Can't forget your love
By Takako
Takki's notes: Yeah, 2nd chap, hopefully I will get more reviews ^_^. Forgot one thing, if u like Ryo and Junpei, don't read, coz they're the BAD GUYS. Sorry, but I just have to make some people bad. So sorry Ryo and Junpei fans. And. thanks for all the people who reviewed, and please enjoy Ch 2! Hope it'll get u more confused, especially the names!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything that I don't own.
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Chapter 2
From the mountains
In ancient China
"WHAT!!??" screamed a very angry woman - the infamous leader of the Zu clan, Zheng Ziwei, preferred to be addressed as Mistress Zheng. Very attractive, but whiny at the same time. Not many people can stand her temper. "You lost it?"
"Yes," answered a girl, named Zhao XingLing with a small voice. She was not older than twenty, and somehow she looked like ZiWei. "There were so many people, I couldn't beat them all at once. They were too good, and they didn't look like Chinese people, their swords, I think they're Japanese."
"Japanese?" ZiWei frowned. "What are those Japanese doing here?"
"It's obvious." XingLing stated. "They want the Essence of Zu."
"And they have it now." ZiWei finished. "I am very disappointed. You have put us in into big danger. The Essence of Zu, it's the life of Zu! Without that book, Zu will be in great danger! Who's gonna be responsible for that? I'm telling you, don't come back if you can't find the book."
"But-" XingLing interrupted.
"Now go!" ZiWei shouted. "You are banished from Zu until you find it.!"
"Yes Mistress." Choosing not to argue with her, XingLing bowed politely and left.
Yet , it was the first time for XingLing to leave her home, the Zu mountains, where she had lived for her whole life until now. She had no idea who her parents were, the only thing she knew was that she was Japanese, and her real name was Orimoto Izumi, since the Chinese aren't fond of having Japanese people around, her mistress gave her a Chinese name: XingLing, Xing meaning good fortune, and Ling meaning clever. As far as she remember, she started to follow her mistress, who said that she picked her up from a village in Japan and she taught her the material arts of Zu, especially the sword skills of Zu, which was what Zu was famous for. All the material arts of Zu is recorded in a book called The Essence of Zu, which practically most of the people are after. Every apprentice of Zu will follow the steps in the book and learn all the material arts of Zu, but now, the Essence of Zu is gone, this might lead to the fall of Zu, since now outsiders will also know the material arts of Zu and will take over Zu. This was just what ZiWei was worried about.
"Kami-sama!" Izumi walked. "How am I suppose to get it back?" She strode through a little town at the bottom of the Zu Mountains. Most of the peasants were selling vegetables, others were selling jewelries and all kinds of other things. Izumi looked around curiously and had immediately forgotten about her quest to find the book.
"Wow this is so pretty!" She looked at the hair clip with sparkling eyes. "I'm so glad I came down from the boring old mountains."
Izumi continued to make her way through the crowd of people, occasionally squealing with excitement when she saw something that she liked. Then she was looking at the vegetables, when she turned around, she slipped on a piece of cabbage, causing her to fly towards the floor. While she was expecting her face to hit the ground, someone grabbed her and lifted her up.
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A young man entered the room, dressed in dark colored clothes and clutching his sword. He had no expression on his face, it was hard to see what he was thinking about. When he saw a shadow in front of him, he carefully walked towards it and said. "You call? Akiyama-sama."
Ryo Akiyama turned around and looked at the young man. "Minamoto Kouji. Get the girl, Makino Ruki, bring her back to me alive. If anyone gets in your way, kill them."
Kouji bowed. "Hai, Akiyama-sama."
"By the way," Ryo added, "She's in China."
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Izumi looked up and saw a young man about her age, although he wasn't very tall nor he looked strong, he was still quite handsome. Izumi blushed as she noticed that he was still holding her, immediately she regained her balance and stood up steadily.
"Sorry about that." Izumi apologized. "Thanks for helping me. My name is XingLing. Zhao XingLing."
The young man looked at her speechless. It wasn't until 1 minute when he started to talk. "Call me Hua, Zhang Hua."
"I'm really sorry about that, Master Zhang." Izumi smiled.
"It's alright." Zhang Hua answered. "I gotta go now, have important things to do. We will meet again I suppose."
"Yeah sure!" Izumi nodded. "See you around then!"
"See you around." Zhang Hua replied and left swiftly clutching his sword in his hand. It was until then when Izumi first noticed that it was a Japanese sword.
"Japanese huh?" She muttered to herself, "Trying to get the Essence of Zu." It wasn't until ten minutes that she finally made up her mind to follow Zhang Hua when she noticed, that he was already gone. "Damn it! Why does he have to walk so fast?"
Wandering in the streets, Izumi continued her shopping whilst looking out for the Japanese guy. It took her long enough to realize that she will need all the money to eat and rent a hotel or something, it wouldn't be nice to spend it all on jewelry and starve. She sighed. 'Why me? Why out of al the people in Zu? Why didn't Mistress went herself? She's better at fighting then me.'
Izumi sat down and called out. "Noodles with dumplings please!" as she sat down her sword on the table, she realized that a guy on the other table was smiling at her, he looked friendly enough but Izumi took no notice and sank back to her noodles promptly as they arrived.
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Soon Izumi was worn out, tired of walking around and searching for the Japanese word-holder, Master Zhang as he called himself. As she was ready to randomly enter a hostel, when suddenly she became wide awake - Master Zhang was entering the hostel. Izumi smiled triumphantly. She stood at her hiding place impatiently as she watched the hostel keeper, a lady probably in her mid-forties showing Master Zhang the stairs that lead to his room. Izumi waited until Master Zhang was out of sight when she walked over to the hostel.
"Eh. I want a single room please." She said to the hostel keeper.
The hostel keeper smiled. "Sure, there's a vacant room up the stairs. The second right hand side." She showed Izumi the stairs just like how she did to Master Zhang.
"Thank you." Izumi said politely, "by the way, who's that hot guy that just came in? I'm a bit interested in him."
"Oh. him?" the hostel keeper replied, eyeing her weirdly, "he said he's a passer-by, Mr Zhang. He took the room right beside you."
"Oh I see." Izumi nodded. "My name's Zhao XingLing."
"Miss Zhao." The hostel keeper repeated. "You want to have a bath now?"
"That'll be nice." Izumi answered. "Thank you."
"Have a nice rest dear."
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Takki's notes: The Essence of Zu o_o I know crappy name, it's a book btw, not face cream or a healthy drink lol. Surprised that I came up with this "name" if u can call it. Anyone wanna guess who Zhang Hwa is? And who the leader of Zu is? Both of them are in the show (01 to Frontier). I wanna know what people will come up with ^_^.
Continue the VOTE:
TAKUYA or KOUICHI
Who do you want to appear in this fic?
Please vote, but not more than once!!
Results:
Takuya: 2
Kouichi: 2
Tied!! Tied!!
Please R&R people!!
Email: takki_no_hikari@hotmail.com
Takako
By Takako
Takki's notes: Yeah, 2nd chap, hopefully I will get more reviews ^_^. Forgot one thing, if u like Ryo and Junpei, don't read, coz they're the BAD GUYS. Sorry, but I just have to make some people bad. So sorry Ryo and Junpei fans. And. thanks for all the people who reviewed, and please enjoy Ch 2! Hope it'll get u more confused, especially the names!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything that I don't own.
---
Chapter 2
From the mountains
In ancient China
"WHAT!!??" screamed a very angry woman - the infamous leader of the Zu clan, Zheng Ziwei, preferred to be addressed as Mistress Zheng. Very attractive, but whiny at the same time. Not many people can stand her temper. "You lost it?"
"Yes," answered a girl, named Zhao XingLing with a small voice. She was not older than twenty, and somehow she looked like ZiWei. "There were so many people, I couldn't beat them all at once. They were too good, and they didn't look like Chinese people, their swords, I think they're Japanese."
"Japanese?" ZiWei frowned. "What are those Japanese doing here?"
"It's obvious." XingLing stated. "They want the Essence of Zu."
"And they have it now." ZiWei finished. "I am very disappointed. You have put us in into big danger. The Essence of Zu, it's the life of Zu! Without that book, Zu will be in great danger! Who's gonna be responsible for that? I'm telling you, don't come back if you can't find the book."
"But-" XingLing interrupted.
"Now go!" ZiWei shouted. "You are banished from Zu until you find it.!"
"Yes Mistress." Choosing not to argue with her, XingLing bowed politely and left.
Yet , it was the first time for XingLing to leave her home, the Zu mountains, where she had lived for her whole life until now. She had no idea who her parents were, the only thing she knew was that she was Japanese, and her real name was Orimoto Izumi, since the Chinese aren't fond of having Japanese people around, her mistress gave her a Chinese name: XingLing, Xing meaning good fortune, and Ling meaning clever. As far as she remember, she started to follow her mistress, who said that she picked her up from a village in Japan and she taught her the material arts of Zu, especially the sword skills of Zu, which was what Zu was famous for. All the material arts of Zu is recorded in a book called The Essence of Zu, which practically most of the people are after. Every apprentice of Zu will follow the steps in the book and learn all the material arts of Zu, but now, the Essence of Zu is gone, this might lead to the fall of Zu, since now outsiders will also know the material arts of Zu and will take over Zu. This was just what ZiWei was worried about.
"Kami-sama!" Izumi walked. "How am I suppose to get it back?" She strode through a little town at the bottom of the Zu Mountains. Most of the peasants were selling vegetables, others were selling jewelries and all kinds of other things. Izumi looked around curiously and had immediately forgotten about her quest to find the book.
"Wow this is so pretty!" She looked at the hair clip with sparkling eyes. "I'm so glad I came down from the boring old mountains."
Izumi continued to make her way through the crowd of people, occasionally squealing with excitement when she saw something that she liked. Then she was looking at the vegetables, when she turned around, she slipped on a piece of cabbage, causing her to fly towards the floor. While she was expecting her face to hit the ground, someone grabbed her and lifted her up.
---
A young man entered the room, dressed in dark colored clothes and clutching his sword. He had no expression on his face, it was hard to see what he was thinking about. When he saw a shadow in front of him, he carefully walked towards it and said. "You call? Akiyama-sama."
Ryo Akiyama turned around and looked at the young man. "Minamoto Kouji. Get the girl, Makino Ruki, bring her back to me alive. If anyone gets in your way, kill them."
Kouji bowed. "Hai, Akiyama-sama."
"By the way," Ryo added, "She's in China."
---
Izumi looked up and saw a young man about her age, although he wasn't very tall nor he looked strong, he was still quite handsome. Izumi blushed as she noticed that he was still holding her, immediately she regained her balance and stood up steadily.
"Sorry about that." Izumi apologized. "Thanks for helping me. My name is XingLing. Zhao XingLing."
The young man looked at her speechless. It wasn't until 1 minute when he started to talk. "Call me Hua, Zhang Hua."
"I'm really sorry about that, Master Zhang." Izumi smiled.
"It's alright." Zhang Hua answered. "I gotta go now, have important things to do. We will meet again I suppose."
"Yeah sure!" Izumi nodded. "See you around then!"
"See you around." Zhang Hua replied and left swiftly clutching his sword in his hand. It was until then when Izumi first noticed that it was a Japanese sword.
"Japanese huh?" She muttered to herself, "Trying to get the Essence of Zu." It wasn't until ten minutes that she finally made up her mind to follow Zhang Hua when she noticed, that he was already gone. "Damn it! Why does he have to walk so fast?"
Wandering in the streets, Izumi continued her shopping whilst looking out for the Japanese guy. It took her long enough to realize that she will need all the money to eat and rent a hotel or something, it wouldn't be nice to spend it all on jewelry and starve. She sighed. 'Why me? Why out of al the people in Zu? Why didn't Mistress went herself? She's better at fighting then me.'
Izumi sat down and called out. "Noodles with dumplings please!" as she sat down her sword on the table, she realized that a guy on the other table was smiling at her, he looked friendly enough but Izumi took no notice and sank back to her noodles promptly as they arrived.
---
Soon Izumi was worn out, tired of walking around and searching for the Japanese word-holder, Master Zhang as he called himself. As she was ready to randomly enter a hostel, when suddenly she became wide awake - Master Zhang was entering the hostel. Izumi smiled triumphantly. She stood at her hiding place impatiently as she watched the hostel keeper, a lady probably in her mid-forties showing Master Zhang the stairs that lead to his room. Izumi waited until Master Zhang was out of sight when she walked over to the hostel.
"Eh. I want a single room please." She said to the hostel keeper.
The hostel keeper smiled. "Sure, there's a vacant room up the stairs. The second right hand side." She showed Izumi the stairs just like how she did to Master Zhang.
"Thank you." Izumi said politely, "by the way, who's that hot guy that just came in? I'm a bit interested in him."
"Oh. him?" the hostel keeper replied, eyeing her weirdly, "he said he's a passer-by, Mr Zhang. He took the room right beside you."
"Oh I see." Izumi nodded. "My name's Zhao XingLing."
"Miss Zhao." The hostel keeper repeated. "You want to have a bath now?"
"That'll be nice." Izumi answered. "Thank you."
"Have a nice rest dear."
---
Takki's notes: The Essence of Zu o_o I know crappy name, it's a book btw, not face cream or a healthy drink lol. Surprised that I came up with this "name" if u can call it. Anyone wanna guess who Zhang Hwa is? And who the leader of Zu is? Both of them are in the show (01 to Frontier). I wanna know what people will come up with ^_^.
Continue the VOTE:
TAKUYA or KOUICHI
Who do you want to appear in this fic?
Please vote, but not more than once!!
Results:
Takuya: 2
Kouichi: 2
Tied!! Tied!!
Please R&R people!!
Email: takki_no_hikari@hotmail.com
Takako
