[Disclaimer]: Do not own Peacemaker Kurogane and will not make a profit out of this fic. PeaceMaker Kurogane©Nanae Chrono
Down the corridor
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(...) He's in the tatami room in the back. Go to him. (...) episode 23 - Truth
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Following the words like a martial order, Toshizo stepped up the stairs searching Souji.
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He reached the top of the stairs, facing the immense, door filled corridor; the men milling about it blurring his goal – the tatami room in the back.
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He walked composedly in search of Souji; his gaze, intent on his goal, blurred the men he passed and the words they addressed him.
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The endless succession of doors went on forever – the tatami room in the back – further and further away.
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His pace increased when the people were left behind and despair seeped into his heart at the sickening sounds of coughing and heaving from the tatami room in the back.
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At the entrance of the tatami room in the back, he stopped, dazed with the view before him: Souji shaken by a coughing fit, his frail body hurt and bruised.
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In relieve and despair, he whispered: "Souji!"
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November2007
November2008©MarinLiliz
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