasn't sure how. Akutoo started torward Katie and Katie swam as far as she could. In no time she was trapped. Akutoo was about to give the finishing blow on the two when they dissapeared. Akutoo didn't know what happened and left for the city.

In the room in the center of the city Akutoo apeared in front of his master. "Akutoo you have faild me." boomed the loud voice "I am sorry master I don't know what happened." " I will forgive you this time. It wasn't your falt. We need to find out what these armor orbs look like if we are going to be sucssfull in finding the rest of them. You are dissmissed" Akutoo then dissapeared from the room. "Each day she is proving herself to be more of a nusenss."

The last thing Katie remembered was being cornered by Akutoo and while holding the wearer of the Suiko, wishing with all her heart that she was safely back home.

At the house Everybody, including Ryo, was at the dinner table eating lunch. They were all talking and asking Ryo questions about anything and everything from when he was little. While he was telling them how he had received his armor, there was a bright flash of light and then two drenched people crashed down onto the table breaking it in half. After a moment of shock everybody ran to Katie and Suiko. "What happened?" asked a bewildered Mike. All Katie could do was match there bewiderment. "It looks like you just learned to teleport" replied Ryo "wwwha. TTeleport?" stuttered Katie. This was all too much for her as she colasped from exhastion "Is that the wearer of the Suiko yoroi?" asked Jun "Yea, his name is Shin, Mouri Shin." replied Ryo. Ryo picked up Shin and placed him on Bayakuen's back and then instructed Seth, Mike, Erika, and Makoto to take him to his room and place him in bed. Ryo then picked Katie up. "I'll take her to her room. Um. Where is her room?" asked Ryo. " It was your room, after you arrived she started sleeping on the couch."replied Jun. "Well, there are two beds in my room so I'll go ahead and take her up there and put her in the other bed."stated Ryo as he headed up the stairs with Jun and Ami behind him. Once in the room ryo laid her on the bed and took the blanket Ami handed him and covered her up. Her subarmor dissapeared and the clothes she had on earlier apeared on her. The orb appeared on the red cushion on the table next to the bed just like Ryo's did. "Come on let's see how Shin is. Katie needs her rest." Ryo said as he shooed Jun and Ami out of the room. Katie relaxed and dreamed plesent dreames that she had not had in such a long time.

*Athor Notes*

Well that's the forth chapter what did you think? If you are wondering who the evil master is don't worry, I don't even know yet. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

White Blaze