Through The Eyes Of The Assassin Part 7
By: Roaring Flames
Disclaimers: See chapter 6 please.
CC: Oh Man this chapter was long, 9 pages long!!!
Author's Note: This chapter will mainly focus on Karou and her feelings of everything that happened so far, so this is were the serious angst stuff will begin.
Poem:
Hikari.
" You as the light will find me standing in the dark, wearing a mask to
cover all the suffering that I cannot afford to show."-Me
Crawling In The Dark In Searching Of The Light
It was raining in the morning. Everything was very clam and quiet, like a graveyard at dawn. Karou had trouble going to sleep, she kept thing of her father and his death. All of the blood that was spilt, her father's head rolling by her feet. Tears started to roll down her cheeks. Pain. The only thing she could fell in her chest, it kept squeezing her heart hard. Why? She kept asking herself that question. Why her Father? Why did she have to see him die? After losing her mother as a child, her father was like a friend and a teacher at the same time.
'He can't come back and your next.' A voice said in her head. Karou didn't move she was giving into the voice seductive words of death and depression. 'He got your Father, he'll come after you if you get too close to him.' Battousai? Was Battousai going to kill her too? Karou closed her eyes and fell into darkness where the voice was. "Everything is going by so quickly, I don't think I can keep up." Karou said as the light moved away from her and was sucked into a dark world. 'You could never last in that world so I saved you. You'll never have to face that killer again.' Karou felt herself slipping away. She kept falling into darkness on the inside and on the outside she stopped breathing.
"Karou! Don't let sorrow take over!" Father? Was Karou's Father calling to her? No it couldn't be he's dead. "Karou I didn't teach you all for nothing did I? You need to wake up! Live!" Live? Was she dead? Was this darkness death? Was death pulling her in? 'I-I can't wake up. S-someone help.' The voice grew angry and took hold of her body with chains. Karou went into panic, as she was pulled deeper and deeper into death. 'Please someone! Anyone help!' It felt like gravity was crushing her as she went deeper and that hope was lost. She looked down and saw dead spirits. They flew up to her and grabbed her neck, arms, and legs. They pulled her down even farther, reaching out her hand up to where the light was she called one last time. 'Help'
She felt something grab her hand. Karou opened her eyes to see a figure made of light come down and break the chains that held her captive. The spirits erupted in rage and attacked the light. She saw the figure put out its hand and formed some light into a Katana shaped weapon. It grabbed the weapon and charged at the spirits. It slew them one by one, which appeared in the form of a cloud of mixing light and darkness to Karou. The figure then yelled up to Karou, while blasting a spirit's brain out with a Ki blast. 'Go to the surface and live!' The Light? Karou looked up and saw something that looked like crystal clear water right above her head.
"But what about you? Will I ever see you again?" The figure looked up to her and smiled. 'Maybe, if my other half opens up his eyes and forgets to hate.' He then flew up to Karou and took her hand. 'I really wish we could meet under different circumstances.' Karou smiled back to the figure. "Same here." He then grabbed he other hand and stared into her eyes. 'Im asleep right now, but I'll be able to protect you in your dreams and maybe when the day comes I'll protect you in the living world.' Karou frowned and looked up. "But where will I find you in the living world?" He smiled and kissed her lightly on the lips. 'You'll know who I am when you see me for real.' She then swam up through the water and waved far well to her protector.
Karou opened her eyes slowly and found herself in the hospital room. "She coming back to us! Someone get Megumi!" A voice called. A lady dressed in blue then came in and examined her. "W-what happened?" Karou asked to the woman named Megumi. "That's what I'll like to know. I don't know how in the world you stopped breathing." Karou looked around the room and saw Sango helping other patients. While Kohaku and Kisa carried around medical supplies to the other doctors in the room. "Hello are you feeling better?" Kotori said quietly to Karou. She was sitting on a mat near the futon. Karou got up in a sitting position and saw Battousai in the corner sleeping.
"Umm what's wrong with Battousai?" She asked while pointing at him. Kotori put a hand on her for head and lightly shook her head back and forth. "He's the one who brought you in her. This is really not like him; he normally takes lives instead of saving them. Well I guess even he has a heart somewhere in there." Karou looked at Battousai. He saved me? Me? Out of all the people I thought would save me, he would be at the bottom of the list. But the person who saved me was the light. Not Battousai. Karou felt fainted and fell back on the futon. Maybe if she slept she would see him again and talk to him about this. But, no sleep came to her only cold water did.
Battousai threw water on her to prevent her from drifting off to death again. "I think you looked at death enough for today." He said coldly while handing her a towel to dry herself off with. He then handed her a kimono and a ribbon. "Kotori wants you downstairs for breakfast, got that?" He said to her without making eye contact. Karou nodded and watched Battousai walk out of the room with violet eyes. 'Huh Violet?!? Something must be wrong with me today.'
She got changed and walked out of the hospital room in a red kimono with black dragons on it. But one thing that stuck out, that made all the men in the building who liked Karou back away in fear. To them this was a warning to all of them to stay away from her heart. The thing was an amber colored ribbon she wore in her raven black hair. The amber ribbon said to them in a horrible way "Touch her and you'll go through the world's most painful death slowly." Amber. The eye color of Japan's most feared assassin had claimed her as a person under his protection. Karou walked down the stairs, then turned the corner and felt something hard hit her neck. Everything went black. She opened her eyes and saw the figure of light flouting right next to her.
"What happened?" She asked the figure. He was glaring at a pool of water that was showing a man walking out with Karou's body. "But im right here. What's going on? You need to tell me now!" He looked at Karou and frowned. 'As what I've seen your were knocked out by a member of the Shinsengumi and im trying to determine what's going on right now. Apparently my other self doesn't even know you're gone. I have to tell him right now. Stay here nothing can hurt you here so wait a minute.' He then disappeared quickly in a flash of blinding light. Karou then put here attention back to the pool of water that showed what was happening to her body.
She saw Sango come on to the scene and knocked out the man who was carrying her. (AN: This is in Sango's point of view now) "I got her let's move Kohaku!" Kohaku walked over to Sango with his chain-sickle in his hand. She looked at her brother like something was wrong. "Did someone attack you?" She questioned her brother. "No, but he'll attack you." A man said to Sango. "Naraku? What's going on? What did you do to him?!" Sango said while drawing her katana. "You didn't finish your job. Both you and your brother have failed. Don't worry I'll kill Kohaku after he kills you. You'll both go to Hell together." Naraku said leisurely. He walked over to Kohaku and looked at Sango with a grin on his face. "Kill her."
Kohaku then charged his sister with his chain-sickle. She dodged the chain- sickle and parried her brother's katana. She almost slashed her brother, but backed away. "Kohaku it's me Sango! Your sister! Can't you hear me?!?" She pleaded to her brother who glared at her. Her sweet-hearted little brother that she grew up with was gone. She then kicked her brother away from her and came up with an idea. Killing Naraku will mean that Kohaku will be free of his spell. Sango picked up her boomerang and threw it at Naraku. Kohaku then jumped in front of Naraku and deflected her boomerang. "Now you want to kill me? I'll like to see you try; Kohaku will protect me from you. So you see, your going to have to kill him before you get me."
"Sango! What's happening?" Kotori said as she ran up to her friend. Battousai ran over to Karou's body to find that she was still breathing. He picked her up and walked over to Kotori. Naraku noticed that the target was within killing range for Sango. "Sango, kill the girl now and I'll free your brother." Sango looked at Kotori who was in shook. Sango then put her hands by her katana, her hand was shaking violently. Kill to save her brother or not kill and face Naraku. She quickly moved her hands to her boomerang and threw it at Naraku. Kohaku responded to slowly to counter the attack; Naraku got his left hand arm cut off. "I refuse Naraku! It's people like her that this world needs the most. Not bloodthirsty murders who love to kill, like you!" Sango then charged Naraku with her boomerang in hand, but one thing she wondered was where Kohaku was. He wasn't near Naraku; maybe he broke the spell by himself.
She was in range with her boomerang and as she was going to throw the deathblow everything went wrong. "Sango look out! BEHIND YOU!!!" Kotori screamed to Sango. But, it was too late. She was stabbed in the back with a chain-sickle. Sango looked behind her to find her brother coming at her with a katana. She pushed her self to stand up and counter the attack. But she had lost too much blood; Kohaku slashed her chest in two places. Sango fell to the ground, crying. Kotori then disappeared from her spot and slashed Naraku into little bloody pieces. Kohaku then snapped back to reality and looked around for his sister. He saw her lying on the ground with blood all around her. Kohaku fell on his knees and started to cry. He knew he hurt his sister, he was aware of what he was doing the whole time. But, he couldn't fight back; Naraku's spell was too strong.
Kotori walked over to Sango and kneeled down to her head. She then grabbed Sango's ponytail and lifted her head off the ground. Sango opened her eyes slightly and started to shake lightly. "Is this it? Are you just going to die? Wake up! Your not going to die this way?" She yelled to Sango. Kotori then dropped her down lightly. "Think about." She walked away slowly and then rubbed her left arm. She moved her Gi sleeve up and reveled a black holy arm restraint (AN: It looks like that thing Miroku has on his arm to keep the Hell hole from expanding; See the Inu Yasha Anime or Manga for pictures). "What's that for?" Battousai asked curiously.
"Like that cross-shape scar on your cheek, I too have scars. Mine being very deadly to human kind if shown in the light." Karou then jerked her head to the side as if in a nightmare like state. Sango looked at Karou and knew she wasn't going out of the game that easily. She forced herself on her feet and her arms on her boomerang for support. Kotori smiled slightly and walked back to Sango's side. "Come on let's get go back and heal those wounds of yours". They all walked back, except for Battousai.
"Come on can't you wake up?" He asked Karou softly. He then trailed he's fingers around her eyebrows. Then he started play with her cheeks, he smiled when he pushed her cheeks together and Karou then had fish-like face. Battousai grew bored with playing with her face and just let her lay on his lap. She then started to jerk back and forth violently and started to mumble things, one that he could clearly hear. "Father don't die." Battousai then frowned. Great now I feel bad about this. He then saw a tear roll down her cheeks and landed in a puddle of blood. Blood? She's not bleeding is she?! He picked up Karou and felt that her shoulder was stained with blood. 'Oh shit!' He thought as he got up and ran as fast as he could (Which no one could see with the human eye) to the Inn. "Damn it girl, don't you dare die!'
To Be Continued.
By: Roaring Flames
Disclaimers: See chapter 6 please.
CC: Oh Man this chapter was long, 9 pages long!!!
Author's Note: This chapter will mainly focus on Karou and her feelings of everything that happened so far, so this is were the serious angst stuff will begin.
Poem:
Hikari.
" You as the light will find me standing in the dark, wearing a mask to
cover all the suffering that I cannot afford to show."-Me
Crawling In The Dark In Searching Of The Light
It was raining in the morning. Everything was very clam and quiet, like a graveyard at dawn. Karou had trouble going to sleep, she kept thing of her father and his death. All of the blood that was spilt, her father's head rolling by her feet. Tears started to roll down her cheeks. Pain. The only thing she could fell in her chest, it kept squeezing her heart hard. Why? She kept asking herself that question. Why her Father? Why did she have to see him die? After losing her mother as a child, her father was like a friend and a teacher at the same time.
'He can't come back and your next.' A voice said in her head. Karou didn't move she was giving into the voice seductive words of death and depression. 'He got your Father, he'll come after you if you get too close to him.' Battousai? Was Battousai going to kill her too? Karou closed her eyes and fell into darkness where the voice was. "Everything is going by so quickly, I don't think I can keep up." Karou said as the light moved away from her and was sucked into a dark world. 'You could never last in that world so I saved you. You'll never have to face that killer again.' Karou felt herself slipping away. She kept falling into darkness on the inside and on the outside she stopped breathing.
"Karou! Don't let sorrow take over!" Father? Was Karou's Father calling to her? No it couldn't be he's dead. "Karou I didn't teach you all for nothing did I? You need to wake up! Live!" Live? Was she dead? Was this darkness death? Was death pulling her in? 'I-I can't wake up. S-someone help.' The voice grew angry and took hold of her body with chains. Karou went into panic, as she was pulled deeper and deeper into death. 'Please someone! Anyone help!' It felt like gravity was crushing her as she went deeper and that hope was lost. She looked down and saw dead spirits. They flew up to her and grabbed her neck, arms, and legs. They pulled her down even farther, reaching out her hand up to where the light was she called one last time. 'Help'
She felt something grab her hand. Karou opened her eyes to see a figure made of light come down and break the chains that held her captive. The spirits erupted in rage and attacked the light. She saw the figure put out its hand and formed some light into a Katana shaped weapon. It grabbed the weapon and charged at the spirits. It slew them one by one, which appeared in the form of a cloud of mixing light and darkness to Karou. The figure then yelled up to Karou, while blasting a spirit's brain out with a Ki blast. 'Go to the surface and live!' The Light? Karou looked up and saw something that looked like crystal clear water right above her head.
"But what about you? Will I ever see you again?" The figure looked up to her and smiled. 'Maybe, if my other half opens up his eyes and forgets to hate.' He then flew up to Karou and took her hand. 'I really wish we could meet under different circumstances.' Karou smiled back to the figure. "Same here." He then grabbed he other hand and stared into her eyes. 'Im asleep right now, but I'll be able to protect you in your dreams and maybe when the day comes I'll protect you in the living world.' Karou frowned and looked up. "But where will I find you in the living world?" He smiled and kissed her lightly on the lips. 'You'll know who I am when you see me for real.' She then swam up through the water and waved far well to her protector.
Karou opened her eyes slowly and found herself in the hospital room. "She coming back to us! Someone get Megumi!" A voice called. A lady dressed in blue then came in and examined her. "W-what happened?" Karou asked to the woman named Megumi. "That's what I'll like to know. I don't know how in the world you stopped breathing." Karou looked around the room and saw Sango helping other patients. While Kohaku and Kisa carried around medical supplies to the other doctors in the room. "Hello are you feeling better?" Kotori said quietly to Karou. She was sitting on a mat near the futon. Karou got up in a sitting position and saw Battousai in the corner sleeping.
"Umm what's wrong with Battousai?" She asked while pointing at him. Kotori put a hand on her for head and lightly shook her head back and forth. "He's the one who brought you in her. This is really not like him; he normally takes lives instead of saving them. Well I guess even he has a heart somewhere in there." Karou looked at Battousai. He saved me? Me? Out of all the people I thought would save me, he would be at the bottom of the list. But the person who saved me was the light. Not Battousai. Karou felt fainted and fell back on the futon. Maybe if she slept she would see him again and talk to him about this. But, no sleep came to her only cold water did.
Battousai threw water on her to prevent her from drifting off to death again. "I think you looked at death enough for today." He said coldly while handing her a towel to dry herself off with. He then handed her a kimono and a ribbon. "Kotori wants you downstairs for breakfast, got that?" He said to her without making eye contact. Karou nodded and watched Battousai walk out of the room with violet eyes. 'Huh Violet?!? Something must be wrong with me today.'
She got changed and walked out of the hospital room in a red kimono with black dragons on it. But one thing that stuck out, that made all the men in the building who liked Karou back away in fear. To them this was a warning to all of them to stay away from her heart. The thing was an amber colored ribbon she wore in her raven black hair. The amber ribbon said to them in a horrible way "Touch her and you'll go through the world's most painful death slowly." Amber. The eye color of Japan's most feared assassin had claimed her as a person under his protection. Karou walked down the stairs, then turned the corner and felt something hard hit her neck. Everything went black. She opened her eyes and saw the figure of light flouting right next to her.
"What happened?" She asked the figure. He was glaring at a pool of water that was showing a man walking out with Karou's body. "But im right here. What's going on? You need to tell me now!" He looked at Karou and frowned. 'As what I've seen your were knocked out by a member of the Shinsengumi and im trying to determine what's going on right now. Apparently my other self doesn't even know you're gone. I have to tell him right now. Stay here nothing can hurt you here so wait a minute.' He then disappeared quickly in a flash of blinding light. Karou then put here attention back to the pool of water that showed what was happening to her body.
She saw Sango come on to the scene and knocked out the man who was carrying her. (AN: This is in Sango's point of view now) "I got her let's move Kohaku!" Kohaku walked over to Sango with his chain-sickle in his hand. She looked at her brother like something was wrong. "Did someone attack you?" She questioned her brother. "No, but he'll attack you." A man said to Sango. "Naraku? What's going on? What did you do to him?!" Sango said while drawing her katana. "You didn't finish your job. Both you and your brother have failed. Don't worry I'll kill Kohaku after he kills you. You'll both go to Hell together." Naraku said leisurely. He walked over to Kohaku and looked at Sango with a grin on his face. "Kill her."
Kohaku then charged his sister with his chain-sickle. She dodged the chain- sickle and parried her brother's katana. She almost slashed her brother, but backed away. "Kohaku it's me Sango! Your sister! Can't you hear me?!?" She pleaded to her brother who glared at her. Her sweet-hearted little brother that she grew up with was gone. She then kicked her brother away from her and came up with an idea. Killing Naraku will mean that Kohaku will be free of his spell. Sango picked up her boomerang and threw it at Naraku. Kohaku then jumped in front of Naraku and deflected her boomerang. "Now you want to kill me? I'll like to see you try; Kohaku will protect me from you. So you see, your going to have to kill him before you get me."
"Sango! What's happening?" Kotori said as she ran up to her friend. Battousai ran over to Karou's body to find that she was still breathing. He picked her up and walked over to Kotori. Naraku noticed that the target was within killing range for Sango. "Sango, kill the girl now and I'll free your brother." Sango looked at Kotori who was in shook. Sango then put her hands by her katana, her hand was shaking violently. Kill to save her brother or not kill and face Naraku. She quickly moved her hands to her boomerang and threw it at Naraku. Kohaku responded to slowly to counter the attack; Naraku got his left hand arm cut off. "I refuse Naraku! It's people like her that this world needs the most. Not bloodthirsty murders who love to kill, like you!" Sango then charged Naraku with her boomerang in hand, but one thing she wondered was where Kohaku was. He wasn't near Naraku; maybe he broke the spell by himself.
She was in range with her boomerang and as she was going to throw the deathblow everything went wrong. "Sango look out! BEHIND YOU!!!" Kotori screamed to Sango. But, it was too late. She was stabbed in the back with a chain-sickle. Sango looked behind her to find her brother coming at her with a katana. She pushed her self to stand up and counter the attack. But she had lost too much blood; Kohaku slashed her chest in two places. Sango fell to the ground, crying. Kotori then disappeared from her spot and slashed Naraku into little bloody pieces. Kohaku then snapped back to reality and looked around for his sister. He saw her lying on the ground with blood all around her. Kohaku fell on his knees and started to cry. He knew he hurt his sister, he was aware of what he was doing the whole time. But, he couldn't fight back; Naraku's spell was too strong.
Kotori walked over to Sango and kneeled down to her head. She then grabbed Sango's ponytail and lifted her head off the ground. Sango opened her eyes slightly and started to shake lightly. "Is this it? Are you just going to die? Wake up! Your not going to die this way?" She yelled to Sango. Kotori then dropped her down lightly. "Think about." She walked away slowly and then rubbed her left arm. She moved her Gi sleeve up and reveled a black holy arm restraint (AN: It looks like that thing Miroku has on his arm to keep the Hell hole from expanding; See the Inu Yasha Anime or Manga for pictures). "What's that for?" Battousai asked curiously.
"Like that cross-shape scar on your cheek, I too have scars. Mine being very deadly to human kind if shown in the light." Karou then jerked her head to the side as if in a nightmare like state. Sango looked at Karou and knew she wasn't going out of the game that easily. She forced herself on her feet and her arms on her boomerang for support. Kotori smiled slightly and walked back to Sango's side. "Come on let's get go back and heal those wounds of yours". They all walked back, except for Battousai.
"Come on can't you wake up?" He asked Karou softly. He then trailed he's fingers around her eyebrows. Then he started play with her cheeks, he smiled when he pushed her cheeks together and Karou then had fish-like face. Battousai grew bored with playing with her face and just let her lay on his lap. She then started to jerk back and forth violently and started to mumble things, one that he could clearly hear. "Father don't die." Battousai then frowned. Great now I feel bad about this. He then saw a tear roll down her cheeks and landed in a puddle of blood. Blood? She's not bleeding is she?! He picked up Karou and felt that her shoulder was stained with blood. 'Oh shit!' He thought as he got up and ran as fast as he could (Which no one could see with the human eye) to the Inn. "Damn it girl, don't you dare die!'
To Be Continued.