Alright chapter 7! Hope you guys enjoy! This chapter does contain some violent content, so if you have a weak stomach for gore, then maybe you might wanna skip it. I mean, it's not Saw, but it is a little intense.

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TWO PRINCES AND A PAUPER
CHAPTER 7
DAZED AND/OR CONFUSED


(Kane's POV)

When I woke up, it took me a while to figure our where I was. The last thing I remember was punching Umeko. And it was awesome! But after that….nothing. I opened my eyes and was surrounded by softly colored blue walls. Like I said, it took me a while to realize that I was in the infirmary at school.

I sat up and put my hand to my head. I didn't have a fever or anything, put I did have one hell of a headache. What happened to me?

…Or, better yet… what did I do?…

Just then, the curtain slid open and revealed Danai-san to me… In all of his perfect glory. I internally swooned at the sight of him. Boy, I'm a lost cause. Falling for my sensei. Smooth move Kane.

"Kane, you're awake." Danai-san said sounding relieved.

"Um, yes sensei, I'm fine…Um…Can you tell me what happened?" I asked.

"Well, I was hoping you could tell me," He sat down. "I don't believe black is a natural eye color. Or, at the very least, the whites of your eyes turning black."

'My eyes were black?' "Oh, uh…yeah…that…." I struggled to come up with an excuse. "It's…uh…a medical condition…where the unusual pigment of my eyes uh…turn out to change black….sometimes…" Even I didn't believe what I was saying.

"You don't need to lie to me, dear Kane." Danai-san said suddenly, his hair covering his eyes. The air in the room became tense. What was around my beautiful sensei? W-What? D-Danai-san had purple and black waves around him! They looked like they were coming directly out of his skin!

"Danai-san?…" I questioned, shaken.

"I know all about you. And what you are to become. I've watched you for so long…my sweet Kane!" He looked up at me then, with glowing white eyes. His mouth was opened in a sneering, slack-jawed smile; his perfect white teeth shifting into decaying yellow, separated ones. I sat on the infirmary bed paralyzed with fear.

'Awe man. What am I going to do?' I looked around in desperation. There had to be a way out of this. But that thing was blocking the door.

'Come on Kane think!'

It was then that I looked out the window. And then I didn't think. I made a break for it. I jetted for the window that couldn't have been anymore than ten steps away. I was about half way there when I felt something slimy and cold wrap around my ankle. I barely felt the violent fall to the floor. As I looked back I saw that his mouth was wide open and there was a long blackish-brown protrusion coming from inside it. I didn't take me long to realize that it was his tongue, and that his tongue was wrapped around my ankle.

I tried, for the millionth time, to fill my lungs with enough air to produce a scream, but found that when I did my vocal chords wouldn't vibrate worth shit.

My ankle was starting to hurt. No correction, my ankle was starting to burn. Ow-like-OW- really burn! Holy Mother of Christ! What the Hell?! What is that?!?!


(Regular POV)

There was a dark green slime that had begun to perspire from the mutant Danai-san's tongue. It was thick, and smelled like decaying vomit. Kane looked down at her ankle to see the skin begin to melt away from her flesh, with blood oozing out of the wound slowly.

"Oh my sweet, delicious Kane. You taste so pure! Like the innocent virtuous delight I know you are. My masters will be pleased when I bring them to you!" The creature said.

"What are you talking about?!" Kane yelled.

"The other world Rulers, of course! Oh, my beautiful Kane, I have been searching for you for so long!" His voice began to sound raspy, and shrill. Nothing like the deep, baritone, melodic voice she loved to hear everyday. "And then to find you, and have to wait for you to discover your powers! It was truly excruciating!" It's voice was getting higher and more sickening to listen to with each uttered syllable.

Kane's ankle was beyond being on fire now. It's burned so badly that she thought she might throw up from the pain. She couldn't take it anymore! She screamed as loudly as she possibly could.


Kurama's head shot up from the textbook he was reading in his class.

"Ms. Kinya-sensei, may I have the bathroom pass?!" Kurama almost yelled frantically.

He ran out of the classroom where his classmates were whispering about his strange behavior. "Maybe he just really needed to go." He heard one of them say. But just then, a black blur was beside him.

"Hiei, it's Kane! Run, I'll catch up with you!" Kurama shouted.


A sort of wind like force came from within Kane blowing the mutating Danai-san against the wall and jarring the grip he'd held on her leg. The acidic saliva had done its job, but Kane quickly stood up and fought against the burning ache in her entire leg. She leaned against the windowsill for support.

'Shit! There's no way I'd make the jump with this ankle now!' she thought. Fear and desperation clouding her thoughts. 'But I have got to get out of here!'

"What the? What did you just do, my sweet?" The mutant smiled. "Oh you're so powerful! It makes me want to eat your heart!"

"Oh yeah! That's exactly what every girl dreams of hearing from the man of her dreams!" Kane shouted, sarcasm her only weapon.

"Oh my precious, I hadn't known you cared!" And then that tongue was on her again, only this time it was around her middle. Kane yelled out in pain and disgust once more.

It was then that the infirmary door burst open and Hiei came through with his sword unsheathed. He slashed through the monster's acidic tongue. The beast screamed in pain as Kane fell to the floor, but still with a major part of the demon's tongue wrapped around her bodice. She painfully lifted herself up with her hands, and marveled as Hiei bolted around the confused mutation.

Kane looked down at her stomach. The acid had eaten away through the shirt of her school uniform and her skin and she was bleeding profusely. 'Gotta get this shit off of me.' she thought.

"SPIRIT GUN!"

"Rose whip!"

"SPIRIT SWORD!" She heard in the back of her mind as she focused on what she had to do. She hadn't noticed that Danai-san had taken on a much bigger shape and was poised like a venomous spider ready to attack.

She looked down at her middle and latched on to the tongue with her bare hands which were immediately engulfed in fire. She yelled through gritted teeth as she peeled away the dark brown, green slime covered appendage. She winded her arms behind her back and continued to slowly peel off the tongue as Kurama landed beside her.

"Kane! Oh my-Kane are you alright?!" Kurama asked as Kane continued to uncoil herself from the wretched tongue. When Kurama acted as if to help her Kane snapped out painfully, "Don't! It's acidic, you'll only burn yourself!"

Kurama only watched in horror as Kane continued peeling the grotesque tongue away from her body like a fresh band-aid. After what seemed like an eternity, Kane dropped the tongue to the floor and Kurama struck it with a rose which cause it to turn to dust. Kane briefly thought of the strange sight before she was called back to attention by a deafening screech.

Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Hiei had brought down the beast that was, only minutes before, her favorite teacher, and the love of her life.

"She will be their prisoner in short time!" The creature yelled painfully. "Killing me will only confirm that she's matured into her powers!"

"Yeah, but at least you'll be out of the way!" Yusuke shouted as he smashed its head into the floor. "Hiei, finish him!" He ordered. And, with that, Hiei chopped off its head. Just like that, it was over.

Kane looked down as the demon body transformed back into the body of her teacher, and as his head rolled to her feet. Chocolate, lifeless eyes looked back at her. Kane felt her knees buckle beneath her.

"D-Danai-san….Danai-san!" She cried as she through her bloody, blistered, battered body over his head with a sob. "No… how could he…how could he have been…" She sobbed.

"Everyone is a suspect Kane. And you are still defenseless. You're the perfect target." Kurama said firmly as he sat her up and forced her to look at him. "This is just the beginning to the horrors you will see, and the dangers you will have to face." Kane looked at him with scared, tear filled eyes. Then she looked to her fallen sensei.

"He…he wasn't really Danai-san…Was he?" Kane asked as she looked back at Kurama's fierce green eyes.

"Kane, he was sent to watch you by Detemtri and Lucifer. Everything you thought you knew about him was a lie." He comforted (in a weird way, but comforted) gently.

Danai-san's body then melted into a disgusting pile of rank dark greenish-brown sludge.

Kane stopped talking then. Everything she thought she knew, he'd said it was all a lie. And she couldn't even defend herself because she'd let herself be paralyzed with fear. Her epiphany grew with each breath she took.

Everyday of laughter.

Every second of joy.

Every minute she'd spent alone with him…

Was being watched by the two people who wanted to kill her. And Kurama had said their names.

Kane's head snapped up.

"What are they're names?" she asked.

"What?"

"They're names! What are they're names?!" Kane shrieked. Her eyes were wide with fright, and her hair was on end. But she didn't look scared, she looked …mad.

"Demetri and Lucifer." Kurama answered.

Kane stood painfully and limped her way over to the window to look out at the sun which was still high in the sky. Her body ached all over, and her ankle, stomach, and hands were burned and blistered. She looked down into her hands. They wearing pink, bloody, and fleshy…and they stung like a mother…

But the birds were still flying off into the horizon, and the breeze still gently blew the cherry blossom tree in the front courtyard. The clouds drifted by carelessly, and the sun still beat down mercilessly on passerby's. The end-of-the-school-day bell still rang, as she looked back at the four boys. Kurama still kneeling on the floor with his arm on his knee; Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Hiei all standing with their arms' crossed.

"I need to talk to Koenma."


I ALMOST CONTINUED! ALMOST! So was it just me or was that an intense chapter?! Hahaha! Cant wait to see what you all think!

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