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AN: well…I wasn't gonna finish this fic at ALL, cuz I'm (^.^) pretty dependent on reviews to update which story. *Sigh* I'd love for some of my fics to get "known" or something…=( or at least get over 100 reviews on a fic...oh well...^.^ I was so happy when I saw my username on someone's favorite author's list!! Wai!! Meeeeee!!!! MOI!!!



Chapter 7: My destiny...

By: fire demoness

The first rays of sunlight beamed into my eyes as I blinked away the sleep. I'd had such a nice dream...i was running...laughing...with Kourin again. The bench sagged as I sat up. What had happened last night? The eyes...those strange eyes...

There was a rustling sound and I looked up sharply to meet soft violet eyes.

"Kourin…?"

There she stood, clothed in white, with a strange glow about her frail body. She nodded with a faint smile and floated, and I mean FLOATED over. My mind went numb with shock and I didn't even react to when she sat down by me.

"Ryueen...it's time."

I snapped out of my trance at those words."Kourin...how? what? What about me? time for what? Tell me!"

She looked at me solemnly and shook her head slowly. "I can't say. Just...go find Tasuki...meet your destiny. Remember when we met in heaven? Before you decided to come back? I told you I'd watch over you and come back anytime you needed me the most. I don't break promises, you know.."

I gave a weak chuckle and raised a trembling hand to her cheek. It went straight through. she looked down at her feet and shook her head." I didn't...i'm not human anymore. Just a spirit."

I lowered my hand and we sat there, staring at one another, trying to engrave it in our minds forever. How I had longed to see her once again...to talk to Kourin. It seemed like an eternity had passed since I last saw her. A thought suddenly came back to me- something she had said.

"Kourin...what's my destiny? And what does Tasuki have to do with it? Kourin- KOURIN!?!"

tears had started to stream down her semi-transparent face,splattering onto the cold stone bench I was sitting on. She was starting to fade...her right hand was gone, disappeared into thin air.

"my time is short. You'll know what to do. Follow your heart...willow."

her body had began to disapper was well, and all that was left was her head...then- she was gone. There was a gust of wind and Kourin was no more. I just sat there, my hand clutching at the air. I could feel my own tears streaming down.

"kourin..."

the spring wind swirling around the garden, blowing leaves every which way, was all the reply I received.

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"How...what…? is it really you?...Chichiri?"

He stared back at me evilly, grinning as his thin, frail fingers clung to the metal staff he held. His hair was no longer the calm, sky-blue color they had been. Now darkened with dirt and mud, his clothing ripped, his legs so thin they seemed unable to support him.

"yes tasuki," he rasped,leaning on the staff and coughing slightly," I'm back...just like I said I would. But you were wrong! You thought I would be the same naïve fool I was back then...hahahaa...i've changed Tasuki."

I refused to belive it, even though he sounded so like him...so like Chichiri, but Chichiri was kind, good and caring, not this- this cruel CREATURE in front of me.

"Chichiri...what happened? What evil thing did this shit to you?"

" HA!" he let out a harsh cold laugh,"Good and evil? There was always some LINE in the middle- or so we thought. The road has changed me, made me stronger. I have studied with many...even the so-called evils. Does that make me evil too? DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED?!?!"

his voice had started to break, and the metal staff clanged as he flung it against the wall in frustration.

" I went to find Taiitsukan...i couldn't see it. I just couldn't see...i knew it was there...and yet…I saw nothing...only a rocky moutain...there were flashes of what seemed to be Nyan-nyans...but mainly just what I knew would be there...a rocky mountain..."

time seemed to slow down as I digested what he told me. the only sound was his raspy breathing as thoughts raced through my mind.

// if he couldn't see the holy palace...but Taiitsukan said that all beings of good nature could see it, and all evil would see a rocky mountain...shit, he's evil??! No...it can't be...he saw flashes of Nyan- nyan! He can't be completely evil...he just can't.//

"oh stop it already! Face the truth Tasuki. We're not the same...no one is the same..."

"what did you come back here for?"

his grin became wider and he started chuckling again.

" I came BACk here just for you tasuki. You're very special you know that? And people need you...now are we going to do this the easy way or the hard way? Either is fine with me."

I glared at him, finally accepting that he wasn't the same as before.

"you choose" I snarled.

//Chichiri...i'll bring you back to the way you were...i promise I will//



TBC?!??!

Ack…sorry if this chapter wasn't up to standards. I havent updated in over 5 days. My usual waiting period before writing again is 2 days. SORRY!! That's why im gonna start new fics...i think. ~.^ anyways, im working hard and a review would REALLY boost my confidance level and encourage me to continue. ^.^;;hehe...be nice?

Oh yah, remember when Taiitsukan said that only ppl with good nature and stuff could see the holy palace and stuff? And the evil would see only a rocky moutain? ^.^I know Chichiri seems just to go INSANE and not really EVIL, but…as I said: sorry if it wasn't up to standards...*SNIFFLE!!* I TRIEEEDDD!!!

(P.S. ack…I'm no good at sap and stuff like that...im more of a humor person, I just write more angst. ^.^)

(P.P.S. if anyone would like to tell me things to add or fix about this fic or any of the other fics, my AIM sn is MysticalAngel415. Email would be DarkMystical_angel478@hotmail.com. I would LOVE an email or to chat. Im a chatty person-could ya tell?^.^)