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Well, of COURSE, don't own anything that belongs in the games, books, movies, and whatever else characters I have in here. Only Rose and all that crap!

Chapter XXVII: Some Planning

Rose's P.O.V.

"Owwww..." I quietly said as I come back to the village and sit down on the ground, after perhaps three hours of training with Ax. I am VERY sore...

"Something run ya over?" Ebony laughs as I suddenly flop backwards, to lay on the grass.

"Shut up..."

"Heh he, I think you overdid it with the training. Who was the partner?"

"Ax..." I mumble as the said person walks past to go to his 'Prince' Jake.

"Ohhh, I'd be tired, too! His tail would kill me, actually," she laughs loudly. I only roll my eyes at her before closing them, sighing.

'Sheesh, some friend she is... Eh, whatever, I'd probably say the same thing to her,' I thought as I shake my head mentally. 'Though she SHOULD be showing some sympathy... Gah, my back still stings from that dragon's attack, even if it IS healed...'

"Say Rose," Mokuba said as he appears out of nowhere and sits down nearby, "what do you think of what to do next?"

"I don't know... I'm just waiting for some sign..." I said, partly joking. But at the same time, that's actually what I'm waiting for. Hmph, see how stupid I can be...?

"Uh, okay, whatever," he said with a laugh. "In some ways, you're like my brother. But not at the same time. And that's a good thing, we don't need TWO Seto's!"

"Heh, isn't that the truth...?" I said with a weary chuckle. "Anyways... How weird is this adventure to you?" I ask as I look at him with one eye barely opened.

"Oddly enough, it isn't TOO surprising. I've faced a bunch of weird things in my life with just the Duel Monsters," he said. Ebony laughs quietly, being that she and I know of those adventures. "And I still love your wings! They're soft," he adds while he laughs.

"I know, aren't they?" Ebony said as she tugs on one of them, making me groan in annoyance.

"I'm tired, yet the BOTH of you decide to pick on meeeeee..." I whine, cracking the both of them up.

"Oi! What's with the griping over here?" Inuakki demands while he perches on the nearby log that's near Ebony.

"Don't YOU get on my case, bud..."

"Live a little, Rose, c'mon!" Ebony said with a loud laugh.

"Let me rise from the dead first..." I grumble while sitting up.

"See, SEE?! She HAS HUMOR! HALLELUJAH, PEOPLE!" she yells out while giving a bone-crushing hug... around my neck!

"EBONY! Choking, not breathing!" I yell out while trying to get out of her grasp.

"Interesting, my little nephew..." we hear behind us. I lean my head back (as soon as I got OUT of Ebony's Hug of Death) to see Sesshomaru there. "How can your patience withstand these strangers' strange activities and behaviors?"

"It's quite easy," Ebony said as Inuakki said at the same time, "What'cha mean?"

I can only shake my head slightly while laying back down again, eyes closed once more. I got nothing to say, being that I am not the old me. The old me would have said something like, "Fluffy-sama! Hi!" But, the old me's dead. Ding-dong, the old one's dead... My hand suddenly smacks where an itch was at on my neck, and I pull my hand away to see an tiny, flat flea...

"Ouchies... A flea gets no respect around here," it said.

"..." I don't say anything as Myoga pops back into 3D shape.

"Myoga, you were to remain with Jaken," Sesshomaru said with no annoyance in his voice at all.

"Sorry, Master Sesshomaru, but I had to come see the cheetah being for myself," the flea said as he looks at the Lord of the West.

'Waaaaiiiiit a minute now... How the HELL did he end up working with Sesshomaru? I though he HATED the guy!' I thought as Myoga jumps up a few times to take a better look at me.

"A talking flea! Now I've seen everything!" Mokuba said in disbelief.

"On the contrary, you haven't," Ebony said with a laugh. Apparently, Sesshomaru doesn't scare her.

"The blood doesn't lie, she's a cheetah," Myoga declares, making me sigh in some annoyance.

"And why does that surprise you?" I said at last.

"I only tasted this sort of blood before, and that was a LONG time ago! The blood, in which, belonged to the great woman warrior, Rose LifeMaster! And there hasn't been another cheetah since that time, when she suddenly disappeared from this world in a flash," he ends with a mystic sort of voice.

"...Dammit, her damn legacy follows me EVERYWHERE!" I semi-shout while sitting up, both annoyed as hell and now interested in why the hell they returned to really see if I'm a cheetah youkai or not.

"Rosie's not very happy," Ebony laughs while everyone else gives me a strange look.

"I can SHOW you not happy," I growl slightly. "Gah..."

"Soooo what's with the visit, anyways?" Inuakki asks while looking over at Sesshomaru.

"As you know of the new threat, he has sounded, even the nerve of showing up in my lands, at my castle. He demands for the hand-over of the cheetah," Sesshomaru said. This makes me straighten up and tense.

"What for!" I said. "Trouble follows me everywhere! What the effing hell!"

"Calm down, Rose," Ebony said while placing a hand on my shoulder. "Sheesh, you should know by NOW that things with you ain't normal anymore. But yeah, I agree with her, what for?" she said to Sesshomaru. By this time, the others were now close by, listening. "Oh, and Rose, unclench your fist, I think you're both squishing and suffocating poor Myoga."

"...opps," is all I can say while opening my hand that still has the flea in it. "Sorry..."

"Quite alright, I've put up with worse abuses from Master InuYasha," he said as he rubs his face, breathing once more. "But as Master Sesshomaru was saying, because of the history of the woman warrior, who I am pretty sure is your great-great-great-great grandmother - "

"Yes, she is..."

" - as well as some tip-off about the powers of what she held, he believes that he can take them as his own for some purpose. Of course, only if you have what she had, in power-wise."

"...Do I even wanna know how he'd take them away from me?" I said with a flat-toned voice.

"There are several different ways, though the most common ones is to use a curse and drain them that way, or absorb you into his body, as the hanyou Naraku has done during InuYasha's time," Myoga answers.

"I just HAD to ask..." I pull out the letter that started my new life, unfolding it gently and reading it. "...well, as it says here, I am more powerful than she and the rest of the Life Mages put together..." 'Yeah, suuuuurrrrrre... NOT... I'm still sure that they got the wrong Rose.' "...whatever, but it's for certain that I'm NOT gonna hand myself over to some villain," I said as I shake my head.

"Precisely why we have an idea of what to do with this situation," Myoga said. I just noticed that he does all the talking while Sesshomaru lets him. He must be the 'talker', replacing Jaken of that job. Can't really blame the guy for doing that, though... Jaken's really annoying...

I can only raise an eyebrow.

"Oh really...? Somehow, I'm suspecting that it involves me being the bait... Or something among those lines..."

"Very good! Then this explanation shouldn't take long at all!"

"Wait'da minute, yo!" Joey said while raising and waving his hand around for some attention. "He wants her, and you wanna use 'er as the bait? Isn't that jus' a lil' risky to do?"

"Oh, but that's what makes this a very good plan! He only demands for her to be handed over to him, but he didn't say anything about her not attacking back!"

"HEY! Now I got something to add here!" I exclaim. "I don't know the limits to my powers, and I don't know just what they are, either! I can barely stop when I run fast, and what can I do, if I don't know how to attack?"

"...This DOES causes some problems. But surely, you knew of your powers! Who taught you so poorly?"

"MYSELF! Ebony, how LONG did I have my wings and all that crap?"

"Uh, like three or five weeks now," she said.

You lay everything down thick and hard, Rine comments. Apparently, she 'reawakened' now. I haven't heard from her since we woke up on the world of Final Fantasy VII, so I guess she eventually fell asleep or something.

"Wow, you're split in half of yourself and Rine," Ebony said with a laugh.

"Huh?"

"Yeah, what'cha talkin' about?" Cid said. Ebony looks complex, then laugh.

"Must've seen it with imagination," she said with a shrug. "But Rose had that blank sort of look, so she's talking with Rine."

"Oh yeah, Rine," Yugi said. "Hey! How about Rine takes over and do the attacking in place of Rose?"

"How will that work?" Sesshomaru said with some demand in his voice.

"Easy, they just switch spirits in the body."

"Say wha?" Huro said while leaning on her guitar. "I don't follow."

"You have to hang wit' us more often to know," Triston said with a small laugh.

"What's so frickin' FUNNY about this situation...?" I grumble quietly. I think only Ebony and Myoga heard it, since everyone didn't give heed to it.

They do make a point, anyhow. I know what to do with the powers, being that apparently, you're the incarnation of me.

'I know, I know...'

"This calls for some revising of words, and the plan, but we're getting somewhere," Myoga said while some of the people starts throwing ideas into the plan...

YAYIES! I made another chappie! Sorries about the wait, but believe it or not, I had to start all OVER with this chapter! And, being that I was pissed about not able to work on the original one, I didn't work on it until now. But yeah, now you know!