Title: "Sweet Surrender"
Author: Trinity-chan
Pairing: Sakura Nishihori & Eiji Takaoka
Fandom: GouGou Sentai Boukenger
Theme: #15 "perfect blue"
Disclaimer: Eiji Takaoka, Sakura Nishihori and the rest of the Boukenger cast belong to Toei. The song "Somewhere Out There" belongs to the people who own it.
Somewhere out there
Beneath the pale blue light
Someone's thinking of me
And Loving me tonight
Somewhere out there
Someone's singing a prayer
That we'll find one another
In that big somewhere out there
Almost from the moment he met her, Sakura Nishihori had intrigued Eiji Takaoka. She possessed an aloofness about her that made him stand up and take notice and a sort of glacial beauty that was beyond anything he'd ever seen before.
At any rate, he had to make her his.
But over time, it became clear to Eiji that Sakura had eyes for one man: Satoru Akashi and the more he waited, the more painfully obvious it became that Sakura would never be his.
But then…something interesting happened.
Sometime after the incident with the Fire Of The Ruined County, Eiji was sitting placidly in the salon by himself, nibbling on a carrot, finishing some paperwork. Suddenly, Sakura entered, walked right up to him, looked him in the eye and kissed him.
Eiji was shocked and in his moment of shock, he felt the tight control he had over his Ashu half slip away and he broke the kiss, turning away from her.
NO! he thought, somewhat panicked, falling to his knees.
"Eiji, is something wrong?" Sakura asked and when Eiji answered her with a growling noise, she knew what happened.
"Oh no." She thought, putting her hand on her scope shot.
Faster than Sakura could think, Eiji, in full Ashu mode, pounced on her and pinned her on her back.
"Don't hurt me." Sakura whimpered, but she somehow knew that Eiji wouldn't do that, even now. She could see him fighting for control of himself.
"I would never hurt you." Eiji was struggling to get the words out. "I like you, Sakura. Please…believe me. I am…I am not….I am not……a monster."
His eyes were that weird white color again, but she could see the humanity in them. It was as clear to her as her feelings were.
"It's all right." She said. "I know you're not."
"Sakura…please…" Eiji was struggling to keep enough of his humanity intact so that he could speak. "…don't….don't….be…afraid…of me…."
His arms were shaking as he pinned her down…in fact, his entire being was shivering.
She looked at him for a moment before giving into impulse and pulling him down to her for a kiss, murmuring "I'm not" against his lips.
In that moment, she let go of the binds that had held her down her whole life and gave in to the sweetest surrender of all…the surrender of love.
Almost immediately, that brought Eiji back to his senses and he became himself again, the Ashu side going back into dormancy.
When the kiss ended, they were slightly out of breath and they stared at each other for a moment.
"You know, when I pictured this, I imagined that it would be under a perfect blue sky." She said. "But you know….this is nice, too."