Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Into Tortall ❯ Chapter Three ( Chapter 3 )

AN: Konnichi wa minna san! Yes, I have updated, no, I will not leave it at as bad of a cliff hanger. Thanks to anyone who reviewed! (I’m writing this right after the last chapter so I dunno if anyone has reviewed yet or not.)

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Fair warning, Thought is used in this. Just a heads up.

Also, I’m changing scene breaks to "-!-" Because I’m hoping. ff. net will support it unlike most of my scene breaks. if it does this will become standard for all fics that I’m posting on ff. net as well as mm. org and the others I’m on.

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The three teenagers looked at the young girl on the large gelding as she looked back at them. Kat was both excited and frightened at once. She knew from reading the first two books in the series that the hazel eyed girl would be too shrewd to fall for any tricks she or Kit could come up with. That fact scared Kat to death. "Guys. I think we may be screwed." Kat said in a low tone. "No worries." Kit said with a grin.

The girl with short, tawny brown hair soon turned to look the other way, momentarily distracted. Kit stood up and smiled. "Let’s go. And I know where in the story we are." Kat nodded slowly and stood up as well. She was the first to climb over the fence and run off. Yuusuke and Kit followed in tow. None of them noticing the future knight taking note of their appearances before walking to her newly reviled companion.

-!-

Kurama was back in his room with the goof Paturiku and the eternal grump Hiei. "You did tell Yuusuke to find them and bring them here, right?" Paturiku asked. Kurama nodded exasperated. "Please, stop asking." Kurama said rubbing his temples in annoyance. It had been four hours since he had told Yuusuke he needed Kit and Kat so he could tell them everything that was going on. Paturiku had come in two hours ago and had been asking the same question every ten minutes or so in order to break the silence of the room.

Several minutes passed when the trio heard a bunch of laughs from down the hall. Two girls and a male. Kurama sighed relived as Kit, Yuusuke and Kat walked into the room. As soon as Yuusuke saw Paturiku looking annoyed and Hiei looking even more annoyed he started laughing. "Oops, I forgot I was supposed to bring them here immediately. We were making jokes and talking for a while."

Kurama shook his head at Yuusuke. "I’m glad that you’re all in a good mood. I’ve been looking into the places everyone was put in when we got here." Kat nodded in acknowledgment. "I take it everyone has been found?" "Hai*" Came Kurama’s reply.

"As you know, Hiei, Yuusuke, Paturiku and myself are a part of The Own. Last night whilst on duty I finished piecing together were everyone else was. Keiko and Yukina are noble women in very respected families. Botan is Keiko’s lady in waiting." "That’s not surprising." Kat interrupted. "Koneko, Kat, as you two have probably figured out, you’re servants to Hiei and Myself." Kurama looked amused as Kat and the Neko hanyou Kit grumbled about having figured that out long ago. Kurama then continued. "This next part is a bit shocking." Kurama cleared his throat. "Kuwabara is a son of the king."

Kat started to cough violently as Kit blinked with a relatively blank look on her face. "But the king only had one son in the books." "Yeah, but I doubt we were in the books though either." Paturiku pointed out. "True, there are other things that are different too." Kit pointed out as she patted Kat on the back to help her stop coughing. "You are too young for The Own, other than Hiei that is. You can’t earn your shield till you’re eighteen or older." Kat thanked her friend as she stopped coughing. "That’s right. Kel was about ten when she started as a page. At least I think so."

"That doesn’t matter anymore." Kurama said. "In any case we need to find our way back to our own world. Till then we need to play along with the story for the time being." Kat smiled. "I’m willing to bet we’ll find a way home if we go through the story line as accurately as we can. Meaning we don’t try to save anyone that died in the books and we don’t interfere in important plot shifting events." The red head then frowned. "But, only Kit knows the whole story and we’re bound to be separated for if nothing else then short periods of time." Kit nodded. "Yeah, and I can’t exactly rehearse the whole book either."

"So, I take it we handle things as they come?" Kat asked with more than a slight idea of the answer. "Of course," Kurama replied with a mild smile.

-!-

It was early. So much so that there was at least an hour till sunrise. Outside the rain could be heard. It’s soft and persistent patter was driving Yuusuke mad. Unlike Kurama and Hiei he didn’t have anyone to talk to in his room whilst he waited for the call to rise. He had readied his gear before bed but found himself unable to sleep. He had spent the last six hours awake against his will. He paced the room in his anxiety. "That’s the last time I ask Kit if she could give me a heads up on something."

The door soon opened with such speed it was hard to believe it hadn’t been slammed into the wall. Yuusuke got on guard, ready to attack out of instinct. "Get ready! We’re to leave as soon as we’re able. A village has been attacked by centaurs." Yuusuke blinked as the rider that had addressed him closed the door and ran to the next room.

Yuusuke was quick to grab his things and walk to the stables. The group had planned the entire thing the previous afternoon. Kit had warned them that they’d be stuck getting up before dawn and that packing prior to being woken up would be a good idea. He got his horse, a black mare with green eyes, ready to ride. "How we know how to do all of this when we’re not even from here is beyond my knowledge." Paturiku said in a low voice. Yuusuke shrugged. "Kat’s magic?" Paturiku nodded and began to ready his horse, a fawn and white gelding. It was small for it’s size.

"I have a feeling Kat’s magic has messed up the most fundamental of things in this world. I’m not sure, but I thought knights had either a charger or a mare, they weren’t mixed or they had both a charger and a mare," Paturiku said. Yuusuke looked at him with a hint of ridicule. "So what? We have small horses and big horses. What’s the big deal?" "Strategy, tact, riding distance, riding speed and much more. There’s also the fact that there are two more people in each group of the own. That changes fundamental math properties. Next thing you know Two plus two will equal six," Paturiku replied with a hint of panic on his voice.

"Oh calm down." Came Kit’s voice. "I did some looking into the whole horse thing and extra people in the own. It’s exceptions that were made for us. Seems Kat’s magic is almost ass lazy as her." Yuusuke looked at his cousin, noticing her hair was black today. She was human for a night. "Hey, someone will notice," Yuusuke pointed out. Kat came up behind her friend and put a long scarf on her head. "Nope!" Kat proclaimed whilst Kit gave her a dirty look. Kat half dragged her currently less energetic friend to Hiei’s horses and then ran to Kurama’s horses.

Yuusuke watched the girls ready each of the horses as he shook his head. Even he could tell this was going to be an interesting situation. He laughed to himself. ‘What am I thinking? It’s already interesting.’

The other members of the own started into the stables to ready their horses as Yuusuke and Paturiku lead theirs out. Within ten minutes both Kat and Kit were out of the stables with reigns in both hands.

Yuusuke looked at the two girls. Kat was in a pair of dark blue riding breeches and a light blue tunic as well as a pair of simple boots. He looked at his cousin and smiled. He could barely recognize the girl who was dressed in dark green breeches and a black tunic with a pair of black boots and the long forest green head scarf Kat had put on her. "Hey, what town was it that was attacked anyways?"

Kit opened her mouth to reply but stopped as someone behind her beat her to the punch. "Haresfield." Kit looked behind her to see a man she recognized as Lord Raoul of Goldenlake and Malorie’s Peak. This man had black hair that curled in it’s cropped short style. His skin was ruddy and his face broad, offset by black eyes that could be filled with laugher or rage at any moment. Lord Raoul was both tall and large muscled. Lord Raoul soon walked past them to get to his horse in the stables.

Kit turned around to talk to Kat but paled slightly as she saw the red head was not to be found. Whenever Kat disappeared chaos was soon to follow in one way or another. Kit left her reigns with Yuusuke as Kat had done with Paturiku. With that done she walked into the crowd of men in search of Kat, managing her way through the small crowd with ease.

Kurama and Hiei were the next on the scene, seeing Paturiku and Yuusuke with their horses made it all too clear that the two girls had ran off again. Both Kurama and Hiei wordlessly took their horse’s reigns as they were handed to them. Kurama nodded his thanks to Paturiku as he scanned the crowd for the red and black haired girls. The only person Kat wasn’t shorter than was Hiei and Kit was shorter than every single person there.

Meanwhile Kat was behind two tall men, listening to the conversations of the whole group. They were talking about Kel, or as they put it "The girl." "She’s green as gas!" One man exclaimed. Kat felt the urge to light something ablaze, namely the rude commenters. "She’d better not foul us up in the field." Another man proclaimed.

Kat’s attention was thankfully taken away from her musings involving fire as a gruff voice called out to the men. "Don’t you saddle rats have better things to do?" Many men snapped to attention at his voice. "Lets have an inspection. Mithros witness if I find one strap undone, heads will roll." At that moment several men moved to check their horses, not wanting any sort of punishment. Kat Laughed as the next comment was spoken. "But, Sergeant osbern, Sir, I like my head."

Kit also laughed lightly at the muttered comment. Losing her attention on the bodies around her she son found herself flat on her behind from a larger human bumping into her. She was about to look up at who knocked her over when something from behind caught her attention. She turned her head to see Kel, who’s feet she’d managed to land right in front of. Kel was about to speak when someone came up beside her, a turnover in hand. "Did you eat?" He asked the squire, taking attention off Kit long enough for her to run off un-noticed.

She soon found her red haired friend the hard way, by running into her. They would have let out a yelp were they not used to it. Kat was the first to verse what was on the minds of both girls. "Lets head back to the horses." Kit nodded and headed toward the direction she felt was correct, relived upon seeing she had been right, but not so relieved upon seeing Kurama and Hiei waiting for them. Kat looked at Kit and frowned. "I guess we gotta explain that I ran off huh?" Kit shook her head. "It’s pretty clear that you ran off, they have eyes." Kat laughed a bit and walked behind her friend as they headed towards their companions.

-!-

Kat awoke to the smell of burning wood that floated through the air. She’d managed to fall asleep on the horse and still keep mounted. Kat was very glad she’d been light enough that they’d suggested she ride Kurama’s remount. It also helped that she was a female and many people felt she’d not have been able to keep up. they’d thought the same of Kit, but Kit was far to stubborn to take advantage of the beliefs of others and chose to walk the whole way, up with the horses none the less. Whilst Kat was in the dark of what was ahead, Kit knew exactly what had happened, even before they got there. Buildings and men alike were charred to perfection. Any buildings that had been lit ablaze that weren’t ashes were in danger of collapsing. Roofs sagged, walls leaned and smoke still lifted from the charred buildings. Whilst Kat was not yet able to smell the burnt flesh, Kit was all too aware of it.

Bodies lined the road, many died in flames whilst others died of suffocation. Kit frowned heavily at this. She had seen worse but this scene was still not taken lightly. Bloated, charred bodies assaulted ones eyes as those that had died of suffocation assaulted ones mind. They looked as if they were only sleeping, though the rising and falling of their chests as they inhaled and exhaled was not to be seen.

Kit took note of the arrow fletchings that were occasionally seen impaled into men’s chests. They were griffin feathers, a fletching that centaurs preferred. As Kit looked over the bodies she’d overlook dead pets, feline and canine alike. She could stand human death without flinching, but seeing the sight of dead pets would be far too strong of a reminder of a loss she’d had not long ago.

Kit sighed a little, they were nearing a part of the storyline in which the odds of them causing trouble were low.

They could make it through the storyline without turning that world any further upside down than they already had. At least she hoped they could.

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