disclaimer: disclaimed.
dedication: to my bed.
notes: nerdfighteria.
chapter title: sowing season
summary: I wanna wrap my hands around that pretty neck and squeeze. — Exwires.
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Izumo kills viciously.
She kills with the single-minded intensity of a woman possessed; she kills because she is told to, because she can, because she knows she is doing a service to the world. The things she kills are not human, and she feels no shame as her faithful Byakko bite down deep into a struggling zombie's half-rotted flesh and aim to rip its throat out.
She kills because she can. Because she needs to protect something, though she isn't quite sure what that thing is. Paku? But no, Paku was away from all of this, and safe. She loves Paku to death, and it scares her because what if?
So she kills for honour and justice, but never for love because love is unquantifiable. She can't touch love. Can't see it. Love would be her end, she knows, and so she keeps her heart a hard little knot beneath her breast bone.
Izumo kills with her blood and her soul.
She does not need her heart to kill.
And killing is easy, Izumo thinks with her teeth clenched, the more you do it.
She kills without remorse and without thought, her blood splattered across a summoning circle drawn on a little bit of paper She is a demon-killing priestess, and she kills because it is all she knows.
Mike and Uke curl around her legs.
Izumo touches their fur, the tops of their heads, but only for a second.
She fixes her gaze on the demons in the distance.
She smiles slowly.
"Go on, then. You know what to do," she tells them both.
Mike and Uke's laughter is screeching fox language, and they bound away with great leaps to cross the land. Izumo crosses her arms over her chest and follows, lips stretched across her face in a feral snarl.
She wants to watch them kill everything.
She needs to.
She bites her thumb hard enough to bleed, and she signs her name in devil's ink. She asked for this, and she kills and kills with the knowledge that this is hers, that she did this. It is cruel and hilarious.
Blood drips.
Hear me, God!
Izumo kills viciously.
tbc.