Author's Notes: Just to tell the people who are reading 'Between Acts Truth and Real Life', I'm putting that on hold for a while. I'm not going to say much about it, but if you want, read my profile, at the bottom, it talks about it... Just a little though.
I'm not going to be here for about a month... Well... up until school starts at the end of August. My family and I are going out of the country... ^_^ Yay... I hope that you all remain patient. Oh and I'm sorry for the late chapter. I was writing 'Between Acts, Truth and Real Life', and it took me a while.. but I never finished it. Now I'm writing this for you because summer school's almost done, and I'm about to say good bye for a while. Enjoy, and please review!
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A Devil's Halo: Part Five
'In Control'
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Sora couldn't scream, she couldn't blink... hell, she couldn't even move. What kind of a person had glowing red eyes? Let me rephrase that... what in the world has glowing red eyes?!
Tai quickly turned around, and put his shades on. With that, he ran out of the classroom.
Sora took a couple of minutes to recover. What if it was just a joke? Maybe a trick? Well he did just run out... maybe he did that to scare her, and let her get petrified while he ran for it, not having to help her out to clean the rest of the classroom. It that was the case... that ass. If it wasn't... well... what else could it possibly be? Who in the world could possibly have that? Those couldn't have possibly been contacts... could they? Contacts don't glow a floresant red now do they? If they did would peoples' eyes burn off? Too many questions, none of them answered fast enough. No. She had to question him. She had a right to. Besides, he lived with her mom and her, and they both deserved a good explanation.
Sora stood up and walked out the door, after Tai.
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'Now what do I do? I messed up badly. I should've known to keep track of the time!' Tai thought, as he ran through the park. 'Damn feelings! Why did I have to accept Oni-sama's request? I cold have said no, and lived happily in hell, but no. I have to say yes, and now I'm down here, back on earth, having feelings and getting those damn flashbacks that I tried so hard to forget. I hate this... I hate being human. This is the reason why I killed myself in the first place. This is the reason why...'
"Stop your sulking you idiot!" Tai finally heard a voice say. He looked up into the sky, which he noticed was becoming a blackish-gray color, in spite of the coming nightfall. He noticed the clouds rolling, and he heard thunder accompany the voice.
"I'm sorry master, but... isn't there a way that I can not have feelings? Isn't there a way where I can just be the way I was down there?" Tai asked the sky.
"No, there isn't, but you idiot! I can't believe that you were that slow as to show her your damn eyes. You stupid damn idiot! I should have just killed you when she saw your eyes, but that would cause the girl to go crazy... and then my plan wouldn't work anymore," said the voice.
Tai sighed. He didn't know what to do now. He wanted to complete his job for his master. Besides, completing it was the only way to get back, or so he read from the book. "What do I do now?" he asked. Hopefully his master would help him out.
"This is your problem now, not mine. You're on your own." With that, the voice disappeared.
Sora stood in the bushes not far from the area. She heard a double voice coming from the sky. One octave higher, and one octave lower than a usual mature human's voice. She also heard Tai talking to it, calling it 'master'. What in the world was going on? She walked closer, but as she did, she watched Tai take off his sunglasses. His red eyes appeared once again from behind the shades.
Was this real? This couldn't possibly be happening.
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'On my own... on my own... that bastard has no sympathy. After he sent me down here. I know that things aren't supposed to go the way his 'minions' want it to go, but he wanted me to do this, so shouldn't he help out?' Tai asked himself, as he paced back and fourth in his room. 'What if I stop doing my job first? Maybe he'll start helping me then? Yeah right.'
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"A right way to approach someone... er... something that seems evil without angering it..." Sora said to herself as she laid down on her bed to think. 'He's just at the other side of the hall idiot!' she thought, fighting with herself to either go there and talk to Tai or to just never talk about it ever again. 'If I never talk about this with him... then how would I know if he's any danger? Those eyes... they seemed so evil... Maybe he's not human...'. "Ha ha... yeah right..." Sora laughed at herself.
There was knocking at her door, and she suddenly froze. "Uh... Wh- Who is it?" she asked slightly.
"About what you saw..."
Sora sat straight up from her bed. 'Holy crap... No... Not now... I don't want you in here... you monster!' she thought.
"We have to talk about it..." said the familiar male voice on the other side of the door.
"N... Not right now... Ahhh... I... I'm doing homework you see... and I c-can't possibly talk to yo-you... umm..." she said nervously.
"Yes you can, and we need to talk now." his voice was firm and stubborn.
Sora sighed. There was nothing she could to about that. She swung the door open, and stared at him with the best 'Sora' look she could possibly give him, just to look normal, and not freaked out. The two haven't even talked for the whole day yesterday following that incident.
"Look. What you saw yesterday. It isn't what you think it was," Tai began.
"So what do you think I am? Stupid? Insane? Well just to tell you boy, I'm none of those two, and whatever else you think I am. I am a perfectly normal human being and I have nothing weird going on in my head. My brain's functions right, and so are my eyes. Now tell me, what the hell did I see yesterday? What the hell did I hear yesterday? Who the hell is your master? Answer me!" Sora said. Her normally soft voice, turned loud, and rough. She stared at Tai straight in his eyes.
Tai froze. Okay. He could have explained about the eyes, but the conversation with him and Oni? He couldn't explain that. He swallowed hard and just continued to back at her.
"Why can't you just tell me what's going on? After my mom had been so kind as to let a complete stranger just waltz in here and board in our home, and even send him to school... I can't believe that you can't give me an explanation about what's going on. My mom and I deserve to know what's going on. May I remind you that I saved you from the rain? May I remind you that I was the one who took care of you while you were sick? Did you forget this? If you didn't... ANSWER ME!!! I have to know! You're not human. That's the conclusion that I came up with. Now, give me yours," Sora said, she breathed deeply, surprised that she even had it in her.
Tai looked down at the ground. Okay. So she found out that he wasn't human. There's a place to start. It wasn't a good place, but it was a place none-the-less. "You're right," he said.
Sora glared at him to see if he was lying. He's not a human being. He's kidding. He's got to be. There was no way in hell that this guy... guy... person standing here wasn't really a person at all. "Yeah. Right, and I see dead people," she scoffed.
Tai swallowed hard again. Either this girl was psychic, or she was just a really great guesser. "You might just be right..." he trailed off to look at her facial features go from angry to frightened beyond belief.
Sora took a step back. "Get out," she said firmly, trying hard not to let her voice shake. "Get out! Get out! Get out!!! My mom and I don't take liars in this house. Get out you freak!!!" she said. Her voice was rising to a panic.
Tai walked up to her, and shut her mouth. There was no other way then. He'd just have to go switch to a new plan that he had just thought up. He covered her mouth, and shut her door, just as he heard Mrs. Takenouchi walk in this front door. "Listen up girl... You have to understand, that that conversation I had was with Oni-sama. He is my master. Do you know who he is?"
Sora shook her head, while Tai's hands were still placed over her mouth.
"The ruler of all hell," Tai began. Sora's eyes widened. Tai just smirked. "Now I was sent here just for play," he lied. "I was just trying to find an innocent little human to play with. To be my puppet. A human that loves life. In other words. If you don't listen to everything that I possibly say, I will kill. If you tell a soul about this, I will kill you. I will know if you did. If you tell that person, I will kill them, and everyone else that they decided to tell. Got it? If you need proof, the glowing red eyes have no other explanation. Also the fact that I just happened to talk to the clouds and the clouds talked to me in return. That voice that you heard. You heard Oni. The purest evil in all dimensions. If you excuse me now, I have to go." With that, Tai left the room.
Sora sat down in a corner of her bed, crying. She couldn't believe it. How did she get caught up in this. Plus, she told a demon one of her deepest secrets. She buried her face in her hands and began to cry some more.
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Tai flopped down on his bed. 'Ha ha... kill her...' Tai thought. 'That was a good thing to say... even if I can't kill her with powers... What am I thinking? So I'm going to kill her with my bare hands if she tells people? Was that what I was implying? No... When I died, I only always planned on hurting myself. Not others.' he thought, deeply disturbed with himself. 'I don't understand why I'm one of Oni's best. There are others more evil than I am, and he decides to make me one of his best... Maybe it's because of my ultimate hatred for life... Maybe that's why he sent me down to Earth again.'
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Sora and Tai walked to school together the next day, but they were a bit early, so Tai decided to go to the local grocery store.
"What are we doing here. We don't have any money," Sora said, looking around the isles.
"We don't need money," Tai said, pushing her towards the snack isle.
"W-What are you talking about?" Sora asked, worry creeping up to her voice.
"I'll pick what I want, and you grab 'em, rip off the bar codes, and stuff 'em in your back pack. Got it? Remember, you've gotta listen to me. Now, do it," Tai said, pushing Sora towards the shelves.
"I...I can't-" she began.
"You like your life though don't you?" Tai interrupted.
Sora took a deep breath, and glared at Tai with contempt. Tai smirked at her, and Sora grabbed an item behind Tai, that he wanted. She ripped off the bar code with her teeth, all the while staring at Tai, then she shoved it in her backpack. "You ass..." she said, as he pointed out more things for her to steal.
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During school, Sora sat in the back of the row, obviously mad at the things that Tai made her do. She glared down at her paper, wanting nothing more than for Tai to just disappear into thin air, but that was highly unlikely. He wanted to toy around with her, and there was nothing she could do about it. There was no one she could tell, or she would just be putting their lives in danger.
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"What's wrong with you Sora?" asked Sora's friend Mimi. "You've been too quiet. Are you mad or something?" she asked, taking a guess.
Sora just nodded. Tai looked up, alarmingly at her. Sora sighed, and just moved away from him. "Parents thing you know?" she lied.
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Tai laid down on his bed, and stared stright up at the ceiling. So... how much was that already...? Four sins now. 'Bad girl Sora... Bad girl...' Tai thought, chuckling to himself.
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Authors Notes: Well, I think I've said everything at the top, just a reminder. I'm not going to be here for practically a month. I'll try to post in another chapter before I leave though. Please review.
"To love someone deeply gives you strength; being loved deeply, gives you courage." –Lao-Tzu
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