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Ice Meet Wind 5: Waking Up in a Whole New World
Shirikubo followed Touya out into the hall, wondering what Touya needed help with. When he saw the body, he stopped dead in his tracks, causing Kyoko to run into him.
"Ow! Why'd you go and stop-" Kyoko shut up at the sight of the body on the floor. His eyes got wider and wider until Touya thought they were going to pop out of his head.
"Touya," Shirikubo said quietly, trying to keep his voice calm. "Where'd you find this boy?"
"It'll sound stupid," Touya muttered, embarrassed at how he had tripped over the boy. He was so embarrassed that he actually started to blush.
"Just tell me Touya!" snapped Shirikubo. Touya was taken aback. Shirikubo never snapped unless it was really important.
"I was sliding around in the snow," Touya began. "And I lost control and tripped over him. I wasn't sure if he was alive or not, so I brought him here. Did I do something wrong?" he added in a scared voice.
Shirikubo sighed. He hated scaring Touya like that. Even though most masters treated their students indifferently, Shirikubo was actually very fond of the boy. "No, Touya." he said softly, still staring at the boy on the floor, "You did what you thought was right. I couldn't ask more from you. Kyoko," he directed his final comment at the wind master, who still had his eyes bugging out of his head. "Take this boy to one of the bedrooms. We shall take care of him then question him when he wakes up."
Kyoko nodded and picked the boy off the floor. Moving him gently so he wouldn't make any bone breaks worse, Kyoko took him to the bedroom next to Touya's room. Touya and Shirikubo went to their rooms to get their medicinal supplies.
Shirikubo shut the door behind him, and let out a sigh. 'One of them? I thought their race had disappeared years ago,' he thought. Shaking his head to clear his thoughts, Shirikubo went to his dresser. Rummaging through several weapons, scrolls and clothes, he finally found his medicinal supplies. A basic set of medicinal supplies consisted of wound wraps, healing herbs for wounds, and herbs for illness. Shirikubo had given Touya a set like that as a gift for being so talented in healing. Shirikubo naturally had a more complex set, but needed some herbs from Touya's kit.
Touya, when he was younger, had accidentally stumbled upon some rare herbs that helped relieve frost bite and chills. The boy had no idea what they were, but had picked lots because he thought they were pretty. It wasn't until Shirikubo found them drying that he had realized what his young student had found. Shirikubo let Touya keep the herbs, just in case they ever found a creature who needed them. Now, there was a boy in the next room who needed them, and Shirikubo hoped that Touya hadn't lost those herbs.
A knock on the door jolted Shirikubo out of his thoughts. Walking to his bedroom door, Shirikubo hesitated before opening it. 'Why am I being so cautious?' he thought when he saw Touya there with a medical kit.
"Are you feeling okay?" Touya asked, looking up to his teacher.
"Yes, I'm fine Touya. Let's go treat that boy before he gets any worse." ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
In the next bedroom Kyoko was examining the mysterious boy Touya had found. The whole reason Kyoko had been so shocked was because the boy looked like an elf. Upon closer inspection, Kyoko realized he was an elf. Elves had been thought for many years to have died out, but in reality they just moved out of sight of all demons and apparitions. Deep in the dark forests of the Makai they now lived, and they never came out. To find one this far from their homeland was very unusual.
"Kyoko," Shirikubo's voice sounded behind him, signaling that the medicine was here.
"This boy is an elf, Shiri," Kyoko said, but then added on a softer note, "But I don't think he's a pure breed. Look, he has a horn on his head, and fangs. Pure elves don't have those, nor are they this big. I have a feeling this boy is a cross between at least one other creature other than elf."
"No matter, we'll ask him when he wakes up." Shirikubo turned to Touya, ready to drill him on healing. Shirikubo never missed an opportunity to drill his student, because if he didn't then all those skills Touya had learned would get rusty. "Touya, do you remember the steps that you must take in order to make a proper diagnosis?"
"Yes, Sensei. Do you want me to say them out loud as I perform them?"
"Yes, that way I know you know what your doing."
"Alright," Touya walked over to where the boy was laying and knelt by his bed. "First, you have to look them over for any type of physical injury. See? This guy has a gash right here on his arm." Touya pointed to a long gash that ran from the boy's wrist to just above his elbow. "But you don't treat it immediately, because if there was a more serious injury you don't want to overlook it because of a minor one. The next step is to check and see if there are any type of internal injuries," Touya placed his hands just above the boy's chest and concentrated. A soft blue-green light consumed his hands as Touya concentrated. It took less than a second for Touya to determine that the boy had no internal injuries, but was practically frozen from the inside out.
Picking up his medicinal supply kit, Touya rummaged around until he pulled out a small bundle of pink blossomed flowers. Shirikubo sighed in relief, because those were the herbs that treated chills and frost bite. Touya hadn't lost them at all.
"This guy is almost completely frozen. It's amazing he has lived this long. Do you want me to continue with my explanation, Sensei?" Touya looked expectantly up at his teacher and waited for his answer. When Shirikubo gave the affirmative, and Touya continued. "In order to use the herbs and administer them on an unconscious victim, one must crush them into a liquid state and then pour it into the victim's throat." Touya pulled a stone grinder out of the kit and placed the herbs between the stones. It took several minutes for the herbs to be ground into a liquid, put Touya caught every drop in a bowl he had placed under the grinder. Once he was finished, he carefully poured the liquid into the boy's throat and sat back.
"I'm impressed, kid," Kyoko said, stunned by this boy's knowledge. It was more than he himself knew!!
"It's just the basics. I hope to train him to be even better as time goes on," Shirikubo's voice was full of pride. "Touya, you passed the test, that was all I wanted to see. Now you can just wrap up the wound on his arm. I know you can do that."
Touya nodded and pulled several herbs and lengths of wrap out of his bag. He then carefully grabbed the boy's arm and rubbed the hers on it. Then he slowly wrapped the whole of the boy's arm, from palm to shoulder, so it wouldn't move. When a wound is wrapped that way, it has a tendency to heal faster than when wrapped so it can move.
"Excellent." Shirikubo said to Touya when he had finished. "Let's leave this boy here and let him sleep. Come along."
"Um, Sensei?" Touya asked timidly. "Can I stay here and watch over him? Just to make sure he doesn't get worse through the night?"
Shirikubo was puzzled. Why would Touya want to watch after this boy? However, Shirikubo had the feeling Touya would stay no matter what he answered. "Alright Touya. You can stay with the boy. Just notify us once he wakes up, alright?"
"Yes Sensei,"
And with that the two masters took their leave from the room, leaving Touya kneeling by the mysterious young boy. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
'God, my head hurts,' Jin thought through the fog in his brain. 'How long have I been out?' Blearily he opened his eyes, but nothing was in focus enough for him to make out what anything was. He blinked a few times, and his vision cleared up some what. What he first saw was a wooden ceiling, unpainted. 'Wait. Didn't I pass out outside?' Turning his head just a little bit caused a spike of pain to be driven into his skull, but he ignored it and began to look around him.
Jin took in the dresser, window, the walls. He noted that this was a small room, but spacious enough to hold what one needed in life. Then Jin looked to his left, and nearly fell off the bed in surprise.
A guy about his age, maybe younger, was kneeling by his bed. Well, had been kneeling. It looked like he had fallen asleep with his head on the foot of the bed Jin was lying in. Jin was a bit shocked to see that the guy had silvery-blue hair with green spikes. His whole rustling around in surprise must have disturbed the guy from his sleep, because the guy was moving around a bit as if to stretch before waking up. Then the guy opened his eyes.
"Ahh!" they both screamed, trying to jump as far away from the other as possible. Jin couldn't get very far because there was a headboard right behind him. The guy had leapt all the way to the other side of the room and was now pressed against the dresser.
"Don't do that!" the guy said, clutching his chest in shock. His icy, slightly deep voice surprised Jin even more. He wasn't expecting a voice like that to come from a guy smaller than him. "I don't like to be freaked out first thing in the morning!"
Jin had freaked out because he had seen the guy's eyes. There were no pupils in his eyes, just the same icy blue as the iris. It was as if he had never had pupils to begin with. "Who are you and where am I?!" Jin demanded, wanting to know what had happened to him. His accent must have confused the guy, because he was looking at him curiously.
"Um, would you repeat that?" Jin repeated it, feeling incredibly annoyed, but then again, this wasn't the first time. It took most people at least four tries to get what he was saying. "Well," 'There's no way in hell he's going to get it.' Jin thought. "I'm Touya, and you're in Kyoko's cabin in the forests of the Makai."
Jin nearly fell over in surprise again. This guy understood him! But he was still confused. "Um, where's the Makai?" he asked.
Now it was the guy's turn to be surprised. "Are you stupid or something? The Makai is where you are right now." then he cleared his throat and headed to the door, "Oh, what's your name?"
"Jin,"
"Okay, now Jin," he said opening the door. "I have to go tell my master that you're awake. Stay put and try not to move." and he was out the door, shutting it behind him in the process.
Jin's head hurt even more now. All that jumping around wasn't helping his head in the least. Slowly, so he wouldn't hurt his head anymore, Jin lowered himself back to a laying position on the bed. Once his head was securely on the pillow, he closed his eyes. 'I'll just wait like this for him to come back,' he thought. Slowly, he slipped into an incredibly light doze.
His doze didn't last long. He was jarred from it when the door flew open, announcing the arrival of Touya's sensei. Forcing his eyes open, he saw Touya and the man who must be his master. The man had long silvery-blue hair and abnormally liquid-looking eyes.
"Glad to see you pulled through," the man said, giving Jin a friendly smile. Jin felt himself instantly relax under that smile. This man had an air about him that could be trusted, though his voice was icy like Touya's. "I am Shirikubo, master of ice. I understand that you have already met Touya, my student."
Jin almost nodded, but then thought of his head. It would hurt if he nodded, so he decided to just say, "Yes. We've met briefly." Touya gave him a small smile from behind his master.
"Excellent, now if you wouldn't mind, I would like to ask you a few questions. You don't mind, do you?"
Before Jin could answer, he heard a slightly airy voice with a British accent shout down the hallway, "Oi! You honestly don't think you're going to leave me out of this?! I demand a presence in this interrogation!!!"
The owner of the voice soon made his presence known. Jin watched amazed as a man much faster than him zipped into the room and proceeded to argue with the man called Shirikubo. The man had long cerulean hair and somewhat dark skin. "I want to be present! This is my house and I demand a presence here in this room!!" He continued to argue along those lines, until Jin began to laugh. Jin wasn't just laughing, Jin was cracking up. It caused all those in the room to look at him.
"S-sorry!" he gasped out once he calmed down a bit. "It's just that that's exactly how I would argue with my mom! Bring up random topics and try and make it work!!" That started a fresh wave of laughter from Jin, remembering the look on his mom's face when his arguments made no point whatsoever. The look was exactly the same as the one that had been on Shirikubo's face.
"The boy has an accent!! A thick one, at that!!" the new guy stated obviously, earning a fresh wave of laughter from Jin and a chuckle from Touya, who was finding this all very amusing. The guy more or less ran over to Jin and shook his hand. "I'm Kyoko the wind master! It's so nice to meet someone else who thinks along the same lines as me!!"
"Ditto," Jin said through his laughter.
"Can we start with the questions now?" Shirikubo asked, thoroughly annoyed at his friends behavior. Kyoko quickly broke away from Jin and stood by Shirikubo. Then Jin processed what Kyoko had told him.
"Wait! Wind master? As in you can fly?"
"Yep! I can fly, run fast, and my personality matches my element!!" Then he got suspicious, and looked at Jin with mock-serious eyes, "And how would you know that? Didn't you live some kind of sheltered life in the forests of the Makai?"
"Hey! I'm supposed to be asking the questions here!" Shirikubo pushed Kyoko out of the way and then glared at Jin with similar eyes, "Answer the question! The one he just asked." Touya fell over laughing behind his master, and Jin almost fell off the bed. Shirikubo looked at the two of them as if he had never seen anything quite like this before.
It took Jin longer to calm down this time, but when he did he finally answered the question. "My mom told me about them before.she left." he made up the lie quickly, not wanting to admit to himself what had really happened to her. "And where is the Makai? Touya said I was in it now, but I don't recall ever having anything like this by my home."
"Touya spoke true when he said that that's where you are," Shirikubo looked confused at Jin's question. "What do you mean, nothing like this by your home?"
"What I mean is, no one was like you guys, my house was the only one for miles around, and I don't recall having snow when I left." Then, on a sudden burst of inspiration, he asked, "Um, are you guys called demons or something? I remember my mom told me about them, too. Said I was half one."
Kyoko and Shirikubo looked shocked at Jin's words. They had never met a creature who was only half demon. What was the other half? Touya, on the other hand, didn't look disturbed in the least.
"Boy," Shirikubo said, giving his head a shake. "Yes, we are demons, but you must do this for me. You must answer this and be as specific as possible. Where are you from and if you're half demon, what's the other half?
"Well, I'm from Dublin, Ireland originally. But my family and I moved to Tokyo, Japan not that long ago. This specific enough?" Shirikubo nodded yes and Jin kept going. "My mom told me that I'm a quarter elf, a quarter some other type of demon, and half human."
The jaws of Shirikubo and Kyoko just dropped while Touya starred at him dumbfounded. "What?" Jin asked, now confused.
Alright, I don't feel that good so I'm stopping there. If you guys don't give me reviews, I won't update. And those reviews don't necessarily have to be from this story. I would like a few more reviews on my Ghost and Shadow story. Please!!
Ice Meet Wind 5: Waking Up in a Whole New World
Shirikubo followed Touya out into the hall, wondering what Touya needed help with. When he saw the body, he stopped dead in his tracks, causing Kyoko to run into him.
"Ow! Why'd you go and stop-" Kyoko shut up at the sight of the body on the floor. His eyes got wider and wider until Touya thought they were going to pop out of his head.
"Touya," Shirikubo said quietly, trying to keep his voice calm. "Where'd you find this boy?"
"It'll sound stupid," Touya muttered, embarrassed at how he had tripped over the boy. He was so embarrassed that he actually started to blush.
"Just tell me Touya!" snapped Shirikubo. Touya was taken aback. Shirikubo never snapped unless it was really important.
"I was sliding around in the snow," Touya began. "And I lost control and tripped over him. I wasn't sure if he was alive or not, so I brought him here. Did I do something wrong?" he added in a scared voice.
Shirikubo sighed. He hated scaring Touya like that. Even though most masters treated their students indifferently, Shirikubo was actually very fond of the boy. "No, Touya." he said softly, still staring at the boy on the floor, "You did what you thought was right. I couldn't ask more from you. Kyoko," he directed his final comment at the wind master, who still had his eyes bugging out of his head. "Take this boy to one of the bedrooms. We shall take care of him then question him when he wakes up."
Kyoko nodded and picked the boy off the floor. Moving him gently so he wouldn't make any bone breaks worse, Kyoko took him to the bedroom next to Touya's room. Touya and Shirikubo went to their rooms to get their medicinal supplies.
Shirikubo shut the door behind him, and let out a sigh. 'One of them? I thought their race had disappeared years ago,' he thought. Shaking his head to clear his thoughts, Shirikubo went to his dresser. Rummaging through several weapons, scrolls and clothes, he finally found his medicinal supplies. A basic set of medicinal supplies consisted of wound wraps, healing herbs for wounds, and herbs for illness. Shirikubo had given Touya a set like that as a gift for being so talented in healing. Shirikubo naturally had a more complex set, but needed some herbs from Touya's kit.
Touya, when he was younger, had accidentally stumbled upon some rare herbs that helped relieve frost bite and chills. The boy had no idea what they were, but had picked lots because he thought they were pretty. It wasn't until Shirikubo found them drying that he had realized what his young student had found. Shirikubo let Touya keep the herbs, just in case they ever found a creature who needed them. Now, there was a boy in the next room who needed them, and Shirikubo hoped that Touya hadn't lost those herbs.
A knock on the door jolted Shirikubo out of his thoughts. Walking to his bedroom door, Shirikubo hesitated before opening it. 'Why am I being so cautious?' he thought when he saw Touya there with a medical kit.
"Are you feeling okay?" Touya asked, looking up to his teacher.
"Yes, I'm fine Touya. Let's go treat that boy before he gets any worse." ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
In the next bedroom Kyoko was examining the mysterious boy Touya had found. The whole reason Kyoko had been so shocked was because the boy looked like an elf. Upon closer inspection, Kyoko realized he was an elf. Elves had been thought for many years to have died out, but in reality they just moved out of sight of all demons and apparitions. Deep in the dark forests of the Makai they now lived, and they never came out. To find one this far from their homeland was very unusual.
"Kyoko," Shirikubo's voice sounded behind him, signaling that the medicine was here.
"This boy is an elf, Shiri," Kyoko said, but then added on a softer note, "But I don't think he's a pure breed. Look, he has a horn on his head, and fangs. Pure elves don't have those, nor are they this big. I have a feeling this boy is a cross between at least one other creature other than elf."
"No matter, we'll ask him when he wakes up." Shirikubo turned to Touya, ready to drill him on healing. Shirikubo never missed an opportunity to drill his student, because if he didn't then all those skills Touya had learned would get rusty. "Touya, do you remember the steps that you must take in order to make a proper diagnosis?"
"Yes, Sensei. Do you want me to say them out loud as I perform them?"
"Yes, that way I know you know what your doing."
"Alright," Touya walked over to where the boy was laying and knelt by his bed. "First, you have to look them over for any type of physical injury. See? This guy has a gash right here on his arm." Touya pointed to a long gash that ran from the boy's wrist to just above his elbow. "But you don't treat it immediately, because if there was a more serious injury you don't want to overlook it because of a minor one. The next step is to check and see if there are any type of internal injuries," Touya placed his hands just above the boy's chest and concentrated. A soft blue-green light consumed his hands as Touya concentrated. It took less than a second for Touya to determine that the boy had no internal injuries, but was practically frozen from the inside out.
Picking up his medicinal supply kit, Touya rummaged around until he pulled out a small bundle of pink blossomed flowers. Shirikubo sighed in relief, because those were the herbs that treated chills and frost bite. Touya hadn't lost them at all.
"This guy is almost completely frozen. It's amazing he has lived this long. Do you want me to continue with my explanation, Sensei?" Touya looked expectantly up at his teacher and waited for his answer. When Shirikubo gave the affirmative, and Touya continued. "In order to use the herbs and administer them on an unconscious victim, one must crush them into a liquid state and then pour it into the victim's throat." Touya pulled a stone grinder out of the kit and placed the herbs between the stones. It took several minutes for the herbs to be ground into a liquid, put Touya caught every drop in a bowl he had placed under the grinder. Once he was finished, he carefully poured the liquid into the boy's throat and sat back.
"I'm impressed, kid," Kyoko said, stunned by this boy's knowledge. It was more than he himself knew!!
"It's just the basics. I hope to train him to be even better as time goes on," Shirikubo's voice was full of pride. "Touya, you passed the test, that was all I wanted to see. Now you can just wrap up the wound on his arm. I know you can do that."
Touya nodded and pulled several herbs and lengths of wrap out of his bag. He then carefully grabbed the boy's arm and rubbed the hers on it. Then he slowly wrapped the whole of the boy's arm, from palm to shoulder, so it wouldn't move. When a wound is wrapped that way, it has a tendency to heal faster than when wrapped so it can move.
"Excellent." Shirikubo said to Touya when he had finished. "Let's leave this boy here and let him sleep. Come along."
"Um, Sensei?" Touya asked timidly. "Can I stay here and watch over him? Just to make sure he doesn't get worse through the night?"
Shirikubo was puzzled. Why would Touya want to watch after this boy? However, Shirikubo had the feeling Touya would stay no matter what he answered. "Alright Touya. You can stay with the boy. Just notify us once he wakes up, alright?"
"Yes Sensei,"
And with that the two masters took their leave from the room, leaving Touya kneeling by the mysterious young boy. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
'God, my head hurts,' Jin thought through the fog in his brain. 'How long have I been out?' Blearily he opened his eyes, but nothing was in focus enough for him to make out what anything was. He blinked a few times, and his vision cleared up some what. What he first saw was a wooden ceiling, unpainted. 'Wait. Didn't I pass out outside?' Turning his head just a little bit caused a spike of pain to be driven into his skull, but he ignored it and began to look around him.
Jin took in the dresser, window, the walls. He noted that this was a small room, but spacious enough to hold what one needed in life. Then Jin looked to his left, and nearly fell off the bed in surprise.
A guy about his age, maybe younger, was kneeling by his bed. Well, had been kneeling. It looked like he had fallen asleep with his head on the foot of the bed Jin was lying in. Jin was a bit shocked to see that the guy had silvery-blue hair with green spikes. His whole rustling around in surprise must have disturbed the guy from his sleep, because the guy was moving around a bit as if to stretch before waking up. Then the guy opened his eyes.
"Ahh!" they both screamed, trying to jump as far away from the other as possible. Jin couldn't get very far because there was a headboard right behind him. The guy had leapt all the way to the other side of the room and was now pressed against the dresser.
"Don't do that!" the guy said, clutching his chest in shock. His icy, slightly deep voice surprised Jin even more. He wasn't expecting a voice like that to come from a guy smaller than him. "I don't like to be freaked out first thing in the morning!"
Jin had freaked out because he had seen the guy's eyes. There were no pupils in his eyes, just the same icy blue as the iris. It was as if he had never had pupils to begin with. "Who are you and where am I?!" Jin demanded, wanting to know what had happened to him. His accent must have confused the guy, because he was looking at him curiously.
"Um, would you repeat that?" Jin repeated it, feeling incredibly annoyed, but then again, this wasn't the first time. It took most people at least four tries to get what he was saying. "Well," 'There's no way in hell he's going to get it.' Jin thought. "I'm Touya, and you're in Kyoko's cabin in the forests of the Makai."
Jin nearly fell over in surprise again. This guy understood him! But he was still confused. "Um, where's the Makai?" he asked.
Now it was the guy's turn to be surprised. "Are you stupid or something? The Makai is where you are right now." then he cleared his throat and headed to the door, "Oh, what's your name?"
"Jin,"
"Okay, now Jin," he said opening the door. "I have to go tell my master that you're awake. Stay put and try not to move." and he was out the door, shutting it behind him in the process.
Jin's head hurt even more now. All that jumping around wasn't helping his head in the least. Slowly, so he wouldn't hurt his head anymore, Jin lowered himself back to a laying position on the bed. Once his head was securely on the pillow, he closed his eyes. 'I'll just wait like this for him to come back,' he thought. Slowly, he slipped into an incredibly light doze.
His doze didn't last long. He was jarred from it when the door flew open, announcing the arrival of Touya's sensei. Forcing his eyes open, he saw Touya and the man who must be his master. The man had long silvery-blue hair and abnormally liquid-looking eyes.
"Glad to see you pulled through," the man said, giving Jin a friendly smile. Jin felt himself instantly relax under that smile. This man had an air about him that could be trusted, though his voice was icy like Touya's. "I am Shirikubo, master of ice. I understand that you have already met Touya, my student."
Jin almost nodded, but then thought of his head. It would hurt if he nodded, so he decided to just say, "Yes. We've met briefly." Touya gave him a small smile from behind his master.
"Excellent, now if you wouldn't mind, I would like to ask you a few questions. You don't mind, do you?"
Before Jin could answer, he heard a slightly airy voice with a British accent shout down the hallway, "Oi! You honestly don't think you're going to leave me out of this?! I demand a presence in this interrogation!!!"
The owner of the voice soon made his presence known. Jin watched amazed as a man much faster than him zipped into the room and proceeded to argue with the man called Shirikubo. The man had long cerulean hair and somewhat dark skin. "I want to be present! This is my house and I demand a presence here in this room!!" He continued to argue along those lines, until Jin began to laugh. Jin wasn't just laughing, Jin was cracking up. It caused all those in the room to look at him.
"S-sorry!" he gasped out once he calmed down a bit. "It's just that that's exactly how I would argue with my mom! Bring up random topics and try and make it work!!" That started a fresh wave of laughter from Jin, remembering the look on his mom's face when his arguments made no point whatsoever. The look was exactly the same as the one that had been on Shirikubo's face.
"The boy has an accent!! A thick one, at that!!" the new guy stated obviously, earning a fresh wave of laughter from Jin and a chuckle from Touya, who was finding this all very amusing. The guy more or less ran over to Jin and shook his hand. "I'm Kyoko the wind master! It's so nice to meet someone else who thinks along the same lines as me!!"
"Ditto," Jin said through his laughter.
"Can we start with the questions now?" Shirikubo asked, thoroughly annoyed at his friends behavior. Kyoko quickly broke away from Jin and stood by Shirikubo. Then Jin processed what Kyoko had told him.
"Wait! Wind master? As in you can fly?"
"Yep! I can fly, run fast, and my personality matches my element!!" Then he got suspicious, and looked at Jin with mock-serious eyes, "And how would you know that? Didn't you live some kind of sheltered life in the forests of the Makai?"
"Hey! I'm supposed to be asking the questions here!" Shirikubo pushed Kyoko out of the way and then glared at Jin with similar eyes, "Answer the question! The one he just asked." Touya fell over laughing behind his master, and Jin almost fell off the bed. Shirikubo looked at the two of them as if he had never seen anything quite like this before.
It took Jin longer to calm down this time, but when he did he finally answered the question. "My mom told me about them before.she left." he made up the lie quickly, not wanting to admit to himself what had really happened to her. "And where is the Makai? Touya said I was in it now, but I don't recall ever having anything like this by my home."
"Touya spoke true when he said that that's where you are," Shirikubo looked confused at Jin's question. "What do you mean, nothing like this by your home?"
"What I mean is, no one was like you guys, my house was the only one for miles around, and I don't recall having snow when I left." Then, on a sudden burst of inspiration, he asked, "Um, are you guys called demons or something? I remember my mom told me about them, too. Said I was half one."
Kyoko and Shirikubo looked shocked at Jin's words. They had never met a creature who was only half demon. What was the other half? Touya, on the other hand, didn't look disturbed in the least.
"Boy," Shirikubo said, giving his head a shake. "Yes, we are demons, but you must do this for me. You must answer this and be as specific as possible. Where are you from and if you're half demon, what's the other half?
"Well, I'm from Dublin, Ireland originally. But my family and I moved to Tokyo, Japan not that long ago. This specific enough?" Shirikubo nodded yes and Jin kept going. "My mom told me that I'm a quarter elf, a quarter some other type of demon, and half human."
The jaws of Shirikubo and Kyoko just dropped while Touya starred at him dumbfounded. "What?" Jin asked, now confused.
Alright, I don't feel that good so I'm stopping there. If you guys don't give me reviews, I won't update. And those reviews don't necessarily have to be from this story. I would like a few more reviews on my Ghost and Shadow story. Please!!