Strike Samurai

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Summary: When a group of Samurai attempt to burn a village to the ground, Kira Yamato, know as the Strike Samurai, saves one girl from the flames. Now, they both set out to get revenge after joining up with the Rouge and Justice Samurai. KxL AxC SxS

Disclaimer: (Hey, I can blow bubbles with my saliva…POP!) (Uh-oh)

Me: Who said the adventures with Mizu and Kitsu are over? They'll come right back in the sequel! And people…WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH YOU? It seems that out of all of you that read chapter 14, Kazumi Kairi or Kairi-chanis the only sane one around! Hello! Reality CHECK! RAU LE CREUSET KIDNAPPED LACUS! AND ALL YOU PEOPLE CAN SAY IS 'ANOTHER GOOD CHAPTER, NOW THEY HAVE TO FIND LACUS AGAIN, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE! Uh, wait a minute, my ear hurts… (Sticks finger in ear and pulls it out with an abnormally large glop of earwax) Whoa! So this is where my math homework went.

Olivia: (Whipping off Sam's saliva and giving her an evil death glare) Hey, Sam…

Me: Yes?

Alex: Wait! Let me talk before you kill her! Sam, you'll never have time for Bringing Down the House, Mirrored Love, or For the Love of My Life if you don't stop doing other stuff!

Me: And your point of that very long speech of upcoming stories I will write was…?

Alex: Yeah Liv, you can kill her now.

Olivia: Just let me get my chainsaw…

Chelsea: Wait! If you kill her, she'll never finish Strike Samurai, and we'll be fired without our last paycheck!

Olivia: Gah! Stupid laws, and stuff with courts and lawyers, and bailiffs that'll hit you with a stick if you do the chicken dance during the verdict…

Me: Thanks Chelsea, but I already updated Easy Days, and NOT ONE of my reviewers for that story have reviewed!

Chelsea: It'll be okay. Hey what about the story you started writing in Language Arts class? You know about Bankotsu and Kinkonu? And the whole…

Me: Oh yeah! I also have to start typing I'll Become Someone I'm Not, For You! Okay, on with the story!

Chapter 15 White-Sand Moon

Rau brought the struggling girl through a doorway that led into a darkly lit hallway. Behind them was Darien, smirking as usual. Walking down the hall, Lacus tried to see where they were. The halls were what looked to be dark red, and the floor boards a dark, blackish wood. She could sense evil lurking everywhere. Where am I? She asked herself.

Before she knew it, she was pushed into a dark cell like room, with one small and barred window. The seventh Hukari stepped towards her. "You know Liorlia? I knew your power was special, healing others with bits of your pure soul? Maybe absorbing that power, along with the others may not be enough," he said with a smirk. "I could always use my sister, but I would be sipping the bottom of the bowl what with her faint trace of the true power of the Snowdrop Hukari." The man was touching her now; her blue eyes looked up at him challengingly. He placed his fingers under her chin, "You know, the flower petals of the snowdrop, can make a very fine poison? Its taste is oh so satisfying, but it will slowly devour your organs, and the herbal remedies? Witch's work is what they are, mellowing out the body, and then unleashing their poison as to fool you. Ingenious is what it is really," The man's fingers played with a small strand of her hair.

Lacus stepped back and smacked his hand away. "You have interests for suffering? That's twisted, just like your logic!" Rau smirked at her, and shoved his fist into her stomach. Lacus's eyes widened and she felt the wound begin to bleed again. Falling to her knees, she watched his feet stepping closer to her, and looked up at him in disgust.

The blonde man walked towards the girl, and frowned angrily when she wouldn't even flinch at the mere shadow of him. "Why are you so persistent? Do you think it will end quickly? Because it won't, not if there is a breath in my body, you will not leave until I get what I want," he hissed into her ear as he raised his sword in one hand and slashed her across the chest. She fell to her chest on the floor, not caring that her blood was pooling out of her, that her body would probably be scarred for life from this, that she would suffer. The one ember of hope she still had was not for her, but for one person, that Kira would be alright.

A small smile spread across her lips as she thought of the brown haired samurai. Rau noticed, and knew she was thinking about the Lotus Hukari. "If you want him to come after you so badly, why don't you just call out for him?" he sneered as he left the prison-like room he was keeping the girl in. Lacus's smile faded, but his memory still burned in her heart.

Kira lay staring at the sky. He had been like that for a day, unmoving from that spot. Cagalli didn't mind because he needed his strength to return, but she cursed the man Le Creuset every second for doing this to them. And whatever he was doing to Lacus couldn't be good either.

Kira couldn't keep his mind away from her; she was his soul, his being, his life support now. How could he let this happen? If he had been stronger, he would have been able to protect her. He also thought of his new ability. It scared him a bit to know that he had it, but it must be his Hukari taking over now, and as long as he got Lacus in the end, he didn't care what it did to him.

Shinn and Stellar were talking quietly, and were still worried that they couldn't find the body of Darien. That meant he was still alive and no doubt with Rau and Lacus. Stellar was pulled into Shinn's arms and he held her close to him. The girl knew he was thinking what would happen if he was in Kira's position? "I'd go after you immediately, leaving no time for my wounds to heal so that once I got to you, I'd be killed immediately. Kira is doing the smart thing, letting his wounds heal, but it's killing him." the black haired teen said lovingly out loud. Stellar gazed into his face, understanding. "Maybe Lacus doesn't want him to come after her, maybe she wants him to live, so she has to sacrifice herself? Think about it, they love each other, you can see it in the ways they talk, move, breathe, their eyes have it written all over them." the blonde girl replied as a single leaf fell from the tall trees above them, and swirled in the wind and rested on Kira's chest. His eyes flashed open, and thought he saw Lacus leaning over him, and touching him with her soft touch.

A bird took flight from the tree tops, floating against the clouds. The sun beat on the shiny feathers, preened to perfection, the long yet thin legs hunched up against its body during flight.

The moon had risen, just a crescent in the sky, no importance to the girl sitting in the cell. Her blue eyes showed pain, and hate, but no fear. The deep love for the Samurai she owed her life canceled it out. Knowing he was safe was enough. Looking up from her knees where her fore head was resting against her arm, she looked through the barred window, at the beautiful moon. "A white-sand moon," she thought as she recalled a folk song that elders had taught all the children, of the princess who lived in a castle of white sand on the moon. But because of this, no one would come to see her, and feel the pain she felt from being alone. She always wanted a friend, to tell her stories. One day, a cherry blossom tree grew so tall in the palisade near the castle, and the princess had to see what it was. When she took one step outside, the tree gently pulled her towards it with a warm wind filled with flower petals, and told the girl a story, a wonderful story, on a white-sand moon.

"Oto no nai mahiru kaze ha tada akarui," One soundless mid-day, the wind was so cheerful.

A star blinked in the sky, and seemed to dim.

"Sukoshi nemutasou ni hanabira ga yureta," Flower petals sway in the breeze as if they were sleepy.

"Nani ge nai kono omoi," This serene feeling...

Her deep blue eyes shone the moon's reflection.

"Nee, hito ha donna kotoba de yondeiru no" Tell me, what's the word people use for it?

"Shiroi suna no tsuki toji kometa hanashi o hikari furasu you ni kikasete ne sotto" Tell me a story that's locked away in the white-sand moon. Let me hear it as gently as light shining down...

Outside the bars, she thought she saw a shadow of a flower, a lotus and orchid blooming together, but cleared it from her mind.

"Itsuka shiru toki ga kuru no?" Will the time come? When you will know the pain in my heart?

"Mune no itami o soshite ima yori yasashiku naru no ne" Then you'd be able to be gentler than you are now.

She heard a flapping of wings, and the feet of a small bird land on the edge of the small hole in the wall, which is really all it was.

"Atatakai kono omoi" Such a warm feeling...

A small silhouette of a bird appeared against the image of the moon. The girl's eyes were wide and curious as she continued the small song.

"Nee, hito ha donna namae de yondeiru no" Tell me, what's the name that people give to it?

Standing and reaching her small hand outside of the bars, she felt two small feet hop onto her hand. Pulling it back, she saw green and yellow feathers, red eyes, a yellow feather sticking up from the top of the bird's head, thin black legs with big feet, and the small blue bow around her neck.

"Shiroi suna no tsuki mabushikute mienai tooi mirai no koto kikasete ne sotto" Softly, let me hear of the distant future, so bright it can't be seen, like a white-sand moon.

"Tori?" the girl asked the bird while slightly cocking her head. The bird hunched low, and hovered to her shoulder and stretched her wings from the long day's flight. "Birdie!" it shouted. Lacus smiled. "Tori," she stroked the crown of the little bird's head with her index finger. (My parakeets like that,) The bird closed her eyes in pleasure; her little tail feathers vibrating excitedly. Lacus sat back down against the wall. "Tori, how did you find me?" she asked while she played with the small bird, making her hop up flights of stairs with her fingers. Tori looked up at her quizzically. "Birdie?" she asked. Lacus smiled warmly. Why did Kira teach her to say 'Birdie' instead of 'Tori'? "Tori, please tell Kira, to not come looking for me. And don't show him, please?" Lacus at any other time might curse herself for talking to a bird, but she knew Tori could understand her, and relay her message to Kira.

"Please, go as soon as possible, I don't want Kira to be an east target for Le Creuset, please Tori, go." and she blacked out from exhaustion and loss of blood.

The little green bird took flight after plucking one of Lacus's hairs, for the color impressed her, and she wanted a piece for her own little birdie self. The setting moon brought twilight around the horizon, and the little bird ducked in among the clouds, free as wind.

Thanks my dear reviewers who reviewed White Lilies. It means a lot to me! I hope you like this chapter! And guess what, DARIEN AIN'T DEAD! HAHA! I LAUGH AT YOUR PAIN! But anyway, I recently discovered three things. 1) A new anime to me, CHOBITS! 2) You all wanna kill me! 3) SUGAR CUBES IN THE PANTRY! ALL MINE! ALL 257 OF THEM! HAHAHA!

Oh and PS, what does Kawaii mean? AND WTF IS FRUITS BASKET

And the song isAkinoAria'sHiru no Tsuki. I love listening to that over and over again in my Windows Media Player, hehe. And I need Help! You know the purple haired boy in S-Cry-Ed? Well Ineed to figure out if his first name is Asuka, or Tachibana, do you know? A little secret for the person who does! He uses those little green balls, Trinity Eight or something...