Name: Whispers of a mute girl
Author: Rain
Disclaimer: SK is not mine, the theme isn't either. %)
Pairing: OpachôXSeyram
Theme: Espilon - Livejournal 1sentence
Note: Opachô is a BOY here. No yuri. %)
1 – Motion
The very young Opachô watched in a somewhat very slow motion as the powerful and indestructible Golem was crushed, burned, destroyed by Spirit of Fire, his mind not really understanding what just happened (or refusing to understand), and then he heard an animal scream which was just a painful, hurt sound, without words or anything; he realized he was the one to scream – then his eyes watered, and he screamed again, more loudly – "SEYRAM!"
2 – Cool
"Cool down Seyram, we still have two hours to prepare you for your African Prince, he's not coming until 3:00 pm!"
3 – Young
They're young enough to forget, to forgive what makes them enemies; they're young enough for their master and friends to forgive them for playing together; so nothing should stop them from doing so – children are the best shamans, because they do not doubt, they believe, and Opachô believes Seyram will survive, and she believes her friend will stay with her (and Hao smiles sadly because he just knew it would happen and cannot stop his first and last friend of this life from leaving him behind).
4 – Last
The so-called almighy Millennium Shaman Hao Asakura can only sigh and close his eyes without replying when Opachô talks to him that night, just before the day when they'll go to the Mû continent, because how do you answer to that child when he asks you, tears in his voice: "Hao-sama, Opachô is very very sorry but Opachô do not understand why is it the last time Opachô and Sey-chan can play together, Hao-samaaaa…"
5 – Wrong
This feels just wrong when Opachô is not at his side; and for that he envies the little girl who caught his attention – then he realizes he's envying a girl, and the wrongness comes back.
6 – Gentle
Gentleness is needed when you tame a wild animal, and – even if he wasn't exactly an animal – Opachô's just as afraid of going to the dentist, so Tamao has to use everything she has up her sleeve to persuade him; but when smart, peaceful Yoh lets accidentally out that little Seyram also has to go, the young African sheep is suddenly much less wild – Tamao's gentle, soft (or not so gentle and soft) voice is now pursuing him as he runs towards the hated doctor.
7 – One
One time, one girl went to see one boy; that one boy was the one friend of one loner; that one loner put one condition on that one love; that one condition brought harm to one of the girl's friend; and finally both children were hurt and sad and broken.
8 – Thousand
"This is the first time in a thousand years that I see two children so meant to be."
9 – King
"Opachô never want to be king, Hao-sama already is; but Hao-sama, Opachô do not understand why Jeanne-sama say Opachô is prince and Sey-chan princess, Opachô's father is not king, why – uh, what do "fairy tale" mean, Hao-sama, Opachô do not understaaaand…"
10 – Learn
"There are some things even I can't teach you," mutters Hao, as he watches his young friend walk to the mute girl – her face brighten, his smile grows bigger, and their embrace seem so innocent Hao would nearly envy him.
11 – Blur
It's a rushing brown blur that runs in and out the house; at first, it's just amusing for the older Shamans, but after a while, a silver-haired woman who used to be a very religious girl catches the teenage boy and asks him what he's doing, and after a confused answer the adoptive parents of Opachô Asakura can only watch him become a blur again – there Hao promised to Jeanne he would never let him play hide and seek with Seyram again.
12 – Wait
"Wait here, Sey-chan, I'll go and see what's happening," said the courageous Opachô to the young mute shaman; she obeyed and waited for hours, until another boy, who happened to be her brother – her kind-hearted and headstrong brother, who never shed a tear because big boys don't cry – walked to her and hugged her tightly – he was crying, and she did not understand why; they stayed like that for what seemed hours and he muttered that their only friend had been murdered – he then looked to her, and asked her to go with him, they'd go hide in Yoh-nii-san's house, they'll be safe, shielded – she wrote something on her notepad, and when he looked, he read, in her fragile writing, "He asked me to wait, I'll wait."
13 – Change
Reoseb doesn't like the change in his sister's behavior – even if she's happier and more talkative – and he doesn't like that stupid African that turn around her, he will do everything to get his sister back (but maybe she's the real Seyram, without all the sadness – Reoseb doesn't like the idea).
14 – Command
"Don't do it, don't Seyram, please don't," as her finger hover above the very last command of the Golem, his scream echo in her little sensitive ears, and she hesitates (maybe there is still a possibility, maybe she shouldn't put up that fight, maybe she is not doomed), but then some crazy laughter of her opponent echo, and she realizes that the power of her father can't be stolen by her enemy, she won't allow that; so she pushes the button and the whole structure blows up – his last scream echo again, "NOO, SEYRAAAM!"
15 – Hold
The teenager held his girlfriend tight, tears staining his orange poncho as the adolescent sobbed her heart out on him; her brother, the last member of the family she still had, was dead and would not return; Opachô cradled his precious friend – why was fate so cruel?
16 – Need
When Hao and his faithful Opachô finally exited the Great Spirits, ready to try and live a normal life, Seyram was there, hands clenched down on some notepad; the new Shaman King did not understand right away, since her mind was blocked by some heavy pain that always stopped him from reading her thoughts, so she had to walk to the African boy and clasp her hands on the orange fabric of the kid's poncho for him to smirk and walk away, leaving the two children alone, ready to see some other girl, as lost and broken as he was...
17 – Vision
Seyram kindly asked Tamao to read her future; the pink-haired growing adolescent, amused and honored, did it with much serious and conviction; and all Ponchi and Conchi found was that "some sheep is waiting out there in the rain for the little girl so she should hurry because he's going to be sick".
18 – Attention
Seyram took some blue notepad and began to write something on it the very first time she saw the little boy, but he was admiring some fight of his master and did not see her; she continued writing at their second encounter, but he preferred talking with Yoh-sama and the mute girl's words went unnoticed; at their very , last meeting, just before going to the Mû Continent, she takes her chance, walk to him and gives him her notepad – as she walks away, he smiles and waves, "Sey-chan, please come back soon!"
19 – Soul
Age doesn't matter, only the soul do, and their souls are maybe the purest in that tainted fight.
20 – Picture
Some child drawing laid, abandoned, on an average school desk; when you looked a bit closer, you could see two ghosts (they were hovering in the air and they were paler than the others) on the top of the sheet, smiling happily, one little boy with spiky hair repairing a huge brown engine, one Asian teenage boy making fire, and two little kids (one white girl, with very long light brown hair, dressed in a red dress, aand one black boy, with curly dark bangs and an orange poncho), and the fact that they were holding hands just made it cuter.
21 – Fool
Hao's hateful words hurt him badly – he doesn't want to be a coward, a traitor, a fool, not in his master's eyes, no no no, don't hate me, please don't hate me I don't want you to hate me – that angry and cross stare that the Millenium Shaman is giving him makes him want to cry, and he will cry in the end, long after the night fell on earth, and she will be there, silently hugging him; they will watch the stars together – if the bad pictures of past will remain, they will be silenced by brighter, happier memories…
22 – Mad
"Why is Hao-sama so mad at Opachô, Opachô only wanted to see Sey-chan!"
23 – Child
They're both children, but on opposite sides – even if they are not really aware of the gravity of their fight, because children do not fight, never, they play - that's why it's sometimes (not sometimes, always) hard for little Opachô to understand why he does not have the right to go to her house and play with Seyram; her mute sorrow is something he doesn't quite understand – Hao made sure he would never bear such a fate – and these awful feelings hurt him.
24 – Now
The present is the beginning of the future: now is the beginning of all possibilities; so now they're older and now they look at each other; each one ready to live their lives to its fullest, and now their hands brush and clasp each other.
25 – Shadow
He is Hao-sama's shadow – she is the host of the shadow of her father; for a shadow, he's energetic, bright and happy – she's mute and silent, never smiling; they're both shadows but opposites, and somehow it makes their love just right.
26 – Goodbye
He's kneeling in front of her broken corpse, shocked by all the blood seeping out of her tiny body, and as she silently raises a hand to grasp his arm, even with her mute voice she says goodbye to him, and he cries and cries, because goodbye seems to be really, really cruel when he is the one to have to say it.
27 – Hide
Little Opachô had never known how to hide his tears, so everyone knew that Hao had gone too far when he killed Seyram.
28 – Fortune
The older sister, Destiny, calm and clever, brought them there, together in front of her arch foe and his sole friend; her malicious relative Fate made they fall in love at first sight; and Fortune, being the youngest and most naïve of the three daughters of the Great Spirits, made it so the Shaman King was the one to marry the grown child he raised and the one he killed almost two times.
29 – Safe
"Shhh, shhh, don't worry Sey-chan, I'm here, I'll always be here, I'll protect you…"
30 – Ghost
Seyram looks up at the ghost; she lets out a little smile and walks away, to her African boyfriend and her new life, leaving behind her father with her Shaman King.
31 – Book
The daughter of the professor Munzer loved books, just like her father; "Sey-chaaaaan," Mikihisa frowned – she seemed to also share the professor's love for exoticism.
32 – Eye
Her clear eyes are blank, unfocused, nearly dead; his dark ones are attentive, full of bliss and life; their orbs are both brown, but of different shades, because they're not the same, they both lived different experiences and feelings – they complete each other in a way older shamans can only acknowledge, unable to understand its depths, and if their eyes seem different, they water, brighten, close, live at the same time, in the same way.
33 – Never
They will never be so happy again, when she was with her father and when he was with the one he considers as his big brother, they will never smile so openly again, they will never live again – because they're dead and will stay dead, victims of that stupid war…
34 – Sing
Her voice is soft and beautiful, and as the little girl sings in the dark night, Opachô is happy she found her voice again; her song seem just right, perfect, and it remains him of the long-forgotten voice of some lost mother, long long ago…
35 – Sudden
It's a sudden pain throbbing in her chest, and she looks down on what her father destroyed – then she sees a bang of curly hair and gasps; she struggles, and her father suddenly isn't so strong anymore, she erases him easily and run to her sole friend, but it's too late, and she falls on her knees, tears suddenly straining her cheeks as she holds on his hand, and as it grows cold she feels life quiting her veins.
36 – Stop
"Stop right where you are or I'll kill you, you murderer, you're just another of his minions, he KILLED my sister – why are you crying, you stupid sheep?"
37 – Time
Time passes by and the kids grow – their relationship blossom too.
38 – Wash
"Don't forget to wash behind your ears, Opachô, or Seyram won't want to date you!"
39 – Torn
As their souls are torn apart by the immense power of the new Shaman King, Opachô clasps Seyram's hand, and they fall together in nothingness.
40 – History
When Yoh opened a school for Shamans, Seyram became history teacher: in her first class, she patiently explained the past of the Shaman Fight, and, when a kid – Hana Asakura – asked as to why was the little companion of the fire Shaman so important, she smiled and said that without him Hana, herself and that school would not exist anymore, and suddenly she adds: "That's not history, but he's a really nice guy - should meet him, Men!"
41 – Power
Even if you have much less power than the greatest shamans, you have to strive to happiness with all your being, because if you don't they'll overwhelm you – knowing that Opachô holds his hand out towards Seyram.
42 – Brother
"Opachô, that will be my last warning, if you don't go to see her before the sun set, I'll let Reoseb teach you how to properly treat a young woman – that meaning you do not leave her alone when she just said she loved you!"
43 – God
For Opachô, there is only one god, Hao-sama; for Seyram, there is maybe no god, because a girl so hurt can't believe anymore; but that night they pray every god they know for them to be safe together.
44 – Wall
Since the murder of her mother, Seyram has locked herself in an cold jail to prevent any further damage, and that was what made her mute; but then Opachô came along, thought about how unfair it all was and broke right through that wall of ice she created.
45 – Naked
"Opachô, I know Hao let you sleep naked when you are with him - and I don't quite understand why he does that; but when you are in MY house you obey MY rules and if you sleep with Seyram, in the same room, you'll sleep with PAJAMAS!"
46 – Drive
Seyram was driving the Golem through the dark night, and, as she found her father's target, she found her best friend – before the Jibakurei took control, she had screamed to Opachô to run away – but she was mute and he had not heard her.
47 – Harm
"You know, what is precious to you can also bring harm to you, Opachô (there Hao catches his young African's blank eyes, turns and sighs, seeing what the boy is gazing at) – if you prefer staring at this girl than listening to me, you might as well go and talk to her, because you're already disobeying me right here and now…"
48 – Precious
She can't talk, so she writes on a notebook, and he reads patiently as she writes, and tries to understand (because he's still learning how to read, and she's writing in English what he learned in Japanese) but what he can understand is that feelings are precious and speaking them aloud can destroy them, making them turn to lies – his eternal babbling suddenly seem awful, so he takes gently her pen and write a thank you barely readable; her smile is what he understands as precious.
49 – Hunger
After Hao's awful death right in front of the thing he wanted more than anything, the Great Spirits, something strange happened: when Seyram became hungry, Opachô was the first to know it, as if they were linked by some mental connection; when Opachô is hungry, now, after all those years, as he asks Yoh-sama what's for dinner, Anna enters the room, "Seyram wanted to cook."
50 – Believe
She believes what her father does is right – he believes what Hao-sama does is right; she believes Mom will come back – he believes Mom was a liar; she believes he is cute – he believes she is beautiful – Hao believes they have something important, but he does not quite grasp what until Jeanne explains it to him, "They've got innocent love and that's rare nowadays".
Opachô: Opachô happy! %)
Seyram: ...
Rain: ... Relax, Sey-chan! ... It's funny, but either Hao either Jeanne is always important as a background in my fav' pairings... OpachôXSeyram - Hao, LysergXMatti - both, MarcoXMeeneXRackist - both... %)