The Kagato Chronicles

By: nyke

Book One: Inner Demons

Disclaimer: I'm not typing that again. See first chapter.

Chapter One:

"Um...Professor, is it supposed to be making that sound?"

"What sound? Oh shit! How did that happen?"

"I don't know. It was fine a second ago."

"Great. Now I'll have to start over. Kagato, aren't you late for class or something?"

"Fine. I can take a hint, Professor Washu. I'll just be going now."

Kagato turned and quickly retreated from the lab, grateful for an excuse to get out of there. He had come to the Science Academy two years after his parents' deaths and never left. He had breezed through the exams and tests it had taken to get into the academy. Now, three years later, he was a part-time student and was working on becoming Professor Washu's assistant.

She had always claimed to be the greatest scientific genius in the universe, and after spending all of five minutes in her sub-space laboratory, he believed her. He,

being especially gifted himself, knew that if he had connections with people like the professor, he couldn't help but succeed. Yet, after spending this much time with her, he knew that she tended to get frustrated when an experiment or invention didn't work out. And a frustrated Washu was never a good thing. If something went wrong and he knew he couldn't fix it, he began looking for an escape rout.

He headed towards his dorm room, since he had been kicked out of the lab, and class didn't start for another hour. He took a quick shower, ran a brush through his long sliver hair and placed his glasses in front of his chocolate brown eyes.

He glanced t the clock on the nightstand. He still had half an hour before class so he left his room and headed to the cafeteria.

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Washu looked up from the transparent laptop in front of her. This would be much easier with Kagato's help. He was very intelligent and had a pleasant enough manner, but something about him just didn't fit. She just didn't know what.

Maybe I could pull up his records she thought to herself. She, being one of the top professor, had almost unlimited access to the school's records and what ever she couldn't get into, she could hack into. She typed in her password and had Kagato's file open in no time. Most of it was useless; test scores, class schedule, etc. Then she found something interesting. As far as his past went, there was no record of him before he joined the academy. Not so much as a birth certificate. Those idiots ill let anyone who can solve E=MC2 join the academy. I bet they don't even have half of the students' last names she thought, annoyed that someone who lived in a school could be that stupid. She pulled up the main sever for the galactic records and ran a search on the name Kagato and Hitare, a name she had found in the file. While it searched, she went over to the machine that had nearly exploded an hour ago and got to work.

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Kagato returned to his dorm three hours later. He glanced at the clock. It was almost midnight. He threw himself on his bed and attempted to catch up on some well-deserved sleep.

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The screensaver clicked of and the laptop hummed to life when Washu pushed a button on the keyboard. "Found: Kagato- 1 record. Hitare- 3 records," the computer announced. She clicked the first record under Kagato and began reading.

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The forest stretched endlessly before him as he ran towards the column of smoke that rose into the sky. Thorns ripped at his clothes. He was blinded by the lack of light and was only directed by the screaming voice that begged him to come to it. After running for what seemed to be an eternity, he was suddenly out of the trees and in front of his house. The explosion ripped through the area as his home was blown into oblivion. He ran to the debris and searched, but he couldn't find the bodies of his parents. Where were they? Why did they leave him?

Kaagto bolted upright in bed. That was the explosion that had killed his parents. He knew that wasn't true somewhere in his soul, but he had convinced himself of that years ago.

"I've got to get out of here," he said to himself as he pulled his cloths on. He left his dorm and made his way to the ship deck to wire a cruiser and fly for a while. There was no one around this late at night, so he didn't have to worry about running to a professor and having to explain himself. He was so lost in thought that he didn't see the person in front of him. They collided and both fell to the ground.

"Oh I'm sorry," the black haired man said as they stood up.

"No. My fault entirely," Kagato replied.

"You're Kagato aren't you?" he asked.

"Yeah," Kagato said eager to be on his way, yet trying to be polite. "I'm afraid I don't know you're name."

"I'm Migal," the man answered. "Well I'll just be going now. It was nice meeting you."

"You too," Kagato said. "I'll see you around."

He made his way towards the deck again before anyone else spoke to him.

He automatically knew which cruiser he wanted. He got in and activated it.

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Washu sullenly made her way to the cafeteria, lost in thought. She had finished her research on Kagato and was greatly disturbed by it.

She had discovered that his full name was Kagato Hitare. His parents were space pirates who had decided to settle down on the planet B9-84. It was a small planet whose economy was made up mostly of agriculture and was so remote that they had thought that they would not be found. They had Kagato and everything was peaceful for the next thirteen years. Then, the Jurians had came and took his parents captive. They had been executed a week later for crimes against Juria.

She wasn't sure how Kagato had escaped capture, for if they took his parents they would have done something with him. She had summarized that they had either not been able to find him, or that they didn't know about him at all, even though that didn't seem very likely.

Washu was now pressed with one question. What would she do with this newfound information? She knew it was her responsibility to report this to the academy's supreme council, but Kagato was a valuable student and he didn't deserve to be banned from the academy. And that was exactly what would happen if this got around. He wasn't guilty of any crime, as far as she knew, and one can't help whom his parents were. He probably didn't even know his parents real names, much less what their past occupation was.

This in mind she decided she wouldn't tell the supreme council. And she still always had the information and the documents to prove it in case he got any bright ideas about selling her out to Dr. Clay or one of the other professors that had been sniffing around her current projects.

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Kagato was panicking. The cruiser had been fine a minute ago. He didn't really have time to figure out what was wrong with it though.

In fact, all he had time to do was sit there and pray that he lived through this. The cruiser had been running great, then it was like someone was there directing it on where to go. He had no control. It pulled sharply to the left, then veered to the right. Kagato looked up to see the asteroid rushing towards him, and then closed his eyes and buried his head in his arms, determined that he was not going to watch himself die.

Author's Note: Okay, I've gotten this story on track now. Don't send me a lot of reviews trying to correct me on anything that may sound strange to you because chances are that it will be explained in the next few chapters, but please do review and tell me what you think.