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Shuichi stared wide-eyed when he spotted both Yuki and Hiro hand-cuffed to a couple of steel pipes that were sticking out of the wall. Hiro kept pulling at the hand-cuffs, as if expecting them to break the rusted steel or something. Yuki wasn't doing a thing. One of the many things Shuichi admired about the human was that no matter what, Yuki had always been able to remain calm, no matter the situation. Shuichi's eyes fixed into a glare as he looked to the wall, where Aoshi was, sitting on a table that was attached to the wall. "What is the meaning of this, Aoshi?!" Shuichi snapped.
"Seems that you have gotten soft, Ice Heart," Aoshi replied as he inspected his clawed nails. "Claiming to not melt for a human, but you did so. Lying to me about it. You know that I eventually find out about these things. And don't think I don't know about a certain half-demon that you were trying to hide from me." He smirked when he saw Shuichi tense up. "I do have my ways about finding out about these things. So tell me something. Are both of these humans your lovers, or just one? Your scents cling to them like theirs clings to you."
Shuichi didn't reply, but red was starting to seep into his eyes as his hands curled into fist. The red in his eyes was barely noticeable, but his fists were easily seen. With a snap of Aoshi's fingers, a few of the surrounding fox demons grabbed Shuichi's arms to hold him back. The hybrid growled a warning, but it landed on deaf ears. None of them were going to release him anytime soon. He knew that, but that didn't stop him from trying to get his arms out of their grips. He looked out of the corner of his eye, noticing that Splinter wasn't grabbed. The red-head looked over to Shuichi before giving a small wink and bending down a little so he wasn't easily seen over the crowd of fox demons. He was a good 6' 3'' while everyone else, for the exception of Shuichi, was between 5' 9'' and 6' 1''.
The hybrid seemed to have understood the wink Splinter sent him once he saw where the red-head was going. Right over to Yuki and Hiro. "It's been a while since we've had a good kill, right guys?" Aoshi asked the gang, who were all smirking, a few nodding. "Last time we had a good kill as a gang was about two years ago, am I correct? Well, how about this. We can get rid of these two right here." Aoshi jabbed a finger in the direction of the hand-cuffed pair. Yuki still looked calm, but Hiro went a little wide-eyed before he just continued on his tugging of the hand-cuffs.
This was something that Aoshi never liked. He enjoyed watching the scared expressions on the prey's face before he kills them. He enjoys hearing them scream in agony or fear. But these two weren't doing a thing. They were acting like they weren't in a life-or-death situation. "You might as well stop trying to intimidate them," Shuichi spoke up in a deadly, but calm, voice. "As long as I've known those two, nothing can scare them that easily." Shuichi sent a small glance to the two hand-cuffed humans, checking to see if Splinter had made his way over their. He did, and he was already working on Hiro's hand-cuffs.
Hiro knew what Splinter was doing. And thankfully, there were a few foxes blocking the fox demon from sight. Splinter had already started to tinker with the hand-cuffs, but Hiro kept pulling on them like he was still trying to break out of them somehow. He knew that if he just suddenly stopped, then it would arouse suspicion. That wasn't something he wanted. He saw the glance Shuichi sent towards him and Yuki, but the stare seemed to have landing more on Splinter then on them, like he was checking.
Shuichi sent his stare back at the blood fox demon before him. His eyes in a deep glare. The red was starting to spread slightly within his eyes, but it was still barely noticeable. If Aoshi could see it, then he would be a little scared, but Aoshi couldn't see it. Not yet, anyway. The temperature around Shuichi started to drop very little, but that wasn't unnoticed. With a small smirk, Aoshi stood from his spot and went over to the hybrid fox. He ran his fingers down Shuichi's face once he reached the pink-haired fox demon. "You should know better then to hide things from me, Shuichi," Aoshi said into Shuichi's pink fox ears. "So don't get so angry. It's your own fault, you know. You just couldn't let them go. If you did, they would have lived past today. I'm getting tired of giving you this speech over and over. Stop being such a softy."
The hybrid fox didn't reply. He just kept glaring at Aoshi for all he was worth. Aoshi smirked before he walked away a bit, standing in the middle of the gap that the fox demons made so he could move around and see the human clearly. With the smirk still on his lips, Aoshi held out his hand and his golden eyes started to glow. Yuki clenched his teeth a little, but refused to cry out, as his blood started to seep from his chest and float to Aoshi's hand, forming a small blood ball in the palm of his hand. Shuichi started to pull away from his captors, but they held onto his tighter. The blood stopped leaving Yuki's chest when Aoshi had the blood ball about the size of a bouncy ball. "Think that would be intimidating enough for them?" Aoshi asked the younger fox. "If not, I can always pull out a little more."
Yuki had stopped clenching his teeth, but was glaring heavily at the blood fox. Hiro was as well. "Stop it, Aoshi," Shuichi growled. "Leave them alone!"
"Since when have you actually even cared for humans?" Aoshi asked, tossing the blood ball in his hands up and down once he had it hardened. "I thought all you did was use them, get with them, tricked them into thinking you liked them, then stole their valuables and broke their hearts. I thought that was your way. Why are these humans so different from the others?"
"Someone like you wouldn't understand," Shuichi silently replied, but Aoshi still heard him.
"Mind elaborating it a bit then?"
"Why? It would only end up with you confused. I won't waste my time explaining something that you can never understand."
Aoshi growled a bit before tossing the blood ball in his hand at Shuichi's shoulder. It exploded, covering Shuichi's shoulder and part of his neck, barely leaving anything on his face, with Yuki's red blood. His clothing started to stain with a dark red, growing larger and larger. Yuki and Hiro couldn't tell if that was the blood from the ball spreading throughout Shuichi's clothing, or if the blood ball had somehow injured the hybrid fox. Shuichi couldn't stand the scent of Yuki's blood when Aoshi held it from a distance. It took everything he had to not lose his calmness and attack everyone. But being hit with a blood ball made from Yuki's blood was a little too much. The scent lingered around Shuichi's shoulder. The scent of Yuki's blood automatically told him that Yuki was hurt. Even though there were no wounds on the blond human, the scent was telling him otherwise.
The hybrid closed his eyes slowly as the scent continued to drift into his sensitive nose before snapping his normal purplish eyes to reveal eerie red ones. His pupils were slanted, much like a fox's eye, as his claws grew slightly longer and pointed more. A deep growl escaped his throat as the temperature heavily dropped around him. Some of the foxes that were around him were starting to shiver form the coldness. Aoshi's eyes slightly widened when he saw Shuichi's red ones before he started to chuckle. "The red eyes," Aoshi said. "I never would have thought that I would see you with them. Mostly because it's hard to get you mad enough to get them. Don't tell me you have softened so much that a simple scent of a human's blood can send you into a rage?"
"I'm only giving you this one last warning," Shuichi growled out. "Let. Them. Go. NOW!!!!"
All Aoshi did was smirk before Hiro started to clench his teeth in pain. Blood spilled from his wrist and floated towards Aoshi's, just like Yuki's did. Shuichi was growling dangerously as he struggled against the foxes that bound him. Hiro's blood didn't form a ball like Yuki's did. It just floated there above Aoshi's hand before it dropped down onto it. Red liquid dripped from Aoshi's hand only to be forgotten on the dirty floor as Aoshi raised his hand and licked off some of the blood. "Human blood hasn't lost its taste," Aoshi stated with a deep and dark chuckle. Shuichi snarled, baring the fangs that were slightly growing larger with each passing second. The hands of the foxes that bound there were starting to freeze over with ice covering their skin.
The fox demons holding Shuichi were both starting to get a little cold. They were already starting to shiver slightly, but they didn't loosen their hold they had on the hybrid fox's arms. Ice was starting to creep along the floor away from Shuichi's feet until it was behind the two that bound him in his spot. No one, not even Aoshi, noticed the ice on the floor. Well, Splinter saw it. He had already gotten Hiro's hand-cuffs unlocked, now he just needed to get Yuki's. That would be a little harder since there were no other fox demons he could hide behind, giving him some cover while being totally oblivious to what he was doing. He was in a tight spot right now, but he figured he wouldn't be for very long when he saw the ice on the floor that was starting to form two really long spikes.
Both ice spikes were small on the floor before they quickly shot up into the back of the two fox demons that held onto Shuichi. Both ice spikes broke through their mid-back and came out through their chest. Blood slide down the ice before both ice spikes shrunk down. Everyone was wide-eyed at what just happened. Even Aoshi. Both fox demons fell to the floor, dead. Shuichi got his arms out of their cold loose grips. Just one look from Shuichi's deadly, cold red eyes and everyone was starting to back off. Some even stood in front of Yuki, which gave Splinter the cover he needed. Both Yuki and Hiro were shocked at what just happened, not quite sure if Shuichi was the one who did it, or someone else. Seeing the sadistic smirk that formed on Shuichi's lips told them. Shuichi did it.
The air was starting to get colder with each passing second. Splinter was shivering slightly, but he managed to keep concentration while trying to unlock Yuki's hand-cuffs. Cold visible air started to swirl around Shuichi as small icicles started to form in mid-air. Shuichi used the water in the atmosphere to create them, but not many had that thought registering in their minds. They spun around in the air, circling Shuichi, which was confusing both Yuki and Hiro, but Splinter knew what was going to happen next. "This is why no one has ever pissed Ice Heart off," Splinter mumbled under his breath. Hiro and Yuki looked at him, slightly confused, but soon got what he met. The icicles that were spinning around Shuichi shot into different directions, hitting anything that was in the way, mostly the fox demons in the room.
Some icicles got fox demons in the stomach, some fox demons got hit in the chest, others got pinned before another icicle finished them off, but none of the icicles went towards Aoshi, Yuki, Hiro, or Splinter. Yells of pain were heard all around the room, shrieks echoed into everyone's ears. Blood was spilling onto the filthy floor, staining the normally dark blue carpet a deep eerie red. Neither of the two humans in the room could believe that Shuichi did all this damage. In five seconds, the once crowded and nearly clean room turned into a war zone. It looked like WWII was held in the room. Aoshi stood where he was. He had no wounds or any signs of blood on his body, for the exception of Hiro's blood dripping from his hand. He stared at Shuichi with no emotion in his golden eyes.
"I warned you, Aoshi," Shuichi stated in an empty, deadly tone that sent shivers up Yuki's and Hiro's spines. "You never listen to me. I don't know why I bothered warning you."
"Dear, dear Shuichi," Aoshi said in a taunting tone as he looked around. "You can't hurt me. Your icicles didn't even hit me. I think you're out of practice when it comes to your aim. And you can't bring yourself to hurting me."
Shuichi's eyes gave a faint glow as three more icicles formed in mid-air, floating in front of Shuichi's chest, pointing towards the unscathed blood fox demon. "Don't tempt me," Shuichi growled out, baring his canines clearly. All Aoshi did was smirk, showing off his own fangs. Shuichi turned his gaze over to Yuki, Hiro, and Splinter before he gave a small wave of his hand and replaced his scowling look with a smirk. Splinter's eyes widened in realization. He knew what Shuichi was planning to do.
"Come on," he said to the two humans. "We're gonna need to get out of here before he does it."
"Does what?" Yuki asked, trying to sound like he was uninterested, but he was actually a little curious as to what Shuichi was planning.
"Ice Oblivion," Splinter replied.
"What's that?" Hiro asked this time as he watched one of the icicles that were in front of Shuichi shoot at Aoshi, forcing the blood fox demon to the wall, pinned by the icicle in his arm.
"Ice Oblivion is something that only a fox that is part ice can do," Splinter replied as he watched the second icicle fly at Aoshi, pinned his other arm against the wall. "You know how when water in a water balloon, when the water goes one way, but some water is going against it? That's kind of what it's like. When that happens in a water balloon, if the water fights against itself long enough, the balloon pops. Ice Oblivion makes ice cold air fight against each other, one pretty fierce current against another. If we stay in here when Ice Heart does it, then we're going to end up dead. He's telling us to get out, and we should. Like, now!" He pulled them by the sleeves, snatching their attention from Shuichi to him as he went towards the door, half tempted to drag them with him.
When Shuichi saw that the three were out, he sent the third icicle straight into Aoshi's stomach. Blood poured from all three wounds that the icicles made on Aoshi as the fox demon coughed up more blood. Shuichi stepped closer to him until he was right in front of the red-headed fox. He trailed a hand down the side of Aoshi's face, scrapping his claws into the older fox demon's skin. "I am grateful that you saved my life when I was young," he spoke. "But you've taken things to far. Things could have been different if you were." He removed his hand from Aoshi's face as he stepped back some.
Aoshi chuckled a little, smirking devilishly. "You have some way of showing your gratitude," he stated before ice started to rise from the floor around Shuichi's form, creating an ice shield around the hybrid fox. "Ice Heart defiantly suits you, Shuichi." Shuichi heard what Aoshi said, even thought the ice sphere completely surrounded him. The air outside of the ice sphere started to grow colder and colder until even the blood on the floor was frozen solid. The wind started to go one way, then some of it went another. Ice cold wind currents went all kinds of directions, fighting against each other. The walls started to groan from the force of the wind trying to escape somehow. Eventually, the walls gave in. the building expanded before it broke apart completely, like someone just detonated a bomb.
Broken parts of the ceiling rained down onto the ground, striking anything that the pieces could hit. Aoshi looked up in time to see a wooden plank that had broken off, making it look like one end of it was like a stake or something, striking him into his head. The walls shot out into the world outside of the building. Broken planks after broken plank striked at the ice sphere that surrounded Shuichi, but it never broke or gave in. after a moment or two, part of the building's ceiling and walls stopped falling onto the ground. Yuki and Hiro were shocked when they saw what happened to the building. "Told you," Splinter said. "If we stayed in there, all that stuff would have killed us or something. Anyone who was alive in there is as good as dead."
"What about Shuichi?" Hiro asked, not taking his eyes off of the now broken building.
Splinter pointed towards the middle of all the rubble. "See that large ice ball over there? Ice Hearts inside of that. All ice foxes make one of those to make sure nothing can hurt them when they do Ice Oblivion." As soon as he stopped talking, Yuki and Hiro were running towards the destroyed building. The ice sphere slowly started to shrink away until it was gone, and only Shuichi was left in its place. The hybrid fox was on his knees, his shoulder shaking slightly. His clawed fingered were digging into the wood, creating deep scratch marks on the floor boards. "Damn," splinter whispered when he saw Aoshi's body, pinned with ice and broken board running through his body.
Yuki bent down next to the pink-haired fox before he put a hand on Shuichi's shoulder. Shuichi jumped in slight surprise, snapping around to see Yuki looking at him with worried eyes. The blond human's face was emotionless, but his eyes said different. Shuichi launching into Yuki's chest, burying his face into the clothing. He started to sob heavily, wrapping his arms around Yuki's chest, refusing to budge. The blind didn't know what to do right now, so all he did was wrap his arms around Shuichi's form and pick up the fox demon bridal style with him as he stood on his feet. Splinter and Hiro watched as Shuichi allowed tears to flow form his eyes.
"They went too far with him," Splinter spoke.
"But he just got rid of them," Hiro pointed out. "Why's he crying?"
"Because, his parents were killed when he was five. I told you that already. Aoshi and the gang were practically the only family he had since then. Now, his family is gone again, leaving only us. We're all he has left now." Hiro sighed, but he understood.
When Shuichi stopped shaking and eventually stilled, Yuki looked over at them. "Brat just fell asleep," he stated, walking over to them.
Splinter chuckled. "Yeah, well," he said. "He did use a lot of energy doing Ice Oblivion. He needs to rest. Fox demons usually don't use that much energy when they're in his condition. He was being reckless and irrational when he used that much energy."
"Sounds just like him," Hiro stated, giving out a weak chuckle.
"Think you two can walk around? I mean, Aoshi did take out a lot of blood from you two."
Hiro and Yuki looked at each other for a minute before Hiro smirked and replied for the both of them. "I think we're fine. We can manage."
Me: ok. End of chapter. I have weird ideas and I have spent 4ever trying 2 figure out how 2 type this fight. Not much of 1, though, is it. Anyway, the next chapter will b the last one and it's a major time skip. Just thought I would tell every1 that ahead of time. review!!!!! Wow. 3,369 words in this chapter. Not including author notes! Yes, I found the word recount thing for Microsoft.