Chapter 2
Death Song
(A
week later)
Fine silk was spread across the floor as
she glided through the room. She was
like a shadow, blending into the shadows of the hospital, blending into the
corners of the rooms. Her face was
covered by a black veil. She didn't fit into the style of the building. On
other looks from the nurses, she didn't really belong in any modern building.
The essence of the spirit world twirled around her, encircling her, twisting
between her limbs, her hair, her lips. She was dressed in black silk,
intertwined with red stripping of nylon. She had a huge black bow, which
strands draped onto the ground, following her every soft step.
* * *
***
It was the same dream. She was walking through the deserted streets. Alone. The
air was foggy, dirty smelling. It was black, sending ash onto the buildings.
Crackle,
crackle
She always heard it, always. She could
feel the sound reaching into her soul. She heard her heart beat, beating faster.
Beat,
beat
She started to walk faster. Toward the
crackling sound.
Crackle,
crackle
She quickened her pace. Walking on top of
the many bodies. Bodies of men, women, and children. The sky was gray,
threatening of rain
Beat,
beat
It would never rain
Crackle,
crackle
She started to run.
Beat,
beat
She jumped over a car, over the railings
of the buildings, running. That was all she could do.
Crackle,
crackle
She could feel the crunching of rocks
under her feet. The air was started to pick up. The wind blew in her face
stronger, more powerful.
Beat,
beat
She started to run faster. Running for the
distance, for the sound.
Crackle,
crackle.
She felt the bodies encircling her legs,
grabbing. She pushed forward, through the foggy air, Tension picked up. Arms
flailing, she stretched on.
Beat,
beat
Running to the park.
Beat,
beat
Over the bodies.
Beat,
beat
Over the dead bodies
Beat,
beat
Closer, arms extended
Crackle,
crackle
Beat,
beat
Running towards the clearing.
Beat,
beat
Towards the sound
Crackle,
crackle
She ran through the stale air.
Beat,
beat
She knew what was going to happen
Crackle,
crackle
It always happened
Beat,
beat
Will it turn out differently?
Beat,
beat
Maybe
Beat,
beat
Crackle,
CRAACKL.
The cables flew, ripping through the
ground, encircling around her. They were charged, littered with red sparks. She
could feel the electricity spreading through the air like wild fire. Encircling
her, diving towards her. She just stood there, she couldn't do anything. She
couldn't breath. They dived, point extended, ripping with energy towards her.
Whistling through the air, rocks flying, leaves shredding. Buildings behind her
exploded with energy, being ripped apart by cables, all intent on one target.
Windows chattered, pieces of glass sliced through the air, crumbling to the
ground. Closer, they flew, straight for
Yuzuriha. They came closer, whistling, whistling a death song. She could hear
the crumbling of life, but soon she only heard the death song, just the
whistling.
Whisttttttttttlllllllllllllleeeeeeeee
She dived, as the cabled ripped through the
grounds, crumbling to the ground. She rolled across the rocks, and debris and
she crawled to her feet, grabbing what life force that she had left. Debris
fell on her, crashing onto her back. She grabbed the earth and lunched herself
through the air in a fit of speed. She started to run. Run through the city,
through the buildings. She jumped through the windows, only hearing the death
song in her head. She didn't feel her wounds as she ran, ran to nowhere, she
just ran. She ran, ran for life as the
cables crumbled the ground beneath her, she could feel the electricity, the crumbling
of the ground beneath her feet, the cables touching her feet, the death song at
her feet, closer, inching it selves across the stale air, closer to her, closer
to her body.
Beat,
beat
With a whip lash,
Beat,
beat
A
set of cables dug their way into her as she gasped for air.
Beat
Blood flew, as they dug deeper, cutting her
air supply. She choked as the cabled ripped through her.
Inuki
was never there to save her.
***
"Satsuki!!!!!
NOOOOOOOO!!!!!" She screamed.
Her cold bed sheets were sprawled across her wet
body. She could feel the fabric. For once, she could feel something else other
then the cold cables in her dreams. Yuzuriha finally started to focus on her
room. The hospital room that she had stayed in for the past week. Life without
Inuki was unimaginable. She started to settle down from her ordeal. Lightly
touching the cold metallic floor she stood to look at the moonless sky. Her wet
feet freezing on contact with the metallic surface. She brushed her cheek
length black hair from her eyes. With shaking hands she gingerly touched the
plane of the glass window. She just stood there, watching nightlife. Her eyes
were passive, not focusing on what was in sight.
"Nekoi
Yuzuriha…"
Yuzuriha spun around feverishly. Eyes
widen as she felt all her pores open up in fright, an experience she was not
used to. Inuki and her instincts always warned her of any people around her.
Her eyes locked on a figure in the corner of the room. She knew doctors and
nurses never entered her room in that fashion, and she also knew that her
friends were a lot more respectful to her to do that. Yuzuriha quickly realized
who it could be and went into a defensive position. Her hair flying around,
before resting on her cream like skin. Her eyes burning with fire. She squeezed
her fist absent mindly. On the outside, she looked like a confident warrior, a
force to be messed with, but in the inside she didn't feel anything but fear,
cold fear. The fear that she truly was no match for anybody, that she was weak
like a civilian, other then her acrobatic, and flying abilities. But what hurt
her more was that she was two-dimensional. "Please come out of that corner,
NOW!" Yuzuriha said defiantly.
As the figure stepped out, Yuzuriha did a
back summersault and landed on her table, then with one swift kick, broke a
leg, and flipped to the windowsill, but on the last flipped, she had absent
mindly expected Inuki at her heals, but didn't feel any support from her
Inugamis. Miss calculating her landing, she missed the windowsill and hit the
window with her feet, shattering it instantly. Broken glass sliced her legs, as
they shattered on the ground. Yuzuriha feeling the impact instantly kicked the
sill to flip back onto her feet. Too energized about the suspected Chi no Ryu,
Yuzuriha launched her weapon which was the leg of the table to her visitor.
With a twitch of the hand, the projectile shattered into blisters of wood.
Yuzuriha seeing this didn't waste time and charged at her enemy.
HOWWWLLL
Yuzuriha stopped dead in her tracks as she
was engulfed by an Inugami. Its spirit swirled around her as it vaguely blew
away. The smell, the feeling, the familiarity. She stared at the figure as it
calmly went into the light. Yuzuriha's senses opened up.
"Grandma
Nekoi" Yuzuriha whispered.
Yuzuriha fell onto the floor in stupidity.
She had not recognized her grandmother voice, her smell, or any inugamis in the
area. She completely ignored her senses. Grandmother Nekoi didn't say anything,
she didn't say something wise, or spiteful, she just was silent. " Well, look
who dropped by! Sorry for attacking, I'm just so jittery, maybe all those
sweets got to me!" Yuzuriha beamed as she went up to hug her grandmother.
She
accidentally hugged for too long and hard to leave anything unsuspected. "Its
so good to see you! Thank you so much. I'm so happy! I've made so many friends,
and there as been so much stuff happening, Kamui is so…." Yuzuriha was cut off
by Grandmother Nekoi who lifted a shriveled hand to the girl's forehead.
"Fever, you're coming with me." She simply said.
She stared at Yuzuriha long and hard,
delving into the girls. She knew, she had known at the instant it happened. Two
souls broke, one from death, the other from anguish. Yuzuriha couldn't have her
know; she couldn't say her Inuki died. That an Inugami of Mitsumine shrine had
been killed. That her Inuki was killed. " Ya sure, I'll come. I haven't had a
vacation for so long! And being stuck in this hospital really is boring!"
Yuzuriha squealed
Grandmother Nekoi didn't push the subject.
When Yuzuriha would be ready to tell her, she would be there waiting. When she
would have to face that Inuki was gone, that he was killed, when she would have
to say out loud that Inuki, her Inugami is gone.
*
* *
They both walked to the ministrations
office. Everyone in the room paid their respects, they all knew who she was,
and had no will to stop her. Yuzuriha scanned the rooms. Everyone just stood
with their eyes closed. Her grandmother had such respect it was unbelievable.
Slowly walking from the ministrations
office they went to leave, leave for home, for Mt. Mitsumine, for Mitsumine
Shrine
* *
*
"Is she gone?" Kamui asked seaming
uninterested.
"Probably" Sora eyed him smiling.
"Really? Already? Her grandmother moved fast. We called her
yesterday!"
" I think she was already on her
way."
"How would YOU now." Kamui stated as he
turned his back from the priest.
"You keep forgetting, I have a nose for
these types of things" Sorata smiles while tapping his nose."
* * *
"She's gone," he said.
He lightly touched the leaf of an oak
tree. Its scent littered the air with a natural fragrance. It felt good across
his skin. He looked at the moonless sky. Leaves were pulled from their stems
and started to swirl in the air surrounding him in a cyclone. Leaves, and
blossoms encircled him. The air became polluted with fresh fragrances. His
black hair battered his forehead, and he pulled his hand to toss it away. "I
guess that answers my question."
He lifted his gaze away from the sky to
look at the horizon. He was on the outskirts of Tokyo. Before him laid the
business buildings and the mass amounts of homes. Each one of them had living
beings living their lives in them. Only one person that was in his mind wasn't in
those buildings, wasn't even in Tokyo anymore. Shiyuu Kusanagi, of Japan's
Defense Force started to walk back towards his off road jeep. The green tinted
colour was barely seen by all the mud that was enrobed over it. Turning the gas
on Kusanagi turned sharply back into the city and headed for his favorite bar,
he wouldn't be retuning back at his home till late tonight.
* *
*
***
Crackle, crackle
"Inuki? Is that you? Inuki?" Yuzuriha
called.
She was
walking in the diet building for the first time. Inuki had gone forward to find
where all the Ten no Ryus were. She got out of the elevator.
Crackle, crackle
"Inuki?"
Yuzuriha turned the corner. The hall was dressed in
many pillars as tall as buildings. They were all white like clouds. She strode to
the end of the hall, to the sets of doors.
Crackle, crackle
"Is that where the Ten no Ryus are?… Inuki?" I'm so
excited!"
Yuzuriha squealed.
Crackle, crackle
She was close to the doors, she could here noises.
"Inuki? Are they there?"
Inuki never answered. She started to think up an
introduction for herself for the other Ten no Ryus as she started to close
toward the doors.
Crackle, crackle
She was inches from the doors.
Crackle, crackle
She gingerly grabbed a set of doors.
Crackle, crackle
With ease she sled them open. '…Hi my name is…."
She was cut off by a hundred cables coming straight
for her.
To be continued
I
always wanted to say that!!!!!
