Yahiko looked down and smiled to himself, poor Aelita had cried herself to sleep.
"Kenshin ..." he said
"Yes"
"I think she's fallenasleep"
"Oh, okay" Kenshin walked over and picked up the tiny girl and asked Yahiko to get the spare bedroom set up.
They went and laid her down and then came back out, closing the shoji (a/n: Japanese sliding door, usually made of rice paper & bamboo found in old fashioned Japanese architecture, pls. someone tell me nicely if I'm wrong, I'm no expert on these things!) softly as to not wake the young girl. No one knew how deeply Aelita slept, they knew it had to be rather deep because being picked up and carried didn't wake her, she barely even disturbed when Kenshin moved her.
Kenshin walked up to Yumi and asked her if he could talk to her.
"Yumi, do you have any idea how you got here?" Kenshin asked
"No, Kenshin, I don't" Yumi replied (a/n: I know I never said that she was introduced to Kenshin or Kaoru, but let's just say she was and leave it at that)
"Well, I was hoping you could tell me so I could figure out some way to get you home.
Meanwhile: Jeremy was typing frantically trying to figure out what had just happened. An hour passed and he still had no idea what had just happened, where Aelita was or Yumi.
'Great, Ulrich's gonna kick my butt!' Jeremy thought 'I guess I should be glad that Alex is still virtual or he'd skin me alive! Even though there was nothing I could have done' Jeremy shook his head.
"Jeremy, where's Aelita?" Alex asked
"I don't know" Jeremy replied and swallowed his pride, expecting the cursing of his life for letting this happen, but it never came.
"Great..." Alex muttered "and let me guess, Yumi's gone too"
"Yes" Jeremy replied, he didn't dare tell Alex he'd come up with a materialization program, he'd ring in that good news once he knew his beloved Aelita was back safely.
"I wish you the best of luck explaining this one to Ulrich!"Alex said teasingly
"Thanks a lot Alex" Jeremy said sarcastically
"No problem, anytime" Alex laughed
"I was being sarcastic, Alex!" Jeremy said "See you... hopefully"
Jeremy logged off and left the factory, how to explain this to Ulrich, that was the big question. Jeremy shook his head a couple of times he had to think of a way to explain what had happened to Yumi and Aelita to Ulrich and quickly, he was almost back at Kadic.
Ulrich sat on a park bench waiting for some sign of the return to the past, and it never came. Then he saw Jeremy come out of the tunnel.
"Jeremy!" Ulrich exclaimed
"Hey, Ulrich" Jeremy replied and replaced the cover.
"Where's Yumi?" Ulrich asked as he jogged over to his friend.
"I don't know" Jeremy replied "she and Aelita went to stop Xana and deactivate a tower, and it ended up not being active to begin with it was actually a trap... and they both disappeared!"
"Whoa... Jeremy, they couldn't have just disappeared..."
"They didn't just disappear, they were transferred to the real world, but I just don't know where." Jeremy said
Then they saw Kaitlin run out of the school gasping for air.
"I think I've found Yumi and Aelita" she said
"Good, where are they?" Jeremy said
"Not good, they were transferred over a hundred years back in time... not to mention the fact that they are in Japan!" Kaitlin said
"They are where!" Jeremy and Ulrich asked in unison.
"Japan, 1894" Kaitlin said "over ten years after the Meji revolution"
"Oh, damn!" Ulrich muttered in German (a/n: Ulrich speaks German in this fic, usually to hide curse words like he just did because he's the only one that speaks fluent German)
"Okay, Ulrich, what did you just say?" Kaitlin asked in frustration.
"Nothing" Ulrich replied quickly
"Okay" Kaitlin said
"Can you get them back?" Jeremy asked hopefully
"Yes, I can, but this will take some time"
"How much time, a few hours, at least"
"Great" Ulrich said
Kaitlin left to go find out if her suspicions were correct, then she got a message from Yumi confirming her suspicions when Yumi mentioned Kenshin, Kaoru and Yahiko.
Kaitlin ran to the location of the wormhole between the two times and left for the other time. Hoping against all hope that neither girl was injured, but she wouldn't be that lucky...
To Be Continued...
a/n: I know I have a lot of cliffhangers in this fic so far, but their in there for the sake of the story-line and Ihave a lot of notes in this fic, but there was a lot of stuff I needed to explain(please note that all flames will be either used to heat tea or redirected at Xana, whichever I choose)
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