Chapter 7:
"…I hate you…I hate you…I hate you…" Hisui had to repeat the phrase over and over again in a vain attempt to convince Kurama as well as herself of its truth…even though she knew it held none for her.
Kurama stood frozen to the spot by Hisui's words, even as she repeated them he knew that they could not be words of truth. He knew that something must have driven her to the point where she felt her only option was to get rid of him. But what could do that to his powerful Night Wolf? "Hisui-love, I know that's not true…No, you have never allowed yourself to be more than a drinking buddy to me but to say you hate me is to lie…"
"No! I hate you! I hate you and I want you to leave! Leave now! I never want to see you again! Get out of here!" Hisui swung a closed fist at Kurama and she hit him in the jaw, knocking him backward into the brick wall of the building.
"…Hisui…I can't just leave…not when everything that I've ever loved…is here…" Kurama said softly regaining his balance and stepping toward Hisui who stood her ground.
"No! You can't love me! I'm a Night Wolf! Yoko and Night Wolves hate each other! I hate you, so you have to hate me!" Hisui yelled at Kurama as she swung another right hook in his direction.
"No…I don't have to hate you…because you don't hate me…" Kurama said after catching Hisui's fist and taking another step toward her.
"No! I hate you! I hate you!!" Hisui yelled again trying to pull her fist out of Kurama's grasp.
"You are a bad liar…you know that, right…?" Kurama said with a smirk, he was joking, not like Daisuke who had been completely serious when he had told her about her lying inability.
"…N…No! No!! Let me go! I hate you! I hate you!!" Hisui was determined to drive Kurama away by any means needed. It didn't matter as long as he left before Daisuke could catch up with him.
"But you don't hate me…it's in your eyes…you're starting to cry again…" Kurama joked lightly with a soft smile, his angel could not get him to leave even if she truly did hate him.
"No I'm not! Get away from me, you…you stupid son-of-a…" Hisui's voice cracked and tears began to fall once more. She hated crying, more than anything in the world she hated when she cried. She tried weakly to pull her wrist from Kurama's grasp and she took a step backward only to take the Yoko with her.
"You were going to say 'stupid son-of-a-bitch' weren't you?…Shouldn't you save the insults for your son-of-a-bitch fiancé?" Kurama said with a slight growl as he backed his angel into the wall.
"What do you know!?! You've never even met him! What right do you have to insult him!?" Hisui asked in a loud tone as her tears fell, she tried as hard as she could to keep up her act. She would not let her dear Yoko commit such gruesome and easily avoidable suicide.
"I know that he is trying to keep me from my lovely angel and eternal drinking buddy…and that I cannot accept. I believe that when one man tries to steal away the woman another man is rightfully wooing he has no right to be referred to in a respectful way." Kurama said leaning in close to Hisui.
"By his standards you are that man who is trying to steal my affections! He believes himself to be wooing me in the right! You came second! Remember that!" Hisui said glaring at her Yoko threateningly she was beginning to get annoyed with his persistence.
"I thought that I was the third to dote upon you, the first, of course, is dead. Should you not pay respect to his memory and include him in your words?" Kurama asked.
"I should not! He deserved what he got! I only felt as though I was responsible for it! He was a liar and a fool and I made the mistake of telling Daisuke about it! That is all!!" Hisui said, her voice shaking and her eyes running dry.
"You mean you did not love him?" Kurama asked backing up slightly.
"Of course I loved him! He would have been the one to take my virginity! He simply made a mistake and I followed it with a mistake of my own!" Hisui explained becoming calmer.
"Tell me…I have only heard pieces of it…tell me so that I may not make the same mistake as long as I love you…" Kurama said, suddenly interested in hearing about Hisui's late boyfriend.
"…He and I were to be wed…as you may well have heard…I was planning with my sister when a servant girl from his quarters requested entrance. I granted it, being familiar with the girl as she and I often spoke with each other…Well she came bearing news which she felt would be best told by herself and not her master…She told me and my sister that she had recently discovered that she bore a child within her womb…the child of my lover…I became so enraged that I took the girl back to his room and I entered the room without even stopping to knock or to check if it was locked, which it was fore when I opened the door it broke slightly. Anyway…I helped the girl into the room because I held no grudges against a woman blessed with an unborn child…then I turned on him and I put him in his place for many things that he had done in the wrong. First: he had impregnated another woman while he was engaged to me. Second: He was not planning on taking responsibility for that child as he would be with me. And finally he had not been planning on telling me fore he had known for as long as the servant girl had…
"It drove me to the brink of my sanity so…naturally I went to the only loyal man I had ever really known, Daisuke. He had always been okay to use as a punching bag or someone to bitch at…well…when he heard he stormed out…it was barely a day later when I received word of my lover's death by one of Daisuke's assassins…" Hisui stopped as one last tear fell and she hung her head hell ward, "If only I had kept it to myself…I feel so guilty…It's my fault for telling Daisuke and now the child is going to be born in less than three months and I am responsible for it not having a father…I was going to make him raise his child even though I wanted him for myself…I was going to have to turn him away…I tried but I kept thinking…why did I tell Daisuke? I should have known how he'd react…then I realized that I was being selfish…I had told Daisuke with the knowledge that he would make it so I wouldn't have to share him…I was being selfish and I have lived in hell ever since…" Hisui began to sob and her tears fell softly from her eyes to the ground leaving stains in the dirt.
"Oh, Hisui-love, you are wrong…it was not your fault…none of it…The way Daisuke reacted was irrational and unpredictable…and that boy you felt so strongly for…he deserved not your affection, so do not grieve his loss, you have cried for long enough…" Kurama held his angel close to the warmth of his own body and comforted her as best he could.
"Kurama…Kurama, I'm sorry…I only want you to live…you are the one that holds my heart and if you die, my heart dies with you…" Hisui whispered into her dear Yoko's chest as her tears stained his shirt.
"…You are saying that…you accept my gift of doting? If you do not I must die of heartache." Kurama joked to lighten the heavy mood.
"You idiot…I cannot accept your gifts…if I did you would be paying me to love you, like some common whore." Hisui said looking up to Kurama.
"No! I pay you not, but I woo you with gifts…like a man gives his wife a diamond ring in exchange for her eternal love…It is not with lust that I give you these gifts, like I would a whore…but with my undying love." Kurama smiled lovingly at his dear, sweet angel.
"You need not woo me for my affections…fore you already possess them fully and unwaveringly…I love you beyond that which I had given my previous fiancé…" Hisui whispered to Kurama, her cheeks pink and her face hidden within the fabric over his chest.
"Then would you allow me to ask you one question?" Kurama asked holding his angel's chin so that she was looking up at him.
"Of course, Kurama, ask what you will." Hisui said casually her distress now almost gone as she was comforted by the warmth of her true love's body. The Yoko then backed away from Hisui and dropped to one knee. Then he brought out a white gold band on which rested a large violet tinted diamond.
"I know it's not as nice as my other gift and I realize that I have requested this of you once before, but I thought you might like a real proposal for once, so…Hisui, my dearest love, will you marry me?"
In the shadows, awaiting the answer to the question asked of Hisui, sat a dark figure, his eyes glowing crimson in the dark of the evening light. He sat in silence awaiting the answer which would tell him whether to attack or return to his master and have him execute the Yoko properly.