If all my favorite stories are looked at, it seems they all have over 100 some 200 reviews, all drama...But I think it's the summary of the story that catches the eye of a reader...but you know, that's only my opinion...Ok, anyway, I took some time on this, and edited through it since I actually had time to do it, but it took awhile to get it out, I know, but I made the chapter as long as I could for that.
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Chapter 9: The familiar face
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A few months past, I've only been going back a couple times, but not too much hoping Houjun would come by, it seems every time I wasn't there, Houjun came by so I tried to stick to staying to the store more and more. Then finally, this man came, I knew that this man was someone from the palace.
"Are you Kibou?"
I stood up, I barely limped now, but it still pained, I knew it would heal soon enough, it would've healed sooner if I applied better treatment to it. "I am."
"The Emperor requests you to come to the palace at once."
I looked inside to Namame, she came out. "Go ahead and go Kibou,"
"I'll be right back, Namame."
The guard led me to the emperor where he was there with many of his counselers. There was a familiar presence from him... "Counselers, may you please, I would like to speak to this young lady alone."
Like Kourin said, he was a bit handsome and I could see why Kourin liked him. The Counselers left and the room was silent for a bit as the emperor just sat there. "I sentance you to death!"
I then relized it....He almost got me, I coughed. "Quit the act Chichiri, I know it's you."
The emperor frowned and a smoke of yellowish type of cloud surounded him and he changed back to the same Chichiri. "You always do that Chiriko!" he whined.
"That's because you've done it too many times...Anyway, what are you doing in the emperor's place?"
"I'm just substituting for the emperor. He's gone with the Preistess of Suzaku to find the rest of the Suzaku seishi."
He came down to me and he had something in his hand, it was a small flute. "It's not as good as the one Taiitsukun gave you, but I thought I'd make another one since your other broke."
I took the small flute from his hands. It was neatly carved with every whole that I needed and there were a couple designs on there that made it look really unique. "T-thank you..Houjun.."
I had a small bag with me and it contained many important things, as the necklace that I made Chichiri. "Here, this is for you Chichiri."
He took it from my hands. "Prayer beads."
"Yeah, I added more beads onto the design, I hope it's still ok."
He smiled. "Of course, thank you Kibou."
He then looked down to my leg. "How's your leg feeling."
I shrugged. "It's been better. Thank you for carrying me back home...By the way, Tamahome's been gone for a bit, where is he?"
"..Kutou. They forced us."
I looked down. "I see...But, the preistess of Suzaku.."
He took his mask off. "About her...I need to talk to you about that."
I nodded. "But not here."
He went to the door, "Counselers, go to your position, I'm going to my room."
"yessir."
He led me a different way out to a room that was really far out at the other end of the palace. It figured it might've been his room.
"About the preistess...It seems, she was the girl from your visions."
"...Miaka...Yeah, I heard from Tamahome and a girl I met named Kourin, she's a suzaku seishi, her names Nuriko, I think...she told me too."
Houjun chuckled. "You don't know."
I looked at him a bit confused. "What do you mean? I don't know what?"
He shook his head. "You don't have to know."
I frowned. "Come on Houjun! Is it something about Kourin? What?"
"You'll find out." he said. I sighed. "Your not fair Houjun..What have you been doing the last few months?"
"Nothing really."
"Your highness, the preistess of Suzaku has returned." the counselers said from outside. Houjun changed back into the young emperor. "Come on Kibou."
I felt a little uneasy about that. It was the girl from my visions, what would I do when I meet her? What would I say? Would she reconize me? I followed close behind Houjun. When we got close I saw her, I payed no attention to the people around her, but she stuck out and suddenly I grew afraid to meet her. I started to panic, I back away. "I-I can't do this...I have to go Houjun...I told Namame I'd be right back."
I suddenly changed my formed to some random person and ran out of the palace past the girl that I had many times in my visions. It scared me, all the life that I remembered I wanted to meet her, but now, I was scared to death by the sight of her. Only hearing about her, about her being near...I wanted to meet her...Why can't I face her now? They really paid no attention to me when I ran past them. I ran back to Namame's shop, breathless and feeling a bit guilty that I ran out on Houjun like that.
"Is something the matter dear? Did you meet your friend?" She asked once she saw me.
I nodded. "Yeah, I-I did..But I also saw the Preistess of Suzaku.."
"The girl you frequently have in your visions?"
I nodded again. "I couldn't face her, I was too afraid."
"Of what dear?"
I shook my head. "I don't know. I just couldn't face her..."
I came to the inside of the door and sat down next to Namame. "I don't know why....I'm just afraid."
Namame patted my back. "You've been searching everywhere to find your memory, and you found someone who would help you because she's apart of your memory, you have nothing to be scared of, dear. Now go on back, you have to face your fear, and since she may summon Suzaku soon, you have to protect her, being a warrior, so I'll look after the shop."
"Bu-"
"I have been running this shop for 12 years, Kibou, go." She said interupting me. "Come back when your done. now, go back, dear."
I sighed. "Ok.."
I slowly walked back to the palace. I was taking my time, I thought of the people that were around her, I didn't take much notice of them, so I didn't know what they looked like, but they all had a familiar feel from them, I think all...I tried to think of how many people there were, the emperor wasn't with them, I saw Kourin, the Preistess, and three other people, so not including the Preistess...seven seishi...not including me...so including me would be eight....Something wasn't right.. One of them is posing to be Chiriko... I again changed my form once I got to the palace. The guards let me through when I told them I was Kibou...It was funny how no one pays much attention to anything. I walked around the palace, not going in any particular direction. I tried to find to Houjun, but he was no where in sight so I tried to sense where he was. He ended up finding me when I was near his room.
"Kibou, are you ok, no da?"
I nodded. "I'm ok...."
"You can't face her, can you no da?"
I shook my head. "I really can't, I seriously don't know why,"
"You have to face her if you don't want to...There seems to be a fraud among the Suzaku Seishi, I'm not sure which one it is though, no da."
I couldn't get a look at them so how would I know? I layed back on the bed that I was already sitting on. My legs hung over the edge, Houjun was sitting right next to me. "I'll try to find out which one it is." he said.
I closed my eyes and nodded. A peice of folded paper seemed to appear in my visions, they were written in a different language, that wasn't chinese or the letters that I saw on the card that I had found...Japanese letters... "Ohne-chan." it read.
"I'm trying to get into Jonan! Wish me luck! ^^ I wish you can be here to help me, I wish I can be as smart as you too, or Yui, then I wouldn't have to worry so much about the exam into getting into Jonan. How's America? I already miss you. The house feels empty without you, it's only Keisuke and Mom, how's dad doing? Yui's over at my house right now, and she says hi. I hope you get into a good college ohne-chan.
Wish you were here,
Miaka."
I looked around, the house was so different from what I seen in my other visions, it was my own... There was a knock at the door and I went to answer it. I paused at the door. "Who is it."
There was no answer, I looked through the door little window...I'm not sure what that was called. I saw someone whom I didn't know.
(Chichiri's PoV)
I looked down to Kibou, she seemed to have fallen asleep somehow. She suddenly sat up, her eyes wide open, but they were in a trance, she was having another vision. Tears started to fill her eyes, the second time this seemed to happen to her in her visions. I shook her lightly and she gasped. She looked at me, she was out of her vision, tears now streaming down her face. She then buried her head in her hands. She started to sob softly. It was an awkard moment, she was just sitting right there, crying..and I felt that I could do nothing... I opened my mouth to say something of comfort, but my mouth went dry.
She was in pain and I could do nothing to help her...I was afraid to just embrace her, I feel so drawn to her right now, but I could do nothing. My mind was screaming at me, there were two sides of me, one side that told me to comfort her and the other side that told me, that if I fell in love with her, It end up the same way it did last time...But I'm not sure if I already had...
"He died..." she fianlly said.
I took my mask off. "Who did?"
"My father...before Jason was sent to jail...he died..."
I was confused at what she was saying, I only remembered her saying that Jason was the abusive boyfriend she once had. She was really starting to get her memory back. "He died of cancer, I didn't even know untill he was dead...I wasn't there for him...He's dead..."
She ended up hugging me around my waist and just sobbed. I tried to comfort her, but still my mouth was dry and I couldn't find words to say. After a couple minutes, she pulled away and looked away from me, but I saw her face, mixed with the tears, flushed. "I'm sorry, Houjun...I didn't mean to get that emotional on you.."
She got up and was about to leave. "I-I need to go for a walk."
"Do you want me to go with you?" I asked 'Did that just come out of my mouth?'
She paused for a moment, "U-um sure."
I followed her out and handed her a small towel that I had with me. "Thank you." she said, her voice sounding a bit cracked.
She wiped away the tears and sniffled softly. "I was never there to say good bye to him...And Miaka asked how he was...Did I ever answer her..?"
"So Miaka is your little sister."
She nodded. "I'm still not sure of everything, but everything is slowly peicing together."
"I was going to go to Kutou soon to get Tamahome, do you want to come with us?"
"Us?" she asked.
"Well, Miaka would be coming too. But if you don't want to, you don't have to."
"No, I'll come..I have something to take care of there anyway." she said looking down.
"Ok, it's tommarrow. I'll get you a room here and I'll come and get you."
She nodded. "That'd be good, thanks Houjun."
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Okey, there this chapter, it's taking me more and more time to get these chapters out, but I will get them out, this is the only story I'm working on so don't worry if you think I won't update untill like a year or two, yeah...I've done that with other stories...but ok.....review please..
~*CoSmIcMoOn
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Chapter 9: The familiar face
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A few months past, I've only been going back a couple times, but not too much hoping Houjun would come by, it seems every time I wasn't there, Houjun came by so I tried to stick to staying to the store more and more. Then finally, this man came, I knew that this man was someone from the palace.
"Are you Kibou?"
I stood up, I barely limped now, but it still pained, I knew it would heal soon enough, it would've healed sooner if I applied better treatment to it. "I am."
"The Emperor requests you to come to the palace at once."
I looked inside to Namame, she came out. "Go ahead and go Kibou,"
"I'll be right back, Namame."
The guard led me to the emperor where he was there with many of his counselers. There was a familiar presence from him... "Counselers, may you please, I would like to speak to this young lady alone."
Like Kourin said, he was a bit handsome and I could see why Kourin liked him. The Counselers left and the room was silent for a bit as the emperor just sat there. "I sentance you to death!"
I then relized it....He almost got me, I coughed. "Quit the act Chichiri, I know it's you."
The emperor frowned and a smoke of yellowish type of cloud surounded him and he changed back to the same Chichiri. "You always do that Chiriko!" he whined.
"That's because you've done it too many times...Anyway, what are you doing in the emperor's place?"
"I'm just substituting for the emperor. He's gone with the Preistess of Suzaku to find the rest of the Suzaku seishi."
He came down to me and he had something in his hand, it was a small flute. "It's not as good as the one Taiitsukun gave you, but I thought I'd make another one since your other broke."
I took the small flute from his hands. It was neatly carved with every whole that I needed and there were a couple designs on there that made it look really unique. "T-thank you..Houjun.."
I had a small bag with me and it contained many important things, as the necklace that I made Chichiri. "Here, this is for you Chichiri."
He took it from my hands. "Prayer beads."
"Yeah, I added more beads onto the design, I hope it's still ok."
He smiled. "Of course, thank you Kibou."
He then looked down to my leg. "How's your leg feeling."
I shrugged. "It's been better. Thank you for carrying me back home...By the way, Tamahome's been gone for a bit, where is he?"
"..Kutou. They forced us."
I looked down. "I see...But, the preistess of Suzaku.."
He took his mask off. "About her...I need to talk to you about that."
I nodded. "But not here."
He went to the door, "Counselers, go to your position, I'm going to my room."
"yessir."
He led me a different way out to a room that was really far out at the other end of the palace. It figured it might've been his room.
"About the preistess...It seems, she was the girl from your visions."
"...Miaka...Yeah, I heard from Tamahome and a girl I met named Kourin, she's a suzaku seishi, her names Nuriko, I think...she told me too."
Houjun chuckled. "You don't know."
I looked at him a bit confused. "What do you mean? I don't know what?"
He shook his head. "You don't have to know."
I frowned. "Come on Houjun! Is it something about Kourin? What?"
"You'll find out." he said. I sighed. "Your not fair Houjun..What have you been doing the last few months?"
"Nothing really."
"Your highness, the preistess of Suzaku has returned." the counselers said from outside. Houjun changed back into the young emperor. "Come on Kibou."
I felt a little uneasy about that. It was the girl from my visions, what would I do when I meet her? What would I say? Would she reconize me? I followed close behind Houjun. When we got close I saw her, I payed no attention to the people around her, but she stuck out and suddenly I grew afraid to meet her. I started to panic, I back away. "I-I can't do this...I have to go Houjun...I told Namame I'd be right back."
I suddenly changed my formed to some random person and ran out of the palace past the girl that I had many times in my visions. It scared me, all the life that I remembered I wanted to meet her, but now, I was scared to death by the sight of her. Only hearing about her, about her being near...I wanted to meet her...Why can't I face her now? They really paid no attention to me when I ran past them. I ran back to Namame's shop, breathless and feeling a bit guilty that I ran out on Houjun like that.
"Is something the matter dear? Did you meet your friend?" She asked once she saw me.
I nodded. "Yeah, I-I did..But I also saw the Preistess of Suzaku.."
"The girl you frequently have in your visions?"
I nodded again. "I couldn't face her, I was too afraid."
"Of what dear?"
I shook my head. "I don't know. I just couldn't face her..."
I came to the inside of the door and sat down next to Namame. "I don't know why....I'm just afraid."
Namame patted my back. "You've been searching everywhere to find your memory, and you found someone who would help you because she's apart of your memory, you have nothing to be scared of, dear. Now go on back, you have to face your fear, and since she may summon Suzaku soon, you have to protect her, being a warrior, so I'll look after the shop."
"Bu-"
"I have been running this shop for 12 years, Kibou, go." She said interupting me. "Come back when your done. now, go back, dear."
I sighed. "Ok.."
I slowly walked back to the palace. I was taking my time, I thought of the people that were around her, I didn't take much notice of them, so I didn't know what they looked like, but they all had a familiar feel from them, I think all...I tried to think of how many people there were, the emperor wasn't with them, I saw Kourin, the Preistess, and three other people, so not including the Preistess...seven seishi...not including me...so including me would be eight....Something wasn't right.. One of them is posing to be Chiriko... I again changed my form once I got to the palace. The guards let me through when I told them I was Kibou...It was funny how no one pays much attention to anything. I walked around the palace, not going in any particular direction. I tried to find to Houjun, but he was no where in sight so I tried to sense where he was. He ended up finding me when I was near his room.
"Kibou, are you ok, no da?"
I nodded. "I'm ok...."
"You can't face her, can you no da?"
I shook my head. "I really can't, I seriously don't know why,"
"You have to face her if you don't want to...There seems to be a fraud among the Suzaku Seishi, I'm not sure which one it is though, no da."
I couldn't get a look at them so how would I know? I layed back on the bed that I was already sitting on. My legs hung over the edge, Houjun was sitting right next to me. "I'll try to find out which one it is." he said.
I closed my eyes and nodded. A peice of folded paper seemed to appear in my visions, they were written in a different language, that wasn't chinese or the letters that I saw on the card that I had found...Japanese letters... "Ohne-chan." it read.
"I'm trying to get into Jonan! Wish me luck! ^^ I wish you can be here to help me, I wish I can be as smart as you too, or Yui, then I wouldn't have to worry so much about the exam into getting into Jonan. How's America? I already miss you. The house feels empty without you, it's only Keisuke and Mom, how's dad doing? Yui's over at my house right now, and she says hi. I hope you get into a good college ohne-chan.
Wish you were here,
Miaka."
I looked around, the house was so different from what I seen in my other visions, it was my own... There was a knock at the door and I went to answer it. I paused at the door. "Who is it."
There was no answer, I looked through the door little window...I'm not sure what that was called. I saw someone whom I didn't know.
(Chichiri's PoV)
I looked down to Kibou, she seemed to have fallen asleep somehow. She suddenly sat up, her eyes wide open, but they were in a trance, she was having another vision. Tears started to fill her eyes, the second time this seemed to happen to her in her visions. I shook her lightly and she gasped. She looked at me, she was out of her vision, tears now streaming down her face. She then buried her head in her hands. She started to sob softly. It was an awkard moment, she was just sitting right there, crying..and I felt that I could do nothing... I opened my mouth to say something of comfort, but my mouth went dry.
She was in pain and I could do nothing to help her...I was afraid to just embrace her, I feel so drawn to her right now, but I could do nothing. My mind was screaming at me, there were two sides of me, one side that told me to comfort her and the other side that told me, that if I fell in love with her, It end up the same way it did last time...But I'm not sure if I already had...
"He died..." she fianlly said.
I took my mask off. "Who did?"
"My father...before Jason was sent to jail...he died..."
I was confused at what she was saying, I only remembered her saying that Jason was the abusive boyfriend she once had. She was really starting to get her memory back. "He died of cancer, I didn't even know untill he was dead...I wasn't there for him...He's dead..."
She ended up hugging me around my waist and just sobbed. I tried to comfort her, but still my mouth was dry and I couldn't find words to say. After a couple minutes, she pulled away and looked away from me, but I saw her face, mixed with the tears, flushed. "I'm sorry, Houjun...I didn't mean to get that emotional on you.."
She got up and was about to leave. "I-I need to go for a walk."
"Do you want me to go with you?" I asked 'Did that just come out of my mouth?'
She paused for a moment, "U-um sure."
I followed her out and handed her a small towel that I had with me. "Thank you." she said, her voice sounding a bit cracked.
She wiped away the tears and sniffled softly. "I was never there to say good bye to him...And Miaka asked how he was...Did I ever answer her..?"
"So Miaka is your little sister."
She nodded. "I'm still not sure of everything, but everything is slowly peicing together."
"I was going to go to Kutou soon to get Tamahome, do you want to come with us?"
"Us?" she asked.
"Well, Miaka would be coming too. But if you don't want to, you don't have to."
"No, I'll come..I have something to take care of there anyway." she said looking down.
"Ok, it's tommarrow. I'll get you a room here and I'll come and get you."
She nodded. "That'd be good, thanks Houjun."
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Okey, there this chapter, it's taking me more and more time to get these chapters out, but I will get them out, this is the only story I'm working on so don't worry if you think I won't update untill like a year or two, yeah...I've done that with other stories...but ok.....review please..
~*CoSmIcMoOn