Akai was walking besides Kichirou still thinking about the fight that occured some minutes ago. She didn‘t understand how she end up walking away with him, but something was giving her the feeling that she should. The man knocked out all five men from the bar,  Akai wasn‘t scared of him though. That feeling was no excitement, nor anxiety,  it was definately the NEED.


The weather was changing, the sun was hiding behind the clouds, strong wind was blowing getting to her skin through that thin silk kimono. Akai felt Kichirou‘s hand approaching hers, but she couldn‘t do anything, but to accept it. She heard him asking something, but Akai couldn‘t get out of her head..and that hand just right now was making her think even more. Her eyes were moving slowly gazing into people around, some were staring, some taking their things and looking for a shelter. And finally, it started raining. Everyone ran inside, but those two just were walking their path through the rain towards Kichirou‘s apartment.


“Just look at them, everyone staring, everyone talking...I am so full of that.“Akai mumbled feeling some eyes onto her soaked kimono. She squeezed Kichirou‘s hand giving a signal to stop for a minute. When he did, Akai took a pin from her wet hair and made them hang loose giving a little performance for people watching. But her eyes were on him, ignoring everyone else around. She took his hand again and continued moving towards their destination.


“Isn‘t that just nostalgic?“ Akai was extending her hand in the rain. She remembered a day when she was little, when the rain came out of nowhere and she had no place to hide. The boy was passing by and offered her a hand to show a place to hide from the rain, she refused though, was too much of an arrogantic child. However, Many years after that Akai still struggled to admit that that was her first love. And even now the similar situation brought that nostalgic feeling again.

The words that were whispered gave Akai chills, but she kept silent all the time. At one point she wished he wouldn‘t have stopped himself, but at the other, she was happy he did. That‘s not the right time to play just now. Akai kept walking besides Kichirou while they reached their destination. The rain has arleady made sure that they both were soaking wet. He, as a real gentleman, politely asked her to come in. There were no hesitation, no doubts in those steps of her.

Akai walked around by swaying her hips, she was touching some things around the main room, lifting some pictures and then putting them back in the place. The apartment was so damn tidy, she even wanted to mess some things up just to make it look more like the real one. Or was that just in her head, that she wanted to make sure that those all things today were truly the reality. Then she heard Kichirou talking and making a joke about striping, her romantic mood suddenly went off, she turned around to him twitching and giving an evil eye.

“Yeah, sure, why don‘t we just go to my clan and strip for them together? That would be fun and entertaining.“ The Akai relaxed a little as Kichirou explained everything. She also realized, that the whole kimono was wet and was getting so heavy to wear and Kichirou just intented to make her feel comfortable. She swayed her hips towards him and turned around. Wiped her wet red hair from the back with the hand and tilted her head to the side a little, leaving the neck area open.

“Could you please help me with my kimono?“ Akai asked almost in whisper with a trembling voice. She wasn‘t nervious, just cold a little, and didn‘t want to show that or complain. “And add a little of brandy to my tea later, a serious talk is waiting.“

Akai felt her body electrified, while Kihirou was undoing the kimono. The cold she was feeling earlier just faded away in one touch of his hand. Those some minutes felt like the whole eternity. “Oh, please get throught with that faster, Toshiba, or else I die..“Lust was torturing her little by little with the each movement of his hand. Those hands were manly, but gentle and warm, she could feel his heart beating, him breathing, seemed like those where her own. Maybe they really were as the two of them were really so close. Akai was grasping for air conctantly firghting the need to turn around and just jump at him right into his soul and be there forever. She knew she couldn‘t do that though.


Then Kichirou turned her around and they were standing like this for a moment. Akai would have stopped the time if she could just to be like this forever. However, then Kichirou ordered her to go to the shower, his voice was so relaxing and that put her at easy. Akai brushed his face with her hand lightly and turned to go. She was upset with her whole life now, she couldn‘t bear to feel that much pain in moments like this.


Akai found her way to the shower, It was very tidy just like everything else in this house. She took off the rest of her kimono and turned on the hot water. The girl threw her head back and the water was running down her face, neck, then reaching her shoulders and again down to her back, her hips. She could hear every drop falling with the every beat of the heart, which suddenly was racing. “Juts the two of us....only the though makes me crazy.“ Akai was standing there for  fifteen minutes stuck in her head with the thoughs that are bothering for so long. What would be if would be were the main type of questions. Those, who have the impossibe answer. Suddenly, she shook her head, turned of the water and stepped out from the shower. She realized that Kichirou might get worried if she takes that long. Akai wraped helself in a towel, which was a little too little for her. Lets hope she won‘t bump into him right away.


The next moment she already was leaning to the Kichorou‘s closet to find some clothes. She put on the first random T-shirt she found and took a look at the room. It was big and bright. The colors were not demanding and the view from the window was just magical.  A lot of pictures were hung on the wall or just placed on the table, she wondered whose those were, but didn‘t take a look.  Everything gave the feeling of intimacy there, thus, just to take things as you want would be rude. Akai jumped on the bed and was lying there loose for a little. She threw her haead back locking her gaze on the door. Her hair were hanging down till the very ground. She bent her naked legs a little and started thinking of what she would like to say later. Akai wanted to lie like this for some more minutes, she was feeling so heavy as some feeling has been bothering her for a long time.

Hyuuga girl closed her blue eyes while Kichirous hand touched the cheek. The heart was going insane, the chest was constantly lifting due to uneasy breathing. She took his hand and pressed to the left side of  her chest. Her eyes were still closed, Akai probably knew, that if she would look him in the eye  a moment of weakness will come and she will do something reckless.


“Is this really happening?“


She wanted to think about it, but those words just came out loud unexpectedly. Akai bit her lip in concern and let go of Kichirou‘s hand. The girl turned around and took the cup with the tea and brandy. Maybe that will encourage her. While she was sipping her tea, her cheeks were turning red, just now she had noticed, that the man was actually shirtless. That body was calling her to cling to, so warm and secure. Akai‘s head was getting a little dizzy, normally she can drink a lot, but at this kind of situation the situation itself worked as an alcohol drink. Akai stood up and put the empty cup down lightly. Then moved to Kichirou slightly moving her hips.


The next second she was already facing the silent man sitting on the corner of the bed. The redhead‘s movements were slow and subtle. Akai suddenly took the both hands of the man and brought them to the side.  She leaned a little and finnaly sat on Kichirous lap wraping his waist with her legs, leaving such a little gap between their faces. That was a dangerous move, but yet so pleasing. The green eyes looked so mesmerizing and involving that the resistance was almost impossible. Akai did resist though. She placed her head on Kicirou‘s shoulder and kept breathing slowly into his neck.


“Toshiba....“ She whispered. That was the first time Akai whispered that name. "I..."Her voice broke down and she couldn't finish the sentence.

The both of them were so close to each other that it was almost painful to bear. Despite the fact that their bodies were already in touch, that wasn‘t enough for her, she wanted much more, to be closer until not a one mili inch is left between them. Akai rose her head from the shoulder and pressed herself to Kichirou as much as she could. Now she was feeling his hot chest, that was a nice and comforting feeling. Later on,  Akai took his left hand, that was slowly carressing her leg just some second ago, and slowly guided the hand under her shirt right up the hips. The pleasant shiver came along, when that hand touched the naked skin.


She did hear Kichirou‘s words about his feelings and wanted to say the same thing, but something was holding her. She knew, that those words won‘t change anything, will just leave him broken hearted as she still has no choice due to the marriage arrangement. She has to pursue this path, otherwise her whole family will be put to death.


Akai was carressing the man‘s back with her fingers gently and didn‘t say a word. She pressed her forehead right to his and looked directly into his eyes. Akai could read everything in those. Then she whispered slowly moving her lips, with every word gently brushing those of him.


“You know I do not belong to any other man. Never have. And never will.“


Despite the fact that she hasn‘t said the direct words, that was her way of admitting her feelings. She knew he would understand though. As soon as those words came out loud, the gentle brush of their lips turned into slow kiss. Those were moving like they actually were made for each other. As soon as her tip of the tongue touched his, Akai felt her whole body burning, she squeezed his naked waist with her legs even more  which resulted in them fully falling on the bed.

And suddenly Akai was on top of Kichirou just one step further from the affair that shouldn‘t happen. She felt her every cell of her body burning, evely nerve being electrified, the pleasure for the body, but the paint for the mind at the same time. Could she stop though?


“Just one more moment and we will leave this all in our memories.“


While thinking, she was going down the man‘s neck with the very tip of her tongue. She lifted the shirt even more and pressed the naked chest to his giving some heavy and quick heart bumps. However, then Akai realised if any of this goes any further, they both will regret this happening as they will have to bear living with this kind of memory and knowing that it cannot happen anymore anytime.


Akai was not drunk, not a scum, she knew the concequences well. The red hair jumped to the side of the bed and made a huge graps for air. Then frowned a little that all good things always come to an end. Kichirou seemed confused, but she knew he would just think the same. She thought, that this is the best moment for them to talk in order just to calm themselves down from moment they were in just some moments ago. Although, Akai couldn‘t just move away from the moment completely, that was just too painful to do and the strength for the resistance was going weaker. She lied down again, besides Kichirou this time, and wrapped him with one arm and leg from the side. She pressed her head to his shoulder.


“Toshiba...I have this insane picture in my head of how things would be, but I do not think anyone would understand that. However, I truly trust you from the bottom of my heart I just need to let you know. I am about to kill a man.“


At one point she was afraid that he would judge her as a cruel and stone hearted women, but at the same time she hoped he would, maybe doing so, he would just move on and find a woman to meet his expectations, to always be there for him. Someone a lot more easier to deal with than Akai and her crappy clan. However, some noised broke the silence, that seemed like somebody was sneaking around outside. Akai didn‘t pay that much attention though.

Akai felt ashames after telling Kichirou her plan, although she knew he is not the judging type, but still she felt uneasy as the man is really not the one to blame and to take his life only for her own well-being was just a cruel thing to do for Akai. She did calm down a bit when Kichirou comforted her with his gently kiss. That one just started gently and later on came out as a very passionate one. It was different from before.  Desire was that she was feeling some moments ago, but now Akai felt the man‘s soul at that very moment of the kiss, almost  that she could touch it with her own.  However, everything faded away in pain when those lipd departed from hers.  Akai already was thinking how she will miss that, think about that every moment of the rest of her life. She realized that probably this is the last time they are seeing each other and now the kiss felt more like a goodbye kiss, the one soaked in sorrow and desperation.


Suddenly, the situation changed. Kichirou stepped away a little and offered the girl to get dressed. Akai knew that something was going to happen, she sensed the different chakra, which was not that one of Kichirou, because his chakra was known to her till the very little inch of it.  The man offered some help with her kimono and Akai accepted that. She turned around and was waiting while Kichirou was managing with that piece of cloth. She was happy to feel his arms again and was going through the last moments that happened here in order to put them into the back of her memory. The most beautiful memory of all. At that time, Kichirou‘s questions interrupted her thoughts, he was asking if she trusted him. Of course she did, he was the one and only one she could ever trust.


“I trust you to death.“


If the death would be really the thing that would easy them both, she would pursue that. That‘s how much Akai trusted Kichirou. However, when he was almost finishing with that red kimono of hers, someone kicked out his bedroom door. Akai shivered once when she saw that those appeared to be some Hyuuga freaks with the vey own father tagged along. They were staring with those eyes they are very good at, those full of disgust and  anger. Only the father looked concerned and sad at some point, had he already knew by then, that his one little mistake would make so many people suffer? He probaly did, but to attone for his sin was already too late.


“My time has come.“


Akai said more to herself than anyone else. She couldn‘t believe that this was the end, but she stepped forward in a brave manner to face her punishment.

The moment Akai was ready to step forward Kichirou grabbed her so quickly and shared their last kiss. It was so deep, that she could find almost avery emotion in it.


The passion. The love. The sorrow. The dispair. The pain.


The pain was so strong that she even wondered where that was coming from. She knew that Kichirou had some scars from the past, but yet she had no idea that those scars were still bleeding in such a painful manner.


During the last moments of the kiss, Akai felt some wet drops streaming down his face righ down his lips. She stayed strong and did not share a tear, that was because she knew, that if she would have cried, Kichirou probably couldn‘t bear the parting so easy. Well, easy is a very wrong word for the situation. Akai extended her hand and wiped the tears from his face giving him the last loving gaze. She came closer and whispered into his ear.


“Those beautiful eyes of yours should never water over someone like me. I do love you and will be with you till the very end...if not in the reality then in my each and every dream...“


That sounded like a real goodbye now. She let go of Kichirou and rushed out of the room,  as couldn‘t control her tears any longer. When Akai got outside the house, hers eyes were swolen in tears, she wanted to let out her pain and angst somewhere. Akai grabbed the hand of one Hyuuga and started sqeezing it.


“Oi! What are you doing, you sl-....AAAAHH, LET ME GOOO!“


As soon as she heard Kichirou shouting, Akai knew what was happening inside. The idea was killing her, she was in such a pain that managed to crush the bones in that hand of Hyuuga she was holding to. The other man took her off of him and as soon as the father came, they three managed to suppress her and take her from this place. With every moment Kichirou‘s house was fading from her sight. With every moment her heart was getting colder, her eyes were getting more empty until the minute she couldn‘t see anything in the horizon, but some old roofs. From that moment her existence as  living dead  has started with nothing left inside her.


Goodbye sadness,
hello sadness,
you stare at me through the walls of my room,
through those eyes that I love,
speak through lips that I kiss,
throught those bodies that love.
Goodbye sadness,
hello sadness
as my mind‘s disappointed,
as my memory‘s lost.

-Translated in English from Lithuanian peom „Sudie liūdesy“ wrtitten by Polis Eliuaras

[O.O.C. This should be my exit of the thread I guess? o.o]