The Six Heavens of Mishna Chapter 2 Susaki walked ahead of her friends with her nose in the air looking really irritated. Reiko, Hiroshi, and Kera, were behind her with huge amusing grins on their faces. They have been teasing and tormenting Susaki for her clumsiness, the way she eats and boys. Susaki heard snickering behind her and her eyes filled up slowly with tears. She turned around to face them and the three of them stopped as soon as they saw tears. "Will you guys please stop teasing? I've had it!!" She burts out crying and ran away from them. "Suki-chan." Kera whispered regretfully. She knew they had taking it to far. "We over did it guys. Let's go find her, before something happens." Hiroshi added and Reiko nodded. They ran after Susaki. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Koji and Satoki come out of a restaurant and headed to their horses, while they talked about what they were going to do next. "Hey, why don't we find Hiroshi and we could have a guys night or something." Koji suggested. "Okay, why d....." Satoki fell to the ground with a loud thump. He had felt something or someone bump into him. "Watch where you're going, DAMN IT!!!" He heard sobbing and a soft cry of pain. Susaki stood up and wiped her tears from her eyes. Satoki stood up as well. The girl amazed him, her beauty amazed him. He looked into the girl's eyes and felt lost underneath her daze. He could see the pain in her eyes and automatically he felt like protecting her. So no harm would come to her. He felt the need of making her the happiest lady in the world. 'Whoa!!! What's this thing with making her happy, protecting her? You don't even know her! Satoki what's wrong with you? What is she doing to you? He thought. 'She's WAY to young anyway!!!' "Gomen ne. I...I wasn't watching where I was going. Gomen nasai!" She turned to leave but Satoki caught her left arm. Susaki turned around in suprise and she then realized how gorgeous he was. Koji was suprise at his friends actions. He would have expected Satoki to let her go or even yell at her for not watching where she was going, but instead he caught her arm and GENTLY TOO!!!!! Koji grew a smirk on his face, 'finally, someone caught his eye. But she's to young.' Koji lost his smirk and frown at this. Satoki realizing he is still holding her hand reluctantly let it go. "I'm sorry, may I please know your name?" He asked. Before she could turn him down, she heard a familiar voice calling her name. She quickly turned around but wasn't fast enough to run away. She felt hands grab her by the shoulder as the person bend down to catch their breath. The person grabbed her hand firmly but also gently as they felt she was trying to escape. "LET ME GO!" Susaki yelled . The others behind her knew that she was about to cry from the emotions in her voice. Susaki cursed herself for showing such emotions. The arms of the person yanked her gently towards it and held her like a older sister would. "Gomen ne, Suki-chan. Gomen ne." The familiar voice said. "Kera-chan! Dooshite?" Susaki cried out. She turned around and hugged Kera. "Suki-chan, please forgive us. We didn't mean to hurt your feelings. Suki-chan gomen ne, chibi onee-chan." Kera apologized At those words Susaki parted from Kera and looked at her friend with a smile. Kera smiled back and wiped the tears from her friends cheek. Koji and Satoki watch the two girls in front of them. Realizing how closed they were, one was older by a couple of years than the other. They noticed that the older one treated Susaki like a sister but noticed that they were too different looking from each other. They also notice how beautiful each were. After a long silence Susaki spoke. "where are the others?" She asked "When we were searching for you I told them to go back to the restaurant and that I'll bring you back." She explained. "Suki-chan, they are really sorry." They heard someone clear their throat and the two girls turned in the direction of the voice, and Kera immediately took a protective stance over Susaki. She saw two men in front of her with armors like hiroshi's but in silver and brown. She quickly noted that they were immeasurably handsome. Susaki peered behind Kera's shoulder to see that the guys that her friend was eyeing suspiciously and throwing unverbal threats to the men she bump into. "Kera-chan don't hurt them." Susaki ran in front of Kera placing herself in the middle. She knew Kera was puzzled even though she looked calm and still in her fighting mode. "Susaki what are you talking about?" Satoki quickly noted that the girl's name was Susaki. "They aren't bad people Kera-chan. I bumped into one of them by accident." She pause to give a quick side way glance to Satoki. "They are nice Kera-chan. They didn't harm me." Kera looked into her friends eyes to see the truth flowing like a fountain. She could always tell when Susaki lied. She had known her almost all her life. Ever since Susaki was 5 and she was 10. She straightened up and gave Susaki a warm smile before turning to the men. "Arigato, for taking care of Susaki-chan. I deeply appreciate it." She looked back at Susaki," The others will be worried, ikimashou Suki-chan." "Hai!" Kera and Susaki turn the other way Kera came running and started walking away. Twenty feet away Susaki stopped walking and turned her head slightly to the side and looked at the man she bumped into. To her surprise he returned the look she gave him. Kera who was only a few feet away from her friend notice the way they looked at each other and grinned. "Suki-chan, you coming?" Kera asked "Hai, be right there." Susaki yelled back as she looks at the man one last time before she turn back around. 'If destiny says it's meant to be then I'll see him again. I sure hope I do.' She thought "My little sister has a crush? How sweet!" Kera teased Susaki blushed, "No way, man." She denied. "Uh-huh?" "OK, OK. I like him alot happy?" She said defeatedly. "But you can't tell anyone." "Don't worry, Suki-chan, I won't. I mean I do owe you one for not telling Hiro-chan or Reiko that I liked him when I first saw him. Your secret is safe with me." Kera promised "Thank you Kera-chan." Susaki beamed at the promise. "Come on let's go back to the restaurant." "Yosh!!!" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Koji had went to go retrieve the horses and when he came back he saw his love-sick-fool friend Satoki, still staring where the girl-Susaki last was. He grinned, 'I'm going to enjoy this.' "So finally someone has caught your eye. I was beginning to think my best friend had going gay on me." Koji handed the reigns to Satoki. Satoki took it unconsciously while saying, "Onegai, koji-kun. She is just a child. She's not my type at all." Satoki climbed his horse. "Uh-huh?" Koji raised one eyebrow, "Ever heard of the river in Egypt called 'denial'?" "No way, she's...she's...." "Yes?" Koji mounted his horse and looked at his friend with an eyebrow up. "She's absolutely beautiful, amazing, and....." "She saved your ass too." Koji interrupted "What do you mean 'she saved my ass'?" Satoki asked his friend. "That Kera girl is one of the champions in the state for Judo and Karate. She would have easily whooped your ass" Koji grinned "Right and who are the other" He asked harshly not believing his friend. "Sabuki Reiko, Minoshi Susaki, and our good friend Hiroku Hiroshi." "NO WAY?!! Hiroshi? Susaki? you got to be kiddin?" "I wish I was, HYAH!" He galloped away with Satoki right behind him. "Let's look for a place to rest and then go look for Hiroshi-kun." Koji yelled over his shoulder, Satoki nodded in respond. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Saki-chan!" Reiko beamed as she saw her friend walk in the restaurant with Kera. Susaki didn't move a muscle, she stayed next to Kera glaring at Reiko and Hiroshi. Hiroshi stood up and walked up to Susaki and hugged her like an older brother would. At this gesture Susaki froze. She didn't know what to do. Either cry, yell, run or hug back. 'Su-chan, you are a grown lady almost turning 18. Stop acting like a child and grow up.' She scolded herself. Before she could respond, she felt someone tap her shoulder. Turning around to face her opponent with an expression that clearly says, 'yes, what do you want.' The young couple stood in front of the group except Reiko who just vanished. The angelic red head smiled and the raven hair man had a greater smile than his wife almost looked like a grin. The woman was carrying a bundle in her arms. "Gomen nasai, do I know you?" Susaki asked confused The woman's smile turn into a make believe pout, " Oh come on Su-chan. Don't tell me you have forgotten your dearest friends?" The man chuckled at the fake hurt in his wife's voice. "Come on Sa-chan, we always came to your competitions. Who else would call you Odango Atama?" The man smiled wickedly. Susaki's face lit up when she finally remembered her dearest friends. They had changed so much in three years. The woman had no longer short hair but dazzling ruby long braided hair that reached the ground. Her deep blue eyes had not change still could enchant anyone. She wore common clothes. The man no longer had short raven hair, he had grown it waist length. His baby blue eyes still sparkled mischievously. He also wore common clothes. Both were gorgeous. Susaki hugged them, "Seira-chan! Konji-kun! The couple hugged her back like she was their lost missing child. They broke the hug. That's when two warriors stepped in the restaurant one silver, one brown. Hiroshi who was standing by Kera when the three friends saw each other again. He had immediately recognized the two warriors. "Satoki-kun! Koji-kun! Over here!!!" Hiroshi waved his hand. Satoki and Koji turned their heads to see their friend waving to come over. They also saw a girl in his arms. They walked over and immediately recognize the girl and vise versa. "YOU!!!" Kera, Koji, and Satoki yelled at the same time "What are you doing here?" Koji asked "I'm here with friends. What the hell do you think I'm doing here?" She asked pretty annoyed, she turned to Hiroshi. "Hiro-chan, who are they and how do you know them?" Hiroshi looked down at her since he was a foot tall. He pointed to his friends. "They are my friends Ra-chan..." Kera sighed, "how many times do I have to say 'don't call me that' HISA-SAMA!" Kera growled. Hiroshi rolled his eyes he didn't know why she hated the name. He thought it was cute on her. "Fine as long you don't call me that." He smiled when Kera giggled and nodded. "I met them in training. We shared a tent together and got to know each other pretty well." Hiroshi looked at his friends and smiled. "This is Siejiko Satoki...." When susaki heard Satoki's name she turned to see who it was and gasped when she saw it was the guy she bumped into. The couple behind her notice her reaction and grinned. "...and this is Kunlu Koji." He pointed at each one, then he gestured to Kera. "Guys this is my girlfriend I was telling you about, Hiroshima Kera." Kera blushed and held out her hand to shake their hands but instead they each kissed her hand gently. That made her blush even harder. She took her hand away and placed on her cheeks. She could feel she was turning scarlet. "It was a pleasure to meet you again. If you would excuse me please." She managed to say. She turned to Hiroshi and kissed him on the cheek, but before she could leave Hiroshi gently grabbed her hand to stop her. He made her turn around so he could see her face. "What do you mean again? And why are you blushing like that?" He mussed 'He can't be that dense?' Everyone thought who had giving their attention to what was going on, minus Reiko who was no where to be found. Susaki could feel her 'sister's embarrassment and decided to help. She slowly walked up to the couple and laid a hand on Hiroshi's arm. She could feel all eyes on her. "Onii-chan, let Kera be. When I ran away I bumped into your friends. Kera-chan found me and thought that they were trying to hurt me. I told her it wasn't so, and we left." Susaki explained to Hiroshi and Kera threw a grateful smile at Susaki. Her face cold down a notch and she looked at Hiroshi's friends. "My apologies again." "It's allright we would have done the something." Koji smiled at her reassuringly. They heard a girl's voice outside talking to someone. Susaki, Hiroshi, Kera, Seira, and konji recognized the voice that was yelling at someone. "I said get off me you KIMOU HENSHU!!!!" The girl screamed. and the sounds of yelling and fighting began. "Not again. I swear.....she has the worst timing and luck." Kera and Susaki shook their heads as they walked out of the restaurant to help their friend. The others heard Susaki yell in an angry tone, "get your stinking body off of her!" and ran out. OUTSIDE "Oh for crying out loud! This is why I HATE you men, you are so DISGUSTING!!! Damn IT, get the fuck of me!" Reiko yelled in the man's ear, who had pinned her down. "Ahhh!! That was my ear you bitch!" The man shook is head. "For that I'm going to make it painful." He sneered "I don't think so." A familiar voice growled in anger. Kera came in after Susaki had said what she said. She had a long stick that she found on the floor and twirled it around like a pro. She knocked the guys head with the stick harshly and send him rolling away from Reiko. "You should have listened to her for your own good." Kera sneered as she and Susaki helped Reiko to her feet. "Yeah, man like you give bad names to men everywhere." Susaki retorded her deep blue eyes sparkling with anger. Their friends were outside watching silently. "Hiroshi-kun aren't you going to help them?" Asked Satoki who spoke for the first time since he saw Susaki in the restaurant. Hiroshi shook his head, "It's not my fight. It would be wrong to interfere." The other nodded in understanding and continue to watch silently. The man charged for them and Susaki and Kera got in a fighting pose. Reiko shook her head telling them not to interfere with this. They nodded grimly and stepped aside. Kera tossed Reiko the stick and watched as Reiko twirled it around her like a samurai sword and brought it down. The man charged for her and she simply stepped aside and whacked him in the back as she twirled around once. The man lost balance and fell. Reiko looked at the man on the floor with venom in her eyes. "You men are weak! Constantly attacking us women. We can't even go outside to have fun without worrying about perverts like you, DIRTY BASTARDS! And I'm getting sick of it!" Reiko fumed The man gained back his balance and smirked. "Heh, such words for a beautiful woman to say should be banished. If you want to fight then fight without that stick and fight me by hand. I'll teach you a good lesson. I am a man and I will not lose to a little girl like you." "I man is a gentleman not a slob like you. You're lower than a rat." Reiko insulted. The man's eyes flashed with anger, he approached Reiko swiftly throwing punches and kicks. Reiko skillfully dodges the attacks while studying the man's techniques, and waiting for an opening. The man grew tired but still kept going. Seeing Reiko not doing anything but dodge he grew a smile thinking that he will win the fight and have her. 'I wonder how she is in bed?' His smirk grew wider, "Why don't you fight me and stop being a chicken, little girl." Reiko just grinned, 'OK, he can't throw a punch with his right hand....he relays more on his left side...if I can get him to switch to the right then it would be a easy win....BINGO!' When Reiko saw an opening on the guy's right her grin broading 'Little girl? I'll show him little.' Reiko threw combos of kicks gracefully on the mans left side and he fell on the floor holding his side in pain. Reiko stood over him, "Don't call me little girl, Old man." Kera, Susaki, and Hiroshi saw the man move to grab Reiko's leg as she turned around. "Reiko, watch out!" They yelled in chorus but it was too late. They began to run towards her. The man grabbed Reiko's right leg and lifted it up turning her upside down. Reiko who was pissed was now raging. "You BASTARD!!! UGH!!!" She screamed. Kera, Susaki, and Hiroshi stopped running when Reiko spiral kicked the guy on the face with her free leg and flipped away from him landing gracefully on her feet. She picked up the stick she held before. Susaki sensed what she wasgoing to do and horror sketched it's self on her face. "Reiko-chan NOOO!!!" She ran towards her friend who was blinded by her rage, but it was too late Reiko twirled the stick and smacked it violently on the guys head, bursting the stick and the man's skull. Everything was dead silent as Reiko stood there shaking in rage. Susaki reached her and placed a hand on Reiko's shoulder, "Rei-chan, it's ok. Calm down." She spoke in a soothing voice "I HATE THEM!!! ALL OF THEM!!!" She shouted in the streets. Susaki's eyes filled with tears as she felt her 'sister's' pain and anger. She let go as Reiko turned around and walked back into the restaurant ignoring all of them. Susaki walked back to the group , silence fell around them. "Is she always like that towards men?" Koji asked breaking the silence. "I'm afraid so. She hates all of them....except Hiroshi-kun." Susaki said as she looked at Koji. "You can't blame her. Life to her has been a bitch. She had the worst childhood anyone could have. Her....." Kera stopped when Reiko stepped out of the restaurant. She turned around to face the group behind her and for the first time she saw 5 new faces. "Reiko-chan, You remember Seira and Konji, right?" kera waited for Reiko to nod,"and these are Hiroshi's friends, Seijiko Satoki and Kunlu Koji." She introduced "Hello." Her voice was as if it came straight down from heaven but her eyes told another story of pain and sorrow. She turned away from them like she never saw them. "Are we going or what?" Her three friends nodded. Reiko left while her friends said good bye to their friends. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On top of the roof a shadow figure stood there watching what had happened. "It looks like they don't know who or what they are." The figure laughed sinisterly. "This shall be the easiest task the master has ever given me." The figure disappeared. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Satoki snapped his attention towards the roof of the restaurant. 'What did I feel just now? Some kind of power...Satoki you are losing it!' He said to himself. "What's wrong?" koji asked. He had noticed his friend starring at the roof like he was expecting someone to jump down and attack. "Huh?" Satoki wasn't paying attention to his friend speaking, "What did you say? I didn't catch it." "Never mind, it's nothing. Come on it's getting dark, we need to find somewhere to camp." He looked carefully at his partner who was still staring at the roof and looked up at the roof himself wondering what so special about it. He saw something sparkle like the sun reflecting on a metal. "All right....Koji what are you looking at?" Satoki asked "There is something or one on that roof." Koji whispered "So you sensed it too?" Koji shook his head,"No, I saw it. We better get into the forest." He suggested. "For some reasing I have a bad feeling about this and that it's watching us." "Me too."Satoki agreed. "Come on" "HYAH!" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kera stopped walking and slowly turned her head to the side. She looked back at where the restaurant would be. They were almost out of the city. 'I feel something...something is wrong' Deep down inside she could sense danger but she didn't know what. She fully turned around and scanned the area. 'It's growing stronger.' Susaki noticed Kera stopped walking and stood there watching the city like a hawk. "Kera-chan what's wrong?" Susaki asked and that gained the attention of Reiko and Hiroshi. Susaki walked up to Kera and reached out for her while saying, "Kera-chan what's wro..." Kera turned around and moved Susaki out of the way of a ice spear. "Abunai!!!" She yelled for the others to move. Three other spears landed half an inch in front of Hiroshi and Reiko's face. "OH SHIT!!!" Hiroshi yelled "I'M NOT IN THE MOOD FOR THIS SHIT!!!" Reiko yelled. Kera shielded Susaki with her body as the spears surrounded them and Susaki screamed in fear. All of a sudden it stopped. They all slowly, cautiously stood up and checked the area. The people had ran away from the area leaving it isolated. The ice speared started to slowly melt. but before it was totally gone Kera spotted a shadow figure in the trees. She turned around and looked up to see a spear heading for her with something attached to it. She jumped out of the way in time to avoid it. The spear hit where Kera used to stand. Kera slowly walked towards it and grabbed the note that was attached to it. As she read it the others gathered around her. They notice her freeze and dropped the paper. Slowly recovering she turned to look around her again. "Kera-chan what's wrong? " Reiko asked not liking the way Kera had froze. Kera turned to them and suddenly took a protective look on her face. "Some one is watching us. Be on your guard at all times." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In the darkness of the night, where a forest lays, a camp was set up and Koji was found on the ground looking at the stars. Satoki could be found practicing his moves a few feet away from the camp. Koji laid on the ground deep in his thoughts about Reiko. 'How can anyone have a heartless childhood? What is her childhood anyway? Her eyes they are filled with hatred, pain and sorrow. They are so cold, no warmth shine through it at all. She killed a man. How could anyone be filled with such hatred and coldness. But she does not act like that around her friends. You could hardly believe what a personality change she has. But what happened in her child hood that caused so much pain.' "Hey what's on your mind Koji-kun?" Satoki asked as he sat by his friend "Well to tell you the truth I was wondering about that Reiko girl. How can she be so cold and what exactly happened in her childhood that made her that way?" Koji mused "Don't forget what Kera-san and Susaki-san said. Because of her childhood she hates all male.....well except Hiroshi-kun." Satoki added "Well I guess we......" Ice spears interrupted them as they fell from the sky like rain. Four came towards Satoki, he lept in to the air gracefully dodging from left to right. While dodging he looked over at Koji and saw him doing the same thing. "What's going on?" "Like hell I know? Ugh!!!" He yelled back while dodging one spear. After a few minutes of continue dodging the spears stopped falling, Satoki and Koji looked at each other puzzled and angry. They turned their attention to the ice spears all around them for something that made this . They saw the ice spears begin to melt, but before one of them melted Koji saw a hooded figure hiding in one of the trees behind them. Satoki saw a note attached to one of the spears and grabbed it. "Dear Heavens, Next time it wont be that easy. Watch your back because I'll be watching it. p.s. Two of your friends will die." "Koji-kun, come and look at this." Satoki yelled "What is it?" Koji teared his eyes from the tree and ran towards his friend. "Read this." Satoki gave the not to Koji when he got there. Koji read the not and turned slightly pale. He looked at Satoki and said,"you don't think it means Hiroshi-kun, Reiko-san, Kera-san, and Susaki-san do you?" "I don't know but I'm not taking any risk. This person is not playing around." Satoki acknowledged "Just in case, let's go find them." Koji suggested. 'Please don't let us be too late. Reiko.' "Yeah, come on let's go." Satoki turned around and started packing. 'Susaki, please be safe.' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gomen ne=sorry Gomen nasai=excuse me or sorry Dooshite=why Arigato=thank you Ikimashou=let's go Hai=yes Yosh=alright,or yeah Onegai=please Odango Atama=meatball head Kimou henshu=nasty freak Abunai=watch out Well e-mail me and tell me what you think.