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¤ By: Telpelindewen ¤
¤ Chapter Two ¤
Momiji looked up as Ryoko and Koume entered the room.
They sat down next to Momiji who was still holding Kusanagi's hand. They started to have a friendly chat. Koume had more important things to tell Momiji when she felt the picture in her pocket and remembered the real reason she had asked Ryoko to come see Momiji with her. Koume held up her hands.
"Momiji I want to show you something. It's something that I found in Kusanagi's coat the day he got hurt." Koume reached into her pocket while Ryoko and Momiji both looked on curiously. "Ah here it is." She took out the small white photo of her and Kusanagi in the booth at the movies. She placed it in Momiji's free hand.
"Uh..." Momiji started to tear, "You found it in his coat pocket?" She looked over at the red and green spotted trench coat.
"Yeah. Well… it was sitting in his pocket. But we're gonna go back downstairs and when you're ready come and join us okay." Koume winked at her as they both walked out. Momiji sadly looked at Kusanagi and she laid her hand on his chest to hear the heartbeat within. "Oh Kusanagi this is my entire fault." And as she closed her eyes a tear slipped down her cheek and onto one of his mitamas. Momiji stood up and grabbed the red coat and the photo and looked at him before she went down the stairs with her final decision.
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Koume, Ryoko, Yaegashi, and Daitetsu all sat down on the couch in the TAC building when Momiji walked in with the photo of her and Kusanagi in her hand.
Everyone was watching her silently as she walked towards the center of the room.
"I'm leaving." She whispered softly.
"That's good Momiji, go home and get some rest okay?" Ryoko said gladly.
"No." She whispered. "I'm leaving Tokyo." They all looked at her in shook.
"What do you mean Momiji?" Daitetsu asked her frowning.
"Well I need to get away for a few days or even weeks. I have a friend up in the north, I can't stay here and… well I can't… can't watch him in this much pain. I'm sorry." She left the room and fled down the stairs to her car in the parking lot.
"Shouldn't you go after her?" Sakura asked snobbishly.
"No I think that this time letting her go will do her good. Besides we have you now to help us." Sakura snorted when Ryoko told her this.
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Momiji finished packing her few things into a small bag with a bunny on it. She picked up Kusanagi's trench coat and after a small mental debate she took it and placed it on top of her clothes. Momiji quickly wrote a note to her mother on the door and told her how she would be visiting Julie's house up north. She would understand. She signed it and started to leave.
When she locked the door behind her she felt something jingle in the bag that she helf. She reached down and found two keys and pulled them out.
Momiji had passed by Kusanagi's apartment many times, but had only been inside once, and that wasn't even enough time to look around. She bit her lip and knew it would be wrong to snoop around inside. But she wanted to see it so badly. So she walked past her car and to Kusanagi's apartment. When she got there she fiddled with the keys nervously but boasting her confidence she walked in. It was very pain with just a one bedroom and bathroom apartment. There was a small kitchen with a small fridge and then the bathroom. She didn't want to stay too long so she found a bag and stuffed a few pieces of clothing in a bag of his. It was too dark for her to see much so she hurried into the kitchen where a small light was and she saw that there were trays filled with chemicals and a clothing line strung across the kitchen to hold up wet photographs. She moved closer to the photograph's in the dim light. One was a beautiful moonlight scope of the moon breaking light through the branches of a tree, another was a picture of some little girl eating ice cream that was smudged all over her face. She almost stumbled over Kusanagi's camera which was sitting on the floor. She picked it up and placed it on the counter. She took a look at the last picture and saw herself looking at a flower. It was when she and Koume had gone to see the gun show in the botanical gardens. She had gotten bored while Koume marveled over the new guns that we're being built today and instead she went to pick some flowers for her mother. (Ahhh! Long paragraph)
He had caught her by surprise by seeing her a few minutes later. She had no idea he had his camera with him then. She looked at the picture and took it down. She laid it on the counter while also looking in his fridge. There wasn't much but some orange juice, chemical containers, and some film that was frozen. She wanted to take the film and see what he had been up to these past few weeks, but she knew better. Momiji was already snooping too much. So she took the picture and placed it in his bag. Then she went to go back out to her car when she turned around suddenly and grabbed his camera and ran out the door locking it on her way.
It was really late when Momiji stopped by the team building to drop of the bag of clothing for Kusanagi whenever he woke up. She went in to the lab where he laid there still. She leaned against the doorway, happy that no one else was around. She went in and approached him.
"I'm sorry Kusanagi. This is my fault, what happened to you… I don't…I don't know why you moved me out of the way. I should have been the one to be hurt." Momiji went to climb over the chair but tripped and land with her palms on the ground.
"Damnit!" She wailed smacking her palms together.
"Momiji?" Kusanagi rasped out with a horribly painful gasp.
"Kusanagi!" Momiji raised her face to his level where she saw his wounds slowly close and heal a little bit more.
"What… what… are you doing?" He asked, although he couldn't see anything.
"I'm going away for a little bit Kusanagi, but I left you a bag of fresh new clothes. I need to visit a friend up north. I'll be back in a couple days though okay?" She went to turn away when she felt something snag her wrist.
"Don't… leave; I won't be able to… protect you." He said with rasps but then he fainted using most of his strength, and dropped the hold on her wrist.
"That's the whole point Kusanagi." Momiji whispered and then walked out without looking back.
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Momiji drove her car nine hours through the night and then when it was almost dawn she stopped somewhere on the road for tea. She was almost to her destination. Her friend was a famous Japanese artist and married someone from America and therefore she moved there having this apartment in Japan for whenever they visited. But being good friends with the Kushinada for they saved her lives many times she gave Momiji a key for her to use it whenever she wanted. It was an apartment with one bedroom, a full kitchen, a library, and a bathroom. The bedroom had an amazing panoramic view above all of the other buildings looking over the ocean and onto the city night sky.
Momiji pulled the car into the parking garage where the spot for her car was waiting. She parked and headed up to the top floor. She stepped out and stretched her legs as she walked into the elevator. A strange man in a black overcoat was already on the elevator and he stood about 6 foot 3. He had on gloves and a hat as well. He was all black.
"Going up?" He asked. His voice sounding cold.
Momiji without hesitation stepped onto the elevator not wanting to be rude, but just to be safe she stood on the opposite side of the elevator. She couldn't see his face but she knew somehow that he was smiling. He stepped a little bit closer and she could feel his cold breath upon her neck. She turned around and he just smiled. All of a sudden she felt his hands upon her neck and trying to suck the blood from her neck. She couldn't get out of his grasp. He had to have more than two arms at least. When she started to scream she felt something against her neck, and his fangs started to sink into her skin as she cried out. But she started to feel warmth and the man let go in a hurry. She felt hot and saw steam rising from his coat. He disappeared out of the elevator doors and into the dark hallways holding his damaged arm.
Momiji light headed didn't look after but fainted.
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"Daitetsu! Something's wrong with Kusanagi!" Yaegashi yelled into the other room where Matsudaira and Daitetsu were talking about Momiji. When they heard the call they jumped up and went into the lab where Kusanagi laid upon the table. All of his mitamas were glowing silver light and pulsing furiously. They could only stare as he became one light and all of his wounds closed with a snap and his eyes opened and tried to take a gulp of air that the mask wouldn't feed.
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"M'am? Are you alright m'am?" A handsome man was gently shaking her.
Momiji opened her eyes and looked around frantically. She was out of the elevator and in one of the hallways in the apartment building. The man helped her stand.
"Are you okay? What happened?" He asked concerning. He was tall, handsome with black hair and ice blue eyes. He had on a coat and hat as well.
"Um… I get claustrophobic sometimes in the elevator." She lied and smiled weakly.
"Will you be okay, do you want me to walk you to your apartment?" He asked her.
"Oh no, no. I'll be fine. It happens all the time." And for once when she stood she didn't trip or fall over. This was a relief. She was on the wrong floor but pretending to know where she was going she waved the man away. When she looked back he was gone.
She turned the corner and pressed herself against the wall. She was scared. The thought that she could be safe there in her friends apartment. She slide to her feet and felt her neck for the place where the vampire had struck her. She felt the little scab where she felt blood oozing. But when she brought her hand to her face she saw that it wasn't her blood but silver goo instead. She quickly wiped her hand on her clothes and tried to get it off.
She was breathing deeply and she stood back up and went back to the elevator. She was about to press the up button when she took another thought and headed for the stairs with her bag on her shoulder. She tried to go as fast as she could afraid that the vampire would show again but she sighed when she got to the apartment building on the top floor.
Momiji flicked on the lights when she walked into the apartment and noticed that it had been repainted and restocked with food since she had been there three years ago with her mother.
She walked into the bedroom and sighed with delight at the view of the panoramic view above the bed. It was her favorite part… looking over Japan, and the ocean. Momiji decided to make a few phone calls.
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Kusanagi had enough strength and he ripped off the oxygen mask that was forcing air into his lungs. When it was off he took three big gulps of air and looked around. Yaegashi, Matsudaira, and Daitetsu were all looking on. He tried to sit up when Matsudaira hurried over and pressed him back down.
"Don't you dare move. You'll rip those wounds right open again Kusanagi." He glowered at her but she just smiled back.
"I don't want to be one of your experiments." He said with little breath.
"Kusanagi, Matsudaira was just helping you while you've been in pain this whole time."
"The whole time?"
"Yepper, about a week or so." She counted the days in her head.
"A WEEK!" He sighed and then finally gave into the pressure of going back down flat onto the bed.
While Yaegashi went to the side of his bed, Matsudaira started to take out the water and protein supply so that he could eat and drink regularly without the needles.
"You were hurt pretty bad ya know." Yaegashi said looking down at him. Koume walked in with food for the gang. She almost dropped it when she saw that Kusanagi was awake.
"Kusanagi? You're awake!" He rolled his eyes at them all.
"Thank you captain obvious." He looked around for Momiji but didn't see her anywhere.
Maybe it wasn't a dream after all. He thought to himself.
The team gathered in the other room for food, and Koume came in to give Kusanagi a plate of his food and she sat down in the chair that Momiji had recently occupied herself.
"Koume let me ask you something." He looked up from the food.
"Okay shoot!" She laughed at her own joke.
"Where's Momiji?" He asked.
Koume looked up from her plate and frowned. "We don't know Kusanagi." She looked away. "All we know is that she left about two days ago."
"What do you mean you don't know?! She just left and you guys let her?" He yelled softly at her.
"Hey don't yell at me buddy, Momiji needed some time off and so her mom said she headed up north." Koume acknowledged him to keep eating, "She went to your apartment and got a few pieces of clothing for you here." Koume pointed to the bag.
She saw him freeze while eating. "She went into my apartment?!" He asked in shock.
"Duh plant boy isn't that what I just said!" She rolled her eyes and left the room.
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"Hello?"
"Hi this is Fujimiya Momiji…"
"Momiji!" A famine voice squealed.
"Ira? Is that you?" Momiji smiled into the receiver.
"Oh of course it's me darling'! Where are you?"
"Well I'm up in …"
"Please tell me that you've been using the house dear. We don't use it enough, and I hope that Mr. Guar is taking good care of it."
"Yeah well I'm here now and it looks amazing!" She told.
"Well, stay as long as you want dear, but I wanted to tell you that we left our cat there his name is Amatal. Mr. Guar is supposed to be feeding him daily, but I'll give him a call to let him know that you'll be staying there. Okay? Well I have to go... but chow have fun!" And the phone clicked off as Momiji said goodbye and laughed at her friend's enthusiasm.
Momiji went looking for the cat around the apartment but couldn't find him anywhere.
She picked up the phone wanting to call her mother but decided to unpack everything instead.
She had brought enough clothes for two weeks and that's how long she would stay. She put all her clothes into the draws and then took out her accessories. She had placed Kusanagi's camera on the bed along with his coat and single gloves that she secretly took.
The last item to come out was the picture frame that held the four photo's of her and Kusanagi at the movies. She rubbed her thumb over the one of just Kusanagi by himself. But then realizing that she was moping she put it down and threw her clothes and Kusanagi's coat into the wash while she popped into the shower.
Momiji wanted to spend the vacation not thinking about Kusanagi… but everything she did reminded her of him. Even in the shower she couldn't think of anything else. Momiji's mitama started to glow a silver instead of it's usual blue. She glanced down to stare at it strangely but then gasped as her memory went into some faze. She saw flashes of an Aragami in Tokyo clawing it's way through glass in a building. It was in the form of a giant ape. In the next picture she saw Kusanagi rip off his oxygen mask and gasp for air.
Momiji opened her eyes and held her hand to her forehead. It throbbed with an oncoming headache. As a tear came to her eye she squeezed them shut and stood up from where she fell. She stepped out of the shower and looked into the mirror. She looked and gasped when she saw the silver light that enclosed her body disappear. She had to call her mother and ask if it meant anything.
"Hello?"
"Mom?" Momiji could feel her head pounding.
"Momiji where are you?" She could hear her mother cooking in the backround.
"I'm up at Akida." She said.
"Oh are you at Ira's place then?" Her mother sounded relieved.
"Yes… but I needed to ask you something."
"What is it?" Her mothers concern was back again.
"Well, did Kaede ever have um… well dreams during the day that would give her a headache before?" Momiji still had her hand pressed to her hand and looked at the clock that said it was past lunch time.
"No why?"
"Well I was in the shower and I had sort of a dream."
"While you were standing up?"
"Yeah… but it was strange."
"How… so…" She sounded busy.
"Well it was... well... coated in silver.
"Momiji what are you talking about? Coated in silver?"
"Like different shades of silver, I didn't see in color or black and white, it was just… silver. Like a silver dream." She was becoming agitated.
"Well I'm not sure about anything like that but you could ask your grandmother."
"Okay… where is she?"
"That's the bad part. She went to Iwaki."
"Momiji frowned and rolled her eyes, "Why?"
"Well I don't know but she'll be back in a few days or so. So why don't you come back home and you can ask her then."
"No thanks mom, I'll just call her. I mean… well I don't want to come home just yet."
"Momiji," her mother's tone was stern, "You haven't gone missing because of this whole Kusanagi thing have you?"
"Mom! I am not missing, you know where I am, and it's not because of…"
"Momiji do not lie to me young lady."
"Okay, okay it's because of Kusanagi. I just didn't want him to get hurt because he wants to protect me." She looked at the picture frame on her desk with their photos captured inside.
"Well I won't bother you about it… but I think that you should come home soon though. I know that it seems safe up there but you never know with the Aragami around and all."
Momiji and her mother said their goodbyes and hung up the phone. Speaking of weirdo's she placed her hand behind her head and on her neck to locate the bite marks of the vampire. She couldn't find it and rushed into the bathroom to glance in the mirror.
The two red welts were almost gone and they had combined into one scar into one line. She frowned and applied some medicine to the scar.
"Damn bastard." She mumbled to herself.
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Ryoko walked into the lab entrance with Kusanagi's plate of food two days later. It had been a week since Momiji had left and all anyone could get from her mother was that she went up north. Koume came in a few minutes later helping her carry the food.
They unlocked the lab and walked inside to where Kusanagi laid down. Koume was getting some tea ready when she heard the tray that Ryoko had been carrying crash to the ground.
"Ryoko what in the world…?" And when she went into the room where a cool breeze flew in from the broken window.
"Oh fuck!" Koume said loudly.
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"Hello?"
"Moe? I need the number for Momiji right away! It's an emergency! Please I know that she doesn't want…" Koume rushed on.
"Koume is that you?"
"Yes it's… me… now I need the number for Momiji please!" Koume had a pencil and paper ready.
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Momiji was just preparing her rice and noodle soup when she heard the phone ring. No I wonder who the hell that is. She thought irritatingly.
She walked over to the only phone in the apartment. She threw her gloves by the stove and then rushed to pick it up. But she tripped over her own two feet and landed on the couch but hastily picked it up anyway.
"What?"
"Momiji is that you?"
"Matsudaira? What's wrong?" She could hear the panic in her friends voice.
"Well I have something important to tell you… well that is… what I mean to say is…" Momiji heard someone yell in the back round and heard someone else pick up.
"Hello? You guys what the heck is going on over there?"
"Momiji… Kusanagi's gone."
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DISCLAIMER
All the characters appearing in Blue Seed are copyright of someone else. No infringement of these copyrights is intended, and is not authorized by the copyright holder. All original characters in The Silver Shine Series - Blue Seed are the creations and the property of Telpelindewen. Even if they are out of character.
BLAH!!!!