"Dude! What about us?"
By: (I like feedback!)
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The not so original but always needed DISCLAIMER
I don't own any of the characters here presented and/or any of the Power Rangers Ninja Storm stuff, that is property of SABAN and DISNEY, not mine (I wish they were, but...)
Also, If you don't like male/male relationship don't even go further because that's all you're gonna find. One more thing, the sexuality of any of the actors here implied is not of my concern and this is just a FICTION product.
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Chapter 23
Dies Irae
"Okasan!" said Evan and immediately ran towards the woman in white kimono.
Evan ran, and the tears in his face did the same. It was his nanny, his almost mother, who came to greet him. Little he knew that supposed greeting was a slap in his chick.
"O... Okasan? Why...?"
"You are pathetic" she said "And you're my enemy, not my son... I don't know you"
"Whadcha sayin'?"
"What I am saying is that you are no longer part of the Hikari Family"
Evan, who was now in the floor by the hit, knew what that supposed. He was expelled the day he killed his own father in self defense.
"You're nothing" She continued "I've came this far just to kill you. You destroyed all what was left for me, so I'm here to do the same..."
"What?"
She came closer to him, and grabbed him by the clothes. Then she muttered some words into his ears
Evan was amazed by the contents of that sole phrase, what she meant? He asked the same thing over and over, and then he pushed her away, then he stand up in one single jump, and once his feet touched the floor, he made a defense pose.
"Don't say that... that's not true!"
"But it is... You're nothing, face it. All that we were expecting from you and you just... blew it!"
"That's not it!"
"Well... you know, I knew you would not make an efficient ninja anyway... so, you weren't supposed to live..."
"Shut up! I can't believe I trusted you once..."
"You didn't have a choice..."
She then turned, and then she vanished into thin air. Once she left, Evan fell in his knees and started to cry. Dustin, who was watching all the action, came closer to him. He embraced him and then he knew what was happening. His lips then touched Evan's forehead.
"Go on" Evan whispered "Go on and help them... I have to take care of one ugly bitch"
"Dude, don't worry. She's not your old nanny"
"Yes. That woman was my nanny"
"No" He replied "Somebody who makes you feel bad can't be a relative"
"What? That doesn't make sense"
"Look dude, if she was your nanny then she wouldn't say something so bad"
"Dustin... shut up and hug me now"
And the yellow one did as he was told. In the exact order, he muted and then he embraced his lover. It wasn't the best time to start a hugging season, or to express their own love, but right now, Evan needed him more than his other friends in ninja ops.
"Go" He continued "Go and help them. I have to take care of my old nanny"
"No way I'm leaving you alone"
"Go!" he ordered Dustin
"No way dude! If were going to take her down were doing it the both of us!"
"But they need you!"
"No more than you"
Evan just quitted the conversation. He knew how stubborn could be Dustin when something pops in his mind. And that time, the yellow ranger wasn't leaving Evan behind.
"Let's go!" Dustin said
And they both started to run towards the wood. Some way or another, they knew were she was... in Siren's Chant.
Once they were there, Dustin looked for the woman in white, but she wasn't there. Maybe they were here too soon or maybe it was too late. Evan was behind him and then Dustin turned to him
"Say dude, what she said to you that really fired you up?"
"She said that I wasn't supposed to be born"
"What?"
"And I think it's true... maybe because from the beginning I wasn't loved. Mom died when I was really young. I can't remember her face, and instead, she raised us"
Dustin approached to him, and then, all of sudden, he kissed Evan slow and passionate.
"You are supposed to live. I have to tell you something..."
"First of all" He asked "What was this kiss all about?"
"Well, it's just to remind you that you were born for me"
"I don't get it"
"Look dude, when you come around I felt so depressed. No girl in this world cared for me, my friends treated me like a goof and everything seemed not to work as I thought"
"So...?"
"So I decided to take a big step. Before you came here, I tried to kill myself"
"Huh? You serious?"
"Yep" He said "I tried to kill myself by using some pills. I was giving up everything, but then I found ya. That night we came here, I felt close to you, and then I thought 'This dude treats me like a real person... maybe I'll give him a chance'"
"So you were supposed to kill yourself and I saved you from doing it?"
"Some way or another you did. You reminded me of myself, you made me feel like I was your world, and that feeling... it just light me up"
"Look... I dunno why you're telling me this... but... thanks"
"We both have issues" he continued "But dude; with you I feel... nothing! I mean, all the pain and the suffering just go away when I'm with you"
"Ok... I think it works the same with me"
"So" He continued "No matter what happens, all we had for each other is ourselves, get it?"
Evan just agreed to what he said, and then, he placed himself in his chest, not releasing him and Dustin didn't mind to be clung to Evan
"Isn't it cute?" A voice from above said
When they both released and turned to see, they saw just air.
"Want to know who the sensei in Stealth Ice was? I have to tell you... It wasn't your father"
The voice came from behind and they turned to see. Again, just air.
"I have to tell you that your grand parent made a good student... the same with your father and even your brother did good as ninjas... but you..."
Evan was pissed by the comment. He turned and looked, and looked for the voice. Nothing.
"You don't know even what you're blabbing about!" He yelled
And the woman in white appeared in front of him
"I know what I am saying because I raised them the same way I did with you... and not only had I raised them; I also trained your old grandfather"
"Shut up!"
"Jeez... if what you're saying is true, then you must be like and old geezer" said Dustin
"A lady is not supposed to reveal his age, but you're going to die with my secret, so I can tell you. I'm eight hundred years old"
"Yeah... and I'm God. Nice to meet you!"
Said a sarcastic Evan. He then ran towards his nanny and punched her. The hit was so hard and so fast that she fell in the sand.
"Why? I'm your nanny... don't you"
"Shut up!" yelled to her Evan "you're nothing!"
Evan grabbed her by the kimono; the tears were falling from his chicks
"You're not my nanny! My nanny was dead when I left the school!"
"Evan..." she whispered
"I have no feelings! Remember? I thought that I should care for ya... but... no way I'm buying this shit from you! You're nothing!"
"So it's true... you've become a man"
He threw her to his right, and she fell in the sand.
"Why...?" asked Evan to her "Why!!!"
"Why we have to kill to survive! Why I have to kill my own father! Why nobody said to me that they loved me! Why!" He continued
"It is no that, my child"
"I'm not your child! I have no relation with the Hikari Family... The only thing here for me is my boyfriend"
He turned, knowing now that the battle was over
"Evan..." She said "Why you killed him? You finished the whole family with it"
Evan turned to her, and opened his arms
"I killed him because I had no other choice. He tried to do the same... so if what you're looking is revenge, then come here and kill me"
The woman, Hisako, looked the expression in his eyes
"I know what you must felt the day he left you... and that very feeling is the same I had when I did it"
Evan was reaching her core, talking about the past, and the old sailor that left her behind in the shore
"I never knew that a legend would be so real... but it is true" He continued "And the same sorrow you have is the same I've passed through"
The woman was just crying so soft, that they never really watched her.
"I know" he said "That this is all a misunderstanding. If you really want to kill this bad, here I am, I won't fight you, but leave my friends out of this..."
Hisako just moved his hand to remove the tears that began to fall down. She stands up and from one of the sleeves of the kimono draws a knife. She was watching the cold edge of the knife, and now, she throws it to none other than Dustin.
Immediately, Evan saw the action and then runs, throwing himself between the knife and his lover.
Evan cries, and let a scream out. Dustin ran towards him, just to see his lover fall. He's able to catch him, in middle air.
"You don't know anything about pain" She said "Pain is what makes us stronger. Pain is nothing but a leap to the final evolution. You were supposed to face the pain of killing somebody and leap it towards your own evolution, but you missed, and instead, you began to love him. That's not it, my child... this training is supposed to be hard, because we wish to harden you..."
She sobs now and cleanses the last remaining of the tears
"I can't hate you, my boy, because you are one of my sons"
Dustin, releases the knife from the pouring wound of Evan, who crawls in the skin of the yellow one, reaching his neck
"Listen well my child" She says "The training was hard, and you were not good enough to the task of being a ninja... but you killed my loved son, and I can allow that. This is personal, my child"
"Shut up!" Dustin yells "That's all bullshit! Look what you've done to 'your child'! I can't believe it. And what's with all that stuff of his father? How can you be his mom?"
"You two don't get it at all"
Evan, now standing up from the sand, and all covered in his blood, began to walk towards her. Dustin tries to stop him, but is just impossible for him; he's not willing to let her go.
"You, your brother, your father... everyone in the Hikari family are my child. I had fed you, I had washed you all, I have trained you even... not directly, but my words talk from your own father, and so on. They trained you, but I was the very first teacher, and those have been the rules, until you came and destroyed them. I can not let you do that, my son, even when it rips my heart. I can not."
"And so, I can't let the Hikari dynasty to keep hurting me and my friends..."
She just watches him, and then a grin is formed in her face. "What is she up to?" Evan thinks, while he is struggling. "What is the meaning of her words?" And he walks. "Is it true? Is she the real leader of the family? Is she the one pulling the strings behind the curtain...? Evan falls, and now crawls trying to reach her feet.
"What you did is unspeakable" She says "What you are doing is also unspeakable. I can not allow this madness to continue and, in order to keep my family in control I must kill you; as your father, -one of my grandsons- was supposed to do... He wasn't so clever, I think, because he never used a poisoned knife, as I did"
"Damn you!" Dustin yells from behind.
He runs towards her, watching powerless how his boyfriend is in the floor, pouring, bleeding... He runs and slams himself with his own fist, but it was useless, before he can even touch her, she stops him with his right hand. Something invisible seems to stop him and to control him.
In the floor, Evan crawls again, now trying to stand up as he grabs Hisako's kimono. He keeps going, and she doesn't seems to bother about it. She knows he's about to die, in only one or two minutes more... "This fool is not going to survive" She thinks, but she never realizes of the strong will he had when he is seeing his troubled boyfriend. He grabs her from the cheek now; his legs are not obeying him anymore.
"What are you doing? Baka!" She says
Evan just opened his mouth and slowly tries to press it against Hisako's. The seconds pass and then he push her with the rest of his strength, and once the kiss is over he falls back in the sand. Dustin is released and then runs to grab his boyfriend.
"Unless you have... the antidote... with you... you'll face... the same destiny... as I am doing"
Hisako touches her lips, feeling how the tickling is advancing from his saliva to his blood. She never thought of the irony of being killed by the venoms she taught how to use... she never thought she would be dying by something so stupid. She's eternal, but not immortal.
Hisako now falls in the sand and begins to move, feeling the burning touch of the venom in his body. Her arms are not responding, as she falls. She's moving; the pain doesn't let her... Her legs now are dead. Nothing... Everything... She is seeing Evan and his lover, the pale one is muttering some words in Dustin's ear... and then everything fades.
"Dustin..."
"Don't say nuthin!" he says "Everything is going to be fine... just hold on, were giving you the antidote as you did with me..."
"I know... you will..."
"Don't talk buddy... keep your breath, you're going to need it"
"I can't... move..."
"Damn it! Don't talk... try to breath, buddy!"
Dustin holds his hand and with the other, he is caressing his hair. Evan is his legs, falling now, waiting.
"Dustin... this is... so cliché... but..."
"Don't" He places his finger in his lips, trying to shut him "We're going to be ok, everything is going to be fine, don't worry. We're going to make it, and then you're going to cheer me up in the freestyle competition, and... dude! We're going to this big place were the pizza is tasty, and then... We're going to make it... keep your breath..."
"Dustin... at least... let me tell you... this..."
"You won't" he says, now he's embracing him. The tears began to flow and he continues with his phrase "You won't tell me, because... when they say 'I love you' in the movies, it's because they are going to die... and you won't! You won't die! You won't leave me here..."
"I will... never leave your side... so, I will come back... as a ghost... to haunt you..."
"Don't say it dude"
Dustin is crying, and he can't stop it.
"Don't say it..." he says again.
"Listen... get yourself a better boyfriend... a venom proof one..."
"No! You're not dying and I'm not getting a new boyfriend, because I still love my old boyfriend"
"I'm... breaking... with... you... don't you... see?"
"No way... dude, you're not going to die..."
"Sorry... but... I'm leaving you..."
"Don't! Don't!"
"I... love you... goof" He said "Never... forget... me..."
Dustin just cries and cries, standing there in his side. The tears are falling over Evan's chest. He's dead, and nothing will return him to life. He stands up and then he grabs his boyfriend as he did when he fell, days ago, when fighting Eikichi.
He continues walking, with the cold body of his once boyfriend. "It cannot be" was what he thought, but no matter whatever he thought, this would never bring him to life. He keeps going; walking in the shore, as the waves from Siren's Chant erases his footprints... but no matter how hard could the waves stroke the sand, nothing will erase the footprints that Evan left on Dustin's life...
FIN