LadySakura: Okay so here we go with Chapter Two!
Rei: Great!
Yukina: Can't you be nice for once Rei?
Rei: Sure, I'll do the disclaimer: LadySakura doesn't own Kiki's Delivery Service…she's not smart enough.
Yukina: -sigh- I also don't own the song "How Far I'll Fly" by Bill Conti
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Chapter Two: Decisions
Yukina had been flying for a while with no interruptions. After a couple hours she reckoned they needed some sleep, and both her and Rei camped out in a tree. When they work up in the morning they continued on their way, heading north.
She wasn't sure exactly what kind of town she was looking for, except that she didn't want one too big or industrialized. She liked the simple life and in smaller towns you got to know the people better.
"Where are we going Yukina?" Rei asked from her perch at the front of the broom.
"Towards the mountains, there might be some good towns there." Yukina answered, scanning the horizon. The sun was well in the sky by now, and she was starting to get hungry. "Hey Rei, grab some of that bread mom packed for us."
Rei nodded, and walked back to Yukina's tan leather bag. The female black cat dug in it until she found a still warm loaf wrapped up in napkins, which she picked up with her teeth and handed to Yukina.
Yukina unwrapped it and took a large bite, smiling at her mom's cooking. She handed a piece to Rei, who munched on it happily. They ate in silence, enjoying the scenery. Yukina smiled and started singing.
There's a new world out there,
Coming to find me
Everything's waiting up ahead
Nothings behind me,
If I don't dream
If I don't try,
How will I know how far ill fly?
I'm high flying and free
There's a sun rising for me,
There may be cities beyond the rooftops
Oceans beyond the seas
Ill fly out to a far away sky,
No one has traveled so far
Out to a far away star
Maybe farther.
There's a new world out there,
Coming to find me
Everything's waiting up ahead
Nothings behind me,
If I don't dream
If I don't try,
How will I know how far ill fly?
There may be mountain peaks,
I want to slide down,
There may be rivers fast and wide
I want to ride down
If I don't dream
If I don't try
How will I know how far ill fly.
A little while later, Yukina stopped singing with an interruption from Rei. "Hey, Yukina look!" The black cat meowed.
"Oh it's a town!" Yukina gasped, looked below her. They had arrived to a small forested area right at the base the mountains. Right behind the forest and cut off from the mountains by a large river, was a small town.
Yukina glided her broom down to land in the town square. Rei jumped on her shoulder and she dismounted her broom. The people stared at her as they walked past and she smiled at them. Rei grumbled.
"You know, it's not nice to stare." Rei said pointedly. Of course, no one but Yukina understood her.
Yukina shushed her cat and walked up to a nice looking lady attending a flower patch.
"Hello ma'am." The green eyed girl said politely. "I was wondering what town this was, and if there were any resident witches."
The lady looked startled. "Oh hello there dear. This is Calcinville, named so because of the Calcin hot springs that run just up the mountains. And, um no, there are no witches. My grandmother used to tell me about one we had, but she left a long time ago."
"Honey!" A brown haired man yelled, running out of the near by house. "Sayn's hurt himself!" He then ran back inside.
"Not again!" The nice lady said, her grey eyes crinkled in worry.
"Is there anything I can do ma'am?" Yukina asked, clutching her broom and bag.
"You're certainly welcome to try." The lady said, running inside quickly. Yukina followed her.
Inside the house, in what looked like a living room, the brown haired man was leaning over a young boy of about ten, whose knee was bleeding. A broken vase on the floor next to him signified the reason.
Yukina assessed the situation and started grabbing things from her bag as the woman gushed in worry.
"Can you get me a damp washcloth?" She said quickly, kneeling down next to the boy. The brown haired man looked at the nice lady in confusion. The lady shrugged and the man went to the kitchen. "And clean up the glass, please, we don't need any more injuries." The lady rushed off to get a broom and dustpan.
"Here you go." The man came back, handing Yukina at soaking wet washcloth. Yukina shook her head with a sigh, but took it, squeezing the excess water out of it. She used it to wipe of the blood from the boy's knee. The boy himself just watched her silently with unseeing blue eyes.
"I need some tweezers, there's some glass in the wound." Yukina said. The man paled, but rushed off. The lady finished cleaning up the glass and came beside Yukina.
"I'm sorry, I know this isn't the best time to ask. But do you know what to do?" The lady asked, worry clear on her face.
"It's just a simple cut. Besides for the glass, it's not much of problem." Yukina said. "Besides, I've been trained by the doctor at my old village." She grabbed the tweezers from the man as he arrived and set to work clearing out the wound. "Rei, can you grab the herb bag." She said.
The black cat, who had just been sitting watching by Yukina's stuff, meowed in response and shuffled through her pack.
As Rei handed her the bag, she grabbed some pinion pine needles and smushed them in her fingers. Cut cleaned, her applied the squashed needles. "This will numb it." She explained. "It's not deep enough that you will need stitches, but you will have to have it constantly wrapped for a couple days." She securely wrapped a linen bandage around the boy's knee and stood up.
"Thank you miss." The brown haired man said gratefully.
"Yukina. And it was no problem." She said, whipping her hands off with the clean parts of the washcloth. The lady took it from her and deposited it in the kitchen sink quickly.
"Well Yukina, we are very grateful. I'm Iino and this is my wife, Shiko, and our son, Cayn." The brown haired man introduced his family.
"Thank you." Cayn said, eyes staring off into the distance.
Rei coughed and Yukina smiled. "This is my black cat, Rei." Rei did a little cat bow. "Anyways, what happened?"
Iino and Shiko exchanged glances. "Cayn is blind." Shiko said. "And he has so much energy, he ends up running into things."
"Well do you have a cain or something?" Yukina asked Cayn, including him in the conversation. The boy look a little surprised.
"No. What would I do with that, I'm not old." He said, a little defensive.
"No no, you use it by swipping it out in from of you on the ground. If it hits something, you know something is there." Yukina said.
"I never thought of that." Iino said.
"That's a good idea, thank you again!" Shiko said, looking thoughtful.
Yukina frowned. "Your town healer should have suggested it. It's a common thing now a days." She said.
"We don't have a town healer." Iino said.
"I have an idea! You could do it!" Shiko said.
"Me?" Yukina blushed, now that the crisis was over, she was back to being a 13 year old.
"Yes! Great idea! There's an empty house at the edge of town for sale. You could open up a clinic!" Iino said.
"Well I do have a little savings." Yukina said. Rei looked exited as well.
"This may work Yukina!" Her cat said, not wanting to travel anymore.
"Cool! I want onee-san to be my healer!" Cayn said, smiling cutely.
"Okay, I'll do it!" Yukina decided. Rei and the family cheered.
After a couple of good byes, Yukina and Rei got back the broom and soared over the city.
"It says it's here." Yukina said, studying the directions Iino had written for her. She landed in front of a two story house. It was pretty, and not super huge. Like a cottage, complete with a white gate that opened up to the front yard. The house itself was a pale red color with green shutters.
"I like it." Rei said. Yukina nodded her approval.
"Are you looking to buy this house?" A voice from behind her made Yukina spin around. An old man was staring at her oddly.
"Uh, yes. Are you the owner?" Yukina asked. The old man nodded, his white hair gleaming in the sun.
"My niece used to live there before she left to go live with her boyfriend in the next town." He explained. "It's still in good shape, with furniture and plenty of firewood stacked up in the back. My niece used it as a store, so the bottom is completely cleared out, though. All the living stuff, except the kitchen, is upstairs."
"That's perfect. I wanted to open up a healer's clinic." Yukina said. The old man looked surprised, then he noticed her broom and Rei.
"Oh, are you a witch? You're awfully young." He said, but left it at that. "My name is Hamano. And you are?"
"Yukina, and this is Rei." The auburn haired girl introduced her self and her cat quickly.
"Okay Yukina. Would you like to tour the house?" Hamano asked. Yukina nodded.
A little while later, the house was bought. Yukina unpacked her measly belonging in the single bedroom upstairs. Then she and Rei set out for the town, in need of supplies. The house may already have furniture, but not any food, plus she needed to build a sign or something to tell people about the new business.
Luckily for the green-eyed girl, the town wasn't actually that far from her house, especially by broom. She would have probably walked, but she needed people to know that she was a witch. Hopefully that would get the people to trust her more, though it may have the opposite effect.
"Hey Yukina! Are you happy?" Rei asked, observing the town below.
"Yeah!" Yukina answered. "I can't wait!"
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LadySakura: That's the end of this chapter.
Rei: Boring!
Yukina: It will get more intresting next chapter -blush-
LadySakura: How do you know?
Yukina: I read the notes for it.
Rei: Sneaky.
LadySakura: -sigh- Just review and you shall see what she means.