Title (yes back to boring uneventful chapter starter, just saying Title and then all I have to say, I am out of ideas for a new way to introduce this chapter title so get over it): Drag Me Down With You
A/N: Yes, I apologize for the long wait, I haven't been feeling very well lately and I'm sorry for all of those of you who feel that I have left you hanging. A bad cliff hanger I know…gomenasai…But I'm back thank you for continuing to read. Now read dang you! Oh BTW in the last chapter where Kousuke said and I quote "You had your fun playing with my girl, but I doubt you'll have very much fun playing with a blade child!" I meant to put "with this blade child" I was tired and made a typo…sorry for making myself sound ignorant heh heh…
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Fire the gun kill the man, it's that simple! So why can't I do it! Kousuke was at a dilemma. This man had forever scared his beautiful girl and he wanted so badly to get revenge on him, but it would hurt Ryoko if he did. Why oh why did she have to despise killing so much? Why? It just made things a hell of a lot more complicated.
"Kousuke, don't kill him!" Ryoko pleaded, brining Kousuke back from his thoughts.
"But Ryoko! I—"
"You what? You promised me!" Ryoko glared at him despite the tears in her eyes they burned with rage. "Are you going to lie to me for the sake of revenge? Kousuke…" Ryoko looked at him, dismay and hatred burned in her eyes. He knew…he knew that she wanted nothing more than to kill that hunter herself, but was holding back on the urge. He was in awe over how much self-control she had to the amount that he lacked. Perhaps he even envied it. "Are you still going to kill him…" Ryoko paused. "If it meant killing me?"
Kousuke's pupils turned to slits. What was Ryoko getting at? Was she actually talking about killing herself if he killed this man, this hunter? Ryoko was obstinate, Kousuke knew that. If she had her mind set on killing herself if he killed this man then she would. Kousuke was all too aware of that fact.
"I-I w-won't do it!" Kousuke said as he flung the gun to the side. Damnit…Ryoko if we get killed because of this…he sighed. Either way we are both going to die…If I shot him and killed him and all of the other hunters I see, Ryoko would've killed herself and then my life wouldn't be worth living. I…I think it's best to be killed by these hunters together, rather than kill Ryoko first and then have to drag myself down with her. That is the way of the blade children isn't it…To drag each other down! "Drag each other down! That's what Kanone did! He wanted to go down and take us all with him!" Kousuke was breathing hard. He hadn't realized that he was shouting out loud. Those thoughts if any were meant to be locked up in his mind.
"Thank you, Kousuke." Ryoko grinned at him a little. The rage fled from her eyes. Kousuke was listening to her and that made her glad. She had conquered one of the blade child's worst habits single handedly.
"Don't listen to them! It's a trick!" The hunter yelled. "Blade children don't give up that easily!" He and the others aimed their guns at the two blade children. "Akiko, move," the hunter instructed his daughter who delayed for just a second as she glanced at the two blade children before obeying the command.
"I'm sorry," she said quietly before turning and running off to hide herself from view somewhere in the distance. She didn't want to see the only blade child that had ever been kind to her be killed. She had been stabbed by blade children before, beaten to the brink o death, but never before had one of them seemed so peaceful. So at ease. Akiko wished beyond belief that there was someway that she could help save the girl, but there was not. Her father had told her before. Death is the destiny of the blade children…And then Kousuke had just said that they drag each other down. "If one dies when there's another around," Aki thought. "Sometimes they might kill the other, or the other might kill…himself!"
She understood now. Ryoko didn't like killing, that was obvious, and it appeared to her that Kousuke promised not to kill, so if he did she would bring an end to her own life…
"And judging by how close they are Kousuke would do the same. Without knowing it, Ryoko would be pulling him into the black abyss that she fell into." A tear streamed down her cheek. Ryoko was aware of that fact too, she had to be. If she killed herself in the end she would kill Kousuke as well. "But Ryoko doesn't kill!" Aki cried to herself. If Kousuke could've figured that out and killed my father Ryoko may have never forgiven him, but she couldn't kill herself. She doesn't have the heart to drag Kousuke under. "She doesn't have a black heart like some of the others."
"Say your prayers, blade children. It's time for me to end this bedtime story." The hunter laughed and there was a loud crack. Both Kousuke and Ryoko stood stunned. A black abyss was waiting to pull one of them under, but who was to go first and drag the other one down with?
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A/N: Yes it is meant to end with just"down with?" I know it sound incomplete but saying with him or with her might give away the ending. I apologize for the shortness, but I have 2 endings to write and they all revolve around whether it is tragic or happy with what happens next. So you can either flame me with hate mail if you read tragedy, or appraise me for my mercy…or be somewhere in between. And remember, from here on out, Flamers are most welcome.