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Akuma No Hime

Chapter 6

Mnemophobia

Rei sat on the chair in silence as she listened to the sound of water slowly dripping from god knows where. Simply to pass time she began to count them. Her assailant, or rather assailants, had put a black blindfold over her and brought her into a building, warehouse maybe. It all seemed rather cliché to Rei.

Of course, except the part that she was getting kidnapped because she was a demon princess. That

was definitely different.

Seventy-four, seventy five… Her counting was soon disrupted by the sound of footsteps. Heels to be specific. "My my, the princess's guardians aren't very competent are they?" It was the same voice from before. "Well, I guess not." Rei's reply came. The girl laughed.

"It seems that our little princess has no faith in them either~" She said and more clicks of her heels hitting the ground followed. "What do you want?" The princess asked, her voice had a severe lack of panic or any other emotion for that matter.

"Oh, nothing much~ Road-sama just wanted to know more about this girl from the prophecy." She said. Rei felt something cold against her cheek, like metal, but kept herself from flinching. "Prophecy?" Rei repeated as she tried her best to ignore the thin cold line on her cheek.

"Ehhh? Don't tell me you don't know!" The cold line disappeared. Rei heard a snip. A scissors? "Those guardians of yours really are the worst." The girl said as she lifted up Rei's hair. Snip! Rei felt her hair fall back down. She knew that it was way lighter than before.

"A girl will descend

Bound in mind and soul

With a great amount of power

But her blood is stained

And the time will come

When at her feet we will cower."

"Or something like that" The girl added. "Her blood is stained?" Rei repeated. She felt her hair being lift up once again. "I honestly don't know!" The girl said. Rei could feel her shrug as her hair had shifted slightly. Snip! "Hey, Rei-chan, what happened to your parents?" Rei stiffened at the question and was hesitant at responding but she knew better to defy a girl with a pair of scissors.

"They're dead." She said simply, not wanting to elaborate and hoping that her assailant would leave it as that. The girl laughed at that. "Of course! But how did they die?"

The man's impending figure seemed to loom slightly over the young girl "I'm sorry to say that your parents have died in a car accident. My deepest condolences go out towards you." No sympathy was present in his voice. His words held no meaning.

The young girl let her head hang for a moment before giving a slight nod. The man nodded back before walking away. At that moment, the girl shut the door and started to sob. She sobbed for hours before she finally fell into the soft embrace of sleep, where she could still imagine that her world wasn't shattered.

Rei was silent as she reminisced in her memories but was broken out of her nightmare when a cold thin metal was placed towards her neck. "Rei-chan~ I'll let you know something about me, I'm not a very patient person" The lilt in her voice seemed had changed into something more dangerous and the cold metal pressed into her skin. It was then removed.

"So then, why don't you answer big sister's question?" She asked, the playfulness in her voice was back in full swing. "A car accident." Rei said as she begged her voice not to croak. The girl seemed to have found this very amusing as she had burst out laughing.

"A car accident?!" She asked in disbelief. "That was the best those pathetic losers could come up with?!" She continued her laughter and Rei waited in silence for it to die down. "Hey, you wanna know something, Rei-chan? You were involved in the demon world a long time ago, whether you knew it or not~"

Rei had waited. And waited. And waited. She had begun to listen to every sound that was around her. From the tapping of her nails on the chair she was tied to, to the water that hadn't stopped dripping, to the occasional sound of birds from outside. Not that it had mattered, but Rei opted to close her eyes, not for any particular reason, simply because it felt… right.

"Hime-sama!" Ah, her rescuers finally came. She could feel her bounds being tugged at and heard the distinctive sound of tape being pulled off. Light flooded her sight once the blindfold was pulled down and Rei blinked a few times for her eyes to get used to it. In front of her was a rather unfamiliar face. Worried violet eyes looked into her gold ones and long green hair was tied up into ponytails.

"Who are you?" Rei asked rather bluntly. "I'm Lenalee Lee, your fourth guardian!" She cheerfully introduced herself. Rei lowered her eyes for a second, like as if to process what she said. "Tell me again why I need four people to look after me." Rei said as she pulled her hands apart when the duct tape was taken off.

"Because, you play a very important role in the demon world and we want to ensure your safety." She heard Allen say. There was something about his voice… it seemed like it was slightly tinted by regret or disappointment maybe.

Rei closed her eyes and sighed. "I'm so troublesome, aren't I?" She asked to no one in particular. She expected Kanda to agree with her and make a snide comment or something like that but nothing came. It then occurred to her that Kanda wasn't there. "It isn't your fault, Hime-sama. We had also failed to protect you."

Rei stood up when her feet were freed by Lavi. She looked back at them and smiled. She smiled a smile that was as real as her black eyes. "I'm just a useless brat, so it's not your fault!" She turned around, phoney smile gone. "Just a useless brat." She repeated, though the others didn't hear it.

The four of them rode back in silence. Rei had so many questions that she wanted to ask them. Of course, she wanted to ask them those questions but the urge to do so seemed to have died down once her assailants had left her there with her new hair cut.

She started to play with the ends of her uneven, shortened hair as she looked out the window. She stared at the ever so amusing clouds that flecked the blue sky. She momentarily pondered what it would be like to float around like a cloud, float around at her own pace without a care in the world.

Her gaze shifted to the rear-view mirror. She looked at Lavi's green eye that was focused on the road. She then looked at Lenalee and Allen, both of them simply sitting in their places as they stared ahead. Rei sighed then closed her eyes and slowly accepted the persistent tug towards dreamland.

"Rei-chan, wait here for mommy and Daddy to get back okay? We won't be long." The girl nodded as she clutched her teddy bear's arm. She smiled brilliantly at her parents and they smiled back at her. That loving smile that always warmed her heart.

'If I wait here like a good girl, then maybe mommy and daddy will get back faster, and we celebrate my birthday, just they had promised me! It'll have balloons, presents and a big chocolate cake! I don't need to have any friends because mommy and daddy will be all I'll ever need!'

She waited there as the sky started to turn dark and the sun went down. She sat there at the table with her teddy bear patiently. 'It's okay that they're late,' The girl thought.

"I'm sorry to say, that your parents have died in a car accident."

"If I'm a good girl, then mommy and daddy will come back right?!"

"If I do well in school maybe I'll get to see them again!"

"If I make more friends, will they praise me?"

"If- If- … They're not coming back… are they?"

Truth hit her like a hard slap across her face.


A/N: Hmm. Well then I'm sleepy, so this chapter seems really… out of it or something. Well there's bits and pieces of Rei's past. And well yeah. Oh and about the crappy prophecy thing, I'll change it if I think of any thing better… IF. And the chapter isn't betaed and I was too lazy to read proof it with my sleepy 13 year old mind and all. Gah.

So! I honestly have nothing else to say about this chapter. So YAY or something

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