DISCLAIMER: HUNTER X HUNTER AND ITS CHARACTERS ARE NOT MINE.
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NUEVO LUGAR, NUEVA CARA
[MI SOL]
Rain...wind...water...the waves!
I shivered. Tears began to fall down my face. Where...who...are you..?
"Ne. Ojou-san? Ojou-san?"
Waves. Black. Wind. Then there was warmth. "...Ojou-san..?" But you are…
Lightning. Thunder. I couldn't open my eyes...you are...
"Ojou-san?"
Where is he? Where is my...
"Ojou-san?"
...he was gone. He was gone! Gone! What should I do?
"Ojou-san?"
Ah, here he is! I thought you left me! I thought you—
White. It was all white. Where are you?
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It was morning. Ya'da! I don't want to get up yet! I lazily pulled the covers and felt the warmth of his skin behind me. I opened my eyes a little. Wooden ceiling. Fresh mint green curtains. My lashes met and parted a little bit then my eyes closed once more. I felt so dizzy and weak. My lord…you are so heavenly… I pulled the covers and hugged myself tighter. I wanted to face him but I was just too weak to do so. "Hm…my lord, can I kiss you again..?"
"You—you're not yet finished—aw!" said a male voice just a little bit behind me. Wait a minute! My eyes flew open. I frowned and looked up a little. I can't see anything except the dark brown ceiling. Ah, there was a yellow ceiling fan. But where am I?! "My! What great stamina you have! But I'm not doing it again." I felt arms lift me a little. "Get up a little." I did not move.
I was…
"Hn, I think you need rest. Do you want to have coffee? I'll make some if you like."
…shocked.
The voice was unfamiliar to my ears. I tried to sit up. I felt a strong arm assisting me from behind. "Ne, I guess you're tired. You were washed ashore by the waves last night. It was raining hard when I found you and you were shivering so badly so I brought you here." I blinked and nodded a little. I can't speak. I felt so weak. And so surprised. "A'no sa," he said, "can I get out of the bed first?" I nodded. "A'no sa, will you be okay here?" I nodded. I don't feel like talking. "Hai, hai, hai." But the voice. It…wasn't my lord.
Then it struck me… It wasn't my lord! I jumped instantly out of the bed. "Omae! You monster! Don't touch me again or I'll kill you!" I blinked. I saw no monster or a big burly maniac. He was a one pretty young man with fair pinkish white skin, brown hair and cool emerald-green eyes.
"Matte kudasai," he said smiling totally ignoring my threat. "I'm not a monster. I'm a human. We belong to the same species." He took the covers and wrapped it around his naked body. He's naked?! I looked down. I was also...naked. I hugged myself. No way! My lord! Where are you? "You see, we did an act of copulation last night." He sighed and shook his head a little. "Oh. I never thought that a simple contact of two human genitalia would require much physical effort. It was a great miscalculation on my part. But then, I never planned to do that. It was you who manipulated everything. You even disintegrated my synthetic outer covering."
I blinked. What did he say?
"And you even gave me slight injuries characterized by lacerations and abrasions. Luckily, they did not penetrate the dermis too much so they were healed immediately." He stood up. "Yosh. I think you need to drink some coffee. I'll be back."
My lord…where is he?
The waters…the shore…the moon… He was…sitting on the sand…
"Ne, my lord," I said. "This city is dead but we can live here and repopulate it, right?"
His voice…his laughter…
"Well, you know what's best. I won't interfere if that's what you want."
"We can have many children. I want to have ten kids!" I said. "I want our first baby to be a boy."
"Hm? I would like them to be twins."
My lord…where are you?
"…if I would be taken away by the sea tonight, what would you do?"
His smile…
"I will take you back."
The sea…The sea!
Waves came up.
"Ni'Hyung-shi…"
Waters wrapped me entirely till I could hear him no more. Then there was the lightning. The wind. And a voice.
"Ojou-san?"
Tears fell from my eyes. No way…
He stepped towards the door and opened it.
"Chotto matte kudasai." I said in a monotone. But my voice was strangely loud. Loud enough to make him face me once again.
"Yes?" I shivered. His eyes…they had the color of those evil green waves. But his face looked like an angel's. Warm, innocent and sweet.
"You…" I whispered. "…said you found me on the shore…"
"Hai," he replied.
"And you said we…" I blinked. More tears fell from my eyes. "…I…"
"Daijoubu," he said. "I know you regret it."
"I'ya! Ore wa…" I sobbed. "Gomen da sai! Honto gomen da sai! I…I was…I thought you were he…I…"
"Daijoubu." He smiled. His face grew even sweeter. Much sweeter than the scent of gardenias carried by the faint breeze which tousled my hair. "It's alright. Hush. It's alright." He went back to me and stroked my back. "Hm, please stop it. Crying is a good outlet for suppressed and inexpressible emotions but too much of it might cause physical weakening, mental disarrangement, emotional trouble and psychological dysfunction. You had been crying terribly since last night."
I leaned on his chest and cried all the more. "Gomen da sai!"
"Enough, ne? Please don't be so sad. Aren't you satisfied with what you did to me? It wasn't enough? We can do it again if you like."
"Gomen da sai!"
"Moo ii. It's alright." He cupped my face with his palms.
"A-A'no sa, your name is?"
"Ah, gomen. We did not introduce ourselves properly. My name is Shalnark."
I put my arms around his waist. "Can I…call you Shal?"
He giggled. "My friends call me that way too!"
I blinked. "Then…can you be my friend?" I couldn't understand why I felt so at home with him. Why I gave him all my trust despite the fact that he was a stranger. Geez! I even slept with him last night!
"Hai! But I want to know your name too!"
"Gomen. My name is Neon. Neon Nostrade. Say, you don't have a surname, do you?"
"Ah, gomen. I have one. It's Anfisa. It sounds so strange, ne? My mother told me not to tell strangers about it. But you're not a stranger to me so I…"
I smiled. "Yes. We're not strangers." I hugged him tighter and closed my eyes. Yes. We're not strangers to each other anymore. He's a friend of mine. My savior. I opened my eyes again. "N-Ne, this is adultery isn't it?" I uttered without thinking.
"Adultery?" He blinked. "I don't think so. I don't have a wife. Ah, I see. You have a husband. Soo desu. This is adultery indeed." Then he smiled once more. "It's alright. Just keep it a secret from your partner, ne?"
"I-I don't have a husband..."
"Oh, then it's much, much better. You have nothing to worry about. Ah, it was so rude of me for not asking your opinion a while ago, ne? But do you want coffee or tea?"
"T-Tea," I answered.
"Okay." He carried me up and put me back to bed. "You may go back to bed if you like, mi sol. You seem so exhausted."
"Mi…sol..?"
"Gomen ne. Can I call you Sol?"
He blinked. A ray of sun came and caressed his face with its golden glow. He looked so innocent and so sweet and so kind. Ah, he certainly looked like those beautiful angels in my storybook. "My sunshine. It was so dark when I went to the shore. But when I found you, the night became so bright."
I felt my blood rush to my face. This man is…
He disentangled himself from my embrace. "Jaa, tea that is. Please wait, my pretty Sol. I'll be back in five minutes."
He walked away. I hugged myself. What a kind creature. I wanted to tell him about my lord...ah, later. I blinked. A're? What's this thing? I felt something in my hair. I touched it. It was a card. I pulled it gently and looked at it. I was taken aback.
"…the spade is a dual symbol. Comfort and friendship, misery and death…"
He was…
"…the personality of this person is also … since the symbol points upward, there's a great chance that he will be in a good mood when you meet …"
…the Ace of Spades.
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