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Title: Shards
Author/Penname: Kainasilversbane
Rating:pg-13
Chapters: Chapter 12 (Ongoing WIP)
Pairings: Fujitaka/Kaho centered
Summary: Zelda purloinment XD
Warning, Notes: I broke her arm...WHO'S??????
Link to previous chaptert http://community.livejournal.com/reviewers_inc/12341.html#cutid1
Disclaimer: Respective characters belong to CLAMP, and the giant rock hard vines concept belongs to Nintendo's Zelda Windwaker
I go sleepies now....ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz........
Chapter 12
The tunnel opened up into yet another cavern, but this one was completely empty, save for a crystal, very similar to the one Fujitaka had had to break, hanging from the ceiling.
“I’ll get this one,” Sakura said as she released The Fly and started making her way up.
“This is too easy,” Kaho murmured.
“I thought so,” Fujitaka said as he kept his eyes locked on his daughter.
The girl had made it about halfway up when the ground started to tremble and the four on the ground started looking around frantically for the problem. Vines, tree trunks thick, covered in giant thorns, erupted from the ground right under Sakura and shot straight for her.
“SAKURA!” Her father shouted, and out of the corner of his eye he watched Kaho disappear, only to reappear quickly as she slammed into a barrier, landing unceremoniously on her back with her butt and legs sticking straight up in the air.
Fujitaka ran up to the invisible barrier and watched as his daughter dodged and worked her way around the fiercely whipping, dangerous vines.
Kaho did a backwards roll to her feet and stood up, ignoring the fact that Tomoyo had gotten that whole thing on video and stared angrily at the barrier in front of them. A glance at Sakura only deepened her rage as she watched the girl zip around frantically trying to avoid getting smashed.
“Quick lesson on shooting,” Kaho said as she walked up to the barrier and placed her hands on it. “Just like creating light and shields, summon your magic to your hands, make sure it’s destructive, and release it.”
“Okay,” Fujitaka answered as he pressed his hands against the barrier like she had done.
Kaho released several strong energy beams straight into the barrier, and it let off a low, almost bell like toll as it was hit and absorbed the attacks.
Fujitaka tried the same thing, though his flared and were a little messy, but got the same result as the woman. Both were left staring up at the teenager who was trying with everything she had to get to the crystal, fingers crossed that she would succeed without being harmed.
OOOO
“HO-EEEEEEEH!” Sakura screamed as she dodged yet another rock solid vine. “Shield!”
The Shield made it so she wasn’t hit directly by the vines as she flew, but now she had converted herself into a living super-ball. Each time she was hit she’d get knocked into another vine, which promptly smashed her into another.
The girl moaned as she tried to focus in on her goal and nearly started crying when she realized how far she still had to go. She’d been knocked back so far that she was nearly back to where she had started.
Frustrated, Sakura pulled out two Cards and dropped the Shield Card. “Dash! Through!” With power and determination, Sakura knew she’d be able pass through any of the vines that got in her way.
Part of her wondered why she hadn’t thought to do this sooner as she easily closed the distance between herself and where the crystal was hanging. She smiled when she finally reached it, but had to drop the Through and Dash so she could grasp the crystal without missing. It crushed in her hand easily, as did the bones in her right arm as a giant rock smashed into her as the ceiling collapsed on top of the teenager.
OOOO
“SAKURA!” Both of the adults, Kero, and Tomoyo screamed the girl’s name as the roof of the cavern came crashing down on top of her.
The barrier that had kept them away from Sakura flickered and collapsed after the last of the stones had hit the ground and they set out to find her. They knew she’d be stuck under stone and rubble and needed to get her out as fast as possible.
“She’s over here!” Tomoyo shouted after a few moments of searching.
Fujitaka and Kaho picked their way over, but both stopped dead in their tracks before they completely reach her. They both had known the girls wasn’t going to come out unscathed, but they’d never expected something so severe. Her upper right arm was badly broken to the point where bone was protruding from the skin where a large laceration proved to be half the cause for the injury.
Sakura was staring at the wound, shaking, eyes wide and unblinking and both adults recognized the beginnings of shock when they saw it and rushed in to hold it back.
“Sakura,” Fujitaka called his daughter name as he knelt next to her, but with his inexperience with such brutal injuries, he too was being drawn into shock at the realization that this was his daughter that was hurt so badly.
With more experience under her belt, Kaho ignored the wound for a moment and said, “Sakura look at me.” At first the girl didn’t respond, “Look at me!” With a jerk Sakura pulled her eyes away from her broken arm and up into Kaho’s amber gold eyes. “Good girl, don’t look anywhere else, just at my eyes, do you understand?” She received a shaky nod. With magic she hadn’t had enough of the night before, Kaho easily sent the girl into a deep sleep, then sat back on her heels a moment to gather her wits and get to work on the girl’s arm.
Kaho looked up and over at Fujitaka, “It’ll be all right.” He didn’t look convinced. With a sigh she set to work, ignoring Tomoyo, who was filming behind her, unperturbed at the bloody wound, almost sickly fascinated. “I’d look away, if you have a weak stomach,” she told Fujitaka. She eyed him for a moment, waiting to see what he’d do. When he didn’t move, she continued on. First she need to physically popped the girl’s dislocated shoulder back into place, which meant she had to literally put her hand into gory mess that was Sakura’s upper arm.
“How come you don’t just use magic to do that?” Tomoyo asked.
“The less magic I use, the better for us both,” Kaho said as she gently wrestled the joint back into place. With a pop, it slid back in, a spurt of blood splashing across the woman’s face in process. “Fuck…” she hissed as her eye narrowed in concentration.
“What’s wrong?” Fujitaka asked.
“The main artery in her arm’s been severed,” Kaho answered. “If I can’t find where it’s cut, she’ll bleed to death.”
“I know this might be a dumb question to ask, but how do you know so much about the body?” Tomoyo asked as Kaho studied the splintered bones.
“I had practice, learning first hand as I made my way here,” Kaho said, “By using myself as the guinea pig.”
Fujitaka didn’t like how she’d put that, “But you said you couldn’t heal yourself, so how could you have used yourself to learn?”
Kaho was silent for a moment as she located the torn artery and reconnected it, “I had my share of nasty injuries on my way back to Tomoeda, and, like yourself, there are people who’s magic include the healing art. Most of the places I managed to find were of old shamans, who’s specialty was healing. As they healed me, I learned how they located internal wounds as well as better ways to heal flesh wounds on the surface of the body.” She finished with the artery and began knitting bone together.
“Seems like your whole journey back home would make quite a story,” Tomoyo said.
“Maybe,” Kaho murmured, “If I live through this, I might tell you about it.”
Fujitaka watched as the woman quickly finished off the bone and began healing flesh and muscle. Again he began to wonder what she had been through. All that she had seen. The farther down into the caverns they got, the more and more he realized that where they were now was because of a journey that he knew nothing about, and was becoming more and more curious by the minute.
She finished and sat back on her heels, using the sleeve of her shirt to wipe the blood away from her own face. “She’ll sleep for a little while. The healing that I gave her won’t fall apart, but she’ll need to sleep this one off.”
Fujitaka nodded and gathered his daughter up in his arms and sat against a rock, holding her close, like she was the most fragile and precious thing on earth to him, which in fact, she was.
Kaho did the same thing only a few feet away, resting her head back on the rock she was leaning against, “You should try and get some sleep too,” she told him, her voice sounded like gravel. “Nothing will attack us here now that the obstacle has been overcome.”
Fujitaka watched the woman close her eyes as she took her own advice. Tomoyo and Kerberos came and sat near him as well, both studying Sakura for a little while too before they curled up and dozed off.
Fujitaka decided that retreating into sleep would be the best idea. At least then, he wouldn’t have to remember what his daughter’s arm had just looked like.
OOOO
Kaho woke to the sounds of a few voices, and her eyes fluttered open to see Sakura standing up and rotating the arm that had been previously broken and in danger of losing. The woman stood up stiffly and stretched, familiar aches and pains shooting up her back, then walked over to Sakura to see how well she could move the limb.
“How’s it feel?” Kaho asked.
“Fine actually,” Sakura said as she extended her arm all the way out in front of her, then as far back as she could get it. “In fact, I don’t even remember the whole event, which Dad told me was probably a good thing. Did you make it so I couldn’t remember it?”
Kaho shook her head, “No, sometimes the mind realizes that what it’s just witnessed may not be the best thing to remember, so it automatically forgets it, or puts up mental barriers that won’t allow the memories through.”
“Severe car accident victims suffer from the same thing sometimes,” Fujitaka said from where he sat on a rock.
“Tomoyo says she got it on video…” Sakura said as she eyed her friend with a mildly nauseated look, “Please don’t make me watch it.”
“I won’t,” Tomoyo said. “I’ll edit that out. I don’t particularly want to see it again either. I just wanted to get it in case you ever do want to remember.”
“Was it really that bad?” Sakura looked at her father, who gave her a weak smile.
“Yes…” he answered with a nod. “You could have lost your arm because of it, or even your life.”
Sakura’s eyes widened in surprise. From the way her arm felt, she’d thought it hadn’t been so bad. But since she couldn’t remember a thing from just after she crushed the crystal, she’d just have to rely on what her father was telling her, or look at the film footage. But not now.
Kerberos, the one forever oversleeping, finally awoke, and promptly plowed Sakura to the ground, gently of course, and started cuddling her, “You’re okay!”
Sakura laughed as her guardian smothered her with affection, “Yes Kero, I’m all right.”
“But…it was just so bloody and-” Kero started.
“KERO!” Fujitaka, Tomoyo, and Kaho shouted as they covered their ears.
“What?” The guardian looked up, confused, “What’d I say?”
“Everything,” Kaho muttered as she turned her head to look for a way out. She spotted a hole higher up in the wall that had appeared after the ceiling collapsed, and was about to go investigate it when someone poked her upper left arm. She looked down and met Sakura’s energetic green eyes, “Is something wrong?”
Sakura shook her head and reached up and hugged the woman tightly, “Just wanted to say thanks.”
“For what?” Kaho asked, momentarily stunned by the girl’s action.
“For saving me,” Sakura answered.
Kaho let a small smile appear on her face as she returned the girl’s hug, “No thanks needed.” She noticed Fujitaka was watching her and felt her cheeks become a dusty pink color. She hoped in the dim light of the cavern that he couldn’t see it.
After Sakura let her go the woman turned and phased up to the hole she’d seen in the wall. After a short check down it, she came back and gave them a wave, signaling it was all clear and Sakura and Kerberos flew up to her.
This tunnel was pitch black, as the very first one had been. Knowing the next cavern would be Kaho’s task, Sakura released The Glow instead of letting the woman use her magic to light the way. The tunnel filled with a comforting green glow as Kero took the lead, followed by Tomoyo and Sakura, with Fujitaka and Kaho taking up the rear. As they walked, they wondered what they would be in for next.
Title: Shards
Author/Penname: Kainasilversbane
Rating:pg-13
Chapters: Chapter 12 (Ongoing WIP)
Pairings: Fujitaka/Kaho centered
Summary: Zelda purloinment XD
Warning, Notes: I broke her arm...WHO'S??????
Link to previous chaptert http://community.livejournal.com/reviewers_inc/12341.html#cutid1
Disclaimer: Respective characters belong to CLAMP, and the giant rock hard vines concept belongs to Nintendo's Zelda Windwaker
I go sleepies now....ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz........
Chapter 12
The tunnel opened up into yet another cavern, but this one was completely empty, save for a crystal, very similar to the one Fujitaka had had to break, hanging from the ceiling.
“I’ll get this one,” Sakura said as she released The Fly and started making her way up.
“This is too easy,” Kaho murmured.
“I thought so,” Fujitaka said as he kept his eyes locked on his daughter.
The girl had made it about halfway up when the ground started to tremble and the four on the ground started looking around frantically for the problem. Vines, tree trunks thick, covered in giant thorns, erupted from the ground right under Sakura and shot straight for her.
“SAKURA!” Her father shouted, and out of the corner of his eye he watched Kaho disappear, only to reappear quickly as she slammed into a barrier, landing unceremoniously on her back with her butt and legs sticking straight up in the air.
Fujitaka ran up to the invisible barrier and watched as his daughter dodged and worked her way around the fiercely whipping, dangerous vines.
Kaho did a backwards roll to her feet and stood up, ignoring the fact that Tomoyo had gotten that whole thing on video and stared angrily at the barrier in front of them. A glance at Sakura only deepened her rage as she watched the girl zip around frantically trying to avoid getting smashed.
“Quick lesson on shooting,” Kaho said as she walked up to the barrier and placed her hands on it. “Just like creating light and shields, summon your magic to your hands, make sure it’s destructive, and release it.”
“Okay,” Fujitaka answered as he pressed his hands against the barrier like she had done.
Kaho released several strong energy beams straight into the barrier, and it let off a low, almost bell like toll as it was hit and absorbed the attacks.
Fujitaka tried the same thing, though his flared and were a little messy, but got the same result as the woman. Both were left staring up at the teenager who was trying with everything she had to get to the crystal, fingers crossed that she would succeed without being harmed.
OOOO
“HO-EEEEEEEH!” Sakura screamed as she dodged yet another rock solid vine. “Shield!”
The Shield made it so she wasn’t hit directly by the vines as she flew, but now she had converted herself into a living super-ball. Each time she was hit she’d get knocked into another vine, which promptly smashed her into another.
The girl moaned as she tried to focus in on her goal and nearly started crying when she realized how far she still had to go. She’d been knocked back so far that she was nearly back to where she had started.
Frustrated, Sakura pulled out two Cards and dropped the Shield Card. “Dash! Through!” With power and determination, Sakura knew she’d be able pass through any of the vines that got in her way.
Part of her wondered why she hadn’t thought to do this sooner as she easily closed the distance between herself and where the crystal was hanging. She smiled when she finally reached it, but had to drop the Through and Dash so she could grasp the crystal without missing. It crushed in her hand easily, as did the bones in her right arm as a giant rock smashed into her as the ceiling collapsed on top of the teenager.
OOOO
“SAKURA!” Both of the adults, Kero, and Tomoyo screamed the girl’s name as the roof of the cavern came crashing down on top of her.
The barrier that had kept them away from Sakura flickered and collapsed after the last of the stones had hit the ground and they set out to find her. They knew she’d be stuck under stone and rubble and needed to get her out as fast as possible.
“She’s over here!” Tomoyo shouted after a few moments of searching.
Fujitaka and Kaho picked their way over, but both stopped dead in their tracks before they completely reach her. They both had known the girls wasn’t going to come out unscathed, but they’d never expected something so severe. Her upper right arm was badly broken to the point where bone was protruding from the skin where a large laceration proved to be half the cause for the injury.
Sakura was staring at the wound, shaking, eyes wide and unblinking and both adults recognized the beginnings of shock when they saw it and rushed in to hold it back.
“Sakura,” Fujitaka called his daughter name as he knelt next to her, but with his inexperience with such brutal injuries, he too was being drawn into shock at the realization that this was his daughter that was hurt so badly.
With more experience under her belt, Kaho ignored the wound for a moment and said, “Sakura look at me.” At first the girl didn’t respond, “Look at me!” With a jerk Sakura pulled her eyes away from her broken arm and up into Kaho’s amber gold eyes. “Good girl, don’t look anywhere else, just at my eyes, do you understand?” She received a shaky nod. With magic she hadn’t had enough of the night before, Kaho easily sent the girl into a deep sleep, then sat back on her heels a moment to gather her wits and get to work on the girl’s arm.
Kaho looked up and over at Fujitaka, “It’ll be all right.” He didn’t look convinced. With a sigh she set to work, ignoring Tomoyo, who was filming behind her, unperturbed at the bloody wound, almost sickly fascinated. “I’d look away, if you have a weak stomach,” she told Fujitaka. She eyed him for a moment, waiting to see what he’d do. When he didn’t move, she continued on. First she need to physically popped the girl’s dislocated shoulder back into place, which meant she had to literally put her hand into gory mess that was Sakura’s upper arm.
“How come you don’t just use magic to do that?” Tomoyo asked.
“The less magic I use, the better for us both,” Kaho said as she gently wrestled the joint back into place. With a pop, it slid back in, a spurt of blood splashing across the woman’s face in process. “Fuck…” she hissed as her eye narrowed in concentration.
“What’s wrong?” Fujitaka asked.
“The main artery in her arm’s been severed,” Kaho answered. “If I can’t find where it’s cut, she’ll bleed to death.”
“I know this might be a dumb question to ask, but how do you know so much about the body?” Tomoyo asked as Kaho studied the splintered bones.
“I had practice, learning first hand as I made my way here,” Kaho said, “By using myself as the guinea pig.”
Fujitaka didn’t like how she’d put that, “But you said you couldn’t heal yourself, so how could you have used yourself to learn?”
Kaho was silent for a moment as she located the torn artery and reconnected it, “I had my share of nasty injuries on my way back to Tomoeda, and, like yourself, there are people who’s magic include the healing art. Most of the places I managed to find were of old shamans, who’s specialty was healing. As they healed me, I learned how they located internal wounds as well as better ways to heal flesh wounds on the surface of the body.” She finished with the artery and began knitting bone together.
“Seems like your whole journey back home would make quite a story,” Tomoyo said.
“Maybe,” Kaho murmured, “If I live through this, I might tell you about it.”
Fujitaka watched as the woman quickly finished off the bone and began healing flesh and muscle. Again he began to wonder what she had been through. All that she had seen. The farther down into the caverns they got, the more and more he realized that where they were now was because of a journey that he knew nothing about, and was becoming more and more curious by the minute.
She finished and sat back on her heels, using the sleeve of her shirt to wipe the blood away from her own face. “She’ll sleep for a little while. The healing that I gave her won’t fall apart, but she’ll need to sleep this one off.”
Fujitaka nodded and gathered his daughter up in his arms and sat against a rock, holding her close, like she was the most fragile and precious thing on earth to him, which in fact, she was.
Kaho did the same thing only a few feet away, resting her head back on the rock she was leaning against, “You should try and get some sleep too,” she told him, her voice sounded like gravel. “Nothing will attack us here now that the obstacle has been overcome.”
Fujitaka watched the woman close her eyes as she took her own advice. Tomoyo and Kerberos came and sat near him as well, both studying Sakura for a little while too before they curled up and dozed off.
Fujitaka decided that retreating into sleep would be the best idea. At least then, he wouldn’t have to remember what his daughter’s arm had just looked like.
OOOO
Kaho woke to the sounds of a few voices, and her eyes fluttered open to see Sakura standing up and rotating the arm that had been previously broken and in danger of losing. The woman stood up stiffly and stretched, familiar aches and pains shooting up her back, then walked over to Sakura to see how well she could move the limb.
“How’s it feel?” Kaho asked.
“Fine actually,” Sakura said as she extended her arm all the way out in front of her, then as far back as she could get it. “In fact, I don’t even remember the whole event, which Dad told me was probably a good thing. Did you make it so I couldn’t remember it?”
Kaho shook her head, “No, sometimes the mind realizes that what it’s just witnessed may not be the best thing to remember, so it automatically forgets it, or puts up mental barriers that won’t allow the memories through.”
“Severe car accident victims suffer from the same thing sometimes,” Fujitaka said from where he sat on a rock.
“Tomoyo says she got it on video…” Sakura said as she eyed her friend with a mildly nauseated look, “Please don’t make me watch it.”
“I won’t,” Tomoyo said. “I’ll edit that out. I don’t particularly want to see it again either. I just wanted to get it in case you ever do want to remember.”
“Was it really that bad?” Sakura looked at her father, who gave her a weak smile.
“Yes…” he answered with a nod. “You could have lost your arm because of it, or even your life.”
Sakura’s eyes widened in surprise. From the way her arm felt, she’d thought it hadn’t been so bad. But since she couldn’t remember a thing from just after she crushed the crystal, she’d just have to rely on what her father was telling her, or look at the film footage. But not now.
Kerberos, the one forever oversleeping, finally awoke, and promptly plowed Sakura to the ground, gently of course, and started cuddling her, “You’re okay!”
Sakura laughed as her guardian smothered her with affection, “Yes Kero, I’m all right.”
“But…it was just so bloody and-” Kero started.
“KERO!” Fujitaka, Tomoyo, and Kaho shouted as they covered their ears.
“What?” The guardian looked up, confused, “What’d I say?”
“Everything,” Kaho muttered as she turned her head to look for a way out. She spotted a hole higher up in the wall that had appeared after the ceiling collapsed, and was about to go investigate it when someone poked her upper left arm. She looked down and met Sakura’s energetic green eyes, “Is something wrong?”
Sakura shook her head and reached up and hugged the woman tightly, “Just wanted to say thanks.”
“For what?” Kaho asked, momentarily stunned by the girl’s action.
“For saving me,” Sakura answered.
Kaho let a small smile appear on her face as she returned the girl’s hug, “No thanks needed.” She noticed Fujitaka was watching her and felt her cheeks become a dusty pink color. She hoped in the dim light of the cavern that he couldn’t see it.
After Sakura let her go the woman turned and phased up to the hole she’d seen in the wall. After a short check down it, she came back and gave them a wave, signaling it was all clear and Sakura and Kerberos flew up to her.
This tunnel was pitch black, as the very first one had been. Knowing the next cavern would be Kaho’s task, Sakura released The Glow instead of letting the woman use her magic to light the way. The tunnel filled with a comforting green glow as Kero took the lead, followed by Tomoyo and Sakura, with Fujitaka and Kaho taking up the rear. As they walked, they wondered what they would be in for next.