When The Day Met The Night (Tak/Open)

[Shinomori Katsumi]

{SHIT I THOUGHT IT WAS BRANDON'S TURN THIS WHOLE TIME. BEEN WAITING LIKE A MORON! OMG I AM SOOOOO SORRY! DDDDDx Oh, but so prepare for super feelsy, btw. ;-; </3}

She thought Yukimura was going to calm down, but then Takehiro attacked him. Goddamnit! Katsumi glanced over at Haji, hand squeezing his, and in her tear-filled eyes, she told him, 'Please... trust me...'

Because yeah. Kat didn't want him to flip his shit for what she was about to do. While Yukimura started screaming at them, Katsumi's shield of wind dropped, and the girl jumped up, scrambling away from Haji.

Using her wind musou, the archer leaped over to Yukimura as the whirlwind of fire began and her arms wrapped around him, the girl tightly embracing him from behind. It was unbearably hot, the tears steaming down her cheeks evaporating from the heat. And it was so hot that her flesh burned. Everything hurt so terribly, but she didn't care. No matter what, Katsumi wouldn't let go, wouldn't release her embrace, and she buried her face against Yukimura's back, fingers digging into his chest as she held onto him with all of her might.

"Please, Yukimura-kun!" exclaimed Katsumi. She had never called him such before, always using a formal title. But... she really did see him as a friend. One of her few real friends. He had kept her secret, lied for her. Yuki had been so kind to her. The very last thing she wanted was to hurt him. Katsumi clenched her eyes shut and cried, "S... Stop this. Please! I... I fucked up. I... I'm so sorry! I... I never wanted to hurt you, especially after... after everything you have done. After... After you kept my secret and... and were so... so kind. You... You are my first... real friend, Yukimura-kun. Someone... Someone I can trust and that... I care for."

It was true. It wasn't really fair to call Haji that, as they were definitely something more than friends. They were lovers. And even with Takehiro... they had had such limited and circumstantial meetings. They were mostly acquaintances until more recently. But Yukimura... right from the start when he didn't hurt her like she had expected and brought her to his sister-in-law, after that time in the hotspring... they were friends. Katsumi had never had a friend before, not in her sixteen years of life.

"We're... We're friends... aren't we?" her voice ended with a hesitant squeak. Kat's knees began to buckle, her body screaming from the pain, and a soft, agonized cry sounded from her parted lips. She only held onto him all the more tightly. "Please... I... I don't want to lose the... the people who... who took me out of my hell and the... the ones I... I hold most d-dearly to me. You... You all are that t-to me."

She continued to hug him tightly, holding onto him for dear life, even as she felt hers slipping away. How long could she endure these flames? This heat? Kat's breathing was labored and the smoke from the fire caused her to cough, and the girl whimpered in-between, "Life... is finally... worth living. It's... It's too... too early to e-end it now. So... let's all... l-live it together... Yuki...mura...kun."

The fingers on his chest would loosen, hands slowly falling down, and she leaned against his back, her legs unable to support her small frame any longer.

[Morei Haji]

"What...? Katsumi, wait!"

I was too late to stop her, she was considerably faster than me. But going out into that inferno was suicide! Grimacing, I would surround her in my light at the least to stop her from most of the burning, as my power was at least stronger than Yukimura's, this resulted in me getting heated up instead though.

I was surprised and confused about her going to hug Yukimura... but as she said to trust her, I figured I wouldn't really think about it too much. If he tried anything I'd just beat him up lol.

I hoped that Katsumi's efforts would quell the heat at the least... and if Yukimura did calm down... I'd just walk up to Takehiro, patting him on the shoulder.

"Well, that's all done with now, right?"

I hoped anyway. Not like Takehiro was going to hit me or anything, right?

... Right?

[Amakusa Takehiro]

Takehiro frowned at the continuing displays. Yeah, maybe he acted a little rash with the tidal wave, but he stopped. Miss ACTUALLY-A-WOMAN-AND-DIDN'T-TELL-TAKEHIRO over here attacked him first, then Yukimura got all angry and it just got to be too much. Takehiro and Haji were here to train, and it seemed the inclusion of the other two in the fantastic four only served to create unnecessary drama. But maybe they should't hide things from their friends, maybe that would have kept all this from happening >

During Katsumi's whole speech, Takehiro drank one of his musou wines he bought earlier, and all his fatigue was just... gone. All of it.

"Maybe we can get back..."

Takehiro would turn to Haji and, with no warning, pull his arm back as if he was going to punch the guy in the face. Instead, a dark log came to hit his head from behind, and then would form around to make a cushioning gauntlet around his fist which would then slam into Haji's chest. The force behind it was so great that there was actually a dark backlash, and tendrils would shoot from the ground, everywhere, in every direction. The most notable two, would be aiming for Katsumi's and Yukimura's anuses. The tendrils would then form a powerful dark dome around the two, that would force Yukimura to calm down or exhaust his and Katsumi's oxygen supply!

"... to TRAINING!"

The best part about it was, not only was he the strongest Spiritually, but his fatigue was all gone.

[Sanada Yukimura]

In his rage-filled state, Yukimura only cared about battering the light and wind shield with his Musou and shattering it, because he got attacked for doing absolutely nothing, and did not notice Katsumi drop her shield and scramble away from Haji, then leap over and behind him. It wasn't until he felt something embrace him from behind and turn his head to look behind him, did he snap out of his rage, as he was caught off guard by Katsumi hugging him from behind.

"Wha...? Katsumi-san!?"

A look of utter shock on his face as she held onto him as the tornado of fire raged on, he was utterly taken aback and confused by such a risky move. That alone was enough for him to cease the barrage of lances of fire that rained down on Haji's light shield, as he would frown at her, his eyes hidden by his hair.

"Wha... Of course we're friends! All of you I consider good friends and great allies, but Katsumi-san, are you nuts!? Why would you do such a-"

His arms automatically grabbing hold of hers still wrapped around him, he would catch her and keep her standing even as she passed out from the heat. Immediately dissipating the tornado of fire, Yukimura would quickly hoist Katsumi onto his back, carrying her, but he was still utterly shocked by her foolhardy move. She could've seriously died from such a move, even with Haji's protective light coating her entire body. His rage meter now all the way down to a measly one, he would absorb all residual Musou and heat energy into his arm, so Katsumi wouldn't be in any more danger... Only for Yukimura's eyes to widen as tendrils of darkness from Takehiro's attack on Haji came shooting for... their anuses.

"GOD DAMN IT TAKEHIRO-SAN!"

Yukimura would shout as he fired a dragon made of heat energy from his arm, to intercept the tendrils, and would try to run away with Katsumi still on his back, only to end up in a dome of darkness soon after.

"I've already calmed down Takehiro-san! If Katsumi-san dies because you decided to... exhaust our oxygen supply... I'll come back and haunt you!"