Kate: Weeeeeeee! ^_^ This chapter has lots of action! Yeah!
Alatáriël: Yup! We get to see some fighting and I have a special scene ready! *laughs evilly*
Chichiri: *looks worried* Daaaaa...
Tasuki: Hurry up and get ME back in the %!@#$&* story, *&^%$#!
Alatáriël: *laughs* I love doing that!... What are you doing here though???
Tasuki:%^&*@#$%?! What the %^&*?! I'm not cussing! $%^&*! STOP THAT!...
What Tasuki REALLY said: I'm not sure... What the heck?! I'm not cussing! ONNA! STOP THAT!
Alatáriël: *smiles happily* Ok, Ok, I'm done! Well, Tasuki since you are here why don't you do the disclaimers?
Tasuki: Hell yeah!... Alatáriël doesn't own anything. She's just using us as her tools to entertain herself while she's high on sugar. She especially doesn't own me! *Bishie grin*
Alatáriël: That's about right *nods*... I should make a plushie of you, Tasuki-kun! Then I would own you! MWA HA HA.
Tasuki: Don't make me call my lawyer.
Alatáriël: T_T Ok, ok... On with the show!
*everyone runs off stage*
Chapter 13: LOST!? Anyone wanna walk?
"Amiboshi... is alive?", Miaka asked slowly. "Yup! He got washed up on shore in a villiage near here... That villiage is going to get attacked soon by Kuto. I think they are looking for you, Miaka... It's hard to say... I wonder if Nakago has figured out his shinzaho is fake yet", Kate wondered.
Chichiri sighed, "I think not... If he had we would have had more trouble with Amiboshi". Kate looked suprised for a moment, "Oh! No, no, no, no, no! Amiboshi wasn't working for Nakago. He kind of ran away!", Kate said making exagerated motions with her hands.
Tamahome raised an eyebrow, "How do you know all this?". Kate snapped her figures together, "I knew I was missing something!... Well, to make a long story short while we were in Hokkan I got this mirror and it can see things! It's nifty", she said with a smile.
"So, you knew about Nuriko and Ashitare?", he asked. Her eyes widened slightly before she turned away, "That is correct". Tamahome was visibly distressed by this and looked hurt and confused.
"Sorry, I tried to help him...", she began but was interupted. "Why didn't you tell us before?!", he yelled suddenly. She was taken off guard and just stared at him as he punched a nearby tree before turning around at face her. "WHO ELSE WILL DIE?! WILL I?! MIAKA?! CHICHIRI?!", he yelled and she felt tears begin to well up in her eyes.
"Tamahome! That's enough!", Chichiri yelled, standing up. Kate cringed when Tamahome's eyes locked with hers. Miaka couldn't look at her. 'They hate me?', she wondered. 'Of course they do... Did you really think they would understand?', she thought. A single tear ran down her cheek and she quickly wiped it away.
Tamahome growled before sitting down again. Chichiri sighed and walked over to Kate. She wouldn't look at him. He didn't know what to say. "Sorry Tamahome-san", Kate said, "But... I won't tell you the future... I can't. I just can't". She stood up and began walking away. "I'm going ahead... You should to to Sairo. Find Tomo and Soi", she said and walked off.
Miaka got up and went with Tamahome while Chichiri was torn between who to go with. He sighed and quickly ran to catch up with Kate. He was suprised to hear faint crying and he stopped.
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!!!", Kate said over and over as she wiped the tears from her eyes. 'She's crying', he thought with a slight frown, but of course you couldn't see it with his mask on. 'Kate-chan, don't cry. I wish I could do something', he thought.
His heart ached as he heard a supressed sob. 'I'm sorry, Kate-chan... I don't think I can help', he thought. His feet moved of their own will then. Kate looked up in shock as Chichiri came into view and pulled her into a hug.
He had moved up to her without thinking and wraped his arms around her in a light hug. Her crying stopped imeditly. "C-Chichiri?", she asked. Her voice was soft and pitiful sounding to her ears. He didn't say anything. He only tightened his hug around her. 'I'll do all I can to keep my friends happy', he thought and felt her burry her head into his chest.
'She stopped crying... Good', he thought with a small smile. "I wish I was stonger", she mummbled. Chichiri looked down at her. "Stronger, no da?", he asked and she nodded. "I-I don't want to have to see a-anyone else d-die", she said with dificulty.
"Well, no da, I know of a certain villiage that could use some help... Perhaps we could prevent a few deaths?", he asked. She looked up at him with a huge smile. "You mean it, Chichiri?!", she asked happily.
He smiled softly at her, "Hai, no da." He was half way suprised when she turned chibi and latched herself onto him addoringly. He blinked once before also turning chibi. Soon after both chibi's were running off into the forest to kick some serious Kuto ass!
Three hour later both chibi's were out of breath and panting. "Are", gasp, "we", cough, "almost", inhale, "there yet?", Kate asked. "I'm", gasp, "not sure, no da", in hale. They both stood there, hand on knees, bent over, gasping for breath for a few more minutes before Kate spoke up.
"I've seen that rock before", she said slowly. Chichiri sweatdroped. "Are you sure, no da?", he asked and she nodded. They both looked at eachother silently. Both thinking, 'Now what (no da)?'
"Want to have lunch, no da?", Chichiri asked. Kate smiled and nodded. They took their time eating. There were still a few hours left of daylight. They really didn't know where they were so why hurry? There wasn't very much conversation and Kate kept herself enteratined by watching the birds as she ate.
Was it just her or did those birds look blood thirsty? Her eye twitched slightly and the birds seemed to move closer. She slowly moved away from said birds. Unknown to her Chichiri was watching her out of the corrner of his eye with a small smile on his face.
They were lost, but something in him didn't care. It was nice... just the two of them. The world seemed to forget them as they could it. His mind drifted, but it kept on her. He wasn't sure how to handle the pain that entered his heart when he thought of her ever going back to her world.
Strangely enough though, Tai Itsukun never mentioned anything about her returning home when she told him a girl would be coming here to fullfill her wish. Right now he wished he had questioned her more. All he was really told was to go get her and that she would play an important role in all of this.
He looked over at her. She was slowly inching away from the birds. How could she prove to be important? She seemed average enough. Was it the mirror? He didn't think so. Could it, perhaps, have something to do with her? He didn't know.
His thoughts were interupted by said birds doing a swandive at Kate, who in return used the nearest thing to her as a wepon. Said wepon was her lunch. She trew it at them. They grabed the food out of mid air then took off.
Kate's eyes widened. "Hey! Come back here, ya pea brains! I'm not done with you!", Kate shouted angryly and Chichiri sweatdroped. Kate mummbled something under her breath before sitting down again. She blushed when she saw Chichiri staring at her.
"Kate-chan, no da?", Chichiri started. Kate looked at him curiously, "Hmm?" "We should get going soon... We need to keep looking for the villiage, no da", Chichiri said and Kate nodded her head entergetically. Kate stood up and streched slightly.
"Catch, no da", Chichiri said and threw something in her direction. She caught it. It was a piece of bread. She smiled at him and put it in her backpack. "Birds shall not get this piece!", she declared and they set off.
Kate looked at her watch. It was 5:42 pm. They had now been traveling for 6 hours. Kate was getting sick of walking around in the forest.
"The sun is setting, no da... We need to make camp. I don't think we'll reach the villiage at this rate... even so, walking around in the dark isn't a good idea, no da", he said. Kate nodded.
Kate and Chichiri proseeded to make camp. They didn't have much: 2 sleeping bags and some flint, but it was enough to keep warm threw out the night.
Kate was walking around trying to find sticks to burn while Chichiri went to go get some herbs to make a soup with. Luckily enough Chichiri's hourse had most of the cooking suplies.
As Kate walked around a small song got stuck in her mind. If she remebered correctly it was the song from one of the shows she watched, Fruits Basket. It went like:
I was so happy, when you smiled Your smile breaks threw the clouds of grey, Far from sunny days that lie in sleep. Waiting with patience for the Spring, when the flowers will bloom remewed again, knowing there's more beyond the pain of today. Although the scars of yesterday remain, You can go on living as much as your heart believes. You can't be born again although you can change. Let's stay together always.
Before she knew it she was humming the soft melody under her breath before she gave it words. Meanwhile, unknown to her, Chichiri was walking nearby and heard her. The words that caught him were 'knowing that there's more beyond the pain of today. Although the scars of yesterday remain, you can go on living as much as your heart believes'.
'In other words you can survive anything as long as you keep a cheerful air... Sounds like me, no da', he thought with a small smile.
Kate loved to sing, but she wasn't very good at it at all. She never sang around others, but right now it seemed appropiate. She hoped she never forgot the songs of her world, but she knew sooner or later she would. Sooner or later she would forget about a lot of her world, but it didn't sadden her.
The song had ended and she continued to hum it as she picked up the final few sticks and twigs and headed back to the camp. Chichiri was no where to be seen. She set the sticks she had gathered down and dusted off her now dirty clothes.
A few minutes later Chichiri returned with herbs in his hands. "This'll make a good soup, no da!", he said in a chibi voice that caused Kate to smile. Chichiri sat down next to her and handed her half of the herbs in his arms. "Care to help me fix these, no da?", he asked and she nodded.
She watched him at first. All she had to do was peel off the first layer. It didn't seem too hard so she slowly set to work.
Chichiri smiled as he watched her. She looked so concentrated! He felt that if someone were to tap her on the shoulder she would jump three feet into the air. For every 4 that he did she did 1.
He tried to surpress a laugh when she acidently broke one in half and looked like she was in shock. Kate looked up at him and blinked when she noticed his shoulders were shaking slightly and his hand was resting over his mouth.
With her staring at him like that he couldn't strand it and just broke out laughing. Kate looked at him in total awe. 'Wow... T-That's a real laugh!', she thought and felt a blush cover her face.
He looked up at her and smiled, trying to fight back his laughter. She slowly smiled and began laughing too.
Maybe... just maybe... There was a chance... Somehow... Somewhere...
Alatáriël: It's getting really hard. T_T I won't give up! MWA HA HA... but I do need some suggestions for the next chapter, please!
Kate:... Can I kiss him yet?
Alatáriël: NOT YET! *hisses*
Chichiri: *looks at angry reviewers*... Daaaaaa.... *grabs Kate in a hurry, turns chibi, and kisses her*
Kate: *in shock*
Alatáriël: O_O;;... Well... reviews!
chibichibi386: *bows* I'm sorry! Is this more to your liking? I hope so. ^_^
Songwind: Yeah... I wonder how she's going to deal too! LOL! *not good to say that* Really? You like it? I'm so happy! I hope you like this one too!
Queen of the Fairys: *smiles* I'm trying!... I'm not very good at this stuff! Can you give me any pointers? *laughs and blushes* Did you like this chapter???
Selene Serenity: *gives peace sign* Here's your chapter!
Neko-ane: Thank you! ^_^
Prissylilchica: *giggles* So glad you liked it!... Am I doing ok? What should I do for more romance, do you think? *smiles* Did you like this chapter?
Jedi of Oro: *smiles* Yeah, M, you were close. Amiboshi kidnapped Kate so he could escape basically... He wasn't there to attack or anything... It just had to be done. I love your story, M! Update, please! LOL
Holly: heh heh heh. Nope! I'm still here!... Yeah, a few people seem confused, but I don't want to bore the people to death that know what is going on, you know?... Long review! LOL... Yeah, I was mad! ha ha ha. I got a new favorite anime to help me out with this story. Fruits Basket rules! LOL. Yes, this chapter was much easier, but the next one is going to be hard... ^_^;;
Opaaru Tsuki: *laughs* Sorry if it's getting confusing... I don't see why it is, but i'll answer any questions anyone has!... Now could she of prevented his death? *is curious*
Queenie: *giggles* I know where you're coming from, but I find romance and OOC tend to run hand in hand and i'm looking for the right moment. *sighs* I like a good romance too, but they aren't very easy to write! LOL. Can you give me some ideas???
Alatáriël: That's all! ^_^ Hope I got them all... This chapter was fun to write... Sorry if Tamahome is OOC... I don't like him and Miaka a lot. LOL... but they are important to the plot... unfortunately.
Kate: Stay tuned for (hopefully) another fluffy chapter! Next time Chichiri and I reach Amiboshi's town! Oh the horror!
Tasuki: *is tied up in the corner* %^&*(~
Tasuki translation: Cya
Alatáriël: Yup! We get to see some fighting and I have a special scene ready! *laughs evilly*
Chichiri: *looks worried* Daaaaa...
Tasuki: Hurry up and get ME back in the %!@#$&* story, *&^%$#!
Alatáriël: *laughs* I love doing that!... What are you doing here though???
Tasuki:%^&*@#$%?! What the %^&*?! I'm not cussing! $%^&*! STOP THAT!...
What Tasuki REALLY said: I'm not sure... What the heck?! I'm not cussing! ONNA! STOP THAT!
Alatáriël: *smiles happily* Ok, Ok, I'm done! Well, Tasuki since you are here why don't you do the disclaimers?
Tasuki: Hell yeah!... Alatáriël doesn't own anything. She's just using us as her tools to entertain herself while she's high on sugar. She especially doesn't own me! *Bishie grin*
Alatáriël: That's about right *nods*... I should make a plushie of you, Tasuki-kun! Then I would own you! MWA HA HA.
Tasuki: Don't make me call my lawyer.
Alatáriël: T_T Ok, ok... On with the show!
*everyone runs off stage*
Chapter 13: LOST!? Anyone wanna walk?
"Amiboshi... is alive?", Miaka asked slowly. "Yup! He got washed up on shore in a villiage near here... That villiage is going to get attacked soon by Kuto. I think they are looking for you, Miaka... It's hard to say... I wonder if Nakago has figured out his shinzaho is fake yet", Kate wondered.
Chichiri sighed, "I think not... If he had we would have had more trouble with Amiboshi". Kate looked suprised for a moment, "Oh! No, no, no, no, no! Amiboshi wasn't working for Nakago. He kind of ran away!", Kate said making exagerated motions with her hands.
Tamahome raised an eyebrow, "How do you know all this?". Kate snapped her figures together, "I knew I was missing something!... Well, to make a long story short while we were in Hokkan I got this mirror and it can see things! It's nifty", she said with a smile.
"So, you knew about Nuriko and Ashitare?", he asked. Her eyes widened slightly before she turned away, "That is correct". Tamahome was visibly distressed by this and looked hurt and confused.
"Sorry, I tried to help him...", she began but was interupted. "Why didn't you tell us before?!", he yelled suddenly. She was taken off guard and just stared at him as he punched a nearby tree before turning around at face her. "WHO ELSE WILL DIE?! WILL I?! MIAKA?! CHICHIRI?!", he yelled and she felt tears begin to well up in her eyes.
"Tamahome! That's enough!", Chichiri yelled, standing up. Kate cringed when Tamahome's eyes locked with hers. Miaka couldn't look at her. 'They hate me?', she wondered. 'Of course they do... Did you really think they would understand?', she thought. A single tear ran down her cheek and she quickly wiped it away.
Tamahome growled before sitting down again. Chichiri sighed and walked over to Kate. She wouldn't look at him. He didn't know what to say. "Sorry Tamahome-san", Kate said, "But... I won't tell you the future... I can't. I just can't". She stood up and began walking away. "I'm going ahead... You should to to Sairo. Find Tomo and Soi", she said and walked off.
Miaka got up and went with Tamahome while Chichiri was torn between who to go with. He sighed and quickly ran to catch up with Kate. He was suprised to hear faint crying and he stopped.
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!!!", Kate said over and over as she wiped the tears from her eyes. 'She's crying', he thought with a slight frown, but of course you couldn't see it with his mask on. 'Kate-chan, don't cry. I wish I could do something', he thought.
His heart ached as he heard a supressed sob. 'I'm sorry, Kate-chan... I don't think I can help', he thought. His feet moved of their own will then. Kate looked up in shock as Chichiri came into view and pulled her into a hug.
He had moved up to her without thinking and wraped his arms around her in a light hug. Her crying stopped imeditly. "C-Chichiri?", she asked. Her voice was soft and pitiful sounding to her ears. He didn't say anything. He only tightened his hug around her. 'I'll do all I can to keep my friends happy', he thought and felt her burry her head into his chest.
'She stopped crying... Good', he thought with a small smile. "I wish I was stonger", she mummbled. Chichiri looked down at her. "Stronger, no da?", he asked and she nodded. "I-I don't want to have to see a-anyone else d-die", she said with dificulty.
"Well, no da, I know of a certain villiage that could use some help... Perhaps we could prevent a few deaths?", he asked. She looked up at him with a huge smile. "You mean it, Chichiri?!", she asked happily.
He smiled softly at her, "Hai, no da." He was half way suprised when she turned chibi and latched herself onto him addoringly. He blinked once before also turning chibi. Soon after both chibi's were running off into the forest to kick some serious Kuto ass!
Three hour later both chibi's were out of breath and panting. "Are", gasp, "we", cough, "almost", inhale, "there yet?", Kate asked. "I'm", gasp, "not sure, no da", in hale. They both stood there, hand on knees, bent over, gasping for breath for a few more minutes before Kate spoke up.
"I've seen that rock before", she said slowly. Chichiri sweatdroped. "Are you sure, no da?", he asked and she nodded. They both looked at eachother silently. Both thinking, 'Now what (no da)?'
"Want to have lunch, no da?", Chichiri asked. Kate smiled and nodded. They took their time eating. There were still a few hours left of daylight. They really didn't know where they were so why hurry? There wasn't very much conversation and Kate kept herself enteratined by watching the birds as she ate.
Was it just her or did those birds look blood thirsty? Her eye twitched slightly and the birds seemed to move closer. She slowly moved away from said birds. Unknown to her Chichiri was watching her out of the corrner of his eye with a small smile on his face.
They were lost, but something in him didn't care. It was nice... just the two of them. The world seemed to forget them as they could it. His mind drifted, but it kept on her. He wasn't sure how to handle the pain that entered his heart when he thought of her ever going back to her world.
Strangely enough though, Tai Itsukun never mentioned anything about her returning home when she told him a girl would be coming here to fullfill her wish. Right now he wished he had questioned her more. All he was really told was to go get her and that she would play an important role in all of this.
He looked over at her. She was slowly inching away from the birds. How could she prove to be important? She seemed average enough. Was it the mirror? He didn't think so. Could it, perhaps, have something to do with her? He didn't know.
His thoughts were interupted by said birds doing a swandive at Kate, who in return used the nearest thing to her as a wepon. Said wepon was her lunch. She trew it at them. They grabed the food out of mid air then took off.
Kate's eyes widened. "Hey! Come back here, ya pea brains! I'm not done with you!", Kate shouted angryly and Chichiri sweatdroped. Kate mummbled something under her breath before sitting down again. She blushed when she saw Chichiri staring at her.
"Kate-chan, no da?", Chichiri started. Kate looked at him curiously, "Hmm?" "We should get going soon... We need to keep looking for the villiage, no da", Chichiri said and Kate nodded her head entergetically. Kate stood up and streched slightly.
"Catch, no da", Chichiri said and threw something in her direction. She caught it. It was a piece of bread. She smiled at him and put it in her backpack. "Birds shall not get this piece!", she declared and they set off.
Kate looked at her watch. It was 5:42 pm. They had now been traveling for 6 hours. Kate was getting sick of walking around in the forest.
"The sun is setting, no da... We need to make camp. I don't think we'll reach the villiage at this rate... even so, walking around in the dark isn't a good idea, no da", he said. Kate nodded.
Kate and Chichiri proseeded to make camp. They didn't have much: 2 sleeping bags and some flint, but it was enough to keep warm threw out the night.
Kate was walking around trying to find sticks to burn while Chichiri went to go get some herbs to make a soup with. Luckily enough Chichiri's hourse had most of the cooking suplies.
As Kate walked around a small song got stuck in her mind. If she remebered correctly it was the song from one of the shows she watched, Fruits Basket. It went like:
I was so happy, when you smiled Your smile breaks threw the clouds of grey, Far from sunny days that lie in sleep. Waiting with patience for the Spring, when the flowers will bloom remewed again, knowing there's more beyond the pain of today. Although the scars of yesterday remain, You can go on living as much as your heart believes. You can't be born again although you can change. Let's stay together always.
Before she knew it she was humming the soft melody under her breath before she gave it words. Meanwhile, unknown to her, Chichiri was walking nearby and heard her. The words that caught him were 'knowing that there's more beyond the pain of today. Although the scars of yesterday remain, you can go on living as much as your heart believes'.
'In other words you can survive anything as long as you keep a cheerful air... Sounds like me, no da', he thought with a small smile.
Kate loved to sing, but she wasn't very good at it at all. She never sang around others, but right now it seemed appropiate. She hoped she never forgot the songs of her world, but she knew sooner or later she would. Sooner or later she would forget about a lot of her world, but it didn't sadden her.
The song had ended and she continued to hum it as she picked up the final few sticks and twigs and headed back to the camp. Chichiri was no where to be seen. She set the sticks she had gathered down and dusted off her now dirty clothes.
A few minutes later Chichiri returned with herbs in his hands. "This'll make a good soup, no da!", he said in a chibi voice that caused Kate to smile. Chichiri sat down next to her and handed her half of the herbs in his arms. "Care to help me fix these, no da?", he asked and she nodded.
She watched him at first. All she had to do was peel off the first layer. It didn't seem too hard so she slowly set to work.
Chichiri smiled as he watched her. She looked so concentrated! He felt that if someone were to tap her on the shoulder she would jump three feet into the air. For every 4 that he did she did 1.
He tried to surpress a laugh when she acidently broke one in half and looked like she was in shock. Kate looked up at him and blinked when she noticed his shoulders were shaking slightly and his hand was resting over his mouth.
With her staring at him like that he couldn't strand it and just broke out laughing. Kate looked at him in total awe. 'Wow... T-That's a real laugh!', she thought and felt a blush cover her face.
He looked up at her and smiled, trying to fight back his laughter. She slowly smiled and began laughing too.
Maybe... just maybe... There was a chance... Somehow... Somewhere...
Alatáriël: It's getting really hard. T_T I won't give up! MWA HA HA... but I do need some suggestions for the next chapter, please!
Kate:... Can I kiss him yet?
Alatáriël: NOT YET! *hisses*
Chichiri: *looks at angry reviewers*... Daaaaaa.... *grabs Kate in a hurry, turns chibi, and kisses her*
Kate: *in shock*
Alatáriël: O_O;;... Well... reviews!
chibichibi386: *bows* I'm sorry! Is this more to your liking? I hope so. ^_^
Songwind: Yeah... I wonder how she's going to deal too! LOL! *not good to say that* Really? You like it? I'm so happy! I hope you like this one too!
Queen of the Fairys: *smiles* I'm trying!... I'm not very good at this stuff! Can you give me any pointers? *laughs and blushes* Did you like this chapter???
Selene Serenity: *gives peace sign* Here's your chapter!
Neko-ane: Thank you! ^_^
Prissylilchica: *giggles* So glad you liked it!... Am I doing ok? What should I do for more romance, do you think? *smiles* Did you like this chapter?
Jedi of Oro: *smiles* Yeah, M, you were close. Amiboshi kidnapped Kate so he could escape basically... He wasn't there to attack or anything... It just had to be done. I love your story, M! Update, please! LOL
Holly: heh heh heh. Nope! I'm still here!... Yeah, a few people seem confused, but I don't want to bore the people to death that know what is going on, you know?... Long review! LOL... Yeah, I was mad! ha ha ha. I got a new favorite anime to help me out with this story. Fruits Basket rules! LOL. Yes, this chapter was much easier, but the next one is going to be hard... ^_^;;
Opaaru Tsuki: *laughs* Sorry if it's getting confusing... I don't see why it is, but i'll answer any questions anyone has!... Now could she of prevented his death? *is curious*
Queenie: *giggles* I know where you're coming from, but I find romance and OOC tend to run hand in hand and i'm looking for the right moment. *sighs* I like a good romance too, but they aren't very easy to write! LOL. Can you give me some ideas???
Alatáriël: That's all! ^_^ Hope I got them all... This chapter was fun to write... Sorry if Tamahome is OOC... I don't like him and Miaka a lot. LOL... but they are important to the plot... unfortunately.
Kate: Stay tuned for (hopefully) another fluffy chapter! Next time Chichiri and I reach Amiboshi's town! Oh the horror!
Tasuki: *is tied up in the corner* %^&*(~
Tasuki translation: Cya
