I had to think through what I wanted to do in this chapter... And We got Kibou's perceptive on the inn thing, I'm just giving Chichiri's. Since the farther they are from each other, the closer they want to be. ^^
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Chapter 15: The Shinzaho of Hokkan
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(Chichiri's PoV)
I don't know why, but I felt jealous, jealous since when we got to the inn, I was certain that I would be able to share a room with Kibou. I was always able to in the past, but that was only because it was just the two of us. This jealousy though... I know that I've never felt like this, not since... Tasuki was fast asleep and it was pretty late morning. Who knows how long he stayed up drinking. I went downstairs to the restraunt area of the inn. Kibou was in there eating breakfast with Mitsukake, she looked really happy and talking alot.
Of course, me, for the last 3 years, I've neglected talking to her too much... I was afraid of something that I think is happening already. I was feeling afraid for some reason, the one thing I swore I would never do, as a monk and for anything, is to never fall in love again. I might've been too naive, I am a monk, but I don't know how long I could deny myself. I wasn't sure, I was confused. Kibou saw me and smiled, she looked back to Mitsukake and excused herself for a moment and came over to me.
"Good morning, did you have a nice sleep?" she said as brightly as ever.
I nodded. "Yeah, no da. Did you?"
"Uh huh! Is Tasuki awake yet?"
Is shook my head. "He's fast asleep."
"That fool, he's going to keep us waiting! Go on and sit down, I'm going to go wake Tasuki." she said running past me and upstairs to the room that I stayed at. I looked back at her for a bit and then walked to where Mitsukake was and sat down.
"Good morning, Mitsukake, no da."
"Good morning." he replied. "We should be heading pretty soon, the others most likey found something about the Shinzaho. We'll get you guys some breakfast and then we'll be heading out."
"..I'm not that hungry, no da." I said, I really wasn't, I some reason lost my appetite. There was a scream from upstairs, it wasn't Kibou's. Everyone was silent and looked to the upstairs, Tasuki came downstairs drenched in water and Kibou came down laughing. Tasuki sat down and Kibou got him a towel to dry off. "Damn bitch." Tasuki muttered looking at the menu. She looked at him and smirked. "This is what you get if you don't get up when I tell you to. Besides, what are you doing sleeping in, we're on an important mission, you shouldn't slack off!"
"Ah who needs you!" Tasuki yelled. A waiter came over and took Tasuki's order, the waiter looked to me to get my order. I waved my hand to indicate that I wasn't having anything and the waiter left.
"Why aren't you eating?" asked Kibou.
"I'm just not that hungry right now, no da." I replied.
She slightly frowned in disaproval of my answer. "You've never done this before, are you feeling ok?"
I nodded. "Yeah, I'm just not hungry, no da."
She put her plate of food that was half gone infront of me. "I'm full this is too much for me, can you at least eat that?"
I knew she wasn't full, she doesn't get full off half of this, she gets full off all of this. But I guess she was just worried about me, so I ate it. Tasuki's came out pretty soon and after he finished, we paid what we had to and left to find the other group. Kibou still wore my Kesa, since she said she felt cold without it at this point. So I let her use it, I didn't really mind. We walked around trying to find them, but it was hard, it was a huge city. "Lets head towards the mountains!" Kibou suggested.
"Why the mountains." Tasuki asked.
"..because, the shinzaho, it's going to be hidden right? So we should head towards the mountains, the mountains are a pretty good place to hide things." She said walking to the east side of town.
She walked at a very fast pace, she was far ahead of anyone else. "Kibou!" Tasuki called out. "Slow down!"
She looked behind her. "Come on! We have to get going!"
We ran to catch up with her. "Is something wrong, Kibou, no da?"
She nodded. "Something is actually...I forgot to say anything, but yesterday, I heard a boom, it was the sound of the flares. Knowing Tamahome or Miaka, maybe even Nuriko, they lit it off wrong, come on!"
She started to run now, she was at the base of the mountains and she kept running. She ran up hill and across the thick snow, but she kept running. She stoped at a certain point and froze. I ran to her and saw the battle going on with a a wolfman, who had the energy of a Seiryu seishi, and Nuriko. There was a leap in the air as Nuriko pounced off the seishi and there was the seishi was about to stab Nuriko in the back with his claws.
Kibou immediatly raised her flute up to her lips and started to play something that made the seishi draw back his claws and cover his ears. Nuriko then had a chance, he jumped behind the wolfman's neck and broke it. Kibou stopped playing.
(Kibou's PoV)
The wolfman went rolling down the mountain and Nuriko looked at us and smiled. I ran to Nuriko, I did it! I finally did it! I saved a life! He didn't die! Nuriko didn't die! I hugged Nuriko around the waist. "Thank god, oh thank god your not dead!"
"I'm glad that you played your flute when you did, who knows what would've happened if you didn't."
Nuriko looked to his left, I looked over and saw a gigantic rock blocking a door. Nuriko picked me up, "Hold on. I need to get this thing out of the way."
"I'll help, I haven't done it much, but I learned how, levitation, I could kinda help."
I held my hands out and tried to remember what, actually she was teaching Chichiri, but when Taiitsukun was teaching this, I followed, and I was able to do it. I closed my eyes and I pictured the rock in my mind, I sent my life force to it and I slowly saw it lift, a red glow surrounded it and then it disapeared. I opened my eyes and Nuriko had moved the rock. I fell to my knees. "Kibou! Are you ok?" asked Nuriko coming to my side.
I nodded. "Yeah. That just took alot out, I haven't lifted anything that heavy before." I said as Nuriko helped me up. My knees felt weak and I fell back down, but Nuriko caught me. He then kneeled down to me. "Come on, get on my back."
I slowly got on his back and I rested my head on his back. We opened the doors and went into the tunnel. Which was dark and scary looking. I closed my eyes so nothing would pop up out of nowhere.
"Tasuki, could you light up the place?" asked Miaka.
Tasuki did so and I saw light while my eyes were closed and then I heard Miaka scream, I opened my eyes and looked to what Miaka screamed at. There were skeletons all over the place. I looked at them, dang, wonder what happened to them.
Arrows started to fly at us, but none of us were hit, two people appeared before us, I didn't feel a regular vibe from them, not human. Miaka tried to convince them to have the shinzaho, but that didn't work out too well. They attacked Miaka with an ice snake, that Tasuki melted immediatly. "Chichiri, hold on to Kibou." Nuriko said letting me down into Chichiri's arms. Nuriko, Tamahome, and Tasuki attempted to fight them, but they went through them. They were ghosts, before they could hurt anyone else, Miaka ran to them and bowed and pleaded to them to let them have the shinzaho, and that she would do anything.
"Take off your clothes." one of them said.
All of us were shocked...we didn't expect that. "You perverts!" Tasuki yelled.
"It's part of the test!" the one with long hair yelled back.
Miaka did so, but she had something under so it came to that. They started to freeze her, I watched her fearing for her life. I rolled out of Chichiri's arms and ran to get to Miaka. I ran into a wall of thick ice and force backwards. But I was caught, I looked up and saw Chichiri, he caught me.. I slamed on the ice. "Miaka! God dammit! You bastards! Your going to kill my little sister!!"
"If she truley is the preistess of Suzaku, then she can find her way out of this." the one with short hair said.
"I..it's so cold.." she whimpered.
"Miaka! You bastards! She could die!!" I yelled.
"Why we're testing her."
I saw a slight spark of red light. I looked to where it was coming from and saw that Nuriko no longer had his bracelets. I looked over to Miaka, she was now wearing them. She soon became completely frozen and nothing happened.
"So she was a normal girl after all." the short haired one said.
I slammed on the ice again. "If you've figured it out, let her g-"
A red light went off and surrounded the whole room. I saw the the light coming from Miaka's wrists. She broke through the ice. Chichiri leaned down to. "Come on, Kibou, get on my back, no da."
I nodded and did so, we came to Miaka and saw she was perfectly fine. Miaka then realized that she was weaing Nuriko's breaclets. "How did I get these?" Miaka asked looking to Nuriko.
"I have no idea." Nuriko answered.
"Maybe," I started. "Maybe it's because we are Miaka's protectors, and when Taiitsukun gave us these items, they were something to help protect her. So since Miaka needed it, Noriko's braclets disapeared and appeared on Miaka."
"Maybe.." said Miaka getting up.
"You have past the test, you truley are the Preistess of Suzaku. We will show you to the shinzaho." They said turning around and going ahead. They opened a door that lead to this beautiful hallway with a red carpet leading up to a pole with a small red pillow and a necklace was set on it. Miaka walked up and picked it up gently. We got it... We have the shizaho.
"But, there is one more step." they said.
Miaka turned around. "What?"
"That's one thing you had to get, there's two shinzahos, there's another in Sairou."
"Dammit." I cursed.
We left the place disapointed, I wasn't really. "Hey guys. We're one step closer to summoning suzaku. One step ahead of Seiryu, so don't be disapointed," I said. "Chichiri, you could put me down, I could walk now."
I felt better, my energy was regained in a short time. I was able to walk perfectly, I looked over to Miaka and she was about to put the shinzaho on, then suddenly it was snatched. We all looked down and saw a wolf..was it that seiryu seishi? It started to run away and Miaka ran after it. I ran after her, but Miaka soon tripped. "Don't worry Miaka, I'll get it back, stay put!"
I chased after the wolf until it came to a camp where I saw Soi and Nakago. I stopped abruptly and back away. I clehced Chichiri's Kesa so I wouldn't lose it with my left hand. "Nakago.." I said coldly. I frowned and drew my sword. "Finally get the chance to see you again.."
Nakago smirked and grabbed the Necklace from the wolf's mouth. "So you followed Ashitare, how nice, what you think you can fight me?"
I stood in a stance. "I've been waiting..Your the reason both Namame and my family died!"
He brought out his whip. "Your family? You must've been around them too long."
He struck the whip at me but I jumped away. "Why did you kill Namame, and my family?!" I struck my sword at him but he blocked, he only smirked and pushed me away by force as the blue symbol appeared on his forehead. I crashed into a tree. I fell to the floor, feeling drained, his power seemed to drain mine.
"Namame, she would tell you too much, so I killed her!" His eyes widened and cut me up. I screamed, Namame..it was my fault you died... I looked up at him, the shinzaho glimmered in his hand. I jumped up to him and swung my sword, but then I was struck by lightning...I couldn't win, not like this, I couldn't win.. I concetrated on getting myself back and teleported away with the little energy I had left. I fell to my knees again infront of the group, but I could see blood dripping and staining the white snow when I leaned down. Everyone crowded around me. "Kibou, are you alright?" asked Nuriko
I nodded. "I'll be fine. I couldn't get the Shinzaho back, Ashitare..he took it to Nakago, and I tried to fight Nakago.."
(Chichiri's PoV)
[author's note: sorry that I keep switching PoVs, it just flows with what I'm doing, hope I'm not confusing you]
Mitsukake quickly healed Kibou, but she said she still felt weak, I again told her to get on my back and she did. She fell asleep, Taiitsukun appeared and told us that she was with Miaka and that she would take care of Miaka until a certain point since she had to do "girl" things, apparently, in Taiitsukun's words. So she told us to go ahead to Sairou, we got some horses from town. I shared a horse with Kibou, and the rest got their own. I set her on first, but she was still asleep, so I had to keep her up. Once I was on, she leaned back against my chest, still fast asleep. I felt her forehead. It was pretty warm, she must've gotten a fever after she was healed. I also noticed she kept holding onto my kesa. Even though she was hurt so much, she kept holding on to it.
"Mitsukake, Kibou has a fever, do you have any medicine, no da?" I asked looking behind me.
He shook his head, "Not with me, but once we get to a town, I'll make some medicine for her."
I heard a horse neigh, I turned around completely and saw Tamahome turn back. "Something doesn't feel right, I'm going to go back for Miaka,"
I heard a gasp from Kibou, and she abruptly awoke. I looked over to her, again, there were tears streaming from her face. "Kibou, are you alright, no da?"
"Ellyn.....is...in a coma..."
Ellyn, she's never mentioned that name before. I remember her mentioning a friend, who was foreign to what we were use to. Ellyn must've been this friend of hers. Tasuki, Mitsukake, and Nuriko rode up to us. "What's wrong, Kibou?" asked Tasuki, this being the first time he's seeing Kibou cry.
"Ellyn's..in..a coma."
"Where is she?" Mitsukake asked, Kibou only looked down. "The one place I can't go...Home.."
She wiped away the tears.. "Well..um sorry 'bout that, we're we heading? Sairou? Where's Tamahome and Miaka?"
"They're in Hokkan, they'll catch up with us soon, no da." I assured her, I saw lights ahead, "look, I think that might be Sairou."
"Wow...How long do you think it's going to take to get there?" asked Kibou.
"Dawn, most likey, no da."
She yawned. "I'm going to sleep, I have a head ache."
She changes moods too quickly, she wakes up crying from a past vision, and then changes the subject. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing...
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Bah...I'm done....I don't know how this chapter was, but I didn't completely like it, but the next chapter should be better.
~*CosmicMoon
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Chapter 15: The Shinzaho of Hokkan
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(Chichiri's PoV)
I don't know why, but I felt jealous, jealous since when we got to the inn, I was certain that I would be able to share a room with Kibou. I was always able to in the past, but that was only because it was just the two of us. This jealousy though... I know that I've never felt like this, not since... Tasuki was fast asleep and it was pretty late morning. Who knows how long he stayed up drinking. I went downstairs to the restraunt area of the inn. Kibou was in there eating breakfast with Mitsukake, she looked really happy and talking alot.
Of course, me, for the last 3 years, I've neglected talking to her too much... I was afraid of something that I think is happening already. I was feeling afraid for some reason, the one thing I swore I would never do, as a monk and for anything, is to never fall in love again. I might've been too naive, I am a monk, but I don't know how long I could deny myself. I wasn't sure, I was confused. Kibou saw me and smiled, she looked back to Mitsukake and excused herself for a moment and came over to me.
"Good morning, did you have a nice sleep?" she said as brightly as ever.
I nodded. "Yeah, no da. Did you?"
"Uh huh! Is Tasuki awake yet?"
Is shook my head. "He's fast asleep."
"That fool, he's going to keep us waiting! Go on and sit down, I'm going to go wake Tasuki." she said running past me and upstairs to the room that I stayed at. I looked back at her for a bit and then walked to where Mitsukake was and sat down.
"Good morning, Mitsukake, no da."
"Good morning." he replied. "We should be heading pretty soon, the others most likey found something about the Shinzaho. We'll get you guys some breakfast and then we'll be heading out."
"..I'm not that hungry, no da." I said, I really wasn't, I some reason lost my appetite. There was a scream from upstairs, it wasn't Kibou's. Everyone was silent and looked to the upstairs, Tasuki came downstairs drenched in water and Kibou came down laughing. Tasuki sat down and Kibou got him a towel to dry off. "Damn bitch." Tasuki muttered looking at the menu. She looked at him and smirked. "This is what you get if you don't get up when I tell you to. Besides, what are you doing sleeping in, we're on an important mission, you shouldn't slack off!"
"Ah who needs you!" Tasuki yelled. A waiter came over and took Tasuki's order, the waiter looked to me to get my order. I waved my hand to indicate that I wasn't having anything and the waiter left.
"Why aren't you eating?" asked Kibou.
"I'm just not that hungry right now, no da." I replied.
She slightly frowned in disaproval of my answer. "You've never done this before, are you feeling ok?"
I nodded. "Yeah, I'm just not hungry, no da."
She put her plate of food that was half gone infront of me. "I'm full this is too much for me, can you at least eat that?"
I knew she wasn't full, she doesn't get full off half of this, she gets full off all of this. But I guess she was just worried about me, so I ate it. Tasuki's came out pretty soon and after he finished, we paid what we had to and left to find the other group. Kibou still wore my Kesa, since she said she felt cold without it at this point. So I let her use it, I didn't really mind. We walked around trying to find them, but it was hard, it was a huge city. "Lets head towards the mountains!" Kibou suggested.
"Why the mountains." Tasuki asked.
"..because, the shinzaho, it's going to be hidden right? So we should head towards the mountains, the mountains are a pretty good place to hide things." She said walking to the east side of town.
She walked at a very fast pace, she was far ahead of anyone else. "Kibou!" Tasuki called out. "Slow down!"
She looked behind her. "Come on! We have to get going!"
We ran to catch up with her. "Is something wrong, Kibou, no da?"
She nodded. "Something is actually...I forgot to say anything, but yesterday, I heard a boom, it was the sound of the flares. Knowing Tamahome or Miaka, maybe even Nuriko, they lit it off wrong, come on!"
She started to run now, she was at the base of the mountains and she kept running. She ran up hill and across the thick snow, but she kept running. She stoped at a certain point and froze. I ran to her and saw the battle going on with a a wolfman, who had the energy of a Seiryu seishi, and Nuriko. There was a leap in the air as Nuriko pounced off the seishi and there was the seishi was about to stab Nuriko in the back with his claws.
Kibou immediatly raised her flute up to her lips and started to play something that made the seishi draw back his claws and cover his ears. Nuriko then had a chance, he jumped behind the wolfman's neck and broke it. Kibou stopped playing.
(Kibou's PoV)
The wolfman went rolling down the mountain and Nuriko looked at us and smiled. I ran to Nuriko, I did it! I finally did it! I saved a life! He didn't die! Nuriko didn't die! I hugged Nuriko around the waist. "Thank god, oh thank god your not dead!"
"I'm glad that you played your flute when you did, who knows what would've happened if you didn't."
Nuriko looked to his left, I looked over and saw a gigantic rock blocking a door. Nuriko picked me up, "Hold on. I need to get this thing out of the way."
"I'll help, I haven't done it much, but I learned how, levitation, I could kinda help."
I held my hands out and tried to remember what, actually she was teaching Chichiri, but when Taiitsukun was teaching this, I followed, and I was able to do it. I closed my eyes and I pictured the rock in my mind, I sent my life force to it and I slowly saw it lift, a red glow surrounded it and then it disapeared. I opened my eyes and Nuriko had moved the rock. I fell to my knees. "Kibou! Are you ok?" asked Nuriko coming to my side.
I nodded. "Yeah. That just took alot out, I haven't lifted anything that heavy before." I said as Nuriko helped me up. My knees felt weak and I fell back down, but Nuriko caught me. He then kneeled down to me. "Come on, get on my back."
I slowly got on his back and I rested my head on his back. We opened the doors and went into the tunnel. Which was dark and scary looking. I closed my eyes so nothing would pop up out of nowhere.
"Tasuki, could you light up the place?" asked Miaka.
Tasuki did so and I saw light while my eyes were closed and then I heard Miaka scream, I opened my eyes and looked to what Miaka screamed at. There were skeletons all over the place. I looked at them, dang, wonder what happened to them.
Arrows started to fly at us, but none of us were hit, two people appeared before us, I didn't feel a regular vibe from them, not human. Miaka tried to convince them to have the shinzaho, but that didn't work out too well. They attacked Miaka with an ice snake, that Tasuki melted immediatly. "Chichiri, hold on to Kibou." Nuriko said letting me down into Chichiri's arms. Nuriko, Tamahome, and Tasuki attempted to fight them, but they went through them. They were ghosts, before they could hurt anyone else, Miaka ran to them and bowed and pleaded to them to let them have the shinzaho, and that she would do anything.
"Take off your clothes." one of them said.
All of us were shocked...we didn't expect that. "You perverts!" Tasuki yelled.
"It's part of the test!" the one with long hair yelled back.
Miaka did so, but she had something under so it came to that. They started to freeze her, I watched her fearing for her life. I rolled out of Chichiri's arms and ran to get to Miaka. I ran into a wall of thick ice and force backwards. But I was caught, I looked up and saw Chichiri, he caught me.. I slamed on the ice. "Miaka! God dammit! You bastards! Your going to kill my little sister!!"
"If she truley is the preistess of Suzaku, then she can find her way out of this." the one with short hair said.
"I..it's so cold.." she whimpered.
"Miaka! You bastards! She could die!!" I yelled.
"Why we're testing her."
I saw a slight spark of red light. I looked to where it was coming from and saw that Nuriko no longer had his bracelets. I looked over to Miaka, she was now wearing them. She soon became completely frozen and nothing happened.
"So she was a normal girl after all." the short haired one said.
I slammed on the ice again. "If you've figured it out, let her g-"
A red light went off and surrounded the whole room. I saw the the light coming from Miaka's wrists. She broke through the ice. Chichiri leaned down to. "Come on, Kibou, get on my back, no da."
I nodded and did so, we came to Miaka and saw she was perfectly fine. Miaka then realized that she was weaing Nuriko's breaclets. "How did I get these?" Miaka asked looking to Nuriko.
"I have no idea." Nuriko answered.
"Maybe," I started. "Maybe it's because we are Miaka's protectors, and when Taiitsukun gave us these items, they were something to help protect her. So since Miaka needed it, Noriko's braclets disapeared and appeared on Miaka."
"Maybe.." said Miaka getting up.
"You have past the test, you truley are the Preistess of Suzaku. We will show you to the shinzaho." They said turning around and going ahead. They opened a door that lead to this beautiful hallway with a red carpet leading up to a pole with a small red pillow and a necklace was set on it. Miaka walked up and picked it up gently. We got it... We have the shizaho.
"But, there is one more step." they said.
Miaka turned around. "What?"
"That's one thing you had to get, there's two shinzahos, there's another in Sairou."
"Dammit." I cursed.
We left the place disapointed, I wasn't really. "Hey guys. We're one step closer to summoning suzaku. One step ahead of Seiryu, so don't be disapointed," I said. "Chichiri, you could put me down, I could walk now."
I felt better, my energy was regained in a short time. I was able to walk perfectly, I looked over to Miaka and she was about to put the shinzaho on, then suddenly it was snatched. We all looked down and saw a wolf..was it that seiryu seishi? It started to run away and Miaka ran after it. I ran after her, but Miaka soon tripped. "Don't worry Miaka, I'll get it back, stay put!"
I chased after the wolf until it came to a camp where I saw Soi and Nakago. I stopped abruptly and back away. I clehced Chichiri's Kesa so I wouldn't lose it with my left hand. "Nakago.." I said coldly. I frowned and drew my sword. "Finally get the chance to see you again.."
Nakago smirked and grabbed the Necklace from the wolf's mouth. "So you followed Ashitare, how nice, what you think you can fight me?"
I stood in a stance. "I've been waiting..Your the reason both Namame and my family died!"
He brought out his whip. "Your family? You must've been around them too long."
He struck the whip at me but I jumped away. "Why did you kill Namame, and my family?!" I struck my sword at him but he blocked, he only smirked and pushed me away by force as the blue symbol appeared on his forehead. I crashed into a tree. I fell to the floor, feeling drained, his power seemed to drain mine.
"Namame, she would tell you too much, so I killed her!" His eyes widened and cut me up. I screamed, Namame..it was my fault you died... I looked up at him, the shinzaho glimmered in his hand. I jumped up to him and swung my sword, but then I was struck by lightning...I couldn't win, not like this, I couldn't win.. I concetrated on getting myself back and teleported away with the little energy I had left. I fell to my knees again infront of the group, but I could see blood dripping and staining the white snow when I leaned down. Everyone crowded around me. "Kibou, are you alright?" asked Nuriko
I nodded. "I'll be fine. I couldn't get the Shinzaho back, Ashitare..he took it to Nakago, and I tried to fight Nakago.."
(Chichiri's PoV)
[author's note: sorry that I keep switching PoVs, it just flows with what I'm doing, hope I'm not confusing you]
Mitsukake quickly healed Kibou, but she said she still felt weak, I again told her to get on my back and she did. She fell asleep, Taiitsukun appeared and told us that she was with Miaka and that she would take care of Miaka until a certain point since she had to do "girl" things, apparently, in Taiitsukun's words. So she told us to go ahead to Sairou, we got some horses from town. I shared a horse with Kibou, and the rest got their own. I set her on first, but she was still asleep, so I had to keep her up. Once I was on, she leaned back against my chest, still fast asleep. I felt her forehead. It was pretty warm, she must've gotten a fever after she was healed. I also noticed she kept holding onto my kesa. Even though she was hurt so much, she kept holding on to it.
"Mitsukake, Kibou has a fever, do you have any medicine, no da?" I asked looking behind me.
He shook his head, "Not with me, but once we get to a town, I'll make some medicine for her."
I heard a horse neigh, I turned around completely and saw Tamahome turn back. "Something doesn't feel right, I'm going to go back for Miaka,"
I heard a gasp from Kibou, and she abruptly awoke. I looked over to her, again, there were tears streaming from her face. "Kibou, are you alright, no da?"
"Ellyn.....is...in a coma..."
Ellyn, she's never mentioned that name before. I remember her mentioning a friend, who was foreign to what we were use to. Ellyn must've been this friend of hers. Tasuki, Mitsukake, and Nuriko rode up to us. "What's wrong, Kibou?" asked Tasuki, this being the first time he's seeing Kibou cry.
"Ellyn's..in..a coma."
"Where is she?" Mitsukake asked, Kibou only looked down. "The one place I can't go...Home.."
She wiped away the tears.. "Well..um sorry 'bout that, we're we heading? Sairou? Where's Tamahome and Miaka?"
"They're in Hokkan, they'll catch up with us soon, no da." I assured her, I saw lights ahead, "look, I think that might be Sairou."
"Wow...How long do you think it's going to take to get there?" asked Kibou.
"Dawn, most likey, no da."
She yawned. "I'm going to sleep, I have a head ache."
She changes moods too quickly, she wakes up crying from a past vision, and then changes the subject. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing...
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Bah...I'm done....I don't know how this chapter was, but I didn't completely like it, but the next chapter should be better.
~*CosmicMoon