Slowly, she turned round in horror, to be met by a pair of chilly blue eyes.
"ICHITOKA?! When did you get here?" She exclaimed in surprise.
"I just arrived this moment. I have a request."
"Wh-what?" She was in just a short towel, so she was a bit nervous of what he wanted.
He wrapped one arm round her waist and pulled her close and stared through her eyes to her soul.
"You will KILL Kotuku." He demanded.
Unable to pull away from his ice eyes she was hypnotized as the shine faded from her eyes.
"I will kill Kotuku…"
--------------------------------Kotuku--------------------------
Upon hearing a knock, Kotuku got up and looked out the window, he was met by a transformed Matako who he then let in.
"Are you okay, Matako? Is somethi-"
He was cut off upon realising she had a crossbow pointed at his face. He noticed her eyes and realized she wasn't herself.
"Mata…ko?"
"I must kill Kotuku…" She said, an evil smile creeped onto her features, she looked like a madman.
She fired the crossbow at him and he JUST dodged it, despite having a large cut on his cheek. She turned and pointed the bow at him again, and shot. He was cut on the cheek again, the cut, which now looked like an X.
Panting, he tried to calm her down.
"MATAKO! PLEASE COME BACK TO ME!"
She blankly fired yet another arrow at him and it ripped through his pyjama jacket, just missing his flesh.
Tears started to come down his face as she forced him to the ground, crossbow pointed in his face.
"MATAKO! DON'T! PLEASE DON'T DO THIS!!"
She dropped the bow and pulled a knife Ichitoka had prepared from her pocket.
She pointed it so that it nearly touched the bridge of his nose.
"MATAKO! PLEASE DON'T KILL ME! DO I NOT MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU ANYMORE?!"
Slowly, the shine returned to her eyes and, with a terrified look on her face, backed away and dropped the knife to the floor. She put her hands up to her face and started to cry at what she'd done to Kotuku. Kotuku got up and approached her.
"No… No! I MIGHT HURT YOU!!" she cried out.
He pulled her into a gentle hug and she untransformed, standing with just her towel on, she fisted her hands in his shirt and sobbed hysterically.
Kisshu ran into the room with a panicked look on his face.
"Kotuku, what happened?!"
"I…Don't know…" He said whilst looking at the hysterical girl.
"Well, uhmnnn…. I uhmn……" obviously Kisshu was confused to why and how she got in, then noticed the open window, the bloody X on his sons cheek and the dangerous weapons on the floor.
"Kotuku, what on earth was going on in here?!"
"Matako came at me with a crossbow. Then a knife…" He said still in a state of tearful shock, "But she didn't seem like herself at all, there was no life in her eyes…."
Matako stopped sobbing, choking a little, and looked up into Kotuku's face, "I… there was…no life?" She asked confused.
"No, you didn't seem like you one little bit. Your eyes had no shine, you seemed stiff but more agile than normal, almost like you were being controlled or hypnotised."
A blue memory hit her hard, Ichitoka had tried to make it that if, unfortunately, she didn't kill Kotuku, she'd forget him being there and demanding the alien to die at the hands of his childhood friend.
She collapsed to the floor with her head in hands, screaming as the memory thudded inside her head, blue and black, the only things she could remember, that and a very fuzzy voice , saying 'kill'.
"MATAKO!!" Kotuku cried in horror at the scene. "MATAKO!!"
She felt one last sting in her head and collapsed into Kotuku's waiting arms.
"Kotuku, what do you think happened to her today?"
"So much HAS happened today, maybe she went insane? No, she was a completely different person, that smile she gave me, pointing that bow at my face, wasn't her smile, that wasn't her, it wasn't wasn't wasn't!!! He cried in disbelief, the girl he knew so well wouldn't just turn into a killer.
"Kotuku, do you think she knew if it was you she was attacking?"
"Yeah, she knew, no doubt about it, she said 'I must kill Kotuku'."
"Well….. I have no current solution to this problem, but we better put a plaster on that cut, it might get infected." He said, taking Matako and laying her down on Kotuku's bed, waiting for her to wake up.
-------------------------IN THE KITCHEN----------------------
Kotuku winced as his father applied a cold wet cloth to his son's cheek.
"Why did this have to happen?" Kotuku sobbed, feeling his heart break.
"I don't know… I never wanted either of you to be hurt….She… is like a daughter to me, and I know you love her… I can't bear this if you get hurt, Kotuku…"
"Dad…" Kotuku never knew how much he had loved him; he thought he was a burden, since he was suddenly called upon in the night to become his father.
---------------------------FLASHBACK-----------------------------
Hearing a soft tap at the door, Kisshu arose from the couch to answer it.
Opening the door, the harsh wind stung his face as he looked round, must have been kids playing a prank, then he looked down…
A small baby with blue eyes and black hair wrapped in a purple sweater was crying, probably due to the cold. Immediately Kisshu hoisted the child up and took him inside.
Giving the small child a warm bath, he noticed the ears, just like his, and a birthmark in the shape of a cross on his back, just like his, and then it hit him.
"That girl! Did she become pregnant? Is this my child?"
Kisshu vowed to care for the small one and treat it like his own, whether he was or not.
-----------------------------PRESENT-------------------------
"D..Dad? Why are you crying?"
"Uhmm… It doesn't matter, let's go check Matako"
Kisshu walked off out the room as Kotuku stood by the sink.
"You were thinking of her too, weren't you?"
