Silence

Silence Part 3

Maika looked at herself in a mirror and was surprised to see a younger looking Maika, with white face paint, ruby red lips, her hair done into a wonderful bun with golden pins with silver gracing the top, and a purple and golden kimino, with a dragon breathing golden flames on the front and back. She twirled around a bit before someone pushed Maika out to a stage with lights almost too bright for her to see. When her eyes adjusted, she found that she was standing in front of about a entire crowd and she remembers this moment almost as if it was yesterday. Maika remembers that when she was little, she had to preform a dance to prove her worth for a higher teaching from the scholar of the west. She found his face in the crowd and his gaunt, handsome face was adorned with a sort of fancy looking high hat that was green, red and orange, some blended into a nature like landscape and had a swan bowing gracefully in a river, that was not blue, but a light red. He looked back at her with a expecting and bored expression, as if waiting for something to wow him and make him jump out of his seat with clapping and praise. Maika froze a bit and almost started sweating and crying, but she composed herself and started the dance. The people in the theater were not allowed to clap, but she heard a light cheering before she started the harder parts. The guards in the theater started to stand up and clap, but not the scholar from the west, he stayed in his seat, looking even more bored than before.  Maika was doing the dance with ease but was trying not to get tired. She collapsed with exhaustion, making the scholar stand up out of his seat and rush to the stage, taking out a rag and gently dabbing her forehead. "Shame on you people, making this little girl dance until she faints with exhaustion, is this what you teach other villages here?" Clan leader Owazaka stood up and so did a worrying little boy. "Sir, if you will excuse me, this girl was foolish enough to think she could finish the dance, she was set up to fail, but she did dance beautifully and we do not teach this other villages, we don't teach their little ones to fail." The scholar frowned and looked back at Maika, who was panting softly with her eyes closed. "Is it alright if i give her the education, i mean, she did earn it in a way." Owazaka nodded and signaled the audience to clear out of building. The scholar from the west, whos name was Wantanobi, picked up the exhausted Maika and walked her to her home. 

From that day on, Maika was thought by Wantanobi and surpassed any other child in her village. Maika woke up with a start as something cold splashed over her head. She gasped for air and tried to wipe the water from her eyes, but she found that her hands were bound behind her back. She looked around for who threw the water, but she saw no one. It didn't also help that she was blindfolded and had a gag in her mouth. "I love how helpless she looks and if she thinks she can escape, she cant." She recognized the voice as Daichi's and she remembered back to when he was that worried little boy who stood up when Owazaka did on the day of the performance. Maika then struggled to speak against the gag in her mouth, making muffled sounds. Daichi walked over to her and removed the gag from her mouth. "Why are you doing this to me? Who this other person that is trapped here with me?" Owazaka stopped Daichi from answering and slapped Maika clear across the face. Her face sung with pain and there was a hand print of where Owazaka slapped her. "We can't be revealing things too soon Daichi, my son. Maika doesn't need to know a thing yet. In due time though, in due time." It then dawned on Maika that, she could be here for a while.