A Recca no Honoo fic
By: Tenshi no Ai
Yeah, like this story'd actually be in the main tankoban of Recca no Honoo!
Ch. 7: Icy Willows
(Yanagi & Mikagami's POV)
(Yanagi's POV)
He's here....Mikagami-sempai....help me.....what....I don't need any help....
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(Mikagami's POV)
Ding-dong!
Ah, coming! a feminine voice, not unlike Yanagi's, echoes to the door. I look around. The Sakoshita house is a grand 2 floors, a beautiful Western house in the midst of sprawling willow trees. There is a sakura tree next to the side of the house. I imagine that it is in front of the window to Yanagi's room.
I remember that Kirisawa had told me that Yanagi's parents were very well to do; her otousan is a CEO in an electronics business, her mother a part-time nurse. No siblings. I look at the willows surrounding the house, their branches drooping like tired sentinels.
I have a feeling that Yanagi is tired too...
Ah, gomen for making you wait! The voice from earlier now has a face. Long chestnut hair in a braid, shining brown eyes, a sweet smile in a heart-shaped face, slender figure, you must be Mikagami Tokiya-sempai.
Ah, hai, I am.
Yanagi's haha, Sakoshita Misami. Are you here to help Yanagi?
I don't know what she's talking about, but it seems awfully coincidental to however Yanagi's acting with Hanabishi and Kirisawa. Help...? I nod slightly, unsure.
Ah...I see, Yanagi's okaasan opens the door wider to let my presence in. I step out of my shoes and follow her upstairs, down the corridor until we reach what is presumably Yanagi's room. Sakoshita-san grasps my arm and murmurs in a low voice, onegai, be careful. I'm not sure what's wrong, but that...is not my daughter. Not like I know her, anyway, she releases my arm and raises her voice, ah, Yanagi-chan, you have a visitor from school. Mikagami Tokiya-san.
a silent whisper hovers to our ears, but not a whisper that I normally associate with Yanagi. It just seems...harsher. Sakoshita-san gives the door leading to her only child a sad look; like it was the room of a lost child, deceased for not so long of time, so that the pain is still fresh in the minds and hearts of those who loved her so. Then she opens the door for me and quickly hurries through the hallway and down the steps. I can hear her slight footsteps patter, and I knew right then how changed Yanagi was.
Her own okaasan would want to escape from her only child.
I took a deep breath, mentally preparing myself for this, the encounter that I knew would change things between us.
We both would no longer be the same.
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(Yanagi's POV)
Mikagami-sempai....seems so sad...I can feel it...because of me?.....no, he only cares about Mifuyu......right?
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(Mikagami's POV)
Mikagami-sempai, I knew you'd arrive soon, the girl on the bed raises her head to look at me better. I regard her silently. She is wearing a dark red turtleneck and a black knee-length skirt. Her hair is loose, hanging in silky threads around her oval face.
She was so beautiful...but I knew it wasn't the Yanagi I knew, that I...had feelings for.
What kind of feelings do I have for her?
Yanagi-san, where have you been? Best to start neutral. Ask a question which I didn't know the answer to.
Not like I knew any of the answers to the questions in my mind.
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(Yanagi's POV)
Where have I been...? I...have I left? I've been to so many places in my dreams....more in my nightmares....
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(Mikagami's POV)
I have been to places which you might have already been to, Mikagami-sempai, she spits out the honorific like it was poison, I have been there and now I am back, more knowledgeable than before.
I blink, hardly deterred. If she wants to play games, it was fine, I already know that I'm not dealing with my Yanagi...the Yanagi of the Hokage. Everyone is worried about you, Yanagi-san, I manage to state in a careless manner, very non-caring. If she should pick up on my feelings for her, now that she has blown off Hanabishi, she would use that weakness immediately.
You see, in all areas of life, it is better to think of everyone as your enemy during a confortation...and this counts as a confrontation.
Iie, they're not, she snaps, a scowl dirtying up her pretty features, all they care about is the healer of the Hokage-tachi, not the girl Sakoshita Yanagi, she draws herself up on the bed, the afternoon's light illuminating her slight body.
It was time for the truth. No more hiding myself. There was no more Hanabishi Recca, there was just Sakoshita Yanagi, alone but certainly not vulnerable. And there was me, Mikagami Tokiya, in this moment.
I care about you, Sakoshita Yanagi-san.
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(Yanagi's POV)
How can he say this? It's only because I look like Mifuyu. I...my heart belongs to Recca-kun....doesn't it.....?
I still can't remember....yesterday....
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(Mikagami's POV)
You only care for the reflection of Mikagami Mifuyu-san.
And you know it's true. That's why...in the house of mirrors so long ago, you cut off my hair. And do you remember what you said?
'Now you look like neechan...my most dear...'
So, you do remember... Yanagi's face became lighter, almost happier...more like herself, now then, although I've kept my hair short, can you honestly say that I am like your dear oneesan Mifuyu?
No...I cannot. But to admit this would be another defeat in getting the real Yanagi back. So, I hesitate. Yanagi shifts, her pleasant demeanor dissipating. Are you still denying the truth, Mikagami-sempai?
You are right...of course. I'm attracted...by more than just your similarities to Mifuyu, but even putting that aside, I still care about you.
Yanagi smiles at that, Of course, Mikagami-sempai, and I care for you too.
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(Yanagi's POV)
My head's clearing up....I'm starting to feel like myself....the haze is clearing...arigato, Mikagami-sempai.....
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(Mikagami's POV)
She's almost back to her normal self, but one more issue needs to be addressed.
But, not in the same way you care for Hanabishi.
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(Yanagi's POV)
Eh? Recca-kun...? Ah! My head.....what's happening to me? I....what is this......
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(Mikagami's POV)
Yanagi jumps from the bed and lands in a crouching position which reminds me, strangely enough, of Hanabishi bowing at Yanagi's feet. She rises from the ground and looks at me. Her eyes are cold. she hisses, I blame him for everything.
I stare at the girl who seems the reflection of Mifuyu, but has none of the personality of Hime.' She looked very nearly out for blood. Why, Yanagi-san? What do you have to blame Hanabishi for? I'm curious myself.
What did Hanabishi do to Yanagi to make her act this way?
And what should I do to him to level the pain he's causing Yanagi, even now?
He made me...do something I would've never considered before. I was so content, but there were these nudgings, everyday, and I just decided, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to try... Yanagi shifts her position, then stares up into my face with her large brown eyes, now I hurt all the time, and I'm so tired, Mikagami-sempai, I'm so very tired...
That bastard...he wouldn't have, not to Yanagi...would he?
What did he do to you, Yanagi-san? I control the tone of my voice to sound wholly concerned, but really I am angry and upset and I will kill that monkey with one swipe from Ensui when I see him next if he did what I think he did...
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(Yanagi's POV)
My collar area....feels so hot....flashes.....it's time to show.....my beautiful madougu.....
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(Mikagami's POV)
What did he do...? Yanagi whispers to herself, he did...he did this!
And she rips off the top part of the turtleneck in one savage move, so that her neck and collar is exposed...as well as something else....
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That can't be what I think it is, is it?
And when does one...do that to a human's body?
Oh, so emotionally drained...so hungry...want food....we're finally getting up to the action-action parts of Abekobe, I'm so excited and tired at the same time! My chapterette was originally a chapter in and of itself, but i didn't like how it was turning out, so I cut out a whole 75% of plot line for that chapter, and just made it my little teaser of a sort. This chapter, however, was draining...I'm not sure it has the effect that I wanted it to have, but I'm still testing out my writing skills here, gomen! I realize that someone's not gonna like the Mikagami is attracted to Yanagi' slant, but let's face it, it's in the manga, and I don't really follow the anime. So don't flame me on that. On another subject, I wasn't going to announce this now, but...I seriously wasn't going to do another Recca-tachi fic, but an experience yesterday opened my mind into starting another fic, this time a lot more light-hearted that this particular one, just for all those that can't stand the angst that this one goes through (and it's really just starting, too...) Ah, who to thank, who to thank...the perma-reviewers! Go SaiyanGirlGenius(i hope you get your fic out soon, can't wait to read it!)! Go ReccaGirl(and i hope you liked this cliffhanger!)!