Doesn't everyone just love trouble!

Part V

The sun began to rise in the sky and flooded out like liquid gold over the horizon with a warm feeling, a fresh morning breeze blew.

The light seeped in through Hitomi's bedroom window and fell onto her pale face as she tossed and turned in her bed and continued to dream her nightmare, sweat was beaded on her brow and her eyebrows knitted together. She whined a few times and occasionally a single tear would slide down her cheek, eventually she seemed to calm and stay in one place but gradually her brow furrowed and knitted together. She shot up in bed and her eyes snapped open only to be covered again with her hands to stop the sunlight stinging them. She slowly uncovered her eyes when she felt someone touch her shoulder she turned only to come face to face with Councillor Wooddale who stood beside her with concern and worry.

"It was but a nightmare" said Wooddale.

Hitomi nodded as she laid back down in bed, when her nightmare came flooding back into her mind of the battle. She shut her eyes tight as to block it out from her mind but it was no use as she kept on recalling Kotori falling down to the ground with blood all over Igthorn's sword and him smiling evilly at his victory. Tears once again came to Hitomi's eyes as she silently began to cry, she had been dreaming this for some time now. She still felt guilty about Kotori's death but felt as if she knew she was still alive and forced herself to believe that. She calmed herself down when she sat up and pushed back the blankets as to get out of bed, Councillor Wooddale pushed her back down as to stop her when she spoke

"Where do you think your going"

"Getting out of bed," said Hitomi as she threw back the blankets again and began to get out of bed.

"Oh really, but I don't think your well enough" said Wooddale.

"I'm fine," said Hitomi when she stood up she hissed and winced at the pain her leg caused.

"No you're not, and your not going anywhere until I think that you're well enough," said Wooddale folding her arms and glaring at Hitomi who just flashed her innocent smile at her and looking at her with a hint of amusement.

As the two carried on arguing Sir Blastus came up the stairs and was behind the door listening to their argument, he smirked at Hitomi's behaviour as he opened the door and entered the room.

Councillor Wooddale watched as Sir Blastus entered the room and closed the door behind him, Hitomi jumped when she turned around to face him.

"Mon ami, do what she says," said Sir Blastus.

"Nope, not in this life time" said Hitomi.

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Meanwhile at the other end of the building someone had been awakened to the sound shouting from Hitomi's bedroom at the other side.

A smile curled on her lips as she listened to their conversation when she turned round and faced Sir Gumlittle she said

"Again"

Sir Gumlittle excused himself as he stood up and left the room and headed towards Hitomi room.

Further away in the training grounds everyone had stopped training do to an argument-taking place nearby. As soon as Sir Plucki had heard it he knew what the cause of it at once and started heading out of the training grounds.

"Hitomi this is the last time I'm going to tell you get back into bed" shouted Wooddale angrily and frustrated when Sir Gumlittle entered the room.

"NO" shouted back Hitomi as she ran to the window and jumped out.

"HITOMI" shouted all three of them as they raced towards the window.

Hitomi jumped from the window to a roof directly below and then looked up to see the worried faces of Councillor Wooddale, Sir Blastus and Sir Gumlittle.

Hitomi saluted to them and then turned round to run along the top of the roof, but instead she slipped and slid down the roof and landed in a haystack right in front of Sir Plucki.

"Yeah, Let's do that again" said Hitomi rolling around in the hay and laughing so hard she was crying.

"I think not," said Sir Plucki making his presence known to Hitomi.

"Ah, come on lighten up you got to admit it was kinda funny," said Hitomi.

"What was funny about you, was trying to commit suicide by jumping out of a window and worry everyone else to death", said Sir Plucki.

"Geez, its so boring up there all day just stuck in bed doing nothing but sleep and eat" said Hitomi.

"Maybe" said Sir Plucki "but you know its good for you".

"Yeah, but couldn't you just let me sit out and watch you train, that way I get to be outside and you guys don't need to keep watch over me", said Hitomi.

"Hmm, agreed," said Sir Plucki.

"Really" said Hitomi getting excited

"On one condition" said Sir Plucki.

"What?" said Hitomi questionably.

"That you don't try and participate" said Sir Plucki.

Hitomi just stared blankly for a moment before turning back towards him and agreeing.

A girl watched the whole event from a small window in her room with the curtains drawn mainly to hide herself and found the event most entertaining and typical of Hitomi.

During Hitomi's and Sir Plucki's conversation the two knights and Wooddale had come down to the bottom of the tower and only to hear Hitomi say agreed, to which they all turned to Sir Plucki and said confusedly "Agreed (pause) to what?,"

"That Hitomi can stay outdoors as long as she stays in the training grounds only and doesn't participate" said Sir Plucki.

"Hmm, ok" said Councillor Wooddale glad to get rid of Hitomi for a few hours.

//Yes// thought Hitomi quietly to herself from on top of the haystack.

An hour past and Hitomi sat and watched ecstatically as the knights trained, but as time wore on and her leg began to ache she soon fell asleep and slept peacefully for the rest of the day and the whole of the night.

As morning came round again and the sun was just beginning to rise Hitomi woke up to see the familiar sights of her bedroom. She sat up in bed and was surprised that no one pushed her down again and then realised that it was to soon for any of them to be up, so she got out of bed and got dressed into a pair of cream, baggy trouser, a cream, light brown tank top to match and black boots.

An hour went by and still nobody came and Hitomi was getting more bored by the minute so she decided to have a little look around the tower she was being kept in. She opened the door as quiet as possible and then closed it again, she looked both ways to make sure no one was coming then set off down one of the halls.

Although she had received no word and was sure Kotori had died in battle she couldn't help feel that she was alive and that she might be somewhere in the tower so she decided to go and look. Hitomi tiptoed down the corridor and went past a few doors and then stopped at one that didn't look familiar. She quietly turned the door knob and stuck her head in, realising she was in the Councillor's tower, seeing Wooddale bent over reading a book she swiftly pulled her head out incase Wooddale saw her.

Hitomi's heart was pounding but she kept on going until she was at the other side of the tower, here she examined each of the doors. Then noticed one a little further up that stood all on its own and looked like it didn't get used much however there was and dull light coming from underneath it which made Hitomi curious so she ventured towards it. When she was stood by it she carefully twisted the knob and looked in and cried with excitement " KOTORI, your alive" and ran to Kotori on the bed.

Kotori just sat there on her bed for a moment stunned at how Hitomi managed to escape from her bedroom before laughing as Hitomi jumped on the bed and hugged her friend so tightly she could barely breath. She realised that Hitomi shouldn't be here and shushed them both in case anyone heard, but it was to late because just as they both stopped laughing Sir Plucki appeared in the doorway.

"I see you found her then," said Sir Plucki.

"Yeah" said Hitomi hugging Kotori.

Hitomi let go of Kotori when she heard a little chuckle behind her, when she turned round she saw that all the other knights were awake and standing in the doorway as well as Councillor Wooddale, Hitomi just gave a little chuckle herself and then said

"If you knew Kotori was alive then why didn't you tell me?"

"Because, thanks to the details that we received from your friend we figured that if we told you it would be impossible to get you to rest" said Sir Plucki.

"Huh, and what made you think that" said Hitomi then in a whisper Hitomi said to Kotori" What exactly did you tell them?"

"Oh, just how you used to struggle and be a pain to look after, you never settled down when we first began our martial arts training" said Kotori.

"What, you make it sound like its hard work getting me to rest" said Hitomi.

"It is " said Kotori to which everyone else present agreed.

"Well, thank you" said Hitomi "You make it sound like I never rest".

"You don't unless forced," said Kotori to which everyone agreed again.

"Hey, do I have a sign that says pick on me today" said Hitomi to which everyone burst out laughing.

Slowly the gummies began to leave until Hitomi and Kotori were left alone and began talking about how boring the last few days had been and about Hitomi's little trip out of the window. Morning past and the two girls ate dinner and then were once again left alone, every second was more boring for them since they had nothing left to talk about until Hitomi said

"Hey, you wanna go out and train?"

"What, are you nuts?" said Kotori.

"No, but why not?" said Hitomi.

"Because, we'd get caught and what about your leg?" said Kotori.

"That, oh its fine, I can walk can't I, plus I know where we can train and no one will see us" said Hitomi trying not to wince at the pain in her leg.

"Hm, (thinking) ok" said Kotori getting out of bed and getting her katana.

"Let's go" said Hitomi picking up Kotori's spare katana and heading out the door.

The two girls snuck out of the tower and then headed just outside the city without being seen, once outside the two warmed up then unsheathed there katana's and got ready to fight. The two clashed swords and were straight away engaged in a great battle, as the fight began to get tense and there blows harder and quicker the sound got louder and further until eventually it reached the ears of the knights in the training grounds.

"There at it again" said Sir Blastus.

"Kids" said Sir Plucki.

The two girls carried on fighting and were unaware that the knights were slowly closing in on them, until Kotori fell on the floor and came face to face with Sir Blastus.

Hitomi realising the knights had come to spoil there fun once again, sheathed her sword and stood still so she could see where they all were, Sir Gumlittle and Sir Blastus were talking to Kotori but she couldn't see Sir Plucki. She looked all around her but couldn't see him anywhere and she knew that if the other two were here then he would be too. Eventually she so stood still and looked rather confused and then suddenly fell flat on her face, she looked up slightly and Sir Plucki was standing in front of her.

"I knew it was you," she said.

Sir Plucki did not look very happy at having to sort these two out again, however he offered his paw to Hitomi, which she accepted and stood up.

The two then walked in silence towards the other three and when they got near Sir Plucki said

"Follow me".

Everyone followed him and the two girls began whispering to one another that they knew they were in trouble, Sir Plucki led them into a different tower although they knew this one well by now as well, it was where the Councillors usually were.

They walked through a few rooms and then walked into the third room they found Councillor Berrybaum.

"Is there a problem," asked Councillor Berrybaum.

"Yes, these two girls are insisting that they are let outside," said Sir Plucki.

"Seems, Councillor Wooddale was right about you two," said Berrybaum as he started to think about the situation when he then spoke again

"The two girls can walk around only in their tower and nowhere else, (pauses and smiles) and that includes no sword fighting or there sword's are to be confiscated" he said to all the knight when he looked at the two girls who stood there speechless.

"You can't do that!" said Hitomi folding her arms.

"Oh yes we can" said Sir Plucki.

"It's the only way I can get you two to rest," said Berrybaum.

Hitomi growled and pouting angrily as she left the room and headed towards her tower.

"What's with her," said Kotori looking after her friend.

"Obviously not to happy about the situation" said Berrybaum.

"Notice this though, when she badly injured she a pain to look after, however when she not injured she acts all innocent like she did nothing wrong," said Kotori.

"True" they all agreed as Kotori left them and followed after Hitomi.

Hitomi kicked open the door and shut it again, she was angry about the situation and decided to cool it off as she fell to the ground and started doing press-ups. She had been doing this for about ten minutes when she heard a knock at the door she quickly stood up only to see Kotori come in.

"Going against their rules already," said Kotori.

"Nope, they said only to walk around this tower and not to do any sword fighting and I'm not doing any of that" said Hitomi as she started her press-ups again.

"Well, isn't that typical of you," said Kotori as she too joined Hitomi.

The two continued to do press-ups, sit-ups and other warm up for two hours when Hitomi grew bored.

Hitomi then grabbed her katana and her spare as she tossed one over to Kotori.

"Hitomi, no" said Kotori as she caught Hitomi's spare katana.

"Well there's nothing else to do and I'm bored" said Hitomi as she unsheathed her katana.

"So doesn't mean we have to do sword fighting we could just walk around for a bit"

"And do what" said Hitomi as she charged at Kotori.

Kotori didn't have time to unsheathe her sword as she blocked one of Hitomi's attacks.

The two hadn't fought long when Kotori could hear footsteps along the corridor she tried to tell Hitomi but she ignored her and she continued to attack her.

Kotori threw her katana aside as she caught Hitomi's sword in between her hands just as Hitomi's door opened.

Councillor Wooddale stood there not amused when she then clicked her fingers at Hitomi for her to hand her sword over.

"Meany" said Hitomi as she handed her sword to Councillor Wooddale.

"Yes well, you should know better than to break the rules however that's not what I came to talk to you about, what I needed to talk about to you was how to get you back home" asked Wooddale.

"We don't know," said Kotori.

Wooddale looked at Kotori quizzingly when Hitomi said

"Well you see this time I wasn't brought here by a portal instead I wished to see you again" said Hitomi.

"How thoughtful of you (Pause) I'll try and see if their another spell that will take you home" said Wooddale.

Once Wooddale was out of sight Hitomi went over and sat on her bed.

"Just typical someone would have to walk in on us," said Hitomi.

"Yes, well I tried to warn you that someone was coming but you just ignored me," said Kotori when Hitomi lobbed a pillow at her.

"Pillow fight" yelled Hitomi as she whacked Kotori with another pillow.

The two were to involved in hitting one another with their pillows that they didn't hear Sir Blastus knocked on the door. After getting no answer he opened the door only to come in the middle of a pillow fight.

Sir Blastus stood there a moment watching them with amusement when he saw the two pillows collide and burst, the whole room was covered in feathers.

Hitomi and Kotori began to laugh hysterically when they noticed Sir Blastus they suddenly went quiet and tried to keep a straight face.

"See you found something to keep you entertained," said Sir Blastus brushing off some of the feathers off him.

"Ya well Wooddale took Hitomi sword seeing as she decided to train and since we couldn't use swords we decided to use pillows" said Kotori laughing.

Sir Blastus looked at Hitomi who just gave him an innocent look as he opened the door and left.

A few minutes later Hitomi opened the door and went outside.

When Hitomi was outside she walked up to the edge of the tower and sommer solted up high in the sky, when she was half way up she grabbed hold of the stones of the tower as she continued to climb to the top until she reached the roof. Once she reached the roof she stood up as to get a good view when she saw the training yard was still far away from her she sighed when she heard Kotori yell to her

"Hitomi, you'd better get down before the knights see you," said Kotori.

"Who cares, your not much better at staying out of trouble" yelled back Hitomi.

"Well she certainly a lot better than you" said Sir Gumlittle coming out of the shadows near Kotori making both girls jump.

"See I told ya," said Kotori folding her arms and smiling up at Hitomi who glared at her.

"Geez, won't you guys ever leave me alone" said Hitomi.

"Que, because we know that you can't stay out of trouble and you've just proved us right, qui" said Sir Blastus joining Sir Gumlittle.

"Uh, oh" whispered Hitomi to herself as she gazed down at the three she knew that Sir Plucki couldn't be to far away.

"Where's Sir Plucki" yelled Hitomi.

"Right behind you" said Sir Plucki as he grabbed her from behind.

Hitomi giggled as she struggled to get out of Sir Plucki grip but it was in vain as Sir Plucki then picked her up in his arms and jumped off the tower roof.

Sir Plucki then landed on top of a wall near the bottom, Hitomi once again struggled to get out of his arms but he still held a firm grip on her as he landed on the ground, the other three then joining him.

"Mon ami, Can't you stay out of trouble for more than five minutes" said Sir Blastus.

"Err, maybe" said Hitomi laughing "Hey, I didn't break the rules,"

"Well you've already broken one of the rules," said Kotori joining the group "Sword fighting"

Sir Plucki looked down typically at Hitomi in his arms who once again just gave him an innocent look

"Because of how much time I spend in the training grounds," said Hitomi smirking while Sir Plucki nodded at her before putting her down on her feet when she said

"Anyway shouldn't you be training or patrolling the forest" said Hitomi looking at the three knights.

"We would be if we didn't have to watch you to make sure you stay out of trouble" said Sir Gumlittle.

"Oh, so your telling me you were stood by watching us when Councillor Wooddale came in to see us and Sir Blastus," said Hitomi folding her arms and looking at the three knights to which they nodded at.

"Urgh, Leave me alone" said Hitomi in frustration as threw her arms in the air and stormed off towards her bedroom.

The four began to quietly laugh as they watched Hitomi enter her bedroom and slam the door behind her.

Hitomi slammed the door behind her and locked the door as she made way to her bed. Whilst walking to her bed she put her bedroom key into her pocket as she collapsed onto her bed as she began to think through about their conversation. She slowly began to fall to drift off to sleep as she watched the sun go down taking the last bit of sunlight with it she said something to herself

"Maybe I was tired and needed to rest" said Hitomi as she closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

Hitomi slept the rest of the night and the whole of the next day when the second day came she awoke at midday to the sound of someone banging on her door. She ignored it as she grabbed her pillow and placed it against her ear to drown out the noise. Once the banging had stopped she sighed as she removed the pillow from her head. She then sat up in bed when she opened her eyes she immediately closed them due to the sunlight blinding them. Once she had gotten used to the light she then opened her eyes again when she heard someone bang on the door again she groaned when she heard Kotori's voice.

"HITOMI, IF YOUR AWAKE ANSWER ME!" shouted Kotori through the door.

Again Hitomi did not answer instead she climbed out of bed and headed towards her wardrobe. Once she reached her wardrobe she opened it and started searching for something to wear when she pulled out a red rose dress and smiled

"That'll be the day when they see me in a dress but of course it'll never happen" thought Hitomi to herself when she suddenly felt tired again. She was about to go back to bed but decided against it, as she wanted to try on the dress. Once changed she looked in the mirror on the wardrobe door when she looked she smiled. Hitomi then grabbed her hairbrush from her bag as she started doing her hair-up. Once finished she then looked in the mirror again when she said to herself

"Hitomi you look fabulous," she said as she sat down on the bench in the wardrobe.

Hitomi began to think what everyone's reaction would be if they saw her in a dress when she imagined Kotori she chuckled to herself and was about to change into something else when she suddenly felt sleep coming over she gave into it as she closed her eyes and fell into a peaceful sleep in her wardrobe.

TBC…

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End of Part V

Part VI, final chapter coming soon!