Hi dudes and dudettes! Well I finished my Card Captor Sakura story, and now I'm starting this one! So here we go!
Chapter 1- Faded Memories
"Miss Kiryu, I'm urging you to go back to the mainland," Yet again Ryuhou was trying to convince Mimori to leave HOLY. Mimori gave him a stubborn look, then a sad one.
"Why is it always 'Miss Kiryu' with you? You can at least acknowledge an old….an old friend…." She said softly as she walked to her room. Ryuhou didn't react; he just watched her walk away.
She ran into her room and collapsed on her bed. Making sure no one was around; she went to her closet and opened a box full of tapes. She put the tape in her VCR and sat on the couch in her room. She held a pillow in her arms as she watched, glued to the tape.
(italics are what's being shown on the tape k?)
It was 7 years ago. Ryuhou's father and Mimori's father sat at a table at Ryuhou's estate as they were playing card games.
"Ryuhou," his father smiled, "come play with us!"
"Yes sir!" Ryuhou smiled. Oh how Mimori loved that smile. Ryuhou took a seat across from his father and grabbed a stack of cards. Mimori walked up and both of their fathers grinned.
"Mimori, why don't you play with us as well?"
"Yes, I'm sure it would be much more fun with 4 people instead of just 3!" Ryuhou insisted as he pulled a chair out for her. She gladly accepted and sat next to him and grabbed a stack of cards.
"I don't know how to play…" Mimori said, confused as she looked at her cards.
"Lemme see," Ryuhou said as he inched forward trying to see her cards in order to help her out.
"But Ryuhou!" Mimori gave him a shocked look as she held the cards close to her chest defensively. "I'm sure that's cheating!" She looked at her dad, who nodded in response.
"No!" Ryuhou insisted, trying to explain his innocence. "I was only trying to-"
"Cheater!" Mimori stuck her tongue out at him.
"I am not!" Ryuhou and Mimori both got up as Ryuhou began chasing Mimori around the table. Both of them were laughing and soon Mimori ran to Ryuhou's mother, who was the one taping everything. Mimori tugged on her dress.
"Ryuhou's cheating!" She told his mother. His mom gave him a fake surprised look.
"Ryuhou! How dare you!" She said playfully. Mimori stuck her tongue out at him and he stuck his tongue out at her. Both of them laughed, and Mimori asked to hold the camera.
"But why do you want to videotape me?" His mom asked.
"Because you're pretty!" Mimori smiled as she focused the camera on Ryuhou's mom.
Ryuhou nodded in agreement. "Yah mother you're really pretty!"
Mimori's eyes were glued to the TV screen; she hadn't even noticed that she was no longer on the couch, but mere inches from the screen. Nor did she notice that Ryuhou had entered her room. "Ryuhou…" She thought to herself out loud. "Why can't you smile like that anymore? Why can't you act like that with me anymore?"
"Where did you get that?" Ryuhou demanded, a stern look on his face.
Mimori snapped out of her thoughts and turned around to face Ryuhou. "Does it really matter?" She asked defensively, remembering what had happened earlier.
"No, I was just wondering why you would hold onto something like that for so long."
"I hold onto the things that matter to me," she said, her eyes softening. Ryuhou was a bit taken aback by her response, but he wouldn't dare let her know it.
"Miss Kiryu, I advise you to stop living in the past and move on. What happened in the past stays in the past."
"Would you stop calling me Miss Kiryu! You know my name, you've known it since we were kids! Why can't you just refer to me as Mimori like you just refer to Scheris as Scheris!" Ryuhou didn't say anything.
"I'll be seeing you around Miss Kiryu." He walked out without another word, leaving Mimori with a sad expression. Just as he was walking out of her room, Straight Cougar happened to be passing by.
"Hm? Hey, what were you doing in Minori's room!" Cougar demanded defensively.
"It's Mimori," Ryuhou corrected him as he walked to his room, leaving Cougar with a shocked and worried look on his face.
"You can't steal away what's already mine!" Cougar shouted to him.
"Whoever said she was yours?" Ryuhou called back. As he entered his room, Ryuhou flipped up the mattresses of his bed to reveal many boxes. For security purposes, he placed many empty boxes under his bed, so as to where if an intruder, such as Mp3228, or formally known as Kazuma, wouldn't be able to find the one box containing the items he held dear. He opened the box just above the middle box to reveal pictures of him in his childhood, old birthday presents from loved ones, including the picture Mimori had drawn him for his birthday 7 years ago. He pulled out 2 pictures: The one Mimori had drawn for him, and a picture of him and Mimori together. He stuck both of them in his back pocket and left his room.
While walking past Mimori's room, he heard a loud crash and ran into her room. "MIMORI!" He shouted.
Mimori gave him a confused look. "What is it Ryuhou?"
"What was that sound?" Ryuhou asked, looking dumbfounded.
"Oh, a bunch of my pots and pans fell. I was unloading the dishwasher and they all came down on me." She smiled as she looked at her arm. Ryuhou had now averted his eyes to her arm as well, only to find a bruise forming from where her dishes hit her. "Were you worried about me?"
"No!" Ryuhou replied quickly. "I just can't have a princess getting hurt is all." Mimori looked a little sad after he said this.
"Is that all you see me as?" He was going to answer when Cougar walked in.
"Miss Minori!" Cougar shouted.
"It's Mimori!" Both Ryuhou and Mimori said simultaneously. Mimori was shocked and Ryuhou looked expressionless.
"Are you ok?" Cougar asked.
"Yes I'm fine," Mimori smiled. "Ryuhou was just helping me."
"No I wasn't," Ryuhou said coldly. Just as Mimori was about to respond, the commander summoned both Mimori and Ryuhou to his office.
"Miss Kiryu, I need you to fill in for Scheris and go with Ryuhou on this mission."
"Why isn't Scheris coming?" Ryuhou asked.
"Scheris is very sick so she needs to rest. Anyways I need you two to go capture some more Native Alters. We have also been notified that Mp3228 is among them, so be careful."
"Kazuma," Both Ryuhou and Mimori said. They looked at each other and headed off on their mission, both of them feeling differently about their assigned orders…
