A Recca no Honoo fic
By: Tenshi no Ai
The end is near...the end is near...I own this fic, but not the original...
(A/N: I'm sorry that Abekobe may seem like it's dragging, but this is how I planned it out...gomen...)
Ch. 10: We Are All Different People
(Recca, Yanagi, Kagerou's POV)
(Recca's POV)
I stutter, my hands still on her shoulders. Wait, why are they still there?
I don't want to move them.
Hime looks away from me, the shadows from the willows hiding her face, what is Hime' to you?
I blink. I know that I'm not the smartest person around, but I think that question's a trick question. Hime...you are Hime! I sputter.
Being this close to Hime...doesn't help at all in my thinking...
Hime has a confused look on her face. Maybe I should try to compound on that. Well, ano...Hime's really kind and sweet, she's not too great of an artist...demo, I think she's starting to twitch, but she's really beautiful and I hope to be her ninja forever!
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(Yanagi's POV)
I feel...like I'm being swallowed up in this horrible blackness...it threatens to consume me and I have no control at all, I can't even pull myself out...
I can barely hear Recca-kun...doesn't he realize that it's not me talking...it's not me talking...
Why would I ever ask him something like that?
But a little part of me does want to find out...
But I don't have any control over my body...
My madougu...can't you help me?
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(Recca's POV)
I smile. I told the truth, and oyaji and kaachan always told me that telling the truth was always the best thing to do. Besides, I can't lie to save my life, so I'm better off telling the truth!
Hime raises a hand and lifts it up at my face, and softly touches it. My face grows red-hot...and I feel very uncomfortable right now in more places than my face...I feel really sweaty. My hands are still on her shoulders.
She's leaning up at me...
What is she planning to do?
SMACK
My face jerks to the left, and I now feel more of a stinging feeling than the heat from a few seconds ago.
I look down at Hime, and she has this expression I've never seen on her face before.
She...she slapped me...
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(Yanagi's POV)
IIE! Stop this!
What am I doing...this isn't like me at all!
But, then again, getting a madougu isn't like me either...
I'm so confused...and...
I'm sinking faster.
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(Recca's POV)
Hime...what has your faithful ninja done...to deserve this? I ask. There's this horrible feeling in my chest.
It's almost like my heart's getting crushed.
Do you honestly think... she whispers, that little petty compliments are really going to buy me off? Did I ever ask for a ninja? Did I ever ask to be a hime?
But...you accepted it, Hime... I look at her. She brings up her hand again.
I never wanted to be Hime! I thought that there'd be more to us that Hime and Ninja', but there isn't! I don't want to be your hime anymore!
I know she's gonna slap me again. I'll take it.
After hearing that she doesn't want me as her ninja anymore, nothing could hurt more.
What is going on here? Yanagi-san, what are you doing? A voice rings out among the darkness. A familiar voice...
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(Kagerou's POV)
I step out of the shadows of the willow trees, Mikagami Tokiya-san in tow. I discovered him quite by accident, while searching for the broom to sweep the backyard...or, better yet, to get Kaoru to sweep the backyard for me. The Ensui master was mumbling about finding Recca and saving Yanagi-san. The Eikai ball lead me to both.
But Mikagami-san can't seem to be roused up from his current state.
And now I see Yanagi-san, polite and gentle Yanagi-san, who always treats everyone with the utmost respect, about ready to hit my son. She pauses when she notices me and brings her hand down. Hello, Kagerou-san, she very nearly spits out, then looks down at my passenger, and Mikagami-sempai. How is he, by the way?
I instinctively take a step back to cover Mikagami-san's body from her eyesight.
I don't trust this Yanagi.
I would figure that you would know, Sakoshita-san? I hesitate to call her Yanagi...it can't really be her.
Perhaps...but I would've thought he was...ah, never mind, she smiles. My dear son's head, which had previously been down, snaps up.
What do you mean, Hime? Now Sakoshita's face is showing an array of emotions, mostly negative ones, but there was one...that seems to be something else.
It almost seems like fear.
I am not your hime, she states, now turning her attention back to me, why are you here, anyway? Trying to protect your darling son from danger?
I'm sure that my eyes flash at that. I would never see you as a threat, Sakoshita-san.
This was the farthest thing from the truth.
With my Eikai ball, I can see a nearly palpable hovering shadow around her.
The girl smiles at my last comment. Hai, this is true...no one sees me as a threat. Poor Sakoshita Yanagi...no one sees her as much of anything. I'm just Hime', some poor little hime who always needs protecting...and I have Recca-kun to thank for that, she paused, it was him...who first began to play this game...
Game...She must mean about the whole Ninja and Hime' aspect...but, when I last saw Yanagi, she merely wanted to learn how to protect herself, to not always have to rely on her friends...
The key is there, I know it.
Sakoshita-san, how could you ever think that Recca was playing a game with you? I ask. Maybe if I got to the end of this, whatever was bothering her would go away and this would all be a horrible event quickly passed. He cares about you more than anything, he's risked his life for you so many times! Don't you remember?
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(Yanagi's POV)
I can hear you, Kagerou-san...I know that Recca-kun risked so much to assure my safety...
That's why I got this madougu....I'm doing this for him...
I'm so torn!
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(Kagerou's POV)
She seems confused, just by her facial expressions. She walks past Recca, toward me.
I think that I'm getting somewhere here.
But I can't stand it... she whimpers, her face full of pain, it's like he has to suffer so much for me...being called his hime is like being called his pet, something he has to take care of....it all came so suddenly...my anger, my joy...always had to suppress the former, only show the latter...my madougu...help me...I'm so confused...
Her madougu? As in, the madougu I gave her?
Sakoshita-san...don't be angry at being called Hime'...that's just how he feels about you, that you are the only person that he could ever serve...that he truly cares about, I say to her in a calm voice. She looks at me, tears tumbling down her cheeks. All that's left on her face is fear. believe me...you're who he truly cares about.
All through this I notice that Recca isn't moving. I guess he's waiting to see how this all goes first before saying anything.
I'm so scared...Kagerou-san, her red-tinged eyes burn into mine, I feel so...no Hime...don't want to be weak...
What is causing this confusion?
You aren't weak, I look at her and feel such pity towards this frail girl, don't you see? We are all known as different people. Remember when you all knew me as Kage Houshi'? It wasn't that long ago. Only a year ago...
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(Yanagi's POV)
But I'm not Hime'!!
Why won't people see that?
!?
The darkness is...
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(Kagerou's POV)
Her eyes...
No longer are innocent tears dripping from them.
They...her whole face...
Consumed with hate.
Suddenly I'm frozen.
The shadow around Yanagi...is back.
There's immense pain.
I can't see any longer.
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(Recca's POV)
Ah...it seems like kaachan's got back the Hime that I know...
I spin around.
Kaachan...
Hime...
Kaachan's on the ground...and Hime's...
Did she do this...
She grins at me.
Iie...
When has Hime been able to do anything like this?
I'm shaking.
Kaachan...
Even if Hime did this...
I don't think I can lift a finger against her.
Um, yeah...I'm not in the best of moods right now...sorry if my synching' with the charas seem off...um, I'm really pissed off and sad and stressed and my sanity is wearing thin...
Arigatou to...people. Can't seem to access FF.net right now to see which people...so I'm going to guess. I'd like to thank ReccaGirl (hehe...that's not all about Yanagi-chan...)and SaiyanGirlGenius (girl, when is your fic gonna be up?!), as well as lone (bowing gomen, gomen, but I planned it like this...i tried to put 2 chapters into one and I hated it, so sorry....continues bowing). And I'm still thanking people for Water Reflections! Funny how a 20-minute story seems to gather such an esteemed audience...because I'd like to thank Karen (naturally! I talk to you everyday! You have to put up with me IMing you all the time!) and...gasp Bottou-chan! You don't know how honored this little authoress is...extremely honored! (Of course, I doubt that you're following this story, but it's like a dream come true!) Looks around at other reviewers Ahem...sorry bout that. It's just that she's like my idol in Flame of Recca fanfiction...
Umm...I'm slowly but surely getting to the climax! Next chapter: A dare!