It's Here~! Finally~! Chapter 8~!

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Chapter 8 - The Mind of a Fighter

Kanra watched from the rooftop as a guy stepped forward, raising a crow bar. In a flash, her right leg was on the edge of the roof, bow drawn. Eyes narrowing, she fired, and it whistled through the air. She slipped the bow on, securing it, the jumping down. She landed lightly on her feet, back to Shizu-chan, and pulled out her sword, slashing it across the chest of the guy in front of her.

She sprang into the air, jumping over the guy, and landing in the center of the intersecting alleyways. She kicked a guy square in the chest, sending him flying, then pulling out her bow, firing and arrow, swinging it around to smack another guy in the head, and the returning it to where it was before. She punched, elbowed, kicked, and slashed.

She grabbed a guy by the collar of his shirt with her left hand, sweeping his legs up with her right arm and rolling him over her shoulders and back, flipping him so his feet kicked the guy to her left in the head, before slamming him to the ground, then spinning, kicking the guy behind her in the jaw.

She felt Shizu-chan step forward, and sheathed her sword before turning to stare him dead in the eyes. She heard his breath hitch in his throat. Her wrist hurt from punching people, but Kanra knew it was fine.

"Who... Who are you?" Shizu-chan asked, obviously dumbfounded. Kanra didn't answer, just simply turned and sprinted, vanishing into the shadows.


Kanra pulled of the mask covering her head and ran her fingers through her hair, as she stepped int her apartment. She tucked her weapons away, and pulled off the suit, so she was in her regular clothes she had worn underneath, all but the jacket. Kanra placed the suit and mask in her closet, and grabbed her jacket, pulling it on and going to crash on one of the couches on the top floor.


The next day was anti-climatic after the exciting night before. Work went by slowly, and the only eventful thing going on in the chatrooms was a fire alarm going off after a science teacher at Riara had lit a balloon full of some kind of gas on fire, creating a massive fireball. No one was hurt and nothing happened other than all of her lovely humans at Riara having to pile out, most not knowing it wasn't a drill, so Kanra wasn't interested. She had more fun ways to play with fire.

Kanra was walking along an empty street, lost in thoughts, when all of a sudden several things happened at once. She was on fire, burning like searing hot razor sharp spikes, all over. It felt like Shizu-chan was trying to split her skull, and stabbing it all over with something Kanra couldn't find a name to relate it to, only able to describe it as sharp and painful. It was all so sudden it felt like being slammed into a wall by a tank.

As if fate itself were mocking her with this torture, time seemed to slow down, so each second seemed like an agonizing hour. Kanra went limp, falling to her right. She held out her right hand, catching herself by pressing her palm into a brick wall, leaning on it for support.

She pressed the heel of her left hand against her forehead, slowly making her way around the corner into a dead end alleyway, just wanting to find a place to curl up and focus on not vomiting. White blanketed her vision at times, and in what seemed like hours later, which was really only a few seconds, she collapsed against the wall, leaning into the corner of the dead end.


Kanra didn't know how long she lay there, in a crumpled heap, but finally the pain subsided to where she could stand up. Thankfully she wasn't far from Shinra's, and was there in a few minutes.

It seemed to take Shinra forever to open the door after Kanra knocked. Just as he opened it Kanra nearly collapsed, falling forwards a little but catching herself by taking a small step forward. The startled doctor cried out, catching Kanra with his right arm as she fell against his right shoulder.

With Kanra leaning heavily on him, Shinra managed to get the informant to the nearest couch.

Kanra fought to keep her vision in order, but the world seemed quite content with spinning all over the place, and darkening.

"Help..." Was all Kanra could say, her voice barely audible even to herself. Or maybe that was because she was falling into a pit, and whatever Shinra said, he was too far away to hear.


Shinra heard a weak knock at the door, and sat up to go answer it. His mouth dropped open in shock, as he saw a barely conscious Kanra fall forward a bit, and taking a small step forward. She caught her self, but after that tiny step she fell forward again.

"Kanra!" Shinra said, in a panicked voice. He held out his right arm, catching her around her ribcage, practically holding her up by one arm. He felt her sag against him as he struggled to get her over to the couch.

"Help..." He heard Kanra say, as quiet as a soft breath. He saw her eyes begin to close. "Celty! Can you please help me?" Shinra yelled for Celty, who was in the other room. He began to pick up Kanra, so he could take her to the medical rooms.


Kanra's eyes opened, and she had to take a few moments to adjust to the light. She was laying down, and judging by the softness under her, it was Shinra's couch. Kanra sighed, knowing that now she was awake either Shinra or Celty would show up. She sat up, stretched, and yawned. Kanra heard foot steps and knew that it was Celty.

Celty sat down next to Kanra.

tap tap tap

[ Hey. How do you feel? ]

"Like really, majorly, pissing Shizu-chan off. I could super glue all the street signs and vending machines. Or do something to his phone. Like burn it. Or flush it. Or throw it at a car." Kanra said, signing as she listed off the possibilities. She could tell that if Celty had a head she would be rolling her eyes.

tap tap tap

[ I'll tell Shinra your awake. ]

"I'll come with you." Said Kanra, implying she felt fine. Which she did. She felt %100 rested. Standing up she followed Celty to where Shinra was bent over a print off of some medical scan. Kanra jumped up on the chrome table, liking how it felt cool. She laid back in her signature pose, propped up by her arms, hands pressed flat, with her legs stretched out in front of her, one knee bent.

"Hey Shinra." Kanra said, startling the doctor, who obviously hadn't heard her come in with Celty. He turned to her and smiled, though Kanra knew it wasn't %100 his usual carefree happiness.


"So, are you going to tell me what is happening with me?" Kanra asked. Shinra sighed, pausing a moment to try and think about how he was going to say what he needed to say.

"It's not good." He said, uncharacteristically sad. But as he looked up to meet Kanra Orihara in the eyes, he saw a light in her eyes that burned brightly, like the sun. She knew it wasn't good. She didn't care, and Shinra knew she wasn't afraid. She was strong, and whatever came her way she took it on full force, with that crazy insane grin on her face and the fire in her eyes. Something may knock her off her feet, but Shinra knew there was nothing on earth that could ever take her out for good, because she would fight back with everything she had, she was a warrior. A fighter.

Kanra Orihara wasn't one to give up or give in. But Shinra worried that this time there was no escaping defeat. When he looked at her something gripped his heart and squeezed it tightly. He hated to think that someone as defiantly strong as Kanra would have to suffer the fate of being taken down by something she had no chance of beating, something she couldn't fight. It wasn't fair. But no matter how strong Kanra was...

...she didn't stand a chance against the most severe brain trauma Shinra had ever seen in his life.


Suspense? I hope. _-_ This took a surprising amount of effort to put together. I'm planning on going back to the old chapters and editing, but I'll be sure to keep the chapters coming. Again, please review!

Lol, the fire alarm was a true story. It was funny. Just as fifth period was about to end, the fire alarm goes off. I thought it was a drill, so I wasn't worried. Even though I already had my backpack on, I had to take it off... strange. Anyways, right next to the doorway of my classroom was a doorway to a emergency stairs or something. Yeah let's go with emergency stairs, my brain is dead. It was as I stepped in there as I heard the alarms and all that i got suddenly giddy, and a maniacal grin spread wide across my face. It was fun! Seeing all my humans react to this~! I couldn't stop grinning. I even did the Izaya walk at some point. XD *oh dead god bad life choices have been made*

I love how Kanra's greatest challenge now faces her. It is the one thing she can't fight back. But she can't back down either. If she did, she wouldn't be Kanra.

I felt like I had made Celtys character kinda insignificant, like a background character, so this chapter was an attempt to try and bring Celty more to the front.