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Alatáriël: Uh huh... Mmm? Interesting.
Chichiri: What's that you're holding, Alatáriël-san?
Alatáriël: The reviews.
Kate: Uh oh.
Chichiri: What does it say, no da?
Alatáriël:... Kate, what do you think about teenage pregnancy?
Kate: Excuse me!
Alatáriël: Chichiri, how young is too young for someone to have a baby in your time?
Chichiri: Da?
Alatáriël: Oh, forget. Just disrobe, both of you. I can see now it's useless to fight your natural instincts.
Kate: Hell no! What's wrong with you? Let go of Chiri this instant!
Chichiri: AHHH! BAD TOUCH, NO DA! BAD TOUCH!
Alatáriël: Just shut it! There must be a second generation of blue haired angels!
Chichiri: DAAAAA!
Kate: HIYA!... Quick, Chiri! I think I got her with that baseball bat!
Chichiri: Is she dead!
Kate: No, her skull's too thick for that. Let's hurry before the cutin rises!
Chichiri: Wait, I can't find my shirt, no da!
Kate: It's ok! Yuu Watase can buy you another one; she owns you after all!
curtains raise
Chapter 31: Hands off the money maker, Nakaho
Tasuki had been running down the streets as fast as he dared within the city walls and when Kate's foot falls no longer matched up with his he hardly noticed. The wind blowing past him made a loud WOOSH in his ears and he only stopped when he saw something familiar. The back of the most unique head of hair he'd ever known. The monk's bangs bounched lightly as he jogged lightly behind the old woman, Subaru.
"Hey! Chichiri, there you are. Kate and I---", it was here he faltered. Chichiri and Subaru had stopped when he first called out, but now Tasuki wasn't paying attention to them and instead was staring at where he could have sworn Kate had been not... wait... when had he seen her last?
Oh boy. "Uh... Oops?", Tasuki finished, not sure what to do next. "Tasuki-kun! Has something happened? Have Kate and Miaka been found, no da? I thought I felt Nakago's chi in this direction going by the temple, but..."
"What? Nakago! Shit... Oh damn, Kate! Let's head back and find her. Where is Mitsukake? Wasn't he with you too?", Tasuki interupted, now looking around him for the silent warrior.
"We seperated to cover more ground, no da. I'll explain later. Let's head back, no da.", Chichiri answered Taskui. "While we head to the house let's just keep an eye out for Kate. Maybe she returned to the house", Subaru suggested and they relucatantly agreed.
While heading back Chichiri felt worry swell up in him and the faster he ran the worse it seemed to get. His inner monk was trying to talk some sense into him, but he wasn't hearing it. He didn't feel like the senior member of the warriors. He didn't even feel all that powerful. In fact, he felt like nothing was in his control.
With Subaru's help, and a few well placed short-cuts that made Chichiri, Tasuki, and Subaru all cringe at the thought that anyone might have stumbled in there at any time, they all made it safely back to the house within half an hour. It was only then that Chichiri realised his wound wasthrobbing painfully. When he stopped at the door and placed his hand over the wound Subaru and Tasuki grew worried and ushered him inside.
They helped him to the nearest room and sat him down. "Chichiri, what's wrong?", asked Subaru as she untied his shirt and inspected the injury. "It's allright. No new bleeding... Just stay here and I'll go see if anyone's here. Tasuki, could you get him some herbs to put on that? There should besome in the room next door in the dresser", Subaru said and before any questions could be asked she was running down the hallway.
This was when Subaru rushed into the room where Josh, Kate, and Xi- Fang had been waiting for them. Kate looked up and found herself in a suprised embrace, "Thank the gods! You're alright. Did Mitsukake come back with you?"
"Uh, yes. Miss Subaru, did you find Tasuki and Chichiri?", Kate answered. "Yes, dear, Chichiri's resting. Now, I must find Mitsukake. I'm sure he has some good medicine to help Chichiri's wound. I have some that can heal the injury, but very little that will acually stop the pain", Subaru said. Katenodded, "I'll find him. Please tell him I'm here, ok?" With a quick nod from Subaru, Kate hurried off to go find the docter.
She found him sitting outside on the porch with Chiriko and Tama. "Mitsukake, they're back and need to see you. Chichiri's injury is acting up", Kate said and tugged him along until his own large strides overtook her own and she found herself falling behind. Chiriko ran along with her with Tama in his arms. Kate and he ran side by side as they ran into the room that they had followed Mitsukake to.
The room exploded into sudden speech as everyone spoke at once. Kate ran to the bed side, where he was sitting with a cup of tea in his with some herbs Tasuki (whom Kate, Chiriko, and Mitskake passed in the hall) had found. "Chichiri!", Kate exclaimed and fell to her knees, resting her head on his legs. Chichiri bent his head down, careful to avoid his wound, and lifted her head up so that their faces were close together. "It's alright, Kate. It ok, no da", he said and placed his hand behind her head, making their foreheads bump together.
She brought her arms up and around him, carefully, so she didn't hurt him, in a light hug. Mitsukake ushered Chiriko out of the room. He didn't think Chichiri looked too pained at the moment and didn't think this was something for them to see.
Inside the room Kate was dying to explain herself and what she's been doing and thinking, but Chichiri wouldn't have any of it. Whenever she'd try he'd just hush her with small kiss on her forehead or on her lips before they'd just go silent again.
Time passed quietly and they just lay together. The room was surrounded in a flickering light by the lamp that sat near the bed and a warm wind entered the room from the window. It all made for a sleepy atmosphere that made the couple realise how late it was getting, or was it how early?
Kate was the first to drift off and by the time Chichiri heard her breath even out he wasn't far behind her, and with a quick blow to the lantern the room grew dark and Chichiri followed her into sleep.
Both awoke late in the morning to the soft purr of Tama, who had entered the room later (or earlier) that night. He didn't claw at them, instead he seemed to take interest in using Kate's glasses for a toy. She had placed them beside her before acually falling asleep and now watched as Tama knocked them into the floor.
She laughed quitely, not knowing Chichiri was already awake and watching her fight with Tama over who got to keep the glasses. She reached down, having to lean over the side as she did so, to grab her glasses. As she came up Chichiri met her as she sat back into her warm spot and gave her a kiss good morning. Kate smiled and pushed him away playfully before cleaning off her glasses on the bed covers.
He sat up and grabbed them out of her hands. "Hey!", she protested lightly and reached over to get them back. "Hey what, no da?", Chichiri asked as he kept them out of her reach.
"Don't hey what me. I can't see without them, you know", Kate said in a teasing anger and Chichiri just replied by placing them on his own face. "Da! You don't need these to see! They hurt your eyesight, not cure it, no da. You'll be completly blind within the year if you keep wearing these", Chichiri joked. "Ah! Gentle! Gentle! If those break here I wont find a replacement for at least twenty thousand years", Kate said and reached up to cup the side of his face and take the frames into her hands.
At that Chichiri acually looked a little worried, "Will you need new ones?" Kate looked a little suprised at his sudden change, "Well, in my time I would need new ones from time to time, but I don't think that'll be a problem for some time yet." Kate might have said that, but in truth it hadbeen a long time since she had last been to get a check up.
"Anyhow, I'm getting a little hungry. Think anyone is up yet?", Kate asked as she put her glasses back on. "We can go see, no da. If not, we can go into the market and get something", Chichiri answered and after they had placed on their shoes they headed out into the hall way. Voices could be heard chatting and laughing when they passed by doors, and they only stopped when Kate asked to see Josh.
As she opened the door she could plainly see that little had changed since the day before. His blankets had been changed and his hair had been brushed, but little else had been changed.
She walked over to his bed and took his hand in her own. "It's been a whole day. What if he never wakes up?", Kate thought out loud and Chichiri placed a hand on her shoulder.
She had to fight hard to stop herself from tearing up and Chichiri led her out of the room before she could get any more upset. "It's in Josh's hands now, no da.", Chichiri said as he rubbed her back.
That made Kate chuckle slightly. "I don't think Josh would like the thought of that. He's the kind of guy that thinks standing in the snow in a t-shirt for twenty minutes is a good idea", she said and Chichiri's confused look only made her laugh harder.
When they entered the kitchen Xi- Fang, Subaru, and Miaka were all there. Miaka was more like tormenting Xi- Fang than helping her, but Xi- Fang kept encouraging her and only had to stop her work every two minutes and tell Miaka to stop "testing" the food. "Good Morning!", Miaka greeted them a little too cheerfully for someone who had just woken up. "Morning", Kate said with a yawn.
"Are you two hungry? Breakfast will be done soon so you might want to stay nearby." Kate grinned, "Great. So, what are you cooking?" Subaru wiped her hands off on a dish towel as she turned to talk to her guests, "Nothing too grand. I figured we'd all start out with something simple today. Do you like these?" She held up a really odd looking veggie/fruit that was red with soft green hairs all over it. "Oh! Those are really good. They taste like melon, Kate. Try one", Miaka said and grabbed one of the fruits from a big bowel and threw it to her.
Kate cringed as she saw, what she thought was, the hurtfully long spiked fruit fly toward her. At the same time the door opened behind her. With a loud "DAAA!" Chichiri shrunk to the size of a deformed toddler and was running around in circles.
"Mornin', hey do ya have any---", began Tasuki who had been the one to open the door. Smack! "Eh heh?", came Kate's only reply as she turned around, knowing walls didn't normally "smack".
They "thunk"ed. Behind her stood Tasuki who had, by Suzuka's grace, caught the fruit a mear inch from his face. "Tasuki's came to kill us all, no da! Ahh!"
"Ah! No, Tasuki. Don't do it! I promise never to call you gay behind your back again!", Kate cried as she played along with Chichiri. Miaka, not knowing who to play against, just screamed in a playful exageration. "What the---?", Tasuki said in suprise as he took a step away from his screaming friends.
Laughing/Screaming Chichiri and Kate rushed out of the house and ran straight to the far side of the garden, where they "hid" from the "mosterous" bandit behind some prickley, brown, desert bushes.
Giggling madly, Kate glanced toward the door they had just exited where Tasuki and Miaka were both looking out toward them. Chichiri, seeing Tasuki, pushed Kates head down with his hand.
"He'll see you, no da", Chichiri informed her in a "serious" whisper. "You're right, and we don't want his army of shrunken ninja gnomes to find us! Let's build an underground fort to hide in until his fury wears down. Quick, hand me that stick to your left."
"You two are retards", Tasuki stated as he came up to them. "Every man for himself, no da!", Chichiri stated and went chibi... then went running straight into the prickley bushes. "What ever happened to all for one and one for ack!", Kate gasped as a stray thorn graped her as she beganto rise up, senting her whole left arm into the thorn bush to steady herself.
"Ouch", Tasuki comented as he watched Kate try to pull her arm from the offenting brush. "Here, let me help you", Tasuki offered when he saw tears gather in her eyes and her face scrunched up in a painful twitch. "Daaa. I would appresiate that, Tasuki-kun", said a small voice from inside the brush. Tasuki sighed.
Minutes later a small crowd was gathered outside of the door that consisted of Subaru, Xi-Fang, Chiriko, and Tama-neko were left sweatdroping. Miaka would have been a part of said crowd if only she hadn't gone and "helped" Chichiri, thus getting her whole upper half stuck in the brush. Her blue and pink flowered panties blinded the group for the most part and she wiggled about hoplessly, trying to free both herself and the monk.
Meanwhile Tasuki was, one by one, removing Kate's arm and half of her now intwined pant-leg from its prison. "Ow ow ow ow ow", Kate groaned as one by one Tasuki removed the sharp little buggers. "It's your fault for puttin' your leg down so stop complainin'", Tasuki grumbled as he tore her leg free, earning him an ear full of curses.
"Was that REALLY needed! OW!", Kate hissed as he helped her stand up. "Rekka--", Tasuki began as he took his fan off his back. "Whoa! Whoa! I take it back!", Kate paniced, thinking he was chanting at her, and ducked to the ground. "Shien", Tasuki finished in an almost whisper and only a small flame appeared on the tip of his fan as he carefully placed it in the bushes.
"Is-Is that really a good idea?", Kate asked when she saw what he was doing. Tasuki shrugged, "Only one way to find out." Kate sweatdroped. Chichiri screamed. Miaka said, with great interest, "Do you smell something cooking?"
"Breakfast is ready!", came Xi-Fang's pleasent reply. Nothing more needed to be said as Miaka, painlessly, tore herself away from the brush (leaving a pin-stripped pattern on her skin). As she rose up Kate noticed chunks of Miaka's hair had been forcefully removed from the demon bush and a disgrunted Chichiri lay in her arms with big, exagerated, eyes.
"Let's go eat!", Miaka said happily, seeming to not feel the little trails of blood and the sudden light-headedness that came from the thorns and bad haircut. "Uh, Miaka? You're kinda bleedin'", Tasuki informed his priestess as they walked back to the house, Miaka still carrying a (noteably injurless) Chichiri.
Breakfast passed fast and plans were made for their next move. "The shinzaho and Nakago both are rumored to be in the temple up the road", came Tamahome's voice behind a mouthful of food. Miaka was frowning intently at her plate, and Kate kept trying to make eye contact with the younger girl. She looked like she was about to cry. This sudden mood swing seemed to be brought on by one of the newer arivals: Mitsukake or Tamahome. Mitsukake really didn't seem like the type to make little girls cry so that only left one timid boyfriend to blame.
"Miaka..?", Kate asked. The only reply she got was when the priestess rose from her seat and left the house and made the room completly silent. Kate made a frustrated face before getting up herself and chasing after Miaka. Kate paused as she saw Miaka leave the complex all together and worried about if she should go out into the town again after last night, but a quick image of Miaka being alone in a bad situation caused her to run after the priestess again.
Inside the house Chichiri sighed, "Here we go again, no da." "Let's get going to the temple. The girls would just get in the way, anyway", Tamahome insisted, "If Nakago is involved we can't be too careful." "There shouldn't be too much trouble to be found in the city during the day. They should be fine", Tamahome's master said as he took a puff out of his pipe.
"Still, you can't be too careful", Xi-fang pointed out. "We'll get the girls. You all head to the temple. Nakago could have the shinzaho at this moment", Subaru said and motioned for Xi-fang to follow her. "Be careful", Tamahome said, with a hint of something that would have made Miaka break down crying, to Xi-fang. The young woman smiled and blushed lightly before leaving the house with Subaru.
It didn't take Kate long to catch up with Miaka, who had made her way into a deserted ally. "Miaka", Kate called out to the girl, whom sat crying on a door step. "Come on, girl. Buck up, huh? What's the matter?", Kate asked as she sat down next to the other girl. Miaka only replied in broken words as she burried her head into Kate's shoulder. "They... kissed", was all Kate could make out. "I'm sure they did a lot more than just that", came the reply and it wasn't from Kate.
Both girls jumped slightly and looked around, seeing no one, Miaka looked up. "Yui", Miaka addressed the young woman with a sob. Kate rose an eyebrow, wondering how she managed to climb on top of the building and find them that fast. That question was soon answered, however, as a voice grummbled from out of view, "Yui."
Both girls threw eachother nervous glances. They both knew that voice... a little too well. "Nakago! Get up here this second!", Yui ordered. An akward silence issued. "Yui", came Nakago's stotic reply but he still remained hidden. "WHAT!", Yui growled. "...", Nakago didn't say and Yui vanished from view.
"Should we run?", Kate suggested. "YUI!", Miaka yelled and ran to the corner of the building. That name seemed quite popular at the moment. Kate sighed and took off yet again after the priestess of Suzaku. "Uh...", was all Kate could think of to describe this situation as she took it all in.
On this side of the building one could easily see what had kept Nakago out of sight. It seemed the warrior had desided to grow a garden... in his shirt. At that moment in time he was half climbing up a wall via cut down clothes line and half getting his shirt torn off by the tree, giving Kate and Miaka a nice view of his twelve pack.
"Yummy", came Kate's taunting jest as her enemy glared down at them. Yui was climbing down the clothes line made rope to help her loyal warrior. "Yui, this was a bad idea", Nakago said. "Nothing I can't fix", Yui grummbled as she used one hand to reach the twig that had captured her fearful partner.
Disaster was obvious as the twig began to lean under the preasure and with a loud snap she came tumbling down as if she was Jill rolling down a hill. "Yui!", came Miaka's frightened yell. "Oh no!", Kate gasped and moved out of the way, but Yui never hit. "Curses!", Nakago hissed as he felt his own arm strain. He was now holding Yui by the collar of her own shirt.
Miaka climbed up the rope to help her friend as Kate watched from below and the more she watched the more she thought Miaka and herself should just leave them to save themselves. "Just let me go.
I'm not that far from the ground", Yui ordered and Nakago carefully swung her to the ground... leaving just himself and Miaka on the rope. Kate was too focused on Miaka's troubles she didn't see her own as Yui hit her over the head with a fallen branch, causing Kate to fall to the ground like a stone.
She held her head in pain and looked up at Yui, who glared at her nastily before raising her arm again to strike her. As Kate brought her arms to protect her face she heard a loud crash. Nakago had taken advantage of the situation and had distroyed his shirt in pursuit of a greater prize, Miaka.
He pounced on her like a cat would a mouse, knocking the wind from her lungs and trapping her below him. "Miaka!", Kate gasped as the branch came back to whip her arms. With a akward roll Kate was on all fours, but was brought to her stomache as Yui apandoned her branch and takled Kate right out, seemingly desiding a cat fight was better than a few nasty bruises. Meanwhile Nakago had Miaka pinned and was trying to get her under control.
Kate saw this and tried her hardest to overtake Yui so she could better help her friend, but she'd never been in a cat fight before and was suprised by the pure malice used as she found her hair being yanked painfully and some fairly sharp nails digging into her tender neck. This way by far the most painful fight she'd ever been in as she found her breath coming short and her vision wavering.
It was at least an hour later that Kate thought, 'I'm never saving a kitten from a tree again.' Her throat hurt as it hadn't hurt since she caught a virus last winter and she shivered like she had on the mountain with Nuriko weeks before but she didn't have a virus and she was far from the cold moutains. In fact, she was still in the desert. The only thing that was different was that now she was locked in a dark room away from the sunlight that gave the desert its heat.
"Miaka?", Kate asked in a hoarse voice into the room. Was it a bad thing she was beginning to get used to waking up in unfamiliar surroundings? She heard no one reply and pulled herself to her feet. "Anyone?", Kate asked and brought a hand up to cradle her head as a sharp pain ran threw her body, "Ugh."
"Being alone in the dark is frightening, isn't it? I wouldn't worry about it, however, if I were you. You have more important things to worry about", the voice said and Kate laughed harshly. "What a scary line! Where'd you learn that one, Nakaho? An Idiot's guide to Villianry?", she taunted but soon wished she had kept her mouth shut as she found herself stuck between a wall and a solid mass of man flesh.
"You know... The rapist thing is kind of out of style now a days. Done too much and all that jazz. Especially with you. I'm sure all the readers saw this one coming anyway", Kate said as she felt his hot (slightly minty) breath touch her cold face. "If it's overdone it's only because it's effective. Now, whatever shall we do to pass the time?", he asked and (as a suggestion) left a trail of slobber on the side of her face with his tounge.
"Play checkers?... Or how about hide and seek since it's so dark in here?", Kate said, trying to hide her disgust. She didn't care how hot a guy was. Saliva is nasty and should never leave it's owner's mouth except in cases of teeth brushing or nasty foods. "Childs games? I think you're far too mature to play a child's game", he said and his hand magically found itself inside her shirt.
She jumped, dispite herself, and felt her fist twitch. She willed him to die. "Where is Miaka?", Kate asked with a hint of bitchyness. "With Yui", Nakago said and ran his hand down her side in an almost bored fasion. "She getting the same welcome I am? I pity her is she's not with a sexy beast like yourself. You're a real animal, you know that?", Kate said as a sickening shiver ran down her spine.
"If she's lucky, Miaka is seeing what an animal Yui can be. She's alot worse than me, but I'm being selfish, aren't I? Just talking about myself. Let's talk about you", he said and all at once she felt both of her arms get caught and brought up over her head. Almost at the same time his mouth found her ear and he used more drool to water the seed that seemed to be trying to grow out of her head.
"Oh, for Suzuka's sake! Saliva isn't sexy! What do you want with me, anyhow?", she growled. "Is it so wrong for a man to want to be with a woman? I just want to have some fun, and it's not like you have anything to risk. You're not a priestess, but I wonder... Does a prophetess lose her powers when she sleeps with a man?", Nakago asked.
'Is this what this is about?', Kate wondered as anxiety became a very dominate factor in her mind. She feared Nakago could feel her heart speed up and see her eyes widden as he played with her clothing. She felt her shirt being unbuttoned with a careful hand and closed her eyes. 'Is it time to try to fight?', she wondered. She might only get one chance. She didn't want to blow it, and a sickening thought crossed her mind. Should she wait until he was vulnerable? When his pants were down, so to speak?
'No, too risky', she thought. "Well?", Nakago asked. "That's idiotic. My... It has nothing to do with that", Kate said, hoping he'd stop or just to keep him talking dispite the fact she just wanted to shut him up. "Then what are you afraid of?", he asked and she suddenly got an idea, but would it work? If she seemed like she wasn't afraid of him would it stop? Would he grow bored if she... played along? Or would it only get worse... There was only one way to find out.
"I've never done anything like this before", it rolled off her tounge so easily, but she regreted it the second it passed her lips when he drew closer. "But you're so... ravishing. I don't see how any man can keep his hands off you", Nakago said as he played his game.
If this was checkers she'd have to say he was going for the crown. He was still trying to scare her, but she was past that point. This was war. The fact he'd just called her attractive just boiled her blood more. He said it with such seriousness, but she knew better. He'd been one of only three people ever to say something like that and the other two were related to her, but two could play this game.
"I'm glad there has finally come a man who can't keep his hands off of me", she said as she continued the game and leaned her head to where she guessed his head was. She was going to kiss him, but her head knocked into his shoulder... his naked shoulder. Thinking fast, she bared her teeth and gave him a sharp bite, as if playing with him, but suddenly it was the break she'd been looking for as he dropped her hands to cup her chin and made her lips meet his. She got her right leg ready of the kill just as...
She brought her hands back to her body, preparing to strike him with all she had when suddenly the door opened. "General! The Priestess of Suzaku has excaped. We can't find her anywhere, sir", the soilder said and suddenly the room was filled with light. Kate closed her eyes to the sudden pain and Nakago turned toward the door. "You fools! Do I have to do everything myself! Where did you see her last?", Nakago asked. "A warrior showed up and now our prisoner is gone too. We fear she hasthe shinzaho", he informed the general.
Nakago glared at the soilder and walked up to the door with great strides. "Watch the girl. I want her to stay in this room, understand?", the general ordered. "Yes, sir", the soilder said with a salute and Nakago glanced at Kate and leered for a split second before charging out of the room, grazing the soilder's shoulder as he left.
Kate was shaking uncontrolably and hardly noticed as the room was given light as the soilder caught some of the torches that were previously extinguished in the room on fire. Kate feel to the floor with an unexpected adrenaline rush as tears began to gather in her eyes. With a horrifying realization she realised her shirt was now gathered around her elbows and she quickly wraped it about herself and stared into space, trying to understand what had just happened.
She could still feel his hands on her and his lips on her own. "Kate?", came the meek voice of the soilder she had been placed in the "care" of. She didn't reply. Who was this coward that worked for such a vile man? "Look at me", he insisted and she frowned. What was he saying? She just couldn't understand anything. She was so confused.
When his hands touched her shoulders she lashed out in anger screaming, "Get off!" But as she did she brought her head up and her eyes meet those of an almost red tone. "Chichiri?", she asked. He hadn't been here just a second ago. That had been the voice of a teenage boy, but now as he spoke she was sure she must has gone mad. "Are you hurt?", he asked her. His eyebrows were gathered together in worry and his face looked tight, as if he were fighting back a smile... or a painful cringe that mirrored her own.
"Chichiri", she said again. His name felt so good as it rolled off her tounge. It sounded like it had when she first heard him say it back when she was nothing more than a fan girl. Back then the only people that had seen her shirtless had been her mother and docter. The only boys she'd ever kissed were long gone and back then rape was a nightmare in bad dreams, a boogyman, and the only come ons she'd ever heard were from romace movies and comic books. Now she wanted to wash her own mouth out with soap as she felt saddness overtake her and she began to cry.
The things she said. What she did. The things he did. Those things were only ment for one man and that man was not Nakago. Now Chichiri's eyes were searching her, looking for a pain or injury he could see but the damage was deeper than that and he could see that too.
She was crying harder and felt her boogyman desolve into nothing as Chichiri look off the cape his form had created before when he was a brown haired soilder and put it over Kate's shoulders. The warmth calmed her down and Chichiri was able to get her to her feet. "We need to go, Kate. Can you walk?", he asked.
"Yes", Kate said weakly and stabled herself by using Chichiri's shoulder as support. Chichiri brought his hand around to Kate's side to try and guide her, causing the girl to jump slightly. "Sorry", came Chichiri's sad reply and suddenly Kate jerked even more as she saw the soilder once again. Chichiri had transformed back into a brow haired teenager and now supported a short bowel cut hairstyle.
Kate looked at his face in amazment. He looked so determined, almost business like, as if had he failed a bomb would have gone off and he wasn't sure if it was still ticking or not. "I'm alright", Kate said and he looked over at her. "I'm alright now", She said and he smiled softly. She didn't need to hear his words. She could see them in his eyes as he suddenly looked as if the world had been taken off of his shoulders.
When they reached a certain window Chichiri stopped and helped Kate onto the oversized window seal. Below, she heard someone say her name and looked down to see everyone looking up at her. It had been Miaka that said her name. She looked unharmed dispite the fact she did looked soaking wet for some odd reason, and Kate couldn't help but give Miaka a small smile.
She now realized how lucky she was to have friends like these. These people were amazing. How many people back in her time would have looked at her like that? How many would have been able to save her from this hell?
Back on the ground, the groups quickly scattered and ran the grounds. "Can you keep going, no da?", Chichiri asked her. "Keep going?", Kate asked weakly, still tired. "We found out where the shinzaho is and want to get it before he does", Miaka said. Kate didn't need to ask who "he" was. "Can I stay out here?", Kate asked. "Of course. Where do you want to wait, no da?", Chichiri asked.
"I want to be near here... Just in case", Kate said. "Will you be alright by yourself?", Miaka asked. "Acually... Chiriko, would you mind sitting with me?", Kate asked the youngest warrior. All eyebrows rose slightly at her choice, but all minds went unvoiced. "Can I?", Chiriko asked Miaka. "If you want to", came her reply and the young man nodded, sitting down inside the tall grass near the building where no one would see him if someone came by. "Hurry back", Kate said and with a glance at Chichiri she headed into the grass also.
Kate laid back and looked at the clouds pass by while they waited. Chiriko was quiet for a moment before he said, "Have you been crying? I can tell. You have many symptons of extream stress."
Kate turned to look at him, but he was staring at the clouds. "He made you cry, but I know someone will get you smiling again. It might take a while, but I know it'll happen." Kate looked back up toward the sky and wiped the back of her hand across her mouth.
Alatáriël: Before I get flames... I'm not just mating the plot bunnies, okay? And I know what I'm writting about. I've been there and WILL do it justice. I just thought I needed to work Kate's sexuality in a way I could deal with. I can't understand normal sexuality due to my own past so I acually needed to kill off some writer's block with this, but don't think it's not going to be funny anymore. For anyone who has ever read Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson you know angst and drama can be funny, and for anyone who hasn't... READ IT! Just an FYI.
Hotohori: Why am I here again?
Alatáriël: Because my actress is mad at me for getting her man handled in a PG-13 rating (non- graphic) and my actors is kicking said man's ass.
Hotohori: All of FY is about getting man handled. Heck, I man handled Miaka plenty of times as has Tamahome.
Miaka:... What are you saying, Hotohori?
Nakago: That you're a skank
Miaka: You're one to talk, ho knocker.
Soi: Wanna come over here and say that?
Alatáriël: Let's hope Kate doesn't stay made at me for too long. --
Need help with getting the text organized. keeps messing it up Advice needed.
