The Chains That Bind Him
A man with short black hair and red eyes with slits came out of the shadows.
He wore a strange armor with very small metal plates on the sholders like
wings. He calmly said "oh what's the matter Masukee? Not happy to see me?"
Masukee growled at him as she said "why would I be happy to see someone like
you!? I stole your sword just so I could get away from you! I'll never go back
to hell with you Falcon!"
Falcon smirked as he said "do they know about your past
Masukee?" She looked away saying "no... I didn't tell them..."
He chuckled as he said "is it because you know that as soon as they find out
that they won't want you around anymore." She yelled "you're wrong! They won't
care about my past!" Falcon calmly asked "will they really? They don't know
much about you cause you tend to keep to your self. So they don't know
anything about you so why should they care?"
Masukee yelled "JUST SHUT UP, THEY'RE MY FRIENDS!"
"Are they really? They trust you so much even though you haven't told them
anything about your past. The only one that was in your past was Anime when
she attacked your village. Sure she spared you but that was only because she
didn't want to keep killing." said a smirking Falcon.
When she was about to say something else, he disappeared in the shadows. It
was as if he wasn't even there at all and she was talking to herself. Masukee
walked back in the house and when she did she saw that everyone was sitting on
the couch talking among themselves.
She felt so out of touch with them and started to feel like she didn't
belong. 'Would they really hate me if they found out about my past? Are they
really my friends? I don't know anymore.' Thought a very confused Masukee.
Anime heard all of her thoughts and thought 'I wonder why Masukee-chan is
thinking all of this stuff? Why would she think about this stuff? I should try
to help her in someway without telling her that I read her mind. Man, at times
I hate my mind reading powers, but other times they rule!'Masukee was about
to leave the room, until she felt someones hand on her shoulder. When she
turned around she saw a smiling Anime.
Anime calmly said "Masukee-chan I know some thing's bothering you. If you want you
can talk to me about it. I'm your friend and friends help each other out right?
No matter what the problem is."
Masukee shook her head as she said "it's nothing Anime-chan really. I'm alright.
There's nothing bothering me." Anime frowned hoping that Masukee would say
something that really was bothering her and said "well if there ever is
something bothering you than you can always tell us Masukee-chan. We're your
friends and we always will be. No matter what."
Masukee nodded than she walked outside. Anime sighed and walked back to the
others. Renji asked "Anime what's wrong with Masukee?" Anime calmly said "I
don't know. What ever it is she won't tell me at all. I think that maybe it
has something to do with her past. Almost like how I ruined so many lives but
than again everyone knew about that... But Masukee though... no one but her
and her family would know about this. But the real quistion is..."
"Where is her family, and why isn't she with them right now." said a pensive
Ryu. Renji nodded as she said "well if she doesn't want to tell us it must be
something bad... Anime, how did you know anyway?"
Anime had to think of a lie
and fast. She didn't want anyone to know that she could read minds... No one
knew about her power, not even her own parents... So she said "I just had a
feeling that's all. I just trusted my own instincts, nothing more."
Ryu knew that Anime was lying, but he remained quiet. Renji calmly said "So,
what are we going to do? Masukee won't tell us what's wrong for some reason
and I guess that Anime's idea could be right." Ryu nodded as he said "that is
true... We know nothing about Masukee's past but than again she's always kept
to herself... why though?"
Anime calmly said "because she thinks that we won't
be her friends anymore... I could see it in her eyes, someone is making her
think all of this. Making her think that if we knew about her past, we
wouldn't be her friends anymore... We have to try and convince her that we
would still be her friends no matter what!"
Ryu nodded, as he said "but the question is, how are we going to convince
Masukee that we are still her friends no matter what?" Renji sighed as she
said "well sadly I'm not sure... This is harder than it sounds isn't it?"
Everyone nodded at hearing this. Than something caught Ryu's eye.
He saw Anime
starting to gasp for air and grip her chest in pain.
He asked "Anime, what's wrong?!" Renji looked at Anime and asked "Anime are
you alright?" Anime tried to calm down as she said "I'm... alright...
really..." Than she finally managed to calm down and said "really, I'm fine
guys... Everything is just peachy."
Ryu had a feeling that Anime was lying,
but he just decided to leave it at that and said "well Renji, what do you
think we should do?"
Renji shook her head as she said "I don't know what about you Anime?" Anime
sighed as she said "I don't know, but" Before she could finsh her sentence
Anime heard something and said "I hear and sense something... There's two
demons outside... One I know all to well, but the other one I've never felt
his energy before. But his aura is very evil."
Ryu, Renji and Anime all ran out of the house and they were shocked to see
Will again.
Ryu yelled out "DOESN'T THIS GUY KNOW WHEN TO QUIT!?" Anime sighed
as she said "sadly, no he doesn't know when to quit. But at least this time we
can kick his butt again!" Ryu grabbed Anime's hand as he said "Anime, I think you
should sit this one out... You're still too weak to fight him, and we can't
risk him controlling you again."
Anime frowned as she said "I can fight Ryu-kun! I can and will fight!" Ryu
frowned as he said "Anime... I can't risk that... I just don't want to lose
you again... I almost lost you once, I won't have that happen again." Anime
saw the sad look in his eyes and said "Alright... I'll stay out of this...
This time. though as soon as I'm strong enough, I'm going back into battle,
alright?"
Ryu smiled as he said "alright that sounds fair, Anime. but you stay here,
alright? I'm going to protect you." As with that said he left to fight against
Will and the other man who was Falcon. Renji entered the battle with her
lightning blade and Ryu entered empty handed. Anime didn't now what was going
to happen, but she knew that she couldn't interfear or something else might
happen...
Ryu was right though, she was still weak even though that battle
with Will was a month ago.
The only thing that she could do, was use the weapon that she never used, or
to just stay back and watch. She decided to just stand and watch. Ryu walked
up to Will and Falcon as he asked "what do you want here? If you've come to
take Anime again, think again! We won't let that happen!"
Will laughed as he said "oh, I'm not here to take her body this time... This
time I'm here to destroy you all, thanks to Falcon. He and I are going to
destroy you all!" Renji calmly said "we're not going to let that happen! We're
going to destroy you once and for all!" Than Renji charged at Will but he used
some strange power and she was pushed back. Ryu called forth his earth power
and used it on Will and Falcon, but the attack did nothing. Renji asked "what
are we going to do? And Where's Masukee?! We need her!"
Ryu was shocked as he said "I'm not sure... She must have went somewhere, and
I'd like to know where the hell Akuma went! I need someone to protect Anime!"
Than there was a voice that said "someone... called for me...?" Once Ryu saw
Akuma, he said "about damn time you showed up, Akuma! I need you to protect
Anime, she's still healing from that battle a month ago, alright?" Akuma
nodded and he went to Anime ready to protect her from any harm.
Renji wanted to do something, but she wasn't sure... They couldn't get a good
hit on Will or Falcon...
They had some strange armor on that seemed to have
protected them from anything... "Renji let me have control over your body
again... They are immortals and only another immortal can beat their own
kind... Please trust me on this." Said James as he entered Renji's mind. She
nodded as she said "you better be carful James... I couldn't bare it if I lost
you." Than James took control over Renji's body and James fought Will and
Falcon by himself.
They fought for what seemed like hours until James had a firm grip on both of
them and he turned to face Anime, Ryu and Akuma as he said "tell Renji I'm
sorry and that I love her... I have to do this, or else they'll keep coming back to
kill everyone and I couldn't bare it if that happened... Again I'm sorry."
Than there was a blinding light and everyone had to cover their eyes wondering
why James had sacrificed himself...
They didn't understand what was going on,
but they knew that he must have done it to protect Renji.
Renji fell to the ground as soon as the light faded and nothing was left of
Will or Falcon... Anime ran to Renji shaking her, trying to wake her up. Once
Renji opened her eyes she tried to talk to James but nothing was working.
She asked "Anime... I can't talk to James! I can't hear his voice anymore! Why?!"
Anime sadly said "James told us to tell you that he loved you very much and
that he was sorry... He sacrificed himself to save you Renji... I'm sorry..."
As soon as she heard that, Renji started was about to cry her eyes out not wanting to
believe what had happened...
His soul was connected to hers, and now the chains
that bound him to her were broken. She has never felt so alone in her life...
She's known James her whole life and now he's gone forever.
In the distance Masukee had watched the whole thing and said "I'm sorry
everyone... But I can't stay, you wouldn't be my friends anymore if you knew my
past. I'm going back where I belong... I'm sorry."