Chapter 2: Names Under The Full Moon
Satoshi groaned as he stepped back out to his living room to check on the pendant on the low-lying table. His eyes widened and he quickly covered them as he saw a girl lying there. No, it wasn't a girl. Nobody could have gotten into his house last night and her figure was too mature for a simple girl. She was a woman, despite the innocent and carefree expression on her sleeping face. He kneeled beside the table, gazing at her slightly. She looked just liked the girl from his dream, but with a lot less clothes. The only thing she was wearing was a pair of small, lacy underwear, hot pink in color. Her hair was slightly curly and seemed to bounce slightly as she adjusted her head softly. The gentle pink color reminded Satoshi of cherry blossoms and he smiled at the color fondly. He hadn't even noticed now that Krad was trying to take over and gave in easily for once, realizing he was ogling a practically naked woman. Of course, leaving her to Krad wasn't the best idea either, but he shouldn't be handling these things. He was too young. Besides, he'd get nothing accomplished but being late for school as all he could do was stare.
Krad smirked as Satoshi refused to watch from the back of Krad's mind. "Little boy." Krad teased, slowly moving some of the woman's hair from her face. He trailed a finger down her arm lightly, watching her shiver softly. Slowly, her eyes flickered open and she sat up, hair covering her nipples from Krad's view. She looked around sleepily, rubbing her eyes.
"I guess someone woke me up from the long sleep then?" she questioned, already knowing the answer. She then looked at Krad. "Was it you who woke me up from the pendant?" Her gaze was inquisitive as she leaned a bit closer to him. Krad just kept a calm expression, meeting her gaze. Satoshi wouldn't have even been able to look away from her large bust, yet Krad had good self-control.
Krad simply nodded. "Yes, I Krad Hikari, and my tamer Satoshi Hiwatari have awak..." He was cut off as her lips brushed against his softly. She then embraced him, pleased, as he was a lot warmer than the table. She nuzzled his neck tenderly and rested her head lightly on his chest.
"Since you've awakened me, you and Satoshi are now my masters. All of me is at your disposal," she informed calmly. Krad and Satoshi just stared with awe now and Krad smirked softly. This wasn't so bad. She said all of her, so he could use her for pleasure and make her cook, clean, and do tons of other things. Of course, Satoshi would have control most of the time and this irked him, but he still liked the idea.
"So be it. You'd better obey your masters though, or else you'll be punished." Krad warned, tilting her chin up and kissing her forcefully. She willingly complied and Krad handed control back to Satoshi during the kiss, watching as Satoshi's first kiss was lost to this strange woman. The youth blushed deeply, pushing her away. She just blinked in response to this separation, surprised.
"Now, girl, what is your name?" He seemed annoyed now and was looking away as to not see her bust and to hide his blush.
"My name? People call me 'Yuki No Kissu'. Though, I have a different name that I forgot when I was sealed into the pendant and placed into the statue I modeled for. My past master said he had to make one beautiful piece of artwork, so he would put my form to it and the beauty of my soul by sealing the pendant with my soul inside the stone. I was seventeen then," she informed happily, seemingly not caring much about the fact of her sealed state.
"So, you're still human, right?" Satoshi wondered how someone managed to seal her in a pendant, especially if she was human. It seemed impossible.
"I know not more than what I told you. I will inform you as soon as I recall it, Master," she announced joyfully. Satoshi couldn't take it anymore and went back to his room, grabbing a baggy pair of pants and a large T-shirt. Her pulled the T-shirt over her head and helped her get the pants on, blushing all the while. Her cheeks flushed a bright red as she realized she was wearing Satoshi's clothes and she squealed with delight. "Master doesn't hate me," she announced happily.
"Call me Satoshi." His demand was straight and simple, but he was even more so irked by what she said in response because he'd obviously been misinterpreted. She called him 'Master Satoshi', just the easiest thing to blend in at school. Oh great, that was right, school. "Okay, Yuki, I'll call you that for short. The thing is, you're artwork, not a human. I don't care what you do, but I have to make sure Dark doesn't find out you're in this form and then make sure he doesn't steal you if he does find out. Therefore, you're going to school with me. You can't use your current name, so we need a new one and I am sure I can pass you off as a tenth grader. You're shorter than me after all, well, my height actually, but whatever. At school we'll get you enrolled and get a uniform. Tomorrow you'll be officially introduced. Now, for your name." He seemed to ponder it for a while and then snapped his fingers. "Your hair color, it reminds me of cherry blossoms, sakura, so your name will be Sakura Hiwatari. I'll tell people you were adopted into my family." With that, he went to finish getting ready for school.
They arrived at school and she looked around in awe, asking him what everything was. After what seemed like the fiftieth question, he told her to shut up and she did so quickly, following him to the guidance office silently. He filled out all the paperwork for her and she scribbled a fake signature like he had whispered as an order. Yuki, or Sakura, as she would now have to respond to, was given permission to speak again when they left the office. "Can I change into these clothes now, Master Satoshi?" she inquired, a puzzled look on her face.
Takeshi walked by and overheard her say 'master'. He then looked between her and Satoshi. "Oh my, Hiwatari, she is wearing your clothes too. That was quick. So you like her type, huh?" the reporter asked, smirking as he rested an elbow on Satoshi's shoulder.
Satoshi just slapped his hand on his face, taking a deep breath and rubbing his temple softly. "I don't know why she calls me that. Her name is Sakura Hiwatari, my step-sister." Yuki was about to speak but he shot her a quick glare to silence her. She just nodded in agreement sadly. Takeshi rolled his eyes, his interest gone when he heard her fake last name. She just stared at Satoshi with soft eyes.
"Mast...I mean, Satoshi, am I that annoying?" She looked into his eyes worriedly and then just looked away, hugging her new clothes tightly. "Where can I change, Satoshi?" She was surprised that he didn't pry into her sudden change of mood and simply pointed to the girls' locker room, which was conveniently across the hall. Yuki went in and came back out wearing the school uniform. Yet, there were some flaws. She couldn't get it really straight and didn't know how to get the stockings or shoes on. Satoshi groaned, straightening out her uniform and carefully helped her with her stockings, blushing softly as the backs of his fingers rolled up her smooth leg.
Krad laughed at the back of the youth's mind. "You just miss ogling her nice body, don't you?" Krad teased. Satoshi just growled lowly and quickly helped Yuki get her shoes on before storming off to the classroom. To much dismay, Yuki had followed and he sat down in his seat, no empty one nearby. Yuki just sighed softly and took a seat at the very back of the class. Daisuke had glanced at her as she walked by.
"Hey, Daisuke, talk to her at lunch. She looks new and she is hot." Dark urged. Daisuke just blushed and stuttered a 'no' in response. After all, he already had Riku.
When at last lunch did come, she watched Satoshi closely, moving her head around so she could see around the people who got in her line of view. Yet, one blocked it completely as Risa stood in front of her desk. "Hey, you must be new. I'm Risa!" she greeted.
Riku walked up as well. "I am her twin sister Riku," she introduced, holding a hand out to Yuki. She shook her head softly and refused Riku's hand.
"Sorry, I'm sick and I would not want you two to get it. My name is Sakura Hiwatari." In her eyes, she never said so many lies at one time before. Risa shifted her weight and Yuki stole a quick glance past her, seeing Satoshi gone. She just sighs softly in dismay.
"Oh, hey, a Hiwatari? That means you're related to Hiwatari, right, Sakura?" Risa asked joyfully, having just noticed. Yuki nodded and forced a soft grin.
Riku and Risa assured that they would help her if need be and left to go eat lunch. Yuki sat there, resting her head on the desk as tears blurred her vision. She wiped them away with her bare forearm, sniffing delicately. Her gaze darted around the blurred room and she then buried her face in her arms, crying quietly. She'd made her new master mad on the first day and she'd told so many lies to innocent people. Yuki felt awful, something that was a fatal feeling when she started crying. Her tears, like the legend, did indeed become snow, but more in the sense they caused snow outside. When she was ashamed, the snow would be blood red and drain life from all that it touched, yet, this snow only showed up if she cried for more than ten minutes. Of course, as white snow began to fall in the middle of spring, Satoshi became suspicious, quickly going inside and running into the classroom.
Yuki lifted her head up from her desk and glanced at him. "What, you came to punish me?" she asked sorrowfully. Satoshi blinked and then figured it out. She was bothered because he'd been acting coldly towards her and that was why she cried.
'What a baby, well, for my benefit, she can't be found out so it looks like I'll have to be nice.' Krad's warning to hurry up interrupted his thoughts, and Satoshi ruffled her hair softly. "Hush, It's okay, Sakura. I'm just being cold is all. It isn't your fault. You're doing a great job." he assured. Yuki just looked up at him and wiped her tears away, beaming up at him now.
"So I am not a bad sla..." She was cut off by his hand again as the class began filing back in again. Satoshi quickly took his seat and she just sat there for the rest of the day. When they got home again she plopped down on the floor, rolling about happily as she quite liked the apartment. After all, she'd woken up there. Rolling to the closet, she pulled out a futon and placed in on top of the table, unfolding it and making it even. The table was what she saw as her bed. Satoshi just groaned. "What do you like?" he asked.
"Strawberries." Her answer was simple and straightforward. "And my masters."
Satoshi gave no response, simply glancing out the window at the darkening sky. He then checked the calendar. "Sakura, do you want to go for a walk around town under the moon?" he asked, realizing it was the full moon. She sat up and nodded happily in response. He went into his room and changed into regular clothes and gave her the ones she'd been wearing that morning. With his back turned, her waited for her to change. The two left the house and Satoshi locked the door behind him, leading Yuki to a food stand that wasn't far from the fountain plaza. He was quite hungry and bought two chocolate and sugar crepes. The stand specialized in crepes and he was quite fond of them. They were filling as well as the fact that they tasted good.
Carrying two paper plates over to the bench by the fountain, he sat down. Yuki sat next to him and he handed her one of the plates and a fork and knife. She stared at the utensils and watched what he did with them. Being new to the future, she wasn't quite sure about many of the customs, yet she would pick up on it easily. The sky blackened when the two finished the meal and she took the two empty plates to the garbage bin, having watched as other people threw things in there.
"Meba li a li da cla eva."
The voice was a soft whisper in the distance, one only Yuki herself could hear. Her eyes clouded over from their regular chocolate color with bright orange highlights. Now she stood there, between the garbage bin and the bench, eyes matching the dark sky, a cloudy cerulean. She turned slowly, looking up at the sky and hence she had been her regular self, she would have panicked. Yet, it was too late now. The light of the full moon cast its soft glow on the world and she was enticed to it, taking small slow steps towards the cliff that dropped down to the ocean from the plaza. Her gaze never left the silvery moon and her possessed form stood at the edge of the cliff, nearly a silhouette in the looming moonlight.
"Meba li a li da cla eva."
There was that voice again, the voice that teased her so, the one only she would succeed at hearing. Upon its continuous whispers, her gaze shifted, now instead looking down on the rocks and waves below. Satoshi watched closely from the bench, not having noticed the change in her eyes. He just figured she thought the moon was very pretty and was trying to get closer to it. That was until she looked down at the water.
He slowly stood, becoming a bit wary now as he edged toward her gradually, her light cherry tinted hair seeming to float about her softly as she took one final step forward, off the cliff. Her balance faltered and she began to fall forward. Satoshi ran towards her now, seeing that a few people were watching in amazement. Everything seemed to go so slow, her figure falling forward and Satoshi's desperate sprint. He couldn't let this piece of artwork destroy itself; there was no way he could.
She slipped just below view of the cliff as Satoshi got there, sliding to his knees and grabbing her hand. At that same instant, a cloud covered the moon and a few other people ran over, helping to hoist the seemingly frightened girl back up. After they cleared, Satoshi just gave her a cold look.
Yuki ignored the look, trembling as she threw her arms around him, trying her best to refrain from crying. She didn't really comprehend why the voice, that apparently nobody else heard, seemed to draw her towards it. Yet, even with her previous master, she'd realized that it always tried to get her to jump off high places. Yet, she didn't want to, though, she could never seem to resist it. The idea of dying, it was frightening her. To possibly cease existing in the world was a scary thought.
She began to cry softly and Satoshi quickly wiped away her tears, not wanting to see it snow. Yet, he was too late, a single one fell and slowly, clouds began to gather in the sky. Raindrops slowly began to beat down on them and he blinked. He had thought it only snowed, yet apparently not. "What is the system behind your tears?" he inquired as he led her to an overhang. She sniffed, trying to cease her crying to answer.
"If I am happy it is a pure snow. If I'm mad or upset, they explode. When I am scared or sad they become rain. Then, when I feel ashamed of myself, my tears become red snow," she stuttered. She finally succeeded at getting her tears to stop and blushed softly as Satoshi pulled her into an embrace.
"Why'd you jump off the cliff?" This question seemed to shake her up some as she pulled away, looking at the ground shamefully.
"I don't know. The voice tells me to do it and for some reason my body doesn't resist. No, it can't resist. I don't know why though." She met his gaze and waited to see if there were any more questions, wishing he hadn't asked what he just did.
He remained silent for a moment and then asked a final question, or set of questions. "What was your first master's name? How many master's have you had? Also, did any of them create you?" She just blinked at the sudden genre change of the questions.
"I have had three masters; Krad, you, and the one from a few centuries ago. I can't remember his name though. There was the letter 'h' in it somewhere though. I'll tell you his name when I remember it as well as anything else that I recall," she assured, forcing a smile.
"You're scared of the moon because of the voice it makes your hear, right? So while its still cloudy, let's head home." With that he grabbed her wrist, pulling her along back to the house.
"Not the moon overall, just the full moon and the new moon in the cycle. I like the moon in the rest of the phases though." She smiled softly at his concern, yet figured it was only to make sure she didn't try to jump off a cliff or something again.
When they got home, Satoshi shut the blinds in the living room and watched as she took off her pants, figuring that was acceptable as they wouldn't be comfy to sleep in. Yet, he blushed and looked away when she began to remove her shirt too. "Yuki, please leave that on," he pleaded. He watched as she nodded softly, climbing into bed and pulling the blanket over her head. The futon seemed to quiver softly and he did his best not to laugh. Even inside she was still afraid. "You can still hear the voice from inside when the blinds are shut, can't you?" he asked, figuring that had to be it, otherwise she wouldn't be so scared.
She popped her head out from under the blanket where her feet would normally be and looked up at his face, nodding quickly as she retracted herself back into her little hut again. He just sighed as he pulled the blanket off and motioned for her to follow him. He led her into his room, making her look away as he took off his shirt and pants, putting on a pair of pajama pants. It would be too awkward to sleep in just boxers tonight. Yet, if there was a chance that she'd jump out the window in the middle of the night it was better if he could make sure, while sleeping, that she didn't wander off. Lying in bed, he patted the spot next to him. His bed was a queen size, so there was plenty of room.
She lay down next to him and he pulled the covers over them, wrapping his arms around her waist. He slept on the left as usual and she was on the right side of the bed. His chest pressed lightly against her back and he relaxed some from the extra warmth, soon falling asleep. She'd fallen asleep the instant she'd known she was going to be safe. After all, she was exhausted. Life of an artwork, like the soul and emotion of a statue, required a lot of magical energy to operate without rest for a day. This magical energy would replenish, during her sleep, by the next morning.