Back to ze past

Mori turned his head and set down his empty bowl. "With what?"

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Once his stomach had well and truly emptied itself, Sadaharu groaned and slumped back, giving a shaky laugh. "God I hate you" He joked, twisting his hair over one shoulder.

"I'm not stupid." Amaterasu sighed. "Theres something up with Sadi, and with Yuki. Tell me what it is."

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"Told you, you would." Yuki smiled, running his thumb over the boys lip nd than wiping it on the Sadaharus pants. "In a couple of weeks, you should be fine. But in your case I'd say days. Your body's just getting rid of the drugs holding effects in your blood."

Mori grimaced. "I'm sure you've figured most of it out already. You know what the kid's been up to lately, right?" Taro excused himself from the fire and wandered off to talk to Raven.

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Taking a shuddering breath, Sadaharu shook his head. "I don't need to be doing this. It wasn't doing me any damage." He rose his fevered eyes to Yuki.

"Whats he been up too Mori?" Amaterasu asked, leaning forward.

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Yuki's features softened but he grabbed hold of his friends face. "Listen to me, you can do this."

Mori snorted. "Like you haven't guessed." He finished off his current bottle of sake. "Your brother's helping him get off that drug that Luke sold him." Mori said with a shake of his head. It was apparent he'd hit the sake a little more heavily than he usually did.

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Sadaharu made a noise of exasperation before he lurched away, dry-heaving. His long hair fell over his face. Once he'd managed to get a hold of himself, he sat back and dropped his face into his hands.

"He's doing what?!" Amaterasu bellowed, standing to her feet.

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Yuki bent down and whispered into Sadaharus ear. "Get off this drug, for me. And if you wont do it for me do it for someone else, just get off it."

Mori blinked up at her, new bottle held loosely in his hands. "He's... getting off them?"

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Sadaharu nodded miserably, trembling as he wrapped his arms around himself. He wanted nothing more than to just leave, right then and somehow get hold of a vial, but he wouldn't. He simply couldn't keep this up. He had promised Amaterasu that he wouldn't take something like this up again, and he'd had Yuki following him around and trying to keep everything right as he did. He couldn't just back out on them.

"I said I'd try." He said with a sigh.

"Don't try." Yuki whispered. "Just do it. Now come on." He lifted Sadaharu up. "We're heading back to the warmth."

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"He swore, He swore to me that he wouldn't." Amaterasu was tense and her eyes aflame.

"That's probably why he's trying to stop." Mori said, setting his jaw. "I wasn't meant to say anything, was I?" He frowned and regarded his bottle before shrugging and taking a sip. "Means you got some sense into his brain."

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Sadaharu straightened up slightly, grimacing against the ever present nausea. At least his headache was starting to back down a little. He walked back towards the camp.

As soon as they entered the camp, Amateras ws on her feet and her hand met with Sadaharus face. "You lying peice of filth! You swore! YOU SWORE TO ME!"

"Ama calm down!" Yuki exclaimed, bending down next to the fallen boy.

Thats when the girls eyes met with his. "And you, you knew and you didn't tell me. You know how I feel about this you both do! I can't believe you!" She turned away.

"Ama," Sadi said, sitting up and hugging his arms around his stomach. "I'm not going to take anything anymore. Isn't that enough?" He asked wearily as he stood up, wavering on his feet.

"You swore to me. You swore." Amaterasu said. "You swore, you must have had some and still I was made to go back for some." Her fists clenched. "Why did you lie to me? I gave you... countless chances to tell me and still you passed it up. I, I can't stand that you'd lie to me."

"Becuase I was sure you'd react like this." He said and shook his head, "I never meant to hurt you. And before you say anything, I know. I did." He took a shaky breath. "The idea of telling you and having you do exactly what you're doing now was too much for me to do."

Mori had left before the two of them arrived and was now sleeping at the base of a tree on the other side of the camp, bottle still in hand. Taro had managed to convince Raven to get more firewood, that Yuki hadn't brought with him, and was watching from a short distance, face unreadable.

"Well is there anything else you want to tell me while yor at it?" Amaterasu snapped.

"I just wanted to deal with it myself. It was stupid, okay?" He stopped talking to hold his head, sighing.

"You can't deal- If the past tells." Amaterasu sighed and held her head. "I'm going to bed and in the morning we'll find this piece and then when all this is done we'll talk about this Just." She turned away. "Just go to sleep."

Shaking his head, Sadaharu walked past her, shoulders hunched and arms around his stomach. He was churning with guilt and a feeling is sickness that had nothing to do with the drugs - or lack thereof. As it was, even once he'd settled back against a tree, sleep, which seemed utterly needed easily avoided him. And somewhere between vomiting whatever water he thought he could hold down and blinding headaches he simply gave up on the idea of resting.

((I got a call from Ellie today.))

Amaterasu sat by the fire, her head in her hands.

Yuki moved away from her, afraid of her wrath.

((Yeah?))

((She almost cried and then she said it was fine because Sadi and Yuki could never be serious.))

((You guys are soooo dead *lol*))

((We are gathered here today... *smirk*))

Mori woke up fairly late in the morning, head pounding. He grumbled as he stood up and scowled darkly when Taro grinned up at him. "Morning, Mori-puu" He said lightly.
"Cut the nicknames" He muttered and walked off to get some water. Taro sat back on his heels and looked to the lines he'd drawn into the dirt, smiling softly.

Sadaharu sat on the edge of their camp, back against a tree and knees against his chest, head in his arms. Raven was nearby, impatiently tapping his fingers on his opposing arm.

"Are we having breakfast?" Yuki asked, stretching. "Or we just going to move?"

Wuu sat upright. "Boar! BOAR!"

"What?" Mori asked, knuckling his head. "Boar? We're not catching you a boar for breakfast!"

Taro smirked slightly.

"No." Amaterasu said, her eyes widening. "I think he meant that Ginat boar behind you." She scrambled for her bow.

Yuki swore and scrambled upright, he reached for his daggers, they weren't there. He looked up just intime to see the boar head for him. He was thrown aside.

Wuu scrambled up the tree.