Shattered soul 8
Chapter 8, first half
Past/Present/Future, part one.
When you can not find solace in your dreams,
Will you run yourself into fantasies?
What when your imagination becomes reality, and your reality imagination?
When you find back your memories only to find them changed to what they where before,
Will you try to understand it or will you leave it be?
What is that with your own sense of reality?
When you finally have to face yourself,
Can you accept after that, the darkness that lurks in your own soul?
When a complete stranger in the form of an old ally, offers you wisdom and a way to understand,
Will you take his help, or will you let it be…
Because it could change you into someone you don't really want to know?
(Our past is created in the very same moment we start to realize that we do something.
Our future is created from the now, when we do something.
Our present, never really exists.
Its only the now we live in, between our past and future.
Present is only a fantasy!)
(Translated out of a German phrase. 1910.)
The wood looked so very old; it had a colour near to black.
Keiko got not tired to look at the staff in her hands; something urged her to do so.
She had woken up in the temple room again, she realised she must have sleep wandered here. But that didn't interest her at the moment. What interested her was what she saw into her dreams and after her awaking into the pound again.
All seemed to be so…so real!
Like everything had really happened. She idly asked herself if she had gone nuts!
But then again, she had now more information's as she had asked for originally. That was sure.
Keiko groaned, she must to have to ask in the first!
She slowly began to put things together…
At first, there was her strange dream…
She had found herself back the day after she lost her parents.
Her frame runs franticly from place to place, only to find none.
Atzuko wasn't at her home and named one looked like a war zone, everything was upside down.
She hadn't paid attention to it, right the night before was the earthquake. But now it looked to the woman more as a place who someone had tried to fight against someone other and loose it.
The next picture was the Kuwabara residence; it looked also like a war zone. Into the floor and walls where great gashes and holes.
Now they looked to her more as reminders of Kazuma sans Rei-ken! And the holes lend in-side and not out-side.
The last place was Kuramas household. Everything here looked quite peaceful to the woman-child.
There where no traces of anything that gave a sign of where the owners could have gone. The earth quake seemed to have to spare this place.
Now she saw that many things of she had known that his mother had loved very much where missing and all of there clothes where gone. Even a few books and a play console where missing!
It looked to her now like a hastily deserted place. Someone had taken care to take a few things with them before they went away from here.
Kurama must have made sure that his family was not missing something the hold near where ever he took them.
She woke up, more confused as before.
Only to find herself kneeling again in frond of the strange black water and after some minutes she waved her hand through it like she had seen the strange woman do it the day before. She silently asked it if it could show her something what could bring sense into this all, if it could show her the truth.
Not really believing that anything could really happen.
Before her mind suddenly drifted into the strange water, Keiko could feel Hinagiku enter the room and sit down beside her.
Then everything went black.
She was again in the table scene the day before all begun.
Again she saw her father and her mother and herself, laugh.
But this time there where something added to the scene, her viewpoint changed from her beloved parents to a mirror hanging on the wall into the neighbour room that showed her the window behind her.
Keiko had not paid attention to the scene inside of it. Had she back then, she would have seen the ferry girl with the black hair inside of it, observing her and her parents.
She had missed it to see!
The next picture was at Kuramas house again.
The same scene as before, but this time she saw something glow behind him before he cried out and changed into two solitary beings.
And behind him, in the window was shortly a Reikei guardian to see.
Shortly after his depart Hiei arrived and found the two lay on the floor, he helped them quickly.
After that Keiko could see Yoko came back to his senses at first and then there where suddenly allot people in the small room who appeared to be demons.
She followed the scene to its end, where the Hatanaka´s along with some of their supplies, where taken through a portal to an unknown place. She assumed Makai.
Behind Yoko, who carried an unconscious Kurama in his arms, closed the portal.
Right after their all depart the earthquake begun to shake the house.
The next picture frame where older as the others….
She stands in one of the endless halls of Reikei and waited impatiently for Yusuke to return from one of his stupid missions.
It was only a few days before everything happened and also the day when he began to act so cold suddenly to her.
Behind her talked some oni about something not very loud but she could easily hear them.
They discuses about Kuramas two souls and that Yoko and his human counterpart could not be separated without both to get killed.
And than one told the other that they would make sure that Yokos ghost could not escape once more. They only had to separate the two beings from each other and to give them two bodies to die.
Yoko would be trapped into his dying body then, easy to pic up for a ferry girl after his second death.
Now it made sense to the young woman!
Something must have gone wrong, or maybe it was Hiei´s intervention right after their separation? She was not sure but somehow the two had over lived the separation and then Yoko had leaved the ningenkai with his family.
The next frame was even older as the one before…
She stands outside the devils cave, waiting for Yusuke to return from the Makai.
When he finally came the first thing she was aware on him was surprisingly his lost shoe.
And that he was bleeding on the leg right above where foot and leg meet.
Then they where suddenly into her room and she asked him about the missing shoe. He only answered her he had lost it in his fight with the mad Sensui after he got some blood into it what made it too slippery to hold it in place.
Behind him was the window.
Now she saw what her mind had not really noticed at that time, a Reikei guardian who watched them from the roof of the other building across the street and who hurriedly disappeared after her conversation.
After Yusuke had gone to sleep, lamenting about his now ruined favourite pair of shoes, keiko had talked her father to drive her back there to search after the missing one.
She had found nothing.
The last frame of strange pictures of her past showed Keiko again the street scene with Hiei and her, but from a different view as before.
She seem somehow to be floating over the place, under her she could see herself running to the edge and shout why, at Hiei.
Keiko hadn't known that she was crying the entire time.
The demon had heard her from the start, again she watched the strange meeting with the aloof yokai and then she saw herself faint.
He catches her easily and stand after it just there with her body securely tucked into his arms.
It looked somehow odd and cute all together to the woman. She was taller when Hiei and so it looked a little bit odd.
The look in his crimson eyes where so soft, she never saw him look like that before. Then he suddenly left the place, only to take her with him.
She found him back, standing on the edge of her bed and staring down of her body. He sat down next to her and stayed there for a long time. Only petting her long honey brown hair with one hand and seemingly thinking about something
Suddenly his hand caught one of her long tresses and twirled it around his hand. His claws frome the other one cut it from the rest of her hair in a fluid motion and tugged it securely into one of his hidden pockets on his cloak.
After it the demon stood and turned around to go, only to stop in front of her open window and to turn again.
She saw him close it securely and then go through her bedroom door.
Keiko remembered that she saw the next day that a long tress of her hair was missing but she had thought she lost it somewhere on her mad run through the town.
Why Hiei took it was a miracle to her as everything else was it.
The next thing she saw was different from everything else before.
Again she saw the two people/man/dragons from the battlefield scene from the first time.
Both stand in front of the beautiful woman and all three seemed to be happy with the presence of the other.
The black one even smiled about something the red head said, they looked so happy, it hurt Keiko to see them in this way.
Suddenly the same scene switched to another one;
Now both of the dragons where battling with arguments in front of the woman and near to get at each others throat.
Behind them the strange staff glowed for a moment and then suddenly a new figure appeared out of air and tried to grasp it.
The entire person burned instantly to death engulfed from black flames.
The black dragon suddenly unsheathed his sword and charged at the now clearly angry hissing red one, which tried to grab the blind woman at the same time.
She tried to convince him to let it be but he only grabbed her harder and begun to chant something Keiko did not understand.
These minute choose the priestess to send a jolt through of blue energy through the arm that hold her what caused him to loose her and gave the black one the opportunity to hit after him.
Before the red one disappeared into a smoke like thing she could hear the other calls him something;
Traitor.
The woman fell to the floor, crying after her former friend and loved one. Like Keiko did it so many times after Yusuke too, it wenches her heard to see her like this.
The black dragon made clear that no one other was there and gave instructions to some guards before he went back in the room to her.
He kneeled in her front and begun to hold her sobbing frame for a long time. Keiko found Hiei and this being looked much alike, but their high was different and the hair of the dragon in human shape was longer.
Then the scene changed for one last time.
She was again into the strange sphere of the dragon of darkness flame.
But with her this time was Hiei who seem to have an argument with his dragon!
Both snarled at each other and even snapped after the other.
Then suddenly her former friend stopped his aggressive behave and seem to listen to the dragon with sudden interest. The two changed their behave against each other more and more and in the end the two seem to blend together to one single being.
It had the appearance and body of Hiei but she could see the dragon lurking into the deepness of the apparitions eyes.
Hiei's entire body seem to glow in a faint blue-white light, and then he suddenly disappeared. Only to appear again into the same arena of the dark tournament he had fought into against Bui.
She saw again the whole rest fight of the two, only this time Keiko saw now, against what the demon was fighting in real back then when Hiei suddenly came back from nowhere after Bui throw the attack back to Hiei.
Suddenly she felt pity for the attacker of her former friend; Bui never knew how near he was to his death!
Then Keiko woke up from her strange ride through the times and memories to find out that Hinagiku had held her the entire time.
Again she looked down on the polish looking black staff in her delicate hands.
Keiko knew it must have to do with this all. But what?
It was the point for the two dragons to go against each other and for one of them to betray the other two.
This simple looking wooden staff had caused the old war that created the battle that cost so many their lives and had somehow, keiko was sure, to do with the current one.
Now she sight, she had allot answers, but even more questions popped up after she found them, as before.
She groaned again, and then that Hiei!
To steal a lock of her hair!
For what?
The young woman got, after a look of her beside her deeply slumbering friend, the strange impression that she would find no sleep this night.
Suddenly a deep voice into her mind brought her back to her feet in an instant;
Keiko!
Meet me outside the temple on the boarder of the barrier.
I have something to tell you, if you want to hear it.
After some seconds he added something that startled her more as his sudden voice in her head before;
Don't trust anyone from Reikei, or listen to what ever they might tell you!
They only want the staff of Iriealeiji and nothing more.
They would do anything to get it! Even kill you for it, so… please, don't trust them in anything they might tell you.
Speak with me first.
And come here, we have allot to talk about!
With that, Hiei's voice faded out of Keikos mind and leaved the woman panting where she stood.
What to the hell can Hiei want from me now?
She thought startled.
With that curiosity and a huge among of nervousness in her stomach, Keiko made up her mind and went outside the temple to meet Hiei on the boarder of the temple grounds.
Silently wondering what he had meant with his last statements!
Suryallee
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I know my English must confuse you all sometimes, but let me know if I got better as I think I did it, or if it is only my hopefully imagination!
Can someone tell me please if it called Majin or did I spell the word wrong?
The same goes for Hatanaka´s family name. Did anyone know his first name?
Thanks!