Chapter 7

In one of my reviews, someone asked me why Chichiri now says 'ya know' instead of 'no da'. The simple answer to that is that when Chichiri's mask is off, he's more serious so he says 'ya know' and the Chichiri with the mask on says 'no da'. It might not make any sense but I wanted it to be like the book and the anime series, so I made a time for him to say one and the other. U yes, I know I'm strange.

"Stop! Stop it!" A person yelled from behind her. Her eyes regained their natural color and she looked as if she had woken up from a nightmare. She thought she knew that voice, but instead of turning around she just ignored it. Her eyes changed back to the fierce way they were before.

She lifted up her hand once more and said, "Goodbye." A person from behind grabbed her and her attack stopped. She struggled to get free. She looked at their arms and saw lots of blood and the blood was staining her outfit. She kicked her foot into the person's stomach and they loosened their grip on her, enough to let her slip out of their arms and turn around. When she did, she found a very hurt Chichiri fall to his knees. Her eyes regained their kindness and sorrow and she fell to her knees as well.

"Chichiri! Are you all right?! This is the second time!" She said worried and beating herself up for what she did again.

"Don't worry, I'm fine. I just got to remember to watch out for your killer kicks." Chichiri smiled and Aoi hugged him. She then remembered that Nakago was sitting behind them. She turned to face him.

"Chichiri, wait right here. I must settle this with him now." She lifted up her hand and Chichiri gently brought it back down. She looked at him.

"Don't kill him Jen, he's not worth it."

"But if I don't kill him now, he'll come after us again!" She said.

Chichiri let go of her arm and used both hands to hold her face closed to his. "If you do this, you'll never forget that you killed a person. Even if it may be Nakago, you don't ever want to go through with that. Believe me Jen." Chichiri said hugging her.

She didn't want to leave his embrace. He was so warm, but she had to.

"I understand." Aoi said. She stood up and helped Chichiri up too. One hand held Chichiri's and the other had the glass stone in it. She put that hand up and aimed at Nakago.

"Sorry Nakago but, I just can't stay here. I have to go home," She looked over at Chichiri, remembering that he doesn't know she loves him and so she said, "with this soldier brave enough to come and save me." She sent a weak chi wave out from the stone. It was enough to knock Nakago out and keep him like that until they were safe in Hong-Nan.

On the way back to Hong-Nan. Chichiri noticed what Aoi was wearing. She had changed back into the other outfit, except it was how it was before it got all ripped up. She was still holding the stone in her hands. Where had it come from? She didn't know but she wasn't about to loose her concentration. She was walking in front of Chichiri. They had gone to Tai Yi-Jun's place so that Lai Lai could heal Chichiri and now, with the accompaniment of Tasuki in front, they arrived at Hong-Nan to find in front of the Palace another girl. She was looking around and had a huge Hello Kitty backpack that was full of stuff. It wasn't until Tasuki said, "What th hell is dat?" That Aoi noticed the person. She instantly recognized her.

She ran past Chichiri and Tasuki yelling, "Hal! Hal!!" The girl turned around to be pummeled by another girl. Usagi looked at her and screamed.

"Its you Aoi! I've been looking for you!" Usagi and Aoi got up and started doing their happy dances. Chichiri and Tasuki just starred.

Tasuki thought, 'Man, all th girls from de otha world must be loony.'

Tasuki cleared his throat and the girls stopped dancing around. They walked up to Tasuki.

"Chichiri, Tasuki, you remember Usagi don't you?" Aoi asked, a grin on her face.

"Usagi?" Tasuki and Chichiri thought for a while. It hit Tasuki and Chichiri at the same time.

"You're that girl that was always talking about, what was it called, Icecup?" Tasuki said.

"No! Ice cream! I brought some this time. I even brought a mini fridge!" She said proudly.

Aoi just stood there giggling. "Well enough of this, lets go inside the palace and hope they have our rooms ready." Aoi said to Usagi. They started walking up the stairs talking about their own things. Their conversation went something like this.

"How long has it been in our world?"

"It's only been thirty minutes."

"Thirty minutes?! Are you saying that I endured all that and it had only been thirty minutes in our time?"

"Yes, and endured what? Where are your regular school clothes and what's with that freaky outfit?"

"One word. Nakago."

"EW!! Are you serious?! Nakago put you in that outfit?!"

"He claims he didn't put me in this outfit but it was made for me."

"That is soooo wrong!"

"Tell me about it. I have tot ell you everything that's happened so far. Where are the others?"

"Izumi is trying to sneak out of her house without her mom knowing, Emi is waiting for Izumi to go get her, and Yume can't leave the house. They'll all be here soon."

"Good."

TO BE CONINUED