Unwanted Tears Shed
by Sarah
Chapter Name, Mysterious Youkai Attack #23, enjoy!
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"Kirashu? It's me, Siasku, you know me, don't you?" The young girl asked, staring into the red eyes of the now demon Kirashu as he still held his clawed hand in midair. He seemed to be battling with himself, as she could see for a second that his eyes flashed golden, but just as quickly as she had seen it, it was gone from his eyes, and he stepped even closer to her.
"Kill girl..." Kirashu said with a low growl, and watched in amusement as he could smell the fear from her. Just as he was about to bring his down across the young girl's face he felt himself stopped and his hand stayed only inches away from it's mark.
'Don't...hurt...the...girl,' Kirashu heard the stammered voice in his head, surprised that he even had any thoughts right now and he countered this voice, 'Why? She is the prey, I'm the predator, I must kill her.'
Siasku watched as Kirashu's hand just hovered over her face, and then fell to his side, though he still stayed the way he was. 'You shouldn't kill her, you promised to protect her, and she is your friend.'
Kirashu audibly growled at this, curling his lip as he countered the voice again, 'I have no friend! Except for Sarama... and she is brought back to life and hates me! Why do I have to live after seeing her hate for me? She still loves me, but we could never live together again...'
Just then, Siasku placed her hand gently on Kirashu's face, awakening him from his thoughts as he looked into her beautiful blue eyes. "Kirashu, I know you're still there. Please turn back to your old, gruff, half-demon self, please," Siasku said in a soft tone, looking deeply into his red eyes, silently begging to see his golden eyes stare back at her instead of the red, blood thirsty eyes she was now looking into.
Kirashu at first shuddered at her soft touch, but then moved into it, closing his eyes as it slowly relaxed him. 'I can't hurt her...' The thought struck Kirashu, as he felt his demon blood slowly ebbing away and Siasku watched as his markings disappeared and the now half-demon Kirashu fell to the ground.
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"Kirashu!" Siasku fell down to the ground with the half-demon, looking at him with concern as his body was deathly still. "He will be all right Siasku, I am almost sure of it. I think he just lost consciousness from sure exhaustion and fighting his demon side," Kokiyu said as she placed a comforting hand on the young girl's shoulder.
"We will take the half-demon to our village miko, he bravely fought with us to save our village and we are grateful of that," one of the villagers said as he stepped forward.
Siasku was about to protest to this but stopped as Kokiyu said, "I will be able to take care of him fine myself. My mother is a miko herself and has taught me how to heal quite well. If you men could just give us a place to stay tonight and take him to where you have chosen us to stay that would be great." The young woman gave them a small smile and they nodded to this, several of them helped with picking up Kirashu and bringing him to their village. Siasku was surprised at the village's beauty, there were vines with flowers on many huts, bringing many different colors to the different homes. Everyone seemed to be finally relaxed and she blushed slightly as they cheered at their arrival. Siasku temporally ignored them, turning her head to see Kirashu being carried by the men, concern flashed across her face though she tried her best to erase it.
'Please be all right Kirashu...' The young girl thought to herself as she looked over at Kokiyu and noticed she looked just as concerned as her.
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They finally arrived at where they were going to be sleeping at it, a small but cozy hut that seemed to be vacant. The villagers placed Kirashu carefully on the floor and several bowed their heads to Kokiyu and Siasku saying, "This is where you will be staying. I hope you enjoy our village for as long as you stay here and thank you again for helping us again." The villager said, smiling at the two women.
"Thank you for your kindness," Kokiyu said smiling at them all and she watched as they left them alone in the hut.
"Good thing that I bring bandages with me," Kokiyu said in a tired voice, taking the bandages from within her clothes.
"Um, can I help? I've never learned how to bandage anyone before, I think it would be pretty nice to know. If that's all right with you, that is." Siasku asked in a unsure tone, looking at the ground as she did so.
"Of course you can Siasku! It is definitely a very important thing to know," Kokiyu handed over the bandages to Siasku and smiled as the girl looked excited about learning a new thing.
"Okay Siasku, so first, you need to take off Kirashu's shirt, he's got several wounds in his chest and you can't just cover them with his shirt on," Kokiyu stated, watching as the young girl blushed deeply at this.
"I have to...take off his...shirt?" Siasku stammered out, fighting the fierce blush which was coming across her face at the thought.
"Yes, you have to," Kokiyu fought a chuckle at the girl's blushing face as she slowly took off Kirashu's top shirt and undershirt. Just after she did this the young girl quickly adverted her eyes to Kokiyu, not wanting to stare at the half-demon's chest and have the older woman notice.
"Now you just wrap around the wound carefully," Kokiyu watched as the young girl started doing this and seemed to understand. "Perfect. Well, I'm going to leave to talk to some of the villagers. This youkai attack on their village seems rather suspicious, just continue wrapping up Kirashu's wounds," Kokiyu left the small hut and gave the young girl a smile before she left Siasku alone with Kirashu.
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"To think, I'm actionably bandaging you, instead of you bandaging me," Kokiyu said with a nervous laugh, watching Kirashu for any signs if he was going to wake up. There was none.
"I hope you're all right Kirashu. Please be all right, you may not know it, but I think of you as a close friend," Siasku said in a desperate voice, as she still carefully bandaged the half-demon's wounds. 'Maybe even more than a close friend,' Siasku thought to herself, and she nearly dropped the bandages at this.
'More than a close friend? Then what is he to me?' She asked herself, knowing the answer, but not wanting to say it, or even think it for she knew the rejection she would be setting herself up for.
"Well, let's just keep it at close friend then. Anyway, you better wake up soon, you big dummy," Siasku said playfully, not noticing that Kirashu was slowly stirring.
"I'm not a big dummy, you're going to pay for that you dumb girl," Kirashu said softly, slowly opening up his eyes and sitting up.
"Kirashu!" The young girl exclaimed as she brought the half-demon into a tight hug, smiling happily as she did this. "What's a matter with you? You're acting like I nearly died, or something like that, you stupid girl," the half-demon said gruffly. Suddenly, a memory hit him, 'Kill girl, I was going to kill her, and I said it too, what came over me?'
"I'm sorry Siasku," Kirashu said softly in the young girl's ear, watching with surprise as she pushed him backwards and nearly landed him against the wall.
"Okay! You still aren't yourself, did you just apologize to me?" Siasku stared suspiciously at Kirashu who was rubbing his arm which had been hurt during the fight.
"What the hell's wrong with you, you stupid girl? I can't even apologize to you for nearly killing you?!"
"Oh, I'm sorry Kirashu, it's just ... that's the first time you've apologized to me, it's kinda, uh, strange. Well, apology accepted, I knew you wouldn't hurt me, even though your demon blood took over," the young girl said with a sweet smile.
"You trust me a lot, don't you Siasku?" Kirashu said in a soft tone, not daring to look into her blue eyes. 'You trust me a little too much,' he added to himself silently, finally looking into her thoughtful blue eyes again.
"Well, yeah, why would I not trust you?" Siasku asked him as she cocked her head to one side.
"Because, I'm a no-good half-demon," Kirashu stated plainly.
"Don't even think that Kirashu! You aren't no-good to me, okay?" The young girl said with fierceness her voice, looking even more deeply into the half-demon's golden eyes.
"Yeah, well, forget about it, I don't even know why I said that, or apologized to you, if you were too dumb to get out of the way and got hurt it would be your own fault not mine."
"Kirashu, I know how you and Sarama were mates, and very close, but just because you weren't able to save her doesn't make you worthless, no-good, or anything like that, don't ever feel that way either," Siasku said with a small smile, as she held onto Kirashu's hand and gave it a light squeeze.
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Sosana walked into the hut just in time to see Siasku hold onto Kirashu's hand and give it a light squeeze, and he cleared his throat at this. The two scattered away from each other immediately, both blushing fiercely but Kirashu was the first to speak, "Sosana, don't you ever knock?!"
'You always were one to come at the wrong time, humph,' Kirashu thought to himself as he gave the man a death glare.
"Sorry to break up the moment, but I want to tell you, Kirashu, that we will have a festival tomorrow in your honor, and your friend's honor also," Sosana said with a perverted smile still plastered on his face.
"A... festival?" Siasku looked at Kirashu and then Sosana, she had never been to a festival before. "Yes, I promise you both, you'll have a fun time, goodnight." Sosana left the two alone again, and Siasku immediately fell asleep, the tiresome day finally catching up with her.
"Hey Kirashu, I'm glad to see you're up. How are you feeling?" Kokiyu asked as she walked into the hut and flashed a smile at the half-demon.
"Yeah, I'm feeling fine, should be healed by tomorrow, that youkai attack was strange ... do you know why they were attacking this particular village?"
"No, to tell you the truth I don't know. I asked around the village and they said they barely ever get attacked by youkai, and that many demons don't just get together and fight, I say someone ordered them, but who?" The two thought about who would have that kind of power over the lesser youkai, but they had no clue and decided to think about it later, since that it had been a long day for them all.
"Goodnight Kirashu," Kokiyu said with a tired smile. 'She looks so much older, so much more mature, it is quite amazing how much she has grown up. She really fought bravely today, Sarama would be very proud if she had watched her.'
"Goodnight Kokiyu", Kirashu said softly to the now sleeping form of the young woman, propping himself against the wall as his eyes drooped and he finally fell asleep.
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Author's Corral:br
No cliffhanger here, decided to take a break from them, next chapter won't have a cliffhanger either. I know this seems to be going VERY slow, but I like it slow, sorry for some of you speedier people, but I like to have a relationship be well developed, not just thrown together. Anyway, the preview for the next chapter is below, hope you enjoyed this one.
Next Chapter:
Looks kind of fun doesn't?" Siasku asked as she looked at the half-demon, smiling as she noticed the look on his face. "Hey, half-demon's don't dance, got it?" Kirashu said roughly, growling slightly at what she was getting at. "I don't know how to dance myself, but I've always wanted to..." Siasku said dreamily, her blue eyes watching the other dancers enviously. 'Damn you woman.' Kirashu thought to himself, he really didn't want to dance, he didn't know how to, and he knew that he would look like a complete idiot if he did. Suddenly, Kirashu caught her blue eyes as she seemed to be looking at him expactantly. "What? Why are you looking at me like that?"
by Sarah
Chapter Name, Mysterious Youkai Attack #23, enjoy!
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"Kirashu? It's me, Siasku, you know me, don't you?" The young girl asked, staring into the red eyes of the now demon Kirashu as he still held his clawed hand in midair. He seemed to be battling with himself, as she could see for a second that his eyes flashed golden, but just as quickly as she had seen it, it was gone from his eyes, and he stepped even closer to her.
"Kill girl..." Kirashu said with a low growl, and watched in amusement as he could smell the fear from her. Just as he was about to bring his down across the young girl's face he felt himself stopped and his hand stayed only inches away from it's mark.
'Don't...hurt...the...girl,' Kirashu heard the stammered voice in his head, surprised that he even had any thoughts right now and he countered this voice, 'Why? She is the prey, I'm the predator, I must kill her.'
Siasku watched as Kirashu's hand just hovered over her face, and then fell to his side, though he still stayed the way he was. 'You shouldn't kill her, you promised to protect her, and she is your friend.'
Kirashu audibly growled at this, curling his lip as he countered the voice again, 'I have no friend! Except for Sarama... and she is brought back to life and hates me! Why do I have to live after seeing her hate for me? She still loves me, but we could never live together again...'
Just then, Siasku placed her hand gently on Kirashu's face, awakening him from his thoughts as he looked into her beautiful blue eyes. "Kirashu, I know you're still there. Please turn back to your old, gruff, half-demon self, please," Siasku said in a soft tone, looking deeply into his red eyes, silently begging to see his golden eyes stare back at her instead of the red, blood thirsty eyes she was now looking into.
Kirashu at first shuddered at her soft touch, but then moved into it, closing his eyes as it slowly relaxed him. 'I can't hurt her...' The thought struck Kirashu, as he felt his demon blood slowly ebbing away and Siasku watched as his markings disappeared and the now half-demon Kirashu fell to the ground.
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"Kirashu!" Siasku fell down to the ground with the half-demon, looking at him with concern as his body was deathly still. "He will be all right Siasku, I am almost sure of it. I think he just lost consciousness from sure exhaustion and fighting his demon side," Kokiyu said as she placed a comforting hand on the young girl's shoulder.
"We will take the half-demon to our village miko, he bravely fought with us to save our village and we are grateful of that," one of the villagers said as he stepped forward.
Siasku was about to protest to this but stopped as Kokiyu said, "I will be able to take care of him fine myself. My mother is a miko herself and has taught me how to heal quite well. If you men could just give us a place to stay tonight and take him to where you have chosen us to stay that would be great." The young woman gave them a small smile and they nodded to this, several of them helped with picking up Kirashu and bringing him to their village. Siasku was surprised at the village's beauty, there were vines with flowers on many huts, bringing many different colors to the different homes. Everyone seemed to be finally relaxed and she blushed slightly as they cheered at their arrival. Siasku temporally ignored them, turning her head to see Kirashu being carried by the men, concern flashed across her face though she tried her best to erase it.
'Please be all right Kirashu...' The young girl thought to herself as she looked over at Kokiyu and noticed she looked just as concerned as her.
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They finally arrived at where they were going to be sleeping at it, a small but cozy hut that seemed to be vacant. The villagers placed Kirashu carefully on the floor and several bowed their heads to Kokiyu and Siasku saying, "This is where you will be staying. I hope you enjoy our village for as long as you stay here and thank you again for helping us again." The villager said, smiling at the two women.
"Thank you for your kindness," Kokiyu said smiling at them all and she watched as they left them alone in the hut.
"Good thing that I bring bandages with me," Kokiyu said in a tired voice, taking the bandages from within her clothes.
"Um, can I help? I've never learned how to bandage anyone before, I think it would be pretty nice to know. If that's all right with you, that is." Siasku asked in a unsure tone, looking at the ground as she did so.
"Of course you can Siasku! It is definitely a very important thing to know," Kokiyu handed over the bandages to Siasku and smiled as the girl looked excited about learning a new thing.
"Okay Siasku, so first, you need to take off Kirashu's shirt, he's got several wounds in his chest and you can't just cover them with his shirt on," Kokiyu stated, watching as the young girl blushed deeply at this.
"I have to...take off his...shirt?" Siasku stammered out, fighting the fierce blush which was coming across her face at the thought.
"Yes, you have to," Kokiyu fought a chuckle at the girl's blushing face as she slowly took off Kirashu's top shirt and undershirt. Just after she did this the young girl quickly adverted her eyes to Kokiyu, not wanting to stare at the half-demon's chest and have the older woman notice.
"Now you just wrap around the wound carefully," Kokiyu watched as the young girl started doing this and seemed to understand. "Perfect. Well, I'm going to leave to talk to some of the villagers. This youkai attack on their village seems rather suspicious, just continue wrapping up Kirashu's wounds," Kokiyu left the small hut and gave the young girl a smile before she left Siasku alone with Kirashu.
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"To think, I'm actionably bandaging you, instead of you bandaging me," Kokiyu said with a nervous laugh, watching Kirashu for any signs if he was going to wake up. There was none.
"I hope you're all right Kirashu. Please be all right, you may not know it, but I think of you as a close friend," Siasku said in a desperate voice, as she still carefully bandaged the half-demon's wounds. 'Maybe even more than a close friend,' Siasku thought to herself, and she nearly dropped the bandages at this.
'More than a close friend? Then what is he to me?' She asked herself, knowing the answer, but not wanting to say it, or even think it for she knew the rejection she would be setting herself up for.
"Well, let's just keep it at close friend then. Anyway, you better wake up soon, you big dummy," Siasku said playfully, not noticing that Kirashu was slowly stirring.
"I'm not a big dummy, you're going to pay for that you dumb girl," Kirashu said softly, slowly opening up his eyes and sitting up.
"Kirashu!" The young girl exclaimed as she brought the half-demon into a tight hug, smiling happily as she did this. "What's a matter with you? You're acting like I nearly died, or something like that, you stupid girl," the half-demon said gruffly. Suddenly, a memory hit him, 'Kill girl, I was going to kill her, and I said it too, what came over me?'
"I'm sorry Siasku," Kirashu said softly in the young girl's ear, watching with surprise as she pushed him backwards and nearly landed him against the wall.
"Okay! You still aren't yourself, did you just apologize to me?" Siasku stared suspiciously at Kirashu who was rubbing his arm which had been hurt during the fight.
"What the hell's wrong with you, you stupid girl? I can't even apologize to you for nearly killing you?!"
"Oh, I'm sorry Kirashu, it's just ... that's the first time you've apologized to me, it's kinda, uh, strange. Well, apology accepted, I knew you wouldn't hurt me, even though your demon blood took over," the young girl said with a sweet smile.
"You trust me a lot, don't you Siasku?" Kirashu said in a soft tone, not daring to look into her blue eyes. 'You trust me a little too much,' he added to himself silently, finally looking into her thoughtful blue eyes again.
"Well, yeah, why would I not trust you?" Siasku asked him as she cocked her head to one side.
"Because, I'm a no-good half-demon," Kirashu stated plainly.
"Don't even think that Kirashu! You aren't no-good to me, okay?" The young girl said with fierceness her voice, looking even more deeply into the half-demon's golden eyes.
"Yeah, well, forget about it, I don't even know why I said that, or apologized to you, if you were too dumb to get out of the way and got hurt it would be your own fault not mine."
"Kirashu, I know how you and Sarama were mates, and very close, but just because you weren't able to save her doesn't make you worthless, no-good, or anything like that, don't ever feel that way either," Siasku said with a small smile, as she held onto Kirashu's hand and gave it a light squeeze.
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Sosana walked into the hut just in time to see Siasku hold onto Kirashu's hand and give it a light squeeze, and he cleared his throat at this. The two scattered away from each other immediately, both blushing fiercely but Kirashu was the first to speak, "Sosana, don't you ever knock?!"
'You always were one to come at the wrong time, humph,' Kirashu thought to himself as he gave the man a death glare.
"Sorry to break up the moment, but I want to tell you, Kirashu, that we will have a festival tomorrow in your honor, and your friend's honor also," Sosana said with a perverted smile still plastered on his face.
"A... festival?" Siasku looked at Kirashu and then Sosana, she had never been to a festival before. "Yes, I promise you both, you'll have a fun time, goodnight." Sosana left the two alone again, and Siasku immediately fell asleep, the tiresome day finally catching up with her.
"Hey Kirashu, I'm glad to see you're up. How are you feeling?" Kokiyu asked as she walked into the hut and flashed a smile at the half-demon.
"Yeah, I'm feeling fine, should be healed by tomorrow, that youkai attack was strange ... do you know why they were attacking this particular village?"
"No, to tell you the truth I don't know. I asked around the village and they said they barely ever get attacked by youkai, and that many demons don't just get together and fight, I say someone ordered them, but who?" The two thought about who would have that kind of power over the lesser youkai, but they had no clue and decided to think about it later, since that it had been a long day for them all.
"Goodnight Kirashu," Kokiyu said with a tired smile. 'She looks so much older, so much more mature, it is quite amazing how much she has grown up. She really fought bravely today, Sarama would be very proud if she had watched her.'
"Goodnight Kokiyu", Kirashu said softly to the now sleeping form of the young woman, propping himself against the wall as his eyes drooped and he finally fell asleep.
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Author's Corral:br
No cliffhanger here, decided to take a break from them, next chapter won't have a cliffhanger either. I know this seems to be going VERY slow, but I like it slow, sorry for some of you speedier people, but I like to have a relationship be well developed, not just thrown together. Anyway, the preview for the next chapter is below, hope you enjoyed this one.
Next Chapter:
Looks kind of fun doesn't?" Siasku asked as she looked at the half-demon, smiling as she noticed the look on his face. "Hey, half-demon's don't dance, got it?" Kirashu said roughly, growling slightly at what she was getting at. "I don't know how to dance myself, but I've always wanted to..." Siasku said dreamily, her blue eyes watching the other dancers enviously. 'Damn you woman.' Kirashu thought to himself, he really didn't want to dance, he didn't know how to, and he knew that he would look like a complete idiot if he did. Suddenly, Kirashu caught her blue eyes as she seemed to be looking at him expactantly. "What? Why are you looking at me like that?"