Bankotsu POV:
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I was panting hard.
Running as fast as I could after the boar I was chasing.
Snow was falling all around me as my feet padded through.
A bloody knife in one hand and a rope in the other. I had managed to wound the big pig but not be able to deal the final blow.
"Bankotsu!" My father called out in the distance.
I wasn't stopping till I got the damn pig.
The boar was tiring out I could tell as the small trail of blood grew, staining the white snow a dark crimson.
I smirked.
The boar was breathing heavily as I circled it.
The giant pig roared and squealed before charging at me. With the knife still in my small hand I charged at the boar.
Pain shot through my whole body as the big pig bashed into me.
"Got you, you bastard!" I screamed as I drove the knife into it's neck.
The boar had pushed us off a small hill which I hadn't realized until I was rolling downwards with a bloody dead pig rolling with me.
I rolled and hit a snow covered tree trunk, promptly launching me into the air before falling roughly into the snow.
Lifting my face out of the snow I saw that there was a large smudge of the deep crimson color followed by a deep pain in my temple.
"Damn it." I cursed.
"Where am I?" I questioned to myself.
"Dad?!" I called out but no response.
Wincing once again at the shooting pain in my head. I cover the aching spot with my hand. Bringing my hand down, just as I expected, my hand was covered in blood.
I looked around to see where I was. I was mostly surrounded by trees but in the close distance I saw an old run down looking castle with high walls and very few windows.
I began walking through the shin deep snow towards this mysterious building.
'What is that place?' I thought the closer I got to the dark grey and gloomy looking castle.
"Someone at the window?" I whispered as I narrowed my eyes at the flash of purple-white bobbing up and down.
I had reached the edge of the Forrest near the building.
The closer I looked I noticed that the single small window had metal bars blocking whatever from getting in or getting out.
Suddenly small pale hands clasped onto the metals bars before I saw what had caught my eye moments before.
Purple-white Hair.
Lavender hair.
My eyes widened. A girl poked her head up. She smiled at the little white flower that was growing from a crack in the window's corner.
Her eyes were mesmerizing. One eye was the brightest emerald green color I had ever seen and the other...a blood red color. Her hair was a soft shade of lavender, from far away it looked white but focusing on her I could see the pale shades of purple that was the mysterious girl's hair.
She looked to be maybe a year or two under me. I was only ten years old and I've always been told I was a ladies man, never got nervous around them. But at this moment I was frozen.
It felt weird. This one lonesome girl had taken my mind off of the pain in my head along with my breath.
Taking a step forward the girl must have sensed me. In a moment that seemed to last forever her eyes locked with mine. She watched me as intensely as I watched her. This girl had to be the prettiest girl I had ever seen.
Without realizing my own movements, my hand raised up and rocked back and forth, softly waving at her.
The girl mimicked my exact movements before she quickly turned her attention to something behind her. She glanced at me once more before jumping down, disappearing into the building.
"W-wait!" I cried out to her.
And with fail she was gone. But that one little flower she was staring at, swayed with the wind.
I lowered my hand as I heard shouting.
"Bankotsu?! Where the fuck did you go you little troublemaker?!" My father's angry voice boomed through the trees.
I sighed and walked back to the dead boar. Picking it up by it's tusk I turned to get one last look as the building, the window and finally the lonely little white flower. A part of me hoped that girl would be at the window again, watching him with those big mismatching doe eyes but when his eyes landed on the window all he could see was the metal bars and the darkness from the castle.
"There you are you little shit!" I turn to see my father trotting towards me. An angry vein pulsing in his temple and his face red.
"Got the boar." I say nonchalant.
"And managed to get beaten up by the damn thing as well." He replies.
I shrugged my shoulders as I rummaged through our bag to get a rag to clean up my forehead.
Father sighed at my injuries.
"Well," father says picking up the dead boar and throwing it over his shoulder, "lets get back to the village so that we can eat this big fucker."
"And train afterwards?" I ask as we walked side by side.
"Oh yeah. Some of the other gang members captured a few travelers you can practice on. Remember boy the second you hesitate-"
"You play into your enemy's hands. There is no such thing as a fair fight." I finished for him.
Ruffling up my hair he laughs.
"Damn right my boy." He laughs.
I smile up at him but my mind couldn't keep off that girl.
That lavender haired girl.
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I woke up with a jolt.
Sitting up I cup my face into my hand as my head pounded from a prior night of heavy drinking.
"Fuck..." I cursed.
It had been years since I thought of my old man and my childhood.
Years since I thought of that girl.
A soft moan broke me from my thoughts. Catya stirred in her sleep. Moaning softly as she snuggled into the blankets.
She was so beautiful. Her soft features, large doe eyes, little nose, sexy lips and long silky lavender hair that sprawled everywhere. She has never had contact with someone from the outside world and I was the first one to find her and the first one to lay between those soft bandaged thighs.
I groaned as my cock twitched as I was pushing the blanket off of her so I could get a better look.
Her petite body was littered with hickeys and she had bruises around her inner thighs and hips. Devouring her had become one of my favorite things to do. That and staring into her red/green eyes while I fisted her lavender hair.
Red and green eyes and lavender hair.
My eyes widened as I stared at her. Realization hitting me like a pound of bricks.
Catya had the same lavender hair and mismatching eyes as the girl from all those years ago. So much has happened in my life that I had just forgotten the memory where that girl existed.
I felt a weird flutter to my stomach as I scrambled away from her.
Fuck, fuck, fuck, FUCK!
Why didn't I realize it the second I saw her?! I felt like I couldn't breath.
I spent two years waiting to see her again. Every day after I first saw her I would go to the same window, see the same gloomy metal bars, even the same little white flower but no girl.
Damn it! My reaction was the exact same and I didn't even realize.
Frozen.
The second I saw her fucking beautiful face I instantly froze, like I did all those years ago.
I quickly ran out of the room to Jakotsu's.
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Jakotsu's POV:
"Mmmm.." I moaned as I took a sip of warm tea.
The young man next to me refilled my cup.
I ran a finger down his firm chest.
"You've pleased me quite well. This tea is fantastic." I say huskily.
"Good, I'm glad to have done a good job." He replied with the same amount of lust in his voice.
Just as we were leaning in Bankotsu bursts through the door.
"Jakotsu!" He yells out.
"Oh yeah, don't mind knocking." I say sarcastically as I took another sip.
The young man eyed big brother up and down. Biting his lip he says, "if he wants to join us he most defiantly can."
Big brother glanced down as the young man crawled to him.
"Oh no." I mumble under my breath.
"Get the fuck off of me!" Big brother barked as he shook off the horny man.
"Sato, go ahead and leave. I'll see you again tonight." I winked at the sexy blonde man.
He bowed to us and quickly disappeared.
"So what's troubling you?" I ask as I pull out a bottle of sake.
Bankotsu plops down next to me before running his fingers through his hair.
"Do you remember anything about a girl in my past?" He asked me.
"It's been years since you've even brought up your past." I tell him.
He looks up at me, his dark blue eyes filled with confusion.
"I had a dream about her last night."
This instantly caught my attention.
I had to think. It had to have been almost three years since he's mentioned anything about the mysterious girl in the gloomy castle.
"You're talking about the albino girl right? The one that was in a creepy castle?" I ask him.
He nods his head.
"Yeah. That one."
He paused for a moment before standing up to pace the room.
I've known Bankotsu for many years so I knew that when he paced around like this while biting at his thumb, something was wrong.
"I never told you in full detail what she looked like right?" He asks me.
Pouring our cups I look up at him.
"No, just that she was a creepy looking albino girl in a spooky castle that was admiring a small pathetic flower."
He exhaled.
"The albino part was somewhat truthful? She was pale as a ghost and her hair was a shade of white.."
He sat down next to me. I offered him his cup which he gladly took.
Chugging the alcohol down he cleared his throat when finished.
"She had white skin, really fucking pretty, with lavender hair and red/green eyes."
I blinked.
That's the same way he describes Catya.
I opened my mouth to say something but he beat me to it.
"Now who do you know matches that exact description?" He asks, already knowing the answer.
"Catya." I answered.
"Exactly. I....I think she's the same girl. What irritates me more though is that I didn't even realize it. It never processed through my mind that she was the same girl all those years ago."
"Heh, sounds like your fates are intertwining." I say quietly as I refilled his cup.
"It sure has." He says just as quietly.
"What are you going to do? Ask her about it?" I asked curiously.
"I don't know," he sighs, "I'm going to be going with you tonight. Catya is meeting with a certain someone and I don't trust that fucker one bit." He says through gritted teeth.
"Who?"
"Watari."
I dropped my cup.
"What? But he's dead?"
"I thought so too."
"No. No. No." I say in disbelief.
There is no way that man is alive. Big brother cut his head clean off.
"Yuuup." He says with annoyance laced in his voice.
"Slippery shit. I'm going to find out for sure how he's still living, even if it means testing out how many times he can die." Bankotsu says clenching his jaw.
Big brother stood up and walked to the door.
"I'll see you later." He says before going leaving and sliding the door closed after him.
The more I thought about what big brother had said the more I realized.
The chemistry between the two was undoubtable. Like they were meant to be.
Tied together by that unbreakable red string of fate.
"What a crazy way to start a crazy day.." I groaned.
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