A Haunting Past Part 2
By the way, I still don't own Samurai pizza cats. (very short and to the point disclaimer.)
Let us be putting credit were credit is due shall we. I want to thank the many e-mails I got about this story and the one review I got (thus far) from a certain writer. Were it not for them I would have given up.
It had been two weeks now, Tanaka sat on the roof of the Pizza cats Pizza parlor, he'd managed to land a job there, but at the moment it was closed. He enjoyed his work, delivering pizzas. His feet hurt, but that was to be expected. He had earned a new respect for the pizza cats.
"They work so hard, it's amazing they can do that and fight crime." He said to himself.
Polly had gotten closer to him lately. He hadn't told her how he felt, but nearly loosing him had made her true feelings come out. He put his hands behind his head and lay back on the roof feeling the cool breeze envelop him. He closed his eyes and sighed. He finally had a home after years of wandering, he had a home at last. Something tapped his helmet. He opened his eyes and saw a small pebble laying on the roof next to him. Another flew up and tapped him. He got up and went to the edge of the roof, down below he saw Guido readying another pebble.
"sheesh, it's about time I got your attention." Guido said.
"yeah, what'd you want." Tanaka said, in mid yawn.
"the boss wants to talk to you."
"oh goody, wonder what I did now."
"nothing to serious." Guido smiled.
Tanaka jumped down from the roof, by that time Guido was already going inside. Tanaka walked in his hand behind his head. He opened the door and it was nearly pitch black inside he looked around and saw no one, he walked in further.
"hello, anybody here." he flipped on the lights.
"SURPRISE!" voices said from all around.
Tanaka nearly leaped out of his skin. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, wasn't ready for it, you cant prepare for something like that." he said waving his arms about.
Polly, Guido, Speedy, and Francine wore party hats and Guido was laughing as hard as he knew how.
"Did I miss something here?" Tanaka asked
"It's your birthday Numb skull." Guido said putting an arm around Tanaka's neck. "Remember the day you were born, you celebrate it once a year." Guido put Tanaka's party hat on him, and snapped the string on the bottom of his chin.
"oh yeah, wow I didn't even remember my own birthday how dumb is that." Tanaka said.
"well, you've had a pretty hectic time here in little Tokyo." speedy said leaning against a table.
"but now just sit back and party." Polly said.
"wow thanks guys, your the best friends a cat could have." Tanaka said wiping a tear from his eye.
And so they did celebrating long into the night, but for some reason Tanaka couldn't celebrate as much as he wanted to something was bothering him and he didn't know what it was. Polly tried very hard to get it out of him, but with out knowing what it was he couldn't tell her. About midnight was when the party ended, it would have gone on longer if speedy hadn't eaten so much, he'd gotten sick and so they left. Polly and Francine one way speedy, Guido and Tanaka the other.
"So, some party huh Tanaka?" Guido asked slapping him on the back.
Tanaka was knocked from thought. "huh? yeah, great but I don't think speedy had to good a time."
Speedy had his head in a trash can. "no, really I had a good time." Speedy said withdrawing
"I told you not to have that last piece of cake." Guido said.
"hey, it was only my 10th piece." he ran up along side them. "besides, I feel much better now."
"so what do you want to do now." Guido said.
"not sure what is there to do at this hour." Tanaka said looking up at the stars.
"not to much, but I'm sure well find something." Guido said winking at speedy.
"oh yeah, I know what we can do." Speedy grinned.
"hey, I'm not sure I like were this might be going."
they walked for some time and ended up in front of a building called the Cats Meow.
"oh no, I'm not going in there." Tanaka said his eye twitching.
"aw come on, it's not what you think it's just a bar well have a few drinks and be done with it." Guido said giving him a playful jab with his elbow.
"yeah come on Guido and I come here all the time when we got something to celebrate." speedy said.
"besides remember back in our days when we used to do this kinda thing." Guido said.
"yeah, last time we did this I woke up in a dumpster wearing nothing but my underwear. Oh no I don't think so, I'm not doing that again" Tanaka said folding his arms.
a sudden scream came from within the bar and guns shots could be heard.
"well looks like we have to go in anyway." Speedy said.
they burst through the door and found three people laying on the floor dead. The others were huddled behind tables, and one woman was hugging one of the dead men. She and he were both cats. She cried and begged him to be all right.
"THERE!" Speedy yelled and pointed.
he pointed to the gunman who was apparently drunk. The gunman was rambling to the woman huddled next to the dead man.
"YOUR MINE GET AWAY FROM HIM!" he yelled.
"I'm not property to be owned." the woman stated looking up.
"then you will join him." the gunman said raising his pistol.
Tanaka stood in horror as the gunman pulled the trigger and shot the woman right between the eyes. The world seemed to be in slow motion. He watched as she fell to the floor. He didn't know what happened next, but something inside him snapped.
Speedy looked in horror at the woman, but his attention was drawn elsewhere, as the usually peaceful Tanaka began to Yell at the top of his lungs.
"YOU BASTARD! NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO TAKE INNOCENT LIFE." Tanaka leaped right in front of the gunman and sliced his right hand off at the wrist. Needless to say he dropped the gun. The guy fell to the floor holding the bloody stump and screaming. "NOW you will suffer her fate."
Tanaka raised the sword above his head and swung down. Speedy jumped in and grabbed his wrists.
"NO TANAKA DON'T DO IT!" Speedy yelled.
"I SAW HER DIE SPEEDY." tears filled Tanaka's eyes. "I saw her die right before me, this bastard has to pay." Tanaka fell to his knees. "he has to pay." Tanaka let down his sword.
By this time Guido had called an ambulance. Tanaka fell to his hands and knees and cried harder. It was hard to tell but speedy thought he could hear Tanaka repeating a name over and over it sounded like.....
Nyoko
It was hard for Speedy to watch Tanaka like this, on the outside he'd seemed so tough and unflinching, but now he knew the truth. Inside Tanaka was tortured by some past event and this Nyoko girl must have played a major role in it. Speedy got up the police and ambulance would be here soon and some explanations would be demanded and Tanaka didn't look like he'd be able to give them.
Chapter 2
That night Guido lay wake in his bed. Tanaka's crying had long since stopped, but he could hear different noises now and he knew what they were. Tanaka was packing Guido got up and walked to were Tanaka was sleeping. He saw Tanaka huddled around a suitcase, stuffing his belongings inside.
"Going some were?" Guido said.
"yeah, I've got to go. No one will want to look at me after what happened tonight." Tanaka replied.
"Speedy told me about what happened after wards. You said her name, you were thinking about her weren't you."
Tanaka stopped dead in his packing.
"I.....I....saw her Guido.... when I was in coma....... she called to me she said she....she wanted me to go home with her."
"why didn't you." Guido said leaning against the door way.
"I wanted to more than anything, believe me, but just as I was about to thoughts flooded into my mind all about Polly and then from no were I hear her voice telling me not to give up to come back to her."
"when that girl was killed, it reminded you of Nyoko's own death didn't it?"
"yeah..... it did I guess that's why I snapped."
"she's been gone for six years now and yet the emotional scars of her death are still fresh. huh?"
"yeah they are."
"it's odd, you don't seem like the type that wouldn't be able to move on. You just hide it within you, bottling your feelings till the bottle can't take anymore and then.... pop and what that guy did was what popped the cork."
"I KNOW ALRIGHT WHAT I DID WAS...... wrong and I'm trying to fix that."
"by skipping town?"
"yes, if I leave there will be no more problems."
"YOU GONNA JUST KEEP RUNNING AWAY?"
Tanaka froze, he'd never thought of it as running, but it was in truth, what he was doing he was running from his problems. First the one in his home town and now this one. He couldn't just skip town after every bad occurrence.
of cores, I had no town to skip back in my home town.
"your right Guido. I cant just keep running from my problems. All my life I've been doing it, I've got to stop. I hadn't thought about who I'd be leaving behind if I did."
"now get some sleep you've got work in the morning."
The next morning, Guido woke to the smell of cooking, He was glad he didn't have to live off of take out anymore, but was starting to feel lazy since he hardly did anything around the house and Tanaka did allot of cleaning, but he figured if Tanaka wanted to do it let him. Guido had tried to help on numerous occasions, but Tanaka said he needed the work to take his mind of things. The entire apartment was needless to say, spotless. The only complaint Guido had was he couldn't find anything and had to look for a while before he found it. A few days passed with Tanaka working at the parlor earning his keep and gaining the trust of Francine as well as the others, but one day something happened that rocked them all.
"ok, that's the last one." Tanaka said comeing in from a delivery.
"good. then we can close shop, it's been a rough day I'm beat." Francine said yawning
Tanaka looked outside and saw a storm moving in. "looks like we'd better do it quick if we want to beat the storm."
The parlor was soon closed and every one went home. Guido Speedy going their way, but something caught Tanaka's eye on the way home. Out of the corner of his eye he thought he saw a familiar armor in the empty streets. Tanaka stopped.
"what's up Tanaka?" Guido asked.
"nothing. I'll be right there go ahead without me." Tanaka replied.
"alright." Speedy and Guido said together.
as soon as they left, Tanaka ducked into the alley that he'd seen the armor go into and as soon as he turned the corner he nearly crapped himself. Standing before him was D, the one he had hated for all these years, the one that had killed Nyoko, the entire reason his home town went up in smoke, and the entire reason he was in trouble.
"Greetings Tanaka. How wonderful it is to see your horrified face." D said.
"No......" he whispered. "you can't be real, your dead, you died along with LIttle Nagasaki."
"PATHETIC FOOL. DID YOU REALLY THINK SUCH A TINY EXPLOSION COULD KILL ME?" he laughed to himself. "besides, if I were dead could I really be standing here before you."
"what do you want from me."
"to finish what we started six years ago, and this time I know you wont even try your little time bomb idea."
"and if I refuse."
D was suddenly behind him.
"then..... well, lets see. I'll have to kill every one that comes within view until you do. Starting with your little girl friend."
Tanaka turned to face him. "keep your hands off..." no one was there. "were'd he go...?POLLY!" he ran as fast as he could.
Polly was walking home enjoying the smell of rain in the air. She loved that smell. She was thinking about Tanaka and what she'd said to him. She wondered if he'd heard her, if he knew how she felt about him.
I've never felt this way about anyone.
she heard foot steps behind her. She turned her head to look, but no one was there. She turned around and looked.
"Are you Polly Esther." a voice asked from behind her.
She turned to see a cat wearing black armor standing before her. His face was concealed in shadow, but something about him seemed familiar.
"Yes I am." she replied.
"good then I'll make this quick." he drew his sword and slashed at her.
she managed to doge away at the last second, but without weapons, she knew she wouldn't stand to good of a chance and she couldn't turn and run. So she figured she try hand to hand. She landed a roundhouse kick in his face, but the figure didn't even twitch. so she recovered from that and sent a foot flying to his groin, but still no response.
He let out a small laugh and lifted a finger. "Naughty, naughty." he said waving the finger. "you don't play fair, so I wont either." he lowered his sword down to his right with the blade facing outward. The blade began to emit a negative light.. "SHADOW BLACK HOLE SLASH." he fired off the negative light in the shape of the slash he made with the sword.
Polly dodged out of the way. The wave of negative light hit a nearby building and the building sucked into itself till it disappeared. Polly turned the face her enemy and felt his knee fly into her stomach, but before she could fly into the air he cupped his hands together and slammed them down on her back, then kicked her into the wall of a nearby warehouse, she flew straight through it and slid on the floor of the building for about ten feet. She got to her feet and scanned the room for weapons, spotting a led pipe on the ground she picked it up and hid. he walked through the hole.
"KNOW THIS. I AM ALMIGHTY D. I AM A GOD TO BE, BUT CAN ONLY BE SO ONCE I KILL TANAKA. YOUR JUST BAIT, SO IT'S NOTHING PERSONAL." he said.
Polly leaped from her hiding spot. "BAIT THIS." she said swinging the pipe down on his head, but it had no affect. Before she could touch the ground he grabbed her bell, it bent easily in his hand and he tossed her like a rag doll into some nearby boxes. She got to her feet. "what the hells he made of?"
"now I think I'm going to finish this." he held his sword like a dagger and then held it pointing out to his right, he put his free hand on the bottom of the handle and began spinning like a helicopter. "BLACK HOLE VORTEX." he screamed.
he was like a tornado. Polly grabbed on to a nearby pole and held on for dear life.
"YOU CAN'T KEEP THIS UP FOREVER MS. ESTHER!" he started laughing. but soon his laughter was replaced by screaming.
Polly looked up to see Tanaka standing in the hole in the wall, holding glowing stars. She looked toward D and saw one was implanted in his eye. D withdrew it and crushed it, his eye immediately healing.
"I knew her cries for help would draw you." D said.
"If you hurt her, I swear I'll rip out your spine and feed it to you." Tanaka said, a look of rage in his eyes.
"you can't beat me and you know it Tanaka."
"I can't beat D, but your no problem, your just a copy."
"so you know about D's ability to make copies do you."
"yeah, I do, he uses the earth's energy to crate copies of himself, Each one weaker than the last."
"LESS TALK, MORE FIGHT BASTARD." the clone said leaping in the air attempting to bring his sword down on Tanaka.
Tanaka dodged the attack and retaliated with a strike of his sword, but it hardly phased the copy. The copy fired a volley of shapeless negative light shrunken. They collided with the nearby wall and exploded, a piece of debris hit Polly in the stomach, knocking her unconscious.
Guido and Speedy heard the explosions and were rushing to the scene. They changed into their armor, but had no time to wait for Francine to operate the gun. They hope it was nothing too serious, but it probably was.
wonder were Tanaka is?
Guido threw the thought into the wind. He had more important things to worry about, an explosion meant there'd probably be people to evacuate. He looked at speedy and Speedy returned his glance. They arrived at an old warehoused. He saw the huge hole in the wall and looked inside it to see Tanaka laying flat out on the floor.
"TANAKA YOU OK?" Guido called.
"yeah fine." Tanaka got on his feet. "I managed to knock him out there's only one way I can end this Guido. You're going to have to get Polly outta here." Tanaka called lifting someone and pinning them to a wall.
"no. I won't let what happened to Little Nagasaki happen here." Guido argued.
"It wont, I promise but if I don't do that, this entire Town will be in danger." crescent moons appeared on his back and from them shot blades, electricity jumped in between them growing more and more intense by the minute, A whining noise started up till Guido couldn't even hear himself think. He grabbed Polly and started dragging her out of the warehouse, but little did he know Polly was coming to.
Polly opened her eyes and looked up. She saw Tanaka, he returned her glance, but something was wrong electricity was flying all around him. Polly looked on through the open door, Tanaka had the guy pinned to the wall. she couldn't hear what he said, but she could read his lips.
I Love you....
and just as he said it there was an explosion that engulfed the whole building. the explosion stopped, and imploded leaving nothing but rubble behind.
"TANAKA NOOOOO!" she jumped up despite her pain, she ran to the pile of rubble and began lifting large pieces and tossing them behind her. "NO. YOU HAVE TO BE ALIVE." she stopped and cried. She looked up and saw a single standing wall, and carved in it was a jagged D. "That, that bastard will pay. The next time we meet...... he'll die." she fell to her knees and slammed her fist into the ground leaving a large dent.
"It's just like little Nagasaki." Guido said from behind her.
"what(sniff) do you mean?" she asked.
"well a long time ago I lived in a place called Little Nagasaki, with Tanaka life was good there, not a care in the world. Tanaka and I were the best of friends. One day Tanaka found some old armor in a temple he used to go to. He entered the martial arts tournament with it and beat everyone he came up against, but one guy was a real sore looser."
"let me guess, D right." Polly said.
"yeah he had found his armor at the same temple and believed it to be stronger than Tanaka's and challenged him to a rematch, but Tanaka refused. So D kidnapped his girl friend. We went to the place where we were supposed to meet and D started to lose. So he killed Tanaka's girl friend Nyoko. Tanaka went into a blind rage and told me to leave town, I did and when I turned back to look, the entire town went up in smoke. I couldn't believe it I thought I was the sole survivor, but that morning Tanaka showed up said he'd made graves for all the people and that it was best if I didn't tell anyone that he was the one who killed them all." Guido began to cry as well.
"oh my god." Polly whispered.
That's what his mother meant by the scars on his heart.
The authorities began to show and the cats left. They weren't up to the bull crap they'd get from them right now. As they left Polly thought about what Tanaka had said just before he had died.
"he said that he loved me." she whispered.
"huh?" Speedy said, having not quite herd her.
"Speedy. he said that he loved me." she began to cry on Speedy's shoulder.
Speedy was dumbfounded by her move at first, but then began to comfort her by holding her.
I know what your thinking kind of an anticlimactic ending but guess what it's not over yet Tanaka may be dead (or is he) but D is still out there and Polly yearns for revenge by the way sorry this ones so short but I'm working on two other fan fics right now so the next one will be better I promise.
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He was in the cave of nightmares. He wasn't sure if he'd be ready for what he might see within. His worst night mares would come true, but D was inside and he had to be stopped.