Circa, 10 years after the war
Name: Mayu Kazima/ Yukari Taka
Age: ? /19
Location: Shiro Sabaku no Kazima/ Kazima Desert Castle
“You’re fond of him aren’t you
young Taka.” Lady Mayu smiled again as she slowly walked side by side with
Yukari.
Yukari blushed slightly before
shaking her head. “No… well maybe a little I have always liked Zeff. He was
admirable when we were kids. Always tried help even when the other families
didn’t want to have anything to do with him. So I guess I can understand why he
is so cold…it’s just I…”
“You wish he was like his childhood
self?” Lady Mayu looked down at Yukari as they slowly walked through several
arch ways.
“o-of course I do!” Yukari stopped
and put her hand to her mouth as she blushed. “Sorry.” She looked down at the
floor. “I wish the war that reached our village was ended before it had… Zeff
had a hard childhood as it was. Maybe, if only the war had never started or if
it happened later and Zeff could have showed is worth, his mettle that…then
maybe these events wouldn’t have happened.” Yukari sighs.
“I think, young Taka that everyone
thinks like that but life however never goes the way we wished it to go. It is
not all sunshine and happiness. In life
there is much sorrow and pain, it is what we do with that sorrow and pain that
determines our fates.” Lady Mayu sighs and looks at Yukari. “Your room is here.” With her hand held out towards the door
beside her. The room next to it is a hot spring bath and adjacent to that room
is mine. If you have no objections we’ll be eating together.”
“Oh… I see and Zeff-sama? He will
not be joining us for dinner?” Yukari bowed and started for the doorway as Lady
Mayu slide the room’s door open.
“No, he does not like to eat with
others unless it’s unavoidable.” Lady Mayu smiled at Yukari “Dinner will be in
about two hours so go relax in the baths.”
Yukari nodded her head and looked
down again before entering the room and sliding the door close.
…
Yukari slips into the hot spring
bath, leaving her towel on the floor.
I
wonder will Zeff agree to come with us and help… “Zeff did say he believes
me and Zenju-sama, we are on his side even if all of our people are not. With
the chaos and tidings of war we need his help if it is true of what Master
Tenzo Hoga said…
“Zeff may be colder than when you
last knew him but on the inside he still harbors for the light and the way of
peace. When he came to Sunaomo no Sato he had been cursed by an old acquaintance
of mine.” Tenzo looked at Yukari as she sat on her knees.
“Cursed?” Master Zenju played with
his long white beard. “In what manner do you men lord Hoga.”
Yukari looked at Zenju-sama and
then to Tenzo-sama.
“Do you remember the clan that’s steeped
in blood? The Kazima…”
“Kazima? “ Zenju played with his
bear some more slowly. “That clan as lore spoke of has long since died out during
the first great war. So they still cling in the shadows?”
“Not quite, all but one indeed died
out by the end of the first war. She however had survived, as you put it ‘clinging
to the shadows’. She kept her distance from the world and events until she
found someone much like her former lover.”
“You mean…Zeff?” Yukari blurted
out.
Both Tenzo and Zenju looked at her.
“Sorry…” Yukari looked down.
“It’s quite alright, but yes you
are correct. She must have watched Zeff from afar and found his heart to be
like her old lover. I speak of this because when he came he was still like that.
He trained in Sunaomo, lived in Sunaomo and for all intensive purposes was of
Sunaomo. You would say he was family. Most of everyone in the village welcomed
him. Until.”
“Until?” Yukari and Zenju both
speak out, Yukari clasps her hand over her mouth as Zenju glances at her.
“Zenju, my old friend you know of
the Hoga clan secret? I had decided to allow Zeff to participate in Hoga Clan
training. However during the last stage of training something went awry and as
such half the village was destroyed. Fortunately even though Zeff didn’t have
complete control no one was killed. And yet…”
Zenju looked at Yukari and then
glanced at Tenzo.
…
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