'The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.'
Helen Keller
Kyoko wouldn't allow herself to cry, she couldn't. No matter how fragile her stepping stones were right now. She would not allow herself to think that otherwise. Kyoko get a grip she thought, she needed to calm down and think. She couldn't just sit there bawling her eyes out.
OK so what can I do? Kyoko pondered and closed her eyes, listening to the soothing wind brushing the grass every few moments. Kyoko's plait had come undone and now was swaying in the wind along side the grass, ticking her cheeks and the unseeable tears that were frantically wanting a way out. Kyoko ordered herself to breath in and out, concentrate on what she should do. Ren surely wanted an answer now, the thought made her tremble but she needed to be strong right now. Would she give up her wings and her life for Mimori? Isn't that what it was about? A throbbing sensation started up in Kyoko's head, overwhelming unsolved questions. Didn't Kyoko say that she would give her life up for Mimori? A problem snaked its way into Kyoko's head, what if Ren was lying? What if Mimori did die after Ren took her wings? Could half devils even keep their word? Kyoko tugged at her hair in frustration. Too many questions and not enough ways to fix them.
"What if I could help you?" A sudden voice in Kyoko's head made her open her eyes.
Without thinking Kyoko said aloud "How can you help me? You're probably a figment of my imagination and I'm just going crazy!"
The voice chuckled "Well you're just going to have to find out, right?"
The voice was seriously getting on Kyoko's nerves "And how do you propose I do that?"
The voice got straight to the point "Step outside of the Sacred Willows land"
Kyoko sarcastically laughed "How do I know I can trust a voice that I'm imaging in my head?"
The voice chuckled once again, directly laughing at her. "Well you're just going to have to find out"
Kyoko rolled her eyes and yelled to the voice "You've said that twice already, have you got some better advice for me?"
No answer.
Typical Kyoko thought, she had to think even more now. Would she step out of the Willows boundaries and probably be stabbed to death or something? That thought made Kyoko think about Sho, what actually happened to him after she stabbed him? Kyoko didn't think a wound like that would kill him but she HAD been harbouring all her anger against him for years, she didn't feel any sympathy towards him and never would, but she didn't want to have any more blood on her hands any more. Even if Sho deserved to die. Kyoko sat there for a few more moments before deciding to step out the Willows land, Kyoko was indeed very curious about this voice and when Kyoko made up her mind, she would follow it, every woman does.
Kyoko got up swiftly and brushed off all the dirt and grass that had clung to her white dress. She stretched her wings in case she had to make a quick getaway and slowly made her way down the cliff. Kyoko did wonder what had happened to Ren and where he had flew off to but she didn't have time to ponder about that right now. When she landed she closed her eyes and located the boundaries of the Willow, she was in the North right now and the wind wasn't picking up anytime soon. It would probably take all night to fly outside of the boundaries, not that she had anything else to do anyway. What made up her mind was the fact that Ren was probably staking out there somewhere and since he couldn't leave the area Kyoko wanted to get as far out as she could before he went searching for her. Yes she was being a wimp but at least she could be a wimp alive for just a little bit longer. Kyoko had always wondered what kept her alive, what was her goal? To achieve something? No, Kyoko knew it was to protect the ones she loved, to cherish as well. And more then ever Mimori needed her, so did Moko even if she never said so. Kyoko took off swiftly and headed in the South, she needed to hurry up, something in the back of her head told her that she needed to get going, and it wasn't the voice either.
Ren had been watching Kyoko for the whole entire time, before she had took off. She didn't cry, she just sat there for what felt like eternity to both Ren and Kyoko. After a while Kyoko got up and started yelling something at nothing apparent, probably just yelling to herself or something. He chuckled and smiled, she could be such an idiot sometimes, but that was what made her Kyoko, even if he had said something like that a few moments ago Kyoko could make it seem like something that happened centuries ago. Ren couldn't erase what he had said and did, he didn't want to either. He meant what he had said and it didn't matter whether Kyoko forgave him in the end. He just wanted her, and it had been a while since he had a soul. He didn't chase her either, he knew that she would be back, in a way she wanted him as well. No matter how much she could hate him, she would want him. Every Angel in the end did, they thought that if they could love him, he would love them back. There was never a time where they had been successful; all Angels were the same like Kyoko, naïve and wanting something. It had been easier seducing her as well, in a way she was prettier then all the others he had taken. The golden luscious curls that gleamed in the sunlight, like a precious treasure, her deep sapphire eyes, like you could loose yourself in the never ending pools of light. All the more delicious she would taste he thought. He watched as she spread out her wings, silvery white. Kyoko had looked so delicate on the outside, she was in a way but also she had a determination, the more enjoyable to snap, he could almost imagine the way he would kill her. He would snap her into little pieces and scatter them through out the Willow's land. Turn the land into a bloody red mess, it would be fun.
She disappeared into the distance and glancing one last time at Kyoko he licked his lips and whispered "You're mine".
There was a thudding noise as Kyoko landed on the ground, just outside the boundaries, she could feel the invisible seal close again; it left a feeling of being suddenly let out in the world again, like there was no safety. Kyoko dreaded the moment of when the voice would show up but she just stood there like an idiot waiting for the voice, it didn't appear.
"Hello Mr Voice? Are you going to appear or not?" Kyoko yelled at no on apparent.
She yelled for another few moments before her voice started getting sore and she stopped and muttered to the ground.
"Are you going to appear or not?" she repeated. A voice from behind her startled her and she jumped.
"As the Mademoiselle ordered" She turned around and gasped, she had felt like there was a ghost standing right next to her.
There was only a few ways to describe this man, he was second to Ren's height but what startled her was his hair. It was a sky blue colour that almost seemed similar to Ren's. She couldn't call him ugly because that would be lying but in so many ways he wasn't as good as Ren. She couldn't stop comparing him to Ren but there was something different about the aurora around him that spooked Kyoko out, it was like he could grab spirits or something. She couldn't really focus on what he was or what on the danger scale he was but he seemed to be like a stranger trying to give a lolly to an unsuspecting child. A.k.a the child being Kyoko. His voice was low but soothing in a way, she didn't notice earlier but it was almost like a lullaby.
"Instead of calling me Mr Voice how about Reino?" Kyoko cast her eyes down and said
"Nice to meet you Mr Reino-san"
He smiled "Please drop the san, after all this isn't the first time we've been acquainted"
Kyoko nodded and dropped her eyes down to her feet again, she felt strangely paranoid about this man.
"Wouldn't it be more polite to look up into my eyes?" Reino asked her.
"Oh I'm sorry!" Kyoko snapped her attention to his eyes, wrong move though.
"Shall we get a move on?" Reino smiled mischievously and suddenly his dark brown eyes turned almost a white colour.
Glowing as he smiled, Kyoko suddenly heard Reino humming a lullaby from his throat. Kyoko relaxed and suddenly felt entranced by his voice and when he suddenly started moving faster, his voice growing smaller and smaller with every step. Kyoko wanted to hear his song, she needed to. Like her life depended on it she ran after him, to keep up with the lullaby he was singing, growing dizzier and more tired with every step. She didn't notice the change in the scenery as she listened to his beautiful voice. Even though he was a little out of rhythm it sounded like tinkles of chimes to her ears. She needed to hear more and more. Kyoko didn't notice that has he hummed her wings began to fade and her skin became paler and paler as she followed him. She still had the mind to ask him
"Where are we going?" she asked smiling stupidly at Reino.
Reino answered quickly before humming again "Somewhere we can be alone together"
She smiled again "Where I can go and listen to more of your singing?"
He nodded and then rushed onwards.
"That's great!" she continued onwards with him as well, almost swaying along to his sound.
Soon they came to an abandoned castle, half the wall was torn away by a war a millennium ago. The castle was almost screaming"Help me!"
The way the former residents had left this place showed how irresponsible people could be. Kyoko strangely remembered that she had been here before, this wasn't the first time she had been here but her mind was foggy and Reino had stopped singing suddenly. Kyoko stopped swaying around and tripped over a part of the path that stuck out of the ground. Kyoko's mind was suddenly clearer again and she remembered that Reino was a stranger that she had only just met and somehow they were here. She still couldn't remember why she had been to this place but right now she needed to put some distance between her and Reino, she still didn't trust him very much and she felt kind of drugged or something.
"What are we doing here?" she asked with a warning tone.
Reino casually shrugged and said "Don't you want to escape from everything sometimes?" His eyes pierced at her but she still kept her eyes down at the ground, she was warily of him and his eyes. They made her feel like she was in a trance.
"Darling I'm trying to help you right now" he said while pressing his hand gently against her shoulder.
Kyoko shuddered and pushed his hand away "Don't touch me so casually!" She hissed and backed away from him.
"Darling what are you talking about?" he moved towards her again. She moved back as fast as possible but her way of escape was impossible, he had her against a wall soon.
"Don't call me Darling" she spat at him, trying to distract him for even just a moment so that she could fly off.
"Don't try that with me darling, I've gotten this far and I don't want to loose you now. You're mine now and don't think I'm ever going to let you go" Reino said with a smirk, enclosing on her quickly.
Kyoko glared at him"You don't even know me! Are you a crazy mental person or something?" she screamed.
Reino slyly smiled "I may not know much about you now but I've been watching you all this time, that dirty man touching you"
He doesn't know much about your past does he?" he said while stroking her golden hair. Kyoko didn't have a doubt that he was a crazy person now, so much for trusting another person ever again.
"Get away from me you crazy person! Now!" She did everything she could by trying to push Reino away.
"Why are you trying to push me away sweetheart? We're supposed to be together" He chanted with a sing song voice while trapping her wings with his arms.
"Stop it! Just get away from me; I don't want you anywhere near me!" She screeched loudly.
Reino suddenly became angry and then he twisted while pulling at wings "You are going to be with me no matter what you say! You're past will stop you from loving another man anyway; Sho almost took your wings didn't he? Why did he stop himself from taking you wings and then leaving you all by yourself? Didn't he find himself an even prettier and beautiful angel to toy around his finger? You don't have a reason for living right now do you? Even if the other man does take your wings!"
Pain shot up her wings and her head, what he said was only the truth, she really didn't have anything to live for. She stopped forcing herself away from Reino and collapsed on the ground and sobbed into her hands, she had enough and she wanted to give up. It wasn't worth anything anymore.
"Now your being a good girl, don't you want me to take your wings now?" Reino whispered. Kyoko kept on sobbing into her hands
"I don't care anymore, none of it matters" Reino cackled gleefully and then said "Don't regret it" Kyoko looked up at him one last time "It doesn't matter anymore does it?"
Sho muttered to himself, annoyed and in pain. "Why did she suddenly attack me like that?" he questioned himself. I did nothing wrong and suddenly Kyoko is a mad women attacking me. I didn't even get to take her wings!"
Maybe that was what drew Sho to Mimori, she smelt a little like Kyoko. It comforted him, the way Mimori was just like Kyoko, except a different version. Sho had felt a little uncomfortable saying the same things he had said to Kyoko, but now just to Mimori. She fell for it just as fast, within a week she was head over heels with her 'Prince Sho' He didn't even know how she had come up with it, she should have been around her own kind but like Kyoko she was curious about demons. He should have stopped when he could have, just left Mimori just like Kyoko, but he couldn't help it. It was just what he did, now he was starting to regret it. When did Kyoko learn to use a knife like that? She also had developed the utter hatred in her eyes as she stabbed him, and 100 years ago she had cooed and looked at him with so much adoration. He thought that she would have gone back to her life as usual with nothing different, just go back to the naïve and shy girl Kyoko used to be, guess he had broken her heart too much. So much that she would have wanted revenge, Sho couldn't help but think that she looked much sexier like that. Angry women weren't his specialty but he Kyoko looked almost irresistible. Like he could take her wings again, he laughed to himself before clutching his stomach in pain again. Kyoko had directed the bloody knife at his stomach and it had caused a huge wound. Especially with that knife of hers, probably took a while to even wield a knife like that. It would go on the market for quite a bit and so Sho kept it; if he was feeling generous he might return the knife to her. If she promised to never stab him with it again.
He settled down on top of the broken down castle and then lay down, it would take another few days before it fully healed, maybe a week if his body reacted badly to the pure knife. He had the knife wrapped up in a cloth so it wouldn't cut him again. Shos mind once again wondered to Kyoko, man she was looking better. He never actually looked at her face properly; she was actually quite a pretty angel. Not like some of the demons he had been with but Kyoko in a way was still quite innocent and graceful. Sho suddenly felt like all the energy had been drained out of him, he was extremely tired and meeting Kyoko again had drawn out all sorts of emotions from him. He closed his eyes and drifted into an uneasy sleep.
Hey Everyone! I finally took the time to write a longer chapter! Some people were asking for longer chapters so I tried that and it worked out ok. I hope you guys enjoy this chapter because for Christmas i'll be going on a holiday so I won't be able to write for a while. I was thinking about writing a new story soon (Don't worry i'll keep on writing this one as well)
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