Theme 9: Drive
Never before had he felt this desire, this need, for retribution.
His mind flashed back to thousands of years ago, back before any of the nations surrounding him were even born.
Back to the small house in the bamboo thicket, with the pond and the pandas and the perfect porch for looking at the moon.
Back to the night when everything had come crashing down upon him in a sleek, swift slash of gleaming silver metal.
Back to the hazy memory of the silhouette of the then-young man's body against the moonlight, his former brother's blood dripping from his katana, not so much as a second glance back to the bleeding man on the floor.
His mind was reeling, going even further and further backwards into the years he spent with the budding nation. Days spent in awe over his prodigy, days spent in the bamboo thicket looking for interesting things, days spent teaching him how to write, how to read, how to communicate.
His fists and jaw clenched. The anger that rose up in him was not necessarily uncalled for, but it was unwelcome all the same. He fought it down, trying to keep a cool head.
So many things were happening to his old body. Political issues were giving him a constant migraine; civil war was tearing his consciousness in two, making him throw up and fall to the floor whenever a battle was won or lost. The war he was currently in with Japan only made things worse.
It was greatly taxing. He was losing his determination, his fighting spirit. There was a constant drain on his body and mind, a sickness he couldn't get rid of with medicine.
When December 1941 rolled around and he found new allies, he was thoroughly grateful. Someone to share the burden with, while trying to mend his country.
Suddenly, the desire to eliminate one of his many problems was no longer the driving factor behind his attacks on Japan. It was his thirst for blood, the need to see the ex-brother who had touched his heart in the same position that he himself was in thousands of years ago.
China wanted revenge.
And he was going to get it.
A/N: fffffffff hi there, people! 8D I'm not dead, I promise.
well, if you're wondering where the new chapter for the Rise Against fic is, I don't have it. It'll be a while before that's up.
On the upside, I'm at the beach for another 12 days or so, so I'll have plenty of time to attempt to write it. I haven't written in forever, though, so I did the 10-song challenge to try and get used to it again. I'll be updating this more frequently as well, for the same purpose.
Hopefully I'll hit theme 15 by the end of this week. Fingers crossed!
...regarding this chapter, it took me forever to figure out what I should do for it. It's China about Japan, and the rest is pretty self-explanatory.
