Once upon a lullaby chapter47
"Namii what are you doing?" Kyo stood warily from the doorway staring down at me. It was a rainy Thursday evening, 3 days left until I'm 18 years old. I was lying on the grass outside the house letting the rain fall against my face. Kyo not liking the rain was making sure not to get wet, and even though he was practically indoors he had an umbrella.
"Enjoying the rain," I smiled my eyes still closed.
"Well come inside, you will catch pneumonia." Kyo warned still staying by the door.
"Sure I'll come inside." I said partly sarcastic, Kyo chuckled slightly under his breath and walked inside closing the door over behind him. The rain felt nice against my face, Aqua was enjoying it too. I could hear them at the back of my head, but when I wanted to be alone in my thoughts it was easy to mute them, but the rain was so peaceful I allowed myself to hear their conversations. Sometimes they would argue, other times they would just be at peace, sometimes their feelings were so strong I started to feel them.
I sighed happily, just lying on the grass, there was a lot of rustling in the trees but that's normal it is kind of windy. The rustling suddenly stopped and my eyes jerked open. 'Danger' whispered in my mind. I went to sit up, but something held me down; I couldn't see, everywhere was black. I can't remember screaming for help… I don't think I could. Something slid down my throat… pills I think; suddenly I felt drowsy and slid into a deep sleep.
When I awoke I was in a room, dry and wearing a kimono. I sat up, my head hurt a lot. My hair was tangled and it was still intact. The scent was strangely familiar, but not me Namii the human, Namii the phoenix… It smelt like poison. I didn't try to stand up; I just sat there in the darkness, when the door swung open. A little light flickered on and standing there was Akito. He was wearing black jeans and a black turtle neck jumped and he strode in with a twisted smile planted on his pale face.
"Why hello Ms. Namii, what a pleasure it is to see you again." He grinned pushing up his sleeves… one of his arms were as pale as his face whilst the other… was a blackish purple, it had travelled up his arm up to his elbow! The glakacobe curse…!
"Akito… your arm!" was all I could say. He grinned snarling a little and took another slow step forward.
"Yes, my arm. As I recall, this started the last time I saw you, it grew at an amazing pace, Hatori had to inject some blood into me just to stop it expanding, but it doesn't stop." He frowned, glaring at me with his thin now snake like eyes. "He said, you had, had the exact same thing… but yours had disappeared." He sighed slightly for a dramatic effect and started to pace. "You see this is what I despise about you, you think your all 'it' you think you can bring my family onto your side and leave me alone, and then you decided that it would be better to get me out the way once and for all, right?"
I shook my head. "I am afraid you are incorrect, you caught the curse because you are god, and I didn't perform some sort of spell to make you have it."
"Because… I… am God!" He turned around shocked. "What would me being god have anything to do with this curse?"
"Remember when you visited the school, you shook my hand… that was when the curse hit me, I nearly died because of it. Then my immune system made sure I wouldn't get it again, and because of that you got it instead." I stood up; we were both the same height.
"There is something I am a little confused about, how come you know all about this?" His none trusting gaze befell me again. I sighed, time for the moment of truth. I closed my eyes and my golden wings spread out behind me, taking up a lot of the space in the room. Akito mumbled something what seemed like 'n-no' and I opened my eyes.
"We got this curse because of a legend long ago… do you remember it? God…" The venom in my voice highlighted every word. I looked into his eyes and suddenly I felt like I was being pulled out of this time plane… my body wasn't in that world anymore… then came black.
I re opened my eyes to find myself in the same room, but Akito wasn't there. I put away my wings and walked out the open door, I walked down the hall to hear a woman's screaming. I hurried down going as fast as I could bare foot until I reached a chamber. I walked in and there lay a woman, she had long black hair probably longer than mine and looked a lot like Akito… She was giving birth! One of the maids stood up holding a baby… it was a little girl.
I walked over to her without thinking and smiled at the little baby… but nobody reacted… I waved my hand in front of the maids face… I was invisible. I watched as the mother and father held their baby and cried happily, I felt tiny tears prick at the edges of my eyes as I felt the slight longing and sadness that I usually feel when I see new families.
With a twist and a turn the setting changed; I was now in a different chamber where the mother stood again wearing a long white dress, in front of her stood the father holding the baby in his arms, the baby looked like a toddler at most.
"We need to raise to baby as a boy," She said, she seemed angry but her voice was calm.
"Wh-what? Why?" The father asked defensively. The feelings that emitted from the woman were loneliness and jealousy… huh?
"Nobody will take a female heir seriously; we need to pretend that the baby is a boy, so she isn't made a mockery of." She stated, the father not wanting an argument with his wife gave in and nodded. "She should be called Akito." The mother said; the way she said it showed that the point wasn't up for negotiation. The father nodded again and walked off.
Again the scene changed, we were in the Childs play area; the father and the mother were talking as the kid sat and played with its blocks. "Why won't you hold her Ren?" The father asked.
"Why won't you listen Akira, I don't want to hold it, it's not my child. I shall never accept it to be my own." She hissed. I saw tiny tears brimming in the Childs eyes but she held the back.
"Akito is your daughter, she is going to be a leader and she is going to be powerful why can't you be happy for her?" Akira demanded.
"Akito this, Akito that, you are all stuck glued to that 'child' you never pay any attention to me Akira… please…" Her tough façade crumbled into pieces. "Pay attention to me Akira… notice me… please…" She started to cry. Akira sighed and picked up Akito taking her out of the room leaving the mother to cry. 'Come back!' I wanted to yell… 'you can't leave her like this, it's not fair!' I felt sorry for both the child and the mother… they both were in pain…
I was taken back to reality then, I opened my eyes to find myself lying on the floor. Akito was lying down too. "Akito?" I asked as she stirred sitting up. "You're a woman aren't you?"
"W-what!" She jerked up her eyes in panic.
"You're a woman, and you don't trust anybody because of your mother Ren…" I looked down sadly, suddenly I felt a jerk of pain come from my head; Akito had grabbed my hair and was pulling me up with it.
"Who are 'you' to tell me why I don't trust people, Why do 'you' think you know everything… you know what… I'll have your memories erased, all of them, so you won't know anything anymore." She grinned laughing sort of manically.
"That… might be a good thing…" I spoke breathing though the pain. She was silent for a moment before she pulled my hair again.
"What…?" She asked still menacingly.
"Well…" I started. "I don't have many good memories, my father was shot because of me; right in front of me as well, my mother stabbed herself in front of me too, all my family hate me and want to kill me, I've never had any real family… so erase my memories Akito, because I won't forget the pain, you can get back memories and if I get mine back I shall visit you again…"
"I-is that a threat?" She stuttered, I laughed slightly.
"No no," I said smiling. "It would be to say thank you." I looked up smiling happily my eyes brimming with tears. "Thank you for everything." A few minutes later my hair was released and I could feel my head again. Akito curled up in a ball on the floor and I could hear her muffled cry. Without saying a word I crawled over to her arm and held out my hands, feeling the warm glow around my hands the curse was gone, her arm back to normal. She lifted up her head in shock, looked at her arm then at me. "Hey!" I grinned. "I may be annoying and only eat orange gummy bears but I'm not all bad you know." I winked at her and she started to laugh.
"You only eat orange gummy bears?" She asked whilst laughing. I nodded grinning.
"Yup, I am truly one of a kind." I laughed and sat down next to her.
The door swung open, I was sitting at the table sipping tea. Kyo and Yuki barged in looking tired.
"Where the hell have you bee-Akito?" Kyo demanded. Oh yes, did I mention that Akito was there sipping tea on the other side of the table?
"Why hello Kyo," She smiled. "You too Yuki." Both of them just stood there dumbfounded, speechless. We both sighed shaking our heads grinning only slightly. "If you're just going to stand there you could go get us some more tea, Shigure is making it now." Akito smiled evilly and pointed to the kitchen.
"Coming my dear Akito-chan." Shigure sang skipping out of the kitchen carrying the tea… he was wearing shoes (for the first time ever) and… a maid suit.
"Why thank you shigure," I smiled trying not to laugh as yuki and Kyo bashed their heads against the wall… well what can you say, it was a once in a lifetime experience.
Do –not- ask about the ending ^^'' I was just in a weird mood… again… OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG! Only three chapters left D: Bye~
