~groan~ Another early morning, and the last day of holidays. But, I get to see subtitled ccs eps and movies today, so that's okay! It's nice to have a ccs crazed friend (now if only I could get her obsessed with jenruki....) This chapter hopefully makes sense. I'm just telling you now, the program I type stories in doesn't have spellcheck or grammar check, so there are alot of mistakes. I try to take them out by re-reading. I'm babbling, go read the next chapter!





Jenrya's POV:



In the weeks that past it seemed Ruki and I had come to a silent agreement not to mention what had happened at the waterfall. I pushed all thoughts of that day from my mind in a hope never to think about it again. That didn't happen, because one day everything took an interesting turn.

It was now mid spring, but the nights were still chilly. I had found a cave that Ruki agreed would make good shelter. One morning when we woke up it was raining, so we were confined to the small quarters. I was checking out our supplies when I noticed Ruki was staring out the cave entrance.

"What is it?" I asked her.

"There's something about the rain...." She murmured softly.

I glanced outside as well. It wasn't a harsh rain, more like a gentle downpour.

"I've always loved the rain." I said, not sure why I was telling her this. "My little sister never has though."

"Same here. I love rain, but my mother can't stand it."

Ruki tore her gaze off the falling water and looked at me.

"We're running out of food, aren't we?"

I nodded. She sighed and rubbed her temples.

"Jenrya?"

She said the word so quietly I wasn't even sure I had heard it at first. Ruki had never called me by my first name before. We had always used last names. She confirmed what I had heard by repeating it again.

"Jenrya, will we make it home?"

I couldn't really answer the question yes or no. I had no clue if we'd make it home or not.

"I hope so." Was all I said.

Ruki crawled over and sat beside me. Our sacks were near empty except for our remaining food and blankets. She gave them a long stare then leaned against me.

"Do you think we can trust Kaze?"

I wrapped my arm around her shoulders and gazed down at her.

"We don't really have a choice. He's the only one who will talk to us."

I felt so helpless, not be able to answer her questions. I pressed our foreheads together and we gazed at each other. There was a splash outside then,

"Oh, looks like I'm interrupting you lovebirds again."

Ruki and I looked over to see Kaze grinning at us. Ruki shot him a dark look.

"You again. What's with giving me mush to eat?"

Kaze's grin widened. "Didn't you enjoy it?"

Before Ruki could answer I interrupted.

"What brings you out here? We're kind of off the beaten path."

He snorted. "Strong auras coming from this cave. You best learn to hid those."

We stared at him with blank expressions.

"Strong what?" Ruki asked.

Kaze blinked. "You haven't figured it out yet?" He looked troubled. "I'd have thought you would know by now. Always told the water guardians were quick ones. Guess they were wrong."

None of his babbling made any sense to me. Kaze though seemed to be disappointed that Ruki and I weren't aware of whatever we were to be aware of.

"Would you care to explain?" Ruki growled.

Outside the rain came down harder.

Kaze sat down across from us. He thought for a minute then opened his mouth to speak.

"It's a long story, but I'll try to explain it quickly. There are four elements in this world. Fire, air, earth and water. Long ago someone tried to steal these elements from their resting places. Senrui, the element keeper, needed help to watch over the elements as they were hidden in different parts of the world. He appointed one guardian to each element, a male who acted like the element which he guarded. Senrui soon learned that the thieves were still trying to steal the elements. They distracted the guardians by bringing along females. That's when Senrui realized his guardians would need companions. So he assigned a female to help the exsisting guardians. As time went on, two humans in every era of time would be chosen to guard an element. These humans are said to be soul mates, destined to be together if they wish it so. There has never been a problem before, but for some reason. . . When the water guardians of your era were born they never met, and when they did they hated each other. For years now the water element has been left alone. Senrui had to get the guardians together, so he sent them to another guardian."

That's when it dawned on me. Ruki and I were the water guardians. We had hated each other when we had met. Now, we had been thrown together by being sent back in time or something like that. Kaze must be the other guardian. Kaze, that meant wind. He must guard. . .

"You're one of the air guardians!"

Ruki looked at me in surprise. "You buy all that?"

Kaze nodded to me secretly. Slowly he stood and I realized he was leaving it up to me to convince Ruki.

"You're not going to leave are you?" I asked in a panic. What was I to do if I ever could convince Ruki he was telling us the truth?

"I'll come back, when the time is right." Kaze glanced at Ruki then smiled at me. "Good luck."

When he was out of sight Ruki let out a dramatic sigh. "Element guardians. Wowie." She rolled her eyes. "Some story. Just a bunch of rubbish if you ask me."

Was Ruki right or was Kaze? What he had said made sense in a way. It explained why we were here and why we acted so strange. Come to think of it. . . The two times I had felt a bond with Ruki we had been near water. The first time was at the water fall, and today with the rain.

"Jenrya Lee, you don't believe all that do you?"

Ruki gave me an accusing gaze. I smiled.

"And if I do?"

"I'll knock some sense into you."

"And if I don't?"

Ruki gave me an innocent smile. "Do you believe Kaze?" She asked in a sweet voice.

I pressed her to the wall of the cave and leaned down to kiss her. For the first time I realized what Kaze had meant. I could feel a strong power of some sort.

Ruki tried to pull away. I paused and gave her a confused look. She didn't meet my gaze.

"Don't, please." I heard her whisper. Her voice wavered slightly.

I tipped up her chin and looked into her violet eyes. They shimmered with tears.

"Don't" Ruki repeated softly.

She broke free of my grasp and took off into the rain.

A/N: So, what'd you think? Some of you might of noticed I changed the rating. This is because of later events, nothing to bad though! It's just to be on the safe side. Please R/R! Tell me what you think of Kaze's little story. . . ~sweat~