Forbidden Love
Ep. V
"You poor thing," Shizuru whispered placing a kiss on the bandages over Mikoto's heart. "Shi-chan, stop it." Mikoto said feeling a sudden chill washed over her. "Stop what Mikoto? I know that you still love me after all these years, and you can stop me if you really wanted me to stop." Shizuru said feeling the soft flat stomach under her hand. "Easy for you to say," Mikoto murmured. "You're using magic to pin me down as soon as I got home, so it's not like I can just break free from your spell." Mikoto said loudly this time. Her words broke Shizuru out of her daze, and she quickly removed the spell over her cousin while feeling a bit guilty with what she had been doing to the girl.
"I'm sorry," the older woman said. "So what did Natsuki did that cut the honeymoon short?" Mikoto brushed things aside as she sat up feeling pain in her heart. "Natsuki seemed more interest in killing a demon than spending some times off with me," Shizuru looked sad. "I'm sorry to hear that," Mikoto soften her voice as she reached out and pulled the older woman toward her for a hug. "But I'm sure that you can tolerate her, after all you two did fall in love and got married." Mikoto said with a forced smile on her face even though there's a hint of old pain within those words of hers.
"Do you still hate Jiji for our breakup?" Shizuru asked pulling away so that crimson orbs meet amber orbs. "Shi-chan, what's done is done. I wouldn't change it if given the chance," Mikoto said brushing a few unruly strand of hair out of the latter's eyes. "I'm going to sleep now," Mikoto suddenly changed the subject and let out a yawn. "Oh, your books are good, but you're such a hopeless romantic person in your writing." Mikoto said before leaving Shizuru's room and went back to her own. "Ara, so Mikoto-chan enjoys reading it too huh?" Shizuru called out to the younger one playfully but she knew that the other girl probably collapsed on her bed and was deep in her sleep by now.
Mikoto was pulled out from her sleep when something smashed into the door of her bedroom, and it was a mistake when she decided to open the door to see what was going on. Natsuki was the object that hit the door, and her life would've ended if Mikoto didn't open the door causing her to fall backward. Unfortunately, weapons have no eyes as the few kitchen knives hit Mikoto's legs, Mikoto hissed at the pain as she bent over and pulled them out causing blood to spurt out even more than it already is.
"Mikoto, I'm so sorry are you alright?" Shizuru asked as she rushed up to examine the girl. "Kuga-sensei, what did you do to my cousin?" Mikoto ignored Shizuru entirely as she looked down at the woman with pale face covered in sweat lying on the floor at her feet. Mikoto had never really addressed Natsuki by her last name in ever, and she liked the woman with long midnight tresses but only to some degree. One thing she can't tolerate about that same woman was the way she treated Shizuru, but Shizuru seemed to tolerate her and so Mikoto let it be. Now things doesn't looked so good in Natsuki's favor as there are two women in the house ready to kill her, and this only pissed her off even more.
"Just look at her!" Natsuki shouted pointing to a worry-looking Shizuru. "All she ever worried and think about is you, and I'm sick of being compare to you." Natsuki said as she crawled out from between them and got up on her feet. "You make me laugh, Kuga-sensei." Mikoto said coldly as her golden eyes looked anything but friendly as she moved to the war zone looking living room. "I, who have not seen my beloved cousin in more than five years, am being compared to you?" Mikoto asked laughing dryly. "I belief in fate Kuga, do you?" the feral girl asked Natsuki turning around so their eyes met. "It was fate that Shi-chan becomes my cousin, and it was fate that she fell for you and gives you all of her heart. But you, a coward as you are always suspicious of her love for you. The only thing you ever done right were marrying her, yet you still find a reason to ruin your honeymoon. I belief that you would be the one to give Shi-chan happiness, but I guess I was wrong." Mikoto said as a katana materialized in her right hand.
She was able to force her nanonite in her body to create a sword with her even saying it, it was quite a feat but also a lot of strain on her body as well. "Mikoto, that is quite enough!" Shizuru said in a commanding voice decided to end things quickly as she doesn't have to heart to see either one of them hurt because of her. "Despite all the unhappiness she caused you, you still stand by her side? Then so be it," Mikoto said in a sadistic tone. Shizuru immediately felt a demonic wave of energy brushed by her causing her to shiver involuntarily.
A sure sign of trouble, Natsuki quickly whipped out her weapon and put it on. At first glance, no one would belief it is a weapon, how could it be when it looked more like a pair of sunglasses but look can be deceiving. "Kiyohime!" Natsuki call forth her very own part magic and part nanonite weapon: a naginata (one that Shizuru use). Unlike other Portal Keepers around the world, Natsuki was known as the Guardian of Fuuka the main gate. It is the highest title any Portal Keepers could ever hope to achieve, and Natsuki got it from hard work and determination just two years ago.
"ENOUGH!" Shizuru shouted and hell freeze over, literally. Everything froze over; even the two women in the room are frozen like artic ice. The title of a Grand Seer isn't a joke; Shizuru had mastered magic at an early age and earned the title early on because of her infinite magic power. Talking about power, if Shizuru ranked second no one dares to rank first. This would be the first time she would ever used so much power to stop a fight, and fear set into the heart of the proud and arrogant Guardian while it calmed the sadistic Mikoto.
"Mikoto-chan, you need to calm down and I'm very sorry for hurting you over our squabbling." Shizuru started but didn't release the others from the frozen state though they could still hear her just fine. "Natsuki, as proud and arrogant as you may be and sometimes utterly dense about other people's feelings you will not win against her. My love for Natsuki is true, and I am willing to die and kill for Natsuki. But Natsuki also must learn that there's no one else in my heart but Natsuki and stop being so childishly jealous with Mikoto as she is just my cousin. What we had in the past is in the past, neither of us wanted to dig it up and so we would like it if Natsuki would stop digging her own grave by digging up about our past relationship. I question not of Natsuki's past, so I only asked for Natsuki to do the same in return." Shizuru said and snapped her fingers and everything went back to the way it is.
"God, you're so hot when you're like that!" Natsuki exclaimed as she pulled Shizuru in for a passionate kiss before removing her weapon causing her naginata to disappear. "Although I don't think it's a wise idea to piss her off everyday," Mikoto interrupted the couple and they realized there's another person in this house. "Yeah, look sorry about being you know?" Natsuki said looking down at her feet instead of at Mikoto. "Don't worries about it, at least I now understand why Shi-chan loves you so much." Mikoto nodded heading for the basement where a lot of machines and an empty tank stood silently waiting for her.
Stripping her clothes and bandages off, Mikoto stepped into the tank and put a mask over her face for breathing purpose as the glass moved up to the cap above activating green fluid to be released from the valves under her feet. The computers were switched on to auto to monitor Mikoto's recovery rate in the tank filled with regenerative fluid and a bit of nanonite within it. Just as the fluid filled all the way up the tank, Mikoto slowly closed her eyes and went to sleep once more.