A Recca no Honoo fic
By: Tenshi no Ai
I'm sleepy...dizzy...hungry...and worse of all, I don't own Recca no Honoo!
Ch. 11: I Dare You!
(Fuuko, Yanagi, Kagerou's POV)
(Fuuko's POV)
Hurry up or we'll miss seeing Recca and Yanagi-chan get back together! I chide Domon as we run through the alleyways. I can hear his footsteps thundering behind mine, and his gasps for air. He probably hasn't had any proper exercise since everything that happened last year.
But Fuuko, he whines as we round a corner, you're the one who wanted to find Mikagami so he could see this too...
I glare at him. Bakayarou! Who needed to go to the bathroom after we couldn't find him? He doesn't say anything as we finally reach Yanagi's street. I slow somewhat, and Domon does the same. It'd probably ruin the mood for our ninja and hime' if they heard loud footsteps pounding the ground near them.
Suddenly a piercing scream stabs into my hearing.
Reflexively, I start running again. It sounded so close...could it be that Yanagi's problem is a person hounding her or something for the Sakoshita wealth? Isn't Recca there? He would protect her from anything, so why the scream?!
Reached her house...
What the hell is going on here?
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(Yanagi's POV)
A girl...forms from the shadows that I've been pulled into.
The most beautiful black hair I've ever seen pours from the top of her head. Flawless white skin, like from a porcelain doll...black eyes...a smudge of red on her lips. These features are so...vivid. A black kimono, with a gold obi, clothes her slim figure.
She is the most beautiful person I have ever set my eyes on.
she whispers, slowly moving her red lips, it's nice to meet you.
I want to get out of this prison with no walls, this eternal night of the new moon, but instead I walk towards this other person. Strangely enough, I am not afraid.
It's like she was always with me.
Who are you...? my hushed whisper barely leaves my lips before she smiles. It comforts me. It makes me feel like someone understands me.
I am the spirit of your madougu. I serve to make your wish come true, to be stronger, to be your own person.
Tears begin to form at the corners of my eyes. My madougu's spirit...she's so beautiful and...she seems to sincerely care about what I want and who I am.
I don't mind these shadows anymore.
I'm no longer alone.
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(Kagerou's POV)
I may be immortal, but I can still feel pain.
And what I'm feeling right now is more than pain.
Unsteadily I rise to my feet. For some reason, it seems like something else should've happened to me, but I was protected by my immortality. I look over at the comatose Mikagami.
Is that what happened to him? Was he hit with the same kind of energy but, lacking my special protection, succumbed to its full potential?
Recca! Yanagi! Kagerou!
I turn towards the voices and meet eye to eye with Fuuko and Domon. Fuuko looks in my direction and her eyes widen. she murmurs. Then she turns to Yanagi, what happened, Yanagi-chan? and starts walking towards her.
Fuuko! Don't go to her! I yell. All eyes are on me, even that turned Yanagi's. I speak without thinking. She isn't the Yanagi we know, so stay away from her! Yanagi, I plead, please, just take off that madougu and we can all just talk, ok? That madougu is making you do things that you wouldn't normally do.
She tilts her head toward me. Things I normally wouldn't do? she echoes, no life in her words. I nod my head.
Yanagi, you wouldn't normally attack you friends. You wouldn't harm those that care about you most, I pause. These words aren't having much of an affect on her. look at Mikagami Tokiya. Look at what you did to him, Yanagi, as I say this, an audible gasp is heard. I look up at Yanagi, hoping that showing her the result of her actions has shocked her into realizing what she has become. Oddly enough, she has a stony expression.
You didn't do this...did you? Yanagi, you didn't hurt me when we had our little match, so why did you hurt Mi-chan? Fuuko looks straight at Yanagi, a hurt expression on her face, what kind of madougu do you have, Yanagi, that would make you hurt your friends?
I notice that both Recca and Domon haven't said anything. I sigh, this isn't like you at all, don't you realize that? Don't you see what your madougu is doing to you? Your kind personality...
Yanagi coldly looks at me, getting a madougu...would you consider that in my character?
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(Yanagi's POV)
Yanagi, although you have seen a glimpse of my power, you haven't felt its full potential, the madougu-spirit smiled up at me, that means that you haven't let yourself feel your full potential yet. It's because, while you've asked for my help many times, you haven't actually let me bond with you.
I ask. I have potential? I haven't allowed her into me yet? I never knew having a madougu could be so complicated.
she answers, I think that showing your friends your true strength will, undoubtedly, prove to them that you are your own person. Wouldn't you like that?
Suddenly I have some apprehension about this. ...I can't remember much about using your powers. What do you do?
The madougu-spirit lowers her eyelids, I show people what they could have become.
Is that really a bad thing? I'm really confused now. All I can really remember is seeing Recca-kun calling me Hime...the very thing that I shouldn't have let myself become.
She shakes her head. It depends what you were before. Would you like to see...what your true strength could've been? She reaches a snow white hand towards me.
Prove that you are really Sakoshita Yanagi...that you are your own person.
Hai...I am Sakoshita Yanagi...
My hands reach out to hers.
I'll do anything to prove it.
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(Fuuko's POV)
I can't believe it.
All of this makes no sense.
Yanagi with a madougu...which has made her into some supreme bitch of a fighter...who would hurt her own friends...
Yanagi suddenly snaps out of whatever daze she was in and grins at us. Grins! Doesn't she realize what she's doing to us? How deep is she in?
Would you like to see my beautiful madougu? she purrs. In one fluid move, she flips off that white turtleneck, revealing a plain white bra, and...
Oh, kami-sama...
Shouldn't she be in pain from all those silver branches woven under her skin?
I look at my friends. Recca...I think that he's been gone a long time ago, because he doesn't even react to seeing his precious hime in her bra, or those silver branches lacing her skin all the way to her navel. Kagerou...she's trembling. If what I've heard right is true, she was the one who gave Yanagi that madougu in the first place. Domon...has turned away.
And me...what can I say? If that choker from hell's the thing that caused all of this, then I swear it's gonna come off, one way or another.
Yanagi seems pleased by all of our reactions or something, because her grin only gets wider. You think that this madougu's the cause of everything, hmm? Well then, let me help you in getting it off. See this? she points to the orb in the choker itself, this is where the main power of my beautiful madougu is. Do you understand what I'm trying to say here?
I narrow my eyes. This is like when Kagerou, as Kage Houshi, had controlled me using a fighting madougu crystal in Fuujin. So...if it breaks, Yanagi will be freed.
I guess you got it, Yanagi winks at us, but can you really attack she lowers her voice and gestures to that crystal sitting right at her throat, grinning all the time. Her next words were so un-Yanagi-like that I was...scared. For myself. Because she was already gone.
I dare you.
Yo...I'm really sorry for not updating and all...but here I am! If anyone's read the last chapter of Summer Break, I think you'll get why I seemed to have disappeared off the face of the planet or something. It doesn't matter, cuz I'm here now! Oh yeah, and I've made small improvements throught Abekobe...readable chapters! I know I asked Reccagirl about making her chapters more readable, and I didn't even realize that about my own chapters, so...yeah. Anyway, onto the reviewers!
Karen-san, yahoo! (I tried to use your idea to fit into what I wanted to portray...do you like it?) ReccaGirl, wassup? (^_^ you're gonna need new compliments pretty soon...I think you're running out...but after reading the review for Summer Break...Abekobe's your favorite FoR fic? Now that's a compliment #^_^#) SaiyanGirlGenius, hello! (So you finally posted your fic, I'm happy! Hopefully you'll have your next chapter out soon so I can read it!) anna-neko, nice to meet you! (Hey, there's nothing wrong with evil, dontcha know, sometimes the coolest charas are the evil ones! But I'm happy you like Abekobe's Yanagi!) And for the reviewers of Water Reflections' (geez, it's like still getting reviews...I'm amazed!): Raven (Thank you! I appreciate that very much) and Yukiko (At least you're not too lazy to review...write more to it...that's an idea....)! A thing I just noticed: I've reached 50 reviews overall! I'm going to have to send a prize to whoever made it 50. (Coincidently, that'd be ReccaGirl...email me and I'll let you know what your prize can be! Seriously!) I've been thinking about a contest...would anyone respond to it?
Until next time, ja!