Okay, this is somewhat long, but this is where the main story takes off. And please don't hate me for what happened with Nao. Remember, it was all Saeko.
Disclaimer: I don't own Mai hime or anything from them.
Chapter 9- The ugly lying bitch
Saeko watched as her daughter moved against the metal chains, but she never opened her eyes. She scoffed then turned away. She looked through the small window and saw that it was almost dawn. She turned away and made her exit. Through this entire time, she knew what her daughter had been up to. All of the calls saying that her daughter had run off with someone, then with her meeting up with Nao. (Of course she never spoke so easily) And then came the 'interrogation' of everything and after taking Nao's eye out and cutting it up to nothing but pieces she began to talk. Saeko smile at the memory of a crying Nao, her face running with both her tears and her blood down her sleek face.
"Tell me, who did you see Natsuki run off with?"
"As if I will ever tell you, you old hag!"
"Wrong answer~."
Saeko said in a sing song voice and she cupped Nao's chin before gripping the knife behind her lab coat.
"If you don't answer me, then you earn this!"
She yelled out and quickly shoved the knife in Nao's eyeball, earning a death scream. Nao tried to fight against the magic resistant chains but she was weak against it. She kept screaming and Saeko kept smiling.
"Had enough?"
"N-Never!"
Nao yelled out, pain in her voice. Saeko just chuckled then she yanked the knife out, blood spluttered out of her eye hole, more screaming.
"Don't forget, you can scream all you want in here, but no one can hear you."
"F-F…uck… off!"
Nao spat at her, which made Saeko even madder.
"Then how about this?"
She pulled the eyeball off of the blood dripping knife and held up her eye.
"You know, us mages have every advantage that the humans don't. Like for example, we can make our bodies back to normal with a spell, that is if the missing limb is still in good condition. Am I wrong?"
Nao struggled against what Saeko was heading to. She only saw her with one eye, and she was losing lots of blood.
"Then I guess that you will have only one eye for the rest of your life."
She dropped the eye on the medical platter, then she slid it on the floor. She snapped her fingers and two small dogs came running out. They stopped in front of her, one dyed in a bloody red, the other in a dark black.
"Tear this to pieces. Leave nothing in contact."
The dogs didn't even need to wait. They ran to the platter, not even needing to sniff it and they bit the whole eye to shreds. Nao screamed out, more tears flowing from her bloody face. Saeko smiled then she snapped and the dogs ran away. She knelt down and picked up the platter, walking over to where Nao was. She held the tray in front of Nao, real close to her face.
"Now are you going to talk?"
"Yes! I'll talk!"
Saeko discarded the shredded eye and pulled up a chair in front of Nao.
"Now tell me everything, and I mean EVERYTHING."
Once after Nao had told her everything, she made sure that Nao would never be able to say anything about what happened. That's when Saeko made her way over to the Elder Council. They had all the decisions, made them all, and disclosed most of them. The halls were already empty, and she forgot to change out of her bloody coat but she still ran.
"With this, I can finally get what I deserved long ago! They only gave me half of what it was that I really wanted, and this is the number one thing that I DO need."
Saeko thought evilly as she made her way to the Council. Everything was all nothing but an act to her. The main play is just starting. She made her way to one of the guest bedrooms that Reito let her use. She opened the door and locked it as she took off her glasses. She placed them on the desk in the corner and hanged her blood stained coat. She's going to be needing this coat for later. She had nothing on but the tight black shirt and slim black pants. She ruffled her hair and reaching into one of the pockets of her coat, she brought out a small notebook and flipped it open. Writings that went back all the way to the 1700's and to present day. She pulled out a pen and began to write in a new page.
Date: UNKNOWN… (she writes this so people don't find out her actual age…)
As of today, I have captured my own daughter. Just only a few days ago have I spoken to the Elder Council when they once were alive and I was the last one to be there. Soon, as soon as Reito gets crowned officially as king, then I will be able to put my plan fully into action, and Reito will no longer be needed. I got the one thing that the council never gave me, and that will be my ultimate trump card when everything backfires. After that, the world of the night and the day will finally join as one, creating total chaos.
Saeko finished writing and she dotted her sentence off and quickly put it back into the pocket and went over to the bed and she tested everything out, making sure it was to her comfort. After a few tests, Saeko lifted the velvet colored blankets and laid in the lavender silk sheets. She laid her head on the silk pillow and she drifted off to sleep. But she knew that Reito was (unsuccessfully) listening in, but he couldn't.
Reito groaned silently then turned around. It was daytime, time when the night creatures were asleep. He made his way over to the stables and he did a quick whistle and a man with yellow hair and wearing formal clothing came walking out.
"Reito, how nice to see you."
"Can it Smith, now I want to find out where Takeda is."
"Him? There are rumors that he is back in the night world, where he truly belongs. Why would you want to bring him back?"
"just get him back!"
Reito hissed, looking down at Smith. Smith nodded his head and quickly ran off, giving Reito time to smile.
"If what Saeko said is right, and if Shizuri gained the power of what they called an 'otome', then all I need to do is have Takeda take care of that for me."
Reito said mischievously. He patted down his black horse and went back inside the castle.
Nao jerked awake.
"W-Where's my eye!"
She yelled out, trying to move her hands to where the white bandage covered her eye. It went around her head, making a headband. Nao began to silently cry, curling up in the corner of darkness of the cell she was thrown in.
"God, what did I do? I always worked for what I wanted. Why?"
She said in between sobs. Then she realized it all.
This is all 'her' fault, if she had never ran off, then this would have never happened! That's right!"
( Authors note: You were the first one! Nao you started it!) Nao still felt the blood on her face.
"How long has it been since that horrible nightmare happened to me?"
She thought as she looked over to the wall and saw all of her scratches.
"Three… Four… Five. Five days. Five days ever since that incident occurred. God, when is that old hag going to let me out?!"
She yelled out and hit her head against the wall. She opened her eye, looking ahead. She was alone. No other being down there with her. Just to think, she could have been at school, sleeping and taking classes. Going to get married into wealth, that was her life long dream. Now, it's totally ruined! No man ever would want to be with her now! No rich men or even humans! She began to cry softly again, burying her head into her knees. She heaved and heaved, but still nothing came out. Soon she was crying empty tears, nothing coming out but her whimpers and wines. She closed her one eye, but that was all she could see. Now she was limited. She reached in her blood stained skirt pocket and brought out her glasses. She opened it, then put it on. She saw through only one lens, the other useless. She was about to start crying when she saw the truth behind it. She looked ahead an saw that she was locked up in just a cellar of a house! That always explains why the walls were so easy to get her nails into.
"Fucking lying bitch!"
Nao used her claws to dig into the wall and help hoist herself up. Her legs were shaking, but she didn't care. She held herself against the wall, moving at a slowly pace. Finally she made it to the iron bars and she extended her nails and sliced through them. She used the wall as support, walking up the stairway and soon she found herself in the kitchen. She saw all kinds of food on the counters, and it made her stomach growl.
"Maybe I could grab something to eat. Haven't ate in five days now."
She muttered to herself as she walked over to where a bowl of apples were. She stopped when she held an apple in her hand and soon she heard talking in the room next to her. She stopped and she turned her head in the direction of where it came from, then she saw a group of five people, two older people and the rest were kids. She softly gasped, quickly turning around so that they would not be able to see her. She gripped the apple in her hands and she ran back into the cellar and she limped down and fell upon her own two feet. The chatter in the room above soon stopped and footsteps came closer to where she was. She ran back into the cell, cuddling close to the wall as the footsteps came closer to her. She recognized the guy. He was fairly tall, slender and slightly muscular. He had short dark orange hair with light blue eyes. He looked around then he went back up the stairs without saying a word. Nao sighed then she heard the door open again and she gasped as she saw a man was it? He had long dark forest green hair and a dark red color, but not as dark as Shizuru's. he stopped before the cell that held Nao and he opened the damaged bars that led into her cell.
"Damn him. Making me go and check the thing in here."
He mumbled but held a feminine voice. Then he stopped as he stared into Nao's lime green eye. Then he fell back and quickly ran out.
"Crap!"
Nao kept thinking over and over as the person depleted. She struggled to get up, but soon those two people came back and a small amount of kids crowded her.
"Who are you?"
Nao asked, hoping to get an answer before they took her in.
"I'm Takumi and this is Akira, now who are you may I ask?"
"I've heard a lot about you from your older sister Mai."
"How do you know my older sister? And why are you here?"
"I don't know about that one. Just woke up and found myself here. But I know your sister because I go to school with her, or used to."
"That means you're a night creature. Am I wrong?"
Akira asked, getting ready to pull a sword from the sheath.
"Yes, but-"
"She's hurt!"
One of the younger children yelled out, getting their attention. She ran up to Nao, pointing to her bandaged eye. (Or where it should be) Nao chuckled grimly and she looked at the small girl with twin braids.
"Yes, I have been hurt. But I just awoke and suddenly found myself in this place. I haven't ate in five days."
Nao lifted the apple in her hand and she held it out to the little girl.
"I suppose that you want this back don't you?"
Nao asked. The girl in front of her soon had tears forming at the corner of her sky blue eyes, soon tears falling down her sleek face.
"No, you can keep it."
She turned to Takumi and hugged him.
"Papa, we should let her stay. She needs it."
"What?!"
Akira piped up, anger in her voice. Takumi looked back to Akira, then to the younger girl that held him by his legs. He looked over to where Akira was and sighed.
"I take it Kruger did this to you?"
Nao's eyebrow perked up from hearing Kruger.
"Yes. She did EVERYTHING. If she left me alone, then none of this would have happened."
Akira then smiled and she walked up to Nao, grinning from cheek to cheek.
"Is that so? We also have something to deal with Kruger."
She backed away and she held out a hand for Nao to take.
"If we need help, you need to be in good conditions for it."
Nao smiled and took her hand, which Akira hoisted her up and they all soon began to walk up the staircase when Smith came walking in.
"Sorry, but that's not the plan. Boys, get Nao."
He snapped his fingers and soon Takeda came walking in, his dark green hair had gotten lighter, and his dark green eyes got darker as he looked to Nao. Smith smiled as Takeda charged for her, but his smile faded as Akira blocked the attack. She held two daggers in her hands, one that fended Takeda off.
"What do you want Smith?"
Akira asked, anger clearly in her masculine voice.
"What I really want is just her."
He said while chuckling. Akira gripped the daggers in her hands tightly, her knuckles turning white. Nao stood by the small girl, holding her behind Akira. Then she took another look at the crying girl and she sighed. She let go of the girl, and walked over with her hands held up.
"Hey! What the hell are you doing?!"
Akira asked, while Nao stood in front of them. Nao smiled and turned her head to face her.
"If I go with them, they'll leave you alone right?"
"Even so!"
Nao shook her head and went to Smith.
"If I surrender, will you leave them alone?"
"You'll have my word."
Nao nodded her head and Takumi and the rest watched as Takeda tackled Nao down, handcuffing her in golden handcuffs that looked like dragons biting down on the tail. (Can anyone guess where these handcuffs came from?) Then they walked away, not to be seen anywhere.
"Mama? Where's the red girl?"
"She left. Arika, Nina, Erstin, come on."
Akira walked ahead of them, putting the end of the daggers close and pushing them together and soon a sword was present.
"We're going to get her, because."
She stopped and looked over to where Takumi was and nodded her head.
"She knows where his older sister is."
Akira said then she went up and went outside. The three girls followed her and Takumi got the end. The girls then stopped, ran inside and they picked up a broomstick, a mop stick, and a carving knife. Akira looked back to them when they came running out with house wear. They had bandanas tied around their heads, Arika having hers look like Nao's. Akira just sighed and Takumi chuckled and they continued on.
Soon, darkness fell on the deserted castle, awakening Saeko from her slumber. She opened her eyes, smiling and sitting up and placing a hand where Nao lost hers. She began to softly chuckle, making her hand into a fist. Then she pushed the covers off of her and she stepped out of bed. She still had the sickening grin on her face, which made her even more demonic. She put the blankets neatly on the bed and she went to her lab coat. She stopped before it and she began to wonder just a little bit. Who made her into this evil cold blooded person? There is no other person than her husband. But well get into that later… Saeko let go of the worn fabric and she opened the side door to find a bathroom. She closed the door behind her and turned on the water in the bathtub. She stripped herself, showing a scar that went from the right side of her neck to under her left breast. She stepped in, feeling pleasure as she laid herself in the tub. She turned off the water, letting the coldness of the water take over her. (Seriously, *takes breath in* WHO THE HELL TAKES FUCKING COLD SHOWERS!) Saeko relaxed in the ice cold water, feeling her temperature decrease as the cold took its effect. She looked up from the tub, staring at the ceiling when something struck from inside her. She abruptly stood up, grabbed a nearby towel and quickly got dressed. She drained the water and quickly friend her hair an made her way over to the cellar. She ran down and down, soon she saw her daughter. But this time she had a bandana wrapped around her eyes. She smiled and she reached into her lab coat pocket and pulled out a stuffed dog. It was thin, almost like a hot dog and it had little stumps that were its legs. She huffed and threw it to Natsuki, who jerked awake.
"Huh? Where am I?"
She moved her head around, then wincing out to the pain in her side.
"Ah! Ow!"
Saeko turned away from her and looked at the king.
"Disgraceful as always is he."
Saeko mumbled to herself before she left and made her way to finding Reito. Shizuru wasn't there, so she began to ponder, did Reito plan on making her lose the power of the otome? Surely it had been hundreds of years and how Shizuru was able to transform without the implant of nano machines? That surely questioned her, but no matter after getting a blood sample Saeko will find it all out. She made her way over to Reito's room, then pushing the doors open and came walking in. She saw Shizuru tied up by the wrists and ankles, then Reito standing beside her. (And yes, Shizuru IS clothed) Saeko looked straight to Reito, a determined look in her light emerald eyes.
"Reito, before you do this I have a request."
Reito looked up from his position, then walked over to her.
"What is it?"
"Before you take away her power, I want to take a blood sample from her and examine exactly how this was able to happen. Is that okay?"
"Yes. That is fine. I have found Takeda and he is getting ready. Do please hurry though."
Saeko just nodded her head and she walked over to the gagged Shizuru, she reached into her pocket and pulled out a small rectangular white box and she opened the top to revel three needles. She picked up one and flicked her finger against it then she made sure Reito held her down good and she pierced her skin. She smiled behind the serious face she made, but Shizuru was beginning to cry, tears forming at the corner of her eyes and muffled screaming. She filled it all the way to the top and pulled it out. She picked up a very small bottle and she pierced the fabric of it and she began to pour the blood in there. She kept repeating the process, until she had it filled and Shizuru was soon feeling sleepy.
"I'm done here Reito."
"Good. I'll be waiting on your theory."
Saeko just grunted and she put the needle away and the bottle and she walked out. She made her way back into her room, bringing out the blood. She placed it on the side and she studied it. Her blood wasn't as dark as her eyes, but almost pitch black. A very dark red color. That amused her very much, that she pulled out her small lab to go and she began her work. Takeda stepped from the bathroom, only in his white boxers. He looked over to where Reito stood, and Reito gave him a nod and Takeda gulped as she came close to Shizuru. He placed one hand on her side, looking into her drowsy crimson eyes. He smiled as he began to kiss her, sliding his tongue into her mouth. He got on top of her, but looking back to Reito he saw that he was watching.
"Are you going to watch?"
"I have to. To make sure that she don't regain that legendary power ever again. Now don't chicken out, and take one for the team."
Takeda looked away from Reito, then went back to kissing Shizuru. He brushed his hands over her breasts, then cupping them and caressing them, but he only heard soft moans, hardly hear able. He pushed up her shirt, then her bra and he began to make his assault on her while still kissing her. Just looking at her like this for him, it was like a dream come true. He felt his member in between his legs get stiff, almost sticking out of the hole in his boxers. He moved down, pushed her pants down and her underwear. He was just about to get ready, he took of his boxers and laid himself upon her heat, for he knew what he was going to do. Saeko quickly found out what it was that triggered Shizuru into an otome. Why didn't she think about it earlier? It was so simple and yet she didn't know that it was lying right in front of her. Why? Why did she forget? That the reason long ago on why night creatures, especially Mages are never to mate with humans? That it only worked for the females only. If there was a sexual intercourse between a female Mage and a female human, that something would be spread onto the human and grant them superhuman like powers. Then it hit her.
"God. No. Don't tell me that-"
She stopped herself and looked upon the notes she took.
"If I am correct, then it is like a bond between an otome and a master hundreds of years ago. Then that means that even if lost to a man, she still regains her power because of the female!"
She stood up quickly and dashed out. This is not going to work, and once a man tried to penetrate the otome, they automatically transform!
"Why the hell was I so blind?"
Saeko thought to herself as sheafs her way to Reito's room. She swung open the door, seeing Takeda push his member inside Shizuru, then a bright purple light came again.
"I was to late!"
Then Takeda was thrown against the wall, his head bleeding. Reito was flung to where Saeko was, but she ducked down to the floor and he went flying into the wall behind her. Shizuru stood there, holding the double headed weapon and she turned to where Saeko was. She still had no emotion. Nothing but like he was in a daze, she raised her sword and swung at Saeko. Saeko lifted her arms, calling out the one name that would forever save her.
"Dhuran!"
