Thank you for the nice reveiws. ^_^ They weren't that many but it inspired me to write another chapter. My friends who read it didn't say much about it, it was just another chapter to them. I've written 4 chapters to that story, but, I need to change it around so it mainly focuses on Chiriko. I did have another character for Mitsukake and that person who was going to be a girl would've been with Tasuki and stuff but hey, it annoys people when there's too many new characters (I only say that because of me..since it gets confusing when it's too many. One or two is enough.........^^;;)
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Chapter 2: Seperate ways
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Houjun got his eye bandanged up while the doctors badanged up my arm. The doctor told me that I wouldn't be able to use my left arm again, all I could do is move it, and even though I could do that, I can't pick anything up, I could only move it. Houjun's eye would never be able to be healed so he had lost left eye. Shouryuu had become a lake, the town was under it about 100 feet. So at the top was nothing but ruins of the buildings, but really, there was nothing, everything was gone. Houjun and I returned to that lake which the near by town named Shouryuu Memorial Lake. We set up a cross for each soul lost, after, Houjun just stared at the lake after I put down the last cross. I came and sat next to him.
"My whole family..." he muttered. "Kouran, Hikou....They're all gone...just like that...Just like that."
Tears streamed down his face. I couldn't do anything...I didn't know what to do, nothing that I could recall like that ever happened to me. Another vision then eveloped me, that girl she was pushed into a wall, she looked up to the attacker, a male, he in a way looked like her, and he looked familiar....but I couldn't say why..Everything around my blured and I was being shook by Houjun. "You ok, Kibou?"
I blinked and my vision came back to normal. "Huh?..Uh, yeah, I'm ok..."
His eyes were red and tears still streamed freshly down. "Are you sure?"
"Yeah..I'm ok."
"Come on, lets get going, your probably hungry, you haven't eaten in a while." he said wiping away the tears.
"Well, I don't want to-" my stomache growled loudly that it was obvious to Houjun, it lasted about 15 seconds or so, Houjun chuckled. "Come on."
He helped me up and we headed back to town. He bought me something to eat that I chose that didn't seem like it was very expensive. Afterwards we started to walk in to the forest, he or I weren't sure where we were going, but he was leading.
"Thank you." he said not looking back at me.
"Huh? You don't have to thank me, I didn't do anything." I said looking down at my feet.
"Thanks for helping me and you risked your life to save Kouran as well as me...Thank you..."
I stayed silent and caught up to walk beside him. Houjun didn't speal either, we were both silent. "H-how did she die?" he finally said after I saw that he was going to many times.
I looked to him a bit shocked, that the subject actually came up. "U-um...After I talked to her, a vision came to me that a dam broke so I took her to a higher land, but she triped...I could only hold on so long before a rock hit me and I was forced to let go...she died because of me..I'm sorry." I didn't want to tell him anything else, as her last words, I wasn't sure why at the time.
"It wasn't your fault, you helped her live a little longer. You lost your memory, woke up in an unknown place to two strangers, and you were willing to help even though you didn't feel well and you even risked your life. I'm the one that killed someone."
I shook my head. "No, the same thing that happened to me, happened to you. It wasn't you, it was the damn flood, but....It was probably all fate."
We kept walking untill we came to another town, it was a small peaceful town, like what Shouryuu seemed to be like. The people looked peaceful as well. We passed a temple in which a monk stood and greeted us. The monk invited us in and so we went in. There were many meditating monks and other things that would relax the mind. Another man came up to us. "Good afternoon sir, madam. What brings you to this temple?"
"We're just looking around." I answered.
"What happened to your eye, good sir?"
"I lost it in a flood that occured a week ago."
"In Shouryuu? Ah yes, is this young lady a younger sister or friend of yours." he asked now looking to me which freaked me out since his eyes, his pupils were small and looked like vampire eyes. He had this creepy vibe from him, but it was still good.
"She's a friend...I was just wondering, would I be able to learn the way of these monks?"
The monk looked back to Houjun. "Of course, but we are wandering monks, most of us, we come and go, but if you wish, we will teach you the ways of a monk."
"Houjun?"
He looked to me and smiled. "I think this'll be able to help me..In some way or another.."
I nodded. "If that's what you want, I'll leave you at that. I hope you get better."
"Where will you go?"
"I'm going to try to find out who I am. I don't know where I'll start but I'll just travel around, I'm sure that someone will reconize me someday." I said heading out. "But when I do find myself, I'll look for you."
He smiled and came next to me, lifted my hand and put a ring into it. "I'll try to find you someday too."
"Promise to meet each other again?" I asked.
He nodded. "This will be the symbol of it. It'll be a way to reconize each other in case we look different when we see each other again."
"Yeah, I may find some answers some day...but till then, I'll see you again Houjun."
"And I'll see you again, good bye, Kibou....but take this with you, too."
He handed me the money he had left. "You may need it."
"Thanks."
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I left the city and I already felt lost. I traveled through the forest, still feeling lost, I put the ring on my finger and looked at it, a clean cut diamond with the ring being solid gold. It was beautiful and I feel sorry for houjun that he lost Kouran like that. I wish I had memories to trace back to..I sighed and bowed my head down and kept walking. I closed my eyes for a bit but then another memory came to me. A girl, two of them, they were in strange clothes, they looked familiar, one girl had short blonde wearing this brown clothing that was a short dress, and she wore a jacket that was up to her chest but the sleeves were long. The socks were up to her knees and she wore black shoes. The other girl, she wore the same thing, she had brown hair that was up in two buns. They were talking to the girl I kept seeing, but she wore a different suit. One with a short skirt and a tie. I could tell that she was older than them. That vision blacked out and two names came to my lips, Miaka and Yui. Miaka belongs to the girl with the brown hair and Yui belonged to the girl with the blonde....The other girl, it must be me. I always get one vision whenever I try to trace back, but they didn't peice together very well. I came back too reality and saw that was being carried by a woman, an old woman who had long, nice white hair, blue eyes, a long face that showed that she was beautiful when she was younger and there weren't many wrinkles on her face.
"Are you ok?" she asked. "You ran into me and just fainted."
"Oh, I'm so sorry ma'am. I don't know what came over me." I said as she let me down.
"What's your name child?"
"I'm Kibou."
"Kibou? Is that it?"
"It seemed that I lost my memory a week ago, I still haven't gotten it back."
"Where are you headed?"
"I don't know." I said bluntly
She looked at me strangely. "You can stay with me child, if you want. I'm Toroki, I am actually a Byakko seishi."
"Seishi?" Seishi...that sounds so familiar. a voice started to talk in my head, as if reading: "...Chiriko, the seishi with the power of knowlegde..."
"Who is Chiriko...and what is a seishi?"
She looked at me a bit strangly. "You've never heard of it, ah! That's right, you've lost your memory, I'm sorry dear, a seishi is a warrior that protects the preistess of whichever gor of the north, south, east, and west...Chiriko...lets see..ah, Chiriko is a seishi of Suzaku, why do you ask?"
I shrugged. "It's just...I'm not sure."
"Well, I can see why, if your trying to hide it child, it's not working, you have a symbol on your foot." she said chuckling.
"Huh?" I looked down at my foot, a red symbol shone brightly upon it. "Wow...That's weird."
She smiled. We came into a city which another small town. I kept up next to her, she looked down and saw my hand and the ring on it. "Are you engaged, child?"
I shook my head. "This is a symbol of a promise that we'll see each other again." I said looking at my hand.
"And who's that?"
"Houjun, I just met him, but he helped me before the flood, after I lost my memory, now he's staying with some monks, since he lost his family, his best friend, and fiance`. The monks will probably help him clear his mind."
She nodded and was silent the rest of the way. We stoped at a gigantic house that looked like a school for martial arts. She opened the door. Inside, there were many boys and men in there practicing with swords. We went past them and went up a flight of stairs where it led to a living area, there was a nice aroma of something cooking from the kitchen and there were many decorations around. "Go ahead and sit down dear." she said pulling up a chair from a table that was near me.
"Thank you for taking me in."
"Not at all, it's actually very lonely just by myself. Do you know martial arts dear?"
I shook my head. "Never learned any, or any that I know of."
"It might be useful when the preistess of Suzaku comes around. You'll have to protect her, I'll train you, unless you want to keep searching for yourself." She said pulling up a chair across from me.
"I may find that out someday, but this'll be useful to the future.....But, I can't ever pay you back."
"I told you, it's nothing, it'll be nice to have another female around as company, I haven't had an aprentice in so long, it'll be nice. I'll get you some clothes, child. Those clothes are a bit torn up."
I looked down at my clothes, my left sleeve torn with my right sleeve still there, and the clothes torn in many places as around the stomache where the rock hit me."
She got up and went into a room that was down a hallway. She came back out with en entire wardrobe. A robe like outfit that was blue with a red belt, there was a symbol on the back, but I couldn't read it, white knee highs and black shoes. I changed into the quickly in a room that she led me to that was a pretty normal sized room. Toroki told me that this was going to be my room. I went back out and Toroki had broght out a bowl of soup and set it down. I ate it silently and Toroki only stared at me, she then got up and went to probably get something. She came back and set a sword down on the table. The design was a pheonix, a small one in the middle with the wings circling the sword and by the bird on it's left and right came two points. The handle was black and there were two red a ribbon tied at the end.
"This sword has the god Suzaku on it, there are only so many with this design. This will be yours, I will teach you how to fight with this as well as hand to hand combat."
"But." I looked down at my left arm. "I only have one arm that can be useful....I lost it in the flood."
She inpected the pale arm. "That's fine, you can still be taught, you'll have disadvantages, but you'll be as good if not better as the rest of the students at this school. When do you want to start?"
"Tommarrow I guess...Thank you, Toroki."
She nodded. "Eat up, you'll need your strength."
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Ok, it's a short chapter and I'm sorry, I write too many short chapters. I proof read!....sort of....I might've still missed stuff. Thank you Otaku Pitcher for pointing out my editing, which still sucks. ^^;;
~*CosmicMoon
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Chapter 2: Seperate ways
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Houjun got his eye bandanged up while the doctors badanged up my arm. The doctor told me that I wouldn't be able to use my left arm again, all I could do is move it, and even though I could do that, I can't pick anything up, I could only move it. Houjun's eye would never be able to be healed so he had lost left eye. Shouryuu had become a lake, the town was under it about 100 feet. So at the top was nothing but ruins of the buildings, but really, there was nothing, everything was gone. Houjun and I returned to that lake which the near by town named Shouryuu Memorial Lake. We set up a cross for each soul lost, after, Houjun just stared at the lake after I put down the last cross. I came and sat next to him.
"My whole family..." he muttered. "Kouran, Hikou....They're all gone...just like that...Just like that."
Tears streamed down his face. I couldn't do anything...I didn't know what to do, nothing that I could recall like that ever happened to me. Another vision then eveloped me, that girl she was pushed into a wall, she looked up to the attacker, a male, he in a way looked like her, and he looked familiar....but I couldn't say why..Everything around my blured and I was being shook by Houjun. "You ok, Kibou?"
I blinked and my vision came back to normal. "Huh?..Uh, yeah, I'm ok..."
His eyes were red and tears still streamed freshly down. "Are you sure?"
"Yeah..I'm ok."
"Come on, lets get going, your probably hungry, you haven't eaten in a while." he said wiping away the tears.
"Well, I don't want to-" my stomache growled loudly that it was obvious to Houjun, it lasted about 15 seconds or so, Houjun chuckled. "Come on."
He helped me up and we headed back to town. He bought me something to eat that I chose that didn't seem like it was very expensive. Afterwards we started to walk in to the forest, he or I weren't sure where we were going, but he was leading.
"Thank you." he said not looking back at me.
"Huh? You don't have to thank me, I didn't do anything." I said looking down at my feet.
"Thanks for helping me and you risked your life to save Kouran as well as me...Thank you..."
I stayed silent and caught up to walk beside him. Houjun didn't speal either, we were both silent. "H-how did she die?" he finally said after I saw that he was going to many times.
I looked to him a bit shocked, that the subject actually came up. "U-um...After I talked to her, a vision came to me that a dam broke so I took her to a higher land, but she triped...I could only hold on so long before a rock hit me and I was forced to let go...she died because of me..I'm sorry." I didn't want to tell him anything else, as her last words, I wasn't sure why at the time.
"It wasn't your fault, you helped her live a little longer. You lost your memory, woke up in an unknown place to two strangers, and you were willing to help even though you didn't feel well and you even risked your life. I'm the one that killed someone."
I shook my head. "No, the same thing that happened to me, happened to you. It wasn't you, it was the damn flood, but....It was probably all fate."
We kept walking untill we came to another town, it was a small peaceful town, like what Shouryuu seemed to be like. The people looked peaceful as well. We passed a temple in which a monk stood and greeted us. The monk invited us in and so we went in. There were many meditating monks and other things that would relax the mind. Another man came up to us. "Good afternoon sir, madam. What brings you to this temple?"
"We're just looking around." I answered.
"What happened to your eye, good sir?"
"I lost it in a flood that occured a week ago."
"In Shouryuu? Ah yes, is this young lady a younger sister or friend of yours." he asked now looking to me which freaked me out since his eyes, his pupils were small and looked like vampire eyes. He had this creepy vibe from him, but it was still good.
"She's a friend...I was just wondering, would I be able to learn the way of these monks?"
The monk looked back to Houjun. "Of course, but we are wandering monks, most of us, we come and go, but if you wish, we will teach you the ways of a monk."
"Houjun?"
He looked to me and smiled. "I think this'll be able to help me..In some way or another.."
I nodded. "If that's what you want, I'll leave you at that. I hope you get better."
"Where will you go?"
"I'm going to try to find out who I am. I don't know where I'll start but I'll just travel around, I'm sure that someone will reconize me someday." I said heading out. "But when I do find myself, I'll look for you."
He smiled and came next to me, lifted my hand and put a ring into it. "I'll try to find you someday too."
"Promise to meet each other again?" I asked.
He nodded. "This will be the symbol of it. It'll be a way to reconize each other in case we look different when we see each other again."
"Yeah, I may find some answers some day...but till then, I'll see you again Houjun."
"And I'll see you again, good bye, Kibou....but take this with you, too."
He handed me the money he had left. "You may need it."
"Thanks."
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I left the city and I already felt lost. I traveled through the forest, still feeling lost, I put the ring on my finger and looked at it, a clean cut diamond with the ring being solid gold. It was beautiful and I feel sorry for houjun that he lost Kouran like that. I wish I had memories to trace back to..I sighed and bowed my head down and kept walking. I closed my eyes for a bit but then another memory came to me. A girl, two of them, they were in strange clothes, they looked familiar, one girl had short blonde wearing this brown clothing that was a short dress, and she wore a jacket that was up to her chest but the sleeves were long. The socks were up to her knees and she wore black shoes. The other girl, she wore the same thing, she had brown hair that was up in two buns. They were talking to the girl I kept seeing, but she wore a different suit. One with a short skirt and a tie. I could tell that she was older than them. That vision blacked out and two names came to my lips, Miaka and Yui. Miaka belongs to the girl with the brown hair and Yui belonged to the girl with the blonde....The other girl, it must be me. I always get one vision whenever I try to trace back, but they didn't peice together very well. I came back too reality and saw that was being carried by a woman, an old woman who had long, nice white hair, blue eyes, a long face that showed that she was beautiful when she was younger and there weren't many wrinkles on her face.
"Are you ok?" she asked. "You ran into me and just fainted."
"Oh, I'm so sorry ma'am. I don't know what came over me." I said as she let me down.
"What's your name child?"
"I'm Kibou."
"Kibou? Is that it?"
"It seemed that I lost my memory a week ago, I still haven't gotten it back."
"Where are you headed?"
"I don't know." I said bluntly
She looked at me strangely. "You can stay with me child, if you want. I'm Toroki, I am actually a Byakko seishi."
"Seishi?" Seishi...that sounds so familiar. a voice started to talk in my head, as if reading: "...Chiriko, the seishi with the power of knowlegde..."
"Who is Chiriko...and what is a seishi?"
She looked at me a bit strangly. "You've never heard of it, ah! That's right, you've lost your memory, I'm sorry dear, a seishi is a warrior that protects the preistess of whichever gor of the north, south, east, and west...Chiriko...lets see..ah, Chiriko is a seishi of Suzaku, why do you ask?"
I shrugged. "It's just...I'm not sure."
"Well, I can see why, if your trying to hide it child, it's not working, you have a symbol on your foot." she said chuckling.
"Huh?" I looked down at my foot, a red symbol shone brightly upon it. "Wow...That's weird."
She smiled. We came into a city which another small town. I kept up next to her, she looked down and saw my hand and the ring on it. "Are you engaged, child?"
I shook my head. "This is a symbol of a promise that we'll see each other again." I said looking at my hand.
"And who's that?"
"Houjun, I just met him, but he helped me before the flood, after I lost my memory, now he's staying with some monks, since he lost his family, his best friend, and fiance`. The monks will probably help him clear his mind."
She nodded and was silent the rest of the way. We stoped at a gigantic house that looked like a school for martial arts. She opened the door. Inside, there were many boys and men in there practicing with swords. We went past them and went up a flight of stairs where it led to a living area, there was a nice aroma of something cooking from the kitchen and there were many decorations around. "Go ahead and sit down dear." she said pulling up a chair from a table that was near me.
"Thank you for taking me in."
"Not at all, it's actually very lonely just by myself. Do you know martial arts dear?"
I shook my head. "Never learned any, or any that I know of."
"It might be useful when the preistess of Suzaku comes around. You'll have to protect her, I'll train you, unless you want to keep searching for yourself." She said pulling up a chair across from me.
"I may find that out someday, but this'll be useful to the future.....But, I can't ever pay you back."
"I told you, it's nothing, it'll be nice to have another female around as company, I haven't had an aprentice in so long, it'll be nice. I'll get you some clothes, child. Those clothes are a bit torn up."
I looked down at my clothes, my left sleeve torn with my right sleeve still there, and the clothes torn in many places as around the stomache where the rock hit me."
She got up and went into a room that was down a hallway. She came back out with en entire wardrobe. A robe like outfit that was blue with a red belt, there was a symbol on the back, but I couldn't read it, white knee highs and black shoes. I changed into the quickly in a room that she led me to that was a pretty normal sized room. Toroki told me that this was going to be my room. I went back out and Toroki had broght out a bowl of soup and set it down. I ate it silently and Toroki only stared at me, she then got up and went to probably get something. She came back and set a sword down on the table. The design was a pheonix, a small one in the middle with the wings circling the sword and by the bird on it's left and right came two points. The handle was black and there were two red a ribbon tied at the end.
"This sword has the god Suzaku on it, there are only so many with this design. This will be yours, I will teach you how to fight with this as well as hand to hand combat."
"But." I looked down at my left arm. "I only have one arm that can be useful....I lost it in the flood."
She inpected the pale arm. "That's fine, you can still be taught, you'll have disadvantages, but you'll be as good if not better as the rest of the students at this school. When do you want to start?"
"Tommarrow I guess...Thank you, Toroki."
She nodded. "Eat up, you'll need your strength."
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Ok, it's a short chapter and I'm sorry, I write too many short chapters. I proof read!....sort of....I might've still missed stuff. Thank you Otaku Pitcher for pointing out my editing, which still sucks. ^^;;
~*CosmicMoon