Chapter 2: Beggining
Kaori found herself lying flat on her face, in the snow. She jumped up, angrily.
"What the heck is going on, here?!" she shouted.
"Look, Kaori-sama," Harumi said, gleefullly. "It's snow!"
"I've noticed."
Aenora was examining the snow, carefully. She seemed intrigued and did not notice that the cold snow was causing her bloodstained hands to turn redder with cold.
"This is called snow?" she asked.
"What, you don't have snow where you came from?" Harumi asked, incredoulously.
"No."
"Oh, poor deprived Aenora-hime!" Harumi gasped.
"Hey!"
All three girls turned around to see two men standing in the snowy clearing. One was a large man, with spiky black hair, and crimson eyes. They other was slightly shorter, skinny, and had blonde hair that fell in front of his eyes. They were dressed in clothing that reminded Kaori of American colonial times.
"Hello," the blonde man said, pleasantly. "My name is Fai D. Flourite. Are you the girls Yuko-san sent?"
"Yes!" Harumi cheered. "I'm Harumi, this is Aenora-hime, and this is Kaori-sama!"
"Stop calling me that," Kaori growled, annoyed by the honorific. She turned to the larger man.
"Who are you?" she demanded.
"This is Kuro-sama," Fai said, for the large man. "He doesn't like nicknames either, Kaori-chan."
"MY NAME IS KUROGANE!!" Kurogane bellowed.
"Who said you could call me by my first name?" Kaori demanded of Fai. "And I want some answers. Why are we here? And where is here?"
"You're in the country of Jade," Fai said, ignoring the ruckus he was causing. "And as for why you're here...well, perhaps we should go inside and discuss this?"
Kaori finally remembered that she was still in her school uniform. She shivered and followed the two men into a town.
Kaori, Harumi, Aenora, Fai, and Kurogane all entered a house. Fai led them all into a room where a young boy and girl were sitting.
"Syaoran-kun, Sakura-chan," Fai said to them, "I'd like to introduce you to Harumi, Princess Aenora, and Kaori-san who does not like to be given nicknames."
"Pleased to meet you," the boy, Syaoran said.
"Well," Fai said, sitting on the floor, "You wanted to know why you are here, and now I can tell you. Princess Sakura and Syaoran-kun here come from the country of Clow. Sakura-chan's memories were scattered all over the different dimensions in the form of feathers. We all came to the home of the Dimensional Witch and we travel to different dimensions, searching for these feathers. You three are here to help."
"Mokona helps too!"
An odd, rabbit like creature popped out from Kurogane's jacket. Kaori recognized it as being something from Yuko's shop. She could feel the strong magic radiating from it.
"Moko-chan helps us travel through the worlds," Sakura explained.
"Hmph. All that thing does is do it's best to annoy everyone," Kurogane muttered.
Kaori drowned out the conversation at this point. They were talking about some golden haired princess, and whatnot. Kaori had more pressing matters to think about. Yuko, she thought, why did you send me here? I will be of no help, you know that. So what are you scheming...
"So what happened to you, Kaori-sama?"
Kaori was jerked out of her thoughts by Harumi's question.
"Huh?" she asked.
"What happened? Annie-chan told us that she got her wounds in a battle...but where did you get yours?" Harumi clarifyied.
Kaori sighed.
"I got beat up by a gang because I beat up a member of their gang." she said, annoyed.
There was a moment of silence.
"Whoa, Kaori-sama!" Harumi said, awed, "You're really scary!"
"Wha???"
"You beat people up, you look like a yanki*..."
"Yeah. I beat people up. Don't forget that, twerp." Kaori said, angrily.
She felt someone's eyes drilling into the back of her head. She turned to see Kurogane looking at her, perplexed.
"What are you staring at?" she asked, narrowing her eyes.
"You're a girl," Kurogane stated. "And a really short one. How the heck did you even manage to slap someone?"
"What do you mean 'I'm a girl'?" Kaori said, angrily. "What kind of a sexist are you? I can do anything I want; hurt someone, play ball...even if I'm a girl!"
"Whatever," Kurogane said, rolling his eyes.
It was the start of a long and confusing journey.
Hey everybody. This chapter was kinda pointless...*sweatdrop*. But this story will go somewhere. I promise.
A few things:
1. A "Yanki" is like a juveinille delinquint
2. Kurogane didn't say much, but please be patient with me/him.
3. I will try to include Aenora in the story more, but she's a hard character to work with.
4. Please keep reading!!