The Vision of EscaFlowne

Awakening of Wing Goddess

Seven


Neither one of them said anything to one another; they just looked at each other. Van's red eyes stared in to her green ones which made her blush. She wished that he would just stop being so stupid and pig headed, arrogant jerk that he was being and get over the fact that she just happened to get along with Folken already! Yes, the kidnapping wasn't exactly fun, but this madness had to end. He was over protective and when she wasn't spending her entire time agreeing to what he thought or said he would go in to this little fit. It was so like a spoiled prince rather then a king! "Excuse me." Was all that she said and swiftly walked by him and didn't even get a word out of him. He was pissing her off and if he wanted to play that game she would to. She was thankful that she wasn't even awake when he came to bed other wise she didn't know what she would do. After finally getting their rocky marriage on the right track it ended up deciding to bounce around again. She loved him and hated him at the same time. She wondered if all couples had this problem. Maybe she should have called it off back before she had slept with him. Ugh she was ready to kill him!

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Folken watched from the shadows as Van practiced his sword, and knew that his brother had improved greatly from the little boy he once knew and was admired by. Even though he could tell that Van had improved, he could see that something was distracting him, his movements where off from what they where normally. He had seen Van in battle one too many times for his liking and had come to know Van's movements. He watched silently from his spot in the shadows. What he had intended by joining Dornkirk had not come to pass, he knew now that Dornkirk was just simply using him, the same way that Asturia was using him now but different. Queen Millerna and King Dryden where kind even though everyone else was suspicious of him, especially Van. He had betrayed first Fanelia and then Zaibach, how could anyone trust him? He had to grin since it was the least person he expected to show him friendship and trust him who was the closest thing that he could call a friend other then Eriya. His sister in law and Van's wife, Hitomi Kanzaki de Fanel. He wondered how she put up with Van's behavior half the time. It seemed as if Van had noticed him and he walked out of the shadows.

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Van just glared at his older brother as he watched the older man come out. What was Folken up to? A normal person wouldn't have to hide in the shadows to watch someone unless if they where hunting their pretty. What was Folken planning? He had run away from Zaibach as he had run away from Fanelia. "What do you want?" He finally asked.

"You've improved Van." Folken replied.

"It's either you improve yourself or you die."

Folken looked at Van with sad eyes. "You've become much too strong. Stronger then I intended you to be. I didn't want things to end this way."

"Looks like what you intended end up making things turn this way." Van said not wanting to call Folken brother and not wanting to call him by his name.

"Hitomi," Folken said suddenly which brought his younger brother's eyes which had looked up at the moon back to him at the sound of his wife's name. "Is a rare person." Folken said almost silently.

Van narrowed his eyes on Folken. "What did you do to her?" He asked automatically, the trust that Hitomi wanted him to give Folken was a very thin line that could easily unravel at any moment.

"Relax, why do you always assume the worst out of me?" Folken asked.

Van didn't answer, he didn't need to. Folken's past actions where enough to prove his point and Hitomi was something that made him stand on edge seeing how Folken had the attack on Fanelia and had captured Hitomi twice.

"She must be sad alone." Folken said suddenly as he turned his back and started to walk away. "The hours that you stay out here and practice your skill, are hours that are taken away from you two. Zaibach plans on attacking Asturia soon, and then you'll be at war and she'll be here waiting for your return." He said. "Don't waste the time that you have with her."

What was Folken trying to tell him? Van wondered as he watched his older brother leave. Did he really just come out here just to watch him and talk or was there some hidden meaning behind it? Whatever the reason was, it pissed him off. Folken being here pissed him off. "Damn it!" He shouted once he knew he was alone and threw the sword against the ground, letting it fall. Why didn't he kill Folken ages ago when he had the chance?

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When Hitomi woke up the next morning, she once again found the other side of the bed empty. She sighed as she went to take a bath and got dressed after she dried off. She took out one of the dresses that Millerna was letting her borrow since she had nothing to wear since everything of hers but one outfit had got burned in Fanelia. When she walked out from the bathroom and headed to the sitting room which was the first room that anyone would come to when entering hers and Van's apartment that Millerna had provided for them, she couldn't help but notice that he stood up as soon as he seen her and she blinked a bit since he actually had breakfast brought to their room to eat.

"I was going to bring have it brought to the bedroom for you for when you woke up but I decided on checking to see if you where even in there first and heard that you where in the bathroom." Van explained. "I had them leave it here instead."

Hitomi didn't know what to say. Van was acting strange, it wasn't like him to be romantic if you could really call eating breakfast in bed romantic but she guessed like it was Van trying to be. They had been married a little over a year now and she still didn't understand him. He was a very difficult person to read. She didn't know what to say to his action and just sat down quietly next to him. "Van." She started to say. "I know that you're mad at Folken and mad at me for trusting him but don't be." She started. "He is family after all and you know how I feel about family, or at least the family that I can consider family seeing how my..." She was silenced with a kiss. Why was it that he always shut her up by kissing her? It made her furious every time he did this but she always fell for it. One of these days a kiss wasn't going to get Van out of their arguments. One day she would be able to finish it. That was if they lived long enough for that day to come.