Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters of Fushigi Yuugi, but Tara is my character.
Author's Note: Hi people, sorry that its taken me forever to update, please forgive me! I was really busy with homework and then my birthday came up, but im updating now!
The Past Revealed: Part 2
Tara continued to walk down the hallway as the boy ran after her.
"Would you slow down already?" He continued to run after her, breathing hard. Tara was in mid thought, remembering what had happened and where she was now.
"They're dead..." Her voice trailed off and she collapsed on the floor, crying. The boy caught up to her, and noticing her crying, handed her a hankerhcief.
"Here. Just don't think that i'm gonna be nice to you all the time, I jsut don't like seeing people cry, that's all."
"...Thank you..." Tara slowly took the hankerchief from him and dried her tears. She held it back out to him.
"Keep it, I don't need it." The boy said, turning his head away. Tara got up and looked at him.
"What do you have against girls, anyway? Not everyone is a bad person, take these bandits for instance, i know that at least two of them are nice including your leader."
"It's none of your business why I hate 'em." He looked back at her and noticed that even though she seemed there, her eyes showed she wasn't really, it was just a shell talking to him. Tara nodded her head.
"Can you take me outside please? Oh, and I didn't catch your name." She looked at him.
"Just call me T-kun, how about you, what's your name?" He looked at her, still frowning.
"Mine is Tara."
"Well follow me Tara, the outside is this way." He pointed in the direction that she had been walking in. Tara followed him and when they got outside she saw what looked like a miniature forest.
"Wow, it's beautiful." She sat down in a small patch of sunlight, the rays of hte sun beaming through the trees.
" Didn't think that a little forest could grow in the mountains, did ya?" T-kun said, obviously proud of the forest. Tara shook her head and looked at a little flower sprouting through the grass. Just then they heard someone heading their way, and Kouji stepped outside into the sunlight.
"Hey guys, how's it going?" He asked and sat down near where Tara was sitting.
"I'm looking at the flowers sprouting." She replied, looking back down at a little purple flower.
"Nothing much, Kouji, so what's going on?" T-kun asked, looking back at the doorway they had walked out from.
"Boss is getting ready to go down to a small village at the base of the mountain, he wants you to go with him. I'll look after her while you're gone." Kouji said, watching a bird fly by.
"O.K., look after her all you want, its not like I care." T-kun said, walking back into the lair.
"He's lying, he does care, he takes responsibility for you, so just ignore him if he says stuff like that." Kouji said, trying to kill the silence.
"How is it, a group of bandits can grow a forest? Aren't they all too busy stealing from villages?" Tara asked, as she got up from where she was sitting, and brushed the dirt off of her.
"Well, some of us have more time on our hands then other people do." He got up too.
"You hungry?" He asked her. Her reply was a nod of the head.
"Okay then, let's go get some food." As they walked through the lair, she noticed that there weren't as many people walking around or making noise s before.
"How many of them went down to the bottom of the mountain?"
"Oh, just enough people for in case of villagers attacking us. The boss is teaching "T-kun" how to use the tessen."
"The "tessen"? What's that?"
"It's a magical fan that can shoot out fire when the incantation is said. Only a select few people know how to use it or get to learn how. It's an honor to learn how to use it." Kouji said. Tara jsut looked like she was spaced out after that. After they ate she heard many voices.
"They're back already? That didn't take very long." Kouji said.
"You wait here, I'll be right back." He said. Tara just sat there, with the spaced out expression again. One of the bandits walked by and noticed this, tapped her on the head, but then she starting glowing and a creature chased after him, this caused an uproar and the boss and the other bandits came running in.
"What the hell is that?" Asked T-kun, his face surprised as he ran up to Tara. He started shaking her and she snapped out of it, the creature dissapearing. Tara's eye's were still spaced out, but she was aware of what was happening now.
Later that evening she was called into the boss' room. She quietly stood there. T-kun and Kouji had been called in too.
"Tara, do you know what happened earlier?" He asked her paciently.
"No, sir, I don't know what happened, but I know it wasn't normal."
"That's right, now I would like to know the cause of this, do you have any strange marking on your body?" He added.
"Well, there are marks on my hands, but that's it." She said, holding out her hands. On each hand was a mark, one blue, the other red. The boss seemed to know what these were and asked her to walk closer so he could look at them. After a few moments he stopped looking at them.
"She's going to need a guardian all day long, these marks could bring danger at any time. So I'm appointing you two as her guardians. Both T-kun and Kouji both nodded.
"You are all dismissed for the night."
Months passed and they all became best friends, but then the boss got ill. Tara had begun smiling again and she was back to the way she was when Kouji first met her.
"Is he going to be alright?" She asked, standing with Kouji and T-kun.
"They said it's really bad, that he might not pulled through." Kouji replied.
"I'm gonna go find some medicine!" T-kun said.
"I'll leave tomorrow and be back soon." He added. Kouji and Tara looked at him.
"Just make sure to be careful, promise?" She said, concerned.
"You bet I'll be careful, if i die before the medicine is brought here then what'll happen?" He said, starting to laugh.
The next day, Kouji and Tara were ready to see him off.
"Here Tara, just to show you that I'll keep my promise, I'll give you this bandana, it means that I'll come back safely." He handed her the red bandana.
"I'll hold you to it." She took the bandana and tied it around her head. Kouji walked up to him and slapped him hard on the back.
"Take care buddy!" He said. T-kun just smiled and smacked him back and started walking away.
Oh boy. Finally finished this chapter, I hope its longer then the usual ones. Anyway enjoy! (Oh and see if you can guess who "T-kun" is! I know its probably painfully obvious...)