Akanishi-san: Wow...I havent updated in...ages. I'm so sorry you guys!
Ch3
Both Satoshi and Daisuke froze. She knew! Before they could say anything, Takeshi already nodded, approving it. "That's a great idea, yeah, Dark vs Light was cheap. Thanks Azusa! Let's start making those clothing!" With that, he walked off to meet the group who just came back from the library.
She stood up, smiling. "I can design, but I'm no good at sewing." She apologized, and she turned around, after they said it was all right and everything. She smiled at Daisuke and Satoshi, and moved back to her seat, passing next to them as if she did nothing.
'She KNOWS!' Daisuke panicked, trying to not to seem panicked, even though he was failing, Riku was frowning at him.
'She knows, but how?' Dark asked, thinking. 'How did she find out?'
Satoshi was on the other hand, calm looking, but his mind was racing. How did she know? He was sure it was only a secret kept in Niwa family and Hiwatari families? What was going on?
"Daisuke, right after school, rooftop." He said, and walked off, and sat on his seat, looking anywhere but Azusa, who seemed to be smirking.
After school
The bell rang, and Azusa stood up to leave, but…as she thought, Satoshi stopped her. "We need to talk." He said.
Smiling, Azusa nodded. Picking her school bag up, she followed Satoshi to the rooftop, where Daisuke was already. "Whats up, you two?" Azusa asked, looking confused and innocent.
"How do you know." Satoshi asked, his voice demanding. "For all I know, it was supposed to be a secret, within the 2 families." He crossed his arms, and stood in her way to the door to get out of the rooftop.
Daisuke was looking quite serious as well, carefully watching her. "Dark said everything was…right." He spoke, "does that mean that you are the Ageha?"
"Hey you two, slow down." Azusa said, smiling. "All right, for Satoshi, I know because I know. I have my ways to know, and I guess you could say that I'm part of Hiwatari's." She paused, amused at Satoshi's face which looked even more puzzled.
"Part of the Hiwatari's?" He asked, "But I have never seen you or heard of you."
"Of course you haven't, I was a secret, until they placed me to go to your school, and act like I was…innocent school girl." She chuckled. "So no, I was not born and raised in America." She paused, and looked at them. The words were spoken carefully. "But I was born in America, from a man who sculpts arts."
Even though she looked at them with careful and watchful eyes, they made no move to understand the hint. Azusa smiled bitterly which disappeared soon, after she abruptly moved her right hand over her left arm, wincing.
"Uh, Miss Azusa, are you all right?" Daisuke asked, worried now, since she looked pained. Even if she might be an enemy, she was after all, his classmate. He took a step closer to her, wondering what was up, but was surprised even more when she took a step back, jumping away, as if she was frightened. "Miss Azusa?"
"I'm fine." She replied, and when she looked back at them, she looked calm again, her face normal, but her hand remained on her left arm. "As to your question, Daisuke, I was trained to do some stunts, but I was not trained to steal." She smiled.
Satoshi, unlike Daisuke, he still kept his cold glare on her, not worried even a little. She was part of his family? But he has never heard of her…and she's not Ageha, then who is? On the first day he saw her, he knew something was different about her, and suspected she might be someone like himself, having someone else in his own body. But…she's not..?
"Anyway, don't worry, I won't go tell on you. I'm not like that, besides, like I said, I am part of the Hiwatari's, I'll be betraying them, and I can not do that." Once again, she looked at them as if hinting something, and at that moment, her grip on her arm tightened.
"Hn." Hiwatari turned away, and started to leave. "As long as you do not tell anyone, I am fine with this." With that, he walked away.
Azusa sighed, and turned to Daisuke. "Trust me, I won't tell." She smiled, and she also turned away to leave.
"Wait!" Daisuke stopped her, grabbing her wrist before she could walk away.
Azusa turned around, looking puzzled. "Yes?"
"What do you mean you can't go against them? Is there something forbidding you to?" He paused. "And Dark is wondering if you…are human."
Azusa smiled brightly at those words, and she fully turned around, grinning. "Daisuke, you are one of the smartest person I have ever seen!" She said, her grin up. "Think harder, on what I said right now, the answer will come to you." She paused, and she once again moved her right hand over her left arm. "I will recite what I said, don't panic if I looked pained again, all right? It's part of this…" She winced, but she kept going. "It's part of what you call your relationship between you and Dark.
"And I said: I was born in America, from a man who sculpts beautiful arts. I was taught to do things, but not to steal. And, I can't go against the Hiwatari family." Her grip on her arm was tightening, but she made no face to show it hurt. "I hope you understand what I mean, I was hoping Satoshi would, but…he didn't. Maybe you will." She smiled.
With that, she turned away from him. "Sorry, but I can't repeat that anymore, and I have to go." With that, she ran away. Daisuke confused at all of this, did not see that her face was looking very pained when she turned, almost to the point of crying.
((Satoshi did not notice these hints because he was confused about how she was part of his family and stuff, kk? And do you guys know what I mean about her? The hints?))
Azusa panted, leaning onto one of the school walls, sinking to the floor. Her right hand was still on her left arm, and quickly, she rolled up her sleeve, to look at her mark. The mark of a butterfly carefully marked on her left arm, burning in red color. Azusa laughed weakly, and when the red burning color slowly turned back into its usual black, she got up, feeling the pain slowly leave.
She froze as she was mid way up, hearing someone walking towards her. Her eyes were wide, and she slowly turned around, as the person approached. 'No…' When she fully turned around, it was none other than Hiwatari, the "father" of Satoshi.
Azusa felt as if her whole stomach decided to turn around, and her voice was unable to operate. She stayed frozen where she stood, looking horrified. On the other hand, Hiwatari was smiling. "Hello, Azusa." Azusa's moth opened and closed, no sounds coming out. He kept going, "I just had a call from Satoshi, and he just told me the oddest thing ever."
He paused, keeping his smiling face on. "He told me that you were part of Hiwatari's. I wonder where he got that from?" He took a step closer to Azusa, in which she sank back to the ground, shaking in fear. Her face had fear all over it, her eyes looking vulnerable, as if it was a mouse against a hungry lion.
"It seems like I should strengthen the power of that seal." Hiwatari's hand moved towards Azusa, and when he touched her arm where her mark was, she flinched, but made no move to go against him. "Good girl." He muttered, and muttered another word afterwards, sending pain through her arm, which caused her to scream in agony.
"I do hope you understand, Azusa. I can not let you pass any more information on my plans to Satoshi anymore. And I do hope you are smart enough to not to, after you see what pain it can cause to speak anymore about it." With that, he turned, and walked away, leaving Azusa on the ground, looking helpless, a bird with broken wing.
Everyone in school were gone, all going home, since the midterm test was coming up. They all needed all the time they got, so no one heard her scream, no one saw Hiwatari enter and leave the school grounds, looking satisfied.
Who heard it were Daisuke and Satoshi, who were still on campus, thinking on what they heard. Satoshi was slowly catching up, the information slowly sinking in. He was on the other side of where Azusa was, leaning on a wall, thinking on what he heard.
"Ageha…" He whispered, the whole thing clicking in his head…She was Ageha! Right after he figured everything out, he heard the scream. He jerked away from his thoughts, and without hesitating, he ran straight to where the scream came form. What made him do it, who knows? Maybe he wanted to catch the other thief? Or did he feel sorry for the girl, who is suffering, under his commands? Or something else?
He ran, until he bumped into Daisuke, who also seemed to be going to the same direction. "Miss Azusa?" Daisuke asked, and when Satoshi nodded, they both ran to where they heard another scream, cry of suffering of the pain she was receiving, a punishment for what she had done.
When they reached to where she was, they found her on the ground, in a tight ball, her right hand over her left arm, over the mark, that was burning bright blood red color, and to top it off, blood was coming out of it.
"Miss Azusa!" Daisuke panicked, and he ran to her, but before he reached her, Satoshi was already there, trying to pry her arm off the bleeding arm.
"Azusa, let go, let me look at it!" Satoshi was saying, but Azusa could not hear, the pain was killing her, her whole arm was hurting, along with her whole body. It was as if she was being compressed by a big truck, squishing her until she was nothing. "Azusa!" Satoshi yelled, quite angry now.
As if she heard him or the pain was taking her energy, her hand slowly lost pressure on her right hand, allowing Satoshi to take it off, to examine the arm. Daisuke gasped at the mark, so she was Ageha. But why didn't she say so?
'She probably couldn't, remember how she looked pained? This is probably something that keeps her from talking anymore, and…I don't know, but maybe spilling too much has caused this mark thing to cause her ore suffering?' Dark replied, he himself getting very angry, at hurting a girl like her. 'No one has the right to hurt girls like this.'
'Daisuke, tell Hiwatari to get to your house with her, this place will attract too much attention, people might come.' Dark said to him, quickly thinking of his plan. 'Maybe your mom can do something, maybe loosen up the pain or something, or seal the mark itself.'
Nodding, Daisuke repeated what Dark said. Seeing that that was most likely the best idea, Satoshi pulled Azusa up who was trying to move away, and forced her to stay still on his back, her bleeding arm twitching, her mark still burning red.
"Who…" Azusa started, confused. Who was there? Her vision was blurry; all she could see was blue hair…"Sa…toshi?" Those were her last words, before she feinted, with another jolt of pain.
"Azusa-chan?" Someone asked, shaking her. Azusa groaned, trying to remember what happened last time she was awake. Who would be there to wake her up, when she lived with no one else? Or…was she at her house?
Her eyes flew open, and she flew up onto her feet, but her knees buckled at the same moment when she stood up, sending her back down onto the bed, an unfamiliar yet familiar woman in front of her, looking worriedly. "Who are you?" Azusa asked, trying to get back up, and edge far away from the woman as possible at the same time.
The woman smiled softly at her, her voice equally soft. "I am Daisuke's mother." She said, and another woman walked into the room, holding a tray with what looked to be a warm mug of tea, with soup, both steaming. "Thanks Toa, I am sure you are hungry dear, would you like this tea and soup?"
Azusa moved her eyes to the tray, to the woman carrying the tray, to Daisuke's mother. She suddenly felt her stomach lurching, as if leaping for the soup. She was hungry. Nodding, Azusa kept her eyes on the two. "I would love them, thank you." She said, "But…why am I here?"
As she took the tea, and sipped the first gulp, she felt very refreshed, sending warmth through her. It was not only that she felt, she slowly remembered what happened. "I…" Her eyes swung over to her left arm, and to her surprise, she saw that it was bandaged, clearly taken good care of.
"I took care of that, honey." Daisuke's mother said, "I also loosened up some of the seal curse for you, so that the pain you were getting should be gone…but then again, you were sleeping for 3 whole days."
Azusa choked on her soup. Thee whole days! "I WHAT!" Azusa yelled, but realizing she had blurted out, she clamped her mouth shut, looking as if waiting for a blow.
To Azusa's great surprise, Daisuke's mother just smiled. "I was going to wake you up earlier, but I figured you needed the sleep after loosing so much of your energy. But…today, you were looking as if you had a horrible nightmare, I thought I should wake you." To Azusa's still questioning look, she kept going. "You have been out for 3 days, Dai and Satoshi-kun brought you in from school, and at that time, your arm and you yourself looked horrible."
Azusa was indeed shocked. "I'm sorry to have interrupted earlier; I was just surprised that I was asleep for 3 days…" She said, her face down, her eyes up, looking like a child who was looking guilty.
"Oh no, it's all right." She replied, offering her soup. "Here, I won't do anything to you if you interrupt, as long as it's not purposely and annoying." She chuckled.
This was very different from what Azusa went through; her life so far had been horrible, especially because she was under Hiwatari. "Thank you." She said, and took a sip of the soup. She felt the warm liquid tickle down her throat. She gulped it all down, and when she finished it, she noticed that Towa, or what she heard Daisuke's mother call her, holding another bowl of soup.
"Go ahead, drink up, it's full of nutrients, it'll help you recover faster." Towa said, offering the soup. "I cooked it myself." She grinned.
Taking it, and handing the empty bowl back, Azusa finished her second bowl. When she finished, she turned to Daisuke's mother. "Thank you very much, Mrs. Niwa…For everything, you have done so much things for me."
"No problem, any friend of Daisuke's is always welcome." She replied, smiling.
Azusa looked at the sheets on her lap, looking dull. "I am not really Daisuke's friend." She replied in a whisper. "I am more like his enemy."
Daisuke's mother raised her eyebrow, confused. "The whole thing bout you being Ageha?" She asked.
Azusa whipped towards her, her eyes huge. "You know?" As she thought, if the other person knew, Azusa's arm wasn't hurting, and she wanted this advantage for such a long time.
"Dai told me, when he brought you. Well, actually, Satoshi-kun had you on his back, he was carrying you. Dai explained what he heard, and Satoshi-kun explained what your hints meant."
Azusa smiled. "I am glad you know. You do not know how long I wanted someone else to know, except for…" She stopped abruptly; her arm was hurting again, a warning signal. "Never mind." She said, looking away.
"Oh." Daisuke's mother said, knowing why. "It's your arm, isn't it?" Azusa nodded. "Then don't go telling who it is, because I don't want to see you in that state ever again." She chuckled, and stood up. "I'm sure we can solve this soon, Azusa-chan, don't worry, we'll try to get you off of whoever's controlling you." She turned to the clock. "Dai and Satoshi-kun should be coming home soon."
"Satoshi?" Azusa asked, puzzled. Since when was Satoshi and Daisuke friends? Well, they were, but to the point of coming over? They knew each other as Krad and Dark, right?
"Yes, Satoshi has been coming everyday, to check up on you." She chuckled. "He seemed very worried." A sound of door clicking cut her off. "Oh, they are back." Daisuke's mother said, and she walked over to the door, leading to the hallway. "Dai-sweetie, Azusa-chan had woken up!"
"Really?" A voice answered, and footsteps were heard, coming to the room.
Azusa smiled to see Daisuke entering, but blushed when she saw Satoshi closely following him. "Uh, hi." She muttered.
"Miss Azusa, you're all right!" Daisuke said, running to her, and sitting on a stool next to her bed. "I'm so glad, I was so worried!"
Satoshi came soundlessly to the other stool, and sat down, his eyes never leaving her. Azusa looked anywhere but his eyes, those piercing eyes that looked as if he saw everything through her. "Daisuke, Mrs. Niwa, and the crow, please leave this room. I need to talk to Azusa alone." He said, never leaving his eyes off of her.
Daisuke hesitated, but nodded. With that, he closed the door after he left the room, after his mother and Towa exited. Azusa finally looked up, and smiled at Satoshi. "Hey Hiwatar-san. Thank you very…"
Satoshi cut her off, looking very serious. "I looked you up." He said. "You are called the Eternal Butterfly, and you are a sculpture, like you said, made in America. Then my father made you come alive, and to act as a student at my school. Why."
Azusa did not open her mouth; she kept his shut, in fear of the whole pain again. She bit her bottom lip, daring not to talk, her eyes not focused onto him anymore, but to the sheets on her lap.
Seeing this, Satoshi sighed. "I guess you can't talk about it…" He said, "You can't go against him…and if you talk, you get that whole pain thing you were suffering three days ago." Azusa nodded. "Why do you work under him, or can you not say that as well?"
Azusa nodded once again. "The whole thing is under a contract," She winced; her right hand over her left arm once again. Just a little hovering over the topic wouldn't hurt, right? "I can not talk anymore than this, as of now, I am feeling a little pain…"
"Then don't." Satoshi said, getting up, one hand under his chin, thinking. "What troubles me is that you said you weren't trained to steal…then why did you steal?"
"I stole it because…I wanted to." Azusa replied after a moment. "I wanted to see who Dark was. I also wanted to see Krad, but hey, I know about the whole thing." She shrugged. "I…also wanted the Eternal Tiara because…I don't know, I wanted it."
"I see." Satoshi replied. "How long have you been alive?"
Azusa paused, but answered, her eyes still not looking into his. "I should be celebrating my 5th year next month." She looked at her lap, tears dropping down suddenly. "On that day…" She jolted, and her eyes grew wide, and she made an odd choking noise. Clutching her left arm, she kept back her scream of agony, gritting her teeth.
Satoshi had jumped out of his seat, and yelled for help. Daisuke and his mother ran into the room, both looking alarmed. Azusa's eyes were closed tight, biting her bottom lip until it bled.
"Azusa!" Azusa heard Satoshi yell her name, before she lost all her senses, only seeing darkness…
Akanishi-san: OOC. OOC! Yikes. Yeah. I knew I had to tweak Satoshi...but yeah...way too much OOC. Anyway...review plz
