Well hurrah! It's the weekend. Which is a time for updates as you all should know. Thanks for the wonderful reviews, as always everyone. Your wonderful!
Side Note: Some people have inquired as to what a berserker is, but as we all know, Jade has a terrible time trying to explain things in actual words so basically if you don't know, I suggest reading Garth Nix's Sabriel as there's a berserker in there although I don't think you get a real explanation 'til the sequel. Hmm…Or play a whole lot of Final Fantasy. (If I'm right, there's some berserkers in there.) I make sense. Sorry for the not good explanation.
Ruth: Just for my fans you know, have to give the story it's comic relief. Glad you like them!
Curdled Milk: Ah yes, did you know that someone else also compared berserk Doumyouji to youkai Inuyasha? I guess their kind of the same…in a weirdo sense thing. Yeah, I'm making some sense here.
Chris: You are way too good at deductive reasoning! ~_^
Drina: Funny, I saw it in an Inuyasha fic. Just joking. Um yeah so I'm not the most original person ever…but I don't read Buffy Fanfiction so I really wouldn't know what goes on in that section. But thanks for giving me the heads up. UPDATE YOUR FIC! (I'm so mature.) I have to read it so that I can know what happens even though it brings me pain to read Doumyouji like that…wahhhhh…
Disclaimer: I don't own Hana Yori Dango.
Warnings: Language, erm....yeah…
Boys Before.............The High Seas???
Chapter Seven
Tsukushi groaned as she woke up. Her neck hurt. It had scabbed during the night but there was still blood on the pillow. She was aware that sometime during the night Doumyouji had rolled off her and she was still facing the wall. She shivered slightly. She did not have the covers around her. They had been pushed down to the foot of the bed. She reached down and pulled them over herself. That was much better. That's when she heard it.
It was a soft moan as if the person had a throbbing headache. Which they might have, she didn't know. That wasn't exactly the point at the moment. She had completely frozen up. Oh please....please let him be recovered....
"Tsukushi?" It came out in a slight croak. She turned her head only slightly.
"Yes?" Tsukushi was trying to keep calm. She wanted to run away, she was scared. The reply that she gave had sounded a little weaker then she had hoped however.
"Tsukushi...what happened?" Doumyouji's voice asked carefully after a few minutes of silence. Tsukushi didn't want to have to tell him the truth.
"Nothing..." Tsukushi lied.
"Your lying. Nothing doesn't get me from my bedroom to your room. The door is sitting across the room. And I did nothing?" Doumyouji asked sarcastically. "Tell me what-" Tsukushi felt his hand on her arm and she shied away from it. Wow, good job keeping it under wraps there Tsukushi!
Tsukushi still hadn't turned to face him. Last night she had woken up twice from nightmares. Nightmares where Doumyouji had come into her room like he had last night. Except this time, no came to her rescue and Doumyouji did not simply pass out.
"Tsukushi? Did I..." Doumyouji trailed off. "Did I kill anyone?"
"No." Tsukushi said truthfully.
"Did I hurt anyone?" Doumyouji guessed. Tsukushi grated her teeth.
"Yes." Tsukushi felt like this was not going to end anytime soon.
"Did I hurt you?" Doumyouji asked quietly. Silence. Tsukushi wasn't sure if she should answer or not. "Please tell me-"
"Yes you did!" Tsukushi turned to face him, tears in her eyes. It hurt too much to hold back anymore. "There you go, are you happy?" Doumyouji's brown eyes were wide with shock and pain. He reached out towards her and she tried to back away from his hand, almost impulsively. He reached again and pushed her hair away from her neck and his hand brushed against her wound.
"I...I...I did that?" Doumyouji managed to get out. His eyes were so pained right then. Tsukushi thought he might start crying. "Tsukushi...I'm sorry." Doumyouji's eyes were pleading with he own. "See I have berserker blood and-"
"I know, Rui told me." Tsukushi cut him off, rather coldly too. She almost winced at her own tone.
"Tsukushi, I've been....terrible." Doumyouji went on before she could open her mouth. "I know that. About the other night," She opened her mouth to try to interrupt him. "No don't say anything. I did not even think about it before I got angry with you. I thought you really didn't like me. Why else would you leave your captain's log open like that? Did I even let you explain? No." Doumyouji hung his head slightly.
"Doumyouji..." Tsukushi started to say but once more he cut her off.
"I don't think you'll forgive me. Ever. I've been so stupid, I wouldn't blame you. But if you do...if you do then you can move back into my room whenever you want." Doumyouji told her. "That's all I'll say."
"Doumyouji..." Tsukushi trailed off, unable to finish her statement. Doumyouji got out of bed, his balance was a little off but he quickly steadied himself. He walked towards the doorway.
"See you." Those were the final two words she heard from Doumyouji before he walked out the door. She did not get a chance to think of a reply. She sat there debating in her head. Part of her wanted to go run after him, another part told her to stay put, and another part was so confused that it made her dizzy to think about it.
Doumyouji, what are you doing to me? Tsukushi shook her head at that thought. She needed to think. She needed to really think.
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"Now, I knew that Doumyouji was in love with her. However, I didn't know how much." Rui began as if they were in a school lecture. They had grown up together with a private tutor, an ancient scholarly guy that they often ditched class for. The guy got paid only when he taught them so he usually said that they had their lessons.
"Wow, this sure is interesting." Soujirou joked. Akira grinned at him.
"What are you talking about?" Akira asked Rui. They had been eating breakfast until Rui brought up the subject.
"He bit her on the neck." Rui pointed out importantly. Soujirou and Akira both looked at him with lost expressions. "Think about Doumyouji's mom." At this all three boys winced simultaneously. "Can you think of any sort of scars on her?"
"Oh yeah, the one on her..." Soujirou's eyes lit up in realization.
"She has a scar on her neck, which proves that both Doumyouji and his dad like rough sex." Akira rolled his eyes at the other two.
"Berserkers bite the neck of someone if they intend to mate with them. This is something they do instinctively." Rui explained to the two of them, shooting Akira a slightly less then amused look.
"How do you know this stuff?" Soujirou asked.
"There's these things called books, Soujirou. I suggest reading one." Rui said sarcastically. A hammering noise started up.
"What the hell is that?" Akira asked before going out of the room to investigate. He made a noise of surprise, causing the others to jump up and follow him. Doumyouji was there, hammering away at holes he had made on last night's rampage. They were all staring at him. The F4 pirates had never worked. On anything.
"Good morning, I'm fixing up. Seems, I did some damage last night." Doumyouji's happy-go-lucky tone seemed somewhat forced. "Could someone go down and fix Tsukushi's door for me?"
"I'll do it sir!" Kazuya came through with an armful of boards and nails. He took what he needed and ran off.
"Doumyouji, did you get hit on the head?" Soujirou asked gently. Doumyouji stopped hammering and didn't turn around while speaking.
"You have to let it go, or there won't be anything when you come back." Doumyouji said quietly. "I don't want Tsukushi to see all this damage and be reminded of..." He trailed off before he started hammering away again. Rui gave the two others a look before walking off. They just looked at each other.
"Looks like were the only two sane people left on the ship." Akira told him. Soujirou cleared his throat before holding out his hand. Akira's face dropped before he handed him money.
* * *
Rui sat up in the lookout post. He liked being up there. On the deck, it was safe. And boring. Something about being up there made him think he could do anything. He opened his book with a sigh. He started on the first poem.
Your eyes are so far away,
Come here to me so that I can hold you,
I am setting myself up for a fall,
Baring my heart to you,
I am naked to you,
Now and forever.
He sighed again before closing his eyes. He pictured Shizuka with her long beautiful locks of hair. The way they spread out over her body when she was laying down. Clothes were never as pretty as her skin. They never could be. Her large eyes staring at him, always trying to get to him and one day they did make him come out. He turned to her and simply smiled. That's when it really had begun.
Her father was a king. He wanted her to marry a prince, not some kid from a wealthy family. But they wanted it. Shizuka fought off any other marriages as best she could. She only had eyes for him.
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"Tsukushi?" A voice woke her up in the middle of the night. It was dark in her room and the voice didn't register at first.
"Whose there?" Tsukushi asked suddenly, the knife that Soujirou had given her clutched in her hand. An oil lamp went on. It was Sako. He looked weird though. He was sweating and she saw that he too was holding a knife. He was sitting there calmly. Tsukushi noticed that Sako had his angles crossed and hands folded much like how you would see a girl sit.
"It's me." Sako's voice didn't sound as deep as it had before either. What's going on?
"What do you want?" Tsukushi sat up in bed and tried to put on a friendly smile.
Sako licked his obviously dry lips. "Well...I came here to kill you." Tsukushi's eyes went wide as dinner plates.
"Kill me?" Tsukushi asked, her grip even firmer on the knife.
"I'm not going to now. I was though. I wanted to." Sako confessed to her.
"Why do you want to kill me?" Tsukushi asked in surprise. This wasn't exactly a common occurrence, someone wanting to kill her.
"Because....because....he loves you." Tears started to well up in Sako's eyes and Tsukushi suddenly realized that Sako's face looked a little feminine...
"Who loves me?" Tsukushi asked Sako calmly.
"Doumyouji." Sako finally answered.
"What? No he doesn't..." Tsukushi started laughing. Sako was very misinformed. "Who told you that?"
"I figured it out. I read his captain's log, I made connections in my mind. Then I realized I wanted you out of the picture." Sako's fist clenched around the knife a little. Tsukushi looked at it warily.
"So you tried to kill me?" Tsukushi blinked at her.
"No, I came up with a perfect plan. Or so I thought. I took your captain's log and read through it. I left it open on a suitable entry on Doumyouji's pillow. He was angry and it all fell into place perfectly." Sako's eyes seemed to start to glitter maliciously.
"That was you?" Tsukushi wanted badly to start hitting Sako. She caused all of this! We were all perfectly happy....
"I didn't realize that Doumyouji would go on a rampage. But then I decided that I still wanted you out. There seemed only one way left. No one would suspect me after all. In fact I was going to arrange it so it looked like you done it yourself." Sako admitted. "Then I realized I couldn't do it. Scheming plots that's good and well but killing? My mother always said 'Crime does not look good on a lady.'"
"Sako....are you..." Tsukushi made the conclusion and was having a hard time expressing it. Sako grinned suddenly and Tsukushi could have smacked herself. Now it was just obvious why Sako never grinned. Sako reached up and pulled of his bandana. Honey colored hair fell in waves to his shoulders.
"Sako isn't my real name. It's Sakurako." Sako stuck his (or really at this time it was her) chin out.
"Your a girl?!" Tsukushi felt like her eyes might pop out of her head. This was really just one too many surprises for one night.
"Yeah." Sako or Sakurako admitted. "You won't tell them will you?"
"No, I guess not." Tsukushi agreed.
"Good. Tsukushi, you seem to be treating me decently and I was actually going kill you!" Sakurako laughed. "Um, well now I'm glad I didn't."
Tsukushi wondered if she was for real. It wouldn't be the first weird dream I've had. "Me too." She said quietly. Sakurako giggled slightly.
"I understand if you don't like me but...maybe we could become friends? There's no other girls but me and you..." Sakurako trailed off. Tsukushi weighed it out in her mind. If Sakurako was in love with Doumyouji, then I guess I can kind of see why she did what she did. It's not like me and her were close intimate friends...
"We can be friends as long as you don't try to kill me again. Don't think I'll forget about that!" Tsukushi crossed her arms and Sakurako laughed again.
"I let you get to sleep now. I'm sure you and Doumyouji will make up soon. Although, I'll cross my fingers and hope that you don't!" Sakurako hopped up and out of the room before Tsukushi could reply to that. Sakurako was definitely weird....
But then it dawned on her. She had just forgiven Sakurako. Someone she barely knew who messed up everything and even tried to kill her. If she could do that, couldn't she forgive Doumyouji? Tsukushi slid out of bed. She tiptoed up the ship, the cool air making her wish she could just jump under some warm blankets.
She heard snoring from various rooms as she passed. They were the only sound other then the slightly background noise of the ocean that she had grown so accustomed to. She made her way to Doumyouji's room. She saw that there was repair work being down and some was finished. She smiled slightly as she pushed open the door.
He was sleeping in the middle of his bed but he didn't look as peaceful as he had other times she had seen him asleep. Like there was some sort of strain on him. She tiptoed over to his bed. She leaned over him. How was she supposed to tell him now? He was asleep. Part of her wanted to wake him up. She decided against that.
She lifted the covers slightly and slid into the familiar bed. It was soft and warm and...she realized that she actually missed it. Tsukushi rested her head on his shoulder because he was warm and she was trying to get comfortable.
Tomorrow....tomorrow I can tell him. She thought. Her head was slightly dizzy from the warmth and that familiar scent. She had missed it. A hand slid across her waist and before she knew it, an arm was around her. Holding her there, afraid she would go even though he was asleep.
Tomorrow...Was all she thought before she drifted off to sleep.
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No you don't get the next scene in this chapter! Sheesh. What do I look like? Santa Claus?! (Ehehehehehehehehe.) Well yeah…hmm…I dunno.
Will Doumyouji be surprised to find Tsukushi in his bed? Will he be extremely happy? Will Tsukushi be able to forgive him tomorrow? Or has she already forgiven him? Will Sako now newly exposed as Sakurako be exposed to everyone else? Will she have anymore horrible schemes? Will she try to kill Tsukushi again? Will Doumyouji kill Sakurako if she kills Tsukushi? Will they get to Eitoku? Will anyone be alive when they get there? Will Jujyfruits be mine? Why is my dad hoarding them from me? Will we see anything in that book that Rui wrote? Will Rui end up with Jujyfruits? Will Doumyouji? Not to mention Makiko! Stay tuned!!!