Sorry guys I've fixed the problem something was up with my Editing feature, but now its fixed so here you go! chapter three no longer with un wanted breaks where breaks shouldn't be!
As I blindly looked over the words on the paper in front of me, I couldn't concentrate, my thoughts stayed on that excerpt I had read from the other book.
'Here in the jaws of death do sinners live, here in Satan's domain, do they weep their tears of hatred and sorrow. Though only one among them does live happily this is the one called the master and the leader, the second hand of Satan, the son of the eternally damned.'
'Son of the eternally damned?' I thought absent mindedly turning the page. 'What on earth could that mean?' It sounded familiar, like someone I know had told me that once when I was younger. 'who is the son of the eternally damned?' I thought again.
Suddenly the room began to spin and the words from the book in front of me began to lift themselves off of the page. I blinked a few times and tried to clear my eyes hoping that they weren't playing tricks on me. In my attempts of doing so a wave of nausea swam over me as my head became lighter and lighter until finally everything stopped. The room was then engulfed in darkness.
"Tezuka…" I muttered weakly falling over against the soft cushions of the couch I had been occupying.
"Fuji-san?" I heard something fall hard to the floor and quick footsteps coming closer, and like something warm was covering me.
"Tezuka…wha-" I didn't continue, I couldn't continue my head was hurting far to much for me to.
I woke up with a larger headache then I remember starting out with. I looked around, not daring to move my head any for fear of worsening my suffering. Thought my view was limited I could tell I had been placed back in my room the book I had been reading earlier was placed on my bedside stand, sitting there, waiting for me to pick it back up and continue back where I had left off at. As of right now I had no interest in reading, I wanted to know what had happened.
"Good to see your ok!" I head Eiji's voice from the corner of the room, he emerged from the dark confines of the corner and walked over to me bedside and sat down, being careful to not sit on my arm.
"Eh, what happened, Eiji?" I asked.
"Well, I can't say exactly I wasn't there, but Tezuka said that you called his name and then after a few moments you fell over dropping your book. I've never seen him so flustered about someone it was a once in a lifetime sight I guess you could say." Eiji smiled while laughing lightly.
"I wasn't flustered." Tezuka's voice came from the direction of the door way. I immediately raised myself to a sitting position, of course only to feel the sudden repercussions of my rash actions. I winced from the amount of pain that had over came me.
"Don't over exert yourself, Fujiko," Eiji said placing a hand on my shoulder, I slowly lowered myself back down onto the bed and closed my eyes for a moment.
"Eiji, go and get Inui."
"Yes, Tezuka," Eiji said leaving the room. Tezuka walked over towards my bed, and pulled up a chair.
"Is it true Tezuka, where you really flustered over my fainting?" I asked opening eyes once again with a sweet smile placed on my lips.
"…Like I said before I wasn't flustered, merely startled that's all," He said glancing away for a moment before returning his gaze back to me. "Did anything unusual happen before hand?"
"No not really," I mumbled, 'I wonder if I should tell him I was thinking about that book…no not right now maybe later.'
"Oh, alright, well it's good to know that you are feeling better at least," Tezuka said getting up from his chair.
"Are you leaving already Tezuka, you just got here?"
"Well if you-"
"Tezuka you sent for me?" A man with odd spiky hair came walking in with large square glasses with thick black rims.
"Yes Inui I did, I need you to look over Fuji-san here and make sure everything is alright with him." Tezuka said gesturing towards me.
"Of course," the man said walking over to me, "Inui Sadaharu, pleasure to make your acquaintance Fuji-san." I gave a small nod. "Tezuka have you eaten yet? It doesn't take my data to tell you that much does it?" Inui smirked. Tezuka's permanent frown seemed to grow at the thought of eating.
"No I haven't yet Inui, I'm assuming you have?"
"Yes I have, Kaidoh-kun helped me with that problem." Tezuka took in a deep breath before answering.
"You know its taboo to do that," He said pinching the bridge of his nose.
"Even some one as strict as you, Tezuka, understands the sins of the flesh." Inui muttered turning his attention back to me.
"That's hardly the point right now," Tezuka said has he began to leave.
"Your foul mood has to do with not eating, must have been hard having it sit right here in front of you." The door slammed shut, making me jump slightly before placing my hand on my forehead. "Such an irritable man," Inui sighed shaking his head lightly, "Now Fuji-san what seems to be the matter?"
"I fainted earlier, I'm not sure as to how long ago, the room began to spin and the words from the pages of my book began to lift themselves from the paper like they were alive, then nausea, and blackness." I said, as Inui wrote all this done in a small notebook. He then felt of my forehead.
"Just a fever is all," He took out a bottle from his coat placed it on the night stand next to me, "Sleep some and then take this, you should feel better in a while."
"I will, thank you Inui-san," I smiled back at him.
"Is there anything I can get you?"
"Something to eat would be nice."
"Of course, I'll see if I can get you something." He left my room, leaving me alone once again. I sighed rolling over to face the window. It was now light out, faintly the sounds of birds wafted in the open window along with a light wind. The outside sounded nice right now, the warmth of the sun on my skin. The silk curtains flowed like water as another breeze came through.
"Today would be a nice day to paint, I'm sure the area around this place must be nice," I muttered wishing I could get up and walk around some more. I hated being cramped into confined compartments, as my sister says I'm filled with far too much water. I missed my sister and my mother, but I had made my decision and I planned to stick by it. I couldn't return now.
"Inui, we have to do something about him," Tezuka sighed taking a sip from his glass. He detested this part of his existence, requiring such a filthy liquid in order to live. 'This is what god's unwanted children are supposed to live off of, those of us who must face this fate, sworn for now on eternity to be damned in the eyes of the so called 'holy lord'. A miserable existence is what we face all because of him.'
"I know, Oishi informed me of his arrival last night," Inui replied his back still turned to the other man.
"What do you propose we do?" For once Tezuka didn't have a plan, it was very unlike him. He wanted to get rid of Fuji, but his mind wouldn't let him go a moment without thinking of him.
"I'm not sure actually, there is a 75 percent chance that he will be back within the week to see if Fuji-san was taken care of or not. The other 25 percent says that he'll be back after about a fortnight give or take a day or two."
"I see, that doesn't give us much time at all." Tezuka said looking down at his glass, the liquid inside clung to the sides then slid down rejoining the rest of the mass. He grimaced and pushed the glass away.
"Come now Tezuka," Inui said pushing the glass back towards Tezuka, "You must eat sometime."
"Out of all the centuries we've been forced into this existence, I still can't stand the taste of…blood."
"Well it's not like we choose it, he choose it for us." Tezuka sighed and downed the rest of the foul drink.
"I'd rather drink your concoctions than be stuck with this." Inui let out a small laugh.
"What about Fuji-san, he needs real food you know."
"I know, see if you can figure out something." Tezuka turned and left. "Oh and we'll need to keep an eye on him because, he knows about the books, make sure he stays away from them."
"Aa, I'll make sure of that." Inui nodded and returned to his original task of finding their human guest some form of nourishment.
"Shusuke, Shusuke where are you? Ototo?"
"Yumiko? Nee-san, I'm over here!"
"Shusuke, you left your painting sitting over here, it's not finished. How unlike you to leave something half done."
"Yumiko! I wasn't painting anything that day."
"Here Shusuke, your very own canvas I saved up all my money to get this for you." My sister smiled handing me a large canvas.
"Thank you Nee-san, I'll paint you something beautiful, even though it could never rival you."
"You don't have to do that." Tezuka's voice rang through.
"Eh?" I shot my eyes open, my headache was gone thanks to Inui's medicine.
"You where talking in your sleep, saying 'I'll paint you something beautiful, even though it could never rival you.'"
"Oh…I don't usually talk in my sleep; I hope I didn't say anything else that was too embarrassing." I blushed pulling the covers farther up my face hopefully covering the heat that had crept its way up into my cheeks. Apparently Tezuka had noticed my movements, who wouldn't, it was blatantly obvious.
"No not really I just came in, so if you did I didn't hear it." I did a small mental cheer for this development, the last thing I needed was for Tezuka to hear that I found him to be a gorgeous person. That would be utterly embarrassing. That is if he didn't already put two and two together.
"Well here you go," Tezuka sat a tray of food down in front of me, I looked it over. It didn't look like anything was amiss with it, it probably wouldn't taste as good as Nee-san's though.
"Thank you Tezuka," I smiled taking a small bite, it was delicious some of the best food I had in a while.
"You are welcome, don't worry about the sleep talking thing, as soon as Inui's medication ware's off you won't have to worry about that anymore. One of the few side effects from taking it."
"Oh," I muttered finishing off my food, never before had I eaten so fast. Apparently the ferocity of my eating caused Tezuka to smirk slightly, then the smirk was gone replaced with his usual frown.
"Is there anything I can get you?"
"Well, I would like to go outside, or paint whichever is more feasible." I smiled, "Or both would be nice too."
"Well both are feasible tasks." Tezuka said.
"Well it is a lovely day out, I'm sure there is something outside that would make a good subject," I smiled.
"Tomorrow would be better, you're still recovering from earlier."
"True," I sighed , "do you promise to take me outside tomorrow?" Tezuka thought for a moment then nodded.
"Do you promise to take me outside tomorrow?" Tezuka nodded again. "Do you promise to take me outside tomorrow?" I asked for the third time.
"Yes Fuji I promise to take you outside tomorrow." He sighed.
"Now remember, you promised…three times" I held up three fingers, "That means if you don't take me outside tomorrow, then you will have lied to me three times." I smiled as he took the tray from in front of me.
"Of course, if weather permits." Tezuka turned and left the room. I got up from the bed and walked towards the window. The outside was beautiful; trees, flowers, birds, the works in a sense. 'Tezuka would look nice with that kind of back drop, absolutely perfect.' I smiled thinking of my future subject. That is if Tezuka would let me paint him that is. No, he will let me paint him, weather he likes it or not.
I really do hope its easier to read and understand now, if it wasn't hard before then now its just easier. please review you guys!
