In Which I Begin My Strange Twisted Tale


Lights aura: Hello everyone! We're back.

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Lights aura: Welcome to The Musical Beaver the sequel to The Hikari Jewel. It's okay if you haven't read The Hikari Jewel. You don't necessarily need to have read it though it may help clear some things up.

Amu: (whispers) You should probably introduce us now.

Lights aura: Oh, right. I am Lights aura, authoress and the host of this fic. Amu is a blue wolf with a crescent moon mask over her left eye. She is my co-host. (mutters) unfortunately.

Amu: I heard that!

Lights aura: Well anyway, on with the fic!

Disclaimer: Well hello my evil nemesis. I sadly do not own Inuyasha. I only own Sira, Kairi and the strange imaginings of my mind.


My name is Kairi. It's Japanese for beaver. Yep, you heard me right, my mom named me after a beaver. What the heck was she thinking, that we were going to live in Canada? Well, since I have been stuck in Japan for the last fifteen years, I don't think we will move there anytime soon.

You know, if she had taken away an i and put an Hi before my name then my name would mean light. That would have been cool. But no, she decided to name me Kairi.

Kairi the beaver.

Let the name calling begin.

Well, now that I have ranted, I might as well continue my description of myself. I have blue eyes and short red hair that comes right below my earlobes. As I previously mentioned, I am fifteen years old and have lived those fifteen years in the wonderful country known as Japan. Therefore, I know where the best restaurants and music stores are. Also, if you haven't guessed, I'm a music nut.

This is mostly my parents fault. Both of my parents have jobs in the musical field. My mother is a voice teacher while my father is the conductor for our city's professional symphony. Therefore, ever since I was conceived, I have been around music. While normal babies listened to lullabies in their cribs, I listened to Beethoven's Symphony number 5. My first toy was a wooden recorder not a stuffed animal. For my 13th birthday, I got a violin instead of a cell phone… Well, you get the picture.

I don't really mind it though. To tell you the truth, I love getting new instruments and learning how to play them. Because at this obsession, at the age of fifteen I have mastered the piano, flute, and I have dabbled in violin and guitar. Yeah, I know it's crazy but I planning to have a career in the musical department anyway.

I am also pretty good at singing. Since my mom was an opera singer, I know the basics. My friends think my voice is amazing but they've never heard my mom sing. I mean really sing. Not her voice she uses when she's teaching but the one that she used when she used to sing in operas. When she sings, it's is as if the whole world stops and listens in a mesmerized state. It is as if the world moved, the spell would be broken. Well, there was a reason why she was known as the lovable diva. I've only heard her sing like that a couple of times and each time I hear her, I wish I could be as good as her.

With my history in music, you could probably see now my reason for taking chorus so seriously.

"Class," Mrs. Lang said as she pointed with her long pink nail at the music sheet in front of her. "Can you tell me what key this piece is in?"

Two hands shot up. Mine and the "know it all" in our class, Brenda. Brenda has limp brown hair, dull brown eyes, and is a complete plain Jane. The entire class had tried to make friends with her but in the end none have succeeded. Her condescension has caused all of us to suddenly feel free of guilt for ignoring her for so many years. Though she controlled many of the classes, music class was different. In music class, I ruled. It was the only place that I could challenge her. When I beat her to a question she completely freaks out. Her face turns bright red and I swear steam is coming out of her ears. It is the funniest thing I have ever seen.

"Yes, Miss Calloway," Mrs. Lang said.

I grinned. Bingo! "It's in A flat minor" I said proudly.

Mrs. Lang beamed. "Correct."

Right on cue, Brenda turned bright red.

"Good job Kairi!" a girl whispered on my right.

"Yeah, you really ticked Brenda off," another girl whispered on my left.

I grinned as I looked from one to the other.

Tori and Sira. My best friends in the entire world.

Tori, who sat on my right, has bright green eyes and long brown hair that she had pulled into a French braid. She reads constantly. For example, right now, she is hiding her newest book underneath the black notebook we use to hold our music in.

Sira, who sat on my right, has bright blue eyes and shoulder length blond hair. She's an interesting case. About two months ago, she was kidnapped by a human trafficking group and barely managed to escape. Ever since then she has been wearing a strange white jeweled necklace, a blue bracelet, and a red shard on a rope tied around her wrist. If anyone tries to take it off of her, she freaks out. I have no idea why since she never wore much jewelry before the incident. She also tends to miss classes because she keeps getting sick. She is getting almost as bad as the infamous Kagome who I believe has had every single sickness in the known galaxy. Anyway, Sira also is the only one in our group who has a boyfriend. A boyfriend, I might add, who neither Tori nor I have ever seen. She always has some sort of excuse why he isn't there. One of these days, I will find out who he is…

"I know," I said as I briefly glanced in Brenda's direction, "isn't it awesome?"

Tori rolled her eyes while Sira laughed softly.

"So," Sira said after her laughter subsided. "Anyone up for a run to the café after school?"

Namora's Tea and Cakes, or the café as we like to call it, is are favorite spot to eat. Their hot tea and rice cakes are absolutely amazing!

"You know, I'm in" I said with a grin.

"Me too," Tori added.

"Then it's settled," Sira said.

We returned to our original tasks before the conversation. Tori reading her book, Sira staring off into space, and I listening intently to the teacher. When I glanced over at Sira I could have sworn that the white jewel had glowed. I shook my head. That jewel was just plain creepy.


"I can feel myself being restored while I'm sitting here" I said as I gulped down some tea. After a couple of dreary dull classes, we finally made it to the café.

"You are way too obsessed with this place" Sira said as she bit into her rice cake.

"And you're not obsessed enough" I said with a glare.

"So what are we going to do after this?" Tori asked curiously.

"How about we go shopping?" I asked as I sat up in my chair.

Sira's and Tori's faces lit up. "That sounds great!" Sira said.

"So we're in agreement?" Tori asked. We all nodded. "Then what are we waiting for?"

After paying for our meals, we headed out to the shopping district. Within a few minutes, I found myself walking up to the window display in a music store. Sira jokes that I have a music radar implanted in me. I'm starting to think that she is right. "Oh my gosh," I said as I pressed my nose against the window, "They have a harp for sell in there." Tori and Sira look at each other with a knowing glance. They each grab one of my arms and drag me away from the display.

"You already have enough instruments for now" Sira said.

"B-but it's a harp" I whined. "I've always wanted to learn how to play the harp."

"No, more instruments" Tori said with finality.

I groaned. "You guys are starting to sound like my parents." We laughed. A loud beep went off inside Sira's purse causing her to drop my arm. I hadn't regained my balance yet so I fell with a loud thud onto the sidewalk.

"Sira!" I moaned as Tori picked me up.

"Sorry, sorry" Sira said absentmindedly as she pulled her phone out of her purse and opened it. Her eyes widened as she stared at the screen. "Oh Crud! I didn't realize how late it was. I need to go."

Tori looked at me before saying. "What, are you going to see your boyfriend whom you refuse to show to us?"

"Bye guys" Sira said as she gave each of us a hug before racing off down the street.

"We're going to find out who he is, one day" I yelled after her.

Her only response was to wave.

Tori sighed as she looked at her watch. "I'd better be going too. I still have homework."

"Don't remind me." I moaned.

After we said our goodbyes, we parted ways. I decided to take the long way home so I could avoid my homework for as long as possible.

I ended up going by the park. It is one of my favorite places to go when I want to think. As I continued to walk, I became deep in thought. My mind was wrapped around a new piece that I was learning. Because I was so preoccupied, I nearly ran into an old lady who suddenly appeared in front of me.

"Hello, " she said as I fell to the ground.

She wasn't like most old people I'm used to seeing. She had her long gray hair pulled in a low bun. She wore a white sun hat and a long white dress. Deep wrinkles were around her eyes, lips, and forehead. The most peculiar attribute about her though was her eyes. One was brown while the other was green.

"Are you alright, little beaver?" She asked with a frown. Her voice was a mixture between the sound of gravel and a bell. I know I just contradicted myself but that's really how it sounded to me.

The little beaver comment kind of freaked me out but since my mother told me to respect my elders, I swallowed my original remark. Instead I said."I'm fine," and stood up. "How are you, today?"

"Not so well," she replied. "I've lost my monkey."

I did a double take. "I beg your pardon, did you just say you lost a monkey?"

Still frowning, she nodded. "Yes, my pet monkey Momo ran off into those woods over there." She pointed to the wooded area that outlined the park. With a sigh, she added, "If I wasn't so old, I'd go searching for him."

Before I could even think, the words came out of my mouth. "I'll go look for your monkey." Damn my compassion.

Her eyes lit up. "Oh, you'd really do that for me? Thank you so much!"

Resigned to my fate, I started walking toward the forest.

Why was I the one who had to go get the old lady's stupid pet monkey? For one thing, why the hell would an old lady want a monkey? They're smelling, disgusting, and chatter… a lot. Hey, I've seen them in zoos with their creepy little eyes and creepy little fingers. I don't care if on some scientific level they are related to us. They're annoying and that's that.

The other reason I shouldn't be helping an old lady find her dumb pet monkey is that she called me Little Beaver. I don't know if she was trying to be an Obi Wan or something but doesn't she know that I am sensitive? I know for a fact that my name, Kairi, is Japanese for beaver so she doesn't have to remind me. Why did I have to be born with that dumb name I… I'll stop there so you won't have to endure my ranting again.

So, I have two very reasonable examples why I shouldn't be searching for the idiotic pet monkey for the old lady and yet, I still find myself all alone in a dark creepy forest, looking for the monkey.

"Momo?" I called as I walked deeper into the forest. Who the hell name's their pet monkey Momo? I know that the monkey on Avatar is named Momo but why would some old lady (probably older than my grandmother, which is a scary thought) name her monkey Momo? It's stupid.

"Momo?" I called again as I squinted around in the fading sunlight. Man, I wish I brought a flashlight.

I searched for thirty minutes more with no luck. It was dark now and all I could see were the moon and stars peeping through the branches and the glowing eyes of some sort of nocturnal animal.

I could have turned back but I just couldn't disappoint the old lady. Curse my kindness! Sira said it would get me in trouble one day and look what happens. I'm stuck in a dark creepy forest looking for a stupid monkey. Behold the irony!

"Momo?" I called as I took a couple of steps further in. Something landed on my shoulders. I screamed very loudly and very girly.

When I finally looked to see what had landed on my shoulders, I found a brown monkey staring back at me. It blinked its big black eyes at me a couple times.

"Momo, I presume?" I said. I picked him up and held him a foot away from my body. "Alright, time to take you back."

A eerie blue light glowed from the bushes in front of me. Momo looked at me in confusion as I stared at the bushes.

"What could that have been?" I murmured as I walked toward the bushes. I barely noticed Momo climbing back on my shoulder. After a moment, I was through the bushes. There was a clearing before me lit by some eerie blue light. In the center of the clearing sitting on a stone was the most beautiful lap-sized harp I had ever seen. It looked as if it were made entirely of gold including the strings. Strange ornate designs were carved into the frame. "I've always wanted to learn to play the harp…" I murmured as I approached the harp.

I must have been in a trance or something because no part of my mind was screaming "Hey Dummy, don't you think it's a little odd for a harp to be sitting in the middle of a dark creepy forest?" And since that little voice wasn't speaking, you can probably guess what happened next. Yes folks, I picked up the suspicious random harp. As soon as it left the rock, the entire forest was quiet. There was no chirping of crickets or hooting of owls. Nothing but silence.

Then a loud rumble echoed through the forest. I looked at Momo only to find that he was wearing the same expression I was.

Oh Crap, what did I do now?


After another loud rumbling sound, I knew I had to move. Clutching Momo and the harp, I began racing toward the edge of the forest. The loud rumbling sounded as if it were chasing me. I risked a quick glimpse back and felt my heart freeze. The forest was literally falling away into nothingness.

So, I kind of freaked out… okay I totally freaked out. I was running and screaming like some horrible off-keyed banshee. If anyone was watching me, they would probably think I was crazy. After what I saw, I would say that they were right.

I had almost reached the edge of the forest when a figure appeared before me. It took me a second before I realized that it was the old lady before. I was just about to reach her when the ground gave way beneath me. As I fell, I grasped the last stable bit of earth at the old lady's feet.

"Help please!" I said as I tried to hang on. Poor Momo, he was clutching my shoulder as hard as he could. I may hate monkeys but in a life threatening situation, I'll let it slide.

The old lady looked at me with her different colored eyes and said."First, give me the harp."

Is anyone else finding the whole protagonist clinging desperately onto a cliff with a monkey and a strange object at the feet of an old person, familiar?

I would have asked her how she knew about the harp but now wasn't the time. "Help me up first" I said.

She shook her head. "The harp then you."

I was about to oblige when the ground I was clinging to crumbled away.

I screamed at the top of lungs as I fell into the nothingness.

Why the hell did I have to end up like Aladdin?


Lights aura: Do you get it now, the Musical Beaver part? You know, since her name means beaver and she likes musical instruments.

Amu: (rolls eyes) You are such a riot.

Lights aura: Anywho, please remember to read and review. Reviews make we super happy.

Amu: (nods head vigorously) Yes, they are just like pie.

Lights aura: We are not having this discussion again.


Note for readers who have read the Hikari Jewel:

Here's the thing. I had an Incase You Didn't Know section in the Hikari Jewel because Sira liked to make references to many different historical and trivial stuff. I know Kairi will be making references too but probably not as much as Sira. So I am leaving it up to you, loyal readers. If I get people requesting it, I will start the incase you didn't know section again. It really is no trouble for me and I actually like doing it but I just thought I would give you guys a say since you stuck with my insanity for so long.


Alright that's it for now. Please remember to READ and REVIEW! Ikus arte until next chappie!