********* (I Love you) Aki XII: Ame-A FFXI Love StoryFollow

AUTHOR’S NOTE: This is Aki XII of my love story ************ (I Love you)[/i]. Please read and tell me what you think of it!

Part I [Complete text]
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/journal2.html?user=385748&mid=1118071855825271130
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(Aki X)
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=35&mid=1118072613119019026

(Chapter XI)
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=35&mid=111815056226475773

I hope you all enjoy it...and keep in mind that love is never without conflict. But...as long as everyone involved is willing to work to make a relationship work, love can survive anything.
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Aki XII: Ame
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"Sir, we are here to escort you out of the city." I turned to the door to my mog house, only to see two members of the Ducal guard standing there, dripping water into my doorway.

I allowed a bare fifth carbon copy of a smile to cross my face. "I take it that it is time for me to take my leave of Jeuno?" The idea of going outside in this rain didn’t thrill me all too much.

Off in the distance, I could see the crack of lighting falled almost instantly by the rolling of the thunder that only served to highten the two paladins.

"Yes sir. Our orders are to get you out of here...one way or another." said the one on the left with a malice tone in her voice that suggested that she would much rather prefer I make it the 'another' way. She then jerked her thumb over her shoulder towards the gloomy streets outside.

"Out. Now."

I picked up my bags carefully, stuffing a couple under my arms and slowly shuffled my way out. Passing my Moogle who was floating in the middle of the room, I felt him tug on the back of my shirt, to try to convince me to let him come along.

"Caramel, we have been through this already. You can’t come a long. And 'sides, I need someone to stay here to take care of my place till I can come back. My mule can’t do everything himself after all, right?" I gave him a reassuring pat on the head with my one free hand and then moved past him.

"Kupo..."

I closed my ears to his plea.

I had to leave him.

I had no choice.

Walking out into the rain, I felt my entire body soaked instantly.

"Move it Demitri!" One of the two guards shouted over the cracking of the storm as he poked me in the small of my back with the edge of his sword, cutting into my flesh a bit.

I squinted my eyes against the pain and trudged forward through the streets of Lower Jeuno until we finally arrived at the town gates.

The female gaurd gave me one last hard shove with her sword while her partner looked impassively on.

"Get out. And if I ever see you again, I’ll kill you."

And who approved these people to join Jeuno’s elite?...

Wait...that was me...

I sighed gently at that thought as I pushed my way through the town gate and into the rolling hills of Rolanberry Fields. My feet started to kick up some mud from where the passage of Chocobos across the years had torn away the grass, and therefore making it somewhat hard for me to move with my luggage blindly away from the town.

After a few minutes, I thought I saw the outline of a figure racing down a hill towards me, her path being traced for her by brief flashes of lighting. The figure almost seemed to slip and fall down a couple of times, yet managed to catch his or her balance perfectly until the figure reached me.

In the darkness and the rain, I didn’t recognize her until I heard her voice.

"Sumimasen..." she said faintly.

I felt anger shoot up through me.

"Leave me alone. You are the reason I am exiled from Jeuno." I said to her in a stern voice, refusing to look at her as I continued determinedly onwards.

"Demitri-chan..."

With that, she tugged on my shirt sleeve, trying to get me to stop, and after the fifteen tug, I finally stopped and turned around towards her.

"You ruined my life! Leave me alone!" I shouted at her. "I almost didn’t stop to save you in Necropolis, and now I am regretting that I did! The world is at war against the beastmen, and I now am going to have a very difficult time reaching safety...all because of you." I felt my gaze pierce her, and I knew that she could understand what I was saying, even if she didn’t know the words.

"I should have known you were trouble when I first met you..."

"Eeii...Demitri-chan...kudasai..."

With that she stopped and her eyes filled up with tears. Closing my heart to her, I turned away and continued onwards to the next hill, and the next one after that, and the next one after that...

Leaving her to stand there alone in the rain.

-fin Aki XII: Ame