Suteki Da Ne: Isn't it wonderful
Chapter Seven
By BlueRaven
A/n: oki the weird story that is ending up exactly as I intended for once is now going to continue! ^_^ POV warning oki...
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Tsuzuki woke up in the hospital-wing. The first thing he saw was the white ceiling in the resting room.
What he saw as he looked around was Hisoka sleeping in a chair next to the window his arms around his legs and his head resting against his knees.
He looks peaceful, Tsuzuki thought and smiled softly.
A dull pain from his chest made Tsuzuki flinch slightly. "What happened..? oh yeah, Himura attacked me..." Tsuzuki turned his gaze away from the sleeping beauty and continued his survey of the white painted room.
On the opposite side from Hisoka sat Watari, snoozing away sitting in a chair against the wall. Tsuzuki's smile widened as he saw the scientist and his pet owl. The owl was asleep as well and had perked herself on Watari's left shoulder.
"Oh, Watari..." Tsuzuki murmured and shook his head causing a flash of pain exploding at his damaged chest. What was this!? Sure a shinnigami could be hurt but this..? The pain increased as he tensed by the first wave of pain, and so he tried desperately to bite back a cry.
"Mgh... Itai..." he whispered and clenched his teeth. This hurt so much... what was wrong?
Suddenly he was startled as to hear the door open, he stared at it as if whoever it was were going to kill him as soon as he/she came through it.
"Watari-kun, Kurosaki-kun, how is...he..?" Tatsumi trailed off as he met the startled eyes of his beloved. He stopped in his tracks and just stared at Tsuzuki. Soon the spell was broken by a mumbling, "Wha..? What, I'm not asleep..." and a wide awake Watari.
"Tatsumi... TSUZUKI!!? You're awake now!?" Watari's cry roused the sleeping Hisoka who turned his cold green eyes to the three of them glaring daggers in a very How-dare-they-wake-me kind of way. But that look faded as he saw that Tsuzuki was up.
"You're all right! What happened?"
"I... um... I got slashed by a huge sword that Himura was carrying. He attacked me, I didn't even notice before I was lying on the ground, bleeding... Then I passed out, what happened then?" Tsuzuki met his young partner's eyes and saw as Hisoka lowered his sight without answering.
"We found you unconscious in the street, you had lost alot of blood. Your wound was caused by a magic sword and you will take two days to become fully healed. Anyway, Kurosaki-kun... fainted and we, Watari and I, had to take you both back to Meifu. You are heavy, Tsuzuki." Tatsumi gave Tsuzuki his usual protective smile, and glanced over at Hisoka who's face turned slightly pink.
"Oh, Tsu-chan, that Himura guy, he killed one more guy after he attacked you which means he only has one left before Omega is called." Watari said gravely, his whole being set on 'serious-mode'. Tatsumi nodded.
"That was last night, you still have to heal... but... we need you and your shikigamis powers to be able to stop Himura and if we're unlucky... Omega himself." Tatsumi continued and met Tsuzuki's gaze. "You understand don't you, Tsuzuki?" The injured shinnigami nodded and, shifted his gaze to Hisoka who only watched them in silence.
"I will be fine, Hisoka." Tsuzuki said after staring at his partner for a long time and smiled.
Hisoka didn't answer he only nodded and tried not to look all too worried. His usual stoic visage soon settled in on his features which caused Tsuzuki to stop worrying himself over the boy.
The four shinnigamis agreed on great caution when it came to Himura, and that Tsuzuki who still was healing would be extra careful something that both Hisoka and Tatsumi seemed to take as an impossibility. And soon they left Meifu.
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Pink eyes illuminated by strange light opened as a scent and the sound of soft footsteps entered the chamber belonging to Omega.
Ping met covered red and Omega smiled, his beautiful lips parting showing his fanged teethes.
"My Koibito... My Touda..." he whispered and extended his right hand as far as the chains would let him. "Come,... Come to me, my love..." Omega's silken voice called and his sakura eyes pleaded with such hidden need.
"No. I've come to speak to you. Not..." Touda trailed off and looked away. He crossed his arms over his chest, his belted boots scraped the ground as he shifted. "You know why I've come! Why don't you stop your summoning!? You were the one who asked me to lock you away and to... to forget!"
Omega's smile vanished, and an unreadable expression settled on his finely shaped features. Pink eyes traced over the form before him. Touda, his Hell Serpent, was changed. His calmed by that mechanical thing on his head which covered his red eyes.
"Change... never. Never did I believe you would change, my dear killer of both friend and foe. My Koibito..." Omega said and his eyes widened and looked about as if he was hearing something.
"Oh, listen! Hear that voice full of thoughts of vengeance, oh sweet voice, how I long to join you and aid you. Can you hear him, Koibito, do you hear that voice? How bloodthirsty it is, do you?" Omega's voice was that of a madman, his eyes darted here and there, sometimes settling on Touda only to drift away again, his face was split in two by his mad smile.
Touda calmly watched as the ecstatic call was washing over his ex-lover's mind. A call was like an orgasm, it set your mind in a joy for a fight, at least thus was the case with himself and Omega.
The moment passed, and pink was once again back to normal locking with covered red once more. "Lovely..." Omega whispered and licked his lips, which was stained red with blood!
"How..?" Touda took a step back away from the disturbing sight. he ought to be used to it by now but he wasn't.
"There is only one more left, then I will be called. My sword let me taste some of the blood I will bathe in, in a day or two... Sweet, dearest, Koibito, will you join me? Will your master summon you to fight me? Will you try and kill me?" Touda blinked then he nodded gravely. Yes if Tsuzuki called him he would come, and if he ordered him to kill Omega... he would, because it was... Tsuzuki who ordered it.
"Yes, Omega. I will if Tsuzuki calls me." Touda's voice was steady as was his gaze as he said this. Omega's visage turned serious and thoughtful for a while before he started smiling as if a great idea struck him.
"Then... I just have to kill this... Tsuzuki, and I know just the way..." Omega laughed, the sound echoing through the camber, Touda stared. Omega would kill... Tsuzuki!?
"NO!! I won't let you do that. If you even try to harm him I will destroy you once and for all, even if he does not call me I will seek you out and kill you, remember that, dear Omega." Touda could feel himself trembling with rage, he would not let any harm come to his master, ever!
Omega only watched Touda with a strange smile on his face. The pink eyes drifted close as he let his voice enter the mind of the boy who was calling him. ::I will soon be with you, boy... Our battle shall be splendid!::
"Maybe..." Omega spoke to Touda. "I won't do a thing to your master, who knows, Touda, no one does."
Suddenly the chamber trembled by the loud call of a voice and the sound of a word being spoken. "REN!!" it was complete, the spell was finished. Omega was called.
Light surrounded Omega's form, he felt it more then saw it and he felt the grip of the chains release him, and placed in his free hands was his sword drenched in the blood of the last victim. Oh how wonderful. The light grew stronger along with the thundering echo of the last word, until everything disappeared and Touda was left in complete heavy silence.
Touda extended a trembling hand towards the place where his ex-lover had stood only moments before. He took a shaky breath and cried, "OMEGA!!"
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"What is that!?" Watari cried as a light blinded him. The place all around Himura seemed to dwell in a storm, with the boy in its calm centre, only his red hair waved slightly and glittering ki surrounded him as he rose his arms, sword in hand, towards the blue moon.
"Omega... H-he's coming, Tsuzuki!!" Tatsumi's voice held panic, and Hisoka only some meters away from the secretary felt the dread emitting from his superior. Tatsumi turned to Tsuzuki and grabbed hold of the younger shinnigami's hand.
"I... can feel him, his joy! Tsuzuki... he's inside me!?" the usual calm and confident blue eyes of Tatsumi was wide and panicked as he stared at Tsuzuki with his hands gripping hard at Tsuzuki's hand.
Tsuzuki's eyes shone with worry for his former partner, he was frightened too. It was always Tatsumi who were the strong one, and now... Tsuzuki had to take on that role.
"Tsuzuki what does he mean by that!?" Watari's shout brought the musing Tsuzuki back to reality.
"What!?" he said and blinked. Tatsumi calmed himself down, he released his hold on Tsuzuki's hands and turned to the worried scientist, his blue eyes cold as ice.
"I do not wish you to know, Watari-kun." He said coldly, letting his gaze travel over to Hisoka who flinched by the mingle of emotions bombarding his mind from the secretary. "Is that clear? Stop asking me or Tsuzuki about it!!" the last sentence was a shout, Tatsumi threw his hands up , clutching his head and then he screamed.
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It feels like fire in my veins. Liquid fire, it holds no pain. I can feel it in me, around me. It's him, my God, Omega. He's coming for me to be my vengeance upon all who've ever hurt me and those I love.
My God of Death.
Omega come to me, rise and cleanse the world. Kill all, and start with them. Those shinnigami's who wished to see you still locked away and un- called.
Will you be my friend? Omega, I've given you all I have and some. I would gladly give you the rest of my already dying soul.
COME!!
::I'm coming, boy!::
His voice... I can hear it! Yes, you're coming to me. Yes!!
::I'm soon by your side, young one, I'll kill for you!::
"Oh Kami-sama... yes come Omega!" I cry and rise his sword high into the air, I can see the five pointed star settle on the ground around me along with the one hundred and thirty-three signs for every sacrifice shining like blood set on fire. I feel power snake its way up around my body and before me, rising through the earth, is a figure of a man.
the figure is only a three-dimensional shadow at first, but soon I can make out the contours of his muscles and see the colour of his hair.
He turn to me, clothes materialising as he does and soon he's wearing a black robe with belts and golden jewellery. On his right middle finger he wars a claw-like ring that follows the whole finger. His body is perfect! I lock eyes with him for the first time, Oh Kami, what eyes! Sakura-coloured, and his hair is red like the blood of his sacrifices.
"My God..." I hear myself whisper and I fall... and fall, until two strong black-dressed arms catch me in their embrace.
"Himura, my strong minded boy, rest. I will take care of everything now. Do not worry, you'll have your revenge on the one who killed your family..." I hear his whisper huskily into my ear and I feel him place me gently on the ground and there... I fall asleep...
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Omega gently placed the boy down, then rose and turned to the four shinnigamis just as Tatsumi screamed, inside he could feel a sting of sharp pain and so he stumbled.
Trembling he rose his hand to his chest as another sting was felt.
"What the..!?" his eyes flashed up and he stared wildly towards Tatsumi and the worried Tsuzuki who was embracing Tatsumi who's agonising scream echoed all around. What was this... a connection? If so then this was the first time ever it had let him feel any pain.
Omega threw his head back and laughed madly. This was wonderful, the pain he felt was lovely. He loved it, wanted, no, needed more of it.
He took another step closer to the shinnigamis, and another. For every step closer the pain increased along with Tatsumi's cries. The shinnigami was crying, his tears flowing down his cheeks, such a lovely sight.
Soon the shinnigami stopped screaming and only whimpered softly, his body limp in Tsuzuki's arms. Hisoka, being an emphath, had fainted by the enormous emotion from Tatsumi. Watari sat beside him on the ground, his eyes on his two friends.
"What the hell happened between the three of you, Tsuzuki!? What did Omega do to Tatsumi!?" Tsuzuki met the eyes of Watari, but before he got to answer he felt Tatsumi ripped from his embrace.
Turning he saw Omega holding the staring Tatsumi close to his body (a/n: if you are wondering, Tatsumi is paralysed at the moment by the close contact of him and Omega (the same thing that's causing the pain?) That's right...). The shadow user breathed irregularly as if he had hard to breathe. His staring eyes locked with Tsuzuki.
"You know... I spoke to my Koibito before I came here... and he was changed." Omega's voice was cold, his smile vanished, he was looking directly at Tsuzuki, while he let his claw-ringed finger trace over Tatsumi's cheek. "You were the one who changed him. You took away the man I loved, so therefor... I will take the one you love." Omega smiled evilly and the clawed finger cut a small cut on Tatsumi's cheek, he didn't even flinch.
Watari stared at the scene. His hair was a mess and his white lab-coat had slipped off one of his shoulders. What was Omega talking about? Had Touda spoken to him? He heard the last sentence and froze. Could Omega speak about what he thought he was? If so... Tatsumi...
"Tsuzuki!! Call your shikigamis!!" Watari cried but Tsuzuki didn't move.
Tsuzuki stared into Tatsumi's blue eyes, his former partner only stared back as Omega continued.
"Do you want to know what he thinks of you, little shinnigami?" Tsuzuki shook his head but Omega ignored him. "He has loved you since he first came to Meifu, he has dreams about you where he takes you over and over. He wishes he was Hisoka so he had your heart... He even wished he was Muraki so that he would be able to touch you without feeling guilt!"
"No..." Tsuzuki shook his head, and saw tears gather into Tatsumi's lovely ocean eyes. Still his former partner remained silent.
"Oh yes, and in his dreams you always tell him how much you love him... sometimes he even takes you against your will and he loves it!!"
"NO!!"
"Ha haha, Oh yes! Do you know what he wished when I invited you to play with him when I fucked his ass? He wished to fuck you as I was still taking him. Isn't that nice..?" Omega tightened his hold on Tatsumi, pressing him closer to his body.
Tsuzuki saw the tears fall and his former partner hanged his head, refusing to meet his eyes. Softly Tatsumi spoke. "I... I'm sorry, Tsuzuki... Forgive me..." a small graced Tatsumi's features.
"Say, Tsuzuki... Did you ever have your precious Hisoka?" Omega's words made Tatsumi flinch and meet Tsuzuki's eyes again. Tsuzuki didn't answer, his mind racing back to the time after the Kyoto mission... Oh yes he had had him all right.
Omega leaned his head closer to Tatsumi, looking at Tsuzuki. "Do you see this Tatsumi-san..?" he said. Tatsumi's eyes widened as Omega let the thoughts he snatched from Tsuzuki flood into his mind.
"Tsu... zuki... I'm so... stupid... just so stupid..." Tatsumi trailed off, he felt Omega turn him around so that he faced the shiki. His body was still numb all over.
"No you're not stupid for loving him, but for not taking him when you had your chance, sweet one. He loves you now, don't you see..? that is why you have to... die."
"WHAT!!?" Watari stared at them, Tsuzuki sat on the ground staring as if struck by lightning, and Tatsumi was held in Omega's embrace, with closed eyes. He looked so broken. "You can't, I won't let--!!" Watari was cut off by Tatsumi's agonising cry and then silence as Omega's sword seemed to had materialised out of thin air and then been thrust through Tatsumi's abdomen stopping not an inch from Tsuzuki's eyes.
"...N... no... n... o..." Watari trembled violently and watched as Omega pulled out his sword and released his hold on the very still body of Tatsumi, he pushed it towards Tsuzuki who caught it still staring off into space. Slowly Tsuzuki's eyes fell on the body in his arms and they widened in pure and utter horror.
"T...a..." he broke off in a scream. A scream of both body and spirit. Omega only smiled and disappeared, taking the unconscious Himura with him.
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Tsuzuki clutched Tatsumi's body tightly, his clothes was drenched in his former partner's blood, the wound inflicted by the magical weapon had been fatal. The amethyst-eyed shinnigami was frighteningly quiet and Hisoka, who had regained consciousness, could only feel emptiness inside his partner.
Watari had retold the story with a trembling, stammering, voice and with tears streaming down his face. Hisoka was too shocked to shed tears or feel anything yet. It was so unreal, and he was afraid too, for Tsuzuki's sake. As Watari had told him, Tatsumi was killed because Tsuzuki had changed and 'killed' the old Touda. That really made Tatsumi's death... Tsuzuki's fault. It was like the whole Kyoto incident all over again, only this time it wasn't a stranger's death but the death of a dear friend.
"Hisoka..?" Tsuzuki's voice startled the eternal teen and so he only stared at his partner before he answered.
"Aa..."
"Tatsumi... he really loved me..." Tsuzuki trailed off and bit his lower lip and shut his eyes tightly to stop the tears from falling and from screaming again. He buried his face in Tatsumi's hair and cried miserably.
Watari saw Tsuzuki start to cry again so he walked over to his friend and embraced him from behind crying his eyes out into Tsuzuki's back.
Hisoka watched them, it was weird, but somehow he couldn't seem to get it, to comprehend what had really happened, because, for some reason... he didn't really thing Tatsumi was dead. Turning away from the sad sight he saw a small fire left from the havoc the magic storm had caused and a idea struck him.
The Earl in the House of Candles!! As soon as the thought struck him he dashed off, not really sure what he wanted to find.
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Hisoka knocked gently on the door into the study where he had been told he could find the Earl.
"Enter!" he heard a muffled reply through the door, and so he did.
"Hakushaku-sama... I've a favour to ask of you." He said as soon as he entered the study with books and candles everywhere. The floating mask and gloves he knew as the Earl sat behind his desk and had his hands braided in front of his 'face'.
"Oh, Kurosaki Hisoka-chan, you have a favour to ask you say, what is it?" the Earl said softly and tilted his head to the side, giving the impression to be smiling.
"Tatsumi... died. I would like to see his shinnigami-life candle and his death list..." Hisoka watched the Earl a long time before the invisible man replied.
"Why should I let you do that?" he asked and watched Hisoka flinch.
"Be... Because I don't think he's dead. And because if he is alive, but dying, then we have to save him... If not for his sake then for Tsuzuki's sake... He might try to pull something like Kyoto again..." Hisoka trailed off and the room settled to silence again. After a small eternity, the Earl rose from his seat and beckoned for Hisoka to follow him and so he did.
They exited the study and walked down the corridor.
"Say, Hisoka-chan, why do you still think Tatsumi's still alive?" the Earl asked. Hisoka blinked.
"Um... I just know, somehow, I know... and I think I know how to stop Omega too..." Hisoka answered and frowned slightly.
"I just know..."
To Be Continued...
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AARRRGGHH!!! I killed Tatsumi!! But don't worry he'll come back somehow! (I hope so...) Me too... The Evil Plot-bunny has struck again! ;_; I'll fix it I promise ^_^;;...
~/BlueRaven\~
Chapter Seven
By BlueRaven
A/n: oki the weird story that is ending up exactly as I intended for once is now going to continue! ^_^ POV warning oki...
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Tsuzuki woke up in the hospital-wing. The first thing he saw was the white ceiling in the resting room.
What he saw as he looked around was Hisoka sleeping in a chair next to the window his arms around his legs and his head resting against his knees.
He looks peaceful, Tsuzuki thought and smiled softly.
A dull pain from his chest made Tsuzuki flinch slightly. "What happened..? oh yeah, Himura attacked me..." Tsuzuki turned his gaze away from the sleeping beauty and continued his survey of the white painted room.
On the opposite side from Hisoka sat Watari, snoozing away sitting in a chair against the wall. Tsuzuki's smile widened as he saw the scientist and his pet owl. The owl was asleep as well and had perked herself on Watari's left shoulder.
"Oh, Watari..." Tsuzuki murmured and shook his head causing a flash of pain exploding at his damaged chest. What was this!? Sure a shinnigami could be hurt but this..? The pain increased as he tensed by the first wave of pain, and so he tried desperately to bite back a cry.
"Mgh... Itai..." he whispered and clenched his teeth. This hurt so much... what was wrong?
Suddenly he was startled as to hear the door open, he stared at it as if whoever it was were going to kill him as soon as he/she came through it.
"Watari-kun, Kurosaki-kun, how is...he..?" Tatsumi trailed off as he met the startled eyes of his beloved. He stopped in his tracks and just stared at Tsuzuki. Soon the spell was broken by a mumbling, "Wha..? What, I'm not asleep..." and a wide awake Watari.
"Tatsumi... TSUZUKI!!? You're awake now!?" Watari's cry roused the sleeping Hisoka who turned his cold green eyes to the three of them glaring daggers in a very How-dare-they-wake-me kind of way. But that look faded as he saw that Tsuzuki was up.
"You're all right! What happened?"
"I... um... I got slashed by a huge sword that Himura was carrying. He attacked me, I didn't even notice before I was lying on the ground, bleeding... Then I passed out, what happened then?" Tsuzuki met his young partner's eyes and saw as Hisoka lowered his sight without answering.
"We found you unconscious in the street, you had lost alot of blood. Your wound was caused by a magic sword and you will take two days to become fully healed. Anyway, Kurosaki-kun... fainted and we, Watari and I, had to take you both back to Meifu. You are heavy, Tsuzuki." Tatsumi gave Tsuzuki his usual protective smile, and glanced over at Hisoka who's face turned slightly pink.
"Oh, Tsu-chan, that Himura guy, he killed one more guy after he attacked you which means he only has one left before Omega is called." Watari said gravely, his whole being set on 'serious-mode'. Tatsumi nodded.
"That was last night, you still have to heal... but... we need you and your shikigamis powers to be able to stop Himura and if we're unlucky... Omega himself." Tatsumi continued and met Tsuzuki's gaze. "You understand don't you, Tsuzuki?" The injured shinnigami nodded and, shifted his gaze to Hisoka who only watched them in silence.
"I will be fine, Hisoka." Tsuzuki said after staring at his partner for a long time and smiled.
Hisoka didn't answer he only nodded and tried not to look all too worried. His usual stoic visage soon settled in on his features which caused Tsuzuki to stop worrying himself over the boy.
The four shinnigamis agreed on great caution when it came to Himura, and that Tsuzuki who still was healing would be extra careful something that both Hisoka and Tatsumi seemed to take as an impossibility. And soon they left Meifu.
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Pink eyes illuminated by strange light opened as a scent and the sound of soft footsteps entered the chamber belonging to Omega.
Ping met covered red and Omega smiled, his beautiful lips parting showing his fanged teethes.
"My Koibito... My Touda..." he whispered and extended his right hand as far as the chains would let him. "Come,... Come to me, my love..." Omega's silken voice called and his sakura eyes pleaded with such hidden need.
"No. I've come to speak to you. Not..." Touda trailed off and looked away. He crossed his arms over his chest, his belted boots scraped the ground as he shifted. "You know why I've come! Why don't you stop your summoning!? You were the one who asked me to lock you away and to... to forget!"
Omega's smile vanished, and an unreadable expression settled on his finely shaped features. Pink eyes traced over the form before him. Touda, his Hell Serpent, was changed. His calmed by that mechanical thing on his head which covered his red eyes.
"Change... never. Never did I believe you would change, my dear killer of both friend and foe. My Koibito..." Omega said and his eyes widened and looked about as if he was hearing something.
"Oh, listen! Hear that voice full of thoughts of vengeance, oh sweet voice, how I long to join you and aid you. Can you hear him, Koibito, do you hear that voice? How bloodthirsty it is, do you?" Omega's voice was that of a madman, his eyes darted here and there, sometimes settling on Touda only to drift away again, his face was split in two by his mad smile.
Touda calmly watched as the ecstatic call was washing over his ex-lover's mind. A call was like an orgasm, it set your mind in a joy for a fight, at least thus was the case with himself and Omega.
The moment passed, and pink was once again back to normal locking with covered red once more. "Lovely..." Omega whispered and licked his lips, which was stained red with blood!
"How..?" Touda took a step back away from the disturbing sight. he ought to be used to it by now but he wasn't.
"There is only one more left, then I will be called. My sword let me taste some of the blood I will bathe in, in a day or two... Sweet, dearest, Koibito, will you join me? Will your master summon you to fight me? Will you try and kill me?" Touda blinked then he nodded gravely. Yes if Tsuzuki called him he would come, and if he ordered him to kill Omega... he would, because it was... Tsuzuki who ordered it.
"Yes, Omega. I will if Tsuzuki calls me." Touda's voice was steady as was his gaze as he said this. Omega's visage turned serious and thoughtful for a while before he started smiling as if a great idea struck him.
"Then... I just have to kill this... Tsuzuki, and I know just the way..." Omega laughed, the sound echoing through the camber, Touda stared. Omega would kill... Tsuzuki!?
"NO!! I won't let you do that. If you even try to harm him I will destroy you once and for all, even if he does not call me I will seek you out and kill you, remember that, dear Omega." Touda could feel himself trembling with rage, he would not let any harm come to his master, ever!
Omega only watched Touda with a strange smile on his face. The pink eyes drifted close as he let his voice enter the mind of the boy who was calling him. ::I will soon be with you, boy... Our battle shall be splendid!::
"Maybe..." Omega spoke to Touda. "I won't do a thing to your master, who knows, Touda, no one does."
Suddenly the chamber trembled by the loud call of a voice and the sound of a word being spoken. "REN!!" it was complete, the spell was finished. Omega was called.
Light surrounded Omega's form, he felt it more then saw it and he felt the grip of the chains release him, and placed in his free hands was his sword drenched in the blood of the last victim. Oh how wonderful. The light grew stronger along with the thundering echo of the last word, until everything disappeared and Touda was left in complete heavy silence.
Touda extended a trembling hand towards the place where his ex-lover had stood only moments before. He took a shaky breath and cried, "OMEGA!!"
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"What is that!?" Watari cried as a light blinded him. The place all around Himura seemed to dwell in a storm, with the boy in its calm centre, only his red hair waved slightly and glittering ki surrounded him as he rose his arms, sword in hand, towards the blue moon.
"Omega... H-he's coming, Tsuzuki!!" Tatsumi's voice held panic, and Hisoka only some meters away from the secretary felt the dread emitting from his superior. Tatsumi turned to Tsuzuki and grabbed hold of the younger shinnigami's hand.
"I... can feel him, his joy! Tsuzuki... he's inside me!?" the usual calm and confident blue eyes of Tatsumi was wide and panicked as he stared at Tsuzuki with his hands gripping hard at Tsuzuki's hand.
Tsuzuki's eyes shone with worry for his former partner, he was frightened too. It was always Tatsumi who were the strong one, and now... Tsuzuki had to take on that role.
"Tsuzuki what does he mean by that!?" Watari's shout brought the musing Tsuzuki back to reality.
"What!?" he said and blinked. Tatsumi calmed himself down, he released his hold on Tsuzuki's hands and turned to the worried scientist, his blue eyes cold as ice.
"I do not wish you to know, Watari-kun." He said coldly, letting his gaze travel over to Hisoka who flinched by the mingle of emotions bombarding his mind from the secretary. "Is that clear? Stop asking me or Tsuzuki about it!!" the last sentence was a shout, Tatsumi threw his hands up , clutching his head and then he screamed.
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It feels like fire in my veins. Liquid fire, it holds no pain. I can feel it in me, around me. It's him, my God, Omega. He's coming for me to be my vengeance upon all who've ever hurt me and those I love.
My God of Death.
Omega come to me, rise and cleanse the world. Kill all, and start with them. Those shinnigami's who wished to see you still locked away and un- called.
Will you be my friend? Omega, I've given you all I have and some. I would gladly give you the rest of my already dying soul.
COME!!
::I'm coming, boy!::
His voice... I can hear it! Yes, you're coming to me. Yes!!
::I'm soon by your side, young one, I'll kill for you!::
"Oh Kami-sama... yes come Omega!" I cry and rise his sword high into the air, I can see the five pointed star settle on the ground around me along with the one hundred and thirty-three signs for every sacrifice shining like blood set on fire. I feel power snake its way up around my body and before me, rising through the earth, is a figure of a man.
the figure is only a three-dimensional shadow at first, but soon I can make out the contours of his muscles and see the colour of his hair.
He turn to me, clothes materialising as he does and soon he's wearing a black robe with belts and golden jewellery. On his right middle finger he wars a claw-like ring that follows the whole finger. His body is perfect! I lock eyes with him for the first time, Oh Kami, what eyes! Sakura-coloured, and his hair is red like the blood of his sacrifices.
"My God..." I hear myself whisper and I fall... and fall, until two strong black-dressed arms catch me in their embrace.
"Himura, my strong minded boy, rest. I will take care of everything now. Do not worry, you'll have your revenge on the one who killed your family..." I hear his whisper huskily into my ear and I feel him place me gently on the ground and there... I fall asleep...
*****
Omega gently placed the boy down, then rose and turned to the four shinnigamis just as Tatsumi screamed, inside he could feel a sting of sharp pain and so he stumbled.
Trembling he rose his hand to his chest as another sting was felt.
"What the..!?" his eyes flashed up and he stared wildly towards Tatsumi and the worried Tsuzuki who was embracing Tatsumi who's agonising scream echoed all around. What was this... a connection? If so then this was the first time ever it had let him feel any pain.
Omega threw his head back and laughed madly. This was wonderful, the pain he felt was lovely. He loved it, wanted, no, needed more of it.
He took another step closer to the shinnigamis, and another. For every step closer the pain increased along with Tatsumi's cries. The shinnigami was crying, his tears flowing down his cheeks, such a lovely sight.
Soon the shinnigami stopped screaming and only whimpered softly, his body limp in Tsuzuki's arms. Hisoka, being an emphath, had fainted by the enormous emotion from Tatsumi. Watari sat beside him on the ground, his eyes on his two friends.
"What the hell happened between the three of you, Tsuzuki!? What did Omega do to Tatsumi!?" Tsuzuki met the eyes of Watari, but before he got to answer he felt Tatsumi ripped from his embrace.
Turning he saw Omega holding the staring Tatsumi close to his body (a/n: if you are wondering, Tatsumi is paralysed at the moment by the close contact of him and Omega (the same thing that's causing the pain?) That's right...). The shadow user breathed irregularly as if he had hard to breathe. His staring eyes locked with Tsuzuki.
"You know... I spoke to my Koibito before I came here... and he was changed." Omega's voice was cold, his smile vanished, he was looking directly at Tsuzuki, while he let his claw-ringed finger trace over Tatsumi's cheek. "You were the one who changed him. You took away the man I loved, so therefor... I will take the one you love." Omega smiled evilly and the clawed finger cut a small cut on Tatsumi's cheek, he didn't even flinch.
Watari stared at the scene. His hair was a mess and his white lab-coat had slipped off one of his shoulders. What was Omega talking about? Had Touda spoken to him? He heard the last sentence and froze. Could Omega speak about what he thought he was? If so... Tatsumi...
"Tsuzuki!! Call your shikigamis!!" Watari cried but Tsuzuki didn't move.
Tsuzuki stared into Tatsumi's blue eyes, his former partner only stared back as Omega continued.
"Do you want to know what he thinks of you, little shinnigami?" Tsuzuki shook his head but Omega ignored him. "He has loved you since he first came to Meifu, he has dreams about you where he takes you over and over. He wishes he was Hisoka so he had your heart... He even wished he was Muraki so that he would be able to touch you without feeling guilt!"
"No..." Tsuzuki shook his head, and saw tears gather into Tatsumi's lovely ocean eyes. Still his former partner remained silent.
"Oh yes, and in his dreams you always tell him how much you love him... sometimes he even takes you against your will and he loves it!!"
"NO!!"
"Ha haha, Oh yes! Do you know what he wished when I invited you to play with him when I fucked his ass? He wished to fuck you as I was still taking him. Isn't that nice..?" Omega tightened his hold on Tatsumi, pressing him closer to his body.
Tsuzuki saw the tears fall and his former partner hanged his head, refusing to meet his eyes. Softly Tatsumi spoke. "I... I'm sorry, Tsuzuki... Forgive me..." a small graced Tatsumi's features.
"Say, Tsuzuki... Did you ever have your precious Hisoka?" Omega's words made Tatsumi flinch and meet Tsuzuki's eyes again. Tsuzuki didn't answer, his mind racing back to the time after the Kyoto mission... Oh yes he had had him all right.
Omega leaned his head closer to Tatsumi, looking at Tsuzuki. "Do you see this Tatsumi-san..?" he said. Tatsumi's eyes widened as Omega let the thoughts he snatched from Tsuzuki flood into his mind.
"Tsu... zuki... I'm so... stupid... just so stupid..." Tatsumi trailed off, he felt Omega turn him around so that he faced the shiki. His body was still numb all over.
"No you're not stupid for loving him, but for not taking him when you had your chance, sweet one. He loves you now, don't you see..? that is why you have to... die."
"WHAT!!?" Watari stared at them, Tsuzuki sat on the ground staring as if struck by lightning, and Tatsumi was held in Omega's embrace, with closed eyes. He looked so broken. "You can't, I won't let--!!" Watari was cut off by Tatsumi's agonising cry and then silence as Omega's sword seemed to had materialised out of thin air and then been thrust through Tatsumi's abdomen stopping not an inch from Tsuzuki's eyes.
"...N... no... n... o..." Watari trembled violently and watched as Omega pulled out his sword and released his hold on the very still body of Tatsumi, he pushed it towards Tsuzuki who caught it still staring off into space. Slowly Tsuzuki's eyes fell on the body in his arms and they widened in pure and utter horror.
"T...a..." he broke off in a scream. A scream of both body and spirit. Omega only smiled and disappeared, taking the unconscious Himura with him.
*****
Tsuzuki clutched Tatsumi's body tightly, his clothes was drenched in his former partner's blood, the wound inflicted by the magical weapon had been fatal. The amethyst-eyed shinnigami was frighteningly quiet and Hisoka, who had regained consciousness, could only feel emptiness inside his partner.
Watari had retold the story with a trembling, stammering, voice and with tears streaming down his face. Hisoka was too shocked to shed tears or feel anything yet. It was so unreal, and he was afraid too, for Tsuzuki's sake. As Watari had told him, Tatsumi was killed because Tsuzuki had changed and 'killed' the old Touda. That really made Tatsumi's death... Tsuzuki's fault. It was like the whole Kyoto incident all over again, only this time it wasn't a stranger's death but the death of a dear friend.
"Hisoka..?" Tsuzuki's voice startled the eternal teen and so he only stared at his partner before he answered.
"Aa..."
"Tatsumi... he really loved me..." Tsuzuki trailed off and bit his lower lip and shut his eyes tightly to stop the tears from falling and from screaming again. He buried his face in Tatsumi's hair and cried miserably.
Watari saw Tsuzuki start to cry again so he walked over to his friend and embraced him from behind crying his eyes out into Tsuzuki's back.
Hisoka watched them, it was weird, but somehow he couldn't seem to get it, to comprehend what had really happened, because, for some reason... he didn't really thing Tatsumi was dead. Turning away from the sad sight he saw a small fire left from the havoc the magic storm had caused and a idea struck him.
The Earl in the House of Candles!! As soon as the thought struck him he dashed off, not really sure what he wanted to find.
*****
Hisoka knocked gently on the door into the study where he had been told he could find the Earl.
"Enter!" he heard a muffled reply through the door, and so he did.
"Hakushaku-sama... I've a favour to ask of you." He said as soon as he entered the study with books and candles everywhere. The floating mask and gloves he knew as the Earl sat behind his desk and had his hands braided in front of his 'face'.
"Oh, Kurosaki Hisoka-chan, you have a favour to ask you say, what is it?" the Earl said softly and tilted his head to the side, giving the impression to be smiling.
"Tatsumi... died. I would like to see his shinnigami-life candle and his death list..." Hisoka watched the Earl a long time before the invisible man replied.
"Why should I let you do that?" he asked and watched Hisoka flinch.
"Be... Because I don't think he's dead. And because if he is alive, but dying, then we have to save him... If not for his sake then for Tsuzuki's sake... He might try to pull something like Kyoto again..." Hisoka trailed off and the room settled to silence again. After a small eternity, the Earl rose from his seat and beckoned for Hisoka to follow him and so he did.
They exited the study and walked down the corridor.
"Say, Hisoka-chan, why do you still think Tatsumi's still alive?" the Earl asked. Hisoka blinked.
"Um... I just know, somehow, I know... and I think I know how to stop Omega too..." Hisoka answered and frowned slightly.
"I just know..."
To Be Continued...
*****
AARRRGGHH!!! I killed Tatsumi!! But don't worry he'll come back somehow! (I hope so...) Me too... The Evil Plot-bunny has struck again! ;_; I'll fix it I promise ^_^;;...
~/BlueRaven\~