That's cool to know your an escaflowne fan Otaku, I love that show, cradle song's my favorite, or one of them, I figured out how to play it on my flute (Yeah I play one^_____^) and so I just had to put it in, yeah... I like write little messages to you on this ^^;; Anyway, for my friends have managed to get this far in the story, yay, you've managed to read through one of my stories I actually like. And the things between Kibou and Ch-ri will come in sometime or another, but it might take a bit. This chapter will stay in Kibou's point of veiw, but it'll switch to Chichiris' to get his perpective on things. And her visions, I deliberatly made her lose her memory so she, as well as the reader would find out who Kibou actually is.
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Chapter 5: Kutou
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Our training was complete done in the time that Taiitsukun expected us to be done. 3 years, we had everything nearly perfect and we were both 24 now. Taiitsukun told us that Kutou is on the verge of attacking konan so the Preistess of Suzaku may soon appear. From there, we were let out into the real world of....not really anything. We hung around Kutou to gather information so we can use it in the future if we have to. Chichiri had been trying to keep to himself for the last two years and I couldn't understand why. He barely tried to keep a conversation up and when we did, he didn't want to talk very much or had not much to say about the subject. I was getting a bit agitated with him but I stayed with him, I knew how he was really like, but he was too buried in guilt of his past that he couldn't seem to get over it and I never brought it up since I knew it would make him feel more guilty. I didn't know what to talk to him about, all my visions slowed down after that one, but it was so clear, Jason, his face, his voice, everything, always on my mind and those words always repeating in my heart. I was always spacing out and it worried Houjun when I did, afraid I would faint or something. I didn't know what to think of him...but I guess I thought of him like a brother...or some one I could rely on.
We were wandering around the capital of Kutou, again, thinking of my friend, and Jason..That was untill another vision enveloped me. I was with some man that I knew that I knew, and also the american friend who's name I couldn't recall. We were having dinner, I didn't know what it was though, it seemed foreign. Then I got a better look at the man, he looked similar to me...Could he be my father?
"Kibou, your going to be going back to Japan and you'll be starting in Jonan." the man said bringing up the subject, seemingly out of nowhere.
"What? But dad, I'm too use to America!" I yelled.
My friend stayed silent, trying not to say anything to interfere. "You need to spend more time with you siblings and mother. You are going back to Japan for a couple years and you'll come back after you graduate from Jonan."
"..But, how am I suppose to get into that school? That's one of the most competitive ones around!" I argued back trying to resist to whatever was going on.
"You have a 4.0 in school, you are so far the hardest working in your class and you even ended the year with the award for being most intellectual, how hard can it be?"
I growled and left the table, my friend following, I stormed up a flight of stairs to a room filled with pictures of something. I wasn't quite sure, they looked like fake people..There was also a wall with a couple certificates that said that I had won in state in a flute competition. "This isn't fair! I don't want to leave you Ellyn..Or Jason."
The name of my friend..it was Ellyn..She sighed. "Well, it had to come sooner or later, you haven't seen your mom for years anyway and think of your little sister, you haven't seen her since you were what? 13?"
Little sister? Was that..Miaka? "It can't be too bad, and Jason...I don't understand why your still with him, he's a jerk! You know how many times I saw you with bruises from him?"
I stayed silent. "But I'll mostly miss you." I said changing the subject.
She hugged me. "You'll be back, right?"
"Right after I graduate from High school, I promise I'll get a flight to America, I'll even save up for it now, come back ridin' first class."
Ellyn laughed a bit. "Ok, Promise?" She said holding out her pinky.
I smiled. "Promise." I said wrapping mine around hers.
"Chiriko." Chichiri's voice said fading my vision. It had become more of a normal tone when he noticed me spacing out like I did since he had done it so much.
I blinked. We were still on the streets and I saw that we were going to go into an inn. He lead me in and paid for a room for us.
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(Chichiri's PoV)
I told Chiriko to go upstairs to the room that the man at the counter told us to, I said I would be up in a bit. "That's a fine woman you got there, ya married to her?"
I looked to him, this had been asked alot by the inn keepers, and to keep her safe, I always answered the same. "Yeah, we've been traveling for a bit, no da. But we may settle sooner or later with a place."
"Yeah..I gave ya' a nice room too, just in case, ya know.." he sort of winked at me.
I sighed, and went upstairs with a small dinner. Chiriko was in there sitting in a chair, staring out the window. She sniffed the air and then turned around. I chuckled. "You always know when food's around, don't you no da?"
She smiled and came over to me. "Thanks Chichiri."
She split the dinner that was just suppose to be for her with me, though I wasn't that hungry, I ate the share that she had given me. "You certainly chose a nice room for us." she said getting up after she was finished.
"The inn keeper wanted us to have this room."
She looked to the bed. "One bed..How nice."
"I'll sleep on the floor, no da." I volenteered.
She looked at me a bit strangly. "Do you see the size of this bed? It'll fit Taiitsukun, two Nyan Nyans, and the both of us comfertably! We can share for tonight, I don't mind as long as you don't."
"Ok, I don't mind, no da."
I turned around as she changed and then I did too. All I did was really just taking off my shoes. She shivered and curled up in the left side of the bed. I layed down in the right. "Night Chi-ri."
"Night Chiriko."
She blew out the candle and it seemed that she fell asleep almost instantly. I couldn't sleep so I sat up again. "Jason.." she whispered.
She had so many visions, and always talked like that in her sleep. She didn't seem to go one day with out having a small vision. She was still clueless about her past, but always seemed to ponder through what she did know. And while we were training at Taikyoku, Chiriko kept trying to keep a conversation or something like that up, but she could never get very far since I was afraid to fall in love with her. It would go against my ways and the same thing might happen again if I loved her and she loved me back, as in having her die in some way or just be broken hearted again. I was afraid to even try to fall in love with her, and I couldn't even keep a conversation up, and I saw that she stoped trying too hard. She just carried on breif conversations with and either went to sleep or just sat there. I yawned so I layed back down. I stoped thinking about it and closed my eyes and tried to go to sleep.
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The next morning, Chiriko wanted to explore the town a bit. "Are you sure you'll be alright, no da?"
She nodded. "Yeah, I'll be fine. I could protect myself, you think I trained with Toroki for nothing?"
She waved to me and headed a seperate direction. I did nothing around the town, I sat in a resteraunt and waited for Chiriko to come back since I had nbothing to do so might as well wait for her.
"I heard from the palace, well, my friend who's a guard there..." I listened to the man who was near me. "He said that he heard the general Nakago say that there are Suzaku warriors in town."
"Really? Damn them, they'll probably kill us all, they'll probably start that damn war!"
"Yeah, I know what you mean. I also heard he's looking for them."
I got up to pay my bill after that, I went out to look for Chiriko, knowing her, she might space out and get captured. And this Nakago, he'll probably kill her. I tried to sense her, but since I always worried for her and I always did that, she tried to hide from me, it had been several hours since we seperated and I knew she would be anywhere by now. I heard a distant scream that sounded familiar and a chill went down my spine.
"Houjun!!" a voice echoed through my mind from nowhere, it was Chiriko's voice and she was hurt! I tried to sense and I could now, but it seemed faint. I ran to it as fast as I could, I came to a small alley and I saw horses with a person running away from it, I ran into the alley and Chiriko layed sprawled across the floor half naked, cuts and everything all around her. She was trying to reach for her sword but couldn't and her flute was snaped in half. She was just barely consious when she saw me. "Kibou! Kibou!"
I took my kesa (that's what the cape thing's called, right?) off and wrapped it around her. "Kibou, are you alright?"
She opened her eyes just barely. "Houjun, I knew you'd come, I'm sorry I should've listened to you, sorry..The general Nakago...He tried to kill me..."
"Kibou, are you hurt?"
She shook her head. "No, I'll be fine, sorry Houjun."
She fainted the next moment. We weren't safe in Kutou anymore, I knew Kibou would want to wander around more if she stayed here, it was time to return to Konan. I got a horse from the inn keeper from last night.
"Now, be careful, and whenever your in Kutou, stop by here. I'd like to see that young wife of yours again and I hope she gets better." he said as I left out the door.
We left at night and it was a long trip, it took 2 days to get there. Chiriko finally woke up on the 2nd day.
"Chichiri?" I looked down to her, she was infront of me on the horse so she looked up to me. "Where are we?"
"We're back in Konan."
"Konan? Where are we going in Konan."
"To the capital."
She looked down and layed back against me. "Thanks Chichiri."
I felt her fall asleep again. Once we reached the capital, she woke up again. She looked around and smiled. "Wow, I've never been in the capital before!...Chichiri, since we're out of Kutou, can I stay in the capital for a while?"
"Well, I don't really-"
"Don't worry, there's only a bunch of street thugs and not anyone like Nakago."
She got off the horse and stretched. "Chiriko, what happened when Nakago.."
"He's the country's general, he was following me untill I took a wrong turn, he attacked me then, it a blur but I remember I tried to reach you through telekenisis, I guess it worked."
"You sure you'll be ok?"
She nodded. "Of course! I said this last time, but now I'll be more alert."
"Alright, no da. I'm going to go around Kutou and other places for a while to try to get more information, and I'm pretty sure the preistess of Suzaku will find you, or I'll try to when she finds me."
"Ok, then I'll see you then."
I turned the horse and she waved from there, we went our seperate ways again.
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Sorry, it's a short chapter, next one I promis will be longer, it's just that I wrote this at a friend's house and I wanted to get it done, so yeah...Please reveiw. ^^
~*CosmicMoon
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Chapter 5: Kutou
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Our training was complete done in the time that Taiitsukun expected us to be done. 3 years, we had everything nearly perfect and we were both 24 now. Taiitsukun told us that Kutou is on the verge of attacking konan so the Preistess of Suzaku may soon appear. From there, we were let out into the real world of....not really anything. We hung around Kutou to gather information so we can use it in the future if we have to. Chichiri had been trying to keep to himself for the last two years and I couldn't understand why. He barely tried to keep a conversation up and when we did, he didn't want to talk very much or had not much to say about the subject. I was getting a bit agitated with him but I stayed with him, I knew how he was really like, but he was too buried in guilt of his past that he couldn't seem to get over it and I never brought it up since I knew it would make him feel more guilty. I didn't know what to talk to him about, all my visions slowed down after that one, but it was so clear, Jason, his face, his voice, everything, always on my mind and those words always repeating in my heart. I was always spacing out and it worried Houjun when I did, afraid I would faint or something. I didn't know what to think of him...but I guess I thought of him like a brother...or some one I could rely on.
We were wandering around the capital of Kutou, again, thinking of my friend, and Jason..That was untill another vision enveloped me. I was with some man that I knew that I knew, and also the american friend who's name I couldn't recall. We were having dinner, I didn't know what it was though, it seemed foreign. Then I got a better look at the man, he looked similar to me...Could he be my father?
"Kibou, your going to be going back to Japan and you'll be starting in Jonan." the man said bringing up the subject, seemingly out of nowhere.
"What? But dad, I'm too use to America!" I yelled.
My friend stayed silent, trying not to say anything to interfere. "You need to spend more time with you siblings and mother. You are going back to Japan for a couple years and you'll come back after you graduate from Jonan."
"..But, how am I suppose to get into that school? That's one of the most competitive ones around!" I argued back trying to resist to whatever was going on.
"You have a 4.0 in school, you are so far the hardest working in your class and you even ended the year with the award for being most intellectual, how hard can it be?"
I growled and left the table, my friend following, I stormed up a flight of stairs to a room filled with pictures of something. I wasn't quite sure, they looked like fake people..There was also a wall with a couple certificates that said that I had won in state in a flute competition. "This isn't fair! I don't want to leave you Ellyn..Or Jason."
The name of my friend..it was Ellyn..She sighed. "Well, it had to come sooner or later, you haven't seen your mom for years anyway and think of your little sister, you haven't seen her since you were what? 13?"
Little sister? Was that..Miaka? "It can't be too bad, and Jason...I don't understand why your still with him, he's a jerk! You know how many times I saw you with bruises from him?"
I stayed silent. "But I'll mostly miss you." I said changing the subject.
She hugged me. "You'll be back, right?"
"Right after I graduate from High school, I promise I'll get a flight to America, I'll even save up for it now, come back ridin' first class."
Ellyn laughed a bit. "Ok, Promise?" She said holding out her pinky.
I smiled. "Promise." I said wrapping mine around hers.
"Chiriko." Chichiri's voice said fading my vision. It had become more of a normal tone when he noticed me spacing out like I did since he had done it so much.
I blinked. We were still on the streets and I saw that we were going to go into an inn. He lead me in and paid for a room for us.
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(Chichiri's PoV)
I told Chiriko to go upstairs to the room that the man at the counter told us to, I said I would be up in a bit. "That's a fine woman you got there, ya married to her?"
I looked to him, this had been asked alot by the inn keepers, and to keep her safe, I always answered the same. "Yeah, we've been traveling for a bit, no da. But we may settle sooner or later with a place."
"Yeah..I gave ya' a nice room too, just in case, ya know.." he sort of winked at me.
I sighed, and went upstairs with a small dinner. Chiriko was in there sitting in a chair, staring out the window. She sniffed the air and then turned around. I chuckled. "You always know when food's around, don't you no da?"
She smiled and came over to me. "Thanks Chichiri."
She split the dinner that was just suppose to be for her with me, though I wasn't that hungry, I ate the share that she had given me. "You certainly chose a nice room for us." she said getting up after she was finished.
"The inn keeper wanted us to have this room."
She looked to the bed. "One bed..How nice."
"I'll sleep on the floor, no da." I volenteered.
She looked at me a bit strangly. "Do you see the size of this bed? It'll fit Taiitsukun, two Nyan Nyans, and the both of us comfertably! We can share for tonight, I don't mind as long as you don't."
"Ok, I don't mind, no da."
I turned around as she changed and then I did too. All I did was really just taking off my shoes. She shivered and curled up in the left side of the bed. I layed down in the right. "Night Chi-ri."
"Night Chiriko."
She blew out the candle and it seemed that she fell asleep almost instantly. I couldn't sleep so I sat up again. "Jason.." she whispered.
She had so many visions, and always talked like that in her sleep. She didn't seem to go one day with out having a small vision. She was still clueless about her past, but always seemed to ponder through what she did know. And while we were training at Taikyoku, Chiriko kept trying to keep a conversation or something like that up, but she could never get very far since I was afraid to fall in love with her. It would go against my ways and the same thing might happen again if I loved her and she loved me back, as in having her die in some way or just be broken hearted again. I was afraid to even try to fall in love with her, and I couldn't even keep a conversation up, and I saw that she stoped trying too hard. She just carried on breif conversations with and either went to sleep or just sat there. I yawned so I layed back down. I stoped thinking about it and closed my eyes and tried to go to sleep.
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The next morning, Chiriko wanted to explore the town a bit. "Are you sure you'll be alright, no da?"
She nodded. "Yeah, I'll be fine. I could protect myself, you think I trained with Toroki for nothing?"
She waved to me and headed a seperate direction. I did nothing around the town, I sat in a resteraunt and waited for Chiriko to come back since I had nbothing to do so might as well wait for her.
"I heard from the palace, well, my friend who's a guard there..." I listened to the man who was near me. "He said that he heard the general Nakago say that there are Suzaku warriors in town."
"Really? Damn them, they'll probably kill us all, they'll probably start that damn war!"
"Yeah, I know what you mean. I also heard he's looking for them."
I got up to pay my bill after that, I went out to look for Chiriko, knowing her, she might space out and get captured. And this Nakago, he'll probably kill her. I tried to sense her, but since I always worried for her and I always did that, she tried to hide from me, it had been several hours since we seperated and I knew she would be anywhere by now. I heard a distant scream that sounded familiar and a chill went down my spine.
"Houjun!!" a voice echoed through my mind from nowhere, it was Chiriko's voice and she was hurt! I tried to sense and I could now, but it seemed faint. I ran to it as fast as I could, I came to a small alley and I saw horses with a person running away from it, I ran into the alley and Chiriko layed sprawled across the floor half naked, cuts and everything all around her. She was trying to reach for her sword but couldn't and her flute was snaped in half. She was just barely consious when she saw me. "Kibou! Kibou!"
I took my kesa (that's what the cape thing's called, right?) off and wrapped it around her. "Kibou, are you alright?"
She opened her eyes just barely. "Houjun, I knew you'd come, I'm sorry I should've listened to you, sorry..The general Nakago...He tried to kill me..."
"Kibou, are you hurt?"
She shook her head. "No, I'll be fine, sorry Houjun."
She fainted the next moment. We weren't safe in Kutou anymore, I knew Kibou would want to wander around more if she stayed here, it was time to return to Konan. I got a horse from the inn keeper from last night.
"Now, be careful, and whenever your in Kutou, stop by here. I'd like to see that young wife of yours again and I hope she gets better." he said as I left out the door.
We left at night and it was a long trip, it took 2 days to get there. Chiriko finally woke up on the 2nd day.
"Chichiri?" I looked down to her, she was infront of me on the horse so she looked up to me. "Where are we?"
"We're back in Konan."
"Konan? Where are we going in Konan."
"To the capital."
She looked down and layed back against me. "Thanks Chichiri."
I felt her fall asleep again. Once we reached the capital, she woke up again. She looked around and smiled. "Wow, I've never been in the capital before!...Chichiri, since we're out of Kutou, can I stay in the capital for a while?"
"Well, I don't really-"
"Don't worry, there's only a bunch of street thugs and not anyone like Nakago."
She got off the horse and stretched. "Chiriko, what happened when Nakago.."
"He's the country's general, he was following me untill I took a wrong turn, he attacked me then, it a blur but I remember I tried to reach you through telekenisis, I guess it worked."
"You sure you'll be ok?"
She nodded. "Of course! I said this last time, but now I'll be more alert."
"Alright, no da. I'm going to go around Kutou and other places for a while to try to get more information, and I'm pretty sure the preistess of Suzaku will find you, or I'll try to when she finds me."
"Ok, then I'll see you then."
I turned the horse and she waved from there, we went our seperate ways again.
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Sorry, it's a short chapter, next one I promis will be longer, it's just that I wrote this at a friend's house and I wanted to get it done, so yeah...Please reveiw. ^^
~*CosmicMoon