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 or any of my school mates, as much as I hate some of them...
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!
Other voice and memories: Italic
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I yawned into my sleeve. By god I need to go to bed earlier... Last night was almost an eternal war of pillow throwing and blanket choking, I couldn't even sleep! Luckily Sven was the only one who actually got sleep and drove me to work. Now I just need a way back... I looked back at my little student slamming his hands into the piano keys
"TATATATATATATATAA!" he shouted. You see, in my work place instead of counting beats like the normal one two three, we say ta and ti and ta tum and... yeah... lots of weird ways of teaching in this place...
"Please don't do that, you'll break the keys..." I said trying not to sound snappy.
"Okokokokokok!" the boy chittered and bang on the keys a little less destructively.
I really need a coffee or something, the thing that this kid seems to have injested for breakfast. I mean like, it's nine AM for goodness sakes! I glanced at the small clock beside me on the little mini grand piano and sighed in relief. My 10 minutes of torture with this student was over! Finally... I quickly led him back to his little key board and instructed him to practice drawing the notes then ran to get my next student. Unfortunatly, I don't really teach the students, but I check to see they know their stuff and hope that they listen to me, which they usually do. Usually...
"Excuse me, You have to sit on the bench to practice piano, not lay on it." I said walking to another one of my students that had wandered from her keyboard and was peering out the windows and make faces at all the old- I mean, elderly people walking in the outside mall (Yeah, my piano school is in a mall, can you believe it? I don't even like malls!)
"I don't want to play piano..." the girl complained. I sighed, ok Kiako, it's just a little girl. No older then 6, you can handle this.
"You have to play though, that's why you're here" I smiled sweetly "So please go back to your piano and practice so the other lady can teach you more"
"But I don't wanna!" she whined laying over the bench. I picked her up under her arms and lifted her back on the bench.
"You have to though"
"Nooooo!"
"But-! Um, uh..." I panicked waving my arms in wild circles. I hate dealing with whiney, bratty, disobedient kids!
"Kiako dear, there's someone up front who wants to see you" my teacher/BOSS said walking over to me.
I looked up at the smiling elderly lady, "Huh? Me?" Talk about nick of time!
"I don't want to practice... I have to go bathroom..." the girl continued to whine.
"I'll take over for you a bit, go on and see your friends dear" BOSS said sitting on the bench in my place. I smiled and bowed slightly
"Ok, thank you!" I jogged to the front desk where my co-worker was trying to peel away a certain someone we all know...
"Come on, just one night!"
"N-No! Get away from me!" I sighed picking up a nearby piano chart attached to a clip board then slapped it over Zero's head.
"YEOW!"
"Give it a rest! She has a boyfriend already you baka!" I said pulling Zero off "Sorry Mari, he's a friend of mine"
"It's ok, just um... Keep an eye on him" Mari said then whispered to me "Are these guys all your friends?"
"Yeah" I smiled "I'll see them outside"
"Alright, your shift is almost done anyway"
I walked out of the piano school dragging Zero behind me and saw the majority of the group there.
"Ohiyou Kiako-chan!" Heihachi smiled raising his hand in greeting. Today he was wearing a jean jacket with dark green cargo pants and a white T-shirt with a brown bandana tied over his head. Honestly, he looked really, really cute. Kel-san just wore his normal attire of white T-shirt, jeans and long black coat (Damn man, I love that coat!) Zero? Same thing he wore when we first borrowed my cousin's clothes.
"What're you all doing here?" I asked the group.
"Well, they wanted to come pick you up so I let them" Sven said
"Wow, didn't think they'd actually care" I said rubbing behind my head.
"WHAT ARE YOU SAYING!" Vale sang from outta no where carrying some kinda harp in his arms... Or was that my imagination?
"AHHH! VALE WHERE DID YOU COME FROM!" I cried jumping away from Vale before he glomped me.
"My dear, nothing, not even solid walls could stop me from reaching your side!" Vale said kneeling in front of me
"Just talk normally, your really making my brain melt with all those weird lines..." I muttered shaking my head.
"Looks like your class just ended" Sven pointed out as the kids left with their parents. The one girl that was kinda being a brat walked up to me with a man that seemed to be her father.
"Go on, say sorry to the lady"
"Sorry" the girl said looking up and smiling at me. I smiled back
"It's ok, just uh... be good, ok?" I said patting her head and watching her skip away.
"Ok!" I turned to everyone.
"Hey guys, do I look old?" I asked, Everyone seemed to fall out.
"Why are you even asking that? Aren't you like, 14 now?" Kel asked scratching his head
"I dunno, that man called me lady, so I just kinda assumed I looked old" I shrugged.
"Well with those clothes on I wouldn't be surprised if someone called me Old man" Zero chortled. I made my 'I feel stupid' face. I was only wearing like, what, a blue blouse and black dress pants. It was dress code for work.
"Nonsense, you look like a young lady" Sven said fixing his hat "Now lets go back to your house, there seems to be a few new comers"
"More people?" I hung my head "How many worlds did I screw up this time?"
"More then you can imagine!"
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"We're home!" I called slipping off my shoes and walking in seeing a red head and silver head.
"Oh, hiya there"
"Kiako-chan! Tasuki's back no da!" Chichiri said happily going chibi and jumping into my arms
"Tasuki?"
"Kiako?" the red head and I both stared at each other, then pointed accusingly screaming.
"YOU!"
"I, take it you both know each other" the silver head said standing up off the couch.
"Baralai! Man it's been a while since I've seen you! How ya doin'?" I asked patting the Praetor on the shoulder.
"Um, do I know you miss?" Baralai asked uncertainly
"It's Kiako, just now she's human" Kakashi said.
"Oh, how interesting" Baralai said and smiled "It's good to see you again Miss Ornitier"
"I'M HUNGRY!" Train shouted jumping the railing and landing in front of me "Can I have a rice ball? No wait! I want milk! Or tuna!"
"Slow down!" I cried waving my arms around.
"Hey it's about time you got back" D3pa1 and Kuro peered from behind the fridge door.
"Well SORRY for having a job!" I said sticking my tongue out and heading to my bedroom "Least I can make my own money..."
"Shut up about money before I kill you..." Kuro muttered slamming the fridge door shut "Where're you going anyways?"
"I have to change, I gotta go to badminton club" I replied "If any of you want to come feel free to ok?"
"OK!"
"You can't just shout OK like that! What're you going to hit the birdie with?" I heard Sven yell at Train
"Hit? Can't I just shoot it like usual?"
"Gruh..."
I shook my head and quickly changed to my phys ed clothes then ran downstairs jumping the last three steps.
"Well, I'm going, anyone else coming?" I asked grabbing my coat and racket.
"I'm coming no da!" Chichiri called running after me in chibi form. I couldn't help but laugh, it was too funny watching him run at top speed with legs shorter then a cats. So it ended up that Chichiri, Heihachi, Kakashi, Kel, Zero, Tasuki, Vale (He never leaves me alone with Hei, Chiri or Kaka-sensei anymore...) Eve, and Train decided to come. Of course Kuro and D3pa1 came along too, to help 'Monitor' any chaos...
"Hey uh, how're we gonna fit in the car? It only holds five people and we have like, nine." Train said pointing at my Volvo, hey they're really good cars! Unreliable, but good.
"We'll have to bus it, it's only about say, a a few more blocks away from our school?" I said
"OR, we could just get into my van..." D3pa1 said jerking her thumb behind her.
"You DROVE here? When did you even have time to get your dad's car!" I exclaimed "You don't even have a learners yet!"
"Relax ok? Sven drove me to my house after he dropped you off at work then supervised while we drove back here"
"It wasn't easy either..." Sven muttered "She kept going over the speed limit..."
"You're lucky you've got awesome hair otherwise I'd beat the living crap outta you..."
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We eventually made it to the gym where my badminton club was and gathered quite a few eyes from the other members... Which wasn't many and were a majority of little kids.
"Yue!" I called running to my friend doing up her shoelaces. .
"Oh, hey Kiako!" she said cheerfully "I've finally read volume 16 of Fushigi Yuugi, It was so cool!"
"Yeah! Cool pic of Chichiri in ceramonial robes!" I grinned.
"No da?"
"Oh uh, Yue. These are my friends" I said gesturing to the group "Everyone, meet Yue, Badminton extrodinare, hater of tree sap and bad food!"
"That's going a little too far..." Yue smiled weakly "So, what're your names?" Everyone introduced themselves quickly and everything was going really smooth;
Until we reached Tasuki of course...
"Name's Tasuki, wielder of the magic Harisan!"
Yue stared at him and began to poke him in the ribs.
"Is...Is he real? He can't be real!" she started then punched him in the stomache
"ARRG!" Tasuki dropped to the floor cradling his middle.
"Ah! Tasuki-chan! Are you ok no da!" Chichiri cried dropping to his friends side. The others just stared frightened.
"What the heck is wrong with you! YOU DAMNED WOMAN!"
"AHH! NOO! I must be going insane! AHH! NO! I CAN'T BE GOING INSANE! NOO! I HURT TASUKI!"
"No Yue, calm down! It's ok! Don't you dare faint on me!" I panicked.
"I...I...I need to find an insane asylum, I..." she fell backwards and I quickly slid under so she wouldn't smash her head open on the floor.
"What is with that girl!" Tasuki shouted pointing at the unconcious Yue that I was dragging onto a bench.
"She's just a big fan of Red Heads, she likes red heads!" I shouted back.
Yeah, Yue's a BIG fan of Tasuki, she's almost more extravagant of a fangirl then I am!
Almost.
"I can't believe she actually fainted..." Kuro said fanning Yue with my drawing binder (Yeah, I bring it everywhere I go)
"She'll come to in a few moments..." I muttered shaking my head. Yue's eyelashes fluttered open and she looked up at me
"Eh? Kiako? What're you doing here?" she asked sitting up then spotted Tasuki "OHMIGOD!"
"Oh no not again..." Yue ran up to Tasuki and pulled on his cheeks stretching his face out
"Is he real?" she asked again.
"STOP TUGGIN' ON MY FACE!" Tasuki shouted, his words distorted.
"No da!"
"What an, interesting person" Kel said with a badminton racket slung over his shoulder "Hey Kiako!"
"Eh?" I looked up, I'm still not used to being called...
"Wanna go for a round?" he asked, I grinned
"Ok, sure!" I jumped up grabbing my racket and we both went on different sides of a court.
"Best outta ten, full court" Kel said and smirked "Don't worry, I'll go easy on you"
"DON'T YOU DARE!" I pointed just as the birdie dropped on top of my head.
"Does that count as a point?"
"Wha? DAMN YOU! I WASN'T READY KEL-SAN!" I cried "HOW DARE YOU CATCH ME OFF GUARD WHEN I'M DOING DRAMATIC POSES!"
"Try and keep up kiddo!"
I curled my hand into a fist of determination and pointed at Kel-san.
"KEL-SAN! I WON'T LOSE TO YOU!" I shouted and got smacked over the head with the birdie... Again...
"That's two points now!"
"NOOooOooOOoooOOOOO!"
"Yo! You guys mind if we play doubles?" Kakashi asked shouldering his racket with Cliff beside him. I glanced at Kel-san, who kinda nodded and grinned
"Sure thing" he said then turned to me whispering "How come we gotta go up against the the two tallest guys here?" I shrugged. I mean like, Kakashi is 6'1, Cliff is 6'5!
"Beats me."
"You two ready?" Cliff called
"Y-Yeah!"
"Ok, it's best out of 7 then" Kakashi said and served the birdie "GAME ON!" before the birdie even had time to reach our court Kel gave it a quick smack to the other side.
"HA!" Cliff swung his racket and I ducked half expecting to get slapped in the head again. Instead, I heard a low whistle.
"Dude, that can't be normal..." Kel said shaking his head while looking up at the birdie indenting into the gym ceiling.
"Opps! It's stuck" Cliff sighed "Hey Kel get over here, I'm gonna throw you up there, get the birdie will ya?"
"GET AWAY FROM ME!" Kel stuck his tongue out.
"That my line" I chuckled.
"MY LOVE! LET US BE PARTNERS AND WIN THE COUPLE CHAMPIONSHIP!" Vale sang jumping to where I was standing.
"Um, Vale, you're holding the racket upside down, and there isn't a couple championship..."
"There is now!" Vale smiled linking arms with me.
Inner chibi: Noooooooo!
"Hey! We're playing a game! Mind getting off the court?" Kel asked "I got a new birdie"
"Yippee kai yay!" I bolted back to my spot "Maybe later we can play each other, how's that Vale?"
"Very well! I wait you return... FROM THE SIDELINES!"
"Ok, you serve" Kel tossed me the birdie. I took a deep breath
"Ready?" everyone nodded. I got ready to serve until I heard a loud shout behind me.
"YOU CAN DO IT! I KNOW YOU CAN! GO MY DEAR GO! SHOW NO MERCY! BEAT THEM! THIS IS WAR! SHOW THEM OUR LOVE CAN CONQUER ANYTHING!" Vale shouted continuously drawing eyes from the younger kids as well as the others. I took a controlled breath, and served the birdie over the net.
"YES! THAT'S IT MY LOVE! YOU SHALL STAND IN TRIUMPH AND FIGHT! AND YOU WILL WIN!"
"Just shut for the lovagawd..." I muttered under my breath as my hand tightened around my racket to prevent myself from throwing it at the charming, yet obnoxious guy behind me...
"Heads up!"
"Eh?" I saw the birdie soaring upwards then starting plummeting down. Everything seemed to go into slow motion.
"Nooooooooooo..." Kel's voice dragged into a long monotone
"Goooooooooo..." Vale was bouncing up and down with the same long monotone. Everyone else? They were all going at normal speed walking past and staring or shaking their heads.
DOINK.
Damn, all that drama for nothing. The birdie didn't even make it over the net!
"WHOO HO!" Kel was jumping up and down "Oh yeah! We won! 7-5! Oh yeah!"
"Um, yay?" I scratched behind my head, how the hell did that game go by so fast?
"High five girl! Whoo we did great!" Kel cheered holding up his hand. I smiled and gave it a slap.
"Good game, you two make a pretty good team" Kakashi said holding his hand out and shaking with Kel.
"Yeah, good game" Cliff and I shook hands firmly.
"Well, now that that's over with, let's go see the others!" I peered at the other court seeing Chichiri and Heihachi trying to dodge birdies.
"Tasuki you aren't suppose to smash them AT people no da!" Chichiri cried bending back into some kinda Matrix thing then falling over.
"COME ON! GET UP! PLAY LIKE REAL MEN!" Tasuki shouted waving around his giant fan and smacking the birdie so hard it made a hole in the net "SCORE!"
"This would SO not be legal in a tournament..." Yue muttered from the sidelines watching.
"But then that means he's not being fair, I mean, he's using a fan made of diamonds!" I cried watching Chichiri's bangs almost get singed off by a birdie that almost seemed to be on fire.
"Who wants to fight me next?" Tasuki bellowed "I'll take anyone on with my Harisan!"
"You should play fair and use a racket like the rest of us!" Heihachi panted pointing up at Tasuki (For some reason, Hei-san was on the floor...)
"Shut up and get up! Why don't you fight me like a man!" Tasuki argued shaking his fan around "Fight me I say! FIGHT ME!"
"What an arrogant jerk head..." Kel muttered with his arms crossed.
"Tasuki's playing fair" Yue swooned going into a total fangirl moment.
"Urg, blinded by love..." I groaned smacking my forhead
"Did you say something?"
"NOTHING!"
"AH! Little Princess! You're not that bad in badminton either!" Train called to Eve, who was holding one racket in her hand and her hair had formed one giant one. Apparently Train and Kuro were teamed up against Eve and Zero.
"I will win against you, even if I am team mates with this incompetant fool" Eve said with determination.
"FOOL!"
"HA! Even children know you as a fool!" Kuro laughed
"Yeah, ok fine. But I know you probably put on your bra one arm at a time!" Zero called back and a birdie smashed into his face "OWW MY NOSE!"
"DIE YOU INFIDEL! DIE DIE DIE!" Kuro roared constantly beating Zero with her racket.
"GAH! STOP! MY NOSE IS BLEEDING!"
"FROM YOUR PERVERTEDNESS!"
"GRAAAAH!"
"Kuro, you better stop... Otherwise he'll die..."
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So after badminton, we all went back to our respective homes and got some well deserved rest.
What you think that's all we did? COURSE WE HAD A PARTY FIRST!
"WHEEEEEEEEEE!" I squealed running around the house " RICE BALLS! RICE BALLS! RICE BALLS! RICE BALLS!"
"Heihachi, what have you done to her?" Kel exclaimed dodging to the side before I ran him over "Now she's obsessed with rice balls!"
"Hey don't blame me I didn't mean to! Besides, who could resist the delicious greatness of rice?"
"Oh god we're all doomed... Note to self, when I rule the world, Get rid of all idiots" Kuro muttered "THAT MEANS ALL OF YOU EXCEPT THE SMART PEOPLE!"
"You'll be in a world all by yourself then Kuro" I laughed
"What're you talking about? Hao-sama will be there, along with Train, Eve, Kratos, Albel, Leon and D3pa1"
"WHAT ABOUT ME!"
"You'll die with the rest of the world... Thank god..."
"My, such vicious thoughts..." Baralai inquired.
"NOOOOOOO!" I cried falling on my knees "KURO YOU'RE TOO EVIL!"
"Fine fine! I need a punching bag/slave anyways"
"HEY!"
"Shouldn't we all be getting sleep? It's like, 2:30 in the morning" Kakashi said stretching out in a chair.
"Yeah I guess... Hey Ke-" I smiled "Well, Kel-san's zonked."
"Train is out cold..." Eve said poking at Train, who was snoring on the stairs with a lamp shade over his head.
"And so am I so shut up and leave me alone" Zero murmured flopping onto the couch still holding an icepack over his head and a few pieces of cold meat around the rest of his bruised body. I ran out of icepacks...
So yeah, a typical Saturday. Hmm... now that I think about it, I kinda miss the anime/game worlds... And I kinda miss the Final Fantasy people...
I looked at everyone laughing and saying Good Night to one another.
I'm sure they miss their worlds too eh?
Yeah... and... Hey where've you been all this time!
Nowhere in particular
Say, I never got your name, Unless you're me and...all that inner spirit stuff is actually real?
Just call me...
kokuzoku.
Authors notes: HI everyone! Well, holidays are over (Unfortunatly) and I gotta hurry and submit this! You see, the computer in my office got screwed up somehow so everyone in my family is using the one in my room. I hope everyones holidays were pleasant (I was sick...) So we're gonna have to move my comp downstairs until we get a new one. So, don't be expecting another chapter anytime soon. Thanks for reading!