Title: This Always Happens
Author: Yoko-cw
Summary: A story inspired by a horror prompt. Read to find out or else I'll spoil it :p
***Kurama POV***
It always happens like this. Gradually, I am forced to see the slow, agonized deaths of my loved ones. I am not allowed to love. i am not allowed to hate. To feel that intensity would lead to my own destruction. I am, above all, a survivalist.
Perhaps this is why I refuse to die.
This always happens. I sit, unable to move and covered with blood. The smell overwhelms me, leads me further into the labrynth of my insanity. I'm panting, leaning heavily against the grainy wall and laughing through the lump in my throat.
My hair is white, hanging in bloody clumps around my face. I'm breathing, unaware of where I am going, knowing only that I need to GO but it doesn't matter anymore. 'Hiei...I must find Hiei...' He'd be the only one able to make sense of this. My mind has long abandoned me, and i am left with a cacophony of silence.
I fall over their bodies along the way. Yusuke's mouth is agape, frozen in a scream for mercy. I turn away from Yukina. Ruby eyes implore me. She didn't understand. My claws are covered in blood, long dried. Three hours have passed since my senseless massacre. I cover their bodies with torn sheets. Kuwabarra's hands are nowhere to be found.
Eventually, the sick feeling in my stomach passes. I no longer ponder. I am numb.
I don't know where we all are. All I know is that I am trapped inside the labyrinth. I can't sense or smell Hiei anywhere. Could he have escaped? Was he here at all? My mind, in an effort to protect itself, recalls nothing in mass. Only small flashes come. They serve only to confuse me further.
A few of my classmates lie in pieces in the hallway. Their uniforms...had I lead them here? I cover my mouth, nauseated. The smell of metal makes me ill.
I look down at myself. Even my clothes are stained. Sanguine covers me. "Hiei?" I whisper. It threatens to deafen me, my voice unbearably loud in the silence.
"Fox."
I jump, turn to find him leaning against the wall and embraced by shadows. How fitting.
"Hiei," I whisper, "What have we done?" He smirks, fangs glinting in the dim light. The bulb above his head hisses and flickers.
"We, fox?" He laughs, shaking his head, "I had nothing to do with this. I have only just arrived." I shake my own head in response. The floor is falling beneath me. The threat of insanity licks and snaps at my mind, an agonizing flame I cannot ignore. "Did you see?" I am unable to speak above a whisper, "Hiei, did you see what happened to us?!" He keeps smirking. He kicks something over to me.
Keiko's head rolls easily. Her eyes are wide, forever terrorized. A small sound escapes me. Echoing loudly. Quiet.
"Why? How...how did you survive? Hiei...did you see what happened?!" I'm screaming and it hurts. He smiles, shakes his head and tosses something to me.
Kusari-gama...a weapon I had long retired.
"Fox...it appears as though you have finally lost your mind."
When I look up, he is gone.
I can't stop screaming.
...This always happens...