Say It If It's Worth Saving Me: Part Two
Heaven's gates won't open up for me
With these broken wings I'm falling
All I see is you…
He sat in the same dark room he usually did, for however long he had been there, grumbling nonsense words and plans of escape into the empty, stuffy air. For the millionth time, he looked around for a door, window, anything. All he saw was the place in the wall near the floor where a brick was missing. He wasn't sure if the missing brick was showing him a fragment of the hallway or what. All he knew was that once in a while, a piece of bread and a small cup of water were shoved through. He couldn't fit his head through the hole, and the bricks around it wouldn't budge. Escape wasn't an option. He would be stuck here until he died.
He couldn't remember how he had gotten inside the room, but there must've been a door someplace. He couldn't have just magically appeared inside the room. Then again, he couldn't remember much of anything since he had started his confinement. All he could think about now was how to escape… and his next piece of bread. He sighed and lay down on the concrete floor. Death would be better, he decided. But it was impossible. He couldn't give up yet. Not without a fight.
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"Yuki seemed happy today, didn't he?" Akito said to Tohru as they went up more flights of stairs. The stairs seemed endless. Tohru did not respond. Instead, she bit her lip to avoid screaming at the beast.
"And here we are," Akito told her, enjoying every minute of her pain.
There was no hallway this time, just a stair case leading up to a solid brick wall. "How…?" Tohru asked, then noticed a small hole near the top stair where a brick had been taken out.
"Here, Kitty Kitty!" Akito laughed in a sinister, mocking voice.
Hearing this from the other side of the wall, Kyo's ears perked up. Fingering his beaded bracelet, he crawled toward the bread hole.
"Kyo?" he heard a quiet voice say through the bread hole. Kyo lay on his stomach on the floor to try to see out of the hole. He could see what were definitely candlelight, and a pair of familiar, watering eyes.
"Ah. Tohru." Kyo felt the sides of his mouth twitch and a spark of hope ignite in his stomach. If anyone could get him out, Tohru Honda could find a way. Tohru began to cry upon hearing the feeble voice of another one of her best friends.
"Four minutes," Akito decided.
"Kyo! Are you alright? You—"
"Oh stop the water works," Kyo couldn't help but say. "Tohru… how long have I been here?"
"Two years…" Tohru sobbed.
Has it really been that long? "Oh."
He couldn't think of anything to say, and this made Tohru cry harder.
"Well… how have you been?" he asked lamely.
Tohru cried even harder and he felt a stab of regret in the pit of his stomach.
"Kyo… you and Yuki…" Tohru shuddered.
"He's still alive?" Kyo was surprised.
"Barely," he heard Akito snicker. "Three minutes."
"Why… wouldn't he be?" Tohru gasped.
"Well… I didn't mean anything by it! It's just that… he's not very…. He gets scared, you know?"
"Are you worried about him?"
Kyo thought for a moment about how to answer. He really hadn't given Yuki a thought since that minute. "Yes."
These city walls ain't got no love for me
On the ledge of the 18th story
All I scream for you…
"I need… to get you out…" Tohru cried.
"It…It shouldn't really be your responsibility... but…" Kyo wasn't sure how to answer yet again.
He needed help. Anyone's help.
Badly.
"But it has to be! I promised Yuki… I said I wouldn't save him!"
Kyo was surprised, "Why would you promise something like that?" He said, although he had meant for it to only be a thought.
"He was dying! He said he was giving up!"
Kyo couldn't help but consider that a good idea. He said nothing.
"Two minutes."
"Please don't tell me… you're giving up too?"
"I can't give up. I haven't found a way out yet.
Come please, I'm calling
And all I need from you
Hurry, I'm falling.
I'm falling…
"I'm going to do whatever I can to—"
"Show me."
"…Huh?"
"Show me what you'll do."
"I don't understand…"
"Surely you meant you would do anything?"
"What do I need to--?"
"Attack him. Attack Akito. Kill him."
Show me what it's like to be the last one standing
Tohru's eyes widened in shock. "Is that the only--?"
"Yes. If you kill him, we'll be free. We'll have a new God, and we'll be free," Kyo made sure to keep his voice down.
Tohru looked down at her hands. There was no way she could murder someone. It wasn't right. But… neither was being forced to live in solitude.
Was it the only way?
Teach me wrong from right, and I'll show you what I can be
"You guys are my best friends," Tohru sighed. "And… I… would never want to… lose you…"
She stood up and faced Akito. "I hope you know this counts as part of your ti—"
"Stop!" she shouted, cutting him off. "Let them go."
Akito laughed. "No."
"Let them go."
"Oh shut up, you stupid girl!"
"Let them GO!"
Tohru knocked the candle out of his hand and the flame went out as it fell to the ground. She lunged at him, attempting to pin him to the wall, but he grabbed hold of her wrists.
"This is not what you want, child," he whispered to her.
She struggled to escape his grasp. "Let them go! Free them, you monster!"
Say it for me,
Say it to me,
And I'll leave this life behind me
Say it if it's worth Saving Me…
"You are powerless against me!" Akito declared. Kyo winced at the slapping sound.
"Run, Tohru! Forget us! Run away!" Kyo tried to tell her.
"No! I won't forget!"
Hot tears ran down her face as she flailed around madly, thrashing at Akito with all of her might.
"There is no room in this world for meddlesome fools. Do not contradict what you cannot change."
She screamed as she was thrown down the long flights of stairs. She didn't stop screaming until her skull hit the pavement and brick wall of the 5th floor stair case, and she felt blood trickling through her hair. Then she could no longer scream. The she was dead.
Hurry, I'm falling
Come please, I'm calling
Hurry, I'm falling.
She didn't need to worry about keeping her promise to Yuki, because at the moment her head hit the ground, he gave up.
Knowing that there was someone who felt his existence was worthy, he died with a smile on his face.
I'm falling…
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Fin
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