Akatsuki's Miko
Chapter two
After a day or so of travel Kagome reached the village that was her destination. She spent a few days getting to know the research team, having them fill her in on what they had discovered and on the fears of the villagers.
Apparently there was a legend that there used to be a whole civilization on an island in the area, they were a militant people who had harnessed some extraordinary power, but hundreds of years ago the people of the island decided to separate themselves from the outside world because people from the mainland hated and feared them for their abilities. So the leaders of the island people used their power to create a powerful barrier between their world and ours. The leaders in their apparently infinite wisdom had foreseen that the mainlanders would attempt to wipe out the island people.
Also, the villagers informed her, the people of the island, who the villagers called Shinobi, could pass through the barrier and enter our world. When she asked if they themselves had seen any they said yes, every once in a while people with long black cloaks emblemized with red clouds would come to the village, the people never showed their faces, as the cloaks had high collars and they wore straw hats with strips of white cloth hanging from the brim everywhere except for the front, and a small bell on a chain.
Kagome asked them why this made them Shinobi instead of part of some club or team. They assured her that it wasn't because of what they were wearing, although several villagers wanted similar outfits, but what they did. One time one of them was in the small dango shop when a car's horn blared very loudly unexpectedly, causing him, they guessed it was a man, to jump three feet into the air and pull what looked like throwing knives out of nowhere, another time one of them appeared, out of the blue, in a puff of smoke.
One boy came forward and claimed he had bumped into one of them once and seen red eyes, glaring at him, from under the hat.
Kagome having given up on the 'there-is-no-such-thing' train of thought, realizing that they had found what appeared to be the legendary island, and remembering that she spent the better part of two years chasing around the feudal era, moved on to the 'we'll-try-not-to-anger-the-shinobi' approach. After all, who were they to judge?
A few weeks after she had arrived she was sitting in the dango shop with the leader of the expedition, Dr. Hiasano, an energetic man in his mid-forties Kagome could have had a crush on him if he were only a little closer to her own age, twenty-five.
"Well, the villagers have finally relented so we can get to work." He smiled, and Kagome smiled back, proud that she had helped win over the villagers' trust.
"Yes, I am very interested as to what this discovery will bring to light."
"Me too," Kagome said "Thanks for the dango but I've got to go."
"Anytime."
Kagome left the dango shop and walked to the promenade-like area by the beach, admiring the ocean's beauty.
"Rinng." She paused, thinking that she had imagined what she heard.
"Rinng." She turned and looked around, a little further down she saw a man wearing a black cloak with red clouds and a straw hat.
to be continued...
hehe good chapter, ne? i am amazed i got it written and uploaded so quickly, though.
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