Road of two shadows
Authors note: Merry x'mas to all! Ho ho ho…! okay Christmas is over… BUT
the holidays still continue! Yay! So… again… I'm not dead! So here is the next
chapter that is A PIT OF -fluffy-, like some of you might say it… End is
coming. I'm getting fat (fed up) writing this sugar-coated fic… Or then it's
just the holidays… WELL ANYWAYS; Enjoy!... meaning this fic… and chocolates…
First proof of eleventh chapter
Chapter 11
-Marriage-
Ayame sit quietly in her new room. She had a purple kimono on her and it was tied up by white veil. She heard how to the woods burned in the fire and she could feel how the flames warmed her skin. Her hands were tied in bandages all the way to the elbows. Ulcerations still felt like they were aflame. Even as she had kept the bandages for a week.
Ayame had had time to thought about her past and present and even the time
to come. She wasn't her self or so she wanted to believe. She was worried for
her partner and was afraid that she had pushed him away.
Kissing Rikimaru… God
Still she couldn't think that he might like him as something more than a friend or a sister. Nothing is probably wrong. I'm positive that he is okay. He just don't want me to get wrong picture. I'm so ashamed, how could I…! All that he did for me and I go on and use his compassion like that… No wonder he left.
Ayame felt like she could not move her self off the pillow. She felt comfortable near the fire. At least she could feel warm outside, when her heart felt cold and numb.
Maybe Gohda had forgotten her in there. Maybe all the people had just forgotten her. Except the healer who brought her food and the guards that still stood behind the doors.
Kiku hadn't visited her. Who knows why. And if Kiku didn't how could the others?
Ayame hadn't got much better. She couldn't see. Only for a very short range she could sense someone's Ki. It was quite obvious that her good days were over. There was evidently another reason why Gohda didn't bay attention to her; he just didn't know what to do whit her.
She would have to get married. That was something that Ayame was afraid of. She would have to choose a husband. Someone in the village, probably someone of the ninja's.
When she would be married, her one and only true love would be out of reach for ever. Ayame would probably live to see how he would someday marry someone else. See him race a family of his own like her.
Maybe he would even help her choose a suitable husband among the ninja's. I can not just tell him to marry me, can I? I admit that I have never been timid to tell my opinion, even to my superior. But how could I face him again after telling how do I feel.
Someone knocked at the door and stepped in before could hear an answer. Ayame sensed the healers Ki. It was coming very familiar to her because she was the only one that was allowed to visit her.
"How are you feeling? Was the food good?" She pursed out.
"Delicious, thank you." Ayame hurried to say. She didn't want to answer the first
question as she asked it always. "Any news… about him?"
"No. I'm afraid not. But I have another good news to deliver especially to
you." Ayame could hear her smile in her voice.
"What good news…?"
"You have a visitor…"
Kiku walked in the room. She seemed pit of timid as she stepped in.
"Hi…sis…"
"Kiku?"
"I knew you would like to see her, I'll go and let you two girls talk." The
healer took the trade and walked out closing the doors.
"How are you doing?" Kiku asked looking her appearance.
"…Better… Wound you sit down, Kiku…" She threw her to sit next to her, in front
of the fireplace.
"You look a little better too. …I'm sorry that I left you all alone here, I was out of village…"
"Where?"
"…krhmm… Just to take a look at the near by towns and so on…"
"Okay… What's happening out there? No one tells me anything."
"Well, everything is pretty much the same, Ayame. My dad…"
Kiku suddenly kept a long pause in her speech. "My dad has dissuaded to find me
a husband."
"You don't sound very happy about it?"
"Well there is many things that… Well… He has also dissuaded to find you a
husband. All thought we actually have found someone to you… I just don't know…
Have you thought of anyone, I mean have someone asked to marry you?"
"No! No… Who have you found…?"
"I don't want to tell it yet… It's actuallly quit funny…"
"What's funny, I don't understand?"
"Well… I don't even know if he's going to say yes… but I guess that my dad is
not going to give him a change to say no…" She said chuckling by her shelf.
"Do I know him?"
"What fun would there be if I told you who he was, huh? I don't know, so you
don't know… sounds fair?"
"…NO… You really don't have no idea whit who your dad is going to get to
marry you? How can you be so calm Kiku…?"
"Well…" Kiku watched around her and then she asked: "Ayame? Can you tell me… if
there is someone in a hearing range?"
"There isn't no one…"
"Fine… I know."
"You know who? Tell me…"
"Ou… I really shouldn't… Maybe he don't even think of me in …wife… kind of
way…"
Someone knocked on the door. Kiku answered as she was superior than her
sister.
"Yes?"
The door opened and other of the guards that had stood behind the door stepped
in. He bowed saying: "Sorry to disturb you, Your Highness, but here is someone
to see you. He asks you to come to see him at the hall…"
"…I'll come…" Kiku said wondering what could it be about. She turned to
Ayame and she guessed what was she about to say.
"Go ahead… Come to see me later, will you?"
"Yes I will…" Kiku taped on her shoulder and walked out.
Ayame thought who could it be. She didn't sense the guests Ki and was pit of worried for Kiku's sake. And what now? Again she could hear how did the fire burn in the fireplace and how it did warm her right side leaving the other side cold. She turned around sighting. Who was it that Gohda and kiku had found suitable spouse to her. How could she ever love anyone else than her Rikimaru? She wouldn't even know how he would look like. Maybe that was a good thing, maybe not.
Ayame sat in her thought facing the fire. Suddenly she noticed a familiar ki near her. She couldn't believe what her senses were telling her.
"Is that you?"
"…Yes." Rikimaru answered Ayame's question smiling.
"Were have you been?! I was worried sick about you!!" She said reaching for
him.
Rikimaru gave her his hand and she pulled him in hug. "Here…Take this…" He put
a bottle of some short of a liquid on her hand.
"What is it?" Ayame asked taking a distance.
"Drink it to find out does it work…"
"Work… for what…?"
"Please just drink it… Don't you trust me anymore Ayame?"
Ayame didn't take a third thought when he questioned her trust on him. She opened the bottle as he watched her drink it down till the last drop. "All the way…" Ayame put the bottle down when it was empty. "Did you drink it all?" Rikimaru asked and she nodded.
By a passing moment nothing happened. Then suddenly Ayame pulled her hand to her forehead and whined for pain. She nearly fell on the ground. Rikimaru catches her on his arms when she twirled for the pain caused by the weird drink.
After half a minute it was over and she had buried her face to his chest him
holding her still. Finally she got her breathing back together. "What was
that?"
"…Medication.. Did it…work…?" He asked afraid for the answer.
Ayame rose her face off his chest and came to meet his eyes. She smiled; "I
can see you Rikimaru…!"
He smiled happily back at her when she saw how her look had got much brighter,
like he remembered.
Ayame hugged him and he hugged her back they staying on the floor for who know how long. Until she pulled away.
"Rikimaru… I need make something clear…" Ayame said still staying in his
arms.
"…You have found your shelf a spouse as I was away and now you wanna get
married…?" He tried to say it as calmly as normally as he managed.
"…Why do you think that?"
"…Kiku mentioned something… like that… on the door…" He tangled looking away.
"I…"
"It's okay by me, I don't stop you… I don't want to stand away, especially not
when your happiness it's at stake…"
"Why did you do it?"
"Did what…?" His concentration wondering when he realised that she was again
sitting in his clasp and again nearly leaning on him at her body. We have to
stop doing this when she gets married, he thought, but before…
"Why did you left against all the orders to wets me a medicine, Rikimaru? …
Am I that good ninja?"
She said trying to cover up her real question.
"…No, You stink. …I just… You mean a lot to me, more than you know…" Rikimaru gulped. Soon she would rose up… and back off… and look terrified… and tell him to leave.
Ayame grinned saying: "I thought you left because I kind of… kissed you…? …Remember?"
"-You-… kissed…-me-. I mean that…!" She kissed me!
"Yes… I am sorry." She felt suddenly very embarrassed.
"…I thought -I -kissed –you-…?"
"No. I kissed… Fate, you thought –you- kissed –me-, huh? Did we both kiss…?"
"…One another…it…"
"Seems like it…Rikimaru?"
"Ayame…?" He pulled her closer to a small and gentle kiss. They pulled away for second before deepening their kissing.
Ayame pushed him down on his back which made him easy to turn her against the floor. Keeping his mouth on hers he let his hand wonder on her body. Ayame encouraged him to go under her kimono by doing the same on his shirt.
Rikimaru did as Ayame begged him to do. Only confirmation for doing the right things he had on her moaning. The moment was very passionate.
Rikimaru opened slightly her hungry lips. Kissing him back she made no effort to stop this and why should she. This was something she had been waiting for too long. And quite obviously he had been waiting it too.
They going further on the matter Ayame pulled away. "We can never have anything more than this one night… I'm getting married…"
"…Do you want us to stop now, before it's too late…"
"No…" She strokes his hair. "I love you… and I want you… Even as we couldn't
have anything more…"
"I love you too Ayame…You're the love of my damned live! If you're getting
married you getting married whit me… "
He watched her wondering eyes. She looked like she had just seen him the
first time when he leaned to his elbow, talking to her laying on the floor.
Did he just promised to marry me...!?
"…Can't back off now. That was a promise to marry…"
"You pet it was… Marry me Ayame… Will you?"
"Of course I'll marry you silly…" She said and kissed him.
After three hours Kiku was coming to see Ayame. She was about to knock at the door when it opened and Rikimaru stepped out.
"I need to talk to you about this …matter…" Kiku started before he could
even completely get out of the room.
"Yes, I need to talk to you too…"
"Great… Are you sick Rikimaru" "No Why?" He asked knowing that his cheeks were
burning because the couple of hours cooing on the floor whit fully recovered
Ayame.
"…Your face looks red…? …Well anyway, I was wondering "
"…Yes" He said wanting to move a long whit the matter.
"This is something that my dad.. well and me came up whit. I dunno would you
feel the idea less …optional or even imposible…"
"What is this about, Kiku?"
"About marriage."
"…Con-tinue"
"After all… These two people that I'm talking about… they have known each other
for whole their lives and… eare more like brother and sister, we thought…"
"Who are talking about? Is this you and some…?"
"You really don't get it, do you Rikimaru?! I guess I then have to just say it out loud… …How would you feel about… getting you married whit… Ayame?"
THE END… all most… Closer coming in soon…
