Write date: 12-11;12-11
Greetings! Here today, we have another intermission:
Nothing major, nothing big,
Just restating, what I think...
Hold on my friend I'm not done yet,
A review's here, hope not upset.
A big Thank you to Dlbn for the lovely review!
Dlbn: thank you! :) I get the same feeling rereading too,( bombards every character with huggs and cakes, extra cookies for Soubi the poor thing!) And about Ritsuka's new personality, personally for me it seemed way too arrogant. That's why it's interesting and different though... :)
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"Come on Soubi..." Nagisa gently swayed his shoulders, failing to lift the man up... She ceased after a third try, holding sadful eyes at him... Trying to be sympathetic, or still feeling that she has to return the favour, when Soubi had lifted her spirits, aided her heart, given her hope over Ritsu's misfortune...
Something changed in her heart after Ritsu got admitted into rehabilitation, that still fail's to labour any good news about his recovery. Her view of the world shifted, her beliefs of Soubi as well...
When the whole world began crumbling, sweeping the soil from beneath her feet, he came... Soubi healed at least the depression and anxiousness blooming inside her... Right now, Nagisa longed for that strong person to be around her, show the path to her heart again and again...
That was Soubi to Nagisa, a medicament...
Though secretly, the dephs of her heart considered him as a replacement for Ritsu, till the man himself return's to her... Yes, they had undoubtable simmilarities, that was enough for the time being...
"You have to get up... You'll get cold otherwise." Nagisa attempted one more time, with a sad, yet warm voice.
"No, leave me alone!"
"Soubi... Please..."
The blonde suddenly yanked her hands away, forcing the female to fall over...
"Ritsuka..." He staggered, reaching his hand toward the horizon infront of him..."I'm coming..."
Nagisa shot her eyes open, her jaw fell alongside, when Soubi shakily drew up.
"No you can't go anywhere!"
"Ritsuka I'll be right there!" It seemed Soubi ignored her and was about to chase his boyfriend... The blue-haired female shot straight to him, grabbing his shoulders to prevent his escape.
"Their long gone! Soubi, wake up!" She stammered hopelessly at the male's struggle to get free.
"Ritsuka isn't here anymore! Their gone!" Her eyes suddenly came across some students, getting out of the school."Hey, I need help here! Don't let him escape!"
The two boys nodded, soon running toward the scene.
"Please! Ritsuka!"
"Shash Soubi. It's okay..." The female muttered, swallowing her tears, that filled her eyes. She began caressing his shoulder.
"It'll all be okay..."
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-A month ago-
"Where is Ritsuka, Seimei? I thought I taught you better than to leave your master?" Ritsu questioned his student laying beside him, one night.
"I could not stay..." Soubi murmured, concealing his mouth behind the blanket." Ritsuka... he... ordered... me..."
"Stop laying!"
Suddenly it seemed the blonde got panic-struck, he began spilling out with wide open eyes, shuddering.
"It was not my fault! not my fault!"
"Soubi-kun, calm down..."
"He killed him! He killed Ritsuka!"
"What!?" Ritsu's eyes shot open."Who killed the Aoyagi? You couldn't protect him?... Was it... Seimei?"
"He devoured Ritsuka. Ritsuka's gone!" Soubi stammered faintly, staring with blurry, wet pupils." He wanted to kill me too!..."
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" Ekhem... Patient number 213. Name Aoyagi Ritsuka. Currently 14 years old. Blood type-B. Diagnosed with a personality disorder type: DSM-5. Number of personality changes three. First- from moment of birth till age of 10. Second- age 10, leading to an age of 14. Third- from 14 years old following to the month of this year's november..."
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Yes... In fact Ritsuka was devoured. His mind, his personality, remaining memories... He was taken over by a different personality after somesort of an incident...Soubi wasn't wrong... However he wasn't right either...
The event when the man was tortured by his own boyfriend, probably was too overwhelmimg for him, would be too much to anyone...
Thus his mind chose the only option, in order to withstand; simple animal instinct, a primary desire- to survive by all means...
In the end, Soubi escaped, however another one was needed to guard his mind from a total breakdown and madness. In so selective amnesia did it's job... He forgot almost everything, regarding the incident, of the former month, nonetheless it wasn't an eternal memory blankout, it's selective, the memories are meant to return over time.
Lastly, his mind created a alternative version falsly explaining the accident...
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-a month ago-
The blonde stood in front of Ritsu's office he knew very well. Soubi looked terrible: The face tired, eyes red from lack of sleep, his hair unwashed dirty. His clothing was torn, showing his thin, skiny body. Hands bruised from, what seemed, being tangled with a border wire. His body appeared abused and worned.
"What happened to you?"
"Had nowhere to go..." Soubi wailed, facing down in shame, hearing Ritsu groan in annoyance.
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"I'm not lying. Something did happen." Soubi stated upon seeing his unexplained injuries, while talking to his just returned sacrifice.
"What?"
"Turn around."
Ritsuka listened, then gasped in fear, noticing Soubi's bruises.
"Wha... who... who did this to you?"
"I don't know myself anymore. At first I believed I had been tortured by the killers. But now... I'm not really sure..."
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The new Ritsuka on the other hand, had his differences from the previous soul too... Firstly he wasn't Loveless, not even a sacrifice... He was a blank fighter...
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"Then... you don't except your true name if you give it to 'others'?" The psychologist questioned Ritsuka on their session.
"Loveless? Hahah! Nice joke mister! It really hits the spot... Why would I want to? They were born with it, that's their fate, curse or whatever! I don't want no part of it, thank you!"
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"Secondly." Nana cut off the bickering of Takehito Kunugi and Mikado Gomon, returning to the subject of the incident in the cafeteria." The attack used to cause most of the students to panic, get anxious and delirious was, no doubt, a spell."
"A spell used for no purpose, just to toy with others for entertainment." Takehito slowly swayed his head, snickering." What can you make of it, hm?"
"A child." Nana finished dully. "Who ran off the first from the crime scene. Afraid to get caught up in the mass, I checked the surveilance cameras we got three suspects."
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At first Ritsuka's diverse personalities struggled, fought to the very last drop of self control, greedely steeling it from one another and scratching at the remains...
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When Soubi finally spotted his boyfriend in the forest after the cafeteria incident, he ran straight to him, hugging Ritsuka.
"Ah. Ritsuka! What are you doing in here?"
The boy just stared into space then finally tore Soubi's fingers away from himself, drawing back slowly.
"Is something the matter?" The blonde pryed in.
"The apple..."
Soubi cocked an eyebrow, waiting for Ritsuka to finish the sentence. That's when the final persona managed to triumph in the war, they created...
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Now the new personality took infinite and undoubtable control over Ritsuka's body, grasping it and leaving no hope of survival for the earlier personas...
What happen's to a tool or a toy that isn't used for a significant amount of time? It get's old, rusty and impracticable for use...
A toy? Meets the same fate... The player get's bored of it, finally growing up from the use...Then it could get lost forever...
That was the fate of the Aoyagi's former self...
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Nagisa finally managed to get Soubi on his feet with the help of two young students. Now the blonde was ushered back inside as the unpredicted snow began falling, decorating the ground...
It was the end of November after all. Still too early... Or maybe just on time... The coldness and bitterness in Soubi's heart reflected in the atmosphere...
It shown that something changed, something will never return as it once was, just like Winter overcame the Autumn, celebrating the victory with first snowflakes descanding with grace... At the same time Soubi lost Ritsuka...
The blonde glanced one last time at the road behind him as nothing rose up from the scenery...
It was too late to change anything right now...
Nagisa jumped a few steps ahead, opening the door and allowing entrance...
Although this isn't the end yet... Nothing is finished yet, there is still one missing, one mystery remaining and a tragedy gently creeping closer...
"My soul will live forever incraved in the curse's name. It will not bow down to anyone. You will bend your head to her... Soubi-kun."