A Sorceress' Escapade

Chapter 02: A Team's Priority, A Boy's Unbearable Mission!

A light glowed as six people and a cute creature dropped to the ground in an inn-like room. All of the girls looked pretty much unconscious however the males were a bit dizzy and had slowed reactions as they looked about the weird, new environment about them. A homely smell brought them to attention that they were conscious, at least two of them were. Two girls were either landed on top of them or the men had somehow landed on one of them.

Fai opened his pale blue eyes as he felt his head was on something soft. Looking at what it is, a faint blush filled his facial features as he studied who was under him. Not bad for a cute girl, and not bad for Yuko's youngest sister. He smiled warmly as she sighed or exhaled carbon dioxide from her pink lips.

She reminded him of Chi when he came to comfort Chi when she was usually worried about him serving under Ashura. However, this flashback made him change his expression as he sat up more and looked about the room.

All he did resolved was that he took off his coat and wrapped it around the white haired girl as he looked down at her as if he was her older brother.

"What are you doing, you moron…? First you land on her and now you're doing brotherly deeds as if you know the bitch's younger sister!" a dark haired male said as the older twin sister of the white haired girl dropped onto him.

"Eh…Kuro-san, looks like you have to complain on your own circumstances… now…." Fai said as he did his weird anime eye thing at Kurogane, the dark-haired male who was holding the dark haired girl in his arms.

"It's not Kuro-san… it's Kurogane!" Kurogane growled at Fai. He really wanted to throw something at Fai. However, when he did look about the room for something to throw at Fai's head, he found no result. He grumbled under his breath as he put the girl aside and looked at her.

"Why should we care for the Space-Time Witch's sisters…?" he asked towards Fai. "I mean… they tagged along with us at the very last minute…" He said as he remembered the two women using magic to transform the clothes about them.

"They look like angels… though… fallen from the sky…" Fai said as he put a hand up toward the white haired woman's face. "However, its best to do so in case Yuko-san gets very angry… you know how an older sibling reacts if friends of her own were to hurt her own younger siblings…"
Kurogane just glared at Fai. "Well, we're not Yuko's dogs on leashes, we're not her friends…" he growled.

Fai looked over at Kurogane with a sudden sad smile as if he knew of Kurogane's weird loneliness. He turned back to the young girl, wondering when they should wake.

"SAKURA-CHAN!" suddenly Syaoran shouted as he sat up with the brunette girl still unconscious in his lap. He smiled down at her as two very frightened girls and surprised males looked at him.

The dark-haired female showed signs of annoyance as she bopped Syaoran over the head. "Don't do that again, pips-squeak!" she shouted.

Kurogane and Fai just stared at her.

"Nee-san…" the white-haired girl said, worriedly towards her younger sister.

Suddenly Mokona stirred from slumber and suddenly popped up into the air. "Syaoran's awake! And he didn't grab for Mokona…" he chirped, sadly. The two dark haired young adults bopped the white creature over the head, both wearing anime veins of annoyance.

"He doesn't have to!" they both called. Then they both looked at each other surprised. The dark haired female just blinked and then blushed. However Kurogane just stared at her.

Fai just smiled at this and turned to Mokona as he picked the creature up. "Looks like you're awake, Mokona" he responded to Mokona's sobbing. While this was happening Syaoran looked over at Sakura's unconscious form.

"Sakura…" he whispered as the white haired female looked over at the couple, with sympathetic eyes, her tears welled up as she could feel Syaoran's pain.

"Don't be sad… you'll grow an even more powerful relationship… however to Sakura… she may be suspicious of her relationship with you…" the white-haired girl said starting to cry. "Let your tears fall… strength shows within tears…"

Syaoran looked over at the white haired girl with a shocked look on her face.

"Hana…?" was what the dark-haired girl said, softly. "Was that your empathy showing through?"

"Empathy?" the others except Sakura and the white-haired girl responded with.

"We tried to dry her off," Fai said, changing the subject as he looked over at the brunette girl in the brunette boy's hands. "However, you wouldn't let her go while you were in midst of sleep…" The blond chuckled a bit at his statement. "So you are…?"

The brunette boy answered with saying simply, "Syaoran."

"Hey, hey, hey! My name is pretty long, but please just call me Fai," the blond male said as he pointed to himself.

"Hajimashite," the twins said in unison. Mokona bounced about the room.

Fai pointed at Kurogane with a grin. "And you are, Kuroi-san?" he asked, playfully.

"Stop making schoolgirlish petnames! It's Kurogane, got that!" Kurogane said.

Fai looked over at the twins. "You both, Yuko's younger siblings, what are your names?" he asked.

The white haired girl called "Hana" looked over at Fai. "Please call me Hana. Salutations," she said. She looked over at her dark haired, fraternal sister.

"Kana…" whispered the dark haired girl. "Just that."

Fai's smile grew broader. "Ah… I see…then this should make this journey easier…"

"Like hell…" Kurogane grumbled. Kana gave him a glare to shut him up, somewhat.

The dark haired ninja just gulped at the female. Who would when the particular female maybe having her cranky time of the month?

Kana sighed as she sat back down and took refuge in her corner. Her pale hands wrapped about her small body as she looked in the dim darkness of the corner. Her light violet eyes lowered themselves at the flooring as she buried herself deeper in her black cloak with white and gray embroidery. Her hair was silky and fell down straight towards her thighs unlike being kept up in Yuko's hairstyle or anything similar to it. She looked very beautiful against the light shadow of the corner, the setting sun capturing her hair and anything of her black outfit with a dark red highlight.

She felt herself being stared at by Kurogane, however kept to it to herself.

Fai leaned over Syaoran as he pulled out a feather with a crimson marking on it. His eyes looked over at it. "Is this what a Feather of Memory truly looks like, Syaoran-kun?" he asked.

Mokona bounced into Kurogane's lap. "Hey! Don't get comfortable you little white thing!"

Kana smiled at this as she offered her arm towards Mokona, deciding to move from the corner. She let Mokona bounced into her lap. "Kurogane is being mean now isn't he, Moko-Moko?" she asked stroking the rabbit-like creature.

"Yes, he is," Mokona whispered.

Syaoran looked at Fai in shock. "Sakura's feather?"

Fai blinked. "So this is what a feather of your close friend possesses? Hmm?"

Syaoran nodded as Fai handed him the feather.

The boy put a feather filled hand toward Sakura's chest as the feather seeped into her chest. A smile grew as he looked down at the brunette girl in his arms. "She's getting warmer…"

Fai smiled at Hana as she spoke up. "Syaoran-san, if you had not have that feather… then things would be very complicated…" she whispered.

Fai nodded.

Syaoran looked down. "I guess… but it was only by coincidence…"

"You should remember that there is no coincidences in the world… remember what our sister said to the three of you males…" Kana said in her semi-gruff, boyish voice. She spoke like a boy.

Syaoran's eyes widened. "I suppose you're right, Kana-san…"

"My guess is that you grabbed it unconsciously, Syaoran-kun," Fai spoke up as he smiled at the brunette boy. The boy only nodded his head as he averted his stare toward the petite young female in his arms. "in order to save this girl…"

Syaoran's small smile faded.

"Of course I'm just guessing at this!" Fai said, with a grin as the twins fell over and the two remaining people awake just sweatdropped.

"But I guess I can help you with finding them, Syaoran-kun" Fai continued.

The white creature bounced up in the air from Kana's lap. "Huh?" was Kana's quiet reaction and Kurogane's semi-surprised reaction.

"MOKONA KNOWS!" Mokona said as he hopped over to Syaoran. Kana and Kurogane blinked.

"The feather brought out big waves, you see, Syaoran-chan, and with that I can sense the waves… now… however, if Mokona finds a feather than Mokona goes like this…" Mokona said as he made a very, very disturbing expression in his eyes.

Kana and Hana just looked at him with a stare. Awkward silence spread throughout it for a bit.

"Thanks, well, um… Mokona, would you tell when we get near a feather?" asked Syaoran.

Mokona nodded.

"Search or search is up to you. It has nothing to do with me…" came a gruff voice from Kurogane. Kana just smirked.

"Thought so…" she commented.

"I'm just here to get back to my own world and that is about it…" Kurogane continued smirking at Kana's comment.

"Right, that is my mission. I will be the one to do it…" Syaoran said with a determined stare at Kurogane, which made him see himself in the boy. Kana and Hana smiled in adoration at the brave child.

That was when Fai came in, "Heehee! You're so serious, Syaoran-kun!" he said. Hana and Syaoran sweatdropped. Kana and Kurogane looked over at each other and sighed.

"With Fai-san around, it's going to be a very long day…" Kana remarked.

Kurogane nodded his head.

"Well… Fai-san… What about you?" asked Kana.

"Mm?" Fai seemed not to ask.

"Are you going to help the brat out?" Kurogane grumbled.

"Hmmmm… I suppose so. My most important mission is to not return to my world. So, if it does not threaten my life… sure, I'll help out. I've got nothing better to do," Fai answered, smiling.

Hana and Kana looked over at Fai.

He cannot keep running… and he knows that one day it'll just lead him back home with that man awakened in his homeland… Kana said, telepathically to her sister.

Hana's facial features tensed. She gripped at Fai's coat about her as she looked about at everyone in the room. I know… and I think he knows too… one of these days he has to fight against him again… Hana answered back with a smile on her face as she looked over at Fai with a sympathetic smile.

Fai looked over at Hana. "Eh… what about you and your older sister, Kana-chan?" he asked.

Kana growled at the honorific. "Honorifics annoy me…" she scolded the carefree wizard.

Hana giggled at Kana's similar feelings about honorific as Kurogane. "Hm… we'll help out too, our mission is pretty much to see if the mission of Syaoran and the both of you guys' missions if it worked out okay… then we'll go back to our Japan. And then that'll be that…" Hana said as she looked down. "But I have a feeling that farewells as you all go on with your mission will be very hard in the future… however you must pay a price if you were to make your decisions to…"

"YO!" shouted a voice in kansai dialect. Two figures walked into the light as an emotionless female looked down at the group. The other was a very expressive young man.

"How do you do, Arashi-san, Sorato-san…" Hana said as she stood up and curtsied.

"You know them?" Kurogane said, gruffly at the white-haired girl as she sat down in her white clad, still wrapping Fai's coat about her. She only nodded as she moved, unconsciously nearer to Fai.

"So how is everyone, now that they're awake?" Sorato said as he looked down at Syaoran and the brunette boy he was clutching tightly in his arms. He looked at the twins as he smiled. "You came from Yuko's place right, she has a lot of names… you know…"

"We know that, Sorato-san, you know Hana and I are Yuko's younger siblings…" Kana said, tiredly.

Arashi took a few futons and sleeping accessories out from a sliding door closet. "Here…" she said as she laid a futon out for Sakura. Syaoran thanked her as she walked over to Sorato.

"I'm Arisugawa Sorato, at your service and this is my wife, the woman I love, just to burn that into your skulls…" Sorato said.

Hana, Kurogane and Kana just stared at Sorato and glared. "We really needed to know that," Kana said as she rolled her eyes.

Sorato popped up in front of Kurogane, scaring the living out of him. "I mean that, Mr. Black…" he said.

Kurogane just growled. "Like I would lay a finger on her…" Kurogane said. "She'll be able to kick my ass!"

Sorato grinned. "Now with that settled… and what might this be?" he asked toward the white creature. "It's obvious that you got this from Yuko… ne?"

"Mokona Modoki" said Mokona as it pointed at Sorato.

Kana and Hana sweadropped.

Sorato blinked at the white creature. "That is a very long name… is it okay if I just call you Mokona?"

"Sure!"

Kana's narrowed. "What a very weird creature… Yuko's very weird in her creations… they all are mistaken to be plushies…" she said.

Kurogane chuckled.

"I heard the whole story from the blond guy over there, not the black dude…." Sorato said.

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING THE BLACK DUDE!" Kurogane growled.

Sorato waved a hand. "Now, now… minna-san… this is your lucky day!"

"In what way?" Fai kindly asked.

"Mokona has no way of knowing which the next world… is so it's a happy chance that you were all brought here to this world first! Because this is… the Hanshin Republic…"

And with that the door was opened and the others were able to see the sight from the wide glass sliding door. Buildings rose up into the sky as skyscrapers, as the sounds of any normal cities made were made. For the streets was mostly water as so there were crossing bridges. People walked around, many opening doors and closing doors. Bells rang throughout the city as the others looked in awe. Especially for those who had not seen something similar to this except for… Hana and Kana as they sat staring at how a different layout of the city, all though they were not very surprised at the skyscrapers as Fai, Kurogane, and Syaoran would be.

"Something smells sweet…" Hana said.

"Like what?" Kana and Fai answered.

"Like food…" Hana said a she licked her lips.

Author's Note

I know… look at the dialogue… too much dialogue… but I had it with long descriptions… it just makes people even more scared and seemed… rather… like their bored and stuff with the whole description thing. However what I did was pretty much attempted to keep everyone in character. However, Kurogane is a bit on the side, as well as Syaoran. Both are determined, however Kurogane is not as open as Syaoran is and waits for his opinions to spill out from his un-valved mouth.

It did seem to be mary-sueish in some parts but I would like to clue all in for the future coupling, however… I stuck with giving you suspense and not actually going into all "We hate Mary-Sue's". Well, I hate Mary-Sue's as well…they have too much fluff and gentleness however I like rough… .