Hello. I'm back, sorry about my absence, the dark side took over and said
'no more updating for two weeks'.I managed a week. Ha! I fought against the
dark side and won! Though this chapter would say different. Urm, what to
say.. How about..
Execution
Kai's sentence had been set for dawn. It would've been earlier, but Jin wanted Kai to suffer through suffocation, and the best way to do that was to hang him. That meant that the strong wooden scaffolding would have to be put up upon the cold, hard stone stage in the centre of the town hall for all to see. The thick taut rope that was going to sit comfortably around Kai's small, slender neck had already been chosen by Jin himself.
While they waited, Kai had been placed in a tent that was securely guarded, with two soldiers at the entrance and two at the rear. Kai himself had been reduced to a pair of torn denim shorts and had his arms tied behind the pole that held up the tent. He sat on his feet with his head lowered and eyes closed. The Black Dranzer bit piece had been removed from around his neck and taken away. Kai had been in that position the whole time, not even moving when Jin came in and announced his death-time.
Not one shred of light entered the tent, it was pitch black and Kai's eyes were refusing to get used to his common surroundings: Not that it mattered, Kai had kept his eyes closed the whole time. Occasionally there would come the noise of the guards changing shifts, but apart from that it was quiet. Guard watch happened often, obviously Jin wasn't taking any risks this time. He was that determined, that not one piece of furniture was within the tent and Kai hadn't been offered food or water.
Kai could do nothing but wait and think; think about what he'd done, what had happened. Yet, he hadn't been thinking about it at all, he couldn't remember anything he'd been thinking about in the past hours of his isolation. Not a sigh was uttered, not a tear was shed, not a laugh was echoed, not a word was muttered. Kai had done nothing. It was if he had accepted his fate and just wanted it over and done with now.
During the day, Kai had listened as his stage was set. Each plank raised and nailed together with iron, then the laughs as the idiots pretended to be hanging from the securely fastened lasso. Kai didn't care, why should he? He cared for no body and cared for none of their opinions. Rei. He cared for no one..no one.
The curtain door of his tent inched open letting in the nightlight. When Kai heard no footsteps crushing the brown grass, he looked up to see Anasha peeking her head through, looking at Kai, saddened and worried. Kai just lowered his head again. The light disappeared and the footsteps were heard. Anasha slowly walked up to Kai, holding her hands up to her chest, scared and worried for Kai. Once she was in front of him, she knelt and tried to look at Kai's tilted head. Kai raised his head for her. She smiled slightly and Kai tired his best to smile back.
"Hi Kai-kun." Anasha said sheepishly.
"Hey there, Anasha-chan. You shouldn't be here." Kai replied, his throat sore.
"My big brother said that you were going away tomorrow with the angels." Anasha explained.
"That's right." Kai replied.
"My friend went with the angels, she was very ill. I miss her." Anasha added, rocking slightly.
"Sorry." Kai offered.
"I don't like the angels, they take the people I like away from me." Anasha opened.
"They don't mean to upset you. They're just trying to make those peoples' lives a lot easier to live with by taking away the pain of the life they have." Kai offered.
"Do you have pain?" Anasha asked.
"Yes." Kai answered simply.
"But, if you go, won't the people who care for you be in pain?" Anasha asked.
"No, because I'll be in a better place." Kai replied.
"I know that, but I will still feel pain. Will I die?" Anasha asked.
"No. You will live for a long time. To die you have to be in a lot of pain. Your pain is different to your friend's and my pain." Kai explained.
"I think my brother's being too mean on you. All you wanted was to go home." Anasha complained.
"I hurt a lot of your people, Anasha-chan, that's why this is happening." Kai explained.
"It's still wrong." Anasha pouted.
"I know, but, this is how it is and you need to accept it and carry on with your life and do the best you can with it." Kai offered support.
"I think he should let you go back home, to your family. That's what I'd do, coz you probably have a girlfriend and a mommy and a daddy who want you back." Anasha protested.
"My mom and dad are waiting for me with the angels." Kai said bluntly.
"Is that why you want to go with them, to see your mommy and daddy?" Anasha asked.
"That's one of the reasons." Kai answered.
"What about your girlfriend?" Anasha asked.
"Heh. I don't know if that person even wants me anymore." Kai said quietly.
"Why?" Anasha probed.
"We had a fight." Kai said simply.
"Fights are silly, I'm sure she still likes you. Love is very important, that's what my mommy says, she says it's the most important thing in the whole wide world." Anasha spoke proudly.
"It is. And when you find it, don't let it go. You may regret it." Kai insisted.
"Yep! I.I have to go. Jin will be going to check on me and I should be asleep." Anasha explained.
"Okay. Thank you, Anasha-chan, for keeping me company." Kai thanked.
Anasha leaned forward and kissed Kai on the cheek and hugged him with her arms around his neck. Kai leaned his head on hers to return the hug. Anasha pulled away, held Kai's face in her hands to look at him properly, then stepped away.
"Bye de Bye, Kai-kun" Anasha said.
"Bye." Kai returned.
Anasha shyly walked out of the tent and back to her room. Kai slumped back down and lowered his head.
As the rays of the morning sun snuck through the hills, Jin's village swarmed with soldiers that surrounded the village and every street, armed with shields and weapons of their personal choice. Every villager had already swarmed into the town hall to watch the execution.
The curtain doors flung open to Kai's tent, which caused him to squint at the intrusion of light. Jin stormed in with Mikio and Yuto right behind him. Jin pulled out a pocketknife and used it to raise Kai's head to face him. Once Kai obeyed, Jin threw it to the floor with his leather gloves. Kai stared at him as Jin studied Kai's fallen form.
"It's time, Kai." Jin announced.
Kai didn't respond, just stared at him. Jin sighed then picked his leather gloves off the floor and stood, turning to Mikio and Yuto.
"Bring him out." Jin ordered.
Mikio and Yuto, untied Kai's bound hands from the rope that was attached to his binds and led him out of the tent and over to the stage. The crowd booed Kai as he passed and was shoved around by outstretched hands. Jin walked up the stairs before Kai followed. Mikio and Yuto let Kai go, causing Kai to fall and bump into the scaffolding, dislocating his shoulder. Kai grunted at the pain, but his face soon turned to its usual state and he was forced back to his place by Mikio and Yuto.
They led him to the stool that sat under the thick lasso. Kai stepped onto the stool and Jin pulled the lasso over his head and around his neck, where he tightened it, already cutting off part of Kai's air supply. All the time Kai looked forward over the crowd and into the rising sun, knowing that when it was a full round burning ball, it would all begin.
The crowd booed at Kai as they also watched the sun rise with Jin, who had his foot on the stool. Jin rattled it slightly and grinned.
"Almost there, Kai." Jin slithered.
"About time." Kai spoke as bored as he could through the tight hold of the lasso.
One last time, Kai's eyes looked over the crowd at the booing parents, the taunting children, the hooded watchers and little Anasha. She sat at the front on a stool, eyes flooded with water, as she watched Kai stand there, thick rope around his fragile neck, reddened hands tied behind his back and his weak face that was partially covered by his messy hair. He smiled at her gently, reassuringly as the full beaming orb of fire appeared, which signalled for the stool to be kicked from under Kai's feet and for the lasso to begin its assault on Kai's neck.
Don't worry that's not the end, I wouldn't end it like that, that'd just be cruel. Like I said, don't kill me, and review please I always love the kind of reviews I get around these parts in my fics and I promise I'll get the next chappie out sooner than this was.
Bye de bye
P.S. don't kill me!
Execution
Kai's sentence had been set for dawn. It would've been earlier, but Jin wanted Kai to suffer through suffocation, and the best way to do that was to hang him. That meant that the strong wooden scaffolding would have to be put up upon the cold, hard stone stage in the centre of the town hall for all to see. The thick taut rope that was going to sit comfortably around Kai's small, slender neck had already been chosen by Jin himself.
While they waited, Kai had been placed in a tent that was securely guarded, with two soldiers at the entrance and two at the rear. Kai himself had been reduced to a pair of torn denim shorts and had his arms tied behind the pole that held up the tent. He sat on his feet with his head lowered and eyes closed. The Black Dranzer bit piece had been removed from around his neck and taken away. Kai had been in that position the whole time, not even moving when Jin came in and announced his death-time.
Not one shred of light entered the tent, it was pitch black and Kai's eyes were refusing to get used to his common surroundings: Not that it mattered, Kai had kept his eyes closed the whole time. Occasionally there would come the noise of the guards changing shifts, but apart from that it was quiet. Guard watch happened often, obviously Jin wasn't taking any risks this time. He was that determined, that not one piece of furniture was within the tent and Kai hadn't been offered food or water.
Kai could do nothing but wait and think; think about what he'd done, what had happened. Yet, he hadn't been thinking about it at all, he couldn't remember anything he'd been thinking about in the past hours of his isolation. Not a sigh was uttered, not a tear was shed, not a laugh was echoed, not a word was muttered. Kai had done nothing. It was if he had accepted his fate and just wanted it over and done with now.
During the day, Kai had listened as his stage was set. Each plank raised and nailed together with iron, then the laughs as the idiots pretended to be hanging from the securely fastened lasso. Kai didn't care, why should he? He cared for no body and cared for none of their opinions. Rei. He cared for no one..no one.
The curtain door of his tent inched open letting in the nightlight. When Kai heard no footsteps crushing the brown grass, he looked up to see Anasha peeking her head through, looking at Kai, saddened and worried. Kai just lowered his head again. The light disappeared and the footsteps were heard. Anasha slowly walked up to Kai, holding her hands up to her chest, scared and worried for Kai. Once she was in front of him, she knelt and tried to look at Kai's tilted head. Kai raised his head for her. She smiled slightly and Kai tired his best to smile back.
"Hi Kai-kun." Anasha said sheepishly.
"Hey there, Anasha-chan. You shouldn't be here." Kai replied, his throat sore.
"My big brother said that you were going away tomorrow with the angels." Anasha explained.
"That's right." Kai replied.
"My friend went with the angels, she was very ill. I miss her." Anasha added, rocking slightly.
"Sorry." Kai offered.
"I don't like the angels, they take the people I like away from me." Anasha opened.
"They don't mean to upset you. They're just trying to make those peoples' lives a lot easier to live with by taking away the pain of the life they have." Kai offered.
"Do you have pain?" Anasha asked.
"Yes." Kai answered simply.
"But, if you go, won't the people who care for you be in pain?" Anasha asked.
"No, because I'll be in a better place." Kai replied.
"I know that, but I will still feel pain. Will I die?" Anasha asked.
"No. You will live for a long time. To die you have to be in a lot of pain. Your pain is different to your friend's and my pain." Kai explained.
"I think my brother's being too mean on you. All you wanted was to go home." Anasha complained.
"I hurt a lot of your people, Anasha-chan, that's why this is happening." Kai explained.
"It's still wrong." Anasha pouted.
"I know, but, this is how it is and you need to accept it and carry on with your life and do the best you can with it." Kai offered support.
"I think he should let you go back home, to your family. That's what I'd do, coz you probably have a girlfriend and a mommy and a daddy who want you back." Anasha protested.
"My mom and dad are waiting for me with the angels." Kai said bluntly.
"Is that why you want to go with them, to see your mommy and daddy?" Anasha asked.
"That's one of the reasons." Kai answered.
"What about your girlfriend?" Anasha asked.
"Heh. I don't know if that person even wants me anymore." Kai said quietly.
"Why?" Anasha probed.
"We had a fight." Kai said simply.
"Fights are silly, I'm sure she still likes you. Love is very important, that's what my mommy says, she says it's the most important thing in the whole wide world." Anasha spoke proudly.
"It is. And when you find it, don't let it go. You may regret it." Kai insisted.
"Yep! I.I have to go. Jin will be going to check on me and I should be asleep." Anasha explained.
"Okay. Thank you, Anasha-chan, for keeping me company." Kai thanked.
Anasha leaned forward and kissed Kai on the cheek and hugged him with her arms around his neck. Kai leaned his head on hers to return the hug. Anasha pulled away, held Kai's face in her hands to look at him properly, then stepped away.
"Bye de Bye, Kai-kun" Anasha said.
"Bye." Kai returned.
Anasha shyly walked out of the tent and back to her room. Kai slumped back down and lowered his head.
As the rays of the morning sun snuck through the hills, Jin's village swarmed with soldiers that surrounded the village and every street, armed with shields and weapons of their personal choice. Every villager had already swarmed into the town hall to watch the execution.
The curtain doors flung open to Kai's tent, which caused him to squint at the intrusion of light. Jin stormed in with Mikio and Yuto right behind him. Jin pulled out a pocketknife and used it to raise Kai's head to face him. Once Kai obeyed, Jin threw it to the floor with his leather gloves. Kai stared at him as Jin studied Kai's fallen form.
"It's time, Kai." Jin announced.
Kai didn't respond, just stared at him. Jin sighed then picked his leather gloves off the floor and stood, turning to Mikio and Yuto.
"Bring him out." Jin ordered.
Mikio and Yuto, untied Kai's bound hands from the rope that was attached to his binds and led him out of the tent and over to the stage. The crowd booed Kai as he passed and was shoved around by outstretched hands. Jin walked up the stairs before Kai followed. Mikio and Yuto let Kai go, causing Kai to fall and bump into the scaffolding, dislocating his shoulder. Kai grunted at the pain, but his face soon turned to its usual state and he was forced back to his place by Mikio and Yuto.
They led him to the stool that sat under the thick lasso. Kai stepped onto the stool and Jin pulled the lasso over his head and around his neck, where he tightened it, already cutting off part of Kai's air supply. All the time Kai looked forward over the crowd and into the rising sun, knowing that when it was a full round burning ball, it would all begin.
The crowd booed at Kai as they also watched the sun rise with Jin, who had his foot on the stool. Jin rattled it slightly and grinned.
"Almost there, Kai." Jin slithered.
"About time." Kai spoke as bored as he could through the tight hold of the lasso.
One last time, Kai's eyes looked over the crowd at the booing parents, the taunting children, the hooded watchers and little Anasha. She sat at the front on a stool, eyes flooded with water, as she watched Kai stand there, thick rope around his fragile neck, reddened hands tied behind his back and his weak face that was partially covered by his messy hair. He smiled at her gently, reassuringly as the full beaming orb of fire appeared, which signalled for the stool to be kicked from under Kai's feet and for the lasso to begin its assault on Kai's neck.
Don't worry that's not the end, I wouldn't end it like that, that'd just be cruel. Like I said, don't kill me, and review please I always love the kind of reviews I get around these parts in my fics and I promise I'll get the next chappie out sooner than this was.
Bye de bye
P.S. don't kill me!