100 Memes Challenge
#1 – Jealousy
Masamune was in trouble. Well, what else was new? It seemed as if that's all he ever was with Rin. He might as well just be renowned as Date Trouble Masamune. Or, at the very least, the "dokuganhentai".
"Don't talk to me, Masamune… I already told you, I'm not mad!" Kazehaya Rin snipped at an overgrown branch on the bonsai tree she was taking care of slightly more forcefully than she needed to. The intensity of her actions contradicted with her words and after years of knowing the young woman, the one-eyed general who kept her company knew to trust her actions over her words.
Date Masamune only smirked as he asked his younger and very irritable wife, "Oh? Are you sure?" Rin nodded vigorously and the one-eyed general's smirk only widened as he said sarcastically, "Well that's good to hear then. I would have thought you were jealous or something. After all, what woman wouldn't be against Saica Magoichi?"
Rin stayed silent. "…" Snip, snip… Snip… It was like every slice cut a little part of his life force. Well, he was already in trouble, he figured, why not keep going?
"Yup," Date nodded sardonically, "I'm glad you aren't, in any way, resentful of her."
Rin narrowed her eyes at him, looking up from the bonsai tree. She asked, "What does that mean? I don't understand."
Masamune smiled now, for as knowledgeable as Rin was in the English language at this point, even she didn't know all the words in Masamune's vocabulary, and he frequently had to translate for her.
"Oh, you know…" Masamune shrugged casually, "Jealous. Resentful. Careful now, that jealousy could earn you a Hannya mask." He blew on her ear gently and she visibly jumped, whipping around to face him now.
Oh, if only looks could kill. Rin flushed as she glared at him and said indignantly, "Me? Jealous? Of that… Mercenary?" She sniffed as she spat out the word bitterly. "As if!" She went back to trimming her miniature tree. "Me!" she muttered again. "No way."
Masamune chuckled quietly to himself. Her blatant anger in situations like these never failed to amuse him no matter how deep of trouble he was in. He smiled to himself again and Rin began eyeing him suspiciously.
"Well if you aren't jealous, then what are you?" he asked, "Because it's increasingly obvious that you aren't happy with my arrangement of the Saica Faction." Rin looked away guiltily as he continued, "And if I'm not mistaken, you seem to know the Third quite well yourself."
Rin winced slightly as she said stiffly, "I… I just don't trust mercenaries in general." She snipped another branch off her tree and grimaced now. "Mercenaries are never up to any good, nor are they ever trustworthy. They work solely for their own cause and they'll backstab you in a flash if there's a higher reward. Why else do you think they don't have a lord to rely on?"
Masamune couldn't help it. He laughed loudly now and she eyed him suspiciously, "What?" she finally asked.
He calmed his laughter and shrugged nonchalantly before replying, almost singing with irony, "Oh… Nothing…" she continued to eye him as he said, "I was just thinking that those are awfully harsh words for one who used to be a mercenary herself." Rin glared and he backed off slightly, "Though you're wasting your energy because there's clearly nothing going on between myself and the Third... You of all people should understand that, am I right?"
She didn't say anything and he laughed at her again. They sat quietly together and so he asked, "So am I right?"
"About what?"
"You're jealous."
"I'm not-"
"Because that's perfectly okay with me," he grinned as he slunk behind her to grip her wrists tightly and nuzzle the crook of her neck, "I think a jealous woman is a sexy one. They make playtime more fun in their attempt to show their superiority."
"No," she said again forcibly and wrestling herself out of his clutches. "And do you always have to make a sexual reference to everything?"
Her face had turned as red as Sanada Yukimura's clothes and Date smirked at her predictability. Just as Date had planned, for even though he knew she couldn't completely understand the meaning in his words, she caught it in his actions, and they were loud and clear. Even now, with two years of marriage under their belt, she was still as squeamish as a virgin when it came to P.D.A and the mere talk of sex could set her face ablaze for hours. As amusing as it all was to Date, he had to admit, the girl had to chill out. It made things very difficult when he wanted to 'play'.
"So that comment you made about Saica being a 'flirtatious, cheating whore with her head up her ass' was made completely on friendly terms?" he asked, taking the plant shears out of Rin's hands and placing it on the floor behind them. No need to have her waving them about in her excitement and taking out his only good eye. She probably would've just done it on purpose at this point.
Rin's blush deepened as she said defensively, "I never said any of that!"
"But you implied it." He pointed out reasonably.
She shook her head, "No, not at all, you-"
"Then you normally welcome guests with snarky comments and hostile behavior?"
"No," she said firmly. "You're just reading into things too deeply."
"But you do think that about her, don't you?" Date asked.
Rin didn't reply but she didn't have to. By the way she pressed her lips tightly together and wouldn't meet his eye, he knew he got her. He could read Rin as easily as an open scroll. The general placed his hands on her waist now and Rin sighed irritably, "Cut it out already! I'm not in the mood for this." She reached behind them for her plant weaponry but he sat in her way.
"Not until you admit that you're jealous," Date said with a grin. The young woman glared as she fought against him, yet it was all in vain. She tried wiggling away but ended up in his lap and he only tightened his grip around her until she knew there was no use struggling anymore. She never won arguments like this.
Finally she sighed again in defeat and said in a heated voice, "It's just that you're such a flirtatious cheat yourself, I can never tell when you're serious about another woman or not. Being you, you very well could be and you can get away with it too!"
Masamune suddenly laughed at Rin's weakened self-esteem and he understood her worries completely. True, he may have played along with Magoichi's dominative female personality and made a few wild suggestions himself (after all, what man didn't dream of sharing a night with the ever attractive leader of the Saica Faction when she wore little more than half a shirt and pants so tight you could see the figure of her legs (and more to the point, her ass,) perfectly?)
Rin knew that Date never used the family concubines like he sometimes threatened to do, but it never stopped her from worrying in cases like these. After all, it wasn't uncommon among high-ranking daimyos and lords to have another woman on the side, or two. And with Magoichi's charisma, beauty, and confident personality Rin couldn't help but worry sometimes that the other mercenary would either join her at the infamous One-Eyed Dragon's side, or take her place.
Yet in the end, when it came to women and sex, if nothing else, Date Masamune happened to be extremely loyal. As much as a turn on Magoichi's fiery personality and alluring figure could be, no matter how he looked at it, he would never rather have a scary, dominating woman as a partner to his sweet, ever submissive Rin.
He wanted to put all these thoughts into words and tell this woman he loved her and how he would never, ever in his right mind betray her…But he couldn't. Putting feeling in words have never been his specialty and rarely ever during their short marriage had he ever uttered the line "I love you", and he doubted he ever really would, so he settled with what he normally did to show his undying affection.
He kissed her.
Not forcibly like he sometimes did when he let his lust get carried away, but not carelessly like when she seemed so fragile, a single caress could break her. He broke away first, leaving her slightly dazed and breathless.
He cradled her more gently now as he asked softly, "Are you still worried about losing me?"
Rin's face had cooled down slightly and she replied equally as quietly, "No, of course not. I know you would never leave me…"
"Then do you promise to be at least a little more welcoming towards Saica the next time we meet with her? After all, she is our guest and it would look bad for the Date if people thought we treated our paid subordinates with so little respect."
Rin looked away guiltily and finally mumbled, "Alright… I promise…" Suddenly she smiled brightly and met his gaze cheerfully, "And you're right, I shouldn't be so worried or jealous after all, because I know I have something Saica Magoichi will never get!"
"Oh?" Date looked at her curiously, arching his eyebrow questioningly at his suddenly devious looking wife. "And what might that be?"
Rin smiled seductively this time as she spelled with a slightly husky voice, "Y-o-u."
Date blinked a few times in surprise as the single word sunk into his head and then just as quickly cleared out as Rin did something very interesting with her leg.
A/N: Ooh yes, yet another Sengoku BASARA fan series for me to drabble about. I got this idea when I was playing the video game for Ps3 (Samurai Heroes) and I really have to say, as much as I absolutely LOVEMagoichi, her attitude can really get on my nerves and I think it's just because I'm jealous of her character. And so. My story is born. Besides, like Kotaro Fuma she's a really great character who doesn't get a lot of attention so this is my twisted way of giving it to her. I'm only sad that she replaces Nohime in the scheme of things... :(
Anyways, more on this series soon. I hope to add other characters in time but this will most likely be more for my OC Rin than anything because if I think up any plots for BASARA I'll most likely just start a new story rather than add it as a chapter here. If that makes any sense.
And so, I thank you for reading this and I hope you continue to follow it.
- Jackal
(P.S - I often joke that Magoichi is a hermaphrodite in disguise because of the fact that she's historically depicted as male but BASARA decided to screw with it and made him this sexy, demanding female. ... I really must be jealous.)