Sorry I took so long with this chapter. Life is a pain in the ass.
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Blind Eyes
Kirito had seen her again.
Shinigami, the Grim Reaper.
Perhaps it was by sheer coincidence that the two would run into each other again. But she stayed well out of his sight. Her face that is.
Her mask was off, but she wasn't facing him. And when she turned to face him, she was gone.
Yep! That shit was all a dream. Disappointing, huh?
Kirito sighed before getting up from his bed and grabbing his swords and coat to leave his apartment. (A/N Don't freaking ask me how I would know where he lives ok!)
He couldn't think about the masked soloist now. He had to meet Asuna at a tavern to meet a few people.
It was noon when he had arrived to the fiftieth floor. Asuna had waited eagerly for him at the tavern with a wide smile.
"Hey, Kirito!" she greeted. "I like you to meet the new singing class that I just met up with a few months back."
Kirito only waved at them awkwardly when the girls gave an enthusiastic greeting.
"Um... Why exactly did you want me here?" he asked.
"Because they've been practicing for a good few days and they wanted your opinion on how they sounded."
Oh, well that was gonna be hard because he really didn't know that much about the performing arts, since he was always interested in computers and the like.
"Um..." Kirito thought about it before sighing. "Ok, lets see what you girls have got..."
The girls squealed before they all pulled him to a room with a piano so that it could be private from all the noise. The instructor sat down in front of the keys before she started playing.
The pair shaped tone
At this, one of the girls began singing while the other one played the flute.
Oh, sing sweet nightingale
Sing sweet nightingale
High above me
Needless to say, the girl who was singing was terrible! Kirito had his face scrunched up along with Asuna's before he started sneaking away silently without any of them noticing
Oh, sing sweet nightingale
Sing sweet nightingale
The Blackswordsman had snuck out of the window and started creeping away from the tavern until he was a good enough distance away from the terrible singing. Once he got away, he started to hear a different voice.
High above...
Unlike the one from the tavern, this voice was angelic. He looked around before he spotted a figure washing things at the river and hid behind a tree. When he saw a familiar mask on the ground, he took a closer look at the figure before he instantly recognized the dark outift.
It was Shinigami herself!
She was cleaning some clothes in the river as she sang with her angelic voice.
Oh, sing sweet nightingale
Sing sweet nightingale
High
Shinigami didn't seem to be fully aware of Kirito watching her, so he took to staying hidden behind the tree to watch her.
Oh, sing sweet nightingale
Sing sweet
Nightingale
By the way she was singing, she seemed to be in a rather good mood. Kirito liked it, and smiled as he watched her hang the wet garments onto the clothing lines to dry off in the sun.
Oh, sing sweet nightingale
Sing sweet
He had to admit, hearing her sing up close was much better than listening to her from afar. It was almost as if he could just go over there and wrap his arms around her small waist. Of course, he could give that a try but that would be risking his head if he ever did that.
Oh, sing sweet nightingale
Sing...
Kirito began to notice that he was starting to fall asleep at the song, but he tried to stay awake through all of it.
Oh, sing sweet nightingale
Oh, sing sweet...
He eventually gave up and decided to rest his eyes a bit.
Oh, sing...
Snap!
The sound of the clothing lines snapping off of the rock was heard and Kirito opened his eyes to see what happened.
"Ugh, Lucifer!" Shinigami gasped.
Even when she talked she sounded like an angel.
A small cartoon like ghost was next to the wet clothes that were now on the ground with a mischievous smile.
"You mean old thing!" the female soloist said as she through down a wet pair of shorts.
The ghost, whose name was Lucifer, just laughed and started to bounce away.
"I'm just gonna have to teach you a lesson!" the girl said as she chased after it.
As Lucifer continued to laugh, he eventually tripped and landed onto his face. This gave the girl some advantage and she scooped him up in the palm of her hands.
"Gotcha!"
"Ah, no! Not the torture!" Lucifer shouted.
Shinigami smiled and started to tickle Lucifers belly, causing to laugh hysterically.
"HAHAHAHAHA! STOP S-STOP! OK OK I GIVE UP! I WON'T DO IT AGAIN!"
"That's right!"
She soon stopped tickling the poor little ghost and tapped his nose(well at least on the area where the nose should be). The beater couldn't help but smile as the two laughed in glee.
Lucifer soon spotted Kirito and started to whisper into Shinigami's ear. The female soloist immediately became alert as she lowered herself towards her mask and held out her hand. The ghost grabbed up her mask and put it into her hand and she brought onto her face. Kirito quickly hid himself behind the tree in fear when she turned her head towards his direction. Seeing that he wasn't going to come out, she sprinted right into the trees to run away with the ghost by her side.
When Kirito peaked to see if she was watching, he realized that she had ran away and decided to go after her.
"Hey, wait!" he shouted after her.
He went ignored as Shinigami used her speed to get away from the beater.
"Please come back! I wanna talk to you!"
Shinigami ignored him as she kept up her pace, and he was trying in vain to keep up with her. She jumped from tree to tree to keep him away from, but he was doing pretty well to not lose sight of her.
The female soloist got a wicked idea as she jumped onto a vine and swung from it. Kirito grabbed onto another vine and swung after her. Shinigami laughed as he almost fell when he landed on the nearest tree branch. As she landed on a branch, she started making noises into the palms of her hands. At this, a large group of monkeys had come to her aid and tried slowing Kirito down.
He tried his best to fight them off, but then ended tangled into a web of vines and would've fallen onto the ground had the vines not caught him. However, he ended up dangling close to the ground rather then falling to his death.
Shinigami jumped down and landed gracefully on her feet, her glaring eyes hidden beneath her mask. Kirito became nervous as she approached him with her scythe in hand.
"Why are you following me?" she demanded.
Kirito was at a loss of words. He didn't know why he wanted to talk to her, he just did.
"I just wanted to talk to you that's all," was his only answer.
As she came closer to him, he felt his heart beating at a rapid pace. When she was close enough within eye contact, she lowered her weapon down and reached up to grab her mask. Once she removed it with closed eyes, she opened them again to reveal beautiful turquoise eyes with pupils the same faded color. Kirito's eyes widened in amazement. No wonder she wore that mask.
Shinigami, the Grim Reaper, was blind.
As the black swordsman became mesmerized by her eyes, the grim reaper kneeled down and touched his face, causing him to blush and making his heart beat at a faster pace. She then frowned.
"If you don't wish to meet death, then leave me be."
With that said, she swiftly cut the vines and he landed on the ground before she disappeared without a trace. Kirito quickly got up and looked around, but Shinigami was nowhere to be found.