Chapter 26- Sachiko's Real Wish

Aido watched the scene. He yelled Zero's name. He felt Maria cringe in his arms. He had to get her away. He ran away from the scene. It was hopeless it seemed. Aido could not take down a Pureblood, he knew. He ran and he skidded around the hallway. He bumped into someone.

"Hanabusa," it was a familiar voice.

"Akatsuki," Aido said surprised.

Akatsuki didn't look any better. He still looked pale. He glanced at Maria and he looked behind him. Aido noticed Ruka. She still looked horrible.

"What-"

"Let's go," Akatsuki said.

"Yeah, let's. We came to help," Ruka said. Ruka looked at where Aido had come from. Her eyes looked glazed. She took a step forward towards the place. She staggered.

"Ruka!" Akatsuki cried out.

She smiled and she weakly said, "I'm fine."

She waved away his helping hand. "You know I have to go there. I have to help Kaname-Sama. We have to get him from that witch's control. Where is Richard?"

Aido bit his lip. "He disappeared around the time when Kaname tried to kill Erich. He must have gone somewhere. Oh, crap. The guys are still in that room, I think."

"The guys?"

"The servants and vampire hunters that Zero recruited for this battle thing." Aido looked at Maria's face. She had passed out at one point. "I-I can't help Zero. I have to take care of Maria. I have to get her out of here."

Akatsuki nodded. "Let's go then. And Ruka?"

She glanced at Akatsuki. "Yes?"

"Please be careful. Don't strain yourself."

She nodded and she ran to the hall where Aido had once been. She turned to the right. Aido followed Akatsuki and he felt Maria twitch. She moaned in pain. She was sweating badly.

Aido bit his lip and he was filled with worry. He had to get her some help. He couldn't let her die. He couldn't lose her.

Not again.

Hyousuke stood up. He had made the others go out the window. It was a rash idea, but it worked. Now, he was the only one inside the room. Well, not the only one.

"What is it you want Richard?"

Richard smiled. He was the same as he was then. His bright red hair and those cursed Kurosawa eyes. Richard walked toward Hyousuke.

"I want you to see something. Do you want to see what I will show you? These were your dreams you've had until now."

Richard touched Hyousuke's forehead. Hyousuke's eyes rolled back and he fell to his knees. His head was raised up and he gasped. He got flashes of scenes.

People were wearing black clothes. He saw Zero. He was wearing black clothes an he had a somber expression on his face. He had bouquet of white flowers. They were roses. He walked over to a coffin that was on top of a table. There were other coffins on top of tables around the grass. He was in a cemetery.

"I'm sorry I couldn't save you," he whispered. "I'm so sorry"

A person walked toward Zero. It was a girl with long dark hair. She looked at Zero. She wore a black coat on top of a black dress.

"Zero, we should pay our respects to Maria."

Zero nodded. He placed a rose on top of the coffin.

Zero walked to another coffin. He placed his hand on it. "Mari-cha-No, Maria. I'm so sorry too."

Zero placed a rose on top of her coffin. He walked to the next one. "I should apologize to you too. But, I ca-"

The scene got cut off and another scene appeared. It was a brown-haired girl who spoke to Zero.

"Zero, you came for me." She cried.

Zero looked at her bleeding body. His face twisted in pain.

"You're going to be alright. I promise you." His eyes filled with tears.

He hugged her tightly to him. He had found her. Finally. She looked at him with sad eyes. She was crying.. "I'm sorry. Please f . . . forgive m-me."

His eyes widened. "No! Please, no, don't leave me."

Her eyes stared blankly at him. Her face began to crack. Her body exploded into bits of glass and sand.

"No, no, no, no. No! Yuki! Yuki! Come back, please. I can't lose you too. I can't lose you too. Please no." He grabbed at the sand and tears fell down his cheeks.

"Ssshhee's gone," She sung in a singsong voice. She smiled and she licked her blood red lips. "Sorry, Zero."

"Why! Why did you do this! Emiko and Hyousuke were going to have a child! They were going to be parents! Emiko was finally brave enough to tell her feelings to Hyousuke the first night I was gone to the Association. They were going to get married! Why did did you do this?"

And the last, scene he saw was the most horrible one of all.

They were in a building. It was run down and there were vampires fighting. He saw a vampire about to strike him. Except he was concentrated in the vampire in front of him. Emiko ran to his back in an effort to stop the blade from hitting his back. It pierced her instead.

She gave a sharp shout of pain. He turned his back to see her fall to the ground. She pulled the sword out of her stomach. He shouted her name. She died minutes later. Her body turned to dust. He screamed.

"Nooo!"

He had seen Emiko die before it had even happened and he couldn't do anything to stop it. Richard took his hand away. Hyousuke looked on the ground. He sobbed. He couldn't do anything. He could see the future in his dreams, yet he could never remember them. He had ideas of things that were going to happen sometime in the future, but it only dealt with stupid things. A sort of sensation that he got when he was awake. But the dreams of the future that he apparently got were more deeper and stronger.

"Oh, so you have the power to foretell the future and you can bring people back to life again?"

He remembered what Seiji said. He only attempted reviving someone but even that had its risks and it didn't work well. And it would never work on a vampire, he had tried with his mother when she was murdered. It hadn't worked at all. What useless powers I have, he thought. He wanted to end it all. He saw other scenes. Some were from when he was a child.

"I'm sorry, but I had to show you that. You never knew of this power did you? It lay for the most part dormant inside of you. You could only sense things when you were awake right? You could never really look deeply enough into the future. You only knew what would happen in rare circumstances. If you learn to hone it, you can use it for good. You ca-"

"What good did this power do? What good is a power that cannot even prevent the ones I love to die? My parents, my one true love, they are all dead. Everyone I have ever loved is died. I am the only one left," he said softly.

"Hyou-"

"Even my own blood sibling is dead," he said.

Richard's eyes widened. "I thought you were an only child."

Hyousuke raised his eyes up slightly. His face was full of pain. His eyes were unlike Richards. They were exactly like his mother's.

"I'm not."

Zero felt pain. He fell to his knees. His eyes were wide and his mouth was slightly open.

"I will kill you, you worthless piece of trash," he heard Erich snarl.

Zero kept hearing a ringing noise. He coughed blood. He gripped Kaname's shoulder. He looked into his eyes. "Take Yuki out of here, please. Take her out of here."

Kaname rose up and he ran to her. Zero smiled. He wondered if he was going to see her again. He closed his eyes. He felt Erich grab his throat.

"Bastard," Erich spat out.

Zero looked into his eyes. He saw Machiko scream. "Machiko, I'm sorry."

Erich flinched.

Zero felt the fingers tighten around his throat. He grabbed the hand. "Machiko."

He whispered what he hoped would break her free. "I believe in you."

Erich recoiled as if he had been burned. His eyes widened and he gripped his head. He screamed. He fell to his knees.

Zero felt something tight grip his soul. He started choking. He gripped his head.

"Leave him alone!"

It was Kaito. He had come back inside. He was staring at Zero wide-eyed.

Zero looked at Kaito and he choked. He couldn't breathe.

"Get out of here Kaito! Get . . . out . . . of he-"

Zero's eyes rolled back. He felt the sensation grow hotter and higher. What the hell is going on?

"No! Stop it! Zero! Let him go! Stop it father!"

"Shut up Machiko!"

He heard someone get slapped.

"Ahh!"

Zero screamed in pain. His hand burned. He felt his chest grow tighter.

I will rule everyone. A voice inside his head said.

Zero screamed again. He saw spirals and circles on his right hand. The mark looked as if it had been burned on him. Zero felt pain enter his body and he gagged. He wanted to throw up. He wanted the pain to stop.

"Stop it! Zero! Zero!"

Zero felt his body drop to the floor. He felt too weak to even raise his head. He slowly closed his eyes. He was lying on his stomach.

"Zero! No! Let me go sister! Let me go! Zero! No. Zero! Zero." A person sobbed. It was a female.

Machiko. He recognized her voice. It was Machiko.

Good, he thought, she's back to herself.

Zero closed his eyes. Kaname probably brought Yuki to someplace safe too, that's good. Everybody will be okay now. Aido has Maria, he thought. They should be happy. I wonder if I will see everyone . . . again.

Zero's heart stopped.

Machiko screamed. She had broken hold of her father's control. She felt useless. She should have never given in. She should have been strong. Now, her leader was hurt. She screamed. Her twin sister Sachiko held her back. She screamed his name. She saw a man run to him. He had brown hair. She remembered him. He was called Kaito. She felt herself get dragged away. She struggled from her twin's hold on her.

"Be quiet! Stop struggling Machiko!"

"Let me go. Let me go. Please, you can let me go. I can't do this anymore. We can't do this anymore. We have to stop father. He can't fulfill his dream."

"What about my dream? Father will grant it if I help him. I shall become a Pureblood and nothing bad will ever happen to me. No more scars, no more beatings. How dare you say that we betray our father. You are worthless. I was told that he would grant my wish. No more pain and suffering. I can finally be free."

But it's not the freedom you seek sister.

"Sachiko!" Machiko cried out. She ran to her twin. Sachiko looked about seven as did Machiko.

Sachiko smiled at her sister. She had a black eye. Machiko felt guilty. She wondered why she had took the beating that had belonged to her. She looked at her feet. Her sister was more reckless than her. Her sister did not believe in following their father. She wondered why.

"Sachiko?"

She looked up. She had another scar on her bare shoulder. It looked fresh.

"What the-? When did this happen?"

Sachiko smiled softly. "Two hours ago. Father got angry that I was playing in the house while big brother was there. He drove a kitchen knife into my shoulder as punishment."

Machiko bit her lip.

Sachiko didn't look like she was going to cry in fact, she looked empty.

Dull and Lifeless.

"Sachi, there you are." A man said. He had curly brown hair and bright blue eyes. He wore a plain white shirt and black dress pants. He had a necklace around his neck. It was a circle that had a small stone inside of it.

He grinned at them. Machiko smiled and she ran into his arms.

"Stewart!"

Stewart laughed and he swung her around. He was older than them. He looked about 20 yrs old in human years. He smiled and he put Machiko down. He glanced at Sachiko. She didn't look at him.

He frowned and he hit her on the head.

"Why are you so gloomy? Doesn't your name mean "Child of Joy"?

Sachiko didn't react. "My name doesn't match me. On the other hand, my sister's name does match her. Her name means "Child who learns truth" or "Beautiful child". She's pretty so that name matches her."

Stewart frowned again. "You're twins. You both look alike. There is no way that one is more pretty than the other, you're identical."

Sachiko's own blue eyes looked into his blue eyes and she showed the cut on her shoulder. "Not anymore."

Stewart frowned. "When did that happen?"

Sachiko looked back at the sky. "It doesn't matter."

Machiko felt useless once again. She didn't know how to lift the black cloud on her twin's heart.

Stewart sat down next to Sachiko. He whacked her head playfully.

"Silly, you can't be solely thinking on how your outside appearance is. You have to focus on the heart. You have a kind heart so that makes you even more beautiful than anyone. I'll be quite jealous when you get handed off to get married."

Sachiko turned red. "What are you saying, stupid! I-I won't get married. And why would you be jealous? I heard that your wife just gave birth to a baby boy."

Stewart smiled. "Yeah, he has my hair and eyes. It seems that the Kurosawa signature eyes will be passed down the line forever. Maybe his son will get the eyes, hmmn?"

Sachiko smiled. "What's his name? He's going to be my cute little nephew so I need to know his name."

"It's Henry. Henry Kurosawa. He's really cute so I hope you can come by and see him."

Machiko watched the exchange between the two. She was surprised that Stewart was able to make Sachiko smile and act like a child. She felt relieved that Stewart was there. She hoped he would visit more often.

Stewart was there half-brother. They had different mothers. Stewart, she believed, was full Pureblood but he had married an aristocrat. So now his child was an aristocrat in rank. Whereas, both Sachiko and her were daughters of a Pureblood and a human. There mother had blonde hair and Machiko remembered she was pretty. She had gotten killed in an accident.

Sachiko suspected that she was killed by their father which was absolutely absurd. Machiko didn't believe that her father could be that cruel. She knew he was mean and strict, but there was no way he could kill family.

-That fact was true until they turned thirteen.-

They came to visit Stewart. Sachiko had looked strangely excited. She looked happy which was unlike her usual mood. She always got happy when they visited Stewart. He seemed to be the only one that was able to make Sachiko smile from the heart. Machiko felt happy that he was around.

Sachiko raced inside and she called out, "Stewart! Little Henry! Hey, where are yo-? Ahhhh! Nooo! Stewart! Nooo! Father! Stop it! You're hurting him! Stop Father! Stewart!"

Machiko tried to get inside, but she found out that she couldn't. It was as if an invincible shield was preventing her from entering. She slammed her body against the invincible shield.

"Sachiko? Hey! Let me in! Sachiko! Sachiko!"

She kept hearing Sachiko's anguished screams.

What you truly seek is to have Stewart alive again, Machiko thought in her head. You've been doing this to get Stewart back. You've turned into a father's puppet just to have that wish granted.

Your wish to have Stewart back at your side again.

You just want him back.

I can understand that, but still . . . I cannot allow you to help father anymore.

She broke free of Sachiko's hold. She ran to Zero and she saw Sachiko following behind her.

She chanted a spell which sent her twin flying backwards. She knelt down next to Zero.

"Zero, Zero, are you okay? Kaito can you make him lie on his back for me?"

Kaito nodded and he managed to get Zero on his back. Zero's eyes were still open and they looked unfocused.

They looked lifeless.

No, she thought. He can't be dead.

"Zero!" Kaito yelled. "Wake up! Dammit, Zero. Wake up!"

Hi, sorry for the long wait. I had to fix some things as usual. You see some of Sachiko's past here and you meet Stewart who is incidentally Hyousuke's grandfather. Just a quick reminder, you all know that Henry is Hyousuke's father. And that is the Henry that was talked about when Stewart when to visit the twins. Machiko got free of her father's control at the price of Zero getting . . . Well, you'll see in the next chapter.

I would really appreciate reviews/comments on this chapter. No, I would really love to have them. I thank you in advance for them. See you next time!