Chapter 2: The Hole im me

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Yumi Ishiayama lay curled up on a train-car seat. She Had a weary look in her dark almost black squinting eyes as she was nearly asleep . It wasn't that long ago that her and Jeremy had escaped the destruction of Lucy's falls a.k.a. The city of fallen angles. they had birthed a Love there but they had also found XANA and that he had a large group of followers that were willing to do whatever it took to Accomplish his Demonic mission.

She was half asleep and half awake as the train roared in to a tunnel and then under the English channel. She was alone for now but supposed to meet up with Jeremy in a couple of hours In Stilgrill France. She was coming from London England as Jeremy thought it was best that they separate for a while after the Fallen angles incident and she was to gather intelligence on the strength of the ANAX clubs in Great Brittan.

Fortunately they hadn't taken off like those in the mainland of France and Spain but with London's Underground Club obsession it was sure to spread like an epidemic, that was unless Jeremy had his way. Complete destruction of every club ANAX and All of XANA's followers was the only thing that would end this war even though XANA was supposed to himself Be dead.

"Those words struck a hard cords with Yumi's soul "I mean I hate XANA and for what he did to Aelita and all of us, but to destroy everything and everyone that was even connected with XANA was even in her opinion A little extreme, heartless, soulless even." She thought as the train roared through the Pipe called the Chunnel at well over 200 Kph.

The train and its speed through the Chunnel made a Low but annoying rumbles growling noises that reminded Yumi of that night She and Jeremy had Left the city of fallen and Now Falling angles Burning in chaos lost and all alone in the darkness. Just like she was just before Herv drew hid foot back to kill her that night. Its a sad place to be there awaiting the deathblow Helpless to do anything to stop it.

It was a felling she knew all to well Her parents divorced just a year after Jeremy disappeared, and it was a bitter one at that. Then not long after her father died an unexpected death. Even worse less than 6 months ago Hikori her baby brother was murdered at a Club ANAX. She had gotten inside to Exact vengeance for him unfortunately she was ratted out and Faced death itself.

"Sigh" Had it not been for Jeremy and his compassion She would have met death that night, Broken alone and Certainly in no condition to meet her eternal maker, that was for sure.

She owed Jeremy a lot and maybe that was why she was with him Helping him destroy these club ANAX'es and their leaders, or maybe she was compelled to do these things as a sense of duty for letting Aelita die all those years ago. Then again maybe she had unfinished business with XANA. Or maybe it was Her lost and raging soul lashing out at something something deeper and less obvious than the affore mentioned reasons that eeked out of her pores like sweat She hated him and what he had done to All of them.

Yumi was always one to wear her heart on her sleeve, she always wanted to act tough disguising her fear and sadness with Anger and ambition. She often lashed out at the ones she loved not because she was angry with them but deeply saddened by what they had done or not done She had always been that way But as people grow older they change even if it is just slightly.

However recently all that anger was giving way to a new emotion one she had not felt in years, Lust. It had been but 3 days since she had last seen Jeremy but she longed for his touch like a Heroin junkie phenes for their drug of choice. She longed to put her arms and legs around his muscular trunk and Turn him inside out as she called it. She wasn't sure why she 'loved" him she just knew... well more thought that she , might could love him. Those strong arms, rippling muscles and, and...

She found herself at a loss of what else she found attractive in him, Over the past month since their escaper they had romped around Europe on little more than gas money and box tops seeking out and destroying XANA's forces. Each night filled with stalking and killing each day with other worldly passion. But in all this violence and intrigue they had grown distant form one another and that night that had united them what seemed an eternity a'go.

The very act of passion that had comforted them in their darkest hour was becoming more of an act of reflex now like breathing and inconvience that cant be stopped but it if were to be death would be the only result. Maybe not physical death but Emotionally Yumi had lost herself somewhere between Aelita torture 15 years ago and The city of fallen angles. She was bound to a Driven and Ever maddening man fuled on a high octane diet of Hate and revenge. Her love couldn't save him form the ever descending Spire of darkness he'd thrown himself into the minute he Turned on the supercomputer 17 years ago.

The sad thing was that she was Now bound to him with a chain that Linked both their souls, she was all that Jeremy was dangling by overtop of an abyss of darkness the very heart of that which He swore to destroy. He may not have needed her love but she needed his that's why she couldn't sever the chain with him that's why she stayed by his side as he did unspeakable things."

without him she felt as if she were going to shrivel up and die. She wanted to be Loved she needed to be loved, she always had, even back in Junior high she could remember her parents trying to show her love respect, anything but it was never enough. They were always fighting they were always or something was always going wrong, of course she always pushed those close to her away, not wanting to drag them into her own torment.

She needed love and this was all the love she could Find to even remotely fill the gaping chasm that He left within her all those years ago.

"Tears filled her eyes as she began to think of his Messy brown hair Deep chocolate eyes and... and... maybe his love was what she was really Missing.

It was then the train car stopped on the other side of the Chunnel stirring her form her deep thought. Pulling herself together she stood up and Dismissed all that she had during the roar to the train ride as a simple illusion and nothing more than wanting to live in the past.

She was her strong stubborn self once again when she emerged form the train, as cool as the Octobers air that bit into her skin she pulled her coat tighter and made her way out of the terminal memories of a boy called Ulrich Still haunting the dark corners of her brain.

Maybe Yumi hasn't forgotten Ulrich after all. So where should the story go from here? Questions comments Ideas all accepted and expected; )

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