Hakuouki: Dragon Circles in Quiet Summer

Chapter 19

~~Fuyu's POV~~

When she left she had unintentionally left a small puddle of blood from when she cut into her finger, I had heard it go deeper and deeper until she had silently broke the finger.

Everyone is in silent shock. I can't assure them if she was truthful or not, they wouldn't understand. From my experience with her, she can go either way. But I believed everything she had shouted at them when the others thought it was just a frustrated outburst that meant nothing. I knew my sister. And everything she had just told us was true.

What they didn't know, was that it was a common trait among Tatsumaru's. The ability to adapt. All of us have been shaped based on our life. Trustworthy to fickle. Honest to corrupt. Understanding to vexing.

It was what all Tatsumaru demons had although it was usually an easy thing to control. We usually just use it as a tool for intimidation and hostility. But Sakura's was much more dangerous. It could only be turned on, as far as I know, if the situation called for it. It was an unpredictable side of her that was frightening and overwhelming. The vary traits of it were reason enough to be afraid.

"Can't you find her and calm her down?" I suddenly hear them ask me. I look up calmly.

"Maybe but she most likely covered her trail. Letting her calm down on her own might be good for her." I shrug.

"Then summoning-"

"We can ignore it if we want to. It's just we try not to ignore a summoning because usually their used for real emergencies." A man sighs.

"Told you this would happen." It was the one she loved... Souji?

"I warned you about this." I say making them all look at me. "You had to be patient with her, not hard and pressing. If you overwhelm her she'll get angry. If you're not firm enough she won't take you serious. You went about it the wrong way as well. You made her hostile. You made her feel exactly what she had said she was, a monster. She felt inhuman and reacted accordingly. You really must be stupid if you tried getting a straight answer of something so sensitive out of her like that."

I cross my arms. "It was my fault. I had assumed that because of our sessions-"

"Have you had a proper session with her since the time you thought her dead?" He shakes his head. "Yes, recently she gave you information voluntarily because she trusts you and also you were needed in the hidden plan to smuggle her away. But the big difference between now and then is fear." Everyone looks up shocked.

"What do you mean? I could never scare someone like Sakura. She-"

"Wrong. Back then she was forced into the sessions because you ordered her to, all of you did. The only reason why she did it was because, at the time, she had the fear of cherry blossoms. It was an intense fear that forced her into submission and you, Yamazaki, subconsciously used that to your advantage. While I was with her I helped with that. It was a vary long process but she finally accepted cherry blossoms. She has no more to fear."

"What!?" Yamazaki yells in shock. I nod.

"I'm still under contract so consider yourself lucky I'm not killing you for it. A dragon doesn't reveal its pain, someone already has to know and understand it before it can truly trust another. It's a rare thing to find." I say looking up. But I had already found the one who could do that. Sakura.

"Are you saying she doesn't trust us?" Sannan asks.

"If she did she wouldn't have to carry such a big burden. She would actually give you some free will instead of tricking all of you into thinking any of you have a say in what she does and a say in important decisions. She doesn't even trust you with your own lives." They're speechless.