a/n: hello... hehe. just another chpt in here! anyway... the chpt numbahz are all messed up. no need to let me know that. just read the story... and enjoy.. and if you don't enjoy, please don't be mean!
life
When she got back to the clearing she screamed.
She saw Van lying in a pool of his own dark crimson blood, with a large gash on the side of his neck. His mouth was open in a silent scream, and there in his hand, was Hitomi's pendant.
Hitomi stood there, with her hand over her mouth in shock. Then she lept forward, cradling his head in her hands.
"Van! Are you alive? Answer me! Who did this?" Hitomi pulled his limp body in her arms and began crying. "Please Van! Say something!"
-Van-
He was walking by himself in the gloom of a cave.
His neck hurt alot. "Where am I?" Van muttered, his eyes slowly accustoming to the darkness.
...drip...drip...
sounds of water dripping from the cave ceiling echoed into Van's ears. He could hear footsteps in the distance, coming closer, closer. Van's hand immediately withdrew to the hilt of his sword.
"Who goes there?" He snarled, drawing his sword. The figure slowly walked forward, hands clasped.
Van's eyes traveled up the stranger's profile and gasped. It was Hitomi.
"Hitomi! What are you doing here?"
Hitomi looked at him with pain in her eyes. Suddenly, she lept into his arms crying. "Van, please don't die!" Van held her head and let her cry into his chest. "Hitomi.. It's okay. I'm not going to die." He cradled her in his arms.
Hitomi pulled back, her eyes stained with tears. "Van your dying right now! Please! Don't give up! Don't leave!" She stepped back, tears falling onto the ground.
Van felt something wet dripping down his neck. "Probably just cave water." He thought, wiping some of the wet substance off his neck. Immediately, more of it began dripping down his neck again. Van held his hand to his face and gasped.
It was blood. The blood dripped from his shaking fingers to the ground.
Van fell to his knees in a dead faint. The last thing he heard was Hitomi crying for him to wake up.
-vision-
Van could see two women, both were cloaked in dark robes, covering their faces. One was spinning a thin thread across the room. The other ran her fingers along the thread.
She reached slowly into her cloak and wielded a pair of sharp scissors.
She began advancing apon the thread, pulling the scissors along the thread, as if to cut.
The girl that was spinning the thread opened her mouth. "Are you sure he should die?"
The other woman nodded. "I will cut his life line, and he will die. No one really needs or loves him in the other world."
"but.." The other girl protested "He is young, and he is loved by young Hitomi!"
"Hitomi?" Van whispered. "Who are they talking about?"
The woman interupted her sharply. "He is to die, no question about it."
The woman held the scissors with calm hands, running the blade along the thread. The thread began to fray, then unravel slowly.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Van yelled grasping at his throat. He couldn't breathe. He slowly fell to the ground.
"He's dying." The girl cried with fright.
"I know that." The woman laughed slightly, opening the scissors once more to snap the thread in two.
Van felt as if the world was exploding. Bright lights danced before him.
"H-Hitomi..." He whispered.
He could only see the woman and the scissors now. Her hand on her chin as if pondering something deeply.
Suddenly, a shaking voice cut through the deadly silence. "Van! Answer me! Please say something!" It was Hitomi's voice.
"H-Hitomi?" Van whispered.
-end of vision-
end of chpt 10
