well first off sorry for how long it took me to update, I've been busy writing this chapter but it kinda got too long, I found out just now when my sister looked over my shoulder and told me it was, mostly because I was scrolling to the begining of the story and it was taking forever...so I broke a piece of it off and here it is...also right now I'm in the middle of finals so expect slower updates, even though I'm still writing I never have time to go on the net for any reason other then for research (so happy its holiday right now)
anyways to make it up to you all I will most the next chapter tomarrow... nevermind
I had good intentions honest, but I decided to make the next chapter a little longer...
hotohori: awesome huh?
glad you used a japanese word that I acutally know...another word I know is in Korean "Paabo!" (pabo=Fool/idiot) *pouts* don't ask me how I know that one... (hint: my sister is into korean stuff)
Kreuz_Asakura: hee~ what else is Eri but a turtle, right?
I think there will be plenty of "lol, Sayu" moments, I can't help it, when I write her this personality just comes out...its probably OOC but I like it to much to change it.
katatsumuri: Hahahaha!!
OMG! Now I've got a mental image of Eri dancing foot to foot singing heh h-heh~ heh h-heh~ *giggles insanely* My bad, I didn't mean to give such a...er...disturbing (?) image of the turtle. I meant her to look like she did in the skits as the unlucky priestest or whatever, the one she did with Rika, just with a turtle shell...(for each of the girls, I'm going to use random things I've ever heard about them or seen to determine what animal they have or what period custume they wear, like Miki's I got from what Yossy said about the monkey and the dog not getting along...)
as for Aika's its not really an animal...hers is from a nickname I read somewhere that she had...b/t/w it ironic I wanted to post a quicker update and instead took longer then normal...sorry
JFC:
Yes, because we all know that creatures like that always back down against the might of the broken shoe toss.
Ohohoho, JFC...little do you know the true horrors of a ladys size 6 5' stilletto heels...tremble I say, TREMBLE!
Um, about the whole 'where did she get the lighter and hairspray' thing...I'm going to have to put that into my 'plot hole' file (which, b/t/w, is getting pretty full...)
So (at least some of) the other members are guardians as well? That means that they'll also need to recharge their energy by smooching, right?
kRisZ:
recharging through a kiss.?. nice!!!
yup!
I like kiss scenes so I shamelessly tried to think of a way to have lots of them with all the girls kissing each other all the time...hm...this makes me a perv, huh?
Yankii Heart: its good that you love the kissing, because in future chapters there may be quite a bit of it...
yeah, Charmy was pretty naive, buuut I think the company she is about to keep will wise her up.
hahaha...the...FIANCE!!!
the
plot thickens...(yes this story has one of those)
IV“Rika…I need to talk to you…” His words were soft and remorseful, and the sun shinning though the glass door of their small comfortable flat was shining so brightly around him that he looked like a shadow, only his outline could be distinguish. His head was downcast and he had a hand shoved into the pocket of his pants, his suit jacket bunching at his wrist, his other arm was hanging limp at his side. “Rika…?” he repeated, hoping to gain the attention of the busy looking woman he had promised to dedicate his life to… A promise he was breaking…
Rika ignored the gentle call, preferring instead to pretend she didn’t hear his voice…or that tone…that tone that spoke more clearer to her about what he wanted to say even more so then the actually words he would utter. No. She wouldn’t listen, she couldn’t. Instead, she concentrated on preparing the food for the picnic that afternoon, pretending to him and to herself that the mood was normal and their plans unchanged. Walking though the kitchen she reached up into the top cabinet to grab some wine glasses. Trying to sound chipper and unassuming she said brightly, “Your mother said she was bringing the designs for the invitations this afternoon, I feel really torn, she wants to use the gold print floral design, but we’re in a disagreement, for you know how very much I like the pink print…” she laughed a little, the sound echoed in her ears, hollow and fake.
“Rika,” He repeated his tone sterner. “You’re going to listen to what I have to say.”
She shook her head. “Can’t we just go to the picnic…”
He took a step towards her. “There’s no point, not for the picnic…and not for the invitations…”
Rika braced her hands against the hard surface of the kitchen counter as something cold and heavy ripped through her insides, she felt like vomiting. “Don’t…” she whispered hoarsely.
He walked slowly and purposely toward her, his stockinged feet making no sound against the smooth tile floor. Moving around her he began to quietly remove items from the large basket sitting there. As he did so he paused and held up a wine glass that was one too many for their planned outing. “For him, right?”
Rika turned her head away not trusting herself to speak.
“…but he’s dead…and he’s not coming back... You may be able to forget that, but how can I?” In a sudden fit of rage he chucked the glass towards the wall shattering it.
Rika winced at the horrible sound. “He was a the staple in my life since I was born, he was always there, it will take more than just a month for me to get used to his…being gone.” The last words came out choked and Rika felt the tears begin to fall.
He watched her cry for a moment before saying not unkindly, “On the day of his funeral, I meant it when I said I was sorry for your loss, and when you told me that now that your father was gone you had no one else in your life but me…I was sorry then too, but I was sorry for my loss as well…My dreams, my hopes of becoming the V.P. in his company went up in smoke. How could he not leave you the company…us the company…”
“Is it so important?” Rika whispered in a broken voice. “Money and power? Couldn’t we still be happy without it?”
“I will not be penniless!” He hollered, slamming a hand against the counter. He sighed in embarrassment at his outburst. “Rika, I really did love you, when it was convenient for me to do so, it used to be that when I held you in my arms the future was a bright and beautiful thing, but now it is dark and desolate…I can’t be with you anymore, Rika…I can’t love you anymore…”
A sob ripped though Rika throat and she threw herself against his chest, fists tightening around his lapels. “It’s not true!! You do still love me! You’ve just…forgotten! Hold me! Hold me like you used to, and you’ll remember!” Her sobs poured brokenly from her body, and yet he remained unmoved, his arms hanging limply at his side. “Please! “she pleaded. “You will see!” Grabbing his arms she turned and wrapped them tightly around herself, but he could not be swayed and pulled his arms away.
“You don’t understand,” He murmured. “I loved Ishikawa Rika the daughter and heir of Ishikawa Technologies and all its subsidiaries, not Ishikawa Rika the orphan…the pauper…I’m sorry.”
Rika back away shaking her head, “No…If you leave then I’ll have no one…” He moved further and further away, the sunlight engulfing him. She tried to follow, but her feet seemed stuck to the floor. “No!” She repeated, her hand stretching out to his retreating figure. “Nooooo!!” Rika shot up in bed a choked sob tore though her throat and tears were streaming down her face. She looked around the foreign room bewildered. “Where am I?” The room she laid in was quaint and severely old fashion, full of antique items like the vase in the corner and on the wall some creepy looking shrine masks used in old temple rituals. The only modern item in the room was the bed she was currently laying in.
The door to the room suddenly creaked open and she saw two girls in different period costumes come in, one she briefly knew the name of, the other she didn’t. “Sayumi?” She whispered at the girl with the plain kimono.
The pretty girl smiled at her happily, “Hey, you remember me.” She walked next to the bed with a trey of delicious smelling food and set it gingerly over Rika’s blanketed lap. “You must have been tired, you slept all though the night…”
Rika nodded and then winced at the pain that shot through her head at the simple action.
Sayumi saw Rika wince and sucked her teeth sympathetically. “Yeah, I’m afraid you bumped your head when you fainted yesterday…you see, what had happened was, I thought Aika was going to catch you and she thought I was going to catch you, but apparently no one was going to catch you...”
Rika raised her hand to rub the back of her head and winced when a rough material on her palm bumped her instead, she looked down at her casted forearm in horror. “I broke my arm?!”
The wonky eyed girl standing next to Sayumi smirked at Rika’s distress. “Nah, Sayumi here got a little over zealous playing nursemaid and bandaged you up like a mummy…Oh man, you should have seen the leaders face when she saw you laying there wrapped up like you were near death or something…” The girl with the sparkly streaks in her hair began to laugh and clutch at her sides oblivious to the glare Sayumi was giving her.
“That is enough, Reina!” Sayumi yelled crossly. She grabbed the laughing girl and began to shake her, “Stop trying to embarrass me!”
Rika stared back and forth between the two girls not sure what to think. Turning her attention from the two bickering girls she looked down and the dish sitting in her lap and hesitantly lifted the cover to see what they had brought her. It looked delicious! Eagerly grabbing the chopsticks, which were a little awkward with the cast blocking her palm, she pushed them into the bowl and grabbed a bite full of rice and noodles shoving it into her mouth. “It’s great!” she exclaimed, quickly eating another mouthful.
Sayumi nodded. “As to be expected, Aika’s a great cook…”
“Yeah,” Reina agreed. “You can’t even taste the blood.”
Rika froze, chopsticks inches from her mouth. “…blood…” she looked wearily down at the food and felt herself growing ill.
“uh huh, Aika died when she cut her arms. She wears long arm guards to hide the wounds but nothing can stop the blood, that’s part of the curse, so her fingertips forever drip little droplets of blood.”
“Don’t be ridicules, Reina,” Sayumi scolded. “There’s no blood in there! Aika told the steps to Miki and had her cook.”
Rika let out a sigh of relief and continued eating.
“…so there’s no blood in it…” Reina verified.
“Right!” Sayumi stated confidently.
“…only monkey hair…”
“Yup.”
Rika grimaced and shoved the chopsticks back into the bowl. “You know what? I’m not really hungry.”
Sayumi shrugged and lifted the tray off Rika’s lap. “If you say so…”
“Your loss,” Reina said happily. She snatched the bowl off of the tray and began to eat. “Soooo good.”
“I’ll go take the tray back to the kitchen.” Sayumi said as she began to exit.
Reina quickly placed the half eaten bowl on the tray as it passed, and closed the door after her comrade. Reina smirked over at Rika, “Looks like we’re all alone now…” she made her way casually over to the bed. “I’m glad the leader brought you here.” Without warning she climbed onto the foot of the bed and began to crawl slowly towards Rika.
Rika’s eyes widened as Reina moved towards her. She raised her hands and gave the approaching girl a nervous smile. “R-Reina, right? I’m Rika, it’s nice to meet you, but I’m afraid you’re invading my personal space…”
“I know,” Reina murmured as she moved her face only inches from Rika’s. “,But I really need you…” her voice dropped to a whisper. “…to make a woman out of me…”
“What?!” Rika screeched trying to scramble back against the headboard as Reina approached. “Just what kind of girl do you think I am?!”
Just then the window to her room pounded open from a heavy gust of wind accompanied by large brown feathers that circled through the rush of air. A loud chirping sound was heard and then a winged female figure flew like an arrow into the room. Once she was over the bed she spread her massive wings in an effort to stop her momentum, but her wings were too large for the room and instead she resorted to wrapping her arms around Reina and the two tumbled to the floor. “Ah ha! Caught you, Reina!” the intruder cried.
Rika quickly jumped to her feet to look down at the two girls rolling around on the floor, but she suddenly had to duck as the sparrow winged girl was kicked over the bed to the other side of the room. “I need to get out of here…” Rika whispered to herself, she turned to look at the door but realized there would be no way around the transforming girl blocking the doorway. Rika blinked when she realized that Reina was changing into full fledged panda, one that was consumed with intimidating anger.
The girl with sparrow wings seemed unconcerned with the other’s transformation, and pointed an accusing finger at her. “Trying to steal the first kiss, right? Well I’m not going to let you!”
Rika smiled happily.
“Because that kiss is going to be mine!!”
Happy smile gone… Rika backed up against the headboard and watched as the two girls charged each other, seeing that her exit was no longer blocked she quickly scooted around Reina panda to make an escape. Running down the hallway she came to a set of stairs that lead down into a large open foyer and hurriedly made her way down them. She was in such a hurry to escape she didn’t see Sayumi coming up the stairs and almost crashed into her. Instead she grabbed the other’s girls arms and panicked at her. “…Sayumi…A girl with wings attacked Reina!”
Sayumi nodded. “That’s Ai-chan, she’s really nice…except when she’s trying to kill you…”
“…” Rika paled and gaped wordlessly at how the dire statement sounded so casual on Sayumi’s lips.
“Rika?” Sayumi laughed a little at the speechless girl in front of her. “I know things seem strange, but don’t worry you can count on me to help you.”
Rika nodded and smiled, it was a relief to know that at least there was this one nice person inside this crazy house.
Seeing Rika’s smile Sayumi couldn’t help but return it, then placing her hands on the other’s shoulders she began moving her face and lips towards Rika’s.
“Sayumi!” Rika cried out pushing the other girl away incredulously.
Sayumi was confused by the rejection, “What? I thought we were having a moment…”
The sound of a large crash was heard above them as the two fighting girls had finally made their way to the hallway, Ai-chan was the same she had been before, but Reina had gone from panda to a girl with panda ears and other features. The two were still wrestling when they spotted Rika and Sayumi halfway down the stairs.
Ai-chan forcibly broke away and took to the air in the limited room inside the house, her massive wings flapping and causing some damage to fixtures and the miscellaneous paintings that were now smashed against the floor. Curving her body, Ai-chan slightly tucked her wings, then straightened her body she dived toward the girls standing on the stairs. “Seriously! I need that kiss!” she demanded.
“No fair!” Reina cried out realizing that she was being left behind.
Rika gasped as the girl with the brown sparrow wings shot toward her.
“Hey!” Sayumi yelled angrily. “Yossy said no flying inside the house!” Grabbing Rika’s hand, Sayumi ran down the stairs dragging Rika with her, over her shoulder towards the bird girl coming after them she yelled. “I’ve been the nicest to her so I should get the first kiss!”
“I’m not kissing anyone!” Rika rebutted as Sayumi dragged her into another room downstairs. The door was quickly shut behind them, just in time as Ai-chan slammed into it splintering the wood. “oww..” the bird girl whimpered.
“You okay?” Sayumi asked though the door, her brow furrowed with concern.
“I’m okay.” Came the sheepish reply.
“Whoo~” Sayumi panted placing her hands on her knees. “I hate running when I’m not powered up…” She looked at Rika who was leaning back against the door with her face angled upward, her eyes clinched shut , whispering something inaudible to herself. “Sooo…now that I’ve saved you from the sparrow, you’re going to kiss me, right?”
Rika glared over at Sayumi in disgust. “No I’m not!! What is it with you people and your obsession with kissing!? ”
Sayumi reared insulted. “What do you mean by ‘you people’?”
Rika shook her head. “I didn’t mean anything by it…”
Sayumi gasped and pointed at Rika accusingly. “You’re prejudice against dead people who fight demons and turn into animals aren’t you?!”
Rika threw her hands into the air. “That’s the most ridicules thing I’ve ever heard!!” Sayumi began to giggle and Rika realized that she was being teased. “Good, fantastic, make jokes at my expense. I hope you’re having a great time laughing at me…” Rika stormed away further into the room.
Sayumi looked after Rika curiously, “I can’t believe she doesn’t want to kiss me. Ai-chan and Reina I understand…but me?” Sayumi stepped over to the mirror and looked into it. “Ah ha! Just as I thought, I’m still the cutest…hm…so, maybe she’s just playing hard to get…”
Topic: Stabbed in the Heart an ishiyoshi fic part IV (Read 11023 times)