Hiyee!!! Reia-chan's back!!! Anyway, this is the TWENTY-FIFTH chapter of 'Between Two Hearts'. I would like to say that I will cut things short. I would just post fights only for Cerberus, Tsuzuki and Hisoka, I guess, because I lack information on other characters of YnM. Gomen…
Disclaimer: I don't own Yami no Matsuei so don't sue me. But Kageyami Saino, Yumeki Sakura, Akizuki Kyla, Cerberus, Strength, etc. (Previous and Upcoming characters not related to YnM) belongs to me.
Sakura Riu: I also like the song 'It's Gonna be Love'! Hehe… That's why I used it in here! Anyway, thanks!
Kaldea: Next chapter? Well, here it is! Hope you'll like it!
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Between Two Hearts
Chapter 25: The Ending and The Beginning
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The young boy, soaked wet by the rain, dashed onto the puddles of the street.
"Darn, everything has gone complicated!" he thought. "Kyla… Strength… What did he do to you?!"
When he arrived at the apartment, he banged the door open, making Tsuzuki and Cerberus surprised. He was breathing heavily.
Tsuzuki went to him and asked, "Hisoka, daijoubu ka? You're soaking wet!!!"
Supporting his body by holding unto the door's frame, he told him, still breathing heavily, "Kyla… and Strength…"
"Nan desu ka?" Cerberus also went to him.
"Are they here?…" the young boy asked.
Tsuzuki went toward him and pushed him towards his room, "Before anything else, you better change first."
After a few minutes of changing, Hisoka went out of his room. Hisoka closed the door and sat on one of the kitchen chairs, where the two sat.
"I want to inform you about something," he said, placing his arms on his legs. "Muraki… Muraki did…"
A huge thud was heard in front of our apartment door. We hurriedly went and opened the door.
"Kyla!" recognizing his girlfriend, Tsuzuki hurriedly carried her and brought her inside.
The young boy was in a state of shock. His eyes widely were open, as if something wasn't right. Then, he turned to Cerberus and Strength.
"Strength!" Cerberus also was about to carry her but Strength held his arm, indicating him to listen to her first.
Strength, who was stained with red all over her, coughed and said weakly, "Cerberus, Strength won't be staying here for long. The same goes with onee-chan Kyla…" she coughed more blood, her body twisting in pain.
"What do you mean?! We're Shikigamis! And Kyla's a Shinigami! We're already dead," he wiped off the blood on her lips with his hand.
She smiled, "Yes, indeed. But Muraki has this special thing that is very dangerous. It can wipe out anything by using it unto something. It was a cerise liquid. It looked like a mixture of blood and a purple substance… Ah!!!" She twisted in pain but hurts more than before.
"Strength, what's wrong?!" Cerberus hugged her.
A lot of blood were spilling out like small fountains but slowly was disappearing along with her.
Cerberus cried, "Strength, no!!! Don't go!!!"
"Cerberus…" Strength slid her weak hand in her dress and took out the red scarf. Strength gave out her gentlest smile and said, "I want to give… this back… to you… Please wear it… I want to see… you… wear it…"
"Strength…" he nodded and took it from her.
"Cerberus… I have to… tell you… something…" she whispered with tears running down her cheeks and her finger wiping his tears. "I've wanted… to tell you… this… a long time ago…"
"I… I… love…yo…" It was too late. Her eyes slowly shut and her hand lamely fell down from his face.
Hisoka looked away with closed eyes, pitying his Shikigami.
He held her hand, "Strength… wake up… please… open your eyes…"
He tapped her soft cheeks, "… Please… I have to hear… what you want to say…"
But her lips didn't move even just a bit and no warm breath came out from her. She suddenly burst into shards of sparkling crystals that slowly descended around them.
A tear streaked down off his face and onto the ground, which easily disappeared. He cupped his hand as one of the tiny shards landed on it.
"Strength…" he grasped and hugged it along with the red scarf.
The tiny shards around them slowly faded. Cerberus was still sitting on the ground, thinking of the Shikigami he hated and loved the most. He tied the red scarf on his wrist as he had promised Strength.
"Card 00… The Fool… The Beginning…"
Hisoka spun around, recognizing that familiar soft voice.
"Saino???"
He suddenly remembered the prediction that Saino foretold him and understood it very clearly.
"… To sum it all up, a sacrifice and a fight would happen. It would be between your close past person and you. You would also realize in the future that you really do love her…"
He understood clearly what she said. The sacrifices were Kyla and Strength. The fight must be the obstacle in their way to save Saino, and between Muraki and him. Between his close past person and him, it means Saino and Hisoka. And realizing that he really did love her, he already have fell for her.
As he had put his mind back on where he was standing, he realized the silence surrounding them.
"Cerberus, don't you think it's too quiet in here?" he seriously asked.
The Shikigami stood up and nodded but was still down for he lost someone he loved the most. Someone suddenly screamed, shrilling. They turned to its direction to find out what was happening. It was a lady who's slowly disappearing and feeling pain. Black spirits suddenly generated around her and tore her spirit then vanished, leaving no trace of existence of that lady.
They were stunned by the seen. They quickly went inside and locked the door, thinking it was safer inside. Hisoka noticed Cerberus was sweating a lot as if he knew something.
He asked him, placing his hand on his shoulders, "Daijoubu?"
"I've never felt such power that that black thing have…" he breathed heavily.
"What do you mean? They're stronger than us?!"
He nodded, "Seems like that. But I was wondering where it come from…"
"Card 01… The Magician… The Action…"
"Card 02… The High Priestess… The Unconscious Awareness…"
Hisoka knew that voice came from Saino but it confused him why she's stating the major arcana of the tarot cards.
"KYLA!!!" Tsuzuki suddenly cried.
They hurriedly ran towards his room.
"Tsuzuki, daijoubu?!" the young boy asked upon arriving.
Kyla, who was on Tsuzuki's lap, was slowly disappearing and told him, "Aoi, onegai… do me a favor…"
He went to her and held her arm.
She smiled, "Save Saino… I know you also love her… Let her realize that… Urgh!!!"
"Kyla!" Tsuzuki hugged her.
"Asato… Gomen… I won't be able to be with you for long… G-gomen…"
"Kyla, don't say that! I promised you that I'll protect you!" he shouted.
Kyla shook but just a little due to her losing of energy, "You can't save me anymore… It's already been done…"
"What has already been done!? I'll do anything just to save you!" Tsuzuki wrapped his arms around her.
"… I love you…" she closed her eyes and slowly disappeared into broken crystals like Strength.
"Card 03… The Empress… The Motherhood…"
"KYLA!!!" he yelled, crying up to the top of his voice.
"Card 04… The Emperor… The Fatherhood…"
Hisoka realized that it was the only one who could hear her voice because no one dared to ask anything about it. And now, two of them have lost the ones they loved.
"What if Saino would be next?…" he thought.
Tsuzuki seriously told him, wiping away the tears from his brimmed eyes, "We've to save Saino. For Ky…"
He held his head as it made a slight ache. The same goes with Cerberus.
Hisoka asked them, "Daijoubu ka?"
Tsuzuki and Cerberus nodded.
"What was I about to say, Hisoka?" Tsuzuki asked.
"You said that we've to save Saino. I guess you next statement was for Kyla…"
"Kyla??? Who's Kyla???" Tsuzuki and Cerberus asked in unison.
"Nani?" Hisoka was confused. "Don't you remember Akizuki Kyla?! Also, Strength?!"
The two shook in confusion. Hisoka was struck with their response. Nobody knew Kyla and Strength except for him.
"Never mind," he said.
Suddenly, a black spirit entered the apartment through the wall and was about to attack them. Tsuzuki quickly grabbed one of his ofudas and used it.
He chanted some words then finally said, "Demon, Repel!"
The black spirit evaporated then vanished.
Tsuzuki said, "We've got to place a barrier in the whole apartment!"
He gave them some ofudas and they decorated it over the corners of the house. After that, they were all sitting together at the floor, breathing heavily.
Cerberus wipe his sweat with his arm, "Please don't surprise me with these things…" Still breathing heavily.
Hisoka and Tsuzuki were leaning at each other back.
The young boy said, "I'm sure this barrier won't last forever."
"Have any plan?" the inu Tsuzuki asked.
Hisoka raised his cellphone and said, "Let's call Konoe. Or maybe Tatsumi."
He was about to call when Tsuzuki suddenly asked.
"Who's Konoe??? Who's Tatsumi???"
The boy stayed silent and thought, "I guess it's useless to call them. They may also be gone…"
"Hisoka, are YOU all right?!" inu Tsuzuki asked worriedly.
The boy just smiled and nodded, "Forget about what I said. Let's just to head to Tokyo and save Saino. I'm getting worried about her."
He stood and headed towards the wooden door. When he opened it, another black spirit was waiting there and was about to slash him.
"Hisoka!!!"
The young boy crossed his arm but the black spirit suddenly vanished.
"Huh???" he uncrossed his arms and wondered.
He noticed the ofuda that Saino gave was shimmering in his jacket.
"Saino…" he smiled.
"Hisoka!!! Tasukete!!!" He knew that that voice came from Saino. The previous dream he had suddenly flashed in his head but different from all of it.
~~~ In his thoughts ~~~
"Hisoka…" the real Saino was tucking her head on her knees in the darkness. She was whimpering. Her sapphire eyes were slowly revealed as she moved her head upward.
"Hisoka…" she extended her arm. "… Tasukete…"
Suddenly, she hugged herself, her body twisted in pain.
"Hi-Hisoka… Tasukete…" she moaned in pain. "AHHHH!!!"
Her back was splitting into two, creating an opening for the black bat wings to get out.
"HISOKA!!! IT HURTS!!! TASUKETE!!!" she cried.
Soon, the two ebony wings were released. She slowly opened her eyes, revealing purple ones. Her body was stained with the color of red. She licked the blood that was on the side of her lips and smirked. But then, clear drops slowly crawled off her face and dropped, turning into sapphire studs.
Recognizing that the studs were the ones he gave her, he remembered what the lady said back then.
"It's archaic so I would say that this is rare. And its sapphire pearls are the siren's tears, which crystallized. It was only thought as a legend though…"
"… Rumors say that they're magical but it's still a mystery. But I think it has something to do with this paper with it."
He read what was written on it, "To hearts, we add the cheerful and soft music, plus the hand of winter that would be taken. Offering this to the future, thy last ritual would be fulfilled…"
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His thoughts were back to the present but were still troubled by the incomprehensible sapphire studs.
"What could it mean?"
"Hisoka, daijoubu?!" Tsuzuki asked as he shook off the boy.
"Hai. Hai…" he replied plainly.
"Yokatta…" he sighed.
"Saino…" he worriedly thought.
"Card 05… The Hierophant… The Education…"
"Card 06… The Lovers… The Relationship…"
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It was already dark. Standing on a balcony, a young girl was staring at the night skies. She was cupping a small black box with her hands. She closed her eyes and recalled.
"To hearts, we add the cheerful and soft music, plus the hand of winter that would be taken. Offering this to the future, thy last ritual would be fulfilled."
She touched one of her studs on the ears, "Hisoka…" A tear streaked out from the side of her eye.
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Reia: Wah… Don't understand what's happening to Saino?… Daijoubu! Things would clear up once the chapter with the last battle would be posted. Hehe… ONCE the chapter WITH the LAST battle would be posted… ^^
Next chapter hints: (You Are…)
Kamui: Hisoka, Tsuzuki and Cerberus started to move out when a new opponent came along their way. This is Cerberus' fighting scene. He's going to battle an… eleven year old child?!! Why are they sending out minions with such young age?! Child abuse!!! Anyway, Cerberus is going to have a problem because that CHILD is someone… you know… or maybe… just resembles her?
Reia: *sighs* good thing the part with the 'unexpected' information was not posted here. It's not yet the time for you to know that UNexpected thing but I guess someone already knows what it is because I accidentally told her. Anyway, please review! Arigato gozaimasu! ^^