InuYasha sat up, his hair disheveled, and one of his eyes was closed more than the other. It was early. Too early. Ridiculously early. He turned, and propped his back on the back of the couch he had slept on, and planted his feet on the hardwood floor. Really, really, way too early.
He tossed the quilt Mrs. Higurashi had provided for him off, behind the couch, and stood up. He stretched, rolling a sore shoulder. Five days of sword practice didn't come lightly. He hadn't felt this sore since the fight with Atma.
He was down to his white inner haori and hakama. It was plenty warm in the house; no point in wearing the entire outfit all the time. He staggered from the living room into the kitchen, and planted his hands on the kitchen table, trying desperately to get his mind to conform to the same action as his body.
Slowly, he made his way around the kitchen to one of the cupboards. The kitchen had gotten very familiar to him over these past few mornings. He had learned all sorts of stuff. Valuable life lessons like garlic and coco-puffs didn't match. He rummaged through a cupboard for a moment, and pulled out a few leftover biscuits from the big breakfast Kagome had made that first morning. It had been a good breakfast, but he couldn't very well let her know that. It would go against principle.
He took a big bite of one of the biscuits, and staggered over to the cold-box-thingy. Another wonderful invention of Kagome's time. He opened it, and grabbed a carton of milk out of it. The carton had the symbol 'inu' on it, claiming it as his. (This had occurred after he adamantly refused to use a glass, and the family had decided that, to cut down on germs, InuYasha would have his own milk carton). He took a big gulp of the milk, another bite of biscuit, another gulp of milk, and gabbed a sausage from the leftover plate.
He turned, again, shutting the fridge. Damn, it was early. He walked towards the front door, footing still slightly uneven, and threw it open. Damn! He had opened too hard. The door slammed against the outside of the house, and reverberated through the building. InuYasha winced, and looked around. Nobody in the house seemed to be stirring. Good… If Kagome knew how hard he was taking this training, she would start to worry.
He shrugged, and walked out the door, heading for the center of the courtyard of the shrine. It was roomy, and good for sword practice. And practice was what he needed.
*****
Kagome jerked awake as the door slammed. She hated waking up suddenly. Well… she hated waking up period, but she especially hated waking up suddenly. "Mfwaamxglmphrt" She said intelligently, her brain trying to figure out how to speak again. Slowly, it began picking out the remnants of Japanese left in her sleep befuddled consciousness.
Who was up at this time? She rolled over, and starred at her clock. 5:30?! She sat bolt upright, the shock from the door slam taking away any chance of getting back to sleep. Who was up at this time? Her mom didn't even get up until six, and that was on days that she had to teach! And Souta's cartoons hadn't even started yet!
She slowly sidled over to the side of the bed, and oozed out of it, her legs having left their bones in the land of nod. She wore green pajamas with teddy bears on them. She liked Pajamas. They were nice and comfy.
She wobbled out of the blankets, and shakily made her way to the window. Who was out so early?
She parted the blinds of her window, and looked out. And froze.
It was InuYasha…
He strode out to the center of the shrine courtyard, and began rolling his right shoulder, rubbing it as if it was sore. He was wearing his white haori, and Kagome could barely tell where his hair ended and where the cloth began.
She stood transfixed, her breath caught in her throat at the window.
InuYasha rolled his shoulder a while longer, then in one smooth motion shrugged out of the haori.
Kagome's eyes widened, and her mouth parted slightly. What? What was he doing?
The sun had not risen over the city horizon yet, and the world was cast in the gray-blue light of pre-dawn. InuYasha's hair seemed oddly grayish, and the shadows cast around his musculature, playing off every curve and bulge. He was lithe and slender. His chest was smooth, well muscled, and his abs were perfect, not bulging obtusely, but made smooth, liquid steel. He seemed to have no access fat. His arms were long and smooth; the toned muscled not too large, but definitely there. Hardly any scars remained on them from the many battles he had fought.
Kagome closed her mouth, and swallowed. She had never really seen InuYasha without the big baggy haori on before. Sure, she had whenever he had been wounded, but she had never really had the chance to just… look. She ripped her eyes away, and leaned up against the desk, one hand over her pounding heart. She had known he was handsome. That was obvious just from looking at him. She had known he was in shape. That was obvious just from the way he moved. But she hadn't known he was so… She looked over her shoulder, and stole another look… Gorgeous.
InuYasha had the Tetsusaiga out now, still in it's beaten up small form, and was holding it carefully. Kagome blinked and turned around again, trying not to get distracted too much by the… other aspects of the hanyou. What was he doing?
He had the sword grasped in both hands firmly, held at an almost perfect forty five degree angle with the ground. He was resting on the balls of his feet, having them spread out in a careful stance. Kagome had never seen him hold a sword so carefully. With precise control, he raised the sword above his head, and brought it down quickly, then back up, took a step forward, slashed to the side, then back again. Was he… training? The idea almost seemed blasphemous to her. InuYasha would never train! But he was…
InuYasha continued. Downward swing… step forward… strait thrust… reverse blade, and slash backwards… reverse blade again, slash up… step backward… parry… step back… slash… thrust… low sweep… sidestep…
Back and forth across the courtyard InuYasha danced, fencing with an invincible opponent. He started slow, and slowly began to work up speed. Kagome's eyes widened. She had never seen InuYasha control himself like this before. He wasn't just slashing randomly. He wasn't putting all his strength into his attacks. He was moving fast now, his steps turning into constant movement, his feet flying left and right in an intricate waltz. Finally, he finished with a low sweep of his blade across the ground, the plunged the steel into the heart of the invisible enemy.
Kagome blinked as the spell was broken, and InuYasha stretched again. Her eyes widened slightly as the muscles played under the skin, and she turned around again, blushing madly. She would never be able to look at the hanyou again without turning beet red! That's it! She was going back to bed, and this would all just be a nice dream… a very nice dream… back to bed… bed…
Thoughts faded as she turned around again, and stared out at InuYasha again. He was up on the thick stone wall that marked the courtyard, standing so that the horizon ran strait through his stomach. He suddenly took off in a run down the wall, his feet landing firmly, and the Tetsusaiga gripped in his hands backwards like a knife. He flashed forward with it, the blade becoming no more than a blur, and suddenly it was in the other hand, being held loosely by the end of the hilt. He suddenly swung it up, around, and blurred it through an impressive arc, leaning into the swing. Just as he was about to fall forward, his foot came forward, and planted into the rock right in front of him. He swung out again. He tensed ever so slightly, and the blade suddenly grew in mid-swing, transforming into the huge broadsword that was the Tetsusaiga's true form. He planted his foot again, and continued the swing over his head in a 360 degree arc, then caught it again, low to the surface of the wall. His knees were bent, ready to move, or pivot, or whatever he needed to do. Tetsusaiga was grasped in his left hand, again backwards like a knife. His right hand was level with his face, the palm open and ready.
He suddenly lunged out with the right hand, grabbing on to another invisible opponent, and slashing through it with the Tetsusaiga. He brought the swing around, and planted the tip of the blade into the side of the wall beside him. He swung down, hands grasping the blade, and back up, kicking whatever happened to be in the way.
As he whirled and spun up on the wall, slashing, punching, grabbing and kicking, the sun began to rise. It peaked over the horizon, flooding Kagome's window with gold light, and cast InuYasha into a completely dark silhouette.
He continued dancing and whirling, and Kagome continued watching, oblivious to the sun in her eyes.
*****
When InuYasha returned to the house, refitting his haori onto his shoulder, Mrs. Higurashi was already up, and rummaging around in the kitchen. She already had a cup of coffee in her hand.
"Good morning, InuYasha." She greeted him cheerfully, nodding. "What are you doing up so early?"
"Just watching the sunrise." Than hanyou responded briefly, heading towards the cabinet where the biscuits were located.
Mrs. Higurashi smiled secretively and nodded. "Yes." She said. "I saw it too."
InuYasha turned, and blinked at her, a biscuit hanging out of his mouth.
Mrs. Higurashi didn't say anything, but took a sip of her coffee. "So, are you off to the gym again today?" She asked.
InuYasha nodded. "Yeah." He said, his tone dripping with arrogance. "That guy Lled still needs a few tips."
Mrs. Higurashi sipped her coffee, and winked at him.
There was a thump thump thump from the stairs as someone made their way down them. Kagome stepped into the kitchen, her eyes blurry from the after effects of waking up. "Morning…" She said, nodding to her mother, and heading towards the fridge. She avoided looking at InuYasha.
Mrs. Higurashi finished her coffee, and got up to get another cup. "So, Kagome." She started. "Do you have any plans for today?"
Kagome rummaged around in the fridge a moment, thinking about what she could do. Hanging out with InuYasha the way she was feeling right now probably wouldn't be the greatest of ideas. "Ummm…" She said finally, grabbing a few eggs. "I thought I would go to the mall for a little while." She said. "Since InuYasha's gonna be gone to the gym, today…"
InuYasha nodded. "Speaking of which, Lled wanted me to come early today, so I'll be going soon."
Kagome sidled over to the stove, and quickly started cooking the eggs. "Okay, InuYasha." She said. "Be sure to have fun." Kagome couldn't possibly imagine how red her face must be right now. This was so embarrassing!
InuYasha turned to Kagome and blinked. She was acting odd… he sniffed; to see if anything was odd. Nothing really weird about her scent. Probably still half asleep. He shrugged, and stood up from the table. "I'm gonna go change, and then I'm outta here." He walked out the room.
Kagome let out a sigh, and turned around, blushing madly.
Her mother leaned against the kitchen counter, and smiled at her above her mug.
"What?" Kagome asked, blushing even more.
Mrs. Higurashi took a sip of Coffee, and winked at her. "Some sunrise, today, hmm?"
Kagome gaped, and blushed even more.
*****
InuYasha barged into the gym, once again in his street clothes. He had gotten to be a regular sight there at the gym. The proctor at the desk barely even glanced at him, and the guys pumping weights didn't bother giving him a second glance. He turned right, went down three doors, and turned left.
He opened the door, and strode confidently in. He took two steps in, and looked around. Lled was nowhere to be seen. InuYasha growled, and spread his legs in a grappling stance. Lled might not be seen, but he would have to do some clever maneuvering to fool his ears. He suddenly whipped around, and held out his hand, catching the bokken flying at him at high speed. Lled grinned, hanging from one hand from the ceiling. "Very nice." He said.
InuYasha grinned, reached up, grabbed Lled by the head, and threw him negligently over his shoulder.
Lled landed hard on his back. He looked up at InuYasha, and smiled. "Good." He said. "Don't ever fight honorably. Fighting dirty is easier, and more effective." He raised his feet in the air, and jumped to his feet, hitting InuYasha in the face in the process. "Now, what about the two stances?"
InuYasha held his sore nose, and winced. "Yeah, yeah." He muttered. "Stances…"
He pulled out the Tetsusaiga, keeping it in its small form, and carefully repeated the stance he had started with. His legs spread, and both hands came together on the hilt, holding it perfectly still.
"Good." Lled said with a smile. "Now, tell me, when would you use this?"
InuYasha let the Tetsusaiga drop to his side. "I'd use it when precision is a must, and when dealing with something bigger than I am." His voice droned like a student reciting a math theorem.
Lled nodded. "Why?"
InuYasha blinked. "You never told me that…"
Lled scowled, and his hand suddenly blurred. The bokken smashed across InuYasha's face, shattering into splinters. InuYasha recoiled immediately. "What the hell, old man!" he scowled, spitting blood.
Lled sneered. "It doesn't matter if I didn't tell you. If you just memorize, you won't remember in the heat of battle. You have to understand, and make sure your body knows it."
InuYasha scowled.
"Now, why when you need control, and why when you're fighting things with greater mass?"
InuYasha scowled, and spat more blood, feeling the cuts in his mouth with his tongue. Why would you want to use the stance for more control? "Because…" He said tentatively. "With two hands on the hilt, you can get more accuracy…"
"Which is useful for?" Lled prompted.
InuYasha racked his extents of logic. "When you are fighting an enemy with limited weaknesses." He said. "The precision lets you hit those weaknesses with greater accuracy." Lled nodded for him to keep going. "And the two hands give you greater power, so you can cut deeper into larger opponents." Lled nodded.
"But of course, there are exceptions…" Lled began.
InuYasha was getting into the swing of things now. "Because you can have precision with other stances, in which speed is essential too."
Lled waved a hand for him to continue.
"Which is what this stance is for." The hanyou, said, shifting the Tetsusaiga up, holding it like a dagger, and lifting his other hand, ready to grab or whatever needed to be done. "Used for quick or small things."
"Because…"
"The loose grip on the sword would let you move it more freely," InuYasha said, thinking carefully, moving the sword in mock parries as he spoke. "You could dodge and block faster. Plus, you can grab and punch with the free hand." He smiled and added. "Probably more useful then the first."
Lled nodded. "Good observation." He conceded. "Which should you start with?"
"The second." InuYasha started.
"The first." Lled interrupted. "The first is a defensive stance. It lets you judge your enemy, to see how he moves." Lled said, grabbing another bokken off the rack, and holding it in the stance. "Here, attack."
InuYasha smiled, and faded into the one handed stance, and dashed forward.
*****
Sighed as she walked down the street, her thoughts whirling around in her head like butterflies. Sure, she had thought about InuYasha like… that before, but never really so… bluntly. She sighed and shook her head. And now, he was acting so nice. Well, not incredibly nice, but he most certainly wasn't as mean as he was before the incident a month ago. She blushed as she remembered the touch of their hands as InuYasha took the glass out of her hand, only a few days before. Oh, now look at her! She was going all ditzy like a fan girl meeting her favorite star over a simple touch! Oh, what was wrong with her? She had thought about being in love with InuYasha before. Even been convinced that she was! But… it couldn't be… actually… was she?
"Hey!" A female voice called out in oddly accented Japanese, derailing Kagome's train of thought. "Ka-Go-Me!" The voice said.
Kagome turned around, and looked.
A girl ran up to her, long blonde braids flailing out from under her red baseball cap, and flowing over the shoulders of her forest green princess Mononoke T-shirt. It was Terri.
"Oh, um…" She said. "Hi."
Terri ran up beside her, and stopped to catch her breath. "Hello, Ka-Go-Me." She said, he voice oddly monotone, not carrying any personality.
Kagome blinked. "Is there something wrong?" She asked.
Terri
looked up at her, and shook her head. "So-ry." She said. "I am still working on
accent."
Kagome opened her mouth to say
something, then paused to think better of it. Kagome had forgotten that the
girl was speaking Japanese as a second language. "But…" Kagome interjected.
"You were speaking just fine in the arcade…"
Terri thought about this a moment, processing, translating, then translating back. "Yeah." She said. "I had heard some other girls talking like that, so I tried imitating their accent."
Kagome nodded, still heading towards the mall. That would have explained the… oddness of her accent that day. Kagome quickened her pace, trying to get to the mall as fast as she could. This was getting kind of awkward.
"But, when I got to grandpa's house, he told me that the accent was ridiculous, and to stop."
Kagome looked at her over her shoulder. "Well, it was kinda weird." She said. "It was sort of like a country accent, but you were using too much diction."
Terri stopped a moment, and thought about that. Then she said something weird sounding in English and laughed. "I have not gotten used to Japanese yet." She confessed. "I'm trying to find an accent close to the one I use in English."
Kagome nodded, still walking fast. "Well," She said. "I'm sure that you'll get the hang of it." She said, in a tone that said good bye. "Good luck?"
"May I walk around with you today?" Terri asked, in a voice that probably would have said hello if it had any accent at all.
Kagome smiled. "Well," She said. "I'm heading to the mall. I suppose you could come with me."
"I'm glad." Terri said, nodding her gratitude, and picked up the pace walking alongside Kagome. "What class are you in?"
Kagome thought for only a moment. She hadn't been in school so long that it was hard to remember. "I'm just heading into my junior year."
Terri smiled. "I am also…" She said. "Maybe we will have the same teacher."
"Maybe." Kagome said. "So, you're an exchange student?"
Terri nodded. "My grandfather lives in Japan, so I am staying with him for the time I am here."
Kagome nodded. Awkward! Awkward! Awkward! "So, where did you live in America?"
Terri thought for a moment, going over vocabulary. Then said something indecipherable.
"What?" Kagome asked.
Terri blinked at her, then repeated the phrase to herself a few times. "Ah!" She said finally. "The south. In Texas. I apologize."
Kagome blinked then grinned. "Isn't that like all desert?"
Terri raised an amused eyebrow. "No." She said. "That is Nevada. Texas is mostly flatland and scrub. There are forests in the east."
Kagome nodded. You learned something new every day.
"Where do you live?" Terri asked.
Not very subtle, is she? The thought scurried involuntarily across Kagome's mind. "I live in house down a few blocks. My family owns a shrine."
Terri's eyes brightened. "Is it the shrine with the big tree near it?" She asked.
Kagome turned and nodded. "How did you know?"
"My grandfather showed it to me while he was taking me around town. You can see it from a long way off, so it is a good landmark to navigate by if you are lost."
Kagome nodded. Sound advice. She turned ahead. The mall was only a block away. "Well, let's go."
"How did you do that?"
"Do what?"
"You put 'let' and 'us' together. I need to learn how to do conjunctions."
It was going to be a long day.
*****
"You're hitting to hard!" Lled admonished. "It I had a steel sword, then I could snap your blade like a toothpick."
InuYasha nodded, and swung again, this time letting gravity take the heavy Tetsusaiga proper through the air.
"Better, but you want to keep an eye on how I'm going to block." He said, moving his bokken to block the blow. InuYasha couldn't even begin to think how the thin wooden sword could block the Tetsusaiga so easily, but Lled seemed to manage nicely. "You see, if a good swordsman blocks you at the right angle, you need to be able to see that, and pull up enough the keep your sword from shattering. Let gravity take your sword for a downward swing, but be ready to pull up."
InuYasha
nodded, and swung again, letting gravity take the blade, but keeping his arms
tense.
"Now." Lled prompted, and
InuYasha pulled off the swing with both hands. "Good." InuYasha's instructor
continued. "Now, before we start up again, go over what you need to work on for
me."
InuYasha sighed, and put down the Tetsusaiga. "I need to pay less attention to what I'm doing, and more to the enemy. Let the enemy attack first and just react to what he does." He droned. "It won't work when the enemy is being defensive, though, so try to draw him out into an offensive position." Lled nodded. "I also need to make the connections between my movements steadier and more fluid, so that the enemy can't tell what I'm going to do next." A waving hand prompted onward. "And lastly to watch the angle of my blow. If the blade has too much force exerted on it, it'll break."
"Good." Lled said. "Now, what I've taught you this week are basics of swordplay." He grinned. "Of coarse, there are lots more things you can do, particularly when you start mixing defensive stances and offensive stances together, but now you know and understand the basics." InuYasha nodded, a bored expression on his face.
Lled smiled at him. "I'm gonna be outta town for a few days after today, but keep on practicing those things, and I'll show you some real cool stuff when you come back."
InuYasha grinned. He had thought the stuff he was learning right now was 'real cool.'
"Well, old man," InuYasha said, "I suppose you better hurry up and get outta here, then. I might start beatin' ya."
Lled grinned wolfishly. "You couldn't beat me if you tried, whelp." He said. "You just bring it."
InuYasha grinned, and carefully faded into his defensive stance. "Well, since you seem so eager to lose…"
*****
Kagome and Terri sat in the food court of the mall, and picked at their food. Terri had a McDonalds hamburger, and Kagome had gotten some fast food ramen. "So, how do you talk in English?" Kagome asked.
Terri grinned slightly, and lounged back in her chair. She started speaking in English. He voice was sort of low, slow, and oozed lazily between her lips like honey. Her voice gave the distinct impression that she didn't care about what Kagome thought about it, or even what she thought about anything.
"I'm sort of a rebel in America." Terri said. She had caught on to conjunctions fairly rapidly, and was not looking for places to use them. Kagome had to correct her every few sentences when she messed up. Maybe it was just Kagome, but she could also hear the start of the lazy accent carrying over into her Japanese. Just a start, but it was something. "Not a bad one, mind you, but I don't really like a lot of things that go on there."
Kagome nodded. That was reasonable. "Government?" She asked.
Terri shrugged. "No…" She said. "Not really all that. I suppose I mostly don't like human nature. The government just supports that. It's the nature of democracy."
Kagome blinked. "You don't like democracy?"
Terri shook her head. "Nope." She said. "I think it's better than any possible alternatives at the time, but for the most part, I don't like it."
Kagome shook her head. That was odd. Everyone she knew always praised democracy. "Why do you say that?"
Terri shrugged. "People are stupid as a herd. The more people making decisions, the more stupidity permeates those decisions. What you need is a smart person deciding everything. Unfortunately, the only smart people interested in ruling are the tyrants who are only interested in themselves, not their country. So, as I said, Democracy is the best system we can muster right now." Terri shook her head. "But most of the time, I just ignore the government, and blame all the problems on human nature."
Kagome nodded, and took a few bites of ramen. Terri took a sip of her drink, and watched her eat. "How do you do that?" She asked finally, pointing to Kagome's chopsticks.
Kagome glanced up, and blinked. "Here, lemmee show you."
*****
Kagome
tiredly walked up the long stairway leaving her house. It had been one long,
hard day. But then again, once she talked to that Terri girl, she didn't seem
so bad. They would have to get together again sometime.
She stretched her neck this
way and that, and shook out her sore feet. Terri had insisted they play a game
of DDR, and one game turned into many. The odd thing was that Kagome only
bought one token, yet she never seemed to run out. She strongly suspected that,
given the owner of the arcade, she could play anything for free there from now
on.
But now she was home. A sound from behind her caught her attention, and she turned around. InuYasha was rounding the corner in his street clothes, and walking up the stairs behind her. She blushed suddenly, and turned around. She hadn't thought about him all afternoon!
She began walking again, but InuYasha's stride was longer than hers. Soon he caught up with her, and fell in beside her. Complete silence save the tap tap tap of their feet.
"So…" Kagome said finally, as they reached the top of the stairs. "How did your little practice thing go?"
InuYasha nodded. "Pretty good." He said. "Lled gonna be out of town for a little while, so I'll have the practice room to myself for once."
Kagome sighed. "Well." She said. "I was actually thinking that we should go back to the past pretty soon. We need to find Miroku and Sango as soon as possible."
InuYasha nodded. "You wanted to go back tomorrow?"
"Well, it sounded as good a day as any." Kagome said, avoiding InuYasha's gaze. "So, why not?"
InuYasha shrugged. "Well then, we probably wanna grab our supplies tonight. That way we can get an early start in the morning."
Kagome turned to face him in shock. "Are you actually planning ahead?" She asked. That was not InuYasha-ish.
InuYasha growled at her. "Well, yeah! The sooner we can find Miroku and Sango and the fox twerp, the sooner we can get go on trying to find Naraku and the jewel shards." He crossed his arms, and held his nose up with a 'feh.'
Kagome
rolled her eyes. "Right." She said.
InuYasha rolled his eyes back.
"Right." He mimicked.
"Cut it out." Kagome said, and punched him lightly on the shoulder. InuYasha's eyes widened, and he caught her hand in midair. He brought it to his nose, and sniffed it.
"You have the scent of a hanyou on you again." He murmured.
Kagome blinked. "I have the smell again?" She asked. They hadn't been able to figure out what it had been last time. "Well, I did go the mall again. I was brushing up against people all day, so I guess maybe…"
InuYasha growled slightly. "So, there's a hanyou around here, eh?" He asked. "I wanna meet him."
Kagome pulled her hand away. "Later." She said firmly. "We look for Miroku and Sango first."
InuYasha regarded her carefully, than nodded.
*****
Tiamet smiled slightly as the last of the gamers left for the night. She had found her calling in life at last. She got to play games all day long, and never have to worry about a thing. As the last of the people left, she made her round to make sure nobody was left in the arcade, then began to lock up shop. It was then that Gell appeared. She turned around as she approached her, crossing her arms, and raising an eyebrow. "Can I help you, Gelledius?" She asked.
Gell smiled at her, rubbing his black, neatly trimmed beard. "Well, Tia." He said. "I'm glad to see your wardrobe has improved." He said, noting her clothing was slightly less scant than it was five hundred years ago. "You've managed to mature slightly I guess."
Tia shrugged, and finished closing the metal barrier that locked off the arcade. "Well," She said. "I have had five hundred years."
"And you've managed to grow up a whole year in that time." Gell said. "Impressive."
"Shut up, Gell."
"Don't call me Gell, Tia, dear." Gelledius stated dusting off the white Karate gi he wore. "I'm gonna go see Celest this weekend."
Tiamet raised an eyebrow. "That's right." She said. "You like the name Lled better now, don't you. Why are you gonna go see Celest?"
Lled stretched, and yawned. "I ran into InuYasha this week." He said. "I wanna know what I can say and what I can't, given the time travel circumstances."
Tiamet nodded. "How odd. I saw Kagome just today."
Lled smiled. "Really? Than you should probably come too."
Tiamet nodded. "Well, I suppose the kids of Tokyo could do without their videogames for a weekend." She mused. "Then, let's go."
Lled smiled, and they walked off into the crowd of the mall, just two faces among a million.