Rose in the Desert | By : winterfells_fallen Category: J-Rock/J-Pop & K-Pop > X Japan Views: 1499 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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A/N: I almost gave up on this because I didn't like where it was going, but thanks to one review I changed my mind and am giving it the shot it deserves. So if in the end it ends up failing, at least I gave it a shot and if it does succeed then I'll be very pleased. ^^ Thanks for the review, Tenshi112, I really appreciate it. So, really this chapter is dedicated to you :) Thanks again and enjoy.
Chapter 2: Memories
The monitors were going off the scales, doctors were frantically working around the chaos. A woman's painful scream filtered all the way into the waiting room.
Tara's head snapped up as soon as she hear the scream. "Sune..." She whispered getting up walking quickly with Sugizo and Yoshiki not too far behind them.
Sugizo was full of fear, he knew this was going to happen, but he didn't think he's really react this way. They only reason they were married was because it was her father's dying wishes and she wanted to hold up to her promise to him. He didn't realize that he had grabbed Tara's hand as he got up to move to the door.
"What's going on!?" He demanded franticly. "Is she OK?!"
Tara's vision was starting go fade on her, this always happened when she was stressing out. She was trying to clam herself by focusing on something happier like the ocean. She always enjoyed listening to the ocean, the waves rolling in and out always made her feel at ease, calm. She knew she was being pulled around and knew her uncle was behind her.
"Please, give the doctor's time, they are doing everything they can. You're wife..." The nurse started.
"What about my wife!!" He yelled at the poor nurse.
Tara tugged on his sleeve still unable to see well. "Sugzio, be calm, she can't do anything and nothing is going to get solved by yelling at this poor woman." She told her as calmly as she could hearing her mother figure in extreme amounts of pain.
Sugizo looked down at the young woman he was carrying with him. She was right and he knew it, but the anger just swelled in him. He looked back at the nurse. "What's going on." He said as calmly as he could.
The nurse sounded afraid and Tara could smell it on her. Tara took her free hand and put it on the other side of his wrist. "Whatever she tells you Sugizo, remember we are here for you." She told him.
"Kitsune's birthing has been rather complicated and one of her major organ's has erupted." She said quietly.
Tara felt him tense and held on to him tighter feeling her own tears starting to well in her eyes. "We already knew this was going to happen..." Tara said above a whisper as she felt her uncle's hand on her shoulder.
"Continue." Was all Sugizo said.
The nurse bowed deeply. "I'm so sorry Mr Sugizo, your baby... She..... " The nurse tried to keep her composure but lost it too soon. "I'm sorry." Was all she could say.
Tara was brought to the ground as Sugizo fell onto his knees. "My baby... My wife...." He was upset this much Tara could tell so she did the only thing she could, she wrapped her arms around him and held him. "My baby... My wife..." He kept saying between his sobbing. He had a tight hold on Tara.
Tara finally able to see again looked up at her Uncle who he himself had tears falling from his eyes just shook his head and walked away. A worried Haruhi followed him leaving Hide with Sugizo and Tara.
Tara rubbed his back smoothing out his hair shushing him like he was a child in her arms. "I am here for you, and always will be. I can be that pillar for you." He told him softly as he continued to sob in her arms. She looked at Hide who looked at her, she was doing everything she could to hold back her tears. I will not let him see me cry. I will not let him see me weak. She said to herself keeping her resolve as she heard the screaming stop and the monitors dead panning.
"NO!!!!" Sugizo cried as he knew what that meant. "Sune... No.... Please no it can't be happening.... No, no no no no no no!!!" He screamed as Tara just held him tighter.
She looked at Hide. "A little help? He's bigger and stronger than me." She said to him as he moved to help her get the grieving man up.
"You'll have to tour with him you realize this right Tara?" Hide asked her as they got him into the car.
"I don’t' care." She snapped back. "He's my friend and I have the ability to move around freely. You guys don't." She said as she got in the back with Sugizo. "I'll make preparations, alright?" She asked softly.
Sugizo's eyes were dead, there was no life only saddens. He'd just lost his wife and his baby and for the most part himself. He didn't know what to do, how to feel or anything. All he'd known for the past few years was Kitsune as they were getting to know each other while getting married. 7 years of marriage with a baby on the way, he was ecstatic as she was, but they were never really in love, but he knew that her being pregnant was bringing them as a couple together. Now he had nothing only a memory. He could only faintly hear Tara's musical voice through his thinking he looked over at her. She was worried, her hazel eyes showed that she cared how he was feeling and was trying to be as gentle as she could be, but something had to be done. "Yeah, that's fine." He said to her. "Thank you."
Tara smiled weakly. "I'll join you on tour, I'll be worried sick about you." She said to him seeing she finally had his attention.
He nodded again. "Sure, that'd be great. You've toured with X Japan for what 12 years?" He asked with a weak laugh. "I'm sure you'll be fine." He said to her laying down having his head in her lap. "I hope you don’t' mind, I just need the closeness." He whispered tears starting to welling in his eyes. "I'm so lost..."
Hide was driving them back to Sugizo's house in silence. He knew his friend was hurting and his little unofficial niece was taking on a large job organizing the funeral of a grown woman and a not even fully born baby. He held back his own tears of sadness as he drove on. He looked frequently to see how the two were doing. Tara looked at Kitsune as a mother figure as she was taken from her family when she was 4 years old and she knew that this hurt her as much as it did him. She'd watch Kitsune and Yoshiki date seriously for a little while and then they broke up because of the wish Kitsune's father had. Yoshiki loved her everyone knew that, but understood her reasoning for having the break up.
Tara looked down at the shaking man laying on her lap. She was sad, she wanted to cry, but forced herself not to. She couldn't let him see her weak, she was his strength now. She was bushing his hair with her right hand while her left hand was holding one of his hands tightly. She smiled sadly as they drove in silence except Sugizo's sniffles.
Tara woke up with a jolt, she hadn't dreamed of that in a long time. It'd been two years since that event. In those two years is what changed between the most between the two of them. They'd sleep together, innocently, they'd do everything together. The first few months were rough seeing as she wasn't used to not being around her Uncle all the time, but quickly made friends with the other Luna Sea members. They were grateful she came with Sugizo in his time of grief and suffering. Tara soon feel back asleep.
Tara was setting up the equipment before a show in the Tokyo Dome. This was their last show of this tour, she was grateful it was almost over, she'd never been so sick of traveling in her life. She made sure the drum kit was set up nicely as well as the bass and guitars tuned to perfection. If anything during her time with X Japan she knew how to tune and set up and break down everything.
Tara getting to Sugizo's guitar was extra careful with it, she cradled it in her hands and began playing Without You as easily as Yoshiki could play it on the piano. Unbeknownst of her Sugizo was watching her from a distance.
See Tara play his guitar made him happy and sad to see it. She was playing Without You, a piece Yoshiki a written for the passing of his father, but was also played at Kitsune's funeral. He watched her play not missing a single note but seeing that she was crying and starting to sob. He thought for a moment in nine months she had been on tour with Luna Sea he'd not once see her cry. He wanted to go and reach for her, but she had to have had a reason to not cry around him when he knew she was also in pain. As he watched her play his guilt started to wash up. Was she hiding it from me? To not make me worry? He thought to himself as he heard her stop and place his guitar down.
Tara wiped her eyes and looked out into the empty stadium she reached the middle of the stage before she fell onto her knees and started sobbing uncontrollably falling over quickly to her side shaking and crying, coughing and sniffing. She'd been overwhelmed with emotion at not only playing the song but also being the stadium. Their first concert they went to as fans was in the very same stadium where she was setting up equipment. They were in the general admission, so they were as close to the stage as they could be moshing and carrying on. "Why.... Why they'd have to take you from me to....." She cried out at the top of her lungs.
Sugizo bolted to where she was picking her up in an instant as she was having her emotion meltdown of mourning her friend, her sister, her mother figure. Her small frame against his was light, but heavy at the same time. She was fighting him trying to get him off of her.
"No, you can't see me!" She cried trying to force her way down out of his vice grip.
"No way sweet heart. I got two hours before going on his stage and you will be unmonitored for 2 more hours if not more. I'm going to make sure you're going to be alright while I'm here. You've looked over me all this time and I didn't even think about your pain. You were closer to her than I ever had been." He told her carrying her off the stage into the back passing his other band mates.
"She gonna be alright?" J asked him.
He looked at him. "She will be else you're gonna have to find another guitarist." He said taking her into his dressing room setting her down on the couch.
J was left standing in the hallway flabbergasted. "Oh shit..." Was all he said before stalking off down the hall.
Tara's face was red from the crying her eyes blood shot and her nose puffy from blowing her nose. "I didn't want you to see me like this." She said between sniffing. "I wanted to be strong for you."
Sugizo held the young woman in his arms. "You have been so strong for me." He told her. "But you have to grieve yourself and I'll be here for you like you've been here for me." He told her.
Tara smiled against his chest. "Thank you." She said quietly closing her eyes and drifting off into a dreamless sleep.
Sugizo waited for about a half hour before he laid Tara down on the couch and did his show.
Sugizo woke up slightly startled. He knew this scent he was in Tara's room, it always smiled like vanilla and cherry blossom. He felt a body beside him and looked over to see that he still had Tara in his arms. He smiled kissing her on the forehead. "I'm so glad I have you." He said quietly as she slept.
He stealthily got up from her bed and dressed himself. He was not expecting Tara to be so bold as to get him to sleep with her. Granted they had not had sex but damn he would have if he felt she was ready for it. He opened her door after placing the covers over her naked body and went downstairs to see a couch full of Yoshiki, Haruhi and Hide sitting waiting with a bowl of popcorn.
Sugizo smiled. "Morning." He said waving.
Yoshiki grinned at his friend. "Good morning. Enjoy your snack?" He asked popping a few pieces of pop corn in his mouth.
Sugizo laughed. "Yes." He stated simply.
"She tasted good." Hide said. "Very sweet." He said to them.
Haruhi nodded. "I have to agree, at least with what little I could taste from you Hide." He said her gaze going over to Sugizo. "So, wanna come sit with us or you gonna go back up there after a drink and wait for the princess to wake up?" Haruhi asked scooting over in the over sized couch to give him room.
Sugizo looked at Haruhi, she was the spitting image of her brother it was weird he still wasn’t' used to it. "I'm gonna get myself a drink and the princess one as well. I think she over did herself." He said going into the kitchen.
"Just be gentle with her, she's still young." Yoshiki said to his friend. "I don't care if you fuck her, but if you hurt her, I'll hurt you." He said to him with an amount of authority that was terrifying even to the twins.
Sugizo grabbed two bottles of water and looked at the older man. "You hardly spent time with the girl and you are so protective of her. Why is that? I have no intention of hurting her just more a question of curiosity." Sugizo said to Yoshiki who in turn grinned.
"She is my blood. She at this point though the daughter of my crazy sister is my legacy. In the event I have no children of my own she gets everything. She has grown so much musically and I am so proud of her. The reason I am so hard on her is that I won't want her to have to rely on me nor anyone else. She is self sufficient." Yoshiki paused. "I love her as if she were own daughter. She has been through too much. We have a bond stronger than anyone really realizes. If she were to truly need anything I would do what I could to help her, however if she brought it on herself than she is on her own. She cam suffer the consequences of her decision. So you have a better understanding now my friend?"
Sugizo looked at him for a moment and filtered what he had just told him. "Yea, I do thank you." He said as he started his way back up to her room.
Tara woke up and noticed Sugizo was not there but her clothes were not on and she didn’t feel as hot as she had earlier. She could hear quiet talking and her uncles voice. She held her breath for a moment and then released it when she heard him coming back up the stairs.
Sugizo walked back to her bedroom and saw her still laying down but she was awake. “Hey." He said with a huge smile on his face. "How are you feeling?" He asked sitting down giving her a bottle of water as he opened his own bottle.
Tara groaned. “Why? You want to hunt what you've already hunted?” He asked him closing her eyes to as his fingers laced through her hair.
Sugizo grinned wickedly. “Exactly, there is recording later today and I know you will be busy with getting random things for everyone. So that is when we start Round Two as you have put it. I just hope you can keep up.” He said to her dangerously.Tara opened her eyes and put the euphoric feelings she had behind him and looked at him deadpan, her eyes full of determination. “Anything you throw at me, I can handle, so challenge accepted.” She said to him. “Now I'm going to get up and dressed we have a long day ahead of us now.” She said with a sexy grin as she slowly dressed herself in front of him.
“Avoid laces, I don't want to embarrass you and gain you're uncle's ire.” He told her as he himself got out of her room to let her dress in peace. His grinned spread across his face and he looked down at the other three adult who looked like they were waiting. “She's accepted.” Is all he said.
Haruhi and Hide busted out laughing manically. “Are you sure she knows what's she's getting into?” Haurhi asked. “This is the kind of stuff me and Yoshiki do on a daily basis!?”
Sugizo went down the staircase with a spring in his step. “I quote: Anything you throw at me I can handle, Unquote.” Is all he said.
Yoshiki who had not cracked a smile or anything grinned. “Just remember what I said earlier and tell me you told her about your unlacing fixation.” He said to his younger friend.
Sugizo looked at him. “In a way, I told her to avoid them.” He said as he joined the other three. “So, recording on a Sunday, should be fun, ne?” He asked.
Haruhi looked at him. “You are evil.” She said.
Sugizo shrugged. “Evil is as evil does, you have NO idea what that woman has been doing to me.” He said with a laugh. “I'll meet you guys down there.” He said to them taking out his smokes and lighting on. It's going to be a long day indeed. He thought to himself.
Yoshiki shook his head. “We gotta get ready do, Hide. Haruhi, you mind helping Tara out with the odds and ends?” He asked his long time girlfriend. “Please? She is going to need ALL she help she can get.” He said to her seriously.
Haruhi stopped laughing and looked at Yoshiki. He was worried and she could tell. “She'll be fine, but I will help her, even give her some pointers on being ahead in the game. She's a grown woman, and fair game. I know you're protective of her, but love, it's time for her to leave the nest. We know he can control himself, he has done a very good job. She's just making it known she wants it.” She said to him giving him a tender kiss. “She'll be fine.” She said getting up and heading up the stairs. “She'll be in good hands, honey!”
Yoshiki gave a small sigh of relief. “Thank you.” He said to her looking at Hide. “Ready?”
“As I'll ever be.” Hide said as he got up and joined Yoshiki heading to the recording room.
Tara opened her door to see Haruhi. “Hello.” She said coming out of her room. She was wearing a pair of black pants fit snugly and an old fishnet under shirt with flaring sleeves from the elbow down and a black spaghetti strap shirt, absolutely no laces were found on her, except on her shoes which were black sneakers that were quite used.
“Hey, you ready?” Haruhi asked Tara after giving her an approving smile. “He's not gonna know what to do with himself.” She said to Tara with a grin.
Tara nodded. “That's the point.” She said with a mischievous grin to match Sugizo's earlier when he was talking with the lot of them before Tara had come down.
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