Chapter 11: We were innocent. Part three
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Jou patted Seto's head lightly before flinching and yelping in pain. He looked at his hand to find it badly burned, only healing slightly. "What did I do? Why are my hands burned?"
Seto, having woken up from Jou's slight flinch and yelp, answered him. "You hit your father with what was called an ice flame pup." Seto watched the boy flinch.
"He didn't die, did he?" He said sadly, staring at the ceiling.
"I honestly don't know, he flew quite a distance though."
"Where is my sister?" Jou asked, sitting up and looking at the brunette who had moved back to his seat.
Seto stared at the floor. 'He doesn't remember? He has no clue?"
"Kaiba? Where is Shizuka?" Jou asked, a bit more forcefully. The waves of hurt the dragon was giving off were making him anxious.
"S-She didn't survive pup." Seto let our weakly. "She, Anzu, and Mai are all being burned today. We were going to bury their ashes tonight."
He was surprised to say the least as Jou quickly bolted out of the bed, out of the door, and out of the house, scaring poor Honda and Mokuba in the process. "Jou?"
Jou dashed across the town, using his nose to pick up any last traces of Shizuka's scent. Finding it, he ran to Sogoroku's house. "Do not touch my sister." He growled, watching as another old man placed her hands over her heart.
"Jounouchi, you are awake." Sogoroku smiled, though not to happily as Jou picked up his sisters dead body. "My boy, what are you doing?"
"I will bury my own sister. You will not touch her." Jou said, running into the forest with a wolves speed.
Sogoroku watched him run away. "He really cares for her."
Seto ran up to the old man, trying to catch his breath. "Where is he? Where did Jou go?"
"To bury his sister lovingly. He will not let us touch her." The old man said, sighing and returning to his task of preparing Anzu and Mai to be burned into ashes.
"Oh pup." Seto sighed, walking silently and slowly into the forest. He could not let the blonde face this pain alone.
(break)
Jou sighed as he lowered Shizuka's body into the shallow grave. "I am so sorry little sister. I wish I could have protected you better, then you would still be smiling." He pushed the last bits of dirt on to the grave, placing five stones on the very top. "We were once so innocent, nothing ever hurt us. But after we were sold, our lives changed forever."
(break)
Seto walked up to the sullen clearing, where he had first seen Jou go last time he was upset. Quieting himself, and stopping his pace he listened. Someone was singing, a very beautiful voice was singing a song that sounded so sad it made his heart wrench. Walking forward, he spied Jou in the same tree as before, singing to now two graves.
Satan, you know where I lie
Gently I go into that good night
All our lives get complicated
Search for pleasures overrated
Never armed our souls
What the future would hold
When we were innocent
Seto stared at the blonde, who had tears cascading down his face. Jou looked ethereal to him, so beautiful.
Angels, lend me your might
Forfeit all my lives to get just one right
All those colors long since faded
All our smiles are confiscated
Never were we told
We'd be bought and sold
When we were innocent
This prayer is for me tonight
This far down that line and still ain't got it right
And while confessions not yet stated
Our next sin is contemplated
Never did we know
What the future would hold
Or that we'd be bought and sold
When we were innocent, innocent
When we were innocent
Jounouchi slowly let the song come to an end before wiping the tears away from his face. "You can come out now. I know you're there, I can here you breathing." Jou sighed.
Kaiba did as well as he stepped into the clearing. "Come down pup."
"No." Jou said sadly. "I just want to stay here for awhile, and spend time with my little sister."
"Fine if you won't come down, I will come up." Seto said jumping onto the tree limb. "Jounouchi?"
"She was so young Kaiba. She had no reason to die, she had her whole life to live." Jou slammed his fist into the branch. "I will kill him when I see him again. I swear it."
"Jou? You did a great deal of damage to him a few days ago, he may be dead now."
"No, he isn't. I can feel him in my blood, and it burns." Jou spat out, staring into the cold blue eyes, his eyes burning with rage, hate, and sadness. "He lives, and I will kill him, I swear it."
Seto wrapped his arms around Jou's rigid form. "I know how you feel, I would be doing the same thing in you are if Mokuba died. But pup, you need to calm down, please."
"He killed her!" She sobbed, turning around, burying his face into Seto's chest. "Her, Anzu, and even Mai! Without hesitation he took their lives, and didn't even regret it. He would have killed you too if he wished. I was so scared I would lose everyone! Honda, Yugi, Malik, Gramps! Everyone! Even, even you Seto, I can't lose you guys, I just can't, I wouldn't be able to live if I did!"
Seto tightened his hold. Jou cared for him, in his own way, he knew he did too. "I am not going anywhere pup. I promise you that."
TBC
See, no cliffie's that time, happy or what, proud of me for being nice enough to not end it on a cliff, ne? R/R Please!