In times like this, you become a little crazy.

A little insane.

A little fucked up in the head.

Trying to keep sane in a time of pure chaos isn't the slightest bit simple. In fact, right now, it's impossible.

My mind is filled with the images of everyone I've held closest, dead. It's all I've thought about. All I can think about.

Clay, gone.

Omi, gone.

Kimiko, gone.

Do you want to know what's driving me over the edge? What's really making me completely mental?

It's all my fault. It's all my fucking fault. I fell for Wuya's scheme, and not only am I losing my sanity for it, everyone I loved, everyone who mattered in my damned life, died by my doing.

Died by my sword, with my hand around the hilt.

They were helpless and defenseless while I slid the blade across their bared necks. Clay and Omi, They looked at me with such a mix of disgust and fear and disappointment. But that didn't make me flinch.

But Kimiko.

Oh Kimiko, her eyes clustered with tears, the one thing that brought me out of my frenzy for a split second. I felt my face soften when I seen her tiny porcelain face, with such a look of melancholy, and what seemed like love. Her voice cracking as she whispered her last words to me and only me.

'I'm sorry'

That's what is making me absolutely demented. I don't understand, I was standing there with a silver blade to her bruised throat, and she was the one apologizing.

And as I'm sitting here against this crumbling stone wall of the temple surrounded by a crimson inferno, I look down at her still face that lays in my lap.

Her cold sapphire eyes that were once brighter than the blue sky that used to exist, staring back at me. I gently close them with my fingers, and she seemed a little more peaceful in the middle of this chaos.

I'm waiting, we're waiting.

Waiting for this fire to finally collapse on us, to end all of my deranged ways. As the wooden support beams of the roof begin raining down, I look down at her pale face one last time, kissing her cold lips.

"I'm sorry."

Fin

Back from a long hiatus, and I'm not sure about this one, it's pretty dark and well, pretty batshit Rai. I've always had a weird love for insane Raimundo with a Raikim twist in it. But yeah, I will try to have more stories up, but I'm not sure how long it's going to be. Until then, enjoy.

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