OMG, I'M BACK! I apologize SOOOO much for taking forever to update. My
computer broke, and then I had to go to my bro's graduation for the
weekend, and so now FINALLY I'm home, and my computer is working again!
WOOT! Anyhoo, I'm so happy to be updating again! I never realize how much
my computer means to me until it breaks.
Disclaimer: These characters may not be mine, but this BEAUTIFUL amazing (WORKING!) computer is mine! (BTW- Sayu and Naru are mine too)
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"Hey everyone!" I smiled weakly as I stood in front of the large table in the dinning hall.
"Feeling better I see!" Korin beamed a smile at me.
"Yes I am."
"Then you can tell us what happened!"
"Now?" My weak smile dropped completely. I wasn't even in the room for a full minute before they asked what had happened. I guess my well-being wasn't as important as my vision. Plus, I was more trying to forget the all too realistic vision than re-tell it.
"Of course Sayu. When else?"
"We have waited all day to hear, spit it out!" Tamahome insisted.
"It is time you told us, no da?" Chichiri agreed.
'So, this is peer pressure' I thought wryly. They didn't even care about how I was feeling, only about the stupid vision. I let out a long sigh, and began.
"Well, I was looking for Naru when... wait, where's Naru?!?!"
"Haven't seen him anywhere. Strange dog. I suppose he'll be back soon." Nuriko sipped his soup.
"He wouldn't just leave like that. Not him!" I closed my eyes, concentrating on him, searching the palace, trying to sense him.
"What the hell is that woman doing?" Tasuki asked.
"She's searching for Naru. She has quite a bit of power, no da?" Chichiri informed.
"He's escaped." I heard Naru's voice resonate in my head.
"Who?" I whispered.
"The gang leader. More of his gang will come for you. Will come for us... soon. I will see if I can follow his scent." Naru said.
"Shit."
"What?" Hotohori asked, watching me carefully.
"The gang leader that you put in the dungeon. He escaped."
"While you were sleeping. How did you know?"
"He escaped, and you don't care?" I asked, scowling at the emperor.
"We have our soldiers searching all of Konan for him and his gang. I thought you had gotten all of them, but apparently, his gang was bigger then we had thought. Sometime last night Jino, the leader, was broken out of the prison by some men."
"Damn. I have to find them before they find me."
"But how did you know he escaped? Was it Naru?" Chiriko inquired.
"Does it matter? This guy is going to come after me! I killed half his crew, badly hurt the other half, and threatened to... doesn't matter what I threatened. He's going to come."
"I wanna know what you threatened to do to 'im!" Tasuki grinned.
"It was great, I threatened to..." I smiled widely remembering the look on the leaders face.
"WHO CARES!" Tamahome interrupted.
"BAKA!" Nuriko slapped Tamahome to get him to shut up, of course Tamahome ended up flying threw the wall and into the next room. "Oops... well anyway, tell us what you threatened already!" Nuriko said, ignoring the angry Tamahome who was glaring at him.
"Naru!" My head snapped up, "No..."
"What? What happened?"
"I have to go to him."
"Wait!" Tasuki grabbed my arm just as I teleported.
We landed in the same clearing I had fought the gang in initially. While I landed on my feet, Tasuki landed on his face. He wasn't used to teleporting. I couldn't blame him. I was horrible at it too when I first started. The grass was a beautiful green. The blood had been washed away when it had rained last week. The clearing looked peaceful and innocent. What a lie if there ever was one!
"Where the hell are we?" Tasuki asked getting up.
"The clearing where I fought the gang."
"Correction: where you slaughtered my men." Jino's voice said out of nowhere.
"I'm not sure I like your choice of words." I said. Now Tasuki and I were standing back to back, looking around for any sign of the gang.
"How about murdered, or massacred?"
"Nope, still don't like it."
"Too fucking bad, bitch!"
"Shut your hole!" Tasuki yelled. I almost smiled at the fact that he stood up for me.
"Come out and fight, Coward!" I growled.
"You didn't even ask where your precious dog was." The voice went from serious to teasing.
"Naru... You have him again." My voice softened.
"But of course."
"No. You're lying! I don't believe you!" I screamed even though I knew it was true. I knew they had him, there was no doubt in my mind, but it hurt so much to think of my dog, my familiar, my friend, dying.
"Sa... Sa... Sayu." Naru's voice said weakly.
"Naru." My fists clenched, and I blinked rapidly, trying to stop tears from pouring down my cheek. "Give him back." I said through clenched teeth.
"It's ok Sayu. They're bluffing. They have shit." Tasuki told me with a confident grin.
"No Tasuki. They have him. They really do."
"How do you..."
"Trust me. Tasuki we have to save Naru. I don't care how, but we do."
"Hai." Tasuki responded solemnly.
"Go." Jino, the leader said simply, and out rushed around 20 people. They circled around Tasuki and I.
"Shit." Tasuki swore.
"Double shit." I agreed.
All at once, in what looked like a practiced maneuver, the whole circle of gangsters came at us. Before I even realized it I had killed one man, blocked another, gotten a cut, and was midway from kicking the gangster that cut me. All this before I could even think. I had killed 4, and knocked down 3. Tasuki had knocked out 6, but had killed none.
"Care to help?" I yelled at him
"What do you think I'm doing!?!?!?" He yelled back
"YOU'RE DOING NOTHING! USE THAT FANCY FAN OF YOURS!"
"No, it would kill them."
"And that would be bad because?"
"I can't, ok. I don't know why the fuck you do, but I can't. They don't deserve death."
"Everyone deserves death at one time or the other," I kicked down the last person, "I just like to speed up the process."
"That's crap."
"That's how I do things." I turned to look him in the eyes.
"Maybe you're not doing things the way you should be." Tasuki said equaling me in his anger.
"And maybe you just don't get it!" I pushed him, and he went stumbling backwards. Suddenly, a man's arm popped out of the bushes, and snaked around my neck, his other hand held a knife.
"SAYU!" Tasuki yelled, moving towards me in order to help.
"Move closer and I slit her throat." The man said. I could tell by his voice it was Jino. Immediately Tasuki stopped moving. "mmm... Sayu. My how the tables have turned."
"Fuck you."
"So feisty, it's quite amusing." He pushed his grimy face into my hair, and inhaled loudly.
"Pig." I muttered. The blade of the knife pressed into my skin more.
"If you so much as inhale too deeply this knife will cut through your throat."
"What do you want? Do you still want me to kill someone for you?"
"No. That offer is long gone."
"So what the hell do you want?" Tasuki ground out, clearly trying to repress his anger.
"Do you remember the last time we were here?" He breathed into my ear, "You threatened to cut my manhood off..."
"Fuck! That's what you threatened to do! That's horrible!" Tasuki looked at me shocked.
"Not helping." I snarled at him.
"See, even your little boyfriend agrees with me. You tried to make me half a man, now I think it's my turn to make you half a woman. How you would feel with only half of your chest?" The knife traveled from my neck down the side of my body to rest on the side of my breast. "What do you say to that?"
"Tasuki's not my boyfriend."
"Bitch do you think I'm playing around?!?!?!" He pushed the knife so that it broke the skin. I inhaled quickly, but didn't cry out at the sharp pain.
"Stop. STOP!" Tasuki began to walk towards us again.
"Tasuki, don't." I gasped out, trying to suppress tears. Blood was seeping onto my clothing. Nothing big had even happened it. All I had was a cut. By now it was a kind deep cut, but in the end all it was was a cut. I'd need stitches though. 'Help us. We're in the clearing.' I used my mind to tell Chichiri. 'Hurry. And send someone to find Naru. Now.'
"You bastard. You won't leave here alive." Tasuki clenched and unclenched his fists.
"Don't lie. You know you can't kill me. I heard you talking to her. You don't kill people, soft hearted fool." Jino laughed, "Let's say we get this over with Sayu, ne?" he withdrew the knife, and made to shove it back in. I squeezed my eyes shut, concentrated on my breathing, and faintly heard Tasuki yell, "No!" Here comes the pain. I waited for it, brave, and standing tall. I would not cry. I would not yell out. I would hold my head up, and I would live through it. As I stood there waiting, nothing happened. I chanced opening an eye, and then another. I felt Jino's arm slide away from my body limply. I turned around quickly to see Nuriko flexing his muscles triumphantly, the leader lying still on the floor, and Mitsukake carrying a motionless Naru.
"Is he okay?" I ran over to him.
"They beat him up till they believed he was dead, but he's still alive. His pulse is faint, but it's there. We must get inside quickly so I can help him."
"Of course." I began to rush off, but Tasuki grabbed my hand. Mitsukake continued without me.
"Are you alright?" He asked.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?"
"You're bleeding remember?" He poked at the cut a little.
"Number one, OUCH! Number two, you just poked my boob." I slapped him, "Perv."
"Ungrateful female..." I heard him say as I stalked off holding his cheek. The idiot! In the background I could hear the distinct laughter of Nuriko and Tamahome. I could hear Tasuki cussing them off. If I weren't so angry with him, I'd probably join him cussing them. It wasn't that funny. That thought made me hesitate for a second. How is it that I can dislike him so much, and yet still manage to side with him on certain issues, like when we both called Nuriko Gay-boy. How is it that we're somewhat, dare I say it, alike, and yet we get on each other nerves? He obviously hates women, and I don't think very highly on guys. He... he did buy me that necklace... I shook the thoughts out of my head, and sped up my walking, wishing that I could just teleport, but knowing that I didn't have the strength for it.
By the time I reached Naru he had already been healed, and was being rested in my bed once again. My head was pounding, and things started to get a little dizzy because of my blood loss. Mitsukake asked if I was ok, and said that he'd have to get some bandages for me because he wouldn't be able to heal me until tomorrow. I nodded as I watched him leave the room in search of bandages. Not long after, Korin rushed in the room.
"Are you ok? I heard you got hurt! I also saw Tasuki's cheek it's all red! Why can't you two get along? Shouldn't you sit? You look tired." She said, while at the same time checking my forehead, for a fever I guess, wagging her finger in my face, and finally tentatively touching some of my shirt that had blood drying on it. When I looked down at the blood I realized that the cut must have been deeper than I thought. There was more blood then there should have been.
"You should sit." Korin said frowning at me. I nodded, but nodding only served to make the world spin. I kept myself from vomiting on the spot by sheer will alone. I staggered to a chair with Korin helping me, but before I could reach it, my legs buckled, and I slid to the ground as my vision blacked out.
PREVIEW: "Not as beautiful as you." Immediately my heart felt like it would beat right out of my chest, my mouth went dry, and my hands started to shake. What the hell did he just say? I turned my shocked face to him, and tried to stop from fainting.
Disclaimer: These characters may not be mine, but this BEAUTIFUL amazing (WORKING!) computer is mine! (BTW- Sayu and Naru are mine too)
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"Hey everyone!" I smiled weakly as I stood in front of the large table in the dinning hall.
"Feeling better I see!" Korin beamed a smile at me.
"Yes I am."
"Then you can tell us what happened!"
"Now?" My weak smile dropped completely. I wasn't even in the room for a full minute before they asked what had happened. I guess my well-being wasn't as important as my vision. Plus, I was more trying to forget the all too realistic vision than re-tell it.
"Of course Sayu. When else?"
"We have waited all day to hear, spit it out!" Tamahome insisted.
"It is time you told us, no da?" Chichiri agreed.
'So, this is peer pressure' I thought wryly. They didn't even care about how I was feeling, only about the stupid vision. I let out a long sigh, and began.
"Well, I was looking for Naru when... wait, where's Naru?!?!"
"Haven't seen him anywhere. Strange dog. I suppose he'll be back soon." Nuriko sipped his soup.
"He wouldn't just leave like that. Not him!" I closed my eyes, concentrating on him, searching the palace, trying to sense him.
"What the hell is that woman doing?" Tasuki asked.
"She's searching for Naru. She has quite a bit of power, no da?" Chichiri informed.
"He's escaped." I heard Naru's voice resonate in my head.
"Who?" I whispered.
"The gang leader. More of his gang will come for you. Will come for us... soon. I will see if I can follow his scent." Naru said.
"Shit."
"What?" Hotohori asked, watching me carefully.
"The gang leader that you put in the dungeon. He escaped."
"While you were sleeping. How did you know?"
"He escaped, and you don't care?" I asked, scowling at the emperor.
"We have our soldiers searching all of Konan for him and his gang. I thought you had gotten all of them, but apparently, his gang was bigger then we had thought. Sometime last night Jino, the leader, was broken out of the prison by some men."
"Damn. I have to find them before they find me."
"But how did you know he escaped? Was it Naru?" Chiriko inquired.
"Does it matter? This guy is going to come after me! I killed half his crew, badly hurt the other half, and threatened to... doesn't matter what I threatened. He's going to come."
"I wanna know what you threatened to do to 'im!" Tasuki grinned.
"It was great, I threatened to..." I smiled widely remembering the look on the leaders face.
"WHO CARES!" Tamahome interrupted.
"BAKA!" Nuriko slapped Tamahome to get him to shut up, of course Tamahome ended up flying threw the wall and into the next room. "Oops... well anyway, tell us what you threatened already!" Nuriko said, ignoring the angry Tamahome who was glaring at him.
"Naru!" My head snapped up, "No..."
"What? What happened?"
"I have to go to him."
"Wait!" Tasuki grabbed my arm just as I teleported.
We landed in the same clearing I had fought the gang in initially. While I landed on my feet, Tasuki landed on his face. He wasn't used to teleporting. I couldn't blame him. I was horrible at it too when I first started. The grass was a beautiful green. The blood had been washed away when it had rained last week. The clearing looked peaceful and innocent. What a lie if there ever was one!
"Where the hell are we?" Tasuki asked getting up.
"The clearing where I fought the gang."
"Correction: where you slaughtered my men." Jino's voice said out of nowhere.
"I'm not sure I like your choice of words." I said. Now Tasuki and I were standing back to back, looking around for any sign of the gang.
"How about murdered, or massacred?"
"Nope, still don't like it."
"Too fucking bad, bitch!"
"Shut your hole!" Tasuki yelled. I almost smiled at the fact that he stood up for me.
"Come out and fight, Coward!" I growled.
"You didn't even ask where your precious dog was." The voice went from serious to teasing.
"Naru... You have him again." My voice softened.
"But of course."
"No. You're lying! I don't believe you!" I screamed even though I knew it was true. I knew they had him, there was no doubt in my mind, but it hurt so much to think of my dog, my familiar, my friend, dying.
"Sa... Sa... Sayu." Naru's voice said weakly.
"Naru." My fists clenched, and I blinked rapidly, trying to stop tears from pouring down my cheek. "Give him back." I said through clenched teeth.
"It's ok Sayu. They're bluffing. They have shit." Tasuki told me with a confident grin.
"No Tasuki. They have him. They really do."
"How do you..."
"Trust me. Tasuki we have to save Naru. I don't care how, but we do."
"Hai." Tasuki responded solemnly.
"Go." Jino, the leader said simply, and out rushed around 20 people. They circled around Tasuki and I.
"Shit." Tasuki swore.
"Double shit." I agreed.
All at once, in what looked like a practiced maneuver, the whole circle of gangsters came at us. Before I even realized it I had killed one man, blocked another, gotten a cut, and was midway from kicking the gangster that cut me. All this before I could even think. I had killed 4, and knocked down 3. Tasuki had knocked out 6, but had killed none.
"Care to help?" I yelled at him
"What do you think I'm doing!?!?!?" He yelled back
"YOU'RE DOING NOTHING! USE THAT FANCY FAN OF YOURS!"
"No, it would kill them."
"And that would be bad because?"
"I can't, ok. I don't know why the fuck you do, but I can't. They don't deserve death."
"Everyone deserves death at one time or the other," I kicked down the last person, "I just like to speed up the process."
"That's crap."
"That's how I do things." I turned to look him in the eyes.
"Maybe you're not doing things the way you should be." Tasuki said equaling me in his anger.
"And maybe you just don't get it!" I pushed him, and he went stumbling backwards. Suddenly, a man's arm popped out of the bushes, and snaked around my neck, his other hand held a knife.
"SAYU!" Tasuki yelled, moving towards me in order to help.
"Move closer and I slit her throat." The man said. I could tell by his voice it was Jino. Immediately Tasuki stopped moving. "mmm... Sayu. My how the tables have turned."
"Fuck you."
"So feisty, it's quite amusing." He pushed his grimy face into my hair, and inhaled loudly.
"Pig." I muttered. The blade of the knife pressed into my skin more.
"If you so much as inhale too deeply this knife will cut through your throat."
"What do you want? Do you still want me to kill someone for you?"
"No. That offer is long gone."
"So what the hell do you want?" Tasuki ground out, clearly trying to repress his anger.
"Do you remember the last time we were here?" He breathed into my ear, "You threatened to cut my manhood off..."
"Fuck! That's what you threatened to do! That's horrible!" Tasuki looked at me shocked.
"Not helping." I snarled at him.
"See, even your little boyfriend agrees with me. You tried to make me half a man, now I think it's my turn to make you half a woman. How you would feel with only half of your chest?" The knife traveled from my neck down the side of my body to rest on the side of my breast. "What do you say to that?"
"Tasuki's not my boyfriend."
"Bitch do you think I'm playing around?!?!?!" He pushed the knife so that it broke the skin. I inhaled quickly, but didn't cry out at the sharp pain.
"Stop. STOP!" Tasuki began to walk towards us again.
"Tasuki, don't." I gasped out, trying to suppress tears. Blood was seeping onto my clothing. Nothing big had even happened it. All I had was a cut. By now it was a kind deep cut, but in the end all it was was a cut. I'd need stitches though. 'Help us. We're in the clearing.' I used my mind to tell Chichiri. 'Hurry. And send someone to find Naru. Now.'
"You bastard. You won't leave here alive." Tasuki clenched and unclenched his fists.
"Don't lie. You know you can't kill me. I heard you talking to her. You don't kill people, soft hearted fool." Jino laughed, "Let's say we get this over with Sayu, ne?" he withdrew the knife, and made to shove it back in. I squeezed my eyes shut, concentrated on my breathing, and faintly heard Tasuki yell, "No!" Here comes the pain. I waited for it, brave, and standing tall. I would not cry. I would not yell out. I would hold my head up, and I would live through it. As I stood there waiting, nothing happened. I chanced opening an eye, and then another. I felt Jino's arm slide away from my body limply. I turned around quickly to see Nuriko flexing his muscles triumphantly, the leader lying still on the floor, and Mitsukake carrying a motionless Naru.
"Is he okay?" I ran over to him.
"They beat him up till they believed he was dead, but he's still alive. His pulse is faint, but it's there. We must get inside quickly so I can help him."
"Of course." I began to rush off, but Tasuki grabbed my hand. Mitsukake continued without me.
"Are you alright?" He asked.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?"
"You're bleeding remember?" He poked at the cut a little.
"Number one, OUCH! Number two, you just poked my boob." I slapped him, "Perv."
"Ungrateful female..." I heard him say as I stalked off holding his cheek. The idiot! In the background I could hear the distinct laughter of Nuriko and Tamahome. I could hear Tasuki cussing them off. If I weren't so angry with him, I'd probably join him cussing them. It wasn't that funny. That thought made me hesitate for a second. How is it that I can dislike him so much, and yet still manage to side with him on certain issues, like when we both called Nuriko Gay-boy. How is it that we're somewhat, dare I say it, alike, and yet we get on each other nerves? He obviously hates women, and I don't think very highly on guys. He... he did buy me that necklace... I shook the thoughts out of my head, and sped up my walking, wishing that I could just teleport, but knowing that I didn't have the strength for it.
By the time I reached Naru he had already been healed, and was being rested in my bed once again. My head was pounding, and things started to get a little dizzy because of my blood loss. Mitsukake asked if I was ok, and said that he'd have to get some bandages for me because he wouldn't be able to heal me until tomorrow. I nodded as I watched him leave the room in search of bandages. Not long after, Korin rushed in the room.
"Are you ok? I heard you got hurt! I also saw Tasuki's cheek it's all red! Why can't you two get along? Shouldn't you sit? You look tired." She said, while at the same time checking my forehead, for a fever I guess, wagging her finger in my face, and finally tentatively touching some of my shirt that had blood drying on it. When I looked down at the blood I realized that the cut must have been deeper than I thought. There was more blood then there should have been.
"You should sit." Korin said frowning at me. I nodded, but nodding only served to make the world spin. I kept myself from vomiting on the spot by sheer will alone. I staggered to a chair with Korin helping me, but before I could reach it, my legs buckled, and I slid to the ground as my vision blacked out.
PREVIEW: "Not as beautiful as you." Immediately my heart felt like it would beat right out of my chest, my mouth went dry, and my hands started to shake. What the hell did he just say? I turned my shocked face to him, and tried to stop from fainting.