Yeah, I really rushed that, I didn't mean to, I just wanted to get that finished since I didn't have a floppy disk with me so I didn't know when I would go back there and I was too stupid to relize that I could've emailed it to myself but hey, that's just the way my brain works...I just relized that I could've emailed it to myself....Why do I always think through things when it's too late......Also I've rushed through this story to show much of Kibou's real personality, sorry, it was from this point I was going to do something, sorry... Also I had been working on this chapter for the longest time, so I tried to make it long, or as long as I could.
Meh.....
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Chapter 6: During the separation
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(Kibou's PoV)
I wandered around the town bored out of my mind. It had been....5 minutes since Chichiri left and I was bored as hell. I didn't know anything of where anything was in Konan because I had only been in freakin' Shouryuu and then the town that I never asked the name of, most of those kind of things never came up between Toroki and I. I walked around the crowded streets, then it came to me again that he had stolen it...that bastard Nakago stole the ring that Chichiri gave me. I thought back to when I was roaming around Kutou.
I wanted to see if any girls stumbled upon the slum area of town so they wouldn't get raped or something, that was when I ran into that bastard. I bumped into him or his horse and fell backwards. I got up quickly and dusted off my dress. "That wasn't too hard, I thought I sensed a Suzaku warrior, what is your purpose in my country?"
I kept my hand close to my sword. "Nothing, I'm just visiting."
"Do you think I'm going to believe that?!" He got off his horse and brought out his whip.
I drew my sword and put my left arm behind my back and sighed. "What do you expect to hear then? I came to your country to assasinate your emperor?"
He snapped the whip at me and I jumped away. "Don't you dare mock me! So you have any idea who I am?!"
"Blonde man with a whip and a big ego problem?"
He snapped it at me again. "I am the general of this country, Nakago."
I saw a blue symbol shining on his forehead. "Your also a Seiryu Seishi."
The symbol suddenly shined brighter and that knocked me into a far wall in an alley. I couldn't move from the wall that I was crushing against. Nakago walked to me and brought the end of the whip to my chin and lifted it up. "You have quite a mouth for a lady. You should be more polite!" He whiped me at my side which cut my belt. My sword and my flute droped and my dress was untied. He snaped my flute in half when he steped on it.
I gasped. "You...You..."
He laughed. "What? I broke your toy, so what."
I struggled to get loose. "Taiitsukun gave me that you bastard!!"
I mangaged to get my right arm loose and I slaped him with it. He frowned and whiped me again. I screamed in pain, then he snatched the necklace with Chichiri's ring on it off from around my neck. He inpected the ring. "An engagement ring, anazing that you don't wear it around your finger."
My right arm crashed back into the wall, with not too much strength, since it seemed that his power was draining my energy, I spat at him. He clutched the ring amd glared at me. "So long for letting you off easy. I'll take this with me."
He the raised his whip and I closed my eyes, I wished that Chichiri was here..I was hoping that he'd be here soon. "HOUJUN!!" I screamed and I was let down to the ground and I fell unconsious.
That bastard...I swear I'll kill him. I was too lost in my own train of thoughts that I ran into someone. I stumbled backwards but I caught my balance before I hit the floor. I looked at who I bumped into to apologize, but I didn't, I reconized him right off the batt. "Tamahome!"
"Who are yo--Chiriko?"
I smiled. "Look at how much you grew!"
"Look at how much you.....didn't grow.."
I frowned. "Hey, come on, I changed a bit.... anyway, how have you been? I haven't seen you since you were 12!..How's your family?"
"They're fine actually...And, what happened to you, your clothes are a bit torn up."
I covered the spots I could up quickly. "It's nothing."
"Come on, you can come to my house for a bit, I'll get you some new clothes, and by the looks of it, you still wear the same size as Gyokuran."
"Wasn't that the oldest girl?" I asked as he started to lead me out of the town. He nodded laughing a bit. Then I got his joke and hit him in the back of the head. "You know what, shut up Tamahome!"
Tamahome cracked up laughing. "Your pretty slow."
We came to a small house in a town outside of the capital. "Dad, I'm home, Gyokuran, Chuei, Yuiren, Shunkei!"
Four little children came running out to meet their brother. The youngest one I knew instantly, Tamahome said if it was a girl they would name her Yuiren, if it was a boy...I couldn't remember, but the youngest was infact the smallest.
Yuiren came up to me and smiled. "Are you my big brother's wife?"
I kneeled down to her. "No dear, I'm too much older than him to be his wife, besides, who would want to be married to HIM." I said turning and glaring at him.
"Oh come on, you still haven't forgiven me about that? I saw you ONCE!"
My jaw dropped. "No, it's more like about 10 times ya little perv!"
The oldest girl, Gyokuran came up to me, "I could sew that back up for you." she said looking at the tears on my dress. "Thank you, your Gyokuran, right?"
She nodded. "I thought so." I turned to the two boys. There was the smaller one and the one that was the oldest of the four. "And your Shunkei and Chuei."
"Nice to finally meet all of you, I'm Chiriko."
I saw a man in a bedroom, I went in there and figured that it was his father. I bowed in respect when I saw him. "I'm Kibou, but I am to be called Chiriko, nice to meet you, I trained with your son when he was a child."
He smiled. "So you were the one who my son talked about, I see. So nice of you to come by."
"You seem sickly sir,"
He nodded. "Yes, I have been sick for several weeks and my son has taken care of the family and getting money do we can survive."
"Untill the Suzaku no Miko arrives, I can't go anywhere, so if you'll be so kind--"
"Of course." He started coughing.
"Thank you, sir, I am in your debt, so I'll cook--no I can't do that--I'll make money for the family as well. Your sickness, I'll try to find out how to cure it."
"Thank you."
I walked out of that room and Tamahome was glaring at me. "It's pay back time Tama, 10 times, oh, I'm gonna get you back."
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(Chichiri's PoV)
She was afully silent when I left her. I'm surprised she would want to be left alone like that after what happened to her, I slowed the horse down to a walking speed, I was in no hurry. I soon relized what Kibou left behind, her broken flute. The gift she received from Taiitsukun, she treasured it since the moment she received it, and the heartless general snapped it. There was no way that I could fix this properly, but I could make another one for her. It wouldn't be as good as the one Taiitsukun gave her, but it'll be something. I walked around the forest untill I came to a part with bamboo around it. I snapped one of them and cut it the length that it had to be.
She would probably have wanted a flute from somewhere anyway. While that man, Nakago, rode away, I saw the ring around his neck, the ring I had given Kibou. I knew she wanted to get away from me because of it, but I felt a little uneasy leaving her in the capital of a country that she had never really been in much. I knew I would see her again, but I didn't know when though, hopefull she finds someone like she did Toroki, but that was just a coincedence, I don't know if something like that may happen again.
"Chichiri.."
I looked around, I could've sworn that was Kibou....There wasn't anyone there...Now I'm so use to her I'm hearing her... So far I can't get her off my mind, 3 years I've been around her this is how much I was use to her.
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(Kibou's PoV)
I went into the city to see what I could've been doing around town to make some money. I wonder when I would be able to see Houjun again, now that we're going to be in two seperate countries, when will I see him again? Tamahome was somewhere in the city, we seperated when we came back to the capital. There was nothing to do around here, it was boring since I didn't know what to do. I small picture caught my eye, it was a small art shop, selling many paintings and beaded work. The picture that caught my eye was a small, not picture, but statue of Suzaku, it looked pure gold. I knelt down to get a better look at it.
"Can I help you ma'am?" asked the shopkeeper, who was an aged old woman who looked very frail but her hands, I could tell she made most of this.
"Um, is this real gold?" I asked.
She smiled. "No, I'm afraid I can't afford to carve something as fine as gold."
My jaw dropped. "Wow, you made this?"
She nodded. "I painted it gold though. But I'm afraid sales don't go by very much here."
She looked down to my side where my sword was. "Why such a young lady carry a sword."
I looked to my side, "This was a gift..."
"May I see it?"
I pulled the sword out and gave the sword to her, she inpected and touched the part with Suzaku. "You received this from Toroki?"
I nodded. Then I relized she mentioned Toroki, "H-how do you know Toroki?"
"I made this sword, along with a sword of all the gods. I had given Byakko to Toroki also, but that was specifically for her..Suzaku, she was to give a worthy apprentice.." She looked up to me. "You must be her, what's your name child?"
"Uh, Kibou."
"Why don't you come on in."
She opened a curtain to a darkened room lit dimly by a candle and the outside light. "So Toroki has found a worthy apprentice...How is she?"
I looked down. "She died...3 years ago."
"What a shame....dear Shikaran."
"Shikaran?"
"That was her name I had given her..being her mother,"
"M-mother? But Toroki was over a hundred when she died....and that's because of Subaru!"
She nodded. "Yes, that's true, but being a Genbu seishi, later on, Taiitsukun had granted me a longer life, since I had done most for the group. Shikaran was born 109 years after since I didn't fall in love, but despite my age, I still looked like I was 17, when I had protected the Preistess of Genbu. Once I fell in love, I started to grow old, I'm over 200 years old, dear."
I was completely speechless. This was Toroki's mother? I can't believe it.... "I had given her Suzaku also if she ever met a Suzaku Seishi, she was to give the sword to her."
I nodded. "I'm also known as Chiriko."
"I see..."
"What about the swords for Genbu and Seiryu?"
"Genbu is still with me, but Seiryu, I still haven't found it, I had either lost it or it was stolen on my journey with my husband down here from Hokkan."
"....Which Genbu seishi are you?"
"Namame."
I nodded. "If your having trouble with money, I'll help, I can support two things, I think. I'll work for you, but I don't know how my art is, I never drew anything in my life...or that of what I remember,"
"You don't remember you past?" she asked getting up.
"None...I lost 6 years ago...only parts are in my mind."
She nodded. "Lets take a look at your art. I just want to see how well you do."
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Ok, that's it for this chapter...I needed to end it and submit it sooner or later since I know some people are waiting. And since...well, it's Chiriko's story I want it to mainly focus around her, but I'll get to Chichiri once in a while, but I want it to mainly focus Chiriko.
Please reveiw!
Also, Otaku, do you have an account on FF.net? I'm just wonderin......
~*CosmicMoon
Meh.....
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Chapter 6: During the separation
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(Kibou's PoV)
I wandered around the town bored out of my mind. It had been....5 minutes since Chichiri left and I was bored as hell. I didn't know anything of where anything was in Konan because I had only been in freakin' Shouryuu and then the town that I never asked the name of, most of those kind of things never came up between Toroki and I. I walked around the crowded streets, then it came to me again that he had stolen it...that bastard Nakago stole the ring that Chichiri gave me. I thought back to when I was roaming around Kutou.
I wanted to see if any girls stumbled upon the slum area of town so they wouldn't get raped or something, that was when I ran into that bastard. I bumped into him or his horse and fell backwards. I got up quickly and dusted off my dress. "That wasn't too hard, I thought I sensed a Suzaku warrior, what is your purpose in my country?"
I kept my hand close to my sword. "Nothing, I'm just visiting."
"Do you think I'm going to believe that?!" He got off his horse and brought out his whip.
I drew my sword and put my left arm behind my back and sighed. "What do you expect to hear then? I came to your country to assasinate your emperor?"
He snapped the whip at me and I jumped away. "Don't you dare mock me! So you have any idea who I am?!"
"Blonde man with a whip and a big ego problem?"
He snapped it at me again. "I am the general of this country, Nakago."
I saw a blue symbol shining on his forehead. "Your also a Seiryu Seishi."
The symbol suddenly shined brighter and that knocked me into a far wall in an alley. I couldn't move from the wall that I was crushing against. Nakago walked to me and brought the end of the whip to my chin and lifted it up. "You have quite a mouth for a lady. You should be more polite!" He whiped me at my side which cut my belt. My sword and my flute droped and my dress was untied. He snaped my flute in half when he steped on it.
I gasped. "You...You..."
He laughed. "What? I broke your toy, so what."
I struggled to get loose. "Taiitsukun gave me that you bastard!!"
I mangaged to get my right arm loose and I slaped him with it. He frowned and whiped me again. I screamed in pain, then he snatched the necklace with Chichiri's ring on it off from around my neck. He inpected the ring. "An engagement ring, anazing that you don't wear it around your finger."
My right arm crashed back into the wall, with not too much strength, since it seemed that his power was draining my energy, I spat at him. He clutched the ring amd glared at me. "So long for letting you off easy. I'll take this with me."
He the raised his whip and I closed my eyes, I wished that Chichiri was here..I was hoping that he'd be here soon. "HOUJUN!!" I screamed and I was let down to the ground and I fell unconsious.
That bastard...I swear I'll kill him. I was too lost in my own train of thoughts that I ran into someone. I stumbled backwards but I caught my balance before I hit the floor. I looked at who I bumped into to apologize, but I didn't, I reconized him right off the batt. "Tamahome!"
"Who are yo--Chiriko?"
I smiled. "Look at how much you grew!"
"Look at how much you.....didn't grow.."
I frowned. "Hey, come on, I changed a bit.... anyway, how have you been? I haven't seen you since you were 12!..How's your family?"
"They're fine actually...And, what happened to you, your clothes are a bit torn up."
I covered the spots I could up quickly. "It's nothing."
"Come on, you can come to my house for a bit, I'll get you some new clothes, and by the looks of it, you still wear the same size as Gyokuran."
"Wasn't that the oldest girl?" I asked as he started to lead me out of the town. He nodded laughing a bit. Then I got his joke and hit him in the back of the head. "You know what, shut up Tamahome!"
Tamahome cracked up laughing. "Your pretty slow."
We came to a small house in a town outside of the capital. "Dad, I'm home, Gyokuran, Chuei, Yuiren, Shunkei!"
Four little children came running out to meet their brother. The youngest one I knew instantly, Tamahome said if it was a girl they would name her Yuiren, if it was a boy...I couldn't remember, but the youngest was infact the smallest.
Yuiren came up to me and smiled. "Are you my big brother's wife?"
I kneeled down to her. "No dear, I'm too much older than him to be his wife, besides, who would want to be married to HIM." I said turning and glaring at him.
"Oh come on, you still haven't forgiven me about that? I saw you ONCE!"
My jaw dropped. "No, it's more like about 10 times ya little perv!"
The oldest girl, Gyokuran came up to me, "I could sew that back up for you." she said looking at the tears on my dress. "Thank you, your Gyokuran, right?"
She nodded. "I thought so." I turned to the two boys. There was the smaller one and the one that was the oldest of the four. "And your Shunkei and Chuei."
"Nice to finally meet all of you, I'm Chiriko."
I saw a man in a bedroom, I went in there and figured that it was his father. I bowed in respect when I saw him. "I'm Kibou, but I am to be called Chiriko, nice to meet you, I trained with your son when he was a child."
He smiled. "So you were the one who my son talked about, I see. So nice of you to come by."
"You seem sickly sir,"
He nodded. "Yes, I have been sick for several weeks and my son has taken care of the family and getting money do we can survive."
"Untill the Suzaku no Miko arrives, I can't go anywhere, so if you'll be so kind--"
"Of course." He started coughing.
"Thank you, sir, I am in your debt, so I'll cook--no I can't do that--I'll make money for the family as well. Your sickness, I'll try to find out how to cure it."
"Thank you."
I walked out of that room and Tamahome was glaring at me. "It's pay back time Tama, 10 times, oh, I'm gonna get you back."
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(Chichiri's PoV)
She was afully silent when I left her. I'm surprised she would want to be left alone like that after what happened to her, I slowed the horse down to a walking speed, I was in no hurry. I soon relized what Kibou left behind, her broken flute. The gift she received from Taiitsukun, she treasured it since the moment she received it, and the heartless general snapped it. There was no way that I could fix this properly, but I could make another one for her. It wouldn't be as good as the one Taiitsukun gave her, but it'll be something. I walked around the forest untill I came to a part with bamboo around it. I snapped one of them and cut it the length that it had to be.
She would probably have wanted a flute from somewhere anyway. While that man, Nakago, rode away, I saw the ring around his neck, the ring I had given Kibou. I knew she wanted to get away from me because of it, but I felt a little uneasy leaving her in the capital of a country that she had never really been in much. I knew I would see her again, but I didn't know when though, hopefull she finds someone like she did Toroki, but that was just a coincedence, I don't know if something like that may happen again.
"Chichiri.."
I looked around, I could've sworn that was Kibou....There wasn't anyone there...Now I'm so use to her I'm hearing her... So far I can't get her off my mind, 3 years I've been around her this is how much I was use to her.
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(Kibou's PoV)
I went into the city to see what I could've been doing around town to make some money. I wonder when I would be able to see Houjun again, now that we're going to be in two seperate countries, when will I see him again? Tamahome was somewhere in the city, we seperated when we came back to the capital. There was nothing to do around here, it was boring since I didn't know what to do. I small picture caught my eye, it was a small art shop, selling many paintings and beaded work. The picture that caught my eye was a small, not picture, but statue of Suzaku, it looked pure gold. I knelt down to get a better look at it.
"Can I help you ma'am?" asked the shopkeeper, who was an aged old woman who looked very frail but her hands, I could tell she made most of this.
"Um, is this real gold?" I asked.
She smiled. "No, I'm afraid I can't afford to carve something as fine as gold."
My jaw dropped. "Wow, you made this?"
She nodded. "I painted it gold though. But I'm afraid sales don't go by very much here."
She looked down to my side where my sword was. "Why such a young lady carry a sword."
I looked to my side, "This was a gift..."
"May I see it?"
I pulled the sword out and gave the sword to her, she inpected and touched the part with Suzaku. "You received this from Toroki?"
I nodded. Then I relized she mentioned Toroki, "H-how do you know Toroki?"
"I made this sword, along with a sword of all the gods. I had given Byakko to Toroki also, but that was specifically for her..Suzaku, she was to give a worthy apprentice.." She looked up to me. "You must be her, what's your name child?"
"Uh, Kibou."
"Why don't you come on in."
She opened a curtain to a darkened room lit dimly by a candle and the outside light. "So Toroki has found a worthy apprentice...How is she?"
I looked down. "She died...3 years ago."
"What a shame....dear Shikaran."
"Shikaran?"
"That was her name I had given her..being her mother,"
"M-mother? But Toroki was over a hundred when she died....and that's because of Subaru!"
She nodded. "Yes, that's true, but being a Genbu seishi, later on, Taiitsukun had granted me a longer life, since I had done most for the group. Shikaran was born 109 years after since I didn't fall in love, but despite my age, I still looked like I was 17, when I had protected the Preistess of Genbu. Once I fell in love, I started to grow old, I'm over 200 years old, dear."
I was completely speechless. This was Toroki's mother? I can't believe it.... "I had given her Suzaku also if she ever met a Suzaku Seishi, she was to give the sword to her."
I nodded. "I'm also known as Chiriko."
"I see..."
"What about the swords for Genbu and Seiryu?"
"Genbu is still with me, but Seiryu, I still haven't found it, I had either lost it or it was stolen on my journey with my husband down here from Hokkan."
"....Which Genbu seishi are you?"
"Namame."
I nodded. "If your having trouble with money, I'll help, I can support two things, I think. I'll work for you, but I don't know how my art is, I never drew anything in my life...or that of what I remember,"
"You don't remember you past?" she asked getting up.
"None...I lost 6 years ago...only parts are in my mind."
She nodded. "Lets take a look at your art. I just want to see how well you do."
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Ok, that's it for this chapter...I needed to end it and submit it sooner or later since I know some people are waiting. And since...well, it's Chiriko's story I want it to mainly focus around her, but I'll get to Chichiri once in a while, but I want it to mainly focus Chiriko.
Please reveiw!
Also, Otaku, do you have an account on FF.net? I'm just wonderin......
~*CosmicMoon