Sasame's Exile

[leafeknight]

Title: Sasame's Exile
Characters: Sasame, Kei, and Takako
Summary: Kei wanders into the forest of Leafunia with a mission to save Shin's hat from the river. He happens on to Sasame and there is an exchange of words as to why Sasame has been avoiding the Leafe Knights and the Pretear. COMPLETED.

Sasame frowned, a camping trip? In Leafunia

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[leafeknight]

Well, what did he expect? Kei to beat around the bush? That just wasn’t Kei’s style. Sasame was trapped, with no way out of this. He took a subconscious step backward and prepared for the battle of words that was inevitable

[cavaliershining]

Kei watched the shadows chase each other across Sasame's face, watched the ebb and flow of pain in his eyes, and almost regretted his straightforwardness... Almost. Because Kei never apologized for doing what needed to be done. If he did...

He didn't. Not ever.

Golden eyes hardening, he grabbed Sasame's shoulder before he could even walk a step, and spun him back around. "Just what do you think you're doing?" Kei's face was expressionless under the bright bangs, but there was a bite of ice in his voice. "Do you realize what you're doing to the Knights? Do you? Do you realize the price of your pride, Sasame?"

No matter what happened, he was not letting Sasame walk away from this one. Denial could only go so far; stubbornness could only go so far.

Solitude could only go so far.

[leafeknight]

Sasame was pulled back by surprise. He froze and stared into Kei’s gleaming eyes. For a moment Sasame was unable to answer him, as he just concentrated on the need to breathe….

inhale, exhale…repeat.

Kei must've been waited for him to speak...

Sasame balled up his fist in an unusual display of emotions. Finally lifting his head so Kei could see the anxiety and frustration he had brought upon him, he stared hard at his accuser and fired back with his defense.

“Do you think this is easy on me? To have to spend endless days and nights holed up from them? I yearn for the companionship I once shared with Hayate, but that can never happen Kei! I turned my back on him, after swearing a pledge to protect leafe, to protect you, to protect Hayate, to protect the Pretear… I turned my back on everyone! Just for a silly notion to be a Knight in Shining armor, when all I needed was to show compassion-what I do everyday at work during Wordsgate!”

inhale, exhale…repeat.Sasame took a sharp intake of breath and let it out slowly to calm his nerves

[cavaliershining]

[OOC: Could you... not write out Kei's reactions so much? ^^;;; It's a little close to God-moding for comfort... And truly, if you took them out it wouldn't affect the scene that much. *is picky about this, yes*]

Kei might have appeared impassive, but inwardly he was grinding his teeth in frustration. Sasame was not being rational at this point--he was too worked up, and much too steeped in his own self-loathing to understand what Kei was trying to tell him. His eyes were like two chips of molten ice as he glared back at Sasame.

"So you failed once, and you've given up? Just because you could not fulfill your vows once, you have decided to turn your back on them?" he hissed. "Just what kind of Knight are you

[leafeknight]

Sasame’s face was devoid of emotion as he chose not to respond, at least right away. There was a ring of truth in Kei’s words, something he simply couldn’t deny.

What was the Pretear without her ears? Probably better off without me…Sasame frowned at his own thoughts. When had his heart turned so cold? Was it before Takako, before she had turned into Fenrir? Was it when Hayate met Himeno and his reaction to the bright life within her

[cavaliershining]

Kei watched Sasame carefully, making sure not to let his own roiling emotions show; he had given all he had to offer--and he had to quash the doubts, the wondering whether or not someone else could have handled this better, this which was not at all his area of expertise; what would Himeno or Hayate have done?--and there was no more he could think of to say to convince Sasame to return to them...

He could see the conflict in Sasame's violet eyes like a gathering storm, before the other put his fingers to his lips in a gesture so familiar it made Kei's heart leap, for just a moment, before settling effortlessly back to its stoic self--and then came the sound arrow, as he'd known it would, as Sasame had needed to know it would.

He smiled wryly at the other Knight's astonishment. "What do you think? The powers of the White Pretear can work miracles unheard of... You were the Leafe Knight of Sound, and so you are still. I hope you understand that now, Sasame."