A Yami no Matsuei Fanfiction
Lifestream
Part 3
By Mana (At long last)
Sakura felt the pain in her head hit her like a demolition ball. Slowly she opened her eyes half expecting to see the worried face of Dr Onijima. Through the blur, as her eyes adjusted to the new light, she thought she could make out his face.
"Grandfather?" She heard a thud and the face disappeared. Confused she blinked a few times as her ears picked up voices nearby. It sounded like someone, with a slightly strange Osaka accent, was crying.
"Wha~~ She thinks I'm an old man!!"
"There there"
She sat up quickly and turned to the origin of the voices. She rubbed her eyes, to make sure. Indeed as she had thought there were two men that sat crouched on the floor and one of them was crying.
"You're not that old Watari." She recognised the other as Tsuzuki.
"Tsu...Tsuzuki-san?" She gasped holding her hand to her mouth and blushing. He turned to her smiling but she could see his whole torso was covered in bandages. "You...what...I mean..." she looked down at her hand, she had no idea what to say.
"Don't worry about me" He said cheerfully "I heal quickly"
"Heh, that's not what you were saying when the boy brought you back" The man she assumed to be 'Watari' nodded matter of factually as Tsuzuki just froze mid laugh and sweatdropped.
"Do you mean Kurosaki-san?" She looked around the room it looked like a small hospital ward, nothing unusual about that except it looked like it had suffered though one to many earthquakes. There were cracks on the walls and could see the sign at the door was held together by tape. Hisoka however was nowhere to be seen. "Um...is he okay?"
"Oh, he's fine he went to give a report to Tatsumi and Konoe ka~ack!" Tsuzuki crouched to the floor holding his bandaged shoulder and muttering apologies.
"The boy is talking to doctors." Watari finished for him. "Um...do you remember what happened?"
"We had Ramen takeout then..." Sakura tried to think but her thoughts were plagued by the dark corridor lined with candles "Sorry it gets hazy after that. What happened?"
Tsuzuki and Watari looked at each other unsure of what to say. Luckily they were rescued as Hisoka entered the room.
"There was a gas explosion." He walked over to the bed beside Sakura. "I'm afraid your house was completely destroyed" As he said this he glared briefly at Tsuzuki before returning his gaze to Sakura "Also Doctor Onijima..." He left the sentence hanging. Sakura's eyes widened slightly and she turned her head slowly to look at her hands.
"Really?" she replied distantly. The 3 shinigami watched her for a while as she sat perfectly still except the soft movements of her breath.
"Um, Are you going to cry?" Watari ventured. Sakura nodded but did not shed a tear. Hisoka couldn't decide whether this girl was very good at controlling her emotions or extremely bad.
"I have someone I have to see" She said quietly and made her way out of the bed.
"Not alone you don't" Tsuzuki threw on a new white shirt dramatically but the effect was lost when he started to fumble with the buttons.
"That's very kind of you Tsuzuki-san. I'm sorry for causing you trouble." She gave him a small smile.
"No trouble, but it's very late out are you sure you don't want to leave it until tomorrow."
"No, he might he gone tomorrow."
"Alright then lets go." Tsuzuki hid his cringe at he picked up his black trenchcoat and tried another dramatic act.
"You know Tsuzuki you really shouldn't do that." Stated Watari. Hisoka just rolled his eyes.
"I'm coming too." Before he could move Sakura held her hands up.
"No! I don't want to trouble both of you. Please stay here we wouldn't be long."
She gave them a bow, thanked Watari for his assistance and took hold of part of Tsuzuki's sleeve.
"Let's go" she walked out the door part dragging Tsuzuki behind her
"Um, yeah.... See you later Hisoka, Watari!"
Watari let out a chuckle watching them leave
"Unusual girl" He said. Hisoka just nodded.
"So who is it we are going to see?" Silence, it had been like that since they had left Mifu. Sakura didn't even seem to notice the change she just kept walking dragging Tsuzuki along. "A reletaive perhaps?"
She stopped.
"I have no relatives" She looked around. "It's this way I think." She let go of his sleeve and ran ahead disappearing around the corner.
"Ah! Wait Sakura-san." Tsuzuki ran after her but as he ran round the corner he knocked into someone. The sudden impact made him fall backwards onto the cold stone ground. He winced feeling the wound on his back reopen.
"Oya oya, are you injured Tsuzuki-san?"
Hisoka ran down the dark streets, he had been following Tsuzuki and Sakura but lost them among winding back streets. It was almost as if Sakura new someone was following her. The bad feeling he had when they first met arose again. He didn't know what it was but he just felt she couldn't be trusted.
"Where are you Tsuzuki?" Hisoka pulled out from inside his jacket pocket a small package that had been neatly wrapped in shiny paper and golden bows. He quickly replaced the package as if it had never been there. He looked up to the stars as a nearby clock tower began to chime the strokes of midnight.
"TSUZUKI!!!!!!"
"I should have known! Who else would play such a dirty trick with peoples lives" With an amused smile Muraki ignored Tsuzuki's accusations and reached out a hand to help Tsuzuki up. Tsuzuki looked at the hand disgusted and used a nearby wall for support to stand.
"Had I not interfered he would not have had a life to play with at all." He looked behind him "And Sakura-san would have been left all alone." Tsuzuki shifted to see what Muraki was looking at. He could see Sakura standing there but her hair had turned into bright white here eyes and skin pale as the moon but what terrified Tsuzuki most of all was that she was petting one of Muraki's Demons, A large white snake-like creature.
"Tsuzuki-san has been a bad man," She said to the snake "he let Dr Onijima die." She started to giggle.
"You Basterd!!" Tsuzuki's left fist lunged at Muraki who easly dodged and pinned Tsuzuki to the wall. He struggled tryng to free himself but no matter what he tried it ony seemed to entice Muraki further. He felt Muraki's warm breath by his ear.
"It seems you are injured after all Tsuzuki-san." A hand sliped it's way into his shirt and gently stroked the length of the scar down Tsuzuki's back. When Muraki removed his hand Tsuzuki's blood dripped from his fingers. Tsuzuki tried to look away as Muraki licked the blood from his hand.
"Will you allow me to lick your wounds Tsuzuki-san." Muraki let him go and walked over to Sakura "Would you like to try some my beautiful doll." She accepted and carefully began to clean the blood from his hands with her tongue. Her pale eyes remained on Tsuzuki each lick until it was all gone. He sank down the wall to sit on the ground.
"Delicious" she said wiping her mouth
"A child with good taste" Muraki laughed while turning back towards Tsuzuki. He stopped in mid-step as he heard a nearby clock tower chimed midnight.
"Oya, this night is nearly over and I haven't yet given you your birthday gift."
"Is that what this is about?" demanded Tsuzuki.
"Time is no problem" Whispered Sakura Just loud enough for everyone to hear.
"What!?" Before he could say anything else Tsuzuki saw the world fade around him and be replaced by ...nothing. Somewhere a candle flared the flame spread and Tsuzuki found he was in what looked like a corridor lined with candles. Ahead of him he saw Sakura, Muraki and the snake-like demon floated, after all there was no real ground here. Sakura grinned and hugged in to her snake-like friend.
"Welcome to my world Tsuzuki-san"
I finally forced myself to sit down and type out the whole of this chapter. I hope you all enjoyed it
Mana 3