Hiyee, minna-san! Reia-chan here!? This is my first fanfic in Yami no Matsuei so please forgive me IF there are a lot of mistakes that happen in the story. This is the TWENTIETH chapter already. Please enjoy it!!! :)
Disclaimer: I don't own Yami no Matsuei. But Kageyami Saino, Yumeki Sakura, Akizuki Kyla, Cerberus, Strength, etc. (Upcoming characters not related to YnM) belongs to me.
*Mirai Kurosaki, Klyukaizer, Belial & Ana (Forgot her new pen name): Thank you so much for reviewing!!! This is for you! -_^
*You might be wondering why I'm posting this one already. Well, it's because I really REALLY wanted to post it already. ^_^
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Between Two Hearts
Chapter 20: When the Three Pairs met (Part III)
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The silver haired lady said, "Her younger sister's at the hospital and Karan can't leave her there until the day of the operation or transplant…"
"Transplant?! Where?!" Hisoka asked.
"… At the heart," she retorted. "I don't know when but she told me that it'll be this week?"
The brunette turned to the young boy, "This makes me remember Camellia…"
Hisoka nodded.
Saino suddenly asked, "Who's Camellia?"
Hisoka replied, "A girl from our case before."
"I see…"
With closed eyes, Hisoka propped his head with his hand and sighed, "I hope Muraki wouldn't be the doctor to do the transplanting…"
"Muraki?!?" Saino's eyes widened but then calmed down. She asked Hisoka, "How come???"
Hisoka turned to her with one eye peeping, "I haven't told you about it yet, haven't I?"
Saino nodded, "Nan desu ka?"
"Well, Muraki murdered many people, including me. And I chose to be a Shinigami because of that…"
"Murder???"
Images started to emerge in her thoughts, making an insignia on her forehead flicker. In pain, she put her hand on her head, which covered the emblem and making no one notice it.
"Saino, Daijoubu desu ka?!" Hisoka went nearer to her. "Saino!"
Saino can't here him. Her thoughts were locked in the scenes. She recognized the two stained-blood bodies that were lying on the wooden floor.
"Okaasan… Otousan…" Her hands clenched beside her cheeks. Tears of fear and wonder fell heavily on her cheeks.
Then, a man emerged in her thoughts.
"Who… Who are you?"
It wasn't that vivid but she noticed that he smirked at the young Sakura, who was staring at him directly in fear. As the young Sakura's eyes widened…
"YAMETTE!!!" Saino screamed.
The emblem on Saino's forehead appeared completely. It shined once but then disappeared, making Saino turn unconscious. The young boy caught her.
"Saino! Saino!!!" Hisoka tried to wake her.
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Saino finally opened her eyes seeing the blurry people staring down at her.
Tsuzuki sighed, "Yokatta…"
The young girl rubbed her eyes and saw everyone clearly. She was lying on a bed at the basement.
She turned to Hisoka and asked, "What happened?…"
"We were supposed to ask you that question?" he said.
Saino sat down and thought but her head ached once more, making her held it.
"Ugh!…"
She fell once more but instead at the young boys chest.
Kyla suggested, "You should take a rest for a while."
"Yeah, that's right, Saino dear," the old lady told her.
Saino slowly pushed herself away the young boy and said, "I guess I should…"
"Well, you REALLY SHOULD," Kyla told her.
Saino remembered about the Camellias, "Oh, and Kyla. About the Camellias…"
Hana smiled and said, "Don't worry. I'll take care of that." She went up the ladder ahead of them.
Saino tried to stand up and said, "I'd like to rest at the apartment…"
Tsuzuki asked, "Are you sure you could walk?"
Saino smirked a little, "Who said I'm going to walk? We're Shinigamis, ne?"
Saino went up the spiral ladder while the young boy tried to accompany her.
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They were already at the apartment and Saino was lying on her bed while Hisoka sat beside her. (Music box enters.)
Saino began, "Ne, Hisoka-kun."
"Nan ka?" the young boy asked.
Saino slowly sat up from the bed and leaned on his chest. Tears slowly fell on her cheeks.
"I'm scared," she softly said. "I'm scared to know the past…"
"… I promised Sakura that I would try searching for it. I wasn't afraid to face it. But now…"
"… As it slowly reveals… I realized how hard it was for me to do so…"
"… It was as if I'm all alone in a dark path, trying to find my way…"
Hisoka wrapped one arm around her while the other, caressing her soft hair.
"Daijoubu. I'll always be by your side…" he whispered.
"If anything wrong happens, I'll come right away…"
"Arigato…" she smiled.
"I'm so glad that I've met him… And I'll never regret it…" Saino thought.
(Music box stops.) She slowly pushed herself away from him.
"Hisoka-kun, do you want me to read your fortune? I'm can read tarot cards!" she told him.
"Fortune telling? I don't know…" he thought. "… The last time I saw those cards was when we were solving Camellia's case…"
"Oh… Camellia…" Saino depressively said.
He noticed Saino's expression.
He said, trying to cheer her up, "Well, I guess a try won't be bad!"
Saino nodded, smiling. She stood up and went to her backpack that was lying on the table. She went back on the bed. Saino sat in front of Hisoka, where there's a gap between there.
While shuffling the deck twice, the girl asked him, "What do you want to know?"
"Want to know?" he asked then thought. "The future?"
"Alright!" she cheerily said.
When finished shuffling, Saino pulled one card and placed it on the bed. She picked them one by one and placed them at their positions, making a Celtic Cross Spread (the cross, the circle and the staff). Reia: The Celtic Cross Spread is one of the layouts in Tarot reading. Don't try asking me much about tarot card because I know less about them.
After picking up ten cards and placing them with image on top, she started.
"Ok!" she released some air from her mouth. "Let's see…"
"… This is your main or, should I say, the present," she told him, pointing at the middle card in an upright position. "And this is The Star. It represents 'generosity'. I guess, this is trying to say that you're opening up your heart unto someone."
"Opening up to someone???" he defiantly thought. "Probably…"
She pointed at the card on top of the first card, which was lying horizontally, "… Next is either your opposing or reinforcing card. This is called Ten of Swords and the meaning is 'victim mentality'. You must be bemoaning your fate…"
"… Ok! This third one can be the root or unknown factor," she pointed at the one, the bottom of the cross, right in front of her. "This one is the Lovers. This could be about love either from your past or childhood, or be something that is still hidden or unknown…"
Saino thought and said, "This kind of make me remember onee-chan…"
"You mean Kyla?" he asked.
The young girl nodded then continued, pointing at the card on the left, which was beside the middle card, "Then this fourth one is the Past. And this is your Ace of Cups, which means 'love'. This must have something to do with your third card. It says about the past, meaning your past…"
"… So, mixing the two would mean that this has something to do with someone you love or close to you from the past because you have the Star or 'openness' as the main. And I think that the person it is talking about is Kyla," she continued. She then asked, "She's your girlfriend before, isn't she?"
Hisoka nodded. Saino pointed the fifth card that was at the top of the main card.
"… Then, the fifth card is the alternate future. This is the Ten of Cups and this has something to do with joy, peace or family. Because a Star is in here, it reinforces the card and adds up to a positive feeling. Also, Lovers appeared here and reinforced which gives the meaning 'bonding'. But because a Hermit also appeared, it contradicts with it and the meaning's 'alone'…"
She pointed to the next card at the right of the main, "… This is your sixth and this means the future…"
Saino stared at the card and said, "Oh no…"
"Nan ka?" the flax haired boy asked.
"… This is a Hanged Man and it means 'sacrifice'. And because the Ten of Swords is here, the sacrifice turns more possible. Either you or Kyla would do the sacrifice…"
"And what's the sacrifice?"
"I don't know. It just states sacrifice and that's all I could say…" she replied.
He sighed, a hint of distress, "That's why I hate fortune tellings…"
She continued, pointing at bottom of the cards that are lined up beside the 'Cross'.
"The seventh is You. And it's a Hermit, meaning 'looking inward' or 'looking for something'. You are seeking for something or looking at what's in the core of something. Maybe, a truth? Well, that's all I could think of…"
"… And as I said awhile ago, because there's the Lovers, there's a possibility of being 'alone'," she continued.
She pointed at the next card above the last one, "And then the eight is the Outer Environment or as others' point of view. It's a Five of Wands, which means 'competition? Maybe, a challenge or fight?…"
"… The ninth is the Hopes and Fears, Overlooked Factors or other more meanings. And it's an Ace of Wands, meaning courage or other more meanings. And because the Ace of Cups are here…"
"… there's a great possibility of loving?!?…" Saino exclaimed. "Hisoka-kun's going to go back to Kyla…" Saino pouted.
"Anything wrong?"
Saino shook and continued, "And the last is the Outcome. And it's a Seven of Wand, which reinforces the card, Five of Wands. There's a great possibility of a fight in the future…"
"… To sum it all up, a sacrifice and a fight would happen. It would be between your close past person and you. You would also realize in the future that you really do love her…"
Hisoka sighed once more, "This is nuts…"
"You think so?…" the young girl frowned.
Hisoka noticed it and said, "Don't misunderstood me. What I'm talking about is that for me to love Kyla again as his boyfriend…"
Saino semi-smiled, "Maybe, but we still can't say it as it is…"
Hisoka sighed another, "So, does that mean I have to protect her?…"
Saino noticed it and frankly told him, "You've been sighing many times already. Is there something wrong?"
"Iie," he softly replied.
Saino stared at him for a few seconds then fixed all of her cards back in her box. She set them aside for a while and told him, eyes staring down on the bed sheet.
"I want to sleep. You may leave me now…"
Hisoka turned to her, "Are you mad at me??? Have I said something wrong???"
Saino tucked herself in the bed sheet. She turned to him and smiled.
"Iie, I just don't want anyone to see how I sleep."
"Alright."
The boy lingered out of the room. When Hisoka had finally gone out, Saino heavily bowed down her head, her bangs covering her eyes. A spark ran down her cheek, carrying a heavy burden. She let it drop on the sheet and softly cried.
"Why?"
"Why do I feel pain?"
"A different kind of pain?"
"An abstract pain."
"Is this what mostly people feel?"
"The one they call as…"
"… Jealousy?"
"But why?"
She suddenly felt another kind of pain, a pain that's like tearing her into pieces. She embraced herself and heard a terrifying voice in her thoughts.
"Because you're sealing yourself in…"
"… And he still doesn't know what you really are."
Her eyes dartingly opened and suddenly blackened. Freeing her one hand from the brace, she placed it in front of her face in terror.
"I… I can't see… What's this?!"
But then, her eyes went back to normal and she inserted her finger through her hair.
Eyes wide opened, she gasped for air and thought, "What had just happened???"
Sensing that someone's watching her, she darted to the window but only found out that the window was open and the breeze was entering her room. She went towards it and tried to look around. Then, she closed and went back on the bed.
"I know someone's watching me… I can sense it…"
In front of the apartment, a man, dressed in white coat, glanced at Saino's window. He shifted his glasses and went away.
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Reia: So how was that? Too much of Saino points? Don't worry, the next would be focused more on Hisoka and Tsuzuki, I think? Also with the future chapters, it would be focused all on Hisoka because, stated from the previous chapters, Saino would leave the apartment and she would stay with Kyla in Tokyo, which won't be narrated. It's because… THE END IS NEAR!!!
Warning: When reading the future chapters (starting chapt 23 , I guess?), prepare a roll or two of tissue papers beside or on your computer. If you are TOO conservative, use a handkerchief. This is IN CASE of emergency. Reia: I hope you understood what I meant… ^^;;;
Next chapter hints: Chapter 21: (The Man who knows Her Past)
Kamui: Well, they're going to visit Karan and her younger sister, Maya, who is going to take an operation. And the doctor…?
Reia: *sweats* I didn't expect that it would go like this. Only 12 chapters and that is fine but it went more than 20! Anyway, at least you enjoyed! : ) Also, sorry if Tsuzuki is, I think, getting misplaced or set aside because this really is a fic about Hisoka and my character, not Hisoka and Tsuzuki. But I'll try to do something about it, maybe after Saino left. Anyway, Sankyu for the reviews!!! ;p