Sorry it took me so long to get this out. It seems the only person who likes this story or so it seems, is Otaku Pitcher, I mean I do have other reviewers, but Otaku was the first and yeah, that was probably the only reason I'm still writing more for this story, and I like it a bit. ^^ I think I'll make the next chapter in Houjun's PoV. And this chapter shows more of Chiriko's real personality. Since the last few was just getting everything together and stuff, this chapter shows more of her normal personality. And also, I'm deleting A change of Heart because what I was going to do in the future something with it, but I'm deciding to do it in this story.
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Chapter 4: Taiitsukun's training
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Houjun took his mask off and the same scar was still across his eye but his face had matured a bit. I back away from him and smiled. "Look at you, everything's changed about you!"
"Same as you, Kibou." Houjun said chuckling. "You've gotten much more beautiful as well, no da."
I laughed. "So what, I was ugly when I was eighteen?"
"I'm sorry to interupt your reunion, but I will now explain how this will work. Chiriko, Chichiri, both of you will train together and both of you will be granted a special power to use the magic that I will grant you." said Taiitsukun.
Then she waved her hands and two mirrors appeared, from them, two red lights emerged and went strait to a certain part. The red light that struck me hit my foot where my symbol was and Houjun's hit his knee, I wasn't sure why. When the red light disapeared, I then relized something, Chichiri was a constellation name....That means that Houjun is a Suzaku seishi! At least there's two people I know of who are part of the Suzaku Seishi. "The method to learn my magic is simple, but it takes time to get it perfect. You must be patient, and I know both of you are, that is why I selected the two of you. In estimation, I believe that you'll both complete your training in three years. So do you understand?"
We both nodded at the same time. "Nyan Nyan." Taiisukun said as if calling out.
Bubbles then poped up and then four little girls with blue hair wearing cute little dress appeared, they all looked the same. "Nyan Nyan!" they all piped at the same time.
"Nyan Nyan, show the two of them to their rooms."
"Yes ma'am!"
The little girls flew out of the room and indicated for us to follow, so we did. They led us down a hallway and finally to two doors near each other, two of them opened one that was to the right door and two of them opened the other, the two that opened the right side door pulled me into it. "Found my room, guessin the other one's yours."
Once I was inside, the room looked like it would never end, I looked to the side and saw Houjun. "Is there no wall or something?"
He shrugged. "Oh well, at least there's two beds, no da."
"I guess...What's up with the "no da" thing anyway?"
"Something I just picked up, no da."
"Ya know Houjun, your voice was alot deeper when I first met you, did you go backwards in puberty?"
"Nah." he said in a slightly deeper voice, I jumped at the sudden change of voice. "This is my normal voice."
I was confused by why he would use such a high voice, but I didn't ask. It surprised me he that he could use a high voice and it actually looked normal. Houjun, when he put his mask back on, looked younger than he was suppose to be, which was a bit strange, the mask just sorta seemed to change him. With his mask on, I could feel joy from him and everything, but when it's off, I could still see the same broken man that I left 3 years ago.
"So what did you do after you left, have you regained your memory, no da?"
I shook my head. "Still pretty much a blur, when I first met you, I had quite a few a day, but then it slowed down alot over the last three years. I still don't have a clue. But two girls, Yui and Miaka, I remember them, yet I don't, I think they were friends, but I'm not sure. None of these visions make sense. And after I left, I did have another vision, but seemed to have fainted, that's when I met Toroki, who took me in for 3 years and trained me to protect the Preistess of Suzaku, how've you been?"
"I haven't been doing much, no da. Just wandering around, I learned a bit of magic from the monks so I could do quite a bit, no da."
"Wow, that's pretty nice, to know magic, guess you'll be learning more here."
"Yeah, we should be getting rest, no da. Have strength for tommarrow, no da."
I took my bag off my back and put it one the bed. "Houjun, don't turn around please, I had to share a room with Tamahome, and it wasn't fun, he kept turning around.....that little pervert, I'll get him when I meet him again...but please stay turned around and I trust you for now." I said getting out the clothes that I wore to sleep, which was just a robe. I turned my head back slightly to Houjun and his back was turned, he was a true gentleman, either that, it's because he's a monk. I took my clothes off and changed into the robe. "Thanks Houjun....and would you rather be called Houjun or Chichiri?"
"It doesn't really matter, no da. I've been called Chichiri for the last 3 years, but just go by whatever your use to."
"Thanks. I'll just start calling you Chichiri, my old trainer told me that the preistess will be looking for us according to the constellation name, so you know, but if your confertable calling me Kibou, I don't mind."
I got under the covers and the lights or whatever they were seemed to suddenly dim and turn dark. "G'night Chichiri."
"Night, na no da." he called back.
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I felt a sudden cold sensation and instantly relized that my blanket was pulled away and I tried to get it back but I couldn't find it. "Nyan Nyan!" Piped the familiar voice from yesterday.
I looked down to the end of my bed and saw two Nyan Nyan's holding my blanket. "Breakfast time!"
I groaned and saw up, I looked to the side and saw a table with food at it, Chichiri was getting up the same way by the Nyan Nyan. I rubbed my eyes, "What's for breakfast?"
"Whatever you want!" the Nyan Nyan said cheerfully
They got me up and set me down on the bed on started to brush my hair out. "Fixing, fixing!"
They tied it in a braid that went down to my mid back. Then food appeared before me, the exact meal Toroki put down for me everyday that I never asked what it was because it never came up, it was Toroki's special. A soup with egg drops and dumplings in it. I couldn't really see what Chichiri was eating. I was still really tired so I was wobbling a bit, I then picked my spoon up and started to eat. While I ate, my mind seemed to wander and change to another vision of my past.
The girl, that was me, she looked younger as if 13, and she was wearing a different uniform thing. She kneeled down to a little girl with brown hair tied in two buns, Miaka..She was crying and her knee was bleeding. "Come on Miaka, don't cry, it'll get better."
The girl put some kind of medicine on Miaka and then some kind of bandage over it. Miaka stoped crying. "Now you have to promise to be careful, ok?"
Little Miaka nodded. "Go and play with Yui, and be careful."
"Ok ohne-chan!"
My vision came back to normal and my bowl was empty, I blacked out again. Ohne-chan.....Why does that sound so familiar? Was that what they called older girls when you were younger? I looked up and Chichiri was staring at me. "Your still having those visions, no da?"
I nodded. "I just black out for a bit and then I come back. Every time, I have some useless vision about my past."
"So you don't know of your family or anything."
I shook my head. "Still a blur, only friends."
"Nyan Nyan!"
They pulled Chichiri and I up at the same time and led us down the hall to most likey Taiitsukun. They lead us to the place where I met Chichiri yesterday, Taiitsukun was waiting for us in there. "It's about time the two of you woke up, today, we will start your training, and what we'll work on is changing your shape to sound and look like another person."
"Wow, really, that'll be cool! What's the first step?" I asked.
"The first step is to concentrate for a moment on who you want to transform in to, once you get all these steps down, this will become easy to you. Now both of you, close your eyes and concentrate on a certain person whom you want to change into."
I did as she said and I concentrated on turning into Miaka, the girl from my visions. "Now, try to put your lifeforce to that thought and change yourself quickly."
I concentrated my lifeforce to my head, reaching my thoughts to try to turn it into what I wanted to turn into. Clouds of something then surounded me and I felt my body change. I opened my eyes and looked down at myself, I was wearing the clothes of the first time I saw her in my visions, my hair was in two buns. I looked over to where Chichiri was standing and he had changed into Hikou, his best friend. "Excellent, the two of you are doing better than I thought you would."
"This is a bit weird though." I said, hearing that my voice was changed to a higher more childish voice.
"You must get use to it. You may find yourself doing this often in the future."
I changed back into my normal self and so did Chichiri. "Kibou, I will give you something that can help you, and you may learn how to play over time."
The Nyan Nyan brought over in a small pillow, a small....Flute...I knew that's what it was. I picked it up with my right hand. "But, I can't use both hands..."
The Nyan Nyans came over to me and picked my left hand up and started to heal it. When they were done, there was no feeling in my arm, but I could feel the feelings in my fingers, I wasn't sure how that worked out but it did. "Because of your training with Toroki learning how to do one handed sword combat only, I healed your fingers, you should be able to play, but it'll take take to get your left arm up. I gave you this because you will learn how to attack with your life force through the sound of a flute, I have given you the flute because you have had experiance with it."
"...You know of my past?"
"Yes...But that is for you to figure out in the future, for yourself and you will one day, but I will not be the one to tell you. Now, play a song."
"But I---ok." I lifted my left arm up slowly and my right raised with it. I started to play a song that I just somehow knew how to play. "Cradle song" That was the name of it....but I couldn't recall from what it was from. (Cradle song, it's from Escaflowne.) I put down amazed at what I did, I knew what I was doing, as if I had done it for most of my life. "
"Good. Now lets get started, Chichiri, you will stay here and train with me for the next week and Chiriko, go with the Nyan Nyans and they will teach you how to attack with the sound of a flute."
~*One Week later*~
It was my turn to train with Taiisukun but Chichiri stayed with me to train. I had learned how to do everything through the flute in a week, but I still haven't gotten it perfect. We didn't do that much with Taiisukun but after wards, we went to eat dinner in our room. And like it had been, the Nyan Nyans set it for us. Once I was done, I got ready to go to sleep, Chichiri didn't keep much of a conversation up, he was mostly thinking through his own things.. I told Chichiri to turn around as I changed.
"Kibou." A deep voice echoed. My vision suddenly changed and I saw that man again, who was hurting me. "Kibou, what the hell did I tell you about doing that?!"
There was me and I was crouched into the wall, crying, her emotions went through out me and I felt myself crying. "I'm sorry...I didn't mean to.."
"The hell you didn't!" he roared.
The was knocking at a door, when he didn't leave to get it, the person started to pound the door down untill the person could finally get through. It was that one girl, the american, I got a better look at her, blonde hair that wasn't natural, brown eyes, tan skin......she had many men behind her...police men...That's what they were called. I ran to the girl and hugged her, she was crying...Like she was in the vision I had so long ago. The police grabbed the man and put something on his hands so he wouldn't get loose. There was pain going through her body and I could feel it, burises on my body and I was cut some places. The man looked at me with pleading eyes. "Come on baby, you know I didn't mean it, I love you."
I hugged my friend tighter and glared at him. "You always do that, whenever you did, I'd forgive you, but not this time,"
The police pushed him and he struggled. "Kibou, please, you know how I am, Kibou!"
"Beat it Jason." My friend snapped.
"Kibou!!!"
"Kibou!" the voice changed and Chichiri was infront of me. I could feel the tears in my eyes still freshly streaming and the pain easing away. The man..Jason, his voice repeated in my mind, calling my name. "What's wrong? Are you ok?"
"I-I'm ok." I wiped the tears away. "The same thing that always happens to me...I-I'm Ok."
He helped me up. "Are you sure."
I nodded and I sat down on my bed. "Thanks...I'm ok."
He looked at me a bit worriedly. "Are you sure?"
"Yeah." 'I love you.' the voice of Jason said, again repeating in my mind. "I just need some rest."
I layed down and Chichiri put the blanket over me. "Thanks."
"Your welcome, no da. Now, get some rest Chiriko, no da."
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Again, I'm sorry for taking so long, but I made this chapter just slightly longer than other so.....yeah.....
~*CosmicMoon
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Chapter 4: Taiitsukun's training
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Houjun took his mask off and the same scar was still across his eye but his face had matured a bit. I back away from him and smiled. "Look at you, everything's changed about you!"
"Same as you, Kibou." Houjun said chuckling. "You've gotten much more beautiful as well, no da."
I laughed. "So what, I was ugly when I was eighteen?"
"I'm sorry to interupt your reunion, but I will now explain how this will work. Chiriko, Chichiri, both of you will train together and both of you will be granted a special power to use the magic that I will grant you." said Taiitsukun.
Then she waved her hands and two mirrors appeared, from them, two red lights emerged and went strait to a certain part. The red light that struck me hit my foot where my symbol was and Houjun's hit his knee, I wasn't sure why. When the red light disapeared, I then relized something, Chichiri was a constellation name....That means that Houjun is a Suzaku seishi! At least there's two people I know of who are part of the Suzaku Seishi. "The method to learn my magic is simple, but it takes time to get it perfect. You must be patient, and I know both of you are, that is why I selected the two of you. In estimation, I believe that you'll both complete your training in three years. So do you understand?"
We both nodded at the same time. "Nyan Nyan." Taiisukun said as if calling out.
Bubbles then poped up and then four little girls with blue hair wearing cute little dress appeared, they all looked the same. "Nyan Nyan!" they all piped at the same time.
"Nyan Nyan, show the two of them to their rooms."
"Yes ma'am!"
The little girls flew out of the room and indicated for us to follow, so we did. They led us down a hallway and finally to two doors near each other, two of them opened one that was to the right door and two of them opened the other, the two that opened the right side door pulled me into it. "Found my room, guessin the other one's yours."
Once I was inside, the room looked like it would never end, I looked to the side and saw Houjun. "Is there no wall or something?"
He shrugged. "Oh well, at least there's two beds, no da."
"I guess...What's up with the "no da" thing anyway?"
"Something I just picked up, no da."
"Ya know Houjun, your voice was alot deeper when I first met you, did you go backwards in puberty?"
"Nah." he said in a slightly deeper voice, I jumped at the sudden change of voice. "This is my normal voice."
I was confused by why he would use such a high voice, but I didn't ask. It surprised me he that he could use a high voice and it actually looked normal. Houjun, when he put his mask back on, looked younger than he was suppose to be, which was a bit strange, the mask just sorta seemed to change him. With his mask on, I could feel joy from him and everything, but when it's off, I could still see the same broken man that I left 3 years ago.
"So what did you do after you left, have you regained your memory, no da?"
I shook my head. "Still pretty much a blur, when I first met you, I had quite a few a day, but then it slowed down alot over the last three years. I still don't have a clue. But two girls, Yui and Miaka, I remember them, yet I don't, I think they were friends, but I'm not sure. None of these visions make sense. And after I left, I did have another vision, but seemed to have fainted, that's when I met Toroki, who took me in for 3 years and trained me to protect the Preistess of Suzaku, how've you been?"
"I haven't been doing much, no da. Just wandering around, I learned a bit of magic from the monks so I could do quite a bit, no da."
"Wow, that's pretty nice, to know magic, guess you'll be learning more here."
"Yeah, we should be getting rest, no da. Have strength for tommarrow, no da."
I took my bag off my back and put it one the bed. "Houjun, don't turn around please, I had to share a room with Tamahome, and it wasn't fun, he kept turning around.....that little pervert, I'll get him when I meet him again...but please stay turned around and I trust you for now." I said getting out the clothes that I wore to sleep, which was just a robe. I turned my head back slightly to Houjun and his back was turned, he was a true gentleman, either that, it's because he's a monk. I took my clothes off and changed into the robe. "Thanks Houjun....and would you rather be called Houjun or Chichiri?"
"It doesn't really matter, no da. I've been called Chichiri for the last 3 years, but just go by whatever your use to."
"Thanks. I'll just start calling you Chichiri, my old trainer told me that the preistess will be looking for us according to the constellation name, so you know, but if your confertable calling me Kibou, I don't mind."
I got under the covers and the lights or whatever they were seemed to suddenly dim and turn dark. "G'night Chichiri."
"Night, na no da." he called back.
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I felt a sudden cold sensation and instantly relized that my blanket was pulled away and I tried to get it back but I couldn't find it. "Nyan Nyan!" Piped the familiar voice from yesterday.
I looked down to the end of my bed and saw two Nyan Nyan's holding my blanket. "Breakfast time!"
I groaned and saw up, I looked to the side and saw a table with food at it, Chichiri was getting up the same way by the Nyan Nyan. I rubbed my eyes, "What's for breakfast?"
"Whatever you want!" the Nyan Nyan said cheerfully
They got me up and set me down on the bed on started to brush my hair out. "Fixing, fixing!"
They tied it in a braid that went down to my mid back. Then food appeared before me, the exact meal Toroki put down for me everyday that I never asked what it was because it never came up, it was Toroki's special. A soup with egg drops and dumplings in it. I couldn't really see what Chichiri was eating. I was still really tired so I was wobbling a bit, I then picked my spoon up and started to eat. While I ate, my mind seemed to wander and change to another vision of my past.
The girl, that was me, she looked younger as if 13, and she was wearing a different uniform thing. She kneeled down to a little girl with brown hair tied in two buns, Miaka..She was crying and her knee was bleeding. "Come on Miaka, don't cry, it'll get better."
The girl put some kind of medicine on Miaka and then some kind of bandage over it. Miaka stoped crying. "Now you have to promise to be careful, ok?"
Little Miaka nodded. "Go and play with Yui, and be careful."
"Ok ohne-chan!"
My vision came back to normal and my bowl was empty, I blacked out again. Ohne-chan.....Why does that sound so familiar? Was that what they called older girls when you were younger? I looked up and Chichiri was staring at me. "Your still having those visions, no da?"
I nodded. "I just black out for a bit and then I come back. Every time, I have some useless vision about my past."
"So you don't know of your family or anything."
I shook my head. "Still a blur, only friends."
"Nyan Nyan!"
They pulled Chichiri and I up at the same time and led us down the hall to most likey Taiitsukun. They lead us to the place where I met Chichiri yesterday, Taiitsukun was waiting for us in there. "It's about time the two of you woke up, today, we will start your training, and what we'll work on is changing your shape to sound and look like another person."
"Wow, really, that'll be cool! What's the first step?" I asked.
"The first step is to concentrate for a moment on who you want to transform in to, once you get all these steps down, this will become easy to you. Now both of you, close your eyes and concentrate on a certain person whom you want to change into."
I did as she said and I concentrated on turning into Miaka, the girl from my visions. "Now, try to put your lifeforce to that thought and change yourself quickly."
I concentrated my lifeforce to my head, reaching my thoughts to try to turn it into what I wanted to turn into. Clouds of something then surounded me and I felt my body change. I opened my eyes and looked down at myself, I was wearing the clothes of the first time I saw her in my visions, my hair was in two buns. I looked over to where Chichiri was standing and he had changed into Hikou, his best friend. "Excellent, the two of you are doing better than I thought you would."
"This is a bit weird though." I said, hearing that my voice was changed to a higher more childish voice.
"You must get use to it. You may find yourself doing this often in the future."
I changed back into my normal self and so did Chichiri. "Kibou, I will give you something that can help you, and you may learn how to play over time."
The Nyan Nyan brought over in a small pillow, a small....Flute...I knew that's what it was. I picked it up with my right hand. "But, I can't use both hands..."
The Nyan Nyans came over to me and picked my left hand up and started to heal it. When they were done, there was no feeling in my arm, but I could feel the feelings in my fingers, I wasn't sure how that worked out but it did. "Because of your training with Toroki learning how to do one handed sword combat only, I healed your fingers, you should be able to play, but it'll take take to get your left arm up. I gave you this because you will learn how to attack with your life force through the sound of a flute, I have given you the flute because you have had experiance with it."
"...You know of my past?"
"Yes...But that is for you to figure out in the future, for yourself and you will one day, but I will not be the one to tell you. Now, play a song."
"But I---ok." I lifted my left arm up slowly and my right raised with it. I started to play a song that I just somehow knew how to play. "Cradle song" That was the name of it....but I couldn't recall from what it was from. (Cradle song, it's from Escaflowne.) I put down amazed at what I did, I knew what I was doing, as if I had done it for most of my life. "
"Good. Now lets get started, Chichiri, you will stay here and train with me for the next week and Chiriko, go with the Nyan Nyans and they will teach you how to attack with the sound of a flute."
~*One Week later*~
It was my turn to train with Taiisukun but Chichiri stayed with me to train. I had learned how to do everything through the flute in a week, but I still haven't gotten it perfect. We didn't do that much with Taiisukun but after wards, we went to eat dinner in our room. And like it had been, the Nyan Nyans set it for us. Once I was done, I got ready to go to sleep, Chichiri didn't keep much of a conversation up, he was mostly thinking through his own things.. I told Chichiri to turn around as I changed.
"Kibou." A deep voice echoed. My vision suddenly changed and I saw that man again, who was hurting me. "Kibou, what the hell did I tell you about doing that?!"
There was me and I was crouched into the wall, crying, her emotions went through out me and I felt myself crying. "I'm sorry...I didn't mean to.."
"The hell you didn't!" he roared.
The was knocking at a door, when he didn't leave to get it, the person started to pound the door down untill the person could finally get through. It was that one girl, the american, I got a better look at her, blonde hair that wasn't natural, brown eyes, tan skin......she had many men behind her...police men...That's what they were called. I ran to the girl and hugged her, she was crying...Like she was in the vision I had so long ago. The police grabbed the man and put something on his hands so he wouldn't get loose. There was pain going through her body and I could feel it, burises on my body and I was cut some places. The man looked at me with pleading eyes. "Come on baby, you know I didn't mean it, I love you."
I hugged my friend tighter and glared at him. "You always do that, whenever you did, I'd forgive you, but not this time,"
The police pushed him and he struggled. "Kibou, please, you know how I am, Kibou!"
"Beat it Jason." My friend snapped.
"Kibou!!!"
"Kibou!" the voice changed and Chichiri was infront of me. I could feel the tears in my eyes still freshly streaming and the pain easing away. The man..Jason, his voice repeated in my mind, calling my name. "What's wrong? Are you ok?"
"I-I'm ok." I wiped the tears away. "The same thing that always happens to me...I-I'm Ok."
He helped me up. "Are you sure."
I nodded and I sat down on my bed. "Thanks...I'm ok."
He looked at me a bit worriedly. "Are you sure?"
"Yeah." 'I love you.' the voice of Jason said, again repeating in my mind. "I just need some rest."
I layed down and Chichiri put the blanket over me. "Thanks."
"Your welcome, no da. Now, get some rest Chiriko, no da."
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Again, I'm sorry for taking so long, but I made this chapter just slightly longer than other so.....yeah.....
~*CosmicMoon