I do not own any of the anime/games in this fic. I also do not own Kel/Kelvis, Zero and Vale. They belong to Keyblade Master/Random/Limit Break Fira
Kuro Suzaku is owned by Kuro herself
Kariudo Shikaku is owned by Kariudo-kun herself
Ian Valentine is owned by Who's Asking.
I own Kiako (That's ME!) and Miu. When a new paragraph starts these little thingies will appear ʓʓʓ and if those thingies don't show up I'm sorry -.-; And I'm sorry if there are spelling errors.
Other voice and memories: Italic
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"BAGAAAH!" I sputtered jumping out of bed, "Cold cold!"
"Come on, wake up! We've gotta do a sending before more fiends jumps outta nowhere." Kuro said tucking away her staff. I changed into my own Black mage dress sphere and used a weak Fire spell to melt the ice away from my face. Jeez, what a way to wake me up... Cold water would've done it or an alarm clock, but no... Kuro had to go and cast Blizzard in my face...
I looked at myself in the mirror with icicles and such spiking my hair up almost as much as Cloud's. I chuckled, it was pretty funny! Plus I didn't need hair cement!
Well, I better save my laughter... Kuro told me last night before lights out that we were going to do our first actual major sending and I had to get out there first to draw the transmutation circle. I rubbed behind my head. At least I'd taken a shower last night, now all the blood was practically gone. All Natural Al Bhed shampoo, you gotta love it.
So I changed, went outside and pulled up my chalk. Looking at the big space before me, I made two shadow clones sending one up to the roof where I was sitting the night before and I handed the other one a piece of chalk.
"You work on the outter circle, I'll work on the inner part and on the triangles." I instructed the looked up at the clone on the roof. At least someone would be able to moniter my circle drawing skills...
When we finished, my clone gave me a thumbs up and I dispelled the jutsu. Seeing as there were three of us doing a sending, I drew the circle that Alphonse used with the 3 triangles in the center.
"Oh good, you're done." Kuro said walking towards me tying up her long hair as Kariudo was tying her headband around her forhead. Everyone had come outside, cause we were going to leave as soon as we finished the sending. I stood in one of the triangles as Kuro and Kariudo followed my example. After a moment of preparing ourselves, I sighed grasping my necklace that had a chinese coin on it, tucked it back into my turtle neck and nodded.
Grandpa, please give me strength...
"Ok, let's get started."
The three of us placed one hand at the base of out triangles and the circle glowed different colors like the Moonflow or Macalania forest. A soft wailing followed and hundreds of pyraflies flew from the ground and gathered into the circle floating around us. Hearing one screamed past my ear, I flinched then took another calming breath. Closing my fist, I lifted my hand over my head as the transmutation circle followed up with it. Kuro, Kariudo and I all threw the transmutation circle into the air and it hovered above us. With a flash the circle was filled out with a liquidy substance similar to the Farplane portal in Guadosalam.
Kuro drew her staff, Kariudo pulled out her gun and I slipped on my gloves. Kuro used her staff almost like a heralding staff and used the purple black orb to gather the pyraflies and send them up into the portal above. Kariudo would look like she was loading pyraflies into her gun and shot them up into the portal. I swiveled around catching the pyraflies in my hands then gently as I could, pushed them up towards the circle.
More wailing and cries echoed out and when I scooped up another bunch of pyraflies, I cringed at the coldness of them. It was like trying to throw iceballs... The screams insued and I felt my eyes water. Shaking my head, I continued to push more pyraflies in.
No.. I have no time to cry. Even if I'm touching actual real souls that once belonged to soldiers, men, women, children, actual people that used to live.
People I couldn't save...
Fayt's dying image crept back into my mind and I shook my head harder pushing it to the back of my mind. No.. gotta focus... Kuro and Kariudo wouldn't be thinking these either. What's important right now is to get these souls to the Farplane. Plain and simple.
I felt a few pyraflies wrap themselves around my arms and I actually had to fling them off. Seeing no more pyraflies left, the circle fell back down and we all lifted our hands catching the side. With a nod to eachother, we all slammed the circle into the ground and it shattered into millions of sparkles and dust.
Kel came up behind me and put a hand on my shoulder.
"You ok?" he asked. I forced a smile while rubbing my eyes and nodded.
"Yeah, I'm fine."
"So, if you're taking Baaj temple, I'll take Yojimbo." Kuro said.
"Wait a second! You already got to kill 2 aeons! Ixion and Shiva. Anima and Yojimbo, are my kills." I reasoned.
"But I have nothing else left to kill!" Kuro pouted, "Beside, you got to kill Ifrit and Valefor!"
"Technically, Kel, Zero and Vale killed Valefor and Kel killed Ifrit, so it's not fair." I pointed out, "Kariudo killed Bahamut and wants to go on to Remieum. Maybe you guys should go there too and take care of the Maguc sisters with her. Plus there's always whatever Aeon in Zanarkand you can kill." Course, that did mean I'd lose the race, but hey who cares anymore?
Suddenly my hands were being held up and a pair of big anime shiny eyes were staring me down.
"Please oh please let me come with you!" Miu pleaded grasping my hands in her own, "I just can't stand seeing three young girls on this pilgrimage, it's so sad with the sending and so dangerous!" I raised my eyebrow at Heihachi and he smiled nervously rubbing behind his head.
"Well..."
"I can fight exceptionally well!"
"Well, I know that after you tackled me down yesterday night... Er, I mean..." I muttered, "It's more dangerous for you though. Kariudo is experienced with assasination, Kuro has magic that can match the power of the universe imploding and I'm a half demon trained in ninjutsu, alchemy, and white magic."
"I can do white magic!" Miu said, "I've had some training in that."
"What spell level?" I asked.
"I can use Full Cure along with Curaga." she said proudly. If I wasn't in such a bad mood I'd have probably slammed myself into the ground. Full Cure? How the hell, could someone like her who looks like she hasn't done an honest days work in her life be able to use such advanced magic!
"Kiako's magic is good enough for us to use." Vale said standing beside me. I can't believe I'm saying this but... I'm kinda glad he's here. At least he's got good reasons to keep me around. Miu lowered her hands dragging mine with her.
"I see... It's because I'm the High priests daughter isn't it?" she said solemnly, "You all say I can't hold my own because I live in luxury away from battle..."
"WE all said? Yo we didn't even SAY anything for the past 20 minutes!" Zero burst out. Miu ignored him and put one of her hands over her mouth as if stiffling back tears.
"I guess I would have to stay behind and watch those 3 samurai that wandered in a few days ago, something horrible might happen to them in the dungeon!" she cried, "So be it, I shall stay here and carry out my duty to those 3 samurai."
I felt my eye twitch. I don't believe it! This lady was BLACKMAILING me! With 3 of the possibly remaining 7 samurai! I did some research before hand to know more about the Nobuseri, it mentioned 7 samurai there. Heihachi, Gorobei, Kikuchiyo, Kyuzo, Kambei, Shichiroji and Katsuchiro. If those 3 samurai are them...
I sighed. Man, this is gonna be one helluva sacrifice...
"Fine, you can come. BUT only if you let me and my guardians see the 3 samurai and be able to free them from their cells." I said. Miu for a second, scowled and I felt a sharp pain in my hand, "Oww! Hey!"
"Sorry! I was just so excited, my fingernails accidently dug in, sorry." she smiled then turned on her heels, "I'll go get ready then! We leave in 2 hours!"
"What? But we were gonna leave now..." I said, "Even most of the WRO already left this morning!"
"I need to prepare." Miu said briskly, "Your samurai should be in the dungeon." As she skipped away hugging Heihachi again, I groaned rolling my eyes. Man, girls like that...
"Um, Kiako dear, you have that... How shall I say it..." Vale started, "Your version of Glare O' Doom?" I noticed my eyebrows were knitted together and quickly went back into a smile.
"Sorry, just.. Uh, contemplating." I replied giving a cheerful laugh, "Well people, we've got two hours, go explore or something till then."
While everyone was leaving I sighed and got ready to climb up the roof again. Sure I might lose my temper again and accidentally break of piece of the roof off, but I know for sure I won't fall again...
"Hey, you ok?" Heihachi asked tilting his head at me.
"Why does everyone keep asking me that? I'm fine." I replied and it sounded like a whip snap.
"Hey hey," Heihachi pet my head and pulled me into a hug, "I'm not going to leave you if that's what you think."
"Oh jee, why would I think that?" I asked. It came out as a snap again.
"Goodness, when you distance yourself from someone you really do..." Heihachi sighed petting my ears.
"Having some kind of relationship or friendship for me is like holding a burning match. Hold it too close to the flame you'll get burned and drop the match. Match goes out. No more friendship. Get too close to someone I care about, I'll get burned back away from them." I said. I gently pushed him away and quickly did a handseal making my chakra flow to my feet, "Now excuse me, I need some time to think." I started up the Bevelle wall steadily and after a small rush of wind, noticed Heihachi was slowly hovering upwards following my pace.
"Are you... Jealous?"
"She's a normal human, I'm a clumsy half demon. I'm green with envy, not..." I replied rolling my eyes and jumping onto the edge. Heihachi landed down beside me.
"Are you avoiding me?" he asked. I answered with a stern, No and used chakra on my hands to slide back down to the floor. At least it'll take him a while to get back down... I opened the door and was suddenly dragged away then shoved into a room.
"YO! What's the big idea!" I shouted at my kidnapper balling my hands into fists. Hey, I'm pretty ticked off right now. I could do some SERIOUS damage when I'm ticked off...
"Kiako, you gotta learn to sometimes take action." Kel appeared from from the shadows and I used my hands to pat my chest. I thought I was going to have a heart attack JEEZ!
"Say... Wha?" I said and Kel took on some kind of dramatic pose.
"I will not let my hard work go to waste! I swear on this day, both you can Hei-man will be pronounced, A COUPLE!" he shouted, "My reputation of my dating service depends on it!" A random fist punched him over the head and I backed away.
"You can't even get your own love life started..." a siler haired woman said walking out from the shadows. Two other girls followed her, a brunette and a blonde.
"Will you all stop coming out from the shadows? You're totally scaring me!" I cried and half expected Nero to pop up next.
"Ahem, well... If we're ever going to beat this Miu girl to the bat, we're gonna need some help." Kel said rubbing the lump on his head. The three girls jumped out into a pose.
"Y!"
"R!"
"P!"
"We're, YuRiPa!" Yuna, Rikku and Paine all said at the same time. I was practically backed up into the other side of the room!
Oh my god... Why... They... And...and... Even my thoughts are becoming incoherent!
"Ooh this is going to be so fun!" Rikku squealed.
"I know!" Yuna smiled at me, her rat tail was only down to the bottom of her back at this time, "You're going to be cuter then a button when we're done with you!"
"What're you going to do with me?" I asked shaking against the wall. YuRiPa and Kel looked at eachother then at me with a smile. I slowly felt them crowding around me.
"MAKEOVER!" they all shouted happily.
"NOOOOO!"
Then, they pounced...
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"Let's see, what can she wear?" Yuna said with her finger on her chin.
"Dress sphere is faster, what's she got on there?" Paine asked. I put my hand protectivly over my pocket. No way in HELL am I going to go through this! I already had the image of myself strapped down to a chair with a collar to hold my head still as YuRiPa fondled over my hair. I glanced to the side seeing a window and thought back to Cliff jumping out of them back in Macalania.
"YAA!" I jumped towards it and was flung back onto the bed. I sat up holding my head seeing a barrier sparkle in front of the window. DAMMIT!
"I knew you'd try to escape, so I got some help from a few others." Kel said as Kuro stepped out from the shadows. Well, at least it wasn't Nero.
"I came just to watch you suffer." Kuro smirked.
"I got her garment grid!" Rikku shouted happily, "Hmm, hey lookie this one!" she pressed a sphere and I was automatically in Dark Knight dress sphere.
Kel and Kuro snorted, "She looks like a Heartless soldier..."
"I think we need something less conservative." Paine said.
"Ok then... This one!" she pressed another and I jumped behind a couch. Of all the dress spheres... WHY THEIF? I don't even remember putting it in there!
"Whoa whoa! Rikku! Too revealing!" Kel shouted using his hand as a shield and Kuro was ejecting her scythe.
"I could claw your eyes out if it'll make you feel better." Kuro said, "Cause I think I might claw mine out if she isn't out of the Thief Garment..." Yuna took the grid from Rikku and examined it.
"Hmm..." she pressed one and I slowly crawled out from behind the bed.
"Hey, not bad." Paine said and instructed me to stand up. Yup, my old Festival Goer dress sphere. Only now it was more for..Well... Festival going then for fighting in. It was still ight pink with butterfly decors embrodered on and small butterfly wings on the back of the kimono.
"Ok we got an outfit, now..." Rikku pulled out a shiny silver briefcase out of nowhere, "Makeup!"
"AHH!" I literally jumped across the room and used Kel as a human shield, "Take him instead!"
"What am I, a sacrifice?" Kel cried.
"I'd rather fight Nightmare, Voldo and Cervantes from Soul Caliber II then put make up on!" When the girls finally calmed me down a bit, they decided to skip on the make up because I had fur on my face.
Thank god...
"Now, what can we do about her hair?" Rikku said. Kel walked over to us and waved YuRiPa away. Then he reached into his trenchcoat and pulled out-!
A chop stick.
"HUH?"
Lifting up some of my hair with the black chop stick, Kel suddenly flipped his hand and around in a few archs and in a few seconds, pushed the chop stick down on my hair holding together the bun.
We all stared at him in awe, even Zero, who had just walked in.
"Whoa, didn't know you had that kind of talent." Zero said, "How did you learn to do that, grew your own hair and practiced?"
"Hey, just cause I'm more secure about my masculinity then you..." Kel growled, "For your information, I used to practice with my girlfriend Trigger."
"Whoa! You have a girlfriend!" Zero shouted, "And when were you going to tell me this?" While the two boys squabbled, Yuna sighed and then with a smile held up a mirror to me. My wild red bangs had been combed down around my face and my hair was in a neat bun pinned by Kel's unknown chopstick skills.
"One thing missing..." Paine pulled out a small tube like thing and grabbed my jaw. I suddenly started to squrim, I know what that stuff is! "Stay still." She glided it over my lips then let go of my jaw to let me massage it. I raised my eyebrow skeptically at the Gull Wings.
"Hey you never know." Yuna smiled.
"Guys, er, girls, I'm 14..." I muttered.
"Never stopped me before!" Rikku grinned, "Now get out there and get your guy!"
"Tch, being in love is troublesome..." Kuro scoffed taking a book from my bag and flipping it open.
"Nyah!" I was shoved out of the room by everyone until we were almost in the main part of the temple. Lo and behold, Heihachi wandering around, then he rounded and corner. Kel gave me a thumbs up and when I didn't move, gave me a little shove. I shot him a gentle glare as he and the others scurried away then taking a deep breath, started to make my way around the corner as well. Well, at least the fog inside here kinda hid me, which was good dispite the fact I was bright orange...
Turning left I instinctivly jumped to the side and peeked around the edge as I heard a few voices.
Hmm... It's Heihachi and... Oh Yevon... It's Miu again... (The curse just seemed appropriate since we were in the FF X world.) I was too far to hear what they were talking about, but I still had a clear view in the purple blue light. I brushed some of my bangs out of my face and sighed. Well... I guess I better get moving. I looked up again seeing Miu lacing her hands with Heihachi then leaning up on tip toes.
Their lips touched, and they kissed.
I didn't really do anything. I stood there, and watched for a moment feeling like I'd been stabbed with something blunt. Then after sighing turned around and headed back to where the room where the others were waiting eagerly.
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As I walked in I pulled the chopstick from my hair letting it fall down and calmly threw it to the side as if throwing a kunai. Kel yelped as he ducked and it flew over his head and stuck itself halfway into the wall. He fell on the floor with a small hole through his spikey hair from the chopstick.
"Well? How'd it go?" Yuna asked curiously.
"Where's my garment grid?" I asked snatching it away from Rikku anyway. I changed back into my normal clothes and started to check my backpack. No apparent reason, just...
Paine walked over snatching my bag from me and I stood back up.
"Well?"
"Well, it's proven. Heihachi obviously likes Miu." I replied unemotionally.
"Proven? But... What happened?" Kel asked running his hands through his hair to fill in the hole. I took my bag back from Paine and zipped it up throwing it onto my back.
"They... Kissed." I said and opened the door again, "I'll be outside, I need some fresh air." I closed the door and as I walked towards the main doors, Heihachi was there along with some of the others and three new people, a blonde, a man with brown hair and a girl with green hair. Heihachi smiled at me.
"Hey Kiako-cha-" I side stepped and walked around him making my way to the door.
"We're going to be leaving soon, best get ready." I called strictly to everyone, who were silent from my tone change and pushed the doors open. As I walked out, I think I might've imagined it but I could distinctly see Miu smiling.
Kuro was right. Being in love is troublesome...
Authors notes: Arg... School is getting harrrd... Well, not really. I just started Highschool and it's actually ok, just a bit more homework. I'll still be able to work on fics though, I'm learning to balance my time. n.n Alrighty, thanks for reading!