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By Shardy

My first blanket scenario. There just aren't enough stories about Captain Sagara. If you want to know who Gentatsu is, he is one of the characters (who's dead!!! >_<) in Samurai X: the motion picture.

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The door to the cabin flew open as Gentatsu Takatsuki raced into the dark, empty room. Captain Souzo Sagara followed quickly behind him, slamming the wooden door shut. Tiny icicles were hanging from his red bandana.

"How could this have happened!?" Gentatsu shouted. "Here we are trying to find the Battousai and SanoSOOKIE..."

"It's SanoSKAY," Souzo interrupted tonelessly.

"Whatever, here we are trying to find those two dudes and what do we do??? We get stuck in the middle of a damn blizzard!!!" He sighed in disgust and glared at Souzo. "I TOLD you to stop and ask for directions!"

Souzo's jaw dropped. "We're dead! No one but the Battousai and Sano can see us!"

"Point?" Gentatsu shot back. "You're the captain of the Sekihoutai; you're supposed to be resourceful."

Sighing deeply, Souzo rolled his eyes and took a look around the cabin hoping to find something to help them out of this situation. But there was nothing in that drafty one-room cabin save a dark green wool blanket lying in a heap in a corner. "Seems as if there is only one blanket."

Gentatsu shot forward, snatching the sorry piece of fabric before Souzo could move. "MINE!" he yelled, wrapping it around himself.

"Hey!" Souzo exclaimed, unwilling to believe that someone could be so selfish. "I'm cold, too!"

"How can you be cold? You're dead!"

"So are you!"

The two continued to glare at each other for a minute, daring the other to make a move. Finally, Gentatsu tugged the blanket off and held it out to Sano. "Here," he muttered, not looking at the captain.

Souzo was completely taken aback. "Huh?"

"I just remembered, I have my cloak with me so I don't need the blanket."

"But Gentatsu..."

"Just TAKE IT, dammit!"

The coldness seeping into Souzo's skin and the force of Gentatsu's command won over the captain's altruism. He took the blanket in his shaking fingers. "Ari-arigatou," he said softly.

Gentatsu shrugged, found a spot against the wall, and scrunched up in a ball, hugging his knees as tightly against his body as possible. His cloak did not provide enough warmth for him, if any, and soon Gentatsu was shivering violently. So cold. So fucking...

All of a sudden, something warm and heavy descended on him as Souzo laid his head against Gentatsu's shoulder, wrapping the blanket around the both of them. Gentatsu's face flared as all the blood went rushing to his head. "Uh...Sagara...?"

"I can't let you freeze," Souzo whispered, and with a deep sigh, fell asleep.

Gentatsu just sat there, blushing profusely, and finally choked lamely, "Just...just don't get...too comfortable."



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