Love by the Blade
Chapter 5
::yawn:: what? You're here already? ::yawn:: alright lets get started......... ::slouch off lazy ass and sits in front of computer.::
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Rin waked up and stretched her bones. (Sorry........I'm very tired today........guess it affects poor Rin too........ :P)
She blinked around her surroundings, then yesterday's memory flooded back to her.
"Hakudoushi is alive........" Rin mumbled, she gave another yawn and sat by the side of the bed, but the temptation was too great, she flipped back to the bed, and rolled in her covers.
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She woke up about half an hour later, a light clink woke her. She walked to the window and looked out of it. She stepped in the white balcony and looked up to the sun and stretched. She looked down.
It was Hakudoushi and his old halberd.
Rin stared at Hakudoushi swinging his beloved halberd.
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Hakudoushi growled in frustration. How come he couldn't transfer his youki to the blade?!
He swung again.
Nothing.
"RAH, RAH, RAH, RAH, RAH, RAAAAAAH!!!!!!" (it may sound stupid here but when you're frustrated you tend to say something that doesn't make sense.) He swung his halberd each time he 'rah'ed.
Nothing.
"KAMI!" Hakudoushi cursed. He raised his halberd high and bought it down to the ground as through to pierce it. His right leg was straight and his left knee was bent to the ground. He got up, wobbled and collapsed to the ground.
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Seeing Hakudoushi collapsed Rin jumped off the HIGH balcony and landed as quietly as a cat.
Her legs were NUMB mind you!
But she ran to Hakudoushi and knelt down to him.
"Are you okay?" She asked urgently.
Out in a split second Hakudoushi said "Rin." And fainted.
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"We thank you for bringing Lord Tamashii to us."
"Is he alright?"
"He will be miss, thanks to you."
"What is his status?"
"He's fine. Once again miss, arigatou."
"But-!"
"He's fine miss. Please don't worry."
"WHAT'S FINE?!"
Hakudoushi jerked awake. He heard the conversation slowly at first but he was recovering fast.
When he heard the loud demand he snapped his eyes opened.
He was in the hospital center of the castle.
He slid out of the white sheets and said "Fine as in I want my halberd." He said demandingly yet lightly.
Rin practically jumped a foot to the air when the creepily smooth voice started behind her.
"Iie, Prince Tamashii!" The nurse pleaded.
"Why?" Hakudoushi asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Because it is that weapon that put a fire into your soul! You have trained with it too much! You were lucky you just collapsed this time! In others you may have gone crazy and gone on a killing spree milord!"
"Give me my halberd." Hakudoushi demanded.
Just then the door to the hospital in the castle slid and banged open. "My son! Are you alright?!" Asked the king.
"Indeed otou-san."
"Why did I hear yelling here?" The king demanded to the nurse.
The nurse hurriedly explained. And the king sighed. "I'm sorry Tamashii but that is what shall be done. You will not get your halberd back until you have fully recovered."
"Onegai otou-san! I promise I won't use it! But I need by my side!!!" Hakudoushi cried out in desperation.
The halberd was the only thing that protected him He can't help but feel as if it was part of him. The halberd was with him all the time, how can he not have it?!
"Iie! That is my final decision!" Then, with that, the king swept out, his royal imperial golden silk robe railing behind him.
"Chikusho!" Hakudoushi cursed as he sat on the bed and clenched his fist. Slowly the nurse left the room.
"Hakudoushi." Someone said.
Hakudoushi looked up. It was strange, he knew his name now was suppose to be Tamashii, but this name, Hakudoushi........ it was his........ well........no........ but he was very linked to it.........
"Who are you?" Hakudoushi asked.
Rin blinked her rich brown eyes. Didn't he call out her name before he collapsed?
"You don't remember?"
"No. How can I 'remember' anything?! I have never met you not counting yesterday."
Rin snorted. "My name is Rin."
Rin.
Hakudoushi blinked. This name rattled in his head, it echoed as through his head was hollow, it was teasing him. He shut his eyes and concentrated but something repelled him. It blasted his consciousness to smithereens and he fainted.
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Hakudoushi tightened his closed eyes and grunted. He sat up immediately, and looked around to his surroundings.
It was morning.
He was in the hospital, when he couldn't see his halberd in sight yesterday's event flashed through him. "Kuso......" he muttered silkily, he sat up and felt something near his left arm.
He blue, lavender eyes looked downwards.
Hey it's that girl! Uh........ano........ what's her name again?! Oh yeah! Rin!
She was sleeping on her crossed hands at the side of his bed and Hakudoushi could hear a light snuffling.
She was sort of cute.
Hakudoushi blinked. Did he just think what he thought he did?
When he looked at the girl again his hand was reaching for her face. He snapped his hand away. 'What the hell?!' He thought in confusion and slipped out of the hospital bed on the other side so that Rin could stay asleep.
And so Rin did.
She didn't want to though.
::Rin's nightmare::
"Kouga? Sensei! Is it actually you?!" Rin yelped happily running towards the strong wolf youkai,
"Ohayou Rin!" Kouga said with his usual broad yet kindly smirk.
A flash of white.
"Kami! Is-is-is that you Sesshomaru-sama?!" Rin asked disbelievingly.
"Run Rin! They're after me!"
"Nani? Who's after you?!" Rin has never seen fear in her lord's face.
"The Western Council! They knew I let you go and-!"
He didn't say any more. His head was viciously slashed off.
He was decapitated.
"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE!!!!! SESSHOMARU-SAMAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!"
Behind him, a bunch off haggly looking youkai grinned at her evilly. There eyes were glowing red, and their grins were horribly green. Not yellow, GREEN!
Still. Rin's sadness was soon over and replaced with anger. "Kisama........Kisama........... KISAMA BAKAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" (Kisama means 'you' in a very rude way and baka means idiot etc. etc. I'm sure most of you know.......)
He leapt at the youkai's but was caught in mid jump. Kouga caught her around the middle and ran.
"LEMME GO!!!!! LEMME GO!!!!!!" Rin yelled in anguish.
"Don't be stupid!!!" Kouga snapped commandingly.
The surrounding changed. (Not immediately, then Rin would know that this was a dream. Let's just say it changed GRADUALLY when Kouga was running. We all know how the ookami runs! XD)
Then Kouga pulled to a stop. Rin's anger had brushed away and was enjoying the sunlight. It was a bright day where there were millions of beautiful wild flowers.
She had a strange familiarity with this place. She didn't like it.
Kouga plopped to the ground, slipped his hands beneath his hand and closed his eyes lazily. "Enjoy yourself eh Rin?"
Rin nodded tightly. Why didn't she like this place........? It was sure beautiful.
Shaking it off she knelt down and began to pick some flowers.
'Roses are red'
Rin stood up immediately.
"What is it Rin?" Kouga asked questioningly.
"Nothing. Nothing." Rin said worriedly.
'Violets are blue'
She knelt down again.
'Awww... isn't she adorable?!' mocked a voice from thin air.
Rin shivered.
'Rin-chan likes flowers. I like flowers.' Mocked the same voice.
Rin started walking hopefully away from the voice, and she found out she was not in the field anymore! But a hollow dark place. No light, she couldn't see anything!
'Let's go and pick the purdy flowers!' The voice laughed evilly.
Rin screamed. Where was the voice coming from?!
'It sucks that I'm suppose to MURDER you.'
And a pale, humanoid hand reached for her. She stood terrified. It must have seemed so stupid. But Rin could not move. She was paralyzed with fear.
Kouga leapt out of nowhere and an eternity in a second flashed by.
Rin saw Kouga dropping slowly to the ground, as if gravity was suddenly loosened its grip. Kouga dropped the ground once rebound once, then he laid on the ground, quite dead.
"KOUGA!!!!! NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"
A hand went through Kouga's chest. Right through his heart.
And yanked it out.
It was grotesque. Disgusting. Rin yelled. The murderer seemed not to hear.
He threw the heart to a container.
Rin reared and started running.
"Lessee........" The murderer said mockingly.
Rin can feel tears wanting to come out, she closed her eyes tight and leaned forward to run faster. But she could here his voice right behind her.
"How 'bout I rip your stomach, take out your guts and but 'em in a bowl?" (This is a quote from Inuyasha.)
Rin screamed as a hand caught her and spun her around.
::End of Nightmare::
"Hello?! Rin?! Idiot! Baka! Wake up!!!!" A voice commanded.
Rin's eyes snapped open.
She was panting heavily and she felt strong arms wrapped around her shoulders.
She looked to the person to which these arms belonged too.
It was Hakudoushi.
"Don't leave!" Rin cried out. She hugged the boy. Her throat was choked with tears, but she refused to let them fall. She wasn't going to show a weakness.
Hakudoushi sat on the bed and patted her head soothingly, although he never tried to sooth anyone in his life.
"Is......there anything I can do for you.......?" Hakudoushi asked awkwardly.
"......."
"........Let's go back to your room Rin."
"My room......?" Rin asked as they walked, on either side of the hallway, making sure they were at the farthest position from each other.
They went back to the room that Rin slept on her first day here.
"This one." Hakudoushi announced.
An awkward silence.
"I think I better go............." Hakudoushi said after a while.
Rin nodded.
"Good-bye Hakudoushi."
Hakudoushi left the room.
Rin went to the balcony and squinted at the horizon.
It would be a while before she slept again.
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