Title: Between You and Me
By: akinosora01
Category: Super Sentai/Samurai Sentai Shinkenger
Status: Incomplete
Chapters: 12
Author's Note:
#11 was so short, I decided to write another one….
Disclaimer: I do not own Samurai Sentai Shinkenger.
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#12 – Breakable
Kotoha wakes to uneven footsteps and low, sharp voices outside her bedroom. Glancing blearily at her clock—seventeen minutes past four—she is more awake when she recognizes the voices outside.
Jii-san and Tono-sama….?
Now fully awake, she slips out of her futon and carefully slides the door open. "Jii-san?"
She freezes when she sees Tono-sama leaning heavily on Kusakabe's arm, cut up and bloodied. What …?
"Kotoha-san," she hears Kusakabe-san saying urgently, "please help me get Tono-sama into his room."
She rushes forth, gingerly taking the injured ShinkenRed's arm and help guide him to his room, where the kuroko have already laid out the futon and are waiting with emergency medical supplies. They carefully lay the injured man down, and the kuroko get busy tending to his wounds.
Kotoha sits near the sliding door, the hem of her pajamas being worried in her small hands, as the kuroko gently lift their lord up to slip his torn shirt off. She blanches at the sight of cuts and the stain of blood on his torso, and wonders what in the world would Tono-sama be doing in order to receive injuries like those.
"Kotoha-san," Jii-san says gently, sensing her worry, "Tono will be fine."
In her heart, Kotoha knows that Tono-sama will be all right, because he always has been. But he's only human, like her, and mortal…Strange how it never occurred to her that Tono-sama could be breakable.
