Mio raced back blushing and in clear confusion. Itsuki had kissed her
yet how did she feel about him? She had liked the kiss it was the only
feeling of affection she had had since Mayu died. Running back to the
market, where she had just come from seemed stupid and yet there wasn't
anywhere else to go. Mio couldn't go to Yae's house they would ask her
about the Chinese lady. The only place to go was the market maybe she would
continue shopping.. Wait wasn't that guy there? She stopped dead in her
tracks. Yeah, 'that guy' the one who was walking down in modern day clothes
the one that might recognize her.
"Well 'that guy' I can not help I just have no where else to go. I will go back to the market to retrieve the Lai Lai." she spoke this aloud to reassure herself it was the right decision. Then she returned back to walking trying not to think about all the confusing things in other words Itsuki.
**
"Oh yes, them do any of you know these two girls?" Mutsuki said holding up the picture of the two girls. The little Chinese lady stepped forward and nodded.
"You must be their friend? I will escort you with Yae to the Kurosawa house and have dinner made to welcome you!" The little Chinese lady was very excited since here was a fluent Japanese foreigner with such fine appraisals asking about their Yae and now deceased Sae.
"So you will bring me to them?" Mutsuki asked the ghost human Chinese lady, who immediately looked confused then looked around and realized Yae was missing! Everyone else too, who had been watching, was now looking for Yae. Mutsuki had no idea what was going on, so onlookers may have thought he was wondering where Yae had gone.
After ten minutes of the whole market looking someone spotted her coming from the direction of Tachibana and Kiryu. Such a little thing like foreigners and lost daughters would offset the peaceful village's equilibrium. In a small village where nothing happens when some thing does everyone pays attention. "There, that's Yae!" a noodle salesman shouted making everyone turned to where he was pointing.
Mutsuki turned too to see Mio the neighbor he had never paid attention to. She was stunning it was a wonder he had never noticed her. The twin, which ever one it was Mio Mayu, wore a pale blue yukata her face was a fair white that contrasted her black hair and her dark brown eyes. This twin was thin but not too thin that it was unattractive, a mix that most girls would kill for. Yet she looked depressed and haunted by a ghost so much so that she blended in with whole village a part of her clearly was dead.
Mio gave Mutsuki a glance he seemed familiar in a way, maybe she had seen him out of the corner of her eye while walking down the hall of her school. "Sorry, I felt faint so I went to go drink some water." She avoided eye contact with Mutsuki hoping that he wouldn't say anything.
"He show up he your foreigner friend right? Look he has picture." The little Chinese lady said forcing the picture out of Mutsuki's hand. There she was her and Mayu in their school uniforms.
Mio grimaced. "Oh yes my dear friend uh.." "Mutsuki" he finished for her. Both Mio and the Chinese lady stared at him then at each other. The name Mutsuki as we all know is the name of Itsuki's twin brother.
"Wow, you know each other so well you finish sentences!" The Chinese lady paid the merchant for a material Mio hadn't even agreed on and started dragging them to Kurosawa in her attempt to play match maker. "Where did you meet such handsome man Yae?"
"Uh.. he um.. Met me in the forest" she glared at him willing him to agree.
"Gah.. Yep, I was picking mushrooms they don't have so many where I come from." He stared at the ground not wanting to look the lady in the eye when he lied. Mio was used to lying by now, lying was what she did when she responded to Yae. Once at the house the questions increased soon Mutsuki and her, who had never actually met had a big story of how they did meet in the forest and that Sae had been there and they had been given foreign clothes and had a picture to commemorate it all. Mio heard it so much she even started to believe she had met Mutsuki before. Yae's father accepted Mutsuki probably for reasons such as 'Mutsuki looked rich and hadn't done anything shameful yet'. When she went outside Mutsuki followed and the little Chinese servant left them alone once again trying to play match maker
"Why are you pretending?" Mutsuki asked the minute they were far enough away for no one to be listening. Mio frowned and sat down on the bench by the pool with the fish.
"Why am I pretending to know you? Because you looked lost. I really don't know those girls in the photograph they do bare a striking resemblance to me and my sister." She watched his reflection he wasn't buying it. He looked a lot like Mutsuki the Mutsuki from here. "You want to hear a story Mutsuki?"
"No, Yae or who ever you are I want to know the truth about who you are. I've heard you say enough lies tonight." A rain drop fell from the heavens right into the Mutsuki in the pool. He wasn't happy to be in pool she could tell.
"Then you want to hear my story. Once there were two daughters of the most prestigious family. They loved one another and were loved by all but one day hell said you must send me the twins or I will destroy the entire village. It didn't take that long for the villagers to offer them up to put them on an alter. One must sacrifice the other to appease the gate to hell more often referred to as the *. The daughters did not want to go threw with it so on the night of the ritual they escaped. Yet one was caught and brought back to the village. What could the other daughter do? Would she condemn the village to death? Or would she return and bring the death upon her sister?" She paused and guessed that was the end of the story. She saw what she thought was disgust on the face of Mutsuki.
"You killed your sister?" Mutsuki was shocked. The girl, he could see her in the pool, her reflection it showed no pain. He could sense though that she felt pain but she would not show it to him. He could not bear to have the daughter force herself not to cry, this Yae must cry and release it. He left the girl staring at her reflection and returned to the house she was supposedly born in.
She spoke to Mutsuki even no she saw him leave the water "If I told you that I had to do it to save the village would you forgive me? If I told everyone she herself forced me to kill her would they all forgive me? Even if Mayu she herself forgives me and they and you do! I could never.. I-I will never forgive myself" The tears must have been falling into the water again but they mixed with the rain that poured down on. She didn't know if she was crying.
Mio stared at the Kurosawa pool falling into it falling into her own reflection. She was embraced by the warmth of the water 'But water is not warm' she thought. It's human warmth? She questioned opening her eyes to see what was embracing her it was Mayu.
"That's him Mio look Mutsuki the neighbor you never seem to notice" Mayu spoke pointing rudely in the direction of some one only four or five feet away. Mio looked up from her math book and saw the boy Mayu pointed out. "He's into ghosts he must have senses like me don't you think?"
"Then go talk to him Mayu" Mio returned to her math homework taking for granted as some many of us do our loved ones, Never paying enough attention to them until there's nothing to pay attention to maybe just a memory to pay attention to, that lingers
"I could never."
Rain namida sae mienaku nareba ii yo
Hon no terekakushi demo ii
Ima wa heijoushin yosootte ikou
Dore kurai tsumikasanatta tsurasa o
Kurushimi ga hyoujou o uso de ootte kite iru
The rain fell softly on All Gods Chitose peered out a window with a big pout. Itsuki smiled configuring a little paper doll and putting it outside to will the rain away.
Soredemo
mada...
sagashiteru
Do you feel my heart?
Kokoro made kowarete yuku ki ga shite
Eien ga kiete yuku mae ni sukoshi dake ai shiaetara
Ashita mo
Hitori de ikite yukeru ki ga shite
Umarete kiete yuku hoshi mitai ni
Let me seize the light
The water of the pool seemed to absorb Mio and destroy her all at once. Then a young Mio in pig tails skipped again along a path bumping into another child, Mutsuki. They both fall down the boy is in tears while Mio remains strong. "How come you don't feel the pain?"
"I do. I can't cry, I must chase away my sister's ghosts, so I must be strong." Mio said getting up dusting herself off and lent a bloody hand to the very upset Mutsuki who was not taking it as well as the girl clearly younger then him.
"If I chase her ghosts away will you cry for me?" Mio gave no answer.
Pain itami dake kesenai are kara wa
The dark figure pulled Mio from the waters claiming her. She felt light headed and disoriented. Where was she? Why was she soaked from head to toe? She looked up and saw a blurry image of the man who pulled her from the water.
"Yae?" the blur said in a familiar voice.
"Itsuki my name is not Yae it's Mio! Please call me Mio." Mio not being fully awake had finally said what she really wanted to for a while.
"Mio why you should correct me when you sai--" What ever the savior was going to say was cut off by Mio's mouth.
"Please call me Mio forever I think.. I think" Mio passed out into the arms of her savior.
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Longer then my previous Chapters because I wrote the water dream sequence first I was listening to globe seize the light and I thought this song is really beautiful! Yeah so I started writing it on Friday, where I got a little bit written then hammered it out on Saturday after many attempts to re-inspire myself. Yeah I'm not on Vacation so I can't write as fast. Expect one chapter every Week, School sucks and so does working. F|_|c| I still have to write a Macbeth Essay and re-read this. The site is being fritzy if you aren't getting the story neither am I it's on the fritz. By the way the song in this fan fiction is Globe seize the light you can download it here. You know copy paste.
www.geocities.com/firecracker_terra/globe_seize01.wma
"Well 'that guy' I can not help I just have no where else to go. I will go back to the market to retrieve the Lai Lai." she spoke this aloud to reassure herself it was the right decision. Then she returned back to walking trying not to think about all the confusing things in other words Itsuki.
**
"Oh yes, them do any of you know these two girls?" Mutsuki said holding up the picture of the two girls. The little Chinese lady stepped forward and nodded.
"You must be their friend? I will escort you with Yae to the Kurosawa house and have dinner made to welcome you!" The little Chinese lady was very excited since here was a fluent Japanese foreigner with such fine appraisals asking about their Yae and now deceased Sae.
"So you will bring me to them?" Mutsuki asked the ghost human Chinese lady, who immediately looked confused then looked around and realized Yae was missing! Everyone else too, who had been watching, was now looking for Yae. Mutsuki had no idea what was going on, so onlookers may have thought he was wondering where Yae had gone.
After ten minutes of the whole market looking someone spotted her coming from the direction of Tachibana and Kiryu. Such a little thing like foreigners and lost daughters would offset the peaceful village's equilibrium. In a small village where nothing happens when some thing does everyone pays attention. "There, that's Yae!" a noodle salesman shouted making everyone turned to where he was pointing.
Mutsuki turned too to see Mio the neighbor he had never paid attention to. She was stunning it was a wonder he had never noticed her. The twin, which ever one it was Mio Mayu, wore a pale blue yukata her face was a fair white that contrasted her black hair and her dark brown eyes. This twin was thin but not too thin that it was unattractive, a mix that most girls would kill for. Yet she looked depressed and haunted by a ghost so much so that she blended in with whole village a part of her clearly was dead.
Mio gave Mutsuki a glance he seemed familiar in a way, maybe she had seen him out of the corner of her eye while walking down the hall of her school. "Sorry, I felt faint so I went to go drink some water." She avoided eye contact with Mutsuki hoping that he wouldn't say anything.
"He show up he your foreigner friend right? Look he has picture." The little Chinese lady said forcing the picture out of Mutsuki's hand. There she was her and Mayu in their school uniforms.
Mio grimaced. "Oh yes my dear friend uh.." "Mutsuki" he finished for her. Both Mio and the Chinese lady stared at him then at each other. The name Mutsuki as we all know is the name of Itsuki's twin brother.
"Wow, you know each other so well you finish sentences!" The Chinese lady paid the merchant for a material Mio hadn't even agreed on and started dragging them to Kurosawa in her attempt to play match maker. "Where did you meet such handsome man Yae?"
"Uh.. he um.. Met me in the forest" she glared at him willing him to agree.
"Gah.. Yep, I was picking mushrooms they don't have so many where I come from." He stared at the ground not wanting to look the lady in the eye when he lied. Mio was used to lying by now, lying was what she did when she responded to Yae. Once at the house the questions increased soon Mutsuki and her, who had never actually met had a big story of how they did meet in the forest and that Sae had been there and they had been given foreign clothes and had a picture to commemorate it all. Mio heard it so much she even started to believe she had met Mutsuki before. Yae's father accepted Mutsuki probably for reasons such as 'Mutsuki looked rich and hadn't done anything shameful yet'. When she went outside Mutsuki followed and the little Chinese servant left them alone once again trying to play match maker
"Why are you pretending?" Mutsuki asked the minute they were far enough away for no one to be listening. Mio frowned and sat down on the bench by the pool with the fish.
"Why am I pretending to know you? Because you looked lost. I really don't know those girls in the photograph they do bare a striking resemblance to me and my sister." She watched his reflection he wasn't buying it. He looked a lot like Mutsuki the Mutsuki from here. "You want to hear a story Mutsuki?"
"No, Yae or who ever you are I want to know the truth about who you are. I've heard you say enough lies tonight." A rain drop fell from the heavens right into the Mutsuki in the pool. He wasn't happy to be in pool she could tell.
"Then you want to hear my story. Once there were two daughters of the most prestigious family. They loved one another and were loved by all but one day hell said you must send me the twins or I will destroy the entire village. It didn't take that long for the villagers to offer them up to put them on an alter. One must sacrifice the other to appease the gate to hell more often referred to as the *. The daughters did not want to go threw with it so on the night of the ritual they escaped. Yet one was caught and brought back to the village. What could the other daughter do? Would she condemn the village to death? Or would she return and bring the death upon her sister?" She paused and guessed that was the end of the story. She saw what she thought was disgust on the face of Mutsuki.
"You killed your sister?" Mutsuki was shocked. The girl, he could see her in the pool, her reflection it showed no pain. He could sense though that she felt pain but she would not show it to him. He could not bear to have the daughter force herself not to cry, this Yae must cry and release it. He left the girl staring at her reflection and returned to the house she was supposedly born in.
She spoke to Mutsuki even no she saw him leave the water "If I told you that I had to do it to save the village would you forgive me? If I told everyone she herself forced me to kill her would they all forgive me? Even if Mayu she herself forgives me and they and you do! I could never.. I-I will never forgive myself" The tears must have been falling into the water again but they mixed with the rain that poured down on. She didn't know if she was crying.
Mio stared at the Kurosawa pool falling into it falling into her own reflection. She was embraced by the warmth of the water 'But water is not warm' she thought. It's human warmth? She questioned opening her eyes to see what was embracing her it was Mayu.
"That's him Mio look Mutsuki the neighbor you never seem to notice" Mayu spoke pointing rudely in the direction of some one only four or five feet away. Mio looked up from her math book and saw the boy Mayu pointed out. "He's into ghosts he must have senses like me don't you think?"
"Then go talk to him Mayu" Mio returned to her math homework taking for granted as some many of us do our loved ones, Never paying enough attention to them until there's nothing to pay attention to maybe just a memory to pay attention to, that lingers
"I could never."
Rain namida sae mienaku nareba ii yo
Hon no terekakushi demo ii
Ima wa heijoushin yosootte ikou
Dore kurai tsumikasanatta tsurasa o
Kurushimi ga hyoujou o uso de ootte kite iru
The rain fell softly on All Gods Chitose peered out a window with a big pout. Itsuki smiled configuring a little paper doll and putting it outside to will the rain away.
Soredemo
mada...
sagashiteru
Do you feel my heart?
Kokoro made kowarete yuku ki ga shite
Eien ga kiete yuku mae ni sukoshi dake ai shiaetara
Ashita mo
Hitori de ikite yukeru ki ga shite
Umarete kiete yuku hoshi mitai ni
Let me seize the light
The water of the pool seemed to absorb Mio and destroy her all at once. Then a young Mio in pig tails skipped again along a path bumping into another child, Mutsuki. They both fall down the boy is in tears while Mio remains strong. "How come you don't feel the pain?"
"I do. I can't cry, I must chase away my sister's ghosts, so I must be strong." Mio said getting up dusting herself off and lent a bloody hand to the very upset Mutsuki who was not taking it as well as the girl clearly younger then him.
"If I chase her ghosts away will you cry for me?" Mio gave no answer.
Pain itami dake kesenai are kara wa
The dark figure pulled Mio from the waters claiming her. She felt light headed and disoriented. Where was she? Why was she soaked from head to toe? She looked up and saw a blurry image of the man who pulled her from the water.
"Yae?" the blur said in a familiar voice.
"Itsuki my name is not Yae it's Mio! Please call me Mio." Mio not being fully awake had finally said what she really wanted to for a while.
"Mio why you should correct me when you sai--" What ever the savior was going to say was cut off by Mio's mouth.
"Please call me Mio forever I think.. I think" Mio passed out into the arms of her savior.
---
Longer then my previous Chapters because I wrote the water dream sequence first I was listening to globe seize the light and I thought this song is really beautiful! Yeah so I started writing it on Friday, where I got a little bit written then hammered it out on Saturday after many attempts to re-inspire myself. Yeah I'm not on Vacation so I can't write as fast. Expect one chapter every Week, School sucks and so does working. F|_|c| I still have to write a Macbeth Essay and re-read this. The site is being fritzy if you aren't getting the story neither am I it's on the fritz. By the way the song in this fan fiction is Globe seize the light you can download it here. You know copy paste.
www.geocities.com/firecracker_terra/globe_seize01.wma