The colors of the wind
Day once again dawns in Shogun's room, and as usual, Ei refuses to open her eyes, she keeps them closed wondering how she wanted her day to go, wondering if one day she would wake up and not have to do nothing for anyone, if someone just took control of her body and did everything to a script, she often feels like a puppet having her strings pulled by either Celestia or Inazuma's clans, always doing whatever it takes for the nation of Inazuma to keep progressing , how she wanted everything to stay still in time, for Inazuma to stop in time for all eternity, with all the pieces in place, but despite being the almighty Shogum, even she couldn't stop Inazuma from walking towards the future and to all the problems that would come with it. She must wake up and fulfill her role perfectly so that no one else suffers the ills of war, hunger, poverty, conflict and corruption. Despite not being a fan of her work as Shogun, Ei loved Inazuma with all her heart.
Ei, he takes one more sigh with her eyes closed and tries to move, but her left shoulder feels stuck, heavy... numb? "hm, could it be that Makoto had another nightmare and slipped into my bed at dawn?" she thought. Ei finally opened his eyes and looked down, lying clutching his arm was a girl with pink hair and a tail the same color as her hair resting on her legs, Ei stood still, didn't know how to proceed, she should try to leave without wake up a girl? it looked like Yae's seal had finally broken overnight and now she was in her bed in her human form, should she wake her up? Ei thought about staying still until Makoto went to her room to find out why she hadn't gotten up yet. Ei tried to move a little, but the girl also moved, freeing herself from Ei's arms and turning from her side to the other direction, still in what seemed to be a deep sleep, Ei took the opportunity to throw a blanket over the very naked girl and get up and go call his sister when standing up, in front of the bed he stopped to look at the girl,Ei realized that he reminded a little of the little fox sleeping in the dome of Enknomyia, Ei stays a little longer looking at the girl, at the delicate features of her face, her skin tone in disbelief how such a small and delicate girl could have gone on a killing spree and nearly wiped out an entire village, Ei shakes his head pushing away the images of the girl possessed with rage killing people and starts walking towards the door to call Makoto
"Where are you going?" Yae heard the sound that came out of her mouth and looked at her hands in disbelief that she was in human form again.
“Hm…Yae…Hi…you were sleeping, I didn't want to wake you up, how are you feeling?"
"What? Ei? is that you?"
"Yes, how did you know? Forget it, i'm gona get something to dress and we can call Makoto"
Yae looked a little confused by the situation, pulled the covers to cover herself more and sat on the bed to wait for Ei to come back with the clothes.
“I think these will do for you, when they’re done we’ll be waiting in the kitchen”
Ei turned his back on Yae and walked towards Makoto in the kitchen so they could discuss the Kitsune situation. When Yae arrived in the kitchen Ei's clothes, the two sisters looked at her in different ways, Makoto had a look of sadness and pity while Ei, seemed to watch her every step with a serious and stern look in her face without even blinking
"Well, I guess you've already started making up the rules for me, huh?"
“Yae, I'm so sorry the situation isn't that easy” - Ei said and pointing to the pink haired girl to sit down at the table.
“Can you tell me where Orobachi is?” Looking directly at Ei, not accepting her offer to sit down at the table.”
“Orobashi? She is dead.
“Hm, I guess that's one less thing for me to do then. How did you manage to get the seal off?”
Makoto looked at Ei and she was the one who answered this time
“Hehehe true love kiss?”
"What?" Yae said without understanding
“Makoto!? Saigu helped us break the seal, she is the Kitsune priestess of Sacred Sakura, just pronounce your full name did the trick. The question Yae, is that we don't know if Orobachi sealed something important inside you when he trapped you in fox form, so until we find out if in fact that item is sealed inside you, you won't be able to return to Watatsumi, nor leave the city from Inazuma”
“You can't lock me up in Inazuma, I need to go back to Watatsumi to my forest, there are yokai there who need me..”
“Yae” - Ei cut in, but Makoto signaled with her hand to break the news to Yae.
"I'm sorry Miko, but I think your sacred forest doesn't exist anymore..." - Makoto said stretching her arm to hold Yae's hand.
“Watatsumi has expanded during these years the people of Sangonomiya have taken over the island, I doubt any yokai stayed there...”
"Years? I don't understand, how long have I been imprisoned?
“Orobachi died almost ten years ago and the people since then refuse to join the Shogunate, Ei has been working for years to try to unify all the islands of inazuma, but the war has been dragging on for so long, i think probably any yokai in the island got corrupted or left Inazuma behind”
Yae sat on the table trying to absorb all the information she was receiving at that moment, the pink haired girl seemed to be more and more panicked, as tears started running down her face Yae spoke again
“I'm alone, I'm all alone and I have nowhere else to go... everything I had was in that forest, all the people...”
Ei, not sure how to console a person, did she know how to use every weapon ever invented by mankind? Of course, but reading people's emotions to the point of knowing what to do in this situation, not so much. But even so, he decided to say a few to calm the girl down.
“Don't worry, Makoto and I will be here for you, we'll sort it out as quickly as possible and… you won't be alone”
Yae lifts her head from her knees and Ei can see all the pain of loss on the kitsune's face, as Yae looks at Ei the pained expression starts to turn into anger
“It's you the problem, it's your fault, YOU INVADED WATATSUMI AND STARTED THIS WAR”
"I? Watatsumi was never YOUR island, it was uninhabited by the transgressions of the people there that caused the city to transform into an abyssal city”
“AND IT SHOULD HAVE REMAINED THAT WAY UNTIL THE END OF TIME! YOU DIDN'T HAVE THE RIGHT"
The kitsune rises from the table directing all her anger and loss directly at Ei
“There were children being kidnapped, humans suffering”
“NOBODY CARE ABOUT HUMANS, THEY EVEN KILL THEMSELVES FOR ANYTHING”
"I CARE"
The moment she uttered those words she stood up from the table and thunder cracked so close and so loud that you could feel all the electricity flooding the room, Ei approaches Yae and returning to her center of calm and warns the girl
“I built these islands, I punished Enkanomyia and I redeemed her myself, as I pulled you out of the abyssal depths, don't forget Kitsune, I may as well put you back the way I found you.”
She bumped her shoulders against the Kitsune's shoulders and disappeared into the chamber of Tenshukaku. As soon as there was no sign of Ei in the room, Yae started to cry again.
“Don't worry dear, Ei is stubborn, but she won't hurt you, let's go, I'll prepare a room for you to rest, tomorrow we'll think about the next steps”
Yae couldn't stop crying but still she leaned on Makoto's shoulders and walked to the bedroom.
“I hate her, i hate her, I really do”