Chapter 10

Eternal Darkness

Limbo...

RECAP:

The woman in question turned and gave her a slight smile before walking slowly to her room, where she sat on her pallet. Tears were building up behind her eyes, and she tried her best to keep them down, but the pain was too much for her. Those tears rolled out of her eyes and down her cheeks as she thought about those dark eyes hidden behind those dark shades. The times when he had held her close and whispered sweet words into her ear. The times when he had kissed her. The time when he had loved her. But those times were gone. Forever.

The tears steadily hit the pine floor as she sat there remembering. "Toguro," She whimpered. "I miss you, dimwit." And with that, she curled onto her side, feeling as though he were somehow with her.

Third Person POV:

Limbo. The most feared place in all of Spirit World. A place of eternal torment. All that one can hear is the sounds of horrible screams of terror as creatures are burned and beaten. Every second of eternity is filled with screams, begging for a death that could not come because its inhabitants were already dead. Limbo. The last place that anyone would ever willingly go. Or rather last place that almost anyone would ever go.

In the farthest and deepest bowels of Limbo, sat a man who had chosen this punishment. A man with thick, corded muscles, black shades that covered his eyes and that oozed a sense of true terror. He never screamed. He never cried, though his punishment was painful. He just sat there and endured. The creatures whose job it was to torture him, were running out of ideas. How do you hurt someone so apathetic? Was it even possible? Until, it finally occurred to them to show him what he missed the most about being alive.

So, now he sat above a blue liquid pool, looking down at the people that he had cared about. From the boy that he even thought of as his prodigy to the woman that he had loved.

He couldn't help but think about the woman that he had known. She had been so startlingly beautiful and so startlingly deadly when they had first met. Her curvy yet petite body, so warm under his capable hands. Her smile that had made it all worth while. Her bright eyes that saw everything coupled with that quiet voice that could be so authoritative when it needed to be.

At the time, he had chosen a measure of immortality and strength over her love because he was afraid of withering away. Ironically enough, now he sat staring down into the pool and seeing her wrinkled form and the dulled veneer that once shined so brightly. At that moment, he felt no disgust for her choice. In fact, he almost envied it. Almost wished that he was there beside her as he should have been. That perhaps he should have followed the natural order.

"Life is like eternal darkness. You see nothing in front of you and nothing behind you. Within the entire expanse there is nothing more than brief specks of light that almost last long enough to allow you to see the loaded gun that is right in front of you. The sad part is that you don't even notice how much that small speck means to you until you've passed it by on the way to whatever awaits you at the end of the tunnel. At that ending time, you look back and see the points of light that you had so easily given up and you wish that you could go back and enjoy them this time. Yet, no man, woman, or child may travel back in time or change the past. There are some bits of darkness that you just have to hold on to, and my entire life was one. With the exceptions of those moments with her...Moments that I can never get back..." It was the first time that he had spoken since he had arrived. And his pain was palpable to all of those who suffered alongside him.

He managed to pull himself from the thoughts of death and brought them back to the woman on the bed. She laid there, her tears dripping unto the pillow that was sitting under her face. Toguro couldn't take it any longer. As he looked at her, and he thought about all of the things that he had missed out on. Her love, her devotion, and most importantly, her time. He could have had it all. He could have been strong and fought by her side, yet he had let it all go by for the quest of eternal strength and youth. Now, he could see that it was not worth it. Not in the least.

"Genkai. I'm sorry," he muttered. "I'm so sorry."

"Toguro," she whimpered and it sounded just like she was standing right next to him. "I miss you, you dimwit." She missed him. After all that he had done to her, she still missed him. He could bear his pain no longer. The large man finally allowed the tears to roll down his cheeks.

He paid no attention to the snickering demons around him. After all, what was the point of playing tough in a place like this? Being tough was what had gotten most of them down here anyway. And he had no wish to mold himself into the image of such weak demons. He had succumb to his suffering and had no care for such childish games.

He continued to watch over her as she went to seep, gently stroking the pool in front of him. "I love you," he muttered. "No matter what, I've always loved you and will continue to for an eternity.."

A/n:

Whoo-hoo! My tenth Chapter! I hope that it was good, and that you guys enjoyed it. I know it seemed kind of OOC, but maybe it was good?

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Einstinette