Alatáriël: *Yawns* Good morning all!!! It seems I just can't stop writing
fanfiction! *sighs*
Kate: *sweatdrops* However even with all the good ideas she as it seems most of them will take a while to happen.
Alatáriël: *frowns* I know! It's so sad! *cries*
Chichiri: Let's wing it, no da!
Alatáriël & Kate: HAIIIIIIIIIIIIII!
Alatáriël: I own Kate. I don't own anything else... Exept this cute stuffed animal. *holds it lovingly* Mine...
Kate: Oh! Oh! Alatáriël, we should go to Wally- World (don't own it!!!)today and get suplies to make a Chichiri plushie!!!!!!... Then in a sence we WOULD own him!!!
Alatáriël:... Interesting idea.... Hmmm...
Chichiri: *smiles* On with the show, no da!
*everyone runs off stage... or to Wally- World*
Chapter 6: Row, row, row you'r boat!
Well, Chichiri was right. The gardens were beautiful. She had never seen so many different types of plants that she didn't know what they were before. It made her realize exactly how different this place was from her home. 'Never belonged there anyway', she thought. Chichiri was up ahead of her a little bit humming a little.
It was all very nice, and today they were packing and should leave anytime now. Kate held a small hope in her heart that Tamahome's family was still alive. She was feeling kind of strange due to the herbs Mitsuskake had given her, but she didn't hurt at all. That was a good thing.
Suddenly she noticed Chichiri had stopped walking and she almost walked right into him. "Tamahome, no da?". Kate turned around to see Tamahome running toward them. "Hey, Chichiri, Kate, Hotohori-sama told me to tell you that we are leaving as soon as possible so get ready, ok?", Tamahome said while trying to catch his breath.
Chichiri nodded and began to walk back to the palace. Kate stood there for a moment and thought about the manga. 'Wait... We are leaving early?', she thought. She shook her head trying to focus and ran up to catch up with Chichiri.
Back in her room Kate inspected her backpack. She cringed when she pulled out her shattered walkman. Most of her CDs had been destroyed too and she sighed. Rummaging threw it she noticed she hadn't found her Fushigi Yuugi CD yet and after looking threw the unbroken CDs noticed she had misplaced it in her Enya CD case.
She would have jumped for joy if it hadn't been for her broken walkman. The thing was due for retirement anyway, but what a way to go! Everything else seemed to be ok except for volume 3 of Fushigi Yuugi. She might have cried if it hadn't been for the fact that it saved her life.
She sighed and put it back. No need to worry about that now. 'All that Chichiri goodness sacrafised for my unworthy life... I'm so ashamed', she thought half jokingly and giggled to herself.
She grabbed her clothes she wore last night, her jeans, and DBZ shirt and stuffed them around the holes; forming a temporary patch for her backpack until she had enough time to make a real one. She put the herbs Mitsukake had given her in a pocket in her backpack that was still whole.
She spun her bag around and jumped up and down to make sure everything stayed in place. Everything did. Satisfied, she put on her backpack and surveyed the room. Noticing now quiet everything was she shivered. 'I don't want to be here right now', she thought and left the room.
"That's right... So we have to be careful, understand?", she heard from inside a room. 'What's going on?', she wondered. That was Tamahome's voice. "I don't really understand... She seems like a nice girl to me. As a doctor I feel bad for giving her those herbs when I could have healed her myself...", that was Mitsukake's voice.
"Look, we need to protect Miaka... This girl was brought here by that ugly baba for a reason... All i'm saying is she might be keeping something important from us... We need to know what she is hiding!", Tamahome said.
Kate felt her anger raise then. 'They're talking about me?! Oh, Come ON!', she thought and walked away. 'Never trust anyone, Kate. Never. You should know better after the stuff your family pulled', she thought angrily.
If she would have stayed behind for a moment later she would have heard, "Guys, no da. She was brought here for our support. Things are going to get bad, no da... I believe she knows this and is trying to protect all of us... We can't do this to her, no da... She's my friend and I can't let this happen. You all are as uncertain of the future as I am, but that gives us no excuse to act this way", Chichiri said and smiled. "Plus, you were overheard, no da", he said and the others paled.
Kate walked to the stables to visit Bob. She stole some sugar from the kitchen to give him. Walking into the stables she noticed some stable boys were sitting around playing some weird game. 'I think it's called Go!', she thought and greeted them. "Hello! Can I come in?", she asked and suddenly all the boys were on their feet looking around like they had been caught sneaking cookies out of a cookie jar.
'Slackers', Kate thought with a grin. "S-sure!!! Come on in!", one of them said and she nodded. She walked over to Bob and gave him some sugar from her pocket. "You like 'er, eh? Her name's Li-Li", one of the boys said and Kate blinked. "Bob... You're a GIRL!!!", Kate exclaimed and hugged her animal friend. "I'm so sorry! I thought you were a boy!!!". The stable boy sweatdroped and slowly walked away.
Kate stayed in the stale for a few hours talking about her troubles with Bob, or Li-Li as she was called by the others. "Bob, I just don't know what to do! Think I should tell them about the books?", the horse snorted.
"Yeah, me neither... Those are some gory images, ne?", she said and scratched his ears. "Well, Bob, it looks like i'm going to be going away for a while... Wish you could come with me, girl...", she said and sighed.
Bob neighed. "Yeah, i'll bring you back some sugar when I come back", Kate said with a laugh. "Do you always talk to animals, no da?", she heard suddenly and jumped, sending her head first into the stale. "AHHH!", she yelled as Bob bent down and tried to eat her hair.
" Bad Bob! Bad! No! Not the hair!!!", she yelled and jumped over the gate, panting heavily. Her hair was a mess and she pointed her finger at Bob. "That's it! No carrots!", she cried and flattened her hair.
Bob looked at her sadly. Kate looked at her with uncertainly, "Don't give me that look... Stop it!... Ok, fine... I'll bring you you'r stupid carrots", she said and Bob whinnied. She then turned to Chichiri with a fake frown, "You should be careful... She could've ate me alive!" Chichiri was chibi and latched onto a support beam to the stables.
"That was scary, no da!", Chichiri said and chibily ran over to her. She smiled, "I would expect Tasuki to say that", she said and rolled her eyes. Chichiri raised an eyebrow at that and she coughed. "N-never mind!!! Ha ha ha... Erm... What are you doing here, Chichiri?", Kate asked.
'I slipped!!! Damn it! The horse thing doesn't happen till they are in the desert! Baka!', she thought. Chichiri seemed to let it go as he smiled at her, "We are about to leave, no da! Ready?", he asked and Kate nodded. She gave Bob a hug and blew her a kiss before leaving.
"How'd you know where I was anyway?", Kate asked. Chichiri smiled, "Some boys were talking about a weird girl that was talking to a horse... I figured it must be you, no da!... That and they gave a detailed description of you!", he said and she raised an eyebrow. "What did they say?", she asked.
"Daaa! You don't want to know, no da!", Chichiri said and Kate felt her eyebrow twitch. "You're cruel, ya know that?", she said with a glare. When they reached the others Kate couldn't bring herself to look them in the eyes.
At the harbor Kate was grinning ear to ear jumping around. She wanted to see everything! First she saw the boat then she had somehow ended up on one of the docks. Looking down at the water she took a deep breath. 'This is it... No turning back now', she thought.
A sudden flash caught her attention and she looked up. Miaka was standing there with a small smile on her face. "Hey, Miaka!", Kate greeted, blushing. Miaka smiled and handed her the developing picture. "Tasuki thought there was another him in the photo", Miaka said with a grin.
Kate chucked slightly and looked at the picture Miaka took. She looked deep in thought. She laughed at it. "What were you thinking about?", Miaka asked. "Hmm? Oh just the boat ride... I've never been on a boat like that before...", Kate said with a smile and Miaka nodded. "Want to get a picture with the others... or Chichiri perhaps?", Miaka asked innocently.
Kate blushed, "Don't make fun of me!", she said Miaka smiled. "Come on! I want to take a picture of all of us!", Miaka said, changing the subject. Kate nodded and followed over to where the others were.
After some minor difficulties figuring out who went where the picture was taken. Kate was to Chiriko's left with Tama-neko cradled in her arms smiling close mouthed at the camera. (AN: You can picture it if you look in manga 7 pg.83! ^_^)
Suddenly Hotohori's voice caught Kate's attention. "A thought came to me last night... concerning your family." Kate held her breath and felt the color drain from her face. "What?", Tamahome asked. "Shall we bring them here?"
"While you are abroad, you will be anxious about them, no? The crown can provide them with a house in the city... This is no charity. They provided us hospitality. We wish to return the favor", Hotohori continued and Kate took a steady breath. Tamahome and
Miaka thanked Hotohori hyperly and Tamahome asked Miaka to go with him. Kate couldn't move or speak to ask if she could come along. "Uh... I can't take it", she groaned and went back to her seat on the dock. 'Don't cry... You're a big girl now', she told herself and looked at the picture Miaka had given her in her hand.
"Where there is will there is a way, ne?", she said and smiled sadly. She spotted Nuriko sneaking off and felt an evil grin appear on her face, 'and there is my way', she thought and ran after the cross-dresser. Her heart was beating so hard she thought for sure everyone could hear it.
"Nuriko!", Kate whispered and Nuriko looked around him. He was momentarily crouching under a table as was Kate. she waved at him and we waved for her to come over to where he was.
"What're you doing here?", Nuriko asked. "Stocking you!", Kate said with a grin. "Want to help me stock Miaka and Tama-baby?", Nuriko asked with a grin and Kate nodded. "Oh! Here they come! Get down!", Nuriko whispered and Kate did as she was told.
Kate overheard Miaka and Tamahome talking. Suddenly Nuriko raised up with a ball Kate handed him and said, "Perhaps this ball... Would be a good choice". Kate began giggling almost instantly.
Miaka and Nuriko cat fought all the way to the village. Kate stayed behind the others. It seemed to take forever to get there but when they finally did Kate felt tears start to roll down her checks.
"Big brother!!!", was shouted in a miniature eco. Kate buried her face in her hands and smiled. "Chuei! Shunkei! Gyokuran, Yuiren, Dad! I'm home!", Tamahome called and Tamahome's father walked to the door with a huge smile on his face. "Tamahome, Miaka! Hello! What are you two doing in town?", he asked and motioned them to enter the house.
Kate just stood there watching them all. She laughed to herself and shook her head. "Thank you Suzaku...", she whispered to the sky. "Are you coming, Kate?", Nuriko asked and Kate nodded happily running over to the house.
"Are you serious, Tamahome? Live in the city?", Tamahome's father asked with a stunned look on his face. So far he hadn't said anything about her last visit and she was grateful. There was no sound of a flute or anything. Kate was confused, but couldn't be any happier.
"We'll help you pack then! Come on, everyone", Nuriko said and everyone smiled. "Hai!", came the reply. They didn't have a lot to pack, being as poor as they were, so most of what was packed was clothes and food and any toys the kids had. Tamahome said they would get all new and better things in the city.
The next morning they loaded everything onto the horses and left. Kate kept glancing at the roofs and trees to make sure Suboshi or Soi weren't lurking nearby. She knew she had nothing to fear with Tamahome here, but she couldn't help herself.
They reached the city by noon and were greeted by everyone. Kate smiled when she saw Yuiren give Miaka the bead necklace she had made. Miaka and Tamahome blushed and thanked Yuiren, who was beaming with pride.
Kate felt tears fill her eyes again and she brushed them away. Sudden movement in her backpack, however, caused her to shriek and she threw he backpack off. She stared at it a moment before getting a stick and poking it. It moved and Kate jumped.
Tama-neko's head popped out of one of the holes with something in his/her (AN:is Tama-neko a girl or a boy? O_O) mouth. "What do you have? Here kitty kitty kitty", Kate cooed and Tama ran off. "NO! STOP! BAD KITTY!", Kate shouted and ran after it after grabbing her backpack.
'Dang Tama-neko is fast!', Kate thought and saw with horror he was running toward the others. She had a feeling he had a page of volume 3 that had been torn into pieces. "Make way!!!", she shouted and everyone jumped out of the way as Tama-neko ran past with Kate following soon after.
Tama-neko ran up the dock and onto the boat. Kate accidentally pushed a man off the board walk trying to reach the cat. 'Hope he can swim', she thought morbidly as she kept running after the cat.
Miaka and the others looked after her in stunned silence. "What was that about, no da?", Chichiri asked and the others shrugged. Hotohori and Miaka said their goodbyes and Tamahome gave his brothers and sisters hugs before leaving, promising to bring them back something.
Meanwhile Tasuki was being carried on board by Nuriko, followed by Chichiri and Chiriko and the others. Kate was somewhere below deck on a hunting expedition, much to Mitsukake's dismay.
An hour later Kate immerged from the boat's interior covered in cobwebs with a container of toothpaste in her hand. 'False alarm', She sighed and put it back in her backpack for safe keeping. After talking with Nuriko she found out she was sharing a cabin with him. He showed her to it then left saying he was going to cook dinner.
'I better get some sleep while I can...', she thought and nodded off with her backpack secure in her arms. Sometime later Kate woke up to a knock at her door. She yawned and stumbled over to the door.
"Eh?", she asked and smiled when she saw Chiriko. "Hey! What's up?", she asked. "It's time to eat. Come on!", he said and smiled. 'So kawaii!', Kate thought and smiled at him, "Ok!".
Kate didn't eat too much knowing that swimming on a full stomach gave people cramps, but she sure was hungry! She managed to eat a piece of fish and some fruit before going up on deck just in time to hear Chichiri scream something and the mast exploded in a wall of flames. Kate gasped and ran to tell the others. 'Wish I had a life jacket', she thought.
Alatáriël: Ha ha ha. I got a little carried away!!! ^_^;; I got really into the story and couldn't get myself to stop. *blushes*
Kate: Cliffy!!!
Chichiri: I want a floaty!!!
Kate: Me too! Waaaa.
Alatáriël: Oh, Shush you two! You can swim, so stop whining!!! Time for reviews!
Songwind: Hey!!! Ha ha ha. I agree they deserve it... Do you recall when Tasuki glared at Chichiri and Kate? He had just left then so they were there for about 35.0972 minutes. ^_^ This soon enough? Ha ha ha.
Selene Serenity: *Kate giggles* It was the best moment of my life!
Chichiri: *raises an eyebrow* Daaaa... *blushes after reading review*... You can kiss me if you want, no da! *turns chibi and jumps into Selene's arms*
Alatáriël: *laughs* No be angry! Just friendly peck really!
Jedi of Oro: *smiles* Yeah! I'm so glad you like it, M! *Chichiri hugs M in SD form*
Chichiri: I feel so loved, no da!!!
Alatáriël: By the way, Sorry this chapter was so soon, but I couldn't help but post it! *laughs*
Kate: *sweatdrops* However even with all the good ideas she as it seems most of them will take a while to happen.
Alatáriël: *frowns* I know! It's so sad! *cries*
Chichiri: Let's wing it, no da!
Alatáriël & Kate: HAIIIIIIIIIIIIII!
Alatáriël: I own Kate. I don't own anything else... Exept this cute stuffed animal. *holds it lovingly* Mine...
Kate: Oh! Oh! Alatáriël, we should go to Wally- World (don't own it!!!)today and get suplies to make a Chichiri plushie!!!!!!... Then in a sence we WOULD own him!!!
Alatáriël:... Interesting idea.... Hmmm...
Chichiri: *smiles* On with the show, no da!
*everyone runs off stage... or to Wally- World*
Chapter 6: Row, row, row you'r boat!
Well, Chichiri was right. The gardens were beautiful. She had never seen so many different types of plants that she didn't know what they were before. It made her realize exactly how different this place was from her home. 'Never belonged there anyway', she thought. Chichiri was up ahead of her a little bit humming a little.
It was all very nice, and today they were packing and should leave anytime now. Kate held a small hope in her heart that Tamahome's family was still alive. She was feeling kind of strange due to the herbs Mitsuskake had given her, but she didn't hurt at all. That was a good thing.
Suddenly she noticed Chichiri had stopped walking and she almost walked right into him. "Tamahome, no da?". Kate turned around to see Tamahome running toward them. "Hey, Chichiri, Kate, Hotohori-sama told me to tell you that we are leaving as soon as possible so get ready, ok?", Tamahome said while trying to catch his breath.
Chichiri nodded and began to walk back to the palace. Kate stood there for a moment and thought about the manga. 'Wait... We are leaving early?', she thought. She shook her head trying to focus and ran up to catch up with Chichiri.
Back in her room Kate inspected her backpack. She cringed when she pulled out her shattered walkman. Most of her CDs had been destroyed too and she sighed. Rummaging threw it she noticed she hadn't found her Fushigi Yuugi CD yet and after looking threw the unbroken CDs noticed she had misplaced it in her Enya CD case.
She would have jumped for joy if it hadn't been for her broken walkman. The thing was due for retirement anyway, but what a way to go! Everything else seemed to be ok except for volume 3 of Fushigi Yuugi. She might have cried if it hadn't been for the fact that it saved her life.
She sighed and put it back. No need to worry about that now. 'All that Chichiri goodness sacrafised for my unworthy life... I'm so ashamed', she thought half jokingly and giggled to herself.
She grabbed her clothes she wore last night, her jeans, and DBZ shirt and stuffed them around the holes; forming a temporary patch for her backpack until she had enough time to make a real one. She put the herbs Mitsukake had given her in a pocket in her backpack that was still whole.
She spun her bag around and jumped up and down to make sure everything stayed in place. Everything did. Satisfied, she put on her backpack and surveyed the room. Noticing now quiet everything was she shivered. 'I don't want to be here right now', she thought and left the room.
"That's right... So we have to be careful, understand?", she heard from inside a room. 'What's going on?', she wondered. That was Tamahome's voice. "I don't really understand... She seems like a nice girl to me. As a doctor I feel bad for giving her those herbs when I could have healed her myself...", that was Mitsukake's voice.
"Look, we need to protect Miaka... This girl was brought here by that ugly baba for a reason... All i'm saying is she might be keeping something important from us... We need to know what she is hiding!", Tamahome said.
Kate felt her anger raise then. 'They're talking about me?! Oh, Come ON!', she thought and walked away. 'Never trust anyone, Kate. Never. You should know better after the stuff your family pulled', she thought angrily.
If she would have stayed behind for a moment later she would have heard, "Guys, no da. She was brought here for our support. Things are going to get bad, no da... I believe she knows this and is trying to protect all of us... We can't do this to her, no da... She's my friend and I can't let this happen. You all are as uncertain of the future as I am, but that gives us no excuse to act this way", Chichiri said and smiled. "Plus, you were overheard, no da", he said and the others paled.
Kate walked to the stables to visit Bob. She stole some sugar from the kitchen to give him. Walking into the stables she noticed some stable boys were sitting around playing some weird game. 'I think it's called Go!', she thought and greeted them. "Hello! Can I come in?", she asked and suddenly all the boys were on their feet looking around like they had been caught sneaking cookies out of a cookie jar.
'Slackers', Kate thought with a grin. "S-sure!!! Come on in!", one of them said and she nodded. She walked over to Bob and gave him some sugar from her pocket. "You like 'er, eh? Her name's Li-Li", one of the boys said and Kate blinked. "Bob... You're a GIRL!!!", Kate exclaimed and hugged her animal friend. "I'm so sorry! I thought you were a boy!!!". The stable boy sweatdroped and slowly walked away.
Kate stayed in the stale for a few hours talking about her troubles with Bob, or Li-Li as she was called by the others. "Bob, I just don't know what to do! Think I should tell them about the books?", the horse snorted.
"Yeah, me neither... Those are some gory images, ne?", she said and scratched his ears. "Well, Bob, it looks like i'm going to be going away for a while... Wish you could come with me, girl...", she said and sighed.
Bob neighed. "Yeah, i'll bring you back some sugar when I come back", Kate said with a laugh. "Do you always talk to animals, no da?", she heard suddenly and jumped, sending her head first into the stale. "AHHH!", she yelled as Bob bent down and tried to eat her hair.
" Bad Bob! Bad! No! Not the hair!!!", she yelled and jumped over the gate, panting heavily. Her hair was a mess and she pointed her finger at Bob. "That's it! No carrots!", she cried and flattened her hair.
Bob looked at her sadly. Kate looked at her with uncertainly, "Don't give me that look... Stop it!... Ok, fine... I'll bring you you'r stupid carrots", she said and Bob whinnied. She then turned to Chichiri with a fake frown, "You should be careful... She could've ate me alive!" Chichiri was chibi and latched onto a support beam to the stables.
"That was scary, no da!", Chichiri said and chibily ran over to her. She smiled, "I would expect Tasuki to say that", she said and rolled her eyes. Chichiri raised an eyebrow at that and she coughed. "N-never mind!!! Ha ha ha... Erm... What are you doing here, Chichiri?", Kate asked.
'I slipped!!! Damn it! The horse thing doesn't happen till they are in the desert! Baka!', she thought. Chichiri seemed to let it go as he smiled at her, "We are about to leave, no da! Ready?", he asked and Kate nodded. She gave Bob a hug and blew her a kiss before leaving.
"How'd you know where I was anyway?", Kate asked. Chichiri smiled, "Some boys were talking about a weird girl that was talking to a horse... I figured it must be you, no da!... That and they gave a detailed description of you!", he said and she raised an eyebrow. "What did they say?", she asked.
"Daaa! You don't want to know, no da!", Chichiri said and Kate felt her eyebrow twitch. "You're cruel, ya know that?", she said with a glare. When they reached the others Kate couldn't bring herself to look them in the eyes.
At the harbor Kate was grinning ear to ear jumping around. She wanted to see everything! First she saw the boat then she had somehow ended up on one of the docks. Looking down at the water she took a deep breath. 'This is it... No turning back now', she thought.
A sudden flash caught her attention and she looked up. Miaka was standing there with a small smile on her face. "Hey, Miaka!", Kate greeted, blushing. Miaka smiled and handed her the developing picture. "Tasuki thought there was another him in the photo", Miaka said with a grin.
Kate chucked slightly and looked at the picture Miaka took. She looked deep in thought. She laughed at it. "What were you thinking about?", Miaka asked. "Hmm? Oh just the boat ride... I've never been on a boat like that before...", Kate said with a smile and Miaka nodded. "Want to get a picture with the others... or Chichiri perhaps?", Miaka asked innocently.
Kate blushed, "Don't make fun of me!", she said Miaka smiled. "Come on! I want to take a picture of all of us!", Miaka said, changing the subject. Kate nodded and followed over to where the others were.
After some minor difficulties figuring out who went where the picture was taken. Kate was to Chiriko's left with Tama-neko cradled in her arms smiling close mouthed at the camera. (AN: You can picture it if you look in manga 7 pg.83! ^_^)
Suddenly Hotohori's voice caught Kate's attention. "A thought came to me last night... concerning your family." Kate held her breath and felt the color drain from her face. "What?", Tamahome asked. "Shall we bring them here?"
"While you are abroad, you will be anxious about them, no? The crown can provide them with a house in the city... This is no charity. They provided us hospitality. We wish to return the favor", Hotohori continued and Kate took a steady breath. Tamahome and
Miaka thanked Hotohori hyperly and Tamahome asked Miaka to go with him. Kate couldn't move or speak to ask if she could come along. "Uh... I can't take it", she groaned and went back to her seat on the dock. 'Don't cry... You're a big girl now', she told herself and looked at the picture Miaka had given her in her hand.
"Where there is will there is a way, ne?", she said and smiled sadly. She spotted Nuriko sneaking off and felt an evil grin appear on her face, 'and there is my way', she thought and ran after the cross-dresser. Her heart was beating so hard she thought for sure everyone could hear it.
"Nuriko!", Kate whispered and Nuriko looked around him. He was momentarily crouching under a table as was Kate. she waved at him and we waved for her to come over to where he was.
"What're you doing here?", Nuriko asked. "Stocking you!", Kate said with a grin. "Want to help me stock Miaka and Tama-baby?", Nuriko asked with a grin and Kate nodded. "Oh! Here they come! Get down!", Nuriko whispered and Kate did as she was told.
Kate overheard Miaka and Tamahome talking. Suddenly Nuriko raised up with a ball Kate handed him and said, "Perhaps this ball... Would be a good choice". Kate began giggling almost instantly.
Miaka and Nuriko cat fought all the way to the village. Kate stayed behind the others. It seemed to take forever to get there but when they finally did Kate felt tears start to roll down her checks.
"Big brother!!!", was shouted in a miniature eco. Kate buried her face in her hands and smiled. "Chuei! Shunkei! Gyokuran, Yuiren, Dad! I'm home!", Tamahome called and Tamahome's father walked to the door with a huge smile on his face. "Tamahome, Miaka! Hello! What are you two doing in town?", he asked and motioned them to enter the house.
Kate just stood there watching them all. She laughed to herself and shook her head. "Thank you Suzaku...", she whispered to the sky. "Are you coming, Kate?", Nuriko asked and Kate nodded happily running over to the house.
"Are you serious, Tamahome? Live in the city?", Tamahome's father asked with a stunned look on his face. So far he hadn't said anything about her last visit and she was grateful. There was no sound of a flute or anything. Kate was confused, but couldn't be any happier.
"We'll help you pack then! Come on, everyone", Nuriko said and everyone smiled. "Hai!", came the reply. They didn't have a lot to pack, being as poor as they were, so most of what was packed was clothes and food and any toys the kids had. Tamahome said they would get all new and better things in the city.
The next morning they loaded everything onto the horses and left. Kate kept glancing at the roofs and trees to make sure Suboshi or Soi weren't lurking nearby. She knew she had nothing to fear with Tamahome here, but she couldn't help herself.
They reached the city by noon and were greeted by everyone. Kate smiled when she saw Yuiren give Miaka the bead necklace she had made. Miaka and Tamahome blushed and thanked Yuiren, who was beaming with pride.
Kate felt tears fill her eyes again and she brushed them away. Sudden movement in her backpack, however, caused her to shriek and she threw he backpack off. She stared at it a moment before getting a stick and poking it. It moved and Kate jumped.
Tama-neko's head popped out of one of the holes with something in his/her (AN:is Tama-neko a girl or a boy? O_O) mouth. "What do you have? Here kitty kitty kitty", Kate cooed and Tama ran off. "NO! STOP! BAD KITTY!", Kate shouted and ran after it after grabbing her backpack.
'Dang Tama-neko is fast!', Kate thought and saw with horror he was running toward the others. She had a feeling he had a page of volume 3 that had been torn into pieces. "Make way!!!", she shouted and everyone jumped out of the way as Tama-neko ran past with Kate following soon after.
Tama-neko ran up the dock and onto the boat. Kate accidentally pushed a man off the board walk trying to reach the cat. 'Hope he can swim', she thought morbidly as she kept running after the cat.
Miaka and the others looked after her in stunned silence. "What was that about, no da?", Chichiri asked and the others shrugged. Hotohori and Miaka said their goodbyes and Tamahome gave his brothers and sisters hugs before leaving, promising to bring them back something.
Meanwhile Tasuki was being carried on board by Nuriko, followed by Chichiri and Chiriko and the others. Kate was somewhere below deck on a hunting expedition, much to Mitsukake's dismay.
An hour later Kate immerged from the boat's interior covered in cobwebs with a container of toothpaste in her hand. 'False alarm', She sighed and put it back in her backpack for safe keeping. After talking with Nuriko she found out she was sharing a cabin with him. He showed her to it then left saying he was going to cook dinner.
'I better get some sleep while I can...', she thought and nodded off with her backpack secure in her arms. Sometime later Kate woke up to a knock at her door. She yawned and stumbled over to the door.
"Eh?", she asked and smiled when she saw Chiriko. "Hey! What's up?", she asked. "It's time to eat. Come on!", he said and smiled. 'So kawaii!', Kate thought and smiled at him, "Ok!".
Kate didn't eat too much knowing that swimming on a full stomach gave people cramps, but she sure was hungry! She managed to eat a piece of fish and some fruit before going up on deck just in time to hear Chichiri scream something and the mast exploded in a wall of flames. Kate gasped and ran to tell the others. 'Wish I had a life jacket', she thought.
Alatáriël: Ha ha ha. I got a little carried away!!! ^_^;; I got really into the story and couldn't get myself to stop. *blushes*
Kate: Cliffy!!!
Chichiri: I want a floaty!!!
Kate: Me too! Waaaa.
Alatáriël: Oh, Shush you two! You can swim, so stop whining!!! Time for reviews!
Songwind: Hey!!! Ha ha ha. I agree they deserve it... Do you recall when Tasuki glared at Chichiri and Kate? He had just left then so they were there for about 35.0972 minutes. ^_^ This soon enough? Ha ha ha.
Selene Serenity: *Kate giggles* It was the best moment of my life!
Chichiri: *raises an eyebrow* Daaaa... *blushes after reading review*... You can kiss me if you want, no da! *turns chibi and jumps into Selene's arms*
Alatáriël: *laughs* No be angry! Just friendly peck really!
Jedi of Oro: *smiles* Yeah! I'm so glad you like it, M! *Chichiri hugs M in SD form*
Chichiri: I feel so loved, no da!!!
Alatáriël: By the way, Sorry this chapter was so soon, but I couldn't help but post it! *laughs*
