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Chapter 12: Resha was…Possessed?
Kimi raced over to Dark, supporting him and trying to stop the blood with her hands. 'Don't die, Dark, don't die…please…' She kept constantly saying in her mind. Resha, seeing that Sukimaru was currently hurt from one of her blows and that Kimi had dropped her guard, went in and grabbed the girl by her neck and lifted her up, choking her.
"Heh, Master Kokuyoku will be proud of me once I've disposed of you."
Kimi gasped, still clawing at her captor's hand. "M-Master…Kokuyoku…?" she coughed as the increasing pain clawed at her lungs. Sukimaru, clutching his chest, made an attempt to throw one of his adamant knives at her back, but it was deflected by a swing of her chain. Instead of helping, this made Resha squeeze tighter. Kimi, unable to speak, tried her best to thrash at the girl who held her; Sukimaru did his best to lunge at then, only to be hit away by a kama's blunt end.
"Dammit, I'm not going to let you…," Sukimaru started, grabbing the cold, silver chain, "kill her!" He yanked as hard as he could, pulling Resha down; as Resha fell she released the gasping Kimi onto the cold, hard ground. Kimi coughed and gasped as she tried to regain her breath, clutching her chest.
"Damn you, boy! Now you'll both pay!" Resha screamed like a harpy. She grabbed Sukimaru by the collar of his shirt and lifted him off the ground by a few inches, attempting to slice his head off with her scythe, only to be thwarted by Sukimaru slicing her shoulder. She screamed in agony and lost her grip on Sukimaru, sending him collapsing to the ground in a large mass. Kimi stared at Dark, who lay unconscious on the ground, a pool of blood under him. The girl bit her lip, whipping back and forth her gaze from Dark to Resha; finally, she decided.
"Resha, don't kill him!" Kimi ordered, staring daggers at Resha. "He's not part of this! Dark and I are, so if you want to take a life, take mine!"
"Kimi," Sukimaru coughed, weak from the attack. "A-are you stupid?!" Stupid or not, Kimi stood determined to give up her life to save her friends.
"Foolish girl, are you not? Fine." With a quick movement Resha lifted her scythe and flung it at Kimi, holding the chain tightly as to not allow the scythe to swerve uncontrollably. All Kimi did was close her eyes as the chain came at her; within seconds a sharp pain, as sharp as hot metal, cut through her right shoulder and blood gushed out. She held it trying to stop the blood from flowing with her left hand, only to have it slice at her arm. She shrieked in the agonizing pain and almost let her trembling legs buckle under the pain of her gashes. From the smarting wounds she had not noticed that the gem on her collar had fallen, and touched the ground with a clink! At that moment a green light erupted from the gem followed by a strong gust of wind that blew all four people away from its location. Kimi heard the yells of surprise of both Sukimaru and Resha before her senses went completely black.
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Dark cracked one eye opened and winced from both the pain and bright light entering his eyes. He closed them to block out the source for his throbbing head before opening them again and rolling over to his side. He stared at Sukimaru laying on a couch a couple of feet away from him, sleeping soundly. Painfully, Dark sat up to inspect the area he was in currently. On one side of the wall sat Kimi, who was looking through a book, and the person coming through the door was…
"Resha?!" Dark, who had bolted off the bed, nearly screamed at the sight of the girl, who wasn't surprised at all by Dark's reaction. Kimi, on the other hand, was so scared that she dropped the book she was reading and Sukimaru jumped off the couch and onto the carpeted floor.
"What the hell are you going around screaming for, Dark?!" Sukimaru yelled at him, aching from the fall to the floor. Dark sensed something oddly…normal about the air.
"Wait…why are we in a place like this…why are you guys not trying to kill each other…and why is she not trying to kill us?"
"It turns out Resha was possessed," Kimi explained, picking up the book and returning it to the chestnut bookshelf on her right.
"Oh…," Dark answered sheepishly, sinking back down onto the bed, embarrassed at what he had done. "Possessed by who?" Resha thought for one long moment, searching the corners of her mind for this answer.
"It was a young man…probably about your age, Dark, and he was as tall as you too. Though the shadows seemed to cover him he wore white, voluminous robes and had odd, chilling gold eyes."
"Ch-Chilling gold eyes…?" Dark stared at her intensely. "These eyes…mean one…and only one thing…What was this guy's name?"
"Hmm…," Resha pondered, setting down the tray she had been holding. "Nope, sorry, I can't seem to remember anything; I think the brainwashing has cleared my memory."
"Dammit!" Dark cursed, hearing the news. He was so close to actually wondering if Krad was here with him; he had only one reason to hunt down Krad.
"Dark, your gashes! Don't move that much or they open again," Kimi ordered, gently pushing him back down onto the bed. It was then Dark noticed that he had bandages running down and around his chest, Kimi's torn clothes, and Sukimaru's bruised cheek; he also noticed that Kimi and him were touching each other and were closer than usual. With a mad blush Kimi pulled back her hands and looked at him, whispering a sorry only the 2 could hear. Dark, too, blushed at the moment. With a movement of her body Resha had dragged Kimi away from Dark and they sat in a corner conversing with each other.
"Ooh…I saw that look in your eye."
"What lo—?" Kimi was cut off by Resha who had a mischievous lust in her eyes.
"C'mon, it's so obvious to you; it has to be! You love Dark!"
"Eh?! No way, not in the whole entire world!"
"Why? You know you love him; I saw you blushing when you got too close to him!"
"I-I was nervous," Kimi answered nervously, looking in another direction other than Resha's eyes lest she read through her account. 'I've never been that close to a guy before."
"Right…"
"What about you? I know you like Sukimaru; it's written all over your face!" Kimi snapped, watching her closely.
"Aha, that, my friend," Resha started cunningly, "is what's written on your face. I only think he's cute."
"It's still the same deal!"
"Is not!"
On the other side of the room Sukimaru and Dark conversed as well.
"Dark, who is this Krad? Also, in the dream thing, I saw another person who looked like you; do you know who he is?" Dark seemed taken back by the questions a little bit before slowly, and hesitantly, revealing a little about himself.
"Well, you see…back then I was a being called Black Wings, or my real name, Kokuyoku. I was betrayed because of my high power and was sealed; centuries later the Niwa and Hikari families broke my former self in two, creating me and…Krad."
"Why exactly does he want to kill you?" With a downcast look Dark watched the tiny coffee table in front of him.
"I…don't know." Inside his head Dark was in turmoil; his thoughts and feelings clashed with each other as he remembered those memories so long ago. He stared at his right hand, flexing it to get the blood flowing properly a little more. 'That's right…I have my own body…the freedom of just being me. I didn't tell the whole truth, Sukimaru, I do know why he's after me.' Dark stared at the corner the girls were huddled in, not noticing he was glancing their way. 'He wants to cause me as much pain as possible so that I can awaken my other side so he can kill me…with my other side's soul in his grasp we'll merge together and bring about revenge…
…by killing every single person on this Earth.'
Wow, at the end it was a little angsty, wasn't it? I was feeling a little down today for some reason, so I just wrote this. Another secret is learned about Dark: if he and Krad fuse they'll go berserk and kill us! Run everybody before you all die!! Just kidding!
