Journal Three: jin, a few years after the birth of the forbidden child
"Jin! Get back over here!" Risho called out in desperation for what seemed the hundredth time today, millionth time in the last week.
Me zoomed back over toward Risho, laughingly doing a summersault in the air before landing in front of him. The dark gloominess of the underground area seemed to magnify my hyper-happy energy in such a place as it always did. "Ah, Risho! Me 'ave thought we'd've beenna done by now! Me wanna join Touya in me dinner! Touya!" The last shout was yelled in happiness as me raced over to the Touya, whom had just arrived at the doorway.
"Can me go now? Me hungry Risho!" My red mop of hair whipped around into my eyes as I turned to face Risho. Dang annoying that stuff is sometimes, ah well.
Risho glared in my direction before throwing up his hands into the air. "Argh! I'd give up on you completely if it wasn't for tomorrow night. You seemed to have captured a powerful eye kid. Perhaps I'll just cancel the meeting up there because you can't take one session seriously."
"Up there?" Me questioned loudly before shaking Touya's shoulders wildly. "Here that Touya? Me getto go up onto real ground! Real wind! Wheeee!" Me took off flying around the room again before Risho yelled at me to get down again. Man, he takes the fun out of everything the last few months.
"Yes Jin," Touya answered my question rather stiffly in Risho's presence. "I heard. Who Risho?"
Risho shook his head. "I don't even believe who asked for the meeting. Silly thing. But then, I've always known Kuronue was off his rockers even when young. Figures he'd ask for Jin."
My eyes grew big as me starred up at Risho in disbelief. "Kuronue?" Heck, even Touya looked surprised.
"Yes," Risho answered annoyed. "Kuronue. Him and a few others of that clan take their weapons down here for our people to check over, fixing them if necessary. He spotted your groups game of, what was it? Yes, that tag game or that hide and seek one or another sort of game you play. Seems that batty bat was fairly interested in your control over the wind. Wanted to know how you were in a few months. Something about some raids that had to be done first," Risho paused looking down at my exuberant face at getting out into open air for once in my life and wagged a stern finger down at me.
"Don't get you hopes up Jin. His partner won't be as willing to baby-sit you as Kuronue would and chances are he'll put his foot down to squash Kuronue's wild idea. I'd rather you'd not go at all. You'd probably go too wild about seeing the open air yourself and have them send you back for a more trained person. I'm sure you don't see stealing from others in your future."
Me jumped into the air enthusiastically, twirling around before stopping suddenly. "If da meeting means open air, me going! Me be good Risho! Promise!"
Risho rolled his eyes upward at the word 'promise'. "Fine Jin. It's already scheduled anyway and it'd be nice to have you pay attention for once."
Me nodded and Risho began talking for a long time again. "Now, first you are going to have to concentrate on your wind like a…."
Me nodded again dutifully, blanking out on the rest of what Risho was saying. Risho did like to talk quite a bit in moments like this. Not to mention that all this lecturing wasn't helping my stomach, so me spent some time thinking of some nice things that me could be eating at the moment instead of standing here to listen to Risho's rambles. Let's see…. What would make up for this long speech?
'Me know!' my mind thought excitedly. That human sweet snow concoction! Man, to remember back to when me and Touya snuck inside the kitchens when we escaped from a joint lesson from Risho one day. So many different kinds of that stuff! The look on Risho's face when he found us was worth any valuable object a thief like Kuronue could steal! Touya had stuffed himself more than me and me still couldn't manage to fully escape Risho's grasp as me tried running on that full stomach. Touya couldn't even barely stand, to even compare if he tried to run from Risho. Seems it was supposed to be for some fire demons the next day so that their combined heat didn't cave our underground area.
Whoops.
But, man, was that food worth it. Me nodded to myself, smiling over the taste of those particularly yummy little packages marked for some reason with a blue bunny. Yes, that was worth Risho's punishment to no free hours for nearly four months with only studying out of them lousy history books. What me wouldn't give for another sweet snack like that again at this moment, me thought, pulling myself back to Risho's tirade on how to do something.
"…and make sure you keep the winds upright not to disrupt the papers I hung up there. See if you can't make you wind uses more quiet and unnoticeable to anyone you may go up against. Then I want you to stay in ONE spot, still without disturbing the papers or other traps up there. Get your discipline down so you can concentrate clearly on one spot so your attention doesn't waver. Break your concentration against ANY opponent, weak or strong, and you'll find yourself dead without noticing. Got that Jin?"
Me nodded again. Didn't seem like me missed much. Risho shortened his long version up at the end again to explain it in a simpler way to me. Don't know why he said it twice like that, but it certainly helps when me drift off like that. Me thank the man on being such a talker sometimes during these types of lessons.
"So hold the position until I get back. Then you can go up with me to the meeting. Touya, you're without you dinner partner tonight and tomorrow. Make sure you can get inside you're room on time both nights without Jin's interference, seeing how he'll be training and then gone at this meeting with me. Why that crazy bat choose Jin…" Risho muttered as he led Touya to the door. "Jin! Get working now!"
"Me on it Risho! Me won't miss chance at open-air any day or any time! Real wind for once!" Me yelled at Risho as me flew up near the ceiling.
"Quiet and unnoticeable, I said Jin! Or your enemy could easily spot you without the red giveaway!"
"O course Risho! Quiet! Sorry Touya! Me'll joinya in a few sweet snows if me can manage them when me get back!"
Touya grinned from behind Risho but Risho's face went red as he turned toward me, "NO SWEET SNOW!"
BANG! The door slammed shut. Now me wonder what got Risho in such a mood? Me only said a few….
"Da open air! Wheee!" Forgetting all promises, me took off into the air. So much better than that stuffy place. So many smells, so much wind, so much utter freedom in this open a—
"JIN!"
And yet so much murder written in Risho's eyes. Me promptly landed a ways away from him. Me gave a wave over at him as he still glared at me. "Hey Risho!" Me said cheerily, "Nice weather up there!"
Risho gave up, rolling his eyes. Me let out a laugh; glad me wasn't goin' to be murdered by the guy. Phew!
Journal Three ½: yoko, currently up in a tree watching
This was what Kuronue left for? This little Irish wind maker? The boy's wind usages was quite good, I must say, but clearly too young to be of any help to the clan. Mental issues to one so young wouldn't bode well with the tasks he may have to do…or even see. The boy, Jin, just seemed too innocent for such a life. The way he acted was clear enough for reason. But, I thought grinding my teeth in admitting it; he didn't seem to like the rules…possible for not feeling too guilty over stealing something from someone as powerful as King Enma with all of his rules. But this Jin must learn to respect certain things in order to unlock this block in attitude. Respect for Kuronue and I, as well as other members to the clan. Respect to the abilities to others so as not to be caught in—
Am I actually considering this?
I shook my head to rid these thoughts. The boy was too young. That was that. Standing up in the branch I had taken over to watch for Kuronue, I saw that my partner was approaching the two from the underground Shin obi, a sight of them above ground was quite curious in itself for many demons.
"Hey Risho!" I shook my head disapprovingly, but grinned. Jin and Kuronue sounded like long lost brothers.
"How'd you get this crazy idea away from Yoko Kuronue?" Risho glanced around to look for the missing fox partner.
"Told him I was going to the market for some fruits," Kuronue held up a couple sacks of various fruits as evidence. "I just didn't say where I was going after that. Hey Jin!"
The small Irish boy waved an energetic hand up at my partner. "Hey Kuronue! Me gotta go up inta open air 'cause of this! But Risho doesn't want me messing around," Jin whispered into Kuronue's ear none-to-quietly on the last sentence. The Risho guy sighed, promptly hitting Jin smartly on the head. "Ow! That hurt me head Risho!"
Perhaps I better head down now…. Leaping out of the tree, I took landing right behind Kuronue to steal his worn hat quickly from his head. Placing it on top of my head I step sided away from the weapon being branded at my head. "Hello Kuronue. Fancy meeting you here. What's with this small meeting without your partner?"
Kuronue snatched his hat back. "Yoko. I thought you were making plans for next week."
I grinned over at Kuronue, "Put it off. Seemed my partner's sneaky activities clued me in you were trying to do something without my knowledge. I was right wasn't I? Hello Risho, nice to see you under current conditions."
"Yoko," was the greeting back.
I notice the little Irish boy trying to contain himself from jumping up into the 'open air' like before. "Hello Jin. Nice wind there, but I really must say your hopes were put up."
The mini-wind master grinned up at me at the acknowledgement, "Hey Yoko!"
"Ahh, Yoko," Kuronue whined. "That's not fair. I go to all this trouble. Even you think Jin is good."
I raise my eyebrow, "And yet quite too young in the head to be placed among the clan. I was thinking serious…."
"I am being serious Yoko!"
I pause, looking between Kuronue and Risho for a while. I could feel my ears flicker, annoyed at which I was going to actually agree to.
"Listen up Jin," I spoke to the top of the red head (reminds me of that…Shuichi's hair, even the eyes…) "Trail run for a week, but you're all Kuronue's responsibility. Kuronue, stop cheering about it. There's work to be done for next week. Risho," I turned and left to here Kuronue cheering with Jin's 'Wheee' noise bursting around the area. Maybe perhaps that Jin is more like Kuronue…he could actually hold it with the rest of the clan…. Still, he was young. Personally…I'm glad Kuronue's no Yumi at any rate.
Silverwing013: so that's the chap! I try people…I do…. So anyway…before I get to the journal featuring those two humans everyone is so worried about, I would enjoy some guesses because I have thrown out a few clues from the first journal…enough for anyone to guess. As a prize…um…yee can get the next chappie of any of my stories (including this one) before I post it to Fanfiction. Not much of a prize but much better than giving out invisible cookies to someone!
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