Jovian Chronicles: Book One

The Present: Chapter Five

Tanaka let out a sigh while he sat on the train heading for his next destination. Of course he would never refuse a mission but right now he wanted to be with that girl. Sure, he knew her for one night but what was he supposed to do? Give her up to Seifer? Like he wanted that to happen. Instead, he lounge in the food cart with a nice cup of coffee. A man in a dark cloak took a seat across from him without saying another word and pulled out a white crystal ball.

"You want to see her,don't you?" asked his deep voice. Tanaka sat-up and looked at the man with a wrinkled brow as he felt his head nod. In the orb he saw Seifer gently touch Makoto's cheek and she blushed while holding the gun blade in her hands. Sure, he was teaching her how to wield the gun blade but he was also using it to his advantage of flirting with her. Seifer could do anything since their rooms were right next to each other. For some reason, anger that he had never felt before rose in him. The man let out a laugh as he looked at Tanaka.

"Why are you showing me this?" asked Tanaka with a gruffness to his voice that he never thought was possible of hearing from him.

"I know a way that you could win her heart," said the man and then produced a smile. "Of course there would have to be something you would do for me first. This girl, she took something from me a long time ago and still has it with her. It looks like this."

The man pulled out a heart-shaped glass ornament and then put it away.

"Why are you willing to help me?" asked Tanaka with a raised brow. The man smiled once again.

"I need to get that item back and she will become yours. Isn't that simple enough? All you have to do is bring her to the beach during the SeeD ball which is this weekend and I will make sure she falls for you along with get the item she has that belongs to me," said the man. Tanaka nodded.

"What about my mission?" he asked. The man just laughed.

"It will be finished by the time we get to the train stop. Then, I will take you to where I live and discuss these matters," he said. Tanaka smiled to himself and continued to drink his coffee. Makoto was going to be his and there was no way Seifer would be able to get her.

Makoto let out a sigh as she ached all over from training harder at night even though Seifer told her not to. It was already five in the morning and she knew his butt-headed-ness would be coming in to awake her and she was right on schedule when there was a knock on her door.

"Get-up lazy bones," said Seifer through the door. Makoto talked to herself and managed to get her body up and walked over to the door, fully dressed since she had just finished training two hours ago yet wasn't able to get any sleep. But she did notice that her figured has slimmed down more and she was getting much stronger than before. With the pain shooting through her, she opened the door and walked out to see her trainer sitting on a stool in his black pants, black boots, and surprisingly a white tank top. He turned to her with a raised brow. "You're dressed and ready to go already?"

Makoto nodded and slowly sat on a stool while Seifer watched her with a grin over his face.

"Ready to go?" he asked. Makoto knew she wouldn't be able to keep up with his pace since she had trained her entire body.

"No...watch this instead," she said and produced a tape of her training then went back to her room and shut the door. Seifer nodded and went back to his room to let the girl sleep since he had also been up during the night watching her training and noticing how good her skills were even though it had been three days since she received the weapon and he had shown her how to hold it. After that, she had taken off by showing her skills. It had shown that she knew how to wield a sword and had much practice from the place she was from.

Makoto let out a sigh while sleep was very slowly coming to her in the silence that surrounded her. For the past week she had been having dreams about her past really rapidly and it showed that she had ran away from the palace since she didn't want to get married but there was a figure that she wanted to know about, well two figures. The first was her husband and the last was her newly-found general of her troops that was in the fort she was staying with.

Both seemed to play a huge role in everything that happened and yet she couldn't help but not keep them out of her mind. There had been plenty of people she met here. Zell, Squall, Riona, Selphie, Irvine, Quistis, and even Ellone. But none of them seemed to play a part in her vision; instead they just felt friendly and that was it. Nothing connected her to them in any way. Slowly, she drifted off again...

It was cold out in the forest and she was getting her plan set into action. This was the last meeting they would have before the big battle. Clothes were under her cloak in her arms as she moved toward the cave briskly while Dimitri was occupied during her escape from her newly found husband whom was alive. Yet when she reached the cave it was different from meeting just a messenger. Her general was standing there before her.

"....what are you doing here?" she asked in a quiet voice while approaching him. The general nodded and approached her.

"I wanted to make sure you were fine. I haven't heard any word from you since you left. I was beginning to get worried." She smiled gently and picked up the uniforms.

"I have been thinking about something. I was hoping that after these few men came in, we could get Dimitri distracted by a woman that he would chase while the rest of your men move in around the fort. I will already have Tanaka distracted while the fight breaks out. The gates will be open for you to come in freely. Does that sound alright?"

"Perfectly fine." She handed them to him only to have his hand touch hers which made her drop them. He pulled her into his arms, gazing into her eyes.

"I lied. I've been thinking about you too much. I just can't get you off my mind," he whispered. He took her lips passionately in his, feeling her respond back by pulling him closer to her.

"So have I," she whispered. She was pushed against the wall, feeling his lips moved down her neck slowly while her breathing quickened.

"I want you right now---"

"You cannot. He would know if we..." He went back to her lips.

"You haven't?"

"I was too young."

"I couldn't imagine that bastard touching you like that...ever."

"Neither could I." She was wanting him too badly. She inched her way to the ground with him following. She grabbed the uniforms and shoved them into his hands. Separating them.

"Makoto---"

"This will all be over soon and I promise, I will be yours." He was about to kiss her, only to have her hand raise up.

"You are too close."

"Come back with me, just for tonight."

"He would know." His lips captured her again. Taking her to the breaking point she didn't want to go; her hand hit the torch, causing it to fall into the water. Slowly, the articles of clothing started to fall...

Makoto opened her eyes at the sudden vision and let out a sigh. Now she knew the reason why she didn't kill herself over her husband; it was because she was going to find a new lover and it happened to be her general. She touched her lips and could still feel his against hers even though it was just a vision. Now, it made it to where she wanted to find this general and just kiss him so she knew it wasn't a dream of how great of a kisser he was. Still, sleep wouldn't come and instead she thought it would be better to find someone to snuggle with since she didn't have any stuffed animals to do the job with. Of course, that mean Seifer whom was just next door. Lazily she picked up her communicator and used it to call his room phone with a smile over her lips.

"Hello?" he asked only for Makoto to get a smirk over her lips while she knew he was going to get a kick out of how lazy she was being.

"Seifer, I want you right now. Come next door," she said in a sexy, seductive voice. Quickly she heard the phone click and the sound of him quickly coming over. Her door opened where the man peered into the darkness to see her communicator close. "Good, you were quick. Come here."

She patted her hand on the empty side of the bed away from the wall. Seifer obeyed and came closer with a smile over his lips. He had seen her in his visions and knew he was connected to her somehow from the past life he lived. He had a dream to be a powerful man and to be worth something to someone and yet he seemed to find it in his vision. He was the general of a large army and he seemed to be protecting a princess at the same time. But, he knew that there was something more between them and hoped he would have the vision soon. Seifer took a seat on the bed next to her and looked down to her lounging form that had peeled out of her clothes and changed into her silky green pajamas.

"What do you need more for?" asked Seifer, grinning down at the woman that was going to completely pop his bubble of perverted-ness.

"It's too cold in here and guys are always warm," she said while her hand gently pulled him down to the bed and snuggled against him with the covers pulled over them. Seifer smiled to himself and felt how small she was in his large embrace. It was a nice feeling to actually have someone of such stature in his arms; it made him feel as if he was needed or wanted for a certain purpose and that only purpose was to be himself for this princess in his arms.

"Makoto?" he asked, wanting to know if she had visions as well. He heard an uh-huh and then decided to continue. "Have you been having any weird...dreams?"

Her eyes shot open as she quickly moved up to where she was looking down at him, her hair falling onto his chest while she peered into his eyes with curiosity.

"Explain yourself Seifer," said demanded.

"Before you explained that you came here to find your past and I was wondering if you've had any visions or dreams about it," said Seifer only for her soften up and give a nod.

"Yeah, I have," she said while settling down to lean back on her legs. Seifer moved up to his elbows and looked at her.

"Tell me," he replied. Makoto nodded.

"Well, the first one I had was were I got married at the age of eleven to this man that was seven years older than me. After three years of marriage, he supposedly died and then turned out to be the bad guy. After one year of mourning, I apparently left to this fort in my kingdom to escape the isolation by my father and plus he wanted to get me married to this guy from another country. You know, the basic 'princess' ideas that you hear about in fairy-tales. So, there I seemed to somehow fall in love with my general and devise a plan to back stab my husband since all he wanted was the power hidden inside of me that kept the people of Jupiter alive. It sounds crazy to you though, hearing about people being able to live on a planet," said Makoto and then laid back down.

"It's not crazy," said Seifer as he heard her give a yawn and cuddle back under the blankets beside him, using his chest as her pillow. (Why would it be crazy since I've been having the same dreams as well...but at least I know what part I play. A good part if I must say.)

Tanaka sat in the man's house silently while I listened to everything that started to make sense. Makoto was a powerful woman that was the key to his success in the future. If Tanaka wanted to amount to anything in his life, he would have to marry the princess and rule over Emerald Tower in Crystal Tokyo. That would definitely show Seifer who was the man and that he could behead him with the snap of a finger. Of course, he would appoint this man that seemingly helped him come to his senses. So far, the plans had been made and he was going to be sure they were completely followed through. There was no room for error when it came to something like this.

He didn't really care about his SeeD position at the moment but to let a chance like this get away would make him a complete idiot. Right now this cloaked man was the power behind him. Tanaka let out a growl when he felt something surge through him. It was the energy the man had promised him. He gripped onto the chair and took it like a man. This was going to help him on his claim to fame. Without this power, he would be nothing.

AN: Yeah, three in one night. Wow. I still know what I want to do so I'll have the story completed by this weekend, if possible. But, if it starts snowing I'll get depressed and that will end my writing spree. Nice huh? Thanks for the review Athena! Hope you have a fun time moving and it wasn't too hard. I know what it's like to move...my parents threw out all my toys when I was a kid so I was stuck with the television. Nice, huh? Anywho, onward to the next chapter HA HA HA HA!

But,before I go...I was looking around on the manga sites I visit to read stuff for free since I'm too cheap to buy it and I found something rather interesting. It reminded me of Seifer and Tanaka in one picture! I started at it for the longest time ever! So, I have to share but I'll post it in a review for my story since won't let me put links ;P