Level 5. Journey Begins

"At last I know your name," said Ran, "since our first meeting, I've a strong feeling that we'll meet again. You're not an ordinary warrior, you're destined to save the world."

"You're the one that can save the world," said Shinichi, "I've heard from Kazuha that your father is the High Priest and your mother Eri, is a great summoner."

"Kazuha had told you too much," said Ran in a sad voice, "my mother had disappeared ten years ago."

"Sorry, I didn't mean to make you unhappy," apologized Shinichi, "and don't blame Kazuha, I'm the one that make her talk more about you. I want to know more about you since the first time we met. I want to know everything about you." Shinichi did not even noticed that he was holding Ran's hands tightly in his, and her face flushed slightly at his action.

"Sh-Shinichi, your hands," said Ran in a soft voice, trying to take her hands off his.

"Sorry," said Shinichi, immediately took off his hands, and a silence of embarrassment filled around them.

Kazuha and Hakuba were walking not far from them, "look at them," said Kazuha, "they don't even notice we're with them also."

"Are you jealous? We can be at our own world also if you want," said Hakuba, holding Kazuha's hands in his.

"Idiot! Who want to be in a world with you," said Kazuha, "you stay in your own world alone!"

"Don't be so rude," said Hakuba, "it gonna be late now, I think we'll stay at this village tonight, let's go and find a place to stay over."

"You go and find it yourself and I'll go to the marketplace and buy some items." Kazuha did not wait Hakuba's answer and headed to the marketplace alone.

"Wow! I've never thought that a small town like this would have these rare items," said Kazuha, looking at different stuffs at the item store. Kazuha had found a super rare item, "a dragon bracer, this's a great item for defence, how much is this?"

Suddenly a man in dark skin stood up in front of her, "excuse me, you're holding my item, I've pre-order it a long time ago."

"I've just saw the shop-owner put it on the shelf, and it doesn't have any label saying that it's pre-ordered. Of course I can buy it!" Kazuha had already put the dragon bracer into the pocket under her white cloak.

"I've never see man like you that can be so nonsense," said the man in dark skin.

"I've never see anyone can be darker than a charcoal," said Kazuha. People in the shop were all laughing loudly.

"What? Charcoal! I don't care, I'm going to get back my item," said the dark-coloured man. His hand was already approaching Kazuha, and then he had accidentally put his hand on her chest.

He was quite shocked as he expected a flat chest under the white cloak of this young man, but instead, his hand was in contact with something soft and he could even feel the curvature underneath it. His face flushed slightly, "you're a girl!"

Kazuha's face was blushing even more deeply than his, "you…pervert!" Looking upon his dark hand still on her chest, "take your dirty hand off immediately!"

"I didn't mean to make you feel uncomfortable," said the young man, "it's just an accident. Moreover, you're the one that start this first." His last few words are barely audible, but Kazuha could still manage to hear it.

"How dare you blame me for starting all this? You're saying I'm the one that let you touch…touch me! You idiot charcoal! Let's go outside!"

"Outside? Why?"

"Fight!"

"What?" Kazuha did not wait for him, so he had no choice but to follow her.

Shinichi and Ran were heading to the marketplace to find Kazuha, as Hakuba had already found an inn for them to stay over tonight.

"It's so noisy there, what'd happened?" Ran was curiously looking around, trying to find the origin of noise.

"Let's go and see," said Shinichi, "hope that it's not Kazuha that cause all the trouble there."

Unfortunately Shinichi had guessed it right, Kazuha was fighting with a young man there. Obviously, the young man was much stronger than her, he was just escaping from her attack that she barely missed him every time. This made Kazuha even angrier.

"If you're a man, you should stand there still!"

"Who would be that stupid, standing there to let you fight!" He enjoyed so much teasing Kazuha, her angry face made him felt so interesting.

Shinichi and Ran tried to stop the fight, and he noticed the young man immediately, "Heiji! Long time no see, what'd happened?"

"Shinichi!" Heiji immediately went to meet Shinichi, ignoring the angry Kazuha behind. Kazuha still wanted to fight him, but Ran managed to grab her.

To be continued……

Well, updated finally, Heiji and Kazuha met finally. I know that Heiji is quite stupid that he didn't notice that Kazuha was a girl at the first time. But just imagine that she was wearing the white cloak that covered most of her face. Please Read and Review! Next Level --- Heiji joined their group! They were at the next town and face some new challenges. More on Shinichi and Ran, and Heiji and Kazuha.