----One year later----
--New Tachibana household--
After the event at the Arena and the research facility, there was absolutely no way any of us could return to Great Weaver Academy, as well as the city we all lived in. But, thanks to Takane, we all made it to another city which is across the country. Basically, Takane had a back-up plan if anything bad happened. So, she has a secret house which is big enough for all of us to live in.
Not only have there been changes to our living spaces and life, but our bodies as well. Just in case, all of us changed our hair styles and colors. I cut my long purple hair and dyed it white. Well, all of us basically changed our hair styles into the complete opposites. Takane's black hair is now a some-what short blonde. Akari's light brown hair is now down almost below her lower back, and its color is now black. Kanade's long, black hair is now as short as Takane's and reaches down just below her shoulder blades. Her hair is also the same color as Takane's. Shirou grew out his short white hair and dyed it red.
Along with all of our appearance re-adjustments, once we got settled in our new house I told everyone about the Connection. I told everyone everything, because all of them are so involved with me that there is absolutely no way I wouldn't tell them. After I finished explaining everything, Takane announced that it would be best that me, Akari, Kanade, and Shirou all focus on controlling the Connection. Takane said that we should try to unlock and perfect the hidden secrets of the Connection as fast as possible, because all of us can't stay incognito forever.
The secret house, which is basically just a giant old house separated from the rest of the city, has several extra rooms where all of us can practice the techniques involving the Connection. We have used them to our advantage, and have produced great results which gave us the necessary information to some-what understand how the Connection works. Well, here's a brief summary of what we have achieved thus far:
When someone that is in the Connection focuses enough, they are able to see the Threads which connects themselves and the others to the Connection source. When they focus enough, a person that is Connected is able to feel a small warmth in their chest, which is primarily near the heart, and the closer that person gets to the Connection source, the more warmth they feel. They can not only use that to find the Connection source, but they can also use that to locate other people who are Connected. The Connection source can also do the same.
One of the strange things we found about the Connection is that all of the Connected are able to send images of what they're seeing and or thinking of. However, this was only achieved three times, and all of those times were achieved by Shirou. He sent me some images which I didn't really want to see, but, at least we found out that secret of the Connection.
Along with the Connection, it seems as if all of their, Akari's, Shirou's, and Kanade's, powers have been...modified. Not only have their powers' colors turned dark purple, but their power has also increased. A lot. It's safe to say their power has doubled.
Now, one of the real questions is: What about me? Well, as you would expect, I haven't been able to bring out that sword I used last year. Well....that's not entirely true. I've almost been able to fully release it, however, there was so much pain that I had to stop. I got at least half of the sword out, but that was it. Also, when I was trying to take out the sword unsuccessfully, Shirou, Akari, and Kanade all said that they felt pain in their chest.
Along with that, I haven't been able to dive inside my 'mind'. Well, first of all, I've never voluntarily gone deep inside my 'mind', so of course I asked Takane for help considering her status as a VoidWeaver. But, even with her help, it didn't happen.
As a last measure of safety, Takane made sure that all of us are going to different schools. Along with that, all of the schools we're going to are regular schools. Which means, there are no Weavers in the schools we're attending. Basically, the city we live in is a Weaver-free zone. However, the police, firefighters, and other people that are involved in things like that are of course Weavers. Other than that, no Weavers.
Even if we hide our identities as Weavers, people still look at Shirou and I sort of weirdly, which is primarily because of our hair colors. Then again, Shirou and I are both taller and bigger than normal guys, so maybe people don't really know how to approach us. Well, Shirou's personality is of the energetic talkative kind, so he's not as bad as I am. Still, I've been trying to not be how I was before everything that happened, but over a period of time I found out that it's easier to just be myself.
Today, Takane said she wanted to try another method involving the release of my sword. That method involves everyone, which obviously does not include Takane because she doesn't have the Connection. Anyways, once everyone returns home from school, we're going to gather in the giant house's backyard.
Unfortunately, my school's release time is later than everyone else's by approximately thirty minutes. So, they're going to have to wait.
As the top in class, I was forcefully given the role of being class president. Well, it's not like I hate it, but...it's kind of annoying. Thanks to that, it takes me another...ten to thirty minutes to get home from school. Some days are quicker than others, but most of the time it's somewhere in between ten and thirty minutes.
Also, there's a really annoying girl in my class that always says: "You! You stole my position! I won't forgive you!!"...most of the time I just ignore her, but now-a-days she's been a real pain. However, even if she does do that, she also helps me with my work. She stays after the final school bell has rung and helps me with the everyday class president duties. Well, overall, she's not a bad person.
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*RING*
As the final school bell rang, the teacher excused everyone as they stood up and exited the class while meeting up with their friends. Stretching backwards in my seat, which is placed in the front of the middle row, Hanazawa Miyuki, the annoying girl, walked up to the side of my desk.
"Hey, class president, aren't you going to start on your duties? Or are you giving up and want me to be class president?" Miyuki said with a slight smirk as she flipped her long dark brown hair.
Sighing, I stood up from my desk and walked over to the board to start cleaning it.
"Hey! Don't ignore me!"
Me ignoring you is inevitable if you keep annoying me so much!
Without turning around, I continued to clean the white board and said:
"Listen, if you're going to stay behind and talk to me, maybe you should at least help me with my work while you're talking."
With that, she walked up to the other end of the board and started to clean. Passing students who recognized us were saying things like:
"Aren't those two always together?"
"They look like they're going out."
"Miyuki is totally going for Akito, I can just tell."
"Is it just me or do they sort of look good together?"
Sighing, I threw away the paper towels I used and began walking in-between the rows of desks to look for anything that a student may have left behind. Looking over at Miyuki, I saw that she was just standing there facing the white board. About a minute or two later, I finished searching the desks and looked over to see Miyuki still standing in the same spot.
Is it just me or is this atmosphere really awkward?...she's just standing there I have no idea what to do and the atmosphere is getting weirder and weirder.
As I grabbed my bag from my desk, I walked over to the one of the doors. Turning around to face Miyuki, I said:
"Ok, Miyuki, I think you can stop acting weird now."
"Huh? Oh, sorry...was just lost in thought."
"...For that long?"
"Why, is there a problem with that?" She said loudly while slightly looking at me with the corner of her eye.
"No, not really. Just thought it was weird that you were standing there the whole time."
"-! Hmmnn..." She looked down and blushed as though she was remembering something.
"Well, doesn't really matter to me anyways. I'm heading home now, so I'll see you tomorrow...non-class president." I said while emphasizing the last three words.
"Gh!" She slightly flinched at those words, and she walked towards her desk as I left the classroom.
"Hey! Wait for me!" Miyuki yelled as I ignored her and kept on walking towards the school entrance.
*sigh* I better get a move on. They're waiting for me.
Looking around and finding that there are no people left, I silently jumped into the sky. Flying up above the clouds, I controlled the wind currents around me to keep the warm air around me while still giving myself enough oxygen to breathe normally. Along with that, I dried myself off because flying through clouds isn't very dry.
Wow...that much wetness probably means it's going to rain soon. Otherwise, I wouldn't get this wet.
Thinking that, I flew in the direction of my home. Looking down at the clouds, sometimes I would get glimpses of the earth which is several thousands of feet below. Not only that, but the sunset in-front of me layered the clouds with an orange glow, and the sun itself shined with a brilliance that only someone like me could see. Stopping mid-flight, I floated in place to take in my surroundings.
Beautiful, big clouds surrounded me while the sun's light flooded everything around me. I could feel the sun's warmth of my skin, and thought to myself:
Hahaha....this is awesome. Peaceful, beautiful, and most of all...quiet. Heh, thinking about it now...what is my power? Where did it come from? What is its purpose? Why do I have it? What is that thing in chains? Although that thing definitely has a human form...it doesn't feel like a human. Man I don't get it!...........Haaaaah......well, I really shouldn't pressure myself like this when I have such a beautiful scene surrounding me. Truly...I'm glad I'm a WindWeaver. A powerful one, too.
Deciding I should head home, I started to fly towards my house once again.
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Flying down into the surrounding area around my home as fast as I could, I landed silently and softly. The leaves of the many trees around me fluttered in the wind, and I began walking out onto the paved road which heads towards my home. Walking normally, I could hear birds chirping as wind flowed through the trees beside me.
Our home is basically located almost right next to a mountain. Although our home doesn't connect to any secret tunnels into the mountain or anything, the house's backyard is enormous. Which is why Takane is locating the test there.
Walking up the some-what old stairs to the front door, I knocked three times. The front of our house is kind of old looking, with a big fron't porch which goes to the left and right of the front door instead of protruding outwards. There are several rocking chairs placed on each side, and they look some-what new with white and red striped cushions.
The door opened, and Kanade appeared before me.
"I'm home, Kanade." I said with a smile.
"Welcome home Akito!" Kanade answered as she moved for me to get inside.
"How've you been?" I asked.
"Meh, the same as usual. Basically just waiting for you to get home."
"Ah, ok. Where's everyone else?"
"They're all waiting outside in the back yard. I was about to head there too."
"Alright, well go on ahead. I have to change out of my school uniform first."
"Ok, see you there."
Heading off towards my room, Kanade walked towards the back yard. Our home isn't a two-story house, but a one-story house. Although it might've been better for it to be a two-story, I like it being a one-story. Just a change in style, I guess.
After entering my room, which is next to Shirou's, I changed into plain white t-shirt and jeans. Walking outside into the backyard, I found everyone else sitting in some of the several chairs placed near each other.
"Everyone, I'm here." I said loudly as I jogged over to them.
"Oh, Akito! Finally! It took you forever to get here." Takane said while standing up.
As Shirou stood up, he said:
"Freaking finally..."
Akari stood up and walked over to me. Looking up at me and giving a big smile, she said:
"Welcome home, Akito."
"...Hm. I'm home, Akari." I answered while giving her a return smile.
"Yea, O.K. love birds, move over here." Takane said as she moved towards the 'center' of the back yard.
"Love bir-!" Akari stammered as her face turned bright red.
"...Ugh. It's a joke, Akari. Don't take it too literally." I said while erasing the small amounts of embarrassment I felt.
Walking over to Takane, I stood in-front of her while Shirou, Akari, and Kanade stood beside me.
"Ok. Now, I'm going to announce what this test is going to be." Takane said while looking at us.
"I want you three: Shirou, Kanade, and Akari to focus on your Connection with Akito at the same time he's trying to release his sword." She said while she pointed at them three.
"What? How do you know that will work?" I asked.
"Hm? Of course I don't know if it will work or not. That's why it's a test, and experiment of sorts."
"Hmm....sounds simple enough." Shirou said as he put on a thinking expression.
"Well, I guess we can try it." Akari said.
"It's worth a try. Who knows, it might just work." Kanade added.
"Alright! Akito move a couple spaces away from them, but don't face them. Just face the the trees over there." Takane said as she pointed to the trees opposite of our house.
"Ok..." I said as I walked a couple feet towards the trees.
"Alright, Akito. I want you to focus as much as you can and try to release the sword. Shirou, Kanade, and Akari, when I say 'now', you start to focus on the Connection towards Akito, ok?"
"""Got it.""" They all replied.
I stood in good stance, and waited for Takane's word. I heard the other three moving around as well, so I'm pretty sure they're ready.
"...Now!" Takane yelled.
Immediately, I focused on the image of drawing out the sword from my chest, and purple lightning started to manifest around the left side of my chest. Lightning start to appear around my right arm, and as that happened I reached 'into' the lightning surrounding my chest.
Just then, I felt an enormous amount of pain course through my whole body. It was as if the individual parts of my body were being ripped apart. In every bone and every muscle I felt pain, and it only got worse. Suddenly, the pain lessened slightly.
It's....working?
Grabbing hold of the hilt, I started to pull the sword out of the lightning. Huge amounts of energy and wind was being given off as the hilt exited the lightning.
There's still a lot of pain though!
Pulling out the sword with all my strength, it slowly exited the lightning. The pain was noticeably less, but there was still a lot of it. By now, I've reached the half-way mark.
-!!!...Come on!!!
"GET OUT!!!" I shouted as I poured all of my strength into one last tug.
As I pulled on the sword with all of my strength, even more energy and wind was being released. Small pieces of earth was beginning to rip off of the ground and into the surroundings.
Suddenly, I pulled the entire sword out of the lightning. As I did, a huge shock-wave of energy quickly escaped. It cracked the earth surrounding the whole area, and the wind that was released almost blew everyone off their feet.
The burst of wind stopped, and everything grew silent. I stood there with the sword in my hands, but...it looked different. The guard of the sword no longer protrudes downwards, instead, it just goes straight out. The blade is the same shape, however, there are written symbols in an unknown language on each flat side of the blade. An outline of the blade's shape is surrounding the symbols, and the outline itself slowly releases a small amount of dark mist while giving off a purple glow. Small amounts of dark purple lightning sometimes flashes across and around the blade.
Suddenly, all of the lightning surround my right arm swarmed towards the location just above the guard. The action created huge amounts of light and wind, and when it calmed down, the eye appeared at the same location. But now, dark purple tendrils are surrounding the eye, but not too much as to interfere with any battles the sword might be in.
To me, the sword is basically weightless. Swinging it around a little bit, I felt comfortable with the sword, even though it's looks doesn't really fit me. Turning around, I said:
"It worked."
"...Yes...it looks like it did." Takane said while making traces of void disappear.
"It looks pretty nice!" Shirou exclaimed as he came running over to me.
"Yea, it does! Although...it looks a little bit too big." Kanade said as she looked at the sword weirdly.
"At least it succeeded, right?" Akari added as she walked over to us smiling.
Their eyes are shining with purple light but all of them are conscious...I guess that's progress as well.
As Takane walked over to us, she asked:
"I wonder what those symbols mean?"
"Haha, don't ask me. Just because I wield this monstrosity doesn't mean that I will know everything about it." I replied jokingly.
"....Well, can't you do anything with it?" Kanade asked anxiously.
"Hmm....good question. However, I don't want to try anything out. Mostly because if I did, it would most likely be too big and everyone in this town will notice...and that's not something I want to happen."
"That's true. Good thinking, Akito. Right now, I think we should celebrate with some cake and ice-cream!" Shirou said as he pumped his right fist into the air.
"Hahaha, sounds good! I'll go ahead and drive to the store and see if they have any cakes available. I'll also get some extra ice-cream just in-case we're running out."
Takane said as she headed inside the house.
"Yay! Cake!" Akari said as she walked happily inside the house.
Cake sounds so~ good right now. Can't wait! And if Takane gets my favorite ice-cream, Chocolate Brownie Moose Tracks, then that will be even better!
Making the sword disappear into mist, I walked inside the house to wait for Takane to return.
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---Two hours later---
After Takane got home, all of us celebrated and finished off the huge cake. Almost all of the ice-cream Takane bought was eaten, and after we ate everything we played some games until everyone was tired.
Right now, I'm laying in my bed unable to go to sleep. For some reason, I feel more...successful. Of course, I feel more powerful but...it's different.
*step* *step*
Hearing someone's footsteps outside of my room, the door opened and the person walked towards my bed.
"Akito..." The person whispered.
"Hmm...? Who are-...Akari? Why are you here?" I replied with a whisper.
"I don't know, it's just...I feel weird..."
"You feel weird? How?"
"I can feel this...huge amount of warmth in chest and it won't go away...and the closer I get to you the more I feel it..."
By now, Akari's breathing has become more noticeable.
"? Well...I don't really kno-!"
Suddenly, Akari drew my blankets off of me and crawled on-top of me. I could feel her warmth directly, and I could also feel her breath on my skin. She lifted her head to look into my eyes, and the light from the window above my bed slightly shown on her face. I could see that her face is bright red, as if she's blushing to the extreme.
"U-umm...Akari, what are you-"
"I can't...hold it in any longer...."
"W-what do you mean?"
"Sometimes, I would feel this same warmth but....tonight it's so much stronger..."
"You've felt it before...?"
"Yea..."
As we were talking, Akari's sweet smelling breath was softly hitting my neck and some parts of my face. Because of the situation, it made it a lot more dangerous than it should be.
"So...Akari...why are you here?"
"I'm here because...I feel it more when I'm closer to you..."
"Oh...couldn't you have just resisted it like all the other times?"
"Of course not!" Akari slightly yelled.
"!...Akari..."
"Haa...Akito...I have something to say..."
"W-what is it?..."
"I...I...lo..."
"Lo...?
"...I love you...."
"..."
What? WHAAAAAAAT! I mean, I kind of got the hints, but...there's so much impact if you hear it directly from the person while in a situation like this!
"Y-y-you l-love me?" I stammered, fully taken by surprise with my cheeks slighty dyed a bright red.
"..Yea..."
"U-umm...I don't really know how to respond to tha-"
All of a sudden, Akari bent down and kissed me. It felt like her warmth was being transferred directly to me, and atmosphere was so romantic that I accepted her kiss. Our kiss became deeper as I wrapped my arms around her tightly.
"Mmm....Ahh....Mnn..." Akari made several noises, and when our lips parted she would take a quick breath and we would kiss again.
At first, it was a simple kiss. However, I don't know when, but the kisses became more erotic as Akari and I would wrap our tongues together. Small drips of saliva would escape our mouths, and for some reason it felt as if my mouth was creating more saliva than usual. Because of that, I would have to swallow every so often so my mouth wouldn't overflow.
"Haa....Haa....Akito...I need to catch...my breath-"
I was so into it that I stopped Akari from talking by kissing her. Parting our lips, I lifted my head and bit Akari's left ear softly, and as that happened Akari let out a small high pitched sound. She began to sweat slightly, which added to her erotic appearance.
Lifting her body up a couple inches from my body, she grabbed my hand and placed it on her left breast. Letting out a slightly louder sound, she pressed my hand firmly against her chest. She was wearing a very thin night gown, and it was so thin that I could see her bra through it, as well as the lower parts of her body.
Lifting my left leg upwards, my leg went up in-between her legs and I lifted her up slightly. As I did that, she gripped my shoulders tightly and let out a loud, some-what high pitched sound. She kept breathing hard and she slightly started to move her hips as she bent down and kissed me again.
Going on like that for a couple more minutes, Akari and I were kissing each other as well as some other things so much that it was getting to the point where if we didn't stop we do something that we definitely couldn't deny. Luckily for me, we never got to that point. The reason for that is because as I finally grabbed Akari's bare breasts while kissing her deeply at the same time as she was moving her hips, she did the you-know-what. Yup, right when we were kissing, she did it. Although, I don't care much because either way it was pretty awesome.
But, I guess it was so good for her that she fainted because of it. Or maybe she fell asleep, I don't know. Either way, there was no way that I would do anything to a girl who was unconscious. Also, I didn't feel like taking her back to her room so I just laid her down beside me and went to sleep. Well, even if I didn't get to do...'it'...I was still satisfied to an extent.
The reactions I got that morning...were exactly what you would expect.
Author's Note: At the beginning, I didn't bother making everyone having to get their names changed because 1. It would be too much trouble for me to create new names. 2. It's to avoid confusion, because if I was reading this I wouldn't want to have to re-learn everyone's names. Just saying.
