VIII: The Beautiful White Rose
Temura, Japan
In a small quiet house, Sachiko was finally awake at last; slowly she looked around trying to take in her surrounding. She winced at the pain as she got up from the bed, grabbing a shirt lying nearby she pulled it over to cover her nude torso. The cool tile floor sooth the pain in her body a bit, shoveling on her feet she left the room and wondered the place cautiously. The sound of people talking happily put Sachiko in an even more cautious mode, but there is nothing in the house she could use as a weapon as she moved carefully about the place heading toward the direction of the chattering noises.
In the backyard of the old wooden home, Yumi was admiring the flowerbeds and the ginko trees. "It's beautiful," Yumi said excitedly eyeing the roses a few feet from her. Indeed they were, the red, yellow, and white roses bloomed beautifully in the morning sunlight while staying in its own line and never touched each other even though they're all planted in the same section of the flowerbeds.
Sitting across from her is a woman in her twenties, maybe around the same age as Yumi with long flowing wavy auburn hair and marvelous blue eyes. "They are, we come here every year for vacation since I don't really get to see my wife much," she spoke and her voice sounded so soft like an angel singing the hymn. Yumi gaped at the woman in front of her, eyes wide as she opened and shut like a fish out of water. "But the ginko trees usually started blooming around this time of year, it's beautiful when they bloom but the nuts isn't so much. So we always come here in early Spring most of the times," the woman continued as though she didn't saw Yumi gaping at her.
"I bet you will be picking them up just to make sure they're not being stepped on," Yumi said after gathering her thoughts together. She was a bit shocked to hear the woman mention about her wife, whom Yumi would assume that such a lovely woman would be married to some handsome and wealthy man in Neo Tokyo or somewhere in Europe. On the other hand, Yumi isn't all surprised about the woman being married to another woman, it's pretty normal in this day of age about same-sex marriage. "Indeed, and it's why Riko hated to come here in the Fall because we would spend much of our times picking them up," the woman giggled elegantly.
"So what do you do for a living when you're not here Shimako-san?" Yumi asked as she looked at the other woman with curious mocha eyes. "I'm a general doctor," Todou Shimako replied with a warm smile on her lips. "Oh, thank you again for saving us." Yumi said as she bowed at Shimako, which ended up with her head banging against the table in front of her.
Finally, they took notice of Sachiko's presence and turned to face her, Yumi smiled her big happy smile as she got up and walked over to Sachiko. "You're awake," Yumi said as she helped Sachiko over to the table and sat her down. "Shimako-san saved us and removed the bullet that lodged inside of you," Yumi explained as Shimako just give a polite nod at Sachiko. "Thank you," Sachiko said weakly. "Not at all, please get some more rest." Shimako said softly.
With sharp eyes, Sachiko noticed something that Yumi had failed to see, a beautiful pair of ivory made earrings in a shape a rose. Another rose member, her mind told her and she had to refrained herself to cursing at her mind out loud. Since the start of this whole thing, they had run into one rose member after another. What does it mean? Sachiko wondered at her own mind trying to reason with herself for a way to figure out the puzzle that was tossed at her as the other two chatted away about ginko trees. Oh how she hated ginko trees, it become gross and dirty when the nuts started to fall and people stepping on it.
They stayed for a few more days, when Sachiko was strong enough they thanked the good doctor and left. Shimako watched them drove off and out of sight before returning to her small but humble home, and someone emerged from the bedroom once she got inside. Nijou Noriko stood there in casual clothing, smiling warmly at Shimako.
"They had really grown up," Shimako sighed as she leaned into Noriko's arms for a loving embrace. "That they do, and I hope Sachiko come to term with her emotions soon. They don't have much time left," Noriko replied planting a light kiss on Shimako's hair. "Well, I hope you're not mad that when I removed the bullet from her, I also activated her healing factor from the nanonite that was left inside of her during the incubation period." Shimako said pulling away just far enough to see her wife's reaction. "I'm sure that Suguru would say that we're not playing by the rules, but then again he doesn't play by the rules either." Noriko grinned before she pulled the older girl in for a heated kiss.
The normally calm and cool Nijou Noriko is now a monster; she picked Shimako up and headed back into the bedroom. Her plan was simple; ravage her wife until she told her to stop. She had been out at sea for too long, and now all she wanted to do was feed on Shimako like she's food. They both met dozen of people over the time they're away from each other, and yet they're still crazy about each other even after so many years of marriage. The quiet doctor was pretty loud in bed, and Noriko was an animal in the bedroom herself. It definitely takes animal of a lover to make the quiet Shimako scream in pleasure, and that's no small feat to accomplish and Sei had often than not teased them on that as she had once dropped by unannounced.
Back to Sachiko and Yumi, the poor girl had already fallen asleep and Sachiko put the car on autopilot. She glanced over at the sleeping girl, and all the stresses in her just seemed to melt away. She really wanted to drink in the sight of Yumi sleeping, but the car swerved out of control and Sachiko grabbed the wheel as Yumi yelped to wakefulness. Dammit! Sachiko cursed inwardly as she looked into the rearview mirror, dozen of cars decked out with guns and rocket launchers were coming up from behind.
"Duck!" Sachiko yelled as she reached out and pulled Yumi's head down as the rapid gunfire tore the back windshield. She floored the gas pedal and made a sharp corner turn; she started weaving through the streets in an attempt to lose the enemies behind her. She had no idea how they found her so fast, but she doesn't have the time to think about it at the moment. Her only goal right now was to lose them and get to Tokyo