You know what's pretty sad? In my old stories, I expected to get a certain amount of reveiws before I actually submitted the next chapter.. That's pretty sad. I'm glad I don't do that now, and the stories, man, they sucked so much crap...who could possibly like those?
Otaku, I'd bet you'd have a great time, looking at all the grammar errors (horrible grammar errors, I might add), spelling errors (it's gotten MUCH better than what it was 2 years ago.) typos, and everything that bugs you in those stories..I should edit those some day..
Opaaru Tsuki I started your story, I'm on chapter 3, I haven't had a chance to finish it yet, and I don't like reviewing until I get to the last chapter updated. So sorry I didn't review, but I really like it so far. I'll review it once I'm done, I want to finish my story, and I usually don't read fanfiction, but I'll come back to yours
Same with you Water Muse (Kouran), I'll read your story when I get a chance.
And everyone, this chapter took a while to write since..I just got stung by a bee (my first time :'( it hurt..) right on my left hand and I accidentally burned my right index finger cooking...by touching the hot part...man I'm dumb, so sorry, I just couldn't type very fast.
Also, Sorry I didn't get this out sooner, Fanfiction.net was being retarded.. But I finally got it out! yay!
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Chapter 17: Sairou
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Dinner was about ready so I went into her room. Once in there, she was fast asleep. My mask was in her hands. I slightly shook Kibou; she threw the mask at me and turned over. I picked up my mask and put it back on. I pulled her blanket off her and she crouched into a ball. "Nema me na be la pa.." She whined.
"Come on Kibou, dinner, no da." I said.
"Dinner, no da?" She asked popping her head up and coping my way of speaking. "Dinner!" She piped childishly and jumping up and stretching. She ran past me and opened the door and ran down the hallway, she waited for me after she got halfway to the dining room. "Come on, Chichiri!"
I caught up to her slowly. "And, thanks." She said and ran to the dining room before I could ask why she was thanking me. Once I got to the dining room, she already sat down next to Nuriko. I sat in an empty seat next to her. Dinner was on the table and we all started to eat.
I ate a little bit, Kibou was done before I was and excused herself from the table to go outside. As soon as I was done, I excused myself from the table and followed Kibou outside. She was sitting against the building, "Something doesn't feel right.." She said while I sat down, "I just ate a bunch..but I don't seem to feel full."
"I'm not really noticing that, but I am noticing that I'm having trouble communicating with Hotohori, no da."
"Yeah..It seems a bit weird. I drank one or two drinks of Nuriko's special, I only felt half drunk. My mind was just telling me that I was suppose to act a certain way. And it did it on it's own, as if were in some kind of illusion right now."
Everything around us suddenly disappeared all of us were in the middle of the dessert. We got up, "Um..We were in an illusion.." Said Kibou looking around the dark dessert.
The rest of the group came over to us. "What the hell happened?!" yelled Tasuki.
We walked over to the rest of the group. "Well, we were in an illusion, apparently." Said Kibou.
"Hey guys! Kibou, Tasuki, Mitsukake, Nuriko, Chichiri!!" Yelled the familiar voice of Tamahome. We all looked over and saw Tamahome riding along with another man, bringing four horses. We all got on a horse each, Kibou shared a horse with me and Tamahome explained that we had to hurry to Miaka before she was killed by the seiryu seven.
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We reached where we had to by sun up; Kibou was too worried about Miaka to go to sleep. We got there in time though, Tamahome saved Miaka in time and Suboshi who was attacking her, took his twin brother, Amiboshi and left. The old man there turned out to be Tamahome's master. Once we got to a house an old lady, who seemed to be the wife of the old man gave us something to sleep in and Kibou was the first one out.
I woke up a bit later and found Miaka sitting there, hugging her knees. "You jerk, Tamahome..After that deep kiss too!!" She yelled and punched me in the face accidentally.
"Oh, I'm sorry Chichiri! Are you ok?"
"Yeah, I'm fine no da." I said sitting next to her. "Say um, Chichiri?"
"Yeah, na no da?"
"About my sister...How'd you meet her?" Funny that question came up.. I never even told Kibou how I ended up with her.
"..Well, I was on my way to see my fiance`, a day before she died...I had something to give her, but then I heard someone fall, as if from the sky, I looked behind me and your sister had fallen, right on her head, she was then unconsious. I hurried her to a doctor, they said the head injury could've killed her, but it didn't and said she should wake up soon. She slept for a day.. She had two bags with her, a small one, and a back pack, her small bag stayed and was destroyed in the flood that came the next day, her back pack, it was stolen by a someone..She woke up and she only seemed to remember her name..She went around on her own for 3 years, and then trained with me when I was with Taiitsukun for 3 years."
Miaka nodded slowly. "So that's what happened, I wondered why ohne-chan was always around you.. Do you love her?"
"Why do you ask, no da?" I asked not looking directly at her but infront of me. "Well, you have been around her for 6 years, or known each other..And ohne-chan, she was like a best friend at home. She told me everything, her boyfriend..I can't imagine a bigger jerk! She was so broken up by him! Treating her like crap, hitting her, calling her nasty names..She never told me why she never broke up with him..But, Jason..her boyfriend, she deserved better than him to be the first and she deserves better now..I know your a monk, Chichiri, but I know, that once ohne-chan's memories are back, she'll need you then more than ever..Especially someone who's as nice as you." She said, her voice almost sounding cracked as if crying.
I looked to her; her eyes were starting t water up. "Why's that, no da?"
"After Jason was arrested, I heard from her best friend, Ellyn, that she was becoming a wreck, since her father died too. Jason broke out of jail and started to become a serial killer, anyone who got in his way, Ellyn fell into a coma..Ohne-chan went missing..I guess that's when she came here.."
That was it...All her visions that she told me made sense..but I didn't know Jason became a killer..But she might soon...I should tell her.. I know I should.. I have to sooner or later.. "Ok Miaka, I'll do what I can. Ok, well, anyways Miaka, look into this mirror."
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(Kibou's PoV)
I walked around for a bit and then spotted Subaru, I ran to her. "Hi Subaru." I greeted
"Oh, hi dear, I haven't seen you in a long time, I haven't gotten a chance to talk to you. It's so nice to see you again."
"Yeah...How have you been?" I asked walking with her. "Nothing really, Xi Fang moved in with us a year ago, so she became a daughter to us. Which reminds me, do you want to help make dinner, Toroki said you weren't much of a cook, but you made some interesting exotic foods."
I smiled. "Yeah, I'd be glad to make it for tonight."
She smiled. "Great, Miaka and Xi Fang are making their own dishes too, so go ahead and find some room in there and cook whatever your going to do, we should have everything you'd need."
"Thank you, Subaru." I said as she led me to the kitchen. I haven't cooked for a while, but I guess it'd be ok, some part of me told me that I always loved making this for everyone. I knew everything that it needed..It was obviously food from my world. They were unhealthy, but they weren't very healthy, really fattening and greasy (none other than most American food ^^) I came into the kitchen and they were not really done so I would've got it done in time. "Hi onhe-chan!" Miaka piped.
"Hi." I said "having fun?"
She nodded. "But I wish I could cook as good as you, ohne-chan."
I smiled. "I don't really cook too well anyway."
I got out the potatoes and started to cut them up (French fries ^^), then I found ground beef and mashed it into a circle shape and got a bunch of sliced bread ready, (hamburgers...without anything on it x-P, that'd taste..actually, I wouldn't care too much..) and a few other things just to have something in there. (Like, I dunno, whatever she can make there with the supplies they had..)I helped set the table and then ate with them
"Have you heard the legend of that tower before?" Asked Xi Fang
Both of us looked to it. Neither of us did. "Well, it's said that if two people kiss on top of that tower right when the sun sets, then nothing will ever separate them... But no one's allowed up there...there's been monsters appearing and a lot of couples have been hurt."
..Never separated..I wish Houjun loved me like that..Then I wouldn't be afraid to go up there, if it means never being separated..Of course, it's just a legend, anything can happen when it's twisted around by the hands of fate. (A/N: In other words, twisted around by the hands of MOI!!!)
"Wow, there are a lot of different kinds of foods here!" Said Tasuki coming in with the others. "Some of it's left most is mine, middle's Xi Fangs', and at the end is Ohne-chan's'."
"Holy shit, Kibou cooked! Damn, run for your life!" Said Tasuki.
I frowned. "Go ahead, try it. You've never seen you cook before."
"None of us have, maybe Miaka, no da." Said Chichiri sitting on the end of the table with my food. I sat down next to him. "Come on everyone, get a taste of Miaka's food before you eat mine." I said trying to be nice. I got a bit of her food and I tried it, I swallowed it whole without tasting it.
"You all look like you hate it."
I smiled. "Miaka, it's just a little burnt, you're still learning, and as long as you tried it's o-"
"I can't eat this..This is crap." said Tamahome.
I glared at him. "Tamahome, your a piece of work! Even if the food is awful --ah." Tasuki said cutting off and froze.
"Miaka's still learning Tamahome! I don't know what's up with you, but I'd like to see you do better! I bet you never even cooked before!" I yelled. Miaka looked down. "That's ok Ohne-chan, you're right, I am horrible." And she left the room.
I sighed. Then looked to Tamahome. "Give me all the food Miaka made." He muttered.
While Tamahome started to turn purple, and everyone else ate. They all tried my food too. "This is pretty good, no da." Said Chichiri.
I blushed, slightly, "Thank you."
I could hear Nuriko snickering. I looked up to him and glared at him. He just kept snickering. So I just frowned and went on with eating. When I was done I went around outside and found stairs, huge stairs, I sat at the top, I saw Chichiri talking to Nuriko for a bit then looked up to me, Nuriko patted his back and walked off and Chichiri walked up the stairs to me.
He sat down next to me. "I've never tried your cooking before, no da. It's pretty good, Kibou, no da."
I smiled. "Thank you, I thought I'd mess up. I hadn't made it in so long.. But it turned out ok."
There was a brief awkward silence.. "..What did you talk about with Nuriko?"
"Oh, nothing, no da." He said. "He was just talking to me about Hotohori."
I nodded. At least he didn't tell Chichiri... There was another awkward silence, this one lasted. I wasn't sure what to say, I felt more embarrassed around him since I told someone. I waited for him to say something. He wasn't saying anything though, as if he was stuck in the same position that I was stuck in...Which I doubt... Though Nuriko said... Well.. Nuriko assumes alot..Like when he said the priestess of Suzaku was a brat, he gets along with her just fine now.. I don't know if Nuriko was right or not. I looked up to the sky blankly, the sun was almost setting.
"Kibou.."
I looked back to Chichiri instantly when I heard his normal voice. His mask was still on, and it didn't seem he wanted to take it off. "I've been meaning to tell you this for a long time."
He held my hand with his left and took off his mask. I blushed furiously, thinking that I knew what he was going to say. "I-"
"KIBOU! CHICHIRI!!! MIAKA WENT TO THAT TOWER!! WE HAVE TO HURRY BEFORE SHE GETS HURT!!!" Yelled Tasuki's voice from the bottom of the stairs.
I gasped and jumped to my feet. "That idiot!" I yelled and ran down the stairs and followed the others to get to the tower that Tamahome already left for.
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:) I like where I ended :) Please review! I'll try to get the next chapter out soon ^^
~*CosmicMoon
Otaku, I'd bet you'd have a great time, looking at all the grammar errors (horrible grammar errors, I might add), spelling errors (it's gotten MUCH better than what it was 2 years ago.) typos, and everything that bugs you in those stories..I should edit those some day..
Opaaru Tsuki I started your story, I'm on chapter 3, I haven't had a chance to finish it yet, and I don't like reviewing until I get to the last chapter updated. So sorry I didn't review, but I really like it so far. I'll review it once I'm done, I want to finish my story, and I usually don't read fanfiction, but I'll come back to yours
Same with you Water Muse (Kouran), I'll read your story when I get a chance.
And everyone, this chapter took a while to write since..I just got stung by a bee (my first time :'( it hurt..) right on my left hand and I accidentally burned my right index finger cooking...by touching the hot part...man I'm dumb, so sorry, I just couldn't type very fast.
Also, Sorry I didn't get this out sooner, Fanfiction.net was being retarded.. But I finally got it out! yay!
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Chapter 17: Sairou
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Dinner was about ready so I went into her room. Once in there, she was fast asleep. My mask was in her hands. I slightly shook Kibou; she threw the mask at me and turned over. I picked up my mask and put it back on. I pulled her blanket off her and she crouched into a ball. "Nema me na be la pa.." She whined.
"Come on Kibou, dinner, no da." I said.
"Dinner, no da?" She asked popping her head up and coping my way of speaking. "Dinner!" She piped childishly and jumping up and stretching. She ran past me and opened the door and ran down the hallway, she waited for me after she got halfway to the dining room. "Come on, Chichiri!"
I caught up to her slowly. "And, thanks." She said and ran to the dining room before I could ask why she was thanking me. Once I got to the dining room, she already sat down next to Nuriko. I sat in an empty seat next to her. Dinner was on the table and we all started to eat.
I ate a little bit, Kibou was done before I was and excused herself from the table to go outside. As soon as I was done, I excused myself from the table and followed Kibou outside. She was sitting against the building, "Something doesn't feel right.." She said while I sat down, "I just ate a bunch..but I don't seem to feel full."
"I'm not really noticing that, but I am noticing that I'm having trouble communicating with Hotohori, no da."
"Yeah..It seems a bit weird. I drank one or two drinks of Nuriko's special, I only felt half drunk. My mind was just telling me that I was suppose to act a certain way. And it did it on it's own, as if were in some kind of illusion right now."
Everything around us suddenly disappeared all of us were in the middle of the dessert. We got up, "Um..We were in an illusion.." Said Kibou looking around the dark dessert.
The rest of the group came over to us. "What the hell happened?!" yelled Tasuki.
We walked over to the rest of the group. "Well, we were in an illusion, apparently." Said Kibou.
"Hey guys! Kibou, Tasuki, Mitsukake, Nuriko, Chichiri!!" Yelled the familiar voice of Tamahome. We all looked over and saw Tamahome riding along with another man, bringing four horses. We all got on a horse each, Kibou shared a horse with me and Tamahome explained that we had to hurry to Miaka before she was killed by the seiryu seven.
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We reached where we had to by sun up; Kibou was too worried about Miaka to go to sleep. We got there in time though, Tamahome saved Miaka in time and Suboshi who was attacking her, took his twin brother, Amiboshi and left. The old man there turned out to be Tamahome's master. Once we got to a house an old lady, who seemed to be the wife of the old man gave us something to sleep in and Kibou was the first one out.
I woke up a bit later and found Miaka sitting there, hugging her knees. "You jerk, Tamahome..After that deep kiss too!!" She yelled and punched me in the face accidentally.
"Oh, I'm sorry Chichiri! Are you ok?"
"Yeah, I'm fine no da." I said sitting next to her. "Say um, Chichiri?"
"Yeah, na no da?"
"About my sister...How'd you meet her?" Funny that question came up.. I never even told Kibou how I ended up with her.
"..Well, I was on my way to see my fiance`, a day before she died...I had something to give her, but then I heard someone fall, as if from the sky, I looked behind me and your sister had fallen, right on her head, she was then unconsious. I hurried her to a doctor, they said the head injury could've killed her, but it didn't and said she should wake up soon. She slept for a day.. She had two bags with her, a small one, and a back pack, her small bag stayed and was destroyed in the flood that came the next day, her back pack, it was stolen by a someone..She woke up and she only seemed to remember her name..She went around on her own for 3 years, and then trained with me when I was with Taiitsukun for 3 years."
Miaka nodded slowly. "So that's what happened, I wondered why ohne-chan was always around you.. Do you love her?"
"Why do you ask, no da?" I asked not looking directly at her but infront of me. "Well, you have been around her for 6 years, or known each other..And ohne-chan, she was like a best friend at home. She told me everything, her boyfriend..I can't imagine a bigger jerk! She was so broken up by him! Treating her like crap, hitting her, calling her nasty names..She never told me why she never broke up with him..But, Jason..her boyfriend, she deserved better than him to be the first and she deserves better now..I know your a monk, Chichiri, but I know, that once ohne-chan's memories are back, she'll need you then more than ever..Especially someone who's as nice as you." She said, her voice almost sounding cracked as if crying.
I looked to her; her eyes were starting t water up. "Why's that, no da?"
"After Jason was arrested, I heard from her best friend, Ellyn, that she was becoming a wreck, since her father died too. Jason broke out of jail and started to become a serial killer, anyone who got in his way, Ellyn fell into a coma..Ohne-chan went missing..I guess that's when she came here.."
That was it...All her visions that she told me made sense..but I didn't know Jason became a killer..But she might soon...I should tell her.. I know I should.. I have to sooner or later.. "Ok Miaka, I'll do what I can. Ok, well, anyways Miaka, look into this mirror."
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(Kibou's PoV)
I walked around for a bit and then spotted Subaru, I ran to her. "Hi Subaru." I greeted
"Oh, hi dear, I haven't seen you in a long time, I haven't gotten a chance to talk to you. It's so nice to see you again."
"Yeah...How have you been?" I asked walking with her. "Nothing really, Xi Fang moved in with us a year ago, so she became a daughter to us. Which reminds me, do you want to help make dinner, Toroki said you weren't much of a cook, but you made some interesting exotic foods."
I smiled. "Yeah, I'd be glad to make it for tonight."
She smiled. "Great, Miaka and Xi Fang are making their own dishes too, so go ahead and find some room in there and cook whatever your going to do, we should have everything you'd need."
"Thank you, Subaru." I said as she led me to the kitchen. I haven't cooked for a while, but I guess it'd be ok, some part of me told me that I always loved making this for everyone. I knew everything that it needed..It was obviously food from my world. They were unhealthy, but they weren't very healthy, really fattening and greasy (none other than most American food ^^) I came into the kitchen and they were not really done so I would've got it done in time. "Hi onhe-chan!" Miaka piped.
"Hi." I said "having fun?"
She nodded. "But I wish I could cook as good as you, ohne-chan."
I smiled. "I don't really cook too well anyway."
I got out the potatoes and started to cut them up (French fries ^^), then I found ground beef and mashed it into a circle shape and got a bunch of sliced bread ready, (hamburgers...without anything on it x-P, that'd taste..actually, I wouldn't care too much..) and a few other things just to have something in there. (Like, I dunno, whatever she can make there with the supplies they had..)I helped set the table and then ate with them
"Have you heard the legend of that tower before?" Asked Xi Fang
Both of us looked to it. Neither of us did. "Well, it's said that if two people kiss on top of that tower right when the sun sets, then nothing will ever separate them... But no one's allowed up there...there's been monsters appearing and a lot of couples have been hurt."
..Never separated..I wish Houjun loved me like that..Then I wouldn't be afraid to go up there, if it means never being separated..Of course, it's just a legend, anything can happen when it's twisted around by the hands of fate. (A/N: In other words, twisted around by the hands of MOI!!!)
"Wow, there are a lot of different kinds of foods here!" Said Tasuki coming in with the others. "Some of it's left most is mine, middle's Xi Fangs', and at the end is Ohne-chan's'."
"Holy shit, Kibou cooked! Damn, run for your life!" Said Tasuki.
I frowned. "Go ahead, try it. You've never seen you cook before."
"None of us have, maybe Miaka, no da." Said Chichiri sitting on the end of the table with my food. I sat down next to him. "Come on everyone, get a taste of Miaka's food before you eat mine." I said trying to be nice. I got a bit of her food and I tried it, I swallowed it whole without tasting it.
"You all look like you hate it."
I smiled. "Miaka, it's just a little burnt, you're still learning, and as long as you tried it's o-"
"I can't eat this..This is crap." said Tamahome.
I glared at him. "Tamahome, your a piece of work! Even if the food is awful --ah." Tasuki said cutting off and froze.
"Miaka's still learning Tamahome! I don't know what's up with you, but I'd like to see you do better! I bet you never even cooked before!" I yelled. Miaka looked down. "That's ok Ohne-chan, you're right, I am horrible." And she left the room.
I sighed. Then looked to Tamahome. "Give me all the food Miaka made." He muttered.
While Tamahome started to turn purple, and everyone else ate. They all tried my food too. "This is pretty good, no da." Said Chichiri.
I blushed, slightly, "Thank you."
I could hear Nuriko snickering. I looked up to him and glared at him. He just kept snickering. So I just frowned and went on with eating. When I was done I went around outside and found stairs, huge stairs, I sat at the top, I saw Chichiri talking to Nuriko for a bit then looked up to me, Nuriko patted his back and walked off and Chichiri walked up the stairs to me.
He sat down next to me. "I've never tried your cooking before, no da. It's pretty good, Kibou, no da."
I smiled. "Thank you, I thought I'd mess up. I hadn't made it in so long.. But it turned out ok."
There was a brief awkward silence.. "..What did you talk about with Nuriko?"
"Oh, nothing, no da." He said. "He was just talking to me about Hotohori."
I nodded. At least he didn't tell Chichiri... There was another awkward silence, this one lasted. I wasn't sure what to say, I felt more embarrassed around him since I told someone. I waited for him to say something. He wasn't saying anything though, as if he was stuck in the same position that I was stuck in...Which I doubt... Though Nuriko said... Well.. Nuriko assumes alot..Like when he said the priestess of Suzaku was a brat, he gets along with her just fine now.. I don't know if Nuriko was right or not. I looked up to the sky blankly, the sun was almost setting.
"Kibou.."
I looked back to Chichiri instantly when I heard his normal voice. His mask was still on, and it didn't seem he wanted to take it off. "I've been meaning to tell you this for a long time."
He held my hand with his left and took off his mask. I blushed furiously, thinking that I knew what he was going to say. "I-"
"KIBOU! CHICHIRI!!! MIAKA WENT TO THAT TOWER!! WE HAVE TO HURRY BEFORE SHE GETS HURT!!!" Yelled Tasuki's voice from the bottom of the stairs.
I gasped and jumped to my feet. "That idiot!" I yelled and ran down the stairs and followed the others to get to the tower that Tamahome already left for.
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:) I like where I ended :) Please review! I'll try to get the next chapter out soon ^^
~*CosmicMoon