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Disclaimer: These characters do not belong to me, I'm just borrowing them, briefly!
Akitaroh Daichi gets all the credit for the brain storm. ^_^ Good one!Positive feed back is very welcome! Stirling Twilight
The Confidences
Please, please let her understand. This is for her, I’m doing this for her. There’s no way I can explain it to her without her feeling like I’m condescending, or worse… lying. Please let her understand… this is the only way. The only way short of my taking over the clan, and that I won’t do. But if she hates me for it, if she doesn’t see my reason at least I’ll have freed her from the Lovely Eye-patch. If I can cut if from her… if I can only hold her, once again. No, thoughts like that will make me weak. I’m doing this for her… for Nanohana Jiyu. So she can pretend that nothing ever happened, just like she wanted. So my brother will leave her alone, and no one will know her weakness. No one but me. No one but me. No one but me will beat Yagyu Jubei. No one but me can free Nanohana-kun. Even Hajime sees this.
… 6… 7… 8…
Arrr! I can’t believe I fell for it! I believed him, totally. I haven’t known him a month and I believed him. Trusted him! Trusted him blindly. What was I thinking? Where was my brain?
… 6… 7… 8…
‘Nanohana-kun!’
No! No more!
… 6… 7… 8… 9…
Why didn’t I leave school earlier? I won’t have been there and he couldn’t have given me the… No! No, I can’t keep doing this. It’s like a bad commercial running through my head over and over. No. It’s behind me now. Nothing can bother me, here, alone with the stars.
1… 2… 3… 4… 5… 6… 7… 8…
I can’t even count the stars without seeing him… it’s like it keeps happening, in slow motion.
He reaches into his uniform and pulls out the paper…
"Yagyu Jubei, my challenge…"I think I cried. I must have. I believed he loved me. I believed him! And he lied. He said he loved me and he lied. His voice, his hand… I remember I slapped his hand. Argg! What is wrong with me?
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12…12…
If he had never said he would protect me I wouldn’t have believed him so totally. I wouldn’t have trusted him, or allowed this to continue. And the worst part is I actually like him. A lot.
…7 …8
And so I’ll go tomorrow, become someone else and beat him… and never speak to him again.
9… 10… 11… 12….
Why? Why me? This has nothing to do with me! I was just a normal 8th grader two weeks ago. What has changed? Aren’t I still Nanohana Jiyu?
12… 12… 12…. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12… 12.
Oh Shiro…