This is the continuation of 'In search of rain.' I hope you enjoy it as much as I have righting it. Please give me your thought's on it.
Siren
Drowning in tear's of blood Ch 1
I stepped out of the car and into the school yard, I was wearing one of the beautiful maiko furisode's I had salvaged from my … A year ago. This one was a gawjuss chocolate brown whith an olive green lining whith bamboo and sparrow motif woven on. I had paired it whith a gold and purple obi tyed in the Darai musubi. My hair was in light of the outfit in the style of a Juniour maiko whith the respective kanzashi's and my face painted white whith the shiro nuri face make up ( I would be wearing the senior maiko outfit tomorrow and the next day I would dress as a geiko). I was wearing this, not so I ended up whith stuff thrown at me, but because we were having a cultural fair on the oval, people and school's from all over the country were making there way here for the entertainment and experience. We had several different secion's each representing a different coulture. These included China (Run by the Chinese exchange student's), Africa ( by some of the refugee's at our school), Tsumalia, Australia (By theaboriginal student's at the school) And Japan (By the Japanese student's) I was in charge of running the Japanese section, and had pretty much organized the whole festival. All of the particapent' wore tradition costume, and stall's were selling tradition food and drink, along with fizzy drink's . We had the stall's set up to look like street's. and several of the classroom's had been decorate to look like traditional housing by the wood work and metal's engineering kid's. I smiled as I grabbed the boxes' of stuff out the boot of my car and headed to the classroom I was organizing everything from.
People shouted hello as I walked past, and a couple of the guy's ran to get more of the stuff out of the car. I reached the classroom fairly quickly, it was one of the 7 disguised as traditional Japanese house's. This one even had the little veranda, I slipped my okobu off as I stepped onto the veranda and walked inside. I placed the box on the floor with a thud and stood up straight. I had 2 hour's before we opened to the public. That would hopefully be enough time to get everything finished, and everyone dressed in there period wear. I had been sowing madly for maybe the last month, with the sowing class helping out, hair and beauty were already there helping put on the makeup and some of the odd hairstyle's needed for some of the outfit's. I started setting stuff out in pile's, corresponding with what went different thing's. The boy's arrived shortly after and after setting down the boxes found there stuff and began to change. One of the was dressing as a samurai that looked like he had stepped out of a kabuki play. I wrapped his hair back with a hair net and a bandage, then applied the shuri nuri makeup, followed by the red eyeliner, making his eye's look angry, then the red lipstick. He then got up and I helped with his costume. I slid his fake sword's in and told him with a grin "Done, come back if anything go's wrong." From then for the next hour I was bombarded with wardrobe problem's and dressing issues. I had to help most of the girl's with there kimono's, and then several other's with there respective outfit's. There was half an hour left when everyone was dressed and ready. People were still rushing around outside setting up fro some of the re-enactment's we were having, and the drama kid's were rehearsing there line's.
"G where are the money tin's I need to hand them out."
"First let's get you dressed." I said as I dragged her over to put on her Meiji period school uniform. I pulled her hair up to imitate one they used to wear. Then I handed her a large box with all the money tin's. "Remind them to keep track of what they sell." I called as she headed out the door. I began to pack all of the boxes' behind the shogi before making shore everything was in place. This was headquarters' for the next 3 day's.
I stepped outside just as the clock struck 8:30 and people were let threw. I headed towards the stage which was on the ate edge of the school, were I picked up my shaimisen and began to play. I smiled as I watched people come through and began to stand around the stage while they waited for us to begin the opening. Chair's had been set up and the seating totalled at maybe 1500 chair's People sat down and got comfortable as they waited for 9:00 when we would begin the proceeding's. The staff (student's and teacher's involved.) Gathered around the back of the stage waiting for there turn. Some of the dancer's came onstage as I began a Chinese song, I plucked the string's and sang out in Chinese to the delight of the audience. Many of them were already tacking photos. Finally the clock struck 9 and the principal came onstage to begin a quick welcome speech. I stood, to put my Shaimisen on it's stand before taking a seat next to the other speaker's. I was last up and there were 6 speech's in all I waited patiently while the other's said there piece before standing up to do my own spiel. About half way though my piece I saw some one standing aside from the crowd that I knew shouldn't be there. I quickened my pace and thanked everyone before opening the carnival with a big smile and wide arms. I walked off stage and Gene and Carl began to flank me. "So you saw him to?" I asked as we headed in the demon's last seen direction.
"Course we did those thing' are hard to miss."
"God. Why did they have to breach now?"
""Why do you think. Come on let's get him outta the way quickly."
A whole year had passed since the day I had returned from my exile, since I had spent much of my time travelling to separate dimension's. I had found that not only was there one for every thought or move you could take but all though or any type of media they was different to our reality. That meant I could travel into the dimension of novel's or a T.V. show. And even these dimension's had sub dimension's and so on. Although to my mind, my dimension was the bas dimension, then came sub dimension's and then branch dimension's and so on. The list kept growing. I could control these to a certain degree, via speed of time passing in comparison to the base dimension, and so on. Demon's couldn't move between the dimension's without this power, so I had been safe. Until they found several amulet's that my predecessor had left behind infused with the power and they had begun to send army's after me all hoping to kill me for my power. Actually butcher would be a more appropriate word, but hey. Anyway I had slew all of the one's thy had sent against me, but they were slowly getting higher and higher ranked. Also the problem with demon's is they just don't die. Even if you kill them they just go back to hell and wait a year before they can breach again. I had begun frequenting certain world's to check that things were running smoothly. If they weren't it was my job to intervene. I had made several friend's but more often than not enemy's.
We finally caught up with the demon, and he smiled as we faced him and drew our weapon's.
"Ah so even the great Katana must still bow to our insignificant breaches'." He said as he widened his arm's and faced his palm's towards us.
"If you have finished mocking us then I would like to be finished with this quickly." I told him, then lunged. The speed of my attack stunned him, as I flew at him and cleanly sliced his head off and sheathed my sword in one quick flash. The body crumpled then disintegrated. I nodded to my friend's and we hurried back to work. As I walked I remembered I hadn't returned to the Kenshin world since I had left back then. I had travelled maybe 1000 year's in the time since. But only 1 year had passed here . It was interesting to note these small things's as I worked. Little change's they could mean big. The magic kept me well healed, and no matter how severe if given a week the injury would heal. Except for the scar's on my left arm. The had not dulled and I always kept it bandaged to hid it. Not that I was ashamed, but because people got scared, or asked to many question's. It was a past I would rather forget.
The rest of the day went quickly as I made shore thing's were running smoothly.
That night as I took my makeup off I began to feel something of in one of the second dimension's.
"Oh great, who comes up with their timing?" I groaned and went to changed into my hakama and haori. The second I had my sword's in my belt, I left, one step threw the portal to another world. I didn't take much note of which world I was going through.
Before me know stood a massive group of people, all dressed for battle. But my instinct's told me it wasn't the army but one person in the mist of all the armour. I leaned forward, then shot forward, throwing guard's and soldier's aside with a simple nudge of my shoulder as I flew to the tent were the man sat finishing his plan's. I stopped just outside the tent and quietly walked in.
"So you are the man that needed my assistance." I asked my voice in it's usual low menacing tone. He stood bolt upright and worhld around, and began to stammer. "Um yes, y y your lady. I have been thrown into this rather unexpectedly, and well, I have no experience." I sighed, No sleep because of this moron? God help me.I leaned against a poll.
"Send a quarter of your troop's to the north, a quarter to the south, then shepard them east were you will have the other half of your troop's waiting. DO NOT call me again for these trivial thing's." I turned heel and walked through the portal. To him I just disappeared. "Time for an adventure."