Chapter 15: "Surrounded and Unaided"
I gritted my teeth, looking around for a breach in the circle of shadows that surrounded us. "Dammit . . ." I muttered to myself, switching kougon anki from kiba to ryu. "Why the hell can't you leave us alone Kage?" I narrowed my eyes and waited for a reply, gripping the sickle part of my madougu tightly.
"You already . . know why . . Koganei Kaoru . . ." Kage rasped in reply. I turned my head in the direction of his voice and prepared to throw the sickle, when I heard Yanagi's shriek of fright.
"Iiyaaa!!!" Yanagi screamed, her wide eyes fixed on her shadow that was pasted on the ground. I stumbled, stopping my attack at the last minute and turned to her.
"Daijobu deska Yanagi?" I shouted, bringing the sickle up. "What happened?" 'Fuck, I can't fight this bastard straight out, or he'll attack Yanagi from behind!' She wordlessly pointed down at her shadow. "What? It's just~"
I sweatdropped as the shadow lifted itself off of the tiled park grounds to hover threateningly in front of us. "~a shadow . . . Damn!" I grabbed Yanagi by the waist and quickly moved her to the side as her shadow smashed a hole in the ground where she was seconds earlier. "Daijobu?" She nodded quickly, eyes now fixed on the small crater in the stone tiles.
Placing Yanagi back on her feet, I crouched low and circled around her, my madougu held up at the ready and my eyes scanning the shadows surrounding us. Yanagi's shadow stood unmoving, until it sprang forward with unearthly speed, slamming into my shoulder and knocking me off balance.
"Yaah!!" I quickly slashed the shadow from waist to the opposite shoulder with the scythe before stumbling backwards a few steps. 'Yanagi!' I regained my balance and pivoted quickly, smashing away shadow blades with the handgrip of ryu. (A/N: the part Koganei holds when he throws the scythe part ^^; dunno its name).
"Why do you . . . fight a hopeless fight . . . just give me~"
"Why the hell would I listen to you??" I bellowed in the direction of the voice, flinging the scythe at Kage. "And there's no damn way I'm giving up without a fight!!" I swore loudly as the scythe got stuck in the black shadows. "Damn it! Give it back you fucking asshole!!!"
"Give me Sakoshita . . ." Kage said, with a smirk in his voice. I stumbled as an almost giant like strength heaved on ryu's chain and dragged me away from Yanagi. Looking back quickly, I saw a shadow blade rush by her and leave a narrow slash across her arm. I gritted my teeth as I saw her wince at the cut and quickly cover it with her hand.
"Kage . . ." I growled, grabbing the chain with my right hand, ignoring the shadow blade that slashed my forearm. "I think . . . you've pissed off the wrong person! I haven't gotten Yanagi back for you to just fucking take her away again!!" I gritted my teeth and heaved back on the chain.
"Foolishness . . ." Kage snarled in reply, shooting multiple shadow blades at Yanagi. "You . . . don't have a choice!"
((Recca POV))
"HIME!!!" I saw the shadows beginning to move to surround my Hime and Koganei, and dashed forwards, dodging Mikagami's restraining hand. 'I don't bloody care if they find out we were spying on them! I won't let Kage fucking hurt Hi~'
The light cast by the street lamp suddenly flickered and turned off. It wasn't the sudden absence of light that made me pause, but rather the fact the darkness turned solid and I rebounded off of it. "~what the fuck???" I reached back with one hand and flipped about, landing on my feet.
Mikagami rushed forwards, opening a water bottle and forming the blade of the ensui. I stood up as he slashed it viciously, but the darkness healed and the gash was gone in seconds. "Step back Mi-chan! Fuujin!!" A blast of air smashed a small opening in the shadows, which was once again miraculously healed. "Kuso!"
"Saiha!" I shouted after writing a fire character in the air. Gritting my teeth, I gripped my right arm as the flame blade formed on it. "Get the hell out've my way!!!" I rushed towards the barrier of shadows once again.
((Koganei POV))
I didn't feel it . . . the shadow blades didn't feel like blades. My whole back went numb as I fell to the ground, the kougon anki dropping out of my nerveless fingers. I grunted once as my face hit the tiles, and once again as Yanagi dropped to my side and turned me over, her tears dropping onto my face.
"Kaoru-kun!! Kaoru-kun!!!"
"Gomen ne Yanagi . . ." I murmured, moving my head slightly to look up at her crying face. "I shouldn't of left . . . maybe . . . we could've stopped this before . . . maybe this wouldn't of happened . . ." I lifted a hand to wipe away her tears but stopped at the cut on her arm. "Gomen . . . you got hurt . . . Recca's gonna kill me for that . . ."
"Kaoru-kun!! It's okay! Don't worry!" Yanagi said, the panic evident in her tone. "I'll heal you!" She closed her eyes and put her hands over my chest. And was pulled sharply backwards by a hand on the back of her shirt.
"You won't . . . be healing anyone Sakoshita Yanagi . . ." Kage said, dragging her backwards and throwing her onto the ground. She landed with a little shout of surprise as I tried to push myself up into a sitting position.
"Dammit . . ." I flopped onto my back again, feeling a flash of pain as I did so. "Yanagi . . ." Unable to move, I saw Kage raise his hand and form a shadow blade. Once again, I struggled to sit up but I fell back once again. I cried out as my back hit this time, freezing pain shooting through my body. My vision went black, then red.
((Recca POV))
"Get the hell out of my way!!" I bellowed, grabbing Domon by his shirt and throwing him backwards. I similarly knocked Mikagami aside as I took a deep breath and wrote another character in the air. "Kokuu!!!" I looked back at the dragon and then at my teammates. "Jump through the hole right away." They looked at me, clueless. "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU??? HIME'S IN THERE AN SHE'S IN DANGER!!"
They all nodded and I growled more curses under my breath. "Ready? KOKUU!!" The dragon blasted a large, circular hole in the shadow walls and I quickly rushed towards it, diving through and rolling to my feet at the other side. I heard everyone else tumbling to the ground beside me but my eyes were fixed on only one prone, blood-spattered person.
"HIME!!!!"
I scrambled forwards towards her but was faced by multiple shadow blades. Gritting my teeth, I blasted them away with a flame and smashed Kage in the face with a punch. "Hime!! Hime!!!" I gently lifted her up and pushed her bangs out of her eyes, which opened weakly at my touch. "Yokatta . . . you're alive . . ." I dimly heard the sounds of my friends fighting Kage.
"I'm fine . . . Kaoru-kun . . . he . . ." I blinked and turned my head to gaze upon the body of my teammate, who was laying senselessly on the ground. "I . . . need to heal him . . ."
"Iie! You're too weak Hime!" I said, holding her down. "You could die!"
"Kaoru-kun defended me." She replied quietly, looking in my eyes even as I wiped away the blood that trickled from the side of her mouth. "I . . . have to try . . ." Her eyes . . . I nodded slightly and looked up at the fight. Picking Yanagi up, I rushed towards Koganei and was slashed by shadow blades in the process.
"Arigatou Recca-kun . . ." she murmured as I put her down next to Koganei. I watched as Hime held her hands over Koganei's chest and then closed her eyes to concentrate.
END
Moonlight2: ~hides from moonlight-san~ gomen! I try not doing cliffhangers but . . . ~points to the end of the fic~ it just happens! its 12:34 at night . . . I'm sleepy . . . u dun want a bad chapter cause I'm sleepy right? ^^ thanks for da review . . . think Koganei was hurt in this enough? :P
Cassiopheia: not sure if you'll read this now but . . . ^^ I've never had a review like dat . . . think u use lot bigger words then me . . . had to look up fallacious ^^; thanks for da review!
One note: check my bio to see when I'll be working on the nxt chapter, since classes are starting on Monday, I may not write another til nxt weekend, unless if I write 2 tom . . . and the chance of that is slim ^^;
Recca: ~kicking the shadow wall~ stupid ~kick~ wall! ~kick~ get out've my way ~headbangs the wall i.e. sakuragi of slam dunk~
Yanagi (inside the shadows): Recca-kun no baka . . . ~sad face~
I gritted my teeth, looking around for a breach in the circle of shadows that surrounded us. "Dammit . . ." I muttered to myself, switching kougon anki from kiba to ryu. "Why the hell can't you leave us alone Kage?" I narrowed my eyes and waited for a reply, gripping the sickle part of my madougu tightly.
"You already . . know why . . Koganei Kaoru . . ." Kage rasped in reply. I turned my head in the direction of his voice and prepared to throw the sickle, when I heard Yanagi's shriek of fright.
"Iiyaaa!!!" Yanagi screamed, her wide eyes fixed on her shadow that was pasted on the ground. I stumbled, stopping my attack at the last minute and turned to her.
"Daijobu deska Yanagi?" I shouted, bringing the sickle up. "What happened?" 'Fuck, I can't fight this bastard straight out, or he'll attack Yanagi from behind!' She wordlessly pointed down at her shadow. "What? It's just~"
I sweatdropped as the shadow lifted itself off of the tiled park grounds to hover threateningly in front of us. "~a shadow . . . Damn!" I grabbed Yanagi by the waist and quickly moved her to the side as her shadow smashed a hole in the ground where she was seconds earlier. "Daijobu?" She nodded quickly, eyes now fixed on the small crater in the stone tiles.
Placing Yanagi back on her feet, I crouched low and circled around her, my madougu held up at the ready and my eyes scanning the shadows surrounding us. Yanagi's shadow stood unmoving, until it sprang forward with unearthly speed, slamming into my shoulder and knocking me off balance.
"Yaah!!" I quickly slashed the shadow from waist to the opposite shoulder with the scythe before stumbling backwards a few steps. 'Yanagi!' I regained my balance and pivoted quickly, smashing away shadow blades with the handgrip of ryu. (A/N: the part Koganei holds when he throws the scythe part ^^; dunno its name).
"Why do you . . . fight a hopeless fight . . . just give me~"
"Why the hell would I listen to you??" I bellowed in the direction of the voice, flinging the scythe at Kage. "And there's no damn way I'm giving up without a fight!!" I swore loudly as the scythe got stuck in the black shadows. "Damn it! Give it back you fucking asshole!!!"
"Give me Sakoshita . . ." Kage said, with a smirk in his voice. I stumbled as an almost giant like strength heaved on ryu's chain and dragged me away from Yanagi. Looking back quickly, I saw a shadow blade rush by her and leave a narrow slash across her arm. I gritted my teeth as I saw her wince at the cut and quickly cover it with her hand.
"Kage . . ." I growled, grabbing the chain with my right hand, ignoring the shadow blade that slashed my forearm. "I think . . . you've pissed off the wrong person! I haven't gotten Yanagi back for you to just fucking take her away again!!" I gritted my teeth and heaved back on the chain.
"Foolishness . . ." Kage snarled in reply, shooting multiple shadow blades at Yanagi. "You . . . don't have a choice!"
((Recca POV))
"HIME!!!" I saw the shadows beginning to move to surround my Hime and Koganei, and dashed forwards, dodging Mikagami's restraining hand. 'I don't bloody care if they find out we were spying on them! I won't let Kage fucking hurt Hi~'
The light cast by the street lamp suddenly flickered and turned off. It wasn't the sudden absence of light that made me pause, but rather the fact the darkness turned solid and I rebounded off of it. "~what the fuck???" I reached back with one hand and flipped about, landing on my feet.
Mikagami rushed forwards, opening a water bottle and forming the blade of the ensui. I stood up as he slashed it viciously, but the darkness healed and the gash was gone in seconds. "Step back Mi-chan! Fuujin!!" A blast of air smashed a small opening in the shadows, which was once again miraculously healed. "Kuso!"
"Saiha!" I shouted after writing a fire character in the air. Gritting my teeth, I gripped my right arm as the flame blade formed on it. "Get the hell out've my way!!!" I rushed towards the barrier of shadows once again.
((Koganei POV))
I didn't feel it . . . the shadow blades didn't feel like blades. My whole back went numb as I fell to the ground, the kougon anki dropping out of my nerveless fingers. I grunted once as my face hit the tiles, and once again as Yanagi dropped to my side and turned me over, her tears dropping onto my face.
"Kaoru-kun!! Kaoru-kun!!!"
"Gomen ne Yanagi . . ." I murmured, moving my head slightly to look up at her crying face. "I shouldn't of left . . . maybe . . . we could've stopped this before . . . maybe this wouldn't of happened . . ." I lifted a hand to wipe away her tears but stopped at the cut on her arm. "Gomen . . . you got hurt . . . Recca's gonna kill me for that . . ."
"Kaoru-kun!! It's okay! Don't worry!" Yanagi said, the panic evident in her tone. "I'll heal you!" She closed her eyes and put her hands over my chest. And was pulled sharply backwards by a hand on the back of her shirt.
"You won't . . . be healing anyone Sakoshita Yanagi . . ." Kage said, dragging her backwards and throwing her onto the ground. She landed with a little shout of surprise as I tried to push myself up into a sitting position.
"Dammit . . ." I flopped onto my back again, feeling a flash of pain as I did so. "Yanagi . . ." Unable to move, I saw Kage raise his hand and form a shadow blade. Once again, I struggled to sit up but I fell back once again. I cried out as my back hit this time, freezing pain shooting through my body. My vision went black, then red.
((Recca POV))
"Get the hell out of my way!!" I bellowed, grabbing Domon by his shirt and throwing him backwards. I similarly knocked Mikagami aside as I took a deep breath and wrote another character in the air. "Kokuu!!!" I looked back at the dragon and then at my teammates. "Jump through the hole right away." They looked at me, clueless. "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU??? HIME'S IN THERE AN SHE'S IN DANGER!!"
They all nodded and I growled more curses under my breath. "Ready? KOKUU!!" The dragon blasted a large, circular hole in the shadow walls and I quickly rushed towards it, diving through and rolling to my feet at the other side. I heard everyone else tumbling to the ground beside me but my eyes were fixed on only one prone, blood-spattered person.
"HIME!!!!"
I scrambled forwards towards her but was faced by multiple shadow blades. Gritting my teeth, I blasted them away with a flame and smashed Kage in the face with a punch. "Hime!! Hime!!!" I gently lifted her up and pushed her bangs out of her eyes, which opened weakly at my touch. "Yokatta . . . you're alive . . ." I dimly heard the sounds of my friends fighting Kage.
"I'm fine . . . Kaoru-kun . . . he . . ." I blinked and turned my head to gaze upon the body of my teammate, who was laying senselessly on the ground. "I . . . need to heal him . . ."
"Iie! You're too weak Hime!" I said, holding her down. "You could die!"
"Kaoru-kun defended me." She replied quietly, looking in my eyes even as I wiped away the blood that trickled from the side of her mouth. "I . . . have to try . . ." Her eyes . . . I nodded slightly and looked up at the fight. Picking Yanagi up, I rushed towards Koganei and was slashed by shadow blades in the process.
"Arigatou Recca-kun . . ." she murmured as I put her down next to Koganei. I watched as Hime held her hands over Koganei's chest and then closed her eyes to concentrate.
END
Moonlight2: ~hides from moonlight-san~ gomen! I try not doing cliffhangers but . . . ~points to the end of the fic~ it just happens! its 12:34 at night . . . I'm sleepy . . . u dun want a bad chapter cause I'm sleepy right? ^^ thanks for da review . . . think Koganei was hurt in this enough? :P
Cassiopheia: not sure if you'll read this now but . . . ^^ I've never had a review like dat . . . think u use lot bigger words then me . . . had to look up fallacious ^^; thanks for da review!
One note: check my bio to see when I'll be working on the nxt chapter, since classes are starting on Monday, I may not write another til nxt weekend, unless if I write 2 tom . . . and the chance of that is slim ^^;
Recca: ~kicking the shadow wall~ stupid ~kick~ wall! ~kick~ get out've my way ~headbangs the wall i.e. sakuragi of slam dunk~
Yanagi (inside the shadows): Recca-kun no baka . . . ~sad face~