MIOBOE/RECOLLECTION

SAKURA

I attempt to concentrate,focusing as best I can on anything but these rough fingertips on my lips and the hand that grips my waist so hard I feel as if I could pass out if I do not act quickly enough.

Allowing myself a brief moment to act as if I had indeed passed out buys me the one moment I need to do as I have been practicing,though to be practicing this I find shameful but Lady Takanori-San was right that I should do this.
I feel his excited blood course through this man pulling me away,feel how the blood courses in his body to compensate for the extra strength required to pull my "Dead weight"a long.Letting myself call to it I imagine a long thread of life force coming from his eyes.
Make that two threads of life force.

I know it works when he screams like he has been murdered,he cries out calling me a demon or a witch and flees dropping me hard to my knees.

A number of guards appear loyal to Takanori-San and Lady Takanori-San appears behind them,I try to calm the furious glances of the samurai.
"I am well now,I do not think whoever that was will be an issue now."
"It is forbidden in the house of my lord to have any violence on a guest unless they be an enemy or a creature of evil.Both of which you are not young one."
"What manner of..."
I see Lady Takanori-San wave off the guard and his question,her eyes find mine at that moment giving me a reassurance that my.....
Whatever it actually is,will be safe from more misunderstandings.

Though I question if that man will keep a moments quiet about what I just did to him."What happened!?"I hear him before I see him and know it is The Warrior,he has a thunderous step unless in battle I notice,Kiko follows behind with a look of pure bewilderment across her blossoming into more beautiful features.

This spring Has truly made her so much more beautiful,too bad she is so scary some times or she would probably be married to any number of the Handsome samurai I see virtually daily due to Takanori-San.
The Warrior almost falls down trying to reach me,his green eyes are laced with sudden panic when he catches sight of my eyes which have a trickle of blood running down,that I see from a puddles reflection.
He even more seems to worry when Tennami runs up towards us all,towards me and without a moments hesitation lifts me to him.

To his surprise I hit his arm hard,suddenly remembering a moment far to familiar that must not be real.....
I hope it isn't anyway.

NOROI

What happened this time?
I do not recall even one time where she was attacked in the home of Takanori-Sama,Nor anytime that when she needed help that the snake ever made an appearance or deigned to even so much as touch her when it would not charm her.

"What is different this time so I can stop it,so I can save her this time.....?"I ask myself,I watch her as she hits the Snake very hard and I don't fight the smile on my face,almost begrudging that it is unseen because of this mask and attempt to walk towards her,try to just pull her away but the look on her face scares even the Snake as though he can't understand her fear.

I want to reach her now but the last time she ran away with such intensity she vowed to never so much as even walk in my direction again,how many deaths ago was that?
Six times ago I believe.

I can not go through that again and I won't.
Nor can I kill him again,though with everything I am I want to but it always ends in her death or the death of her child.
Mine or not ,no child should suffer.

"Why won't she just leave if this place is to much,go back to her home.Away from here,just away....."
I turn to Usagi-Chan,she looks up at me,her eyes always turn into gentle doe eyes until she sees Sakura after that it is like the eyes of a blood thirsty tiger.
I kneel to look her in those suddenly doe eyes,I wish I could find a way to get her to understand,I pat her on the head and look at her sternly for a moment.
"Would you want her to say the same of you if you were in the same position?What has she done so cruelly towards you for you to say so of her?"

Kiko turns softly away from me,starts following after Lady Takanori-San but whispers quietly her response.
"She is a thief......"