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Hahaha, did I actually say that this was "easy" to translate? I must have been wasted.

Title: Hoshi no Suna
Author:[personal profile] sevenswells 
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Sur-pri-iiiise!
Warnings: Not safe for work, yuri (bwahaha!), rape, angst, alternate universe (even more AU than usual. Yup.)
Word Count: 1877 w.
Comments: Dedicated to brilliant [profile] kamexkame  , my first and favourite victim beta, your help is precious; to invincible [personal profile] supacat  - I'm super glad that you're back, wheeee! - and to dazzling [profile] thin_lipid  who made this glam rock geisha Mimi icon that I'm crazy about - you have so many skills, girl, it's scary! Rock on!

Okay, now I have to warn you: this chapter is weird. Plus it's not even a chapter, I arrogantly call it an "interlude" because it's transitional (which is the reason why HnS has actually 13 chapters and not exactly 14). I wrote it and then I went on a huuuuge hiatus that has been lasting for almost a year before I decided to go back to writing. It's all thanks to my anerable beta that I finally decided to include it.
In the so-called timeline of this fic, I believe it's not situated right after what happened in chapter 5, but way later (because Miyavi is getting into shuffle mode XDDD).

-That is absolutely out of the question, said Gakuto.

-I warn you, this is the last time I'm asking nicely, said Miyabe.

Miyabe didn't like her way of pronouncing the words, as if her tongue was made of porcelain and would chip from chinking too much against her teeth. As if her spiteful stare and chin raised high weren't already attesting how much of a snob the bitch was. Though Miyabe definitely knew which one of them was the real queen.

-Please get out of my house at once, said Gakuto in a final tone, getting up and starting to move towards the door. The silk of her kimono rustled fluidly, like a mountain stream. Miyabe got up too and caught Gakuto's wrist, which was small, she could feel it through the layers of cloth. Good quality, she thought, but I can afford these too, even more expensive ones.

-Not so fast, onee-san. No need to act all high and mighty with me, the whole district knows about your money problems. It doesn't pay so much anymore, does it, to drink tea with old men nowadays, huh?

Gakuto did not let it show, but Miyabe was certain that she had hit the nail on the head. Through the imperceptible twitch of her eyelid, she knew she had wounded her, and felt quite a bout of pleasure from it.

-Why would you want to learn from me, then? said Gakuto, lowering her eyes. I don't understand you.

-I have my reasons, they're of no concern to you. But I do pay well, you know I've got the means to. Accept the money, if only to preserve a... façade of sorts.

Once again, she knew her words got through the armour of the geisha. She would have liked to leave the room right away, to keep this unique moment as a precious memory - God, it almost made her wet, Gakuto, Edo's most famous geisha, at her, Miyabe the lowly whore's, unworthy feet. But this whore had known how to rise: numerous were the town's figures, magistrates and politicians, who were already fighting to obtain her favours. Since a very young age, she'd understood that sex was a weapon more subtle than that one could think. A body was worth any other, she knew that, and hers held no extraordinary peculiarity. However, she'd understood how to make herself become unique, and essential. There were the techniques, of course, and she knew she was quite skilled and imaginative in that field, but then again, anybody else could become an expert if they tried. Thus, she had added a few more tricks to her bag: listening to those pigs in bed when they talked about their little problems, at work, or when they rambled about their (too) sweet wife. Being capricious, from time to time - those whims where important, too; strokes and slashes should be dispensed alternately in order to dominate those men she despised, each and every one of them. Money gradually flew in as she gained more experience and patrons; soon she was able to open her own brothel, which brought even more funds. She was prudent, so she diversified her trade, made wise investments and now she was ruling Edo from the shadows. She kept her friends close, her enemies closer; her decisions were respected, her orders feared and her angers dreaded. Nonetheless, the little girl with the dirty cheeks who, from the gutter where she stood, used to look at the beautiful powdered ladies passing by, hadn't entirely left the powerful person she had become. She had obtained everything she had lacked since that time, yet only one thing was still cruelly missing: the varnish of refinement. She possessed gorgeous china, but she knew something was off when she used it. She thought her fingers coarse, against the regal blue of her favourite cup. She suspected that the curve of her wrist was inelegant when she tipped it to drink and, when her lips dipped in the beverage, she couldn't appreciate it, undermining as those details were. All the rare and expensive objects she had strived so much to put together, seemed to gang up on her and scream: usurper! Street girl!
I embellish this hairdo, but I do not adorn it, said the sandal wood and mother-of-pearl comb in her black hair. I disguise this body, but I do not dress it, said the silken kimono on her made up skin.
Of course, she could pretend she didn't care and force the objects to submit to her will, but the uneasiness she felt then was so strong that it gave her nausea. And she felt on the verge of frantic vomitting if by a turn of fortune her path ever crossed that of Gakuto's.
Everything about her exuded nobility and grace. When the stare of a man met hers, she lowered her eyes and her cheekbones turned slightly pink under the make up, as charming and delicate as a petal. If it took Miyabe's fancy to do the same, her gesture was immediately interpreted as a come-on. Gakuto's fingers on the china cup were ornaments, her lips an extension of the rim and her white throat barely rippled when she sipped her tea, fully savouring it in that perfect moment when everything fell into in its right place.
Born into a good family, trained into distinction, Gakuto was the pupil of Madoka, a famous geisha who had been called "The Chrysanthemum". The latter never had a reason to complain about her disciple and had finally trusted her with her business when old age took over. Gakuto wasn't a bad manager, quite the contrary: she simply lacked ambition. The Chrysanthemum House kept receiving aging and nostalgic patrons but, without a fresh contribution of capital, the parties and tea ceremonies didn't hold the sumptuousness of the old days.
Gakuto had no choice but to accept Miyabe's offer.
When the latter, triumphant, went back home that evening, she lounged like a cat in her embroided sheets. Out of a whim, she wished to eat a nasty vegetable curry for supper, even though she could afford richer dishes. She had it served in bed, and she stained her robe and her sheets. She laughed a lot when she saw the blotches blooming on the fine materials. She put her unwashed bowl directly upon the small persian carpet at the foot of her bed, and fell asleep like a baby, without bothering to change her clothes. Her lessons of in manners and bearing with Gakuto were starting the next day.

The sadist! The monster!

-Make your back straight, straighter! Your hand, how horrible! I do not care if your legs hurt, twist them, if you must!

And she punctuated her merciless comments with pokes of her fan on the accused body parts. Miyabe let her, at least at the beginning, but when Gakuto struck her shoulder blades harder than necessary, she saw red.
Frigid virgin bitch, she thought with rage, she takes her revenge and tries to pick on me, she'll see.

- You're teaching me so many things, mistress, you're so good to me, she started, calm and purring.

-What is it?

-Though my money won't be enough to make your clients stay, will it? Don't you want to learn from me, too?

She was down on all fours and had gotten dangerously near Gakuto, whose expression was that of a hunted beast.

-Stay at your place, the lesson is not over!

-Come on, mistress, we can afford a little break. Don't you want to know, she said while genty taking her hand, how to make a man become your slave?

-Stop that right now and go back to your place, I'm warning you...

-Do you know how weak the most ill-mannered boor is, when you're holding him, all in your mouth?

She started to suck on her index finger. Gakuto's face turned bright red. She withdrew her hand promptly and stood up.

-Take your money back, harlot! she spat, gathering her robes about her legs, in order to avoid any further contact with Miyabe. I can make nothing out of you anyhow!

-Oh, yes, you can, retorted Miyabe, also getting up. She was a few inches taller than her. Feel it, mistress.

She forcefully took her hand back and slid it inside her kimono, upon a nipple.

-Can you feel it? Hitting me with your fan made them hard.

The geisha seemed to be out of air. Even though her initial intention had been to make fun of her a little, Miyabe was actually turned on, and thought it might be amusing to do her. She rubbed herself lasciviously against Gakuto's hand, and her skin was suddenly set ablaze. As if she were possessed, she wanted to undo Gakuto's obi precipitately, but Gakuto struggled, crying like a plaintive bird. They lost their balance and both fell on the floor, taking with them, in their fall, the teapot and the china cups which broke and spilled their boiling hot content. The wicker mat exhaled a brief cloud of vapor. Miyabe squeezed her victim between her thighs, the inside of which was starting to get moist; this impromptu fight was exciting her further still. With an unsuspected strength, she ripped her rival's clothes, and she struggled even more. The friction of the clothes wreathed a voluptuous cry out of Miyabe. Offered to her eyes, Gakuto's naked body was white and perfect, except for the fresh scratches her resistance had brought upon it. Miyabe couldn't stop herself from licking at those beautiful, delicious wounds, then she took off her kimono and shamelessly rubbed her crotch against the cold, white thigh under her. Gakuto, powerless and humiliated, hid her face with her hands. Miyabe covered her body entirely with hers, crushing her with all her weight, breasts against breasts, crushed, and took her wrists to draw them apart. Her face was very close to Gakuto's, swallowing her breathing and insufflating her own, at a smaller and smaller distance, until their lips finally touched and crushed in turn. Miyabe wanted to make her melt, but the tongue she was tasting was rigid and numb, lifeless. Miyabe wanted to make her melt. Her fingers bolted forth and worked their way in between Gakuto's thighs, but when they penetrated her, forcing the closed lips, they could not go any further. Miyabe got up. Her arms were limply hanging alongside her body. During an infininite moment, she stood there, staring at Gakuto's curled up body - she was, seemingly, crying - on the wicker mat browned by the tea, amongst the broken pieces of porcelain.

-Mock me, her rival was sobbing. Mock me!

Miyabe said nothing. There was nothing to say, not even excuses to make. Her stare halted on the white splinters scattered over the floor that, before her eyes, her own tears were transforming into blurry patches, constantly growing, until they definitively melted altogether and formed a wave of foam.

Miyabi wakes up with a start in the hotel room. He's got a hard on and his cheeks are wet. His first thought is to ask himself what could that funny dream have meant. Then, he goes back to sleep, and forgets it forever.

Date: 2008-04-02 12:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gazerockyo.livejournal.com
Not gonna lie...that was intense man o_o.....first time reading yuri too
Thank you for the education...and yes Miyavi, that was one hell of a dream to have....

Date: 2008-04-02 09:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sevenswells.livejournal.com
Thank you! To tell you the truth, I'm not so big on yuri either... it doesn't satisfy my need for power struggle in a love relationship, which is one of my main obsessions in this fic. Yuri generally bores me to death because I just can't find any patterns I like in it (the only yuri manga series I read is HEN and it's made by a guy).
I wrote this chapter because it occurred to me that the only way Miyavi could become seme (to overcome the power struggle) with Gackt would be if they were both female. The geisha thing is just a kink of mine (I think they would be so perfect as geishas!!! >_____<)

Thank you so much for commenting!

Date: 2008-04-02 09:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sevenswells.livejournal.com
*hugs* Thank you! And here I was thinking that this "chapter" might scare you guys away, but you still read and commented on it, and your comment is so kind too!
ILU!!! ;____;

Date: 2008-04-02 02:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gazerockyo.livejournal.com
Hahaha....at you and both agree on the whole geisha kink. xD(doesn't it look so pretty?! *_*)
Have you seen Miyavi as a geisha?! That man....damn him, I swear he would NOT have the patience to be a geisha if his life depended on it; he was so boney and so hyper in that photoshoot. xD
Of course if Gackt was a woman, then the entire human race would be doomed!! Omg he would be like...having both men and women at his feet...wait he already has that. >>;;;...xD

Date: 2008-04-02 02:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thin-lipid.livejournal.com
It took me like 20 minutes to realize you used my icon... XD

I'm such a idiot!

Lol. Anyhow... I like... never read yuri and for some reason as girly as Miyavi and Gackt look, it was hard seeing them actually... as girls. X3

But definitely an odd dream... -wonders if it is really important-

Date: 2008-04-02 03:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sevenswells.livejournal.com
I took this one too (and another one for the next chapter)! I love them! (^x^)v

I never read yuri either; don't worry about this chapter though, this is the most crack it gets, next chapter is back to normal, plain old-fashionned yaoi XD (though talking about crack, I really should think about that Princess Tutu fic, with Myv as Fakir and blonde!Gackt as Mytho. Princess Tutu rulez)

Date: 2008-04-02 04:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thin-lipid.livejournal.com
Lol... then it'd be like Myv raping an emotionless Gackt... X3

I love them too~ <33

I made a video! :O! I dunno if you've seen it, but I posted it on youtube like years ago and I just don't remember to post them in my works journal...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518qZeAEXkI

Date: 2008-04-02 09:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mattiezumi.livejournal.com
*binks*

fascinating!

haha, well you did warn me this chapter would be weird! i just think it would be to this extent!

i don't even know what to make of it! the shift in control during the dream was wonderful! i like how you wrote 'gakuto' as dignified and stately, your descriptions are so beautiful! i could practically FEEL her pride!

and 'miyabe' was surprisingly easy to relate to, the thoughts and feelings of being able to one-up someone from a higher station were easy to understand, hell, i know i would revel in the feeling of 'owning' gackt (forgive me gackt-sama of my shameful thoughts!)!! ;PPPPPPP

the whole duality of miyavi waking up hard but with tears was beautiful, unconcious internal struggles always are!

fem!sex, is there ANYTHING you shy away from! so, SO looking forward to the future boundaries you cross!

Date: 2008-04-03 08:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kamexkame.livejournal.com

I think mattiezumi has already put into words perfectly lots of what I wanted to say! But I do adore this chapter as I have made very clear already by endless undignified squealing. I was worried whether the translation might make it lose even a little of its essence because the original writing of this is so extraordinarily exquisite but it did not *sigh of relief* :)))))) I haven't been much of a yuri fan either because my sparse attempts at reading it (and even those were usually accidental but hey, I'll read anything I stumble upon - isn't that how I discovered yaoi :D) turned out majorly b.o.r.i.n.g and I thought yuri = yawns. But! Apparently yuri done right is H.O.T. *fans self and blushes* Or do I mean power struggles? Actually I don't think this has anything to do with yuri per se? The story dictated this and the story obviously rules. (Perhaps I'm able to think of this as a pivotal chapter because I've already read the rest? *feels privileged*)I like how this is a mental negative of Miyavi's internal state. I always love negatives, a lot of things become obvious in them by opposition to the original pictures, but never in a crude whay, the full complexity is still very much there in all its acuteness.

Can we pretend this comment sucks because it's mid-morning and the sun is shining here? What do you mean even my excuse sucks?

Please have a glorious day ^_______^

Date: 2008-04-03 08:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kamexkame.livejournal.com
I just looked at my icon up there and realised I've been into yuri passing itself off as yaoi for ages. LOL.

Let's just call it all pr0n and enjoy it <3

Date: 2008-04-03 03:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sevenswells.livejournal.com
*friends you back* *and hugs*

Date: 2008-04-03 03:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sevenswells.livejournal.com
Wah, it's great! You actually managed to make that PV look cool, despite Myv the flamenco vampire with a mustache! I tip my hat to you, plus the song fits - it totally rocks! (>o<)-b

Date: 2008-04-03 03:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thin-lipid.livejournal.com
^-^

I tried. I actually couldn't make it in one sitting cause I got lazy. XDD So for once I tried and managed to make something decent!

\8D/

Yay me!

Date: 2008-04-03 04:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sevenswells.livejournal.com
Girl, I'm currently blessing the day you happened on my journal, because you're like, the best reader ever! Your comment feels like the greatest gift I could receive. *SUPER HUG OF PURE LOVE*

the whole duality of miyavi waking up hard but with tears was beautiful, unconcious internal struggles always are!

OMG I love you for noticing and understanding! ;___;

Thank you so much!

Date: 2008-04-03 04:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sevenswells.livejournal.com
ALL YOUR ICONS ARE GENIOUS AND TESTIFY OF AN EXQUISITE TASTE!

That's why I feel extremely flattered that you like this chapter, my tasteful and anerable beta. *shnorgles*

I like how this is a mental negative of Miyavi's internal state.

0_____0

...I lost my words for a few moments here, because that's exactly what I wanted to portray, except your way of putting it is more beautiful than the original idea.

I would never want any other beta than YOU (sorry)!

P.S.: Power struggles are yay!

Date: 2008-04-03 05:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sevenswells.livejournal.com
I'm so so very glad that you think it's still them, that was the greatest challenge about that role/gender reversal - as usual, one comment from you and I know that all hopes aren't lost for me. :D

Thank your for the compliment, too! *love!*

Date: 2008-04-04 10:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ayuzak.livejournal.com
Oh wow, was that intense (and hot) or what.
I can see the parallels between this and the HnS but Miyabe does seem a lot more dominant, i guess it's because it's Miyavi's dream.

Oh, they're so pretty in kimono!

Date: 2008-04-07 06:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sevenswells.livejournal.com
Thank you my dear, it's marvellous if you think it's , I've been doing my best! ^___^/

Miyabe does seem a lot more dominant, i guess it's because it's Miyavi's dream.

Yes! Yes! Exactly, that's exactly it!! Thank you for understanding, I knew you would!

And yeah, kimono looks great on them, it's major nosebleed material! \(*;;*)/

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