Crane
Suzu felt the cold breeze and she shrouded herself in the blanket she was holding. She wrapped herself tightly. Why did she have to run away? She felt a raindrop on her head. It was like the sky was reading her mind she wanted to cry, but she had to remain strong. She hugged her suitcase close to her body to comfort her as it rained violently all around her. It wasn't as carefree as she thought it would be. Now, she was stuck on the highway.
She was only 14 years old, yet nieve in every way. She was alone, sad, and had innocent yellow eyes. But her eyes could never tell you what she had done. Now, she had to run away, run away forever. It was horrible.
It all started when her mother died because she was mugged by street-tough kids that lurked in the alleys. Her father was so angry, he decided to train his daughter to be a killer fighter, and to even create killing balls of energy, all so she would be able to defend herself if the same thing ever happened to her. She was trained for seven years, and on her fourteenth birthday, she was sent to a fighting contest, her final test.
She was an amazing fighter, she was powerful and had grace and knowledge to back it up. She was also talented in the arts, she was pretty, and she was always class president. But that day, her power over come her. She saw her opponent, he looked just like the man convicted of killing her mother. Angered, she released her power. She punched him in the face several times and then grabbed him by the head, swung him around, and threw him. Later that day, he was found to be unconscious, or at least they thought he was. Later, he was pronounced dead. After being put on trial, while the jury were trying to find a verdict, Suzu did some research and found out the man was on drugs before his death. So she knew she did not kill him. Yet, it was too late to present to the court, so Suzu turned to her last resort........ run away.
She sat in the rain as her clothes dampened. She hugged her knees tightly. Then, a blue car came by. It headlights shined in her face. She knew this was a great opportunity. "Hello! Please stop!" she yelled as she waved her hand at the driver. The driver was a young man, about her age.
"Can I help you Miss?"
"Um, duh? It's raining, I'm wearing shorts, I'm curled up on the side of the highway, and I'm drenched. I couldn't be better sorry to bother you." She sarcastically said.
"Sorry, come on in." He stepped out and opened the door for Suzu. He was tall and blond. His blue eyes glistened from the moonlight. Suzu knew he was definitely a jerk. All good looking guys were either gay or were jerks. Well, usually. "My name is Mori. Please enjoy your ride." Suzu stepped in. Soon, they were off to Mori's house.
Suzu took the blanket off her shoulders, then she took it off the whole way. She shivered. Mori looked in the rearview mirror and turned on the heater. "You cold?"
"Are you this weak, or are you making a special effort today??" Mori laughed it off and tossed her his jacket. Suzu shivered some more. She knew she shouldn't have worn shorts and a T-shirt. Mori stopped in front of a Yamato style house. Mori again opened the door for Suzu. He took her upstairs and showed her a room. He opened it. There was a computer, bed, and table. Pretty much it.
"This is my room. You'll have to sleep here. All the other rooms are rented out. You can sleep on the bed. I'll sleep on the floor."
"What do you mean rented out??"
"There are other young girls I rescued. They say they were accused of killing a man in a fighting tournament." Suzu gasped. "Hehe, familiar story eh?? Their names are Michocho, Riri, Kasumi and Hikari. You are?"
"Suzu. Just Suzu."
"Nice name. You must be a crane eh?"
:"How'd you know?"
"All the crane girls are either Suzu or something close to that." Suzu laughed and remembered, her name meant crane. That night, when she went to sleep, Suzu got a suspicion that Mori wasn't what he was made out to be.
Suzu walked down the stairs to go to the pond and take a hot bath. Suddenly, an odango amata girl popped in front of her face. "Ahhhh!" Suzu screamed and fell on her back. She looked up and saw a redheaded, brown eyed, bimbo."
"Hi! I'm Michocho!" The curly bangs that seemed to sit right on top of the bubbly girl's head bounced up and down as she ran towards Suzu.
"Um, hi."
"Hehe, what cha' want for breakfast? It's a nice day today, I suggest pancakes!"
"Very well, that's what I'll have," she Suzu. She followed Michocho to the daidokoro. Michocho was cooking pancakes. There were three other girls at the table.
"You must be Suzu," said a pink haired girl. She had purple eyes and an odd hair style. Her pink locks were put in a ponytail, then clipped to the back of her head, and divided into three so she looked like she had a spider hanging form her head.
"Yes, yes I am. You are?"
"Kasumi. The greatest genius in the galaxy!" she boasted. She leaned the side of her face on her hand, which was on the table, and smiled.
"Hi! I'm Hikari! I'll show you around town today!" a young girl exclaimed. She was blond and had brown eyes. She looked almost like Michocho, for she too had curly bangs. But, her hair was worn down and it was curly at the end.
"Hi! Are you and Michocho sisters?"
"No. We're twins!" she said. Suzu got a sweatdrop and Kasumi fell down. Another girl look very annoyed. Her eyes were narrowed to a slit.
"YOU ARE SUCH A DITZ HIKARI!" she yelled. She had spiky purple hair which was tied back into a but, but the spikes still stuck out, making a very pretty bun. "Oh sorry to not introduce myself, I'm Riri."
"Oh, hi Riri." She said. She shook hands with all the girls except for Michocho, who was still cooking the pancakes. Soon breakfast was ready.
"I'll go get Mori!" said Hikari. She ran up the stairs. "Aahhhhhhh!" she screamed. Her foot was stuck underneath a step. She tried to pull it out by going backwards while pulling her leg. It came loose with a pop. "Aaaaaaahhhhhh!" she fell down the stairs. When, she landed, her eyes swirled around and she had landed on her head.
"I'll go get Mori," said a frustrated Kasumi. She ran up the stairs, (yes, she had stepped on Hikari), then, she got tired and flew up the steps. Soon, Mori came down with Kasumi flying down with him.
"Konnichi wa!" said Mori.
"KONNICHI WA!" said all the girls at once. Mori sat down and Michocho placed the pancakes on the table. Everyone immediately dug in.
Soon, the girls started heading off to work. Riri and Hikari were unemployed. They stole things, so they REALLY DID belong in jail. Just not for the charges they faced. Michocho was a vet. She took care of animals and could solve every problem that was brought to her. Kasumi studied all day for a way to give humans the ability to fly. She was really close to perfection, but there was a little bit she needed to add to her theory. She already explained it o Suzu, but Suzu didn't understand much of it. Mori was a student in school. Suzu had absolutely nothing to do.
She sat down and decided to sleep. A few hours later, someone rushed in a woke her up. "SUZU!" yelled a familiar voice. Suzu opened her eyes and saw the blonde bimbo, Hikari, again.
"Errr, for goodness sakes Hikari! I said it was urgent but not THAT urgent." said Riri.
"I'm very sorry Riri!" Hikari hugged Riri's legs and started crying. Then, she stopped. "Hey! That sounds cool! Sorry, Riri!" Hikari laughed and laughed while Suzu just stared.
"Whatever," said Suzu. She used her psychic powers to go into Hikari's brain. "Yowza! It's a mess in there!"
"That's what Mori said when he saw her. She's crazy. Anyway, you have to eat lunch. Since Michocho's not here, you'll have to go with...." Riri paused. "HER." Suzu fell down.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN WITH HER!" Riri shrugged.
"I'm sorry, but I'm just too busy!"
"Stealing stuff!?"
"Um, yeah, bye-bye Suzu!" Riri hurriedly ran out the door. Kasumi got out of her lab.
"She's like that. Always made me watch Hikari. Now it's your turn. Take it as a welcoming gift from her." Kasumi smiled and started giving a catlike expression. "Just hope it isn't as long as mine was." Kasumi cackled while Suzu got a sweatdrop. "Oh sorry," said the pinkhaired genius.
Suzu looked at Hikari, who was making puppy dog eyes. "All right," she sighed. They went out the door. A guy attacked them.
"GIVE ME ALL YOUR MONEY!" he yelled.
"THUNDER RING STRIKE!" Hikari threw a ring of electricity at the guy. He fell down with an explosion. "So what do you want for lunch huh Suzu, huh?" she exclaimed as if nothing at all had happened. Suzu got another sweatdrop. She'd need a bucket soon. Hikari could walked through a green light, almost get hit, and not notice. It was amazing that she could remember the name of her attack. Suzu shrugged.
"Is tempura fine?" Hikari nodded and grabbed Suzu.
"Come on!" They were headed off to the great tea house of Jinichi-san. There, they ate and dined on tempura. Suzu saw a bottle of sake. She began dripping at the mouth.
"Hikari, look.....sake."
"You're bad Suzu!" Suzu just laughed and stretched herself when Jinichi-san was sipping tea. Suzu reached for the bottle, ready to chug down. THWAP! Jinichi-san had a fan in her hand and had slapped Suzu's hand.
"Ow!" she screamed.
"Serves you right!" said Jinichi-san. Did I mention how Jinichi-san looked like? No? Okay, she was a young priestess of the temple and had a tea house to go to everyday. She had long blonde hair that was tied together at the middle. She had long, spiky bangs that hung in front of her pretty crystal blue eyes. Her full name was really Karin Jinichi, even though hardly anyone called her that, she liked being called that anyway.
"Now. I will take this sake away." She grabbed the sake and drank some. Suzu started watering at the mouth again. When Jinichi-san saw her, she stopped chugging, turned around, and started chugging again. "Ahh!" she said when she finished. She ran to a different part of the tea house to put the bottle away and then she came back.
"You shouldn't be drinking that either!" yelled Hikari. Who as usual, had a delayed reaction to Jinichi-San's actions. "I mean, how old ARE you!?" she demanded an answer.
"Um," she got a sweatdrop. "17" she answered.
"SEE!" yelled Hikari. She grabbed a fan and tried hitting Jinichi-san.
"Stop it! Your messing up my kimono!" yelled Jinichi-san.
"Then tell us your first name. We're all teenagers. I think we should know each other's name." suggested Suzu.
"Oh, great idea Suzu!" said Hikari. "I'll start. I'm Hikari!" Suzu and Jinichi-san did the anime fall.
"I'm uh, Karin." Said Jinichi-san.
"Oh. That's a nice name!" said Suzu. Soon, her and Karin had become friends. Then, after talking for a while, Suzu and Hikari got dressed back into their casual clothes and left. "Bye Karin!"
"Yeah, bye!" sided Hikari. Karin happily waved bye to the two.
Mayuki laughed evilly as she looked into her psychic ball. "Very good work Karin. Let's see those pesky rats be extinguished. too bad that Suzu person doesn't know her real power. Such a pity." She cackled and turned to her sidekick, Kei. "Kei, how shall I command Karin to kill Suzu?"
"Hmmm, create a black hole of death, suck her in, and she will be lost for eternity."
"Hmm, nice idea Kei. In fact, that's what I'll do." Mayuki smiled and looked out the window of her spaceship. She laughed evilly.
"Hi! I'm Nurse Michocho! How can I help you?"
"My bird is choking!"
"I'm on it!" Michocho grabbed a miniature chair and took out the canary. She pressed the canary's stomach against the chair and a food pellet came out.
"Oh thank you Nurse Michocho!" The woman left and Michocho's customers were all one. She sat back and relaxed. A purplehaired woman ran in the door.
"Michocho! Your sister disappeared!"
"What!?" she quickly got up and asked Riri.
"I was just scolding her for trying to steal a steamroller, and then she disappeared!" Michocho gasped.
"Wasn't she with Suzu?"
"Suzu came home and Hikari went to me. Then she just vanished!" Michocho and Riri stared at each other in horror. Michocho bit her nails. She was struck with deep horror.
Kasumi and Suzu just heard the news. They needed help. At once, Suzu recommended the services of Karin. They called her and she rushed over right away.
Karin ran in the door. "WHERE'S THE EMERGENCY!? HOW ARE MY SERVICES NEEDED!?" she yelled. Then, she saw Mori standing in the corner of the room. "Oh, pardon me. Where are my manners? Hi Mori! Hi Kasumi!" They bowed. and smiled.
"Karin, Hikari has disappeared!" yelled Kasumi. Karin gasped and put her hand over her mouth.
"Oh my goodness!" she paced back and forth, trying to find a solution.
"Riri, you won't believe this," said Michocho. She held up her hand for Riri to see. Riri expected to see Michocho's thin, nail polished, pale-colored hand, but instead, she saw that Michocho's hand was flashing. It was turning invisible, visible, invisible, visible and so on.
"Michocho!" she screamed.
"Oh no! Not my legs too!" Riri looked behind the counter. Indeed, Michocho's slim legs were dissolving.
"No! You can't vanish too!" Riri tried to grab at Michocho's hips but missed. She watched as Michocho's torso began fading away too. "No!" She tried to hug Michocho. Riri found her self leaning over a counter hugging air. Michocho was gone.
Kasumi, Suzu, Mori, and Karin were arguing how to find Hikari. The phone rang and Kasumi answered it. "Hello? Riri? No, you don't say. Be on your way here as soon as possible!" Kasumi's voice was full of sadness. "MICHOCHO'S GONE TOO!" she announced. Everyone gasped.
Fifteen minutes later, Riri arrived. "No!" she screamed as she ran through the sliding door, causing it to rip. "Whoops. Oh well," she said as she looked back. "I'VE LOST MY BEST FRIEND AND HER SISTER TOO!"
"Hmmmm, I wonder which is your best friends? Hikari or Michocho? I mean, I didn't know you were actually FOND of Hikari one bit," snickered Kasumi.
"SHUT UP SNEEZE BALL!" Riri shot back. Kasumi stuck out her tongue. Riri slapped her. Kasumi slapped one side of her face, then the other. Then, both took out fans and slapped each other in the face.
"STOP FOOLING AROUND!" screamed Karin. "I need to think."
"Why don't you use the spell book?'" asked Suzu. Karin smiled and cast a spell. A book appeared and she was ready to search. Mori looked at Suzu. What a beautiful specimen. In fact, all the women in the house, oh, and not forget Hikari and Michocho, were beautiful. But there was a special glow about Suzu. In her eyes, her smile, her every move and sway. He smiled at the thought of kissing her ruby lips. His thoughts were cut off when Karin found the solution.
"I've got it!" She found an article on: Family Disappearances. It said:
Family Differences
When more than one person has disappeared and the people are all siblings, this is a purposely done action. A force is developed to suck in only creatures of a certain time period with a certain DNA.
"Wow!" said Kasumi with googly eyes. She smiled and grabbed her laptop. "I think a dimensional black hole trigger cannon was needed to develop our massive force. This force is so powerful, it only sucks up the aim of the person who triggered it. So according to my calculations, we should track all space-related fields of energy that have been opened or have occurred by cannon, black holes, and forces of places in which could materialize people and transport them! I've got it all summed up in one question." She turned to Suzu.
"Yes," said Suzu with a curious smile.
"Where were they born?" said Kasumi as she smiled sweetly.
"WHERE WERE THEY BORN!?" Kasumi nodded. "Um, Zokoromi" said Suzu rapidly.
"What?"
"Zokoromi."
"What?"
"ZO-KO-RO-MI!" Kasumi growled.
"Thank you Suzu-Chan!" She input the data. "Transported beam!" A giant machine landed in the room.
"What's this?" asked Mori.
"It's a teleporting machine!" exclaimed Kasumi. "Jump in everyone!" Everyone jumped in. Soon, they found themselves on the asteroid city, Zokoromi. Kasumi got out her laptop. "Now which way? Left or right?" She scanned the map on the screen. Suzu plastered her face on a window and saw the stars.
"They're so beautiful," she smiled and glanced at Mori's reflection. He was smiling at her. "What are you looking at?" she said as she turned around. Mori said nothing and turned around, still smiling. Karin laughed.
"Sorry Kasumi. Got to go! My master is calling me!" she said.
"Master!? What master!?" Said Riri.
"That's what you have to find out." Karin transformed and teleported. Riri was driven to the point of insanity. She had to rescue Hikari and Michocho.
Mayuki cackled. "Let me out!" screamed Michocho as she squirmed. She looked at Hikari. Hikari was staring out the window.
"Ohhhh, pretty stars." She mumbled.
"HIKARI! TRY TO GET LOOSE!" Michocho yelled. Hikari squirmed too. Michocho tried to undo the ropes.
"Now I shall get rid of you! Kei, please kill them." Mayuki transformed and teleported.
"No!" don't leave me!" screamed Kei. "Oh well," she begrudgingly said. "Prepare to die!" she screamed. She ran at them, her long brown braids hung from behind her. "Braided beam!" She shot a huge beam at Michocho.
"No!" Hikari screamed. She jumped in front of Michocho. She got hit by the measly beam.
"Hikari, you saved my life," smiled Michocho. Then, all of a sudden, the look on her face turned into a mad one. "HIKARI!" she scolded. "You're free!?" Hikari stood a bit clueless, then she turned and nodded. "UNTIE ME YOU KNUCKLE HEAD!" Hikari immediately set to work and soon had set Michocho free. "Heart transformation complete!" Michocho transformed.
"Lightning transformation complete!" Hikari transformed.
"Heart demolition destroy!" A giant heart shaped beam shot at Kei. Kei easily dodged it.
"Braids surround!" Braids surrounded Michocho. Michocho asked for her sister's assistance.
"Right." Hikari adjusted her baseball cap. She then threw it off and focused her energy. "Lightning gun fire!" A gun appeared in her hand and she shot several times at the braids. She cut the hair in half and the remaining bit around Michocho disappeared. The three engaged in battle.
Kasumi, Riri, Suzu, and Mori raced down the maze. They soon found a huge door. "Now, what could the code be?" said Kasumi as she rubbed her chin. She took out her laptop and calculated things and punched different keys.
"Just what are you doing?" asked Suzu.
"It's a computer only I can understand," said Kasumi with a smirk. She went up to the number pa on the door and punched in '34512.' The door opened. "Am I a genius or what?" smiled Kasumi. She then was shocked by what she saw.
"Hikari!" yelled Riri. She transformed and dove in front of Hikari to shield her from Kei's long braids. The braid wrapped around her arm and tightened.
"Fire transformation complete!" Kasumi transformed. "Fire circle surround!!!" A ring of fire appeared around the braids and it became smaller and smaller till it burned right through Kei's braid. The rest of the hair disappeared.
"Anata abazureon 'na!" screamed Kei. She held her burnt hair in her hand. She wanted revenge. Just then, Karin came in. She was in a pink body suit, similar to the others.
"Stop Kei," she said. "Do not harm them sister," she calmly ordered the braided monster. Kei backed down and got out of fighting stance. Karin gave a stern look to all seven of them. "Now remember, I want nothing more than your safety. Just follow me and...." she was rudely interrupted. Mayuki appeared through the teleporter. She knocked Karin down as she appeared. Karin lifted herself of the ground and turned around to see the evil little imp.
"No one is safe. Not even you Karin, and not your puny sister either. Kei! I thought I told you to kill them!" It was clear that Mayuki was enraged. She smiled and evil smile. "Mystery Sacrifice!" She shot out a small beam. It zoomed all around the place and then shot towards Mori.
"No!" Everyone turned and saw the voice had come out of the lips of Mori's old friend, Karin. Karin got on her feet and ran to Mori. "No, Mori!" She jumped in front of him in the nick of time and was struck by the small beam. Yet, Karin did not die. Instead, she had bounced off the beam into oblivion.
"Karin!" snapped Mayuki.
"I won't let you hurt Mori," she said with tears in her eyes. She was about to collapse from exhaustion, but Mori caught her before she fell.
"What's everyone standing around for? Attack!" yelled Kasumi. She ran toward Mayuki and shot fireballs at her. Mayuki shielded herself with her bat wings, but some fire seeped through and singed her. Mayuki winced.
"Psychic rock!" Riri threw a massive ball of psychic energy to Mayuki. Mayuki absorbed it and became a bit stronger.
"Great job." Snorted Suzu. She crossed her arms. Then, she noticed something, she had transformed too! She was astonished to find herself in a sky blue body suit. Mayuki laughed evilly.
"For once YOU did something stupid," said Hikari with a laugh. She started her own attack. "LIGHTNING..." then, someone cut in.
"ICE BOMBER!" Suzu had cast her own attack first, it collided with the thunder, making a dangerous piece of ice. The electric currents buzzed around it and it hit Mayuki. Mayuki was electrocuted and hit badly. She fell down.
"Nice job," whispered Mori. He stepped up to plate. "SWORD OF LOBSTER REVIVE!" a sword appeared in his hand. It had a weird looking handle with arms and legs, and feelers. Mori was dressed in a red body suit. He smiled as if he had a great plan and Mayuki was no match for him. He ran up to her, sword raised. He hit her and she fell down.
:"That hurt," she whispered. Mori laughed. Then, he stopped laughing when the sword crumbled into pieces.
"Aaaahhhh!" he screamed. Mayuki grabbed his foot. Mori got scared and with great agility, he escaped. He just knew that sword Karin gave him was rigged. But then, his true power appeared. A weird feeling came over his arms. He raised them and thunder lived in his voice as he prepared another attack. "SWORD OF MAGIC APPEAR!" a magical sword, that consisted of five colors appeared. He slashed Mayuki. "HEART SLASH!" he yelled. Then, he realized he had made a big mistake.
"Mori?" a girl's voice asked. It was Mayuki! The dark-haired odango amata with braided odangos was now in love with him! Soon, Kei kinda showed a little admiration for him. He smacked his face. Another voice came out. There was a small girl, about the age of twelve. She had long, pink hair and shimmering blue eyes. She wore a kimono that looked like the one Kasumi was in when Mori first found her. She was sweet-looking yet you could tell she was intelligent and powerful by the look in her eyes. Her hair was worn in two little pigtails and she had short bans. Where had this girl came from?
"Kasumi! Where have you been all this time!?" asked the girl as she put her hands on her hips. Kasumi got a sweatdrop.
"Ehhehehehehe, Kakani? I never expected you.....here." said the genius.
"You mean, THAT'S Kakani, your little sister?" asked Michocho.
"Yes," Kasumi got another sweatdrop and she seemed to be clenching a fist down near her legs so no one could see what she doing with her fist. She was hitting her thigh, getting ready for scolding the little girl. "KAKANI! I THOUGHT YOU WERE WITH MOTHER!" she got really mad. Kakani cocked her head to the side, got an empty look on her face, and got a huge sweatdrop.
"Kasumi, you're embarrassing me." Suzu knew she shouldn't do it. She just knew it, but she couldn't help herself. She ran up to Kakani and pulled her cheeks a little, pulled her hair, and stared in her eyes. She cracked up.
"I agree with Michocho, THIS IS YOUR LITTLE SISTER!" she choked as she laughed and rolled on the floor. She got up, and held her belly to hold in her laughter. But it just wouldn't stop. Suzu was thwacked with a huge fan. She was hit in the face by Kakani.
"NO ONE, makes fun of me." Suzu laughed again.
"What you gonna do...TWIT?" Suzu was smacked in the face by an incredibly large fireball. Kasumi got up in her face, her eyes full of anger.
"No one mocks my little Kakani." She said. She got out of Suzu's face, and dropped her to the floor.
"Can I help you up?' mocked Mori.
"Shut up lobster boy." Suzu got up herself and saw Kasumi and Kakani.
Kakani shook Kasumi by the shoulders. "Why didn't you come back?" she yelled with the same look in her eyes as Kasumi had on when she was scolding Suzu. Kasumi had that look too. Kasumi shook her little sister by the shoulders too.
"Why didn't you wait?" then, their looks of anger turned to looks of sweetness and their eyes sparkled and shone.
"KAKANI!"
"KASUMI!" they cried as they hugged each other.
"THAT'S SO SWEET!" said Michocho and Hikari.
"No wonder you two are related," said Suzu and Riri at the same time. They smiled at each other. Karin stayed silent for a while, all throughout the sobbing of Kasumi and Kakani. When the two sisters paused to look in each others eyes, Karin spoke up.
"I'm sorry," she whispered. Kei apologized too. They were forgiven.
Suzu felt the cold breeze and she shrouded herself in the blanket she was holding. She wrapped herself tightly. Why did she have to run away? She felt a raindrop on her head. It was like the sky was reading her mind she wanted to cry, but she had to remain strong. She hugged her suitcase close to her body to comfort her as it rained violently all around her. It wasn't as carefree as she thought it would be. Now, she was stuck on the highway.
She was only 14 years old, yet nieve in every way. She was alone, sad, and had innocent yellow eyes. But her eyes could never tell you what she had done. Now, she had to run away, run away forever. It was horrible.
It all started when her mother died because she was mugged by street-tough kids that lurked in the alleys. Her father was so angry, he decided to train his daughter to be a killer fighter, and to even create killing balls of energy, all so she would be able to defend herself if the same thing ever happened to her. She was trained for seven years, and on her fourteenth birthday, she was sent to a fighting contest, her final test.
She was an amazing fighter, she was powerful and had grace and knowledge to back it up. She was also talented in the arts, she was pretty, and she was always class president. But that day, her power over come her. She saw her opponent, he looked just like the man convicted of killing her mother. Angered, she released her power. She punched him in the face several times and then grabbed him by the head, swung him around, and threw him. Later that day, he was found to be unconscious, or at least they thought he was. Later, he was pronounced dead. After being put on trial, while the jury were trying to find a verdict, Suzu did some research and found out the man was on drugs before his death. So she knew she did not kill him. Yet, it was too late to present to the court, so Suzu turned to her last resort........ run away.
She sat in the rain as her clothes dampened. She hugged her knees tightly. Then, a blue car came by. It headlights shined in her face. She knew this was a great opportunity. "Hello! Please stop!" she yelled as she waved her hand at the driver. The driver was a young man, about her age.
"Can I help you Miss?"
"Um, duh? It's raining, I'm wearing shorts, I'm curled up on the side of the highway, and I'm drenched. I couldn't be better sorry to bother you." She sarcastically said.
"Sorry, come on in." He stepped out and opened the door for Suzu. He was tall and blond. His blue eyes glistened from the moonlight. Suzu knew he was definitely a jerk. All good looking guys were either gay or were jerks. Well, usually. "My name is Mori. Please enjoy your ride." Suzu stepped in. Soon, they were off to Mori's house.
Suzu took the blanket off her shoulders, then she took it off the whole way. She shivered. Mori looked in the rearview mirror and turned on the heater. "You cold?"
"Are you this weak, or are you making a special effort today??" Mori laughed it off and tossed her his jacket. Suzu shivered some more. She knew she shouldn't have worn shorts and a T-shirt. Mori stopped in front of a Yamato style house. Mori again opened the door for Suzu. He took her upstairs and showed her a room. He opened it. There was a computer, bed, and table. Pretty much it.
"This is my room. You'll have to sleep here. All the other rooms are rented out. You can sleep on the bed. I'll sleep on the floor."
"What do you mean rented out??"
"There are other young girls I rescued. They say they were accused of killing a man in a fighting tournament." Suzu gasped. "Hehe, familiar story eh?? Their names are Michocho, Riri, Kasumi and Hikari. You are?"
"Suzu. Just Suzu."
"Nice name. You must be a crane eh?"
:"How'd you know?"
"All the crane girls are either Suzu or something close to that." Suzu laughed and remembered, her name meant crane. That night, when she went to sleep, Suzu got a suspicion that Mori wasn't what he was made out to be.
Suzu walked down the stairs to go to the pond and take a hot bath. Suddenly, an odango amata girl popped in front of her face. "Ahhhh!" Suzu screamed and fell on her back. She looked up and saw a redheaded, brown eyed, bimbo."
"Hi! I'm Michocho!" The curly bangs that seemed to sit right on top of the bubbly girl's head bounced up and down as she ran towards Suzu.
"Um, hi."
"Hehe, what cha' want for breakfast? It's a nice day today, I suggest pancakes!"
"Very well, that's what I'll have," she Suzu. She followed Michocho to the daidokoro. Michocho was cooking pancakes. There were three other girls at the table.
"You must be Suzu," said a pink haired girl. She had purple eyes and an odd hair style. Her pink locks were put in a ponytail, then clipped to the back of her head, and divided into three so she looked like she had a spider hanging form her head.
"Yes, yes I am. You are?"
"Kasumi. The greatest genius in the galaxy!" she boasted. She leaned the side of her face on her hand, which was on the table, and smiled.
"Hi! I'm Hikari! I'll show you around town today!" a young girl exclaimed. She was blond and had brown eyes. She looked almost like Michocho, for she too had curly bangs. But, her hair was worn down and it was curly at the end.
"Hi! Are you and Michocho sisters?"
"No. We're twins!" she said. Suzu got a sweatdrop and Kasumi fell down. Another girl look very annoyed. Her eyes were narrowed to a slit.
"YOU ARE SUCH A DITZ HIKARI!" she yelled. She had spiky purple hair which was tied back into a but, but the spikes still stuck out, making a very pretty bun. "Oh sorry to not introduce myself, I'm Riri."
"Oh, hi Riri." She said. She shook hands with all the girls except for Michocho, who was still cooking the pancakes. Soon breakfast was ready.
"I'll go get Mori!" said Hikari. She ran up the stairs. "Aahhhhhhh!" she screamed. Her foot was stuck underneath a step. She tried to pull it out by going backwards while pulling her leg. It came loose with a pop. "Aaaaaaahhhhhh!" she fell down the stairs. When, she landed, her eyes swirled around and she had landed on her head.
"I'll go get Mori," said a frustrated Kasumi. She ran up the stairs, (yes, she had stepped on Hikari), then, she got tired and flew up the steps. Soon, Mori came down with Kasumi flying down with him.
"Konnichi wa!" said Mori.
"KONNICHI WA!" said all the girls at once. Mori sat down and Michocho placed the pancakes on the table. Everyone immediately dug in.
Soon, the girls started heading off to work. Riri and Hikari were unemployed. They stole things, so they REALLY DID belong in jail. Just not for the charges they faced. Michocho was a vet. She took care of animals and could solve every problem that was brought to her. Kasumi studied all day for a way to give humans the ability to fly. She was really close to perfection, but there was a little bit she needed to add to her theory. She already explained it o Suzu, but Suzu didn't understand much of it. Mori was a student in school. Suzu had absolutely nothing to do.
She sat down and decided to sleep. A few hours later, someone rushed in a woke her up. "SUZU!" yelled a familiar voice. Suzu opened her eyes and saw the blonde bimbo, Hikari, again.
"Errr, for goodness sakes Hikari! I said it was urgent but not THAT urgent." said Riri.
"I'm very sorry Riri!" Hikari hugged Riri's legs and started crying. Then, she stopped. "Hey! That sounds cool! Sorry, Riri!" Hikari laughed and laughed while Suzu just stared.
"Whatever," said Suzu. She used her psychic powers to go into Hikari's brain. "Yowza! It's a mess in there!"
"That's what Mori said when he saw her. She's crazy. Anyway, you have to eat lunch. Since Michocho's not here, you'll have to go with...." Riri paused. "HER." Suzu fell down.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN WITH HER!" Riri shrugged.
"I'm sorry, but I'm just too busy!"
"Stealing stuff!?"
"Um, yeah, bye-bye Suzu!" Riri hurriedly ran out the door. Kasumi got out of her lab.
"She's like that. Always made me watch Hikari. Now it's your turn. Take it as a welcoming gift from her." Kasumi smiled and started giving a catlike expression. "Just hope it isn't as long as mine was." Kasumi cackled while Suzu got a sweatdrop. "Oh sorry," said the pinkhaired genius.
Suzu looked at Hikari, who was making puppy dog eyes. "All right," she sighed. They went out the door. A guy attacked them.
"GIVE ME ALL YOUR MONEY!" he yelled.
"THUNDER RING STRIKE!" Hikari threw a ring of electricity at the guy. He fell down with an explosion. "So what do you want for lunch huh Suzu, huh?" she exclaimed as if nothing at all had happened. Suzu got another sweatdrop. She'd need a bucket soon. Hikari could walked through a green light, almost get hit, and not notice. It was amazing that she could remember the name of her attack. Suzu shrugged.
"Is tempura fine?" Hikari nodded and grabbed Suzu.
"Come on!" They were headed off to the great tea house of Jinichi-san. There, they ate and dined on tempura. Suzu saw a bottle of sake. She began dripping at the mouth.
"Hikari, look.....sake."
"You're bad Suzu!" Suzu just laughed and stretched herself when Jinichi-san was sipping tea. Suzu reached for the bottle, ready to chug down. THWAP! Jinichi-san had a fan in her hand and had slapped Suzu's hand.
"Ow!" she screamed.
"Serves you right!" said Jinichi-san. Did I mention how Jinichi-san looked like? No? Okay, she was a young priestess of the temple and had a tea house to go to everyday. She had long blonde hair that was tied together at the middle. She had long, spiky bangs that hung in front of her pretty crystal blue eyes. Her full name was really Karin Jinichi, even though hardly anyone called her that, she liked being called that anyway.
"Now. I will take this sake away." She grabbed the sake and drank some. Suzu started watering at the mouth again. When Jinichi-san saw her, she stopped chugging, turned around, and started chugging again. "Ahh!" she said when she finished. She ran to a different part of the tea house to put the bottle away and then she came back.
"You shouldn't be drinking that either!" yelled Hikari. Who as usual, had a delayed reaction to Jinichi-San's actions. "I mean, how old ARE you!?" she demanded an answer.
"Um," she got a sweatdrop. "17" she answered.
"SEE!" yelled Hikari. She grabbed a fan and tried hitting Jinichi-san.
"Stop it! Your messing up my kimono!" yelled Jinichi-san.
"Then tell us your first name. We're all teenagers. I think we should know each other's name." suggested Suzu.
"Oh, great idea Suzu!" said Hikari. "I'll start. I'm Hikari!" Suzu and Jinichi-san did the anime fall.
"I'm uh, Karin." Said Jinichi-san.
"Oh. That's a nice name!" said Suzu. Soon, her and Karin had become friends. Then, after talking for a while, Suzu and Hikari got dressed back into their casual clothes and left. "Bye Karin!"
"Yeah, bye!" sided Hikari. Karin happily waved bye to the two.
Mayuki laughed evilly as she looked into her psychic ball. "Very good work Karin. Let's see those pesky rats be extinguished. too bad that Suzu person doesn't know her real power. Such a pity." She cackled and turned to her sidekick, Kei. "Kei, how shall I command Karin to kill Suzu?"
"Hmmm, create a black hole of death, suck her in, and she will be lost for eternity."
"Hmm, nice idea Kei. In fact, that's what I'll do." Mayuki smiled and looked out the window of her spaceship. She laughed evilly.
"Hi! I'm Nurse Michocho! How can I help you?"
"My bird is choking!"
"I'm on it!" Michocho grabbed a miniature chair and took out the canary. She pressed the canary's stomach against the chair and a food pellet came out.
"Oh thank you Nurse Michocho!" The woman left and Michocho's customers were all one. She sat back and relaxed. A purplehaired woman ran in the door.
"Michocho! Your sister disappeared!"
"What!?" she quickly got up and asked Riri.
"I was just scolding her for trying to steal a steamroller, and then she disappeared!" Michocho gasped.
"Wasn't she with Suzu?"
"Suzu came home and Hikari went to me. Then she just vanished!" Michocho and Riri stared at each other in horror. Michocho bit her nails. She was struck with deep horror.
Kasumi and Suzu just heard the news. They needed help. At once, Suzu recommended the services of Karin. They called her and she rushed over right away.
Karin ran in the door. "WHERE'S THE EMERGENCY!? HOW ARE MY SERVICES NEEDED!?" she yelled. Then, she saw Mori standing in the corner of the room. "Oh, pardon me. Where are my manners? Hi Mori! Hi Kasumi!" They bowed. and smiled.
"Karin, Hikari has disappeared!" yelled Kasumi. Karin gasped and put her hand over her mouth.
"Oh my goodness!" she paced back and forth, trying to find a solution.
"Riri, you won't believe this," said Michocho. She held up her hand for Riri to see. Riri expected to see Michocho's thin, nail polished, pale-colored hand, but instead, she saw that Michocho's hand was flashing. It was turning invisible, visible, invisible, visible and so on.
"Michocho!" she screamed.
"Oh no! Not my legs too!" Riri looked behind the counter. Indeed, Michocho's slim legs were dissolving.
"No! You can't vanish too!" Riri tried to grab at Michocho's hips but missed. She watched as Michocho's torso began fading away too. "No!" She tried to hug Michocho. Riri found her self leaning over a counter hugging air. Michocho was gone.
Kasumi, Suzu, Mori, and Karin were arguing how to find Hikari. The phone rang and Kasumi answered it. "Hello? Riri? No, you don't say. Be on your way here as soon as possible!" Kasumi's voice was full of sadness. "MICHOCHO'S GONE TOO!" she announced. Everyone gasped.
Fifteen minutes later, Riri arrived. "No!" she screamed as she ran through the sliding door, causing it to rip. "Whoops. Oh well," she said as she looked back. "I'VE LOST MY BEST FRIEND AND HER SISTER TOO!"
"Hmmmm, I wonder which is your best friends? Hikari or Michocho? I mean, I didn't know you were actually FOND of Hikari one bit," snickered Kasumi.
"SHUT UP SNEEZE BALL!" Riri shot back. Kasumi stuck out her tongue. Riri slapped her. Kasumi slapped one side of her face, then the other. Then, both took out fans and slapped each other in the face.
"STOP FOOLING AROUND!" screamed Karin. "I need to think."
"Why don't you use the spell book?'" asked Suzu. Karin smiled and cast a spell. A book appeared and she was ready to search. Mori looked at Suzu. What a beautiful specimen. In fact, all the women in the house, oh, and not forget Hikari and Michocho, were beautiful. But there was a special glow about Suzu. In her eyes, her smile, her every move and sway. He smiled at the thought of kissing her ruby lips. His thoughts were cut off when Karin found the solution.
"I've got it!" She found an article on: Family Disappearances. It said:
Family Differences
When more than one person has disappeared and the people are all siblings, this is a purposely done action. A force is developed to suck in only creatures of a certain time period with a certain DNA.
"Wow!" said Kasumi with googly eyes. She smiled and grabbed her laptop. "I think a dimensional black hole trigger cannon was needed to develop our massive force. This force is so powerful, it only sucks up the aim of the person who triggered it. So according to my calculations, we should track all space-related fields of energy that have been opened or have occurred by cannon, black holes, and forces of places in which could materialize people and transport them! I've got it all summed up in one question." She turned to Suzu.
"Yes," said Suzu with a curious smile.
"Where were they born?" said Kasumi as she smiled sweetly.
"WHERE WERE THEY BORN!?" Kasumi nodded. "Um, Zokoromi" said Suzu rapidly.
"What?"
"Zokoromi."
"What?"
"ZO-KO-RO-MI!" Kasumi growled.
"Thank you Suzu-Chan!" She input the data. "Transported beam!" A giant machine landed in the room.
"What's this?" asked Mori.
"It's a teleporting machine!" exclaimed Kasumi. "Jump in everyone!" Everyone jumped in. Soon, they found themselves on the asteroid city, Zokoromi. Kasumi got out her laptop. "Now which way? Left or right?" She scanned the map on the screen. Suzu plastered her face on a window and saw the stars.
"They're so beautiful," she smiled and glanced at Mori's reflection. He was smiling at her. "What are you looking at?" she said as she turned around. Mori said nothing and turned around, still smiling. Karin laughed.
"Sorry Kasumi. Got to go! My master is calling me!" she said.
"Master!? What master!?" Said Riri.
"That's what you have to find out." Karin transformed and teleported. Riri was driven to the point of insanity. She had to rescue Hikari and Michocho.
Mayuki cackled. "Let me out!" screamed Michocho as she squirmed. She looked at Hikari. Hikari was staring out the window.
"Ohhhh, pretty stars." She mumbled.
"HIKARI! TRY TO GET LOOSE!" Michocho yelled. Hikari squirmed too. Michocho tried to undo the ropes.
"Now I shall get rid of you! Kei, please kill them." Mayuki transformed and teleported.
"No!" don't leave me!" screamed Kei. "Oh well," she begrudgingly said. "Prepare to die!" she screamed. She ran at them, her long brown braids hung from behind her. "Braided beam!" She shot a huge beam at Michocho.
"No!" Hikari screamed. She jumped in front of Michocho. She got hit by the measly beam.
"Hikari, you saved my life," smiled Michocho. Then, all of a sudden, the look on her face turned into a mad one. "HIKARI!" she scolded. "You're free!?" Hikari stood a bit clueless, then she turned and nodded. "UNTIE ME YOU KNUCKLE HEAD!" Hikari immediately set to work and soon had set Michocho free. "Heart transformation complete!" Michocho transformed.
"Lightning transformation complete!" Hikari transformed.
"Heart demolition destroy!" A giant heart shaped beam shot at Kei. Kei easily dodged it.
"Braids surround!" Braids surrounded Michocho. Michocho asked for her sister's assistance.
"Right." Hikari adjusted her baseball cap. She then threw it off and focused her energy. "Lightning gun fire!" A gun appeared in her hand and she shot several times at the braids. She cut the hair in half and the remaining bit around Michocho disappeared. The three engaged in battle.
Kasumi, Riri, Suzu, and Mori raced down the maze. They soon found a huge door. "Now, what could the code be?" said Kasumi as she rubbed her chin. She took out her laptop and calculated things and punched different keys.
"Just what are you doing?" asked Suzu.
"It's a computer only I can understand," said Kasumi with a smirk. She went up to the number pa on the door and punched in '34512.' The door opened. "Am I a genius or what?" smiled Kasumi. She then was shocked by what she saw.
"Hikari!" yelled Riri. She transformed and dove in front of Hikari to shield her from Kei's long braids. The braid wrapped around her arm and tightened.
"Fire transformation complete!" Kasumi transformed. "Fire circle surround!!!" A ring of fire appeared around the braids and it became smaller and smaller till it burned right through Kei's braid. The rest of the hair disappeared.
"Anata abazureon 'na!" screamed Kei. She held her burnt hair in her hand. She wanted revenge. Just then, Karin came in. She was in a pink body suit, similar to the others.
"Stop Kei," she said. "Do not harm them sister," she calmly ordered the braided monster. Kei backed down and got out of fighting stance. Karin gave a stern look to all seven of them. "Now remember, I want nothing more than your safety. Just follow me and...." she was rudely interrupted. Mayuki appeared through the teleporter. She knocked Karin down as she appeared. Karin lifted herself of the ground and turned around to see the evil little imp.
"No one is safe. Not even you Karin, and not your puny sister either. Kei! I thought I told you to kill them!" It was clear that Mayuki was enraged. She smiled and evil smile. "Mystery Sacrifice!" She shot out a small beam. It zoomed all around the place and then shot towards Mori.
"No!" Everyone turned and saw the voice had come out of the lips of Mori's old friend, Karin. Karin got on her feet and ran to Mori. "No, Mori!" She jumped in front of him in the nick of time and was struck by the small beam. Yet, Karin did not die. Instead, she had bounced off the beam into oblivion.
"Karin!" snapped Mayuki.
"I won't let you hurt Mori," she said with tears in her eyes. She was about to collapse from exhaustion, but Mori caught her before she fell.
"What's everyone standing around for? Attack!" yelled Kasumi. She ran toward Mayuki and shot fireballs at her. Mayuki shielded herself with her bat wings, but some fire seeped through and singed her. Mayuki winced.
"Psychic rock!" Riri threw a massive ball of psychic energy to Mayuki. Mayuki absorbed it and became a bit stronger.
"Great job." Snorted Suzu. She crossed her arms. Then, she noticed something, she had transformed too! She was astonished to find herself in a sky blue body suit. Mayuki laughed evilly.
"For once YOU did something stupid," said Hikari with a laugh. She started her own attack. "LIGHTNING..." then, someone cut in.
"ICE BOMBER!" Suzu had cast her own attack first, it collided with the thunder, making a dangerous piece of ice. The electric currents buzzed around it and it hit Mayuki. Mayuki was electrocuted and hit badly. She fell down.
"Nice job," whispered Mori. He stepped up to plate. "SWORD OF LOBSTER REVIVE!" a sword appeared in his hand. It had a weird looking handle with arms and legs, and feelers. Mori was dressed in a red body suit. He smiled as if he had a great plan and Mayuki was no match for him. He ran up to her, sword raised. He hit her and she fell down.
:"That hurt," she whispered. Mori laughed. Then, he stopped laughing when the sword crumbled into pieces.
"Aaaahhhh!" he screamed. Mayuki grabbed his foot. Mori got scared and with great agility, he escaped. He just knew that sword Karin gave him was rigged. But then, his true power appeared. A weird feeling came over his arms. He raised them and thunder lived in his voice as he prepared another attack. "SWORD OF MAGIC APPEAR!" a magical sword, that consisted of five colors appeared. He slashed Mayuki. "HEART SLASH!" he yelled. Then, he realized he had made a big mistake.
"Mori?" a girl's voice asked. It was Mayuki! The dark-haired odango amata with braided odangos was now in love with him! Soon, Kei kinda showed a little admiration for him. He smacked his face. Another voice came out. There was a small girl, about the age of twelve. She had long, pink hair and shimmering blue eyes. She wore a kimono that looked like the one Kasumi was in when Mori first found her. She was sweet-looking yet you could tell she was intelligent and powerful by the look in her eyes. Her hair was worn in two little pigtails and she had short bans. Where had this girl came from?
"Kasumi! Where have you been all this time!?" asked the girl as she put her hands on her hips. Kasumi got a sweatdrop.
"Ehhehehehehe, Kakani? I never expected you.....here." said the genius.
"You mean, THAT'S Kakani, your little sister?" asked Michocho.
"Yes," Kasumi got another sweatdrop and she seemed to be clenching a fist down near her legs so no one could see what she doing with her fist. She was hitting her thigh, getting ready for scolding the little girl. "KAKANI! I THOUGHT YOU WERE WITH MOTHER!" she got really mad. Kakani cocked her head to the side, got an empty look on her face, and got a huge sweatdrop.
"Kasumi, you're embarrassing me." Suzu knew she shouldn't do it. She just knew it, but she couldn't help herself. She ran up to Kakani and pulled her cheeks a little, pulled her hair, and stared in her eyes. She cracked up.
"I agree with Michocho, THIS IS YOUR LITTLE SISTER!" she choked as she laughed and rolled on the floor. She got up, and held her belly to hold in her laughter. But it just wouldn't stop. Suzu was thwacked with a huge fan. She was hit in the face by Kakani.
"NO ONE, makes fun of me." Suzu laughed again.
"What you gonna do...TWIT?" Suzu was smacked in the face by an incredibly large fireball. Kasumi got up in her face, her eyes full of anger.
"No one mocks my little Kakani." She said. She got out of Suzu's face, and dropped her to the floor.
"Can I help you up?' mocked Mori.
"Shut up lobster boy." Suzu got up herself and saw Kasumi and Kakani.
Kakani shook Kasumi by the shoulders. "Why didn't you come back?" she yelled with the same look in her eyes as Kasumi had on when she was scolding Suzu. Kasumi had that look too. Kasumi shook her little sister by the shoulders too.
"Why didn't you wait?" then, their looks of anger turned to looks of sweetness and their eyes sparkled and shone.
"KAKANI!"
"KASUMI!" they cried as they hugged each other.
"THAT'S SO SWEET!" said Michocho and Hikari.
"No wonder you two are related," said Suzu and Riri at the same time. They smiled at each other. Karin stayed silent for a while, all throughout the sobbing of Kasumi and Kakani. When the two sisters paused to look in each others eyes, Karin spoke up.
"I'm sorry," she whispered. Kei apologized too. They were forgiven.