"If you didn't before you're about to find out. Looks like I finally found myself a worthy opponent," I grimace at this guy's aloof attitude. How I would love to punch his face in right now.
Liney Breaky

I crouch over my brother's shoulder, trying to smother my anger. I don't know why I'm so angry because I've only known these people for a little bit, but they already feel like family to me.

"Mostly the gangs are just bullies who like to beat up on everyone else, but Sugo's gang is different see? They protect us from the other gangs! And they'd never hurt anyone weaker than they are. Even people who aren't In Sugo's gang look up to him! He's the best leader there is!"

"Sounds like you look up to him to," I say.

"Yeah,"

I turn my attention back to the impending battle field.

"Ready kid?" Before Syaoran can answer the manta throws a pulse of light. Syaoran's dog blocks the attack. A gust of wind was sent across the ground blowing Mokona away. I reach out and grab Mokona by its ears. Doing this throws me off balance, and when the gust dies I face plant on the ground, badass ninja skills leaving me temporarily. I look back, and see another kid sitting next to the first one. God I have to learn his name, cause I really don't feel like calling them Kid 1 and Kid 2, although, that doesn't sound bad. THEIR NAMES FROM NOW ON WILL BE KID 1 AND 2! Did I hit my head on something? Oh yeah… the ground.

"So you said your name is Syaoran right? Well I gotta say Syaoran you're not half bad." A siren blares, and a man yells out saying it's the cops. Cops? What? This is so not Japan, yet I make references foreign to myself, and can't seem to stop. Time and space jet lag maybe? SEE I DID IT AGAIN! WHAT IS MY BRAIN COMING TO?

"That sucks," brings me out of my crazed thinking, "Things were just starting to get interesting. You know the drill boys. Scatter. See ya kid! I'll be looking forward to our next battle." He turns and runs. Syaoran's Kudon does something weird, it turns into an orb, and places itself in his chest, right on his heart. I guess that makes sense, because a Kudon comes from the strength of a person's heart.

"Sakura!" He runs to her side, and she absorbs the feather. You know what I should just get used to this shit, because there's most likely even crazier stuff on the way. "Hey look at that her body's already starting to feel warmer,"

"Well that's a bit of relief at least,"

"How's white?" My brother asks, and I sling my arm around his shoulder, "Yeah how is the little guy, it couldn't been to fun for him what with me accidentally grabbing his ears and all,"

"Oh that explosion just knocked the creature around a little bit. Just a fainting spell that's all. Nothing you should worry yourselves over,"

"Shyah, like I'd really be worried," I frown, and say, "Let me try something," I kneel in front of Fai and ask him to place Mokona on the ground gently in a laying position. Fai gives me a quizzical look, but complies. I close my eyes, and form a triangle with my hands around my amulet. The tear drop shaped stone glows a brilliant red, and when I open my eyes Mokona is stirring.

Smiling to myself I look into Fai's shocked eyes, "There we go! He should be fine in a matter of minutes,"

"You used magic," Fai whispers.

"I'm not that powerful, and I don't attack with magic, I mostly use healing, and shielding spells, nothing more, nothing less,"

"Who's the kid?" Kuro asks.

I look over and see a blue light, where Kid 2 just was, and he is absorbed by Kid 1. "Kid 2 is apparently Kid 1's Kudon," I muse.

"Kid 1 and 2?"

"Kid 1" I point at the original.

"Kid 2 is his Kudon,'"

"I'm sorry if he shocked you. Don't be scared,"

"Kudon? Magic? And gangs, can anything else extremely weird happen?" I wonder.

"There you guys are! About time we found 'ya," A man's voice says. We all turn and look at the man and woman. Both are attractive, but from the rings on their fingers, nothing would have happened.

"Who are you?"

"The name's Soroda, Artsugawa. And this? This is my beautiful wife Arushi."

"Nice to meet you all," Her voice has a soft lilt to it, it almost reminds me of mom's.

TIME SKIP!

"Before we were married, my wife was a shrine priestess. That was years ago and she's still as beautiful as the day we met. She may be married and retired now, but she's retained all her spiritual powers. That's how she predicted you guys would show up in our world. This little boarding house is how we support ourselves now, and we have plenty of extra room, so please just make yourselves at home,"

"It's very kind of you two to take us in, thanks," Fai says.

"Yeah, but sorry I still don't understand. Why would you two go out of your way to help us like this?"

"Well it's a long story. In short let's just say we owe a whole lot to the Dimensional witch, so we fully intend to look after you guys for as long as you're in our world. With one catch!" The guy changes tone of voice suddenly and points to my brother, "Try to seduce my sweet Arushi, and you'll be sorry you ever came here!" He says this all in a cheery tone, and it's all I can do not to lose it.

"Hey what are you looking at me when you say that?" Oh my stupid oblivious brother.

"I'm joking! I'm joking! But really you'll be sorry,"

"Look what's your problem with me buddy?!"

"Calm down Kuro and let your sister handle this," I say winking. I plop down, sitting on my brother's lap.

"Don't worry about Kuro here, he won't try anything in front of his baby sister, now will he?"

"HEY! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE HELPING ME!"

"Waaaaaaahhhhhh! Kuro's being mean!" I fake cry, and Kuro tosses me off his lap, and starts to chase me around the room. Eventually I burst into giggles, and drop onto the floor clutching my stomach, and sending Kuro tripping over my hunched form, and that makes me laugh harder.

"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! THE LOOK ON YOUR FACE WAS PRICELESS BROTHER! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" I'm, at this point, crying and gasping for air. I curl up in a corner of the room, and regain control of my breathing. I notice that Arushi is gone, and the two more sociable ones have crowded around Sakura.

"Oh look at that her cheeks don't seem as pale do they?"

"I guess it must be from the feather,"

"So, that's one memory fragment down, but how about the rest? How will we find them all?"

"I'm not sure."

In a flash Mokona is in front of Syaoran, "Mokona knows how to! I feel them! The memory feathers when they're nearby! I'll let you know when one is close, so you just watch me! My eyes get super big like this!" Purple eyes, wouldn't really have expected that from Mokona, but then again I just need to get used to all this crazy stuff. "I happened today! That's how I found out!"

"Well it was probably just from the feather that was stuck to Syaoran's cape Mokona," Fai tries to reason.

"No it was different, when Syaoran was fighting on the bridge, that's when I felt it! Another feather was close by!"

"Really are you sure?" Come to think of it I thought I did see Mokona's eyes get big when Kid 1's Kudon came out. Hmmmmmm. I wonder…..

"Intriguing, maybe this will work after all," I cast a glance at Fai, before settling down in a corner.

"So, we'll always know when a feather is nearby. Well that's certainly a decent start."

"LET THE HUNT BEGIN!"

"Well, you can count us out," my brother pipes in. I give him my classic WTFUTALKIN'BOUT' look. "The only thing I'm interested in is getting back to my own world. I didn't sign up for your little goose hunt. The rest of you can do whatever you want, and I'm not gonna get in the way, but we're not gonna help you either. Let's be clear on that,"

"Um excuse me Kuro, but do I get a say in this?" I demand.

"Yeah, but I assumed-"

"THE FUCK KURO?! You just made an ass of yourself AND me! I actually want to help them, because I think that actually doing the right thing, and getting off the fucking I want to be stronger road will help us! Did you ever stop and think that it isn't always going to be you and me against the world, and we can do some actual good by helping others?! YOU ARE BEING A FUCKING SELFISH PRICK KUROGANE! AND YOU NEED TO STOP IT! Know what?! Don't answer me! I'm gonna let you stew in your thoughts while I get some goddamn air, because your pigheadedness is taking up the entire fucking room, and I can FEEL myself getting more stupid!" I stomp out of the room, and let the door slam behind me with a satisfying thud. I continue walking out the door, and into the night.

…..

I turn into an abandoned alleyway, and slide down the wall. Kuro why can't you see this from my perspective? Why does everything have to be your decision? Know what brother, I'm making my own choices from now on, and I don't need your sorry butt. I push myself off the ground, and realize I've been letting my feet wander, and I have no effing clue where I am. I wander some more, but let my thoughts go wherever again, and I end up thinking of Tomoyo and her casting me and my brother away.

/Flashback/

"So you two truly refuse to stop flurry of reckless violence despite my pleas?"

"All we want is to become stronger Princess,"

"Stronger than any other warrior that's ever picked up a blade" I but in.

"We can't do that sitting on our hands," Kuro takes back over, "And I don't care how many lives we have to take."

"Nothing will stop us," I finish.

"Well then, it seems there is no other solution," Tomoyo holds up two fingers, and a red and black orb appears in front of her hand, and I immediately recognize the dimension crossing spell. I take a step back. The orb reaches out with tentacles, and grabs us and begins to drag us down.

"I am sending you two far away from this world."

"DON'T YOU DARE!" Kuro screams at our princess.

"Princess! Please don't do this!" I cry.

"You must go, you will encounter many different people, on many different worlds. I hope through all your travels you two will come to know the true meaning of strength, and so for that to end. I have no choice but to send you both away. Regardless of how terribly I'm going to miss the both of you,"

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME?!" Kuro cries out indignantly, and I take a few seconds to quit struggling and face-palm. I cast a weary glance at my brother, and quit struggling all together, and just let the arms pull us down, 'cause frankly I was feeling a little lazy.

"But before you leave, I still have one last thing to give you two," A spell forms in front of her hands again, and I can feel a tingling sensation run through my body. I know that a spell has been cast upon me and my brother, but of its nature I'm not sure.

"What are you up to now?" My brother demands, and I just cross my arms, and bow my head in frustration.

"It's a spell dumbo!" I say.

"Yes that's right HIkari, it's a spell to help you learn,"

"WAIT WHAT SPELL?!" My brother yells before our heads go under the abyss.

/End Flashback/

My feet find their way back to the room, and I drop down as far away from my brother as possible, and I notice that everyone except Syaoran has gone to sleep.

"Syaoran, get some sleep. You being exhausted won't help your princess any," He looks at me startled, but then his gaze softens.

"Yeah, I guess you're right; I just can't get her out of my head," He says giving Sakura a forlorn look.

"Then dream about her. She's as alive and well in your dreams, as she is in the real world, so dream." He nods once, before laying down. I curl up in a corner, and slip into dreams.

In my dream I find myself floating in a space, I'm not sure how else to describe it, because the lights are like nothing I've seen before. I'm weightless, yet I'm falling down. I'm upside down, yet right side up. To be honest I think my mind is playing tricks on me. I open my eyes and hear Tomoyo's voice, "The point of the spell Hikari is to prevent you from killing anyone unnecessarily. Every time you hurt someone your own power will become weaker, and you will lose a part of your strength" Good thing I never killed as much as Kurogane did.

I feel a presence behind me, and I turn to see a massive red dragon. Claws protruding from its front paws? Enormous wings, and piercing white eyes. It's beautiful, and terrible at the same time. Much like myself, I am called beautiful by many people from my home world, but I am a terrible monster who kills for the sake of becoming stronger. The dream feels too real, to be a dream, then it hits me.

"You're my Kudon aren't you?"

"Yes," A voice hisses, and I recognize it coming from the dragon, "I am the Red Flame, and your protecting spirit is what has drawn me and my counterpart out. My counterpart the Blue Flame has been called by your brother, together you and your companions will face terrible challenges, but you all will find a way to persevere."

"Why are you telling me this?"

"You deserve to know as much as you can if you're going up against him, now child it is time to wake up," A roar jerks me awake, and I propel my body into a crouching stance, right hand groping at the nonexistent hilt on my hip. Damn muscle memory. I survey my surroundings, and I catch Kuro staring at Fai. A harp goes off from somewhere, I'm guessing in my head, and I bite down on my hand to keep from squealing.

"Just a dream," he mutters. I stare at my brother, but shrug it off.

"Did you two sleep well?"

"Just dandy, how about you Syaoran? Have any nice dreams?" My tone is suggestive, and I can literally see my implied meaning sail over Syaoran's head and stab my brother.

"Huh?" Syaoran cocks his head to one side.

"Never mind~ if you don't know, then let's preserve that innocence of yours shall we?" Again over Syaoran, and into my brother's gut. This time I let loose a few giggles, but quickly regain my composure.

I'm wearing a fucking skirt, and it's a fucking MINI-skirt at that. I tug at the skirt, and complain, "Don't you have any pants? I mean how am I supposed to fight like this?"

"The point is hopefully you won't have to fight," Fai whispers in my ear. I grumble under my breath, but let it go.

"What'd I tell you guys? You look great!"

"Says the one wearing pants," I mutter. Everyone ignores me.

"And in those clothes you won't stand out so much walking through the city,"

"We're gonna get started now if that's okay." Syaoran says.

"I'll stay with Sakura. And don't worry I'll take good care of her," I tug at the collar of my white shirt, and is down a little too far for my comfort. I feel like I'm naked to the world. Considering that my breasts are D cups in this world, I have a lot to show off apparently. The shirt and skirt show off my finely toned muscles from years of fighting, and again I feel naked. I admit I have a figure, but when a person like me is used to wearing clothes that specifically hid how strong you are, and cover everything, you feel exposed/violated.

Syaoran says something else, but I'm too busy trying to figure out how to cover my legs to listen to the conversation.

"You guys have some fun together in the city kay?" I look up, and see Syaoran has a coin purse in his hand. Quickly I snap it up.

"Don't protest I'm saving you from embarrassment,"

"Why would I be embarrassed?"

"A) This is a coin purse B) It is shaped like a frog, and C) I'm a girl, and I'm allowed to carry stuff like this around. I shove the purse into my breast pocket, and I know Syaoran won't go THAT far to get the purse back, so he lets me be.

…..

Sometime later we're back at the bridge, and Mokona can't feel the feather.

"No I don't feel anything," Mokona sounds sad. I want to console the creature, but my thoughts get the better of me. Could Kid1's Kudon seriously have the feather? It's highly possible, yet highly unlikely. The feather is supposed to have an incredible amount of power, so only a powerful Kudon might have it, yet then again Kid 1 could just think of himself as weak, and the Kudon could actually be more powerful than what it lets on.

"Kudon is only as strong as its master's heart," I murmur causing Fai to look at me.

"Did you say something Ri-chan?"

"It's HI-KA-RI, and not to you at least, I'm just thinking,"

"What do you think Kuro-poo?"

"I warned you to stop calling me that!"

"Temper, temper,"

"Moron," my brother looks across the bridge, and I follow his line of sight.

"Tomoyo," I whisper breathlessly. I take off in the direction of my princess. What is she doing here? How is that possible? Kuro and I left her in Japan! She sent us away actually! I pause in my thoughts, and turn to face Syaoran and Fai. I grab the frog purse out of my pocket and throw it at Syaoran.

"Here! I'm not hungry anymore! Take it!" Syaoran catches it deftly, and I turn and sprint alongside my brother.

….

"Aw, come on! How did we lose her Kuro?"

"I don't know but we lost her,"

"Hey! You two!"

"Hrm?" I turn and face the gang from yesterday.

"Yeah I thought it was you. Must be my lucky day, you showing up here on our turf all by yourselves. Saves us the trouble now we won't have to go looking for ya!" I pull up my shirt, and down on my skirt, trying to cover, areas, in a futile attempt.

"Look my sister and I got no beef with you or your gang, now get lost."

"I don't think so stranger, cause we got a beef with you!"

"Oh really?"

"Seriously?" I whine.

"That's right we're gonna use you and the little girl as bait! If we're holding one or even TWO of his buddy's hostage that flame boy will have no choice but to become one of us!" The fat guy yells.I take a step back, but a Mohawk grabs my arm, and holds me in place. I squirm, and manage to get in a position, ready to strike, when Kuro finished up, but the guy seemed to notice, and one of his friends grabbed my ankles, and lifted me up off the ground, and I lost any foothold I could have used to my advantage. My arms were pinned to my side, and I was tilting backwards, and the guy holding my arms was getting a full blown view of my breasts.

"Kuro! A little help here?" I yell, but notice my brother avoiding the guy's wimpy attacks.

"You two take the girl, and get her to the warehouse! I'll deal with him!"

"KURO! KICK THIS GUY'S ASS ALRIGHT! THEN, YOU COME GET ME!" I yell as the two men carry me out.

….

I find myself in, literally, a warehouse. I get to thinking, about the gang. Its members are made up of really tall skinny guys, and the leader is really short and fat. Eventually I get tired of being carried, and summon my Kudon. The men drop me flat on my butt, and I rub my sore backside, as I climb onto my Kudon.

"Nice hanging around, but my brother's probably worried, so I better get going!" I yell as the dragon carries me out, and above the city. I relax, and lean my head across the back of my dragon, and before I know it we're on front of the house.

"Kuro! I'm home~" I sing as I skip up the stairs, but just as I reach the top two steps my foot slips, and I'm sent sprawling backwards. Although instead of hitting solid wood I land on an airish type material, and I see a smaller version of my Kudon holding me up. I smile and turn around to face my Kudon.

"Thank you,"

A growl in response. I smirk.

"Follow me," We walk up the stairs, and turn into the room, where Kuro is explaining the plan to rescue me to the others, and luckily Kuro's back is to me. I stuff a fist in my mouth, and I move my Kudon towards Kuro, I make it nudge his shoulder, and her turns and gets a face full of Red Flame, at this point I'm dying on the ground laughing.

"HIKARI!"My brother pulls me into a protective embrace, and my laughter dies down.

"You two look like you had an eventful day mind telling us?"

"Nothing much Fai, at least nothing I couldn't handle, my Kudon here protected me," As I say that a warm feeling occurs in my chest, and I feel the Kudon passing into my heart. I smile at the welcome warmth, and at my worried brother. Said brother gives me a small bop on the head, "That's for making me worry,"

"Sorry Kuro," I hug him again, before flopping down and passing out from exhaustion, who knew sprinting after being a little out of practice could wear you out do much?

"It's a secret! It's a secret!" Mokona chirps happily.

"So it seems, and here it seemed like we were getting so close," Fai feigns hurt.

"Oh yeah what gave you that idea?"

"You do realize we're all probably going to be stuck with each other for a very long time,"

"What's your point?"

"Well learning on how to engage in small talk might do you some good,"

"Ugh I'm getting some air," The door shuts, and I sit up.

"What happened to you nap Hika?"

"Hikari, and I wasn't napping. I just wanted to say Fai, that my brother might come off as prickly, but he really is a teddy bear when you get to know him,"

"I can see that getting him to open up will take a while,"

"Yeah, but you just have to be yourself, I mean for a few years Kuro wouldn't even talk to me, and then it gradually started happening, and now we talk, well communicate, just fine now. He just…needs a push, or provocation on his part, to open up. Give him…..some….time….Zzzzzz…Zzzzzzzzzz," I drop off, falling sideways on the floor