Whew...it's now time for chapter nine! Now, then...I will be giving out ten ferrygirls! They'll have little cameos in one of the stories I'm working on, but they are currently adoptable! Able to be used as muses, comic relief, entertainment, transportation, story characters, or whatever. Starting now, I'll be describing a ferrygirl. If you can guess what her name means, she's yours! Hint: They all have plant names. The first ferrygirl, Byakushin, will be described at the end of the chapter...which I had better write now! As for last chapter...no, it is not "world piece"...I meant "world peace"...I was really out of it. -.-
Last chapter, Kia and Kelsey finally met up with Chuu and Rinku...but now they have a new assignment...FIND MUKURO. Hoo...
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"Oh, the doctors at our camp,
They say are mighty fine,
But when I broke a finger,
He broke the other nine!"
"Oh, I don't wanna go to Girl Scout camp!" Kelsey sang out.
"Gee, Mom, I wanna go,
But they won't let me go,
Gee, Mom, I wanna go hooome!" Both girls harmonized.
"That was fun!" The blonde Mirror Holder said brightly. "What song shall we sing next?"
Kia smiled. "Save it for later-right now, we have a river to cross." She warily stared at the rushing, playfully cavorting water, judging the distance from here to the other side. Definitely too far to jump, but maybe if they swam...
"Ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough
Ain't no RIVERwide enough
To stop us, 'cause Binetsu suuucks-"
The older girl sweatdropped. "Kelsey, I don't think you want to do that...every time you do, SOMETHING always happens to us, and it's never good." She inched closer to the river, treading cautiously as the damp ground sank slightly under her weight.
Kelsey snorted, skeptical. "What can she possibly do? Send another-"
The sky darkened, rain poured down, and thunder rumbled ominously.
"...Storm," she finished, damp bangs plastering themselves on her forehead. "Okay, no problem! We'll just find another-"
Lightning hit too close, sizzling as it struck a nearby tree. Kelsey yelped and leapt closer to Kia. The ground, already weakening, gave out from under them, dumping the Mirror Holders into the churning water.
"I haaate you, Binetsuuuu!!" Kelsey yelled over the roar of the water and the pounding rain, just before it pulled her under.
"Kelsey!!" Kia desperately floundered, searching her friend. Her frantic search turned up nothing. This was definitely not a good day. "Kel-"
The water rose up, and then plunged down with the force and ferocity of a miniature tidal wave. The girl almost inhaled water, fighting against the fierce current that was doggedly yanking her down, trying to drown her. Even IF she had been fresh and rested, getting to the surface would have been no easy feat. As it were, she hadn't eaten OR slept since Kurama had fallen ill, and she lacked the energy required to break free.
Kia made one final valiant effort to reach the surface. She might've made it, if her head hadn't suddenly struck a large river rock as she went by it. She was out like a light, and the river swept her limp form away.
***Somewhere...***
A pair of different colored eyes watched as the storm gradually subsided, the owner smiling as she peered into the seeing well.
"That'll teach them to mock ME! They can drown, for all I-" She broke off abruptly. Beneath the churning, white-capped water, she could see a faint silver glow. A majestic ebon stallion suddenly exploded from the water, feathered wings pumping furiously, strong ivory teeth clamped on a fuchsia shirt. Kia hung lifelessly from his mouth, eyes closed.
"Meikyou," Binetsu said softly, watching as the horse flew to shore, landing silently and depositing his mouthful on the ground before disappearing. "The beast from the Mirror Half of Compassion...looks like this won't be as easy as I'd originally thought."
***Back to Makai***
Kia came to, coughing up mass quantities of liquid. With a weak groan, she shakily pushed herself up halfway, looking around. What had happened? The last thing she remembered was trying to hold her breath underwater and get to fresh air again...and now she was on the other side of the river-alone.
"I'll figure out how I survived later. But first..." She suddenly realized, with dawning dismay, that she'd lost her backpack in her struggle for survival. Her change of clothes, her canteen, and Chuu's map were all gone. "...Oh, joy and astringent pomite fruit."
"I hate you, Binetsu..." The plaintive comment made Kia stand up, searching for the source of the familiar voice.
The tirade continued. "I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I-"
"Kelsey!" The girl, having followed the sound, paused as the ground crumbled slightly when she stepped on it. Remembering the river incident all-too-clearly, she took a step back, her eyes falling on the large hole in the ground. "Oh, you're KIDDING!" Dropping to her knees, she crawled over to the edge and peered down. Sure enough, there was Kelsey, bedraggled and scowling, and sitting on the dirt floor.
Kia blinked, figuring the hole had to be at least six feet deep. "This is so hopeless, I don't know whether to laugh, cry, or become a nun."
At the sound of her quiet voice, the blonde Mirror Holder looked up. "If we survive this, I'll accept Kuwabara's cat as a god and offer daily sacrifices to it."
The other female grinned, concentrating. Wind wrapped securely around her friend, supporting her as it bore her up and out of the pit.
Kelsey groaned. "Kuso! Now my plans for Eikichism will have to fade once more in obscurity...and I was gonna let you be the bishop, too."
"I'll recover, I'm sure." Still smiling, relieved that her friend was all right, Kia got to her feet. "So...where are we?"
"Check the map," Kelsey suggested.
The other grimaced. "I can't. It got washed away."
The Mirror Holder made a face as well. "Did I, by any chance, mention that I hate Binetsu?"
"More than enough," she was quickly assured. "But don't worry. Even IF we're stranded out here without a map, extra clothes, food, and...whatever...we'll probably find some horribly obvious, yet devious way of overcoming this."
There came a sudden bellow, almost drowning out the scream that preceded it. Kelsey pointed to a youkai that looked just like a rhinoceros, only with two switching tails and dull red eyes. It was peering shortsightedly into a hole similar to the one that had imprisoned Kelsey. The scream came again.
"...Okay, forget about obvious and devious!" Kia threw her hands up. "Someone needs our help."
"Let's distract it." Before Kia could stop her, the younger girl was running towards the rhino. She came to a halt about two feet from its snout and burst into song.
"It's the circle of liiiiiife...and it moves us allllllll..."
"I'll take what I can get, I suppose..." Kia shook her head and inched around the youkai, who had stopped what it was doing to watch Kelsey's song-and-dance routine. "Are you okay?" She called down.
"Hai..." The voice, low and hesitant, definitely belonged to a woman...if that's what the cloaked figure huddled in the bottom of the pit was.
The girl nodded. "Hold on. I'll have you out in a minute." She repeated the same trick she'd done with Kelsey, and the figure was lifted out and set gently on her feet. Attired in a full-length gray robe, you couldn't distinguish any details; the face was completely hidden within the shadows and folds of the large hood. Judging from the voice, the figure was female, and she was a great deal taller than the cookie sheet-wielding Mirror Holder.
"Coming through!" Kelsey yelled suddenly as the rhino galloped past, the former clinging to the ridged back of the latter.
"Kelsey!" Kia leaped aside to avoid getting trampled; the cloaked stranger did the same. "Let go!"
"Oh, right!" The blonde relaxed her grip and jumped off, just as the youkai plunged into the recently-vacated hole with a squeal. In silence, the three watched its descent-then turned away from the impact, the two girls wincing. If the figure had any sentiments, she chose not to display them.
"May I ask the names of those who have assisted me greatly?" She inquired.
"Oh, sure. I'm Kelsey, and my friend here is Satsukiame-"
"KIA," the other girl growled.
"We're Mi-" She yelped as Kia sharply elbowed her in the side. "I mean...ah...we're..." She cast about for a word. "MINDING our own business while we search for Mukuro-" Kia shook her head frantically, mouthing "NO", and Kelsey stopped, sweatdropping.
"Mukuro?" The figure seemed surprised. "Why do you seek her?"
Both girls sighed resignedly. "Chuu--a friend-- told us she had the cure for a disease that only strikes down youkai," Kia explained. "But we lost the map, and now we have no idea how to get there."
To their surprise, the woman suddenly exclaimed "Oh, that's perfect!" in a delighted tone.
"It...is?" Kelsey seemed just as baffled as her companion.
"Hai! I'm one of Lord Mukuro's servants! I can take you to her! That is, if..." She hesitated. "Forgive me for asking, but you two wouldn't happen to be the Mirror Holders, would you?"
"Neon signs," Kia said cryptically. Her friend nodded, understanding. "Umm...hai, we are."
She clapped her hands together. "Lord Mukuro has heard so much about you! I'm sure she'd LOVE to meet you both!"
"She's not going to eat us, is she?" Kelsey asked nervously.
"Eat you?"
"We heard that she used to eat ningens..." Embarrassed, Kia scuffed at the ground with a dusty shoe, tracing delicate patterns.
"But you're not fully ningen, are you?" Mukuro's servant had a hint of amusement in her tone.
The girls glanced at each other.
"Okay, that's too weird," Kelsey muttered, turning back to the cloaked female. "Do you have a name?"
The movement of the hood indicated that she was shaking her head no. "Lord Mukuro does not allow her servants to have names. We are not important enough."
"That's insane!" Kia snapped indignantly. "What kind of a lord is this Mukuro person? Servants have feelings, too! When I see Mukuro, I have a thing or two to say to her, and none of it is 'Bless you and your superior attitude!'" Brown eyes sparkling with anger, she continued. "We'll just have to call you something for now...like...Sei."
"Sei?" Kelsey blinked. The other shrugged.
"Sei," the servant echoed. "I like it. But I am not worthy of-"
"Oh, stop that!" The brunette glared half-heartedly. "Of course you are. You seem like a nice enough person, and everyone deserves a name of their own!"
The newly christened Sei bowed. "Arigato gozaimasu, Mirror Holders. You are both very kind."
The younger girl flushed. "Well...shall we go find this lord of yours?"
***Some obscure amount of time later...***
"Kia," Kelsey whispered, as the girls followed Sei, falling back a bit.
"Nani?" The girl tilted her head questioningly. "What is it?"
"You...me...we're...are we...?"
"I think so." Kia didn't have to ask what Kelsey meant. Deep down, she felt it, and knew with a sort of dreadful certainty.
"Daijoubu?" Sei turned back. "Am I going too fast?"
"No, of course not!" The brunette replied immediately. "I just hope Mukuro will help..."
Sei nodded. "Why do you seek this cure? Are you sick?"
"It's for our youkai friends," Kelsey told her. "We can't sit back and let them die, so..."
"We're the only healthy ones left, besides Chuu and Rinku," Kia added. "Which is why we're here."
"We're here!" Sei announced.
About to ask her why she had repeated the words, Kia stopped instead-and stared.
They stood in front of a large black granite edifice with jutting peaks. Three heavily-armored guards were positioned near the front doors, scowling as the three approached.
"It's huge!" Kelsey murmured, storm-gray eyes wide with wonder and awe.
Kia couldn't speak, so she settled for a nod of agreement.
"Name and business," one of the guards demanded, glaring down at them.
"I am a lowly servant of Lord Mukuro, bringing the Mirror Holders to see her," Sei informed him.
The guard leaned down, staring Kia in the eyes. Slightly unnerved, she nevertheless forced herself to meet his dark eyes. "The Mirror Holders? They look like ningens to me." He thrust his face closer. Kia stepped back. "But their energy...it doesn't FEEL like a ningen's."
"Will you just let us through to see the boss lady?" Kelsey said impatiently.
"Consorting with ningens..." Another guard sighed and shook his head morosely. "I'm getting too old for this." He stepped aside as the doors creaked inward.
"It's even bigger INSIDE!" The younger girl was plainly impressed.
"Maybe..." Kia frowned. "But where's Mukuro? I want to give her a piece of my mind about the way she treats her servants." (A/N: She came for a cure? Really? O.o)
"Actually, she's already received it, Kia."
Both girls froze. Neither one spoke, moved, OR breathed for what seemed like an eternity. Their eyes were locked on the cloaked figure, who had stopped in front of another set of doors.
"Sei...?" Kelsey whispered disbelievingly
Kia suddenly understood. "You mean-you're-and I-oh, crap."
The woman chuckled, raising elegant hands to lower her hood. She turned to face them, revealing a regal countenance, one half flawless and beautiful with a twinkling deep blue eye. The other side of her face was covered in rags, with an eyeglass where the other eye would have normally resided. Parted to the right, cropped auburn hair brushed against her shoulder. "Well. I never expected to encounter the Mirror Holders so informally. Where are my manners?"
"Kia," Kelsey said in a strangled whisper, ending on a squeak. "It's the BOSS LADY!"
The other girl nodded, at a loss for words once again.
Sei was Lord Mukuro. Boss lady, indeed.
*OOC*
Bet you didn't expect that, did ya? ^^ I love surprising twists. Wow. Sei is actually Mukuro...wow. Please review! I love 'em! NEXT chapter!
* Mukuro reveals her reason for a disguise...
* Hey...what would happen if KIA AND KELSEY got sick?? Uh-oh...
* When some of the men in Mukuro's army harass the girls, guess what they do in retaliation? Heh heh heh...
And now, here is ferrygirl #1, Byakushin! Guess what her name means and get her!
Name: Byakushin
Age: 136 (died at the age of 17)
Birthday: December 9
Clothing: A navy blue kimono with a green obi, and a lighter green kimono underneath.
Hair Color/Style: Dark green; wears it in a high ponytail that goes past her waist.
Eye Color: Blue
Height: 5'7''
Weight: 118 lbs.
Personality: Cynical. (feel free to elaborate her personality if you get her! ^^)
Well, there you go. Good luck! If no one gets her name right, I'll give her to some randomly selected participant.
Last chapter, Kia and Kelsey finally met up with Chuu and Rinku...but now they have a new assignment...FIND MUKURO. Hoo...
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"Oh, the doctors at our camp,
They say are mighty fine,
But when I broke a finger,
He broke the other nine!"
"Oh, I don't wanna go to Girl Scout camp!" Kelsey sang out.
"Gee, Mom, I wanna go,
But they won't let me go,
Gee, Mom, I wanna go hooome!" Both girls harmonized.
"That was fun!" The blonde Mirror Holder said brightly. "What song shall we sing next?"
Kia smiled. "Save it for later-right now, we have a river to cross." She warily stared at the rushing, playfully cavorting water, judging the distance from here to the other side. Definitely too far to jump, but maybe if they swam...
"Ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough
Ain't no RIVERwide enough
To stop us, 'cause Binetsu suuucks-"
The older girl sweatdropped. "Kelsey, I don't think you want to do that...every time you do, SOMETHING always happens to us, and it's never good." She inched closer to the river, treading cautiously as the damp ground sank slightly under her weight.
Kelsey snorted, skeptical. "What can she possibly do? Send another-"
The sky darkened, rain poured down, and thunder rumbled ominously.
"...Storm," she finished, damp bangs plastering themselves on her forehead. "Okay, no problem! We'll just find another-"
Lightning hit too close, sizzling as it struck a nearby tree. Kelsey yelped and leapt closer to Kia. The ground, already weakening, gave out from under them, dumping the Mirror Holders into the churning water.
"I haaate you, Binetsuuuu!!" Kelsey yelled over the roar of the water and the pounding rain, just before it pulled her under.
"Kelsey!!" Kia desperately floundered, searching her friend. Her frantic search turned up nothing. This was definitely not a good day. "Kel-"
The water rose up, and then plunged down with the force and ferocity of a miniature tidal wave. The girl almost inhaled water, fighting against the fierce current that was doggedly yanking her down, trying to drown her. Even IF she had been fresh and rested, getting to the surface would have been no easy feat. As it were, she hadn't eaten OR slept since Kurama had fallen ill, and she lacked the energy required to break free.
Kia made one final valiant effort to reach the surface. She might've made it, if her head hadn't suddenly struck a large river rock as she went by it. She was out like a light, and the river swept her limp form away.
***Somewhere...***
A pair of different colored eyes watched as the storm gradually subsided, the owner smiling as she peered into the seeing well.
"That'll teach them to mock ME! They can drown, for all I-" She broke off abruptly. Beneath the churning, white-capped water, she could see a faint silver glow. A majestic ebon stallion suddenly exploded from the water, feathered wings pumping furiously, strong ivory teeth clamped on a fuchsia shirt. Kia hung lifelessly from his mouth, eyes closed.
"Meikyou," Binetsu said softly, watching as the horse flew to shore, landing silently and depositing his mouthful on the ground before disappearing. "The beast from the Mirror Half of Compassion...looks like this won't be as easy as I'd originally thought."
***Back to Makai***
Kia came to, coughing up mass quantities of liquid. With a weak groan, she shakily pushed herself up halfway, looking around. What had happened? The last thing she remembered was trying to hold her breath underwater and get to fresh air again...and now she was on the other side of the river-alone.
"I'll figure out how I survived later. But first..." She suddenly realized, with dawning dismay, that she'd lost her backpack in her struggle for survival. Her change of clothes, her canteen, and Chuu's map were all gone. "...Oh, joy and astringent pomite fruit."
"I hate you, Binetsu..." The plaintive comment made Kia stand up, searching for the source of the familiar voice.
The tirade continued. "I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I-"
"Kelsey!" The girl, having followed the sound, paused as the ground crumbled slightly when she stepped on it. Remembering the river incident all-too-clearly, she took a step back, her eyes falling on the large hole in the ground. "Oh, you're KIDDING!" Dropping to her knees, she crawled over to the edge and peered down. Sure enough, there was Kelsey, bedraggled and scowling, and sitting on the dirt floor.
Kia blinked, figuring the hole had to be at least six feet deep. "This is so hopeless, I don't know whether to laugh, cry, or become a nun."
At the sound of her quiet voice, the blonde Mirror Holder looked up. "If we survive this, I'll accept Kuwabara's cat as a god and offer daily sacrifices to it."
The other female grinned, concentrating. Wind wrapped securely around her friend, supporting her as it bore her up and out of the pit.
Kelsey groaned. "Kuso! Now my plans for Eikichism will have to fade once more in obscurity...and I was gonna let you be the bishop, too."
"I'll recover, I'm sure." Still smiling, relieved that her friend was all right, Kia got to her feet. "So...where are we?"
"Check the map," Kelsey suggested.
The other grimaced. "I can't. It got washed away."
The Mirror Holder made a face as well. "Did I, by any chance, mention that I hate Binetsu?"
"More than enough," she was quickly assured. "But don't worry. Even IF we're stranded out here without a map, extra clothes, food, and...whatever...we'll probably find some horribly obvious, yet devious way of overcoming this."
There came a sudden bellow, almost drowning out the scream that preceded it. Kelsey pointed to a youkai that looked just like a rhinoceros, only with two switching tails and dull red eyes. It was peering shortsightedly into a hole similar to the one that had imprisoned Kelsey. The scream came again.
"...Okay, forget about obvious and devious!" Kia threw her hands up. "Someone needs our help."
"Let's distract it." Before Kia could stop her, the younger girl was running towards the rhino. She came to a halt about two feet from its snout and burst into song.
"It's the circle of liiiiiife...and it moves us allllllll..."
"I'll take what I can get, I suppose..." Kia shook her head and inched around the youkai, who had stopped what it was doing to watch Kelsey's song-and-dance routine. "Are you okay?" She called down.
"Hai..." The voice, low and hesitant, definitely belonged to a woman...if that's what the cloaked figure huddled in the bottom of the pit was.
The girl nodded. "Hold on. I'll have you out in a minute." She repeated the same trick she'd done with Kelsey, and the figure was lifted out and set gently on her feet. Attired in a full-length gray robe, you couldn't distinguish any details; the face was completely hidden within the shadows and folds of the large hood. Judging from the voice, the figure was female, and she was a great deal taller than the cookie sheet-wielding Mirror Holder.
"Coming through!" Kelsey yelled suddenly as the rhino galloped past, the former clinging to the ridged back of the latter.
"Kelsey!" Kia leaped aside to avoid getting trampled; the cloaked stranger did the same. "Let go!"
"Oh, right!" The blonde relaxed her grip and jumped off, just as the youkai plunged into the recently-vacated hole with a squeal. In silence, the three watched its descent-then turned away from the impact, the two girls wincing. If the figure had any sentiments, she chose not to display them.
"May I ask the names of those who have assisted me greatly?" She inquired.
"Oh, sure. I'm Kelsey, and my friend here is Satsukiame-"
"KIA," the other girl growled.
"We're Mi-" She yelped as Kia sharply elbowed her in the side. "I mean...ah...we're..." She cast about for a word. "MINDING our own business while we search for Mukuro-" Kia shook her head frantically, mouthing "NO", and Kelsey stopped, sweatdropping.
"Mukuro?" The figure seemed surprised. "Why do you seek her?"
Both girls sighed resignedly. "Chuu--a friend-- told us she had the cure for a disease that only strikes down youkai," Kia explained. "But we lost the map, and now we have no idea how to get there."
To their surprise, the woman suddenly exclaimed "Oh, that's perfect!" in a delighted tone.
"It...is?" Kelsey seemed just as baffled as her companion.
"Hai! I'm one of Lord Mukuro's servants! I can take you to her! That is, if..." She hesitated. "Forgive me for asking, but you two wouldn't happen to be the Mirror Holders, would you?"
"Neon signs," Kia said cryptically. Her friend nodded, understanding. "Umm...hai, we are."
She clapped her hands together. "Lord Mukuro has heard so much about you! I'm sure she'd LOVE to meet you both!"
"She's not going to eat us, is she?" Kelsey asked nervously.
"Eat you?"
"We heard that she used to eat ningens..." Embarrassed, Kia scuffed at the ground with a dusty shoe, tracing delicate patterns.
"But you're not fully ningen, are you?" Mukuro's servant had a hint of amusement in her tone.
The girls glanced at each other.
"Okay, that's too weird," Kelsey muttered, turning back to the cloaked female. "Do you have a name?"
The movement of the hood indicated that she was shaking her head no. "Lord Mukuro does not allow her servants to have names. We are not important enough."
"That's insane!" Kia snapped indignantly. "What kind of a lord is this Mukuro person? Servants have feelings, too! When I see Mukuro, I have a thing or two to say to her, and none of it is 'Bless you and your superior attitude!'" Brown eyes sparkling with anger, she continued. "We'll just have to call you something for now...like...Sei."
"Sei?" Kelsey blinked. The other shrugged.
"Sei," the servant echoed. "I like it. But I am not worthy of-"
"Oh, stop that!" The brunette glared half-heartedly. "Of course you are. You seem like a nice enough person, and everyone deserves a name of their own!"
The newly christened Sei bowed. "Arigato gozaimasu, Mirror Holders. You are both very kind."
The younger girl flushed. "Well...shall we go find this lord of yours?"
***Some obscure amount of time later...***
"Kia," Kelsey whispered, as the girls followed Sei, falling back a bit.
"Nani?" The girl tilted her head questioningly. "What is it?"
"You...me...we're...are we...?"
"I think so." Kia didn't have to ask what Kelsey meant. Deep down, she felt it, and knew with a sort of dreadful certainty.
"Daijoubu?" Sei turned back. "Am I going too fast?"
"No, of course not!" The brunette replied immediately. "I just hope Mukuro will help..."
Sei nodded. "Why do you seek this cure? Are you sick?"
"It's for our youkai friends," Kelsey told her. "We can't sit back and let them die, so..."
"We're the only healthy ones left, besides Chuu and Rinku," Kia added. "Which is why we're here."
"We're here!" Sei announced.
About to ask her why she had repeated the words, Kia stopped instead-and stared.
They stood in front of a large black granite edifice with jutting peaks. Three heavily-armored guards were positioned near the front doors, scowling as the three approached.
"It's huge!" Kelsey murmured, storm-gray eyes wide with wonder and awe.
Kia couldn't speak, so she settled for a nod of agreement.
"Name and business," one of the guards demanded, glaring down at them.
"I am a lowly servant of Lord Mukuro, bringing the Mirror Holders to see her," Sei informed him.
The guard leaned down, staring Kia in the eyes. Slightly unnerved, she nevertheless forced herself to meet his dark eyes. "The Mirror Holders? They look like ningens to me." He thrust his face closer. Kia stepped back. "But their energy...it doesn't FEEL like a ningen's."
"Will you just let us through to see the boss lady?" Kelsey said impatiently.
"Consorting with ningens..." Another guard sighed and shook his head morosely. "I'm getting too old for this." He stepped aside as the doors creaked inward.
"It's even bigger INSIDE!" The younger girl was plainly impressed.
"Maybe..." Kia frowned. "But where's Mukuro? I want to give her a piece of my mind about the way she treats her servants." (A/N: She came for a cure? Really? O.o)
"Actually, she's already received it, Kia."
Both girls froze. Neither one spoke, moved, OR breathed for what seemed like an eternity. Their eyes were locked on the cloaked figure, who had stopped in front of another set of doors.
"Sei...?" Kelsey whispered disbelievingly
Kia suddenly understood. "You mean-you're-and I-oh, crap."
The woman chuckled, raising elegant hands to lower her hood. She turned to face them, revealing a regal countenance, one half flawless and beautiful with a twinkling deep blue eye. The other side of her face was covered in rags, with an eyeglass where the other eye would have normally resided. Parted to the right, cropped auburn hair brushed against her shoulder. "Well. I never expected to encounter the Mirror Holders so informally. Where are my manners?"
"Kia," Kelsey said in a strangled whisper, ending on a squeak. "It's the BOSS LADY!"
The other girl nodded, at a loss for words once again.
Sei was Lord Mukuro. Boss lady, indeed.
*OOC*
Bet you didn't expect that, did ya? ^^ I love surprising twists. Wow. Sei is actually Mukuro...wow. Please review! I love 'em! NEXT chapter!
* Mukuro reveals her reason for a disguise...
* Hey...what would happen if KIA AND KELSEY got sick?? Uh-oh...
* When some of the men in Mukuro's army harass the girls, guess what they do in retaliation? Heh heh heh...
And now, here is ferrygirl #1, Byakushin! Guess what her name means and get her!
Name: Byakushin
Age: 136 (died at the age of 17)
Birthday: December 9
Clothing: A navy blue kimono with a green obi, and a lighter green kimono underneath.
Hair Color/Style: Dark green; wears it in a high ponytail that goes past her waist.
Eye Color: Blue
Height: 5'7''
Weight: 118 lbs.
Personality: Cynical. (feel free to elaborate her personality if you get her! ^^)
Well, there you go. Good luck! If no one gets her name right, I'll give her to some randomly selected participant.