Part 4 of RAPUNZEL? すお & なぎさ SPECIAL part 1

Note: I am doing this for the sake of the storyline that I planned a long time ago to stir things up to the story. I truly adore NokoruSuoh but Nokoru has a very special role in this story that doesn't link Suoh. Very sorry to all NokoruSuoh fans.. ENJOY..

By Aya-CLAMPGAKUENlover

Guide:

Italic words - Suoh's thoughts

Japanese terms - go to the end of the page for definitions

" " - Of course… These are words coming out of the person's mouth!

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The forest seemed to grow bigger and bigger as Akira and Suoh entered. Akira took a step back, taking a break. He was really sweating and his eyes seemed really tired after looking at the bright flash at the tower. "Is it just me or is the forest getting bigger by the second?" He asked himself.

Suoh Takamura watches his majesty from a far view on a top of a tree. He listened to every single word his majesty said. He looks around, realizing the same thing. "The tower gets farther on every step." Suoh deduced. "And the woods seemed to grew larger."

"It's looks like I've been running around in circles." Akira took off a red bow he tied to one tree. Footprints left were seen and little breadcrumbs he all left were still in place. "I hope Utako-san's okay." He stood up and continued his way to Utako's shining tower.

'It's like the place is guarded by a large barrier…' Suoh thought. 'If that's true…'

He jumped as high as he could and triggered ninja daggers to the tower. The aim was so perfect but a strange reaction happened. Before it reached the tower, it was like thrown back like things thrown in a giant trampoline.

"Mahou?" he gasped.

'It's been… 6 years…'

'Nagisa-san…'

--6 years ago (SUOH'S PAST…duh)--

"Takamura-sama! Takamura-sama! Where could that boy be?!" Ryusuke the squire, seached the forest under the command of Akechi-sensei. A knight approached him and said, "Have you found Takamura-sama yet, squire?"

"NO. But sir, what's so important to him? He's just five years old!" he asked.

"Takamura-sama is said to be a great protector. Takamura is a long clan of ninjas, that would protect the village form doom." the guard explained.

"? Is he some sort of protector? He's so tiny."

"Yes. Just go home squire. You won't find him if he wants to hide."

Suoh Takamura just escaped a major long discussion on the palace and decided to play archery in the forest. "People don't go deep in this forest so it's easy for me to practice." he said.

He aims for another arrow. He closes his eyes and shoots the arrow freely. The sound of a flute came clear to his ears.

The sound of a flute stopping came to his eyes when the arrow stopped in motion. A sound of a young lady softly screaming made Suoh open his eyes. "!"

There it was. A lady unconscious on the ground, shot by his arrow, holding her favorite flute to her hand. Blood slowly gushed out of her kimono and the ground was tainted red as blood. "Ne-chan!"

He leaps and brings the purple-haired lady up to his arms. There was no pulse left and she was cold as ice. "I'm sorry…" he cried as he hugged the dead lady.

While in Suoh's arms, the lady slowly opened her eyes. "Huh? I'm-"

Suoh gasped and took a look at the lady. "You're-"

"Arigatou gozaimasu! You just saved my life." The young lady smiled.

"No. I shot you with an arrow and you lost a lot of blood." Suoh explained.

"No, really! You saved my life!" Suoh kept insisting he shot the lady.

"If I really saved your life, how so?" he asked.

"You see, a lady with golden hair shot something in my body while I was playing my favorite flute. It really made me sick." Suoh was totally confused. "Then, you came along and the arrow removed the pain."

"I'm relieved." He sighed.

"How do you do? I'm Takamura Suoh, 5 years old." (Aya: Suoh seems friendly..)

"Nice to meet you, Takamura-san. I'm Azuya Nagisa, 6 years old." Suoh smiled.

Nagisa smiled at her new friend and came close to him. "At tradition of my family, I must give you something if I was saved by a boy."

"Really? What is it, Nagisa-san?" He asked.

Nagisa played her flute in a lullaby that Suoh heard before. It was a love song. The lullaby meant, 'On the drop of water, I will always love you'. Suddenly, wisteria petals surrounded them that blinded Suoh in confusion.

It was there…

It was like time stopped when it happened.

The fairy of the wisteria…

Kissed me…

Suoh blushed pink and was speechless. "Y-You-"

"I think we're going to be good friends, Takamura-san."

After that incident, I always escape the castle compound and visit our meeting spot. I would always scream: "Nagisa-san!" I always see her afterwards, playing her flute by the branch of a Wisteria Tree. She stops and we run to the woods to play.

We always played together by the trees, visiting the great streams and visiting a forgotten tower. When climbing up tress, Nagisa always fell on the fact she's always wearing a long lavender kimono.

We had fun.

One day, I asked her to visit the kingdom, but she said: "I'm sorry, Takamura-san."

"That's okay." Suoh smiled.

Hiding in the top of the tree was His Highness, Prince Akira, spying on his upperclassman. Though only a mere 4-year-old, he possesses his long lost father's abilities to stalk. "Is that really Takamura-senpai?! He doesn't usually smile casually."

I've grown to like her, Even more than a friend. When she gave me my first kiss, I started to have feelings for her. Not because she kissed me, nor she was okay by being shot by an arrow.

She's mysterious.

She's like a flower you'll forever adore.

I was about to pull out from my archery outfit a ring then…

"Takamura-senpai!!" Akira screamed. Suoh sweatdropped.

"Ijyuin! Please come down there!" Suoh retrieved him from the tree.

"Let's play! Mommy A and B told me to follow you." He cheerfully smiled.

"Are you Prince Akira Ijyuin?!" Nagisa asked. Akira nods.

"I'm honored to meet you, Your Highness. I'm Nagisa-san." She smiled.

Akira was shocked after hearing her name. "Are you… The fairy of Wisteria?! Aren't you supposed to be in battle with an evil witch?"

I thought that she called herself that because loves the Wisteria flower. Ijyuin may be only 4 but he has superb knowledge on the Flower Language and known ladies.

Nagisa frowned and held Ijyuin's tiny hands. "Can you take me to your mothers?"

That began my doubts and a battle was to begun soon…

TO BE CONTINUED ON Rapunzel? すお & なぎさ SPECIAL part 2

Dictionary:

Ne-chan - Big sister Suoh is younger than Nagisa in that setting... So most people would call a person that because they're older than them..."

-senpai - a suffix for a senior/upperclassman

-sama - a suffix for outmost respect to a person (like a lord, chief, knight)

mahou - magic

Takamura - Taka- means hawk, then -mura is village

Arigatou gozaimasu - Thank you very much!