「The Cousin」

Chapter 3

Ryuko is confused as ever. Satsuki had just stabbed her mother. Stopped the suits from killing the people wearing them. Confessed that she was good and attacked Nudist Beach headquarters because she didn't want "half-baked" allies and that she just wanted to defeat her mother, and somehow, Hoshi knew all of this.

"How come you knew about this and didn't tell us?" Tsumugu shouted at Hoshi. The girl shrugged her shoulders, before pulling off her leather jacket, revealing her white loose tanktop.

"There's no fun in that." Hoshi said, throwing her jacket away.

"What I want to know, is how you knew about Satsuki-sama's plan. Very few people knew of this." Inumuta said, raising an eyebrow, as the collar of his suit opened.

"Who says girls with Spiritual powers don't know how to hack?" Hoshi shrugged her shoulders. "I know a lot actually. Even the motives of dear Satsuki. Who knew she could be so noble?"

"All of us did." Nonon hissed, causing Hoshi to chuckle.

"Now, now. You should wait till after the war to start a fight with me." Hoshi couldn't hide the sly tone in her voice, as she jumped down from the stage and onto the ground.

She felt something sharp press into her back, causing her to take a few steps forward, chuckling. She felt the lower half of her back, and felt the red liquid drip down. She brought her hand closer to her face, and stared at the blood.

"You stained my shirt." Hoshi huffed childishly, as she turned around to look at Nui.

"It was such an ugly shirt." Nui argued, causing Hoshi to pull out her blade.

"Hm? Sorry, I couldn't hear you over the sound of your obnoxious outfit." Hoshi smirked, as Nui scoffed. Hoshi is one of the few people who could make Nui drop the childish act in seconds.

"I believe you owe me a spar." Nui grumbled, as she held the purple scissor blade.

"Oh, really? You'd like me to take out your eye in the process?" Hoshi asked, dragging her fingers across the handle of her blade.

She ducked as a now mind-stitched student jumped over her head. Hoshi turned around, to face an army of students under mind control.

"Let's see you try to defend yourself against me, and students." Nui said. Inumuta was about to jump in and interfere until he heard the loud cackle of Hoshi.

"Honestly? This is the best you've got against me? Pity, I was expecting a challenge." Hoshi snickered, as she pulled out her katana.

She swung her blade, and the force of the air knocked the Life Fibers from the brains of most students. Hoshi chuckled as she sheathed her blade and ducked again, to avoid the swing of Nui's scissor blade.

"Hm. Too slow." Hoshi grinned, as Nui dropped her little clones. "These are so cute. Too bad they're so weak." Effortlessly, Hoshi swings her katana destroying all of the clothes clones.

"Aw. She gave up. No point in going after her. I should try to find Mako, and get her out of here." Hoshi said as she started to wander around the stadium.

Nui's eyes widens in shock as she flees away from Hoshi, who sits down, and watches as the fight progresses on. Nui bumps into Sanageyama, and looks up at his Goku uniform.

"You and I have a rematch!" Sanageyama announces.

"Do I know you?" Nui tilts her head, regaining her childish and cheerful composure.

"You destroyed my previous uniform!"

"Oh really? You know what they say, "when a girl changes her panties, she forgets the past"." Nui says shrugging her shoulders.

As the Elite Four begin to attack her, Hoshi turns her head to see how Ryuko's doing. Her eyes narrow when she sees the Fiber wrapped around her cousin's brain. She reaches to her left to grasp her blade, and once her fingers wrap around it, the damned assistant of Ragyo appears.

"You will not interfere." The woman growls.

"You think you can stop me?" Hoshi bares her teeth at the woman, and her wolf, Sora begins to grow behind her, baring his teeth and growling at the woman.

"What will a pathetic Spirit do against me?" Rei hisses.

Hoshi's eyes burn red, and so do Sora's eyes. The claw-like scar over Hoshi's eye begins to glow the same shade of violet as Sora. Her hair seems to turn fiery, as she glared at the woman before her.

"You dare insult a Spirit?" Hoshi bellows as she unsheathes her katana. "Then you shall face the wrath of the former guardian of the forest."

With that, the wolf behind her goes sailing towards Rei. Sora fades into his light form and enters the women's uniform. Rei's uniform begins to glow purple and it slowly deteriorates. Sora is destroying Rei's uniform.

Meanwhile, Ryuko is fighting Nui. In the corner of her eye, she sees her cousin. A furious aura surrounds Hoshi as she continues to glare at the woman who is slowly losing her uniform.

Hoshi stomps on the ground, causing rock like cuffs to wrap around Rei's wrist, keeping her on the ground. When there is barely anything left of the woman's uniform, Sora returns to the scarf.

Hoshi's eyes are still red. She is absolutely furious with the woman before her. Hoshi freezes when she looks up at the big screen.

A heart laced with Life Fibers. Ryuko's heart. Hoshi looked into Ryuko's eyes, and closed her eyes as she imagined Satsuki's. Too similar. Too matched.

"For my little sister who was never given a name."

Hoshi staggered back, before she fell back. She shook as she held her head in her hands, and Sora returned to her scarf.

"Sisters. My cousins. I almost killed my cousin. I went against what I had vowed to never do or be the reason of." Hoshi muttered, as she started rock back and forth, muttering to herself.

"Pick her up! She's having a mental breakdown!" Aikuro shouted. Inumuta turned his head and saw the figure curled up and rocking back and forth. The assistant was missing from her rock cuffs, but that wasn't his concern.

As quick as he could, he quickly swept Hoshi into his arms. He returned to the rest of the Elite Four, who stared in complete awe at Ryuko, who was, to say the least, shocked. Then, the academy exploded.