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Post by Asako Chisato on May 20, 2014 13:06:47 GMT
"My fan? Wh-what for?" He did know the significance of trading fans, and he had already given her one before and received none in return.
Or was his memory playing tricks on him now, did she refuse the fan before? He hands it over to her, regardless. As to her other question, he leans back slightly as she reaches his comfort zone and penetrates deeper. "What can I do? I'll do as you ask, I promise. This is my- no... I. None of this -had- to happen. But it has, everything is how it should! How can I make you not angry with me?"
That was the question he had been struggling with, he genuinely wanted to help her. He felt responsible, but still felt like he had done the right thing. But the human element is what really baffled him. He fails to realize the significance of his actions on a person's soul.
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Bayushi Satomi
Unwanted Betrothed
Scorpion Clan
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Post by Bayushi Satomi on May 20, 2014 14:03:52 GMT
She produced her own fan from a sleeve, and tucked it in Chisato's kimono. That's it. We're the best friends now. I'll kill you if you break this vow, and you're forbidden to marry while we have an "affair". Tell it to your stupid karo. I'm jealous and dangerous. And crazy. I fear nothing.
Now I can't marry or have a family because I'm a Scorpion and Scorpion don't marry twice. So you won't marry as well… That's what you've done to me.
She stepped back, observing him.
Say yes and we're friends again.
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Post by Asako Chisato on May 20, 2014 15:35:20 GMT
Chisato blinked in fear, he of course believed every word he was told by her. He takes everything at face value. He was just about to agree to her terms when Megumi, hair streaming behind her furiously flies back into the room. "Absolutely not! You would deprive our family of a proper heir!" The shiba guard for Chisato, steps back from around his corner.
Megumi looks to Chisato, "Say nothing more to Satomi san, she has overstayed her welcome. This family does not bow knee to the Scorpion."
Now Chisato was torn between the two, he looked back and forth between the two women, knowing he had to make a choice, but helpless to actually making one. "Goodness gracious... I... I... I..."
He sneezes. He takes advantage of this opportunity to wipe his face. Satomi has time to analyze the situation. Of course the vassals of Chisato were not as ignorant as the man himself. They would never have left Chisato alone with her, but they had still granted them freedom even as she had threatened to kill him, it was only with the threat to keep him from marrying that they step in?
What was more important, the man, or his lineage?
Chisato seemed to be coming to the same conclusion... but for him it was an easy choice. As much as he hates having to actually participate in family history. The fact remained that the family line was more important then his life. He could not agree to her.
He stood, shakily, "Bayushi Satomi san," he gulped, "I accept your fan, for that is proper of me to admit. But I cannot accept the constraint. I have a duty to serve... as much as it pains me... to get married." He frowns deeply at this.
This admission, however, drew a very wide smile from Megumi.
"Satomi san, you will have to accept me this way. I want what you offer, but I simply can't, I'm sorry. Please, uh... accept my fan as an... acknowledgement! Uh, of what has..... um... occurred between us, and as my wish, ah, for our continued... friendship."
He gives a forlorn hopeful smile. "Please, don't kill me. I rather like living."
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Bayushi Satomi
Unwanted Betrothed
Scorpion Clan
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Rings: Earth 4 * Fire: 5 *Air 3 * Water 1 * Void 3
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Post by Bayushi Satomi on May 20, 2014 16:38:28 GMT
Satomi witnessed Megumi's arrival and the Phoenix couple's despair as if watching a pathetic scene of an eta trying to influence the destiny of her lord.
I'll ignore this woman's presence as she's nothing but someone spying behind the walls. Is to you that I'm talking to.
Chisato-sama, I offered you the easier way to get things even between you and me. That's the harder way you prefer? A lineage is not only made by names in a paper. If I haven't mine, you won't have yours. This choice of yours is the one you truly will regret. She dropped his fan on the floor, as their "peace treatise" wasn't sealed.
Make everything we said here public, if you prefer. I don't fear any repercussions from my acts. See? You know the truth, that's it? Am I the daughter of the last Scorpion Champion, you said? So I should be the Scorpion Champion and you should be treating me -sama; and this woman should be treating me with the due respect. However, I am nothing. Nothing of what should be is happening. I'm in a "right place" that only makes sense in your mind, not in Rokugan. That's what your truth serves for? Your little book?
Now you... She turned to Megumi. You better get out of my way, you little woman. I like this castle's decoration, and your bloody guts don't match the blue of the walls . She waited Megumi to step back so she could leave the room.
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Post by Asako Chisato on May 20, 2014 17:14:32 GMT
"Thats now how the championship of the scorpion clan works... if you were supposed to be the next scorpion clan champion, then only you would be able to reclaim the ancestral sword of the Scorpion. Your position is as it should be, Bayushi Yojiro sama abdicated in favor of Bayushi Sunetra sama. That doesn't mean you don't have a claim, of course..."
He shuts up as he realizes that Satomi was not going to be satisfied with a 'lesson' on Scorpion succession. Megumi does not falter in her position, and the Shiba Yojimbo shores up her defense.
Chisato continues, peaceably, "Bayu-... Satomi san. I see that I have caused you pain, and that you are willing to go to lengths to see me suffer for it. I want to find a way to restore peace... will you consider no other option then my death if I marry? What is it that you want, is there anything I can offer?"
____ ooc: is Takai in Chisato's book as Satomi's son to her ex-husband?
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Bayushi Satomi
Unwanted Betrothed
Scorpion Clan
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Rings: Earth 4 * Fire: 5 *Air 3 * Water 1 * Void 3
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Post by Bayushi Satomi on May 20, 2014 17:32:22 GMT
Will you tell this woman to get out of my way or do you wish to make your yojimbo take a difficult decision on whom to defend? From this point on, they had little chance to get on an understanding, even more with his annoying karo willing to make part of the conversation. He as so obssessed by the rules that he won't realize that she would never have the chance to get near the Bayushi's ancestral sword, Sunetra not wishing it.
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Post by Asako Chisato on May 20, 2014 19:40:39 GMT
That was it then, she had made it clear that it would come to blows if it happened any other way. Chisato was still a Phoenix, he was a man of peace.
He nodded to Megumi, and she and the Shiba stepped aside for her to pass. Chisato retrieved his fan and watches Satomi, not sure at all what she would do next. Chisato wasn't even sure exactly what all would happen now. Would Satomi leave as an enemy and never be a friendly face? Is she going to fulfill her promise to be on hand at the next full moon? What would she try to accomplish? Is she going to continue to interfere with his matches? Was that a good or a bad thing?
He debated asking her more questions, but knew it was impossible. Maybe a letter? Yes that would have to do.
"May I write to you, Satomi san?"
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Bayushi Satomi
Unwanted Betrothed
Scorpion Clan
Posts: 1,080| Likes: 322
Rings: Earth 4 * Fire: 5 *Air 3 * Water 1 * Void 3
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Post by Bayushi Satomi on May 20, 2014 19:59:27 GMT
She was leaving when Chisato asked her a question, so she turned once more, now clearly upset.
No, Asako-sama. One shouldn't write what he can't say out loud.
With that, Satomi finally departed, mentally cursing herself for having come in first place.
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Post by Asako Chisato on May 20, 2014 21:29:30 GMT
Chisato lowered his gaze, then looked at the fan she stuffed in his sleeve, saddened. Megumi moved as if to snatch it away from him, then softened at the look on his face, and simply picked up Chisato's off the floor, and left him alone with his thoughts.
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