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WARNING: The writers of this fanfiction were high on sugar when this was written. This could result in jokes nobody gets, really lame jokes, and general Kikyo hating. You have been warned.

Kiki-ume Pov

"Are we there yet?" Amaya asked as she pushed her dark brown hair out of her hazel eyes.

"What do you think?" Kiki turned and glared at Amaya with big blue eyes, the wind blowing her blond hair into her eyes, too.

I sighed. It was 1:00 PM, and I could already tell it was going to be a long day. I was sweating already even though my blond/brown hair was up in a ponytail.My Mom wanted it out of my hazel eyes. She knows, though, that I'll take it down just before we get back from the trail. We all were wearing blue jean shorts and tantops.

As I was thinking, Kiki looked at me when we reached a fork in the trail and asked, "Uh... right or left, Kiki-ume?"

"Left," I said without thinking. I do that a lot. It still amazes me that Kiki can get lost when she and I had traveled this trail about a billion times. We were taking Amaya to a duck pond near here; she had never been there before.

"Kiki-ume? I think we're lost," said Kiki.

I rolled my eyes. "No, Kiki we're not..... Where'd this road come from? What happened to the trees?" I glared at Kiki. "I told you to turn right at the fork!"

Kiki glared back at me. "No you didn't! You said left!"

"Did not!"

"Did so!"

"Did not!"

"Did so!"

Amaya looked uncomfortable. "Actually, you did tell Kiki to turn left, Kiki-ume."

I glared at Amaya now. "Whose side are you on, anyway?"

Amaya didn't answer my question. "Maybe we should follow this road until we find out where we are."

Kiki and I both nodded. All three of us started walked up the road. As it started to get dark, Kiki and I got nervous. "There's nothing there in the dark that isn't there in the light," Amaya said calmly.

"Little miss serious," I mumbled to myself. "She wouldn't be so calm if a spider landed on her head."

"Hmm?" Amaya asked, looking back at me.

"Oh, nothing!" I said with an innocent smile on my face.

"Right..." Kiki giggled. So I hit her with my elbow.

A few minutes later I noticed a building along the road. "Hey, if that's a store, we can use the phone to call my mom!" I practically skipped the rest of the way.

It turned out it was a store. It didn't have a sign out front, but there were displays in the windows. As we walked in, a man at the counter looked over his newspaper.

"Could we use your phone?" Kiki asked sweetly.

The man went back to his newspaper. "Only if ya buy somethin' first."

"That's hardly fair," Amaya mumbled.

Kiki reached into her pocket. "I'm broke," she said.

I tried my pockets. "Me, too."

We both turned to Amaya, who we KNEW had money. She was 16, had a car and a job, so she had money. Kiki and I were only 14, broke, and hated it. Amaya sighed helplessly. "Alright! Alright, I'll buy you guys something! Just nothing too expensive."

We grinned mischievously. "Of course not."

Kiki and I both ran to an isle filled with cheap jewelry as Amaya slowly followed. As I scanned the shelfs, something caught my eye. It was a ring, and it sure didn't look cheap. It didn't have a price tag, but the band was obviously silver. Surrounded by tiny purple rocks was the most beautiful piece of rock I have ever seen. I didn't know enough about rocks to tell what it was, but I liked it.

As I walked up to the counter and put down my ring, Kiki and Amaya both dropped something next to it. Kiki put down a necklace with a silver chain with black rocks on it. On the end was a small glass tube with a piece of rock just like mine in it. Amaya put down a silver arm band with a blue rock in the middle. Inside the center of the rock was the same rock Kiki and I had! Great minds think alike, I guess.

When the man at the counter folded his newpaper and looked at what we bought, he got a scary smile on his face. It really creeped me out.

Amaya looked at the stuff too, and sighed. "How much?" she asked. She sounded like she was afraid of the answer.

The old man leaned back in his chair and looked us all up and down. Then his smile got bigger. "I like ya, so... ten bucks."

Amaya blinked. "For all of it?! Really? Wow, thanks." She eagerly handed him the money.

"So can we use the phone now?" Kiki asked hopefully.

The old man picked up his paper again. "Sorry. Ain't got one."

I was about to explode. If Kiki hadn't been in front of me, I would have jumped over the counter. Right then and there. "Then what the hell are we supposed to do?! We don't know where home is, and even if we did, we couldn't walk back when it's this dark!" I screamed.

The man lowered his newspaper a little. "I got a room in the back ya'll can sleep in fer the night, but ya best be gone by mornin'."

"Thank you," Amaya said as she got our jewerlry and helped Kiki get me through the door at the back of the store.

As Kiki pushed me in ahead of her, she sighed. "At least you didn't get mad, Amaya. I don't think I could hold both of you back."

"Yeah, right," Amaya replied in a strained voice. I noticed her right eye was twitching.

"Uhh, Amaya, are you alright?" I asked.

"Me? twitch twitch I'm fine.twitch Why?" With that she slammed the door so hard the hinges rattled.

"Right..." Kiki said. If looks could kill, Kiki would be dead considering the look Amaya gave her.

"Uhh, didn't you bring some food in that backpack of yours, Amaya?" I asked, to spare Kiki a horrible death.

It seemed to bring Amaya back to reality. "Yeah, I think so." As she rummaged through her junk, she brought out some crackers, a few juice packs, and, oddly enough, a blanket. "You two take the blanket. I'm not cold."

You're never cold, I thought.

"So, what did you guys get?" Kiki asked. Amaya pull the jewerlry out of her pocket and give us each our own jewerlry that we chosen.

"You know, the silver's gotta be fake, since this stuff was so cheap." Amaya remarked.

Kiki and I ignored her. As I looked at the jewelry, I noticed a similarity. "Hey, all our jewelry matches, except mine has purple rocks-"

"Amethysts," Amaya interrupted.

"-and Kiki, yours has black rocks-"

"Obsidians."

"-and Amaya's has a blue rock."

"Aquamarine," Amaya corrected again.

"WHATEVER!" I yelled.

Kiki, seeing another fight, interrupted. "Let try 'em on!"

"Ok," Amaya and I said at the same time.

As I put my ring on, I felt a tug. It felt like something inside me was trying to come out.

Then I fell into darkness.

This is how our adventure began.......