Blazing Divine Flame
Disclamier: I don't FY, the manga or the anime. I do own Makani tho.
Edit to Original Author's Note: I no longer feel as strongly against yaoi fanfiction as I used to. This fanfiction was just written out of the aggravation of not being able to find a non-yaoi Tasuki fanfic. Also, please refrain from reviewing unless you have constructive criticism or comments of appraisal. Thank you.
Author's Note (or should I say ranting?): This is a non-Yaoi Tasuki fan fic!!!! And NOT a lemon either!!! Not even lime!!! This ISN'T in the citrus family!!! Isn't that great? I have found TWO fanfics with Tasuki that aren't Yaoi, and yesterday I thought I had found one...It ended up being a Tasuki:Keisuke..Just remember, ALWAYS look at the ratings!!! Unless you like the lovely sensation of feeling your lunch crawl up the back of your throat. shudders It didn't seem wrong at first...It actually had a good story line...Then it got entremely wrong...shudders Just remeber, blunt hints lead to wrong stuff...But THIS fanfic is nice and SAFE (at least in my world)! Nothing past a kiss, if that! So for all of you fan girls out there who are sick (literally) of all the yaoi Tasuki fanfics, then you'll LOVE this one. So please read it, and if enough people like it and review it, then I'll definately write more. Thanks!!
Chapter 1: The Lone Bandit
How long has it been since the Miko returned to her world? Five years? It seems like she left only yesterday, Tasuki thought to himself as he stood watching the sun set on one of Mt. Leikaku's many out croppings. I'm a bandit one again, he thought and sighed to himself. It was times like this that he called up memories from those not-so-distant years ago. Chichiri, gods, I haven't seen him in two or three years. He's probably still at Dachi-san mountain with that old, hag Taiitsukun. Tasuki laughed to himself at the thought. Tamahome's with Miaka in her world now; Hotohori's busy as emporer of Hong-nan...No, wait...He's dead...; and Chiriko, poor kid, he never had a chance, so sad...He was so young. And Nuriko,... For as odd as he was, he was still a good, no, a great friend. Gods I miss them...At least Mitsukake's still around. He's probably a doctor in some village. Hell, he may even be an animal healer!...No, that's not true...I have to stop kidding myself...They're all dead, Suzaku take care of them ...All except Chichiri...And I'll probably never see him again...Now I'm all alone in this world. Tasuki nudged a rock with his foot and watched it break loose and fly off the mountain, occasionally hitting rocky out croppings beneath him, skipping down the mountain side. He chuckled to himself and was shocked at how icy it sounded. Which leaves me, a lone bandit, on Mt. Leikaku...Well, at least I've still got Kouji as a friend, but man, he's just so busy sometimes, its like I'm not even there in his eyes.
Tasuki's vision blurred and he surprised himself with the flow of salty tears that slowly slipped down his cheeks. Alone, huh? he thought as he wiped the tears away with the back of his shirt sleeve and hand. Figures it would end up that way...I mean, that's what I wanted, right? To be left alone...But now it seems... "Grr...Everything's changed so much!" he screamed as he fell to his knees, pounding the solid rock with his fists. "I...always thought that I would want ta be a bandit my entire life...I'd live as one, an' die as one...But now,...I don't know, it just doesn't shine th' way it did before." He looked up from the gray slate to watch the last dying embers of the sun set fade from the sky and the blue blackness of night claim the horizon. White flecks of light littered the sky overhead as the stars made themselves visible on the dark, velvety sky.
"I've changed," Tasuki said to himself and to the sleeping mountain. "I guess...I guess I matured." He smiled as an after thought as he brought himself to his feet and stared out at the cold world that lay stretched out before him. "So maybe that's why I feel so alone," Tasuki said into the wind, as it blew stray pieces if his flame colored hair into his amber, fiery eyes. Most of his wild mane flowed behind him as the breeze played with it, and dried his tears.
He turned his back to the outcropping of rock that he had come to so many times before to think, to clear his thoughts, and faced the trail that would lead him back to the shrine and his home.
When he crawled into bed later that evening he couldn't help but wonder what his future would be like. Will I saty as a bandit my entire life? he thought, as he sat on the edge of his bed and slid his legs under the blanket. He sighed as he laid down and pulled the blanket up to his collar bone. Or does destiny have another fate in store for me? He stared at the ceiling for a moment before he took a brief galnce out the window at the starry, moonless night sky, and then he rolled over onto his side and faced the wall as he slowly drifted off to sleep, questions from today still swimming through his thoughts.
"Where do ya think yer goin'?" asked a young, male voice from behind some bushes along the main trail on Mt. Leikaku.
"Huh? Who's there?"
Tasuki made a dramatic entrance by leaping out of the bushes and into the middle of the road, until he heard some restrained laughter and realized there was a small tree branch sticking out from the front of his fiery hair. Once he pulled the offending thing out he gazed with a serious look on his face, at the small group of people that stood before him.
A middle aged man was leading three other guys that were with him, one whom was holding a young girl, bound and gagged, slung over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. Tasuki shot both that man and his leader on infuriated glance before he questioned their actions.
"What's with th' girl? Why do ya 'ave 'er all tied up like that? Hmm?" he asked, as he reached his arm behind his shoulder and fingered the tessen that he kept there.
"That's not of your business," said the supposed leader. "She is ours, under our control. You need not worry over her. Now, let us pass."
"I'm afraid I can't do that," said Tasuki as he pulled put his tessen and adopted a fighting stance. "Pay the toll and let the girl go and I'll think about lettin' ya ignorant bastards walk on the sacred Mt. Leikaku."
All the middle aged man did was laugh, while his followers shifted their weight nervously from foot to the other, including the one that held the young girl.
"Please, leave us be young man, we want nothing to do with you, nor do we wish to harm you, now please, get out of our way," the man said, now clearly a look of growing anger and annoyance on his face.
"I don't think so...REKKA SHIN'EN!!" And with that he burst the man, and two of his followers, to ashes. He approached the third man, the one that held the girl, slapping the tessen against his opposite hand, threateningly.
The man's eyes widened in fear until their whites seemed to double in size, and he trembled slightly.
"Now, I'm gonna ask ya this once. Put th' girl down an' then go back to whatever skum bucket ya came from!!"
"H-hai," the man stutered, and gently placed the girl on the ground before running off in the opposite direction.
Tasuki laughed. He knew he would never see the likes of him, and probably not many more of his kind on Mt. Leikaku again.
The only reason he had fried the men instead of just scaring them away was because he knew who, or rather what, those men where. Damn child slave traders. I've heard they're been coming this way, but I never caught some before. Poor kids. If they're lucky, they'll end up being farm hands or laborers, but the prettier ones.. Tasuki shuddered at the thought.
Cautiously he approached the young girl, not knowing what her reaction would be to another male figure after the horrors she had probably just endured with her captors. Because the man had laid her down on her stomach, her face practically in the dirt, he had to turn her over to pull the gad out of her mouth, and when he did, he got to truly see her for the first time.
She had just beyond shoulder length blackish blue hair with some shorter strands that kept falling into her eyes, where were a deep green, a peculiar contrast against her hair. She had near straight whit teeth, but not the prominent fangs that Tasuki had, although her canines were slightly longer than most others.
She coughed and spit out dirt that had accumulated in her mouth and tied desperately to rid her mouth of the taste of the sour dirty cloth and the driness it had brought with it. She looked up at her savior and smiled once some of the normal feelings and tastes returned to her mouth. Tasuki smiled back and then moved down to untie her hands and feet.
She rubbed her wrists and ankles when she was finally free from the binding of the ropes.
Tasuki offered his hand to her and she grasped it, pulling herself up.
"Thanks," she said, as he looked at her a little more closely and then turned arounf and started to walk back towards his home.
"Wait!" she yelled after him and grabbed his arm.
Tasuki turned around to face her, raising his eyebrows in a questioning glance.
"My name's Makani," the girl said with a slight bow of respect.
"I'm Tasuki," he said to her, before turning around yet again.
"Now hold on!" she yelled as she ran past him and then stood in front of him, blocking his way. "Thank you so much for saving me, how can I repay you?" she said with an ever so slight bow this time.
"It was nothing. You don't owe me anything," Tasuki said as he pushed by her.
"Wait a sec, are you just going to leave me here?!"
"Yep. Ya might want ta go back home b'fore dark tho. There's a bunch of wolves that roam around here at night."
Makani dropped her eyes to the ground. "I don't have a home to go home to."
Tasuki stopped dead in his tracks and turned a bit so he could look at her better.
"They're all dead. Those men...they killed them...They sold off my little sister and killed our parents. I don't even know what they did with my brother...Since my family was poor to begin with, and barely anyone noticed us at it was, when their deaths came to be, no one noticed. After all, who cares about the lives of a poor family? We're ntohing but a burden to society," she said with a sneer.
Tasuki couldn't help but feel sorry for the girl who's eyes now over flowed with hot tears from the painful remembrances of her beloved family. She was alone, more so than he was. He still had his sisters and his mother (even though they didn't really count as much for him), and of course Kouji and the other bandits. Makani had no one.
"Then come with me," he said to her. Tasuki watched in delight as her eyes focused on him instead of at her feet, and the life and hope that they now held.
"Thank you so much!" she cried as she ran over to him and embraced him tightly. Tasuki flushed red and tried to push her away, but the girl had an iron clad grip.
"H-hey, now! Don't go all mushy on me!"
"Right," she said loosening the grip of her fingers around his back. "Tasuki, wasn't it?'
Tasuki nodded.
"Well, Tasuki, where are we heading now?"
"To the home of the Mt. Leikaku bandits," he said with a smile. "Don't worry, they're friends."
Makani nodded her head, not sure what to think, but she still followed him as he led the way through the forest.
Tasuki was near to exhastion as he walked in the front door of the place he called home, where all the Mt. Leikaku bandits lived. He had been bombarded with questions the entire way there, and even though he knew it only took 20 minutes, it felt as if it had been wrong.
"What's with your name? It sounds odd...What's that character, that symbol thingy on your arm?...Why did you choose to become a bandit? Is it fun? Can I be one too?"
Those where only some of the questions that he had had to answer and summarizing his entire life story into a 20 minute explanation was no easy feat! He had to tell her how he was a Suzaku Seishi, what he was before that, and before that! He opened the door to his room and was ready to strip down and go to bed, when he realized thatshe had followed him in as well.
He sat down on the edge of his bed and loked at her and sighed. "I guess you can sleep there for tonight," he said as he pointed to the bed on the other side of the room. "I'm too tired to arrange anything else right now." Tasuki started to take off his shirt, but then decided against it and slipped under the covers, still colthed. Makani did the same and within minutes, Tasuki heard the sound of rythmic, deep breathing, that told only of sleep.
Man, that girl can be annoying, Tasuki thought to himself. And yet... A closer look at her served the purpose of warming his cheeks. No way..., Taski thought as he briefly glanced into the night before his eyes fell upon the form huddled under the sheet on the other side of the room, again. I hate girls!...Or at least that's what i've always thought...until now...
"Kuso!" Tasuki muttered under his breath as he looked away from her to face the wall. Thought whirled through his head before he, too, became a victim of sleep.
Author's Note: Well? What did you think? Told you it was safe!!! Not yaoi, or lemon! YAY!!!! Please review it and tell me what you think so I know whether to keep writing the story or not. Flames? Comments? Suggestions? You can tell me them all in your review (hint hint). ; ) Thanks and Ja ne! See ya next chapter! (I hope....) : )
Disclamier: I don't FY, the manga or the anime. I do own Makani tho.
Edit to Original Author's Note: I no longer feel as strongly against yaoi fanfiction as I used to. This fanfiction was just written out of the aggravation of not being able to find a non-yaoi Tasuki fanfic. Also, please refrain from reviewing unless you have constructive criticism or comments of appraisal. Thank you.
Author's Note (or should I say ranting?): This is a non-Yaoi Tasuki fan fic!!!! And NOT a lemon either!!! Not even lime!!! This ISN'T in the citrus family!!! Isn't that great? I have found TWO fanfics with Tasuki that aren't Yaoi, and yesterday I thought I had found one...It ended up being a Tasuki:Keisuke..Just remember, ALWAYS look at the ratings!!! Unless you like the lovely sensation of feeling your lunch crawl up the back of your throat. shudders It didn't seem wrong at first...It actually had a good story line...Then it got entremely wrong...shudders Just remeber, blunt hints lead to wrong stuff...But THIS fanfic is nice and SAFE (at least in my world)! Nothing past a kiss, if that! So for all of you fan girls out there who are sick (literally) of all the yaoi Tasuki fanfics, then you'll LOVE this one. So please read it, and if enough people like it and review it, then I'll definately write more. Thanks!!
Chapter 1: The Lone Bandit
How long has it been since the Miko returned to her world? Five years? It seems like she left only yesterday, Tasuki thought to himself as he stood watching the sun set on one of Mt. Leikaku's many out croppings. I'm a bandit one again, he thought and sighed to himself. It was times like this that he called up memories from those not-so-distant years ago. Chichiri, gods, I haven't seen him in two or three years. He's probably still at Dachi-san mountain with that old, hag Taiitsukun. Tasuki laughed to himself at the thought. Tamahome's with Miaka in her world now; Hotohori's busy as emporer of Hong-nan...No, wait...He's dead...; and Chiriko, poor kid, he never had a chance, so sad...He was so young. And Nuriko,... For as odd as he was, he was still a good, no, a great friend. Gods I miss them...At least Mitsukake's still around. He's probably a doctor in some village. Hell, he may even be an animal healer!...No, that's not true...I have to stop kidding myself...They're all dead, Suzaku take care of them ...All except Chichiri...And I'll probably never see him again...Now I'm all alone in this world. Tasuki nudged a rock with his foot and watched it break loose and fly off the mountain, occasionally hitting rocky out croppings beneath him, skipping down the mountain side. He chuckled to himself and was shocked at how icy it sounded. Which leaves me, a lone bandit, on Mt. Leikaku...Well, at least I've still got Kouji as a friend, but man, he's just so busy sometimes, its like I'm not even there in his eyes.
Tasuki's vision blurred and he surprised himself with the flow of salty tears that slowly slipped down his cheeks. Alone, huh? he thought as he wiped the tears away with the back of his shirt sleeve and hand. Figures it would end up that way...I mean, that's what I wanted, right? To be left alone...But now it seems... "Grr...Everything's changed so much!" he screamed as he fell to his knees, pounding the solid rock with his fists. "I...always thought that I would want ta be a bandit my entire life...I'd live as one, an' die as one...But now,...I don't know, it just doesn't shine th' way it did before." He looked up from the gray slate to watch the last dying embers of the sun set fade from the sky and the blue blackness of night claim the horizon. White flecks of light littered the sky overhead as the stars made themselves visible on the dark, velvety sky.
"I've changed," Tasuki said to himself and to the sleeping mountain. "I guess...I guess I matured." He smiled as an after thought as he brought himself to his feet and stared out at the cold world that lay stretched out before him. "So maybe that's why I feel so alone," Tasuki said into the wind, as it blew stray pieces if his flame colored hair into his amber, fiery eyes. Most of his wild mane flowed behind him as the breeze played with it, and dried his tears.
He turned his back to the outcropping of rock that he had come to so many times before to think, to clear his thoughts, and faced the trail that would lead him back to the shrine and his home.
When he crawled into bed later that evening he couldn't help but wonder what his future would be like. Will I saty as a bandit my entire life? he thought, as he sat on the edge of his bed and slid his legs under the blanket. He sighed as he laid down and pulled the blanket up to his collar bone. Or does destiny have another fate in store for me? He stared at the ceiling for a moment before he took a brief galnce out the window at the starry, moonless night sky, and then he rolled over onto his side and faced the wall as he slowly drifted off to sleep, questions from today still swimming through his thoughts.
"Where do ya think yer goin'?" asked a young, male voice from behind some bushes along the main trail on Mt. Leikaku.
"Huh? Who's there?"
Tasuki made a dramatic entrance by leaping out of the bushes and into the middle of the road, until he heard some restrained laughter and realized there was a small tree branch sticking out from the front of his fiery hair. Once he pulled the offending thing out he gazed with a serious look on his face, at the small group of people that stood before him.
A middle aged man was leading three other guys that were with him, one whom was holding a young girl, bound and gagged, slung over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. Tasuki shot both that man and his leader on infuriated glance before he questioned their actions.
"What's with th' girl? Why do ya 'ave 'er all tied up like that? Hmm?" he asked, as he reached his arm behind his shoulder and fingered the tessen that he kept there.
"That's not of your business," said the supposed leader. "She is ours, under our control. You need not worry over her. Now, let us pass."
"I'm afraid I can't do that," said Tasuki as he pulled put his tessen and adopted a fighting stance. "Pay the toll and let the girl go and I'll think about lettin' ya ignorant bastards walk on the sacred Mt. Leikaku."
All the middle aged man did was laugh, while his followers shifted their weight nervously from foot to the other, including the one that held the young girl.
"Please, leave us be young man, we want nothing to do with you, nor do we wish to harm you, now please, get out of our way," the man said, now clearly a look of growing anger and annoyance on his face.
"I don't think so...REKKA SHIN'EN!!" And with that he burst the man, and two of his followers, to ashes. He approached the third man, the one that held the girl, slapping the tessen against his opposite hand, threateningly.
The man's eyes widened in fear until their whites seemed to double in size, and he trembled slightly.
"Now, I'm gonna ask ya this once. Put th' girl down an' then go back to whatever skum bucket ya came from!!"
"H-hai," the man stutered, and gently placed the girl on the ground before running off in the opposite direction.
Tasuki laughed. He knew he would never see the likes of him, and probably not many more of his kind on Mt. Leikaku again.
The only reason he had fried the men instead of just scaring them away was because he knew who, or rather what, those men where. Damn child slave traders. I've heard they're been coming this way, but I never caught some before. Poor kids. If they're lucky, they'll end up being farm hands or laborers, but the prettier ones.. Tasuki shuddered at the thought.
Cautiously he approached the young girl, not knowing what her reaction would be to another male figure after the horrors she had probably just endured with her captors. Because the man had laid her down on her stomach, her face practically in the dirt, he had to turn her over to pull the gad out of her mouth, and when he did, he got to truly see her for the first time.
She had just beyond shoulder length blackish blue hair with some shorter strands that kept falling into her eyes, where were a deep green, a peculiar contrast against her hair. She had near straight whit teeth, but not the prominent fangs that Tasuki had, although her canines were slightly longer than most others.
She coughed and spit out dirt that had accumulated in her mouth and tied desperately to rid her mouth of the taste of the sour dirty cloth and the driness it had brought with it. She looked up at her savior and smiled once some of the normal feelings and tastes returned to her mouth. Tasuki smiled back and then moved down to untie her hands and feet.
She rubbed her wrists and ankles when she was finally free from the binding of the ropes.
Tasuki offered his hand to her and she grasped it, pulling herself up.
"Thanks," she said, as he looked at her a little more closely and then turned arounf and started to walk back towards his home.
"Wait!" she yelled after him and grabbed his arm.
Tasuki turned around to face her, raising his eyebrows in a questioning glance.
"My name's Makani," the girl said with a slight bow of respect.
"I'm Tasuki," he said to her, before turning around yet again.
"Now hold on!" she yelled as she ran past him and then stood in front of him, blocking his way. "Thank you so much for saving me, how can I repay you?" she said with an ever so slight bow this time.
"It was nothing. You don't owe me anything," Tasuki said as he pushed by her.
"Wait a sec, are you just going to leave me here?!"
"Yep. Ya might want ta go back home b'fore dark tho. There's a bunch of wolves that roam around here at night."
Makani dropped her eyes to the ground. "I don't have a home to go home to."
Tasuki stopped dead in his tracks and turned a bit so he could look at her better.
"They're all dead. Those men...they killed them...They sold off my little sister and killed our parents. I don't even know what they did with my brother...Since my family was poor to begin with, and barely anyone noticed us at it was, when their deaths came to be, no one noticed. After all, who cares about the lives of a poor family? We're ntohing but a burden to society," she said with a sneer.
Tasuki couldn't help but feel sorry for the girl who's eyes now over flowed with hot tears from the painful remembrances of her beloved family. She was alone, more so than he was. He still had his sisters and his mother (even though they didn't really count as much for him), and of course Kouji and the other bandits. Makani had no one.
"Then come with me," he said to her. Tasuki watched in delight as her eyes focused on him instead of at her feet, and the life and hope that they now held.
"Thank you so much!" she cried as she ran over to him and embraced him tightly. Tasuki flushed red and tried to push her away, but the girl had an iron clad grip.
"H-hey, now! Don't go all mushy on me!"
"Right," she said loosening the grip of her fingers around his back. "Tasuki, wasn't it?'
Tasuki nodded.
"Well, Tasuki, where are we heading now?"
"To the home of the Mt. Leikaku bandits," he said with a smile. "Don't worry, they're friends."
Makani nodded her head, not sure what to think, but she still followed him as he led the way through the forest.
Tasuki was near to exhastion as he walked in the front door of the place he called home, where all the Mt. Leikaku bandits lived. He had been bombarded with questions the entire way there, and even though he knew it only took 20 minutes, it felt as if it had been wrong.
"What's with your name? It sounds odd...What's that character, that symbol thingy on your arm?...Why did you choose to become a bandit? Is it fun? Can I be one too?"
Those where only some of the questions that he had had to answer and summarizing his entire life story into a 20 minute explanation was no easy feat! He had to tell her how he was a Suzaku Seishi, what he was before that, and before that! He opened the door to his room and was ready to strip down and go to bed, when he realized thatshe had followed him in as well.
He sat down on the edge of his bed and loked at her and sighed. "I guess you can sleep there for tonight," he said as he pointed to the bed on the other side of the room. "I'm too tired to arrange anything else right now." Tasuki started to take off his shirt, but then decided against it and slipped under the covers, still colthed. Makani did the same and within minutes, Tasuki heard the sound of rythmic, deep breathing, that told only of sleep.
Man, that girl can be annoying, Tasuki thought to himself. And yet... A closer look at her served the purpose of warming his cheeks. No way..., Taski thought as he briefly glanced into the night before his eyes fell upon the form huddled under the sheet on the other side of the room, again. I hate girls!...Or at least that's what i've always thought...until now...
"Kuso!" Tasuki muttered under his breath as he looked away from her to face the wall. Thought whirled through his head before he, too, became a victim of sleep.
Author's Note: Well? What did you think? Told you it was safe!!! Not yaoi, or lemon! YAY!!!! Please review it and tell me what you think so I know whether to keep writing the story or not. Flames? Comments? Suggestions? You can tell me them all in your review (hint hint). ; ) Thanks and Ja ne! See ya next chapter! (I hope....) : )