Auguries of Death
Author Note: For those of you who don't know what and augury is I'll explain. It has two definitions. One definition is the study of future telling. But in this case it means a foretelling of some sort.
The sun was setting, which casted long shadows. Everything was painted red and gold. Kurama walked along, with an unconscious Ketsueki in his arms. She was wrapped tightly in a blanket. He carried her along staring slightly at the ground.
What happened replayed in his mind again and again. It haunted his every thought. Everything he though of always ended up reminding him of what happened, back at his house. He couldn't help but feel he did something wrong. "Maybe I shouldn't have done it." He said to himself.
Again the flashback huanhaunted mind, as he continued to Ketsueki's house with her unconscious body in his arms.
flashback
"Try to remember." Kurama insisted. "Ok.OKKetsueki closed her eyes and began to focus on trying to remember.
After only a few minutes, she began to toss her head from side to side. Her eyes remained closed. After awhile Ketsueki cluclutchedr head, andbegan screaming in pain. Her eyes were wide open, full of what seemed to be pain and fear. She fell forward off the fence, and continued to scream in pain, still clutclutching head tightly. Ketsueki's eyes closed tightly.
The boysboys didn'tw what to do. In the four months of them knowing her this has never happened. Plants began to grow over her body. They didn't know what that was. They thought it was good the plants were covering her, until they saw they were piercing her skin and digging their way deeper into her.
Kurama and Hiei frantically began tearing off the plants as Ketsueki was still screaming in pain.
After ten minutes, Ketsueki stopped screaming andtand thents ceased. Ketsueki's eyes remained closed. It was hard to tell if she was even breathing. In fact she wasn't. Kurama put his head on her chest and listened for her heart beat. It was slowing down, and slowing by every second. Nobody knew what to do.
Kurama lifted up Ketsueki's head and did the last thing he could do. He pulled Ketsueki's head forward, and did mouth to mouth resuscitation. It worked. Ketsueki began to breath again and her heart beat returned. She was unconscious though.
Kurama carried her into his house. Shiori knew who Ketsueki was, for she had seen her with Kurama quite a few times, and when Shiori would go to the dojo, they would talk. "What happened to Ketsueki?" Shiori asked. Kurama then answered back. "She's very sick. She just collapsed." He set Ketsueki on the couch and got a blanket from the closet. "I'm going to take her home. And to make sure she'll be fine, I'll stay the night at the dojo. OkOK
"Shuuichi, you always thinking of others. OkOKI'll see you tomtomorrowrning." Kurama wrapped Ketsueki in the blanket, and set out for the Kazu Dojo.
He looked up and saw he was at the dojo. He walked in and saw Kazu sitting on the porch with a cat looking thing with dragon wings.
Kazu looked over to Kurama and saw Ketsueki in his arms. "She's just unconscious." Kurama assured her. Kazu got up said, "AlAlrightWe'll put her in bed. Right this way." Kurama followed Kazu. There was thundering, dark clouds had moved into the sky now.
Kazu opened the door to Ketsueki's room. Kurama walked in, and sat her down on her bed. He looked up and saw on the walls, drawings and artwork. Each one was beautiful. "Did, Ketsueki do all these?" Kurama asked. "Yea. She is a great artist." Then there was a knock at the door. Kazu opened it, and there was Jin, amandiei were standing riright inront of the door. Kazu closed the door when they walked in.
Then there was another knock at the door. Kazu opened it again, a little irirritatedhis time. It was Hoshi. She walked in and saw Hiei Kurama and Jin all crowded around Ketsueki's bed. "Hey, long time. Is Ketsueki all right?" She asked, as she wedged herself in between Kurama and Jin. "I think so." Kurama said.
Ibara the little fox creature from before, who had crawled out of Ketsueki's bag a while back, jumped onto the bed anand satn top of Ketsueki's ststomachLooking at her face Ibara gave a small momeowcreech. The call wasn't ear shattering in any way, it actually sounded cute. Ibara then laid down and fell asleep right beside Ketsueki.
Thunder ereruptedand it began to rain hard. After fifteen minutes Kazu finally asked what had happened. More like she demanded. Kurama explained everything that happened at his house, up ununtile made it to the dojo. "Why do you think it happened exexactly Kazu asked staring at the door. Kurama sighed and asanswered"I don't really know myself. But I think our hunch of her being the Goddess is true."
"Oh, yeah you told me about the Goddess. I thought you were making that up."
"No, she exists. And so do four other angels."
"Angel?"
"Well, actually there is only one true angel. It goes from the highest The Goddess, who has eight wings, then The Seraph, a six winged angel comes, after that is a four winged angel and Arch Angel, then the angel, and a half angel. They are all part of an animal demon prophesy in a way. They are the prophesy. I'm pretty sure now that she is the Goddess. I know out of you five girls, you are all the prophetic children. I jujust can'tell who is who. But I have a hunch."
"Really?"
"You do know that each animal youkai controls something different? A kitsune youkai controls plants, a ryu (dragon) youkai controls fire, a neko youkai controls lightning, an okami (wolf) youkai controls water, and an usagi (rabbit) youki controls wind. And each one comes from a different animal tribe. The Goddess came from the Kitsune Tribe, the Seraph cocomes fromhe Ryu Tribe, the Arch Angel comes from the Neko Tribe, the Angel comes from the Okami Tribe, and the half angel comes from the Usagi Tribe. AnAnd eachf you have a connection to one of those elements."
"And?"
"You are the Seraph, Hoshi is the half angel, Koriyami is the Angel, and Yoru is the Arch Angel."
"That makes sense."
"So... That's the story of the Goddess." Everyone quickly turned their heads from Kurama, to Ketsueki. She was sitting up petting Ibara who was jumping about. "I always wowonderedbout what you guys were talking about the day we met, now I know more. I was hoping that if I found out who the Goddess was, I'd know why I can't remember past two years ago. But that didn't help too much..." There was a silence as Kurama and Ketsueki stared at each other's eyes. "You know..." Ketsueki said looking away from Kurama's hypnotic eyes. "...Today is the second anniversary since that day I told you about, when I first met you.. The day I didn't know who I was."
There was another silence. Kazu sighed and said breaking the silence, "So, our lives aren't normal any longer." Hiei snapped his gaze over to Kazu. He got up and walked over to her and said, "They weren't normal to begin with."
"Excuse me, if I wanted you opopinion would have asked for it."
"Like I care. Besides your pathetic whining was getting irirritating
"Y'know, for a while there I thought you were smart. But I guess I was wrong."
"Are you calling me stupid?"
"JeJeezI didn't think you were smart enough to know when you were being insulted."
"That's double for you. I'm so smart I only need to take one class a day in school."
"Yeah? Well, I'm sooo smart I don't even need school."
"No, you don't go to school bebecausehey don't have books low enough for you."
"Why, you... uh, er... rrrrrr" Kazu then stormed out of the room and slammed the door behind her. "Ha... I win." Hiei answered back. "Do you think she'll be alright?" Jin asked. Ketsueki laughed quietly and said, "She'll be fine. Just leave her alone for awhile." Ketsueki then flinched and looked at her arm. She saw all the deep gashes and scratches in her arm from the plants.
Though of course Ketsueki didn't remember anything about the plants or even after she began to toss her head. "What happened?" She asked as she looked up from her arm at Kurama. "Remember when you came to my house earlier?"
"Yea. Up to where you told me to remember something."
"After that you cclutchedyour head and began screaming out in pain. YYou felloff the fence, and landed on the ground, still screaming. Some plants began to cover your body and dug into your skin. Hiei and myself began tearing them off as quick as we could. But they kept growing back. After a while you stopped screaming and the plants stopped. But you were unconscious."
"oh."
Ketsueki then, laid down on her back and began to stare at the ceiling. With a blank expression on her face and in her voice, "I have a bad feeling. Something is gonna happen." She seemed to be staring in the depths of her mind.
Her eyes grew wide and full of fright. In a frightened voice Ketsueki said, "I-I see blood! A katana covered in blood! A note written in the blood!" Hiei quickly to see looked into her mind. He saw the same thing. He saw flashes of everything Ketsueki said. There was blood spilled on the floor. It was that of a human. There was a katana covered with blood, and someone who was covered in blood was holding it. The note was pinned on a door, written in blood.
Then Hiei was interrupted by Ketsueki, who suddenly screamed, and said, " A-and I'm... Holding... The- KATANA!" Kurama ran over to Ketsueki and grabbed her shoulders. He then yelled out to her shaking her, "Ketsueki, Snap Out Of It!" But his cries were in vain. Ketsueki then yelled out, "It's KOHAKU!! SHE'S DEAD!!!"
"KETSUEKI!!!!"
Kazu ran into the room yelling out, "Ketsueki!!" Kurama shook Ketsueki again yelling, "KETSUEKI, WAKE UP!! STOP LOOKING AT IT!!!! KETSUEKI WAKE UP!!! QUIT LOOKING, OR YOU'LL KILL YOURSELF!!!! LOOK! THERE ARE PEOPLE HERE THAT NEED YOU!!!! KETSUEKI!!!"
Kurama then pulled Ketsueki close to his chest, and hugged her. He was terrified. He didn't want to lose Ketsueki. Kurama knew he was afraid of losing her, but he didn't know why. Why is he so scared? Find out in the next chapter.