| Kikee woke up to the
sound of the birds chirping and the rustling of the wind on the grass.
He looked around and smiled. He had had a long flight from Gennsu the day
before and was enjoying this new planet. He stretched himself and got onto
his feet. Taking in the grass and the butterflies dancing on the wind he
decided to explore. After a few hours Kikee noticed that the butterflies
weren't speaking to him or acknowledging his presance. Not that this was
abnormal for butterflies, but jeez! One would have at least commented on
the 'outlandish cricket'. He looked at the ground dejected, not knowing
these were regular butterflies, not the mushijin he was looking for.
After wandering for a time he felt his face grow hot and his eyes begin to water. This place was terrible! Nobody noticed him, no bee, no grasshopper, no mantis, not even the birds seemed interested, which was even more strange since he was a mushijin and the torijin had made a 'kill all' policy on the mushi. Walking some more he came to a farmhouse (albeit a very large farmhouse since he was only 3 inches tall compared to the human habitat) that seemed to be abandoned. He transfomed into his cricket form and crept inside. He saw some hay lying on the ground and a rusty pitchfork shoved into a corner, but nothing at all. Going back to his mushijin form he continued into the house. At least he could get some shelter here. Setting up his camp he felt he was being watched, yet nothing happened. Soon his camp was up, he rested himself in the soft hay and took a nap. After a time some rustling awoke him. Opening his eyes he could make out a Gennsujin form with horns on it's head. He leaped into wakefulness. He was staring into the eyes of a NekoTorijin. His wings and ears gave him away. "Hello! My name is Flaifur, what is yours?" Flaifur stuck out his hand. Kikee looked at it. Flaifur's face fell. "I see. Different planet same feeling. What are you? Gokiburi! Kamekiri!!" Flaifur poked his nose forward. "I am Kikee--" "A CRICKET!!! I knew it!! Nya!!" ^ ^ Flaifur fluffed up his wings. "So whatcha doin here on this planet!!" Kikee found himself and then composed himself. "I am a mushi senshi." "Crickets don't talk much do they? I'm a NekoTori..." He looked away. "If you could guess...I'm here on this place because my parents didn't want my and the neko didn't want me and the tori hate me for being neko. It's hard when one half of you wants to eat the other half. The neko think I'm only half a meal nyaheeehee!" ^ ^ "I'm here because I wanted to gain wisdom." Kikee added his story. "A gryphjin. How interesting." Kikee looked Flaifur over. "Here lemee take off my shirt then you can see my wings! See!! See!! Aren't they fluffy!!" He fluffed them sending a few feathers everywhere. "They let me fly like a bird!! But these.." He pointed to he ears. "let me hear like a cat and and...see this is my tail, it's like a cat's too!! And see...my ears have feathers on them like a bird!! Neeeya!!" He was poking and pulling on different parts of his body in front of Kikee who leaned back in the hay and let the young Gennsujin ramble on. "...and this!!!" He transformed into his NekoTori form. "Mya..nyaa nyaa kee!! Scherree nya nya!! =^v^= Kwee!!" Kikee jumped back at the sudden transformation. "Ki? Kiireeya!! Scrya!! Nya nya myakee!!!" He then went back into his 'jin form. "Isn't that cool! I have a birds head and like talons.." he made his hand into a claw. "and like I have cat ears and a furry rump with a kawaii tail!! Nyaee =^ ^=" He pulled up his tail. Kikee smiled. "I'm just a cricket." He simply stated. Flaifur leaped onto him and stuck his nose into his face. "But I haven't seen a MUSHI before!!" He poked and prodded Kikee much to his dismay. He even pulled on his antennae. "Sugee!!! These thingies on you head are cool!!! *tug tug*" "That actually hurts when you tug on them." Kikee calmly stated. "Oh sorry. Nyaee!" Flaifur let his antennae go and leaped back onto Kikee's legs. "I...am a lonely cricket, can I stay here for the night?" Kikee had noticed that it was getting late and was time for him to compose. "Oh! Eeeyee!! ^ ^ Hai Hai!! You can stay! I like you!! Stay stay stay!!! Kyeeeaaa!" Flaifur huggled Kikee, who huggled him back. "I must go out and compose now." Kikee walked to the door. Flaifur snuggled into the hay. "O..OK..." He looked downhearted. Kikee walked out into the night air and pulled out his Psiji viola, where he began to play his music. Flaifur smiled and went to sleep. After a time Kikee put the viola away and continued on as a simple cricket. |