Chapter 13- Discussions
I dumped my armful load of wooden planks behind Recca and the gorilla, both trying to cover up the hole in Kagero's wall. Whacking Recca lightly upside the head, I knelt down next to him and grinned.
"Ne, why do we have to help fix the wall?" I asked, grinning at Domon. "When~"
"~it was a certain sea monkey who made the hole." Mikagami finished, earning a sweatdrop from all three of us. Recca gritted his teeth to stop himself from breaking a board on Mikagami's head.
'Not exactly what I would've said but . . .' I looked sideways at the angry chibi Recca who hammered in another board with more force than necessary. 'I think I like this reaction more . . .'
"You have to stay still, Fuuko." Yanagi said patiently, trying to keep Fuuko from jumping up.
"Yanagi-chan," Fuuko replied in a voice that sounded just as patient. "I'm fine, I'm just gonna go and help everyone fix the mess we made in Kagero-san's house." I glanced behind me and looked at Fuuko, who looked bored out of her mind.
I went back outside to the small, forested area outside of Kagero's house and looked up at the sky. "Damn . . . they have no idea how fucking nice this looks . . ." I said to myself, grinning at the azure heavens above me, dotted with white fluffy clouds that migrated slowly in the winds. Involuntarily, a shudder racked my body as I remembered the bleak, silent darkness of Kage's dimension. "Bastard . . . I'm not a bloody kid afraid of the dark but . . . anyone would be . . . anyone would hate being in that place."
"Koganei! Get more boards!" Recca shouted from inside the house. I sighed and stored away my musings for later.
"Wakatta!!" I shouted, heading off.
It had taken an excruciating amount of time, but we finally boarded up the huge hole that Recca had made in his mom's house. We sat down on the cushions that surrounded the fire pit, that mess had been cleaned up by Yanagi as I lugged heavy planks about the house and surrounding area.
"Thank you for helping me clean up the mess." Kagero said, handing out food that she had prepared, before settling down onto her own cushion.
"Don't worry about it, Kagero-san!" Fuuko replied cheerfully, her chibi face smiling widely. "We made the mess, we should clean it up!"
"Well . . ." I began, a small grin forming on my face. "It wasn't all us . . . it was mostly~" A death glare from Recca persuaded me to shut my mouth.
"~a sea monkey's doings." Mikagami finished once again. Recca turned to glare at him but Mikagami's face turned serious as he turned to face the rest of the Hokage. "The main reason this place got so damaged, however, is because of Kage . . . or the man who calls himself that."
As I looked, the grins and smiles melted off of my friends' faces, leaving grim, serious visages. I glanced over at Recca, who was looking down at the floor, his teeth gritted tightly and his hands balled into tight fists.
"Does anyone have any idea why Kage wants to destroy the madougus and Yanagi-san?" Mikagami asked. "Or can hazard a guess?" (A/N: gomen I think he's very OOC . . . ^^;)
"Maybe its something to do with the Urabutosatojin," Fuuko said, resting her chin on her palm. "He knows about our participation in it, and plenty of people were hurt during the fights . . ."
"Maybe he was fighting in it!" Domon said, leaning forwards. "Dat's why he has the madougu!"
I leaned back, stifling a sigh. 'They seem to be enjoying this discussion . . .' I thought to myself. 'But there are a shit-load too many maybes in there for me to trust. There's no bloody point in this . . .'
I looked around at my teammates, Domon, Fuuko, Kagero and Mikagami seemed engrossed in their little debate. Recca and Yanagi, however, were both staring at the ground, offering no pieces of wisdom to the discussion. 'They seem to be enjoying this as much as I am . . .' A small smirk appeared briefly on my face before disappearing again.
A sigh escaped my lips, this time I didn't bother attempting to mask it. The discussions had gone on for an hour, and I was getting fucking sick of it. The vein standing out on Recca's forehead testified that he felt likewise.
"Maybe he was one of the Uruha!" Domon shouted brightly. Fuuko grinned and nodded.
"That's why he wants to kill Yanagi . . ." Fuuko mumbled, then thought for a moment. "Or then wouldn't he want to capture her for Kouran?" Mikagami nodded and then mumbled another reason.
"Why the can't these assholes leave Hime alone??" Recca shouted, jumping up to his feet. "Why the hell do they wanna hurt her??" I glanced at Yanagi who was still kneeling on her cushion, eyes downcast and expression full of sadness.
"That's what we're trying to find out." Mikagami replied calmly, also standing up.
"How the hell are you fucking finding out why??" Recca bellowed, pointing a finger in Mikagami's face. "This is getting nowhere!!" I gritted my teeth as well at Mikagami's calm answer.
"We're trying our best to find out."
"Why does it fucking matter if people wanna fucking hurt Yanagi? Why they fucking wanna destroy the madougus?" I said calmly, other than the multiple swear words that popped into my sentence. Standing up also, I faced the rest of the Hokage, my gaze resting on Yanagi's sad face for a moment longer.
"All we gotta do is protect Yanagi." I finished, staring at both Recca and Mikagami with a hint of a glare in my eyes. Recca blinked once, then grinned at me. Mikagami, however, turned to me with that calm look still on his face.
"If we discover the motives behind his actions, it will increase the chance of us defeating him."
"And I'm sure all this guessing is fucking working!" I shouted at him, sarcasm evident in the tone of my voice. Mikagami's expression didn't change, he was used to Recca and Domon loosing their temper with him. I bent down to pick up kougon anki and straightened with it in my grip.
"Koganei . . . wat're you doing . . .?" Recca asked nervously, backing off a few paces. I turned and started walking towards the door. "Where the hell do you think you're going??"
"Isn't it obvious?" I replied, not looking back. "Out. I can't listen to this crap any longer." I went down a stair when I heard Mikagami step outside as well.
"Why don't you take Yanagi-san with you?" I stopped in midstep and stumbled down the rest of the stairs onto the green grass. Turning to look at him with wide eyes, I heard Recca's shout from inside the house.
"WHAT????" Recca bellowed, rushing out to slam into Mikagami. "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU~" Mikagami covered his mouth quickly with one hand, earning a stunned silence from the flame caster.
"I don't think Yanagi-san is enjoying these discussions either . . ." Mikagami said slightly slowly, eying Recca nervously. "Maybe she also shout go out . . . If you're with her she's relatively safe from Kage."
I looked from Mikagami's face to Recca's, who looked like he was going to bite Mikagami's hand off in a minute. Then I turned my gaze to Yanagi who had stepped outside and was standing off to the side, her head still bowed.
Shrugging, I turned around and walked through the grass towards the secret tunnel that led back to the outside world. I heard Yanagi's soft footsteps falling behind me as we entered the dark tunnel and smiled slightly.
((Recca POV))
I smacked Mikagami's arm aside. "What the fuck's wrong with you Mikagami??? Why the hell did you send Hime with Koganei?!"
"I'm trying to draw Kage out, onto a battle field of our own choosing. That's why we must leave now, so we can follow them." I blinked.
"So . . . you did this to get Kage?" I asked, cracking my knuckles. He ignored me and appeared to be thinking. Domon and Fuuko came out of the house to watch us, and sweatdropped as Mikagami turned chibi.
"I'm hoping to, at least . . . to get a battle where we aren't caught completely off guard . . ."
"TEME!!" I shouted at him, grabbing the front of his shirt. "You're using Hime as bait to get a fucking battle like that??" Mikagami sweatdropped once, then nodded.
"But we have to go quickly, or we'll lose them." He replied nervously, looking towards the tunnel entrance. I frowned but let go of his shirt front.
"Don't think I've fucking forgiven you yet."
"Don't worry, I don't."
Chapter 13- END
Moonlight2: Arigatou for da review, tho I just realize in HMR I wrote ur nick as moonlight12 gomen! ~bows~ Yami no tenshi: ~sweatdrops~ dun think Kage would give the Hokage an insulting nickname for them to call him . . . would be funny if he did ^^ Bad guy: You . . . may call me Kagecchi-chan . . . a childish sort of name . . . to be used by a childish lot of people . . . Hokage: ~sweatdrops~ baaaaka . . .
I dumped my armful load of wooden planks behind Recca and the gorilla, both trying to cover up the hole in Kagero's wall. Whacking Recca lightly upside the head, I knelt down next to him and grinned.
"Ne, why do we have to help fix the wall?" I asked, grinning at Domon. "When~"
"~it was a certain sea monkey who made the hole." Mikagami finished, earning a sweatdrop from all three of us. Recca gritted his teeth to stop himself from breaking a board on Mikagami's head.
'Not exactly what I would've said but . . .' I looked sideways at the angry chibi Recca who hammered in another board with more force than necessary. 'I think I like this reaction more . . .'
"You have to stay still, Fuuko." Yanagi said patiently, trying to keep Fuuko from jumping up.
"Yanagi-chan," Fuuko replied in a voice that sounded just as patient. "I'm fine, I'm just gonna go and help everyone fix the mess we made in Kagero-san's house." I glanced behind me and looked at Fuuko, who looked bored out of her mind.
I went back outside to the small, forested area outside of Kagero's house and looked up at the sky. "Damn . . . they have no idea how fucking nice this looks . . ." I said to myself, grinning at the azure heavens above me, dotted with white fluffy clouds that migrated slowly in the winds. Involuntarily, a shudder racked my body as I remembered the bleak, silent darkness of Kage's dimension. "Bastard . . . I'm not a bloody kid afraid of the dark but . . . anyone would be . . . anyone would hate being in that place."
"Koganei! Get more boards!" Recca shouted from inside the house. I sighed and stored away my musings for later.
"Wakatta!!" I shouted, heading off.
It had taken an excruciating amount of time, but we finally boarded up the huge hole that Recca had made in his mom's house. We sat down on the cushions that surrounded the fire pit, that mess had been cleaned up by Yanagi as I lugged heavy planks about the house and surrounding area.
"Thank you for helping me clean up the mess." Kagero said, handing out food that she had prepared, before settling down onto her own cushion.
"Don't worry about it, Kagero-san!" Fuuko replied cheerfully, her chibi face smiling widely. "We made the mess, we should clean it up!"
"Well . . ." I began, a small grin forming on my face. "It wasn't all us . . . it was mostly~" A death glare from Recca persuaded me to shut my mouth.
"~a sea monkey's doings." Mikagami finished once again. Recca turned to glare at him but Mikagami's face turned serious as he turned to face the rest of the Hokage. "The main reason this place got so damaged, however, is because of Kage . . . or the man who calls himself that."
As I looked, the grins and smiles melted off of my friends' faces, leaving grim, serious visages. I glanced over at Recca, who was looking down at the floor, his teeth gritted tightly and his hands balled into tight fists.
"Does anyone have any idea why Kage wants to destroy the madougus and Yanagi-san?" Mikagami asked. "Or can hazard a guess?" (A/N: gomen I think he's very OOC . . . ^^;)
"Maybe its something to do with the Urabutosatojin," Fuuko said, resting her chin on her palm. "He knows about our participation in it, and plenty of people were hurt during the fights . . ."
"Maybe he was fighting in it!" Domon said, leaning forwards. "Dat's why he has the madougu!"
I leaned back, stifling a sigh. 'They seem to be enjoying this discussion . . .' I thought to myself. 'But there are a shit-load too many maybes in there for me to trust. There's no bloody point in this . . .'
I looked around at my teammates, Domon, Fuuko, Kagero and Mikagami seemed engrossed in their little debate. Recca and Yanagi, however, were both staring at the ground, offering no pieces of wisdom to the discussion. 'They seem to be enjoying this as much as I am . . .' A small smirk appeared briefly on my face before disappearing again.
A sigh escaped my lips, this time I didn't bother attempting to mask it. The discussions had gone on for an hour, and I was getting fucking sick of it. The vein standing out on Recca's forehead testified that he felt likewise.
"Maybe he was one of the Uruha!" Domon shouted brightly. Fuuko grinned and nodded.
"That's why he wants to kill Yanagi . . ." Fuuko mumbled, then thought for a moment. "Or then wouldn't he want to capture her for Kouran?" Mikagami nodded and then mumbled another reason.
"Why the can't these assholes leave Hime alone??" Recca shouted, jumping up to his feet. "Why the hell do they wanna hurt her??" I glanced at Yanagi who was still kneeling on her cushion, eyes downcast and expression full of sadness.
"That's what we're trying to find out." Mikagami replied calmly, also standing up.
"How the hell are you fucking finding out why??" Recca bellowed, pointing a finger in Mikagami's face. "This is getting nowhere!!" I gritted my teeth as well at Mikagami's calm answer.
"We're trying our best to find out."
"Why does it fucking matter if people wanna fucking hurt Yanagi? Why they fucking wanna destroy the madougus?" I said calmly, other than the multiple swear words that popped into my sentence. Standing up also, I faced the rest of the Hokage, my gaze resting on Yanagi's sad face for a moment longer.
"All we gotta do is protect Yanagi." I finished, staring at both Recca and Mikagami with a hint of a glare in my eyes. Recca blinked once, then grinned at me. Mikagami, however, turned to me with that calm look still on his face.
"If we discover the motives behind his actions, it will increase the chance of us defeating him."
"And I'm sure all this guessing is fucking working!" I shouted at him, sarcasm evident in the tone of my voice. Mikagami's expression didn't change, he was used to Recca and Domon loosing their temper with him. I bent down to pick up kougon anki and straightened with it in my grip.
"Koganei . . . wat're you doing . . .?" Recca asked nervously, backing off a few paces. I turned and started walking towards the door. "Where the hell do you think you're going??"
"Isn't it obvious?" I replied, not looking back. "Out. I can't listen to this crap any longer." I went down a stair when I heard Mikagami step outside as well.
"Why don't you take Yanagi-san with you?" I stopped in midstep and stumbled down the rest of the stairs onto the green grass. Turning to look at him with wide eyes, I heard Recca's shout from inside the house.
"WHAT????" Recca bellowed, rushing out to slam into Mikagami. "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU~" Mikagami covered his mouth quickly with one hand, earning a stunned silence from the flame caster.
"I don't think Yanagi-san is enjoying these discussions either . . ." Mikagami said slightly slowly, eying Recca nervously. "Maybe she also shout go out . . . If you're with her she's relatively safe from Kage."
I looked from Mikagami's face to Recca's, who looked like he was going to bite Mikagami's hand off in a minute. Then I turned my gaze to Yanagi who had stepped outside and was standing off to the side, her head still bowed.
Shrugging, I turned around and walked through the grass towards the secret tunnel that led back to the outside world. I heard Yanagi's soft footsteps falling behind me as we entered the dark tunnel and smiled slightly.
((Recca POV))
I smacked Mikagami's arm aside. "What the fuck's wrong with you Mikagami??? Why the hell did you send Hime with Koganei?!"
"I'm trying to draw Kage out, onto a battle field of our own choosing. That's why we must leave now, so we can follow them." I blinked.
"So . . . you did this to get Kage?" I asked, cracking my knuckles. He ignored me and appeared to be thinking. Domon and Fuuko came out of the house to watch us, and sweatdropped as Mikagami turned chibi.
"I'm hoping to, at least . . . to get a battle where we aren't caught completely off guard . . ."
"TEME!!" I shouted at him, grabbing the front of his shirt. "You're using Hime as bait to get a fucking battle like that??" Mikagami sweatdropped once, then nodded.
"But we have to go quickly, or we'll lose them." He replied nervously, looking towards the tunnel entrance. I frowned but let go of his shirt front.
"Don't think I've fucking forgiven you yet."
"Don't worry, I don't."
Chapter 13- END
Moonlight2: Arigatou for da review, tho I just realize in HMR I wrote ur nick as moonlight12 gomen! ~bows~ Yami no tenshi: ~sweatdrops~ dun think Kage would give the Hokage an insulting nickname for them to call him . . . would be funny if he did ^^ Bad guy: You . . . may call me Kagecchi-chan . . . a childish sort of name . . . to be used by a childish lot of people . . . Hokage: ~sweatdrops~ baaaaka . . .