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¤ By: Telpelindewen ¤
¤ Chapter Five ¤
"Yeah until you're killed." Momiji held in a sob. She could feel that the tears wanted to pour out of her.
Kusanagi was shocked. He thought he saw her eyes filled with water. He immediately let go not realizing the reason for her tears. She curled up and laid her arms over her head hoping that he would go away, but to her amazement he sat back down on the bed and lifted her up and tipped up her chin.
"I know why you ran away Momiji." It would hurt him but he had to get it out of his system. But before she could speak he silenced her, "I want you to know that they were there because… um… well… because I care." Momiji arched an eyebrow. He was waiting for his rejection but none came.
"What were where?" She asked confused that something else was being brought up.
"What do you mean… wait you were in my apartment weren't you?" He asked and she nodded.
"Kusanagi what are you talking about! What was where?" She asked now wanting to know more than ever.
He sweat dropped and laughed when he realized that she never saw the photos of her. "Oh it's nothing." He laughed and scratched his head.
"Kusanagi!" She went after him. He laughed sheepishly. He was relieved to know that she didn't run away from his feelings. She pulled on his pants so that he landed on the bed where she started to tickle him frantically.
"Momiji… Mo…Momi…Mo… sto… stoaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh." He couldn't help laughing and she was torturing him.
"Come on Kusanagi tell me." She grinned and kept on tickling until she couldn't help it but laugh at him.
"Kusanagi I want to know." They had both stopped laughing and he pulled her up to his chest.
"I can't tell you just right now Momiji. But I need to know why you ran away." She looked away just to have him force her gaze to him. He looked at her until she had no choice but to answer.
"Uhh… I have to go feed Anatal." He looked confused thinking that she was going to finally reveal the truth. She sat up.
Just then two both of their surprises the door bell rang. Kusanagi grabbed Momiji by the wrist and sat her down. "You stay. I will answer it." He slipped on pants and walked towards the door.
So he got there as she ran after him. But he stood in front of her to block her view. He opened the door and saw the tall dark stranger that Momiji had talked to just yesterday. Kusanagi's face turned into a deep frown at the stranger with the hat and dark voice.
"I'm sorry. I thought that Ms. Fujimiya lived here." He bowed to the man with a smile on his face.
"Who wants to know." He said.
Momiji shouldered him aside and stepped out and grabbed his arm with a smile on her face. "Leis! I'm glad you stopped by."
"Leis!" Kusanagi jumped in front of Momiji tearing her grasp with the man he knew.
"Kusanagi! What is wrong with you?" She asked looking down on him.
"Ahh so this is Maramou Kusanagi. You have changed since I last saw you." He smiled and removed his coat and hat when Momiji led him inside. He wore a nice pair of slacks and a white shirt. His hair was black and his eyes were ice blue.
"Um… do you… know each other?" She asked looking between the two of them.
"Momiji you don't want anything to do with this man. Get out of here." Kusanagi demanded.
"Still a protector of the Kushinada huh Maramou?" The man sat down on the couch and watched the anger in his face.
"Kusanagi I will do no such thing." She said and brought in tea to serve them all.
"I would never harm her if you are worried." He said casting a handsome smile towards her.
"Why are you here Leisuri? What do you want with the princess."
"Kusanagi what are worried about?" Momiji asked him.
"This man is a Puri. He hunts people with a certain potential to posess a power of the silver beam, and then he spits a seed in their blood so that he can get rid of his power and give it to them, and in the case the power shows up as a mitama."
"Kusanagi you have studied much while I was away." The man seemed relaxed and had no worries.
"He can jump from the past, present, and future and into any time he wants. He's frequently messing things up for others. Isn't that right Lesisuri?" Kusanagi crossed his arms.
"I can't help falling in love, can you?"
"What do you mean?" But before he could answer Kusanagi answered.
"He traveled back to the past a few years ago and found a potential power source, Kaede's good friend Keiko. Keiko was engaged to be married in a month with someone she loved but having Leisuri in her life she fell in love with him… and the day she broke off her wedding he ran into the future and left her in tears. Left with no one at all." Kusanagi had been good friends with Keiko too and he had wanted to rip Leis to pieces for hurting her.
"I had other matters to attend to." Leis said standing up and facing Kusanagi.
"So important that you had to tear the girl to pieces over a worthless rat like yourself." He said buffing himself up. His blades started to come out from hiding when Momiji jumped up startled.
"Excuse me, but there will be no fighting in this apartment. Do you hear me!" She said pressing her elbows into their stomachs.
"Yeah I should beat the crap out of his right now, he already looks like he had it with someone or something else." And with a swish he picked up his coat to leave them. Momiji walked him to the door while Kusanagi went to the couch fuming with anger.
They stood outside her door and talked for a few minutes. "Momiji, he's a good man. I hope he treats you well." He said and noticed that she blushed and twiddled her thumbs.
"Actually we're not… together." She said lamely.
"But wouldn't you love to be. He cares for you I can feel it inside." And with that he swept away towards the open window in the hallway and vanished into the air.
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Momiji walked back into the room and found Kusanagi in the bedroom admiring the view from the window. He leaned against it with his arm above his head. He was afraid that Leis's charming personality and handsome features would win Momiji over just like he did with Keiko. He sighed and realized that she was standing behind him.
"Kusanagi?" She asked and approached slowly.
"Fool! He gave you those marks didn't he? On your neck."
Momiji winced at his tone. "Yes." And she looked down.
"I don't want you to see him ever again!" He said and still didn't look at her.
"Kusanagi you will not tell me who or what to see! You aren't my mother."
She stormed out of the room and slammed the door.
She was fuming with anger and called her mother. She found out that two Aragami had attacked in the past week or so and that they had both been destroyed. They shared a few laughs and then hung up. When Momiji brought dinner into the bedroom for Kusanagi and Anatal. She was perched on the bed and sitting where Kusanagi could reach her from the window. He was still in the same position. She walked over and placed the tray of food down. She walked over to the window.
"Kusanagi I'm sorry for yelling at you before." He slowly nodded but didn't turn around. She kept on talking but he still didn't turn around.
"Oh and I know that… Kusanagi will you turn around already!" She complained impatiently. He turned around hiding his hands behind his back with a grin on his face.
"Oh you think that this is funny well I…" she was about to storm on when Kusanagi slapped a pair of silver clawed handcuffs on her wrists.
"What in the world is this for!" Then to her horror he handcuffed the other end with his wrist.
"Making sure that you aren't out of my sight, so now I won't let you near that… asshole." Kusanagi said smugly.
Momiji just stared and couldn't believe that he was doing this to her. She glared at him and handed out her hand. "Ha ha very funny Kusanagi, give me the key." He shook his head and laid down on the bed and started to eat his food one handed.
"Kusanagi! The key now!" She almost yelled.
"Too bad princess I don't gots the keys." And he grinned foolishly.
"What do you mean you don't have the keys." She asked not believing him.
"I stole them from Koume's locker at the lab. So I don't have the keys." He said as if she were dumb.
She tried a million different times to reach the phone or move but he wouldn't have any of it.
"For now on you will not leave my sight and you will not do anything by yourself." He said proudly.
"Kusanagi what about showering!" She yelled at him.
"Oh shit, I didn't think about that one. Well we'll just have to shower together then." And he winced as she hit him over the head with a pillow.
"I will not!" She said.
He pulled her down to the floor so he could finish his dinner. He held out a fork of food,
"Hungry?" She just turned her face away.
"Okay more for me then."
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Luckily she had already had her shower and meal for the night. She couldn't believe Kusanagi was dumb enough to get handcuffs without their matching keys. She knew that he was getting tired and weak walking and yelling all day, and she wondered how in the world they were going to dress, eat, sleep, and shower.
"Kusanagi please uncuff me. I need to go to the couch. What do you want me to do not sleep for the rest of my days?" She asked him.
"Nope, you'll just have to sleep with me."
"I will not. Besides I have to get changed."
"I have no problem with that." He said but got up and followed her towards the dresser where her pajamas were held. He turned his back to the wall while she dress. He let his hand go limply and felt her skin and grinned happily. He was going to like this arrangement. When she was done he took off his pants himself and was left in boxers.
He frowned, "Tomorrow is our last day here. Then we go home." He said realizing that he needed new boxers.
He pulled on the cuff and had her land on the bed next to him. She was afraid to be pressed against him tightly and scooted to the edge. He sighed and pulled her back to his chest and wrapped him arm around her stomach so that she couldn't escape him in any way. Momiji was blushing terribly but was glad that he couldn't see her face. She wondered how she would ever fall asleep, but shortly she did.
Kusanagi still awake pressed his face close to her hair and smelt the freshness of the shampoo that she used. He was soon asleep and Anatal crawled up in between them not minutes later.
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She woke in the morning to find Kusanagi's face very close to hers. She stared at him peacefully sleeping. Anatal slept in between them snuggly. Momiji pushed a piece of hair off of his forehead and continued to look at his face. She loved his double brows and traced a finger against them. But to her dismay he started t wake.
She started to tug on the cuffs to wake him but he pulled her closer.
"Kusanagi, time to get up." She said almost too softly.
He held her tighter as she tried to get up, "Just a little bit more." He sighed against her hair.
"Kusanagi I think that we should call Koume and see if she still had the keys." Momiji said looking at his halfway sleeping form.
"Momiji why did you run away from me?" He asked her and finally woke all the way. She couldn't turn away or turn to the phone this time. She looked at Kusanagi.
"I…" She started but bit her lip.
"I can be a jerk sometimes, but you can tell me anything princess." He said seriously.
She nodded and continued. "Kusanagi… I left because… well I don't want to be a job for you anymore." She rushed it out.
"What do you mean Momiji?" He asked.
"I don't want you to protect me." He rolled his eyes.
"I thought we already went through this, okay and why not."
"Because every time you protect me I'm so scared that I will… that you will get hurt."
"But it's a part of what I do Momiji."
"I can't stand that you would get killed because you're protecting me!" She started to cry with tears staining the white sheets.
"Oh." He said sadly. He pulled her back towards him and flipped her over so that her back was pressed to the bed and he pinned her down.
"Momiji, it's not just a job. I want to protect you."
He grew stiff when she laid her head upon his chest and traced his scar that was so recently made.
"But…" and she never finished for he sat up and stood. "Kusanagi?"
She asked looking up and confused.
"Shower," He said, "and then we leave." She nodded and followed bringing two towels.
He went in first and then threw over his boxers and Momiji blushed at the thought of only having the curtain between them to shield her from his view. When he was finished he asked for the towel and climbed out.
She popped in and threw her clothes over as well. She figured that he had routed in her draws before and she realized that it wasn't anything that he hadn't seen before.
She washed her hair and amazingly did everything with one hand as well. When she was done she asked for the towel which he refused to give her. Then he handed in a small dish towel and laughed at her angry scowl. When she had wrapped the towel around herself she tried to step out of the tub and the half naked Kusanagi caught her. She glanced down and realized that he had tied his towel around his waist while she gripped hers tightly. He laughed at her expression. They walked into the other room where when dressed Momiji packed and then they went to eat breakfast. Momiji didn't want to admit she like being attached to him at the hip.
When they were finished Momiji couldn't find Anatal and Kusangi shrugged at her question of the kitten's disappearance. They cleaned up and Kusanagi shoved his camera, the other glove on, and his coat into Momiji's bag and carried it himself out the door. Before they left they took one last look and headed to her car.
It was a complicated ride home with Kusanagi teasing how he would only let her drive with one hand on the wheel. He told her to drive to his apartment and she did. They arrived and he switched on the lights but he wouldn't let her wander over to where the bed was.
When he went into the small kitchen Momiji heard a small yelling from inside her bag. To her disbelief Kusanagi pulled out Anatal who had curled up on her clothes and slept till they had arrived.
"Kussangi!" she said.
"Hey I didn't want to leave her, besides I think this place will make a good home for her." He said smartly. When he said he needed to change he made her stand to the wall facing towards the window. Whatever she did she wasn't allowed to look upon that wall.
When he was down she turned around and found nothing there. But she looked around suspiciously. He went over to the window and pulled them open. Momiji feed Anatal and made a phone call to her friend Ira. She was actually happy that they had taken the cat. She had told them not to worry about cleaning because they always had someone there to clean it for them.
Kusanagi turned towards him only to bump into his chest.
"Well?" He said staring down at her.
She glared up at him, "Watch where you standing fool!" She said.
"You should talk clumsy. What of the cat?" He asked.
"You can keep her." And she watched as his face turned into a smile.
"Good." He turned to the bed but Momiji dragged him back to the car.
"No way. We need to go to the TAC building."
"What for?" He said looking at her.
"I want to see if Koume is in." She said.
A few minutes later they pulled up and Momiji noticed that with disdain that the building was closed for repairs. She glanced in the window and saw all the lights off. Kusanagi just sneered at her try.
She drove back to his apartment angry that her plan had failed. She parked next to a yellow beetle and glared at Kusanagi. She climbed through his side and shut the door.
He dragged her against him and grinned at him when she collided with his chest.
"Hey, you did that on purpose." She said at him.
"I don't know that you're talking about." He said innocently.
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It was later on that night when Momiji had another silver dream while she was sleeping. She was in the eyes of a small girl and she felt a black shadow engulf her. Then the next she was sitting on top of Kusanagi while he was holding her on the couch, they embraced in a wild kiss, the next was a picture of something watching Momiji and Kusanagi sleep from outside another window.
She sat up and gasped, her head pounding. Kusanagi was awake instantly and sat up with her.
"A silver dream?" He asked her.
"How did you know?" She held her head.
"Keiko got them too." He said and placed her head against his chest. She saw one of his mitama's glowing faintly and she laid against him. He soothed her and tried to get her to fall back asleep. But she couldn't. So when Kusanagi fell back asleep she searched for medicine underneath his bed in her bag. To her surprise she found a board with many tacks upon it and she held it in the moonlight.
She gasped. It was a board filled with… her! She looked at the sleeping Kusanagi and then turned back towards the board. She looked at the hundreds of pictures and knew that he had to feel for her. She smiled upon Anatal and Kusanagi's sleeping forms and then placed the board back and glanced out the window. She wondered if that vision had been past, present, or future. She hoped that it had been nothing to fear.
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The next morning Momiji was kneeling on the floor and staring lovingly at Kusanagi when he woke up. She hadn't washed any of her clothes and didn't want to where her dirty clothes to bed so he gave her a t-shirt to sleep in. He thought she looked sexy and wonderful.
"How do you feel princess?" He asked.
"Great." She sighed and they got up. When breakfast was finished they sat on the couch.
"Tell me about your dreams princess." He asked and was surprised when she nodded and laid her head against his shoulder with a tender gesture. He wasn't sure the last time someone had shown him so much caring and looked down at the wounds that healed completely by this woman in his arms.
"It's strange…"
"How so?"
"Well it's like… I'm looking through the person's eyes in my dreams."
"Oh?" She nodded.
"Like for example the first one was a little girl was swallowed into the shadows… and I was the little girl. But I didn't see myself so I don't know how I knew that I was a little girl."
"Go on."
"Ahh… well then the other was someone looking into the window from the bedroom at the apartment through the window. It was the apartment up north though. I saw well that through their eyes that they were spying on us." She looked away.
"Well that was obviously the past, but aren't you supposed to have three visions?" He asked and saw her blush. "Momiji."
"I didn't have a third one."
"Tell me."
"There's nothing to tell."
"Liar."
She looked up at him. "Kusanagi… I saw… I saw something last night."
"Besides the silver dreams?" He asked curiously.
"Um.. it was your uh… photo's." He paled.
"I don't know what you're talking about." He was the one to look away this time.
"Kusanagi I know what I saw."
He still didn't look back.
"Kusanagi…" Momiji wanted badly for her one silver dream to come true.
He tried to get up but Momiji had him this time and she pulled him back to the couch with the silver cuffs. When he landed she sat on top of him. She straddled him between her legs so that he couldn't get up.
"Kusanagi I don't want you to run away from this." She said softly and turned his face towards her. She gripped his chin in her hand and forced his lips towards her.
When she tried to kiss him he turned his face away so that she had to kiss his cheek instead.
She sighed and started to kiss along his jaw bone, "Kusanagi- I want you – to stop running – away from your – emotions." She said and was so very close to his lips and she could feel his resistance wearing away.
She tugged at his bottom lips gently with her teeth and pulled his face closer to hers. She had him captured and started to feel his arms sliding around her when Anatal scratched her thigh.
"Ow Anatal!" But it was a distraction long enough for Kusanagi to push Momiji aside and stand up.
"No." He was angry with himself for letting so much happen after he vowed not to. He reached under the couch cushion and produced out a key. He went to unlock the cuffs that held them together when Momiji pulled her hand away.
"Kusanagi don't." She pleaded. But he couldn't trust himself with her around and continued to unlock them.
When unlocked he went into the bathroom with a slam of the door. Momiji just stared at the door. She felt like her heart had been torn. He doesn't want me afterall. She thought. She was ready to cry her eyes out and headed towards the bed. She picked up her bag and pet Anatal on last time.
She looked at the door where the shower water was making noise and she walked out the door to head towards her car.
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"Momiji!" Her mother exclaimed as she walked in the door to her home.
"How was Ira's place?" She looked at her sad daughter.
"It was great."
"Where's Mamarou?" She asked looking around her shoulder.
"He's pretty much all healed so I sent him home." She lied and headed towards the stairs to her room. Her mom didn't question her any further and knew that something had happened between the two.
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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.
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