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Visiting Hagi

Continuation of the story with Sayako. She and Rowen go visit the main Mori home to get her grandmother's help since their mom refuses to be of use.

POTS – Visit to Hagi

“Are you sure you’ll be ok on your own?”

Sage just smiles, “For once, I’m confident to say yes. I’ve got help here at my family’s home. They were nice enough to let us stay. It’s a large house, so we can stay away from everyone.”

Rowen looks to Sayako who hadn’t entered the Date Family home yet. “Do you want to say hello?”

“I will when we come back. He’ll just question why I’m here in the first place.” She shrugs pulling her over night bag up on her shoulder. “You told me he was confused enough when you and Sage brought him here.”

“Ok, I want to at least say hello and make sure he’s doing ok. Then I’ll be out.”

“Our train leaves in four hours so don’t take long.” She looks to Sage. “He said you had the paperwork?”

The blonde walks over handing her an envelope full of documents. “My Uncle flagged the ones that will necessary for the power transfer to happen.”

“Right. And I’ll fill them out on our way. Rowen will have to sign each one as well, right?”

“Yes but only after your grandmother does.”

“T-This feels so wrong, Sage. Just pulling this without our mother knowing.”

“Say, he needs this. The reason Cye was so confused as to what was going on – he hasn’t been awake long enough for us to explain it to him. The doctors said there were medications that could help lessen the chances of fainting this many times but we can’t try it unless we have the right signatures.”

“…and my mother refuses to help.” She hangs her head gripping the enevelope tightly. “S-She’s not the mother we grew up with, I promise.. s-something’s changed, Sage. She wasn’t always like this. When Cye was younger, she would have died for him before she’d let any harm come to him.”

“Spite can make us do evil things, Sayako. You can help give Rowen the ability to help Cye. Then if things ever do calm down between Cye and your mom, she’ll be grateful he’s alive to hear her apology.”

She nods wiping her eyes before straightening up. Sage gave a nervous smile before motioning her to the sitting room, “My sister made us tea. Kacy is still learning, but she does make good cookies.”

*~*

Rowen stood quietly in the doorway of the large bedroom they had helped Cye into. It was a more traditional room than what he was used to. He stepped in looking around for the futon before he found it.

He had to admit it actually looked comfortable. There were numerous pillows tucked around the smaller warrior’s body keeping him comfortable. And the futon comfortor was fluffy and looked warm.

He gets a small moan as the other starts to come back. Forcing a smile he hurries over and kneels beside him, catching the hand that goes into the air to figure out who was there. “Hey buddy, easy. I’m here. You fainted.”

“…Rowen..?”

“That’s me.” He sits down completely before pulling the comfortor down to the other’s waist. “Do you know where you are?”

“…the floor..?” The water bearer opened his eyes and looked around groggily. His vision was going in and out of focus as he tried to figure out exactly where he was. “..not my apartment.” He starts to sit up but only sags to the side being caught by the his friend.

“Woah, hey now. Don’ be tryin’ to sit up.” Rowen catches Cye as he sags against him hugging him to his side. “Look, I uh.. I have somethin’ I need to do for a few days.”

“What?”

“Yeah. We’re visiting Sage’s home and he’s going to stay with you, ok? I need ya to listen to him and tell him what’s goin’ on. You can’t be hidin’ stuff from him.” He gently eases the younger warrior back into the pillows getting a pained moan in response. “Can you do that for me?”

“…I-I guess so. I still don’t understand what’s going on…”

“I’ll explain it to you when I’m back, ok? Just rest and try to take care of yourself for a day.” He hated having tto leave his side and had numerous times asked the other two if Cye could come.

That was of course an impossible task right now. The trip to Osaka was way too much for him as it was and he would be bedridden for the next several hours at least.

Rowen knew it would be a happy miracle if Cye met him at the door tomorrow night when he returned. The more likely scenario would him be sitting up and standing/walking with Sage’s heavy supervision.

Cye nods slowly as he lays back into the numerous pillows and plush futon mattress, his eyes growing heavy. His hand weakly clung to Rowen’s sleeve as he didn’t want him to leave.

The other sighs as he smiles, “Go on. I’ll stay until you fall back asleep then Sage will be here when you wake up.” He reaches out placing a hand on the red hair keeping it there as he ran his hands through it gently.

It only took a few seconds with how exhausted the bearer of Torrent was. Rowen reluctantly pulled himself away from the weak grip and covered him back up before getting to his feet to go meet Sayako.

*~*

“Woah… this place is huge.”

Sayako smiles proudly, “This is where most of the Mori family live. We live at the secondary kiln that were opened around the __ period.”

Rowen tilts his head before his eyes widen, “Wait a second.. can Cye make-“

“He sure can! He’s better than I am by a lot. He’s almost as good as our mother.” She sighs pulling out the house key handing to him, “Cye made this when he was about to go into Middle School. I’ve kept it ever sense.”

“I’m surprised you were taught how to do it.”

“Oh because we’re not blood related? I am as well. I just remember when our father died that his family took us in. My mother was a mess and we were worried she wouldn’t live much longer. We all needed a distraction and my grandmother taught us how to throw clay. She stayed by us and we learned the ancient techniques that had been passed down for hundreds of years. Now, believe it or not, we run the secondary kilns. Both have been burning for centuries. The ones here have been going for 200 more years than ours. It’s fascinating.” She explains happily before taking a deep breath and knocks on the door.

A few long seconds pass before the door pulls open and an older lady stands in the doorway peering out curiously. “Ahh Sayako! It’s been so long since you visited us.” She looks past her to the young man standing on the sidewalk. He had blue hair and looked nervous. “And who did you bring with you?”

“This is Rowen. I spoke about bringing someone with me? We need your help, it’s about Cye. We think he’s sick, but Mother isn’t helping us a-and..”

The old woman’s eyes widened before moving out of their way, “Come in and tell me everything.”

*~*

“I see, what a terrible line of events. How long has this been happening?”

Sayako looks to Rowen for an answer, “I’m not sure. I was pulled in a month or so ago.”

Rowen looks up from the teacup he was drinking out of, “How much do you know of the armor that Cy- your grandson bears?”

“I know everything. His father and I were the ones who pushed him to find it.” She explained sitting back on her knees.

“After we finished our battles with that emperor from the Dynasty, we all kinda split ways for a bit. Ya know to go see family a-and stuff. Sage, our other friend who is helping with all of this, and I met up with Cye about six months ago. He fainted on us during lunch and from there it just spiraled. He woke up and seemed to be okay but fainted again less than an hour later. Sage and I took him home and it just got worse. The doctor doesn’t know whats going on and without signatures, we can’t run any tests.”

“Signatures?”

“Yes, Cye’s not legal yet in Japan. He still has two years.” Sayako explains. “It usually wouldn’t be that big of a deal. Me and mother would sign and be done with it..” Her head drops as she sniffles. “..b-but its not working out.”

“Sayako?” She asks reaching out to place her hand over her granddaughter’s, “What is going on?”

“Mother won’t sign. She won’t help. I had to drive over to the house and force her to do it a week ago. S-She said she wasn’t sure if it would help or not and refused to admit that he was even sick. Said it was going to happen because he moved out.” Sayako wipes her eyes her shoulders shaking. “I-I told her it maybe POTS. You know, like what she has? But she out right refused to believe it and just said Cye was faking it.”

“If he’s faking it, he deserves an Oscar.” Rowen adds sadly. “He’s not conscious for very long anymore and keep food down, the nausea and vertigo have gotten a lot worse… it’s gotten pretty bad.”

“Then we need to discuss this with your mother.” The older woman starts to move to get the phone when she feels hands on hers. She turns back and Sayako is crying this time. “S-Say…”

“It won’t matter. S-She doesn’t care. No matter what we say, or do, she won’t believe us.”

“I’m not sure what else I can do, my dear.”

“There is somethin’ ya can do.” Rowen sighs reaching into Sayako’s tote bag. He pulls out a document enevelope and undoes the clasp, papers come out and he hands them over. “I-It’s a little weird but we don’t know what else to do.”

She took the papers and sat back skimming over them, “….is this a form to sign over the Mori Haki stamp? Sayako, you can’t be asking this-“

“It’s just until he’s of age and it will only be used for the medical tests.”

“Where is Cye anyway? What does he think of this?”

Rowen’s eyes darkened, “He’s at Sage’s house and he’s not doin’ that great. We can try and call him if you’d like. I’m not sure he’d even be conscious.”

“He doesn’t know. But he’s not awake enough to know what’s going on most of the time. Rowen’s right, we can try and call.. but..”

“I’d like to at least try.”

Sayako looks back to Rowen, “Do you know Sage’s number?”

“Yeah.” He gets to his feet and pulls a paper out of his back pocket. “Mrs. Mori, I-I’m warnin’ ya.. it may not be pretty.”

She only nods moving to sit beside the small table the phone was on. She watches as he dials the number with shaking hands and reaches out before he can finish, “I won’t blame you if anything happens, I promise… I just need to hear him.”

Rowen glances over and nods putting the receiver to his ear. “Hey? Kacy is that you? Is Sage around? Oh? Cye’s awake? …only kind of. That’s okay. Can Sage do both?” He hears some rummaging, “Hey Sage.. yeah we’re in Hagi. His grandmother wants to talk to him. I know, I already warned her. Kacy said he was kind of awake? Okay, hang on.” He lowers the receiver and presses a button on the phone it’s self near the numbers. “There, can ya hear us? You’re on speaker.”

“I can hear you.” Sage’s voice answered him then continued but sounded softer, “Cye? Your grandmother wishes to speak to you… do you want to talk with her? I know, you don’t have to talk long. She’s worried.”

The speaker goes silent except for some rummaging before they hear a barely audible familiar voice. “…grandmother? I-Is everything alright? How did you get this number..?” He sounded dazed and exhausted, like it took a lot of energy to put words together. He was left breathless after it all came out.

“Sayako was telling me you aren’t doing very well…” She tried to contain the nervousness in her voice not expecting her grandson to sound that bad.

“…I-I’m alright..just…just dizzy a-and I keep fainting.”

“Are you seeing a doctor?”

“…not really.. I-I tried to go but they need mother’s signature a-and…” He trails off for a few seconds. “….s-she won’t sign them.” His voice broke slightly. “Says I don’t need the tests…”

“I will deal with that.” Her voice sounded angry for a split second before dropping back to normal, “Are you resting? You sound tired.”

“…exhausted. I-I can’t-“

His voice drops off and it sounds like he dropped the receiver. Rowen swallows nervously, “B-Buddy? Are you okay? …Cye?” He puts his ear close to the phone speaker trying to listen for the usual strangled gasp that came when Cye woke up from fainting. “Sage?!”

“I’m here. He fainted. I stepped away to get him a drink.” They can hear a worried sigh and grunt as something heavy is moved. “I’ve got him. Look, is that all? He really needs to be resting. I don’t mean to sound rude, but if I force him to get back on it will just get worse.”

“N-No, I apologize for bothering you when you’ve got your hands full helping my grandson out.”

“Mrs. Mori, we’re doing our best. But if you could help us with that one part, it would help immensely and we could run the tests he needs and figure out what’s going on.” Sage’s voice trails off, “He’s waking up. Forgive me, but we need to go. He’s going to get sick again.”

The phone hung up and left the room in silence. The older woman stared at the phone, her heart breaking. A pit of worry was forming in her stomach and anger was boiling to a point. “And your mother refuses to help?”

Both Rowen and Sayako nod silently.

“T-This is what he’s like every day?”

“Sadly, yes. He’s not been doing well.” Rowen starts to explain nervously. “Some days are better than others but-“

“I’ll do it. Where are the papers?” She turns around and picks them up from the floor.

Sayako fumbles for a pen out of her purse before handing it over. She watches relieved as her grandmother flicked through and signed everything.

“Your mother can wallow in herself pity but I won’t stand by and let her hurt you or Cye because of it. Get him the help he needs, Sayako… Rowen. Please do whatever is necessary. Money is not object. The Mori family will help in anyway we can.” She gets to her feet and walks down the hallway into a large bedroom.

Sayako and Rowen stand in the doorway watching curiously. She pulls out an old looking box and pulls layers out before finally getting to where she needed to be. She pulls out a small gray felt box and walks over, “I don’t need to tell you how important this is.”

“I-it’s a lot fancier than mine, that’s for sure.” Rowen attempts to joke as he swallows nervously. He watches as she puts the box in his hands before holding him there.

“It belonged to his father and his father before that.” She looks into his eyes with a serious determined gaze, “You must promise me that the day of his 20th birthday that you will give this to him.”

“Of course. That’s the plan. We hate havin’ to do this to begin with.” He smiles reassuringly.

Sayako walks over and hugs her grandmother tightly crying into her shoulder, “T-Thank you so much… w-we’re going to figure out what’s going on and I’ll let you know as soon as I know anything.”

Her grandmother hugs her tightly, “You’ve been such a great help to him as you always have. Stay strong, my dear. He needs you. He needs all of you.” She reaches out and squeezes Rowen’s arm.

*~*

Sage sits up groggily looking around his large room. He rubs his eyes looking to his side and saw Cye was thankfully still asleep. He reaches out and rests one of his hands on his friend’s head before hearing the noise again. “Kacy?” He calls out as softly as he can.

He slowly gets to his feet making sure not to jolt his friend then walks barefoot on the tatami matt, his orb appearing his hand out of habit. He pulls the door to the side and sees Rowen stumbling in the darkness trying to get his shoes off without touching the tatami in the hallway and failing miserably. “Rowen?”

The other startled and dropped his shoe hitting himself in the head with it. “S-Sage …s-sorry I-I … Kacy let us in.”

“Us? Is Sayako here as well?” He looks past Rowen to see his sister’s light on before the door closed. He sighs kneeling down and helps untie the other tennis shoe. “You could have let me know via the armor you two were coming back so soon.”

“It was kinda last minute. We’ve been on the bullet train for several hours. I lost track of what we were doing to be honest. She and I both decided we couldn’t stay another night away from Cye and we both came back.” He leans back embarrassed that the other had to help him take his shoe off. “I kinda forgot your house was full of Tatami …so.. don’t get mad?”

“It’s fine.” Sage’s voice was at a whisper as he sat the tennis shoes beside his door in a neat way. Then he stands and offers a hand down, “Come on. Cye is fast asleep but I know he’ll relax more knowing you’re here.”

“We got what we needed. She is angry with his mother.” Rowen whispered back as he got to his feet following the other into the room.

The room was inviting and warmer than expected. The door was slid open and the sound of the small waterfall could be heard.

He finds himself relaxing and sits down on the ground undoing his jacket. He lays it over the over night bag then turns and crawls over to Cye. “Hey buddy, I’m here.” His hand rests on the other’s waist.

“I have an extra yukata if you’d like to borrow one. Cye is wearing one of my winter ones but he got so cold. I never thought my room would be considered cold especially during summer.”

“Uh sure…” Rowen smiles nervously as he gets to his feet walking over to where Sage was. “Is it green?”

The other rolls his eyes before handing over a gray one, “No. Not everything I own is green.”

“Yeah uh huh. Just like everything I own isn’t blue.” He takes the offered garment before looking around. “Where do ya want me to strip.”

“Over there.”

“Fancy. A bamboo partisian.”

Sage sits back down and glances over making sure Cye was still asleep. “Was Sayako alright?”

“She broke down to her grandmother a-and well I don’t blame her. She did tell me that the Mori Family runs one of the oldest pottery shops in Japan. The kilns have been lit for hundreds of years.”

“Yes, my family owns several pottery pieces from them that date back to the __ period.”

“Apparently the main kiln is in Hagi and the secondary kiln is where Cye and his sister and mother live. The three of them were taught how to do it after his father passed away. Kind of neat actually.” Rowen walks out from behind the screen and attempts to tie his yukata.

“Let me help. If you do it wrong, you won’t be sleeping comfortably.” The blonde stands and ties the yukata closed without making a big knot. “There.”

Rowen sits down grinning, “So graceful about it all…” He looks around the room. “Ya know, I just realized… Cye probably grew up with a lot of this as well.”

“It makes sense. Most older families in Japan are very traditional. The Hashiba’s are as well aren’t they?”

“I-I wouldn’t know… I lived with my grandfather only a few years once I got to Japan. He had a house like this but I ran away as soon as I could. I could never get used to all of this. I was born and raised in New York. I kinda assumed that Cye was the same because of his accent.”

“It sounds like he was raised with both.”

“You knew didn’t you?”

This time a smile crosses the blonde’s features, “Yes. His mannerisms and ways he sits and removes his shoes. It indicated a home life like this. Just as yours indicated a more western life style.”

“Thanks.”

“Never said it was a bad thing. I can see the two ways of life are fighting for dominance with him though. You can hear his accent when he speaks Japanese and that is not an easy feat. Just as you speak with your accent as well.” Sage goes quiet as he lays out another futon. “I only have a rice pillows is that ok?”

“Are those the pillows that are hard as rocks?”

“They help your posture.”

“I’ll say they do.” Rowen shrugs, “Can’t be worse than the floor! Rice me!”

Sage rolled his eyes before pulling one out and placing it on the futon properly. “I’ll sleep here. You need to be beside him.”

“A-Are ya sure?” It was then he noticed the bedding was a forest green. He started to joke but heard a sleepy sigh from the younger one beside him. “He looks comfortable for once..”

The other nods, “I haven’t seen him sleep so peacefully before.. he’s always tossing and turning in his bed at home.” Then his eyes widen, “I wonder if a futon would help him sleep better until we know what’s going on.”

“it would be safer that’s for sure. He wouldn’t have to worry about fainting and fallin’ off the bed.”

“Its probably helping with the vertigo and nausea as well. He can feel the ground and know it’s not moving… alright. We’ll take this one back home when we leave.”

Rowen sits down and stretches before he attempts to freshen his pillow up. He glances around the room then to the closet door that was still open.

He could see an orange, red and dark blue futon sets in the dim moonlight. He glances back down and sees Cye is curled up on a skyblue one that had a fish pattern. He tilts his head, “…Sage, buddy.. do you keep color coded futons for each of us.”

“It’s only proper to have bedding for your friends ahead of time incase of an emergency. I didn’t pull yours out, I assumed you’d want to be next to Cye and share one.”

“You’re right as always.” He scoots under the covers and pulls them back over Cye and himself. He blinks as Cye moves closer in his sleep then smiles. His hand smoothing the red hair down, “Shh, I’m here, buddy.”

He glances over and sees Sage has already drifted back to sleep. He lays back the pillow not bothering him this time, he was so exhausted and just relieved to be back with them and have Cye curled up against him. His head dropped to the side as he fell asleep just as quickly.

*~*

Cye rolls over onto his back groggily as his body wakes him up from the vertigo. His hands grip the futon as if that would slow everything down.

He heard movement and expected Sage’s voice to greet him. “Easy buddy, just breathe through your nose.”

He tried to force his eyes open, “..r-ro?”

“It’s me. Feelin’ dizzy again?”

A hand dropped onto his forehead and he relaxed as best he could. “…the room feels like its spinning one direction and the floor is spinning the other direction.”

“I’m happy to inform you that it’s not spinnin’ around as much as you feel like it is.”

He finally forced his eyes open and they slowly focused so he could see Rowen hovering over him with a smile on his face.

“Hey there. Good morning! We’re still at Sage’s house. Sayako and I came back late last night.”

His memory was hazy as he tried to remember why he was at Sage’s house and where his sister and Rowen went. “…I’m s-sorry I don’t remember…”

“It’s okay. Say and I went to see your grandmother. She signed the paper’s over and I now have “medical guardianship” over ya until you’re of age.” Rowen tries to explain it as best he can doing his best to keep it simple. “Basically, any test you need we now have the ability to get it taken care of.”

He could tell Cye wasn’t fully coherent. The bright green eyes unfocused and he looked confused. He smiles down as best he can, his hand pushing some of the red hair behind his friend’s ear. “Just relax. We’re going to get you back to your apartment and to the doctor as soon as we can. We’ll figure out whats happenin’ one way or another.”

He watches as Cye goes limp and sighs heavily, another fainting spell. It was a good thing he was on the floor. He didn’t have any where to fall this time.

“Rowen? Is Cye awake?”

“Was. He fainted again. He asked where we were, said he didn’t remember, but then he fainted before he could comprehend what I was telling him.”

“I have a doctor’s appointment ready a day after we get back. It will be a long day but they said they are going to run a lot of tests. Maybe we can get some answers.” Sage enters the room with a tray of food setting it beside Rowen. “Here is breakfast for the both of you.. at the very least I want to see if he can keep the rice pudding down.”

“If he stays awake long enough to eat it.”

“We have to try. You can’t tell me that whatever this is isn’t being made worse with him being unable to eat and have energy to fight it or to level it out.”

“No, you got a point.”

The art I made for this story.

#ronin warriors #fanfic #pots universe #track 2 #forgot I wrote Kacy into this. she’s sailor halo

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