Words Unspoken
The Hitachiin family adopts a 15 year old girl into their home because they want a daughter in their home. Kitsune is an orphan who's gone through countless homes and has made no friends because of the constant change. However, Kitsune has a dark secret that may get her killed.
HopHopToTheHill- Your comment has me wondering if that's a good thing or a bad thing. . .
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Chapter 5- The Koi Pond
The strength of Kitsune was incredible compared to any girl that Mori had ever met, of course all of the girls that he has met are all rich pretty girls with no muscle at all. However, there have been some tournaments where he had to face off against commoner girls, but they still didn't compare to the kick that Kitsune had delivered. Mori was sitting in the limo with Honey and Honey kept telling him about his day, even though Mori already knew what he had done. Mori usually listened despite already knowing what had happened, but today, he was distracted by the evenings events.
"Takashi, is something wrong?" Honey snapped him out of his thoughts and Mori focused in on the present.
Honey was looking at him with his big childlike curious eyes. Mori, being Mori shook his head and looked like he didn't know what Honey was referring to.
In response, Honey made a pouting face. "There is too something wrong. You look like something's bothering you. You always have that far away look in your eyes when you're thinking about something that you're worried or upset about."
Mori stared at him. Since when did Honey pay that much attention to anyone? Honey kept giving him that look. It was a look that not even he could resist for very long.
"It's about the twins' knew sister." Mori finally said.
Honey's look changed to a serious one. It was a face that was rarely shown. "That girl has a lot of will and is a good fighter, but there's something off in her attacks." he said. Mori nodded. He had realized this as well. The way Kitsune fought was, strange. Every good fighter could convey their feelings to their opponent through fighting, but Kitsune didn't seem angry. It was more like she was screaming at herself, in fear and in sadness. It was so, strange. There was no other word to describe that feeling.
"When are we going to launch that raid? We're running low on money and those rich kids are bound to make us rich." Said a tall woman with black hair. Her ferocious dark green eyes looked highly impatient and ready to kill someone.
"We have to get all the supplies in My Lady. At the earliest, it'll be in two weeks." said one of the men in the room. There were about seventeen men in the large bedroom. The woman was sitting on her bed with a pipe in her mouth. Her kimono was loosely covering her body. Yes, she was the leader of a Yakuza group known as the Akinori Group. They were one of the most feared groups in the region. Merciless people that didn't hesitate to kill. Even the most skilled police force, the Otori group, had a hard time catching them. The leaders of the group were Lady Kimiko and Lord Shinji. Together, they had had two daughters, both of which were dead.
The Akinori leaders didn't tolerate screw ups. If a member of the group messed up the operation, they were shot on spot. There were no warnings, and there were no second chances. It was always 'get it right the first time and you're good to go.' The Lord was currently over looking the guns that had just come in and the unloading of the weapons. A big attack was coming up soon and they had to have a lot of weapons to contain all of the people at their raiding place. So the attack would be a raid, but they would be taking people instead of goods and would hold them for ransom. It was a get-rich-quick-game to them. Something that they didn't do too often.
Akinori was a group that had their own way of fighting. They focused on power and breaking. In the past, they had had a student that had been under the instruction of the Haninozuka family join their group. He had developed the style of the current Akinori group. The fighting motto was 'Break or be Broken', though it had mutated into 'Kill or be Killed.' Living as a member of Akinori was a risk in and of itself. Everyday, one risked being shot by either the Lord or the Lady.
A messenger came into the room. He was from a side branch of the Akinori group called the Rui. They reported in every other week. The tall man came in and kneeled in front of the giant bed.
"What is it Mugi? It's two days before your reports are due." The Lady said, releasing smoke from her mouth.
"Yes, My Lady, but we found something that may be of interest to you." The man kept his head down.
"And what might possibly interest me?" She asked, doubtful.
The man looked up with a devious grin on his face. "I think we found your daughter."
When they arrived home, it was five past six. They were late. At dinner, Yuzuha gave them a lecture, a very long lecture. The twins, used to it, pretended to listen and ate their dinner while nodding to her every so often as if to say that they understood. Kitsune, also used to lectures, didn't even listen to her. She just ate and ignored, ate and ignored. It was the easiest way to get away from noise. When Kitsune finished eating, Yuzuha was still going on. She didn't care about manners right now, so she stood up and left the room. Yuzuha was struck dumb that anyone would walk out when she was talking to them, and the twins were trying not to laugh at their mother's expression.
When Kitsune got to her room, it was dark. The only light was coming from the setting sun. She locked the doors and then went out onto the balcony. Down below, she could see that beautiful garden and its collection of flowers. She still hadn't had time to go down and look at it yet. Kitsune looked at it longingly for a while before she noticed a tree that was conveniently placed near the balcony. It was a few feet to the right of where the balcony ended, within jumping distance. She looked down and saw just how far it was to the ground. Quite a ways.
She looked at the tree again, and then at the garden, then back at the long fall. Shrugging her shoulders, she walked to the far end of the balcony and prepared to jump. Kitsune started to run and used the balcony to launch herself towards the tree. Her landing wasn't pretty, and she hadn't expected it to be. She was caught momentarily on the first branch, but quickly slid off onto the one below her which she caught a hold of. She would hurt later, but right now, she just wanted to get to that unexplored garden. For a few moments, Kitsune hung there on the branch, trying to get a decent breath before she hoisted herself onto the thick branch.
From there, she shuffled to the trunk and slowly climbed down to the branch closest to the ground where she held onto the branch and flipped down without letting go so that her feet were closer to the dirt. After slowing her swinging legs, she let go and dropped the remaining three feet. Her hair had some twigs and leaves caught in it and she had some sap on her hands and feet, but a little butter would get that off.
Kitsune then stood up straight and started walking towards the garden, picking at the tree's leavings in her hair.
The garden was a paradise. Kitsune found not only trees, flowers, and a variety of herbs, but she also found that there were animals hiding here as well. She'd found a rabbit hole and even saw a brown rabbit. There were several different species of birds nesting in the trees and in the pond habitat. She even saw several gardener snakes slithering around. There were so many different things in the garden, even a maze was present. It wasn't a big and complicated maze like the one at school, but one could still get lost in it.
She decided to find out just how complicated this maze was and went in. The sun was concealed by the mountains, but it still lit the sky. If it was dark, then that was fine with her. She didn't care. Tomorrow was Saturday so there was no reason for her to return that night. There were many twists and turns and dead ends in this maze. It was a formidable maze indeed. She'd hate to try the maze at school.
Kitsune had no idea how long she'd been out of the house or what time it currently was. She turned left and found more maze. She took another left and found a dead end. Sighing, she went the other way and took a right. This part of the maze opened up and led her to a gazebo that was surrounded by a pond filled with multi- colored koi fish. Kitsune crossed one of the four bridges to get to the gazebo. Along the sides were wide couches, they were almost beds. The roof was made of glass and the frame of the whole building was iron painted black.
Along the pillars holding up the glass roof grew moon-flower vines and wild thyme. They covered the pillars and were sprawled out on the roof, not able to creep any farther up. She could see the stars above clearly and smiled. It was beautiful at night here. Kitsune lay down on the cushioned couches and looked up at the sky, then she began to search for constellations and certain stars.
"There's the archer." She said to herself and pointed. She didn't know who she was talking to. The moon wasn't full, but it was bright and made the pond glow. Hearing a splash, Kitsune looked over the edge of the gazebo down at the pond and watched the fish as they swam around in random directions. Some were bigger than others and the smallest one, she noticed was lingering on the edge of the pond, trying to get away from the bigger ones.
Kitsune watched as one of the biggest fish made its way towards the small one. The small orange and white koi watched the bigger black and white koi as it neared it. Then the bigger one thrashed and hit the small one, causing it to dart away. Then it did it again and again. Some of the other fish drifted over and starting joining in. Every time the little fish tried to get away, it was hit by another koi that was bigger than itself. Kitsune watched as the little fish was pushed around and ganged up on until she saw that the fish was no longer moving. The bigger koi continued to push the smaller fish around even though it was already dead.
"You did the same thing to me." Said a voice. Kitsune froze and slowly turned around to face the little girl. Her skinless face was staring at her again.
"What do you want?" Her voice was shaky. This girl scared her so much.
"You left me to die too." She was sitting next to Kitsune now and Kitsune was frozen in place. "You let me die and didn't stop it."
"I-I- I wanted to save you." Kitsune stuttered. She was shaking.
"You didn't though did you?" The little girl was looking at the dead fish that was now floating belly up in the water.
"I couldn't. I had to do it." Kitsune cried. The shame of crying wasn't present. She had no pride in front of this girl.
"No you didn't. You didn't have to do it, but you did." The little girl then turned her bloody face to face Kitsune.
"I'm sorry. I was forced to. Stop looking at me!" She screamed, finally moving away and falling on the floor. She curled into a ball and cried, hoping that the girl would disappear.
"I won't. You will always see me and see what happened because of you." And Kitsune saw that little girl's face even though her eyes were closed. She screamed, but felt nothing come out. She snapped her eyes open and saw the little girl. Again, she screamed, but nothing was heard. This little girl would never leave her alone.
"Jeeze, why do we have a maze in our garden again?" Hikaru asked his brother. They had seen, from their window, Kitsune walking towards the garden and had followed her into the maze. Now they were just concerned about getting out of the greenery.
"Mom was having one of her fads again remember?" Kaoru said, looking down one way and finding it to be a dead end.
"I hate it when mom does stupid things like these." Hikaru was about to kill someone.
"Hikaru, calm down. We'll get out of here soon, you just have to be patient is all." Kaoru said to his annoyed brother.
"You of all people should know that I have zero to no patience." The older twin growled, turning to look at his look alike.
He was then enveloped in the younger's arms. "If you're not patient, then we'll never get out of here." he whispered into Hikaru's ear. Hikaru hugged Kaoru back and then shivered when a gust of wind blew through the maze. It was getting colder outside. They had to at least get to the center of the maze. There were blankets there. Filled with a new determination, Hikaru took his twin by the hand and started walking. It took them about twenty more minutes before they finally found the gazebo in the center.
"Finally!" Hikaru called and rushed over the bridge. But he stopped at the top of the bridge they were on.
"Hikaru?" Kaoru asked, and looked over his shoulder. He was shocked to find Kitsune's figure lying on the floor. "Kitsune?" Kaoru made his way towards his sister and kneeled down next to her. When he touched her, she shot up and hit him in the head. "OW!" Kaoru fell back holding his head.
"Kaoru!" Hikaru came to his aid, but wasn't sure what to do with his hands.
"Ow. . ." Kitsune grumbled as she rolled onto her knees and sat up. "Hikaru? Kaoru? What are you doing here?" She asked, rubbing her forehead.
"We were following you. Why are you out here in the middle of the night?" Hikaru asked. Kitsune situated herself onto the couch before looking at them.
"I'm getting away from your mother." Kitsune then lay down and closed her eyes. Another wind came through and they all shivered.
"There are blankets under the cushions." Kaoru said. Getting over his pain, he went over and lifted one o the cushions on the other couches and pulled out a wool blanket. Kitsune reached under her own cushion and felt the softness of fleece.
"Hey Kaoru, look. There's a dead fish." Kitsune shivered, and it wasn't because of the cold.
"Cool." The twins entertained themselves with the dead fish.
"Yeah. The bigger fish killed it." Kitsune said, her voice was only a little shaky.
The shakiness of her voice was detected by Kaoru who was more of the observer than Hikaru. He turned to look at Kitsune who had her back to them, and asked, "Kitsune, is there something wrong?"
Like last time, I don't know exactly what's going to happen in the next chapter, but rest assured, I do now where this story is going so I'm not blindly going along coming up with things as I go. There is a plot to this story.
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