Nine Orange Airplanes
by yumeneko
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Disclaimer once more... Minekura-sama owns everything.
Author's notes: He he... try to figure out whose POV am I writing in!
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Chapter 3: Just Kindness
Strange... Strange that Hakkai-san would show as much kindness to me like Kougaiji-sama. True that I loved Kougaiji. True it was.
But a part of me wanted Hakkai.
It was a heavy stone in my heart. He saved me so many times. Is it because he really cares? I look up to the ceiling to ponder.
Who do I truly love? Kougaiji or Hakkai?
But me and Kougaiji have shared so many intimate moments together. I cannot bear to part with him. Maybe Hakkai-san was just some guy who loves to help people out. I've seen him when Gojyo-san was getting beaten up. I saw how much concern shown in his eyes. Those were the same eyes that looked back at me when he saved me.
Maybe it is true... Maybe there was someone out there who has already claimed his heart... Maybe... I may still have hope...
But Kougaiji's eyes only show concern for me. Only me. I pondered. Just me.
When he rescued me that day, when he told me that I would work for him, I saw eyes of kindness. Eyes that not everyone was able to see.
Kougaiji needs me. And I believe Hakkai-san is needed by the person he loves.
All that is left with me now is just kindness...
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I held a plane in my hands. Orange paper. The only sign of color in this dark room.
Yaone... How much I had loved her... That day I took her as my subordinate, I didn't do it out of kindness. I saw something in her eyes that reminded me of my mother. That kindness. That sincerity...
Yaone... I sighed as I flew the plane in my hands. She was loyal to me. So loyal that she even threatened to kill herself instead of loving someone else.
Yes... I have seen it. The way she becomes in deep thought everytime we face the Sanzo-ikkou. But I love her. I want her to know that. And I don't want her to leave me...
She is my only solace...
She is the one who gives me the kindness I need...
For all I need now is just kindness...
I just believe... Only believe that someday... I would tell her... I would hold her close to my heart and whisper those sacred words...
I love you, Yaone... And I will never let you go to anyone else in this world... I will protect you, even if I die doing so!