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Today I was to meet Tsukiko in the Chisen Kaiyu Shiki Garden. I was the first to show up, so a waited a bit. Mother had smacked me a few times, but the bracer had lessened the beating greatly. He finally gets me out of his hair.

Tsukiko showed up, not long after me. Every time I see him...I feel my gut twist and my heart beat speeds up. I've spoken to Mako, my mother's second husband...about this... never mind, that will come later...

He went on about spring, and flowers, and such. It was quiet funny, he's always so chipper and happy. I waited for him to start walking, and my thoughts drifted to our winter wedding. It was spring, the last winter had ended not too long ago. But if that was what little one wanted, I was fine with it.

He spun around and told me to close my eyes and hold out my hands. Tsukiko had made me another present. I did as he told me too, and when I was allowed, opened my eyes. It was me, as a doll, made like the raven haired one I brought home with me the other day. He said it was because I was so cute. Cute?

I kissed him on his forehead, and we started walking. Tsukiko started with the spring talk again. And asked me why no one seems full of energy. I told him that he had enough energy for the both of us.

He asked for a bench....and called me Hunny. I led him to a nearby bench, and sat down, waiting for him. Apparently, if I get to call him little one, he gets to call me hunny.

I wrapped an arm around him, he seemed...down for some reason. I put a finger under his chin, and lifted it. I felt...bold. So, I kissed him as tenderly as I could. It still must have felt rough to him...

Tsukiko blushed. That made me happy. But what he said next... didn't make me happy at all. He said it was a good thing he gave up on love, as it probally didn't exisit.

I told him it did. And that... I loved him. He didn't know what love felt like, so he asked me to explain it. Explain love. So I tried.

This is what I said.

"The way Mako put it was...love is when you deeply care about some one. When all you want to do is protect them from everything that could ever hurt them, and to give them everything that could make them smile. Only the best. He said love can be many things... listening and obeying because it is what we are, nuturing the young to have them become strong, to protect others from harm, and to indeed give them the best. But then I told Mako how I feel... and...he says it is love." The blush began to play on the pale gehaka's cheeks," I cannot stop thinking of Tsukiko-san. About his smile, his words, his hair, the way he treats everything with care. I remember holding him in my arms... and I want to hold him more. I can't wash the thoughts of his kisses out of my mind... and I repeatedly find cuts on my hand, when it should be on the wood. I love Tsukiko-san's smile. I want to see it more often. I always want to be where he is. I don't want him to frown, or be dissappointed, or to cry. Whatever he wants...I want to be able to give it to him. I feel a rush of things around him. I feel warm, tingly, happy, nervous... too many things. Even if I reach out and just touch a strand of his hair... or just see him thinking on something...That is what I told him... Mako told that is love."

I didn't know how the little haka would react, I felt as it I had torn my own heart out for him and offered it to him. What would happen next?

He smiled, and he said...that he loved me as well. I cannot describe the feeling I had then. Relief, joy, happiness, and that nervousness that never left. I held his hand for a moment, not knowing what to say. Then all I wanted was to hold him again. So, I did. And I told him it would be a good thing that we were to marry then.

I kissed him again, softly on the lips. Then aske him what he could want for our wedding as a gift. But he got upset, afraid our love would some day die. He...began to cry. I was never more worried in my life.

I tried to cheer him as much as possible, but I couldn't at first. He told me to carve whatever I wanted. Then asked me to escort him home. I did...and when we arrived, he invited me in for tea. I was deep in thought, so followed and waited.

He apparently knew something was on my mind, and asked what was wrong. I told him, I thought I had hurt him. Then he told me, he had started crying...because he was happy! What is with that? Crying, because you are happy?

We walked into the livingroom, and once again I noticed the absence of funiture and other such things. I am going to make things for the house, I do believe he wanted...maple or oak... I'll have to re-ask...

When I suggested a cushion for him to sit on, he retorted that those things are for the bed. I must admit, my mind went some where it shouldn't have.

I picked up the tea dishes, and cleaned them quickly. When I returned, Tsukiko had laid down on the livingroom floor, playing with his hair, staring at the ceiling. It was a bit too much for me.

To be continued on next post >.>

Rp start!


Taini was sitting in his room, carving more things for Tsukiko. The necklace was in a box he had carved for fun long ago, cushioned, and ready for the chocolate haka. The wheelbarrow was outside, even though his older brother Ginta had scoffed at him for making such a plain thing.

His mother had been delighted at the news of a much earlier wedding...and as such, had gifted him with a new carving set to take with him when he left. It was tools to make the house Tsukiko lived in, a home. Taini was content at the moment, carving the back of the chair for Tsukiko while humming to himself.

A tall red head gehaka answered the door. He was suprised to see a haka there, and quickly bowed his head.
"Hello lord, please come in. Ginta, go get your mother," the order was directed at a blonde gehaka that looked to be Taini's brother.

"Right!" Ginta scuttled off quickly before anyone could say anything. The red haired gehaka returned to smiling at Tsukiko.
"May I get you something to drink lord?"


Taini was still in his room, carving happily away as all this was happening. The waves of the chair arms matched the back, though it would be smoothed and the middle without decoration, so it would still be comfortable. The gehaka didn't want his little one hurting himself on the carvings.

The red head was about to ask who "hunny" was, when Toki Taini, the head of the house came in.

The light brown haired gehaka was clothed in a dark green kimono, plain for the work day, and a bright blue obi. The long silky hair was swept into a bun, held in place with laquered chopsticks. His skin was the same color as Taini's, as were his eyes.

"Good day to you," he bowed his head just enough to be polite," I am Toki Taini, may I ask your name and your business here?" The haka smiled, but it was neither soft nor kind. It was all business.

Toki Taini stopped being completely polite right there. His eyebrows went up.
"A haka visiting his gehaka fiance? Why didn't you just send for him. The little brat would have come running," he nodded to the red head beside him. "Go get him Mako."

"Yes sir," Mako slipped away, running to fetch the young blonde gehaka.
"Maybn! Come quickly, your little chocolate haka is here for you."

Maybn Taini, Taini as Tsukiko called him (or hunny), looked up in shock. He didn't really think Tsukiko would come here for him! The blonde pulled his hair back into it's normal ponytail and nearly ran back with Mako.

He bowed as he entered.
"Mother, Tsukiko-san." He had to be formal with Tsukiko in front of his mother. It was just the way it had to be.

"Well Maybn, I'll be leaving now..." The haka turned on his heel, and stalked away, secretly happy. He acted cold outwardly, and spurned Mayben because he wasn't a haka to take on the family business... but, he did want him to be happy.
Mako as well, left, leaving the couple to themselves.

Taini sighed once they left and grinned at Tsukiko. "I never thought you'd come here little one," he stood up fully and walked to the haka, gathering him in his pale arms in a hug. But this was no place for that.

Taini frowned slightly, but grabbed Tsukiko's hand and began to lead him to his room.
"We can't talk or act like we normaly would unless we're away from the others... they believe in everything in the social norms." The door he opened led to a clean, but cluttered and small room. The futon was folded in the corner, clothing in a box beside it. Shelves full of carvings, and the two dolls Tsukiko had given him. Taini cleared off a cushion, and set it down for the haka to sit on. "Sorry...its not much..."

Taini chuckled, and began to put away his new carving tools. "Mother seems gruff, but if he walked away that quickly... he approves of you," the blonde bent down and picked up the back he had been working on. The waves on the left were done, the ones on the right still needed to be completed. He proped it up on a wall, and grabbed a cushion for himself.

Taini sat down, looking at the chocolate haka before him. There was a twinkle in his blue eyes.
"That wheel barrow is done little one. And I still have plenty of energy. I've been forced to take naps, as my nights are sleepless because I cannot stop thinking of you. But I will be ready come Friday." He grinned.