I do not own any of the anime/games in this fic. I also do not own Kel/Kelvis, Zero and Vale. They belong to Keyblade Master/Random/Limit Break Fira
Kuro Suzaku is owned by Kuro herself
Kariudo Shikaku is owned by Kariudo-kun herself
Ian Valentine is owned by Who's Asking.
Umanoki Sugaki belongs to my friend
I own Kiako (That's ME!), Mana, Malice and Miu. When a new paragraph starts these little thingies will appear ʓʓʓ and if those thingies don't show up I'm sorry -.-; And I'm sorry if there are spelling errors.
Mana and memories: Italic
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Hours on hours later, I had no idea what the time was... Thankfully Sugaki also knew healing magic somehow, he kinda bent some light here and there...
I went into the next tent and clentched my teeth together to stop my crying. Cliff was on a stretcher as WRO members and monks were running about using items on the other patients.
The Klausian glanced up at me and smiled, "H-Hey..."
"Stop talking..." I quickly instructed and started to cast Cura, "You'll live."
"Hey hey, what're those tears for...?" I rubbed my eyes into my shoulder and continued to cure, "Come on, don't look like that..."
"I can't help it..." I murmured. Cliff chuckled then coughed violently, causing his blood the splurt out, "Shit!!" I pulled off my gloves and put my hands deeper into his wounds while increasing my chakra flow.
"Vitals dropping!"
"You! Bring some Cure materia! NOW!"
"Cliff...? Cliff! Keep awake dammit!" I shouted as his eyes drifted shut.
"Don't look like that... At least, smile..."
I stopped, swallowed my tears and let out a small smile at him. Cliff smiled back.
"That's the kid... I know..." his eyes closed...
I stared for a moment, then grit my teeth.
"DON'T YOU DARE YOU BASTARD!!!" I shouted, forcing every little bit of chakra left in me. I can't let him die! No no no no no no NO NO NO NO NO!!!!
Something grabbed my arm pulling me away.
"Kiako stop..."
"NO!!" I shouted, "He's still going to live! He's going to! I...I can't--!!" I was yanked back and spun back around to face raging yellow eyes.
"You're healing a dead body. Stop wasting energy like that!" Zero said into my face, "He's dead, face it, he won't come back. You can't bring back the dead." I glared at him and shoved him out of my way.
Damn that bastard Zero!! Dammit dammit dammit!!
I stumbled and fell onto the ground hard and slowly sat up. There was a puddle of blood coming from my hands and some of the blood was down the front of my robes.
That was... The 400th person that died in my hands today...
I felt... Absolutly sick...
I went to quickly wash my hands and almost threw up at the smell of the blood on them. Gripping my head, I fell down to my knees, and screamed as loud as I could.
A hand snapped itself over my mouth, another yanking my backpack and I instantly sunk my teeth into the gloved hand.
"Do you want the enemy to find us?" I glanced behind me seeing Heihachi looming over me, his brown eyes sad. I shook my head and continued to wash the blood off.
"So... how many of us are there left?" I asked.
"The exorcists are fine, just a few injuries." Heihachi said, his back to me, "Shichiroji, Kambei, Gorobei, Kyuzo and Kikuchiyo were all KIA..."
"And Katsuchiro?"
"MIA. As is Vale." Heihachi replied again, "Well, Reeve said we best get ready for the second wave, I have to check some of the equipment, okay?" He pet my ears and gave me a small kiss on the cheek. I shook my hands dry and switched back to my normal clothes. After a moment, I let out an involuntary growl and slammed my fist into the wall three times.
"DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT!! Why the hell is this happening?! This isn't FAIR!! DAMMIT!! WHY THE HELL IS THIS HAPPENING?!?"
Dammit I sound like Fayt...
Before I could punch the wall again a hand snapped over my wrist and there was a light flick to my forhead.
"Baka Kiako, you're killing your hand and the wall." Sugaki said and a small ball of light formed in his hand, "I'll heal it for you, don't punch me too ok?" He placed it on my bloody hand and I glanced at the hole in the wall that I had created.
"I'd better fix that later..." I muttered. Sugaki rose his eyebrow at me.
"You're freakishly strong, as usual." he said and after a moment, stepped back, "There. Done." I sighed and sunked down the wall.
"Man, at first I thought this was fun, but damn... I started a war..." I said as Sugaki sunk down beside me sighing as well, "You seem worried too."
"Not really, I'm just missing someone." he said, "Man, she's gonna be mad at me..." I glanced at him for a moment.
"Does she live in our world?" I asked. He nodded and unslinging my backpack, I pulled out my laptop, "Talk to her, the internet amazingly still works here."
"No, I should go and help every-"
"Call her!! If she's worried sick, it's a bad thing then. Plus, we're at war. If you die, then she won't forgive you, or me." I smiled, "Go ahead, I'll call you when we gotta rally ok?" Sugaki hesitated for a moment, the nodded.
"Ok, thanks Kiako." he said and opened the laptop. I set up my password and such and after a moment of Sugaki's fiddling, I saw him smile and type away. I stood up to leave and smiled to myself.
So, in the time I was gone he found himself a girlfriend.
You're ok with that Kiako? I mean, you liked him...
I smiled.
I was too slow to tell him, besides, did you see how he smiled when he saw her online? If she makes him this happy, then it's fine with me.
... You've certainly grown up.
Maybe, maybe not... Besides, everyone needs a somebody, I'll find my somebody. I probably have.
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"-- It should take place here, and here." Reeve said as I walked into the main temple. Everyone was battered up, Baralai's hair hung loose without his headband and Kel's eye and torso were bandaged up.
"Hey, you doin' ok?" Kel asked patting my head. I nodded.
"We lost nearly half our troops already in the first wave, Allen and the others have taken care of most of the Akuma, so we're in the clear with those." Gippal said, "Thanks to the shinigami that some people can see, nearly all hollows were wiped out."
"Zaraki, the fast hollow killer dead and alive." I felt myself smirk, "So what's left?"
"Deepground, and the Nobuseri." Baralai said, "Although, Heihachi and some of the other mechanics have created a machine to neautralize the bandits. There are only about 6 left." I nodded.
"Good, so how many soldiers do we have left?" I asked. Nooj moved his hand over a part of the map and a number glowed.
"Enough." he said, "We took down Rosso the Crimson of the Tviets, Azul the Cerulean is not in sight."
"...What of Weiss?" I asked, "Is Nero ok too?"
"On the contrary... My brother, will join us soon." Nero said coming from his darkness, one of his arms had a bandage on it, "I was so close..."
"Hojo's possessed Weiss." Kuro said walking in, "Hao gave me the heads up."
"Oh right, none of your guardians died..." I sighed.
"Hao actually was the one who wiped out more then half of the opposition." Gippal said, "Man that guy is hella scay!!"
"Good though, he's had no action, and now he finally decides to help us." Kel said and shuddered, "I still...Can't stand seeing his SoF..."
"When do we start the second wave?" I asked, "Are there enough soldiers that can even fight?"
"We need an advantage boost though... Hao's SoF pretty much incinerates everything it touches but it leaves alot of the small soldiers alive."
"Really? Then maybe I should just drown the Calm lands in water, or perhaps you'd like me to set everything ablaze?" the Dai-onmyouji said as he walked in as well, "Although, I have a stratagy that could allow me to do that without obliterating our forces." Everyone looked at eachother and leaned in to listen.
After a moment, Nero shot back, his red eyes glowing.
"I refuse!!" he hissed.
"But it's the only way we can win this..." Gippal said.
"I refuse to betray my brother like that!!" Nero growled, "I love my brother! Weiss is the only one that understands me!!" Everyone kind of rubbed at their necks or sighed in exasperation. I shook my head, and then stalked over to Nero. Roughly grabbing his neck and pulling him down to my level, I glared up at him.
"If he's that important to you, then you'll let Hao try and tear apart their two souls!!" I snarled, feeling my teeth grind together, "It won't hurt him, I promise you that, but if a body houses two souls together it destroys the original owner of the body. Are you selfish enough to allow your brother's soul to be eatten away? No, you would die for him. That's why we need your help. Do you understand that?" Nero glared back with the same intensity and I glared back, staring deep into his blood red eyes. After a moment, he closed his eyes looking away.
"Seems your soul has gotten stronger then my own..."
I sighed and let out a small smile removing my hand from his throat and placing it on his shoulder.
"Fighting against family and loved ones is hard, I know." I said, "But, it's a siblings job to take care of each other isn't it?"
Nero turned away creating himself a portal of darkness, but I already knew he was grueling at Hao's idea.
"No harm will come of him?"
"I'll make sure ok? I promise." I said. The Sable nodded closing his eyes, and disappeared.
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Opening my closed eyes, I looked up at my remaining guardians.
Kakashi, Heihachi, Chichiri, Kel and Zero. Nero I knew, wasn't liking our idea, but was probably listening somewhere. We were inside of a hidden part of the temple, I had asked Sugaki to not get involved in the war, although he did stick around to help heal a few more of the soldiers. His light abilities match my own white magic...
"Well, guys, here's the final battle..." I said and smiled, "I'm very sorry, for the trouble I've caused everyone..." Chichiri put his arm over my shoulder.
"It wasn't any trouble Kiako-chan, besides, because of your mistake, we all met so many new people right?" he smiled.
"Not to mention there is a variety of worlds. This experience possibly has opened some of our eyes." Kel said, "I mean like, check out Zero, first he wouldn't even go an hour without his porn and now he's been off it for nearly a month."
"Shut up spikey head." Zero grumbled, "I don't see what good came out of all of this. I already knew these things existed and everything."
"Some people didn't though, and it's a good thing they do now otherwise possibly Bevelle and WRO might've already been taken down." Heihachi said, "If Kiako-chan hadn't met Kel-san, we wouldn't have connections to the SeeDs, and without Kariudo-kun and Hitsugaya-san we wouldn't have shinigami to help us."
Zero sat up against his chair and leaned back, "Connecting those together causes chaos in the balance of worlds as well as armies. All this whole thing brought was a war and everyone dying, look at our numbers now! More than half of us are dead!"
"Zero..." Kel stood up, his fists clentched, "Watch yourself..." Zero looked directly at me.
"If none of us had met, and had just minded our own business, no one would have to greive at the losses, and end up killing everyone who should live. Nobody would be DEAD." Zero stopped when Kakashi grabbed him by the neck and slammed him against a nearby wall.
"Kakashi-senpai!" Chichiri cried standing up. Heihachi had drawn his sword and was holding it against Zero's chest, "Heihachi-dono! Calm down!!" Zero meerly glared back, fearless.
"Sensei... Hei-san, Put him down, it's ok." I said quietly and used the back of my sleeve to wipe my eyes, "He has a point."
"Kiako..."
I sniffled and was trying to control all the tears flowing from my eyes and the stabbing in my heart to stop, "If I had just left everything alone, then nothing bad would've really happened... I'm pretty much to blame for dragging everyone here, especially Kuro and Kariudo... I can always hear Kuro-sama complaining about my mistake, how irritating I am and annoying I can be... It really makes me feel a billion times worse, and makes me worried she'll hate me for a very long time, as well as Kariudo-kun. But..." I couldn't stop my tears and instead just let them run, "I want to try and fix it now! Fix it before it's too late!! I don't want anything bad to happen anymore... I don't want anymore people to die... People envolved in my mistake."
The room was silent until Kel let out an sigh of annoyance, "Now now Kiako, you have to learn to share. You can't take blame like that ok? It's not just your fault." he stood up and put a hand on my shouilder, "It's our burden too. Not to mention those bastards pulling the strings."
"Seymour and Hojo are the clearest ones. Hojo has Doctor helping him and we can bet on the Earl behind the Akuma." Kakashi said, "Although, the tactic that Reeve informed us of has some sense in it."
I nodded and then, grinned as wide and as happy as I could. Standing up and switching from my normal clothes into my samurai DS, I smiled and held out my sword.
"Well, the longer we sit here, the more time is wasted." I said, "People of this world are suffering from the war too, we best end this soon." Everyone nodded, although Zero grumbled something. They started to pile out of the room and they paused before they left.
"Kiako, you're all grown up now, but don't grow too fast ok?" Kakashi said patting my head, "Don't let this war kill you from the inside, don't let it destroy your inner child. Also, don't die." I nodded.
"I know Sensei, take care." He walked away and I had to take a step back to support myself at the sudden glomp. Chichiri had thrown his arms around me, hugging me tightly.
"Kiako-chan, whatever you do, don't die no da! Ok?" he said pulling away, his mask was off and his eye stared sadly at me, "Please, whatever you do, you must live!"
I smiled and pulled my sleeve up to dry his trail of tears, "I will Chi, I will. You be careful." He nodded and left with Kakashi.
"Don't die..." Zero muttered running out the door. Kel came and he gave my hair a ruffle.
"You've done good kid, you'll do fine." he smiled, "Then again, it always helps to be careful. Live Kiako, live..." I smiled nodding and hugged Kel.
"Nii-san, be careful..." I said and Kel pat my back.
"Hey hey! If you get all clingy like this it'll be harder to fight!" he said and pushed me a bit. He glanced at Heihachi and gave me a playful nudge, "I'll ask the others to wait before we go, ok?" I chuckled and he ran out, closing the door behind him. Heihachi came to me and pulled me into a hug.
"Kiako-chan... I, might never see you again... They put me in a different division to help with the machines." he said and heaved a sigh. I closed my eyes, savoring this moment.
"Just promise, that you'll be careful. Ok? Don't do anything rash." I said.
"Heh heh, I should be telling you that." Heihachi ruffled my hair, "I'll try and come back."
"So will I..."
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Huffing and turning a corner, I quickly caught sight of a black coat and a dark blue robe.
"Kuro-sama! Kariudo-kun!" I called.
"Nani...?" Kuro asked, her grumpy voice emerging. She further roared as I suddenly hugged her, "GRAAH!! LEMME GO!!"
"Please don't die!!" I cried and quickly went to Kariudo-kun, "Don't you die either!" Kariudo-kun kinda froze and slowly pat my back.
Yeah, I know they never like any hugs...
"As if I'd die, Just you guys watch out ok?" Kuro said.
"Ah yes, I forgot... You're the immortal KuroSuzaku... Lord and master of everything around her." I chuckled earning myself a punch over the head.
"Sorry, I'm tired ok..." Kuro grumbled, "Don't you die... It'd be kinda lonely without you, not to mention that I need someone to balance out my intelligence."
"Oi, that's not nice..." I whimpered. Kariudo smiled.
"Don't worry, I'm sure we'll all be fine." she said, "Oh yeah, Vincent gave me an update. After Hao's plan we meet back at Mt. Gagazet." She turned around to leave.
"Kariudo-kun... Who were your casualties...?" I asked. The assasin stopped and sighed.
"Albel died, so did Kein." she said. I looked away.
"Gomenasai..."
"Don't worry about it, now the only thing we need to do is beat those bastards all the way to the Farplane." Kariudo said and almost chuckled, "I'll ensure, they suffer before they die..."
"I'll help out too!!" Diablos said popping out of nowhere. I felt so crummy already, I was too tired to jump and scream like an idiot...
"Well then, Let's go!"
Authors notes: I can finally... Get some work done... T-T;; Now that my school load and stress has lightened up a bit, I'll be able to balance more things more efficiently!!
... I want a Fuji plushie...
Thanks for reading!!