Switchfoot-Dare you move
Watanuki was in the middle of a bath when he heard the doorbell ring.
He figured that the person would either figure he was home or busy and just go away…but it had to be someone persistent, right? Because of his stupid bad luck the doorbell just kept ringing and ringing…
"Coming!" Watanuki yelled angrily. He was in the middle of pulling himself out of the bath tub when he heard the bell ring again, causing to slip and fall back in. "Stupid jerk, ugh, just go home…" He was too tired to argue tonight…
He angrily pulled himself up, wrapped a towel around his waist and a pulling bathrobe on.
Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong…
He was really about to ding dong this person across the head.
"What the hell…?" he froze mid-sentence seeing that it was Doumeki standing there…He was holding his head. "Come in…"
Doumeki just stood there, like he hadn't heard.
"D-Doumeki…come in." Watanuki said reaching out to pull him in.
Doumeki grabbed his wrist and squeezed it.
"Ouch, Doumeki let go!"
Doumeki looked up at him, his eyes were soulless…Devoid of emotion…
Doumeki pushed Watanuki in and walked in, closing the door behind him.
Startled by the push, Watanuki allowed himself to be pushed over and landed on his butt.
"D-Doumeki?" Watanuki asked, and he knew he shouldn't have. He had already gotten himself in trouble by just standing there twice.
But Doumeki was always emotionless…his eyes were no different…Today he, himself, looked empty though. Doumeki wasn't in there…And whatever was in there wanted Watanuki dead, or, worse…., alive.
"D-Doumeki…" Watanuki stood up and backed himself into the kitchen…He could still see Doumeki from where he stood at the door. "Doumeki…go away or…Or I'll be forced to hurt you…" Watanuki said slowly, his voice was shaky…he always threatened Doumeki, but he never went through with anything that would hurt the big idiot too badly.
His hand wrapped around one of the knives in the stand next to him and he threw the rest of them in the sink, making the harder to reach. "Go, Doumeki!"
"…Doumeki isn't here…"
Watanuki's eyes widened as a wicked smile plastered itself across Doumeki's face.
"I'll be damned…You aren't him, are you…?" Watanuki said slowly.
"Nope…He is asleep…but I can certainly take a message for you." It wasn't even Doumeki's voice anymore.
"No…Doumeki…Wake up you idiot! If you-!" Watanuki was abruptly cut off by a blunt punch to the stomach, given by the Doumeki who was at the door only seconds ago. He took a sharp intake of breath before looking up at the eyes that weren't Doumeki's…
"Are you scared?" the voice occupying Doumeki's throat asked.
"Y-yes…But I would be even more scared if you were still Doumeki…"
"The useless boy's powers wavered on his way out that witches shop…"
"Ah!" Watanuki was pressed against the counter, his air having trouble moving through his throat, suddenly. So this was partially his own fault…But Watanuki was his reason for being there…so it was his fault too… "D-Doumeki…"
"…I told you…He isn't here."
Watanuki pushed Doumeki away; throwing the knife in his hand away…It hit the floor with a thump.
"Doumeki, listen…You have to force him out! Just try! Y-!" Watanuki was thrown to the floor and barely able to register what was going on… He saw Doumeki…he was reaching for something on the floor several feet away…something silver and shiny…Absently Watanuki wondered what it was…Until he realized what it was…
He found out the hard way…It was being driven into his left wrist. "AGH-Doumeki! Stop it!" Watanuki grabbed Doumeki's sleeve…The pain was blurring his vision, he couldn't see…His was gripping at everything except the knife and his grip was too loose to do anything at this point anyway... "I'm sorry! I didn't want it to be this way…This is all my fault! For living and causing you pain and never really thanking you…All I did was tell about how ungrateful you were and how stupid and socially retarded you were…I never meant for anything like this to happen. I just wanted to…" Watanuki was on the edge of his consciousness now…He was almost out, but he was forcing himself to finish what he had started… "I never meant for any of this to happen. Please…Come back Doumeki…If it weren't for you I would have been died by now…I would be trying to kill myself or…maybe I would be hurting myself…by doing exactly what you are doing to me now…Do you see what you are doing right now?"
Doumeki blinked a few times before nodding… "You…"
"This kid is persistent. But I won't let him get passed me, so don't get to happy, pest!"
Watanuki gasped and pushed at Doumeki's once again possessed body.
"Take me instead…Eat me from the inside out! I'll do anything, just let him go!" Watanuki said feeling the tears sliding down his cheeks. "I'm not the Hero…I don't know what to do!"
"You've got a deal…You must really love this person to sell your own life for his."
Watanuki watched as Doumeki's eyes closed and his body slumped to the floor.
Then everything went black….
His hair was still wet…He couldn't help realizing as he sat up…And his robe was sticking to his still wet skin…His towel must have fallen off when he fell…It was no longer on his being…Which he was too aware of…
The one thing he was also aware of was the spirit that had its teeth in his fore arm…It was a little uncomfortable, but not really painful…It was probably because of the knife lodged in his wrist…
The knife was suddenly yanked out of its place…He wanted to scream, but he couldn't…He was still unconscious…Maybe that was the reason he couldn't scream…
"Watanuki!"
Watanuki looked around and even turned to the spirit currently gnawing on his arm, but did not see the source of the voice.
"Get up idiot…"
Watanuki saw a light coming from above and could hear it…That voice….
"I can't…I'm locked in my own subconscious." He said sourly…
He felt an arm wrap tightly around his waist and lower legs.
"I'm taking you…" The rest was drowned out by Watanuki's scream…He spirit had broken skin and blood was pouring out of his arm… It was a scream that Doumeki would never hear if he had a choice…It scared even him…
….
Doumeki had been in the shop for well over two days…
Watanuki was well into a state of sleep that could be considered a coma…And Doumeki didn't like it…
He stood in the guest bedroom, staring at Watanuki…His eyes traveled to Watanuki's wrist…To his furrowing eyebrows…
It didn't help that the spirit was in there still and most likely pulling Watanuki to ribbons…
He walked over to Watanuki and debated on whether or not to touch him, because maybe, just maybe, that could be the worst idea that ever crossed his mind since he first entered this shop and was told that all that he could do was wait when the time was right…
He scowled, And when would that be? In a week? When they both would have missed enough school for their teachers to get worried and have a word with Doumeki's parents and make them not want Doumeki to be friends with Watanuki anymore? He wasn't going to leave his side if he had a choice…And if he didn't have a choice he would make one himself…
Watanuki mumbled something…
"What?" Doumeki said trying to mask all the relief that was flooding his body.
"I said 'kill me', you moron."
It appeared that Watanuki was still asleep…But he was clearly awake…Or close enough to it.
"Why?"
But Doumeki quickly figures it out when tears begin sliding down the boys cheeks that Watanuki isn't even talking to him…And that he is begging to be killed by the spirit inside of him….And he gives in to his urge to touch…and does it.
Watanuki practically leans into his hand as he cries out in pain… "Doumeki? Is that you?"
"Who else would it be?"
"H-he kept saying you were dead…He didn't want me to be happy…He just wanted to see me cry…" Watanuki's voice was shaking as his arm rose to wipe his tears away… "D-don't leave me…please…"
And Doumeki didn't even care about the details of whatever was going on…All he cared about was the fact that Watanuki was okay now…Or getting close to it...And that was all that mattered.
He pulled Watanuki into a tight hug that he wouldn't leave until Watanuki woke up Twenty-seven or more hours later.
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This has been an Exerides T Fluorite Production. I would just leave it at that but maybe….I might have a sequel for this…If you want…Please review and give me your answers if you do…And if you were disappointed in the Horitsuba story I wrote…Then please just wait…I'll make another to make up for it…I didn't have all the facts and ultimately failed…I was disappointed too…
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