"B-big brother…Yuka is not sure about this….what if I fall?"
"don't worry Yuka, I am right here, you won't fall"
Yuka was trying to cross a hole on a flat piece wood that linked in side to the other, with the help of her big brother Satoshi of course
Satoshi and Yuka were busy trying to figure out a way to escape this dreaded school that they were trapped in after performing the Sachiko ever after charm, when they ran into Yoshiki, who was looking for Ayumi who was separated from him after the another earthquake from appeasing the ghost children That were keeping them all separate from the rest of the people who came here
But even though they can see each other there was a huge hole in the ground making it impossible to cross
But Yoshiki found a piece of wood big enough to wedge in the hole that made crossing possible without falling down and getting hurt
The board fitted in perfectly and didn't wobble
Satoshi had already crossed to the other side, but was waiting on Yuka, who was still crossing
"Your doing great Yuka, Just don't look down okay?" Satoshi encouraged her
"B-But I'm scared…." Yuka sniffed
"your Big brother is there Yuka, so you don't have to worry" Yoshiki told Yuka "he won't let you fall"
Yuka hesitantly took another step and wobbled slightly and let out a gasp before regaining her balance
"God if your out there, don't let Yuka fall" Yoshiki in his mind and prayed to whoever was out there that Yuka did not fall,
because Satoshi cared so much about his little sister and would be devastated if anything were to happen to her in this godforsaken place
But it seemed as if they were not on his side
Yoshiki felt the ground slightly tremble and knew this was the start of another one of those earthquakes and Yuka was still crossing!
"Wah! B-Big bro-Brother!" Yuka cried as her balance started to waver
"Y-Yuka!" Satoshi yelled and reached out his hand to pull her over
But, It was too late
"AHHH!" Yuka's scream cut through the air like a knife and she plunged into the dark abyss
"YUKA!" Satoshi tried to grab her but Failed and Yuka fell out of his grasp
"Shit!" Yoshiki ran over to try and help Satoshi, but they both failed to rescue Yuka from falling
"YUKA!" Satoshi cried as he saw Yuka falling, still screaming
The earthquake got worse and before Satoshi could fall as well Yoshiki grabbed him by the shirt and pulled him away from the hole
The earthquake ended just as Yukas screams faded away to silence
"Y-Yuka! YUKA!" Satoshi yelled and scrambled out of Yoshiki's grasp and ran over to the pit to see if he could find Yuka
"Hey! Satoshi! Don't do anything rash!" Yoshiki Yelled as he scrambled over to Satoshi who was thinking about jumping in after Yuka
"Yuka! Can you hear me!? If you can, Say something! Anything! Please!" Satoshi Yelled as he tried to not believe Yuka had died
Silence
"Satoshi..."
"PLEASE!" Satoshi Yelled, even louder, He was getting desperate, desperate to find a sign that his sister was alive
But there was just silence Again
Satoshi could not handle the silence a second longer, he had to go down there, even if that meant jumping
But just as he was about to do that
Two arms restrained him from going down there
"Y-Yoshiki!? What the hell do you think your doing?!" Satoshi Shouted and tried to squirm from Yoshiki's grasp
"Stopping you from killing yourself, you Idiot!" Yoshiki Told Him as he tried to keep him from most likely killing himself
But, Satoshi continued to struggle to get free. "Goddammit! Let go Yoshiki! Yuka is in trouble, she could be hurt!" He shouted
"Satoshi! No one could have survived that fall from this high up! Get a grip on yourself!" Yoshiki tried to reason with him
But their argument was soon cut short when they heard the sound of groaning and heavy footsteps
It was Yoshikazu
Yoshikazu seemed to sense that there were people that were still alive and lifted up that large hammer he carried to kill his victims and charged at Yoshiki and Satoshi
"Shit! Not this guy again!" Yoshiki Panicked and Grabbed Satoshi's hand and began dragging Satoshi away from Yoshikazu
"come on Satoshi!" Yoshiki urged and ran a little bit faster, Satoshi not far behind and Yoshikazu's footsteps thundering behind them
And they kept running until they lost Yoshikazu and stopped running and let go of Satoshi's hand to catch his breath
"I…think….we…are far…..enough…" Yoshiki Gasped while trying to steady his heart rate "you..ok?" He then asked Satoshi
He only heard breathless gasps from Him
"Satoshi? H-hey are yo-"
*PUNCH*
"Ow! Jeez man what was that for!?" Yoshiki winced and held the place where Satoshi Punched him
"Goddammit Yoshiki! Why did you stop me from trying to rescue my sister?!" Satoshi Yelled, his pupils dilated due to extreme anger
"What do yo-"
"Are you trying to stop me from protecting her?!" Satoshi Accused Yoshiki
"Hey! Calm down Satoshi! I'm not trying to stop you its just tha-" Yoshiki tried to explain but was cut off by Satoshi
"Not trying to stop me Huh?! Well you did a great job at doing that!" Satoshi bitterly spat, His whole body shaking with rage, he then yelled "Now because of that, I am pretty goddamn sure that that creature that chased us, is now going to to kill her and put her pieces in buckets!"
"Satoshi! Get a grip! No one could have survived that fall! You have to face the reality of the situation! Because yelling at me is NOT going to bring Yuka back!" Yoshiki argued with Satoshi Repeating the same thing he told him minutes ago
"What if it was your sister!? Huh?!" Satoshi shouted "what if it was her?!"
Yoshiki stayed silent on that question and half turned away from Satoshi
"What? Not going to give a answer?" Satoshi hissed bitterly, he was angry beyond belief
But he didn't notice the black smoke rising towards him
"what if it WAS my sister? Is this how I would turn out? Angry and bitter? Jeez Satoshi,can't he see that I am trying to help him?" Yoshiki thought in his mind
but those thoughts were interrupted by Hacking and coughing noises
And they were coming from Satoshi, Yoshiki turned himself towards Satoshi to only find that the Darkening was entering Satoshi and trying to corrupt him and making him turn
"what the..S-Satoshi?" Yoshiki said, confused on the situation that was happening before his eyes
Satoshi Choked and Hacked and Gasped to try and get rid of the smoke that was trying to kill him, it was painful beyond belief and it felt like he was drowning in water "G-GAAAAAAAAH!" Satoshi let out a choking painful Scream as the Darkening continued to corrupt his body
Satoshi collapsed on his knees, too exhausted to hold himself up any longer
"Satoshi! Shit…come on! You can fight this! Its just smoke!" Yoshiki told him and shook him in a effort to make him snap out of it or to help get rid of the darkening, but was failing
"Cough! It…..h..hurts….Cough!" Satoshi Choked painfully as he tried to breathe in air, the pain was getting worse yet still. Satoshi tried to curl up and covered his ears to stop anymore smoke getting in to him, but it was failing and Satoshi was running out of time. Something had to be done fast or Satoshi will die
"shit! What do I do? Something has to be done or he is going to die" Yoshiki thought desperately, not know what to do
"he has lost all meaning to life, that's why the darkening is entering him. It was caused by his sister's death" A voice echoed from inside of Yoshiki's head
"What?" Yoshiki thought In his mind "whos there? If anyone is there, please help Satoshi" he didn't care if it was the devil or even Sachiko herself, he just wanted someone to help Satoshi through this pain that the stupid school was causing
"hmmm….you care a lot about this one and even when the darkening enters him and yet you still try to help, even though it proves to be fruitless" the voice in his head said
Satoshi let loose another pained scream, cause by the darkening giving him more agony
"pl….ease -cough- plea…se..le..t…th..is….end -cough-" Satoshi coughed and scratched at his chest in an effort to give himself air.
"j-ju...st...make...it ...st..op" He was beginning to get dizzy from the lack of air, and he felt his mind beginning to blacken
"please…just tell me how I can save him!" Yoshiki yelled in his mind "I don't care what the price is, just tell me!"
The voice Giggled
"you really do care for others, Well lucky for you, It doesn't have a price, he just needs to live for something really. While in here, his purpose was to protect his little sister. but when she died, he lost the purpose of living" the voice explained
"so he just needs something else to live for right?" Yoshiki asked
"yep, but it can't be just anything at all. It has to be something that will stop most of the darkening from corrupting" the voice said
"Most? What do you mean most?" Yoshiki asked
"ill explain later, just help your friend now. Ill speak to you later" the voice said and then the link faded
"wait!" Yoshiki called out but got no reply
Yoshiki turned his attention back to Satoshi, who was trying his best to hold out against the darkening
"what would he live for? It has to be something…" Yoshiki thought and then something clicked in his head "but will it work?"
"w-whats t…the po…int..of living? What i-is my p-purp….ose?" Satoshi gasped as the smoke got thicker, the darkening was beginning to corrupt faster
"Satoshi, Your purpose is to live for Yuka, thats your point of living" Yoshiki told Satoshi who looked up at him with tired eyes
"b-but…*cough* sh-she is….dead" Satoshi said
"Yeah, but that doesn't mean you should die too, how would she feel? she would want to protect you as much as you would want to protect her" Yoshiki said
"b-but.." Satoshi started, but was cut off by Yoshiki
"she won't blame you for this. It was an accident, you didn't know that the earthquake was going to come, no one is to blame here" Yoshiki told him and rested a hand on Satoshi's shoulder
"….." Satoshi was silent, but it looked like he understood
But suddenly he started shuddering and the darkening eased away from his body and Satoshi turned away from Yoshiki and threw up over the floor, throwing up smoke and stomach fluids, while gasping as he received air into his strained lungs
Yoshiki just waited for him to finish vomiting, just rubbing his back to sooth him
When Satoshi was done Yoshiki asked if he was ok, and Satoshi just nodded slowly and wiped his mouth
"see? You have a purpose now" Yoshiki told him and Satoshi nodded again, who was still gasping in air,
but was starting to breathe in much more evenly then before
But then Satoshi started to shake again, Yoshiki thought that there was still a bit of the darkening left in him
But that wasn't the problem, Yoshiki realised the Real problem when he saw water running down Satoshi's face
He was Crying
Satoshi lifted up a arm to try and wipe the tears away but more just replaced them at a faster rate and he let out a quiet and barely audible sob
Yoshiki was not good at comforting people when they were upset, heck if Shinozaki was here she would know what to do.
But sometimes you just have to flick your pride away when someone you care about is crying, even if you don't know what to do.
Yoshiki edged closer to the crying Satoshi, who was still trying to wipe away his tears, and wrapped his arms around the smaller teen and pulled Satoshi against his Chest in his best effort for comforting, as he was not one to give hugs
Satoshi flinched at first and struggled weakly against the gesture, but then eventully accepted the comforting hug and started whimpering, the shivering got worse and the tears fell at a faster rate, Yoshiki didn't know how much longer it would be until Satoshi broke
"I know this is kind of out of Character for me, but I'm just going to say that its a good idea to let things out before they become a problem" Yoshiki told him
Satoshi's flood gate just then...collapsed... all the pain and sadness that had been bottled up inside of him were now flooding out in uncontrollable sobs. He was just so broken
"I-im so so s-sorry" Satoshi apologized over and over while hot tears streaked down his face "I-I was just s-so stupid!" He then cried while apologizing for all the things that had happened.
"I'm sorry for punching you!"
"I'm sorry for being a jerk!"
"I'm sorry yelling at you!"
"I'm sorry for all the things I said!"
"I am just So So SO sorry!"
Yoshiki just rubbed his back in a effort to sooth him as Satoshi kept apologizing and sobbing
"Just how long have you been trying to keep this in?" Yoshiki asked him after the sobbing had almost faded into hiccups
"…..e-e-ever…since th-that I saw the c-corpses, I tried t-to stay b-brave,For Yuka's sake, for e-everyone else's sake, b-but I...I...I just can't d-do it anymore"
Satoshi admitted while trying to form words without his voice cracking, but was failing
"you don't have to, if you don't want to" Yoshiki told him and Satoshi looked at him with light brown eyes filled with tears
"b-but I Want to protect e-everyone! And its k-killing me even more the e-ever to know that E-everyone else could be d-dead!" Satoshi sobbed,
but then after a while, just laughed bitterly and pulled away from the hug
"heh..just look at me..you should be g-going to find Shinozaki, not sitting around t-trying to comfort me" Satoshi said trying again to wipe the tears away.
But still more replaced them...
"I am such a crybaby Yoshiki…" He whispered as his voice cracked again
"everyone has to cry sometimes Satoshi and hell, if I was in your shoes, I would break down too" Yoshiki admitted not trying to think of what might of happened to him if his sister had died in here as well
"everyone may have a time where keeping up a strong front doesn't work anymore" Yoshiki then said to Satoshi, even though it seemed out of character for him.
Satoshi's body shivered as a fresh wave of tears came.
He was just so so tired of all of this, he just wanted to curl up and go to sleep and just wake up from this nightmare.
He gave tired and shaky breaths and sobs
Just so so so tired of everything
Yoshiki edged closer once again and gently pulled Satoshi into his lap so that the boys cheek was resting against the taller Boys chest and hugged him carefully,and Satoshi didn't pull away from this one,but instead, just burrowed deeper against Yoshiki and clutched the black school jacket Yoshiki wore tightly. Its was as if he was trying to feel safe against the horror of everything outside
"I….I just want to see…..Yuka…..again" Satoshi mumbled as he felt himself slipping into a peaceful darkness
"I know Satoshi, i know you do..." Yoshiki whispered to him and stroked Satoshi's brown hair in an effort to comfort him
But Having finally reached his limit, Satoshi slipped into a restless but peaceful sleep
"Satoshi?" Yoshiki shook him but soon found out he was asleep
"Damn.. must of finally exhausted himself, I can't blame him really" Yoshiki thought as he moved Satoshi in a more comfy position
"well him just laying here is not a great idea, ill see if we can still cross the board" Yoshiki thought in his mind and lifted him up,hooking one of his arms under Satoshi's legs and the other supporting Satoshi's back with his head still laying against his chest
When Yoshiki lifted Satoshi up. He was surprised by how light he was "does Satoshi eat anything? because he is REALLY light" Yoshiki thought and began walk in the direction of the crossing
The board was still there and still in place so it was easy for Yoshiki to cross to the other side, and it also looked like there was no danger aswell
Satoshi mumbled in his sleep and Yoshiki thought the best idea was to take him to the Infirmary, where at least Satoshi could get some rest, because that place did have beds.
Yoshiki didn't have any other ideas so he went in the direction of the infirmary, still carrying Satoshi
First Corpse party fanfic! Yeah I had this idea in my head for a while now and I thought "why not I need to get this out of my head"
Its not going to be a oneshot, there are going to be more to this so stay tuned for more :3
Reviews are welcomed, hate comments are not.
Anyway Aqua out!