Nanatsu Doubutsu
Chapter Nine: Now You See It, Now You Don't
A/N: Uploading continues!!
Review Responses:
Kusanagi: Eep! I'm sorry! It was the writer's block I tell you! THE WRITER'S BLOCK!!!! ««gives brand new DDR mat»» Don't hate me!! ;;
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Kira: ...00; Eep. ««gives plushie and candy and runs off»» Eeeeeeeek!!!
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Duct Tape Kitten: Yesh, UsagiBunbun. Eeeeek! ««hugglz squirrel»» I shall name you Todd!! ««eats cake and Chinese food with Todd»» Yayness! Me wuvz youzez!! ««gives plushies, candy, and kitten plushies»»
Disclaimer: I do not own Furuba. I own partial Furubaness, but not Furuba itself.
Claimer: I do own the characters, lines, plot, twists, the flow, theme, background, scheme, and everything in the like. I worked hard on them, dammit! So no stealing!!
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Yuki opened his eyes and saw large hazel ones very close to his own.
"Aaaaaaaahh!!"
Yuki pushed himself away so fast he—
««Thumpuffer!!»»
--fell out of the bed.
"Rise and shine!" Neko said, sitting on his pillow.
"Eeeeeeeeeek!! Yuki-kuuuuuuuun!!!"
The door slammed open and before Yuki or Neko could even blink, another pair of large brown eyes were on top of him and a familiar, what used to be gentle, voice was screaming in his ear.
"Yuki-kun-are-you-alright-we-came-home-and-you-were-on-the-floor-and-you-were-passed-out-I-didn't-know-what-to-do-was-it-an-attack-what-happened-oh-it's-all-my-fault-I-shouldn't-have-left-what's-wrong-does-your-head-hurt-oh-my-god-it's-an-other-attack-please-be-okay-I-was-really-worried-when-we-came-back-I-didn't-know-what-happened-Ithoughtyouweredeadareyouokay?!?!?!!!!!!"
And then Tohru passed out.
"H-Honda-san..."
"Yuki-kun?"
Shigure and Hatori stepped into sight with Momiji and Hatsuharu. Hatori stepped forward and helped Yuki back into bed ((along with trying to get Neko off the pillow. Hope he got his rabies shots!)) while Shigure was left to hold back Momiji and Hatsuharu. Not easy.
Not easy until the hero of our story stepped in! That's right! The one, the only, the lovesick, the furry, the bubble violator, the kung-fu master, Todd the Squirrel!!
Shigure tried to fend off Momiji, Hatsuharu, Usagi, and Todd while Yuki remembered something.
"Where's Kyo?!"
Everyone froze since Yuki had yelled quiet loudly.
"What?"
Kyo then stepped into sight holding Ookami and Kitsu under his arms while they tried to grab at each other. Ah, sibling rivalry. Isn't it just nice when a young brother and sister try to blow each other up by using fire and darkness?
Yuki, seeing Kyo, was even more confused. He looked at Usagi.
'Now is not your time. But it is the time of Usagi.'
Yuki thought of how Usagi was the last one to gain her powers.
"Usa-chan?"
"Eh?!"
"Have you gotten your powers yet?"
"No." she then whirled around to face Ookami. "Say nothing!"
"Wouldn't dream of it." Ookami said, slightly smiling.
As the three children fought, Yuki stared down at his knees. 'It was a fluke.' He thought.
'He didn't cause that attack. It was just me. As long as Kyo's alive, the children will be too. But why?'
"Yuki? Is something on your mind?" Hatori asked.
"Huh? Oh, nothing. What was that explosion?"
"It wasn't me!" Kitsu immediately yelled.
"Was too!"
"Was not!"
"Was too!"
"Was not!"
"It was too! Admit it!"
"What's there to admit? It wasn't me you stupid mutt!"
"Don't call me a stupid mutt you overgrown rat!"
"Don't call me an overgrown rat, you gaison!"
((I will now provide translations if they are PG-13 rated))
"Kyno!" ((Nope.))
"Laycozu!" ((Nu-uh.))
"Gencha!" ((Not this one.))
"Beliy!" ((..;))
"Katsu!" ((oo;))
"Gaina cholen benke wa keyvo si gentou!!" ((o0;))
"Jaliy! Gastu de manka lenku sen kai tsune mechu na!!" ((00;))
"Wondrous waves..."
"Gaizumonchaku!!!" ((Where do they learn this stuff?!))
The two dove behind Shigure ((and Todd!)) as Hanajima came into sight.
"Yuki-kun!!"
As Tohru regained consciousness ((she was just all spirally-eyed from stress)) Yuki had passed out once more with his head falling perfectly on the pillow...and Neko.
"Eeeeeek!!" Tohru, Usagi, Momiji, Kisa, Neko, and Shigure all...well, 'eek-ed', as Kitsu and Ookami finally showed themselves.
"S'he okay?" Uotani poked her head into the room.
"He's just tired." Hatori said as he stood. He slowly lifted Yuki's head and pulled out ((a hissing)) Neko.
"Kyon-sama?" Kitsu asked. As the others talked she walked over to him and pulled on his pant leg.
"Mm?"
"Can I borrow this?"
Kyo looked down to see Kitsu holding one of his CD's.
"...You wanna borrow my Linkin Park CD?"
((I can so imagine him sitting in his room and blasting the volume in his headphones while he does his homework. Whoot! Linkin Park! ««listening to Live in Texas CD»» I am. Little bit of loneliness, little bit of disregard, a handful of complaints but I can't help the fact, that everyone can see these scars. I am...shutting up now.))
"Yes!"
"...Okay."
"Yay!"
"But why?"
Kitsu didn't hear him as she had immediately pulled out his CD player and began playing a song full blast...as well as singing full blast.
"When I look into your eyes
There's nothing there to see
Nothing but my own mistakes
Staring back at me"
"What's she doing?" Uotani asked wide-eyed. Everyone was now watching Kitsu.
"Dancing?" Momiji offered.
"She's studying!" Usagi and Neko said. Ookami was too freaked out to say anything.
"For what?" Shigure asked.
"It's a secret!"
"That is never good." Kyo said.
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"Breakfast is ready!" Tohru called cheerfully.
"Ah! Another delicious meal made by our very own Tohru-kun!" Shigure said happily. He set his paper down and began eating.
Kyo soon joined them, looking incredibly tired. His shirt was all awry and his hair was a mess.
"Kyo-kun! Ah...what happened to you head?" Shigure asked.
"What happened to yours?" Kyo said defensively.
"Well if you must know, Todd has yet to have a place to sleep and obviously slept with me for the night. Well, maybe slept isn't exactly the right word to use...if you know what I mean." Shigure winked at the wide-eyed Kyo and Tohru.
"I know what you mean!" Tora, Kitsu, Neko and Ookami slide down a rail of ice that Tora had made. They all flipped in the air and landed, more or less, gracefully on their feet next to the table.
Tora and Neko landed next to each other and took a bow. Ookami hadn't actually meant to flip and so landed on his back. Kitsu had meant to flip; however, she hadn't meant to land.
"Oww..."
"Eek! Kitsu-chan are you all right?!" Tohru dropped her spatula and ran over to the girl.
"That hurt more than the time I fell of the 3,000 foot cliff!" ((Remember this for later!))
"Erm..."
"I'm too used to her to be shocked." Kyo said. He picked her up and held her by the ankles upside-down.
"Maybe the blood rushing to your head'll help."
"No...you're just making the voices in my head angry. Huh? What's that? Oh. Okay, then. Kyon-sama, Bob Chicken says not to spray him with the battery acid. Huh? Okay! If you excuse me I must now burn down Aaya-san."
"Nobody's stopping you." Kyo said in unison with the newly arrived Yuki.
"I am!"
Ame suddenly ran down the stairs, tackled Kitsu, and trapped her sister in a wind bubble.
"No killing Aaya-san!!"
"Woosh-woosh!" came the response.
"Never!" Sakana increased the wind pressure and Kitsu was now floating upside down with her silver-hair floating about in the bubble.
"You punishment for planning to kill Aaya-san is...Todd gets fixed!"
As soon as Kitsu understood what 'fixed' meant, her eyes glared at her older sister. Fire then surrounded the bubble and blocked her from view. As the dust cleared, Kitsu was once again on silver fire.
Sakana raised her hands and set a strong jet of ginger-wind towards Kitsu only to have it blocked by the intensified silver-fire shield.
"Enough!"
A blast of honey-ice froze the wind and the snowflakes shattered as they hit the ground. Kitsu and Sakana both sent attacks towards Tora and Neko created a russet-lightning shield.
"Are they fighting again?" Usagi said. She leaned against Yuki's leg as she watched her sisters fight. Ookami was standing in front of the battle quickly getting irritated.
All four girls sent their attacks and wind and lightning, fire and ice, all met in the middle, neither side gaining an advantage.
Ookami snapped.
"Stop it now!!"
Dark tentacles rose from the floor and the whole room seemed to darken. His sisters ignored him and the darkness grew stronger. It swirled around Ookami and created a kind of black whirlwind. Ookami yelled out as the darkness swelled and finally, all the lights shattered and the whole house was pitch black.
There was a split second of light which came from the attacks but they immediately were canceled out by the dark.
"Great going, Ookami." Kitsu muttered.
"Oh, shut up! It's your guys' fault anyway."
"It's not our fault you can't keep your temper, jackass." Neko said.
"The fault is on all of you." Kyo said to the chibi. He was angry, though nobody could tell through the complete dark. It was like shutting yourself in a closet in the middle of the night with no lights at all.
And this is what scared Usagi.
She was the youngest, after all. The only one without any powers. If she was alone, she was defenseless. And that's exactly how she felt; even though she was standing next to Yuki and could hear her brother and sisters yelling, she felt like that.
Alone.
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'And then there were none.' A voice whispered in Yuki's ear. 'I told you it was her time, didn't I? Yes, I believe I did. And now there is almost no time at all to wait for the strike. I'd step away from my daughter if I were you.'
Yuki turned around to look for him, but in vain. He felt someone grip his arm and pull him away from Usagi. It was the same grip from the previous day.
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Usagi reached out to touch Yuki's leg, but he wasn't there. She reached further and even stepped closer to where he was, but he still wasn't there.
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"Shut up you—"
"What's wrong, Neko? Cat got—"
"Hey, wh—"
"Dammit! Stop messing aro—"
"Kyo-kun, are y—"
"Tohru—"
There were no voices.
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"Yu-Yuki-sama? Kyon-san? Gure-san?"
No one.
"Sakana? Tora?"
Nothing.
"Neko?! Kitsu?!"
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'Aw, aren't you going to call for me? How sad.'
"Shut...up..."
'Are you still able to talk? Hm. You'd think this particular attack would have taken care of you by now.'
"Why...Usagi's not..."
'Why? Why not? I need her to gain her powers. This will certainly guarantee she does.'
"What...?"
'Must I tell you everything? Fear is one of the simplest ways to gain what you need. Remember that.'
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'Little Usagi. Are you alone?'
"Wha?"
'Would you like me to keep you company?'
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'Here's one more lesson for you. If Usagi were to gain her powers while alone, and with me, she would think her family had left her. Naturally she would hate you all. You left her alone in the dark. Her powers may be filled with light, but light can be corrupted. Everything can. Isn't that the way of your reality?'
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"Wha?"
'Would you like me to stay with you? That way you won't be alone.'
"Alone..."
'Yes. Alone in the dark. That's the way your family left you isn't it? Alone in the dark? Just walked away from you.'
Usagi stood there with the voice speaking around her. It was then she remembered something Kitsu had told her in just about the only time she had been serious in her six years of life.
»"Remember this, 'cuz this is going to be just about the only time I'll ever be serious in my six years of life. When you're in the dark, and totally alone, just know that there will always be light. No matter what, until the day you die, there will always be light. You, and only you, will always have light. You were born with it and you'll die with it."«
She had never remembered it because Kitsu had told her when she was only one. Kitsu was two at the time, and completely gave new meaning to 'the terrible two's', and was even in the middle of a fire spree at the time, but still managed to be serious at least once. And that one time really helped Usagi right now. So unlike the time Kitsu had set Usagi on fire and threw her over a 3,000 foot cliff and jumped after her, but that's a different story.
'You're not going to be alone anymore.'
"But I never was."
'What?'
"I've still got the memories of my family. And I'll always have the light."
'What can light do in the dark? Unless it is strong, it will not survive.'
"Even if it's weak, it can always depend on fire and lightning. And water, wind, ice, and even the darkness. They're all part of a family."
'Family means nothing if you're alone.'
"Well it doesn't help if your father tries to turn you to the dark side after he killed your mother and is now setting out to steal your powers and kill all your guardians, you know."
((Yeah! Shove that up your ass, you stupid lame excuse for a warrior father! Bwuahahahahaa!!))
'Hm. Maybe you're not as helpless as I thought. But you're still alone.'
"You point being...?"
'My point being...'
Usagi didn't have time to even blink as two arms wrapped around her.
'...it's much easier to kill you. You reached your powers so I can now destroy you.'
"That's what every jackass says right before they get their ass kicked."
A thin border of carnation light outlined the small figure of Usagi and continued to outline her forcing the thin line to become thicker. As it grew, it also acted as a shield, pushing the arms farther and farther away from her.
When the arms were completely off of her, the pink light suddenly sent out five rays, each landing on Kyo, Yuki, Tohru, Shigure, and the chibi. The light became an aura and aura filled the room with blinding carnation light, causing everyone unable to see each other.
The dark was gone. The father was gone.
And so was Usagi.
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A/N: Just one more after, then more new things!!
