Ah, geez, I'm really sorry I haven't updated in so long! I can't seem to find my already started chapters for my Death Note fic and the other one I was working on...what was it called again? I dunno. So, I really REALLY didn't want to write a fight scene cause I'm not really good at those sorts of things, but I'll do my best. It really is my first ever fight scene, so please tell me how I did in your ever-welcome reviews!
---fight!---
Akito turned to face Haku and his father. "So, it's finally come down to this?" he asked wistfully, stepping forward. "I knew that you were going to come here, Kohaku, but I never guessed you'd involve sweet, innocent Chihiro." Haku grimaced and clenched his hands, deciding not to honor the boy's sentence with a reply. "Really, what were you thinking? Did you think that stupid girl could really do anything to help you? She's really so worthless. When my father sent me to her school to watch over and observe her, I found her to be an interesting specimen at first. Later, I realized she was totally worthless. I can't see any good qualities in her whatsoever. What is it you see in her, Kohaku? It can't be her looks, her brains, or anything of the sort. Maybe are you obliged to show her love, because of what Yubaba did to her parents? Maybe you wanted to give her your fake love to make up for the loss of her parents' love while they were pigs, and eventually that fake love became real?"
Haku ground his teeth together. He was beyond angry now. Who did this guy think he was, bad-mouthing Chihiro like that, right in front of his face? But Akito wasn't done. "I honestly thought that I could create some sort of bond with her, and hopefully I would love her through that bond. Looks like now all I can use her for is a little pleasure release, if you know what I mean." Akito winked at Haku, and Kosuke laughed.
Haku clenched his hands even harder, drawing blood form the palms of his hands. "Hah, that's funny. You act as though you own her. Too bad you actually have to have a life to even get close," Haku hissed. Akito raised an eyebrow, and Kosuke stepped forward to punch Haku in his back, but Akito raised a hand to stop his father.
"You know, Kohaku, I also hoped that we could be friends. But then again, you just had to go and get on our bad side," Akito sneered and nodded his head, a silent signal for his father to begin his attack.
Haku felt his hands being pinned behind his back, and he felt warm blood run down his palms and drip off onto the floor behind him. While he was distracted with trying to get loose, Akito ran and punched him in the gut, doubling him over onto the floor. Kosuke let go of Haku's arms and kicked him down on the floor until the boy was laying spread-eagled. Haku glared up at the other two men, but made no movement.
"What's this Kohaku? Giving up already? Have you finally realized that Chihiro is just a worthless piece of junk?" Akito mocked. Haku's glare became icy cold, and Akito was actually fearful for a moment.
"No," Haku began calmly, "But I would like to propose an idea. If you hand over the bath house to Boh and let Chihiro leave back to the Human World in peace, I'll do anything you want me to."
Akito looked at his father, and then back at Haku. "Anything?" he asked, almost incredulously. "Even...take your own life?"
"Yes," Haku confirmed. "I said I'd get the bath house back into the right hands, even at the cost of my own life."
Akito rubbed his chin in thought. "I don't know...how are you sure we'd let Chihiro go home once we killed you?"
Kosuke let go of Haku altogether and shook his son by the shoulders, shouting, "Don't tell me you're thinking of letting go of the bath house?! After all we went through to gain its power, you are thinking of handing it back with the cost of one measly life?" Akito narrowed his eyes and pushed his father back, making the older man stumble over Haku's out-stretched legs.
"You shut up, old man! I can't believe you haven't figured it out by now! I'm just using you! All of you! I pretended to play along with your stupid little games, going to the school to spy on Chihiro, helping you siege the bath house...I never planned to let you take control of anything, old man! In fact, I think I'll kill you right now!" Akito's eyes were practically glowing red with bloodlust as he advanced towards his father, the said backing up at an alarming rate, until he was up against the back wall. Kosuke's brow was covered in sweat, and his hands and head were shaking as if to plead with his son to spare his life.
"A-Akit-to, n-now, think t-this over, s-son! Y-You w-w-wouldn't k-kill your old m-man, w-would you?" Kosuke's blabbering seemed to anger Akito even more, and the youth quickened his pace. Pulling out a pocket-knife from his jeans, Akito grinned wickedly as he jabbed the sharp object at his father's throat.
"I did all the work, while you sat back and relaxed. I'm the one who discovered the Spririt World, who uncovered the hidden potentials, and all you did was sit on your lazy bum! I should kill you for being such a lazy fag, and yes, I will. I'll kill you. Are you ready? I'm going to kill you now, okay?" Akito's voice got increasingly manic, and Kosuke's shivering and shaking increased to its maximum. Akito raised the knife to Kosuke's throat, and with one long, strong slash, the deed was done. Kosuke's body fell to the floor, doubled over at the waist.
"Heh, even in death he still manages to fall on his fat ass," Akito snorted, eyeing the corpse with contempt. Haku stood, horrified and a bit shocked that a son would even do such a thing to his father, even if the father was as bad as Akito described. Akito spun on his heels, now facing the still slightly shocked Haku. "Now, it's time to finish you off. I will not let you have this bath house! Not until I'm dead, like my damned father!" Akito raised the knife threatingingly and charged Haku, ready to jab at the boy's stomach.
As Akito was charging him, Haku got a good look into the boy's eyes. They were red, like the spilled blood that was now seeping onto the floor under Kosuke's dead body. Haku shuddered, imagining himself in such a state. Quickly dodging Akito's attack, Haku tried desperately to think of a plan. If he could get Akito severely worked up, maybe the boy would charge blindly, and Haku would be able to interpret his moves more easily.
"So, you honestly thought you could take over the bath house and not have someone take it back?" Haku daunted, trying to find a touchy subject. "Even with your father's help, I'm sure you couldn't have figured out a better plan."
Akito stopped at the edge of the room, twirling around again to charge Haku another time. The boy was absolutely crazy; there was no other word for it. Haku was starting to see a little white foam at the edge of his mouth from running and swinging the pocket knife so hard. "What's it to you?" the boy snarled. Now he just absolutely fit the part of a rabid, wild wolf who was trying to fight for its life but failing miserably.
"Just you watch. I'll take back the bath house and I'll save Chihiro. You can't stop me. You're just a stupid human boy that doesn't know what he's getting into," Haku snarled back, ready to turn into his dragon form. That pocket knife, though it looked somewhat innocent, was getting a little too close to his body with each charge.
"Hah!" Akito scoffed, aiming a kick for Haku's head, "I'd like to see that day! Maybe the world would end, too!"
Haku blocked the kick and fully transformed, flying up to the ceiling so that he had room to manuever. Akito watched with wary and cautious eyes as the dragon spirit hovered above him. Haku was waiting, and he didn't have to wait long. The full effect of Akito's attacks began to take their toll on him, and the human boy fell to his knees, aching all over. While he had been fighting, the adrenaline in his bloodstream had kept the pain at bay, but now the muslces had nothing to numb them, and the pain was excruciating. Haku took advantage of his enemy's weakness and dove in, picking the boy up in his large mouth. Carrying the boy down the corridor, Haku took a shortcut through the air vend system and ended up outside the bath house.
Sometime later, while the two were still flying, Akito resumed his attack. He had managed to keep a hold on his knife, so he twisted in Haku's mouth, though the sharp teeth were unforgiving and ripped at his clothing and flesh, and attacked Haku's neck. Haku shook his head to discourage the attacks, but it didn't really matter anyway. Haku's scales stopped the metal from piercing through.
Soon after Akito's fervent attacks ceased, the two ended up at the entrance to the Human World. Haku flew as far as he could in his dragon form, and then transformed back into his human form. Picking up an unconscious Akito, Haku walked through the barrier. Before he left, Haku put a curse on Akito, forbidding his entrance into the Spirit World ever again. Then he left the boy under a tree out near the statue and turned back to head home. More importantly...
Back to Chihiro.
---curse---
Chihiro looked up at the sliding door to Kamaji's boiler room was opened. Haku rushed in, and Chihiro yelled, running over to him to wrap him up in a huge bear hug. Haku closed the door behind him before he gathered Chihiro up in his arms and kissed the girl passionately on the lips.
"Haku," Chihiro whimpered, breaking the kiss, "I didn't think you'd make it back unhurt."
Haku grinned, ruffling his love's hair. "What? You have absloutely no faith in me, do you?"
"Haku!" Lin said, rising from her seat on the floor. "I'm glad to see you're back. Does Boh know about the bath house?"
"Yes, I told him right before I came here," Haku said, looking away from Chihiro for only a moment.
"Finally," Kamaji said, extending one of his several arms to give Haku a pat on the back. "The bath house is back in good hands. Good job, m'boy." Haku nodded and accepted the praise before he turned his full attention to Chihiro. Holding the girl at arm's length, Haku looked her in the eye and said the words he had wanted to say for the past 3 months, if not longer.
"Chihiro, after today I've realized a lot of things. I've known this ever since I met you, but I love you, and I always want to stay beside you. Nothing can defeat the love I have for you, and I would gladly give my life to save yours." Chihiro's eyes widened a bit at this point, and Haku made a note to reword that saying later on. "If you would, I would like to take your hand in marriage, so that all shall know that you are mine."
"Um, Haku...I'm only 13," Chihiro said a little nervously. (Pretend with me here!) Obviously, she had never been proposed to before.
"That doesn't matter!" Lin piped up. "If you get married here in the Spirit World, those silly social laws and cliques and such...all those things you had to be careful of when you were in the Human World wouldn't apply here!"
Chhiro's eyes widened a fraction more. "Get married...in the Spirit World?" she questioned, looking from Lin to Haku and back again. Haku's eyes were warm when he replied.
"Yes, whatever you would like. It's all up to you, of course."
Chihiro's eyes began to water,and she flung herself into Haku's chest. "Yes!" she sobbed. "Yes! I want to stay with you forever too, Haku! I want to stay by Lin, and Kamaji, and Boh...all of my good friends..." Chihiro began to snifle as she thought about her "good friends" back in the Human World. "But...what about Yuri and the others? They all loved me like a sister..."
"We can always go back to invite them to the wedding. You know, humans can come here as long as they know where the entrance is. They could even come and spend the summer here or something, while school is out," Lin suggested.
"You do need bridesmaids and such for the wedding, after all!" Kamaji said in a joking manner.
Chihiro looked up at Haku's warm, happy face. "Could we really do that? Please, please? With a cherry on top?"
"Of course," Haku said, smiling. The dragon held Chihiro close and the two hugged, both thinking about their engagement and the days to come.
Of course, Chihiro. You must understand this...
I'd do anything for you.
---wedding---
Yay for crappy endings! Well, I guess that's it. ::scratches head:: When did this come to an end, really? I guess...I just have to say thanks for reading and please review!
That wasn't much of a fight scene was it? Nope...it wasn't. So sorry I disappointed you all! Just tell me how you liked it!
