A woman in blue robes leaped from roof to roof, her long hair shimmered as it cascaded out behind her.
Her flashing gaze took in the new world of Tokyo as she paused on a telephone pole. Her glimmering blue eyes seemed locked on nothing in particular, but at the same time they seemed to take in everything.
"Ahhh, Japan. Such wonderful land, so full of water... and thrum of chaos is strong in outskirt of city. I wonder how Seal came to be there?" The blue-eyed girls hair brushed her ankles, and her robes seemed to flutter in a ghostly wind.
The girl recalled when she had been imprisoned, such a small piece of her taken from her body and used to enchant the water in the Chiisuiton. So many of her Kin had suffered a similar fate over the millenia... being diced bit by bit by would-be sorcerers and enchanters.
She had suffered better, until Jusenkyo. Her eyes began to glow with a fierce blue luminescence as she recalled. Jusenkyo... every pool there created by a rock falling from the stars and melting. Then, the strange water was enchanted by- by-
What could she call him? Yang? Asmodeus? Bal? Fenrir? He was darkness. The father of the Darklings, the keeper of the Shadows, the Destroyer of Hope?
There was a fitting name, but she would not call him by that. It was not his fault she had been imprisoned in the Chiisuiton, he had only had a part in weakening her. The person at fault was- was-
"Pah Fuum," The blue haired girl clenched her teeth as she recalled the Joketsuzoku Princess, the girl's blue hair had mocked her when they first met, fooled her into dropping her guard. Hair so much like her own.
"Pah Fuum, Aquarius shall have Revenge!" The girl leaped off the pole and into the back yard of where she had started collecting her strength. She had read the sign at the front entrance when she had escaped, and knew this to be the "Tendo Dojo."
She blinked in confusion when a young man stepped out of the house and stared at her in like-wise befuddlement.
"Uh, hi?" Hiroshi muttered, unsure of what to say to the beautiful young girl before him.
"Who you? I want speak !" The blue-robed girl put her fists up before her in an offensive stance. Hiroshi looked at her with a bit of amusement at her muddled sentence, and then dropped his grin.
He stared at her eyes, such innocence and peace he had never witnessed before. It was like watching the ocean while the sun set, and hearing the waves crash upon the shore... driving away all fears and pushing the problems of the world back with the tide.
The girl paused a moment when she realized the boy was seeing her true nature, and the wind began to blow across his features as he took a step toward her.
She was frozen, intrigued at the odd display of peace that was suddenly falling over her. She heard her Brother's song begin to play, not the semi ethereal tune that the wind usually brought, but a very real, and very vivid song of sadness.
The thrum of the earth seemed to course with the beat of the boy's footsteps and began a brilliant stoccoto as he drew closer. Even the tree's seemed to blow in succesion to his movements.
"Who- Who are you?" The girl asked, taking a cautious step back. Her words broke the spell, and Hiroshi paused.
His answer was simple, yet ever more complex than just his innocent words. Hiroshi shrugged and looked her in the eyes, "I am Hiroshi,"
"Hiroshi," She whispered to herself, memorizing the name.
"Am I not to know yours? 'Names are a thing to be traded, not taken', so how about it?" Hiroshi reached out to clap his hand on her shoulder, and found a barrier barring his way.
"I- I- I- Th- they call me- You may... my name is Aquarius," Hiroshi smiled at the name, realizing what had called to his soul so powerfully. She was one of the elements he talked to... listened to. Hiroshi had long ago learned Nature held some of the best listeners in the world.
"Ohiyo Gozuymasu, Aquarius-Chan," A sudden nerve set off Hiroshi and his calm demeanor disappeared.
Aquarius snapped out of her stupor, and fixed the boy with a glare, "Where is Princess of Joketsuzoku?! I know, or you suffer!" She would not be delayed, and not by a mere mortal boy.
Hiroshi felt suddenly uneasy, which he was not used to. He splayed his hand to the sky and spoke, "We all suffer sometime; it is a cycle that must be repeated through life. Happiness, suffering, laughter, sorrow, all must be endured-" He was cut off abruptly by Aquarius with a harsh tone of voice.
"Stop! I not need hear words of wisdom which I know already!!! Where they at?! WHO they?" Aquarius glowed with a soft but brilliant light, and she was slowly being surrounded by a pool of seemingly calm water.
Hiroshi blinked... if he didn't know better, he could have swore that Aquarius was angry. "But-" Hiroshi began, trying to fathom why she wanted to speak with Shampoo before he was cut off once again.
"FINE! You chose fate, I judge you now! SUFFER!" Aquarius brought her hands together in front of her, and the calm water shot to life in dozens of whip-like tendrils, lashing and wrapping around Hiroshi's body.
"RA-urk!" Hiroshi began to yell, but a tendril wrapped around his throat, cutting off his cry for help. Aquarius's eyes flashed anger, but quickly softened as a familiar voice told her this was not right.
"You not one I want, you sleep and forget now!" Aquarius threw her hands apart, and Hiroshi dropped to the ground as the water-like tendrils changed into a blue mist.
Aquarius looked around to make sure she hadn't been seen by anyone else, and with a flourish of her robe was gone.
Hiroshi drifted into an uneasy sleep, fixing it in his mind that Shampoo was in trouble... and that he had to remember at least that much.