UGH! I can't believe it! The chapter got corrupted and so I had to make a second version of this chapter! I had to rewrite what I already wrote if I remember every single word that is! Gosh! –Sigh- I had to rewrite everything… TT_TT
Well, anyways the world they live in has high technology and medieval stuff put together. Just to make it clear to you readers. Enjoy! ^^
Disclaimer: I don't own The characters of KnB, lol
Oh yeah, also, credit to my beta Panda Master X.
The next morning, Riko called out Kagami, Kuroko, and the other members to come out and meet up with her at the plaza. "Is it a mission already?" said Kuroko.
"No, We're just going to find the weapon that you two are most compatible with in order to allow you guys some time to adjust to them during missions." Hyuga replied.
"Yep, and I'm going to have you train with Koganei and Izuki." Riko stated "I didn't want to do this..." muttered Koganei.
"Well, that's too bad." said Izuki as they walked up to the others, "Let's go to the training room. Mitobe is going to go and gather information on what happened to Tsuchida and the other three." Riko replied.
"Oi, what do you mean by training room and Tsuchida and the other three?" Kagami asked.
Hyuga turned to face Kagami and Kuroko to explain. "Each squadron has their own training and tranquil room. As for Tsuchida and the other three, they're the remaining members that haven't met you guys yet."
Koganei overheard their conversation and wanted to join in as well, "That's why we have two buildings dedicated solely for training with tranquil rooms. Then there are four buildings that we, the Hogosha live in, and last, but not least, the main building which is where we obtain our information and missions."
"You didn't need to go into that much detail Koganei." Hyuga remarked.
They stop walking when they noticed Mitobe quickly running towards them with a paper in his right hand; Koganei ran up to him and took the paper. Scanning it swiftly, Koganei passed it on to Riko who read out loud, looking upset, "Tsuchida just recently sent a message for reinforcement and… Furihata has a fatal injury so he might not make it… Hyuga-kun we need to go immediately!"
"I understand Riko. Alright guys, you heard her! We're going on a mission to go save them; now get packing!"
That night, when they were camping out in the woods, Riko and Hyuga were talking to each other while the others were still busy setting things up. "I couldn't find anything about Kagami-kun at all Hyuga. It's like he had no background at all until now." After listening to Riko for a moment, Hyuga suddenly remembered something.
"Kigen- it means origin."
"What about Kigen, Hyuga-kun?"
"Well, I just remembered something that I've been wondering about for a while now; when did the Kyushoku-sha appear?"
"Well, they're technically us Hyuga-kun."
"But Riko, how did these men begin to evolve in the first place? Maybe it all started with-" Hyuga and Riko were interrupted By Kagami, "They said dinner is ready."
Riko and Hyuga both took a deep breath before looking at each other. Then they got up and left to go eat, knowing they'd have to discuss this later. Everyone sat silently around the fire, "Alright, starting tomorrow I'll make you guys delicious food!" said Riko trying to start a conversation. Everyone except for Kuroko and Kagami turned pale, "Don't!" Hyuga instantly said.
Riko continued smiling as she spoke, "Don't be shy now. It's just a little something to cheer you guys up!"
"We're not trying to be shy Riko! We just don't want Kuroko and Kagami to get sick on their first mission as members of our squadron." Izuki said in a panicked voice.
"Which is why, it's best for me to make the food for tomorrow instead of Mitobe." Kuroko and Kagami began feeling tense as they observe the others turn even paler. It became quiet again, and everyone hastily ate their meal so they could go prepare themselves for the night, "What have you done Izuki… you just provoked her even more!" Koganei remarked angrily.
"I didn't mean to make her feel motivated about it Koganei!" Izuki shot back defensively.
Hyuga entered the tent so he could change while he talked to them, "The barrier is all set up for tonight, and about Riko making food tomorrow… We'll just have to wake up and make food before she does."
"Oh! We definitely should do that, Mitobe." said Koganei as he turned to Mitobe who nodded in agreement.
"Yosh! Let's make food before she wakes up tomorrow!" They shout in unison.
Kagami just watch silently as they were getting overly excited about waking up early, "Oi, Kuroko about last night-" Kagami turn to his left to see Kuroko already asleep. "How can he sleep while the senpais are still awake? Well, I still can't figure out why he had such a sad face last night…" Kagami thought as he laid back and slowly began to fall asleep.
-Flashback-
"What? Are you serious Kuroko!?" Kagami grabbed Kuroko's shoulders and shook him back and forth, "Kagami-kun, please stop shaking me and I was just kidding about the Miracles being dead. Only one of them is actually dead." Kagami was dumbfounded and swiftly let go of Kuroko, taking a few steps back he spoke again, "What? So only one of them died?" Kuroko nodded his head in affirmation, "You mustn't tell anyone else about this, since only a few people at headquarters knows about this. But besides that, it's top secret between us two." Kagami was puzzled, "Are you sure you're okay with telling me? I might just blab it out to everyone on accident- or even on purpose." Kuroko had a faint smile, "I don't think so Kagami, because you have secrets of your own, and I'm sure you'll keep this in your heart as if it's your own secret. That's the main reason for everyone being here in the first place… they all have their own dark secrets."
Kagami looked at Kuroko amazed and smirked. "Fine, I'll help you find the Tankyu-sha. I mean, it's gotta be really strong to be able to kill one of the Miracles." Kuroko's face was still expressionless but his voice sounded a little happy.
"I knew you would help me out Kagami-kun."
"Wait, what? You told me all this stuff to convince me to help you find the Tankyu-sha!?" Kuroko nodded his head while Kagami grabbed Kuroko's collar. "Why you-" Kagami suddenly fell silent released his grip on Kuroko's collar and walked away while waving with his left hand. "Whatever, at least I'll get to fight strong opponents, Kuroko."
Kuroko took a bow while quietly muttering, mostly to himself, "Thank you, Kagami. You can be my light, and I shall be your shadow."
-Flashback ends-
When Kagami woke up, it was already sunrise, and he could hear crying inside of Hyuga and the others' tents with a trail of tear water at the corner of the tent. Looking up at Kagami when he stood,Izuki told him, "We were so excited about waking up early and cooking before her that… that we couldn't go to sleep until really late, and now Riko is definitely making us food!" Kagami just laughed at how pathetic they were for waking up late, "Why are you laughing Kagami-kun? You do know we have to eat that stuff too, right?"
"Kuroko!" Kagami quickly took a few steps back from Kuroko in shock and inhaled twice before speaking again, "When did you wake up….. and what's up with your hair?"
"I was awake before you Kagami-kun."
Riko came into their tent cheerfully, "Breakfast is ready." They all froze and slowly, they changed into a new set of clothes and slowly walked out of the tent to look at their plates of eggs and bacons.
"Looks normal to me." said Kagami as he was the first to take a bite.
"Wait, Kagami- Ah! Kuroko already passed out!" Hyuga remarked.
It was so horrifying of what happened that we skip the scene of them eating and went to what happens afterwards.
Everyone slowly walked after another, wobbling, "-Ugh- Why didn't we just take the train or airship?" Hyuga mumbled.
"Because the village that Tsuchida… and the others are at-" Izuki quickly turned away and started to puke, so Koganei decided to finish the sentence instead, "They're at a village in a forest Hyuga… I doubt any train would be coming through here, or that an airplane would want to pass through this area."
"Oi, why are you guys so slow today? Come on." Riko retort.
Izuki who had just finished puking, looked up to see Riko up ahead of them and whispered, "Well, whose fault is it that we're like this in the first place?"
"Hurry up Kagami." Hyuga turned around to see Kagami carrying Kuroko on his back.
"I'm trying to… but after eating Riko's food, urgh, and having to carry Kuroko at the same time is just-" Kagami stopped when everyone saw Riko running back, "I see the village! We're almost there."
Kuroko's eyes suddenly opened and he quickly got off of Kagami; pulling out daggers from his long sleeves, he whispered, "We have company." The others quickly took out their weapons too, "Riko stay in the middle while we form a circle and slowly walk to the village. Izuki, give us a number and power level?" Hyuga commanded.
Izuki observed their surroundings, "From what I can tell, there are two C-rank Tankyu-sha in range, but there might be an extra one hiding just outside my range of detection." Riko didn't like what she heard but she kept calm and immediately gave out orders, "Kagami, Mitobe, Koganei, since you three short-ranged try to keep them distracted while we move closer to the village. It will make it easier for us, if you get them to follow you into that meadow over there." Everyone nodded in agreement, and the three ran out of the forest and into a vast meadow. Two Tankyu-shas came out from their hiding spots and darted after them.
Mitobe stopped running with a slide while turning back towards the Tankyu-shas and pulled out the silver broadsword from his back strap with both hands. Mitobe slashed the broadsword in between himself and the Tankyu-shas; the Tankyu-sha were becoming attentive and vigilant as they watch Riko's group getting closer to the village walls. "Mitobe, leave some for us too." Koganei whined as he held his spear in his hands, but before Mitobe could nod his head yes, he had to dodge two sudden attacks aimed straight at him.
"Shit, they're going after the others instead of us." In a hurry, Kagami and Koganei stumble over each other trying to reach Riko and the other guys while Mitobe fell behind because of his huge broadsword.
"Oi, they're coming after you guys!" Kagami yelled.
Hyuga heard heard Kagami shout and stopped running to pull out his bow and arrows, "You guys are so useless! They're just C-ranks." Hyuga shot one arrow after another at the Tankyu-sha to his left; his attention was focused only on that one though while the other Tankyu-sha moved in on his right into his blind spot, and when it got close enough, it raised its left arm to strike-
"Hyuga-kun, watch out!" barely able to evade the attack, Hyuga started to have a stomachache.
"Damn, the food that Riko made…" Hyuga thought. Well, not like he could say it out loud with her right next to him.
Suddenly a javelin had come and struck the tankyu-sha right in its head, "Minna, hurry and get inside the walls!" Everyone gazed above the wall to see a teenager with short, spiky black hair and smallish squinty eyes.
"Tsuchida, you came to the rescue at the right moment!" said Koganei.
Hyuga got up with the help of Kagami and Mitobe, "Wait, we still have one left to stop minna." But when they looked over, they noticed that the last Tankyu-sha started to move weirdly. Confused, they went into battle position in case of any sneak attacks, but from above, Tsuchida could see what was happening easily.
"Hurry and get inside; that Tankyu-sha already lost its mind-"
The Tankyu-sha sent a huge tremor, causing everyone to fall down. Its skin started to peel and tear apart to show a deform beast with glowing red eyes looking down at them, "Run!" Hyuga shouted. Everyone ran to the open gates.
"We're in, close the gates! Hurry!" said Riko.
"I hear ya!" Tsuchida replied.
They watched silently as the gates began to slowly close, but they noticed that the gates wouldn't close in time to keep the Tankyu-sha out, plus,, at its current strength the Tankyu-sha would probably be able to destroy the gates in only a few moments. Thinking quickly, Izuki ran towards the stairs and climbed up them until he stood next to Tsuchida; Izuki positioned himself and mumbled, "Enhanced sniper rifle, release."
Izuki tried to aim for the head but caught a glimpse of a light-blue haired teenager outside the gates trying to distract the monster away from the village wall. "Baka! Why is he still out there?!" Izuki put away his rifle shouted to the others about what he had just seen.
"Kuroko…" without thinking Kagami slipped through the gates and ran after him.
"Ah!" Riko ran after Kagami but was stopped by the closed gates..
"Shit! They're gone!" said Hyuga in frustration.
Everyone gazed at one another silently, "Well… If Kuroko hadn't distracted the monster, the village could have been destroyed already, Hyuga." Koganei said.
"But, are they going to survive and come back?" Riko questioned.
Tsuchida and Izuki came down the steps and walked up to the group, "For now, how about you guys go check on Furihata?" Tsuchida asked while patting Hyuga on his shoulder.
"That sound like a good idea." Hyuga said .
Kuroko hid among the bushes while the crazy Tankyu-sha roamed around the forest looking for him. He look over at the bushes next to him, only to see Kagami creeping up and whispering to him, "What were you thinking distracting him alone? I thought you said that we'd work together? You need to tell me before hand on what you're going to do, Kuroko."
"Kagami-kun…sorry I was just thinking about the villagers' safety first." Kuroko replied monotonously.
Kagami sighed while crouching next to Kuroko. I'm going to fight it Kuroko, so you have to run when you get the chance."
"Are you going even crazier Kagami-kun?" Kuroko asked incredulously.
"What are you trying to say Kuroko? I did say I wanted to fight strong opponents."
Kuroko watched as Kagami silently pulled out his blade and jumped onto the Tankyu-sha's back, piercing his blade into it's back as it screamed in pain. Except, with that kind of stimulus the Tankyu-sha only became more active and reckless. Kagami' started losing his grip as the Tankyu-sha bucked around wildly.
"Kagami-kun, please get out of the way." Kagami looked over to see Kuroko in an archer's position.
"Where did you get the bow and arrows Kuroko?"
"I took them from Hyuga when he wasn't paying attention." Kagami evaded the the Tankyu-sha once again, and when he looked at Kuroko, he noticed that Kuroko had attached a mini-bomb to the arrowhead. Realizing he was probably going to get hurt if he didn't move, Kagami jumped into the bushes once Kuroko shot the arrow. When Kagami finally came out of the bushes, he pulled his blade out of the dead Tankyu-sha and looked at Kuroko in disbelief.
"You call this teamwork?"
"It's not my fault that you went ahead and tried to kill the Tankyu-sha by yourself, Kagami-kun."
"What! Are you saying this is my fault when you were the one running out here all by yourself?"
"I didn't ask you to come to my rescue though, Kagami-"
Kuroko and Kagami hushed once they heard sniffling and footsteps coming near them. "-Sigh- I can't believe I got separated from the others…" the stranger notice them and wiped his tears, "Oh, people! Hurray! So I'm not the only one lost."
Kagami had a blank look on his face and Kuroko- who was always expressionless- spoke, "We're not lost; you're the only one that's lost."
The stranger leaned his head to his right and observed Kuroko for a couple of seconds before asking, "Have I seen you before...?"
I forgot to leave some notes on what some of the words mean.
Note:
-Kigen means origin
-Kyushoku-sha means seekers
-Tankyu-sha means seeker
-Hogosha means guardian
That's all. ^_^