Title: Hearts of Burning Ice
Prospective Series: Storm Chronicals
Author: Quantum Angel (evapilot03@hotmail.com)

Disclaimer: See Prologue
Summary: See Prologue
Author's Notes: Once again thanks to my besty friends in the whole wide world, Yuri-chan and my oneechan, Elf-chan. Also to my other besty friends in the whole wide world, Micki, Nikki, Jen, and Kat, I say ^^ I 's love's ya's guys!! Oh! And.... REVIEW!!!! It doesn't take more than a minute to encourage me! I tend to post faster the more reviews there are!



Chapter 2
Crossroads, Intersections of fate

Yuki sat on the hill watching the people walk by. His long silver hair was pulled back loosely behind him. The scenery was different from any of that he had seen before and the town at the base of the hill only accented it. He had never been fond of the large overpopulated cities at home, but this city seemed to be the very essence that called him. He looked down at his outfit and for the first time since he had arrived, Yuki noticed his clothing was different. It made him blend in with the locals.
Yuki closed his eyes, and pondered what he was doing here. He sat there for sometime just thinking. At some point he realized he really didn't care why he was here, only that he loved this world.
When a presence, both familiar and not, sat down beside him, Yuki resisted looking at the person. After all who could he possibly know in this strange world he was already calling home?
"Were you called here too?" a deep tenor voice asked. Yuki gasped as his gaze fell upon the man next to him. He sat there looking at Yuki with solemn black eyes and long brown bangs dancing around his face. But a faint blackish-blue mark was barely visible around his right eye.
"Yes. I am Tsubasa Yuki," he answered in his lightly baritone voice.
"Kikioru Hikari. Pleasure to meet you. Do you know where we are?"
Yuki shook his head. "No, but it doesn't matter to me."
"Me neither. Can I join you on your quest? I believe we are headed for the same location."
"Indeed. I would greatly appreciate your company, Hikari."
"Great! Arigatou, Yuki."
Yuki smiled. This place was not bad at all...

~*~*~*~*~

Long fiery-red hair blew loosely in the wind as the person it belonged to practiced a complex series of martial arts moves. Crimson colored eyes focused on the tasks the rest of its body was completing, flawlessly. The young man finished and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"Katsura!" a woman's voice called from behind him.
"Yes, Okaasan?" he responded with a light accent that matched the woman's.
"Come in, dinner is almost ready," the elderly woman responded. She was a short rounded woman with graying red hair and kind brown eyes. Katsura approached her and stood a good six inches above her.
"Hai, Okaasan. Let me clean up out here first and I will be right in."
The elder woman smiled gently. "Just be quick about it, Dear. Wouldn't want your sister to go hungry, now would you?"
Katsura shook his head and quickly picked up the small mess of wood and other various objects that had accumulated around him. He definitely didn't want his little sister, Yuriko to go hungry waiting for him...

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A young man sat in front of a large house, watching the people walk by. His long dark blue hair was pulled back behind him and his sapphire eyes belied none of his feelings. Ryoki held a staff across his lap, carefully, and was absently playing with it.
Ryoki had sensed the arrival of several people into this world, but he was puzzled by what it could mean. Could the legend of Shibien be in progress? But he dismissed it. He would have felt his miko's soul if it were indeed true. Could any of the other legends be happening?
Yes, his mind decided, but something nagged at him... The mage dismissed the feeling as a coincidence but his mind kept asking him, what if...

~*~*~*~*~

"Arigatou, Hidoku-san!" the little lavender haired girl said as she ran off, waving a small hand. Hidoku smiled and waved back to her as she ran home.
"Your welcome anytime, Asami!" the tall lean man called to the girl before he turned away and walked into the building behind him. His long green hair was tied back with a single tie at the base of his head and brown eyes twinkled with a smile. He was a healer. And he loved to help people with his special ability to heal people.
He had looked up to his mentor who was only a few years older. His mentor, Mitsukake, was a Suzaku seishi with the same ability as he, and had taught him all about his powers. Hidoku had learned a lot about his powers and his mentor over the four years he had spent with him, but he had left his mentor a year ago, after his mentor's fiancée died. Mitsukake seemed never to help another human being after Shoka died, and Hidoku left in order to help those his mentor wouldn't help.
Now Hidoku roamed around the country helping anyone in dire need of his ability, but he loved this little town and always returned there. It was his home. The only place he had ever belonged in his entire life.

~*~*~*~*~

"Aya! Get in here now!" a woman's scream sounded and a sandy-blond haired boy winced at the sound. His crystal blue eyes reflected fear as he headed towards the location the woman had demanded of him.
"Aya... What did I tell you?" a woman with light brown hair and gray eyes demanded. Aya looked up and cringed at the floating knife that was chopping away at the vegetables on the table and at the spoon stirring a large pot of rice.
"Not to use my seishi ability to get out of chores."
"And why is dinner cooking itself?" the woman asked sternly.
Aya gulped and looked up at the woman. "Gomen, Okaasan... I won't do it again..."
Aya's mother gave him another stern look. "You said that last week when your father caught you playing tricks on the poor children across the street. How can I trust that you will keep your promise this time?"
"I promise, Okaasan. I won't use my seishi power for anything I can do myself..."
"Good," she said and smiled came to her lips. "Now why don't we just finish preparing dinner together..."

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