Chapter 3 The Girl…

"Yori… you in here?" asks Ron, in the basement of the town hall, with only a few books shelves down there it wouldn't be hard to find her. Ron just wanted to announce being there before he got to her, he was polite like that.

"Over here, Ron-kun" Quietly says the ninja, she was in the corner of the basement where a large desk was, there were many books sprawled out over it. Indicating she was here for a while now.

"How goes the research…?" Ron, asks as he walks over where Yori sat.

With a heavy sigh the ninja puts down the book she was reading, and looks up at the blond with pleading eyes, as if to ask for forgiveness, before saying in a low tone. "I'm sorry, Ron-kun, I didn't find what I was looking for…"

Ron was about to say that it was 'ok', but…

"What, the hell do you mean by "I'm sorry… I didn't find what I was looking for", you spent almost an entire fucking day, in a bloody fucking library when we could still be in the woods looking for Kim…" yelled the pale woman that was behind Ron.

"So you better, have fucking something or…"

"SHEGO..." Ron said in harsh tone, that surprised both Yori, and Shego, Ron turned around, to give her a hard stare, and continued to cut her off before she could finish, "How about we just let Yori tell us what she found, maybe it actually is something important, she just didn't catch it the first time through"

A little stunned by Ron's sudden change in demeanor, the pale woman, quietly agrees...

Turning back to the ninja the blond continues "OK...so what do you have Yori?" He asks optimistically.

Stunned for a moment, she smiles warmly at the blond, before speaking, "Well, I had gone over some of the towns legends, and…"

"Why the fuck would you need to do that?" Shego asks bitterly

Coughing lightly before continuing "That is because… Kim's disappearance is so similar to legends that were told to me of being kamikakushi…"

"Well, care to explain what you mean by that…." The pale woman growls out.

Sighing nervously "Well kamikakushi means spirited away, or to remove without anyone's notice"

"We noticed her missing how, is that the connection" Shego says bitterly

"No, Shego I mean, that we notice Kim is gone yes, but there is no trace where she went, yes?"

"So…your point?"

"But that's it Shego, there was no trace, we found no footprints, and even with the last know location of Kim… She was not buried under the snow, or anything, like Ron said it's 'like she is gone', without a single clue to as where she is."

Yori getting up from where she was siting for the past few hours she stretched a little before, looking at Shego with a sad look in her eyes.

"If my hunch was correct, I don't know how we are to get Kim back…."

"What the hell, are you talking about Yori…?"

"Kamikakushi, taken by spirits that is what I'm saying…."

With disbelief the pale woman stares at the ninja clad in black "You can't be fucking serious…"

With the huff Shego continues "No… you might just be even more of a moron that Ron, over there"

"Hey that's..."

"Shut it Ron …fucking serious taken by spirits, hell no, she is just missing"

"Shego there was a reason I was looking through the town's legends…"

"Ya you 'had a reason', you wasted fucking valuable time is all doing it, we could have been looking in the woods for Kim" Shego stared hard at Yori "And that's what I'm going to fucking do, go waste your time in some library, but I'm finding Kim got that…." With an angry sneer on her face as the pale woman exited the small basement with a huff.

"That went better than I expected…" Ron chimed in, "Un, uh" the pink rodent, Rufus, from within the blond's pocket also chimed.

"But, Ron-Kun…" Yori protested

"No seriously I only just managed to convince to come, and that was because she was in a better mood after picking on me" says the blond calmly

"Oh, really, why was she picking on..."

"So any way what about this legend…?" continues the blond, cutting into the ninja's question, as he picks up a book and stares at it.

Shaking her head some, she clears her throat as she starts "So, there is a legend in this town that could help explained what could of happened" she said as she grabs one of the books that was on the desk from before.

"Could of, so no definites yet, hmm…" continuing to stare at the book.

"Ron-Kun, are you even reading that book?"

"Nope…" He says with a goofy grin on his face

With a light chuckle, Yori flips a few pages in the book she is holding till she lands on the page needed, before continuing "Ok so there is a local legend... is this town about…" She pauses for a moment seeing the blond looking at the book upside down, shaking her head; she takes away the book from him.

"Hey I was reading that…" he protests

"No you where not, now I'm going to explain this legend and you are to listen, ok?"

"Ya…" The blond sighs before he finds a spot to sit down at, Yori, follows right after him, sitting right next to him before starting up again.

"Ok so the legend is about the disappearance of a girl over three hundred years ago…"

Sounds of sticks breaking, panting, and labored breathing from herself was all that the girl could hear as she rushed out of the woods and into a small clearing with a large lake directly in front of her. The girl looked quickly around, spotting a small boat she quickly set to launching it onto the lake, just as she got a few feet from the shore; a group of figures came into the clearing. They stared hard at the girl for a moment before, a few of them cursing, most of them turned and walked back into the woods, mumbling something to the effect of, 'Let the spirits judge, her'.

With a heavy sigh of relief the girl relaxes for a moment, before looking at the woods across the lake she was now headed to. She had never been this far in the woods, before, let alone to the part she was head for, and what did the they mean by 'let the spirits judge, her'.

"Who cares..." The girl mumbles softly to herself "I did nothing wrong… I only just wanted…"

The girl looked back at the shore she launched from, a few figures still stood there, glaring at her "Besides, what is the problem in wanting to do what you want… I never asked to be…" she sighs, and turns "I don't want my life planed out for me… " She trails off, as she lays down in the boat, the girl looks up at the moon high in the night sky. "I would say it's a beautiful, but…" Sitting up for a moment looking at the shore "…I don't have that luxury right now…"

Sometime later the girl was across the lake, she was unable to even see the outline of the shore let alone the outline of figures that chased her. 'Good', the girl thought landing the boat on the shore before she turned around. The girl stared hard at the woods, wondering what could possibly be in it to make the figures that were chasing to stop. 'It's just the woods it can be that dangerous' thought the girl. Then the sound of a twig snapping got her attention. She quickly looked around for where the sound originated from, and saw one of the figures, who were chasing her, and all it took was one time for the figure lock in eye contact with her before, the girl was in a dead sprint again.