YAY! I'm back with another chapter, even if I'm a week late ¬¬ it took me more that I expected but even so, here it is chapter three! Thanks for your support all of you!
Special Thanks to Hikari no Okami the SUPER CUTE, SUPER NICE, SUPER COOL girl that is my beta for all this stuff
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END OF THE WAR
It was Monday morning, and the young couple had just finished breakfast.
"Say mom, what was that music from last night?" asked Yuji
"Just some old records, they are somewhat old" explained Chigusa
"Billy Joel's For the Longest Time, right?" Shana questioned already putting her shoes on
"Why yes, it is." confirmed surprised the brown haired woman "It didn't bothered you, right?"
"No, it didn't" answered Shana
"Actually it created a great environment" said Yuji as a whisper, but Chigusa didn't missed it
"Then it worked out just fine" Chigusa confessed in a lower whisper that even Shana failed to catch
After drinking his juice Yuji left the table and walked to the door, near Shana
"We are going" said Yuji putting his shoes on
"Bye bye Yu-chan, Shana-chan, take care" answered his mother with a smile
"We will" replied Shana from the door
Shana left the building first, and Yuji closed the door behind them
"Our song" affirmed Shana plainly
"Sorry?" asked the gray eyed
"You heard me. That's our song"
"Oh…ok" Yuji didn't care a lot about that so he simply accepted
The youngsters left the house fully uniformed and suitcases in hand, walking side by side towards the school holding hands. When they reached the school's gate a lot of gossipers arose
"Isn't she Hirai-san?" started a girl
"The one that defies all the teachers?" asked back another
"I didn't know she had a boyfriend" said a boy with a depressed tone
"She didn't last week" assured another boy
"So they just starting to hang out?" curiously asked a new girl
"He's kinda cute" other girl said
"Isn't he Sakai?" an older boy recognized him
"Yes I think that's his name" replied a girl
"The freshman?" asked another one
The gossip reached Yuji's ears and he let go Shana's hand
"What's the matter?" demanded calmly the black haired girl
"I don't want to complicate this anything more" explained her boyfriend
"What you mean?"
"Yoshida-san" he said simply
"What's the matter with her?!" Shana had forgotten her rival during the weekend
"She deserves to know about…well…us"
"Fine I'll tell her" Shana accepted the task
"Do you mind if…I do it?" petitioned the brown haired
"Hum…suit yourself" she said indifferently
"Thanks Shana"
Their hands never touched again in the day and even the eye contact dropped sharply, they still had small chats, but looked somewhere else. Even so, the gossip that Hirai Yukari and Sakai Yuji were hanging out extended through the school as a fire in dry grassland
Yuji looked for Yoshida-san when he reached the classroom, but she was no where to be found
She must be a little late, nothing serious he though at first, but when the first class started and Yoshida still hadn't arrived he started to worry. She hadn't been late before. Class came and went without mayor problems. Yet when second class started Yoshida was still missing. Class after class all ended and when the bell rang for lunch time the light brown haired girl was still to appear.
Yuji sighed heavily; maybe Yoshida was absent for the day. He regretted that she would probably be informed by gossipers instead of by himself about his relationship with Shana. He fell into his own thoughts gloomily
"Sakai! Sakai!" Sato Keisaku appeared in front of him "We are talking to you!"
"S-sorry?" Yuji snapped out
"Someone's waiting for you in the roof" explained his other classmate, Tanaka Eita, who was next to his friend
"Uh, oh, Thanks" Yuji stood up like an automat and went to the stairway leading to the roof At least I should have ask them who it was he realized a second too late
He reached the roof, and there he found Yoshida Kazumi, staring into the horizon
"So, you were the one who wanted to talk to me Yoshida-san…" he tried to start the dialogue but got interrupted
"You are so mean" Kazumi's voice was mean, and carried an acid tone
"W-what?"
"That you are very mean! You are the worst!" she almost yelled turning to face him
"I don't have any idea…"
"Really? You have no idea what I'm talking about?! Get out" she crossed her arms in front her chest "I saw you, both of you actually. Yukari-chan and you were walking together and she was feeding you some melon bread"
"But I had bags full of vegetables in my hands…"
"…and in the night Ekaterina and I saw you by the bridge, near the river, hugging each other"
"I sprained my ankle…"
"Yeah sure, and today you appear at school showing off that you are going out!"
"But that's not…"
"Oh, you are going to tell me that I'm wrong, uh? Don't bother; all the school knows it, or what? Are you going to tell me that it's just that I'm psychotic and you aren't dating Hirai Yukari?"
"Well…no, it's true we are starting to go out together but…"
"You even admit it shamelessly!"
"Wait, Yoshida…"
"NO! I HATE YOU!" she yelled at him
"Yo-yoshida…"
"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DID THAT TO ME! YOU KNEW WHAT I FEEL FOR YOU!" she looked really angry, not a spark of sadness or pain in her voice, pure anger
"But…"
"Don't…talk to me. I don't want to speak with you"
She isn't really angry; this isn't like Yoshida at all! "Yoshida, please" he approached her
"NO, GET AWAY FROM ME!" she ran pass him and shoot through the door, almost running into Ike who was coming up to the roof. Yuji sighed again
"Sakai, what did you do to Kazumi-san?" Ike came to Yuji and grabbed him by the clothes
"Ike, Ike, listen to me! Instead of going after me go after her!"
Ike looked deeply into Yuji's eyes and sprinted after the girl with out turning back
"That wasn't as expected…" Yuji stood alone in the roof
She ran and ran, as fast as she could, she wanted to disappear, her world was suddenly shrinking and all its colors started to become dull. She passed through the halls and people asked her what was wrong with concern, but she couldn't care less for them. She wanted to be alone, before the traitorous tears broke free from her shouted eyes
She went outside reaching the courtyard and the gardens of the school, near the race and the soccer fields. Her breathing was agitated, and her heart raced crazily, her legs ached and she could feel how tears accumulated in her eyes
She failed to notice she was being followed until her pursuer called her "Kazumi-san!"
"Go away Ike-kun! I want to be alone!" the girl rejected her pursuer without turning around to face him I don't want you to see me like this; you have always been so nice to me…
"You may want to be alone, but I don't want you to" Hayato said kindly taking a few steps towards her
"Ike-kun?" she turned not understanding what he meant
"You don't have to endure this alone, I'm here as your friend, I can and will help you in everything that's in my possibilities, just, please, don't cry" he said looking at her in the eye "I can't stand to see you crying" finished the boy with a half smile
"Ike…" Kazumi didn't know what to say
"I've known Sakai for a while now, I know he didn't mean to harm you, or anybody else, he's the kind of guy who puts others before himself. He's only trying to be happy. Let's allow him only this time to be a little selfish ok?"
Kazumi threw herself to the arms of Ike Hayato, and started crying out, hugging herself tight to his chest
"I know! I know! ... I know he didn't want to hurt me! But still it does! It hurts!" she sobbed burrowing her face in his chest wetting his shirt with the tears that poured from her large, glassy eyes through her cheeks
"Don't worry Kazumi-san, I'm here. I'm here" Ike hugged her back, surrounding her with his arms, resting his hands in the back of her head and her upper back. Kazumi just kept crying
Yuji kept cursing under his breath. He knew he could have done it much better, yet somehow Yoshida hadn't allowed him to talk at all, just as if she didn't want any answers, but Yuji couldn't understand why she acted like that.
"Did you tell her?" Shana called from a shaded corner of the roof
"How long have you been there?"
"I've just arrived, I heard you were here and brought you your lunch" she said showing two lunch boxes
"Thanks" I suppose I can try to talk with her again after school, when she is more calmed thought the boy taking one of the boxes and sitting to eat with Shana's company.
However, that opportunity never came. Neither Yoshida nor Ike appeared in class after the incident. When school hours were over Sakai received a message in his cell phone from Ike asking him to please pick up his suitcase and give it to him tomorrow.
Yuji and Shana went to the house, had a nice little dinner cooked by Shana and Chigusa, which was becoming usual, and had a small training season before going to sleep
The day ended without further problems.
The next morning the sweet smell of hot cakes woke Yuji up. Changing his pajamas for his clean uniform Yuji walked to the bathroom to throw some water in the face and maybe pass a comb through his messy morning hair.
However Yuji came full into his senses when a plastic bucket landed flatly on his nose, closely followed by a bar of soap, and a "GET OUT OF HERE PERVERT!" yell.
Taking the hands to his bleeding nose Yuji realized that Shana was standing in front of him trying, without good results to cover her skin with nothing else but a hand towel (Tohru: Yay for the fan service! Okami: Let me disagree ¬¬U)
Yuji turned trying to control his bleeding nose (bleeding because of the hit, not because of seeing her like that) "Sorry! Sorry!" he said quickly "What are you doing naked in the bathroom at morning if we didn't had training season?"
"We didn't have it because you overslept!" she said scolding him loudly
"But what are you doing in the bathroom?"
"WHAT ELSE?! TAKING A BATH FOR GOD'S SAKE! I GOT DIRTY MAKING BREAKFAST!"
"What happened?" asked the Chigusa reaching the second floor
"Yuji entered the bathroom when I was naked!" Shana accused
"My, my, why didn't you lock the door Shana-chan?"
"I…! 'cause! …THAT'S NOT THE POINT! HE DIDN'T KNOCK EITHER!"
"This is my house for god's sake" said Yuji who was already pissed for such a discussion just after he woke up
"Oh yeah?!" Shana didn't fail to noticed the tone in his voice
"Yeah! I mean! Why should I knock if I'm going to my bathroom? You should have locked!"
"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! You should have knocked! You live with two women!"
"Stop it kids" said the older woman in a conciliatory voice "Both are right, Yuji should have knocked, but you Shana-chan should have locked, now please, could both of you just apologize and hurry up? If not you will be late for school"
Both teenagers looked into each other eyes, and stayed in uncomfortable silence for some seconds, before saying their apologies
Breakfast was uncomfortable, but it wasn't because the hot cakes tasted bad, they were as good as ever, but then, even after Yuji and Shana apologized to each other they didn't seemed to calm down specially Shana. Yet Chigusa said nothing else, thinking that it would be better for them to work it out alone.
They walked silently towards the school, Yuji carrying both his and Ike's suitcases. The silence was killing Yuji, because Shana wasn't allowing him to get close to her.
After several minutes, and half of the way to school behind Yuji tried to talk to her
"Shana…"
"I don't want to talk to you" she said dignified. That tone made Yuji remember her days as a cold hearted Flame Haze
But his tries were futile, one time after another he was rejected. That didn't pass overseen when they reached the school gate. Once again the gossipers freed their tongues talking about how Sakai and Hirai were having a fight. Yuji wanted to shut them all, but preferred not to make a scene in the middle of the school.
School came and went, before Yuji noticed it was already time to go home. He arranged his things inside his suitcase and looked for Shana in the desk next to his, but she wasn't there
"Probably still mad at me, surely she already go home" he sighed as he watched through the large window of the classroom how the sun was setting, dying the surroundings in orange and pink tones.
He left the school alone
"Why do you called me here?" asked Shana a little bluntly
"I wanted to talk to you" explained Yoshida Kazumi
From the roof of the school the bright rays of the sun sinking in the horizon could be seen in all their beauty, and the colors of the clouds completed a spectacular picture.
"I listen" accepted the flame haze
"But first I want to know why you two are in a fight, yesterday it wasn't this way, nor was it on weekend"
"We aren't! It's just that…" Shana finished breaking the eye contact
"What is it?" Kazumi asked nicely
"None of your business!"
"Is that so? Should I remind you that I also care about Yuji? Tell me, please"
"You still haven't told me why I'm here" Shana tried as come back
"Ok, I'll tell you why I'm here, and then you explain. Sounds good to you?"
"Fine"
"OK…I'm here to admit my defeat" she said with a sad smile
Shana's eyes widened "What did you say?"
"We started this 'war' thing to see which one of us Yuji preferred. We both said what we feel for him and he chose you over me. It would be foolish of me to keep trying" she made a pause as she walked towards Shana and putted her arms around her "Congratulations Yukari-chan"
"Th-thanks?" Shana didn't know how to react
"Yet! Don't you dare hurt his feelings! Or I'll hunt you down!" she said half playing breaking the hug
"Hm! As if you could!" the black haired replied back in the same tone "So…the 'war' is over?"
"Totally" Kazumi smiled closing her eyes and dropping her head a little to her side "Friends?" she finished asking stretching her arm holding her little finger up
Shana smirked and crossed her little finger with hers "Friends"
"And…Why are you mad at Yuji?"
"Because he walked into the bathroom when I was taking a bath"
"HE DID THAT ON PURPOUSE?" she asked loudly, Shana negated with the head "Then what's the problem?" Kazumi was now confused "He didn't apologized?"
"He did apologize…the problem is the way he looked at me…"
"He looked at you with perverted eyes?!" Kazumi was very interested now; she couldn't believe Yuji was a lecher
"No, and that precisely is the problem"
"Beg your pardon?"
"He looked at me just as if it were a normal stuff. He did act startled but he didn't blushed at all! Just as if he didn't care if I were naked or not, like if he didn't…desired me…" Shana trailed sadly, looking to the side and blushing. Kazumi started to laugh "What's so funny?!" Shana demanded to know
"It's just that…just that…ha, ha, ha! I can't believe you are mad just because of that! Ha, ha, ha!" Kazumi had to hold his stomach with her arms because of her laughter "That's very silly Yukari-chan!" she said still laughing
Shana seemed offended for a second but started to laugh after that "I suppose it is! He, he, he"
And without further warning an electrical shock reached them. In the distance a large Fuzetzu had appeared, covering a large area in a crimson semi sphere.
The house is that way Shana thought. Her brain suddenly realized something that hit her like a lightning "YUJI IS IN DANGER!"
Yuji was walking out of the school alone, sighing deeply. Misaki city was a beautiful town, yet, he didn't like it if he was alone. It was like the blossoms, the trees, and everything around had lost their beauty. Without that girl by his side, nothing was important anymore.
He was drifting in his thoughts when a wall of fire passed through him "Fuzetzu!" he realized
"Eh? The Flame Haze of the Flame of Heaven isn't here? The Hunter of the Red Hot Eyes and Burning Hair? Not fair! Feh! At least I got the like Reiji Maigo Mistess here" said the voice of a young teenager girl, not much older than Yuji, whatever he couldn't see the source
"Who are you? SHOW YOURSELF!" Yuji didn't like at all the idea of having an enemy that seemed to be actually hunting Shana, and also to face him or her alone
"Bossy aren't we?" the voice said joyful
"Are you a Tomogara?" he asked trying to find where the owner of the voice were
His eyes widen when the voice suddenly came from his back, using a more serious tone now "I'm like you…a Mistes" a terrible and explosive punch to his back sent him flying forward, making him rolling receiving numerous bruises "You are really weak aren't you?"
Yuji incorporated difficultly "You say you are a Mistes, then why are you attacking me?"
"Well I'm waiting for the wielder of Nietono no Shana, I'm sure I can lure her with you, sorry, it's nothing personal" she said. For a second Yuji took his time to see his attacker. The girl was one or two years older than he. Had white skin with pitch black eyes and hair that reached bellow her shoulder. She was wearing a white robe with runes on the lower part where it covered her legs. She also had small square metallic shoulders.
Maybe I'm not as strong as Shana or any other Flame Haze, however I'll not be a weakling forever! I've trust in my skills! Yuji charged at her with almost blinding speed and tried to punch her. However the girl stopped the punch matching the speed. So! You can manipulate a little of your power of existence uh? Maybe this won't be as boring as I thought" the black haired girl said returning to her playful tone
She's only playing with me! Yuji released a bolt of energy from his punch that blinded them for a second and sent them back several feet That attack destroyed a rinne last time, I'm sure it should have at least made some damage
The light faded to reveal that she was still unharmed. And now, she was holding a brilliant two-handed sword. "Wow, to actually force me into summoning my sword that's impressive!" she made a pause and continued with her serious tone "However now I'll get serious!" with a trust of her sword a shining beam of light raced to Yuji who tried to put a shield of power of existence between him and the terrible attack. And although he protected himself from what would have been a mortal blow his reserves of energy were depleted, if he were to use a little more he wouldn't make it to midnight.
The wilder of the sword of light rushed to Yuji who was too tired from the energy usage to run or dodge the blow. The sword rose and then sharply started to drop, dangerously approaching to the boy. He closed his eyes, embracing the blow
A loud CLING sounded and the pain never came
"Yuji! Are you alright?!" Yuji opened his eyes and saw Shana, using her long black coat and wielding the long katana. She had blocked the attack
"Hunter of the Hot Eyes and Burning Hair" the girl said with a light hearted tone
"My name is Shana!" the read haired girl pushed her enemy with her sword, forcing the black haired girl of the white robe to jump back.
"Heh, my name is Haruhi" the girl introduced herself raising the light made sword
"You are the Eating-Mistes" explained Alastor "A mistes able to consume power of existence like Tomogara. That way you can replenish your own power"
"Flame of Heaven…I'm sorry but I'll kill your Flame Haze" Haruhi charged at Shana and both of the girls interchanged attacks, however none of those could find their intended target.
Haruhi pulled back her sword and taking it with both hands made a long and heavy blow, aiming not at Shana but at the sword she was holding. Nietono no Shana shattered from the terrible and shinning swing.
N-no way! She br-broke the sword! Yuji and Shana couldn't believe their eyes
That's it! Fear my evil cliffhanger!
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