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...DEATH TO UNPLEASANTRIES!! Okay, now the firefox spelling thing is just pissing me off now...
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This should be more interesting than the last chapter...
Strange Sights.
(Himitsu Hanayaru's P.O.V)
You were taking the scenic route home today, for you; the day was far too lovely to be enjoyed indoors. And if something happened so you didn't do your homework? Frankly you didn't care about the consequences right now. As your mother would probably say, "There's no sense in doing things that we may regret later."
You strolled along admiring the day, somehow, while looking on the ground in order to avoid eye contact with people. Not caring where your feet were taking you at the current moment, you then noticed that you were in a neighbourhood with many peach and cherry blossom trees, making the place seem like a pretty pink paradise. You stood underneath a single peach blossom, closed your eyes, and inhaled its scent while feeling the warm sunlight dappled onto your skin. You felt a cold compress on your heart suddenly, and then you carefully opened your left eye to see whom (or what) it was.
"Good afternoon Himitsu-san," Tsukishiro-san smiled warmly towards you, while you inconveniently felt his aura at full force and you stepped back a little.
"…and I was wondering if you could help Himitsu-san. Ano…Himitsu-san?" Tsukishiro-san questioned once he noticed you were backing away a little.
"S-s-s-s-sorry Tsukishiro-san, but…I can't, bye!" and with that remark, you ran off.
"The…Tsukimine Shrine," you read the sign, instantly you felt a pull towards the shrine. "Do not listen to your intuition Hanayaru. Every time you do that something bad happens badly," you thought while trying your best to walk away from the shrine, but it turned out to be a rather odd dance of you making two steps forward, and then something pulling you three steps back.
"Oh forget it!" you blatantly thought and then you let yourself be steered hesitantly towards a cherry blossom tree. You sensed something odd coming off of the tree, but it was neither passive nor aggressive, unlike the aura that you sensed from Tsukishiro-san, man that dude creeps you out. The tree relaxed you to be quite honest, even though the aura did not seem to take a certain side, seeing as it was rather warm and comforting. But you suddenly felt an ominous but familiar aura behind the cherry tree.
Strange twilight strings erupted from everywhere trapping you within its treacherous bindings. Of course, you struggled furiously, but the ropes seemed to be wrapping themselves tighter around you, cutting off the circulation in some areas, especially your wrists, so you deceased.
"Hello my lovely Hana-des," a familiar voice greeted.
"Oh please," you prayed. "Not him…"
Two, memorable, deadly red eyes appeared in front of you. Had it not been the situation you would have found the eyes to be friendly, beautiful even. But no, they were cold and unforgiving, and seemed to pierce your soul. It smirked at you and stepped back slowly on one of the wires that was directly in front of you while passing through the others. You observed it, now realizing it was a her.
"How peculiar," you thought while studying her.
She smirked evilly before saying, "I thought you would like to see my face before passing out," with this, she laughed at the look on your face.
Before you could wonder what she meant, a thick purple twilight ribbon wrapped around your neck and began to tighten mercilessly. She smirks a bit before coming over and tapping her chin in thought.
"Hm…let's try…brown eyes," she said before coming closer and putting a hand over your left eye. You would've screamed in the pain. It felt as though little maggots were in your eye, and was eating the top layer while leaving a trail of slime across it. All of a sudden, the pain ceased, and you looked at the odd cat-angel with blurry vision. Out of the corner of your eye, you saw Sakura-chan and Kinomoto-san approaching the two of you quickly, and you smiled in relief. You locked eyes with Sakura-chan and mouthed a, "Arigatou," before passing out.
(Kinomoto Touya-san's P.O.V)
Ignoring his sister's warnings, he rushed over in order to help his classmate that was in serious trouble, disregarding the fact that this particular classmate was being very cold towards his best friend, Yuki-kun. But then the hybrid being throws him back violently with a purple wave of energy.
"I call upon the power of my star, ancient forces near and far. Oh key of the star," he heard his sister's voice echo through the place. "With powers burning bright, reveal the staff, and shine your light! RELEASE!" with that said, Touya turned around to look at his younger sister, and witness the necklace that she always wore, turn into a staff.
"SWORD!" she shouted, and Kinomoto Touya-san's eyes widened.
"She shouldn't be playing around with swords!" Kinomoto Touya-san thought his brotherly instinct kicking in, but let her cut the binds around Himitsu before he ran to catch her and dart off to a safe place that he could still watch the well being of his sister.
Sakura-chan did manage to drive the twilight bonds back a bit before all of them snapped back into place around an imaginary object before separating to attack Sakura-chan. All of this happened in less than a blink of an eye, and Kinomoto Touya-san could plainly see that the strings were overwhelming his sister, and she was already having a hard time avoiding them, regardless if she had a way of deflecting all of the vines. A faint light started to surround her, it was mostly white, but yet, it was multi-coloured at the same time.
Himitsu jerked out of Kinomoto Touya-san's grasp, rolling onto the floor, with a groan she slowly picked herself up from the floor and locked her warm dark chocolate eyes with Touya-san's own eyes, so similar in colour. For a moment Touya-san found himself staring back before a large BOOM had caught Himitsu's attention and she gasped out, "Sakura-chan's in danger! I have to do something!"
She was about to rush off before Touya-san held her back saying, "We can't go off like that, we might hurt ourselves or endanger my sister even more."
"But we can't do nothing!"
"I didn't say we would endanger my sister," he remarked before his hand closed steadily into a fist.
"Oh sorry, I didn't mean it that way."
Touya-san looked away from the girl before his anger got the best of him.
"We could distract her so that way Sakura-chan could do something," Himitsu suggested after an awkward silence.
"How?"
An evil smirk came to her lips before she said, "I've got a plan."
"You know, it's really hard to tell that you're a nutcase," Touya-san remarked.
He saw her smirk before saying, "Alley-yoop!" With that remark, Himitsu was catapulted into the air by him, angling herself, Himitsu managed to land on the hybrid's back similar to a piggy-back style, and startling everyone, she reached up and softly rubbed the thing's ear. To Touya-san's surprise, the hybrid had started purring.
"S-s-s-s-s-stop it!" it hissed, being greatly distracted by Himitsu, the strange wire attacks were slowed, but then they bound themselves Himitsu's small (and rather short) frame. When Kinomoto Touya-san saw this he panicked and made to go help Himitsu somehow, but when she shouted, "DON'T!" in that awful tone of voice, he stopped proceeding. Didn't matter, the cat-angel just decided to wrap him up too.
"You evil wretches!" it hissed venomously while its voice deepened at the same time. "You will pay little Hana-chan, along with your pathetic mate."
"He/She is not my mate!" both Himitsu and Touya replied at the same time.
"Doesn't matter to me anyway, since your both going to be dead soon."
The wires bound themselves tightly around both Touya-san and Himitsu's frame; Touya gasped in pain, while Himitsu made an odd sound that sounded similar to a bus putting on the breaks really fast. For a final finishing touch, the odd hybrid strangled Himitsu (again…sigh, you need to stay out of trouble don't you?) and Touya. Of course Touya struggled, of course he tried to get air into his lungs, and he well…didn't succeed.
"DISPERSE!" Sakura yelled, and the white aura grew even brighter. "Cut the binds around my brother and my friend!" she yelled while throwing out her arm. The white aura around Sakura shot out and cut the binds that were around Touya and Himitsu. Touya fell to his knees and gasped for air, not caring about much else at the moment, it was much of a blur to him. He assumed that Sakura used something that had to do with arrows and shots to chase the cat-angel away. Hearing the characteristic pounding footsteps of his sister, he looked up into her eyes and replied with an, "I'm fine."
She breathed a sigh of relief. A bright white rectangle came in between them and Sakura reached up to grab it. The bright light of the rectangle faded into a violent pink, all Touya could see was the back of the card, which had a strange symbol on it. Sakura gave the card to her brother to examine and said, "I'll explain later."
Sakura went to go check on his classmate while he flipped the card around to examine the front. It looked ordinary enough. There was a kanji symbol on the top, a strange diagram of what looked to be ribbons being burned, and the words: Dispel Card was written in bold capital letters underneath.
He heard the sound of scuffling feet and turned around. Himitsu had gotten herself off of the floor. Seeing the two siblings, she straightened up and bowed before saying, "Thank you Kinomoto-san, Sakura-san. Sorry for the trouble," with that she made to leave.
"Touya," he found himself saying automatically.
"Pardon?" Himitsu remarked before turning around.
"Call me Touya."
"Alright then. Thank you Touya-san, Sakura-san. Sorry for the trouble," after giving a short bow, she walked off with Touya staring after her.
"O-nii-san," Sakura called while tugging on his shirt. "Why did you insist on her calling you by your first name? The only other person I see you do this to is Yuki-kun."
Touya opened and closed his mouth many times like a fish out of water. The truth was, he didn't know. He did not know why he insisted on his classmate calling him by that name, perhaps it was because of her smile, the fact that she was shy and able to pull of a crazy stunt like that, or was it something else…Touya didn't notice that Sakura was guiding him back towards their house, he was far away from the Tsukimine Shrine when a blinding white light had struck down onto Himitsu knocking her unconscious.
(Cat-angel's P.O.V)
The hybrid smiled gleefully at her handiwork. Despite its injuries from the Arrow and Shot, it had managed to escape from the two apparitions and had cast a spell on Himitsu, making her forget everything that had happened today. While mentally patting itself on the back for a job well done, two black figures bubbled up from the ground looking very crossly at the cat-angel.
"You," a solemn and commanding voice sounded out towards the cat-angel. "You almost killed the girl."
"I needed to do that, if I didn't Sakura wouldn't have-"
"I don't care about Sakura. Not at this moment anyway. She would've made that card regardless if you threatened the girl or not. Your behaviour is unacceptable. You know how important Himitsu is," the short leader scolded.
"You know I wouldn't have killed her mast-"
"Enough."
The cat-angel was silenced, but its eyes were twitching rather violently, and the third figure chuckled heartily before a glare from both the leader and the cat-angel silenced it.
"I want a name," the cat-angel blurted out randomly. "So that way, I don't have to be referred to as the hybrid or the freak of nature from those jerks."
"Your name will be Ume, and your partner's name will be Umeko. Though Ume, I will suspend your activity from here on out."
"WHAT?!?!?!?!?!!!!?????!! WHY?"
"You know very much why. Umeko, you will be in charge of the activities now."
"Of course master," Umeko said in a suave voice. "But I may need some help…"
"Fine, Ume, you help Umeko when she needs it."
"Oh thank you master! Thank you thank you thank you!" Ume shouted with glee while jumping up and down.
"Remember this though, both of you, don't touch Himitsu," with that, their short master faded into the forest scenery and disappeared, while Umeko flew Himitsu back to her house taunting her authority over Ume on the way.
(Himitsu's P.O.V)
You awoke in the living room on the couch; you felt like you had just woken up from a night out. Stumbling about the kitchen you pour yourself a glass of water and gulp the cool clear liquid down. You had a peculiar feeling of being completely drained of all energy, and you were so tired that you could fall asleep on your feet. You saw a note on the refrigerator, on it explained that your mother had left to go to her friend's house and emphasized the fact that she had not seen this friend of hers in years. Discarding the note you opened the fridge and poured yourself a glass of your favourite beverage and gulped it down in 10 seconds flat. Wiping your mouth crudely you poured yourself another glass except this time, it was with sake and much to say, when you finished, you weren't drunk, but you were bordering it. You could never hold your alcohol well. Wiping your mouth again, you glanced outwards to look at the stars. Mars was bright, and some familiar constellations shone brightly in the sky. While taking a sip of your beverage (not sake this time) you looked up and choked in surprise.
"What on earth…? The northern lights? But that shouldn't happen in Japan…" you thought while studying it. "Plus it's silver," you mused out loud. "Isn't the northern lights supposed to be multicoloured?"
Swirling the drink in your hand, you set it on the table and decided to go outside and investigate. Putting on a light coat you walked outside followed the strange silver light, for some reason, it seemed to be getting closer. Then, all of the silver lights streaked across the sky and seemed to be collecting in one place you ran trying to catch up but it was just so out of your reach panting out of breath you put on an extra burst of speed trying to catch up to it but all of a sudden it disappeared. You walked forward cautiously for a moment searching the skies for the aurora borealis, but your eyes had locked onto something else that was rather peculiar. You gazed silently at a glowing Kinomoto-san that seemed enraptured by an object or person that you could not see, after a moment his gaze had locked onto you. You felt as though you had intruded upon a private moment before you smiled and turned around to walk (really you wanted to run) away, but stopped when Kinomoto-san told you to wait for him.
"Oi Hanayaru-chan," Kinomoto-san remarked making your rather taken aback. "Is something wrong?"
"Oh, no it's nothing Kinomoto-san," you replied, still confused.
"I told you this afternoon to call me Touya Hanayaru-chan."
"You…did?" you half-asked while wracking your brain to remember exactly what had happened this afternoon.
"Yeah…don't you remember?"
The disappointment in his voice was rather evident to you and it bothered you greatly. You shuffled through your memory but it just simply couldn't recall what happened in the afternoon. After a few gruelling minutes of memory searching, Kinomoto-san tipped up your chin to look deeply into your eyes, and slowly said, "I wish you could remember Hanayaru," with the utmost sincerity. The look seemed so familiar to you for some reason, but you couldn't place it…
Unexpectedly, salt-water welled into your eyes, and a tear unexpectedly came down your cheek. Kinomoto-san gently wiped it away saying, "Please don't cry I don't like to see my friends upset."
"Friend," you thought while the word itself took its toll on you. A warm feeling spread throughout your body, starting at the head, travelled down towards your toes and fingers before retracting to your heart.
You turned around and ran off crying into the darkness. You weren't paying attention, Kinomoto-san's look had bothered you greatly, and you knew either he or you or maybe both had done something great in order for him to consider you a friend. It wasn't just his look that had bothered you, and to be honest, you were scared, why couldn't you remember anything?
Like I said before, you weren't paying attention while you were running blindly; you accidentally collided with someone…
(Kinomoto Touya's P.O.V)
He watched her run away, and he wanted to chase after her but something in the back of his mind told him that he would probably cause more damage than repair it. He then forced himself to go home and mull it over for the night. For some reason, he felt that everything would pave over in the morning. Though it bothered him greatly that she had run away like that crying, plus she had sincerely forgotten the events that had happened this afternoon. What had brought her here in the first place?
"The Northern lights," his conscious answered, and he thought back to what had just happened on the balcony…
Flashback
He had gone up to the roof for his laundry, he had been falling behind in his chores for some reason or another, and he looked up witnessing something that nearly floored him. It was the northern lights, but here… in…Japan…miles away from the North Pole where this stuff usually happened…it appeared to be getting closer now, so close…reaching up like a small child he wondered if it was close enough to touch. Much to his amazement, he was able to grab it and bring it down to his level and he let the substance flow over his hands. It felt like gauzy silk that was cool to the touch, and was as soft as a blanket. Quite unexpectedly, the substance rushed into his hands and distributed itself evenly in his body (if you guys don't get it, he absorbed the thing) and he stood gasping for breath. Lifting up his vision, his eyes widened at what he saw next.
"O-kaa-san?" he thought, astonished.
She was there, in all her beautiful black-haired glory, she was speaking to the oldest Kinomoto sibling, but he could not hear clearly.
"To…I…come…warn…about…" her voice was steadily getting clearer. "Don't trust…Mi…she can't be trusted. Do not let your eyes blind you Touya-san, be wary." With that she vanished and that's when he looked down and saw his classmate. He waved at her, telling her to wait for him.
End Flashback…sort of…
He was back in his room mulling things over silently in his head. In the next room he heard Sakura talking to somebody, and that person responded in an Osaka-Ben accent. Brushing it off, for once, he pulled the covers over him and stared up at the ceiling lost in thought. Hanayaru-san seemed sincere when she replied that she could not remember the day's events. Plus he had somehow heard her thoughts in his head and she seemed quite distressed that she could not remember what had happened this afternoon.
"Well, I wouldn't blame her," Kinomoto Touya thought. "Usually people don't forget something like that. I wonder what happened to her…" was his last thought before he drifted off to sleep with the image of his mother by his bedside.