Without you, I am nothing

If you walk away, I would be nothing. If you leave me, I would cry. So promise me to stay…

Watanuki looked at Domekis pale skin. His breathing was slow and weak. His eyes not moving underneath his eyelids. He doesn't dream, Watanuki thought. He is too weak… To hurt… Because of me… Watanuki couldn't suppress the tears any longer. They dripped down his face and landed on the red bed sheets that where neatly tucked around Domeki. The tears became stains, dark red stains, like blood.

"Can he be saved?" Watanuki asked the witch again with crying eyes. "All the times he has rescued me, all the times he have cared for me… I owe him my life"

"The outcome of that you want may not be good" The witch looked at Watanuki. His eyes where red and swollen but the tears had stopped. His face was full of determination and hope.

"I don't care. If he dies… I will never be happy again so there isn't really anything to lose" Watanuki stared at Domeki who lay lifeless on the red bed sheets stained with his tears.

Yuuko looked at the boy standing in front of her. He was so young and still had he suffered so much. He has been trough a lot. When his parents died, a big wound scared his soul. However, little by little that wound is healing. His soul isn't mended, but the change has started. There is few in this world who has suffered like him. Watanuki-kun is such a good child. He cares for other more than he cares for himself. He really is a good child, Yuuko thought for herself, her eyes meeting Watanukis.

"Domekis state right now would be impossible for him to endure if it hadn't been for your blood. His blood is what can exorcise spirits, just as it is your blood that attracts them" Yuuko looked at Domeki and blew a cloud of smoke from her pipe, slowly she turned towards Watanuki again. "The spirit is within him, destroying his soul. Normally Domekis blood would have exorcised it right away, but now he cant. The power of his blood does not exist at the moment, but it will return. Yuuko looked deep into Watanukis eyes. "When its to late"

"What do I have to do?" Watanuki looked at the witch smoking her pipe, the room filling with a white mist.

"The same thing as Domeki did" Yuuko lay her pipe on a table. "You have to drink the blood of someone who has the power to exorcise spirits"

"I have to drink Domeki-kuns blood then?" Watanuki looked at Domeki. If he didn't do anything soon he would die. If he dies I will be alone, Watanuki thought. If he dies, I would be alone again…

"No" Yuuko said walking towards Watanuki. "His blood has lost its ability to exorcise spirits"

"Whose blood do I have to drink then? I don't know anybody else who has that ability" Watanuki felt hope sink in his heart. Where there someone else who shared Domekis ability? And if there where would he be able to find that person?

"The same blood that flouts through Domekis veins, flouted once through his grandfather's veins too. His body may be lost but his blood is not" Yuuko said her nose almost touching Watanukis.

"Do you have his blood?" Watanuki asked. He couldn't make out why the witch had Domekis diseased grandfather's blood. Maybe she got it as a… Watanuki didn't finish his thought before the witch spoke again.

"I received it as payment" Yuukos breath sweeping softly over Watanukis face. "From the only one of Domekis family who has ever sat foot in my shop. Yes Watanuki, the blood that you need is the blood of Haruka. The blood from Domekis grandfather. If that blood flouts through you veins, then Domeki-kun can be saved"