Some mnior notes
Youkai- Demon
Hanyou- half demon
Kappa- Japanese water vampire youkai
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Today is on fire...
the sky is bleeding above me
and I am blistered....
I walk these lines of blaspemy
everyday
and still....
* * * * * * *
Chapter III: What It Is To Burn
Drip...drip...drops hitting the water that filling the bathtub, red spreading and mixing with clear. Aya gasped as she felt the iodine being rubbed onto the gash on her back, and gritted her teeth. She was going to rip the bastard who wounded her's arm off and beat him with it!
She had stumbled onto a group of youkai, and naturally fought with them. They weren't much trouble being that they were lesser level youkai, probably hanyou, and then that man appeared. No not a man. Aya didn't know what.
He had grabbed one of the youkai left standing and ripped it apart with his bare hands, as if it were paper. With a sick grin he licked some blood off from his hands as the last youkai fell.
Aya had looked at the man with a sense of dread that was almost paralyzing. He was exceptionally dressed in a tailored two piece suit and wore obviously expensive Ray Bans. His hair was silver colored and slicked back. He screamed wealthly elegance, but even moreso danger.
"Everything I've heard about you is very true, Miss Mikage. I'm quite impressed that such a slip of a girl packs such a fatal punch."
"And you who are you?" she asked, hiding the panic in her voice.
He smiled, not a pleasant or friendly one. A smile that made Aya's panic grow more.
"We have a mutual acquaintance. A certain brooding, auburn-haired lad..."
Aya's eyes widened as understanding dawned over her. She didn't even have a chance to turn to run as the stranger was suddenly next to her and grabbed her.
He leaned into ear, laughing.
"He always did like you Celestial bitches. I think I'll leave him a little message."
Aya screamed as she felt his nails slash down her back. He let go of her and she fell to ground with thud, feeling tears sting her eyes as she watched the man walk away.
"Too...ya..." she whispered before passing out.
It was five minutes later that he found her like that and had brought her back to his apartment, wishing more than nothing to rip Malcolm to pieces for this.
Aya had awoken as he placed her next to his bathtub and began treating the wound. She gasped as the iodine stung the wound.
"Charming fellow, this Malcolm. I can see why you're so delighted he's in town." Aya murmured, trying to ignore the pain.
Tooya said nothing as he placed a bandage on the cut.
"I swear I'm going to rip him apart from limb to limb and beat him with them."
Still no respond. Aya sighed dejectedly.
"Tooya, I can understand if you're mad, but...can't you say something?" she asked, worried by his silence.
She was startled as he pulled her to face him and kissed her softly.
Her head was spinning when he pulled away.
"Seeing you lying on the ground like that scared me, and you know that nothing scares me. Aya, I don't want to lose you."
Her eyes widened.
"Tooya..." she buried her face into his neck, kissing, biting, sucking.
Leaving a mark.
"This mark is my proof. If ever I leave, I'll always return before it fades. Okay?"
He couldn't help but smile.
"An interesting type of proof. Aya, promise me you won't pursue this matter. Malcolm is more dangerous than anything you've seen. He's too strong."
"I know, so I suppose it's up to you then? Now you have to promise me something. Promise me you won't get yourself destroyed. There's still many of your mysterious secrets I've yet to find out!" she murmured, waving a finger.
"Hmm...I suppose." he murmured, looking out at the sky where the moon made the sky an eerily beautiful dark blue.
"Hmph! By the way, I'm spending the night. I'm too tired to walk home."
"And if I protest?" he asked flatly.
"Oh, I'll just give you a nice hole shaped scar." she said casually, flopping onto her stomach on his bed. She really was beat though.
"I suppose I can't argue then."
"You don't snore right?" she asked suddenly.
Tooya was so caught off guard by such a remark he laughed. Actually laughed.
"That's nice. You CAN laugh. Here I thought you were stoic 24/7."
"I am. This is a rare exception. It's your fault Aya."
She furrowed her eyebrows.
"Everybody's always blaming me for something. Troublesome reputation I got."
"It's your fault. I'm so attached to you. I've never had someone. You were the first person I've ever felt immediately drawn to."
"Isn't it screwed up? I was born to a destiny of destroying demons and you are cursed as one. I wonder if...do you think we'd be together if things were different? I mean, not that we are together...."
He grabbed her hands.
"Aya, I've been alone for millennia. You are the first thing that made me feel. Feel close to normal. We met under strange circumstances. I had been watching you. I sensed you. Felt your prescence the minute I returned to Japan. I think it was destiny that led me to you. In any lifetime, we were to meet."
Forget everything. Forget he was a vampire. Forget the celestial blood. Forget everything in the way.
There is only now.
And so Aya traced her fingers over his lips and then kissed him.
"Tooya...I had a dream. A vision. Of a Tennyo named Diana."
"Diana?!"
"You knew her didn't you. She said to me: 'Daughter of Ceres....child of heaven...it is in your hands now...You have the power to free him..."
"She was a Tennyo I met in the 19th century in London. She thought she could help me...but she...."
"He killed her. Malcolm."
"How did you know that?"
"Before I awoke, she showed me her last thoughts. I saw it. He killed her it front of you. I saw the look of hopelessness on your face. It broke my heart. I'm going to find it. I'm going to find a cure for you. You want me to leave this Malcolm thing alone, so I'll find a way to make you human again."
"I'm not sure it'll be easy, Aya. I've committed centuries of sin."
"Yes, and you've spent many centuries in redemption. She was watching you from above. She told me about your past. I saw everything."
Tooya moved away from her.
"Then how? How can you look at me so calmly after knowing that?"
"Because...you've known long enough."
"What?"
She stood up and moved to the window, glancing up at the night sky.
"What it is to burn."
* * * * * * **
Oh my God...I'm really sorry this took so long. I've been really busy with work though to pay my tuition and being tired all the time. GOMEN NASAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!
Hehe. I sound like the Souma Family Hot Spring Hostess. Fruits Basket is a good show! Watch!
So I went to Otakon with my crew as Kagome from Inu Yasha. I was a little disappointed by the lack of good titles, but I saw Hana Yori Dango (Boys Before Flowers) and it's being released in the US! SWEET!
I also got to see some great music videos and a Vision of Escaflowne parody called Nescaflowne.
Van is Juan Valdez. Allen is Head and Shoulders. Folken is Ziggy Stardust. THe best scene EVER and further proving my point on Folken's character design for the movie: Folken is looking at something, and it flashes to a Labrynth poster with David Bowie as Jareth, then back to Folken, then the poster, and then Folken smiles. HE LOOKS LIKE JARETH!! IT WAS INTETIONAL! Nobuteru Yuki did it on purpose! He's the character designer!
I saw an AWESOME Utena movie video, a couple really hysterical videos, watched 'This is Otakudom' again...
Best thing ever: Watching Anime Mystery Science Theater they have an interlude/commercial and it's Aquaman dancing to techno (they show this on Cartoon Network), but then it cuts to StrongBad and the Cheat dancing! Everyone went nuts and clapped and yelled.
Who knew homestarrunner.com was so popular?
Someone even cosplayed as The Cheat!
If you have NEVER visited, GO TO www.homestarrunner.com
The E-mails alone are worth it.
Youkai- Demon
Hanyou- half demon
Kappa- Japanese water vampire youkai
------------------------------------------------------
Today is on fire...
the sky is bleeding above me
and I am blistered....
I walk these lines of blaspemy
everyday
and still....
* * * * * * *
Chapter III: What It Is To Burn
Drip...drip...drops hitting the water that filling the bathtub, red spreading and mixing with clear. Aya gasped as she felt the iodine being rubbed onto the gash on her back, and gritted her teeth. She was going to rip the bastard who wounded her's arm off and beat him with it!
She had stumbled onto a group of youkai, and naturally fought with them. They weren't much trouble being that they were lesser level youkai, probably hanyou, and then that man appeared. No not a man. Aya didn't know what.
He had grabbed one of the youkai left standing and ripped it apart with his bare hands, as if it were paper. With a sick grin he licked some blood off from his hands as the last youkai fell.
Aya had looked at the man with a sense of dread that was almost paralyzing. He was exceptionally dressed in a tailored two piece suit and wore obviously expensive Ray Bans. His hair was silver colored and slicked back. He screamed wealthly elegance, but even moreso danger.
"Everything I've heard about you is very true, Miss Mikage. I'm quite impressed that such a slip of a girl packs such a fatal punch."
"And you who are you?" she asked, hiding the panic in her voice.
He smiled, not a pleasant or friendly one. A smile that made Aya's panic grow more.
"We have a mutual acquaintance. A certain brooding, auburn-haired lad..."
Aya's eyes widened as understanding dawned over her. She didn't even have a chance to turn to run as the stranger was suddenly next to her and grabbed her.
He leaned into ear, laughing.
"He always did like you Celestial bitches. I think I'll leave him a little message."
Aya screamed as she felt his nails slash down her back. He let go of her and she fell to ground with thud, feeling tears sting her eyes as she watched the man walk away.
"Too...ya..." she whispered before passing out.
It was five minutes later that he found her like that and had brought her back to his apartment, wishing more than nothing to rip Malcolm to pieces for this.
Aya had awoken as he placed her next to his bathtub and began treating the wound. She gasped as the iodine stung the wound.
"Charming fellow, this Malcolm. I can see why you're so delighted he's in town." Aya murmured, trying to ignore the pain.
Tooya said nothing as he placed a bandage on the cut.
"I swear I'm going to rip him apart from limb to limb and beat him with them."
Still no respond. Aya sighed dejectedly.
"Tooya, I can understand if you're mad, but...can't you say something?" she asked, worried by his silence.
She was startled as he pulled her to face him and kissed her softly.
Her head was spinning when he pulled away.
"Seeing you lying on the ground like that scared me, and you know that nothing scares me. Aya, I don't want to lose you."
Her eyes widened.
"Tooya..." she buried her face into his neck, kissing, biting, sucking.
Leaving a mark.
"This mark is my proof. If ever I leave, I'll always return before it fades. Okay?"
He couldn't help but smile.
"An interesting type of proof. Aya, promise me you won't pursue this matter. Malcolm is more dangerous than anything you've seen. He's too strong."
"I know, so I suppose it's up to you then? Now you have to promise me something. Promise me you won't get yourself destroyed. There's still many of your mysterious secrets I've yet to find out!" she murmured, waving a finger.
"Hmm...I suppose." he murmured, looking out at the sky where the moon made the sky an eerily beautiful dark blue.
"Hmph! By the way, I'm spending the night. I'm too tired to walk home."
"And if I protest?" he asked flatly.
"Oh, I'll just give you a nice hole shaped scar." she said casually, flopping onto her stomach on his bed. She really was beat though.
"I suppose I can't argue then."
"You don't snore right?" she asked suddenly.
Tooya was so caught off guard by such a remark he laughed. Actually laughed.
"That's nice. You CAN laugh. Here I thought you were stoic 24/7."
"I am. This is a rare exception. It's your fault Aya."
She furrowed her eyebrows.
"Everybody's always blaming me for something. Troublesome reputation I got."
"It's your fault. I'm so attached to you. I've never had someone. You were the first person I've ever felt immediately drawn to."
"Isn't it screwed up? I was born to a destiny of destroying demons and you are cursed as one. I wonder if...do you think we'd be together if things were different? I mean, not that we are together...."
He grabbed her hands.
"Aya, I've been alone for millennia. You are the first thing that made me feel. Feel close to normal. We met under strange circumstances. I had been watching you. I sensed you. Felt your prescence the minute I returned to Japan. I think it was destiny that led me to you. In any lifetime, we were to meet."
Forget everything. Forget he was a vampire. Forget the celestial blood. Forget everything in the way.
There is only now.
And so Aya traced her fingers over his lips and then kissed him.
"Tooya...I had a dream. A vision. Of a Tennyo named Diana."
"Diana?!"
"You knew her didn't you. She said to me: 'Daughter of Ceres....child of heaven...it is in your hands now...You have the power to free him..."
"She was a Tennyo I met in the 19th century in London. She thought she could help me...but she...."
"He killed her. Malcolm."
"How did you know that?"
"Before I awoke, she showed me her last thoughts. I saw it. He killed her it front of you. I saw the look of hopelessness on your face. It broke my heart. I'm going to find it. I'm going to find a cure for you. You want me to leave this Malcolm thing alone, so I'll find a way to make you human again."
"I'm not sure it'll be easy, Aya. I've committed centuries of sin."
"Yes, and you've spent many centuries in redemption. She was watching you from above. She told me about your past. I saw everything."
Tooya moved away from her.
"Then how? How can you look at me so calmly after knowing that?"
"Because...you've known long enough."
"What?"
She stood up and moved to the window, glancing up at the night sky.
"What it is to burn."
* * * * * * **
Oh my God...I'm really sorry this took so long. I've been really busy with work though to pay my tuition and being tired all the time. GOMEN NASAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!
Hehe. I sound like the Souma Family Hot Spring Hostess. Fruits Basket is a good show! Watch!
So I went to Otakon with my crew as Kagome from Inu Yasha. I was a little disappointed by the lack of good titles, but I saw Hana Yori Dango (Boys Before Flowers) and it's being released in the US! SWEET!
I also got to see some great music videos and a Vision of Escaflowne parody called Nescaflowne.
Van is Juan Valdez. Allen is Head and Shoulders. Folken is Ziggy Stardust. THe best scene EVER and further proving my point on Folken's character design for the movie: Folken is looking at something, and it flashes to a Labrynth poster with David Bowie as Jareth, then back to Folken, then the poster, and then Folken smiles. HE LOOKS LIKE JARETH!! IT WAS INTETIONAL! Nobuteru Yuki did it on purpose! He's the character designer!
I saw an AWESOME Utena movie video, a couple really hysterical videos, watched 'This is Otakudom' again...
Best thing ever: Watching Anime Mystery Science Theater they have an interlude/commercial and it's Aquaman dancing to techno (they show this on Cartoon Network), but then it cuts to StrongBad and the Cheat dancing! Everyone went nuts and clapped and yelled.
Who knew homestarrunner.com was so popular?
Someone even cosplayed as The Cheat!
If you have NEVER visited, GO TO www.homestarrunner.com
The E-mails alone are worth it.