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Omigosh
Chapter 11 already
-sniffle-
My baby's grown so quickly
Hmms…
Pfft…this/and the ones to follow are the chapters I've been waiting for/trying to avoid
Chapter eleven: Void
Mary Sue was gone
Ren explained that she had sacrificed herself to a merciless beast that was threatening to raid Kyoto
Hisoka was more than happy about her death
Still, there was something suspicious about the way in which Ren said it
From the very beginning, he had thought that those two had been very close, almost like parent and child
"Parent and child…"
But he could sense happiness as he told them the story
Anxiety
No grief
No despair
No remorse
No impotence
No...sorrow
And the way in which his defiant empty black eyes stared at him
As if saying 'You think I'm lying? Prove it'
Hisoka shivered
"Um…excuse me…I need to use the bathroom"
"S'okay if you want to cry, we all know how close you were to Mary Sue" Ren softly patted his back
The older man was leaning in
"It won't be the same"
Hisoka could feel his breath on his skin
"Ren! What the hell are you doing?"
It wasn't Tsusuki
It was then when Hisoka knew that he was right
Ren just shrugged and resumed explaining how did Mary Sue die in a fire
Fire hmm?
Hisoka ran from the office, straight into Watari's lab
He knew the scientist had matches…somewhere
"The Shinigami community has lost more than a friend, it has lost Mary Sue. Mary Sue was the most talented, most loved, most…"
"Ren murdered Mary Sue, not that I'm in grief about it (Thanks Ren!) and you" Hisoka pointed at Ren "Are not Ren!"
Ren laughed softly
"Whatever, kid! We're supposed to be mourning, not telling absurd jokes"
He blushed a bit "I…I can prove it" and with that he set Ren on fire
…He tried to
The man's clothing just didn't catch fire
Nor his skin
Nor hair
Nor…nothing
"That's what you call 'proof', kid? It's just the healing Shinigami powers"
"Aren't those supposed to…heal? They don't prevent one from getting injured" Tatsumi narrowed his eyes
"Aw guys! Don't be ridiculous" Tsusuki shook his head
Tatsumi and Watari exchanged looks
The scientist pointed at himself "I'm myself by the way…"
Ren grunted
His void-black eyes were wide open in shock, disbelief, anger, despair
"So you're saying that these are clones?"
The secretary finished tying up his co-workers
"I mean…I'm not sure about Watari…he's been acting a bit weird lately but…are you sure he's a clone as well?"
"Yes but…I believe that's called jealousy…untie him?"
Hisoka resumed poking Ren with a stick
"Where are them?"
"Who?"
"Ren and Tsusuki"
"I'm Ren, dammit!"
Hisoka rolled his eyes for the zillionth time
"Look what I found in his bag"
Tatsumi held a sheet of paper and a lighter
He handed those to Hisoka
Someone had sketched Ren in every angle possible.
There were some speech bubbles and illegible scribbles on the sides of the paper..it looked like French, but Hisoka wasn't sure
He stared at it intrigued
Ren noticed Hisoka held the drawing way too close to the lighter
"Oi! Kid! Be careful with that!"
"You mean…this?" he shoved the sketch in front of his face
Ren nodded nervously
"Why does it matter so much to you?"
"Because…because I don't want to die" Ren sighed, as if it was difficult for him to talk "If you do anything to that paper and anything written there is damaged…I will lose something…If you tear it in half that will happen to me, if the ink is washed away by water I will melt, if the paper is burnt…It wasn't me who killed Mary Sue…"
Hisoka's so intelligent
He deserves a cookie
As for me…I deserve pixel tomatoes, right?
::hands everyone pixel tomatoes::hides::
-Viv
ps: vacations are over D:
ps2: 72 days ago I posted the first Artist chapter
