However, I do own Esakatari, Sutara, Luther and Constantine, they are my characters and you may not use them unless you have permission from me.
Sundown"Face it Kadaj. WE'RE LOST!" I yelled at him as I sat on the rock with my elbows resting on my knees. "We have been here, on this stupid rock, in this trench, for two, stinking weeks trying to find out where the hell we are on that map so we can finally get out of here! So! Where are we Kadaj?"
"Don't yell at me! I don't need you crap right now! It's hard enough trying to find our position WITH OUT YOUR CRAP!" He was beginning to get really ticked off, I had been yelling at him for hours, from the moment we got up in fact.
"Why is it that men can't stop for directions?" I said jumping off the rock,
"I don't need directions…I have the map." He said arrogantly as he turned back around and looked back at that useless thing again.
"If we didn't need that thing so badly…I would BURN IT!" I jumped up and kicked my bag wanting to kick Kadaj in the butt, but I decided against that.
"Will you shut UP!" He shouted, I sat back down on the ground, crossed my arms around my legs and pulled my knees into my black silk clad chest, leaning against the rock and sighed. I'd had enough of his pestering, his bickering, his arrogance, and him cracking his whip at me all the time to take care of the camp while he just sat there, trying with no success at finding where we where. In fact…I'd had enough of him period! I was ready to slap his egotistical face off! I was near my boiling point when he said,
"I think we're right here." Pointing at somewhere on his dim-witted chart. "It's not on all the maps I've seen which is why it took me so long to find it."
"Yeah, whatever! You've probably been pointing at the same stupid spot, for two weeks! You have no idea on where the hell we are! Sephiroth would have known how to get us out of this! You're just an insignificant little punk who's trying to show off that you're a big man! Yeah, a FAKE big man!" I walked away and picked up the dragon eggs, he came over and snatched them out of my hand, threw them on the ground, then grabbed both of my wrists and picked me up until I felt my feet dangled below me!
"That was uncalled for!" I struggled a bit before I answered,
"What was? That you aren't worth any thing compared to Sephiroth and that you're one of the worst leaders I've ever known? Oh! In addition, did you want me to add on the fact that I'm the only one taking orders around here! Like a slave you slave driver!"
"You're not very good at respecting people are you?" He glared at me.
"No I'm not! I'm not good at respecting tyrants who don't even know what the hell they're doing at ALL!" I yelled in his face, his eyes contracted into small incisions then he threw me down on a rock, I heard a cracking noise as I hit the bolder and felt a very distinct, sharp pain run threw my right side at my ribs, then he slapped me.
"Don't you ever, talk to me like that again!" He said, his eyes looked like they were on fire as he narrowed his eyebrows,
"Or what? You'll throw me on rocks, almost break my ribs and slap me again ya dame ass! You can't do any better than that can you?" I said getting up and rubbing my cheek then slapping him back. "You're gonna have to use that sword of yours to tame me that way your majesty!" I mocked as I gathered the eggs and put them back in their pouch, I got up and started walking away,
"Hey! Get your ass back here!" Kadaj yelled out after me,
"No!" I said starting to pick up my pace. He started after me
"I said! Get…your…ass…BACK HERE!" I broke into a sprint and went zigzagging through the trees as best I could trying to get him off my trail, the pain in my side started throbbing with every step I took, he soon gave up and fell to the ground
"You wont get far enough away for me not to know where you are!" He yelled out as I went over the rock. I kept running until I got to the mouth of the cave I had found the dragons in. I sat down against the wall and re-located my rib, which I guess had somewhat fallen out of place when Kadaj threw me against that rock. I wrapped up my abs to keep it from moving too much so as it won't fall out of place again, then covered my face with my black gloved hands. I was sick of him hollering and hurting me all the time. It was tearing me up inside and he didn't even care about it! The worst was that I knew I had to go back. I cried just a little bit.
"Why? Why did you make me go with Kadaj of all the Advents in this cold, hardhearted world why! Why Jenova why! He's so coldhearted!" I stood up in rage and grabbed a rock then threw it as hard as I could. I still couldn't find a solution to my question so I lied down and pulled my self back into a fetus position, crying until I couldn't see any more. All my pain from my body seemed to grow worse and worse, as I lay there helpless. About an hour later, I hear Kadaj calling out.
"Esa? Esakatari?" I looked up with tears still filling my eyes but didn't respond. The pain from deep inside both physical and emotional still tore me up and I wanted to cry some more, or just stay away from him a little while longer, ether way…I didn't want to talk to him. "Esa?" he called out sounding more like he was sorry,
"Go away! You jerk!" I fought the tears back. I heard his footsteps grow closer and closer.
"Esa…please come out. I think we need to talk." I thought back when that would bring me joy instead for grief like the one it did now. A small moan escaped my throat.
"Dame it!" I cringed as I heard his foot steps stop then run towards me from the noise.
"Esakatari?" I rolled over onto my stomach, which made the pain in my ribs hurt worse and tried to sneak into the cave. The pain in my ribs then grew intensively agonizing so I was going slow and only got about half way in before he saw me, "There you are!" He said running over to me. "Come on. You can't run away like this. It's way to dangers out here!" He grabbed my arm and pulled me up of the ground. He had grabbed my right arm so it felt like torture as he pulled me up.
"LEAVE ME ALONE YOU SNAKE! ITS EVEN MORE DANGERS WITH YOU!" I pulled away. Kadaj looked confused
"Esa?"
"Do you really think that every things all right? You're not really thinking about ME are you?" The tears started rolling down my face as I jerked my gaze away. He just looked at me, then, he walked up, "Get lost! I don't wanna talk to you!" I closed my eyes and jumped back, but doing so made me flinch from the pain in my side, which reminded me of how it got there in the first place. "I guess you don't CARE about how you threw me against the rock and did something awful to my ribs huh!" I turned around thinking that he'd leave if I did so. Instead, he grabbed my shoulder and started to pull me close, I attempted to pull away but he wouldn't let go, most likely 'cause I wasn't using my full strength. "Why do you all ways think that holding me is the solution to all our problems? It's not okay! I'm pissed off at you! Go away!" I said trying to jerk away, which didn't work because I couldn't use my full strength again, he stopped pulling on me.
"I'm…"
"AND DON'T YOU TRY TO EXPLAIN YOUR WAY OUT OF THIS ONE ETHER ON YOUR WAY!" I screamed, the sting in my side grow unbearable, making me flinch
"Okay." He calmly said, I only got more irritated; I knew what was next after he had glazed his voice over like that. After about ten seconds I tried to get away again and once again, he just held on to me.
"Let go you jerk!" He said nothing…he just stood there holding my shoulder. "If you don't let me go I'll…!" I felt him against my back then he wrapped his arms around my chest and squeezed just a little bit then pressed his cheek against mine. He took a deep breath then said,
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you…I was mad." I closed my eyes again; I tried to get away with saying nothing because I was still a little mad but he still just held me until I calmed down. After I relaxed, he let me go and backed off. "I'll go back and leave you alone now." He walked away. I just stood there for another minute or two, I didn't quite know what to do I decided to figure out what was bothering me more about Kadaj. The fact that he hurt me, or the fact that he was willing to admit his wrong when he wasn't intending on talking this whole problem out with me. I left the cave and went deeper into the forest. I had found a very peculiar looking rock that looked like part of a building in the middle of a clearing a week ago and I would leave camp to get some solitude there. I hadn't been walking long before I heard some thing that sounded like footsteps coming from in front of me. I quickly turned around and darted back. As I got near, I yelled out,
"Kadaj!"
"You've calmed down already?"
"No! I think we have uninvited company!" I almost ran into him as I got down into the ditch he was in gathering wood.
"I think I heard some one or multiple some ones around the cave area." He dropped the wood and ran back to the rock and tore into his backpack,
"Guard the dragon eggs!" he said. I grabbed the little blue bundle that the dragon eggs were in and ran to the top of the rock. "Esakatari you familiar with these?" He said throwing up three guns with some ammo,
"Ya, Yazoo showed me some shot moves." I said loading them up,
"Good, 'cause your gonna need 'em if this gets rough!" He said pulling out his sword. The footsteps got close to camp. "You ready?"
"I don't want to do this Kadaj!" I whined,
"Oh! Don't be such a girl!" He said,
"I am a girl!"
"Oh…then your in trouble." He said lifting his sword up,
"Kadaj!" I glared at him as he snickered, "Sexist!" I whispered. I crouched down as hard as I could without breaking the dragon eggs beneath me.
"Get ready." Kadaj said. He ducked down behind a bush, the footsteps came closer, I could hear voices,
"You sure it was this way?"
"Well, sounded like some thing or some one went over here."
"Be nice if we found that annoying dragon finally!" Soon the people came out from behind the brush,
"It doesn't look like anybody's here." One of them said,
"I could swear that I heard some thing!" The one of others said, there were three of them there. One of them was tall, almost as tall as Sephiroth and his hair was black. One was just about the size of Kadaj…looked a lot like him too. The last one I almost thought was Yazoo but his hair was also black; there was a few strands of his hair that were copper colored as well though. They where all dressed in some kind of black Chinese tunic with a dragon crest on their right side of their chests, I almost shot at one of them I was so nerves,
"Not yet!" I thought as I grabbed my hand and I looked down at Kadaj.
"Well, looks like some ones been here." The one who looked like Yazoo said pointing at the fire.
"Then who ever it was couldn't have left all that long ago ether." The Sephiroth looking one said coming closer to the camp. "Well, might as well look around while we're here." He continued as he got to the bush Kadaj was crouched down behind. As he passed, Kadaj shot up and slashed the guy on the arm. "What the hell?" The guy yelled as he whipped around grabbing his sword hilt, Kadaj jumped at him just as the guy got out his long sword. I recognized it as a wind blade. The two males started to mêlée around with one another, with one clean cut Kadaj sent the guy over on his back then he raised his sword up to pierce him.
"Hey! You can't do that!" The one who looked like Yazoo yelled pulling out a rather large gun, I shot at it and it went flying to the side. He started looking around,
"Really? I say he can!" I said with a pissed off look on my face as I glared at the men. The guy that seemed to be Yazoo picked up his gun from the ground and aimed at me,
"Will some one get this mongoose off me? He's tearing me apart!" The Sephiroth looking one yelled as Kadaj landed on top of him.
"Aw man! Hey you! Get off Sutara!" The Yazoo guy yelled running up behind Kadaj and getting ready to beat him in the head with the butt of his gun.
"You've seen WAY too many movies dude!" I jumped down on him. Suddenly there was a gunshot,
"HEY!" The Kadaj appearing male screamed out. We stopped our fighting and looked up, well, almost every one, the Yazoo looking guy ran behind a bush, the rest of us looked up at the boy who was now only some what surrounded by smoke. From the size of his gun I guessed what he possessed was a colt 405 or the 'Peacemaker' as most of the men around my home would have call it. He put the gun away in its holster …then he walked down slowly. "You boy ought to know better, attacking a lady and her escort! Forget that the lady is Esakatari! Don't you boys remember Esakatari?" I was shocked! Then I looked carefully at his face. His face did look familiar, a memory of a laughing little boy seemed to bear a resemblance to this mans features, the same little boy that proclaimed that no matter where I was he would find me again when I left home five years ago. The only boy who ever loved me for who I was instead of what I pretended to be to the others.
"…Constantine?" I asked unbelievingly, he turned around with a much warmer smile.
"Hello Neko girl." He said the way he would have always done; only one boy would know that particular nickname, it was what he called me when he knew I needed cheering up.
"OH MY GOD!" I jumped over and almost made him fall when I hugged him. "IS IT REALLY YOU? OH MY GOD! I'M SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU!"
"Yes…I can see that." He said, the others started laughing at me, except Kadaj who was glaring at me,
"What you said was true! You did find me again!"
"You remember that?"
"Yes! Didn't you?"
"Of course I remember. It's been the only thing getting me out of bed in the morning." I giggled at the thought for a moment,
"Now…if you don't mind. I'd like to have my neck back?" Constantine laughed,
"Oh…sorry." I blush as I let go and backed off.
"Hey! If you knew the guy then why didn't you tell me?" Kadaj said tapping on my shoulder,
"I didn't know that it was him until he told me."
"And you are?" Constantine asked,
"Kadaj." He answered.
"Ah yes. I've heard of you." Constantine nodded,
"Well, can't say that I've heard of the rest of your party." Kadaj interjected.
"Oh yes, how rude of me. The tall guy YOU where fighting directly with is Sutara…he's a real pain some times…"
"Hey!" Sutara glowered at his companion.
"…Sorry! Any way…and the guns men…that maggot you see hiding behind that mint bush over there. Is Luther." Luther crawled out rather sheepishly,
"He, he…we can forget the hiding behind the bush part right?" He said with a fake smile on his face
"Luther? Is that you? The little boy who always picked on me for being taller than him?" I asked,
"Ya, We can forget about that too right?" Luther said blushing.
"Sure…right Luther." Constantine smiled
"Have you been out here a long time?" Sutara asked,
"Well um…" I started,
"Not really." Kadaj said. What was his problem? He seemed to always get us into worse trouble than we already were!
"You're welcome to come back with us if you've had enough."
"Oh well…" I started again.
"Hush women!" Kadaj cut me off I was sure that he was going to say no, "…Sure. We'll come. But we need to get our things first…I hope you wont remember the whole ambushing you bit too much!" He said.
"Forgotten it all ready." Sutara said winking.
"Well, let's go. Go get your crud Esa." He said shooing me off. I packed as fast as I could…I had forgotten the deer Kadaj had cut up and I ran into it. I screamed harder than ever. Kadaj came running up behind me and started laughing as I thought he would do. I was ready to slap him; I wish I had
"Is everything all right over there?" Constantine asked worried,
"No. Esakatari just found the cut up deer again."
"Oh." Sutara said, in a semi laughing voice,
"Come on guys. We should get there before it gets to dark. And right now it's almost twilight." Luther called out.
"Coming!" Kadaj yelled back as he picked up his bag and gathered some minor objects.
"I'm ready." I said standing up.
"Oh! The dragon eggs!" I ran back up to the rock's top, after I stuffed them into my leg pocket (I hadn't given them back to Kadaj yet!) I looked up at the sky. Luther was right! It was sundown. I ran back down, it was time to go at last.
