Chapter 3: Knowing the Unknown
"Hey Hikari you awake?" Zen asked shaking her.
"No, now go away!" Hikari replied pulling the covers over her head.
"Oh come on, your mom has breakfast ready." Zen said pulling the covers off of her.
"Don't care." She said putting the pillow over her head.
"Come on you are going down stairs and eating breakfast!" Zen stated taking the pillow off of Hikari's head.
"Fine I'm up, just let me get changed." Hikari mumbled sitting up in her bed with an annoyed look on her face.
"Ok, see ya!" Zen said with a childish smile.
"Yeah sure…" Hikari grumbled getting out of bed and making her way over to her dresser. She pulled out a black tank top and red shorts that went down to her knees.
She quickly put them on and slowly made there way down the stairs with a same annoyed expression on her face.
"Morning, how's your shoulder?" Kagome questioned washing dishes.
"Its fine, it doesn't hurt as much." Hikari replied grabbing her shoulder.
"Ok if it doesn't hurt. let's practice!" Kagome said walking over to the table.
"Come on I just got up!" Hikari whined as she leaned back in her chair.
"You've got till 10:00 to be there." Kagome stated walking out of the room.
"Wow… your mom's strict…" Zen mumbled breaking the silence between them.
"Hey you want to come and watch?" Hikari asked with a small smile on her face.
"Sure!" Zen replied standing up.
"I want to show you something." Hikari said grabbing Zen's hand and running out of the house. "Where are we going?" Zen questioned being drugged along once again.
"You'll see…" Hikari teased as she kept running.
"Here we are…" She said opening the door to the shrine a few minutes later.
"But I thought we weren't allowed in here?" Zen mumbled as she drug him into the shrine.
"When do I listen to what anyone tells me to do?" Hikari asked with a smirk as she walked down the steps to the well. "Well now that you mentioned it…" Zen mumbled. Hikari laughed.
"Come on let's go its 9:50…" Zen stated walking up to Hikari.
"We don't have to be at the dojo 'till 10, we have plenty of time." Hikari said walking around the well.
"What are you doing?" Zen asked with a wired look on his face.
"How old do you think this well really is?" Hikari questioned sliding her finger tips along the well.
"I don't' know by its condition it looks really, really old…" Zen replied.
Silence fell between them.
'I don't understand why does she always think of such strange questions, when she all ready knows the answer?'
"Hey Zen you okay?" Hikari Asked placing a hand on his shoulder.
"Yeah I'm fine we should go its 10:55…" He replied. Walking out of the shrine.
"Did we make it?" Hikari asked running into the dojo.
"Yep just in time too." Kagome replied looking at the clock. "Well let's get started…" She continued standing up.
"Ok." Hikari answered taking off her shoes and getting in her fighting position.
Hikari ran towards her mom and through a punch at her.
'What I missed… but how?' Hikari thought as she fell towards the ground.
She caught her self and swung her left foot trying to trip Kagome.
"Come on is that all you got?" Kagome said standing up from being tripped.
"I'm just getting started!" Hikari exclaimed getting back in her fighting stance.
1 hour later
"All right that's enough practice for now…" Kagome breathed sitting down.
"Can I practice with a sword then since you need a break?" Hikari asked grabbing a wooden sword.
"Can I help?" Zen asked stretching.
"Well can he mom?" She asked looking over her shoulder at Kagome.
"Sure, it'll give me a break anyways." Kagome answered standing up.
"Awesome!" Zen exclaimed walking over to Hikari.
"Here, you might need this." Hikari said throwing him a wooden sword.
"Alright." Zen replied catching the sword.
"Hope you know how to block because she won't hold back!" Kagome called with her eyes closed and smiling.
"The point of this is to, one, get better at sword fighting and, two, to see if you can block my attacks." Hikari stated getting in a fighting position.
"Ok, I'll try…" Zen replied sarcastically getting ready to block her attack.
15 minuets later
"Can we stop please Hikari?" Zen whined out of breath.
"Sure, I'm hungry anyway." She replied grabbing her stomach.
"Well we haven't eaten anything since breakfast." Zen smiled walking over to Hikari. He handed her his sword silently.
"How's your shoulder?" Zen said breaking the silence between them.
"It's ok, it doesn't hurt." She stated putting the swords away.
"Hey, do you remember what that Demon Daisuke meant by we'll meet again in time?" Hikari asked looking over at Zen.
"It must have something to do with that Feudal era place… he said your dad was there didn't he?" Zen asked confused.
"Yeah, he did! We'll ask my mom later." Hikari replied before taking a drink from her water bottle.
"Here kids here are some sandwiches." Kagome called walking into the dojo.
"Yes, food!" Hikari exclaimed standing up.
"Thanks Mrs. Tama." Zen said grabbing a sandwich.
"No problem." Kagome replied with a smile setting the tray down.
"Oh hey mom can I ask you something?" Hikari asked looking up from her sandwich.
"Of course. What is it?" Kagome replied.
"Well yesterday when Zen and I were attacked at the school by a demon named Daisuke, he told me I fight just like my dad, and that he's in the feudal era… but there's one thing that he said that I don't understand… he told us that we'll meet again in time." Hikari said looking up at the ceiling.
A/N: Well I hope you like this chapter sorry it took so long to get it up. It is now officially summer vacation for me so I hope I can get the chapter's up sooner than I have.
