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Post by Rei on Nov 27, 2007 21:58:01 GMT -5
Yeah, for some odd reason in all my stories something gets run over...
USUALLY A PERSON.
Chapter 35 (Asuka's POV)
I walked across the streets extremely bored, I had been walking around for the last 10 minutes, at first I was excited to be back so I ran around my mornings, and I didn't really want to go home. I left Kiri and Shiku on a good note, and I wanted to keep it that way, because it probably wouldn't last long. I had been thinking a lot on earth... because I had nothing else to do, I thought about the two of them, and the things that popped into my head while thinking wasn't very pleasant, I was starting to notice more and more of Shiku's bad side.
As I walked through the streets again this time wandering from my original route, I spotted a car accident. I was surprised that no one was doing any healing arts, weren't there any healers there? I walked over preparing to help, I ran by the huddled group of healers... okay so there were healers here... Why weren't they doing anything?
I walked closer to the bleeding mess on the ground surrounded by people; I gasped realizing who it was, "Shiku?"
An official turned to me, he had a troubled look on his face, "She won't respond to anything..."
I started a complex healing art, I gasped in disbelief when it was repelled. I guess this is why no one was helping. My hands fluttered around her, unable to touch her for some reason. I glared at the lowly official, "Do you know who this girl is? She's Shiku Usachi, 7th command in the council, hurry up and grab some more important officials, don't just stand here looking like a retard."
I started to breathe regularly afterwards, even though I had nothing to do with this, but I felt a Cloud of guilt pass through me, sending sobs and shivers down my back. I called the person that would want to be notified first, "Kiri?" I said trying to surpass sobs.
"Asuka? Hey you're back," the sleepy voice in the background said, there was a pause. "Where did Shiku go?" this wasn't directed at me.
"Kiri," I breathed, "Shiku's here on whatever the fuck this street is on... you better come see for yourself... she's been through a car crash, she's broken up pretty bad."
There was a pause on the other side, and then the call ended.
Within minutes he was by my side, "Oh god..." He reached down to pick her up.
"Oh that won't---" I didn't get to finish because he picked her up.
Kiri started to sprint toward the hospital, at the speed we were going, we were there in 5 minutes. Kiri was at the front desk with the nurse panicking. "I think we need to get her in the emergency room..." she was saying.¡¨Um, what is your relation to her?"
Kiri hesitated for a second, "I'm her brother, Kiri Usachi."
The nurse's eyes lit up in realization, "Oh! Right away!" she whisked her away into the emergency room.
"Oh god... oh god... oh god..." Kiri said after 20 minutes of her being in the emergency room. "I should've watched over her this morning... Especially after she was so out of it yesterday... she probably wasn't even watching the cars."
"It's not your fault... she'll be okay..." I soothed.
A nurse walked out, as the emergency room light turned green, she had a smile of relief on her face, "The patient is awake, I'll need you to fill out some paperwork... she's not out of the woods yet, but she should be okay for the next couple of weeks at least." She held the door open beckoning us in.
Kiri rushed in by her side, in silence, she smiled for a second then passed out again. Probably from all the drugs she took and all the pain killers.
"Kiri?" I hesitated, "there was something weird about Shiku's condition after the car crash... we couldn't heal her after the car crash... we couldn't even touch her until you came... It was just..." I was at a loss for words; I didn't know how to describe it.
Just then the nurse walked in apologetically, "We would like the patient to get some sleep, visiting hours start at 7 o'clock in the morning, please come back then."
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=P Everyone here knows white carnations are funeral flowers right?
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Post by Ken on Nov 27, 2007 22:20:55 GMT -5
You killed off Shiku?
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Post by Rei on Nov 27, 2007 22:24:06 GMT -5
Nahh just almost =P I probably should've though.
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Chapter 36 (Kiri's POV)
I should've stayed awake... I should've woken up... I should've checked on her earlier... I should've made her stay home... There was an unlimited amount of 'I should haves' as these thoughts passed through my mind I stayed up all night thinking finally sleeping for 3 hours at 6 o'clock.
~x~
I woke up at 9 o'clock, "Shoot! I was supposed to be there at seven!" I run downstairs then pause, Shiku's probably eating that cardboard-tasting hospital food... I stop then get breakfast debating whether bubble tea would prove to have healing effects on Shiku, whose medicine was ice cream and such sorts. I drove to the hospital, probably a bit too fast and I think I drove past some red lights, but I think I'll be okay.
I walked into the room spotting a bouquet of flowers, some friends perhaps? I peered closer, those were... White carnations... Funeral flowers. What was that supposed to mean? There was a card as I took it out to read.
Hello. How was hide and seek yesterday my pet. We can play again. I'm still close by when you wake up look out your window and you might see me there... I'll be watching you... I'm always watching you...
There was a groan as Shiku sat up, "Good morning... Why am I in the hospital?" She looked disgustedly at the cords that were attached to her, "Ugh... I feel horrible... like I got run over by a truck..." She took the card from me then she paled as she read the card. She looked wearily out the window, then wiggled back into the blankets, "I saw him yesterday..." She glanced at the bag of food in my right hand, "Is that for me?" she snatched it away from me excitedly immediately eating it all at once. "Brain freeze!" she yelled cheerfully.
Then the nurse came in holding another bouquet of white carnations, "Nice flowers... but poor choice of species... Your boyfriend came and told me to give this to you, but he said he didn't want to bother you while you rest."
Shiku tensed for a second, "Thank you..." she said taking the flowers putting it on the side then plucking the card out and then tearing it open when the nurse left after injecting more drugs and painkillers.¡¨It's for you..." she said softly, handing the card over to me.
How was my pet when you saw her yesterday? I wanted to make sure you saw her before she went to the hospital...
Shiku shuddered at the notes pushing them to the side, the drugs and painkillers kicked in as she went back into dreamless sleep. Probably the best sleep she's had in days...
I wanted to make sure you saw her before she went to the hospital... So it was you Reiu... I'll make you pay.
Everything that Reiu writes is in a pretty font. =P I think it's decorativefontFINAL. It's pretty.
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Post by Ken on Nov 27, 2007 22:28:48 GMT -5
Geez, what is Reiu a girly, badass, evil guy?
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Post by Rei on Nov 27, 2007 22:35:49 GMT -5
Uh huh, he's girlyish but awesome at the same time
When I first imagined him he had black hair and icy blue eyes. But then I wanted to make him look like Kiri for some odd reason for my ending. But I forgot why, so I just went with what I had.
Chapter 37 (Shiku's POV)
My sleep was the best sleep I had for days... But not dreamless despite the drugs and painkillers, I was running in a corridor, away... away from the voices. I kept running... The stairs up and down them... Where was I going? There was only darkness all around me; I could hear footsteps behind me. I ran around and around... I've already been here before... Then... A memory from the past...
The betrayal... the blood... the death... It was happening again. I was being possessed... there was blood everywhere... then the sharp pain... then the realization of all the death. I snap awake again and there was someone in the room, my vision was still blurry from sleep, but I saw him, in the blue hoodie. I frown as I hear the whistle again beckoning me out the window.
I flew out the window feeling the gentle calling¡K I followed¡K I wanted to follow. I stopped as the beckoning stopped realizing that I was in the middle of nowhere¡K where was I? I breathed in silently seeing the corridors from my dream¡K I remember this place. It was where I was kept last time¡K I remember¡K
I remember¡K It¡¦s so far away¡K It¡¦s like that shattered memory I used to have It was like that dream I had as a kid¡K It was like the haunting I used to have¡K It¡¦s like the nightmare I used to have¡K
It¡¦s the nightmare I still have.[/b]
I hate this place... I hate the very knowledge that it exists. I hate the person that brought me here... I hate the falsehood that I was convinced by. Why didn't I realize... Why didn't I notice...? The darkened eyes... The haze that clouded them. The fake smiles. Why?
Then there was me, always running away, who was content with leaving things as they were. He owned me, he owned my very soul. He can't die... not as long as there's still a breath of life in me. How would I kill him? Is this where I die? Is this... really what fate tricked me into? Is it... that I will never have a life without imprisonment?
Kiri... where are you when I need you?
~x~
Nothing is ever sad in the beginning. Every story begins with "Once upon a time..." it's from where it starts it can be sad.
Like Cinderella, she had her dreams; all unfulfilled during "Once upon a time..." the only difference was that unlike her, I wouldn't have a happy ending. My ending wouldn't consist of "And they lived happily ever after..." it would consist of, "Such and such died... And most likely ended up in Hell."
Does that sound like a fairytale I've always read about while I was a child? In fairytales everyone is always in the right place at the right time... No one ever gets hurt permanently; no one's dead and can't come back. No one is a toy, easily broken then forgotten when beyond repair.
It used to be that Reiu and I were friends, which was the reason why my soul was sold to him when my parents could no longer sustain themselves... and they didn't care anymore. They beat me, they repeatedly told me what a bad child I was, that I was the source to all their problems... I was an extra mouth to feed I was just an extra burden. I stopped eating I didn't want to disappoint them; I didn't want to be a burden. I didn't want to exist...
I was happy when I was sold, my parents were wealthy, and they wouldn't die. Despite all the hurt and the beatings, they were still my parents. I thought that you saved me Reiu-sama... No, you changed, you became power obsessed, so power obsessed that I was merely another tool to gaining more power. You trained me; I thought it was for protecting me in the future so I wouldn't be hurt again. I didn't know that the one I needed protecting from would be you.
I learned to protect you; I couldn't die after you... With that I was content, I didn't need to exist a second without someone there to care. From before all the scars from my parents I had been shunned, after they died, I merely didn't exist in anyone else's world. Then it happened, you used to only order me in the most dire situations when you needed me to do something and force it on me using force. When we were about to die, when we were being persecuted, I was the same as you wasn't I. Shunned, yet you bought me with what you had left.
But after, I resembled you, you were disgusted, you didn't want to be what I was. I accepted that I was shunned; I was content with not existing for anyone else. I thought the beating was over, I thought the hurting was over, I thought everything sad was over. I thought I would have my fairytale ending.
Mine.
I never had one, I never was meant to have one, the betrayal I remember it, the art, you were going to sacrifice me, your perfect little doll, your pet, and the one you had changed me to be. Even then, I was content, I thought after you had your revenge you were soon to follow, that you were content to be with me wherever we would go.
Even Hell.
No, I was just another tool, important enough to be accepted, important enough to you... before. You killed me, but I had my vengeance, they killed you. They. The ones who shunned us, they ended up treating me with the utmost care that I hadn't deserved, then again, nothing I had was ever deserved. Except the second of betrayal and everything else that was mixed in afterward. I thought when I was alive again, when I could cry again that you were gone. That I was found again.
But you came back, I thought I was protected, but no one could protect me from the one that used to protect me.
I beg you though remember what you used to promise, don't hurt the one that tries to protect me now, because I don't want to live a second after that.
I don't want my promises that I had taken so carefully to keep to be broken.
I don't want to die.
But even more, I don't want to live after Kiri dies. --------------------------------- I got this from Kaoru from Ouran.
Kinda.
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Post by Ken on Nov 28, 2007 16:46:42 GMT -5
Finish et >
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Post by Rei on Nov 28, 2007 17:43:42 GMT -5
I will, just a couple more chapters XD
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Chapter 38 (Kiri's POV)
I was still here after she slept, at first I was thinking, plotting revenge, I was careful not to say a word or making any noises, knowing that Shiku would use her every bit of will to keep awake while I was still here. She wouldn't sleep until I was gone, and I was planning to stay for a while. Anyway, AT FIRST I was plotting, but then she started to groan and talk in her sleep, something she did subconsciously if her dream was too scary or too vivid. She made some stifled sob noises, she cried out my name a couple times, something about fairytales and Cinderella she moved her arms a couple times as if to hug something, or someone. I could tell that it wasn't me though, whenever she hugged me she had an awkward position of trying to make the moment worthwhile by playing with my hair, which was the usual hug anyway, unless it was the sad hug.
For the remainder of her dream, I merely went into her mind, it was a confused jumble in her mind, a wave of emotions, and there was just simply nothing warming about her. I soothed her silently through her thoughts although it didn't really pass through the barrier of her dream. She'd get calming thoughts when she woke up at least. Dream walking wasn't something I could do, especially not such an intense dream.
She woke up with a sad, but calm expression on her face. She said nothing as she glanced over at me, gave a weak smile then walked into her closet starting her day. She walked in, and then she didn't walk back out again. I walked in while she was sobbing to herself softly.
Her soft blue eyes glinted as she spoke nonsense; she got up as she started to bang her head on the wall. As the blood trickled she started to calm down. "So numb..." she said softly. The haze clouding her eyes cleared as she stood up whining annoyingly, "Owwwwwwww........ Kiriiiiiiiiii........ My HEAD HURTS!" then she walked off like nothing happened.
Her footsteps echoed down the stairs then out the door. A voice rang out from the doorway, "That's what she does when she's in the most pain, she numbs herself, she does it before she realizes what's going on then she covers it up. She's fragile; she doesn't handle pain, so she makes it so she doesn't even feel it anymore. If you didn't see that, she just ran into the wall downstairs. She hurts herself physically so she can take away from her mental pain, she can take physical pain, when she was small that's when she did it, she told me. The scars across her arms where she cut herself and scratched herself are nearly all invisible now, but there is one that's across the top of her arm that's really deep..." It was Asuka, she was leaning against the doorway arms crossed, expectant for me to run after her.
"She can take care of herself..." I informed her, though I, myself, highly doubted that it was true.
"Right."
Damn it, why is she the one who is right?
Because I'm always right. Came the thought, floating into my mind. Asuka smirked at me then walked out of the room.
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I noticed that it's kinda hard to read cause I didn't bother to italicize after posting so ehh... - - Too many thoughts.
=D I'll go into mass postage on request.
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Post by Ken on Nov 28, 2007 19:48:50 GMT -5
Mass postage?
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Post by Rei on Nov 28, 2007 19:59:58 GMT -5
Chapter 39 (Asuka's POV)
I don't think it's fair for me to keep competing with Shiku right now... she's in an unstable state; she needs my support and not my rivalry. And plus, I understand that Shiku needs Kiri more right now... Maybe some time when a psychopath that owns me comes back from the dead and I go into an unstable emotional state... Maybe then.
Not that... I didn't have a sad past myself; I mean... everyone did right? That's how we were joined perhaps... A sad cause, a cause not to be proud of. Somewhere around a couple years ago I was abandoned, like Shiku, I was an orphan. I don't even remember how I lived. I don't even know who my mother was... The earliest thing I remember was seeing a woman with pale silver eyes, her name was Sariel, and she was a Fallen... not that I knew it at the time... I thought she was an Angel. That day... I was just lying down in the lake next to the waterfall. I am surprised that I didn't die...
She took me with her and she trained me day after day with my martial arts and Fallen arts, although she never told me I was a Fallen or that she was one either. She also told me that the reason I didn't remember anything was because children, when they have painful pasts they can just forget it. We found bruises across my arms and whip marks across my back. Child abuse... we guessed.
I don't remember much... I get snips from my memories though. I remember most everything now, and everything I don't remember I can connect with what I do remember...
I screamed, my back flaming with the pain burning across my back, the slashes across my back haven't even started to heal yet... why? My father usually at least waited a few days until my slashes can heal... it hadn't even been 6 hours yet, and... Already. My mother her own purely white kimono that was draped across her shoulders the back torn and blood smeared everywhere. My father had drinking problems, and he was a maniac for causing pain, with out pain he grew depressed. And he liked to toy with me, we played games, I always lost. Whether it be tying me up then using that favorite sharp silver knife to carve wounds deeply into me, or playing hide and go seek, whenever he heard me or saw me he burned me, and then I had to run away again to keep from being burned to a crisp altogether, I had to keep running till his need was satisfied and then he'd leave me alone.
Then there was that day, he had his whip and his knife today... and chains as well. He tied me up quickly hanging me by my wrists inches off the ground, the clasps were rubbing against my wrists giving them dark bruises, he started to laugh as I cried out placing slashes and holes across me then he started to kick me, I tasted blood down my throat. Then it happened, my eyes turned blood red my hair flying crazily from the waves of fury radiating from me. Water flew from everywhere, drowning my father, and I saw my already dead mother from his beatings... I can't believe it I killed my mother... My only protector through out all my life. "You good for nothing... You... you..." I couldn't express myself in words instead I strangled him then he strangled me right back, I think he died because the next time I was conscious was when Sariel found me.
I softly calmed myself down, cooling myself down with my power of ice, I was calm now. Sariel named me Asuka, meaning beautiful tomorrow, because of my torturous past became a beautiful future. I lived my lives after that to the fullest, joining the Usachis helping countless people... and mostly punishing those who needed to be punished. -----------
Kinda cheesy but hey.
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Post by Rei on Nov 28, 2007 20:06:21 GMT -5
Chapter 50 (Kiri's POV) As I thought harder I realized the source to all my and everyone around me's problems... It all went back to one thing, their past. Why are memories so hard to forget? They might be shattered, they might be pushed back to the back of their minds, but they're always remembered again... I was walking in people's minds again... I didn't mean to, it's just that their thoughts were calling to me, there were screams radiating from them even if they are keeping a calm look on their faces.
Asuka for example remembered her past, I never knew so much about her, I don't think she did either, her memories some things were clearer than others some other things were connected out of her imagination. Shiku however was concentrated with keeping people out of her mind, which told me I wasn't the only one. Her defenses were just about shattered to pieces and she wouldn't put in so much effort that she almost ran out of her physical defenses. She was an easy target right now, but I knew that she was probably well protected by the one who wants to be the one to toy with her then when he gets bored he'll dispose of her.
She was protected from everyone...
... Except him.
As I walked into her room her eyes were shut and beads of sweat and her eyebrows furled with concentration. She didn't even notice me, she passed out as she totally broke, her mind even blacked out.
As she started to wake she crawled into her bed, her pain mirrored on her face as she cringed with every single move, she smiled softly at me, cringing when even that hurt. She passed out again after that.
I walked into my room, when faced with a hardship... what is the best cure?
Sleep, napping... my favorite activities, much easier than anything I should do right now.
I knew what I needed to do... would I be strong enough to do it?
~x~
I walked into Shiku¡¦s room to find her staring up at the ceiling; she was trying to keep her mind blank so she couldn¡¦t hear the thoughts beckoning at her.
Then I walked out of the house, I knew where he was, he was so confident that he was taunting me as well. Asuka was leaning on the doorway ¡§Are you sure this is what you want to do right now?¡¨
¡§It¡¦s not a matter if I want to or not, it¡¦s a matter of I kind of have to.¡¨
¡§You really don¡¦t ever have to do anything in the world, I mean you can just not go and let Shiku die. Nothing is a have to in this world.¡¨ She gave me a hard unreadable gaze then walked off.
I sprinted after that, finding the strength in my deep thoughts, I couldn¡¦t find what I really wanted to do. Or what anyone else really wanted to do. Shiku used to tell me she wanted to die, later she told me she wanted a reason to live. Has she found that reason? If she hasn¡¦t and I want what is ¡§best¡¨ for her, then shouldn¡¦t I just let her die?
No, that¡¦s not right¡K I thought silently, that can¡¦t be right, everyone around her¡K Everyone would be disappointed at that decision, if I made it.
I ran into the place where the beckoning was strongest, the forest next to the hospital, my wings were extended as I jumped onto the tree that I had a feeling he was sitting in. I frowned, something was off¡K I couldn¡¦t quite put my finger on it. I frowned even more, if that was possible, Reiu was a strategist he wouldn¡¦t come on with a head on attack on me¡K right? And was I what he wanted most right now?
No.
I slipped on something along my way up the tree, it was a piece of paper, and I snatched at it and saw the single word ¡§Haha¡K¡¨
With that I started to race back home, I knew where he was, and I couldn¡¦t believe that I for a second thought I knew better than him.
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3 more chapters, I made a prologue too but I'm too lazy to post it.
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Post by Rei on Nov 28, 2007 20:07:26 GMT -5
Chapter 51 (Shiku¡¦s POV)
I could feel it that beckoning again, this time more urgent and strong. I simply jumped out the window, I wanted to hear it so much, I wanted it to be stronger that sweet, sweet sound.
I ran to the source of the sound, but when I saw him. I could feel shivers running up my spine. ¡§So you came¡K¡¨
¡§As if I could resist it!¡¨ I bit back the urge to lunge at him, feeling sure that he could swat me to the side like a fly.
He walked up to me; I was shivering every second while he was walking towards me. He cupped my face with his hands as he pressed a kiss into my hair, ¡§I missed you.¡¨
¡§Well, I didn¡¦t miss you!¡¨ I tried to slap him, but my hand was easily caught in mid-air. He easily dipped me down as I was caught in a uncomfortable stance. If I didn't want to fall and break my head open, I'd have to stay in that stance.
He still had that smile on his face as he picked me up bridal style me struggling every step of the way, "I'm pretty sure your brother has already caught the drift that you're gone, come on let's go..."
I was blindfolded instantly before we even flew off the ground, so I had no idea how high I was going, so I had to grab onto his hand to not risk falling out of the sky. I hated relying on him, there was the time when I always did. Now I never do. And never again...
I felt the hard ground below me as we landed, something crumbled down as he caught me in mid-air just staying barely hanging from whatever was below. He pulled me up with ease, as he sat me down and put binds on me to prevent me from escape. As if.
He smiled as he pressed another kiss into my hair, "I'm sorry, but you're going to have to go to sleep right now..." He whistled a soft whistle as I simply fell back unconscious.
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Sickening D=.
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Post by Rei on Nov 28, 2007 20:09:49 GMT -5
Chapter 52 (Kiri's POV)
After a couple more hours a found a note on my window sill, it simply said:
12:00 am at dying place
I frowned until realization began to dawn on me, Where the stream ran red... I knew exactly where it was, yet I've never been there. My brown wings unfolded as I headed towards the place where so many people died, so many deaths occured... I frowned when I got there, there was no one there. I stood there for hours then I walked next to the stream to splash water on my face to keep me looking alive when Reiu got there. I saw a pebble in the stream that wasn't like the others, the others were all jet black while that pebble was a pearly white and it glowed in the pale moonlight.
Encarved was a simple message.
I'll be taking my doll back now... I feel like I know where they are... He wants me to find them right? So he can play with me more right? It's probably a place I wouldn't think of until a while later after I'm out of my uncalm state. I frowned, images flashed through my mind and when I opened my eyes again.
I knew where they were.
I ran, I didn't think I knew where they were now, I knew where they were. I didn't even bother going through the lake, I flew right over it. It was that island, where we first played. It was that one island where she almost drowned. I remember.
I saw a familiar shape standing deep in the mist gathered around, she turned around and my breath hitched in my throat, what happened to her?
Her normally soft bluish black eyes were a piercing icy blue color. While her bluish black hair were free of her playful highlights, she had an intense look about her and instead of her usual black qi pao top and tight black pants she was wearing a completely white short dress that ended just above her knees and it had black lace on the bottom and a satin ribbon tied into a bow across her chest. She had two white ribbons with the edges lined black tied on either side of her hair. She had a black garter with light blue lace on the edge and it was tied around her thigh with a thin light blue ribbon. Her neck had a jet black collar on it and it looked painfully tight. Her skin was soft and pale and was cold as she cupped my cheek with her right hand and she gave me a soft kiss on the cheek.
Her eyes tensed as she drew her sword, her mouth moved speaking endless silent words, as her wings out stretched they were no longer the gray Fallen ones she usually pulled out, but an magnolia white color. She once told me she never pulled them out because it used up too much of her energy to pull them out since her Angel side was surpassed. Her eyes flashed as I blocked her hit with my own sword, I frowned as I flung her off with a flick of my hand. I saw something in the corner of my eye, "Kisari." My own voice sounded, barely audible. Her icy blue eyes flickered toward the blur that I was looking at. She pushed off the ground towards Kisari, but I simply twisted her hand behind her back as I used my other hand to fling senbon at Reiu, catching his attention, but barely.
He easily blocked Kisari's quick hit aimed at his shoulder as she flew by, she landed on her feet as she wiped the blood off her cheek, "You're pretty good."
His cheek started to bleed from my senbon and Shiku twisted herself free of me as she walked up to Reiu and licked the blood off his cheek. He gave a sickening fake smile as he pressed a kiss into Shiku's hair. "Sickening..." I muttered to myself.
I frowned as I glanced at Kisari, most likely also sickened by the situation, I gave an eye signal for us to change targets. She nodded a bit and then flew out full force at Shiku, flinging her by her arm away from Reiu. I calmly walked up to him as he gave me a mock bow, "May I have the honor of killing you..." he stopped as his head snapped up and his eyes gleamed, "Kiri?"
The fight started as we fought each other blow for blow, evenly matched as we were I could tell that he wasn't tiring. He was practically immortal. I drop-kicked him as he jumped over it easily and sweep kicked me in return and I jumped over that. I was starting to get annoyed, while he was just having fun playing with me. I glanced over toward Kisari and Shiku's fight, they were just as evenly matched, except both of them were tiring out not only Kisari. I frowned as I saw the first signs of going berserk emitting from Shiku. "Kisari watch out!" I called narrowly dodging a blow over the head.
Shiku smiled menacingly, her perfect little angel image tainted by it. Her icy blue eyes closed and when she opened them they were even more intense than before, she started to actually hit Kisari, every blow getting faster and faster. I pushed off the ground leaping at her, successful in tackling her down. Kisari was in a bloody heap already, "Ki...ri..." she rasped. I frowned then simply kissed Shiku gently as her eyes calmed down into her bluish black color. As she regained her own consciousness she started to scream when she realized how much blood was flowing from Kisari.
She fell to the ground, "I'm a monster." She whispered this silently her defenses breaking down, I heard a rustle behind us as Reiu landed.
"It's a pity you destroyed my perfect doll."
"It's a pity she never was your doll to begin with," I retorted.
"You know that's not true."
He was right, I did, even now even though Shiku was calm ( or rather as calm as she could get in the situation) I knew she would turn back into a puppet seconds later. As it turns out, Shiku wasn't as calm as I thought she was. Her finger traced in her own blood on a wound on her neck she started drawing the symbols for sacrifice on herself. Her arms were flaring with red marks, "I'm going to kill him." This was the last calm thing she said until she started to go ballistic.
"What the hell are you doing Shiku?"
The wind started to blow and a sacrifice circle appeared under her. The wind blew harder, it echoed in my ears. What is most important to you...? It seemed to say.
"Me? My race of course..." she laughed, "my Fallen form."
That's not true... So in return we will ask more of you and not fulfill your heart's desire.
Her eyes calmed and her thoughtful nature came back, "Kiri." She paused for a split second, "Kiri... is the most important thing to me."
But he is also your heart's desire... is he not?
She paused for a second as a weird look came across her face, "Yes. That's true." She closed her eyes and she spoke words in silence.
Is that what you truely wish?
"Yes."
When I looked back, Reiu was gone. And... Kisari was healed? What had she wished for? She can only wish for one thing can't she?
At this time Asuka walked out from the shadows, breathless, most likely she ran all the way here, "She's going to be gone. Won't you join her?"
I stepped into the circle of sacrifice, "What do I really want?"
What will you give in return?
I knew the answer to that, I learned this from Shiku, I spoke endless words in silence.
What do you wish for?
I smiled and laughed sarcastically at the same time, "The same thing."
A blinding red light enveloped the two of us, Shiku started to reach out for me, "Kiri, take my hand!"
Unknowingly I reached out as well, as our fingertips touched everything disappeared into a white light. ----------
Stole the ending from Tsubasa's Beginning.
=D ONE MORE.
TEH EPILOGUE.
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Post by Ken on Nov 28, 2007 20:10:31 GMT -5
Do you have a past for all the characters?
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Post by Rei on Nov 28, 2007 20:10:33 GMT -5
Epilogue (Shiku's POV)
It's funny how things turn out in life, I think I understand now why it didn't work for Reiu. Often what you desire most is what you have to give up, only selfless wishes can work. I know what I gave up that day, what I gave up that day, was all I ever lived for. I gave up my promises, I gave up Kiri. What did I want in return? Kiri's happiness, a simple thing. I guess the thing I gave up and what I wished for were intertwined, if I didn't have Kiri, Kiri would not be happy. It doesn't work that way I guess. You can't give up and want something you already have, I knew that I think deep in my soul, so I knew that in that day I gained nothing, the only thing I gained was a chance to start over. Starting over has always been the hardest part of life in my book.
Obviously if things worked like how they should've in my book, I would need to give up nothing.
I think, I'm not going to remember anymore when I walk through this light, I'm still enveloped in light, several souls around me tangled in the same giant web. There are many paths to where I'm going, we're all going to end up at the same place, it just depends on what path we follow.
Kiri and I used to walk the same path, he walked on farther and I always followed him, just a couple steps behind him. I used to think we were walking at the same speed while we weren't. Now I think we're walking at different speeds while we're walking together, side by side. His fingers intertwined in mine, my fingers caught up in his hair like the times before. His bright icy blue eyes twinkling with delight, my own soft and blue and trying not to look back.
I think I know what he gave up that day as well...
(Kiri's POV)
Life has been almost always viewed an easy cake for me, you finish it and you're done. Difficulties come in when at the last part of it, how should I cut it, there should be a piece I share. Which piece? There are things we look down upon in life, like sacrifices. I know what I gave up that day, what I gave up that day was all I ever lived for. I gave up my promises, I gave up Shiku. What did I want in return? Shiku's happiness a simple thing. But when the things we wish for and give up are the same it doesn't work.
I used to wonder what the point of life was. I know now that it doesn't matter what the "point" of life was, it's more important understanding how to live it. I'm pretty sure there are things in my life I take forgranted, there are things that are so close to me that I look right over it. Someone once told me to "Live life to it's fullest. Take a step forward, when everyone else takes that step forward, take another." That person was Shiku, she's always told me to live out my life, live out my dreams. I don't remember her doing the same. Maybe that's cruel, she saw someone who she looked upon for a glimmer of herself.
Maybe what's cruel is that I took that, and I left her behind. She didn't take a step forward. And I didn't notice.
I think I knew what she gave up that day as well...
(Asuka's POV)
I used to think fate was an easy thing to deal with, leave it alone and it will sequence itself for me. I always thought I was walking with the sequence. I always thought there weren't things outside of my own fate that I would want. Or need. Needing is a general word, you need food and you need water. But are those the same things as needing love?
Promises, I never figured out the importance of them, they were there to be broken. But in truth they are a bond a sacred one. One that cannot be broken, only shattered then put back together and mended back to lower than the state was when it begun.
In life, we need extra chances. Extra chances don't heal wounds in our hearts. It heals what's in our soul, what it's deep desire is. I am Asuka, I am Fallen I am not a God.
So who am I to break these unbreakable bonds? So who am I to tease fate? Who am I to decide who gets extra chances who gets them taken away, who needs them who doesn't need them?
What happens when something is so fragile, yet strong but broken? What happens when two souls meant to be one split apart? What happens when fate's strong and inviting arms are reached out beckoning and then ignored and teased?
I know what they gave up that day, they gave up each other.
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Wrapped up nice and neat =D YAY.
ON to typing book two =D
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Post by Rei on Nov 28, 2007 20:11:52 GMT -5
Do you have a past for all the characters? Actually no... I don't have *COUGH HACK CHOKE* KIRI'S COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH *starts choking*
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