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¤ By: Telpelindewen ¤
¤ Chapter One ¤
Momiji had yet another exhausting day and she sighed when she entered her room. She walked over to her desk where a couple of picture frames resided. She left one empty for the day when she would get a picture of Kusanagi. She rubbed her fingers along the glistening silver edge of the frame. I miss him terribly though.
"Ya know princess, picture frames are most frequently used for holding pictures." Momiji jumped at the sound of his voice and switched the light on. Kusanagi had keen eye sight in the dark, probably better than he could see in daylight. He was sitting on her window sill crunching on an apple and looking at her empty picture frame on the sill.
She gave him a look that said no shit. He just grinned at her. "So what's up on your planner for tonight?" He asked.
"Sleep." She said.
"Hey, it's Friday. Why don't you go out and have some fun?" He asked her tugging at her sleeve. "Why don't you go out and have fun for me." She pulled away.
"No way… why don't we go out and have fun… together. Say the movies!" He picked her up before she could respond and jumped out her window. It scared her half to death.
"KUSANAGI!"
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They had decided on a movie… well rather Kusanagi did. When they entered the theater it was already dark and almost full. Kusanagi picked a seat off to the side and motioned for Momiji to follow. Of course the clumsy girl tripped over something in the dark and tumbled down to the laughing Kusanagi who dragged her onto her feet and plopped her down in a chair next to him. He placed the drink in the cup holder and gave her the pop corn. Before the movie started they showed an amazing amount of previews while Kusanagi was showing off about how he could catch the popcorn in his mouth if he threw it in the air. When Momiji tried this every piece just bounced off her nose, this which made Kusanagi laugh. Momiji knew she was being teased and threw a handful of popcorn at him. It was unexpected and he stared at the giggling Momiji. Before he could do anything about it someone shushed them as the movie started.
Somehow and sometime during the movie Momiji felt Kusanagi's hand along her shoulder and she inched a little bit closer to him. To her horror she felt something slide down her back, it was a freezing cold handful of ice cubes. It was during one of the most dramatic parts of the movie when she stood up and did a frenzy of a dance and had the audience annoyed and Kusanagi laughing his ass off. When she got the ice cubes out a man came in a kicked them out of the movie.
They walked out laughing. "Kusanagi you are a sneaky brat." Momiji laughed. But she saw the photo booth and grabbed his shoulder pointing to the machine.
"Ah so you want a picture of your deveshly handsome man." He puffed out his chest and one of his leaf blades popped out. It made him look a whole lot buffer and Momiji laughed. She poked his stomach, hard, and it all went back in with a loud oof!
"Hey, common now let's go!" Kusanagi followed her and they each put in a dollar. The machine took six pictures. One they did with just smiles. But the booth was cramped so Kusanagi had Momiji placed on his lap.
"Stop squirming' girl." He said almost with a squeak.
They posed for the next picture. Kusanagi had his blade out and fanned it behind his head so that he looked like he had wings coming out of his head and made Momiji laugh as the next picture captured that moment. They had three left and Momiji took her hands and made faces on Kusanagi's face. They had two to go and Kusanagi looked at her for a few moments and then as the picture flashed he kissed her on the cheek. Momiji knew that she looked shocked in that picture. Then before it could flash again she wrapped her arms around his neck and he kissed her neck as it flashed again.
When they got out Kusanagi looked at Momiji who was just as confused. "That was fun let's do it again." Kusanagi smiled and dove into the booth just to have Momiji drag him out again. The pictures came out. They looked exactly like she thought they would. One with just her, and then one with just Kusanagi. The next was the funny face with his blades, and then the one where Momiji made a face for him, and then the two where he kissed her.
She refused to let him see them even though he tried to grab them many times. Finally he sighed and picked her up, hopping over buildings they arrived at her house. Together they slipped into her room and switched on the light. Kusanagi took off his coat and sat down on her bed.
Momiji was called into the bathroom by nature. While she was in the bathroom Kusanagi went over to her desk where she dropped the pictures. He looked at her frame which was big enough to hold four of the six. He took the pictures and cut them where their strips were with his blades. He took the one where it was just Momiji and then he looked at the others. The one where he first kissed her eyes were wide open with shock and then in the next one she looked at him romantically as he kissed her neck.
He laughed at them and heard the toilet flush so he hurryingly placed them in the frame and then grabbed the other two for himself. He then jumped outside her window and onto the dark tree branch where he could make sure she went to sleep safely.
Momiji came out of the bathroom and went into her room with a smile that disappeared when she noticed that he was gone.
"Kusanagi?" And then she felt the breeze from outside her window. She frowned and realized that he had left. "You butt head! You couldn't even wait, I didn't take that long in the bathroom!" She sighed and then went to her desk where she thought that she had placed the pictures from the booth. "Shit! Where are they?" and then she saw that her once empty frame was now occupied. She grabbed the frame and kicked off her shoes so that she could tuck her feet underneath her body as she sat on her bed and leaned against the open window frame.
Kusanagi had placed the four pictures in the one frame. He had taken two with him. She looked at the ones he left her. There was the one with him winking by himself in the top right corner, and then bellow that was the one with his blade funny face. She laughed aloud. Then the next top corner was the one where she was making his a funny face, and the one bellow that was the one with her shocking kiss. Kusanagi had kept the one with just herself and then the one where he was kissing her neck while she wrapped her arms around his neck. She blushed as she thought how he kept the picture where it was ever so romantic between the two of them. When she rubbed her thumb across his picture as a loving touch Momiji swore she felt someone's breathe behind her and breathing on her neck, but when she turned around no one was there. The tree branch was close but it disappeared into the dark so she couldn't see in the shadows.
"Hmph…coward." She closed her window a crack more and lay down with the picture frame in her arms. She started to snore softly as Kusanagi stared from the branch. He smiled and then leaped into the air with the two pictures in his shirt pocket.
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Momiji woke up with a soft pain in her chest, as she looked down she saw that her physic powers were notifying her of an Aragami near by. She quickly phoned TAC and headed out with Koume who knocked on her door a few minutes later.
"It's big I can feel it Koume, it hurts." She gasped for air as they ran down the street.
"Will you be okay?" Momiji nodded, "Good, now where is that son of a…" Just under their feet something started to crack through the pavement it literally split in half as a monstrous plant came through the ground knocking them both on their butts.
"Shit, Momiji we have to move." Koume said it just as the vines on the plant started to move. People all around scream as a gigantic flower with purple thorns bloomed. Strangely the flower had teeth and poisonous thorns. It was magnificent with bright red and purple petals. One of the vines started to move and came down with a whiplash upon the Earth. It sent Momiji and Koume soaring in the air. Koume didn't waste a minute and started to shoot it in the air. They were both caught by a man in a trench coat; Kusanagi had come to their rescue.
"Kusanagi." Momiji sighed. He put them down and told her to stay put. Momiji watched from a distance as TAC arrived and Kusanagi went after the flower. He slashed at it and slashed at it but it still wouldn't die. Momiji could see that he was panting pretty hard but wouldn't give up.
"Koume what are you waiting for?!" Momiji yelled over the screaming crowds of people now clearing out.
"Do you want me to kill him?" She looked at Momiji knowing that if she shot her gun he would get in the way and be killed as well. "I mean hey I'll do it."
"Koume don't you dare." Momiji warned her.
Kusanagi looked at Momiji who bit her lip he winked at her.
"Kusanagi look out!" Koume shouted as a vine with thorns came along and struck his red coat. He was smashed to the ground. Koume and Momiji started to run towards him, but Koume froze when she saw him getting up. "Momiji stay back!" Ryoko said from a distance.
Kusanagi stood up and wavered slightly then jumped carelessly into the air where he slashed at the flowers tongue and still looking for the heart of the monster.
"Yaegashi, a little help here!" he yelled.
"Hey you wana give it a try? There are too many thorns! But I'm still looking!" The computer boy typed furiously.
Kusanagi went down to the plants thorns and shaved a good amount off. Just then the plant cried out and sank to the ground unfolding all it's leaves and looking as if it passed.
Kusanagi sat on the dead form as the TAC team started to run forward with Momiji in the lead. He smiled and then cringed at the pain across his back. Momiji arrived just as he took off his coat.
"Oh my god, Kusanagi, your back." Ryoko came abroad and saw the slash across almost oozing with crusty green blood.
Momiji came closer and took his coat while also helping him up.
"Don't worry it's no sweat!" He grinned and then it turned sour as she gently felt the wound along his back. "Oh, Kusanagi that must hurt a lot." Momiji turned him around with her back to the monster that hadn't for some reason dispersed into its seed form.
The team started to turn back while Koume reloaded her guns. The creature was not dead yet as its huge thorny arm swept along the ground, catching Matsudaira along its path. The TAC team dove for cover, but Momiji and Kusanagi stood right at its throat. The big flower turned towards the screaming Momiji and whipped out its lips to swallow her whole. Kusanagi readily pushed Momiji and his coat behind him out of harms way. Allowing the creature to take him instead.
"KUSANAGI!" Momiji yelled for him but he disappeared into it's throat that was halfway open. She saw Kusanagi get swallowed and through the open throat she could see his arm hanging half way out, not moving.
"Koume!" Momiji yelled for her friends. "Give me the damn gun."
Koume looked at her strangely, "Momiji you haven't shot this one before."
"I don't give a flaming flamingo give me the damn thing." Koume handed it over as the arm took another sweep around. Looking at Kusanagi's none moving arm she started to glow a silvery white like nothing before.
She held the gun with a tear slipping down her face she yelled, "Aragami disperse!" She shot the gun which threw her backwards into Daitetsu and the bullet with the same light went streaming right to where the seed was laying in the flower's purple thorn.
It exploded and everything turned white as the flower diminished and a seed dropped onto the ground and into the hand of the none-moving Kusanagi.
Momiji ran forward while the whole team sat there in shock. "Nice shoot." Koume coughed her hair strewn everywhere.
Momiji ran to where Kusanagi laid and she fell to the ground.
"Oh please don't die Kusanagi. You've always been there to protect me. Let me have protected you just once!" Momiji picked up his limp hand and touched the seed that started to glow a white like her glow. She placed it into Ryoko's hands and stared down at Kusanagi. Momiji laid her head on his chest and felt it softly rise and fall knowing that he was still breathing.
She propped him up with his own coat and saw something poking in the corner. Koume reached down for it and picked up the romantic picture that they had taken at the movies not twenty four hours ago. Koume sighed and placed the picture in her pocket.
Matsudaira came through and gently helped Momiji off the ground. "I'll have to get him back and the seed to my laboratory. Don't worry though, I have to sweep out that poison and I need the seed to get a cure for it." She gave Momiji a reassuring smile.
Together Daitetsu and Matsudaira lifted Kusanagi up and took them back to the TAC truck where they could drive him back in a jiffy to her lab. Momiji was stuck in a trance she couldn't break as she watched them drive away.
"Momiji common now." Sakura for once being nice held her in a soft hug and walked her along to Ryoko's car.
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Back at the lab Momiji bit her lip and looked out the open window. Matsudaira was tending to Kusanagi on a long flat table and Yaegashi was temping to examine the poison from the seed.
Ryoko was making fresh tea for everyone while Koume and Sakura sat near Momiji. Momiji in a daze just stared out the window. She barley felt the warm summer breeze floating in through the window and washing over her cold skin.
Ryoko came over to the three girls, "Here guys, have some tea." She poured three cups of steaming brownish water.
"Common Momiji drink up." Momiji just stared at her cup of tea, it was so hot it was burning her hands but she didn't care and put the cup down.
"Guy's come in here!" Yaegashi called in for them in a hurried tone.
"We have a problem." Matsudaira said softly looking straight at Momiji who was still in the corner.
"What is it?" Daitetsu asked.
"Kusanagi can heal quicker than any normal human being." He looked confused.
"So? Isn't that a good thing?" But they saw to their disbelief that she shook her head.
"No because if his body heals closed without the poison being swabbed out first the poison will run it's course through his body and eventually kill him. Even with his healing." Momiji frowned.
"So what are you going to do then Matsudaira?" Koume asked looking at him on the table.
"Well I know that it doesn't sound pleasant but… we have to hold his skin apart, so it won't heal until we've got that poison in him and the cure in him. But I want you all to go home. It's been a long day and he won't be going anywhere." Matsudaira pushed them all towards the door.
"Don't worry Yaegashi and I have everything under control."
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Momiji was still in the corner looking out the window. She felt helpless and wanted to stay while they worked on him. Pretty much everyone felt the same but they were just as tired so they all nodded and went to gather their things and told Matsudaira that they would all be there tomorrow morning.
Matsudaira walked from the lab to Momiji and grabbed her by the wrist. "Momiji, why don't you go home and sleep?" She smiled and Momiji lifted her pale face to her friend.
"I want to stay." Momiji walked towards the lab and went in with a deep breath.
She looked at Kusanagi on the table with cotton hooks holding his skin open so that they could drain out every possible once of poison with tubes. The room had a stench of some chemical. Kusanagi had an oxygen mask on and his shirt was stained with green blood. Momiji hated the sight of him on the table, his usually strong and bronze skin taught with weakness.
She went over and sat down by his side. There was a little puddle of green blood by her feet. Momiji pulled up a chair and sat down. While Matsudaira looked on Momiji took Kusanagi's hand in her and gripped it tightly.
"Hang on Kusanagi, hang on." She whispered to his face.
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It had been three days since Kusanagi had been struck and Momiji was still by his side. She was singing to herself softly still holding his hand in hers. Matsudaira went down the stairs to help Yaegashi formulate the cure that would help Kusanagi.
Matsudaira soon came back with a disgusting orange liquid in a tube for her to feed into Kusanagi. They had removed all of the glowing poison and now prepared for the last feed.
Momiji helped steady the table as when the orangey form hit his flesh he trembled with pain. "What is that doing to him?" Momiji looked at the satisfied Matsudaira.
"It's killing the poison and then it will help rebuild his white blood cells so that he can heal himself. Let's get rid of these now." The cotton hooks that held Kusanagi's skin apart flung out with a touch of her finger and the skin immediately started to close.
"He's gonna be fine now Momiji. Just a few more days till he's as good as new." She closed the door on her way out.
Momiji looked sadly at Kusanagi and picked up his hand again. She held it and noticed that he still had his gloved on. Momiji bit her lip, looked around, and slowly began to peel the glove off his hand. She flung it to the ground and started her examination of his hand. She traced all the lines on his palm and around his mitama. She noticed that he had strong hands and wondered why he always kept them covered. Momiji placed a small kiss on his thumb. Then she leaned over and placed one on his lips.
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Kusanagi was in a fuzzy world with voices, color, and sometimes shape. He felt the pain like as if someone was ripping him apart slowly. He felt someone take hold of his hand and remove his gloves. He wanted to protest but couldn't. He felt the water entering through his veins and protein through the other. But what he was amazed to feel were soft lips pressed upon his hand. Kusanagi felt the warmth of the lips and realized that he wanted to hold that person more than anything. Momiji took his hand and placed her cheek in it and he could feel the wetness upon that cheek.
He heard a soft voice calling to him. It wasn't actually a voice but a song. He groaned and realized that he couldn't reach out towards it. Even though he tried to grasp it many times, each time he failed. He knew that the voice that belonged to the song was somewhat yet familiar. He tried to look around and found the voice was coming from very close, and on his right side. He squeezed his hand and then all his strength left and he lost consciousness again.
"Kusanagi?!" Momiji swore to herself that she had felt a small movement across her cheek. She looked around for someone to share her joy, but she realized that she was still alone…
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DISCLAIMER
All the characters appearing in Blue Seed are copyright of someone else. No infringement of these copyrights is intended, and is not authorized by the copyright holder. All original characters in The Silver Shine Series - Blue Seed are the creations and the property of Telpelindewen. Even if they are out of character.
BLAH!!!!