W H I S P E R S O F E V I L…
-Fhb-
PG.13- rated for graphic content. Adult Inclinations.
Syn: They say evil takes all forms, from animals, to even—humans and babies for that matter. When Kaoru discovers an abandoned baby, she doesn't realize she takes in an evil far more horrible than ever expected…
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- Chapter 3—Introduction of Darkness…
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Morning broke from the cloak of night. The air filled with misty dew, a scent of freshness rinsed over the petals of flowers, and the awaking of sunshine traveled over every crevice of darkness.
In a tiny room, slept a young woman contently sighing out as she dreamt most quietly. Her tired body worn from all the hassles that befell her dojo, simply seem to pressure her life with more invisible weight.
Yet today was a new day.
A day of discovery, a day of regret.
To side of this innocent body, a body lavish of simplicity and a heart that beat the sound of forgiveness and acceptance, was a soul of the barely living. One that was bounded and protected by the innocent it chose as its mother.
Amber eyes as descriptive as that as molten lava, watched the tender woman as she slept. Her face…as that as summer's petals, was sprinkled with mirth and love. Smooth and relaxed skin as that as buttermilk, glowed with life and beauty even while she slept. Raven locks that flowed with an endless beauty as that as the Egyptian Nile, resembled the colour of the night's sky. Beautiful, wild and free.
Yet, the more this baby realized that she was simply the perfect fit, the more he understood that his mission was simply now beginning. It was odd now, for one, he thought with gathering the perfect soul to protect him that he would be safe and nothing would come his way. But something bothered him, this innocent, she was headstrong, at anytime she could break away from his command and this bothered him immensely. Regardless what, the baby decided she needed to be tainted by darkness only to have complete control. If the babe could taint her aura from good to bad, then just maybe, the woman would be under his full control and be accepted into the underworld.
Eyes still watched as she slept.
Her face was so innocent, and her heart, it was even more of the innocent.
Clouded in a stream of thought, the baby jumped when a rugged foul voice broke his train of ideas.
"Hey Busu, get up, I'm hungry" shouted that voice which made amber eyes bubble in hate.
"Mmm…hmmm" she groaned out at the voice, it was still so early and this boy wants food.
"Are you getting up ugly?" a boy by name Yahiko shouted most inquisitively.
"Aghhh! Go away you baka yarou" she shouted tiredly, that she would have to deal with this most mornings.
"Busu…get up right now before I annoy the hell out of you" Yahiko demanded pounding the shoji in a somewhat annoying and violent way.
The baby whose head was so sensitive to quarrels became alarmed at the two sides. His eyes flashed from the door, where Yahiko was, back to his mother who tried to sleep. From left to right his eyes darted and again and again a fire builds in his veins. In anger…in possession.
"Alrighttt already" Kaoru shouted, finally having enough of Yahiko's babbling. Sighing lightly, Kaoru moved the sheets off her body in the urge of getting up.
"Gu-gu" a voice that resembled a chime, made mellow coos to the side of her head. Kaoru slowly turned to see the baby she had rescued the night before sitting quietly on her bed, and like her, he was also rudely awaken by Yahiko's foul behavior.
"And did the baby sleep well?" she went over to retrieve the small child, and soon he giggled when she began bouncing him on her knees.
"I guess that's a yes" she smiled. The baby somehow played this innocent's game, yet what happened next was completely mind-blowing.
The innocent went forward, and supplanted a soft tender kiss on his plump little cheek.
"Time for breakfast" she whispered most lovingly.
The baby watched her, as acceptance was simply her fault, and her sin. For as blind as she came, with all her good innocence and acceptance, he still remained evil, and even when she had the chance to let him go, she took him, and claimed him, hers.
Kaoru got to her feet, the baby protectively held in her arms.
Strange, Kaoru didn't feel herself.
It was like she felt light, as if she wasn't even touching the floor.
She shrugged the thought off, her sapphire eyes' resonating everything was alright.
Approaching the door, she opened it and in a fluent motion, the sunlight ripped out at both the innocent and darkness.
Kaoru smiled with a satisfied grin that today was a bright day, with a lot to be done.
The child on the other hand hissed out in contempt. The sun, it burned his tender skin and it made him hurt. Aggressively he pulled at his new mother, his annoyed cries tearing out at the silence of morning.
-wehh—wehh-wehhh—
Like a mantra, he repeated his cries, the cries that got her all worked up and sensitive about him.
"Shh! It's alright— shh sweetheart, it's okay…shhh" she bounced the small child returning the baby back into the room.
Miraculously the child stopped crying and began laughing. Kaoru arched a skeptical brow, what just happened?
Kaoru watched as the baby giggled, his sweet face happy and his tears slowly drying.
"Well at least you're happy" she kissed his cheek again and this time in return gained an innocent cute look from the child. It almost made Kaoru's heart stop when she saw how wonderful this baby truly was.
Why, why would someone throw away their baby and in return live a misery of never truly loving the child? Thank you kami…for giving me this one special angel of yours…
It was funny what she thought, it was even more horrendous at what he was. Something of grime and black darkness that became hers, always to be protected and love, cherished and owned. In the heart that became the vault of kindness and excellence, he became the key to unlock her. And tear her. Break her and destroy her.
Kaoru smiled and the more she smiled at him, the more he wanted to taint her. From her ambience of light, to the dying of hailing black angels.
Kaoru carried the child yet another time outside, the sun still burned his skin but he resisted the screams that scratched at his bellows to be free.
With each step of this innocent, the step of corrupted thread-like evil became closer to her heart and her control.
"Konnichiwa minna-san, or should I say chan?" Kaoru said at everyone, who included the normal five, Megumi, Sano, Yahiko, Ayame and Suzi.
Yahiko growled but before anyone could throw dirty comments at the next, eyes were glued to the small child within her hands. Protected and owned only to her.
"Urhh…J-Jou…t-there's ah, um, a kid…in your hand…yeah just thought you need to know" Sano started very amazed.
"Oh, you mean my baby?" she bounced the child nuzzling her smooth face against his soft cheek.
"Your baby?" everyone unanimously asked in shock.
"Yeah, my baby" she sounded rather cool about this. In fact her entire reaction and look was as cool as a cucumber.
"Jou, maybe I'm not hearing right, but what the hell do you mean by your baby?" Sano asked somewhat angered by the fact Kaoru has a baby. It was so sudden and abrupt, sheesh, where's the explanation when you need one!
"Now now Sanosuke, no need to get all worked up. I'll explain. You see, I found this baby. Some evil wicked woman threw him in the bushes and from there I found him" Kaoru said, her eyes stressing anger for the woman who could have the heart to do such a low and wicked deed.
The baby, never forgetting the real mother of him, became irked at the words of his new young mother. Foolishly she said words that dropped like heavy metal in a pond, resounding with ripples of pain in his heart. How could she say such a low thing, about his mother being evil and coarse, she was nothing of the sort, she was wonderful, she was supreme, she was and still is, his everything.
A sharp pain ripped through Kaoru's body, almost tiredly she stumbled to the floor clutching both baby and pain. The pain became more intense as the baby hurt her more for her foolish words. She would suffer for such an act, for such words.
"Jou?" Sano went forward catching the weak and hurting woman.
"Kaoru? Kaoru?" Megumi went forward realizing the younger woman was turning blue. Everyone didn't understand it. A tension grew and before everyone's eyes, the opening of each cupboard, each door slammed open. Everyone felt a cold air slip around their shoulders tantalizing their hairs on edge…
"You are not alone…" an almost inaudible whisper mutely sighed.
Nobody wanted right now to say what was happening. Megumi felt the unwelcome, felt the coldness and heard a voice that was beginning to frighten her. It was odd for one, since she was a very headstrong woman, finding little belief in the supernatural and abnormality, but this, this environment of cold echoes and strange appearances of opening doors and cupboards frightened her, beyond her hold.
"Jou-chan" Sano shook Kaoru.
Kaoru was however suffering the worst. Her air was becoming limited and she literally felt as if her lungs were going to burst with strain for air. Her skin already a dreadful colour of pale blue, was accompanied by the mind-splinting shade of hazzle grey eyes that were begging for mercy.
"We must get her some medical help…follow me" Megumi decided not to rattle or even motivate the feeling of fear within, so helping Kaoru would be her way out.
Sano nodded. Taking the small child from Kaoru's arms, the baby violently screamed. Screamed for his mother.
"Oh jeez, take the kid Yahiko…" Sano said, whilst lifting Kaoru and carrying her off to her room.
Ayame and Suzi were scared. Their innocent eyes had never witnessed such horror and never could it be washed away. Yahiko held the crying child, his small legs and arms kicking and squirming for release.
"Would you shut the hell up already?" Yahiko shook the baby, his cries becoming more and more intense. The two young girls watched as Yahiko shook the baby almost senseless from all the crying the babe was doing.
"Yahiko-kun, stop, you're hurting the chibi-chan" Suzi shouted out watching as the baby was almost begging for relief in silence.
"This kid…aghh!" Yahiko placed the baby down on a tatami watching as the baby slowly stopped crying. But began squirming and pulling for anything.
Ayame went forward, feeling remorse that Yahiko would do such a thing to a wee-baby. What were the odds of a baby beating Yahiko? Zero to infinite!
The baby, feeling a new innocent drawing nearer to him, waited slowly yet hungrily for her approach.
"Hello chibi-chan…I'm Ayame" the little girl said. The baby's small hand held unto hers and for the first time the baby felt extremely calm. It was funny how evil chose children, how evil chose the innocents. And in time to come, they themselves became evil's pet.
Yahiko watched as Ayame played with the baby whilst her smaller sister Suzi watched the two. In no time both girls were playing with the small baby and the giggling child enjoyed their innocence and their mirth for the moment.
Yahiko grew skeptical though. For anything he didn't like this child. Maybe it was the fact Yahiko read auras, and this baby's aura resembled that as a murderer. Not sure what to believe, Yahiko couldn't actually say if it was just his imagination that was playing tricks on him. Yet those eyes, eyes of a born devil, grew sinuous with dirty invitation into it's evil arms.
Why did this child have such eyes, such an appearance that truly did resemble a spawn of the devil? It could not be answered but only guessed as to why.
After an hour or two, Yahiko got tired of seeing the two young girls playing with the baby that was simply driving him up a wall. Giggles and laughter was all that circulated the room. Sighing he got up dusting off the faint dust from his hakama.
The three small children stopped their playing looking at Yahiko innocently and expectantly.
"You guys stay here, I'm going to check on Kaoru. I'll be back in a while" with that he left, leaving the baby with two young girls.
The baby smirked.
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"Report" a lord with cerise locks and chartreuse eyes said. A dark aura that grew as heavy as death itself, sleeplessly threatened all that dare his word.
His voice was somewhat baritone but bored nevertheless.
"Milord, there has been no suspects and your son and wife, their bodies have not been found" the guard cautiously said, watching his lord's eyes.
They were always vehement, but never molested to morbidity.
If it was somewhat he didn't want to hear, then it'd be everyone failing him. Everyone he's come to love, being lost to him.
"Why? Why haven't their bodies been found soldier?" Battousai said devoid-like, his eyes and voice bored of everything. Perhaps it was a façade, but indeed a good one.
"Our guards have tracked down your mistress tracks, but it is most strange milord. Where the body of your wife and child should be, is only now a trail of dust." He paused watching as Battousai clenched his fist.
"There is …however, one thing we did discover milord" the soldier took a breath.
Battousai's eyes that were concentrating in thought on the floor, quickly averted to the soldier.
"Speak"
"When we brought in the witches this morning, they showed that an innocent was present in that location" the soldier said.
"An innocent?" Battousai arched a brow.
"Yes milord. An innocent. A mortal…" the soldier said.
Battousai thought to himself, what in hells name could a mortal be doing there? There was no affirmative reason why the innocent should have been there, but the situation still needed analyzing.
"I never asked you to find out what an innocent was doing there. I only asked where my wife and son is? If you fail me again…I will not fail to take your soul…find me my family…" his voice was smothered in lethalness and an inflammation of sardonic threat.
"Yes sir…" the soldier swallowed the lump and began walking out.
Battousai turned his head looking out his huge window. The sky was grey and the world he called home was no longer his, but a shadow owned only to someone else.
Kenji…my son…
Tomoe…my love…
A single tear fell, he loved them, but he lost it all…
Clenching his eyes shut he swore to his already halted heart that he would promise to avenge their death, to kill the one that did this and once and for all give them their honourable resting place.
Trust me serpent…I will find you…and when I do, I will ensnare your senses and murderously cold, reward you with death a hundred folds beyond what it should be…
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Yahiko, Megumi and Sano watched as Kaoru slept, her body weak from the strong fire that ripped throughout her body.
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"Yahiko-chan, who is watching the children?" Megumi asked, placing a wet cloth on Kaoru's head.
"Um…nobody?" he said.
Megumi frowned, "please see to it that they are watched. You wouldn't want anything to happen now would you?" Megumi asked looking at the boy.
Yahiko sighed, "yeah yeah I hear yuh" he took to his heels tracing his steps back to the kitchen. Yet the closer he came he heard laughter. 'Oh great, they're still laughing…how wonderful' he sarcastically thought. Yet the more he listened, he found a strange voice meddling within their girlish laughter.
'Huhh?'
Yahiko approached the kitchen unseen, the voice becoming more discernible. It was male and strong, and deep.
Yahiko grew worried, because for all he knew someone dangerous was within the dojo.
Leaning against the wall unseen, he peeped in, realizing nobody was there. No one in fact, except the three.
Entering the kitchen, he sighed outwardly.
"You girls can get someone really worked up you know?" Yahiko said looking at the two.
"How is that Yahiko-kun?" asked Ayame curiously looking at the boy.
"It's kind of silly in fact. To me I heard voices. Voices of a man speaking with you girls" Yahiko said looking down in embarrassment.
"But we were" Suzi said…
Yahiko jolted up looking at the girls, "what? w-where is he?" Yahiko asked.
The both girls pointed at the baby. "Kenji…" the girls said.
Yahiko arched a brow, "come on girls, this isn't funny…" Yahiko's eyes never leaving the baby.
"We're not lying. It was the baby. It was Kenji-chan" the girls said…
"Oh stop it already" he somewhat shouted. The both girls jumped at his voice.
Yahiko however, looked at the child, wondering several things. And then in a blink of an eye, he saw the child look him straight in the eye and hiss, with teeth that resembled those of dogs.
"Coming for me are you?" replied the child…
- Yahiko gasps-
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- To be continued…
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An: Well you guys I made an update and maybe I'm rushing everything, but I'm sorry for being bad and stuff. Thank you for reading the chapter, I hope you guys liked it, I tried to make it a bit different with the actual fact that this baby isn't weak, but terribly strong and cursed. The baby as we can tell connects with innocence and dislikes people who have a bad attitude, like Yahiko. So hope you guys read the next chapter when it comes out.
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