Rurouni Kenshin Fan Fiction ❯ Fairen Destiny ❯ Chapter 3

Disclaimer: We all know who owns Kenshin and it certainly isn't me

Hello peoples! New chapter though its sort of an info chapter so kinda boring ( I have explain at least some of the weird stuff that goes on here) and it won't be the last dangit

Ok no one (if anyone) reads this to listen to me so on to the story!

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They had been walking for an hour or so deeper into the forest. Nothing very eventful had happened except a few arguments between Kaoru and Kenshin which Misao would role her eyes at and ignore them. She was waiting for when they'd leave this forest and get to one she was more familiar with.

Kenshin however, had been here before and knew that it wasn't that big a forest and soon they'd come to another village where he could try and get away from these weirdoes.

He was right and could soon see the clearing just before the village. But when they entered the clearing, instead of having kept on walking to the village they stopped in the middle of the clearing when Misao suddenly shot up into air, hovering above the center of the clearing. She took an arrow from her quiver to her bow and aimed straight for the ground.

She let go and the arrow shot toward the ground hitting the earth hard in the center of the clearing. There was suddenly a white light emanating from the arrow and in a flash it covered everything and everyone shielded their eyes from the light. When it disappeared the arrow was replaced by an elegantly crafted door with vines covering its sides and handle and there was a unicorn carving in the door made of gold and ruby eyes that glinted in the light.

Misao flew down to the door and knocked. The unicorn seemed to come alive as it bent its head down starring at Misao and spoke in just above a whisper but was heard clearly and easily in the forest clearing.

"Fairen, why do wish to enter the Naur Taure (fire Forest)?"

"I, Misao, and my companions Kaoru and Kenshin wish to return to Telrunya." The unicorn stared at the three of them for a second longer before returning back to its original position.

"You may pass."

Misao walked through the door followed by Kaoru and Kenshin who had to be pulled by Kaoru since he was gaping at the door. The door slammed shut and disappeared once all three walked through.

Kenshin was really confused now. Naur Taure? Telrunya? He'd never heard of either. And what was a fairen? He had never heard anything about fairens. He was going to ask when he had finally noticed where they were. It was a dark underground passage. He had the impression that if any of them spoke or made to loud a noise here the whole place might cave in.

It was rather dark but Kenshin could still see silhouettes of Kaoru and Misao, whose wings were glowing which was probably why he could see anything at all. He couldn't see an end to the tunnel since there were many turns and twists and many other smaller tunnels branching off of it. Kenshin wondered what made these tunnels and hoped they weren't dangerous or no longer lived there.

Kaoru and Misao seemed to know where they were going and Kenshin just followed since he knew he'd get lost if he tried making his way through all these tunnels on his own. They continued walking, nothing really eventful happening in fact it was rather boring.

Kenshin tried to keep track of all the lefts, rights, twists, and turns but there were just too many. They seemed to be going steadily upward. Finally they came to a door which was hopefully the end of this extremely long underground tunnel.

Misao approached the door, the glow of her wings reflecting off the door reveling it to be the exact same as the previous door except it lacked a unicorn and looked much more worn and faded. Just before she was going to open the door they all heard a distant rumbling that was growing louder as it came closer. As the source of the noise came closer, the tunnel began shaking as if in an earthquake.

Misao leaned against the door to keep from falling over and Kaoru and Kenshin leaned against each other and the wall for support. The source of noise and trembling seemed to be directly overhead when it suddenly stopped. They all heard a loud roar which caused almost as much shaking as when the thing above was moving.

All three were silent looking above them, waiting for whatever was up there to move onward. The thing above seemed to decide to continue moving and the shaking to reoccur and then slowly fade away along with the thundering noise that accompanied it. Kaoru and Misao relaxed when whatever was above seemed to have completely moved on. Kenshin was still tense and looking at the tunnel's ceiling as if expecting the thing from above to return.

Misao turned around to face the other two when a distinct grin slowly appeared on her face and, in vain, she began to stifle the laughter trying to escape her. She quickly started cracking up however at the sight before.

Kaoru and Kenshin looked at her wondering what was so funny when they looked at each other and suddenly realized what was making Misao laugh so hard.

Both Kaoru and Kenshin were still against the wall hugging each other, faces inches apart. They instantly broke apart glaring at each other and muttering about the other. Both their faces were bright red due to their blushing.

Misao was still smiling from her barley contained laughter both and Kaoru and Kenshin turned their glares to her so she would open the dang door already. She opened the door causing light to flood into the darkened tunnels and briefly blinding the three of them. Misao flew out and held the door open for them.

"Come on you two love birds we still have a while to go." They walked out still glaring at Misao, who chose to ignore their glares, was still smiling from the situation, occasionally letting a small giggle escape her.

Kenshin looked around to see where they were. They were in another forest that looked much older than the one they were in previously. It had a slightly dark feel to it, nothing evil but something that put you on guard. He looked to his right and saw a tree that was on fire but wasn't spreading to anything thing else. At first he was alarmed but soon was just starring at it with a look of wonder. He was going to ask why it was burning but decided to keep his mouth shut, making a mental note to ask later. Something about this place made him want to stay very quiet.

Kaoru called over her shoulder "Come on lout don't just stand their all day."

Kenshin noticed Kaoru and Misao were leaving him behind and quickly caught up. "Harpy." "Lout."

They had been walking for hours and it was nearing sun set. They all were getting tired of the non-stop walking. Kaoru finally said something.

"Misao lets stop now please. My feet are killing me. Let's just find somewhere to rest. Please."

"All right. There's a group of trees over there that looks safe. We can rest there." They all headed over to the group of trees that formed a small circle where they could be sure nothing would get to them. They all sat down sighing in relief and grateful for a long awaited break.

Kaoru pulled one the necklaces from her neck and from it a silver light spread around the perimeter of the small clearing and became invisible. Misao got up and gathered a few fallen branches and piled them in the center of the clearing and then formed a fire ball in her hand and placed on the pile of wood and went to sit back down. Kenshin watched all this still amazed when either of them did magic.

They quickly settled down and silence fell upon the three of them. Misao looked over to Kaoru and Kenshin. Kaoru was resting pretending to sleep and Kenshin was concentrating on staring at the fire. Everything was so quiet and desperately wanted to start a conversation or something.. She hated quiet, unless it meant being with Lord Aoshi but since he wasn't here….

Explaining a few things to Kenshin was probably a safe subject, one where the chances of an argument were low though she probably couldn't explain everything to him. She knew Kenshin had questions since she and Kaoru never got a chance to explain anything to him. Well they might have, if those two could have kept from arguing so much.

The silence finally becoming more than she could bear she decided to speak up. "So Kenshin, got any questions?"

The red head looked over to her. "What?"

"Do you have anything you want to know? Like what you are? Why you're here. Anything?"

"Alright. Mind telling me what exactly a fairen is?"

"We're fairens and so are you."

"Wow that helps thanks you Harpy." He turned to Misao "Do you have a better example?"

"Well um I'm not sure how to answer that either but other creatures recognize us by our wings and magic."

"See that was much better. But if fairens have wings, how come me and the harpy don't?"

"You don't but you do; they're not really their right now." Kenshin raised an eyebrow at her.

"I mean you have a bunch of spells and things to keep your wings and magic from forming until they're removed so you could live in with humans. I'm not to sure about that though; those spells are really old so only Lady Tomoe or Megumi would really know anything about them. But that's the basic part of it.

"So that means I'm going to look like fairy?"

"I do not look like fairy! And I don't know if you jabe the same wings as me. It's different for each fairen."

`How's it different?"

Kaoru decided to answer this one. "Fairens have different wings, like a wing type. Some are Itens like Misao. And others are Betroes, Dorins, and Antrones." Kenshin had a look of complete and total confusion. `What did she just say?'

Kaoru, luckily, recognized his look and better explained what she just said. "all those just mean what wing type they have. `Iten' means insect wing, `Betroe' means bird wing, `Dorin' means dragon wing, and `Antrone' means angel wing though there hasn't been any Antrones in centuries."

Misao started clapping, a bright smile on her face, which cause Kaoru and Kenshin to both turn to her and stare like she had completely lost her mind, both of which thought was true at the moment.

"You two actually talked without any insults or arguing! I'm so happy.....You aren't going to start fighting again now that I've said that are you?"

Both Kaoru and Kenshin continued staring at her. Yep she had lost it all right. Misao's smile slowly faded as she began to feel awkward under their stares, a small nervous laugh escaping her throat.

"Hehe…well Kenshin if that's all you have to ask I think you should get some sleep while you can. You too Kaoru. We have take turns keeping watch so nothing sneaks up on us. Hehe… Barrier won't keep anything out like a dracin if it really wants in after all. I'll keep first watch go on get to sleep" `Anything to keep you from looking at me like I'm crazy. I am not crazy!'

Slowly Kenshin and Kaoru removed their gazes from Misao and settled on opposite sides of the fire and drifting to sleep.

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