Too Close To Tell You

AN: I want it but I can't have it so STOP MAKING ME REMEMBER!

Chapter 10 – I really do need you…

They sat by the small fire and watched it burn gently, smoldering the already fragile wood they had placed on it. She drew her knees to her chest and watched as it flicked gently in the small overhanging cave.

'Ma petite?' He asked her holding up the small water flask. His answer was a gentle shake of the head in a no answer. Her distinctly colored eyes stared into the soul of that tiny fire.

'What is it?' He asked trying to get her to say something.

'Nothing.' She answered staring harder into that small flame. She stared deeper into it, as if trying to pry some kind of truth from it, and when it didn't answer she leant back and sighed. 'Cant you hear them?'

'Hear what Cassie?'

She stared up to the stars as they twinkled gently in the night sky. 'The cries of the dead.'

'I did once.' He answered. 'But they stopped coming to me about two hundred years ago. I must say that I haven't missed them.'

'I hear them all the time. Since I was three I have had them coming to me, telling their sad stories. When I was thirteen I started to see them… I could see all the poor tormented souls hovering around me. One in particular got me thrown into a Sanitarium.' She said half heartedly and shivering from that awful thought.

'Ma petite? Who sent you to such an awful place?' Keith asked horrified that any one could think her crazy. It was completely obvious that she was not crazy, but perhaps the most sane person alive.

'My mother and father. I guess it frightened them.' She answered still lying on the grass staring at the constellations above.

He sighed to himself. 'Humans are often frightened by things that they do not understand… I too know that pain.'

She stared back at him this time sitting up a little. 'I can imagine, but what happened to you? You have such a sad and painful aura.'

'Remember how I have said that I lost some one very dear to me recently?' He asked her getting a nod for his answer. 'She was planning on coming to stay with me. The war had taken its toll on her terribly. She was a spy you see, and she was sent to country after country to assassinate leaders and key players that haunted her side. You might say she slipped up, but she was caught and executed.'

'What was her name?' She asked looking at him.

'Margarete.' He said. 'You would think that for four hundred years that I would have been a lot wiser and never let her go don't you?'

She shook her head again. 'No. The choices you make are never wrong, just meant to be. Even if you hadn't let her go, then you still would have lost her. Fate will always win in the end.'

Keith stared at her. 'You are quite wise Cassie. I'm afraid that you should get some sleep… We must begin early if we are to get far from this cursed land.'

She nodded and rolled onto her side, staring at the open plains until she fell asleep…

He sat on the cold hard ground staring at the open spaces and the dirty tombs. The screams of souls in torment never let up. Though most people would find it annoying he found it strangely soothing. He brought his knees up to his chest and examined the large silver door with the golden symbols on them. It was new and he had never seen it before.

'What the hell are you doing here again?' Yuri sighed. 'Don't you have a life?'

Kurando ignored him and continued to stare at the door.

'So are you going in?' Yuri asked, waving his hands in front of his eyes.

'No.'

'Why not?'

There was silence for a moment. 'I don't trust that door. Something's not right about it.'

Yuri walked up and tapped a few times. 'Hey I cant read those symbols! What do they say?'

'Absence of Hope…' He answered standing up and turning towards the tombstone in front of him. 'This has been glowing since I came here.'

'Cool!' Yuri answered. 'It's a new fusion!'

'I don't know… my graveyard feels a little strange lately… I think I will leave it for a while, will it matter?'

'No.' Yuri answered bluntly, but you really shouldn't let a soul waiting for too long.

Kurando stared at that tomb and sighed. 'Maybe you're right Yuri.' He held out his hand and for a moment nothing happened. A few seconds later the light encircled him and he collapsed to the floor again.

'Geez? Is it really that painful?' Yuri muttered helping his cousin up. The periphat began to glow a strange purple colour and a wicked laugh filled the air.

'Foolish samurai!' The voice yelled out. 'Now I have your soul in my possession and I will use it to help me execute your beloved Anastasia.' His eyes turned from the brilliant crimson to a deep and disturbing black. It made Yuri jump.

'Get out!' Kurando choked out. 'Get out of my head!'

Yuri laughed loudly, 'Lania? What do you think you're doing?'

The look paused. 'What do you want ghost?'

'Um, do you really think that you can actually leave the graveyard and still be in Kurando's soul?' The harmonixer laughed at her. 'Please, once his mortal flesh leaves here you'll be trapped.'

The creature inside Kurando paused. 'You may be right, but never the less he will die.'

'Probably.' Yuri answered this time shaking his fists as if he were warming up. 'So will you.'

Suddenly there was a huge black caped creature between them. 'This soul is not yours.' It whispered sending shivers down Yuri's spine. 'Release it.'

'No.' Lania yelled. 'My future will be.'

'Release it or I will take yours for a price.'

'I don't have one.' She laughed. 'I never had, so there is nothing you can do to harm me.'

'You are still mortal, release his soul or you will pay with your flesh. I am Death and Fate and all things between. My word is law and this man must fulfill his destiny, if it is not fulfilled all things will cease to be.'

'My point exactly.' She laughed. 'Besides you are here and my flesh is far away. Killing him is easy because I have complete control of his mind.' Kurando flailed around trying to pull the insane woman out of his head. He could feel his sanity slipping away now, fast. He had to do something, anything.

The huge creature leapt towards him and touched him gently with a large boney finger. 'You are free Kurando of the Inugami Tribe.'

He collapsed to his knees, 'Thank you.' He answered hoarsely. 'Who are you?'

'That is not important, trust your instincts for they will help you much more than you understand.' It disappeared in a puff of smoke.

'Well that was weird.' Yuri said helping Kurando up and staring at the place it used to be. 'I knew he was a reaper of some kind, but he didn't even care that I was here. That's really odd.'

'Kurando please wake up! Please! Please don't die…'

'Anastasia…' He said as the world turned to white again…

'I'm sorry Anastasia…' Maya's voice said in a quiet whisper.

Anastasia stared at her, her eyes began to water. 'Kurando its not true! Kurando please wake up! Please! Please don't die! I need you…' She whimpered holding his hand tightly and bringing it to her face.

Suddenly he sat up and every one except Anastasia fainted in fright.

'I'm here Anastasia.' He answered squeezing her hand reassuringly.

She smiled. 'How?'

'You're voice brought me back.' He answered with a small smile, he was still weak and tired. She helped him to lay down and rest. 'Did you mean it?' He asked.

'Yes.' She answered pulling the blanket up. 'I really do need you.'

Well there you have it chapter 10 now here's where I ask my readers:

Good ending?

Bad ending?

The choice is up to you... You can request which ending you want simply by reviewing.

I will count up how many votes there are and the one with the most votes gets written!

Signed the Cat:-)