I Will Break You By Rizukiyatchan Kou Irvine
Chapter 4 Ven Dimelo
A few hours later..
The entire palace could hear familiar curses and rants streamed of profanity echoing throughout the walls. Mainly on the second floor. Of course they all knew who it was and why. They just couldn't understand Kakyuu's side to it, basically. And honestly..
Kakyuu didn't either. She was currently sitting by one of the window in the infirmary, waiting for word on her Senshi and Yoshi who had woken up about an hour ago. Kakyuu seemed torn. Taiki had attempted to get the cranberry haired princess to tell her something, but to no avail. Kakyuu was never like this. And she wouldn't dismiss Healer temporarily like that either. It just was not like her. It was.. terribly out of character, and being the only one out of three around to be aware of it scared Taiki. Terribly.
Taiki turned, looking back to Kakyuu, studying her face, her features, anything to find some sort of clue so she could pry in. Her eyes were narrowed slightly, and she wasn't smiling whatsoever. The way she had her arms positioned, crossed in front of her chest, made it seem as though she was hugging herself. Attempt to calm down? Taiki tried prying further, but couldn't get past a sense of guilt and frustration that seemed to have built a barrier around the princess. How..odd...
"Princess? Are you all right?" If prying by eye and mind didn't work, by word of mouth was the only other way.
"Do not worry about it, Maker. I do not wish to trouble you."
"But.. Princess, I'm already worried about you. And I'm sure once the others see you like this they will be too.."
Kakyuu turned, a small smile on her face as she looked to her brown haired Senshi. "It's all right. Thank you for your concern, but there are others who deserve your concern more than I do.."
Taiki blinked, nodding a little. She didn't buy it. There was something wrong, well duh, but how could she get Kakyuu to say it..? She was certain if she took Seiya's place and Seiya took hers, Kakyuu would tell her. Kakyuu always seemed.. closer to Seiya, or something. Maybe it was her imagination? ..No... Yaten noticed it too. But then..?
Before Taiki could try to put two and two together, the door to the infirmary flew open, revealing a panting Sailorstarfighter standing in the doorway. She shook her head and stepped out of the doorway, walking in Kakyuu and Taiki's direction. Taiki blinked upon looking at her. She didn't have any injuries that she could see..
"Seiya! Are you okay?"
"Fine.. Princess.. can we talk?" Fighter said, obviously out of breath.
"Are you all right?" Kakyuu blinked, curious as to why she was breathing so raggedly.
Fighter looked to Taiki who had the same look of confusion plastered all over her features. She rubbed the back of her head, looking up with sincerity and determination tinted in her eyes. "I'm fine. But I really need to talk to you."
Kakyuu didn't believe the first part of Fighter's statement, but she dismissed it. If she needed to talk to her, then all of her thoughts had to be put aside for the moment. Maybe it could make up for the mistake she made..
"Hai. Come with me."
Fighter nodded, looking to Taiki once again. "Please stay here, okay?"
Sighing, Taiki could only nod in agreement. Fighter smiled in gratitude, rushing after the cranberry haired woman. Taiki watched the two head back toward the palace through a window, now more puzzled than ever. But her suspicions from earlier had been somewhat cleared up. But so what if Kakyuu trusted Seiya more? It made sense.. Seiya was the first to arrive on Kinmoku, making the two have more time to get to know each other alone than she or Yaten had. But still...
********** Fighter rubbed her arm as she stood in front of Kakyuu, the two girls standing in the middle of the parlor, alone. She was kind of nervous with what she had to say, but her heart was pleading with her to say something, as hard as it was to. She didn't want to offend her Princess, but if she didn't say anything would they all become corrupted? 'Damn life.'
"Princess.. While in the infirmary.." Fighter rubbed her other arm now, a sign of nervousness. Usually she was so confident, but when it came to this moment with her Princess, with all that had been going on, she was a bit worried. "Yoshi told me you dismissed Healer. Is that true?"
Kakyuu's eyes widened. Her mistakes and fears had come back to haunt her, and were taking her in. She closed her eyes halfway, tilting her head to the side to avert eye contact with the leather clad soldier in front of her. "Fighter.. I.."
"Please take it back!" Fighter took a step forward, placing one hand on her upper chest and then her free hand on top of that one. "I feel bad because she was trying to defend me and you know she wouldn't have pushed her down purposely! ...I think. Well without a reason she wouldn't. And it isn't like you to make such a rash decision.. and it's worrying me as well as Maker, couldn't you tell?"
Silence. Kakyuu couldn't look at her. She couldn't bear it. Hearing her Senshi pour her heart out to her to reverse her actions was so heartbreaking, she couldn't take it. She would give anything and everything to just turn around with her infamous smile and say yes she'd take it back, but she couldn't. And knowing this hurt her because she hurt her friends..
"Princess.." Fighter whispered, taking a few more steps forward. She reached out, taking Kakyuu's right hand into her own, giving it a comforting squeeze. "If something is wrong, we will help you. We would do anything for you, you know that. You can tell us anything."
Yet again, there was nothing but silence. Fighter didn't know what else to say. She was about to let go of Kakyuu's hand in respect to her decision to keep it a secret within her, but before she could Kakyuu squeezed her hands in reply. Fighter blinked, looking up into Kakyuu's red eyes. "Fighter.. thank you. I know you three would, and I would do the same for you.. That's why I feel I must tell you."
"Tell me what?" Fighter was as confused as Taiki was earlier, if not then maybe even more.
Kakyuu looked down for a minute, taking a breath as her other hand came up, enlacing its fingers with Fighter's. "Fighter.. it's that.. All right. Earlier, as I hurried to see why Yoshi was taking so long to get help, I stopped witnessing Healer advance before me and confront her. The two began screaming at each other with such vengance.. yet I don't know where all this hatred they have for each other came from." She sighed. "Healer punched her in the stomach.. and the girl stumbled backwards, ultimately leading to her falling down the stairs. And all I could do was stare in shock. I started to hurry to see if they were both all right but a figure appeared in front of me before I could.."
Fighter raised an eyebrow. "A figure? What did it look like, Princess?"
Kakyuu stopped for a moment, trying to remember every single detail, every single line, curve, everything. It was..this figure's fault she was where she was now, right?.. "Pale lilac eyes.. pale white hair, so it didn't even look white honestly.. She had an outfit which seemed like the fuku of the solar system Senshi, merely white and pleated with a darker bow in the back, a tiara on her -- F-Fighter? What is wrong?"
No reply. Fighter was staring forward, as if her stare was going right through Kakyuu's body. Her hands started to tremble. That was.. the girl she had seen during practice.. It was her fault Healer and Maker were almost killed. She saw the girl on the stairs also. It was her fault Healer and Yoshi fought and why healer was dismissed. Damn her.. damn her.. damn her, damn her, damn her! Now she was plaguing her Princess's thoughts as well?! Weren't hers enough?!
"She told me to dismiss the girl, or the council of the outer solar system would remove me as princess and remove you three from this planet.."
"The WHAT?" Fighter snapped out of her daze, blinking in sheer confusion.
"I haven't heard too much of it myself.. It is like.. in charge of all the planets in our system. Kind of like the leaders of everything. At least that is what I have been told.."
"And they threatened to remove all of us from our positions and this planet if you didn't dismiss Healer?" Fighter narrowed her eyes. "That's.. ridiculous. Why would they care about simple little actions we make that don't involve anyone but ourselves?"
"I am not sure of that myself, Fighter.. But I didn't want to take you three from your happiness that you deserve so much.. That is why I had to do it."
"Princess.." Fighter took a breath. "Do not listen to his figure anymore. I-I.. I will find a way to deal with her, don't you worry. For now just relax, I will talk to healer. Please chek on Yoshi and Maker, will you?"
"Thank you Fighter.." Kakyuu smiled warmly. "Thank you for understanding.. I just wish that--"
"Shh.. it's all right.. Everything's going to be fine now." Fighter smiled, squeezing Kakyuu's hands once more before letting go, hurrying toward the stairs. Kakyuu watched her go before shaking her head a little, rushing back toward the infirmary.
********** As all this was going on, Healer finally decided to stop ranting to herself and went to take a shower. She got rid of the henshin, grabbed two towels and sulked her way to the bathroom before shutting the door and locking it. After years of living with Taiki and Seiya she knew it was stupid to leave the door unlocked.
After untying her hair, she stripped, angrily throwing her clothes onto the floor before entering the shower, taking the opportunity to allowed the water wash away all of her problems. It wasn't exactly working well. She stood there, staring at the the damaged reflection of herself on the glass as the water splashed around, hitting her body and the glass walls of the stall. Nothing was more annoying then being kicked out of something you loved, especially when you didn't do anything at all.
After about 15 minutes, which was a galaxy record for her, she shut the water off, grabbing a towel to wrap it around herself. She hopped out of the shower stall and stood in front of the mirror, grabbing the other towel to dry her hair first. She pulled open one of the cabinets and grabbed the hair dryer out, plugging it in and switching it on.
"Save me from the nothing I've become.." Fighter, who had since gave up the transformation and went back to Seiya, ran down the hallway of the second floor. She smirked a little, hearing the familiar sounds of the hair dryer filling the air. "Found you."
She ran a hand through hair, stopping once she arrived at the bathroom door. Her hand reached out, twisting the doorknob a bit to find it locked. "Ah, you've grown smarter as the years pass us by." She chuckled, digging around in her hair for a hair pin, which she then pulled out and inserted into the key hole. She kept moving it around until she heard a loud click, and flicked the proof of her entrance elsewhere.
Seiya pushed the door open a little and felt her cheeks grow a little warm. Yaten was standing in front of the mirror, water droplets dripping from her hair as she continued to blow dray it and brush it, a towel wrapped around her body while the other was temporarily placed on her shoulder. Seiya couldn't help but grin at the opportunity.
Yaten switched the hair dryer off and put it back down, brushing her hair a little more with a small dab of gel. "If you like my body, and you think I'm sexy.." Brush brush brush. "Baby come and let me know.."
The dive! Seiya took a quick step forward, gently placing her hands on Yaten's hips. "Yes I like your body, and I think you're sexy, so here I am letting you know.."
....FLAIL. Yaten's face turned bright pink and she whirled around, dropping the bottle of gel and her brush as she backed up, hitting the side of the sink. "SEIYA! What the.. why are.. you..!"
Seiya had no choice but to laugh, she walked around, standing beside Yaten now, facing the same direction as her. She kept on laughing as she watched the girl's attempts to keep her towel from falling off, she could do this all day. She placed her hands on Yaten's shoulders and gently pushed her forward before she began to massage her neck and shoulders, seemingly a plea for forgiveness. "Gomen, Yaten-chan. I couldn't resist. Did I scare you?"
"I hate you." No I don't!!
"You could never hate me!" Seiya smiled brightly. "How's your wrist doing?"
"It's f-fine.." Yaten stammered.
"I'm glad.." Seiya cleared her throat, stopping the massage. "Listen, I need to talk to you about earlier."
"What? You wanna yell at me too?" Yaten spat, struggling to pull away from, Seiya's hold, but Seiya wouldn't let her go.
"Unless you want me to pull this towel off, let me talk to you." Seiya waited a moment, and when Yaten didn't reply, she smiled a bit, continuing. "That's better. Now, about what Kakyuu-hime said before.. She didn't mean it. It's.. I don't know if you'll believe me, but I hope you do. A figure appeared to her as you and Yoshi were fighting. About what you better tell me later, ne? But anyway --"
"Are you about to tell me this figure told her to do this to me?"
"You catch on quick. Ne.. Yaten.. have you heard of some council of the outer solar system or whatever?"
"Council of the what..?" Yaten turned around, looking once again deeply into Seiya's blue eyes.
"Hm, I was hoping you did.." Seiya was obviously perplexed. "That's where the figure said she came from. Demanding that Kakyuu-hime dismiss you or we'd all be kicked out of here."
"What the hell.. Why does whatever it is care about our private lives? It knows nothing about us! How dare it mess with our princess's decisions like that.. Like it's nothing!"
"That's what I said!" Seiya smiled, happy to be on the same page as Yaten instead of on her bad side. "Well whatever the case may be, please don't blame her. She never intended for it."
"I.. I don't. I'll talk to her once I'm dressed. Thank you, Seiya." Yaten gushed. she was pleased to have such a private conversation with Seiya like this, but she wished it was on a lighter note.. But no matter. The girl played with her emotions in ways no one else could, even if they tried. Heck, Seiya wasn't even trying. This was normal Seiya Kou right her. But Yaten loved every minute of it.
"Now I'll leave you to get changed, sweetheart," Seiya laughed, pressing a teasingly sweet kiss to Yaten's cheek. "Thank you for listening to me."
"I..you..sure...right.." Slap. "Yeah! Just next time come while I'm dressed!"
Another laugh. "Come on! You know you didn't mind it! You know you'd drop everything to be in the path of a beautiful sex goddess like me ne?"
'Being shot is less painful than this.'
"SEIYA! Sex goddess to who?!"
"To whoever is worthy!" Seiya laughed again before leaving the bathroom, closing the door behind her.
Yaten would swear she would have collapsed if she hadn't gripped onto the sink tightly. "Well? Am I worthy?" Cursing. "How can you look through my eyes like open doors.."
********** Seiya skipped down the stairs with a big grin on her face. She was always the confident flirt type, but with no one was much as Yaten. Except for the Odango. But that was as male-- no.. it was as both.. So they were even. Well then again, Seiya never saw her Odango half naked like she just saw Yaten. In fact, it was the other way around. But anyway, trying to rephrase that, she never flirted with anyone on Kinmoku as she did to Yaten. And why?
Ah what did it matter? Life was good! Now all she had to do was reassure the princess and wait for Yaten to talk to her, then everything would be all right. With the exception of the growing tension between Yoshi and Yaten, but Seiya figured she could handle it.
As she turned a corner to head outside, she saw a nearly transparent figure running toward her, then sped right past her. Seiya paused, blinking as she replayed the scene in her mind. What just happened? No matter. Just as she was about to continue on her way, transparent hands reached out, grabbing the girl by the neck.
"Shh no screaming from you. You are coming with me.."
Seiya blinked, not about to accept this, she brought her hands up to her neck to pry the hands off, but her eyes widened as she felt no hands to grab onto. Okay. Now she could panic. She started trashing about and tried pulling herself free, she wasn't about to endanger anyone else if they couldn't even see whatever it was. So no screaming allowed.
"Seiya Kou, you are hereby under arrest. Now come quietly and peacefully otherwise I will not be afraid to force you to comply."
"What...the...hell..?" Okay. So now it was safe to scream. Which she did. Loudly. The transparent figure suddenly became visable, and very tangible, tightening her hold on Seiya's neck before letting go rapidly, pulling Seiya's arms behind her back roughly. "Damn! You're hurting me!"
"Please do not resist." The figure suddenly began to go transparent again.. and so did Seiya.
"What the hell are you doing to me?! Stop it!!" Seiya could now safely say she was freaked out as she struggled and squirmed to try to free herself. But it didn't work. 'If Yaten was around, she would probably go off and say 'you're screwed!' ..God what would I do to see her one last time..' she thought.
And as if on cue, Yaten rushed down the stairs, not in a towel but fully dressed, a puzzled look on her face as she stopped short at the bottom of the stairs. "What in the name of hell is going on.. Seiya?! What.."
This time, as if fate drove it to occur, Yoshi rushed out of nowhere from the side door, freezing in place with her mouth open in a silent scream. "Holy crap!!"
"Someone please tell the princess that I--" Seiya started, but couldn't finish. The figure went completly transparent and disappeared, taking Seiya along with her.
"Oh my God.. I'M GETTING THE PRINCESS!!" Yoshi screamed, running off like a mad woman.
Yaten slowly walked over to where Seiya was last standing, staring at the floor in horror. What just happened? This was so messed up!
'What would I do to see her one last time..'
Owari chapter IV.
Ven Dimelo = come and tell me
Once again thank you so much for the reviews. ^^
And hopefully that cleared up Kakyuu's actions also. See I
know what I'm doing -- ....sometimes? Once in a while?
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