Haru:
Second Moon
AUTHOR'S NOTES: SOOOORRRYYYY~~~!!! The PC crash has sent my weekly update/upload out of whack, I'm trying to upload them all, hopefully this week, then it's back to normal operations again. I've decided on a cross between Guymelefs and Kobus; they have weird canisters on the backs of their mechs. Weird, but definitely COOL (OO;;). Thanks for putting up with me! Again, GOOOMMMEEEENNN~~~!!!
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Bey Blade, Asato Tsuzuki (plus his Shikigami) and Sakura Taisen, I own OC's portrayed herein. So don't sue me!
Kai
Name: Hiwatari, Kai
Country of Origin: Japan
Nationality: Japanese
Birthplace: Tokyo
Age: 15
Height: 172 cm
Weight: 49 kg
Blood Type: B
Birthday: March 25
Skills: Nitoryuu style of swordfighting (2 swords), all swordskill, Hou'ouken
PRN: 0020 - 003 - 000
EP: 99
APR: 98%
Test Results: 100%
COMMENTS:
Recommended for transfer to 35th Imperial Capital Defense Headquarters. Training for Elite Kagekidan Branch approved. For immediate action.
***Request for Rave Training most urgently needed.
Signed,
JUDY MIZUHARA
Head Instructor,
Imperial Capital Defense Satellite Headquarters,
KYOUTO
"Please keep the racket down, will you?"
Takao, Max, and Kenichiro all look up. Kai was standing on the platform in front of his Sigil (his MECH~~~!!! ^o^) Dranzer and was looking down at them with deep disapproval. Takao blinked, then shook his fist at him, turning SD with little twitches all around his clenched fist. "We weren't creating a racket, MR. HIWATARI, we were giving Lei his natal jump-off! Anyway, you do not own this HANGAR~~~!!! Why do you keep strutting around like you own this place, HUH?!?"
"Hmph. I'm not answering to a brat like you." Kai frowned. "And I do not STRUT. Besides, why do you still keep doing that stupid thing?! Why don't you guys grow UP?"
"Uh..." Max blinked. "Well, we've been doing this ever since we got here...I mean..."
"And it's not STUPID~~~!!!" Takao was fuming. "Why do you have to always act so high and mighty, ANYWAY?! Are you trying to prove something we AREN'T?!"
"Takao-senpai," Kenichiro said with a tone of panic in his voice.
"Just because you went to some chi-chi school in England does NOT mean you can have your way with US! Hear THAT~~~?! HIWATARI~~~!!!" Takao yells.
"Are you finished?" Kai sighed then shook his head. "Anyway, I don't have time hearing nonsense like this. I still have to make haste to the air strip. Just don't go doing that hideous ceremonial riff-raff on 'them', alright?"
"..." Lei stood up from his place at his own landing cushion then removed his kerchief around his eyes.
"Kon, isn't it?" Kai gestured towards the Sigil Lock a few rows across him, where a shiny new Sigil stood in perfect attention. "Your new Sigil, Driger. It sure was very difficult hauling him in from customs. Daitenji-kacho made all sorts of excuses, including that of one extremely huge Dryad Statue prop for the upcoming musical. The Imperial Capital Defense rush line was down, so they had to haul him in old-style."
"...thanks..." Lei told him.
"Welcome to the club, 3-week old thespian." Kai pressed the red button on the platform then it slowly went down. He looks over at Takao, Max and Kenichiro with that cold, indifferent red brown gaze of his. "Please do keep your Sigils in check, you know how important it is to keep them in top shape. We don't know when the enemy will attack."
He leaves. Lei blinked. "Is he always like that..."
"Trust Kai to mess up the entire afternoon for us," Takao fumed. "I guess all their servants in their manor became absolutely tired of his shouting around and packed up already, that's why he's unloading all his anger on US."
"..."
"He's just got some certain issues to deal with, is all." Max grinned at Lei. "Well, aren't you going to say hello to your new Sigil?"
Kai got into the automobile a little while later, which was held open by the uniformed chauffeur of the Imperial Capital Defense HQ.
"The air strip. And step on it," Kai told him immediately as the chauffeur got into the driver's seat.
"Yes, Mr. Hiwatari," the chauffeur replied.
It was still raining very hard as they made their way to the air strip. Kai looked outside, and watched people pass by in the growing darkness, blurred in the pouring rain as the automobile sped past (as if it could go any faster...^^;;). The light from the lamp posts did weird patterns on his face, which was half-cloaked in the shadows.
***The end of the WORLD~~~!!! Can't you see IT~~~?! Why don't you LISTEN~~~!!!***
There was a crash of a glass bowl that echoed dimly in Kai's memory, and Kai involuntarily flinched.
***I am not MAD, Daichi, I am not MAD~~~!!! What are these white coated people FOR~~~?! Are they going to take me away from NIRVANA~~~?!***
Another crash.
***Get off ME~~~!!! Get off ME~~~!!! I am here for NIRVANA~~~!!! I am here for EVERYBODY~~~!!! You have no right to take me AWAY from HERE~~~!!! Daichi...DAIIICCCHHHIII~~~!!!***
Kai could remember that day when everything crumbled down around him.
It was total chaos that day when his father and his other comrades-in-arms fought against the Axis. It really looked like it was the end of the world that day, and Kai, who was only 11, remembered seeing his mother standing against the windows of the living room of their manor and laughing hysterically as another bomb went off somewhere near their estate.
He was scared of his mother. There were times that she was sane, but most of the time she was talking to herself, of things the other servants of the Hiwatari household dismissed as nonsensical gibberish. There were times when he tried talking to her, she would zone out as if he's not there. Then, there was that locked-up room upstairs. Every time he even tries going near it, his mother would suddenly appear like some frightening apparition then would scream at him until her voice got hoarse or if one of their servants would drag her off (whichever comes first).
He was actually glad when the white coated people from the hospital took her away from the manor. He knew he was not supposed to feel that way, she was his mother. He was there when his mother started hurling everything she could lift at his father, their servants, then the men from the mental ward of the hospital; he was considering trying to stop his mother from doing that but a Dresden figurine narrowly missing his face made him think otherwise.
***She has become insane. Daichi, you cannot continue living on like THIS!***
***Whatever you say, father, she is still my wife. I would not have her treated so horribly like THIS!***
His father and his grandfather were talking in terse voices right outside the room where his mother was supposed to be billeted. Kai watched as his mother tried clawing at her nearest captor as they all vainly struggled to strap her onto a strait jacket (is the spelling right?!? OO;;).
***She is calling out for the Nirvana. Do you know what this means, Daichi?!***
***No. I won't hear any of THIS~~~!!!***
***Sooner or later Nirvana would come and destroy us all. Ever since she gave birth to Kai~~~***
Kai looked curiously over his shoulder.
***FATHER~~~!!!***
***~~~she has become completely INSANE. She doesn't want another sacrifice. This is the only way I know how so that she won't be able to harm Kai...***
Flashbacks came unbidden into his mind, like a very fast 8 mm black and white movie.
Times when his mother was sane.
But yes. She did have that strange look in her eyes whenever she gazed at him.
Chaos at the imperial capital when the Axis attack was all over.
Several people screaming, running hither and thither.
Dr. Judy Mizuhara looking so sorry for him as his mother was taken away on a stretcher, strapped and bound like some animal.
Asato Tsuzuki going berserk. If it weren't for Asato, there would be no Imperial Capital Defense unit to talk of.
No Team Hoshi.
***Mother...***
Saya Hiwatari looked so thin and so frail the last time he visited her a few days ago. There was a tube sticking out of her mouth, and lots of tubes stuck on her now thin arms, and her red brown eyes, the same red brown eyes Kai inherited from her, were lolling around helplessly in a dizzying manner, as if she was trying to look for something that she just missed; looking, looking, not looking at her son at all. She was mumbling something, and her arms twitched spasmodically after every 5 minutes.
***I don't care if you hate me, or if you're insane. You're still my mother...*** Kai whispered then.
It was so sad, seeing her like this. His father had continued on her medication, whereas his grandfather had told him time and again to stop; seeing that his daughter-in-law was beyond help, her mind totally destroyed.
***Can't you see you're just hurting her? Can't you see you're just hurting KAI?!***
***It was your idea why she had Kai in the first PLACE~~~!!! You knew how much she was traumatized, and yet you still~~~***
So his father never wanted him in the first place. And his mother hated him for being even born.
What was he, a mistake...?
Did his mother hate him so much that it drove her insane?
It was really funny having parents who do not even recognize you. It was even more frustrating than having a constant toothache that you have no idea where it was radiating from.
Mrs. Hiwatari died the moment he left. His father had not spoken to him about it, and in Kai's opinion, it didn't really matter.
So far, the safest way is is not knowing.
And Kai intends to keep it at that.
"We're here, Mr. Hiwatari."
Kai blinks. The automobile has taken him right into the air strip without him knowing. Where had the time gone?
He nods.
"I'll head on in."
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AUTHOR'S NOTES 2: Nirvana is the state of complete bliss achieved after many reincarnations, having reached enlightenment. o.O;; Nope, the Nirvana in question here is not about enlightenment, it has something to do with Kai's mother's insanity. Poor Kai. And it also has a LOT to do with Asato going berserk. ***evil grin*** stay tuned for that chappie! ^.^