Blazing Divine Flame
Disclaimer: I don't own FY, I never will, and I never have..Although I would really like to...Sadly neither the manga nor the anime is my own...
A/N: You already know this story's about Tasuki and that its non-lemon/non- yaoi. In this chapter stuff happens, followed by more stuff, and yet still, more stuff!! YAY!!! It's rated PG-13 right now, but it might change. Enjoy!
Chapter 4:
Tasuki stormed down the hall and scared Makani when he opened the door, slamming it against the wall when he threw it open. He didn't notice her jump about a foot in the air, or that she had been crying. All he saw was the blaze that now burned inside him, swallowing everything else up in his fury. He had surpressed most of it from Kouji when he realized what he was doing, but what happened boiled his blood so much that he couldn't keep but feel enraged by the situation he was now in.
Two men are dead because of me, and many more will be if I don't do something soon. It's not fair, this world. I mean, I'll admit, when I was younger, this whole world seemed to be just fun and games, but now... He went over to the wall and punched it as hard as he could, paying no attention to the loud snaps that arose and the throbbing pain which now encompassed his right hand. He leant his head against the cool rock of the wall as he drew back his hand to his side. "Shimatta," he muttered to himself, as he used his only usable hand to push himself up. Walking over to the bed, he didn't notice Makani's swollen eyes or tear covered hands, as he sat down across from her. He felt her presence, yes, but that was all.
"Tasuki?" she questioned, almost able to feel the anger that eminated off of him. "What's wrong? A-Are you okay?" She asked, concerned. She had heard the snapping of something, but didn't know what it was. When she looked down she saw three of his fingers looked like they had been snapped in half, and the middle one looked as if the bone was ready to pierce the skin. She got up and went over to his side, taking his left hand in her own. He didn't even seem to notice or realized what she was doing, as she pushed all of the bones back into place. She took some chopsticks she found on the floor and broke them in half, using three of the pieces to keep his fingers straightened. With her teeth she ripped strips of cloth from her old clothes and used them to secure the wood to Tasuki's fingers. The only thing that caught his attention when she was finished was that she brought his hand up to her mouth and kissed it before laying it back down on his leg and walking back over to the other side of the room.
Tasuki shook his head to clear the horrible images his mind had concocted...Kouji, laying on the ground, speared by the enemy's sword, a pool of crmson slowly engulfing his body...Makani, arms and legs lacerated, laying in a shallow pool of her own blood...Him, Tasuki, the only one left standing in the feild, surrounded by the carnage, the only one left, the last Mt. Leikaku bandit...That was not the way he needed to think right now. He needed to have hope, needed to brave, and if need be, risk his life, so that his friends would be saved, would be safe.
Makani was looking at him worriedly when he finally came out of his trance and took in the world around him. The true world, not the bloody, lifeless one inside his head. He barely managed a smile when he looked at her, one she herself couldn't even return. "Tasuki...What's wrong? Why did you-?" she asked in a loving, caring, conserned voice before he cut her off.
"A-ain't nothing wrong. I-I'm fine, really Makani, don't worry." With eyes that pierced his words and looked right to his heart, Makani gazed at him, and knew that not one word of it was the truth.
"You lie. What happened, and why won't you tell me! If you won't, then I'll find some one who will! Everyone else knows, I can sense all the tension around here, the way people are scuttling up and down the halls like fleeing cockroaches. Tasuki, I-" she stopped and looked at the floor. But even though she didn't utter the next word, he already knew what she was going to say, 'love.' She loved him, like Reirei had before her, and now he was in danger of losing her the same way he lost the last.
"Don't," he told her, after he stood up, looking down at her. She looked up at him in surprise and confusion.
"Tasuki, what do you mean?"
"I mean what I say. Don't. Don't fall in love with me. Please, Makani, don't."
"You can't mean that! Why would you even say-?"
"You don't understand," he said, as he turned away from her and faced the wall. He couldn't look at her, not with the tears welling up in his eyes. But somehow, he kept his voice from wavering and his body form shuddering as the tears slipped down his cheeks. He didn't want to admit why he was crying. Part of him knew he loved her, but part of him thought he just couldn't. He didn't know how and he had never loved anyone else as badly...or as much. "I have a duty to protect Mt. Leikaku. I made a mistake and now I must pay for it. If I get hurt," he sighed, one full of pain and regret. "If I die, I don't want you to be miserable. So please, I'm begging you, don't love me. I'm not worth it, anyways."
"But..Tasuki..."
"No...I'm sorry...It has to be this way...Forgive me." And with that he turned and walked towards the door, shutting it behind him, and ran as fast away from her as he could, not wanting her to see his tears, or question his actions.
"Tasuki...." she had seen the light shine on his cheek as he walked by her. He had been crying. Makani couldn't understand why he had done that, but she had to find out.
She rushed to the door and opened it, only to see an empty hallway. She ran all the way down to the left and flung open the huge double doors looking up to see a shoked and worried Kouji.
* * *
She wiped the tears from her face as she approached the ornamented chair on which the leader now sat.
"Wh-what happened?" she said in a muffled voice as she looked down at the floor, not wanting him to see her tears, but it didn't take his eyes hear her voice waver.
"I'm sorry?" he asked, hoping that she would take the hint, and leave the situation alone.
She threw her head up and glared at him with her piercing eyes. "What happened?!" she nearly screamed.
"I-I don't know what you mean." Please, go away. You don't want to know...You don't...I don't want to hurt you.
She ran up to him and grabbed the collar of his shirt. Kouji waved off the oncoming guards. They gave him a questioning glance before they shrugged their shoulders and took up their posts, still watching, curiously.
"You know what I mean!" she said as the tears ran down her face and trickled down onto his shirt.
Kouji let out a deep, heavy sigh. "All right," he said. Makani loosened her grip and he fell back into the chair. He hadn't realized that she had actually lifted him off in her attempt to force him to speak. "You know of your captors, correct? Of what they were?"
Makani nodded her head. "They're always picking children off the street and selling them...Slave traders, right?"
"Percisely. But do you know just who they were?"
Makani shook her head, some of her blue-green hair falling into her face. She puched it behind her ears with her fingertips.
Kouji let out another sigh. I'm sorry..I really don't want to tell you this... "They were the leaders, the most important people in their trade, and now, I'm afraid, since Genrou...Tasuki...took their lives, we will be thrown into a war with them over their trade route throught Mt. Liekaku."
Makani looked at him, a confused look on her face, before the full impact of Kouji's statement hit her. Kouji almost cried himself when he saw the look of heartache on her face. Oh, gods she knows, she realizes now...I'm so sorry...You don't deserve this...
"No...," she whispered to herself as she felt her skin go cold. He thinks its all his fault...That now they're all going to die because of him...He doesn't realize that if they all work together, this whole thing could be solved...I'm sure there are enough bandits here to take care of them, what with the huge size of this place...And with that weapon Tasuki has, they should be fine...But it's not just that...Something else was hidden, buried...'You don't understand.'...That's what he had said...Don't understand what? Why won't he tell me!!...He-He's going to get himself killed...Oh, gods, he's probably going to try to face them on his own...No...I can't let that happen!...Not when I...Not when I... "SHIMATTA!!!" she yelled, virtually on the top of her lungs, making the room around her shake and Kouji jump in surprise. "No, I can't let him!" she said to herself as she ran towards the doors and bolted throught them..."I can't!!"
* * *
Tasuki pressed himself up, flat against the wall when he heard footsteps approaching him from a conjoined hall rapidly. He held his breath as the person raced by him. He knew who it was, and a flash of her dark blue-green hair assured him that it was Makani.
The tears had not yet stopped leaking from his eyes, but they had slowed considerably. He wiped the newest ones away with the back of his hand. He had wiped his nose with his sleeve so much that it had gone raw.
"I'm sorry...," he whispered to the air. "I'm so sorry, Makani...It's better this way..."
Wiping the last of his tears away, he turned and ran as fast as he could down the hall he was in, and throught the double doors that led to the world beyond. "Forgive me..."
* * *
"Tasuki!!" Makani yelled at the top of her lungs when she had raced about half way down the enormous corridor. She stopped and listened for a second. Footsteps. Behind her. Down the side hall way she had just passed. From the rapidly declining sound of the steps she could tell that they were running fast, and the same direction she now ran, out of the building, and away from Mt. Leikaku.
* * *
A/N: Gomen nasai, but that's all there is for this chapter!! Sorry it's so short! The next one will be posted up shortly if I get enough reviews (hint, hint). Comments? Flames? All are excepted!! Ideas are welcome, but don't be disappointed if I don't use them! I hope you all like it so far, because I've enjoyed writing it...I have no idead how long it's going to be...If I keep writing like this? Probably for a while! Until next chapter (if there is enough reviews..), Ja ne!
Disclaimer: I don't own FY, I never will, and I never have..Although I would really like to...Sadly neither the manga nor the anime is my own...
A/N: You already know this story's about Tasuki and that its non-lemon/non- yaoi. In this chapter stuff happens, followed by more stuff, and yet still, more stuff!! YAY!!! It's rated PG-13 right now, but it might change. Enjoy!
Chapter 4:
Tasuki stormed down the hall and scared Makani when he opened the door, slamming it against the wall when he threw it open. He didn't notice her jump about a foot in the air, or that she had been crying. All he saw was the blaze that now burned inside him, swallowing everything else up in his fury. He had surpressed most of it from Kouji when he realized what he was doing, but what happened boiled his blood so much that he couldn't keep but feel enraged by the situation he was now in.
Two men are dead because of me, and many more will be if I don't do something soon. It's not fair, this world. I mean, I'll admit, when I was younger, this whole world seemed to be just fun and games, but now... He went over to the wall and punched it as hard as he could, paying no attention to the loud snaps that arose and the throbbing pain which now encompassed his right hand. He leant his head against the cool rock of the wall as he drew back his hand to his side. "Shimatta," he muttered to himself, as he used his only usable hand to push himself up. Walking over to the bed, he didn't notice Makani's swollen eyes or tear covered hands, as he sat down across from her. He felt her presence, yes, but that was all.
"Tasuki?" she questioned, almost able to feel the anger that eminated off of him. "What's wrong? A-Are you okay?" She asked, concerned. She had heard the snapping of something, but didn't know what it was. When she looked down she saw three of his fingers looked like they had been snapped in half, and the middle one looked as if the bone was ready to pierce the skin. She got up and went over to his side, taking his left hand in her own. He didn't even seem to notice or realized what she was doing, as she pushed all of the bones back into place. She took some chopsticks she found on the floor and broke them in half, using three of the pieces to keep his fingers straightened. With her teeth she ripped strips of cloth from her old clothes and used them to secure the wood to Tasuki's fingers. The only thing that caught his attention when she was finished was that she brought his hand up to her mouth and kissed it before laying it back down on his leg and walking back over to the other side of the room.
Tasuki shook his head to clear the horrible images his mind had concocted...Kouji, laying on the ground, speared by the enemy's sword, a pool of crmson slowly engulfing his body...Makani, arms and legs lacerated, laying in a shallow pool of her own blood...Him, Tasuki, the only one left standing in the feild, surrounded by the carnage, the only one left, the last Mt. Leikaku bandit...That was not the way he needed to think right now. He needed to have hope, needed to brave, and if need be, risk his life, so that his friends would be saved, would be safe.
Makani was looking at him worriedly when he finally came out of his trance and took in the world around him. The true world, not the bloody, lifeless one inside his head. He barely managed a smile when he looked at her, one she herself couldn't even return. "Tasuki...What's wrong? Why did you-?" she asked in a loving, caring, conserned voice before he cut her off.
"A-ain't nothing wrong. I-I'm fine, really Makani, don't worry." With eyes that pierced his words and looked right to his heart, Makani gazed at him, and knew that not one word of it was the truth.
"You lie. What happened, and why won't you tell me! If you won't, then I'll find some one who will! Everyone else knows, I can sense all the tension around here, the way people are scuttling up and down the halls like fleeing cockroaches. Tasuki, I-" she stopped and looked at the floor. But even though she didn't utter the next word, he already knew what she was going to say, 'love.' She loved him, like Reirei had before her, and now he was in danger of losing her the same way he lost the last.
"Don't," he told her, after he stood up, looking down at her. She looked up at him in surprise and confusion.
"Tasuki, what do you mean?"
"I mean what I say. Don't. Don't fall in love with me. Please, Makani, don't."
"You can't mean that! Why would you even say-?"
"You don't understand," he said, as he turned away from her and faced the wall. He couldn't look at her, not with the tears welling up in his eyes. But somehow, he kept his voice from wavering and his body form shuddering as the tears slipped down his cheeks. He didn't want to admit why he was crying. Part of him knew he loved her, but part of him thought he just couldn't. He didn't know how and he had never loved anyone else as badly...or as much. "I have a duty to protect Mt. Leikaku. I made a mistake and now I must pay for it. If I get hurt," he sighed, one full of pain and regret. "If I die, I don't want you to be miserable. So please, I'm begging you, don't love me. I'm not worth it, anyways."
"But..Tasuki..."
"No...I'm sorry...It has to be this way...Forgive me." And with that he turned and walked towards the door, shutting it behind him, and ran as fast away from her as he could, not wanting her to see his tears, or question his actions.
"Tasuki...." she had seen the light shine on his cheek as he walked by her. He had been crying. Makani couldn't understand why he had done that, but she had to find out.
She rushed to the door and opened it, only to see an empty hallway. She ran all the way down to the left and flung open the huge double doors looking up to see a shoked and worried Kouji.
* * *
She wiped the tears from her face as she approached the ornamented chair on which the leader now sat.
"Wh-what happened?" she said in a muffled voice as she looked down at the floor, not wanting him to see her tears, but it didn't take his eyes hear her voice waver.
"I'm sorry?" he asked, hoping that she would take the hint, and leave the situation alone.
She threw her head up and glared at him with her piercing eyes. "What happened?!" she nearly screamed.
"I-I don't know what you mean." Please, go away. You don't want to know...You don't...I don't want to hurt you.
She ran up to him and grabbed the collar of his shirt. Kouji waved off the oncoming guards. They gave him a questioning glance before they shrugged their shoulders and took up their posts, still watching, curiously.
"You know what I mean!" she said as the tears ran down her face and trickled down onto his shirt.
Kouji let out a deep, heavy sigh. "All right," he said. Makani loosened her grip and he fell back into the chair. He hadn't realized that she had actually lifted him off in her attempt to force him to speak. "You know of your captors, correct? Of what they were?"
Makani nodded her head. "They're always picking children off the street and selling them...Slave traders, right?"
"Percisely. But do you know just who they were?"
Makani shook her head, some of her blue-green hair falling into her face. She puched it behind her ears with her fingertips.
Kouji let out another sigh. I'm sorry..I really don't want to tell you this... "They were the leaders, the most important people in their trade, and now, I'm afraid, since Genrou...Tasuki...took their lives, we will be thrown into a war with them over their trade route throught Mt. Liekaku."
Makani looked at him, a confused look on her face, before the full impact of Kouji's statement hit her. Kouji almost cried himself when he saw the look of heartache on her face. Oh, gods she knows, she realizes now...I'm so sorry...You don't deserve this...
"No...," she whispered to herself as she felt her skin go cold. He thinks its all his fault...That now they're all going to die because of him...He doesn't realize that if they all work together, this whole thing could be solved...I'm sure there are enough bandits here to take care of them, what with the huge size of this place...And with that weapon Tasuki has, they should be fine...But it's not just that...Something else was hidden, buried...'You don't understand.'...That's what he had said...Don't understand what? Why won't he tell me!!...He-He's going to get himself killed...Oh, gods, he's probably going to try to face them on his own...No...I can't let that happen!...Not when I...Not when I... "SHIMATTA!!!" she yelled, virtually on the top of her lungs, making the room around her shake and Kouji jump in surprise. "No, I can't let him!" she said to herself as she ran towards the doors and bolted throught them..."I can't!!"
* * *
Tasuki pressed himself up, flat against the wall when he heard footsteps approaching him from a conjoined hall rapidly. He held his breath as the person raced by him. He knew who it was, and a flash of her dark blue-green hair assured him that it was Makani.
The tears had not yet stopped leaking from his eyes, but they had slowed considerably. He wiped the newest ones away with the back of his hand. He had wiped his nose with his sleeve so much that it had gone raw.
"I'm sorry...," he whispered to the air. "I'm so sorry, Makani...It's better this way..."
Wiping the last of his tears away, he turned and ran as fast as he could down the hall he was in, and throught the double doors that led to the world beyond. "Forgive me..."
* * *
"Tasuki!!" Makani yelled at the top of her lungs when she had raced about half way down the enormous corridor. She stopped and listened for a second. Footsteps. Behind her. Down the side hall way she had just passed. From the rapidly declining sound of the steps she could tell that they were running fast, and the same direction she now ran, out of the building, and away from Mt. Leikaku.
* * *
A/N: Gomen nasai, but that's all there is for this chapter!! Sorry it's so short! The next one will be posted up shortly if I get enough reviews (hint, hint). Comments? Flames? All are excepted!! Ideas are welcome, but don't be disappointed if I don't use them! I hope you all like it so far, because I've enjoyed writing it...I have no idead how long it's going to be...If I keep writing like this? Probably for a while! Until next chapter (if there is enough reviews..), Ja ne!