Author's note:
Expect to have an errors...again. But I'll try my best to not do that again! (Promise!)
I hope you wouldn't disappointed because couldn't hope for any yuunoa yet this time. But that last chapter of mika became kind of like yandere is funny and also how I make yuu attracted to shinoa is kinky. But he is oblivious as always..
So,
Yeah...
Anyway, let's move on to the story shall we?
"Shinoa, report" guren said with a demanding voice inside the tent. Before, he was out with everyone. But after a very good few of hours.
He went back inside the tent.
But ferid and crowley isn't here,
He wondered why. But didn't mean to go any further thinking about both of them.
They can die all they want.
Wait...they are already dead.
Ah- whatever.
"Yes" shinoa answered plain.
She looks like a mess. Her hair wasn't stayed in the place and her bow too is unproper.
Did they went into a trouble or..
They were actually making out?
If my idea is true though.
(About they are dating of course)
But-
That's impossible. Yuu is stupid. And so is that.
"I've a very bad news lieutenant colonel." She said with a serious tone.
Guren nodded and gestured her to continue.
"That angel of daydream is may be more than we expected"
"What do you mean by that?"
"Earlier in the forest I seemed to notice that the woods is having a weird thing attached to it, but yuu-san on the other hand didn't see it."
"I choose to not taking it further on and decided to investigate more about it. And then later when we close to finding out the angel hideout. Suddenly, yuu-san was acting weirdly and running away from something.."
She tried to remember the incident again where yuu was running like crazy away from that place.
"But unfortunately I couldn't see anything and decide that it was one of the 'side-way' illusion used by someone in the forest. I think it is the same as what happened to me"
His terrified face make her feel anxious.
"You think it could be one of the angel doing?" Guren asked looked into her eyes half lidded.
"If we related to the information we got, then it is a yes" shinoa nodded her head.
"You were saying yuu is acting weirdly, how weird?" He shot a question to her.
He needs as much information as possible. This is all for their sake to be safe.
"He was...acting out of character with him being extremely terrified over something.." Shinoa tried to emphasize her words properly.
Guren nodded and then ask again "so, what did you do?"
"I used my scythe and destroyed the illusion" she answered plainly.
"And somehow..he stopped running altogether with a confuse expression on his face.."
"That tells a lot of that thing being an illusion." Guren nodded for the last time,
"Last question, the coordinate?" Guren asked, lifted his eyebrow.
"The coordinate is 45° from the north to west"
And before he 'shoo' her out he said "Good, now get out of here. You're such an eyesore"
With his remarked irritated face.
Shinoa shot back with her cute remarked saying,
"What~ no way. I'm like super cute, how can I became an eyesore?" While giggling around.
"Get out" he stated plainly.
"Ahaha~ okay dokey" she obeyed and went out the tent with her silly smile plastered on her face. Just before she walked past the tent door she stopped her tracked and said,
"Ah, and plus. Just before we got here, we are taking by the long path. But somehow we suddenly came into here in a short amount of distance and time" she said, the smile is still plastered on her face.
And then, she went out the tent.
Upon hearing that, guren fall silence.
He was tooking the time to think their strategy to save the angel.
Another illusion huh?
He recalls every information that he get and started exercising his brain.
The thing could work on an illusion of some sort like time, place and appearances.
We need to find way to avoid that kind of illusion from happening.
That angel may want to protect itself by making an illusion to scared people away from that place.
So we need to use some Enchantment to protect ourself from that illusion and avoid from being targeted by the angel.
This is such a pain.
They are going to drain themselves out before we got to the angel.
And the angel might be using a long-range attack too.
In this case, we need shinoa to keep control of the illusion since she could do that. We need someone to protect her from any attack. Someone...
Yuu?
No, he is the critical point in this situation, he is strong. We need him.
Kimizuki?
He is strong too, and they worked well together on fighting that angel. We need both of them.
Yoichi and mitsuba?
Yoichi is long range shooter, he can't stay too close with them and have a really low probability to protect her from the attack, he need to protect himself as well. And mitsuba is a mid range attacker, she can't deflect all of the attack by herself, they didn't work best in a close range fight.
Probably because they need to get close to the angel to took it down. And shinoa by the other hand need to stay close to them in her scythe range to destoyed the illusion.
Maybe mika could fill the problem hole in.
But he stated that he just want to protected yuu, and him only.
Maybe he will change his mind if yuu told him to do it?
I need to tell yuu to told him that.
While he was busy pondering about the problem, suddenly yuu came inside the tent without any greet spoked out by him. Nor a knock on the door. (Since when a tent can be knocked?)
Speak of the devil.
"Knock you idiot, don't you know mannner?" Guren said lifted his head from his thinking position.
"I don't care about that, I've never learnt one in class anyway" yuu came in front of him and took the chair nearby him.
"Plus, you never teach me one too, so blame yourself." He said.
"Brat..." Guren answered short.
They were silent for a moment,
And then guren broke it to cut the chase and to tell him his order.
"Since you're here. I have something to tell you" guren started.
"I have something to tell you too" yuu cutted his sentences quickly with a slight blush came from his face.
What's up with him really?
It's not an everyday yuu to blush out of weather.
The last time he remember yuu was blushing is that when he want to hide the fact that he was thankful to him by acting like a tsundere brat, long time ago.
Is it about puberty's problem?
"It is about a weird feelings I had when I was with a girl..." He stuttered.
Touché.
"What, you got a boner?" Guren ask spontaneously.
Upon hearing that, yuu widened his eyes and quickly denied,
"What the hell!? It's not about that!" He shouted. His face is really red.
"Then?" He cutted yuu right away.
"It is that I felt kind of weird when a girl...touching me so gently" yuu stated.
Guren was silence for a moment before open his mouth again.
"You do are having a boner" he said plain.
"I said IT'S NOT THAT!" He denied it again.
"Then, she is seducing you?"
"Suduce? I don't know...it is somekind of joke maybe?" He stared to the ceiling with a thinkable expression.
Joke?
It is shinoa.
He's really easy to read. Just like an open book.
So he is having a boner over her?
(Even if he denied it so hardly)
"Well, you're a man now. Of course you will feel that way toward a woman." Guren stated plainly.
At least, that's what they used to say about a guy behaviour toward a lady.
But I doubted that yuu could felt that way to any woman.
"Maybe you should do it with others as well, as a confirmation" guren suggested.
Yuu was lifting his eyebrow, and he looks really confuse.
But guren is pretty sure that yuu got the message already.
Well, if he doesn't feel that way with other girl.
Then, he surely has a major crush on her because of that stupid joke she likes to make.
Ha-
Of course I won't tell him that, he won't understand it anyway.
He need to figure it out on his own.
At least, it is more fun that way.
Yuu was silence for a bit.
"..."
"...oi, guren...is it weird if you think of your family member differently?" He said slow.
"..."
He don't know about that.
Since yuu is too focus on his familial love,
Then, it is must be weird for him to feel differently about them.
But-
"...you can always have another family at the same time"
I said that but still,
What does that even mean?
"Huh? My family is one and only..they can't be devided" yuu stated.
"But that is what mika actually think about you"
Okay,
I'm seriously don't even know what I'm saying right now.
It just came out of nowhere.
"Mika?" He asked bewildered.
Yuu think that yes mika is his family, just like his family with his friends.
They are one.
But after guren said that...
Could it by any chance that mika have been acting harshly toward his new family is because he still can't accepted the new family?
Could it be that he was thinking that they can't be together because his only family is him and the other orphanage kids?
Or is it because the vampire used to said that the humans are dangerous?
Yuu didn't know that.
But, maybe...
Mika think it is like he is forgetting his old family if he accepted the new one.
He hoped mika doesn't actually felt that way and hoped that he will explained to him properly someday on why he despite that them so much.
"...anyway, don't think too much about it" guren croaked suddenly. Leaved him out of his trace.
"Before you go out I have an order for you" guren noted.
"Tell mika that you want him to protect shinoa at all cost." Guren said with a serious face.
"Huh? Why?" Yuu asked immediately,
He really can't think properly right now. He is confuse.
Protect her at all cost?
Is there something bad going to happen?
He is having a bad feeling about this thing.
If it means protecting her, it is his priority to kept her safe.
"I..can do it you know" yuu said, a bit disapprovingly with guren decision to put mika and shinoa together.
"I will explain it to you later...now it's your job to do that" guren said plainly and demandingly.
But he remember mika wasn't in a good term with shinoa,
That make him worried.
About both of them really..
But- he shouldn't think of that!
He is pretty sure mika will accepted her soon.
He still want to believe in that even if the other said otherwise.
"...Okay" yuu nodded.
He is already steadied his mind and thought that it is for the best.
For the both of them to became close like him and mika.
And the others as well.
They are going to became a family.
Just like it used to be.
"Good, now out. We will have a meeting in 2 hours." Guren shooed him.
On the other hand of the problem they had, everyone were chilling out at the campsite.
"I'm starving, man~ that's a long ride" yuu whined, plop himself beside the fire to warm himself.
"The vampire said they will find foods for us" yoichi said looking at yuu with a small smile.
"Welcome back yuu-kun, you must be tired" he added.
"Yeah, it feels like hell all that thing happening" yuu stared to the sky grieving.
"Wait...where is mika?" Yuu turned his head around.
"I'm pretty sure he went that way.." Yoichi pointed to the other tent around them.
"Oh" he said plain.
Now that he think about it,
Where is others as well?
Narumi, kimizuki, mitsuba and shinoa is gone.
Shinoa...
Where is she?
Yuu felt a sudden urges to look for her when he started to remember guren order saying that mika need to protected her at all cost.
He hoped that she is fine.
He kind of miss her though.
He wonder why.
Oh!
Yeah! He need to tell mika that order.
Then, without hesitation. Yuu stand up from the fireplace and heading to the tent before yoichi stop him.
"Where are you going yuu-kun?" He asked.
"Ah! I need to meet mika first. I'll comeback later!" Yuu said that and went of running.
Maybe if he could done this thing quickly,
He can enjoy his resting longer.
He would probably miss the fire for now.
And then, yuu disappeared from the fire to send his message to mika.
"Mitusba, how's the water? Did we get enough?" Kimizuki asked while holding a knife on his hand.
"Aaa..yea.." Mitsuba nodded but she didn't looked at him, she was looking at around the forest. Wandering her eyes on every nook and cranny of the forest.
Kimizuki realised this and ask,
"What's wrong?"
"...no, I wonder if they are back already.." Mitsuba stated with a slow voice.
She is really going to start worrying about both of them.
They have been out for hours already!
And with that mika causing a scene.
It gives her headache.
And that guren joked about they're dating is unlogicable.
"I'm pretty sure they are fine, so don't worry" kimizuki give an assurance.
That's very kind of him really,
To give her reassurance like that.
But.. isn't he worried about them?
"Don't you worried about them too?" Mitsuba asked. Didn't take her face off from the sky.
Somehow the sky has been very beautiful today, since it is cleared from the cloud.
"Trust me, I do...but.. I want to believe that they are fine because I believe that they can do it no matter the hardships. And plus, yuu is an idiot too. He can't die easily." he stated seriously.
Mitsuba heard him and answered,
" yeah, you're right. He is an idiot. And shinoa too. There's no way they will die easily." Mitsuba sent back a small gesture with a small worried smile on her face.
I'm saying that she's an idiot,
But...
I'm the total idiot here.
She's far better than I am.
Yet...she doesn't show that to them at all.
She is smarter than me, I must admit.
And she is smarter than all of us in the squad.
I think that's why guren chose her as the leader.
If anything to protect the squad,
I'm pretty sure she will find the way out with the others..
Or by herself.
She's hard to read. Her expression is still the same. That lousy smile and her stupid joke.
But lately something is changing inside of her,
I wonder what is it.
For someone that has known her for a long time,
I started to notice that she behave differently toward people now.
Especially with her comrades.
As mitsuba is in the deep thought of her own problem,
"We're coming back~"
A voice suddenly echoed from the woods.
Kimizuki that was sharpening the knife now, turn his head toward the voice direction and stop his doing immediately.
The man was holding a deer on his side and a bunch of spices.
He wonder where they get them.
The other guy on the other hand, was holding branches with him.
The man spoked,
"Ferid, why am I the one who is doing this?" Crowley ask. Looking at his hands.
"What~ it is not that hard. They are just a small things." Ferid said happily.
"And look at me, I was holding the big things here~" he added.
"Ha ha" crowley laughed driedly.
"For your information, I'm the one who is holding the deer and the spices" crowley stated "and you, just holding the branches in your hand" he said with umamusing face.
"What~ nosense." Ferid said,
"Ugh..why do I even try knocking some sense out of him.." Crowley said regretfully.
"That's a lot of meat" kimizuki croaked.
"And spices too" narumi added, coming from behind of them from the campsite.
"Oh, you. Isn't you need to guarding the campsite?" Kimizuki turned to him.
"Don't 'you' me. I've a name... Anyway, they are back" narumi looked at him with half lidded eyes and then turn to others.
"Yuu and shinoa?" Mitsuba asked disbelievingly.
"Yeah..they are back for a while now, but I just noticed them earlier." Narumi shoved his thumb back to the campsite on his back.
"That's good! Now everyone can enjoy the barbecue!" Ferid said enthusiastically while nodding his head.
"For your information, I brought out the best quality of branches to make the fire so that it taste delicious~" he continued.
"That's just a rumor, don't tell me you beleive that.." Narumi said with half lidded eyes.
"Oh my really? You know, I haven't eat properly in thousands year now. There's no way I know the taste, oh, how silly of me" he said while hitting his head like he messed up.
"What do you even think you're doing?" Crowley said disgusted.
"Oh- I used to see the humans did this when they messed up. And they tend to forgive right away you know" ferid answered.
"That's so not cute, so...NO" narumi added.
"Yeah, no" mitsuba said,
"A total no" and kimizuki too.
Ferid just laugh happily looking at their reaction and give them the branches for the fire.
Kimizuki then, started skinning the deer and cutted the meet off it and slice into small pieces.
The three of them start cooking with mitsuba help them took the water. While the vampires only stood there literrally doing nothing.
"Hey, crowley. I'm bored~" ferid spoke.
"I have thought about eating the meat with them, what do you think might happen if we eat it?" Ferid continue with a question.
"I'm not going to go along with your game this time." Crowley sigh.
"What? Come on~ it must be taste really good right?" Ferid coaxed him.
"Ha-ha, no" crowley noted.
"Then, I'm going to do it myself" ferid turn back to the three of them and said "if by any chance I'm dead, send my regard to our lovely children" ferid acted sadly with a fake tears wiped from his eyes.
(Probably horn and chess lol)
"What the heck" crolwey looked at him half lidded.
Shinoa on the other hand was on her own as she was planing her scheme alone.
She was sitting by the hill as she stared at the sky intensely. Little book and pen on her hands as she start to jot down something out of it.
Every little gap of moment she will change her look to he sky and then her book. She looks like trying to find a little inspiration from the sky.
She is not a poetry,
That is the one she knows the most.
But she was actually thinking of something else.
The question that shikamadouji brought to her. Is still unanswerable.
She expect to find any meaning of life from yuu. Because he seems so passionate about it.
His actions,
Makes her want to feel how is the feeling if you have purposes in your life.
The words that she scribble on the book page,
'The purpose of life'
What is the meaning of it?
She want to know...
The words around the big word of 'the purpose of life' is scratched. It was erased out with a few line to cancel it. Part of it was..
Happiness and sadness.
Shinoa looked at the book on her lap and think,
If she could find it,
Maybe she can live her life fulfilly.
Yuu-san help me...
She thought.
And then as she was thinking the of him her hand suddenly start to scribble a word out, that was read as...
Love.
Her eyes widened at the word she just wrote and she instantly blushing really hard over the little word on her book.
"What in the world!?...no way" she said disbelievingly.
"There's no way by any chance I could fall for him...no..no..no way" she shake her head a few times.
"But even so..."
"..."
Shinoa shut herself up for awhile, thinking.
"..."
In love..she wonder if that is true..
She never keen to like someone, so she doesn't know very well..
She never know that kind of feelings since no one has ever show interest in her genuinely and very passionate about her.
Even if from the start yuu needed her so that he can bring mika back, he has stated that he needs her too as much as others in their squad and guren.
No one seems to need her from the start,
Since she was little no one need her and she has been casted out since now and then.
Even her sister casted her out as well because of her obsession over guren and her complicated plans of mocking the hiiragi and the hyakuya sect.
In love...
Her sister are in love too right?
With guren.
"...no..." She whispered.
It's not true...
"I need to get rid of it.." She tore the paper out and crunch it into crumpled.
Shikamadouji just want her to think she fall in love just so that he can took over her body.
It's a lie...
Her feelings is a lie...
It's not true.
Shinoa throw the paper away from the hill with all her might.
She shouldn't feel this way. She can't feel this way.
She need to get hold of herself and kept the wall inside of her heart high, really high. So shikamadouji won't got into it.
She can't let the demon take over her body.
And mind.
The demon talk nothing but lies..
Only lies.
That's what guren and big sister mahiru used to told her.
So then,
Why is it still hurt?
Shinoa clenched her chest to keep her breath steady. Her chest tightened, it's hurt. Her heart hurt. Her eyes hurt.
She felt like she want to cry but she hold it back.
No.
She can't be weak, it's not good.
Because the demon could easily took her body away.
Don't show your emotion, that's what her sister mahiru said.
It will only bring you trouble.
Until now and then, even though her sister abandoned her...
She still believed in her words.
Her big sister mahiru sacrificed her life to protect her. That's why no matter what, she always believed in her sister words no matter how hard it is.
She start to think,
Her sister became a monster because she loves guren so much.
So then, if by any chances she give in to love...
Will she became a monster too?
If that's going to happen, she can't let that happen and she need to get rid of it.
She will end up harming her comrades.
But the more she think about it, the more her heart's hurt.
Yuu is just being kind to her that's all, she can't take advantage on that.
Even if...
Everytime she think about yuu,
She could feel her heart beat. And everytime she close to him. She could feel heat crawled up on her face. His gesture and kind words make her feel safe. Him being with her make her feels happy...
That time in the forest, she don't know what's wrong with her when she suddenly touch his neck gently like that.
His intimate act make her act out of control. It feels like they were connected by some sorts.
And he suddenly went in to kiss her too,
She wondered if that's true. She thought that yuu is an average guy that is easily to fall in love with any other girl when they act intimately toward them.
But at the same time she doubt that as well.
"You should believe in your feelings more you know" shikamadouji spoke suddenly.
Then shinoa started to realise that her world are changing. The beautiful night sky is gone and the fresh green leaves is gone as well. Her book and her pen.
She was inside her mind space now,
It was white, really white. The sky and ground look just the same.
And then there is him there, sitting on the scythe. He was floating. And the scythe too.
"Hah, feelings is such a fragile thing. It cames and it goes" shinoa said.
"I doubt that" he cutted her off.
Shinoa was silence she don't know how to counter back that statement. So she stayed there staring on the ground.
Lately, she felt herself has been on air very frequently. Unstable. It leaves an uneasy feelings from her heart.
"I can help you find that purpose of your life in loving yuu, you know" he suggested.
Upon hearing that, shinoa lifted her head with a shocked expression on her face.
She then open her mouth with a bitter smile plastered on her face saying,
"Ahaha, no way" she noted.
"We both know, you can't denied it" shikamadouji squinted his eyes a bit. Looked directly into her eyes.
"..."
There is a hurt expression on her face upon him saying that. She hated this feelings. She wondered if she could get rid of it. She need to get rid of it.
"You can't do that, it would only go away if you accepted it" shikamadouji continue. There was smile on his lips as he looks kind of amuse seeing shinoa became unstable herself.
"Ha-ha..." Shinoa laughed driedly out of blue.
"What's so funny?" He asked still smiling.
"Even if I accepted it. Then you are going do what? Possessed me?" She continued.
"Exactly, life is all about fighting isn't?"
"..." She stared to the ground again.
"We can help you, if you of course at first let me open that door for you" shikama douji looked at the ground and shinoa were looking that way too.
He is trying to open the door.
Again.
She should have known he just want to mock her so that she will let her guard down.
Shinoa hold all of her composure again and focus,
"Not this time shi-chan" shinoa raised her hand toward him.
Not this time..
And then, a lot of chain coming from no where strangling him up until whole of his body are gone swallowed by the chain.
But before she could gain her consciousness, shikamadouji left a message saying,
"When the time the weakness has overcome you, that time I will took over your body immediately and you can't do anything other than grieving, pleading"
And then he is gone. The world as well. She woke up and found herself was on the grass as her book and pen is on her body. She was holding them tightly.
This feelings.
She need to get hold of this feelings.
This feelings make her weak.
She need to do anything to protect herself from shikamadouji.
"...this is such a pain..." She muttered under her breath, eyes half lidded.
Then, she heard someone calling her from behind.
It's yuu.
P/s: this is the third chapter of this story and thank you for reading. Please leaves a review if you like and I'm sorry for any error and misspelled occurred.
I've take a bit references from the ONS manga and their light novel called guren ichinose catastrophe at sixteen. But please don't ask which part I took since I don't remember. (Ha-ha lol)
If you're the fans of guren, shinoa, and shinya you can read that out on the internet. There is a lot of people make a translation out of that in tumblr. And of course for who want to know who is mahiru and what is she.
You can read mika story in other novel that if I remember correctly called the story of vampire michaela. (I've never read kne though. But I planned on read it out)
I heard people talk about it is full of crowley story...
Well, whatever.
See you next time.
Love you, thank you.