Mai-HiME Fan Fiction ❯ Mai-HiME: "Loose Threads" ❯ Chapter 10

Mai HiME: "Loose Threads"

 

Chapter 10

 

 

For the one you love, you can become a demon.

 

Minagi Mikoto recalled hearing that once. For her brother, the Obsidian Lord, she had become a soulless killing machine. She's hurt people she counted as beloved. She'd killed Jii. The stains on her soul were as bloody red as her deeds. Yet, Tokiha Mai, her guardian, her friend had seen past that.

 

In Mai's smile Mikoto had found a place where she was accepted and loved. She, who was taught only to rely on her skills and her wits, found solace in depending on another. Mai whose heart was always full with the cares of others, still had room for a feral girl. This pitiful creature that destroyed all around her in the name of a twisted love that didn't even exist.

 

This pitiful creature, who could only find peace in the sordid arms of her former enemy. Mikoto had decided. What she did with Nao made her feel dirty inside. But the more tainted she felt, the more depression would set in. And the more the depression set in, the more she felt the need for the small amount of comfort Nao provided.

 

Realizing that she was in a trap did nothing to help her escape. She was bound by the chains of her heart. There was no escape.

 

A hand softly caressed her cheek and Mikoto managed not to cringe away. She turned to meet curious, green eyes which were filled with mirth.

 

"Daydreaming?" Nao asked lightly as she lay gazing at her companion.

 

The pair was lounging on a grassy hillock just outside the campus. While the sun blazed in this cloudless day, the trees above and about them gave ample shade. Along the hillock, bees lazily browsed a chorus of wildflowers. All here was at rest.

 

Yuuki Nao, on the other hand, was feeling restless. Here she was, in her favorite spot with her favorite plaything and yet she was not at peace. Having sworn to rescue Mikoto from this horrid, unrequited love, Nao was at a loss for what to do next. Mai had taken steps, to the point of rutting with her smarmy boyfriend to dissuade her roommate's romantic fantasies. However, this diminutive brunette refused to see the truth:

 

It wasn't that Mai didn't love Mikoto; she was simply not capable of doing so. Even as Mikoto slowly realized this truth, even as she lay with Nao in this most romantic of places, her heart still held her captive. Perhaps she *would* have been happier as the Obsidian Lord's pet killer.

 

"No," Nao said to herself. "She wants what people think of as true love. Even if she'll never find it in this life."

 

Nao's lips were upon her again. Mikoto's eyes widened a bit as this kiss felt somewhat different from the others. The quality was almost...earnest. Those thoughts were quickly banished as a hand grazed her inner thigh.

 

I almost slipped there, Nao thought. I almost let myself fall. I mustn't do that again, for both our sakes.

 

The redhead forced her attention away from that place; that false place where actions are ruled by emotion. She instead focused on the very real realm of carnal pleasure.

 

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