50 More Sentences on 50 More Themes [CROSSOVER Shimada Kambei (Samurai 7)/Kakita Nasami (OC)]
Fandom: CROSSOVER
Pairing: Shimada Kambei (SAMURAI 7)/Kakita Nasami (OC)
Theme Set: Gamma
Rating: G to non-descriptive R
Warning: Some spoilers in here, if you haven't seen the whole series... also, some might accuse me of taking a few liberties, that's their prerogative. And cut me some slack... this is my second 1sentence attempt! Oh, the pressure... the pressure... the humanity...
Note: For those who are interested in knowing more about Nasami and her exploits with the Seven, I recommend checking out my story The Sword of the Soul.
Disclaimer: I don't own SAMURAI 7, blah blah blah... I do however own Nasami, and I'm not averse to others telling her tales... as long as credit is given where credit is due.
#01 - Ring - “I wish I could give you more,” he whispered to her, slipping the ring from his own finger and sliding it onto hers even as his hand trembled, “but it is the last of my wealth, and it is yours, as am I.”
#02 - Hero - “I don’t need you to save me, Kambei,” Nasami hissed, her eyes blazing in fury, her hand gripping her sword, “for I can live and die without your help.”
#03 - Memory - Together they stood hand-in-hand before four mounds, swords standing proudly as markers, lost in mutual remembrances of pain and death and glory.
#04 - Box - Kambei paced angrily back and forth in his jail cell, not sure if he felt more trapped by the bars that closed him in, or by the guilt that threatened to suffocate him for leaving Nasami behind.
#05 - Run - She fled through the woods, not caring who heard her or who followed her, wanting only to get away from the look she had seen in his eyes in that terrible moment she had let her guard down and let her heart speak for her.
#06 - Hurricane - Rain and thunder lashed at Kanna Village on the eve of battle, but Kambei and Nasami did not move inside, for what was a storm against the onslaught they faced in the morning?
#07 - Wings - Nasami tilted her head back to watch the birds soaring on the morning breeze, momentarily envying that freedom to leave the earth behind, and yet, she mused to herself, what did the birds give up to have that freedom?
#08 - Cold - Desperately he kissed her, craving her warmth and vitality, not to ease any physical chill, but to drive away a deeper chill that went all the way to the soul.
#09 - Red - “You’re hurt,” Kambei blurted out, staring at the blood on her sleeve, but all Nasami did was shrug and remark, “Kyuzo-sama got past my guard.”
#10 - Drink - Nasami sipped at her sake and watched the dancers move around the fire with a wistful expression that did not go unnoticed by Kambei.
#11 - Midnight - As they walked through Kougakyo’s streets, Nasami was surprised at how late the shops stayed open, but then Kambei reminded her, “For the merchants, it is never too late to make money.”
#12 - Temptation - “Let me go, Nasami,” he rasped, willing himself not to look back at her, not to give in to the need that ached inside of him, “before I completely forget myself.”
#13 - View - She leaned back against the boulder, warmed by the sun, and studied the bridge in the distance leading into Kanna, then she glanced down and saw the others approaching Wing Rock and smiled to herself.
#14 - Music - Kambei hummed an old battle tune, half-remembered from the Great War, but was then startled to hear Nasami humming it as well, and she grinned at the surprised look on his face.
#15 - Silk - “Are you certain?” he whispered, not daring to look away from her eyes, but all she did was smile and let the kimono fall away from her shoulders as she moved toward him.
#16 - Cover - Nasami stirred restlessly in her sleep, and Kambei gently drew the blanket up over her, then he shivered as his fingertips brushed her cheek.
#17 - Promise - “I cannot go back now, even if I wanted to,” she cried, moving to face him when he would not turn to look at her, “because I have already given my word to her, Kambei!”
#18 - Dream - “Perhaps one day… when the Empire is no longer at war, I can stop being a ronin, and just go back to being a man,” Kambei whispered, letting his fingers brush away the tears on her face, “for it is a dream that I have.”
#19 - Candle - Swallowing hard, she gently placed a lit candle beside the swords on Kyuzo’s grave and said hoarsely, “May the path before you never be shadowed again, my friend.”
#20 - Talent - “That target is three hundred and forty-eight paces away, Nasami,” Kambei protested, but without a word, she nocked an arrow, lifted the bow to her shoulder, drew, aimed, and fired, and all he and the peasants could do was watch as the arrow slammed unerringly into the target.
#21 - Silence - Neither of them spoke, for there were no words that could convey all the feelings in their hearts, so they stood, locked in silence but for the falling rain.
#22 - Journey - “Don’t be an idiot, Kambei, you don’t even know where the capital is!” Nasami shouted, but Kambei shrugged and replied, “But you do…”
#23 - Fire - Nasami lifted her face to his, her breath caressing his cheek, and murmured, “I can sense the passion burning within you, no matter how much you try to hide it… teach me to blaze, Kambei, even if, for a while, you consume me.”
#24 - Strength - He marveled at the warmth of her body, this fragile combination of softness and strength that he held in his arms as she moved beneath him.
#25 - Mask - More than anything else in the world, she longed to tell him how she felt, but instead, she let the placid expression that all samurai wore cover her features until there was no emotion left there.
#26 - Ice - Her hands were like ice, her eyes haunted and wide, her face paler than he’d ever seen it, and Kambei was horrified to think that this was all because of him.
#27 - Fall - “Do not yield,” Nasami shouted to the terrified farmers, “for if you yield, then Kanna Fortress falls, and by Amaterasu, I will not let that happen!”
#28 - Forgotten - Kambei watched Nasami and Shino sparring by the river and smiled, half-forgotten memories of his own years of samurai training coming back to him.
#29 - Dance - “I fear I lack the grace to dance,” Nasami said wistfully, touching both of her lame knees, but Kambei shook his head, and drew her to her feet anyway.
#30 - Body - “War is much more than just raw strength and skill,” Kambei reminded Katsushiro as Nasami nodded, “it is fought as much with the mind as it is with the body… as such, you must master both.”
#31 - Sacred - “What do you hold sacred?” he asked her, and Nasami tilted her head back to look up at the sun high in the sky above her, and then she smiled as the sunlight warmed her face.
#32 - Farewells - “I will not say goodbye,” she said to him softly, “for as long as we both are alive, we are never truly apart, the one ever walking at the other’s side, and resting in the other’s heart.”
#33 - World - “She is my world, everything I never knew that I wanted,” Kambei whispered as Nasami lay unconscious in his arms, her body battered, and blood everywhere after her duel with Hyogo.
#34 - Formal - “I welcome to Kyuden Shiden’issen, Shimada Kambei-san,” the young woman said with barely concealed laughter, and Kambei was so stunned that Nasami burst into laughter.
#35 - Fever - The samuraiko tossed and turned on her pallet, delirious and trembling from the fever that wracked her body, but Kambei never left her side, even to sleep.
#36 - Laugh - “Don’t you ever laugh?” Nasami asked him, but Kambei shook his head slowly and replied, “I do not think I ever learned how.”
#37 - Lies - “I don’t care what Hyogo said, Nasami-dono is innocent,” Katsushiro protested, but Kambei sighed wearily and asked, “But whose word will they believe, Katsushiro - the word of six ronin and a handful of peasants, or one of the Magistrate’s bodyguards?”
#38 - Forever - “I will wait for you,” Nasami whispered as she watched Kambei walk away, following the path from Kanna, “until the stars fall from the sky and forever ends.”
#39 - Overwhelmed - All at once, the pain and exhaustion and sorrow of the whole terrible day washed over at him at once, and Kambei sank to his knees in the mud, his entire body trembling, leaning into Nasami as she held him in the rain.
#40 - Whisper - “I am… afraid, Shichiroji,” Kambei said softly, so softly that his friend wasn’t even sure he’d spoken, “afraid of what I feel when I am with her, but more afraid of what I feel when I am not with her.”
#41 - Wait - “Farmers are good at waiting, or so I’ve heard,” Nasami said seriously as she looked at Rikichi, “but war is coming to Kanna Village whether you like it or not, and it does not wait for you to be ready.”
#42 - Talk - “There is a time for action, and a time for words,” Kambei told the villagers with a grim smile after the first day of battle, “and during that time for words, there is a time for truth… and a time for deception.”
#43 - Search - “It’s strange,” Nasami mused as she and Kambei rode northeast, “when I left the Kyuden five years ago on my musha shugyo, I was seeking enlightenment, and instead I found love…”
#44 - Hope - “There is an old saying, one that I think Nasami would be familiar with, were she here right now,” Kambei told the Elder, “that ‘only the dead are without hope.’”
#45 - Eclipse - Nasami stood facing a Benigumo so large that it blotted out the sun behind it, but all she did was draw her sword and level it at the bandit in a clear gesture of defiance and challenge.
#46 - Gravity - Even as the ship came crashing down, Kambei reached for Nasami’s hand and met her eyes, then pulled her close as they waited for the end.
#47 - Highway - “Come on, Kambei, you know I’m right,” Nasami said with a grin, “because if only a fool would travel the main road to Kanna when that person is wanted for murder, and the Magistrate’s men know that I am not a fool, doesn’t it make sense that the main road is clearly the best way for me to get there?”
#48 - Unknown - “There is a proverb my sensei used to quote to me,” the samuraiko said thoughtfully, “about ‘which foe is more dangerous - the one that you know about, or the one that you don’t…’”
#49 - Lock - Kambei was forced to his knees, his head and wrists placed in the stocks, but even as the locks were clamped shut, a sense of relief spread through him… for if he was here, then Nasami was not.
#50 - Breathe - All at once, she found herself in Kambei’s arms, and he was kissing her so hard that she could not draw a single breath.
Pairing: Shimada Kambei (SAMURAI 7)/Kakita Nasami (OC)
Theme Set: Gamma
Rating: G to non-descriptive R
Warning: Some spoilers in here, if you haven't seen the whole series... also, some might accuse me of taking a few liberties, that's their prerogative. And cut me some slack... this is my second 1sentence attempt! Oh, the pressure... the pressure... the humanity...
Note: For those who are interested in knowing more about Nasami and her exploits with the Seven, I recommend checking out my story The Sword of the Soul.
Disclaimer: I don't own SAMURAI 7, blah blah blah... I do however own Nasami, and I'm not averse to others telling her tales... as long as credit is given where credit is due.
#01 - Ring - “I wish I could give you more,” he whispered to her, slipping the ring from his own finger and sliding it onto hers even as his hand trembled, “but it is the last of my wealth, and it is yours, as am I.”
#02 - Hero - “I don’t need you to save me, Kambei,” Nasami hissed, her eyes blazing in fury, her hand gripping her sword, “for I can live and die without your help.”
#03 - Memory - Together they stood hand-in-hand before four mounds, swords standing proudly as markers, lost in mutual remembrances of pain and death and glory.
#04 - Box - Kambei paced angrily back and forth in his jail cell, not sure if he felt more trapped by the bars that closed him in, or by the guilt that threatened to suffocate him for leaving Nasami behind.
#05 - Run - She fled through the woods, not caring who heard her or who followed her, wanting only to get away from the look she had seen in his eyes in that terrible moment she had let her guard down and let her heart speak for her.
#06 - Hurricane - Rain and thunder lashed at Kanna Village on the eve of battle, but Kambei and Nasami did not move inside, for what was a storm against the onslaught they faced in the morning?
#07 - Wings - Nasami tilted her head back to watch the birds soaring on the morning breeze, momentarily envying that freedom to leave the earth behind, and yet, she mused to herself, what did the birds give up to have that freedom?
#08 - Cold - Desperately he kissed her, craving her warmth and vitality, not to ease any physical chill, but to drive away a deeper chill that went all the way to the soul.
#09 - Red - “You’re hurt,” Kambei blurted out, staring at the blood on her sleeve, but all Nasami did was shrug and remark, “Kyuzo-sama got past my guard.”
#10 - Drink - Nasami sipped at her sake and watched the dancers move around the fire with a wistful expression that did not go unnoticed by Kambei.
#11 - Midnight - As they walked through Kougakyo’s streets, Nasami was surprised at how late the shops stayed open, but then Kambei reminded her, “For the merchants, it is never too late to make money.”
#12 - Temptation - “Let me go, Nasami,” he rasped, willing himself not to look back at her, not to give in to the need that ached inside of him, “before I completely forget myself.”
#13 - View - She leaned back against the boulder, warmed by the sun, and studied the bridge in the distance leading into Kanna, then she glanced down and saw the others approaching Wing Rock and smiled to herself.
#14 - Music - Kambei hummed an old battle tune, half-remembered from the Great War, but was then startled to hear Nasami humming it as well, and she grinned at the surprised look on his face.
#15 - Silk - “Are you certain?” he whispered, not daring to look away from her eyes, but all she did was smile and let the kimono fall away from her shoulders as she moved toward him.
#16 - Cover - Nasami stirred restlessly in her sleep, and Kambei gently drew the blanket up over her, then he shivered as his fingertips brushed her cheek.
#17 - Promise - “I cannot go back now, even if I wanted to,” she cried, moving to face him when he would not turn to look at her, “because I have already given my word to her, Kambei!”
#18 - Dream - “Perhaps one day… when the Empire is no longer at war, I can stop being a ronin, and just go back to being a man,” Kambei whispered, letting his fingers brush away the tears on her face, “for it is a dream that I have.”
#19 - Candle - Swallowing hard, she gently placed a lit candle beside the swords on Kyuzo’s grave and said hoarsely, “May the path before you never be shadowed again, my friend.”
#20 - Talent - “That target is three hundred and forty-eight paces away, Nasami,” Kambei protested, but without a word, she nocked an arrow, lifted the bow to her shoulder, drew, aimed, and fired, and all he and the peasants could do was watch as the arrow slammed unerringly into the target.
#21 - Silence - Neither of them spoke, for there were no words that could convey all the feelings in their hearts, so they stood, locked in silence but for the falling rain.
#22 - Journey - “Don’t be an idiot, Kambei, you don’t even know where the capital is!” Nasami shouted, but Kambei shrugged and replied, “But you do…”
#23 - Fire - Nasami lifted her face to his, her breath caressing his cheek, and murmured, “I can sense the passion burning within you, no matter how much you try to hide it… teach me to blaze, Kambei, even if, for a while, you consume me.”
#24 - Strength - He marveled at the warmth of her body, this fragile combination of softness and strength that he held in his arms as she moved beneath him.
#25 - Mask - More than anything else in the world, she longed to tell him how she felt, but instead, she let the placid expression that all samurai wore cover her features until there was no emotion left there.
#26 - Ice - Her hands were like ice, her eyes haunted and wide, her face paler than he’d ever seen it, and Kambei was horrified to think that this was all because of him.
#27 - Fall - “Do not yield,” Nasami shouted to the terrified farmers, “for if you yield, then Kanna Fortress falls, and by Amaterasu, I will not let that happen!”
#28 - Forgotten - Kambei watched Nasami and Shino sparring by the river and smiled, half-forgotten memories of his own years of samurai training coming back to him.
#29 - Dance - “I fear I lack the grace to dance,” Nasami said wistfully, touching both of her lame knees, but Kambei shook his head, and drew her to her feet anyway.
#30 - Body - “War is much more than just raw strength and skill,” Kambei reminded Katsushiro as Nasami nodded, “it is fought as much with the mind as it is with the body… as such, you must master both.”
#31 - Sacred - “What do you hold sacred?” he asked her, and Nasami tilted her head back to look up at the sun high in the sky above her, and then she smiled as the sunlight warmed her face.
#32 - Farewells - “I will not say goodbye,” she said to him softly, “for as long as we both are alive, we are never truly apart, the one ever walking at the other’s side, and resting in the other’s heart.”
#33 - World - “She is my world, everything I never knew that I wanted,” Kambei whispered as Nasami lay unconscious in his arms, her body battered, and blood everywhere after her duel with Hyogo.
#34 - Formal - “I welcome to Kyuden Shiden’issen, Shimada Kambei-san,” the young woman said with barely concealed laughter, and Kambei was so stunned that Nasami burst into laughter.
#35 - Fever - The samuraiko tossed and turned on her pallet, delirious and trembling from the fever that wracked her body, but Kambei never left her side, even to sleep.
#36 - Laugh - “Don’t you ever laugh?” Nasami asked him, but Kambei shook his head slowly and replied, “I do not think I ever learned how.”
#37 - Lies - “I don’t care what Hyogo said, Nasami-dono is innocent,” Katsushiro protested, but Kambei sighed wearily and asked, “But whose word will they believe, Katsushiro - the word of six ronin and a handful of peasants, or one of the Magistrate’s bodyguards?”
#38 - Forever - “I will wait for you,” Nasami whispered as she watched Kambei walk away, following the path from Kanna, “until the stars fall from the sky and forever ends.”
#39 - Overwhelmed - All at once, the pain and exhaustion and sorrow of the whole terrible day washed over at him at once, and Kambei sank to his knees in the mud, his entire body trembling, leaning into Nasami as she held him in the rain.
#40 - Whisper - “I am… afraid, Shichiroji,” Kambei said softly, so softly that his friend wasn’t even sure he’d spoken, “afraid of what I feel when I am with her, but more afraid of what I feel when I am not with her.”
#41 - Wait - “Farmers are good at waiting, or so I’ve heard,” Nasami said seriously as she looked at Rikichi, “but war is coming to Kanna Village whether you like it or not, and it does not wait for you to be ready.”
#42 - Talk - “There is a time for action, and a time for words,” Kambei told the villagers with a grim smile after the first day of battle, “and during that time for words, there is a time for truth… and a time for deception.”
#43 - Search - “It’s strange,” Nasami mused as she and Kambei rode northeast, “when I left the Kyuden five years ago on my musha shugyo, I was seeking enlightenment, and instead I found love…”
#44 - Hope - “There is an old saying, one that I think Nasami would be familiar with, were she here right now,” Kambei told the Elder, “that ‘only the dead are without hope.’”
#45 - Eclipse - Nasami stood facing a Benigumo so large that it blotted out the sun behind it, but all she did was draw her sword and level it at the bandit in a clear gesture of defiance and challenge.
#46 - Gravity - Even as the ship came crashing down, Kambei reached for Nasami’s hand and met her eyes, then pulled her close as they waited for the end.
#47 - Highway - “Come on, Kambei, you know I’m right,” Nasami said with a grin, “because if only a fool would travel the main road to Kanna when that person is wanted for murder, and the Magistrate’s men know that I am not a fool, doesn’t it make sense that the main road is clearly the best way for me to get there?”
#48 - Unknown - “There is a proverb my sensei used to quote to me,” the samuraiko said thoughtfully, “about ‘which foe is more dangerous - the one that you know about, or the one that you don’t…’”
#49 - Lock - Kambei was forced to his knees, his head and wrists placed in the stocks, but even as the locks were clamped shut, a sense of relief spread through him… for if he was here, then Nasami was not.
#50 - Breathe - All at once, she found herself in Kambei’s arms, and he was kissing her so hard that she could not draw a single breath.