Disclaimer: Not mine...I mean...you don't think I would do that to poor SORA do you?...or make Tsukasa a girl??...Well...it depends...
AN: Well, here is my next chapter, a warning in advance....this book is only 4 chapters long, then it will be time for...another sequel...I hope the tone of this book isn't to...dark...for most people, if you think it is, I can bump up the rating, to protect it from the eyes of most 'kiddies'....I hate that slang...
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Chapter 2:Phase one
Crim glared venomously at the female wavemaster, she had once sought his affections...but she was an arrogant fool...the only woman he loved was dead.
"....Crim...?" The woman asked nervously, " What's wrong? Is it Subaru?"
Subaru...it always came back to her...why didn't anyone understand he didn't care her?!
He only cared about Sakura....he only wished he'd admitted it sooner....
" Crim...you're crying...it is, isn't it? Was she hurt?"
" I don't know!" He snapped, causing her eyes to widen, " I don't even care!! Don't you get it?! Sakura...Mimiru is dead!! Gone!"
" WHAT?!!" Bear exclaimed, standing up suddenly, " You mean..."
" Yes!!! Phyisically, mortally!! She...she's not coming back!!"
"Wh-when?" BT asked, what seemed like...almost...and unselfish emotion creeping onto her face.
" A month ago, almost..."
" But..how?...how could she...?" Bear asked.
" She..." He started, trying to control himself, he should have known!...Should have saved her! " Was infected with the virus to a greater degree than any one but Tsukasa..."
" Did a monster...?"
" No!" He snapped, the thought of Tsukasa, however voluntary, enraging him, " She..she did it to herself..."
BT gasped lowly, and dropped her staff, " Why the---"
" I...she...uh..." Crim stuttered, unable to face the reality that his own actions had contributed to the affair, just as much as Tsukasa's negligence, " Tsukasa..."
" No...I...don't think it matters now.." Bear said gravely, " What matters now..is getting everyone together...whatever reason she died...can't be in vain...there can't be any more deaths like hers...this must be put an end to..."
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Sora sighed, as he stared lazily up at the fake sky of Mac Anu...anywhere was better than his home-field...where Mimi...the blood...it was still there..and...it didn't...it wasn't....fake.
He heard a strange mumbling suddenly, getting louder....surprisedm he lowered his gaze to eye-level...he saw Subaru wandering aimlessly, in a general direction of the Chaos Gate...apparently talking to herself...but then...she could be on a phone....or have visitors. Still...Sora felt like investigating anyway...there was a very specific reason for him to be in the world again...he could feel it...he just couldn't figure out what.
" Ohhh Suubaruuu??" He said, in his usual teasing manner.
She seemed to snap out of some sort of trance, and her eyes focused on him.
" Sora! Thank God! You have to help me! She's...she's coming!" She said, a panicked tone to her voice.
" 'Help you'? What? Who is after you??" he asked, perplexed.
" M-Mimiru! Sh-she..."
Mimiru...he sighed, and shook his head, " Don't you know? She died."
" D-died?....How...long?"
" Three or four weeks." He said, non-chalantly, oh...he knew it to the second...the screams of the lovers were forever burned into his mind.
" How....h-how..." She whispered, her posture becoming more and more pariniod.
" She....fell...."
" Fell..." She whispered, wandering away, " How....how...how...?"
Sora watched her retreating form with increasing suspicioun...she acted like a mad-woman...
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Tsukasa sobbed, as he rocked back and forth, curled into a ball...the wave of ice that had hit him...telling him she was gone, still clung to his memory freshly...the void she had left...he hadn't known was there to be filled.
" I'm sorry...I'm so sorry..." He whispered quietly, weeping fervently...for a time uncountable, " I'm so sorry...I'm so sorry..."
He felt a warm breeze caress his cheek, a warmth in the abyss of his soul...he could taste the soft whisper...
I forgive you....
His mourning paused, a moment, self-pity forgotten, and he looked around wildly, " Who...who is there?!"
I need you...my beloved...we need you....
" M-mimiru..?" He whispered, hiccuping slightly.
Help us...please.... It whispered, embracing him tightly, then it was gone...
" Mimiru! Wait! Please don't go! I...I want to..." He begged, but all was silence.
Mimiru...wanted his help?
" O-okay.....if you say so..." He mumbled, standing up, and warping out.
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Subaru shivered, as she felt a cold breeze blow against her, almost maliciously....it was as if the game didn't want her there....but why? Why not? What had she done? Was the virus sentient?? But...why single her out?!! All questions led back to why...
" Subaru..." Tsukasa said from behind her.
" Tsukasa!?" She said, turning around.
" Why?..." He asked lowly, " Why did you do it?"
" Why? What?" She asked worriedly.
" You tricked me!!" He hissed, " You killed her! YOU!!!"
" No!! No I didn't!" She screamed, backing up, " What is wrong with you?!!"
" I hate you...you've always been trouble.....always!" He glowered, leveling his staff at her.
" No! No Tsukasa!!" She screeched, as the wand glowed maliciously, when it fired, she threw up her hands in front of her face protectively, and screamed.
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AN: There it is, all Torment chapters are short and simple...what do you think? R&R
Other .hack works:
Second Chance: Ten years after /SIGN Mimiru meets Sora, and the virus re-awakens.
Alone: Prequel to Torment, the events that transpired beforehand
PT3: the sequel to Torment, not yet published.
Plus, Hopeless...and Memory, poems to Second Chance, and Sora, respectively.
-Yusagi Sombermoon.
