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!), Mana, Malice 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.
Mana and memories: Italic
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I hefted a new backpack onto my shoulders and sighed. Well, even though my old bag is broken, it was still good none the less.
Then again, this WAS a pretty cute bag, it was pretty good sized and had small angel wings embroidered into the front of it and extra pockets and even a small compartment for--
"Kiako! Ready to go?" Kuro asked carrying her own backpack. It was smaller, and about the same design as mine only it had some kind of emblem on it.
I tiled my head to the side to see, "What's that emblem mean?" I asked. Kuro looked to the side for a moment. Was it my imagination, or was she...
Blushing...?
"Jade gave it to me. It has the Malkuth army insignia on it." she said, "So, ready to go?"
"We're not bringing any guardians with us?"
"No, they need the soldiers. Although I am a bit reluctant leaving them behind." Kuro said, "Oh well, Hao-sama will take care of these guys no problem." There was nearby whimpering and we both looked down to see Kel crawling towards us. He latched onto my knees and looked up at the both of us, his eyes shiny with tears.
"Take me with you... I can't stand Hollows! Hell, I can't ghosts!!" he cried, "TAKE ME WITH YOUUUUU!!!"
"Ok ok ok!! Just, don't do that... It's creepy..." Kuro said backing away a bit, "Kiako your knees are getting wet..."
"So I've noticed." I said and pat Kel's head, "Don't worry, you can come along, or at least until you get over your fear of ghosts." As Kel was grinding his forhead into the sand with thanks, I stepped around and met up with the seven samurai that were standing by. All of them except Kikuchiyo, Kyuzo and Gorobei were in a green uniform. I quickly spotted Hei-san and he smiled, his orange hair tied back into a ponytail.
"You're leaving now?" he asked. I nodded and felt my smile quickly fade, replaced with tears rolling down my face. Heihachi sighed and pulled me into a hug, "Hey, no crying ok! I'll come back, don't worry, we all will." he smiled. I looked up and tried to smile even though my eyes stung to death from my tears...
"I know..." he gave my head a pat as he pulled away, "Hey, what're these ribbons tied around everyone's arms?" I asked.
"Oh these?" Heihachi said pointing at the red ribbon tied around his arm, "The commanders handed these out to the guardians and everyone you, Kuro and Kariudo were friends with. Your guardians have red ribbons, Kuro's have black ones and Kariudo's are green. The WRO members and other soldiers have ribbons too, different colored of course. It was Lavi's idea." I chuckled to myself saying my good bye and turned on my heel closing my eyes.
This, would probably the last time I'd see any of these people...
I turned around again and cupped my hands around my mouth, "YOU ALL BETTER COME BACK ALIVE!!!" I shouted and quickly ran the other way.
I gave my head a shake.
What the hell am I thinking? These guys are humans yes, but they sure as hell can kick ass!! I mean like, sure we only have a few troops, less then the other force but we've got a good variety of techniques! And--
I squeaked when I bumped into something solid and looked up seeing...
An eight foot man with an eyepath, spikey hair with bells on the ends and torn shinigami robes.
"Yo." he said with a wicked grin.
"KYAAAAAAAAA!!!"
"Calm down!! Yeesh..." Hitsugaya said walking up beside us, "This is Zaraki Kenpachi, Captain of the 11th squad."
"A.k.a, the fastest Hollow killer alive, er, dead." Matsumoto said.
"And I'm his second in command Yachiru!!" a small girl with pink hair said happily popping up from behind Zarakai's shoulder, "Hello Puffy!!"
"Puffy...?" I rose my eyebrow.
"Hope you don't mind, I asked Hitsugaya-senpai to get reinforcements from Soul Society." Kariudo said, "I thought we'd need them."
I smiled gratefully and thanked her, "Well, we should get going, we still need to give them time to get to the Calm lands." I said.
Kariudo nodded, "Yes, let's go meet Kuro, we're being airlifted by one of Cid's ships. Another person is the pilot though." We quickly headed over to the airship and I had to stop to look up at it. Man, it's looks like the old version of the Highwind...
"Yo, you done drooling over it?" Kuro asked smacking me in the arm, "Man, I hope you don't become a fon tech obsessor like Guy..."
"Who?"
There was suddenly yelling and an explosion echoed from the other side of the camp.
"Dammit! They're already here?!" Cliff swore coming out from a tent, he glanced towards us, "What're you still doing here?! Get going or you're going to get caught in the fight!" Baralai, Gippal and Nooj followed out.
"How... How did they know we were here...?" Baralai cursed and pulled out his staff.
"Pretty smart of them to throw us an ambush." Gippal smirked.
I felt someone grab my arm and started to drag me inside.
"There's no time to waste, hurry!" Jade said dragging Kuro with him as well. Kariudo stumbled for a moment and a blast blew up right in front of her.
"Gah!"
"Kariudo!" I turned to go back but was still being yanked by Jade, "Lemme go! I can't leave her!"
Kuro fought too, "Jade, let me get her! I'll be faster then any of-!" Kuro fainted when Jade punched her in the stomach and threw her over his shoulder. I squirmed even harder to try and get away.
"Kariudo-kun!!" There was a sudden flash and Hitsugaya appeared with Kariudo in his arms.
"Tell the pilot to lift off, NOW!!" he ordered. The ship whirred and there was a slight jerk for a while until everything stopped shaking.
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"She should be fine, I didn't hit her too hard." Jade said as he laid Kuro down on a bench. I changed into White Mage and started a Cura aura placing it on her stomach, "You know, if you keep glaring at me like that you're face will stay that way forever."
I hadn't even realize I was angry... At Jade no less... I WAS in his debt for saving us from the tomatoes...
"No kidding, she looks like she wants to kill something." a boy with long red hair said.
"But master, isn't that what you look like? She looks like you doesn't she master?" a blue... thing... said bouncing up and down. The red headed boy crushed his foot into it.
"Shut up thing!"
"Hey! Stop being so mean to it!!" I yelled standing up in rage. Hey, I'm pissed off enough as it is, when I get mad, I get REALLY, mad.
"Shut up! I can do what I want with him!" the red head shouted back. I snarled at him and he growled back.
"Brat!"
"Freak!"
There was a sudden burst of hot water which sent both the red head and I jumping around screaming. "BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP!!!" I looked behind me to see a very grumpy Kuro, "First I get knocked out, then I have to wake up to two idiots fighting!!"
"Well, she's the bigger idiot!" the boy said pointing at me.
"Well, that I'm not so sure about." Jade said fixing his glasses.
"Oh, SHUT UP!!"
"Is that ALL you know how to shout?" I asked with a hint of anger. This kid really ticked me off!!
"Luke, you should be nicer to the ladies, they are younger then you." a man with blonde hair said walking in, "Sorry, you'll have to forgive Luke, he's always like this." He looked behind him and stood aside from the door as two women and a girl walked in, a blonde, with a quiver on her back, a smaller one with a doll and the last one with long brown hair. I changed back into my normal clothes and smiled.
"Guy, aren't you suppose to be piloting the ship?" Jade asked fixing his glasses.
"It's on auto-pilot, don't worry!"
"Whoa! I've never seen something like this before!!" the little girl said running up to me, "It's weird!!"
"I think it's rather cute..." the brown haired girl said, "Her backpack is also... cute."
So I'm an IT now...
"Tear likes cute stuff, you better start running." the little girl smirked.
NOW I'M STUFF?
The brown haired girl blushed and looked at Kuro, "Her robes... Look so cute on her too..." I saw Kuro rub at her forehead.
"As you know already, this is Tear, the little one is Anise and I am Natalia." the blonde girl said, "Pleasure making your aquantance."
"And I'm Guy, That's Luke, nice to meet you." the blonde man said shaking hands with Kel. The blue thing also introduced itself as Mieu.
I shuddered at the name... Made me think of that other Miu.
"Oh! So you're the fon machine obsessor!!" I said.
"Oh, so you introduced me that way huh Kuro?" Guy said with a weak smile. I took a step and held my hand out to shake when Guy suddenly jumped back to the other side of the room and hid behind Luke.
"AGGGH!!!" he screamed, "Keep away!!"
o.O?
"Guy doesn't like women, as big as a pervert as he is." Kuro said.
"Hey! You don't have to say that! I love women! I just... Can't stand them touching me..." Guy said. Kuro rolled her eyes slowly sitting up and winced.
"Who the hell..." she grumbled. We all pointed at Jade.
He shrugged, "I admit, I knocked you out. But you were being quite unreasonable."
I felt rage consume me again, "What's so unreasonable about rescuing our friend? Not only that you knocked my OTHER friend out in the process!!!"
"Would you have rather all of you died at once in one blow?" Jade said, "There's no time to be selfish in war, trying to get things done your way. We wouldn't want you to become like Luke now would we?"
"What's that suppose to mean old man?" the red head snapped.
"It's ok! Don't get mad Master!"
"Shut up thing!"
There was some beeping from the front.
"Oh, looks like we're at the Calm lands. I'll go land us." Guy said leaving. The others went as well, getting ready. Kariduo came up to us and smiled.
"Thanks guys, sorry for the trouble." she said.
"Don't be sorry," I said with a weak grin, "We're sorry we couldn't get to you faster." She grinned back and left with Hitsugaya. I turned to see Jade kneeling in front of Kuro, asking her a few questions about her stomach as she replied with nods and the occasional, "I'm fine."
I couldn't help but let a smile creep onto my face.
They did look cute together, almost as cute as when Kuro and Hao were together. I snickered to myself, at least, I did until Kuro gave me a pat on the arm.
"Yo, let's go." she said.
"You sure you're ok?"
"Yeah yeah! Let's hurry and go!" she said.
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Guy had landed us on the ledge in front of Remiem temple. As we piled out, I heard him give a whistle.
"Man, this is pretty neat, nothing like anything in Auldrant." he said.
"Yes, it's quite amazing! Although it almost reminds me a bit of Baticul." Natalia inquired. Luke ran ahead.
"Hurry up! You're all so slow!!" he shouted "GAAH!!" He ran into a barrier that sparked and threw him back.
"Luke!" Everyone quickly went to check on him as he sat up.
"OW! Dammit what the hell was that!!" he cried.
"Hm, looks like a barrier to keep out intruders." Diablos said rubbing his chin. We all stared at him.
"T-That man came out from nowhere!!" Natalia cried.
"He must be some kind of magician!" Anise said.
"Er, not really..." Guy said, "He looks like something evil..."
"Bingo! Give the guy a prize!!" Diablos said happily!
"Diablos, what do you make of it?" Kuro said.
"Man you're no fun... Anyways, looks like it'll only let the summoners in." he said, "You girls are one you're own, but I'll come with you anyways."
"But, you just said only summoners can go in." Tear said. Diablos grinned the suddenly turned into devil form.
"I'm the evil in Kuro's soul." he grinned. Kuro rubbed at her temples while trying to drown out everyone's screams. Jade was also using his hand to cover his face as if he had a headache too.
"Well, guess we better go in." I said, "Let's go!" We all nodded and started to walk in. I watched Kuro walk through with Diablos and Kariudo-kun too. I went to follow until a hand stopped me.
"I trust you'll prevent anything bad from happening. I would hate to see Kuro getting hurt again." Jade said, "You had better take care of each other." I stared up a him for a moment, and then smirked nodding.
"Sure thing Colonel." I said and followed Kuro and the others.
Authors notes: NO TIME FOR NOTES!!!!