Chapter 8
Something Goes Wrong
The bedroom door slid open as Ranjiru stepped out, looking to Kaijen for approval of the costume she was going to wear that night.
"Oh Ranji you french whore." Kaijen joked as she saw the little black maids unifor, which accentuated her chest, and barely reached her hips. The black knee high stockings and dressy black buckle shoes. Her hair hung loose, but was held in tight curles, with a black lacy headband.
"What about the other things?" Ranji hissed in a whisper, gesturing to her body.
"What about it?" Kaijen shrugged, unti Ranji took off her headband, and two black bunny ears sprang up, she closed her eyes for a few moments and re-opened them, where her pupils were replaced with snake-like slits, she then turned around and untied the big black bow that rested on her backside, where a money's tail swayed back and forth.
"Oh. . .you mean your zodiac form. I have to say, you're deadly precious." Kaijen cooed as she gave Ranji a hug.
"Ok, I just wanted to make sure that it looked alright with my costuime. I'm really nervous about tonight, what if something goes wrong?" Ranji asked with a hint of fear in her voice.
"Tonight is going to be perfect. It's your birthday and no one is going to suspect a thing," Kaijen said, reassuring Ranji, "now, I need you to help me with my costume. ."
"Kyo? Are you almost ready to go?" Shigure called up the stairs, he was dressed in his old high school uniform, and surprisingly it still fit, X3. Kyo walked down the stairs, he was silent and his head was down.
"You're wearing that?" Shigure questioned with a smirk on his face.
"It was all I could come up with. . .AND I AIN'T GONNA SPEND MONEY ON A DAMN COSTUME I'M ONLY GOING TO WEAR ONCE!" Kyo growled at Shigure with his face bright red, as he slipped on his black dress shoes, that complimented the black suit he was wearing. Shigure giggled as they walked the distance to the Hitsutomi's house.
"They're going to pay for showing their ugly faces here again." a voice snickered as it put the small speaker in the branch of a tree, camafloging it with leaves.
"This will prank 'em damn good. It'll teach them a lesson they'll never forget."
". . .Hazuno, I want to go. . .if we get caught. . .she'll be really angry." a trembling voice said from below. Hazuno lept from the branch he was standing. "You pussy, I'm surprised you weren't disowned like those damn Hittsutomi's." Hazuno sneered, striding towards the Hitsutomi's house, where people had already started to gather.
"Thank you for coming, we greatly appreciate it." Ranji said at the door, when the guests appeared.
"There's music in the foyer and in the backyard, and food and sake in the kitchen." Kaijen added. Saori was busy catering to the guests, and being dragged onto the dance floor, by already drunking men.
As the house started to fill, and less people appeared at the door, Ranji walked outside, looking behind her as she shut the door, she saw Kaijen sprawled on the couch, with a bottle of sake in one hand, a smile on her face as she listened and commented on the conversation she was involved in with some men and women. Ranji looked to the foyer and saw Saori still involved in dancing with the drunken men, and now some small children were grabbing her hands and pulling her to dance with them. A sad smile moved Ranji's lips as she lowered her head and closed the door. She walked on the stone path to her small garden, where the archway was lit with lights, she sat on the wooden bench and looked to the sky. The moon was shrouded with clouds, but it still emited a white glow beneath it. She closed her eyes and muttered, "Happy Birthday" to herself when she heard someone coming up the stone path. She lowered her head to see the visitor.
"Mind if I join you?" Kyo asked as he stopped in front of Ranji. Ranji moved over to let him sit. Awkward silence hung in the air.
"You don't seem the type to wear a tux." Ranji said, her head tilted back and her eyes closed slightly looking at Kyo, then to the stars.
". . .um. . .you don't seem like the type to wear revealing clothes. . ." Kyo retorted, "Actually. . .I'm not. I took this from Shigure's closet. . .I couldn't think of something to wear. . ."Kyo blushed as he looked at his feet.
"I didn't think so," Ranji said, "But you look nice. It makes you seem more mature, and you seem a lot older than you look." Ranji said as she closed her eyes, as a smile crept on her face,
"And you look great in that dress, and the ears are a-" Kyo's smile vanished as he touched Ranji's bunny ear, it felt real. . .Ranji quickly got to her feet and briskly walked away, not even looking back at Kyo.
"Hey! Wait up!" Kyo called as Ranji started to run into the thick forest. Kyo started to jog after her, but tripped on his long pants. He crashed to the floor and hit his head on a jagged stone, a small cut on the side of his head, started to drip blood. He sat up and ripped the ends of his pants, making sure he won't trip on them again. He got up and ran in the direction he saw Ranji disappear.
"Ranji? Ranji where are you?" Saori called, walking along the garden path, she was dressed in a long sleeved, skin tight, yellow and black shirt, and a black mini skirt, she had two small brown cat ears sitting on her head. She looked over to the forest and saw Kyo disappear shouting, "Ranji! Wait!" Saori ran back into the house, trying to push past the guests to get to Kaijen.
"Dammit!" Ranji shouted as she ran deeper and deeper into the forest.
"Why was I so careless?!" she looked behind her and could faintly hear Kyo screaming for her. Ranji looked around, until she found a giant tree with thick limbs. She scrambled up with ease (remember her zodiac is the monkey). She stood on the limb, blending in with her dark clothing, waiting for Kyo to pass so she could run back to the house.
"Hey!" Ranji's ears perked up, trying to find out who spoke, she heard a faint crunch and turned towards the noise, when she saw a male face inches from hers, a punch landed square in her chest and sent her flying into the neighboring tree.
"Where the hell is she?!" Kyo thought to himself. As he ran threw the forest, he looked all over, he thought he saw a glimpse of her in one of the trees. He stopped to make sure it was her.
"Hey bitch!" he turned to see a man go and send Ranji into a tree. Kyo's heart stopped. He went to go after her, but his legs wouldn't move. Some voice in his head told him to stay put, and to all of our amazement, he listened to it!
"Hey Hazuno!" Ranji yelled, already recuperated by his attack, "WHAT'S UP?!" she shrieked thru clenched teeth, she swung from the branch Hazuno was standing on and kicked him square in the back, sending him into the air. Ranji landed on the branch, smoothing out her dress, and getting the branches out of her hair. Kyo was about to go over to her, when Ranji's ear twitched, as she heard a click, and a CD began to play, she now noticed the speakers in the trees around her.
Repulsive human,
Unwanted creature of darkness,
Sent to Earth from fiery ruin.
Ranji knew what this was, all she knew to do was to escape.
Impure blood,
Made with Sohma bone and mud.
Sent to ruin our blood so pure.
As Ranji made her legs move, the sky opened and the moonlight shone over her. Her pupil-like slits, dialating so her eyes resembled black holes, filled with emptiness.
Be gone impure demons,
Go back from wence you came.
Ranji was lifted into the air, her arms, forcebly pulled from her sides, so she resembled a cross with her legs closed together, her body being binded with invisible rope, making it impossible for her to move. She writhed against the invisible restraints, as Kyo watched helplessly from below.
You are worthless,
Unworthy of the powerful name of Sohma.
Give back the flesh you so wrongly possess.
Invisible knives began to cut and slice Ranji's levitating body, as her blood dripped to the ground. A splash hitting Kyo, right as Ranji screamed out in pain and fear.
"RANJI! RANJI!" Kyo screamed as he climbed the tree towards Ranji.
As death consumes you,
you dispicable creature,
Heaven's Gates shall not open.
Only the fiery pits of Hell can be called your home.
Blood dripped from Ranji's body in large amounts, her head fell to her chest.
"Ranji! Oh please don't die!" Kyo yelled with tears in his eyes, as he leapt from branch to branch, desperately trying to reach Ranji. Ranji used the last bit of her strength to open her eyes, only to see Kyo climbing up the tree, with tears dripping down his face as he called her name.
Spawn of Satan,
As your body now dies.
Give us your soul,
in payment of your sins.
"Come now, Ranjiru Sohma, you should be awake as you watch yourself die." Hazuno hissed in Ranji's ear as he wretched her head back. Her eyes, slightly open, saw a hooded figure form before her, a sythe being made of the shadows around her, held in the decaying hand of Death. Ranji's eyes opened wide as she let out her final, blood chilling scream as the figure's sythe slowly raised to the sky.
Cut down the unworthy,
o Reaper of Death.
Make it wish it were dead.
De-spell it's body, so it's true nature shows.
Make no one want it,
to have it,
to be near it,
to love it.
SO MOTE IT BE!!
The Reaper hacked down the sythe cutting into Ranji from head to toe.
Saori and Kaijen were running into the small clearing in the center of the woods, when they heard the spell that killed the cast majority of the Hitsutomi's, the second branch of the Sohma family.
"Oh no! RANJI!" Kaijen yelled as she ran towards the floating black mass that hung in the air. Saori ran beside her, her eyes weilding with tears.
Hazuno cackled meniacly as he let go of Ranji's head, as her tattered body tumbled to the forest floor.
"RANJI! NO!" Kyo yelled as he jumped from his branch to catch the falling Ranji. Kyo landed on the ground with Ranji's body clutched in his arms, blood stained Kyo and the forest around them. Kyo cried out as he looked down at Ranji's gapping mouth, blank eyes, now fading from black to their original lavender color, but now completely lifeless. Her body cut open as blood oozed from every cut and slice.
"Serves her right for coming back to the Sohma's after she was supposed to be DEAD!" Hazuno screamed from his branch, covered in Ranji's blood.
"HAZUNO!! HAZUNO YOU SICK-ASS BASTARD!! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU!!" Saori screamed, fury in her voice as the sleeping birds in the trees flew off, screaching into the night. Hazuno turned only to get his face implanted with Saori's knee.
