Chapter 10: Confusing Emotions
(Sakido's P.O.V.)
It was now, as I continued to stare at Eric, that I felt light weight and almost, elated. I felt a cold chill run through my spine and out the ends of my wings, yet I still felt pin pricks all over my body while I felt my growl disappear. My gut was telling me this new feeling was a mixture between curiosity and happiness, but I wasn't quite sure what to make of it. My muscles felt like lead, but I felt… different, as if a jolt of lightning had run through my muzzle, down to my feet, and into my wings in a single motion. My throat felt tight as fear held onto the back of my mind, but I didn't do anything as I pulled my muzzle slowly away from Eric, and I looked down my muzzle, and studied the object that caused me this strange sensation.
Right there, on the end of my muzzle, and oddly on top of my nose, rested one of those powder like things, and I felt my curiosity grow even more. I lowered Eric back to the ground as I forgot about his flirt with death, literally, but not entirely. I reached up, but when my finger touched the powder, it disappeared. Another thing of powder landed on my hand, and as I turned my hand over, more of it began to collect onto my palm. I looked past my hands and saw Eric looking up at me with a grin, and I had half a mind to wipe that grin from his face, yet I still refrained. Instead, I brought my hands down so he could see, and when he did, he smiled while he looked back up at me, "I know what snow is… here, let me show you something else…"
When he reached down, he grabbed a handful of snow, and he interwove his hands while he stood back up. As he brought his hands to his face, he took in a deep breath, before breathing into his hands…
(Eric's P.O.V.)
Holding my hands close together as I poured hot breath over the snow, I could already feel the change, and pulling away, I held my hands up the best I could while I said, "Snow is water, just it a lot colder…"
Sakido looked at it closely, and I held it there, but only for a few more seconds, as it was starting to make my fingers hurt from constantly holding something cold without my gloves. Speaking about those… I think those went up in the fire as well…
When I finished wiping my hands dry on my pants, I looked up as Sakido said, "That is interesting…" I looked away as I thought of a proper response, and I did try to walk away until Sakido grabbed my shoulder, causing me to look back towards her, "But that doesn't mean I forgot what you did against my warning. The question now, what to do with you…?"
If it wasn't for my current situation, I would've made a proper response, but the smirk on her muzzle, along with her hand holding me in place because of my shoulder, only let me smirk back in nervousness. Whatever she had planned, she was thinking it over as she was looking away from me, and her grip only tightened when I tried to move. It wasn't until her blue gaze shifted back towards me that I knew she came up with a conclusion. Even then, I wanted to at least give my own opinion as I asked, "Can we just go back to walking?"
The smirk on Sakido's muzzle only widened, and this really did make my heart do a flip as she placed her other hand on my other shoulder, and she leaned down and placed her muzzle right beside my ear and said in a tone that I wished I wouldn't hear, "Fine, but that will only prolong the inevitable…"
Her voice echoed through my mind as her tone managed to demolish any and all forms of resistance to her hold on me, but it only made my wonder at what she had planned grow exponentially. I shuddered after she giggled maliciously beside me ear, and my skin tingled as she let her muzzle brush along the side of my face as I continued to look into her gaze, "I wasn't one of Hell's elites for no reason. And while we may be soul partners, I will still give you the justly punishments that you must receive." As she dragged her muzzle away from the side of my face, I saw her eyes close, before her lips were pressed against my forehead. My heart skipped a beat before she pulled away, and as she opened her eyes and gave me a malicious gaze, she said, "The kiss of a demon is damnation to any…"
"Then you damned me long ago… oh shit…" I clapped my hands over my mouth, but the damage was done as Sakido gave me a shocked look. "I uh… I didn't mean that…" I said as I lowered my hands.
She quickly overcame her original shock, but she asked me, "What do you mean, 'long ago'?" I can always just lie to her, but something tells me that will just be a bigger mistake. Then again, I won't be requ- "If you lie, or withhold the truth, you will just bring more harm to yourself." Yup, there goes that option…
"Um… well, you see… I woke up to this, it was you're doing by the way." I smirked as I looked away, and I added, "You kind of had a kissing session in your sleep…"
"What!?" Sakido's eyes began to glow blue again, and I shuddered as she growled. I didn't have any way to protect myself, except my own two hands, but I knew that wouldn't be much, unless I managed to get her arms secure…
…
I know this was the only way, but I didn't think it would have worked…!
Right now, I was holding Sakido in a hug like grip to prevent any injury or harm to myself. I was gazing into Sakido's enraged eyes as she was shouting in another language of some kind, but I was just glad she didn't act like an animal and try to bite me. Fear and determination are the two things that kept my arms around Sakido. Fear because of the half dozen trees' lying on their sides behind us, from her using the power of wind or something, but that was just a guess at best. And the determination part was a form of not wanting to end up like those trees. Sakido stopped her shouting as she began to breathe heavily, and I did my best to remain up and off of her, as I had made the unfortunate discovery that she did have some attributes of a female human, which was extremely strange. I was doing my damnest to remain as far from her chest now as I held her arms, because I still wanted to live, if not to see the United States again, then at least another sunrise.
My eyes were wide while she growled at me again, but I only responded with a nervous chuckle as I tightened my grip in response to her attempt to release herself. "Eric, you play a dangerous game, release me, now!"
"Not until you calm down, calm the hell way down…" I said, feeling the burning in my arms intensifying from her struggling. I didn't want her to attack me while I was weak, or without my weapons, but we were still outside as it continued to snow.
"Eric, now…"
It isn't like I can refuse her any longer; I'm too tired to continue this futile fighting…
Making a final decision, I slowly eased my grip on her arms as I said, "Sakido, remember, we are soul partners… that counts for something…"
After my hold on her was fully gone, I was placed under her from her quick flip, and now as I store up at her, she was panting with a satisfaction now. As she continued to stare down at me, her hair somehow didn't fall down, but her eyes did seem to start losing the glow that I was starting to keep fearing. "I wouldn't have thought you were that stupid, Eric…"
"It wasn't stupidity, rather than knowing I couldn't win." I said just as she started to get her breathing back under control. By now, a few strands of hair had fallen down and around her muzzle as I added another defense, "I'm just surprised you are so flustered over a kiss, if I didn't know better, you are trying to hide the fact that you enjoyed them instead…"
(Sakido's P.O.V.)
When his implication was stated, I felt myself grow heated from the accusation, mostly from embarrassment and surprise, but partly from the sad truth that it was true. I turned my eyes away from him as I let out a growl of disapproval and said, "If it wasn't for you being my soul partner, you wouldn't be alive to accuse me of such a thing…"
Eric was walking in front of me while he held his long sniper, as he called it, in front of him while he constantly scanned the forest around us. While Toski had indeed healed my leg injury, it still hurt, and I kept the bandage on it, as it strangely provided a tremendous amount of warmth. My wings were curled behind me since I didn't have any use for them currently, and I was barely strong enough to walk. The sun was already low and close to the horizon, and another thing I noticed was the constant dropping temperature. Eric was beginning to slow down, but it wasn't until a gust of wind blew through that he stopped and looked towards a tree. I walked until I was by his side, and when I was there, I leaned down and asked, "What are you doing?"
He jumped to the side slightly, but he was soon looking at me as he said, "We are stopping for the night… it is getting to the point where it is too cold for me to walk without proper clothing."
I nodded as we began to walk over to the tree, and when we were pushing through the shin high snow, I couldn't help but brush up against Eric while we drew closer to where we would sleep. He really has done a lot to help me out, even though now he knows that I'm a demon without a doubt, he continues to travel and help me. He has advice he can give me, so I should try to at least learn what he knows. He might even be willing to help me with a few answers to my questions…
Stopping beside him, he held his sniper stick out to me, and he said, "You're still in no shape to work, so just hold this while I clear some snow for us to have some place to sleep…"
I may not be able to help, but I'm not entirely useless…
Placing my hands apart, I clapped them forward just as Eric bent forward, and I watched as the snow all blew away. A great cloud of snow blew up and into the sky and around us, and I smiled as I grossed my arms over my chest, waiting for the snow to clear up.
When the air was no longer clogged with snow, I saw Eric was lying in a pile of snow, and I walked over and picked him up by his small armors straps. When he looked over at me, I smiled warmly as I said, "I can still help you Eric…"
He smiled back as he said, "Next time try to warn me… alright?" letting him go, I looked over and saw much of the ground was clear, and he said, "Great job by the way… now, when we sleep this time, try not to grab me… ok?"
Shaking my head, I walked over and sat down while leaning against the trunk of the tree, and when I did; I saw Eric had already taken his weapons off of his back. It wasn't until he lied flat on the ground did I see the difficulty he had with his one arm, and I moved closer to him slightly as I asked, "Do you need any help?"
He looked over at me as he eased himself into a lying position, but not before he had difficulty doing so. "N-No, I will be fine."
I knew that was a lie from the way he looked away from me soon afterwards, but along with how he kept that shoulder off and away from the ground. I didn't feel any pain in my own shoulder because of his wound, and I could only guess that his wound wasn't so severe that I would feel it. I nodded my head as I eased myself back down, and I let out a sigh as I closed my eyes, doing my best to get to sleep…
…
My eyes were still closed, but I haven't fallen asleep, and I knew that neither had Eric, and we both knew why the other hadn't fallen asleep; it was cold. While I was ready to move and get up, I didn't want Eric to get more suspicions that I did like him, more than a travel partner, but I didn't want us both to not be restless in the morning. We were both going to need our rest to continue walking to a village that had proper medical supplies, but I also wanted to be by him for the night so that my unknown want would be filled.
Sighing quietly, I wearily stood up, and I made my way over to Eric so that we could share and provide warmth for the other. Unlike Hell, this place was always a different temperature instead of remaining at a warm level of comfort.
Sitting down and easing my way to my side, I noticed that Eric was starting to look behind him, and that was when I finally made it to where I was level with him. After Eric was facing me, he turned his whole body towards me, therefore making it so his injured shoulder was towards the sky. I gave him a nervous smile as I slowly placed my arms around him, and he gave me a quizzical expression as he said, "I would've thought I would be the one to come to you…"
This only made my muzzle warm up very slightly, and I said, "You know as well as I why we are still awake… don't make me regret this…"
He chuckled very briefly, and my blush intensified as I felt his own arms run along my sides before I felt his body press against my own. I had to force myself to not force him away from me as I suddenly began to feel drowsy, and I set my head down onto my arm as Eric said, "Good night Sakido… sleep well."
Before I let myself succumb to sleep, I pulled him closer to me as I felt his heat transfer into me, and I could only smile while reality began to slowly lose its grip on my mind. Eric chuckled very lightly, and I felt something I haven't felt for a long time before I completely fell asleep; caring…
A.N.: Hello everyone, I have decided that this is probably the most sensitive chapter I have ever made for this story so far, and while I did struggle to write the first half, I got this part done relatively nice if I may say so. Please let me all know what you thought, as I have finished this before uploading chapter 8, so that is letting you all know I'm cranking chapters out at an amazing rate…
MatureDeath: No, it is just I have been updating Extremely fast is all... but I'm pending three other stories from this as well.