D-gray man tweaks Chapter 4

By: Shikyo Kuranosai

"Oww! Onee-chan hurt me!" I cried, rubbing the bruise that Road gave me.
"I wouldn't have had to hit you if you listened to me and didn't run off into the village like that! You did us no good by doing that so now we're both in trouble with Millenie!" Road told me, as if I didn't already know the Earl was mad at us. I was the one he was particulary pissed at, and he punished Onee-chan right along with me for not stopping me and finding me sooner.
"I already told you I'm sorry, Onee-chan!" I cried, tears flowing down my cheeks with no end.
Road looked at me worridly.
"Stop crying, Shoumai-san. I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at Millenie," Road calmed down, my tears hre number one weakness.
She sat beside me and let me cry on her shoulder, staining her clothes with my bloody red tears.
"Are you okay, Shoumai-san? You're crying really heavily, and your tears are red," Road asked me, getting all concerned and big sister like.
"And it wasn't for nothing, Onee-chan! I found out that there's an exorcist living in the town!" I continued crying blood, and I knew that if I didn't stop I'd pass over from blood loss.
"There's an exorcist in the town, Shoumai-san!? What happened!?" Road puzzled, taking my head in her hands and getting all wide-eyed at the fact that I was crying blood and lossing consiousness, quickly. "Shoumai-san!? Shoumai-san!?"
I passed out on her, only feeling a presensce tugging at my soul like it needed my help.

Come to me, my little child. Come save me from the exorsist, and the Akuma. Come serve me and only me. It called to me when I was surrounded by nothing but a pitch black.
"I can't! I don't know of your whereabouts!" My body seemed to comunicate with the screaming, yet surprisingling calm voice.
You know where I am. Just lose yourself to your senses, and follow the light. The vioce faded out.
"Wait! Don't leave me alone here! I don't want to die!" I called to it, keeping my body from lurching and shivering from the pain that I could see, crwling up my body and whirling wisps of deep purple smoke.

The smoke circled my body enticingly, and gracefully, covering me in a cocoon that I knew would be invisible if I were alive or awake.
I gave into the smoke, letting it cover my body and fade out, leaving crimson marks on my skin that were amazingly beautiful and confusing.
I traced the mark on my palm that seemed detatched from all the others that were all connected.
What in the world is happening!? My head screamed as the crimson mark on my palm turned to one of the moon as a crescent.
The crimson color kept switching from pale red to orange to an apricot color.
Was I being turned into an Akuma?
No! I couldn't be! I could never be the one thing I hated most!
Wait. Since when have I hated Akuma?

I opened my eyes to a crying Road.
I took my hand from where I was laying and raised it up with a newfound strength and wiped the tears flowing down her deep silky chocolate skin.
"Why are you crying, Onee-chan? Have I been turned into an Akuma? Or am I just dead, seeing the world with a different view?" I asked, looking at the back of my palm and seeing nothing but the creamy color and texture and darting my eyes to Road's widened eyes.
"It seems that I'm still alive, yes?" I asked myself, but Road nodded her head like I had asked her.
"When you cry, your pretty face not only is disastorous, but it's twenty-five percent uglier I told her, feeling some strange hate towards her and the Noah clan. "You should stop crying, or else I won't be able to see your beautiful face."
Road looked at me lovingly.
"Don't scare me like that, Shoumai-san," Road practically cried, although there were no more tears left for her to spill over my almost death experience.
As she closed her eyes very hard and tried to push out pictures of burying my dead body I stared at the back of my hand, and it seemed Tyki noticed and was watching me this whole time.
"It's good to see that you're not dead, Inno. Why is it that I keep catching you expecting to see something like an exorcist on your hand?" he questioned me, obviously directing the hatred he felt for me all his life into that one question.
"Why have you always had a aura of hatred encircling you whenever I was around, Tyki-kakei-kun?" I asked, giving him a hard stare and seeing the shock pass through him. "And no, you have not done a very good job at hiding the very fact that you hate everything about me from the start, Tyki-kakei-kun," I told him, Road backing away from me as if the words I spoke were poison.
"Onee-chan, I want to go back and pay that town another visit. This time will you come with me?" I asked her, getting up and taking a jacket from the rack close to me.
"Your going to get hurt if you go outside! It's winter now! You've been like that for such a long time!" Road told me, puzzling me even more.
"But it only seemed like a few hours to me," I mumbled to myself, puttting on the jacket and opening the door that led outside.
Seeing as she could do nothing to stop me, she picked out her own jacket and put it on, following and leaving the door wide open fro Tyki to close.

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"I'm sorry I haven't stopped Tyki-kun from hating you so much, it's just," Road started after a few minutes of trudging through the snow in complete silence except for the raging wind and the snow that fought with the sky, wanting to bury the ground even deeper beneath it.
"It's okay. I know I've never really been part of the Noah clan like the rest of you. I know I'm different," I interupted her, feeling a sickening feeling in my stomach.
"How did you find out!?" Road asked confused.
I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, then continued walking to the town with my eyes closed.
"I've always known, from the difference, in the depth of tone of my skin color, and the fact that I didn't have unordinary extra powers like the rest of our family. The only reason I really felt like part of the family was because or you, Onee-chan," I breathed into the freezing air, letting my breath show as haze for a few seconds before opening my eyes and turning their orange orbs on her. "You're the reason I stayed with our family, 'cause you gave me a sense of importance in the Noah clan, even if it was only to please you."
I gave her a wide, and happy smile before continuing our trek through the snow based village.
"I'm finally here," I mouthed to myself, closing my eyes and following my senses, every nitch little one that pointed me to the direction of a clock tower closer to the center of town.

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