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I'm your puppet, I'll learn to love it.
And I'll undress, if you need it.
But please don't need it.
If you need it, I'll scream out.
Weave a secret, I will sweep it.
Beneath the carpet, where you'll keep it.
How weak is that?
Wish I was worth it, to you.
Review my wishes, for fair weather.
'Cause I know if the clouds with rains or snows.
…You won't be there, how weak is that?
Wish I was worth it to you…
[I'm your puppet – Gregory and the Hawk]
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'Once upon a time, there was a little girl…' he started, while holding the book in his hands, trying to stay as calm as possible because of the giggling girl sitting on his lap.
'Is the girl me, please tell me it's me' the girl giggled, and looked at the picture in the book of a smiling girl.
'Of course my dear' he said, and continued reading 'Her name was Kuro' he changed the name while reading.
'…Her name was Kuro. She always played outside alone, but that didn't stop her from smiling. She had always lived alone, her parents were long gone, but she learned to cope with it. Never really knowing anyone else, she never knew the feeling of loneliness. But one day, a boy appeared as she was sweeping her garden from small stones and dust. The boy was handsome in the girls eyes, so she greeted him as she greeted everyone else passing by.
"Good day sir." she bowed, and continued sweeping.
The boy stopped to stare at the rare beauty sweeping her garden. "Good day" he said. But he did what no one else had done, he stayed. The girl quickly took notice to this and stopped sweeping and turned her gaze towards him once more.
"Is there anything I can help you with good sir." she questioned.
"What is a girl like you out here alone?" he questioned.
She just giggled and said how silly he was, she told him that she lived there. To the boy her small giggles was the laugh of an angel, he was simply stunned.
Days passed, and the boy returned again, greeting each other once again, and some small talks were exchanged. The small talks quickly changed to conversations. And soon they became good friends.
What the boy quickly took to notice, was that the girl always had a ribbon tied around her neck. So he asked her a question.
"Why do you have a ribbon tied around your neck all the time?"
The girl as mysterious as she was brought her finger close to her mouth as she was to sush him, but instead she said.
"My lips are sealed"
The boy looked at her in curiosity, the girl was silent for a while, until she started giggling again.
Many times, the boy tried to question her about her ribbon, he always got the same answer.
They grew older, and soon the boy had grown to a man, and the young girl to a beautiful woman.
Their friendship grew also, and they fell in love. They got married, and tried to live as happy as possible.
Even at night, when the man tried to love his wife, his wife always insisted on having the ribbon on.
Even when they were married, she always kept telling him the same answer "My lips are sealed."
The man soon grew tired of this, and shouted that he wanted a divorce. Silly man, wanting a divorce just because his wife was stubborn to have the same old ribbon around her neck. So the man left. And the woman finally felt loneliness, and it was slowly killing her inside.
As they both grew older, neither have had contact to each other… until one night, the man got a call from his past wife.
"Come over, and I'll tell you why I have my ribbon on" the voice of an old lady told him.
The elderly man still curious of the ribbon, made his way to the house, where he met her.
She had grown old, tired and sick, lied in her bed. No children did they have together, so she lived all alone. The man though, had married another woman, and had children, even children's children at this point.
The woman turned her gaze to her past lover who was standing next to her bed, and gave a sweet smile.
"You may take my ribbon off" she told him. His mind had questions growing up like flowers on the field. But he did as he was told, and took the ribbon off.
As he took the ribbon off, the once young girls head fell off its body with a thump on the floor... '
'Please stop, I don't want to hear anymore' Kuro insisted blocking her ears with her hands from any sound.
The man closed the book and put it away and gave Kuro a small hug. Kuro seemed to relax to the mans' touch and looked up.
'Why did the girls head fall off' she questioned with a whimper. The man gave off a sound close to a chuckle and said 'Why do you think it fell off?'
She shook her head in defeat, she did not know. But the man gave off a small smile 'I do not know either' he admitted.
'I don't like that story…' she muttered to herself.
'Why Kuro? It's your story after all'
She opened her eyes gasping for air. A nightmare? No, an old memory.
Back then, everything was all right, she wasn't bed ridden like she was now. Back then she smiled a lot, giggled and was ignorant. But now, she's just emotionless, not knowing anymore if she's alive or dreaming.
'Yes, yes. She's here' she heard him outside the door talking to someone. She turned her gaze towards the door to her left next to the monitors as the door opened and he stepped inside with an unknown woman.
"So this is Kuro" she muttered under her breath while staring right into Kuros eyes.
As she turned around to face him "It looks so fascinating, with this you can open the gate? Monitors and plugs plugged in to it" she tried to give him her sweetest smiles.
He just scoffed "Not it, she's an angel"… "my angel" he whispered to himself.
The woman sneered "Oh come on, I came all this way to meet up with you, can't we…?" she hinted.
"I thought you came here to look how this worked, not to seduce me." he glared at her.
"Fine, fine, show me what this 'baby' can do" she deadpanned.
As he went off to the monitors to check the signals. Muttering under his breath. He turned around, grabbing a needle from his pocket. The needle was filled with odd black subject. He leaned over to stick the needle into one of the helmets many holes.
"I need you to go back, I need you to take the demon here so I can take tests…" he informed her.
"But…(how)?" she didn't have time to finish her sentence as she fell into the cold embrace of darkness.
But the only thing she could hear was the small voices still talking in the room she had just been in.
'Now I need to send the others there. Can't have her killed now can I?'
'How do you send the others there?'
'They are connected to her brain with these cables'
A distant kick could be heard, but then there was just silence as she fell into the 'other world'.
This time she was woken up by a poke. Who was poking her.
She quickly sat up and looked around her, just to meet up with a man squatting down to her level. He had dark red hair with tips of black. Burning red eyes staring directly into hers.
"Oi! She woke up!" he said. Behind him were a few others, standing looking towards them. All of them were dressed in military uniforms.
"How did she get in here?" a black haired man with glasses questioned, obviously not to her.
"I don't know… But I was sent here" she admitted. She looked around her. Metal walls, looks like an old bunker, this was one of the early levels of 'Hell'.
"But… What are you guys doing here..?" she questioned. These men looked well trained, not hungry nor tired. She had never seen these kind of 'mortal men' in 'hell'. Surely they knew that they weren't supposed to be here.
"What do you mean? We're working, we've always been here" the glass eyed said.
"We're actually hunting down Aka-oni" a tall man admitted. The glass eyed man seemed to get irritated, and slapped his hand on the other ones mouth, hissing that the girl shouldn't know anything.
"Aka-oni?" she said out loud, her voice in disbelief. Aka-oni, meant red demon right?
"Crimson red hair, mismatched eyes of ruby red and acid yellow…" she muttered to herself, her face paling every passing minute. The others seemed to catch what she said and turned to look at her.
"How come you…" one of them said, she didn't know who because she was focusing her gaze on the metal flooring.
"I was… I-I was watching over the egg… and he… no… " she said to herself. What was reality, what was a dream, what is happening?
The others seemed to gasp. 'Project Angel' one of them said. 'The guardian' said another…
She looked up towards them in confusion, what were they talking about.
"I'm glad he sent you here, please protect us Guardian" the glass eyed said, and walked over, giving her a gun. Everyone cheered and looked happy. Why are they happy?
Everyone, looked happy, but the red haired man who had poked her. He looked disgusted.
She was suddenly given more comfortable clothes that were found in the bunker. They all introduced themselves.
"I'm Hyuuga" the glass eyed said.
"I'm Teppei"
"I'm Izuki"
Every one of them seemed to beam of happiness as they introduced themselves.
"Kagami" the red haired scoffed.
She looked at them and tried to give them a small awkward smile "I'm Kuro"
She went to one of the side rooms to change. Nothing really screamed out in that room, a bench and a mirror on the wall. She took off her light pale blue dress and put on brown shorts and a black tank top. She put on a belt where she could put her gun. Only thing that there wasn't was shoes, she had to run bare feet. She looked into the mirror and gave off a confused look. Why hadn't she noticed before, her hair was short once again.
Someone banged on the door and opened the door with great force.
"Hell hounds are on their way!" Izumi shouted. She quickly ran after Izumi who left the room. Running after the other men who were running way ahead of her. She tried to gasp enough air to shout after them to stop, but she realized that this would give away their position to the so called 'Hell hounds'. Only the mens shoes stomping and her feet slapping on the ground could be heard.
They kept running a long time until Hyuuga came into an halt, and Kuro finally caught up with them.
She took steady breaths not to pass out, she wasn't in the best shape for running. Hyuuga leaned against one of the walls, bringing his hand up and slightly tapping the wall behind him. The others quickly leaned against the walls. Kuro who didn't understand anything, stood in the middle of the way, looking oddly at the men. Only to understand why they did so, was when it was too late.
Hell hounds howling and running towards them, she quickly leaned to one of the walls, but the hounds ignored her like the rest of the demons she had met. Instead they jumped at the armed men who started shooting wild.
She felt a small tap on her shoulder and she turned to see Kagami behind her. He motioned her to follow him, and she did. Leaving everyone else behind them to fight the hounds. They ran and turned left and right. She felt like they were running in a labyrinth. She noticed the metal walls changed to stone. They were running down deeper into the depths of hell. Until Kagami also came to an halt and their gazes was greeted by a mismatched pair of eyes.
"Found you~"
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Rinfantasy: Ooh… pun noticed. Yes it was confusing. This story may look confusing right now, but it all will be cleared slowly, slowly unfolding. I want to keep my readers in a little bit of confusion right now ;)
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