Dreams And Proclamations 6/?
Title: Dreams And Proclamations
Author:
joatex
Pairing: Akame
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Drama, Romance
Warning: None...I think... (-_-U)
Disclaimer: No.... the boys aren't mine, sad.... but true (T^T)
Summary: It's been years after a nuclear war broke out, and a group of survivors created a small city. One, in which, Kazuya lives in. But when he runs across an Outcast in the Wastelands, there is a change brewing in the winds.
A/N: Enjoy (n_n)
A million thanks to harajukyuu for the awesome banner (n_n)
Previous Chapters: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05
Kame POV: Pink
Jin POV: Red
Chapter 6: Pushing Me Away
Kame
I hardly had any sleeping that night. I was too jumpy from almost getting in trouble with the Officials. Sneaking from the city wasn't going to be an easy task, which it wasn't an easy one from the start. Maybe this was a sign telling me to stop going out into the Wastelands and leave the Outcasts alone.
But it didn't matter what the sign was telling me, I wanted to go out there. I wanted to talk with those people and learn more about them and how they've been making it this long. If I had just told that to anyone, I would have been locked away while the Officials thought up what they would do to me.
This was sheer insanity. The only thing I would end up getting from going out in the Wastelands, was loads of trouble. But as of lately, trouble had become my middle name. I got up from my bed, and shuffled over the wood floor to my window. As usual, the Officials were standing in front of the fence across the street. Some of them were walking along the fence, but most were just standing.
A few were sitting down to rest. Did they ever sleep? Or eat for that fact. The sky was starting to lighten. I really hadn't even slept for five minutes, and I knew that I'd pay for it the rest of the day. I went back over to my bed and sat down on the edge.
The springs in the mattress made groaning sounds under my weight. In the other room, I could already hear Reiko beginning to stir as she woke up. She had always been an early bird. I didn't know how anyone, human at least, could wake up at such early hours in the day.
My door opened, and Reiko's head popped through. "Oh. You're already awake." I nodded and said grouchily, "Yeah. Didn't ever really go to sleep." I heard her sigh softly. "Those Officials had you antsy all night?" I nodded, feeling like a little kid who had a bad dream.
The fact that I could have gotten in trouble for walking around late a night, made me fear what they'd do if they spotted me going through the fence. Reiko sat down next to me, and patted my back with her hand. "It's alright, Kazuya. It was all a big misunderstanding. They can't do anything to you for something like that."
I wouldn't be so sure. The Officials had become so unpredictable now, when they used to just stand around and occasionally yell at people. Now, they were taking some serious actions. "Do you want to work today?" Reiko asked.
I had completely forgotten that I said I'd go back and finish up working for those people in the upper class neighborhood. I was probably too tired, and in no stable condition in my mind. I shook my head. "Not today." Reiko nodded in understanding.
"I'll just tell them you're not feeling well today, and that you'll try and make it as soon as you can." She got off of my bed, with a little help from me, and went to another room. I sat there, clenching my blankets in my hands. Why was I getting so frustrated? It may be cause I'm tired.
I got up and started to look around for Reiko. She was, as usual, sitting at the kitchen table. You would have thought I'd know this by now. I asked her, "Is it alright if I go and walk around? To try and clear my mind from last night?" She stared at me as she thought. Was she catching onto my true intentions?
"If you do, I want you back before dark so we don't have an issue like we did last night." I didn't blame her there. I didn't want another run in with an Official anytime soon. But planning on going back into the Wastelands was like inviting trouble to our home. "I'll be back before dark. I promise," I said, even raising my hand in the air, as if I were taking a vow.
I had to make sure and keep this one, since I hadn't kept my own last night. I walked out of our pitiful house, that I was sure any Outcast would have been thankful to have. Out of nowhere, Junno appeared. He latched onto my arm, and began to drag me in the opposite way in which I wanted to go.
"Junno, what are you doing?" I finally got my footing straight so he'd stop dragging me along the dirt road. "I saw something yesterday that I really wanted to show you, but I couldn't find you. So now, I'm not letting you slip by me again." I tried to free my arm from his grasp, but he had death gripped me.
"Junno, I'd love to see that whatever it is, but I kind of have somewhere else that I need to be." I was still trying to tug my arm free, but nothing was working. Junno was determined to have me see this mysterious thing, that odds were, wasn't really all that amazing except maybe just to him . We stopped in front of a small shop.
Junno was looking in the window with awe, and I saw it myself. "Isn't it cute?" he said and pointed to a small puppy in a make shift cage . It was cute, I had to admit that. "Junno you know you'll never be able to afford it right? Almost no one can."
What I said should have popped his bubble, but it didn't seem to bother him. "I'm sure I could take care of it." I shook my head. This was one of the hopeless dreams we had in the city. I didn't understand why people here sold pets, when they knew nobody could afford the price they were asking for.
And even if they did buy it, they probably wouldn't be able to take care of it for long. The puppy would probably just sit there for a long while until somebody from the upper classes walked by and bought it for the sake of it.
"Can I go back to what I was doing, Junno?" I asked, slightly annoyed. I really shouldn't miss anymore sleep. My voice finally snapped the boy out of his fascination with the puppy. "Huh? Oh, Kazuya. I forgot you were there." I growled, completely annoyed now. On top of the fact that I hadn't gotten any sleep, Junno wasn't helping the cause at all. "I'm gone, Junno."
He was back to gazing at the puppy. I shook my head and walked off. I was burning daylight as long as I stayed with him, and that was time that I didn't have. It was already early afternoon, and I had promised Reiko that I would be back home before dark.
I slipped past the Officials, and through the fence. It felt a lot easier to get through than it had the first couple of times. Maybe I was getting used to leaving the city and going into uncharted territory. That was probably a bad thing; getting used to doing something illegal.
But I didn't see any harm in this. The Outcasts weren't dangerous like the Officials had made them out to be. If anything, the Officials were more dangerous than these people. I walked back into the town, staying out of sight from other people that didn't know me; I still wasn't sure how they would react to me.
The woman that I had talked with last night, Hana, was standing outside with several of the kids. She saw me and said, "You did come back." Apparently she was thinking that I wouldn't. The kids had already taken a liking to me in a short amount of time.
They probably didn't even understand the harsh world they lived in. "Yeah. I'm back. But I don't know how many more times I can though." The woman raised an eyebrow. "I had a run in with some Officials last night when I got back into the city," I explained.
Hana looked shock when I brought up my little altercation with the Officials. "Oh my. What did they do?" she asked. The kids had gotten bored with our conversation, and ran off to play someplace else. "They just wanted to know why I was out so late. I don't think they saw me out in the Wastelands," I told her.
She let out sigh and said, "I'm sorry if we did anything to get you in trouble." She actually thought she had gotten me in trouble? If anything, it was my own fault for getting back late when I should have left early from the start. "It's not a big deal. Let's change the subject now. How's he doing?"
Hana looked back at the house and said, "His fever broke sometime last night, which is really good. If it weren't for you bringing that medicine, Jin would probably be a lot worse than he is now." I didn't doubt that. I had seen her tending to his fever yesterday, and he looked a hundred times worse than when I first ran into him the night before.
"Is he awake right now?" I asked. I had run so many risks to help this guy, I felt that I at least should be able to speak with him for a moment. "I think he is. At least, he was when I checked on him about an hour ago."
A few people were catching glances at me as they began to notice a stranger within their community. I quickly asked, "Can I talk with him?" Hana nodded and motioned for me to follow her into the weakly supported home.
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Jin
How was I even supposed to react when Hana brought in a total stranger. The thing was, he wasn't a total stranger to me. It was the boy that had followed me from the city the night that I snuck in. My eyes darted to Hana and I hissed, "Why is he here?"
I was just waiting for the Officials to come walking in behind them. Every fiber in me was screaming that this guy had probably brought as many Officials as he could so he could turn me in. But nobody else appeared. I slowly began to relax, but kept my guard up just in case they were standing outside.
I didn't trust this guy. He was from the city, which meant that they could care less about us. Hana held out her hand to the boy and said, "This is Kazuya. He's the one who helped you." The brown haired boy was standing there, an innocent look on his face. I didn't buy it for one minute.
"What are you talking about, Hana? Why in the hell would somebody from the city help us?" The boy looked surprised at my harsh words. Ok, maybe I had been a little on the cold side. But if you looked around at how the people were living in the Wastelands, then you'd understand why there was some slight loathing towards him.
"He snuck out from the city and brought you medicine. Without him, I doubt that you'd be talking to us right now," said Hana, who was obviously trying her best to get me to calm down. I remembered how that boy had offered me medicine when we first encountered one another. I didn't know what to think about this.
This boy, one from the city, had left and went through the Wastelands to help me? My brain was so confused. I knew I didn't have the people from the city wrong; I still didn't like or trust them the least bit. But maybe he was different from most of them. The boy, Kazuya, finally spoke.
"I first came out here to tell you not to try and sneak back into the city because more Officials are on guard around the fence." So either way, this guy had gone all this way to help me. That still didn't seem to change much though. He was still from the city, and also a liability to us.
If anyone found out that he was sneaking out into the Wastelands to speak with Outcasts, then they'll kill him and anybody that he may had spoken with. He had helped me, so I only found it suiting that I try and return the favor. "Thanks for you generosity, but now you have to go," I said rather more coldly than I intended.
His eyes widened. "But why? I want to help you and the other Outcasts and-" I cut him off before he could go on to another thing. "You're too much of a risk to us. We're fine on our own, and don't need any help from somebody from the city." He seemed shocked.
He was probably thinking I was going to be thankful to him for saving me, which I was. But him showing up here could put a lot of lives in danger, and it was my responsibility to keep as many people as I could safe. Hana snapped at me, "Jin!" He nodded his head.
"He's probably right. I should get going. I need to be back home before it gets dark anyway." He turned around and left from the house. Hana narrowed her eyes at me and said, "What was that for? He was offering us help that we need and you go and do that. Why?"
I sighed. "If he gets caught in the Wastelands, then all hell will break loose for everyone. It's better if we didn't know him, and you know that as well as I do." Hana sighed, then walked out of my room while mumbling something to herself.
Yeah, Kazuya may have been a help to us, but we just couldn't afford putting anyone at risk. That was probably the only person in the world that cared about any of us though.
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A/N: Hope you liked it. (n_n)
Chapter 7
Author:
joatex
Pairing: Akame
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Drama, Romance
Warning: None...I think... (-_-U)
Disclaimer: No.... the boys aren't mine, sad.... but true (T^T)
Summary: It's been years after a nuclear war broke out, and a group of survivors created a small city. One, in which, Kazuya lives in. But when he runs across an Outcast in the Wastelands, there is a change brewing in the winds.
A/N: Enjoy (n_n)
A million thanks to harajukyuu for the awesome banner (n_n)
Previous Chapters: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05
Kame POV: Pink
Jin POV: Red
Chapter 6: Pushing Me Away
Kame
I hardly had any sleeping that night. I was too jumpy from almost getting in trouble with the Officials. Sneaking from the city wasn't going to be an easy task, which it wasn't an easy one from the start. Maybe this was a sign telling me to stop going out into the Wastelands and leave the Outcasts alone.
But it didn't matter what the sign was telling me, I wanted to go out there. I wanted to talk with those people and learn more about them and how they've been making it this long. If I had just told that to anyone, I would have been locked away while the Officials thought up what they would do to me.
This was sheer insanity. The only thing I would end up getting from going out in the Wastelands, was loads of trouble. But as of lately, trouble had become my middle name. I got up from my bed, and shuffled over the wood floor to my window. As usual, the Officials were standing in front of the fence across the street. Some of them were walking along the fence, but most were just standing.
A few were sitting down to rest. Did they ever sleep? Or eat for that fact. The sky was starting to lighten. I really hadn't even slept for five minutes, and I knew that I'd pay for it the rest of the day. I went back over to my bed and sat down on the edge.
The springs in the mattress made groaning sounds under my weight. In the other room, I could already hear Reiko beginning to stir as she woke up. She had always been an early bird. I didn't know how anyone, human at least, could wake up at such early hours in the day.
My door opened, and Reiko's head popped through. "Oh. You're already awake." I nodded and said grouchily, "Yeah. Didn't ever really go to sleep." I heard her sigh softly. "Those Officials had you antsy all night?" I nodded, feeling like a little kid who had a bad dream.
The fact that I could have gotten in trouble for walking around late a night, made me fear what they'd do if they spotted me going through the fence. Reiko sat down next to me, and patted my back with her hand. "It's alright, Kazuya. It was all a big misunderstanding. They can't do anything to you for something like that."
I wouldn't be so sure. The Officials had become so unpredictable now, when they used to just stand around and occasionally yell at people. Now, they were taking some serious actions. "Do you want to work today?" Reiko asked.
I had completely forgotten that I said I'd go back and finish up working for those people in the upper class neighborhood. I was probably too tired, and in no stable condition in my mind. I shook my head. "Not today." Reiko nodded in understanding.
"I'll just tell them you're not feeling well today, and that you'll try and make it as soon as you can." She got off of my bed, with a little help from me, and went to another room. I sat there, clenching my blankets in my hands. Why was I getting so frustrated? It may be cause I'm tired.
I got up and started to look around for Reiko. She was, as usual, sitting at the kitchen table. You would have thought I'd know this by now. I asked her, "Is it alright if I go and walk around? To try and clear my mind from last night?" She stared at me as she thought. Was she catching onto my true intentions?
"If you do, I want you back before dark so we don't have an issue like we did last night." I didn't blame her there. I didn't want another run in with an Official anytime soon. But planning on going back into the Wastelands was like inviting trouble to our home. "I'll be back before dark. I promise," I said, even raising my hand in the air, as if I were taking a vow.
I had to make sure and keep this one, since I hadn't kept my own last night. I walked out of our pitiful house, that I was sure any Outcast would have been thankful to have. Out of nowhere, Junno appeared. He latched onto my arm, and began to drag me in the opposite way in which I wanted to go.
"Junno, what are you doing?" I finally got my footing straight so he'd stop dragging me along the dirt road. "I saw something yesterday that I really wanted to show you, but I couldn't find you. So now, I'm not letting you slip by me again." I tried to free my arm from his grasp, but he had death gripped me.
"Junno, I'd love to see that whatever it is, but I kind of have somewhere else that I need to be." I was still trying to tug my arm free, but nothing was working. Junno was determined to have me see this mysterious thing, that odds were, wasn't really all that amazing except maybe just to him . We stopped in front of a small shop.
Junno was looking in the window with awe, and I saw it myself. "Isn't it cute?" he said and pointed to a small puppy in a make shift cage . It was cute, I had to admit that. "Junno you know you'll never be able to afford it right? Almost no one can."
What I said should have popped his bubble, but it didn't seem to bother him. "I'm sure I could take care of it." I shook my head. This was one of the hopeless dreams we had in the city. I didn't understand why people here sold pets, when they knew nobody could afford the price they were asking for.
And even if they did buy it, they probably wouldn't be able to take care of it for long. The puppy would probably just sit there for a long while until somebody from the upper classes walked by and bought it for the sake of it.
"Can I go back to what I was doing, Junno?" I asked, slightly annoyed. I really shouldn't miss anymore sleep. My voice finally snapped the boy out of his fascination with the puppy. "Huh? Oh, Kazuya. I forgot you were there." I growled, completely annoyed now. On top of the fact that I hadn't gotten any sleep, Junno wasn't helping the cause at all. "I'm gone, Junno."
He was back to gazing at the puppy. I shook my head and walked off. I was burning daylight as long as I stayed with him, and that was time that I didn't have. It was already early afternoon, and I had promised Reiko that I would be back home before dark.
I slipped past the Officials, and through the fence. It felt a lot easier to get through than it had the first couple of times. Maybe I was getting used to leaving the city and going into uncharted territory. That was probably a bad thing; getting used to doing something illegal.
But I didn't see any harm in this. The Outcasts weren't dangerous like the Officials had made them out to be. If anything, the Officials were more dangerous than these people. I walked back into the town, staying out of sight from other people that didn't know me; I still wasn't sure how they would react to me.
The woman that I had talked with last night, Hana, was standing outside with several of the kids. She saw me and said, "You did come back." Apparently she was thinking that I wouldn't. The kids had already taken a liking to me in a short amount of time.
They probably didn't even understand the harsh world they lived in. "Yeah. I'm back. But I don't know how many more times I can though." The woman raised an eyebrow. "I had a run in with some Officials last night when I got back into the city," I explained.
Hana looked shock when I brought up my little altercation with the Officials. "Oh my. What did they do?" she asked. The kids had gotten bored with our conversation, and ran off to play someplace else. "They just wanted to know why I was out so late. I don't think they saw me out in the Wastelands," I told her.
She let out sigh and said, "I'm sorry if we did anything to get you in trouble." She actually thought she had gotten me in trouble? If anything, it was my own fault for getting back late when I should have left early from the start. "It's not a big deal. Let's change the subject now. How's he doing?"
Hana looked back at the house and said, "His fever broke sometime last night, which is really good. If it weren't for you bringing that medicine, Jin would probably be a lot worse than he is now." I didn't doubt that. I had seen her tending to his fever yesterday, and he looked a hundred times worse than when I first ran into him the night before.
"Is he awake right now?" I asked. I had run so many risks to help this guy, I felt that I at least should be able to speak with him for a moment. "I think he is. At least, he was when I checked on him about an hour ago."
A few people were catching glances at me as they began to notice a stranger within their community. I quickly asked, "Can I talk with him?" Hana nodded and motioned for me to follow her into the weakly supported home.
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Jin
How was I even supposed to react when Hana brought in a total stranger. The thing was, he wasn't a total stranger to me. It was the boy that had followed me from the city the night that I snuck in. My eyes darted to Hana and I hissed, "Why is he here?"
I was just waiting for the Officials to come walking in behind them. Every fiber in me was screaming that this guy had probably brought as many Officials as he could so he could turn me in. But nobody else appeared. I slowly began to relax, but kept my guard up just in case they were standing outside.
I didn't trust this guy. He was from the city, which meant that they could care less about us. Hana held out her hand to the boy and said, "This is Kazuya. He's the one who helped you." The brown haired boy was standing there, an innocent look on his face. I didn't buy it for one minute.
"What are you talking about, Hana? Why in the hell would somebody from the city help us?" The boy looked surprised at my harsh words. Ok, maybe I had been a little on the cold side. But if you looked around at how the people were living in the Wastelands, then you'd understand why there was some slight loathing towards him.
"He snuck out from the city and brought you medicine. Without him, I doubt that you'd be talking to us right now," said Hana, who was obviously trying her best to get me to calm down. I remembered how that boy had offered me medicine when we first encountered one another. I didn't know what to think about this.
This boy, one from the city, had left and went through the Wastelands to help me? My brain was so confused. I knew I didn't have the people from the city wrong; I still didn't like or trust them the least bit. But maybe he was different from most of them. The boy, Kazuya, finally spoke.
"I first came out here to tell you not to try and sneak back into the city because more Officials are on guard around the fence." So either way, this guy had gone all this way to help me. That still didn't seem to change much though. He was still from the city, and also a liability to us.
If anyone found out that he was sneaking out into the Wastelands to speak with Outcasts, then they'll kill him and anybody that he may had spoken with. He had helped me, so I only found it suiting that I try and return the favor. "Thanks for you generosity, but now you have to go," I said rather more coldly than I intended.
His eyes widened. "But why? I want to help you and the other Outcasts and-" I cut him off before he could go on to another thing. "You're too much of a risk to us. We're fine on our own, and don't need any help from somebody from the city." He seemed shocked.
He was probably thinking I was going to be thankful to him for saving me, which I was. But him showing up here could put a lot of lives in danger, and it was my responsibility to keep as many people as I could safe. Hana snapped at me, "Jin!" He nodded his head.
"He's probably right. I should get going. I need to be back home before it gets dark anyway." He turned around and left from the house. Hana narrowed her eyes at me and said, "What was that for? He was offering us help that we need and you go and do that. Why?"
I sighed. "If he gets caught in the Wastelands, then all hell will break loose for everyone. It's better if we didn't know him, and you know that as well as I do." Hana sighed, then walked out of my room while mumbling something to herself.
Yeah, Kazuya may have been a help to us, but we just couldn't afford putting anyone at risk. That was probably the only person in the world that cared about any of us though.
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A/N: Hope you liked it. (n_n)
Chapter 7