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[Author's Note] Sorry about any typos and other writing errors.
(Chapter Two – New Place and Friends… Sort Of)
After seeing nothing but blackness for what felt like hours, Izuna soon started to hear the light sounds of howling wind. She then began to slowly open up her eyes, and it sort of hurt her eyes because of the brightness of the place she was in. She closed her lids for a few seconds, and then afterwards tried to open them again. This time she did open them, and the first thing she saw was a white ceiling. The fact that she was lying down on a bed began to dawn onto her.
She had a cover over her body, and she also felt like her leg was wrapped up in something, which it was. She turned her head to the right and saw an open window. The wind was blowing quite harshly and it looked like it was going to rain soon. The dark, greyish, silver clouds in the sky giving off warnings of a great rainfall that was soon to come to pass.
Izuna took her right arm out from underneath the cover and used her hand to fix up her hair; the wind was messing it all up. She let out a sigh as she turned her head to the left side of the room, and what she saw startled her a bit. She saw a boy sitting down in a chair that was next to the bed. He had black hair, he was wearing a Japanese martial arts uniform, had blue eyes, and he looked rather friendly.
They both said nothing to each other as they glared into one another's eyes. Another gust of wind blew, which once again blew Izuna's pink hair everywhere. She blew the hair away from her eyes and asked him, "Were you looking at me this entire time?"
Yoichi rubbed the back of his head and laughed at her question. Shortly after, he replied, "I was not staring at thee for too long."
"Where am I? And who are you?" she then asked, her face a mask of confusion.
"You art inside a guestroom in the Ikaruga household. I saw thee fighting against an enemy of great mass. I am sorry. I should have helped thou sooner. It is my fault that your leg is the way it is now, and because of that, I will help thee until thine injuries heal," ranted the young samurai.
She smiled at him as she rose up her left eyebrow. "You talk so weird. Where are you from, Turkey?" she jokingly asked him, a smirk on her face.
"I come from the mountains," he answered with a serious look on his face. She was about to ask him where were these mountains at, but she didn't really care at the moment.
"All right, can you tell me who you are now?" she asked once again.
"I am Yoichi Karasuma. I am a samurai, and my goal is to become a better samurai and master the Ukiha Kamikaze Swordplay, also known as the Soaring Wind, Divine Wind Style."
"Wow, that's pretty cool! I'm a ninja and my name's Izuna. I'm usually known as the unemployed ninja, which can be kind of embarrassing sometimes," she retorted with a look of happiness on her face.
Yoichi smiled back at her as he said, "Oh, I see."
She then began to look around the room, in search of her beloved katana, and sure enough she spotted it. It was in the corner of the room, and it looked so clean and polished. "Did you clean my katana?"
"Yes, I did, Izuna-dono." He seemed so strange to her, she never met somebody like him before, but she started to feel like she liked him already.
"Well, thanks," said Izuna as she tried to move, horrifying pain stopping her from moving any further. "Ouch, my leg, it hurts! I must have really screwed it up, huh?" she said, trying to play off her aching with a smile.
The boy closed his eyes and sadly said to her, "I am sorry." He looked as though he was about to shed a tear.
"Aw, shut up with that 'I'm sorry' stuff, okay? I'm fine. I'll get better in no time!" Izuna said to the samurai, her voice bright and uplifting.
He gave her another one of his pleasing smiles and replied back to her, "Thou art right. How fare thee?"
She didn't really know what to say back to him, so her only words were, "Uh, I'm fine?"
"'Tis most splendid!" he uttered happily. "I will go tell the others that thou art awake." He then stood up and began to walk away. He walked out of the room and down the hallway. "Izuna-dono is such a nice and beauteous girl. I must take care of her," Yoichi whispered to himself, now walking down the stairs and into the kitchen; all four of the Ikaruga sisters were inside of the kitchen at this time. "Ibuki-dono, Izuna-dono is awake," Yoichi told her with a smile on his face.
Ayame folded her arms and scoffed, later saying, "Izuna? What kind of a name is that?"
"It sounds like a very nice name, doesn't it, Ayame-dono?" asked the boy. The blond girl didn't answer; instead, she just walked right by Yoichi and headed upstairs. Ibuki followed her sister, but Chihaya and Kagome just stood there. Yoichi looked at them and asked, "Aren't thou two coming along?"
Chihaya did that usual laugh of hers, and then retorted, "Maybe later, I got some things I got to do, you know?"
"Me, too," said Kogome as she ran towards the sink.
The young samurai then turned around and started to walk away. "Dost as thou wilt," was what he said as he exited from the kitchen, now on his way upstairs. As he was walking down the hallway, he heard both Ibuki and Ayame asking the ninja girl a whole lot of questions, and that didn't seem like a good first impression to him. They sounded sort of infuriated as they were asking these questions, too; he could tell.
Yoichi did notice that once he brought her unconscious and bloody body into the house, Ibuki and Ayame seemed rather angry, and they didn't even know who she was yet. He figured after they both got all of their questions answered by her, they should just about know all about her. Yoichi walked in the room and saw what was going on. Both the sisters were folding their arms and standing right beside the bed. Ibuki didn't look so livid, but Ayame sure did.
"We were very worried about you when Yoichi brought you in here. We're glad you're alive," said Ibuki.
Izuna put her arms behind her head and replied rudely, "Yeah, yeah, whatever. Do you guys have any food? I haven't eaten anything in quite a while."
The purple haired girl started to arch her brows after hearing that remark. "You're not getting anything with that little attitude, Missy," Ibuki said back to her.
"Aw, did I hurt your feelings? I'm sorry... Psych!" laughed Izuna, getting both the Ikaruga sisters even more furious.
Yoichi walked over toward the bed and looked at the bubblegum haired ninja, his stare felt somewhat hypnotizing to her for some reason. "Izuna-dono," he started. "Please, please try and behave yourself. I want thou to get along with everyone here. Since thou will be staying here for a long time because of thy injury, we must all love each other and get along. Thou will do so, right?"
Her eyes steadily focused on his, she felt like she actually wanted to listen to somebody for once in her life. "Oh, I'm sorry. I guess I shouldn't joke with people that I don't know, huh?"
"That would be a start," Ayame barked back with a smart tone of voice. Izuna gave her a mean look and desperately wanted to say something back to her, something rude, but then her eyes focused back on Yoichi, which stopped her from doing such a thing.
He smiled at her, closed his eyes, and then said, "Grammarcy."
Izuna then let out a very long yawn, afterwards softly saying, "Well, I'd like to be alone now. I'm quite tired."
"Haven't you slept enough?" teased the blond as she gave the ninja a smirk.
"Ayame-dono," said Yoichi, not wanting something bad to happen.
"Haven't you ever heard of a breath mint?" Izuna shot back, a smirk on her face, as well.
The straw-colored haired girl balled a fist as she shouted, "I'm not even in your face, jerk!"
The girl with green eyes plugged her nose as she said back, "Doesn't matter, because I can smell it from here, AND you pretty much just admitted that your breath is STANK!"
"Shut up!" Ayame screamed, pure antagonism in her voice.
Izuna raised her left eyebrow and calmly said back, "Chill out, will ya? I'm only being honest."
"You're lucky that you have a broken leg, or else I would have beaten the crap out of you," replied the flaxen girl. Yoichi hasn't ever seen Ayame so rude before. The blacked haired boy then quickly stood in between the two, gently backing Ayame away from the bed.
"That's enough. We must let Izuna-dono get her rest now," he said.
"Let go of me!" yelled Ayame, which made Yoichi let go of her. She then stomped out of the room; Ibuki followed after her.
Before the samurai left the room, he turned around and looked at her, soon saying, "I hope thou wilt get along with everyone, and I hope thou wilt sleep well."
She lifted her body up a little, soon replying back in a flirtatious voice, "Don't you worry, cutie, I'll sleep well."
His face then lightly flushed red. "Good-bye, Izuna-dono." After that being said, he walked out of the room and shut the door.
45 minutes have now passed. It was just about night time and a terrible thunderstorm has just occurred. Yoichi was sitting down in his room, focusing and clearing his thoughts, until he remembered something: Izuna's window was wide-open. He quickly stood up and ran over toward the room she was in. He opened the door and saw her sound asleep, but her hair was scattered everywhere and her face was wet from the rain.
He ran and got a rag from his room, and then ran back inside the guestroom. He hurriedly shut the window, preventing anymore raindrops from hitting her smooth, beautiful face. Yoichi then looked at her and got on his knees, gently wiping her face clean from the storm's wetness. Her mouth was slightly open as gentle, cute snores came from out of her throat. She looked so beautiful to him, even more beautiful than Ibuki, and that made him feel sort of funny because he thought that Ibuki was the only one that looked truly beautiful, but now he doesn't think so anymore.
Once he finished drying off her face, he continued the look at her. He felt like he couldn't take his eyes from off of this angel he was eyeing. Such strange and strong feelings he was getting. He just met her, he barely even knows her, and yet he feels as though she has always been a part of him.
"Verily, the maiden is comely as a spring morn," he whispered ever so lightly. Then suddenly, her eyes slowly opened. Her green gems looked as though they were glowing in the darkness, and such a heavenly sight it was.
"Yoichi?" said the girl, sounding half asleep. Feeling very nervous, the boy decided to explain what he was doing here.
"My apologies, I just came in here to close the window. It is raining outside, so I figured that thou were very cold and wet. I also used this rag to dry off thy face from the rain." He now noticed that she was smiling, and such a lovely smile it was.
"Come closer," she whispered. He felt his face heating up again, but he decided to do what she asked him to do. He moved closer toward her, and it seemed as though she wanted to whisper something in his ear. Once her mouth was right beside his ear, she softly breathed out, "Thanks, Yoichi." She afterwards lightly kissed him on the cheek. He gasped. He was shocked. Did she actually just peck him on the cheek? He couldn't believe it.
Izuna, too, felt like she knew this person she just met for a long time, but she didn't really know why. Yoichi slowly backed away from her, his blushed face shining bright red.
"Y-you're welcome, Izuna-dono." He then stood up on his feet and bowed. "Goodnight," he said to her before walking out of the room and closing the door lightly. She smiled as she shifted herself to get in a more comfortable position. Minutes later, she drifted off back to sleep and dreamed sweet dreams.
There you have it, the second chapter. Please tell me what you think by doing the usual R&R, okay? By the way, you're not forced to. I'm just asking, you know? I love YoichixIzuna ^_^.