AN: All Right! Finally, the last chapter is up! I'm so happiE… I really wanna thank all of you who bothered to review my story… Arigato!!!
Disclaimer: None of the FoR characters belong to me… They belong to the noble Nobuyuki Anzai… I think onli Akuhei belongs to me… but he's so evil… haiz… Okok… before I continue with the story, there is absolutely NO RAPE in here. I know Akuhei said be mine to Fuuko… but it's just uh… hugs and stuff? I hate rape stories. Thanx for understanding… ^ ^
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Another rough rap on the door stopped her tears. Fuuko dried her tears quickly and opened it, smiling faintly.
"Come on, Fuuko! We have to go to the Dining Banquet! It's eight already!" Yanagi and Rekka stood outside her door and Rekka clasped her hand, attempting to pull her out of her room.
"Hang on!" Fuuko put on my shoes and followed them to "collect" Koganei, Ganko and Domon. Soon, they reached Mikagami's room.
"Oi! Mikagami! Come out, or we'll never make it in time for the dinner!" Rekka shouted rapping the door impatiently.
Mikagami opened the door slightly, and saw a downcast looking Fuuko at his door, surrounded by the Hokage.
"Mikagami-sempai? Aren't you coming?" Yanagi asked the Ensui-master softly.
No surprise she guessed, Rekka thought. He isn't even in a suit or anything. Just thrown on khakis and a T-shirt.
"No, I'm sorry, Yanagi-san, but I'm not going. I'm afraid I'd be too much of a threat." Mikagami said coolly.
"Too much of a threat?!" Rekka screeched out. "What do you mean, you bakayarou!"
"What I mean is what I said, sea monkey." Mikagami shut the door without saying anymore.
"Hey! You stupid bak-" Rekka smashed his fist against the hard, wooden door.
Fuuko silently put a hand on his shoulder. "Forget it, Rekka. Leave him be," she said in a soft tone.
"But that jerk, he-he- " Rekka argued.
"I said, forget it, Rekka. Let's go eat now. I'm hungry." Fuuko said, forcing yet another smile on her face.
She's genuinely hurt. It's too obvious. That bloody Mikagami. He's always like this…I just want to kill him… Kuso… Rekka cursed silently in his mind as he was led away by Yanagi and Domon.
Fuuko strayed behind, following them aimlessly. Tomorrow…she thought.
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The sun rose beautifully that morning. Unlike the usual Fuuko, nothing of that morning caught her eye. She wandered around, packing some stuff.
"Bye Rekka! Bye Yanagi! Ganko, Koganei, be good! Kagerou! Take care of them!" "WHAM!" Fuuko waved at her friends before directing a hard hit on Domon's head. ("Fuuko! Kiss me so I can endure this long fortnight!")
She walked away slowly. You knew he wouldn't come anyway. Maybe… maybe I shouldn't have refused him? BAKA! Fuuko slapped herself mentally again. She hesitated and looked back at the hotel she was leaving; at her friends; at his window.
"Mi-chan… take care…" she mummured.
She smiled at the Hokage and left, taking as long a time she possibly could.
Mikagami drew the curtain and watched as Fuuko walked away.
"Fuuko. Promise to be careful…" The ensui-wielder turned away from the window. "Gomen… I didn't mean to hurt you…"
Fuuko walked down the path that led to a quiet forest.
"Ah… Fuuko. I was wondering how long you'd take to come here." Akuhei sighed.
"Now, let's return to the hotel. I trust your friends are still there?"
"Huh? Why do we need to return there?!" Fuuko's eyes widened.
"Because I have to remove the madougu." He said simply.
"But-but… can't you get it back from here?"
"I could, but I want to let your friends know, that you sacrificed yourself. I want to see them cringe in anger. I want to see them suffering. Hahaha!" Akuhei laughed.
"You jerk!" Fuuko screamed.
"Now now, that won't do at all. After all, I am your master. Let's go."
Akuhei clutched Fuuko's hand and mumbled something to his madougu.
Fuuko felt herself floating higher and higher when suddenly she stopped and found herself outside the hotel, at the exact same spot where she had said goodbye half an hour ago.
"One good thing about this madougu is that it can bring the holder as close as forty metres to the nearest victim. Your friends should be right… there," he pointed at a small outdoor cafeteria some fifty metres away. (The cafeteria is in the hotel's boundary)
He dragged Fuuko to the outside of it, where Koganei immediately spotted her.
"Fuuko-neechan! Huh? I thought--! Rekka-niichan! Mikagami-niichan! What's going on?" Koganei shouted. "And who's that freak next to her?"
The Hokage burst out of the cafeteria, leaving some money on the table.
Akuhei beckoned to them to go to the outside of the hotel.
"Fuuko! What's going on here?!" Rekka shouted. "You're meant to be at the Tournament!"
"You came back to see me? Fuuko! I'm so touched!" Domon whimpered. A hit on his head from Ganko silenced him. "Baka! Fuuko-neechan! Why are you here?" she asked.
Fuuko looked silently at her feet.
Akuhei grinned in pure glee. "Return!" he shouted, lifting the dome-shaped madougu above his head.
"AHH! ITAI!" Ganko's screams pierced the silent afternoon sky.
Fuuko's head jerked up.
Ganko was kneeling on the hard concrete floor, her stomach bleeding as though something just pierced her.
"Uh!" Mikagami's eyes widened as sharp, reddish objects came shooting out from inside him. His stomach, his arms and his leg. He clutched at his stomach, soaked in blood all over.
The madougu was no longer in the shape of a dome.
"AKUHEI! BAKAYAROU! YOU LIED! YOU SAID YOU WON'T HARM THEM!" Fuuko screamed at the figure holding up the madougu.
"It's the only way to retrieve the pieces." Akuhei frowned slightly. "Make this a habit: Akuhei-sama."
"Akuhei-sama? Fuuko, what is going on? I thought you said you didn't know this guy here." Mikagami said, his icy glare directed at Akuhei.
"I…I…" Fuuko stammered.
"It's really simple." Akuhei started. "Those pieces that exploded out of you are parts of a destructive madougu. I- being the wielder of this madougu- can kill you as long as they remain in you and I hold at least half of it. So your kind friend here agreed to sacrifice herself so you can be saved."
"What?! So-so-so the Tournament was a lie?!" Koganei shouted.
"Go-gomen…" Fuuko mumbled. Suddenly, she noticed the madougu.
"Akuhei! Your madougu isn't whole yet! Where are the other pieces?!"
"Do you think I'd be so dumb as to take all out? If you need the facts, 1/8 is still in your dear Mi-chan." Akuhei stated. "You could just kill me when you returned with me. It's safer this way." Another grin urged Fuuko to kill Akuhei, but she kept her distance. As long as he had his madougu with him, she was in his control.
"WHAT?! YOU'RE GONNA DIE BEFORE WE'D EVER LET FUUKO GO WITH YOU!" Rekka hurled and ran forward in a fighting attempt. Koganei, Domon and Mikagami followed behind.
"Looks like we're not wanted here. Sayonara, my dear friends. Hahaha!" Akuhei laughed calmly.
Fuuko again felt herself floating higher and higher before finding herself outside a well-kept building.
"Welcome to my home."
"FUUUKKOO!!!!!!!!!" Mikagami shouted at the empty space Fuuko had formerly been standing at. The Hokage team barely noticed his unusual behaviour.
"No… it can't be… she's gone… just- just like that…and it's my fault…" he muttered. "Fuuko-san… why did you do it?!"
"Fuuko-neechan…" Ganko sobbed softly into Yanagi's arms.
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A whole month passed of pure torture. Forced to kill. To win tournaments. Harsh, furious, vicious kisses.
Each day a thousand thoughts of how to end her own life passed through her mind. Hanging. Drowning in the lake by the house. Jumping off the building. Taking Akuhei's madougu and inserting it in herself. The list would be endless but she herself knew she could not commit suicide. Only failures kill themselves…
The people she met mocked her at her pathetic state. "Why, isn't this Fuuko? Haha! I always knew she'd have a bad end!" "Akuhei, how did you do it? Make this Kirisawa here join you? I bet she gave herself up to you…" "She must've been really desperate! No one wanted this Tomboy in the first place!" "Heehee! Why didn't you come to me, Kirisawa? I would've gladly accepted you!"
Each evening she watched the Sun set. The optimistic Fuuko loved it. The different shades of colours, vibrantly changing. It was just like her. Her life. Each chapter brought forth new excitement, new stories, new beginnings. She could sit at the windowsill and watch it until dusk came. But, no.
Fuuko hated it now. "There it goes again, bringing with it all the happiness I had in my life," she would mutter angrily.
Until.
~~~Next Afternoon(Late Afternoon)~~~
"The next person you have to kill for me. Here's his picture." Akuhei threw down a slightly faded picture on the desk.
"I…I can't. He's one of my friends." Fuuko argued. This had never before happened. She would never kill a friend. Not if it cost her her own life.
"Oh, really? What makes you so sure you won't?" Akuhei's lips turned sour. If there was only one thing Akuhei hated, it was being denied his orders.
"I won't kill a friend. No matter what." Fuuko's stubborn nature had not changed a bit. "Besides, why me? And why do you want to kill him?"
"Fuuko, Fuuko. When will you learn you have no right to ask questions?" Akuhei said. "Anyway, you because he was your friend. Easier to get him. And, to kill him because his mother just died, leaving a big sum of money. To him. Not the husband. Only if this boy here dies, will the father get the money. So, his father hired me."
Fuuko let out a short gasp. His father wanted to kill him! Omigosh, and he loves his father so dearly… or at least used to.
"So, you have to complete the assassination by tomorrow ni-"
"I will not do it." Fuuko muttered abruptly, cutting Akuhei short.
"Fuuko. You cannot choose your missions. You are to do it!" Akuhei nearly shouted.
"I said, I will not. Get someone else."
"Kirisawa. I do not accept no for an answer. You've been here long enough to know that."
"No."
"I…I…" Akuhei knew he had to force Fuuko to do it. No one else could get into the house which had so much security. Then, it struck him.
He smiled. "Then what about Mikagami? Fuuko. You wouldn't want him to die, would you?"
"Stop. Using. Mikagami. To. Threaten. Me!" Fuuko lost her cool. She swung around and walked up to Akuhei. "I will stop you if you try and even if I have to die with you, I don't care. Understand?"
"Try and stop me then."
With a sudden jerk, Fuuko found herself…
Outside the Hotel again.
Akuhei moved with speed and agility, dragging Fuuko along. He came to outside a bar and dashed in leaving Fuuko. Fuuko watched in silent horror as he went up to a very drunken Mikagami and punched him straight in the stomach, drawing blood while pushing the madougu piece in. Mi-chan! Huh? He's in such a pathetic drunken state!
Having done so, Akuhei pulled Mikagami out of the bar and walked over to Fuuko, leaving Mikagami standing at the doorway.
Mikagami walked slowly over to Fuuko and Akuhei.
"Fuuko… You're back? What's that jerk doing with you?" Except for his wearied footsteps, he seemed to snap out of his drunken state immediately.
"See? He's worried about you. He likes you. He won't allow you to die. So I'll just kill him now." Akuhei said into her ear.
"Explo-" he started.
"No! Alright, I'll knock the guy out. Do the dirty work yourself." Fuuko cut in. She did not want to assassinate her friend. No, she'd never want to. Not even help out. But it was the only thing she could do. Mi-chan… You don't know how happy I am to see you… To know that you care…
Finally… now I know what I feel for you is Love.
"Good. Then I'll take back the piece. Return!" Akuhei grinned.
The red piece shot out of the stomach and returned to the Madougu.
Or would have returned, anyway.
Mikagami stretched out his arm and caught the piece in mid-flight.
"This time, I'm not letting you run away again, Fuuko." He mummured.
He drew his ensui and took charge at Akuhei.
Rekka saw all this and knew almost immediately what would happen.
He grabbed Koganei and Yanagi and hid in a nearby bush, making them watch everything.
Ganko followed them into the bush, asking what was going on.
"It's just a battle now; we'll love the end…heh heh…" Rekka cackled
Mikagami rushed up to Akuhei and swung his ensui full force at him.
Akuhei dodged it and drew his own katana and started to battle.
Despite his drunken state, Mikagami seemed to have regained all his strength and calmness in battle.
It was a battle of speed and wit; a battle which only the stronger would survive.
It didn't take long to find out who would win.
The katana barely scraped Mikagami when the ensui shattered it into a thousand bits.
Mikagami was twice as powerful as he was usually.
He drove a dodging, fleeing, running Akuhei against a wall.
Akuhei took out all that was left of his madougu (dome-shaped) and prepared to disappear when a razor-sharp ensui cut through it and destroyed it utterly.
"No…no…" Akuhei stuttered and shivered. "Impossible… You can't have destroyed it…No! Aaaaaarrgghhh!"
A terrifying, piercing scream filled the silent evening air and that was the last thing that came out of Akuhei's mouth.
Fuuko ran up to Mikagami and fell into his arms, sobbing tears of joy.
"Mi-chan…Arigato…"
"Fuuko." He whispered and she gazed up into his eyes.
"Aishiteru, Fuuko-san."
Her heart melted with joy.
"Aishiteru, Mi-chan."
He drew her face closer to his and their lips met.
Rekka and the others were watching, desperately trying to hide their laughter while keeping a weeping Domon quiet.
That evening, Fuuko watched the most beautiful sunset ever in the protective arms of Mikagami.
Her life had come back and the Hokage returned to its former peace and happiness (not really, considering Domon ^ ^;).
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A/N
So… how was it? Stupid? Cut-short? Please review!!! And I wanna thank all the pple who reviewed. I'm sorry I didn't write what was happening over at Rekka's side… Gomenasai!!!!!! I hope the endings ok… I felt it's rushed but I really had no more time so Gomen again! Pls R/R…
Dark Phoenix, Kapote-Q, flutter~, Yuuki, blackvampyre, memori, Wind Goddess and mia:
Thanks a lot!!! I'm really glad you reviewed and I hope you'll enjoy this chapter!!!
Kelsey:
Ok! I didn't do ani more POVs as you asked and I hope it's better! Thanks!
