CHAPTER 3: The Pain beneath a Fox's heart
"YAAH!"
Amar attacked first, clawing his way with his Muramasa Blades technique. Sesshomaru blocked it, making the bloody blades reflected off him and to the ground.
"Without your Katana, you are not going anywhere."
"Oh yeah?" He replied, picking up a leaf. "Tetsusaiga!" He bellowed, turning the new leaf into Tetsusaiga.
As Amar kept fighting, Mokona noticed that something is going wrong. Although Amar's copy ability was perfect, he seemed weak in some sorts.
As Tokujin hit Amar, Mokona stepped in, crouching in front of Amar, facing Sesshomaru.
"Hey, what are you thinking Mokona?! Get back!"
"You always protected me, Inu-no-nii-chan. Now I'll protect you, even if it means I have to work myself out!"
"Useless."
Sesshomaru charged at them both, but Mokona reacted much faster, turning into a spinning ball, which hit the inu youkai head on.
"Iron Tails!" She yelled, turning her tails as hard as iron. She slammed Sesshomaru one time, before she backed off from the angry daiyoukai.
"Are you sure about this, Mokona?"
She nodded. "After all, I'm trying out my powers as a fox, that's it."
"What's your next move?"
"Offense and defense!"
Both touched their index fingers together, and they synchronized their movements.
Mokona looked at Sesshomaru, with his eyes turning red every second.
"Okay! Kitsune bi!" Mokona bellowed, hurling azure fox's fire at Sesshomaru, but he dodged it.
"Agunea!" Amar Ma'aruf followed her with Agunea's brief lightning strike.
Sesshomaru took the chance to counter attack. "Dragon Wave." He announced, striking Tokujin into the earth, and unleashing one of his powerful attacks.
Mokona started rotating her tails like a helicopter. She floated and she steered herself to Amar Ma'aruf.
But then, the lighting bolts struck her and her dog brother too. Amar went unconscious, and Mokona fell on the ground, paralyzed temporarily by the strike.
"Inu-no-nii-chan!!!"
Mokona's yelling is very useless. Sesshomaru swung his sword…
…but something stopped him, and it was… MOKONA!
"What are you doing?!" Sesshomaru hissed.
Mokona's eyes were completely blood red, and she was blocking the sword with her wrist. The two tailed fox growled, and she attacked Sesshomaru. He had no choice but to retreat.
"Uh…Mokona…" Amar stirred, waking up from his downfall. He saw the aura that surrounds Mokona, and at the same time, she collapsed.
MOKONA'S DREAM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Mokona-chan…" A voice called Mokona's name.
Mokona woke up in an empty space, only darkness around her.
"Wake up… it's me…Modoki…" The same voice echoes.
"Huh?"
"You didn't remember me at all, didn't you?"
"You…you look just like me!"
"That's right. I am you.
Modoki looked like Mokona herself, but the differences is that Modoki looked much older than her, with marks on her face and a pair of pointed ears, similar to a youkai. In addition to that, her blonde hair is very long, reaching the floor. She wears the same outfit as Mokona, only that's it looked bit too small for her.
"You just awakened me."
"I don't understand what are you saying!"
"Maybe this'll help."
Modoki walked to Mokona, and she puts her hands on Mokona's head.
Please…anyone…please help inu-no-nii-chan!
"Remember that?" Modoki started, removing her hands from Mokona's head.
"So it was you all along…"
"Yes. But remember this Mokona. We have to stop meeting each other like this from now on."
"Why?" The confused two-tailed fox asked a question.
"Because if we meet each other frequently, you'll never be what you are now…"
Mokona woke up again, this time; she woke up in Kaede's hut.
"You're okay?"
"Well…sort of, na no."
"I see that you're fine."
"Maybe…"
The next day, Amar brought Mokona back home. She returns to school as usual, but being bit different than before.
"Mokona?"
"Ah, it's you… Hisami-senpai…"
"What's wrong? You're not usually bubbly like before. Did something matter?"
"…."
"Come on, Mokona."
"I don't know… but can you don't tell anyone about this, na no?"
"Sure. A promise is a promise, Mokona. Tell me everything."
Mokona gave all the details to Hisami. She told everything, especially about Modoki Mokona.
"What did I didn't understand that what did she said by 'if we meet each other frequently, you'll never be what you are now', na no…"
"What she meant by those words is that you'll never be the same Mokona we know now. The active Mokona becomes passive, from sweet and charming to depressed and violent Mokona."
"I…see…"
"Did you understand that?"
Mokona nodded. Her senpai was right.
"Let's go, Mokona. Your recess is over."
"Is it over already, na no?"
"Yep. The bell just rang few seconds ago."
"I didn't hear it though, na no."
Mokona continued her class until it's the time to go home. She felt very different than before. Her heart felt like it's throbbing every second, as she remembered her dog brother's face.
Is it I or I just feel both sad and pain at the same time?
She remembered every word that Modoki said to her. She couldn't afford being a violent demon. She can't be a demon or a youkai…
A/N: Time for another chapter. Please take your time to read the chapter, and review. Keep on supporting me in my fanfics, OK? TQ.
S/N: Oh yeah, I would like to tell you a bit about Modoki Mokona or Fake Mokona. When I wrote about her in this story, I felt like she's more suitable as Mokona's split personality rather than a long lost twin. What do you all think? Send your opinion by my private messaging. TQ.
