A/N: I'm back, and I'm here to post Chinmoku's Part II! I hope I'm not making you wait, although I know I probably am, I'm already starting to write an update for The Beauty of Love's chapter
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Edit: Dayum...sorry, it's chapter 3 I mean, my memories failing me, it seems...sorry.) I hope by this week I can post it up. Anyways, thank you for the kind comments, thank yous and warm acceptance. Thank you very much! Before we get to the update, here is my replies to your comments!
Replies: @sakura_drop_ - I'm glad you like it, even though its just the first part.
I hope you enjoy this second part of Chinmoku.
@kahem - Yay indeed!
@SharkAttack - Thank you very much! I hope I can continue to perk up your interest on these kind of fics!
@XxRoByNxX78 - I'm afraid that this shot will only be exclusive for BlackGeki. I'll try making other shots featuring other couples too though.
@ShibuyaDokiDoki - Thank you so much, Shi-san!
@oddball - Geki's playing a bit vague on that part, as to why she called Black instead of the other queens, Black however doesn't seem to take notice or any suspicions of it because she wants to see Gekikara anyways.
@immortal_K - Thank you, oh great immortal for the comment.
I hope you would enjoy this second part!
@anzai48 - Black/Yuki smiling is win win.
Now with that said, here's Chinmoku Part II! I hope you enjoy reading!
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Chinmoku
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Part II
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It was cold outside; maybe less colder than when it was raining, but still cold enough. Since the rain had stopped a few minutes ago, Black would occasionally see people walking around, she often see familiar faces like the ones that often go to the market she works.
She would stop by at times and greet them politely before walking back again.
It somehow became a habit for Black to greet others due to her work. Not that she mind the little exchange of greetings and politeness. It was an exhilarating change for her after all the years she spent being cold and up-guarded on almost everyone except the Rappapa members.
Travelling to the hospital however did not take long for Black though even with the occasional stops; it only took her mere minutes with her insane inhuman speed. It was a mystery how she got her speed and agility, even the Rappapa members knew nothing of how she had technically gotten her ability. All they knew is that it is her specialty.
Black entered the hospital, almost grandly when a few of the patients, staffs and visitors gazed at her in a mixture of awe and fear. Awe because of the raven’s beauty, and fear due to the color of her clothes. It did not take a genius to guess wholly how many are afraid of the color black; it went against the color of the clean pristine haven of the hospital and made the older teen stand out of the whole bunch.
Most of the people inside the receiving area thought of Black as an angel of death, and scooted away to make way for the raven. The former queen however did not mind the way the people acted around her and the stares she was casually receiving as she made her way towards the reception area.
“Hello ma’am, how may I help you?” One of the nurses in the reception area asked.
“Can I have Ms. Matsui Rena discharged?”
“If I may ask, are you…her legal guardian?” The nurse asked, almost doubtfully and anxiously. The nurse was somehow a bit irked to ask about status of guardianship, given how Black was so much younger than the nurse. Black caught on that however, but merely ignored the way the nurse acted and nodded.
“Yes I am.”
“I see. What is your name ma’am?”
“Kashiwagi Yuki.”
“Alright then, please wait for a minute Ms. Kashiwagi, I will call the doctor, but while you’re waiting, please fill up and sign this papers for me.” The nurse smiled at Black and handed her a few papers and a pen before she pointed out the necessary areas that the raven had to fill in. Black however being new to filling up the discharge papers asked a few questions to the nurse who willingly assisted and answered her every questions.
“Okay, I get it. Thank you.” Black gave a small nod before she bowed and left the nurse to call the doctor. The raven walked towards the aisle of chairs before she sat at the far end and fill in the papers before she idly placed them onto an empty near seat beside her and waited patiently.
After what seem to have been eternity, the same nurse who had tended to her, called Black back.
Black got out of her seat and went to the reception area. The raven spotted a female doctor, casually leaning on the counter, eyeing her cautiously before the woman smiled and approached the former queen.
“Ms. Kashiwagi, right?”
“Yes Doctor.”
“Good, I would like to inform you that Ms. Matsui’s stab injury is healing well and she’s in perfect health.”
“I see, that’s great news, but if I may ask, why is it that you did not release her?” Black nervously fumbled with the hem of her track jacket due to what the doctor might say. The doctor chuckled at Black’s little movements before she smiled comfortingly at the other girl.
“Relax. We are just expanding some safe precaution for our patients. It is our policy not to release a patient without any guardian to pick them up. I hope I did not scare you out of your wits.”
“Oh…” Black let out sigh of relief while the doctor merely gazed at her in amusement when Black stopped fiddling with her jacket. It somehow perked the older woman’s interest, but she decided not to comment on it any further, knowing that the younger teen had things to do.
“You can take Ms. Matsui home now, but just make sure she gets enough rest, vitamins and food, and everything will go perfectly well.”
“Thank you, doctor.” Black bowed her head for what seemed to be the nth time in the day before she walked off and flashed away once the doctor was out of eyesight. The former queen went straight towards the younger queen’s room in the blink of an eye and opened the door without even knocking or asking for the insane queen’s permission.
Black entered the room unceremoniously and almost immediately, the faint smell of chemical and dust wafted into her nose, making the raven scrunch her face in distaste. The occupant of the room merely giggled at the sight of the taller girl’s weird expression and gazed at her from her current location.
“It stinks doesn’t it?”
“It does, I still can’t get used to the stench of chemical and medicine even though I’ve been once been admitted to this hospital for who knows how long before.”
“Do you hate the smell though?” Gekikara asked. Her head tilted to the side with a small smile on her face. It made the younger teen’s facial expression cute and childish in a very appealing manner that it made Black smile a little.
“I do, the smell is too strong and I can smell a lot of mixed chemicals in the air. It’s almost painful to breathe.” Black’s lips curved into a small pained smile. The former queen slowly approached the younger queen, whom was currently sitting on the bed, before stopping in front of her, taking a seat on the vacant chair near the white pristine clean bed.
“Sorry, for making you come.” Gekikara murmured, her expression turned into a sad puppy frown, her lips in a pout while she kept her hands busy by idly fiddling with her fingers, staring worriedly at the older teen, but was met with a silent reassuring smile and a small shrug from the other girl.
“I’m fine. It isn’t a big deal.”
“Are you sure?”
The younger queen childishly stared at her, almost expectantly with jewel like brown eyes that sparkled under the light of the fluorescent bulb.
“I’m fine. Really, I have some doubts about you though, are you alright? You’ve been staying here for quite a long time already.”
“Hmm, I don’t really feel anything painful… I think I’m fine. Hehehe…” Gekikara grinned widely. This made Black shake her head and let out an exasperated sigh. The former queen already knew that that would be the insane teen’s answer, seeing as how she could not feel any single pain so she did not bother to press on that little detail, but still kept the concern she felt mirroring on her eyes.
“That’s fine then, but I wouldn’t want to expose you too much in this horrid smell any further. Let’s leave this place, shall we?”
Black stood up from her seat and reached out a hand towards the younger teen, Gekikara stared at the outstretched palm in front of her before she slowly reached up to that free hand and placed her hand on top of Black’s. Gekikara softly grasped on the warm dainty porcelain hand that grasped her own cold hand securely.
The insane queen looked up to gaze at the older teen’s face, her cheeks puffed up mumbling a question to her dark companion.
“Did they allow you to take me home…?”
Black slowly nodded, her lips forming into a rare genuine smile before it disappeared in an instant. That however did not go unnoticed to the childish younger queen.
“Of course they did. I would have resolved to scare them off if they didn’t.” Black jokingly said.
The younger queen giggled and stood up from the bed, affectionately swinging their hands from side to side in an almost childish way. Black did not bother to stop the gesture and played along with the other girl, finding her actions to be amusing and refreshing for a change.
“Gekikara, do you have anything you need to carry?”
“Nope.”
“Eh? Seriously?” The raven asked; her mouth agape and her eyes wide in apparent mixture of shock and disbelief. Gekikara only nodded before pouting when she saw the older teen frown.
“Why?”
“Gakuran and Shaku already took my clothes back home for me. They only left me with clothes to wear for today.”
Gekikara pointed to herself, making Black look at the younger queen’s form from head to toe, the insane queen was wearing a simple white button-up blouse, black shorts, knee socks and a simple pair of flat shoes. Black also noted that Gekikara’s hair was undone from its usual braided hairstyle and her bangs were parted on both sides, covering the two slash scars on her right upper eye. Her earrings were also missing and so were her bracelets and rings.
The insane queen looked so much different. Gekikara almost looked like an ordinary beautiful frail looking girl, and not the usual dangerous insane queen image she knew best.
Black stood there in silence, a bit impressed with the simple wardrobe that the younger girl was wearing. Gekikara looked so much more like her past self. It was almost nostalgic seeing her look that way.
The younger queen frowned and poked the former queen’s shoulder, almost worriedly when she noticed that Black suddenly turned silent.
“Black? Are you alright?”
“Hmm, I’m fine, was just thinking…” The raven reassuringly smiled at the other girl, Gekikara’s frown melted into a small-relieved look, a large grin etched on her lips. Black gave the hand on her own a soft light squeeze before she tugged her companion’s hand.
“Let’s go home now, shall we?”
“…Unn…”
Gekikara bobbed her head enthusiastically and followed the older girl out of the room, never letting go the former queen’s hand all the way out of the hospital even with the increasingly mixed looks of amusement, curiosity and disapproval of other people they saw and passed by. Black did not seem to care either; whether she was getting a lot of attention from people because to her, they were not of any importance.
She did not need to care what other people perceive of her because she was already used to getting disappointed gazes or sharp menacing glares from her parents. It hurts at first, but she had gotten used to it all too quickly. Black knew that she cannot do anything about it, and if she cannot please everyone then she might as well just please herself and the people who accept her the way she is.
Gekikara did not seem bothered either and was in fact happily swinging their hand as they walked, humming a small unfamiliar tune that felt pleasing to Black’s ear. Black found herself smiling as she continued to listen to the happy tune of the younger girl’s humming.
Black took a quick glance at Gekikara and saw the childish queen had her eyes closed; a large genuine smile free from any malice or mock taunt was on her beautiful face. The raven turned away, she could feel own lips form into a larger smile, but she did not try to hide it anyways.
Gekikara however seem to take an interest on the older girl’s smile when she gazed at the older girl, she instantly found herself drawn at the happy expression etched on Black’s face, which the former queen never truly expresses or let out in the open.
The insane, or rather, sane queen looked up at the skies. The smile on her lips never fading.
It was a cold night, but a very brilliant starry night. The dark clouds were already fading away, showing the millions of dazzling bright stars from up above. The moon was also faintly present from a distance, making the view breathtaking and ethereal.
It was a rare view maybe just as rare as Black’s smile. Gekikara mused before letting out a content sigh.
“You should smile more…Black.”
“Why?” Black whispered; it was soft and low, almost silent. The older teen had an inquiring look on her face, but with a smile present on her lips, not as large as the first, but it was still a smile.
“Why indeed~?” Gekikara asked in a singsong manner and paused, acting like she was thinking hard but was somehow failing miserably; it was rather comical that Black had to stop herself from giggling.
Gekikara turned to the raven and stared at her, her expression almost too serious that Black stopped walking. Black blinked in confusion and was about to ask why when the younger queen’s serious expression turned into a childish happy look.
“Hehehe, I think you look just really beautiful when you do.”
“I like it when you smile.” The sane queen pointed out, without any hint of embarrassment in her tone. In fact, the shorter teen proudly declared her complement, startling and making Black fluster.
The former queen of darkness turned away from Gekikara, her face flushed in a bright color of crimson red, almost too noticeable even under the darkness that covered the streets where they were walking on.
Black wanted to thank the other girl, but somehow, her voice failed to come out of her mouth. She was too dumbfounded to speak, Gekikara caught her off guard and she could not think of anything at all but the younger queen’s sweet simple words.
Gekikara did not mind that the older teen stood there in silence, she found the other girl’s sudden silence to be pleasing. It just meant that Black was hit hard with her words; it only made Gekikara want to smirk triumphantly for whatever unimaginable joy she felt inside her heart.
Feeling an unknown force from heaven knows where pushing her as if encouragingly, Gekikara took the silence between her and Black as an opportunity to continue on talking finding herself having the courage to talk.
“I really like it when you smile. You almost never smile, after you got pregnant. You may do it once, but you often try to suppress it.”
“You often always suppress your emotions, Black. Even after Yuko-san died…you never cried.” Gekikara solemnly added, looking down sadly, remembering the death of their former Rappapa president and how Black kept strong and held back her tears. She kept strong along with Torigoya. They did not shed a tear and stood firmly with their chins up; they stood strong for the other Rappapa members on that sad day.
Gekikara knew the pain although her heart wasn’t screaming from the physical pain; her emotions were hurting at that time, she knew that it was the same for everyone. She cried along with Shibuya and Sado because of the pain of losing their beloved leader.
When the younger queen remembers that day, she felt like wanting to tear up, because she lost a great leader and friend, and because she did not like how Black kept her emotions suppressed.
“I wish you would show yourself more. I wish you would express your emotions more.”
Gekikara grasped the older girl’s hand tightly and sadly gazed at Black, who kept silent, not knowing what to say, not even wanting to speak. She was all too caught up with the sudden unusual confession from Gekikara.
“You don’t have to continue on being like this.”
“You don’t need to lock yourself up in a cage anymore.”
“You don’t need to hold onto the pain, just like what you did with your parents.”
Gekikara bit her bottom lips, asking, begging, trying to convince the older girl to let go. The sane queen was almost trying to tear open the wounds in the past that was still just turning into a scar.
Black did not know why it came to this all of a sudden, why the younger girl was starting to get desperate. They never touched this topic before, before and after her pregnancy. However, with Gekikara resurfacing the issues that Black was desperately trying to keep out of her head, the former queen could not help but purse her lips into a tight sad frown.
The raven wanted to ask why, why Gekikara was doing this, why she’s bringing this up.
Black did her very best to keep this topic from resurfacing, even to the point of beating someone half to death whenever they try to ask her who the father of her child was. She did not want to remember even though her thoughts collided onto this unpleasant memory, just hours ago when she was still working.
Of course, it hurts her feelings when she thought of it, but it only hurts more when Gekikara was trying to talk to her about it.
“Please, Black…Yuki…return back to how you were before…” Gekikara said. Her hands reached up and grasped Black’s shoulders, pulling the older girl closer to her, their faces only inches apart.
“Remember what kind of person you were before… Remember who you are, the kind, cheerful and positive person that I met and helped me up.”
The younger girl stared desperately at the former queen’s shining black orbs with her own brown ones. The shorter queen’s expression was dead serious, almost a bit afraid and uncertain at the same time.
Black did not look away, she could not look away. Even though her mind was telling her to look away, to cut off the other girl’s speech, Black’s body did not move. Her body defied what her mind was screaming her to do. Instead, Black kept her silence and listened.
Gekikara let out a shaky breath and swallowed a visible lump forming on her throat, dreading Black’s reaction. The next words that Black heard coming from Gekikara’s lips caused Black’s eyes to widen in horror.
“I already took care of the person who did this to you.”
“…I already destroyed him…”
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End of Part II
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A/N: This ends Part II of Chinmoku, there's still a Part III, I don't know whether it will be the last part, but please sit tight and wait for it! It may answer a few questions concerning around Gekikara and Black, or what past they have.
Anyways, thank you for reading, see you in my next update!
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