Asuka: Island of Shadows

chapter 11

            Chapter 10

I stared at the night sky. I was incredibly annoyed at how slowly our search was going. We had followed the Senshi Guard for a while, but he had joined a whole group of Guards, and Keiji and I had agreed it was too dangerous to continue.

I wished it hadn’t been though. I was sure the Guard would have been able to lead us to where Hikairi was.

I still had no idea how she would be handling herself. I was concerned because she had lived outside her entire life, and she might not like being indoors for too long.

I didn’t like being inside too much, and I hadn’t lived my whole life in the deep forests like she had.

That, and I had been held prisoner before. She hadn’t. I looked at the stars. I was sitting on my hammock, waiting for Keiji, who had gone down to get Joji his nightly drink of milk.

I had opted out of going down with them, knowing that if I did, Akemi would catch me in her net and force me to tell her more about Hikairi.

And I didn’t know how I would have done that without becoming awkward. I didn’t like telling my sister about my travels. She would always become frightened about how dangerous things could be.

Thats why I hadn’t told her the full story of what had happened to me after escaping from General Neiken’s camp.

That would not have been a pretty talk. It would have turned into her completely panicking and telling Keiji to tie me up until I was married to the most sensible girl on the planet.

And he would do it too. She had him completely wrapped around her finger. She could tell him to walk off a cliff and he would do it, but she would never tell him to, so that was not a big worry.

My big worry was what she could tell him to do to me. None of it would be pleasant, of this I was sure.

She could tell him to throw me off a cliff, and he would do it. And she would do it, if only when angry at me.

Then again, she rarely got angry at me. The most recent time, was because I had been missing for two months.

“Satoru? How lost in thought could you possibly be?” I jerked out of my thoughts to realize that Keiji was sitting in front of me looking annoyed.

“Sorry, I was just thinking about what my sister might do to me if she gets angry with me again.” I said.

He laughed. “I’ve had that very thought. I thought that she could make you kill me if she wanted to. I’m surprised that she hasn’t made you yet.”

I laughed. He had a point. My little sister had me as wrapped around her little finger as she did Keiji. If she asked me to do anything to him, he would be very sorry for whatever he had ever done to her to make her angry.

Even if it was a trivial thing. My sister had a very strong hold over us, and that was probably not an especially good thing.

We sat in silence, and I stared at the stars some more. I didn’t mind the silence. We were normally quiet.

Even with Keiji I wasn’t the most talkative person. When I had been captured the second time, I had to become someone I wasn’t, speaking often to keep myself alive.

That was why I had spoken so much to Hikairi, probably making a fool out of myself in the process.

But it had mostly been worth it, except for making a fool of myself and the fact that Hikairi had been kidnapped.

Yes, that really had pretty much ruined that for me.

I could hardly even concentrate on anything either. It was far too crazy inside of my head right now.