Started on: July 3, 2006
Finished on: July 6, 2006
R.S.: Nothing to say. Just… enjoy the chapter I guess.
Let it roll off your back
And let it slip off your tongue
Before you loose your nerve
And end up right back where you started from
Because when it's over, then it's done
And, boy, to tell you the truth
If you put your foot in your mouth
You'd still be better off than kicking yourself
"Goodbye Almond Eyes" by Tokyo Rose
Who'll raise you to heaven and drop you to hell
By: Rampaging Sorrow
Chapter Eight: It's better if I do things my way, because your way is too peaceful
"Kaoru, this is techno music!"
"Yeah! It's good, right! Not as good as club music, but you can dance to it too!"
"I like it! Can we go and dance now! I got two more days and this is all I wanna do!"
"Sure! Watch my bag, Tytto?"
Tytto smirked and he rolled his eyes as Allusius grinned and he bounced his shoulders in victory. The four had decided to go and have fun the next night since Kenshin and Kaoru still weren't on talking terms. She had tried to call him, but he simply ignored her calls or he turned off his phone all together. If she called his house, Soujiro said that he wasn't there bitterly and hung up.
"You're still thinking about him! He doesn't know what he's missing out on! That's why I said just give up on him!"
"You know I can't do that, so stop it." Allusius snickered and Kaoru took his hand and enlaced their fingers before she turned him around to face her. Kaoru slowly started to move and as Allusius got into the beat, Michael said 'awww' as the two began to dance.
"Isn't that cute, Aoshi?"
"She's cheating right now… but yeah." They laughed as he flashed his ID and got another drink from the bar. Misao was somewhere dancing and having fun since Aoshi wasn't in the right state of mind to get up and start partying. Michel and Tytto weren't either, so they just kept each other company as the music blasted from the large speakers and let everybody just enjoy themselves.
"See! It's not that bad, right! I love this song the most though!"
"Yeah, I like this song too! We're surfing the web later for this!"
Kaoru smiled softly as she saw Misao dancing and spinning around to different places. She knew the girl was kinda tipsy because Aoshi let her drink some of his strong liquor and wanted to see what would happen. Allusius took her hand and as Kaoru spun around so her back was to his chest, he moved closer and let her enlace their fingers over her shoulder.
She pulled her hair over her shoulder as they moved in sync to the beat and Allusius began to sing the words into her ear now that he memorized it. The song slowly began to spin into a new one and as Allusius spun her around to face him, it stopped.
"Yo! What the fuck!" he and a lot of people began to bark out angrily.
"Kill the DJ! This shit ain't cultural!" Allusius laughed over in Aoshi's direction as he saw him stand up and start glaring angrily. Kaoru just ran her fingers through her hair and a smirk came on her lips as the DJ said 'my bad' and started it up again. Once the music came on, everybody sighed in relief. Kaoru had to laugh as she saw Aoshi sit down and nod his head as he took another sip of his drink.
"You know that Aoshi can be an angry drunk, right Allusius?"
"Yup. I saw a video of him cursing out a tree. That shit was hilarious. But now, that's not important. What are important though… are us."
Kaoru leaned her head back against his shoulder as they danced to the beat and Allusius sang the song by memory. After all, he was the one who made the lyrics since Kaoru was singing the techno filled melody. Kaoru smiled softly as Allusius drummed his fingers against her sides and kept singing in her ear.
"I love this song."
"Shake that laffy taffy! Oh yeah! Shake it!"
Allusius laughed as Kaoru squealed and pulled him back onto the dance floor. Aoshi was already down there doing silly moves with his cousins. Allusius led Kaoru away with a 'we don't know them' shake of his head and once they found a good spot, they started to grind and dance at the same moment the beat came in to the club song.
"Uh oh! Look at those two! Uh oh!" Aoshi looked over and he screamed out, 'GET IT ALLUSIUS! HANDLE THAT BOY! YEEEAAAH!'
"You are so fucking drunk, Aoshi!" Aoshi turned around to see Misao laughing at him and he quickly picked her up and pressed a kiss to her lips.
"You got better, Kao."
"I just needed a good partner, Llusi." Kaoru giggled as the two moved and just were up on each other extremely close. The club song was quick and as Allusius heard the other one coming around, he cheered and he pulled Kaoru to where the guys were.
"Yo! Watch this! I learned!" Allusius started to dance and pull moves and as Aoshi knew what he was going to do, he saw Michael step in it with him and the two just start dancing and going crazy with the moves. Allusius laughed as he spun his hat sideways and he danced himself around in a circle.
"Go Allusius!" Kaoru laughed as he bounced on his feet with hyper ness and he winded his body up.
"Gasp! Oh my god, she's the bitch! This song is off the shit!"
"Who made this song?"
"Beats the shit out of me!" they laughed at Aoshi's comment and they all began to just dance. Allusius was still pulling moves and Kaoru had to stop as he danced himself into Tytto's open arms and pretended to faint. She and Misao just laughed at him as they fanned him and Aoshi poured his drink into his mouth.
"We're gonna mix it up now! So you're about to hear everything! This is DJ Kaze and the night is still young, baby! Let's get down and party like we never want to stop!"
"You're reading my mind man! Fuck school!" Aoshi cheered and they just began to cheer with him.
"Fuck school! Fuck School!"
"School's for dickheads!" Aoshi cheered as he swayed with Misao and held his bottle up to show that he was all for his words. Kaoru threw her fist up like Allusius as they jumped and cheered before Aoshi took a swig and he sighed.
"Man, I love you guys."
"Aoshi, relax."
Allusius slapped his hand over his mouth as he tried to quiet his laughter and let Shinji handle his son the proper way. Shuichi was backing up behind Genia because as soon as they had reached the house, he laughed at Aoshi for being drunk. Aoshi, who had a quick mood swing, didn't like being laughed at and thus the reason why Shinji was trying to calm him down now.
"No. No. He laughed at me. What's Shuichi laughin' at me for? Huh? To make me feel bad? No. I want to talk to him reeeaaaallllyyy close."
"Why so close?" Allusius asked and Kaoru just said 'shush!'
"So when we make up, we can hug and be friendly! I love my big brother Shuichi! Don't you, Kaoru?... Don't you, Kaoru?"
"Yeah! I totally love the free loader!" Kaoru had said it to be funny and it was. Sadly, Aoshi is drunk and he got a little ticked.
"Why he gotta be a free loader? Why he can't be a brother who's going to school here and doesn't want to live on campus? Do you pay bills? Did you buy your car?"
"Um… no?"
"Then shut your mouth." Kaoru glared at Aoshi and as Aoshi began to lean the recliner back and kick his feet up, he started to laugh and go 'wooooo!'
"Hey daddy! Daddy; two plus two is four, right!"
"Yes, son. What are you getting at?"
"So if I ask you for two thousand dollars plus two thousand dollars, you'd give me four thousand dollars, right?"
"No." Shinji laughed, but then started to panic as Aoshi's smile faded and he stared coldly at Shinji's dark blue eyes.
"Why the fuck not? Genia could ask you and you'd give that shit to her! Who am I! I'm carrying on that last name of yours, dammit! You could at least start treating me right!"
"I do treat you right, Aoshi. I bought you a car and I'm paying for your insurance."
"That's it? That's all you can do? No shoes? No shirts, no pants, no Rolex? Michael got a Rolex from his daddy; where the fuck is mine?"
Allusius put his face in his lap as he laughed at Aoshi's face, his eyes light and drunken as he was serious beyond imagine. Shinji apologized and then Aoshi heard his phone ringing. He laughed as he read the name and then he flipped the phone open.
"Hey there, Kenshin. You red-headed dog you. How's life? How's that lip healing? Did my sister beat you up too badly?"
Allusius got up and he walked out the room before he burst out laughing outside the front door. Once he was done, he walked back in just in time to hear the best part about the conversation. Aoshi looked angry as he had the phone on speaker and he started to speak his mind.
"Look here you purple-gold eyed, red-haired, I wanna rock a scar on my cheek lookin' thing. Who do you think you are? Huh? Just who do you think you are? My name is Aoshi Kalvin Shinomori, goddammit, and I demand some money for you. Fuck; I bailed you out two months ago, you ungrateful sonovabitch. Two thousand! And that's my final fucking bid you freak."
"I don't know what the fuck is wrong with you, but you sound like you need to go to sleep."
"Why should I sleep! Sleeping is for suckers, man! You gotta be a beast like me to stay up all day! You just mad… mad 'cause you're some midget who thinks that he can take on the world, buddy old pal! You can't! Haha!"
"Aoshi, stop playing games. Now is your sister around?"
"My sister? I got three, buddy. Pick one." He held up his middle finger and said 'wooo!' as Allusius held his laughter in and pinched himself to calm down. Kaoru just put her hand over her mouth as the others snickered amongst each other.
"The one I'm married to… well, having marriage problems with. Kaoru, Aoshi. Kaoru."
"Kaoru?... Who's that?-OH! Baby girl Kaoru! The one that was partying tonight with me and the guys and Misao! Oh, I know her! She's my younger sister!"
The others burst out laughing as they couldn't hold it in anymore. Allusius cried and held his stomach as he cried and laughed his ass off. Kaoru leaned into a pillow and as Aoshi told them all to shut the fuck up, they just went silent, but harder.
"Anyways. You guys are so fucking rude! Can't you see I'm talking to Kaoru's retarded fiancé! As I was saying before. What do you want her for?"
"I don't want her. I just… I need you to deliver something for me. Can you do it? I sent it to your e-mail already because I'm honestly trying to be the nicest person I can without hurting her feelings."
"Why would you hurt her feelings?" Kaoru looked up and as it seemed like Aoshi sobered up really quick, he cut Kenshin off and he started to speak more from his heart than from his drunken behaviors.
"I don't know what you mean by hurting her feelings, but if you do I swear on my life I will beat you down. I'll have my boys come for you. Us Kamiyas don't play when it comes to Kaoru, Kenshin. She's a gem. I don't even know what the fuck you're acting so girly about anyway.
"Kaoru apologized for her best friend; she even went and fought him at the apartment for you. She told you about what she could have done, she told you why she didn't do it. She's been calling you, and you just turned off your phone. And you have Soujiro talking to her extra mean saying 'He's not here. He'll call you.' What the fuck is that? I thought you were a man, Kenshin. This shit shouldn't even be a problem for you. You need to stop playing games because Kaoru's stopping all her bullshit just for you."
"Aoshi, you don't even understand-"
"Shut up. I'm going to sleep because I'm so fucking drunk that I'm watching my wife dance around my eyes over and over. It's sexy and before I take a trip down the street and shag like a helpless bunny rabbit, I'm going to put myself to sleep. Goodnight, don't call me for Kaoru, call her yourself, stop being a bitch, tell Soujiro I'm going to cave his chest in if he keeps talking to Kaoru that way, and you better shape up."
Aoshi hung up and as he put his phone back on its clip, he turned and he got comfy before he looked at everybody else just watching him with arched eyebrows.
"What the fuck are you people staring at! Shut the fuck up and go to sleep right here, right now!"
"My back aches. Damn, Aoshi! You are so fucking emotional when you're drunk!"
"Why don't you SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
Allusius began to laugh as Shuichi gasped and faked hurt at Aoshi's choice of words. His hangover was killer and as he leaned his head down into his arms and he shut his eyes, he heard a loud yell for his name and loud cheers.
"Oh my good; shoot me." He looked at Tytto as he asked it and just as Tytto was going to laugh, Misao put her arms around his waist and she dropped some pills on the table. She got a glass of water and as she sat down next to him, he refused to raise his head.
"Pick your head up, Aoshi. This hangover is not going to go away without some kind of medicine."
"Go—Away." He said as he looked up and glared at her. Misao grabbed his head and slipped two pills into his mouth before she made him drink it down with water. Aoshi just groaned as she ran her fingers through his hair and Michael placed down a laptop in front for everybody to see.
"Yo, remember that myspace that we made together?" Allusius, Kaoru, and Tytto nodded before Aoshi smirked at their screen name.
"Stuck together by sweet blue eyes. You guys are so sweet."
"That means that we're stuck together by Kaoru's eyes. I thought of it myself." Allusius touched his chest proudly and then they just laughed softly before they heard the song on the page.
"What song is this? It sounds nice." Misao said softly and Aoshi looked down to it before he read the song and the artist.
"Beneath the Blue Sky by Chariot Far from Home. Isn't that your band, Allusius?"
"Yup. Kaoru made a song for me; I made a song for her." Aoshi gave him a small smile and he turned back to listen as Michael was searching the page and laughing at some of the pictures that were moving by. The ending part of the song caught his attention the most as Michael said 'get ready for the pictures, people!'
"With everything
that I've shown you
And all the things
we used to do
You always make me
cry
When tears fall from
your eyes
And the last time
you walked away
With so many things
I had to say
You made me cry
Beneath the blue
sky…"
Kaoru smiled softly and as Michael clinked the link for the pictures, Allusius shifted and he rested his head on his folded arms.
"These are the pictures of the retarded group of people from Italy to Japan to Italy to home." They laughed at Michael's comment and Genia walked in the kitchen before Shuichi told her to come over and look at the pictures from Italy. She sat down in Tytto's lap and pulled her blonde lockers over her shoulder before she blinked curious green eyes.
"This is us at school. No teacher." They laughed at the pose. Kaoru was sitting on the desk with Michael, the other two holding them by their hips and making faces of pleasure as they were in between their legs. Allusius looked the realest of the four as he had his eyes rolling back.
"That's funny." Genia giggled before he went to the next picture.
"Another picture at school. Aren't we so sweet?" Tytto said dreamily and they just shook their heads. Allusius looked as if he were crying as it looked like the two boys were beating on him, Kaoru leaning against the locker in her uniform as she counted money from his wallet.
"Those fuckers really spent that money, too." Allusius glared at them as they just gave him sweet smiles and then laughed at his pout.
"Who's taking these pictures?"
"My cousin Erin." Allusius said with a sad voice before they just laughed again and went to the next picture.
"Look at this picture of Kaoru! Did a real photographer take this?"
"Nuh uh. It was just us taking turns. It looks like it though, right?" Misao nodded and they just said she looked beautiful in the picture. She had a black bra under a white wife beater and her black hair was over one shoulder. Aoshi saw some red and blonde streaks as well. She looked innocent in a way and her light blue eyes were just to die for as they wrote for a caption 'This is Sweet Blue Eyes.'
"Look at Allusius! He's so kawaii!" Genia and Misao squealed and hit hands as they laughed at the jealous boys' faces all glaring at Allusius. In the picture, Allusius was wearing a white long sleeved shirt he was sitting on a stool, his body leaned forward as he gave look of complete thought, blue and gray eyes staring up towards the sky beside him as he smiled softly and dreamily.
"I want that picture." Misao sighed and Aoshi pinched her before pulling her into his lap and telling her to hush. The next one was of Michael. The others had to laugh as he was happy as can be, a huge brown teddy bear in his arms as he sat cross-legged and showed how much he loved it. Tytto's was more of a mysterious picture as he was leaned against the wall, cigarette between his lips as he stared with a look of pure intensity at something nobody else could see.
"What were you looking at, Tytto?"
"Allusius flash me with his ass and tell me that I want it real bad."
There was silence, all looks on Allusius, and then there was pure laughter. They kept moving through the pictures. Separate, group, two by two, all the pictures were out of fun and they were each somewhat special.
"Awwww! Look at Kaoru and Yahiko! That's adorable!... Yahiko has his own myspace!"
DING DONG!
"Watashi ha sore o eru! Jin choudo eizou o miru! (I'll get it! You guys just look at the pictures!)" Michael told Allusius what she said before he said 'oh.' Kaoru got up and she smiled softly before she turned around and jogged towards the door. She pulled her hair over her shoulder before she opened the door with a smile.
"Hello! What can I do for… Hey there, Kenshin…" Kaoru wasn't really expecting to see him and as Kenshin just gave her a soft smile, Allusius' voice was heard from inside the kitchen.
"Kaoru, che è là! Devo uscire!(Kaoru, who's there! Do I need to come out!)"
"No, è giusto! È giusto il vicinot che chiede un certo aiuto! Mostrate loro l'altra pagina! (No, it's okay! It's just the neighbor asking for some help! You show them the other page!)" Kaoru answered back and once she saw Kenshin's cold expression, she shut the door and she turned back around to face him.
"How ya been? I've been trying to reach you, but apparently you log off your AIM everytime I'm on, you shut off your phone to my calls, and now Soujiro's your little lapdog, ne?"
"Lapdog?"
"Chiisai haisha ha watashi de watashi ga anata no tame no ie o yobu tabi ni hoeru.(The little punk barks at me every time I call the house)." She explained before Kenshin just said 'oh' and he looked down. There was silence between the two for a few moments before Kaoru just sighed and she pulled her hair into a ponytail over her shoulder.
"Anata ga noberu koto o ki ta nani ka ga aru ka? Mataha kousei watashi ga watashi o nichi chuu kokyuu shi, miru no o kiki tai to omotta ka? Watashi ha watashi ni ii tai to omou mono ha nani demo itaria kara no eizou o motsu watashi no kazoku o, sou yorokobasu kaishi o kokoro ni idai te iru. (Is there something you came to talk about? Or did you just want to hear me breathe and look at me all day? I'm entertaining my family with pictures from Italy, so please start whatever you want to tell me.)"
Kenshin sighed again before he looked up at Kaoru and met her irritated light blue eyes. His own violet were dark with frustration and as he sighed again, he spoke.
"Kaoru… what's going on?"
"Going on with what?"
"With our relationship, Kaoru. Where is it headed? Watashi tachi ha nani o choudo tagai o itsumo tatakau koto niyotte tassei suru koto o kokoromi te iru ka? (What are we trying to accomplish by just fighting each other ALL THE TIME?)"
Kaoru sat down on the steps gently as she looked up at him. He just kept standing and as he looked down at her, a sad smile came up on his lips. Kaoru could only return it and as she was going to speak, he cut her off.
"I hate fighting, and you of all people know that. I only fight when my heart feels the need to. Lately… it's been feeling the need to fight way too much. Ever since you got home, it's like everything's been turning around for the worst inside of me. And it's not your fault! It's just… I don't know how to handle the new you. I love you whatever way you are, but these things that are coming with it… I honestly am scared that we'll be ruined by the end of this week if they keep going like this."
"Kenshin… what's so hard to accept? I am still the same Kaoru, just with different morals and I'm way more proud to say what I want. I'm not scared to let things out anymore and I thought that you'd be happy with it. You always told me to be true to myself, don't hide for others, and no matter what remember who taught me these things.
"All that time in Italy apart from you was hard, you know. I hated it every single day. The guys made it better for me. They took my mind off of it, even if it was only for a little while, and they always made me smile. No matter what was going on, those three kept me happy and kept me going through each day and made sure that I was counting down the days until I saw you again… I thought you'd be happy with me."
"And I am happy with you. It's just… I'm not the happy that it's supposed to be. I'm forcing myself to be happy, Kaoru. I can't keep doing that because it only makes things worse, anata… it's only making things worse."
Kaoru looked down into her lap, her heart feeling suddenly guilty that she was making Kenshin force himself to be happy for her new change. She didn't look up as she heard his next choice of words either.
"Kaoru… I think that right now… it's best that we keep away from each other." Kaoru felt another hit to her heart as Kenshin said it. He felt the same, but he refused to show it to her because his pride was too strong.
"It's not like we're breaking up. We're still together, but we're not on our regular close status. Friend status, I guess. It's just… if we can be by ourselves for a while, I can make sure that fights like the one in the backyard two days ago doesn't happen again."
"That's what this is about! That fight with Allusius! What don't you get about that! That fight is in the past, I don't care about it! I understand why you wanted to fight him, and why he wanted to fight you! I talked to him, I beat up on him for you! I promise he won't attack you anymore!"
"Kaoru, that's not it…sigh I'm so sorry that I feel this way. I don't want to hurt you, and this is the best way that I feel it won't happen." Kaoru buried her face into her hands and as Kenshin pressed a kiss on top of her head, he promised that he would see her in school the next day. As he turned around to leave, Kaoru looked up and she wiped her face.
"So this is what you do… Allusius and Tytto predicted you right… Goddamn, I should've listened to him."
"What? What did Allusius and Tytto tell you?" Kenshin stopped and he turned around before she wiped her tears again and spoke towards him bitterly, more tears replacing the old ones that were falling down her cheek.
"They told me exactly what you're doing. Seperating when things get roug and escaping the problem in the weakest way possible. I told them they were wrong, I even bet money on it that you wouldn't be this way. But, I guess I'm not always right about things like these…" Kaoru wiped her tears again before she sniffed and she stood up, her fists balled tight.
"You don't seem to remember, so I'll give you a flashback to part of the reason why I turned out this way, okay? Pay lots of attention, because half of it is faulted to you."
"Me? You're saying that I made you become this way? I made you become wild and rebellious, a girl who just doesn't care, and somebody who just seems to love their best friend a little more than she loves her boyfriend?"
"What don't you understand that I will always, always, always, with my heart and soul, devote all my love to you! Kare ha kazoku no houhou no katachi de ai o yuusuru! Watashi ga eikyuu ni tamochi tai to omou dareka no katachi de ai o yuusuru!( He has the love in the form of a family way! You have the love in the form of somebody that I would love to keep forever!)"
Kenshin looked at Kaoru, some pain shown on his face as he said, "Kaoru… please…"
The two of them didn't know that behind the door, the others could hear the words from the kitchen and they all looked sadly at Allusius as he hadh is head in his arms to hide the emotions going across his face at record speed.
"We were talking for four and a half months every day. We wrote to each other, called each other, e-mailed each other; we made sure that we kept in contact. You made me so happy that you made sure to talk to me. You'd call me in school, you'd send me the funniest things through e-mail, you'd write me poems every chance you could.
"Even when I was asleep, you'd just sit there and listen to me. Everytime somebody told me that long distance relationships always ended, I told them that we were different… we had what it took to make it work. I told them what you said to me the first night I was there. 'I'll write to you every day. I'll keep in contact with you. I'll make damn sure that we won't loose each other and that when you get home, you'll be sure to feel my love in every way that I can give it to you.' I believed you so much and I told them all to just watch. That I'd proove them right.
"But you proved me wrong… Sniff I don't know what I did to you or what I said, but you just stopped. Completely."
Kenshin's eyes went wide as she told him this and more tears began to fall down her face as she lowered her head and turned it to the side so she wouldn't have to look at him.
"That's why Allusius and Tytto hate you. That's why Allusius wants to kill you. Because of everything that you said and how it just went straight out the window. You just stopped trying, Kenshin! You really stopped! And I kept writing to you! I kept telling them that something must be up and that you'd start to write back soon! But you just proved me wrong again and again and again!"
Kaoru looked up at him, her face full of anger and hurt now that she was releasing her words. Her eyes were pure red and he could tell that she was angry but wasn't going to act on it. He knew that it hurt her just as much as it hurt him. And he still refused to show it.
"Kaoru-"
"I wasted so much time! So much time on you! I skipped so many things with friends just to write to you, or to leave you a message, or to just talk to Soujiro! I had to talk to somebody else to see how you were doing! Why should I have to talk to somebody else to learn about you! Why!
"You just didn't seem to care anymore! Allusius kept telling me that you were going to come around soon, that you were going to show me that you loved me! He kept my hopes up for you because he didn't want me to be just a heap of tears! And I believed him and your words still! But nothing changed… nothing changed at all!
"I cried for days, I skipped school just to wait for you to contact me! I just wasted so much time and spent so much energy thinking about you! If you were hurt, if you were dead, if you were hiding from somebody! But they would tell me that you were around! You were alive and you were still—in one—piece.
"I tried to come back on my vacations. I bust my ass just to try and get a ticket to come back! But they wouldn't allow it because they were scared that I might get hurt by you. And now I know why Allusius tell me to keep cautious around you now. For things like this… why am I hurting so much?"
"Kaoru… Kaoru, I…"
"Just leave me alone, Kenshin! You don't want to be with me because you don't want to handle my emotions! You don't want to be around something as wild as me! I'm a ticking bomb, I know this. And I'm trying to change for you. But you… you just don't seem to open your eyes for it! So just go home, Kenshin. You can have your space because I'm finished getting sick over my love for you! My whole heart is still yours, so just go home and break it, okay? I don't want to be out here anymore."
Kaoru went to her door and as she turned the knob, she turned around again before she shook her head and she saw him begin to start walking away.
"The whole reason I made my drug, was because of you, Kenshin." For the second time that day, Kenshin stopped and he didn't move as he turned sideways to look back at her.
"Maristrati, Kenshin. That's what it's called, don't you remember? You forced the shit out of me and made me almost blank myself out. I didn't make that for no particular depression… it was depression over you. I nearly killed myself just to keep happy for you… I'm such a fool. Aoshi was right last year when he said that I shouldn't give my whole heart to people."
She let out a sob and as she opened the door to see a black thermal in front of her vision. Kaoru looked up to see a blue and a gray eye before she saw arms that were clothed open up for her.
"Allusius… you were right." Kaoru went into his arms and as she began to sob against him, Allusius rested his head upon hers and he sniffed as well because he felt her pain move through his whole being. Allusius looked up at Kenshin's sad and distant expression before he just shook his head.
"I hate you, Kenshin… I hate you more than you'll ever know." Allusius pulled Kaoru back and he shook his head again, tears falling for Kaoru's pain, and he slowly, but strongly shut the front door and made Kenshin vanish from his sight.
"Prego sorriso per me? Sto provando in modo da duro, ma neppure mi non darete un'ombra di esso. Please smile for me? I'm trying so hard, but you won't even give me a shadow of it.)"
The others just watched sadly as Kaoru sat in her recliner, her hands in her lap and her head low as Allusius was kneeled down in front of her making the most craziest faces possible. He remembered that they used to make her laugh so he decided to try every one he knew. Sadly… the weren't working at all.
"Sto estraendo i miei capelli qui, Kao. Non conosco che cosa fare per voi. Non sia così triste circa questo... sorrida prego per me. I'm pulling my hairs out here, Kao. I don't know what to do for you. Don't be so sad about this... please smile for me.)" Kaoru didn't respond to it and as Allusius began to think about all the japanese she taught him, he said 'aha!'
'Shit, how to say it… she taught me to say this for her… fuck... AHA! I got it all together! Now to say it the best way I can.'
"Watashi no t-tame no b-bi…bishou ka? Wa-Watashi ha a…anata no bishou o m…miru koto o ai…ai…aisuru! I think that's how it's said. Watashi ha anata no bishou o miru koto o aisuru. (Please smile for me? I love to see your smile.)"
Kaoru saw how hard he was trying and he was about to give up, she let her lips form into a small, yet visible smile.
"Good job… at least you remember things that you promise…" Allusius sighed with a sympathetic smile and he pulled her into his arms before he let her lean against him sadly. Aoshi got up, anger all over his face, and he pulled out a phone.
"I told that little son-bitch to take care of things the right way. This was not the right way. I'm going to bash his fucking skull in—"
"Teishi, Aoshi. sore ha kon kachi ga nai. choudo sore o hanatte oki nasai. watashi ha watashi ga yoi to yakusoku suru. Stop, Aoshi. It's not worth it right now. Just leave it alone. I promise that i'm okay.)"
Aoshi put his phone away and as Kaoru sighed and she let go of Allusius, she stood up and she stretched. Her eyes were blue once more, but they were more sad than happy. Aoshi hated that color in her eyes along with everybody else.
"I'm going to shower and get ready to go. We have a job to do, right Allusius?"
"Kaoru, possiamo metterli appena fuori fino a domani.(Kaoru, we can just put it off until tomorrow)."
"Nessun no, non possiamo. Sono alright, babe. Appena otteniamo questo fatto in modo da sono che molto più vicino ad essere libero con voi.(No no, we can't. I'm alright, babe. Let's just get this done so i'm that much closer to being free along with you.)"
Kaoru walked out the room and they saw her go up the slightly spiral stairs before Allusius cursed and punced the floor, his fist leaving a dent as he got up angrily.
"Where does that son of a bitch live? I'm going to cut his lungs out for doing this to her! How can he just break it off when she's doing all this stuff for him! We don't even play as serious as we used to because she was scared that he would take it the wrong way! This is why I fucking hate that boy! He doesn't deserve to be a man in my eyes."
Allusius stormed out, Michael and Tytto following angrily as they went up the stairs and said they were going to get dressed as well.
"Aoshi… nani ga sorera no tame ni okoru daro u ka? Watashi tachi ha akanbou sorera ga sou hageshiku owaru you ni deki nai. Sore ha sorera no tame no sono you ni doushitemo owaru koto ga deki nai.(What's going to happen for them? We can't let them end so bitterly, baby. It just can't end like that for them.)"
"I know, Misao. Sigh I know. But in all honesty, I don't know what to do. Ooku no houhou de... sorera ha ryouhou karera jishin ni kore o motte ki ta. In many ways... they both brought this upon themselves.)"
"Are you sure that you can do this without thinking about that?"
"I'm positive. This is more important right now, so let's get moving. You two keep at these laptops and make sure that nothing happens. You, you lead the way whoever's talking to us."
Allusius saluted as Kaoru turned around and the two began to run until they were gone from sight. Michael and Tytto sighed as they sat in the van, the door slid open, and their feet dangling as a table held up their laptops in the parking lot. They were giving Kaoru information through the sidekick and as they kept typing things, Tytto looked over to Michael.
"Do you think that those two are going to be okay? From what I've heard, that warehouse is very unstable, Michael."
"I know; I've heard that rumor too. And it's true… they'll be okay. Allusius can handle Kaoru and it goes vice versa. They'll be fine as long as they stick together."
"Head over towards that intersection between hallways and as soon as you get there, turn left three times and make a run for it."
"Why can't I just make a right?"
"You'll see, Allusius. Just do it."
Allusius growled as he and Kaoru ran towards their destination, five guards behind them in a heap of groans and limbs. As Allusius told her to slow down, the two gradually came to a stop in front of the intersection. They moved to the middle and as Kaoru frowned and she shook her hair from her face before she waited for Allusius.
"Turn left." Allusius said and Kaoru stood in front of him and did as she was told."
"Again." He said and Kaoru did it again with him before he told her to do it again.
"What the fuck is the point of this?" Kaoru barked at him angrily before he turned her head and she saw the other passageway between two paths.
"That's the point of this, miss. Now let's go."
Allusius and Kaoru ran through it before the door slid closed behind them and the lights lit up the path. Instanlty, the two gagged as a foul odor hit their noses. Kaoru pulled out a mask as she was getting dizzy and Allusius did the same before the two slipped it over their mouths with a sigh.
"That shit smells awful. What the fuck is that?"
"I don't know, but now I just want to get out as fast as possible. What do you have for us, Allen?"
"That's his name? Holy shit, I didn't even know." Kaoru began to laugh to herself and she scratched her head absent minded as Allusius shook his head and made her listen up to her earpiece.
"That's wrong, Kaoru. But oh well. Head down this path and watch each other's asses closely. There are things lurking around and you can really get sick in here. Are you two wearing the masks?"
"Hell yeah. It smells… like blood and some other type of shit."
"You got half right. It's blood down there, all right. But I don't know what the other stuff is. Keep your gloves on tight, put the extra pair or before you touch anything—Hell, I don't even want you touching anything. Please be careful, you two."
"Right." They said in unison and as put the extra pair of gloves on before they started down the long path. Suddenly, the lights went off and the two began to panic.
"Michael, hack the system and turn the lights on, please?"
"Kaoru, I wish I could. But it's not because somebody turned them off. They're all dead."
"Shit…" Kaoru felt around her little fanny pack until she found her a flashlight.
"Ah! Here it is. You packed it so deep, Allusius!" Allusius laughed nervously as his shoulder was hit twice. Kaoru pulled it out and as she shut her fanny pack, Allusius was hit twice again.
"Kaoru, stop hitting me. I didn't mean to pack it so deep, damn you."
"Llusi…Non sto toccandoli. Hell, non sono raggiungere neppure fuori verso voi. I'm not touching you. Hell, i'm not even reaching out towards you.)"
Allusius felt his blood start to run cold and as he pulled out his own flashlight from his pants, he backed up towards Kaoru and made sure it was her. The two turned around and they turned on the flashlights at the same time.
"Um… hi?"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"What's going on down there! Somebody answer me!"
"What the fuck! Stop chasing us you freak! Oh my god, you're so disgusting!" Allusius cried out as Kaoru screamed out again and they held the flashlights to see the way. Suddenly, Kaoru began to slide and she let out a cry as she hit the floor and hit hard. Allusius stopped as he saw the blood on the floor and Kaoru began to get up. She kept sliding in the stick substance and falling down before Allusius ran back for her.
"Allusius, che cosa sta accendendo! Siete che andate rispondermi o non!Allusius, what's going on! Are you going to answer me or not!)"
"Ci è qualcosa che non osservi alla destra che li insegue dammit! È come qualcosa dai movies e dal Kaoru coperti nell'anima perché relativo dappertutto e relativo ottenere più vicino e più vicino! Attesa giusta un il minuto! There's something that doesn't look to right chasing us dammit! It's like something out of the movies and Kaoru's covered in blood because its all over and its getting closer and closer! Just wait a minute!)"
"It's touching me!" Kaoru cried out and she kicked violently before Allusius pulled her out of the blood and the two made a run for it.
"Qualcosa è seriamente male giù qui, Allen! Questo posto non è di destra! Non conosco che cosa la scopata esso è, ma ho ottenuto una sensibilità difettosa! Something is seriously wrong down here, Allen! This place isn't right! I don't know what the fuck it is, but i got a bad feeling!)"
"Then move as fast as you can. At the end of the hallway, there's going to be a door. You have to try and open that door the best way you can until we figure out what's the secret for it, okay? Don't die down there."
"Nice words you fucking loser!" Kaoru barked angrily and as they put the flashlight up ahead, they saw the door. They skidded to a stop and immeidately began to search around for a key or anything to help them.
"What the fuck! There's nothing, Allen!" Suddenly, they felt drips falling from the ceiling and the two looked at each other with the flashlight to see red falling down their face.
"I-it's… b-blood… OPEN THE DOOR!"
The two turned around to see the person they were running from getting closer and closer. They turned around and began to cry out and bang on it furiously. They were scared out of their minds and as Kaoru's languages began to slip up, she started speaking in Japanese.
"Kono kami no no no shiri no doa o ake nasai!(Open this god damn door!)"
Allusius was soon getting excited with relief as the door began to slide open. Kaoru slipped through first and as Allusius made sure she was okay, he felt it grab his hand. With a swift punch and Kaoru's kick, he was let free and he moved through the door as they watched him fall and flip up.
"Owari! Owari!(Close! Close!)" Kaoru pleaded and the door instantly slid shut. There were bright blue lights for them and as they caught their breath and they heard the slow banging on the door, Allusius gave a soft smile.
"Who knew Japanese did the trick?"
"Aoshi, tell them that we're doing something important! Say that we're training or something! They can't come looking for us!"
"I don't want them too, dammit! We're doing things as slow as possible. They're going to eat dinner and then leave. Me and Misao are handing the dinner out as slow as we can, so try to quicken it! Daddy's worried that she ran away again and he thinks Allusius forced her to do it."
"Okay, we'll tell them, but pleace hold them off! I can't send Tytto home because he's over here negotiating over the phone. This shit is off the fucking wall in that abandoned warehouse, Aoshi. It's haunted; I swear to god it is."
"SO WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY IN THERE!"
"I don't know! Just… please!" Michael heard the phone hang up before he turned to Tytto to see him frustrated out of his mind. His japanese was smooth and clear as he spoke fast and made sure that everything was being understood. Micahel turned back to his laptop, their whereabouts showing as two blinking dots, and he let out a sigh before he began to speak to them.
"Allusius, Kaoru. Aoshi just called me and he says that they're planning to look for you guys since they think that you, Allusi, made Kao leave. You guys have to either find this shortcut, or just start using some track skills because I don't know what to do, okay?"
"We're trying, Mike. We're trying. Allen, can't you call them?"
"Give me the house phone number and I'll try and put some words in. Her brother called you, so give me his number as well. I'm worried for you two down there.
"We are too, Allen… I'm honestly scared." Michael frowned at Kaoru's voice and then he turned back to the computer to look ahead for them and see where they had to go next.
"Allusius.. don't leave me…"
"I'm not leaving you. I know you're scared. Just breathe and don't talk anymore. Hold me close, okay? I don't mind the blood."
The partners in crime were held up in a cut between hallways, people marching back and forth with swords in their hand the width of Aoshi's muscular arms looking out for them to see who was coming as intruders. It didn't look to good for them once you thought about it. It honestly looked like they weren't going to make it out in one piece.
"On three, I'm going to grab him and chop the shit outta his neck, okay? Be ready."
Kaoru nodded and backed up before Allusius began to count with his fingers. As soon as a dark, grumpy looking one was coming past, he grabbed him and quickly knocked him out, no noises ever being made. Kaoru whimpered softly as he laid him down and he grabbed the next one that came by as well.
'He's such an animal. He anticipates it… just like Kenshin used to do…'
"Stop thinking about him. You're eyes are getting emotional. Stick to the task at hand and I promise that we'll cry later. Take this."
Kaoru took the weapon and as the two waited for their chance, they heard Allen tell them to wait.
"As soon as you get out there, aim for the end of the hall. Make a left and you two have to sprint like the cops are on your ass until the end before you gotta break the floor. It's not that sturdy, so you two just have to jump and stomp hard. Make sure you don't get sliced, please?"
"You and these goddamn comments aren't helping." Kaoru whispered angrily before Allusius snickered.
"Ready?... NOW! Come get us!"
Allusius and Kaoru began to race down the hallway, the four guards that were left instantly turning and coming for them. Kaoru spun the sword around before she blocked an attack coming for her head. She spun it around and sliced at his torso before she caught his legs as well and she took him off his feet.
"Keep going! Keep going!" Allusius yelled to her as he was up against the wall and going hit for hit. Kaoru pulled out a gun and as she prayed that he didn't get hit, she let off a shot.
"Alzi la vostra parte posteriore della testa!(Cock your head back!)" Allusius did as he was told and a sudden sickness filled his body as he felt the blood come from his enemy's shot ribcage. He fell down and Allusius ran with Kaoru before they heard more coming from behind them, their weapons dropped because of its weight.
"I hate this place, I hate this place, Odio questo posto, I hate this place—"
"Shut up, Allusius!"
The two jumped up and down on the floor and as they were going to give up hope, Allusius jumped up and made it so that he fell right on his ass. Kaoru did the same as they heard the floor crack and once they did it again, it bust through and they screamed out in shock as it was going to be a deep as fall.
"Grab my hand!" Allusius reached out for her and she grabbed it before he pulled her closer to him and he began to pray nothing happened.
"You're heading straight for water! This connection might fail! Be ready to guess whatever you have to do next, okay! I'm counting on you two to make the rig—"
SPLASH!
"Fuck! We totally lost the whole connection!" Michael cursed as he threw his earpiece against the floor and drank down some more of his water. Tytto was now off the phone and he put his down as well before they put the laptops on the side.
"What the fuck is up with this place, Tytto? I want to go in there, but I'm not ready to see shit. Allen says that their suits have camera on it and its going to take pictures of anything, but what the hell is happening?"
"I want to know myself, Michael. I'm worried about them. Did you hear Kaoru's voice? She's never his scared on these kind of jobs and she sounded terrified. Allusius' holding that shit in real good."
Tytto stretched his body with a yawn and as his phone rang, he picked it up and he said, 'Tytto Kamiya speaking.'
"Tytto, take that car and hide it. Hide it right now. They're on the streets and you two have to vanish completely."
"Aoshi, come meet us! We're going to be underneath the apartments on Juvenile Avenue! Apartment Complex Cicatriz!"
"I'm coming over there right now with Yahiko. He says he knows something that he has to tell you guys. It's in a Cdcase that was just thrown at us from the front door."
"Alrighty then. We'll see you there. Allen! Allen, they're on the road; we have to hide now."
"Go do what you have to do, boys. I'm still trying to get the link back to them."
Michael picked up his earpiece and they got back on the right sides of the car before Tytto sped off quickly down the street.
'Please, don't let them die tonight. They have way more better purposes in this life'
"Kick, Kaoru, kick! You can swim faster than this!"
"I'm trying goddammit! I can't feel my leg!"
Allusius looked at Kaoru from behind him as he heard that cry in her voice and he swam back before he grabbed her arm and pulled her closer to him as he began to swim faster once more. He let Kaoru go and they began to fight against the water once more. Kaoru coughed and she felt the tears stinging at her eyes as the light from their flashlights around their wrists led the way and they moved the best way they could.
"We're almost there! I see something ahead! You can do it, Kao!"
With another minute worth of hard swimming, they finally made it to the end and they pulled themselves up from the green and blue water. Kaoru spit in the water and as she ran her fingers through her hair and she put her arms above her head, Allusius rubbed her shoulders and told her good job.
"Your leg okay?" Kaoru made a 'so-so' motion with her hand and as Allusius got up and he sighed, he wrung out the last of the water from his skin tight top. Kaoru got up and she tied her hair up tight before she wrung out her skull cap and slipped it on her head.
"Silly thing." Allusius pointed at the hat and Kaoru just gave a nervous smile before the two walked down the small pathway to the door and they flashed their lights on the knob. Allusius put a cloth over it that was soaked and he twisted it open. Inside, it was… well, it was ridiculous. There was ropes, gaps in the floor, stairs, and there were stains of blood in every direction.
"Kaoru, we're living out a horror movie, aren't we?"
"… shut up, Allusius."
"Don't you ever fucking call my phone again, Kenshin. You hear me? Delete this number and don't even try to address me. You broke my sister's heart, you sonovabitch. Don't let me see you, either."
Aoshi slammed his phone shut and as Yahiko gave a frown to him before Aoshi just smiled to reassure him that things okay. Yahiko nodded and as they waited for the CD to load, Tytto passed Yahiko a bag of chips to munch on.
"Thanks Uncle Tytto." Yahiko said with a smile before he began to munch on the chips and he looked at the screen finally light up. Once they saw a passage of words, the older ones immediately began to read it and try to see what it was. Once they got to a certain part, Yahiko saw all the color from their faces fall and they paled completely.
This building is very very unstable. Some things inside aren't meant to be tampered with. Just the slight mess up of a wall can send this building crumbling down and breaking into bits of debri. Many people have died inside from poisoning, murder, and other things are just classified as mystical killings. Please don't ever enter this building. 75 of the people who enter… don't exit.
There is one specific room that is most unstable. This room is creepy, it looks like a maze, there is ropes on the ceiling, gaps in the floor, and probably blood is everywhere. If anybody every messes with this room, the building will be 100 sure to break and fall apart. KEEP OUT OF THE FRIOFOX ROOM.
"kkkkAllen! Kkkkk Michael, Tytto! We got a connection again! Help us out!"
Tytto flipped open his laptop and he began to type things in before they saw their whereabouts once more. Once they read the name of the room, they turned ghostly white and they grew truly afraid.
"A-Allen… did you get the CD information?" Michael asked softly
"I'm reading the same thing you are right now… oh fuck."
"What! What's going on! Somebody tell us please!" Kaoru spoke, her words breaking up just a bit.
"You two are in the most unstable room in the whole goddamn place. The Firofox Room." Tytto explained, his voice laced with every ounce of fear in him.
"You two need to move so slowly that it hurts. The box is in that room, its in one of the gaps, you two have to get it and run. Run for your lives out of that room, swim back, and just get out as fast as you can. This is serious."
"Why's it this bad!" Allusius asked with anger. They could hear some fear in his voice behind it.
"That place is going to fall apart in one way or another! If you can't grab it, just fuck it and leave! They'll understand if this is a failure!"
"We don't do failures! I'm not going to start that shit now!" Kaoru said angrily as well and Aoshi cursed to himself.
"Why is she filled with so much goddamn pride?"
Allusius watched nervously as Kaoru moved towards the place that Michael was telling her to go. As she stopped and felt a piece of the floor give in, Allusius called out to her, some of the sound of his voice muted by the mask over their mouths.
"Let it go, Kaoru. Let's just fail this one. We're not going to die over a stupid fucking box. The play games, Kaoru. Let's just leave it alone."
Just as Kaoru was going to listen, her heart started to suddenly race and she felt her whole body move with each beat. Allusius arched his eyebrow as he saw her standing still, her head low as he thought she was thinking. Kaoru's lips suddenly parted as she began to breathe deeper, swear coming up without warning.
Go for the box, Kaoru… Go for the prize… you don't want to have a failure on your head, do you?
"No… I don't…" Allusius arched his eyebrow and he fixed his earpiece to see if anybody was talking. To his surprise, it was silent on the other line.
"Who's talking to her? See if somebody hacked the connection you two!"
This is what you truly want… you want the box badly… you'll die for that box…
"I'll die… for the box…"
"Hurry it up!"
"There's nobody hacking the connection! It's just us! Allen, what's going on down there!"
"I don't fucking know! I'm trying to talk to her, but she's trying to respond back! She's not answering me at all!" Allusius began to call out to Kaoru and tell her to come back, but she wasn't listening as she started to walk forward with slow steps. She stepped over some cracks in the floor and as Allusius begged for her to stop, she looked up at the stairs to see something behind a glass door at the top. Kaoru knew it was what they were looking for.
You want the box, Kaoru… you'll die for the box!… You want that box!
"I want the box!" Kaoru's eyes were slowly turning red by the second and as she slowly moved up the stairs, Allusius felt the floor give a shake.
"Oh shit…. Shit, shit shit… fuck, shit, goddamn… Kaoru! Kaoru come back! It's unstable—whoa!"
"What's happening!"
"This place is beginning to shake, dammit!" Allusius held his ground again and as he saw Kaoru moving closer, she began to reach for the door.
"Esca di là! Non conoscete che cosa sono all'interno, Kaoru(Get out of there! You don't know what's inside, Kaoru!)"
"But I almost got it!" she called back to him and Allusius sighed because she was responding back now.
"Kaoru, to hell with that box, get the fuck out now!" Kaoru didn't listen to them as she opened the door and stepped inside
"It's not worth dying over! Get out of there now!"
"È in modo da Allusius vicino! Lascilo prego andare per esso!"
"I don't care if you're almost close!" Allusius growled and then began to scream out to her.
"This place is falling apart!"
"SHIT!" Kaoru looked up as she stepped out of the door, a black and burgundy box in her hand. The stairs began to collapse and as Kaoru was hit in the back by something she would never know, Allusius saw a person come out dressed in all black.
"KAORU NO! GET OUT OF THE WAY!" Kaoru lost her breath as he grabbed her neck, his eyes holding her completely still as he began to whisper something of pure evil.
"I… I can't breathe!" Allusius shot at the hooded person before he let go with a cry and fell from the stairs through one of the large gaps below it. The door slammed shut and Kaoru began to fall from the top of the stairs.
"KAORU!... KAORU!... Her father is going to kill me." Allusius ran for her, his body moved by the graces of god as he didn't hit any gaps, and he caught her body just in time before they fell.
"Get out! Get out now! We're coming back for you two! Get out right now!"
"Give us a fucking exit!" Allusius ran and he jumped the gap in the stairs before he opened the door and he flashed his flashlight. As he saw another door, he quickly ran to it and he opened it before he ran up more stairs. He felt blood falling from wounds to his stomach, but it didn't matter as he held Kaoru on his back and he raced towards some kind of freedom from the worse place ever imagined. He stopped at the top and tied her arms around his neck with a rope before he held the box in his hand, her legs in his arms, and he took off running again.
'Please let me get out… please let me get out!'
"Allusius! Allusius, can you hear me! Potete sentire me!... ALLUSIUS! Dammit, we've lost it completely!"
Aoshi told them to calm down as he began to type for Michael and try to gain back the connection. All they heard was pure static and as they arrived back in the same spot they were before to wait. Yahiko was scared and as Tytto held him in his lap and calmed him down, Michael got out the car to listen. From classes on building things like warehouses, he could tell when a building was going to fall and how much time was left.
"Oh god… oh god no… please give it some more time!"
"What are you saying! Speak right!"
"They only have fifteen minutes to get out! Allen, can you get to them!"
"NO I can't! This is fucking ridiculous! What the fuck was that goddamn box hidden in the fucking warehouse for! These are fuckings kids they asked to do this shit! You guys shouldn't even be near this type of shit! Those adults are fucking scared to do it themselves so they send those two knowing that they'll fucking do it!"
"We know! They have to get out! I can't tell Kaoru's father that she died from underground causes! We'll all go to jail for hiding it!"
"I know this, Mike! Just wait to see if it comes back and in ten minutes, I'll come abck to you."
"Allen, wait… fuck!" Yahiko started to cry and as Michael took him in his arms, he began to make him quiet down and tell him that everything was going to be alright.
"Uncle Allusius and Kao-kao are going to come out. They'll be here soon, okay? Don't cry, Yahiko. Just... help me pray n shit."
"Our father who art in heaven, hallowed by thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven… fuck!"
Allusius held Kaoru tighter to him as he jumped over a gap and grabbed a rope to help him swing across. The rope fell an as he let out a scream, he managed to get the ending of the gap and keep running. His body ached, he was dizzy from the loss of blood, and he was ready to just pass out and die. But he couldn't do it because Kaoru was with him, Kaoru was on his back, and it was all to set them loose.
"This is for Kaoru." He told himself and as he reached the same door from before, he cursed as he forgot the japanese words.
"What's to open! Goddammit, what did she say!... Yes! I remember! Kono kami no no no shiri no doa o ake nasai!" the door slid open shakily and he didn't bother to close it as he shoved his flashlight in his mouth and he kept running. The pathway they took was shaking and as there was a small bridge, he jumped over the blood on it and it fell through.
He almost lost his balance as the building shook and more pieces of debri fell from the ceiling. He dodged a big piece of it as it crashed down and he jumped out of the way as it broke through the floor completely. He took off running again and as he saw the exit coming up, he cheered mentally and he began to pray that the door would open up again.
"Oh no. Oh no! OPEN THE DOOR! MICHAEL! TYTTO! AOSHI! SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME! ITS JAMMED! PLEASE, WE'RE GOING TO DIE! WE'RE GOING TO DIE; HELP US OPEN THE DOOR!"
Outside, they heard his cries and they set Yahiko down before they ran to the door and they told him to push from the other way. They were moving as hard as they could and as Allusius began to panic and cry out, they started as well. The door only slid open a little bit.
"There's gas! There's gas; open the door! Fuck getting out the underground, I'll stay! This place is going to explode!"
"We're trying!" Aoshi saw a mallet laying next to the shaking building, and as he saw a lock, he picked it up and Michael said they only had three minutes. Allusius was stil pushing as hard as he could, but the door wasn't opening as wide as they needed to escape. Aoshi began to hit the lock on the door and it broke quickly before they began to push again.
"It's opening!"
"Hurry up! I can't see and the lights turned off now! Please!"
They were flushed as the door was finally sliding. Michael cried out sixty seconds and as it opened up wide enough to get them through on the floor, they saw Kaoru being pushed out.
"Take her first!" Aoshi grabbed her and as Allusius began to crawl out. They thought he was safe and as he kept moving, a cry escaped his lips as he stopped and let his face hit the floor.
"My foot! My foot, its stuck! Goddammit it hurts!" Tytto began to pull him as they slid the door open more and Tytto got his foot out just in time before the top floor began to fully cave in. They ran to the car and Yahiko was quick to get in the back before Aoshi took the wheel and they shut the door.
"We got them, Allen. We got them." Michael told him. Allusius couldn't stop crying for his foot and as they took off his shoe, they winced as some of his bones were coming out of his skin.
"Go straight to the hospital, Aoshi. Allen's going to see us there." Tytto looked at Kaoru and as he saw blood begin to spill from her lips, he heard her choke and cry out seconds afterward.
"Hurry up! She has something internal that's bleeding, you guys!"
"Fuck!" As Aoshi turned the corner as softly as he could, Kaoru began to spit up blood once more and cough. Yahiko cried and Michael shielded his eyes as Allusius groaned and his eyes began to shut and open as he fought to stay awake.
"I lost to much blood… to much…I think I'm going to die, boys."
"No you're not, you italian fag! You better fight it! You can't die on us now!" Michael fought to keep him away as Yahiko was put in the passenger seat.
"Damn you, Allusius! Don't give up! We've come too fucking far together! The four of us! Don't let us become three, dammit!"
Michael forced back his tears and as Aoshi was on the phone with the hospital, they arrived to it and they saw people waiting for them. The van was opened and Allusius felt himself slowly slip into unconsciousness as he was put on a stretcher like Kaoru and they were rushed inside, Kaoru choking and slowly losing air to breathe.
'I made it just for you Kaoru… you better love me for this, dammit. I'm literally bleeding for you now.'
R.S.: WHOO! That was a horror kind of chapter! Don't know where I got the idea from, but it was kind of scaring me a little as I thought it up! Lol, I'm such a twisted mind.
Sigh Anyways, in the next chapter you'll find out what was inside the box, who Allen was, what he is to them, and how Kenshin reacts to Kaoru's little occupation. Hope you enjoyed this chappie!
I'm not going to online for about two weeks because I'm going with my cousin to Trinidad! Hope you guys like this chatper thou, cuz I worked hard as hell to beat the clock to get this to you!
Next on " Who'll raise you to heaven and drop you to hell"
Chapter Nine: I'm sorry that my heart is slowly fading from yours
"Allusius was hurt pretty badly… I don't think he'll be able to run with that foot."
"I have to run… I have to! Fuck that doctor! I want to be free! I have to get out of it!"
"Daddy… I'm so sorry…"
"You're crazy! That's what you are!"
"You left me alone, Kenshin! So don't you dare come now and try to fix things! Stop calling my phone if you're doing things for pity! Do it because you love me dammit!"
"Aosh and Kaorui… they just left the Kamiya family, Misao. He says that he's a Loire now."
"Fresh air! I can't wait to get out of this place! I swear I'm going to have so much fun when I get on the outside!"