Magi: Journey of our Lives

Chapter 1

Kayami was walking through the Palace the next day, Kaisei was talking to the Emperor and had told her to explore the Palace so that she could get used to it (aka not get lost and he'd be forced to go looking for her whenever she wasn't with him). She wore a plain Ki robe and woven sandals, her black hair was pulled back into a bun by a plain thin red rope.

As she walked by a corridor, she heard voices and looked over to see a group of Kou nobles talking amongst themselves and looking towards the back area of the corridor in front of the them. Kayami followed their gaze and saw a small figure patting the head of a woman who was acting odd, her brown eyes narrowed as she took in the scene before her. It was obvious that the nobles were talking about the woman and child so she turned towards them and headed in the direction, she could see the child getting ready to attack them (if the look on the child's face was anything to go by). The child is the first to notice Kayami and narrowed their pink eyes at her, obviously waiting to see if she'd join the cruel adults instead the Ki girl moved to block the nobles view of the child and woman.

"Leave." Kayami said as she spread her arms wide, fixing a level stare at the nobles.

"Leave'?! A political hostage ordering around her captors?! How amusing!" One of the nobles said before he laughed.

Kayami narrowed her brown eyes at him and said, "You're no one to me so I do not have to be respectful to you." Their eyes widen, clearly not used to a child talking to them in such a manner. She doesn't talk like a child her age, her stare wasn't normal for a child either. "The only people I will obey is the royal family not some cowards who are only brave when they are bullying a child and woman."

The nobles gritted their teeth at her words before they turned and stormed off with the parting words of 'The Emperor will hear of this!', Kayami stared at them until they turned the corner before she lowered her arms and turned to face the child and woman.

"Are you okay?" Kayami asked.

The child stared up at her in shock while the woman next to him acted like a baby would, Kayami glanced at the woman before she moved towards her. Her path was immediately blocked by the child and now that Kayami had a closer look of the child it was obvious that it was a boy and a year younger than she was. And that he was very protective of his mother as well.

So Kayami simply smiled at him and said, "I'm Kayami Kishii, a Ki Princess." She slipped her hands into her wide sleeves and bowed respectfully.

The boy blinked before he looked at his mother and said, "...I'm Kouha's mother and this is Kouha." He patted the woman's hair as she cooed at him, Kayami doesn't react to it instead she kept her friendly smile. There were women like this back at her Clan's home so she was used to this sort of behavior.

"It's too cold for Kouha to be out here, I'll help you bring him inside." Kayami said with a smile as she moved forward once more, slowly and nonthreatening so Kouha could see that she meant neither him or his mother any harm.

"Thank you! You're such a sweet girl!"

So Kouha and Kayami somehow brought his mother back inside (she didn't know how since they were both shorties) and had gotten her on the bed. Kouha and Kayami were both sitting on either side of her, treating her like a baby. Kayami remembered a song that her mother used to sing to her so she started to sing it for Kouha's mother.

~Father once said to me. Many moons ago. A warrior's hand will defend.~ Kayami sang. ~Mother said one day. There is more that you must know. A maiden's hand will sustain.~ She felt the woman start to relax against her. ~Two hands together. Incomplete alone. Balance and union. And the gate will open~ Kayami ran her fingers through the woman's hair. ~Go my children go. Go to crimson flames. To save our children. The lights of memory remain.~ She trailed off on a low note, looking down at the woman and saw that she had fallen asleep.

"That was a lovely song." Kouha said with a smile.

"Thank you." Kayami smiled at him. "My mother used to sing it to me." She crawled off the bed before she turned around and patted Kouha's head, smiling. "I have to go but I promise to visit you and Kouha everyday."

Kouha beamed up at her, "Okay."

She smiled and waved before walking out of the room, and out of their part of the Palace. Kayami had wanted to talk to him as Kouha, not as 'his mother' but she didn't know him well enough to do that. She smiled at the thought of getting to know both boy and his mother better...

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Kayami was minding her own business as she walked through another section of the Palace when she was almost impaled by a icicle...for real! She barely dodged the deadly missile though the skirt of her robe wasn't so lucky and now she had a tear that she was sure Kaisei would lecture her for even though it wasn't her fault.

"Hey, that was a good dodge." A voice said from above her causing her to look up. Floating, really like floating in mid air, above her was a small boy who looked to be a year younger than she was. He wore Kou robes of fine, expensive quality.

"Oi! Be more careful where you aim that next time! You could have killed someone!" Kayami yelled up at the young boy, shaking her fist at him revealing part of her true personality at him.

"But I didn't kill you so it's fine unlike the others."

"That's because I dodged it at the last minute! And killing people by icicle isn't nice!"

"So they better dodge it as well like you did."

"Not everyone will have reflexes like I do, kid."

"Who are you calling a kid? You're a kid yourself."

"And? I'm older than you are so it's my job to make sure you stop this!"

He stared at her silently for a few minutes before he started to laughing as he started to get lower until until his feet touched the ground in front of her.

"What's so funny?" Kayami asked even more annoyed.

"You are...you're really interesting, not many people talk to me like that....or have the guts to." The boy said with a smirk.

"Who are you that makes everyone act like that then?"

"I'm the Kou Oracle, Judar...who are you?"

It sounded like he could have cared less about knowing her name, it sounded like he just asked because he had been told to or something to that affect.

"Kayami Kishii." Then Kayami tilted her head to the side as she stared at him, "Aren't you a little too young to be treated like that?"

Judar shrugged his shoulders at that and said, "I don't mind...I like it since it means that I can do whatever I want."

And as soon as he said that, they both heard someone calling either his name or addressing him as Oracle.

"Tsk...and just when I was having fun with you too." Judar clicked his tongue in annoyance.

Kayami gave him a look at that but she doesn't comment on it. What fun? They were just talking now..did that mean he was going to do something else to her? She was happy that he was leaving now and she hoped that she wasn't going to see him again.

"Hey, girl...I'll see you later, okay?" Judar said with a smirk before he walked off as soon as two cloaked men walk around the corner and take him somewhere else. Leaving Kayami standing there as she thought about what he had just said.

"And there goes the happiness that I felt when I thought that I wasn't going to see him again..." Kayami muttered as she headed back to her room, hopefully she would be able to fix this tear before Kaisei found out about it.

Author's Note: The Ki Empire is based on ancient Japan and no, I didn't know about the Kino Kingdom when I was making it so imagine my surprise when I saw the Kino nation...surprised the hell out of me and I'm not going to change it xD

Eh, the chapter could have been better...might return to it and edit it.