Crystal of Love

RK and YYH don't belong to me.

Author's notes: this fic needs to get rolling, and this chapter is going to make it do so! And, 52 reviews! I thank you all because you all did it for me…and well, I could cry! I'm so happy! (Imagine that in a high pitched voice like Lady Marian from 'Robin Hood and Men in Tights,' one of the funniest movies in the world!) Any way, thank you, for you all made me so happy and glad to be a writer, though I still have no clue what to write for my next story… its all these strange things that come to you when you are near to finishing one of the best fics I'll ever write! Now, on with the story!

Chapter 14: The darkness comes, but it's not the god

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The goddess—daughter of wolves

With her you will see

The ending of it all

Once her friend is hit

The day she bleeds black

With no one there to tie her down

There will never be light dawn

Tsuki read the passage, ad a shiver passed through her. Old books on a chilly morning, nothing better. Or so it would be if it weren't for the fact that the poem, written by one of her all time favorite authors, was chilling and it seemed so true. As if the writer had written into a future that would be if something didn't happen. But it was just the author's imagination, right? No real reason to be afraid, right?

Oh, how she wished she would be true, but it wasn't. No, it would just have to be true.

Tsubame walked the busy streets of the town with Yahiko and Kaoru with her, though the other girl was walking behind the other two by some steps. The youngest girl wanted to go shopping, so the other two tagged along, Kaoru so she could go shopping for supplies. Kenshin, of course, was following them, but up in the sky and in the shadows.

"I'll catch up with you two latter, okay?" Kaoru said as they came to the central market.

"Okay, hag," said Yahiko, who was quite determined to stay on her bad side.

"Okay, Kaoru-san, see you in a bit," replied Tsubame, the polite one of the pair.

The separated and went on their separate ways.

The two walked a little bit more before coming to a store that caught Tsubame's eye, like the soft, silk looking scarf in the window display. They went in, and the boy stood by the door as he watched his love—cute love—interest shop. To him, it wasn't so hard to watch the beauty do anything, for she was always beautiful and always her self.

"Does this scarf soot me?" Tsubame asked, holding the scarf about her shoulders as she modeled in front of her friend. He shook her head yes, and she smiled, liking the answer. She went off to buy the scarf, leaving the boy to look out the shop window, to see… a nark?

A nark kidnapping a child, and Kaoru intervening, to the best of her ability at least.

Kaoru was just buying vegetables, when the nark appeared, startling the people of her home… and it was one she knew.

Long blond hair and laughing gray-green eyes, yes, Robin, her only female friend down in the world below. It was so ironic now that the two would have to fight now, after so many years.

Leaving her packages with the old woman of the stall—whom she knew—she went off, the woman calling after her to be careful. Not knowing what to expect, she would have to be.

"Robin! Let the child go! Your battle is with me, not them!" Kaoru called out; the nark smiled and released the child who quickly ran over to her mother who quickly ran off.

"Yes, yes… you are quite right child, we have nothing with these disgusting maggots, but between us and them, us and their world! You come with me now, and everything will go as planned, nothing bad will ever happen again… you will be with the ones who love you most," she said, moving her hands in a fast motion, like a mime pulling a imaginary rope, but instead, it was her.

"You aren't going to get me that easily!" Kaoru yelled back, getting ready fore a last she knew that would come. And it did, a strong blast of wind that sent Kaoru off her feet and heading towards the beach just outside the town.

She landed on the sand with a hard thump, none other then Robin following, landing gracefully on her feet like a ballerina. Yahiko and Tsubame were also following, but at a slow pace, having no 'wind' to boost them to the beach.

"Ha, look at this! You, our messiah, get defeated with one blast of wind!" Robin boosted, throwing her head back and laughing at her messiah and friend.

"What has happened to you? You aren't the person I knew long ago!"

"We all changed after you left. The temple decided that it was all our fault that you escaped, so we were punished for your misdoing!"

"I never meant to do anything like that! I just wanted to be free—like you all could be, if you just let yourselves free from the temple like I did all those years ago!"

"No! All you say is lies, only that comes from you! They warned me of this before I left to this distasteful world above! It will just go to waste with those who live here; we would be the wise and better choice! I just don't understand how you can't see that."

"I can and I will!"

"But I won't stand for it!" Robin took out a sharp dagger, and plunged it into her ex-friend's heart, and watching the black blood spill from the wound.

The couple didn't know what was going on, but they found Kenshin-dragon pounding against and invisible barrier that separated them from Kaoru and the nark who was attacking the town. The dragon growled, and tried to think, but worry continued to hit him like a tidal wave, for this was separating him from the one he needed to protect and keep from the fate which had already befallen her.

"Move out of the way!" cried out Misao, with everyone running along with her, all confused.

"But how?" Yahiko cried back. She didn't reply, just raised her hand and called out a spell in a language none of them knew. A blast of energy came from her hand, and turned into the shape of a dark wolf running at a top speed. It hit the barrier and it created a hole.

"Go through it before it closes!" She called out, and the dragon did so, yelling back a 'thank you' as he did so. The others followed quickly, the hole closing behind them as soon as the last one was through. But it wasn't over then, they all continued running, following the fast flying dragon as he speed on up and quicker to his love.

Alas, it was too late. The blood was flowing down from the wound, the dagger now gone from it. It seemed to fall around her, some how, creating a barrier that not even Misao's magic could brake through. She went to her knees, blood now spilling from her mouth, and Robin was wondering why she hadn't 'transformed' yet. The blond nark was the only one who got an answer to any question.

A thick black light surrounded her by the way of the blood, and once it was gone, Robin had her wish. There stood a thin, slender woman dressed in black cloth of leather and fur. Black was her lips and black makeup was about her eyes, making them stand out, and her hair was the deepest of black in the world. And on her lips was the most strangest of smiles… one that meant absolute death.

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AN: Well, that got the ball rolling, and its also a wrench in their original plans, but this is a good twist in it, just wait and see! ^.^

Tsuki-sama: No problem, and yeah, Saitou is her father, but I saw that it would be a good thing (wait until Kaoru's father comes about, that will most likely shock a lot ^.~). Thank you!

Omochi: Thank you, and it is going great, way better then RV, ne? Anoo, it should be, more reviews for this one then the other. Yeah, Misao will meet her family soon enough, well, maybe not now, but in the epilogue.

Jay: Yeah, I had no idea what got me to make him her dad, but, then again, I was confused on her character, so I had to make her something and give her something that would make her more then the rest, and also on a not so much of a family thing… I think (did that make any sense?). Any way, thanks, but not for the silence part, and for you: there is more talking and talking and talking and talking, etc.

Shin-chan: What's a beta? I made Kurama a girl, because I like the couple of Hiei and Kurama, but I can't write… well, you should no, so I change Kurama into a girl… and wish he was a she in the first place so there would be a couple between them, but no, the creator had to make Kurama-sama a guy (I could go on, but I think that's enough ranting for now ne?).

Thank you all! 50 reviews and my dream for this fic on number of reviews is over (unless I really want to go for 64… but we'll just see). I hope you like this chapter, I did!