Do you know what your name means, Hotaru? It means darkness and despair. That's all you'll ever be to us, and that's all the world will see you as. Because of how you've turnout we're sending you to the Garden of Eden. They'll fix you for sure. Goodbye eyo-mukatsuku.
'Damn you for thinking about that again Hotaru! You know it makes us sick, and it keeps us from focusing! Snap back into it before we get hit again!'
"Yes, Kyo as you wish." I reply vaguely not caring whether we're hit or not. After all being ⅔'s ghoul means that I heal over seven times as fast as any ghoul. That and the addition of being beat senselessly since I was 4 means that now that I'm 15 I don't truly care about pain anymore.
'Yes you do! You do care, you just can't feel it anymore shitty brother!' Kyo replies.
"If you weren't a part of me, I'd have killed you years ago." I seethe.
'Scary. Maby that's why mother died, and Pops kicked you out.' He snickers knowing just what buttons to push in order to set me off.
Crack! I am struck in the back by a bowstaff breaking thirteen vertebrae and two ribs. I can feel that they aren't in their spot, so I push them back into place. I might need to stitch the skin from where the bones broke through so as to remember where I've been hit tonight, so I make a mental reminder to find the needle that Teacher took from me and stored somewhere in his office.
Snap! This time it's just annoying, so I prepare for the next hit and when he swings I grab the damn stick and break it, smashing it in my hand laughing maniacally while it splinters everywhere.
"Damn it Hotaru! This is training! Take it serious. You're dismissed, send in Paige." Sensei says, his voice filled with anger at me breaking his favorite toy. I stroke off, through the dojo, out into the courtyard, and down at the end plopped down under an apple tree. Paige can find her own way in. 'Hey stupid! The needle?!' Oh. I had forgotten about that. I stood, stretched momentarily, and began towards his office. Once there something blocked my path. I guess I should say someone but that would give it the common courtesy it doesn't deserve.
"Hello Hotaru~!" Paige chides. "Going somewhere?"
'Damn I hate her voice! Shut her up will you! Before I sew that wretches mouth shut!' I chastise him for letting her get under his skin, but proceed with my plan.
"Yes, move out of my way whore. I am in need of a lost possession of mine." This sets her off and she comes in swinging. Just like I want. I play along with her for a bit, but bore quickly and set her on her ass.
"Oh yeah, Sensei wants you at the field five minutes ago." I smile the smile that I've shown everyone, my death smile.
"God damn you! You're nothing better than your parents! And they are complete skum!" She yells storming off with a fury in her step.
'Let me kill her please! She just talked about our parents!'
"She's right though." And with that I opened the door to his study. The place isn't much, just a boxy room with a desk and bookshelves lining the walls. It is lit by one Victorian lamp hanging in the middle. Remember when we took out all of his lightbulbs and put the smashed remains in his bed?! I remember too well. I stroke over to his desk, and plump down into his chair. Easily picking the new lock on his drawer, I open it. Three porno's, twenty three of my knives(I'll be taking those), and my needle. I grab it and stick it into the ball of my hand. With my mission complete, I leave.
'No really though, don't bother cleaning up after yourself.'
"Meh, what'll he do? Give me more good boy treatment? We'd like to see him try. That and he's already transplanted all of the Kagunes into us."
I guess that soothed his fire, because he goes back into the blackness. I finally arrive at my room, slid open the door, and enter. That's two more stitches right? No answer means correct I guess. So I take my red thread and set to work stitching two red x's where I was hit. Twenty one in total I count. Too much. I frown. Trying to take my mind off of my failures, I fall onto my bed and scuttle over to my nightstand. I open the drawer and take out the only photo of my family I have. Juuzou why did you leave me? Why did you go with them. Mother was never the same since you left. She took it out on us. Do you not care that you abandoned us? Then when Mother died, Pops sold us all off to the highest bidder. I could have sworn I saw you there, but I doubt it. I feel my cheek get wet, and brush the secretion from my eye. I don't feel like doing anything else, so I fall asleep.
Plump! I'm thrown from my bed. "Hey, you fucking albino! It's dinner time." Albino? 'Idiot, he's talking about your white hair, your red eyes, and the fact that you're super pale.'
"But I can't help that!" I say, the man laughs knowing I'm talking to myself. I crack one eye lid to see who it is. Deciding to change the open eye to meet my bloodlust makes him step back.
"Sorry, Hotaru! Shit I didn't mean it! Please don't hurt me again." He squeals.
'Ha! What a pussy! We should kill him!'
I can't help but snort at that. His bloodlust is getting out of control. We'll need to kill something soon or else we'll do something stupid. But what to kill? It could be something small, but then it doesn't fight back. Maby I'll just leave this shithole and see if there are any other ghoul's near here.
'Idiot, you don't need to. You already have a Kakuja, what could you possibly want to achieve by doing such? Is it more power? Is it because you like to kill them?'
"I'm not sure, but I'm willing to find out. What do you say? Should we see?"
"No, Hotaru, I don't think you should." Says a stern voice.
"Oh, really?" I show him my smile. "And what could possibly stop me?"
"We will. V will not let you leave this place. You are his pet now."
"I belong to no one. Maby after I kill you, I'll kill your precious student. I'm sure her blood will taste a-maz-ing~." I coo trying to invoke his wrath that makes him so feared. It works. He rushes in to attack pulling his Bikaku out and sending a barrage of shards at my body. 'This is fun, many now we can go all out!' Maby. I decide to hold back, and let him knock me around for a bit.
"Ha! You're pathetic! You are being hit and I haven't even started to sweat!" He laughs thinking he can beat me.
"I know." I murmur.
"What was that? Are you admitting defeat?" He sneers.
"No, just want to see your style. And it's sloppy. I wonder how you got this position. Was it your father? Did he pull strings to get you in?" He yells his battle cry and dives in trying to catch me off guard. But I had planned for this to happen, so I step aside and when he falls I step on his spine, breaking it. He screams, and it sends a rush of energy down my back. So I pull out several of my Rinkakus and use them to impale his appendages and slowly start to pull him apart. I don't know what excited me more, his screams or his body screaming as it's ripped to pieces. When I had finished I decided to not let food go to waste. He tastes bitter, like a spoiled sweet. About halfway through gnawing on his legs, I'm interrupted.
"Why?! Why are you devouring our Sensei? Stop!" She screams letting her Bikaku go to its fullest length. I decide to let her get in close, because it'd be over too easily if it were a long range battle. She storms in and cuts my stomach. I look down, noticing that she had cut deep, I put my hand to my stomach and lick the blood from it. Not deep enough. It heals quickly, and I'm back in battle. She might move fast, but all of her scratches are meaningless healing over almost instantly. Deciding I had had enough of this I prepared for her next attack, which was exactly what she did. She used her Bikaku so as to propel herself into the air, and then spiraled down trying to impale me from above. Luckily for me this left her Kagune sack available to me. Releasing a Koukaku I sliced her entire sack out of her back. She screams as she realizes that she's been defeated. She falls to the ground like a dog being put down, and watched helplessly as I eat it. As I eat her.
"Why?" She whimpers. Instead of answering I just laugh. I strolled over to her and bent down to be on the same level as her. She closes her eyes and prepares to be killed.
"Why are you so willing to die? Why don't you fight back? I mean, you're not dead so you could get up and fight." I ask confused as to why she doesn't retaliate.
"I'm dead either way. It doesn't matter what I do from this point on." She states cooly not trying to lose her composure.
"Well that makes this dumb! You need to fight me! Get up and fight me!" I scream, kicking her over and over disregarding my that this could kill her. I have enough medical knowledge to know how far I can push a ghoul before they die. So I beat her until she's, quite literally, an inch away from death.
"This wasn't fun. She just took it! Kyo why did she just take it?!" I fume.
'I assume it's because she knows she won't win, like she tried to say before you beat her into a coma.'
"But still! I wanted to see her guts spill! But now I can't kill her, because she's not fighting back." I mope, acting hurt. Well, there's nothing left for me here. Time to go. I leave her there, next to Sensei's corpse, and walk back to my dorm. I open the door and pack my things. I don't have much so it only takes four minutes thirty seven seconds. Then I put my satchel over my shoulder and begin for the door. 'Your knives?' Oh, I forgot. I turn on my heels and walk to the nightstand. There's been someone here. Where my knives were there was only one. And it was buried into my photo. How rude! Kyo threatens to kill whoever it was, but I, for once, agree with him. It wouldn't be so bad if he'd just stolen, but disrespecting my property was too much.
'You know who it was. He needs to pay for desecrating our photo!' Kyo demands. Truth be told I do know who did it, I could tell from the shit knife work. I plop the knife out and place both items into my bag. I set my mind to finding him, and begin my hunt. I sniff thinking I could easily pick his scent, but he must have known I'd come after him and masked his scent. So I pause, trying to hear any sign of movement. No luck. Until I do hear him. I pretend I don't notice until he rushes in knife drawn, and gets "a little too close for comfort" as Sensei would have said. It's not like I truly cared if he got close, but I was in a hurry to explore. I pull seventeen Rinkakus from my lower back, and bury them under the cement. He freezes trying to prepare for what's next. I pop one out and send it at his body. He cuts it off and begins to smirk. 'I hate that smirk! Wipe it off his place, now!' I agree. Deciding that I would up the ante, I pull eight from the ground and have them splinter in all directions trying to impale him quickly. He jumps. Damn. I pull them back and prepare for his turn at attacking. He pulls the knives from his back and begins throwing them.
"You won't get far by using my knives. You'll need to do better than that." This takes him by surprise, allowing a gap to appear in his defense. Taking this opportunity, I allow my Bikaku to release and send six shards at him, he blocks five, but I had counted on this. The sixth shard had hit him, actually it had impaled him in the side but who cares about formalities. He gasps and his body goes limp, falling like a rag doll onto the patio. I take my time going over to where he was, seeing as I had paralyzed him. I take my knives and put them in my bag. I turn to walk away but something holds me back. I turn to look for it. Seeing nothing, I look down at him. He had found enough strength to try and hold me back. "Wow, you have determination. Perhaps you deserve a fitting death." He just stares, not caring at this point. I release the Bikaku again, and stomp his brains in. The squish of his brains gets me excited and sad that I had just killed him. Not letting emotions cloud my judgement I decide it's time to leave. Still he deserves a goodbye. "Goodbye Norima. We won't see each other again." I say leaving the patio. Someone must have alerted V because the whole front gate was surrounded by V's lackeys. Too easy. I release one Bikaku and easily pick them off before they knew that they were dead. I step over their bodies and push open the huge wooden gate.