Shade- Hiya! Time for the continuation of the 8th chapter unlocking dreams
part I with unlocking dreams part II! First of all, I would like to thank
my reviewers! This will be short!
Unispaps: Hehehe... I know you reviewed my first chapter and this is a little late, but I now decided to thank my reviewers! So thank you for calling me a talented writer, I need encouragement cuz NO ONE IS REVIEWING! So thank you!
Kyouj1n: I agree with you, I TOO am a little surprised that no one has reviewed the story (not to sound conceited or nothing) and I hope that you enjoy the rest of the story!
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Chapter 9: Unlocking dreams part II
Hiei drew out of Karuka's dream for a moment and came out wide eyed. He had never seen an attack so sinister as to take your own soul from your body. Quickly, he went back in.
*~ dream/flashback ~*
Karuka had woken up slightly forgetting what had happened but when she did she sat still unable to believe it was true. She felt something around her neck and saw that it was the shadow amulet. She had no care of how it got there, just why it did, the death of her father.
She looked around to see all her brothers gone, they all had slept outside because the inside of their home smelled of their father. She couldn't bare the tension anymore, she ran to the stream that ran near their dojo only to see her four brothers.
She said nothing and sat down next to them.
*~ one month later ~*
A blazing fire was seen, and on the other side you could see Karuka, she had a look of crude hatred, one she never once wore before. Her brothers and mother were standing next to her watching the fire die down a bit, but still keep up its large glow.
"Why are we doing this anyways?" Karuka asked her mother in a harsh tone.
"To respect your father." She answered plainly.
"It's only respectful if he's in the fire, doing this only respects the fires that took his soul!" Karuka ran from the scene in near tears but kept them in as to not show weakness.
She ran for a long time. She didn't know where she was running to, she just kept running. Finally when Karuka stopped she slightly recognized where she was. It was a cliff that her father took her to every full moon, as to gaze it in its largest looking appearance. There was another reason that Karuka watched the moon, but she didn't tell anyone, it was a secret with her mother.
She sat for many hours, but before Hiei would have gotten bored the scene changed.
It was inside the dojo, and by the way everyone was acting, it seemed to be a couple months since the incident.
Karuka was still distant though. Her happy warming smile wasn't there anymore, her witty nick-names for her brothers were never spoken, she never spoke about her father, and it was too hard for her. She thought that she had it hard, but the truth was; Pyro was taking it harder, much harder.
Pyro had been gone for three days but no one seemed to care. They knew he would come back; it was just a matter of time.
Their mother had made an excuse to being gone for at least a year, to be with her children. Now that she saw them more often, she wished that she was there more for them, especially her one daughter.
Karuka had never been used to being around another woman. She was always with a man, either one of her brothers, or her father. She was a real tomboy, in fact, it was only 7 months ago that she beat her brother Rien in a fight.
Karuka had no womanly traits, and when her mother ever tried to do something with her that was "motherly" she ignored it. The only thing that she could do with her mother was practice training. In fact, her mother was a very skilled fighter, for a tiger demon at least.
Karuka was in the corner of the sitting room staring into nothing. Tadashi was with their mother talking about something Karuka didn't really care about. And the twins, Cruyo and Rien, were with each other in another corner.
Suddenly a loud THUMP was heard outside.
Pyro came in through the door and only their mother took notice.
"Oh Pyro, I was so worried. Where have you been? Are you okay? How is-" Ruka was abruptly cut short. The next thing that was heard was a piercing scream, not of terror but of pain.
Karuka's head shot up just in time to watch her mother fall to the floor, blood spewing out of her abdomen.
"PYRO WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Came the voice of Cruyo who stood up about to run to his mother.
"SHUT UP!" Screamed a slightly scared voice from Pyro, but no one really took notice of that.
Pyro shoved a bloody dagger into Cruyo's head and Karuka could see his eyes turn white, which meant they rolled into the back of his head, dead.
Karuka screamed while she stood up, but still unable to move from her corner of the room. All the while Pyro walked toward Rien and embedded the dagger into his flesh. Karuka screamed and cried repeatedly but to no avail as to stop Pyro's rampage.
The first stab didn't kill Rien though. He came behind Pyro to try and stop him, but was stabbed in the head just like his twin who died on the spot moments before.
Karuka's legs were nailed to the floor, or at least that's what it felt like, she still hadn't moved from her spot, and only watched her brother kill her family.
"NO! TADASHI!" Tadashi's poor limp body slid off the one foot dagger and his blood joined his mother's and other brother's on the floor of the sitting room. Karuka stared blankly as Pyro walked toward her, stepping over their mother's corpse in the process.
"WHY?!" Karuka yelled, Pyro said something, but it wasn't an answer.
"You see what happens when you love someone!?" He said.
What are you talking about?"
"When you love someone and get close to them, they only let you down and die!" He said through clenched teeth.
"Never let someone get close to you because they only die in the end leaving you alone! Loving makes you weak Karuka! Loving puts a hole in your heart and a bleeding wound on you soul!"
Those words surprised Karuka and were stuck in her head. But before she could react, he said more.
"See what it does to you? It makes you crazy! It made me crazy, AND NEVER LET IT HAPPEN TO YOU, or else you become just like me!" He said in a tone of voice that Karuka never heard and never wanted to hear again. At the end he lightened his voice to a whispering falsetto that scared her immensely. Before she could react again, Pyro shoved her to the ground and began stabbing her in the back; all the while she repeated the word 'why' over and over again.
When he was done and declared her dead, he stood up and looked at his surroundings and smiled. Little did he know that Karuka was in fact still alive, just unconscious.
He left the dojo smiling at his accomplishment and dropped the dagger to the floor. But kept in his boasting, he could not hear the light whimpering of Karuka, or her tears hit the floor and mix with the blood beneath her. Because of the loss of blood, Karuka fell unconscious again with fifteen dagger wounds bleeding from her back.
Everything went black and Hiei used this time to think about all of this. Again, he was wide eyed. Before he thought that he would miss anything, he reentered.
He couldn't really tell, but it looked like it was later in the evening, even though the scene didn't seem to change.
Karuka's eyes slowly opened, and what she saw reminded her of her sorry life and situation. Four of her family members lay dead, and yet she was the one who was spared.
Karuka stood up and felt enormous pain from her back and fell straight to the floor onto her knees... she could feel the blood between her toes. Though even with all of this, Karuka managed to keep a sleek emotionless face.
This was the most mature that Karuka had ever been, seeing as how she had witnessed the majority of her family left, be killed by her own flesh and blood. She stumbled into another room of the dojo and retrieved some bandages to wrap her back in.
This process took a good twenty minutes because every time she moved wrong she screamed out in pain. When she was done she cleaned up the mess of blood that was on the floor, missing the dagger Pyro had used because it fell under a low table. When she was done she looked at her family and only huffed.
She picked each one up one by one and the took them somewhere but the scene went black each time Karuka would go somewhere, as if Karuka didn't want anyone to know where she put them, not even remind her own self.
Karuka walked back into the dojo and went straight to her father's room, which she had avoided going into since the 'incident'.
She walked towards a cabinet and opened it, it revealed many weapons. She took the majority of them and transformed them to shadow form to stash away on her body. When she picked up a sword she looked at herself in it. She had dried blood in her beautiful brown hair. Seeing this, she made no hesitation as to cut her hair right then and there. The stiff hair fell to the floor and Karuka ignored looking at its blood.
She transformed the sword into its shadow form and draped herself in a cloak.
Walking from the dojo, Karuka looked back with freshly changed slender yellow eyes. The only time she got her yellow eyes was in fights and when she was angered.
She never went inside to look for the dagger that was used to kill her mother and three of her brothers. She saw it as tainted, and the fact that it was her dagger, with her name carved into it from her father, taking felt like betrayal.
"Bastard." Was the last thing Karuka said before leaping into the trees and disappearing.
Slowly leaving Karuka's mind, Hiei knew that Karuka meant her brother Pyro, for he wondered too, how someone could go mentally insane as to kill the rest of his own family.
(officially out of the dream which is now over)
"Woah." Left Hiei's lips as it seemed a life story had been summed up to him, when it was only a single childhood, only... the beginning.
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Shade- Yes! The dream is finally done!
People- *on the verge of crying*
Shade- Oh yeah, the dream sucked for Karuka, hehe... sorry
People- WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Shade- Please don't cry! Remember Karuka isn't real! It's only a story!
People- Oh yeah! ^_^o But the dream was still a horrible thing to have happened! .
Shade- buts that's the whole reason Karuka is so cold and stuff. Anyways, before they cause a riot please review you handsome/beautiful you!
Unispaps: Hehehe... I know you reviewed my first chapter and this is a little late, but I now decided to thank my reviewers! So thank you for calling me a talented writer, I need encouragement cuz NO ONE IS REVIEWING! So thank you!
Kyouj1n: I agree with you, I TOO am a little surprised that no one has reviewed the story (not to sound conceited or nothing) and I hope that you enjoy the rest of the story!
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Chapter 9: Unlocking dreams part II
Hiei drew out of Karuka's dream for a moment and came out wide eyed. He had never seen an attack so sinister as to take your own soul from your body. Quickly, he went back in.
*~ dream/flashback ~*
Karuka had woken up slightly forgetting what had happened but when she did she sat still unable to believe it was true. She felt something around her neck and saw that it was the shadow amulet. She had no care of how it got there, just why it did, the death of her father.
She looked around to see all her brothers gone, they all had slept outside because the inside of their home smelled of their father. She couldn't bare the tension anymore, she ran to the stream that ran near their dojo only to see her four brothers.
She said nothing and sat down next to them.
*~ one month later ~*
A blazing fire was seen, and on the other side you could see Karuka, she had a look of crude hatred, one she never once wore before. Her brothers and mother were standing next to her watching the fire die down a bit, but still keep up its large glow.
"Why are we doing this anyways?" Karuka asked her mother in a harsh tone.
"To respect your father." She answered plainly.
"It's only respectful if he's in the fire, doing this only respects the fires that took his soul!" Karuka ran from the scene in near tears but kept them in as to not show weakness.
She ran for a long time. She didn't know where she was running to, she just kept running. Finally when Karuka stopped she slightly recognized where she was. It was a cliff that her father took her to every full moon, as to gaze it in its largest looking appearance. There was another reason that Karuka watched the moon, but she didn't tell anyone, it was a secret with her mother.
She sat for many hours, but before Hiei would have gotten bored the scene changed.
It was inside the dojo, and by the way everyone was acting, it seemed to be a couple months since the incident.
Karuka was still distant though. Her happy warming smile wasn't there anymore, her witty nick-names for her brothers were never spoken, she never spoke about her father, and it was too hard for her. She thought that she had it hard, but the truth was; Pyro was taking it harder, much harder.
Pyro had been gone for three days but no one seemed to care. They knew he would come back; it was just a matter of time.
Their mother had made an excuse to being gone for at least a year, to be with her children. Now that she saw them more often, she wished that she was there more for them, especially her one daughter.
Karuka had never been used to being around another woman. She was always with a man, either one of her brothers, or her father. She was a real tomboy, in fact, it was only 7 months ago that she beat her brother Rien in a fight.
Karuka had no womanly traits, and when her mother ever tried to do something with her that was "motherly" she ignored it. The only thing that she could do with her mother was practice training. In fact, her mother was a very skilled fighter, for a tiger demon at least.
Karuka was in the corner of the sitting room staring into nothing. Tadashi was with their mother talking about something Karuka didn't really care about. And the twins, Cruyo and Rien, were with each other in another corner.
Suddenly a loud THUMP was heard outside.
Pyro came in through the door and only their mother took notice.
"Oh Pyro, I was so worried. Where have you been? Are you okay? How is-" Ruka was abruptly cut short. The next thing that was heard was a piercing scream, not of terror but of pain.
Karuka's head shot up just in time to watch her mother fall to the floor, blood spewing out of her abdomen.
"PYRO WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Came the voice of Cruyo who stood up about to run to his mother.
"SHUT UP!" Screamed a slightly scared voice from Pyro, but no one really took notice of that.
Pyro shoved a bloody dagger into Cruyo's head and Karuka could see his eyes turn white, which meant they rolled into the back of his head, dead.
Karuka screamed while she stood up, but still unable to move from her corner of the room. All the while Pyro walked toward Rien and embedded the dagger into his flesh. Karuka screamed and cried repeatedly but to no avail as to stop Pyro's rampage.
The first stab didn't kill Rien though. He came behind Pyro to try and stop him, but was stabbed in the head just like his twin who died on the spot moments before.
Karuka's legs were nailed to the floor, or at least that's what it felt like, she still hadn't moved from her spot, and only watched her brother kill her family.
"NO! TADASHI!" Tadashi's poor limp body slid off the one foot dagger and his blood joined his mother's and other brother's on the floor of the sitting room. Karuka stared blankly as Pyro walked toward her, stepping over their mother's corpse in the process.
"WHY?!" Karuka yelled, Pyro said something, but it wasn't an answer.
"You see what happens when you love someone!?" He said.
What are you talking about?"
"When you love someone and get close to them, they only let you down and die!" He said through clenched teeth.
"Never let someone get close to you because they only die in the end leaving you alone! Loving makes you weak Karuka! Loving puts a hole in your heart and a bleeding wound on you soul!"
Those words surprised Karuka and were stuck in her head. But before she could react, he said more.
"See what it does to you? It makes you crazy! It made me crazy, AND NEVER LET IT HAPPEN TO YOU, or else you become just like me!" He said in a tone of voice that Karuka never heard and never wanted to hear again. At the end he lightened his voice to a whispering falsetto that scared her immensely. Before she could react again, Pyro shoved her to the ground and began stabbing her in the back; all the while she repeated the word 'why' over and over again.
When he was done and declared her dead, he stood up and looked at his surroundings and smiled. Little did he know that Karuka was in fact still alive, just unconscious.
He left the dojo smiling at his accomplishment and dropped the dagger to the floor. But kept in his boasting, he could not hear the light whimpering of Karuka, or her tears hit the floor and mix with the blood beneath her. Because of the loss of blood, Karuka fell unconscious again with fifteen dagger wounds bleeding from her back.
Everything went black and Hiei used this time to think about all of this. Again, he was wide eyed. Before he thought that he would miss anything, he reentered.
He couldn't really tell, but it looked like it was later in the evening, even though the scene didn't seem to change.
Karuka's eyes slowly opened, and what she saw reminded her of her sorry life and situation. Four of her family members lay dead, and yet she was the one who was spared.
Karuka stood up and felt enormous pain from her back and fell straight to the floor onto her knees... she could feel the blood between her toes. Though even with all of this, Karuka managed to keep a sleek emotionless face.
This was the most mature that Karuka had ever been, seeing as how she had witnessed the majority of her family left, be killed by her own flesh and blood. She stumbled into another room of the dojo and retrieved some bandages to wrap her back in.
This process took a good twenty minutes because every time she moved wrong she screamed out in pain. When she was done she cleaned up the mess of blood that was on the floor, missing the dagger Pyro had used because it fell under a low table. When she was done she looked at her family and only huffed.
She picked each one up one by one and the took them somewhere but the scene went black each time Karuka would go somewhere, as if Karuka didn't want anyone to know where she put them, not even remind her own self.
Karuka walked back into the dojo and went straight to her father's room, which she had avoided going into since the 'incident'.
She walked towards a cabinet and opened it, it revealed many weapons. She took the majority of them and transformed them to shadow form to stash away on her body. When she picked up a sword she looked at herself in it. She had dried blood in her beautiful brown hair. Seeing this, she made no hesitation as to cut her hair right then and there. The stiff hair fell to the floor and Karuka ignored looking at its blood.
She transformed the sword into its shadow form and draped herself in a cloak.
Walking from the dojo, Karuka looked back with freshly changed slender yellow eyes. The only time she got her yellow eyes was in fights and when she was angered.
She never went inside to look for the dagger that was used to kill her mother and three of her brothers. She saw it as tainted, and the fact that it was her dagger, with her name carved into it from her father, taking felt like betrayal.
"Bastard." Was the last thing Karuka said before leaping into the trees and disappearing.
Slowly leaving Karuka's mind, Hiei knew that Karuka meant her brother Pyro, for he wondered too, how someone could go mentally insane as to kill the rest of his own family.
(officially out of the dream which is now over)
"Woah." Left Hiei's lips as it seemed a life story had been summed up to him, when it was only a single childhood, only... the beginning.
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Shade- Yes! The dream is finally done!
People- *on the verge of crying*
Shade- Oh yeah, the dream sucked for Karuka, hehe... sorry
People- WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Shade- Please don't cry! Remember Karuka isn't real! It's only a story!
People- Oh yeah! ^_^o But the dream was still a horrible thing to have happened! .
Shade- buts that's the whole reason Karuka is so cold and stuff. Anyways, before they cause a riot please review you handsome/beautiful you!