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 Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 1:03 am
Stupid Umeda. Izanagi facepalmed himself, inwardly. Calm remains in his face, grinning a little. He totally understand why he is playing a game with the kodama. Reason, he does not like to be tease.
"And here I thought you hated me..." The kodama said. Speaking of hate, Izanagi never hated anyone. Defintely not someone who is trying to protect him. "I..." Izanagi want to reply but was interrupted by a kiss. A passionate kiss he receive from the kodama pink warm lips.
A hand quickly cover the mouth and the young man blushed to his ears. Frozen, he is still stooping on top of the half naked kodama.
That was his first kiss. He should be angry at the kodama for taking it away from him without permission.
But he does not feel like that at all. This is weird. Just weird...
"You know," he look away before continuing the full sentence. "That was my first kiss..."
Smirked. Izanagi is not the type of person who easily admit defeat. This kind of spirit is inherited by the ancestor of Tamiya family, Iemon, who is also Izanagi's past life. The game continues.
Leaning down, he claimed his lips to the kodama's. Just like the kodama did it to him a moment ago.
Once his lips attached to the kodama's, he find himself liking the taste of tobacco. Strange...but he likes it and couldn't stop demanding for more.
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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:46 am
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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 5:28 pm
'That was my first kiss...'
He couldn't respond to that... couldn't even begin to bring a voice to the feeling those words stirred inside of him.
Umeda didn't love Izanagi himself, and the man knew it. He wanted to protect him... if not to witness the emergence of the one who had always claimed the kodama's heart.
But to hear Izanagi say that... to say something so damningly similar... to be confronted by a voice that had sounded so much like his own so very long ago...
'Iemon-san... that... you... I... I have never kissed anyone...'
Anger flashed to the forefront of Noe's mind, but he quickly pushed it aside.
Quickly... due to the fact that suddenly, Izanagi was kissing him just as passionately, if not more so, than he had just done!
Without realizing it, the kodama's arms snaked out around Izanagi's hips, pulling the young man close as he allowed that ever-so intimate kiss.
'First kiss be damned, you're a natural!' Umeda thought, realizing, with frightening clarity, just how similar Izanagi's kisses... how akin his lips were... to Iemon's own.
Dark eyes closed as the spirit allowed himself to be lead. His warm arms and fingers wrapped around the young man, mind switching to a sudden possessiveness that he hadn't felt in generations...
Ah to go back in time... to be able to feel the soft skin of the man he so desperately loved... to a time before Oiwa... before their lives had turned to a literal hell and they had been forced apart through hatred, greed, and passion.
But together, Iemon and Noe had shared a bond that no other could ever facilitate with the kodama.
Try as Umeda might... even in the arms of another... his soul was so desperately lonely...
Craving...
A deep rooted desire for companionship...
For that one person who completed all he was...
'Iemon...'
Even the warmth I touched with my fingertips
Now just vanishes into reminiscence
Sleepless nights come to call
Afraid of the dawn that is a mistake
Even now, you are the only one
I don't want to give parting words to
At the end of hell
Searching for a place to die
指先に触れた温もりも
今はただ追憶に消えて
眠れない夜は訪れ
過ちの夜明けに怯える
今も君だけには
別れの言葉は届けたくはない
地獄の果てに
死に場所を探して
Yubisaki ni fureta nukumori mo
Ima wa tada tsuioku ni kiete
Nemurenai yoru wa otozure
Ayamachi no yoake ni obieru
Ima mo kimi dake ni wa
Wakare no kotoba wa todoketaku wa nai
Jigoku no hate ni
Shini basho wo sagashite
Was it so wrong?
To live a thousand years... to see the ages pass by and be forced to endure the hellish world around him for so long?
Lifetimes...
'Why wasn't he reborn sooner?' Umeda thought, trying to force his emotions back, to focus them in the very center of his being and lock them away. 'Why now?!'
Breaking that kiss, forced to pull back and gaze into Izanagi's eyes, Noe realized for the first time that he would have to be honest with the young man before him.
"I've..." for a moment, the kodama thought his voice would fail him.
Gone was the game, vanished were the thoughts of trying to be 'cool' and 'composed', and everything that the man felt was displayed openly for the first time in generations within the kodama's dark gaze.
"I waited a long time..." Umeda whispered, black eyes searching Izanagi's for that spark of familiarity that was Iemon. "So damn long... now..."
Something in Noe broke suddenly and his gaze focused keenly, emotions shut out.
Sitting up, the kodama pushed Izanagi off of him and stood up, one hand making sure the towel around his waist refused to fall.
"That's why I hate kids." he hissed coldly, long black hair hiding his expression as he turned and headed back into the bathroom, slamming the door behind him.
Alright, so it was a violent mood swing... but not one without merit.
Leaning against the bathroom door, Umeda took a shuddering breath, refusing to let the swell in his soul overwhelm him.
'He isn't really Iemon. Not right now. I may be a hateful b*****d, but I know better than to take advantage of him like that.' Noe closed his eyes angrily, "I should have known better..."
(((Song is "ZAN" by Gackt from the "Setsugekka/ZAN" Single. I personally adore this song, heh. It's literally, the whole thing, PERFECT for Umeda. It's his anthem I suppose...)))
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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:39 pm
Izanagi first thought Umeda was still playing with him when he was pulled down. On second thought, he don't think so.
The kiss from the kodama, he can feel that they both wanted it desperately, but for different reason.
Clearly, the kiss remind the kodama something about Iemon. The person inside Izanagi and not Izanagi himself.
Although he is now wrapped in Umeda's warm arms, yet, his heart aching. No doubt, it was all about Iemon. The one Umeda so desperately loved...Who will give a damn about how the prototype feel?
To Umeda, Izanagi is just a kid, Iemon's descendant. Nothing more...
This game is over... He thought. Unexpectedly, the kodama break the kiss before him. Was it too much?
There is something different about the kodama's emotion. Izanagi can see it from the pair of dark eyes.
"I waited a long time...So damn long... now..."
Figures, Umeda still searching for the man he loved, the man who hurt the kodama so much. To wait for a heartless man like Iemon, does it worth your time, Umeda-san?
Being pushed away, Izanagi sit still on the sofa's corner. It is better to leave the kodama alone right now.
He heard the slam of the door as he is staring at the clock on top of the television. It is almost 8. Lost your first kiss but gain nothing...Izanagi, is it worthy? At the moment, he thought he saw a sakura petal swirled down in front of his face from no where...Was that an illusion?
Smiling ghastly, he stood up and headed to the bathroom's door.
No wonder the face was so familiar. No wonder he feel like he know this man for a very long time. He remembered. Izanagi remembered now.
Sakura petals falling down from the sakura tree. A kid in kodose standing under the tree, looking up; there is another man sitting on the tree and wears a purple silk kimono looking at the kid, smiling charmingly. The man was Umeda and the kid...obviously it was not Izanagi. It was...Iemon. A scene of how the two met each other in the past. Izanagi saw it in his dream...long ago, when he was still a kid and was sleeping under a dead sakura tree in the Tamiya's mansion...Perhaps, that tree was Umeda's old home?
He knock the door, twice. "I'm sorry..." The young man said. What he meant is...Sorry for everything I have done to you in the past...
((In page 2, 3rd last post, I said Izanagi feel like he saw the kodama somewhere before but he couldn't remember. So in here, I use 'Izanagi's dream' as the reason. Hope thats alright...))
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:02 pm
Somehow, Umeda had grabbed his clothes from the laundry basket in the bathroom. He had meant to wash them... but now...
He didn't want to be naked anymore.
Throwing them on, the kodama leaned against the bathroom door again.
Noe was almost ready to come out, had almost reigned in everything that was swimming through his mind and heart.
'I'm sorry...'
Wincing, Umeda slid to the tiled floor, knees pulled against his chest. A black gaze stared up at the ceiling as tears slipped from the corners of his eyes.
"You did nothing wrong." the kodama spoke, his voice barely held together before another swell of emotion crested and he had to choke back a sob.
Teeth and jaw clenched in an effort to stop his tears, Umeda shook his head.
"Guess I was just too tempting, ne?" he teased, hoping to hear Izanagi laugh from the other side of the door.
'He'll hate me even more now... kami-sama...' wincing again, eyes squeezed closed, Noe rested his forehead on his knees for a long moment. 'I'm such a b*****d...'
He knew he was using Izanagi just then, allowing for the young man's past life to suddenly mean more than his own current life.
That was wrong... any spirit knew that.
'Maybe I've been away from home too long... Izanagi wouldn't miss me for one night, would he?'
Getting back to his roots, literally, might help stabilize him.
Or so the kodama thought.
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 9:49 pm
Is he crying? Izanagi thought.
He couldn't hear the kodama's answer clearly as he lean his ear to the door.
"Guess I was just too tempting, ne?" Is all he heard next.
Pulling away his ear from the door, Izanagi sighed.
"Yes...Yes you are." He answer it seriously...
Holding his fists and took a deep breathe. "Clothes are upstairs in the cabinet. Pick any that fits...I'm going out to buy some food..."
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 5:22 pm
'Yes... Yes you are...'
Black eyes opened wide in surprise at the admission, but Umeda said nothing.
He did, however, speak when Izanagi mentioned clothes. "It, it's alright..." the kodama spoke softly, having opened the door.
Noe stood in front of Izanagi before the young man could leave.
"It's alright, really. I think I'm feeling off..." Umeda put a hand to his forehead. "I haven't been home in a couple of days and that sort of drains my power... I think... it would be best for us both... if I just returned to my sakura for the night. Though, I'll check in with you before school tomorrow."
At the moment, thoughts of someone attacking Izanagi were far from the kodama's mind.
Mainly because he didn't trust himself not to jump the kid in the middle of the night at this point.
But Umeda looked wrong, everything about him different. His clothes were a bit rumpled, long hair serving to hide paler than usual features and dark eyes that looked a bit red around the edges. The man even held himself in a strange manner, leaning slightly against the door frame from the side, as if to keep from collapsing...
'I'm too weak to protect him properly...' Noe thought to himself, angry at how he had let this kid wear him down so.
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 8:47 pm
Surprised, Umeda opened the door when he was about to leave.
Listened to the kodama to speak with involuntary breaks and pauses, Izanagi could only wait to let him finish what the kodama wants to say.
The young man smile bitterly.
"Ok...If that is what you want." Saying, while helping the kodama to fix the rumpled shirt to look neat.
A quick glance to the kodama's face, Izanagi saw the red round edges which is hiding behind the black lock of hair.
"You can leave first if you want...I need to get change."
He don't want to see the kodama's sad face. Turning away, Izanagi headed up stairs.
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 8:54 pm
The kodama didn't push Izanagi away.
Usually, he would have. Not only that, but the man would have made some snippy remark, lit a cigarette, and just walked off.
"Until morning then..." Umeda replied with a nod, actually opening the front door before stepping outside.
He didn't pass through it like normal...
Hands in his pockets, since he had been able to grab his jacket just before leaving, Noe walked silently down the street.
Soon, he was out of sight of Izanagi's house, but still the kodama didn't light a cigarette.
For once... he simply didn't feel like it.
"What am I doing?" he asked himself softly, dark hair hiding his expression, even from the street lights.
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:15 pm
Izanagi lied. He didn't get change. After walking up the stairs, he stood in front of his bedroom's door for a while.
He heard the door opened down stairs. The kodama had left the house.
Slowly, he walk down to the hall. Everything is so quiet...
He is alone again, in this big house...
"See you, tomorrow..." He slide his hands into the short pants's pockets and head to the kitchen.
Grabbing a cup ramen, he pour in hot water and wait it cooked by itself.
Sits on the sofa, and stare at his cup ramen on the table.
It's too quiet...But he can still smell the flower scent of the kodama.
"What am I doing?" He asked himself softly. Look at the clock, it is now 8:47.
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:23 pm
By 9:00pm, Umeda had finally arrived at his sakura.
Looking up into the branches, lit only by the moon's half-light, the kodama wondered, not for the first time, how much returning home would truly do for him.
His body changed, shrinking in size to his true form, as he deftly sprang up into the branches. It was as if Noe infused himself within the tree's trunk, high up in the boughs.
There he stayed, resting... recovering... and fighting against old memories
Come morning, he would be back to his old self.
Or so Umeda continued to believe...
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:51 pm
Holding the cup ramen in one hand and the TV remote in the other.
Switch, switch and switch channel but he couldn't find a good one to watch.
Izanagi give up. He leaned back to the sofa and tilted his head.
Sighed, he close his eyes.
"Why don't we watch this together?"
A familiar voice knocked his head. Opened his eyes, he saw Hanami holding a CD, smiling. "Hanami..."
That's right, Hanami was injured earlier in school...As a friend, how can he forget Hanami's health.
"You...do you feel better now, Hanami?" He put his cup ramen on the table and stands up. "I'm sorry...I-"
Hanami put her finger on Izanagi's lips, stopping him from mentioning the incident earlier. "It's not your fault. And I'm ok. This is the new Ju-On. Let's watch it together! Please..." Swaying the CD, she said happily.
How can Izanagi refuse. He feel guilty and he'll do anything to return the favor. "Sure..." Inserting the CD into the player, both sit on the sofa waiting the movie begins. Even though she is a ghost herself, she has a pillow placed in her arms...
"Ahhhh!!! That is scary!" She hide her face in the pillow when she heard screaming coming out from the TV. Izanagi almost giggle...ALMOST! The movie is scary indeed but not to Izanagi. He was wondering, if he will die like those characters in the movie one day...Thinking of it makes him feel down.
The movie ended. Hanami is ready to leave Izanagi alone. "Take care ok, Izanagi-kun? See you in school." After biding farewell to Hanami, Izanagi went back to his room. It's late. 11pm. He hasn't finish his homework and doesn't feel like doing it. Plopped to his own bed, he close his eyes...trying to sleep.
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:30 pm
When morning finally came... Umeda didn't wake.
In fact, the kodama didn't open his eyes and emerge from the tree until well after day break.
10:00am to be exact.
Cursing, he jumped from the sakura tree, his body easily catching the wind and riding it, along with a whirling of soft pink petals.
By the time he reached Izanagi's house... he hoped he wasn't too late.
"Izanagi-san?!" Noe shouted as he phased through the doorway and became a corporal human once more.
Little did he know... it was sunday.
There wasn't school on sundays...
Granted... why would a kodama have ever needed to go to school?
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Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 5:58 am
(It was Sunday? o.O hehe ok..)
Weird...Izanagi couldn't sleep at all. Something is missing.
Ah, the ticking sound of his alarm clock. He remembered now.
The clock was thrown out the window this morning.
But who cares anyway? It's Sunday tomorrow. He can sleep whole day if he wants.
Rolling on the bed, Izanagi can't find a comfortable position for himself to sleep better.
"Don't kill me..." The voice strike into his head, causing a little pain.
Forcing himself to calm down, he presses his ears with his palms.
But the voice won't go away. Izanagi grabbed his iPod, turning volume to maximum and put it beside his pillow.
Musics playing as he hums along and slowly...falling asleep.
He smelled the scent of water...and a voice...a woman's voice. She is calling...his name.
"Iemon-sama..."
Izanagi open his eyes slightly slow.
There is a woman, with long hair and wearing a white bride kimono sitting beside him. Not very pretty, but still ok.
"Ah, thank goodness you are awake, Iemon-sama!" The woman said happily and relief.
Is she calling me, Iemon? He sit up but feel heavy on the body. "Where am I? Who...are you?"
The woman frowning a bit. "I'm Oume, Iemon-sama...Have you forgotten me?"
Oume, the woman who seduced Iemon and the reason why Iemon leave Oiwa...Why is she here?
Izanagi starting to sweat. He know something bad and scary is going to happen.
"I'm not Iemon...You got the wrong person..." Drawing back from Oume, he realize himself wearing a Samurai armor. No wonder his body feels heavy...
"Why are you avoiding me, Iemon-sama...Don't you love me anymore? Are you not going to marry me?" She asks sadly.
Blood flowing from her head and her face suddenly splits into two, causing more blood spilling out.
Izanagi shout in fear. "I said I'm not Iemon!" Turning away, he run as fast as he can from Oume.
The armor he's wearing is damn heavy and he tripped.
He tried to get up before Oume catch up but he was stunned. A chilly wind blew to his face as he saw blood dripping down from a white silk cloth.
Izanagi stare at the feet which isn't touching the ground before looking up at her...Oume was giggling and laughing like a psycho woman.
It was ugly and horrible. The splitted face of her's shows two emotion at the same time. Sad at the left and happy at the right. She lowered her head to Izanagi...Holding the young man's shoulder to prevent him to run away from her again.
"Iemon-sama...why don't you marry me..." Izanagi is trembling as he saw Oume's face is splitting open. A deformed face pop out from Oume's and scream at Izanagi...!
Screaming out loud, kicking and punching the air...He opened his eyes wide and realize it was just another bad dream.
The sun light shining into the room from window...It is morning already?
Izanagi has cold sweats, still trembing and unable to breath properly.
At this moment, he heard someone called his name. A man's voice. Was it Umeda-san?
No doubt, must be him. Izanagi recognize the voice and the sakura scent.
He rush down stairs, glomp on the kodama like a small child. "Glad you're back." he lean his forehead at the kodama's chest.
Izanagi was scared. The dream he had was so real. He thought he was dead that time.
But now, he feel safe.
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Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 1:33 pm
Turning, the kodama barely had the time to anchor his footing before Izanagi slammed into him, seemingly holding on for dear life.
"Is something wrong?" Umeda asked, his body tensing, black gaze narrowed, as he focused his senses outward.
If someone was coming after the young man...
"I shouldn't have left you alone." he spoke softly, still waiting to see if some unknown assailant was going to come dashing down the stairs after Izanagi. "You'll be glad to know I'm recharged and back to normal however."
Carefully, Noe pried Izanagi off of him, stepping in front of the student, eyes still on the stairs. "Is something up there? What were you running from? You're soaked in sweat!"
It hadn't occurred to him yet that Izanagi might have just had a nightmare...
(((OOC: I just figured it would be better if Izanagi had a day off... so I said it was Sunday. I didn't know what day it was originally... gomen...)))
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