Title: The Girl Who Wanted
Pairings: Multiple
Rating: Teen (T)
Warning(s): Coarse Language and Mild Depictions of Violence and Torture
Recommended Font/Page Layout: Georgia, 1/2, Expand, Dark Story Contrast
Overall Song Choice: My Life Inside Your Heart by Rise Against
Alternative Song Choice(s): Adieu by Enter Shikari
Author's Note: has original characters and altered canonical personalities of (some) canon characters, prequel to main story
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|. Unveiling
"You have hereby given up your right to preside over the student body," Satsuki Kiryūin stated, her blade Bakuzan still sheathed inside of its white scabbard as she held it under the Mito student body president's throat. "The Ibaraki Prefecture is now under the domain of Honnōji Academy. Any further resistance will result in a harsher punishment than annexation."
His glasses sliding down his nose from the sweat accumulated on his brow, the Mito student body president gulped. The wood from the scabbard was at risk of inducing splinters. "Y-you haven't conquered the whole of Ibaraki Prefecture just yet."
At his bold claim, Satsuki leaned forward further, the scabbard pressing deeper. Her deep blue eyes narrowed as she inhaled, "Oh? And what do you mean by that? All of the lands surrounding Mito have already fallen to me and my men, there is nothing else left to oppose me here, and you're telling me that there is?"
"T-that's right, you haven't won yet, you witch. You think you have the right to talk down to me when you haven't even taken down them? If so, then you have a lot of nerve— gah!" The Mito student body president was knocked on his back, Satsuki now pressing down on his chest with the scabbard.
"You have no right to speak to me in that tone, you weak insufferable pig. You're nothing more than filth which thinks it's on a higher scale than those around it, when, in reality, it's right at the bottom wallowing in the mud and manure of its own pathetic faults." Increasing the pressure she applied ever so slightly, just enough so that he had difficulty in breathing, Satsuki adopted a disdainful expression as her brows came closer together. "If you don't want to suffer more than a bruised rib-cage, I suggest you change your tune before your chords become silenced forever."
Fear stretched across his features, sweat profusely dripping down his face, the Mito student body president nodded no questions asked, no punishment given. He stammered his reply, "I-I-I'm sorry, Lady Satsuki, it won't happen again! I swear on the life of my family! T-the area that hasn't fallen to your rule is northwest of here, Kasama City!" Trying to scoot away to no avail, he tried to pledge for his life, his voice croaking slightly, "Now I've told you what you wanted to hear! Please, spare me!"
Easing off, Satsuki waited until the boy was half-way to his feet. "Don't make another move," she said, her voice still full of disdain, even more than before. "Filth like you has no right to stand, only to lie down and submit. Only a pig such as yourself would bargain the safety of his family for his own life and ask to be spared. You are a stain on this world, a piece of shit that should be washed down the toilet along with all the other excrement of the world."
Lifting Bakuzan high above her head, she brought it down on his skull with a satisfying crack as he vainly tried to block the blow with his arms. As he fell to the ground, Satsuki didn't give him another look as she turned to leave off school grounds. At the gate, waiting for her arrival, was one of the four members of the Elite Four, Nonon Jakuzure. Each ruled a specific part of Honnōji Academy's school system and Jakuzure was in charge of the Academy's non-athletic activities and clubs. While appearing to be a cute and childish personality, she is very manipulative and sadistic. She twirled her conductor's baton expertly as she conceitedly watched the Mito student body president convulse and twitch.
"Have a member for the Nursery Club tend to his injury, we can't having him dying on us." Satsuki told her as she went past and Nonon grinned pleasurably.
"I'll get right on it."
Making her way to the car where her butler Soroi was waiting with the door open. As she sat down on the lavished seats of her mother's expenses, she thought of the area the Mito student body president had revealed was still opposing her conquest of the Ibaraki Prefecture. Kasama City. It was a relatively small city with an appreciation for the arts. She recalled that her mother even had a painting from an artist who'd originally came from Kasama on her wall. It was that of a swan, and, like a swan, the people of Kasama would sing to her tune in due time.
—-—-—
The way the sky appeared from his vantage point on Kahira Academy's rooftop induced a sense of sadness, a light drizzle coming down, the clouds grey and many. Hours ago, the sun had been shining, but now the clouds have blocked it completely. He gazed up at Mouth Sashiro, its highest peak invisible to the naked eye, knowing what the sudden change in weather meant. Something had gone wrong, terribly wrong. A door opened and closed as he turned to the vice president and the one accompanying her. If he was here in person, then, surely, something was terribly wrong indeed.
Dressed in a black outfit with matching shades, Aikurō Mikisugi stood nonchalantly with his hands in his pockets, rocking back and forth slightly on his heels. His dark-bluish black hair was slicked back, wet from the rain. Beside him was the vice president, wearing her signature straw hat, hamaka, and sandles. Her shinai was at her waist and she chewed on the end of a wheat stalk as her eyes went over the report she had in her hand. After a moment, she folded the piece of paper into an airplane and sent it sailing into the clouds towards Mount Sashiro, where it disappeared in the distance. Turning her eyes to Mikisugi, she thumbed the shinai's hilt fitting.
"Council President, Mr. Mikisugi is here to deliver something of importance." She nodded for their adviser to commence speaking.
"Thank you, Ms. Itō. I appreciate the introduction." He stepped forward with his hands behind his back and came to the fence, gazing up at Mount Sashiro himself. Silence elapsed as his eyes were focused on it. Vice President Itō leaned and was about to whisper into the Council President's ear when Mikisugi stayed her with a hand. "I'm composed, but thank you. The news is troubling, but I feel as though I should be the one to deliver it, in person, rather than through a report or another's way of mouth," he broke the silence with a calm voice as the vice president curtly bowed her understanding, "and, again, I thank you for your understanding."
Spinning on his heel to face them, they saw that while his voice may have kept a certain level calm, his eyes had not. Tears were visible below his shades. "As you both must surely know already, the Ibakai Prefecture has all but fallen to the Honnōji Academy Student Council President and her forces. But, that is not why I have come in person like this, as you are both have by now have figured out by my lack of composure. It's Kinue, she's dead."
The vice president's eyes widened and narrowed immediately after, her lips forming a scowl, "Was she assassinated?" she asked, her voice dripping with venom.
Mikisugi shook his head. "I'm afraid not, her death was an accident. Purely and truly, an accident. As you know, she had volunteered to be the live test subject for the prototypeKamui we were developing. At first, all had gone well as to her actually managing to don it, until the Life Fibers started to react violently to her body and, as a result, her very being was torn apart. The prototype disintegrated shortly thereafter."
The Council President blinked. "Does Kinagase know?"
"He was there when it happened, as was I."
Vice President Itō bowed her head, hands balled into fists at her sides. "Then, that means, it really is impossible for one to be worn. Dammit! And we were so close to perfecting the procedures and now we don't even have another to spare! This means REVOCS has won! There's nothing we possibly have that can oppose them now!"
The Council President and Mikisugi shared a glance, nodding to one another. The secret they've been keeping to the vice president was ready to be unveiled.
"Ms. Lien Itō, there is a matter we must bring to your attention," Mikisugi took off his shades, eyes still watery, "and it's one that I and the Council President have been keeping a secret from you and the rest of the council. Ozaki..." He inclined his head toward the Council President, who started speaking.
"The secret we've been hiding is more important than any of us, it's the fruit of our organization's labors. Its name is Senketsu."
"S-Senketsu? But I thought Dr. Matoi had scraped it and went away to lie low! Are you saying that he's still working on it after all those failed attempts?!"
Mikisugi nodded. "Yes, even in hiding he's still been painstakingly devoting his time to its completion, along with a few other inventions." His eyes went to Mount Sashiro briefly. "And he is here in Kasama City. All this time, he's been perfecting his work. That is why we're here, to protect him from any outside forces that seek to oppose us. The Council President here has been tight-lipped as to his existence to you and the rest of the council, but now that Kasama City is the only one left that stands in Honnōji Academy's total takeover of Ibakari Prefecture, it has come to my attention to have him 'spill the beans', as it were."
"I'm sorry for deceiving you all this time, Lien." The Council President said wholeheartedly.
"Regardless of how you feel right now, you, the Council President, the council, the whole of Kahira Academy, has to stand against the tide and buy enough time for Dr. Matoi to complete his work. As you are doing this, I will check upon his daughter and then go back to Honnōji. Teachers are so under payed these days, I can't be absent for long. Well, Council President Ozaki, it's in your hands now." With that, their adviser started to walk away, reaching the door to the stairs, when the vice president spoke up.
"Did they recover any body from the prototype's failed activation, by any chance?"
Stopping abruptly and without bothering to look at her, Mitsugui replied, "No, her body was completely obliterated. Not even her blood remained."
Council President Ozaki listened to the echoing sound of his footsteps as he went away, closing the door behind himself, and then frowned as his eyes rested on the vice president. He knew she was taking the news hard, having heard all of that information in such a short span of time and so suddenly. Going back to the fence, he went back to the clouds and felt the first drop of heavy rain on his nose. Yes, something had gone terribly wrong and he felt that it was far from over.