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Chapter 8
Darkness's point of view
Immediately after that, I was teleported back into Sin's office.
"How did it go?"
"Just fine." The last two hours were dreadful.
"I reckon he'll be in your room by now. Do remember that he will be questioned by Hell again. The trial will be in 5 days."
"He won't."
"Oh dear brother, don't be naive. He will."
"I told you, he won't."
There'll be a 5 days delay on the trial, because I had disrupted the balance. I mercilessly, selfishly decided to kidnap a young man, broke the balance between the Underworld and Heaven yet, I feel no shame. A deity like him is like a tiny speck of dust in the entire observable universe. It is a chance I am willing to risk.
The next 5 days of his life will be very restricted. I cannot allow Hell to so much look at him.
Sin looked at me, observing my current frozen state.
I spun around, bolted out the door and started running for Ichigo. He will not be questioned again, the suspicion will be too great for me to erase.
I won't let Hell question him.
I'll do something before the trial starts.
Something...
I blasted past my bedroom doors, to be greeted by a fort of pillows on the bed.
Inside the fort of pillows poked a few strands of orange hair. There came silence.
"Ichigo?"
Silence. The reply was an expected silence.
I went over and sat at the side of the bed. "How was it?" I tried to sound as sympathetic as possible.
There was expected silence.
There was the silence I knew would have happened.
There was unexpected silence.
There was the silence that I had never known would have happen.
I heaved a sigh. "Rest for now." I got up, ready to leave. I didn't know what to say, communication was never my strong point.
"...Stay..." As if he couldn't disappear even more into the unnecessary fort of pillows, he tried to snuggle deeper in.
I jumped on the bed, destroying his defenseless fort. I stayed silent and waited.
"Shiro..." His body was curled up like a fetus, head tucked deep between his knees.
"Shiro!" He jumped on top of me, hitting my chest. It didn't hurt. He didn't have the energy.
"Why? Why didn't you do anything?! Why did I have to die like that?!"
No, I will not speak. My voice will frighten him more. My reason for remaining selfish will crumble him.
No, not now.
"Why am I so stupid? Why am I so dumb? Didn't even do anything to save myself! So defenseless! So stupid! Just looking at him torture me! Why do I exist? I am a shame!" He shouted incredibly loud, shaking my heart of void.
Shaken...
Yes, shaken...
The void shook with his crumbling voice.
I let a little chuckle escape, buried under his crying shrieks.
The world will soon then shake with mine.
I let him hit my lungs repeatedly, his fists limply poking at my shoulders, my chest, my abdomens...
Perhaps I would've been like him. Teary, angry, sad...
Perhaps just a little more brutal...
I remember everything. I woke up not knowing Shiro was Darkness. I woke up dumb, stupid, prepared yet unprepared for the day. I went to the stupid circus. I got killed in the worst way possible. Molded into a pile of junk and tossed away like a kid's wicked play doh experiment. I saw Shiro. I saw him crouching beside the tree, his eyes digging into the unlit room. I saw his white hair glisten when others didn't. I saw his every movement as he saw mine.
I still feel the thudding pain from his chainsaw. I still feel the scalpel blade slicing through my flesh. I let myself hit Shiro uncontrollably as I shout and cry.
"You. Go get some rest. I have a few matters to settle. Do not dare to set a foot out of this room." When my voice died down, he grabbed my shoulders and pulled me away from him.
He left the room. "Hey, Void. Down here!" I heard Wrath from beneath me. I looked down below the bed. He got up, dusting himself. "I have virtually no respect for people who don't clean under their beds. Anyway, I heard the conversation between you two." His face glowed with an evil aura. "Don't trust him, Void. I don't even trust him as a brother."
"Who are you to command me?" I mumbled, angry.
"As a fucking god, I'll tell you that. You better wake up from your beauty sleep, Void. He's better off dead." Wrath snapped at me before he left the room.
Darkness ran around in circles. What can he do to stop Hell? What should he do? He had no idea how to stop his father. He ran in circles and circles in his vast oblivion of a workroom.
Pause.
He stopped, glued to his tracks.
He smiled, the sides of his lips curled into a maniacal smirk.
"Of course. Of course." He cried out into the void.
Darkness had a rare trump card, a deity. This deity could defeat even the strongest knights of Hell.
Of course.
"Hell… Take a bow."
"And save your vows."
"Death!" Wrath shouted at the screen.
Wrath and Death were at Sin's laboratory.
"I see, dear brother. I see it." The eldest, Death impatiently tapped his foot. They were monitoring the fourth to the throne. They were monitoring Darkness.
"To be honest, brothers, we should respect his privacy. I doubt doing this will do any better." Sin typed on the keyboards as he looked at the screens. He was doing a report on Darkness's behavior. He needed a documentary, but for what… Even Sin didn't want to know.
"I understand. However, I see no wrong in invading his privacy after seeing that." Death clenched his fists in anger.
His dear brother, the one he loved most now wanted to assassinate…
His father.
"Murder Father? That fucking nutjob should have just come to me so I could rid him of his misery."
There was a long pause in the equipment filled room.
"He kidnapped a man."
"A man? I recall no man to be dead at that time. They were two girls that was sent to Heaven."
"Exactly. He kidnapped the man, alive."
Sin bit his lips as he continued on the report. Wrath and Death stared wide-eyed at Sin. "The missing one, Kurosaki Ichigo..."
"That fool of a brother!" Death shouted. As the eldest, Death always made sure everyone in the family followed the rules. Once a god breaks a rule, he must carry the burden of the reconstruction of balance in Heaven, Underworld and the Living. The reconstruction will sacrifice too many lives to count, and war between the Heaven and the Underworld would begin. There was only one time where such a disaster occurred.
And that one time, there was also a man called Kurosaki Ichigo.
"We must do the inevitable. He will become the first and final sacrifice to end this blasphemy of a disaster."
"Death." Sin stopped typing. He spun his chair around to look at his Brother. "Take a deep breath and rest, dear brother. I know that the deaths of the First War Against Heaven is catching up on you." It was commonly known as the First War, but to the princes of the Underworld, it was the First War Against Heaven. In the Heavens, it was the First War Against Underworld.
"I will not rest. We need to do everything to protect Father. Such a beast-"
Wrath finally spoke. "You all can go on about how it is all his fault, but you know deep down it's not."
"That is true. But is it not his job to control the beast?"
"Having to give him injections, dear brother, I can conclude that Darkness is better off with Amnesia." Sin coughed before returning to type the report.
"My brothers. He had killed Mother. I cannot let this happen again. We know that the beast is deeply tied into him. We must kill him in order to kill the beast. The beast is awakening, my brothers." Death supported himself on a stack of books, searching for air. The guilt and regret from those who died was draining his energy. Wrath took a chair and ushered for him to sit.
"I suggest another 1 or 2 days for observation. Perhaps he was only saying it to calm himself down. And the boy, Kurosaki..." Wrath wiped Death's sweaty forehead.
"We shall see by then." Sin typed the final sentence before saving it. Sins continued to fill his computers.
"The boy. We must alert the boy. He cannot fall deeper into Darkness's menacing lies."
"Give or take, I can conclude that the boy had already fallen for it."
"What do you mean, Wrath?" Sin walked towards Death and Wrath. " I have spoken with the boy. He had verbally defended Darkness and offended me." Sin laughed.
"Is that not the vibe you give people? You often get offended."
"This is not the time for fun and laughter!" Death harshly spoke. "If the boy has fallen for Darkness, we will do everything it takes to correct the wrongs he heard."
"Yes, brother."
"Certainly."
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