Chapter Five – And Then There Were Two
Risu got up scratching his left ear. The last thing he remembered was a flash of light and a lot of pain. His sister had fallen limp, and he would have tried to do something, but the light had made him sleepy. The last thing he saw was a version of his sister running fast towards him. He had fallen on her, and he would have apologized, but his jaw seemed broken.
Risu got up and looked around. He was somewhere, he'd admit that; but where, he hadn't had a rats bum if he was still in the bathhouse (which he highly doubted). His eyes meet bars.
Nope, well I can say we're not in the bathhouse anymore.
His eyes then meet a familiar sight limp in the corner of the room
'Chihiro!' he nearly screamed. He ran up to her. She looked at him with no emotion in her eyes, no recognition that was normally there when she saw him; no light, it was gone.
'Chihiro! … What's wrong with you?'
'….' Her eyes dropped to the floor, no sign of anything that was normally there.
'Chihiro, snap outta it!' She looked at him again. If there was anything in her eyes right then, it should have been confusion, anger, or even love. But no, nothing, her brown eyes were empty. Risu was getting scared,
'Chihiro, what… did they... do to you?' Risu asked, but she just stared blankly at him
'….'
'Chihiro, SAY SOMETHING!' Risu said knocking on her head as hard as he could. He knew this annoyed her, and would normally make her say something, but she swacked (A/n: that word is "smacked", just I like it like that) his hand away and stared at him with an emotionless, cold stare. Risu felt the tears come he turned away as they fell, his shoulders started to shake. He looked back to her, she wasn't his sister he grew up with… he didn't like it. He slowly walked away, seeing if she would do anything; she didn't, her blank eyes didn't follow him.
Risu felt the wall behind his back, and he slipped down it, trembling. He looked back to Chihiro again. She was in the same spot, and didn't move. When Risu was as far away from her as he could in the small space, he put his head into his knees and silently cried.
Haku, where the hell are you? You must be in a hole not to realize that me and your girl, okay that sounds SO weird! My own sister is someone's GIRL. Sick! But yeah, as I was saying, you must be in a hole not the realize that me and Chihiro are gone, a HOLE, ya hear me? Okay, ya know what? I'm talking to myself! Again! I don't like Chihiro right now, she's so not her, her eyes aren't right, and she didn't speak to me! God, she didn't even call me Squirt! And if anyone thinks I'm happy about that, well I'm NOT! She's been calling me that ever since I can remember, properly since I was born properly, but that's where everything went wrong for her, I don't understand how she can sit next to me without pummelling me… I really don't. But, that's Chihiro for ya, she's always been like that, well ever since I was around anyways, I don't know how she was before I came along and said "Hi, look at me I have scale for a left ear!" Maybe Haku changed her life, or did… Argg, someone hit me! I'm so confused!
Risu looked up from his knees and wiped his face on his sleeve; he sniffed again, and looked over to Chihiro, who still hadn't moved. He heard footsteps as well as voices; he slumped over pretending he was still out cold. He heard a click and he glued his eyes shut….
'Little Dragon-kid hasn't woken up yet. Lazy turd get up!' A voice said and it kicked Risu, who tried his best not to whimper.
'We'll have fun with the Dragon later, but we'll finish our fun with the Dragon-tamer first, shall we?'
'Just to voice the voice in my head, should we have the tamer on our side?'
'Your voice of reason is good Misuke-' (A/n: I don't know if that word means anything in Japanese or what, it was in my head) '-But do you really think that she'll work for us?'
'Look at her, her eyes aren't full, she doesn't even talk! How do you think she'll know which is which?'
Risu, who knew how voices worked (he knew this from some random Dragon trade) knew the guy would be smiling evilly.
'Good point,'
Risu, unbeknownst to them, got up.
'Hey, Tamer!'
She looked at them.
'…'
'See, told you she can't talk.'
Risu looked to Chihiro, who was staring at the guys, and saw a glimmer in her eye, but it was washed away when her head went down.
'She might not be able, but I am!'
They both jumped and turned around. Chihiro's eyes wondered to Risu.
'Well looky here, the Dragon-runt is awake! Have a nice nap kid?'
Risu controlled his frown. I don't know if I can do this but I'm gonna try!
They waited for it, but he didn't transform. One started to laugh so hard, that he fell to the ground. Chihiro's eyes followed him; she had a look of pity, which was when Risu realized Chihiro was looking at the guy with an EMOTION in her eye.
'Yo, Meloke, get up, the Dragon-runt is giving you a weird look, so is the-' The guy stopped in his tracks as if he had heard something, even the guy laughing stopped… Laughing…
Nothing happened and the guys were still, Risu was trying not to faint, Chihiro…. Yeah, let's not go into that one
'Let's go.' One said and they both left. Random! Risu thought and then his legs failed him and he meet the good friend the floor… Chihiro looked worriedly at him.
'….'
'Did they mute you or something? Risu asked her she gave him a sad look. Risu gave out a frustrated sigh and fell backwards, after a minute or two of looking at the ceiling Risu gave out a sigh again and got up
'Haku, where are you?' Chihiro looked at him with a look of recognition
'Right here for you information, Risu.'
(A/n: Yet again another shorty, Argg, don't kill me just yet! Kill me once I finish this, coz then you'll know the ending, and properly won't regret killing me, LOL. Anyways, theirs a lot going on in this chapter, all I can tell ya, most things that happened in this chap is important to the next chapters…. Risu did MANY things but he didn't know he did it… I think I just gave away heaps of spoilers there… Oh wells, if you figure it out, tell me ya, I just properly won't say if you did or not, ya can punch the air when you read if you did Lol, I'm going now R&R all)
