Shadow light
Hi! I do not own RK. This is chapter six of my story Shadow light. I hope you liked it so far and you will like this chapter and the up-coming chapters too. But first reviews!
Cam: Thank you very much! I will update, that's no problem.
Shihali: I will search for the story's if I think about them I will think about your second tip when I am writing. And, ya, the mix of Japanese and English, is it really so bad then? Your fourth thing is about Sojiro right? Let me get to your fifth thing too. I think every writer chances the characters personality a little. I never read a story before were I could say: That is really an excellent personality copy of… And you say Sojiro is not a romantic and stuff. How do you know that so sure? There isn't any episode were Sojiro has to do something with love. Don't get me wrong ore something I respect your opinion of Sojiro and the other characters, but it is till my story. I hope you liked the rest of the strory.
So here is…chapter six! Enjoy!
Prev: Sora had put on her pajamas and was walking to her bed. "He is a sweet boy…but a little bit weird too…" She thought when she got under the covers. "I'm going to miss him when he is gone…" Sora closed her eyes and five minutes later the girl was asleep.
Sora was asleep in her new room in the mountain Hieï. She was twisting and turning because she was dreaming about her past.
Dream
An eleven year old Sora was sitting in the room of the orphanage she was living from the day her mother was killed. The murderer had left when he had killed her mother. He thought she would die from the cold and had walked away, leaving Sora by her death mother. But somebody found her and brought her to the orphanage. She was here almost eight years.
It was evening and she was about to put on her pajamas when she heard a lot of noise in the hallway. She quickly ran to her room door and opened it looking in the hallway. Some other orphans were doing the same thing as her. Sora's eyes were filled with fear when she saw six men standing in the hallway. They had katana's and on the katana's was…
"Blood!" Sora thought, she wanted to run but her legs refused to move. An orphan worker appeared in the hall. He looked shocked to the six men. "Please leave these children alone!"
One of the men laughed and walked to the orphan worker. "Shut up!" he yelled. He grabbed the orphan worker by his neck and cut his throat trough. Some children screamed and got back in there rooms. Sora watched how the orphan worker fell death on the ground, blood coming out of his throat.
"Get the girls!" yelled the man who just killed the orphan worker. "Kill the boys! There lives are nothing worth anyway!" The five other men got in some rooms. Sora heard screaming, striking of swords, crying…
Sora saw that it wouldn't take long till the men where at her room. She closed her door quickly and ran to her closet. She hid herself in her closet, tears of fear were running down her cheeks.
She heard the door go open. And someone stepped in her room. Sora tried not to breathe hard and closed her eyes. "Little child? Little child?" she heard someone saying. "Where are you…?" Suddenly the doors of her closet flew open and a hand pulled her out rough. "I found you little child!" the man yelled in her face. "A girl! Good! You will live a little bit longer then the boys here!" He laughed and dragged her out of her room.
Sora tried to get loose from the mans grip and started to pull. The man hit her on the head whit his hand. "Stop it idiot!" he yelled. Sora closed her eyes, tears of pain were in her eyes.
The man dragged here out of the orphanage and got here inside a carriage. He closed the doors of it and ran back to the orphanage. Sora looked around. It was a really big carriage. She saw other girls, most of them where crying, others where very silent from the shock.
The time in the carriage looked like hours. But it was maybe just ten minutes. The six men ran out of the orphanage to the carriage. The carriage started driving.
"What is going to happen to us…?" Thought Sora, looking to the other girls.
End dream
Sora suddenly was awake and almost fell out of her bed.
"What happened? Where am I? I… I'm in the mountain Hieï. I almost forgot…" She thought getting calm again.
She had that dream almost every night. Sora sighed and got out of her bed. She wouldn't be able to sleep now anyway.
She wanted to take her clothes and saw that they were clean.
"Shishio-sama's workers must have done this." She said quietly getting dressed.
She looked out of her window. It was almost day again. Sora turned around and walked to her door. She opened it and saw Houji walking a few steps further.
"Good morning Houji." Said Sora closing the door behind her.
Houji turned around. "Good morning to you too." He said and started to walk away again.
"Is Sojiro gone already?" Sora asked running after Houji.
"Yes, about a half an hour or so."
"Oh…" said Sora disappointed. "Thanks Houji."
She walked to the eating room and sat down at the table. She just sat on her chair when two workers of Shishio ran in the place and put food in front of her nose. They bowed and left the room.
"Now…That was really freaky…" She thought and started to eat her breakfast.
After her breakfast she stood up ( Two workers of Shishio again ran in the place and got everything of the table and bowed again. ).
She walked out the room when she saw, another, worker of Shishio running to her.
"Miss Sora." He said bowing at her. "Houji-sama asks if you could come to the training room."
"Ow okay, I will, thanks."
The man bowed again and leaded Sora to the training room. He opened the door and closed it when Sora was in.
"You called me Houji?" asked Sora walking to the man.
"Indeed…Stop there!" Houji said when Sora was in the middle of the room.
Sora stopped surprised.
"Do you have your katana's with you?" Houji asked.
Sora nodded. "Yes, I always have."
"Good, Shishio-sama asked me to train you. But not like Sojiro did."
Sora looked confused to Houji. He clapped in his hands and some ninjas came running in the room. They surrounded Sora. The girl looked surprised to the ninjas that were standing in an attack position.
"Better get your katana's now girl…" Houji said.
Sora did what he asked.
"Attack!" Houji yelled suddenly. Some of the ninjas ran to Sora.
"What the…?" Sora said stopping one of the ninja's attack with her sword. A second ninja attacked her in the back and she had to use her second katana to block that attack. Suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her arm. Another ninja had attacked her while she had blocked the two attacks. Her arm began to bleed and she jumped away out of the group of ninja's.
"Damn…" she thought. "They mean it, they are trying to kill me..."
Suddenly Houji yelled something. "You must kill them before they kill you!"
"Kill them!?" Sora yelled back blocking another attack from a fourth ninja who attacked.
"Yes! If you want to stay alive!" Houji yelled back.
Sora jumped away when one ninja almost hit her leg.
"I think I have no choice…" Sora thought turning around to the ninjas who were attacking her.
One of the ninjas tried to hit her neck. Sora kneeled to avoid the attack and hit the ninja in his stomach. The ninja screamed out in pain and fell death on the ground.
Two ninjas attacked her. Sora attacked with her two swords and chopped of both the heads. Another ninja tried to attack her leg and Sora jumped. She hit the ninja on his head and the ninja screamed. He then also fell death on the ground.
The fight continued this way till all the ninja's were dead on the ground and Sora was covered with blood.
Houji stared at the girl, his mouth dropped open from surprise. Sora got her katana's back in place and looked at the wound on her arm. It was pretty deep and she started to feel the pain.
"What the hell was the meaning of this Houji?" Sora asked looking angry at Houji.
"I-i-it were orders from Shishio-sama!" Houji said trying to defend himself.
"Shishio-sama ordered to kill me? That was the order?"
"The order was to train you this way! A training were you could die if you didn't try hard."
Sora still looked angry at Houji. Would Shishio do something like that? Would he care if she died when she was 'training'? She had to admit to herself…she wasn't sure.
"Whatever Houji. I'm going to get this healed…" Sora turned around and left the room. She walked to the room where the doctor was in case someone got sick, or like in Sora her case, hurt.
She knocked the door and got in. The doctor, and old man, jumped up from his chair and bowed.
"Can I help u Miss Sora?"
Sora showed the wound on her arm. "Yes, can u heal this?"
The man nodded. "Of course. Please sit down."
The man started to heal the wound and a couple minutes later he was ready.
"Thanks." Sora said leaving the room.
She looked around. What should she do now? Sojiro wasn't away for one day and she was bored already. Sora sighed. Suddenly she felt sleepy.
"It must be the medicine to ease the pain."
Sora walked to her room again. She walked in, forgetting to close the door behind her and fell on the bed. She felt asleep before she could to anything more.
Dream
The fourteen year old Sora was awakened roughly by a man, yelling in her ear and throwing her out of her bed.
"Get up you lazy brat!" Sora quickly got of the floor and ran to the filthy bathroom grabbing some clothes of a chair.
Three years ago she lived at an orphanage, but with some other orphans, she was taking along with six men who trashed the place and killed every man and woman in there. They only took the girls with them.
And then she landed here, in some kind of an attraction for the people. Little girls fighting each other, in a battle between life and dead. Who won stayed alive, who loosed was killed by the winner.
She was trained hard in the skills with a sword. For three years she fought girls around her age, winning and killing.
She was one of the best, she never had lost one fight. If she had, she wouldn't be standing there right now in the bathroom getting dressed. She looked at her reflection in the broken mirror. Tired yellow eyes looked at her. Every day eyes of men looked at her, when she fought and killed another girl in the arena.
She didn't wanted to kill, but if she didn't, she would die herself.
"Kill or be killed…" she thought and walked out the bathroom.
"Faster!" the man yelled at her when she came out of the bathroom. "There's a fight waiting for you after your meal!"
Sora almost ran to the kitchen to get here breakfast. It always was the same thing. It was tasteless and grey and sometimes other girls got sick of it.
She sat on the ground next to Kasumi, a good friend of her.
"Good morning…"Kasumi said sarcastic.
Sora grinned. "Good morning indeed."
She took a bite of the grey stuff, drew a crazy face and looked at Kasumi who was grinning at her. Kasumi was the only thing that could make her happy in the arena.
Kasumi bowed to Sora who bowed back at her.
"We must find a way to escape this hellhole." Kasumi whispered to Sora.
"Your thinking just the same thing as me Kasumi." Sora replied, also whispering.
A man of the arena walked trough all the eating girls, Kasumi and Sora started to eat again. If they would know what they were trying to do, they would both be killed. They silently finished there breakfast when another man of the arena, started to read the names of the one who would be fighting now. "Saotome Sora." Sora stood up and suddenly Kasumi took her hand in hers.
"We will be leaving this place together, right Sora?" Kasumi said softly.
Sora smiled and pinched Kasumi's hand softly. "Of course Kasumi…together."
She let go of Kasumi's hand and walked to the room were she would be prepared for the fight.
Twenty minutes later, Sora stood behind a closed door, waiting till she got the order to go in the arena. She heard the crowd behind the door yelling, it made her sick. Why could they have pleasure in two girls trying to kill each other?
Sora got her two katanas and looked at them. How many girls had she already killed with them? For Sora it looked like countless. Suddenly a voice of a man ordered her to go in the arena. Sora raised her head and the doors went open. Fifty men or so were yelling when she walked in the arena. The door that was a little bit further away went open to. Soras eyes were filled in disbelief when she saw her opponent.
It was Kasumi.
"No…No…" thought Sora. "Please let me be wrong. Please let it be someone else then Kasumi."
But if Sora wanted it ore not, Kasumi stayed Kasumi. They stood against each other. Sora saw in Kasumis eyes that she thought the same thing as her. Someone of them had to die.
"Kasumi…I…" Sora said but was interrupted by Kasumi.
"Sora, don't hesitate to kill me if you have the chance. I rather want to die because of you then by somebody else." Kasumi eyes looked serious in Sora's.
Sora nodded. "The same to you Kasumi…the same to you."
They bowed at each other, backed a few steps away and stood in an attack position. The start signal was giving and the fight began.
Kasumi attacked with one katana and Sora blocked. With her other katana, Sora attacked, but Kasumi jumped back. The crowd screamed and yelled in pleasure when the fight continued. Kasumi hit Sora in her shoulder when she attacked again. Blood dripped over Sora's sleeve and she continued the fight. Sora attacked with her two katanas in one hit, but Kasumi blocked it. Kasumi and Sora looked to each other.
"Your not giving yourself fully Sora. Use all the strength you have." Kasumi said with pain filled in her eyes.
Kasumi was right. Sora wasn't fighting with all of her strength. Sora jumped back and nodded. She had no choice… she had to kill Kasumi. In one hit she would kill her, so Kasumi shouldn't feel pain.
So Sora attacked, aiming at Kasumis neck. But something happened. Kasumi jumped, trying to avoid the attack and was pierced true her heart by Soras sword. Kasumi screamed in pain, blood coming out of her mouth. The crowd screamed in pleasure, Sora screamed in disbelief and Kasumi fell on the ground. Sora got on the ground as well, holding Kasumi in her arms. Tears of pain and sadness rolling of her cheeks. Kasumi couched, more blood came out of her mouth. Sora pushed her face in Kasumi's black hair.
"Why…I didn't…I didn't mean to…" She said in Kasumis hair.
Kasumi touched Sora's hand weakly. "I-know Sora…I know…d-don't worry…"
Sora kept crying in Kasumi'' s hair and holding her. "We said we would leave this place together Kasumi…We said…And now…You…"
"Sora, promise me… t-that you will…escape from this place…t-this day…"
Sora nodded. "I promise…I will never forget you Kasumi."
Kasumi smiled. "And I will never forget you… Goodbye…Sora…"
"Goodbye…Kasumi…"
Kasumi's hand fell on the ground. Kasumi was dead. Sora kissed Kasumi's hair and stood up. Two men came in the arena to take Sora away. Sora got her katana's back in her hands and attacked them. They screamed and fell dead on the ground. Sora ran trough the door, out of the arena.
"Where is the exit? Where?" she thought running true the hallways of the arena.
"There she is! Get her!" Three men came after her. Sora turned around and attacked again. In a fast attack, she chopped of the heads and began to run again. Finally she had reached the exit. She ran outside, not looking back. She ran away from the arena, away from Kasumi, away from her past as fast as she could.
End dream
With a shock Sora was awake, almost falling out of the bed again. She looked at the clock and saw that she was asleep for some hours now. Sora stood up from her bed and walked out of the room. It was almost dinner time so she walked to the eating room and sat down at the table. As always, Shishio's workers came in the place and put delicious food in front of Sora's nose. She still thought it was freaky that they did that, but she thought it was kind of funny too. She ate and left the room. Again she saw Houji walking in the hallway and Sora walked to him.
"What are you doing Houji?"
"Do you care Miss Sora?" He said annoyed.
Sora looked a bit angry at Houji. "Hey. You are the one that tried to kill me with that 'training' of yours."
"I didn't tried to kill you and beside, it wasn't my training it was Shishio-sama's training."
"Ya whatever… Do you now something I can do around this place?"
Houji sighed. "You can go to my library and search some books to read, just leave me alone will you?"
"I guess I will do that then." Said an annoyed Sora and walked away. She walked to the library, she knew were it was cause Sojiro told it.
"Sojiro…"Sora thought. "What would he be doing now?"
She got in the library and walked to one of the bookshelves.
"Where should I start, there are so many books in here." she said silently to herself. And so Sora began her search.
What a stupid ending for a chapter :D O well, I hoped you liked it. Reviews are still welcome, flames not .