Hi! Well before you start to read I wantedto clear some things first. As you will see soon, Shizuru isn't some kind of scary thing. she is more like human. The Natsuki which you saw was real Natsuki's dark side which will often appear in fic including real one. I hope after reading this chapter you will understand my main idea. Besides...orget Bible and religion! although I did studied it, but I'm not going to use it...maybe sometimes although don't think so... Anyway hope you will enjy it
Also this chapter isn't checked by beta, so if someone would like to be one for this fic, tell me...Now enjoy :)
DISCLAIMER: How I hate it! No I don't own show!
Chapter 1
Name
The young girl dressed all in black, was walking through dark corridors, not paying attention to anyone. The souls of peoples were ogling her with their eyes, desiring to be alive once more, to find themselves near that beauty, but one of her glares made them change their mind and look away, gaining girl's smile or even laugh.
After long walking she was finally was able to come to her destination. It was a big cave, which had hundreds I not thousands of camera's in which were sitting different types of creatures, including human souls. Usually cages were used for demons that hadn't done their work properly, or for human souls… it was one of the punishments which they had to suffer for their sins…sitting in cage for hundreds years without food or drink… Prisoners didn't even have strength to look at a beauty which was passing by them. At last girl found the cage that she needed… It was placed in special room where only one cage could be found and it was the only one which had guard.
"Ah, Kuga…" said the demon with ugly face, and tongue like snake.
"Open it" she ordered.
"Can't wait to take her away from here?"
"I need to do my work"
"Oh come on…I'm sure He will forgive you if you will be late for some time" said monster and put his two ugly, red hands around girl's body. His tongue was nearing near her ear, but before it could touch it "Aaaahhhh!" he let girl go and grabbed his tongue which was hold by girl's stong hand. Big grin appeared on her sweet face.
"Touch me again and I will tear you apart, you ugly one eyed monster" she said in a sweet voice "Do you understand me?"
"Y-yes!"
"Good…now open the door" and let him go.
"Damn you Kuga" swear the monster before opening the door and letting girl in.
The room was dark and it was impossible to see anything in the end of the room 'And they expected to teach her something while keeping here?' the girl wondered 'What an idiots' she walked inside and looked around, observing every inch in the room and for her delight, she noticed a movement.
"So there you are! Come out" but no one came "Oh come on! Don't be afraid, I'm not as bad as all this guys which were around you"
The girl's grin was bigger than her face now, because her destination has came out from shadow…to be more correct, it crawled towards her.
"Does she walk on four?"
"No, she can walk on two too" answered the guard.
"That's good…now come here, don't worry I won't hurt you"
At first sigh the thing which came out looked more like demon, but after looking at her more carefully, Natsuki understood that it all was because of dirt and tore apart clothes. The things head rose up and two red rubies stared into girls emerald eyes…she wasn't any different from human, except some parts…
"Hi, my name is Kuga Natsuki and yours?"
"Woof?" the experiment looked puzzled at her.
"No use, she doesn't talk and she doesn't have name either.
"I don't care" was cold reply "My work is to deliver her to myself. It will be her problem now" still smiling Natsuki went towards experiment and took its chin into her hand "Right? But don't worry…I will still visit you… Give me the chain" ordered she to a monster.
"One moment" answered he and entered the cage, after some struggling he brought the end of the chain for which other end was already connected to experiment's neck.
"Good, now let's go my dear friend" and pulled the end of chain making so called beast walk behind her who didn't won't to move and tried all her best to stay on place.
"Move you animal!" roared demon and punched her on the butt, but soon felt sorry for that.
Fire appeared in Natsuki's hand and swinging her hand she threw fire ball at the stupid guarder. She was an excellent thrower, so her fire ball got its target perfectly and destroyed demons eye.
"You little bitch!" it roared while grabbing his damaged part, green blood ran through his fingers and down to the elbow, before dripping on ground.
"Idiot, if you will hurt you He will kill you!" she roared "say thanks that he wasn't near" and not paying anymore attention to a hurt monster, walked away dragging experiment behind "Come, of course if you want to be punched again, I don't mind" it seems creature understood her and this time walked without resistance using her two legs "Good girl" said Natsuki and continued to walk.
The walk was long, after all hell isn't small place, but for someone like her…it was nothing. On the way Natsuki sometimes looked back to see horrified face of her companion, who was looking around with frightened eyes and holding her hands tight to her chest, small smile played at Natsuki's face when she spoke "Scared? Don't worry, we will leave this place soon…"
Finally they came to their destination… one of the biggest caves was standing in front and big flames of fire were soaking through cracks in the walls. Not paying attention to it, they entered the cave and were greeted by 3 ugly faces.
"Clean her" ordered Natsuki and gave chain to one of the demons "I can't take her like this on earth"
Claw, who was among those 3, nodded in agreement although his face showed nothing than disgust. Roaring in annoyance, demon from left took the chain and dragged experiment behind who didn't want to move this time.
"Go, or I will leave you here forever" said Natsuki, her face and eyes had no emotions, what made girl with chain to wonder…was it good idea to go with her…but after looking around at all this ugly and disgusted faces which were ogling at her and drooled over her… Closing her eyes tightly she walked as was ordered.
"It seems she really wants to get out of here" said Claw.
"Then don't make her wait, shall we?" asked Natsuki while showing the way with her hand.
Groaning in reply, Claw and its companion walked forward as Natsuki with another grin walked behind. This time she found herself in big room which looked like laboratory and had all different kind of things which girl hasn't seen before and has no idea how they were called. With big curiosity she took some sharp thing which looked like knife.
"Don't touch it! Of course if you want to get paralyzed…" said Claw with small smile.
"Paralyzed?" asked curious girl.
"Yes, do you see purple drops on it?" girl nodded "It is blood, mixed with some special medicine, which I made and if it will touch your blood, you'll be paralyzed"
"I see…" she put knife down "Killed someone?"
"One of useful experiments" was only reply.
"So that is how you get rid of them? Make another experiments?" monster nodded "and if she will fail…she will become your laboratory rat too?"
Large smile crossed beasts face and about hundred golden teeth were shown "Oh yes…can't wait to lay my fingers on her" he licked his lips.
"It seems you are wishing for her fail, maybe it is your fault that experiments don't function properly?" Natsuki's eyes sparkled as she moved towards demon.
"Don't be ridicules! I don't have anything to do with it! I'm just sure that this plan won't work"
"We will see…"
"Don't tell me that you are already carrying about her"
"Don't make me laugh" girl's eyes narrowed "I'm bad…so I don't care what will happen with her…The only thing that bothers me is my own life, now give me the barrier!"
"So impatient…"
Fire ball once more appeared in Natsuki's hand "Don't make me throw it"
"Alright, alright" sighed demon and went towards one of the cupboards. Flame immediately disappeared and girl's body relaxed a bit.
"Here" said monster and threw small, black box to her.
"What is it?" asked she while looking at it.
"Inside are laying three syringes. I need you to put your blood in one of them, then experiments blood in second and your human self blood in third. After that keep box with you. Barrier will stay for a month, timer will appear on box top"
"And what about barrier at the moment?"
"Your medallion will keep it for some time, now go"
"Well, see you soon then" putting box in pocket she walked away and towards main entrance.
Near entrance she saw demon and No 666 all cleaned, but still dressed in old clothes.
"And what about clothes?"
"You didn't say anything about it" roared demon in reply.
'What the hell am I doing among these idiots?' not saying a word she grabbed a chain and walked away, but of course not without sending another fire ball which this time hit demons foot.
"Damn you Kuga!"
But she didn't even turn around to see his pained expression; she just continued to walk, laughing loudly before saying last words in this awful place "Now the real fun begins…"
It was a nice weather, sun was shining and birds were flying around, singing their hearts out and… Damn! Who the hell cares about weather? Me not so to be short it was fantastic weather in the middle of April. Everyone enjoyed it and had big smiles all over their faces until one girl crossed their paths…
Kuga Natsuki… that says a lot! Who ever hears her name, tries to hide as far as possible especially when she is in bad mood, what means whole spring! She is one of the girls who hates spring! Why? Because of all this hormones which are awakening in animals, people, especially in teenagers who she was at the moment.
Natsuki was 17 years old and studied in famous school Fuuka Gakuen although her attendance wished to be better. It was so boring there for her that she almost never stayed there till the end of lessons and usually was lectured by her only friend Tokiha Mai. Today's day wasn't exception… at the moment the raven-haired girl was putting on her leather jacket in bushes while listening to another of Mai's lectures telling her how important it is to go to school, to get good education and so on and so on… But poor girl had no idea that the target who she was lecturing didn't have any clue what exactly she was telling. After all she had ear plugs.
"See you Mai!" shouted Natsuki and jump on her Ducati.
"Eeehhhh!" asked confused red-haired but didn't manage to say anything else as the girl already rode away.
Not looking back at her mad friend Natsuki continued to ride until she got far away from school. She didn't go home, no… why should she? It was boring there as well, especially after she finished all her video games. So to have something to do, she drove towards biggest arcade world in city. Turning engine off, she took helmet under her elbow and entered her little heaven. Not looking at people inside, she made her way towards one of her favorite's games…shooting!
She was one of the best players in this sort of games and always beat those who challenged her in mere of the seconds. After destroying few of her opponents, she made her way towards frightening games. She was really famous here and most of the game player's looked at her with respect and didn't try to challenge her. Only new ones or fools, like before, dared to do it.
After spending for about 2 or 3 hours just playing different games, Natsuki entered the game shop to buy new ones so she wouldn't be too bored at home. After looking through some new games, she finally chose 3 which suited her taste and which were shooting, fighting and motor racing.
After paying for the games, she once more jumped on her bike, but this time rode towards her apartment, all impatient to start her new bought games. But what made her happiness to disappear was to see one person, who didn't want to see the most, especially in spring and all alone…Masashi Takeda.
A young guy, with cut on his face was standing near building, in which one could be found Natsuki's flat, not far from entrance. He looked really nervous and wasn't able to stay on place so his body slowly moved from toes till finger tips and then back again. He looked like baby who was always shaken by their parents so they would calm down. Sighing the girl jumped off the bike and took her helmet off before taking packet with games from bike's front. Putting helmet between elbow and her body, she moved towards entrance door without throwing single glance in boy's direction who has already noticed her and his whole body turned red.
"Y-yo K-K-Kuga!" he shouted loud, now his body was stiff like desk, but girl just kept going "I-I-I was going to see a-a-a movie… I heard you like this kind of m-movies so…would y-you you like t-t-t-to come with me?" the girl stopped making young guy to open his mouth from happiness, but when he saw her eyes, colour immediately ran off from his skin screaming loud 'Run idiot, run!' The look which she gave him was the famous Kuga glare and everybody in school knew exactly what it means…'run away before she counts till 3 and kills you'
"A-a-ah! W-well I can a-a-always go alone! B-bye!" shouted he and quickly ran away but of course not without tripping on something or hitting some pillars.
'Idiot!' thought irritated girl and went inside of the house. She was so lazy that was always using lift to get on 3rd floor. As the doors of the lift opened, she moved towards her entry while taking keys from pocket. After some clicks, she opened the door and entered apartment before closing door behind and sighing one more time. Gradually she moved towards living room while throwing shoes and jacket in all directions.
"You really don't know how to talk to people" said someone's voice and she noticed a figure dressed all in black, lying on her couch and reading one of her motorbike magazines.
"Who the hell are you and what are you doing in my house!" she roared at intruder.
"Is it the way you greet guests?" asked familiar voice, whose owner still didn't look at her 'That voice…'
"I don't care! So if you want to stay alive, get your fucking ass away from my couch and out of my apart…" she didn't finish her sentence as her jaw dropped on the floor while eyes popped out of it's socket's and looked at herself who was lying on the couch.
The grin appeared on girl's face who some time ago was reading magazine "What is it Natsuki? Did you see a ghost or is there something on my face?"
"Y-y-y-you…." Was the only thing the girl could mutter.
"Me what?" asked the other one who was definitely enjoying the situation.
"Me!" shouted other letting her bag and helmet to fell.
The girl laughed loud, not able to control it "Oh my fucking shit!" she started to bang the sofa "I never though it will cause me so much fun! But my reaction is definitely priceless!"
The owner of the flat just looked at herself dumbfounded, not understanding what is going on here 'Am I sleeping? Is it a nightmare? Mai was right, I shouldn't play so many games!'
"But games are fun, you shouldn't stop playing them. By the way…" the girl went off "Can I play them?"
Natsuki jumped up after seeing herself being near her and looking through games which she bought just now "Can I!" the girl plead and puppy eyes stared straight into hers "H-hai" was weak reply.
"Cool!" shouted the girl and ran towards playstation 3 which Natsuki bought only few weeks ago 'Does my puppy eyes really look so irresistible! No wonder Mai always agreed to help me in the end!'
"Yep, puppy eyes attack is the best. I'm master in it" admitted the other her who was already playing fighting game "say big thanks to me for having such attack, including so called Kuga glare, your angel self would never use something like this" the girl laughed.
"Angel…self?" girl was fully confused.
"Hai" other girl didn't look in her direction as at the time she was busy playing games.
"Wh-what do you mean by that? And… who the hell are you! Why do you look exactly like me!"
"Who the hell am I? I think you already answered your question"
"Wh-what?"
"Yes, Natsuki. I am hell, so called your dark side. You can call me your devil" Natsuki just looked at herself dumbfounded, the girl so called devil sighed "You see Natsuki, you humans have two sides. Bad and good. Some have bad side more developed than good, some otherwise. Some have it in half or use both in full strength. Do you get me?"
"Not sure…" 'It's just a dream! It isn't possible for me to see my dark side! Is it God's punishment? Does He want me to become better!'
The girl playing games laughed "Don't be silly Natsuki! That idiot would never do something like this. Besides the thing which is happening right now I would call a dream more than a nightmare" she grinned and for the first time, after starting playing, looked at shocked herself "Yes…I can read you mind just perfectly. After all I'm you…"
Natsuki's mouth opened and closed not letting any sound come out. She looked like fish that was taken out from water and hoped to get back "I… why?"
"Good question…" the girl put pause and stood up "You are really lucky today, Kuga. The reason you are seeing me today is that I came to give you a present"
"P-present? Me? What for?"
"Huh? You don't want present?"
"No, I just…"
"Lets say you have won a lottery today" the girl came nearer, but the real her just backed "I will give you something that no one else have seen before, something about what only you will know…"
"And what do I have to give you back?"
"Didn't I say that you have won a lottery?"
"Don't think…things could be so easy…"
"Natsuki, Natsuki… you watch too many movies. We people from hell are very trustworthy…"
"Doesn't it have to be opposite?"
Girl sighed for another time "Aright, there are some conditions…"
"See!"
"I said some. First of all no one can find out about what you will receive, it is secret. Understand?" she came nearer, making Natsuki to press to the wall, while her dark sides face came nearer to hers. Natsuki nodded "Good…What other conditions were there? Ah right! I will take your so called present back after a month"
"What? Didn't you say it is a present?"
"And did you hope it will be able to stay with you forever? Don't be idiot! Don't forget that this present doesn't belong to this world"
"Then why in the world are you giving me it at all!"
"You are not the first one who receives a present from us"
"Huh?" girl was confused.
"You see…" dark side took several steps back "we make this kind of lottery every ten years and this time you got to be the lucky one"
"And what for?"
"Just to see your reactions and see if you are ready for something like this"
"And what about God?"
"He makes this kind of lottery too, but our presents are always the best!"
"It makes sense…" admitted Natsuki, who still felt uncomfortable seeing herself like this, although she wasn't so shocked anymore.
"Glad to hear it! So… are you going to accept our present?"
"I…"
"Oh come on! Or are you scared?"
"What? Me? Never!"
"As I thought"
"Alright give it to me!"
"Then it's a deal?" devil Natsuki offered a hand.
"Yes!" and her human self grabbed it As soon as their hands touched, sparkles started to run from their hands as thunder was running around their them "Wh-what is going on!"
"That is how a deal with devil looks…" was simple answer which was accommodated by another wide smile. Suddenly deep pain appeared in Natsuki's hand, she wanted to separate her hand from others, but devil Natsuki didn't let go, she held her tightly.
"L-let me go! It hurts!"
"Fine…" the girl let go and all thunders and sparkles immediately disappeared, if they never were there although pain still reminded in Natsuki's palm. The girl grabbed it and looked at it to see how blood was seeping from middle of palm.
"What is the meaning of it!"
"Just put plaster, everything will be fine" girl crossed her hands "Now it's time for you to see your present…"
"Sooo?"
"Don't rush me! Anyway…" dark Natsuki got quiet before exclaiming loudly and making real Natsuki to fell on floor "Beware! The greatest thing of all is going to appear right now!" smoke started to appear from nowhere, making Natsuki scared, but her devil self laugh louder "The strong! The beautiful! The greatest creation! Are you ready to see it?" Natsuki nodded "Excellent! Then here it is!" now girl was really impatient, the introduction really got her into it all and she couldn't wait to see what it really was 'Maybe it is something scary? Then Takeda definitely won't come near me!' "I'm giving you…." Smoke started to disappear "…a PUPPY!" Natsuki's jaw dropped for another time during today's day, but after seeing what really appeared, her jaw almost made hole in floor "WHA!"
"Isn't she cute?"
"Cute! Are you kidding me? It's a human!"
"No she isn't! Look! She has dog ears and tail!" exclaimed devil and was right.
The creature which appeared from smoke definitely looked like human except those two things which were mentioned. But if not look too closely you wouldn't notice it. It was girl, pretty girl who was about the same age as Natsuki. Her brown hair fell down her shoulders and below her breasts, which Natsuki noticed were much bigger than hers 'Damn it!' She had really nice body, although horrible clothes which she was wearing ruined everything, but don't think it could be called clothes. It more looked like some kind of mollies which were just put on her, so she wouldn't be nude. Besides so called clothes were really dirty and it made Natsuki wonder 'Where in the world was she held!' Natsuki's eyes slowly scanned girl which was sitting in front of her till she met her eyes, her burning red eyes which made girl to scream 'Now I'm sure she isn't human!' It was the first time when she saw eyes like this, it looked like if they were bleeding, although seeing pain which was hidden somewhere deep in those rubies 'No wonder they look like this…it seems she is in big pain…' Green eyes carefully examined every inch of girl's face, making her think even deeper 'She definitely isn't human…but can it be called Devil's creation? She looks too charming to be ones, almost like goddess' Then she noticed the ears…brown dog ears were seen on top of girls head which lay on it, like if they weren't alive 'Now…where is tail?'
"Here!" exclaimed devil and pulled poor girls tail, making her gasp from pain.
"Stop it! You are hurting her!"
"You asked to show you a tail, so I did as asked"
"You could show it more carefully!"
"I'm devil, don't forget it"
"How could I" sneered the girl.
"So…aren't you going to greet your new master? asked devil, addressing to girl who she held chain on. The girl nodded and stood on her knees, putting hands in front and as dog moved towards Natsuki who was still sitting on floor and looking at her with wide eyes. Girl slowly moved towards her so called new owner and carefully took girl's hand into hers before licking it and looking at Natsuki with eyes full of different kind of emotions: sadness, happiness, shyness, bliss, fear, love… but soon everything changed into one…big fear…
"Kyyyaaaa!" Natsuki jerked her hand back "What the hell are you doing!"
The experiment rapidly ran back, shaking in fear and looking at Natsuki in apologetic way.
"She just greeted you" devil Natsuki smirked.
"She licked my hand!"
"Didn't I tell you that she is half a dog? It is logical for her to do something like this"
"But she looks like human! It is disgusting!"
"You will have to get used to it" and chain on girl's neck disappeared.
"No way! I don't need present like this! You can take her back!"
"Gomen, but I can't. We already made a deal"
"But I didn't sign any documents, so no!"
"We shook hands and it is enough. If you won't do as was told, you will be punished" devil Natsuki glared at her human self, making her shiver.
"B-but… how am I going t-to hide her from others?"
"Hide her tail under clothes and put hat on her head to cover ears" devil waved with hand.
"What clothes? Did you see how she is dressed!" Natsuki stood up.
"You will have to get her new ones" devil grinned.
"Wha! But I don't know her size!"
"Will have to find out then"
"What! And you don't know her size!"
"How should I know it?"
"Damn! Tell me at least her name then…"
"She doesn't have name, we just call her experiment No 666"
"666? Is she Devil's daughter or what?"
"We used to call her like this too" girl laughed "It seems you will have to give her name, of course if you don't want to call her like this"
"No I don't!"
"Good! So what the name will be?" asked curious devil, rubbing hands together.
"Well…how about Duran?"
Devil's grin immediately fell "Hello! Is anybody there!" she shouted in Natuki's ear while knocking on her head "It is girl! Do you have any other names in your mind? I do agree that Duran is nice name, I like it as well as you do, but really! Besides she looks more like human! So come on! Give her some better name!"
"I don't know any other names!" protested Natsuki, trying to get away from herself; it really felt weird to be so close to someone who looks like you.
"Geez! Are you really me? I always knew that your good side is full idiot, but never thought that it is such a big one!"
"Hey!"
"You really inherited bad side; you should learn from me more"
Natsuki crossed hands and looked away "Hm!"
"Alright! How about name Midori?"
"My drunken teacher has that one"
"Futaba? Kaede? Sango? Naru?"
"No"
"Damn! Maybe Shizuka?"
"Shizuru…"
"Huh?"
"I'll call her Shizuru…" repeated girl weakly.
"Excellent! Then starting from now on she will be called Shizuru!" devil turned around "Well now that it was sorted, I'll leave you two alone. I'll come back tomorrow to check on you"
"And what does she eat? Hope she likes mayo"
"Don't know, you will have to ask her" devil Natsuki stopped near Shizuru and rubbed her head "Be a good girl if you don't want to come back sooner"
Shizur's eyes widened in horror and she quickly jumped back and pressed into the corner, shivering from fear. Devil Natsuki laughed loud and her figure started to disappear in the air, like if she was some kind of ghost 'What in the world were they doing with her there?' wondered Natsuk and came nearer to her so called present.
"Although I still can't believe that something like this has happened, but… are you hungry?"
"Woof" was frail reply which made Natsuki's brows rise.
"N-nani!"
"Woof…" was another reply.
"D-don't tell me it is all you can say!" screamed girl, making another one to press tightly to the wall and make another 'woof'.
Somewhere in hell, dark Natsuki was walking around and holding black box in one hand and syringe in another. Smiling she placed the squirt with blood into box and closed it, timer immediately appeared on it showing that one month has left…barrier was placed 'Oh! I forgot to tell her that experiment doesn't talk yet' she laughed 'How forgetful I am…'
Mini feed:
Natsuki: What in the world is going in your head?
Bad one: Don't think you would like to know...
Natsuki: You are sick!
Bad one: If I'm sick then who is she?
Natsuki: Huh? -looks around-
Shizuru: Woof! I'm Duran! -dressed as dog-
Natsuki: Wha! What in the world are you wearing!
Shizuru: Ara, I'm Natsuki' dog now. I need to practise! -jumps on Natsuki-
Natsuki: No! Get up! Somebody save me!
Shizuru: Fu fu...
Bad one: -sigh- At least I'm save for now...
Shizuru: Ara, didn't author say in other story that she has underwear with bunnies?
Bad one: 0.0
Shizuru: Want to see it!
Bad one: Aaaaa! -runs away, fearing for her modesty and who knows...maybe even virginity-
Natsuki: Come back! -grabs Shizuru- I have underwear with bunnis too...-full body blush- and with tea...
Shizuru: Araaaa -faints from nosebleed-
So how was it? I know some of you can ask why did I make all this mess with Hell and Heaven, when Shizuru is just a dog... But I really wanted to include devil Natuki, real Natsukiand dog Shizuru in one fic so it was the only idea which I had... Hope you like it...
Oh! Shizuruxnatsuki3 thanks for title ;) I will use yours for now, if you don't mind :)