Tamashii no RUFURAN; Soul's Refrain "The Dangers of Having Amnesia"
"What do you mean Lii just slaughtered a nurse!? She wouldn't do something like that! It just isn't like her!!"
"Believe me Yuusuke, I know she wouldn't do something like that. But something happened to her."
"Maybe she forgot where she was and reacted instinctly like a demon. She is a demon right?"
"Of course you fool! She's a demon in human skin!"
"Hiei..."
"Shut up shrimpy! And stop calling me fool!"
"Hn."
The boys stopped in front of the hospital building where Lii was. They saw patients, nurses and some of the doctors running out of the building, scared to death.
"Shit..." Kurama, Hiei and Kuwabara turned to see what caused Yuusuke to cuss. The boys blanched as they saw the police force filed in.
"Well, we can't go in the front." Kuwabara said.
Hiei smirked. "Then we'll just go around the back." He said. Kurama nodded and began to move, but stopped when one of the police pushed a strechter out. His eyes widen to see a multilated corpse on it. One of her eyes was sliced open as her left arm was missing. Yuusuke eyes widen.
"Did... Did she do that??" he asked.
Kurama clutched his chest. "Lets hurry." He said. The boy's took off unnotice by the authorities.
Finding another way in, the boys snuck into the building and looked around every corner of the cops. They only made it to the second floor without any problem.
Looking around the corner, Yuusuke saw a group of police men in the hallway. Cursing he leaned back. "We can't make it to the other stairs to the 5th floor where Lii is with them in the hallway ."
"We don't have to," Kurama said, sadly. The boys looked at him. "She's here. I can smell her bloodied scent." Kuwabara flinched.
"How.. How many did she kill so far?" He asked. Kurama lower lip began to quiver a bit and closed his eyes to keep the tears back.
"Enough to cause her scent to only smell of human blood." Yuusuke opened his mouth to reassure his friend but the sound of gun firing stole the words from his mouth.
"There she is!!"
"Shoot her!! SHOOT HER-AAACK!!!"
The sound of blood splashing on the ground caused the boys to flinched before the heavy sound of a 'thud,' was heard.
"OH MY GOD!! SHE KILLED THE CAPT-UUKK!!!" Another heavy thud was heard. Then another, and another and another.
Yuusuke had his eyes tightly closed, fist clenched. "I can't take this anymore!"
"YUUSUKE! WAIT!! DON'T HURT HER!!" Kurama shouted as Yuusuke whirled around the corner, holding his index finger out, a faint glow at the tip.
His breath hitched as his eyes widen seeing the creature stood before him. Kurama, Kuwabara and Hiei came out from behind the wall, they eyes widening.
A girl crouched over one of the bodies, holding it up by his front bloodied shirt. Her dark blue eyes hazy and crazed looking. Her mouth was covered in blood as well as her teeth that were bared. Blood on her hands and soaked into her sleeves. There were some blood splatter on her shirt and pants, and near the bottom of her pants was completely covered in red. The human she was holding her hand, weakly moved his head to look at the boys there, his right eye slice wide open, blood pouring out.
"Help.... me... please....." He muttered lowly and lifted up his broken arm. "Please...."
The boys could only watched, stunned and shocked as Lii opened her bloody mouth, her human fangs now sharp enough to tear flesh. She closed her mouth over the man's neck, sinking her fangs into the already teared skin and clamped it tightly, crushing his windpipe in a instant.
The man barely had time to struggle as his good eye rolled up into his head, and went limp. Blood poured from the corner of his mouth. Lii dropped the dead body and looked at the four.
Yuusuke still had his finger pointed at her, not believing that this creature was thier friend and Kurama's cousin. He just couldn't believe it. What happen to you, Lii?
"Kurama!!" Kuwabara shout caused the boy to come out of his thoughts. He saw the redhead appoarching the hostile girl. "Kurama don't be stupid and GET BACK HERE!!!!" Shouted Kuwabara. Hiei put his hand on the handle of his katana and readied himself to strike and maybe even kill the girl if any harm came to the older youko.
Lii backed up, growling and snarling as she watched Kurama appoarch her. A small, sad and wistful smile on his face. She lower herself to the ground ready to pounce and kill the new comer, but her eyes slightly widen as the smell of roses reached her nose.
Roses...
"Lii...." Kurama whispered to the bloody child, slowly reaching out a pale hand towards her. The growling and snarling stopped as dark blue eyes that once seemed crazy and bent on killing everyone that came at her just to survive, held now a frighten look. She watched tears rolled down his cheek and plop on the ground mixing with the spilt blood.
"Lii...."
That voice.
"Please..."
His voice.
Why...
Why...
Why does it sound so familiar and comforting??
Why does he cry?
Why does he have that look on his face?
Why does he look sad?
Why does he smell familiar?
Why does he sound familiar?
Why does he look familiar?
Why?
Why?
Why?
Whywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhy??????????????????????
Lii grimace as there was a throbbing pain in the back of her head. She raised her hands to clutched it.
Why can't I remember anything?
Why can't I remember why I'm here?
Why don't I know why those people are after me?
Why am I even in the Humanworld?
Why do I even smell human?
Why am I even look human???
"Why...???"
Her raspy voice startled the older youko. He was a bit more startled when he saw her lift her face to lok at him to see blood tears beginning to stream down her face. He bit his bottom lip and reached out a bit and put his pale hand against her smear bloodied face.
"Why what?" He asked.
"Why..." She said again. "Why are you in pain? Do you know me?" She asked.
Kurama green eyes widen. "Do you know me?" It repeated over and over in his head. It felt like he was being stabbed over and over again, but with pain to cause him to scream in agnoy.
Lii blinked her dark blue eyes and reached out towards the redhead as his hand had fallen away from her face. She locked her eyes onto his, wating for him to pull back or flinched as she cupped his cheek with one of her staind hands. But he did neither and simply just stood there and closed his eyes. She watched more tears leak out.
"Why do you cry? Why are you in pain? Why..." She asked. This human boy is strange. He smells of a demon and even has a youki instead of reiki.
She felt soft hands cover her own and watched the boy press his cheek harder into her hand. "Lii, please... Don't you recognize me? Or them?" He asked softly pointed a finger at Yuusuke, Kuwabara and Hiei.
Lii blinked and pulled her hand back. "No, I do not know any of you? All I know that I'm in the Ningenkai and somehow trapped in this human body." She looked at herself, seeing the blood on her once clean clothes.
Kurama eyes widen slightly. Lii looked at him, studying his features.
Silky red hair.
Beautiful emerald eyes.
Somewhat femnine looking.
She blinked. No, she did not recognize him. Not all. She opened her mouth, but a powerful throb stabbed her in the head. Whining, she clutched her head.
There he was, standing in front of her, redhiar, green eyes; smiling at her...
Her family.
Their body's strewn all over thier den. Blood soaking into the Earth's ground. The smell of youko's blood reached her nose.
A pulse of ki beat from her body with her every heartbeat. Her red eyes widen and blood tears streamed down, her gold yellow hair flew up as her mouth open, reliesing an eerie sound or sorrow. (---like the sound Cheza made from "wolf's rain" when Darcia had hurt Hige and Toboe.)
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Dark blue eyes snapped open, and flashed red. She looked up at the worried Kurama and snarled, baring her fangs.
Kurama was startled as he saw his cousins eyes turned from a cool dark blue to blood red eyes. "You... you murdered my family!" She growled. "You tried to trick me!!"
"Wha-" Was all that Kurama could say before the clicking of guns caught their attention.
Yuusuke growled. "IDIOTS!!" He shouted. "Don't threaten her! She's not in her right mind!!" The police froce just ignored them and aimed it both at Lii and Kurama.
"Get ready to fire," One of the officer said.
"DON'T!!" Shouted Kuwabara. Hiei just watched.
Before the officer in command could give the signal, blood sprayed into the air and splattered on the wall.
"HOLY-" More blood spilled as a blur went right through them. Some of the police had their head ripped off from their body as others lost different limbs. Kurama watched the bodies of the police men fall down in their own pool of blood and watched Lii's body reappear at the other end of the hallway. A calm facade look on her face as her red eyes locked on to his green ones.
"AH!!" Kurama fell to his knees as something stabbed him straight through the shoulder. Grabbing it, he twisted it out to see it was a long sharp needle. He looked up to see Lii turn away and walked off before feeling Yuusuke's hand on his shoulder.
"I can't believe it!" Kuwabara shouted. "She struck her own cousin.. HER OWN COUSIN!! If she did that then theres something definitly wrong. She would never in her life hurt Kurama!"
Yuusuke nodded and helped the redhead up. The breaking of glass caught thier attention. Running towards the sound, the boys came into another hospital room to see the window there broken.
"She's loose."
"No, she's lost."
Yuusuke and Kuwabara looked at Kurama. "What do you mean?" Asked Yuusuke.
"She's lost. She didn't know who I was?" He closed his eyes tightly. "She has amnesia." Yuusuke and Kuwabara eyes widen.
"That's not good then, is it?" Kurama shook her head.
"Lii had told me once that when she reborn herself as a human; the infant's body she had tooken over had it's Soul leaving. She had entered the babe and trapped some of the Soul with her, just a small orb and it rests deep within her Demon Soul. But with with a Himan Soul mixing with a Demon Soul it caused a somewhat unbalance within her." Yuusuke blinked.
"What do you mean?"
"She was born a with all nine tails at birth, Yuusuke. Her true demonic nature of her Soul was supposed to be dark and dangerous even to herself like all nine-tails, and much more dangerous to her Human Soul. Meaning she had to find someway to shield her Human Soul from the dangers of her true demonic Soul so it wouldn't rip it to shreds and destroy it completely. But with a Human Soul inside, it sort of weakened her whole Demon Soul. Now..."
"And now that she has amnesia, her true demonicself is taking control for survival of herself and would probably rip away her Human Soul?" Yuusuke said. Kurama nodded.
"Though I'm afraid it's already doing that. It's slowly devouring her Human Soul, because of that look she gave me."
"And the needle she put into you." Yuusuke reminded.
"And the humans she slaughtered." Kuwabara added.
Hiei looked from the three and out the window, the faint scent of blood mingling in the air. So, it means we have no choice but to kill her.