The Angel's blades
Kai's POV
Koumori-san just flies off into the trees with me on her back and Kasoku in her arms. I turn around and see the cop guy running after us.
"Fight him you stupid koumori unless your afraid to lose." I sneered.
"I don't want to kill him very muchly so."
I blinked. Did she just say she didn't want to kill him? Well going at this speed if she ran into him she'd kill him but still would she kill him?
"Well it doesn't look like he's letting up." I commented.
"You will stay back when I fight." She commanded. Then the stupid bat lands and turns around and waits. The man that was chasing us leaps out of the trees. He takes his off his hat for a second revealing black eyes and even blacker hair. He straitened and picked the leaves out of his hair with a distasteful look on his face. He had pale pale skin that made him look like a ghost. Bat girl just stands there with that stupid expression on her face as the man takes up a stance meant for battle.
"Are you going to fight or just stand there Ochita?" the man's voice was soft and gentle. Like the first time I saw smiley boy, I couldn't believe this guy was a swords man. Why is it that the swords men look like women and the swords women look like men? Oh well. Koumori just stands there. Then in that stupid voice that sounds like she's off in another world she speaks.
"I give you the first move." Her soft voice said.
The man sighed and rolled his eyes. "Namotoru said you were to polite for your own good." Then he took out a dagger and through it at her with such speed I couldn't see it. Ochita just dodges no expression present on her face. Too late. While Ochita was looking the other way at the dagger whizzing past her face the man came up and slashed at her but she disappeared. I blinked. Where did she go? The man stood there and then he swung his blade. Ochita appeared out of the blue narrowly missing getting her head hacked of her skinny little neck.
Really had I known what exactly she was doing I would tell you but the truth is I didn't. She would just blink in and out of my view usually with a clang sound that I knew was the impact of both the swords. "Oka..." The kid whimpers. He then clings to me like I'm some sort of life line. I really wanted to push him off but I was scared too. The way they fought, even though there wasn't any blood (yet) was scaring me. I finally understood why the kid thought his oka was so great though.
CLANG!! This time the two stayed still long enough for me to see them. Not that I couldn't see the guy but it was weird the way he would hit at nothing and Ochita would just magically appear. The man had a small smile on his face, something that I'd look at Kasoku with if the kid ever did anything right. The guy was acting like he was so superior to Ochita and it made me want to rip his stupid ghosty faced head off.
Just then Ochita and the guy were thrown back by the force each of them exerted. I watched in disbelief as Koumori girl sheathed her sword. Then she picked up those weird round hoops that were always tied to her waist and got into a fighting stance that just looked weird.
"Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who will be the first to fall?" The man laughed at Ochita. He continued, "Poor, poor Fallen Angel. One brother dead and another gone. The last wants her killed by me, his pawn."
I was starting to hate this guy and the way he spoke in rhymes. I was about to shout out that being someone's pawn was nothing to be proud of when Ochita cut me off.
"Your shadow is your only true reflection."
The guy blinked then quickly put on his gentle smile. He said in a voice that wasn't so sing-song, "Hai. And yours is dead!" With that he charged at Ochita quickly. Ochita jumped and crossed him quickly her once crossed arms were now wide open as she stood there. She turned around as I saw her lips twitch in that weird smile thing she does. I looked to see the man drop his sword against a rock were the well crafted katana split cleanly in two.
"I'll admit that was a clever stunt to pull. Sayonara Fallen one." The man said then he stepped on the rock and shot off in another direction, with the words, "Remember your brother..." lingering in the air. At those words I saw Ochita physically stiffen. I mean her back went ridged and her hands that were hanging loosely at her side with the tips of her fingers barely wrapped around the blade, balled into fists. I felt something weird. It almost blew me backwards but I didn't fall even though the kid fell flat on his back.
It started to rain. I looked up and blinked. What the heck?! There are no clouds in the sky.
Sounding like a baka I stuttered, "H-How?" then I turned back to my psychopathic mentor and I swear I saw something fall from beneath her hat. It was glittering and it looked shinier than any other drop of rain that was falling from the sky.
"It's an optical illusion." She said softly. Then said, "Come, we have to find Seta-san."
She walked off leaving me to blither behind her. It continued to rain and I had a strong feeling that things were getting pretty unnatural around here. I saw her walk then take a sharp right then walk strait again. It was like she knew exactly where we were going. I didn't know. I just walked behind her then finally got the guts to ask, "Who was that guy?". She didn't answer me at first, just kept walking like she hadn't heard me but I knew the wheels in her brain were ticking right and she was just taking her time to answer because she didn't want to say something stupid that would tip me off to anything not being okay.
"An...Acquaintance." She said.
Acquaintance?! Is that what she calls all her enemies or just that one in particular? And how many brothers does she have? Or was that guy just speaking figuratively? What did she take me for an idiot? Did I have to beat it out of her with a stick?! Never mind. I'd have to beat it out of her with an iron poll. Or maybe one of those mace things I saw in a western book about the med-evil times or something. Did I ever tell you I have an over active imagination?
Suddenly she stops and I bump into her. I look at the Koumori (no matter how much it pains me to do so) and then I look at what she is looking at. Nothing. Just air because there was no more path for us. Just a jagged cliff. I turned around and said, "let's go Koumori there's no road there."
She seemed to be thinking something really hard because I don't think she heard me. "Come here." She said softly and I saw her hand tighten on one of those ringed blades. Gulp!
"Why?" I asked timidly.
"Just do it!" Okay that wasn't normal Ochita's voice that was someone else. Someone, might I add, who was royally pissed. But I knew if I didn't I would just prolong the inevitable so I walked towards her. She put one blade away and snatched me, dragging me closer. Then she turned around and said, "Get on my back." I did because I didn't want my head bitten off again and she seemed really scary at the moment so I didn't want to piss her off anymore then I had. It was still raining. She grabbed the little boy who looked up at her questionably and asked, "Oka?"
"Aa?" She asked back in a tone that was Ochita. The little boy giggled and got in her snuggled into her arms and chest immediately falling asleep.
"Hold on very tightly."
"Psh. As if I wouldn't with you going over a zillion miles per minute."
"Just more than usual okay. If you don't you won't be here to see the results very muchly so." And with that said...
She dove off the cliff.
SHE DOVE OFF THE CLIFF!!!
I won't lie I screamed really loud. The only people that didn't here me were the deaf because I was sure with my scream the dead had just popped up out of their graves plugging their ears. All I could think was that she wanted to take us to hell with her. That was until she did a summersault halfway down the cliff face and threw one of those weird blade rings. It had a string attached to it and went flying to the top of the cliff. We were almost hitting the ground when the string pulled taunt and we were literally only 3 feet off the ground.
"You ever pull crap like that again and I'll..." I trailed off. What could I do?
Her lips twitched in a smile and she said, "I thought so." Then she sighed.
I could still she was tense and now I understood what that was about. Pulling crazy stunts like that must be the equivalent to fun for this psychopath. She was making herself feel better. It would be an understatement to say I wanted to strangle her. Ochita began to walk as if she knew exactly where we were going. I contemplated turning around and running for the hills, never having to see her ugly batty face again but where would I go? So I just followed like an idiot.
It soon became dark and Ochita showed no signs of stopping. Suddenly she stopped then said, "Stay here." She said. "What? In this freaky rain? No way!" What? She actually expected us to stay here while she left and went in search of Kami-sama knows what. Then in a bone chilling voice that sounded slightly like a sword being unsheathed she said, "Do not test my patients. It is running low today." I just stood there and blinked. Oookkkaaayyy. As if on instinct I picked up the kid and ran. Fast. I ran until I got to a tree and I ran up it. When I turned around she was gone. Would she ever come back? She better not if she's in that mood.
"Oka?" the kid asked.
"Iie. At least I don't think that was her."
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Ochita's POV
I could feel him near. Do not ask me why when his ki evades me so. It is like my mind and his have been set on the same path. I shuddered at the thought. Me and Shin-san used to do that when we became bored. Just play mind games because we knew no one would win. We new what each other thought, simple as that.
I saw him curled there and something flashed in my mind. Why this thought assaulted me I do not know. In my minds eye I saw myself in the same position only I was bleeding so much I had fainted. I remembered curling up that way in a daze. I remembered the five people who had caused my blood and I remembered the man that had stopped it. I felt everything but at the same time didn't as if I couldn't.
He woke and began to beat his head against the ground. Shin-san used to do that and for a second I thought I saw him there beating his head into the floor trying to get the image of the person he wanted to see most out of his mind. Seta-san's head was getting dangerously close to a sharp rock. I remembered what I used to do for Shin-san. I 'got in the way' as he used to put it. He beat his head against me once more but stopped when I put my arms around him.
I hugged him for a moment. To tell you what I truly think about hugging, one word sums it up pretty good.
Smothering.
I do not like to hug people and I do not like them hugging me. There are only two people I let hug me and of whom I would hug and that would be Rei- san and Shin-san. I guess now there is three. He looked up at me wide eyed and almost scared looking so I attempted a smile, which didn't really work. Instead of wrenching away looking disgusted as I thought he would, Seta-san buried his face into my gi and cried. He didn't sob or anything he just cried. Like Shin-san. I didn't notice a few tears trailed down my cheeks.
I didn't know what to do. I became confused and just sat there feeling useless and in my mind I remember what being useless did to you. You were to always do things right because that way nothing could get in your way. But now I didn't know what was right and what wasn't. Stay or go. Which is it? What did Seta-san really want me to do?
:Stay Ochita. He wants you to stay just as I would want the same.:
My tears stopped. Rie-san's voice jumped around inside my head always telling me what to do. The voice hadn't spoken to me in a while because when it spoke it caused sorrow and if the voice really was my halfbrother's he wouldn't want to cause me pain even though I thought that he should. For all the things that have happened he has the right and privilege to cause me a great deal of pain and suffering but apparently that is neither his wish nor his intent.
"I will stay very muchly so." I whispered.
I looked down and to my surprise but happiness Seta-san had fallen asleep. Just like the first time we met ne?
Why did this happen. What happened to him so much that his dreams are plagued with bad memories? How can I help him? Do I want to help him.
:YES:
"Yes I do very muchly so." I whispered.
Authors POV
"Did you get what we need Ichi? (Ni)
"I wouldn't have come back with out it Ni." (Ichi)
Ichi held a small obsidian arrow head in his hand, the one that usually hung from the Shi no Tenshi's neck.
"What happened to you there?" (Ichi)
"Nothing is wrong do not despair. The Tenken mearly got a lucky shot." (Ni)
"Truly Ni he did not. Your whole side is bleeding this is not right." (Ichi)
"We must keep up this game to get what's in sight." (Ni)
"San (three)." (Ichi) (Ni)
Domo! Please Review. If you are wondering what that meant yes Soujiro actually got Ni with the sword but Ni acted as if nothing happened and left to quickly for the bleeding to actually show.
Kai's POV
Koumori-san just flies off into the trees with me on her back and Kasoku in her arms. I turn around and see the cop guy running after us.
"Fight him you stupid koumori unless your afraid to lose." I sneered.
"I don't want to kill him very muchly so."
I blinked. Did she just say she didn't want to kill him? Well going at this speed if she ran into him she'd kill him but still would she kill him?
"Well it doesn't look like he's letting up." I commented.
"You will stay back when I fight." She commanded. Then the stupid bat lands and turns around and waits. The man that was chasing us leaps out of the trees. He takes his off his hat for a second revealing black eyes and even blacker hair. He straitened and picked the leaves out of his hair with a distasteful look on his face. He had pale pale skin that made him look like a ghost. Bat girl just stands there with that stupid expression on her face as the man takes up a stance meant for battle.
"Are you going to fight or just stand there Ochita?" the man's voice was soft and gentle. Like the first time I saw smiley boy, I couldn't believe this guy was a swords man. Why is it that the swords men look like women and the swords women look like men? Oh well. Koumori just stands there. Then in that stupid voice that sounds like she's off in another world she speaks.
"I give you the first move." Her soft voice said.
The man sighed and rolled his eyes. "Namotoru said you were to polite for your own good." Then he took out a dagger and through it at her with such speed I couldn't see it. Ochita just dodges no expression present on her face. Too late. While Ochita was looking the other way at the dagger whizzing past her face the man came up and slashed at her but she disappeared. I blinked. Where did she go? The man stood there and then he swung his blade. Ochita appeared out of the blue narrowly missing getting her head hacked of her skinny little neck.
Really had I known what exactly she was doing I would tell you but the truth is I didn't. She would just blink in and out of my view usually with a clang sound that I knew was the impact of both the swords. "Oka..." The kid whimpers. He then clings to me like I'm some sort of life line. I really wanted to push him off but I was scared too. The way they fought, even though there wasn't any blood (yet) was scaring me. I finally understood why the kid thought his oka was so great though.
CLANG!! This time the two stayed still long enough for me to see them. Not that I couldn't see the guy but it was weird the way he would hit at nothing and Ochita would just magically appear. The man had a small smile on his face, something that I'd look at Kasoku with if the kid ever did anything right. The guy was acting like he was so superior to Ochita and it made me want to rip his stupid ghosty faced head off.
Just then Ochita and the guy were thrown back by the force each of them exerted. I watched in disbelief as Koumori girl sheathed her sword. Then she picked up those weird round hoops that were always tied to her waist and got into a fighting stance that just looked weird.
"Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who will be the first to fall?" The man laughed at Ochita. He continued, "Poor, poor Fallen Angel. One brother dead and another gone. The last wants her killed by me, his pawn."
I was starting to hate this guy and the way he spoke in rhymes. I was about to shout out that being someone's pawn was nothing to be proud of when Ochita cut me off.
"Your shadow is your only true reflection."
The guy blinked then quickly put on his gentle smile. He said in a voice that wasn't so sing-song, "Hai. And yours is dead!" With that he charged at Ochita quickly. Ochita jumped and crossed him quickly her once crossed arms were now wide open as she stood there. She turned around as I saw her lips twitch in that weird smile thing she does. I looked to see the man drop his sword against a rock were the well crafted katana split cleanly in two.
"I'll admit that was a clever stunt to pull. Sayonara Fallen one." The man said then he stepped on the rock and shot off in another direction, with the words, "Remember your brother..." lingering in the air. At those words I saw Ochita physically stiffen. I mean her back went ridged and her hands that were hanging loosely at her side with the tips of her fingers barely wrapped around the blade, balled into fists. I felt something weird. It almost blew me backwards but I didn't fall even though the kid fell flat on his back.
It started to rain. I looked up and blinked. What the heck?! There are no clouds in the sky.
Sounding like a baka I stuttered, "H-How?" then I turned back to my psychopathic mentor and I swear I saw something fall from beneath her hat. It was glittering and it looked shinier than any other drop of rain that was falling from the sky.
"It's an optical illusion." She said softly. Then said, "Come, we have to find Seta-san."
She walked off leaving me to blither behind her. It continued to rain and I had a strong feeling that things were getting pretty unnatural around here. I saw her walk then take a sharp right then walk strait again. It was like she knew exactly where we were going. I didn't know. I just walked behind her then finally got the guts to ask, "Who was that guy?". She didn't answer me at first, just kept walking like she hadn't heard me but I knew the wheels in her brain were ticking right and she was just taking her time to answer because she didn't want to say something stupid that would tip me off to anything not being okay.
"An...Acquaintance." She said.
Acquaintance?! Is that what she calls all her enemies or just that one in particular? And how many brothers does she have? Or was that guy just speaking figuratively? What did she take me for an idiot? Did I have to beat it out of her with a stick?! Never mind. I'd have to beat it out of her with an iron poll. Or maybe one of those mace things I saw in a western book about the med-evil times or something. Did I ever tell you I have an over active imagination?
Suddenly she stops and I bump into her. I look at the Koumori (no matter how much it pains me to do so) and then I look at what she is looking at. Nothing. Just air because there was no more path for us. Just a jagged cliff. I turned around and said, "let's go Koumori there's no road there."
She seemed to be thinking something really hard because I don't think she heard me. "Come here." She said softly and I saw her hand tighten on one of those ringed blades. Gulp!
"Why?" I asked timidly.
"Just do it!" Okay that wasn't normal Ochita's voice that was someone else. Someone, might I add, who was royally pissed. But I knew if I didn't I would just prolong the inevitable so I walked towards her. She put one blade away and snatched me, dragging me closer. Then she turned around and said, "Get on my back." I did because I didn't want my head bitten off again and she seemed really scary at the moment so I didn't want to piss her off anymore then I had. It was still raining. She grabbed the little boy who looked up at her questionably and asked, "Oka?"
"Aa?" She asked back in a tone that was Ochita. The little boy giggled and got in her snuggled into her arms and chest immediately falling asleep.
"Hold on very tightly."
"Psh. As if I wouldn't with you going over a zillion miles per minute."
"Just more than usual okay. If you don't you won't be here to see the results very muchly so." And with that said...
She dove off the cliff.
SHE DOVE OFF THE CLIFF!!!
I won't lie I screamed really loud. The only people that didn't here me were the deaf because I was sure with my scream the dead had just popped up out of their graves plugging their ears. All I could think was that she wanted to take us to hell with her. That was until she did a summersault halfway down the cliff face and threw one of those weird blade rings. It had a string attached to it and went flying to the top of the cliff. We were almost hitting the ground when the string pulled taunt and we were literally only 3 feet off the ground.
"You ever pull crap like that again and I'll..." I trailed off. What could I do?
Her lips twitched in a smile and she said, "I thought so." Then she sighed.
I could still she was tense and now I understood what that was about. Pulling crazy stunts like that must be the equivalent to fun for this psychopath. She was making herself feel better. It would be an understatement to say I wanted to strangle her. Ochita began to walk as if she knew exactly where we were going. I contemplated turning around and running for the hills, never having to see her ugly batty face again but where would I go? So I just followed like an idiot.
It soon became dark and Ochita showed no signs of stopping. Suddenly she stopped then said, "Stay here." She said. "What? In this freaky rain? No way!" What? She actually expected us to stay here while she left and went in search of Kami-sama knows what. Then in a bone chilling voice that sounded slightly like a sword being unsheathed she said, "Do not test my patients. It is running low today." I just stood there and blinked. Oookkkaaayyy. As if on instinct I picked up the kid and ran. Fast. I ran until I got to a tree and I ran up it. When I turned around she was gone. Would she ever come back? She better not if she's in that mood.
"Oka?" the kid asked.
"Iie. At least I don't think that was her."
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Ochita's POV
I could feel him near. Do not ask me why when his ki evades me so. It is like my mind and his have been set on the same path. I shuddered at the thought. Me and Shin-san used to do that when we became bored. Just play mind games because we knew no one would win. We new what each other thought, simple as that.
I saw him curled there and something flashed in my mind. Why this thought assaulted me I do not know. In my minds eye I saw myself in the same position only I was bleeding so much I had fainted. I remembered curling up that way in a daze. I remembered the five people who had caused my blood and I remembered the man that had stopped it. I felt everything but at the same time didn't as if I couldn't.
He woke and began to beat his head against the ground. Shin-san used to do that and for a second I thought I saw him there beating his head into the floor trying to get the image of the person he wanted to see most out of his mind. Seta-san's head was getting dangerously close to a sharp rock. I remembered what I used to do for Shin-san. I 'got in the way' as he used to put it. He beat his head against me once more but stopped when I put my arms around him.
I hugged him for a moment. To tell you what I truly think about hugging, one word sums it up pretty good.
Smothering.
I do not like to hug people and I do not like them hugging me. There are only two people I let hug me and of whom I would hug and that would be Rei- san and Shin-san. I guess now there is three. He looked up at me wide eyed and almost scared looking so I attempted a smile, which didn't really work. Instead of wrenching away looking disgusted as I thought he would, Seta-san buried his face into my gi and cried. He didn't sob or anything he just cried. Like Shin-san. I didn't notice a few tears trailed down my cheeks.
I didn't know what to do. I became confused and just sat there feeling useless and in my mind I remember what being useless did to you. You were to always do things right because that way nothing could get in your way. But now I didn't know what was right and what wasn't. Stay or go. Which is it? What did Seta-san really want me to do?
:Stay Ochita. He wants you to stay just as I would want the same.:
My tears stopped. Rie-san's voice jumped around inside my head always telling me what to do. The voice hadn't spoken to me in a while because when it spoke it caused sorrow and if the voice really was my halfbrother's he wouldn't want to cause me pain even though I thought that he should. For all the things that have happened he has the right and privilege to cause me a great deal of pain and suffering but apparently that is neither his wish nor his intent.
"I will stay very muchly so." I whispered.
I looked down and to my surprise but happiness Seta-san had fallen asleep. Just like the first time we met ne?
Why did this happen. What happened to him so much that his dreams are plagued with bad memories? How can I help him? Do I want to help him.
:YES:
"Yes I do very muchly so." I whispered.
Authors POV
"Did you get what we need Ichi? (Ni)
"I wouldn't have come back with out it Ni." (Ichi)
Ichi held a small obsidian arrow head in his hand, the one that usually hung from the Shi no Tenshi's neck.
"What happened to you there?" (Ichi)
"Nothing is wrong do not despair. The Tenken mearly got a lucky shot." (Ni)
"Truly Ni he did not. Your whole side is bleeding this is not right." (Ichi)
"We must keep up this game to get what's in sight." (Ni)
"San (three)." (Ichi) (Ni)
Domo! Please Review. If you are wondering what that meant yes Soujiro actually got Ni with the sword but Ni acted as if nothing happened and left to quickly for the bleeding to actually show.