Wave and Beach.
A fanfiction by Aoi Kitsukawa.
Disclaimer: Ghost Hunt is belongs to Fuyumi Ono-sensei, I only borrow the characters in the light novels/ manga/ anime. Please enjoy reading it!
Summary: AU. Like wave uncompleted without beach, so life uncompleted without love. Taniyama Mai, 19, was an orphan who was sold by her nasty guardian to the brothel but she managed to run away. Shibuya Kazuya, 20, a son of a Duke, was frustrated upon his father's plan to marry him with other noble's daughter. Both of them met and by mistake, making a horrible mistake that changed their life forever. What exactly happened to them?
Author's Note: Ahahahaha! I never thought it would end up like this! Thank you for all readers who read my stories, I really appreciate it! Special thanks to Aktaiy, Sumi20, angelthatfell, mumu and thearistocrat for the reviews and story alerts! Kyaaa~! I'm soo happy!
Mumu-san, for you question, I put the answer at the end of the story.
OK…This chapter 2 is a bit details since I decided to explain a bit on what exactly the world that our beloved Ghost Hunt characters are living. Since this story has fantasy and adventure genres on it, so I'll explain the world little by little. Maybe I'll put a special chapter just for the terminologies and explanations. Please inform me if any of you want me to make this special chapter.
Sorry, for the miss spelling and some grammar mistakes; I was rushing the day I submit the story. Sorry again my dear readers!
Have a good time reading and don't forget to review!
Pairing: Mai Taniyama & Kazuya Shibuya/ Naru
Genre: Fantasy x Suspense x Tragedy x Hurt x Comfort x Romance x Mystery x Supernatural x Adventure
Wave 2: Responsibility
"I know this will create problems if we left this matter just like that, Naru," She said as she looked at Naru. He seemed tense upon the name 'Naru' before he sighed and nodded his head.
"Mai is alone and as an adult, as well as someone in high position than you, I can't let any of you let go of this matter without holding responsibility. So I come out with a plan which can benefit each of you as well as responsible with each other," Said Izumi as the teens looked at her with question face.
"And your solution is…?" Asked Naru with uneasy feeling. 'Somehow I don't feel quite good about this.' He thought.
"Both of you should get married as soon as possible!"
Everyone then sighed in relief after hearing what Izumi had said, but then, Naru and Mai, as well as Eitarou quickly snapped and looked at the adult woman with shock expression on their faces.
"YOU SAY WHAT!"
…In a faraway land, there was a magical world called Hazard the Magic World that was surrounding by two main continents that divided by sea, 13 different kingdoms and 12 nations, connected with other worlds-The Dark World and the Human World. The two continents-The Zody Continent and the Solar Continent were the places people were living; The Zody Continent however under the ruled of Solar Continent.
There were many kinds of people living in these three worlds including the Human World; the ordinary people, the magical-wielding people, vampires, werewolves, lost souls. Those people, however, lived in peace although they were different types of people.
The most powerful family's influence among the 13 kingdoms was the Flame and Wind Royal Family Kingdom-The Kirishima Royal Family. The Hazard World was rule by the recent successor of Kirishima royal family-The Sun (Taiyo) Queen Kirishima Leona, the fire-wielding element and her half-sister-the Rose (Sobi) Princess Kirishima Malina-the wind-wielding element.
Magic powers and supernatural abilities are special kind of ability or power born to some of the people in these countries. People with magical or supernatural abilities were considering special and gifted, and most of the noble families in the kingdoms were magic and supernatural abilities-wielders. Between the three important worlds; Magic World, Human World and Dark World, mostly the strongest magical or supernatural abilities-wielders are from the Human World, followed by the Magic World and the Dark World. These people are usually neither from non-wielders' parents, suddenly awaken within their body of being chosen as a successor. Some of them even naturally possessed the powers through bloodline and heredity.
The Magic World had been in wars for many decades and centuries by many intruders from other dimensions. Since this world was the protector of Human and Dark World, many greedy enemies kept attacking this world several times until several battles and incidents were mark in the history of Hazard World. With the additional that the 12 main kingdoms possessed 12 magical crystals as their 'Guardian Protector', the invasions from the enemies had become more violence than before but managed been suppressed by the 'Guardians'.
It had been several decades since the last war when the other invaders had tried to grab the current power that the royal kingdoms held. For now, peace surrounded the world after the last, bloody battle with the other invaders was end. People in the kingdom, common or magic-wielders, continued their daily activities; going to the market, gossiping, children playing around. But inside the castle walls…
"WAAAAAHHH~! IZUMI~!"
The wide door opened with a bang to reveal the confused maids who were still in the middle of their work. A woman in 30's was looking at her surrounding with wide eyes. She was a woman with a pair of black eyes and long hair with the same colour that reached her back. She wore a silver crown on her head, with blue crystal on it; a sign of Blue Star element. Her dress was in blue violet, with white lines down to the long skirt that she wore that time. Her soft blue mantel flew gently as she walked from the door, in a large, luxuries castle. Her white, eye drop-shape crystal earrings waved eagerly as its owner as the lady turned her head right and left. In her right hand was a crumple scroll with a sign of Blue Star insignia.
Her face seemed a little bit panic.
"Heika, what's wrong? Why do you suddenly calling for Lady Izumi?" Asked one of the maid who was cleaning one of the castle's window panels. The other maids and her felt a bit worried towards the lady who was four months pregnant. The lady who was called 'Heika' looked at her and said to her.
"Have you seen Izumi Annie? That woman! She asks me to come out when I was like this?" Growled the lady that actually the royal family.
"Errr…no Heika. We never saw her before you came here," Said the maid named Annie.
"So where did she go…"
"Calm down," Said a voice. "If you're this panic at them you're going into early labour Shino."
The lady named Shino turned around and saw a dark shadow among the pillars. She immediately knew who the person was just now, but she did not go to 'that' person and dragged it to the middle hall. Instead, she walked down and across the hall of the main castle.
"What do you want from me Izumi?"
"Seriously, you're sometimes an idiot do you, my dear Queen Shino?" Said Izumi as she revealed herself from the pillars.
A woman in late 30s with black hair that reached her shoulders slowly appeared from the pillars. A Blue Star insignia embalmed on her left chest and the black-gold sash around her waist fully marked her as royalty. Her platinum crown showed the symbol of Blue Star, and revealing her black, mysterious eyes to everyone in the main hall of the castle. Her blue uniform clearly shown that she was a person with high-rank position. She slowly walked to the queen named Shino as the queen pouted at her.
"What exactly that you want from me?" Pouted Shino. "It's in the middle of winter and it's a cold season! Is there…"
"I need your help. Urgently."
The last words had stopped the queen from speaking more words. She looked at the woman in front of her, who wore a serious expression that showed that she was not lying to her. Understand the situation in front of her, she immediately asked her maids to leave the hallway immediately.
"What exactly happened, my dear 'twin of soul' (1)?"
"Something urgent had happened, and I think we should do this sooner than later."
"Huh? What's wrong? Did something happen?"
"I already told you twice! Are you a deaf?"
SMACK!
"Ittai! Hey, I'm pregnant remember?"
"I need your power as a ruler to keep this matter as secret, you know what I mean?"
"Hey, that's sound dirty. Did you do something bad that you need my power to keep it secret?"
"Not me, him!"
"Him?"
"He's…" Izumi bent down and whispered to Shino's ear, which later on looked at her with wide eyes. She looked so shock and disbelief with what she had heard from Izumi.
"ARE YOU SERIOUS?" She shrieked.
"Shh! Slow down! Don't make others hear us!" Hissed Izumi as she closed Shino's mouth with her hand.
Really, this woman can't keep her voice down!
"Of course I serious you dork! This matter is really serious, and I know his father wouldn't like this matter spread like a rumors for 75 days (2), remember whose his family is?" Said Izumi as she strokes her black hair.
"Ow geez…! I know that! His father is the Duke of Antlia! Do you know what the cause of these messes?" And don't call me dork!
"Of course I know but now, let's kick out these problems for a while," Said Izumi as she grabbed Shino's shoulders. "I really need your favor right now!"
"Alright then, do what?"
Taking a deep breathe, Izumi slowly told the pregnant queen of her plans, only on resulting her jaw dropped off due to the shock that she received that time…
Mai sat alone in another guestroom, which located at the first floor of the house, which belongs to Izumi. She stared at the outside patio as she watched the snow slowly fell to the ground. She wore her own clothes again, and grabbed herself to make her body warm from the cold winter.
After such commotion that morning, Izumi had left the house after sending a pigeon to somewhere else. It seems that she had sent some message to someone that she knew before walked out from the house. Before she left, she gave some money to her son and some lists so that he could buy some groceries. She did not know how long they could manage the current situation and it might took days, so to make sure that everyone was not starving when she came home she sent her son for some shopping.
GRRRUUU…!
Mai startled for a while before she looked at her tummy and realized that she was hungry. She sighed as she slowly rose on her feet and walked. She hoped that there were something left in the kitchen, something that she could make to eat since she was actually not eating much food for the past several days. Her lives in her previous days before she met with these problems were as terrible as horror story.
Mai was an orphan who was living with her current guardian in Ara area, whom apparently her parents' neightbour. Her guardian was a good person, but suddenly it was changed when her father died because of illness when she was small and then her mother passed away when she was in middle school.
When he first took her in, he was nice and concern about her, so she felt relief for a while. At least she had some place to stay and a person who was taking care of her. But it suddenly changed one day when the man went home with miserable face, and when she asked him why, he slapped her hard.
"It was your fault you bitch! You make me loose in gambling again!" He said as he started beating her.
Starting that day, her guardian treated her badly. She was forced to work throughout the house; cleaning, cooking, washing the clothes, everything all alone! It was not that she never does housework, but her guardian always screaming and hit her when he messed the house again and called her as useless, unlucky girl and wasting his money for her. However, he did not violated her or trying to force her doing bad work, since she was underage and the authority would arrest him if they found out that he was abusing her. Therefore, Mai went her hell life for another three years of high school until she graduated.
After the graduation, she started looking for a job and finally worked as a waitress at a small café. The salary was good enough for her to start a new life, unfortunately, her guardian always took almost all money she had and left her with very little money for herself. He would use the money for casino, gambkling, lotteries and went to brothel. Mai was unable to move out from her guardian's house as she only managed to save little money from her work. Until several days ago, her guardian suddenly ordered her to pack her things and followed him. She was scared but followed his order, afraid that he would beat her terribly. So against the strong snow breeze, she followed her guardian obediently until she saw a building with a sign that she never thought would see: a brothel. Then she realized that her guardian was selling her to the brothel, as she saw the owner of the brothel handed him a thick envelope that full of money and quickly left the place.
Fear for her safety, she quickly ran away from the brothel who also realized that she had run away. The owner ordered his men to capture her so she ran as fast as she could. She did not know where she was, she was brought away from her hometown; the small town of Ara to some place where she was a total stranger. She then saw a hidden place and hid there, while the men chasing her in wrong direction. After she felt she was saved, she went out and started wondering aimless, not knowing where she went. She walked for days, nowhere to go and last night, she walked past a bakery full of breads and other food, she could not help but stared hungrily, but she had no money. Sadly walked away, she kept to herself that she was not hungry. As she kept on walking, suddenly she heard a sound of something hard fell on the snow and quickly ran towards the sound.
Lying on the snowy ground was a young man in thick winter coat, his scarf laid loosely around his neck. She quickly went to his side and asked him if he was alright, when suddenly she was met with a pair of beautiful deep blue eyes.
That was the first encounter of Mai and Naru, under the heavy snowy night.
Trying her best not to shed a tear, she walked to the kitchen, unbeknown to her that someone with same eyes watched her from behind. She went to the cabinet and found a loaf of bread, cooking oil, salt, pepper, soy sauce and some spices. Then she opened the refrigerator and found some eggs, two packages of frozen chicken frankfurters, mayonnaise and salad. She felt glad that there was food there, so she decided to make an egg sandwiches with some cooked frankfurter.
She grabbed a package of the frankfurter, then four eggs (remember she was hungry!), mayonnaise and salad. She grabbed a pot and filled it with water before place it on the stove and lit the fire. She put the eggs into the water and waited for it to boil. She then took the bread and started cutting off into several pieces. Quickly ripped the salad from its package, she sliced the leaf into two and placed on the plate. Grabbed the pepper and salt, put them on the kitchen table, she took a pan and placed it on the stove, poured some oil on it. She ripped the seal and put six frankfurters into the pan. The smell of frying food had made her stomach growled louder than before, and she felt blush rushed on her face. She was about to grab the knife when suddenly a long hand appeared behind her and grabbed it before she could. She turned around and saw the last person she ever wanted to see.
Naru.
"What are you doing?" He asked, in his cold voice.
Mai stared at him, and said, "Are you blind? I'm cooking right now!"
"It's not good to make something out of the owner's permission."
"I can't help it. I'm hungry! I didn't eat anything for the past days!"
"Still, no excuse."
Mai glared at him before she grabbed the knife back and turned off the fire. After taking out the eggs from the hot water, she tried to turn the frying food to other side when Naru took the spatula and shoved her aside.
"You go make tea. I'll handle the cooking here," He said without looking at her.
Angrily, Mai huffed before she took a kettle and filled it with water. She put in on the main cord (I don't know how to say it, sorry!). While the water was boiling and it turned off automatically, she searched for tea and found an instant Darjeeling teabags and took it out, made the tea once the water was boil. Soon everything was finish and the two teens brought the food to the dining room, which connected with the kitchen.
Both of them ate silently, until they heard someone opened the door, walked in, and revealed half-covered snow Imai Eitarou with three bags of groceries. He raised an eyebrow as he saw what the pair was doing.
"Sorry, it's blizzard outside. I'll go make something for you," He said as he walked to the kitchen. Mai tried to stop him but a single but powerful order had stopped her from doing so.
"Mai, tea."
From the kitchen, Eitarou could hear the pair arguing a little as he chuckled and, using his power, everything he bought was placed to its place. He then started cooking within half an hour, and after cleaning up, he brought the lunch to the living room.
"Omerice (3)?" Asked Mai, disbelief.
"I hope I could do more but since both of you already eat so I make something simple but fast," Explained Eitarou as he placed the plates with his power. "Itadakimasu!"
The three of them ate the warm food, sometimes Naru had to pause from eating since the food was too much for him to eat fast and had to request some tea (much to Mai's dismay) and Eitarou just chuckled. While Mai ate the rice, she could not help but let the tears strained down her face, stopping both men at the table. She had wondered when was the last time she ever ate something so delicious and good; ever since her guardian started his abuse, she could only afford herself to eat expired bread, instant noodles or if she managed to, some onigiri. She felt so sad that she slowly cried and let go of the spoon, covered her face with her hands.
"Mai-neechan," Asked Eitarou. "What's wrong?"
She just shook her head. Naru stared at her, when his eyes caught a glimpse of faded scars on her hands.
Were those scars from hitting impact?
Remembered that she had told him that she didn't able to eat for the past several days made him wonder if she was a victim of child abuse. Although Mai was 19, she was still underage and still need protection. Slowly rose from his seat, he walked to her side and placed his hand on her shoulder. Eitarou, seemed understood the need of privacy, left the pair alone. As he was about to go back to the kitchen, he heard some arguments at the hallway to the main door.
"I told you already to shut up your mouth! Now look what happen!"
Oh, that angry voice was his mother…
"Well sorry for upsetting you! But you have to remember, even if we do this in secret, when it comes to registration, people would do some background check-up, then passing the information to certain levels of process until it was keep in database! If we want to keep this in secrets, we have to get Leona's permission to make it as confidential file! Otherwise, his family or even his missing naughty brother would HACK the system and got the truth! Do you want that to happen?"
"Yeah yeah I know…" Eitarou could see his mother walked in with annoyed face. "BUT AT LEAST DOWN SPREAD THE WORDS TO ZENJI! YOUR HUSBAND'S MOUTH CAN'T BE SEAL FOR THIS KIND OF THING YOU KNOW!"
"Hey, who are you talking about Izumi? I'm not as lousy as you are!" Said an anger voice, probably the man named Zenji.
WHACK!
"Ittai! What the hell are you doing Izumi?"
"Serve you right for nonsense things Zenji…" She turned around and saw her son walked slowly to them with finger on his lips, smiled kindly.
"What's going on?" Asked the mother as she nodded her head, understood the sign by her son.
"He's comforting her," He looked at the surprise faces in front of him. "But I think maybe I should share this matter to you for the sake of Mai-neesan as well…"
Naru was confused. He really not understand why he was acting like this.
When he saw Mai suddenly cried when they were eating their lunch, he could not help but feel sorry for her. She looked so miserable, so fragile and weak, as she was about to crumble in any moment that time. He could see her shoulders were shaking as she tried to suppress the tears and sadness within her. Without he realized it, he slowly went to her and hugged her tightly. He held Mai's head to his chest, let her cried as she sobbed slowly. He slowly stroked her hair to comfort her, as he tried to think about what he should do with poor girl.
It was not that he hate her, he never did that. He was just shock to found out that he had spent a night with a girl who was a total stranger and nothing about her that he knew. But he knew she was the girl who helped him last night, the same young girl who looked at him with concern and worry when she found him collapsed after drunk, under the heavy snow. She was the one who struggled to bring him home despite of his current condition, the heavy blizzard, and her luggage. She kept on walking with him until they stopped at one house, which was belonged to Izumi. As the lady and her son saw them, they quickly brought them in.
Deep in his heart, he knew this girl was scare and she really, really need protection. The way she cried and how sad her eyes were, had made Naru to become determine with his decision upon the situation that had turned both of their lives upside down and chaos. Naru realized that ever since that time, no, even this morning, he could not ever to forget the face of this brown hair girl who was crying in his arms now. Her big brown eyes that seemed solemn and sad, somehow it attracted him. Her loud voice, her cute face when she anger…
Eh? Since when he found out that girl is cute?
Hm. New founding!
"Naru," A voice lifted up his head just to see Izumi leaned against the door frame. "Help her finish the lunch. We're having meeting about this alright?"
Naru nodded and then he looked at her. Mai slowly lifted up her head as blush was covered her face, making her very cute. Naru felt his heart beat faster than before, as he slowly let go of her and asked her to eat. He sat next to her and finished his meal as well.
Soon after that, they went to the living room only to find Izumi with another additional people. They were the Queen of Blue Star Nation Himura Shino and her husband King Zenji, a doctor named Hanamura Aoi and her lawyer husband Isuzu Yamato, as well as two officers from the Flame and Wind Nation as the representative of the Higher Ruler of the world, Queen Kirishima Leona –Ajuro Kazuki and Yuuki Hikaru. He soon understood that even the high-ups knew this matter either.
"Sorry Naru, because of this idiot, everything's spill out!" Said Izumi as Shino glared at her.
"It's not my fault you dimwit! I told you…"
"Enough already!"
Everyone was shock to hear Izumi's cold and stern voice echoed throughout the living room. Everyone who knew Izumi when she became intimidate quickly looked at their feet, since they knew how scary she was if she got angry.
"Let's start our discussion," She said as she crossed her legs, a habit she had picked up since young. "I've explain everything to these people about what happened so in short…"
"Um…sorry, I don't know who they are," Said Mai, in her small tone. Izumi looked at her gently as she started to introduce the people one by one, shocking the young girl more than ever.
"Is…is it alright…if the…t-the queen knows…?" Asked Mai, shaken. She was sitting with Eitarou, somehow Naru found it quite annoying but he did not understand why.
Eitarou just smirked; he knew what exactly happened to that young man.
"It's alright dear. Queen Leona agrees with the situation. It's just that we want to confirm that…" Shino was unable to finish her words when Naru decided to jump in.
"There's nothing to worry about," He ssaid, determinedly. "The decision has been made; I decide to take the responsibility."
"Eh? What is it Naru?" Asked the innocent Mai. Eitarou was trying his best not to laugh, since he knew that what happened after this would be interesting to watch!
"We're getting married," Naru simply replied, stared at the brown hair girl in front of him.
Mai laughed cheerfully. "Oh right. We're getting mar…" Her eyes suddenly widened in horror as the statement fully registered into her mind.
"WHATTT?"
Hints or Explanations:
(1) Twin of Soul –This matter is somehow related to soul mate
1) twin souls are soul mates that belong in the same spiritual family. Twin souls are able to pick up on each other's energies in times of crisis or separation. It's like if the one half of the soul is upset the other can sense this.. They witness such things as 11:11 and other double digit numbers on clocks or license plates or billboards or even some sort of numerology that represents the other soul, such as anniversaries, birthdays, or death days.
2) However from my own understanding, twin of soul is a pair that have the same life journey or shared the same experiences. Both Izumi and Shino are known as 'Twin of Soul', which means that both of the women had shared almost everything they had in their life although they are actually two different people.
(2) Spread like a rumors for 75 days –For those who watch XXXHolics 2nd season, this sentences had been mentioned by Doumeki. It means that, without realize it; rumors will be fading eventually along with the time.
(3) Omerice –This infor was mention by my classmate; she said that Japanese people tend to call Rice Omelet as 'Omerice', a short way for Rice Omelet. I don't know why they call it like that, but I found it really interesting. In my country, it was called as 'Pataya Rice'.
Ahahahahaha! I can't stoop myself from laughing at this story! Really! Naru you sly! Now everything is getting more interesting! Poor Mai getting involve into something that called as bad luck, huhuhu…!
If all of you had realized there are more additional characters in this chapter. Yes, they are the OCs but them also playing big roles in certain parts of the story. Also, I decided to describe what kind of world the GH characters are living. It's quite complicate I know, but that is why I placed 'Fantasy' genre in this story. Maybe I should put humor as well, seeing how Mai and Naru bickering each other, hahaha!
To Mumu: Thank you for the notice, I really appreciate it. Actually, there is a tragedy genre, however since I was rushing while writing this story I forgot to see it. Thanks for reminding me.
Thank you to all readers for their kind reviews. We meet again in the next chapter. Thank you very much for the supports. Ja ne.
-Aoi Kitsukawa-