Saint Seiya Fan Fiction ❯ Homeless ❯ A simple bed ( Chapter 10 )
Back again from the Plot-Bunny graveyard. Just got myself a new one and hope this new bunny don't croak on me. So again.. back to the fic.
CHAPTER 8
A simple bed
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To the end of the day Shun marched front, his fellow saints in tail out of the hospital.
He bid the night nurse goodnight and the portly lady answered in kind, his routine for the past weeks. This was a bit strange for his companions who weren't used to interacting with people outside the saint circle. So they just smiled at each other and attribute it to the boy's sweet demeanor.
Outside he continued to walk and they only followed without comment, the day was close to ending and it was a bit cool outside. Hyoga tried to ignore it by sucking up his pride and admitting that his cosmo was taking a bit longer to recover, wouldn't do for an ice saint to admit he felt cold, but one had to make exemptions of late, specially since instead of increasing with his body recovery...his cosmo grew thin.
They spent the night in the little hotel across the road, it was a tight fit but they managed well.
On their way there Shun detoured to the café outside and bought a bag of sandwiches and a jug of orange juice, while Shiryu and Hyoga went forward into the main building.
They passed by the empty lobby and a bored desk clerk that may have asked what room they were heading but he just looked up and saw two teens with a hotel key baring 204 in big bold numbers and went back to watching his TV show.
Shun passed by and ran up the short flight of stairs, the room was on the second story witch was good because the elevator was broken, from the looks of it for a long time.
He ran in to catch up with them and smiled faintly while Hyoga opened the door to their room. It was nice to have familiar faces in this bleak place.
From then on things slowed down and the morose mood faded a bit, Shun handed around food from the big brown bag and juice in foam cups while Hyoga kept asking about Seiya and if he would be okay on his own,. His host kept assuring him (and himself) that he would be ok and asleep for the duration of the night and probably most of the morning.
His earlier recount about finding and taking care of Seiya had huge holes in it, but it was not uncommon for them to overlook the details.
Hyoga's curiosity was born from the boy's obvious distress at seeing Seiya like that. Shiryu told him to just let the boy rest and Shun as well because he needed it too, if the dark rings around his eyes were any indication
Meanwhile Shun tried his best to remain calm and collected for them, he vouched for the hospital staff while pottering around the room fitting their duffel bags into the closet, and putting away leftovers in the small fridge. " They are really good people Hyoga, and Seiya will be okay with them for tonight, you both need to rest after such a long day."
Shiryu stared away out the window, " Tell me more about this hospital rule Shun" he said suddenly.
"uh?"
"the one stating someone older than us should release him"
"Well somebody from Gaud would do that whenever papers had to be signed, I think it was a man appointed by Saorisama, but I don't know how to contact him or his name." He sat on the bed and pulled off his sneakers. The things were smelly and needed a wash, he noticed.
Hyoga sat on a corner and nibbled at the fat tuna sandwich while he tried to recall the people that worked around them. He could remember a few times when leaving the country there were a lot more men dress in black swarming around Tatsumi, those extra men looked older and always signed papers and spoke on the phone a lot, one of those probably was the one in charge of signing their leave. Try as he may he could not remember a single face. He only noticed them because there was noting to do while they waited on the airfield tarmac for Shun to arrive, he could remember joking with Seiya... the little baka.
"Oniisan is old enough to sign the release paper" Shun commented a bit of subject but he was looking tired and needing to grasp at something.
"don't worry Shun. Ikky will show up as usual in the nick of time, complaining all the way!" Hyoga added forcing a laugh out of him.
The splitting of the beds was a bit stressful for Shun.
He handed the twin sized bed he had slept on to Shiryu and the extra double bed for Hyoga, and offered to sleep on the only small chair in the room. " Why not share the larger bed?" offered Shiryu.
"You are both coming from a very long trip and still need to recover, I can spend the night on the chair don't worry about it"
"That makes no sense! We can share one of the beds..." said Shiryu in his wiser-than-thou tone. "Hyoga can share with me and you should keep the smaller bed since you already been sleeping on it." He was calmly placing his bag on the bed as he spoke and Hyoga noticed the slight look of relief Shun was trying to hide.
-silly little Shun- he thought fondly.
All that to get away from sharing a bed, he didn't think he could sleep close to anybody, not now, not yet. He would probably break down in tears and embarrass his friends. Also the possibility of sleeping curled up in Hyoga's arms was so appealing he felt nervous and awkward just to think about it.
So Shun quickly nodded and headed out to the bathroom to change and get ready for bed.
Hyoga slept on the extra bed with Shiryu who claimed he had worst bed mates, Kiki after all, was always hogging the sheets crawling all over the bed when he slept over. A habit the little runt displayed from that time Shiryu spent with Mu healing the cloths.
Hyoga stared at Shun a lot despite Shiryu's warning to leave the boy be.
"I'm worried about him Shiryu, he is not the same Shun we left. And Seiya ..." The blond Russian sighed.
His Chinese brother looked at the doorway to the little bathroom were Shun was dressing for bed.
"He is distant and obviously preoccupied, I think there is so much he is not telling us about all that happened here"
" what do you mean?" snapped the blond in surprise.
"Shhhhhh... I think its wise to wait for him to tell us himself. Seiya is in such a state I have never imagined he could be and Shun's silence is full of pain.... I don't know what to do either but he doesn't want to speak about it" Hyoga stared at Shun a lot despite Shiryu's warning to leave the boy be. Hyoga stared to at the half closed door. Inside his chest there was a strange tightness, anguishing, a feeling non where familiar with but it was just that, a simple unsettling oppression somewhere beneath his sternum. So he could ignore it and concentrate in solving this predicament.
"... wait for all of us to be reunited"
Hyoga snapped out of his trance to listen to the tail end of Shiryu's comment. Shiryu smiled despite himself, "I was saying Shun could be right about waiting for Ikky to join us" he nodded blushing a bit.
Shun walked out the bathroom in that moment and smiled, it was obviously a forced gesture and they both couldn't help but feel the tightness in their chest make itself at home a bit more. Hyoga had to admit when the light was of and the neon sign outside flashed pink, that he was missing the boy's megawatt smiles badly.
To a saint it was not a prerogative to think mundane thoughts. When the universe is your responsibility the infinite scale of priority tip away from the commoners perception. This is the way they thought of the world.
To worry about things like food, transportation, were your next bed would be was unheard of. When you hold such power why would you be bothered about food and shelter.
In the end, after all the training, what you cant procure for your self will be forever provided by a wealthy goddess. Everything earthly and material was truly a blank point in their minds. Above all they had little to no conscious understanding about money. Money is something they give you, like a child your needs are supplied and you never question about it.
Oblivious trust ...or fate you may call it.
So that night, when they all went to their beds, only one of them worried about payments for future meals and shelter.
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*so oniisan means big brother in Japanese. I think
*Saorisama refers to Saori in the higher level of respect. kind a like kamisama where kami means god.
*Baka means idiot, but as in all Japanese phrases it depends on how you say it that gives it a fond or derogative meaning. He obviously went for the first.