Chap 10: The price of hurting her

"SACHIKO"

Yumi ran as quick as she could to the direction of Sachiko Ogasawara. Her entrance had shocked all the people who were in the middle of their fight.

When she was holding her beloved steady in her arms and laid Sachiko in her lap, Yumi quickly examined the wound and she breathed a sigh of relief because it was not a deep wound. However, Yumi was worried because the wound started turning into dark purple color, which indicated that there was poison on those claws. Moreover, Sachiko was unconscious, which made Yumi worrier.

Angrily, she looked at those creatures that had fought with Sachiko before she was here. They were still in shocked state. Hence, they did not make any moves yet, wait no time, Yumi bit her index finger until it bled then she touched the ground and started chanting something.

"I, Fukuzawa Yumi, first rank in Fukuzawa Clan, daughter of Fukuzawa Miki, headmaster of Fukuzawa Clan, messenger of Inari, call for your help, God of Earth. Please lend me your power to destroy these filthy youkais who dared to contaminate your land." She softly mumbled her chanting.

Using her blood to call help from the spirits in the woods was one of her training lessons that she had years ago and at this point of time, she found it was quite handful. Moreover, Fukuzawa's bloodline connected to the earth spirit so anything that absorbed the energy of the Mother Earth would listen to their command.

Thus, at the time her blood touched the ground, the land under those creatures cracked open and there were trees grew from these cracks and tied their legs. No matter how hard they tried, they could not break those ties. Hence, Rei could stop her fight and run to look for her friend.

She really wanted to know how Yumi could do that but there was no time to ask. Hence, she mainly focused on Sachiko's injury. It turned worse every second and if they did not find the antidote in time, it would be hard to rescue her.

"Yumi, we should take her to school infirmary. There was someone there could help her." Rei quickly told Yumi to save their time. Then she started to move and gestured Yumi follow her. She had known that Yumi had power too so she did not care to hide anything that related to supernatural power.

Yumi looked back to her Sachiko's wound and thought that maybe Rei knew who had enough ability to cure this type of poision. However, with her current appearance, she could not carry the full-grown Sachiko and she did not want anyone see her adult form except her Sachiko.

The struggling sounds of those filthy creatures irritated her. She mischievously smirked when she still felt the power trail of their master, because one of her spells was keeping the master from running away.

"Rei sama, could you please take Sachiko sama to the infirmary? I have er...uhm...unfinished business here." She gazed at those monsters that were tied by the tree branches. She took that as an excuse so she could be alone and find who was behind them. In addition, at the way of her voice, Rei knew she had no choice but listen to the young girl. Moreover, for what she had seen, she was sure that Yumi could handle them easily so she carried the unconscious Sachiko and left without further question because she would get no reply after all.

Yumi did not forget to ask the way to get out of the woods before Rei was out of her sight.

Then her worried and a bit of angelic look discarded right after the two older girls left. She turned to look at the objects of her current hatred.

Her beautiful mocha eyes slowly changed into dark crimson color, which reminded of blood. She looked straight into the eyes of one of those creatures. Her eyes burned with anger.

Yumi's POV

Mind control could use a large amount of my power but this was worth it.

'Whoever dares to hurt her must be punished.' This idea kept wandering in my mind at the moment these filthy creatures stabbed Sachiko. I had to restrain myself from shredding them because I knew they were just the stupid puppets of whomever after this. Moreover, the person who knew how to control these types of youkai must be under the same Clan or the closed allies of Fukuzawa.

I had to test my prediction.

Looking straight into one of these youkai's eyes, I loudly commanded, "DOWN" and I was ready to call out my sword even though I knew I would not use it, because I did not want my sword taste filthy blood.

*Thud*

I smirked when I heard the loud falling sound so one of the two that I had detached earlier was the culprit. I turned back and saw the man who wore black ninja suite with a mask. It seemed he was in tremendous pain, yeah right, because he just felt from the top of the tree, and it was hundred meters from the ground, but I had no sympathy for him.

However, I respected his pride. Ever since he landed on the ground, he tried hard to keep a steady breathe instead of groaning with pain. That made me more irritated.

"Who said you can breathe?" I could feel the wide smile on my lips when I used another wave of mind control on him. His face turned purple in no time because he could not breathe but he still made no effort to beg for her mercy.

Being a Noblesse meant I could not harm someone who was weaker than me. Forgiveness was one of the most important traits of us. I could not let this filthy man drag me down to his level. Thus I withdrew my power from him. I still put a small of control power so he would not escape before I could pull out some information from him.

I hardly saw him in the dark woods so I moved close to him in order to take a close look since the light was nearly off. However, before I could pull the mask off his face, the arrow which came from nowhere had flew straight to this direction. I quickly jumped back to secure myself but it seemed that arrow was aimed at the man not me. Unfortunately, that man could not escape from the powerful arrow then the next thing happened was his body vanished in front of me. Of course when that man died, all of his puppets vanished too.

*swoosh*

Before I could comprehend the situation here, another arrow flew toward my direction. My mind screamed to move aside but my feet did not obey my order.

*swoosh*

'Not another one.' My mind screamed instantly.

Normal's POV

Two arrows came from the different direction but had the same target, which was Yumi Fukuzawa. However, she did not have any intention to avoid such powerful forces.

"Well, why I have to waste my energy anyway. They could not give me any severe damages. Right?" She slightly shrugged. She slowly closed her eyes and patiently waited for the impact.

*thud*

"Huh" She utterly shocked when the second arrow went through the first arrow and pinned it deep down on the nearest tree. Then the second arrow vanished into emerald crystal dust immediately. There was only the same arrow that killed the ninja man several minutes ago on the tree. Then she heard two moving sound on the top of the tree somewhere in the woods. After a while, the dead silence covered all the area except her breathing sound.

"They're gone."

Yumi spent few minutes to collect herself and went to the arrow that was aimed at her, now was pin on the tree. Taking it out off the tree, she observed it and her eyes shot open when she noticed two things from the arrow.

"Kertia." She trembly whispered. "How could a Kertia save me? It couldn't be, could it?" She mumbled doubtfully.

Yumi had detached the Kertia's power on the hole on the arrow. The only person in Kertia Clan who could possibly help her was Rajak Kertia, Rael's brother. However, it was impossible because she has already heard the story from Yuuki that Rael tricked his own brother to take his power and kill him after Yumi felt into a deep slumber. It took a whole century for the council found out the truth and they started to hunt down Rael and his descendants. Killing brother for the Lord position in the family was the great taboo and Rael Kertia dared to commit a sin. Though, Rajak's body was nowhere to be found, the proof of Rael's power enhanced was enough to convince that he killed his own brother to absorb the remain soul weapon in Rajak. That was the bad decision when their father decided to divided his power into two for both Rajak and Rael.

Anyway, that was all about the past, Yumi shook her head slightly to concentrate on the second reason of her shock. It was the black feather at the tail of the arrow. It was not a normal feather, it belonged to her love rival, head of crown Clan (500 years ago). He wanted to marry Sachiko but Yumi had succeeded in asking Sachiko's hand in marriage before he could take her away from Yumi. Hence, she made new enemy.

"Perfect. First day at school and I already met all these things. Haizzz, should I happy or cry?" Yumi heavily sighed for her bad luck.

She heard footsteps running toward her direction so she quickly dissolved the arrow.

"Yumi" A concern voice was from the new comer. It was Rei Hasekura.

Yumi slightly smiled and she thought that perhaps Rei was worried about her so she came back and she was not alone. Youko Mizuno, Sachiko's onee sama. The worried look on their face made Yumi feel kind of guilty because she was deep in her thought so she did not get out of the woods soon after those people ran off.

"Rei sama, Youko sama. Sorry for make you worry." Yumi quickly made a deep bow to sorry and she gave a weak smile to comfort the older girls.

"We should get out of here first, Yumi san. We have a lot to discuss." Youko gently said and gestured Yumi to follow them.

Darkness already covered the whole woods, but the two chasing figures still was visible. The long blue haired figure was chasing after the one who intended to kill Yumi not so long ago. Tired of being chased, he stopped and prepared to attack the blue haired figure to get rid of this chaser.

"What do you want?" He irritatingly asked while carefully eyed every movement of his opponent.

"Finish you off!" A cold feminine voice replied.

*swoosh*swoosh*

Two crystal arrows flew straight to his heart. The man did not have time to respond so he felt down on the ground and vanished into black smoke.

"Such a fool." A satisfied smirk was on her lips. She waited for the body completely vanished into the air and left the place. Perhaps, she just wanted to erase all evidences that may lead to her existence. (Why she wanted to hide her identity)

It took 20 minutes to get out of the woods and get to school infirmary. When they reached their, the whole Yamayurikai and two new faces were in the room.

After the short introduction, Yumi knew the two new faces were her special class's teacher and the school doctor. She let the doctor check her up to reassure all of them that she did not have any injuries by any means.

When they knew that she supposed to have her special class at the time she helped Sachiko and Rei. They told everything to Yumi. Now, she understood why there were many youkais in this school. It turned out that this was the school for all female descendants from every supernatural Clan in Japan. They accepted human too because they wanted to establish the relationship between human and supernatural being. Especially, most of people who went to this school were belong to high class society. It explained a lot.

However, there were still many people in their world did not like the idea of mixing with human. Hence, they tried to harm human students to ruin school's reputation. Thus, Yamayurikai was established to help school's council prevent all unfortunate events.

Beside from normal academic program, non-human students had to take special class that she had missed because of helping Yamayurikai taught them fighting skills, strategies, magical power, etc. But during the class, they found some intruders in the forbidden area of the woods so the teacher asked Rei and Sachiko went to check the place, and you knew the rest.

"Now Yumi chan, it was late and I think you're tired from what happened today. I suggest you should go back to your dorm and rest. I'll let Yamayurikai explain the rest for you. OK?" Her sensei gently said. By the way, her name was Midori Sugiura and the doctor was Yohko Helene.

"Yes, Midori sensei. Ano...may I visit Sachiko sama before I go back to my room?" Yumi anxiously scratched her head. She really wanted to know Sachiko's condition first or she would not have the peaceful sleep upcoming night.

They let Yumi go to the resting room to visit Sachiko even though the girl still was sleeping. Well, it seemed Yumi did not let them say no to her. She made the best puppy dog eyes after all.

Sachiko was lying on one of many empty beds in the room. She looked better than the last time Yumi saw her in the woods. The doctor must be good to extract all the poison from her body within an hour. Yumi slowly and silently approached the bed. Yumi carefully caressed her cheeks. She smile slightly and a tint of happiness dawn on her face.

"Be well soon, my princess." Yumi bent down near Sachiko's ear and whispered in her lovely English voice. Then she left the infirmary and headed back to her dorm.

Unbeknown to her, she was being watched all the time by the two mysterious pair of eyes, which were belonged to her sensei and the doctor. They watched her leave and gave each other the knowing smile.

"Welcome back, Nastuki." A cheerful voice from the chestnut haired woman greeted her lover back from her work. She was sitting in their living room and enjoyed her evening tea, which was one of the gifts that she got recently from her lover, during her trip to London. She gave her genuine smile to her partner.

"So how is she?" She joyfully asked while sipping her new favorite tea.

"Ts where's my welcome back kiss." The girl named Natsuki forcefully sat down next to her lover and pouted cutely because all her lover asked was about the certain little girl that she had rescued not too long ago.

The other girl giggled about how cute her girlfriend was. She leaned toward the girl and intended to give a quick peck but Natsuki accidentally turned her face then they shared a slow passionate kiss.

"That's what I call a welcome back kiss." Natsuki pleasingly exclaimed.

"Natsuki, ikezu." The older woman playfully patted Natsuki's shoulder.

"Well, I don't mind." She widely grinned. She received a cup of tea from her partner.

"Your little master is alright. Already met her princess and involved in one of their attacks. I have to admit that she got skills and I think that she already knew about my power's origin." She sadly smiled when she thought of her origin.

"Everything will be OK. Just wait a little longer so she could catch up with everything here. Then we'll officially meet her." The older woman gently soothed her partner. She knew all about Natsuki's origin and its relation with long-term enemy of Bradford/Fukuzawa, Kertia.

Another chapter is up. Hope you enjoy it. Hehehehehehee

I think there will be many explanation next chapter and also some missing points that I purposely left.

Haizzzzz many stories popped up in my head but I really wanted to finish this fic first. Poor my head.