Can't forget your love

By Takako

Takki's notes: Oh no.. my reviews. Is it getting too tedious? Are things going on too slow? Please gimme comments, coz I really wanna write better. Well, thanks for my reviewers anyways, and now on with the story!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything that I don't own. Ryo and Junpei are bad guys so if you're a Ryo/Junpei fan don't read, it's not like I hate them, well, I need some people to be bad guys.

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Chapter 4

Ai no Shi (Love Poems)

In ancient China

"Dare ka?" Takeru asked in Japanese.

"Then who are you?" Master Zhang asked, or maybe Miss Zhang asked. She looked at Izumi, "I knew you were interested in me, Japanese woman."

"We're all Japanese." Said Izumi. "I am Orimoto Izumi, or Zhao XingLing from Zu. She's Yagami Hikari from Zu, and that's Takaishi Takeru from Sung."

"I'm Makino. Makino Ruki." Miss Zhang, now known as Ruki answered. "I'm from Japan. Just came here a while ago."

"Well, why are you here then?" Hikari asked.

"None of your business." Ruki said simply. "I don't trust any of you. Who knows, one of you might be working for Akiyama."

"Akiyama Ryo?" Takeru said as he put back his sword in the sheath. "Isn't he the bastard working for the emperor at 20 years old?

Ruki snorted. "Ya that's him. Killed my whole family in a night."

"That Akiyama, always wants to capture all the people in Wu Lin," Takeru said in a disgusted voice. "Although he's part of it. Looks like he wants to rule the world next."

"He's also the leader of this assassin organization, called Tian Wang." Hikari added, seeing Takeru putting back his word she decided to do the same thing.

"I thought it was Ishida Yamato!" Izumi exclaimed, "What happened to him?"

"Who knows?" Takeru shrugged. "But why did Akiyama killed your whole family?"

"Ever heard of Tsuki Kaeshi (Return of the moon)?" Ruki asked.

"What does it have to do with you escaping?" Takeru asked.

"I," Ruki voice trailed off. "I am the sacrifice of it. The emperor wants me, practically everyone in the court wants me, especially Akiyama."

"So," Izumi chimed in, "Does that mean we're on the same side?"

"Looks like it." Ruki said as the others nodded with agreement.

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Finally gaining Ruki's trust, they've decided that they can't do anything but wait. They weren't stupid enough to go to Japan to look for Ryo, that would be too risky for Ruki, so that meant that they would have to wait for Ryo to come to China. Takeru figured that sooner or later he will come, and since now Ruki is missing, he will definitely come and look for her. Or send someone to look for her.

Meanwhile, the villagers were all crowding around one particular counter- the owner was up on a wooden stool, that was wobbling dangerously.

"Connect this phrase and make it into a poem!" the owner yelled.

"Wow they have something like that?" Izumi exclaimed, dragging Ruki, who was now back into her girl self. "I wanna try!"

"Miss, you want to try?" the owner asked.

"Me?" Ruki pondered for a while. "Um..How about this? Jin Feng Yu Lu Yi Xiang Feng, Bian Sheng Xi Ren Jian Wu Shu. (A night of rendezvous, Across the autumn sky, Surpasses joy on earth)."

"Liang Qing Ruo Shi Jiu Chang Shi, You Qi Zai Zhao Zhao Mu Mu (Eternal love between us two, shall withstand the time apart)." A deep voice continued the poem. Ruki and Izumi looked at the owner of the voice. He seems to be someone in the Wu Lin-carrying a sword, looking reasonably skillful and a handsome face. He smiled at Izumi and Ruki, more precisely to Ruki. Izumi smiled back and nodded, Ruki just stared at him.

"Jin Feng Lu Lu Yi Xiang Feng, Sheng Xi Ren Jian Wu Shu, Liang Qing Ruo Shi Jiu Chang Shi, You Qi Zai Zhao Zhao Mu Mu (A night of rendezvous, Across the autumn sky, Surpasses joy on earth. Eternal Love between us two, shall withstand the time apart)." the owner repeated the whole poem in an exaggerated expression. "Ah, young love." Everyone cheered and clapped at that comment.

"I wasn't going to make it into some love poem." Ruki muttered. Izumi, on the other hand, didn't care much.

"He likes you! He likes you!" Izumi squealed.

"Just because he connected my poem?" Ruki grumbled.

"But he made it into a LOVE poem." Izumi said, insisting on the word love. "Here he comes!"

Ruki slowly look up. Their eyes met. Ruki felt like her heart was about to explode, but the guy just smiled sweetly and said. "Miss, I'm impressed. That was such a nice beginning. What's your name?"

Ruki rolled her eyes. "Are you going to ask where I live next?"

The guy was taken aback. "I just want to make more friends. In the Wu Lin it's better to have more friends that enemies, don't you think?"

"Surname Zhang. Zhang YueHua. Don't you dare to call me that." Ruki snarled, giving him a death glare.

"Lee JianLiang." Jenrya said as he turned to Izumi. "And you, miss?"

"XingLing. Zhao XingLing." Izumi answered politely.

"Nice to meet you both." Jenrya looked at Ruki, who was still giving him a death glare. "I suppose I'll see you around then." He waved casually at the girls and walked away.

Ruki continued to put her death glare face on as she watched his back. She was clearly annoyed by that guy, whoever he was, and Izumi was prancing around time to time asking her how did she thought of him. Ruki never knew she was able to get along with Izumi, she thought she was annoying at first, but she was just trying to make everyone happy. Wherever she went, happiness was always around her.

"I don't care!" Ruki said for the umpteenth time. "I don't give a damn about him! His ego is bigger than his head! Sheesh I hate these kind of people."

"Oh no," Izumi said ominously, "You can't hate him! I have to make you like him!"

"Did he bribe you?" Ruki asked sarcastically.

Izumi rolled her eyes." No, it's just that I have this feeling that he's the guy for you, even though it's the first time I've met him. I can feel it. Plus, you two will look adorable together!"

"Nice one there." Ruki snarled. "You need to transplant a brain that works properly."

"You're soooooo mean!" Izumi pouted as they both entered a restaurant, which according to Takeru and Hikari, had some Japanese visitors.

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After another whole day of pointless wonder and occasional "spying in the restaurant", they both returned to Takeru and Hikari's hotel, which both Ruki and Izumi had agreed to stay in temporarily.

Izumi quickly went into her room to have a bath, while Ruki went into the garden that was right outside her room. The rooms surrounded the garden; there was a pagoda and a small lake with a little bridge. Flowers were everywhere, and obviously Hikari had pit a lot of effort on them. Now it was night, lanterns were hung everywhere for illuminating the surrounding.

"Penny for your thoughts, fair lady?" said a voice behind Ruki.

"Nani (What)?" Ruki said in Japanese without any thoughts. Immediately, she turned around and their eyes met again for the second time. She pulled out her sword promptly and pointed at Jenrya.

Of course, being someone in the Wu Lin, he blocked it swiftly with one go. Their swords clashed.

"Nani? Kimi wa Nihonjin desuka? (What? You're Japanese?)" Jenrya exclaimed surprisingly. They stared at each other with equal expressions and equal thoughts. 'He/She is Japanese?'

"Eeto.(Um.)" Jenrya started, "O namae wa (What's your name)?"

Ruki remained silent.

"Boku Lee Jenrya (I'm Jenrya Lee)." Jenrya said smiling. "Hajimemashite Douzo yoroshiku onegaishimasu (First time we meet, nice to meet you.. something like that lol)."

"Yoroshiku (Nice to meet you)." Ruki muttered.

"Guess we're on the same side then." Jenrya pointed out, trying to make Ruki comfortable about the fast that she was Japanese.

"Hmph." Ruki said putting her sword away into her sheath angrily and walked away.

"Omoshiroi (Interesting)." Jenrya muttered, looking up the luminous moon.

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Takki's notes: Lol JEN!!!!!!! Jen!!! What do you think? Is he too OOC? The poem thing was sorta weird. And I didn't make that poem up, found it on the net. It's kinda hard to write all this Chinese stuff into English, it makes it all different. And all that different language stuff. For those of you who are Chinese, you guys might know that this is like those typical Ancient Chinese Material Art fics by this guy called Jin Yong. Ya. personally, this fic is getting more boring and boring. Maybe coz 1) people have no interest in Izumi/Frontier 2) People have no interest in Chinese stuff 3) It's getting tedious 4) my grammar/writing sucks 5) I can't do descriptive writing.

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Takako