Glass Heart
Author's Note:
This is my Get Backers fan fiction. I hope you'll all like it. I really pour my heart into making it. It was a fan fiction with four parts. Here is the second part. Enjoy reading.
-Raijutei no Babylon-
Disclaimers:
Sadly, I don't own Get Backers or any character in this fan fiction. Thank you!
Glass Heart: Living a new Life
Warmth surround Miyu. She felt like heaven. She opened her eyes to find herself in a room surrounded of fine fabric. She shifted her position and tried to sit up. A hand helped her.
"It's too risky for you too move. Your fractured bones are still in the process of healing, you know." A soft voice said. Miyu look beside her and saw a woman older than Miyu, smiling warmly at her, making her think of her mother.
"I'm fine" she said then gasped in pain shot through her side.
"I'm afraid you're not…" she said still smiling.
Ignoring the woman's comment, Miyu looked around her.
"Where am I?" she asked.
"My room" the woman said.
"Sou…" Miyu said and bow her head.
Is she the one who saved her from those men? That can't be… Miyu was sure it was a man who saved her.
'Then who is she?'
Miyu was about to ask another question but the woman cut her off.
"Enough questions for now young lady… fill up your stomach and recover quickly… you've cause enough trouble to our leader…" she said smiling and proceed to feed Miyu. Miyu looked at her confused and was about to decline but the woman already pushed the spoon full of food in her mouth.
"He's restless you see… endlessly worrying over you… cold as he may seemed but he is as warm as a loving mother can be." She continued saying as she feed Miyu, her smile not wavering.
After hearing the word mother, Miyu's eyes glistened with tears.
"Gomen nasai… I- I… I d-didn't… m-mean… t-to… b-burden y-y-your l-leader…" tears flowing from her eyes.
The woman, caught off guard from Miyu clinging to her. She brushed Miyu's hair with her hand comforting the young girl.
"It's alright little one… it's alright… stop crying… Raitei will have my head if he heard you crying because of what I have said… I was only trying to make you smile."
Miyu nodded and sniff. "Gomen nasai onee-chan…"
"Sakura"
"Sakura-neechan"
"Better… now… will you give a smile…?" she said.
Miyu nodded and smile a bit. Sakura smile brightens.
Caressing Miyu's hair. "You look a lot lovelier when you smile, don't you know that? Smile more often will you?"
Miyu smiled once more. "I'll try."
"Now… off to dreamland young one… sleep well…"
"Arigato"
Sakura nodded.
Miyu fell into a deep slumber once again.
"Poor one… she must have gone through a lot…"
A knock.
"Come in…" Sakura said in a small voice.
A chocolate hair young boy entered the room.
"Sakura nee-chan… Raitei asks for your presence"
"Arigatoo Kadzu-kun…"
Kadzuki looked at the sleeping girl.
"How is she?"
"She's recovering fast for her own good… she just woke up a while ago… she's indeed a real beauty… even in her young age…" she said and led the boy out of the room.
They reach the VOLTS hangout.
All heads turn towards Sakura.
"How is the girl?" a dark hair man asked patting a lion beside him.
"Did she gain consciousness?" the older blonde-haired person asked.
"Did she say who she was and where she came from?" a computer whiz kid asked.
Sakura giggled. "One at a time minna…"
Kadzuki smiled.
"Raitei" she said and gave a courteous bow in front of a spike-blonde guy.
"Do tell Sakura… how was the girl doing?"
"She's doing well Raitei… in fact she just gain consciousness a while ago and was eager to move but her injuries are not fully healed so I asked her to stay put and rest which she gratefully followed. Don't worry much about her… she's faring quite well dear emperor…" Sakura said with a playful smile.
Shido chucked lightly.
Makubex turn around and giggled ever softly.
Kadzuki covered his mouth in a soft laugh while Juubei and Toshiki smirked.
Masaki smiled fondly while Teshimine looked amused.
Raitei raised a perfectly curved eyebrow.
"What do you mean?"
"Playing innocent, are we emperor…" Sakura said smile widening.
"I don't know what you are talking about" he said looking away avoiding Sakura's eyes.
"Oh really? Then what is that… no let me re-phrase that… THOSE late night escapades to my room for? Huh your highness…" she said teasingly.
Everyone looked at Raitei with amused expression. Raitei stiffen.
"Nani!" he asked coldly. Everyone turn away from him smiling fondly.
"I'm just checking her condition… nothing more…"
"Oh… how about the touc---"
"That's enough… Sakura you may return to your quarters… and quit teasing me… I'm just checking her…"
"Hai… Hai… Oyasumi nasai Raitei"
Raitei nodded.
Sakura smiled.
"You can come and see her tonight if you want…" Sakura said with a teasing smile and disappear in the hallway.
"She's insane" Raitei muttered and looks at the sky once more.
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Sakura opened her room; to her surprise, she found the bed empty. She panicked.
"Oh my! Where is she!" she exclaimed.
She's about to ran outside when she spotted a figure in the shadows.
"Little one is that you?"
No sound.
Sakura approached the figure. Miyu looked up.
"Onee-chan… I'm scared…"
Sakura sighed in relief. "Worry not young one… come here…" she said and Miyu move to hug Sakura.
"I feel so cold…"
Sakura helped her to bed and covered her with blanket.
"Feel any better?"
Miyu nodded.
"If you need anything… just tell me… ok?"
Miyu nodded.
Miyu was about to close her eyes when a knock on the door came.
Sakura looked at it and muttered a soft 'come in'. The door opened and a man's outline seen.
"I see you came to see her… good timing… she's awake…" she said smiling.
The figure went near the bed and stood beside Miyu's bed.
Miyu looked at him and recognized the man who saved him. She tried to stand up. He reach out to assist her. Sakura chuckled. He threw Sakura a glare.
"Arigatoo" Miyu murmured.
Raitei nodded.
"I'll leave you two for a while… Raitei… if you please…"
Raitei nodded.
When Sakura was out of the door. Raitei sat beside her bed.
"May I ask your name?"
"Miyu… Yamano Miyu" Miyu answered blushing a bit.
Silence.
"Ummm… Mr…?"
"Raitei… that's what people call me… but my name is Amano Ginji…"
"Ginji-kun… Arigatoo for saving me the other day…"
"Miyu-san… that was a week ago…"
"Eh!" Miyu exclaimed.
"A week ago!" she asked in disbelief.
"Hai… you're unconscious for six consecutive days… today is the seventh day…"
"Gomen nasai…" Miyu said bowing her head.
"For what?"
"For all the trouble I've caused you and your friends."
"Don't worry…"
Silence again.
Raitei pulled out a box from his pants and gave it to Miyu.
"For me?" Miyu asked.
"I think you should open it" he said.
Miyu smiled and opened the box.
It was a red ribbon with two sets.
"Kirei…" she whispered and ran her hand on the silk ribbon.
"Thank you…" Miyu said and looked at Raitei.
"You should rest now…" he said and begun to head towards the door when he heard Miyu muffle her tears.
Raitei looked back at her and walk to her side.
"Doushite?"
Miyu looked at him.
"A week ago… it was my birthday…"
Ginji looked taken aback.
"I never received any present… what I got is these… pain and loneliness…"
Ginji sat beside Miyu, grab her head, and place it on his shoulders letting her cry.
"Otou-san, tried to kill me… because I am a monster… he said that I'm from this dreaded place… that I am horrible like the place I was from… Okaa-san tried to stop him but was killed in the process… then he fired the gun… it wont stop…"
Miyu trembled; Raitei put his arms around him and comforted her.
"It was my Imotou she shielded me from the bullets killing herself in the process… now I am alone… cold and scared… I'm alone…" she cried pouring her heart.
Outside Sakura clasped her hand on her mouth careful not to make any noise, tears flowing from her face. She decided to leave but saw four people who are listening too. Kadzuki's eyes held sadness. Makubex shows grief as tears flow carelessly down his very young face. While Masaki and Shido where impassive but their eyes held sympathy and care. Sakura walked over Makubex and held him tightly.
Miyu's tears subsided. But her sorrow still overflowing from her being and Ginji hated it. He caressed her hair with care.
"It's alright… you're no longer alone… I'm with you… we are with you… you'll never be alone…"
Miyu nodded and snuggle closer to Ginji.
Years passed. Miyu now a lovely girl at 18 Ginji in his 21st age.
Miyu and Ginji's closeness grew and they were inseparable. Miyu loves everyone in VOLTS. She learn many things during the years.
She learned her powers, her ability to control fire and small amount of electricity. Her capacity to heal injuries and hypnotize using her two-colored eyes. The Four Gods of Lower Town regards her as their Empress. Why? Isn't Ginji's… Raitei's fondness enough to make them assume her as their Empress.
It was her 18 birthday and everyone was celebrating it, Miyu laughing from Emishi's horrible joke. Raitei watching quietly. Shido petting his animals, Masaki smiling fondly at everyone. Makubex still experimenting on equations and more. Kadzuki playing soft music from his strings. Juubei and Toshiki playing dodge the needle. Sakura knitting from a distance. Everything is in order.
Nighttime falls and everyone left for their quarters. Raitei offered Miyu a walk to her place of rest. Upon reaching the door, Miyu smiles to Raitei thanking him for the pleasant day and wishing him a peaceful night. Miyu was about to turn when Ginji stopped her and hand Miyu a small box.
"Are? Is this for me?"
"A birthday present"
"Thank you so much Raitei… This isn't a ribbon I presume I wont trade any other ribbon for the one's I'm wearing now…" Miyu said teasingly referring to the ribbons that hung arranged in her hair.
"Worry not then" he said quite smiling.
"Can i?"
"Of course… How then, would you know what's inside if you wont open it? You've not become a fortune teller, have you?"
"Careful your highness... that sounds like a joke…" Miyu said smiling.
"Whatever"
Miyu opened it. It was a pair of chains… a moon and star joined back to back. Miyu let out a small 'Oh my god'
"Do you like them?"
"Of course! Oh! Thank you Raitei!" she said and hugged him tightly.
"Yeah… Yeah… Let go" he said.
"Demo… why is it two?"
"Because… the other one is for me…"
"Eh! For you?"
Raitei nodded and get the other chain.
The glow of the moon illuminating the two from where the stood, gentle breeze blowing.
"I promise to keep you safe all the time… to always think of your happiness…" he said sincerely looking straight into Miyu's eyes, he held the chain to Miyu.
Miyu can feel tears forming and get the other pair of the chain.
"And I promise to always be safe to not worry you, I promise to be always happy as long as I am with you… heart and soul." She said and gave Ginji the chain. Ginji accepted it and drew Miyu close to him, and envelope her in a tight embrace.
After a few minutes.
"That's quite a confession my lady…" Raitei murmured letting Miyu go.
Miyu blushed. "The same with you your highness…"
Ginji laughed. Miyu loves it when Ginji laugh… he's so carefree and innocent.
"Now off to bed Miyu… I know you are tired…"
"Hai… Arigatoo"
Miyu was long gone, Raitei was still standing in front of her door. He raised the chain and murmured.
"For your safety… forgive me…" he said and closed his eyes.
See you on the next chapter…
Author's Note:
Thank you for your time! Please send me a review… Domo Arigato!
-Raijutei-
