Chapter 8: It Was All a Dream

I woke up slowly looking around a bright room. I was lying in a plush bed and I could see Kuro curled up on my chest purring away contently. I saw Yukio in the doorway. He smiled at me when he saw that I was up, "Morning Rin, god to see that you're up."

I sat up slowly and carefully cradled Kuro in my arms. He moaned slightly but slept on. I yawned, "Where am I?"

Yukio raised an eyebrow, "What do you mean?"

I looked around again maybe it was a dream. Maybe I had just imagined it, but it seemed so real. I shook my head and smiled at my brother, "Where is Shiemi?" I asked him.

He looked out the door and waved to someone standing outside, and then he gestured to me. Shiemi appeared shortly afterwards. She bounced into the room, her golden hair shinned brightly in the morning light. She looked almost angelic, "Good morning Rin, sleep well?"

I nodded. Yukio looked at me, but something was off about him. When I looked closely I could see that his ears weren't pointed and he didn't have fangs. Actually he didn't have any of the demonic traits that I remembered him to have. I reached up to feel my ears, they too were human again. I dropped Kuro; he woke up and meowed in protest but didn't speak. He had only one tail.

I ran my lounge over my teeth; my canines were no longer sharpened. I looked at Yukio with wide eyes, "What's going on?"

Again he looked confused, so did Shiemi. I looked at Kuro, "Kuro talk to me." He didn't respond, "Kuro?" I asked, the cat looked at me with big eyes and still he didn't respond.

Yukio looked weirded out, "You know he's a cat right?"

I shook my head roughly. "This is wrong why am I not…" I stopped mid-sentence when I saw who now stood in the doorway. It was the old man. He smirked at me in his same old cocky way.

A single tear rolled down my checks, "You're alive?" For a second I let myself believe it.

He nodded, "Of course."

I put my head in my hands and sat there for a while, "You died. You're dead."

He gave me a weird look and it seemed like his body faded for a second. His eyes closed for a second, when he opened them they were demonic like they were on the night that he died, his cheeks were stained with blood red tears. His teeth grew sharp and his ears became longer. He laughed in a voice that was no longer his, "Pity you didn't fall for that trap. You could have been happy my boy."

I didn't reply, his image began to fade but images raced through my mind. Like Shiemi missing her eyes, Yukio shooting himself, Kuro dying at the hands of exorcists. Those things quickly passed as the images of their bodies began fading away. But the one image that remained was Fujimoto's body, bloodied and lifeless, lying on the wooden floor of the church.

Blackness soon wrapped it's self around me, and I was left alone in the darkness for what could have been hours, or days, or maybe even months. In the blackness the images of my friends and family kept flashing before my eyes, their bodies mangled. I stood above them all, covering the world in fire and chaos, grinning madly, the single survivor of the destruction.

Eventually the images faded, I started to hear voices, a woman began speaking, "Natsu I'm sorry, but he's flat lining there is nothing that I can do to help him."

Natsu almost shouted, it sounded like he had been crying, "No, I can't let him die."

It felt like they were talking about me but I was alive. I tried to move but I couldn't.

The sound of footsteps was heard the lady, who I assumed to be a nurse, spoke softly to Natsu, "I'll give you time to say your good byes."

A door slammed shut and I guessed that the nurse just left. It sounded like Natsu pulled up a chair to sit by me. "I'm so sorry Rin. I did this to you and nothing I say could ever change that." He grabbed my hand, "I know that you probably can't heat me right now but… I just wanted to let you know that to me it doesn't matter to me that you're a demon. You were nice and that's all I needed to know."

It sounded like he had started to sob, "I'm so sorry. I feel like you're still here. Just give me a sign so that I can tell them not to bury you, please you can't be dead. You saved my life; I still need to pay you back, so you can't just die now." He cried quietly, and then waited.

I tried to give him a sign that I was still alive. But I couldn't move. I tried breathing, I tried willing my heart back into beating, I tried anything that I could think of but none of it worked. He left after what felt like an hour of waiting. "Good bye Rin." He said as the door slammed behind him.