A/N: Tada Chapter 7

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Chapter 7

Images swam through her mind, faster and faster and faster still. She flowed with them watching each flash by so vividly and quickly; it was all she could do from tearing her mind apart. Images like faded black and white movies to bright color, far brighter than true nature. Each image tore at her heart and mind, sad images, happy images and even images of murderous intent.

As suddenly as they came they stopped, landing on one, pulling her deep inside, forcing her to live out the image she saw.

A person cloaked in black walked through the back allies, the hood pulled over their head covered their face in dark shadows, not a soul would be able to make out who they were.

Stopping in a crowded path between buildings they pushed their hood back revealing a girl with vivid green eyes and ink black hair, the color that was only achieved with chemicals and dies. Her eyes held contempt and pure evil intentions; she smirked and pulled the hood back on.

Sliding silently through the paths she stopped and waited for something or someone.

"I know you're there…" She hissed her voice dripped with malicious intent. "Why don't you come on out…?"

Another person slid out of the shadows, another girl. This girl was bulkier, her body covered in tattoos and muscles, her head shaved. "Why be a pussy and cover yourself up like that?" She sneered as she fingered the gun in the back of her pants.

"So I don't get your blood on me." The other girl answered.

The tattooed girl pulled out her gun and began firing away at the cloaked girl who dodged and veered through the tight alleyway.

"Gotcha…" She hissed as she leapt over the girl and brought a knife across her neck.

Blood sprayed out as the tattooed girl dropped her gun and slumped to the dirty pavement, the other one pushed her hood off, wiping away some blood that had splattered back and hit her cheek.

"More blood, more death…" Suddenly the girl's malicious look in her eyes faded and for an instant one could see the actual regret that had started settling inside her. "Just like a snake…" She touched the cheek that the blood had hit as a thought struck her. "I'll make sure no one forgets what I am…" With that she turned, pulling her hood back into place.

The image of the place shattered leaving the cloaked girl standing alone in the darkness.

"I know you can hear me…" She murmured. "You've been listening this whole time but I just didn't know it until now. But I know you're there now. Your mind accepts the voices of the dead just like it accepts the images of the past, present and future, and now it's my turn to speak up.

"You see I've been fighting since the day my mother died… You saw one of the moments that changed my life." The cloaked girl turned and pushed back the hood revealing the bright green eyes and now bubble gum pink hair. "I got so tired of fighting that when I found out I was going to die I was actually relieved, at least at first I was.

"Then I found out I had a half brother, sperm donation, the man that was supposed to be my father didn't produce fertile sperm and, at the time, Atsuko and her husband donated his sperm which my family ending up getting. Isn't it weird? I'm related to Yusuke by a fluke accident, we're even almost the same age…" A tear slid down her cheek. "I guess I should be happy about that, if it hadn't turned out the way it did I would have never met him and I would have never known just how alike we were. And, without him, I would have never met Hiei."

She stopped biting her lip as she struggled with herself. "Because of Hiei and Yusuke I actually began to regret my impending death but I knew that I couldn't be like that, that I had to accept my fate, and in the end I did. I was able to die in complete fulfillment. For you see I always knew my life was to be short though I didn't think it would be such a tragic event for so many people. I had expected to die and no one even know who I was, just some other street rat that died and wasn't out to harm people anymore.

"I need your help now. They need your help. Someone's going to hurt them with the worse possible weapon to ever use against someone. Please, when that time comes you must stop that man even if you have to do something terrible that will hurt everyone. You must help me, you have to stop him. I know I'm asking you to do something that's against your nature but please; you're the only one who can do this. The only one not connected to this incident. The only one who can fight back without the crippling pain. The only one that doesn't know me."

The pink haired girl smiled, a sad bitter smile. "Yes… It's me. I'm the one… I'm sure you already knew this though. I'm sure you've known it just like you knew that you had no choice but be two steps behind that man, or how this will play out in the end. Subconsciously you let this happen, you let the story play out. I'm not mad at you, you're doing just as fate told you to do; you never had a choice in this. I know you wanted a choice, you would have stopped it all from happening but that's not how this works is it?"

The girl smiled and held out her hand. "Help me. Help me… HELP ME!!!" She screamed shattering the illusion completely.

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Veleda sat up gasping. She didn't question her surroundings; part of her already knew where she was. Her hand went to her face and came back wet. Tears… She thought as she moved her head enough to shift the hair to cover her face. She cried silent tears for the girl who had known her fate from the moment she was born.