Remembrance: SD Version
Chapter 4
Only Miko's maid, Kina, knew the extent of how affected her mistress had been for the past few days. But the moment Taki claimed the boy to be his son, she had given up hope. Now he would never love her. All she had left was her children. HER children not the child of another man and his child-woman wife. Whatever the girl had said was emblazoned on her brain.
Kina was getting to be very frightened for and of her mistress. Every night in her sleep, she would ramble out nonsense and only on the third day did she make sense.
"They will die together.. They must die together.. Fire will cleanse them. Fire will make them die together."
Immediately, she went to the children's tower and found Tama (Kimu's husband, if u don't remember). She told him everything and he said not to worry, for sometimes women said strange things like that after their birthing. Kina, feeling relieved, went back to her mistress. As soon as she left, Tama woke Kimu up (she was sleeping in the same room) and the both of them got the children out of the castle.
Tama began thinking very hard, for if there was a fire, two bodies would have to be found. He ran to the churchyard and dug out the bodies of his twin babies. If there were a fire, there would be bodies of two babies found in the rubble.
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Just before dawn, a fire broke out in the old castle. The ancient oak floor burned like paper, making a blaze so hot, the lead melted and rained down on the people below. Attempts to put out the fire were made but soon it became too hot.
"My son! My SON!!!" Taki kept screaming and would have gone straight into the blaze if ten men hadn't held him down. It was two days before the rubble was cool enough to go through and in it were the bodies of two babies. After that, Taki locked himself in a room and emerged a changed man one week later. His hair was now the color of steel and he hated no one, loved no one. His only concern was building a big, beautiful stone house, or castle or mansion and filling it with beautiful things.
He also began visiting his wife and now their relationship was that of two friends. Kozue no longer dealt with the Sakuragi family again. He left them completely alone and the deal was cancelled. Tsukino didn't become his bride, either.
Nearly fifty miles away, Tama and Kimu bought a farm and settled down to raise 'their' two children Tama never told his wife that on the night they left, he had stolen a bag containing six exquisite gold cups from a heavily sleeping Rukawa Kozue. The cups were safely hidden under the floor of the farmhouse, one missing a ruby he had used to pay for the farm, but otherwise intact.
He didn't tell Kimu the truth about the two burned bodies and the gold cups. He told her that Taki gave the money. All she cared about were the two children. She brought them up as her own and soon began to forget that they were not hers.
But Tama never forgot. And everyday, he watches out for strangers in the horizon.
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AN: Hehehe.. Short chapter again! Sorry. I think I cut out a bit too much.. :P lala.. review pls! ^^ ehehehe.. Thanx 2 all those who reviewed in the last chappie. err.. This is not exactly yaoi.. not not yaoi either.. I dunno... maybe cos Kaeri's a girl.. Sigh.. gomen if its too confusing! I oso confused liow.
Chapter 4
Only Miko's maid, Kina, knew the extent of how affected her mistress had been for the past few days. But the moment Taki claimed the boy to be his son, she had given up hope. Now he would never love her. All she had left was her children. HER children not the child of another man and his child-woman wife. Whatever the girl had said was emblazoned on her brain.
Kina was getting to be very frightened for and of her mistress. Every night in her sleep, she would ramble out nonsense and only on the third day did she make sense.
"They will die together.. They must die together.. Fire will cleanse them. Fire will make them die together."
Immediately, she went to the children's tower and found Tama (Kimu's husband, if u don't remember). She told him everything and he said not to worry, for sometimes women said strange things like that after their birthing. Kina, feeling relieved, went back to her mistress. As soon as she left, Tama woke Kimu up (she was sleeping in the same room) and the both of them got the children out of the castle.
Tama began thinking very hard, for if there was a fire, two bodies would have to be found. He ran to the churchyard and dug out the bodies of his twin babies. If there were a fire, there would be bodies of two babies found in the rubble.
* * * * * * * * * *
Just before dawn, a fire broke out in the old castle. The ancient oak floor burned like paper, making a blaze so hot, the lead melted and rained down on the people below. Attempts to put out the fire were made but soon it became too hot.
"My son! My SON!!!" Taki kept screaming and would have gone straight into the blaze if ten men hadn't held him down. It was two days before the rubble was cool enough to go through and in it were the bodies of two babies. After that, Taki locked himself in a room and emerged a changed man one week later. His hair was now the color of steel and he hated no one, loved no one. His only concern was building a big, beautiful stone house, or castle or mansion and filling it with beautiful things.
He also began visiting his wife and now their relationship was that of two friends. Kozue no longer dealt with the Sakuragi family again. He left them completely alone and the deal was cancelled. Tsukino didn't become his bride, either.
Nearly fifty miles away, Tama and Kimu bought a farm and settled down to raise 'their' two children Tama never told his wife that on the night they left, he had stolen a bag containing six exquisite gold cups from a heavily sleeping Rukawa Kozue. The cups were safely hidden under the floor of the farmhouse, one missing a ruby he had used to pay for the farm, but otherwise intact.
He didn't tell Kimu the truth about the two burned bodies and the gold cups. He told her that Taki gave the money. All she cared about were the two children. She brought them up as her own and soon began to forget that they were not hers.
But Tama never forgot. And everyday, he watches out for strangers in the horizon.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AN: Hehehe.. Short chapter again! Sorry. I think I cut out a bit too much.. :P lala.. review pls! ^^ ehehehe.. Thanx 2 all those who reviewed in the last chappie. err.. This is not exactly yaoi.. not not yaoi either.. I dunno... maybe cos Kaeri's a girl.. Sigh.. gomen if its too confusing! I oso confused liow.