A Never Ceasing Smile to Hide the Pain Within
Disclamer: Do I own FY, you ask? No! Of course not! Would this be written down and not on TV if I owned FY! Sometimes I like to pretend...But I guess writting fanfics is just as good (yeah, right)...I own Lisuku, though...
A/N: Hmm...I have no idea where this story is going, but I hopefully will soon. (Hopefully, there's a good word). This fanfic takes place after FY and after Blazing Divine Flame (but you don't have to go and read it, although I would appreciate it! : ) ). I've never written a Chichiri fanfic before...So I hope all of you like reading it as much as I liked writing it!! Oh, and Gomen nasai for going back and forth between the manga and the anime. Dachi-san is what they call the mountain in the manga. Since I've only seen about 18 episodes from the anime, I'm not sure what it's called in it. I hope that doesn't effect the story too much!!
Chapter 2: Without a Past, Looking Towards the Future
"Huh?" startled, Chichiri tore his wandering gaze away from the lake and back into Lisuku's eyes. "What do you mean no da?"
"I don't remember," her voice raised a couple octives in panic as her eyes frantically searched for a landmark she might have missed that would spark her memory as she tore through her thoughts desperately searching for some key to her past, but there was nothing there. Her consciousness touched all corners of her memory to come up with nothing but blackness and wisps of memories that faded as soon as they were grasped. "Wha-What happened? How- But...?" She shook her head and then gazed into Chichiri's face once again, some calm restored in her voice. "I don't know...There-There's nothing there...It's like it's been wiped clean...I know my name...I know what I'm like...My personality is the same, but..."
"But, what no da?"
"But there's no memories to back it up...I don't know how I came here, or, really who I am..." Lisuku shuddered and pulled her knees to her chest, hugging them there with her arms. She rested her head on her knees as tear drops gathered in her eyes and slowly slipped down her cheeks.
She doesn't know who she is? Or how she got here? Her past is...gone? Chichiri looked at her for a moment, stunned. How? How did this-? A thought struck him. I have to take her to Taiitsu-kun! She's the Creator...She'll HAVE to know what's going on...I hope.
Chichiri moved towards Lisuku and started rubbing her back, trying to calm her down and release her from some of her fears. Maybe he could comfort her by showing her that she wasn't alone. She fell towards him until she was leaning against his side. His presence, his warmth, brought comfort. She didn't know why, but just his presence was soothing.
At least I'm not lost and alone, she thought to herself. He seems to care...Maybe he'll help me. Lisuku looked up into Chichiri's deep chestnut eye and then pushed her self away from him and into a sitting poistion. "Can you help me?" her plea for help came out no more than a breath above a whisper. She was scared. Her bright and bubbly personality was buried deep within her now. On the surface all that could be seen was shock.
Chichiri watched as the overflow of tears gently stremaed from her eyes, caressing her cheeks before they slid off her chin and moistened her shirt, leaving little patches of crimson on the bright red. Chichiri could feel his own eye grow glassy as tears began to build. Just looking at her tore at his heart. It hurt him anytime he saw someone else in pain, and to make it worse, it always reminded him of his own.
"Of course I will no da. I'll take you to my sensei no da. She'll know what to do no da."
Her deep blue eyes immediately brightened at the possibility of this new hope. "Really? You think she can help."
Chichiri pushed off the gound with his hands and slid his feet under himself. He stood and looked down at her lovingly and held out his hand. "If she can't help you, than I don't know who can no da."
Lisuku gratefully accepted his hand and brushed off the back of her pants once Chichiri had pulled her to her feet.
"Follow me no da," Chichiri said as he took the small, worn bath of dirt from his knoll beside the pond up to the main quarters of Dachi-san Mountain. Lisuku, after spacing out for a moment, ran to catch up to him, and once she was standing beside him, grabbed his arm. A slight blush spread across his cheeks as he looked down at her and smiled. She's scared..That's all...She doesn't want to loose anyhing else now that she's already lost herself...Nothing more, Chichiri repeated over and over again in his head. Nothing more...
* * *
Chichiri let out a sigh of relief as they finally came to the threshold of the palace at one of the mountain's many ridges. Lisuku gripped his arm tighter as he opened the door with a quick movement of his hand and they proceded to go inside.
Lisuku loosened her grip and then let go of Chichiri's arm as she took in the beauty around her. She'd been too oblivious before to realize the full beauty of the mountain, but now she noticed how truly amazing her surroundings were. Her fear was forgotten for a moment as she fully took in the white mist and the purple bubbles that never seemed to pop, but hung in the mist as bulbs do on a Christmas tree.
"Whoa...," she accidently let slip her lips as she gazed at the light that shone in from an unseen ceiling and the mist that seemed to hide the walls. They could've been in a small room, or a vast one for all she knew. White marble pillars appeared every once in a while as the mist shifted, but it still gave no clue to the size of her surroundings.
An ever darkening silhouette slowly aproaching them from the farthest patch of mist caught Lisuku's attention and brought her gaze downward to the area right in fron of her. Soon an olf woman who appeared to be floating in thin air appeared out of the white fog that had shielded her from view moments before.
Lisuku gasped at just how ugly she was. Compared to her surroundings, she was like a flea on the back of a champion silver-gray stallion, repulsive and unwanted. Lisuku took a step back and gaped at her.
"Chichiri, who is this gaping idiot that you brought me?" Taiitsu-kun asked Chichiri as she floated by the bewildered Lisuku.
Lisuku turned to look at Chichiri and pointed at Taiitsu-kun with a shaking finger. "Wha-what it THAT?!"
"Shh!" Chichiri yelled to her, brigning a finger up to his lips. "That's Taiitsu-kun! Creator of this mountain and all you see!...Show some respect no sa!" he added in whisper.
Lisuku flushed red and bowed deeply before the hovering old lady. "Gomen nasai! Gomen nasai! I-I had no idea! F-forgive my ignorance and stupidity!"
"Well, at least she caught on a lot faster than Miaka...It's okay young one," she said as she patted Lisuku's head as she floated past her. "You didn't know any better."
Lisuku looked up, although still bent over. "Huh?"
"It's all right, child! Now stand up!" Lisuku stood as straight as if she were at attention and Taiitsu-kun was the general. The Creator began to chuckle. "It's all right!" She patted Lisuku's shoulder this time.
"A-are you sure?" Lisuku asked, startled, as she let the muscles in her back relax.
"Yes! I'm not commanding an army here! Just show some respect, okay?"
"Right!"
"Now, Chichiri," she said as she floated back over to him. "You still haven't answered my question. Why did you bring this young one here?"
"She doesn't remember who she is, no da."
Taiitsu-kun looked at him with keen interest. "Whatever do you mean?" She said as she raised her eyebrows.
"I mean what I say, no da. She has no memory of who she was or what she's done before she arrived at Dachi-san Mountain, no da." Chichiri could tell from the look on Taiitsu-kun's face that she was hiding something.
"Very well. Then we will see what we can do, buf for now...Nyan Nyan (Lai Lai)!" A little girl appeared out of no where and can running over to Taiitsu-kun, followed by three more that looked completely identical to the first.
"Yes?"
"What?"
"Please take care of Lisuku. Make sure to take her to her room for her stay here and that she has everything she needs for the next couple of weeks," Taiitsu-kun told the little ones.
Lisuku glared at her in shock. "What, the next couple of-" But she was cut short by the Nyan Nyans that where rushing her out of the room and into a hallway to the side that had been hiden before by the white mist.
"Quickly! Quickly"
"This way!"
"Come on!"
Once the footsteps were barely audible and the young, coaxing voice diminished to near nothing, Taittsu-kun floated towards Chichiri until she was a mere foot or two away.
"You've been hiding something, no da," Chichiri said with a mocking smile.
"Oh, hush you silly fool, apparently so are you. You normally don't go without your mask now, do you?" Chichiri flushed a little bit and was at a loss for words. Taiitsu-kun chuckled, but then her face turned deadly serious. "Now then, I'm sorry to tell you this but it was I who took her memory away...but for good reason," she added quickly as she watched Chichiri's jaw drop.
"B-but why, no da?" He was shocked, and nothign else would come out. A million questions and thoughts swam around in hie head, but all he could utter was the simplest one. "Why?"
Taiitsu-kun sighed. "I can't tell you," she said as she looked down at the ground.
"What?! What do you mean no-" Taittsu-kun looked up at him suddenly and started speaking again, cutting him short.
"You will soon see in time, don't worry about it!" She said as she reached for his hair and playfully ruffled his mowhawk-like bangs. She then turned and begun to diappear back into the mist as she floated away from him.
"But...!"
"No buts! You'll figure it out in time." With that, all traces of Taiitsu- kun disappeared all together, leaving Chichiri puzzled to deal with a confusing mass of thoughts swimming around in his head.
What does she mean "You'll figure it out in time"? She's never acted like this before. I know she's hiding something now, but what I really want to know is why she's hiding it. Chichiri sighed to himself. Oh well, I might as well go and check up on Lisuku. I wonder what Nyan Nyan is having her do.
* * *
Lisuku tried desperately to keep Taiitsu-kun's little minions from taking off her clothes, but to no avail.
"I told you! I don't need a bath!" she yelled in exasperation as t he young girl tried slipping her shirt off her shoulders yet again. She grasped her half-way buttoned down shirt and pulled her pants up from her knees. Then she proceded to push her way through the four little girls. Ske kept backing away towards where she thought was the door until she met warm, soft flesh. She blushed as she turned around and looked up, meeting Chichiri's hazel gaze.
"Ano...H-hi Chi-Chichiri...," she said, trying more desperately than before to hold her shirt from closed and lift her pants the rest of the way to her waist. "She was...um...Well you see I...I tried telling her that I didn't need a bath or frsh clothes, but...She just wouldn't listen..."
Chichiri looked away from the nervous Lisuku and to the four little Nyan Nyans looking up at him innocently.
"We were only trying to help."
"Yes! We were going to freshen her up!"
"And give her new clothes!"
"And mend her old ones!"
"Well, that's very nice of you, no da. But why don't you leave her alone for now, no da. She's had a very hard day, no da."
"All right."
"I guess"
"Are you sure?" Chichiri nodded his head.
"Well, then call us if you need anything!"
"Bye!" After saying that one word in unison, they all disappeared in little puffs of smoke.
"Th-thank you Chichiri," she said, the slightest touches of pink still gracing her cheeks.
"No problem...Now...," he said, as he stepped out from behind her and walked over to a dresser in one corner of the room. He opened it and started sifting through the slothes. With his back turned, Lisuku took this opportunity to button up the fron of her blouse. When Chichiri turned back around with a fresh set of clothes and a bag filled with bathing necessities, Lisuku looked presentable again.
"I can't thank you enough," she said as she took the supplies from his out stretched hands.
"No problem, no da," Chichiri said with a smile.
"No, that's not what I mean. I meant for waht you've done for me up till now." Lisuku looked down and fiddled with the edge of her shirt.
"Eh?" Chichiri had no idea what she meant.
"I want to thank you f-for taking me here...I know I can't remember most of my past, but I have this faint feeling that no one else has ever shown me such kindness...When-When I try to see what was there before...I get theis feeling that all it was was heartache, fear, hurt, and lonliness." She looked up at him for a moment, briefly gazing into his eye, before she bowed to him. "Doomo arigato gozaimasu."
Chichiri had no idea waht to say. Man, this girl is worse than Miaka with her sudden mood shifts. She can go from bubbly, to scared, to embaressed, to humble, all in less than an hour? Ano...what do I say?... "You welcome, no da. I-I told you it was no problem, no da. I try to help as many people as I can, no da."
When she began to stand up, Chichiri saw something glisten on the side of her face, but it was quickly wiped away before she was straight up and facing him once more. "Thanks," she sniffled. "Now, could you possibly show we where the bath is, since I reek so bad that everyone wants me to bathe?"
Chichiri let a short laugh escape his throat. "I don't think they think you stink, but of course I'll show you where the bath is, anyway no da." Chichiri said with a smile. Lisuku smiled back as he took her out of the room and around the corner to the one of the fairly large and immaculate bathing rooms.
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A/N: Well, that's it, what'd ya think? Good, bad, sappy, stupid? Could you please review and tell me? *sniffle* Onegai shimasu? Kudasai? Please!? If you peoples like it, then I'll keep writing and posting, if not, then I'll just take it down. I really need to know!! Thanks! Oh, and I already started writing Chapter 3!! Ja!
Disclamer: Do I own FY, you ask? No! Of course not! Would this be written down and not on TV if I owned FY! Sometimes I like to pretend...But I guess writting fanfics is just as good (yeah, right)...I own Lisuku, though...
A/N: Hmm...I have no idea where this story is going, but I hopefully will soon. (Hopefully, there's a good word). This fanfic takes place after FY and after Blazing Divine Flame (but you don't have to go and read it, although I would appreciate it! : ) ). I've never written a Chichiri fanfic before...So I hope all of you like reading it as much as I liked writing it!! Oh, and Gomen nasai for going back and forth between the manga and the anime. Dachi-san is what they call the mountain in the manga. Since I've only seen about 18 episodes from the anime, I'm not sure what it's called in it. I hope that doesn't effect the story too much!!
Chapter 2: Without a Past, Looking Towards the Future
"Huh?" startled, Chichiri tore his wandering gaze away from the lake and back into Lisuku's eyes. "What do you mean no da?"
"I don't remember," her voice raised a couple octives in panic as her eyes frantically searched for a landmark she might have missed that would spark her memory as she tore through her thoughts desperately searching for some key to her past, but there was nothing there. Her consciousness touched all corners of her memory to come up with nothing but blackness and wisps of memories that faded as soon as they were grasped. "Wha-What happened? How- But...?" She shook her head and then gazed into Chichiri's face once again, some calm restored in her voice. "I don't know...There-There's nothing there...It's like it's been wiped clean...I know my name...I know what I'm like...My personality is the same, but..."
"But, what no da?"
"But there's no memories to back it up...I don't know how I came here, or, really who I am..." Lisuku shuddered and pulled her knees to her chest, hugging them there with her arms. She rested her head on her knees as tear drops gathered in her eyes and slowly slipped down her cheeks.
She doesn't know who she is? Or how she got here? Her past is...gone? Chichiri looked at her for a moment, stunned. How? How did this-? A thought struck him. I have to take her to Taiitsu-kun! She's the Creator...She'll HAVE to know what's going on...I hope.
Chichiri moved towards Lisuku and started rubbing her back, trying to calm her down and release her from some of her fears. Maybe he could comfort her by showing her that she wasn't alone. She fell towards him until she was leaning against his side. His presence, his warmth, brought comfort. She didn't know why, but just his presence was soothing.
At least I'm not lost and alone, she thought to herself. He seems to care...Maybe he'll help me. Lisuku looked up into Chichiri's deep chestnut eye and then pushed her self away from him and into a sitting poistion. "Can you help me?" her plea for help came out no more than a breath above a whisper. She was scared. Her bright and bubbly personality was buried deep within her now. On the surface all that could be seen was shock.
Chichiri watched as the overflow of tears gently stremaed from her eyes, caressing her cheeks before they slid off her chin and moistened her shirt, leaving little patches of crimson on the bright red. Chichiri could feel his own eye grow glassy as tears began to build. Just looking at her tore at his heart. It hurt him anytime he saw someone else in pain, and to make it worse, it always reminded him of his own.
"Of course I will no da. I'll take you to my sensei no da. She'll know what to do no da."
Her deep blue eyes immediately brightened at the possibility of this new hope. "Really? You think she can help."
Chichiri pushed off the gound with his hands and slid his feet under himself. He stood and looked down at her lovingly and held out his hand. "If she can't help you, than I don't know who can no da."
Lisuku gratefully accepted his hand and brushed off the back of her pants once Chichiri had pulled her to her feet.
"Follow me no da," Chichiri said as he took the small, worn bath of dirt from his knoll beside the pond up to the main quarters of Dachi-san Mountain. Lisuku, after spacing out for a moment, ran to catch up to him, and once she was standing beside him, grabbed his arm. A slight blush spread across his cheeks as he looked down at her and smiled. She's scared..That's all...She doesn't want to loose anyhing else now that she's already lost herself...Nothing more, Chichiri repeated over and over again in his head. Nothing more...
* * *
Chichiri let out a sigh of relief as they finally came to the threshold of the palace at one of the mountain's many ridges. Lisuku gripped his arm tighter as he opened the door with a quick movement of his hand and they proceded to go inside.
Lisuku loosened her grip and then let go of Chichiri's arm as she took in the beauty around her. She'd been too oblivious before to realize the full beauty of the mountain, but now she noticed how truly amazing her surroundings were. Her fear was forgotten for a moment as she fully took in the white mist and the purple bubbles that never seemed to pop, but hung in the mist as bulbs do on a Christmas tree.
"Whoa...," she accidently let slip her lips as she gazed at the light that shone in from an unseen ceiling and the mist that seemed to hide the walls. They could've been in a small room, or a vast one for all she knew. White marble pillars appeared every once in a while as the mist shifted, but it still gave no clue to the size of her surroundings.
An ever darkening silhouette slowly aproaching them from the farthest patch of mist caught Lisuku's attention and brought her gaze downward to the area right in fron of her. Soon an olf woman who appeared to be floating in thin air appeared out of the white fog that had shielded her from view moments before.
Lisuku gasped at just how ugly she was. Compared to her surroundings, she was like a flea on the back of a champion silver-gray stallion, repulsive and unwanted. Lisuku took a step back and gaped at her.
"Chichiri, who is this gaping idiot that you brought me?" Taiitsu-kun asked Chichiri as she floated by the bewildered Lisuku.
Lisuku turned to look at Chichiri and pointed at Taiitsu-kun with a shaking finger. "Wha-what it THAT?!"
"Shh!" Chichiri yelled to her, brigning a finger up to his lips. "That's Taiitsu-kun! Creator of this mountain and all you see!...Show some respect no sa!" he added in whisper.
Lisuku flushed red and bowed deeply before the hovering old lady. "Gomen nasai! Gomen nasai! I-I had no idea! F-forgive my ignorance and stupidity!"
"Well, at least she caught on a lot faster than Miaka...It's okay young one," she said as she patted Lisuku's head as she floated past her. "You didn't know any better."
Lisuku looked up, although still bent over. "Huh?"
"It's all right, child! Now stand up!" Lisuku stood as straight as if she were at attention and Taiitsu-kun was the general. The Creator began to chuckle. "It's all right!" She patted Lisuku's shoulder this time.
"A-are you sure?" Lisuku asked, startled, as she let the muscles in her back relax.
"Yes! I'm not commanding an army here! Just show some respect, okay?"
"Right!"
"Now, Chichiri," she said as she floated back over to him. "You still haven't answered my question. Why did you bring this young one here?"
"She doesn't remember who she is, no da."
Taiitsu-kun looked at him with keen interest. "Whatever do you mean?" She said as she raised her eyebrows.
"I mean what I say, no da. She has no memory of who she was or what she's done before she arrived at Dachi-san Mountain, no da." Chichiri could tell from the look on Taiitsu-kun's face that she was hiding something.
"Very well. Then we will see what we can do, buf for now...Nyan Nyan (Lai Lai)!" A little girl appeared out of no where and can running over to Taiitsu-kun, followed by three more that looked completely identical to the first.
"Yes?"
"What?"
"Please take care of Lisuku. Make sure to take her to her room for her stay here and that she has everything she needs for the next couple of weeks," Taiitsu-kun told the little ones.
Lisuku glared at her in shock. "What, the next couple of-" But she was cut short by the Nyan Nyans that where rushing her out of the room and into a hallway to the side that had been hiden before by the white mist.
"Quickly! Quickly"
"This way!"
"Come on!"
Once the footsteps were barely audible and the young, coaxing voice diminished to near nothing, Taittsu-kun floated towards Chichiri until she was a mere foot or two away.
"You've been hiding something, no da," Chichiri said with a mocking smile.
"Oh, hush you silly fool, apparently so are you. You normally don't go without your mask now, do you?" Chichiri flushed a little bit and was at a loss for words. Taiitsu-kun chuckled, but then her face turned deadly serious. "Now then, I'm sorry to tell you this but it was I who took her memory away...but for good reason," she added quickly as she watched Chichiri's jaw drop.
"B-but why, no da?" He was shocked, and nothign else would come out. A million questions and thoughts swam around in hie head, but all he could utter was the simplest one. "Why?"
Taiitsu-kun sighed. "I can't tell you," she said as she looked down at the ground.
"What?! What do you mean no-" Taittsu-kun looked up at him suddenly and started speaking again, cutting him short.
"You will soon see in time, don't worry about it!" She said as she reached for his hair and playfully ruffled his mowhawk-like bangs. She then turned and begun to diappear back into the mist as she floated away from him.
"But...!"
"No buts! You'll figure it out in time." With that, all traces of Taiitsu- kun disappeared all together, leaving Chichiri puzzled to deal with a confusing mass of thoughts swimming around in his head.
What does she mean "You'll figure it out in time"? She's never acted like this before. I know she's hiding something now, but what I really want to know is why she's hiding it. Chichiri sighed to himself. Oh well, I might as well go and check up on Lisuku. I wonder what Nyan Nyan is having her do.
* * *
Lisuku tried desperately to keep Taiitsu-kun's little minions from taking off her clothes, but to no avail.
"I told you! I don't need a bath!" she yelled in exasperation as t he young girl tried slipping her shirt off her shoulders yet again. She grasped her half-way buttoned down shirt and pulled her pants up from her knees. Then she proceded to push her way through the four little girls. Ske kept backing away towards where she thought was the door until she met warm, soft flesh. She blushed as she turned around and looked up, meeting Chichiri's hazel gaze.
"Ano...H-hi Chi-Chichiri...," she said, trying more desperately than before to hold her shirt from closed and lift her pants the rest of the way to her waist. "She was...um...Well you see I...I tried telling her that I didn't need a bath or frsh clothes, but...She just wouldn't listen..."
Chichiri looked away from the nervous Lisuku and to the four little Nyan Nyans looking up at him innocently.
"We were only trying to help."
"Yes! We were going to freshen her up!"
"And give her new clothes!"
"And mend her old ones!"
"Well, that's very nice of you, no da. But why don't you leave her alone for now, no da. She's had a very hard day, no da."
"All right."
"I guess"
"Are you sure?" Chichiri nodded his head.
"Well, then call us if you need anything!"
"Bye!" After saying that one word in unison, they all disappeared in little puffs of smoke.
"Th-thank you Chichiri," she said, the slightest touches of pink still gracing her cheeks.
"No problem...Now...," he said, as he stepped out from behind her and walked over to a dresser in one corner of the room. He opened it and started sifting through the slothes. With his back turned, Lisuku took this opportunity to button up the fron of her blouse. When Chichiri turned back around with a fresh set of clothes and a bag filled with bathing necessities, Lisuku looked presentable again.
"I can't thank you enough," she said as she took the supplies from his out stretched hands.
"No problem, no da," Chichiri said with a smile.
"No, that's not what I mean. I meant for waht you've done for me up till now." Lisuku looked down and fiddled with the edge of her shirt.
"Eh?" Chichiri had no idea what she meant.
"I want to thank you f-for taking me here...I know I can't remember most of my past, but I have this faint feeling that no one else has ever shown me such kindness...When-When I try to see what was there before...I get theis feeling that all it was was heartache, fear, hurt, and lonliness." She looked up at him for a moment, briefly gazing into his eye, before she bowed to him. "Doomo arigato gozaimasu."
Chichiri had no idea waht to say. Man, this girl is worse than Miaka with her sudden mood shifts. She can go from bubbly, to scared, to embaressed, to humble, all in less than an hour? Ano...what do I say?... "You welcome, no da. I-I told you it was no problem, no da. I try to help as many people as I can, no da."
When she began to stand up, Chichiri saw something glisten on the side of her face, but it was quickly wiped away before she was straight up and facing him once more. "Thanks," she sniffled. "Now, could you possibly show we where the bath is, since I reek so bad that everyone wants me to bathe?"
Chichiri let a short laugh escape his throat. "I don't think they think you stink, but of course I'll show you where the bath is, anyway no da." Chichiri said with a smile. Lisuku smiled back as he took her out of the room and around the corner to the one of the fairly large and immaculate bathing rooms.
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A/N: Well, that's it, what'd ya think? Good, bad, sappy, stupid? Could you please review and tell me? *sniffle* Onegai shimasu? Kudasai? Please!? If you peoples like it, then I'll keep writing and posting, if not, then I'll just take it down. I really need to know!! Thanks! Oh, and I already started writing Chapter 3!! Ja!