I Won't Tell

By: Lakija X

Author's Notes: Cliché! Bwahahaha! But if you know Lakija X, there's something fishy about all this… Sae and Itsuki and Mayu? How Soap Opera is that! - Was I lying?

Maybe… a young man can intervene…

Sae: Strange Feelings

I awoke to a bright sunny day. My arms ached a little, but I stretched out my arms. The first thing my mind conjured up were images of the souls from the Hellish Abyss. Were they freed? I hoped so.

Mayu-san was lying next to me. Her chest rose and fell in a repeating, almost hypnotizing motion.

We were in a western bed of sorts. A wonderful item. I pulled back the bed covers, and placed my feet on the wooden floor. It was all sort of new, but I'd seen all of these things the night before.

There in front of my bed was a pair of… jeans… and a… shirt. I'd never worn anything other than a kimono. Speaking of which, my ceremonial kimono had been cleaned and restored to its normal, pristine state.

I was unsure of whether or not to put on these new, strange clothes, or to put on my kimono. I had on sleeping garments of some sort already. They had peonies all over them, but in bright, exuberant colors. And the garments were made of a stretchy thin material instead of the silks and satins I was used to. In addition to this… they had pants.

I decided to change later.

Quietly I crept from the room, and walked down to Yankou's sleeping chambers.

I would never have went into a young man's room in All God's village… but I wasn't in All God's Village anymore, so I ignored this former rule, and decided to be a little more curious.

I'd never seen another young male sleeping, except for Itsuki, who never stayed awake when there were town gathering, or talk of the Crimson Sacrifice. (lol)

The first thing I saw was Yankou's beautiful, extremely long black silky hair. It was all over the bed. I quietly walked over to him. Of course, his face had a stern expression on it, even as he slumbered. (lol) Even so, I could still see the handsomeness of his face.

I placed my hand on the side of it. Once, my best friend, Mutsuki-chan, told me that people wake up when you do this. He demonstrated on a napping Itsuki, who'd fallen asleep at a village meeting.

Yankou's mouth moved slightly, as his eyes opened. Usually, when I was around him or any male who was older than I, I never looked into his eyes. But when they opened this morning, I gazed intently at them, waiting for him to wake up entirely.

For his eyes were the most beautiful orange and golden color. The base of them was brown, but it was highlighted with such warm colors!

Yankou frowned at me when he saw that I was staring at him. I couldn't help it though. How could someone so unforgiving at times have such becoming eyes?

"Did one of my eyeballs fall out while I was sleep?" he moaned. I giggled.

Yankou finally let in the morning sun, and sighed. He looked toward the hand that was resting on the side of his face. He closed his eyes, and sort of laid his face on my hand more. I could have sworn that he liked my touching his face.

I gasped, bringing my own eyes down to the floor in a swift motion. I brought back my hand, embarrassed. I hadn't even realized that my hand was still there.

"Ohayo gozaimasu (Good morning) Sae-chan. Sleep well?" he asked. Yankou looked out of the window, scowling at the bright light vaguely.

"Hai! (Yes!) I came to see if you were awake," I replied.. I stood in front of his bed, my hands folded in front of me. Yankou smiled, raising an eyebrow at me. I put my hand to my mouth. I knew my cheeks were burning, because Yankou laughed.

"Wish I could say I slept well. I had a terrible nightmare. But that's normal for me. What I dreamt about that was weird was that a girl in all white with long hair… sorta like mine… was holding ropes. She wasn't coming for me though, but for that guy, Mafuyu. Poor thing… so anyways Miku told me that she was going to put us in school or something. She said that she wanted to enroll us in the school that Mio and Mayu used to go to. I don't know how they're gonna possibly get the school officials to believe anything about those two, but whatever they come up with is going to be impressive."

"That's what I was thinking of too. I mean, this school that they are going to, will the people there honestly believe that Mio and Mayu have stayed the same age for almost fifty years? I do not think so." I went to the door, peering out. I thought that someone walked pass and looked in at us.

"Uh huh. And in addition to that, what will the government think? They'd probably put us all to death for… who knows what? Witchcraft? I don't know… they did things like that. Thank goodness for us we were mostly born almost after the Meiji Restoration. Or we'd all probably be…What year is this?" Yankou asked.

I laughed. "It's 2004 silly. A LONG time after the Meiji era. So we are just about safe."

"Oh yeah… phew. Well, now that that's over, I'm going to change my clothes. Seeya at breakfast. In like an hour. I'm going to let you go and change too… you still have on sleepwear."

Later, after I'd settled on wearing a pair of those awful jeans and a shirt made of stretchy cotton, I left.

I went to see my friend.

"Itsuki wake up," I muttered. Itsuki was asleep in the floor. I shook him.

"What…whatisit…" he groaned

"Sae… it's Sae Kurosawa."

"Oh… Sae, I'm glad to be able to talk to you. It's been a while," Itsuki said. He yawned. I giggled.

"Yes it has. Oai-deki-te ureshii-desu (I'm glad to see you).Have a good sleep?" I asked.

"I have only been napping. Are you okay? Are you hurt? Have you gotten over the trauma of everything?" Itsuki asked.

My eyes widened. "Of course. I'm okay. Everything's fine." I walked over to Itsuki. He nodded, rubbing his head. I patted it, and sat on the floor next to him. He laughed.

"That's good to hear. I was worried about you. Have you talked to the others yet?"

"Hai, Yankou. I haven't seen anyone else though but that other girl," I said. I hadn't know Mayu so well.

"Hm? Who might that be?" he asked.

"Well, I don't-"

"Ohayou gozaimasu Itsuki-chan. Oh… Gomen nasai Kurosawa-san. (I'm sorry/pardon me Miss Kurosawa)."

A thin, short girl walked into the room. She limped into the room, I mean. Her hair was short and black, like mine. In fact, she looked like me, except… I looked so plain next to her. Her face was much clearer, and she had color on her eyelids. Not dramatic, but some shimmery stuff…and I looked like a spindly little girl next to her. Itsuki looked like he had on more makeup than me. T.T

Plus she had on a nice skirt and shirt. Her skirt was jean, like my pants, and they looked to have been washed down with something that lightened them. Her shirt was striped and bright pink.

"Shinpai shinaide (That's all right). Ohayou gozaimasu." I rubbed my arm, self-conscious for some reason.

"I came in to say hi to Itsuki. I hope I wasn't interrupting anything." Yeah…sure…

For some reason, I felt heavily intimidated by Mayu-san. I cleared my throat, standing up.

"I, um… have to go. I need to, uh… see Mio about something or other. It was nice to see you two," I said, awkward. Especially you Itsuki… I thought, smiling.

"You didn't come to see Mio did you?" Miku said. I was at the breakfast table, moping.

"Iie (No). Shiri-masen… (I don't know…).I was just famished."

"Liar liar pants on fire," Miku sang while she fixed me a plate of breakfast.

"Nani! (What!)" I exclaimed?

"Just kidding. But if you were coming to ask me something, I have a few minutes. So shoot."

I sighed. "It's just that… I feel terribly out of place," I tried.

"Oh, don't give up now. You just got here. I'm sure you'll be able to fit in. But no matter what, I think that you and I should talk sometime. In fact, I'm taking you and Itsuki and Mutsu-kun shopping today with Aya-san. We're all going to get new clothes. Yankou and the other girls are going with Maf. It's going to be fun!" Miku giggled with glee.

Shopping… was going to be fun with Miku.

"So… are we going to school soon?" I asked. Miku put the plate next to me.

"Yeah. I want to see what sort of education the village offered to you first. I have no idea how we're going to get you guys in school, what with the special papers and stuff. We'll see what goes on first, but eventually, you guys must have an education… I'm a little concerned about the gov though…"

Miku blew a kiss to me, and grabbed her book-bag and left the house..

A/N: That was something. I'm not sure when the next chapter will get out, but what happens with the government will have to be researched.

Also, did you guys notice that for Sae, I use a lot of Japanese words? It's because I figured since she comes from the village, she would be more convincing to the reader if she didn't know so much English. I thought it gave a certain feel to Sae. I dunno, I just probably like it.

Lakija X