Holy crap! 23 reviews in 8 hours is completely beyond my expectations! I love you guys, I really do! (grins widely)
Now I feel bad for the shortness of this chapter. . . but I did promise, so I'm not taking more time to make it longer. It's really more of a teaser than a chapter, but I wanted to post it separately. Besides, it ends on such a wonderful cliffhanger. I love cliffhangers! (have you noticed?) ;p
As for the four people who appeared in the last chapter, I was going to just clear up who they were, since I figured it was kinda obvious (well three of them anyway, the fourth might take a bit of deep thinking to figure out, although when you do find out it might seem kinda obvious). However, there were enough people who didn't seem to figure it out, so I'll just leave that 'till the next chapter.
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A Clash of Cultures
Chapter 7 - The Stranger
Throughout the comotion caused by the Dark Lord, Draco's broken body lay forgotten on the ground.
Only Kirara seemed to notice it. She glanced at it sadly before using all her remaining strength to crawl over to the boy she'd spent the last ten years with. She collapsed with her head on top of his cold, unbeating heart.
She watched the wizards with tired eyes. When she smelt the wolves approaching, she finally closed her eyes, knowing Kagome would be safe.
Right now she needed to sleep, to regain her strength and recover from the curse.
No one noticed the stranger walking through the park. He didn't look left, nor right, but always straight ahead of him. He passed the dead humans as well as ones who were just staring into space with soulless eyes and didn't even glance in their direction. As if they didn't matter.
In retrospect they would all wonder just how it was possible that they hadn't noticed him. In the mostly deserted park he stuck out like a flame in a dark room, not that he was someone most people tended to overlook in the first place.
Especially Kagome would later wonder why she hadn't sensed him so close.
Kirara opened her eyes in time to see the stranger standing over her and Draco.
He drew his sword.
Yes, yes, this chapter is very short. I'll try to get another one up by this weekend to make up for the long delay on the last one.
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