Through the Oddest Circumstance
Chapter 8: A Mission Gone Haywire
Pairings: Mimato, Takari, Jenruki, Kouzumi, Kouyako, Taiora, mild Takumi and Ryo/ OC
Takari-san: After watching Digimon Frontier today, I found I had nothing to do since my mom is using the vcd player and I can't watch Shaman King so I decided to write… Here's the Frontier Special! Enjoy!
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"You failed me… Kenta." A voice boomed sending Kenta into a fright.
"Gomen, sir… but Ryo's new member Takuya of the Dark Flame fought against me… He is very strong!" Kenta said his voice filled with fear.
"Ryo's member…? That man looked like a wimp." The booming voice shouted, "I doubt Ryo would send him to attack you, Iori call Ryo and the other two!" he shouted with authority.
"Hai… Daisuke-sama…" a young man at about the age 14 said rushing outside to call Ryo; he had flat brown hair and emerald green eyes.
"You rang, Daisuke?" asked Ryo who appeared after a few moments with Megumi and Tomoki.
"Did you send Kanbara to the thieves?" Daisuke shouted in a demanding voice.
"Hai, why is there something wrong?" Ryo asked when he saw the injured Kenta, "We sent him there to spy on the thieves as ordered by the queen… it was only normal that he would attack Kenta to earn their trust…" Ryo shrugged.
"Is that so, so you wouldn't mind me sending my men to attack yours?" Daisuke said rubbing his chin.
"No, not at all, but mind you… if you get beaten it's not my fault…" Ryo said before going out of the said room and slamming the door shut.
"As if that'll happen…" Daisuke muttered, "Iori, has Taichi went and to find my wife to be?"
"Yes, Daisuke-sama… he isn't too happy about you wanting to marry his sister after using her elemental power of light but he agreed anyway…" Iori bowed down
"The idiot… he might be strong but he has a brain smaller than a pea…" Daisuke muttered, "Iori, I have a task for you… attack those worthless thieves…" Daisuke ordered.
"Hai… Daisuke-sama…" Iori bowed down as he soon vanished in the dark.
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Running his hands on his auburn hair, Takuya sighed in despair. He didn't know what to do… every few moments spent in this ship makes him care less and less about his mission and the kingdom… They were so kind-hearted, unlike his vision of mean people who'd do anything for money… The princesses are happy here too… This is a fantasy-land you could only wish for, but for him it came true.
"Takuya-san… I'm going out to shop, want to come?" a voice suddenly interjected his train of thought.
"Huh, sure… but don't you want Kouji to come?" he asked the blonde haired genki girl in front of him.
"He hates shopping; he usually trains by himself at these times, even I am not that much of an idiot to disturb him…" Izumi replied tapping her chin.
"Oh… let's go then?" he told Izumi.
"Hai…" she said as they soon exited the ship.
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The cool breeze of the morning air relaxed everyone… at least almost everyone. Deep inside the forest, one was meditating; ridding himself of what he thought was worthless thoughts. His supposed training session turning into a session of meditation and calming down.
'Must rid off all these worthless thoughts…' Kouji thought angrily in a meditating stance, 'Must not get distracted by that idiot…' he clenched his fists, sweat dropping from his forehead. He continued his train of thought like this but soon crying out in despair.
'Why can't I get Izumi and Takuya out of my mind, I never thought of Izumi like this before… Why?' Kouji thought banging fists on the ground.
'I must concentrate, if I don't… I might lose control of myself. I can't risk losing anymore power more so, be a wimp…' he thought continuously as if it was his mantra. Footsteps and laughter were suddenly heard and Kouji stood up from his stance only to find Jenrya laughing and Ruki with yet another blank face.
"What do you want?" he muttered menacingly looking at Jenrya as if he was going to kill.
"Nothing really… Ruki and I were just taking a walk when we found you… umm… *ahem* training." Jenrya grinned, trying to stop his laughter.
"I was meditating for Pete's sake." Kouji replied bitterly.
"Sure… I believe you…" Jenrya grinned like a weirdo.
"Shut up, will you?" Kouji muttered.
"Nah, I rather talk. So what was THE Kouji doing meditating instead of waiting for the leaves from the trees to fall off and slash them?" Jenrya asked Kouji as Ruki still remained silent.
"How did you find out my training method?" Kouji glared at him.
"Izumi told me… and isn't that what all samurais do?" Jenrya explained as he watched Kouji silently curse Izumi, "Anyway going back, what was THE Kouji doing meditating?"
"Can't I do that when I have a lot on my mind?" Kouji countered lightly blushing as Ruki went over to him.
"You're blushing…" she noted pointing to his cheeks that were slightly pink and soon going back to her place beside Jenrya.
"Blushing eh? Ruki?" Jenrya cheerfully said to Ruki who just ignored him, "So what were YOU meditating about?"
"Why are you always emphasizing some words?" Kouji retorted with another question.
"Nothing, but I asked first so answer." Jenrya countered his retort.
"What if I lie what'll you do?" Kouji said seemingly determined not to answer Jenrya's question.
"I've heard somewhere that samurais were honorable people, I guess I was wrong." Jenrya replied.
"Samurais can be honorable with telling lies!" Kouji exclaimed.
"Do you love Izumi?" Jenrya said suddenly with all the havoc making Kouji's eyes go wide.
"Boys will be boys…" Ruki muttered sighing as she watched the *ahem* fight.
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"Are you going to shop, Izumi?" a voice suddenly said making Takuya and Izumi turn around finding Mimi there…
"Hai Mimi-chan, want me to buy you anything?" Izumi grinned.
"Hai…" Mimi walked towards her and whispered something to her ear.
"For Yamato?" asked Izumi excitedly as Mimi nodded.
"I want to thank him for being so kind to me and my sisters… letting us in and all…" Mimi explained blushing.
"That's great Mimi-chan!" exclaimed Izumi happily, "I'll give it to
you when we come back, alright?"
"Hai…" Mimi replied going back into the castle…
"What was that?" Takuya asked.
"Girl Talk… not for boys like you… I mean it." Izumi grinned.
"How should I know if it is like that is you don't tell me?" replied Takuya.
"I know; I just know…" smiled Izumi.
"Girls are really strange…" Takuya noted silently…
"Did you say anything Takuya?" Izumi said as they got their transportation, two skate boards from the ship's store room.
"Nothing… just thinking." Takuya replied as they rode on it, going to the city.
Soon arriving to town, he found out the exact reason why Kouji hates coming with Izumi while she's going shopping. She's so hyper… very hyper… Are all girls like this? He was soon dragged into a gift shop as Izumi just finished buying food and supplies, which he was all carrying. 'Now I get why all the male thieves in the ship have strong upper body strength' he thought as he was carrying tons of bags…
"It's got to be here somewhere…" Izumi said looking at the different things in the shop as Takuya took the initiative to put down those bags and go to Izumi.
"What are you looking for?" Takuya asked her.
"It's a crystal pendant Mimi told me to buy for her… it symbolizes very close friendships in this kingdom, it's quite expensive but you know what we are." Izumi grinned.
"What kind of design are you looking for?" Takuya asked looking at the hanged necklaces.
"There's only one design… a crystal sword… it's really nice, I wish I could have one…" Izumi sighed.
"Is this it?" Takuya asked showing her a necklace with black string that seemed to be very strong and had a crystal sword for the pendant.
"Hai!" Izumi said excitedly, "Could you pay it for me? I want to take a look around…" she said handing him the money.
"Sure…" Takuya said going to the counter but taking another pendant with him…
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"Do you love her?" Jenrya asked Kouji who was evidently blushing.
"I don't know…" Kouji said in defeat.
"So you were thinking about her…" Jenrya said.
"Yes, I was…" Kouji admitted.
"I knew it… do you know that once I loved Izumi?" Jenrya said sincerely making both Ruki and Kouji look at him shocked.
"No, I didn't…" Kouji said.
"Well, I did but I found out she would never love me… but you have a chance… you and Takuya…" Jenrya smiled as Ruki was still looking at him shocked.
"How would you know? After all these years, I always avoided her but yet she was my first friend, the first one to accept me." Kouji said weakly.
"Do you love her?" Jenrya asked the question again.
"I said I don't know… maybe I do but I can't tell. I feel so pathetic." Kouji muttered.
"It'll tell you some day… I'm sure of it." Jenrya grinned, "Are you jealous of Takuya?"
"Is it that obvious?" Kouji glared at Jenrya.
"Yeah, it is…" Jenrya grinned, "But it's better than keeping all your feelings bottled up like that."
"What are you talking about?" Kouji asked.
"Izumi's melting the ice, Kouji…" Jenrya grinned.
"What ice?" Kouji gave Jenrya a lethal glare.
"You're softening up; you're finally showing emotion ever since Takuya came." Jenrya said.
"I know and it's a bad thing, I can't fight like this…" Kouji muttered.
"It's a good thing… trust me. It gives you something to protect." Jenrya said before he and Ruki left, leaving Kouji to think about what he said.
"Something to protect… Izumi…" Kouji said quietly looking at the sky.
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"Did you buy it already, Takuya-chan?" Izumi said after she looked around at the nice things there not finding something worth to shoplift.
"Yeah… this is for you…" Takuya said going near her and putting a necklace on her neck. Izumi, realizing that this was the crystal pendant Mimi asked for, "Here's the one you asked me to buy." He said handing her another necklace which was in a fancy box.
"Arigato… I don't know what to say…" Izumi said shocked.
"Then don't say anything…" Takuya smiled.
"You bought this yourself? You shouldn't have!" Izumi exclaimed.
"It's nothing much, let's just say my life was nothing and alone until I met you…" Takuya smiled and went to pick up the things they bought a while ago leaving a blushing Izumi.
'I always thought Kouji is the one I love and he is, really; but why is it Takuya is finding a way to my heart as well?' thought Izumi confused.
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Waiting for Izumi and Takuya to arrive from shopping, Kouji was about to go into deep slumber when he heard motors from nearby.
"I'll take this to the storage room…" Takuya said getting her skateboard and all the other things except for Mimi's into the storage room.
"Kouji-kun…" Izumi said.
"Nice necklace… he give it to you?" Kouji said looking at the pendant she was wearing.
She didn't say anything but just nodded.
"I just wanted you to know that I might not be the sweetest guy in the world…" Kouji said and then continued, "But I would do anything to protect you." Kouji said pulling her into a short hug before running off.
"Kouji…" Izumi blushed.
'This is getting bad… it's like there's a race, a race between who wins my heart but they don't know they're even participating.' Izumi thought knowing that it would be eternally hard to love only one of them but yet Kouji seemed to be winning this fight.
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Blood was quickly rushing up to Kouji's cheeks. What was he thinking? Hugging her like that! God, he's dead if Izumi brings this subject up… He was going to no particular direction until he heard a muffled voice in the storage room.
"What are the thieves doing now?" Said a voice of a teen-ager as Kouji peeked he saw Takuya with a patch of the army talking to it.
"Nothing much, Ryo-san… I can't go on like this… I can't do this for the kingdom anymore." Takuya said. Kouji didn't mind the other words upon hearing the word kingdom he knew already that Takuya was really a spy! His first intuition was right!
"Why did something happen?"
"This mission has gone haywire… I can't go on. I became too close with someone here…" Takuya looked away.
"I see… I don't blame you for it but you are always welcome back…"
"Arigato…" Takuya murmured when…
"YOU TRAITOR! YOU WERE JUST SPYING ON US!?!" a voice shouted making Takuya turn around to find Kouji enraged.
"Wait… I can explain…" Takuya said softly.
"You can't cover it… I saw it with my very own eyes."
"We're under ATTACK!" a voice from outside shouted.
"You did this…" Kouji said bitterly.
"No… I didn't do anything…" Takuya dropped the patch…
"Takuya? Are you there? Takuya!"
*tsuzuku*
Takari-san: This is short I know… *sniff* I have four chapters to finish from different fics so sorry if this chapter is shorter than the usual…
Preview:
Chapter 9: Never to Shed Another Tear
Iori attacks the castle and Izumi finds out the truth about Takuya, tears are shed… but a certain someone whose powers are reawakened promises that he would never again let her cry or would let anyone make her cry. Takuya rejoins Ryo. Takeru wakes up in the morning finding Taichi fighting Sora, a lovers' bout. Takeru helps Sora but as the fights goes on Daisuke himself takes Hikari away, will Taichi finally know the truth? Yamato and Mimi in another cute scene after the battle but is ruined by a Takeru who calls for help? Jenrya, Ruki, and Ryo… what kind of meeting will this be? Miyako found out missing and Koushiro tries to find her. All these are in the next installment of TToC.
Takari-san: That was a very long summary… anyway even if this chapter is short… R/R!