Sapphire Vixen
--By SunFireVixen--
Vixen: I'm sorry, this is one day late... the internet was going slow for me, and would suddenly stop loading.
-mutters self note-
Anyways, I'll be back only for today,twofriends of mine has offered to take over. I'm super busy, And school will start in less than a week for me. -sob-
I'll find someway to continue this fiction.I'm still 5 chapters ahead from all of you, so we should all be fine for 5 weeks. I hope I can find time to write more chapters so i'll stay ahead from all of you. Otherwise, I'll have to ask you all to give me some time to write. I don't want to do that.
This special person i'm letting update for me reminds me alot of Aquamarine. Of course, all of you have yet to decide her kind of character, but I know her as if she was my sister. I amher creator, after all. -grin-
So she'll be posing as Aquamarine. Emerald is yet another person who will spell-check the chapters for me. The Emerald-person isn't evil... but she is sarcastic, so i'll let her in our team. She'll add in little comments, just so you know she's there. -wink-Right Emerald? Ne?
And no, they don't know anything more than any of you. That definitely wouldn't be fair. They do recieve some of my drawings, of course. Don't know why they want them, though.
Only one person knows ahead of everybody, and she helps me when I have writer's block. -glomp- She did last update's author notes. Don't listen to her... she's trying to kill the ending. ¬¬
Anywho... I really hope I'll get to write an author's note again soon. So if my clones don't update on time or there's alot of errors, try doing voodoo. That'll convince 'em.
Aqumarine and Emerald: -deathglare-
Vixen: -fumbles with fingers- Yeah... umm... thanks alot to everybody. Every single one who reviewed, and all those people that read this fiction. I know i'm always saying this, but come on, a writer gets a pleasent feeling in their heart when they know somone likes their writing. And all writers feel even better when they say nice stuff.
SunFireVixen doesn't own Beyblade or any of it's characters. Only the plots she makes, Fei, Riza, Takato, Nikkiand all the maids/butlers/cooks/gardeners (okay, this is getting silly.) Sapphire, Emerald and Aquamarine. (This applies to all chapters)
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Chapter 31: Fearless
Later that day...
"Sapphire, you idiot. Where are you?" Emerald growled, walking down the corridor, snapping at each of the house cleaners in her way. "Clones come first. Then stupid boyfriends."
She spotted Riza, and strode towards her. "Where is Sapphire?" she snapped at her.
Riza slowly turned around, and looked at Emerald, who was fuming. "Mistress... is out." she said calmly, then turned around.
"Where the hell did she go?" she growled, and Riza turned to her one more time.
"Mind your language, Mistress Emerald." she said, and walked away.
Emerald glowered as she disappeared behind a corner. She stomped back to Sapphire's room.
She slammed the door shut behind her as she entered the room. She looked over to Sapphire's bed, where Aquamarine was supposed to be, sleeping.
Her fake dark green eyes widened.
She wasn't there.
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Sapphire sniffed, and then looked up at Kai.
She hiccupped, and he stared down at her cute face. He wiped her tears away with his thumbs, and kissed her lips again.
"I miss her so much, Kai," she muttered, tears sliding down her cheeks. She hiccupped.
"I know. You haven't seen her in almost 9 years," he said quietly, pushing away the strands of hair that covered her face.
She leaned into his warm hands on her cheeks, her eyes halfway closed, gazing up at him. She hiccupped, and the tears slowly stopped.
She did not feel like crying when Kai touched her, it seemed like just his presence would lighten her up. She smiled at him, and he returned it with a small one of his own.
"You make me feel better, Kai." she said truthfully. Surprise appeared deep within his amethyst eyes, and he smiled, and kissed her in happiness again. She giggled, and he kissed her small nose too. She wrapped her small arms around him, and hugged him.
He returned the embrace, and held her tightly. He loved her so much- he could not stand it.
"I...Sapphire..., I lov-"
"SAPPHIRE! YOU IDIOT! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?"
Sapphire squeaked in surprise, and jumped back. Kai looked up at the sky, and tons of colored birds of many species flew away, terrified, out of the treetops.
"I can barely get two syllables out.' Kai thought, sighing.
Emerald's voice seemed to echo in the distance. Kai looked down again at Sapphire, who had an irritated expression on her face. Kai stood up, and helped Sapphire stand.
They both crawled back into the tunnel, through the large garden, and slowly to the entrance, where Emerald stood, fuming.
"You called?" Sapphire snapped. Emerald gave Sapphire her nastiest glare.
"You... (pant)…you..."
"I?" Sapphire said, crossing her arms.
"Where the hell where you! I have been searching for almost an hour! Now it's YOUR entire fault!" Emerald cursed under breath.
"Where I was or where I will go is none of your business." Sapphire said, cool and calm.
"Shut up, you damned-"
"Shut up. What were you complaining about, anyway?" Sapphire said casually, cutting Emerald off.
Emerald growled, but said, "Aquamarine's disappeared, stupid. When I came back to your room, she was gone," she said, crossing her arms also, glaring at Sapphire.
"You were supposed to take care of her! Why is it my fault?" Sapphire said, startled.
"Because I called for you and you weren't there, dork." Emerald said, matter-of-factly.
"Nice excuse, stupid." Sapphire mocked.
"We're not going to find her if you two keep arguing."
They turned to Kai, leaning against the wall, arms crossed, and eyes looking at them, bored.
"Let's split up. Hurry up, Emerald. Or are you too slow?" Sapphire mocked, her face darkening to a taunting smile.
Kai smirked at her cute smile, pushed himself off the wall, and walked away, in search of Aquamarine.
"I'll show you what slow means, idiot." Emerald said, smirking and jumping away.
They searched the enormous backyard, most of the house, including the attic, and the basement, and then the garage. When they finally finished searching around the neighborhood, they stepped back inside Sapphire's property, and sat down on the steps, the two girls exhausted. Kai still stood, breathing normal, and looking down at them. It was almost sunset when they paused for a rest.
"I'll make sure that I cut every one of those wires in you mechanical body, Emerald." Sapphire said, taking deep breaths.
"Pah. You wish. You can't even protect yourself." Emerald countered.
"We have to keep searching. She could destroy every centimeter of Japan, Emerald." Sapphire said, standing up. Emerald stood up.
Sapphire tried not to show her pain. Her ankles were painfully bruised from running and walking the whole day, she could barely feel her feet. Her small feet were not built for running and walking for long distances or for long periods. She felt her legs tremble under her weight.
Kai nor Emerald noticed. Emerald had her eyes fixated on the garden. "We still haven't checked the garden."
"Then why don't you look?" Kai murmured. Emerald gave him his nastiest glare, but had no effect whatsoever on him, and he proceeded on walking towards the garden.
"Let's go then." Sapphire said, determined. She took a step forward, and stopped. The pain increased. She bit her lower lip to stop herself from screaming.
She ignored the pain as she walked behind Kai and Emerald, towards the garden. There, they split up again.
Sapphire felt her legs shake. She could not stand up anymore. She collapsed on the grass on her knees.
She grasped her ankles, now bleeding. She shut her eyes closed, tears threatening to fall. She heard shuffling noises in the bushes, and panicked. She crawled into a bush, and hid herself.
She watched as a small blue bird peeked out of the bushes, and then flew away. She sighed with relief. Then she heard a twig snap.
Her head jerked up, and she saw Kai, walking just in front of her. He stopped in front of her hiding place.
She pushed herself deeper into the branches, grasping her ankles, the bleeding starting to sting painfully. She bit her tongue, and forced herself to not to cry.
Kai's feet were just a few inches away from the small blood puddles that stained the grass. He looked around, and when he spotted nothing, went on his way, away from Sapphire.
When she was sure he was gone, she wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand, and wiped the blood on her hands with the grass.
"I have to get home someway." she mumbled, and started to crawl out of her small hiding place. "But I can't tell anyone." she muttered, and plopped down on the grass, holding her ankles again, as if trying to stop the bleeding.
"Want me to carry you? I won't let anyone know."
Her eyes widened, and she looked up.
Aquamarine eyes and her face stared down at her. She bent down, and turned around, offering Sapphire on her back.
"T-Thank you…" Sapphire said, and Aquamarine helped Sapphire on her back.
"You're welcome." she muttered, and started to walk back towards Sapphire's home.
They walked back in silence. As Sapphire clung to Aquamarine's neck, she looked back at the garden.
"Will you tell me where you were?" Sapphire said softly, as Aquamarine climbed the steps to Sapphire's home.
"Taking a walk- I needed time to think," she said, opening the door.
"Okay." Sapphire said, looking out the window, and watching as the sun slowly disappeared. Aquamarine climbed the stairs, and walked towards Sapphire's room.
Sapphire shut the door and locked it behind them, and Aquamarine carefully lay Sapphire down on her King-sized bed.
Her blood stained the sheets, and Aquamarine quickly ran to the bathroom. She came back with a tube of white cream in her hands and long white bandages.
She cleaned her wounds, rubbed the cream, and quickly wrapped up both her ankles tightly. Sapphire sighed, and looked up at Aquamarine with a smile.
"…Thanks- a lot." Sapphire said.
Then they both heard a knock on the door. Sapphire gasped softly.
Aquamarine quickly looked around, and spotted a glass of water. She grabbed it, and smashed it on Sapphire's dresser.
The glass shattered, and shards of the fragile glass fell to the floor. Aquamarine grabbed one of the long shards, and shoved the other pieces under Sapphire's giant bed.
Sapphire watched as Aquamarine stabbed herself with the sharp piece of glass in her right arm. She quickly wrapped it up.
"What are you-?"
"I bet they noticed the trail of blood on the floor on our way here," she whispered, as they both heard a louder knock on the door.
Sapphire nodded, and her clone quickly covered Sapphire's legs under the bed sheets. She then opened the door.
An angry Emerald and Kai stared back at Aquamarine.
"Yes?" Aquamarine said, but Kai passed right by her, and stopped in front of Sapphire's bed.
"Where did the blood come from?" he said, and Sapphire shook under the sheets.
"Uhh-"
"It's my blood."
Kai looked back at Aquamarine. She glared up at him as she approached Sapphire also, and sat down next to Sapphire, on the bed.
Kai's eyes narrowed of suspicion. His eyes darted to the dresser. He noticed a small mark and almost unnoticeable scratched paint. His eyes snapped back to Aquamarine, and then slowly to her messy wrapped arm. Blood showed right through the bandage's fabric.
"Where were you all this time?" Emerald asked suddenly, from behind Kai.
"I was in the garden." Aquamarine said without any doubt.
"We were all in the garden; no one was hurt, except Aquamarine, who tripped over a rock while we walked back, Kai." Sapphire said, avoiding his deep gaze while Emerald and Aquamarine had talked. She clutched her covers tightly.
"You're getting worse at lying, Sapphire."
Sapphire stared up at Kai, as his eyes gazed at small spots of blood.
He walked over to Sapphire's side, and pulled off the covers.
His eyes stared down at her tightly wrapped ankles, and her blood staining the white sheets under her. Sapphire looked away from him, tears forming, clouding her eyes.
Aquamarine sighed, and walked out the door. Emerald followed right behind her, and closed the door shut behind her.
"What do I have to do to make you stop lying?" he murmured, folding his arms across his chest.
Sapphire closed her eyes, and tried to cover her legs, but he grabbed her wrists with one hand, and pushed all the covers onto the floor. Sapphire hiccupped, and she buried her face into his chest. She relaxed at his embrace.
She cried, not for of the unbearable pain in her fragile bleeding ankles, but the pain in her chest. She hated lying to him. She hated worrying him.
She hated being weak in his eyes.
He took off her shoes, and placed her back into her bed. She refused to let go of his purple shirt and hiding herself from inside his jacket, so he sat down next to her.
"I'm sorry. Hic- I don't want to -hic- lie to you anymore. Hic- But-"
"It's the only way to keep yourself protected. I know," Kai said, and Sapphire silently nodded, clutching his shirt with her small fists. "I just don't want you to be something you're not. And if you are weak, I don't mind. If I need to protect you, I will," he said, his soft breath tickling her ear.
She slowly looked up at him, and he almost melted in her cute stare. Her eyes were once again big, red and puffy. There was a streak of red across her cheeks, and her nose was a light pink. A small tear traveled down the side of her face.
He gave a small, amused smile, and pressed her lips to his. Her eyes widened at the sudden action, and he separated them. He wiped her tears away, and stroked her soft and long hair.
"Be who you are, my Flower," he whispered in her ear as her face grew red as a strawberry. She smiled, and hugged him.
His soft voice and soothing words in her ear made her feel so pleasant. For him she would stop doing whatever he wanted. For him, she would do anything. She smiled.
Tears started to fall again as she buried her face in his chest, and he wrapped his warm and strong arms around her small and fragile body. They both closed their eyes.
She was in love again. And she doubted she would fall out easily this time.
'No. This time it is for real. He actually cares for me, and if he did not, he would not be doing this, or saying any of these things.
I need to someone... who will take care of me and not hurt me or call me weak. Someone to protect me- to hold me- to cheer me up- to make me laugh. Someone who will love me forever, no matter what form I reside, no matter what the appearance.
Because… isn't that what love is?
She smiled. "Tell me you're the one…"
Kai opened his eyes, and looked down at her. "Did you say something?"
Sapphire giggled, and tugged at his scarf. "Nope!" she said, and releasing his scarf from his neck and playing with it. Kai stared down at her as she wrapped it around her own neck. She smiled up at him.
"I could make a good impression of you. Want to see?" she said, her big eyes brightening as she smiled. He smiled and nodded. "Good. See, there's no trick to it..."
"You just frown!" she said, smiling. Kai smiled as she threw herself back, laughing
"With Tyson you just do whatever you want, but don't ever use your brain. Oh, and stuff your face with food every time you see at least even a crumb of bread." Sapphire said, pushing away the scarf and looking up at Kai. She sat up.
"For Max you be happy, no matter how bad the situation is, and after a while, go crazy on candy." she said, smiling up at Kai again.
"I don't always frown." he said, inching closer.
Sapphire's smile grew bigger. "Hang out with your best buddy, the wall?"
Kai shook his head, and buried his face in her soft hair, and leaned against her neck.
"Outsmart everybody?" Sapphire said more softly.
"I guess that is amusing." he said, smirking. Sapphire laughed.
"You're mean." she said playfully, and rewrapped the scarf around Kai's neck. He wrapped his arms around her, and Sapphire slowly leaned into him, and closed her eyes, smiling.
Kai's lips hovered over her neck, and she tensed at his breath tickling her skin. He smirked, and his kisses made small red spots down her neck. She smiled, and pushed him away from her.
"Sapphire?" Kai whispered. She gazed up at him.
"What?" she said, her arms clinging to his neck.
"I l-"
There was a knock on the door. Kai sighed. I give up.
Sapphire released him, and Kai stood up, straight, fixed his scarf, then leaned on the wall, and stuffed his hands deep into his pockets.
"Come in." Sapphire said, covering her legs again.
A skinny maid opened the door, with two other maids close behind her. They all stepped in, one with a silver platter with a silver cover, another with a small folding table.
"Mistress Sapphire, we brought you your dinner," they all said, and one of the maids placed the table right in front of her on the bed, another then put the plate on the table, and the last maid lifted the cover.
"Thank you. Could one of you bring me new bed sheets, please?" Sapphire said, clutching the edges of her bed covers.
They nodded, all gave a very low curtsy, and exited. Sapphire stared at the food, irritated.
"I thought you liked food." Kai said, sitting down next to her. She lifted the silver fork, and poked at the meat.
"I just don't like the attention much." she said, and started to eat everything in one bite. She smiled happily when she finished.
Kai took away the table, and put it on her dresser.
"I wonder if any of the maids saw the blood." Sapphire suddenly said, worried.
"Emerald and I saw the maids cleaning after the trail." he said, looking outside to the ¾ths moon.
"Hopefully Riza didn't see it… though, I haven't seen her for the whole day today." Sapphire said, leaning back into her pillows.
The door opened again, and two of the three maids placed folded bed covers on top of her bed, curtsied, and quickly exited.
Kai took Sapphire's covers again, and lifted her. Her blood had passed right through the bandages, and made a big puddle of blood under her feet.
He placed her gently on the chair in front of her dresser and mirror. He then spotted the cream and left over bandages on top. He removed her bandages, and threw them aside, and stared at her small ankles, still bleeding.
He left to the bathroom in her bedroom, and cleaned the wounds with a wet towel, rubbed cream, and then rewrapped her ankles again. Tears stung at her eyes as he tightened the bandages.
Kai looked up at her teary face, and wiped the tears away. She smiled down at him, and he stood up, and pulled away all the covers from her bed, and replacing them.
When he finished pulling the last bed cover on Sapphire's enormous bed, he lifted Sapphire again, and placed her down gently on the bed.
She let go of his neck, and held his face in front of his. "Thank you, Kai." she said softly. He smiled and bent down to kiss her.
"Goodnight." he said, pulling the bedcover up to her chin.
She turned over to her side with a smile on her face. "Goodnight." she replied, and he left the room, turning off the light on his way, then locking the door.
She mumbled something to herself, and smiled.
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"Master Hiwatari? Will you be staying here for the night?"
Kai stared down to a young maid at the bottom of the stairs. "If it's alright," he said, as he reached the bottom step.
"We love your company. It is fine if you stay." she said. "Would you like dinner before you go to bed?" she asked.
"No thanks." he replied, and the maid motioned him to follow to his room. They went up to the stairs again, away from the room he was used to sleep.
She led him a little bit past Sapphire's room, deeper down the hall. She stopped at a set of double doors, almost like Sapphire's.
"Here you are, Master Hiwatari," she said, "Your room."
Before he could thank her, she curtsied, and walked away. He stared after her as she left. He turned back to the doors, and pushed them open. He turned on the light, and gazed at the room.
There were two glass doors leading to a balcony, a huge walk-in closet, another door leading to a bathroom, and a king-sized bed. The whole room was much bigger than the one he used to sleep. He shrugged, and closed the door behind him as he stepped in.
He changed into only white pants, turned off the lights, and before he climbed into bed, he noticed the incomplete moon outside. He pushed open the balcony doors, and stepped outside into the cold.
Kai stared down at the garden. It was incredible. The garden was indeed huge, and filled with trees. Next to him, he saw Sapphire's balcony. He stared down at the hand-railing for a while, then a flash of a dark purple in the garden caught his eye.
It stood still on top of a tree, and it seemed to spot him, and dived into the trees again. He continued to stare into the bushes, concerned.
After Kai was sure it was gone, he stepped back inside, closed the doors, and climbed into bed.
He closed his eyes, and quickly dozed off...
"Hello, Kai."
Kai looked down at Ruby once again. She smiled at his irritated face.
"I'm not going to bother you for long." she said, patting the space next to her, motioning him to sit down. "I remember why I came to visit you in your dreams." she said, as he sat down.
He looked at her as she looked down at the grass, making small circles with her finger.
"Sapphire's been through a lot. And I know how you feel about her." she said softly. He grew uneasy when she said this. "You realize that she won't even try to heal if you let her down, right, Hiwatari-san?"
Kai nodded. He had thought of this for a time. If he suddenly stopped loving her for some reason, she would think of him as a liar... a traitor...
"Sapphire is exactly like me. Except she wants to be strong. She want to show no weakness." she said, her face growing sad. "Before she met you, she thought of love as a weakness. She thought caring about someone would just bring her down. When she left Night-san, her thoughts just proved themselves right."
She looked up at him with a worried expression. "Hiwatari-san, she might not return the feelings you have for her. She might fear that her past will once again repeat, even if she does love you."
Her eyes were fearful now. "Hiwatari-san... protect her from harm. Protect her from anything that is danger to her. Teach her that she has nothing to be afraid of when she is around you. Do it if you really love her, Hiwatari-san." she looked down at the hem of her dress.
Kai nodded. He knew this. He had to teach her that their is nothing to fear of when she was with him. Sapphire knows she's weak in strength, and so did he. But the love she held for everyone, was what made her stronger.
"I do want you to tell her… but I too, am afraid that she will not accept you."
Kai looked up at Ruby.
"That's why I've been interrupting you every time you try to tell her… that you love her."
Vixen: I'll still read all of your reviews, of course, so i'll know if you'll complain about the cliffy. -wide grin-
I'll probably be spending all my time either at school, going to the library/ a bookstore, doing homework, doing chores, sleeping, whining, or on the computer.
I'll probably be doing some sort of weird school assignment, though. -sob- I'll see if I can chat with any of you that have MSN and I have you as a contact once in while. -wink-
So sorry that I couldn't answer reviews, there's no excuse other than my laziness now. -sweatdrop- And no preview today, sorry.
-ducks random electric appliances thrown at her-
Well, this is the last time I say this for a while.
Please review! Thank you!
-sob-
Wait...
Let me say it again-
-Emerald and Aquamarine drag Vixen away-
-Emerald rubs hands together-
Aquamarine: We'll be having so much fun time together for a very long time...
Emerald: -reaches into pocket- ...
Aquamarine: -sinister look-
Emerald: WHO WANTS COOKIES?
Aquamarine: ¬¬