AHHHHH! I'm so sorry! My computer won't allow me to press the upload button, and I even got a new computer. Yesterday, it restarted over ten times. And I only installed an anti-virus thing! Now, popups keeps popping up every five seconds, literally, and they won't stop. But sorry anyways:Tries to avoid flying objects: Very, very, sorry.
Oh, and just to let you all know, I' will be changing some parts of this ficcy from Anna's POV to a Normal POV, because Anna is too hard to write and I accidentally changed it at the end of the last chapter anyways. Gomen!
"Fu..."
Half consciously, she made the sound out loud. "Fu..." It was just a breath. Less than that.
She had to be quiet.
He might hear.
He might get angry.
He might change his mind.
She kept herself very still and tried to make herself very small. Don't draw his attention. Don't give him any reason to change his mind.
She'd been lucky so far. Either lucky or smart. Because he'd said so, he'd said she had been following the rules so he wouldn't punish her. All she had to do was close her eyes and count to five hundred. Count slowly. "– and when you're done, you can open your eyes. But not until then, you understand? If you move and make or make a sound before that, I'd know. I'll have to hurt you."
It seemed to take forever to count to five hundred – she hesitated – counted to six hundred just in case.
He had a gun.
Slowly inching her fingers away from her back, she felt around the wall for any traps. Once she had finished checking, she slowly moved her other hand.
He had told her to put them behind her back.
She was just another prisoner.
By the time she came around, they had became completely numb. She found out his reason – she had to stay there until he was done. Until he'd finally let her go;
Why did he bring her here in the first place, then? To scare the hell out of her? For fun?
But they were the X-Laws...always serious. They'd never imprison someone for nothing...
"Sometimes, justice has to be cruel."
Isn't that what they always said? Everytime...that's the only thing they ever say! Besides, if it's cruel, it doesn't make sense to be justice. All of where that came from would be erased already. Besides, what was with their name anyways? If laws were justified, and you cross it out, then they weren't justified!
More angry and confused then scared now, she opened her mouth to call for her pumpkin doll when she realized that she shouldn't make a sound. "I'll have to hurt you."
Heh.
Now that she thought about it, it didn't really matter anymore. Hao-sama was going to get her away from here, anyways...
Wait a second.
Here?
Her eyes widened as she slid down the wall.The thing that she was right now...even if she didn't follow the rules, she'd still get killed. Just because other people weren't allowed to know. I'm a bait...
People thought that humanity had rules.
They're the ones who made the rules, Otouto.
Some were unspoken, though known. Yoh twisted around, sweating yet cold, underneath his blanket in the harshness of his dream.
Humanity, otouto,
He unconsciously grabbed at his head, a mental pain developing, his brain throbbing – but a good kind of pain. He liked it. It hurt so much, tears slid out of his squeezed shut eyes – but he wanted to protect it. It seemed so easy, yet so impossible to let go. It was like a bond – one that he was forbidden to hold on to, and yet, he wanted to protect it.
Is something that you destroy yourself.
"Sta...stop..." He continues clutching his head. It hurt. It friggin' hurt. Yet he wanted it to continue, and at the same time, wanted it to stop.
Isn't it ironic, otouto?
He hates the sound of Hao's voice – an exact replica of his, but a replica only, nonetheless. But perhaps, he was the replica. He knows how similar they are, and he hates it. Hao's voice was soft and smooth like silk – softly taunting, which makes it all the worse. He lives off a lie, Yoh tells himself.
You live off a lie, otouto. You live off me.
"Stop it..." He was lying to himself. A half lie, subconsciously, a failure to reassure himself. "Not...your brother...don't wanna be.." He was messing up his speech. "I hate you, Hao..." I hate you, nii-san...
You were fighting against me all this time. All of you were.
Because Hao fought against us. We were just countering. Just protecting ourselves. Yes.
But humans; they're humainty's greatest enemy – so maybe I was just tying to help?
"Can't help, Hao...no, nii-san, can't help us...you only harmed us..."
Maybe I was trying to help you end this, otouto. Maybe I was trying to let you suffer less from your own damage.
Maybe; might, unsure; Yoh didn't know if he should believe Hao or not. Maybe he should?
"ANNA!" He sat up, cold sweat trickling down his cheeks, along with warm ones - "Go to sleep, Yoh." Was he crying? "It's not your first time sleeping in a forest. Get over it." Wiping his years off his eyes, Yoh nodded and let himself fall back down on the folded blanket. "Hai."
"Yoh."
"Nnhh...?"
"Get up."
"Mmm..."
"Yoh..."
"Nii...?"
"Yoh, get up now!"
"...'nna?"
"Yes?"
"Shuddup."
And the citizens of whatever place they were in poked their heads out their windows at the sound of a slap.
Normally, a person wouldn't be so enchanted when someone slapped them, but Yoh was glad, because he immediately woke up from his dream. Actually, he kind of like that dream, but that was besides the point. It haunted him. "Saa...I'm very sorry, Anna!" He laughed nervously. A slap was the reply, and Yoh tried to laugh it off. "Really! I'm very, very sorry, Anna!" Anna only twitched, and Yoh cringed when Anna walked away, leaving him alone with his broken back.
Ah yes, his back.
"Anna...!"
He groaned and tried to sit up. She wasn't going to leave him there, as cruel as she is... That's what she wants you to think. Yoh shook his head, squeezing his eyes shut, mentally slapping himself for thinking that. He opened his eyes ashe heard a gasp. I know I look like a hobo, but that's just kind of rude... "Hao..."
He snapped his head toward the direction of the voice. Green hair and white cloths...
Woah. I suck at cliffhangers. Review, please?