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¤ By: Telpelindewen ¤
¤ Chapter Four ¤
Seamy went back to pick out that new kimono that Eboshi had bought for her and several of the new girls as well. She put it on an hour before the ceremony started and decided to walk to the river to fill her bucket. She went there and squatted down on her toes to lean over the water. Seamy grabbed a handful and washed her face, as the water droplets slicked off her face she glanced into the water at her shiny and almost transparent reflection. Just as she did she saw a shadow above her reflection but she didn't know who it was.
"Is the water cold?" The voice was gruff almost disguised.
"Um… I'm not sure…" Seamy was about to turn around to she about her visitor.
"Well let me know okay?" And with that he pushed her in the water, which was absolutely freezing, and all she heard was laughter from the shore. When she looked out it was no one else but Beau. He had decided to take revenge on her by not throwing the water on her but throwing her on the water. He held his bandaged arm while laughing.
Seamy was furious and he and his pals walked away. They all headed back towards their huts.
Seamy was mad that he had ruined her new kimono, well the only nice one she ever had.
She got out of the water and stormed off wet towards the direction of the blacksmith living huts. She found the one with no homey figures and nothing at all around it and figured it to be the lonely man's home.
She stormed in on him getting dressed but he had pants on and putting on a tee shirt with his bandaged arm. When she came in he was shocked.
"Don't you ever knock?" He turned his well muscled back on her.
"You ruined my new kimono!" She was hell on wheels mad.
"So, you ruined my hands, but I'm not complaining about it." With his back turned he shrugged.
"Yeah but you deserved it!" Seamy thought she had him there.
"And so did you." He sat down trying to do the buttons on his shirt but couldn't with his bandaged hands.
"Oh you're an ass. I bet those arms don't even hurt." Seamy walked over to him and moved his hands aside so that she could button his shirt for him. And he tried to move her away.
"I can do it myself." Beau said stubbornly.
"Oh and a fine job you were doing too!" Seamy kept on buttoning until she had the last one finished.
When she was done he looked up at her face that was covered in the fire light, "Uhh… thanks."
"Wait - I want to see you hands. I think that you're over reacting." Seamy took his arm in her grasp and started to unravel the bandage. She had the first one undone and saw a little crust of blood on the bandage. When she saw it she gasped. It was searing red all the way to the wrists. It had white puffs that hurt unless moisturized every thirty minutes and red welts that sometimes spurted blood if not wrapped tightly. The burns had come when he couldn't use wet gloved on a hot stove hot enough to cook iron.
Seamy felt absolutely horrible that she caused such pain, and she sat down beside Beau on his bed. "Oh my god Beau I'm so sorry."
"Over reacting huh?" He sighed and started to reach for the cream that the town doctor had given him.
"No wait let me do it." She grabbed the jar that was slightly out of his reach and opened it. It smelled pretty awful. A lot like tea tree oil of Africa. She started to gently touch his skin and he sucked in his breath from the coldness and pain at the same time that he received. She applied it to all the welts and then wrapped new bandages around his hands. He winced along the way but tried to hide it. But she wrapped to many around his hands so that now he couldn't move his fingers at all. Beau looked up at her and saw how beautiful she really was. She had dark black hair, and bright blue eyes. He on the other hand was blonde hair with blue eyes. He was embarrassed to be thinking about her and saw that he couldn't move his hands.
"Oh now look I can't move at all." He was of course teasing her, but Seamy was too distraught that she had caused so much agonizing pain and her eyes filled with tears.
"I'm really sorry." And she ran out of his hut not noticing that he was smiling the whole time.
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Ashitaka was sitting by the campfire. Gyro had proven to be a very strong and brave pup. He had a feisty personality as one of the two boys in the clan of pups. The other wolf was Inispa. They were now cuddled up by the fire snoozing with the grazing Yakkul.
The two humans were laying on the grass in the field across from the fire away from light so that they could see the stars. They were about an arm length away from each other in a knee deep green grass field. It was good for hay but no one had claimed it.
Ashitaka had his bow and arrow laying another arms length away, for they had come across a bear today but it hadn't disturbed them so they moved on without harming it.
They were talking now about the different stories in the sky about the stars that they had heard growing up. San's of course were about the many previous wolves, and Ashitaka's with the humans of his kind. San told her stories with calm, and Ashitaka was a storyteller for sure. He told every detail and beautiful details at that. He described everything from pin point to pin point and it made all his storied sound superb.
When they had finished telling about Ariboshi, Mininko, and Tomhio, San turned on her side and fingered the lily by her side.
"Ash…" He turned and looked at her, "Why didn't I die when the forest spirit did?" She looked up at him who stretched his arm along the grass towards San's fingers.
"All that matters is that you're alive now." He grabbed her wrist and felt her pulse there. It was going good and strong, and he sighed. He picked the lily out of the grass and tucked it behind San's hair and above her ear. She scooted closer to Ashitaka so that her head was upon his chest and her arm strung across his middle as well. She was listening to the beat of his heart. Yakkul came over and became their pillow and warmth through the night.
Across the field Gyro and Inispa sat with their heads alert watching the man and woman sitting in the grass. They looked at the green glistening grass that shined in the moonlight. They all had a pang in their hearts about leaving the forest but the new adventure a head was just as exciting to cover the hurt.
"They are so in love." Inispa said aloud.
"Ya they so are." Gyro was tired and being siblings he rested his head on top of hers. "How is San gonna make wolf puppies?" Gyro asked.
"She can't she'll have to have human children." Inispa said sadly, "Although I wouldn't mind having another cousin around. I wonder if she'll marry that man, you can see that she cares for him."
San looked up at her snoring Ashitaka. He was so cute, with his chocolate brown hair quietly flowing in the breeze and his eyes closed with his chin resting on his chest. His voice had deepened and his hair had grown longer, he had also developed some muscular form over the past six months at iron town. San got jealous whenever he talked about the woman from Iron Town. She was afraid that one day he would find some woman and move away from the forest forever. Away from his true home, away from her.
"Oh Ash if only you could stay in the forest forever. I know that the pups would love to have you around too." San lowered her eyes almost to a sleep and Ashitaka (not really asleep at all) opened one eye and looked down at her smiling and then closed it again as if he had never heard a thing. He knew she cared. She truly cared.
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They awoke with laziness the next morning. They had for once slept past the rising sun and into late morning. All five of them stretched and headed for the river near by for breakfast. When San touched the water with her toe she shivered with the coldness of it. It was horribly cold, and San would realize this a few minutes later when Ashitaka threw her in laughing. The wolves pushed Ashitaka in and then jumped in playfully with the two humans. It was too freezing for too much enjoyment. So they all got out and the two humans changed their clothes and headed on their way. Past the apple tree groves where little green spots were starting to sprout from the tree tops, and the oranges glistening brightly in the sunshine. They all looked ripe and ready to eat, so Ashitaka and San grabbed a few to put in their back pack. Yakkul galloped along with the two wolves that carried San and Ashitaka. Gyro's silky fur was an ebony delight, and Inispa's an ivory gleam. They only had a day's ride ahead of them and a day of changing scenery till they reached the village of the legendary Amishi people.
Sometime in mid afternoon the wolves started walking and San and Ashitaka had conversation since that morning.
"Ashitaka what are you going to say? I thought that you weren't allowed back in the village?" San looked concerned for her warrior.
"Well I know that their laws forbid it, so I think I'll go under some other name, even though they all know me any way. I can't wait to see everyone again." Ashitaka looked onwards towards the hills ahead.
"Tell me what you're name will be Ashy? Tell me about the people you want to see so badly." San was interested and needed the conversation for the boring afternoon ahead.
"Well I'm not sure about the name but I thought that maybe Spedeo sounded good. As for the people I want to see everyone! It's been three years. The wise woman, Puniker, Hunslow, Youki, and especially Princess Kaya."
San looked down, he had a girl than? She thought disappointingly. I hope that she isn't there. She held onto the crystal dagger that Ashitaka had given her and looked down at it. It was so beautiful with all the colors in the rainbow combined in one little stone. They then entered a field full of flowers and a few watch towers overhead. Ashitaka told the wolves that they could go stay in the forest for they were approaching the village soon, but the wolves agreed to stay with them the entire time. And so they walked onwards towards the village of the Amishi people. "San I want you and the pups to wait in the woods over their, I don't think that the villagers will react kindly to wolves." San nodded in agreement and together the four of them walked into the woods.
"Can I help you stranger?" A man about Ashitaka's age walked forward when Ashitaka was only a few feet from the village. He had red hair and blue eyes and was definitely not a part of the Amishi village.
"I've been traveling far, and wondered if you wouldn't mind sharing the comfort of a bed in your village for a few days?" Ashitaka was covered by his cloak so no one could recognize him even if they could now a days.
"No not at all! Come this way and I'll show you where you can sleep for the next few days." The man was nice and friendly. He held a spear made of the same crystal that was tucked beneath San's shirt.
"Here let me take your cloak sir." The man was standing out in the open. He held out a hand when someone brushed past him in a hurry.
"Malcolm someone found a girl crepping in the woods with one of our Red Elk!" She was a young girl, about seven or so.
On no San! Ashitaka thought to himself.
"I will accompany you to see the creeper." The man named Malcolm walked with the stranger and the young girl to the center of the village where they held a red elk and a struggling woman of beauty.
They held her tied with ropes and spears to stop her from moving.
"STOP THIS AT ONCE!" A firey young brunette yelled as Ashitaka reached the spears where San was being held.
"What is this mess?" She demanded.
"I'm sorry your highness, but our laws state that any trespassers with stolen goods will be prosecuted.
"I don't think that she means any harm. Besides we do not follow the old Amishi laws anymore!"
Princess?! Ashitaka and San both thought at the same time. The young firey girl blew a wisp of hair out of her face.
Ashitaka stepped forwards. "The woman is with me."
"Oh well and who are you then sir?" The princess who had to be Kaya with her brown long hair and brown eyes asked.
So then Ashitaka, as the crowd looked on, slowly took off his cloak and gave it to the man named Malcolm. When he did the young princess gasped.
"Oh my god, it's Ashitaka!" And she jumped into his waiting arms.
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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!!!!