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Author's Note: well people, I really love crossovers, and this one ticled my fancy (who says THAT anymore?) I really hope you like it people.

Feeling Numb:

Chapter 2: Houston, I think We Have a Problem

"Goddamn it! Where is the frickin kitchen!" shouted Ryouga in frustration. He'd been wondering inside the Hibiki ancestral residence for the last few hours, and he needed to get to the kitchen to cook up something to eat. he currently found himself in the basement.

"ARGHH! How do I leave the basement now" honestly, this was the one room that really freaked him out in this house, well that and his aunt Yoko's room (it was haunted by all the cursed artifacts she liked to collect, weird hobby huh?). looking around, he passed his time studying some of the stuff lying on the shelves.

A bladeless sword hilt, various teeth necklaces of various different predators, a shrunken head or three, and what seemed to be the helmet of some ancient alien armour were just some of the things that could be found sprawled about. Walking around a bit, ryouga studied this tidbit here, that relic there, this doodad over by the corner, and entertained himself while he looked for an exit.

He found himself studying this monolithic looking slab of metal that was against the wall in the furthest most corner of the basement. It had no markings exept for an indent in the shape of disc with a symbol inside. Looking at it carefully, ryouga tried to think what it reminded him of.

While he was busy thinking to himself, he touched the symbol to get a clouser look. what looked like a little lever popped out on the slab, similar to those used in vaults. Ryouga, thinking 'Maybe it's some weird type of door!' pulled the lever. And magic went on to bite him in the ass one more time.

"I wonder what's inside?" with those ominous words, ryouga pulled the door open. Surprisingly it moved easily. When it opened, some light spilled out. 'man that light sure is bright' was ryouga's final thought before he was suddenly sucked through the doorway by mystical forces, not even having time to realize that this wasn't such a good idea, before he'd been flung into the beyond.

HATELOVEEYESEYSECLUTHUUSBLOODSCREAMSSMELLTHEBLUEANDHEARTHEREDWHILEWEWATCHTHESWEETANDSOURDANCETHEIRLIFEAWAYOLDOLDODLOLDWRETCHESTHEIRTIMEHADPASSEDHUNGRY;KIN?

An eternity too fast and an instant too slow, that is how long it took for Ryouga to be spat back out into a reasonably human realm. Something in there, he felt something was ripped from/put in him, something he'd had/lacked his entire life, something important.

'AHHH!' the heart wrenching scream tore itself out of his throat involuntarily. The mind isn't equipped to see something as alien as the abyss, much less that which is beyond even that. His mind blurred and erased most of the memories as a measure of self preservation, and when he was back to being somewhat coherent he realized he was falling-

WHAM!

Ouch… he tried to reorient himself a bit, without much success, except that he managed to not vomit himself. A few minutes of staring up into the night sky, and finally he felt good enough to move.

He stood up, looked around and made one of his trademark comments:

"Where the hell am I now!"

She was staring into desert, with her back to the fire. Usually in movies, everyone is sitting around facing the fire, but she'd learned a while ago that danger usually tried to sneak up from the direction furthest from the light.

It was a new moon, and the sky looked like a sea of diamonds. It was a beautiful sight, yet it didn't touch her heart as much as it once had. She was feeling very melancholic actually, 'must be this hermit gig getting to me'.

The person facing away from the fireplace was a young teen, no more than fifteen if that. She had dirty blonde hair, and she looked as if she'd be a pretty girl if she were cleaned up a bit. However, she was a little too thin and ragged looking to be rightly called attractive.

-Sigh- 'I hate this…', she used to love those stars, but after she'd been wishing to them for normality for so long, the magic was gone. '…I wish I may I wish I might…'

It was a routine now. She didn't really think she'd ever get her wish. She'd probably-

FLASH! – a bright light had gone off in front of her, maybe some 50 yards away.

WHAM!

"What the hell!"

She'd jumped up and was picking up her gear as soon as she said that. No way was she gonna be unprepared for whatever made that noise… what would make that noise?

She'd finished getting ready, having turned off her fire almost immediately, and was about to go run off and hide when suddenly,

"Where The Hell Am I Now!" some one shouted out. 'strong lungs'. Well the shout had come from the same direction as the flash of light. She briefly weighed her options. On one hand there was someone that was lost in a desert, and no one survived getting lost in a desert without help. On the other side, the lightshow gave her the willies.

'god damn ,my humanitarian instincts!' with that thought, she went on to creep up on whomever was out there.

She quickly reached her target, a teen boy about her age. No sign of what had made that flash or the noise, except for a weird crater that was near the boy. The boy was rambling loudly about something in a weird language, sounded Asian though.

Suddenly he stopped and turned to face her. 'how…?'

He absolutely hated "… This crappy Hibiki luck! Damnit! I can't even walk in my own house without getting screwed by the fates! ARGHH" wait, his instincts were saying something important

Someone was creeping up on him. 'there!' quickly he turned to face whomever or whatever it was.

It turned out to be a girl. Most people would be wondering how she'd gotten here, but ryouga didn't cause for him it was commonplace to get lost and end up in a desert. Usually though it happened while he was outside already, not in his home.

"Konnichiwa?" Ryouga tried, hoping that at least he was still in japan ( never mind that Japan doesn't have deserts, he sucks at geography remember).

She looked at him quizzically for a moment before giving her own greeting.

"ummm… hi? I don't really inderstand what you're saying"

"OH! Yeah, hi my name's Ryouga Hibiki. Could you tell me were I am?"

"You're somewhere near the outskirts of Jump City" she lifted her hand and pointed towards the horizon, "It's over in that direction"

He looked at her, then at the direction she was pointing at. He was carrying his pack, but he didn't have any rations left, and it was already night time. Well, he'd also get very fricking lost trying to walk there in the night.

Apparently she could see what he was thinking, "look, I had my camp over there, I think I could get the fire going again and in the morning I'll lead you to the city ok?" actually it was a four day walk, but she wouldn't tell him that till later.

"Thanks" and that was that. She led him back to the sight and they set up camp again in the night. Ryouga didn't realize it, but he'd done something he hadn't been able to accomplish in the last decade.