Hi everyone just to let you know there is a part in the story where it says snake in the grass that means a treacherous person, esp. one who pretends friendship. Just so you don't get confused. Also this chapter part thingy is mostly about Kyuna so you can get inside her head to clear up some things and this thingy also doesn't have much dialog in it but it's still very very exciting.
Kyuna awoke in the morning and walked to the lake. She sat down on the waters edge and let her feet soak in the surprisingly warm water. It made her tension dissipate and she could think more clearly. She got up and walked back to her room to get a cloth to dry her feet. Then she remembered Eihi saying something about a hot spring. Kyuna asked around and finally found it. She slid right in without hesitation. A couple of times she went under on purpose. Her muscles relaxed and she thought. Maybe I can leave and visit the demon slayer Sango that I've heard so much about. No. Well I could choose Eihi. He's nice but he might just be a snake in the grass. Bankotsu is strong, handsome, and he cares for me but he might go on killing again. Thinking right now wasn't helping any with relaxing. So Kyuna got out and dried off then she put her hair in a braid and headed out for the pavilion. That pavilion gave her a feeling that was neither good nor bad. You could say the pavilion had a neutral feeling to it. The outside of the pavilion was not very appealing and looked out of place in the beautiful courtyard but inside it looked beautiful. The inside of the pavilion had white and red roses entwined with each other on every wall and each wall had a bench. Kyuna sat down on the bench facing the lake and picked a white rose that was right next to her. It was still closed but it was still wondrous. By accident she held it where a thorn was and her finger started to bleed. Kyuna suddenly felt a hand touch her hair. Is it Eihi trying to flatter me again? She turned around. Bankotsu was looking at her with sorrow but happiness in his eyes.
"Couldn't sleep I see." Bankotsu said in a warm voice.
Kyuna was shocked to see him here. She turned around and started to blush. He's never done that before. I was sure it was Eihi. Why am I blushing? Why?
"Are you ok Kyuna?" Bankotsu said. "You're bleeding."
Bankotsu ripped a piece of his shirt and tied it around the cut. Kyuna was still shocked. Then all of a sudden Bankotsu pulled her arm and it made her twist to face him. But instead of looking at her like he had done before he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her to his chest. She closed her eyes and tears fell down her neck and on to the floor. He released her and walked out of the pavilion. She was shocked even more at his sudden reaction. She turned to the lake view and surrendered herself to the sight of it. Kyuna headed back after some time to the hot spring and got in like before. She thought of what happened. As Kyuna soaked in the hot spring see felt the sudden urge to touch the scar on her back. The scar which plagues the day of her "death". Kyuna closes her eyes and replays what happened early in the morning.
"Oh I did not know that you were in here." Said a familiar voice.
She opens her eyes to see Eihi starring at her. He started to blush. He turned around and left. That was odd and a little embarrassing. She called a servant to bring her a changing wall just if anyone else comes barging in. Kyuna started to walk back to her room when it started to rain. She looked up and just stood in the rain. She looked over to the pavilion and walked over to it. A pavilion of old where hearts were broken and pieced back together. Was her heart broken or was it pieced back together when Bankotsu hugged her? Thinking was becoming very annoying to her at this point. So she just starred out to the lake again for sometime and went back to her room to find a brush, pieces of paper, and different colored paints placed neatly on her bed. Did Eihi or Bankotsu put these materials on my bed? I slightly remember telling both of them I had a talent to draw and paint. Oh well I can use these to help relax from all the annoying thinking I've been doing. Kyuna a third time went to the pavilion. She sat down and started to draw a girl. Then she put the sapphire lake under the girl as if she were standing on it like solid ground. Then she painted the scene she had created but added a couple of things. You saw the girl crying now and her tears turned to flowers when they touched the water. Two shadowy figures of men stood on the opposite ends of the lake with weapons at hand. They stay still ready to fight. The girl's hands were covering her eyes and the sides of her face. Her hair flowing like the water. Flowers were spread all over the lake but not where the men stand. Kyuna wondered if she had painted her future. Pain, anger, bitterness, sadness, and many other things. Why had she said she would decide between the two? Were the two figures at the end of the lake the two she must give the decision to? Braking one heart but piecing the other back together. Was she adding on to the neutral feeling that the pavilion had. Keeping everything balanced. Keeping everything equal. No. Balance and equal are not the same. One means everyone gets what they want and the other one means to keep in check, to make everything leveled. Kyuna was starting to draw the rows of cherry trees when the door opened. It must be Bankotsu again trying to make another move on me. She turned and to her surprise it was a servant.
"My lady the lord would like to see you. I will direct you to his quarters."
Kyuna followed the young woman to a room then bowed and was out of sight in seconds. She entered the room to see Eihi looking directly at her as if he knew that she was going to enter at that very moment. Eihi didn't have any emotion on his face. It was blank as darkness. He opened his mouth.
"So did you enjoy your little emotional get together with Bankotsu?" Eihi stopped. "Because you're not going to be seeing him again."
Kyuna felt a sharp pain in her neck and slightly heard Eihi say something else. "As I said before I will have you no matter what."
Her vision blurred and then all was black and all was silent. She screamed but she knew it would not be heard. She cried for Bankotsu. Her eyes felt watery. Her painting was a warning. A warning of a battle that everyone might lose or a battle only one will win. How could have Eihi known what happen? How could he have known? Why is this happening? Why must my life be like this? That one word. I wonder Why?