I don't own any characters from the Final Fantasy series, Fushigi Yuugi, Inuyasha, Shaman King and Naruto characters. I do not own Hayashida Heihachi.
I own Kiako, Ukeo, Shoken, Sannu, Star and other unfamiliar anime or game characters © Kiako Ornitier 2000 (Please don't steal).
When a new paragraph starts these little thingies will appear ʓʓʓ and if those thingies don't show up I'm sorry -.-; And I'm sorry if there are spelling errors (This means you Kuro! But I would appreciate it if you pointed them out)
Oh! And thank you Fira-san for using your characters! I don't own his characters either. (Bows dow) Arigatou Fira-San!
And thank the people who made Red vs Blue! You can find some of the episodes at and go to achives I think
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We all went back up to June's house and ate dinner, while I was getting patched up.
"Arg, I can't believe how much of an idiot you are..." June said pulling out the splinters in my arm.
"You're starting to sound like Kuro" I muttered scratching my head
"Hey! Don't move!"
"I'm itchy! I don't have a choice unless you wanna scratch me!"
"HOLD STILL BEFORE A MAKE YOU STAY STILL. PERNAMENTLY."
"YOU SOUND EXACTLY LIKE KURO!" I cried.
"Yosh, I got the bandages like you wanted" Heihachi said walking in and sitting beside me.
"I sent Kel to get them, how come you came instead?" June asked
"Well, they wanted to cook so I let them"
"GAH! YOU'RE GOING TO LET GALFER COOK!" June jumped to her feet and dashed to the kitchen "NOO! DON'T BLOW ANYTHING UP!" I laughed
"Ha ha! Just like Wakka!"
"Wakka? Who's that?" Heihachi asked taking the bandages and wrapping my arm.
"Well, he's this guy that tries to cook, but can't, and blows up my kitchen, and ends up getting Kuro angry, and she throws him and... well, you get the idea" he chuckled
"Yes, I believe I do" After a moment he pat my arm "There! All done!"
"Thank you" I said rubbing my shoulder, which still hurt...
"It was nothing, I still need to repay you for saving me"
"Nah it's ok, you don't have to repay me. Actually I think you already did, twice." I said rubbing behind my head.
Though...I nice hug would be nice! No no, bad Kiako! No thoughts like that! Repress! REPRESS!
"Kiako-chan, why're you waving your arms around? And, are you mouthing words?" Heihachi asked.
"Oh nonononononono! Everything's ok! No worries!" I said smiling weakly and feeling my face heat up "I'm just, I'll uh... Hey let's go get dinner!"
"GALFER! YOU DON'T USE MY BOOMER DISKS AS A HEAT SOURCE!" Kel shouted
"YEAH! ARE YOU TRYING TO BLOW UP THE HOUSE?"
"CLIFF! STOP EATTING FROM THE BOWL! YOU'RE GONNA GET GERMS IN THERE!"
"Relax Dpa1!"
"GRAAAAAAAHHHH!"
"This food is for riff raff! Where are the gormet meals! Though, my lovely feline in the next room would make a perfect meal for the night."
"ARG! DON'T TELL ME YOU'RE TURNING PERVERTED TOO!"
"I just want something good to eat!"
Vale... My inner chibi fell over crying in her arms and beating the ground. WAAH! NOO! NYAWAHH!
"Yeah I know, where're the chocobo wings?"
"YOU EAT CHOCOBO'S? YOU SAVAGE!"
"CALM DOWN!"
"YOU CALM DOWN!"
"Hey maggots! Shut up before I lop your foolish heads off!"
"UP YOURS!"
"WHAT WAS THAT MAGGOT!"
"Ok everyone just calm down and let's have dinner"
"SHUDDAP! YOU'VE GOT BAD HAIR OLD MAN!"
"I'll let you know, I'm only 26 years old!"
Kakashi-sensei's fighting too? Guh...
While they argued in the kitchen, both Heihachi and I had giant sweatdrops over our heads.
"How ackward, do they do this all the time?" Heihachi asked
"Well, we never all ate dinner together before, this is a first even for me" I shrugged. I felt a tug on my pant leg and looked down seeing Chibi Chichiri.
"Save...me...No da..." he whimpered. I chuckled and picked him up into my arms while he seemed to pout swinging his legs around.
"Well, shall we join them?"
"They tried to cook me no da!"
"Ha ha, this seems fun!" Heihachi smiled.
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After we ate, me being the first to finish, I went to the living room of June's house and opened my laptop logging in to MSN. A window popped up right away.
Conversation window:
Kuro Suzaku: Yo.
Kiako: KURO! WHY'D YOU LEAVE WITHOUT ME AND D3PA1?
Kuro: Arg! Just shut up! The spell didn't work anyways...
Kiako: Spell? What spell?
Kuro: Nevermind. So, what's up?
Kiako: Well, remember that guy we found?
Kuro: Yeah.
Kiako: He's really nice! I like him. D
Kuro: --...O god... Not another goody two shoes...
Kiako: Uresai! . Nothing wrong with liking guys who're nice!
Kuro: Pfft, nice guys finish last
Kiako: NOWAY! NOT IN MY BOOK!
Kuro: What book? Dummies guide to morons?
Kiako: Moron! I'm not a moron!
Kuro: You're right.
Kiako: I am?
Kuro: You're an idiot.
Kiako: GAAAAAH! Well, anyways, about the guy...
Kuro: Urg, can't you stick to one subject? What'd you find out about him?
Kiako: Well, his name's Hayashida Heihachi, he's nice, had never killed a person before and really loves rice.
Kuro: That's it? --; O god... You were better off with Chichiri
Kiako: ANYWAYS. He's from a wood cut school and because he spent pretty much all day cutting wood, he's known as Wood chuck now.
Kuro: Joy...
Kiako: Oh yeah, and he his sword katana has this little dangle ghost key chain on the end of it, it's cute! And it looks like you!
Kuro: --
Kuro: Wait a sec, he has a sword?
Kiako: Course! How else would he cut wood?
Kuro: Well when I heard woodchuck I was assuming an AXE
"Kiako-chan, who're you talking to?" Kosarai-nii san asked. Where has he been this whole time!
"Kuro, she's calling me and idiot again!" I cried pointing at the screen.
"Gah, this is better, now I don't have to type" Kuro's voice came from my laptop speakers.
"Kuro-sama, try to refrain from calling each other names."
"Fine fine... Anyways, I did some quick seraching. The Heihachi wood chucky guy whatever his name is, is from the anime Samurai 7, which is made from the original japanese movie Shichinin no samurai "
"Wow, you type fast" I said
"Yeah yeah..."
"Genius! Of course" I grinned
"Uresai! You wanna die!"
"AHAHA!"
"What's all the noise?" Kel asked walking in "I could've sworn I heard Kuro's voice"
"You did, I'm right here"
"WHERE?" Kel began looking around wildly "Where where?"
"Idiot! This is over a connection!" Kuro growled "So, anything interesting happen on your end?"
"There was a fire at Shoken's house, we managed to put out the flames with Shiva's help but Shoken's still crushed about it" I said
"Yeah, Kiako ran into the fire to save a kid! Amazing huh?" Galfer said "Didn't know the scaredy cat had it in her!"
"You ran into a fire! Onee-chan, you have to be more careful!" Kosarai said suddenly in a panic "No wonder you were hurt when you came back, You're lucky you're half demon!"
"Where were you the whole time anyway?" Cliff asked. Kosarai looked away for a moment.
"No where in particular, I didn't know there was a fire" he said "I would've come if I'd known"
"Speaking of demon, Kiako, have you seen the moon lately?" Kuro asked.
"Well, not really." I said
"Well go look at it now!"
"Ok ok!" I walked to a window looking outside "Well, the moon is there, kinda"
"Kinda?"
"Well, it's like, a tiny line now" I said walking back "Why? What about the moon?"
"Thought so, I was wondering if you'd change human cause the moon here is a line too"
"Human?" Heihachi asked with a few other puzzled people.
"Kiako is half demon you see, and when it's a new moon, she changes from half demon to human because it's when he powers are the weakest" Kel explained
"And, how do you know that?" Cliff asked raising his eyebrow.
"Kuro told me."
"Where are you anyways?"
"On a ship"
"Ok... that's it? How about a little more detail for the imagination"
"What do want? A poem? Just a normal ship with a sail and stuff. Urg... I really feel sick..." Oh yeah, Kuro has motion sickness "Anyways, I think I"m in the Tales of Destiny world, this is all your fault!"
"Ok ok! I know I did wrong, so shut up and let me wallow in it!" I said waving my arm around.
"Actually, Now that I think about it, has anyone seen Shoken?" June asked
"Yeah, the guy's been missing since the fire" Zero said.
"Should we go look for him then?" I asked
"Maybe, it'd be a good idea no da" Chichiri said "I'm worried, he looked so hurt when he ran away da..."
"I know..." I said hanging my head "He wanted so bad to save the forge..."
"Whatever, his mom and dad can make another right?" Zero said "No problems then"
"Baka-na!" I suddenly snapped leaping to my feet "He doesn't have parents! Haven't you noticed? Problems like that can't be solved!"
"Jeez ok, calm down" Zero said reclining into a chair "Sheesh, touchy subject?" Seeing everyone stare, I quickly hung my head.
"Sorry, I just kinda lost it... I'm not used to this yet..." I apologized sitting back down "It's just... it was sad for him to lose something so important..." I felt a hand on my shoulder
"Don't worry, we'll look for him now, how's that sound?" Heihachi smiled. I nodded and smiled back. Strange, when this guy smiles, I feel like smiling too. Just like with Chichiri... and Kakashi-sensei. GAAAH! MY HEAD HURTS!
"Good, this has now become a B rank mission" Kakashi said "Objective, we will look for Shoken and retrieve him"
"Why B rank?" I asked
"Because there might still be those bandersnatch you told us about"
"Oh wait a moment" June said running up stairs then coming back down "I just wanted to make sure Prin, Poshi, Vivi and Sannu were asleep, let's go. Mom, take care ok?"
"You all be careful too ok?" June's mom said
"We will, thank you" I said bowing "Now, Let's go!"
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We all split into teams for the search. Cliff, Albel, Kosarai and Galfer went to look around the field. Kakashi, June, Kel and Zero went to look around the other side of town to ask around. Chichiri, D3pa1, Heihachi and I went to look at around town where the fire was.
"We meet back in the town square by the giant crystal in a few hours or so. If you find him or if you're in trouble, I want you to throw this kunai into the ground or sky. It'll alert me and the others by vibrating violently and we'll come." Kakashi said handing Kosarai and me a strangely shaped kunai with a paper seal.
"Ok" I said "See you later!"
"I don't want to go look for him! He is after my Kiako I know it!" Vale said crossing his arms. I smacked my forhead and put on a sweet smile.
"Hey Vale," I said softly
"Yes my love?" he said kneeling in front of me already. Wow... fast man...
"Um, if you help us look for Shoken, I'll" I thought for a moment "I'll give you a hug" Vale went ballistic.
"AN EMBRACE AS A REWARD? SO IT SHALL BE! YOUR ARMS AROUND ME, OUR TWO HEARTS PRESSED TOGETHER TO BECOME ONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNEE!" Vale cried running away "Be ready my love! I shall find Shoken before any of these riff raff do!"
"What a nut case..." D3pa1 said. I sighed
"Why did I do that... Oh well, gotta make sacrifices. At least it was only a hug" I said
"Well, it could become more then that" D3pa1 said "Remember BM?" I grinned.
"Oh yeah, PUT SOME CHEST INTO IT!" I laughed
"We better get looking no da, the dark isn't safe da" Chichiri said.
"I agree..." Heihachi said grabbing the handle to his sword ready to slash out at any moment of danger
"No worries, we just have to find Shoken and we're good" I said and looked around the town "Man, how hard could it be to find the only Yuke in town?"
"Like a pine in a haystack..." D3pa1 said
"Needle"
"WHATEVER!" We asked tons of villagers, Selkies, Clavats, Lilties, but all of them shook their head no leaving the four of us depressed and tired.
"He's gotta be here somewhere... Where could he go? The miasma limits his ability to travel" I said rubbing my chin then sitting down clapped my hands together closing my eyes.
"Are, you going to do a spell to help us find him no da?" Chichiri asked. I opened one eye
"No, I'm going into my trance state, It helps me think more clear" I answered and closed my eyes again.
"You thinking? That's a new one" D3pa1 snorted
"Shush!" I said but giggled none the less then went back into a trance. This usually works with Kuro, I wonder if I could do it too? Let's see, a person who just lost a momento... Well, a momento is something that reminds you of someone who passed away. In Shoken's case, his parents, and you'd want to keep that momento but if you lost it...
"I think she fell asleep." Heihachi said. I chuckled and opened my eyes
"Hey, if you lost something, what would you do?" I asked
"Find it of course, are you sure you didn't fall asleep?" D3pa1 asked. I made my 'I feel stupid' Face again.
"Ok good, you try and find it, where do you look?" I asked grinning. Let's see how smart these guys are. They better be smarter then me otherwise we're doomed!
"Where would I look no da?" Chichiri said. Heihachi tapped on his cheek with his finger thoughtfully
"I know, the last place I had it last!" he said.
"Right! So let's go check the fire site!" I said standing up then sat back down again "As soon as my legs wake up... They fell asleep again..."
"That why you're not suppose to sit on your own legs!"
Going to where the forge was, we looked around the remains moving some of the stuff out of the way. Whatever stuff was left there anyway...
"Man, everything's still warm from the fire" Heihachi said moving a scrap of metal aside
"Of course, heated metal always contains heat after a fire no na da" Chichiri said "Has anyone found anything?"
"Nope." D3pa1 muttered
"Nothing, just a alot of dust and ashes, along with a few other stuff." I said rubbing under my nose and sneezed. GAH! STUPID ALLERGIES!
"What're we looking for anyways?" D3pa1 asked "It would help if we knew what we were looking for"
"Some sort of clue to where Shoken would go" Heihachi said "If only we had more information... Like a picture or a clue" I stood up stretching my back
"This isn't getting us anywhere..." I murmured shaking my head "Maybe we should search from above, I could always summon Bahamut"
"Jeez, how come you can summon but I can't?" D3pa1 frowned "I wanna summon too!"
"In all good time my friend, in all good time" I said rummaging in my backpack " I have an idea"
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"Kiako-chan, are you sure this will work?" Heihachi asked on the otherside of the forge
"Trust me, It's in the bag!" I said
"Or the pickle jar... where the hell'd you get all this baby powder? And why the hell is it in your backpack! In a pickle jar no less!" D3pa1 shouted pouring the talc until the stream touched Heihachi's.
"Well, you never know!" I said cheerfully "Plus just think, instead of smelling like ashes and burnt stuff, it'll smell like babies!"
"I don't think that's any better..." D3pa1 muttered "Ok, done"
"Me too" Heihachi called
"Me too no da!"
"Great!" I looked at our handy work seeing a giant alchemy circle made from baby powder around the ruins of the forge and the house. I saw this on Full Metal Alchemist, when Ed was going to remake the library with the ashes but they blew away. I just hope the same thing doesn't happen...
"What're you doing?" Heihachi asked with curiosity.
"The anceint art of Alchemy! I've tried it a few times, but didn't really succeed, I just hope this time it'll work" I said clapping my hands together and kneeling by the circle placing my hands on the edge closing my eyes "Here goes! Stand back! For all I know it'll blow everything up..."
Fool, you're gonna need coaching.
What is it this time?
Ok ok, first, focus, think of what you're transmutating.
I know...
When let out small bursts of chakra and MP to hold the object together. Then, release!
Lightning crackled as whirling wind howled violently around. My memory of how the house was exactly, the fireplace here, the table there, a picture frame, a music box, a shelf of books, where I left my loufa. OH DAMN! THAT'S WHAT I FORGOT! When the spinning stopped, I opened my eyes and my mouth dropped open.
"W-Wow... You made a house!" Heihachi shouted "I've never seen that happen before! Is it magic? I'm amazed! If only you could grow rice that fast!"
"Yes, you're getting better no da!" Chichiri said "Excellent job no da"
"Nice job, for a klutz" D3pa1 joked "No really, good job"
"Thanks guys" I said standing up and staggering "Ooh, me dizzy..." WHOO HOO! I REMADE A HOUSE AND FORGE! WHOO HA!
"Well, better check inside for clues then!" Heihachi said grasping the door knob.
"First we gotta see if the house will fall on top of us..." D3pa1 chortled
"Come on! Have some faith!"
"I do, that's why I'm going inside! Dummy..." D3pa1 said with her back turned. For some reason though, I could tell she was smiling.
"Wow, not bad if I do say so myself!" I said knocking on a wall "Solid! Good, I thought the water might've interefered with the transmutation"
"Why's that no da?" Chichiri asked
"Well, in order to transmutate something, the object needs to have the same mass as the object being created." I said "Like if I were to make mud into gold, the mud would have to have the same mass as gold in order for it to work"
"You can make mud into gold with alchemy no da? Wow!"
"Where'd you learn all that anyways?" Heihachi asked
"Well, Kel-san explained to me plus, I did some research" I replied. Yeah... Research on the internet by watching FMA every night! No one ever hears because I use head phones.
"Well, anyone find anything?" D3pa1 asked. We all shook our heads.
"Hm, I wonder how the others are doing?" I said to myself out loud. As if on que, my kunai Kakashi gave me started shaking and making this wailing sound like a siren.
"What the-?"
"AHHHHH! MAKE IT STOP!" I cried running in circles "I HATE MASSAGES! GET THIS THING OFF ME! THIS IS WORSE THEN A CELL PHONE!" Chichiri ran to where I was and yanked the kunai from my pocket and it began to pull him out of the house
"DAA! N-N-N-N-NO D-D-D-D-D-DA!" Chichiri went Chibi mode shaking and vibrating with the kunai
"Where're you going?" Heihachi asked running after him "Stop! You're running too fast!"
"I-I-I-I C-C-CAN'T-T-T-T N-N-N-NO D-D-D-D-DA!" I grabbed the kunai from him again and tied the circle end with a string. The kunai started flying away pulling the string with it
"I think we have to follow it!" I said as it dragged me "WAAH!"
"Give it here!" D3pa1 said grabbing the string from me "Jeez, this is like my dog" The kunai began to drag D3pa1 around exactly like a dog on a leash. At least there was no one of the street at this time of night, otherwise it'd be ackward.Well, since when has this whole adventure NOT been ackward?
"It's heading towards the hill!"
"The field? God! We did all that alchemy for nothing?" I said "Aww man... I could've used that baby powder to make a smoke screen or something..."
"Ah shut up. You still have some in your bag!"
"Good point!"
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When we reached the field, Kakashi and Kosarai's groups were already there.
"Hey!" I called waving "The kunai-a-phone rang and we came a running!"
"Kunai-a-phone?" Kel asked crossing his arms "For some reason, I'm not surprised that coming from you"
"Did you find Shoken no da?" Chichiri asked. Some of the group looked away while Kakashi nodded.
"We found him, but..." he started before standing rigid "Be on guard, we're surrounded"
"EH!" I looked around putting my hands into a seal while Heihachi drew his sword and Kakashi's hand went to his head band.
"I didn't even hear anything... How is that?" Kosarai said taking out both his swords
"I don't know... I'm a great ninja and I couldn't sense anything!" Zero said.
"Keep your ego to yourself for love of god!"
"So, what're all of you doing out at this time of night? Partying? Plotting?" we all looked up seeing Shoken floating above us with...Giant...Black...Wings? YUKES CAN FLY? I HAD NO IDEA!
"Shoken! We've been looking all over Tipa for you!" I said running towards him "Where in buttery goodness were you?"
"Buttery goodness?"
"You don't know what comes out of her mouth... Sometimes I think she doesn't even think before she talks..."
"Where have I been? Why do you care?" Shoken asked landing in front of us. Everyone drew their weapons
"Wha? I don't get it, why're you getting ready to attack?" I asked "We found Shoken! It's ok! Are there any enemies?"
"Clueless as always aren't you?" Shoken said, his giant bat wing retracting into his back.
"Huh? I still don't get it" I said walking towards Shoken "Care to enlighten me?"
"Kiako get away from him!" Kel shouted. With lightning speed I felt a shove and a scream.
"Zero-chan no da!" Chichiri shouted running to the theif's smouldering body.
"Owwwww..." he groaned "Note to self... Make next suit rubber..."
"Why'd you cast Thundaga on him!" I cried "You could've killed him!"
"Kiako-chan, Shoken's aura is different... It's all...Black... no da..."
"You know, I'm really getting annoyed by that phrase" Shoken said before raising his hand "Fira!" Dancing flames swirled towards Chichiri.
"NO!" I jumped in the way doing seals and put my hands in front of me as a large barrier sprung forth.
DAMMIT! Because of the transmutation I did at the forge... I'm getting low on chakra...
When the flames disappeared I let my barrier down.
"Why're you doing this Shoken?" June asked "I don't even understand!"
"Yeah, I thought we were your friends!" Galfer shouted "Explain!"
"Explain? I've lost all I had! The forge, the house, everthing!" Shoken exclaimed "How would you feel if you lost something important to you?"
"But, you still have Sannu, don't you?" Kosarai said.
"This is about the forge? That's it? You zapped Zero for that? If you want the forge back fine! It's all ready down there! I made to remake it! YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS?" I said feeling my temper rise then slowly go down again "You're not making any sense"
"You don't make sense yourself!" Cliff said giving my a konk on the head.
"Kiako, I don't understand you... how can you be so happy?" Shoken asked "How am I suppose to live now? Everything I own, GONE. Because you had to bring your friends here! They only made eveything worse!"
"They prevented the fire from destroying Tipa!" I argued "Can't you see that yet? Or do you need to borrow my glasses?"
"You're friends aren't welcome here, if you want them to live, then make them LEAVE!"
"How? Shove them into a mini van and drive them out into the miasma? I don't think so!" I said.
"Kiako, I don't want to hurt you... You were one of the few people kind to me and Sannu. But if I have to I'll destroy you like your friends" Shoken said "So if you want to live, make your friends leave" I sighed shaking my head as a moment of silence passed.
"No."
"What was that?"
"I said no, if you wanna kill my friends, you're gonna have to get through me and I mean straight through!" I said taking a fighting stance.
"What? Why? Don't you want to live?" Shoken asked "Leave now before you made a big mistake!"
"Why leave? I'd rather die with my friends then abandon them! Believe it!" I said. OMG! I'm starting to sound like dubbed Naruto! NOOOOOO!
"Yeah, besides, there's only one of you and thirteen of us!" D3pa1 said "Hey uh, where's Hao?"
"Oh him? He left a long time ago"
"Ok then, twelve of us and one of you!" D3pa1 said again "We've got you out numbered so you better give up now!"
"Oh do you?" Shoken rose his hand in the air and a bunch of fiend appeared behind him.
"Ok um, one, two, three, four-" I said counting
"Did you count that one?" Kel asked
"I dunno..."
"How about that one?"
"For the love of god all of you stop moving?" I shouted "IT'S SO FRUSTRATING! I THINK I COUNTED ONE OF YOU TWICE!"
"Um, I don't think it matter how many there are..." Heihachi said taking his sword with both hands.
"Oh, good point"
"So, change your mind yet Kiako?" Shoken asked "With these new powers at my disposition, I could crush Tipa."
"But do you really want that?" Kakashi asked "This shouldn't be too hard, ready Kiako-chan?"
"I guess" I said taking a fighting stance.
"I'm sorry it had to be like this Kiako, June, Galfer, I hope in your death, you will forgive me" Shoken said and waved his fiends forward "ATTACK!"
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Bounding forward, I jumped over a bandersnatch landing on it's back then taking a kunai stabbed it at the back of it's neck. When it died, I jumped to the next fiend, which had to be... Which just HAD. TO. BE. A chocobo eatter.
"THIS IS FOR ALL THE INNOCENT CHOCOBO YOU EVER ATE!" I shouted "AYAYAYAAYAYAYAYA!" Like a crazed Indian idiot, I ran towards the Chocobo eatter until last second while it swung it's arms, Ran away.
"Kiako? Where're you going?" Kel asked as I ran past him.
"RUN!" I cried doing hand seals along with way then spung around "Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu! (Grand fireball no jutsu!)" I blow a ball of fire sending the Chocobo eatter running swinging it's arms around running in circles.
"Whoo! Nice move Kiako!" D3pa1 said shooting at the fiends "Gah, this is taking way too long... I wanna try my new baby out!"
"Baby? You're gonna make a baby fight!" I said franticly.
"You take baby too literally Kiako-chan" Heihachi said beside me "Look out!" he slashed his sword down on a nearby mushroom.
"Thanks!"
"No problem!"
"Lookit my baby! I made this while we were at the barn earlier" D3pa1 said snapping together the barrel of a bazooka "Don't fail me now!" she aimmed the bazooka at a Thunder Drake blowing it to smitherines.
"Wow! Awesome!" I grinned
"Yeah! if only I could do this to our Jr. High school!"
"MY KIAKO! YOU ARE IN DANGER? NOOO! I SHALL SAVE YOU!"
"Oh god why now..." I groaned "Vale! Be careful!" Vale stopped in his tracks and his eyes became watery and full of tears.
"You care for me! That settles it! YOUR LOVE FOR ME IS UNDENIABLE!"
"Would you shut the hell up, and run along Richy?" Zero said killing a Killer bee "Dammit there's so many. WHOO!" he backflipped as a spike of ice spear the ground where he was standing a moment ago.
"He really is trying to kill us no da..." Chichiri said shooting out a chi blast. I turned and saw Shoken hovering above the ground.
"He's mine!" I shouted and charged towards him dodging ice spikes and fiends. There was a sudden BANG and I slammed into a solid wall "Where they hell'd that come from!" I looked up seeing an Iron side. AN IRON SIDE! YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT TOOK ME TO BEAT ONE OF THOSE! A WHOLE 25 MINUTES! THAT'S WHAT!
"Raikiri!" Kakashi zoomed past me "Kiako-chan! Get Shoken! This is now an A rank mission! I'll take care of this beast!"
"Good luck Sensei!" I called and jumped back up to my feet.
"You're more gutsy then I expected, I'm surprised. I would've expected you to at least given up by now" Shoken said. I laughed
"You don't know the real me yet then" I looked up at him "I can be really stubborn when I want to"
"Too stubborn for your own good. When this hammer hits you, you'll die slowly" Shoken said taking hold of his hammer and diving at me.
"Wait! Don't hurt her!" I looked to the right and gasped. Sannu!
"Get away from here!" I barked.
"Big brother this isn't like you! Please change back to the way you were!" Sannu cried running towards us.
"No! Get away!" I looked at Shoken still diving at me. Why can't he see him? Looking back and forth betwen the brothers, I ran towards Sannu.
"Don't run away from me, you pit this on yourself!" he swung his hammer at me when I had just reached Sannu. I swore.
If I moved, Shoken would hit Sannu, if I didn't, Shoken would smush me with his hammer.
I grabbed Sannu shielding him with my body.
"Curl into a ball and hold on!" I whispered into his ear
"But-"
"Die!" I braced myself as the hammer struck my side sending me flying.
Tighten your muscles, harden them, don't breathe or anything!
I couldn't help it... Blinding white blew into my head and I felt Sannu fly from my arms.
NO!
I bit my thumb doing seals and clapped my hands together.
"Noble Knights of the Round!" I slammed into the ground rolling and tumbling until I dug my fingers into the dirt stopping myself. When the blinding light vanished, I looked up seeing Knight er, Galahad holding Sannu.
"Are you alright Lady Kiako?" Knight er, GAH! Galahad! asked.
"Y-Yeah, just a bit shaken" I said and gripped my side gritting my teeth.
"You don't look ok no da!" Chichiri bent down beside me along with Zero, D3pa1, Heihachi and Kakashi.
"Kiako, you're..." Kakashi pointed. I looked at my hand seeing blood dripping off of it. I wanted to cry right then, sob and cry until the pain stopped.
Instead, I laughed.
"Man, I never imagined he'd hit that hard! Gotta be more careful" I said giving a fake laugh "Why's everyone staring? I'm ok, just make sure you don't get eatten or anything"
"This doesn't seem like something to laugh about" Zero said "God you're an idiot"
"I know!" I tried to stand up sucking air through my teeth.
"Don't move!" D3pa1 said shoving me back down "Why do you have to be so damn heroic all the time?"
"Yeah, one day you're gonna get yourself killed" Kosarai said taking out a bottle "Here, I have a Hi-potion. Drink it"
"Ok ok, you are my nii-san" I said taking it and sipping the bottle "Mmm, strawberry"
"Why... why did you do that?" Sannu asked jumping out of Knight, GAH! GALAHAD'S arms.
"Come on you have better memory then that! I told you!" I sipped again swallowing "I'll protect you with my life, even if it kills me!"
"That bastard... He's going down!" Zero growled.
"Please don't hurt my brother! I know he's still good!" Sannu cried.
"How? He almost fed us to his little pets!" Cliff said "He's long gone from the brother you knew"
"Cliff!"
"Well it's true ain't it?"
"Fool has a point" Albel said flexing his claw. I gulped down the rest of the Hi-potion and stood up
"If only we could cut off his magic... Then it'd be so much easier"
"Yeah no da..." Heihachi was rubbing his chin in thought and turned to Chichiri.
"Chichiri-sama, you had a fishing rod with you didn't you?" he asked
"Yes no da, I still have it with me da" Chichiri said taking his hat and sticking his hand into it pulling out his fishing rod "What do you need it for no da?"
"I have an idea" Heihachi said "As shabby as it may seem, it's worth a try!"
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"He's looking for us..." Kel whispered "Hei, are you done yet?"
"Almost, just give me a minute" Heihachi replied "Ok, it's done"
"You think this'll work?" D3pa1 asked me.
"It's gotta, though I do feel bad about it"
"Ok, everyone ready?"
"I am."
"Me too"
"Just hurry this up..."
"Ok Kiako, there's your que!" D3pa1 said shoving me out into the open from the bushes that were our cover.
"Hey Shoken! You're a bad black smith and your house stinks!" I shouted and began running as Shoken dove at me swinging his Hammer O Death. WHY AM I ALWAYS BAIT FOR THESE PLANS! Running towards a tree, I ran up the trunk using chakra control to hold me there and jumped out from the top of the tree landing on top of Shoken.
"Gah! Heavy as a hippo as usual!"
"WHAT'D YOU SAY!" I growled grabbing his wings and folding them together.
"Hey! Let go!"
"Ok!" I said cheerfully grabbing the back of his shirt and threw him to the ground where he bounced off in a tangle of his own wings.
"NOW!" dozens of wires shot up as Heihachi began reeling them in snagging Shoken into a net of wire.
"A trap!" Shoken gasped before becoming entangled into a ball.
"Good job everyone, the plan worked!" I called "Now that's what I call team work!"
"Good thinking Heihachi-san. Combining the use of Chichiri's fishing pole with our ninja cables" Kakashi said
"Not at all! It was shabby" Heihachi smiled.
"So, wanna tell us why you've gone to the dark side?" I asked before getting smacked upside the head.
"This isn't Star Wars you nerd!" D3pa1 said
"ITAI!"
"Brother, why?" Sannu sniffled "I thought...I thought..."
"Sannu, I'm sorry. I wanted to save the forge, it was all we had but then these strangers took it from us..." Shoken said.
"US? About a minute ago you weren't even giving a thought about Sannu!" I snapped "You could've hit him!"
"Wha?"
"It might have been because my 'Hippo butt' was in the way, but didn't you hear him calling you? Or did you block that out along with whatever logic you had in your brain in the first place?" I said crossing my arms.
"What do you know? You're prancing around all happy happy, don't you care if others feel sorrow? Must you make them feel worse by making them jealous of your happiness?"
"But that's exactly why I'm always happy! If you wallow in dispair and never smile or let go of the past, it'll haunt you for the rest of your life" I said. Dammit, now I really feel like crying... Kakashi-sensei was right...I am a hypocrite... Heavy as a Hippo... I'LL NEVER FORGET THAT! Kakashi bent down by Shoken.
"It's true that we interfered with your way of life, but also you have to learn not to attach to such things." Kakashi said "If your house is destroyed, build a new one, start anew. What you can replace, do not attach to. But that which is impossible to replace, never give up on trying to protect it. So, who is your unreplacable?" Shoken looked up at Sannu and hung his head.
"I'm sorry... I was blinded by rage, anger, sadness, and quite a bit of jealousy..." he said "Punish me if you must..."
"I don't think there's a need for that" Kakashi said using his kunai to cut the cables "So long as you never betray your comrades, all is well."
"Never betray them?"
"Those who break the rules are considered trash, but those who don't care about their friends are worse then trash!" Kakashi said "If you do not understand those words, you do not understand the power of friendship"
"But what if I have no real power? What if I don't have to power to protect my brother or friends?" Shoken asked.
"When you fight for something precious, that is when a person is truly strong" I quoted from Haku.
"Yes, True power is the power to protect the ones you love" Kosarai said "Remember all these words, they will help you in the future"
"They already have" We all shared a moment of silence to calm down the heat of battle.
"Well, now that that's over, let's go eat more food! I'm hungry!" Kel announced
"Yeah, I'd love to eat rice!" Heihachi said
"Sorry, no more rice left"
"Ooh... Oh well"
"Yeah, I need to go tell Kuro what happened!" I said and took a step forward. Suddenly there was a whirl behind me and I turned around seeing the white vortex "Oh come on!"
"WAH!" D3pa1 screamed as she started flying in
"Dpa1!" I grabbed her hand flying in with her.
"Kiako-chan!" I felt something grab my ankle and soon, everyone began to fly into the vortex.
"D3pa1! Where's everyone!" I shouted over the wind and flying colors
"I DUNNO!"
Spinning, Spinning, everything spun and spun until finally, it all stopped.
Authors notes: DONE! Man, I've been on a roll! Course, I've had school and stuff, but at least I'm getting on scedule with my fic! Now I just need to work on the other ones... Well, thanks for reading! BYE!