Pretear Fan Fiction ❯ Field Full of Daisies ❯ Evil Truth ( Chapter 15 )

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By: Restlessloner
Anime/Manga: Pretear Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Drama / Comedy / Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 08.16.2006 | Pages: 13 | Words: 25.1K | Visits: 192 | Status: Work In Progress

Field Full of Daisies-Evil Truth
“I'm just saying. You two are weird.”
“How so?”
Kagura wasn't paying Himeno too much attention. She'd been too busy on the computer playing The Sims. It was an early Spring Sunday morning and in a few hours, GMT was going to have a last minute practice for the big home match coming up tomorrow. Kagura seemed pretty wrapped in the game she was playing though. Apparently, she wanted a graveyard behind the new house she built and had a large family of grungy adults. Himeno just watched in disapproval. The girl kept making them cook until they started a fire, then made them walk into the fire. “Couples are supposed to be romantic. You are just…well…not. A couple of perverts really.”
“I'm not a pervert.”
“Keep telling yourself that.”
“We do…romantic…stuff…sometimes.”
“Name once.”
“I don't remember because it there were so many-“
“More like none. Let's take Valentines day for instance.”
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Sasame walked up to her room. She should have BEEN up by now. They were about to leave for school. He knocked on the door. “Kagura?…” There was no response. Not even her usual grunt just to let you know she was alive. He knocked again before walking in. She was laying face first into her pillow. He set the flowers and chocolate down on her desk and shook the girl's shoulder a little. She made a weird noise but didn't necessarily move. “You alright? Himeno said you won't wake up.” He shook her again. “You have to get up.” She groaned now.
“I dun feel good…”
Now he frowned. “You're probably sick. I told you to wear a coat out but-“
“I don't get sick!” The first time she'd said anything that didn't sound groggy.
“Yeah right. Sit up.” She grumbled out a few curse words but sat up anyway, sniffing a few times. He felt her forehead and sighed. “You're staying home.”
“Like I wasn't already going to do that, genius-“
“And you ARE sick-“
“No. I'm tired.”
“You're pale. And you've got a fever.”
“You're hand's just cold.”
“I'll bring you back your work.”
“Don't bother.”
He was walking away, scooping up the chocolate too. She'd spotted him and started growling. “You can't eat this. You're sick. I'll give it to you later-“
“I'm not sick! Now give me the chocolate or I'll take it from you.”
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“How was that not romantic.”
“You're not serious!”
“You spend too much time with Yayoi.” Kagura glanced at the flower vase still on the desk. She never really took care of them. It was a wonder they weren't dead yet. A bunch of daisies with a rose in the middle. Himeno had still been talking but Kagura just grunted and shrugged off whatever it was the girl had to say.
“I said shouldn't you be getting ready! Are you listening to me! Kagura!”
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It was like it was me. Watching a movie full of images I've only read about. Memories that seemed to belong to me. Memories I don't remember. But, the emotions, feelings that came with them seemed real enough. They had to be mine from some time or another. From the time when I'd first met her, a time in another life, I was…mildly obsessed I guess. So this was the person I was supposed to be with. The person who's been waiting for me to come for her. The one meant to fight with me and the one I'm meant to protect. I first saw her in that daisy field. She looked so calm, beautiful, just lying there sleeping. Surrounded by the stalks of tall daisies, crimson hair spread in random directions around her. Had she been sleeping this entire time? Caught in the spell of an eternal slumber that could only be lifted by her knight's kiss. No, that sounded too much like a fairy tale. But wasn't it just like that for the time he'd spent with her. Teaching her how to use the power of the Sonic Boom or conjuring her bow and arrow had been one thing but teaching her to shoot an arrow or use the Sonic Boom properly had been another mess entirely. Like when she accidentally blew up the elder's house. “SORRY! It was an accident. I didn't mean to-“ “You hoodlem! Just wait until I get my hands on you!” Or when she accidentally shot Hayate with an arrow. Though, I'm not really sure it was an accident since it came immediately after the wind knight teased her about missing her target. I guess all she needed was the right motivation to actually hit something on purpose. Though she never owned up to it. That smirk she gave me after she apologized to Hayate said enough. It was something I loved and regretted seeing at the same time. Every time she smirked like that, I always thought, “Kami, what'd she do now?” Still, it was one of the many things that came with being around her and it got to the point when I just had to be around her. I'd always feel weird when I wasn't. Like when a demon seed would appear. If it was too dangerous for her to go, and I'd have to leave her behind, she'd just smile and wave at me. Like she knew I was coming back. And I always did. Even if barely. I remember the day I first fell in love with her. She was napping in that daisy field where we'd first met. Curled up beside the puppy he'd gotten her a while back. He hated to wake her, but he had and she'd woken up with the brightest smile on her face. Like it was a blessing just to see him today. And he could have sworn he'd seen her change. Like the pretear princess of the white snow. The wind slowed around her. The light was brighter around her. The flowers seemed healthier and sound was more coherent. How could you not fall in love with someone who could make life more than…life? Only problem was the hurt that came with it. Having so many of his friends falling in love and getting married while he and Kagura just remained…the same. It came with her being so stubborn. Or was it confused. He never really asked. He didn't have the lifetime he wanted with her, with endless time to ask. But that was a memory even he didn't want to call back on. What hurt was the many times at the end of the day when she'd say good night and close the door in his face. And leave him with an aching pain he thought would keep him from waking the next morning. It was that night he'd come home that he just snapped. But it was worth it to be with her. The feeling of her skin on his. “Sasame” Her writhing beneath him. Arching into him. “Sasame” Her nails digging into his back. Tightening around him. “Sasame!” The sound of her calling out him time after time muffled by the euphoria of being with her, only the way he had once dreamed of being. It was perfect.
“I said wake up Sasame!” Kagura finally decided to give him one hard kick since her slapping him around hadn't worked. He jolted upward, grunting from the pain in his side after being kicked. He'd dreamt it all. But it seemed real.
“Kagura…wha-“
“Dumb ass. You over slept. We've got practice today. Normally I'd leave you to sleep through it but I need the ride. Busses don't run for another hour and you've got half of that to get dressed.”
Sasame ran a tired hand over his face. She had to wake him up during a dream like that didn't she? Just when it was getting to the good part. Damn it… Sasame glanced over at her but the only image he got was the one he'd left his dreams with. Her in…nothing. His face went red but he stopped blushing when her frown deepened.
“You gonna move your ass or what?”
He got up, ignoring the fact that he'd been in his boxers and had a girl in his room. Anyone else and he would have told them to get out. Then again, Kagura never did knock. She always just barged in. `If you've got anything to hide then find a better place to do it.' That was what she said the first time she'd burst into his room early in the morning. Soon, barging into his room became habit for her. And a bad one. If he wanted to get dressed he had to lock the door. Before, people just knocked like polite human beings. Once again, what god did I anger to end up with someone so rude? He got up and took a shower after sending her down to the living room. After he was dressed, he came down stairs and overheard a bit of Himeno and Kagura's conversation they were having in the kitchen.
“You'd tell me if you were right?”
“Not really. You'd make too big a deal over it.”
“Kagura, I'm serious!”
“So am I. Look, I'll deal with it. I mean you act like joining GMT was my idea.”
“I know but.”
“I'll be fine. Really. I won't break any bones or anything.”
Sasame walked into the kitchen with a confused look on his face. “You're worried about breaking a bone? What for? I'm sure you're not that defenseless.” It was half a joke but Himeno and Kagura didn't look like they got it.
“She's not worried about me. She's worried about them. She doesn't want me…how did she put it…going crazy during the game tomorrow.”
“I didn't mean to make it sound like that-“
“It's alright Himeno. You don't need to apologize.” Sasame was about to open his mouth and voice his confusion when Kagura dragged him to the front door. “Don't ask. We're late enough as it is.”
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Sasame got dragged off by a couple of his friends upon entrance through the door. He immediately went to sparring but because Kagura sat down, she got yelled at for being late. Her and not model student Sasame. “Now go find someone to spar with!”
“Fine.” Kagura lifted herself off the floor and saw Bruno, the foreign exchange student from Russia, give her a look that said he wanted to practice with her. He was still a little sore from being bumped down to rank four but the two got along well enough. She ignored him though. She didn't really feel like practicing. Principal would have let her out of GMT duty since he let her out of her other after school duties. But he didn't. The bastard's slutting me out for the trophy. She walked over to another one of her few friends made while with GMT. “What's up last place?” She looked up from her position on the floor. She wasn't being made to practice, probably because she wasn't going to be playing. This match was against their rival school so she was probably going to be benched all day.
“HI KAGI-SEMPAI!” She jumped up. Or at least Kagura thought she jumped up. The girl looked like she belonged in elementary school. Not her first year in High school. She seemed like the type that you shoved in lockers, not because she was a dork, but because of the ease in which she fit. And Kagura would have probably tried it too if the girl hadn't made it known that she was claustrophobic.
“Couch says I have to practice so c'mon.”
“With me? …You sure you're not joking?”
“No. Now c'mon. I'm tired today.” Okay, so I'm not sensitive enough to spare the girl's feelings when calling her weak. I'm not to Yayoi either so I guess it just ain't happening.
“Alright!” She didn't seem to mind. Kagura blocked a few hits, took a few punches from the girl out of curiosity. Nope. Still don't hurt. And she even tripped the girl a few times.
“Hey last place?”
She stopped trying to punch at her and looked up. “Yes Kagi-sempai?”
“The game's tomorrow and-“
“YES! It's going to be SO much fun! They never let me play and I only made the team because I'm couch's niece but it's always fun to watch!”
“Riiight…so about the game. I-“
“Are you nervous? You'll do great. There's nothing to worry about-“
“Try listening dammit.” She shut-up finally and Kagura spoke. “I need you to do me a favor. See, I'm not really good with fighting people-“
“Huh? But-“
“Remember that listening thing?” She shut-up again. “I mean…there's no regular way to say this but…if I look like I'm having fun…I'm going to need you to stop the fight.”
She looked confused. “Does Kagi-sempai not want to have fun?”
“It's not that…well…actually it is that. No I don't want to have fun. It's very, very bad.”
“But…even if I understood why you don't want to have fun, how would I get you to stop. I'm not very big.”
Kagura shrugged. “Get Bruno to do it.”
“I'm not sure if I understand but okay.”
“I'm not asking you to understand. I'm just asking you to do me a favor-“
“Sanma!”
Kagura turned around to see the couch standing there. “Yes?”
“What do you think you're doing?”
“What you told me to.”
“I meant spar with someone near your own rank. Like Ayanami.”
“He's already got someone.”
“Mawata's free.”
She'd just gotten back from the bathroom and looked up at the sound of her name. “Pardon me?”
“You'll be sparring with Sanma.”
Kagura looked from Mawata to their couch. “We shouldn't. It's not a very good idea.”
“And why not?”
Now Mawata but in. “I'd rather not myself. I'll just wait for someone else to finish-“
“Nonsense. Now get moving you two before I bench you both in tomorrows game.”
“I wouldn't mind that.”
“NOW SANMA!”
Kagura snorted and walked out in Mawata's direction. “Let's get this over with.”
“You act like you're the one suffering.” Mawata walked a little ways away from her in an area they could have alone.
“You wouldn't know.”
Mawata frowned at her. How could she be suffering? She'd taken the person she loved away. She even had him so wrapped around her finger that he didn't even care that she cheated on him. If anyone was suffering it was her having to watch those two together and keep her mouth closed for his sake. He might…hate her if she opened her mouth to everyone about it. He'll blame her and it would very much be her fault but could you blame her for telling the truth? That his girlfriend was a gang banging whore? She'd stay out of it for now…but if she hurt him. I'll never forgive her…
“Any day now,” Kagura said with an irritated expression.
Mawata looked a little irritated herself but attacked anyway. Running toward Kagura who just stood there, not bothering to take on the stance she'd been taught by the couch. The green haired attacker crouched low to the ground and attempted a raised kick to her stomach but Kagura moved out of the way so that didn't work. She even had the chance to hit her because of it but didn't. Mawata rolled toward her and tried a raising punch but Kagura moved out of the way of that too but didn't make a move to hit her. “You going to fight back or are we going to be playing cat and mouse all day?”
“I'll hit you when I feel like it.”
What the hell kind of answer was that? Mawata tried a double kick at her but Kagura moved again. Hate to admit it, but she had to be the best at dodging hits Mawata had seen. She didn't look like she was taking much effort to move out of the way. Still, you'd expect more from a Saint leader. Kagura wouldn't hit her yet.
“Anyone ever tell you you're not very good at this. Stick to serving tea.”
“You're not very good either. What? Were you not taught to fight back by your former…affiliates?” Kagura frowned at Mawata when she ran in to hit her next. This time the rose swung around her, and brought her leg up. Next thing Mawata knew, something hard hit her back and pushed her to the floor.
“People like you shouldn't speak on what I can and can't do. Just makes you look stupid.”
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The sound of metal grinding against cement echoed through out the alley ways and he couldn't find his way out. Like a lab rat stuck in a maze only this time, if he didn't get out, it was his life to give up, not some stupid piece of cheese. He gripped onto his bloodied arm. The loss was beginning to make him a little dizzy. He wasn't going to make it out. No one made it away from her. And if anyone did, he hadn't heard about it. Probably because every target ends up dead sooner or later. She's Maki's favorite for a reason. And it wasn't for her tendency to let people go with a warning. What freaked him most was the way she was playing with him. Like his hunting was a game. He stumbled and tripped due to his loosing vision but what scared him more was…the sound…it stopped. “Dammit.” He turned around towards the sound. His sight was blurred but could still make out some things. And at the sight of her, he wished he couldn't. The devil stared back at him. Blazing eyes pierced his perfectly, surrounded by a mass of blood colored hair. Her smile was faint and so were the tattoos on her forearms. “You're bleeding to death. This isn't any fun if you can't run anymore.” He backed away when she lifted her foot and kicked him. “C'mon. Get up. I gotta go home soon and I don't wanna leave bored.” She kicked him again and he coughed blood. Obvious the guy wasn't getting back up. “Fine. Just stay still then. I'd say this won't hurt long but I myself wouldn't know.”
“YOU'RE GOING TO HELL FOR THIS! MAKI TOO! ALL OF YOU!”
She laughed and kicked him again. “And where do you think you're going? You take too much advantage of being a Saint. Starting your own human trafficing business. It gives us a bad name and unwanted attention by the police. I'm doing this more for me anyway. I saw those girls and I'm pretty sure they hope you go to hell too. So I guess I'll be seeing you in hell later on now won't I?” She brought her sword up and smashed it down onto him, blood splattered and soon settled. Kagura wiped off her sword then looked down at her stained hands. They were so…filthy. But they've been like that since Hanai haven't they?
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Sasame looked over in the passenger seat and saw Kagura just staring at her hands. “You alright?”
“Uh, yeah.” She stopped and stared out the window. “So you think you'll do good tomorrow. Didn't practice the kendo part too often did you?”
“I did more than you.”
“Eh, I won't have a problem with it.”
“Cocky aren't you.”
“No, but I'm hungry.”
“I'm sure we've got food in the house.” Sasame pulled into the driveway and parked, walking inside to an empty home. There was a note on the fridge saying Hayate and Ayanami had stepped out for a moment. And in Himeno's sloppy handwriting was written, `Over Yayoi's if you need me'. “Great. They ditched us.”
“Like they were going to stay inside on a Sunday.” Kagura opened the freezer and grabbed a frozen pizza. Sasame cocked an eyebrow at her. “What?”
“You know…you have to use the oven for that…and I've never seen you use one before.”
Her face went red. She was…embarrassed? “I have used an oven before. And besides, I'm just heating up a damn pizza!”
Sasame smirked. “You're not embarrassed are you?”
“No!”
“Too quick to defend yourself. I think you are.” Kagura threw the plastic the pizza was in at him and felt stupid when it didn't even make it half way there, floating down to the floor. “Nice going. What are you going to throw next? Feathers?” She frowned and threw the cardboard the pizza was set on at him, and it actually hit. Though she highly doubted it hurt. “Wow, that's a step up. It actually made it across the room this time. Now try something that'll make an impact on me.”
“Will my foot impacting with your ass be a good substitute.” She slammed the oven door closed after the pizza was on foil and inside.
“No reason to get angry. I was joking.”
“Ha ha ha. You're hilarious.”
“You're not actually angry are you?”
“No.”
“I know what'll make you feel better.”
“You shutting up?”
“No. A hug!”
He made his way around the breakfast table and Kagura stepped away from him. “Don't touch me.”
“Aw c'mon.”
“I'll scream.”
“Really? That'd be kinda funny actually.” He pulled over, even though she did punch him on the way, and sat her up on the counter. “We haven't been alone for a while have we. And the house is empty.”
She blinked and stopped the grin that threatened to surface. “Really. Yeah. It's kind of boring. We could play mahjong.”
“Nah.”
“Monopoly?”
“Nope.”
“Poker.”
“Nuh-uh.”
“Rich man Poor man?”
“Not what I had in mind.”
“So what do you wanna do then?”
“You.”
She blushed, smirked, and narrowed her eyes on him at the same time. “Pervert.”
“Only because I hang around you. You're a real bad influence on me.” He pulled her a little closer. One hand played with the rim of her shirt and the other rested on the counter. “Besides, I'm just being honest.”
“We're HOME!”
Kagura jumped off the counter, practically shoving Sasame in the process. “H-Hey Ayanami.”
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Sasame rubbed his eyes for the fourth time that day. He wasn't getting to good a night's sleep. He kept having…THOSE dreams. He couldn't really look at Kagura without staring and when she noticed, his face burned red. “You alright. You look tired.” The crowd was extremely loud. Bruno was out. Sasame had gone before him so just imagine how loud they were then. Kagura was next.
Sasame shrugged off her question. “You nervous? You're going up next.”
“No. I don't have a reason to be.” Bruno came in. He smiled so they guessed he won. She was next, then Mawata.
“Er…Break a leg!”
Kagura shook her head at Bruno. “You want me to break my leg?”
“No. It's an expression like good luck.”
“So you want me to break their leg?”
Sasame sighed. “Just go.” He pushed her out the exit door, onto the blue mat. The guy was going against wasn't so big and he didn't seem to threatened. He practically laughed at her but held it in long enough for the ref to explain where you shouldn't by hit. He weighed a lot of emphasis on groin.
He's wearing a cup. It won't hurt…will it? I should hit the bastard there just to find out. The smirk came but left soon after. That kind of curiosity wasn't worth the disqualification. Besides, Ayanami and Himeno, who were currently screaming in a far off row, would be disappointed. Sanma was there too and smiled but of course she wasn't going to scream. It'd probably come out in a stutter anyway. Once it started, it wasn't much different from practice with Mawata. A lot of the team looked at Kagura in a bit of a disapproving way. She didn't really hit unless she had to. Just dodging and joking around with him. Not very good for the ego. But she won none the less. Mawata went and won most of her matches…that is, until her second to last round. He'd swept her and she fell back on her ankle. It twisted and an on hand medic said it was too injured to play on. Someone had to take her place in her last match. “I'll do it.”
“Not you. You've been goofing around all day-“
“But I won didn't I? Who else is going to do it? Sasame has a round right after and I'm done.”
“…Fine. Go strap up and get out there. But promise me no goofing around.”
“I won't. I'll get it over with.” This was the kendo portion of game. She grabbed her wooden sword and headed out, ready to fight whoever was waiting.
It was another guy. Platinum blonde hair like Berserk's, or at least she thought. There wasn't much to make out through his mask. But it was definitely a guy. You couldn't see much through the armor padding but he was built a little bigger than your average girl. Kagura blinked a few times but her vision wasn't that good when looking through the mask. “Do both competitors understand the Head organization over GMT and other combative sports take no responsibility over the injuries that may occur during this match.” The ref was explaining routine rules and liabilities to avoid any financial complications. They just didn't want to get sued. The armor didn't stop everything from hurting. When they both replied yes he went on. “Do both competitors understand that the armor worn is set standard by the safety division of this head organization.” They said yes. “Do both competitors understand that any armor removed during the course of this match is willingly forfeited and risk of more serious injuries are increased.” They said yes. “Does either competitor wish to remove something now?” They both said no. Kagura almost said yes, not really paying attention and wanting to start already. “Do both competitors understand that any continued combat after the three hit win bar is set will result in their immediate disqualification?” They said yes. “Do both competitors understand that all matches won by disqualified persons will be forfeited?” They both said yes. “All right. To your respective places. Begin when you hear the whistle.”
The two backed a few feet away from each other, but not before the other guy decided to speak. “Don't worry. I'm not into beating up on girls. I'll go easy on you.”
Kagura frowned. This had, upon a time, been an all-male sport. So had kendo. Girls who entered now didn't get too much respect. I'll take him seriously when he hits me. Even though she'd hate to admit it, she couldn't see to well through the mask and the armor was weighing her down. When fighting, she was known for speed. How the hell was she supposed to jump around in that? She'd barely won her kendo match in the safety standard armor. Now she had to do it again. The whistle was blown and he came in running. Go easy on me huh? He swung at her twice but at the cost of falling over. Damn damn damn DAMMIT! That's it. It's coming off. He smacked against her arm hit the wooden sword, making sure she felt it, before offering to help her up. Just to look good to everyone else probably. Kagura ignored his hand. When she tried getting up…well…she fell back down. People laughed too. Her face was red. Even he was laughing. She could practically see the big ass grin on his face.
“You sure you don't need help up?” Kagura sat there for a while, waiting for the laughs to dim down. Then afterwards waiting for Himeno's shouts for people to shut up, to die down. She took off her helmet and started un-strapping all the excess weight off of her. Every piece of standard equipment and dropped it off to the side. “You giving up already?”
Kagura stepped back in with a grin on her face. So he'd actually hit her. And it hurt so he had to have a few muscles somewhere under all that crap. This was going to be…fun. The ref looked at her like she was stupid. “Are you sure you understand the risk-“
“Yes.”
He waited a few more moments before blowing the whistle again. He came running in again in a similar fashion, but at least this time Kagura could clearly see what he was doing. And this time she rolled out of the way. Blocked his next swing and slammed the sword down onto his leg. Hoping he could feel that burn like her arm did. He didn't move for a while, but soon proceeded in removing his armor as well. Now the ref was really thought we were stupid. One of us was now sure to get injured. What the hell does he care? They're not liable.
“Lucky shot. I'd like to see you try that again.” Kagura just smiled back. It reminded her of a good fight. When Maki would send her on a job and the idiots actually decided to fight back. Sure, you may find her interpretation of fun twisted and cruel but how else could you do what she did and not feel bad about it. If you see it as a game, then it doesn't seem wrong. It was like a voice that belonged to you, but seemed so different at the same time, speaking to you in the back of your mind until it was all you could think about. It told you that person deserved to die. They did something wrong. They deserve it. You're not doing anything wrong. Those people don't know anything. You're helping them. It's a good thing. Be happy. Have fun. They deserve it. This mentality was what those who knew her, called her Saint complex. She didn't necessarily think normally when like that. Almost bipolar. It was her attitude on jobs and you never get between her and a job.
He ran at her again. This time, Kagura didn't hit back. She ducked and dodged him. Laughing every time he missed. “Certainly you can do better than that! Hit me already.” He got angry and slammed his sword down and she rolled out of the way. “That wasn't nice. You really could've hurt me.” She was beside him now. He growled at her, before bringing his sword up to swing at her again. She rolled away from him, only to come charging at his back. The wood slapped against his back and he fell over. No need to say how ugly a mark that was going to leave. “One more hit and I guess you loose right?”
“Bitch…”
“…You deserve it ya know.” She backed away from him, that big bright smile never leaving his view. The ref blew the whistle again, but this time, Kagura ran after him. One more hit and he looses. One more hit and he can't fight back. One more hit and he's dead.
“What'd I miss?” The smallest on the team came rushing in after a bathroom break. Bruno filled her in that Kagura was winning and she cheered about that. She looked at the match going on. Kagura was being a little…a…lot…aggressive. The guy was frantically trying not to get hit. Struggling to make sure her wooden sword didn't make contact with any part of him. She wouldn't want to get hit either. Kagura looked like she was putting a little too much power in her swings. And she was fast. Like a little bunny hopping all over the place. And she was smiling too. Not like she smiled with Same-sempai though. Her smile now was a little…creepy. Like a wide fang flashing smile with shadow cast eyes. It reminded her of an exaggeration from an anime. Then something Kagura had said earlier popped up again. `I'm not asking you to understand. I'm just asking you to do me a favor.' She's really going to hurt him. Maybe that's what she meant! She noticed Sasame staring with a bit of a worried look. “Br-Bruno!”
He looked up at the frantic pipsqueak. “What is it-“
“Go stop the fight!”
“Wha-“
“I said go!” She tried pushing at him but it didn't really make him move.
“What for?”
“K-Kagi-sempai's really going to hurt him.”
“That's the idea.”
“No. I mean BAD. And she's doing it on purpose.”
“I know she's mean sometimes but she wouldn't-“
“She told me to stop her if it looked like she was going to. She'll never ask me for anything ever again if I don't do this for her now. Then she won't call me last place anymore or think about putting me in her locker anymore or making me stand in the lunch line for her anymore-"“
“Isn't that a good thing?”
“Just go!”
He sighed, glanced at the coach, before getting out there. By this time she had him on the floor. “Alright! You win!”
She chuckled and lifted her sword. “I don't let anyone off. You think I'll start with you?”
“What the hell are you talking about!”
“You deserve it.” She was about to slam her sword down on him but a pair of big arms wrapped around her and lifted her off the floor.
“That'll be enough of that. You've got our poor friend back there worried to death.” Kagura blinked a few times and looked around, as if seeing where she was for the first time. Then noticed the boy on the floor. And what does she do? Apologize? NOOoooo. Kagura throws her sword at him.
“That counts as a hit right? I still win right?”
Bruno laughed and carried her out. It wasn't against the rules. It counted as a win. Mawata looked on disgusted. The woman would have tried killing him with a wooden sword had her friend not stepped in. Then they laugh as if nothing happened. She noticed Sasame and a shorter teammate follow them out. Sasame was up next. He didn't have time to be worrying over her. Mawata removed her ankle from it's propped position, used the crutches provided, and left the arena. They didn't need her anymore. She was injured. The girl called Tanaka and had him drive her home.
Kagura sat down in the lobby while Sasame shooed her friends away for the moment. “What was that about? You could have gotten disqualified for purposely trying to cripple the guy-“
“I know.”
“Then why'd the hell you do it?”
“…I didn't mean to.”
“You threw your sword at him and laughed afterward Kagura. Don't try sounding sorry now-“
“I said I didn't fucking mean to alright?” Sasame stopped talking at the tone she used with him. He was about to speak again when they announced that Sasame needed to be present for the final match of the day. “You should go.” He didn't walk away immediately, but left when they called for him again. Though, she could feel that someone else was there too. They sat down beside her. Whoever it was would either speak eventually if they had anything to say.
“Those moves…” It was Hayate. She recognized the voice even if it was in a softly serious tone. “Where'd you learn them.”
“Around…”
“With the Tokian Saints I assume…” It was quiet again. “Everywhere you hit him, had that been a real sword…he would have died on impact. You…were trying to kill him weren't you?”
It was silent for a long time again. “I didn't-…I mean I wasn't trying-…don't tell anyone…please.”
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“EXAMS ARE POSTED!” The administrator immediately moved out of the way before the mob of students could trample him. They had been given exams over the break to see if students kept up with their studies over the break.
Fools.
Like anyone wasted their time studying for exams during the holidays. Exams were just now being posted, a few weeks before Spring exams. Kagura groaned to herself. The fucking season changes and the school sees that as reason enough to give us an exam. She grabbed Yayoi and Himeno, pushing her way to the front of the crowd. People just moved out of the way for the Ayanamis. Sexy bastards got whatever they want.
“Here! Stand in my spot Same-kun! Haya-kun!”
“Oh! No! Mine! I'm in front!”
Kagura faked a gag. “They make me sick. Take my virginity Same-kun! Oh, no! Take MINES! It's better!”
Yayoi blushed and laughed at the same time. Himeno just slapped Kagura's arm. “I think someone's jealous.” Kagura snorted. “I bet you are.”
“I'm not.”
“Then why are you so red.”
“I've always been a little redder than your average person if you haven't noticed.”
“Not your hair. Your face. You're blushing!”
“Well damn. Announce it to the world.” Kagura pushed forward enough to get a good look at the scores. “There's your name Yayoi. Fifth. Not bad. Aaaaand there's Himeno.”
“Oh I can't look!”
“Then you won't know what you got.”
Himeno peeked over her sister's shoulder. “Just tell me Onee-chan.”
“You got thirteenth. That isn't bad. Your last exam score was way worse.”
“Way to make me feel better. What'd Hayate and Sasame get?”
“Hayate got eleventh.”
Yayoi laughed. “Now he's really going to call you an empty-headed valley girl.”
“He just says it because he likes her.”
“Kagura!”
“Shut the hell up. Everyone notices but you.”
Himeno was red herself now. Yayoi looked a little confused. Apparently the confusion was wide spread. Normally Sasame or Mawata got first but Sasame was second this time and Mawata…third? “Then who got…oh…kami. Kagura?”
“What'd I get? Twenty, thirty, is it embarrassingly low.”
“Y-You got F-F-First! I can't believe while you were goofing off, I was studying and you did better than me.”
There were a lot of shouts like, “Sanma?” or “How the hell did she score higher than me? She sleeps in class!” “Freak of nature is what it is.” “I heard her brain is twice as big as ours.” “No way, then her head would be huge.” “The bitch probably just cheated.” “No way, I hear she got damn near perfect on her entrance exams and she took `em like…TEN times to make sure she wasn't cheating. “Oh Now you're just lying!” “Honest!” “I'd believe aliens abducted her before I consider Angry Sanma being smart.” With each insult overheard, Himeno wondered if Kagura would snap at the crowd. But she didn't. She simply shrugged it off and walked to class.
“C'mon before we're late.”
It hadn't been five minutes in class before Kagura got called down to the office. “OOOOOoouh.” “I told you she cheated.”
Once there, she was greeted by her overly gleeful principal and another man with a suit. He looked like a foreigner. His bad Japanese greeting gave him away. “Now I heard what happened during the last GMT match. I've made sure you were dropped from it. I don't want another incident like that getting out of hand.”
“I told you to let me drop it befo-“
“But on a lighter note! This is a man who goes to countries all around the world to offer the top students of the top schools a chance for a higher learning at an advanced college in America. Where you get the chance to learn a new language and get a high level education in a new environment.”
He tried speaking again but it wasn't…a very good explanation. He couldn't speak very well. “I speak English.”
“Oh? Uh, I apologize. I should have expected as much from Kogo's top student. You weren't…um…what I expected though. I didn't know they let their student dye their hair here.”
“They don't.” It was quiet for a moment before he got what I was trying to say. I hated it. I don't have to look like a damn dork to be smart. Maybe if I tuck my shirt in and by a damn pocket protector, people will take me seriously. No…I'd have to dye my hair black for that to happen…like I'd do that. Now that's crazy talk Kagura. Your hair suits your personality too much.
“Well, anyway. I was wondering what profession you planned on going into?”
“Business…”
“…Any field in particular?”
“Not really. Technology I guess. It'll kill us all eventually. Might as well make money off of it.”
“…okay…why would you choose going into business?”
“It's not for the weak or timid. I like it. Plus, I think of myself as a good negotiator.”
“How so.”
“I just have a way with people. What else is there to say? I didn't really put much thought into it.”
“And do you think you'd be interested in attending. It's in New York. Your living expenses would be taken care of I assure you.”
“…I'll…have to think about it.” If the principal had understood what she just said, he would have thrown a fit. Their top future graduate not going? Out of the question!
“Well, here's my information. Call at any time if you're interested.”
She took the card from him and shoved it in her pocket. After the conversation was over and done with, she returned to class. “What'd they want?” Himeno whispered.
“Nothin' much. Just let me drop GMT.” No point in thinkin' about going. I doubt I'll be around long enough to go.
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“You kids be good now!” Ayanami waved. She winked as well before getting in the car with Sanma and driving off. Yep, another Kendo match. Himeno and Hayate were long gone by now and the two mothers were just making the trip out. Kagura yawned and went back inside the Ayanami's house. They wouldn't let her eat with all the racket they were making. Pancakes, eggs, bacon, milk, orange juice, and apple, this is the kind of stuff you eat when coming over to a place that cooks good food. Sausage links. Can't forget those! Kagura smothered everything, and I mean EVERYTHING in syrup. Well not her drink. Duh. But her food. It tasted better that way. If you haven't had scrambled eggs with syrup, you're missing out. Sasame sat down to finish eating but couldn't help but stare at the animal way she shoved her food down her throat.
“Maybe you should consider chewing. It'll go down easier that way.” She glared at him but obviously cared more about eating then arguing. She finished after a while and they just sat there with nothing to do. “We can't just sit here all day.”
“Why not?”
Sasame sighed. “You can't think of anything you rather be doing right now?”
She leaned across the table with a grin on her face. “I know something.”
His breathing quickened a little. “Oh? What?”
“I want to go to the park.”
He frowned now. “The park? What's at the park?”
“Yeah. Can't think of anything better than that.”
She was grinning at him again. It was one of those grins too. Damn her…
“I'm packing food. Can't go to a park on an empty stomach.”
“Believe me. Your stomach is anything but empty,” Sasame mumbled.
“What was that?”
“I said I'd hate for you stomach to be empty.”
She narrowed her eyes on him before turning around and grabbing food. Out of a fridge that didn't belong to her no less.
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Sasame just stared, lagging behind while she ran off to sit under the tree in the middle of the daisy field. This field was just like the book, his dreams, so many memories here. Memories he hadn't experienced in this lifetime but in another. Kagura looked up at him from where she sat. He was just staring around, pausing on her every few seconds. “You just going to stand there or are you going to come over here. There were a few people around. Different from her frequent visits in the winter with a bottle of sake. They'd constantly wondered where she disappeared to but she had to lay off the booze when people started showing up to the park. Worse. Cops started showing up.
Sasame sat down beside her, still staring around. It was beautiful really. Nice seeing it without the white haze. The only thing missing was Kagura's pretear uniform. He'd never really been in here. The park wasn't on his list of places he wanted to go. “So this is where you've been disappearing to all winter? You been coming here in the freezing cold?”
“It makes me feel better here. I don't have to think about anything.”
“I'm sure.” It was a side effect of the Tree of Fenril. You didn't have to think about anything when near it because, for those who let it, it thought for you. That tree had been resurrected in this field, in the story, the day Kagura-…the character…died.
“You okay?”
He snapped out of his thoughts and looked down at her. Kagura…died. He pulled her into a hug, which had surprised her yes, but she didn't stay stiff for long. I won't let her die. Not again. I'll protect her better this time…
“What was that for?”
He grinned. “I just felt like it.”
“I take it you're not hungry right now?”
Sasame leaned down more so he was just a few inches away from her. Breath fanning over her face. “Later.” He pulled her closer. Being as gentle as possible. Memories of his previous dream were provoked when Kagura pressed closer to him. Her arms wrapping around his neck, mouth opening wider for him. He could feel her calling out to him. “Sasame” He pressed down harder. His tongue battling it out with hers. “Sasame” He pushed down so they were both on the floor, not really caring if people saw or stared for that matter. That piece of her she'd left with him in death was something that didn't belong to him. She needed it back. That happiness that she'd become dependant on him for. The need for him to return it to her was so apparent it hurt. Kagura sighed but clinged onto him, hands balled up around his shirt. One of his own slid up her shirt and he'd been happy enough when she didn't say anything. She shivered under his hand though. He quickened pace down to her throat. “Sasame!” That last image snapped him out of it. What the hell am I doing? In `public'? He looked down at her. Lips swollen. Hair dis-shelved. Eyes barely open. Shirt pushed up a little too high with children playing around…well more like child. There was one kid. He sighed and pulled Kagura's head into his lap, which she immediately got comfortable in. Her face pressed as close to his stomach as it could get. “I take it you're not hungry?”
“Later…” She sounded tired so he let her sleep. But it was going to rain pretty bad soon so he hoped she didn't decide to sleep too long. He watched her while she slept, ran his hand over her hair, traced the contours of her face. He'd fallen in love with her in this very field. And it was happening all over again.
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“Just run for it!” Sasame called he was already half way there. Kagura got out of the car and ran for the house too. Rain had come full force in a matter of minutes. Now she was getting soaked. And the rain HURT. More like needles. Once on the Ayanami's porch she got a good look at her skin. It was starting to turn red. Great. Sasame tried wiping as much water from his face as possible with already wet hands. His hair was stuck to the sides of his face. He looked like a wet dog. Then again, she couldn't say much better for herself. He finally got around to looking for his keys. He began frantically checking each pocket. Then making squishy noises by jumping up and down, trying to see if he'd here them jingle. Even if they did, like hell we'd here it over the rain.
“Where are they!” Kagura had to shout over the rain.
“I think I dropped them running over here!”
Kagura made a loud annoyed noise that was muffled by the beaming rain. Great. I'm going to freeze to death. All because this dumbass…Kagura watched him struggle with the doorknob.
“I think we need to find the keys!”
“WE! You dropped them!”
“We'd get inside faster if we BOTH looked!” Sasame ran out in the rain practically dragging Kagura after him. They started out looking around on the ground. The rose got her knees dirty in mud forming from all the dirt and rain. Until finally she got fed up. She got off her knees and looked in the most LIKELY place the keys would have been. The car.
“DUMB ASS!” It was a loud screech that Sasame definitely heard. He looked up and saw Kagura staring in through the car window. She tried opening the door but it was locked. That's when Sasame got up to look. “YOU LOCKED THEM IN THE CAR!”
“Thanks for stating the obvious.”
“Oh now is NOT the time to fuck with me!”
“You WERE the last one in the car!”
“Oh that's right! I locked them in because this is my damn car. And those are my damn keys I forgot to take out of MY DAMN EGNITION!”
Sasame rolled his eyes and yanked on the door a few more times. “Then what do you suppose we do!”
“I don't know about you,” Kagura said, picking up a rather large rock, “But I'm getting in that car.”
Sasame's eyes widened. First a tree fell on his car and now that he had a new one, she was going to break his window. “NO!” He snatched it from her and dragged her back under the porch. “Don't you have your keys? We can stay in your house!”
“My keys are in YOUR house! You know, the one we can't get into!”
“What about the spare!”
“Himeno took it! She lost hers!” They just stood there while it rained in silence, until Kagura broke it. “Hey! Do you keep your window unlocked!”
“Yeah! But we don't have a ladder!” Kagura walked back out into the rain and Sasame followed her. “I said we don't have a-“
“I heard you!” She grabbed onto the vine gate against their house that kept the weeds from growing out of control. Sasame pulled her away from it.
“You're not climbing up there!”
“How else are we getting in!”
“I'll go!”
“Think about it. If and WHEN you fall, no one's going to catch you. You'd crush me! If I slip and fall, you'd catch me!”
“And if I couldn't?”
“Like you'd let me fall.” She tried climbing up it again while Sasame stood under her. She was almost all the way up to his window when her foot slipped. She ended up sliding a few inches down but that was enough to scare him.
“That's it! It's not worth it. Come back down!”
“Stop being a baby! I'm fine!”
I'll protect her better this time…She sure as hell isn't making that easy. He watched her almost slip again while trying to push open his window, and in a few more seconds, she slipped in. At least she got in okay. She opened the door for him once he got back to the porch and she had a grin on her face.
“I told you I could do it. I only slipped because I forgot to take my shoes off first-“
“It was stupid. You got lucky and you know it.” She watched him walk in past her and closed the door. After staring at him for what seemed like a long while, she went to get her keys.
“I'll just go home then.”
“In this weather?”
She looked at him like he was stupid. “It's just next door.”
“And if something happened to you, who's going to here over the rain.”
“You worry too much.” Just then, every light in the house flickered at the crack of thunder. Then, they all went out. The television cut off, and everything that needed to be plugged in went off. The house was near pitch black with the exception of the dim midnight sky light filtering in through the windows. “This. Is. Fucking. PERFECT…”
“My mother keeps a lot of candles and two flashlights around incase of black outs.”
“Yeah. We'll have light while we starve.”
“We have a lot of canned food too. We'll be fine. It's just one night.”
“Little tip. If the lights are out long you're going to want to throw your fridge food out before the house smells like dead animal and sour milk.”
“You're not still planning on going home are you?”
“Yea-“
“Try no. You're staying and that's final. Besides, what would my mother say if she knew I let a woman go home alone during a black out?”
Kagura tossed her keys on the end table by the door…or at least tried to. They hit the floor. “Where's that flash light?”
Sasame walked into the kitchen, feeling around until he got to the counter. When a spot of light shone in Kagura's face, she knew he found it. He gave her one and she got one. He used the light and Kagura watched while he picked up three large boxes from the base of the kitchen closet. They were all candles. He wasn't lying when he said Ayanami had A LOT. They put candles EVERYWHERE. Both sides of the each stair. Down the sides of the hallways. All over the living room and the kitchen. Sasame's room. The bathroom. The guest room, where Kagura was going to sleep. All in places where something wouldn't catch on fire of course. They were placed on non-stick mats for the melting wax. It looked good actually. Got to the point when the flash lights weren't needed anymore. Kagura came back up the stairs after finishing off the living room and saw Sasame laying out a shirt, towel, and washcloth. “Uh…that's for you. So you don't catch a cold. I would have given you pants but what's the point if they're going to keep falling off.”
“It's fine.”
“You can use the bathroom down the hall. I'll use my mom's.” He grabbed a few candles from his room and left her alone.
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Kagura had washed out her underwear, since she couldn't expect Sasame to have a bra and underwear lying around here somewhere…unless…she smirked to herself and sunk deeper into the water. Candles cast shadows everywhere. They were beautiful, of course, but she didn't like them TOO much. They made too many shadows and she didn't like shadows unless she was the one in them. They just made her paranoid. She was taking her time though, even though her skin was going to start wrinkling soon. She was trying to put off having to walk around in that T-shirt for as long as possible. Sasame tapped on the door. Obvious she's been in there a while.
“You alright?”
“Uh…yeah.”
There was a long silence on the other side of the door. She thought he walked away but he spoke again. “How long you plan on staying in there?”
“Why?”
“Your food's getting cold.” Just then her stomach growled. He obviously heard it because he started laughing. “I guess I'll take that as a `not long'.”
Kagura scrambled to get out and got dressed…if you can call throwing on a T-shirt dressed. She swung open the door. There were clean socks outside it. O yeah. Socks. Those help a lot. Well…they're long…like leg warmers…but they look like something an old lady would wear. She put them on anyway and ran downstairs. He was already at the table eating. Cambles Chunky Chiken Noodle Soup! (Lidia- So that's all I could think up? I feel like eating it right now…/hungry/) It smelled…well…good. Then again, anything edible smells good to a starving person.
He looked up at her with raised brows when she sat down. “You know, I never noticed how small you were until you put that shirt on. It's like a dress on you.”
“I think I am not small therefore I am not small. This is all the food? Where's the rest?”
“There's more in the pot. Eat that first before you go trying to get seconds.”
So she rushed with the bowl she had and ended up eating three more after that while Sasame only got two. “I'm not full but it'll do.”
“Hey, you had more then me.”
“So?”
“I only got two.”
“I only got three. Would you have rather me only have two?”
“Yes. I'm the man. I'm supposed to eat more than the woman. It's common sense.”
“If you want to be like that then fine. Tell me why THE MAN cooked my dinner?”
“Because I'm a nice man.”
“Shove it. If you wanted it, you would have said something when I went for it. But you didn't so NYAH!”
“Don't stick your tongue out at me---STOP licking the bowl!”
“Nuh-uh. Why should I? You wanted the left overs?”
“No it's just not right. Learn some manners---I said stop it!”
“Like you're going to make me. Now wash my plate!”
Kagura jumped up from her seat and ran up the stairs when Sasame started chasing her. “How about you slow down and say that to my face!” She ran into his room and locked the door. “You can't lock me out of my own room!”
“I just did!”
Kagura looked around for something to do. Sasame's room was always clean. Maybe she should mess it up a little bit. She started with his CD's. Classical. Instrumental. Symphony. She started throwing them around. “Crap, crap, crap, crap, Yun K.? With all the other crap in here what would he be doing with this? I bet Hayate's music is better…hey…American music. Likin Park…My Chemical Romance…nice…no rap though…bummer.” She disorganized everything else while ignoring Sasame's warning for her to open the door.
“You better not be making a mess.”
“Oh that's the last thing I'd be interested in doing right now,” she said before tossing another CD. Collections of Piano hits. How the hell do Piano songs or whatever you call them, become hits.
“Kagura! This is the last chance you get. Now open the door. If I get in there-“
“Keyword: `if'.” She was going through the things on his desk, knocking random things onto the floor. There was a picture of them on it, which she left alone. And there was a rather large book on his desk. It looked old too.
“What's with the old book? Sasame?” When she didn't get an answer, she shrugged it off. Sasame's bed was WAY too neat. Kagura picked up the old thing set it on Sasame's bed, jumping up and down a few times to wrinkle the sheets before pulling them out of place. “That's better,” she said before lying down. It had already been open. Once she started reading, she noticed that it was that book…not the same but like the book Yayoi gave her. It was opened to the part she'd last read when-
“What the hell!”
Kagura rolled over on her back quick with a sheepish grin on her face. “Um…Oops?”
“You-“
“I tripped! And…it all…fell.” She must not have noticed him picking the lock.
Sasame stared at her for a while. He grabbed the book, closed it, and put it back on his desk. “Fell huh? I don't come to your room and throw stuff around.”
“Pff, you'd probably clean it.” Sasame glared at her now. “Why were you reading that? You're a sick little pervert aren't you?” Okay…so I'm half trying to change the subject. His room really was TOO neat.
“Yeah, I guess I am.” He closed the door. “And now you're stuck in here with me. Clean my room.”
“No! It looks better this way.”
“Don't make me come over there.”
“Oh no. A whole two feet you're going to walk to make me clean your room. I'm petrified. That, `I'm the MAN. Do as I say' crap may work on whatever idiot decides to marry you but it ain't working on me.”
Sasame just stared at her now. “…What?”
“You heard me. You want it clean. YOU do it.” He was walking toward her now. He got so close that she'd actually considered that maybe he was going to try making her do it. Nah. This is Sasame we're talking about.
“I didn't mean that. That thing about the idiot who decides to marry me.”
“If you can repeat it then I'm sure you heard that too.” Now she got what he was pointing out but tried at best to pretend she didn't care.
Then he smirked. He probably knew already. “If I wanted to marry someone smart, I wouldn't be wasting my time with you.”
It took her a while to get it, then her face went red. “Hey! I'm smarter than you! I scored number ONE on our exams.”
“Just like you to focus on the insult. Just proves my point. Idiot.”
“If I'm an idiot then why did I get offered to go to America to go to school and not you!”
His eyes went wide and he stared at her but she just stuck her tongue out at him. “You're what?”
“Huh? Oh don't look at me like that. I'm not going anyway.”
He looked a little relieved when he sat down beside her, but still, now it bothered him a little that she WASN'T going. “Why…aren't you going?”
She looked at him like he was stupid. “Because I don't want to. I have a lot here. Family. Friends-“
“You're not staying because of me are you. Because if that's the case you'd be better off going.”
“I just don't want to. What? You trying to get rid of me already?”
Sasame smirked. Hadn't she said something like this before? When he asked what he was to her. He kissed her forehead and smirked at her. “Now why would I want to go and do that?” She looked down, face red and smiling. The candles gave her a glow you wouldn't notice without them. Her hair was still damp. He could smell it with how close he was. She was…beautiful. Not that her other crude behavior didn't make her great to be around. But when she wasn't cursing or fighting or shouting or something just as bad, she was actually…adorable. He lifted her chin up and kissed her. Mouth pressing down hard. He couldn't help himself. They were alone with no one else in the house. No phone to interrupt. No random visitor in this bad weather. Candles everywhere. It was…perfect. She wrapped her arms around his neck, pressing as close as possible. Sasame pushed back until she fell flat against his bed. Did he forget to mention the fact that she was ALREADY in his bed? How was that not convenient? You only see that kind of thing in movies really. His hand slid under her shirt again, grazing over skin that shivered when touched. He felt like he did this before. And that same feeling Kagura had drank herself numb to get away from came crashing back down on her. That familiar tightening of the abdomen for him and shivering nervousness for her. Her shirt inched up higher and his mouth lowered to her neck while he muttered things to her she didn't comprehend. He nibbled down on her every now and then to get a whimper out aside from her rapid breathing. He lifted her long enough to have her shirt pulled off. She didn't react too well at first. Hurrying to cover herself up. It made him laugh.
“I-It's not funny!” Her face couldn't get any redder then it was. Sasame pinned her back against the bed.
“What fun is it if I can't look?” She just glared at him. “Move your hands.”
“No.”
“I could always make you. I am THE MAN you know.”
“If you do I'll---“ Sasame grabbed her by the wrists and pinned them above her head, smiling inches away from her face.
“You'll what?” When she didn't say anything he lowered his mouth over the hill of her breast, over the wing of that butterfly tattoo. “I thought so.” Kagura started squirming around now. While one hand was locked around her wrists, the other traced the outline of the only fabric blocking him from where he was and where he wanted to be. She was shaking, arching to every spot his mouth fell, whimpering for him to stop and take her. “What? The almighty Kagura can't do anything to help herself right now?”
“Please…it hurts.”
Sasame pressed his mouth over hers again, using his knee to separate her legs and settle himself between them. He had to push her hips back down every time she was too hasty in rubbing them against his. His free hand crept slowly down her stomach, slipped under that barrier and over her. She moaned into his mouth and near shrieked when a finger slipped in. Soon a second one slipped, followed by a third. She arched higher, brought her hips closer to his hand. Every movement he made with them seemed to strike a nerve. She whimpered in protest when he took them away. His lips left hers while he removed her underwear, slipping off the socks on the way. The song bird bit down on the soft spot of her neck while removing the sleeping pants he put on earlier. He didn't really feel like himself anymore. He was possessed, in a way. Her legs wrapped around him, she herself trying to lower over him. He pushed in but soon regretted it with the way she jerked back and gasped like it hurt. He tried pulling out but she tightened her legs around him.
“Don't.” Her voice was little more than a whisper but it was enough to make him stay. So he pushed in again, slowly, and she called out to him like in that dream. He never wanted it to end. She raised to meet his pushes and his free hand held her there while slow pushes turned to thrusts. Her gasping became louder moans. Calling his name more than he could count. Both nearing a place they knew would end this. Dreading it and welcoming it at the same time. His grip on her wrists increased with every shove. One more thrust and Kagura screamed, tightening around him to the point where he couldn't stand it and gave in too. This is what preating must have been like. Not the feeling of the person themselves but the warmth they surround you with. The feeling of that person becoming one with you. It was like, for that moment, she was surrounded by a force of sound. To the point where the loud rain outside wasn't the only thing to be heard.
“Kagura!” They stayed like that a while before Sasame pulled out and let go. Sweating just as bad, if not more than she. He pulled her to him and draped the cover over. Kissing her forehead and leaning down to her ear, whispering how much he loved her, but by this time she was already asleep. He held her close until he too fell asleep aside his princess. The one he found and the one he was going to protect.
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Her legs were sore, and it was hot. Too hot. “What…happened.?” Kagura lifted her head and surveyed the room. She was alone, the only light coming from the full moon outside. Where was she? She wasn't supposed to be in here. She wasn't supposed to…then it came back. Maki pulling that rag over her face until everything went black. And now she was in here…naked…but he wasn't in bed with her at the moment. That…that…BASTARD. She hurried out of bed, ignoring the fact that she was still a little dizzy. That didn't matter much right now did it? He wasn't here right now and that was a good thing. But it hurt to move around. She couldn't help but think about those women. ALL those other women she'd seen him with. Just imagine how many there was before she showed up. Psy didn't call him a man-whore for no reason. He was filthy and she felt just as filthy and disgusting knowing he had…he…She tripped trying to pull up her shorts. There was a loud thud that could probably be heard through the house.
“Kagura?”
So he was still there? Foot steps could be heard, him rushing to get upstairs. Kagura quickly put on her jacket, grabbed both her short sword and long one off his dresser and stood behind the door. I'll kill him…I'm going to fucking KILL him. The door burst open with Kagura hiding behind it, short sword half drawn. He looked around frantically with his back to her. She could kill him right now. She could stab him to death RIGHT NOW. And he would have deserved it wouldn't he? She had her arm pulled back. She could stab him to death right now and no one would be around to stop her. But…There was a down side. A very VERY DOWN side. They know where she lives. Where she's stuck living. At the ADOC with her sister. If she were to kill Maki right now they'd come and kill her, and anyone who saw. Which would most likely be Himeno and some other random kids there. She'd end up dragging Himeno into her mess wouldn't she? Besides…in a way…didn't she deserve it. How many people had she killed so far. Too many to count. Having something like this happen. It was karma wasn't it. They didn't deserve it. She deserved it. She sheathed her sword and stodd back behind the door when he went running out of the room. She wasn't going to kill another person. Not unless they threatened her sister. And after Himeno's away and safe, with someone else to protect her…she'd come back for him. Because she deserved to die didn't she. Kagura climbed out the window and went back home, body shaking in disgust. Filth that couldn't be washed off no matter how many showers she took.
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That same night…
“I don't know if I can-…But it's supposed to rain storm tonight-…Yes sir…/sigh/ Yes sir…Are you sure it's that important?…Can't he just get it when we get back to school?…It has to be looked over by then?…What's wrong with me doing it?…It's for the Senior class only?…And you couldn't remember to give it to him earlier-…yes principal sir…I'm going now…” She hung up the phone and stared at the manila folder in her hands. It was the budget plan for the prom and graduation ceremony plans. All duties of Sasame, student council president and Senior class representative. Well…this an excuse for me to see him without it being awkward…but that witch will probably be there…it's late…she should be in her own home…so I'll go then… Mawata grabbed a rain coat and umbrella. She didn't want to get wet when it started raining. She got into her car and drove herself. Tanaka was off somewhere driving her mother and that man around. If he doesn't leave to live with his own family soon, she would explode. I mean, sure mother's happy…but…she missed her dad more. He shouldn't be replaced by some washed up novelist. In the middle of her driving there, the weather changed from a light down pour to a rainstorm. It was a little hard to see through. But she did finally make it there. A blur of small lights could be seen through her windshield. The folder was put inside her coat. Mawata pulled out her umbrella and ran up to the house. She was going to ring the doorbell but stopped her self. It wasn't as clear but it could be heard. The sound of Sasame inside…with another woman.
“Kagura!”
The folder slipped from her hand and hit the porch before she ran back to her car. That WHORE! She-…she took him from me. I won't forgive her for this! I won't!
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“So Hayate won…again. I'm not surprised really. He needs to learn how to loose though or else he isn't going to gain anything. His ego's bad enough as it is.” Hayate's snorted from the back seat of the car while Yayoi just laughed. “I'm just happy Himeno won.”
“Thanks Onee-chan!”
“So what'd you two do while everyone was gone?” Yayoi asked.
Kagura's face went red. Luck they couldn't tell from the back seat. Sasame could see but refrained from laughing at her. Adorable.
“I wasss…reading that book you gave me.”
Himeno snorted. “Pff. Liar.”
“Really? Did you finish it?”
“Uh…almost.”
“So how do you like it so far?”
“It's…um…interesting.”
“Really? Which part?”
“Um. All of it-“
“You didn't read it did you?”
“I did-“
“They were probably doin' it all week-end or somethin'” Hayate cut in. Himeno punched his arm.
“You pervert!” The front of the car was extremely quiet. Suspiciously quiet. “Kagura?”
“Uh. Huh?”
“How come you're not hitting Hayate like usual? You're not even saying anything.”
“I just don't feel like it. Besides, you always complain when I do.”
She narrowed her eyes on her sister. “That's never stopped you before…You didn't, did you?”
“Wha- NO! Of course not!”
“Kagura-“
“O look! School! I better get to class before I'm late!” Kagura jumped out of the car while it was still moving and ran.
“We're still a block away! And we're half an hour early! YOU GET BACK HERE AND TELL ME THE TRUTH!” Now Himeno jumped out after her. Stepping on Hayate to get there though.
“Watch where you're stepping tulip head!”
Kagura ran in through the gate, ignoring the many people whispering and staring at her. She was worried about the nosy little tulip running her down the schoolyard. “KAGURA!” She reached the building and had to jog back a little to look at something she ran past. It looked like a flyer. With her picture on it. Gang Banging WHORE SLUT Tokian Saint Knoctern She snatched it off the wall to get a better look at it. What the fuck! She looked around. They were all over the walls. She could hear others whispering too.
“Now that you think about it. She does look like they said. Red hair and eyes and everything.” “For real? I didn't know we had a former gang leader as big as HER at our school.” “I'm scared.” “No wonder she's angry all the time.” “She's supposed to be dead.” “OOooo, what do you think's going to happen when Kyoko finds out?” “What about the principal?” “No way! She's just a wannabe. I bet she put these up herself.” “Nope. Sasame's fan club is passing it out.” “No way! How'd they know?” “They say Mawata told them. A lot of people asked her was it true and she said yes. That she saw the tattoo herself and she's cheating on Sasame with Kyoko's boyfriend that Saint guy!” “Oh poor SAME-KUN!” “Do you think her sister's in it too?” “No way! She's way too nice!” “Ssshhh ssh, she's looking at us.” “Freak.”
If looks could kill, they'd be dead. Her face distorted into anger. Eyes blazing with a twisted snarl on her face. Growling like a hungry wolf thirsty for blood. This was Knoctern. Devil assassin incarnate. The student that had been whispering about her quickly scurried off in random directions. Himeno paused before approaching. “Wh-What wrong? O-Onee-chan? Why are you looking like that?”
The paper crumpled in her hand and dropped onto the floor. “Mawata…” She pushed passed Himeno and walked off.
Himeno picked up the crumpled paper and looked at it. “Oh Kami. Kagura wait!” She was already gone so Himeno went running, hoping she found Mawata before Kagura got to her.
Kagura went storming around the building, punching any fan girl she saw posting those pictures up. Her search for Mawata wasn't going well so she pinned one of those fan girls up against the wall. “Where is she!”
“Wh-Wh-Who?”
“Mawata. Where is she?”
“Sh-She was outside in the school yard last I saw.”
“Good. Now you're going to do me a favor.”
“Wh-What is that?”
“You're going to take down every flyer and picture in this school and throw them away. I promise you, if I see even ONE, I'll rip your throat out and watch you bleed to death. Are we clear on that?” She nodded and Kagura dropped her to go looking for Mawata again, picking up one of the folding steel chairs that sat in the hallway.
Himeno found Mawata just walking into the building and was quick to stop her from going any farther in. “Mawata! Wait!”
“What do you want-“
“You can't come in here. Kagura's looking for you and she's really angry. I don't know why you did it or how you knew but if she sees you she's going to kill you.”
Mawata snatched her arm away from Himeno. “I'm perfectly capable of defending myself.” Himeno tried getting her to go back outside a few more times but she wouldn't budge. “I'm not afraid of your sister. If she wants to fight me than I'm fine with that.”
“Alright then.” Mawata looked over just in time to be smack in the face with a chair. She stumbled back out the school doors before being hit in the face again and falling down the stairs outside. Himeno grabbed onto Kagura's arm.
“Kagura! Please stop it! You're going to get in trouble!”
“Fight!” “Fight!” “Fight!” “Fight!”
Kagura swung Himeno off her arm and threw the chair at Mawata again. She was standing and ready to catch it, hitting Kagura back with it. Instead of falling, she snatched it away and threw it aside. “You're going to have to hit me with a lot harder than that.” Mawata punched her square in the face, and again, she didn't fall. She just smiled and Mawata backed away from her. “What? I thought you weren't scared. It's always more fun when you fight back.” Kagura ran up and kicked her. She kept kicking and Mawata tried at best to block but her forearms were starting to bleed. Himeno ran to go get Hayate and Sasame who were probably on their way from the student parking lot.
“Hey. There's Himeno. What's wrong with the tulip head now,” Hayate sighed. Every time she came running there was always something wrong…or she wanted to hurt Hayate. But he doubted it was the second. She didn't have that I'm going to pummel you if you call me tulip head again look in her eyes.
“Hayate! Sasame!”
Sasame got a little worried. It sounded serious. “There something wrong?”
“M-Mawata t-told,” she panted.
Hayate was confused. “She told what---“
“Where's Kagura?”
“In front of the school. Kagura's going to hurt her. She won't listen to me.” Sasame went running. Hayate grabbed Himeno by the hand and dragged her along too. She was too worried to blush about it. By the time they got their, Kagura was hovering over Mawata, her shirt in one hand and the other punching her. Mawata didn't look too good. She was bleeding. Pretty bad but not hospital worthy. So they hadn't been fighting that long. She was going to punch again when Sasame grabbed her and yanked her off. A few people from the crowd groaned when he forced her away. Some people helped Mawata up and got her to the nurse. Class started soon after. Not long after class started, Kagura was called down to the principal's office.
It was the principal, the Vice principal, and Chief Administrator there to speak with her. O yeah. This is going to be fun.
“These allegations made against you by Miss Kogo Mawata. Do you know where they could have come from?” The principal asked.
“I may have an idea…”
The Vice Principal cut in. “So you ADMIT to being a Gang Banging Whore Slut Tokian Saint Knoctern?”
“I didn't say all that-“
Now the administrator opened his mouth. “So you deny it? Is mis KOGO MAWATA the liar? Because in all my life I have never known her to be a liar.”
“I'm not a whore or a slut and I don't bang anything.”
“So you admit to being apart the gang Tokian Saints?”
“You admit to being Knoctern?”
“The same Knoctern that's supposed to be dead?”
“I admit to being a FORMER affiliate of theirs. Yes. Regardless to what Knoctern,I, am supposed to be, I am very much alive and asking if my previous activities will affect my attendance here in any way?”
When the principal didn't speak, the other two cut in. “Well of course! The parents won't be happy!”
“Neither will the students! How are they supposed to feel safe walking the halls with you around?”
“We'll receive angry letters and bomb threats!”
“Bad publicity toward the school!”
“I'll be willing to accept punishment for my actions toward Mawata but I have yet to cause you any troubles until now. I do my work. My test scores are highest in the school. I attend all of my classes. I correct you college taught teachers. I honestly don't see the problem in my staying here.”
“It'll be a cold day in hell before we let a gang member stay in our school! Prized on it's great students bound for success!”
“That's right!”
The principal cleared his throat, signaling he wanted the attention of those in the room. “One week of suspension, one week of after school detention, and you must keep up with all your studies and school work. Suspension begins today. You are dismissed. Go home and don't come onto school property during your suspension.”
The two adults in the room gawked at the principal. “But sir!”
“Yes sir. I'll get my things and leave now. Thank you.”
Kagura just walked out. “Principal sir! You can't be serious!”
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Kyoko burst through Maki's bedroom door. “MAKIII!” He looked up from the computer at the fuming blonde standing in his doorway.
“May I help you?”
“You knew!”
“Aren't you supposed to be in school? What happened?”
“Kagura!” Maki almost choked.
“Wh-What about her?” Please don't tell me this bitch knows I'm using her…
“You knew Kagura was Knoctern this whole time and you didn't say ANYTHING!”
Okay…make up something…I can work around this…think. “I didn't say anything because I thought you'd freak out and do something stupid…like right now. Stop shouting at me.”
“But-“ He glanced at her, as if daring her to raise her tone again and she lowered it. “But why didn't you say anything. I could have taken care of her earlier.”
Maki refrained from laughing. She couldn't take care of a paper bag. “Because her betrayal to the Saints is directly handled by me and those she betrayed, the other Saint leaders. This was before your coming here and I didn't want to worry you. But since you know anyway, you wouldn't know where she lives would you? Everything would go along a lot smoother if you did.”
“Why would I? I hate her. She's such a bitch.” Maki refrained from slapping the girl and kept his attention glued to the computer screen.
Shoot her in the mouth. THE MOUTH!
“WAIT!”
“What is it now?”
“She did tell me she was Sasame's neighbor once during swimming practice.”
He looked a little hopeful. “Do you know where he lives?”
“No.”
He frowned and focused on the screen again. I usually don't by into that dumb blonde stereo type but she's making me question that.
“OH!”
“What now!”
“One of the fan girls at school might know!”
He finally grinned. “Really now?”
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Kagura got home, FINALLY after walking home. She saw Kyoko rushing off in her car earlier. The one person she expected to confront her on it was running off somewhere. Probably went to Maki's…I'm so screwed. Great. Someone's going to find out where I live. Someone. I'm so SO SCREWED. Now I feel like I didn't hit Mawata hard enough…There was a flashing envelope picture on Kagura's computer. YOU'VE GOT MAIL! Blinking on it. “What's this from…the school?” She sat down and looked at it. It was from YKZDeathValley. She recognized that e-mail address even though she hadn't seen it since he last e-mailed Maki that time she was over. Now how the fuck did HE get my e-mail address! Kagura lowered her head, only to begin hitting it against her desk. “Ryu never wants to talk about anything good. I'm dead…” The e-mail asked that she meet him. When explaining where it just said the usual place. “I don't even think I remember where that is. I'm dead.”