The skyscraper was crumbling now, without the proper support the building could fall at any moment, at least it looked that way. The building was intended to be a research lab, but it was never finished. Now, with the bent and broken tower leaning into the sky, the dark gray clouds that loomed behind it, no one but him would come to this place. Kana approached the relic with complete confidence, he looked to the top of the steel tower, to his destination. Climbing would take too long, he decided, so with a sudden red glow engulfing him, Kana began to float into the sky. He got glances at the exposed floors of the unfinished building, memories both amazing and terrible flashed through his mind as rain began to fall, the worst memory of all hit him as he reached the top floor. He gazed down at the spot where he had killed Tataki, he traced the spot with his fingers. Shame washed over him, but he remained vigilant against it. To the untrained eye he was alone, but he knew he wasn't, he could feel her presence.
"Come on out, Tanako, I know you're here." Kana hollered out into the open. "You never were good at hiding your energy."
A young girl with long, glowing red hair in a ponytail came out from behind a steel beam, she seemed nervous. She wore a tight black body suit with dark grey bands wrapped around her chest, wrists, and ankles making her as aerodynamic as possible. She shook like a maniac but her stance indicated that she had killed before and planned to do the same to Kana. Kana scoffed and looked away in disappointment before lighting up a cigarette.
"So this is what you've become, an assassin galavanting about in my sisters body? Pathetic." Kana said, his back still turned on her.
"They said someone had taken your name, they told me you were gone, even grandfather thought you were dead." The girl spoke in a shaking voice, she sounded as though she were about to cry.
"Well, they lied, as for the old man… He's not related to either of us. I believe he searched for my body for a good long while. maybe if you weren't so gullible we wouldn't be in this position."
"If I wasn't so…" The girl was shocked, but soon burst into anger. "IF YOU HADN'T DISAPPEARED NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED!"
"Oh no?" Kana snapped back. "Someone would have come for me as well, or worse, they could've come for Tanako when I was to weak to save her. But I guess I got lost, I'm the only one left now."
"That's not true, Kana!" She pleaded. "You're not alone, I'm still here, I'm still your sister! Please just look at me, please!"
Kana spun around and marched towards her, his hair beginning to lift of his head as his eyes glew an evil red. He yelled: "You are not my sister! You are the shattered remnants of a dead girl that I couldn't protect!"
"Is that why you left!?" They were nose to nose now. "Because you couldn't protect me!? If that's the case then look at me now, I can protect myself! We can be brother and sister again!"
Kana calmed down, his eyes returned to normal and his hair was weighed down by the rain. "No we can't. I thought I taught you when you were younger: when you have a job to do, you do it to the best of your ability."
"Please, Kana…"
"Tanako, you're with the enemy now. So do your job."
Tanako gritted her teeth, and unsheathed a katana, if this what he wanted… Fine. She tucked in her body and rushed at him. Like tears in the rain, only the one crying would remember this, because murders had witnesses, but only one person remained after a massacre.
She appeared, still moving, less than two feet away from him, her blade thrusting forward. As the sword plunged into the center of Kana's chest, Tanako closed her eyes tight before allowing her tears to flow. She stood there for a moment, her grip on her hilt tightening, before she pulled the blade out, she whispered one last goodbye.
"I miss you, I'm sorry." She pulled the blade back, allowing his corpse to fall to the ground, limp and broken after all these years, and she walked away.
Some sins are never forgotten, some are never seen, and some leave cuts so deep they cannot heal. But all sins burn, perhaps the actor does not know it, but as they rot in life their sins begin to sting and fester, until it bursts into a godlike flame. Many destroy themselves in this process, but the ones who can endure are changed. Whether they become more evil and treacherous than before, or a force for good, that is up to them. The only constant among those who last is this, among the worlds burdens, their sins are the one thing that can no longer touch them, they are determined to thrive and to live.
Nothing will stop them.
End of Part One
A/N: First and foremost, no, this story is not over, but it is on hold. I just want to thank you guys for the crazy amount of support, for the views and the follows, it's really kept me going. My health is deteriorating, but I've seen a doctor and the issue will be resolved soon. This story will take a while before part two starts going up, and I hope to finish work on other stories. At this point in time I am eighty percent finished with the plot of part two. The story has a basic storyline laid out, but I have to develop the plot and then write it. I am aiming for around 1500 words per chapter in part two, for those of you that want longer chapters. Sorry for the long update, I'll go now, see you guys in part two.