HIROGERU (Season 2)

Episode 11 - Preparations

Seiryu woke up and he found out that it was already morning as the sunlight beamed and hit his eyes. He had fallen asleep in the open fields that he and Lei spent time in. He took the time to stretch and he tied down his hair back into a pony tail. Only the lower part of his hair was tied.

He wore the same white shirt with the dragon logo on it for he had lost his vest when was imprisoned. His left hand was still bandaged and he ran his other hand across it, reminiscing Lei's touch.

"You complicate things." He said to himself out loud with a cold expression on his face, but he knew now that he felt the same way around her. The same feeling he gets when he is with Yue. "This is wrong." He thought to himself.

The long haired Rogue made his way back to his master's cabin and noticed that there was no one around. There was smoke coming from the back of the shack so he decided to go and check it out. What he found was the silver haired gunslinger girl cooking some rice in a pot.

He slowly tried to walk towards her but then the latter had a good sense that he was nearing.

"Morning." Lei said in an unexpectedly cold manner.

"Yeah." Seiryu said to her. "Good morning too." He replied to her. "Where are the others?" he asked her.

"Aizen went to Aldwin with Draven. They said they would get some stuff." She said to him coldly. Lei continued to cook and not mind the long haired Rogue.

"Listen about last night." Seiryu tried to talk to her and went near the silver haired girl. The latter however kept her distance. "Look Lei, would you listen to me?" he pleaded her.

"We have nothing to talk about." She said to him. "It was my fault, I've shown too much." Lei added.

Seiryu went close to her and put a hand on right shoulder. Lei did not resist but at the same time she wasn't relaxed.

"Why are you doing this to me?!" she said and immediately she moved closer to him and began to strike his chest repeatedly with her right hand, while her left hand held on to him tightly. "Damn you..." she said.

The long haired Rogue felt his shirt get wet. He saw that Lei was crying and her head was leaned on his chest. He held her at the back of her head in return as he attempted to soothe her tears.

"Why did it have to be you..." Lei continued to say to him. Seiryu held her close in return.

"Listen." He said in response. "It's not our fault, but at the same time we know that this cannot be." Seiryu tried to explain to her calmly. Lei continued to cry.

"I know." She said softly. "It's just I'm so weak and my emotions get the best of me at times. Especially at times like these." She continued to explain.

"Don't cry anymore. It'll be okay." He consoled her as he held her tightly. "It will be." Seiryu assured her.

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Yue sat down as she faced the mirror in front of her. On the table there was the ring that she was supposed to wear at the wedding which was two days from now. She sighed at the look of the objects.

"In two days, I..." she thought to herself. "I can't even say it..." she thought to herself.

The azure haired girl stood up and went to the area near her window. She held her phone while she was there. She opened it and clicked back to the message that Lucian had sent her. The message read:

Miss Yue this is urgent news.

It appears that Seiryu and his allies had escaped from their prison cells

Treyah General Battle Corp is presumed to have sent search parties.

Our best COA however is to find them first

Before they do.

- Denioux, Lucian

"Darn it. Where have you gone to?" she asked as she looked out her window. "I can't leave now. They are finalizing the wedding preperations." She thought.

She flipped open her phone again and called the sender of the text.

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Lucian was reading reports on Samael as his phone rang which was on his table. He picked up and answered it.

"Knew you'd call." He said with a smile on his face whilst he held his phone.

"Did you send out your own search party?" Yue's voice echoed from his phone. There was a hint of worry in her voice.

"I did it as SOP, but I sent Melfice and Julia a day before to look for the Rogue." He replied to her.

"He has a name you know!" she shouted at him which caused Lucian to put his phone away from his ear for a moment.

"Same old Miss Yue." He said as he smirked.

"What about the others?" Yue asked in response.

"Fran and Zaix are mobilizing as well." Lucian said to her. He walked close to the file table while he was talking to her. "What we are doing is technically treason." He said as he was looking at one of the cameras in his office.

"I know." She said softly through the phone.

"The question now is..." he said. "Is this worth it?" Lucian left as a cliff-hanger as he hung up on Yue.

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Fran and Julia found themselves in the outskirts of Aldwin city as they made their way towards the entrance of a familiar forested area. They walked along the clear pathway to take them to their destination.

"Are you sure he is here?" Fran asked. "I mean sure this is his master's hideout but how sure are you that he will return here?" she asked as they walked. Fran snapped a twig as she took another step.

"There's no way that they could have gotten far on that pick-up truck." Julia said. She froze every tree that got against her way and smashed it with her blade. The serious look on her face never subsided.

A few more moments and eventually they found a clearing ahead of them. The path led to the familiar open training grounds within the deep forest, and what is more a surprise is that the familiar long haired rogue waited for them in that place. He had his back turned against them.

"Seiryu." Julia said as she held her weapon with caution.

"Knew you'd come here. Your instincts never betray you." Seiryu said as he turned towards them. His eyes were even more red and his darkness ominous. He had a dark expression on his face.

"What the hell?!" Fran thought as she felt her left hand tremble. She tried to compose herself in front of her former comrade.

"Come to apprehend me?" Seiryu asked and subsequently the smirk on his face had become a serious look.

"You can cool down your darkness, w-we aren't here to fight." Fran replied to him as she stood her guard.

"Speak for yourself." Julia said as she smirked. Her ice innate energy raged around her as well and her eyes lit up a bright blue. "We have had too many unfinished businesses." She said with a smirk on her face.

"Now Julia, this isn't what Lucian said that we do!" Fran said to her as she tried to calm down the ice innate.

"Listen." Seiryu said as he summoned his katana from the darkness energy around him. "If she wants to continue where we left off, then why stop her? After all, I cheated remember?" he said as the look on his face calmed down just a bit.

This caught Julia off-guard and immediately the darkness wielder rushed towards her.

"Think fast!" Seiryu shouted as another battle was about to begin.