Cursed Mirror

RK doesn't belong to me.

AN: This chapter features the most STRANGEST characters I will every create and bring into existness…for this story anyway, all come from a series of RK fics I have never thought about writing out and posting them on ff.net…so don't expect anything unless I change my mind. (Rosuanzerusu is from that series, as well as Chester, Jasper, Isha, and Kukujin Ryu.) Well, on with the fic!

Chapter 9: Welcome the Five Who Know…

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"So, this one is going to turn us back?"

"How should I know?"

"Don't you?"

"Hime-chan?"

"Of course she doesn't, she got us into this mess, didn't she?"

"CHESTER!!!"

"What the hell is going on?!" Akira cried out, Kaoru expected Kenshin to do so, but he seemed so quiet, sitting there staring at her with the most confusing of eyes. His eyes seemed to be changing emotions every second, never repeating the same emotion, just going on to more and more that probably didn't even exist.

She reached a hand out towards him, fearful that he would jerk away, but he just reached out for it, clasping a frail, cold hand in his own. "I…I don't care what you are! I just want you to stay with me!"

His eyes had only one emotion in them at that, and they seemed to shake as the colors amber and amethyst mixed in a storm of glory. Her own yes softened, nearly to the point of tears as they embraced each other, not remembering that others were watching them admist their scene. The only thing that mattered was that they were together again.

Maybe I should explain, muttered the dragon, his mental voice ringing through their heads in a low, musical tone, But in a more…suitable form.

In another form of light, the large dragon vanished to be replaced by a young man, his eyes the haunting silver and his hair glowing blond like the sun. "My name is confidential, but you may call me Na-chan, the adorable little dragon who is the Order of the Future, this I am Kao-sama's partner, observing her dreams of the future for problems that aren't…how can I put it…?"

"That aren't supposed to be there?" Rosuanzerusu suggested, not really saying what it really was—cause she didn't quite know her self—but offering what she thought it might meant.

"Yeah, thank you! And now, if those two love birds would break and Kao-sama would get herself ready—"

"Na-chan," Kaoru said, not even bothering to look at him as she did so.

"Um, yes?"

"Shut up!"

"Yes ma'am!"

"We can wait," said Rosuanzerusu, smiling cheerfully.

"Well, I can't wait for an answer!" declared Akira, standing up but Tomoe pulled him down. She wouldn't let him bother the two like she—and he—had been doing before.

"I can explain all that I—we, Enishi and I—know. Kaoru was stuck in the mirror, sense her death in her past life, and asked us to help her…do something!" explained Tomoe, stalling as she came upon the reason, not really wanting to give it all away. Kaoru had her reasons for doing things, and she didn't want to say something that would give it all away. "And she gave us these bracelets that would…help bring her back here…I think."

"You need the bracelets to re-create the body of the spirit who wishes to come back. But, the wearer of the bracelet has to be the same species as the spirit who wishes to come back…and they will only come back for the cycle of the moon. The moon thing is kind of strange though, say you came back on a full moon, you go on a full moon. So if the moon was on a waxing cycle, you would come and go when the moon was in the same position at the next time." This was all mentioned by Na-chan, not really caring if he was giving the secret away about the bracelets, Kaoru had used them, and there was no reason to keep it hidden.

"Thank you so very much, Na-chan," said Kaoru, her hand wrapped with Kenshin's until she let it go to go back to the mirror. Indeed, she did have a body, frail and pale, but she was breathing and living, like the rest of them—but some were septic of the dragon.

"Wow! The Bracelet's of Zion? A secret?" Rosuanzerusu questioned, showing confusion on her face.

"What? Aren't they only with the gods?"

The other shook their head no. "I got the one I used to bring someone back from a dealer in the black market. Though it was the demon black market."

"I guess that explains something. Now, to break you all apart, you need to do something—all the spirits with in you." Kaoru held the mirror, cradling it in her arms.

"What do we need to do?"

She didn't answer as she looked at her audience. "Everyone, I need you to scoot back to the farthest wall, incase something goes wrong…I haven't quite done this before, only told about it by the Order, and read it in a book…but it was VERY old."

"You never done this before?" The 'goddess' looked at her for moment before smiling a smile that shinned in her eyes. "Even better! I've always wanted to be a guinea pig." The last part was spoken sarcastically, but the smile somehow stayed to shine.

"Now, what did you need of us to do?"

"Focus yourself on your true form, or, how your body looks the time before you all joined together."

"Okay!"

She closed her eyes, and each spirit focused on their forms.

The only girl spirit, the real Rosuanzerusu, focused on the small vampire, sprite-like, blue eyed girl she was in form. Kukujin focused on the smallest form he could become, the snake-sized black dragon, the form he choose almost every day. Jasper chose his human form, the greened child with the clothes that made him look like Ascot from Magic Knight Rayearth. Isha decided his animal form, the proud and strong werewolf that could make a dragon (who wasn't a friend of Kukujin) tremble in fear. And Chester, the pain in the ass that he is, focused on the body the gods had granted him to use while the group was on the mission they were supposed to be doing before this whole mess started.

Kaoru and Na-chan, they closed their own eyes, but focused their power on the mirror, and slowly, she started to say a soft spell, the words in a language none in the audience could understand as they watched the scene before them unfold.

A light came from the mirror, and it embraced them all, the whole room seemed to be made from the soft yet bright light whose center was with Kaoru, Na-chan, and the mirror. Then, it vanished as suddenly as it appeared, and where Rosuanzerusu once stood were five—a woman, a man, a child, a lizard like creature and a wolf.

It looked like they were all dead, and that is what made Kaoru so worried, but no one expected what happened next.

"Chester, get the fuck OFF of me!"

There was a round of sweat drops.

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AN: It was a funny ending to this chapter, or at least I thought it was! ^.^ This story will end in about two chapters, or so I hope, and I will finish it as soon as I can!

MoMo-chan: Rosuanzerusu means Los Angeles.

omochi: they'll be able to get her back, don't worry.

Naomi: She is the Fate of the Future, Na-chan just makes sure everything in her dreams of the future goes well.

The Blank Review: she'll come back, and she is still in her body, she just 'put on' her Fate costume. And the group that forms into Rosuanzerusu will bring her back. In the next chapter though.

Jay: I got it from my Japanese book, as I said…I think I said it…I added a 'san' to Soba? Opps! I'll fic it, sorry.

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