DISCLAIMER I don't own any of the characters in this fan fiction but I have the honour to use them… please forgive me if you don't like it.
I do own Hotaren, Kia, Hakuso and Peya.
Chapter Eight - Nightmare
Touya stopped breathing; he didn't understand any of this any more. He felt too confused and numb to figure out the words that were being spoken, but one thing was for sure. He needed Yue and Yue needed him. He turned to the angel of the moon, wings spread out against the ground, robes mangled and wet, hair plastered across his body, fringe sticking oddly over his forehead, he too had stopped breathing and his eyes were…
Yue met Touya's eyes, they too were confused but they held a promise; the promise to always be there no matter what. Yue felt the air leave his lips as he realised that he was not alone after all, he still had Touya. "Even after you were separated you still managed to get back together." What ever Hotaren was talking about, she seemed to make sense in one thing. Yue will have Touya by his side no matter what.
"He will always be by your side, but will you be by his?" Touya's mind argued readily. "Of course he will be there for Yue, didn't you hear… they are one." His heart argued back. Touya smiled. "I made it a habit never to argue with my heart." His voice was just a whisper but the smile on Yue's lips told him that the angel heard him nonetheless.
Hotaren watched as darkness and coldness consumed both youths. Their eyes fluttered close but she knew that they both had watched each other until the end. There was nothing she could do; she knew that well and yet she couldn't get rid of the need for revenge. Revenge, for what exactly… after seeing the Yue and Touya together. Seeing the way they worked together and cared for each other… the way that they cared for each other. Its just seems a little hard to believe that they are capable of being so cruel. Hotaren shook her head fiercely as she frowned. "But I remember it so clearly, I can't be imagining that- those-" The frown deepened further as she looked at the unconscious lovers. They wore a smile despite of their current situation, "It's as though they know that no matter what happens they will always be together… even in death." A tear slipped out of the corner of her dark eyes as her eyes fell on Yue's face.
"So what's the point of any of this if they are not going to be overly affected by it?" Hotaren twirled around to face the newcomer.
"And who may you be?" Hotaren asked ignoring the shadow's question and throwing one of her on as she scrutinized its form up and down. The shadow chuckled as it came closer revealing itself as an actually being cloaked in darkness.
"That's not important. What is important is to find a way to hurt them." The man waived a hand towards Yue and Touya's immobilised forms.
This time Hotaren laughed. "What makes you think that I want to work with you?"
The hood moved a fraction as it revealed a slit of a mouth that formed a mocking smirk, Hotaren floated a few inches back frowning in confusion and somewhat fear. "Who said anything about working together? You're not good enough even to work for me… but for this task I decided it would be more fun to use you." The smirk widened.
Hotaren moved further but this time admitting to herself that it was fear that se felt. "But this fear is justified… he isn't normal." Her defence was pointless she knew but she couldn't help excusing her actions and her feelings. "What are you talking about?"
"Haven't you figured it out yet?" it wasn't really a question and the angel knew but she wasn't about to let him play with her. She still had pried if nothing else. "Oh come on, the mocking…" He moved closer and around the angel of darkness, floating right behind her.
"He will never love you the way he loves Touya… give it up, he doesn't even see you. Pain is so much better when it's inflicted on others. Why are you letting him get away with it… he's just playing with you, he doesn't care about you… he's building your hopes up, so that he can crush them again. Do you see Touya? He's laughing at you; he knows Yue will never love you. The angel of the moon won't even like you as an enemy." The laughter rang across the park as Hotaren pulled away with tears in her eyes. "So you do remember… well aren't you going to congratulate me?" The man pulled the hood off and smiled widely. Red eyes glazing with mock mirth.
"You made me believe that Yue hated me. You made me do all those things not only to the angel but also to Touya-san and… and their families." Hotaren quivered as she looked towards Touya and Yue; still passed out. A wave of her hand and the shadow that held Touya moved towards Yue and laid the darker boy down next to the angel; instantly the lovers moved into each other's embrace.
An amused chuckle escaped the man's lips unchecked, as he watched the dark angel try to amend her mistakes. "On contraire my child; you did that all on your own. I merely pushed you to take the first step and then helped you some more to continue on your own. All the ideas came from you, granted some of those lights were a little small and I added a little more vitality to the fires but you know how it is… oh and I sparkled a few other fantasies too. But really you were the one to initiate the whole ordeal. So I must congratulate you. It's beautiful and I'm so proud, I personally would have done more but the way it has turned out… well I have to give you some credit." Laugher rang out once again from the slit of a mouth that framed the pale skin. Eyes glowed red in amusement as they turned their attention onto the slowly-dying couple. "Yes… beautiful." The voice whispered once again.
"You used me! How could you, you led me to believe that he was hurting me that he hated me. I planned nothing, you made it all happen… you… you used me." Hotaren threw herself at the man, her eyes sparkling in anger and her fists tightening until her knuckles turned transparent white and her nails dug deep into her skin making small trickles of blood flow slowly down her pale palm and through her fingers.
Another cold chuckle and Hotaren stopped moving, her trembling ceasing almost at once and her breathing thinned out into a hiss. "What's so funny now?" she breathed through her teeth not really wanting to hear the answer but at the same time needing to hear it.
"Oh nothing… much, it's just that although there is absolutely no human blood coursing through your body and the only connection that you have to humans is absolutely zeroed. You still behave like one. I'm curious…why is that?" The smirk was back on place as the hood pulled a little further back, revealing black bangs slightly over the red eyes.
"Why is what?" Hotaren hissed as she furrowed her brows in confusion.
"Why do you behave so much like a human, even with all the power that you possess?"
"I don't understand…" Hotaren looked at the man, he's hood had fully dropped and now she faced an identical image of herself, safe that it was a man and his hair was shorter. But even his eyes shone the same red that she so often had now.
"You created me. I was formed from your jealousy, from your hate, your selfishness and your insecurities. Now you accuse me of using you." He laughed. "You placed the blame on someone just so long as it is not on you. That also concludes that you are behaving like a human. All those unjustified emotions and wrong doings… those made you human. But I suppose that hurting someone is not half as bad as not admitting to it and putting the blame on someone else… as you did with Yue and Touya and me."
"What do you mean? I did all that…" Hotaren looked towards the couple once again, their breaths were weaker still, their lives were slipping faster now yet somehow they still managed to hold on tightly onto each other. "I… I… what… how… I-"
