.·¤**¤·..·¤**¤·.
.·¤**¤·.Eyes Clouded By Love.·¤**¤·.
¤ By: Telpelindewen ¤
¤ Chapter Three ¤
Ashitaka dropped the brush that he had been using for San's tangled hair, "WHAT?" He asked her hopefully. Hoping that he hadn't heard wrong.
"Now I know you heard me Ash, I'm going with you on this… journey to your village, but I have a few conditions."
"What are they?" He was smiling now knowing that he wouldn't go on his journey alone.
"One, I want to bring two of the pups with us, and two… we are coming back aren't we?" She asked looking around at him, not having any idea what his reply would be.
"Of course we are, Iron Town isn't my home, and nether is that village anymore. I don't think I'm even allowed to go back dead or alive… but the rules have never stopped me before."
"Okay then… it's a deal, let's get some sleep."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Um… Seamy where in the world is your bucket?" Toki looked around for it in her hut.
"I dunno…" Seamy refused to make eye contact.
"Seamy, what happened to your bucket?" Toki looked at Seamy who winced.
She looked at Toki sheepishly, "I… lost it?"
"It's okay but I want to know what happened to it."
Seamy had tears in her eyes, "Oh it was awful Toki! He wouldn't take the water, even though I had brought it and it was my day off and now I feel helpless and I don't have my bucket and…"
"Whoa, Seamy, slow down. Tell me what happened." Toki and Seamy sat on the metal bench.
So Seamy told Toki about how she left her bucket with the mean man.
"So why don't you go get it back?"
"I don't want to, he was mean and well, I think I really like him."
"You really are something! What about if I go retrieve it for you?"
"You would do that for me?! Wait a minute… are you going to say something to him?" Seamy looked accusingly at Toki.
"Me? Why in the world would I do anything like that?" She turned away towards the blacksmith's hut where Beau was holding a metal horseshoe in the fire.
"Hello there Beau!" Toki leaned against the wall.
"What do you want Toki? I'm not up to favors today." He didn't have to look up to know that there was a girl in the bushes looking at them both.
"Why! You're smiling. You should do it much more often it makes you look much younger. Why are you smiling anyway?" Toki was looking at him.
"You can tell your friend, in the bushes there, that if she wants her bucket she'll have to come get it herself." He pointed to the bucket which he picked up and took three mighty gulps from it.
Seamy who had been watching this whole thing was furious that he wouldn't give Toki her bucket back and that he was purposely tantalizing her with drinking from it.
"So, what do you think of her Beau?" Toki looked at Seamy who had come out of the bushes and stood with her arms crossed.
"Well I think she's gorgeous, but I'm not looking for a wife."
"Yeah, but she's not Hemsi, Beau. She likes you."
"Yeah I can tell. But I'm not interested." He turned away.
Liar, Toki thought.
"So what do you say that you give the bucket back to her.
"No I rather like the bucket, and besides she's looks cute when she's mad." He winked at Toki.
"I am not cute, and I am not mad I'm furious! Why won't you give me the bucket back?" Seamy finally approached listening to the conversation the whole time. All the other black smiths started to listen in to what was happening, especially with the two most beautiful women at their presence.
"Because you never asked for it back." He looked like he outsmarted her.
"Well may I have it back than." She asked her face red.
"I'll think about it then." He said and went back to his work.
"Oh I don't think so!" Toki took Seamy's bucket and handed it to her while his back was turned and then she took the water and threw it on him storming out with a laughing Toki. All the men were laughing at the steamed Beau. It's looked as if he had met his match.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Nox caelum foveo
Amare vestis inhalo membrana
Amare contages
Amare coma sub sol
Foveo ita beneficium
Abnocto
Nunquam permitto eternus
TRANSLATES AS:
The night sky warmth
Like a blanket breathing upon my skin
A lovers touch
Like the rays beneath the sun
A warmth so right
All through the night
Never let it end
Ashitaka woke to someone's beautiful singing voice. It was still dark outside, but when he reached out his arm for San she wasn't in her usual resting spot. He sat up quickly to look around and didn't see her.
The voice came back again and sang with a melody so sweet to the sway of the trees, almost as if it were helping them grow. He wanted to fall back asleep to the soft tune but he didn't want to sleep without San by his side.
He found her by the river under which the caves overlooked. It had a silver gleam to it from the moon. San was playing with the rippled in the water. Ashitaka watched from a distance and listened to her beautiful voice. The lyrics were strange to him though as though he had heard the tune before but not the words. Ashitaka stepped out into the open where then San paused but when she recognized his scent she kept singing and then held out her hand to him. He took it to where she sat down and he sat with her. He leaned his head against her and almost fell asleep to her voice when Gyro, the all black pup started howling. San smiled.
"San I love your song, but you should be sleeping. A princess needs her beauty sleep ya know." Ashitaka wanted the dark circle to go away under her eyes.
"I can't sleep… I'm afraid to sleep. I don't want to sleep with that nightmare in my head." She placed her head in her hands.
Ashitaka took San in his arms and carried her back to the cave where he sat down with her in his arms. He placed her in between Inispa, Natsumi, and Gyro. They didn't awaken with her weight, and so she fell asleep straight away.
'San I worry over you. What if Moro is trying to tell you something?' Ashitaka wondered to himself. He then laid down and slept…
Oh Ashitaka you are a smart boy aren't you? I think that you would be good for my young and now growing San. She's beautiful and now getting old enough to leave the forest whenever she wants. I know that she doesn't want to leave the forest with you but then again she likes you just as much to leave. Oh I'm rambling to a human, what on Earth is wrong with me now. Tell San to listen, to just listen. And then Moro disappeared down a long winding road that glittered gold.
Then Ashitaka heard the song again the one that San had been singing earlier that evening over looking the beautiful trees with their glistening leaves. But this time there were different words.
Sequi vester illac
As verus carminis
Moth ad flamma
Promitto tempus fugit
Flamma ad moth
Paulisper mundus degero vester ab
Translate as:
Follow your path
To the right melody
Moth to the flame
Let time fly
Flame to the moth
While the world pass you by
He awoke knowing that as soon as he put San back to sleep that she had waken yet again for the song in his sleep was hers and only hers. The songs were song in an old Latinal language (or Latin for short). San was waiting with Gyro and one of the other white pups ready and waiting to leave for their journey of faith
She winked, "Common Ashitaka lets go." She hopped up on the white wolf and pointed to Yakkul. "Is he coming?"
Ashitaka looked over at Yakkul who just looked back at him confused. "Yes, I'm sure he'd like to go back to his homeland, wouldn't you boy?"
Gyro saw that his cousin was able to have a rider and when he didn't he wined at Yakkul who would have Ashitaka for a rider.
"I think that he wants you to ride him Ash." San commented at Gyro's wine.
"Oh well alright then. I would love to, but Yakkul you'll just have to follow okay?" Ashitaka hopped onto the all black wolf's back and whistled to Yakkul. "Don't worry Moon, Nuke, we'll take good care of them!" Ashy shouted to them as they rode off.
"It should only take us three or four days to reach the village of the Amishi people." Ashitaka looked forward to the journey. And San only nodded as she watched the forest behind her, her home, disappear as they rode on towards the sunrise.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"You really hurt his arm Seamy!" Toki was talking to Seamy a day after the 'accidental' sweep of the water bucket. "He works as a black smith so when you poured water over his gloves no one had any other gloves and he had to work the hot iron in the wet gloves…"
Seamy was looking down as if she were feeling bad and then she looked up, "I don't care that pig! He was horrible. I wish you never told Lady Eboshi that I was interested in him. Cause now I'm not!"
"Um… I never did tell Lady Eboshi that you like him. Anyway! Tonight we're having a little ceremony for my baby." Toki patted her swollen stomach, "I want you to come and dress nicely; that new silk kimono thing is really nice!" Toki ran off hopping along with her stomach in her hands.
.·¤**¤·..·¤**¤·..·¤**¤·..·¤**¤·..·¤**¤·..·¤**¤·..·¤**¤·..·¤**¤·..·¤**¤·..·¤**¤·..·¤**¤·..·¤**¤·.
DISCLAIMER
All the characters appearing in Princess Mononoke are copyright of someone else. No infringement of these copyrights is intended, and is not authorized by the copyright holder. All original characters in Eyes Clouded By Love are the creations and the property of Telpelindewen. Even if they are out of character.
BLAH!!!!