Chapter 6

Aoi was running in a long dark pathway underground. She was breathing really hard but she couldn't stop now. She had to find Chichiri and kill Nakago. How was she going to find them though? She kept running and slowly she started hearing noises. Fighting noises! She ran towards the fighting noises and saw then end of the pathway. It was bright at the end. She stepped through it and saw Chichiri on the ground all bloody. Nakago only had a few scratches on him, none of which damaged what he liked to call his, 'perfect face'. Aoi screamed. Nakago and Chichiri turned their attention to Aoi. She had a gruesome look of horror on her face. She then fell to her knees.

"Jen..." Chichiri said. His mask was gone and his actual face was all bloodied up. He looked close to a bloody pulp. Tears ran down her cheeks. She ran over to Chichiri's side. He looked even worse up close.

"Chi-Chichiri...." Her tears wouldn't stop and she was shaking now.

Chichiri placed one of his hands on her shoulder. She jumped and looked him in the eye.

"Don't worry Jen, I'm fine. If its you I'm fighting for, I would go to Hell and back." He tried to smile to comfort her but it didn't work too well. She cried even more. She didn't want him to risk his life over her. She just wanted to be happy with him but she knew how he felt. She found his lips and kissed him as if saying goodbye. He was surprised and he blushed. She then got up and stood in front of him so Nakago couldn't get to him.

"What are you doing Jen?" Chichiri said.

"I don't know but go while you can. I'll be fine." She knew what she had to do. She had to fight Nakago and kill him or else they would never be free. Somehow without her knowledge, she put up a barrier around them. "Go Chichiri!" She yelled. Chichiri didn't move. "Go now!" She screamed. Chichiri got up but not to leave. Chichiri placed his arms around her waist and whispered in her ear.

"I'm fighting with you Jen. I would never leave you. Never." He said. Tears welled up in her eyes.

"I'm growing tired of this. If you are done with your little love scene, I would be happy to obliterate you Chichiri!" Nakago came charging at Chichiri alone and knocked him out of the barrier that had become weak. Aoi had lost her concentration. Nakago sent a chi wave at Chichiri and Chichiri blocked most of it. And dodged the rest. The next wave hit Chichiri unrepentantly. He fell to the ground.

"No!!!! Chichiri!" She screamed. Her barrier had totally come down. She couldn't do anything to help. She didn't even know how she put up that barrier. How could she help Chichiri? She thought for a while but nothing came to mind. She grew aggravated at herself. Why couldn't she think of anything? She was standing there watching Chichiri get beat to a bloody pulp, while she thought of something that wasn't even coming to mind. She had to act fast. She saw a pretty nice sized rock next to her. She picked it up and threw it at Nakago. It hit him in the head. He turned.

"Leave him alone Nakago! I'm warning you!" Aoi said scared half way through saying it.

"Yes. I'm sure you are. Let me just finish this and then you can have him all to yourself." Nakago turned back to Chichiri. He was strangling him.

"Je-n...." Was the last thing Chichiri said before he stopped moving.

Aoi looked petrified. She walked over to the corpse that used to be Chichiri. Nakago was on the other side of the floor now. Aoi fell to her knees and hands. She was afraid to touch him but she did. She didn't hear a heartbeat and she didn't feel a pulse. Her hand shot to her mouth and she choked back her tears.

"No......" It came out as a whisper at first. Then she shouted, "NO!" She collapsed next to Chichiri's body. She was cried so much that she soaked her, now, torn up outfit. Nakago started to walk over to her to comfort her. She lifted her head and said, "Stay back." Firmly.

"What's wrong? Why are you crying?" He asked.

Aoi was furious. "What's wrong?! Why am I crying?!" Aoi sat up next to Chichiri's corpse. "What the hell do you think is wrong?! You killed the man I love. You killed the only one for me!" Nakago was thrown back. A single tear fell down Aoi's cheek and turned into a crystal clear stone. It floated in front of her. She wiped her tears and was about to take it when a whirlwind formed around her. Nakago got up.

"That's amazing," He wiped his mouth. There was blood running down his chin. "You're stronger than that man over there. I think you should have been protecting him instead of the other way around." He grinned. All the air was being sucked out of Aoi. She had to hold her breath and open her eyes. She saw the crystal and tried to get out of the whirlwind around her. She reached for the crystal stone but she couldn't quite reach. She looked at Chichiri and that gave her strength to grab the crystal. When she grabbed the stone, the whirlwind around her stopped and she floated to the ground in a sitting position. Her legs were to the sides of her and her knees in front of her. There was a white glow around the crystal stone in her hands. It lifted her up and gave her new clothes.

She had on a green Chinese dress with gold embroidery. It had long slits up the sides because it swept the floor. She had green high heels and gold bracelets. They replaced Nakago's gold bracelets. The one's she had on now were more shiny and had a hint of silver in them. She had gold hoop earrings and diamonds replaced her gold hair scrunchie Nakago gave her. They were placed all around her flowing, wild, wavy hair. Her necklace was a gold choker that had diamonds in it and one hanging from it.

The stone placed her back down in her sitting position. She looked down at Chichiri and said, "Chichiri, this is for you." She kissed him one last time and then she stood up and faced Nakago.

"You look better in those clothes then the ones you had on." Was what Nakago said.

"Of course I do! Those other clothes were from your perverted mind! For killing the one and only love I have," Aoi raised her hand and the other held the stone. "You will die by my hand." A power unknown to them all fired at Nakago. It hit him and he went flying through the air. He eventually ran into a wall but instead of stopping, he flew through it and the next and next. He finally ended up stopping at the fourth wall. He had lost a lot of energy from that blast. When he looked up from his landing point he saw Aoi's fierce eyes aglow. They literally had fire dancing around in them. For the second time in life, he was scared. It definitely surpassed the first time too. Aoi saw a flicker of fear in his eyes.

"You now know not to piss me off. Too bad this is your last time to remember that. Enjoy your last moments of life now, Nakago."

TO BE CONTINUED