Amnesia Chapter 35:
Peace Talks
Ichigo got up from the bench she was sitting on, and helped Kisshu up too. She looked at Kisshu and noticed he looked depressed. "Kisshu, are you feeling okay?" she asked gently. "You've been really sad lately."
Kisshu sighed. "I've just been upset a lot lately. First I was too weak to move for a week, then you nearly died, and now I can't believe I didn't notice I was hurting you by calling you a toy. I honestly don't know how you can still love me."
"That's my line," Ichigo said. "I thought if you ever got your memory back, you'd hate me. I was surprised when you said you'd always love me. Maybe we're alike in that respect; almost no matter what we do to each other, we still love each other beyond belief."
"I'm glad you still love me," Kisshu said softly. "I think when we were enemies, neither one of us realized how much we were hurting the other."
"You're right," Ichigo said. "I guess I didn't believe it would hurt you when I told you to get lost because I believed that you were just trying to hurt me by calling me a toy. To be honest, I thought you didn't like me."
"Because I called you a toy?" Kisshu asked.
"Yeah," Ichigo said. "It made me feel like I was worthless, and sometimes I wondered if I really was just a toy to you. A toy that could be thrown aside when you got bored." She looked up as she heard a soft sound, and saw that Kisshu was crying.
"Did I really hurt you that much?" Kisshu whispered.
"Like you said, this is all in the past," Ichigo said. "As long as you don't treat me like you did back then, and I don't reject you constantly, I think we'll be fine. We love each other, and that's what matters, right?"
Kisshu was still crying, and said, "Ichigo, how can you forgive me that easily?"
"Because I love you, baka," Ichigo said with a smile.
Kisshu sighed. "I love you more," he said.
"Are we going to have a contest to see which of us loves the other more?" Ichigo asked teasingly. Kisshu perked up a bit.
"Really?" he asked.
Ichigo sighed. "I was teasing. What on Earth would we do?" she asked.
Kisshu's ears drooped, and Ichigo giggled. "What?" he asked, confused.
"Your ears are so kawaii!" Ichigo said.
Kisshu smirked and was about to reply when they heard someone calling their names. "We're over here!" Ichigo called.
Pai came over and said, "I've been looking for you two everywhere! What were you doing?"
"Apologizing," Kisshu said. "What's the urgency?"
"Haroshi-sama called a meeting, but we couldn't find you two anywhere, until one of the Kuritara said he saw you out front, and I went to find you," Pai said. "We have to go!"
Kisshu took Ichigo's hand and teleported, Pai following. The three of them landed outside the meeting room, and Pai knocked. "Who is it?" a voice called.
"It's Ikisatashi Pai, I found Kisshu and Ichigo," Pai called back.
"Come in," the voice called. Pai pushed the door open and went in, followed by Kisshu and Ichigo. There were quite a number of Cyniclons and Kuritara inside, as well as the Mews. Haroshi-sama looked up and said, "Good, you're here. Now we can start. Please have a seat."
Kisshu and Ichigo sat down together, while Pai went back to Lettuce. As soon as everyone was settled, Haroshi sama said, "The leader of the Kuritara has come with a delegation to discuss a truce, based on the events of this last battle. I invite Shinji-sama to speak."
One of the Kuritara, presumably Shinji-sama, stood and bowed, then said, "While we believe that we deserve to live here on Cyniclonia as much as you do, I now see that in order to achieve that, we should have talked first rather than attacked. As I'm sure you know by now, our god forbids us to harm women and children, no matter what the reason, and no matter whether they are the enemy or our own people. We have seen that your women fight, but until this last battle, we believed that we could avoid attacking them and still win this war that we started."
He paused, then continued, "Since I was not there, I don't fully understand what happened, but I received reports that one of your fighters, a woman called Mew Ichigo, jumped in front of an attack that would have killed the one who it was aimed at. After that, the group I sent that day came back and told me after their report that this battle was becoming too hazardous to both your women and the rest of us. Gen, the one who accidentally stabbed Mew Ichigo, was particularly insistent on this, and in fact said that this battle was against our god's laws. I have taken that into consideration, and I believe that he is correct. That is why I gathered a group to come here and ask to set up peace talks. I appreciate that Haroshi-sama has agreed to talk."
Haroshi-sama nodded, and Shinji-sama bowed and sat down as Haroshi-sama stood and said, "I believe that a truce would be the best way to go, but we need to agree on the terms. Shinji-sama, what is it that you and your people came here for? You are currently living on a nearby planet, correct?"
Shinji-sama stood and said, "We have been living on Kuritopia for centuries, that is true. However, our records say that we once lived here, before the conditions became too much for our people. When we heard that this planet had been restored, there was a large faction that approved of an idea to take back this planet. That faction made me the leader of the Kuritara, and that's how this war began. The fact of the matter is, while our planet has fine conditions and weather, we are running out of food for some reason. Working the same land for centuries could be the problem, but the fact remains that we are running out of food for our people. When we heard that Cyniclonia was a literal paradise, many of us wanted to come here. We simply wanted to be able to feed our children, but I admit starting a war was not the best idea."
Haroshi-sama looked thoughtful. "Do you have any other suggestions on how to help your people?" he asked.
Before Shinji-sama could reply, Lettuce, to everyone's utter shock, asked, "May I speak?"
"Go ahead," Haroshi-sama said.
"I don't know much about either of your cultures, but what if you set up a trade agreement?" Lettuce asked.
"A trade agreement?" Shinji-sama asked.
"The Cyniclons have food, and you need it," Lettuce said. "Is there something you could trade for food?"
Shinji-sama looked thoughtful. "The women of our people are all excellent weavers, and make our clothing," he said. "They've also discovered a way to make cloth armor. We don't need metalworkers to make armor, they make other necessities, while the women make our armor out of special type of cloth that we discovered. That's what our warriors wear into battle. Is that something your people could use, Haroshi-sama?"
Haroshi-sama looked thoughtful too, and said, "I believe so. We don't have many metalworkers on this planet, if we could trade food for armor, I imagine that would come in quite handy. I think that sounds like a wonderful idea. Would that work for your people, Shinji-sama?"
"At this point, we would trade just about anything for food," Shinji-sama said a bit ruefully. "I'm fairly certain that this idea will work. What do you think, Haroshi-sama?"
"I believe this will work, and then we will have no reason to fight," Haroshi-sama said. He turned to Lettuce and said, "Mew Lettuce, thank you for that wonderful idea. I believe you've solved the problem!"
Lettuce turned red and said, "You're welcome, I was happy to help."
Haroshi-sama nodded, and said, "Shinji-sama and I should probably talk over the finer details of this plan, so since it's getting late, the rest of you are free to go."
Everyone except Shinji-sama and Haroshi-sama stood, bowed, and filed out. Ichigo noticed a lot of Kuritara go over to Lettuce and Pai, presumably thanking her. Suddenly two of them broke off from the group, and came over to Ichigo. "While the others are congratulating Mew Lettuce on her idea, we thought we'd come over and tell you that we owe you a great debt as well," one of them said. "If it wasn't for your selfless actions during that battle, we would not be here, with hope for both planets."
"Th-thanks," Ichigo said, turning red. "I'm just glad things are starting to work out."
Both of them smiled, and went back to their friends. Kisshu took Ichigo's hand, and teleported back to their room. "Man, I'm tired," he said, yawning. "What time is it, anyways?"
Ichigo looked at the clock on the wall, and said, "12:30 AM. We should get some sleep."
"Okay," Kisshu said. He flopped back on the bed, then winced. "My shoulder hurts," he said. "I wonder if I have to sleep with the sling on?"
"I think that would be uncomfortable," Ichigo said. "Just try to relax it. Do you want me to help you get the sling off?"
"Sure," Kisshu said. Ichigo came over and helped him take his arm out of the sling, and lie back. She got into the bed next to him, and pulled the blankets over them both. Then she snuggled up to him, and they both fell asleep.
I KNOW it was boring. And I'm sorry, but I just wanted to get the truce over with. I'll post again tomorrow. Review!