A/N: I'm here! Updating in less than a week! I feel so proud of myself. Thankies for the review OBSSESSED Uber Rei Model 07 and Hiro. P. I feel really flattered. Have a cookie. Yeah, in the last chapter, he did kill Yami. It was a brief mention, but yeah. Sob.
This chapter is from the Nightwish song, off of the CD Century Child, "End of All Hope." So yes peoples, this is the last chapter. I would like to thank all of my reviewers, thanks a bunch guys. I love you! Have cookies.
Chapter Nine: End of all Hope
I raise the Sennen Rod above my head. I close my eyes and summon forth the energy within me, the power of the shadows, to do the final task I ask them to do. The energy pulls from within and forms all around my form.
The wispy shadows are meager at first but then they grow. They grow to thick ribbons, to full clouds, and then a wall. The vision in front of me is nothing but shadows. I didn't even look at the moon for a final time. It is with a heavy heart that I realize that.
The walls of darkness surround my environment, and even hikari is consumed. His shaking voice demands to know what is going on. He asks again and again, pleading for me to answer. Over and over he asks. And still I give no answer. The answer is clear enough.
The water around my ankles becomes increasing cold, so cold it feels like mind numbing ice. My skin shivers and the skin is prickling, raising the hairs on the back of my neck. Whatever warmth left in the air has vanished completely, and I cannot even sense the body heat emitting from the frightened hikari.
I slowly turn to face him, shivering, but smiling still. He needs to know that I am not afraid of what I am about to go through. I try to tell him that, those words, but my voice is choked and high pitched. I can barely quirk my lips anymore. The dark shadows clench at my throat, not allowing me to speak anymore. Even through my clothing I feel exposed, naked to all the darkness in the world.
He crosses to me, slowly and trembling. Tears stream down his face, misting over lavender eyes. It is no surprise to me that they are full of fear, like all the times that he has looked at me. He shakily asks the same question, a silent plea of worry.
Sweet, beautiful, glorious hikari. Such a pure light should not be polluted with darkness. It never should have to have been the carrier of a darkness that he never deserved.
Why can there be no other way? Any way. If there was some way to escape I would. Some way to run away, to be with my light. To have everything I longed for. I want it so bad.
My eyes widen. My heart beats fast.
Hikari was holding me. Holding me. His arms wrapped around me, pressing me close. His face buried into my shoulder, fingers digging into my skin. In this darkness, I could feel his warmth. I feel his light.
Hikari looks up, painful lavender eyes, and brushes warm fingertips across my cheek. He doesn't even flinch at the cold. It was then I realized tears were on my own face too. They streamed down faster than his, uncontrollable and unable to stop.
I desire to hold him. I need to hold him. If I don't hold him all will be lost. I will be lost in the darkness I called my own, lost in the abyss. Drifting in the oblivion.
No.
I won't.
Darkness will not allow this. Darkness cannot have happy endings. It will never be happy. And if darkness cannot, then I cannot. I may have a human heart, but it will never mean I am human. I am darkness. I am sorrow. I am pain. I am hatred. I am nothing.
Hands gripping at his shoulders, I shove him away from me. I didn't even feel the last of his warmth at my fingertips. As he falls back, the shadows rush to my body, wrapping around my body. They entwine onto every muscle, every fiber.
Hikari begins to shout. He screams. He cries.
Goodbye hikari, I say with my eyes.
Shadows wrap up my body.
He stands, knees almost knocking together. He can barely shout anymore. He can only watch. So sorry hikari.
Shadows wrap around my legs, around my arms.
It gathers around my chest, tightly pulling so I cannot breathe. My body numbs. I can't feel anything but the frozen shadows. They become my chains as the portal opens, dragging me in. I can't fight against it.
Up my face the shadows go. They cover tears, make the tears go away.
Hikari is getting farther away. So far away. He stands alone, crying. I can no longer reach out to him, not for all the miracles in the world. No prayer is strong enough to save me.
Shadows crawl up my face.
He is disappearing. The portal is closing. Slowly, very slowly.
All I see is him. I see his eyes, veiled over with sadness and tears. I see his face, still so beautiful.
Shadows curtain my eyes.
Hikari is gone. Never to be seen again.
The portal is closed and I am tossed into the oblivion. The realm of darkness, where every dark feeling is contained. And I can feel it all. All of them. Every one. All of them at its strongest point.
This is my punishment, my sentence for being the darkness of an innocent light. For being born.
This is my home now.
The rest is silence.