The Dranon Heiress

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A/N: Sorry for the delay!! I was REALLY busy watching Hunter X Hunter . . . KURAPIKA!!! ILLUMI!!!!! HISOKA!!!! I LOOOOOVVVEEEE YOOOUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyways: ENJOY!!!

---- Chapter Six ----

Rei heard a voice. The strange thing was that it was in the middle of the night and the person seemed to be having a decent conversation. Decent, if you were someone who liked to describe others as 'useless bums'. He managed to drag his half-frozen body out of the makeshift tent and look up in the direction where the voice was.

". . . stupid idiots. They're freezing their arses off."

//Hold on a sec// he thought. //Isn't that Ketsueki Rika's voice?//

He edged closer and, sure enough, Rika was sitting on the branch of a rather tall tree, one hand fingering her cellphone and the other keeping an earphone in place. Idiocy chose this time to take over his mind and he shook one of the lower branches to get her attention.

"Ketsueki-san," he called sleepily. "Who're you talking to at this hour?"

"Piss off, Kano," Rika snapped. "Or I'll split your goddamn head in two."

//Man, major PMS problem//

Rei trudged back to the 'tent' and squeezed in between two shivering bodies, where he had claimed as his 'sleeping spot' before. If she didn't want to talk, then he wouldn't make her. After all, it wasn't like they depended on her to live in the wild.

A high-pitched, bird-like shriek sounded in the still air.

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"BIRD! OH MY GOD IT'S A BIRD!"

Naoko screeched as the shriek faded, sitting upright and clutching her sleeping bag tightly around her neck. Enrique sat up as well, but only after Naoko began her constant, distracted mutterings of: 'my god, it's a bird' and 'bird, bird, bird . . .'.

"Uh . . . Ten'ou-san?" he asked tentatively. "Are you okay?"

"Did you hear it?" she whispered dramatically. "Did you hear a bird shriek?"

"No . . ."

Naoko processed his reply, before her eyes widened and she relaxed a little.

"Okay then!"

She lay back down and went promptly to sleep.

-------- As this was happening, Miyuki was still sleeping soundly, completely unaware that something had gone wrong. Around her, her group was snoring contently.

The river waters began to rise.

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Rika stifled a laugh. No matter how much the shriek sounded like a real bird, she knew it was definitely Chika. The other girl had an uncanny ability to pitch her voice to match that of a bird's. Any bird, for that matter. But since she had already heard enough of Chika's voice to realise one from the other, Rika was certain that this had been her.

"Told her before," she muttered amusedly to herself. "Always told her: don't sit too high!"

Her eyes narrowed. Footsteps were approaching the scene quickly. If she remembered correctly, the footsteps belonged to the leader of the Bladebreakers - Hitawari Kai. What was he doing up so late? And getting closer and closer to Chika's position for that matter! Her blood began to boil and from her pocket, the bit began to glow a blood red. It grew hot to the touch, but she was too caught up in her own anger to see what was going on.

"If you dare to touch her the wrong way, I'll personally rip your head off."

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The next morning, Kai came out of his tent and - to his surprise - there was already someone sitting by the fire. There was the unmistakable black hair, streaked with brilliant blue, and hauntingly beady eyes. Whether it was just a coincidence, or the work of Fate playing tricks on his already burdened sanity, it HAD to be Chika. A small fire was already going, further enhancing the pale features set on her face.

"Ohayou," she greeted in an almost deadened voice. "Sleep well?"

"Ohayou," he replied with an uncharacteristically, yet mildly, good-natured enthusiasm.

He sat himself a few feet away from the other, who was poking the food - which was cooking in the small pot over the fire - in a bored fashion. Kai took this chance to study his companion a bit closer. She didn't seem TOO bad looking. Hell, she could even surpass the definition of 'pretty' or anything synonymous to that word.

"Heaven forbid," her voice came suddenly. "SOMEONE seems to like staring."

"What's your problem?"

"You."

Her temper seemed to have not improved since last night's incident. His originally had been the same, but it seemed to ebb away when she offered him a plateful of that liquid stuff almost apologetically. He reached out slowly and took it, barely catching the ghost of a smile that flitted across those pale lips.

"Arigatou."

"You're welcome."

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"Sleep well?"

Rika watched, amused, as the boys in her group hurriedly slipped on their shirts and gathered around what was left of the campfire. They started to complain about the lack of food and Lee came to where she was sitting and demanded to know whether she had made breakfast or not. Her reply was only raising a single, slender eyebrow.

"Well? Did you make breakfast or not?"

"No."

"Why didn't you?" Ian demanded. "You were first up!"

"Fine." She picked something up from behind her. "Here, eat this."

Lee caught it in his fist and peered closely. Then he cried out in surprise and dropped it. A smirk graced Rika's features as the beetle scuttled away into the bushes. The rest of her group scrambled back from it as if it carried poison.

"Was that some sort of sick joke?"

"There's plenty more where that came from," was her reply.

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Miyuki's camp site was a wreck after only one night. The entire place was flooded over by the river so that NONE of their supplies were dry enough to be edible.

The group dragged everything out to dry, hoping that, it the scorching sunlight, the supplies would dry quickly.

No more can be said, so far, of their group.

---- Author's Uncharacteristic Interruption Notes ----

Let's review so far:

The first few parts are just what happened in the other groups while Chika and Kai were at the tree scene at the end of the last chapter.

The next parts were relatively longer, depending on how much I can think of to say about the characters.

Rika's sentences are getting at least a BIT longer.

Naoko is scared of practically EVERYTHING that happens in the middle of the night.

A little bit of Kai/Chika happening, but I haven't confirmed anything yet.

Miyuki's camp is in a bad situation, with the flood and all. Stupid girl camped too close to the river (but don't tell her I called her stupid!).

---- End of Chapter ----

A/N: Sorry if this chapter is shorter than the rest!

I realised that this chapter was just little snippets of scenes that could have been made longer, but I couldn't be bothered. Especially when I want to focus on Kai/Chika and NOT on really anything else. SORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And yes, I am a really biased authoress when it comes to OC romances. I like to focus on Kai and the OC (which is usually me ^_^;;;;) he falls for, totally disregarding anyone else. SORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ja ne! from Bittersweet Angel Chika.