Light With a Sharpened Edge
Chapter 2: All This I'm Giving Up
A/N: I'm sorry I haven't updated in so long. I just read through all of my fan fictions today and realized what a dork I am… I had myself laughing on the floor of my bedroom. Any way, I wanted to update because some readers are getting a bit angst-y. :cough:Ashley:cough:
Taptaptaptaptap…
Yoh stirred in his sleep.
Taptaptaptaptaptaptap…
"Huh?" Yoh sat up and rubbed his eyes. Anna had slept in his room, clinging to his waist while she breathed even breaths.
Meoww…
"Me…ow..?" Yoh echoed. "Is there a cat in here?"
Hissss…
Yoh looked around and in the corner of his room, two yellow eyes were staring back at him.
"I don't think you should be in here, little guy," Yoh told the eyes. They just stared back at him. "Seriously," Yoh tried again. A hiss came from the corner. A small calico stepped out of the shadows.
"Come here," Yoh encouraged the cat. "Don't be scared."
With that, the cat approached Yoh. Its claws could be heard scratching the wooden floor as it came near Yoh's sleeping mat.
"Are you scared?" Yoh asked the calico.
"Are you scared?" the cat repeated the young shaman's words.
"What?" Yoh asked in astonishment.
"Are you afraid?" the cat asked.
"Of what?" Yoh asked, quivering in his pj's.
"Are… you… scared?" the cat repeated his first words.
"N- no!" Yoh answered. "You're obviously just a possessed cat who does not belong in here."
"…Of what will become of you?" the cat continued. Yoh froze there, listening to it.
"Young shaman, young shaman, come out to play. As long as you live, forever I shall stay. Young prince, young prince, is it your life you cherish? I thought not, so your friends shall perish." the cat said, twitching its tail where it sat.
This surely upset Yoh. He adored his friends dearly. "Go away, sad soul," he commanded.
"Sad? Sad, sad… is not quite a word of right. Telling you my story would be a delight. However, it's long….and I haven't the time. To waste it now… would be a blight." the cat chuckled. "Your life is a prize, a one of great size… a beautiful and glorious thing. But to take it now wouldn't be right, in the end my trophy will be the Shaman King. So if you listen and wait a while, I will send someone dear to you up the stile… the steps of death. You can keep your life. For what I want is completely a taunt… to you, your Itako wife."
The cat glowed with a red aura and had a look of evil upon its face. It sprang into the air and headed straight for Anna, who had slept through the whole ordeal.
"Her soul shall awake in my blood-drenched paws!!" the cat cried.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!" Yoh sprang up, Anna still at his side. He anxiously looked around the room. Sweat adorned his forehead. Little beads fell from his face as he shook with nervousness. He looked to Anna. She was alright.
"A dream?" Yoh asked himself. "No, a nightmare."
Meow
Yoh's head shot into the direction of the sound. A blue-eyed calico had wondered into his room. Yoh's eyes opened wide.
The façade of the Funbari Onsen was silent and undisturbed until the door rapidly slid open. Yoh threw the calico out of the house, shut and locked the door.
The cat shook its head and turned into the direction from which it was thrown. It tilted its head with a look of melancholy and sadly pawed at the door.
A/N: Ended too soon, didn't it? ;3 lol Well, I'll leave you to wonder about that. I'm going to Borders to get volume 2 of Happy Hustle High by Rie Takada! X3 R&R. I'll update by next week. Perhaps we'll get to see more RenxHoroness in the next chapter, Sun Decide to Give In!