Tokyo-to High: Year of the Dragon
Oh No! Not Pupa! She's too young to die! –Cries-
Don't worry though it's all part of the story! Conflict helps build character and progress the story. I mean after all if everyone just sat around and played patty cake it would be kinda boring.
Is Pupa really dead?! How is Ibuki going to react?! What is Akito going to do to Nova, I mean it is his fault after all?! Grrr so many questions so many answers. And yet I'm restricted to typing only 97 words a minute.
Read on! .;
Akito Yagami & Nova Yagami © me, Tsunami is © my lovely Tsu-chan, all other characters are © either Capcom, SNK, Sammy, or any other company I have borrowed existing characters
Chapter 18 – Sins of a Father
Nurses and doctors instantly filled the room. Akito could see little more then white blurs pulling him away from Pupa. No matter how hard he tried to stay with her they pulled him away. He could see her body fading from view until it was gone.
Minutes passed and the doctors still hadn't left the room. Occasionally a nurse would leave to get something but would be in to much of a hurry to talk to him. He leaned his head against the wall outside of Pupa's room. "Akito..." His gaze moved up to person in front of him. It was Akira; he hadn't even noticed her return.
"Hmm..." Akito managed in a monotone. Akira took a seat next to him and looked down the hall. "How is she...?" Akito shook his head in an agitated manner. "If I knew do you think I'd be waiting here trying to find out?!" Akira bit her lip as if trying to withdraw her question. Akito had never snapped at her before and he really didn't mean too.
"I'm sorry..." He said after a few moments of awkward silence. "I just don't know what to do..." Akira smiled despite the current situation and rests her head against his shoulder and released a soft sigh. "It's alright neither do I... Ibuki will be coming soon; Daigo is going to be brining her..."
He continued to look out at the colorless wall and spoke softly. "Akira... How did you know about Pupa...?" She looked down and tapped her boots against the floor softly. "Daigo... Pupa had missed a week of school... so Daigo went to check on her in her dorm... and he found her... He rushed her to the hospital... He called me once she was in the doctor's hands."
An unusual silence swept over the area, but Akito paid no attention. "I was the last person she talked to before she flat lined..." He looked over at Akira who was still in mid tap, her head hung down. He instinctively got to his feet and looked around.
"Worry yourself not Yagami, the tan girl's life is of little importance in the grand scheme of things." Akito looked for the source of the voice and there standing adjacent to the window at the end of the hall was Miu, her violet school girl outfit ruffling by some unknown wind. Anger instantly shot through Akito and he growled angrily and aggressively approached her.
"Of no importance?... Of no importance?! This is my life Damnit! Not some little puppet show for you to amuse yourself with!" He could feel his blood boiling as he inched closer to her. "Indeed Yagami, It hurts now, but will it hurt forever? I doubt it will... Time heals all, and what time can't heal it calluses. One way or another there will be no pain."
Miu with the greatest of ease turned to Akito and smiled her best attempt at a motherly smile, although to Akito it seemed she held little more then contempt in her smile. "Don't you dare lecture me on matters of the heart! My friend is in there dying for all I know and all you can say is 'Her life is of No importance?!"
Akito's fist instantly flared with sapphire flame as he walked towards her. He had had enough, he didn't need someone preaching to him about how to coup with pain, especially some little girl with warning of some dark future.
"What do you plan to do Yagami? Singe my hair? Cause me physical pain?" He growled angrily as the words left her lips. He sought to strike her, to silence her, to wipe that smug look of contentment off her face. "You know nothing of pain! Nothing of callousness! Nothing of healing!"
He struck hard and much to his surprise with the greatest of ease she evaded his strike and was soon sitting adjacent to him on the floor, the same look of contempt on her face. "My my Yagami much to rash, much to aggressive, it will be your down fall. Did you ever stop to think that I've come here to help you? To offer comfort?"
His fist still cratered the wall. He listened with out turning his gaze to meet hers. "Right now your asking yourself, why me? Why now? Why does this crazy little bitch have to be bugging me?" Miu rose to her feet once more and strolled around Akito in a mock condescending manner.
Akito withdrew his fist from the wall and looked out past the window. Miu continued to talk in a dreamy tone although her voice was laced with agitation. "I caution you again Yagami, if you do not accept the help I offer you, it will affect more then just you."
Akito turned his gaze to look at her; the anger he had felt slowly began to subside. "What do you mean affect more then just me...?" Her lips cracked into a small grin. "Ah so he learns that the world does not revolve around him and him alone."
Akito sighed and relaxed his posture. He knew if Miu meant him any harm she would have done so ages ago. And surely if he could put up with Nova's annoyances he could easily put up with Miu's taunting. "Alright prophet... What comforts have you come to bestow upon me."
Miu closed her eyes in and the smug look on her face faded and she spoke. "The key has entered the scene and The Crimson One has made his presence felt. The weapon is now fearful of he has felt and doubts himself. But this is just the beginning of things to come."
Her eyes opened and she turned her back towards Akito and continued to speak. "If the crimson one is not defeated then all will be lost. Hear me Yagami, regardless of what you do the Crimson One will be defeated, but if it not by your hand then all will be lost."
"I don't understand you at all... First you tell me it has to be me who defeats him, now you're telling me it doesn't really matter one way or another?" His voice filled with agitation.
"If you don't defeat the Crimson One, His power will destroy himself either way he will fall." Miu continued to gaze out of the window.
"So why do you need me? He's going to die regardless..." Miu instantly snapped back and glared at Akito. "I've told you once and I will tell you again the world does not revolve around you!" Miu's voice instantly took a tone of anger.
"The Crimson One will leave his mark on you, your very blood will betray you and who you are will cease to be." Miu paused and took a breath then sighed. "Tsunami will try to find you... but you are not the same person... she will try to bring you back to sanity... but it will be in vain. A beast that walks on two legs is still a beast."
Akito stayed silent and swallowed hard. He could feel guilt coursing through his body. "You will rape her, in such a way that she will grow to fear you. You will be brought down by those who love you, but this isn't the least of your problems..."
Miu's gaze was a cold icy one the same one she had given Akito when he had first met her on his way to school. "Tsunami will bare children. She will keep them because she once loved you and she will try to raise them properly. But she is foolish, the blood that pumps in your veins is tainted, the children were conceived with the intent of creating pain to er, creating harm to her. And so they will continue to do so."
Akito tried to speak but no words came to him; was what she was saying true? Could he really become so tainted that he would rape Tsunami? "Your children are the ones that will murder Tsunami, they will murder her parents, they will murder all those who try to help them. They are a product of pure rage, pure anger."
Miu gazed down at him in pitiful manner. "Your children are the ones who will bring about the Year of the Dragon. They will break the seal of Orochi. Something that the Crimson one was not able to do. Orochi shall bless them with his mark and they will be unstoppable."
"How do you know all this?!" Akito's voice filled with panic and desperation. Miu turned to him and smiled softly. "Your daughter is my mother."
Akito's eyes widened in disbelief; he couldn't believe it. Miu was his grand daughter from the future. It just seemed so mind-boggling. "My daughter? Your mother?"
"Then why are you helping me? Why are you trying to prevent this from happening?" Akito asked curiously. He knew his own blood better then he knew himself.
Miu paced up and down in a state of annoyance. "My mother made me an Orochi Priestess to continue to work of the great Goenitz. But I care little for the will of Orochi and I care little for her approval. I will not be a slave to anyone, I assume I have to thank for that Yagami. If its one thing good you did was pass on your sense of strong will and independence."
Akito remained silent for a moment contemplating her validity then her sincerity. She had come to him several times; surely if she wasn't sincere she wouldn't bother herself with it. "Alright..." Akito began after a few moments. "Tell me what I have to do to prevent this... I don't want to hurt Tsunami..."
Miu managed a smug smile at him and continued in her sermon. "You must become one with your tainted blood, you must control it, not let it control you. The one you call Nova he has lost his confidence you must restore it and tame the beast then join with him."
"I can't join with him! Last time I nearly lost control!" Akito interrupted her proposition obviously was absurd. "You must Yagami! Either accept yourself now or be made into a beast later!" Miu started her voice very harsh. "Everyone is capable of great good or great evil. You have to take control of yourself take responsibility for your actions."
Akito sighed and nodded. He knew she was right he was foolish to think he could purge himself of all negative feelings and emotions. They were a part of him they helped make him who he was. "Your right... I've been living in this denial I cannot control myself... That's why Nova was created."
Miu nodded in accordance and smiled in her mock sweet way once again. "You must overcome your tainted blood then the Crimson One will have no control over you, you will be able to defeat him and the Year of the Dragon will not come to pass."
Akito managed a smile of understanding. "I understand now, Instead of running from myself I need to nurture it, tame it, control it. Otherwise it will end up controlling me."
"Worry yourself not about the one you call Pupa, she will not die this night. She has much more to accomplish in her life." Akito turned to Miu and blinked her had almost forgotten all about Pupa. "She will? That's great!" Miu managed a smile back then tilted her head. "I must depart now my time in this place has expired... I will try to contact you again... but if my mother finds out..."
Miu slowly faded from view and into an unseen mist. "Miu!" Akito's voice filled with panic once more. If she had been discovered she would be in grave danger. Akito shook his head and sighed, he knew if he could prevent the Year of the Dragon from coming to pass then his children would not become corrupt and Miu would in fact be safe."
Akito blinked and looked down the hall that was now bustling with traffic of nurses and doctors once again. "Akito are you ok?" He looked down and saw Akira looking up at him with a puzzled look on her face. "You kinda zoned out then jumped out and ran to the window..." Akito blinked down at her then laughed nervously. "I'm great! I just have a feeling Pupa is going to be just fine." He smiled broadly at her. Akira blinked nervously and nodded her head. 'The stress has gotten to him...' she thought to herself and continued to smile at him.