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Chapter Four: Two Rocks
Kagome's sneaky efforts appeared to have been futile because the very next morning when Miroku went to check their mail box he found a thick envelope address to them from Uchiha Mikoto. He brought the envelope back along with the junk mail they received. While Sango and Kagome ate their breakfast they watched in amusement and curiosity to what made Miroku's eyes bulge and jaw almost hit the floor.
"Sore wa nan desu ka? [What is it?]" Sango was getting peeved when Miroku wouldn't reply so she snatched the envelope away from him and her reaction was almost identical to Mirkou's. "This must be- iie, it has to be… a mistake."
"Lemme see," Kagome said looking over Sango's shoulder before taking the envelope and moaning. "Mikoto-san tried to give that to me yesterday but I gave it back to her."
"Then… this can't possibly be a mistake…..all this cash- all of it… is for us?" Miroku asked in disbelief before pinching himself on the back of his hand. Yelping when he felt his skin squeezed together he did it a second time to be sure and then once again after that.
"We have to find some way to give it back to Mikoto-san. Wakatta? [Got it?]" Sango decided standing up and placing both her hands on their kitchen table.
"Iie! [No!]" Miroku cried out that money would allow them to buy things that they wanted and support Kagome's insatiable appetite.
"Nani? [What?] And why not?" Sango asked giving Miroku a blank stare.
"It doesn't matter, no use anyway," Kagome groaned holding out a small slip of paper with Mikoto's elegant Uchiha cursive writing on it. "It says, 'If you try and return this I will come over there and give you a lecture and I always have Sasuke-kun as my hostage. There are a bowl and a pair of scissors nearby. Sincerely yours, Uchiha Mikoto. PS. Onegai [please] feel free to visit anytime.' Then she put a couple x's and o's."
"Huh? That…doesn't sound that bad of a punishment," Sango admitted sitting back down in her seat. "And what's with that other part, about the bowl and scissors?"
"Mikoto-san's lectures are long and scary! I heard her giving one to Fugaku-san about spending more time with Sasuke-chan and less time working, Fugaku-san is a man set like stone and even he was defeated by Mikoto-san's words," Kagome explained, "And I don't know about the Sasuke-kun part, I should ask him."
"Well then I guess we can't return it! Wouldn't want to endanger poor Sasuke-chan and hear that lecture from Mikoto-sama would we?" Miroku said grabbing the money while he set it all out on the table along with the other left over cash the Sandaime had given them.
Sango leaned her head in the palm of her hand, rolling her eyes at Miroku who was busy counting out the money. Once Miroku had finished he divided the money out into three equal parts and pushed the two piles out of the way. Kagome tilted her head to the side when Miroku recounted the remaining money pile out the sat there for a moment drumming his fingertips against the table before taking that pile and made three equal piles with it.
"This one is for emergencies, this one is for groceries and these ones are our own spending money which we can choose to spend any which why we want. However we have to make sure we make it last," Miroku dictated at he pointed to the piles quickly digging through one of the boxes Mikoto had left with them previously he pulled out a bamboo looking cylinder, which he placed the emergency money in and a beat up looking red pouch he put the grocery money. "I've never been so happy! Money, moooooooney, monnneeeeyyyy!"
"Kagome let's just ignore him," Sango said picking up her pile of cash fiddling with the corner of one of the notes. "I can't believe we're going to start at the shinobi academy tomorrow, it feels just like yesterday we were just fixing up this place."
"Un it does," Kagome agreed before taking her cut of the money and getting up from the table she went into her room she came back out without it. "I'm going to see what Naruto-chan is doing does anyone want to come with me?" Receiving head shakes in the negative Kagome ventured out into the hallway alone.
"Who is it?" Naruto grumbled as a knock on his door disturbed him from pouring a bowl of cereal. He never had any visitors.
"Naruto open up its Kagome." The voice said from outside his door.
"Kagome?" He wondered what she wanted with him, complaining to himself as he got up from his table he unlocked the door.
"So what happened after you got caught?" Kagome asked curious to know what happened when someone got caught. Her imagination ran wild, "Did they coat your entire body with honey then throw you into the forest? Force you to drink a gallon of prune juice? Put ants in your pants? How about shoving so many marshmallows into your mouth until you couldn't breathe? Tickle you with a feather?"
"Iie! The old man just wanted to know why I was disturbing the villagers he just rubbed his wrinkly face with his hand and told me to stop. Then he reminded me that the academy starts tomorrow before letting me go," Naruto said in between shoving big spoonfuls of cereal into his mouth. Spitting everywhere when he spoke, luckily for Kagome ducked just in time. With determination burning in his eyes he jumped up onto his table and stood there in a heroic looking position with his chest puffed out and hands on his waist. "I'm gunna prove myself to all the other kids at the academy, they'll worship and praise me for my skills."
"Ganbatte [You can do it] Naruto!"
"I hope we're put in the same class Kagome," Naruto then started to feel panicky. He liked the feeling he got inside of him when he was around her, it was peaceful. "Ano, but what if we aren't put in the same class- you....you'll make other friends and they'll steal you away from me."
"Mou, Naruto I promised you before that I'll always be friends with you and I don't break my promises!" Kagome reassured Naruto slinging her arm over his shoulder. "Now let's get Sango and Miroku and go do something fun!"
"Arggggh! I just can't stand him!" Sango briskly paced around the Konoha training area with her fists clenched together tightly as she vented out her frustrations to Kagome. "He thinks he better than everyone else, staring at me like-like as if I was some sort of baka [idiot] to low to be in his presence! So what if he received the highest marks out of all the students in his year, last year. Urgh! You know what? I'm going to take his title away and show that arrogant Hyuuga, Neji just who the real baka is! Just because he belongs to the Hyuuga clan doesn't mean he can go around treating people like dirt. Pfft, prodigy and genius my ass he's a yarou [jerk]."
They all had been attending the academy for more than three months now their report cards were due to come home with them any day now. Sango had found a rival in Neji, it made her sick to know that he had a fan-club; girl's swooned at the mere sound of his voice and threatened to beat anyone up who dare touched their precious 'Neji-kun'. Growling under her breath Sango punched and kicked the wooden training log until it was heavily dented from all the abuse. Then pulling Hiraikotsu off her back she swung the massive weapon forward and it sliced cleanly through the entire length of the training log, straight down the center. Standing there her chest heaving from anger and the sudden exertion she ripped Hiraikotsu out from the split wood sending a shower of wood chips everywhere.
The small girl waited for Sango to get the anger out of her system and be there for her when she needed to spew out insults about some guy she had met at the academy called Neji. Kagome thought the academy was interesting, she was happy that she was in Sasuke's class but at the same time she was also sad that she wasn't in Naruto's. She liked the academy; she was excited to be meeting new people and she liked learning about chakra. She even got to see Sasuke's chakra in action. It was when she had gone to the Uchiha compound one day after school wanting to know if he wasn't busy, so they could play together, but when she got there he was blowing fire out of his mouth!
"Katon goukakyuu no jutsu [Grand Fireball]." Sasuke called out after sucking as much air as he could into his mouth and once he had completing the hand sequence his father had taught him a couple of days ago, putting his hand to his mouth he blew as hard as he could.
"Sugoi desu [You are amazing] Sasuke-chan!" Kagome exclaimed after rubbing her eyes, it must have been from the heat, it was making her eyes dry and made her entire body all warm from the heat radiating off of the massive ball of flames.
"Iie, it is still too small it needs to be bigger!" Sasuke rubbed his singed chin with the back of his hand before executing the exact same hand sequence again. "Katon goukakyuu no jutsu!" Another fireball burst from Sasuke's mouth slightly bigger than the previous one. 'I have to withhold the chakra in my chest longer before I blow it out, alright here it goes.'
All she remembered, as she was forced to snap back into the present by the sound of Sango yelling, was that the last ball of flames Sasuke had produced had to have been the most impressive one that irrupted from his mouth. Once her mind was back in the present she let the confusion show on her face as Sango was waving her hands in the air yelling something to her.
"Abunai [Watch out] Kagome!" Sango yelled again to the young girl who just sat there looking rather confused as sound of beating wings assaulted her ears, the grass they stood on swayed in the strong gust as a shadowy form blocked the sunlight from above them.
The words rapidly sunk into Kagome's skull and registered in her brain because soon after she managed to roll away just in time, prior to a large niwatori [chicken] looking monster landed right where she had been sitting. It had leathery bat like wings protruding from its white feathery body, three pairs of glowing green eyes, razor sharp notches in its beak and it laid a large single olive green egg that rolled away and immediately started hatching. Keeping her eyes glued to the egg she watched from the corner of her eyes as Sango swung Hiraikotsu at the clucking mass.
"Let go you overgrown chicken!" Sango yelled insulting the strange creature as she wrestled to get her precious Hiraikotsu back from what she had assessed to be a niwatori youkai [chicken demon] beak. From birth she had been taught about every kind of youkai that existed and what their bones where good for making. Tori youkai [bird demons] had hollow bones they where good for making projectile weapons.
Pieces of egg shell flew everywhere kicking up a cloud of dust making it hard to see as the monster inside broke out of belching out a deafening shriek as it spotted its first meal, a small child with blue eyes. Acid drool dripped from the monster's mandible and sizzled on the ground as it thought of how delicious the ningen [human] was going to taste. Using both its sharp clawed hands it reached out to grab the girl only to have her dodge both attacks, receiving two claws full of dirt instead. Hungry and frustrated the konchuu youkai [insect demon] double its efforts in a desperate frenzy to nourish itself.
Kagome thought it was just weird that a niwatori, though it was a hundred times bigger than a regular chicken and looked strange (but she was sure she had seen weirder) gave birth to a konchuu [insect]. She was jumping all over the place trying to avoid the pincers that aimed to crush her body in between the jagged surface. Kagome was not carrying any weapons on her except the three keys she kept around her neck, one from Mikoto to get into the Uchiha's house, one was to her house and the last one was the spare key that Naruto had given her to his apartment. She highly doubted the small brass objects would do harm to the armoured body of the konchuu. Jumping to the right she avoided the right pincher, which got stuck in the dirt, but she had to jump out of the way again her finger tips brushing against the ground as she slid backwards narrowly avoiding being crushed by the left pincher.
"Hey, are you alight?!" Sango called out using her peripheral vision to make sure nothing bad had happened to Kagome. Sango suddenly turned around, still holding onto Hiraikotsu, to kick the niwatori in the side of its head a third time, letting out a grunt as she finally freed her giant boomerang weapon.
"Un! This is actually fun," Kagome said as she jumped back to dodged another one of the konchuu's attacks. However she got distracted by Sango's grunt and stopped to look at Sango who was currently using Hiraikotsu to shield her body from the niwatori's sharp beak. "Itai! [Ouch!]" She hissed stepping back as one of the konchuu's pincers nicked the left side of her face drawing blood.
When she stepped back Kagome didn't realize she was putting her foot into one of the holes the konchuu had made. Her right foot was really jammed deep into the hole in the ground. She did everything she could as she tried to get her foot loose. Kagome really didn't want to have to get a wooden stick leg then she'd have to hobble around for the rest of her life looking like a pirate! With that image in her mind she tugged harder on her limb then she tried to use the ground as leverage to get her foot out, but it just wouldn't budge. The ground shook as the konchuu youkai ran towards her its arms were back. It could see that this time its prey was stuck and wouldn't be able to get away. Mandibles that looked like an ant's only two hundred times bigger headed straight towards her ready to shred through her body.
'Was this really the end for her? To be killed by some giant stupid konchuu youkai what a pathetic way to die.' Kagome closed her eyes waiting for the impact barely heard Sango screaming at her to get out of the way. Her eyes then flew open 'Iie! She couldn't die. People needed her to live…she wanted to live!' Determination and adrenaline flowed through Kagome's entire body, her blue eyes narrowed and she held both her hands out in front of her as she tried to relax and summon her chakra to protect herself. She had done it in class with the other kids, hers was this abnormal blackish color.
Sango threw Hiraikotsu severing both of the niwatori youkai's wings, causing it cluck angrily before chasing after her threatening to peck her eyes out. Using the niwatori's head as leverage she used it as a step as she propelled herself into the air to catch Hiraikotsu. While in the air Sango watched as Kagome just sat there as the konchuu youkai ran towards her. "Kagome! You have to get out of the way, what are you doing just sitting there?! Get out of the way!" The niwatori's clucked turning is head and grabbing Sango by the leg slamming the ningen into the ground as she tried to get away to help the younger ningen. "You dumb pile of feathers, let go of my leg!" Using Hiraikotsu to protect her stomach and chest from any possible attacks she used her other foot to kick the niwatori's three eyes.
Once free Sango quickly stood up and brought Hiraikotsu down cleanly severing the head straight off. She still had time to save Kagome, who sat there holding her hands out in front of her trying to protect herself. Sango ran as fast as she could only to have the body slammed to the side as the giant feathery body of the niwatori hit into her. Its head lay on the ground still decapitated as its body ran all over the place-headless. She wanted to smack herself in the face, how could she have missed its jugular vein? Grabbing Hiraikotsu she threw it so pin wheeled cutting the niwatori completely in half but got lodged into the trunk of a tree. There was no time to retrieve it she'd have to get it later. Turning back to where Kagome was Sango found that she had lost her voice and couldn't yell as her knees buckled below her body. She couldn't do anything but watch what was about to happen next.
The strangest sensation flowed through Kagome's body as she had been able to summon brilliant light pink 'chakra' in order to protect herself. It came out in one enormous blast completely disintegrating the konchuu youkai leaving only a pile of ashes where it had been. Kagome sat there breathing heavily looking at the palms of her hands in disbelief. Had she- really done that? But why wasn't it the normal blackish color, how come it came out all weird and pink? It didn't feel anything like when she used her chakra in class.
Many miles far away secluded high in the mountains, away from civilization a brown eye opened from meditation, it had been-?! The eye closed again and the figure breathed heavily opening the eye again. Yes it had been, this one was strong and it had been extremely far away. In the direction of- taking out a roll of parchment paper from its usual place in the wall it was slowly unravelled with a wrinkle old hand. The eye travelled across the map moving a finger until it lay on Konohagakure [Village hidden in the leaves]. The hunched figure had decided to embark to Konoha gritting its teeth noticing that the pain was growing, getting much worse as time went by. Closing the brown eye again it remembered how the reiki had felt- such pure power. The figure hobbled around gathering supplies and papers needed for this journey. With everything packed the person threw on a black cape then nodded before closing the door behind itself. The last time it had experienced such pure raw power, must have been over a century ago. The figure was sure, had to be.....her-it had to be....Higurashi, Kagome.
Sango had regained control over her legs and ran over to Kagome and instantly started hugging her whispering 'baka' over and over again hugging her tighter each time. With unshed tears in her eyes Sango wiped them away hoping that Kagome didn't notice as she used her hands to help dig Kagome's leg out of the hole. "Why didn't you attack it?"
"I don't have any weapons." Kagome informed Sango as she brushed the dirt off of her pant leg and removed the leg weight (the thing that had made it so Kagome couldn't pull her leg out of the hole in the first place) to shake the dirt out before putting it back on. The ashes had magically been blown away in the wind, leaving no trace of the konchuu's body behind.
Sango got an idea quickly standing up and limping over to the bloody carcass of the niwatori youkai. Sango, brandishing the hidden blade in glove part of her fighting outfit sliced into both the leg parts of the niwatori as Kagome went over to the tree where Hiraikotsu was embedded in. Kagome with her feet firmly planted on the trunk of the tree, using every muscle she had in her body, was able to yank the stubborn weapon out.
"If people come ask what happened let me answer them." Sango said as she grabbed the now free Hiraikotsu from Kagome who nodded and broke the end parts of each of the femurs managing to pull them out, completely undamaged. It took immense skill to remove a youkai's bone from its body, if the person wasn't careful removing the bone it could split, and then it would be useless for the purpose Sango wanted them for. The sound of the villagers running over to the scene of the crime caused Sango to hide the giant femurs, which wasn't exactly an easy task.
Since Sango wasn't particularly talented in molding her chakra she surprised herself when she somehow managed to disguise the two femurs as rocks with one of the jutsus she had learned at the academy. Quickly she tossed the 'rocks' into nearby bush just in time before a horde of villagers arrived along with two scout shinobi which were probably patrolling the area and came to investigate what happened.
The two scouts must have been around sixteen years old one of them had spiky hair and a clean white bandage going across his nose wearing the Konoha hitai-ite [forehead protector] across his forehead. While the other boy only showed one of his eyes his longish brown hair coving his other eye, this boy's chin was covered by his outfit he wore the Konoha hitai-ite more like a hat. They made sure to land in front of all the villagers telling them to keep back as it could be dangerous. The crowd whispered back and forth to each other.
"Just look it is another one of those…..youkai….just what Konoha needs more of those vile beasts." A voice hissed sarcasm thick in the bitter elderly person's throat.
"Did you just say 'youkai'?!" Rose the panicked voice of a 'concerned' more like nosy, villager who questioned the elderly one in front of him.
"That's the girl that's been hanging around that… monster, she must be trouble as well!" An elderly man said holding onto the hand of his young grandson who tried to get closer so he could see what all the adults were looking at.
"Iie! Just look at her, you must be mistaken. That child is clearly Uchiha Mikoto's daughter she's been hiding from the rest of the world, until now. I once saw Mikoto-san and her getting groceries together late in the afternoon!"
"What do you suppose that thing on the ground is?" Another villager asked the person beside him who shrugged uninterested in a conversation. He just came here because he was dragged here because his gossip loving wife didn't want to come alone.
"That girl looks like a Uchiha…. But I've also seen her hanging around the village with that freak and Fugaku-san would never let any of his beloved children close to…that forsaken troublemaking gaki [brat]."
"Who is the girl standing next to the shorter one? There is blood on her face! And what's that she's holding in her hands-it looks like a giant boomerang…covered in more blood!"
"Alright people, onegai [please] for your own safety all of you have to take a giant step back." The one with his chin covered told the gossiping crowd.
"Oi! [Yo!] Both of you, what are your names?" The one with the spiky head of hair asked pointing towards the two girls who stood there trying to look innocent. Lazily glancing over his shoulder he watched as his partner Izumo secured the scene.
"Hmpft, it's rude to ask people their names before giving yours first!" Kagome said crossing her arms and turning around to face the opposite direction.
"Ha ha, my, my Kotetsu where are your manners?" Izumo laughed teasing his friend while he kneeling on one of his knees and slung his arms around the little girl's shoulder with a smile on his face. He noticed that she had a cut on her cheek that must have been a couple days old from the looks of things. "Konichiwa, watashi no namae wa Izumo des [Hello, my name is Izumo] and he's Kotetsu. So may I get your names now?"
"Hai! Watashi wa [Yes! My name is] Higurashi Kagome!" She replied turning back around with a smile on her face giving a small bow low enough to show that she was polite.
"Watashi wa Sakimitama,Sango." Sango said also bowing and really hoped that the two shinobi didn't poke around the bush she had thrown the two niwatori youkai femurs, disguised as rocks, in. She wanted to use them to carve out some weapons from the strong aerodynamic material. Youkai bones were really one of the best materials to carve weapons from. Her father had given her and her brother lessons, in: how to properly care and carve youkai bones, passing on their clan's treasured skills and abilities.
"So can either of you two," Kotetsu stopped himself just in time, his eye twitching violently wanting to call them gakis [brats]. "Tell me why you were here and what happened."
"I can here to train and Kagome decided to come along with me. Then this niwatori-" Gesturing to the remains "-attacked us, so we had to defend ourselves by fighting back, it made all those holes in the ground over there-"
"It wanted to eat us." Kagome added in dramatically.
"-yes it wanted to eat us, so I took Hiraikotsu-" Sango gestured to her bloody weapon, "and cut off its head, but it didn't die and still came after us. It grabbed me by the leg-" she showed them her leg that had jagged bleeding cuts shaped like a triangle "-so in return I kicked it in the eyes making it let go of me. Then I threw Hiraikotsu again this time it cut straight through it and got lodged in that tree over there. Kagome pulled it out just before you guys got here."
"So what was that bright light we saw?" Izumo asked slightly shocked that this eight year old kid- a girl no less- had managed to slay such an impressive beast while wounded. Glancing at the monsters remains he had to agree… it did kind of look like a chicken…a really creepy, headless one. That was starting to give off a really putrid odor.
"When the niwatori died it burst into a bright light, we had to shield our eyes from it." Kagome answered without missing a beat rubbing the back of her head in pretend embarrassment. She had seen Naruto doing this action many times before when he was embarrassed.
"Alright then, that's all. Kotetsu can you carry Sango-chan to the hospital to get her wound checked out while I get some people to clean up this mess."
"Oi! [Yo!] There is no way I'm going to carry this gaki and get her blood all over my brand new uniform, when she can limp perfectly fine," Kotetsu replied snorting before walking off in the direction of the hospital, watching as the nosy villagers started leaving once all the questioning was over. "Come on ikuzou [let's go], I don't have all day."
"Matte [wait]," Sango said feeling rather irritated by this guy's attitude, giving Hiraikotsu a quick clean on the grass she pretending to have even more troubles walking than she really did, as she limped over to him she held Hiraikotsu out to him. "Could you carry this for me, onegai?"
"Mochiron [Sure] whatever, give it here." Kotetsu said waving his hand really not knowing what he was getting himself into. How heavy could it be? The gaki was holding it with one hand. His eyes bulged out of his head when he held the unexpected weight of Sango's weapon. Teetering from side to side not wanting to drop it on his foot by accident Kotetsu fell forward smashing his face into the ground, receiving a big mouthful of dirt.
Suddenly both Sango and Kagome instant recalled a distant memory of a friend they used to have that slammed his face into the ground just like Kotetsu had. Except he had long silver hair and two triangular inu ears perched at the top of his head, he had beautiful gold eyes, wore a red kimono and carried an old beat up sword around. They both felt a tight constriction in their chests. This boy that they had seen had to have done something bad to hurt them. Izumo's laughter at his friend made the memory fade from their minds.
"Urusai na! [Shut the hell up!] Izumo it's not as light as it looks," Kotetsu stated spitting dirt and clumps of grass out of his mouth. So what if he didn't train every day? He was still a fine example of a successful shinobi. "Plus I wasn't ready."
"Wakatta [Got it]," Izumo went silent only momentarily before bursting out in laughter again saying, "I guess I didn't know how much of a weakling my partner was!"
"Fine if you think it's easy to carry, here you can try to carry it." Kotetsu said heaving up the giant boomerang so he could dump it in Izumo's arms.
Izumo found himself repeating the exact same actions as his partner had only carrying it only slightly longer before his face plummeted into the ground. The word 'osuwari [sit]' echoed through Kagome's head as she watched the same mysterious inu eared boy slam his face into the ground, going deeper and deeper into the ground until a crater shaped like his body was left behind. Then a small hand tugged on hers and she looked down to see a young boy with pointy ears, orange hair, fox feet, and a big fluffy tail swaying happily behind him. The name the boy spoke was masked by static like noise '-just never learns does he Kagome?'
"Mou…It's fine I'll carry it," Sango said normally limping over to Izumo who had removed his face from the ground coughing up pieces of grass. She swung the giant weapon over her back with such ease, Izumo's and Kotetsu's eyes grew large from shock, and a shudder passed through their bodies. It was no wonder she killed the monster, how strong was this eight year old- really? "I know the way to the hospital too, so don't bother."
"I bet you didn't know that Sango nee-san is really, really strong." Kagome said giggling a little when she saw the look on their faces.
"Che, you don't say," Kotetsu clicked the tongue to the roof of his mouth as he shook his head trying to remove all the dirt from his hair. "Izumo you clean up here I'll inform Hokage-sama of what happened."
"Whatever." Izumo said dusting himself off feeling embarrassed that an eight year old managed to wield such an impressive weapon while he had struggled just to carry it. He was sure if he had been more prepared he would have been able to carry it just fine. At least that's what Izumo told himself.
He looked at the utterly destroyed training log that had to be restored and sighed. Then something caught his attention- he spotted two rocks sitting near a tree. Determining that they could potentially be dangerous and cause an ankle to be twisted if someone stepped on it- or worse it would be the cause a broken face-if someone happened to fall on it. With a slight shudder his picked up the surprisingly light rocks and was about to toss them in the forest when he felt a small tug on the hem of shirt.
"Ano….Izumo-san," Kagome knew that Sango had wanted the bones from the youkai and she wasn't about to let Sango down not especially after Sango had done so much to disguise them too. "What are you going to do with those rocks?"
"I was going to throw them into the forest they're a hazard to a training shinobi." Izumo answered raising an eyebrow as he stared into the girl's bright blue eyes that searched deep into his brown ones.
"Can I have them? I've always wanted a pet rock, but what's better than one pet rock?"
"Wakaranai [I don't know] a real pet?"
"Iie! You're silly the answer is: two pet rocks are better than one pet rock!" Kagome said as she plucked them out of Izumo's hands before skipping away from him. "We're going to have so much fun, we'll have tea parties and you can come shopping with me. We'll stay up late talking for hours and you guys can even help me cook if you want to that is. What did you say that you'd love to? Oh goodie I'm so excited too I can't wait to bring you two home!"
"Children these days are really weird." Izumo muttered to himself his entire body slackened leaning heavily to the right hand side as he watched the small girl skip off happily chatting to the chunks of sediment. He hadn't noticed that the cut that had been on her face was gone, it had completely healed.
Who do you think the mysterious figure is?
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