Ó Hibiki Sakura
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Tittle: AsCold as Ice
Summary: Aki has a new bodyguard and it is a girl. She is emotionless and expressionless. She has no memories but knows Toya from before. She works under the Mikagi to find her true self and to know about Toya. She's a very powerful person who doesn't know where her powers came from. She owns a long blade and like Toya's knife, it won't leave her side. Who is she? And why is she tailing Toya?
Category: Romance, Mysterious, Action/Adventure
Character: Koori-ana
Episode 4: The Ocean
A week passed and the ancestor in him didn't awaken for such long time. Alex was trying to find the answer by checking his mind using a new machine but there was no sign. He stopped typing and sighed. He pressed a key, "Aki-san, you may go now!" He looked at him on in a glass room.
Aki looked up at him and stood up from the machine. He headed towards the door and opened it. He saw Koori-ana leaning on the sofa with crossed legs waiting impatiently for Aki. He smiled and walked over to her, "I am back! I am finished!"
She turned to him and stood up with the same look. Aki was a little taller. He looked at her, "I was expecting you'd reply 'Welcome back'." He looked disappointed.
She looked away and walked away. He stopped smiling from behind. "Please talk to me. I want someone to talk to. Every time I try to talk you usually don't reply, why?" He claimed from behind angrily. He passed by her heading towards his room.
"Welcome back," She whispered and he stopped, "Welcome back, Aki. Are you ok?" He turned and saw her looking at him with a warm look. He nodded, "No and I am fine!" His smile widens.
Aya was in the hospital where her mother was kept care. She told her everything what happen in the week. She even told her about Koori-ana.
"Even though Koori-ana is my enemy, she comfort Aki when I am not around!" She smiled at her mother and turned as she heard someone opened the door, "Koori-ana?" She had the same expression. Koori-ana was wearing a non-sleeve ligh-blue T.shirt with a loose trousers.
Yuhi was behind Koori-ana trying to choke her with his chopstick from behind, "Don't move or I'll – I'll – I'll..." He didn't dare to say 'kill' or 'hit' to a girl.
Koori-ana looked behind at him, "I won't do anything foolish." She shut her eyes, "Because I am not foolish like you." Aya and Yuhi had irritated eyes. They hate her personality somehow. She was always proud of herself even though she doesn't usually have an expression.
Yuhi released her, "If you touch Aya one finger, I'll –" He stopped when she walked forward. "Are you listening to me?" He complained angrily with veins popping.
"Did Yagami sent you here? Or Aki did?" Aya asked looking at her as Koori-ana was looking directly at her mother. Koori-ana looked at her, "Aki." Aya thought for a second and smiled, "Thank you."
"Thank you for what?" She asked stupidly looking at her.
"For watching over Aki. I bet he's okay now, isn't he?" Aya looked down with trembled eyes; "I am glad that you are there with him when I am not."
"How long as she been like this?" Koori-ana asked her looking at her mother and sat on the bedside.
"Honestly... it's been nearly a year now..." She looked at her mother, "Mother..."
"Aki send me to say hello at his mother..." Koori-ana said and looked at the twins' mother again. She held on her face and looked fairly different.
"Koori-ana?" Aya held her shoulders, "Tell Aki no matter where we are, we will not be separated..."
Koori-ana had a hiding smile but that stopped when she saw Toya on the door, "Toya..." Her eyes started to tremble.
"You?" He pointed and Aya was smiling at him. "Koori-ana's here!" Koori-ana immediately stood up and excused herself. She walked pass Toya but then stopped. He looked at her.
"Toya..." He heard her whisper. She stopped when she saw Kagami. Deep inside she was shocked.
"Kagami?" Aya saw him shocked and Yuhi held on a strange position. Toya turned and looked at them.
"Konnichewa Aya-kun, how are you?" He asked relaxed and entered in. "What are you doing here?" Aya asked angrily standing, "You have no right to be here."
"No right?" He giggled, "I am your mother's nephew. Of course I can be here." He looked at Aya's mother and a grin slashed on his face, "Koori-ana, why don't you 'heal' her like you 'heal' the dehydrated girl yesterday?"
Everyone looked shocked and looked at Koori-ana. "Heal?" They repeated all in once. "Well... heal is not the right word to describe..." He corrected and looked seriously at her, "Right, Koori-ana?"
She glanced away from him and walked out, "I don't know what you are talking about!"
"Kagami, what are you planning?" Aya asked angrily, "Are you taking Koori-ana like Toya? Deceiving her?"
An evil grin slashed on his face and he walked out. "Kagami!" He shut the door.
Aya sat down on the chair with shocking look, "What is he planning?" Toya reached behind her and held her waist, "It's going to be all right." "Aw... Toya... I am scared to Koori-ana..." There were tears.
Yuhi looked out the door and decided to walk out. Chidori was outside and asked, "Yuhi-kun, where are you going?" He smiled at her and walked away. She pouted.
Koori-ana was outside the hospital and looked up the building again. She looked left remembering the 'mother' and also Toya. She turned but stopped when she heard someone. "Koori-ana!" Her three-quarters of her face were shown.
He was Yuhi, he looked serious. "What do you want, Aogiri?" She asked and turned to face him. "Why didn't you answer Aya's question?" He walked towards her, "Why are you under Mikagi?"
She looked down with a strange look. "What? Answer me!" He demanded. "Ocean..." She replied smoothly.
"Ocean?" He looked surprised, "What do you mean?" "The Ocean bought me here," She looked at him, "Or maybe it's my fate!" Her eyes were sharp and Yuhi felt strange. Her eyes were different from all women eyes he knew. She turned, "Yes, my path is the same as Toya, to find the memories back but since Toya found love, he gave up his memories over love." She walked away, "But I am different, I won't fell love..." She vanished in the afternoon mist, "Because I don't have love or a heart."
Yuhi stood there alone understanding something. His hair then strangled up with sweat drops on his face. He looked lost, "What the hell was she talking about?"
Koori-ana walked on the streets with guys glaring at her pretty and sexy body. She didn't care them and stopped when she heard this commercial on a big building. She stopped and looked up. She looked at the big screen and there was a boy crying and he suddenly stopped crying being on his mother's lap. He looked calm than before.
"Will you do that for me if Kuwata gone crazy, mama?" She heard a boy said from behind and saw a mother and a boy. "Of course, baby!" The mother replied back, "I don't want my beloved to be crying and suffering." They crossed the street and Koori-ana felt something unusual. Her hand phone started ringing.
She answered. "Master Aki is going again! Where are you? Are you his body guard?" Wei scolded her from the phone and she quickly hung up. She gripped on the hand phone and walked off.
Koori-ana strayed at Aki's dark room. The other bodyguards were standing away from him. The ancestor in him was trying to get out. "Leave me alone!" He demanded, "Stop resisting, boy!"
"This medicine can't help him anymore!" She heard Alex from her right, "What shall we do? Aki-kun will get much more worse!"
"No!" Aki replied, "I won't let you! I want to protect my sister!" Koori-ana's eyes widened all of a sudden. She heard Aki's and the ancestor's all in one time. They didn't stop for a few minutes as there were no way.
Something snapped in Koori-ana's mind and she immediately walked over to him in fast mode. Aki looked up at her, "Koori-ana, go away! Or he'll hurt you too." "Get off my way, useless bodyguard!" Ancestor said back and Koori-ana still had the same look.
Out of the blue, all eyes widened immensely shocked when they saw Koori-ana, the emotionless girl, immediately embraced Aki. He was shocked the most. His eyes widened immensely with a blush. Never a girl hugged him all his life. Koori-ana landed on her knees stroking the back of Aki's head like a cat. Aki followed down with her. It looked like the commercial that afternoon that she watched. Aki smiled and looked calmer than before. Alex was surprised. No one could stop him but this only single strange girl.
"Leave us alone! I am her bodyguard! I will handle him!" She gave everyone a death glare and they sweat drops. They all walked out. Alex looked down and smiled, "Thank you Koori-ana. If you weren't here, I don't know what I do!" He turned and walked out to shut the door.
Koori-ana's eyes were narrow now looking down. She held Aki closer to her chest. Aki had a redder blush. He could feel the small size of her breasts. She stroked his head again, "It's okay, Aki! Everything will be all right." "Umm..." He nodded silently.
Aki went into a deep calm sleep that night. She hurled herself on the sofa. She looked outside the huge window. She saw lights and stars. It looked extremely beautiful, she thought. She had a smile. She took a remote and opened the TV screen. A image of a beach was shown. Her eyes widened and heard the sound of the ocean.
"Ocean?" She whispered and shut her eyes. She remembered the wind on the ocean and the sound. "Do you like the beach?" She immediately opened her eyes wide and saw Aki tilting his head aside looking at her smiling, "Aki?"
He sat back beside her; "I like the beach too." She looked at him. He gazed at her with a cute look, "I am okay. You don't have to worry." She turned away with disgust look. He sniggered, "Weren't you going to say 'I should be on bed'?"
"It's not about that," She changed the channel, "About the beach..." He stared at her for a while with a different grin, "I really want you to talk back to me and now you did, thank you." She looked at him feeling different. "Koori-ana..." He suddenly asked and looked warmly in her eyes, "Can I hold you?" He warped his arms around her and pushed her to the sofa. Her eyes widened shocked. She wasn't blushing but she felt her heart was starting to beat and it was getting faster, 'A...aki?'
Aki felt much calmer. He wanted to hold Koori-ana - maybe all night. She around can support him to stop the ancestor to go out. He decided to fight for Koori-ana for some reason. I felt a strange feeling towards her.
Koori-ana held on her arms. She never held someone else. No one had ever hold her. She felt secure even though she doesn't need protection. She somehow needed him more than any thing - more than just a memory. Her expression showed that she liked it too and hugged him back. They were hugging all night.
To be continued
Episode 5: Friend or Enemy?
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