RING, RING, RING.
"Rosette," a calm voice spoke out. A boy with long purple hair and crimson eyes was sitting on the passenger trying to wake up the loud snoring blond girl in the passenger seat. "Rosette the phone is ringing."
"Not now," she mumbled in her sleep. "Just 5 more minutes."
The boy smiled slightly and answered the phone. "Hello?"
There was no one on the other line. "Must have gotten tired of waiting." He assumed. He hung up the phone and started to doze off. "I guess," he yawned. "A couple of hours of sleep wouldn't hurt." And with that he was out like a light.
"Chrno," the girl said shaking him. "Chrno you better wake up."
"What is it Roset—" He didn't finish he sentence for what was once a small town in Japan and they were visiting was now a huge city. "Where are we?"
"I was hoping you knew." She said opening the door. "Come on Chrno." She got out of the car and slammed the door behind her.
"Did our car while we slept? Or did we sleep so long years passed?" Chrno mumbled aloud as he exited the car.
"Excuse me sir," Rosette said approaching a dressed up man walking. "Can you tell us where we are and what today is?"
The man looked at her oddly. "You're in Tokyo, and today is September 3, 2001." He replied then quickly walked away.
"Did he just say this huge city is Tokyo?" Chrno asked standing beside Rosette.
"Yea," She replied softly. "But that's not what freaks me out." Chrno looked at her with worry in his eyes. "He said the year was 2001, that is like almost 100 year!"
Chrno just stared at Rosette. She stared straight back at him. "What?" she yelled.
"You look the same." He stuttered a bit. Rosette raced to the car side mirror and notice she was still the same as she was when they had fallen asleep. She pulled away from the mirror when she heard shoes scrap across the floor.
"What's wrong Chrno?"
"There's a demon, no two demons," he said. His head turned toward a park. "This way," he said and ran off into the park. Rosette quickly followed him. They went deep into the woods when Chrno abruptly stopped.
"Chrno," Rosette said with a little fear in her voice. There was a rustle in the bush in front of them. Rosette got her gun out and loaded. Out of the bushes hopped out a little gray bunny. Rosette sighed in relief as he fell to knees and tried to calm her heart down. "Chrno, are you sure they were demons you sensed?"
"I was right," a voice from behind a tree to their right said. A tall guy with long red hair and emerald green eyes appeared from behind the tree. Rosette quickly stumbled to her feet and pointed her gun at him. "I come in peace, I intend to harm."
Rosette looked at the corner of her eye to see if it was alright with Chrno but he was glaring up at the tree in front of them. Rosette quickly returned to a fighting look at the red haired guy. "Where is your partner?" she demanded.
"Oh," the red haired guy said a bit surprised. "So you sensed him as well?" rosette just nodded slightly. "Hiei, come out, it is him." a shadow figure fell from the tree Chrno was glaring at. When the shadow stood up it was a short guy with talk black spiky hair and crimson eyes. Him being all dressed in black made him look like a shadow.
"Now, what were you right about?" Rosette demanded to know aiming the gun at the red guys head.
"I'll answer any questioned you have." He said raising his hands up. "Just please put the gun back. We don't intend to harm either of you."
Chrno touched Rosette's shoulder and nodded. Rosette put her gun away. "Follow me." The red haired guy said, leading them deeper into the woods of the park.
"Where are you taking us?" Rosette said following behind the red and black haired guys.
"To a temple," the red haired guy said. "It will be much safer and private there."
"I thought demons weren't allowed to enter temple grounds." Rosette recalled.
"They aren't," he replied. "Unless they are invited by the guardian of the temple."
They reached the temple and an old lady was sitting on the steps of the temple. "I was wondering when you will be here." She said in her old scratchy voice. She got up and walked towards them. "Is this him?" she questioned examining Chrno.
"Yes," the red haired guy said. "I'm sure this is him."
"Wait," Rosette yelled pulling Chrno away from the old lady. "Who are you three and how do you know Chrno and what do you want with him?" The old lady glared at the red haired guy.
"Sorry," he apologized. "My name is Kurama. This here is Hiei and Genkai." He introduced the spiky haired guy and the old lady. "As for Chrno, it's a long story."
"I've got the time." Rosette said tapping her foot.
"Then let's go inside and finish this conversation there." Genkai said. "What we are going to tell is confidential and saying out here in the open is smart. Follow me." Genkai lead everyone to a room with nothing put a low table with pillows around it. "Make your selves comfortable, I'll go get some tea for everyone."