You Get Me

Chapter 18

Kina closed her eyes and softly began to chant a spell, "Light upon light I call upon your power to grant me one single wish. Vanquish the darkness that stands before me and guide me on the pathway of destiny. Listen to my prayer and I plead for you to answer it, showing me your great power. Please be gone of the evil that stands in my way and scars my heart with pain..." Her voice sang out loud and clear. Her body began to radiate a baby blue color.

Nuriko winced as he struggled to get free. It was in slow motion practically. Max tightened his iron grip around Nuriko's neck as he gasped for air, blood trickling down his chin.

Then he heard an angel's voice call out. It was Kina. "Celestial Star of Destruction!!!!!" She screamed even with the rope cutting off all of her air. The blue aura that surrounded her body gathered in front of her then with a cracking sound it shot towards Max.

Max's face twisted in horror as a blast of blue light smashed into his body, causing him to drop Nuriko and be crushed into a nearby wall. All around him bits of the wooden wall splintered out. Pain surged through his body as he felt the energy pushing him against the broken wall, pushing harder along with more of the bone crushing pain.

Nuriko wearily pulled himself up from the ground to his knees. All around him was bits of wood and droplets of crimson blood. Across the room Max was being held up against the wall by a blue light.

He let out a quiet sigh of relief, "Thanks Kina, for a moment I thought I was a goner..." But his voice trailed off as he looked up at Kina's pale, limp body. "SHIT!!!!!" His scream rang out into the night as he ran to her, grabbing onto her legs. "KINA!! KINA, HOLD ON! I'LL GET YOU DOWN!!!!!!" Nuriko pushed upward using the small bit of energy left in his battered body, "Hold on!!!" Tears poured down his cheeks, smearing the dried blood as he attempted to hold up her frail body. "HOLD ON!!"

A beep came from another room but it seemed more like another world. It was the message machine.

"Kina! KINA!!! THIS IS YUE!! HOLD ON, I'M ALMOST HOME!! HOLD ON!!!!!" Yue's crying voice screamed at the machine but it went silent as he hung up.

"S-somebody...please, come home!! PLEASE!!!!" Nuriko yelled at the top of his lungs. He thought the machine had been somebody returning home, but he was wrong. He couldn't hold her up forever. "Kina, you can't leave me! You can't die because of me!!!"

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Figurines that fall like leaves then disappear, keep calling

Is it real? Is it real?

Dark machines that wheeze and breathe then mock the air, appalling

What is real? What is real?

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Hotohori neared the house as he carried two giant grocery bags. It had taken long enough to pay the stupid kid and then get the rest of the food all the way home. He would have normally gotten home sooner but he was sure Nuriko could handle whatever was wrong. As he neared the house he stopped. The front door was open. The paper bags crashed to the wet ground as Hotohori went running into the house.

"NURIKO!! KINA!!!!" His voice called out.

"HORI!! HORI!!!! IN HERE!!!!! HURRY!!!!" Nuriko frantically cried out to the chestnut haired bishonen.

His footsteps echoed as he ran into the shattered room to found Nuriko holding up a limp Kina.

"Oh. My. God." Hotohori's face froze in shock as he ran to Nuriko's side, "Hold onto her and I'll get her down!" He jumped up and grabbed the cloth, tugging on it until it came loose. Her body fell to the ground as Nuriko caught her then rested her gently down on the carpet. Pulling out a pocketknife from the nearby nightstand, Hotohori cut the metal wire off of Kina's wrists and ankles. Red ringlets and dark blood where left imprinted from the wire.

"Hurry, turn her around. She needs air!! She needs to live!!!!!" Hotohori yelled as Nuriko turned her around and attempted CPR. Her arm dropped from across her stomach where it landed lifelessly on the carpet with a thud.

Nuriko froze in dread and terror. Kina gave her life up for him. She was gone for him.

"S-She's...dead..." His broken voice muttered the words.

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This world can really be too much

I can't take another day

I guess that I've just had enough

My minds slipping far away

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A screech came from the outside world as Yue pulled into the driveway, knocking down two trashcans. Anger and pain shone on his face as he ran from the car, sliding in the water and falling into mud. He pulled himself up and dove into the house.

"KINA!!!!!!!!!!!" The words pierced their way out of his dry throat as he ran into the room. He stumbled to a halt as he surveyed the scene before him. His hands began to violently shake. His knees cracked against the floor as he dropped down, shaking his head back and forth. "N-no!! NO!!!! Kina is ok!!!! She's fine!!!!"

"Y-Yue..." Hotohori sorrowfully reached out to him.

With a swing of his hand Yue slapped Hotohori away from him, "No! She's ok! She was happy and alive just yesterday! She can't be d-d-dead...!!!!!" He turned to see Max still being held to the wall by the blue light. "She's still fighting him! She's still hanging on with the last of her power to hold him back! To s-save...us..." His dejected voice trailed off, breaking into pieces at the end. It had all come down to this. She had saved them but at an impossible price. But all that had mattered to her was she had saved them.

Yue snarled as he turned to Max, "She's gone because of you!!!!!!!" He hissed as he pulled back his fist and smashed it into Max's nose, breaking it. The wall cracked behind him as the blue light disappeared. Max's eyes rolled back as he collapsed to the floor, unconscious.

"Stop it!" A female voice cried out.

"Who's there?!" Yue called out, looking around the room.

"Save the butterflies, kill the bees. It seems rational until you realize that by striving for you, you become a spider yourself. Don't become a spider Yue!!" The voice said again then started to fade away.

"KINA! DON'T LEAVE ME AGAIN!" Yue's eyes looked all around the room as his vision was soon blurred by his own tears.

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1.1 I'm falling out of touch

Could someone please explain?

Set my mind for open sky, but couldn't fly, so sadly

What am I? What am I?

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The hot tears trickled down his neck as Yue looked upward and scream out, "I'm nothing without you Kina! Nothing! You saved us but at too high of a cost! It's not worth living if you aren't there by our side!!!!!!!!!" His head fell forward, staring blankly at the floor.

Hotohori caught Yue as he fell. Yue loosely hung onto Hotohori's waist as he sobbed into his shirt, "S-She can't be g-gone..."

Nuriko sat still, holding onto her cold hand. His eyes stared out the window as the rain fell down to the earth. He turned around and looked down at Kina's bruised face. The corner of his mouth twitched up into a small smile as he brushed a strand of hair out of her face, "You've got some dirt on your pretty face." His cracked voice muttered as he licked his finger then whipped away the dried blood from her cheek. "I can't wait for the baby to be born. I can help raise it, Aunty Nuriko..." Around him the world seemed to spin. It was his fault she was gone. His fault. HIS. He was suppose to save her and they would all suppose to live happily ever after...that's how it was suppose to be! But now, now she was gone! Because he failed. She saved him but she was gone. What was the point of that?! It was all useless without her! His body was numb. He couldn't stand to feel this pain, this heartbreak. Streams of tears fell from his cheek onto Kina's cold face.

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Sullen eyes shed teardrop lies then criticize, now laughing

What is real? What is real?

It's really all become too much

I'm not sure what I should feel

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"WHAT IS THE POINT!?!??!" Yue stood up as an ear-piercing scream of agony erupted from his throat. His eyes flashed, turning a pure white as his hair flew out wildly into the air.

"CALM DOWN YUE!" Hotohori jumped up and began to run towards Yue. "If you lash out now you could destroy the house or do something worse!!"

"STAY-AWAY-FROM-ME!!!!" He snarled at the bishonen.

Nuriko shook his head and slowly stood up, "This isn't how it's suppose to be! We can't let it end like this. Not...like...this...She wouldn't want it to end like this..." He wiped his tears with the back of his fist. "Not...like...this..." His voice ended with a whisper.

Hotohori turned to face Yue and Nuriko, "Don't lose hope."

"Hope!?! I've given up on that crap!!" Yue hissed at the two, "She's gone and it's because of me! I wasn't a good husband or person! She didn't trust me at all!! She's dead because of my faults and mistakes!" His hair rested on his shoulders as his eyes turned into a soft, sad gray color.

"Shut up! Both of you! We will be civil and we will save Kina, no matter what! Even if we have to march up to God himself and demand her back!!" Hotohori looked back and forth between the two. "WE WILL SAVE HER!!! Just like she saved us..."

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I guess I've finally had enough

I don't know if this is real

I'm crashing in and out of touch

Can anyone please explain?