Level 3. Guardian

Ran had left already, Shinichi then started his own journey again. However, he needed to fight against lots of men in black on his way. Vodka had already reported to the Black Organization that Shinichi was in the same group as Ran, so all the members of the BO were after him also. Shinichi had already fought against hundreds of men in black, and he was very tired.

"Here he is!" A troop of men in black and some wild beasts were already there surrounding Shinichi.

"Oh, I've told you many times that I've met Ran only once! I don't know where she's now!" Shinichi was thinking way to escape from them, and suddenly, one of the men in black cape came closed to him.

"Fire!" A mist of fire appeared and surrounded Shinichi. The man came towards him, and said, "follow me!" Not waiting for Shinichi's answer, he already held his hand and led him to escape.

Shinichi finally came to a safe place. The man then turned to him, "go straight along this road, and you'll be in a village within minutes." He said in a low, cold voice, "go immediately! They're coming after you!"

"But why do you help me? Could I know your name?" Shinichi grabbed his hand before he left, and the black cape fallen. "Oh, you're a girl?" Shinichi could not believe it, and a beautiful girl with blond hair was standing in front of him. The girl immediately put her black cape on to cover her face again and disappeared at once.

Beika Village

Shinichi walked down the road, and he was in a pleasant little village now. He heard some noise in the market, and followed it to an item shop. An angry shop-owner was grabbing a girl with ponytail tightly, and yelled at her. "You little thief! I've been watching lately, and now I finally catch you! You can't escape now! Let's go to the temple and see how the High Priest will punish you!"

"I've told you thousand times already that I am not a thief!" The girl was trying to escape from his grab.

"Then how can you explain about this potion in your pocket?"

"How can I know? Maybe it jumps into my pocket!"

Shinichi observed closely and came up at once, "hi, please stay calm! I know where the real thief is!" He seized the hand of a young kid, who was holding a potion in his hand.

"Zell! What're you doing here?"

"Oh father, I just want you to spend more time with me," replied Zell, "I thought that you can play with me after you've sold all the items here."

"Thank you so much," said the girl, "you've helped me a lot! I'm Kazuha, what's your name?"

"Shinichi," replied Shinichi, "nice to meet you!"

"Shinichi, you must be an outsider to this village," said Kazuha, looking at him from top to bottom. Kazuha was wearing a white cape just as all the villagers here, "is this your first time here?"

"Yes," said Shinichi, "do you know a girl named Ran?" He had a strong feeling that he could meet her again.

"Ran? Of course I know her, I'm her guardian," said Kazuha happily, "we're having a ceremony this evening. We could meet her there, she must be very busy right now."

"Sure!" Shinichi was very happy that he could meet Ran once again. In the meanwhile, Kazuha took him to walk around the village.

To be continued……

What do you think of this chapter? Please Read and Review! Kazuha had appeared, who's that mysterious girl in black cape! Next level - Ran and Shinichi met again! (I just hope that this fanfic could continue up till Level 99, thus each chapter would not be too long...but i could update more frequent!)

Oh well I'm really using final fantasy X(one of my favourite ff series!) as the RPG world in this fanfic….the readers are really smart! Hope you all like this fanfic!