Author's note: hey! this is another chapter. Thanks for reviewing! I hope
you guys like it. Ahhhhhhhhhhh my test are all crammed in this week and it
suck. Wish me luck ~_^"
Disclaimer: this story belongs to me but not the character (some do though)
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Chapter 4
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Ugly
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Whispers Whispers Whispers Whispers Whispers Whispers Whispers Whispers
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"Look at her, ewe...this ugly girl!"
"Oh my god her glasses are thicker than my text book, who wants to be her friend"
"Oh! I've heard that she got kicked out of her previous school, I bet she's a punk"
"Ha! more like a punky geek with those glasses on"
"I've heard that she fought with the students that's why she got kicked out"
"What! Only that! I've heard that she bashed up one of the teachers and threatened to kill them if they didn't give her full marks!"
"How terrible! Don't go near her everyone"
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"Minnasan shizukani. Today we have two new students. Let them introduce themselves, be nice. Nakayama sit down and stop the gossip!" The classroom grew silent as the new two new girls entered, Makoto's naturally wavy hair fall down in curls behind her tied up in a neat ponytail. She calmly walked in, the rest of the students eyes raised up to see them. Kurama-shuuichi looked up, it was the girl he bumped into earlier, on his way to school. He could see her better since she's not so close (ahem..like one centimeter apart before), but everyone was looking at the girl next to her and uttering sounds like aw, oh how pretty.
The other girl had long purple hair, the colour of grapes. She wore a hair band and her straight long hair fell neat past her waist down her back. Her eye's were pretty, the colour of pink, she smiled and nearly all the guys drooled. Kurama-shuuichi wasn't noticing her at all. His gaze kept on the girl he met earlier, he could almost feel his finger running through her soft mahogany curls again. He noticed she kept herself invisible from the others, contrasting with the other girl totally. She seemed more calm, or rather she felt.......cold.
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Whispers Whispers Whispers Whispers Whispers Whispers Whispers Whispers
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"Look at her! Man she's tall, wow no wonder she could bring down a guy!"
"she's taller than most of the girls at school"
"she's so ugly, arghhhhhhhhh!"
"I'm so scared...."
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"Minna hello!" the other girl spoke happily. Bubbly, Kurama thought, but for some reason he felt uneasy about this girl. "My name is Tanaka Yoko. This year I am turning 16 and I am soooo happy to be in this school. everyone's so nice" she squealed. Everyone all stared at her, whispers rose inside the room. Kurama looked side ways at his classmates. He sighed, he had to admit that the new girl did look pretty attractive, but there seemed to be a lost sense of something in her.....he didn't know what but he seemed to have found this in the other girl.
He quickly turned his head back to the front when the other girl stepped forward. She was tall, her long slender legs proved her increasement in height. Kurama studied her closely and he couldn't help thinking that she had a great body. Probably because of the height he thought again. The class quietened down again. She bowed "Minnasan nice to meet you, my name is Kino Makoto. I am tuning 16 this year. Thanks for your greeting" she said without a smile. Makoto stood there in the sudden silence as her speech finished. The looks of the students piercing. Tanaka was standing aside. She was snickering at the reactions of the others. She flipped her hair in satisfaction.
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Makoto's POV
thoughts...
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Another school, it is always like this. I never feel welcomed anywhere I go. I could never find any friends. Maybe that's a good thing. Makoto thought back to her past friends that she and tried to make. She recalled the one that got killed by a shadow, then another that she put in trouble and then......she stopped interacting with anyone altogether. I guess it's my job to protect these people. I remember the words that I live for- protect those who you love. A image of Usagi, the team and then her parents. Her parents, she couldn't remember the time when they died. Couldn't remember the last time they were a family together. Couldn't remember the first time that she was alone by herself and still alone. You must hold on Makoto.....you must hold on..... The thoughts repeating over and over inside her mind. The pain of not being able to cry, never, ever, ever, ever again. I've forgotten how to cry she thought.......
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"Makoto san, Makoto san!" she snapped out of her daze.
"Hai sensei, gomenasai sensei. I was just thinking......"
The teacher gave her a warm smile and turned to Tanaka to give seating places. "Tanaka san, why don't you go and sit next to Shinamoto san". Yoko smiled at the teacher sweetly and obediently walked over to her new seat. Then he turned to Makoto. "Um, Makoto why don't you go..." The teacher looked around the classroonm trying to decide on her seat. "Ah! Why don't you go and sit I the seat next to Takayama Kun"
"What! S..ah sensei, this seats already taken remember....ah......by Suzuki san...she's away"
Kurama stood up "Sumimasen sensei, there is a spare seat next to me why don't she just sit there" he pointed to the empty desk next to him. The class gasped at Kurama's suggestion. The most popular guy that all the girls wanted to go out with offered a seat to an ugly girl right next to him! The girls looked in amazement and jealousy at his decision. "Very well Minamino Kun it is very sensible and kind of you to offer a seat" he turned to Makoto "This will be your new seat". Yoko stared at Makoto angrily. She was jealous, but of what? She guessed it was because it was of Shuuichi. She shrugged.
She glided past the other students and took the seat next to the handsome young man, she could see clearly his popularity amongst the people in the school. "Um, Hi. My name's Minamino Shuuichi, you can just call me Shuuichi. Nice to meet you" at that moment she realized it was the guy that saved her from a fall today, but she kept quiet about that.
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Kurama's POV
Thoughts...
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It was the first time I've met her, yet it felt like I've have known her for a long time. The feeling so strong I cannot control. The sudden sense of her body sense erupting my sense of scent. Is it the smell of the rose? No, this sense of sweetness was even more beautiful than the rose. Driving my feelings mad. Lost I am, in her presence. I don't know what she is thinking. I cannot reach her thoughts, because lying underneath those glasses are a pair of mysterious eye's. what color are they? How are they? Do I want to know? I don't know. Although she seems the same as the other girls, I cannot explain the strange phenomenon I can feel escaping from her and penetrating into me her uniqueness her everything.......
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"Thanks Shuuichi Kun" she whispered lightly "I never thought that anyone.." He cut her off "Need anything just ask" he said. Her voice trailed off. The silence arousing again, making him feel a loneliness inside her.
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Kurama's POV
Thoughts.........
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She sat there looking into outer space like nothing is around her. She wasn't even looking at the teacher. I can't help noticing her grim face. Her rosy lips kept in a straight line. There was that feeling again. Where had he met her before? There seemed to be strong feeling of them meeting before. He desperately searched his memory, but he couldn't seem to find a match. He closed his eyes, the feeling lingered inside him, he hated that feeling, the feeling of not knowing what was happening to him.
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It was Lunch. "Hey, Shuuichi kun!" a boy with curly hair, freckles and glasses shouted from behind as Shuuichi started to leave the classroom to lunch. Shuuichi turned to look around the room. She wasn't there. With curiosity and a little despair he turned around to meet his friend. "Shuuichi. I've heard there's a super ugly and scary girl who looks like godzilla who just came to your class (shivers at the thought) and they said that she's sitting next to you!" he pointed a finger at his friends face and pulling a yucky face like he just ate somethign bad.
"Yeah, so?"
"What! So what they said was true. She is a monster"
Kurama was a little annoyed with his friend's words. "Firstly I would like to correct the rumors before she becomes worse than Godzilla" he raised an eyebrow at Kaitou "she a girl, just with glasses on and very tall and maybe she came from another school because she got kicked out or something, but that's no reason to discriminated just because she's not prettier than the other girls!". He found himself being overly protective "besides she sits next to me and for reason I......"
He trailed off as he thought of the whispers which erupted at her entrance. He could almost feel the menace the others eyes on her like it was on him. He quickly wakes himself up at the thought. "so what you're saying that she's nice and you pity her and all that crap.....hey wait a sec! Don't tell me that you're interested in those type of girls! No wonder you don't look at other girls! And I thought you were gay once!". Kurama sweat dropped, "any louder? I just feel something. What, I don't know. There seems to be something wrong with her spirit...a sense of a ....space" his eye's looks into space and softens "Maybe it's just me being too sensitive".
Kaitou stared at his shuuichi. They walked out to lunch "so, maybe you could show her to me eh?".
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it was spring, the petals of the sakura trees gave birth to beautiful sights of prancing petals like rain, their graceful dances floating to the ground. Shuuichi walked pass an oak tree, the only oak tree in the school. Huge it was of age and stableness, its branches spread out like protecting anyone that is under it. A breeze passed by and the branches swayed with the rustling if its lush green new foliage of leaves. Some of them floating down. Floating down next to a girl. With a slight glimpse, he saw. There she sat all alone, her expression unchanged like the first step she ever took in this school, like the first time she talked to the class. He wanted to walk over and say something, but he just stood there like his feet were grown into the ground. She didn't notice him staring, she was like that tree. Calm and graceful.
"Oy! Shuuichi Kun! what are you doing?"
"Huh? Sorry. Um that girl over there under the oak tree is the new girl"
"Where? Where? Oh there! Well for one thing she looks like a normal human being to me, and for two she looks like me. a geek! Hey cool I could make friends with her!" Kurama's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets at that remark. He thought of her looking like Kaitou. Nah! "I guess" he answered him back, then taking one last look at the girl her walked off reluctantly with Kaitou.
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It was lunch time and Makoto slipped silently to lunch. She looked around for a quiet place where there would be no one and finally decided to sit under the oak tree, the tree of courage and faith, and the only oak tree she found in the school. it was a perfect place to sit. She watched as the spring sakura blossoms rained down, so beautiful she thought, but I still prefer the oak. For the first time she felt secure in this school. maybe it was because of the unfamiliar people or maybe there was a problem with herself. She closed her eyes, leaned back and took in the familiar smell to the oak. It surrounded her like out stretched arms, protecting her. She sucked in a breath when she realized the job she was here for there fore taking out some notes that she had.
"Hmmm...." she read the letter- weird things have been lurking around this school lately and there is high energy sources. Destroy the weird things that happens in this school- the note was finished. "What! Is that all" she exclaimed in frustration. There weren't any details at all. Stuffing the note back into her pocket she wondered how was she going to get through in this school. the people were so competitive. She started thinking that, should she make any friends or keep her distance.
A pain struck her left arm. It hurt really badly. Holding it tightly she lifted up her sleeve to look at the bandage. It had been a week since she got hit by that Kura..Kura what guy. She couldn't remember how he looked like anymore, just vaguely since at the time it was too messy. Red started to show through the bandages slowly little by little. "Shit! Stupid wound" she couldn't believe that it could be this bad! It was just a cut. She got worse ones before but for some reason it wouldn't heal properly. She leaned back against the tree in pain. It happened one everyday. There was a pain in her left arm.
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it was the end of the day, the bell went as students started to empty the classrooms and head for their afternoon clubs, jobs or home. Shuuichi walked to the green house after his lesson at the biology club. It was getting late and it was his turn to take late afternoon checking's today. As he walked to the sheds, he couldn't get the thought of the new girl out of his head. He stops at the green house abruptly; there was already someone there. Among the plants there was a shadow. Arousing his reflexes he charges in thinking that there was another one on those things. With great amount of agility he's beside his opponent ready to attack.
"Ah!! What the?!" said Makoto said a surprised Makoto with a astonished expression on her face. Halting the attack at one her stood back. He could see that he had just scared the her. "Are you a ghost or a person?" Kurama's heart started beating fast, it was that feeling again and he hated it, the feeling that he had met her before. "why are you here? Go....Gomen for scaring you I just thought..."
"that's all right, but that's great speed....do you learn martial arts or something?" she asked coolly. Makoto was thinking hard now, she knew that it couldn't be right for a person to have such speed and agility, noticing that he wasn't a normal person she sharpened her senses just in case.
"Ah... yeah, I thought that you were a thief" he replied. Stupid answer he thought.
"well I never knew there were thieves that favor plants over money?"
he tried to change the subject "Why are you here?"
"Gomen Minamino senpai, uh.... well you see I was just walking around after school since I didn't have time during class and I found these planting sheds. I was curious and....I really like plants and flowers so I decided to sort of um.....help a bit but then I found you charging in, Guess I'm not welcome" she said wisply "No! wait I didn't mean that, I...."
kurama looked for words to say but he didn't know how to put them "Wow! Minamino senpai, don't take it so seriously I was just joking. Anyway it's getting late" turning towards the door she started to leave, with silence breaking through she walked towards the door and stopped. Makoto turned around to Shuuichi, she felt that he wasn't a bad person, and she realized it was the person that slashed her, but that wasn't important any more. "Thanks a lot for treating me like one of yous" and disappeared through the door with her fragrance tailing behind her. Kurama closed his eyes, smiled and whispered softly "My pleasure"
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"Search for your love sora no suissho o, search for you love......."
Haruka's senses jerked up. She craned her neck around the neighborhood on her bicycle trying to look through someone's window. It had been a long day at school and on the way back she heard a familiar song. "Please let it not be them, please let it not be them" she chanted over and over again as she carefully looked over the wall, and soon enough she saw it. "Oh shit!" she whispered harshly under her breath "This is not happening! Oh damn!". On the T.V screen she saw it was them. The Three Lights. She lost her balance and fell off her bicycle half dazed. "Shit dammit! Why does it have to be them!" Quickly getting up and dusting off her skirt. She got on her bike and rode off clenching her teeth. "Stupid Seiya, stupid Seiya!". She couldn't get the stupid person out of her head, she wanted so much to punch him across the face.
She and Seiya never got on well together and she just hated the way he......oh whatever, she didn't know what she just hated him. Maybe she was jealous of Michiru or maybe it was the jealousy of Usagi, that he stuck his nose in Usagi's business. One way or the other she didn't seem very happy that he was here. She fixed up her glasses sliding off her nose and continued on riding home. She had a feeling that they were here to take them back, but she rubbed the possibility out of her mind, they didn't know that they were here.
Riding on she thought of how Makoto must be today. It was her first day at her new school and she wondered if there were any problem arising. With her hair flying through the wind she began to ride faster and faster. She really needed to warn Makoto about the Three Lights before they find her. Stopping with a screech at a red light, she looked around. She jumped she saw the faces of three familiar people on the footpath near where she was. She froze as to not make herself obvious to them. Perspiration began to form on her forehead. Dammit she thought. Back in the old times she would probably pick a fight with Seiya but now. Punching them would only make them realize that they were in this dimension.
Seiya, Taiki and Yaten were wearing sunglasses as usual and looking out for anyone that recognized them incase they caused another world war threes war of the women. None of them looked towards Haruka's direction, and none of them noticed properly because she was wearing an annoying skirt and ridiculous glasses which made her look like a girl. So when the lights turned green she sped off at top speed as fast as she could peddle. Annoying bicycles she thought, can't they go any faster. At the same time Taiki turned and slightly glimpsed a corner of his eye across to her. She was pretty far away by then.
"Taiki!" Yaten whispered sharply "what are you looking at?". Taiki turned to his friend and pointed at the direction of the road. "I thought I just saw Haruka" he said unsurly. Seiya cocked his head back and forth, left and right "Where, where?!" Taiki sweat dropped at his hypo friend. his nosy senses were up again he thought. "but she's gone" he finished. Yaten's lips twitched into a half smile half laugh "are you sure it was her" he finally said. Taiki scratched his head.
"........"
"........"
"No"
Seiya and Yaten fell to the floor and sweat dropped, but Taiki seemed to still think it was Haruka. "It's just that there is a feeling. The stars....". Seiya and Yaten stared at Taiki's sudden serious face "They're here" they said in unison.
"Ahhhhhhhhh!" someone screamed shrilly. The guys turned and looked at a girl. She was panting and pointing at them as if she was going to have a heart attack any second. "Th...th...Three Lights!" she screamed again half choking on her words. Then every woman and girl on the street seem look at them. They prowled like cats, their eye's turning red as if to charge at them any second. The three guy backed away. Their faces turning green "Uh....I think there is a problem" Yaten stuttered, Taiki nodded in agreement "RUN!" Seiya shouted and turned around and charged through the crowd as fast as he could run. A loud eruption of high pitched screams pierced the sky as the only thing you could hear were the words "Seiya! Taiki! Yaten! We Love you!"
Haruka's goosebumps nearly popped off her skin and onto the road, she felt like throwing up when she heard the screams behind her. Although she was a fair distance away, she could still hear the thundering screams of the desperate fans. She shivered "Yikes!". The sun was beginning to set, she figured she had to hurry home and make dinner, it was funny how people could affect you. Before Haruka never took a step into the kitchen and now Mako actually started to teach Haruka how to cook and she had become pretty good at it too, but the only one that she would cook for she figured it would only be Makoto. she had many things to do when she got back, she had to prepare for the exploration of reikai. A sudden sense of worry seem to rush over her. Not knowing why she felt that something bad was going to happen.
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It fell to the floor with a thump, then light emitted from it as it disappeared into a flower. It was the second one she had encountered today after school. she walked to the remaining bead if the monster and peered through it. It was blue. Translucent with a light of blue gas like smoke trapped inside it. Makoto sucked in a breath when she saw the gas. There was a symbol inside it, a symbol of water in kanji inside a star (note: If the bead has a gas inside it that means it's a spirit bead). Quickly she drew a Taisan Kami on her palm where the bead lay. Then placing two fingers on her forehead she shouted "Split!" and threw the bead up into the air with the symbols she just wrote. As soon as it was up it split into light. "Another spirit back" she whispered. She raised her head and looked up.
It was a beautiful evening. The sky was just dark and stars began to show, but the moon...the moon always shone. It's graceful light touched her beautiful skin. She slowly walked home passing through a park that was near her house, she felt she wanted to sit down. Makoto kept her eye's glued at the sky. Feelings began to flood through her uncontrollably. She didn't cry though, just hurt. Haruka, since when she started to be so close to her. Not knowing how it had just happened. She smile at The watermelon patch, their secret.
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Their story- The Watermelon Patch ^_^;
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the place looked over the sea and also looked over Crystal Tokyo. They called it the Watermelon Patch since it was a Watermelon Patch. Makoto and Haruka always went there, when she was unhappy they would draw pictures of their enemies on the watermelons they planted and chuck them, in summer they would have melon fights or simply eat them to cool off, at battles the would meet there before hand and look over Crystal Tokyo for plans. It was their place. Secret. Needed to go through a forest to get there it was. Like a maze it was, and no one knew how to get there except for them. Maybe it was fate, they found it. Found it their own ways, even when they purposely walked in different directions, yet again they would meet at the same place. funny, Makoto thought she always looked at Haruka as a role model. Never thought of being so close to her, as a sister? Or more? She wished so much to be like her. To not to care how others think about her, not to mind her height. No mater what others compliment about her Haruka would take it in, analyze it and then throw it away like rubbish. But can she be like that? she couldn't understand, she couldn't do it. She would crumble at her grace. She would melt at her words. She wished so much that Haruka would appreciate her, not in Michiru's way though. even one little bit would do, maybe she did maybe she didn't. it was always like that, Makoto never felt belonged, to anyone or anywhere. She envied Usagi, her family, her happiness, but the irony was that she loved her even more. Everytime she saw here queen happy with Endymond there would be a pain so deep, so merciless yet at the same time she wished her well. Maybe it was this. It was Haruka which was through all the masks she put on. She started to draw closer. Secretly, silently. They began to understand each other. Haruka began to notice her. Digging her way into her deepest parts of her secrets. Maybe it was the last battle of the moon, Makoto blocked a blow for Haruka. Yes, she did. The arrow went straight through her heart and straight into haruka's. Such good aim it was. Their blood mixed and their bodies suddenly developed a connection in a way. It was controllable though. Makoto fell. She was suppose to die, always the first one to die. Haruka just got injured badly and it was Haruka who helped her mend her heart, it was everyone too, but especially Haruka. Secretly as not to disturb anyone, especially Michiru. Haruka always thought of Michiru first. Not matter what, but why they broke up she had no idea. They had everything in the world to be happy. Then came the word "Family". It was her dream to belong to a family which also belonged to her, but is was taken away from her when she gave her life to Usagi as a senshi. It wasn't fair, it never was, it left everyone family-less. Not able to love, cannot be loved, and for the case of Jupiter, losing the priority to do so. It proved fate, losing her parents first, continuous broken relationships. Then she began to accept. Accept the fact it was her destiny. Cruel and cold was the word destiny.
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End of Story- The Watermelon Patch
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It started to rain Makoto lifted her head up. Raindrops fell on her cheeks it ran down like tears. She loved the feeling of it, since......she thought, it was when she gave up her dreams and gave up her heart, she never cried again. For no one. Not even for herself. So, they were replaced by the tears of the sky. That's why when it rains.......its tears from her, given to her by the sky as a present. It cries for her. For once she didn't know if rain was rain, of were they her tears. Funny , it always rained for her when she felt like it. Even if there wasn't a cloud in the sky a few minutes ago.
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the screen displayed the picture is the happenings of the day. Two mysterious shadows chuckled as they watched the torturing of the humans. They watched as their prey fell to their deaths. "So much power" one of them whispered licking his lips. Then the screen turned. "Two ladies Hmmmm...." it ejected grinning slyly. "Who are they!" he asked the darkness. Things shifted in the darkness, at his noble voice. "They are worriers which are destroying our plans" a trembling voice replied. "Oy! Bro!" the other one called "What do say" they chuckled together. "I'm in Looooooooove!" they both said. "Gettem" he bellowed his word bounding off the dark walls. Scattering like insects the things moved away in fright leaving the words "yes, your highnesses THE BEE, THE STING".
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Haruka was really worried when Makoto got home. she was soaked form head to toe, and from outside to inside. "Mako! Did you decide to have a schower on the way or something!" she said angrily. Makoto took off her glasses and looked at Haruka. Haruka immediately softened, but to her supprise Makoto fell forward and rushed into Haruka's arms, leaving a very supprised Haruka standing there. "I'm sorry Haru chan, but I really need a hug" her wet red school uniform was getting Haruka's clothes wet, but she put her arms around her and gave her a warm hug anyway.
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Author's note: Whew! This chapter is sooooooo! long tha it's just a treat. I can't always write chapters this long but maybe from time to time! I've decided to write up a note on the things of my story explaining the uses eg. The beads and their uses and meanings, the legendary god of gods, "Oji chan" and his background, and stuff like that. It's a bit silly cause it's turning out like something that J.R Tolkein did to the lord of the rings but anyway (shrugs).
P.S: There will be a short story of Mako and Kurama when she was young probably stuck in one of Kurama's dreams. It's about How they met before they even knew each other at all. It's been brewing in my head for too long so I think it's time I unleashed it ! Ja Ne! *_^"
Disclaimer: this story belongs to me but not the character (some do though)
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Chapter 4
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Ugly
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Whispers Whispers Whispers Whispers Whispers Whispers Whispers Whispers
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"Look at her, ewe...this ugly girl!"
"Oh my god her glasses are thicker than my text book, who wants to be her friend"
"Oh! I've heard that she got kicked out of her previous school, I bet she's a punk"
"Ha! more like a punky geek with those glasses on"
"I've heard that she fought with the students that's why she got kicked out"
"What! Only that! I've heard that she bashed up one of the teachers and threatened to kill them if they didn't give her full marks!"
"How terrible! Don't go near her everyone"
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"Minnasan shizukani. Today we have two new students. Let them introduce themselves, be nice. Nakayama sit down and stop the gossip!" The classroom grew silent as the new two new girls entered, Makoto's naturally wavy hair fall down in curls behind her tied up in a neat ponytail. She calmly walked in, the rest of the students eyes raised up to see them. Kurama-shuuichi looked up, it was the girl he bumped into earlier, on his way to school. He could see her better since she's not so close (ahem..like one centimeter apart before), but everyone was looking at the girl next to her and uttering sounds like aw, oh how pretty.
The other girl had long purple hair, the colour of grapes. She wore a hair band and her straight long hair fell neat past her waist down her back. Her eye's were pretty, the colour of pink, she smiled and nearly all the guys drooled. Kurama-shuuichi wasn't noticing her at all. His gaze kept on the girl he met earlier, he could almost feel his finger running through her soft mahogany curls again. He noticed she kept herself invisible from the others, contrasting with the other girl totally. She seemed more calm, or rather she felt.......cold.
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Whispers Whispers Whispers Whispers Whispers Whispers Whispers Whispers
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"Look at her! Man she's tall, wow no wonder she could bring down a guy!"
"she's taller than most of the girls at school"
"she's so ugly, arghhhhhhhhh!"
"I'm so scared...."
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"Minna hello!" the other girl spoke happily. Bubbly, Kurama thought, but for some reason he felt uneasy about this girl. "My name is Tanaka Yoko. This year I am turning 16 and I am soooo happy to be in this school. everyone's so nice" she squealed. Everyone all stared at her, whispers rose inside the room. Kurama looked side ways at his classmates. He sighed, he had to admit that the new girl did look pretty attractive, but there seemed to be a lost sense of something in her.....he didn't know what but he seemed to have found this in the other girl.
He quickly turned his head back to the front when the other girl stepped forward. She was tall, her long slender legs proved her increasement in height. Kurama studied her closely and he couldn't help thinking that she had a great body. Probably because of the height he thought again. The class quietened down again. She bowed "Minnasan nice to meet you, my name is Kino Makoto. I am tuning 16 this year. Thanks for your greeting" she said without a smile. Makoto stood there in the sudden silence as her speech finished. The looks of the students piercing. Tanaka was standing aside. She was snickering at the reactions of the others. She flipped her hair in satisfaction.
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Makoto's POV
thoughts...
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Another school, it is always like this. I never feel welcomed anywhere I go. I could never find any friends. Maybe that's a good thing. Makoto thought back to her past friends that she and tried to make. She recalled the one that got killed by a shadow, then another that she put in trouble and then......she stopped interacting with anyone altogether. I guess it's my job to protect these people. I remember the words that I live for- protect those who you love. A image of Usagi, the team and then her parents. Her parents, she couldn't remember the time when they died. Couldn't remember the last time they were a family together. Couldn't remember the first time that she was alone by herself and still alone. You must hold on Makoto.....you must hold on..... The thoughts repeating over and over inside her mind. The pain of not being able to cry, never, ever, ever, ever again. I've forgotten how to cry she thought.......
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"Makoto san, Makoto san!" she snapped out of her daze.
"Hai sensei, gomenasai sensei. I was just thinking......"
The teacher gave her a warm smile and turned to Tanaka to give seating places. "Tanaka san, why don't you go and sit next to Shinamoto san". Yoko smiled at the teacher sweetly and obediently walked over to her new seat. Then he turned to Makoto. "Um, Makoto why don't you go..." The teacher looked around the classroonm trying to decide on her seat. "Ah! Why don't you go and sit I the seat next to Takayama Kun"
"What! S..ah sensei, this seats already taken remember....ah......by Suzuki san...she's away"
Kurama stood up "Sumimasen sensei, there is a spare seat next to me why don't she just sit there" he pointed to the empty desk next to him. The class gasped at Kurama's suggestion. The most popular guy that all the girls wanted to go out with offered a seat to an ugly girl right next to him! The girls looked in amazement and jealousy at his decision. "Very well Minamino Kun it is very sensible and kind of you to offer a seat" he turned to Makoto "This will be your new seat". Yoko stared at Makoto angrily. She was jealous, but of what? She guessed it was because it was of Shuuichi. She shrugged.
She glided past the other students and took the seat next to the handsome young man, she could see clearly his popularity amongst the people in the school. "Um, Hi. My name's Minamino Shuuichi, you can just call me Shuuichi. Nice to meet you" at that moment she realized it was the guy that saved her from a fall today, but she kept quiet about that.
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Kurama's POV
Thoughts...
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It was the first time I've met her, yet it felt like I've have known her for a long time. The feeling so strong I cannot control. The sudden sense of her body sense erupting my sense of scent. Is it the smell of the rose? No, this sense of sweetness was even more beautiful than the rose. Driving my feelings mad. Lost I am, in her presence. I don't know what she is thinking. I cannot reach her thoughts, because lying underneath those glasses are a pair of mysterious eye's. what color are they? How are they? Do I want to know? I don't know. Although she seems the same as the other girls, I cannot explain the strange phenomenon I can feel escaping from her and penetrating into me her uniqueness her everything.......
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"Thanks Shuuichi Kun" she whispered lightly "I never thought that anyone.." He cut her off "Need anything just ask" he said. Her voice trailed off. The silence arousing again, making him feel a loneliness inside her.
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Kurama's POV
Thoughts.........
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She sat there looking into outer space like nothing is around her. She wasn't even looking at the teacher. I can't help noticing her grim face. Her rosy lips kept in a straight line. There was that feeling again. Where had he met her before? There seemed to be strong feeling of them meeting before. He desperately searched his memory, but he couldn't seem to find a match. He closed his eyes, the feeling lingered inside him, he hated that feeling, the feeling of not knowing what was happening to him.
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It was Lunch. "Hey, Shuuichi kun!" a boy with curly hair, freckles and glasses shouted from behind as Shuuichi started to leave the classroom to lunch. Shuuichi turned to look around the room. She wasn't there. With curiosity and a little despair he turned around to meet his friend. "Shuuichi. I've heard there's a super ugly and scary girl who looks like godzilla who just came to your class (shivers at the thought) and they said that she's sitting next to you!" he pointed a finger at his friends face and pulling a yucky face like he just ate somethign bad.
"Yeah, so?"
"What! So what they said was true. She is a monster"
Kurama was a little annoyed with his friend's words. "Firstly I would like to correct the rumors before she becomes worse than Godzilla" he raised an eyebrow at Kaitou "she a girl, just with glasses on and very tall and maybe she came from another school because she got kicked out or something, but that's no reason to discriminated just because she's not prettier than the other girls!". He found himself being overly protective "besides she sits next to me and for reason I......"
He trailed off as he thought of the whispers which erupted at her entrance. He could almost feel the menace the others eyes on her like it was on him. He quickly wakes himself up at the thought. "so what you're saying that she's nice and you pity her and all that crap.....hey wait a sec! Don't tell me that you're interested in those type of girls! No wonder you don't look at other girls! And I thought you were gay once!". Kurama sweat dropped, "any louder? I just feel something. What, I don't know. There seems to be something wrong with her spirit...a sense of a ....space" his eye's looks into space and softens "Maybe it's just me being too sensitive".
Kaitou stared at his shuuichi. They walked out to lunch "so, maybe you could show her to me eh?".
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it was spring, the petals of the sakura trees gave birth to beautiful sights of prancing petals like rain, their graceful dances floating to the ground. Shuuichi walked pass an oak tree, the only oak tree in the school. Huge it was of age and stableness, its branches spread out like protecting anyone that is under it. A breeze passed by and the branches swayed with the rustling if its lush green new foliage of leaves. Some of them floating down. Floating down next to a girl. With a slight glimpse, he saw. There she sat all alone, her expression unchanged like the first step she ever took in this school, like the first time she talked to the class. He wanted to walk over and say something, but he just stood there like his feet were grown into the ground. She didn't notice him staring, she was like that tree. Calm and graceful.
"Oy! Shuuichi Kun! what are you doing?"
"Huh? Sorry. Um that girl over there under the oak tree is the new girl"
"Where? Where? Oh there! Well for one thing she looks like a normal human being to me, and for two she looks like me. a geek! Hey cool I could make friends with her!" Kurama's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets at that remark. He thought of her looking like Kaitou. Nah! "I guess" he answered him back, then taking one last look at the girl her walked off reluctantly with Kaitou.
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It was lunch time and Makoto slipped silently to lunch. She looked around for a quiet place where there would be no one and finally decided to sit under the oak tree, the tree of courage and faith, and the only oak tree she found in the school. it was a perfect place to sit. She watched as the spring sakura blossoms rained down, so beautiful she thought, but I still prefer the oak. For the first time she felt secure in this school. maybe it was because of the unfamiliar people or maybe there was a problem with herself. She closed her eyes, leaned back and took in the familiar smell to the oak. It surrounded her like out stretched arms, protecting her. She sucked in a breath when she realized the job she was here for there fore taking out some notes that she had.
"Hmmm...." she read the letter- weird things have been lurking around this school lately and there is high energy sources. Destroy the weird things that happens in this school- the note was finished. "What! Is that all" she exclaimed in frustration. There weren't any details at all. Stuffing the note back into her pocket she wondered how was she going to get through in this school. the people were so competitive. She started thinking that, should she make any friends or keep her distance.
A pain struck her left arm. It hurt really badly. Holding it tightly she lifted up her sleeve to look at the bandage. It had been a week since she got hit by that Kura..Kura what guy. She couldn't remember how he looked like anymore, just vaguely since at the time it was too messy. Red started to show through the bandages slowly little by little. "Shit! Stupid wound" she couldn't believe that it could be this bad! It was just a cut. She got worse ones before but for some reason it wouldn't heal properly. She leaned back against the tree in pain. It happened one everyday. There was a pain in her left arm.
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it was the end of the day, the bell went as students started to empty the classrooms and head for their afternoon clubs, jobs or home. Shuuichi walked to the green house after his lesson at the biology club. It was getting late and it was his turn to take late afternoon checking's today. As he walked to the sheds, he couldn't get the thought of the new girl out of his head. He stops at the green house abruptly; there was already someone there. Among the plants there was a shadow. Arousing his reflexes he charges in thinking that there was another one on those things. With great amount of agility he's beside his opponent ready to attack.
"Ah!! What the?!" said Makoto said a surprised Makoto with a astonished expression on her face. Halting the attack at one her stood back. He could see that he had just scared the her. "Are you a ghost or a person?" Kurama's heart started beating fast, it was that feeling again and he hated it, the feeling that he had met her before. "why are you here? Go....Gomen for scaring you I just thought..."
"that's all right, but that's great speed....do you learn martial arts or something?" she asked coolly. Makoto was thinking hard now, she knew that it couldn't be right for a person to have such speed and agility, noticing that he wasn't a normal person she sharpened her senses just in case.
"Ah... yeah, I thought that you were a thief" he replied. Stupid answer he thought.
"well I never knew there were thieves that favor plants over money?"
he tried to change the subject "Why are you here?"
"Gomen Minamino senpai, uh.... well you see I was just walking around after school since I didn't have time during class and I found these planting sheds. I was curious and....I really like plants and flowers so I decided to sort of um.....help a bit but then I found you charging in, Guess I'm not welcome" she said wisply "No! wait I didn't mean that, I...."
kurama looked for words to say but he didn't know how to put them "Wow! Minamino senpai, don't take it so seriously I was just joking. Anyway it's getting late" turning towards the door she started to leave, with silence breaking through she walked towards the door and stopped. Makoto turned around to Shuuichi, she felt that he wasn't a bad person, and she realized it was the person that slashed her, but that wasn't important any more. "Thanks a lot for treating me like one of yous" and disappeared through the door with her fragrance tailing behind her. Kurama closed his eyes, smiled and whispered softly "My pleasure"
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"Search for your love sora no suissho o, search for you love......."
Haruka's senses jerked up. She craned her neck around the neighborhood on her bicycle trying to look through someone's window. It had been a long day at school and on the way back she heard a familiar song. "Please let it not be them, please let it not be them" she chanted over and over again as she carefully looked over the wall, and soon enough she saw it. "Oh shit!" she whispered harshly under her breath "This is not happening! Oh damn!". On the T.V screen she saw it was them. The Three Lights. She lost her balance and fell off her bicycle half dazed. "Shit dammit! Why does it have to be them!" Quickly getting up and dusting off her skirt. She got on her bike and rode off clenching her teeth. "Stupid Seiya, stupid Seiya!". She couldn't get the stupid person out of her head, she wanted so much to punch him across the face.
She and Seiya never got on well together and she just hated the way he......oh whatever, she didn't know what she just hated him. Maybe she was jealous of Michiru or maybe it was the jealousy of Usagi, that he stuck his nose in Usagi's business. One way or the other she didn't seem very happy that he was here. She fixed up her glasses sliding off her nose and continued on riding home. She had a feeling that they were here to take them back, but she rubbed the possibility out of her mind, they didn't know that they were here.
Riding on she thought of how Makoto must be today. It was her first day at her new school and she wondered if there were any problem arising. With her hair flying through the wind she began to ride faster and faster. She really needed to warn Makoto about the Three Lights before they find her. Stopping with a screech at a red light, she looked around. She jumped she saw the faces of three familiar people on the footpath near where she was. She froze as to not make herself obvious to them. Perspiration began to form on her forehead. Dammit she thought. Back in the old times she would probably pick a fight with Seiya but now. Punching them would only make them realize that they were in this dimension.
Seiya, Taiki and Yaten were wearing sunglasses as usual and looking out for anyone that recognized them incase they caused another world war threes war of the women. None of them looked towards Haruka's direction, and none of them noticed properly because she was wearing an annoying skirt and ridiculous glasses which made her look like a girl. So when the lights turned green she sped off at top speed as fast as she could peddle. Annoying bicycles she thought, can't they go any faster. At the same time Taiki turned and slightly glimpsed a corner of his eye across to her. She was pretty far away by then.
"Taiki!" Yaten whispered sharply "what are you looking at?". Taiki turned to his friend and pointed at the direction of the road. "I thought I just saw Haruka" he said unsurly. Seiya cocked his head back and forth, left and right "Where, where?!" Taiki sweat dropped at his hypo friend. his nosy senses were up again he thought. "but she's gone" he finished. Yaten's lips twitched into a half smile half laugh "are you sure it was her" he finally said. Taiki scratched his head.
"........"
"........"
"No"
Seiya and Yaten fell to the floor and sweat dropped, but Taiki seemed to still think it was Haruka. "It's just that there is a feeling. The stars....". Seiya and Yaten stared at Taiki's sudden serious face "They're here" they said in unison.
"Ahhhhhhhhh!" someone screamed shrilly. The guys turned and looked at a girl. She was panting and pointing at them as if she was going to have a heart attack any second. "Th...th...Three Lights!" she screamed again half choking on her words. Then every woman and girl on the street seem look at them. They prowled like cats, their eye's turning red as if to charge at them any second. The three guy backed away. Their faces turning green "Uh....I think there is a problem" Yaten stuttered, Taiki nodded in agreement "RUN!" Seiya shouted and turned around and charged through the crowd as fast as he could run. A loud eruption of high pitched screams pierced the sky as the only thing you could hear were the words "Seiya! Taiki! Yaten! We Love you!"
Haruka's goosebumps nearly popped off her skin and onto the road, she felt like throwing up when she heard the screams behind her. Although she was a fair distance away, she could still hear the thundering screams of the desperate fans. She shivered "Yikes!". The sun was beginning to set, she figured she had to hurry home and make dinner, it was funny how people could affect you. Before Haruka never took a step into the kitchen and now Mako actually started to teach Haruka how to cook and she had become pretty good at it too, but the only one that she would cook for she figured it would only be Makoto. she had many things to do when she got back, she had to prepare for the exploration of reikai. A sudden sense of worry seem to rush over her. Not knowing why she felt that something bad was going to happen.
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It fell to the floor with a thump, then light emitted from it as it disappeared into a flower. It was the second one she had encountered today after school. she walked to the remaining bead if the monster and peered through it. It was blue. Translucent with a light of blue gas like smoke trapped inside it. Makoto sucked in a breath when she saw the gas. There was a symbol inside it, a symbol of water in kanji inside a star (note: If the bead has a gas inside it that means it's a spirit bead). Quickly she drew a Taisan Kami on her palm where the bead lay. Then placing two fingers on her forehead she shouted "Split!" and threw the bead up into the air with the symbols she just wrote. As soon as it was up it split into light. "Another spirit back" she whispered. She raised her head and looked up.
It was a beautiful evening. The sky was just dark and stars began to show, but the moon...the moon always shone. It's graceful light touched her beautiful skin. She slowly walked home passing through a park that was near her house, she felt she wanted to sit down. Makoto kept her eye's glued at the sky. Feelings began to flood through her uncontrollably. She didn't cry though, just hurt. Haruka, since when she started to be so close to her. Not knowing how it had just happened. She smile at The watermelon patch, their secret.
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Their story- The Watermelon Patch ^_^;
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the place looked over the sea and also looked over Crystal Tokyo. They called it the Watermelon Patch since it was a Watermelon Patch. Makoto and Haruka always went there, when she was unhappy they would draw pictures of their enemies on the watermelons they planted and chuck them, in summer they would have melon fights or simply eat them to cool off, at battles the would meet there before hand and look over Crystal Tokyo for plans. It was their place. Secret. Needed to go through a forest to get there it was. Like a maze it was, and no one knew how to get there except for them. Maybe it was fate, they found it. Found it their own ways, even when they purposely walked in different directions, yet again they would meet at the same place. funny, Makoto thought she always looked at Haruka as a role model. Never thought of being so close to her, as a sister? Or more? She wished so much to be like her. To not to care how others think about her, not to mind her height. No mater what others compliment about her Haruka would take it in, analyze it and then throw it away like rubbish. But can she be like that? she couldn't understand, she couldn't do it. She would crumble at her grace. She would melt at her words. She wished so much that Haruka would appreciate her, not in Michiru's way though. even one little bit would do, maybe she did maybe she didn't. it was always like that, Makoto never felt belonged, to anyone or anywhere. She envied Usagi, her family, her happiness, but the irony was that she loved her even more. Everytime she saw here queen happy with Endymond there would be a pain so deep, so merciless yet at the same time she wished her well. Maybe it was this. It was Haruka which was through all the masks she put on. She started to draw closer. Secretly, silently. They began to understand each other. Haruka began to notice her. Digging her way into her deepest parts of her secrets. Maybe it was the last battle of the moon, Makoto blocked a blow for Haruka. Yes, she did. The arrow went straight through her heart and straight into haruka's. Such good aim it was. Their blood mixed and their bodies suddenly developed a connection in a way. It was controllable though. Makoto fell. She was suppose to die, always the first one to die. Haruka just got injured badly and it was Haruka who helped her mend her heart, it was everyone too, but especially Haruka. Secretly as not to disturb anyone, especially Michiru. Haruka always thought of Michiru first. Not matter what, but why they broke up she had no idea. They had everything in the world to be happy. Then came the word "Family". It was her dream to belong to a family which also belonged to her, but is was taken away from her when she gave her life to Usagi as a senshi. It wasn't fair, it never was, it left everyone family-less. Not able to love, cannot be loved, and for the case of Jupiter, losing the priority to do so. It proved fate, losing her parents first, continuous broken relationships. Then she began to accept. Accept the fact it was her destiny. Cruel and cold was the word destiny.
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End of Story- The Watermelon Patch
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It started to rain Makoto lifted her head up. Raindrops fell on her cheeks it ran down like tears. She loved the feeling of it, since......she thought, it was when she gave up her dreams and gave up her heart, she never cried again. For no one. Not even for herself. So, they were replaced by the tears of the sky. That's why when it rains.......its tears from her, given to her by the sky as a present. It cries for her. For once she didn't know if rain was rain, of were they her tears. Funny , it always rained for her when she felt like it. Even if there wasn't a cloud in the sky a few minutes ago.
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the screen displayed the picture is the happenings of the day. Two mysterious shadows chuckled as they watched the torturing of the humans. They watched as their prey fell to their deaths. "So much power" one of them whispered licking his lips. Then the screen turned. "Two ladies Hmmmm...." it ejected grinning slyly. "Who are they!" he asked the darkness. Things shifted in the darkness, at his noble voice. "They are worriers which are destroying our plans" a trembling voice replied. "Oy! Bro!" the other one called "What do say" they chuckled together. "I'm in Looooooooove!" they both said. "Gettem" he bellowed his word bounding off the dark walls. Scattering like insects the things moved away in fright leaving the words "yes, your highnesses THE BEE, THE STING".
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Haruka was really worried when Makoto got home. she was soaked form head to toe, and from outside to inside. "Mako! Did you decide to have a schower on the way or something!" she said angrily. Makoto took off her glasses and looked at Haruka. Haruka immediately softened, but to her supprise Makoto fell forward and rushed into Haruka's arms, leaving a very supprised Haruka standing there. "I'm sorry Haru chan, but I really need a hug" her wet red school uniform was getting Haruka's clothes wet, but she put her arms around her and gave her a warm hug anyway.
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Author's note: Whew! This chapter is sooooooo! long tha it's just a treat. I can't always write chapters this long but maybe from time to time! I've decided to write up a note on the things of my story explaining the uses eg. The beads and their uses and meanings, the legendary god of gods, "Oji chan" and his background, and stuff like that. It's a bit silly cause it's turning out like something that J.R Tolkein did to the lord of the rings but anyway (shrugs).
P.S: There will be a short story of Mako and Kurama when she was young probably stuck in one of Kurama's dreams. It's about How they met before they even knew each other at all. It's been brewing in my head for too long so I think it's time I unleashed it ! Ja Ne! *_^"