Chapter 6: Meeting Again
'…' = Thoughts
"…" Speaking
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A huge bulky man entered to the front of the museums automatic doors.
"There might be some useful stuff here in this useless place…" he murmured to himself as he approached the lady at the cashier.
"Hello sir…welcome to the Ancient Past Museum, how may I help you?" she said in a high squeaky tone.
"I already have a reservation to go here today…" the man said as he handed the lady his membership card.
She typed some numbers on the computer and scanned the card. Finally she gave back the card to him, "Welcome our newest member Gohei. I hope you'll enjoy your visit here today."
"Thank you…" he said quietly and headed into the inner part of the museum. Gohei stared into the map and narrow down all his choices.
'I think there might be some useful stuff in the History of the Past…I'll check out there right now…' he thought to himself. Gohei slowly headed down the hallway, little did he know that he was also heading towards where Kaoru is.
Misao and Aoshi walked slowly down the hall when all the suddenly her bracelet vibrated and a security camera nearby sparked and shut down. She turned around and whimpered, "Aoshi…you never told us that our communicators could break down security cameras…"
Aoshi slowly turned his head around in embarrassment. Misao began to get the idea, "Oh no…"
"Wow…there's a lot of stuff here…" Kaoru said while looking at the place around her, "So far nothing useful though…"
Kaoru continued to walk until her heart started to pound with fear. It pounded so hard that Kaoru could hear it echo throughout the whole room. She began to slow her pace and walked with cautious eyes. Suddenly her earring began to vibrate, Kaoru jump and looked around.
"Oh, it's the communicator…for a second I thought I was being followed…" Kaoru said to herself as she pushed her earring, "Yeah?"
"Hi, Kaoru…how are you doing?" a voice entered into her ear.
"I'm fine Aoshi…" Kaoru replied slightly irritated, "What is it?"
"Nothing…just checking if you're fine and all…"
"Bye then…" Kaoru instantly replied and pressed her earring once again, "He's so over-protective!" She headed down towards the hall once again and her stomach did twist and turns. She could feel a shadow lurking behind her, Kaoru instantly turned around and looked around. 'I can feel it here, something is following me…but what is it?'
Kaoru turned around and saw a green emerald gem it instantly reminded her of her best friend, "Misao…I know Aoshi is being really protective of me lately…and I know you're jealous…trust me, I would never take him away from you!" Kaoru walked silently down the hallway momentarily forgetting about her duty and was trapped into her deep thoughts, 'Misao and Aoshi likes each other, Megumi and Sano likes each other too, it's just that the two couple won't show it! I'll have to hook them up then! After that happens…what will happen to me? It's always like this Kaoru…you're the one always left out…'
Kaoru instantly stopped dead in her tracks and sighed deeply, "I'm the one left one…always…but I won't let it put me down!" She quickly began went back to her duty. She walked into a room filled with vases and jars. She noticed that all of them weren't glued onto the stand, "Wow…how smart to not glue priceless artifacts for everyone to see…"
She leaned over to all the glass jars and read every single description for each objects finally she got really bored. "I'm so sick of it," she shouted, "My mind's going to blow! This is so boring! I've been in here for 2 friggin' whole hours! This is pure torture! I wonder how Sano is doing… "
"Megumi…I'm tired…we've been here for too long…" Sano whined.
"Oh shut up! We took a 1 hour and thirty minute lunch break and a 20 minutes bathroom break because of you! We've been walking in here for only 10 minutes and you're complaining!?" Megumi shouted, "You are so lazy!"
"I'm just tired!" Sano defended while staring at a very angry fox, "Fine, you win…I'll walk…"
"Okay then," Megumi smiled, "Glad you see it my way…"
"Whatever fox, whatever…" Sano mumbled.
Megumi sighed and wondered aloud, "I wonder how Kaoru is doing?"
"Of course she'll be fine," Sano snorted, "Why wouldn't she be?"
"I don't know…" Megumi replied, "I have this feeling that something is going to happen and I'm worried for her…"
"Well…if she is in trouble then she'll communicate to us, so don't worry okay?" Sano said gently while putting one arm around Megumi's shoulder and giving it a reassuring squeeze. Megumi faced Sano and blushed, "Okay…I won't worry so much then…"
Kaoru lay on a nearby bench in the section she was standing around at. "At least I have least I have one more section of "History of the Past" to look at…" she said happily, "The faster I get through it the faster I can't get out of this place. It's starting to give me more goose bumps…"
Kaoru stood up and started to head towards the door that led to a new section that was until she heard an angry mumbling voice, "Stupid big place…I've been in here for two whole hours and still I couldn't find anything!" She immediately stopped in her tracks and looked back. 'I've heard that voice before…but where?'
Soon the steps became louder and louder and headed towards Kaoru's direction. Her heart pounded crazily as she looked around for a place to hide. She quickly hid behind a huge vase and stayed quiet as the loud footsteps entered into the room she was in.
"Stupid, crappy place…" the man mumbled angrily, his voice was loud and deep, it left a deep rumbling sound in the room, "Screw this place for making it so BIG!" The man banged his fist into a nearby wall immediately making a loud sound roaring throughout the room. Kaoru who was staying quiet the whole time jumped at the sound the man made and jumped out her hiding spot. The man turned around and saw Kaoru, Kaoru also saw the man. They both saw each other face to face. Kaoru immediately recognized the man, 'It's Gohei! That huge man I saw two weeks ago…the one trying to hurt my friends…and nearly killed me!'
Gohei faced Kaoru and immediately remembered her, 'It's that wench that was suppose to dead two weeks ago! What's she doing here?'
They both breathed slowly and loudly making sure they see each other chest go up. Finally their patience snapped and they both yelled at each other, "You AGAIN!?"
Gohei merely smiled, "I'm surprised for a girl like you, you managed to escape your death from my best men. Not only that but you managed to kill most of them…Well prepare yourself this time wench, I'll kill you myself."
Kaoru gulped loudly and braced herself, then she smirked taking Gohei by surprise, "I'm full of surprises and here's one of them!"
Kaoru gracefully swept towards one direction where the vases stood at, then she picked one up and threw it at Gohei. Gohei reacted quickly and grabbed it before it hits the floor.
"Watch it kid! These stuff are expensive!" he cried as he grabbed another vase Kaoru threw, "Even though I have powers don't mean that I'm still not paying bills! I'm still trying to maintain a regular life!"
"I know!" she replied, "That's why I'm throwing it at you!"
"Fine…you want to fight fire with fire?" he growled, "Here's one for you then!"
Gohei then threw a vase at Kaoru. She quickly dodged to the floor and saved it, "Hey! I'm the same as you! I can't afford these things!"
Gohei cackled and threw three more vases at Kaoru, she reacted quickly and swiftly swooped down and grabbed all three of them. She smiled and laughed, "You don't mess with a girl who has learned dance before."
Kaoru then picked up another vase along with the other four she caught and threw it high into the air. Gohei who saw all five vases flying in the air panicked and Kaoru with quick thinking ran off. "Shit…shit…shit!" he murmured to himself and grabbed two strands of hair from his head, "Come out now!"
The two hair strands fell on the floor and transformed into two other Gohei, one that looked goofy caught two vases, one angry looking Gohei caught another two, and the real Gohei himself caught the last one and placed everything back to where it was. "Get the girl right now!" he commanded. The two different Gohei nodded and ran off.
Gohei stood cackling, "Now I can actually move on without worrying about that girl…" He slowly walked away laughing maniacally.
Kaoru panted and ran down the hall quickly. She quickly reached up to her earring and pressed it, then shouted quickly, "Aoshi, everyone! I need help NOW! I'm heading towards the bulletin section!"
She heard two grunting noise panting behind her and she began to panic, 'Damn…there's two of them now!? This is not my day…'
Misao and Aoshi who had been looking at Ancient Artifacts stayed quiet throughout the two hours they were in there. Misao sighed and opened her mouth to say something until her bracelet began to vibrate. Aoshi looked down at his watch, "It's Kaoru!" Misao pressed the button on her bracelet and Kaoru's voice came out from it, "Aoshi, everyone. I need help NOW! I'm heading towards the bulletin section!"
Misao and Aoshi looked at each other and ran off quickly to the section where Kaoru is to be at.
Kaoru continued to run down the halls with the two Gohei hot on her trail from behind. She looked up to the directory and noticed that the bulletin sector is right up ahead. 'Please let them be there already, please let them be there already!' she pleaded silently to herself.
She ran with the rest of her strength and approached a small room. Kaoru approached the inside of the large room to realize that it was empty. "No…" she murmured to herself, "They won't leave me like this…they can't…." Kaoru collapsed on her knees while silently crying to herself. She then heard other footsteps approaching, "Hey little girl…you put us up for quite a chase but it's going to end now…!" the angry looking Gohei said with a deadly tone while looking at her with bloodlust in his eyes.
"Yeah, yeah!" the goofy Gohei commented while pulling out a dagger from his pocket.
'Is this how my life will end? I've done so much trying to actually survive…to be with my friends…to fit in with my friends…is this how I want to die?' Kaoru thought in her mind, 'No…it's not…'
Kaoru got up from the floor and prepared herself for another fight but it never came. The goofy looking Gohei laughed and made a hand motion like as if he was pulling a string. Finally he pulled it completely and Kaoru arms and legs stood separated from each other like a puppet held up by strings. "Cheater!" she spat out, finally the angry Gohei slapped her.
"The only cheater here is you…" he said, "You cheated by running off in the first place…so all we're doing now is getting back at you…"
Kaoru sighed in defeat and closed her eyes waiting for her death. She thought back to the part where she first met Gohei and the part back at the dark tower where she nearly died, then she finally thought back to the point where she was mysteriously saved, 'Who ever saved me back then…I never had a chance to say this one thing I've been wanting to say from that day till now and that's to thank you…so I might as well do it now…'
The two Gohei lifted their daggers up and cackled loudly to Kaoru with her eyes closed while still hanging like a puppet. She managed to murmur something silently to herself before the two daggers struck her, "Thank you…" Suddenly a bright light emerged from her body. Kaoru then heard a sword click and the two Gohei screamed. She felt the invisible strings around her wrists and ankles disappear and a soft manly voice gently whispering to her, "Don't thank me now…we'll see each other soon enough…you can thank me then…"
Aoshi, Misao, Megumi, and Sano approached to see Kaoru about the fall and dark shadow right in front of her. "Stay away from her!" Sano shouted and hurled a fireball to the shadow. The shadow flashed its red eyes at Sano and disappeared. Kaoru's body slowly headed down towards the floor and Aoshi quickly teleported just in time to catch her.
"Kaoru!" he shouted, "Kaoru! Wake up now!"
Kaoru's eyes slowly opened to see Aoshi looking worriedly at her again, "I didn't worry you guys again did I?"
"Kaoru!" Misao shouted, "Are you alright!? We tried to catch up to you as soon as possible but then along the way…Sano had to use the bathroom…"
Misao shot Sano a death glare and turned back to Kaoru, "What happened to you?"
"It's like this…" she murmured, "That guy I saw 2 weeks ago…"
"You mean that Gohei guy?" Megumi asked and Kaoru nodded.
"I bumped into him a while ago…I managed to escape from him but he somehow found another way to get me back. That was when I communicated to you guys. I thought that he wouldn't be able to catch up that fast but it turned out that he cloned himself and made them chase after me," Kaoru stopped, "I ran in hope to see you guys here but you weren't…"
Everyone shot Sano a death glare.
"Once again I was saved…" Kaoru murmured silently, "I don't know by who though…"
"Could it be that mysterious shadow standing in front of Kaoru earlier?" Megumi asked Aoshi.
"Quite possibly…" he replied while helping Kaoru to her feet.
"What happened to that shadow?" Kaoru asked while standing up.
"Sano shot a fireball at it…" Misao said out loud.
Kaoru shot Sano a death glare.
"Enough with the glares already!" Sano shouted, "I'm sorry!"
"So what happened to the two Gohei that were chasing you?" Megumi asked.
Kaoru turned around and pointed to the two dirt piles lying on the floor, "That was them…"
"This is interesting…" Misao said while staring at a poster across the room.
"What is?" Megumi asked while heading towards the poster along with Sano.
Kaoru was just about to head out towards Misao and the others until a hand grabbed her wrist.
"You are never going off alone again!" Aoshi commanded while holding Kaoru's wrist with an iron grip.
"I'm sorry! I didn't know it was going to happen!" Kaoru shouted while looking into Aoshi's deep blue eyes, "You don't trust me do you?"
Aoshi's blue eyes flickered a bit and Kaoru's heart twisted in pain, "You really don't trust me…we've grown up together and you've known me my entire life. Yet you never trusted me…that's why you're so over protective!"
"Kaoru, I…" Aoshi was immediately interrupted.
"I don't want to hear it…" Kaoru said sternly, "I'll see what the others are doing right now…"
Kaoru pulled her wrist out of Aoshi's grip coldly and walked over to Misao. "So what's going on?" Kaoru asked as cheerful as possible. Misao looked at Kaoru strangely, 'Her tone of voice has changed…what just happened between her and Aoshi?' Misao immediately shrugged it off and replied, "Take a look at the poster…"
Kaoru took a look at the poster, it was labeled: The greatest ball ever! Held by our oldest citizen in this city, Tokio Hajime! Come and join us this Saturday night! Enter into our sweepstakes today and you might get to join the celebration! We will have 3 winners!
"And?" Kaoru asked while still not getting the point.
Misao sighed and pushed Kaoru's head closer to the poster, "See that name 'Tokio'? I've taken a look at the 'Battousai' book and the O in Tokio is written with small symbols in the middle. So what I'm thinking is that this Tokio whoever it is might be giving clues that this person might have a book similar to the one we have…"
"So if we sign up for the sweepstakes then there's a chance that we might be able to get in it right?" Kaoru asked finally understanding.
"Exactly!" Misao said happily, "Then we might be able to get our hands on that Dark Book…before chaos starts!"
"I got the forms to fill out!" Megumi replied, "Hurry and fill it out everyone! The contest starts in 5 minutes!"
Everyone pulled out a form along with a pen, and soon they began to fill out their forms. They walked to the front desk along with many other people and tossed their forms into the basket.
"What are the chances of winning this!?" Sano groaned, "There are a whole mess of people entering this…"
"Shut up Sano!" Megumi snapped. A man appeared on the stage and the crowd quiet down.
"Welcome to our drawing contest to go to the ball! Now with no more waiting we'll get started right now!"
The man shook the basket and reached deep inside it and pulled a paper out.
"Our first one is Kiki Young! Come on up and get your ticket!" he shouted.
A young girl jumped up and down the crowd and ran up to the stage and hugged the man. "Oh, like my gosh! I like can't believe like that I won! I have waited since like forever!" she screamed with her high voice.
"It's like she won the Oscars like totally or something…" Misao mimicked, "what an air head…"
"Okay…we'll move on now…" the man continued, "Next winner Sanosuke Sagara! Come on up!"
Sano's jaw dropped his jaw in surprise along with everyone else' then he headed up the stage and snatched the ticket off the man's hand. Sano after that strike a pose and winked at the crowd, afterwards a whole bunch or girls screamed. Megumi who was sitting quietly next to Kaoru disappeared and reappeared on the stage dragging Sano down the stairs…
"Um…moving on!" the man choked out, "Our final winner…Kaoru….uh…there's no last name…so it's just Kaoru!"
Kaoru opened her eyes wide and headed towards the stage. She quickly grabbed a hat that she had in her pocket out and put it on. 'Better make sure that Gohei won't see me…'
Aoshi slowly watch Kaoru head up the stage and noticed a dark figure standing above the crowd with a gun in its hand. He quickly left his seat, Misao who saw him thought privately, 'Why is he getting off his seat?'
Kaoru grabbed the ticket quickly and ran down the stage until a gunshot rang out of nowhere.
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