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*Chapter VI: king of hearts*
It was late at night when the light faded away; all Hitomi could think about is that Van had a fiancée. He lied to her; he said that he hadn't found the right person yet. He betrayed her…why?
Both Hitomi and Van were standing on the track where she left earth earlier that week. They stood there in silence, Hitomi not wanting to talk and Van could come to say anything important or that would make this better.
"Hitomi…" he kept his eyes low as he spoke to her.
She couldn't take it. She exploded at him. "Don't say
anything! Don't you dare talk to
me! Don't look at me, don't follow me
home, and don't ever come and find me! GO HOME!! Where you belong" Each word she said hurt him more than any
sword could ever do. His eyes shot up with surprise when he heard no emotion
behind that usually soft caring voice.
"Please…" he pleaded. Van
felt like his heart was about to stop.
Hitomi picked up her bag and walked home, not looking back at Van
as she left him. Van ran up to her and
grabbed her wrist. She turned around so
fast, and slapped him as hard as she could in his face. Van took a step back, startled at the force
of her slap.
"I said don't talk to me. I
don't ever want to see you again! I hate you!" she got away from his grip and
ran home crying.
~*~*~*~
She slowly entered her house, trying not to wake anyone. She saw that both of her parents had fallen asleep on the kitchen table. She carefully went up to her room, fell on the bed and stated to cry.
"Hitomi?" Hitomi looked at her door and saw that her mother was
standing there.
"Sweetie, are you alright?"
"I will be…" Hitomi hid her tear stricken face from her mother, Hitomi
couldn't tell her mother what was wrong. It hurt her too much.
"I'm so happy that your home. I'm always here to talk. I love
you, good night Hitomi. Happy 18th
birthday."
Hitomi will always remember this day for the rest of her life.
~*~*~*~
So I'm finally here, on the mystic moon, with Hitomi; but she hates
me. What have I done? Van had tried to follow Hitomi
but even he wasn't fast enough to catch her. So he unfolded his wings and flew after her. He didn't think that Hitomi saw him, while she was running
away. Van was starting to get tired,
but he had to keep going, he had to stay with Hitomi. Suddenly he started to fall towards the ground, because his body
was too tired, so it gave out. He fell
to the ground, unconscious.
~*~*~*~
"Hitomi? It's really you. You're home, I wasn't dreaming" Hitomi's mother said after she came into Hitomi's room the next morning, seeing her. "Are you okay? What happened? Are you hurt?" Her mother couldn't stop hugging and asking questions to her daughter, so happy that she was home.
Hitomi was awake, but she couldn't or wouldn't talk. She could only think, although she didn't
want to. She knew that if she started to think a lot, the first thing that
would come to her mind would be HIM.
"Hitomi would you like to stay home today? I think you should; I'll
go and call the school." Hitomi's mother left to go and make the call.
Hitomi got up and walked to the bathroom, and turned on the
bath. After the bath was full she
slowly got in and laid back.
"Why……?" she quietly said to herself.
Then it just hit her, Van loves another, but she loved him, and
now… she broke down and cried. She
couldn't handle the thoughts of everything on Gaia and the people and…Van. She felt so weak, that it was almost too
much to breath.
"Honey, are you alright? Hitomi?" her mother asked from the door.
After a while she answered, "Yes…" she didn't have enough strength
to say anything else, and she just wanted to be left alone.
"I'll get some food ready for you. Don't be too long."
Hitomi rested her head, trying to get her mind clear. Suddenly she couldn't breathe, she was
chocking and she couldn't stop. It wasn't
from the water, she just could breathe. Since she couldn't catch her breath, she couldn't call out to her
mother. She could feel her life
slipping away. Just before she stopped
breathing she had a vision.
She saw the little boy crying again, but this time, just before the
cat- woman reached him, wings shot out from his small back. They were black as night.
~*~*~*~
Van stirred. Something's
wrong with Hitomi. She's in pain. I have
to find her now! Van saw that he
was in a forest, but could see buildings from afar. Van was fully rested, so
her got up and sprouted his wings and her tried to use the pendant to find her.
I just have to find her…I love her too much!! He saw the pendant swing
to his right, and he flew as fast as he could. He saw a flash of a building, he
guessed that it was her house.
He saw the house in his flash, right below him. He saw a door, and he dropped right in front
of it, retracted his wings and started to pound on the door.
"Hitomi!! Hitomi!!" a woman
opened the door.
"Hello?" asked the woman.
"Where is Hitomi? I think that she's hurt, please I have to see
her!"
The woman looked at him as if not understanding him. She said something that Van couldn't understand.
Shit!! We can't understand each other. I don't have time for this!! "Hitomi!! Hitomi!!!"
The woman understood her daughters name, she also saw the fear on this
young man's face.
She ran up the stairs and to a door, and tried to open it but it
was locked. Van was standing right
behind her. He gently, but hurriedly
moved the lady aside. He broke down the
door, and ran inside and saw Hitomi in a bath, and she wasn't breathing. She looked
like she has been there for a couple of minuets.
"Hitomi!" Van went over and picked her out of the bathtub, not
caring about her nudity, much. He
gently set her on the floor and a small towel and put it around her. He remembered what Millerna once said, "In
time with your own heart."
He started to pump, in time with his heart. The lady standing behind him was crying. "Hitomi?
Please dear, get up."
"Hitomi, please wake up! I know you hate me but I love you! I need
you to live. Hitomi!!" he panicked. Van started to cry, he never thought that he
would ever cry again, everybody he loved left him; his father; his mother; and
his brother… and now Hitomi. He wouldn't
let her died on him, he made a promise to protect her, and her planed on
keeping that promise till he's dead.
Some of his tears ran down his cheek and neck, down to the
pendant. It started to glow; everything
around him stopped. It was like time
stopped. Two figures appeared in front
of him, he looked up at them.
"Mother…" he whispered in awe.
"If you love her Van, you can save her. But only if your love is true." His mother told him.
"I'll do anything, even give up my own life."
"If you want her to live happily, she'll need someone to love too."
The other woman said.
That's Hitomi's grandmother, they're both here to help me save the one I love more than life itself.
"Tell me what to do." He begged.
"You will have to give up half of your heart and she will give you
half of hers. To lives will become one. You will share the pain, the happiness, the blood; the life. To destinies will be combined. BUT only if you love her."
"I do love her, I always have. How…"
The two women disappeared, and time resumed. Van and Hitomi were both swallow up by a
bright light, but it wasn't the light that always took Hitomi away, it was from
the pendant. Van could see what was
happening between the two, he felt like he was floating outside of his actual
body.
A bright light came from both of their chest, the one from Van's
pulsed like a heart and the one from Hitomi's was dim and it wasn't
pulsing. They both looked like energist. The two lights became brighter and brighter
as they got closer and closer. The light
was blinding so Van closed his eyes. When he opened them he saw that he was no longer looking down upon them,
but out of his own eyes. He looked at
her wondering what just happened, then her eyes abruptly opened, and she gasped
in a large lung-full of air. She's
alive. Thank you mother.
~*~*~*~
Hitomi couldn't stop taking in air. She saw that Van was in front of her, "…go…away…" she said out of
breath.
"Hitomi please listen to me… I love you and only you. I could never
love another. Everyone, including the lady Celena, knew that I could
only love you. Allen, Millerna, Lady Celena
and myself we talked about that, the only reason why I had to have a fiancée was
for Fanelia. Ever since the Great War, I've
always had you on my mind, I couldn't stop thinking about you. I can't stop loving you. I only want to see you happy, and if… that
means that you want to be here with your family and your friends, I understand. If you would also rather be with… another
man, I can't and won't stop you. I'll
be happy, as long as you're happy.
Hitomi looked into his eyes and saw that they were brimmed with
tears, she had never seen Van cry before. It is about time, she thought
to herself.
He saw that she was fine and that he had finally told her
everything. He decided to respect her earlier decision, and he started to
leave.
Hitomi's mother was watching them from afar, wondering who this man
was and why he had saved her daughter and now leaving.
Hitomi gathered all her strength and stood up, and called out to
him in a loud whisper, which was all she could manage.
"Wait… please don't leave…I love you, Van."
Van stopped and turned around. Hitomi walked up to him, with a towel around her slim body, and she
threw her weak arms his neck and collapsed.
"I love you, I love you! Please
don't leave me again, Van."
Hitomi fell to her knees, and brought Van with her, she was too
weak to stand.
He gathered her in his arms and carefully rocking her, repeating
the same words over and over, "I love you"
As they sat there together, Hitomi's mother also started to cry. She
didn't know why Hitomi was quiet all these years, and now she knew, Hitomi was
in love with this man.
"I love you Hitomi, with my whole being. Please never ask me to leave you again." Van pleaded.
Hitomi laughed a breathless laugh, "Sorry Van, but I'm going to
have to ask you to leave. I have to get
changed." She smiled.
"I'll be right outside your door, if you need me, just call me." Hitomi realized how much he truly was in love
with her.
"Hitomi what's happening?" her mother asked.
"Mom, get father and the brat in the living room, and I'll explain
everything."
Her mother nodded and left, leaving Van to Hitomi. She tried to get up but she was still too weak. Van smiled and picked her up.
"Van… what happened?"
"I'll explain to you and your family once we go down stairs. Are you feeling any better?"
"I feel different, I feel like there's something new inside of
me. But it feels nice." She said as se
rested her head on his chest, hearing his heart beat strongly.
(*NOTE: I hope you people are enjoying this so far. ::SNIFF:: I know this is some-what sad but hey it turned out good. Anyways please keep the reviews coming! The more reviews I get the more I'll write! Thank
you for reading this. ~Kitten.~*)