Love by the Blade
Chapter 6
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Eh........::cough cough:: story?
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Hakudoushi looked out his window as the sun slowly drew out after the long night.
It would be a few hours and he would be asked to go to class.
But that didn't really bother him at the moment. He was thinking about a certain someone that hugged him in the hospital.
'Don't leave!!!'
Hakudoushi blinked, he didn't understand why he was thinking about that phrase so many times. He walked away from the window and went to his desk. He pulled out a wooden scroll
(I dunno how to explain what this is.......just........ when it was a long time ago people didn hav paper so they wrote of strips of wood, it was connected with strings and it could be rolled up and all......... aw crud.......... I dun lk explaining stuff........)
He knew who he could write to.
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:: about 7 hours later::
The royal family ate slowly at the dinner hall. Rin was included, no one complained, but Mochi and his mother looked disdainfully at Rin all during breakfast.
Rin was completely oblivious though, she yawned and rubbed her eyes sleepily. It was seven AM. (To me, it's early, I dunno about other people.........)
Hakudoushi stood up after breakfast was done and went up to the table where the king sat. He muttered in his ears and the King, looking puzzled, followed Hakudoushi to a room.
Mochi and his mother, Kareru (can be translated to die for plants......... Wither? Uh.....dunno........) looked over the there bowls of rice (what did u expect? Cereal?) to the room. As if, if they looked hard enough they could hear what the pair was saying.
A "NANI?!" can be heard, but a deep voice took control, Rin stopped gulping down everything and looked to the room. She could hear faintly "barbaric........" from Kareru, she grimed her bright smile at the insult. She never got used to them...........
A few minutes later the prince and the king walked out. The king ashened face and Hakudoushi looked superbly unaffected.
"From now on, Tamashii,"
the King paused until Hakudoushi casted a glare to his foster father's direction.
",will be named Hakudoushi."
No one in the room spoke, a low one at first but gradually louder, the servants and Mochi and his mother spoke. It was sort of like a buzz, Rin blinked.
Hakudoushi seemed to be carefully avoiding her eyes.
The king yelled for silence and breakfast was finished. Hakudoushi rose from his knees and walked to the tutor waiting for the prince his head bowed low.
Rin followed the prince and no one said anything.
When Hakudoushi reached to a room the royal tutor stepped back and let the prince enter first, still with his head bowed.
Rin followed Hakudoushi but the tutor blocked her way.
"You are not allowed to go to the royal studies, you imprudent bitch!" He yelled.
Hakudoushi clutched the tutor's neck to a death grip and rose him from the ground with incredible speed, "What did you say?" Hakudoushi said with a menacing whisper.
"N-n-nothing, sir........!" The tutor choked.
Hakudoushi dropped the tutor to the ground and walked to the desk, never once looking at Rin.
"Come here temee." (temee is a very rude way to say 'you' in the manga it's what Inuyasha says to Kagome and is transferred sometimes as 'bitch.')
"Yes milord!!!" The tutor hobbled to the prince. Today he was wearing a red and gold kimono Rin noted.
"I- I – I – I guess I'll leave?" Rin asked uncomfortably.
"Rin. Would you liked to be taught in the same class as me?" Hakudoushi asked, not staring directly to her eyes.
Rin blinked.
The tutor coughed. "Milord how can you let a lowly commoner be taught the same way as you do it's-!"
Hakudoushi raised his hands to stop the tutor from talking. "I believed I asked Rin, not you, are you questioning my buisness?" Hakudoushi asked calmly.
"No milord!" The tutor hurried.
Hakudoushi turned to Rin.
A brilliant smile was stamped on her face. "Hai!"
Hakudoushi smiled slightly.
A genuine smile.
The tutor stuttered. "But- but- but milord-!"
Hakudoushi rose his hand again, "Rin and I are at the same age, we should get the same education level........it'd be an insult if we didn't." Hakudoushi whispered softly.
The tutor nodded reluctantly. "I- I -.........I shall teach her as well as with you milord........" he trailed off.
Hakudoushi turned to Rin. "Come here Rin, I will order a desk for you tomorrow."
"Arigatou!" Rin said brightly, the tutor scoffed. "But where will I sit for now??" Rin asked with a raised eyebrow, looking at the room.
"The floor idiot!!!" The tutor scowled unpleasantly.
Rin 'eep'ed and hastened to obey only to be stopped by Hakudoushi's smooth tones.
"Iie Rin, it's impolite to let a guest sit on the floor"
He got up from his chair and led Rin to the desk.
The tutor stuttered "But- but- but- but milord! Surely your seat may not be the floor!"
Hakudoushi raised an eyebrow. "Why?"
"You, milord, is from the imperial dynasty! You are of royalty! That is why!" The tutor explained incredulously, careful to remain polite.
Hakudoushi smiled, the tutor shook in fear. "G-g-g-gomen milord!!!" he said hurriedly.
"If I cannot sit on the floor,"
He walked to the confused Rin who was sitting on the chair, he motioned his hand to make a movement to say 'get up.'
Rin obeyed and sat on the floor.
",and Rin cannot sit on the floor."
Hakudoushi pulled Rin by the armpit.
",then she will sit on my lap."
Hakudoushi placed Rin on his lap and his arms extended under her armpit so he could write.
The tutor stared at his prince.
Rin found her eyes almost popping out, with a heat starting to spread on her face.
"Well? What are you stalling for?" Hakudoushi started impatiently.
The tutor moved jerkily to the table at the front of the room and started teaching.
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:: Hours later::
"And this is how to write 'aishiteru'" (aishiteru means 'I love you')
The tutor showed the brushstrokes to take and made perfect characters of the word.
Hakudoushi stroked the brush lazily and did the characters beautifully.
Rin bit her tongue between her teeth and slowly did the characters.
And they still paled in comparison to Hakudoushi's and the tutor's.
"That is all for today." The tutor bowed and left the room.
Hakudoushi flopped to the floor and yawned.
Rin, on the other hand, tried to write again, doubling the concentration.
Hakudoushi clasped a hand on Rin's shoulder. "Oi, I'm going first, okay? Don't try to hard!" With a wink he walked off, his halberd tucked in his belt..
If Rin heard anything, she didn't show it. She redoubled her efforts and concentration, and tried writing the characters again.
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Rin yawned. It was night and her blank piece of wood was now filled with characters.
Her head bobbled, and her eyes were heavy.
A thump and the door slid opened.
"What the-?" A voice asked.
"H-h-h-hey." Rin yawned.
"Why the hell are you still here?" Asked the person.
"Doing characters." Rin mumbled.
"Seems like you're having a hard time just to keep awake."
"Shut up Hakudoushi." Rin pelted the words before she could stop them. She was quite sure Hakudoushi loooooved that........ she gulped.
After all, people are afraid even when he 'smiles.'
Hakudoushi shrugged and walked over to the dim lamp and examined the piece of wood.
"It's ruddy terrible." He said bluntly.
Rin snapped angrily. "Shut the f-en hell up! I tried," She yawned here "a lot harder then you!" She didn't really care about the circumstances, the outcomes, it just came out all a sudden. Hours and hours of patience had exploded to raw frustration and anger.
She didn't know even the king wouldn't have said that to this particular youkai prince.
Hakudoushi grabbed Rin's arm and dragged her to the door.
"Hey! Ow! Stop it! It hurts!" Rin protested angrily.
"Shut up."
Rin woke up from her tantrum mood and saw what was happening. She followed with fear.
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To her surprise she was not led to some gruesome torture room with human head in it scattered everywhere in the floor. (To which, this rumour was passed around the maids.)
But a hot spring in the cool yet warm night air.
"What's the meaning of this? " Rin asked confusedly to Hakudoushi.
Hakudoushi lifted Rin and floated (yes, Hakudoushi can actually float and fly.) to the center of the spring.
He dropped Rin into the scalding waters with clothes on and all.
Rin yelped.
She saw Hakudoushi smirk and fold his arms together while floating.
"You-!" She started angrily.
"Clean yourself up first and relax." He flew into the castle slowly.
And returned a few minutes later with towels and a fresh kimono.
Only to get clunked on the head with a rock.
"Ouch!" Hakudoushi yelled angrily.
"Hentai!" Rin screamed from behind a giant rock. Only her eyes could be seen from the edge of it.
"What?! How dare y-" He stopped mid-sentence, analyzing the scene and opened his eyes in shock.
"Get out! OUT!" Rin squeaked.
"I am out!" Hakudoushi yelled. "It's what you call this!" He waved his arms to the moon. "It's called the sky!"
"Then get in!! IN!" Rin said.
Hakudoushi stared at Rin's eyes.
It was then Rin noticed how weird what she said sounded.
"Get in the castle. Just go back into the castle." Rin said exasperatedly and weakly sinking her eyes behind the rock. Her face, which was already extremely red from the heat of the spring, grew redder.
Hakudoushi walked to the castle hurriedly hoping to save some of his pride.
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The door to the study slid open and Hakudoushi mumbled without looking up. "So you're here."
"Yeah. Guess I am." Rin agreed and walked over to the prince.
Hakudoushi looked up, and if it wasn't for his face always having that indifferent mask he would have looked very shocked indeed.
Rin looked quite beautiful in that white kimono with a blue rope binding it at the waist.
"Err......... something wrong?" Rin asked as Hakudoushi stared at her.
"No, not at all, come here." He shook his head and cleared her figure.
Rin blinked and sat between Hakudoushi's legs on the chair like earlier today.
Hakudoushi gulped. Originally, earlier today he felt no uneasiness but now........
"Err..........."
Rin looked over her shoulder. "Err........ Hakudoushi........?"
Hakudoushi nodded, "Well," He began "You take the first stroke to the vertical direction........" As he said this he trailed his hand on the brush and did a simple stroke vertically.
::A few seconds later::
"No. That's not the way." Hakudoushi said as Rin finished writing the characters.
"Oh man........" Rin bit her tongue and tried again.
And again.
And again.
AND AGAIN.
Yet. Her 'aishiteru' did not contain merely half the elegance on Hakudoushi's.
Rin sighed and leaned back.
Hakudoushi blinked. Her hair smelled like....... chocolate.
Rin opened her eyes as she felt she leaned onto a body. She snapped back up immediately and Hakudoushi blinked, not a thing he did usually, blink in confusement.......
A heat crept up both their faces, albeit none saw each other's beet red flush.
Rin bend over the desk again and Hakudoushi went to the shelves, got a book and paced around, reading it.
"Ah kuso..............." (kuso means damn) Rin said a few silent minutes later.
Hakudoushi looked over his book and Rin's shoulder.
"Show me how you write." Hakudoushi said in a monotone.
So Rin showed him.
He shook his head, "Not like that." He said exasperatedly.
Rin, who was just as tired as him, even more so actually........ felt tears sting her eyes. 'Why was she so stupid?!'
Rin held her brush up again only to have her arm caught by Hakudoushi.
"Relax." Hakudoushi said softly and continued pacing the room, trying to be immersed into his book again,
Rin looked at where Hakudoushi grasped her arm. There was a certain warmth to it.......
She tried again.
::An hour later::
"Here!" Rin said happily showing the plank of wood to a reading Hakudoushi.
Hakudoushi looked up from the book. And to put it bluntly he was not impressed.
Hakudoushi nodded, "It's getting sort of late Rin perhaps-"
"It's not good is it." Rin stated flatly more then asked.
"Nani? What are you talking about? It's great-!"
"Don't lie to me"
"Well........"
Rin sighed and plopped on the chair. Recollecting her efforts and concentration she resigned to pick up her brush for the millionth time.
Hakudoushi looked pitifully at a hunched up, yet determined Rin.
Rin's POV
I was exhausted, I tried for the whole day. Well, not a whole 24 hours, but at least 14. I almost couldn't take it. I wanted to go to my room that Hakudoushi gave me.
Hakudoushi gave me.
Hakudoushi gave me?
I shook that thought away. Now........ I grinded my black ink stone against the tablet for the thousandths time until the liquid appeared. Carefully, I tipped my brush with black ink and did a vertical stroke..........
A hand stopped mines.
I looked up and saw Hakudoushi, of course, who else could it be? His lavender-blue eyes stared into my mud coloured ones, both pleasing and frightening me.
"I told you to relax." Hakudoushi shook his head.
He put me between his legs on the chair and held my hand.
My grip on the brush was very firm. And Hakudoushi grasped a particular knuckle so that my grip loosened considerably.
Before I could regain my grip he guided my hands me to write the characters.
I scowled at him, despite my reddened face, which was thankfully not very red so Hakudoushi could see. "I couldn't have a firm grip on the brush!" I said angrily.
Hakudoushi smirked, "Well, look at your 'aishiteru' compare to the other ones you have so lovingly lavished upon this wood."
I looked down and to my surprise, found that the characters scribbled was much better then the ones I tried with all my concentration.
"Nani........?" I said in amazement.
Yet........ there was something missing from my 'aishiteru' and Hakudoushi's 'aishiteru' I couldn't put my finger on what.............
"Well, are you going to gawk at it all day, or preferably, night? Kami.......... hurry up!" Hakudoushi called as he reached the door.
I teared my eyes away from the two 'aishiteru's and ran up to the prince. Before I slid the door shut I looked at the two pieces of wood again.
End Rin's POV
"Hey Hakudoushi.......... What secret do you have in your 'aishiteru' and mines? How come yours seem better-?"
And a trail of questions came from Rin.
A Rin that Hakudoushi had unknowingly melted the barriers of solitude that took 3 years to accomplish.
A Rin that would soon be lusted for and jealous from.
Of course, by the way how Rin was skipping freely chattering happily about questions and Hakudoushi walking in front of her calmly step-by-step (think of Sesshomaru) would prove nothing less of knowing anything.
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Could that be counted as a cliffy? o.O anyways I won't be updating soon, I'm going 2 England in a few hours so review!!!
Ja ne!