**Tera Sukkon Ya Junnon Tera-Rantara FF**[Thread-1] - Page 23

~:Chapter Seven:~

"Tumhe Dekha To Aisa Kyun Laga

Jaise Tum Hi Meri Manzil Ho Aur Tum Hi Meri Saza?"

Antara's pov,

I looked out from the window of taxi and looked towards the crowded roads of Mumbai. The place was very different from shrinagar. I still couldn't believe I left everything behind, my friends, my home, my brother. My eyes became a bit wet but I quickly hold them back. that was not the time to cry on emotions. The taxi was heading towards naik basti, the place which was going to be my battlefield. I closed my eyes and sighed heavily determining my each and every thought. I don't know how and what I am going to do but I have to do that, for my family, my momma-pappa-noor appa!! Rhea was seating at my side and cheerfully sgowing me all the roads and places of Mumbai. She was so happy as I was going to live with them. That was the day of Janmastami, the air of celebration was spread all over the city. "antara we are going to reach soon.." mummy ji said from front seat. Mama ji had to go for urgent work so he couldn't come. So at last I was going to get inside Daya Naik's residency. I looked forward and arranged the dupatta and salwar. The taxi took a turn and moved inside the basti. I came down from the taxi and moved my eyesight allover. The basti was beautifully decorated for janmastami celebration. At the end of basti there was a huge mansion. The name engrossed on its top itself signifies who was the landlady if that huge mansion, aka "Naik Sadan". I looked towards the huge mansion with steal eyes. mayank's words flashed in my mind. Snakes den! Hmmm... "antara!! come here.. where are you going?!" mummy called me. I moved back when suddenly someone bumped with me. He was carrying a decorated pitcher in his hand and the pitcher fell down from his hand. "arey baap re..." the man screamed. I quickly cot the pitcher before it landed on the road but in that process, all milk and cards inside it spreaded on that man's shoulder. The man was only wearing a red vest and knee length pants and there was a red band wrapped around his forehead where the name gobinda' was written. I immediately understood that the man was someone from any govinda's group who had come for matkifor in janmastami. "sorry bhaiya!!!.." I beat my tongue and said in an apologetic tone. "koi baat nahin behena..." the man said with a smile and rubbed the butters and milks from his shoulders. "arey bhikhu tiu idhar kya kar raha hain... arey kya huya?!!" another man just like him approached. "arey madan woo..." bhikhu said. "arey tere kandhe par itna makhan kaise gir gaya?!" madan asked. "woo sorry bhaiya... meri hi galti hain.. maine dekha nahin.." I interrupted and apologized. "arey bahena koi baat nahin... matki too baccha liya naa... apne pass aur bhi makhan hain par matki bas el hi thi..." bhikhu my new big brother said with a smile. "thik hain behen abhi hum chalte hain... malik bula rahein hain... ee bhikhu chal.." madan dragged bhikhu with him. "arey madan.. ye makhan aur dahi too saaf karne de..." bhikhu bhoya said but madan didn't listened. Quickly they moved inside the crowd of their govinda's toil standing just at some distance. Someone patted on my shoulder and I looked back to find rhea's chripy face. "so already got two new bhaiya?!" she teased. "ohh rhea..." I rolled my eyes playfully, "btw where is mummy?!" I asked. "who mom?! She was tired of calling you and moved inside asking me to bring you." she said. "ohh shit!!.. she called me but..." I stroked my head. "it's okk di!!... chalo ek kaam karte hain.. matkifor dekh ne ke baad hi andar jayengey... it's just going to begin now." Rhea said. "hmmm... tell me one thing.. are they going to break the pitcher?" I indicated towards the group of govindas. "arey no di!! They are just going to make the human pyramid and that janglu and manglu are going to climb on them to break the pitcher." Rhea said. "janglu- manglu?!! Now who are they?!!" I was so confused. "Dayan mai's two chamchas... Janglu and manglu..." she again made me puzzle. "hey rhea can you tell me clearly?! Who is this Dayan Mai and Janglu-Manglu?!" I asked in utter confusion. "Shh di!! Tone down your voice.." rhea said. "Dayan mai means Daya Naik and Manglu is her beloved pampered boy Satya Naik the looser. Woo kahete hain naa ladle maa ka ladla beta... that's our Manglu... he is coming back from London today." Rhea said making a face. I couldn't afford my giggle. "please don't tell it to anyone di... this is the secrete name given to Adam's Familly aka Naik's familly's people by the bacha party of basti..." rhea said in low tone. "what?!! Adam's Familly?!" I couldn't stop my giggle. "Yup what else?! Their head is Dayan.. Son is manglu, Bodyguard Janglu... etc etc etc..." Rhea said. "Now who is this Janglu?" I asked curiously. "who else rather than Dayan Mai's most obedient follower Raghunath Naik!!" she said. I felt like something pushed me heavily when rhea took that name, like someone stabbed directly in your heart and your heart was bleeding inwardly. "sab kahete hain ki woo dayan ki sab se wafadaar piyada hain... uske jaisi wafadari aaj ke zamane mein nahin milti etc etc... u know di.. Yahan aneke baad ek bhi din maine aisa nahin dekha jahan woo janglu basti ke road pe khare kisi gumdo ke sath fight nahi kar raha hota hain..But you know what di.. I think the guy is not that bad. Atleast much better than that stupid looser manglu... basti ke logon ko agar zarurat hoo naa too sab se pahele woo janglu hi bhagta hain madad ke liye.. bas problem yahin hain ki dayan ko aankh bandh kar ke viswas karta hain.. uske khilap koi kuch bhi kahein janglu ekdum wohi pe uska murder kar dega.. aur bahut jyada ride hain you know!!" rhea said. I just stood there frozen. Nothing got into my ears. The burn inside me was increasing. I was just feeling like going inside the mansion and... But I have to on my hold. Rhea continued her blabber, "you know di.. each and every janmastami we have to face janglu and manguls' matki tor competition." She giggled. "and what's that?!" I asked. "well it will be good if you see in your own." Rhea said with a crooked smile. I looked up and saw the matki was hanged at the height and also there was some bundles of monies hanging around the matki. "hey what's that?! why are they hanging that monies?" I asked rhea. "well di this is the tradition of basti. Each and every day, dayan used to hang those bundles with matki. The one who will success to break that matki, will have all the money. And as usual every year, that looser manglu breaks the matki and as a result Dayan's all monew comes back to her vault." Rhea said. "but why don't any others can break that matki?!" I asked in confusion. "Are you mad di?! Do you think anyone had courage to go against Dayan and break that matki?!" Rhea said. I looked above towards the matki. The whole basti was crowded and faces were peeping from each and every balconies and windows. The dhol and music had started to play and the gullal spread on the air. I saw the govindas had started to make human pyramid. I recognized madan bhaiya at the bottom and bhikhu bhaiya at the middle of that human pyramid.

Raghu's POV,

All the people gathered around the basti area. Mai was seating on her ravishing seat at the emtrance of naik sadan looking towards the crowd with proud smile. ajji was also there. Manohar chacha was standing at mai's other side. "yee sahib abhitak ayya kyun nahin?!" manohar kaka said. "sayd raste par hoga.." mai said. Huh!! What's new?! He was always late!! "par mai.. muhurat nikla jaa raha hain!!.." kakka said. mai indicated towards me. I stretched my arms and was ready to go there. Ajji showed thumbs up towards me. I moved forward. The human pyramid was all finished and I looked up towards the matki folding my collars.

Antara's POV,

"here comes Janglu aka Raghunath Naik... player no 1 from Adams Familly..." rhea said from my side like she was giving cricket commentary. I looked towards the fig standing at the bottom of human pyramid facing his back to me. I jaw hardened all of a sudden. That same guy... whom I met two months ago on that very day! I heard the sound of cracker nearby and I remembered about the horrible sound of blast. I squeezed my eyes shut and bit my lips to control the tears. With so much effort I hold back my emotions and opened my eyes. I saw him climbing up swiftly with so much ease. He was fast, quick and his head was all fixed towards the top. I don't know why my eyes were glued to him. "I think he is going to reach at the top.." the word automatically came out of my mouth. "wait wait di... not so soon... hear comes our 2^nd player, Manglu..." as rhea said, a BMW entered inside the basti and a man came out from the car. He was tall and fare. But his jacket... ewww purple!! What a girly color!! Such a bad choice!! His nose was so sharp just like a parrot's beak which looked quite odd. And his spiked hairs!! That almost reminded me about the toilet brush of our toilet in kashmir's house. "Hey rhea!! Who is this guy with Toilet Brush Hair?!!!" I leaned near rhea and asked her. "wow di you already gave him a name?!" rhea said wondering. "leave it yaar... first ans me my question.." I asked. "arey di!! I told you naa.. Manglu!!... Dayan's beloved so, Sattu the Phattu aka Satya Naik!! Just see what that loose character do!!" rhea said. That toilet brush hair... I mean satya moved at the front. His narrow eyes were fixed towards raghunath naik who almost reached at the top. Suddenly satya let out a gun from his pocket and I gasped. He directly pointed the gun towards raghu's upward feature. A loud boom came and in front of my eyes raghu's feature fell down from the top and I heard a heavy sound of falling. I didn't know why my heart thudded loudly at that moment and my breath almost hitched. "Ohh God!! What just he did?!! Why did he shoot him?!!" some frustrated voice came out from my mouth all of a sudden. "relax di!! Raghu is alright. That fattu shoot on his hand only!! We saw this drama every year... We are habituated now!!" rhea said in indifferent voice. I took a deep breath. I was surprised that why I was suddenly concerned about that raghunath naik's wellbeing. He was the one who killed my family. I had came here to expose the naik's! I shouldn't have any kind of sympathy with them. Then what just happened all of a sudden? I was so confused. Might be it was because of our human instinct. I convinced my confused mind and take a big sigh.

Raghu's POV,

My body heat the ground and I winced in pain. The bullet just passed my left hand and there was a burn in that portion. That's why my hand slipped. And also I think I got hit on my left arm. I knew really well that who did that. There was only one in the world who could do such damn thing. Satya!!... I saw his face on the above. Showing hi tongue to me he moved up on the human pillar. I stood up and sat on the road looking towards his up going feature with disgusted face. my left arm was bleeding a bit. but my whole feature was burning in anger. Honestly, if he was not mai's son, I would show him his real place. "Bhai!! Bhai tuu thik hain?!!" MM rushed towards me with worried face. "itna chillane ka nahin ree... Apun thik hain.. aur waisey bhi abtooh adat ho chuki hain..." I said with a big sigh. "bhai woo fatichar... man to karta hain!!..." MM feasted. "nahin... idhar locha mat kar.. mai hain samne.." I said. both of us looked above with angry eyes.

Antara's POV...

Just some moment I saw raghu at that place and now satya was there moving up. I don't know why I was feeling so much to that guy. Yup I know the men he shoot was my enemy but what he had done was also wrong. And I couldn't face anything which was wrong. I followed his steps. I suddenly observed that satya was moving towards bhikhu bhaiya standing just at some mere inches above him. looking at satya's track I was sure that if he had to move up then he had to support over Bhikhu Bhaiya's shoulder, the exact place where I dropped all of the butter, milk and cards that morning. I remembered bhikhu bhaiya couldn't even clean him up. If my prediction was true then... I looked towards satya with a small smirk. "huh!! Again that looser is going to break the matki..." Rhea said with miffed voice. "not now rhea!! He was going to fall!" I said smirking. "what?!!" how can you say that?!" rhea was hell confused. "just wait and watch!!" I told her. I saw satya's feet supported on the bhikhu bhaiya's shoulder which was full slippery with butter and milk. "howaaaooo!!!!..." I heard a huge scream which was enough to beat even tarzan. I heard another huge sound crushing the ground and a huge scream. "yesss!!!..." I almost jumped from the ground in excitement. I don't know why I was so happy looking at that epic fall of satya naik. on the other hand rhea's amused face moved towards me.

Raghu's POV

Me and machmach couldn't believe our eyes when satya's huge body hit the ground in front of our eyes. How did it happened?! I know satya cheated but he was too good in the climbing thing?! how could he fall back so harshly. "ouch!!!!,..." he screamed loudly and looked towards us with mad face. Both me and machmach smirked looking towards him. "sahib!! Sahib!!!..." mai ran put from the naik sadan with kaka and others. "sahib sahib tu thik hain naa?!!" mai asked worriedly. "ouch!!... ayi!!!" satya winced as he tried to move up. "sahib samhal ke..." kaka said and helped him to stand up. "arey sab ke sab.. niklo yahan se... aaj nahin hogi koi matki for!!..." kakka said looking towards those men standing on the pillar. "NO NEVER!!!!..." stya screamed like mad. "KOI NAHIN HILEGA APNE JAGAH SE... SAB KE SAB AISE KHARE RAHENGEY JABTAK MAIN AA KE MATKI NAA PHORONN..." satya saisd greeting his teeth. "par sahib!!" mai said worriedly. "NAHIN AYI... HAR SAAL MAIN ISS MATKI KO PHOR TAA HOON... ISS BAAR BHI MAIN HI PHORUNGA... AUR KOI MUJHE ISS SEY ROK NAHIN SAKTA..." satya looked towards me and satya with fiery gaze. I just yanked. S**e ki hawa nikal gayi aaj!! First time I was going to believe ajji's word. really something different happened in that gokulashtami. But who knew that there were so much surprises waiting for the whole basti. "thik hain sahib... matki tu hi phorega... abhi ke liye andar chal aur aram kar le.." mai said. satya went with them with stumbled feet. "koi apne jagah se nahin hilega..." manohar kakka said ti all and went inside. "chal bhai!!... ajji pareshan ho rahi hain tere liye.. khud too nahin aa saki iss liye mujhe bhej diya..." machmach said. I hoped up from the ground and moved with machmach.

Antara's pov,

"what?!! So that's why manglu fell down from that human tower?!" Rhea giggled as I told her about the incident of morning. "yup!! Mr manglu's epic falls reason is none other than but your one and only di!!" I giggled, "but seriously I didn't have slightest idea that the small accident and my little mistake will lead to this scene!!" My giggle increased. We were seating at the bench in front of a tea stall. "well I think... apne apni branded new bhiya.. yani bhikhu bhaiya ko doodh se nahela diya too unhone prassana ho kar humari wish pauri kar di!!..." rhea said making a saint like face. we both laughed loudly as we remembered the epic fall of mr manglu aka satrya naik! "Di!! True to say I am so happy to see manglu's condition. But still I am feeling a bit miffed.." rhea said with a sudden low voice. "hey what's up?!" I asked with a little frown. "Didu I am hungry you know.. but the thing is that it is the tradition of this basti.. till the matki hasn't been broken we are not allowed to eat. And I think that Fattu won't be able to stand up on his feet today... so I think I have to spend the day in starvation." Rhea said poorly rubbing her empty stomach which was making so much noise. "so why don't anyone else is going to break that matki?" I told looking towards the maatki above. "di are you crazy!! Look at that!! it was too high and also no one had the courage to disobey satya!! After all he is Dayan's son na!!" she made a face. "really?! No one had courage to do just a simple thing?!" I looked everywhere and didn't saw any other who were taking initiative to go forward. "yup!! That's true... look at those man who were still standing there making that tower." Rhea said. I smiled a little and suddenly stood up and let down my duppata from my shoulder. Rhea looked towards me with confused eyes for some moment and immediately understood my intention. "Di.. noo!!.." she said with worried voice. "Ohh Yes my dear little sister!! A very very yes!!!" I winked towards her wide eyes tying the duppata around my chest and waist. Arranging my hairs in a bun I moved towards the human tower under the matki. As I came near I heard madan bhaiya's talking as he was at the bottom most layer. He was talking to his friend at side. "arey s**a ye too watt lag gayi!! Kabtak aise khara rahena parega?!!!" madan bhaiya said with utter irritation. "Ab kya karna madan.. daya mai ka hukum hain!!" the man from his side said. I patted on madn bhaiya's shoulder. he looked towards me. "arey behena!!..." even he was sweating and struggling hard, a smile crept on hi face. "Arey ye kaun hain?!!" the man asked from his side. "arey yee wohi behen ji hain jis ne aaj subha woo matki toot ne se bachayi.." madan said. "arey haan... thank you behena..." the man said from side. "thank you mat kahiye bhaiya... bas thori si madad kar dengey?!! Mujhe upar charna hain uss matki ko forne ke liye..." I indicated towards the matki. Both of them was shocked looking at me. I smiled. "yee kya kahe rahi hoo behena?! Tum matki forogi?!!" madan bhaiya asked. "hmmm!!.." I nodded my head in agreement. "arey behena... daya mai ko pata hain kya?! Woo too bahut naraz ho jayegi humse.." the man from the side said. "woo sab aap mujhpe chor dijiye.. aur waisey bhi kabtak aise khare rahengey aap log?!! Woo satya naik too chalne ki halat mein bhi nahin hain... aur waisey bhi agar woo aa kee matki for bhi de too aap logo ka kya fayda?! Sare ke sare paise woo le jayeega aur aap ko kya milega?!! par agar maine matki for di... too adhe paise sab aap logon ke..." I said. Their eyes widened and they looked towards each other. "kahiye... manzoor hain!!.." I asked. "woo too thik hain behena... par tum larki hoke itni upar..." madan said in worried voice. "larki ko kamzor mat samjhiye bhiaya... aap ko janam dene wali bhi ek aurat hain.. ye mat bhuliye.." I said. "dekh kya rahe ho..." the man from the side said, "aaj subha bhi inho ne hi matki ko toot ne se bachayi thi... lagta hain aaj Krishna bhagwan inhi ke hatho se Prasad pana chahte hain..." he finished. Madan bhaiya smiled and said, "okk behena... chalo.. par samhalke.. tum fikar mat karo... hum sab tumhare sath hain.. eee taiyar ho jaon sab..." he warned everyone. I supported on madan bhaiya's shoulder and closed my eyes. "momma pappa!!" I said in my mind. "from today my battle starts with those evils. Please be with me always.." I prayed. A small breeze blew my hairs and I smiled. I got their blessings. Looking up to the matki I stepped on madan bhaiya's shoulder and moved up. Solely, silently I climbed up keeping my pace and I felt so many shocked eyes from balconies and windows were watching on me. Perhaps they never saw any gorls in that position. I smiled a bit. Well that was not so hard from me. I was champion in climbing trees during my childhood days. I used to climb on high branches of chinners to find the bird's nest and watch their lifestyle. It was such a obsession for me. But when my momma came to know I got a big big ear pulling from her and so my tree climbing stopped there. In my school during sports days when my seniors used to make pyramid I was the one who had to climb on them and stand on the top joining my hand as I was the thinnest and most daredevil among all. but those human pyramids were nothing as compared to that's height. And also I left the sports group after seventh as I had to concentrate on studies. After 7^th grade it was the first time I was climbing that height. But I was utterly enjoying the thing. it felt like I got back my childhood again. my feet stumbled sometimes but I managed to regain myself. Those group of boys really helped me out all the way. I slowly avoided bhikhu bhaiya's shoulder cause I didn't want to have epic fall like toilet brush hair! Thus removing each and every obstacle I moved at the top. The sunlight fell on my face as if like giving me victory sign. There was nothing in front of me rather than that matki. Two of them supported me and I stood up. I slowly let out the coconut from the above and then, Bammm!!!!!

Raghu's pov.

"satya more or less... kitni chot aa gayi..." rasika kaki said in her nosy voice as he applied ointment on satya's hand. "ouch!!... kaki!!.." satya screamed. "but nore or less... saty ake feets par aise... woo amul butter kidhar se aa gayein?!! Sahib.. tu, kya pair mein makhan laga ke uparchar rahein the..." kaki said wandering. "KAKIII!!!!..." satya's loud voice defened there ear again. I chocked a laugh looking at his condition. "has kyun raha hain yere?!!" ajji who was looking after my wound, Asked me. "nahin kuch nahin!!" I said. "pata nahin iss larke ka kya karoon main.. goli lagi hain, phor bhi has raha hain.. uar udhar satya ko dekh... choti si chot kya lagi pura ghar ko ssar pe uthe liya.. aur iski kisi ko parwa hi nahin..." ajji said with miffed voice. "arey chor naa ajji!!.." I said, "par aaj ek baat yakeen aa gaya... aaj sachmein lucky hain..." I grinned. At that moment we heard a huge bammm and all of our eyes automatically moved towards the matki. To our whole lifetime shock it was smashed in pieces and white milks were flowing down like streams from that. we were all frozen at the spot. "arey kya huya?!!" satya asked in irritation as he was lying and couldn't see anything. "sahib ki matki foot gayi!!!..." rasika kaki said at last. "KYA!!!???" satya jumped up amd again winced in pain. The human tower slowly grounded and we couldn't be able to see who actually brake that matki. "ailaa!! Ye matki kiss ne for dali?!!" MM asked from my side. "krishna bhagwan ne.. kahan tha naa woo ayengey..." ajji said joining her hand with so much emotional face. "too yee krishna bhagwan apni sakal kyun nahin dikahte?!" MM said. Suddenly the crowd broke apart and we could see the glance of the face standing in the middle of those govinda boys' circle, the boys who were dancing like mad. Surprisingly she was a girl!! I couldn't see her face as her long hair was covering. But as soon as she jerked her hair from her face I grounded to the spot looking at her face. I couldn't believe my eye for a moment. Was it really her?!! Or it was just my dream?!! I couldn't detect. "abey ajji... yee Krishna bhagwan nahin.. yee too radha rani hain!!" MM said from side. "ANTARA!!..." a whisper came out from my mouth. "hnnn?!!" ajji looked towards me in great confusion. I moved up fixing my eyes to her and stood near the gate. There she stood, wearing that white salwar with slight blue threadwork and her dupatta wrapped around her tiny waist. Her hairs wear slightly wet due to the water they splashed on her to clean the traces of butters and her face was glowing like the flower drenched in early rain. Her smile was so much magnificent, radiant yet so poised. There was so much sounds, crazzyness around her but she was so calm and quite. Just smiling looking towards the happy people! The realization truth amazed me that the matki was broken none other than but her!!! She let out those four bundles of money and gave two of them to those govinda boys and they were so happy. A little girl suddenly rushed to the spot jumping like a burd and hugged antara. antara smiled and hugged her back too! Rhea!!! Ohh god!!! I remembered at last. Rhea once told me about her very own fav sister in Kashmir and her name was Antara!. gos why didn't I detected before. Antara smiled and spread those two other bundles in air the monies spread all over the streets and all the people rushed to the spot to grab them. She didn't left anything for her own. I just saw her giggling, doing hi5 and dancing with rhea!! She was o happy and looked full of life. And I raghunath naik.. looking towards her for more than 10 mins adoring her smile. suddenly her eyes fell on me. All of a sudden I saw hetr face became colorless all of a sudden. She looked at me in some odd look which I couldn't define. Her looks became hard all of a sudden. Her chirpiness was all gone and she suddenly got inside the crowd dragging rhea along with her. I rushed towards the spot but couldn't find her in that crowd. She was gone!!

Ps: lol guys I don't know what I have managed to pen down🤢.. please bear this suoercrap for now on.. and I aam ready for chappal.. 😭