Chapter 3: Finding her place
Meanwhile Kinu study the hall she was in so she would remember how to get back to her room before she could be caught. A few minutes after Kayura left Kinu realized she had not asked if she was restircted from certain places but then she found the door locked. Taking a hair pin from her selve Kinu picked the lock gald she remembered how and now she was exporling her surrounding. She wanted to make sure she knew her way around if she ever needed to leave without the premisson of her self appointed gaurdians.
Kinu yelped in surpise when someone garbed her shoulder. " What are you doing here?" Dais asked, Kinu sighed in releif. "Don't do that. You scared the daylight out of me." She said trying to calm her heart down. "How did you ...?" Kayura began to ask seeing Kinu outside and felt the key in her pocket. Kinu looked at Kayura. " I came after you because I wanted to ask you something but that was kind of hard to do with a locked door. So I let myself out." She said. " How?" Dais asked, Kinu shook her head. " You think I'm going to tell you so you can lock me up again? I don't think so." She said her face competly serious. Anubis shook his head. "I thought you said you would listen to us." He said. "You didn't tell me I had to stay in there, I kept my word." Kinu ponited out with a competly innocent look.
Anubis and Kayura frowned while Cale and Dais looked at Kinu in ovbious surpise but the shadow of a grin appered on Seckmeht's face. He knew she didn't unstand how dangerous they was or of the darkness in their past so Kinu thought nothing about standing up to them. *Thank the Anceints she doesn't unstand if she did .... then we would probaly be safer on the streets because finding out the turth about this place can be deadly.* He thought to himself.
"Then maybe we should tell you, you are restircted to your room for now Kinu." Anubis said, now it was Kinu's turn to forwn, she gritted her teeth to keep from saying something she would regret later on. Instead she shurgged as if it made no diffrence to her and started back to the room but then Dais garbed her wrist. Kinu protested when he took a hair pin that was half hidden at the end of her shirt sleve.
"So you know how to pick locks?" He asked removing two more pins from her selve. Seeing she couldn't jerk away Kinu used her free hand to apply pessure on a pessure ponit on Dais's wrist and invontarily Dais's hand let go of her and Kinu leaned aganist the wall with her arms behind her back. "Let me keep my lock picks and I won't pick my way out of the room again unless under life or death criustances." She said to them keeping her arms behind her back, she was making her arms hurt and it was silly agureing over hair pins turn lock picks but she wanted to keep incase she needed to get out of or into something. "I'ld like to see your defintion of life or death criustances." Kinu graled at Cale. "Like in a fire or I find I'm really clauophoia." " What?" Cale asked. " Scared of closed in places." Anubis answered, Kinu nodded.
"You know we could just put you back in that room and still take those lock picks." Seckmeht said surpising the others Seasonals but he was speaking to Kinu. Kinu lifted her chin up to meet his eyes, studying him and the other Seasonals. " You could but you wouldn't. You got too much honor in you to do something that underhanded." She said in a matter of fact tone. Cale raised his eyebrows in surpise. " What make you think that? For all you know we could be monsters." He asked.
"You could have left me for dead, there has been more then one ossican you could have killed me. Or you could have done wrose to me, heck, I was unconsience as helpless as you can get but you four didn't do any more harm to me then was already done, instead you and your friend saved my life and helped me. In my book that isn't something monsters do." Kinu said calmly and confidently.
"That may be but you need to go back to your room. Keep the lock picks but no picking the bedroom lock." Kayura said, Kinu nodded and left almost gald for a reason to leave, the stares of the four men was making her nervous. "Far too trusting." Kayura said after Kinu was locked back in her room said but a slince was among the four Seasonals, thinking about what Kinu had said. Finally the group separtated and went their ways.
The next week went by painfully slow, Kinu stayed in her room as she promised coming out only when joining Kayura and the other Seasonals when it was time to eat or when she needed alittle pratively. But she often spoke with Anubis or Seckmeht when one of them checked in on her.
Anubis and Kinu talk or agure about books, history and a few other things. But Seckmeht and Kinu often talked about fighting styles after Kinu revealed that she remember she had someone who taught her martial arts among other things.
But no matter how much she wasnted too Kinu could not remember his name or what he looked like all she remember was he was a stern teacher that she feared greatly but also gave some respect too. After dinner Kinu laid on her bed staring at the cleing and trying to remember anything from her past but when she was getting a headach Kinu sighed and starting doing some streaches while humming a slow soft tune to herself. After a few moments of humming and streaches she added some words to her humming.
"She walks to school with the lunch she pack, nobody knows what she holding back, wearing the same dress she wore yestarday, she hids the bruises with the lien and lace. The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask, it's hard to see the pain behind the mask, bearing the burden of a secert storm sometimes she wishes she was never born. Thourgh the wind and rain she stands hard as a stone, in a world that she can't raise above. But her dreams give her wings and she flys to a place where she loved, conterce angel ....."
Since her back was turned to the door and she was caught up in her streaching and singing that she did not hear the door open or see the person listening to her singing. " ........ A staute in a shadowed place, an angel girl with a upturned face, her name is written on a polished rock: a fragile soul that the world forgot. Thourgh the wind and rain she stands hard as a stone, in a world that she can't raise above. But her dreams give her wings and she flys to a place where she loved, conterce angel." Kinu sung to herself but then hearing the breathing of someone else she whirled around to face who.
"Didn't know you could sing." Seckmeht said, Kinu felt her cheek burning. " I didn't know you was here." She mummered. " So I noticed. Come with me there is something I want to show you." He said, Kinu nodded and followed the blue haired man, they went down a number of halls and thourgh some doors with Kinu keeping track to find her way back. Kinu almost walked right into Seckmeht when he stopped and turn to her. "Kinu, you are not to tell the others I showed you this place, don't come here in the daytime unless you are with me, alright?" He asked her, Kinu nodded. " But why not tell them?" She asked. "Reasons." He said, Kinu nodded knowing when he used that tone it was one of the things under taboo, Seckmeht told Kinu his and his friends's life was hard ones but he was extremly vague about them.
The two walked into a room lit by many candles, it was clear as day in there so Kinu looked around carefully, she saw weapons from small daggers to kantatas, most of them had something on it which Kinu guess was for safety but as she looked around she had a nagging feeling she had been there before. *This place, it's like a memory from a dream. It's almost like I've been here before. But I couldn't have could I?* She asked herself looking around. Kinu put a hand aganist one of the wall for a moment but then .....
(flash) "Begin!" His stern voice barked from the shadows and she began to patice the moves she had been taught with one kantana. She wrapped it up when she rolled, jumpped up and slashed, her breathing was qiuck from the intensity of her training. Her teacher was slient and when he walked towards her she prepaded herself to be hit but the strike never came, she looked up at he teacher who was just standing there looking as if he was trying to find something in her. Suddenly he turned and walked to the door. "Go to your room." He ordered her but then stopped at the door. "You did well, you will be ready soon." He said and walked out the door. (flash)
Kinu heard someone snap their finger near her left ear and she stepped back realizing where she was. "Are you alright Kinu?" Seckmeht asked concerned. " Yea just .... a flashback. I feel like I've been in here before Seckmeht, I don't know why but I do." She said looking around the room as if it could show her the answer why. " Perharp you was in a place like this." Seckmeht suggested to her, Kinu nodded. " Yea, that must be it." She said and listen to Seckmeht as he explianed some of the weapons, the history of when and where they came into existance and how to use some. After about an hour or so Seckmeht could see his pupil abosrbed what he showed and taught her, he decied that preharps he would soon begin teaching her or reteaching her martial arts and maybe sword play depending on how well she learned and how reponsible she was around the weapons.
The next day only an hour after returning from 'trianing' Kinu heard someone knock on the door. "Come in." She called as she stood, it was Kayura. " Feeling better?" Kayura asked her and the Seasonals's young charge. "Yes I am, starting to remember few things about my past but not my name." Kinu answered. " Like what?" Kayura asked. " Well .... my family mostly. I remember .... I had a brother, my twin thought we didn't look alike. My mother won't tell me who my real father was, she told me she would tell me when I got older. My stepfather he .... I didn't like him ..... he got drunk and beat my mother up a lot but then one day that changed I can't remember too much but I remember we ran from him, planned to go somewhere else but then something happened. The rest is too choppy to make sense out of." Kayura nodded listening with interupption. " Do not push it Kinu, when it is time you will remember." Kayura said. " I know but I wish I could remember then I can get out of you and the other's hair." Kinu said.
"Out of our hair?" Kayura asked. "Figure of speech. I meant so I can stop being a burden to you and the others." Kinu said, Kayura did not say anything but sat down beside Kinu. "Kinu I will tell you something. It has been differnt having a teen around here but I think it has actaully done me and the others good. I may not speak for them but I am gald to have another female around."
"Yea the guys can get annoying at times. Aroggent too." Kinu said. " Don't tell them that." Kayura advised. "Why not? Maybe they need it. To keep them from becoming over bearing and more arrogent." Kayura laughed softly shaking her head. She couldn't remember the last time she laughed but Kinu seemed to, almost purposly at times, find some antic to do or something to say to try and get them to grin. "I must go, goodnight Kinu." She said as she stood and left closing but not locking the door behind her.
Kinu shook her head grinning to herself after Kayura lwftand yawning she changed into her night colthes and welcomed the night and the sleep it brung. She was soon fast asleep not seeing the figure standing the in the shadows of her room. " It is time you remember girl after all, my master does not want the darkness to find the light. Lets see how much you trust them when you remember them." He hissed as he faded back into to the shadows and disappered.
(dream)
She could hear her heart was pounding in her head as she heard the foot falls of someone chasing her. She heard someone yell for her to return but she wasn't sure if it was real or her imagation going wild in a moment of panic and fear. " Leona. My name is Leona!" She shouted as her brother also shouted her name, both of them remembering what their stepfather had told them to do once to protect them from evil. But then the two came to a two way street.
"Which way?" Leona asked looking down both alleyways both looked dangerous. "We have to spilt up, they can't cacth both of us. We will see each other again Leona I promise." Fox said to his sister as he took the left way and Leona took the right. Leona took every turn and back alley she knew but then she ran into a wall. She scambled over the wall and jumpped down landing on her feet sure she had outran her purser. But then she heard a dark voice from behind her. "You are fast little one, but not fast enough." She whirled around to see who or what had spoken, all she saw was the butt of a sword before pian expoled in the side of her head and everything went black.
Now she was standing in darkness, she saw Kayura, Anubis, Cale, Seckmeht and Dais they seemed to be froze where they was standing but there was someone there too, he stood in the shadows but she could see his black eyes staring at her. "Are you ready to learn the turth girl? Lets see how much you trust them when you find out who they are." A voice growled. "NO!"
(end dream)
"NO!" Kinu screamed bolting straight up, she was damped in sweat and her breathing was coming in gasps as if she had ran a mile. Kinu dorpped her head back on the pillow taking some calming breaths to calm her heart and lungs down. " Leona, my name is Leona." She said staring at the cleing trying to relax her muscles to stop trembling. After the shaking stopped she got up and changed into some day colthes from the backpack that she had when the others found her. Lighting a candle and finding the door unlock she went outside. She guessed the others was asleep and she was gratful for it as she headed to the training room.
Leona did not light the other candles but put her up out of bumping reach but where she could pactice in the light. The movements felt natural as she paticed the things she remember. But suddenly she heard someone coming, she qiuckly blew out the candle and hid. " Couldn't sleep either?" Dais asked lighting a few candles and Leona's heart nearly stopped until she realized he was talking to Anubis, Seckmeht and Cale. " No, it seems tonight is one of those nights. Is Kinu still asleep?" Anubis asked. " Don't know, she is probaly, that girl is dead to the world when she asleep of crouse, the durgs may be a part of it." Cale said. Durgs? Leona asked herself.
"I still don't like the idea of durgging her." Seckmeht said. " If we didn't she may be up exproling and you know as I do it isn't safe for her to be in these place alone." Anubis said. " Yea I know." Seckmeht said running a hand thorugh his hair. " Speaking of it, what between you and Kinu any way Seckmeht? Not that I'm complaining but since she came here you been acting differnt." Cale said to his comrade. "You should talk, I have also noticed you three and Kayura's been acting differnt." Seckmeht retorded. Anubis nodded. "So ethier all of us have all lost our good sense or Kinu decied she was going to find her place with us." He said, the three other Seasonals nodded. " Yea, Kinu is making us go soft. But the moment she recovers her full memory one of us will have to take her back to Tomaya and that will be that." Cale said though even he wasn't so sure it would be that simple.
Meanwhile Kinu study the hall she was in so she would remember how to get back to her room before she could be caught. A few minutes after Kayura left Kinu realized she had not asked if she was restircted from certain places but then she found the door locked. Taking a hair pin from her selve Kinu picked the lock gald she remembered how and now she was exporling her surrounding. She wanted to make sure she knew her way around if she ever needed to leave without the premisson of her self appointed gaurdians.
Kinu yelped in surpise when someone garbed her shoulder. " What are you doing here?" Dais asked, Kinu sighed in releif. "Don't do that. You scared the daylight out of me." She said trying to calm her heart down. "How did you ...?" Kayura began to ask seeing Kinu outside and felt the key in her pocket. Kinu looked at Kayura. " I came after you because I wanted to ask you something but that was kind of hard to do with a locked door. So I let myself out." She said. " How?" Dais asked, Kinu shook her head. " You think I'm going to tell you so you can lock me up again? I don't think so." She said her face competly serious. Anubis shook his head. "I thought you said you would listen to us." He said. "You didn't tell me I had to stay in there, I kept my word." Kinu ponited out with a competly innocent look.
Anubis and Kayura frowned while Cale and Dais looked at Kinu in ovbious surpise but the shadow of a grin appered on Seckmeht's face. He knew she didn't unstand how dangerous they was or of the darkness in their past so Kinu thought nothing about standing up to them. *Thank the Anceints she doesn't unstand if she did .... then we would probaly be safer on the streets because finding out the turth about this place can be deadly.* He thought to himself.
"Then maybe we should tell you, you are restircted to your room for now Kinu." Anubis said, now it was Kinu's turn to forwn, she gritted her teeth to keep from saying something she would regret later on. Instead she shurgged as if it made no diffrence to her and started back to the room but then Dais garbed her wrist. Kinu protested when he took a hair pin that was half hidden at the end of her shirt sleve.
"So you know how to pick locks?" He asked removing two more pins from her selve. Seeing she couldn't jerk away Kinu used her free hand to apply pessure on a pessure ponit on Dais's wrist and invontarily Dais's hand let go of her and Kinu leaned aganist the wall with her arms behind her back. "Let me keep my lock picks and I won't pick my way out of the room again unless under life or death criustances." She said to them keeping her arms behind her back, she was making her arms hurt and it was silly agureing over hair pins turn lock picks but she wanted to keep incase she needed to get out of or into something. "I'ld like to see your defintion of life or death criustances." Kinu graled at Cale. "Like in a fire or I find I'm really clauophoia." " What?" Cale asked. " Scared of closed in places." Anubis answered, Kinu nodded.
"You know we could just put you back in that room and still take those lock picks." Seckmeht said surpising the others Seasonals but he was speaking to Kinu. Kinu lifted her chin up to meet his eyes, studying him and the other Seasonals. " You could but you wouldn't. You got too much honor in you to do something that underhanded." She said in a matter of fact tone. Cale raised his eyebrows in surpise. " What make you think that? For all you know we could be monsters." He asked.
"You could have left me for dead, there has been more then one ossican you could have killed me. Or you could have done wrose to me, heck, I was unconsience as helpless as you can get but you four didn't do any more harm to me then was already done, instead you and your friend saved my life and helped me. In my book that isn't something monsters do." Kinu said calmly and confidently.
"That may be but you need to go back to your room. Keep the lock picks but no picking the bedroom lock." Kayura said, Kinu nodded and left almost gald for a reason to leave, the stares of the four men was making her nervous. "Far too trusting." Kayura said after Kinu was locked back in her room said but a slince was among the four Seasonals, thinking about what Kinu had said. Finally the group separtated and went their ways.
The next week went by painfully slow, Kinu stayed in her room as she promised coming out only when joining Kayura and the other Seasonals when it was time to eat or when she needed alittle pratively. But she often spoke with Anubis or Seckmeht when one of them checked in on her.
Anubis and Kinu talk or agure about books, history and a few other things. But Seckmeht and Kinu often talked about fighting styles after Kinu revealed that she remember she had someone who taught her martial arts among other things.
But no matter how much she wasnted too Kinu could not remember his name or what he looked like all she remember was he was a stern teacher that she feared greatly but also gave some respect too. After dinner Kinu laid on her bed staring at the cleing and trying to remember anything from her past but when she was getting a headach Kinu sighed and starting doing some streaches while humming a slow soft tune to herself. After a few moments of humming and streaches she added some words to her humming.
"She walks to school with the lunch she pack, nobody knows what she holding back, wearing the same dress she wore yestarday, she hids the bruises with the lien and lace. The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask, it's hard to see the pain behind the mask, bearing the burden of a secert storm sometimes she wishes she was never born. Thourgh the wind and rain she stands hard as a stone, in a world that she can't raise above. But her dreams give her wings and she flys to a place where she loved, conterce angel ....."
Since her back was turned to the door and she was caught up in her streaching and singing that she did not hear the door open or see the person listening to her singing. " ........ A staute in a shadowed place, an angel girl with a upturned face, her name is written on a polished rock: a fragile soul that the world forgot. Thourgh the wind and rain she stands hard as a stone, in a world that she can't raise above. But her dreams give her wings and she flys to a place where she loved, conterce angel." Kinu sung to herself but then hearing the breathing of someone else she whirled around to face who.
"Didn't know you could sing." Seckmeht said, Kinu felt her cheek burning. " I didn't know you was here." She mummered. " So I noticed. Come with me there is something I want to show you." He said, Kinu nodded and followed the blue haired man, they went down a number of halls and thourgh some doors with Kinu keeping track to find her way back. Kinu almost walked right into Seckmeht when he stopped and turn to her. "Kinu, you are not to tell the others I showed you this place, don't come here in the daytime unless you are with me, alright?" He asked her, Kinu nodded. " But why not tell them?" She asked. "Reasons." He said, Kinu nodded knowing when he used that tone it was one of the things under taboo, Seckmeht told Kinu his and his friends's life was hard ones but he was extremly vague about them.
The two walked into a room lit by many candles, it was clear as day in there so Kinu looked around carefully, she saw weapons from small daggers to kantatas, most of them had something on it which Kinu guess was for safety but as she looked around she had a nagging feeling she had been there before. *This place, it's like a memory from a dream. It's almost like I've been here before. But I couldn't have could I?* She asked herself looking around. Kinu put a hand aganist one of the wall for a moment but then .....
(flash) "Begin!" His stern voice barked from the shadows and she began to patice the moves she had been taught with one kantana. She wrapped it up when she rolled, jumpped up and slashed, her breathing was qiuck from the intensity of her training. Her teacher was slient and when he walked towards her she prepaded herself to be hit but the strike never came, she looked up at he teacher who was just standing there looking as if he was trying to find something in her. Suddenly he turned and walked to the door. "Go to your room." He ordered her but then stopped at the door. "You did well, you will be ready soon." He said and walked out the door. (flash)
Kinu heard someone snap their finger near her left ear and she stepped back realizing where she was. "Are you alright Kinu?" Seckmeht asked concerned. " Yea just .... a flashback. I feel like I've been in here before Seckmeht, I don't know why but I do." She said looking around the room as if it could show her the answer why. " Perharp you was in a place like this." Seckmeht suggested to her, Kinu nodded. " Yea, that must be it." She said and listen to Seckmeht as he explianed some of the weapons, the history of when and where they came into existance and how to use some. After about an hour or so Seckmeht could see his pupil abosrbed what he showed and taught her, he decied that preharps he would soon begin teaching her or reteaching her martial arts and maybe sword play depending on how well she learned and how reponsible she was around the weapons.
The next day only an hour after returning from 'trianing' Kinu heard someone knock on the door. "Come in." She called as she stood, it was Kayura. " Feeling better?" Kayura asked her and the Seasonals's young charge. "Yes I am, starting to remember few things about my past but not my name." Kinu answered. " Like what?" Kayura asked. " Well .... my family mostly. I remember .... I had a brother, my twin thought we didn't look alike. My mother won't tell me who my real father was, she told me she would tell me when I got older. My stepfather he .... I didn't like him ..... he got drunk and beat my mother up a lot but then one day that changed I can't remember too much but I remember we ran from him, planned to go somewhere else but then something happened. The rest is too choppy to make sense out of." Kayura nodded listening with interupption. " Do not push it Kinu, when it is time you will remember." Kayura said. " I know but I wish I could remember then I can get out of you and the other's hair." Kinu said.
"Out of our hair?" Kayura asked. "Figure of speech. I meant so I can stop being a burden to you and the others." Kinu said, Kayura did not say anything but sat down beside Kinu. "Kinu I will tell you something. It has been differnt having a teen around here but I think it has actaully done me and the others good. I may not speak for them but I am gald to have another female around."
"Yea the guys can get annoying at times. Aroggent too." Kinu said. " Don't tell them that." Kayura advised. "Why not? Maybe they need it. To keep them from becoming over bearing and more arrogent." Kayura laughed softly shaking her head. She couldn't remember the last time she laughed but Kinu seemed to, almost purposly at times, find some antic to do or something to say to try and get them to grin. "I must go, goodnight Kinu." She said as she stood and left closing but not locking the door behind her.
Kinu shook her head grinning to herself after Kayura lwftand yawning she changed into her night colthes and welcomed the night and the sleep it brung. She was soon fast asleep not seeing the figure standing the in the shadows of her room. " It is time you remember girl after all, my master does not want the darkness to find the light. Lets see how much you trust them when you remember them." He hissed as he faded back into to the shadows and disappered.
(dream)
She could hear her heart was pounding in her head as she heard the foot falls of someone chasing her. She heard someone yell for her to return but she wasn't sure if it was real or her imagation going wild in a moment of panic and fear. " Leona. My name is Leona!" She shouted as her brother also shouted her name, both of them remembering what their stepfather had told them to do once to protect them from evil. But then the two came to a two way street.
"Which way?" Leona asked looking down both alleyways both looked dangerous. "We have to spilt up, they can't cacth both of us. We will see each other again Leona I promise." Fox said to his sister as he took the left way and Leona took the right. Leona took every turn and back alley she knew but then she ran into a wall. She scambled over the wall and jumpped down landing on her feet sure she had outran her purser. But then she heard a dark voice from behind her. "You are fast little one, but not fast enough." She whirled around to see who or what had spoken, all she saw was the butt of a sword before pian expoled in the side of her head and everything went black.
Now she was standing in darkness, she saw Kayura, Anubis, Cale, Seckmeht and Dais they seemed to be froze where they was standing but there was someone there too, he stood in the shadows but she could see his black eyes staring at her. "Are you ready to learn the turth girl? Lets see how much you trust them when you find out who they are." A voice growled. "NO!"
(end dream)
"NO!" Kinu screamed bolting straight up, she was damped in sweat and her breathing was coming in gasps as if she had ran a mile. Kinu dorpped her head back on the pillow taking some calming breaths to calm her heart and lungs down. " Leona, my name is Leona." She said staring at the cleing trying to relax her muscles to stop trembling. After the shaking stopped she got up and changed into some day colthes from the backpack that she had when the others found her. Lighting a candle and finding the door unlock she went outside. She guessed the others was asleep and she was gratful for it as she headed to the training room.
Leona did not light the other candles but put her up out of bumping reach but where she could pactice in the light. The movements felt natural as she paticed the things she remember. But suddenly she heard someone coming, she qiuckly blew out the candle and hid. " Couldn't sleep either?" Dais asked lighting a few candles and Leona's heart nearly stopped until she realized he was talking to Anubis, Seckmeht and Cale. " No, it seems tonight is one of those nights. Is Kinu still asleep?" Anubis asked. " Don't know, she is probaly, that girl is dead to the world when she asleep of crouse, the durgs may be a part of it." Cale said. Durgs? Leona asked herself.
"I still don't like the idea of durgging her." Seckmeht said. " If we didn't she may be up exproling and you know as I do it isn't safe for her to be in these place alone." Anubis said. " Yea I know." Seckmeht said running a hand thorugh his hair. " Speaking of it, what between you and Kinu any way Seckmeht? Not that I'm complaining but since she came here you been acting differnt." Cale said to his comrade. "You should talk, I have also noticed you three and Kayura's been acting differnt." Seckmeht retorded. Anubis nodded. "So ethier all of us have all lost our good sense or Kinu decied she was going to find her place with us." He said, the three other Seasonals nodded. " Yea, Kinu is making us go soft. But the moment she recovers her full memory one of us will have to take her back to Tomaya and that will be that." Cale said though even he wasn't so sure it would be that simple.