Lesson one: Teacher
It had taken longer then usual to find the Sakurazuka; the family had
obviously been staying "clean" by not doing anything out of the ordinary at
all. They had not killed, they had not tortured, no one had many complaints
of character, no mayhem at all, a perfect calm without a ripple in the
world. It had been sheer luck that one of our people had run across the
father, running around drunk as usual, and had pin pointed where the family
had been staying. It would not do that have any Sakurazuka running to do as
they wished, they were too dangerous. Though most of them were without any
real talent or ability, most of it squandered on incoherence and paranoid
fear, Seishirou seemed to be conscious enough of the threat he still
possessed.
"Seishirou." I murmured softly, a smile spreading across my features.
"I still can't believe he bit you." Hokuto murmured her green eyes on the window, as the car rolled on slow, tedious, but every present speed.
I glanced at her, it was not as though I had forgotten that she was there, she was always there, and for that I was lucky, only the idea had pressed until I was forced to give it some of my attention. It was an odd distribution, but the day had been filled with oddities, my hand pressed a bit harder on the side of my neck where he had in fact bitten me. I was almost sure that the image would haunt me that the idea would give me no peace but for the moment, I gave her a smile. I smiled even if I did not feel like smiling, even to her.
"He is an odd one.he has yet to learn his place."
She chuckled at my tone, it was one I seldomly used, but for some reason she always laughed when I used it.
"Oh Subaru, you are so cute." She grinned at me.
I sighed, no matter what I did it seemed that I would always be cute to my twin sister, it amused me, and warmed me slightly. She did however, make a face at the blood that was running down my neck and touching the dark fabric of my clothes.
"And what place is that Subaru?" She said softly, sitting next to me instead of across from me, taking the handkerchief away gently to look at the wound.
"Beneath Sumeragi, as all Sakurazuka place is-"
"That's now how it looked from where I was standing."
I blinked at her, usually I knew what her allusions were to, but at that particular moment, my mind was drawing a blank.or was it red? The blood that was dripping down my neck was distracting.
"Oh and how did it look to you?"
She looked at me then, her green eyes not teasing for a moment, " Well, he kissed you for one thing.good thing there was no film in that camera or grandmother would have done more then squealed-"
"Ho-"
"No, its not that there was a kiss, its that you did not see it coming, you are usually so much more defensive then to let a Sakurazuka touch you like that, you actually let him-"
"But-"
"And then you were so surprised afterwards you actually allowed him to run away from us. The moment that he was close enough you should have knocked him out, not let him kiss you and then randomly walk off you are better magician then that-" She was trying in between sentences to fix the bit that he had given me, but it was not reacting to the spell work that she was administering.
"Yes but-"
"And then there was this.I mean he bit you. And you just stood there, he was choking you, and you didn't stop him. I had do it. I saw your hand you had the power to push him off of you at any time.and you didn't.just waiting for unconsciousness or blood loss to set it Subaru? Or." there was a sly pause, as she smiled, "Where you hoping for another kiss."
I made a sound that was something close to a snort and a laugh, whenever she teased me like that, I was blushing though, I could feel it. She noticed immediately.
"Ah, is that what you wanted? Mmm was it that good, you know I wasn't kidding when I said I wanted to see the two of you together.you looked very good with his arm around you mmm?" she laughed as her green eyes never left mine, "And then you did kiss him back didn't you Subaru-"
"It was a distraction-"
"Your feelings were hurt that he had just walked away after the kiss.you didn't need a distraction.you just need to knock him out. But you chose to distract him ne? Mmm.you two did match rather well.and I must say you do need to get someone of your own Subaru-"
"He's a Sakur-"
"Oh who cares? He changed his last name didn't he? You two looked good together, flirting all that time-" "Fl-flirting?" My mouth was somewhat dry.
"You can't hide it from me. And he is a Sakurazuka so he can't really flirt normally now can he? I mean.I guess you could look at the bite as a love bite, and the hand around the throat as a way to make sure that you would not get away." She paused in pressing the handkerchief to my neck, "It sounds romantic-"
"Hokuto."
"Besides, you have been hunting him for a long while, you could have gone in and gotten him weeks ago, but instead you just watched. You do have an interest, and if you know you wanted to.get to know him better I am just saying that he would be a good choice-"
"HOKUTO!!" I squirmed uncomfortable now, it was no good, I could already tell by her tone, that I would be hounded about this until the day I died. She was stubborn like that-
"Whhhhhhhaaaaaaaaat? I think its romantic.you and him. If you could have seen the way you were looking at him, and the way he was looking at you-"
"What you mean like I was good enough to eat?"
Hokuto grinned triumphantly, before saying as though it was a great secret, "Yes.but in a good way.I mean he even tried.and he didn't even go for an artiery which he would have it would have been his intention to kill you.he just wanted a taste-"
"Of blood-"
Hokuto giggled, " I always thought you would be kinky Subaru.you are a hunter after all.and that goes with the territory-"
"Oh I must have skipped over that in the handbook-"
"Yes it was right next to the other cardinal rule."
"Oh and what's that?"
It was then that she leaned over and whispered something, that I had never thought I would hear from my sister. My eyes flew open.
"Wh-what?"
"You heard me.I know it is bound to happen and that is the other cardinal rule." She gave me one of her more grand smiles, and winked at me.
I arched a brow, knowing very well that I was blushing, I wanted to fold into the car seat but it seemed that Seishirou chose at that exact moment to open, his eyes a crack, the effects of the spell that held his arms and legs still working.but the sleeping one wearing then.
"Where-"
"Ooh look whose up?" Hokuto said cheerfully.
His eyes opened sharply looking at her for a moment, before flickering over to me, he spoke again more deliberately, "Where are you taking me, Sumeragi?"
"Home." I said simply, it occurred to me, that he was staring rather heatedly at my neck, and if I was not mistaken, his lip twitched slightly.
"You have come to your senses then but I think you are going the wrong way, my home is-"
"My home, Seishirou-san." I said softly, watching him carefully.
He turned his head away from me and towards the window. My heart seemed to slow in its beating, before he glanced back at me. His golden eyes seemed less cold, in the silence, before he spoke calmly, " My mother warned me about crossing the street.I should have listened to her.it looks at though I got hit after all." He was speaking to himself, vaguely but looking at me.
"Some things are only a matter of time."
"So it seems."
"Sumeragi-san we are coming up upon the house." The driver's voice piped in on the intercom.
There was no more conversation in the car, that night.
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His fate has been decided and I oddly enough had most of the control over what was to done with him. Grandmother of course wanted him doing something menial and brain numbing, but I had countered despite myself, to have him be something of an assistant of mine. He was after all, something of a magician, this I knew and it was a waste of his talents for him to merely let them fall to the dust. I gave it in the perspective that he would be undoing the damage of his family by helping our cause a bit, under complete supervision of course. She had been hard to convince, but eventually had bent to my will. It was probably the reaction I had been so listless as of late concerning most of the duties that I was obligatory in my duties, that she had probably jumped at the chance of some life. It was considerably dark in my room still, and I gazed up at the ceiling, though I was almost positive that everyone else in my house was asleep, I was still awake. And what is it I found was floating into my mind, but Seishirou. It was not his place, and yet.I still found that he lingered. Hokuto was just teasing me, she did worry so, there was nothing supporting what she had said at all. The Sakurazuka could not be trusted, and I was not longing for company so much that I would betray my clan for it.and yet.
I shifted on my bed, so that I was lying on my stomach my chin propped up with my hand, and I stared into the darkness accusingly, as though it was the reason that Seishirou had not yet faded from my thoughts. I after all had a sense of honor, I could not just do what I wanted, do as I felt, I had more then myself to think of, Seishirou was not a person, but a Sakurazuka, and as such was a threat to the people of Japan, and my clan.
Still.I twisted in the covers, so that I was now lying on my back. I had not expected for him, to look so lonely as he walked do that street. His movements had been liquid enough but, there seemed to be a sweet sadness to which he wandered. It was obvious that he had no purpose. I had waited until the last possible moment to step out of the car, and go to a place where I could be seen as had been the plan. It was true, I had been surprised by the kiss, all the times that I had been watching him, slowly carefully. He had never had any behavior that suggested that he touched anyway, with any of his parents, with the infrequent people that he spoke with, he avoided contact with them, as though they all had the plague and but.
My hand went to my neck, my sister had a point. He had not touched anything that would have been fatal, when he had bitten me, and I was not foolish enough to believe that he had not been trained on where the critical areas of strike were. It was funny then, that he had missed something like that, though his clan was all but a tiger whose claws and teeth that have been removed or filed down, he had retained a bite. And it had not hurt as much as it had given a feeling.of...pleasure? No, no I must be tired, to even come up with anything like that.
I rolled over, it was strange, but it was almost as if, it was the kiss that had messed everything up, and try though I may I could not smooth it over. My hands that were so sure, so careful somehow could not stop shaking enough to straighten this ripple. Well, it was not as if it mattered, he would stop biting soon enough. By then I would not have to worry that.he was the only one who had actually gotten a bite.or care because he would be in his place.beneath me.
I squeezed my eyes shut, but try as I might, his teeth piercing my flesh did not pause, the vague feeling of not being able to breath, the soft warmth, pouring down my neck.
Though in my dreams.that night.and maybe it was because of my sister.but he.did kiss me.and I.I returned it.
Lesson one: Teacher End
"Seishirou." I murmured softly, a smile spreading across my features.
"I still can't believe he bit you." Hokuto murmured her green eyes on the window, as the car rolled on slow, tedious, but every present speed.
I glanced at her, it was not as though I had forgotten that she was there, she was always there, and for that I was lucky, only the idea had pressed until I was forced to give it some of my attention. It was an odd distribution, but the day had been filled with oddities, my hand pressed a bit harder on the side of my neck where he had in fact bitten me. I was almost sure that the image would haunt me that the idea would give me no peace but for the moment, I gave her a smile. I smiled even if I did not feel like smiling, even to her.
"He is an odd one.he has yet to learn his place."
She chuckled at my tone, it was one I seldomly used, but for some reason she always laughed when I used it.
"Oh Subaru, you are so cute." She grinned at me.
I sighed, no matter what I did it seemed that I would always be cute to my twin sister, it amused me, and warmed me slightly. She did however, make a face at the blood that was running down my neck and touching the dark fabric of my clothes.
"And what place is that Subaru?" She said softly, sitting next to me instead of across from me, taking the handkerchief away gently to look at the wound.
"Beneath Sumeragi, as all Sakurazuka place is-"
"That's now how it looked from where I was standing."
I blinked at her, usually I knew what her allusions were to, but at that particular moment, my mind was drawing a blank.or was it red? The blood that was dripping down my neck was distracting.
"Oh and how did it look to you?"
She looked at me then, her green eyes not teasing for a moment, " Well, he kissed you for one thing.good thing there was no film in that camera or grandmother would have done more then squealed-"
"Ho-"
"No, its not that there was a kiss, its that you did not see it coming, you are usually so much more defensive then to let a Sakurazuka touch you like that, you actually let him-"
"But-"
"And then you were so surprised afterwards you actually allowed him to run away from us. The moment that he was close enough you should have knocked him out, not let him kiss you and then randomly walk off you are better magician then that-" She was trying in between sentences to fix the bit that he had given me, but it was not reacting to the spell work that she was administering.
"Yes but-"
"And then there was this.I mean he bit you. And you just stood there, he was choking you, and you didn't stop him. I had do it. I saw your hand you had the power to push him off of you at any time.and you didn't.just waiting for unconsciousness or blood loss to set it Subaru? Or." there was a sly pause, as she smiled, "Where you hoping for another kiss."
I made a sound that was something close to a snort and a laugh, whenever she teased me like that, I was blushing though, I could feel it. She noticed immediately.
"Ah, is that what you wanted? Mmm was it that good, you know I wasn't kidding when I said I wanted to see the two of you together.you looked very good with his arm around you mmm?" she laughed as her green eyes never left mine, "And then you did kiss him back didn't you Subaru-"
"It was a distraction-"
"Your feelings were hurt that he had just walked away after the kiss.you didn't need a distraction.you just need to knock him out. But you chose to distract him ne? Mmm.you two did match rather well.and I must say you do need to get someone of your own Subaru-"
"He's a Sakur-"
"Oh who cares? He changed his last name didn't he? You two looked good together, flirting all that time-" "Fl-flirting?" My mouth was somewhat dry.
"You can't hide it from me. And he is a Sakurazuka so he can't really flirt normally now can he? I mean.I guess you could look at the bite as a love bite, and the hand around the throat as a way to make sure that you would not get away." She paused in pressing the handkerchief to my neck, "It sounds romantic-"
"Hokuto."
"Besides, you have been hunting him for a long while, you could have gone in and gotten him weeks ago, but instead you just watched. You do have an interest, and if you know you wanted to.get to know him better I am just saying that he would be a good choice-"
"HOKUTO!!" I squirmed uncomfortable now, it was no good, I could already tell by her tone, that I would be hounded about this until the day I died. She was stubborn like that-
"Whhhhhhhaaaaaaaaat? I think its romantic.you and him. If you could have seen the way you were looking at him, and the way he was looking at you-"
"What you mean like I was good enough to eat?"
Hokuto grinned triumphantly, before saying as though it was a great secret, "Yes.but in a good way.I mean he even tried.and he didn't even go for an artiery which he would have it would have been his intention to kill you.he just wanted a taste-"
"Of blood-"
Hokuto giggled, " I always thought you would be kinky Subaru.you are a hunter after all.and that goes with the territory-"
"Oh I must have skipped over that in the handbook-"
"Yes it was right next to the other cardinal rule."
"Oh and what's that?"
It was then that she leaned over and whispered something, that I had never thought I would hear from my sister. My eyes flew open.
"Wh-what?"
"You heard me.I know it is bound to happen and that is the other cardinal rule." She gave me one of her more grand smiles, and winked at me.
I arched a brow, knowing very well that I was blushing, I wanted to fold into the car seat but it seemed that Seishirou chose at that exact moment to open, his eyes a crack, the effects of the spell that held his arms and legs still working.but the sleeping one wearing then.
"Where-"
"Ooh look whose up?" Hokuto said cheerfully.
His eyes opened sharply looking at her for a moment, before flickering over to me, he spoke again more deliberately, "Where are you taking me, Sumeragi?"
"Home." I said simply, it occurred to me, that he was staring rather heatedly at my neck, and if I was not mistaken, his lip twitched slightly.
"You have come to your senses then but I think you are going the wrong way, my home is-"
"My home, Seishirou-san." I said softly, watching him carefully.
He turned his head away from me and towards the window. My heart seemed to slow in its beating, before he glanced back at me. His golden eyes seemed less cold, in the silence, before he spoke calmly, " My mother warned me about crossing the street.I should have listened to her.it looks at though I got hit after all." He was speaking to himself, vaguely but looking at me.
"Some things are only a matter of time."
"So it seems."
"Sumeragi-san we are coming up upon the house." The driver's voice piped in on the intercom.
There was no more conversation in the car, that night.
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His fate has been decided and I oddly enough had most of the control over what was to done with him. Grandmother of course wanted him doing something menial and brain numbing, but I had countered despite myself, to have him be something of an assistant of mine. He was after all, something of a magician, this I knew and it was a waste of his talents for him to merely let them fall to the dust. I gave it in the perspective that he would be undoing the damage of his family by helping our cause a bit, under complete supervision of course. She had been hard to convince, but eventually had bent to my will. It was probably the reaction I had been so listless as of late concerning most of the duties that I was obligatory in my duties, that she had probably jumped at the chance of some life. It was considerably dark in my room still, and I gazed up at the ceiling, though I was almost positive that everyone else in my house was asleep, I was still awake. And what is it I found was floating into my mind, but Seishirou. It was not his place, and yet.I still found that he lingered. Hokuto was just teasing me, she did worry so, there was nothing supporting what she had said at all. The Sakurazuka could not be trusted, and I was not longing for company so much that I would betray my clan for it.and yet.
I shifted on my bed, so that I was lying on my stomach my chin propped up with my hand, and I stared into the darkness accusingly, as though it was the reason that Seishirou had not yet faded from my thoughts. I after all had a sense of honor, I could not just do what I wanted, do as I felt, I had more then myself to think of, Seishirou was not a person, but a Sakurazuka, and as such was a threat to the people of Japan, and my clan.
Still.I twisted in the covers, so that I was now lying on my back. I had not expected for him, to look so lonely as he walked do that street. His movements had been liquid enough but, there seemed to be a sweet sadness to which he wandered. It was obvious that he had no purpose. I had waited until the last possible moment to step out of the car, and go to a place where I could be seen as had been the plan. It was true, I had been surprised by the kiss, all the times that I had been watching him, slowly carefully. He had never had any behavior that suggested that he touched anyway, with any of his parents, with the infrequent people that he spoke with, he avoided contact with them, as though they all had the plague and but.
My hand went to my neck, my sister had a point. He had not touched anything that would have been fatal, when he had bitten me, and I was not foolish enough to believe that he had not been trained on where the critical areas of strike were. It was funny then, that he had missed something like that, though his clan was all but a tiger whose claws and teeth that have been removed or filed down, he had retained a bite. And it had not hurt as much as it had given a feeling.of...pleasure? No, no I must be tired, to even come up with anything like that.
I rolled over, it was strange, but it was almost as if, it was the kiss that had messed everything up, and try though I may I could not smooth it over. My hands that were so sure, so careful somehow could not stop shaking enough to straighten this ripple. Well, it was not as if it mattered, he would stop biting soon enough. By then I would not have to worry that.he was the only one who had actually gotten a bite.or care because he would be in his place.beneath me.
I squeezed my eyes shut, but try as I might, his teeth piercing my flesh did not pause, the vague feeling of not being able to breath, the soft warmth, pouring down my neck.
Though in my dreams.that night.and maybe it was because of my sister.but he.did kiss me.and I.I returned it.
Lesson one: Teacher End