Here we are again! Earlier then usual I must say, but here all the same. Yes, I'm gonna quit all the "OMG"s and hyperness for now xD Well most of it... which is probably because I'm still sad that I wrote this. You'll understand later XD
I was VERY glad to see such support from my reviewers. I REALLY was. I literally thought I had killed this fanfic xD It was great to see so many good reviews... and no bad ones oo I'm suprised I haven't a hater yet XD Ah well, theres always this chapter. Now... here is the last of the twists, in all it's glory. Yes, last. However, it being the last doesn't make
Now, time for a few cough quick cough review replies:
Bishieluver01: Gimme teh cookies :3! XD Nah... I was just glad to keep within your wishes I'm extremely glad you found the last chapter good, though it seems you predicted it. There's always one! XD The bit where Kish called Ichigo Kitty wasn't actually put in until I LITERALLY decided it was good enough to put up xD It was like... a last minute brainwave! XD Hope you enjoy the chappie, even if its still pretty sad.
IntricateDesigns: Nice idea's you have there Sadly, there wasn't really much chance to use them here... simply because I had this chapter in my head the DAY I started the chapter. Sad ey? XD However, this chapter is not without great power, even if it not like the type you were thinking of. I would say more to your idea's but I'm scared I'll give too much away. But anyway, I'm glad I write well! I strive towards perfection (because I have nothing else to do... other then english homework). And I'm really really glad Kish wasn't OOC... I was trying to kinda aim towards the madness he showed in some of the episodes Well done for spotting the similarities.
Moonlit-Kris: Eh... twists are much to interesting to have an obvious ending... though I bet that people can work out how this fanfic will end, if only the pairing. I hope this is twisted enough for you!
FoxFaery: Wow... you say my plot in a nutshell XD Yes... you got the idea of it... complicated, nyow? It was meant to be... Kish was mad XD And it was built up to throughout the fanfic... and think of it this way, after chapter 7 here (Kish's true feelings coming out) wouldn't you feel a bit saddened when you think you are finally understood and you've really only been strung along? But anyway, patience young elf! The reason why Kish came here in the first place will become apparant in its own time. I decided not to take the normal route of simply going "Why are you here?""insert plot" because I'm ebil xD. Plus, you have to agree these chapters are good to have! Rolo likes to complicate everything. And please don't give up after this chapter! Anyway, thankyou to the rest of my reviewers thouroughly! I immensely enjoyed your reviews and comments But now, I better not write anymore. I shall let you see what you think. Just remember, before you read this, Rolo has a massive heart.
Ichigo looked at Kish, fear glimmering in her rosy eyes. Never before had the cat-girl guessed that she could feel so many contrasting emotions at once. Nor had she thought Kish could be so… bloodthirsty and unkind.
However, something in Ichigo knew that this wasn't really Kish. She would not believe that the guy who had died for her would try to kill so many in normal circumstances. He was just misguided and hurt… and wrong…
Although, those thoughts that this Kish wasn't the one she knew didn't comfort her at all. The furry-eared girl found small droplets of salty tears running down her soft face, and her heart becoming bewildered. How could she stop him now? How could she? He didn't seem to trust anyone anymore, and it looked like his madness wouldn't let him listen to reason. He would kill everyone… or the military would get to him first. Whatever happened… someone was going to die.
"Kish…" Cried Ichigo, her head drooping with sadness. This sadness seemed determined to engulf her completely… to make her give up. She couldn't stand seeing Kish like this…
Ichigo took a deep breath, and made a conscious attempt to stop crying. She'd stop this madness… she would make him see.
"Kish…" She said hesitantly, "For what reason do you think I am here facing you? Why do you think I am crying?"
Kish looked at her in surprise, and turned away to ponder the odd and slightly random question.
"To fight me, of course." He answered harshly. "If I wasn't hurting any of your race, you wouldn't be here."
Ichigo swallowed, not thinking Kish would reply so harshly, although really she should have suspected it.
"Well, although you are right about a lot of things, on that you are wrong." She said, taking deep but shallow breaths.
Kish blinked, and turned to his kitten in mild interest.
"Oh do tell me the right answer, Almighty Kitten." Said Kish sarcastically, his tone cold.
"I…" Said Ichigo, her ears drooping as she trailed off. Ichigo let out a small sigh… realising that she suddenly felt a much different fear to what she had a second ago. She didn't want to admit what she really should… she didn't want to get into it. Why did she have to tell?
The small feline girl let out a sigh. Why did feelings have to be so… complex?
"I'm sorry…" She said suddenly, filling her silence with the most appropriate seeming thing. "I'm sorry to have hurt you… I.. I wasn't thinking…"
Tears sprang to Ichigo's eyes again, and hopelessness consumed her. She sounded so… useless and weak. Kish would never believe her… he'd never realise…
"Ichigo… your apologies no longer mean a thing to me. You're only doing it to stop me…" Said Kish hesitantly, his eyes fixed upon hers.
However, Ichigo could see a slight change coming over him… but she knew it wasn't due to her words. Something in her face was making his madness waver into uncertainty. It was her tears… the hurt she couldn't hide.
Ichigo watched Kish's eyes suddenly flicker with some realisation, before he swiftly turned away. He began to breathe heavily, clenching his fists tightly.
Suddenly, he spun around to shows his eyes filled to the brim with deep deep anger. A growling sound was made in his throat and his fury made his body shake.
"How DARE you try to brainwash me with lies!" He erupted, screaming in frenzy. "You witch… you liar!"
Ichigo gasped in fright, as she watched him call to some of the smaller Chimera Animas in the sky.
"Kill her!" He screamed, tears pouring from his eyes. "I don't want to see her anymore."
Before Ichigo had the chance to blink, a swarm of the black creatures smashed into her, sending her flying into the main part of the building. Ichigo screamed in fright, finding herself smash into the wall and fall onto the floor.
Ichigo found herself so badly winded and hurting that she could hardly bare to move. She gasped as she tried to lift herself up, wincing as she felt pain shoot down the length of her body.
However, a look of sharp determination had come with the pain, and nothing could stop her from rising from the floor.
A brief smile came over her face, and her eyes began to beam with hope.
Her Kish was somewhere deep within that bloodthirsty figure ahead. She knew it now…
Ichigo staggered forward, trying to ignore her pain.
Kish stood ahead, panting. As Ichigo wandered forward, he could see the sharp resolve in her eyes. Ichigo began to see an uneasy caution in Kish and, as she wandered forward, she saw the anger drain from Kish's figure and his stance become much more normal. However… with the loss of anger, Ichigo could see her temporary enemy begin to fill with a deep weariness and weakness.
"Kish…" She said, rushing forward. Her eyes beginning to fill with tears of happiness. The Kish she knew was within touching distance now… if only she could take a few more painful steps towards him.
However, as Ichigo reached out to embrace the bewildered Kish, the confused soul turned away and leapt into the air. He floated over the edge of the tower, taking steps into thin air, so she could not reach him. He turned to her, his eyes filled with loss.
"My dear Kitten, why do you torment me?" He asked sadly, "You told me that you didn't care… you told me that you hated me and always did. Why do you confuse me so much? Why do you give me such false hope? I have nothing now Ichigo. I have lost who I am. I'm not anything anymore."
Ichigo inhaled sharply, tears nearly choking her again. She couldn't believe the child-like tone in Kish's voice. He sounded so lost again… as if everything he knew resulted to nothing and always would.
However, she strove to reach the lost soul now, once again. She would reach him. She would make him see…
"Kish…" Said Ichigo, looking at him deeply with sorrow at his pain, "I was wrong to have said what I said. I was stupid. I wasn't even telling the truth…"
She said, feeling that awful fear fill her again. How could she say this? Why couldn't she admit it? Why was she so afraid? It made no sense…
"W-what do you mean?" Asked Kish, his eyes still shining with hopelessness. "Who am I to you? Who am I? I mean nothing to most of the world now…"
Kish's eyes filled with tears, and Ichigo gasped silently. What did he mean? What had happened? Why was he so lost and uncertain? Something bad must have happened…
"Ichigo?" Began Kish again, his eyes glazed over with an emotion that didn't seem to have a name.
"Kish… I care. I care so much about you that I came to talk to you. I don't know why I care, but I do." Ichigo cried firmly. "I care so much that I'd never want you to get hurt. Never."
Ichigo's eyes began to glow with passion, and not the pity she should have felt. She knew she meant it. She meant it with all her heart and soul. She loved him in an unexplainable way, to the point where she never ever wanted to see him hurt again. It was why she had felt such guilt when she had lied so stupidly in the first place. All this time she had just been rejecting everything her heart was telling her. She was thinking too much. She liked Kish. She did. She would never let Kish die.
Kish blinked at her, and his expression slowly began to change as she went on;
"Kish, I'm here because you're in danger. My people are after you…" A shaking fear came into her voice, "They want you dead."
She looked at him pleadingly, and he stared back.
"Kish… you saved my life once. You died for me. You showed me so… passionately that you cared." Ichigo looked deep into his eyes, "And now Kish, I am going to try to save yours. I'm going to fight for you… because I care. I care about you, Kish."
Kish looked at her innocently, his mind ticking over everything that was said. Then Kish turned away, and Ichigo's heart leaped. Was he still doubting…?
"Ichigo…" Whispered Kish, turning back around to show his face running with tears, "I'm sorry… I'm so sorry. I believe you."
Ichigo found herself beginning to relax and she saw an extraordinary thing happening before her eyes.
As suddenly as his anger had changed to anger, Kish began to heal himself, letting out a laugh. A smirk came over his face, and a sharp determination and rush of life entered his eyes. It was so amazing to see that Ichigo found herself beaming back in triumph.
"That's right, Kitty! I believe you! And now," His smirk became wider, and the alien chuckled, "you're stuck with me"
Ichigo smiled. She had won! She had won! She had done it!
No more words were uttered in that time. There were none to explain the feelings they felt. The triumph, the sense of being, the love… it all needed no words. All they needed was to know that they were alive… so very much alive.
However… fate has a cruel way of dealing with these events.
Even when you think things can only get better, fate adds something into the picture, or reminds you of something you had forgotten, like when you grasp a fragrant rose in your hand and suddenly realise it contains thorn. Fate can rip away your happiness from under you in any way it wishes, whether it be in memory, thought or reality. And, in this case, it happened with one heart-lurching sound.
The sound of a gun.
A deafening blast came from below the two, who remained lost in motion. It echoed through the air, and, before Ichigo had the chance to react, the cat-girl saw Kish's body being flung backwards as if he had been punched by the wind. So numb was Ichigo, and so suddenly did it happen, that the cat-girl hardly reacted.
Kish looked up suddenly, his gaze in Ichigo's suddenly becoming glazed and masked by pain. He let out a sharp breathless gasp, and brought a hand to his chest quickly. Ichigo looked on, a look of horror awakening in her eyes as the nightmare, which had become a dream, faded into a nightmare again. However, the girl could not squeeze even one word from her frozen lips from her loving heart as she saw the one she had rediscovered become lost once again. Lost to a place she may never be able to find.
Kish's yellow orbs rolled back, and his body simply let go. Although in life he was plummeting much faster then one can imagine, to Ichigo every tiny move seemed to last a century.
So it was that Kish plummeted from Ichigo's vision to a place where she would not be able to reach him, both mentally and physically.
Ichigo's eyes followed him there, right to the bottom, before she began to show any signs of reaction.
The cat-girls eyes suddenly began to flow with tears and she collapsed onto the floor of the tower, shivering uncontrollably. Her eyes flickered to the ground below, where she could now clearly see many men standing there, flowing like a mass of ants. They scanned over the ones who celebrated, who had finally drawn Kish's blood.
A growing feeling of contempt came upon Ichigo's soul, all awakening from the anguish and confusion Ichigo held in that moment. A hate so deep erupted in her heart, and a realisation dawned in her heart that would forever change her.
The girl rose from the floor, and clenched her fists tightly, overcome by emotion again.
So it was that a scream, so powerful, so painful, so filled with hate, filled the sky…
Isn't teh Rolo evil? Yes... it saddened me GREATLY to put this up... but I know this will turn out best in the end. Trust me my dears. Poor Kish... Huggles him I didn't wanna do it ;; waits for the angry fans to come after me Gah. Like I said, NOTHING here is as it seems. Kish came back to Ichigo once, he will again... I hope XD But yes... how did you react to this chapter? Was the writing good? Did I deal with things sensitively? Do you now hate me? xD I REALLY need your feedback here, seriously. Even if it is flames, I need it. However anyway, thankyou so much for reading and I hope you see reason to return I'll update asap, but next chapter is going to be like the one before this one so... yuh. Byeeeeee 3
