The unveiling truth(Part 3)
"Haruka! You're still awake?" Rei asked in a surprised tone as she was about to return home.
"Just went to see if that baka master of mine is still alive or dead. Otherwise, the naming bond would be eternal and I'm doomed when that happens." Haruka replied sarcastically while trying not to be rude. Rei laughed at the remark.
"So… care to walk home with me?"
"Huh?" Haruka blinked as though he heard wrongly.
They kept quiet throughout the journey as Haruka walked Rei back to her mansion. However, Rei had other plans and told Haruka to make a detour to the lake first.
"The Ichinomiya family of the long line of exorcists and the Tachibana family of the priests and priestesses have been closely affiliated over a thousand years even though the Ichinomiyas are much more established than we are." Rei told Haruka.
"Reiya, is the second child in the Tachibana family who is also my first younger sister. She died many years ago while doing the ritual to calm the demon slumbering in this lake before us. She knew Kan since she was five, much later after Reika and I did since she was afraid to get out of her room. She used to be possessed by a violent spirit who wanted to give a message to her brother when Reiya was only three. She locked herself away from the world for two years as she thought she would be possessed again."
Rei took another deep breath and continued her sister's story.
"Soon after that, Kan's mother committed suicide as she could not believe she gave birth to a 'monster' as she called it. Kan was very different from everyone including those that could see yokais as well in terms of appearance. Kan's father then remarried a miko from Hokkaido, who took care of Kan very well in spite of his appearance. However, Kan was rather a strong willed person and since his mother died, he told me that he would protect all the people around him. He then ran away from home and stayed in the shrine after learning about yet another tragedy. His father was killed while exorcising ghouls."
Rei looked at Haruka and was surprised to find him even more attentive and maybe attractive.
"It was then Kan found my dear sister in her room and taught her not to be afraid of yokai and become friends with them instead. Reiya then gave Kan her full trust and faith.
She even learned exorcism from Dad together with Kan who was also learning from him. She was Kan's first and only best friend he had. That alone made him even more determined to become strong and upon learning about you, he became obsessed in finding and becoming friends with you and even stronger to protect the people he cherished, including you. So now, I'm telling you not to judge him badly about Kan even when you regain your memories and believe me, he really cares about you and your well being. Well, good night."
With that, Rei bowed and left, leaving Haruka to think through all she had said, alone.
Just as Rei was out of sight, Haruka heard a little voice by his side saying, "You're afraid."
Haruka turned to see a young girl around the age of five, standing by his side, her fringe was covering her eyes but he was sure that he had seen the girl someplace before.
"Like me you're still wondering if he could be trusted, but both of us did trust him in the end. I'm sure that he can be trusted, definitely."
Suddenly, a strong gust of wind blew, and when it subsided, the girl had mysteriously vanished.
'I must be so tired that I'm starting to see things' Haruka told himself mentally as he left. Little did he know that that girl was still watching him and all his movements.
"Because.. Kan kept his promise to me.."
Back at the shrine, Haruka was about to return to his and Sugino's room for a nice sleep but was pulled to a corner by none other than, Mu-chan and Rosalie.
'Why can't I just have a good night's sleep?'
"What on earth do you think you're-" Haruka was silenced by Rosalie's hand again.
"Great… Hope it's not happening again…" Haruka thought to himself sarcastically.
"What do you want, both of you?" Haruka asked quietly.
"Mu will be showing you Kantarou's memories but its okay if you don't want to know." Rosalie told the tengu who, in return, gave the 'of course I do' look which was rather obvious.
"Er… okay, but how?"
"Mu will use me to get some of her powers out and allow us to enter Kantarou's memories." She said as the three of them peeped into Kantarou's room to find him still in a deep slumber.
"Okay Mu, lets do it!" Rosalie told the goddess in yokai form and the next thing Haruka knew, the goddess placed her hands onto Rosalie's and the other pointing at Kantarou and Rosalie holding Haruka's.
With a strange white glow flooding the area around them and before Haruka could say anything else, the trio found themselves in a form of illusionary images in the middle of Kyoto back then, where it all had started in spring.
"It's the opening of the Spring Festival." Rosalie said while Mu-chan gave a 'mu'
"That explains the stalls and people, huh?" Haruka then saw Kantarou entering the shrine."
"Come on both of you, I saw him." He told the two who were following behind.
"Lucifer! We will be watching and not doing anything ok! This is Kantarou's memory and tit cannot be changed. Also, we are only illusions here and not in our real forms in reality! Hear me!" Rosalie shouted while trying to keep up with the tengu.
"I hear you, so hurry up!" He yelled as they entered the shrine to find the younger Kantarou.
Now really,plz readers out there plz do review this fic or I shall discontinue it no matter what my editors say .So,plz?
