Tears of Blood | By : SultrySundina Category: +. to F > Blade of the Immortal Views: 1854 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Tears of Blood (My Story Arc: Finale to Blade of the Immortal):
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Chapter 16: To Fly With The Eagle or Fall With The Eternal?
Rin was shoved back into the shoji and almost through it by the force of crashing into another moving body. She was able to brace herself on the door beam however and was able to avoid total disaster. She looked up to see whom she had collided with and to her surprise it was Washi standing before her. He offered her his hand to help her steady herself.
"Washi-chan, gomenasai!" Rin apologized.
"Rin-chan are you alright?" Washi questioned with concern.
"Hai, arigatou." Rin replied.
"Were you not able to sleep Rin-chan?" Washi's voice took on even more concern.
"You could say that." Rin responded as she looked down at the floor, unable to look at Washi as she thought about why she was not able to be in the room any longer, and started to blush.
"What is wrong Rin-chan? Is the room not suitable? I can get another, more comfortable, if you wish."
"No Washi-chan the room is perfect, I uh...I just can't sleep is all. It has just been a very tiring day."
"Hai, I understand Rin-chan. Today's events were less than comforting and peaceful." Washi was now looking down the hall to what was Rin and Manji's room then back to Rin, "I hope the accommodations are satisfactory."
"Hai, they are wonderful, arigatou. This is more than I could have asked for. I hope yours are well as well."
"My mother always gets a double room for the privacy, so it was easy for me to relocate to one of her rooms."
After a few moments of silence Washi invited Rin to accompany him to the dining hall and they went downstairs together.
Back in the room Manji was still laying on the fūton contemplating all that had occurred over the past few days. Just what had that scrawny brat Doa taught Rin? Fuck why was he the one who had to be Rin's protector? This was cruel, even if he deserved it, it was cruel. It was cruel now cause he would always want her now; always want to touch her. He wanted to touch her flawless skin, ravage her tiny physique and lose himself in her completely; but he couldn't. He wouldn't. He had come far too close too many times, tasted her innocence even, and no matter how much more he wanted, he couldn't let himself. She was innocent, too innocent, and he didn't deserve that from anyone. He didn't deserve anyone period.
If he couldn't lose himself in the one thing he wanted more anything, he'd drown himself in the one thing he knew would take away all the other pain. He got up from the fūton and searched around the room. Surely there must be a bottle of saké in the room somewhere. He opened the fusuma to the dining area, and on the other side of the room, near the shoji he could see the outline of three large jugs of the bitter liquid, full, as if placed there by Kami himself, meant for Manji to drink his sorrows away.
It seemed like hours had passed and Rin listened as Washi told her about his travels with his mother. How they had travelled from town to town, meeting many new people and making friends along the way. His stories were much happier than Rin's seemed to be. His stories were not filled with death and despair, but happiness and life. She wished she had his stories.
"Rin-chan I am sorry for today's events. You do not deserve such sorrow and despair. You deserve happiness and joy. You have always been kind to everyone, why do you torture your soul with such a hateful thing as revenge?"
"I am all that is left of my family. The duty is mine and mine alone now. It is a burden I must carry." Rin response was tinged with her suffering.
"Then I beg you, do not carry it alone." Washi grabbed Rin's hands and cupped them in his own, "Let me carry them with you. Allow me to assist you Rin-chan. Allow me the pleasure to be with you and help you. Allow me to walk with you side by side and carry your burdens as well." Washi moved a hand and brushed away a stray hair that had fallen into Rin's view, then placed the back of his hand on her cheek, "Please Rin-chan I beg you, let me help you."
Rin was left speechless. No one, especially no man, had ever shown her the kindness that Washi had been these past few days. Her mind was telling her to fall hopelessly into his arms, but her heart was not. She did not know what to do. Washi was kind and caring and loving, everything she had ever hoped for, but he was not who she truly wanted. She could feel her heart breaking though with the memories of what had happened only hours earlier with Manji; he was so passionate one minute and then the next back to his cold, cruel self. She did not want to live her life hoping that she would someday have Manji's affections, that she knew she would never really have. He would always keep pushing her away, and he was immortal and she was not. She had to ask herself here and now, is that something she could really live with; could she live knowing he would never fully accept her? Would she give into her head and do what she knew would make her family line survive and perhaps a chance at happiness, or give into her heart and travel down the path that would surely end bitterly? She was so unsure. Why did she always have to be so unsure of everything? Why couldn't it just be easy? Why was this all so hard and demanding. Rin knew her world was going to crumble down around her and all she was going to be able to do was watch, again.
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