<span style='color:purple'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Chapter One: Where is the Tendou Dojo?</span></span>
"So...this is Tokyo" spoke Sayo allowed as she stepped of the train
"I'm finaly here...took me long enough to get over from China"
She looked around the station and sighed
*Even so...the Jusenkyo Guide didnt give me directions, just an address....o well, maybe I can ask someone where this Tendou Dojo is*
She began walking around the station but everyone she spoke to had no idea where the dojo was.
*This is just great...I get all the way to japan, and when I finaly get here, I cant find the dam dojo*
She sat down for a moment to ponder her siuation, Sayo never really was much for traveling and she was really tired.
After about 20 minuites of thinking she came to the same conclusion she had made just after getting of the train.
*I have to find someone that knows where this dojo is...its my only hope*
She sighed and begugingly picked up her bags.
*Why did I have to bring so much stuff???*
Another hour or so had passed and she had found her way out of the train station. She had decided to look by herself...which was looking to be just as sucksesful as asking at the station.
After a little longer her stomach began to mone at her
*Ahh...I need a chocolate fix..*
She looked around for a moment and suddenly spided an offlicance
*May as well get something...all the good wondering around is doing...*
She entered the shop and was met with a older lady mind fall, holding a bucket of water, the contents of which headed her way
With a rather loud scream, Sayo tryed to jump out of the way, but the water, which she realed was stone cold, hit her full pelt
She landed orquadly on the floor, her bags landing on top of her
*O great...the perfect end to a perfect*
The old lady that had triped stood up and servayed the mass that was now Akane on the floor.
"O you poor dear! I am so sorry! Please, here, let me help you up"
The old lady walked over to Sayo and helped her to return to her feet.
Sayo suddenly spided her arm and felt the end of short strands of hair on her face.
*I transformed again?? Hum, I dont think the old lady saw me before she tripped, she isn't freaking out...I guess I got away with it*
Sayo scratched her head "Thats no problem. Its seems water is drown to me these days"
* A quark of this curse HE managed to forget to mention, stupied old man*
Her eyes closed at the thought of the guide, and she felt her fists clench.
"My dear...please, as an applogy you can have anything you like from my store for free"
Sayos anger quickly faded as she remebered she really wanted some chocolate
"I could really go for some chocolate" she spoke, with a cheery grin returning to her face
The old lady patted the girl on the shoulder
"Your wish is my commanded dear, please, take what you want. I am again very sorry about the water"
The old lady smiled as Sayo walked over to a conture to look at what treats where on offer.
*This is very generus of her...I better not get greedy*
She took two bars of choclate from the counter.
"If its ok, I'll just take these"
"Are you sure dear...you can take more if you like"
"Its ok, this is more than enought, thank you"
Sayo's grin grew even bigger, chocolate was definaly HER weakness
"Ok then dear, at least let me get you a towal, I dont want you to catch a cold"
A few moments passed when Sayo finaly energed from th store, bone dry.
She let the door close, turned, and promptly ran into someone who had been walking past the shop.
She somehow managed to hold onto the canvas bag holding all her wolrdly possentions.
She bowed, mortified. "I'm so sorry! Please forgive me!"
"No harm done, Miss. Maybe you can help me; is this Tokyo? I'm looking for the Tendou Dojo."
Sayo kepted her head lowered as her eyes snaped opened in suprise
*The Tendou Dojo....?*
Ryouga Hibiki regarded the young lady who had run into him
*Hum...she looks kind of familaer, I cant tell with her head bowned like that though*
She was taking an awfully long time to rise from her bow. "Miss? Are you all right?"
The girl took a deep breath, and suddenly began to laugh softy, and finally straightened up.
"You know, I'm looking for that Dojo to, maybe we can look togther"
Ryouga blinked; she was smiling at the irony of the situation she was in, but Ryouga misread it as something else.
He appeared so overwhelmed that it took a few seconds for him to reply.
Sayo looked at him blanky
"Are you ok?"
"A-Akane?!"
His face softanded and a huge grin formed on his face
Sayo still looked at him blanky until she rembered she was still in her cursed form...the form of this stanger 'Akane'
*O no... I didnt even consider I'd run into someone that knew her...*
Ryouga's eyes where shaking and were moast
"O Akane! I've missed you!"
He threw his arms around 'Akane'
"Its been almost a month this time! I never thought I'd make it back to Tokyo this time!"
Sayo was a little uneasy at this embrace
*O great...I'm being glomped by a total stranger who thinks I'm someone else*
"O Akane! I Ryouga Hibiki have missed you!"
*Ryouga Hibiki? O well, at least I know his name now...*
She tryed to push Ryouga softly from this embrace
"Um...Ryouga right? Um, would you get of me"
Ryouga suddenly froze, his whole body tenced up, making Sayo jump
"A-A-A-Akane....I...I um....o"
He let go of 'Akane' and looked down at his fingers has as he twiddled them
"I-I-I'm so-orry Akane"
Sayo now felt a little bad for this Ryouga, after all, it was her folt this situation even existed, and she didnt know what kind of realtionship Ryouga and Akane shared
She took a deep breath, she would probly regreate later what she was about to do, but guilt wounlnt let her do anything else
"I'm sorry...Ryouga, but you just startled me...I didnt mean to push you away"
She gluped and was shaking slightly as she forced a smile to her face, she was trying to look cute, at this 'Ryouga's' reaction to being pushed away she figured he and Akane might be dating or something. She didnt inted to mess up Akane's love life when she was the only hope she had of being normal again.
Ryouga looked at her for a moment then whispered
"Akane...."
Sayo opened her eyes to see Ryouga looking down at the ground, she suddenly took a little step forward
*is he...crying?*
Ryouga clenched his fist and was shaking still, his face covered by his hair
"O Akane..Youve made me so happy!"
He rose from his glum posture, tears in his eyes and he dived at 'Akane' again.
He tryed to catch her in another embrace, this time passinalty, but Sayo's insints took over and she ducked.
Ryouga, with no Akane to stop him, went flying over her head into the shop.
Sayo tured around, her face in full blush
*Ok...I didnt mean to do THAT!*
The door closed after Ryouga had gone threw, but Sayo suddenly heared a splash of water and the old lady scream
"O no! Not again!"
Sayo burst into the shop, expecting to see Ryouga lying soaking on top of the old lady, but insted found a dreached piglet crawling out of his cloths, and the old lady out cold on the floor holding an empty bucket.
"What happend??" yelled Sayo
Ryouga suddenly froze, and tured his little head to face 'Akane'
*O no...she-she'll find out I'm P-Chan*
The little pig began to run away as fast as its leg could carry it.
Sayo, somewhat institly and on intuition, ran towards the pig and scopped it up, quickly stuffing it in her bag she was still holding.
*so...he's a Jusenkyo victom to...dont worry, I wont let the old lady see you like this...*
She suppoed up Ryouga's cloths and stuffed them in his back, then pushed it out of the door
Quickly pusing her own bag with the pig in it outside, she ran over to the old lady, helping her up
"Are you ok?" she asked
The old lady began to come around and looked up at the caring face of someone she reognised
"O my dear...look at you, your wet again...dont tell me I soaked you again.."
Sayo smiled at this remark
*What a sweat old lady*
"No, dont worry. You did trip again, but I was outside. I heared you scream and came to see if you where ok"
She was not lying persay, but it still felt bad to decive this nice old lady, but she wanted to protect a fellow Jusenkyo victom.
She helped the old lady to her feet
"O thank you dear, I'm sorry to cause you so much trouble"
*you dont know the half of it*
"Its ok. Will you be ok?"
The old lady noded
"Ok, well...I better get going...thanks for everything" *and I'm sorry* she added mentaly.
"No problem dear, you make sure you come back soon"
Sayo left the shop again and fell to the floor, sighing with relfe
"Few...didnt think I'd get away with this a second time...that old lady isnt very observant"
She looked over at her canvas bag which held the black piglet she had just picked up
"O boy..."
She walked over and knelt down, unzipping the bag.
The little black pigelt had its eyes closed and was cluded up into tight ball, she could her it... crying?
She gently placed her hands around the little shaking mass and brought it out if the bag
P-chan looked up at 'Akane' with shaky eyes
*Please A-Akane...forgive me*
Akane looked indiferently at the little pig, which made Ryouga stare at her
*Theres only two ways I expected her to react...pound me if she knew...or hug me if she didnt*
"Bweee" escaped his snot
"So, your a Jusenkyo victom to" she said, then a smile formed on her face.
P-chan looked genraly suprised
*she...doent mind?*
'Akane' closed her eyes and placed the pig on the floor.
"I guess this makes things a little easer to expain to you"
The girl stood up and lifted her canvas bag, pulling out a flask
"I came prepered."
She shuck the flask "Hot water"
The pig tilted its head sideways
*Did she...already know??*
The pig began to blush
'Akane' walked over to him and picked him up again
"I guess you'd rather change back somewhere more...privet"
She placed P-Chan on her shoulder and walked over to Ryouga's pack, lifting it up and placing it over her other shoulder
*Hum, this form has its advantages I guess...this Akane is freakisly strong*
After a while P-Chan found himself on the floor of a girls tolites, he was blusing no end
'Akane' walked over to him and opened the beaker.
*O no! She's...going to see me...NAKED*
P-chan closed his eyes and flinched, waiting for the hot water, he heared the splash he was expecting but felt noting.
He slowly opened one eyes and looked twowards 'Akane'.
Both eyes shot open at the sight he saw, there, where Akane had been but a monet ago, stood a soaking wet girl with long brown hair.
He looked at her confused for a moment, wondering what had happned to Akane when he realsed this girl was weaing the exact same cloths she was.
He stood up with a start and began to squaler something ilegable at her
She swiflty purded the remaing hot water over the pigs head, turning red as the now naked Ryouga sat before her.
They both stared at each other for a few minutes when Sayo remembered her place, quickly turning around.
"I'm...i'm sorry" she spoke
The push Ryuga's bag towards him with her foot
"Your cloths are in there..."
Ryouga quickly placed the bag over himself, protecting his mondisty, his face was crimson
"W-Who are you???" he yelled as he quickly began to re-dress himself
The girl sighed
"Are you dressed?"
"Yes..."
She tured around to see Ryouga looking at her, his face a mixture of embracemnt and anger on his deep red face
She blsuhed at the sight
"To answer your earlyer question, my name is Sayo Aketchi...I've come all the way from China to.."
Ryouga grabbed ahold of her and pulled her towards him
"What are you?? Are you a demon, or perhaps a mirror clone! Speak now! Why where you disgused as Akane"
Sayo frowned as she was being shaken
"Um, would you stop that!"
She then kicked him, making him relase his grip, and noking him to the floor
"Listen you lame brain! I was trying to tell you! I have come all the way from china to..."
"Aha!" he interuopted again, pointing at her
"So, your working for Shampoo!"
Sayo looked at him balnky
"For...Shampoo?"
"Mousse then!"
"Mousse?"
"....colano?"
"Are you making fun of me! I fell in Akaneniichuan at Jusenkyo you idiot!"
Ryouga was silent for a moment
"You fell in....Akaneniichuan?"
"Yes" she sighed,
*Finaly this idiot gets it*
"Then...your here to...why are you hear?"
"The Jusenkyo guide told me that Akane still lived in Japan, I figured she of all people was my best hope to reverse the curse. Nyannichuan didnt work"
Ryouga began to blink in rappided suckession while he was still sat on the floor.
*So...Akaneniichuan is still cursed...and this poor girl just fell in...and came all the way here to find a cure...and I accused her of being a demon...and I..*
He stopped mid thought, a blush forming on his face
*I tryed to kiss her....*
He began to twiddle his thumbs as he contuied to think to himself
*So it wasnt Akane I did all that to...she didnt regect me...or see me turn into P-Chan.,.which means she still doesnt know..*
He looked up at her, relef in his face.
He stood up and bowed to the girl, making her blush
"My name is Ryouga Hibiki. It would be an honour to escort you to the Tendou Dojo, as way of aplogiy for my behavoir towards you earlyer"
Sayo began to smile and was just about to reply when she remebered something
"Wait a minute...didnt you ask ME where the Tendou Dojo was when I bumped into you?"
Ryouga began to blush and scracth his head.
"Ahehe...yea, see, thats the thing...some peole call me the 'Eternal lost boy'...I have the worst sence of direction..."
Sayo stared at him for a moment
"Well, my first offer still stands. I'm looking for that Dojo to, maybe we can look togther"
Ryouga smiled "I'd like that"
"But lets not try to get wet"
Sayo laughed nervusly
"Seems Jusenkyo victom are water magnets"
Ryouga and Sayo stood laughing for a moment until it died down
"Um, Ryouga..."
"Yes?"
"Would you tell me what this Akane is like? I have alot of questions..."
((Check out soon for Chapter Two: The love of Okonomiyaki....before I die!))