A Recca no Honoo fic
By: Tenshi no Ai
Cali surfer accent Dude, wassup? If I owned Recca no Honoo, I coulda got me a new board, dude...
Ch. 8: The Healer Reversed
(Mikagami, Yanagi, Recca's POV)
(Mikagami's POV)
Silver branches.
That's all I can see.
Something that resembles a silver choker, complete with a clear ball with a faded symbol, clings to Yanagi's slender neck. And below...
The silver from the choker snakes down in disportionate branches, and they...they seem to flow into Yanagi's pale skin, so that the illuminascent metal can be seen through the skin. And yet, no blood is drawn.
And, under my close observation, the mercurial metal seems to be...pulsing?
Throbbing in tune with Yanagi's heartbeats.
I look away, sickened.
It explains everything.
Yanagi...under the spell of some sort of madougu...
It would make sense, except that, as far as I know, madougu don't control their owners, even if they do have their own personalities.
I'm sick of being known as Yanagi shook, her eyes unfocused and wide, I'm Sakoshita Yanagi! My own person! And yet everybody still calls me other things, other names! Even if they don't see it, I'm still Yanagi, she looked at me, her eyes shining with unshed tears, aren't I, Mikagami-sempai? I'm still Yanagi? she sinks down to her knees, clutching her head and whimpering. Fresh tears rolling down those soft cheeks, and small sounds escaped her throat.
My heart aches for her, the same feeling as seeing Mifuyu stabbed...
I take one step towards her, then another...
This is Hanabishi's place, not mine, my mind reminds.
But he isn't here, my heart replies.
I haven't followed my heart for a girl other than Mifuyu, ever.
I take another, more hesitant step.
I'm a foot away from the distraught girl.
Yanagi.
She suddenly looks up, her eyes much larger than I've ever seen.
I hurt a lot.
Before I can reply to that, a black cocoon flashes around Yanagi for a second, almost like a trick of the eye. I blink, distorted.
And suddenly I'm flying.
Pushing through glass.
Shards digging into my back.
Falling through eternity.
Reality intervenes.
Body trying to shove through the hard ground.
Pain rushing through the body.
Vision blurs.
The willow trees hover over me.
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(Yanagi's POV)
Oh Kami-sama what have I done to Mikagami-sempai he's on the ground outside my window how did he get there I don't know I don't understand any of this please someone explain sensei explain help I need help for Mikagami this pain it's slicing through my mind and my body it hurts it hurts please someone stop it madougu can you stop it please I need you....
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(Mikagami's POV)
I was trained not to give voice to my pain.
But I can't help but groan as I try to stand up, the pain strangling my body with its strong grasp.
I feel so weak as I try to grasp for Ensui, tucked into my school jacket, along with a bottle of water. Ensui's blade stretches to accommodate my needs.
To get that accursed madougu off of Yanagi.
I look up at Yanagi's bedroom window just in time to watch as a figure, streaked with the colors of the nearly-setting sun, steps onto the sturdy branches of the lone sakura tree and carelessly slides down, dropping down the last few feet and landing roughly. Not as roughly as my landing, but I still wince.
I don't care if she's possessed, I still care for her.
I know she's still in there, somewhere.
Mikagami-sempai, are you afraid for me? this pseudo-Yanagi looks at me. I narrow my eyes.
I'm worried about Yanagi-san.
The girl smiles. It looks so much like Yanagi's smile. Of course you are. So, how about it? Will you fight me in order to save your precious Yanagi-san?
My vision blurs.
Doubles of Yanagi, one sad, the other proud.
My vision clears.
One Yanagi.
Taunting me.
It must've been the fall. I feel so weak, woozy.
Why not? one of the Yanagi-tachi ask.
You still have the body of...
Of who? Mifuyu? I know that's what you see! Yanagi's eyes blaze. A flash of black.
Have to act fast.
She's distracted.
Her arms point away from her body. A chill flashes through my body. A black energy, almost palpable, flares from her hands.
It escapes from her hands.
Heads for me.
Blows apart my body.
The broken ice starts to melt.
I grunt involuntarily, and force my body to lurch away from the willow tree I was hiding behind.
I have to get to Hanabishi's house and tell him to stay away from Yanagi.
The bakayarou would still come, but he needs to know this.
The healer's reversed.
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(Recca's POV)
sweatdrop Are you sure this's gonna work? I flatly ask. Fuuko grins at me.
Of course! One look at you and Yanagi-chan's gonna be back to the gentle girl we know! Domon, hand me that shirt? Geez Recca, don't you have any nice clothes?
Whaddaya mean, nice? I wear what I wanna wear. Sides, it's not like I had to impress any girls before, I glare at her. I feel like I'm the butt of all the insults lately. Oh Recca, looks like you lost your hime!
I'll show them. I may not be smart, but I know what I know.
She cares about me, and I...well, y'know!
Ah, this looks nice. Here Recca, wear this shirt, Fuuko throws a shirt in my face. I yank it away and look at it.
It's my other summer school shirt.
Fuuko looks away once she notices the look on my face. Don't blame me. It's not my fault that you have NOTHING nice to wear on a date.
Hime never minded, I say, taking off my other summer school shirt and putting the new one on, she always accepted me before.
Yeah, well, times have changed, huh Recca? Domon states like it was nothing. I glare at him, but the look on his face...he's not dissin' me, he's just stating a fact.
Fuuko roars, don't you have any pants that aren't baggy as hell?
Well, screw it, she mumbles, and grabs my school pants and throws those at me.
You want me to take Hime out in my school clothes? I'm confused. Fuuko and Domon tell me to make an impression.' How do I do that with these sucky clothes that Hime's seen a thousand times? I'd be better off in my ninja outfit...
I know what you're thinking, and no, Fuuko turns to Domon, do you have the flowers?
Domon gives her the flowers, looking annoyed. My kaasan made me pay this out of my wages, so you better not screw up, Recca!
I take the flowers and leave my house. Of course I won't screw up, not when it concerns Hime...
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(Yanagi's POV)
Ah...! Why am I outside? It's starting to get dark...I'd better get inside.
A sudden chill races through my body.
Recca-kun!
My head....
Recca-kun...
Ah...the pain...
You have to stay away, Recca-kun....
Yeah, things aren't looking good for Yanagi, especially for Mikagami. I'm starting to feel bad for putting the Hokage-tachi in their paces...but it's so fun...insert evil grin here I'm getting more artistic in my writing...probably because of that Utena anime music video I downloaded...and the Utena lemon fic I read...err, never mind. Hey, does anyone read this anyway? Well, I'll just thank my reviewers anyway, I really feel grateful to them (naturally!) So domo arigato to the perma-reviewers, SaiyanGirlGenius and ReccaGirl, as well as Karen (yeah, Recca's getting his booty back into this fic...but sadly Kaoru-kun won't....he's in my new fic tho! Check that one out for equal screen time for all charas!), and also to her friend (i think) Jody (well, thank you! blush)....oh, wait, you are the same person, ne? Well, arigato anyways!. So, wait for the next one, and read my new fic, Hokage-tachi no Summer Break! It's lighthearted and romantic! It's what Abekobe isn't! Check it out and review! (Geez, I feel like I'm pimping out my fics or something...)