A/N: Alright hey everyone! Summer's well into itself and that means everyone's busy, busy, busy going places and doing things. I know I am. I'm doing a lot of traveling over these three months off so my updates might come later than they used to, but no worries I'll be writing these chapters even when I don't have my computer! Because I have a goal-chapter to work towards and the only thing concerning me is it's not going to end up being long enough!
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Chapter 11: Hearts And Thoughts They Fade
Juhani sat behind his table with a look on his face that showed his bewilderment and surprise, and for once he was making no attempt to hide these emotions.
"How did she get in here?" He finally asked.
"Force, we were taken by surprise." Mauri explained to him. Juhani looked down at his hands, "Juha!" He heard echoing again through the stone of the walls in the many corridors.
"She'll never find her way anywhere in Kokorou," he said quiet, and almost inaudibly. Suddenly his gray eyes shot up to Valo's observant green eyes.
"Go take care of her Valo," he finally instructed, "that is you're job any way." Valo's unwavering eyes kept a lock on Juhani's as he tried to reveal what exactly were in the leader's plans.
"And you?" He finally asked.
"I'm going to check on Shi." He stood up as he spoke and walked over to the other shadow demon. "I thought Shi was my job?"
"Hai, protecting her, and making sure Leleel doesn't find her is a form of protection." Valo gave a kind of halfway smirk pulling back before the ruler had a chance to put his hand on his shoulder.
"I was going to do it anyways, but since you asked so nicely I guess I'll have to make sure it's done completely and effectively." Then he moved around Mauri's standing form and silently out of the open doorway with the ends of his coat swaying behind him.
The halls of Kokorou were bustling with activity, shadow demons running from one place to another. Valo paid no mind to their pandemonium, it was the one ki signature in the whole place that was completely different he kept his focus on..
Leleel sent out a light energy whether she knew it or not, that light energy that filled his mouth with the bitter taste of hate and rage.
Her movement was quick, she was obviously moving in any direction possible, she didn't know the palace and the city like he did, she would never stand a chance.
He finally spotted the light demon ruler near sprinting down the same hall as he had taken, she stopped suddenly and he spotted the surprised look on her face that diminished almost instantly; he stopped to when he spotted this.
"Get out of my way Valo." She ordered with hate flaring in every syllable.
"Oh Leleel, after all this time apart I thought you would at least grace my being with a simple 'hello'." Her eyes narrowed on him, "you should show respect to your higher powers, but right now I have no time to deal with someone like you." He watched her eye him from top to bottom with obvious disgust.
"Hai, I apologies I am not in the right attire to see someone of your excellence." He motioned to the crisp white dress she wore, tied off tight with a bright yellow sash.
"But to be quite frank I can't say I care, I don't see you as anything higher than myself, I could take you down no problem."
"You've always been completely egotistical, where is Juhani?" She said with the same venom she always used.
"So now you don't want to defend your superior power?" He taunted.
"This doesn't concern you, get out of my way, I have to find Juha now!" His eyes slowly closed and his smirk grew slightly. "Ah that name, music to my ears," then his eyes snapped open; they locked on her. "It's a screechy and annoying music, but still music none-the-less."
"Valo." Suddenly a katana made entirely out of her light energy appeared in her open right hand. Without missing a beat Valo flipped back the side of his coat and whipped out a silver handgun aiming it instantly at her.
"You can't-."
"I have permits my dear." He interrupted with a deviant smirk playing across him. He spotted her grip tighten on the hilt of her sword, he sensed that she knew this would never end in her favor; that pessimistic manor would be her downfall.
Quickly using the light flooding into the hall by carved out windows the ruler transported herself from the spot and instantly appeared before him. As if reading the tactics in her brain he grabbed her wrists tightly and maneuvered till he was behind her with both hands locked on her arms.
The cold metal of his gun pushed against her temple as she smelled the smoke the weapon had used from its previous use. This was a fair motivation for keeping her frozen in place.
"You know you can't win against me." He breathed into her ear. "Your life is in my hands, now the question is do I let you live… or pull this tempting trigger?" He pushed the handgun's barrel harder against her skin.
He felt her eyes, trying oh so desperately to keep and unemotional look as her blue eyes locked on nothing particular. Felt the blood in her body run cold, her heart beat increase uncontrollably; he had to give her points for trying.
Then a pair of black restraints formed around her wrists and ankles sending a wave of pain up her body and a shriek from her lips. He let go of her now restrained wrists and moved around before her while securing his handgun on his side.
"You lose." He said with a smirk hearing the low growl from her throat. "Leleel I could have taken you down with no thought to it, but this is not your day to die." Turning his green eyes away from her for a moment, his hand shot out grabbing the first demon that tried to run by.
It was a young shadow demon that must have been an apprentice to someone to be in this high-ranking area at such a young age. "You," he began to instruct, "take Leleel now and make sure she is escorted back to Komorum before unshackling her, she will come calmly." With one look towards the light demon he spotted her glaring daggers at him.
The young man nodded and Valo began walking, though stopped beside her and leaning into her ear, "just try and rebel against anyone, you'll find out what will happen." With a quick lick on her ear he moved behind her walking onwards.
The young demon that now had control over the light demon looked at her once and then looked back where Valo had just been, and saw that he was gone.
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Shi's P.O.V
I can feel myself falling away from my body, what happened to me, I had lost that memory long ago. I had no idea where I was or what was going on, all I did know was that I couldn't bring up any memory at all of anything other then this… this constant darkness around me.
I have no sense of anything, black, it's all I see everywhere. I'm a shadow demon, so naturally I like the dark, so why am I so afraid of the one I'm in now? There are to many questions for my mind to comprehend.
I have no bodily functions, and barely anything mental. I'm trapped in my own mind! How ironic that probably the one place that scares me the most is where I end up being with no emergency exit. I have to give credit to whoever is doing this, they must have done some good research.
Normal P.O.V
Suddenly, like a movie, a bright light shown blinding Shi for the mere moment before showing the scenery. It was of a dense forest with a small girl, a smaller version of Shi that must have been only about eight or nine years old, walked threw the thick underbrush.
She walked along in a light blue dress that was dirty all over with dirt, grass stains and small blood spots on the bottom where the fabric had rubbed against her scabbed knees.
She stopped suddenly when she spotted a small hat on the ground. 'That's Mr. Hirataki's hat.' She thought to herself gently picking up the dark brown hat. 'I have to get back to the city now.' She looked around the tree's she was standing in wondering to herself how exactly she had gotten into this place in the first place.
Getting a sort of unknown sensation about where the city she lived in was she turned in a half circle and walked straight forward while hoping that she could find her way out.
Less than an hour later Shi came into the city and looked around, surprisingly the people who walked along the sidewalks, went by without even a glance towards the small child; surprisingly Shi didn't seem to mind.
After a moment's hesitation she began to walk threw the crowds of people with the brown hat gripped in her hands. Mr. Hirataki worked in the same building as her father did, he was always a very nice man towards her, he should be very happy to get it back! Shi smiled at the thought of it.
The building she knew they worked in was large, it had almost fifteen floors, though that fifteenth one was being constructed she remembered her Dad telling her only a few days previous.
She road the elevator quietly up to the ninth floor, all the while listening to the instrumental music they had playing from the ceiling.
When the two metal doors slid opened the many people walking from one room to another overtook her. They all looked the same, all wearing their expensive business suits of a basic three colors, for a moment she wondered how she would find the man she was looking for.
That is until she remembered that he had his office. She began walking along the wall reading each of the translucent glass doors nameplates until she found Mr. Hirataki's.
Inside he sat behind his large wooden desk typing away on a computer. "Mr. Hirataki." She said in her small, frail voice. Her big blue eyes looked up innocently towards him, she had always been small for her age.
The man's dark gray eyes averted quickly to the sound of her voice. "I… I found your hat." She looked down at the material she held in her hand. "It's a little dirty, but if you want I'll try and wash it for you as best I can." Her eyes held pure innocence.
He stood up, and not once did his look soften in the slightest. "Ava," his tone was firm. "What are you doing here, how did you get up here in the first place?" His hands were firmly placed against the desktop.
"You know you're not supposed to be up here without supervision! And look at you, you look like you haven't bathed in weeks!" She looked down at her dirtied arms while he shouted at her.
She felt tears forming in her eyes from the strong tone he was using towards her, the grip she held on his hat increased. "Ava you stupid girl, you have to think before you go and do something, even something like this!" And in one fluid motion Mr. Hirataki slapped the young girl, his look never broke once as her tears fell freely.
"I-I'm so-." A strong hand fell on her shoulder instantly silencing her and Mr. Hirataki before he had a chance to continue on.
"Ava." Another familiar man with a voice as strong as his grip said, she looked up into the face of her father. He looked down at her with the same blue eyes she had, his though offered her reassurance that everything was okay.
"Mr. Hirataki I think you're taking this situation out of its boundaries." Her Dad, Yusa looked back up towards his colleague. "Well she took it past any boundaries by coming in here looking like that." He pointed a finger towards the girl with the tears freely rolling down her dirtied face.
"She's just a child, she wasn't thinking about that, she was just trying to do something nice for you." The other man gave both of them a disgusted look. "That's no excuse." Yusa's look hardened on him, without a word he began to lead his daughter away.
She broke from his grasp only to take the step closer to his desk and place the hat gently on the side then took her Dad's hand who led her out of the office and into his own, more calm one.
He picked up the small child and placed her on an empty part of his desk and wiped the tears from her cheeks. "Ava sweetheart." Now his voice was calm and soft with her.
"I understand you meant good but you still really shouldn't have come up here by yourself." She sniffed and rubbed her eyes that now had red around them. "I'm sorry," she sad innocently.
"And look at you," he laughed, "what have you been doing? You need a bath terribly." She giggled, "I know." The man before her was quiet for a moment while he looked his daughter over once more.
"Alright, come on sweetheart we'll go home and get you a bath and into something clean." She jumped off his desk with a small smile. "I don't have anything clean, mommy hasn't done cleaning yet." He gave another small sigh, barely loud enough for her to hear.
He smiled down at her, "then we'll go get something for you, anything you want, how's that sound?" Her smile only increased, "okay!" 1
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Shi's eyes twitched once before her eyelids slid open to reveal her drowsy looking blue eyes that stared straight up to the stone ceiling before her.
'I forgot that memory.' She thought to herself replaying it over in her mind once again. 'I locked all of that away because…' she stopped herself there. She couldn't remember why exactly she had shut everything away.
She blinked twice to get her keen sight back before forcing herself to sit up, pain welded in her chest and her hand flew up to it. Shi grimaced at it, what was causing it she didn't know, but she felt something smooth running under her fingers.
Her eyes looked down to see a necklace chain hanging around her neck. In the middle was a silver raven charm, 'what… what is this?' She raked threw her memory for any kind of visual on what it was or when se had gotten it. The only thing she could find on it was a brief memory of someone with wiry black hair putting the necklace around her neck.
Who it was she couldn't recall.
Her eyes then moved to the room around her. It was small but adequate all the same, tan colored, slick marble tile covered the area while a beige shaded stone ran along the walls. A door in the form of an open archway allowed natural light to flood the room.
As for furniture the bed she sat in was one of the softest materials, a light tan cotton sheets lining the bed with black silk covers. A small empty wood desk sat parallel to the bed with a chair neatly pushed under it while a wardrobe sat on the adjacent wall plainly.
'Where am I?' She thought to herself taking in everything.
"So you're awake I see." Shi's eyes darted to the form of a male figure standing in front of the desk with his dark gray eyes looking softly towards her.
"Where did you come from?" She asked hesitantly.
He pointed towards the archway, "the door." She didn't say anything in response. He gave a small exhale of breath just loud enough for her ears to pick up.
"Do you remember who I am?" He questioned pulling the chair from behind the desk to sit on. She quickly went threw her fogged over memory.
"No."
Another breath exhaled from him, "my name is Juhani, I'm ruler of the shadow demons." He was quiet for a minute, "do you know who you are at least?"
"Hai, Shi." She stated with a confused look. "But why am I here?"
"You're here because you live here, you're a shadow demon who lives here in Kokorou."
She watched him, taking in what he had said. "So Mr. Ruler-of-the-shadow-demons, why are you of all people here for someone like me?" Juhani's gray eyes averted up to the ceiling, the once soft look turned to that of an emotionless façade that made her question his motives.
"Because you're my younger sister and I don't want anyone else feeding you wrong information." His hands folded together while his eyes stared unblinking towards her.
"Shi you fell from a two story building while training with me two days ago and you lost some of your memories, so I came to fill in anything you're missing." A small half smirk crossed his features.
"I don't look anything like you."
He shrugged, "not every set of siblings have to look exactly alike either." She thought about it for a moment, something in her mind told her she did have a sibling, whether he was it or not she couldn't tell.
"Okay, I believe you." His smirk grew.
A/N: Okay I figured that was enough for one chapter! So I think that turned out pretty good, I was going to add more but it would take me awhile to figure out the questions and what not, so I'll make that the next chapter. Guess that's your small preview for the next chapter!
1: Okay I realized when I wrote that end part to the memory it made the younger Shi sound like a spoiled child or something. But I'd like to clear that up now. Yusa, as explained in the first story if memory serves me right, left both Leleel and Shi well more than enough riches for the both of them to live well. So even back when Shi was young he made sure she was happy.
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